A juror in the Derek Chauvin trial turns out to have been a Black Lives Matter protestor. President Biden oversees the rise of racial polarization and crime. And Ron DeSantis destroys Biden s anti-scientific vaccine approach. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the Daily Wire's "Politics with Ben Shapiro" podcast. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Wire and the Weekly Standard, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, "The Dark Side of America," is out now and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you don't already own a Kindle, you can get a free eReader device with the purchase of a Kindle Fire, Fire tablet, or other Kindle device, by becoming a Kindle reader. You can also get 20% off an Amazon Prime membership when you book your first Prime membership starting July 1st, 2019, by clicking here. That's free and includes unlimited eReader membership, unlimited Kindle reading, unlimited Fire, and unlimited access to all other Fire devices, including the Kindle, Fire tablets, and other major podcasting services such as the Fire, iBook, and iBook Pro, Fire OS, Fire TV, and Fire OS. You'll get 50% off your first month with the Prime membership trial when you sign up for Prime membership! You'll also get access to my entire library of over 150 books, iMac, iWatch, Fire Emblem, and iOS devices, and a year-old eReader, plus I'm giving you a free trial, and I'll get an ad-free version of the Fire Pro, too! $99.99, plus a copy of my new eReader edition of my book, Firecracker, Fire Pro! I'll be giving you access to the entire Fire Pro Pro edition of FirePro Pro and iOS 5 Pro, I'll send you a $50 discount when I receive $50 and you get an additional $50 off my first month, plus an additional 5-month shipping offer when I get a Prime membership gets complete by Prime Proonomy, I can choose my first year's membership gets $50 or I get $99 and I get an extra $50, I'm also get $150 in the second year of Prime Pro and I can get $50 at Prime Pro will get a second year free.
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00:01:36.000The Biden administration came into power promising moderation, a return to normalcy, and instead they are overseeing what looks very much like the country coming apart at the seams.
00:01:45.000And the people who are paying the price for that are largely living in blue areas that are being cleaned out.
00:01:51.000And there's a reason that the census data shows that people are moving from blue areas to red areas, and it's because blue areas increasingly suck.
00:01:56.000I mean, it just is the reality of life.
00:01:58.000Crime has gone up tremendously in places like L.A., where I used to live, or New York, where a lot of my friends used to live, or places like Chicago, where I have friends who are now moving.
00:02:06.000You know, the fact of the matter is that as democratic policies start to have their effect, things go bad.
00:02:12.000Which is why Daily Wire is now reporting that Chicago may be headed for a violent summer.
00:02:16.000Over the weekend, dozens of people were shot, seven were killed in gun violence that spanned the city, a continuation of a trend that has dogged Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, since last summer.
00:02:25.000Fox News reports more than 45 people were shot, including a 14-year-old boy.
00:02:29.000Seven were killed in Chicago citywide over the weekend, according to the Chicago PD.
00:02:32.000There were 36 shootings reported from 6 p.m.
00:02:37.000At least two others were stabbed, including one victim who succumbed to his injuries.
00:02:40.000Information released by the authorities indicates the slain victims ranged from 17 to 37.
00:02:45.000The youngest victim died while he was shot while driving on Sunday.
00:02:49.000He crashed his car after sustaining a bullet wound.
00:02:51.000The youngest victim who survived was just 14 years old.
00:02:55.000So all of this, of course, is terrible news, but it is mirrored by the fact that there is terrible news in pretty much every major American city when it comes to homicide, according to the Washington Post today.
00:03:05.000District officials in Washington launched their annual summer crime prevention initiative.
00:03:18.000It's an annual summer crime prevention initiative, which sounds like the state fair, against a backdrop of a soaring homicide rate and on the heels of a particularly bloody weekend in the city.
00:03:25.000Now, I don't know why this would happen.
00:03:27.000I mean, they painted Black Lives Matter in giant yellow letters on the street, for God's sake.
00:03:32.000They renamed a square Black Lives Matter Square in Washington, D.C.
00:03:36.000I thought for the life of me, this would mean more black people would live.
00:03:39.000But as it turns out, When you rip on the cops, and when you suggest the cops are the problem, it turns out that more black people die, because more people die generally.
00:03:47.000And if disproportionately black people die in homicides, then more black people will die in homicides.
00:03:52.000Mayor Muriel Bowser, Democrat, announced the program at a news conference Monday at Rosedale Recreation Center, a 10-minute drive from where a stray bullet struck a 7-year-old through her pink t-shirt two days earlier.
00:04:02.000Now, you haven't heard of that 7-year-old, have you?
00:04:19.000And it means more black people will die.
00:04:22.000Over the past weekend alone, at least 11 people were shot and another person was stabbed.
00:04:26.000Three of those victims died, bringing the number of homicides in the district to 66 this year, a 38% increase from the same time in 2020.
00:04:33.000And it should be known that every year in the United States, about 20 black people are shot unarmed by the cops.
00:04:38.000In the District of Columbia alone, 66 people have been murdered this year.
00:04:44.000Acting DC Police Chief Robert J. Conte said, I love it.
00:04:49.000I mean, again, that it's an annual thing is kind of hysterical.
00:04:52.000It is certainly not lost on me, the violent crime that we experienced in our city this past weekend.
00:04:57.000These things are the reason why we do the Summer Crime Initiative.
00:04:59.000It's the reason why we are so committed to this, and we have been for so many years now.
00:05:02.000Well, maybe if you keep doing the same thing and it's failing, maybe you should probably change how you do that thing.
00:05:08.000A 20-year-old man from Northeast Washington, Delano Harris, was fatally shot Sunday evening in the Edgewood neighborhood.
00:05:12.000Half an hour later, police said Luis Chieves, a 46-year-old from Southeast Washington, was fatally stabbed near Boone Elementary School in Southeast.
00:05:19.000Paul Tyrone Dorn, whose age was not immediately available, died of a gunshot wound to his chest on Sunday night.
00:05:23.000A police report says he was shot in self-defense.
00:05:25.000Seven-year-old Regan Grimes, a second grader visiting from Maryland, is expected to recover after a bullet went through her chest outside of the Paradise at Parkside apartment complex on Saturday.
00:05:34.000Her family said they were visiting relatives and she had gone outside to play.
00:05:38.000Well, my favorite thing here is that, according to DC, the big issue here is that it's hot outside.
00:05:43.000You know, as it gets hotter... This is one of the great, kind of, statistical lies that they'll tell you.
00:05:48.000Well, you know, when it's hotter, people murder each other more.
00:05:50.000It's just that kids are out of school for the summer, and young people disproportionately commit crimes.
00:05:53.000So that is usually why you have a spike in the summer in terms of the murder rate, but...
00:05:58.000The reason that you have a spike this year over other years is, of course, because when you rip the cops, when you make it impossible for them to do their jobs, then you're going to get a rise in crime.
00:06:06.000And what we have seen is that there are cultural impacts to saying that cops across the land are systemically racist.
00:06:12.000There are cultural impacts to saying to citizens across the United States that the police are the enemy.
00:06:19.000When you say this sort of stuff, it makes a difference in citizen behavior.
00:06:22.000It makes a difference in police behavior because people are not automatons.
00:06:26.000When you say that the cops are all racist, and you're gonna drag them into court, even if the body cam footage shows that they did the right thing, or you're gonna drag them through the media the way LeBron James did to that cop in Minnesota, then this is what you end up with.
00:06:43.000You end up with these... Sorry, that cop in Ohio.
00:07:01.000She's a representative from Missouri, and she tweeted out, Yes, America is racist AF.
00:07:04.000to spark a national movement to save black lives if America weren't racist AF. Yes, America is racist AF. The police are terrible. The police are awful.
00:07:20.000If America was built on racism, why in the world is Al Sharpton still on TV?
00:07:24.000This man is the greatest race grifter of the last 50 years.
00:07:27.000involved in the incitement of not one but two riots, a complete liar.
00:07:31.000I mean, a man who completely made up from whole cloth the story of Tawana Browley, and then slandered a DA in order to get himself off the hook.
00:07:39.000Al Sharpton is a bag of human garbage.
00:08:24.000Okay, my favorite part of this is that none of those things are true today and none of those things have been true for decades.
00:08:29.000Right, and if you want to talk about marriages and breaking up marriages, and he says we were never allowed to marry.
00:08:34.000The marriage rate among black Americans in 1900 was actually higher than the marriage rate among white Americans in 1900.
00:08:38.000The marriage rate today among African Americans stands at approximately, or children born out of wedlock, the marriage, children born out of wedlock rate today is in excess of 70%.
00:08:50.000Okay, when welfare came around, it was about 20%.
00:08:54.000Is that an aftereffect of racism and slavery?
00:08:55.000You're gonna have to explain why, if that is the case.
00:08:57.000Okay, but again, all of this has predictable effects, and the predictable effects of this are that people treat cops badly, and that people suggest that America's a terrible place, and you are somehow virtuous if you attack America.
00:09:09.000And then the result is that people just don't do their jobs.
00:09:41.000The only ones you see are the ones the media decided to make an issue of.
00:09:44.000But how people act toward the cops does make a difference.
00:09:47.000And when you raise the temperature, and when you say the cops are bad, and people start acting terribly with the cops, the results sometimes go bad.
00:09:54.000We'll talk about that in just one moment.
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00:11:04.000Okay, so this leads to certain predictable effects.
00:11:07.000When you castigate the cops as racist.
00:11:09.000When you suggest that the cops are a big danger to Americans.
00:11:12.000There's a video that I think is kind of important because We very rarely talk about the behavior of people when they interact with police officers.
00:11:19.000We hear very often that if you're black in America, you have to teach your kids, keep your hands at 10 and 2 on the wheel, treat the officer with respect.
00:11:25.000First of all, you should teach your kids to do that regardless of your color.
00:11:28.000Because the cop is armed and you presumably are not.
00:11:31.000The cop is an officer of law and you presumably are not.
00:11:33.000And you should be treating police officers with respect.
00:12:59.000She thinks she's gonna put that up on TikTok and she's gonna go viral.
00:13:02.000Look at how I spoke back to this murdering pig officer.
00:13:05.000That sort of attitude is not going to either get you anywhere in life or going to incentivize the kind of behaviors that lead to a lowering of crime.
00:13:11.000You think police officers want to be treated this way?
00:13:14.000You think police officers want to get into situations?
00:13:17.000The lady's not actually physically resisting arrest, for example.
00:13:22.000But to believe that that doesn't happen is to ignore the evidence on the ground.
00:13:26.000And this has now infused so much of our conversation, right?
00:13:30.000The anti-police, anti-American rhetoric has infused so much of our conversation that we're supposed to ignore relevant stories in favor of irrelevant stories.
00:13:39.000We're supposed to pay attention to this lady's feeling about this cop.
00:13:44.000We're supposed to pay attention to police officers doing the right thing and shooting people who are threatening other people.
00:13:50.000But we're not supposed to pay attention to actual Active, active, apparent malice.
00:13:56.000So this brings us to what in any normal situation would lead the news.
00:14:11.000So, the most glorified criminal justice trial since Rodney King was the Derek Chauvin trial.
00:14:17.000It was the number one trial covered in America.
00:14:20.000The Derek Chauvin situation spawned riots and protests.
00:14:24.000The protests involved somewhere between 15 and 26 million Americans, according to studies.
00:14:29.000And then, A couple weeks ago, Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts.
00:14:33.000And I said at the time, I think you could get to manslaughter, maybe.
00:14:36.000I find it very difficult to believe that a jury could get to second and third degree murder after 10 hours of consideration with no questions asked of the judge.
00:14:46.000It is very hard for me to believe that you get there without any preconceived notions after three weeks of testimony, you come in with a conviction on all counts, second, third degree murder and manslaughter on the basis of the evidence that was provided.
00:15:05.000This is how the criminal justice system works, to which I pointed out, well, if it had come out the other way in 10 hours, you would have said that it was biased that way.
00:15:10.000So, obviously, you just don't like the outcome.
00:15:12.000What I'm saying is, if they'd considered this for a week, and then they'd come back with that verdict, I still would have thought they got it wrong, but at least I would have thought they considered the evidence.
00:15:20.000You come back in 10 hours after a three-week trial on something like that, and it doesn't seem to me that the jury did a great job considering the evidence, just on the basis of the sort of outside... on the basis of the outside data.
00:15:35.000Now we know that at least one of these jurors was apparently an activist.
00:15:41.000According to Daily Wire, one of the jurors who served on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin reportedly sported a Black Lives Matter t-shirt with a reference to the death of George Floyd, seemingly challenging what the juror told the Chauvin defense team during jury selection.
00:15:54.000According to a report from the Post Millennial, now public juror Brandon Mitchell, 31, is seen in a Facebook post published in August 2020.
00:16:02.000Right, well before the trial, August 2020, wearing a hat that says Black Lives Matter, and a t-shirt that says BLM, with the words, Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, a reference to the death of Floyd.
00:16:14.000The photo was posted by a Travis Mitchell, with the caption, The next generation being socially active, representing in D.C., my son, Marzel, my nephew, Brandon Reen Mitchell, and brother, Maurice Johnsenus Johnson.
00:16:25.000Here's the photo in question, it was tweeted out by Jack Posobiec.
00:16:29.000Also, this person apparently runs a podcast, Mitchell told the judge on March 15th, when he was asked if he was aware of the Chauvin case and George Floyd, he said, quote, he'd heard some basic info about trial dates, et cetera, from the news, but not the sort of information that would keep him from serving as an impartial juror.
00:16:45.000Apparently, he also ran a podcast covering George Floyd and other racial justice issues.
00:16:50.000He then went on to give an interview to the Wall Street Journal in which he described how he decided to go public to help push for change and told of his many negative experiences dealing with law enforcement when he was younger.
00:17:00.000If Mitchell was truly unfamiliar with the George Floyd case before joining the jury, he certainly made up for lost time in a hurry, says Hot Air.
00:17:24.000Let's say that Derek Chauvin had been acquitted, and it turns out one of the jurors had been wearing a Blue Lives Matter t-shirt with a shirt that said, Derek Chauvin is innocent.
00:17:33.000Do you think that that might be the cause of some consternation?
00:17:37.000Have you seen this story covered anywhere?
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00:19:01.000Okay, so all of this has a predictable impact.
00:19:04.000The predictable impact is that we are only supposed to follow the narratives that the media would like us to follow.
00:19:08.000The narratives are that the cops are bad, and if you yell at the cops, this makes you good.
00:19:13.000The narrative is that cops don't deserve impartial jurors.
00:19:17.000After all, we know systemic police racism means that Derek Chauvin is a racist, even though not an iota of evidence was provided for the idea that Derek Chauvin was a racist.
00:19:25.000America is racist, which means that Tim Scott is bad.
00:19:27.000You can be as racist to Tim Scott as you want to be.
00:19:30.000And not only that, the left has a prerogative in cramming all this down on your children, because critical race theory is being rammed into the public schools.
00:19:38.000This is something that's being pushed by the Biden administration.
00:20:37.000Schools across the country, says the Washington Post, are working to address systemic racism and inject an anti-racist mindset into campus life.
00:21:03.000But where advocates see racial progress, opponents see an effort to shame white teachers and sometimes students for being part of an oppressive system.
00:21:10.000I mean, honest to God, I don't, like, did Imbram Kendi write this article?
00:21:15.000In particular, conservatives have seized on the idea that schools are promoting critical race theory, a decades-old academic framework that examines how policies and the law perpetuate systemic racism.
00:21:24.000It holds in part that racism is woven into the fabric of the nation's history and life, a product of the system, and not just individual bad actors.
00:21:46.000schools have never been colorblind, and insist they aren't pushing critical race theory anyway.
00:21:50.000The equity work is critical, they say, to address systemic barriers holding back students of color and to create schools that are truly inclusive.
00:22:00.000Because they're trying to get rid of testing in New York City because testing is too beneficial to Asian American students who are doing incredibly well on the tests.
00:22:06.000To create schools that are truly inclusive.
00:22:17.000Data consistently show that students of color are more likely to be disciplined than their white peers and receive harsher punishments for the same infractions.
00:22:23.000Well, actually, that's not what the data show.
00:22:24.000What the data tend to show is that students of color are more likely to be disciplined, but it's not clear they receive harsher punishments for the same infractions.
00:22:30.000It depends on the record of the student previously and the school they go to.
00:22:35.000Black and Hispanic students are less likely to be placed in advanced or enriched classes starting in elementary school.
00:22:40.000Okay, usually that is based on the teachers making a determination and or testing.
00:22:45.000Many experts say school curricula have failed to adequately reflect the perspectives of indigenous and marginalized communities.
00:22:50.000So, yes, we're going to indoctrinate your kids in a bunch of diversity courses.
00:22:55.000And students and parents themselves often report that school culture does not feel welcoming.
00:23:26.000And by the way, there's a great irony to Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the people who loves cancellation more than nearly anybody else in American life.
00:23:32.000She said that people in the media should have a reckoning over January 6th.
00:23:36.000Like people should get fired if they backed Trump.
00:23:39.000Here she is saying, oh, people are being mean to me.
00:23:42.000This is fundamentally a free speech issue.
00:23:47.000If you look at the rhetoric of Senator McConnell and of state legislators all across the country that are trying to get bills passed to prohibit the teaching of the 1619 Project, it's not about the facts of history.
00:24:00.000It's about trying to prohibit the teaching of ideas that they don't like.
00:24:04.000So we, you know, I've been a little appalled by the silence of free speech advocates as their attempts to ban ideas from being taught.
00:24:20.000Nobody's saying that Nikole Hannah-Jones should lose her job.
00:24:21.000I mean, she sucks at her job, but I don't think she should.
00:24:24.000Frankly, I think they should make her just official EIC of the New York Times so they can completely blow out their credibility.
00:24:29.000That seems like a positive move to me.
00:24:31.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:26:29.000In Texas, that school board won 70-30 against CRT because CRT is a bunch of propagandistic BS.
00:26:35.000And there's going to be blowback against COVID as well, because the standards that are being pushed by the left with regard to COVID, masking, social distancing, they do not make any sense at all.
00:26:45.000Let me give you an example of how little sense any of the stuff being pushed by the left makes on COVID.
00:26:49.000So, you'll recall, because I played it a couple of times on the show, that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, that Joe Biden has said that it is a Patriotic duty, man, to wear your mask.
00:27:01.000Yeah, I'm vaccinated, and even though I'm vaccinated, I'm double-vaxxed, even though I'm double-vaxxed.
00:27:09.000If I sat next to you, Jim Bob Billy Joe, Pony Soldier, if I sat next to you and you were vaxxed, I'd wear a mask.
00:29:33.000That's not actually the point of me bringing this up.
00:29:34.000I mean, sure, it's hilarious, and strange, and also hilarious, but the actual point here is, you may have noticed that neither Jill nor Joe are masked here, next to two people who are, In their late 90s.
00:29:49.000I mean, Jimmy Carter's had health problems.
00:29:51.000I assume both of them are vaccinated at this point.
00:29:54.000And Joe and Joe are right next to him.
00:29:56.000But I was informed that even if both of you are vaccinated, you should mask up.
00:29:59.000Now, the part of this that's hilarious is that as soon as they leave the house, then there's a picture of Joe and Joe putting on masks.
00:30:08.000Either Joe's a liar about his own masking standards, or Joe and Jill were attempting some sort of assassination against these tiny treasured members of American society.
00:31:03.000You should go back to regular life because the chances of you dying of COVID after you've been vaxxed in the United States, 87 million people have been fully vaxxed in the United States.
00:31:11.00088 people, 88 out of 87 million people have died of COVID after being double vaxxed in the United States. 88.
00:31:20.000And according to the Washington Post, not according to me, according to the Washington Post, there is no data to suggest that the Vaccinated are either a chief vector of transmission, or a major vector of transmission, or indeed, even a vector of transmission.
00:31:35.000There is no data for this at this point.
00:31:36.000And yet, we are still hearing the talking up of COVID panic from places like the Washington Post.
00:31:41.000Quote, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week issued guidelines for what vaccinated people can do, the agency employed the word risk 43 times.
00:31:48.000The word often carried a modifier, like increased risk, residual risk, low risk, potential risk, minimal risk, higher risk.
00:31:53.000The CDC did not define low, minimal, or higher.
00:31:55.000Instead, using broad brushstrokes to paint a picture of post-vaccination life.
00:31:59.000Yes, of course they didn't, because that would imply that they have to present data.
00:32:01.000They don't want to present data at the CDC.
00:32:03.000They want to present whatever propaganda Joe Biden wants to present today.
00:32:06.000Because in this dystopian future where Joe Biden controls your life, he doesn't bother to present any data.
00:32:12.000The reality is the CDC is supposed to prevent you with science, and then you're supposed to make decisions.
00:32:15.000But our great, ultra-crepidarian scientists have decided they are going to tell you exactly what you can and cannot do.
00:32:23.000For example, it says in the CDC standards, indoor visits or small gatherings likely represent minimal risk to fully vaccinated people.
00:32:29.000On Wednesday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, who ought to be fired forthwith, said she could not give a definitive answer to what a small gathering is because there are too many variables.
00:32:46.000The answer is, there are not so many variables.
00:32:48.000You should be able to get together with a million vaccinated people.
00:32:51.000In fact, if you're vaccinated, you should really be able to get together with a million non-vaccinated people because you're not going to die of COVID by the odds.
00:32:58.000Okay, if we define a small and medium-sized gathering, says Walensky, we also have to define the size of the space that we're in, the ventilation that is occurring, the space between people.
00:33:16.000Listen, I trust the science, which is why I don't trust Rochelle Walensky, who it turns out was taking full-on cues from the American Federation of Teachers and Randy Weingarten in writing the education standards.
00:33:27.000Just as there's gonna be blowback on the policing front because the left has pushed way too far, because they don't like the cops, and they've made it very clear they think the cops are quote-unquote systemically racist, Joe Biden gets up in the State of the Union and he says things like, yeah, the cops are wonderful people, most of them, and not racist, and also systemically racist.
00:33:42.000Like, okay, so you're just a damned liar.
00:33:45.000And they do the same thing with COVID.
00:33:48.000Also, wear a mask when you go to the toilet by yourself.
00:33:52.000So thank God there are places like Florida, where I live, where the governance is excellent.
00:33:57.000Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, he, for example, came out yesterday and he slammed the Biden approach to vaccination because that approach is garbage.
00:34:09.000When you have people, particularly in Washington, saying, yeah, get vaccinated.
00:34:14.000But then make sure you continue to social distance and wear masks all the time.
00:34:17.000Well, the message that that sends to people is that the vaccines don't work.
00:34:22.000Because if the vaccines worked, that would be your ticket to basically live normally and make decisions for yourself.
00:34:28.000That would be the message that actually would work with people.
00:34:32.000So I think that they've sent a message to say, you know what?
00:34:35.000Get vaccinated, but it really ain't gonna do anything for you.
00:34:38.000Well, why would someone want to put something in their arm if they don't think it's effective?
00:34:41.000And the fact of the matter is, that is an anti-science posture to say that we need all these restrictions, even with mass vaccination, because the numbers of the vaccines are better than the clinical trials were, in terms of the effectiveness.
00:34:58.000This is a- DeSantis has been ripped up and down by your lying, lying media for full-on a year here, because they're afraid of him running in 2024.
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00:37:25.000There's a New York Times poll today asking, how likely would you be to get the vaccine when it was available to you if it meant you no longer had to wear a mask?
00:37:32.000Hey, Republicans, 53% say they would be likely to get the vaccine if it meant they no longer had to wear a mask.
00:37:38.00035% said they'd be interested in the vaccine if they still had to wear a mask.
00:37:40.000That is an 18-point increase in support if you could take off your mask.
00:37:44.000And it's true for every subgroup in American life.
00:37:47.000White people are 15% more likely to get the vaccine if they can take off their mask.
00:38:11.000Dr. Marty Bakari, who's been a frequent guest on the program, he says correctly, the CDC has been late or wrong since the pandemic began.
00:38:19.000The CDC has been consistently late or wrong, and sometimes both, for most of the major issues that we face during the pandemic.
00:38:26.000On warning us about the pandemic, on masks, on testing, on schools, on being outdoors, consistently.
00:38:33.000And right now we've got a situation where it's the Wild West in terms of businesses trying to figure out when to bring employees back.
00:38:39.000JP Morgan and Salesforce have radically different plans.
00:38:43.000Every company is left to sort of figuring this out on their own, and what you've got is large companies hiring expensive consultants, and small businesses, which are most businesses in this country, can't afford these expensive consultants, and they're just trying to figure it out on their own, reinventing the wheel.
00:39:27.000Joe Biden is about to inflate the currency.
00:39:29.000We are watching it happen in real time.
00:39:31.000You know, when all the experts tell you, the experts, the same experts who said don't mask at the very beginning, and then they said you have to shut down the schools, and then they said you have to keep masking even if you're vaccinated.
00:39:39.000When that same cadre, the new ruling class, I talk about this group of people and how they are formed in my brand new book that is coming out in July, The Authoritarian Moment.
00:39:48.000Go check that out for pre-order right now.
00:39:50.000When this class of people tells you anything, your first move should be doubt.
00:39:54.000It doesn't mean they're wrong, but it should be doubt, particularly when it's overwhelming, when there's a 100% consensus.
00:39:59.000You don't have to worry about inflation.
00:40:00.000You think to yourself, wait a second, we're going to try and blow $10 trillion into the American economy after blowing $7 trillion into the American economy last year, minimum, above and beyond the budget.
00:40:10.000And your idea is that we somehow are not going to get inflation?
00:41:18.000Also, he says that the American Families Plan, his new $2 trillion boondoggle directed at spending more money than God has ever seen, it won't add a penny to our deficit.
00:41:27.000And if you believe this, then Joe Biden has a bridge in Brooklyn that is available for sale.
00:41:33.000Here's what the American Families Plan doesn't do.
00:41:36.000It doesn't add a single penny to our deficit.
00:41:39.000It's paid for by making sure corporate America and the wealthiest 1% just pay their fair share.
00:41:45.000I come from the corporate capital of the world.
00:41:48.000More corporations are incorporated in the state of Delaware than all the rest of the nation combined.
00:42:15.000100% of net taxes in the United States are paid by the top 10% of income earners.
00:42:18.000And when you tax corporations, what do you think happens?
00:42:21.000You make them less competitive on the world stage, they bleed down the tax increases to consumers so prices rise, and they take more money out of the pockets of their own employees.
00:42:29.000So that Joe Biden can spend it on whatever idiotic depends products he feels like spending it on that day.
00:42:38.000The good news is that we have Dr. Jill to tell us how we should spend our money, too.
00:42:41.000Now, honestly, one of the most annoying things in public life is when we pretend that the spouses of people we elect are actually elected officials.
00:43:19.000It seems to really only apply with Democrats, where they actually try and make the First Lady into a political figure of some sort of weight and impact.
00:43:26.000But it is a point of high irritation to me that we pretend that the First Lady should have any impact on American public life.
00:43:32.000She's along for the ride, and it would be—Douglas Emhoff is a dude.
00:43:36.000I care zero bleeps about what Doug Emhoff has to say.
00:43:40.000But here's Joe Biden, Jill Biden, who wrote an amazing dissertation, an incredible dissertation on junior college when she was at the University of Delaware.
00:43:49.000She worked hard for that doctorate for DDS in education at a university with a building named after her husband.
00:43:59.000I mean, no inside baseball there, at all.
00:44:01.000It was probably the best dissertation anybody ever wrote, except for how it wasn't, because it's publicly available.
00:44:05.000Anyway, here's Dr. Jill, the greatest doctor in all the land, explaining that, in her opinion, we should just bust out the wallet and start spending for free community college for everybody, because that's really what we need.
00:44:18.000We need to make sure that people who only graduate high school are disadvantaged, as compared to people who go to community college and study a couple of years in English Lit.
00:45:04.000And blowing money into the economy, it won't have any impact at all.
00:45:06.000You know how we know it won't have any impact?
00:45:08.000Because the smartest people have told us it won't have any impact at all.
00:45:11.000I mean, in fact, they say inflation is not going to hurt us in any way.
00:45:14.000Also, New York Times today, widespread commodity shortages raise inflation fears.
00:45:18.000Oh, who could have predicted that blowing needless money into an economy that's already in a state of recovery would inflate the currency and inflate prices?
00:45:26.000Who could have predicted such a thing except for any person who understands how inflation works?
00:45:31.000According to the New York Times, in a normal year, Ron Wayland, vice president of Roger B. Kennedy Construction, receives one or two dear-valued customer letters from suppliers, notifying him of price increases for certain materials.
00:45:41.000This year, a stack of 30 such warnings sits on his desk in Orlando, Florida, alerting him that things as diverse as lumber, drywall, aluminum, and steel are going to cost 10 to 20% more.
00:45:50.000The notices are the result of commodity shortages that are rippling across the United States economy as growing demand for housing, cars, electronics, and other goods runs up against the supply chain congestion Banned high tariffs left behind by former President Donald J. Trump.
00:46:09.000It's like, he hasn't been president for a while here, guys.
00:46:13.000Like, he hasn't been here since January.
00:46:16.000And I'm noticing that it says this year, a stack of 30 such, this year is 2021.
00:46:21.000Donald Trump was president of the United States for a grand total of 20 days in 2021.
00:46:24.000Now, I'm no fan of tariffs, but the chief driver right now of inflation ain't the tariffs.
00:46:31.000The chief driver, right, because it would have been the driver of inflation a year ago or two years ago.
00:46:34.000The chief driver of inflation right now is the fact that you are blowing into the economy money you do not need to spend and has not been created yet.
00:46:43.000The shortages and the price increases they are eliciting are being watched closely by the Biden administration, which is under increasing pressure from industry groups and businesses to take steps to ease them.
00:46:51.000Automakers want the White House to help them get the semiconductors they need to make cars, while the housing industry is asking for tariff relief.
00:46:58.000Pressure to intervene could intensify as the administration pushes for a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure investment package that includes money for building roads, bridges, and electric vehicle charging stations, all of which could become increasingly expensive if prices keep rising.
00:47:10.000Why they haven't waited for things to settle down and get back to normal?
00:47:13.000We keep waiting for things to settle down and get back to normal, but they haven't, said Mr. Whelan.
00:47:17.000He's considered using other material, such as metal stud systems rather than wood framing, for some construction projects because the price of lumber has almost tripled in the last year.
00:47:26.000Economists and policymakers are carefully tracking the shortages as they hunt for signs of inflation, and companies are increasingly worried that the price spikes may not be temporary.
00:47:36.000Oh, for now, the Fed is not overly concerned about the price increases, viewing them as temporary, and not the type of inflation that could spiral out of control.
00:47:43.000Well, I mean, if the Fed is good for one thing, it's making amazing predictions about the economy.
00:47:47.000They did an amazing job in the lead-up to the Great Recep- And they did an unbelievable job in the lead up to the dot com... And they did an incredible job in the lead up to the... Yeah, the experts, trust them.
00:48:00.000Trust them on COVID, where they have been wrong throughout.
00:48:02.000Trust them when it comes to race, where they're not just wrong, but evil.
00:48:06.000Trust them when it comes to blowing money into the economy we don't have, because what could be the downside?