Greta Thunberg, a Swedish environmental activist, has been arrested in Germany and is being questioned by police about her involvement in an anti-opencast coal mine protest. Ben Shapiro takes a look at what it looks like when a privileged white woman is arrested while posing for the cameras, and tries to figure out if this is all a set-up for a reality TV show starring Andrew Tate, who is in prison with Greta. Ben Shapiro is the host of the show "The Benchmark" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Comedy Central. He is also a regular contributor to "The New York Times" and "The Huffington Post" and hosts a podcast called "Ben Shapiro's Hot Takes" and is a frequent contributor at "The Daily Wire". He can be reached at ben.shapiro@whatiwatchedtonight.co.nz and is one of the few people in the world to have written a book, "Hot Takes." He's also on the show's newest podcast, "Fresh Airpods," which you should definitely check out. If you don't have a copy of the book, you can get your own copy of it here: bit.ly/HotTakes and use the hashtag on Insta: if you're looking for a free copy, or tweet us and we'll send it to Ben . Thanks to Ben Shapiro for the book review, and for the questions and suggestions. Thanks also to Ben for his reporting on the book and for all the work he did on this episode. and for his help with the book he did at The New York Review of Books. by Ben Shapiro's excellent piece on the excellent work by Ben on this podcast. , and to the amazing people at the New Yorker. at The Daily Wire. Thank you Ben for all his work on this book, and to all the people who sent in their questions and thoughts on it, Ben for the work at The Benchmark and the amazing work they did on the podcast, and all the rest of the work they sent us out there at The Huffington Post, and the great work they got out there. Thank you so much to Ben, Ben is a great piece by Ben for making us all got a chance to do it, and we love you, Ben, and hope you do it again next week, Ben's review is amazing.
00:00:00.000The World Economic Forum at Davos is underway, and the rulers of the universe are hard at work.
00:00:04.000The Department of Justice declines to monitor the Biden team's search for classified documents, and Greta Thunberg is detained by the police.
00:00:12.000Well, some protesters are true heroes.
00:00:22.000Some protesters are the heroes of our age.
00:00:25.000And then there's Greta Thunberg, who is one of the great heroes in human history.
00:00:28.000Greta Thunberg, yesterday, was arrested in Germany in what was a harrowing experience with the German authorities.
00:00:36.000According 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.
00:00:47.000Apparently, she was arrested because she decided to obstruct this thing.
00:00:50.000It is the second time this week that the Swedish activist has been moved on by the police in the village.
00:00:55.000The 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.
00:01:04.000The force said the activist was not arrested, but was instead carried along with other protesters for identification.
00:01:09.000She was released after a brief detention, according to the police.
00:01:11.000And 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.
00:01:23.000Now she is a young woman so we can make fun of her as much as we like.
00:01:26.000This is the face of a very privileged white lady who is being quote-unquote arrested at a coal mine in Germany.
00:01:33.000And apparently this is what it looks like when you get arrested at a coal mine in Germany while being an extraordinarily privileged environmental activist.
00:02:06.000She's walking and the police are holding her arms.
00:02:08.000All that's left there is you need AOC's pretend handcuffing.
00:02:12.000Remember 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.
00:02:21.000I'm sorry, the staginess of this is just, it's truly amazing and cringe.
00:02:28.000actually 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.
00:02:45.000My 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.
00:03:03.000You 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.
00:03:14.000I'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.
00:03:24.000Proposed title of the show, Hot Takes, with Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate in prison.
00:03:30.000And so much of our environmental movement is about this sort of virtue signaling nonsense.
00:03:34.000There are people in the world who have real problems.
00:03:36.000There 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.
00:03:43.000And by arrested, we mean moved 25 feet for the sake of the cameras.
00:03:48.000And yet we are supposed to believe that Greta Thunberg is a great environmentalist hero that she is undergoing serious risk.
00:03:52.000And in order for you to be a true hero in any sense of the word, you have to undergo serious risk.
00:04:01.000Greta 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.
00:04:12.000There'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.
00:04:24.000And this is like the Prince Harry model.
00:04:26.000The very institutions that made you rich and famous are the ones that you're going to criticize.
00:04:29.000Greta Thunberg's like, the West, it's full of terrible people.
00:04:52.000At Davos, you have people who are interested in the virtue signaling.
00:04:54.000They'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.
00:05:07.000When 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.
00:05:21.000This is what takes you from being an elite to an elitist.
00:05:24.000So 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.
00:05:32.000If 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.
00:05:58.000This is expressed by no one better than John Kerry.
00:06:03.000So 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.
00:06:12.000John 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.
00:06:22.000I mean, if they encapsulate him in stone, they can just put him right there on Easter Island and he will fit in forever.
00:06:38.000Because we're powerful and we're rich and we're famous and we have all the means.
00:06:41.000And that does raise the question of how well have you guys done so far?
00:06:45.000And over the past few years, as we'll get to, the answer is you've done quite an awful job.
00:06:50.000And 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.
00:06:59.000And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary.
00:07:03.000That 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.
00:07:18.000I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.
00:07:24.000And 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.
00:07:53.000Well, it turns out that what touched John Kerry and gave him the power to do this was marrying into an extraordinarily wealthy ketchup family.
00:08:01.000I 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.
00:08:14.000He was not touched by the hand of God with incredible intelligence.
00:08:18.000He's never really accomplished anything on his own.
00:08:21.000What 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.
00:08:34.000And he has parlayed that into an entire career.
00:08:38.000That characterizes a lot of the professional class over at Davos, who believe that it is their job to restructure the world.
00:09:16.000watchwords that tap into the liberal dogma that long underlay its proceedings where the desire to do good need not interfere with profit margins.
00:09:38.000This is why you see so many people on the left who are fond of the idea of stakeholder capitalism.
00:09:42.000Shareholder capitalism means that we can tell how well you are doing by looking at your share price.
00:09:46.000Stakeholder capitalism means we can't look at debt.
00:09:48.000We have to look deep into the cockles of your heart and decide whether you are doing a good job or not.
00:09:52.00010 years on, says the Washington Post, there seems to be less optimism.
00:09:55.000Instead 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.
00:10:08.000This 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.
00:10:15.000In 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.
00:10:24.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:12:36.000The 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.
00:13:45.000Here'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.
00:13:58.000Because that's the only way we keep 1.5 degrees alive.
00:14:03.000Well, 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.
00:14:38.000She's the managing director of a non-profit called GreenUp.
00:14:41.000And 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.
00:14:49.000After all, they're in the nonprofit world.
00:14:54.000And counterintuitive idea out there that profit is inherently bad, that there is something wrong with profit, that it makes you morally lesser to profit.
00:15:02.000Profit 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.
00:16:17.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:16:31.000It's going to turn into a zombie apocalypse, guys.
00:16:35.000The other massive ecosystem-mediated pathway between climate change and health is the impact on our mental health.
00:16:43.000And we're really only beginning to scrape the surface there.
00:16:46.000And there is no health without mental health, as my mental health colleagues repeatedly remind me.
00:16:51.000And we see these two... It's a two-directional pathway.
00:16:56.000Number one, young people are petrified about the future, and that is having a substantial impact on their mental health.
00:17:04.000Okay, why are they petrified about the future?
00:17:28.000And again, the elites gathered at Davos and the elitists, more importantly, gathered at Davos.
00:17:33.000They fully admit that pretty much everything that they are about is the global warming agenda, which is really a redistributionist agenda.
00:17:40.000The global warming agenda is really less about lowering carbon emissions, which is why they're not predominantly pushing nuclear energy or innovation.
00:17:47.000And instead, they are pushing signing giant checks to different parts of the world.
00:17:51.000The 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
00:18:16.000that this trade agenda, It's about stabilizing the world, but it's also about decarbonizing the world.
00:18:26.000And 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.
00:18:37.000Well, it's so that they're happy now, right?
00:18:39.000Because the Biden administration is filled with people who agree with with this guy who I've never heard of, DeCruz.
00:18:43.000Now, nobody's heard of this, but the United States has now moved to the right.
00:18:46.000And what is the right side of the table?
00:18:47.000Confiscating the wealth of its own citizenry and using it on behalf of a global agenda of redistributionism and less growth.
00:18:55.000And I mean, this is what the Democratic Party really stands for.
00:19:36.000And in fact, we passed a Climate and Equitable Jobs Act for the state of Illinois, which is significantly increasing our focus on clean energy.
00:19:47.000We're actually going to be fossil free by 2050 in the state of Illinois.
00:19:55.000Ursula 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.
00:20:03.000And of course, it will be controlled by these folks.
00:20:06.000In the next decades, we'll see the greatest industrial transformation of our times, maybe of any times.
00:20:17.000And those who develop and manufacture the technology that will be the foundation of tomorrow's economy will have the greatest competitive edge.
00:20:32.000That is the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
00:20:35.000We wield outsized power and therefore we should wield outsized influence and we should determine the future of the world.
00:20:40.000And if you think that it's just about your money, it's not.
00:20:52.000And leading their panel on misinformation was, of course, Brian Stelter, who was booted off of CNN for low ratings, which is an amazing thing.
00:20:58.000I wasn't even aware that you could be booted off of CNN for low ratings because CNN essentially has no ratings.
00:21:03.000Brian Stelter, he started talking about how we need to crack down on social media.
00:21:08.000The elitists will decide what you can see and what you can't see and what is misinformation, what is not misinformation.
00:21:13.000Brian Stelter says, I don't even have a way of disproving that I'm alive right now, says Brian Stelter.
00:21:20.000I leave CNN, and there's a crazy website that posts an article saying I was arrested by military police.
00:21:25.000And then I have a fact-checking email, and I don't know whether to reply to the fact-checker and bother with this, right?
00:21:30.000Same website, a month later, says I've been executed at Guantanamo Bay.
00:21:49.000And 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.
00:21:56.000By the way, Brian Stelter is increasingly looking like Stellan Skarsgård from Dune.
00:22:07.000Now, before the fact-checkers call, I'm not saying that his head is actually fusing into his shoulders.
00:22:11.000He does have a cervical spine, so you don't have to fact-check that.
00:22:14.000But 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.
00:22:21.000And this is something that the EU already does, and brags about doing.
00:22:24.000That they crack down on hate speech, so-called hate speech, which is anything that the ruling regime disagrees with.
00:22:31.000They crack down on misinformation, which is anything the ruling regime disagrees with, which is what we found out about during COVID.
00:22:37.000And 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.
00:22:45.000So here is Solzberger explaining the amazing thing about the New York Times, that when they make mistakes, they acknowledge them publicly.
00:22:51.000Is that a thing that you do frequently?
00:22:53.000I suspect you're teaching them to recognize trustworthy sources.
00:22:55.000time 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
00:23:20.000Journal, 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.
00:23:35.000So, 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.
00:23:41.000This is why Sulzberger actually compared Donald Trump saying the words fake news to Stalinist Russia and Hitler.
00:23:47.000It's just a hell of a comparison right there.
00:23:50.000Terms 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?
00:24:08.000And 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.
00:24:17.000And the merging of the elite with the elitist is really, really dangerous stuff.
00:24:21.000This is why you have the bizarre spectacle of people like Renee Fleming, who's an amazing artist, right?
00:24:25.000She's a tremendous opera singer, out there talking about art and healthcare at the World Economic Forum.
00:24:37.000I'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.
00:24:54.000Oh, well, I don't even know what that means, that the art should be fully embedded in our healthcare system.
00:24:57.000That doesn't even mean anything, but at least you're here being elite.
00:25:19.000Investment in people, in nature, in innovation, in partnership.
00:25:25.000As 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.
00:25:43.000Well, if Idris Elba says so, I guess we should all take it super seriously.
00:26:03.000We were lied to about virtually everything with regard to COVID by all of the most valuable sources in American and international life.
00:26:10.000People who disseminated true information were shut down on social media.
00:26:14.000Anybody who did not push in favor of governmental mandates was cast as the other.
00:26:19.000And only now, at the end, are we allowed to actually hear some truth.
00:26:23.000So 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.
00:26:36.000Only 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.
00:26:43.000That COVID deaths were being overcounted.
00:26:47.000You were called a conspiracist if you said this two years ago.
00:26:49.000If you said, you have to distinguish between deaths from COVID and deaths with COVID, which is, that is a fundamental distinction.
00:26:56.000If 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.
00:27:05.000If 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.
00:27:13.000And so the numbers were somewhat inflated.
00:27:16.000You weren't supposed to say that, though, because that was taking it too lightly.
00:27:21.000Here'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.
00:27:29.000Can you explain why you believe COVID deaths are being overcounted?
00:27:35.000I think it's important for us to be intellectually honest in this case, and that includes recognizing that circumstances have changed.
00:27:42.000At 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.
00:27:55.000Then, 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!
00:28:07.000severe COVID pneumonia specifically. And yet hospitals are still routinely testing everyone who's getting admitted for COVID.
00:28:14.000Oh, oh, you mean you mean that they're getting a lot of COVID deaths that are actually from COVID?
00:28:31.000And 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.
00:28:39.000Not just because of that, but culturally.
00:28:41.000On the cultural level, the elitists in our society have decided they must cram down their version of values on pretty much everybody.
00:28:47.000And you can see it, particularly in the United States.
00:28:48.000The United States, believe it or not, is actually more woke on these issues than Europe is.
00:28:52.000And 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.
00:29:05.000Remember, 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.
00:29:11.000That is the society that we've now become, crammed down by the elitists in our society.
00:29:15.000So, 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.
00:29:32.000It was LGBTQ, plus minus, divided by sign, happy face emoji, tilde, percentage sign, star, sad face emoji, pride night.
00:29:42.000And he was supposed to wear a rainbow warm-up jersey.
00:29:45.000And he said, I'm not going to do that.
00:29:47.000People can do what they want, but I'm not going to do that.
00:30:15.000He said he did not contemplate scratching Provrov.
00:30:17.000The fact that this was even a question is insanity.
00:30:21.000The fact I mean, the NHL has decided against all business sense to go again.
00:30:25.000This 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.
00:30:31.000The crowd for hockey is disproportionately conservative.
00:30:35.000If 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.
00:30:45.000And meanwhile, the NHL, because at the top level it has decided to go woke, is now promoting this sort of nonsense.
00:31:01.000Jesse 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?
00:31:24.000Diversity workshops can foster better intergroup relations, improve the retention of minority employees, close recruitment gaps, and so on.
00:31:31.000There's little evidence that many of these initiatives work.
00:31:33.000The 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.
00:31:43.000Over the years, social scientists who have conducted careful reviews of the evidence for diversity trainings have frequently come to discouraging conclusions.
00:31:49.000Though 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.
00:32:00.000In fact, there are pretty significant downside effects because people are annoyed by these training approaches.
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00:36:11.000And it's a religion with a priesthood.
00:36:13.000And the priesthood are the people who meet at Davos.
00:36:15.000They 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.
00:36:23.000A problem with this is they are a really crappy priesthood, and the religion that they are preaching is real garbage.
00:36:28.000And it is no substitute for traditional religion.
00:36:31.000The 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.
00:36:41.000But that hole cannot be filled this way.
00:36:45.000It'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.
00:36:52.000They looked at the relationship between religiosity and mortality from deaths of despair.
00:36:56.000And what they found, unsurprisingly, is that as religiosity in a society decreases, deaths of despair increase.
00:37:02.000Now, the metric that they use is really what's fascinating here.
00:37:05.000So, what they noticed is not just that there was a massive decline in people who say they are religious in the United States.
00:37:12.000What 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.
00:37:28.000The thing that actually defines whether you are more likely to die a death of despair is whether you have dropped out of religious practice.
00:37:36.000Which again, demonstrates that religion is a way of life.
00:37:38.000And when you lose religion, you lose your way of life.
00:38:09.000In my own religion, we are We are hemmed in by literally thousands of arcane details of how you ought to live your life.
00:38:17.000The point of those arcane details is to train you to think about something higher.
00:38:22.000It's to train you to think about doing the good and right thing in the most minute everyday activities.
00:38:28.000And when you drop out of religious practice, the idea of sort of broad speck from religious ideas is not a substitute for that.
00:38:35.000What 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.
00:38:42.000And 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.
00:38:48.000And you're also more likely to make yourself subject to false prophets like the people over at Davos.
00:38:52.000There's a reason why secularists buy into all of the garbage that you're hearing spewed by the elitists over in Davos.
00:38:58.000The authors of this study noted that many measures of religious adherence began to decline actually in the late 1980s.
00:39:03.000They found that the large decline in religious practice was driven by the group experiencing subsequent increases in mortality.
00:39:09.000White middle-aged Americans without a college degree.
00:39:12.000States that experienced larger declines in religious participation in the last 15 years of the 20th century saw larger increases in deaths of despair.
00:39:19.000The researchers looked at the repeal of blue laws in particular.
00:39:22.000Blue laws limited commerce, typically on Sunday mornings.
00:39:25.000These 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.
00:39:34.000The 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.
00:39:46.000As the study found, it's about formal religious participation.
00:39:50.000It's not belief or personal activities like prayer that people dropped out of that actually impacted their lives.
00:40:05.000People are embedded in systems of one sort or another.
00:40:08.000You get to choose the system in which you are embedded.
00:40:10.000You 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.
00:40:18.000These results underscored the importance of cultural institutions like religious establishments in promoting well-being, they said.
00:40:22.000They 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.
00:40:32.000The decline in religiosity matches mortality trends in all these characteristics, they wrote.
00:40:37.000They pushed back on the opioid theory.
00:40:38.000They 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.
00:40:46.000By the way, one thing that is worthy of note is that no-fault divorce really became a national law in the 1980s.
00:40:55.000So if you're talking about what exactly shifted, no-fault divorce in the United States is essentially the thing that shifted.
00:41:03.000And 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.
00:41:17.000One of the great ironies, by the way, when it comes to the elitists is that they don't actually live like they preach.
00:41:21.000If you look at the elitists, many of them are married.
00:41:24.000Most of them made pretty good life decisions, which is how they got to be successful.
00:41:28.000But the stuff that they preach is precisely the opposite of that.
00:41:30.000And it's ingested by pop culture and then spewed out there.
00:41:33.000And people who are sort of lower down on the economic scale, those are the people who tend to embody that.
00:41:37.000And then those are the ones who suffer.
00:41:40.000The 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.
00:41:48.000I believe that God was given the power to lead and that it was your job to follow God, right?
00:41:52.000But they believe that they are the new gods.
00:41:54.000If they believe that, then shouldn't they get the blame when things fall apart?
00:41:57.000And 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.
00:42:05.000So, of course, it's everybody else's fault, but their own.
00:42:09.000All righty, meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to be in serious trouble over these classified documents found at his home.
00:42:18.000It 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.
00:42:25.000Well, there is something weird about this situation.
00:42:27.000According to the Department of Justice, they actually declined to search with Joe Biden's legal team in Wilmington, Delaware, for classified documents.
00:42:35.000According 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.
00:42:46.000And because Biden's legal team had been cooperative, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:42:50.000After 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.
00:42:57.000DOJ officials met with the Biden attorney ahead of the search.
00:42:59.000The two sides agreed to allow Biden's team to conduct the search without immediate oversight from the FBI.
00:43:14.000I mean, these lawyers do not have classified clearance is my understanding.
00:43:18.000Shouldn'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?
00:43:24.000Because presumably they will have to use the power of sight in order to identify the classified documents.
00:43:28.000And yet the DOJ was like, no, they're doing a great job.
00:43:34.000You 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?
00:43:41.000Classified documents connected with Biden were first found in his private office at Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
00:43:45.000on November 2nd, less than a week before the 2022 midterm elections.
00:43:49.000Since then, Biden's attorneys have located more classified documents at Biden's home in Wilmington on three separate occasions.
00:43:54.000An 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.
00:44:03.000Very 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.
00:44:11.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration is trying out all of its friends to make excuses.
00:44:14.000Ben Rhodes, the bizarre and ridiculous national security advisor to Barack Obama and a failed novelist.
00:44:22.000Who has no knowledge about foreign policy and yet was given a position of high power in the administration.
00:44:26.000He says, really what this was, something went wrong in the boxing process.
00:44:48.000Could you give us some insights into how these things can get mixed in with other pieces of paper?
00:44:55.000I 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.
00:45:06.000And so clearly what happened here is something went wrong in the process of packing up those documents.
00:45:21.000I guess that's what we'll call it now.
00:45:22.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:45:33.000And she's like, oh, no, I've been completely honest.
00:45:35.000And I'll just keep saying that until you believe me.
00:45:38.000On Friday, you stood here, though, and were asked about the documents issued by our account some 18 times.
00:45:43.000At that point, the president's lawyers had found these five additional pages of classified documents.
00:45:48.000So did you not know on Friday that those documents had been found when you were at the podium?
00:45:52.000Or are you being directed by someone to not be forthcoming on this issue?
00:45:56.000I have been forthcoming from this podium.
00:45:58.000What I said yes to was what the statement at the time that we all had, right?
00:46:03.000You all had the statement, and I was repeating what the council was sharing at that time.
00:46:38.000If 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.
00:46:45.000Guys, you guys can ask me this a hundred times, two hundred times if you wish.
00:46:50.000I'm going to keep saying the same thing.