The Ben Shapiro Show - Princess Woke vs. The Monarchy | Ep. 1210

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00:01:31.000 Over the weekend, Joe Biden signed into law a $1.9 trillion, quote-unquote, stimulus package.

00:01:37.000 And the vast majority of the stimulus package is payouts to his friends. 0.91

00:01:40.000 It's hundreds of billions of dollars to blue states that have run their business like garbage. 0.60

00:01:44.000 It is hundreds of billions of dollars to union cronies and allies. 0.97

00:01:48.000 It is a giant waste of money.

00:01:50.000 Again, the reality of the situation remains that the United States economy is on the uptick.

00:01:53.000 COVID seems to be waning.

00:01:55.000 It seems like it's coming to an end, thank God.

00:01:57.000 It looks like we are nearing herd immunity, as predicted by Professor Marty Makary over at Johns Hopkins University.

00:02:03.000 And it looks very much as though the economy is in a state of recovery as well.

00:02:06.000 We are down to 6.3% unemployment, which, lest you forget, is actually like kind of a not horrible unemployment rate.

00:02:12.000 It was a fairly decent unemployment rate during Barack Obama's tenure.

00:02:16.000 And the economy is climbing out of this, especially as states reopen and states all over the country are reopening.

00:02:21.000 So now was the perfect time.

00:02:23.000 It was a vital time to blow out the spending and to get Americans addicted to more taxpayer cash.

00:02:27.000 Because here's the thing.

00:02:29.000 In the middle of COVID, when you had to shut down the entire worldwide economy, when people were barred from going to work, it made some sense for the government to provide you redress.

00:02:38.000 As I said at the time, if the government drives a Ford F-150 through your business, at that point, It's essentially a takings, and they have to recompense you for the fact that they drove that Ford F-150 through the front door of your business.

00:02:49.000 But now, your business is open, and the government's still sending you money.

00:02:53.000 And so now, we are now in a position where the federal government is essentially attempting to addict you to the drug of free money.

00:03:01.000 And many people are going to take them up on that, because why wouldn't you?

00:03:03.000 The check arrives in the mail, and you are going to use that check.

00:03:06.000 Let's face this.

00:03:07.000 The $1,400 checks that just went out, they are not done on the basis of unemployment.

00:03:11.000 And we already have unemployment benefits that have been extended.

00:03:13.000 It's only $400 a week.

00:03:15.000 Those unemployment benefits have been going throughout the pandemic.

00:03:18.000 The rate was raised.

00:03:20.000 Those checks have been going out.

00:03:22.000 Yet we are sending people $1,400, and not just $1,400, $1,400 per person if you are below a certain threshold income.

00:03:29.000 So you could, and for your kids.

00:03:31.000 So you could be making more money by staying home from work than you are by going to work, given these checks.

00:03:36.000 And yet we're being told that this is somehow deeply necessary for an economy that's already in a state of recovery.

00:03:42.000 It's just a lie that this is targeted.

00:03:43.000 It is not targeted.

00:03:44.000 According to the Brookings Institute, we're gonna have about a $450 billion shortfall this year, thanks to COVID, in terms of GDP growth.

00:03:51.000 And yet we just blew out the spending to the tune of at least four times that.

00:03:55.000 And that was what was in this bill.

00:03:57.000 What it really was about, again, was giving people a taste of the drug so that then they need it.

00:04:02.000 Then you want the government to continue to send you checks.

00:04:04.000 So when Joe Manchin, the supposed moderate from West Virginia, when he says that this targets relief to people who need relief, that is just not true.

00:04:10.000 It does not target relief to people who need relief.

00:04:12.000 It is not targeted at all.

00:04:13.000 It is not done on the basis of unemployment, which theoretically should be the way that it is done.

00:04:17.000 If you're unemployed because of COVID, that's one thing.

00:04:19.000 But if you've been working this whole time, then why in the world are we handing you a check?

00:04:22.000 That makes no sense at all.

00:04:23.000 And yet here is Joe Manchin defending it.

00:04:26.000 In this bill, we targeted where help is needed.

00:04:29.000 We were able to target basically the people that need help, the children that need help, the schools that need help, the people on the front line, all of America.

00:04:38.000 That's what we were able to do, and a lot of that was by talking with my colleagues and negotiating back and forth, and I was able to channel that through, I think, and hopefully make a bill that is a much more encompassing bill.

00:04:50.000 I think it's a great piece of legislation, going to help a lot of people.

00:04:54.000 Okay.

00:04:54.000 And again, the idea that you're helping a lot of people by blowing out the spending for all future.

00:04:58.000 I mean, let's be real about this.

00:05:00.000 We are not spending more money than has ever been created by God or man.

00:05:03.000 There will be inflation that follows this.

00:05:05.000 It is just a question of when.

00:05:06.000 Because you cannot continue to spend like this and then assume that the economy is just going to make up the burden.

00:05:12.000 This is true during Bush, it was true during Reagan, it is true during Obama, it is true during Trump, and it is true now.

00:05:17.000 At a certain point, the bill will come due.

00:05:19.000 I understand that everybody out there thinks that modern monetary theory is a reality, that we can just continue to blow out the spending this way and it will have no actual consequences.

00:05:25.000 That is not the case.

00:05:26.000 There will be consequences because there are always consequences.

00:05:29.000 What goes up must come down.

00:05:30.000 Gravity does apply in economics.

00:05:32.000 And the notion that you can continue to spend this way and inflate the currency in order to do so, especially at a time when the economy is in full-scale recovery, And effectively speaking, you're redistributing from future generations to our generation, and you're also redistributing from open states to closed states, that this is gonna have no consequences at all on economic growth.

00:05:48.000 I find that quite hard to believe.

00:05:50.000 But the media's angle here is that it wasn't enough.

00:05:52.000 Like Jake Tapper over at CNN, who had himself a weekend.

00:05:55.000 Jake Tapper said to Joe Manchin, you know, it's amazing.

00:05:58.000 Why were you fighting for less during this terrible time?

00:06:00.000 It's true.

00:06:00.000 Everybody in the country, everybody who earned, you know, under a couple hundred thousand dollars probably should've gotten a $100,000 check.

00:06:06.000 I mean, as long as we're just handing out checks, why $1,400?

00:06:09.000 Where are these numbers coming from?

00:06:10.000 And the answer is, they are coming from nowhere. 0.87

00:06:12.000 The answers are just coming directly out of people's rectums. 0.97

00:06:15.000 In the same way that $15 minimum wage comes directly out of somebody's rectum. 0.64

00:06:18.000 Yeah, I remember asking the creator of $15 minimum wage as a philosophy in the United States, Shama Sawant in Seattle, right?

00:06:25.000 City councilwoman who's a socialist. 1.00

00:06:26.000 She's the one who started the whole $15 minimum wage movement.

00:06:30.000 I remember asking her on stage, why $15?

00:06:32.000 Why not $1,000 an hour?

00:06:32.000 And she had no answer for it.

00:06:34.000 She had just come up with it.

00:06:35.000 And the same thing here happened with $1,400 or $2,000.

00:06:38.000 And yet the idea from Jake Tapper here is, why aren't we spending even more money?

00:06:43.000 Like, why not $8 trillion?

00:06:46.000 I mean, after all, money's free.

00:06:48.000 So after changes that you pushed for, enhanced federal unemployment benefits now expire about a month earlier, and there's a new income cap for writing them off on your taxes.

00:06:58.000 I have to say, you represent one of the lowest income states in the nation.

00:07:02.000 Why were you fighting for less help for citizens during this cruel economic time?

00:07:09.000 Well, Jake, first let me just say it's always good to be with you, okay?

00:07:11.000 And next of all, all I did was try to make sure that we were targeting where the help was needed.

00:07:16.000 Okay, we didn't target where the help is needed.

00:07:19.000 It's just a redistribution program.

00:07:20.000 Because again, it's not targeted toward the unemployed.

00:07:22.000 It is targeted just on the basis of income, which is not quote-unquote where the help is needed.

00:07:27.000 If you're talking about where the help is needed, where the help is needed is for people who got thrown out of their jobs by the pandemic.

00:07:33.000 Okay, those are the people that government is stepping in to help, theoretically, but that's not really what they're doing, right?

00:07:37.000 They're bailing out poorly run states.

00:07:39.000 We'll get into, in a second, to the media's real reason for celebration today.

00:07:43.000 This is the transformational moment.

00:07:44.000 Okay, Joe Biden is now a more transformational president than Barack Obama was because he has now instituted a wide variety of measures that are going to be incredibly difficult to claw back.

00:07:54.000 Obama's transformation came in two forms.

00:07:56.000 One was a cultural transformation in which we moved from the era of race-blind meritocracy, or at least that was the ideal, We moved from race-blind meritocracy as an ideal to wokeness as an ideal.

00:08:06.000 That was his number one transformation.

00:08:08.000 And his number two transformation was Obamacare, in terms of governmental transformation.

00:08:11.000 That was a big piece of legislation.

00:08:13.000 Joe Biden's legacy, at least thus far, is going to be taking wokeness and putting it at the center of all government policy, and then instituting all these massive government programs that addict the American public to taxpayer cash.

00:08:26.000 In a way that hasn't been done really since the 60s, really since LBJ.

00:08:29.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

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00:09:59.000 Okay, so, the media are in full celebration mode.

00:10:01.000 A piece of analysis.

00:10:02.000 From the Washington Post, and I gotta say, this headline, you couldn't write this headline in North Korea.

00:10:08.000 The fear would be that it would be too sycophantic.

00:10:10.000 Here's the headline.

00:10:11.000 Biden's stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses.

00:10:17.000 Wow, you might wanna smoke a cigarette, take a cold shower after that one, headline writers over at the Washington Post.

00:10:23.000 I mean, this thing, it's showering money on America, showering!

00:10:26.000 I mean, the money just came from nowhere, and all that happened is that Joe Biden just turned on the spigot, and now he is showering you in joy.

00:10:32.000 I know it sounds weird, but that's what he's doing.

00:10:34.000 He's sharply cutting poverty.

00:10:36.000 Wow, amazing.

00:10:37.000 Did you know that all you had to do to cut poverty was just sign somebody a check?

00:10:40.000 That that actually cures poverty?

00:10:41.000 I mean, sure, we've been trying to do that for literally decades in the war on poverty, but if you do it again, probably it'll work this time.

00:10:46.000 And favoring individuals over businesses.

00:10:49.000 According to Heather Long, Alyssa Fowers, and Andrew Van Dam, President Biden's stimulus package, which passed the Senate on Saturday, represents one of the most generous expansions of aid to the poor in recent history, while also showering thousands, or in some cases tens of thousands, of dollars on American families navigating the coronavirus pandemic.

00:11:03.000 Now, quick note about the hypocrisy of this media coverage.

00:11:07.000 Donald Trump pushed forward a $2 trillion package while he was president, with bipartisan support.

00:11:13.000 And the Fed blew out the spending to the tune of another $3 trillion, and he didn't get this sort of headline.

00:11:19.000 At no point did he get this sort of headline.

00:11:21.000 And that was actually at least somewhat justified, considering we're in the middle of a global coronavirus pandemic that had forced the closure of nearly every business in America.

00:11:28.000 Right now we're coming out of this, and Joe Biden is forcing this thing through, which of course is the reason why you still have the panicked talking heads on TV from the Biden administration talking about how COVID's going to kill us all.

00:11:37.000 Because if ever the American people recognized that essentially they were Completely shifting the nature of the distribution of power between the individual and government on the basis of a lie, which is that this coronavirus pandemic is going to continue for another year, or two years, or five years.

00:11:53.000 If they ever realized that, maybe they would fight back.

00:11:54.000 So you have to keep pushing the lie.

00:11:56.000 That is, in fact, a large lie.

00:11:58.000 The roughly $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, according to the Washington Post, which only Democrats supported, spends most of the money on low-income and middle-class Americans and state and local governments, with very little funding going toward companies.

00:12:09.000 Which, of course, if you want people to hire, you would actually give it to the companies, but they're not doing that.

00:12:13.000 The plan is one of the largest federal responses to a downturn Congress has enacted, and economists estimate it will boost growth this year to the highest level in decades and reduce the number of Americans living in poverty by a third.

00:12:23.000 Yeah, it turns out that you can quote-unquote boost growth by simply pumping money into the economy.

00:12:27.000 Now, is that real growth?

00:12:28.000 Or is that just the government pumping?

00:12:30.000 Every time the government pumps, that is included in the GDP numbers.

00:12:33.000 It's one of the problems with how you actually generate GDP.

00:12:36.000 The GDP number is number of dollars spent.

00:12:38.000 If you inflate the number of dollars spent by inflating the number of dollars in the economy, simply by just dumping a bunch of cash into the economy, by signing everybody a check, it makes it look like GDP is growing.

00:12:46.000 The question of economic growth is really not about how many dollars are circulating.

00:12:50.000 It is about the nature of the products and services that are being provided and the living standards of the people who are engaging in those products and services.

00:12:57.000 GDP is not a wonderful figure for measuring that particular sort of stuff when the government is explicitly gaming the system.

00:13:04.000 Wait, you mean there's a poll that shows that people like free money?

00:13:08.000 Who would have figured it out?

00:13:10.000 Yes, yes, that's true.

00:13:10.000 Who?

00:13:11.000 But the ambitious legislation entails risks, both economic and political.

00:13:15.000 The bill injects the economy with so much money, some economists from both parties are warned growth could overheat, leading to a bout of hard-to-contain inflation.

00:13:21.000 Yes, yes, that's true.

00:13:22.000 Meanwhile, some businesses are saying government aid has been so generous, they're having trouble getting unemployed people to come back to work.

00:13:28.000 Yes, this is correct.

00:13:30.000 Unlike many significant anti-poverty measures passed by Congress, this one has a short time Almost all the relief for families goes away over the coming year.

00:13:39.000 This could be an abrupt awakening for Americans who have grown accustomed to financial support.

00:13:42.000 Yes, and this is going to be the pitch, right?

00:13:44.000 By the end of the year, the pitch from Democrats is going to be, we can't just get people off of the dole.

00:13:48.000 People are reliant on the dole.

00:13:51.000 Again, it's the taste.

00:13:52.000 It's not the actual Cocaine mainlining?

00:13:55.000 Okay, this is the taste of the coke to get people addicted to the coke.

00:13:58.000 This is the same thing drug dealers do.

00:13:59.000 They give you the taste so you get addicted.

00:14:02.000 Indivar Dutta Gupta, co-executive director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality says, There's the code word to be a part of the member of the new ruling class using the term latinx, which is used by zero Latinos anywhere in America.

00:14:21.000 The Biden administration is seeing this more like a wartime mobilization.

00:14:23.000 Again, code words.

00:14:25.000 You can do anything when you claim it's a war.

00:14:26.000 When you claim it's a war, you can confiscate wealth.

00:14:28.000 You can force people to do things they don't want to do.

00:14:30.000 You can completely remobilize the American economy in ways that it was not designed.

00:14:35.000 They'll deal with any downside risks later on.

00:14:37.000 Oh, will they?

00:14:38.000 So what exactly is in here?

00:14:40.000 So, apparently, here is the total impact of the three major coronavirus relief bills that have been passed over the course of the last year or so.

00:14:47.000 $870 billion to state and local governments.

00:14:50.000 That is all bailout money.

00:14:52.000 That's just to bail out California and New York and Illinois and all the badly run states in America.

00:14:58.000 There's another $865 billion devoted to, quote, other healthcare spending or other policies.

00:15:04.000 There's $2.2 trillion that were devoted to stimulus payments, tax credits, unemployment benefits, health coverage.

00:15:11.000 Again, all of this is designed to get people addicted to public money.

00:15:14.000 And the New York Times, by the way, has been pretty clear about this.

00:15:17.000 And the New York Times is being pretty obvious about this.

00:15:19.000 They just say, listen, what we are attempting to do here is get people more and more dependent on the government and to essentially reconnect the idea that if you have kids and you can't pay for the kids, the government's going to pay for the kids.

00:15:33.000 Now, listen, there should be social structures that are in place to help take care of children whose parents are unable to take care of them.

00:15:39.000 What we are setting up here is a rather perverse incentive that, again, incentivizes people to have kids without being able to pay for them, which is really not ideal.

00:15:49.000 When you pay people for their kids, they tend to have kids in order so that the government will pay for them.

00:15:53.000 That is just something that happened in the 1960s.

00:15:55.000 It's why illegitimacy rates rose so incredibly high in virtually all communities, but particularly in minority communities.

00:16:01.000 The New York Times says the stimulus bill is a policy revolution in aid for children.

00:16:06.000 It's establishing a guaranteed income for families with children, except that the guaranteed income for families with children phases out over the basis of the income.

00:16:13.000 So it's not a universal basic income connected with the American priority of generating children.

00:16:18.000 Instead, it is incentivizing people to have children and earn a low income.

00:16:23.000 That is what it does.

00:16:25.000 Now you can argue in favor of it or against it, but that is what it does, make no mistake.

00:16:29.000 Okay, the basic goal here is to remake how Americans think of their government, and that is what Biden is.

00:16:36.000 The era of small government is over.

00:16:37.000 It ended under Barack Obama.

00:16:39.000 It continued under Trump, and now it has been exacerbated by Joe Biden, except you add a little bit of spice with some equity talk in there so that you figure that not everybody is going to get the money.

00:16:48.000 The only people who are going to get the money are the people who are adjudicated to be the most victimized in our American society.

00:16:53.000 That's the way this is going to work.

00:16:55.000 He is a transformational president, I'll give him that.

00:16:56.000 I mean, he may not be, Joe Biden may not be aware of it, I mean, the man may not be alive, but what he is doing in the first few weeks of his administration is indeed a fundamental transformation.

00:17:07.000 He is materializing the third term of Obama.

00:17:10.000 In Barack Obama's first term, he started pushing big government in a way You know, the very open way that had not truly been done for decades.

00:17:18.000 And then in his second term, Barack Obama really started to shift how Americans thought of themselves.

00:17:24.000 He pushed identity politics up to wazoo.

00:17:26.000 And then in his third term, which is really Biden, right?

00:17:31.000 It's just Obama's third term.

00:17:32.000 Biden is not even aware of what's going on around him.

00:17:34.000 All of his staffers are old Obama staffers.

00:17:36.000 He's merging the two.

00:17:38.000 He's merging the equity movement and the big government movement to create this new America.

00:17:42.000 That is the goal here.

00:17:43.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll talk about what's going on with the Royals, because I know that people in my audience are fascinated with the Royals, but there actually is something kind of interesting to talk about there and kind of perverse.

00:17:52.000 We'll talk about that in one second.

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00:18:57.000 Okay, so in order for Joe Biden to sell this COVID package, he has to continue complaining that this is never going to end, the COVID pandemic is never going to end.

00:19:07.000 Because in order to sell you on the idea that we can just continue blowing out the spending, he has to sell you on the idea that the crisis continues.

00:19:13.000 If he had just campaigned as the LBJ war on poverty guy, without the pandemic in the backdrop, he would have just been Walter Mondale.

00:19:21.000 A person who is a stalwart in the Democratic Party, pushing the same policies as LBJ, that Americans mostly weren't super fond of.

00:19:29.000 But using the pandemic, he's been able to push this thing through.

00:19:32.000 Which is why you're seeing the Biden administration continue to proclaim that COVID remains a world-shaking crisis.

00:19:40.000 It is not at this point.

00:19:41.000 It just isn't.

00:19:42.000 But don't ask Dr. Fauci.

00:19:44.000 Dr. Fauci says our current plateau is unacceptable.

00:19:47.000 According to whom?

00:19:47.000 I mean, really, according to whom?

00:19:50.000 Here's Dr. Fauci, the second greatest doctor in American government after Dr. Joe Biden.

00:19:55.000 Historically, if you look back at the different surges we've had, when they come down and then start to plateau at a very high level, plateauing at a level of 60,000 to 70,000 new cases per day is not an acceptable level.

00:20:10.000 That is really very high.

00:20:12.000 And if you look at what happened in Europe, A few weeks ago, they're usually a couple of weeks ahead of us in these patterns they were coming down to.

00:20:20.000 Then they plateaued, and over the last week or so, they've had about a 9% increase in cases.

00:20:26.000 Okay, so I mean, this plateau is unacceptable.

00:20:29.000 Accept it.

00:20:30.000 Where are those cases coming from?

00:20:32.000 They're the American young, who are not being hurt by this virus in anything like the numbers of the American elderly.

00:20:38.000 Dr. Marty McCary, He put out a graphic demonstrating this.

00:20:42.000 The graphic that he put out was actually put out there by Scott Gottlieb.

00:20:45.000 And what it showed is that Americans are rushing out the vaccine for people over the age of 65.

00:20:49.000 This week, we're gonna cross 60% of those over the age of 65 vaccinated and 70% of those over the age of 75.

00:20:56.000 Given the fact that those are the people who are most likely to die of COVID, what we are talking about right now is a bunch of young people getting COVID, which is not super dangerous.

00:21:05.000 Okay, it is more dangerous than the flu, as I've said before, for people between the ages of 20 and 65, but not so much more dangerous that you're gonna stop living your life unless you have a serious pre-existing condition.

00:21:14.000 That's why when you're seeing all these headlines about, wow, COVID's gonna spread on the beaches, what, to a bunch of 20-year-old drunks?

00:21:20.000 So?

00:21:21.000 I mean, seriously, so?

00:21:22.000 And then they're gonna go visit grandma.

00:21:24.000 Okay, and grandma's vaccinated.

00:21:26.000 So, that is literally the purpose of the vaccine.

00:21:29.000 And you're reaching herd immunity.

00:21:30.000 So, I'm failing to see the giant problem.

00:21:32.000 Dr. McCary tweeted out, Vaccinating older and vulnerable people first means deaths will plummet soon as cases linger among young people, which means it's more likely to have asymptomatic infections or mild non-fatal disease.

00:21:42.000 This week, 10 states had days with zero deaths and another 10 averaged less than five days.

00:21:46.000 That is progress.

00:21:47.000 Okay, but you're not supposed to say that, right?

00:21:49.000 If you point out that that's progress, then that undercuts the entire Biden argument for restructuring the American economy, for building back better.

00:21:56.000 But even members of Biden's own administration are beginning to recognize that you can't say the kind of stuff that they've been saying, that eventually people are going to see the ridiculousness of what they are pushing.

00:22:05.000 Dr. Michael Osterholm, who has been a COVID hawk all the way through here, he's director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and a member of Biden's advisory board on COVID.

00:22:14.000 He says the CDC should just recognize that people aren't going to be masking up until 2022.

00:22:17.000 They're not going to do that, though.

00:22:19.000 Watch.

00:22:20.000 Biden's going to continue to promote this thing long after it is a crisis.

00:22:23.000 Because he is going to say that we needed the crisis in order for us to push forward this restructuring of the American economy.

00:22:28.000 Here's Osterholm.

00:22:30.000 If we just tell people that they've got to stay cocooned, that they've got to stay in their homes, that they've got to continue to wear their mask even though they're fully vaccinated, they're not going to do that.

00:22:40.000 They're going to disregard the public health recommendations.

00:22:42.000 So we have to get real.

00:22:44.000 And I worry a little bit that we will basically stay with this idea that we've had all along, do this or else.

00:22:51.000 And so I hope that the CDC guidance acknowledges that people are not going to do the extreme of staying masked through 2022.

00:22:59.000 That's just not going to happen.

00:23:00.000 Correct.

00:23:01.000 It is not going to happen.

00:23:02.000 They'll continue pushing it.

00:23:02.000 By the way, how seriously is the Biden administration actually taking COVID?

00:23:06.000 Well, according to the Washington Examiner, the Department of Homeland Security is not going to test thousands of migrants before releasing them into the United States.

00:23:12.000 They're not even going to test them.

00:23:13.000 They're just going to release them.

00:23:14.000 Obviously, deeply concerned about COVID.

00:23:17.000 All righty, in just a second, we'll get to the Royals.

00:23:19.000 I know, you've been waiting with bated breath on tenterhooks for me to get to my commentary on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

00:23:25.000 But actually, it's not a small story.

00:23:28.000 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:24:37.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, the world is ending.

00:24:39.000 It's ending because, oh my god, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, wow, what a hard life they lead.

00:24:48.000 What a brutal, victimized, terrible, horrifying life they lead.

00:24:53.000 It is so sad.

00:24:54.000 Honestly, like, when I think of victims in our society, the victims who come to mind are absolutely A guy who grew up a prince and also a B-rate television actress from Suits on USA Network who marries into the royal family and is shocked to discover that she is married into the royal family.

00:25:11.000 And she learns, she learns, just like she would on a USA Network TV show, she learns that they are not up to woke par.

00:25:20.000 They're just not.

00:25:21.000 They're not woke enough. 0.96

00:25:22.000 They're institutionally racist.

00:25:24.000 And no one would have been able to say this before, but Meghan Markle is the first person to have married into the royal family of color.

00:25:30.000 And so that means that she can see through her woke colored glasses that the royal family is in fact a systemically racist and evil institution, and she can speak truth to power while living off of her mother-in-law, Diana's $25 million endowment.

00:25:44.000 I mean, wow, the heroism, truly the victimization.

00:25:49.000 So last night, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who, I mean, I gotta say, Meghan Markle, I'll just put it out there.

00:25:56.000 I do not believe her.

00:25:57.000 Not about her suicidality or any of that kind of stuff.

00:26:00.000 I do not believe her when she acts like she's an innocent who walked into all of this.

00:26:04.000 I don't believe it.

00:26:05.000 I don't believe that she is just some, you know, she was just walking along like Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.

00:26:10.000 She was just a poor little flower girl. 1.00

00:26:11.000 And then one day she was plucked off the street by Prince Harry and she had no idea what the monarchy was and just found herself in the palace.

00:26:18.000 And then she met the queen.

00:26:20.000 The queen.

00:26:20.000 And the queen and everybody else, they were...

00:26:26.000 Racist! 0.94

00:26:27.000 And that meant that she had to leave. 0.96

00:26:29.000 She and Harry had to rush off to America.

00:26:32.000 By the way, the one kind of unspoken part of this story that I do love is if America is so systemically racist, why did they run to America?

00:26:40.000 Seriously, they could've gone anywhere.

00:26:42.000 And they came to the most systemically racist place on earth, America, replete with our, I mean, isn't she afraid that if she comes back with Prince Harry, she just went from the royal family, which is racist, to America, which is so racist that we elected Donald Trump, and also our cops just shoot people on the basis of race.

00:26:57.000 But she came back here, which is weird, right?

00:27:00.000 So America, maybe not as, well, no.

00:27:03.000 But I think the real theme here is don't screw with us, Brits.

00:27:07.000 You know, George III, he screwed with us and we defeated him.

00:27:11.000 But we waited two centuries to unleash our most powerful weapon of all.

00:27:18.000 An unhappy B-rate actress from a USA Network TV show armed with the power of woke. 0.95

00:27:25.000 And she has come, she's like the Thanos of the royal family over here.

00:27:28.000 She has come to erase the royal family.

00:27:31.000 Finally, we are going to overtake the monarchy.

00:27:33.000 All we had to do was send a woke actress to do an interview with Oprah. 0.99

00:27:38.000 Okay, so again, nothing says lack of privilege and victimhood quite like, you know, living off mommy-in-laws, $25 million, being married to a prince, using the newfound celebrity that you gained.

00:27:47.000 Like, I'd never heard of Meghan Markle until she started dating Harry, right?

00:27:50.000 Had you?

00:27:51.000 Like, who'd heard of her?

00:27:52.000 I had to look her up, and they were like, oh yeah, she's the one who can't act on suits. 1.00

00:27:55.000 Caught it.

00:27:56.000 All right.

00:27:57.000 And then it turns out that, according to Piers Morgan, she's not particularly a nice person, which is unshocking.

00:28:04.000 And now it turns out, according to the royal family, that she actually was kind of abusive to the staff while she was over there.

00:28:09.000 Again, the allegations, not super shocking, but victimization means that you take all of this privilege, and I'm sorry, that's privilege.

00:28:17.000 You act on a TV show for a living in the most prosperous society in human history, and then you move from that to being a member of a royal family.

00:28:24.000 You become an actual honest-to-God princess.

00:28:27.000 With like the bajillion-dollar wedding, and the train that runs for three miles behind you, and all this show, and this pomp, and this circumstance, and your entire life is going to be paid to shake people's hands.

00:28:38.000 That's what the royal family does.

00:28:39.000 They exist just to be the royal family.

00:28:41.000 It's not like they wield power.

00:28:42.000 It's not like there's any responsibility that comes along with being a member of the royal family, beyond just smiling, and looking good, and shaking people's hands.

00:28:49.000 That's literally the job.

00:28:51.000 I'm going to charity events and representing the history of Britain.

00:28:53.000 That's it.

00:28:54.000 But that's the point, right?

00:28:55.000 Because the royal family is no longer actually powerful because they don't actually have any political power since basically the killing of Charles.

00:29:04.000 They haven't had a lot of power in the British system for quite a while.

00:29:08.000 Well, I mean, it goes beyond that.

00:29:09.000 George III was after that.

00:29:10.000 In any case, since the 19th century, the king of Britain has not had tremendous power.

00:29:16.000 Okay, but because the monarchy doesn't have power, what they really stand for is the history of Britain and the UK.

00:29:23.000 And really, you know, deeply intertwined with the history of the West.

00:29:27.000 And so this is really more an assault on the institution of the monarchy, in the same way that there's an assault going on right now on the history of the United States.

00:29:34.000 Because that's really what the monarchy stands for, right?

00:29:35.000 When people look at Elizabeth, what they see is World War II, and post-World War II, and the history of Britain, and standing up to the Nazis.

00:29:43.000 And now what we're getting is that, well, you know, this institution, just like all Western institutions, is racist and terrible.

00:29:49.000 And the way we know that it's racist and terrible is because they were mean to this B-rate actress who arrived on their shores seeking only to be accepted, but was rejected based on the color of her skin.

00:29:59.000 So I don't believe nearly any of that.

00:30:01.000 I don't believe nearly any of that.

00:30:05.000 Again, call me cynical, but anybody who marries into the royal family I think is just a little on the make.

00:30:11.000 Okay, I think that you have to be this kind of meek, cute, Hugh Grant-esque fantasy that people marry into the royal family because they just found love.

00:30:21.000 I find this very difficult to believe.

00:30:23.000 I find it very difficult to believe that people marry into the royal family because they just fell in love with members of the royal family.

00:30:29.000 In fact, that seems not to be the history of the royal family in general.

00:30:33.000 Royal families in general, that's typically not how it works.

00:30:35.000 Okay, but in any case, Meghan Markle Okay, so Meghan Markle does this interview with Oprah, and they've already been rejected from the royal family, right?

00:30:44.000 They basically said, we wanna stay members of the royal family, but we're gonna be adjunct members of the royal family.

00:30:49.000 We are gonna go over to America, and we're gonna cut a Netflix deal, right?

00:30:52.000 Again, none of this is privilege, guys.

00:30:54.000 True privilege, true privilege is just you out there having a normal job.

00:30:58.000 That's true privilege.

00:30:59.000 Meghan Markle is a victim.

00:31:01.000 She's a victim of the intersectionality that curses American society, and apparently British society, and the royals, and everybody.

00:31:08.000 And she's the true victim here.

00:31:10.000 And she had to talk about her victim on Oprah, her victimization on Oprah, did Meghan Markle.

00:31:16.000 It's a hard life, man.

00:31:17.000 A very, very difficult.

00:31:18.000 I know you.

00:31:18.000 You know, you lost your job, you lost your restaurant because of a COVID shutdown.

00:31:22.000 You're not the real victim here.

00:31:23.000 Meghan Markle is the real victim here.

00:31:25.000 And the royal family is bad, you see.

00:31:26.000 They're bad because they were mean to her.

00:31:28.000 And the way we know that they were mean to her is because she says they were mean to her.

00:31:31.000 And that couldn't be driven by a desire for fame or fortune or celebrity in any way.

00:31:36.000 Not in any way.

00:31:38.000 She was just a perfect innocent in all of this, right?

00:31:41.000 And then when she left and they wanted to retain their sort of royal prerogatives while traipsing around America picking up Netflix deals, and the royal family was like, nope, not gonna do that. 0.98

00:31:49.000 Then she was even more of a victim because she'd been stripped of her princesshood So now she's gonna go on Oprah and bitch. 1.00

00:31:57.000 Well, by the way, Prince Philip is in the hospital at 99 years old. 0.89

00:32:05.000 Imagine his life, right?

00:32:06.000 You go from actually serving in the British military during World War II, I believe, Prince Philip.

00:32:11.000 You go from that, and then having your wife take over the monarchy of Britain after her father's early demise.

00:32:19.000 And facing the travails that Britain had after World War II, and the social changes, and you've lived that whole life, and your life culminates as you're lying in a hospital bed, watching your grand, what is it, granddaughter-in-law?

00:32:34.000 Watching your granddaughter-in-law call the entire royal institution racist?

00:32:37.000 Yeah, that's a life right there.

00:32:39.000 And a pretty good metaphor for all of Western society at this point.

00:32:44.000 People who really fought tyranny and spent their lives fighting against the Soviet Union and the Nazis and all this, and only to see their great-grandchildren and grandchildren call them a bunch of anti-woke racists who are terrible people.

00:32:57.000 Yeah, the story of Western civilization in a nutshell, right there.

00:32:59.000 Okay, we'll get to what Meghan Markle actually had to say in just one moment.

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00:34:32.000 Again, don't mess with us, Brits.

00:34:34.000 We will send you our crappiest actresses, and they will go on Oprah, and they will say mean things about you and collapse your entire monarchy with the power of woke. 0.87

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00:35:28.000 All righty, so let's actually get to what Meghan Markle and Prince Harry actually said.

00:35:37.000 Because, I mean, what difficult lives they lead.

00:35:39.000 It is one of the saddest stories I've ever heard. 0.99

00:35:41.000 I mean, a prince, grew up a prince, was shielded from his own idiocy for literally years. 0.97

00:35:47.000 Remember, Prince Harry was a guy who just, back in 2005, dressed up in like a full-on Nazi uniform at a Halloween party. 0.95

00:35:54.000 So like Ralph Northam, which just never happened, right?

00:35:57.000 It's pretty incredible how that guy is now Captain Woke.

00:36:02.000 So that's exciting stuff.

00:36:03.000 Repentance is possible, people.

00:36:05.000 All you have to do is take your entire family and just toss them under the bus.

00:36:08.000 And meanwhile, Megan, what a victim. 1.00

00:36:10.000 What a, I mean, what a difficult life she has led. 0.98

00:36:13.000 I can't speak enough about what a heroine she is.

00:36:16.000 I mean, just the amount of heroism that she displayed by going on Oprah and ripping on her in-laws' family for fame and fortune. 0.95

00:36:22.000 I mean, truly incredible stuff.

00:36:25.000 It's tough.

00:36:26.000 It's tough.

00:36:27.000 I mean, so many tough things have happened to Meghan Markle.

00:36:29.000 Like one time Kate Middleton taught her to curtsy. 0.62

00:36:31.000 Or Prince Harry taught her to curtsy right before she met the Queen. 0.99

00:36:34.000 You know, it's just because she was an ignorant American, you see. 0.99

00:36:36.000 And then she was ushered into the halls. 0.99

00:36:39.000 But then she, she saw the flaws in the royal family in a way no one else could because she'd experienced American-style racism.

00:36:46.000 So she was shocked to see it in the halls of royalty.

00:36:50.000 That's it.

00:36:51.000 By the way, Netflix movie coming out in a year.

00:36:53.000 Watch.

00:36:54.000 Starring them, probably.

00:36:56.000 Maybe, I don't know.

00:36:57.000 Maybe she'll recast herself, but I don't know.

00:36:59.000 Maybe she likes seeing herself on film.

00:37:00.000 Who the hell knows?

00:37:00.000 In any case, here she was explaining, you know, Prince Harry taught her to curtsy.

00:37:04.000 She was just a little down-home girl from America, and she came in, and she had to learn the ways of the royals, but only she was able to identify their deepest secret flaw.

00:37:16.000 Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Harry and I are in the car, and he says, OK, well, my grandmother's there, so you're going to meet her.

00:37:30.000 I go, great!

00:37:31.000 I loved my grandmother.

00:37:32.000 I used to take care of my grandmother.

00:37:33.000 This is great.

00:37:33.000 He goes, right, do you know how to curtsy?

00:37:36.000 What?

00:37:37.000 I said, do you know how to curtsy?

00:37:39.000 Now, I thought genuinely that that was what happens Oh my god.

00:37:44.000 She never realized she was supposed to curtsy before the Queen?

00:37:48.000 Um, so that's, what a difficult, I mean how difficult must that have been?

00:37:51.000 grandmother, he goes, it's the queen.

00:37:53.000 Wow.

00:37:54.000 And that was really the first moment that the penny dropped.

00:37:57.000 Oh my God.

00:37:59.000 She never realized she was supposed to curtsy before the queen?

00:38:03.000 So that's what a difficult, I mean, how difficult must that have been to have to curtsy before the queen of England?

00:38:08.000 My God, how humiliating.

00:38:10.000 You know, like every other human who curtsies before the Queen of England or bows before the Queen of England? 0.94

00:38:14.000 Can't believe it. 0.72

00:38:15.000 Just crazy.

00:38:16.000 Crazy, crazy stuff.

00:38:17.000 And that's when the penny dropped and she was about to learn of the predations of the royals.

00:38:23.000 By the way, it's not all on Meghan Markle.

00:38:25.000 Harry's the actual villain of this piece.

00:38:27.000 Harry grew up with these people, and now he's just dumping all over his entire family. 1.00

00:38:31.000 Harry's a bag of garbage. 1.00

00:38:32.000 Harry is terrible. 1.00

00:38:34.000 Harry was, Captain, I'm going to dress up however I want to dress up. 0.99

00:38:38.000 I'm going to go to Las Vegas and get naked and smoke pot on the basis of my royal heritage.

00:38:42.000 And then he's like, and you know what I'm going to do now?

00:38:44.000 I'm going to take my entire family.

00:38:45.000 I'm just going to drive this bus over them, back up the bus over them, because my wife wants to be a famous actress and wasn't very good in suits. 1.00

00:38:51.000 Now she wants it.

00:38:52.000 So I'm going to go right along.

00:38:53.000 The real villain here is not even Megan.

00:38:55.000 Megan is whatever Megan is. 0.99

00:38:57.000 Harry is the one who's the villain.

00:38:59.000 It's his family, right?

00:39:01.000 Whatever I think of Megan, I think twice as badly of Harry.

00:39:04.000 OK, so.

00:39:05.000 And then Meghan Markle starts talking about how difficult, she starts talking about how racist everyone was.

00:39:12.000 And she relates a conversation in which apparently somebody asked how dark her son's skin would be.

00:39:17.000 Now, this would be an excellent time for Oprah, being the interviewer, to ask, okay, can you name a name?

00:39:21.000 I mean, that would be the, if someone says something as overtly racist as, how dark is your son's skin going to be? 0.99

00:39:27.000 First of all, what kind of stupid, like, I'm just gonna say it, I don't believe that happened. 0.99

00:39:31.000 I don't think that happened. 1.00

00:39:33.000 Honestly, God, I don't think it happened.

00:39:34.000 The reason I don't think that happened is because no one says anything like that. 0.96

00:39:37.000 That's a ridiculous question. 0.92

00:39:39.000 How dark is your son's skin going to be? 1.00

00:39:41.000 Like.

00:39:42.000 Beyond like the racism of it. 1.00

00:39:45.000 The actual stupidity, like the human stupidity. 1.00

00:39:49.000 of having to ask that question. 1.00

00:39:51.000 Do you not know what biracial children look like?

00:39:54.000 Like that's a, what?

00:39:56.000 Because I don't believe this for a second, but here she is saying a thing, plus she's a, maybe it's true and she's such a bad actress that I can't even tell that it's true.

00:40:01.000 That's possible too.

00:40:02.000 Here is Meghan Markle. 0.52

00:40:03.000 In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of, he won't be given security, he's not gonna be given a title.

00:40:18.000 And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.

00:40:24.000 Thanks for watching!

00:40:27.000 What?

00:40:28.000 Cut away to Oprah looking all shocked. 0.99

00:40:31.000 Um, yeah.

00:40:32.000 Um, mhm.

00:40:34.000 And of course she connects the fact that Harry, who is like ninth in line for the throne at this point, that Harry is not going to get the security, he's not going to get all this stuff, and again, I believe at this point they'd already decided they wanted to move to America.

00:40:47.000 That that was going to be the basis for- That was going to be the basis- It was all about skin color. 0.95

00:40:52.000 Of course, it was all about the rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Now, again, I don't know the truth or falsehood of any of these statements.

00:41:09.000 I do know that once you claim that you were suicidal, that you had suicidal ideation, then people generally should not question that.

00:41:17.000 So, I will assume that this is true.

00:41:20.000 I also will assume that I have no idea what anybody else did around her because I don't think that she's a credible source about anything other than her own feelings.

00:41:27.000 I think most people are credible sources on their own feelings, but people tend not to be credible sources when their self-interest is at stake.

00:41:33.000 Here's Meghan Markle, then, trying to impute to the royal family a lack of care for her suicidal ideation, which is a hell of an accusation to make.

00:41:40.000 Look, I was really ashamed to say it at the time, and ashamed to have to admit it to Harry especially, because I know how much loss he's suffered.

00:41:53.000 But I knew that if I didn't say it, that I would do it.

00:41:59.000 And I just didn't, I just didn't wanna be alive anymore.

00:42:02.000 Okay, and then what she says is that she went to the institution and they were like, you can't get outside help because if you get outside help, then that is gonna become a story in and of itself.

00:42:10.000 Well, okay, first of all, Meghan Markle was a story from like the day that she joined the royal family because she started lecturing everybody inside the palace about race.

00:42:19.000 I mean, she was in the tabloids every single day.

00:42:22.000 So that's number one.

00:42:22.000 Number two, if you think there aren't healthcare workers on staff at the palace, I have doubts.

00:42:27.000 Okay, so I'm not gonna question her suicidal ideation.

00:42:30.000 I am going to question the story.

00:42:32.000 Because again, no names, no specifics.

00:42:34.000 It is all these broad allegations that are being made.

00:42:36.000 And in fact, post-interview, apparently Harry has now come out and says, you know who it wasn't?

00:42:40.000 It wasn't Elizabeth and it wasn't Prince Philip.

00:42:42.000 It wasn't any of the people who people actually care about from the royal family.

00:42:45.000 But they won't name names.

00:42:47.000 Okay, so this was pretty fun.

00:42:49.000 At a certain point, Oprah actually asked Meghan if she left the royal family to brand build.

00:42:55.000 And Megan is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:42:58.000 Of course not.

00:42:59.000 There she was.

00:43:01.000 There are even stories that you knew all along that this was going to happen.

00:43:05.000 You went through the whole process and it was all intentional to build your brand.

00:43:11.000 Can you imagine how little sense that makes?

00:43:15.000 I left my career, my life, I left everything because I love him, right?

00:43:21.000 And our plan was to do this forever.

00:43:23.000 Our plan for me, I mean, I wrote letters to his family when I got there saying, I am dedicated to this.

00:43:32.000 I'm here for you.

00:43:34.000 Use me as you'd like.

00:43:35.000 There was no...

00:43:37.000 The beginning?

00:43:38.000 as well, right? There were certain things that you couldn't do, but you know, unlike what you see in the movies, there's no class on how to, how to speak, how to cross your legs, how to be royal. There's none of that training that might exist for other members of the family. That was not, okay. Okay. The beginning, the beginning part of that, that's I'm sorry.

00:43:58.000 That's just from any angle, that is super funny.

00:44:01.000 So Oprah's like, so did you like join the royal family and then you knew that you were going to build your career that way?

00:44:05.000 And she's like, can you imagine?

00:44:08.000 I left my career as a second rate actress in a third tier part on suits to be a princess.

00:44:16.000 And somebody would suggest that I did that for career purposes? 0.99

00:44:20.000 No, I did it because I love this dumbass over here. 0.98

00:44:22.000 It's because I love the guy sitting next to me. 0.99

00:44:25.000 This guy.

00:44:26.000 Right here.

00:44:27.000 Prince Harry, Captain Lovable.

00:44:29.000 Love that guy.

00:44:29.000 I mean, I left a job on suits.

00:44:33.000 On suits.

00:44:38.000 Yeah, I'm sure it was all pure love.

00:44:39.000 Listen, maybe they love each other.

00:44:40.000 That's fine.

00:44:42.000 Sure.

00:44:43.000 All right.

00:44:44.000 Sure.

00:44:45.000 I'm sure career had nothing to do with it.

00:44:48.000 Like, I'm sorry.

00:44:50.000 I left my job on suits, and you're suggesting that maybe becoming a princess was a career move?

00:44:59.000 A little.

00:45:00.000 A little, I'm suggesting.

00:45:02.000 Because, um, that is not a horizontal move right there.

00:45:07.000 I'm sorry, when you think of, like, horizontal versus vertical career moves.

00:45:11.000 Actress on suits, to princess.

00:45:14.000 Is that a horizontal move?

00:45:16.000 I'm going to go no on that one.

00:45:17.000 No.

00:45:19.000 OK, but again, Markle is not the actual villain of this piece.

00:45:23.000 Meghan Markle is whatever Meghan Markle is. 0.99

00:45:25.000 OK, Prince Harry is the villain of the piece.

00:45:27.000 He knows all the members of his family.

00:45:28.000 He's the one who has decided that he is going to go along with whatever his wife wants to do here.

00:45:33.000 And he's going to say terrible, terrible things about his family.

00:45:35.000 And he's going to prove that he is morally superior to his family.

00:45:38.000 So, for example, Prince Harry, he says that he is free.

00:45:42.000 His brother and his father, they are trapped.

00:45:44.000 But he, he is so free now.

00:45:46.000 He's free like a bird.

00:45:47.000 And he is free to speak about the evils of his own family. 0.95

00:45:51.000 First of all, people who dump on their own families typically ask jackasses, like not good people. 0.87

00:45:55.000 Here's Prince Harry. 0.64

00:45:57.000 But I'm free.

00:45:58.000 They're trapped.

00:45:59.000 I'm here with you, Oprah, with you.

00:46:02.000 Here's Prince Harry, who, again, worse than Meghan Markle.

00:46:05.000 Please explain how you, Prince Harry, raised in a palace, in a life of privilege, literally a prince, how you were trapped.

00:46:14.000 Trapped within the system.

00:46:16.000 Like the rest of my family are.

00:46:18.000 My father and my brother, they are trapped.

00:46:22.000 They don't get to leave.

00:46:25.000 And I have huge compassion for that.

00:46:27.000 Wow.

00:46:27.000 I mean, they don't get to leave.

00:46:29.000 They're trapped.

00:46:29.000 But I, I am free here with you, Oprah.

00:46:32.000 And you know, I got cut off from the royal fortune.

00:46:34.000 I could only live on my mother's $25 million endowment.

00:46:39.000 That's really what they said.

00:46:39.000 $25 million.

00:46:42.000 Okay, so there's an actual deeper underlying thing that's going on here, and that has to do with racism and colonialism.

00:46:48.000 There's been this move in Britain to do sort of what you've seen in the United States, which is the entire history of Britain is about colonialism and racism and brutality in the same way that the entire history of America is about racism and colonialism and brutality, right?

00:46:58.000 This is all tied in.

00:47:00.000 And Prince Harry backs that to the hilt.

00:47:02.000 So he starts talking about how he's done the work, right?

00:47:04.000 Other members of the royal family, they didn't do the work.

00:47:06.000 He says racism drove him out of Britain.

00:47:08.000 It was the tabloids and their racism that drove him out of Britain.

00:47:11.000 And then he says, quote, I've spent many years doing the work and doing my own learning, but then my upbringing and the system in which I was brought up and in which I've been exposed to, I wasn't aware of it to start with, but by God, it doesn't take very long to suddenly become aware of it.

00:47:23.000 It takes living in her shoes for a day or those first eight days to see where it was going to go and how far they were going to take it and get away with it.

00:47:30.000 Yes, yes.

00:47:31.000 Now he he's going to lecture the royal family on their race.

00:47:33.000 Again, the only reason he's a relevant figure is because this is a relevant institution.

00:47:37.000 But this is an attempt to tear down the institution.

00:47:39.000 So let's be clear about what this is.

00:47:40.000 OK, at least by Prince Harry.

00:47:42.000 And, you know, I think that Markle is just bringing American brand racial politics to Britain.

00:47:48.000 And it's kind of, it's kind of an ugly sight.

00:47:50.000 It is kind of, especially if you're not willing to name names, because let's be real about this.

00:47:53.000 If somebody said that as an employee of the royal family, and she named the name, they'd be fired.

00:47:58.000 Right now, there's an investigation going on into Meghan Markle, right?

00:48:00.000 Not into the royal family.

00:48:02.000 It's going on into Meghan Markle and how she treated the employees and the staff over there. 0.98

00:48:06.000 The reason this has some deeper significance, though, truly, is because what everybody recognizes is that the British monarchy, being essentially just a facade at this point, that it really doesn't have any institutional power, all it is is just a face for the history of Britain.

00:48:20.000 And when Harry and Meghan make the case that the British monarchy is rife with colonialism and racism, that they have not moved beyond any of that, that there is still this deep systemic racism that is inherent in the most beloved part of the British government, namely the figurehead, What they're really saying is that all of British history and really British society is infused with the same sort of systemic racism they accuse America of having as well.

00:48:43.000 That's what this is all about.

00:48:44.000 And that's a pretty ugly accusation to make without any sort of supporting evidence.

00:48:49.000 And it's a particularly ugly accusation to make when, again, you have been living off the fat of the land.

00:48:53.000 Meghan married into princesshood. 0.96

00:48:55.000 He has been a prince his entire life, shielded from his own crappy decisions for his entire life. 0.97

00:49:01.000 And we are supposed to believe that they are the victims of systemic, brutal, British royal racism. 0.98

00:49:08.000 It's pretty wild stuff.

00:49:09.000 But again, part of a piece, and that piece is something larger, which is the broader attack on institutional pillars in our society, even institutional pillars that don't have a lot of actual power at the moment.

00:49:25.000 Okay, so.

00:49:27.000 Meanwhile, that sort of ties in with the broader argument that's happening in the United States about racism and cancellation and the cleansing of the American body politic.

00:49:37.000 So, what we have seen now is that our First Amendment press, the people who love the First Amendment the most, those folks have decided that cancel culture literally does not exist.

00:49:45.000 It is not a reality.

00:49:46.000 It does not exist in any way, shape, or form.

00:49:48.000 And if you talk about it, it's because you're trying to distract.

00:49:52.000 You really shouldn't be talking about cancellation and destruction and book burning.

00:49:56.000 You shouldn't talk about any of that stuff.

00:49:57.000 Because if you talk about that stuff, it's a distraction from the real issues.

00:50:00.000 Now, let's be quite clear about this.

00:50:02.000 The book burning, the cancellation, all it is designed to do is create an ever-changing standard, a constantly shifting and moving line.

00:50:12.000 That anybody could find themselves on the wrong side of at any time.

00:50:15.000 Because what that does is it creates an innate level of power for the institutional left.

00:50:20.000 If they can cancel you at any time for any reason, then everybody lives in fear.

00:50:23.000 They self-censor, which is what happened with the Dr. Seuss estate, right?

00:50:26.000 They pulled down these books that were supposedly racist.

00:50:29.000 Which again, millions of people have read to their children.

00:50:31.000 None of those... If anyone can provide me a study on how Dr. Seuss made kids more racist, I'm willing to hear it.

00:50:36.000 Seriously, bring it.

00:50:37.000 Bring me a piece of data.

00:50:39.000 Name me.

00:50:39.000 The member of the alt-right who grew up looking at the page of If I Ran the Zoo over and over and over again to decide on white supremacy.

00:50:47.000 It doesn't exist because that's stupid. 0.99

00:50:49.000 Same thing with McGillicudts Pool, which has a fish that looks like an Eskimo, and this is supposed to be terrible. 0.99

00:50:55.000 And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, which has a picture of a Chinese person holding chopsticks. 0.60

00:51:00.000 Like, that has not made any single human being in the United States more racist.

00:51:04.000 None.

00:51:04.000 Okay, but if you sound off about this, then this means that you are racist yourself, right?

00:51:11.000 And if you sound off about cancel culture generally, it's because you're not okay with American change, right?

00:51:15.000 This is the case that I was talking about last week that was made repeatedly by members of the media.

00:51:19.000 That really, if you're against things being canceled, what you're really in favor of is the racism, is the brutality, is the cruelty.

00:51:26.000 Okay, cancel culture doesn't exist.

00:51:28.000 So CNN had an entire segment with John Avalon and Margaret Hoover slamming the GOP and Fox News for focusing on Dr. Seuss.

00:51:35.000 So again, it wasn't the GOP and Fox News that decided to get six Dr. Seuss books canceled.

00:51:42.000 It was the left that decided to do that.

00:51:44.000 And then the right said, I thought book burning was bad.

00:51:46.000 And then the left says, why are you even focusing on the book burning?

00:51:49.000 Because book burning is bad.

00:51:50.000 Let me explain it real slow for you.

00:51:52.000 Book burning is bad.

00:51:55.000 But apparently even paying attention to it is just a distraction tactic.

00:51:58.000 Here are the geniuses over at CNN.

00:52:01.000 Let's have a reality check about Dr. Seuss for one second, and I love Dr. Seuss.

00:52:04.000 It was not cancelled, okay?

00:52:07.000 His estate decided they would stop publishing several books because they contained illustrations that most people, if looking at them objectively, would say, ooh, that's pretty racist.

00:52:17.000 Now, you can debate on individual books, but let's have the individual images that cause the estate of Dr. Seuss to feel uncomfortable and have people defend them.

00:52:26.000 This is not a cancel culture moment.

00:52:27.000 This is a distraction play, and it should not be occupying so much headspace.

00:52:32.000 Okay, so, this is the move that folks on the left like to make when they actually want to restrict rights. 1.00

00:52:37.000 Think back to Charlie Hebdo.

00:52:38.000 Remember the Charlie Hebdo shooting?

00:52:40.000 So, Islamists, terrorists, decided to murder a bunch of people at the French, essentially mad magazine, Charlie Hebdo. 0.97

00:52:48.000 Because they drew a perverse picture of Mohammed in a sex act or something. 0.89

00:52:53.000 And do you remember that the hashtag, I am Charlie Hebdo, trended in the West?

00:52:58.000 Because the idea was that you may not like Charlie Hebdo.

00:53:00.000 They drew a bunch of stuff that was, I thought, extraordinarily anti-Israel, bordering on the anti-Semitic.

00:53:04.000 Okay, but they have every right to do that. 0.99

00:53:07.000 I am Charlie Hebdo.

00:53:08.000 The idea was that even stuff that you don't like ought to be defended as an exercise of free rights.

00:53:14.000 Now the move by CNN is the opposite. 0.97

00:53:16.000 If you are not willing to defend a single Dr. Seuss page, right, the one that people are upset about, then this means that you are actually a hypocrite, right?

00:53:25.000 You have to defend the page in order to defend the right of that book to still be distributed.

00:53:29.000 Now, I'll be completely honest with you.

00:53:31.000 I'm willing to defend if I ran the zoo as a book.

00:53:34.000 I am willing to defend the I'm willing to defend and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street on the basis of a simple fact.

00:53:41.000 Those books have not produced more racism in American society by any measurable level, by any measurable.

00:53:47.000 You cannot find an individual who's been made more racist by If I Ran the Zoo.

00:53:50.000 Not one, not a single human.

00:53:53.000 In other words, you're looking for things to be offended by, and then when you find something that you are offended by, you say, isn't this objectively offensive?

00:53:59.000 And then people who were never offended by it before, they go back and they're like, oh, that does look kind of uncomfortable.

00:54:03.000 And then they say, let's get rid of the literature.

00:54:05.000 That is not the way a free society ought to operate.

00:54:07.000 Instead, people ought to be able to consume what they want to consume.

00:54:10.000 And by the way, people can use their best judgment and know these materials are not making people more racist.

00:54:16.000 It's absurd.

00:54:16.000 It's an absurd contention.

00:54:17.000 It always was an absurd contention.

00:54:19.000 But the idea from CNN now is, That if you are, if you don't think, if you don't love that particular picture in a Dr. Seuss book, how dare you criticize the Dr. Seuss estate for taking this stuff down?

00:54:29.000 Okay, so Kevin McCarthy, the GOP leader.

00:54:32.000 He decided to defend Dr. Seuss who would read Green Eggs and Ham, which doesn't make a ton of sense to me because Green Eggs and Ham is not one of the books being canceled.

00:54:38.000 I would have read, and to think that I, to think I saw it on Mulberry Street.

00:54:41.000 Or if I ran the zoo.

00:54:42.000 I would have just gotten up here and I just would have read it.

00:54:44.000 Because again, even if I don't love those particular images, even I could see why somebody might find them offensive, they have not offended generations of children or made anybody racist.

00:54:54.000 Okay, but Jake Tapper tweeted out, one of the weirdest parts of this culture war is that the self-styled warriors aren't willing to stand by the empirically racist images they're supposedly defending.

00:55:02.000 Green Eggs and Ham is not one of the books the Dr. Seuss Foundation has decided to stop publishing.

00:55:06.000 Okay, now, here is where it gets weird.

00:55:08.000 You don't even have to defend those books to defend the right of those books to be distributed.

00:55:13.000 Right?

00:55:13.000 You don't.

00:55:14.000 You can actually say, I don't like those books.

00:55:16.000 I don't want those books in my house.

00:55:17.000 But people should be able to buy those books.

00:55:19.000 That is true for virtually all books. 1.00

00:55:21.000 I think there are tons of books that offend me and I think are annoying and stupid. 0.95

00:55:25.000 I don't think they should be banned. 0.99

00:55:27.000 I think, objectively speaking, virtually all books written by members of the New York Times op-ed page are moronic. 0.60

00:55:34.000 I don't think any of those should be banned. 0.90

00:55:37.000 It's a bizarre, bizarre contention, right?

00:55:39.000 It's the same contention as we should get rid of freedom of speech because some people say the N-word.

00:55:46.000 Okay, so I think that freedom of speech protects people saying the N-word.

00:55:49.000 That doesn't mean they're protected from societal consequence, but freedom of speech does protect the n-word. 0.97

00:55:53.000 Am I defending the n-word?

00:55:54.000 No, I think the n-word is awful and evil.

00:55:55.000 I don't think anybody should use it, black, white, or green.

00:55:58.000 And I do understand the differences between people of different races using it.

00:56:02.000 But I don't like the n-word.

00:56:03.000 I think it's an ugly word, and I think it should be extirpated from our use of language.

00:56:08.000 Does that mean that you don't have the right to say it?

00:56:09.000 Of course you have the right to say it.

00:56:10.000 You don't have to defend material in order to understand there is a right to use material or see material.

00:56:15.000 That's an absurdity.

00:56:18.000 Okay, but the move of the left is twofold.

00:56:20.000 One is, you're not even willing to defend that picture, so that picture shouldn't exist.

00:56:24.000 And two is, why are you even worrying about all this stuff?

00:56:26.000 Sure, we're trying to cancel random stuff, but you know, what are you worried about?

00:56:30.000 And the answer is, as you keep evolving the standard, so as to maximize your own power, there is no standard.

00:56:34.000 The standard just continues to get broader and broader.

00:56:38.000 So over the weekend, we saw an attempt now to go after Speedy Gonzalez and Pepe Le Pew, right?

00:56:42.000 Notice how they're going after all the kids' stuff.

00:56:44.000 The reason they're going after all the kids' stuff is because they only want their standards taught in school.

00:56:48.000 So it is very dangerous for your kid ever to watch a Pepe Le Pew cartoon, but it is also dangerous for you not to teach your four-year-old boy that he might be a four-year-old girl.

00:56:57.000 In fact, it is mandatory that you teach your child about cross-dressing when they're five.

00:57:01.000 Very important that you teach your kid about the virtues of cross-dressing, but if they watch a Bugs Bunny cartoon in which he cross-dresses for humorous purposes, then this is very bad, and in fact terrible, and you can't do that.

00:57:11.000 Don't worry, they're not trying to control your kid's mind.

00:57:13.000 They're not trying to control how your kids are brought up.

00:57:15.000 The same culture that says that Cardi B is excellent for teenagers says they cannot read a Dr. Seuss book lest they become racist.

00:57:23.000 Yeah, I don't trust you guys. 0.98

00:57:25.000 Well, Jihad Ali, who's an idiot columnist for the Daily Beast, he said, we are fighting about Speedy Gonzales, Dr. Seuss, and Potato Head. 0.96

00:57:31.000 The right wing is raising funds off it and will use it in 2022 for elections. 0.95

00:57:34.000 Zero Republicans voted for the relief bill.

00:57:36.000 Over half a million people are dead.

00:57:37.000 There is a recession. 1.00

00:57:38.000 What a dumb, nutty country. 1.00

00:57:40.000 Well, I mean, first of all, why should they vote for the crappy relief bill? 1.00

00:57:43.000 It was a bad relief bill.

00:57:45.000 Over half a million people are dead and would be dead regardless of whether you were canceling people.

00:57:49.000 It turns out that book burning is a bad idea.

00:57:51.000 And so is going back and removing old cartoons.

00:57:54.000 And you can show these to your kids or not show them to your kids and you contextualize them or not contextualize them.

00:57:58.000 It is my job to raise my kid, not your job to raise my kid.

00:58:03.000 This is the push.

00:58:04.000 And again, if you think it's gonna end with like a few Dr. Seuss books, here's the thing.

00:58:07.000 They already showed their neck.

00:58:08.000 They're gonna come for Cat in the Hat.

00:58:09.000 You know that's next.

00:58:10.000 They've already accused Cat in the Hat of minstrelsy in some bizarre iteration.

00:58:15.000 Again, cancel, but don't worry.

00:58:16.000 It's all in your head.

00:58:17.000 Cancel culture doesn't exist.

00:58:18.000 There's a piece by A.J.

00:58:19.000 Willingham over at CNN called It's Time to Cancel this Talk of Cancel Culture.

00:58:23.000 What exactly is cancel culture?

00:58:24.000 Is it someone getting fired for harassment or problematic views?

00:58:27.000 No, that's a workplace doing its job.

00:58:28.000 Oh, is that what it is?

00:58:30.000 Even though you didn't define problematic.

00:58:32.000 Is it a popular figure losing fans or affiliations because of past actions?

00:58:35.000 No, that's the power of public opinion.

00:58:38.000 Or it's cancellation depending on the content of the past actions and its impact on their current job. 0.72

00:58:43.000 My favorite part of this particular piece from CNN is that they actually cite, this idiot author actually cites Gina Carano as not being canceled because we hired her at Daily Wire. 0.80

00:58:53.000 She was canceled and then we hired her. 0.98

00:58:57.000 What do you not understand about this?

00:58:58.000 But again, if you point out that there is a censorious move on the left, then you are somehow either delusional or participating in cruelty and malice. 0.81

00:59:08.000 By the way, as far as Pepe Le Pew goes, the entire joke of Pepe Le Pew is that he was a pervert. 0.58

00:59:12.000 That was the entire joke.

00:59:13.000 He loses.

00:59:15.000 Pepe Le Pew is a bad guy.

00:59:17.000 That's the whole point of his character. 0.99

00:59:18.000 Pepe Le Pew forwards rape culture. 0.99

00:59:23.000 Again, show me the person who watched Pepe Le Pew and then raped somebody. 0.97

00:59:27.000 Is this common in the rapist community? 0.93

00:59:29.000 I'm unaware.

00:59:30.000 It seems to me that if you're going to connect content with effect, which is what you guys love to do, right?

00:59:35.000 You like to suggest that Donald Trump is responsible for a riot on the Capitol because he said stuff and then people ignored the peaceful part and went and rioted at the Capitol.

00:59:43.000 But the content was connected with the action.

00:59:44.000 So show me how the content was connected with the action with Pepe Le Pew.

00:59:47.000 Show me the rapist who was desperately watching Pepe Le Pew late at night and then decided to go participate in quote-unquote rape culture.

00:59:54.000 It's so bizarre.

00:59:55.000 And again, there's no end to it, of course.

00:59:59.000 When they say that Dr. Seuss... So the original defense of the whole Dr. Seuss thing was, don't worry, we're just stopping the distribution of new books, but you can still go to the library and get the books.

01:00:07.000 CBS then called up libraries and asked whether they would remove Dr. Seuss books.

01:00:13.000 Okay, when journalists do this sort of stuff, when they call up libraries, when they get the intelligent idea to start calling places and asking whether they're gonna remove material, that is not journalism, that is activism.

01:00:21.000 It's a soft way of pressuring these libraries into doing just that.

01:00:25.000 So they called up these places, and as it turns out, yes, there are now libraries that are going to start removing this stuff.

01:00:31.000 That was breaking as of this morning.

01:00:33.000 There are libraries who are going to start removing these books from the shelves so that you cannot see.

01:00:38.000 Talk about how you've seen this evolve over time.

01:00:39.000 And if you think it stops there, it doesn't, of course.

01:00:41.000 LeVar Burton, who used to be the Reading Rainbow guy, now LeVar Burton's the Ban the Reading guy.

01:00:46.000 He says, you know, there's some Twain books that don't age particularly well.

01:00:48.000 Maybe you should ban Huck Finn.

01:00:50.000 Talk about how you've seen this evolve over time.

01:00:53.000 I'm sure there are books that maybe you've read or seen that were, you know, popular or bestsellers that in retrospect you might look at and go, that didn't age very well.

01:01:04.000 Sure.

01:01:05.000 Well, I mean, there are plenty.

01:01:09.000 Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn.

01:01:11.000 They didn't age very well, guys.

01:01:12.000 I mean, if they didn't age very well, probably we should remove them.

01:01:14.000 Probably that's the best particular thing we could do, is just get rid of material.

01:01:18.000 And we can indoctrinate your children at the same time by virtue of just cleansing the marketplace.

01:01:22.000 We can just cleanse it.

01:01:24.000 This is why California is now proposing to ban boys and girls sections at big retailers.

01:01:30.000 You literally will be able, you'll go to a toy store and they won't have boys and girls sections anymore.

01:01:33.000 It'll be banned.

01:01:34.000 You'll be punished for saying that boys and girls are different.

01:01:36.000 Even though, just a note, boys and girls are different and they don't like the same toys.

01:01:40.000 I have a boy, I have two girls, and they don't like the same toys.

01:01:44.000 And it makes it easier for me to shop when the toys are segregated by gender.

01:01:49.000 That does not mean that I can't go over to the boys section and buy my kid a skateboard.

01:01:52.000 I literally bought my daughter a skateboard yesterday.

01:01:54.000 Okay?

01:01:55.000 Kind of a boy toy.

01:01:56.000 So what?

01:01:57.000 It's fine. 1.00

01:01:59.000 But the notion that it's doing some terrible psychological harm, horrible harm, to have a boys and girls section of a toy store is idiotic in the extreme. 0.99

01:02:09.000 But this is the culture we want. 0.99

01:02:11.000 It has to do with indoctrination.

01:02:12.000 It has to do with cramming down a particular vision of society.

01:02:16.000 And it extends over into the tech sphere as well, by the way.

01:02:19.000 Apparently, both Google and Urban Dictionary are now censoring particular terminology.

01:02:24.000 One of those pieces of terminology that they are censoring is the term Blue Anon.

01:02:29.000 So the term Blue Anon, which was used recently by our friend Candace Owens, that term refers to all the conspiracy theories the left has bought into over the past few years, right?

01:02:37.000 Everything from the Russia collusion hoax to the Brett Kavanaugh rape stuff, to Jussie Smollett, to all of that.

01:02:43.000 So Google and Urban Dictionary literally removed that term, Blue Anon, they took it down.

01:02:48.000 I've never heard of a word being banned at any of these places, But apparently Google has censored searches for Blue Anon.

01:02:55.000 You cannot even search for it now.

01:02:58.000 Also, by the way, Google totally games its own system.

01:03:03.000 Google is actively suppressing search results that do not acquiesce to traditional viewpoints of the left.

01:03:10.000 I recommend that you install DuckDuckGo on your computer rather than Google as a way to combat all of this.

01:03:17.000 So the left is changing how you can receive information.

01:03:22.000 They're teaching what kind of materials your children can access.

01:03:25.000 So yay on the transgender propaganda. 1.00

01:03:28.000 Nay on the old Dr. Seuss books.

01:03:31.000 And we are all supposed to just acquiesce to this and pretend that this is not in any way a violation of individual freedom or a change to the culture that is bad.

01:03:37.000 We're supposed to just say, well, you know, that's the way the world works.

01:03:40.000 Or we could stand up and just say no.

01:03:43.000 That's the other thing we could do.

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Princess Woke vs. The Monarchy | Ep. 1210

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