A lawn sign on a suburban street in Los Angeles is not meant to unify the community. It is a means to divide and conquer. And it is designed to do so by using a semantically overloaded tautology that doesn't mean anything unless you're in on the semantic coding. Ben Shapiro explains why the lawn sign is actually an attempt to divide the community, and how it is part of a larger strategy to delegitimize the will of the majority of Americans and force them to choose between their own virtue and the virtue of others. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Huffington Post, and The Daily Wire, and he is a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, The Hill, and the Weekly Standard. His latest book is out now. The Devil Next Door is out on Amazon Prime and is available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and AudioBook, and is also available on Audible. You can find Ben Shapiro on all of the social medias, including Vimeo, Podchaser, Podcoin, and Stitcher, wherever you get your copy of his work is available. If you're looking for a free copy of Ben Shapiro's latest book, you can get it. Subscribe to his newest book, "Ben Shapiro's new novel, "I'm a Real Talk" wherever you listen to his podcast, "The Devil's Guide to the Real World." or wherever else you get his work gets his work, you'll get a copy of the book out on the best listening experience, too! Thanks for listening and sharing it on Apple Podcasts, wherever else he's listening to him on the internet, and much more! You'll get 10% off his book recommendation? Subscribe and subscribe to his new book "Real Talk, Too Sensible for Real Talk, Real Talk? by clicking here. and other great reads like that he's on the road, too much good stuff like that's good stuff, too good for you to talk about it, too cool for you? Thanks Ben Shapiro, he'll even give you a review on his podcast and more?
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00:00:25.000So, this morning I was driving around my neighborhood in Los Angeles, and I was observing all the sights and sounds of Los Angeles.
00:00:31.000You know, like the smoke in the sky that obscures the sun so that it feels like you're in an apocalyptic Mad Max movie.
00:00:37.000You know, the sights of homeless people going through your garbage can, like directly in front of your home.
00:00:41.000And then a few blocks later, homeless people pissing onto the sidewalks.
00:00:45.000And the sights and sounds of LA, the things that make LA really, really tremendous.
00:00:49.000But there's one thing that juxtaposed with all of these things reminds you why LA is such a great city, and that is the lawn signs.
00:00:55.000See, there is this thing that's happened in LA, probably over the last few years, where people feel the necessity to put out a signal of their own virtue and wonderfulness.
00:01:05.000It is a symbol of their own dissociation from their evil, terrible, benighted fellow Americans.
00:01:11.000It's basically like Passover for the social justice warriors, where if you put out this lawn sign on your lawn, then everybody is supposed to pass right over you because you are one of the virtuous.
00:01:20.000It's like blood on the lintel during Passover.
00:01:22.000You're supposed to The gods of social justice wokeness will pass right over your home and move right on to the next home because you have been touched by the hand of tolerance.
00:01:31.000There's this lawn sign, again, I don't know if it's in LA, in other cities, in LA it is extremely, extremely common.
00:01:36.000I would say that probably every suburban block in LA has three or four of these.
00:01:43.000And these are not kind of normal political signs that just say which political candidate you support.
00:01:47.000They are semantically overloaded virtue signaling signs.
00:01:50.000And what they are truly designed to do is of course suggest that you are better than other people.
00:01:55.000You're better than other people because they are filled with tautologies that don't mean anything unless you're in on the coding.
00:02:00.000Unless you're in on the semantic coding.
00:02:02.000Now to remind everybody, semantic overload is a term that means that sometimes a tautology or a term doesn't necessarily mean what it says it means.
00:02:11.000It can carry a bunch of different meanings.
00:02:13.000A perfect example of this is of course the phrase, Black Lives Matter, which can mean three separate things.
00:02:17.000It can mean one, the inarguable proposition that black people matter and should matter.
00:02:22.000Two, the proposition that America is systemically racist and that a huge swath of Americans don't believe Black Lives Matter.
00:02:27.000And three, the Black Lives Matter organization, a neo-Marxist, horrible organization seeking to overturn all institutions in the United States.
00:02:33.000So that's what this sign is filled with.
00:02:35.000And it is put on lawns by white, rich, suburban people, generally, who have decided it's really important to signal to their neighbors what their feelings are.
00:02:44.000We know that these people are virtuous because they've put this sign on their lawn.
00:02:48.000And this all ties into what we are seeing in our political cycle today.
00:02:52.000The firm insistence by the media and by Democrats that only Democrats believe in science.
00:02:58.000But this is all part of a broader rubric, which is we are more virtuous than you.
00:03:05.000In fact, there's no reason for us to do so because we cannot have conversations with people who do not believe the following semantically overloaded tautological statements.
00:03:13.000We can't even have a conversation with you because you don't believe what we believe.
00:03:17.000You're not even operating in the same universe that we are operating.
00:03:20.000When you discuss solutions, when you discuss policies, sometimes you can find common ground.
00:03:25.000But if you never discuss solutions and you never discuss policies, and what you really are attempting to do is cudgel people with slogans that mean a lot more than you are saying they mean, When you are playing this Mott and Bailey game, where you put out the most generic sounding term, but what you actually mean is something that is extremely loaded, then what you're really trying to do is divide people.
00:03:44.000So this lawn sign is not attempting to unify anybody.
00:03:46.000The lawn sign is deliberately attempting to divide people and to give yourself a pat on the back because you put up a lawn sign.
00:03:51.000Sure, you may not have given charity to any of the causes you supposedly support.
00:03:55.000Sure, you may not even have thought through any of these slogans, but you got the lawn sign and that's all that matters.
00:04:00.000So here's what this lawn sign says, that again is extremely common in LA.
00:04:03.000You can buy it on Amazon for like $17.99 because capitalism always wins.
00:04:07.000From signsofjustice.com, this is where this sign has come from.
00:04:10.000We believe, and it's all in rainbow colors of course, black lives matter.
00:04:16.000Usually it says, in this house, we believe, black lives matter.
00:04:19.000And what they mean by that, of course, is that, as opposed to the guy next door, in that house, they don't believe Black Lives Matter.
00:04:25.000That's why we have a sign and they don't have a sign.
00:04:27.000So they're using the semantically overloaded term Black Lives Matter to suggest that they are different from their evil, predatory neighbors who don't care about black people.
00:04:35.000In this house, we believe Black Lives Matter.
00:04:45.000Now, that of course is a bizarre statement, because no one is arguing that being human is illegal.
00:04:52.000When we talk about illegal immigration, which is what this is a reference to, what we mean generally is that somebody has engaged in the crime of crossing the border illegally.
00:05:01.000The being human is not the illegal part.
00:05:03.000In fact, the only people who seek to criminalize being human are people who are pro-abortion, who literally say that because you're not a human, we get to criminalize this.
00:05:25.000But of course, what they actually mean is that all forms of love are equal.
00:05:29.000Now what's funny is that generally even people who say love is love don't believe that all forms of love are equal, obviously.
00:05:36.000I mean, they actually have moral standards as well, thank God.
00:05:38.000They don't believe that homosexuality is on par with bestiality, which it isn't.
00:05:44.000They don't believe that homosexuality is on par with incest, which it isn't.
00:05:48.000So even people who say love is love don't actually believe that all love is equal to all love, because that would be a ridiculous statement.
00:05:53.000What they actually mean is that they are just pro same-sex marriage, but they have decided that if you don't believe that same-sex marriage and heterosexual marriage are obviously of the same political Impact or import or you don't believe that they're on the same moral level then this means that you don't believe that love is love, right?
00:06:09.000You don't believe in the tautological statement because you've drawn a standard.
00:06:12.000Now, obviously they draw standards too.
00:06:15.000We in this house, we believe women's rights are human rights and here what they actually mean is we believe in abortion.
00:06:20.000Because no one believes that women shouldn't go to school.
00:06:23.000Nobody believes that women shouldn't be able to get any job they want to get.
00:06:26.000No one believes that a qualified woman shouldn't be able to do the exact same job as a qualified man.
00:06:30.000Nobody believes anything different in the United States.
00:06:32.000So again, this is an attempt to suggest that if you disagree with people on abortion, it's because you don't believe in women's rights or you don't believe that women are human.
00:06:39.000Again, it's all this semantically overloaded virtue signaling crap.
00:06:47.000This is the big one for today's show and for today's news cycle.
00:06:50.000Because the Democrats have decided that they are going to campaign on the slogan, science is real.
00:06:54.000Anybody who opposes them, anybody who believes that they are reading into the science solutions that are not requisite, anybody who believes that they're over-reading the science in order to achieve political goals, which is what is exactly happening with regard to the wildfires and hurricanes, as we'll see, Democrats are saying absolutely anti-scientific things today.
00:07:13.000They're saying absolutely anti-scientific things about how climate change works, about the impact of climate change, about what can be done to mitigate climate change.
00:07:21.000And they're really leaning on the slogan, science is real, in order to maintain that if you disagree with anything they say, it's because you deny the science.
00:07:58.000I don't even know what the semantic overload in this case is.
00:08:01.000And finally, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
00:08:04.000Unless, of course, you are an individual and you cross the social justice warrior lines, in which case you are to be judged by group affiliation.
00:08:14.000The goal of the sign, obviously, is to elevate you to a higher moral plane than your neighbors.
00:08:28.000Because there are no solutions offered.
00:08:29.000There are no policy prescriptions offered.
00:08:31.000Nothing is offered here other than an unearned sense of moral superiority based on your denigrating feelings about your neighbors copied and pasted into this bizarre little sign.
00:08:39.000That makes you a better person because you put it on your front lawn.
00:08:42.000The homeless people can be still suffering with mental illness and drug addiction and pissing in the trash cans directly across the street from you.
00:08:48.000Illegal immigrants can still be living in homeless shelters because you have not come up with any solution for how exactly to alleviate their economic condition.
00:09:07.000So much of our politics is no longer about finding solutions.
00:09:10.000It used to be, ideally, that politics was supposed to be about finding common solutions to common problems.
00:09:15.000Now, it is about naming problems that you believe exist, and if somebody has a different solution, then you suggest that they don't believe the problem exists at all.
00:09:25.000This is true on everything from policing to climate change.
00:09:29.000Even if somebody agrees with you that there's a problem with police brutality in some police departments, that's not enough.
00:09:36.000Because if they disagree with your solution, which is to dismantle the police, that means they don't actually understand the problem.
00:09:43.000That political sign is pretty much how our politics works.
00:09:47.000And so I have decided that I want to put up this sign in my front yard.
00:09:51.000In this house, we believe if you put up a lawn sign filled with semantically overloaded virtue signaling tautologies, you are an obnoxious asshole.
00:10:00.000That is the lawn sign I think belongs on everybody's front lawn.
00:10:03.000Because, frankly, if you decide that it is very important to you to feel good about yourself by putting that lawn sign on your lawn, Then, I think people should have nothing to do with you, frankly.
00:10:14.000I think it makes you, just by definition, incredibly, incredibly obnoxious.
00:10:18.000We'll get to how that lawn sign has boiled down into the political debates of the day in just one second.
00:10:24.000Because that really is all that's happening here, right?
00:10:25.000Somebody put up a slogan that says, science is real!
00:10:27.000And now, if you disagree with them on their policies, they'll just argue that you think science is not real.
00:10:36.000First, let us talk about the fact that it is very important to protect your eyes from the blue light that comes from your favorite devices.
00:11:53.000The wildfires are raging in California.
00:11:55.000The air quality out there is horrendous.
00:11:57.000In fact, California has become such a hellhole that you can't go inside because you might get COVID, and you can't go outside because you might die of smoke inhalation.
00:12:05.000So basically, we're all just standing in our doorways, which is actually not bad.
00:12:08.000I mean, if there's an earthquake, I guess we're all okay.
00:12:10.000That's pretty much all—that's where we can be.
00:12:16.000President Trump visited California yesterday.
00:12:18.000And while President Trump was in California, he met with Gavin Newsom and some of the first responders and some of the scientific advisors on handling wildfires.
00:12:29.000And while he was there, President Trump He said, listen, you know, you can talk about climate change all you want.
00:12:34.000What this really is about is bad forest management.
00:12:38.000OK, it happens to be that federal policy has prevented good forest management for a long time in federal territory and state policy in California has prevented good policy when it comes to wildfires for literally decades.
00:12:48.000We'll get to the details on that in just a second.
00:12:51.000Well, all of this said by President Trump, who sort of downplayed climate change as the factor in wildfires, which, by the way, makes some sense.
00:12:57.000Okay, here's your choice today, scientifically speaking.
00:13:01.000You can argue that the wildfire that is raging out of control in California and Oregon is due to climate change, or you can argue that it is due to bad forest management, or you can argue both.
00:13:14.000The latter two options make some sense, right?
00:13:16.000That it is due to bad forest management, or that it is bad forest management combined with slight uptick in average temperature in places like California over the course of the last century.
00:13:25.000What you cannot argue with any straight face is that climate change is the actual reason for the wildfires.
00:13:31.000Or for the increase in the territorial spread of the wildfires.
00:13:35.000That case is absurd in the absence of mentioning any of the federal and state policy that has led to the exacerbation of the tinder that is available for these wildfires.
00:13:45.000According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average temperature in the state of California over the past century has risen 3 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:13:59.000But do you think that the massive wildfires that we are seeing today is more a result of a three degree Fahrenheit increase over the course of 100 years?
00:14:07.000Or do you think maybe it has more to do with the fact that federal and state policy have prohibited any sort of controlled burning that would have prevented all of these tindered areas from basically becoming a giant explosive device?
00:14:55.000Well, yesterday, Trump said, you know, your bad forest management had something to do with this.
00:14:58.000And Newsom was like, well, that's kind of true.
00:15:01.000There's no question when you look past this decade and looking past almost a thousand plus years that we have not done justice on our forest management.
00:15:16.000The state of California, your administration just entered into a first type Okay, that should be the end of that conversation right there.
00:15:25.000vegetation management and forest management. I want to thank you for supporting that effort, funding that effort. We acknowledge our role and responsibility to do more in that space.
00:15:34.000Okay, that should be the end of that conversation right there, is that the state of California can basically focus in on forest management and alleviate this problem over the course of the next few years.
00:15:44.000That would be the immediate solution to this problem.
00:15:46.000Instead, Gavin Newsom then turns and lectures Trump on climate change.
00:15:50.000And this is what the Democrats would like to talk about.
00:15:52.000They don't want to talk about the solutions that are at hand.
00:15:54.000They don't want to talk about the fact that if you shut down every industry in the United States today, all of them, if Trump had come in and bombed into submission every industry in the United States the day he entered office, you know what still would have happened this summer?
00:16:10.000If you cut off all carbon emissions today, today, it would not have made one iota of difference in terms of the wildfire damage that has been done in California as of 2020.
00:16:21.000In fact, if we ceased all carbon emissions today, today, like all, in the United States, all of them, we would reduce global warming over the course of the next 70-odd years.
00:16:30.000By 2100, okay, by 2100, we would reduce all global warming across the world if all emissions went to zero today, to zero, which is not a thing that's happening.
00:16:39.000Okay, if that were to happen, we would reduce global warming by, get this, 0.172 degrees Celsius.
00:17:04.000If we did all of that, the estimate is that if all nations did that, if China did it, if India did it, if France did it, if Germany, if all of them did it, Agreeing, abiding by the limits in the Paris Agreement would lower climate change by the end of the century by 0.17 degrees Celsius for all nations.
00:17:22.000Because it turns out that the Paris Agreement gives you a little bit more time than like shut down all industry today.
00:17:27.000And still, you would end up with a 0.17 degrees Celsius reduction in the climate increase By 2100.
00:17:35.000So as we will see, the solutions that are being posited by the Democrats have nothing to do with the reality of the forest fires in California.
00:17:40.000If you actually want to solve the forest fires in California, you have to do what human beings have historically been extremely good at doing, adapting.
00:17:46.000You have to create new technologies, you have to take policies that make sense, When it comes to hurricanes, you have to build new seawalls, you have to stop building things directly in the path of hurricanes, right?
00:17:54.000There are things that we can do that mitigate damage in the immediate term, but Democrats don't want to talk about any of that.
00:17:59.000The media don't want to talk about any of that.
00:18:00.000Instead, they just want to say that Trump is a climate denier.
00:18:04.000Now, you may say to yourself, yes, but that doesn't change any of the policy.
00:18:07.000Even if Trump denies climate change, that doesn't change anything that's going on right now, right?
00:18:11.000But according to Democrats, in a paganistic fashion, if Trump were to mouth, climate change is the most important thing that has ever happened, then the oceans would begin to slow.
00:18:19.000The rise of the oceans would begin to slow, like Barack Obama said in his Iowa victory speech back in 2008.
00:18:25.000If only we would accept that climate change is responsible for every ill, right?
00:18:30.000We don't have to pose a solution because there are no actual obvious solutions to what's happening right now.
00:18:36.000Except for the ones that are on the ground.
00:18:37.000When it comes to climate change, there are no obvious and actual solutions that are available.
00:18:43.000But if you mouth the words, if you put up that lawn sign, just in the universe, then presumably all of this will end.
00:18:51.000This is the pitch the Democrats are making.
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00:21:21.000Science doesn't work by you shouting you believe in it, like a religious totem at the top of your lungs, and then the universe leaves you alone.
00:21:28.000Like you stand in the face of a hurricane, you go, climate change is real!
00:21:32.000And then the hurricane's like, well, I guess we're done here.
00:21:33.000I guess I'm just gonna move right out to sea.
00:21:36.000You said climate change is real, I guess we're finished here.
00:21:39.000All of your idiotic policies about building energy efficient houses and all of this stuff, it is not calibrated to actually stop climate change.
00:21:49.000The solutions that are put forth by Joe Biden will not alleviate climate change in any serious way by the end of the century.
00:21:56.000If we actually care about climate change, over time, what we are going to need to do is pour money into making energy-efficient, not energy-efficient houses, into making more sources of energy efficiency, like new technologies.
00:22:09.000Human beings are very good at technology.
00:22:11.000There are two things, basically, that human beings can do about climate change.
00:22:14.000One is We can pour money into R&D such that we can create more efficient sources of energy.
00:22:19.000Hey, not the ones that we're currently talking about.
00:22:29.000The fact is that California, two weeks ago, was experiencing a heatwave and rolling brownouts because we had decided to decommission our nuclear facilities and also move away from natural gas and toward, quote-unquote, green energy solutions.
00:22:41.000So people instead were plotting from the heat.
00:22:44.000So if you actually want to do this, what you need to do is develop technologies that are actually economically efficient and that people can opt for.
00:23:09.000These are all practical things we can do.
00:23:11.000Democrats don't talk about any of those things.
00:23:12.000Instead, they talk about these broad-scale, quote-unquote, ideas for curbing climate change that when When actually evaluated cost trillions of dollars and don't accomplish what they are seeking to accomplish, but it's not about that understand It's about the lawn sign. It's about science is real So here is Gavin Newsom shouting at Trump science is real then the media going It's true science is real and Don and Donald Trump doesn't believe in science. Here's Gavin Newsom this idiotic Ken doll here he goes Something's happened to the plumbing of the world and
00:23:41.000And we come from a perspective, humbly, where we submit the science in and observed evidence is self-evident.
00:23:51.000That climate change is real and that is exacerbating this.
00:23:54.000And so I think there's an area of at least commonality.
00:23:58.000Okay, but that fundamental issue is not a fundamental issue.
00:24:00.000I mean, who cares what Trump believes about, quote-unquote, climate change?
00:24:52.000Every few days he emerges like the groundhog to determine whether there are further days of election.
00:24:57.000So he emerged from the basement and he stood in a wheat field, which was kind of weird.
00:25:02.000I'm not sure that even Joe Biden knew where he was.
00:25:05.000He stood in a wheat field and he mumbled some words and then he went back down into the basement without taking questions, which is his way of running a campaign.
00:25:11.000So far it's been successful because President Trump is constantly stepping on rakes, but let's not pretend that Joe Biden is running a masterful campaign.
00:25:18.000He's not even walking a masterful campaign.
00:25:19.000He is hobbling, at best, a masterful campaign.
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00:26:49.000Okay, so, Joe Biden gives his speech in the middle of a wheat field.
00:26:54.000And he just, this is just sheer lawn sign demagoguery.
00:27:23.000As a nation, we face one of the most difficult moments in our history, in my view.
00:27:30.000Four historic crises all at the same time.
00:27:33.000The worst pandemic in 100 years has already killed nearly 200,000 people and counting.
00:27:41.000The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has cost tens of millions of American jobs and counting.
00:27:50.000Emboldened white supremacy unseen since the 60s and a reckoning on race that's long overdue.
00:27:59.000And undeniable acceleration of the punishing reality of climate change on our planet and our people, on the lives and livelihoods which I'd like to talk about now.
00:29:01.000Really, of the 14 million people who are currently claiming unemployment, half of them live in the state of California because California is still completely locked down.
00:29:09.000Now, you could have a lockdown policy that alleviates at certain points.
00:29:12.000You could have people going back to school.
00:29:15.000But misbegotten lockdown policy has made the economic crisis significantly worse than it has to be.
00:29:19.000If you don't believe me, just check the difference between the lockdown states and the non-lockdown states in terms of how they are doing in unemployment rate and economic recovery.
00:29:28.000The third crisis is what he calls emboldened white supremacy unseen since the 60s and a reckoning on race that's long overdue.
00:29:34.000So what we're watching in the real world here is not quote-unquote emboldened white supremacy spreading across the nation and resulting in riots across the country in major cities.
00:29:44.000We're not watching white supremacists shoot cops.
00:29:51.000The FBI arrested a white supremacist for targeting my family just last year.
00:29:56.000Believe you me, I'm pretty hard on the white supremacist.
00:29:58.000But if we are talking about what we are watching in real time right now, it is not an overdue reckoning on race.
00:30:03.000It is rioters and looters going around in major cities claiming that the police are systemically racist, backed by the Democratic Party, and committing crimes.
00:30:11.000And then members of the Biden campaign bailing them out of jail.
00:30:13.000That is what we are watching right now.
00:30:14.000So that would be the fault of the Democratic Party.
00:30:16.000If you're watching a bunch of people rioting in Chicago, L.A., D.C., New York, Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, and your first response is, that's emboldened white supremacy, that's because you are blind or a moron.
00:30:29.000And finally, he says, an undeniable acceleration of the punishing reality of climate change on our planet.
00:30:33.000Weird, because climate change is a long-term prospect.
00:30:40.000And I believe that it is caused mostly by man-made emissions.
00:30:44.000That does not mean the solutions the Democrats are proposing are in any way realistic or useful.
00:30:49.000I tend to believe, as the Nobel Prize winner in economics who writes specifically on the cost of climate change policies and solutions, William Nordhaus writes, that one of the things you have to do is balance the future growth of the world economy against any measures that you take today that could dampen that growth.
00:31:05.000In other words, you do have to allow a certain amount of climate change to happen because it is counterproductive to do otherwise.
00:31:10.000If you shut down the entire world industry in order to stop climate change today, first of all, it wouldn't occur.
00:31:30.000There's a reason why hurricanes, when they hit the United States, they can be devastating.
00:31:34.000Not on the same order of devastation as if they hit Haiti.
00:31:38.000The fact is that living in a corrugated iron shack is much worse in terms of what you can do to fight climate change on a personal level than living in an air-conditioned, climate-controlled house.
00:31:48.000Wealth is an actual really important thing.
00:31:51.000I know people in the first world tend to forget about this, but there are lots of people who don't live in nice houses and even nice apartments.
00:31:57.000In any case, There are three crises, and when it comes to the impact of climate change, Democrats have militated against actual adaptive solutions, right?
00:32:07.000They're shutting down nuclear power plants.
00:32:08.000They're not allowing for the clear burning of particular areas that would stop wildfires from going so crazy.
00:32:15.000They're continuing to facilitate the rebuilding in areas that are most liable to be damaged by hurricanes.
00:32:38.000You can stop the wildfires from hitting towns if you burn areas in controlled fashion close to populated areas so that they don't eat the towns.
00:32:48.000Okay, but Democrats won't do any of that.
00:32:52.000Wildfires don't skip towns that voted a certain way.
00:32:56.000The impacts of climate change don't pick and choose.
00:33:00.000That's because it's not a partisan phenomenon.
00:33:18.000He puts up the lawn sign and magically everything gets better.
00:33:20.000We're going to get more lawn sign speeches on climate change from Joe Biden in just one second.
00:33:25.000Then we'll talk about the actual policy changes that could be made, but everybody is ignoring.
00:33:30.000I mean, it's just it's so irritating on a primal level to me.
00:33:34.000I mean, seriously, seriously irritating on a primal level that Democrats don't want to talk about solutions when it comes to how we adapt and mitigate climate change.
00:33:43.000Instead, all they want to do all day long is just shout that you don't agree with science.
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00:37:09.000Okay, so Joe Biden continues with his science is real speech.
00:37:18.000Again, he offers no solutions that are of any practical effect.
00:37:22.000He just blabbers on about how climate change is real.
00:37:24.000And then he dares Donald Trump to say climate change isn't real so he can have a fight on that particular topic and no solutions get done, which is like the dumbest form of this conversation ever.
00:37:31.000So here is Joe Biden literally, literally dismissing the actual solutions to forest fires and wildfires because science is real.
00:38:11.000Okay, and then we go into full Dennis Quaid in day after tomorrow mode with Joe Biden.
00:38:15.000He says, you know what's actually threatening our suburbs?
00:38:17.000Not people who are committing crimes, not rampant homelessness, not a federal attempt to redo how your community is built by putting giant publicly sponsored apartment complexes directly next to your house.
00:40:14.000That's seriously not how climate change works.
00:40:16.000That if Donald Trump is elected for four more years, then America will burn and the entire coastline will be underwater.
00:40:22.000Like, what in the world is he talking about?
00:40:24.000Again, if we shut down every industry in the United States today, if all carbon emissions shut down today, if we came and siphoned the gas out of your car today, we would lower the global climate on planet Earth by 0.172 degrees Celsius by 2100.
00:40:40.000What in the actual F is he talking about, this stupid idiot?
00:40:45.000That pagan crap that he just told you, that if Donald Trump is re-elected, then cities will burn, and the waters will emerge and swamp your city.
00:40:52.000Whereas if you elect Joe Biden, then obviously everything changes.
00:40:55.000Weird, because I was promised the same thing by Barack Obama.
00:40:58.000That was the moment when the seas were... Didn't... I mean, we elected him, right?
00:41:00.000Wasn't that the moment when the seas were going to begin to recede?
00:41:14.000We need a president who respects science, who understands that the damage from climate change is already here.
00:41:22.000Unless we take urgent action, we'll soon be more catastrophic.
00:41:29.000A president who recognizes, understands, and cares that Americans are dying, which makes President Trump's climate denialism, his disdain for science and facts all the more unconscionable.
00:41:44.000I mean, Joe Biden's disdain for articulable English is obvious from that clip, but we need a president.
00:42:28.000How happy you think she's going to be with Joe Biden saying that we're going to get to net zero by 2050, which is last I checked, 30 years from now.
00:42:36.000Yeah, Joe Biden's gonna save the world, guys.
00:42:51.000Arrest people who commit arson, and then keep them in jail.
00:42:54.000I mention this policy because here is breaking news from the New York Post.
00:42:59.000An Oregon man was charged with using a Molotov cocktail to start a brush blaze in the wildfire-devastated state, and then busted again just six hours later for allegedly going back and starting six more, cops said.
00:43:08.000Well, weird, because I thought he was arrested the first time, so how did he get out of jail to start six more fires?
00:43:12.000Domingo Lopez Jr., 45, was first arrested Sunday afternoon after witnesses told cops he started a fire on the grassy edge of a Portland freeway with an incendiary device made out of a plastic bottle with a wick.
00:43:23.000He admitted starting the blaze, which was extinguished without any injuries or property damage.
00:44:38.000Says, the regulatory requirements one must meet before starting a controlled burn are complex and lengthy.
00:44:43.000We need more controlled burns, because otherwise you just basically have these giant tinderboxes.
00:44:46.000Especially since the 1960s, efforts to extinguish all fires, even natural low-impact forest fires that serve as nature's equivalent of a controlled burn, have made forests more susceptible to larger fires and have made controlled burns more and more necessary.
00:44:58.000According to Jonathan Wood, attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, adjunct fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center, the National Environmental Policy Act requires, quote, A couple thousand page document analyzing every single conceivable impact to the environment that a controlled burn plan might have.
00:45:14.000This is a public process that often results in litigation.
00:45:18.000What you'll often find, says Wood, is that there are projects which have been extremely well vetted, that have been years in the work, there'll be a 5,000 page document no one could conceivably read because it's so long and complicated, then the project will be put on hold because some special interest group filed a lawsuit.
00:45:31.000From 1999 to 2017, an average of 13,000 acres of California were subjected to controlled burns every year.
00:45:38.000In February 2020, Nature Sustainability, it's a magazine, published a report arguing California needs to burn 20 million acres of forest in order to restore forest health.
00:45:49.000So they burn 13,000 acres a year in California from 1999 to 2017.
00:45:55.000We now need to burn 20 million acres of forest.
00:46:00.000Also, the Clean Air Act of 1990 creates an obstacle because the law treats the smoke from a controlled prescribed burn as a pollutant that has to be analyzed.
00:46:08.000They don't do the same from a wildfire.
00:46:09.000We can see the smoke right now from the wildfire.
00:46:14.000President Clinton, in his closing days in office, January 5th, 2001, New York Times, So the idea there is that people were clear-cutting and not replacing the trees.
00:46:41.000It doesn't matter that this is very much a political problem.
00:46:45.000And it doesn't matter that a lot of what Biden is saying is patently anti-scientific.
00:46:50.000The increased amount of damage from hurricanes, for example, is not due to the increased activity of hurricanes.
00:46:54.000There has been no increase in number of hurricanes.
00:46:57.000There has been an increase, in some cases, of the intensity of hurricanes, perhaps because of warm water layers at the top of the ocean.
00:47:04.000But the real reason you've seen increased damage is not because the hurricanes are worse, it's because more and more people have built stuff in the way of the hurricanes.
00:48:31.000What is their very science-y case for why Joe Biden ought to be president?
00:48:36.000The evidence and the science, says Scientific American, show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S.
00:48:40.000and its people because he rejects evidence and science.
00:48:43.000The most devastating example is his dishonest and inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has cost more than 190,000 Americans their lives by the middle of September.
00:48:55.000He has also attacked environmental protections, medical care, and the researchers and public science agencies that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges.
00:49:01.000That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy, and our environment.
00:49:07.000He has literally offered no COVID plan that differs in any way from the Trump administration plan.
00:49:11.000He has done nothing to protect the economy.
00:49:12.000He's calling for renewed lockdowns, which destroy the economy.
00:49:15.000And as far as the environment, he just shouts, climate is real, and then endorses ridiculous green new deals that are never going to be implemented.
00:49:22.000By the way, you know what's anti-science?
00:49:24.000Claiming that Donald Trump is responsible for the 190,000 American deaths from COVID.
00:49:30.000If it's really the politicians who are responsible for the deaths, then I look forward to Scientific American endorsing Andrew Cuomo's opponent in New York.
00:49:40.000The fact that Scientific American is now doing this routine, it is pretty impressive stuff.
00:50:25.000But, you know, again, the narrative is out there, and the narrative is, all you have to do is say science is real, and it doesn't matter how bad you are at your job.
00:50:32.000This is why the New York Times has a massive interview with Jerry Brown.
00:50:35.000Jerry Brown was governor of the state of California from both 1975 to 1983, and 2011 to 2019.
00:50:41.000What did he do to mitigate the wildfires?
00:51:35.000Meanwhile, we are watching as the cops are blamed for literally every bad thing in America by the Democratic left in the press, which is always exciting news.
00:51:43.000According to the Chicago Police Superintendent, Emily Zanotti, reporting over at Daily Wire, attacks on officers are up five times over previous years.
00:51:51.000Last week, 72 people were shot and wounded in Chicago.
00:51:56.000Overall, though, murders and shootings are each up 52% over the last year, according to the Chicago Police Department's official statistics.
00:52:03.000And attacks on police officers are up five times over previous years, amid a spike in shootings that has left the city reeling.
00:52:10.000Fox News reports dozens of Chicago police officers have been shot or shot at so far this year, including as recently as this weekend, when the Illinois city saw 35 shootings and at least 10 murders through Sunday.
00:52:21.000Of the 65 Chicago police officers who have been shot at, 10 have been struck, according to the Chicago Police Superintendent, who is, in fact, a black man, David O. Brown.
00:52:29.000He said that during Monday morning's press conference.
00:52:31.000He says this is not a comparable year.
00:52:33.000This is five times any previous year that anyone can recall in the city.
00:52:37.000Okay, so the latest headline of the day and how the cops are bad is that if cops are driving their car and are trying to get to a reported crime and people block the car or jump on the car or start trying to Break into the car.
00:52:53.000The cops are just supposed to sit there.
00:52:54.000This narrative was promoted yesterday in Sacramento.
00:52:56.000So a bunch of Black Lives Matter protesters and Antifa members, presumably, mostly white, of course, because this is a bunch of dispossessed white jackasses.
00:53:04.000They're standing out in the streets of Sacramento.
00:53:47.000An idiot jumps on the front of a cop car.
00:53:49.000And the cop decides that he is not in fact going to sit around and have his car broken into and abused and he is not going to be put at threat.
00:54:14.000And the cops are trying to go somewhere to answer a crime.
00:54:18.000You surround the cop cars, and by the way, this is the day after, or two days after, two cops were nearly murdered in an assassination attempt in Compton, when someone walked up to the driver's side window, or to the passenger side window, and shot two of the cops directly in the head.
00:54:31.000Okay, so if I'm that cop, I'm keeping on going too, and you should too.
00:54:36.000We've seen this over and over, by the way.
00:54:39.000This has been happening at BLM protests for months, that there will be civilians, not just cops, civilians who are attempting to get through an area, and then BLM protesters will surround the car and start pounding on the car, and people will hit the gas to get the hell out of there because they're afraid of what's going to happen.
00:54:52.000And then the BLM protesters in the media are like, how could somebody do that?
00:54:55.000If you jump in front of a moving vehicle, that's your fault.
00:54:58.000If you jump on the hood of a moving vehicle, that is your fault.
00:55:01.000If you attempt to obstruct people in their ability to exercise their basic right to use the roads for which they pay taxes, then that's your fault.
00:55:09.000So, cops are always expected to absorb all forms of harm, which is why, by the way, you've seen the BLM movement riot over cases in which the cop obviously exercised self-defense, in which the suspect was coming at them with a knife, right?
00:55:24.000That's what happened in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
00:55:26.000There was a riot in Lancaster after a cop shot a man who was charging him with a knife.
00:55:33.000Cops are human beings who stand between you and the worst that America has to offer.
00:55:38.000And meanwhile, I am enjoying the full-scale media defenses now.
00:55:41.000So the media have to somehow come up with a defense for the fact that so many of these protests have turned violent, they've turned into looting.
00:55:47.000And so, it's turned into a right-wing myth, right?
00:55:50.000Every time a BLM protest turns into rioting and looting, or any time people from BLM are literally on tape attempting to break into a hospital or obstruct an ambulance, or are shouting in glee when cops get chopped, then we have to pretend that they are completely unassociated with the BLM movement.
00:56:06.000If you ever doubt media bias, just think about the idea that if there were ever a Tea Party, one Tea Party event, where one person had gotten hurt, okay, a Tea Party event, where a person had gotten hurt, the media would immediately impute that not only to the entire Tea Party, but to every Republican legislator in America.
00:56:21.000We had an entire movement in the early Obama administration called Occupy Wall Street, where people were sitting in parks, and people were getting raped in parks, and crime was taking place, and the media was like, yes, but their cause is just.
00:56:32.000We saw in the last couple of months an independent republic of Chas Chop set up in the middle of Seattle and the media were like, oh, it's like a street fair until two people got shot to death and the cops were barred from coming in.
00:56:42.000And so now Don Lemon is doing the heavy lifting.
00:56:45.000He says, you know, how can you conflate this police ambush that happened in L.A.
00:58:06.000Okay, according to a widespread study of all of the BLM protests across the country, some 7% of them dissolved into violence and rioting and looting, which is like 500 different events.
00:58:17.000Evolving into violence and rioting and looting.
00:59:16.000The media's willingness to overlook the actual violence and rioting and looting.
00:59:20.000They did the same thing in 2016 when BLM had this moment again in 2016 and six Dallas police officers were murdered in Dallas by a BLM member, a self-proclaimed BLM member.
00:59:30.000And it was like, well, he has nothing to do with the protest.
00:59:32.000Okay, well, you can distinguish the rioters and the protests and looters by identifying the crime.
00:59:37.000But if you're talking about the underlying ideology and what it pushes, you got a problem, you got a problem.
00:59:42.000Well, I guess we're not going to hear about incendiary rhetoric.
00:59:45.000Also, on CNN, we're not going to hear about incendiary rhetoric.
00:59:47.000Here is a retired LA Police Department sergeant named Cheryl Dorsey appearing as a CNN guest and literally making excuses.
00:59:58.000There's a guest on CNN making excuses for the attempted assassination of two police officers in California.
01:00:04.000My first reaction was sadness because, listen, there's a lot of chatter on social media about an eye for an eye.
01:00:10.000We know that there are reports of internal gangs within the Compton Sheriff's Department, particularly they refer to themselves as the executioner.
01:00:18.000And so I wondered aloud if this wasn't maybe retaliation for the failure to hold officers accountable, not only in the Compton Sheriff's Department, but nationally when we see instances of officers using deadly force as a first resort rather than a last resort.
01:00:32.000You know, it's bad that it happened, but maybe it was just retaliation for a lack of accountability.
01:00:36.000Okay, that is a full-on justification of violence against police officers.
01:00:41.000Don't tell me that there's an ideological separation when I'm not seeing the ideological separation.
01:00:46.000If you want to say that violence against police officers is bad, how about this?
01:00:50.000How about you stop making the argument that the police are systemically racist without any evidence or any possible solutions or any policies that have to be changed?
01:00:57.000But they won't do that because the cops are, in fact, always bad.
01:01:00.000In fact, they're so bad that they should basically sit there while they're abused or while people charge them with knives or while people jump on the hoods of their cars and attempt to assault them.
01:01:08.000Really, the cops should basically just absorb it because that's what they're there to do, aren't they?
01:01:12.000OK, well, we've run out of time on today's podcast, but later on today, we'll be here for two additional hours.
01:01:17.000We'll discuss President Trump's rally that he held in Nevada.