The Ben Shapiro Show - Musk vs. Fauci: The Grudge Match | Ep. 1629

00:00:00.000 Elon Musk takes on Anthony Fauci to the consternation of the White House, FTX scamster Sam Bankman-Fried is arrested, and the Biden administration announces a massive celebration of same-sex marriage at the White House.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:23.000 Well, the big news of the morning is that FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried has now been arrested in the Bahamas.

00:00:28.000 There are some people who suspected that he actually would not be arrested because he gave tens of millions of dollars to Democrats in the last election cycle.

00:00:34.000 But the actual strategy here apparently is he can give tens of millions of dollars to the Democrats in the last election cycle.

00:00:40.000 After the election, we will arrest him, as it turns out.

00:00:43.000 According to the New York Times, Sam Bankman Freed, the disgraced founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after U.S.

00:00:50.000 prosecutors filed criminal charges.

00:00:51.000 Quote, SBF's arrest followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition, the government of the Bahamas said in a statement.

00:01:01.000 The arrest was the latest stunning development in one of the most dramatic falls from grace in recent corporate history.

00:01:05.000 Bankman Freed was scheduled to testify in Congress on Tuesday about the collapse of FTX, which was one of the most powerful firms in the emerging crypto industry until it imploded virtually overnight last month after a run on deposits exposed an $8 billion hole in its accounts.

00:01:19.000 Prosecutors for the Southern District of New York confirmed that Bankman Freed had been charged and said in an indictment that it would be unsealed on Tuesday.

00:01:25.000 Separately, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement it had authorized charges relating to Mr. Bankman Freed's violations of our securities laws.

00:01:33.000 Now, the criminal charges against Bankman Freed included wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering, said one person with knowledge of the matter.

00:01:41.000 Hilariously, there was apparently a WhatsApp group chat that included Sam Bankman Freed and his girlfriend, who ran Alameda Capital, which was the hedge fund connected to FTX, and it was called wire fraud, which is like...

00:01:56.000 I'm sorry, that's like the person whose password on their computer is still password.

00:02:00.000 I wasn't committing wire fraud.

00:02:02.000 I just had a group that was called Wire Fraud where we talked about committing wire fraud.

00:02:06.000 Yeah, that's awkward, guys.

00:02:07.000 If you're gonna commit the criminal activity, you probably Should not actually label your group chats by the name of the criminal charge.

00:02:14.000 Bankman Freed was the only person charged in the indictment.

00:02:17.000 He was taken into custody by the Bahamian authorities, according to a person.

00:02:21.000 He was arrested shortly after 6 p.m.

00:02:22.000 at his apartment complex in the Albany Resort in the Bahamas, according to a statement from Bahamian police.

00:02:27.000 It was cooperative during the arrest.

00:02:29.000 So we're going to find out more today on what exactly the charges are.

00:02:33.000 But to recap this particular story, for those who missed it, FTX was the second largest crypto exchange in the world.

00:02:40.000 It was basically built on sand.

00:02:42.000 It did a good job of allowing people to exchange, buy and sell crypto, but people were not taking their money out of crypto and then putting it in their crypto wallets.

00:02:52.000 They're just leaving it in the exchange.

00:02:53.000 They're letting it sit there on the exchange.

00:02:55.000 And then Sam Bankman Freed was apparently taking that money and handing it over to Alameda Capital, which was this associated hedge fund.

00:03:01.000 Alameda Capital was using that money to buy up FTT, which was the cryptocurrency issued by FTX.

00:03:08.000 So they were artificially inflating the price of FTT, and then Sam Bankman-Fried and company were taking their shares of FTT, this cryptocurrency, and they were borrowing against those in terms of real money.

00:03:19.000 So it looks like money laundering.

00:03:20.000 It looks like embezzlement.

00:03:23.000 And then he was going around and doing like full New York Times deal book seminars with folks afterward.

00:03:29.000 It's just amazing, the gall of Sam Bankman-Fried.

00:03:32.000 It is also amazing that regulators had nothing to say about this until it all collapsed overnight.

00:03:37.000 When the largest cryptocurrency exchange, which owned a share, a large share of the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, basically spurred a run on the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, in which everybody said, I want my money out.

00:03:46.000 And Sam Bankman-Fried was like, well, your money isn't here anymore.

00:03:49.000 Oopsie.

00:03:50.000 And it turns out that billions and billions of dollars went missing.

00:03:53.000 So Sam Bankman-Fried is going to face criminal charges in the United States.

00:03:56.000 Meanwhile, in other tech news, Elon Musk continues to roll out more and more information about how Twitter was run.

00:04:03.000 We now have a fifth part of the exposure of old Twitter.

00:04:08.000 Musk has handed it over to my friend, Barry Weiss.

00:04:11.000 Barry is, I think it's fair to say, a political centrist.

00:04:14.000 She's certainly no conservative, despite the best attempts of the media to paint her as such.

00:04:19.000 Barry has more details on Donald Trump's banning from Twitter.

00:04:22.000 Again, this is highly relevant because, as we discussed yesterday, the big tech companies have largely been run by people of the left, and they've been using technology as a way to obscure the biases that they've been implementing in policy.

00:04:34.000 So Barry Weiss has an entire thread that she put out yesterday talking about exactly how Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, and the answer is it's really, really ugly.

00:04:42.000 We'll get some more on this in just one second.

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00:06:56.000 So here's what Barry White says, quote, On the morning of January 8th, President Donald Trump, with one remaining strike before being at risk of permanent suspension from Twitter, tweeted twice, First, he tweeted, the 75,000 great American patriots who voted for me, America first, and make America great again, will have a giant voice longing to the future.

00:07:11.000 They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape, or form.

00:07:15.000 And then he tweeted again about an hour later, to all those who have asked, I will not be going to the inauguration on January 20th.

00:07:20.000 Barry White says, for years, Twitter had resisted calls of both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.

00:07:32.000 They said, for example, quote, our mission is to provide a forum that enables people to be informed and to engage their leaders directly.

00:07:38.000 This is in 2019.

00:07:39.000 Twitter said that its aim was, quote, to protect the public's right to hear from their leaders and told them to account.

00:07:44.000 But after January 6th.

00:07:46.000 Pressure grew both inside and outside of Twitter to ban Trump.

00:07:48.000 There were dissenters inside of Twitter.

00:07:50.000 In fact, one of the dissenters was from China and said, quote, I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation, but voices like that one appeared to have been a distinct minority within the company.

00:07:59.000 Across Slack channels, many Twitter employees were upset Trump hadn't been banned earlier.

00:08:03.000 After January 6th, says Barry Weiss, Twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban Trump.

00:08:07.000 There's a lot of employee advocacy happening, said one Twitter employee.

00:08:10.000 And again, there's this inside-outside game that gets played at a lot of corporations these days, where you have Left-leaning corporate executives who still feel bound by corporate dictates and by the dictates of the market, but they get pressure from the bottom, from their employees.

00:08:25.000 And they say, well, we have to please our employees.

00:08:27.000 The purple haired intern with seven earrings and nose ring and a face tattoo.

00:08:30.000 We have to, we have to make sure that that person is very pleased with us.

00:08:34.000 Here's the way a normal company works.

00:08:36.000 If my employees here at Daily Wire decided that they did not like the editorial direction of the company, and decided that they were going to be very angry and yell about it, well, they have two choices.

00:08:46.000 They can either come to work and do their work, or they can leave.

00:08:49.000 There's no third choice where they get to run the editorial direction of the company.

00:08:52.000 That's not how any of this works.

00:08:53.000 But apparently, at a lot of these big tech companies, they decided, and this is because, again, they sympathize with their own employees, that they use the whining of their employees as an excuse to do what they wanted to do in the first place, which is to ban Trump.

00:09:05.000 One staffer said, we have to do the right thing and ban this account.

00:09:07.000 Quote, it's pretty obvious he's going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules.

00:09:11.000 In the early afternoon of January 8th, Barry Weiss reveals, The Washington Post published an open letter signed by over 300 Twitter employees to CEO Jack Dorsey demanding Trump's ban.

00:09:19.000 We must examine Twitter's complicity in what President-elect Biden has rightly termed insurrection.

00:09:23.000 Now again, if my employees decided that they were going to write a letter, like an open letter, and sign it, with their names, to the New York Times, criticizing the editorial policy of this company, the door is right there.

00:09:33.000 They can leave at any time they choose.

00:09:35.000 But that's not what Jack Dorsey on Twitter did.

00:09:38.000 The Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded Trump had not violated Twitter's policies.

00:09:42.000 Quote, I think we'd have a hard time saying this is incitement, wrote one staffer.

00:09:44.000 It's pretty clear he's saying the American patriots are the ones who voted for him, not the terrorists.

00:09:48.000 We can call them that, right?

00:09:49.000 From Wednesday.

00:09:50.000 Another staffer agreed.

00:09:51.000 Quote, don't see the incitement angle here.

00:09:54.000 A Twitter policy official named Anika Navarroli said, I'm not seeing clear or coded incitement in the Donald J. Trump tweet.

00:10:00.000 I'll respond in the elections channel and say our team has assessed and found no violations for the DJT one.

00:10:05.000 And then she did that. 0.99

00:10:06.000 She says, safety has assessed the tweet above and determined there is no violation of our policies at this time.

00:10:10.000 Later, Navarroli would testify to the House January 6th Committee, Then, Twitter's safety team decided that Trump's tweet is also not in violation.

00:10:16.000 His later tweet was not in violation.

00:10:17.000 They said it's a clear no-vio.

00:10:18.000 into what I saw occurring, people were going to die.

00:10:20.000 Then, Twitter's safety team decided that Trump's tweet is also not in violation.

00:10:23.000 His later tweet was not in violation.

00:10:25.000 They said it's a clear no-bio. 0.99

00:10:27.000 It's just to say he's not attending the inauguration.

00:10:28.000 Barry White says to understand Twitter's decision to ban Trump, we must consider how Twitter deals with other heads of state and political leaders, including in Iran, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.

00:10:38.000 So for example, in June 2018, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted, quote, Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated.

00:10:46.000 It is possible and it will happen.

00:10:47.000 Twitter did not delete the tweet and they didn't ban the Ayatollah. 0.79

00:10:50.000 In October 2020, the former Malaysian prime minister said it was a right for Muslims to kill millions of French people.

00:10:55.000 Twitter deleted his tweet for glorifying violence, but he remained on the platform.

00:10:59.000 Mohammed Buhari, the president of Nigeria, incited violence against pro-Biafra groups.

00:11:04.000 In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region.

00:11:08.000 Twitter deleted that tweet, but they didn't ban Buhari.

00:11:11.000 In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region.

00:11:17.000 Twitter allowed the tweet to remain up and didn't ban the Prime Minister.

00:11:19.000 In early February 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government threatened to arrest Twitter employees in India and to incarcerate them for up to seven years after they restored hundreds of accounts that had been critical of him and Twitter didn't ban Modi.

00:11:31.000 But Twitter executives did ban Trump, even though key staffers said Trump had not incited violence, not even in a coded way.

00:11:36.000 Less than 90 minutes after Twitter employees had determined that Trump's tweets were not in violation of Twitter policy, Vijaya Gaddy, Twitter's head of legal policy and trust, asked whether it could, in fact, be coded incitement to further violence.

00:11:47.000 A few minutes later, Twitter employees on the scaled enforcement team suggested Trump's tweet may have violated Twitter's glorification of violence policy if you interpreted the phrase American patriots preferred the rioters.

00:11:56.000 And then things escalated from there.

00:11:58.000 Members of that same safety and trust team came to, quote, view him as the leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence and deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitler.

00:12:08.000 And on that basis and on the totality of his tweets, he should be deplatformed.

00:12:11.000 So Donald Trump tweeted out just to get this straight.

00:12:14.000 That the American Patriots would not be denied and that he wouldn't be going to the inauguration.

00:12:18.000 And this made him comparable to Hitler, according to Twitter employees.

00:12:23.000 And so he had to be banned on that basis.

00:12:25.000 Two hours after that, Twitter executives hosted a 30-minute all-staff meeting.

00:12:28.000 Jack Dorsey and Vijay Gady answered staff questions as to why Trump had not yet been banned.

00:12:32.000 But some employees got angrier.

00:12:35.000 Joel Roth, who again is one of the bad guys in this whole story, relayed to a colleague, quote, multiple tweets, that'd be Twitter employees, have quoted the banality of evil, suggesting the people implementing our policies are like Nazis following orders.

00:12:46.000 So in other words, allowing Donald Trump to remain on the platform, that is like Nazis following orders.

00:12:52.000 Dorsey requested simpler language to explain why Trump would be suspended, and Roth wrote, God help us, this makes me think he wants to share it publicly.

00:13:00.000 Oh, you mean you should have to share publicly why you were banning the sitting president of the United States from Twitter?

00:13:05.000 And Yulroth is mad about this?

00:13:08.000 Interesting stuff.

00:13:09.000 One hour later, Twitter announced Trump's permanent suspension due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

00:13:13.000 Many at Twitter were ecstatic and congratulatory.

00:13:16.000 By the next day, employees expressed eagerness to tackle medical misinformation as soon as possible, because this is the way that it works.

00:13:21.000 If you feed the alligator, the alligator continues to eat.

00:13:24.000 And so they immediately decided, who can we go after next?

00:13:27.000 Who can we ban next?

00:13:28.000 For the longest time, Twitter's stance was that we aren't the arbiter of truth toward another employee, which I respected, but never gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

00:13:34.000 And that's what this is all about.

00:13:35.000 It's about giving the left warm, fuzzy feelings.

00:13:38.000 Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal, who would later succeed Dorsey as CEO, told head of security Mudge Zacco, who of course later would leave and become a whistleblower, suggesting that the company had become not an engineering company for free speech, but instead had essentially become a left-wing outlet that ignored security concerns.

00:13:55.000 Agarwal said, quote, I think a few of us should brainstorm the ripple effects of Trump's ban, and Agarwal added, centralized content moderation, in my opinion, has reached a breaking point now.

00:14:06.000 Again, internationally, there are a lot of people who are very critical of the banning of Trump.

00:14:11.000 Ultimately, says Barry Weiss, the concerns about Twitter's efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden's laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren't about the past choices of executives in a social media company.

00:14:21.000 They're about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy, which, of course, is exactly the point.

00:14:28.000 So Elon Musk parceling out this information obviously is part of a broader attempt by Elon Musk to broaden the Overton window and allow there to be more speech on vital topics.

00:14:39.000 As part of that effort, by the way, Elon Musk just disbanded the Trust and Safety Council.

00:14:43.000 The Trust and Safety Council was this Orwellian body that essentially decided who could stay and who could not stay on the basis of vague, undefined standards like trust and safety.

00:14:53.000 What constituted trust and safety?

00:14:55.000 Well, apparently it was if Yoel Roth didn't like you or Vijaya Gady was uncomfortable with you.

00:15:00.000 So Elon Musk put out a letter to the Trust and Safety Council members and quote, As Twitter moves into a new phase, we are re-evaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development work. As part of this process, we have decided the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this. Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before. We will continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to achieve this goal. We will also continue to explore opportunities to provide focused and timely input into our work, whether through bilateral or small group meetings.

00:15:26.000 Your regional points of contact will remain the best people to contact to escalate concerns.

00:15:29.000 Please let us know if you need reconnecting.

00:15:31.000 And so they have now disbanded the Trust and Safety Council, which of course is the right move.

00:15:35.000 Musk is moving fast and breaking things.

00:15:38.000 He has fired 80% of Twitter's employee base, which dramatically lowers their cost.

00:15:44.000 The traffic and engagement on Twitter is way up.

00:15:46.000 It should be because it's a much more interesting place now because you're not getting the curated views of Yoel Roth on Twitter.

00:15:52.000 Instead, you're actually being able to openly express your views on matters of public concern.

00:15:57.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter's new head of trust and safety said the platform is emphasizing moving swiftly to address problematic content, even if it means figuring out some specifics later.

00:16:05.000 Ella Irwin, who joined Twitter in June, said for now, I think we're biasing toward moving quickly and figuring out the details in some of these areas afterward.

00:16:14.000 Now, some people are accusing Musk of being arbitrary about this, but the whole point is that Twitter was arbitrary before.

00:16:18.000 The difference is that Musk is actually taking credit for the decision. 0.97

00:16:21.000 So if Musk decides that he's going to ban Ye from Twitter, for example, a decision with which I disagree, despite the fact that Ye is a raging anti-Semite and also a mentally ill person.

00:16:31.000 If Elon Musk is going to do that, then Elon Musk is actually taking the hit for that, which is the way that it's supposed to work.

00:16:36.000 The head of the company always is where the buck stops, so Musk is at least doing that.

00:16:40.000 When Jack Dorsey was running the place, he was off vacationing in malaria-ridden caves.

00:16:44.000 And meanwhile, his middle management, Yoel Roth and Vijaya Gaddy, were deciding who would get banned and then pretending it was the algorithm that was doing all of this.

00:16:52.000 So again, the new management at Twitter is changing the way that big tech sees itself.

00:16:59.000 And that's going to make for a major change in Silicon Valley.

00:17:01.000 So much of Silicon Valley is now run by the diversity, equity, and inclusion hires.

00:17:06.000 In the same way that the administrative diversity hires over at the major universities have completely skewed how our university system works.

00:17:13.000 It used to be about knowledge.

00:17:15.000 It used to be about reason.

00:17:17.000 It used to be about education.

00:17:18.000 And now it's mostly about avoiding HR problems by feeding the diversity, equity, inclusion beast, which is why the administrative costs at universities have risen dramatically.

00:17:27.000 And while the number of teachers actually has not risen all that dramatically at major American universities, the same thing has happened in Silicon Valley.

00:17:33.000 Silicon Valley used to be about engineering solutions, which is why they made their money.

00:17:37.000 And then it turned into a place where a bunch of people fresh from the universities were to come in and basically structure how all of society was going to run.

00:17:45.000 They decided that if the chief good of these companies was not being a public square, then the chief good would be quote unquote doing good, which is always incredibly, incredibly dangerous.

00:17:54.000 Well, this has made Musk unpopular in some circles of the left, because again, there's a radical left perspective, and this does separate sort of mainstream liberals from the radical left.

00:18:03.000 It's a distinction that I always make on the show.

00:18:04.000 People will say, oh, you're being too broad in how you paint the left.

00:18:07.000 Well, I've always made the distinction between the left and liberals.

00:18:10.000 Liberals are people who disagree with me about taxes, abortion and same-sex marriage, but who also agree that there ought to be open discussion of these things.

00:18:16.000 And then there is the left, and the left believes there should not be open discussion of these things, and that the very institutions of the republic are the problem.

00:18:23.000 The left believes that things like free speech are inherently biased toward power structures in the United States that have the ability to speak.

00:18:29.000 And therefore, we have to shut down free speech, or at least we have to rejigger free speech so as to benefit the people at the bottom.

00:18:36.000 Well, a lot of those people showed up to a Dave Chappelle comedy event in San Francisco.

00:18:41.000 It was supposed to be non-film, but apparently somebody sneaked a cell phone in.

00:18:46.000 So Dave Chappelle introduced Elon Musk to a mixture of boos and cheers.

00:18:49.000 Chappelle was really funny.

00:18:50.000 He was like, the people booing are probably former Twitter employees.

00:18:52.000 Correct.

00:18:53.000 Here's what that sounded like.

00:18:55.000 Thank you.

00:18:55.000 you're gonna make some noise for the richest man in the world.

00:18:58.000 Yeah!

00:19:06.000 Cheers and boogles, I guess.

00:19:08.000 It sounds like some of them people you fire in the audience.

00:19:17.000 It sounds like a lot of people have been fired by Elon Musk in the audience.

00:19:20.000 And that's probably true.

00:19:21.000 Again, there is a widespread perspective in places like San Francisco that broadening the boundaries of free speech is inherently dangerous and inherently problematic.

00:19:30.000 Meanwhile, the White House is denying that they have ever asserted pressure on social media to censor content, which is insane.

00:19:38.000 Obviously they have.

00:19:40.000 Mark Zuckerberg has publicly admitted that they have.

00:19:42.000 Mark Zuckerberg said that the FBI basically approached him in the run up to the 2020 election and suggested that disinformation was a major concern.

00:19:48.000 It was on that basis that the Hunter Biden story was censored.

00:19:51.000 Now, John Kirby, propagandist on behalf of the Biden administration, that's literally his job.

00:19:55.000 He says that the Biden administration, federal agencies, they really don't work with social media to censor, which is obviously untrue.

00:20:03.000 You said this, we aren't in the business of telling private companies how to execute their initiatives.

00:20:08.000 But it appears from these revelations from inside of Twitter, there were regular meetings between executives there, the FBI, DHS, the DNI.

00:20:16.000 So, you know, flagging tweets, expressing their concerns, it seems trying to drive certain conversations.

00:20:23.000 So, should or shouldn't the federal government, federal agencies, in your words, be directing private companies on how to execute their initiatives?

00:20:32.000 We aren't directing private social media companies on how to manage their content.

00:20:37.000 These are decisions that they have to make.

00:20:41.000 Okay, but what they are doing is providing broad layers of guidance to make sure that these people make the quote-unquote right decisions, which is really bordering if not violative of the First Amendment itself.

00:20:52.000 There's more on this in just one second.

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00:22:46.000 Meanwhile, all of this is bleeding over into the public health sphere.

00:22:48.000 So as that, that Barry Weiss thread demonstrates.

00:22:51.000 There are people at Twitter who obviously wanted to use the model of banning Trump for no actual violation to ban people for no actual violations when it came to spreading information about COVID or COVID vaccines.

00:23:01.000 So, for example, Twitter had suspended the account of Dr. Robert Malone, who is an mRNA vaccine researcher and has been very critical of many of the claims that were made about the COVID vaccine.

00:23:10.000 Twitter on Monday unsuspended his account.

00:23:13.000 Twitter had never specified which of Malone's tweets had actually violated any of their policies.

00:23:18.000 In one of his last tweets before he was banned, Malone shared a link to a video from a Canadian COVID care alliance titled, The Pfizer Inoculations for COVID-19, More Harm Than Good.

00:23:25.000 A description of that video said, Pfizer's six-month data shows that Pfizer's COVID-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent, plus an overview of the Pfizer trial flaws in both design and execution.

00:23:35.000 Twitter slapped a misleading label on Malone's tweet and restricted likes, retweets, and replies to the post, and then they suspended him.

00:23:41.000 It was right about the same time that Robert Malone became a very famous voice because he was on Joe Rogan's podcast and was highly critical of the COVID vaccines and then YouTube censored the podcast.

00:23:51.000 So now Malone has been reinstated.

00:23:53.000 Again, it turns out that you can't stop the conversation.

00:23:55.000 All you can do is generate more heat on the issues that you're attempting to ban.

00:24:00.000 Shutting down free speech rarely achieves its actual goal.

00:24:03.000 Well, Elon Musk has now started a firefight with Anthony Fauci and the White House because Elon Musk put out a tweet Suggesting that Fauci had essentially perjured himself by denying that his agency had funded gain-of-function research.

00:24:18.000 In fact, later he admitted that there had been quote-unquote modest gain-of-function research funding from the NIAID to a Chinese lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:24:26.000 That is where many people suspect that COVID-19 originated.

00:24:30.000 What he originally testified, in a very Clintonian way, he was suggesting that gain-of-function research really is only a very narrowly defined term.

00:24:38.000 That gain-of-function research is, within a species, you make a disease more virulent.

00:24:43.000 And that if you take a disease and you make it now applicable to a new species, that is not gain-of-function research.

00:24:47.000 So he says the United States only funded the first, but they didn't fund the second.

00:24:52.000 Like making a virus that jumps from bats to humans.

00:24:55.000 He says, that's not actually gain-of-function research.

00:24:57.000 That's the kind of stuff that we funded.

00:24:59.000 We didn't actually make the research within bats more virulent.

00:25:04.000 Well, that's not really a question, dude.

00:25:07.000 I mean, a lot of people had a lot of questions about how gain-of-function was being funded.

00:25:13.000 He described it as, quote, taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more transmissible and or pathogenic for humans.

00:25:19.000 He says that categorically was not done.

00:25:23.000 But again, making any of these pathogens more virulent in any way is what people tend to think of as gain-of-function research, or literally gaining function.

00:25:32.000 Fauci traced the NIH's interest in bat coronaviruses to the SARS outbreak from nearly two decades ago.

00:25:36.000 This is in his testimony a little bit earlier this year.

00:25:40.000 He said, we had a big scare with SARS back in 2002-2003 where that particular virus unquestionably went from a bat to an intermediate host to start an epidemic and a pandemic that resulted in 8,000 cases and 800 deaths.

00:25:51.000 It would have been a dereliction of our duty if we didn't study this.

00:25:53.000 The only way you can study these things is you have to go where the action is.

00:25:56.000 He says, you don't want to study bats in Fairfax County, Virginia to find out what the animal-human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species.

00:26:03.000 NIH did fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:26:05.000 Okay, so because of Fauci's comments about gain-of-function research, Elon Musk had tweeted that he thinks that Fauci essentially perjured himself and also believes that it was American money funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology that allowed for the Wuhan Institute of Virology to essentially create COVID-19.

00:26:25.000 Now, Fauci still says that it was not gain-of-function research and it was not even the Wuhan Institute of Virology that was the source of the COVID-19 infection.

00:26:31.000 He does admit the possibility, but he says that it wasn't me.

00:26:34.000 It certainly wasn't me.

00:26:35.000 Elon Musk, however, had tweeted out that his pronouns were quote unquote, prosecute Fauci.

00:26:40.000 And this drove the White House to new states of apoplexy.

00:26:45.000 World's worst press secretary, Kareem Jean-Pierre, slammed Musk's tweet as quote, disgusting and incredibly dangerous.

00:26:51.000 What's your response, first of all, to specifically to the attacks on Dr. Fauci?

00:26:58.000 And second, how is your view of Twitter as a sort of public forum and a forum for yourself and for the president and many other officials here? How are those views evolving?

00:27:10.000 So look, we've been very clear about this.

00:27:12.000 These attacks, these personal attacks that we have been seeing are dangerous on Dr. Fauci and other public health professionals as well.

00:27:21.000 They are disgusting and they are divorced from reality.

00:27:26.000 It's disgusting and dangerous when you attack somebody by name and it's terrible if you malign them. 0.98

00:27:32.000 Also, any Republican who didn't vote for Joe Biden's team in the last election is a member of the evil contingent and an enemy of the Republic.

00:27:42.000 So just a few things happening at the White House level.

00:27:45.000 Again, setting up people as though they are infallible and that criticism of them must be banned.

00:27:52.000 is really dangerous stuff because actually what it leads to is the feeling that those people kind of deserve to be criticized.

00:27:57.000 The fact is that Fauci does deserve a lot of criticism for how he handled this pandemic.

00:28:01.000 Everybody knows that.

00:28:02.000 We have yet to find out the full story on what exactly was funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:28:07.000 Dr. Fauci has not been honest about a wide variety of subjects throughout his tenure during COVID-19.

00:28:14.000 And yet the White House is very exercised about all of this.

00:28:17.000 The White House thinks that it's just terrible, and they use the key word here, which is dangerous.

00:28:21.000 When they use that key word, when they say dangerous, this is a way of shutting down speech.

00:28:24.000 Because when you say that speech is dangerous, what you mean is that speech actually ought to be curbed in some way.

00:28:29.000 And so it's not a surprise that you see major publications like the Washington Post, they're now attempting secondary boycotts of Twitter.

00:28:35.000 You have actual columnists at the Washington Post suggesting that advertisers should pull their money from Twitter because Elon Musk is so personally dangerous.

00:28:42.000 It's the same game that they play with shows like this one.

00:28:44.000 It's the same game that they play with all the social media outlets.

00:28:47.000 What they do is they try to find an advertiser who has nothing to do with anything Elon Musk is actually saying on Twitter, but who advertises on Twitter.

00:28:53.000 And then they say, you can't advertise on Twitter because if you do, you're putting money in Elon Musk's pocket.

00:28:58.000 And if you do that, then you are complicit.

00:29:01.000 That's the way all of this works.

00:29:02.000 The politicization of the advertising space, the attempt to cudgel corporations into doing the will of the left by browbeating them into not supporting neutral spaces, spaces where people agree with them and disagree with them, is really amazing.

00:29:16.000 And the White House forwarding that narrative is quite dangerous, actually.

00:29:18.000 You want to talk about dangerous?

00:29:19.000 It is dangerous when the White House is bordering on violation of First Amendment principles by essentially pressuring people not to associate with other people based on the things that they say in the private sphere.

00:29:30.000 Because that is government action.

00:29:32.000 And this has been a problem throughout.

00:29:34.000 Well, meanwhile, the White House continues its own social media trolling and trolling generally.

00:29:41.000 So the White House has decided that this is nothing new.

00:29:44.000 When the Obergefell case happened, the White House was lit up.

00:29:50.000 This under Barack Obama during the Obergefell case, which was 2015.

00:29:54.000 Barack Obama lit up the White House with a rainbow flag because the idea that same-sex marriage is what is most American about America.

00:30:01.000 It is not just a controversial social issue.

00:30:03.000 It is not about the fundamental undermining and redefining of a major institution, maybe the major societal institution.

00:30:10.000 America is really about the gay pride flag. 0.91

00:30:12.000 You never, by the way, would have seen an equivalent If, for example, after the case of Jack Phillips and the Masterpiece Cake Shop case in Colorado, you never would have seen the White House lit up with a giant cross.

00:30:26.000 Religious freedom is what America is all about.

00:30:28.000 But in the aftermath of Obergefell, the White House was lit up in the rainbow colors.

00:30:33.000 Well, they're going to do that routine again.

00:30:34.000 The White House is now planning a major celebration.

00:30:39.000 It is not respect for marriage to redefine the fundamental institution as male-male or female-female.

00:30:47.000 The entire basis for the institution is male-female, of course.

00:30:50.000 But the White House is holding a major celebration, and this, of course, is an act of trolling.

00:30:54.000 This is an attempt to get people upset on the right side of the aisle so that they can point at all those people and say, look at those bigots.

00:31:00.000 Why can't they just celebrate along with us?

00:31:01.000 Look how terrible they are for not celebrating.

00:31:03.000 Why won't they bake the cake? 0.68

00:31:04.000 Why won't those terrible, terrible people bake the cake? 1.00

00:31:07.000 And you can tell how hard they are trolling by the people that they are inviting. 0.91

00:31:10.000 So Corinne Jean-Pierre yesterday, she said that, who is a gay woman, she says that the White House is going to have a massive celebration for the Respect for Marriage Act.

00:31:17.000 And it's going to be pride, progress flags everywhere because this is what is most American about America.

00:31:22.000 This is what the founders fought for, gang.

00:31:24.000 The legislation also enjoys support from a majority of Americans across party lines and faiths.

00:31:30.000 Tomorrow, the President will be joined by a bipartisan group of lawmakers as well as advocates and plaintiffs in marriage equality cases across the country to sign this critical legislation into law.

00:31:43.000 There will be musical guests and performances to celebrate this historic bill.

00:31:50.000 Musical guests and performances.

00:31:52.000 Now, I don't remember that for the Inflation Reduction Act, obviously, but this is a major issue because redefining marriage actually is a major thing.

00:31:58.000 Now, we were told that it wasn't a major thing.

00:31:59.000 We were told that it's just what had to happen because it was already the law, and why not confirm what the law is?

00:32:03.000 What are you making a big deal about?

00:32:04.000 Now, like, what's the biggest deal in the world?

00:32:05.000 We're going to have musical guests at the White House.

00:32:07.000 We're going to have full performances.

00:32:08.000 They're also inviting some of the world's most important people.

00:32:11.000 So, for example, they are inviting a drag artist, Marty, To be a non-binary drag artist invited to the White House is something I never imagined would happen.

00:32:21.000 And by the way, this is not because this person is literally of any other importance apparently.

00:32:26.000 It is because of this person's identity as a quote-unquote non-binary drag artist. 0.78

00:32:30.000 That this person is being invited to the White House.

00:32:32.000 Thank you, President and Dr. Biden, for inviting me to this historic bill signing.

00:32:35.000 Grateful doesn't begin to express the emotions I feel.

00:32:38.000 This is trolling.

00:32:39.000 It's high-level trolling.

00:32:40.000 It is the White House declaring that the policy of the United States that we all should celebrate as a unifying American moment is that sex, biological sex, does not matter.

00:32:50.000 In fact, biological sex is of no consequence when it comes to marriage and may not exist at all because, after all, non-binary is a category now.

00:32:58.000 And drag is the most American thing about America. 0.98

00:33:01.000 I keep saying the word trolling because that's what this is.

00:33:03.000 It's an attempt to draw attention.

00:33:04.000 It's an attempt to polarize.

00:33:05.000 It's not an attempt to unify, obviously.

00:33:07.000 That's why the White House is pushing this so unbelievably hard.

00:33:11.000 It turns out that transgressivism, which is a philosophy I've talked about before, the idea that human beings, what we are essentially, we can be boiled down to our sexual identity, our sexual desires.

00:33:22.000 That is the core of us.

00:33:23.000 And that authenticity may never be challenged.

00:33:25.000 We can act in any way we want, and it's society's duty to actually make us feel good about that.

00:33:29.000 It's society's duty to clap and cheer.

00:33:32.000 That basic notion has some consequences.

00:33:37.000 And it can only be crammed down top down.

00:33:39.000 Because the truth is that the natural state of society is that people form families.

00:33:44.000 This is the natural biological state of society.

00:33:45.000 People form family units.

00:33:47.000 Those family units provide the predicate for all of human society.

00:33:50.000 Edmund Burke talks about the little platoons that are the families, right?

00:33:54.000 Father, mother, children, grandparents.

00:33:57.000 And these little platoons form the basis of both community and civil society.

00:34:02.000 Community and civil society form the basis of the polity.

00:34:06.000 And that's how you get durable societies created from small units.

00:34:11.000 Essentially, what has now happened because of the philosophy of transgressivism is that all those institutions are seen as violative of basic human freedoms.

00:34:17.000 The family is violative of basic human freedoms.

00:34:19.000 Marriage is violative of basic human freedoms because it makes separate demands on men and women. 0.74

00:34:23.000 It suggests that you owe duties outside of yourself to children, to the rest of your family, and to society at large.

00:34:29.000 And this cannot be allowed to happen.

00:34:31.000 Now, the only way that you can obliterate the intermediate institutions of life The most basic, intermediate institutions like family, but also civil society and community is by cramming that down from the top.

00:34:42.000 Transgressivism can only happen if you have a cultural elite that grabs the levers of power and then shoves down these messages on the rest of society.

00:34:49.000 And if they say it often enough, then people start to buy it.

00:34:51.000 And this is why it's so important to the left to redefine terms.

00:34:54.000 It's why it's so important for the left to grab cultural high ground and then use that cultural high ground in order to intimidate people into silence.

00:35:00.000 It's why it's important for the White House to have events like this if you are on the left.

00:35:03.000 Because the idea is that if you push message forward over and over and over again, that you're a bigot if you disagree with them, then people will basically give up all of the institutional protections that they have for traditional morality in favor of an unfettered sense of authenticity that the left really pushes incredibly hard.

00:35:19.000 You can see how they're doing this not just at the White House, but also this sort of trollery exists in the halls of culture.

00:35:24.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:36:03.000 Right now, okay, so when we talk about the media trolling and the social media trolling and the cultural trolling, again, understand transgressivism, the idea that all intermediate institutions in life must be obliterated in the name of individual authenticity.

00:36:14.000 But that philosophy requires a cultural cram down.

00:36:17.000 It requires cultural elites to cram down their view of society upon you.

00:36:21.000 And so it matters when you have cultural arbiters like the dictionary, like the Cambridge Dictionary, redefining the word woman.

00:36:28.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:36:29.000 They have now redefined the word woman.

00:36:30.000 Now you thought that a woman is, you know, a woman.

00:36:33.000 A member of the human species who is female, who is biologically female.

00:36:37.000 That's what you thought a woman was. 1.00

00:36:39.000 Wrong! 0.86

00:36:40.000 According to the Cambridge Dictionary, quote, a woman is, this is the definition, an adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.

00:36:48.000 Example, she was the first trans woman elected to a national office. 0.82

00:36:52.000 Mary is a woman who was assigned male at birth.

00:36:55.000 Now, if you ask them, what does female mean? 1.00

00:36:58.000 Then they would say, female is any person who identifies as a woman. 0.54

00:37:01.000 And so it would be completely circular.

00:37:04.000 A woman is a person who identifies as female. 0.97

00:37:06.000 A female is a person who identifies as a woman. 0.99

00:37:08.000 Now, if you ask them to define either female or woman without reference to the word female or woman, and to give like an actual objective metric, then they have no idea.

00:37:19.000 They can't say anything.

00:37:20.000 They can't say that it's a biological sexual category.

00:37:23.000 They can't say any of that.

00:37:25.000 And I can't say any of that because, of course, that would violate their scruples.

00:37:28.000 When the dictionary begins to overtly redefine terms, it's truly Orwellian.

00:37:31.000 I mean, this is news speak.

00:37:32.000 When Orwell talked in 1984 about how communist societies would redefine terms, literally just make up new terms, or take old terms, rob them of their content, and then reuse them.

00:37:42.000 He was talking about how you pervert the minds of millions of people.

00:37:46.000 And that's exactly what you see.

00:37:47.000 When dictionaries start redefining terms in completely nonsensical ways that are an infinite regress of nonsense, That is an attempt by cultural arbiters to cram down a particular set of morals.

00:37:57.000 And then it gets celebrated at the White House and all of this is good.

00:38:00.000 And you are supposed to ignore all of this or be considered a bigot.

00:38:03.000 You're supposed to pretend that all of this is good and fine.

00:38:06.000 After all, what business is it of yours if we redefine the word woman?

00:38:10.000 How does it change your life?

00:38:11.000 This is the question that's always asked.

00:38:12.000 How does it change?

00:38:13.000 The answer is societal standards change everybody's life.

00:38:16.000 If they did not, the left would not be so intent on changing them.

00:38:20.000 It's very simple.

00:38:20.000 The left says things like, how does same-sex marriage affect your life?

00:38:24.000 And the answer is, Bob and Bill down the street do not affect my life.

00:38:26.000 What does affect my life, because it affects my society, is how society redefines and incentivizes marriage.

00:38:32.000 That obviously has a major impact.

00:38:34.000 I mean, you can literally say this about any public policy issue.

00:38:37.000 Pick a public policy issue.

00:38:39.000 The vast majority of them do not directly affect your life, but they indirectly affect your life because when you reset the standards for a society, that has an impact on every citizen.

00:38:48.000 This is a case that could have been made by slaveholders in 1850.

00:38:50.000 They could have said, well, sure, I'm down here in the South holding a slave.

00:38:54.000 How does that affect your life in Massachusetts?

00:38:56.000 And the answer was, it didn't.

00:38:57.000 But when society tolerates slavery, that is a grave evil that redefines how everyone lives.

00:39:02.000 This is true for every public policy issue.

00:39:05.000 And the left's little game is to treat everybody as an atomized individual and then say, what we do in terms of public policy, it doesn't really affect you because you're an atomized individual anyway.

00:39:15.000 But it does affect you.

00:39:16.000 If you obliterate civil society, if you obliterate community, if you obliterate family, and you do all of that in the name of authentic sexual identity. 0.89

00:39:24.000 If you obliterate language, obliterate reason, obliterate biology in the name of these things, of course that has an impact on how we all live.

00:39:30.000 Because it has an impact on how we converse with one another.

00:39:32.000 It has an impact on our supposed sense of shared morality.

00:39:35.000 It's a real problem.

00:39:37.000 And so gaslighting goes on.

00:39:38.000 You're supposed to pretend that you don't notice it.

00:39:41.000 And if you do notice it, then you're a bigot.

00:39:44.000 So for example, you end up with headlines like this one.

00:39:46.000 This is from the DailyMail.com.

00:39:49.000 Are you ready for this?

00:39:50.000 This is an amazing headline.

00:39:52.000 Shocking moment!

00:39:53.000 Female-to-male transgender ice hockey player is tackled to the ground and concussed by a much larger male-to-female rival at controversial NHL-backed tournament.

00:40:00.000 So the headline, by the way, on Twitter was a little bit shorter than that.

00:40:04.000 The actual headline on Twitter was, moment trans woman hockey player concusses trans male rival.

00:40:11.000 Now you read that, you're like, I don't even know what you're talking about. 0.87

00:40:13.000 What the hell are you even talking about right now?

00:40:15.000 Now I'm going to read that headline in English.

00:40:16.000 Ready?

00:40:17.000 Moment Male Hockey Player Concusses Female Hockey Rival. 0.98

00:40:20.000 That's the actual headline.

00:40:21.000 A male body checked a woman into the boards and she got a concussion.

00:40:24.000 Now in a normal society, you'd be like, what in the world is a male doing on the hockey ice with a female and checking her into the boards? 0.99

00:40:31.000 What in the world is happening?

00:40:32.000 What sort of decent society allows a male to essentially bludgeon a woman so long as they are pretending that he is a she and she is a he? 0.95

00:40:41.000 That's a societal question, is it not?

00:40:43.000 But we're all supposed to pretend that this is good.

00:40:45.000 In fact, this event was sponsored by the NHL.

00:40:48.000 According to the Daily Mail, a female-to-male transgender hockey player was left concussed after being knocked to the floor by a much larger male-to-female trans opponent during a controversial NHL-backed tournament.

00:40:58.000 Danny Mackey was knocked down and left concussed following what appeared to be an accidental rough hit at the Team Trans Ice Hockey Draft in Middleton, Wisconsin late last month.

00:41:06.000 The incident has only just been reported by Quillette magazine, whose journalist Jonathan Kaye suggested the two-day tournament had been subjected to a woke cover-up.

00:41:13.000 Mackie was subsequently accused of self-censoring what had happened on Instagram by describing the incident as an odd fall despite himself sharing the video, which clearly shows he was tackled.

00:41:21.000 Well, he is a she. 1.00

00:41:23.000 She was tackled.

00:41:24.000 By a dude.

00:41:26.000 Pretending that a woman who takes male hormones is now a male and that a male who takes estrogen is now a female is absurd on its face.

00:41:34.000 But this is the sort of stuff that we're all supposed to pretend along with and the NHL celebrates and then we're all supposed to ignore when stuff like this happens.

00:41:40.000 And this also happens in other contexts.

00:41:43.000 So, for example, we were told to essentially ignore the alleged rape of a ninth grade girl at a school in Loudoun County.

00:41:51.000 We were told that the father, being very angry about this at a school board meeting, was demonstration that parents were effectively domestic terrorists.

00:41:59.000 You'll recall.

00:42:01.000 That in Loudoun County, there was a father who was treated as though he was a violent threat because he came to a school board meeting and protested the fact that the Loudoun County School Board was pushing a trans bathroom policy while simultaneously covering up the alleged rape of his ninth grade daughter.

00:42:19.000 And he got pretty upset because that seems kind of upsetting, right?

00:42:22.000 And then the school board association, National School Board Association, wrote a letter to the FBI and the DOJ asking for prosecution and investigation of members of the general parental community who are angry at school boards.

00:42:35.000 Well, now, as it turns out, the actual criminal activity was not by the father. 0.93

00:42:40.000 The actual criminal activity was by the transgender girl who was a boy who was apparently serially raping girls. 0.98

00:42:47.000 Allegedly. 0.97

00:42:49.000 And the superintendent and spokesperson for this particular school board.

00:42:55.000 Now it's not only covered in the New York Times, not covered in the Washington Post, it is covered by the Daily Wire.

00:42:59.000 It is only because Luke Rosiak, our excellent reporter in Loudoun County, actually did the research on this and figured out what happened with this angry father instead of treating him as a pariah. 0.96

00:43:09.000 And the cultural gaslighting at the top level is, the dad's the bad guy, the superintendent of the school district is good, because the superintendent of the school district buys into the woke nonsense that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and a boy who pretends to be a girl is actually a girl and should go into the girl's restroom, even if he is then engaging in the alleged anal rape of a girl in the bathroom.

00:43:27.000 So here is the latest in that story, and this wouldn't have happened without the investigation of Luke Rozsiak.

00:43:32.000 Two top officials of a Northern Virginia public school district were indicted Monday for their roles in the handling of a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing boy after the Daily Wire revealed the apparent cover-up last year of court documents Unsealed Monday showed.

00:43:43.000 Former Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler, who was fired last week, was indicted on three misdemeanor counts of false publication, conflict of interest prohibited conduct, and penalizing an employee for court appearance.

00:43:53.000 Spokesman Wade Byard was indicted on a felony charge of perjury, according to court records.

00:43:57.000 A week ago, a special grand jury released a 91-page report that confirmed the findings Of the Daily Wire's October 2021 expose, determining that Ziegler told a bald-faced lie when he dismissed concerns about a proposed transgender policy by denying that there had ever been any bathroom sex assaults, despite knowing that he'd attacked on a 9th grade girl just a month earlier.

00:44:16.000 The grand jury said that Ziegler's administration also concealed from the public and even the school board.

00:44:20.000 The same boy went on to sexually assault another girl in a classroom with school board members learning about it from a report in the Daily Wire.

00:44:26.000 The grand jury pleadings painted a devastating picture and showed that, quote, throughout this ordeal, LCPS administrators were looking out for their own interests instead of the best interests of LCPS.

00:44:35.000 When the Daily Wire asked Bayard last week about the Grand Jury's fact-finding report, he sent a statement attributed to School Board Chief Jeff Morse and Vice Chair Ian Sirotkin that said they were pleased that the Grand Jury had not indicted anyone.

00:44:45.000 The Daily Wire noted in response to Bayard that Attorney General Jason Mayares had pointedly said the Grand Jury was still running.

00:44:50.000 On Monday, Bayard did not return a request for comment on his own indictment.

00:44:53.000 The School Board fired Ziegler on Tuesday, a day after the Grand Jury report, but fired him without cause, apparently giving him a $350,000 golden parachute.

00:45:02.000 An indictment for the misdemeanor of false publication said, quote, on or about June 22nd, 2021, Ziegler did unlawfully, knowingly, and willfully state, deliver, or transmit by any means whatever to any publisher, a false and untrue statement, knowing the same to be false or untrue concerning any person or corporation with intent that the same shall be published.

00:45:18.000 June 22nd was the date of the school board meeting at which Ziegler cited Time Magazine to lecture parents, the quote, we've heard it several times tonight from our public speakers, but the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.

00:45:30.000 So, again, amazing stuff here.

00:45:33.000 This stuff ends in criminal activity and indictment.

00:45:36.000 But you're supposed to ignore it until apparently it is uncovered by Luke Rosiak.

00:45:40.000 And even then, it doesn't deserve a follow-up report because that would run counter to the desires of the counter-cultural elite.

00:45:46.000 The transgressive elite who are now cramming down the morality on literally everyone.

00:45:50.000 We're supposed to pretend that none of this ever happens.

00:45:53.000 That everything is good to go.

00:45:56.000 Turns out that the control of the commanding heights of culture, handing that over to the transgressors has some pretty devastating side effects, including for individuals like ninth grade girls who get raped in bathrooms by boys who are pretending that they identify as girls, or some such nonsense.

00:46:09.000 And by the way, now would be an excellent time to note that Luke Rosiak, our investigative reporter over at Daily Wire, we can only have investigative reporters because people like you subscribe, people like you sign up over at dailywire.com.

00:46:19.000 You should become a Daily Wire Plus member so we can do reporting like this as well as you get all the rest of our great material.

00:46:24.000 But it is Luke who uncovered this, and it is Luke's action on this that has led to the indictment now of a public official who lied to the public about whether, in fact, it was safe for transgender bathrooms to be established.

00:46:36.000 And he did it on the basis of false data.

00:46:38.000 Now, I promise you, by the way, that on the other side of the media ledger, let's say that this story had happened in a Catholic school. 0.84

00:46:45.000 Let's say that what happened in a Catholic school is that a boy was allowed to go into a girl's bathroom and rape a girl.

00:46:50.000 And a parish priest had been in there and seen, apparently, part of this happen.

00:46:53.000 And then later, there had been a press conference in which they were asked about their bathroom policy.

00:46:57.000 And the priest had said, no, you know, we've never seen anything like this.

00:47:01.000 That'd be a church cover-up, right?

00:47:03.000 That's the way our culture works.

00:47:05.000 The way our culture works is traditional institutions that sin are demonstrations that the traditional institutions are evil.

00:47:10.000 Meanwhile, left-wing or secular institutions that create policies that facilitate evil.

00:47:17.000 When that sort of stuff happens, it's an exception.

00:47:18.000 It's an exception.

00:47:19.000 Or we just ignore it.

00:47:20.000 It doesn't happen at all.

00:47:20.000 We can't cover it at all.

00:47:22.000 This is part and parcel of the broader problem of how we cover institutions in a secular society.

00:47:29.000 When there's a massive cover-up in the Catholic Church about the abuse of children?

00:47:34.000 This is deserving of Oscar-winning movies like Spotlight.

00:47:37.000 This is deserving of mass cultural criticism, which it is.

00:47:40.000 But, has there yet been a major story in a major newspaper about the spate of sexual abuse in our public schools?

00:47:47.000 Because I promise you, there's an enormous amount of sexual abuse that happens at the nation's public schools.

00:47:52.000 There are literally 100 million kids in our public schools.

00:47:55.000 So I promise you there's an enormous amount of abuse in these public schools.

00:47:58.000 There's no reason to suggest that Catholicism is the reason for the sexual abuse.

00:48:03.000 There's also been no investigation into many of the favored organizations of the left that deal with children.

00:48:10.000 There's just a lot of pretending.

00:48:11.000 A lot of pretending that nothing bad could possibly happen because after all you hold the right perspective.

00:48:16.000 If the idea, this is true across the board, if the idea is that any institution is so vulnerable that critique of the institution results in its collapse and thus critique ought to be forbidden, you know that the powerful are attempting to censor.

00:48:31.000 Now the Catholic Church, which engaged in a cover-up, now does not engage in cover-ups of those behavior because the Catholic Church has been durable for a couple thousand years.

00:48:40.000 The Catholic Church will survive, it will thrive, it will continue to have a billion adherents.

00:48:45.000 When it comes to America's secular left, They are so scared bleepless of the consequences of their own philosophy, because that philosophy is deeply connected with sexual liberation and autonomy, that they can't allow stories like this to see the light of day.

00:49:01.000 Only Daily Wire reports on this.

00:49:02.000 Again, another reason for you to go get membership today over at Daily Wire.

00:49:07.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:49:08.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:49:09.000 We'll be getting into Kyrsten Sinema declaring that she is an independent and Bernie Sanders declaring that he might back a Democrat against her in Arizona.

00:49:16.000 Plus, we'll get into the mailbag.

The Ben Shapiro Show - December 13, 2022

Musk vs. Fauci: The Grudge Match | Ep. 1629

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