The Ben Shapiro Show - How To Defeat The Authoritarian Left | Ep. 1358

00:00:00.000 Southwest Airline caves on its vaccine mandate, Jen Psaki mocks Americans worried over the supply chain bottleneck, and the woke left turns on Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood.

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00:01:31.000 Alrighty, so in my latest book, The Authoritarian Moment, I talk at length about how you fight back against the fact that the institutions of the United States, pretty much every major institution, has been hijacked by the left.

00:01:42.000 How do you fight back against that?

00:01:43.000 And what I talk about is the fact that the way the left originally took control of institutions is through a process that I call renormalization.

00:01:50.000 It's not my term, it's a process that was originally termed by a physicist named Serge Gallim.

00:01:55.000 His basic idea is that with 20% of any organization, you can reorient the entire organization.

00:02:01.000 And the way you do this is you create an intransigent militant minority who is willing to take incremental steps in pursuit of a larger goal.

00:02:07.000 And then you pressure everybody who's in the middle to basically cave to you.

00:02:10.000 This is how institutions got left-wing in the first place.

00:02:13.000 And at the end of my book, I talk about the fact that we can re-renormalize, i.e.

00:02:18.000 normalize, these institutions by using precisely the same process the left did, except in reverse.

00:02:23.000 You can unionize all of your friends inside a particular company and say, I'm not going to that critical race training theory session.

00:02:29.000 We're not doing any of that.

00:02:31.000 You can organize all of your friends and neighbors and say, we are not going to abide by this particular mandate, right?

00:02:36.000 This goes back all the way to high school when you used to say to your friends, well, they can't suspend all of us, right?

00:02:41.000 If we do this, they can't suspend everybody.

00:02:42.000 Okay, well, sometimes they could, but sometimes they couldn't.

00:02:46.000 Well, the reality is that when people push back, when liberty loving people push back against predations from institutions, the institutions generally are then faced with a transactional Choice cost, right?

00:02:59.000 They have to determine whether it is worth the while, whether it is worth the time and stress and money of fighting that intransigent minority, or whether it's better to just go weapons down. 0.99

00:03:09.000 And as we are seeing in today's world, renormalization, re-renormalization can happen.

00:03:15.000 And Southwest Airlines is an excellent example of this, because basically what happened is that a huge number of the employees at Southwest Airlines said, we are not going to abide by your vaccine mandate.

00:03:24.000 And now Southwest has essentially caved.

00:03:26.000 According to CNBC, Southwest Airlines has scrapped a plan to put unvaccinated employees who have applied for, but haven't received a religious or medical exemption on unpaid leave as of a federal deadline in December.

00:03:37.000 Southwest Airlines and American Airlines are among the carriers that are federal contractors and subject to a Biden administration requirement that their employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8th unless they are exempt for medical or religious reasons.

00:03:49.000 Rules for federal contractors are stricter than those expected from the Biden administration for large companies, which allow for regular COVID testing as an alternative to vaccination.

00:03:57.000 Executives at both carriers in recent days have tried to reassure employees about job security under the mandate, urging them to apply for exemptions if they can't get vaccinated for a medical reason or for a sincerely held religious belief.

00:04:08.000 The airlines are expected to face more questions about the mandate when they report quarterly results on Thursday morning.

00:04:13.000 Pilots' labor unions have sought to block the mandates or sought alternatives, such as regular testing.

00:04:19.000 Southwest Senior VP of Operations and Hospitality, Steve Goldberg, and Julie Weber, the VP and Chief People Officer, wrote to staff that if employees' requests for an exemption have not been approved by December 8th, they could continue to work while following mask and distancing guidelines until the request has been reviewed.

00:04:33.000 So basically what happened here is that Southwest looked at his bottom line.

00:04:36.000 They said, okay, we're going to have to risk running afoul of Joe Biden and the federal vaccine mandates and maybe lose some federal contracts, or we can continue to be canceling thousands of flights.

00:04:45.000 Because, remember, the going line is that it was weather problems that were causing Southwest to cancel a ton of flights, and then it turns out that American randomly had to cancel a lot of flights.

00:04:53.000 You know who hasn't had to cancel any of their flights?

00:04:55.000 Delta.

00:04:56.000 Because Delta didn't do any of this stuff.

00:04:59.000 And so, Southwest has now essentially backed down.

00:05:02.000 Because what they've basically said is, if you don't want to get the vaccine, apply for a religious A religious exemption.

00:05:07.000 And if we don't get back to you in time, then we still have these mask mandates that we are going to impose.

00:05:12.000 But, you know, you can abide by those and we will just continue to pay you and you will continue to do your job.

00:05:18.000 Because we would rather have you on the job than have to suspend you without pay and then maybe destroy our ability to even fly these planes.

00:05:24.000 So it turns out that when you get enough of your own employees to resist what you are doing, that can have an immense effect on how these companies are run.

00:05:35.000 American Airlines CEO Doug Parker spoke with labor union leaders on Thursday to discuss vaccine exemptions.

00:05:40.000 American Airlines management indicated that unlike the approach taken by United, they were exploring accommodations that would allow employees to continue to work, said the Association of Professional Flight Attendants.

00:05:49.000 That's the union that represents all the flight attendants in the cabins.

00:05:52.000 They failed to offer any specifics as to what such accommodations might look like at that time.

00:05:57.000 Choosing not to be vaccinated and not receiving an exemption may still result in termination, said American.

00:06:02.000 It's not planning voluntary leaves or early retirement packages.

00:06:04.000 For those who choose not to get vaccinated, they say, quote, we want all of our team members to be vaccinated so they can continue working at American.

00:06:10.000 We needed our entire team to run the airline in 2022 and beyond and are not looking to reduce headcount.

00:06:16.000 But when these companies are put up against it, and they have to choose between whatever amount of money they are making from the federal government and their ability to literally put crews on planes, it makes it very difficult for them to side with Joe Biden.

00:06:27.000 And you're starting to see more and more businesses do that, right?

00:06:29.000 We announced that we were not going to be complying with the Joe Biden vaccine-slash-mask mandate, the vaccine-slash-testing mandate.

00:06:37.000 This is not something that we here at Daily Wire were going to abide by because we felt this was a violation of freedom of association and basic liberty principles.

00:06:45.000 and could not come from the federal government. Well now we have a battle in San Francisco between the San Francisco Department of Public Health and In-N-Out Burger. So In-N-Out Burger, for those who don't live on the west coast, In-N-Out Burger is one of the biggest chains on the west coast. It is much beloved and the In-N-Out establishment, the business managers over at In-N-Out said, we are not going to be checking customer vaccination documents.

00:07:07.000 We're not going to check whether you have a COVID vaccine card before we serve you.

00:07:12.000 The San Francisco Department of Public Health therefore closed In-N-Out on October 14th because employees were not properly checking for customers vaccination documentation, the burger chain said in a statement.

00:07:22.000 The restaurant located in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf has now reopened, but indoor dining is unavailable.

00:07:28.000 In an outset, it properly posted signs of local VAX requirements, but refuses to strictly enforce them.

00:07:33.000 Their chief legal and business officer, Arne Wensinger, said, quote, We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government.

00:07:38.000 We fiercely disagree with any government diktat that forces a private company to discriminate against customers who choose to patronize their business.

00:07:46.000 Now, this, of course, is a good and brave and rational decision by In-N-Out.

00:07:51.000 It is simply ridiculous to turn all these businesses into the vaccine police.

00:07:56.000 That's absurd.

00:07:57.000 Using private industry to cram down government bake-the-cake policies is insane, no matter what the bake-the-cake policies happen to be.

00:08:06.000 It's particularly insane coming from the San Francisco government, where if you are at the upper echelons, you can unmask because the spirit moves you, as Mayor London Breed once suggested.

00:08:15.000 So, businesses are starting to resist, and this is good.

00:08:18.000 This is what stops all of this.

00:08:20.000 And you're starting to see this happen at the local level with regard to police officers.

00:08:23.000 We talked about this yesterday.

00:08:25.000 Hundreds, maybe thousands of police officers across the country are saying, we would rather be kicked off the force than exceed to your demands.

00:08:32.000 And then we'll see how you like it when you're the one picking up the phone and having to respond to a 911 call.

00:08:35.000 Where are all those social workers you were talking about hiring? 0.67

00:08:38.000 Why don't you get those people out there?

00:08:40.000 Chicago Alderman Brian Hopkins, he's pointing out that Chicago could lose a thousand police officers over a vax mandate that Lori Lightfoot herself, she does not abide by any of her own mask mandates. 1.00

00:08:50.000 Again, for the people at the top of the food pyramid when it comes to the government, they just don't abide by any of their own rules.

00:08:58.000 Here is the Chicago Alderman Brian Hopkins saying, we might lose a thousand police officers over this.

00:09:03.000 We're already short police officers.

00:09:05.000 We're down, you know, probably about 20 percent from where our peak staffing levels were a few years ago.

00:09:11.000 So we're short patrol officers.

00:09:13.000 We've been unsuccessful, like jurisdictions all across the country, at recruiting young people to choose careers in law enforcement.

00:09:21.000 We have retirements happening at an accelerated pace.

00:09:25.000 We can't afford to lose a thousand police officers.

00:09:27.000 We can't afford to fire a thousand police officers over an impasse like this right now.

00:09:35.000 Now, what is amazing about all of this, of course, is that Democrats are going to continue to push forward with this.

00:09:40.000 The reason they're going to continue to push forward with this is because when they look at the polls, what they see is that most Americans mostly or strongly support vaccine or indoor mask mandates and all the rest.

00:09:50.000 OK, here is the thing.

00:09:51.000 The people who are most motivated by things like vaccine mandates are the people who are resisting them.

00:09:56.000 Not the opposite.

00:09:57.000 Remember, an intransigent minority can make a difference here.

00:10:00.000 Everybody who's already vaxxed is already vaxxed.

00:10:02.000 And so, while they may be okay with vaccine mandates because they're already vaxxed, this is not a motivating factor for them.

00:10:08.000 They're not sitting around each and every day going, yeah, man, vaccine mandates, that's what we're for.

00:10:12.000 But there are a bunch of people who are resisting the vaccine mandates, and for them, this is the number one issue.

00:10:17.000 This is something that we need to understand about when you look at political polling.

00:10:20.000 Political polling is taking your temperature on a particular issue.

00:10:23.000 But one thing that it generally does not do is ask you the fundamental question, which is where on the list of issues does this rank?

00:10:29.000 So what you'll see very often is polling support for things that are sort of broad, left-wing agenda items.

00:10:35.000 And then the left will say, everybody supports this, right?

00:10:37.000 Everybody wants universal childcare.

00:10:39.000 And then when you ask people like, on the priority list, where does this rank?

00:10:42.000 And people are like, 130th.

00:10:46.000 The people who are resisting a government mandate in this particular case, this is issue number one.

00:10:50.000 If you're a business owner and you're resisting a government vax mandate, then that is number one issue for you.

00:10:56.000 If you're somebody who is kind of like, yeah, vaccine mandates sound kind of good.

00:10:59.000 I mean, I'm already vaccinated.

00:11:00.000 Why should never?

00:11:01.000 But like that's number 10 issue for you.

00:11:03.000 So what that means is that the people who are the most passionate can move everybody else.

00:11:07.000 And that is what you are seeing in real time.

00:11:09.000 It's going to have real effects.

00:11:11.000 Like CBS Chicago reporting yesterday openly that businesses are just going to stop moving to Chicago because there's not going to be any law enforcement.

00:11:18.000 When you get rid of the cops because you're saying it is more important for the cops to be vaccinated than it is for there to be cops to actually answer 911 calls.

00:11:25.000 Why would any business locate in a city like that?

00:11:29.000 Tonight, an alert for businesses on Chicago's Prime Avenue.

00:11:32.000 Our Tara Molina is always investigating and joins us live along the famed shopping street. 0.57

00:11:37.000 Tara, this could stop some new companies from moving into vacant storefronts.

00:11:44.000 Erica, experts tell us there's already that hesitation, and it's not only because of the continued robberies and thefts here on the Mag Mile and across the downtown area, but because there's a perception right now that Chicago just isn't a safe place to be.

00:11:59.000 Okay, well, that is correct, and that's happening in major cities all over the country.

00:12:04.000 Seattle Police Union President has now slammed Seattle's leaders.

00:12:08.000 We've lost so many people because of the political betrayal from our elected officials in this city.

00:12:11.000 Seattle is going to just lose all of its officers and then we'll see how much they like these VAX mandates.

00:12:17.000 We've lost so many people because of the political betrayal from our elected officials in this city.

00:12:22.000 Over 350 cops gone because we were once the modeled reformed agency and then after Floyd, these same politicians who invoked this mandate ran away from us as fast as they could for political reasons.

00:12:36.000 Now it's our people that are desperate to have their voice heard.

00:12:39.000 And this is strictly about the mandate.

00:12:44.000 Okay, and he's right about all of this, okay?

00:12:46.000 Resistance breeds the failure of the authoritarian state.

00:12:49.000 People who refuse to go along to get along are going to be the people who end up pushing back against the regulations in such a way that liberty is preserved.

00:12:56.000 And this is true on nearly every front.

00:12:58.000 Now, what's amazing is that practically speaking, practically speaking, there's gonna come a point here where everybody's just gonna have to let go.

00:13:04.000 And the reason I say that is because, let's say that you even have a VAX mandate in place, like Israel, right?

00:13:09.000 You have these VAX mandates in place.

00:13:11.000 How do they even determine when things are safe or not?

00:13:15.000 This is a real question.

00:13:16.000 So it used to be that Israel, when you got off the test, they would do an antibody test, right?

00:13:19.000 They would check to see if you had antibodies for COVID.

00:13:23.000 And this would be the way to determine whether you needed to quarantine or not.

00:13:26.000 And the reason they were doing this is because it is quite possible that you had two shots of the vaccine and that it had waned.

00:13:31.000 So did you need a booster or did you not need a booster?

00:13:33.000 Well now, as it turns out, that's a really bad way of determining whether or not you're immune to the virus.

00:13:38.000 We've known this for a very long time.

00:13:39.000 Some of us have been saying this for a long time.

00:13:41.000 That all these antibody tests don't do bleep.

00:13:44.000 That what you really need is to be testing T-cell and B-cell immunity.

00:13:48.000 Right?

00:13:48.000 The memory cells.

00:13:49.000 That's what you actually need to be testing.

00:13:51.000 Which is much more expensive and much more difficult.

00:13:53.000 Nobody wants to do that.

00:13:54.000 Hey, so in the end, what it's going to come down to is just how many infections there are, how many people are dying, how many people are hospitalized.

00:14:01.000 And when the numbers are low, everybody's going to be open about it.

00:14:03.000 And when the numbers are high, people are going to start taking precautions, which is called risk assessment.

00:14:08.000 And how we should have been dealing with this since basically the beginning.

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00:15:45.000 So as I say, if we are talking about how we get back to normal, antibody tests are not going to be the way to do it, which means it's going to be difficult to determine whether people need, for example, some sort of booster shot or not.

00:15:58.000 This is according to the Washington Post.

00:16:00.000 In most cases, getting an antibody test to determine immunity is a fool's errand.

00:16:04.000 Infectious disease doctors agree that tests for antibodies, also known as serology tests, do not provide the answers most people are seeking.

00:16:10.000 Both the CDC and the FDA advise against using antibody tests to determine one's level of immunity against COVID.

00:16:16.000 So does the Infectious Disease Society of America, which represents infectious disease specialists.

00:16:20.000 While some states, including Maryland and South Carolina, are conducting targeted antibody testing for specific purposes, no state is promoting the tests used for residents to determine whether they have sufficient immunity or whether they need a booster shot.

00:16:33.000 The tests might indicate the presence or even the level of coronavirus-fighting antibodies in the bloodstream, but scientists don't yet know what number of antibodies even provide protection from COVID-19.

00:16:45.000 Also, you have other parts of your immune system that activate when you are reinfected.

00:16:52.000 This is why if you get a reinfection from COVID after having the vaccine or after having COVID previously, it tends to be much more mild because your body already knows how to fight off the disease.

00:16:59.000 What does that mean, practically speaking?

00:17:01.000 What that means, practically speaking, is that all of these passports don't mean bleep.

00:17:04.000 The passports are not going to be an effective way of ensuring that people Are immune.

00:17:10.000 It's not even going to be an effective way of ensuring people aren't spreading it because we know that people who are, we know that people who are immune can also spread the virus.

00:17:19.000 Eventually, practicality is going to catch up with folks.

00:17:22.000 This is going to become endemic.

00:17:23.000 It already is endemic.

00:17:24.000 And people are going to have to go back to normal.

00:17:26.000 Or maybe not.

00:17:27.000 Or maybe not.

00:17:28.000 Maybe it's the push toward the new normal that the left is pushing.

00:17:32.000 So we have two attempts at renormalization.

00:17:32.000 Right?

00:17:33.000 One is the re-renormalization, i.e.

00:17:35.000 people pushing back in favor of liberty, doing individual risk assessment and determining they wish to go back to regular life.

00:17:41.000 And on the other hand, you have people who really wish to renormalize the society along very basic lines.

00:17:48.000 I'm not going to stop talking about the fact that the labor shortages we are currently seeing may be a ground shift in terms of how the economy works, like forever, and that the left is pushing this very, very hard.

00:18:00.000 The Build Back Better plans that are being pushed by this administration are driving up not only inflation, they are driving people out of the workforce.

00:18:08.000 is particularly clear right now that workers are staying out.

00:18:12.000 The New York Times is admitting this.

00:18:14.000 Ben Castleman writing, fall was meant to mark the beginning of the end of the labor shortage that has held back the nation's economic recovery.

00:18:19.000 Expanded unemployment benefits were ending.

00:18:21.000 Schools were reopening, freeing up many caregivers.

00:18:23.000 Surely, economists and business owners reasoned a flood of workers would follow. 0.96

00:18:27.000 Instead, the labor force shrank in September.

00:18:29.000 There are 5 million fewer people working than before the pandemic began.

00:18:32.000 3 million fewer even looking for work.

00:18:35.000 The slow return of workers is causing headaches for the Biden administration, which was counting on a strong economic rebound to give momentum to its political agenda.

00:18:43.000 Conservatives have blamed generous unemployment benefits for keeping people at home.

00:18:47.000 Progressives say companies could find workers if they paid more, but the shortages are not limited to low-wage industries.

00:18:52.000 Instead, economists point to a complex overlapping web of factors, many of which could be slow to reverse.

00:18:57.000 So they try to blame COVID itself.

00:19:00.000 But here's the key.

00:19:01.000 Psychology may also play a role.

00:19:02.000 Surveys suggest the pandemic led many to rethink their priorities, while the glut of open jobs may be motivating some to hold out for a better offer.

00:19:09.000 In other words, people have basically been told it is fine to stay home and the government will take care of all of your problems.

00:19:15.000 Whether it's unemployment benefits, or whether it's a child tax credit, whether you're talking about government inflation, or whether you're talking about helicopter cash via the states, people now feel secure in the notion that they actually don't have to work.

00:19:29.000 Betsy Stevenson, University of Michigan economist, who is an advisor to Obama, says, quote, it's like the whole country is in some kind of union renegotiation.

00:19:36.000 I don't know who's going to win in the bargaining that's going on right now, but right now it seems like workers have the upper hand.

00:19:41.000 Yes, but if, quote unquote, labor has the upper hand, you know who really has the upper hand?

00:19:46.000 You know who really has the lower hand is consumers because the bottom line is when you drive up the price of labor, all of that gets passed on to the consumer.

00:19:52.000 So if you are driving up the price of wages and then you're not working, you're shooting yourself in the face because you're going to be paying higher prices.

00:19:59.000 Real wages are down this year.

00:20:01.000 They are not up.

00:20:02.000 So the labor shortages are not creating widespread prosperity.

00:20:05.000 They are creating widespread shortages.

00:20:08.000 And that's being exacerbated by the crisis at the ports.

00:20:11.000 We're now seeing, for example, that food shortages are next in the supply chain crunch.

00:20:15.000 According to Brendan Case, Leslie Patton and Kim Chipman, writing for Bloomberg, quote, In Denver, public school children are facing shortages of milk.

00:20:22.000 In Chicago, a local market is running short of canned goods and boxed items.

00:20:26.000 There's plenty of food.

00:20:27.000 There just isn't always enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.

00:20:32.000 More than a year and a half after the COVID pandemic upended daily life, the supply of basic goods at U.S.

00:20:37.000 grocery stores and restaurants is once again falling victim to intermittent shortages and delays.

00:20:42.000 Vivek Sankaran, Chief Executive Officer of Albertsons, says, quote, I never imagined we'd be here in October 2021 talking about supply chain problems, but it's a reality.

00:20:51.000 Any given day you're going to have something missing in our stores, and it's across categories.

00:20:56.000 In Chicago, Dill Pickle Food Co-op ran out of certain dry goods because its two main distributors haven't been sending orders in full in recent weeks.

00:21:03.000 Early in the pandemic, panic buying was the cause.

00:21:05.000 Although the food industry was able to somewhat rebound, the sustained nature of the pandemic, combined with the slow pace of vaccination globally and the recent surge, have resurfaced the problems, says General Manager Latalia McCarthy.

00:21:17.000 The shortages aren't as acute as they were, but the ability to actually put things on the shelves is declining.

00:21:25.000 According to CBS Baltimore, why are the shelves at the local grocery store always partly empty?

00:21:29.000 Why do deliveries take so much longer than they used to?

00:21:31.000 Why is everything more expensive?

00:21:33.000 The short answer is the supply chain.

00:21:35.000 The long answer is not that simple.

00:21:38.000 According to CBS Local, we've got a shortage of workers along the path that products take from the factory to a consumer's doorstep, creating multiple bottlenecks in a system that depends on timeliness to function, just as demand has drastically increased for those products.

00:21:52.000 Okay, so the simple fact that you are now seeing these shortages, and that this is being chalked up to a labor shortage, and that that labor shortage is being seen by the left as a good thing, right?

00:22:04.000 Paul Krugman is writing this, right?

00:22:05.000 Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist for trade policy, who likes to throw around that title as though he knows what the hell he's talking about when it comes to, for example, government spending.

00:22:15.000 The fact of the matter is that this is that this is not a bug.

00:22:19.000 This is a feature.

00:22:20.000 This is something that people on the left very much want is fewer people working.

00:22:24.000 It's something they're interested in.

00:22:26.000 Now, there's going to be some unintended political consequences for Joe Biden.

00:22:30.000 But you can see how the Biden administration is desperately trying to downplay this and pretend it doesn't matter.

00:22:34.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:23:44.000 So the attempts by the left to downplay what we are currently seeing in the economy is not mere political convenience.

00:23:49.000 It goes to something deeper, which is they would like the restructuring of the American economy where half the public just doesn't work.

00:23:55.000 You can hear, I mean, and by the way, what they are attempting to do in downplaying the cost of this is unbelievably elitist.

00:24:02.000 As always, the Democratic Party has a real disconnect between the people who make the policy and the people they purport to be speaking for.

00:24:08.000 So just as the leadership of the Democratic Party, in too many cases, is disconnected from the concerns of its own constituents, this is true in terms of the so-called economic overhaul.

00:24:17.000 I think if you ask most Americans, would they like the economy back from February 2020, the answer is yes.

00:24:22.000 You mean an economy with record low unemployment and record high wage growth?

00:24:25.000 Yeah, that economy, we'd like that one back.

00:24:27.000 But Biden wants to build back better.

00:24:29.000 Okay, so in much the same way that the Democratic elite insist that defund the police is a top priority, while 80% of Black people say they want to see more cops in the cities.

00:24:38.000 The same way that the Democratic superstructure says that we must use terminology like Latinx, while the entire Hispanic population is like, um, I don't know what you're talking about, that's crazy, and no one talks like that.

00:24:50.000 The same thing holds true on economics.

00:24:53.000 And so there's this vast, crazy disconnect between the White House, for example, and even the people it's purporting to speak for.

00:25:00.000 So here is just a perfect example of this.

00:25:01.000 Here's Jen Psaki yesterday, she's the White House spokeswoman, saying that, like downplaying the fact that people aren't receiving what they are ordering, right?

00:25:09.000 They're not getting food, right?

00:25:10.000 They're not being able to go to the grocery and buy what they need.

00:25:13.000 Here is Jen Psaki downplaying it because, of course, she has somebody who runs the Whole Foods for her in their Tesla. 1.00

00:25:19.000 Here is Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:25:21.000 It was clear in March of 2020 when COVID hit that the supply chains across the world have been disrupted.

00:25:28.000 Even as the sort of work to fight back against COVID proceeded, people, it was crystal clear that things were not improving on the supply chain.

00:25:36.000 People couldn't get dishwashers and furniture and treadmills delivered on time, not to mention all sorts of other things.

00:25:44.000 So why is it- The tragedy of the short, the treadmill that's delayed.

00:25:50.000 The tragedy of the treadmill that's delayed.

00:25:52.000 Yes, that is not the, I understand the reporter said the word treadmill, but the fact that you're seizing on that and you're pretending that increased prices in virtually every area of American life, even as, you know, price boosters like used cars are actually going down.

00:26:06.000 Well, like to downplay that as the crisis of the delayed treadmill, when you are talking about people who are spending an increased portion of what they earn on food and on gas, That disconnect is astonishing.

00:26:17.000 But to them, they don't care.

00:26:18.000 It's just the crisis of the treadmill.

00:26:20.000 And after all, they've got a membership in Orange Theory.

00:26:21.000 What do they care?

00:26:23.000 And she keeps saying this kind of stuff.

00:26:25.000 Here's Jen Psaki talking about how the $3.5 trillion blowout Build Back Better nonsense plan, how it costs nothing. 0.94

00:26:31.000 She just keeps lying to you. 1.00

00:26:33.000 And the American public are not up for this.

00:26:35.000 By the poll numbers, the American people are not up for this.

00:26:38.000 According to Politico, today, As inflation continues to raise prices of everyday household items, Americans are laying the blame at President Joe Biden's feet.

00:26:47.000 In a new political morning consult poll, 62% of American voters say the administration's policies are either somewhat or very responsible for increasing inflation.

00:26:55.000 That includes 41% of Democrats, 61% of independent voters, and 85% of Republicans.

00:27:02.000 Only 38% of voters and only 7 in 10 Democrats say the country is heading in the right direction.

00:27:08.000 That's bad news for Team Biden.

00:27:11.000 But they're just going to try and bull their way through this one.

00:27:13.000 Here's Jen Psaki lying to you. 1.00

00:27:15.000 Does the president still believe that Build Back Better will not add a dime to the national debt?

00:27:21.000 Correct, it won't.

00:27:22.000 Why should Americans believe that?

00:27:24.000 Because it won't.

00:27:25.000 What if taxes that he says he wants to get more taxes in, what if it doesn't happen?

00:27:25.000 Go ahead.

00:27:29.000 What if the economy goes sour?

00:27:30.000 Lots of things can happen.

00:27:31.000 You're going to tell them from up there, future generations.

00:27:35.000 Not even born yet, that they're not on the hook for this.

00:27:36.000 Is that right?

00:27:37.000 That's right, and hopefully you'll report accurate information yourself.

00:27:42.000 Hopefully you'll report accurate- So, it's not going to raise the deficit at all, despite the fact that we know this thing is actually going to cost, as they proposed it, some $5 trillion, despite the fact that they are going to have to raise taxes on people who are not at the top of the income spectrum.

00:27:54.000 You can lie to some of the people some of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all of the time and expect that they are going to continue to trust you.

00:28:02.000 But again, the goal here for the Democrats is once you've reoriented how Americans live, then they're not going to remember you lied to them.

00:28:09.000 Right?

00:28:09.000 Once you've reoriented the entire superstructure of American life, then people are just going to adapt.

00:28:14.000 And once they adapt, that will be the new normal.

00:28:16.000 This has been the Democratic plan basically since the 1960s.

00:28:19.000 When it comes to government spending and government blowout, the basic idea is you get people dependent.

00:28:23.000 And sure, they might resist at first, but soon enough they will stop struggling.

00:28:27.000 And once they stop struggling, they will adjust to the fact that you shove that IV line of benefits into their arm.

00:28:33.000 This is the plan. 0.98

00:28:35.000 And meanwhile, they will distract you with all sorts of other virtue signaling stupidity so that you are not paying attention to what it is that they are doing. 0.99

00:28:45.000 That is the goal. 0.98

00:28:45.000 And by the way, if you're upset about this stuff, you know, just let it go. 0.98

00:28:49.000 As Michelin Maynard writes at the Washington Post today, quote, don't rant about short staff stores and supply chain woes.

00:28:55.000 Lower your expectations.

00:28:57.000 Just lower them. 0.93

00:28:58.000 I mean, if you lower the expectations, you're fine.

00:29:01.000 Just understand that life is changing in front of you.

00:29:01.000 Right?

00:29:04.000 And stop whining about it.

00:29:05.000 Why should you expect that the grocery stores are going to be full of the foods that you've counted on them being full of your entire life?

00:29:11.000 I mean, keep your expectations reasonable, guys.

00:29:14.000 And just adjust to the new normal.

00:29:15.000 Stop struggling.

00:29:17.000 That is the goal here.

00:29:18.000 And then we get to the woke distraction politics.

00:29:20.000 So the idea is that if we make your life materially worse, at least we're virtue signaling along the lines of the things that matter.

00:29:25.000 Now, again, the disconnect is that most people don't care about the woke distraction tactics.

00:29:29.000 It ain't going to work.

00:29:31.000 Democrats basically have an economic agenda that people don't like, and that is causing enormous snarls in terms of the economic solidity of the United States and the supply chains and all the rest.

00:29:41.000 And they have a woke governing ideology that appeals to a very solid, small core of people, but otherwise everybody hates.

00:29:50.000 And they have Trump.

00:29:51.000 So that's what they're running on in 2022.

00:29:53.000 Good luck to them.

00:29:54.000 Really, good luck to them.

00:29:56.000 We'll get to the woke governance of the left in just one second, because it is pretty amazing how they're attempting to distract from their own failures by simply throwing out red meat to what they hope is an intersectional coalition of people who deeply care about wokeness.

00:30:09.000 The problem, of course, is that that's a very small group of people.

00:30:12.000 By all polling data, the people who care about wokeness the most are upper-class white liberals, typically women.

00:30:17.000 It's according to David Shore, a Democratic pollster.

00:30:20.000 It's not black Americans who care about woke politics. 0.99

00:30:23.000 It's a bunch of white college-educated liberals who went to Columbia and majored in women's and gender theory.

00:30:29.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:31:35.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the woke governance promoted by the left.

00:31:38.000 The woke social politics they hope will act as a distraction from their own bad economic policy first.

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00:32:09.000 So if the Democrats cannot buy you off with their bad economic plan, then maybe they can buy you off with a little bit of wokeness.

00:32:21.000 And so, over the course of the last 20 hours, a major magical thing happened.

00:32:27.000 The U.S.

00:32:29.000 Department of Health and Human Services has now commemorated the first female four-star officer and first female four-star admiral of the U.S.

00:32:38.000 Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

00:32:40.000 Okay, isn't that amazing?

00:32:41.000 A woman is actually now a four-star admiral of the U.S. 0.99

00:32:44.000 Public Health Service Commission Corps.

00:32:46.000 Now you think that being a four-star admiral means that the person served in the military for a long time?

00:32:49.000 That's not what we're talking about.

00:32:50.000 Since basically the late 1980s, when you name somebody the head of this particular department, the U.S.

00:32:56.000 Public Health Service Commission Corps, they're ceremonially made a four-star admiral.

00:33:00.000 So it's not like they served all the way through.

00:33:01.000 Okay, put that aside.

00:33:03.000 First female, right? 0.99

00:33:04.000 So you're thinking to yourself, wow, a woman.

00:33:06.000 Historic, historic moment.

00:33:08.000 The woman's a man. 1.00

00:33:09.000 So yeah, there's that.

00:33:12.000 So a more accurate headline would have been, man named sixth man to be a four-star admiral of the U.S.

00:33:18.000 Public Health Service Commission Corps.

00:33:19.000 That would have been the more accurate headline, because what we're talking about is a person named Rachel Levine, who used to be the Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania, when he, who is a transgender woman, and I only use biological pronouns on this show because they're the only pronouns that are objectively verifiable by reality, as opposed to whatever is in your head at the moment,

00:33:37.000 When this man, Rachel Levine, was the Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania and talking about nursing homes and forcing people with COVID back into nursing homes, simultaneously removing his mother from a nursing home and putting his mom somewhere else, that person got elevated to the federal government.

00:33:57.000 Very rare radical on policy, but the chief qualification and the thing that was in all the headlines was the person's transgender status.

00:34:03.000 So this is very important.

00:34:05.000 I know that you cared more about like health and human services, but it turns out the Biden administration is very concerned about men who say they are women being treated as though they are historically women in being named to offices like this.

00:34:20.000 So that is super exciting stuff.

00:34:22.000 Meanwhile, on a more important level, New York City has now passed a resolution directing the health department to work toward a racially just recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

00:34:32.000 They've declared that racism is a public health crisis in New York City now.

00:34:36.000 That used to be, that sort of language, used to be kind of like a throwaway piece of language.

00:34:40.000 Okay, well, everything's a public health crisis.

00:34:42.000 Poverty is a public health crisis.

00:34:44.000 Lack of education.

00:34:45.000 It used to be a term that just meant a thing that's important to me.

00:34:49.000 The left does a lot of these sorts of terms.

00:34:51.000 There are terms where it just means it's important to me so it is a public health crisis or it is a climate emergency.

00:34:59.000 They use language that is, it's not supposed to carry content, but it just means I care a lot about this thing.

00:35:04.000 So public health crisis was just a term they would throw out there to mean I care more about this thing.

00:35:10.000 This kind of fungibility in terminology is very common on the left.

00:35:14.000 It's why they will treat it as though redistribution is an element of freedom when it's actually an element of coercion.

00:35:20.000 In any case.

00:35:22.000 We now know that when you declare something a public health crisis, what you actually mean, in terms of actual content of the term, is you can take absolute control over people's lives.

00:35:29.000 Because we have seen over the past year and a half that public health crisis has been the rubric under which quote-unquote experts have taken control of every area of your life, from your business, to how you school your kids, to how you walk around in public, to whether you can go to a restaurant.

00:35:42.000 So now when you have an entire city declaring that quote-unquote racism is a public health crisis, and racism We'll never be solved, okay?

00:35:48.000 Because it turns out that racism can mean anything from racist policy, which again, New York City cannot name, because there are no racist policies in New York City directed on the basis of race that would be federally, state, and locally illegal.

00:36:00.000 If you're saying racism is a public health crisis, that's again like saying poverty is a public health crisis.

00:36:04.000 Conditions that are endemic to the human existence.

00:36:09.000 Things that will never go away, right?

00:36:11.000 Because there are always going to be racists among us.

00:36:13.000 And, in the leftist definition, which is that there are going to be disparities and disparities are evidence of racism, disparities will always be among us.

00:36:19.000 So long as that is the case, we need absolute control.

00:36:22.000 Racism as public health crisis is a way of saying, until everyone has an equal outcome, regardless of race, Even if the inequality is not due to race.

00:36:32.000 They must have an equal outcome by race.

00:36:34.000 Until that happens, we should take absolute control of every area of your life.

00:36:38.000 Because public health crisis no longer means we care a lot about it.

00:36:41.000 Now public health crisis means excuse for us to control everything you do.

00:36:45.000 The New York City Board of Health, according to the New York Times, has now declared racism a public health crisis, passing a resolution that directed the health department to take steps to ensure a racially just recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

00:36:56.000 Now, as always, as soon as you add a modifier to the term justice or just, what you mean is not justice.

00:37:02.000 If I say social justice, I mean individual injustice.

00:37:05.000 I mean, we are now supposed to determine whether it is good for the group that you get individual justice treatment.

00:37:11.000 The resolution calls on the department to work with other agencies to root out systemic racism within policies, plans, and budgets on a wide range of matters that affect health, including land use, transportation, and education.

00:37:22.000 It also directed the department to improve data collection practices and examine both the health code and its own history for structural bias.

00:37:29.000 What they mean by terms like systemic racism is anything that ends with a disparity.

00:37:33.000 And what they mean by structural bias is anything that ends with a disparity.

00:37:36.000 Okay?

00:37:37.000 All of these terms mean the same thing.

00:37:38.000 Anytime there's an inequality in outcome, this must be chalked up to systemic racism or structural bias or something.

00:37:44.000 And the only way to fix that is through some sort of actual racism in policy.

00:37:49.000 That reverses the effect of the supposedly unjust system.

00:37:54.000 Dave Shokshi, the department's commissioner, is also one of the 11 medical experts who sit on the board.

00:37:58.000 At a meeting on Monday, he noted the board was founded amid epidemics of yellow fever, cholera, and smallpox in the early 1800s.

00:38:03.000 Advances in sanitation and understanding the links between environmental factors and health helped curb those diseases.

00:38:09.000 He drew a parallel to the current pandemic and its outsized toll on communities of color.

00:38:13.000 Why do some non-white populations develop severe disease and die from COVID-19 at higher rates than whites, he said?

00:38:18.000 Underlying health conditions undoubtedly play a role.

00:38:21.000 But why are there rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in communities of color?

00:38:25.000 The answer does not lie in biology.

00:38:28.000 Structural and environmental factors such as disinvestment, discrimination, and disinformation underlie a greater burden of those diseases in communities of color.

00:38:35.000 So again, understand what he's saying.

00:38:37.000 He is saying that if people are not dying at the same rate, and we know why they're not dying at the same rate, because it turns out that fatter people die of COVID more.

00:38:44.000 People with hypertension die of COVID more.

00:38:46.000 People with diabetes die of COVID more.

00:38:48.000 And it turns out that not every population has those diseases in similar fashion.

00:38:54.000 Now, that means that it's not about race.

00:38:56.000 He says, even if it's not about race, it's about race because we then have to look to the underlying reason why too many people of color have hypertension or diabetes or are fat.

00:39:05.000 Then we have to look to the underlying reasons.

00:39:06.000 We can't look to how people are individually making the choice to get fat.

00:39:10.000 We can't do that.

00:39:11.000 We can't look to why so many people are eating fast food as opposed to not going and just getting some vegetables from the store.

00:39:17.000 We can't do that.

00:39:18.000 We have to look at the fact that there is inequality in outcome, in health outcomes, and we immediately have to chalk that up to the system, which means we need ultimate control to create a completely level utopia.

00:39:31.000 This doctor said the COVID-19 pandemic must render unacceptable that which has been condoned for generations.

00:39:36.000 Wait, who condoned it?

00:39:37.000 Who condoned that people are fat and have hypertension and have diabetes?

00:39:41.000 By the way, there are wide differentials in class among white Americans on this.

00:39:41.000 Who's condoned this?

00:39:46.000 So it ain't about race.

00:39:47.000 Poor white Americans tend to be fatter than richer white Americans on average. 0.94

00:39:52.000 They tend to have more health problems on average. 0.92

00:39:54.000 Is that us condoning it?

00:39:56.000 And when it comes to health problems, is that the system or is there an intervening factor?

00:40:00.000 Namely, whether you choose to diet and exercise, which it turns out is on you.

00:40:04.000 This is very similar to the argument that when you look at poverty in communities of color and then people on the conservative side say, well, one factor in the increased poverty in these areas has to be single motherhood, right?

00:40:15.000 People who are getting knocked up and then having a baby without a husband in the home or a father knocking somebody up and then running away.

00:40:21.000 And then somebody said, yes, but why are they doing that?

00:40:24.000 Well, since I don't believe that human beings are simply widgets responding to environmental and socio-economic circumstance, and that human beings actually have the ability and responsibility to make good decisions, which, by the way, is the predicate for any sort of rational politics, because otherwise you're just a social engineer.

00:40:44.000 If you believe in any sort of consent-based politics, you have to believe in the inherent ability of people to make basic life decisions.

00:40:50.000 If you believe in that, then that means that you should be looking to individual decision-making to alleviate the consequences of these decisions.

00:40:56.000 But now they're saying you can't do that.

00:40:58.000 You need the experts, who somehow are not creations of their environment and socioeconomics.

00:41:04.000 The experts have magical free will that has descended upon them, but the poor schlub who's living in Harlem, that guy has no free will, according to these geniuses.

00:41:14.000 And once you declare everything a public health crisis, like racism, this means unending control forever.

00:41:20.000 And this is both the promise and it is also the bribe that Democrats are now handing out.

00:41:26.000 As always, we will solve all of your problems and we will declare that you are not racist if you go along with us in this.

00:41:33.000 We will alleviate all responsibility from you, both personally and morally, if you go along with us on all of this.

00:41:41.000 There's a threat, right?

00:41:42.000 The threat is if you don't go along with us on all of this, then we will just outlaw you, right?

00:41:46.000 We'll just go directly against you. 1.00

00:41:48.000 We'll try to... We will attempt to destroy you and destroy your life. 0.84

00:41:55.000 The New York City Health Department said its resolution was one of the first that was tied to specific directives.

00:41:59.000 Those include making recommendations to the Mayor's Racial Justice Commission and establishing a data for equity working group designed to ensure the department applies an equity lens to public health data and educates other agencies on how to do the same.

00:42:10.000 Again, equity lens just means anytime there's inequality, we are going to chalk that up to the system.

00:42:14.000 Guess who's in control of the system?

00:42:15.000 Us.

00:42:16.000 We get to fix it. 0.99

00:42:16.000 Okay, and if you don't go along with any of our agenda, we will just cudgel the living crap out of you. 0.99

00:42:22.000 We will just cudgel you. 0.91

00:42:24.000 Which is why, I will say, the most enjoyable story of the day is the targeting of Margaret Atwood.

00:42:30.000 So Margaret Atwood, of course, wrote the wildly overrated sci-fi dystopian novel Handmaid's Tale.

00:42:36.000 She was used as the sort of icon of the Trump era because, of course, Trump era was all about sexism. 0.99

00:42:43.000 Okay, so, Margaret Atwood made a mistake.

00:42:46.000 What was her mistake?

00:42:47.000 She tweeted out a piece called, Why Can't We Say Woman Anymore?

00:42:52.000 Because all sorts of people on the left have decided that wokeness must take into account the fact that men give birth.

00:42:58.000 Now, if you're a rational person, you're like, nope, that is not a thing.

00:43:01.000 If men gave birth, that would be very difficult as it turns out to press a baby through a urethra. 0.99

00:43:06.000 Or through a butthole.

00:43:07.000 It turns out that's very difficult to eject a baby through either of those orifices. 1.00

00:43:10.000 You actually need a female vagina in order to make that happen. 1.00

00:43:14.000 But if you point that out, then people on the left go nuts. 1.00

00:43:18.000 Margaret Atwood pointed that out.

00:43:19.000 And so the left came after her.

00:43:21.000 Which is quite enjoyable.

00:43:22.000 She was a feminist icon until she assumed that women existed. 1.00

00:43:25.000 Whoops!

00:43:26.000 No, you're a woman. 1.00

00:43:28.000 Amanda Jette Knox tweeted, I'm disappointed you shared this because it's factually untrue.

00:43:32.000 We can still say woman and we can also say people when it makes sense to use more inclusive language.

00:43:36.000 I'm non-binary.

00:43:38.000 I also menstruate and gave birth to three kids.

00:43:40.000 Saying people with periods includes women and me.

00:43:43.000 No, you're a woman. 1.00

00:43:47.000 You're not non-binary. 0.99

00:43:49.000 I'm sorry to tell you this, that non-binary is not a category.

00:43:51.000 Unless you are actually intersex. 0.96

00:43:53.000 You're not non-binary. 0.99

00:43:54.000 You are... That's in your head.

00:43:56.000 You're a person who menstruated and gave birth to children.

00:43:59.000 You're a woman.

00:44:00.000 Done. 1.00

00:44:02.000 Tanya Tagak tweeted out, I didn't know Margaret Atwood sucked. 1.00

00:44:06.000 Transphobia sucks. 0.99

00:44:07.000 The people commenting on her post should be enough proof. 1.00

00:44:10.000 You're the one on the wrong side of history.

00:44:12.000 Please glob, don't let me become a harmful crone.

00:44:16.000 Everyone call me out when I get crusty.

00:44:18.000 These are delightful, delightful human beings.

00:44:20.000 So it's exciting stuff to watch them just erase Margaret Atwood now.

00:44:24.000 She's crossed the cancel culture and the cancel culture will come after her. 1.00

00:44:28.000 By the way, at Netflix, the Netflix co-CEO is already starting to walk back his support for Dave Chappelle.

00:44:34.000 He said he screwed up in his efforts to communicate with employees who were over set over Dave Chappelle's new special.

00:44:40.000 He said in an interview, quote, what I should have done is led in those emails with humanity.

00:44:46.000 I should have recognized a group of our employees was really hurting.

00:44:50.000 To be clear, storytelling has an impact in the real world, sometimes quite negative.

00:44:55.000 We have articulated to our employees there are going to be things you don't like.

00:44:58.000 There are going to be things you might feel are harmful.

00:45:00.000 But we're trying to entertain a world with varying tastes and varying sensibilities and various beliefs.

00:45:04.000 And I think the special is consistent with that.

00:45:06.000 So he's already backing up.

00:45:09.000 And so the alternative to bad economics from the left is bad social policy from the left.

00:45:13.000 And here's the thing.

00:45:14.000 Nobody likes this stuff.

00:45:15.000 This stuff is not particularly popular.

00:45:16.000 The only people it is popular with are people who wish to delude themselves into believing that they are victims in American life.

00:45:23.000 And if you wish to delude yourself into believing that you're a victim in American life, you can do it.

00:45:27.000 I mean, a huge number of people... Listen, the incentive structure in human thinking is always to believe that you're a victim of outside circumstance and that whatever hardships you experience in life have nothing to do with you and nothing to do with reality.

00:45:38.000 They simply have to do with other people discriminating against you.

00:45:41.000 And there's a new Gallup poll that kind of demonstrates this.

00:45:45.000 It says that women's satisfaction with the treatment of their gender in the United States is now at a record low.

00:45:50.000 Apparently, only 44% of women say they are satisfied with the treatment of women in society. 44%.

00:45:58.000 And now, I just am going to point out here that women in American society are treated better than women in any society anywhere on earth for all of human history.

00:46:06.000 Just as an example, right now, here are doctoral degrees by field and gender in 2020.

00:46:13.000 Okay, in education, women outnumber men 68% to 32%. 0.90

00:46:17.000 Overall, in all fields, doctoral degrees, women outnumber men 53% to 47%.

00:46:23.000 In master's degrees, women outnumber men 6 to 4. 0.99

00:46:26.000 Okay, they outnumber them 60% to 40%.

00:46:31.000 Women outnumber men in total graduate school enrollment 59.7% to 40.3%.

00:46:37.000 And yet women are saying that they are wildly mistreated in American society. 1.00

00:46:40.000 So again, the left is trying to say that we've got this economic plan.

00:46:44.000 Don't pay attention while we restructure everything.

00:46:46.000 Also, we have this woke plan to take control of your life, but we will give you a perception of victimhood.

00:46:51.000 Okay, well, if you choose to buy into that, then I suppose you can.

00:46:56.000 I just don't think it's gonna make for a very happy life.

00:46:58.000 I think, in fact, it's going to make for a very unhappy life, but maybe that's the point.

00:47:02.000 You can be happy in your unhappiness.

00:47:04.000 Maybe that's what the left is finally betting on here.

00:47:05.000 You can be happy with the bread lines, as Bernie Sanders suggested.

00:47:09.000 You can be happy with the belief that you're a victim in a society where you clearly are not one.

00:47:13.000 Or, you can be an empowered human being making individual decisions that make your own life better and the people in your community make their lives better as well.

00:47:20.000 Those are your choices.

00:47:21.000 There's no third choice.

00:47:22.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:47:25.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Molls Show that's available right now.

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00:48:05.000 The CDC accidentally admits that abortion is infanticide.

00:48:08.000 And the Washington Post tells you to stop complaining about the supply chain crisis.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 20, 2021

How To Defeat The Authoritarian Left | Ep. 1358

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