The Ben Shapiro Show - April 26, 2021


Is Joe Biden In Trouble? | Ep. 1243

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The Oscars prove again that Hollywood hates you. And Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez doesn't seem all that unhappy with kids in cages at the border anymore. Ben Shapiro's full take on the Oscars and why you should be worried about Joe Biden's radicalism at the 100 day mark of his presidency. Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code: PODCAST to receive 10% off your first purchase when you enter the invite code: "MAILINVAILABLE" at checkout. That's saving you 10% on your first month of purchases! You can also join the FREE Mastercard and get 20% off the first month by becoming a Mastercard Member! The Mastercard is a high-interest, high-yield credit card that gives you access to all of the Mastercard features, like cash, checking, savings accounts, and brokerage accounts. You get 3 months free when you sign up for Mastercard when you become a cardholder. They also offer 3-months free shipping when you purchase Mastercard membership. You'll get 2 months free shipping on all orders over $99.99, and a 3-month credit plan when you upgrade to $119.99 when you buy Mastercard. Mastercard Membership. All you have to be 21 years old and older than you can get a complimentary Mastercard with a valid credit card with Mastercard, and they can give you 3-only 3 months of 3-year complimentary shipping. access to Mastercard Proveniorary, they'll give you a discount on your account. you'll get access to the 4-month complimentary credit and 2-month proververification, plus they'll get you an additional 3-day early access to 4-day pricing, and you'll receive an additional $5-day VIP membership when you get a discount when you enroll in Mastercard Plus they get the discount when they receive Mastercard access to $99, they also get your choice of $99 and they'll receive $5,000, they get you a 5-day offer. The offer that starts at $99 they'll have access to a $150,000 and you get an additional 4-they'll get $50, they can get you all-they're also get an ad-only offer when you're a VIP discount on the show starts in the show. It's that simple.

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00:00:00.000 Joe Biden gained office by promising to return America to normalcy, but his radicalism has him shredding water at the 100-day mark.
00:00:06.000 The Oscars prove again that Hollywood hates you.
00:00:09.000 And Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez doesn't seem all that unhappy with kids in cages at the border anymore. 0.93
00:00:13.000 Weird.
00:00:14.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
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00:01:38.000 Alrighty, well, we'll get to everything Joe Biden in just one moment.
00:01:40.000 First, a few quick notes on the Oscars.
00:01:43.000 So, it is perfectly clear at this point that Hollywood despises its own audience.
00:01:46.000 Despises it.
00:01:47.000 So, every so often, they will make you, you know, a hundred million dollar movie, and that's the one that they give to you.
00:01:52.000 And then there are the ones they do for them.
00:01:54.000 And the ones they do for them, those are all the ones that are featured at the Oscars. 0.88
00:01:57.000 You know, movies like Nomadland, about, Elderly white people pooping in buckets. 0.99
00:02:02.000 Or the father.
00:02:02.000 About Anthony Hopkins struggling with dementia.
00:02:05.000 Movies like... like...
00:02:08.000 The movie about Fred Hampton, whose name escapes me at the moment, about how the Black Panthers were going to be the saviors of the United States.
00:02:14.000 Or the other movie about how the Black Panthers were going to be the saviors of the United States, written by Aaron Sorkin.
00:02:19.000 Or maybe it's the Borat movie, which is actually actively unfunny, militantly unfunny, but pushes all the right buttons for folks in media land.
00:02:28.000 Or maybe you're just super into all of the other movies that nobody has ever seen that were nominated this year.
00:02:34.000 It used to be that the Oscars would nominate for Best Picture, you know, movies that people had actually seen.
00:02:38.000 I'm old enough to remember when The Dark Knight got a Best Picture nomination.
00:02:42.000 And when Return of the King won Best Picture.
00:02:44.000 You know, movies people had actually seen.
00:02:46.000 And now Hollywood only rewards movies that no one has seen because they actively hate their audience. 0.99
00:02:51.000 They think Americans are fools. 1.00
00:02:53.000 They think Americans are dumbasses. 1.00
00:02:54.000 They think that they can basically make money off of you by popping a Marvel movie out once in a while. 0.99
00:02:59.000 And then they use that money to make the movies that really make them feel artistic.
00:03:02.000 And all of those movies, of course, are critiques of the evils of America.
00:03:05.000 All those movies are critiques of America's healthcare system.
00:03:08.000 Like the one about the drummer who goes deaf, right?
00:03:10.000 Which is really a critique of America's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad healthcare system.
00:03:15.000 Or the movie about how difficult it is to be an Asian-American immigrant in the United States, Minari, about the difficulties of the American dream.
00:03:23.000 Every movie is this.
00:03:24.000 Every single movie that was nominated this year is essentially about the evils of the United States in one way or another.
00:03:29.000 Because that's what they think of you.
00:03:31.000 It's not even what they think of the system.
00:03:32.000 That's what they think of their own audience.
00:03:34.000 Hollywood despises its own audience.
00:03:36.000 And they are living in a bubble, where they get to live off the fruit of the land, where they never have to see the consequences of their own policies.
00:03:42.000 Where they get to live the high life.
00:03:43.000 And that's what the Oscars represent, is how in a bubble these folks are.
00:03:46.000 I mean, truly, insanely in a bubble.
00:03:49.000 How big is that bubble?
00:03:50.000 Well, for example, according to the Postmillennial, there were walls actively erected outside the Academy Awards to protect the Hollywood elite.
00:03:58.000 Quote, security fencing was erected around the perimeter of Union Station in downtown LA on Sunday to provide protection for the Hollywood elite and their Academy Awards ceremony.
00:04:05.000 The red carpet, the dazzling celebs who walked, were well secured from the general public.
00:04:09.000 Union Station was cordoned off with fencing.
00:04:11.000 The entrances were also blocked with security guards and additional measures.
00:04:15.000 Now, typically, Union Station is, you know, a station.
00:04:18.000 It is like a train station in L.A.
00:04:19.000 So I don't know why they couldn't hold this thing at the Kodak Theater.
00:04:21.000 Every major venue in L.A.
00:04:23.000 has been empty for literally a year at this point.
00:04:25.000 Instead, they decided, you know what?
00:04:27.000 We're going to displace all of these homeless people that we welcomed into our city to help wreck the quality of life for people who actually pay taxes and live in homes. 1.00
00:04:35.000 And then we're going to make all those people move out of Union Station, just like we would in Malibu.
00:04:40.000 The post-millennial reported Union Station is typically home to a high population of homeless, yet the city of LA forced those city dwellers to move from their temporary digs in order to make room for the Oscars.
00:04:48.000 The city moved the homeless under the alleged threat of destroying their belongings if they fail to comply, which is weird because they won't do that.
00:04:53.000 If a homeless person plunks down their tent directly on the sidewalk outside of your home, the city won't move it.
00:04:58.000 But if you get in the way of Francis McDormand winning a third Oscar, you are out, gang.
00:05:05.000 Police also amply protected the celebs who stood on stage in designer gowns and suits to decry American law enforcement.
00:05:10.000 On tall heels and with resounding voices, actors and artists used their platform to speak against the very institution that was protecting them from the greater homelessness of LA.
00:05:18.000 Of those who spoke about the cops, only Tyler Perry said, I refuse to hate someone for being a police officer.
00:05:24.000 So it's good times.
00:05:25.000 They've built their own wall, apparently.
00:05:28.000 They rely on the cops to protect them.
00:05:32.000 Really solid stuff there from your Hollywood brethren who know better than you.
00:05:35.000 They are just better people than you.
00:05:37.000 By the way, how much better?
00:05:38.000 Well, at least $205,000 better because they got $205,000 swag bags.
00:05:44.000 According to Forbes.com, every year, celebrity and product placement marketing company Distinctive Assets put together a gift bag that 25 nominees for Best Actor, Actress, and Director take home with them, whether they win or not.
00:05:55.000 Every one of this year's swag bags is valued at around $205,000.
00:05:59.000 Remember, we're supposed to be in the middle of a Great Depression right now, in which millions of people were thrown out of work by a giant pandemic.
00:06:06.000 Very important that the people who are already rich and famous are given $205,000 swag bags.
00:06:13.000 That is a dip in value of $20,000 from last year.
00:06:17.000 The Academy, which is putting on its 93rd Oscars this year, complained about the less than wholesome nature of some of the gifts and the negative press surrounding it after last year.
00:06:24.000 This year's gift bag reflects the twin events overshadowing the ceremony, calls for social justice in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the outbreak of COVID-19.
00:06:31.000 Distinctive Assets 49 year old founder, Lash Ferry said, we did want the bags to feel like they had a bigger purpose than just here's a bag full of free stuff.
00:06:38.000 Some of the bags we've been doing have been from female owned businesses, black owned businesses, disabled entrepreneurs and companies who give back.
00:06:43.000 Even ones you wouldn't necessarily think give back.
00:06:46.000 Apparently just filled with wonderful, wonderful stuff.
00:06:51.000 Several of the gifts promote health and wellbeing like a medical grade mask from 99 Guard.
00:06:55.000 IV on call, concierge vitamin, intravenous infusions to bolster immunity or to recover from a hangover.
00:07:00.000 C60 Purple Power Antioxidant and Violet Breast Health Supplement.
00:07:05.000 But there are also some lavish things, like for example, a $12,000 four-night stay for two at the Golden Door, a Southern California spa.
00:07:12.000 Also, you can get retreat for a three-night stay at the Potter Noster Lighthouse on the island of Hamniskar on the west coast of Sweden.
00:07:19.000 So good stuff.
00:07:20.000 The gift bag also includes a 24 karat gold vape cartridges from holotips and sleep capsules that blend CBD with low-dose melatonin and hemp salve from Fifth Element for post-workout recovery.
00:07:32.000 Really amazing stuff in this in the swag bag.
00:07:34.000 These are these are folks who are definitely They're 100% in touch with the American people.
00:07:40.000 In touch mainly because they wish to push you away with their hand.
00:07:42.000 That's the amount of the touching that goes on.
00:07:44.000 It's just their hand on your head pushing you away.
00:07:47.000 Those are the folks in Hollywood.
00:07:47.000 By the way, Americans know it.
00:07:49.000 New poll out from the Daily Wire today.
00:07:50.000 Two-thirds of Americans have not seen a single film nominated for Best Picture.
00:07:53.000 By the way, that is a lie.
00:07:54.000 For sure, it's more like nine-tenths of people have not seen a single film nominated for Best Picture.
00:07:58.000 If they have seen any of the films nominated for Best Picture, it's probably just Borat, right?
00:08:02.000 Because Borat was on Netflix, so people tuned into that for 10 minutes before tuning out.
00:08:07.000 71% of Americans said award winners shouldn't give political speeches.
00:08:10.000 Most Americans don't think the Oscars are too white despite reporting on the topic.
00:08:14.000 55% of Americans correctly say that conservative films and actors would not have a fair shot at winning an Oscar.
00:08:18.000 And what are the most anticipated films for 2021?
00:08:21.000 The new James Bond and Top Gun movies.
00:08:22.000 Namely the ones that Hollywood makes to hate but know they have to make in order to pay the bills for movies that nobody ever, ever wants to see.
00:08:30.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we're going to get to the latest on Joe Biden.
00:08:32.000 Because again, there is this disconnect that has happened on the left between the American people and the left.
00:08:36.000 They don't understand what their actual mandate is.
00:08:38.000 People like Hollywood when Hollywood does the things they want.
00:08:41.000 And people like Joe Biden when Joe Biden does the things they want.
00:08:44.000 But there's a disconnect between what Joe Biden wants to do and what the American people want him to do, just like there's a disconnect between what people want Hollywood to do and what Hollywood wants to see itself doing.
00:08:52.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:10:01.000 Okay so the disconnect for Joe Biden.
00:10:03.000 Joe Biden was elected on the basis of one promise.
00:10:06.000 I won't be Donald Trump.
00:10:07.000 That was his entire promise.
00:10:08.000 I may return to normalcy, stability.
00:10:10.000 The adults are back in charge.
00:10:11.000 Remember, the first day that Biden went back in the White House, these were the headlines.
00:10:15.000 The adults are back.
00:10:16.000 These are the moderates, the adults, the people who are going to restore some semblance of non-crazy.
00:10:22.000 They're back.
00:10:24.000 There's only one problem, and that was a lie.
00:10:26.000 Joe Biden has, since he took office, passed a $2 trillion unnecessary stimulus package.
00:10:31.000 I say unnecessary because we were in the midst of the greatest artificial depression in American history.
00:10:35.000 It was caused by a single extraneous event, COVID-19, which resulted in a bunch of artificial lockdowns by state, local, and the federal government, and that resulted in an artificial depression.
00:10:45.000 As the COVID pandemic was relieved, the economy started to boom again.
00:10:48.000 You don't need to pump up the economy in the aftermath of already having done so last year.
00:10:53.000 In fact, Americans ended 2020 with the single greatest number in terms of wealth, per household wealth, in American history, so far as I'm aware.
00:11:03.000 And that's because the government literally just sent them checks.
00:11:06.000 So they had all this money in the bank, they're ready to go back to work, and then Joe Biden blew into town and he's like, you know what, $2 trillion, boom, slams it on the table, and we're going to include a bunch of new entitlement programs, we're going to incentivize people to have children out of wedlock, we're going to make sure that you never have to go back to work.
00:11:21.000 Right now, one of the big problems for a lot of businesses is that the government is paying them so much, people so much to stay home, that it's hard to actually get employees to come and work at your business.
00:11:30.000 You make more money by staying home than you would if you actually went to work.
00:11:33.000 It's a serious problem in the American economy for businesses that are seeking to keep up with increased demand at this point.
00:11:39.000 So we're already on the upswing.
00:11:41.000 Joe Biden blew $2 trillion into the economy.
00:11:44.000 Then he's like, you know, what if we spent another $2 trillion on infrastructure?
00:11:48.000 And it won't mostly be infrastructure, like 5% will be roads and bridges.
00:11:51.000 The rest of it will basically be payoffs to various union cronies.
00:11:54.000 And it'll be restructuring of unionization rules in various states in order to incentivize unionization for like home health care workers, for example.
00:12:02.000 $2 trillion more.
00:12:04.000 Now Joe Biden is dropping another $2 trillion package.
00:12:08.000 So just to keep this straight, this is all aside from the federal budget.
00:12:11.000 The federal budget now every year since Obama, every year since like 2009, the federal budget, it climbed after the 08 crash, it climbed from about $3 trillion a year.
00:12:21.000 To $4 trillion a year.
00:12:22.000 And every year since then, the budget of the United States has basically been at least $4 trillion a year, which is an insane amount of money.
00:12:28.000 It is completely unnecessary.
00:12:30.000 OK, that's large enough.
00:12:32.000 So we're going to spend $4 trillion this year.
00:12:34.000 Then on top of that, $2 trillion for the boondoggle stimulus package, which is not a stimulus package.
00:12:41.000 $2 trillion for infrastructure, which is not infrastructure.
00:12:43.000 And now $2 trillion for quote unquote families.
00:12:46.000 So now you are talking about a grand total of Joe Biden having proposed $10 trillion in spending.
00:12:54.000 2 plus 2 plus 2 plus 4.
00:12:54.000 10, right?
00:12:56.000 $10 trillion in spending for 2021.
00:12:59.000 And we are three months into his tenure.
00:13:01.000 This is insanity.
00:13:02.000 And this is not what he was elected to do.
00:13:05.000 Even some Democrats are going, dude, I don't know where you think we're getting all this money from.
00:13:09.000 Joe Biden keeps saying, oh, we'll pass tax increases, and in the future, we'll pay for all of this.
00:13:14.000 Yeah, no, you won't.
00:13:15.000 We all know that that's a lie.
00:13:17.000 You just recognize that because you get to sail in on the height of this economic tsunami that's about to happen, that you can surf that tsunami, and at the same time, you can really poison the water.
00:13:28.000 And three years from now, when the currency is inflated, and when we can't take out any more debt because no one in their right mind would buy an American bond, And when you have to raise taxes dramatically in order to pay for this, sinking the economy.
00:13:40.000 When all of that happens, you're gonna be long gone.
00:13:42.000 Because Joe Biden ain't running for re-election, gang.
00:13:44.000 Joe Biden wants his one-term president.
00:13:46.000 Look at Joe Biden.
00:13:47.000 There is no way that man runs for re-election.
00:13:50.000 Honestly, I will be so shocked if Joe Biden— I mean, he's on a steep path of mental and cognitive decline.
00:13:55.000 It is clear for everyone to see.
00:13:57.000 This is a one-term president.
00:13:58.000 I mean, basically, why do you think he keeps trotting out co-president Harris as though she's an important human being? 0.79
00:14:03.000 The vice presidency is a warm bucket of spit.
00:14:06.000 No one cares about the Vice President, except for right now, when everyone is supposed to care about the Vice President.
00:14:10.000 Because Joe Biden literally stands next to Harris and basically says, and here is the person who's going to take over for me when I'm out.
00:14:17.000 So he means to ram through all of these world-breaking changes in the first term, and then he gets LBJ-like, FDR-like credit, even though he's been in office for 73 minutes.
00:14:27.000 That is Joe Biden's plan, and he is just ratcheting this stuff up.
00:14:31.000 The Washington Post reports today the White House is preparing to unveil a roughly $1.8 trillion spending and tax plan this coming week that includes many of Biden's campaign promises, but also reflects the daunting challenges facing the administration as it tries to transform the U.S.
00:14:43.000 Question.
00:14:43.000 economy.
00:14:44.000 Why are we transforming the U.S.
00:14:45.000 economy?
00:14:46.000 Before this pandemic, we had record low unemployment.
00:14:49.000 We had record high wage growth, particularly at the low end of the economic spectrum.
00:14:52.000 Why?
00:14:54.000 Why are we remaking the most powerful economy in world history?
00:14:54.000 Why?
00:14:57.000 Is there a reason for that?
00:14:58.000 Of course not, because it's not about helping people.
00:15:01.000 It's not about a stronger economy.
00:15:03.000 It's about, quote-unquote, equity.
00:15:04.000 It's about getting Joe Biden's name in the Canton Football Hall of Fame as an important person.
00:15:11.000 The ego problems for our presidents typically were hemmed in by the checks and balances that the founders designed, right?
00:15:17.000 They knew that politicians were ambitious, and so they figured there'd be checks and balances, ambition would check ambition, And then, at the beginning of the 20th century, we completely skewed the balance between the legislature and the executive branch.
00:15:30.000 We completely destroyed the federalist bargain between the states and the federal government.
00:15:33.000 And now, basically, the president acts as a de facto king within his own purview.
00:15:38.000 And then we just change kings every four years or so.
00:15:42.000 The American Families Plan, set to be released ahead of the President's joint address to Congress on Wednesday, calls for devoting hundreds of billions of dollars to national child care, pre-kindergarten, paid family leave, and tuition-free community college, among other domestic priorities.
00:15:54.000 We definitely need more people going to useless community colleges.
00:15:56.000 Dr. Joe Biden will be unsatisfied with anything less.
00:15:59.000 Also, we have to pay for Head Start, even though it's been one—more Head Start, because it has been one of the most ineffective government programs in American history.
00:16:06.000 But let's toss a few more billion dollars at that. 0.99
00:16:09.000 And also, we should definitely be paying hundreds of billions of dollars for national childcare, specifically because that will basically incentivize all women to go to work and put their kids in childcare, as opposed to any women staying home. 0.93
00:16:22.000 It happens to be a fact that if you want to incentivize women not to stay home, what you do is you create national childcare, and then women are considered better if they drop their kids at the childcare rather than staying home with their kids.
00:16:36.000 There's nothing wrong.
00:16:37.000 I understand that we live in a society where we're supposed to pretend that there's something wrong with a woman if she gets married, and then she spends a lot of time at home with her kid, and her husband works, but that's patriarchal and evil.
00:16:46.000 It turns out, kids who spend a lot of time with mom do pretty well.
00:16:51.000 But we're going to incentivize precisely the reverse at this point, obviously.
00:16:56.000 And incentivize, again, this is the other end, you have to put it all together.
00:16:59.000 You have a two-step bargain that is happening right now.
00:17:03.000 The Biden administration saying that they will pay you for having children out of wedlock.
00:17:10.000 It's a revision of the welfare reforms done by Bill Clinton and the Republicans in the late 90s.
00:17:16.000 It basically restores aid to families of dependent children without reference to whether the parents are married or not.
00:17:23.000 So you're incentivizing single motherhood, and then you are paying for the government to take care of the kids. 1.00
00:17:27.000 So the government is now playing father again, which is exactly what Joe Biden is pushing for.
00:17:32.000 White House officials spent much of the past week making refinements to the plan, showing the enormous pressure they are under to include or discard key items as they attempt to satisfy a range of competing voices.
00:17:41.000 In a last-minute change, White House officials as of Friday were planning to include about $200 billion to extend an increase in health insurance subsidies through the ACA exchanges.
00:17:51.000 So they're going to blow out spending on Obamacare. 0.98
00:17:54.000 White House officials are prepared to table a measure they'd included in earlier drafts aimed at reducing consumer and government spending on prescription drugs.
00:18:00.000 So they were going to lower the amount of spending on prescription drugs, but now they're going to ratchet that up again.
00:18:07.000 This will be the second part of Biden's Build Back Better agenda, following the $2.3 trillion jobs and manufacturing proposal.
00:18:14.000 Okay, but that doesn't take into account the infrastructure proposal.
00:18:17.000 So you're talking about $6 trillion of new spending.
00:18:21.000 $6 trillion of new spending.
00:18:25.000 All of which is not going to make the country stronger or better.
00:18:27.000 All of which is basically designed at shoring up Joe Biden's legacy.
00:18:30.000 And here's the thing.
00:18:31.000 The American people are not up for it.
00:18:32.000 They're not up for it.
00:18:34.000 So there's new polling, and what does it show?
00:18:36.000 It shows that Joe Biden has not won any additional support since the election.
00:18:39.000 Now, you could say, well, Joe Biden had a good level of support in the election, right?
00:18:42.000 I mean, he won 7 million more votes than his opponent.
00:18:44.000 He won about 52% of the vote.
00:18:47.000 But normally, when presidents enter office, when they first win, especially after a very, very polarizing era, they enter with these very high approval ratings.
00:18:54.000 And if they get a lot done over the first hundred days, those approval ratings tend to rise.
00:18:58.000 And this happened with Barack Obama.
00:18:59.000 He entered office, he won.
00:19:01.000 He won something like 53 to 45.
00:19:04.000 And then his approval ratings shot up into the 70s at the very beginning of his presidency.
00:19:09.000 And then pretty quickly, they started to come down as people realized that what they were promised, namely a unifying figure who was post-political and also post-racial, was lying to them during the campaign.
00:19:19.000 And you saw Barack Obama's numbers start to take a nosedive.
00:19:22.000 So he ended up in the low 50s for most of his presidency.
00:19:24.000 And that, again, was largely attributable to the fact that he was a very popular person, even though his policies weren't particularly popular, as evidenced by the fact that he lost Congress two years in.
00:19:33.000 Well, Joe Biden is not nearly as personally popular as Barack Obama was.
00:19:37.000 He's not charming.
00:19:38.000 He's not charismatic.
00:19:39.000 He's an old fuddy-duddy who can barely string together a sentence and has been in Washington since well before I was born. 0.97
00:19:46.000 He also happens to have some corruption problems and he's, again, unable to coherently speak.
00:19:51.000 I'd say he doesn't have any of the personal qualities that made Barack Obama very popular, particularly with independents.
00:19:58.000 But he does have the same thing that Obama did, which is the promise on which he gained office has now been discarded.
00:20:03.000 The promise was return to normalcy.
00:20:04.000 We're going back to normal.
00:20:05.000 And then he came in, he's like, what if I spend $10 trillion?
00:20:08.000 $10 trillion.
00:20:09.000 What if I just do that?
00:20:11.000 And talk about raising the capital gains tax radically.
00:20:14.000 And talk about raising income tax rates.
00:20:16.000 And talk about regulating everything under the sun via climate change rules. 0.65
00:20:19.000 What if I do all that?
00:20:20.000 And the American people are like, you know what?
00:20:22.000 I don't like this.
00:20:23.000 I don't like this.
00:20:23.000 Republicans heading into 2022 have to be very optimistic about their chances.
00:20:28.000 Because here's the thing, it ain't going to get better for Joe Biden from here.
00:20:32.000 Joe Biden's height of popularity is when he took office and his first few hundred, his first hundred days.
00:20:37.000 That's when he's gonna get the height of his popularity.
00:20:39.000 Americans already got their STEMI checks.
00:20:42.000 So that's it for that.
00:20:44.000 Americans are not going to like the costs that are associated with what Joe Biden has been pushing on the country.
00:20:50.000 And that's why right now, again, his poll numbers are not stellar.
00:20:54.000 They're quite mediocre, in fact.
00:20:56.000 And the media are trying to cover up for that fact that they're quite mediocre by saying that he has mostly positive marks.
00:21:00.000 But the question is not whether he has mostly positive marks.
00:21:03.000 The question is, where is he relative to other presidents not named Donald Trump at this time?
00:21:08.000 So in just one second, we're going to get to the latest polling data from Washington Post ABC, which shows that Joe Biden is not a particularly popular president.
00:21:16.000 And this is going to have some pretty significant downstream effects for Democrats who are running for Congress, running for Senate in 2022, particularly in purple states like Georgia.
00:21:24.000 So here are some of these poll stats.
00:21:26.000 According to the Washington Post, 52% of adults say they approve of the job Biden is doing, compared with 42% who disapprove.
00:21:33.000 That's not a shock, because again, he won about 52% of the vote.
00:21:36.000 Nobody who voted for Joe Biden is turning around and going, oh, I hate that guy now.
00:21:40.000 But he has not picked up a single percentage point of support from the rest.
00:21:44.000 And that's kind of shocking.
00:21:46.000 Because again, what polls tend to show, people, self-reported polls particularly, tend to show that if you ask people who they voted for after an election, They tend to say, more often than they actually voted for the person, the person who won.
00:21:57.000 So normally, in a normal circumstance, if you ask people, how many of you voted for Joe Biden and Biden won?
00:22:02.000 You get 60% of people saying they voted for Biden, even though only 52% of people actually voted for Biden.
00:22:07.000 Well, right now, his approval rating mirrors precisely his actual voter percentage.
00:22:12.000 On the one hand, you can say, well, that's solid.
00:22:14.000 I mean, it's consistent.
00:22:15.000 And that's true.
00:22:15.000 It is solid and consistent.
00:22:17.000 Solid and consistent at a bare majority, which means there is a lot of room for Joe Biden to slide and pretty much no room for him to grow.
00:22:23.000 He now has a ceiling.
00:22:24.000 His ceiling is about 52%.
00:22:25.000 He has no place to go but down from here.
00:22:28.000 And as the effects of these world-breaking policies are felt, it's going to go down from here.
00:22:34.000 At this point in his presidency four years ago, Trump's rating was 42% disapproval at 53%, which again, was not a particular shock because he only won 46% of the vote in 2016.
00:22:44.000 Overall, 34% of Americans say they strongly approve of Biden's performance.
00:22:49.000 35% say they strongly disapprove of Biden's performance.
00:22:52.000 And so he is running basically just dead even.
00:22:56.000 This, by the way, includes the fact that he has huge marks for his handling of COVID.
00:23:01.000 Again, I struggle to see how Joe Biden is going to gain from here.
00:23:05.000 He's emerging from an economic depression.
00:23:08.000 There's going to be a booming economy for the next year.
00:23:10.000 Everybody knows that the stock market is going bonkers.
00:23:13.000 And people are going back to their regular lives after they get vaccinated.
00:23:16.000 And he's getting credit for that, even though he didn't do a damn thing about it.
00:23:18.000 I mean, that's a pretty good position to be sitting in.
00:23:21.000 Normally, in a vacuum, you say, okay, you got a president with an economy that's about to boom at like 8%.
00:23:27.000 You have a vaccine that has been tranched out at the rate of 3 million a day to Americans and people going back to work.
00:23:34.000 You have people going back to their regular lives.
00:23:36.000 Shouldn't that president be at like 75% approval rating?
00:23:40.000 That ain't happening, and the reason that ain't happening is because this dude is a partisan hack, and he is demonstrating that he is more Bernie Sanders than Scoop Jackson.
00:23:48.000 He is not an old-fashioned moderate Democrat.
00:23:49.000 He ain't Joe Manchin.
00:23:50.000 He's closer to AOC than he is to a blue-dog Democrat.
00:23:55.000 53% of Americans say they disapprove of the way he has dealt with the immigration situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, which, by the way, does not include AOC.
00:24:04.000 Worthy of note, the people who approve Biden the most right now are people like Bernie Sanders and Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
00:24:10.000 Remember that time that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez got so upset with Donald Trump's immigration policy and the kids at the cages that she actually went down to the border in Texas?
00:24:18.000 And she put on a white outfit.
00:24:20.000 It was all very spontaneous.
00:24:21.000 She spontaneously decided to put on a white outfit and then go stand outside of an empty chain link fence and then stare across a parking lot.
00:24:29.000 And she could maybe distantly see a facility where there were kids being held in cages and then stare directly into camera and weep.
00:24:36.000 Very spontaneous outburst of emotion.
00:24:36.000 Remember this?
00:24:38.000 Well, now here's AOC's spontaneous outburst of emotion.
00:24:40.000 A multiple of kids being held in cages, but you know, Joe Biden's doing a wonderful job.
00:24:44.000 Almost as though the Democratic Party does not give a damn about the kids in the cages.
00:24:47.000 They only care about who's in power.
00:24:49.000 I do think that by demonstration and President Biden has definitely exceeded expectations that progressives had, you know, I'll be frank.
00:25:01.000 I think a lot of us expected a much more conservative administration and I think that his not only what has ultimately come out, but the active.
00:25:13.000 Invitation and willingness and collaboration with progressives in his first 100 days, or almost 100 days, has been very impressive.
00:25:25.000 So I take it no weepy photo ops at the border then.
00:25:28.000 None of that.
00:25:29.000 Interesting.
00:25:29.000 Interesting.
00:25:30.000 By the way, Kamala Harris, who is actually put in charge of the border situation so far, her great accomplishment has been to, you know, well, and also she has, well, one thing she did was Well, she goes on national TV.
00:25:44.000 She says things are getting better at the border without evidence that anything's getting better at the border.
00:25:49.000 In addition to meeting again with the president of Guatemala, I will be meeting the following day with the community-based organizations in Guatemala, they call them basically civil society, to figure out how we can better assist what they're doing on the ground in a way, again, that they can give the resources to people who naturally want to stay at home and give them some sense of hope that help is on the way.
00:26:16.000 This is the work that we're doing, but it's not going to be solved overnight.
00:26:19.000 It's a complex issue.
00:26:21.000 Listen, if this were easy, it would have been handled years ago.
00:26:24.000 Okay, there's only one... Whenever she has to say the hard part, that's when she starts laughing like a crazy person.
00:26:32.000 So, I've noticed they haven't solved that problem, and the American people have noticed this as well.
00:26:35.000 53% of Americans, according to, again, this Washington Post-ABC News poll, say that they don't like the way that he's dealing with the border.
00:26:42.000 His approval rating for the economy stands at 52%.
00:26:44.000 Now, normally, When you have a booming economy like you're about to get, it should be in the 70s.
00:26:49.000 He's at 52%.
00:26:50.000 And by the way, if you look at it by the Democrat-Independent-Republican breakdown, what you notice is that he's underwater with independents.
00:26:57.000 He's at 47% with independents.
00:26:59.000 He's at 90% with Democrats, which is why overall he's at 52%.
00:27:02.000 He is at 47% on the economy.
00:27:02.000 But he's at 47% with independents.
00:27:03.000 percent, 47 percent with independence.
00:27:05.000 He is at 47 percent on the economy.
00:27:08.000 He's at 32 percent on immigration.
00:27:11.000 Although his first sizable initiatives enjoy majority support, the poll also finds that by two to one, by Americans say that Biden should be willing to make major changes to his proposals to win Republican In other words, the American people keep saying, we elected you to be a moderate and you are not being a moderate.
00:27:29.000 Also, 53% of Americans say they are either very or somewhat concerned that Biden will do too much to increase the size and role of government.
00:27:35.000 You think?
00:27:36.000 You think he's gonna spend $10 trillion?
00:27:38.000 That's his proposed spending this year.
00:27:43.000 These are not great numbers for Joe Biden.
00:27:47.000 These are not stellar numbers for Joe Biden.
00:27:49.000 In fact, these are the worst numbers except for Donald Trump of any modern American president at this point in time.
00:27:57.000 Literally, buried down in this Washington Post article is the admission that Biden wins positive ratings ahead of his 100th day better than Trump, worse than every other president since Eisenhower.
00:28:06.000 At this point in time, Obama was at 69%, GW was at 63%, Bill Clinton was at 59%, H.W.
00:28:09.000 63%, Bill Clinton was at 59%, H.W. was at 71%, Reagan was at 73%, Carter was at 63%.
00:28:17.000 The only person who has a lower rating, and it's not net, right, only just in absolute terms, was Gerald Ford, but even he had a plus 16 rating.
00:28:28.000 Biden's at plus 10.
00:28:30.000 But normally, presidents are at plus 40, plus 30, plus 20, plus 50.
00:28:35.000 If you go all the way back to Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, plus 70.
00:28:40.000 Okay, so this is not a popular president by any stretch of the imagination.
00:28:44.000 I know that the media want to cram down on you, the idea that what Joe Biden is doing is very popular, but that's because they're trying to pretend there is no disconnect between what Joe Biden wants to do and what he was elected to do.
00:28:55.000 And that disconnect is growing broader and broader every single day.
00:28:57.000 And this is giving Republicans a real opening.
00:28:59.000 And if Republicans cannot ram this home by 2022, that will be a failure on their part, a massive failure on their part.
00:29:06.000 You can see that Democrats are already starting to realize what a disaster some of this radicalism is.
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00:30:14.000 Alrighty, coming up, we'll get to the radicalism of Joe Biden and how even some Democrats, particularly in purple states are starting to go, I'm not sure this is going to work out for us.
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00:31:28.000 So here's the thing about the democratic partisan agenda.
00:31:36.000 It's not popular.
00:31:37.000 People don't actually like the agenda.
00:31:39.000 They don't.
00:31:40.000 And there are really bad effects to this agenda.
00:31:43.000 Democrats like to spout words about equity and social justice and they love the phraseology, but the actual effects of these policies are really, really bad.
00:31:51.000 And so as they push radical, as they push ever more radical policies, this provides openings for Republicans to actually fight back.
00:31:57.000 This is what Barack Obama didn't understand in 2009. 0.59
00:31:59.000 He took it as a referendum on him personally that people thought his policies were garbage and that the Tea Party started.
00:32:04.000 By 2010, he'd been swept out of Congress in a huge landslide.
00:32:08.000 Well, Democrats are about to experience something similar because they don't know what they were elected to do.
00:32:14.000 Take policing.
00:32:15.000 The simple fact of the matter is when you get rid of the cops, there are serious costs to that, particularly to the most vulnerable.
00:32:20.000 Story from BlackEnterprise.com today.
00:32:23.000 The area where George Floyd lost his life on May 25, 2020 has become a combination of a healing ground, memorial, protest location, and reminder of needed police reform.
00:32:31.000 Despite the presence of fresh flowers and vibrant memorial art, barricades mark boundaries.
00:32:35.000 Trash must be cleaned.
00:32:36.000 People gather at the place making headlines.
00:32:38.000 Some of them come from near and far.
00:32:40.000 Business owners also want others to remember the economic justice elements of their plight.
00:32:44.000 They once owned thriving businesses.
00:32:45.000 Now, they do not.
00:32:46.000 Now, you have to wonder to yourself, wait a second, if this place became, like, a sacred visiting spot, wouldn't that generate some business?
00:32:52.000 The answer, of course, is no.
00:32:54.000 The memorial area is located at the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, tucked inside A neighborhood where people must also live and make a living.
00:33:03.000 People are still coming to the area known as George Floyd Square, mainly to pay homage to Floyd.
00:33:08.000 The Star Tribune reported that hundreds of people trickled into the square to hear and celebrate the Chauvin verdict earlier this week.
00:33:13.000 However, black-owned businesses were established there before Floyd was killed, and now they are struggling.
00:33:18.000 According to the New York Post report, at least five stores along one block are now shuttered.
00:33:21.000 Following the killing of Floyd, carjackings have nearly tripled.
00:33:24.000 Cars are being stolen at high rates.
00:33:26.000 Police presence has also been reduced.
00:33:27.000 That's one way to phrase it, blackenterprise.com.
00:33:30.000 How about police presence was reduced, therefore carjackings have nearly tripled, and cars are being stolen at high rates.
00:33:36.000 Black merchants said the police have abandoned the blocked-off intersection while creating a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spike and businesses evaporate.
00:33:44.000 The New York Post reported on Thursday the intersection was essentially abandoned, save for the occasional gawker who posed for photos in front of a mural outside Cup Foods, the convenience store where Floyd allegedly passed a counterfeit $20 bill. 0.98
00:33:56.000 So all the businesses in the area are dying because it turns out that your garbage policy has pretty garbage consequences. 0.91
00:34:00.000 Doesn't matter. 0.99
00:34:01.000 The media and Democrats are going to push forward with their world-breaking utopian change anyway.
00:34:05.000 According to the Washington Post, quote, after the Chauvin verdict, Minneapolis activists fuel up and prepare for the long fight ahead.
00:34:11.000 According to the Washington Post, when the Chauvin trial verdict, while the Chauvin trial verdict is viewed as a victory by activists, many in Minneapolis are emphasizing the conviction of one white officer does not mean the fight is over, nor does it erase what they see as systemic racism in policing or other areas of American life.
00:34:28.000 Thank you.
00:34:29.000 Justice for Floyd is not final either.
00:34:31.000 Three other former Minneapolis police officers who were at the scene that night are awaiting trial on charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter in Floyd's killing.
00:34:38.000 Prosecutors are going to try to reinstate third-degree murder charges against each before their trial in August.
00:34:43.000 So the three guys who just were there, now those guys are going to be charged for third-degree murder.
00:34:47.000 And it's not just that.
00:34:49.000 It's amid a backdrop that many activists said the battle for racial equality and justice has a long way to go.
00:34:56.000 And what do they want?
00:34:56.000 They want to get rid of the cops.
00:34:58.000 They want to crack down on the ability of police officers to do their jobs.
00:35:01.000 And the media are treating every incident now, every single incident of violence with regard to a black suspect as an incident of police misconduct.
00:35:09.000 So, for example, ABC World News Tonight continues to push the case of Makia Bryant, a case in which a police officer saved the life of a black girl by shooting a black girl wielding a knife at her.
00:35:20.000 They're treating that case as somehow controversial policing.
00:35:22.000 Here's ABC World News Tonight.
00:35:24.000 Tonight, growing cries to reevaluate police use-of-force policies in the wake of the shooting death of Ohio 16-year-old Micaiah Bryant.
00:35:33.000 We've recently had shooting after shooting after shooting, so maybe the training's wrong.
00:35:38.000 Protesters hitting the streets again today, the fifth straight day since the shooting happened.
00:35:46.000 They have the power right now to put some changes in the book.
00:35:54.000 Regardless of the situation, we have to be able to do better in protecting life.
00:36:00.000 I have a question.
00:36:00.000 Where was Makia Bryant's family throughout this entire debacle, considering she was living in a foster home at the time that all this happened?
00:36:06.000 Like, where were all these family members to actually, you know, take care of Makia Bryant when she was alive and protect her from This situation that she was involved in.
00:36:15.000 It's amazing how everybody's out of the woodwork talking about how the cops are at fault when the family members are completely absent to the point where this woman, this young girl, she wasn't a woman, she's 16, was in a foster home.
00:36:25.000 Okay, but in any case, this is part and parcel of a broader Democratic agenda, and that agenda is to undermine policing across the nation.
00:36:32.000 Karen Bass, Democratic congresswoman from California, briefly considered as a possible VP selection for Joe Biden, she said, you know, the cop really shouldn't, you know, maybe this is a bad case, but still, cops shouldn't be shooting people.
00:36:42.000 Don't we need to be able to distinguish between Derek Chauvin, that was murder, and this, which looks to me like a righteous shooting.
00:36:50.000 We absolutely need to distinguish, but we also need to look at policing overall, and one of the things that I hope we really address Is maybe the focus needs to be on de-escalation.
00:37:02.000 I know police officers are taught to shoot to kill.
00:37:05.000 A lot of people raise, well, why couldn't he have shot her in the leg?
00:37:08.000 Why couldn't he have done all these different things?
00:37:11.000 The point is, we have got to come up with a way to stop there's so many people being killed in this country.
00:37:17.000 By the way, dead giveaway that somebody doesn't know what the hell they're talking about is when they start saying things like, why couldn't the police shoot somebody in the leg? 0.99
00:37:23.000 This is the most moronic idea that people have ever proposed. 0.99
00:37:26.000 They don't know a damn thing about guns or police work if they think that the officer has the ability to, like blazing saddles, shoot people's trigger fingers. 1.00
00:37:33.000 This is the stupidest crap. 1.00
00:37:35.000 It is a dead giveaway you don't know the hell. 1.00
00:37:36.000 You want that lady in charge of your policing? 1.00
00:37:38.000 It's incredible.
00:37:39.000 Or maybe Ilhan Omar should be in charge of policing, because she clearly has the best interests of both her constituency and the country at heart.
00:37:44.000 Here's Ilhan Omar.
00:37:45.000 I did not mischaracterize. I think people oftentimes read into these statements that we make into ways to sort of vilify us. And I don't know how you can't look at the loss of a 16-year-old life as not a loss and how you can look at a police officer who ends up using their weapon
00:38:11.000 to take a life as not being a tragedy in our community.
00:38:16.000 Okay, well, I mean, the first thing you could do is, you know, point out that perhaps the officer was justified in his conduct, considering that if he hadn't done that, there would be another dead teenage black girl, namely the person who had been stabbed by Makia Bryant, if the officer hadn't done his job.
00:38:28.000 Maxine Waters is blasting her own critics.
00:38:31.000 If we take a knee, they're mad.
00:38:33.000 If we speak up like I do, they're mad.
00:38:34.000 If we protest like MLK taught us to do, they're mad.
00:38:37.000 What is it they expect us to do when police keep killing us? 0.96
00:38:39.000 First of all, police haven't killed you, nor are police continuing to kill black people willy-nilly. 1.00
00:38:43.000 That is a ridiculous statement. 0.99
00:38:44.000 Beyond that, no one cares if you speak up like MLK. 0.98
00:38:48.000 We do care if you go on the streets and then encourage people to get violent.
00:38:50.000 That seems to be more of a problem.
00:38:54.000 But again, this is part and parcel of a broader agenda which is to rip America's institutions down.
00:39:00.000 Which is presumably why Jim Clyburn, who's supposedly a moderate.
00:39:03.000 Remember, Jim Clyburn was the guy who pushed Joe Biden in South Carolina.
00:39:06.000 Jim Clyburn is very opposed to anti-rioting bills.
00:39:08.000 So a bunch of these states, like Florida, Texas, have now considered or passed This is about whether or not you are in favor of maintaining this democracy.
00:39:15.000 and you attack a car and the car runs into you, you have assumed the liability.
00:39:18.000 It's not on the driver, which makes perfect sense because why should you as a driver have to sit there like a sitting duck and maybe risk your life? 0.98
00:39:25.000 That's ridiculous. 0.90
00:39:26.000 Okay, but Jim Clyburn is now defending rioters. 0.96
00:39:28.000 He says, well, you know, the Boston Tea Party was a riot.
00:39:31.000 This is about whether or not you are in favor of maintaining this democracy.
00:39:36.000 A democracy that started off as a protest that was called the Boston Tea Party.
00:39:44.000 That was a protest, and that's what led to what this country is today.
00:39:49.000 So when people protest, and you're gonna criminalize the First Amendment, that's what you're doing, to petition for redress of grievances.
00:39:59.000 That's not a... So, just a little history here.
00:40:04.000 The Boston Tea Party resulted in the American Revolution, which was the active overthrow of a government.
00:40:10.000 So, yeah, governments typically have an interest in preventing riotous activity directed at the active overthrow of a government.
00:40:17.000 Typically.
00:40:18.000 That's such a bizarre thing to say.
00:40:20.000 That, what, the Boston Tea Party shouldn't have been illegal?
00:40:22.000 Because we like that that revolution took place?
00:40:24.000 But what if we actually like the American government?
00:40:26.000 See, the underlying idea here is that if there's an active overthrow of the American government, that's actually okay, so long as you believe the cause of the people who are overthrowing the American government.
00:40:34.000 That's the underlying message there.
00:40:35.000 If you're comparing people who are rioting to the Boston Tea Party, what you're actually saying is the American government is just as illegitimate as the British government was in 1775, 1774. 0.93
00:40:42.000 That's ridiculous. 0.98
00:40:42.000 It's ridiculous on its face. 0.98
00:40:47.000 And this sort of stuff has predictable consequences.
00:40:50.000 Kamala Harris, the vice president of the, co-president of the United States, she is pushing very hard for Congress to pass the George Floyd Act. 0.94
00:40:57.000 And this is supposed to be directed at policing.
00:40:59.000 There's only one problem with the George Floyd Act, which of course is that it is massively broadly written.
00:41:03.000 It is a bad piece of legislation that will lead to mass vacancy in police forces.
00:41:08.000 Police forces just will cease to exist as they are currently known.
00:41:11.000 I mean, police officers will not sign up for this job.
00:41:13.000 Here's Kamala Harris. 0.99
00:41:15.000 It was in large part because of that case that together with my then colleagues Cory Booker in particular and then on the House side Karen Bass that we wrote the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and I really do hope that
00:41:31.000 The United States Senate, the House has passed it, but the United States Senate will take it on and have the courage to take it on because there is no question that we've got to put an end to these moments where the public questions whether there's going to be accountability.
00:41:47.000 Okay, here's the problem, of course.
00:41:49.000 The George Floyd Act that is being proposed is significantly broader and significantly deeper than the police reform bill proposed by Senator Tim Scott.
00:41:56.000 So, for example, Senator Tim Scott wanted to end qualified immunity, which means civil cases being brought against specific police officers in essentially, you know, non-criminal contexts, where you sue a police officer for violation of your civil rights.
00:42:10.000 You're not allowed to do that right now because there's qualified immunity.
00:42:12.000 Okay, but qualified immunity doesn't extend forever.
00:42:15.000 Right now, there's a couple of things you can do to curb qualified immunity in ways that make sense.
00:42:19.000 One would be to change the current Supreme Court standard, which says you have to demonstrate that the police officer violated a clear line.
00:42:26.000 Right, you have to demonstrate that the police officer violated a precedent that had already been violated, essentially.
00:42:31.000 Okay, you can go back to what the original standard was, which was reasonable conduct.
00:42:36.000 If the police officer... A defense was good faith and reasonableness.
00:42:39.000 If the police officer did something that was good faith or reasonable under the circumstances, he was provided qualified immunity.
00:42:45.000 That was the original standard.
00:42:46.000 Then it was strengthened by the Supreme Court so that it wasn't just good faith and reasonableness.
00:42:49.000 It was you actually had to demonstrate a case where a police officer had done this exact thing in the past and lost a civil suit.
00:42:55.000 That's a very high bar.
00:42:56.000 You could change the standard back to good faith and reasonableness.
00:42:58.000 That might make some sense.
00:42:59.000 You could also do what Senator Tim Scott proposed and reduce qualified immunity, but not for individual police officers.
00:43:05.000 Instead, allow people to sue police departments.
00:43:07.000 So if a police officer did something that violated the rules, then they could sue the police department.
00:43:13.000 That's what Senator Tim Scott proposed.
00:43:14.000 That's not what the George Floyd Act does.
00:43:16.000 The George Floyd Act basically just ends qualified immunity, period.
00:43:20.000 The George Floyd Act basically says that you can sue a police officer for pretty much any reason and all you have to demonstrate, you don't have to demonstrate that he acted in bad faith, you don't have to demonstrate that he acted unreasonably, you just have to demonstrate that he acted quote-unquote negligently or recklessly and then you can sue him in private court.
00:43:37.000 You think that anybody's gonna sign up to be a cop under these circumstances?
00:43:40.000 It'll be impossible for anybody to get insurance.
00:43:42.000 Nobody's gonna be a cop under these circumstances.
00:43:45.000 Beyond that, when they say they want to ban chokeholds, they do understand, I assume, that chokeholds are a lesser level of force than, for example, a taser or a gun.
00:43:53.000 When you get rid of intermediate levels of force, you're actually incentivizing police officers to use higher levels of force.
00:43:58.000 Well, cops know what's coming, which is why, of course, NYPD officers are leaving in droves.
00:44:04.000 75% increase in quitting or retirement in 2020.
00:44:06.000 Over 830 officers have already left the NYPD this year, according to the New York Post.
00:44:12.000 2,600 officers quit.
00:44:14.000 2,746 filed for retirement.
00:44:17.000 Between May 25th and June 24th of 2020, a whopping 272 officers left the force in one month.
00:44:24.000 Over 5,300 uniformed officers either retired or quit in 2020.
00:44:28.000 That's crazy!
00:44:29.000 Okay, and you're about to see more, because nobody is going to enter a police force.
00:44:33.000 And there will be predictable effects of this.
00:44:35.000 And when you castigate and condemn policing in this way, You end up costing lives.
00:44:41.000 Lindsey Graham is not wrong when he says that killing qualified immunity to the extent done by the George Floyd Act, not the way Tim Scott was talking about, or not even curbing back qualified immunity in the way that people like Don Willett, Judge Don Willett on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, or Clarence Thomas has talked about, when you talk about getting rid of qualified immunity the way that Democrats are talking about, there will be no more police officers.
00:45:01.000 Here is Lindsey Graham explaining.
00:45:03.000 Qualified immunity is a very big deal.
00:45:06.000 If you want to destroy policing in America, make sure that every cop can be sued when they leave the house.
00:45:12.000 So there's a way to find qualified immunity reform.
00:45:15.000 Take the cop out of it.
00:45:17.000 My idea, along with Senator Scott, is you can't sue the police officer, you sue the department if there's an allegation.
00:45:25.000 Okay, but Democrats are beginning to feel the backlash because there will be consequences to this.
00:45:38.000 This is why Val Demings, the Democratic congresswoman from Florida who I believe wants to run for governor here, she is now saying, oh yeah, the Makia Bryant shooting, that's probably a good shooting. 0.99
00:45:47.000 Democrats are starting to realize, wait a second, we are pushing too far.
00:45:50.000 Even the most radical Democrats, and Val Demings is not a moderate.
00:45:53.000 Val Demings came out and she's like, she used to be in the police.
00:45:56.000 She says, yeah, we can't do this this way.
00:45:59.000 This is not going to end well.
00:46:01.000 Now, everybody has the benefit of slowing the video down and seizing the perfect moment.
00:46:08.000 The officer on the street does not have that ability.
00:46:10.000 He or she has to make those split-second decisions, and they're tough.
00:46:14.000 But the limited information that I know in viewing the video, it appears that the officer responded as he was trained to do, with the main thought of preventing A tragedy and a loss of life of the person who was about to be assaulted.
00:46:32.000 I mean, it's just the fact that she's saying this.
00:46:34.000 OK, another example, Democrats starting to realize they've gone too far.
00:46:37.000 Portland's mayor, Ted Wheeler, he is now asking residents to stand together and, quote, unquote, take the city back is according to The Washington Post, quote, They want to burn it.
00:46:45.000 They want to bash.
00:46:45.000 They want to intimidate.
00:46:46.000 They want to assault.
00:46:48.000 He said that he will extend the state of emergency in the city through Monday after a string of demonstrations that have resulted in several buildings being vandalized and public buildings defaced.
00:46:56.000 He said our job is to unmask them, arrest them, and prosecute them.
00:47:00.000 Weird, because for months, he defended these people.
00:47:02.000 But now it turns out that even people in Portland aren't super fond of this nonsense.
00:47:07.000 There will be a backlash. 0.98
00:47:08.000 If Republicans cannot take advantage of the fact that Democrats have completely misread their mandate, they're incompetent.
00:47:12.000 They ought to be thrown out of office, frankly, if they can't take advantage of the fact that Democrats have so wildly overreached here.
00:47:18.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:47:21.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Knowles Show, where he discusses thousands of people marching in London to protest at vaccine passports.
00:47:26.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's Show.
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