The Ben Shapiro Show - So... How F#%&$D Are We? | Ep. 1167

00:00:00.000 Democrats take Georgia's Senate seats and with it unified control of the American government.

00:00:04.000 Republicans focus on a last gasp effort to stave off certified Electoral College results.

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00:00:24.000 Well, we'll get to the utter and total screwing of the Republic in just one second.

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00:01:33.000 So! 0.81

00:01:36.000 Yep! 0.98

00:01:37.000 Things suck all the way around. 0.97

00:01:40.000 So, Republicans had two extraordinarily winnable races in Georgia last night. 0.97

00:01:44.000 They proceeded to apparently lose both.

00:01:46.000 So, 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.

00:01:58.000 He actually was the candidate who performed the best in Georgia last night.

00:02:01.000 Meanwhile, on the other side, John Ossoff appears that he will beat David Perdue in that runoff race.

00:02:07.000 Perdue had beat Ossoff by some 80,000 votes in the original November election.

00:02:12.000 And now, Ossoff appears to have outperformed Perdue.

00:02:14.000 It'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.

00:02:21.000 It is not in the hundreds of votes, so it is highly unlikely that that race shifts in the direction of the Republicans.

00:02:26.000 So, let's start with what this means.

00:02:28.000 Before 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.

00:02:34.000 The stats on this are pretty good.

00:02:36.000 Let's talk about what this means for the Republic.

00:02:39.000 So, obviously Joe Biden now has unified control of the government.

00:02:43.000 Joe 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.

00:02:57.000 Now, there are some pretty significant limits on that power, as I'll explain in just a moment, but this was the whole pitch, guys.

00:03:02.000 This is why Georgia mattered.

00:03:04.000 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. 0.89

00:03:04.000 It was. 0.89

00:03:09.000 What just happened in Georgia?

00:03:11.000 It 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.

00:03:20.000 Now that is likely off the table in some pretty significant ways.

00:03:24.000 And 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.

00:03:31.000 If 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.

00:03:43.000 The 2022 Senate map, for example, shows the Democrats will be in defense in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire.

00:03:51.000 Biden won New Hampshire, he won Nevada, he won Arizona, and he won Georgia.

00:03:54.000 Okay, so they're only on defense in states that Biden won.

00:03:59.000 Okay, and that are newly moving toward the purple slash blue, right?

00:04:03.000 Particularly Georgia and Arizona are the shockers there.

00:04:06.000 Republicans will be on defense in the Senate in 2022.

00:04:09.000 In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, and Iowa.

00:04:12.000 Okay, that means at least three of those seats are in serious danger, right?

00:04:16.000 Pennsylvania is increasingly a blue state.

00:04:19.000 Wisconsin is increasingly a blue state.

00:04:21.000 North Carolina is sort of in the middle.

00:04:24.000 Florida has moved red.

00:04:25.000 Iowa has moved red.

00:04:27.000 That means that there is a significant likelihood that Democrats actually pick up Senate seats in 2022, barring some sort of cataclysmic circumstance.

00:04:33.000 That's why this mattered so awful much.

00:04:37.000 Typically, one-party control of the entire American government does not last for very long.

00:04:41.000 In fact, the last three times that it has happened for Democrats within two years, one-party control has faded away.

00:04:47.000 It has dissipated.

00:04:48.000 And it's very likely that that could happen, for example, in the House of Representatives as opposed to the Senate.

00:04:52.000 So 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.

00:04:59.000 So 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.

00:05:05.000 That was the pitch, okay?

00:05:06.000 The 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.

00:05:17.000 The 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.

00:05:25.000 And so it made it very difficult for Perdue or Loeffler to even make the argument they needed to make.

00:05:29.000 They'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.

00:05:37.000 He is not.

00:05:37.000 There is no pathway for him.

00:05:39.000 As we've discussed, there is no legal pathway for him.

00:05:41.000 And what happens today in the Senate is for show.

00:05:43.000 It is not a real legal pathway for him.

00:05:46.000 So 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.

00:05:52.000 They couldn't.

00:05:53.000 That was taken off the table.

00:05:54.000 So what does that mean?

00:05:55.000 It now means that the Democrats are going to control all three branches of government and the gridlock will be broken.

00:06:00.000 Joe Biden was saying this himself.

00:06:01.000 Here 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.

00:06:11.000 He is pledging that he's going to be the most progressive president since FDR.

00:06:14.000 So good luck with that.

00:06:16.000 The power is literally in your hands.

00:06:21.000 By electing John and the Reverend, you can break the gridlock that has gripped Washington and this nation.

00:06:28.000 With 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.

00:06:39.000 Okay, so this was the pitch, right?

00:06:40.000 And the counter pitch was, you gotta stop that guy from doing all of this.

00:06:43.000 The problem was, Trump kept arguing that he was going to be able to change the results of the certified electoral college votes.

00:06:51.000 And thus, many Republicans stayed home.

00:06:53.000 I 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.

00:07:05.000 Exactly the area where Trump usually shows the strongest.

00:07:08.000 Because 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.

00:07:17.000 He 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.

00:07:28.000 You can't trust Raffensperger. 1.00

00:07:29.000 You can't trust any of the Republicans in the state legislature.

00:07:31.000 And a lot of Republicans just stayed home.

00:07:33.000 The 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.

00:07:41.000 All the Democrats showed up.

00:07:43.000 The Democratic turnout rates were over 90% of what they were in November, which is unheard of for a special election.

00:07:49.000 The Republicans' turnout rates were closer to 87 or 88%.

00:07:51.000 That was the entire difference in these votes.

00:07:54.000 Okay, so the campaign should have been Stop Joe Biden, and it wasn't Stop Joe Biden.

00:07:59.000 Okay, so what does that actually mean for the future of the country?

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00:09:18.000 Okay, so what is going to happen next?

00:09:20.000 So right now, basically the hopes of the Republic lie with Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia.

00:09:27.000 The 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.

00:09:41.000 He 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.

00:09:49.000 Here 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.

00:09:56.000 I 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.

00:10:12.000 I will not vote to pack the courts, I think, and I will not vote to end the filibuster.

00:10:16.000 Brett, this system, the Senate was so unique body in the world.

00:10:20.000 It was made to work together in a bipartisan way.

00:10:23.000 And 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.

00:10:30.000 OK, so so watch for Joe Manchin to absolutely be shellacked by the left.

00:10:33.000 I 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.

00:10:44.000 So if the filibuster is still in place, you need 60.

00:10:46.000 To break the filibuster, you need 60 votes.

00:10:48.000 So without killing the filibuster, what exactly can be done?

00:10:50.000 And this is why, realistically speaking, Biden is not gonna get most of his agenda here.

00:10:55.000 So that's a comfort, right?

00:10:56.000 Just on a legislative level, that's a comfort.

00:10:58.000 Because what Biden would wish to ram through and what he is capable of ramming through are two very different things.

00:11:03.000 The process that he is going to use is a process called budget reconciliation.

00:11:07.000 Budget 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.

00:11:21.000 So you can't, for example, pass amnesty through budget reconciliation.

00:11:24.000 Now, he may not have to pass amnesty through budget reconciliation.

00:11:27.000 He may actually have the votes for amnesty.

00:11:29.000 This is the thing that I'm most worried about on a pure legislative level.

00:11:32.000 There 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.

00:11:40.000 Here are the three things.

00:11:41.000 I'm worried significantly about tax increases because of budget reconciliation, which I'll explain in a second.

00:11:46.000 I'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?

00:12:05.000 Create 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.

00:12:15.000 I don't see the evidence for that at all.

00:12:17.000 Donald Trump actually outperformed with Hispanics compared to, for example, Mitt Romney in 2012.

00:12:23.000 Romney was very soft on immigration or at least more soft on immigration.

00:12:28.000 Trump 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.

00:12:36.000 So 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.

00:12:55.000 That 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.

00:13:03.000 Even 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.

00:13:09.000 If they do come into the country illegally, then you deport them. 1.00

00:13:12.000 If 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.

00:13:19.000 Everybody basically agrees on that by polling data.

00:13:21.000 But Republicans, I think, might well sign on to some sort of amnesty bill, because they've done so in the past.

00:13:27.000 So remember, I'm worried about tax increases, I'm worried about immigration, and I'm worried about the public option.

00:13:32.000 Because Democrats did use budget reconciliation to pass Obamacare.

00:13:37.000 They did use this process.

00:13:38.000 They twisted this process to use budget reconciliation.

00:13:41.000 Okay, so what is budget reconciliation?

00:13:43.000 And it's gonna get a little abstruse here, but it's important.

00:13:46.000 You gotta know these rules, because these are the rules Democrats are going to use if Manchin doesn't cave on the filibuster.

00:13:51.000 Now, if Manchin caves on the filibuster, it's all over, right?

00:13:53.000 I mean, the country is basically toast.

00:13:54.000 If 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.

00:14:02.000 states, which would add four senators.

00:14:05.000 They would immediately move to pack certain federal courts.

00:14:10.000 They 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.

00:14:18.000 But 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.

00:14:28.000 I think they'll be able to do tax increases through budget reconciliation and probably the public option.

00:14:31.000 OK, so what is budget reconciliation?

00:14:33.000 So Vox did a did a rundown of this, and this actually happens to be a fairly decent rundown talking about what budget reconciliation is.

00:14:40.000 They did this back in 2019.

00:14:41.000 Reconciliation was designed to make sure the United States Senate could pass easily bills dealing with the federal budget.

00:14:47.000 Particularly if Congress wanted to reduce the deficit without the threat of a filibuster from the minority party.

00:14:52.000 The 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.

00:14:59.000 So the special privileges under reconciliation come with conditions.

00:15:02.000 The 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.

00:15:12.000 A 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.

00:15:19.000 You remember that Republicans did this with the Trump tax cuts.

00:15:22.000 They 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.

00:15:28.000 There is also something known as the Byrd Rule.

00:15:30.000 The 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.

00:15:44.000 This has been Enshrined in Federal Law.

00:15:46.000 So 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.

00:15:51.000 Every time I say that, it just makes me want to spin my head around like the lady from The Exorcist and vomit everywhere.

00:15:57.000 Just cover the entire studio in vomit.

00:15:58.000 Kamala Harris breaking ties in the Senate.

00:16:00.000 Unbelievable.

00:16:00.000 Un-effing-believable.

00:16:02.000 Okay, so here is... Sorry, sound engineers.

00:16:05.000 Here is the... So here is the bird rule, okay?

00:16:08.000 These are the tests for the bird rule.

00:16:10.000 One, the provision must change federal spending or revenue.

00:16:12.000 Okay, so I can't just be on an unrelated topic like the Equality Act, which is about regulating transgender bathrooms and such.

00:16:19.000 Two, 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.

00:16:29.000 So, any budget that is passed under this is supposed to be revenue neutral.

00:16:33.000 This is why, you remember, that they totally gamed the system on this with Obamacare.

00:16:36.000 So 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.

00:16:45.000 Three, the provision must only affect policies that fall under the jurisdiction of the specific committees that were instructed in the budget resolution.

00:16:51.000 Four, the provision's effect on spending or revenue must be more than incidental to its policy impact.

00:16:55.000 So in other words, you can't say, yeah, we did a bill on transgender bathrooms and that has a budget impact.

00:17:00.000 No, it's gotta be like the primary focus of the bill.

00:17:02.000 It has to be very, very central to the bill.

00:17:04.000 Five, 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.

00:17:12.000 And six, the provision cannot be used to change social security, right?

00:17:15.000 That was enshrined to make sure that Republicans didn't use budget reconciliation in order to shore up social security.

00:17:21.000 So 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.

00:17:28.000 Now, Democrats have usually gone to the rulemakers in the House, the Senate parliamentarian, and said, OK, well, you know what?

00:17:34.000 It actually isn't incidental, and then rammed things through.

00:17:38.000 It does create a problem for things like Medicare for all, for example.

00:17:42.000 It could be a problem for the public option that Joe Biden is attempting to push.

00:17:48.000 It could also not be a problem for that.

00:17:50.000 So, budget reconciliation is the way that Senate Democrats are going to get things done.

00:17:55.000 That is going to take off the table things like the Green New Deal that radically raise the debt. 0.72

00:17:59.000 Radically raise it.

00:18:01.000 It's going to take off the table things like the Equality Act, thank God, because the Equality Act is really dangerous.

00:18:08.000 By the way, again, Joe Biden, when it comes to immigration reform, my concern is that Republicans are going to cave on immigration reform.

00:18:14.000 Biden has said over and over and over again he wants comprehensive immigration reform.

00:18:17.000 Here he was during the campaign saying that.

00:18:20.000 On 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.

00:18:34.000 Number two, every DACA student will be able to stay.

00:18:37.000 It's a gigantic...

00:18:39.000 Objective of mine to see to it that we have an immigration system that's consistent with our values and who we say we are.

00:18:47.000 Okay, so he really wants to push that, right?

00:18:49.000 And we'll see if Republicans cave on it.

00:18:51.000 This 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. 0.56

00:18:58.000 We're going to get to more of this in just one second.

00:19:00.000 Then 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.

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00:20:18.000 The main threat of the Biden administration is going to be, as I say, through tax increases.

00:20:25.000 It's going to be through maybe using budget reconciliation in order to ram through a public option.

00:20:30.000 A public option would be a disaster, by the way.

00:20:32.000 I 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.

00:20:39.000 And the idea is that they are now going to subsidize health care for everyone.

00:20:42.000 Right, so there will be a baseline level of healthcare provided by the federal government.

00:20:46.000 You don't have to be poor to access it, right?

00:20:47.000 You don't have to be on Medicare or Medicaid in order to access this.

00:20:51.000 It would just be people will get thrown off their insurance willy-nilly, because employers are not going to want to pay for it.

00:20:56.000 Doctors are going to be forced to take it by the federal government, because that's the only way to make a public option work. 0.96

00:21:00.000 If 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.

00:21:11.000 Which would bankrupt hospitals and doctors.

00:21:15.000 Then you subsidize these programs up the wazoo.

00:21:18.000 You force all of the ancillary charges onto the private companies and you bankrupt the private companies.

00:21:22.000 There'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.

00:21:30.000 Which is where you're getting your good health care right now.

00:21:32.000 The vast majority of Americans are getting their health care there.

00:21:35.000 As 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.

00:21:42.000 And then you keep doctors and other providers from rejecting low government payment rates by coercing them into joining the new government health care plan.

00:21:49.000 And then you make the private alternatives unaffordable and then you bankrupt them.

00:21:52.000 Right?

00:21:52.000 That is the goal of the public option.

00:21:54.000 Joe Biden is likely to push that extremely hard.

00:21:57.000 We'll see if they can push that through via the budget reconciliation process.

00:22:02.000 That depends now on the Senate parliamentarian.

00:22:04.000 Before, it would have been a foregone conclusion that would not go anywhere because Republicans would have maintained control of the Senate.

00:22:09.000 So now we're going to have to rely on the niceties of the Senate parliamentarian and Joe Manchin.

00:22:09.000 But they didn't.

00:22:14.000 That's what we're going to have to rely upon.

00:22:16.000 And we'll see how well that goes.

00:22:17.000 I think that I have doubts as to how well that is going to go.

00:22:20.000 But let's be real about this.

00:22:22.000 The real problem with Democrats having unified control of the government is going to be everything else.

00:22:27.000 It's going to be everything else.

00:22:28.000 It's going to be executive action.

00:22:29.000 So 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.

00:22:48.000 Most of what Joe Biden is going to do is going to be on an executive basis.

00:22:50.000 It's going to be extraordinarily dangerous.

00:22:53.000 What we're going to watch is going to be an exacerbation of the culture wars.

00:22:55.000 This is what's tearing apart the country right now.

00:22:57.000 This is what folks need to understand.

00:22:58.000 What folks really need to understand is that what we have been watching over the past several years is not really argument over legislation.

00:23:06.000 I know you watch shows like this one.

00:23:07.000 You listen to shows like this one.

00:23:08.000 We talk politics all day, right?

00:23:10.000 We talk about the legislation that's going through Congress.

00:23:12.000 We talk about presidential action.

00:23:14.000 The 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?

00:23:23.000 Polls show this over and over and over again.

00:23:25.000 It's what happened in Georgia last night.

00:23:26.000 People didn't know anything about Raphael Warnock, and so they voted for Raphael Warnock.

00:23:30.000 The only impression they had of Kelly Loeffler is that Kelly Loeffler was a rich lady who was out of touch with the people. 0.83

00:23:37.000 And that was because culture is downstream, politics is downstream from culture.

00:23:40.000 People had perceptions, widespread perceptions about wealth in America that are not true and systemic American racism that are not true.

00:23:46.000 And 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.

00:23:58.000 Right?

00:23:58.000 That's how politics is downstream from culture.

00:24:00.000 But politics is also part of the culture.

00:24:03.000 And 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.

00:24:14.000 It means that your personal daily life is going to be impacted by this.

00:24:18.000 So, let's talk about that for a second.

00:24:20.000 Let's talk about the culture war.

00:24:22.000 Because that's really why Trump was made president in the first place in 2016.

00:24:24.000 It wasn't because Trump said anything about legislation.

00:24:28.000 Nobody knew why the hell Well, like, what Trump even thought about legislation.

00:24:32.000 Moving up to the 2016 election, I had no idea whether he was gonna raise taxes or lower them.

00:24:36.000 I had no idea whether he was gonna try to defund Planned Parenthood or refund Planned Parenthood.

00:24:39.000 Like, he had said all of these things.

00:24:40.000 It wasn't about that.

00:24:41.000 It was that Trump understood, on a gut level, the frustration of many Americans with the culture war.

00:24:45.000 Those culture wars are going to be exacerbated right now.

00:24:48.000 I think what we are going to see right now is Democrats' overreach, not just in terms of legislation, Here's the thing.

00:24:55.000 If Democrats overreach in terms of legislation, then the American system is self-correcting.

00:25:00.000 Barack 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.

00:25:09.000 And within two years, the Republicans had swept back into power in the House.

00:25:12.000 So if the Democrats overreach in terms of legislation, then there will be a blowback to that, politically speaking.

00:25:18.000 And again, because the filibuster exists, You can't really overreach in terms of legislation as much as Democrats would love to.

00:25:26.000 That's not going to happen.

00:25:28.000 Where 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.

00:25:35.000 They can continue to overreach along the lines of the cancel culture. 0.97

00:25:39.000 And 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.

00:26:01.000 If there had been a Republican Senate and Mitch McConnell was in charge, the big tech companies at least would feel fear from Mitch McConnell.

00:26:09.000 Right now they don't feel fear from Mitch McConnell.

00:26:11.000 They fear Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden.

00:26:13.000 What does that mean for what you get to post on social media and what you get to see on social media?

00:26:17.000 If 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?

00:26:28.000 How do you think that's going to go?

00:26:29.000 If 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.

00:26:38.000 It's going to impact how you speak to your friends and your family.

00:26:43.000 The real damage that Barack Obama did as President of the United States was not the legislative damage. 0.98

00:26:48.000 Obamacare sucked. 0.99

00:26:49.000 The tax increases sucked. 1.00

00:26:51.000 The sequestration effect of slashing the military was terrible. 0.96

00:26:55.000 All that is reversible.

00:26:56.000 What he did to the culture is the long-lasting impact of Barack Obama, and it's going to exacerbate.

00:27:00.000 It's going to get a lot worse under Joe Biden.

00:27:03.000 With 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.

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00:27:13.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:28:21.000 So as I say, it's the culture war where all this stuff is going to happen.

00:28:24.000 Remember, Joe Biden has his foreign policy and the culture war and executive orders where most of this stuff is going to happen.

00:28:30.000 But the culture war is what impacts you personally.

00:28:32.000 On foreign policy, we already know what he's going to do.

00:28:34.000 He's going to try and re-enter the Iran deal and try to wreck all of these peace deals in the Middle East.

00:28:38.000 In 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.

00:28:51.000 He's going to nominate Wendy Sherman, the chief U.S. 0.64

00:28:53.000 negotiator of the garbage Iran nuclear deal, and former number three at the State Department.

00:28:58.000 So that's going to be horrible. 0.83

00:29:00.000 He's going to bring back in the old team.

00:29:02.000 We knew all that.

00:29:03.000 We also knew that he was going to redo things like the education agenda of Betsy DeVos.

00:29:09.000 He's going to reinstate a push for critical race theory in public schools.

00:29:15.000 He 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.

00:29:25.000 Betsy 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.

00:29:36.000 Biden is being encouraged to do that through unilateral action.

00:29:41.000 So, you know, that could happen.

00:29:44.000 But again, the real impact here is going to be the cultural push.

00:29:47.000 The cultural push.

00:29:48.000 Remember, the Biden-Sanders agendas.

00:29:50.000 Remember, very early on in the race, after Biden had obviously picked up the nomination, he created a unity agenda with Bernie Sanders.

00:29:58.000 By the way, worth noting, members of the squad were appointed to the House Oversight Committee.

00:30:02.000 So if you've enjoyed the House Oversight Committee's shenanigans for the past several years, get ready for more and worse.

00:30:07.000 But 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.

00:30:18.000 Quote, We need proactive anti-discrimination detection and enforcement.

00:30:22.000 On 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.

00:30:33.000 So what does that mean?

00:30:35.000 That means that they are looking for equal outcome among all racial groups and all subgroups in the United States.

00:30:39.000 The coalition of the victimized is going to be ascendant again under Joe Biden. 1.00

00:30:45.000 And if you stand in their way, they're going to call you racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic jerks. 0.99

00:30:50.000 He's going to use the power of the federal government, unchecked by Congress. 1.00

00:30:54.000 Watch for it.

00:30:54.000 Okay, this is my prediction.

00:30:56.000 tax investigations of churches that do not comply with Joe Biden's perceptions of anti-discrimination law.

00:31:02.000 Watch for it.

00:31:03.000 Okay, this is my prediction.

00:31:05.000 The IRS will be militarized on behalf of the woke social agenda.

00:31:08.000 Tax plans are gonna be increased across the nation.

00:31:11.000 It's going to quash the economic recovery. 0.53

00:31:13.000 Now, 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.

00:31:21.000 That means that almost no matter what he does, the economy is still going to grow throughout 2021.

00:31:27.000 So he can raise taxes to exorbitant levels.

00:31:29.000 The economy will still probably grow.

00:31:31.000 It'll just grow a lot slower than it would have under President Trump or under a Republican Congress timing those efforts.

00:31:36.000 Remember, Joe Biden's tax plan would make the top income tax rate in states like New York and California 62%.

00:31:42.000 62%!

00:31:42.000 Quashing industry.

00:31:43.000 Crushing investment.

00:31:49.000 But 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.

00:32:02.000 And 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.

00:32:10.000 But I keep coming back to this point.

00:32:13.000 The biggest problem that you're going to have is social.

00:32:15.000 It's the problem in your life.

00:32:17.000 It 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.

00:32:26.000 There 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.

00:32:31.000 Wrong you are.

00:32:32.000 Democrats have complete control of government.

00:32:34.000 They're going to be using the control of the press and the control of government to pose their woke-ism as the new normal.

00:32:41.000 And if you stand in the way, your corporation will fire you.

00:32:44.000 Your friends will disown you.

00:32:46.000 Social life is going to become more polarized, not less now.

00:32:49.000 Trump at least provided a single point of solidarity for a lot of Republicans who wanted to unify in opposition to the woke cultural agenda.

00:32:57.000 Now how do they do it?

00:32:59.000 Now how do they do it?

00:33:00.000 I'm gonna get to some solutions in a second to this, because I don't think all hope is lost.

00:33:03.000 In 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.

00:33:20.000 But here's where this is going.

00:33:22.000 There's Alexis de Tocqueville writing in 1831 about what happens in democracies when cultural despotism occurs.

00:33:29.000 He says, the master no longer says, you shall think as I do or you shall die.

00:33:32.000 He says, you're free not to think as I do.

00:33:34.000 Your life, your goods, everything remains to you.

00:33:37.000 But from this day on, you are a stranger among us.

00:33:39.000 You shall keep your privileges in the city, but they will become useless to you.

00:33:42.000 For if you crave the vote of your fellow citizens, they will not grant it to you.

00:33:45.000 If you demand only their esteem, they will still pretend to refuse it to you.

00:33:48.000 You shall remain among men, but you shall lose your rights of humanity. 0.57

00:33:50.000 When 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.

00:33:57.000 Go in peace, I leave you your life, but I leave it to you worse than death, right?

00:33:59.000 That is gonna be the culture of the United States.

00:34:03.000 That's gonna be the culture of the United States under a unified, democratic, controlled government.

00:34:07.000 So what can be done to fight this?

00:34:09.000 What 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.

00:34:19.000 Because I do think that there is hope.

00:34:20.000 Maybe, maybe, this is the kick in the pants conservatives need to get it together and start acting in solidarity.

00:34:28.000 Not with regard to particular legislation or particular politicians, but with regard to each other.

00:34:32.000 It 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.

00:34:40.000 I don't care all that much about which politicians are elected, as long as they leave me alone.

00:34:44.000 But, I care about politics because they won't leave you alone.

00:34:47.000 I'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.

00:34:53.000 Invariable truth of life.

00:34:55.000 But I am concerned about the loyalty we have to one another, about the horizontal social fabric of the United States.

00:35:02.000 We 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.

00:35:16.000 The tsunami is coming.

00:35:17.000 We better build a dam right now. 0.86

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00:35:21.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:36:34.000 Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.

00:36:37.000 First, there's a reason that millions and millions of Americans believe overt lies about the state of politics, about their fellow Americans, about conservatives.

00:36:46.000 And a lot of that has to do with the culture war that we're talking about right now.

00:36:49.000 If we don't fight the culture war, if we don't get involved in the culture war, we're going to lose.

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00:37:59.000 Okay, 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.

00:38:15.000 That's not going to happen.

00:38:17.000 I don't wish to be the bearer of bad tidings.

00:38:19.000 I wish, God, I wish it were not this way.

00:38:22.000 But there is no legal process to do what people want Pence or the Senate Republicans to do.

00:38:27.000 There's just not.

00:38:28.000 I explained the law in detail on Monday.

00:38:31.000 That's not how any of this works.

00:38:32.000 You'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.

00:38:42.000 You are not allowed to simply challenge votes because you don't like the outcome of votes in particular states.

00:38:46.000 And it is not a forum to talk about voter processes within states.

00:38:49.000 The federal government was not given charge of this.

00:38:51.000 The 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.

00:38:59.000 That is the purpose of the Electoral College.

00:39:00.000 To 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.

00:39:13.000 If 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.

00:39:23.000 It 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.

00:39:29.000 Okay, so the Electoral College, if you want Republicans to win in the future, you need to preserve the Electoral College.

00:39:33.000 You don't want to destroy its legitimacy.

00:39:35.000 You don't want to suggest that the Federal Congress can simply throw out votes that you don't like.

00:39:40.000 And you certainly don't want to suggest that the Vice President has the unilateral power to simply disregard certified Electoral College votes.

00:39:46.000 There is no precedent for this in the 12th Amendment.

00:39:48.000 There is no legal basis for it.

00:39:50.000 Even under the 12th Amendment, it just says that pens can open the votes.

00:39:54.000 It doesn't say that it gets to even count them.

00:39:55.000 It says the votes shall be counted under the 12th Amendment.

00:39:58.000 So people who are saying today that the Senate Republicans are going to change the outcome of the election.

00:40:03.000 Josh Hawley knows they are not.

00:40:04.000 He has admitted as much.

00:40:05.000 Ted Cruz knows they are not.

00:40:07.000 Everybody knows this.

00:40:09.000 Okay, 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.

00:40:17.000 Okay, that is the baseline truth.

00:40:19.000 It is not going to change a thing. 0.72

00:40:20.000 And that is not because of Republican cuckishness or because of Republican cowardice.

00:40:24.000 It's because there's a system of laws and rules in this country.

00:40:27.000 They are embedded in the law.

00:40:28.000 Andy McCarthy, a huge Trump fan, a huge Trump advocate, has written extensively about this.

00:40:33.000 Anybody who's suggesting that Mike Pence is the guy who will just reinstall, like, how do you think this is gonna go?

00:40:39.000 How would it have gone in 2016 if Joe Biden had simply said, you know what?

00:40:43.000 Hillary Clinton won by three and a half million popular votes.

00:40:46.000 And, you know, it appears that Trump beat her in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but it was such a slim margin.

00:40:51.000 You know, I don't really like those votes.

00:40:52.000 We're just gonna... I, unilaterally, Joe Biden, I've decided I'm not going to count any of those votes.

00:40:57.000 And thus Hillary Clinton becomes president.

00:40:58.000 How do you think that you would feel about that?

00:41:00.000 Okay, well, if you don't like that idea, then you probably shouldn't like the ideas that are now being proposed.

00:41:05.000 Now, President Trump is still tweeting out there things suggesting that Vice President Pence knows he can overturn the election.

00:41:11.000 He put out a statement suggesting that he has several options under the Constitution.

00:41:15.000 He can decertify the results.

00:41:16.000 He cannot.

00:41:17.000 This is not legal.

00:41:18.000 He can send them back to the states for change and certification.

00:41:20.000 He cannot.

00:41:20.000 He can also decertify the illegal and corrupt results and send them to the House of Representatives for the one vote for one state tabulation.

00:41:26.000 No, he cannot.

00:41:27.000 He does not have that power under the Constitution of the United States.

00:41:30.000 Okay, that's not what's going to happen today.

00:41:32.000 Okay, so the Trumpian solution here is not the solution.

00:41:36.000 And 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.

00:41:47.000 There 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.

00:41:57.000 And 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.

00:42:04.000 But 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.

00:42:21.000 And that is for several reasons.

00:42:22.000 Here's the incentive structure.

00:42:23.000 I promised I was gonna analyze what actually happened in Georgia last night.

00:42:26.000 So here's the actual analysis of what happened in Georgia last night.

00:42:29.000 Republicans, one month ago, in the polls, were up a little bit.

00:42:32.000 By the time of the election, they were down a little bit.

00:42:34.000 They were within margin of error, but it was close.

00:42:37.000 Democrats had an advantage.

00:42:39.000 Okay, then, the Republicans passed, in the House and in the Senate, in late December, a COVID relief package.

00:42:45.000 And David Perdue began running ads on it.

00:42:46.000 And Kelly Loeffler began running ads on it.

00:42:48.000 And 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.

00:42:55.000 Right, that was the ad.

00:42:57.000 And 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.

00:43:06.000 Okay, 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.

00:43:18.000 And that it was the Democrats who were truly generous.

00:43:20.000 I 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.

00:43:27.000 You know who created the groundwork for that?

00:43:29.000 That was Donald Trump.

00:43:30.000 Because Chuck Schumer embraced it, and so did Nancy Pelosi.

00:43:32.000 And 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.

00:43:40.000 Okay, so that was a mistake.

00:43:42.000 Other mistakes that occurred.

00:43:44.000 When 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,

00:44:12.000 Do you think that the people who love Trump are gonna go out and vote in mass numbers for David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler? 0.99

00:44:19.000 Or are they gonna do what Lin Wood was telling them to do?

00:44:22.000 Are they gonna stay home?

00:44:24.000 And not only that, when Donald Trump made himself the center of the Georgia Senate races, after the election, right?

00:44:31.000 I mean, he's on his way out because the Electoral College has already voted by the time of the election.

00:44:36.000 When Trump made himself the center of the election, what did he do?

00:44:39.000 He drove every Democrat to the polls.

00:44:42.000 So here's the thing about Trump, and it was true in November.

00:44:44.000 He drives a lot of Republicans to the polls.

00:44:46.000 He also drives a ton of Democrats to the polls, particularly Democrats in urban areas.

00:44:51.000 Black Democrats showed up in mass numbers for Warnock and Ossoff.

00:44:55.000 You know who didn't show up?

00:44:56.000 Exactly the people that Donald Trump is supposed to appeal to the most, rural white voters.

00:45:01.000 In 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.

00:45:11.000 Not only that, Republicans have been bleeding out in the suburbs for years, right?

00:45:14.000 I mean, if you look at the actual district where Ossoff did well this time, those were districts won by David Perdue in 2014.

00:45:22.000 There'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.

00:45:29.000 That 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.

00:45:37.000 Here's the thing, you can have both.

00:45:39.000 You can have both suburban support and rural support.

00:45:41.000 It is not impossible to have both.

00:45:44.000 Hey, but by making himself the senator, Democrats showed up and every day, Warnock and Ossoff did not even campaign really against Perdue and Loeffler.

00:45:52.000 They 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.

00:45:59.000 And Warnock and Loeffler and Warnock and Ossoff were on TV every day saying, Donald Trump wants to disenfranchise you.

00:46:06.000 Right?

00:46:06.000 Which is not true.

00:46:07.000 Doesn't matter.

00:46:08.000 They got to play with that talking point and Democrats were willing to parrot it.

00:46:12.000 That Donald Trump wants to disenfranchise you if you are a Democrat. 0.99

00:46:15.000 He's a racist. 0.99

00:46:16.000 He wants to disenfranchise you. 1.00

00:46:17.000 Black voters showed up to the polls in droves.

00:46:19.000 Meanwhile, Trump depressed his own vote in Georgia for those Georgia senators.

00:46:24.000 So 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.

00:46:35.000 It said to a lot of Republicans, OK, well, I want to punish the Georgia Republican Party for not standing with Donald Trump.

00:46:40.000 And I have faith that Donald Trump is not lying to me and that on January 21st, he will still be president.

00:46:44.000 And so it doesn't matter what I do with the Senate.

00:46:46.000 Those Senate Republicans are cucks and those Senate Republicans don't deserve my support.

00:46:49.000 Donald Trump deserves my support. 0.95

00:46:51.000 And so I'm not going to bother voting.

00:46:53.000 Now, that doesn't have to be a mass number of people.

00:46:55.000 Here's the thing, in Georgia, the turnout for Republicans was still really, really high, right?

00:46:59.000 I mean, it was still close to 90%.

00:47:01.000 All it had to be was about three percentage points more, and the Republicans retained the Senate.

00:47:05.000 Okay, so we're not talking about every Trump supporter in Georgia.

00:47:08.000 We're not even talking about every Republican.

00:47:09.000 We're not talking about even a large number of people.

00:47:12.000 But the margins of these victories are extraordinarily small, right?

00:47:15.000 John Ossoff is up over David Perdue by something like 13,000 votes, 14,000 votes.

00:47:22.000 All right, Warnock is going to beat Loeffler by maybe 40 or 50,000 votes.

00:47:26.000 So what does this say?

00:47:27.000 This says a few things.

00:47:29.000 One, Republicans need to do the hard, on-the-ground work that Democrats have been doing for years.

00:47:34.000 They need to go precinct to precinct.

00:47:35.000 They need to be registering voters.

00:47:36.000 They need to be making sure that their voter networks are updated.

00:47:40.000 They need to be doing the kind of robo-calls that Democrats have been doing repeatedly.

00:47:45.000 And yes, Republicans in state legislatures need to change the rules when it comes to voting. 0.86

00:47:50.000 Early voting is a disaster area.

00:47:52.000 It is morally wrong.

00:47:53.000 OK, 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.

00:48:05.000 Election Day is known as Election Day because it is Election Day.

00:48:08.000 Now, if you have a health problem, if you have a legit reason why you can't vote that day, that's one thing. 0.80

00:48:13.000 But the notion that anybody, for any reason, should be voting two months in advance of an election, it's ridiculous. 0.98

00:48:18.000 It's ridiculous. 0.90

00:48:19.000 Republicans need to ensure that. 0.58

00:48:20.000 They need to ensure voter ID.

00:48:22.000 They need to cleanse the voter rolls. 0.92

00:48:23.000 They need to make sure that the system is not being gamed.

00:48:26.000 That is hard on-the-ground work that has to be done within states.

00:48:28.000 It can't be done by the Senate today.

00:48:30.000 It can't be done by congressional Republicans, who now have no power.

00:48:33.000 It can't be done by any of those people.

00:48:35.000 It has to be done in the states.

00:48:36.000 Hard on-the-ground work.

00:48:38.000 Hard on-the-ground work.

00:48:39.000 That's what it's going to take.

00:48:41.000 And in the meantime, there's going to need to be another thing that is done.

00:48:44.000 And that is we need a cultural solidarity movement between conservatives and classical liberals and people who still love basic freedoms in the United States.

00:48:53.000 That's the biggest point.

00:48:55.000 That's the biggest point.

00:48:56.000 We are going to need a cultural solidarity movement.

00:48:59.000 I want to talk about that for just one second.

00:49:01.000 We are going to need a movement where people support one another.

00:49:06.000 Where when somebody gets fired, conservatives rehire the person.

00:49:10.000 Where when one person sounds off inside a company, a thousand people sound off inside the company.

00:49:15.000 Folks on the left are excellent at this sort of cultural solidarity.

00:49:18.000 It's why you see Folks unionizing over at Alphabet, the Google company.

00:49:23.000 I'm not calling for conservatives to unionize.

00:49:25.000 I'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.

00:49:34.000 That we are not going to tolerate being forced to parrot the woke memery of our employers.

00:49:40.000 That 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.

00:49:51.000 Republicans need to get it together.

00:49:52.000 Democrats have acted with solidarity, and they've used that solidarity to cram down their particular agenda.

00:49:58.000 Conservatives need to build alternative sources of information.

00:50:02.000 They need alternative sources of entertainment.

00:50:03.000 They need to do what the left has been doing.

00:50:06.000 Because the right believes in the power of markets, because the right believes in the power of individuals, we don't think institutionally.

00:50:11.000 Okay?

00:50:12.000 And that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

00:50:13.000 Its benefit is that we do think individually, which is good.

00:50:17.000 The drawback, however, is that because we think individually and not institutionally, we do not build institutions.

00:50:23.000 Democrats build institutions.

00:50:24.000 You want to know why America has moved consistently to the left since the 1960s?

00:50:29.000 It'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.

00:50:38.000 They've engaged in a renormalization effort that has succeeded.

00:50:41.000 Here's the thing.

00:50:42.000 Renormalization can be pursued in reverse.

00:50:44.000 You can renormalize an organization by demonstrating intransigence when your rights are violated.

00:50:48.000 You have to do it with your friends.

00:50:50.000 You have to get together with other people.

00:50:51.000 You have to make the connections and you have to stand up as one.

00:50:54.000 It's not enough to have one person stand up and get fired.

00:50:56.000 It'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.

00:51:07.000 We all have to do it together.

00:51:08.000 And that's what we're going to be working on at Daily Wire.

00:51:10.000 I think it's what we all have to work on as Americans, as conservatives, because a lot of these principles are not just conservative.

00:51:15.000 They're just basic American principles.

00:51:16.000 And that's what's going to be under assault.

00:51:18.000 Your freedom of religion, your freedom of association, your freedom of speech.

00:51:21.000 That's what's coming.

00:51:22.000 Get ready.

00:51:22.000 The battle is on.

00:51:24.000 All right.

00:51:24.000 We're going to be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:51:27.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Molls Show that is available right now.

00:51:30.000 A little bit later today, we'll talk about the Jacob Blake case.

00:51:33.000 Where again, the media just have done extraordinary disservice to the truth and to decency.

00:51:38.000 We'll get to that a little bit later today, so stick around for that.

00:51:40.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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00:52:13.000 Georgia determines control of the Senate.

00:52:15.000 Republicans on Capitol Hill try to stop certification of the presidential vote.

00:52:19.000 And a shocking new report says men in dresses still beat women at sports.

The Ben Shapiro Show - January 06, 2021

So... How F#%&$D Are We? | Ep. 1167

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