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00:00:24.000Well, we'll get to the utter and total screwing of the Republic in just one second.
00:00:29.000First, let me tell you that if it feels like the walls are closing in, if it feels like perhaps Now might be an excellent time to diversify out of the stock market, considering the tax increases and regulatory increases that are in store, considering what is about to besiege the republic.
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00:00:54.000Well, you can expect that the dollar is going to be devalued.
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00:01:40.000So, Republicans had two extraordinarily winnable races in Georgia last night.
00:01:44.000They proceeded to apparently lose both.
00:01:46.000So, Raphael Warnock, who is a Marxist radical who hates the American founding, believes that America is inherently racist, Who has praised Fidel Castro, Jeremiah Wright, and Louis Farrakhan in no particular order, is going to take a seat in the United States Senate.
00:01:58.000He actually was the candidate who performed the best in Georgia last night.
00:02:01.000Meanwhile, on the other side, John Ossoff appears that he will beat David Perdue in that runoff race.
00:02:07.000Perdue had beat Ossoff by some 80,000 votes in the original November election.
00:02:12.000And now, Ossoff appears to have outperformed Perdue.
00:02:14.000It's within margin of error, which means that there will be a recount, but again, the margin of loss for Perdue looks to be in the tens of thousands of votes.
00:02:21.000It is not in the hundreds of votes, so it is highly unlikely that that race shifts in the direction of the Republicans.
00:02:28.000Before we get to the analysis of why this happened in the first place, and I think we all have some indicators as to why this happened in the first place.
00:02:36.000Let's talk about what this means for the Republic.
00:02:39.000So, obviously Joe Biden now has unified control of the government.
00:02:43.000Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20th, and the Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, will be in charge of the Senate, and Nancy Pelosi will be the Speaker of the House, and the Democrats will have the power to do pretty much anything they want.
00:02:57.000Now, there are some pretty significant limits on that power, as I'll explain in just a moment, but this was the whole pitch, guys.
00:03:04.000Because the shift after the presidential, it meant that there was still the opportunity for Republicans to be able to stymie whatever insanity Democrats had coming down the line.
00:03:11.000It was because the shift after the presidential, it meant that there was still the opportunity for Republicans to be able to stymie whatever insanity Democrats had coming down the line.
00:03:20.000Now that is likely off the table in some pretty significant ways.
00:03:24.000And the election last night was extremely important, not just because of what is happening right now, but also because of what's going down in the future.
00:03:31.000If you look at the status of the 2022 races, for example, if you look forward a couple of years, what you will see is that the Republicans are in quite a bit of trouble in the near future.
00:03:43.000The 2022 Senate map, for example, shows the Democrats will be in defense in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
00:03:51.000Biden won New Hampshire, he won Nevada, he won Arizona, and he won Georgia.
00:03:54.000Okay, so they're only on defense in states that Biden won.
00:03:59.000Okay, and that are newly moving toward the purple slash blue, right?
00:04:03.000Particularly Georgia and Arizona are the shockers there.
00:04:06.000Republicans will be on defense in the Senate in 2022.
00:04:09.000In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, and Iowa.
00:04:12.000Okay, that means at least three of those seats are in serious danger, right?
00:04:16.000Pennsylvania is increasingly a blue state.
00:04:19.000Wisconsin is increasingly a blue state.
00:04:21.000North Carolina is sort of in the middle.
00:04:27.000That means that there is a significant likelihood that Democrats actually pick up Senate seats in 2022, barring some sort of cataclysmic circumstance.
00:04:33.000That's why this mattered so awful much.
00:04:37.000Typically, one-party control of the entire American government does not last for very long.
00:04:41.000In fact, the last three times that it has happened for Democrats within two years, one-party control has faded away.
00:04:48.000And it's very likely that that could happen, for example, in the House of Representatives as opposed to the Senate.
00:04:52.000So in two years, Republicans could have a real good year in the House that are only, I believe, nine seats short of a House majority right now in the House of Representatives.
00:04:59.000So it's quite possible that Republicans take back the House in a couple of years, but we are in for a couple of years of serious hurt.
00:05:06.000The original pitch here should have been in Georgia, if you want to stop Joe Biden, if you want Joe Biden not to have unified control of the government, you need to elect Republicans in these races.
00:05:17.000The problem is, and there were some problems here, that a lot of Republicans still think that Donald Trump is going to be president on January 21st.
00:05:25.000And so it made it very difficult for Perdue or Loeffler to even make the argument they needed to make.
00:05:29.000They're sort of half making it, but they were afraid of ticking off a lot of their own base members who had been told falsely that Trump is still going to be president January 21st.
00:05:39.000As we've discussed, there is no legal pathway for him.
00:05:41.000And what happens today in the Senate is for show.
00:05:43.000It is not a real legal pathway for him.
00:05:46.000So Leffler and Perdue should have been campaigning on, you want to stop Joe Biden from utterly controlling the American government, you need to elect us.
00:06:01.000Here was Joe Biden before the election saying that if you elect Warnock and if you elect Ossoff, if you elect both of them, then we can end this gridlock and we can move forward with my progressive agenda.
00:06:11.000He is pledging that he's going to be the most progressive president since FDR.
00:06:21.000By electing John and the Reverend, you can break the gridlock that has gripped Washington and this nation.
00:06:28.000With their votes in the Senate, we'll be able to make the progress we need to make on jobs, on health care, on justice, on the environment, on so many important things.
00:06:40.000And the counter pitch was, you gotta stop that guy from doing all of this.
00:06:43.000The problem was, Trump kept arguing that he was going to be able to change the results of the certified electoral college votes.
00:06:51.000And thus, many Republicans stayed home.
00:06:53.000I mean, the data that we have show that the people who are least likely to show up in this Georgia runoff elections, in these runoff elections, the people least likely to show up were people who are in rural red counties.
00:07:05.000Exactly the area where Trump usually shows the strongest.
00:07:08.000Because Trump both was not on the ballot for the Republicans, and he was also telling people that if you don't show up, I'll still probably be president on January 21st, so it really is not that big of a deal.
00:07:17.000He went down there and he campaigned, and good for him, he should have campaigned, but the problem was he was also running ads in the last week of the election, saying things like, the election in Georgia was so screwed, You can't trust Kemp.
00:07:29.000You can't trust any of the Republicans in the state legislature.
00:07:31.000And a lot of Republicans just stayed home.
00:07:33.000The Republicans actually did better in the suburbs in this particular election than they did back in November, but it didn't matter because a lot of rural white Republicans did not show up.
00:08:05.000First, let's talk about the fact that right now there are a lot of people coming to your door, and you want to know who those people are, right?
00:08:12.000For both safety and security reasons, and also because it's just good to know what's happening on your property, and maybe you're at the office.
00:08:18.000You still want to know what is going on at your house.
00:08:20.000And that is why Ring is an excellent, excellent device.
00:08:22.000We've had Ring devices on our house for years.
00:08:25.000And as soon as we moved, my wife said, we need to get more Ring devices on the new house.
00:08:29.000That's literally the first thing that we did.
00:08:31.000That's why now is the perfect time to upgrade your doorstep with the Ring Video Doorbell.
00:08:35.000With Ring, you can see and speak to whoever is at the door from anywhere, right on your phone.
00:08:39.000So you're never going to miss a visitor, whether it's your neighbor, your dinner, your groceries, or you can keep those packages and deliveries safe.
00:08:45.000With motion detection, you'll get notified even if they don't ring the doorbell.
00:08:48.000If somebody stops by or something is going on, Ring lets you know.
00:08:50.000This is really useful for me because I have kids who are constantly running out the front door and I can hear that little Ring device chime and I now know that my kids are running out the front door and I can go and I can stop them.
00:08:59.000I love having the Ring Video Doorbell.
00:09:00.000I've actually added some Ring security cameras around the house as well.
00:09:18.000Okay, so what is going to happen next?
00:09:20.000So right now, basically the hopes of the Republic lie with Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia.
00:09:27.000The only reason that Joe Manchin is still in the Senate in West Virginia Is because he is a very right-wing Democrat, meaning he has institutionally allied himself with left-wing members of the Republican caucus, pretty often people like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
00:09:41.000He also happens to be an institutionalist in the mold of John McCain, which means that he is anti-getting-rid-of-the-filibuster and he is anti-packing-the-court.
00:09:49.000Here is Joe Manchin, not all that long ago, saying that he is not going to stand in favor of killing the filibuster or expanding the Supreme Court.
00:09:56.000I commit to you tonight, and I commit to all of your viewers and everyone else that's watching, I want to lay those fears, I want to rest those fears for you right now because when they talk about whether it be packing the courts or ending the filibuster, I will not vote to do that.
00:10:12.000I will not vote to pack the courts, I think, and I will not vote to end the filibuster.
00:10:16.000Brett, this system, the Senate was so unique body in the world.
00:10:20.000It was made to work together in a bipartisan way.
00:10:23.000And once you start breaking down those barriers, then you lose every every reason that we are the institution that we are the most deliberate body.
00:10:30.000OK, so so watch for Joe Manchin to absolutely be shellacked by the left.
00:10:33.000I mean, every day the pressure is going to be on Joe Manchin because so many of the Democratic hopes for their legislative priorities rest in ramming through everything with 51 votes or 50 plus Kamala Harris.
00:10:44.000So if the filibuster is still in place, you need 60.
00:10:46.000To break the filibuster, you need 60 votes.
00:10:48.000So without killing the filibuster, what exactly can be done?
00:10:50.000And this is why, realistically speaking, Biden is not gonna get most of his agenda here.
00:10:56.000Just on a legislative level, that's a comfort.
00:10:58.000Because what Biden would wish to ram through and what he is capable of ramming through are two very different things.
00:11:03.000The process that he is going to use is a process called budget reconciliation.
00:11:07.000Budget reconciliation is there's a certain area of American law and Senate procedure in which 51 votes, or 50 plus the vice president to break a tie, That number of votes is necessary only in order to pass particular budgetary items.
00:11:21.000So you can't, for example, pass amnesty through budget reconciliation.
00:11:24.000Now, he may not have to pass amnesty through budget reconciliation.
00:11:27.000He may actually have the votes for amnesty.
00:11:29.000This is the thing that I'm most worried about on a pure legislative level.
00:11:32.000There are really three things that I'm worried about on a pure legislative level from Joe Biden with his new Senate majority, which is just unthinkably bad.
00:11:41.000I'm worried significantly about tax increases because of budget reconciliation, which I'll explain in a second.
00:11:46.000I'm worried about immigration because I think there are a lot of soft hearted Republicans and in some cases soft headed Republicans who are going to try and revive the 2013 immigration deal that would not only legalize the so called dreamers, but would actually legalize 11 million people minimum or in the country illegally, right?
00:12:05.000Create a quote unquote pathway to citizenship for them and get very little in return because there are a lot of Republicans out there who still believe that if they're soft on immigration, somehow this is going to shift Latino voters into their into their aisle.
00:12:15.000I don't see the evidence for that at all.
00:12:17.000Donald Trump actually outperformed with Hispanics compared to, for example, Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:12:23.000Romney was very soft on immigration or at least more soft on immigration.
00:12:28.000Trump was very harsh on immigration, and very openly harsh on immigration, and he did much better in 2020 with Hispanics than he did in 2016.
00:12:36.000So the evidence that Republicans would be making a smart electoral move by signing on to some sort of giant amnesty bill that legalizes what is really not 11 million, it's probably closer to 20 million people who are in the country illegally, that seems like bad politics to me, but it would also not be hard, I think, to peel off enough Republicans to defeat a filibuster there.
00:12:55.000That is the top legislative priority that is likely to receive some sort of bipartisan negotiation for Republicans, because Republicans are afraid of the issue, even though they really should not be.
00:13:03.000Even though there actually is a pretty wide consensus in the United States what to do about immigration, which is make sure people don't come into the country illegally.
00:13:09.000If they do come into the country illegally, then you deport them.
00:13:12.000If they've been here for a very long time, then you determine whether they ought to remain in the country based on whether they are of benefit to the United States or whether they are not.
00:13:19.000Everybody basically agrees on that by polling data.
00:13:21.000But Republicans, I think, might well sign on to some sort of amnesty bill, because they've done so in the past.
00:13:27.000So remember, I'm worried about tax increases, I'm worried about immigration, and I'm worried about the public option.
00:13:32.000Because Democrats did use budget reconciliation to pass Obamacare.
00:13:38.000They twisted this process to use budget reconciliation.
00:13:41.000Okay, so what is budget reconciliation?
00:13:43.000And it's gonna get a little abstruse here, but it's important.
00:13:46.000You gotta know these rules, because these are the rules Democrats are going to use if Manchin doesn't cave on the filibuster.
00:13:51.000Now, if Manchin caves on the filibuster, it's all over, right?
00:13:53.000I mean, the country is basically toast.
00:13:54.000If Manchin caves on the filibuster, and if the Democrats get rid of the filibuster in the Senate, Then they would move immediately to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
00:14:02.000states, which would add four senators.
00:14:05.000They would immediately move to pack certain federal courts.
00:14:10.000They would be able to ram through with 51 votes extraordinarily radical legislation on everything from the so-called Green New Deal to the so-called Equality Act.
00:14:18.000But assuming that the filibuster holds, Then what they're going to be able to do probably is amnesty because, again, I'm not sure that filibuster will even hold for amnesty.
00:14:28.000I think they'll be able to do tax increases through budget reconciliation and probably the public option.
00:14:41.000Reconciliation was designed to make sure the United States Senate could pass easily bills dealing with the federal budget.
00:14:47.000Particularly if Congress wanted to reduce the deficit without the threat of a filibuster from the minority party.
00:14:52.000The process begins with a congressional resolution instructing committees in the House and Senate to draw up legislation that saves the federal government a set amount of money.
00:14:59.000So the special privileges under reconciliation come with conditions.
00:15:02.000The goal here was to have the budget not be held up by filibuster every single time, and so there was a rule that was created that you could pass a budget with 51 votes, but certain conditions needed to be met.
00:15:12.000A bill passed under budget reconciliation is forbidden from increasing the federal deficit outside a 10-year window, so you have to wait for the CBO estimate.
00:15:19.000You remember that Republicans did this with the Trump tax cuts.
00:15:22.000They passed that through budget reconciliation, and then they waited for the CBO to say that it wasn't going to raise the deficit outside a 10-year window.
00:15:28.000There is also something known as the Byrd Rule.
00:15:30.000The rule came about in the 1980s after West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd became frustrated with budget reconciliation because his colleagues were using it to advance all sorts of stuff, not just stuff related to spending and revenue, so there's a new standard for what can be included in a reconciliation bill.
00:15:44.000This has been Enshrined in Federal Law.
00:15:46.000So it has to check all of these boxes in order for you to be able to pass it with 50 votes plus Kamala Harris breaking the tie.
00:15:51.000Every time I say that, it just makes me want to spin my head around like the lady from The Exorcist and vomit everywhere.
00:15:57.000Just cover the entire studio in vomit.
00:15:58.000Kamala Harris breaking ties in the Senate.
00:16:02.000Okay, so here is... Sorry, sound engineers.
00:16:05.000Here is the... So here is the bird rule, okay?
00:16:08.000These are the tests for the bird rule.
00:16:10.000One, the provision must change federal spending or revenue.
00:16:12.000Okay, so I can't just be on an unrelated topic like the Equality Act, which is about regulating transgender bathrooms and such.
00:16:19.000Two, if the bill does not meet the budget resolution's instructions to reduce the federal deficit, any provision that results in either increased spending or decreased revenue is removed until it does meet those targets.
00:16:29.000So, any budget that is passed under this is supposed to be revenue neutral.
00:16:33.000This is why, you remember, that they totally gamed the system on this with Obamacare.
00:16:36.000So they came up with these bullcrap explanations of how Obamacare was going to be revenue neutral, even though it actually cost the country, over the years, hundreds of billions of dollars minimum.
00:16:45.000Three, the provision must only affect policies that fall under the jurisdiction of the specific committees that were instructed in the budget resolution.
00:16:51.000Four, the provision's effect on spending or revenue must be more than incidental to its policy impact.
00:16:55.000So in other words, you can't say, yeah, we did a bill on transgender bathrooms and that has a budget impact.
00:17:00.000No, it's gotta be like the primary focus of the bill.
00:17:02.000It has to be very, very central to the bill.
00:17:04.000Five, the provision cannot increase the federal deficit at some point in the future beyond the typical 10-year budget window that is used to evaluate legislation.
00:17:12.000And six, the provision cannot be used to change social security, right?
00:17:15.000That was enshrined to make sure that Republicans didn't use budget reconciliation in order to shore up social security.
00:17:21.000So for health care bills, number four is the real problem, because again, the health care bill could be argued to really not be about the budget at all.
00:17:28.000Now, Democrats have usually gone to the rulemakers in the House, the Senate parliamentarian, and said, OK, well, you know what?
00:17:34.000It actually isn't incidental, and then rammed things through.
00:17:38.000It does create a problem for things like Medicare for all, for example.
00:17:42.000It could be a problem for the public option that Joe Biden is attempting to push.
00:17:48.000It could also not be a problem for that.
00:17:50.000So, budget reconciliation is the way that Senate Democrats are going to get things done.
00:17:55.000That is going to take off the table things like the Green New Deal that radically raise the debt.
00:18:01.000It's going to take off the table things like the Equality Act, thank God, because the Equality Act is really dangerous.
00:18:08.000By the way, again, Joe Biden, when it comes to immigration reform, my concern is that Republicans are going to cave on immigration reform.
00:18:14.000Biden has said over and over and over again he wants comprehensive immigration reform.
00:18:17.000Here he was during the campaign saying that.
00:18:20.000On day one, I'm sending, no matter what the state of this is, to the United States Congress a bill to provide for a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people, number one, in the United States.
00:18:34.000Number two, every DACA student will be able to stay.
00:18:39.000Objective of mine to see to it that we have an immigration system that's consistent with our values and who we say we are.
00:18:47.000Okay, so he really wants to push that, right?
00:18:49.000And we'll see if Republicans cave on it.
00:18:51.000This is where the Republican base is going to need to stand up on its hind legs and say no to its own senators if those senators try and ram through some sort of crappy amnesty bill.
00:18:58.000We're going to get to more of this in just one second.
00:19:00.000Then we'll talk about the real damage that a Biden administration is going to do, because it really is not going to be mainly In the land of legislation.
00:19:07.000Though, of course, it will be in the land of legislation as well.
00:19:09.000First, let's talk about your sleep quality.
00:20:18.000The main threat of the Biden administration is going to be, as I say, through tax increases.
00:20:25.000It's going to be through maybe using budget reconciliation in order to ram through a public option.
00:20:30.000A public option would be a disaster, by the way.
00:20:32.000I know a lot of people don't understand what a public option is, but a public option is basically the federal government sets up an alternative to private health care insurance.
00:20:39.000And the idea is that they are now going to subsidize health care for everyone.
00:20:42.000Right, so there will be a baseline level of healthcare provided by the federal government.
00:20:46.000You don't have to be poor to access it, right?
00:20:47.000You don't have to be on Medicare or Medicaid in order to access this.
00:20:51.000It would just be people will get thrown off their insurance willy-nilly, because employers are not going to want to pay for it.
00:20:56.000Doctors are going to be forced to take it by the federal government, because that's the only way to make a public option work.
00:21:00.000If doctors say, I'm not taking your crappy reimbursement rates, and hospitals say, we're not going to take your reimbursement rates, then you're either going to have to prosecute them, or you're going to have to tie a public option to Medicare and Medicaid.
00:21:11.000Which would bankrupt hospitals and doctors.
00:21:15.000Then you subsidize these programs up the wazoo.
00:21:18.000You force all of the ancillary charges onto the private companies and you bankrupt the private companies.
00:21:22.000There's a reason that every Democrat who talks about the public option talks about it knowing that the eventual goal is the destruction of the private health insurance industry.
00:21:30.000Which is where you're getting your good health care right now.
00:21:32.000The vast majority of Americans are getting their health care there.
00:21:35.000As Heritage points out, you first create the illusion the government plan is less expensive by shifting all the costs to doctors, hospitals, and other providers.
00:21:42.000And then you keep doctors and other providers from rejecting low government payment rates by coercing them into joining the new government health care plan.
00:21:49.000And then you make the private alternatives unaffordable and then you bankrupt them.
00:21:52.000That is the goal of the public option.
00:21:54.000Joe Biden is likely to push that extremely hard.
00:21:57.000We'll see if they can push that through via the budget reconciliation process.
00:22:02.000That depends now on the Senate parliamentarian.
00:22:04.000Before, it would have been a foregone conclusion that would not go anywhere because Republicans would have maintained control of the Senate.
00:22:09.000So now we're going to have to rely on the niceties of the Senate parliamentarian and Joe Manchin.
00:22:29.000So the Senate was not an obstacle to executive action in the first place, but having senators who are capable of stopping broad scale legislation on a simple majority basis would have stymied a lot of the executive action that Joe Biden wanted to push, at least on a rhetorical level.
00:22:48.000Most of what Joe Biden is going to do is going to be on an executive basis.
00:22:50.000It's going to be extraordinarily dangerous.
00:22:53.000What we're going to watch is going to be an exacerbation of the culture wars.
00:22:55.000This is what's tearing apart the country right now.
00:22:57.000This is what folks need to understand.
00:22:58.000What folks really need to understand is that what we have been watching over the past several years is not really argument over legislation.
00:23:14.000The reality is that Yes, politics is downstream of culture, meaning that the vast majority of people vote based on their feelings about politics without actually knowing anything, right?
00:23:23.000Polls show this over and over and over again.
00:23:25.000It's what happened in Georgia last night.
00:23:26.000People didn't know anything about Raphael Warnock, and so they voted for Raphael Warnock.
00:23:30.000The only impression they had of Kelly Loeffler is that Kelly Loeffler was a rich lady who was out of touch with the people.
00:23:37.000And that was because culture is downstream, politics is downstream from culture.
00:23:40.000People had perceptions, widespread perceptions about wealth in America that are not true and systemic American racism that are not true.
00:23:46.000And so they voted in line with those cultural preconditioning sentiments created by an overtly partisan media and a Hollywood structure and a narrative structure that's been created by nearly every institution around you.
00:23:58.000That's how politics is downstream from culture.
00:24:00.000But politics is also part of the culture.
00:24:03.000And what that means is that when you have the federal government of the United States Constantly, in every area, pressing forward the wild left woke social agenda.
00:24:14.000It means that your personal daily life is going to be impacted by this.
00:24:18.000So, let's talk about that for a second.
00:24:41.000It was that Trump understood, on a gut level, the frustration of many Americans with the culture war.
00:24:45.000Those culture wars are going to be exacerbated right now.
00:24:48.000I think what we are going to see right now is Democrats' overreach, not just in terms of legislation, Here's the thing.
00:24:55.000If Democrats overreach in terms of legislation, then the American system is self-correcting.
00:25:00.000Barack Obama overreached in terms of legislation in his first couple of years with Obamacare, and with the giant stimulus bills, and with Cash for Clunkers, and with all this other nonsense.
00:25:09.000And within two years, the Republicans had swept back into power in the House.
00:25:12.000So if the Democrats overreach in terms of legislation, then there will be a blowback to that, politically speaking.
00:25:18.000And again, because the filibuster exists, You can't really overreach in terms of legislation as much as Democrats would love to.
00:25:28.000Where they really can overreach and where it has long-lasting impact, even if there is blowback, is they can overreach in terms of the culture that they push.
00:25:35.000They can continue to overreach along the lines of the cancel culture.
00:25:39.000And when you have the President of the United States, who will be Joe Biden come the end of January, when you have him continuing to push the Obama line with the full compliance of the Senate, and the full compliance of the House, and the full compliance of the big tech companies, who are now deeply afraid, deeply afraid of bipartisan attempt to shut down big tech, Who are now scared crapless of Joe Biden.
00:26:01.000If there had been a Republican Senate and Mitch McConnell was in charge, the big tech companies at least would feel fear from Mitch McConnell.
00:26:09.000Right now they don't feel fear from Mitch McConnell.
00:26:11.000They fear Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden.
00:26:13.000What does that mean for what you get to post on social media and what you get to see on social media?
00:26:17.000If you're worried about big tech predations right now, what do you think when all the members of the big tech upper echelon are in constant cahoots with people who have unified control of American government?
00:26:29.000If you're talking about legislation that could get passed, a bipartisan attempt to crack down on big tech in a way that does not benefit conservatives is highly likely at this point.
00:26:38.000It's going to impact how you speak to your friends and your family.
00:26:43.000The real damage that Barack Obama did as President of the United States was not the legislative damage.
00:26:56.000What he did to the culture is the long-lasting impact of Barack Obama, and it's going to exacerbate.
00:27:00.000It's going to get a lot worse under Joe Biden.
00:27:03.000With the echo chamber of the media behind him, with the echo chamber of a Democratic Senate behind him, with the echo chamber of a Democratic House behind him.
00:27:10.000That's the stuff that is truly dangerous.
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00:28:21.000So as I say, it's the culture war where all this stuff is going to happen.
00:28:24.000Remember, Joe Biden has his foreign policy and the culture war and executive orders where most of this stuff is going to happen.
00:28:30.000But the culture war is what impacts you personally.
00:28:32.000On foreign policy, we already know what he's going to do.
00:28:34.000He's going to try and re-enter the Iran deal and try to wreck all of these peace deals in the Middle East.
00:28:38.000In fact, over the last 48 hours, Biden says that he plans to name A bunch of former Obama administration officials to senior jobs at the State Department and NSC, the National Security Council, in the coming days, according to the Washington Post.
00:28:51.000He's going to nominate Wendy Sherman, the chief U.S.
00:28:53.000negotiator of the garbage Iran nuclear deal, and former number three at the State Department.
00:29:03.000We also knew that he was going to redo things like the education agenda of Betsy DeVos.
00:29:09.000He's going to reinstate a push for critical race theory in public schools.
00:29:15.000He is going to reinstate the awful, awful Title IX standards that suggested kangaroo courts for people who are accused of any sort of sexual misconduct on college campuses.
00:29:25.000Betsy DeVos actually wrote a farewell letter to Congress in which she urged Congress to keep supporting school choice and to resist efforts by the incoming Biden administration to make college free for some students, cancel some student debt.
00:29:36.000Biden is being encouraged to do that through unilateral action.
00:29:50.000Remember, very early on in the race, after Biden had obviously picked up the nomination, he created a unity agenda with Bernie Sanders.
00:29:58.000By the way, worth noting, members of the squad were appointed to the House Oversight Committee.
00:30:02.000So if you've enjoyed the House Oversight Committee's shenanigans for the past several years, get ready for more and worse.
00:30:07.000But in that agenda, in that Biden-Sanders agenda, appeared the following sentences, which are going to be the guiding philosophy when it comes to race and presumably all other quote-unquote anti-discrimination in American life.
00:30:18.000Quote, We need proactive anti-discrimination detection and enforcement.
00:30:22.000On day one, we are committed to taking anti-racist actions for equity across our institutions, including in the areas of education, climate change, criminal justice, immigration, and healthcare, among others.
00:31:05.000The IRS will be militarized on behalf of the woke social agenda.
00:31:08.000Tax plans are gonna be increased across the nation.
00:31:11.000It's going to quash the economic recovery.
00:31:13.000Now, the good news for Joe Biden, because all the stars are aligned for that guy, apparently, the good news for Joe Biden is that because we are in the middle of a COVID pandemic, the economy is artificially depressed right now.
00:31:21.000That means that almost no matter what he does, the economy is still going to grow throughout 2021.
00:31:27.000So he can raise taxes to exorbitant levels.
00:31:49.000But because everybody's out of work right now because of COVID, and as the vaccines start to move through the American economy and people start to go back to work and start to participate in American life again, Biden is going to be able to live off of the fumes of the Trump economy.
00:32:02.000And thanks to the natural bounce that occurs after an artificial depression like we've experienced over the past year, he's going to be able to claim that his policies are actually not that bad.
00:32:17.000It is the problem that you're going to be having in your life with your friends and family who are going to be declaring you, even more so than they... This is not going to decelerate with Trump out of office.
00:32:26.000There are a lot of people out there who seem to be under the impression that with Trump out of office, their friends and neighbors are going to treat them well again.
00:32:46.000Social life is going to become more polarized, not less now.
00:32:49.000Trump at least provided a single point of solidarity for a lot of Republicans who wanted to unify in opposition to the woke cultural agenda.
00:33:00.000I'm gonna get to some solutions in a second to this, because I don't think all hope is lost.
00:33:03.000In fact, I think that this might be the kick in the pants, I hope, the silver lining part of me hopes, that this is the kick in the pants Republicans need to actually stop with the nonsense and do the hard, on-the-ground work of reconstructing a system in order to win broad victories.
00:33:22.000There's Alexis de Tocqueville writing in 1831 about what happens in democracies when cultural despotism occurs.
00:33:29.000He says, the master no longer says, you shall think as I do or you shall die.
00:33:32.000He says, you're free not to think as I do.
00:33:34.000Your life, your goods, everything remains to you.
00:33:37.000But from this day on, you are a stranger among us.
00:33:39.000You shall keep your privileges in the city, but they will become useless to you.
00:33:42.000For if you crave the vote of your fellow citizens, they will not grant it to you.
00:33:45.000If you demand only their esteem, they will still pretend to refuse it to you.
00:33:48.000You shall remain among men, but you shall lose your rights of humanity.
00:33:50.000When you approach those like you, they shall flee you as being impure, and those who believe in your innocence, even they shall abandon you, for one would flee them in their turn.
00:33:57.000Go in peace, I leave you your life, but I leave it to you worse than death, right?
00:33:59.000That is gonna be the culture of the United States.
00:34:03.000That's gonna be the culture of the United States under a unified, democratic, controlled government.
00:34:09.000What can be done to turn back this tidal wave that is coming for you, and coming for your family, and coming for your church, We'll talk about that in just one second.
00:34:19.000Because I do think that there is hope.
00:34:20.000Maybe, maybe, this is the kick in the pants conservatives need to get it together and start acting in solidarity.
00:34:28.000Not with regard to particular legislation or particular politicians, but with regard to each other.
00:34:32.000It is more important that the social fabric that binds not just conservatives, but all Americans who believe in freedom of speech and freedom of association, grow.
00:34:40.000I don't care all that much about which politicians are elected, as long as they leave me alone.
00:34:44.000But, I care about politics because they won't leave you alone.
00:34:47.000I'm much more concerned, I'm not concerned about your loyalty to a particular politician, because politicians are not loyal to you, they are loyal to themselves.
00:34:55.000But I am concerned about the loyalty we have to one another, about the horizontal social fabric of the United States.
00:35:02.000We need to form social ties that help prevent the predations of a top-down federal government and their woke allies in the media, and in the corporate world, and in Hollywood, and in the scientific community.
00:35:22.000First, Our eyes were not meant to look at screens all day.
00:35:26.000Now, I will tell you, like months and months ago, before I had Felix Grey glasses, I would get headaches at night because I stare at screens all day long, right?
00:35:31.000I mean, I look at my computer screen, and then I'm looking at my phone screen, and then I'm watching TV with my wife at night, and spend hours and hours in front of a screen all day.
00:36:34.000Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
00:36:37.000First, there's a reason that millions and millions of Americans believe overt lies about the state of politics, about their fellow Americans, about conservatives.
00:36:46.000And a lot of that has to do with the culture war that we're talking about right now.
00:36:49.000If we don't fight the culture war, if we don't get involved in the culture war, we're going to lose.
00:36:52.000Daily Wire is joining the culture war.
00:36:54.000That is why we are launching our first mainstream motion picture, Run Hyde Fight.
00:36:58.000It's not kind of a typical conservative film with an altar call at the end or with a sort of happy church message.
00:37:06.000The movie is intense, it is violent, it is rated R, it is edgy, and it is designed to draw younger Americans, particularly, to more conservative values.
00:37:14.000The movie follows a high school besieged by a quartet of school shooters when one young girl, 17-year-old Zoe Hull, uses her wits and survival skills to fight back.
00:37:21.000You can watch the full trailer over at the Daily Wire YouTube channel.
00:37:28.000Really, I mean, it's the first time anybody in the conservative world has done anything like this.
00:37:32.000Go check it out right now by going to dailywire.com because Run Hide Fight will be available to watch Friday, January 15th.
00:37:38.000If you're a subscriber at dailywire.com, we will be doing a special live stream premiere the night before on Thursday, January 14th on the Daily Wire YouTube channel.
00:37:46.000Let's kick off 2021 by fighting back in the culture We need to create our own content.
00:37:56.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:37:59.000Okay, so when I say that we're going to have to fight back in the culture, I'm saying that because there are a lot of people who are putting a lot of stake in what happens in the Senate today, as though the Senate is going to challenge electoral votes and then suddenly Trump is going to retain the presidency.
00:38:32.000You're allowed to challenge electoral votes when there's more than one slate of electors legally sent by a particular state, when there's actual fraud and voter irregularity that has been proved.
00:38:42.000You are not allowed to simply challenge votes because you don't like the outcome of votes in particular states.
00:38:46.000And it is not a forum to talk about voter processes within states.
00:38:49.000The federal government was not given charge of this.
00:38:51.000The whole point of the Electoral College is that states are supposed to have the final say in who gets elected President of the United States.
00:38:59.000That is the purpose of the Electoral College.
00:39:00.000To put the federal Congress over that is to essentially grant, I mean, on a moral basis it's wrong, but beyond that, On a political level, it's absolutely asinine for Republicans to want that kind of standard going forward.
00:39:13.000If Republicans want the federal Congress or the national popular vote deciding this thing, Republicans have won one national popular vote in the presidential election since I was four years old.
00:39:23.000It was in 2004, and that was after 9-11, and after an election in which George W. Bush lost the popular vote by half a million in 2000.
00:39:29.000Okay, so the Electoral College, if you want Republicans to win in the future, you need to preserve the Electoral College.
00:39:33.000You don't want to destroy its legitimacy.
00:39:35.000You don't want to suggest that the Federal Congress can simply throw out votes that you don't like.
00:39:40.000And you certainly don't want to suggest that the Vice President has the unilateral power to simply disregard certified Electoral College votes.
00:39:46.000There is no precedent for this in the 12th Amendment.
00:40:09.000Okay, so all this is right now is just a show of upset over the election or a show of fealty to Trump, but it is not intended to actually change the outcome.
00:41:20.000He can also decertify the illegal and corrupt results and send them to the House of Representatives for the one vote for one state tabulation.
00:41:27.000He does not have that power under the Constitution of the United States.
00:41:30.000Okay, that's not what's going to happen today.
00:41:32.000Okay, so the Trumpian solution here is not the solution.
00:41:36.000And by the way, it is worthy of note that this entire last two months did have an impact in two extraordinarily close races in Georgia in probably turning those Democrat.
00:41:47.000There are several key mistakes that were made throughout the past two months on this particular issue and other related issues that probably destroyed the ability of Republicans to hold the Senate.
00:41:57.000And that is not an excuse for David Perdue, who's not a particularly wonderful candidate, or Kelly Loeffler, who's a very not wonderful candidate.
00:42:04.000But the reality is that in Georgia, in an off-year election, in a special election, in which Republicans had every reason to go out and show up at the polls, and Democrats really did not have tremendous reason to show up at the polls, Democrats showed up at the polls more often than Republicans did, in broader numbers.
00:42:39.000Okay, then, the Republicans passed, in the House and in the Senate, in late December, a COVID relief package.
00:42:45.000And David Perdue began running ads on it.
00:42:46.000And Kelly Loeffler began running ads on it.
00:42:48.000And these ads were good ads, because these ads were designed to show that Democrats had obstructed COVID relief in the middle of a pandemic for political purposes.
00:42:57.000And then, Donald Trump decided, in a fit of pique, that he was going to reject the COVID relief bill and call for a $2,000 check to be put out to everybody.
00:43:06.000Okay, which meant that now John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock could claim that the actual obstructionists were all of the Republicans who had just voted for a COVID relief bill that the Democrats had stymied for six months.
00:43:18.000And that it was the Democrats who were truly generous.
00:43:20.000I mean, Joe Biden, the day before the election said, if you give me these senators, you will get a $2,000 check in the mail.
00:43:27.000You know who created the groundwork for that?
00:43:30.000Because Chuck Schumer embraced it, and so did Nancy Pelosi.
00:43:32.000And you can blame Perdue and Loeffler for not getting on board with the $2,000 check idea, but that wouldn't have even been out there because the bill was passed and done.
00:43:44.000When the president of the United States, it doesn't matter how often he goes down and he rallies in these areas, when those rallies circulate around the idea that the Georgia election was fraudulent in November, and he provided no hard proof that the Georgia election was fraudulent in November, when you do that over and over and over, when you run ads in the week of the election suggesting that Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp and all the Republicans in the state legislature and all of those Republicans are basically bought off or basically corrupt or screwing this thing up or that you're a schmuck to support them,
00:44:12.000Do you think that the people who love Trump are gonna go out and vote in mass numbers for David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler?
00:44:19.000Or are they gonna do what Lin Wood was telling them to do?
00:44:56.000Exactly the people that Donald Trump is supposed to appeal to the most, rural white voters.
00:45:01.000In fact, if rural white voters had showed up in the same numbers this time around as they did back in the beginning of November, then the Republicans would have held.
00:45:11.000Not only that, Republicans have been bleeding out in the suburbs for years, right?
00:45:14.000I mean, if you look at the actual district where Ossoff did well this time, those were districts won by David Perdue in 2014.
00:45:22.000There's as much of a 20 to 30 point swing in some of these districts, in some of these counties, over the last six years.
00:45:29.000That has to do with the fact that Republicans basically between 2012 and 2020 traded away a lot of their suburban support in favor of rural support.
00:45:44.000Hey, but by making himself the senator, Democrats showed up and every day, Warnock and Ossoff did not even campaign really against Perdue and Loeffler.
00:45:52.000They campaigned against Trump because Trump was on the TV every single day talking about how he was gonna shift the election and how Georgia had been screwed up.
00:45:59.000And Warnock and Loeffler and Warnock and Ossoff were on TV every day saying, Donald Trump wants to disenfranchise you.
00:46:17.000Black voters showed up to the polls in droves.
00:46:19.000Meanwhile, Trump depressed his own vote in Georgia for those Georgia senators.
00:46:24.000So the hope that Donald Trump would retain, and beyond that, finally, when Donald Trump maintained over and over, as he is maintaining today, by the way, that he will still be in office on January 21st.
00:46:35.000It said to a lot of Republicans, OK, well, I want to punish the Georgia Republican Party for not standing with Donald Trump.
00:46:40.000And I have faith that Donald Trump is not lying to me and that on January 21st, he will still be president.
00:46:44.000And so it doesn't matter what I do with the Senate.
00:46:46.000Those Senate Republicans are cucks and those Senate Republicans don't deserve my support.
00:47:53.000OK, early voting, en masse early voting is morally wrong, not because it's wrong to vote early on an individual level, but because when you have tons of people who are voting three, four weeks before an election, a lot of stuff happens in those three to four weeks.
00:48:05.000Election Day is known as Election Day because it is Election Day.
00:48:08.000Now, if you have a health problem, if you have a legit reason why you can't vote that day, that's one thing.
00:48:13.000But the notion that anybody, for any reason, should be voting two months in advance of an election, it's ridiculous.
00:48:41.000And in the meantime, there's going to need to be another thing that is done.
00:48:44.000And that is we need a cultural solidarity movement between conservatives and classical liberals and people who still love basic freedoms in the United States.
00:48:56.000We are going to need a cultural solidarity movement.
00:48:59.000I want to talk about that for just one second.
00:49:01.000We are going to need a movement where people support one another.
00:49:06.000Where when somebody gets fired, conservatives rehire the person.
00:49:10.000Where when one person sounds off inside a company, a thousand people sound off inside the company.
00:49:15.000Folks on the left are excellent at this sort of cultural solidarity.
00:49:18.000It's why you see Folks unionizing over at Alphabet, the Google company.
00:49:23.000I'm not calling for conservatives to unionize.
00:49:25.000I'm saying that conservatives need to say to their employers that if you start firing people based on their political point of view, we will all walk out.
00:49:34.000That we are not going to tolerate being forced to parrot the woke memery of our employers.
00:49:40.000That if we're in college, and the college administrators decide to go after conservatives, or they decide to put in place bad administrative features, that we're going to go to the donors and we're going to remove our money from the system.
00:49:52.000Democrats have acted with solidarity, and they've used that solidarity to cram down their particular agenda.
00:49:58.000Conservatives need to build alternative sources of information.
00:50:02.000They need alternative sources of entertainment.
00:50:03.000They need to do what the left has been doing.
00:50:06.000Because the right believes in the power of markets, because the right believes in the power of individuals, we don't think institutionally.
00:50:24.000You want to know why America has moved consistently to the left since the 1960s?
00:50:29.000It's because one by one, the left, the radical left increasingly, has taken over nearly every institution in American life, forced it to the left, and forced everybody else to shut up.
00:50:38.000They've engaged in a renormalization effort that has succeeded.
00:50:50.000You have to get together with other people.
00:50:51.000You have to make the connections and you have to stand up as one.
00:50:54.000It's not enough to have one person stand up and get fired.
00:50:56.000It's not enough to have one person standing in the, even a politician, even President Trump, it's not enough to have one person standing in the river of culture and holding up his hand and saying, no, we all have to do it together.