A U.S. Capitol Police officer died Thursday after being injured in clashes with pro-Trump rioters in the Capitol the day before. Ben Shapiro reacts to the news and asks why more cops weren t on the ground to respond to the massive pro-Democrat rioting in the streets of Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night. He also notes that the rioters who broke through the barricades, vandalized the Capitol building, and clashed with police were mostly white and mostly male. Ben also points out that the overwhelming majority of rioters were in fact black and Latino and that the police response to the rioting was woefully inadequate. And finally, Ben talks about the fact that the Democratic Party is celebrating the loss of a presidential candidate who is a racist and a misogynist, and calls for a permanent ban on Donald Trump on all social media. Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN! Don't let others track what you do, keep yourself safe at ExpressVPN. You don't have to sacrifice your safety to keep others safe at home, you can do it on your own terms. Get 50% off your first month with discount code "DPP250" when you dial UP 250 and save 50% up to $250. When you do that, you'll save $250 a month and get 20% off for the first month! You're not going anywhere else but DirectTalk USA, they're going to be giving you a 20% discount! Protect yourself by becoming a member of the fastest growing VPN service, and saving you $800 a month, and you'll be getting 20% faster than you'd normally be paying for a rental car, plus an extra $200 a month. You'll get FREE 2GB of data, plus free 2 GB of data and a bunch of perks, plus you'll get 20GB of storage, plus they're getting $50 a month for a maximum of $200,000 in total service plan, and they'll get you an ad-free version of the service, plus a FREE 3 months of the Provenibee, plus all that gets you a total of $150,000 a year, plus she'll get an ad discount, and she'll send you a FREE PRIVATE PRICEDUCUMENTARY PRICING, AND they'll also get you a carton of Provencibly faster than that's not even have to do it all that you're getting in for free!
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00:01:38.000Okay, so here is the update on the news.
00:01:42.000Overnight, a Capitol Police officer died from injuries that were sustained after clashing with the mob over at the Capitol building, according to NBC News.
00:02:06.000Sicknick joined the Capitol Police in 2008.
00:02:08.000He's the fifth person to die from Wednesday's violent clash in Washington.
00:02:11.000Of course, there was a woman who was shot to death by Capitol Police during the middle of the riot.
00:02:15.000And then there were three other people who died of unspecified medical emergencies over the course of the riot.
00:02:19.000His death will be investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington.
00:02:22.000Sicknick most recently served in the Capitol Police Department's First Responder Unit, according to a statement from the Capitol Police.
00:02:30.000News of the officer's death comes shortly after Capitol Police Chief Stephen Sund resigned amid criticism of the department's response to rioters who broke through the barricades, vandalizing the building and clashing with police.
00:02:39.000Now, as we now know, we know that Mayor Muriel Bowser was not interested in having a vast police presence.
00:02:44.000We know that the feds were also concerned about ticking off the protesters or rioters or something, which is absolute insanity.
00:02:51.000There needs to be a full investigation as to why there were not more officers on the grounds, why the response took hours on end.
00:02:58.000And all those videos that you've seen of the officers removing barricades in order to let people through, it was not in order to let people through.
00:03:03.000It was because they were consolidating their lines.
00:03:06.000This will become relevant a little bit later on in the program when we discuss the pathetic notion that the police treated these rioters with kid gloves because they were white.
00:03:13.000This has now become the talking point du jour of the Democratic Party, and it's disgusting.
00:03:21.000There are a bunch of Trump cabinet officials who have now resigned.
00:03:24.000Elaine Chao, who is the Secretary of Transportation and wife of Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, temporarily, she has now resigned her post.
00:03:31.000Also, Betsy DeVos resigned her post as well.
00:03:34.000DeVos said in a letter, there is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, is what she said to President Trump.
00:03:57.000Naturally, the left is not meeting any of these people with open arms.
00:04:00.000They're not suggesting, and neither are moderates, neither are the media.
00:04:03.000Nobody is suggesting that the folks who are resigning from the Trump administration over this incident ought to get any credit for doing so.
00:04:08.000Instead, because they were in the Trump administration in the first place, the idea is that they are very bad.
00:04:13.000And this lends itself to the second narrative of the day, which is that if you voted for Trump, if you're conservative in any way, if you don't believe any of the woke nonsense pushed by the left, this means that you are part of the problem.
00:04:22.000You are equivalent to the people who rioted and broke into the Capitol building.
00:04:27.000The vast majority of people who are at the protest are not even equivalent to the rioters who broke into the Capitol building.
00:04:31.000The vast majority of people who went to that protest believed something that was not true about the voter fraud and voter irregularity allegations made by Trump.
00:04:40.000Many of them believed something that wasn't true about the congressional ability to overturn the election.
00:04:46.000But they were there because they believed, I think, in certain patriotic fashion, that the election ought to be upheld in a true and proper way.
00:04:57.000Now, their definition of true and proper I don't think was factually based, but those people were not the people who were committing acts of criminality.
00:05:03.000There's about a couple thousand people probably broke into the Capitol building, and to equate even the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who were at that rally with Trump to the people who broke into the Capitol building would be conflating everybody in a way that's not true.
00:05:15.000So certainly it's even more true that people who were not at the rally, who did not believe what Trump was selling or what Josh Hawley was selling, all the people who did not believe that the election was stolen, and certainly all the people who voted for Trump are not to blame for what happened here, yet that is the narrative that is being drawn by the media.
00:05:32.000Every good conservative is now being lumped in with the people who decided to violate the heart of the democracy.
00:05:38.000And by the way, it is more... I'm hearing some rumblings on the right today.
00:05:41.000Well, you know, they just wrecked a building.
00:05:53.000It also happens to be the fact that this was an insurrection because this was an overt attempt to stop the business of government from going forward.
00:06:00.000Now, it's not a coup, as some people have been defining it, because the military was not involved.
00:06:03.000There was no official move to attempt to remove the senators.
00:06:07.000There was no official attempt to actually overturn the election.
00:06:32.000As you'll see, the left is now refusing to acknowledge that.
00:06:35.000Because the left sees a way to make a political gain here.
00:06:40.000And the way to make a political gain is to take the bad people who broke into the Capitol building and did violence and attacked police officers and lump them in with literally everybody on the right.
00:06:50.000So those are the two dueling narratives that we are going to get from the left over the coming months, over the coming years.
00:06:54.000It's going to have significant ramifications for your life.
00:06:57.000Because what they're going to do is they're going to suggest one, That every bad thing is part and parcel of the white supremacist nation that is the United States.
00:07:05.000A point made by both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris yesterday.
00:07:27.000This is part and parcel of what Trumpism was.
00:07:31.000Right, that simply voting against the left, simply voting against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and AOC and Nohan Omar and all the rest of the crew, that doing that meant that you were okay with what happened at the Capitol building.
00:07:43.000And that, of course, is gonna lead to censorship, as we'll get to.
00:07:46.000Okay, well, the big news of the day amid all of this is that the White House acknowledged that President Trump had lost the election.
00:07:53.000Again, the reality is that Trump should have done this months ago.
00:07:55.000Okay, he had every opportunity to explore every legal option.
00:07:59.000Once the Electoral College voted, We were done.
00:08:02.000Once the states had certified their votes within the safe harbor provision by law, there was no way to overturn the results of the election.
00:08:07.000Plus, once again, I know this is unpopular, but it happens to be the truth.
00:08:11.000The Trump campaign did not provide the necessary evidence to overturn any of the electoral results in any of those states.
00:09:14.000Well, last night, Trump did say something after his Twitter account was reinstated.
00:09:19.000He put out a two minute, 30 second video in which he acknowledged that the election was over and that he had lost and that Joe Biden would be inaugurated on January 20th.
00:09:27.000He pledged himself to a peaceful transition of power and he ripped into the rioters.
00:09:32.000Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem.
00:09:39.000I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders.
00:09:48.000America is and must always be a nation of law and order.
00:09:52.000The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy.
00:09:59.000To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country.
00:10:06.000And to those who broke the law, you will pay.
00:10:40.000We now have widespread unity across the land.
00:10:43.000Rioting in the Capitol building is wrong.
00:10:45.000People should pay, legally, for breaking into the Capitol building, for threatening duly elected senators, congresspeople, the vice president of the United States, for attacking police officers.
00:11:00.000There's widespread agreement about all of these things, right?
00:11:03.000The president has now acknowledged that he lost the election.
00:11:05.000He has committed himself to a peaceful transfer of power, which, again, should have happened weeks ago, but it's good that he's doing it now, obviously.
00:11:12.000So, this should be a time of unity, right?
00:11:14.000This should be a time when we all come together, because we all agree there will be a transition of power on January 20th.
00:11:19.000The election has been legally constituted.
00:11:22.000Attacking the Capitol building is bad.
00:11:24.000All of these things are perfectly obvious to, when I say the vast majority of Americans, I mean nearly all Americans at this point.
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00:13:30.000We have 12 days until the inauguration.
00:13:33.000And Trump has now pledged that he is going to hand over power peacefully, which of course he should, since every single president in the history of the United States has done so, going back to George Washington.
00:13:43.000And he has acknowledged the results of the election.
00:13:45.000He has acknowledged that the Electoral College has voted and done its work.
00:13:53.000Because the reality is that, number one, the police are actually going to do their jobs this time.
00:13:57.000They're going to be provided with the sort of numbers they need in order to quash all of this.
00:14:02.000And there's widespread sentiment on the right that this was deplorable and horrible and bad and gross in every way, that you don't get to break into the Capitol building and threaten Congress people and attack police officers and do all this kind of stuff.
00:14:13.000Frankly, I think there was an enormous amount of shock on the right that people who even identified as right-wing would do this sort of stuff.
00:14:19.000I mean, you'll remember back a few months ago, the typical thought on the right was that if Biden lost, that there would be riots in the streets, which, by the way, certainly would have happened.
00:14:27.000But then if Trump lost, there probably would not be any of that.
00:14:29.000So I think a lot of people on the right were duly shocked to see what happened the other day.
00:14:34.000And I don't think they're wrong to be shocked to see what happened the other day, obviously.
00:14:38.000So that means that there is widespread consensus that bad things are bad and that good things are good and that time moves on and that there will be a new president on January 20th, right?
00:14:46.000This would be the moment when Joe Biden should come out and he should say, we're all in agreement.
00:15:11.000Because, again, these people are going to be in charge of the executive branch of the federal government for the next four years, and they are signifying that in a moment when we could all come together, at a moment when, as they say, in their belief, the nightmare is over, bright new day, dawning, and all this stuff.
00:15:30.000Okay, well now we're moving forward in unity, arm in arm.
00:15:33.000This sort of stuff can happen again, but here's the problem.
00:15:36.000The left has allowed this sort of stuff to happen for months, just in a different context.
00:15:41.000The left, for months, catered to Black Lives Matter rioters and to Antifa rioters in Portland.
00:15:46.000For months, they suggested that federal officers on the ground in Portland were actually creating the problem, even though the riots preexisted, the federal officers in Portland, and then continued after the federal officers left.
00:15:59.000So Joe Biden decided that it was time to actually polarize the country still further.
00:16:04.000Because every crisis is an opportunity.
00:16:06.000So Biden gave a speech yesterday in which he attacked Trump.
00:16:09.000And he didn't just suggest that what Trump had done over the last couple of months was really bad.
00:16:14.000Instead, what he suggested is that Trump had launched an assault on our democracy from the very beginning, from the very beginning of his administration, right?
00:16:19.000So now the implication is that anyone in either election, 2016 or 2020, who supported Trump Should have known that this sort of stuff was going to happen.
00:16:27.000Should have known that this was the way that things were going to end.
00:16:47.000The past four years, we've had a president who's made his contempt for our democracy, our Constitution, the rule of law clear in everything he has done.
00:17:01.000He unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset.
00:17:08.000And yesterday was but the culmination of that unrelenting attack.
00:17:12.000OK, well, I mean, let's be realistic about this as well.
00:17:15.000There are folks on the left cheering on the 1619 riots, cheering them on.
00:17:19.000Nicole Hannah-Jones said she was proud that these were the 1619 riots and people were burning down businesses and assaulting people and in some cases, you know, killing people.
00:17:28.000In the case of David Dorn, the ex-police officer in St.
00:17:32.000The attacks on our institutions are not on one side here.
00:17:35.000And the implication here, of course, that Biden is attempting to draw, is that if you voted for Trump because you liked his policies or because you didn't like what the left was presenting, then you were complicit in this because you should have known all along that it was going to end with people breaching the Capitol building in an incident that has no historic parallel in the last 50 years.
00:17:57.000What he's attempting to do, pretty obviously, is polarize the country so that he can suggest that everybody who agrees with him is on the side of the angels and everybody who doesn't disagree with him is on the side of the people who breached the Capitol.
00:18:24.000And this nonsense point was the idea that if these had been Black Lives Matter rioters who had tried to break into the Capitol building, there would have been mass carnage and mass death.
00:18:32.000And that the police officers treated everybody with kid gloves up on Capitol Hill the other day.
00:18:39.000It's a lie, number one, because the Capitol Police did not treat people with kid gloves the other day.
00:18:43.000I mean, according to reporters on the ground, ranging from Tina Nguyen over at Vanity Fair to Julio Rosas over at Town Hall, from the left to the right, there's widespread acknowledgement the police were firing tear gas at people, the police were involved in physical altercations with people, the police were drawing their weapons on people.
00:18:57.000A woman was shot to death in the halls of the Capitol.
00:19:03.000And all that video of the police removing barricades, they're removing barricades because that is typical security protocol if you don't want the barricades used against you and if you cannot consolidate your lines and you don't have enough officers.
00:19:12.000People who are suggesting, by the way.
00:19:14.000Why weren't there more arrests made on site?
00:19:15.000Because there weren't enough police officers in the first place.
00:19:18.000When you arrest somebody, the police officer has to leave with the person they are arresting.
00:19:25.000In the coming days, I'm sure there will be dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of people, who are arrested for their activities in the Capitol building.
00:19:30.000I would imagine there will be hundreds of people who are arrested for what they did in the Capitol building.
00:19:35.000And as for the other side of that coin, that BLM was treated with some sort of market viciousness by the police throughout the country, that's just a lie.
00:19:45.000had widespread rioting for days and weeks And widespread, people running roughshod through the streets, breaking into stores, stealing things, assaulting people.
00:19:59.000There were more people who were killed during the Capitol storming than were killed during the Washington riots.
00:20:06.000By the way, I don't see anybody painting a street in Washington, D.C., QAnon.
00:20:11.000I don't see anybody painting a street in Washington, D.C., Stop the Steal.
00:20:16.000And yet when Black Lives Matter riots took over Washington, D.C., when they burned a church near the White House, when they did all that stuff, the mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, ordered that the words Black Lives Matter be painted in giant yellow letters visible from space on public streets.
00:20:33.000She ordered that a plaza be renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza.
00:20:36.000Every corporation in America woke-scolded its own employees and told them they needed to post black squares in solidarity with the idea that America is a systemically racist country.
00:20:45.000Politicians from right to left put out these nonsensical statements about how America was cruel and vicious with regard to black Americans.
00:20:54.000Meanwhile, police were defunded in cities across the country or told to stand down.
00:20:58.000Entire city streets in Seattle were turned over to the tender predations of the folks of BLM in Antifa.
00:21:04.000The city of Los Angeles was shut down for a week.
00:21:46.000There were videos of police officers kneeling with the protesters, kneeling with them.
00:21:50.000Don't give me that the police officers at the Capitol building, one of whom died, 16 of whom were injured, that those police officers were being super-duper kind to these people because they were white.
00:22:00.000There were police officers who were kneeling with the people who were calling them systemically racist.
00:22:06.000There were mayors who were going out into crowds of people who were declaring that they were representatives of an evil system and kowtowing to them.
00:22:15.000There were white people who were doing acts of supplication before black people all over the country.
00:22:23.000People literally on their knees in a mode of repentance to black people, even though they'd never sinned against a black person.
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00:25:10.000Here is the rest of what Joe Biden had to say.
00:25:12.000So after suggesting that Trump launched an assault on democracy from the very first day that he was in office, which means that all of his voters should have known this was going to happen.
00:25:20.000They're all guilty along with him of everything that has gone on.
00:25:22.000This, by the way, is not an uncommon talking point on the left, as we'll see.
00:25:25.000He also suggested that the Capitol Police are viciously racist.
00:25:29.000Now, you may have looked at the incident at the Capitol and seen a bunch of white people storming the Capitol, one of them getting shot, a bunch of people going to get arrested.
00:25:36.000And you may have said to yourself, look, it looks like the Capitol Police were overwhelmed.
00:25:39.000I can't believe they didn't have enough people there.
00:25:40.000Looks like security protocols need to be overhauled.
00:25:43.000Or you could be an insane person and suggest this has something to do with systemic American racism.
00:25:47.000Naturally, Joe Biden is going to do the latter.
00:25:50.000No one can tell me that if had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, there wouldn't have been, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.
00:27:21.000Okay, but here is Kamala Harris, another deeply unifying figure, saying exactly the same thing.
00:27:27.000We witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the United States Capitol and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer.
00:27:46.000The American people have expressed, brightly, outrage.
00:28:01.000I mean, really, I have a serious, a logical question here.
00:28:03.000So, according to Kamala Harris, should the police have used tear gas on the protesters at both, or should they have used tear gas on the protesters at neither?
00:28:17.000In reality, the police have been pretty consistent with regard to their use of force here, and they did use probably more force with regard to the Capitol.
00:28:28.000They used more force at the Capitol than they did with regard to BLM protests all around the nation, where there are pictures of cops literally standing by and just letting people run around burning businesses.
00:28:38.000Just on a purely logical level, when she says that we have a double system of justice here, where protesters were gassed in front of the White House if they were BLM, but then they were not gassed if they stormed the Capitol, is the idea here that we should have let the people storm the Capitol, and we should have let people protest freely with burning churches near the White House?
00:28:58.000Okay, so again, there's no logic to this.
00:29:00.000The entire thing is a divisive emotional appeal designed to suggest that everybody who supports Trump and supported Trump back during the election cycle, no matter what he did over the subsequent two months, and no matter what you said over the subsequent two months, and no matter whether you think that the people who breached the Capitol are idiots and criminals, that no matter what you do, no matter what you said, you were complicit.
00:29:19.000And not only were you complicit in the violence, you were complicit in racism, right?
00:29:24.000You are a racist as well, because America is racist as well.
00:29:28.000It's horrifying stuff, because again, this is a moment where we should all agree on the things.
00:29:34.000I don't know how many times over the past several years I've said this, where there's an issue that happens, and I'm like, you know what?
00:29:38.000It seems like we should all be able to agree on this.
00:29:40.000And then you poll Americans, and they do all agree on it.
00:29:42.000And then our politicians, and I think sometimes on both sides of the aisle, but at this point, really on the left with this kind of stuff, then the politicians immediately turn it into something political.
00:29:54.000When it came to COVID, it was like, why is this political?
00:29:56.000We're all trying to deal with a global pandemic.
00:29:58.000And then immediately it turned into, America is systemically racist.
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00:32:22.000So Trump has been banned from Facebook indefinitely.
00:32:25.000Not only was Trump banned from Facebook, by the way, so Dan Bongino had his account removed on Facebook temporarily because he posted the video of Trump a couple of days ago during the riot talking about how he wanted people to go home peacefully and then adding in a bunch of stuff about how the election was stolen.
00:32:38.000So just for reposting a video from the President of the United States, For just reposting it.
00:32:45.000Facebook has now announced that Trump's account is going to be completely removed from Facebook.
00:32:49.000Now look, Facebook is a private company.
00:32:51.000Facebook can do whatever it wants to do.
00:32:53.000Does that mean that the spirit of free speech and civic engagement can thrive when you have big tech bros who have decided what is available to you and what is not available to you?
00:33:03.000And if you think this is gonna stop with Trump, you are dead wrong.
00:33:05.000In a second, I'm gonna show you how far this is gonna go.
00:33:09.000The truth is that Jack Dorsey and Zuckerberg They've had their fingers on the trigger with regard to Trump for a very, very long time.
00:33:16.000And we all knew that basically the day after the inauguration, both of them were going to attempt to ban Trump.
00:33:21.000Well, they're going to do it a little bit early.
00:33:24.000According to the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said Thursday the social media giant is banning Trump indefinitely, marking a dramatic escalation of the conflict between Silicon Valley and the White House after Trump weaponized the web to help stoke a riot at the U.S.
00:33:35.000Zuckerberg wrote, we believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great.
00:33:41.000Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.
00:33:49.000Okay, now, you don't have to agree with anything Trump has posted, anything he has posted in order to recognize this is a horrific precedent, a really bad precedent.
00:33:58.000Imagine, during those BLM riots, if Facebook had decided, you know what, there's a lot of criminality and violence that's going around right now, like a lot of it.
00:34:06.000In fact, so much so that anybody who even mildly excuses any of the criminality or violence, anybody who tries to justify any of that stuff, even if they say, stay peaceful, but they try to justify that violence, or they say the underlying argument is good, we'll just ban them.
00:34:18.000Because after all, the risk of criminality is higher than the value of the free speech.
00:34:28.000Shutting down the modes and mechanisms of conversation is a bad idea.
00:34:32.000If Facebook believes itself to be an open source for communication, opening minds to ideas, it can't put itself in the business of banning ideas or banning figures, even if Facebook doesn't like what they are saying.
00:34:45.000According to the Washington Post, Facebook's suspension marked the most aggressive penalty any social media company has meted out to Trump over his four-year term, a period in which he has repeatedly peddled falsehoods, attacked critics, and spread divisive rhetoric online.
00:34:56.000Twitter on Wednesday also suspended Trump for 12 hours.
00:34:59.000The company's first-ever blockade lifted on Thursday morning.
00:35:01.000By evening, Trump resumed tweeting, sharing a video that acknowledged the new administration's soon-to-be inaugurated.
00:35:07.000The tech giants took the rare aggressive steps after a violent mob stormed the House and Senate Wednesday, forcing lawmakers into lockdown.
00:35:13.000Now, the reality is that if Trump had won the election, this wouldn't have happened.
00:35:18.000If Trump had won, they wouldn't be banning his accounts.
00:35:20.000The reason they're banning his accounts is because they're attempting to, in pretty cynical fashion, stave off legislation from a Democrat-led Senate.
00:35:28.000Even if the Republicans held the Senate, I think that they probably wouldn't have done this.
00:35:31.000The reason that they are doing this is because they believe that if they appease the Democrats, if they start using their tech platforms in order to shut down alternative points of view, then the Democrats will leave them alone.
00:35:41.000In other words, if they just become part of the mainstream establishment media apparatus, echoing only the messages of the Democratic Party, then the Democrats will not regulate them.
00:35:49.000Senator Mark Warner said, while I'm pleased to see social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube take long belated steps to address the president's sustained misuse of their platforms to sow discord and violence, these isolated actions are both too late and not enough.
00:36:01.000Disinformation and extremism researchers have for years pointed to broader network-based exploitation of these platforms.
00:36:09.000So Mark Warner is saying basically anybody who has ever in a video said anything good about Trump or even didn't say anything about Trump, but somebody watched their video and then watched a Trump video, We can look at the research.
00:36:20.000The research, by the way, is nonsense.
00:36:22.000We can look at the research and we can see that these mainstream commentators, you know, the Jordan Petersons or the Dave Rubins or the Ben Shapiros or the Glenn Becks, that all these people, they're part of the problem.
00:36:31.000All you're going to have to do is just prevent all those people from speaking freely on social media.
00:36:40.000Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton's former communications director, tweeted, it does not escape my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually is more they could do to police Trump's destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them.
00:36:52.000She happens to be correct about this. Now, Facebook and Twitter originally used to make exceptions for public figures with regard to some of their rules, which makes sense, because how exactly are we going to know what they said and then hold them accountable?
00:37:06.000It truly is amazing that the standards that are now being set up seem to assume there were no repercussions to Trump's behavior over the past four years.
00:37:38.000For example, the Washington Post says, even though Facebook suspended Trump on Thursday, pro-Trump pages and groups with tens of thousands of members, including one called Joe Biden is not my president, which is hidden from public view, quickly mobilized in support.
00:37:49.000Facebook has cracked down on some of the most pervasive and violent conspiracy theories.
00:37:53.000The social media company's belated efforts have also had the effect of pushing many of the group's leaders to alternative social platforms like Parler.
00:38:00.000at Harvard Kennedy's School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy said, quote, he's part of a much larger system of disinformation.
00:38:08.000As a result, taking action against Trump is symbolic in some ways, but unless they consistently apply these rules to media manipulators and disinformers, this is going to keep happening.
00:38:47.000First, let us talk about the fact that right now you might be looking at the world and thinking to yourself, well, it seems like things are collapsing.
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00:40:20.000In just a second, we'll get to Michelle Obama and the continuing call to shut down all free speech on the basis of what happened this week.
00:40:47.000night as a small business owner. I know that these come more often than it seems they should, but it's okay. I am armed with a great cup of hashtag leftist tears in my new real daily wear, leftist tears tumbler, hot or cold. I'm ready to complete my project. Excellent. Excellent.
00:41:00.000Keep up that good work. Thanks for the pick. Thank you for your service. Also, you may have noticed that there is a tsunami of culture that is directed explicitly against you.
00:41:08.000It's going to get worse, not better, over the coming years.
00:41:10.000With the Biden-Harris administration, what we are going to see is a tsunami of outrage at anybody who disagrees, and the entertainment industry that feeds and mainlines this crap into the bloodstream of American politics.
00:44:24.000It is rated R. I'm just telling you right now because we need to compete in this space.
00:44:28.000We need to provide people alternatives to the leftist crap that they are getting from Amazon or Netflix or anywhere else they get their entertainment.
00:44:33.000To mark the release, we're going to be doing a live stream premiere the night before, Thursday, January 14th, during a special episode of Backstage featuring Jeremy Boring, me, some special guests.
00:44:42.000Come join us as we put culture back in conservative categories.
00:44:46.000Come join us as we try to infiltrate the culture and fight back.
00:44:49.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:44:53.000So as I keep saying, there are a few messages that are coming out here after this terrible, terrible week.
00:45:03.000Message number one from Biden-Harris is that if you voted for Trump, or if you supported Trump, or if you don't back their agenda, then this is because you're in favor of what happened.
00:45:10.000Number two is that America is systemically racist, and its police are systemically racist, which is one hell of a message to put out after a police officer dies defending the Capitol, which is what happened this week.
00:45:20.000And message number three is that you should all shut the hell up.
00:45:41.000I woke up yesterday elated by the news of Reverend Raphael Warnock's election victory.
00:45:45.000He'll be Georgia's first black senator.
00:45:46.000I was heartened by the idea that the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home parish of Dr. Kang, and a spiritual and organizational hub during the civil rights movement would be representing his state in the United States Senate.
00:45:55.000In just a few hours, my heart had fallen harder and faster than I can remember.
00:45:58.000Like all of you, I watched as a gang, organized, violent, mad they'd lost an election, laid siege to the United States Capitol.
00:46:04.000The day was a fulfillment of the wishes of an infantile, unpatriotic president who can't handle the truth of his own failures.
00:46:09.000The wreckage lays at the feet of a party and media apparatus that gleefully cheered him on at knowing full well the possibility of consequences like these.
00:46:19.000Is that everybody knew, everybody knew, this is going to be the revisionist history here, is that everybody knew that the Capitol was going to be stormed.
00:46:25.000Okay, well, if that's the way that we're going to play this game, then everybody knew that six Dallas police officers are going to be shot to death by a BLM activist during Obama's administration.
00:46:34.000I mean, with rhetoric saying that America was systemically racist and the police were systemically racist, I mean, everybody knew that it was going to come to this.
00:46:41.000And if we're going to play this game, everybody knew there were going to be riots in Ferguson.
00:46:44.000Everybody knew there were going to be riots in Washington, D.C.
00:46:46.000Everybody knew that businesses were going to get burned and looted all around the country this summer.
00:46:58.000You don't get to suggest that everybody who speaks freely on a topic of consequence is now responsible for nut jobs doing a nut thing because they believed lies.
00:47:07.000Okay, but here is Michelle Obama continuing, because she has some answers for you.
00:47:10.000She has some suggested ways that we can prevent this in the future.
00:47:13.000She says, it left me with so many questions, questions about the future, questions about security, extremism, propaganda, and more.
00:47:19.000But there's one question I can't shake.
00:47:20.000What if those rioters had looked like the folks who go to Ebenezer Baptist Church every Sunday?
00:47:30.000We do, because we watched what happened over the summer.
00:47:32.00016 to 25 million Americans protesting.
00:47:34.000And the police basically laid off of them.
00:47:37.000This summer's Black Lives... They keep saying things like, oh, 14,000 people were arrested over the course of the protests.
00:47:42.000Oh, you mean the months-long protests slash riots?
00:47:45.000There were 500 riots all across the country, statistically speaking.
00:47:48.000There were 16 to 25 million people who were involved in the protests.
00:47:55.000Okay, in any case, she says, this summer's Black Lives Matter protests were an overwhelmingly peaceful movement.
00:47:59.000Right, so here's the revisionist history.
00:48:01.000Our nation's largest demonstrations ever, bringing together people of every race and class, encouraging millions to reexamine their own assumptions and behavior.
00:48:07.000And yet, in city after city, day after day, we saw peaceful protesters met with brute force.
00:48:12.000We saw cracked skulls and mass arrests, law enforcement pepper spraying its way through a peaceful demonstration for a presidential photo op.
00:48:18.000And for those who call others unpatriotic for simply taking a knee in silent protest, for those who wonder why we need to be reminded that black lives matter at all.
00:48:24.000Yesterday made it painfully clear that certain Americans, in fact, are allowed to denigrate the flag and symbols of our nation.
00:48:29.000They've just got to look the right way.
00:48:45.000And it's insulting to the intelligence, and it's insulting to the American people.
00:48:49.000It's insulting, by the way, to suggest that the cops were vicious and brutal with Black Lives Matter protesters all over the country.
00:48:55.000Again, 16 to 25 million people marched.
00:48:58.000By the way, I can say both, can I not?
00:49:03.000I can say that it is unpatriotic and terrible and un-American, as I have, to storm at the Capitol building, to interrupt the process.
00:49:09.000I've called it insurrectionary because it is.
00:49:11.000I can also say that taking a knee for the American flag to suggest that America stands for systemic barbarity and racism is also not a pro-America sentiment.
00:49:23.000But it's one and not the other when it comes to Democrats.
00:49:26.000What do these folks have to say now, says Michelle Obama?
00:49:28.000Seeing the gulf between the responses to yesterday's riot and the summer's peaceful protests and the larger movement for racial justice is so painful, it hurts.
00:49:34.000And I cannot think about moving on or turning a page, uh-huh.
00:49:37.000Until we reckon with the reality of what we saw yesterday, true progress will be possible only once we acknowledge that this disconnect exists and take steps to repair it.
00:49:45.000And that means coming to grips with the reality that millions voted for a man so obviously willing to burn our democracy down for his ego.
00:49:51.000Ah, every single person who voted for Trump is in favor of people storming the Capitol building.
00:49:57.000So we've got both messages now, right?
00:49:58.000We've got the message that the cops are racist and America is racist, and also that every single person who voted for Trump, every single person who didn't vote for Joe Biden, every single one of those people is deplorable and awful and evil.
00:50:11.000I hurt for our country, says Michelle Obama.
00:50:14.000I wish I had the confidence that people who know better will act like it for more than a news cycle or two.
00:50:19.000All I know is that now is a time for true patriotism.
00:50:22.000Now is the time for those who voted for this president to see the reality of what they've enabled and publicly and forcefully rebuke him and the actions of that mob.
00:50:29.000Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior and go even further than they already have by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection.
00:51:04.000She says, together, John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock will give control of Congress back to the only party that's shown it can put democracy above its own short-term political fortunes.
00:51:12.000She's literally, literally undermining comedy and unity in the Republic in order to benefit Democrats' short-term political fortunes.
00:51:25.000We'll hold tight to our values by banning people.
00:51:26.000It's not just Michelle Obama, of course.
00:51:30.000Oliver Darcy over at CNN, he puts out a social media newsletter and he had these paragraphs.
00:51:37.000He says, we regularly discuss what big tech companies have done to poison the public conversation by providing large platforms to bad faith actors who lie, mislead and promote conspiracy theories.
00:51:46.000What about TV companies that provide platforms to networks like Newsmax, One America News, and yes, Fox News?
00:51:52.000So now Oliver is calling for TV companies to ban the distribution of Fox News on the basis of this.
00:51:59.000He says, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, and others are responsible for the lies they peddle to their audiences, but the TV companies that beam them into millions of homes around the country also bear some responsibility, and yet we rarely, if ever, talk about them.
00:52:10.000It is time TV carriers face questions for lending their platforms to dishonest companies that profit off of disinformation and conspiracy theories.
00:52:17.000Oh, you mean like dishonest companies like, I don't know, CNN?
00:52:21.000CNN, which spent years promoting the idea that Donald Trump was a Russian plant.
00:52:27.000The Washington Post put out an editorial saying much of the same kind of stuff.
00:52:32.000They say that we now need to stop the spread of misinformation on social media.
00:52:37.000The burden rests with the sites that allowed bad actors to warp the worlds of so many citizens.
00:52:41.000They must stop the spread of misinformation.
00:52:43.000According to clear rules that stem from clear principles, they must promote accurate information in the manner the evidence tells us is most likely to persuade.
00:52:49.000Both of these undertakings will likely require some trial and error.
00:52:54.000It's almost as though the same exact solution that the left has always called for, namely repressive tolerance, shutting down other points of view, is now going to be extended.
00:53:01.000To meet this supposed this supposed crisis, right?
00:53:05.000That's that's what's going to happen, right?
00:53:08.000Joy Behar makes it even clearer because, of course, she's basically take all of the Democratic talking and you boil it down to one bumper sticker.
00:55:04.000Alrighty, so it's been an incredibly, incredibly rough week.
00:55:07.000Like a very, very rough week for the country, a very rough week for conservatives, and for people who like basic rights and civility and decency.
00:55:17.000So let's end with a little bit of Bible talk here.
00:55:19.000So this week, the Jews, right, as I explain every week, the Jews read a portion of the Bible every single week.
00:55:26.000And the portion of the Bible that they read this week is the portion that begins the Book of Exodus.
00:55:31.000In Hebrew, the Book of Exodus is known as the Book of Shmos, or Shmot, and the Book of Exodus begins with the story of Moses.
00:55:41.000And so I want to focus in for a second on the portion of this week's Parsha about the burning bush.
00:55:47.000So here's what the Bible has to say about when Moses comes essentially face-to-face with God, or at least face-to-bush, or face-to-burning bush with God.
00:56:13.000When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called him out of the bush, Moses, Moses, and he answered, Here I am.
00:56:20.000So to understand what's going on here, you have to understand that the basic idea of the burning bush is you have a material thing, a thing that is temporary and of this world, and there's a flame that should be consuming it, but the thing is not consumed.
00:56:31.000This is a signification of the eternal.
00:56:33.000Time moves on, time destroys, but there are certain things that are not destroyed, and that certain thing is God.
00:56:40.000And Moses is answering in the language of supplication, right?
00:56:42.000He says, hineni, which is the same sort of language that Abraham uses with regard to God when God calls him to make a sacrifice of his son Isaac.
00:56:49.000The Bible continues, God said, do not come closer, remove your sandals from your feet for the place on which you stand is holy ground.
00:56:55.000I am, said God, the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.
00:56:59.000Moses hit his face for he was afraid to look at God.
00:57:01.000And the Lord continued, I've marked well the plight of my people in Egypt.
00:57:04.000I've heeded their outcry because of their taskmasters.
00:57:05.000Yes, I am mindful of their sufferings.
00:57:08.000I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians.
00:57:12.000Okay, and then Moses says to God, when I come to the Israelites and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent you and they ask me, what is his name?
00:57:20.000And so in the Bible, names have deep meaning.
00:57:23.000In the Bible, names are supposed to convey something true about the person.
00:57:27.000That's why in the Bible so often you'll see somebody named and it'll explain the meaning of the name.
00:57:30.000Like when we pick, we do the same thing with our kids.
00:57:32.000When we pick a name for our children, we try to encapsulate a meaning for the child that we hope for their life or their relationship with God.
00:57:39.000So, the same thing is true in the Bible with regard to names.
00:57:41.000So, there's very, there's several different names of God that are used in the Bible.
00:57:45.000And the name that God suggests be used here is actually, this is the only time I'm aware that it's used anywhere in the Bible.
00:57:51.000The name that God suggests to Moses be used with regard to the Jews in Egypt.
00:57:57.000So, Moses says, what should I say your name is?
00:58:31.000Okay, so the Talmud discusses what the meaning of this is, and the idea is, I will be a savior for you now, and I will be a savior for you in the future, right?
00:58:59.000And then God says further to Moses, you shall speak to them and say, the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent me to you.
00:59:40.000Right, what you need to keep in mind when you're in a dark period is not, eh-heh-yeah, sure, eh-heh-yeah, that God is gonna help you now, and there are gonna be tough times in the future, and he's gonna help you then, too.
00:59:49.000What you need to remember is that right now, in the darkest periods, God is there for us.
01:00:13.000And down the road, there will be more bad things.
01:00:15.000But just remember that for right now, the same God that brought us, the United States, through the Revolutionary War, that brought us through the Civil War, the same God that helped the United States overcome the tyranny of the Nazis, the same God that helped the United States overcome the hatred in its own heart, The evils of segregation and Jim Crow.
01:00:33.000That same God is going to help us overcome evils that we see in our own hearts, the divisions of our own country.
01:00:39.000God is gonna help us overcome that now.
01:00:42.000And what comes later, God will be there for that too.
01:00:43.000But the important thing is, remember right now, it's not that all hope is lost, it's that maybe we're putting our hope in the wrong place.
01:00:50.000Okay, we'll be back here a little bit later next week, and with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show later today.
01:00:56.000In the meantime, go check out The Michael Molls Show, that is available right now.
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