On today's show, Ben Shapiro takes a look at the new Orwellian term, "woke," and explains how Democrats are redefining all of human language in order to get their point across. He also points out that this is just the latest in a long line of bizarre Democratic redefinition efforts that have been going on for years, including the redefinition of the term "maternal mortality" and the redefining of the terms "court packing" and "cuffing" by the media, and how they re redefining the words we all understand and all know, and then they get pissed at you when you question them. Ben Shapiro is the host of the show "The Ben Shapiro Show" on the Ringer and host of "The Daily Wire" and has been a regular contributor on CNN and the New York Times. He's also the author of the book "The War on Women" and co-host of the podcast "The Nightly Show with Alex Castellanos" and is a frequent contributor on NPR's Morning Mashup. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms wherever you get your news and let us know what you're listening to! Subscribe, Like, Share, and Share on your favorite streaming platform! Subscribe to our new podcast, and Shout out to a friend who's listening to the show! Shoutout to: on the and on Insta: on this channel! on Instapaper Thanks for listening and Share this with a friend! and tell a friend about what you think of what you heard on Instapreneurship and what you thought of it! or what you'd like to do on your social media platforms! You can also help spread the word to your friends about this podcast! Thanks again for listening to Ben Shapiro's or share it on your feed! Thank you for all the love and support Ben Shapiro! - Shout it out to Ben on the Ben Shapiro on . - Ben Shapiro Thank You Ben Shapiro: - The Ben Shapiro Podcast! Ben @ Ben is a realist - Shoe - The Daily Outtrope is a fellow , & Shout It Out! & ( ) "Shout it Out! -
00:01:09.000Say my name, Ben Shapiro, to get started right now.
00:01:11.000You're probably talking with your cell phone provider and they're telling you, well, you know, you really need unlimited text and you need unlimited talk and you need unlimited data.
00:01:31.000Democrats have decided to basically rewrite all of human language in real time, and it is a bizarre spectacle.
00:01:37.000And if you notice this, then they get very angry at you.
00:01:40.000This is the full extent of gaslighting.
00:01:42.000Over and over in the past few years, we've seen Democrats take terms that we all understand and all know, and then just switch the meaning of the terms.
00:01:49.000And then if you notice, they get super pissed at you.
00:01:51.000So for example, if the Democrats say, let's add seats to the Supreme Court, And Republicans say, okay, that's court packing.
00:02:12.000The Democrats' redefinition of the term court-packing.
00:02:14.000Or, for example, you have somebody like Mazie Hirono, the idiot senator from Hawaii, Democrat, who says to Amy Coney Barrett that the term sexual preference is now a discriminatory term used against gay people, as opposed to sexual orientation.
00:02:28.000Then the dictionary, dictionary.com, will switch its definition overnight.
00:02:32.000So suddenly the term sexual preference will be offensive to some people, right?
00:03:11.000You have no idea what the hell I'm talking about if you didn't know what a pen was in the first place.
00:03:15.000Well, Democrats do this with language all the time, and we are being forced into ever more bizarre Redefinitions of normal human language.
00:03:24.000All of this does have an impact, by the way.
00:03:26.000It means we can't speak to each other.
00:03:27.000Because if I use the word woman, and you're a Democrat, and you buy into the redefinition of the word woman, you literally have no idea what I'm talking about.
00:03:34.000And if you use the word woman, I have no idea what you're talking about, because you could mean a dude.
00:03:41.000This reared its weird head yesterday in a congressional hearing about health disparities, particularly with regard to maternal mortality, for example.
00:03:52.000And Democrats have started to use the term, just in time for Mother's Day, they've started to use the term birthing persons.
00:03:58.000You understand, not every birthing person, according to Democrats, is a woman.
00:04:02.000Now, according to all human biology, in fact, all mammalian biology, birthing things are female, right?
00:04:09.000If you birth a thing, definitionally, you are a female, according to all mammalian biology of which we know.
00:04:17.000Because mammals are sexually dimorphic.
00:04:20.000To pretend otherwise is to ignore basic human biology.
00:04:24.000So to say birthing person instead of woman is meant to say there are some men who give birth.
00:04:29.000This, of course, is incredibly silly because men do not give birth.
00:04:32.000It is very difficult, as it turns out, to grow a baby without a uterus or to force a baby through your urinal canal as a dude.
00:04:39.000If you think a kidney stone is bad, try pushing a 10-pound child out of there.
00:04:43.000Okay, so all of this is incredibly silly, but Democrats have decided to adopt this language because, of course, they have this perverse view of science, that science is basically whatever they say it is, without regard to data and without regard to biology.
00:04:56.000And if you point out that you need some sort of objective metric to determine whether a male is a male or a female is a female, they get very angry at you.
00:05:02.000Male and female are just subjective categories in your head, but they're also deeply ingrained biologically.
00:05:09.000According to members of the left, you are a female if you think you are a female because that is ingrained in your brain.
00:05:15.000But also, your brain biology has nothing to do with whether you are a male or female, and your bodily biology has nothing to do with whether you are a male or a female.
00:05:24.000It's ghost in the machine, Cartesian duality, nonsense.
00:05:28.000Okay, so, all of this came to fruition yesterday, just in time for Mother's Day.
00:05:32.000Now, I've been here for years, joking, and it drives people on the left, on the internet, crazy.
00:05:36.000Because, ah, why are you even joking about this?
00:05:38.000Every Mother's Day and every Father's Day, instead of tweeting, happy Father's Day or happy Mother's Day, I tweet out, for Mother's Day, happy primary guardian of unspecified gender.
00:05:48.000Because, according to the left, mothers don't really exist.
00:05:50.000There are just people who can play the role of mothers, and that could theoretically be a dude, or it could be a lady who identifies as a dude, or it could be a dude who identifies as a lady.
00:06:18.000Widgets and children are completely malleable and are fine under any circumstances, right?
00:06:22.000This has been a long held democratic philosophy.
00:06:25.000And now they've gone even further, which is that a mother could be a father or a father could be a mother and a man could be a woman and a woman could be a man.
00:06:30.000So they finally came out with this yesterday, just in time for Mother's Day.
00:06:33.000So moms everywhere, you should feel really flattered.
00:06:38.000The same people who wear handmaid's tails outfits to protest Republican abortion policy because they say Republicans keep reducing us to our reproductive organs.
00:06:48.000They keep reducing us down to our reproductive abilities.
00:07:12.000Now, she's talking about how birthing persons are dying.
00:07:17.000Now, to you, the normal human being, who, like all humans, like all homo sapiens for the last 300,000 years or so, I've understood that birthing persons are female.
00:07:26.000You may say to yourself, why are we now conveying less information?
00:07:30.000Why are we trying to obscure information that is clearly obvious?
00:07:52.000I sit before you today as a single mom, as a nurse, as an activist, and as a congresswoman, and I am committed to doing the absolute most to protect black mothers, to protect black babies, to protect black birthing people, and to save lives.
00:08:29.000Again, I can't think of much more degrading to a woman than to suggest, number one, that the process of pregnancy and childbearing has nothing to do with being a woman, and simultaneously to suggest that you can be boiled down to just bearing babies.
00:08:41.000Like, it is the exact opposite of what feminism suggested.
00:08:44.000Feminism suggested that women are different than men, and women ought to be respected for that, and treated equally, despite that difference, and in fact, because of that difference.
00:08:55.000Feminism suggested there's something special about being a woman.
00:08:57.000The new feminism is there's nothing special about being a woman, and in fact, men can give birth.
00:09:12.000Womanhood down to nothing is really incredible.
00:09:16.000We've been told by the feminist left of today that the highest achievement that a woman can have is to never have kids, apparently, and to just spend your time working 2200 hours at a law firm so you can have a partner title the same as a man.
00:09:29.000And delay childbearing, delay childrearing, delay marriage is the best move that you can make.
00:09:34.000If you finally do have a baby, you should probably freeze your eggs and then do it much later so you can have your career development.
00:09:40.000You don't need a man to do any of this sort of stuff.
00:09:42.000Now, the amazing thing about this is that the people who then end up getting married and having kids are the people who promote this same ideology.
00:09:49.000The members of the new ruling class, this is the point that Charles Murray makes in Coming Apart, the people who are higher on the economic totem pole, those folks tend to get married and have kids.
00:09:59.000It's just all the stuff they preach filters into the culture, and it undermines marriage, and it undermines childbearing under healthy circumstances, and it's really stupid.
00:10:07.000But this is something that the left has been pushing for a long time, and now it's come to its culmination in de-sexing having children.
00:10:14.000Now it is a sexless thing to have children, which is an amazing, amazing thing.
00:10:20.000Representative Carolyn Maloney from New York, she says the same thing.
00:10:24.000America's health system is failing black birthing people.
00:10:28.000How does one of the most medically advanced nations in the world continue to fail black birthing people at such high rates?
00:10:39.000To understand, we have to take the blinders off our history and acknowledge that our healthcare system, including reproductive healthcare, was built on a legacy of systemic racism.
00:10:52.000Okay, in a second I'm going to talk about the systemic racism point, but the fact that she just keeps saying black birthing... You mean black women?
00:10:57.000Why are you being so disrespectful to women?
00:10:59.000I, honest to God, don't understand how women could look at this stuff and not feel insulted.
00:12:13.000They don't have a sex, they're assigned it by a doctor.
00:12:16.000The doctor just looks at them and randomly, and then just assign sex at birth.
00:12:19.000And then later they decide their own sex.
00:12:23.000If this makes any sense to you, it's because you're a moron.
00:12:25.000Honest to God, if this makes any sense to you, it's because you have been so well-educated in the new woke vocabulary at major American universities that you've lost your mind.
00:12:35.000It is denial of fundamental human reality.
00:12:49.000It has nothing to do with being a woman.
00:12:51.000Which is, again, deeply insulting to women.
00:12:53.000So there are three separate problems with this for American society.
00:12:58.000Problem number one is sort of the small-scale stuff that tends to make it into the media a lot because it is the most obviously ridiculous element of American society that has bought into this.
00:13:08.000And these small-scale cases are things like transgender people using the opposite-sex bathroom.
00:13:12.000It's people like a big hulking man walks into a ladies room at Target and then says, I'm a woman, and a woman feels uncomfortable.
00:13:19.000And then the left says, how dare you feel uncomfortable?
00:13:22.000How dare you believe that this is an invasion of your private space?
00:13:26.000Or it materializes in boys Biological boys wanting to play in women's sport, and then defeat the girls, right?
00:13:34.000As we saw at these Connecticut track meets where suddenly boys, biological teenage boys, were blowing away the girls at the track meets, but they identified as girls, so we had to pretend that they were girls, right?
00:13:49.000And to pretend that that is the chief problem with this entire Idiotic gender ideology is to mistake a symptom for the actual problem.
00:13:58.000The symptom is not the actual problem.
00:13:59.000The symptom's not great, and the symptom is stupid, and the symptom is demonstrative of the underlying problem, but it is not the actual problem.
00:14:05.000So, for example, a lot of attention being paid to the fact that there is the Summer Olympics in Tokyo is coming, and there will be a transgender weightlifter named Laurel Hubbard who's favored to win the women's medal for New Zealand.
00:14:18.000According to the UK Guardian, while Hubbard's presence on the New Zealand team has not been made official, an International Weightlifting Federation insider confirmed to the Guardian that she, and this is the Guardian reporting because I use biological pronouns, so this is a he, would automatically qualify because of amended rules approved by the International Olympic Committee.
00:14:34.000Current IOC guidelines dictate that transgender athletes can participate in the female categories without undergoing surgery so long as their total testosterone level in serum is kept below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months, a rule followed by the IWF.
00:14:47.000Hubbard lived as a man for 35 years before identifying as a transgender woman and did not win any international weightlifting titles until transitioning until 2012.
00:14:55.000Well, there's a shock because it turns out that being a 35-year-old dude who's like a mediocre weightlifter means that you're a world-class female weightlifter because men ain't built the same as women.
00:15:04.000Okay, that's just the reality of the situation.
00:15:06.000In the same way, the average man will throw a baseball maybe 45, 50 miles an hour, 55 miles an hour.
00:15:31.000There are two really serious threats to society.
00:15:33.000One is part and parcel of a greater threat that has arrived with regard to the family, that when you redefine family entirely, when you suggest that the nuclear family is the problem, which has been a hallmark of leftist thought since Karl Marx and before, the idea that the nuclear family is an obstacle to self-fulfillment, That your parents, your father, and your mother having different gender roles, that this is a barrier to your self-development.
00:15:59.000This has been a long time part of thought.
00:16:00.000I mean, it's a reason why the Communist Manifesto says the destruction of the nuclear family is necessary in order so that we can remold all of society.
00:16:07.000It turns out that human beings have a natural attachment to the nuclear family unit.
00:16:11.000Human beings have a natural attachment to their wives or to their husbands.
00:16:14.000They have a natural attachment that is greater than their other attachments to their children.
00:16:18.000I don't care about other people's kids as much as I care about my kids.
00:16:20.000And if you say that you do, you're a liar.
00:16:22.000Hey, the reality is that you are most attached to the people with whom you share a family unit.
00:16:26.000You're most attached to your wife, you're most attached to your husband, and your wife and husband pairs typically produce natural-born children to whom they are greatly attached.
00:16:34.000This is just the reality of human biology.
00:16:37.000This is what members of the religious community would call natural law.
00:16:42.000Natural law just means that there's a reality to the world around you, and you can discover the best way to live by looking at the reality around you.
00:16:49.000Okay, so nuclear family matters an awful lot, and people who want to redesign society in tremendous ways believe the nuclear family's an obstacle.
00:16:55.000It's why Black Lives Matter says destruction of the nuclear family is something that they are into.
00:16:59.000It's why Democrats have tried to substitute government for the father.
00:17:06.000They say they want to help families, but then they want to completely redefine the family unit by pretending you don't need a mom, or you don't need a dad, or the government can step in for a mom or a dad, or family units can be randomly redefined.
00:17:15.000And then they look around, they go, wait, no kids are being born.
00:17:30.000Gay couples adopt, for example, or have surrogate kids, or kids through surrogates.
00:17:34.000You have single people who are adopting, or people who are having birth out of wedlock.
00:17:38.000But the main way that you are going to increase birth rates in a society is to have a stable family unit capable of raising many children at once.
00:17:46.000It turns out, raising kids is super hard work.
00:17:48.000And it turns out you need a mom and a dad to really do that with a lot of children.
00:17:53.000You can have exceptions to that rule, but that is, in fact, the rule.
00:17:56.000And when you undermine the family unit, when you pretend that men are women and women are men, and women and men don't need each other, and that you can generate all this stuff in a lab, or that the government can fill in, what you end up with is declining birth rates.
00:18:07.000And then, the solution to declining birth rates, according to these folks, is not to go back to a more traditional view of what men and women do.
00:18:15.000And none of that is to say that women have to stay in the home, and that women can't go to work.
00:18:20.000We make provision for my three kids so my wife can work when she wants to work, which is the way that, you know, we have chosen to live our lives.
00:18:27.000When I was growing up, my mom went to work and my dad stayed home.
00:18:29.000You make these sorts of bargains in everyday life, but that does not change the fundamental basis of a nuclear family.
00:18:35.000And there's a reason why religious families, who are very committed to basic, fundamental family structure, have many, many more children than people who are committed to the idea that families can randomly be assembled from any sort of randomly generated assemblage of parts.
00:18:51.000Hey, there's a reason why we have a Father's Day and a Mother's Day.
00:18:53.000It's because, typically speaking, a child needs a mother and a father, and a mother and a father are well-equipped to have many natural children who they then raise together.
00:19:01.000That has always been the goal of not only Western societies, but most societies over the course of time.
00:19:07.000But the solution now is because the left has gone too far here, because the left has helped destroy family structure, their solution is not, let's go back to a more traditional notion of how we support families.
00:19:18.000Now, their idea is, what if government helped?
00:19:21.000What if government came in and helped, right?
00:19:22.000So instead of going back to men, women, they need each other, they produce natural children.
00:19:27.000Instead of that, they're like, well, what if the government just did it?
00:19:29.000So I have a piece by Catherine Rample over at the Washington Post, noting the US economy needs more kids.
00:20:15.000That is not merely because of ideological objections to contraception in some cases.
00:20:21.000That's really because of an ideological commitment to the basic idea, which is that men and women are meant to be together and then have children together.
00:20:27.000Religious people take seriously both the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply, but also the natural law injunction that this is sort of what you're here to do, is to produce the future generation and raise that future generation.
00:20:37.000And it's amazing to me that we have created a society where the most important thing that you do as a human being, which is to have children and pass on good values to those children to build for the future, has become something that we discard as, you know, it's just something birthing people do.
00:20:51.000It's just something birthing people do.
00:20:56.000Now, it's a free country, it is your choice, but we should be encouraging that choice.
00:21:00.000Instead, we have an entire society that has decided that that choice is stupid, and then there are consequences to that, right?
00:21:05.000So when I mentioned the consequences that are kind of fringy, then you have the consequences that are real, like declining birth rate.
00:21:11.000That is a result of the sexual revolution.
00:21:13.000That is a result of the rethinking of male and female roles.
00:21:16.000That is a result of the rethinking of the nuclear family and the nuclear family structure, and how many kids people think people ought to have.
00:21:22.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:21:24.000First, let us talk about the fact That if you are a dude, one thing that is very painful as you hit your 30s is you realize that you're starting to lose your hair.
00:22:39.000Okay, so problem number one, as I mentioned, is the sort of fringy problems of transgender athletes who want to out-compete girls because they are in fact biological male.
00:22:48.000Problem number two is the complete rethinking of family structure, the nail of maleness and femininity, and the consequences that has for things like the formation of nuclear family.
00:22:59.000And yes, things like having children and living a lifestyle that produces children and rears children in a safe and healthy context.
00:23:08.000Those things are kind of important for any growing society.
00:23:11.000And I'm amused to see how many people on the left are suddenly realizing, hey, we need more kids.
00:24:19.000In rich countries, people who are religious and who still feel a religious and moral obligation to have children continue to have children.
00:24:25.000This is what you see, for example, in Israel, which reproduces at well above replacement rates.
00:24:29.000Israel, they're having like 2.6 kids per couple.
00:24:32.000A lot of that is driven by the religious community.
00:24:35.000Secular communities don't have as many children because they're looking at children purely as almost an economic resource.
00:24:40.000That does not mean secular people see their own kids as an economic resource.
00:24:43.000It means generally, societally, people tend to make economic decisions about kids.
00:24:48.000When they're a net economic benefit, they have more of them.
00:24:50.000When they're a net economic loss, they cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, people tend to have fewer of them.
00:24:55.000And in fact, what you see in the United States is a very strong correlation in terms of the data between who wants more kids and who has more education.
00:25:03.000In fact, people who have less education in the United States want to have more kids.
00:25:06.000And people who have more education in the United States want to have fewer kids.
00:25:10.000Which is, again, demonstrative of the idea that gender theories being pushed by the people who are the post-graduates and the college graduates are really bad for the country.
00:25:36.000I'm not suggesting any legislation to that effect.
00:25:38.000I'm suggesting that if you want to better yourself as a human being and become more responsible, getting married and having kids is an excellent way to do it.
00:25:44.000Beyond that, you're doing something excellent for the world by having children and raising them properly.
00:25:48.000The fact that any of this has become remotely controversial is a demonstration of precisely the point I'm making, which is when you undermine gender roles and when you pretend that gender can be completely substituted in favor of biological sex and that there's no connection between them, you end up destroying things that are incredibly valuable in a society.
00:26:04.000Catherine Rampel's solution, by the way, is that the government should get involved and pay people to have kids.
00:26:09.000It ain't gonna... The chance that that works after you have culturally destroyed the institution of family and marriage, we'll see how that works for you.
00:26:17.000Yeah, we'll pay people to have a few more kids.
00:26:19.000That's definitely gonna work out well.
00:26:20.000Okay, so that is problem number two with this whole thing.
00:26:23.000Problem number three is perhaps the deepest problem of all, which I alluded to at the very top of the show.
00:26:30.000Is that when you redefine human language in completely arbitrary ways, you destroy any basis for conversation.
00:26:36.000And this is a key element of the radical subjectivist position that is taken by the deconstructionist left.
00:26:42.000Deconstructionism is a philosophy that suggests that basically semantics are power.
00:26:46.000That the way that language is used, the way we think about things, all of that is the product of our civilization.
00:26:51.000And therefore, if we wish to change our civilization, we have to change the way that words are used.
00:26:56.000But that means that we have to recognize that basically all language is a social convention without any relation to objective reality, and so it can be changed at will.
00:27:05.000And if you fail to go along with those changes, then you are considered unwoke.
00:27:26.000The only principle, presumably, is that everything is power.
00:27:30.000Okay, well for the left, everything is power, including language.
00:27:33.000And so when they randomly shift terms around, and then declare you heretical, or bigoted, or racist, or sexist, because you refuse to abide by their idiotic new conventions, in which equity is the same as equality, and sexual preference is an offensive term for no reason, or male means female.
00:27:49.000If you refuse to abide by that, then they attempt to cudgel you.
00:27:54.000Because the idea is that language is power.
00:27:56.000And the randomly shifting attempts to take what are terms with real definitions and then fluidify them, liquidate them, and shift them around, that is just an exercise of power.
00:28:11.000And that exercise of power is designed to confuse.
00:28:15.000It's no different than God's attempt to confuse the people who are building the Tower of Babel.
00:28:18.000Once everybody is speaking a different language, you can't build anything together.
00:28:22.000In the Bible, God does that because these people are building a societal construction designed to challenge godly values.
00:28:27.000But now, the left is trying to do this because they're trying to prevent you from building any sort of societal structure that challenges their values.
00:29:04.000I just think that you're wrong and you're lying.
00:29:06.000I think that Cori Bush well understands that women are the only ones giving birth.
00:29:09.000I think so does Carolyn Maloney and Robin Kelly.
00:29:11.000And I think they're liars when they pretend that men give birth.
00:29:14.000I think they know full well that that kids have a sex when they are born.
00:29:20.000But the goal here is to take the most fundamental elements of reality, things that small children can identify, and confuse you about them, because it is an exercise of power top-down.
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00:32:18.000First, I debunked the fallacy of a living minimum wage.
00:32:49.000And in fact, he's pursuing more and more radical policy, which I'll explain in just a minute.
00:32:52.000But because the media are committed to this narrative where Biden is a moderate and everybody who opposes him is a radical, they will just believe him when he's like, I don't even recognize this Republican Party anymore.
00:33:01.000Not just because I'm senile and I can't recognize my own face in the mirror, but also because Cham-a-dab-a-doob-da-sab-a-doob.
00:33:08.000Here is the President of the United States.
00:33:11.000President, do you have any comments on the efforts to oust Liz Cheney from the House Republicans?
00:33:42.000Okay, the reason that the economy is rebounding has nothing to do with Joe Biden.
00:33:45.000It has to do with the fact that we had 3.5% unemployment before the pandemic, then we had an artificial government shutdown of the entire economy for a year, and now people are coming back out and they are starting to work again.
00:33:54.000So that has nothing to do with Joe Biden.
00:33:57.000And in fact, Joe Biden's policies are providing a damper on economic development because he is paying people to stay home.
00:34:03.000He's out there bragging about this stuff, but he fails to understand a basic reality in the United States.
00:34:08.000The government does not create the jobs.
00:34:11.000The government, unless it's directly hiring you, does not create the jobs.
00:34:17.000Corporations like my company create the jobs.
00:34:20.000Corporations out there, and our company is only like 130 people, 140 people.
00:34:24.000There are corporations that employ tens of thousands of people.
00:34:25.000There are small businesses that employ hundreds of thousands of people across the United States.
00:34:29.000Joe Biden has created this many jobs his entire career.
00:34:33.000Because every job he has created throughout his entire career would have been created by another senator or another presidential candidate.
00:34:39.000He has never worked in the private sector for any serious period of time.
00:34:55.000You created conditions under which businesses could create jobs, maybe, but Joe Biden has not even done that.
00:35:01.000Joe Biden has basically created the conditions whereby employees cannot go back to work or refuse to go back to work because they're getting paid more to stay home.
00:35:08.000Here is Joe Biden saying we've created so many jobs.
00:35:11.000One of the things that that I'm proud of is in the first 100 days that I became president, we have created more jobs in that period of time than any administration in history.
00:35:27.000But the way I look at that, that's just a down payment getting us back for the American Recovery Act, just getting us back and getting people.
00:35:34.000A lot of that had to do with getting people vaccinated, getting 600 million doses of the vaccine and getting people In the position where it was available.
00:35:47.000This batty old coot doesn't even know what he's talking about.
00:35:50.000And then he says things like, yeah, my infrastructure bill will create 16 million jabobadoos.
00:37:10.000They want to know you have the best infrastructure.
00:37:13.000I'm willing to hear ideas from both sides.
00:37:15.000I'm meeting with my Republican friends up in the, up in the Congress to see number one, how much they're willing to go for, what they think are the priorities and what compromises meet men.
00:37:38.000In April, the economy of the United States, in the middle of emerging from a pandemic, with people beginning to go outside, beginning to live life again, even though Joe Biden tells them not to and we have to wear masks and never dance again, Unless you're protesting for George Floyd, in which case you're immune.
00:37:53.000But according to the Washington Post, the economy picked up 266,000 jobs in April, fewer than expected as the economy tries to rebound.
00:38:08.000People have more money in their pocket now than they did a year ago because the government has blown money into their pocket, and yet no one is taking a job.
00:38:17.000The unemployment rate remained relatively unchanged at around 6%, although economists caution the number is misleadingly low, given how many people have dropped out of the labor force in the last year, and thus are not counted as unemployed.
00:38:28.000Hiring has accelerated so quickly, in fact, some businesses have complained to the White House and lawmakers they're having a hard time recruiting workers, particularly for low-wage hourly jobs.
00:38:43.000You have suggested that we are to pay unemployment for like another year, You have given people thousands and thousands of dollars, who have jobs, many of them, and people are like, okay, or I could sit home.
00:38:57.000The tension spilled into public on Thursday when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed the stimulus package passed by the White House and Congress for acting as an incentive for people not to return to work.
00:39:06.000Biden administration officials countered the $1.9 trillion stimulus package provided vital assistance to millions of Americans and has only helped the economy grow.
00:39:20.000Not in April, because it turns out the supply chains are overstrained.
00:39:23.000There are not enough employees out there.
00:39:25.000We are leading to an inflationary spiral, because once you have too much money in the economy and not enough product to meet that price, you end up with price inflation.
00:39:33.000And when it turns out that people look at those prices and think they are too high, they stop buying, which is how you end up with stagflation.
00:39:39.000You end up with an economy with low demand, but high supply of dollars.
00:39:55.000Moderna had developed mRNA technology that allowed for the decoding of this COVID-19 virus and the production of an extraordinarily effective vaccine within like nine months of the actual release of the virus.
00:40:08.000So the virus, the actual coding of the virus was released in January 2020.
00:40:11.000Within one week, scientists at places like Pfizer and Moderna and BioNTech had actually created mRNA vaccine maps Okay, and then it took, because of all the government regulation and red tape, it took months and months and months for that to hit market, which is just a case that the government sucks at everything because they do.
00:40:28.000Okay, but the government did one thing, basically.
00:40:32.000The government said, okay, well, we will give you, we will guarantee you that we will order your vaccines and we'll give emergency authorization if you develop them.
00:40:40.000And so these companies, because they wanted to develop intellectual property that was marketable, went ahead and made the greatest scientific advancement since basically the moon landing.
00:40:48.000They said, we will develop this vaccine inside of 10 months and inoculate everyone.
00:40:52.000Now, Joe Biden has decided, I'm going to punish those companies.
00:41:17.000Instead, Joe Biden and the Biden administration, because they hate big tech, because they hate big pharma, the people who got us out of this, okay?
00:41:24.000Big pharma got us out of this, not Joe Biden, not even Donald Trump.
00:41:28.000Okay, because they hate big pharma this much, they are now trying to steal their intellectual property.
00:41:33.000They're trying to say that they should not have patent on the vaccines they develop.
00:41:36.000So let's say you're Moderna, and let's say that the history of Moderna, John Podhorse did a good job detailing this on his Commentary Magazine podcast, the history of Moderna is pretty fraught.
00:41:44.000Moderna starts, they have early successes, and then they develop a couple of drugs that fail, and their stock starts to go down.
00:41:52.000But they have all of this leftover mRNA technology they've been working on for years.
00:41:55.000Then this virus hits, and Moderna ramps up, and suddenly they have this incredibly successful vaccine.
00:42:00.000Okay, so what are you going to do now?
00:42:03.000You're going to punish them out of existence by destroying all profit margin for the vaccine that they created that is going to get the United States out of this pandemic and indeed get most of the world out of this pandemic.
00:42:14.000You're gonna do so by removing their intellectual property.
00:42:16.000Understand, intellectual property theft is theft.
00:42:19.000When China does it, we call them a cheater.
00:42:21.000When Joe Biden does it, we call that democratic policy.
00:42:24.000If China were to just create a knockoff of a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Then we would say they're stealing our intellectual property.
00:42:48.000You could just pay the damn companies.
00:42:51.000You could just pay them because, for God's sake, they deserve it!
00:42:53.000They're the ones who actually created this miracle thing.
00:42:56.000But according to the Wall Street Journal, President Biden genuflected again to progressives on Wednesday by endorsing an intellectual property waiver at the World Trade Organization for COVID Vaccines and Therapies.
00:43:05.000This patent heist won't end well for the U.S.
00:43:08.000South Africa and India have been pushing a resolution at the WTO that would force pharmaceutical companies to hand over their COVID vaccine and therapy IP to manufacturers in low-income countries.
00:43:17.000The waiver is backed by some 100 other low-income countries, progressive groups, and more than 100 Democratic Congress members.
00:43:22.000Of course, they just want to punish these companies.
00:43:31.000WTO's rules already allow low-income countries to force drug makers to license their patents during emergencies, though they must negotiate some agreement with developers.
00:43:39.000Liberals say this is slowing vaccine production, yet U.S.
00:43:41.000and European drug companies have already voluntarily entered into dozens of licensing agreements with other manufacturers, many in low-income countries, as they work to scale up production.
00:43:50.000Merck last week announced licensing agreements with several Indian manufacturers to produce its investigational antiviral drug.
00:43:57.000But vaccine and drug makers first need to ensure their partners can safely manufacture the complex biologic products.
00:44:41.000I think it should be a bipartisan bill, but I think that each piece and every piece should say on highways, how many miles are you going to build?
00:44:59.000And you know, we already have, we already waste tremendous sums of money.
00:45:03.000And I think we owe that to the American public, to tell the American public, if you're gonna give me your money, I'm going to be a good steward of it, and here's what I'm gonna accomplish, and I'm gonna report back to you.
00:45:13.000Okay, that is a basic request, right, for anybody who operates in this space, right?
00:45:18.000Like, I wanna know how my money's being used.
00:45:56.000The government doesn't have its own dollars.
00:45:59.000The government seizes money from people and then uses the money on random crap.
00:46:03.000And if you point this out, if you point out that Joe Biden doesn't create jobs and that Robert Reich doesn't control taxpayer dollars, and if you point out that the government did not create these vaccines, the vaccine companies created these vaccines, then they get mad.
00:46:16.000And then they say, well, I can't work with you.