On Constitution Day, President Trump pledges to renew patriotic education, Joe Biden stumbles his way through a softball town hall with CNN, and we may be at the beginning of a population exodus from blue states. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a good thing, and why we need to move away from the idea that America was founded on the principles of the founding father, Abraham Lincoln. He also explains why we should not settle for less than an equal playing field between people of color and people of other races, and the best way to achieve that is to make sure that all of our children are placed on the same level as each other in the playing field, and that they are not starting behind the eight ball, but at the starting line in front of the 8 ball. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on the conservative network Fox News and host of the conservative radio show The Weekly Standard. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Caller and the Weekly Standard, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He has been featured on CNN, NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC, CBS and NPR, and many other media outlets, including Playboy, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, and Playboy, among other publications. He is the author of several books, including How to Destroy America in 3 Easy Steps: A Guide to Destroying America in Three Easy Steps, How To Destroy America: How to Unite a Modernized America in Two Easy Steps to Unravel America s Lost in the Age of Revolution and Lost in Civil War, and How to Build a Better Life, How to Save America in a Modern America by Ben Shapiro, and How To Make America Great Again, Ben Shapiro's new book, How to Lose It All, and much more! The show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, a service that helps people find a safe, secure, affordable, reliable, and affordable high-speed internet connection to the Internet, and access to the things they need to do their best, and get the most out of their day-to-free, affordable. . Subscribe to the best of what they can do the most of their best practices and information they can t live up to their day to help them achieve the most they can achieve the best lives, and most of them can t do it, no matter what they are doing it, everywhere they get it, online and everywhere they re doing it.
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00:00:26.000Alrighty, so yesterday, I think the president actually did something quite important.
00:00:31.000And I understand that the news cycle is so fast these days that everybody's attention span is about half a second long.
00:00:36.000But what the president did yesterday in talking about the miseducation of America's children at the highest level is really, really important.
00:00:43.000It actually is a very important thing because the great battle that we are in as a country is whether the country really deserves to survive based on the principles upon which it was founded.
00:00:50.000There are a lot of people who believe, as I discuss in my new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, there are people that I call disintegrationists, who believe that America really does not deserve to survive based on the philosophy upon which she is founded.
00:01:03.000That the principles of the Declaration of Independence, that there are inalienable rights that pre-exist government that are given by God or by nature, and that government is instituted to protect those rights, that those principles are bad.
00:01:14.000That basic principles like freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, freedom of religion, what these really do is they re-institute and re-inculcate hierarchies of power.
00:01:22.000That freedom itself is simply a way of cementing current hierarchies of power because freedom of speech really is mostly set up because it's freedom.
00:01:31.000It's set up to benefit those who are most capable of taking advantage of the freedom, namely people who are wealthy or people who have access to the press.
00:01:38.000That freedom to bear arms mostly advantages people who have guns.
00:01:41.000That freedom of religion, mostly advantages people who want to go to church. And thus, if we just got rid of those freedoms, and we look for equal outcome instead, this would be a better world. This is the perspective of much of what they call critical race theory.
00:01:54.000It is the perspective of the 1619 project. It is the proscriptive perspective of so many on the radical left these days, and they have gained a lot of power.
00:02:06.000I mean, there's no question about this.
00:02:07.000Ibram X. Kendi is considered a real thinker in American life today, which is fairly incredible because he has openly suggested that there be, at the federal level, in the executive branch, something called the Department of Anti-Racism.
00:02:21.000This is an actual suggestion that there be legislation creating an executive department of anti-racism at the federal level That actually has the power to strike down and rewrite any law in the United States, federal, state, or local, that does not achieve equal outcome between racial groups.
00:02:40.000That there is an executive body that is unanswerable to the people whose sole job it is to ensure that all laws achieve equal outcome, not that they are based on rights.
00:02:53.000He says the solution to injustice yesterday is injustice today.
00:02:56.000And the solution to injustice today will be injustice tomorrow.
00:03:00.000And what he means by that is that people's rights have to be violated to fix historic ills and that we have to recalibrate the entire system.
00:03:08.000Now, he's not the first person to make this contention.
00:03:10.000LBJ made this contention back in the 60s when he suggested that it was not enough to simply set a level playing field.
00:03:17.000Instead, we had to make sure that everybody was at the starting line in the same place.
00:03:21.000What he said is, you know, there are people who have been disadvantaged by American history, and there are certain people who are starting behind the eight ball.
00:03:26.000We need to move them out from behind the eight ball so you can have an equal race.
00:03:29.000Well, that is emotionally compelling, but extraordinarily difficult to achieve without violating the rights of individuals.
00:03:37.000As it turns out, the best that we can do as human beings is to simply set a level playing field.
00:03:42.000We cannot redress all historic wrongs.
00:03:45.000The historic wrongs that ought to be redressed are the ones where the person who has harmed another person pays the person they have harmed, right?
00:03:51.000That would be normally how you redress wrongs.
00:03:53.000But to make somebody who has never harmed anybody pay historic redress to a person who has never been harmed by this person is actually a violation of rights.
00:04:03.000Well, critical race theory teaches that America was rooted in these hierarchies of power, and that all of America's philosophies are designed to cement those hierarchies of power.
00:04:11.000They believe that enlightenment principles, things like reason, things like individual rights, that these are merely a guise for reestablishing those hierarchies.
00:04:19.000Derrick Bell is extremely clear about this.
00:04:21.000That's what critical race theory is, and it has infused large parts of the university.
00:04:25.000The philosophy of the 1619 Project, which is that America was rooted in slavery, that all institutions of the United States are rooted in slavery, and racism, and bigotry.
00:04:35.000What that really is arguing for is that everything that is good about America is fruit of the poisonous tree, and we gotta burn it all down.
00:04:40.000Burn it all down is the underlying factor that unites these ideologies.
00:04:44.000And all they have to do is point to the historic gills of America and say, that wasn't a bug, that was the feature.
00:04:49.000That the system was designed this way.
00:04:52.000And because the system was designed this way, we have to destroy the system.
00:04:55.000And again, this has become sort of in a soft way written into the culture in a variety of ways.
00:05:01.000When people talk about systemic racism, what they mean is that all the systems of the United States are inherently racist and unfixably racist, so you have to destroy the system from within.
00:05:10.000This is why it's always been bizarre to watch somebody who's an establishmentarian like Joe Biden talk about systemic racism, because he never offers any solutions.
00:05:17.000Systemic racism is merely a formula for, if you give me power, I will fix.
00:05:21.000But of course, he has no power to fix systemic racism because if it's embedded in the institutions, the only solution is to tear down the entire institution.
00:05:28.000This is the case made by Isabel Wilkerson in her book, Cast.
00:05:32.000And she has suggested that the problem with the United States is foundational.
00:05:36.000It is not a problem with structural insecurities in the walls of the United States.
00:05:41.000Instead, it lies right at the foundation.
00:05:42.000The only way that you can fix that is to raise the house completely.
00:05:50.000And so this is the philosophy, and it is being taught increasingly across the country.
00:05:54.000It has infused the teaching of American history.
00:05:57.000Howard Zinn, obviously a very, very popular Historian who's become in vogue with the jet-set glitterati out here in Hollywood, which is why he's name-checked about eight different times in Google hunting.
00:06:08.000Howard Zinn was an actual Marxist who suggested that every good that America had ever done was shot through with historic evil, including the victory in World War II.
00:06:17.000He actually says in A People's History of the United States that the American victory over Nazism was marred by the fact that America took Nazism into its bones.
00:06:48.000We shouldn't overlook the dark spots in American history.
00:06:50.000I've given entire speeches about this.
00:06:52.000When I spoke at Boston University last year, I...
00:06:56.000overtly talked at length about the tremendous horrific evil of American slavery and the tremendous horrific evil of Jim Crow.
00:07:04.000I talked about the heroism of people who fought both, the heroism of the leaders of the civil rights movement and the heroism of everyday black Americans who fought in defense of the American flag that in many cases was still held by people who wanted to subjugate them.
00:07:20.000I end my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, by telling the story of a member of the Red Tails during World War II.
00:07:27.000A black American who came back to a segregated America, but fought on behalf of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in the skies above Germany.
00:07:36.000There's tremendous heroism in the American story, and there's tremendous darkness, but the heroism outweighs the darkness.
00:07:41.000And the philosophy of the United States is what has allowed us to grow.
00:07:45.000It's what has allowed us to take universal evils and destroy them in the United States.
00:07:51.000See, the way that people who really don't like the United States think about the United States is that all universal human evils are unique to the United States and all unique American goods are universal.
00:08:00.000So this is why you'll see from the left the idea that the landing on the moon, the moon landing, was not an American achievement.
00:08:28.000It takes civilization to prevent that from happening.
00:08:30.000We've developed entire civilizations to prevent all of us from living in the wild.
00:08:33.000That's what civilization was designed to do.
00:08:35.000And it took thousands of years of development to get here.
00:08:38.000The level of ingratitude toward America that it takes to look at the things that make America great, our level of freedom, our level of prosperity, spreading that freedom and prosperity to billions of people abroad over history.
00:08:49.000And to say, well, you know, that was universal.
00:08:50.000But what's unique about America is American slavery.
00:08:55.000And it is designed to disintegrate the bonds that tie us together.
00:09:00.000If the thing that makes America exceptional is American slavery, you know, leaving aside the fact that some 12 million slaves were brought from Africa to the Western Hemisphere, the vast majority of whom never saw American shores, most of them actually ended up in South America and the Caribbean.
00:09:15.000To ignore the fact that slavery was an evil human universal for nearly all of human history up until the last five minutes or so, historically speaking.
00:09:23.000And then to say that America was unique in this way, but that prosperity was universal and America is not unique in that way.
00:09:29.000You have to be blind or you have to be motivated to destroy everything.
00:09:32.000And that's really what is going on here.
00:09:34.000Unfortunately, the 1619 Project is now being taught in a lot of public schools.
00:09:38.000Howard Zinn is being assigned in nearly every college classroom that I'm aware of.
00:09:41.000And it's not being taught as a corrective to whitewashed history.
00:09:44.000It'd be one thing if you read a patriotic history of the United States that sort of glossed over problems in American history and said, OK, and now you should also read this chapter of Howard Zinn that reminds us of all the bad stuff in American history.
00:10:15.000Because obviously slavery has a lot to do with the history of the United States.
00:10:18.000That's not what the 1619 Project contended.
00:10:20.000It contended that the actual founding of the United States, the values upon which the United States was founded, were the importation of African slaves to the United States.
00:10:28.000Or to the pre-United States, since the U.S.
00:10:35.000So yesterday on Constitution Day, President Trump spoke overtly about this and people lost their minds.
00:10:40.000Which shows the gap that has emerged in American public life.
00:10:42.000When I say there's a gap between people who want to disintegrate American history and people who believe in American history, I've never seen it quite as clearly exposed as what happened yesterday online after Trump suggested that maybe we ought to teach American children that America is good.
00:10:54.000People literally compared him to a Nazi.
00:10:58.000They suggested that when he said that Americans should be taught to be patriotic about the greatest country in world history, which they should be, that somehow this amounted to jingoistic Nazism.
00:11:08.000If you believe that teaching American children that their country is exceptional and good is a sign of Nazism, it's because you are both historically ignorant and malevolent.
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00:12:32.000Okay, so yesterday, President Trump gives this speech on Constitution Day in which he says we need to stop teaching critical race theory and 1619 project nonsense and Howard Zinn in our public schools.
00:12:42.000And people just, they threw a bleep fit.
00:12:45.000I mean, they just went nuts over this.
00:12:48.000Now, here is the basic rule that I have when it comes to federal education.
00:12:51.000I think that the federal government should not be involved in education.
00:12:53.000I think the Department of Education should be abolished.
00:12:56.000The reason I believe this is because the same federal Department of Education capable of telling states to teach good history is similarly capable of telling the states to teach quite bad history.
00:13:08.000It seems to me that education should be devolved to the lowest level, meaning that you should be able to control education in your local community or at the state level.
00:13:14.000I mean, in an ideal world, obviously, you would have community schools that are directly funded by parents and by members of the community.
00:13:22.000Whether it's parochial schools, or whether it's private schools, or whether it's charter schools.
00:13:26.000But in any case, if the federal government is to be involved in the business of education, certainly it has a stake in people not learning false history and pseudo-history, and history directly designed to undermine the foundations of the United States, because then we lose all commonality.
00:13:38.000So here was Trump going after critical race theory and the 1619 Project.
00:13:43.000The left is attempting to destroy that beautiful vision and divide Americans by race in the service of political power.
00:13:54.000By viewing every issue through the lens of race, they want to impose a new segregation, and we must not allow that to happen.
00:14:04.000Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, And the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison, that Not removed will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together.
00:14:28.000How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, if you want the long version of Trump's speech with a full chapter on a more accurate history of the United States and what that would look like, including all of the dark spots in American history, including the mistreatment of black Americans, the mistreatment of American Indians and all the rest.
00:14:44.000This is toxic stuff, suggesting that America has no foundational principles, which is what CRT says.
00:14:49.000That all the foundational principles are basically just a pasteboard fabric that is designed to obscure deeper, evil attempts to install racial and class hierarchies.
00:15:01.000It's disgusting, and it destroys the country.
00:15:54.000And the fact that they made her the de facto editor of the New York Times demonstrates where our media are at and where the far left are at.
00:16:00.000Or the mainstream left, I should say, at this point.
00:16:17.000There is no greater act of viciousness you can visit upon a child than teaching a child that no matter how hard you work, you are bound for failure.
00:16:23.000That is a vicious thing to teach a child.
00:16:31.000And it turns out that the number one group in the United States targeted for hate crimes are Jews.
00:16:36.000Do you think that I'm telling my six-year-old that no matter what you do in the United States, you will not succeed?
00:16:41.000First of all, I can't tell my kids that because it's an overt lie.
00:16:44.000But beyond that, it is an act of deep, abiding immorality to teach people that they are victims of systems they cannot see, especially when that is not true.
00:16:55.000It turns out that when people are victims of systems, you typically can see it.
00:16:58.000Jim Crow is a system where you can point at it and say, you know, you're a victim of the system because they literally will not allow you to go to that school across the street because of your race.
00:17:05.000That is a fairly obvious situation in which you're a victim of the system.
00:17:09.000Even in that situation, the most successful people are people who don't think of themselves as victims.
00:18:10.000The minute you say patriotism to the left, the fact that the word patriotism is anathema to the left should tell you something about what the left believes about the country.
00:18:18.000Do you want to live in a country where the entire governing system, the entire intelligentsia believe that being a patriot makes you a bigot?
00:18:33.000Online, as soon as Trump said patriotic education, Hitler Youth trended yesterday on Twitter because he said that he thinks that Americans should be patriotic about the country and that kids should be taught to be patriotic about the country.
00:18:47.000He's not saying that you should be patriotic about all of America's evils.
00:18:50.000He's saying you should be patriotic about America's founding documents, about our ideology, about our history.
00:18:55.000You should be patriotic and recognize the evils of American history.
00:18:58.000In the speech, he mentioned some of the evils of American history, but the media deliberately overlooked that in order to declare that he was some sort of uber nationalist Deutschland, Uber, Alice, it's insane.
00:20:46.000There's a huge cadre of Americans who believe that children in America should be taught that the country is evil and must be torn down to the root.
00:20:56.000The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans.
00:21:02.000That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools.
00:21:10.000Today I'm also pleased to announce that I will soon sign an executive order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education.
00:21:19.000It will be called the 1776 Commission.
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00:21:36.000She tweeted out, Trump just announced he will soon be signing an executive order establishing a quote national commission to promote patriotic education called the 1776 commission. It is unclear what that means but he has been trashing the 1619 project which aims to educate the nation with facts. No, the 1619 project is a pseudo-historical piece of garbage. Historians agree on this.
00:21:57.000There are five separate Pulitzer Prize winners who went to the 1619 Project founder and said, you guys are screwing up the facts, and she ignored them.
00:22:04.000Julia Jaffe, who's an idiot, and she tweeted out, you know who else is really into using the government to promote patriotic education in schools?
00:22:11.000I feel like I don't even need to say it anymore.
00:22:21.000Yes, I'm sure Vladimir Putin also likes to eat a hamburger from time to time and breathe human air and drink water.
00:22:30.000The Hitler also had a dog argument is getting pretty weak here, guys.
00:22:33.000How about you argue exactly what you want taught in American schools?
00:22:36.000Because it turns out that what a lot of these people want is not American history taught in an accurate way with all of the great and glorious founding ideology of the founders, not with the full history of the United States with all of its downs and all of its ups.
00:22:47.000Instead, what they want is an unending litany of America's evils And the underlying argument being that all of those evils are a direct result of America's constitutional governmental system and the false principles of the Declaration of Independence.
00:22:58.000This is the argument that is taking place.
00:23:00.000This is exactly the argument that's taking place.
00:23:17.000Donald Trump is going to sit there and write?
00:23:19.000These same people who believe that Donald Trump has no attention span and is an idiot, think that he is simultaneously developing the vaccine so as to kill everyone, and also he's going to write the entire educational curriculum for every young child across the country.
00:23:32.000Alternatively, he will have exactly what he said he will have, a national commission that takes a look at educational standards and says, we are not going to teach pseudo-historical neo-Marxist garbage about how America is inherently evil.
00:23:52.000I don't think you want to have that argument.
00:23:53.000I think what you actually want is to force the federal government to sponsor and subsidize your anti-American bullcrap.
00:24:00.000Adam Serwer, who writes for The Atlantic, sometimes intelligently, sometimes not, he tweeted out yesterday, it's political correctness to say that the federal government should stop the teaching of 1619 Project or critical race theory.
00:24:13.000No, it's political correctness to demand that the federal government subsidize that stuff.
00:24:18.000If you want to make the argument that the federal government should not be in the business of subsidizing education and attaching strings, join the libertarian side, gang.
00:24:25.000But if you're arguing that the federal government gets to make the rules, Then, of course, the federal government has somewhat of a stake in ensuring that people do not learn that it would be a good thing to tear out all the institutions of the federal government.
00:24:38.000And by the way, they would be right, especially when you're talking about pseudo-historical nonsense.
00:24:42.000In just a second, we're going to get to what is the greatest troll move I think I may have ever seen in politics.
00:24:47.000It's pretty spectacular from the Trump administration.
00:24:50.000Then we'll get to Joe Biden stumbling and bumbling around a drive-in stage.
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00:26:11.000So the entire educational system of the United States, higher educational particularly, has decided to imbibe deeply, drink deeply from the narcissistic, disassociative Wellspring of critical race theory.
00:26:24.000What I mean by that is that there are a bunch of people in higher education who want to say, yeah, America's racist, but we're not.
00:26:30.000So we will acknowledge our own racism.
00:26:32.000We will provide we will do the malice struggle sessions where we announce our own guilt and that and thus we shall have alleviated our guilt and we have reestablished our moral bona fides.
00:26:43.000We will have expiated our white guilt and reestablished our moral authority over everyone to restructure the system from within.
00:26:51.000And this is why you see all these major corporations sending out letters talking about the evils of capitalism and how America's racist and they're racist.
00:26:57.000Do they really believe any of that stuff?
00:26:59.000Of course there's not one of these major corporations Twitter now runs the universe.
00:27:02.000truly believes that America is deeply and inherently systemically racist, that their company is deeply systemically racist, or that capitalism is bad.
00:27:10.000Not one of these companies believes that.
00:27:26.000Okay, so Princeton University decided to do this recently.
00:27:29.000On September 2nd, according to the Daily Wire, Hank Barian reporting, the president of Princeton University, whose name is Christopher Eisgruber, issued a mea culpa in a letter in which he argued that Princeton still evinced racism, writing, quote, racism and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton as in our society. Racist assumptions from the past also remain embedded in structures of the university itself. Right. This is the systemic racism argument.
00:27:53.000I've talked about it a million times at this point.
00:27:54.000The argument on systemic racism is not the same as the argument that racism still exists.
00:28:07.000Racism exists in all societies, at all places, at all times.
00:28:10.000If you want to see truly racist societies against black people, you might want to take a look at some of the countries over in Europe or in Asia.
00:28:17.000Seriously, they've done polling data on people across the world and how comfortable they would be living with somebody who is not of their race next door.
00:28:26.000And the United States ranks super high on the list of people who are comfortable living with somebody of a different race next door.
00:28:31.000That's true also for Canada and the UK, it is very low other places.
00:28:34.000Okay, in any case, the argument is not about racism, it's about structures of racism.
00:28:38.000Structural racism, a term, institutional racism, first coined by Stokely Carmichael, who later became a criminal.
00:28:44.000Stokely Carmichael, I made the argument that because history matters, all of racism is embedded in structures.
00:28:51.000And the way that you can tell if a structure is racist is if the result of the structure has racial differentiation.
00:28:58.000So it's just early stage Ibram X. Kendi.
00:29:01.000And the only way to get rid of that racism is therefore to tear down the structures.
00:29:04.000So this is what Princeton means when they say that racist assumptions from the past remain embedded in structures of the university itself.
00:29:10.000And so they issued this letter, right, Christopher Eisgruber, to the entire Princeton community.
00:29:31.000On Wednesday, the Department of Education fired off a letter to Princeton declaring that the university would now be federally investigated, stating it was, quote, concerned Princeton's nondiscrimination and equal opportunity assurances in its program participation agreements from at least 2013 to the present may have been false.
00:29:47.000The letter, obtained and published by the Washington Examiner, continued, based on the fact the Secretary of Education may consider measures against Princeton for false program participation agreement nondiscrimination assurances, including an action to recover funds.
00:29:59.000Also, she may consider measures against Princeton for making substantial misrepresentations about the nature of its educational program, including a fine proceeding.
00:30:07.000The serious, even shocking nature of Princeton's admissions compel the department to move with all appropriate speed.
00:30:13.000The Examiner noted that an admission from Eisgruber about the systemic racism of Princeton raises concerns Princeton has been receiving tens of millions of dollars in federal funds in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 64, which declares no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
00:30:38.000So basically what happened here is the Department of Education is now taking Princeton at its word.
00:30:43.000Okay, you guys say you're systemically racist?
00:30:51.000So we're gonna look at you, and maybe we'll just take back our tens of millions.
00:30:54.000So now Princeton is gonna be forced to argue privately to the federal government that they are not racist, but publicly that they are racist.
00:31:01.000Or that if they are racist, it's not manifesting an actual mistreatment of black people.
00:31:11.000If you're going to go out there as an entity receiving public dollars and claim that you are the result of a racist system and that your systems themselves are racist, that's illegal in the United States.
00:31:23.000It's been illegal for 50 years in the United States.
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00:34:00.000Okay, in just a second we're going to get to Joe Biden's sterling performance in which he did not physically fall over, but also did not really say a lot of sentences that made sense.
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00:35:45.000Take a bit of a listen to the trailer.
00:35:49.000Probably not the Ben Shapiro show audience, but you know, my progressive friends will want me to acknowledge that some bad things happened across the settling of the West and all that kind of stuff.
00:35:59.000But you know, it was done for a reason.
00:36:01.000And I'm basically arguing for a continuation of that kind of vision that, you know, the United States is great and should want to be great and powerful, and that that means having more people.
00:36:15.000I know, actual patriotism from a person who is a liberal.
00:36:19.000It turns out that I think, again, I think that the gap in the United States right now is not even really between everybody who is kind of left-leaning and everybody who's right-leaning.
00:36:27.000I think it's between liberals and conservatives on the one hand, and wild leftists who want to destroy the country on the other.
00:36:33.000And that is their fundamental ideology.
00:36:35.000Okay, well, you are listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:36:40.000Alrighty, so Joe Biden had a town hall last night.
00:36:48.000So remember, a couple of nights ago, Donald Trump had a town hall on ABC.
00:36:52.000And it basically amounted to George Stephanopoulos asking him why he's a bad, orange, mean man, and then a bunch of members of the audience who were undecided, in that they were undecided whether to vote for Bernie Sanders as a write-in, or undecided whether to vote for Joe Biden.
00:37:03.000That was really, like, the entire audience.
00:37:04.000Like, look at these undecided voters who have to decide whether or not to cast a vote for the Marxist Party or for the Neo-Marxist Party.
00:37:53.000But Joe Biden is obviously not cognitively with it.
00:37:57.000And so you can, it's hard, honestly, it's kind of hard to watch because just as a human being, you're kind of rooting for him to finish his sentences.
00:38:03.000You're rooting for him to somehow come up with a cogent thought because it's hard to, I mean, it's like watching The Office, except not funny, right?
00:38:09.000The Office, the awkwardness is the funniness.
00:38:11.000Here, it's actually not funny because he's kind of like struggling to get the sentences out and struggling to get the paragraphs out.
00:38:18.000But according to the media, it was a masterful, brilliant, edifying performance by Joe Biden.
00:38:25.000The reason that it was brilliant and wonderful and edifying is, of course, because it was, in fact, Joe Biden talking.
00:38:31.000And the fact that he was not asked, like, a single difficult question, that's normal.
00:38:35.000According to CNN, Brian Stelter suggested last night, not kidding, Brian Stelter put in his newsletter, why is it that Joe Biden is basically getting treated with kid gloves?
00:38:45.000His answer is because Donald Trump is a big, bad, orange, mean man.
00:38:47.000Quote, of course they are treated differently.
00:38:49.000The notion that Trump should be interviewed in the same fashion as Biden is absurd.
00:38:54.000It shows every single time he's in front of a camera.
00:38:56.000He lies, misleads, and promotes conspiracy theories at an unprecedented rate in modern American politics.
00:39:01.000So in other words, Trump should be asked difficult questions because Trump is a very bad, orange, mean man who says things that I don't like.
00:39:06.000But Joe Biden is a wonderful man who never lies and has never bloviated and has never prevaricated, never committed plagiarism, never exaggerated.
00:39:14.000Never been insulting about Indian Americans?
00:39:17.000So the media have now justified their own failure of journalisming by suggesting in true journalismic fashion that they really can't ask questions to Joe Biden that are tough because Joe Biden is just too wonderful a human being.
00:39:28.000Still, Joe Biden does this town hall last night and it gets awkward.
00:39:31.000So, for example, he was asked specifically about the Green New Deal.
00:39:35.000He randomly lost his train of thought in the middle of the answer and talked about ventilating schools, which is a weird thing to do.
00:39:43.000There's so much we can do and still make it better for people.
00:39:47.000We're going to invest close to a trillion dollars over time, in the near time, for infrastructure.
00:39:53.000We're going to build green infrastructure.
00:39:55.000For example, I propose that we spend $100 billion on making sure our schools have the right ventilation.
00:40:06.000Making sure schools, in fact, are safe.
00:40:08.000Making sure schools are in a position where they are not generating the Okay, so he loses track in the middle, obviously, and then he realizes, oh wait, this was a question about the Green New Deal.
00:40:19.000I probably need to... Ventilating schools?
00:40:38.000Literally, he gave an answer about chicken manure in Delaware, and the lady is staring at him like, I don't know what you're talking about, Joe.
00:41:02.000And all the manure, quite frankly, that is a consequence of chickens.
00:41:10.000And so it's polluting the Chesapeake Bay.
00:41:13.000What we found out, we've invested a lot of money, we found out you can pelletize this and take out the methane so you're in a position where you can use that fertilizer without the damage that was being done before.
00:41:27.000The same way with horse manure and cow manure and pig manure.
00:41:31.000He is definitely an expert in types of manure and slinging them around.
00:41:35.000That lady's expression, they just need to close in on her face and then go directly to the curb, your enthusiasm credits.
00:41:42.000I was just asking about like, please don't shut down my farm through your crappy over-regulation and your Green New Deal nonsense.
00:41:47.000And he's like, let me tell you about this time I saw s*** on the side of the road.
00:41:52.000Let me just tell you about this time where I saw, like, there was poop, and I don't know whether it was, like, from a beaver or a dolphin, but it was on the side of the road, and I picked it up, and I said to Corn Pop, why is there poop in my leg hair?
00:42:12.000Joe Biden, look at that performance, woo!
00:42:15.000That man is going to be our president for 32.7 seconds before Kamala Harris is the president of the United States.
00:42:21.000Joe Biden also unleashed a bit of radicalism that the media immediately covered up.
00:42:24.000So you said he backed the Green New Deal, but then he backed off it, right?
00:42:26.000This is the way that Joe Biden does it.
00:42:28.000He has asked specifically about the radical policies of his own party, and then he says he backs them, but I've also provided an alternative plan that's not quite as radical.
00:42:35.000And that way, when Republicans say he backs the Green New Deal, the media fact-check them and say, oh, but he also said that he has his own plan.
00:43:39.000Which country is more powerful and has more propagandistic arms in the United States?
00:43:42.000The Chinese government or the Russian government?
00:43:44.000in 2020, which country is more powerful and has more propagandistic arms in the United States, the Chinese government or the Russian government?
00:44:37.000Look, China, we now have a larger trade deficit with China than we've ever had with China.
00:44:42.000And in our administration, when the World Trade Organization he keeps going on about, just ruled that his trade policy violate the World Trade Organization.
00:44:52.000We sued, we went to the World Trade Organization 16 times.
00:45:01.000And then, of course, he futzed on fracking because he doesn't want to lose Pennsylvania, but also he has pledged to basically end fracking.
00:45:07.000He says no new licenses, which, of course, means pretty quickly the end of fracking.
00:45:10.000Here was Joe Biden trying to split the baby once again.
00:45:14.000You said you won't ban fracking, but that you wanted to gradually move away from it, ultimately.
00:45:21.000It sounds like, to some, you're trying to have it both ways.
00:45:23.000Well, fracking has to continue because we need a transition.
00:45:27.000We're going to get to net zero emissions by 2050, and we'll get to net zero power emissions by 2035.
00:45:36.000But there's no rationale to eliminate, right now, fracking.
00:45:43.000We're not going to get rid of your fracking job right now.
00:45:45.000We're just going to make sure that nobody can ever get a new fracking job, and then we're going to regulate it out of existence.
00:45:49.000Now, the truth is that Joe Biden's campaign really relies on two things.
00:45:52.000One, orange man bad, and the other is orange man responsible for everybody dying from COVID.
00:45:57.000And this is the case where Biden is going to have the strongest case, mainly because he's not in power.
00:46:04.000See, the thing about being in power when there's a massive pandemic is that pretty much everybody gets shellacked, or at least they should be if the media weren't completely full of it.
00:46:12.000Apparently, Andrew Cuomo escapes all censure despite the fact that his state got just reamed.
00:46:17.000Apparently, the governor of New Jersey gets away with it, even though his state got absolutely creamed.
00:46:24.000But bottom line is that you can blame Trump for everything.
00:46:26.000And that's what Biden proceeded to do last night.
00:46:28.000He said that the virus is costing us our freedoms.
00:46:31.000Well, actually, right now, it's lockdowns that are costing us our freedoms, not the virus itself.
00:46:34.000Because if people wore masks in public places and they are young and they are not sick, we could all be back at work right now.
00:46:41.000And in fact, that is what we should be pursuing.
00:46:43.000In fact, that is what most places in Europe are pursuing right now.
00:46:46.000But according to Joe Biden, it's only the virus.
00:46:52.000I would tell you what takes away your freedom.
00:46:59.000What takes away your freedom is not being able to see your kid, not being able to go to the football game or baseball game, not being able to see your mom or dad sick in the hospital, not being able to do the things.
00:47:20.000Imagine had he at the State of the Union stood up and said, when back in January I wrote an article for USA Today saying, we've got a pandemic, we've got a real problem.
00:47:41.000At no point did you call for universal masking in February.
00:47:43.000At no point did you call for lockdowns in February.
00:47:46.000At no point did anybody do any of that stuff.
00:47:48.000This revisionist history, whereby Democrats just don't exist in the narrative, is truly incredible.
00:47:52.000Joe Biden actually made the claim yesterday that if Trump had done his job, every single human being who has died from COVID would still be alive.
00:48:23.000If the president had done his job since the beginning.
00:48:24.000You held rallies until March, you doof.
00:48:27.000But of course, again, it's very easy to sit outside because when a bad thing happens and the person in power is in power, you can easily blame them.
00:48:34.000And if you're the media, you just go right along with it.
00:48:36.000Then, of course, Joe Biden jumped on William Barr.
00:48:39.000So William Barr is the attorney general, of course.
00:48:41.000And yesterday, Barr gave a speech talking about, at Hillsdale College, talking about the DOJ.
00:48:46.000And in the middle of his Q&A, he was talking about the COVID lockdowns, and he said they were a radical intrusion on liberty.
00:48:51.000So let's actually play the clip of Bill Barr so you get the full context as to what he's saying here.
00:48:56.000Stay-at-home orders is like house arrest.
00:49:01.000Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.
00:49:35.000He's explicitly taking that and saying slavery to the side, which is a whole different issue because of its inherent moral evil.
00:49:41.000Putting that issue aside, if you're just talking about restrictions on daily movement by Americans, this is the greatest restriction on daily movement by Americans in American history, which by the numbers is essentially true.
00:49:51.000He's explicitly saying it's not like slavery.
00:49:54.000And so the media go, well, he's comparing it to slavery.
00:50:20.000Did you ever, ever think, any of you, you'd hear Attorney General say that following the recommendations of the scientific community to save your and other people's lives is equivalent to slavery?
00:51:34.000If ABC's event with President Trump was an icy grilling, CNN's drive-in conversation with Joe Biden yesterday was more like an affable reunion of old acquaintances.
00:52:31.000Do you trust the doctors who you've been lighting votive candles to?
00:52:36.000for months at this point. Here's Joe Biden talking down vaccines. It's amazing. This is the party that says that they are all in favor of the science and all in favor of ending the problems of COVID as soon as possible, talking down one of the chief ways we're going to end that problem, which is the development of a vaccine.
00:52:51.000First of all, I don't trust the president on vaccines.
00:53:13.000When you say you don't trust the vaccine as long as Trump is in office, what you really mean is you don't trust the vaccine until Trump is out of office, right?
00:53:19.000Because your implication is that Trump is pressuring the scientists to botch this thing.
00:53:23.000Meanwhile, Democrats went nuts yesterday because Trump, during a presser, he pointed out that if you don't count the blue states and how they've handled this thing, that the numbers are actually a lot better.
00:53:35.000Right, because again, nobody really knew how to deal with the pandemic very well in the beginning.
00:53:39.000The only real activity you can fault people for is what should have been obvious from the beginning, which is protect the people in nursing homes, protect the elderly, protect the vulnerable, which everybody failed to do in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, et cetera.
00:53:53.000The division between red states and blue states on COVID has been pushed by the media and pushed by the Democrats since the very beginning.
00:53:59.000Ron DeSantis was evil for not shutting down Jacksonville beaches.
00:54:03.000Doug Ducey was evil for not fully shutting down the economy of Arizona.
00:54:07.000Kirsten Ohm in South Dakota is still evil for not having shut down South Dakota, which, by the way, currently has a 4.8% unemployment rate and not tons of death.
00:54:16.000So it was Democrats who decided to make this a red-blue issue.
00:54:18.000I've said since the beginning, I don't understand why this should be a red-blue issue.
00:54:21.000You should actually follow the best scientific procedures, and then you should alleviate lockdown when it appears that lockdown is no longer achieving what it was originally supposed to achieve, namely, avoiding the overwhelm of the hospitals.
00:54:32.000I'm the one who's been saying since the beginning that you should follow the actual recommendations of people who are examining the data.
00:54:41.000It was Democrats who immediately went to, red states are mishandling this and blue states are being, they were saying that while Ron DeSantis had no cases in Florida.
00:54:47.000Okay, but meanwhile, Democrats are very angry that Trump mentioned the difference between red states and blue states in terms of deaths per million.
00:54:53.000And by the way, out of the top 11 places in the United States, including DC, deaths per million, I believe eight of them are blue, just for the record.
00:55:00.000Here is Chuck Schumer saying that Trump is monstrous and demented for distinguishing blue states, which is weird because I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats were saying that all the red states were monstrous and demented for even opening.
00:55:09.000The Atlantic ran a headline about Georgia saying that it was Brian Kemp's experiment and human sacrifice to reopen Georgia. Here is Chuck Schumer.
00:55:16.000What kind of person looks at the number of dead citizens in the country he is supposed to lead and in an attempt to glamorize himself dismisses every American who died in a state that didn't support the president politically.
00:55:52.000I mean, if anybody has degraded American lives in places like New York, by the way, it was Andrew Cuomo who built a paper machine mountain of death as tribute to himself to show how wonderfully he had handled it.
00:56:01.000He made a poster to himself with a curve showing dead people.
00:56:11.000They literally took a woman whose dad died of COVID and voted for Trump and said he was an idiot and it was his own fault he died because he listened to Donald Trump.
00:56:20.000They degraded the value of every Trump supporter who died of COVID by basically saying they brought it on themselves.
00:56:26.000Meanwhile, James Clyburn makes a completely unbased accusation saying that Trump refused to act on COVID because it was hitting blue states.
00:56:32.000Like, I'm going to need some evidence that it was specifically because Trump hates the blue states that he was not acting on COVID.
00:56:37.000By the way, he gave all the ventilators that New York needed to New York.
00:56:39.000Gavin Newsom said he gave us all the resources we needed.
00:56:41.000Jay Inslee in Washington said he gave us all the resources we needed.
00:56:45.000But here is James Clyburn suggesting that Trump just allowed people in blue states to die.
00:56:54.000Back in April, The administration considered implementing a national strategy, but decided not to do so.
00:57:04.000Because at the time, the virus was primarily spreading in blue states.
00:57:10.000Just yesterday, we saw the president still employing this political strategy, boasting that there would be fewer deaths, and I'm quoting him here, If you take the blue states out.
00:57:27.000Okay, again, the reason that they didn't implement a national strategy is because America is a nation with lots of states and not all the states were being hit equivalently.
00:57:35.000And so a national strategy would have forced states that were not being hit to shut down, which would have been very silly.
00:57:41.000You should not shut down states that don't have any cases.
00:57:45.000Okay, now this doesn't mean that the White House handled everything with regard to COVID properly.
00:57:49.000There's a story yesterday that I think actually is probably the most damaging story that I've seen on the Trump administration's handling of COVID.
00:57:55.000It's from Business Insider, talking about how the White House scuttled a plan to partner with the U.S.
00:57:59.000Postal Service to send every American a face mask.
00:58:02.000The Washington Post found a draft press release showing the Postal Service was preparing to send out 650 million face masks in April to supply every household with them.
00:58:11.000That would have been a good idea, by the way.
00:58:13.000That would have been a very good idea, because I've always been very baffled by the sort of conservative notion that in order to reopen, we have to take off the masks.
00:59:19.000It's sort of different from the American New Year or the World New Year in that during the American New Year, you're drinking, you're merry, and then you sort of make resolutions for the New Year.
00:59:27.000The Jewish New Year is about two things.
00:59:29.000It's about celebrating God's creation of the universe, and it's about leading off what are called the Asar Yom Kippur, which are the 10 days of repentance.
00:59:36.000So you have 10 days to sort of get your life straight before Yom Kippur, which is the day of repentance, which, yeah, I'll be taking off a day in 10 days to fast and pray for repentance.
00:59:48.000And the idea here is that you have basically, on the repentance side, you have 10 days to sort of demonstrate to God that you would like to fix your problems.
00:59:56.000And, you know, it's a beautiful idea, but gee, we'll get to, maybe I'll talk about Yom Kippur, near Yom Kippur, but when it comes to Rosh Hashanah, the idea of God's creation of the universe being celebrated, the Bria, as it's called in Hebrew, right?
01:01:12.000One, it reminds human beings that they are nothing.
01:01:15.000And two, it reminds human beings that they are everything.
01:01:17.000It reminds human beings that they are created from the earth, and back to the earth they will return.
01:01:22.000Human beings in the creation story in Genesis are created on the sixth day of creation.
01:01:26.000They don't have their own separate day of creation, right?
01:01:28.000God creates the animals and He creates human beings at the very end of the sixth day.
01:01:31.000Meaning that we are innately wrapped up in our own animal instincts, but we have the capacity to look up to the stars.
01:01:37.000Meaning rests in us, and if we fail to take advantage of that meaning, then we are degraded to the level of animals.
01:01:44.000The importance of God creation, and we should be grateful for the fact that God created the universe the way that he did.
01:01:50.000We should be grateful for this universe, which is not always easy to be.
01:01:53.000I mean, it's a tough universe to live in sometimes.
01:01:55.000But we should be very grateful for the fact that God fine-tuned the universe.
01:01:59.000This is the argument that religious people often make.
01:02:03.000For the existence of God and trying to evidence God in the universe is that the conditions had to be incredibly precise in order for human beings to arise.
01:02:09.000In fact, there was a recent study showing that of 10 million stars that have been surveyed that we've seen essentially no signs of any other form of anything like sentient human beings or sentient creatures literally anywhere.
01:02:21.000The conditions for the creation of life have to be extraordinarily precise.
01:02:26.000Atheists will say, well, you know, If you run the same game over and over and over, then eventually you come up with life.
01:02:34.000And so they posit things like multiple universe theory, that there's tons of universes, an infinite number of universes, actually.
01:02:39.000And so if there are an infinite number of universes, then every possibility is possible in every universe.
01:02:44.000The evidence for multiple universes is zero, because you can't get outside your own universe to actually examine whether there are multiple universes, which means that that's an act of faith as well.
01:02:51.000The fine-tuning of the universe for human life is indeed proof that something wants us to be here.
01:02:59.000And that is something that is worth noting.
01:03:01.000Now, the counter argument is that, you know, if you're the one guy who wins the lottery, then you think that the lottery picked you out.
01:03:07.000Okay, but that assumes that there's a winner in the lottery.
01:03:09.000There didn't have to be a winner in the lottery.
01:03:11.000Whenever there's a lottery, you assume there will be one winner.
01:03:34.000One, if you are a scientifically minded person, then you tend to believe that the universe operates by understandable rules.
01:03:40.000You also tend to believe in things like objective truth.
01:03:42.000That outside of you, there is a truth.
01:03:44.000That not all truth is about your subjective perception of the truth.
01:03:47.000And that your mind can grasp these truths.
01:03:51.000There's nothing in simple materialism that suggests any of these things.
01:03:55.000Objective truth does not exist in a world of pure materialism.
01:03:57.000You're simply an evolved creature who is capable of adapting to your environment.
01:04:02.000That doesn't mean that the way you adapt is true.
01:04:04.000It means that you adapt in the most adaptable way.
01:04:08.000But if you believe there is such a thing as objective truth, you have to explain why there is such a thing as objective truth outside of you.
01:04:13.000Why are there rules that we, as human beings, very, very limited creatures, can actually understand and utilize to our advantage?
01:04:21.000And it's not just that we are utilizing them to our advantage in ways that are sort of practical, it's that we can understand objectively true things.
01:04:29.000How do you believe in an objective truth if you don't believe that there's anything setting that objective truth?
01:04:34.000Adaptability and environmental adaptation do not equal objective truth.
01:04:39.000So the idea that God created the universe with certain understandable rules leads inevitably to the idea that the human being has the capacity to understand many of those rules.
01:04:48.000So it leads to the impetus for science, Because science is about the investigation of those objective rules and objective truths.
01:04:54.000It suggests discernible rules in the universe.
01:04:56.000And on a human level, it also suggests that human beings have incredible worth.
01:05:02.000The biblical account of creation, I've said this before, the single most important verse in the Bible is that God created human beings in his image.
01:05:08.000It doesn't mean that God looks like human beings.
01:05:10.000What it means is that God created us with the ability to reason.
01:05:13.000God created us with the ability to create.
01:05:16.000And that we owe each other recognition that we are each made in God's image.
01:05:20.000You can't enslave somebody if you believe that they are made in the image of God.
01:05:23.000You can't mistreat somebody if you believe that they are made in the image of God.
01:05:27.000Enlightenment values of individualism and individual rights spring directly from the idea that you are made in the image of God.
01:05:32.000Because on a pure materialistic level, who cares?
01:05:35.000You're just a ball of meat wandering through the universe.
01:05:37.000So the idea of God's creation lends weight to the To the statements of the Declaration of Independence, which is of course why Jefferson, who had a sort of complicated relationship with organized religion at the very best, suggests that our rights lie inevitably in a creator or nature.
01:05:57.000Now, what that means in the end, and this is how it connects to the ten days of repentance, is that we do have responsibilities to the one who created us.
01:06:04.000Just like you have responsibilities to your parents, you have responsibilities to the one who created us, who gave us a mind to comprehend the universe around us.
01:06:09.000He did that so that we could seek truth and act morally.
01:06:13.000God created us with a moral sense, right?
01:06:14.000This is the Kantian statement, that the best evidence of God is the starry heavens above and the moral sense within.
01:06:21.000We have the capacity to understand the universe.
01:06:23.000We have the capacity to intuit moral laws from looking at the universe around us.
01:06:27.000It's the idea of natural law, which inevitably, well not inevitably, eventually gives rise to the idea of natural rights.
01:06:34.000The birth of the Enlightenment, the birth of science, the birth of all the things that you believe in, whether you're a secular humanist living in the United States or whether you're a religious person, lie in the basic idea that God created the universe, and that's what we're celebrating here on Rosh Hashanah.
01:06:46.000So with that said, Shanah Tovah U'metukah, meaning a sweet and happy New Year to you, and we'll see you here a little bit later today for a couple additional hours, or we'll see you here next week.
01:06:54.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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