The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden Will Spend All Your Money Before He Goes | Ep. 1264

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden proposes a $6 trillion budget that would sink the economy and raise the national debt to record levels.

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00:01:32.000 Okay, so Joe Biden, breaking news, has now proposed a $6 trillion budget.

00:01:42.000 A $6 trillion budget.

00:01:46.000 That's insane.

00:01:47.000 So just to get this straight, in his first six months, He has now proposed a $2 trillion stimulus plan, which actually got passed.

00:01:55.000 He has proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that has not yet been passed.

00:01:59.000 He's proposed a $2 trillion American Families Plan, which has not yet been passed.

00:02:03.000 And now a $6 trillion budget, which is $12 trillion.

00:02:07.000 The entire GDP of the United States in 2019 was $21 trillion.

00:02:11.000 The highest levels that we have spent in terms of government spending to GDP ratio in the past decade, You're looking at from 2015 and forward, it's like 35%.

00:02:22.000 Okay, now you're talking about spending well in excess of 50% of GDP.

00:02:26.000 Okay, and people are like, well, yeah, but that's just spending this year.

00:02:29.000 I mean, next year, he's not gonna spend all that this year that's tranched out over 15.

00:02:34.000 Right, but then he's gonna propose a $6 trillion budget next year.

00:02:37.000 As we have seen, once the ratchet moves in one direction, it never moves back down.

00:02:41.000 The reality of the situation is that once Barack Obama created the $4 trillion budget, every single year we've had a $4 trillion budget, including under Donald Trump.

00:02:49.000 That became the new normal.

00:02:50.000 So now we're going to increase the American budget by 50% Joe Biden wants?

00:02:56.000 In the middle of an inflationary cycle?

00:02:58.000 It's insane!

00:02:59.000 It's crazy!

00:03:01.000 But after all, I'm not sure Joe Biden knows what's going on.

00:03:04.000 Numbers confuse him at this point.

00:03:07.000 They probably always did, but now he's super confused about them, because like regular household objects confuse the President of the United States at this point in his career.

00:03:14.000 According to the New York Times, President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget on Friday that would take the United States to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II, while running deficits above $1.3 trillion for the next decade.

00:03:27.000 For the next decade.

00:03:28.000 So he wants to add, make that calculation yourself, $13 trillion minimum to the national debt over the next decade.

00:03:36.000 The national debt right now in the United States is, if you included things like You know, unfunded liability is like $132 trillion.

00:03:46.000 But if you're just looking at the published national debt right now, the published national debt right now in the United States is like $28.3 trillion.

00:03:52.000 Joe Biden is proposing, he's proposing this, to add over the next decade $13 trillion to the national debt.

00:03:59.000 And you know that's way too low.

00:04:01.000 You know it's gonna be higher than that if he got what he wanted.

00:04:04.000 So he's talking about adding like 50% to the national debt.

00:04:07.000 Who the hell is going to buy an American bond?

00:04:09.000 Why in the world would you buy an American bond to fund that?

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00:04:17.000 Documents obtained by the New York Times show that Mr. Biden's first budget request as president calls for the federal government to spend $6 trillion in the 2022 fiscal year and for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031.

00:04:31.000 And again, he ain't gonna be president in 2031.

00:04:35.000 So if he wants the total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion, you're really talking about Rising a lot more than that.

00:04:39.000 that. The growth is driven by Biden's two-part agenda to upgrade the nation's infrastructure and substantially expand the social safety net contained in his American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, along with other planned increases in discretionary spending. The proposal shows the sweep of Mr. Biden's ambitions to wield government power to help more Americans attain the comforts of a middle-class life and to lift U.S.

00:04:59.000 industry to better compete globally. I love that. I love how the New York Times is just, let's just read right off of Joe Biden's press release right here.

00:05:05.000 You know, sure, we're gonna blow out the debt to an unprecedented degree.

00:05:08.000 This is not a war, okay?

00:05:09.000 We're not in the middle of wartime.

00:05:10.000 This isn't World War II.

00:05:11.000 See, during World War II, we had to spend a lot of money because, you know, we were in the middle of a world war in which we were fighting a two-front gigantic war, one against the Axis powers in Germany and in the Atlantic, and another where we were fighting another entirely separate war in the Pacific.

00:05:27.000 That's a good reason to blow out the federal spending is because you're in an existential war with fascist powers.

00:05:31.000 You know what's a bad reason to blow out the spending?

00:05:33.000 Because Joe Biden can't control his Metamucil.

00:05:36.000 That's a real bad reason to blow out the spending.

00:05:38.000 Because Joe Biden needs his legacy before he puts in for time at the nursing home.

00:05:44.000 What in the actual F?

00:05:47.000 But the New York Times is like, well, you know, but look at his ambition.

00:05:50.000 The code word, by the way, in the media.

00:05:53.000 When somebody proposes something absolutely insane, but it comports with kind of leftist priorities, then they just say it's ambitious.

00:06:00.000 It's bold.

00:06:01.000 It's ambitious.

00:06:02.000 Sure, he's not going to get any of this stuff because, frankly, he doesn't have the votes in the Senate, but he can.

00:06:07.000 I mean, I don't think that you're going to see Manchin or Sinema move along with us on the Democratic side of the aisle, let alone getting to the filibuster-proof majority.

00:06:16.000 You could use reconciliation to pass the budget, but I can't imagine he gets this through.

00:06:20.000 But if he did, That's not ambitious.

00:06:22.000 That's crazy.

00:06:23.000 But according to the New York Times, don't worry.

00:06:25.000 He's trying to help more Americans attain the comforts of a middle-class life.

00:06:29.000 First of all, the insanity of suggesting that America is a place where you can't attain a middle-class life.

00:06:34.000 That's so crazy.

00:06:35.000 Before the pandemic, the unemployment rate in the United States was 3.6%.

00:06:38.000 We had historically low unemployment.

00:06:43.000 We had historically high wage growth.

00:06:46.000 And studies demonstrate that if you wish to attain that middle class lifestyle in the United States, you need to do three things, and three things only, and all of them, if you are mentally capable, are not that hard.

00:06:55.000 One is graduating high school, which in the United States basically means you need to be able to write your name.

00:07:00.000 Not well, just like a little.

00:07:02.000 Okay, two, you need to get a job.

00:07:04.000 In a country that has more job openings than people seeking jobs, again, not super difficult, so long as you put your As you put your shoulder to the millstone, to the grindstone.

00:07:15.000 And three, don't have babies before you're married. 0.99

00:07:18.000 That's it.

00:07:19.000 Those three things.

00:07:20.000 And you will not live in poverty in the United States.

00:07:22.000 But according to Joe Biden, we need to blow out the budget to the tune of a $1.3 trillion debt for the next 10 years, every year, in order to attain a middle-class lifestyle.

00:07:32.000 Because nothing says middle-class lifestyle quite like complete redistribution of wealth by punishing entrepreneurialism.

00:07:38.000 Perfect.

00:07:40.000 Also, he's gonna help the United States better compete globally in the economy.

00:07:43.000 What in the world?

00:07:45.000 So blowing out the spending is gonna help us compete better in the global economy?

00:07:48.000 Explain how.

00:07:49.000 Seriously, explain how.

00:07:51.000 In Sweden, they tried in the 1960s, 70s, they tried something called the third way.

00:07:55.000 The third way in Sweden was an attempt to blow out the spending in democratic socialist fashion.

00:07:59.000 It completely sunk their economy and they had to walk back their social spending and taxation rates.

00:08:04.000 Joe Biden is like, well, let's forget about all that.

00:08:05.000 Let's just do it, man.

00:08:06.000 It'll make us more competitive.

00:08:08.000 More competitive?

00:08:10.000 Again, before COVID, the United States had the most dominant economy on planet Earth by a long stretch, not close.

00:08:17.000 And Joe Biden's like, well, forget all of that.

00:08:20.000 Mr. Biden's plans to fund his agenda by raising taxes on corporations and higher earners would begin to shrink budget deficits in the 2030s, which means it's never going to shrink budget deficits.

00:08:27.000 I mean, this is literally, I'll buy a hamburger today and I will pay for it 30 years from now.

00:08:32.000 No, you won't.

00:08:34.000 It'll shrink budget deficits in the 2030s?

00:08:37.000 Now, I may be out of line here, but I checked the calendar, like, right now, and the calendar says it is now 2021.

00:08:46.000 If Joe Biden says, oh yeah, long after I'm dead, we're gonna shrink the budget deficit? 1.00

00:08:51.000 If you believe this, you are a stupid person. 1.00

00:08:54.000 If you believe that he's going to blow up, like he's admitting that he's blowing out the deficit at 1.3 trillion dollars a year for the next decade, every year. 1.00

00:09:01.000 But don't worry, guys, when you get to 2031, when, by the way, Joe Biden will be.

00:09:06.000 I counted in his late 80s, if he is still alive.

00:09:10.000 OK, Joe Biden right now is age 78.

00:09:12.000 He will be 88.

00:09:13.000 He's like, oh, well, you know, when I'm 88 years old, I'm 78 now when I'm 88 years old, then we'll start to lower the deficit.

00:09:20.000 Mm hmm.

00:09:21.000 Sure.

00:09:22.000 Administration officials say the jobs and families plan would be fully offset by tax increases over the course of 15 years.

00:09:28.000 And this budget request backs it up.

00:09:29.000 No, it's the spending is over 10.

00:09:32.000 Again, you're not even using the same length of time.

00:09:35.000 That's like saying, you know, I'm going to blow out my credit card this month.

00:09:38.000 I'm going to spend like a million dollars on my credit card this month, but probably over the course of the next 10 years, I might earn $10 million.

00:09:44.000 Yes, but the spending is happening now.

00:09:46.000 What are you even talking about?

00:09:48.000 You have to use the same time period for the spending and the taxation in order to make those numbers match.

00:09:54.000 How do you even play that game?

00:09:57.000 In the meantime, the United States would run significant deficits as it borrows money to finance his plans.

00:10:01.000 Under Mr. Biden's proposal, the federal budget deficit would hit $1.8 trillion in 2022, even as the economy rebounds from the pandemic recession to grow at what the administration predicts would be its fastest annual pace since the early 1980s.

00:10:13.000 So first of all, we shouldn't be growing at our fastest annual pace since the early 1980s.

00:10:16.000 We should, theoretically, be growing at our fastest annual pace ever.

00:10:19.000 Why?

00:10:20.000 Because we had the greatest artificial recession in American history last year.

00:10:24.000 Talk about playing with statistics.

00:10:25.000 Like, look how fast the economy is growing.

00:10:27.000 Well, yes, when you forcibly kill tens of millions of jobs by telling people they can't go to work, then when they can go back to work, the economy will grow.

00:10:34.000 Wow, that's like a shocking statistic.

00:10:37.000 This is like saying, you know, Bob today, he had his most, the transition, like his energy level, the difference between the morning and the evening in his energy level today was the highest change ever.

00:10:49.000 Now what I'm not going to tell you is that we had Bob in an artificial coma until this morning.

00:10:53.000 So the difference between an artificial coma and him just like drinking a cup of coffee, that's like a thousand percent difference.

00:10:57.000 That is such an unbelievable energy, but you just don't tell people that.

00:11:01.000 What?

00:11:03.000 It depends what you use as the baseline.

00:11:05.000 Yes, it's true that if you use as the baseline the economic statistics from the middle of a pandemic, then we have very high growth rates.

00:11:13.000 It would recede slightly in the following years before growing again to nearly $1.6 trillion by 2031.

00:11:18.000 Total debt held by the public would more than exceed the annual value of economic output, rising to 117% of the size of the economy in 2031.

00:11:29.000 By 2024, debt as a share of the economy would rise to its highest level in American history, eclipsing its World War II-era record.

00:11:36.000 For what?

00:11:37.000 For what?

00:11:38.000 What are you even talking about?

00:11:39.000 Why?

00:11:41.000 Honest to God, why?

00:11:42.000 Right now, he's saying we're predicting the greatest American economic growth since the 1980s.

00:11:46.000 You know what we should do?

00:11:47.000 What if we just spend a load of money for no reason at all?

00:11:51.000 What if we blow out the debt to the tune of the worst debt as a share of the economy ever?

00:11:57.000 Like including World War II when we were fighting world wars and had mobilized the entire male civilian population between the ages of 18 and 40 and put them in barracks.

00:12:06.000 What in the?

00:12:07.000 I mean, this is it's totally crazy.

00:12:09.000 And the media is like, well, you know, he is trying to shore up that middle class.

00:12:12.000 Oh, you mean the middle class that ended this year with more savings than it had last year, thanks to government largesse?

00:12:19.000 According to the New York Times, the levels of taxation and spending in Mr. Biden's plans would expand the federal fiscal footprint to levels rarely seen in the post-war era.

00:12:26.000 Rarely.

00:12:27.000 Never.

00:12:27.000 To fund investments that his administration says are crucial to keeping America competitive.

00:12:31.000 That includes money for roads.

00:12:33.000 It's about roads.

00:12:33.000 I love that.

00:12:34.000 Guys, we're spending $6 trillion for roads.

00:12:38.000 No, we're not. 1.00

00:12:40.000 Again, if you believe this, you're a stupid, stupid man! 1.00

00:12:44.000 Stupid! 1.00

00:12:46.000 It includes money for roads, water pipes, broadband internet, electric vehicle charging stations, and advanced manufacturing research. 1.00

00:12:53.000 Okay, you know what?

00:12:53.000 That's gonna comprise, like, this percent of the budget.

00:12:56.000 Like, as a percentage of that total $6 trillion budget, it was, like, that kind of stuff was, like, 5 to 10% of the infrastructure plan.

00:13:03.000 That was a $2 trillion plan.

00:13:04.000 This is a $6 trillion plan.

00:13:07.000 It also envisions funding for affordable childcare, universal pre-K, a national paid leave program, and a host of other initiatives.

00:13:13.000 Spending on national defense would also grow, though it would decline as a share of the economy.

00:13:17.000 We'll get to national defense in just a second because the Biden administration is continuing its quest to woke-ify the military.

00:13:23.000 The documents suggest Mr. Biden will not propose major additional policies in the budget, or that his budget will flesh out plans that the administration has thus far declined to detail.

00:13:31.000 For example, Biden pledged to overhaul and upgrade the nation's unemployment insurance program as part of the American Families Plan, but such efforts are not included in his budget.

00:13:38.000 Right, that's a separate plan that he's still proposing.

00:13:41.000 The budget is simply a request to Congress, which must approve federal spending.

00:13:45.000 But with Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress, Biden faces some of the best odds of any president in recent history in having much of his agenda approved, particularly if he can reach agreement with lawmakers on parts of his infrastructure agenda.

00:13:56.000 Again, this is the New York Times.

00:13:59.000 I love how they bury the lead here.

00:14:00.000 If Mr. Biden's plans were enacted, the government would spend what amounts to nearly a quarter of the nation's total economic output every year over the course of the next decade.

00:14:09.000 It would collect tax revenues equal to just under one-fifth of the total economy.

00:14:12.000 How are they going to make up that difference?

00:14:13.000 By selling your bonds, of course.

00:14:15.000 By selling bonds to China.

00:14:16.000 Or by having the Federal Reserve essentially manufacture money in order to pay for all of this.

00:14:22.000 In each year of Biden's budget, the government would spend more as a share of the economy than all but two years since World War II, 2020, and 2021, which is because we blew out the budget in order to shore up the pandemic response.

00:14:33.000 By the way, who thinks that his budget is gonna be his total spending?

00:14:37.000 Which president has the budget been the only budgetary move that's been made over the course of the year?

00:14:42.000 This is madness.

00:14:44.000 By 2028, the government would be collecting more tax revenue as a share of the economy than almost any point in modern statistical history.

00:14:51.000 The documents also show the conservative approach Biden's economic team is taking with regard to projecting the economy's growth.

00:14:57.000 Biden's aides predict that even if his full agenda were enacted, the economy would grow at just under 2% for most of the decade after accounting for inflation, which is sluggish.

00:15:06.000 I mean, at least they're being realistic about that.

00:15:07.000 He will produce sluggish growth.

00:15:09.000 Unemployment would fall to 4.1% by next year from 6.1% today and remain below 4% in the years thereafter.

00:15:12.000 6.1% today and remain below 4% in the years thereafter.

00:15:15.000 Oh, would it?

00:15:16.000 Really?

00:15:18.000 As you inflate all the prices by blowing money into the economy?

00:15:21.000 Do you think that unemployment, that people continue to hire at extraordinary rates? 0.96

00:15:28.000 Yeah, and this is ridiculous.

00:15:30.000 The Biden forecast continued to show his administration has little fear of rapid inflation breaking out across the economy, despite recent data showing a quick jump in prices.

00:15:37.000 Under the Biden team's projections, consumer prices never rise faster than 2.3% per year.

00:15:41.000 Well, weird, because year on year, according to the last available metric, The inflation was like 4.2%, like twice, almost twice that.

00:15:51.000 Biden says that now is a great time because the interest rates are low for us to basically just blow money into the economy, which is actually a terrible time to blow money into the economy because that creates bubbles.

00:16:02.000 I love this.

00:16:02.000 Interest rates are controlled by the Federal Reserve, which is independent of the White House.

00:16:05.000 Yeah, super independent.

00:16:07.000 Super independent over at that Federal Reserve.

00:16:09.000 You know who's running the Federal Reserve until five seconds ago?

00:16:11.000 Janet Yellen, who's currently the Secretary of the Treasury under, wait for it, President Houseplant. 0.97

00:16:17.000 Even if the interest rates stay low, payments on the national debt would consume an increased share of the federal budget.

00:16:24.000 Net interest payments would double as a share of the economy from 2022 to 2031.

00:16:27.000 Okay, it's just insane.

00:16:28.000 It's just insane.

00:16:31.000 Okay, so his plan is to blow out the spending in the middle of a natural economic recovery and in the middle of an inflationary spiral in order to do what?

00:16:40.000 He wants his legacy.

00:16:41.000 Here's the bottom line.

00:16:41.000 He wants his legacy.

00:16:43.000 That guy knows he's not running for re-election.

00:16:44.000 He wants to be a consequential president, and therefore he's just going to blow out the spending because who cares?

00:16:49.000 Somebody else is going to have to deal with that down the line.

00:16:52.000 Unreal.

00:16:54.000 And also, it's incredible that supposedly, if you confiscate 25% of the American GDP every year from taxpayers, which by the way is a minimum, it'll be more.

00:17:02.000 If he does that, then that's going to have no impact on GDP growth, which will continue to grow steadily at 2%, and inflation, which will continue to just be 2% a year.

00:17:09.000 It's just nuts.

00:17:10.000 I'm sorry, this is fantasyland bullcrap.

00:17:13.000 We all get what we deserve if we decide to go forward with this, seriously.

00:17:15.000 Okay, in just a second, we'll get to Joe Biden's plans for the military, because our military unpreparedness is growing, because we continue to woke-ify the military.

00:17:23.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:18:45.000 Alrighty, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to woke-ify the nation's military-industrial complex.

00:18:52.000 So the truth is that the government has been engaging in woke In woke priorities with regard to national defense for quite a while now.

00:19:03.000 The GAO, the US Government's Accountability Office, put out a report in 2017 in which they openly talk about the fact that the Department of Defense actually obligates billions of dollars every single year to buy products and services from types of businesses Okay, and a business, this is according to the GAO, a business generally must self-identify as a minority-owned business or a women-owned business as applicable in the federal government's contractor registry.

00:19:31.000 So, there's like a specific part of the budget that is basically dedicated that it has to be given to a female or minority-owned business. 0.77

00:19:40.000 Now, I don't know about you, but when I think about the military making missiles, for example, or making military hardware for jets, I don't care.

00:19:48.000 Who owns the businesses that sell that product to the Department of Defense? 0.98

00:19:48.000 At all. 0.98

00:19:52.000 I just want that stuff to work, and I want to pay the lowest price for it, because it's coming at taxpayer expense.

00:19:57.000 government for a very long time has been engaged in this sort of affirmative action program for female-owned businesses and black-owned businesses designed to direct money toward specific... I mean, in violation of civil rights law. 1.00

00:19:57.000 But the U.S. 1.00

00:20:11.000 They've picked, specifically, Minority owned businesses in order to direct dollars toward those businesses, even if it's a greater cost to taxpayers, even if it means that there's a delay in the procurement process because you have to actually demonstrate apparently that you couldn't have gotten it from a black owned or a minority or a minority or female owned business in order to actually procure certain military parts is what I'm hearing from people inside the Defense Department.

00:20:32.000 So that's been going on for quite a while.

00:20:34.000 And Joe Biden was set to ramp that into high gear.

00:20:37.000 According to governmentexecutive.com, this is back in 2020, the oncoming Biden administration is likely to increase contracting opportunities for small and minority-owned businesses.

00:20:46.000 President Biden-elect said that he wants to use equity as a guide.

00:20:50.000 Andy Howard, partner in the law from Alston and Byrd's government contracts group, says, I think we're going to see more regulation generally promoting competition and furthering the socioeconomic policies of the new administration, which is different in many respects from the current administration.

00:21:03.000 Apparently, there was speculation early on that the Biden team is now effectuating that would expand the Small Business Administration's Small Business Development Program to increase participations of small disadvantaged firms, require prime contractors to increase subcontracting opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses, and protect small business from contact bundling, because that would prevent Smaller firms, especially those owned by black and brown people, from effectively bidding on procurement contracts.

00:21:30.000 Now, contract bundling is generally a good thing because that means that you have, like, a defense, say, Lockheed Martin.

00:21:35.000 They have a subcontractor.

00:21:36.000 And now Lockheed Martin wants that subcontractor to go out and get a bunch of parts.

00:21:40.000 Well, now you're going to have regulations inside the Biden administration to prevent them from doing that.

00:21:44.000 Instead, they have to buy every part separately and show that every single part could not have been obtained from a black-owned or female-owned business before they can just go over to Walmart and pick up the part. 0.72

00:21:53.000 How that helps America's military readiness is absolutely beyond me.

00:21:56.000 It has nothing to do with America's military readiness, especially in a time of rising conflict with states like China.

00:22:04.000 But beyond that, we have now decided that it's very important that America's defense contractors get engaged with the new woke military priorities of the Biden administration.

00:22:13.000 There's a reason the Biden administration is putting out these bizarre ads in which they're recruiting for the CIA by being like, here is a cisgender, but very tolerant, Hispanic woman with generalized anxiety disorder.

00:22:26.000 You too can work for the CIA.

00:22:27.000 Or here is a military recruiting ad. 0.88

00:22:29.000 This person had two lesbian moms. 1.00

00:22:32.000 Like what in the world?

00:22:33.000 Well, again, this is about woke-ifying the American military and turning it from what is a quote-unquote de facto right-wing institution into something that is much more woke.

00:22:41.000 Well, now this is being crammed down on America's contracting companies.

00:22:45.000 Things like Lockheed Martin, for example.

00:22:47.000 So, Christopher Rufo does excellent work on this sort of stuff.

00:22:51.000 He has a piece today in City Journal.

00:22:53.000 It says, last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation's largest defense contractor, sent white male executives to a three-day diversity training program aimed at deconstructing their white male culture and encouraging them to atone for their white male privilege.

00:23:05.000 The program, hosted on Zoom for a cohort of 13 Lockheed employees, was led by the diversity consulting firm White Men as Full Diversity Partners, which specializes in helping white males awaken together.

00:23:16.000 Which, frankly, sounds a little creepy.

00:23:17.000 Like, I wouldn't want to awaken with a bunch of other white males. 1.00

00:23:21.000 Weird.

00:23:22.000 I'm married.

00:23:23.000 The Lockheed employees, all senior leaders in the company, included Aaron Huckabee, director of global supply chain operations, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel David Starr, director of the Hercules C-130 military transport program, retired Air Force Lieutenant General Bruce Litchfield, vice president of sustainment operations, and Glenn Woods, vice president of production for the Air Force's $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter jet program.

00:23:45.000 At the beginning of the program, the diversity trainers led a free association exercise asking the Lockheed employees to list connotations for the terms white men.

00:23:52.000 The trainers wrote down old, racist, privileged, anti-women, angry, Aryan nation, KKK, founding fathers, guns, guilty, and can't jump.

00:24:02.000 According to the participants, these perceptions have led to assumptions about white men and diversity, with many employees believing.

00:24:08.000 That white men don't care about diversity, have a classical perspective on history and colonialism, and don't want to give away our power.

00:24:15.000 The White Men as Full Diversity Partners team, Jim Morris, Mark Havens, Michael Welp, framed the purpose of the training session as providing a benefit for white men who embrace the diversity and inclusion philosophy.

00:24:25.000 In response to a prompt about what's in it for white men, the participants listed benefits such as, I won't get replaced by someone who is a better full diversity partner.

00:24:32.000 I will improve.

00:24:35.000 I will improve the brand image, reputation of white men, and I will have a less nagging sense of guilt that I am the problem. 0.67

00:24:42.000 The firm's founders, Welp and Bill Proudman, have argued that white males must work harder to understand their white privilege, male privilege, and heterosexual privilege, which affords them unearned benefits.

00:24:49.000 This is what we are now teaching people at Lockheed Martin.

00:24:52.000 Now, why exactly is Lockheed Martin doing this?

00:24:54.000 Why are they bothering?

00:24:56.000 The reason they're doing this is because they want to be able to say to the Biden Defense Department, we have complied with all of your woke diktats.

00:25:01.000 We are on the team, guys.

00:25:03.000 Keep directing those trillion-dollar checks over here, please. 0.95

00:25:07.000 This is not the first time that White Men as Full Diversity Partners has been involved in a controversial training program.

00:25:12.000 Last year, the company's white male training program for employees at Sandia National Laboratories was performed.

00:25:20.000 Consultants such as White Men as Full Diversity Partners are peddling this sort of stuff to bloated government contractors, and the government contractors are going right along with it because, of course, they want the contract. 0.97

00:25:30.000 So, woke-ifying America's military-industrial complex.

00:25:32.000 It is a move.

00:25:33.000 It is a shocking move.

00:25:34.000 Republicans right now are warning of this.

00:25:38.000 30 House Republicans have now sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, warning him that creeping left-wing extremism and politicization is jeopardizing the U.S.' 's military status, according to Breitbart News and Christina Wong Reporting.

00:25:49.000 The letter, led by Representative Matt Rosendale, a Republican in Montana, said, We write to express our concern about the growing trend of left-wing extremism and politicization of our armed forces. The military's long history of standing above politics has made it one of the most respected institutions in America. That legacy is now in jeopardy. They listed some examples of politicization. First was the Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan for our Special Forces.

00:26:13.000 The United States Army also released a recruitment video describing marching and left-wing social protests as defending freedom and depicting two moms raising a child and featured a lesbian wedding.

00:26:24.000 Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer, commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force, warned of radical ideology being pushed on the military and stated, quote, the diversity, inclusion, and equity industry and the trainings we are receiving in the military is rooted in critical race theory.

00:26:38.000 He was relieved of his command for this.

00:26:41.000 All of this is deeply, deeply troubling stuff.

00:26:43.000 And again, remember, Joe Biden thinks the way that you compete with China is spending $6 trillion in a budget and also wokefying the American military-industrial complex.

00:26:51.000 I think we are going to lose.

00:26:54.000 If this is the way that you tackle an authoritarian, aggressive power like China, good luck to you. 1.00

00:26:59.000 By the way, just a quick side note on the bizarre critical race theory ideology and how stupid it is. 0.99

00:27:05.000 There's this whole meme online called people posting their L's, right? 1.00

00:27:09.000 People putting up tweets describing things they've done that are really just them describing how they got their ass kicked online. 0.97

00:27:14.000 Okay, so Mark Lamont Hill posted a clip of himself talking to Chris Rufo. 0.98

00:27:18.000 Chris Rufo, again, doing excellent work over at City Journal, exposing critical race theory.

00:27:22.000 And this really demonstrates wholesale the perversity of critical race theory thinking in which Mark Lamont Hill engages routinely.

00:27:29.000 Mark Lamont Hill is just terrible.

00:27:31.000 He was interviewing He's interviewing Chris Rufo and he says, what do you like about being white?

00:27:36.000 Now, this is a trap of a question, of course, because the real answer to this is I don't understand what my race has to do with anything.

00:27:43.000 My race doesn't dictate my culture.

00:27:45.000 My race does not dictate my abilities.

00:27:47.000 My race does not dictate my priorities.

00:27:50.000 Christopher, what do you like about being white?

00:27:52.000 Chris Rufo, because if Chris Rufo says that I'm not proud of being white, then Michael Monhill goes, well, why not? Why not? What are you guilty for? And if he says, well, here's the thing I'm proud of being white about. And he said, oh, look at you, you racist.

00:28:05.000 Right. This is the trap. This is the catch 22. Chris Rufo refuses to fall for it. And Michael Monhill is proud of himself for asking this dumb question. 0.98

00:28:12.000 Christopher, what do you like about being white? What would you say? 0.99

00:28:16.000 I don't know.

00:28:19.000 Again, it's such an amorphous term.

00:28:21.000 It's like a census term or a... But can you do me a favor?

00:28:24.000 Indulge me.

00:28:25.000 Indulge me for one... We're running out of time.

00:28:27.000 Indulge me for a minute.

00:28:28.000 I understand you see it as all these things, but you surely recognize that the world sees you as white. 0.51

00:28:32.000 You know the world reads you as white. 0.94

00:28:34.000 And if you were to ask me some things I like about being black, I could talk about cultural norms, I could talk about tradition, I could talk about the kind of commonalities I feel around the diaspora.

00:28:41.000 If I were to ask you, particularly if you're saying whiteness is a thing that is being constructed as negative and shouldn't be, Name something positive that you like about being white.

00:28:52.000 Okay, and Chris Rufo rejects the premise, but Michael Mann Hill can't understand why he should reject the premise.

00:28:57.000 Okay, first of all, it is absolutely reductionist to say what I like about being black is all of these various characteristics that really don't have to do with race and really have more to do with culture and history.

00:29:11.000 You can be black and agree with none of the things that Markle and Hildreth said there.

00:29:14.000 But again, this racial reductionism is now being taught in America's military settings.

00:29:18.000 I mean, this is madness.

00:29:20.000 Now, speaking of America's unreadiness to face down China, the continuing failures of the Biden administration to face down China are becoming clearer and clearer to the point where Biden is having to back down on some of them.

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00:31:08.000 In a strange shift with regard to the lab leak theory.

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00:32:05.000 Okay, so meanwhile, remember that time that Joe Biden and his team were saying that this lab leak theory, like they're trusting the WHO to pursue it?

00:32:18.000 Like, remember that?

00:32:18.000 Because that was yesterday?

00:32:20.000 Literally yesterday?

00:32:21.000 Well, then news broke from CNN that the Biden administration had shut down a State Department effort launched late in the Trump administration to prove that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab over concerns about the quality of its work That's the way CNN reports it.

00:32:33.000 That's the quality of the work that's a problem, not the lab leak theory itself.

00:32:36.000 Now, the reality is that the Biden administration shut down that investigation because it was a point of faith for the left that the lab leak theory was not true.

00:32:45.000 And it was a point of faith for two reasons.

00:32:46.000 One, because it was racist.

00:32:48.000 Racist to suggest that perhaps the lab leak Was the responsibility of the Chinese government that this had been developed in a Chinese lab and then released that?

00:33:01.000 That would have been racist to point out.

00:33:04.000 And two, Trump talked about it, right?

00:33:05.000 Those are the two reasons why this had to be shut down.

00:33:08.000 Now, it's very weird that people considered it more racist, like people on the left today, consider it more racist to talk about the lab leak theory than to talk about Chinese people randomly eating bats.

00:33:21.000 Confusing, to say the least.

00:33:23.000 But, you know, they've got their ways.

00:33:26.000 But if you think I'm joking about this whole racist thing, let me point you to a New York Times COVID reporter who tweeted yesterday, quote, someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit it's racist roots.

00:33:39.000 But alas, that day is not yet here.

00:33:41.000 That is a reporter for the New York Times on COVID.

00:33:44.000 Trust your media.

00:33:45.000 Your media have your best interest at heart.

00:33:46.000 They care only about pursuing the facts.

00:33:48.000 The facts.

00:33:49.000 An apple is an apple, a banana is a banana, and a lab leak theory is racist if the New York Times says it's so.

00:33:53.000 Okay, so anyway, the Biden administration shut down Mike Pompeo's investigation into the origins of the virus.

00:34:01.000 Those involved in the previously undisclosed inquiry, which was launched last fall by allies of Pompeo, say it was an honest effort to probe what many initially dismissed, that China's biological weapons program could have had a greater role in the pandemic's origin in Wuhan, according to two additional sources.

00:34:16.000 But then it was mired in internal politicization about whether this was cherry-picked by Trump, because everything Trump did was bad, according to the left, and therefore even investigations into baseline facts, that was bad too.

00:34:28.000 And by the way, the original investigation was fully justified.

00:34:31.000 Why?

00:34:31.000 Because everybody at the WHO, which is a deeply corrupt organization, a profoundly corrupt organization, they just took China's word for it from the beginning.

00:34:39.000 In late January, the WHO released a statement saying there was no human-to-human transition of COVID.

00:34:47.000 And there were like hundreds of people, thousands of people running around in Wuhan transmitting it to each other at the time.

00:34:54.000 If the information we have is correct, this thing was probably out of a virus in November.

00:34:59.000 I mean, the WHO lead investigator admits they took China's word for everything.

00:35:04.000 So of course Pompeo needed invest— of course the United States needed its own investigation.

00:35:08.000 And yet yesterday you had Jen Psaki and company say, well, you know, there is an international investigation led by the exact same people who just played second place in the human centipede to the Chinese government.

00:35:18.000 Here's the WHO lead investigator.

00:35:21.000 We met with them, we said, do you audit the lab?

00:35:24.000 And they said, annually?

00:35:25.000 Did you audit it after the outbreak?

00:35:27.000 Yes.

00:35:27.000 Was anything found?

00:35:28.000 No.

00:35:29.000 Do you test your staff?

00:35:31.000 Yes.

00:35:31.000 But you're just taking their word for it.

00:35:34.000 Well, what else can we do?

00:35:35.000 There's a limit to what you can do.

00:35:36.000 And we went right up to that limit.

00:35:38.000 We asked them tough questions.

00:35:39.000 They weren't vetted in advance.

00:35:41.000 And the answers they gave, we found to be believable, correct, and convincing.

00:35:48.000 Oh, really?

00:35:49.000 Because you also found it believable, correct, and convincing there was no human-to-human transmission of COVID-19, and thus it was not any sort of global threat in late January.

00:35:57.000 So yes, I don't believe you guys, and I think that you are just bags of tools.

00:36:01.000 Like, large bags of tools.

00:36:03.000 That's what you all got.

00:36:04.000 Okay, so, Joe Biden got hit with this headline yesterday, which is that his administration had shut down an American intelligence investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

00:36:13.000 And Joe Biden started to back up as quickly as he could without tripping over his feet and falling over and breaking a hip.

00:36:18.000 He immediately started to backpedal.

00:36:20.000 He put out a statement.

00:36:22.000 I've now asked the intelligence community to read a bubble, their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us, come on man, closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in nine mammogram days.

00:36:39.000 Now I'll read the rest in English.

00:36:40.000 Oh, weird.

00:36:40.000 As part of that report, I've asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including specific questions for China.

00:36:45.000 I've also asked that this effort include work by our national labs and other agencies of our government to augment the intelligence community's efforts.

00:36:51.000 And I've asked the intelligence community to keep Congress fully apprised of its work.

00:36:54.000 Oh, weird.

00:36:55.000 So you mean the same day CNN revealed that you shut down an investigation, you asked the intelligence community to perform an investigation?

00:37:01.000 Amazing.

00:37:02.000 Amazing.

00:37:03.000 Meanwhile, literally the same day, the White House spokesperson, Corinne Jean-Pierre, she was asked about, you know, finding out the truth.

00:37:10.000 And she says, well, we'll just have to ask China to cooperate.

00:37:12.000 I mean, that's worked in the past, hasn't it?

00:37:14.000 China's super cooperative when they're stealing our technology and invading Hong Kong and threatening Taiwan and unleashing a virus on the world that kills two million people. 0.98

00:37:21.000 But other than that, they're super cooperative.

00:37:24.000 Why do we think that China would cooperate?

00:37:26.000 You know, this is this is something that you have to ask the Chinese government, right?

00:37:30.000 This is something that should be important.

00:37:31.000 It should should matter to them.

00:37:33.000 But this is a question for them.

00:37:35.000 How is that a question for them?

00:37:36.000 Specifically asked or made this ask of President Xi of China for their cooperation in this effort.

00:37:41.000 I'm not I'm not going to go into details of private conversation that the president may have may have had with with President Xi.

00:37:48.000 She can't even commit that Biden's going to ask the Chinese to cooperate.

00:37:52.000 By the way, that's not a question for the Chinese.

00:37:53.000 We know they're not going to cooperate.

00:37:55.000 The question is, what sort of leverage are you going to bring to bear to get China to cooperate?

00:37:59.000 That's not a question for the Chinese.

00:38:01.000 Why would an American media member go ask the Chinese government if they're going to cooperate in an internal investigation as to whether they unleashed a virus that killed two million people?

00:38:10.000 Why?

00:38:11.000 Unbelievable.

00:38:12.000 Okay.

00:38:13.000 And meanwhile, this White House spokesperson, then she was asked, you know, if it turns out that China actually, this did emerge from a Chinese lab, and not only that, that they lied about it all the way from November to the end of January, a three month period in which the world could have been developing a COVID vaccine and shutting down travel.

00:38:29.000 If that happens, what sort of penalties will there be?

00:38:31.000 And she's like, well, maybe none.

00:38:33.000 Guys, don't worry. 0.83

00:38:34.000 Joe Biden really wants to compete with China by blowing out our spending and sinking our economy, by woke-ifying the military, and by never holding China's feet to the fire on a single damned thing. 0.96

00:38:42.000 Here we go.

00:38:44.000 In terms of, you know, cooperating with the W.H.O.

00:38:47.000 investigations, does that mean the White House is encouraging China or penalties for China if it does not cooperate with investigations going forward?

00:38:55.000 I'm not going to prejudge or, you know, make any pre-announcements at this time.

00:38:59.000 We're going to go with the 90-day investigation and see where it takes us from there.

00:39:03.000 OK, but again, the 90-day investigation is going to be reliant on people talking to the Chinese.

00:39:08.000 This is like, it's unreal.

00:39:10.000 So they're not even going to be penalties for them not cooperating with the investigation.

00:39:14.000 Yeah, there's a hard coordinate they want to find.

00:39:16.000 They want to get to the bottom of this thing.

00:39:17.000 They're deeply invested in getting to the bottom of this thing.

00:39:20.000 The truth is, the Democrats want to put COVID behind us in terms of its origins, so they don't have to face up to a couple of things.

00:39:25.000 One, their complete botchery of the actual lockdowns in the United States and their masking policies and all of the idiocies that they have pushed over the course of the last year.

00:39:34.000 And also, they don't want to face up to the fact that they might actually have to get confrontational with an authoritarian communist state.

00:39:40.000 You gave them money and you said, don't do gain-of-function research.

00:39:42.000 Correct.

00:39:42.000 And they said, we won't.

00:39:43.000 happening this week. So Anthony Fauci was asked by Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana about American money going toward Chinese gain-of-function research. And Fauci admits, oh yeah, by the way, the Chinese could have, like that could have been funded by us maybe.

00:39:56.000 You gave them money and you said don't do gain-of-function research.

00:40:01.000 Correct.

00:40:02.000 And they said we won't.

00:40:03.000 Correct.

00:40:04.000 And you have no way of knowing whether they did or not except you trust them.

00:40:11.000 Is that right?

00:40:13.000 Well, we generally always trust the grantee to do what they say and you look at the results.

00:40:19.000 Have you ever had a grantee lie to you?

00:40:22.000 I cannot guarantee that a grantee has not lied to us because you never know.

00:40:27.000 Um, well then why would you give money to the Chinese government?

00:40:34.000 For a communist state!

00:40:35.000 What are you doing?

00:40:38.000 And there's no such thing as trust, but verify for these folks.

00:40:41.000 They just want to work with China. 0.89

00:40:42.000 And that means that you're just going to have to trust them in the same way that we're just going to have to trust the Iranian government with money.

00:40:46.000 They won't use it for terror.

00:40:48.000 No, they promised.

00:40:49.000 They said right to us.

00:40:50.000 They're not.

00:40:51.000 Oh, wait, hold on.

00:40:51.000 They're building ballistic missiles now.

00:40:54.000 I mean, we have to give money to Gaza in order to rebuild.

00:40:54.000 Sure.

00:40:58.000 And for sure.

00:40:58.000 Listen, we have promises that this is not going to be used for more rockets.

00:41:03.000 Oh, wait, they did what with the money?

00:41:05.000 You mean that if we give money to a Chinese laboratory, which is a black box, because we have no idea what they're doing there, that that might be used in ways we... Hmm. 0.65

00:41:15.000 Shocking!

00:41:15.000 Money is fungible?

00:41:16.000 No!

00:41:17.000 No!

00:41:20.000 Okay, but the media have a comeback to all of this.

00:41:22.000 They spent a year on social media literally shutting people down who talked about the lab leak theory.

00:41:26.000 Facebook shut it down.

00:41:27.000 Fact-checkers called it absolutely false.

00:41:29.000 It just shows you how corrupt the media are, how corrupt the fact-checkers are.

00:41:31.000 They're not fact-checkers.

00:41:32.000 They're conservative censors.

00:41:34.000 That's all they are. 0.93

00:41:34.000 They're just anti-conservative censors, these fact-checkers, like PolitiFact and FactCheck.org, garbage organizations, all the way through. 0.93

00:41:41.000 Meanwhile, your mainstream media tell you That they're dereliction of duty and never investigating any of this. 0.59

00:41:46.000 They're like, well, you know what?

00:41:48.000 Of course we couldn't investigate this because Trump said it.

00:41:50.000 So if Trump said it, it was totally false, obviously.

00:41:52.000 So here is, unbelievably, Andrew Cuomo talking about how the big problem here is Trumpers, they keep playing up the Wuhan lab leak theory.

00:42:03.000 They keep playing it up.

00:42:05.000 And that's the problem here.

00:42:08.000 An Intel report determined several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized for an unknown illness in November 2019, the month before China reported its first COVID case.

00:42:20.000 Suspicious.

00:42:21.000 So why is it politically charged?

00:42:23.000 Because Trumpers who were complicit in playing down the pandemic reality in America are now seeing more interest in the China lab theory as some kind of vindication enough to play I told you so with Fauci.

00:42:40.000 Well, I mean, what if Fauci was not telling the truth?

00:42:45.000 Why is it that the underlying story... This is always the way the media treat this stuff, right?

00:42:50.000 It is not that the underlying... When it's a good story for Republicans, or bad for the Democrats, then the story is Republicans pounce on the story.

00:42:56.000 When it's a bad story for Republicans, the story is the story.

00:42:58.000 When it's a bad story for Democrats, the story is Republicans pounce.

00:43:02.000 When anti-Semitism in the streets of New York is emanating from the radical left and their allies in the pro-Palestinian movement, then the story is Republicans pounce on anti-Semitism, according to Michelle Goldberg.

00:43:12.000 And meanwhile, Sarah Haynes on ABC's The View, she says that the real problem here is that the lab leak theory is racist.

00:43:18.000 Again, this is insane.

00:43:20.000 Why can't we have a... By poll data, Americans understand China's a problem. 1.00

00:43:20.000 This is insane. 1.00

00:43:24.000 Why can't we have bipartisan agreement that China should pay for the unleashing of a virus that killed 2 million people? 0.89

00:43:31.000 Honest to God, I don't understand why this is remotely controversial.

00:43:34.000 I know many Democrats in legislative positions who full-on agree with this.

00:43:39.000 But because Trump said a thing, you have to oppose the thing.

00:43:41.000 So here's Sarah Haynes on ABC News suggesting that Trump's racism is what buried the Wuhan lab leak message.

00:43:48.000 I think the messenger matters.

00:43:50.000 I think during that time when that theory started to be told, it was buried in an administration and a former president who often kind of troped in kind of racist terms and dog whistles and so it buried the message that could have been actually reasonable but no one was going to hear it because it came from under Trump's administration and the media at that time was used to what he doled out and they were going to push back on that.

00:44:18.000 Unreal.

00:44:18.000 So they had to push back on Trump, and that was the most important thing.

00:44:21.000 Because what our media became, as arms of the Democratic Party, was an anti-Trump machine during the Trump era, not an investigative-reportorial regime.

00:44:29.000 An amazing, amazing thing.

00:44:31.000 Meanwhile, by the way, how corrupt are our media?

00:44:33.000 Well, it turns out that China's state media paid $1.6 million for advertising from American media outlets, including Time Magazine, the LA Times, and the Financial Times.

00:44:42.000 According to Mediaite, the cash China Daily forked over included $272,000 to the LA Times, $291,000 to Foreign Policy, $371,000 to the British Financial Times, $330,000 to the Canadian Globe and Mail, and $700,000 to Time Magazine.

00:44:49.000 $371,000 to the British Financial Times, $330,000 to the Canadian Globe and Mail, and $700,000 to Time Magazine.

00:44:57.000 That figures, those figures come after several large publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post ended advertising agreements with the newspaper last year.

00:45:09.000 By the way, is it any coincidence that the vast majority of this money, as far as I'm aware, was going toward left-wing media outlets?

00:45:18.000 I find that utterly unsurprising in the extreme.

00:45:21.000 Meanwhile, speaking of America being weakened from within, so the Department of Homeland Security head, Alejandro Mayorkas, he is now admitting that too many illegal immigrants are being admitted into the country for us even to track them.

00:45:35.000 If things are going really well, swell under the Biden administration, what if we spend some more money?

00:45:38.000 Would that solve it?

00:45:39.000 Maybe.

00:45:40.000 You know, let's try it.

00:45:41.000 Here's Alejandro Mayorkas admitting we have too many illegal immigrants in the country for us even to track them. 0.99

00:45:46.000 I am not aware of the fact that we have the tools, resources, and capabilities to track with the more than 11 million unlawfully present individuals in the United States, which speaks to the fundamental broken system and the need for immigration reform. 0.98

00:46:06.000 Oh, so, I mean, you know what?

00:46:08.000 We're not doing our jobs, so that means that we need you to pass legislation that allows us to not do our jobs.

00:46:13.000 Excellent, excellent Biden administration policy right here.

00:46:17.000 By the way, Alejandro Mayorkas also said that diminishing the ability of ICE to do its job is better for public safety.

00:46:22.000 So, yeah, things are going just fabulously well.

00:46:26.000 Is that the intended outcome of the various orders and directives, a near stop of all immigration violation arrests, sir?

00:46:35.000 Law enforcement effectiveness is not a quantitative issue.

00:46:41.000 It is a qualitative one.

00:46:43.000 The question is, as to whom are we dedicating our resources?

00:46:50.000 What will deliver the greatest public safety results for the American public?

00:46:56.000 Man, I love that.

00:46:57.000 I love when he's like, quantitative numbers.

00:46:59.000 We can't measure law enforcement in numbers.

00:47:02.000 We can measure it in feelings.

00:47:03.000 In feelings!

00:47:05.000 If the feelings meter goes up, that means law enforcement is doing a great job.

00:47:08.000 If the feelings meter goes down, That means that law enforcement's doing a bad job.

00:47:11.000 We can't gauge whether law enforcement's doing a good job by, you know, how many criminals it arrests.

00:47:15.000 No.

00:47:16.000 Only the feelings-o-meter can tell us whether we are doing a good job or not.

00:47:20.000 You elected this.

00:47:21.000 You bought the ticket.

00:47:22.000 We all take the ride, gang.

00:47:24.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.

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Joe Biden Will Spend All Your Money Before He Goes | Ep. 1264

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