The Ben Shapiro Show - President Houseplant’s Big Blowout Bonanza | Ep. 1213

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00:00:24.000 Slash, Ben, a lot to get to today.

00:00:25.000 We're going to get to it in just one second.

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00:01:42.000 Okay, so...

00:01:43.000 Here's the good news.

00:01:44.000 The good news is it is pretty clear at this point, pretty obvious at this point, that as soon as you get the vaccine, as soon as that vaccine kicks in, you know, two weeks, three weeks a month in, you should be able to go back to your regular life.

00:01:54.000 This is becoming more and more obvious every single day.

00:01:57.000 Now, members of our government are trying to prolong the agony because, again, this agony is being used by President Houseplant and crew.

00:02:04.000 In order to push forward the broadest spending bills in American history, and they want to do more.

00:02:08.000 But the reality is that we are now in the waning days of the pandemic.

00:02:11.000 According to Pfizer, they say that real world data from Israel suggests their vaccine is now 94% effective.

00:02:18.000 94% effective in preventing asymptomatic infections, meaning that the vaccine could significantly reduce transmission, according to Reuters.

00:02:25.000 Also, Pfizer says that the real-world data out of Israel shows its vaccine effectiveness is 97% in preventing symptomatic disease, all symptomatic disease, as well as severe critical disease and death.

00:02:37.000 Their release notes that 80% of the tested specimens in Israel were the Apparently very, very scary B.1.1.7 UK variant.

00:02:43.000 So you've heard all about these variants, the Mexican variant and the UK variant and the South African variant.

00:02:48.000 The evidence thus far shows that the vaccine is extremely effective against the virus.

00:02:52.000 And let's be real about this.

00:02:53.000 Even if it were not, we eventually are going to have to go back to our daily lives.

00:02:56.000 We're eventually going to have to go back to work.

00:02:57.000 This cannot last interminably.

00:02:59.000 And by the way, we are now drawing near the end.

00:03:02.000 We're at the lowest infection rates since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:03:04.000 We are not seeing upticks.

00:03:06.000 Spring break is happening in Florida.

00:03:07.000 We're not seeing upticks in Florida.

00:03:09.000 If there are upticks, it's among people who are young and relatively invulnerable to COVID-19.

00:03:14.000 The vaccines are going out at an extraordinary rate, a couple million a day at this point.

00:03:18.000 We have now apparently purchased, according to the Washington Post, four times the number of vaccines as the number of adults in the United States.

00:03:26.000 Because I don't know what we're going to use all those extra vaccines for.

00:03:28.000 Theoretically, we could just give them to allies, or we could tranche them out as booster shots or whatever, but here's the reality.

00:03:34.000 We're at the end of this thing, okay?

00:03:35.000 We're now very close to the end of this thing, and the data are clear.

00:03:38.000 Once you get the vaccine, you should be able to take off the mask, and you should be able to hang out with whoever you want, whether or not they are vaccinated.

00:03:44.000 And if somebody chooses not to get vaccinated, that is their own problem.

00:03:47.000 If they then get infected, that is their problem.

00:03:49.000 But people who are vaccinated should feel pretty invulnerable to COVID because statistically speaking, they are pretty invulnerable to COVID.

00:03:55.000 You know who acknowledges this?

00:03:57.000 The CDC, who have been lying to you.

00:03:58.000 So the CDC will say that if you've been vaccinated, you shouldn't fly.

00:04:01.000 The CDC will say that if you've been vaccinated, you shouldn't get together with large groups of other vaccinated people.

00:04:06.000 The CDC will say to you that you should not get together with people who are unvaccinated in larger than one family groups. 0.99

00:04:12.000 All that is crap. 0.99

00:04:13.000 You know how I know that's crap? 0.99

00:04:14.000 Because the CDC says that if you're vaccinated and you're in a room with a person who then tests COVID positive, you don't even have to quarantine. 0.97

00:04:22.000 Which means they're not worried about you transmitting it to others or getting infected.

00:04:25.000 Which means that this thing is over for the people who are vaccinated.

00:04:28.000 And we all know it, and now everybody's just lying about it in the media, at the CDC.

00:04:32.000 They're all lying about this because they would prefer that the COVID crisis be prolonged so that they can, quote, build back better.

00:04:38.000 This is now being used as an excuse, as it has been for the last couple of months by the Democrats, in order to push forward world-beating change.

00:04:45.000 Gavin Newsom admitted this in California.

00:04:47.000 He said, the recovery is not just going to be a recovery.

00:04:49.000 It's going to be world.

00:04:50.000 We're going to change everything about the way California works, meaning we're going to blow out the spending, meaning we're going to blow out the taxation, because now is the opportunity for us to push our quote unquote equitable solutions.

00:05:00.000 Now, you may have noticed this pattern before from the political left.

00:05:03.000 The political left has been using climate change as their big bugaboo in order to scare people into vast redistributionist policies that crack down on free markets and free individual rights.

00:05:12.000 The idea is that climate change is such a vast threat to the American population, and to the global population, that we need to sacrifice all of our rights, all of our economic freedoms, our prosperity, in order to stop this vast threat.

00:05:23.000 The thing is, most people across the world don't actually agree with that.

00:05:26.000 Most people are not into that.

00:05:27.000 Particularly in the developing world, where they would just like to, you know, not burn dung for fuel.

00:05:32.000 They would like to live past the age of 50.

00:05:35.000 In those places, it seems like carbon-based fuels, pretty good idea.

00:05:38.000 One of the great inventions of mankind, carbon-based fuels.

00:05:41.000 But now that climate change has proved itself not to be enough of an impetus for the sort of socialistic change that our new ruling class would like, they've decided that COVID is the impetus for that.

00:05:50.000 And so they're going to prolong this as long as they humanly can.

00:05:53.000 There's no reason for Joe Biden to be walking around with a mask.

00:05:56.000 He's vaccinated.

00:05:57.000 If Joe Biden really wanted to get past the pandemic at this point, he would be taking off the mask and telling everybody else that you can do that once you've been vaccinated for a month.

00:06:05.000 But President Houseplant, this barely sentient human, is going to be giving a speech tonight.

00:06:09.000 I don't even know how he's going to give the speech tonight.

00:06:11.000 I mean, you watch him on camera, and I, honest to God, I do not know how they think that this man is going to give a speech.

00:06:17.000 He might be able to sustain it for like 10 minutes, but any longer than that, and it's going to be a problem for him.

00:06:23.000 It's gonna be quick cuts, like an MTV music video from 1987.

00:06:25.000 It's just gonna be like one shot of him saying a word, and then another shot of him saying a word, and then they'll string it all together, and they'll put a little bit of soft guitar music underneath to make you feel like they did it all in one shot.

00:06:36.000 But President Houseplant is a friendly face for the sort of radical change that we are watching Democrats implement on the back of lies about the continuation of a crisis.

00:06:44.000 This is not a crisis anymore.

00:06:45.000 We are not in crisis.

00:06:47.000 I'm living in Florida.

00:06:48.000 In California, they're still treating this as a crisis, even though the crisis is waning.

00:06:52.000 In Florida, it is not a crisis.

00:06:54.000 It hasn't been a crisis for a long time.

00:06:55.000 When I say crisis, I mean ICUs being overwhelmed.

00:06:58.000 I mean vast numbers of people outside of old age homes which are protected in places like Florida dying.

00:07:03.000 I mean all of the businesses being shut.

00:07:06.000 This has not been a crisis for many weeks at this point.

00:07:09.000 And Florida's been open since the summer.

00:07:11.000 The rest of America is opening up.

00:07:13.000 The crisis is waning.

00:07:14.000 The crisis is, like, this close to being over.

00:07:17.000 Okay, that is what the science says, and I follow the science and the data, not to-science, which is politically driven nonsense, being pushed, by the way, by supposed scientific minds like Rochelle Walensky at the CDC, who's just doing the bidding of the Biden administration, and Dr. Anthony Fauci over at the NIAID, who is over there doing the Biden administration's bidding.

00:07:36.000 They're not following the science.

00:07:38.000 They're following the politics.

00:07:39.000 Because you watch, Joe Biden, president of House Plans, is supposed to sign into law this giant quote-unquote COVID relief package that has nothing to do with COVID.

00:07:47.000 He's going to sign that on Friday.

00:07:49.000 By Monday, they'll be talking about how hope is on the horizon and how we can all get back to our regular lives.

00:07:54.000 Remember, some of us predicted this as early as January.

00:07:56.000 What I said, you can go back, you can find the tape, what I said is that we were already going to be on the wane by late January, by the time he took office, and then he was going to jump in front of the parade, declare universal masking, people were going to give him credit, the vaccines were already going to be going out, people were going to then give Biden credit, and then he was going to declare the COVID pandemic over once he had ran through some change.

00:08:15.000 So, that prediction looks pretty good today.

00:08:19.000 But the fundamental point is still this.

00:08:21.000 We don't actually need this giant blockbuster spending bill.

00:08:24.000 We don't need all of this giant, enormous Keynesian spending in order to recover, given the fact that this entire economic depression was caused artificially by government shutdowns.

00:08:34.000 It was caused artificially by an extraneous shock, namely the virus.

00:08:38.000 And once the virus is on the wane, everybody's going to go back to business.

00:08:41.000 And guess what?

00:08:42.000 Before the virus, we had the most booming economy that we'd had in this country for half a century.

00:08:46.000 And yet that's what needs fundamental change.

00:08:48.000 They're not trying to change what the situation was during COVID.

00:08:50.000 They're trying to change the situation before COVID, when we had the best economy that we have had in 50 years.

00:08:56.000 With serious wage growth, particularly at the bottom of the economic spectrum.

00:09:00.000 With high employment rates for minority communities.

00:09:02.000 They're trying to change that.

00:09:03.000 That's what they're trying to change.

00:09:04.000 And they're using COVID as an excuse.

00:09:06.000 And that is why they refuse to acknowledge the obvious, which is that COVID is basically over at this point.

00:09:10.000 It is not only on the way and we are like this far from it being over.

00:09:13.000 I'm gonna keep saying that over and over until people get it through their heads.

00:09:15.000 Because I understand we all have a psychological block now.

00:09:18.000 I understand that we have this psychological block about, oh no, can I even see other people?

00:09:21.000 Am I going to get back to normal?

00:09:22.000 The answer is yes.

00:09:23.000 Get out there.

00:09:24.000 Get back to normal after you've had the vaccine.

00:09:25.000 End of story.

00:09:26.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:10:27.000 Okay, so it's not just me saying this about the waning of the pandemic.

00:10:33.000 Dr. Marty Makary, who's been a guest on this program many times from Johns Hopkins University, has a piece today in the Wall Street Journal, and he says that basically, after you've had this thing for a month, the vaccine, you're done.

00:10:44.000 He says the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has lost a lot of credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic by being late or wrong on testing masks, vaccine allocation, and school reopening.

00:10:52.000 Staying consistent with that pattern this week, three months after the vaccine rollout began, the CDC finally started telling vaccinated people they can have normal interactions with other vaccinated people, but only in highly limited circumstances.

00:11:03.000 Given the impressive effectiveness of the vaccine, that should have been immediately obvious by applying scientific inference and common sense.

00:11:09.000 Part of the new guidelines are absurdly restrictive.

00:11:11.000 For example, the CDC did not withdraw its advice to avoid air travel after vaccination.

00:11:15.000 A year of pre-vaccine experience has demonstrated that airplanes are not a source of spread.

00:11:20.000 The guidelines do approve of vaccinated people meeting with low-risk unvaccinated ones, but only with people from the same household and in a small private setting.

00:11:26.000 So much for restaurants, birthday parties, and weddings. 0.67

00:11:28.000 An unpublished study conducted by the Israeli Health Ministry and Pfizer shows vaccination reduced transmission by 89 to 94% and almost totally prevented hospitalization and death, according to press reports.

00:11:38.000 Immunity kicks in fully about four weeks after the first vaccine dose, and then you're essentially bulletproof.

00:11:43.000 With the added safety of wearing a mask indoors for a few more weeks or months, a practical necessity in public places, even if not a medical one, since you can't tell on sight if somebody is immune, there's little a vaccinated person should be discouraged from doing.

00:11:54.000 On a positive note, the CDC did say that fully vaccinated people who are asymptomatic don't need to be tested.

00:11:59.000 But that obvious recommendation should have come two months ago, before wasting so many tests on people who have high levels of circulating antibodies from vaccination.

00:12:06.000 In its guidance, the CDC says the risks of infection in vaccinated people, quote, cannot be completely eliminated.

00:12:11.000 True, we don't have conclusive data that guarantees vaccination reduces risks to zero, because we never will.

00:12:16.000 We're operating in the realm of medical discretion based on the best available data, as practicing physicians have always done.

00:12:21.000 The CDC highlights the vaccine's stunning success, but is ridiculously cautious about its implications.

00:12:26.000 The CDC acknowledges potential risks of isolation but doesn't go into details.

00:12:30.000 It's time to liberate vaccinated people to restore their relationships and rebuild their lives that would encourage vaccination by giving hesitant people a vivid incentive to have the shots.

00:12:39.000 As people yearn to be with their loved ones and rebuild communities, we shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the past.

00:12:43.000 We can't exaggerate the public health threat as we did with hospital visitation rules and keep crushing the human spirit with overly restrictive policies for vaccinated Americans.

00:12:51.000 He says, what am I allowed to do after I've been vaccinated?

00:12:54.000 Once a month has passed after your first shot, go back to normal.

00:12:56.000 Dr. Marty Makary writing that.

00:12:59.000 He happens to be correct.

00:13:00.000 But again, the goal here for the Democrats is to never let go of this.

00:13:04.000 We saw Nancy Pelosi yesterday literally saying that she wants another tranche of spending. 1.00

00:13:08.000 She wants another tranche of spending because you never know what the virus is going to do. 1.00

00:13:13.000 But let's be real about this.

00:13:14.000 The Democrats have been using this virus as an excuse to pass a completely unnecessary bill.

00:13:17.000 It is completely unnecessary.

00:13:19.000 The vast majority of the funding is going to people who did not lose their jobs.

00:13:22.000 The vast majority of the funding is going By the way, not even to individual American citizens.

00:13:27.000 It's going to bailouts for union pension funds.

00:13:29.000 It's going to bailouts for states and localities that blew out their own budgets.

00:13:32.000 And who, by the way, have not lost tax revenue during this downturn because the first relief bills actually increased tax revenues in certain states.

00:13:41.000 But Nancy Pelosi is super happy about this. 0.98

00:13:42.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday saying, this is the most consequential legislation of our lifetime.

00:13:46.000 She's not wrong about this, by the way.

00:13:47.000 Okay, this is very consequential legislation.

00:13:49.000 It sets up brand new entitlement programs that quote-unquote only last a year, but are designed to last far longer.

00:13:54.000 It creates essentially incentives, the old welfare incentives, to have kids out of wedlock because, again, you get paid by the government to have kids.

00:14:03.000 Not only do you get paid by the government to have kids, there are no restrictions with regard to having a job or not having a job.

00:14:09.000 There are no work requirements.

00:14:10.000 There's nothing that encourages marriage anywhere in there.

00:14:14.000 Not only that, again, this is a giant bailout for states that have blown out their own pocketbooks.

00:14:20.000 It is a bonanza used car sales lemon.

00:14:24.000 That's all this thing is.

00:14:25.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi calling it the most consequential legislation of our lifetime. 0.92

00:14:30.000 I think I can safely say, and I've said this to my colleagues in the House on the Democratic side, this is the most consequential legislation that many of us will ever be a party to.

00:14:43.000 Who knows what the future may bring?

00:14:45.000 But nonetheless, on this day, we celebrate because we are honoring a promise made by our president I was rejoined with him and promising that help is on the way.

00:14:58.000 By the way, help should have been on the way in, I don't know, August.

00:15:02.000 OK, the reality is that there were covid relief packages passed all the way in bipartisan fashion during the Trump administration.

00:15:08.000 This was passed along pure party lines.

00:15:09.000 Why?

00:15:10.000 Because the pandemic is basically over.

00:15:12.000 OK, the pandemic is is done.

00:15:13.000 OK, now we are spending one point nine trillion dollars, more money than has ever been seen by God or man.

00:15:20.000 Spending money that has not yet been created.

00:15:22.000 We are spending all of that money to do what?

00:15:25.000 To do what?

00:15:26.000 We are now actively encouraging people not to go back to work.

00:15:28.000 We are providing enhanced unemployment incentives that go all the way until September.

00:15:32.000 September? 0.96

00:15:34.000 Are you insane? 0.99

00:15:35.000 September? 0.97

00:15:36.000 Again, we have the lowest rates of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:15:42.000 I would say at this point, most states are wide open for business.

00:15:45.000 The unemployment rate in places that have remained wide open, like South Dakota, is like 3%.

00:15:49.000 By the way, the national unemployment rate is 6.3%, which is not wonderful, but it's certainly not crisis levels.

00:15:53.000 We're not talking about the 20% that we were at even a few months ago.

00:15:57.000 Now is the time we need to spend $1.9 trillion on a bunch of nonsense.

00:16:00.000 Now, naturally, this is popular.

00:16:01.000 If you send people checks, that's popular.

00:16:03.000 But over time, what's going to be shown is that it doesn't actually raise people out of poverty to just send them checks.

00:16:08.000 That has never been a solution.

00:16:09.000 The War on Poverty tried this with $22 trillion worth of checks over the past several decades.

00:16:14.000 It has not lowered the poverty rate in the United States.

00:16:18.000 You can't just sign people checks and then hope that's going to cure poverty.

00:16:21.000 That is not how poverty gets cured.

00:16:23.000 There are steps to escape poverty, but those steps, generally speaking, are reliant on individual decision-making, like don't have kids out of wedlock, finish high school, and get a job.

00:16:32.000 By the way, if you follow those steps, you will not spend your life in poverty.

00:16:35.000 Statistically speaking, according to the left-wing Brookings Institute.

00:16:39.000 So what exactly does this bill do?

00:16:41.000 Well, it blows out the national debt, obviously.

00:16:42.000 I know we don't care about this.

00:16:43.000 I know in bipartisan fashion, we no longer care about the national debt.

00:16:46.000 And I'm not going to pretend that I'm sanguine about Republicans who completely waived all of their duty when it came to blowing out the national debt when Trump was president.

00:16:54.000 They blew out the national debt.

00:16:55.000 They spent $4 trillion a year, Republicans did, because Trump did not care about cutting spending.

00:16:59.000 And now Biden's answer to that is, well, what if we go to $6 trillion a year?

00:17:03.000 That's what he wants.

00:17:04.000 He doesn't just want another $2 trillion spent here.

00:17:07.000 That's, by the way, on the side of the $4 trillion budget, not inclusive of the $4 trillion budget.

00:17:12.000 So we're already at $6 trillion.

00:17:13.000 He wants to spend another $2 trillion on infrastructure.

00:17:15.000 So he wants to double, double the budget in the middle of a non-pandemic, because we are not in the middle of a pandemic anymore, guys.

00:17:23.000 We're not.

00:17:24.000 So we are going to double the national debt, essentially, or at least the household national debt.

00:17:29.000 Over the past year, over the past year, The pandemic, coupled with its effects on the economy, led to an unprecedented amount of federal spending, according to Heritage Foundation.

00:17:39.000 In fiscal year 2020, it was over $50,000 per household.

00:17:43.000 This year, we can expect another $45,000 per household.

00:17:47.000 The total national debt has risen to $27.9 trillion.

00:17:50.000 That is more than $215,000 per household.

00:17:53.000 And by the way, a lot of households don't pay tax, which means that if you're one of the 50% of households that do pay tax, your actual share of the national debt is more like $430,000.

00:18:02.000 And if you do it by actually tranching out the tax rates, if you're at the top end of the spectrum, you owe millions of dollars to the federal government.

00:18:12.000 Congress is just blowing out the spending.

00:18:14.000 It doesn't actually care about COVID relief, obviously, because, again, the amount that's actually spent on quote-unquote COVID-19 relief for public health is like 10% of the package.

00:18:24.000 It is a massive spend on teachers unions who have not reopened their schools.

00:18:29.000 It spends money all the way up until 2026.

00:18:31.000 It spends more money on schools in 2026 than 2021.

00:18:33.000 It's the same about the pandemic.

00:18:37.000 It also blows out welfare expansion, right?

00:18:40.000 It completely reverses Decades of attempts to curb the welfare state.

00:18:46.000 According to the Heritage Foundation, the legislation includes benefit increases and expansions for a variety of safety net programs, including unemployment insurance, Affordable Care Act subsidies, the earned income tax credit, which will now be going to people who did not actually pay taxes, cash welfare payments, and much, much more.

00:19:00.000 It also destroys incentives to find work, marry, or increase earnings.

00:19:04.000 Now again, I understand the argument that you want women staying home with kids as opposed to working, because it's better for kids not to be in daycare. 0.98

00:19:12.000 That's an argument that's now being made by people on the left.

00:19:13.000 Women should have the option to stay home more with their kids if they're single moms and such. 1.00

00:19:16.000 But we should have incentives that actually encourage people to get married.

00:19:20.000 Okay, marriage is a solution to poverty. 0.98

00:19:22.000 Staying home on a government check is not a solution to poverty, as it turns out.

00:19:26.000 It gives giant handouts to special interests, $90 billion from the general public to pad out pension plans.

00:19:32.000 That is directly oriented toward big labor.

00:19:35.000 $57 billion going toward transportation in a way that privileges unionized workers.

00:19:41.000 Overall, $500 billion that is generally directed toward paying off Democratic political allies.

00:19:47.000 And by the way, these stimulus checks, they're not going to actually cure whatever economic problems ail the United States.

00:19:53.000 Again, most Americans still have jobs.

00:19:55.000 The vast majority of Americans are still employed.

00:19:57.000 And that's going to get better, not worse, as we reopen the economy.

00:20:00.000 And yet we're giving all these people who are already employed $1,400 a pop.

00:20:04.000 I understand why you like it.

00:20:05.000 I would like it too if I were receiving $1,400 in free money.

00:20:09.000 But no money is free money.

00:20:10.000 And money doesn't just grow on trees, contrary to popular modern monetary theory opinion.

00:20:16.000 By the way, people have extraordinary savings rates right now.

00:20:19.000 We are paying off our credit card debt.

00:20:20.000 That's what we're using the money for right now.

00:20:23.000 These are not stimulative, because again, the way that you stimulate the economy is by creating new products and services.

00:20:29.000 And you stimulate demand by reopening your economy.

00:20:30.000 Okay, so this is a giant boondoggle, this bill.

00:20:33.000 An enormous boondoggle.

00:20:34.000 But what is this really about?

00:20:36.000 It's really about the politics of the situation.

00:20:37.000 So Joe Biden says everything in the bill addresses a real need, which of course is a lie.

00:20:41.000 It is a lie.

00:20:42.000 The vast majority of this bill does not address a real need.

00:20:45.000 For the one millionth time, the economic shortfall this year is supposed to be at $450 billion, thanks to COVID.

00:20:51.000 This bill is more than four times that amount in spending.

00:20:54.000 Here's Joe Biden being incoherent.

00:20:57.000 Everything in the American Rescue Plan addresses a real need, including investments to fund our entire vaccination effort, more vaccines, more vaccinators, and more vaccination sites.

00:21:11.000 Millions more Americans will get tested, including home testing.

00:21:15.000 Schools will soon have the funding and resources to reopen safely, a national imperative.

00:21:22.000 The American Rescue Plan, the partnership between Johnson & Johnson and Merck, proves we can do big things, important things in this country.

00:21:31.000 Okay, all of this stuff was already underway.

00:21:33.000 Schools have been open in this country in a wide variety of states for months.

00:21:36.000 At this point, my kids have been in school all year long in Florida.

00:21:39.000 Florida never closed its schools.

00:21:41.000 As far as the notion that testing and tracing was ever going to be effective, testing and tracing was never effective throughout the pandemic in the United States.

00:21:47.000 It just was not.

00:21:48.000 I know it was portrayed as the cure-all.

00:21:50.000 It was not.

00:21:51.000 And as far as the vaccine being tranched out, that started under Trump.

00:21:54.000 It continued under Biden.

00:21:56.000 End of story.

00:21:57.000 So do you need $1.9 trillion in spending?

00:21:59.000 Of course not.

00:22:00.000 But what this is really about is about what comes next.

00:22:02.000 It's not just about this.

00:22:03.000 It's about what comes next.

00:22:05.000 It's about now we're in a new era of hope.

00:22:07.000 Hope has broken out on the horizon.

00:22:08.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:23:26.000 Okay, so, this massive Democrat-only bill is very popular, but not only that, it is the turning point in how we speak about COVID.

00:23:36.000 Some of us have been saying, COVID's on the way.

00:23:38.000 That's why this bill is unnecessary.

00:23:39.000 Mitch McConnell says this, right?

00:23:40.000 Senate Minority Leader, thanks to the complete fussery.

00:23:44.000 By the way, you thought those Georgia Senate seats didn't matter?

00:23:46.000 Yeah, they mattered a little bit because now we have established these giant new entitlement programs that are gonna be extraordinarily hard to roll back as we blow out the debt for all time.

00:23:53.000 Here is Mitch McConnell saying, if the economy booms, this is gonna have nothing to do with it, which happens to be correct because the economy was booming before COVID.

00:23:59.000 The economy will boom after COVID.

00:24:01.000 Let's just all go back to our regular lives.

00:24:03.000 And I don't know, not spend money that has never been created.

00:24:06.000 Not borrow trillions of dollars from foreign creditors.

00:24:09.000 Here's Mitch McConnell saying this.

00:24:10.000 He's ripped up and down for this, of course.

00:24:13.000 We're doing damage to the future of this country by spending dramatically more money than we obviously need at this particular point, at which time the economy is coming back.

00:24:28.000 People are getting vaccine.

00:24:30.000 We're on the way out of this.

00:24:31.000 We're about to have a boom.

00:24:33.000 And if we do have a boom, it will have absolutely nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion.

00:24:39.000 That is exactly right.

00:24:41.000 But again, the media will never let this happen, right?

00:24:43.000 Whatever boom happens from now on, they're gonna credit Biden with.

00:24:46.000 Now, again, I predicted this last year.

00:24:47.000 I said that it was a high likelihood that after COVID was over, there was gonna be this big economic boom, that Biden was gonna take advantage of the economic boom to put in place a bunch of crappy, radical policy that completely undermine the American economy.

00:24:58.000 So what you're gonna see is the next couple of years are gonna be a spending spree.

00:25:02.000 Everybody's gonna go nuts.

00:25:03.000 They're gonna go wild.

00:25:04.000 There'll be price inflation over the course of time.

00:25:06.000 It's already starting to happen.

00:25:07.000 Because demand is starting to return because people are going back to their regular lives.

00:25:11.000 And then the effects of this economic policy is going to be felt.

00:25:13.000 Then you're going to feel it.

00:25:14.000 But it's not immediate.

00:25:15.000 It could take a few years for all of this to kick in because it usually takes the economy a few years for these sorts of massive spending efforts to kick in.

00:25:21.000 You see this in the 1960s.

00:25:22.000 You can see the growth rates throughout the beginning of the LBJ term.

00:25:25.000 And then by the end of the LBJ term, they're starting to wane.

00:25:27.000 And by the 1970s, the growth rates have basically petered out.

00:25:30.000 It takes a little while to feel When you have completely botched the entire American economy, but that's exactly what we're doing right now.

00:25:36.000 It's just going to take a little while for us to get there.

00:25:38.000 And now Joe Biden has declared, of course, as you would expect, that now that he got his legislative priority, his big win, now there's hope.

00:25:45.000 So there wasn't hope a week ago when it was perfectly obvious that COVID was ending.

00:25:49.000 No, now there's hope because obviously, obviously things are different now because he got what he wanted.

00:25:54.000 Because for months at this point, it has been perfectly obvious this thing was coming to an end.

00:25:58.000 And it was just a question of can they sneak in under the wire and spend more money than has ever been created?

00:26:04.000 There is light at the end of this dark tunnel in the past year.

00:26:08.000 But we cannot let our guard down now or assume that victory is inevitable.

00:26:14.000 Together, we're going to get through this pandemic and usher in a healthier and more hopeful future.

00:26:20.000 So there is real reason for hope, folks.

00:26:23.000 There's real reason for hope.

00:26:24.000 I promise you.

00:26:25.000 Oh, well, amazing.

00:26:26.000 That is a different message than we've heard from Joe Biden.

00:26:29.000 For the last several months, it's been a doom and gloom are coming.

00:26:32.000 Doom and gloom.

00:26:33.000 You know, doom and gloom.

00:26:35.000 We're all going to...

00:26:39.000 It's been all darkness and dim and then they pass a bill that he wants and suddenly hope is a happy days are here again.

00:26:50.000 Can everybody see how transparent this is?

00:26:51.000 It's unbelievably transparent.

00:26:54.000 Clearly transparent.

00:26:56.000 And Democrats, of course, are excited about this.

00:26:58.000 They're ignoring the fact that there are economic risks to all of us, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:27:01.000 Here is Chuck Schumer saying, help is on the way.

00:27:03.000 Now, whenever Chuck Schumer says help is on the way, reach for your wallet, because right now they're inflating your wallet.

00:27:08.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:27:09.000 They take with one hand from you and they give with the other.

00:27:12.000 But what they take is usually more than what they give.

00:27:14.000 OK, it's all fun and games until the two by four behind their back comes out.

00:27:18.000 Here is Chuck Schumer.

00:27:20.000 So what do we say to America?

00:27:22.000 We say to America, help is on the way.

00:27:25.000 Help is on the way.

00:27:26.000 You will receive $1,400 checks by the end of March.

00:27:30.000 Help is on the way.

00:27:32.000 Vaccines will be available far more quickly to far more people in a shorter time.

00:27:39.000 Help is on the way.

00:27:40.000 Our schools will open safely and more quickly than we thought.

00:27:45.000 Help is on the way.

00:27:47.000 Hey, now, here's the thing.

00:27:48.000 Again, Democrats require the presence of President Houseplant here to ram this thing through because people find him completely unthreatening.

00:27:54.000 It's the reason why they won't trot him out.

00:27:55.000 Because the more they trot him out, the more it is clear that this man is losing it.

00:27:59.000 And the fact that he is losing it means that he is not really in control of his own administration.

00:28:02.000 Yesterday, for example, Joe Biden just ignored questions on doing press conferences.

00:28:05.000 He has now gone longer than any president in 100 years, according to ABC News.

00:28:10.000 Not doing a presser.

00:28:11.000 Why?

00:28:12.000 Because he can't answer questions.

00:28:13.000 Because he's not a sentient person.

00:28:15.000 Okay? 0.84

00:28:15.000 He is a houseplant. 0.84

00:28:16.000 He is barely alive, and he is there to beautify your dining room.

00:28:19.000 That is what he is there to do for the Democrats.

00:28:21.000 He is there to make your house look slightly more colorful.

00:28:24.000 That's pretty much all.

00:28:26.000 He's hiding the water stain on the carpet.

00:28:28.000 That's what Joe Biden is.

00:28:29.000 He's a houseplant who hides the giant Democratic water stain on the carpet.

00:28:34.000 Barely alive, not providing a lot, but taking a little sunlight, letting out a little bit of oxygen.

00:28:40.000 And that's pretty much what he's there to do.

00:28:43.000 Thank you.

00:28:44.000 Mr. President, when are you going to end the American surplus?

00:28:47.000 What will you do with the surplus?

00:28:49.000 Mr. President, when will you do a press conference?

00:28:52.000 The surplus will...

00:28:55.000 If we have a surplus, we're going to share it with the rest of the world.

00:28:59.000 OK, I mean, there is.

00:29:01.000 Okay, meanwhile, what's gonna happen here?

00:29:03.000 Well, inflation is gonna be the long-term cost here.

00:29:05.000 According to the New York Times, while the Biden administration's ambitious effort to solve the pandemic's deep economic wounds made its way through Congress.

00:29:12.000 I love the way they put that.

00:29:13.000 That's all this is.

00:29:13.000 It's an attempt to solve the nation's deep economic wounds by, you know, spending a trillion dollars more than actual direct relief to the American people.

00:29:20.000 Proponents insisted that funneling $1.9 trillion to American households and businesses wouldn't unshackle a long-vanquished monster, inflation.

00:29:29.000 Officials at the Federal Reserve have said there's little cause for worry.

00:29:32.000 But as the legislation moved toward the finish line, inflation prospects increasingly influenced political commentary and Wall Street trading.

00:29:38.000 The worries reflect expectations of a rapid economic expansion as businesses reopen and the pandemic recedes.

00:29:44.000 Millions are still unemployed, layoffs remain high, but for workers with secure jobs, higher spending seems almost certain in the months ahead as vaccinations prompt Americans to get out and about, deploying savings built up over the last year.

00:29:54.000 Okay, what this does is it devalues your savings.

00:29:56.000 It causes people to spend more money, which causes prices to rise, which hurts people who are the lowest income among us, and eventually means that people who are buying American debt realize they're gonna be paid off in inflated dollars.

00:30:08.000 Because you're going to have to put dollars into the system in order to keep maintaining that system.

00:30:13.000 Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan, is among those tracking the inflation threat.

00:30:17.000 He says there's a very good chance you're going to have a gangbuster economy for the rest of the year and easily into 2022.

00:30:21.000 The question is, does that overheat everything?

00:30:23.000 In addition to the $1.9 trillion about to pour forth, Dimon said, $1 trillion in savings that piled up during the pandemic remains unspent.

00:30:32.000 There's not a shortage of money.

00:30:33.000 There's the shortage of places to spend the money.

00:30:36.000 Because people have not been out and about, but now they're out and about.

00:30:38.000 And we're pouring money into the economy anyway.

00:30:41.000 Diamond said, I wouldn't buy 10-year treasuries.

00:30:43.000 That's correct.

00:30:44.000 Why would you buy bonds?

00:30:45.000 It's going to be very hard for America to take out more debt, given the fact that we've already blown out the debt, and everybody knows we're going to inflate.

00:30:51.000 Yup, you're starting to see an uptick in mortgage rates.

00:30:53.000 unnerving days on Wall Street last week. High-flying tech stocks were particularly upended, though broad share indices remained near record highs.

00:30:59.000 Diamond said, I would suspect there's a pretty good chance you're going to see rates going up and people are starting to worry about that.

00:31:03.000 Yep, you're starting to see an uptick in mortgage rates.

00:31:06.000 Home prices have been surging, but a sustained rise in borrowing costs would almost certainly undermine that trend as well.

00:31:12.000 Eventually, you'll get the inflation and then you'll get stagnation.

00:31:16.000 That is what's going to happen over the course of the next, I would say, five to ten years, because of what we are doing right now.

00:31:21.000 And we don't care, because right now, it's good times.

00:31:24.000 But there will be a cost to this.

00:31:27.000 Plus, again, endemic poverty is not going to be cured just by signing people checks.

00:31:30.000 We have tried this before.

00:31:31.000 It is always a failure.

00:31:33.000 But the Democrats are already shifting how they talk about this.

00:31:36.000 Because they understand, Democrats do, that this is really not about COVID relief at all.

00:31:40.000 That this is about something else, completely restructuring the American economy.

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00:34:45.000 So here's the thing.

00:34:46.000 Right now, this COVID quote-unquote relief bill, which is not a COVID relief bill, is extremely popular with the American people.

00:34:51.000 Some 75% of Americans say that they love it because, of course, it's free money and because the media have been just pushing this thing like absolute crazy.

00:34:59.000 I mean, they've been saying it's the most important bill since the advent of time.

00:35:02.000 Since God invented humanity, this is the most important thing that has ever happened.

00:35:06.000 So people are very into it.

00:35:07.000 But as this thing rolls out, and as people go back to work, all they're going to remember are the downsides.

00:35:12.000 Because there will be costs to this.

00:35:14.000 Because the economy was going to go anyway.

00:35:16.000 Nobody is going to really attribute the uptick in the economy to this.

00:35:19.000 Nobody.

00:35:20.000 They might like the temporary money for a little while, but it ain't gonna last forever.

00:35:24.000 And that is why Democrats are already trying to shift the narrative.

00:35:26.000 They're trying to shift the narrative into, this is poverty fighting.

00:35:29.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:35:29.000 That's what this is.

00:35:30.000 Americans on a gut level understand that fighting poverty by just helicoptering cash to people does not actually solve poverty.

00:35:37.000 We've tried this over and over in American life.

00:35:39.000 So Democrats are in a bit of a bind here.

00:35:41.000 That's why they need COVID to continue.

00:35:42.000 If COVID doesn't continue, they can't continue to force forward all this radical policy with President Houseplan sitting here talking about how it's going to cure COVID.

00:35:50.000 The empath in chief.

00:35:51.000 That's not going to work anymore.

00:35:53.000 So they've started to push forward the idea that this is all about poverty relief, but I don't think that's going to be quite as popular.

00:35:59.000 According to the Washington Post, at first, Democrats described their $1.9 trillion stimulus as a response to a once-in-a-century economic and health emergency.

00:36:07.000 But then, language began to shift to something much different, an anti-poverty measure with few precedents in U.S.

00:36:12.000 history.

00:36:13.000 Yes, you can see what they're doing here.

00:36:15.000 Okay, but here's the thing.

00:36:16.000 It ain't going to cure poverty.

00:36:18.000 We all know this, and it's going to have a bad effect.

00:36:20.000 We're just going to do all the same policies economically as the 1960s, and we'll have the exact same result, and then we will pretend that it had nothing to do with the policy.

00:36:28.000 So good luck to Democrats on this. 0.54

00:36:30.000 I think that they are, all the people who are very optimistic about Democratic prospects because of this bill, remember, Barack Obama put forth $800 billion in stimulus in his first year in office, and two years later, his party had lost Congress.

00:36:45.000 So I really have serious doubts about whether this is actually going to be the bonanzas of the Democrats that seem to think it's going to be for them politically.

00:36:52.000 Now, one difference is that the recession That Obama inherited was a very real economic recession.

00:36:56.000 This one is pretty false.

00:36:57.000 This one is an artificial recession.

00:36:59.000 It was created by COVID.

00:37:00.000 COVID will end.

00:37:00.000 It will go back to, we'll go back to regular.

00:37:02.000 And so I don't think that the economy is going to be in a state of collapse by 2022, or that we're gonna be in a state of slow recovery.

00:37:08.000 In fact, there's a lot of danger of the economy, quote unquote, overheating.

00:37:10.000 But by 2024, you're gonna start to see the effects of all of this.

00:37:14.000 Meanwhile, the inactual crisis, so it's not, COVID's not a crisis anymore, but we're pretending it's a crisis.

00:37:19.000 An actual crisis is happening at our southern border, According to the Washington Post, they're now calling it a crisis.

00:37:26.000 The United States currently holds 30% more minors in adult detention centers under Joe Biden than it did at any time during the Trump administration.

00:37:34.000 Remember it was all kids in cages for Donald Trump?

00:37:37.000 Well now...

00:37:39.000 30% more kids are being held in cages by Joe Biden.

00:37:41.000 And apparently it's not a crisis, according to Joe Biden and team.

00:37:44.000 According to the Washington Post, however, the magnitude of the crisis facing Biden at the U.S.-Mexico border came into clearer focus on Wednesday as the new administration was holding record numbers of unaccompanied migrant teens and children in detention cells.

00:37:55.000 For far longer than legally allowed and federal health officials fell further behind in their race to find space for them in shelters.

00:38:01.000 But here's the thing.

00:38:01.000 It's not a crisis that faces Biden.

00:38:03.000 It is a crisis created by Biden.

00:38:06.000 The wave of migrants, they are attempting to get in because they believe that Biden is about to amnesty them.

00:38:10.000 And everybody acknowledges it's a crisis.

00:38:12.000 But you have to know that this is a crisis that was created solely and specifically by the Biden White House.

00:38:17.000 Which, of course, is the reason why the Biden White House refuses to acknowledge that it is a crisis in the first place.

00:38:21.000 The Washington Post has now called it a crisis.

00:38:23.000 CNN now calls it a crisis.

00:38:25.000 According to Fox News, there have now been 100,000 border encounters in February.

00:38:30.000 That is a 100% increase over the prior year.

00:38:33.000 That is solely and completely due to Joe Biden.

00:38:35.000 But over and over and over again, the Biden administration insists it's not a crisis.

00:38:39.000 So here's White House Border Coordinator Roberta Jackson.

00:38:41.000 She refuses to say that it's a crisis.

00:38:42.000 It's not a crisis, of course.

00:38:45.000 Would you describe what's happening on the border as a crisis, given how these numbers are spiking so much week by week?

00:38:51.000 You know, I think the, I really, I'm not trying to be cute here, but I think the fact of the matter is, we have to do what we do regardless of what anybody calls the situation.

00:39:02.000 And the fact is, we are all focused on improving the situation, on changing to a more humane and efficient system.

00:39:13.000 Well, it's a crisis.

00:39:14.000 And by the way, when you say humane and efficient system, what you mean is you're just going to release people into the interior.

00:39:18.000 That's all you mean.

00:39:19.000 The reason that unaccompanied minors are showing up at the border, right? 1.00

00:39:23.000 You have to wonder why unaccompanied minors. 1.00

00:39:25.000 It's because they're not going to be deported.

00:39:26.000 It's because they're going to be allowed into the country. 0.98

00:39:28.000 And everybody knows this.

00:39:29.000 And this is why, I mean, she basically acknowledges this, right?

00:39:32.000 Roberta Jackson says, you know, these surges, the surges that are happening, it's because they're responding to hope.

00:39:37.000 That is correct.

00:39:37.000 Their hope is that they will be given amnesty because Joe Biden will give them amnesty.

00:39:42.000 We've seen surges before.

00:39:44.000 Surges tend to respond to hope.

00:39:48.000 And there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of, you know, pent-up demand.

00:39:58.000 I think what we are doing is making sure that we respond to that hope for people who need protection.

00:40:04.000 We respond to that hope in a way that their cases can be adjudicated more quickly.

00:40:10.000 Okay, except that you guys refused to fund last year during Trump's administration any of the resources necessary to actually adjudicate cases quickly.

00:40:17.000 It's not about adjudicating cases quickly.

00:40:18.000 It's about releasing people into the interior.

00:40:20.000 Everybody knows that.

00:40:20.000 That's why you have this giant rush to the border.

00:40:22.000 But again, the message from the Biden White House is that COVID continues to be a crisis, although now it's on the way because he's fixed everything.

00:40:28.000 He gets to declare victory on COVID after spending five minutes in office and inheriting all of Trump's programs and then doing virtually nothing to make things better.

00:40:35.000 He gets to claim victory on that over time, but it's still kind of a crisis if you need to push forward another couple of trillion bucks in spending.

00:40:41.000 But it's not a crisis at the border when your explicit policy causes a crisis at the border.

00:40:45.000 Here's Secretary of State Tony Blinken, again, not admitting crisis at the border, just refusing.

00:40:49.000 Surely, the absence of your contradicting the idea that there's a crisis in the border does not, should not be construed as your consenting to the fact that there's a crisis at the border.

00:41:02.000 Is there a crisis at the border?

00:41:05.000 We have, at the border, a lot of work to do to make sure that it is safe, orderly, and humane.

00:41:13.000 We're engaged in doing that work.

00:41:16.000 Mm-hmm.

00:41:17.000 Mm-hmm.

00:41:18.000 So again, not a crisis.

00:41:19.000 Not a crisis.

00:41:20.000 It's a crisis, and it's been caused by them.

00:41:22.000 So the Biden administration, once again, pursuing radical policy, as radical policy as any administration in my lifetime.

00:41:28.000 And we are supposed to believe that it's all moderate and popular because President Houseplant is over there being non-threatening because basically he's not sentient.

00:41:34.000 So that's exciting stuff.

00:41:34.000 Meanwhile, the New York Times has discovered a person they will actually defend, which is exciting.

00:41:39.000 Actually, there are a couple people they've defended.

00:41:40.000 They've defended Nikole Hannah-Jones, even though she is a fiction writer masquerading as a reporter, and even though she's a bully inside the newsroom.

00:41:46.000 They won't defend James Bennett, the former op-ed editor who essentially got fired for running a Tom Cotton op-ed.

00:41:51.000 They won't defend Barry Weiss, who was called a Nazi within the newsroom.

00:41:56.000 They obviously won't defend Donald McNeil.

00:41:57.000 They'll get him fired for the great sin of having suggested that there are differences in the use of the N-word based on context.

00:42:04.000 All of that is stuff that is not worthy of defense.

00:42:07.000 But Taylor Lorenz, who is one of the worst reporters at the New York Times, all Taylor Lorenz does is troll around on the internet, find people's bad old tweets, and then try to destroy their careers. 1.00

00:42:15.000 She's a bully, and she is a falsifier of information. 1.00

00:42:18.000 She went into Clubhouse, and she claimed that people have been making comments they absolutely did not make. 0.84

00:42:23.000 Well, there are a bunch of people who finally got uptight with Taylor Lorenz because Taylor Lorenz tweeted out, and I'm saying her full name here because that's her name.

00:42:31.000 I know this is considered somehow bullying and harassment if you say somebody's full name.

00:42:35.000 I say people's full names on this program an awful lot.

00:42:38.000 Because that's how I distinguish them from other human beings, members of the media, just so you know.

00:42:42.000 And so Taylor Lorenz, who nobody had heard of until she started tweeting out about how she was the biggest victim in the world, a lot of people started making fun of her.

00:42:50.000 And then Tucker Carlson mentioned that she was not actually a victim in American society, writ large.

00:42:55.000 And the New York Times put out a statement.

00:42:57.000 rushing to her defense.

00:42:59.000 Quote, in a now familiar move, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by attacking a journalist.

00:43:03.000 It was a calculated and cruel tactic, which he regularly deploys to unleash a wave of harassment and vitriol at his intended target.

00:43:09.000 Taylor Lorenz is a talented New York Times journalist.

00:43:11.000 Fact check, false.

00:43:13.000 Doing timely and essential reporting.

00:43:14.000 Fact check, false.

00:43:16.000 Journalists should be able to do their jobs without facing harassment.

00:43:20.000 So does this count as harassment of Tucker Carlson?

00:43:22.000 Since they're criticizing him and attacking a journalist.

00:43:24.000 I love the new rules are that The reporters at the New York Times can attack you, the common American citizen.

00:43:29.000 They can dig up your past, find all your bad old tweets, find all your friends from high school.

00:43:34.000 That's fine.

00:43:35.000 But it is also worthy of note that if you criticize them, then you must be ousted.

00:43:42.000 The sort of woke solidarity movement inside the media is truly astonishing.

00:43:47.000 They don't care about freedom of speech and they don't care about individual rights.

00:43:47.000 It really is.

00:43:50.000 They don't care about openness.

00:43:51.000 What they care about is defending their own.

00:43:53.000 And anybody who, by the way, crosses over and attempts to have conversations with anybody on the other side becomes a bad person. 0.87

00:43:58.000 So, for example, Marlo Stern, who's the idiot entertainment writer for the Daily Beast, the entertainment editor, I believe, senior entertainment editor for the Daily Beast, Tweeted out, quote, I hope. 0.91

00:44:09.000 He said, remember this bleep. 0.98

00:44:10.000 Remember this bleep.

00:44:11.000 And it's about Andrew Yang.

00:44:12.000 So Andrew Yang is now running for mayor of New York.

00:44:14.000 Andrew Yang happens to be a nice guy.

00:44:16.000 Andrew Yang did a Sunday special with me.

00:44:17.000 He was the only Democratic candidate to do so.

00:44:19.000 We invited every single Democratic candidate to come on the show.

00:44:21.000 He's the only one who responded.

00:44:23.000 Very friendly dude.

00:44:24.000 We had an hour long conversation about universal basic income.

00:44:26.000 It was quite cordial.

00:44:27.000 Apparently Marlo Stern thinks you should not be allowed to vote for Andrew Yang in New York or you should not vote for Andrew Yang because he appeared on a show with a person who disagreed.

00:44:36.000 But don't worry, our media are all for free speech.

00:44:38.000 They're all for First Amendment.

00:44:39.000 They're all for your ability to speak freely, except that you're not allowed to criticize them or appear on any show of which they disapprove.

00:44:46.000 I will note here that it is quite astonishing how few members of the American media have come to the defense of Piers Morgan in the UK.

00:44:52.000 So Piers Morgan, of course, lost his job at Good Morning Britain for the great sin of having said he didn't believe Meghan Markle.

00:44:57.000 Okay, I also have said I do not believe some things that Meghan Markle has said.

00:45:02.000 By the way, the royal family is now denying that they did a lot of the stuff that she's claiming they did, right?

00:45:07.000 Prince William came out yesterday.

00:45:09.000 He said, we are very much not a racist family.

00:45:12.000 So he denies all of these charges about how it's racism that drove Meghan Markle from Buckingham Palace or anything like that.

00:45:18.000 I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle because she seems frankly to me like a person who is attempting to make the most of her situation for fame and money. 0.98

00:45:25.000 Piers Morgan said the same thing.

00:45:27.000 But Meghan Markle then contacted his employer with a complaint. 0.95

00:45:30.000 He was investigated by the British government regulator and he lost his job.

00:45:33.000 So Piers Morgan came out and he said, I still believe in freedom of speech.

00:45:36.000 I believe in freedom of speech.

00:45:38.000 I believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion.

00:45:42.000 If people want to believe Meghan Markle, that's entirely their right.

00:45:46.000 I don't believe almost anything that comes out of her mouth.

00:45:49.000 And I think the damage she's done to the British monarchy and to the Queen at a time when Prince Philip is lying in hospital is enormous and frankly contemptible.

00:46:01.000 So if I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly held opinion, About Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview.

00:46:11.000 So be it.

00:46:12.000 Okay, what's hilarious about this, of course, the American media are all over Piers Morgan.

00:46:17.000 Most of the American media are angry at Piers Morgan for having said that, even though he lost his job for saying a thing.

00:46:22.000 By the way, it goes further than that.

00:46:23.000 In Britain, this is a story from yesterday, the Huffington Post in Great Britain.

00:46:28.000 The head of an industry body for the UK press has now resigned following a backlash for claiming that the UK media is not racist.

00:46:35.000 Ian Murray is executive director of the Society of Editors.

00:46:38.000 He said he would step down from his role so the organization can, quote, rebuild its reputation after publishing a widely ridiculed claim that the UK media is, quote, unquote, not bigoted.

00:46:47.000 In a statement published on Monday that sparked a backlash against the organization, he wrote, quote, the UK media has never shied away from holding a spotlight up to those in positions of power, celebrity or influence.

00:46:55.000 If sometimes the questions asked are awkward and embarrassing, then so be it.

00:46:58.000 But the press is most certainly not racist.

00:47:00.000 His assertion, which he went on to defend in a heated interview with Victoria Derbyshire on Tuesday, was fiercely criticized by members of the SOE's own board.

00:47:07.000 So you've got the Society of Editors, which is supposed to be the editors of the British press, who are now suggesting that you ought to be fired as the head of the editors of the British press for saying that they are not racist.

00:47:17.000 Apparently, they want the head of their own organization to declare them racist.

00:47:22.000 And if he doesn't, they will get him fired.

00:47:24.000 That is how perverse woke ideology has become.

00:47:27.000 Not only do you feel a sense of joy in denouncing your own racism, if somebody else says you're not a racist, that person should be finished.

00:47:35.000 Their career should be ended.

00:47:38.000 The SOE in Britain represents almost 400 members in senior positions across the UK media, several of whom have now publicly declared their opposition to Murray's statement.

00:47:45.000 Award-winning journalist and Loose Women panelist Charlene White announced she had pulled out of hosting the Society of Editors' National Press Awards.

00:47:53.000 White cited the much-criticized statement released on Monday in the wake of Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah Winfrey.

00:47:58.000 Perhaps it's best for you to look elsewhere for a host for your awards this year, she said.

00:48:01.000 Perhaps someone whose views align with yours, that the UK press is the one institution in the entire country who has a perfect record on race.

00:48:06.000 Of course, that's not what he's saying.

00:48:07.000 There are racist people.

00:48:08.000 He is saying that overall, the British press, we're not racist.

00:48:11.000 And members of the British press were like, how dare you, sir?

00:48:14.000 Because everything is racist, guys.

00:48:16.000 Every single thing.

00:48:16.000 And if you refuse to denounce not only your own racism, but everybody else's racism, this makes you a racist.

00:48:23.000 This is the woke ideology in action.

00:48:27.000 167 journalists of color across the British media industry signed an open letter to say they deplored and rejected the Society of Editors statement.

00:48:33.000 Quote, while Meghan's comments shone a light on her own personal experiences of discriminatory treatment, they reflect the depressingly familiar reality of how people from black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds are portrayed by the UK press on a daily basis.

00:48:46.000 The Society of Editors claim that the Sussex view, that'd be Harry and Meghan, were made without supporting evidence shows a willful ignorance of not just the discriminatory treatment of Meghan, Some of which was highlighted during the interview, but that of other people from an ethnic minority background.

00:49:01.000 Murray said he would step down from his role.

00:49:03.000 He said, well, I do not agree that the Society's statement was in any way intended to defend racism.

00:49:07.000 I accept it could have been much clearer in its condemnation of bigotry and has clearly caused upset.

00:49:12.000 So I'm stepping aside so the organization can rebuild its reputation.

00:49:15.000 This is how bad our press has become, on both sides of the water, by the way.

00:49:19.000 Our press is so bad that not only will they not defend somebody who loses their job for expressing an honestly held opinion that is well within the mainstream, 51% of the British public believes that Harry and Meghan should lose their titles, But the press will oust its own members for having the temerity to say this sort of stuff.

00:49:38.000 Our institutions have been taken over by the woke and militarized by the woke.

00:49:43.000 And they will not allow any dissent, by the way.

00:49:45.000 If you dissent from this opinion, this makes you racist.

00:49:47.000 They believe in the Ibram Kendi nonsense that if you declare that you're not racist after somebody calls you a racist, this just makes you more racist.

00:49:54.000 Over on this side of the water, obviously you have reporters like CNN's Don Lemon, who is such a journalist.

00:49:58.000 I mean, this guy, he journalism's everywhere.

00:50:00.000 Every single night, he journalism's.

00:50:01.000 And my goodness, the levels of journalism.

00:50:03.000 So last night, Don Lemon over at CNN was very upset with Tim Scott.

00:50:07.000 Senator Tim Scott had said that woke supremacy right now, not historically, because woke supremacy didn't exist historically.

00:50:13.000 He's saying woke supremacy, meaning people who want to separate Americans based on race and then use institutions of power to quash their opponents. 0.91

00:50:20.000 Those people are worse than white supremacists, or as bad as white supremacists. 0.97

00:50:25.000 Which, by the way, is true. 1.00

00:50:27.000 White supremacists and woke supremacists have a lot in common.

00:50:29.000 They see the world in terms of race. 0.73

00:50:31.000 They seek to use their institutional power in order to quash people of other races. 1.00

00:50:34.000 They suggest that if you disagree with them, it's because you're intellectually or morally inferior.

00:50:37.000 But Don Lemon is, in fact, a woke supremacist.

00:50:40.000 He actually believes in critical racial theory and wokeness.

00:50:43.000 He believes in it so much that he doesn't even care about basic journalistic standards.

00:50:47.000 And you'll remember that Don Lemon over the past few days has announced, you don't even need to hear the other side of the story from the royal family.

00:50:54.000 Because Meghan Markle obviously is saying so many things that are so obviously true to Don Lemon, that hearing the other side of the story would be unwoke.

00:51:00.000 And so we shouldn't hear from the other side, which is a hell of a thing for a purported journalist to say. Well, now Don Lemon goes after Tim Scott in possibly the dumbest possible way. 0.93

00:51:09.000 I didn't see any woke supremacists storming the blanking Capitol. 0.97

00:51:19.000 Where are the woke supremacists attacking police?

00:51:22.000 Where are the woke supremacists hunting police officers in the halls of the Capitol and beating them with Blue Lives Matter signs with white supremacist insignia on their shirts and carrying white supremacist paraphernalia?

00:51:40.000 Guess who I saw?

00:51:41.000 Guess who police officers were beaten by?

00:51:44.000 Guess who wanted to hang the vice president? 0.94

00:51:47.000 White supremacist Tim Scott!

00:51:50.000 What are you doing?

00:51:54.000 So much journalism happening right there.

00:51:56.000 Because woke supremacists have never done any damage to the United States.

00:51:58.000 You know what I mean?

00:51:59.000 I mean, other than the $2 billion in property damage that they did last year in rioting all around the country.

00:52:06.000 Other than that, it's been totally fine.

00:52:08.000 The woke supremacists are not a threat in any way.

00:52:10.000 They're not a threat to you.

00:52:11.000 They're not a threat to cops.

00:52:12.000 They're not a threat to cities.

00:52:13.000 They don't burn things down.

00:52:14.000 They don't take over institutions.

00:52:16.000 By the way, they do all of those things.

00:52:17.000 And not only do they do all of those things, they have tremendous institutional power.

00:52:21.000 White supremacists don't have a lot of institutional power.

00:52:24.000 I mean, I can't name an institution in the United States that actually advocates white supremacy in the classical definition.

00:52:29.000 Not in the Ibram X. Kendi white supremacy definition, which just means anybody who disagrees with Ibram X. Kendi is a white supremacist. 1.00

00:52:35.000 I mean, like actual white supremacists who believe that white people are superior because they're morons. 0.99

00:52:39.000 There is no institutional power for those people in the United States. 1.00

00:52:42.000 There is tremendous institutional power for the woke supremacists across the United States.

00:52:48.000 And that makes a difference.

00:52:49.000 Both ideologies are evil.

00:52:51.000 Only one has tremendous influential sway Only one has now infiltrated pretty much every major institution in American society.

00:52:59.000 John Mirowski of RealClearInvestigations has a fascinating piece today about how California, the entire state, is embracing mandatory racial injustice study for all of its 1.7 million high schoolers.

00:53:11.000 Quote, California has struggled for five years to create a politically palatable ethnic studies curriculum that would teach high schoolers how systemic racism, predatory capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and quote, other structures of oppression are foundational to American society.

00:53:24.000 This is woke supremacy.

00:53:25.000 Now, after more than 82,000 public comments and four major rewrites, the State Board of Education is expected to approve the latest version next week, clearing the way for lawmakers to make a semester-long course in the material a graduation requirement for all of California's 1.7 million high school students.

00:53:41.000 The latest curriculum, however scaled back, still shares similarities with an earlier rejected draft a top state official said failed to comply with state law.

00:53:48.000 The L.A.

00:53:49.000 Times editorial board characterized it as a jumble of, quote, politically correct pronouncements that feel like an exercising groupthink designed to proselytize and inculcate more than to inform and open minds.

00:53:58.000 Okay, by the way, if the L.A.

00:53:59.000 Times editorial board is ripping you as two woke, you're way off the deep end.

00:54:02.000 The L.A.

00:54:03.000 Times editorial board is one of the most left-leaning editorial boards in America.

00:54:08.000 According to Real Clear Investigations, when all is said and done, the material emphasizes white subjugation of non-whites.

00:54:14.000 It's not a conventional textbook subject, but an ideology with an activist political agenda.

00:54:18.000 Revisions may never satisfy parents and teachers who believe public schools shouldn't be in the business of teaching kids how to develop a quote-unquote social consciousness or using class time to pinpoint a student's intersectional identity to determine where they fit on a hierarchy of power.

00:54:31.000 At the same time, ethnic studies activists are furious that their efforts at promoting social justice and centering, quote, voices of colors are being diluted by, as they put it, power structures such as whiteness, Zionism, and assimilationism.

00:54:44.000 Passage of the landmark curriculum at the board's scheduled meeting on March 18th should mark a hard-fought victory for the half-century-old ethnic studies movement and help advocates promote their movement across the country.

00:54:52.000 It won't end the conflict in California, where the issue will then be forced to the local level to be decided by local school boards or in individual classrooms.

00:54:59.000 The reason is because state guidelines grant teachers wide flexibility in how they teach the subject.

00:55:05.000 But advocates aren't happy with that.

00:55:06.000 They want a state crammed down on this stuff. 0.84

00:55:09.000 They insist on hewing to a heroic narrative about how people of color have suffered and fought against European capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism.

00:55:17.000 Practitioners have formed their own organization, the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Institute.

00:55:22.000 For the past year, activists have been meeting in online sessions to hash out strategy, expound upon their liberatory and transformational ideology, and encourage educators to teach the full-strength curriculum that the state has already flunked.

00:55:34.000 The Liberated Ethnic Studies Group includes many of the original authors of the 2019 Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum the state has gutted, as well as 50 scholars, teachers, practitioners, and students, according to Allison Tintianko-Kubalis, an Asian American Studies professor at San Francisco State University.

00:55:49.000 The advocates say many state officials fail to grasp ethnic studies is not a traditional school subject, but a movement and a philosophy best described as narrative medicine, radical healing, and even a way of life. 0.97

00:56:01.000 And these folks will gain institutional power and they will use that institutional power in order to cram this crap down on you.

00:56:08.000 And when Don Lemon suggests that woke supremacy means nothing, he is speaking from his position as a CNN anchor at the most widely respected news network in America, speaking as a person who believes in critical racial theory and wokeness. 0.96

00:56:23.000 And everybody who disagrees will be ousted.

00:56:26.000 And people who suggest that the press are not racist will be ousted.

00:56:30.000 Hey, the woke are coming for everyone.

00:56:32.000 They're coming for all the standards.

00:56:35.000 On the governmental level, we are now enmeshed in a complete rethinking of the nature of the relationship between government and the individual.

00:56:41.000 Government is gonna take care of all of your needs.

00:56:42.000 All you have to do is sacrifice your self-respect, sacrifice your rights, sacrifice your freedoms, and the government will take care of everything for you.

00:56:49.000 The government will rectify all past injustices.

00:56:52.000 All you have to do is pledge your fealty to an overarching state and a media infrastructure that acts as its propaganda wing.

00:56:57.000 That's all you have to do, and everything will be all better.

00:57:00.000 All of this done under the auspices of President Houseplant and his compliant media.

00:57:04.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 11, 2021

President Houseplant’s Big Blowout Bonanza | Ep. 1213

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