The Ben Shapiro Show - The Blowback Is Coming | Ep. 1230

00:00:00.000 Democrats believe they have the upper hand on legislation and culture and the narrative, but the blowback is already beginning.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:21.000 Well, we begin today with an actual piece of good news, which I know is kind of rare these days because there's a lot of bad news from the world of culture and the world of media and the world of legislation.

00:00:29.000 And don't worry, we'll get to all the bad news.

00:00:31.000 But there was one piece of news yesterday that really stood out to me.

00:00:33.000 To understand why this is a piece of good news, what you first have to understand is what Joe Biden was actually elected to do and then what he thinks he has been elected to do.

00:00:40.000 So what Joe Biden was actually elected to do was be, as I have termed him, President Houseplant.

00:00:43.000 His entire job was to be barely animate.

00:00:46.000 That was his job.

00:00:49.000 constructed his entire campaign around the notion that he was going to be a warm body, a barely above room temperature body, as Rush Limbaugh might say.

00:00:57.000 That was going to be the entire thing, right?

00:00:58.000 He's going to sit there.

00:00:58.000 He's going to watch Madlock.

00:00:59.000 We're all going to go back to normal.

00:01:00.000 And that was going to be that.

00:01:02.000 Most Americans thought that that was Joe Biden's pitch.

00:01:04.000 He was a moderate old gentleman who wasn't going to push forward any sort of radical ideas.

00:01:08.000 But Joe Biden, because he's a politician and an arrogant politician at that, he actually thinks that his mandate was to be transformational in some way.

00:01:15.000 Now, here's the thing about America.

00:01:16.000 We don't need a massive transformation.

00:01:18.000 Before the COVID pandemic, things, at least in economic terms, were going swimmingly.

00:01:23.000 We had incredible wage increases, particularly at the bottom of the spectrum.

00:01:26.000 We had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.

00:01:28.000 And things were going swimmingly in terms of the economy.

00:01:30.000 So we didn't need an economic transformation.

00:01:32.000 And if we did need a transformation in terms of sort of our attitude toward politics, what we really needed was a cooling down.

00:01:38.000 We didn't need a heating up.

00:01:39.000 We didn't need more culture wars.

00:01:40.000 We didn't need more radicalism.

00:01:42.000 And Joe Biden was elected to sort of put a stop to that, right?

00:01:45.000 Joe Biden was elected because, specifically because he was barely alive.

00:01:49.000 That was basically his campaign pitch.

00:01:51.000 Biden, I'm barely alive.

00:01:53.000 And that's the thing.

00:01:54.000 He's kind of good at being barely alive because the bar is real low.

00:01:57.000 All you have to do is not be dead and also not be super alive.

00:01:59.000 You just have to be barely alive.

00:02:01.000 And Joe Biden, it's like what he's qualified for.

00:02:03.000 He was never any sort of great shakes mentally, but now, given the fact that he is in some pretty obvious decline, the American people saw that as an asset.

00:02:11.000 They saw that as a feature, not a bug, of Joe Biden.

00:02:15.000 And so Joe Biden being barely there has never impacted his popularity ratings.

00:02:20.000 People on the right are sort of frustrated by this, the fact that Joe Biden is clearly not what he once was.

00:02:25.000 And again, he was never at a wonderful level to begin with, but he's clearly not what he once was.

00:02:30.000 Why aren't more people turning on him because of that?

00:02:32.000 And the answer is he was elected to be this.

00:02:33.000 When Joe Biden loses his lines in the middle of press conferences, it's disquieting on a sort of human level to watch a man who's clearly starting to lose it be the most powerful man in the free world.

00:02:44.000 But, on another level, it's sort of comforting to know that that person, theoretically, is not going to wield outsized power to do radical things.

00:02:50.000 So, for example, yesterday, Joe Biden just lost his lines.

00:02:52.000 He was talking about the COVID pandemic, and once again, there is a certain level of trepidation, just as a human being, you get watching Joe Biden.

00:02:58.000 Again, it's like watching Nick Wallenda walk over a volcano.

00:03:01.000 Like, any moment here, things could go real bad.

00:03:05.000 It's why people have suggested that we ought to cut away every time Joe Biden goes up or down the stairs of Air Force One, because we could be watching history in real time.

00:03:12.000 Here was Joe Biden yesterday losing his lines.

00:03:14.000 Until this vaccine is available to the world, and we're beating back the vaccine, the virus in other countries, we're not really completely safe.

00:03:29.000 So we've made great progress.

00:03:32.000 I'm still looking forward to the prospect that we keep the pace we're on, and we listen to one another, take the precautions I talked about, and you'll be able to have Okay, so again, the guy's not all there.

00:03:49.000 And that was the pitch.

00:03:50.000 The pitch was, genial old man who's not all there.

00:03:53.000 But his party believes, and he believes, that he's there to be a transformational president.

00:03:57.000 And so they've pushed really hard on every single front.

00:03:59.000 They've pushed really hard.

00:04:00.000 They've pushed really hard on the legislative front.

00:04:02.000 They are pushing forward a $2 trillion supposed infrastructure bill.

00:04:05.000 It has nothing to do with infrastructure.

00:04:06.000 Only 5% of that bill is roads and bridges.

00:04:09.000 Even if you include things like broadband internet, Or plumbing, because they want to replace some pipes.

00:04:14.000 Even if you do that, only about one-third of the bill is dedicated to what could actually be termed infrastructure.

00:04:18.000 They're just expanding the term infrastructure to now include everything on planet Earth.

00:04:22.000 They've already pushed forward a $2 trillion quote-unquote COVID relief package that radically restructures the nature of the relationship between the individual and the American government.

00:04:30.000 It passes out checks for basically being alive under certain circumstances.

00:04:34.000 And now they're pushing forward on a bunch of other radical proposals.

00:04:38.000 They are now pushing forward, for example, on this Iran deal.

00:04:41.000 This is an incredibly radical thing to do, given the fact that Iran has basically been marginalized by the world community.

00:04:47.000 Iran is in serious trouble.

00:04:48.000 Iran has had to draw back within its own borders and pursue less terrorism because of the economic sanctions placed on them by the Trump administration.

00:04:54.000 Meanwhile, peace has broken out in the Middle East in historic fashion with the Abraham Accords, Israel making peace with the UAE, Israel making peace with Morocco, Israel making peace with Bahrain, Israel in already a sort of cold peace with Egypt, And a slightly warmer peace now with Saudi Arabia. 0.52

00:05:10.000 All of that is historic stuff.

00:05:11.000 The Biden administration is diving in headfirst to try and break all of that up by handing some sort of concessions to the Iranian terrorist government.

00:05:16.000 According to the Washington Post, U.S.

00:05:18.000 and Iranian officials said Tuesday, an initial day of talks in Vienna on returning to the 2015 nuclear deal were, quote unquote, constructive.

00:05:24.000 But the Biden administration cautioned no immediate breakthroughs were anticipated on one of the new president's top foreign policy goals.

00:05:31.000 The European-led diplomatic effort featured mediators shuttling between Iranian and American envoys.

00:05:36.000 That wasn't the face-to-face discussions being held, but this is all kabuki theater.

00:05:39.000 Eventually, Biden will sign some sort of incredibly sycophantic deal with the Iranians. 0.74

00:05:44.000 He'll just hand over the store to the Iranians because that's exactly what Barack Obama did. 0.98

00:05:47.000 That's a radical move.

00:05:48.000 Meanwhile, on the legislative front, they're going to move in a radical direction with regard to this $2.3 trillion quote-unquote infrastructure plan.

00:05:56.000 According to the New York Times, a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian means Democrats may be able to push through that Biden $2.3 trillion quote-unquote infrastructure plan without any Republican support whatsoever.

00:06:08.000 According to the New York Times, Democrats might not have to have the votes to gut the filibuster, but they were just handed the procedural keys to a backdoor assault on the Senate's quote-unquote famous obstruction tactic.

00:06:18.000 It's funny how this becomes a famous obstruction tactic when used by Republicans.

00:06:21.000 When it's used by Democrats, it's the Senate's important procedures to protect bipartisanship.

00:06:26.000 With a ruling on Monday that Democrats can reuse this year's budget blueprint at least once to employ fast-track reconciliation, Democrats can now conceivably advance multiple spending and tax packages this year without a single Republican vote as long as they hold their 50 members together.

00:06:40.000 It is a means of weakening the filibuster without having to take the politically charged vote to do so.

00:06:43.000 So the parliamentarian basically just gave them exactly what they want.

00:06:49.000 Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, said it's always good to have a series of insurance policies.

00:06:52.000 He said this about the possibility that Democrats could just redo the party-line passage of the $2 trillion virus relief legislation that passed last month.

00:07:01.000 Whatever strategy they employ, it's clear that the decision by the Senate parliamentarian to agree with Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the Majority Leader, that a 47-year-old budget provision could be used more than once in a fiscal year, widens Biden's path to enacting his infrastructure plan by shielding it from filibuster.

00:07:18.000 The ruling means that if stymied by Republicans on plans they can protect under reconciliation, that applies to measures that directly affect federal spending and revenues, Democrats will have more opportunities to move ahead on their own if they so choose.

00:07:29.000 So this is a twisting of the process, of course, and they are going to continue to push forward these world-beating proposals.

00:07:34.000 But here is the encouraging news, right?

00:07:35.000 This is all depressing, isn't it?

00:07:37.000 But here is the encouraging news.

00:07:39.000 Democrats have gone too far.

00:07:40.000 They're starting to realize they've gone too far, but they can't stop themselves.

00:07:44.000 OK, this is the Thelma.

00:07:46.000 Thelma and Louise are already off the cliff.

00:07:48.000 They are just realizing that they are in midair right now.

00:07:50.000 It's like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon where they've run directly off the cliff.

00:07:53.000 They look down and in that split second before you get the Wiley looks directly into the camera and realizes that he is no longer on solid land.

00:08:04.000 That's what's about to happen to the Democratic Party and they're realizing it.

00:08:06.000 The realization is coming into their eyes.

00:08:08.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

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00:09:15.000 Alrighty, so here is the good news that I have promised.

00:09:18.000 Again, the Biden administration is starting to realize that they are not standing on solid ground anymore.

00:09:23.000 So, for example, this administration has pushed an open borders policy.

00:09:27.000 That's the reason why you have seen this massive increase in the amount of illegal immigration across the border.

00:09:32.000 It's why I've seen the surge of migrant children, because they basically said doors wide open.

00:09:35.000 And guess what?

00:09:36.000 People took advantage of the wide open door.

00:09:39.000 There's a candy store.

00:09:40.000 It now has a sign in the front window that says free candy inside.

00:09:43.000 Shockingly, many people are arriving to take the free candy.

00:09:46.000 That's not the fault of the people trying to get in. 1.00

00:09:48.000 It's the fault of the people who put out the sign because those people are stupid. 1.00

00:09:51.000 The Biden administration has taken the world's worst immigration policy. 1.00

00:09:54.000 Then they put Kamala Harris in charge of it. 0.99

00:09:55.000 Kamala Harris has not been down to the border once.

00:09:57.000 Kamala Harris has not held a press conference on immigration policy.

00:10:00.000 Maybe that's because she's been a pro-open borders advocate for years.

00:10:03.000 Kamala Harris is a completely ineffective leader. 0.99

00:10:06.000 She's a bad politician. 1.00

00:10:07.000 And putting her in charge of the border makes no sense whatsoever.

00:10:10.000 But no one's in charge of the border is the actual answer.

00:10:12.000 So what does that mean?

00:10:13.000 Well, apparently what it means is that the Biden administration is now secretly having to reinstall all of the old Trump administration policies.

00:10:21.000 Remember those evil policies?

00:10:23.000 The discriminatory policies against people south of the border were so terrible, fascistic, Nazi-esque.

00:10:28.000 According to the UK Independent, construction on Donald Trump's border wall may continue under Joe Biden's administration.

00:10:35.000 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told department employees he might be greenlighting work on the wall to plug gaps in the current wall.

00:10:43.000 New York has reportedly said it's not a single answer to a single question.

00:10:46.000 There are different projects the chief of Border Patrol has presented and the acting commissioner of CBP presented to me.

00:10:52.000 The president has communicated quite clearly his decision that the emergency that triggered the devotion of DOD funds to the construction of the border wall has ended.

00:10:58.000 But that does leave room to make decisions as the administration, as part of the administration, in particular areas of the wall that need renovation, particular projects that need to be finished.

00:11:07.000 So in other words, he's just going to do what Trump did, but he's going to call it something different.

00:11:10.000 Here's Jen Psaki acknowledging that some of the construction has already been funded.

00:11:13.000 And yeah, probably we're going to be doing some of that evil Trump wall.

00:11:18.000 Wall construction remains paused to the extent permitted by law.

00:11:21.000 So some has already been funded through congressional authorization and funding allocation.

00:11:28.000 But as agencies develop for a plan, it's paused while agencies are developing a plan for the president on the management of the federal funds.

00:11:37.000 It is paused.

00:11:38.000 There is some limited construction that has been funded and allocated for, but it is otherwise paused.

00:11:44.000 Okay, otherwise it is paused.

00:11:47.000 Otherwise, except it's not paused.

00:11:48.000 Except that they are going to be building wall.

00:11:50.000 Okay, so they're starting to realize that they went too far on the border.

00:11:53.000 They're also beginning to realize that they've gone too far with regard to the corporate bullying.

00:11:59.000 So the administration is never going to admit that they just lied.

00:12:01.000 They did.

00:12:01.000 They lied over and over about the Georgia law.

00:12:03.000 Joe Biden said yesterday that it was a Jim Crow voting law, which is just ridiculous. 0.98

00:12:07.000 It is the most ridiculous comparison. 0.93

00:12:09.000 This side of something I don't like is the Holocaust, right? 1.00

00:12:12.000 Is that this thing I don't like is Jim Crow and Biden uses it repeatedly.

00:12:16.000 Biden's old enough to remember Jim Crow.

00:12:17.000 I mean, Biden's almost old enough to remember slavery in America, but he's old enough to remember Jim Crow for sure.

00:12:22.000 So he should certainly know the difference between Jim Crow, you know, like separate water fountains for black people. 0.58

00:12:27.000 An open suppression of the vote in the South.

00:12:29.000 People getting fire hosed for trying to express their desire for individual rights.

00:12:34.000 He should remember that.

00:12:35.000 That is not the Georgia voting law.

00:12:37.000 It doesn't matter. 1.00

00:12:37.000 He's a damned liar. 1.00

00:12:38.000 So he keeps repeating that over and over. 1.00

00:12:39.000 Here was Jen Psaki saying that Georgia had made it harder to vote despite the fact that in most counties had expanded voting hours, despite the fact that they added drop boxes over the last election cycle before the pandemic.

00:12:51.000 There are a bunch of emergency drop boxes put in place for the pandemic.

00:12:54.000 Despite the fact that in most counties, more people will be voting in the future?

00:12:58.000 Doesn't matter, Jen Psaki's just gonna put out this lie. 0.98

00:13:01.000 The Georgia legislation is built on a lie.

00:13:06.000 There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

00:13:09.000 Georgia's top Republican election officials have acknowledged that repeatedly in interviews.

00:13:15.000 And what there was, however, was record-setting turnout, especially by voters of color.

00:13:19.000 So instead, what we're seeing here is for politicians who didn't like the outcome, they're not changing their policies to win more votes.

00:13:27.000 They're changing the rules to exclude more voters.

00:13:30.000 And we certainly see the circumstances. 1.00

00:13:31.000 She's just a damn liar. 1.00

00:13:32.000 They are not trying to exclude voters. 1.00

00:13:34.000 This is just a lie.

00:13:35.000 There's no evidence this is going to result in the voter suppression.

00:13:37.000 She says that this is built on the lie that there was voter fraud?

00:13:39.000 Okay, you know what's a bigger lie than voter fraud and voter irregularity, which actually does occur?

00:13:43.000 You know what's a bigger fraud?

00:13:44.000 Voter suppression.

00:13:45.000 Can she show evidence that anybody has suppressed the vote?

00:13:47.000 Seriously?

00:13:47.000 Like, any statistical evidence?

00:13:49.000 Any person who says they tried to vote and they were wrongly rejected?

00:13:51.000 Because that's a federal lawsuit right there.

00:13:53.000 Can she demonstrate like any evidence of that?

00:13:54.000 Of course not.

00:13:55.000 So she lies.

00:13:56.000 But here's the problem.

00:13:57.000 There is blowback to this.

00:13:58.000 And again, just like with the border, the Biden administration is beginning to realize that their policies are not all that popular, that Biden was elected to be not alive.

00:14:05.000 He was not elected to be particularly animate.

00:14:08.000 He was not elected to be a mover and a shaker. 1.00

00:14:09.000 He was elected to stand there if he can.

00:14:13.000 That was his entire mandate.

00:14:14.000 Okay, so, if they realize they're out over their skis with regard to the border policy, they're also beginning to realize that they are out over their skis with regard to how far they went with this Georgia law.

00:14:24.000 There's a brand new poll out from Morning Consult.

00:14:26.000 It shows that a plurality of Americans actually support Georgia's new election law.

00:14:30.000 42% of Americans say that they support Georgia's election law, compared to 36% who say that they don't support Georgia's election law.

00:14:37.000 And if you look at the actual stats with regard to independents, for example, self-described independents, what you see is that some 38% of self-described independents say they like the law compared to only 29% who say that they don't like the law.

00:14:51.000 It's only among Democrats that people say that they are not a fan of the law.

00:14:56.000 So Democrats are losing this argument despite all of their political propaganda.

00:14:59.000 And you know what's even more unpopular?

00:15:01.000 There's new polling data out.

00:15:02.000 It shows Americans do not like the Biden administration bullying MLB into moving the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver based on lies about the Georgia law.

00:15:11.000 And you can tell that this is starting to hit home.

00:15:13.000 Again, there's that Wile E. Coyote look in Joe Biden's eyes as he realizes that that Acme rocket just ran out of fuel and he's over the cliff.

00:15:20.000 Here's Joe Biden yesterday.

00:15:22.000 He's being asked about moving sporting events from Georgia because it turns out the Masters is being held now.

00:15:27.000 Okay, and the Masters takes place every year at Augusta National.

00:15:30.000 Augusta National, one of the great sporting places in America, one of the great golf courses on planet Earth.

00:15:36.000 And so Joe Biden was asked a very simple question.

00:15:38.000 You were in favor of MLB moving the All-Star game.

00:15:40.000 Are you in favor of canceling the Masters because Georgia passed a law that you don't like and that you've been lying about?

00:15:45.000 And here is Joe Biden trying slowly to hobble away from his own position on whether corporations should boycott states that do things Democrats don't like.

00:15:54.000 It is reassuring to see that for profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws are just antithetical to who we are. 0.50

00:16:13.000 Bye.

00:16:14.000 There's another side to it, too.

00:16:17.000 The other side to it, too, is when they in fact move out of Georgia.

00:16:22.000 The people who need the help the most, people who are making hourly wages, sometimes get hurt the most.

00:16:29.000 Oh, yeah.

00:16:30.000 Well, you know what would have been nice is if you had said that up front as opposed to just going on ESPN and saying it's great that MLB is considering moving the All-Star Game.

00:16:36.000 So basically, he's acknowledging now that what he did is wrong.

00:16:39.000 He's acknowledging now that pushing corporations to move their businesses outside of states has some pretty solid unintended consequences, particularly for populations that may have voted Democrat.

00:16:47.000 Cobb County, Atlanta, is a Democratic area.

00:16:50.000 So he hurt his friends, and now he's upset that he hurt his friends.

00:16:53.000 By the way, this also works the other way.

00:16:55.000 It turns out that if you decide that you're going to politicize every corporation, then people are simply going to take the other side of that, and they are going to oppose those corporations.

00:17:03.000 You can also sense the Biden administration feels that it has been trapped here, because if you are encouraging corporations to stop doing business with places like Georgia, what do you do with places like China?

00:17:13.000 Because it turns out America does an awful lot of business with China.

00:17:16.000 It turns out that the Biden administration policy toward China has been extremely, extremely friendly compared to the Trump administration policy.

00:17:23.000 And so Biden has been asked repeatedly, so has Jen Psaki, about moving the Olympics.

00:17:27.000 And their first response was, well, you know, that's really the U.S.

00:17:31.000 Olympic Committee.

00:17:31.000 It's really up to them.

00:17:32.000 Well, now they understand that they look like hypocrites. 0.88

00:17:35.000 So here is the State Department spokesperson yesterday saying, yeah, no, we are considering a Beijing Olympics boycott. 0.99

00:17:39.000 First of all, bullcrap.

00:17:40.000 Second of all, if they do it, it's only because they've trapped themselves here. 0.98

00:17:44.000 You seem to suggest on the Olympics that the U.S.

00:17:46.000 is in consultations with allies discussing whether to consider or plan some sort of joint boycott.

00:17:54.000 Is that the case?

00:17:55.000 Well, it is something that we certainly wish to discuss and that it is certainly something that we understand that a coordinated approach Okay, so that is them attempting to kick the can down the road.

00:18:20.000 Again, there's that look in the eyes.

00:18:21.000 They all understand that they've been trapped into this.

00:18:23.000 The same administration that is currently pushing to give money to the Iranian terrorist government is saying that corporations shouldn't do business in Georgia.

00:18:30.000 But, oh by the way, maybe they should actually do business in Georgia.

00:18:33.000 The media is in the same trap.

00:18:35.000 The thing that the media are respected by the American people for is not the thing they want to do.

00:18:40.000 And the thing that Democrats were elected to do is not the thing they want to do.

00:18:43.000 They were elected to be not Donald Trump.

00:18:44.000 They were not elected to be radical.

00:18:46.000 The Democrats can't stop themselves.

00:18:47.000 They're going to be radical.

00:18:48.000 And the American people are going to backlash against them.

00:18:50.000 It is going to happen.

00:18:52.000 In 2022, it's not going to be a good year for Democrats.

00:18:55.000 Okay, and the same thing holds true for the media.

00:18:57.000 The media, whatever level of baseline respect people were willing to give to the media, was rooted in the idea that they were going to actually cover the news, not manufacture the news.

00:19:06.000 But, they don't want to cover the news.

00:19:08.000 They want to be activists.

00:19:09.000 This is what they would like to do with their lives.

00:19:11.000 If you talk to journalists, they see themselves as, quote-unquote, making the world a better place, not by reporting the news, by crafting the narrative.

00:19:17.000 Well, the problem is that this leads them into dead ends where they don't actually report the news.

00:19:21.000 They manufacture the news wholesale.

00:19:23.000 The most obvious example over the past little while being 60 Minutes, completely manufacturing out of whole cloth, the story that Ron DeSantis allowed Publix to distribute the COVID vaccine because he was bribed by the Publix people, which is utterly crazy.

00:19:37.000 I mean, so crazy that the mayor of Palm Beach County, who is a Democrat, the mayor of Palm Beach was like, no, that's not true.

00:19:45.000 And he said, I told you guys that it was BS, and you guys ignored it?

00:19:49.000 Well, we'll get to that in just one second, because the blowback is beginning against the media too.

00:19:54.000 Again, the story here is that the blowback is coming.

00:19:56.000 Democrats are overshooting the mark, and we are only a few months in.

00:19:59.000 The media are overshooting the mark.

00:20:00.000 Corporations are overshooting the mark.

00:20:02.000 The blowback is coming, and I am here for it.

00:20:04.000 I am ready for it, and you should be too.

00:20:06.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:21:23.000 Okay, so, as I say, 60 Minutes just lied about Rhonda Santas.

00:21:27.000 And it's just a lie.

00:21:28.000 What they said, which is that for a $100,000 donation to a Super PAC, that Ron DeSantis decided to allow, you know, the most...

00:21:35.000 The most prevalent grocery chain in the state to hand out the vaccines.

00:21:40.000 That it was the bribe that did it, not, you know, local officials saying, you know, it'd be great if our grocery store pharmacies could actually give out the vaccine.

00:21:46.000 That was a lie.

00:21:47.000 It was pretty obviously a lie.

00:21:49.000 60 Minutes completely jobbed DeSantis here.

00:21:51.000 I mean, they absolutely chopped apart a press conference he did in which a 60 Minutes reporter asked him some questions.

00:21:58.000 They just cut out his actual answer.

00:21:59.000 Here was DeSantis going hard after the media.

00:22:02.000 These are smear merchants.

00:22:04.000 That's why nobody trusts corporate media.

00:22:07.000 They are a disaster in what they're doing.

00:22:10.000 They knew what they were doing was a lie.

00:22:14.000 I knew what they were doing was a lie.

00:22:16.000 Everybody here knows what they were doing is a lie.

00:22:20.000 They know that we know they're lying, and yet they continue to lie.

00:22:23.000 And they lied, and they lied, and they lied.

00:22:26.000 We offered them the information.

00:22:29.000 And they declined to interview the key people because they didn't want to let go of the narrative.

00:22:36.000 Well, guess what?

00:22:36.000 There's going to be consequences for that.

00:22:38.000 Okay, and there should be consequences for that, but the media are too committed to this path.

00:22:41.000 They can't stop themselves.

00:22:42.000 You see, if they ever admit that they got this one wrong, just like if they ever admit that they got any of these stories wrong, the Kavanaugh story, the Covington Catholic story, if they ever admit that they just blew it, then they have to admit who they really are.

00:22:51.000 It's not that the journalists are bad at their job.

00:22:53.000 It's that they're very good at their job.

00:22:54.000 It's just their job is not journalisming.

00:22:57.000 Their job is the narrative.

00:22:58.000 Their job is activism.

00:23:00.000 They are very good activists and they are very bad journalists.

00:23:03.000 Their job, what you think their job is, is not what they think their job is.

00:23:06.000 Same thing with Biden.

00:23:07.000 His job was just to be there and just to be barely animate, but he thinks his job is to be this radical activist FDRLBJ character.

00:23:14.000 People don't like that.

00:23:15.000 People also are not liking what the media are all about, but they can't admit that what they're doing is not journalism.

00:23:20.000 Otherwise, people might notice that what they're doing is not journalism.

00:23:22.000 So, instead, 60 Minutes put out this statement, quote, I wonder why.

00:23:25.000 I wonder why he declined an interview with you.

00:23:26.000 were vaccinated at a much lower rate than their wealthier neighbors, 60 Minutes reported the facts surrounding the vaccine's rollout, which is controlled by the governor.

00:23:32.000 We requested and conducted interviews with dozens of sources and authorities involved.

00:23:35.000 We requested an interview with Governor DeSantis.

00:23:37.000 He declined. I wonder why.

00:23:39.000 I wonder why he declined an interview with you.

00:23:40.000 Maybe because he thought that you were going to hatchet job him?

00:23:42.000 We spoke to State Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz twice.

00:23:46.000 He declined to be interviewed on camera for our story until well after our deadline.

00:23:49.000 The idea we ignored their perspective is untrue.

00:23:51.000 Counter to his statement yesterday, we also spoke on the record with Palm Beach County Mayor David Koerner.

00:23:55.000 For over 50 years, the facts reported by 60 Minutes have often stirred debate and prompted strong reactions.

00:23:59.000 Our story Sunday night speaks for itself.

00:24:01.000 My favorite part here is where they say they spoke to the Palm Beach County Mayor, but they didn't bother quoting him. 1.00

00:24:06.000 He told them straight up, your story's crap. 0.99

00:24:08.000 Didn't matter. 1.00

00:24:09.000 They reported it anyway.

00:24:10.000 So 60 minutes, tripling down on that story because to do anything else.

00:24:14.000 See people on the right are like, why are they doing it?

00:24:15.000 Because to do anything else is to admit what they are.

00:24:17.000 They can't do that.

00:24:18.000 They are too far over the cliff.

00:24:20.000 Same thing is about to happen in corporate America.

00:24:23.000 So corporate America has decided to fully embrace The Woke.

00:24:27.000 I mean, on an enormous level.

00:24:29.000 On an unending level.

00:24:30.000 They're going to embrace The Woke through and through.

00:24:32.000 And they're going to pay the price.

00:24:34.000 They don't realize.

00:24:36.000 I think some of the politicians realize because politicians tend to have their finger in the window anyway.

00:24:40.000 So when the wind changes, they can feel it.

00:24:42.000 And those in the media also can follow what's going on in Twitter, so they understand when the wind changes.

00:24:46.000 They're not going to do anything about it, but they at least understand when the wind changes.

00:24:49.000 Corporate America are a bunch of people in suits who just want to make money, and those people in suits sitting in corporate boardrooms generally do not have their finger in the wind, which is why you can have a garbage organization like Media Matters get 10 of its friends to call a company, and then the company, thinking that that is the wind, not understanding that's not even a breeze, they will immediately shift course.

00:25:08.000 They are oversensitive on the one hand and slow to move on the other.

00:25:11.000 Corporate America.

00:25:12.000 But when they do move, they're usually late and unpopular.

00:25:15.000 Because Americans are predisposed not to particularly like big corporations, especially when they start throwing their weight around in areas that are not within their purview.

00:25:23.000 It turns out that corporations engaging in ultra-crepidarianism, which is where they're engaged in stuff that is not within their purview, that's becoming more and more common at the behest of the Democratic Party.

00:25:32.000 And they are doing so because one of the great lies in America is that corporations are free market institutions.

00:25:37.000 They are not.

00:25:38.000 They are profit-seeking institutions.

00:25:40.000 There is a difference.

00:25:41.000 If you are a rent seeker, I mean, Ayn Rand makes this distinction in Atlas Shrugged, so I mean, it's not like this is anything new.

00:25:45.000 If you are seeking rent from the federal government, that doesn't mean you're pro-free market.

00:25:49.000 You can be very profit-driven and still be an anti-free market institution.

00:25:54.000 This happens all the time.

00:25:56.000 If you have a monopoly granted by the government, you're a profit-seeking institution.

00:25:59.000 That does not mean that you are pro-free markets.

00:26:01.000 Well, this is true more and more of our big corporations, which also hope to engage in regulatory capture.

00:26:06.000 They have basically two priorities.

00:26:07.000 One is don't get punished by the Democrats.

00:26:09.000 And two is capture the regulatory heights so that you can change the regulations and the regulatory structures so that they impact you and they hurt you some, but they hurt everybody at the bottom of the scale way more.

00:26:21.000 The goal of big corporations is not just to succeed in their space, in a free market space.

00:26:24.000 Their goal is to kill their competition, and if they can use government to do that, they will do it.

00:26:29.000 If the question is, we take no hit, our competition takes no hit, and our competition taking no hit means they might compete with us, or...

00:26:36.000 We promote regulations that harm us a little bit, but harm our opponents a lot.

00:26:41.000 They will always take the latter.

00:26:43.000 That's the reason why you saw so many of these big companies coming out in favor of net neutrality, for example, because it helped.

00:26:47.000 It didn't really hurt them.

00:26:49.000 It helped them a little bit, and it really hurt anybody who's attempting to enter the market space.

00:26:53.000 It's the reason why you're constantly seeing large corporations seeking regulatory structures.

00:26:58.000 They have large companies.

00:26:59.000 They have big legal teams who are capable of complying with those regulatory structures.

00:27:03.000 So never you fear.

00:27:04.000 This is not about corporations gaining some level of woke principle.

00:27:08.000 It's not about that.

00:27:08.000 It's about the incentive structure.

00:27:09.000 The incentive structure right now for corporations is to go woke because they believe that Democrats will leave them alone and eat them last or will work hand-in-glove with them if they do everything the Democrats say.

00:27:19.000 It's really short-sighted.

00:27:20.000 Because it's a weird strategy, long term, to side with the side that believes that you are a blight on American life.

00:27:27.000 I mean, Elizabeth Warren, if she had her way, would break up Amazon tomorrow. 1.00

00:27:31.000 But that's not stopping Jeff Bezos from coming out in favor of a bunch of corporate tax hikes.

00:27:36.000 He says we support the Biden administration's focus on making bold investments in American infrastructure.

00:27:40.000 Bezos is a Democrat, of course.

00:27:42.000 He's also the head of the Washington Post, or he owns the Washington Post.

00:27:46.000 That's not a surprise in any way, shape or form.

00:27:48.000 He says we support the Biden administration's focus on making bold investments in American infrastructure.

00:27:53.000 Both Democrats and Republicans have supported infrastructure in the past.

00:27:55.000 It's the right time to work together to make this happen.

00:27:58.000 We recognize this investment will require concessions from all sides, both on the specifics of what's included, as well as how it gets paid for.

00:28:04.000 We're supportive of a rise in the corporate tax rate.

00:28:06.000 We look forward to Congress and the administration coming together to find the right, balanced solution that maintains or enhances U.S.

00:28:11.000 competitiveness. 0.97

00:28:12.000 Yeah, bullcrap. 0.98

00:28:13.000 I'll tell you what Jeff Bezos is in favor of. 0.99

00:28:15.000 He's in favor of Joe Biden leaving him alone.

00:28:17.000 He's in favor of Joe Biden using that corporate tax rate to crack down on other less large corporations.

00:28:23.000 Amazon will survive an increase in the corporate tax.

00:28:25.000 You know who won't?

00:28:26.000 People who run small businesses and run on very thin margins.

00:28:30.000 That's who's going to pay.

00:28:31.000 Jeff Bezos knows that.

00:28:32.000 You think the American people are going to react to these giant corporations getting in bed with the Democrats by somehow swinging behind democratic policy?

00:28:40.000 I think not.

00:28:41.000 All that's going to happen is that the base of support that some corporations have on the right is going to dissipate.

00:28:46.000 There are going to be a lot of people on the right who say, okay, you know what?

00:28:49.000 Bernie wants you out of existence?

00:28:51.000 Have at it, man.

00:28:52.000 You decided you want to be with Bernie and you want to be with Biden?

00:28:54.000 We leave you to their tender mercies.

00:28:56.000 You want to get in bed with them?

00:28:57.000 We're not going to stop you from getting good and effed.

00:29:00.000 That's not a thing we are going to stand in the way of anymore.

00:29:03.000 Because if you've decided that you wish to promote their agenda, you can enjoy their tender mercies.

00:29:09.000 And it's not just Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

00:29:11.000 It is every major corporation in American life.

00:29:14.000 They are cruising for a bruising if they decide that they're going to go wolk here.

00:29:18.000 Because they will go broke.

00:29:19.000 And then they will be sitting there on the side of the road crying to themselves, why oh why is it that these Democrats that we trusted have decided that they want to force us to unionize, and they want to increase the minimum wage on us, and they want to take us apart piecemeal.

00:29:31.000 Yeah, it may have hurt your competitors in the short term, but here's the thing.

00:29:33.000 Free market financial structures are the ones that you became rich under.

00:29:37.000 If you decide to dismantle those, don't be surprised when you find yourself in the crosshairs.

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00:30:54.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we'll get to more of corporate America going woke.

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00:31:58.000 ♪♪ Corporate America's embrace of wokeness, it's going to boomerang on them in a major way.

00:32:07.000 And it's happening across the spectrum because again, these ships are slow to turn, these corporate ships, they're very slow to turn.

00:32:12.000 And once they've decided to steer into the headstorm that is wokeness, it's going to take them a while to get out of it.

00:32:18.000 And not easily, because they've decided to surrender themselves to the alligator, hoping they will be eaten last.

00:32:23.000 This leads to the most bizarre corporate endorsement of wokeness of the day.

00:32:27.000 That is United Airlines.

00:32:28.000 United Airlines put out a video suggesting that they are going to ensure That half of their pilots are going to be women or people of color.

00:32:37.000 Now, this is crazy.

00:32:40.000 It is crazy because if there is one job in America, there are many jobs in America where skills should be the sole qualification, qualifying detail.

00:32:49.000 In fact, every job in America, I believe, skills should be the only qualifying detail.

00:32:52.000 I don't think that race or sex or sexual, none of that should matter. 0.70

00:32:54.000 Can you do the job is the only question I want answered in every job scenario.

00:32:58.000 But if you're going to pick jobs where skill is the only thing that matters, this would be one of them.

00:33:04.000 Personal life experience does not matter.

00:33:06.000 When you're talking about, can you land a plane safely?

00:33:11.000 To me, it's like a heart surgeon.

00:33:12.000 Do I care about the personal life experiences of my heart surgeon?

00:33:15.000 Absolutely not.

00:33:16.000 Absolutely not.

00:33:18.000 But United has now made it its goal to say that 50% of its trained pilots are going to be women or people of color.

00:33:24.000 So pilot Stacey Abrams on the line from United Airlines.

00:33:27.000 Here we go from United Airlines.

00:33:30.000 By 2030, we plan to train 5,000 pilots.

00:33:31.000 looking at the plate everything checks good we're gonna just nab it out then airplane set up for us actually flight navigation all the way up from the hour now by 2030 we plan to train 5,000 pilots we plan for 50% of admitted students to be women or people of color partner organizations will help identify and recruit top talent And now they've been trying this in Silicon Valley for years.

00:33:51.000 It turns out it's a giant fail.

00:33:52.000 The reason it's a giant fail is because people are either qualified or unqualified to be engineers.

00:33:56.000 And people are either qualified or unqualified to be pilots. 0.99

00:33:59.000 If you are changing the qualifications from can you fly a plane to what color is your skin and do you have a vagina? 0.96

00:34:05.000 Although I understand that that is not even a qualification to be a woman anymore. 0.99

00:34:08.000 So do you self-identify as a woman or Are you a person with more melanin in your skin?

00:34:13.000 If those are your qualifications for your pilot, number one, you're going to be subjected to a discrimination lawsuit like nothing you've ever seen.

00:34:19.000 And number two, I am never flying your airline. 1.00

00:34:21.000 Are you out of your damned mind? 0.99

00:34:23.000 Why would I get on a plane where the only thing I know about the pilot is that the pilot may have been selected? 1.00

00:34:28.000 I have a one in two chance of having a pilot selected not on the basis of skill alone.

00:34:32.000 That's crazy.

00:34:33.000 I ain't flying that.

00:34:34.000 You'd be crazy to fly that airline.

00:34:36.000 What are you doing?

00:34:38.000 What are you saying?

00:34:39.000 I mean, Matt Walsh, Made the hilarious point.

00:34:42.000 He said, you know, it turns out that a certain percentage of Americans are blind.

00:34:46.000 And a huge percentage of Americans are elderly.

00:34:49.000 We should have a certain number.

00:34:50.000 United needs to make sure that a certain number of pilots are qualified despite being blind and 100 years old.

00:34:56.000 It needs to happen. 0.99

00:34:58.000 Or alternatively, you could not collapse to the woke idiocy culture. 0.99

00:35:02.000 But again, our corporate culture has decided that this is the wave of the future. 0.99

00:35:05.000 They are going to be sorely mistaken.

00:35:07.000 They are going to feel the backlash in a serious way. 0.99

00:35:10.000 Not just because people stop flying their airlines, but because competitors will arise who don't follow this garbage.

00:35:15.000 Also because, again, your protectors on the corporate side should be neutral rules that foster free markets.

00:35:23.000 That, of course, is where you succeeded in the first place.

00:35:25.000 If you decide to undermine those neutral rules of free marketplaces by going for the corporatist The corporatist, crony, capitalist dollars that the Democrats are offering you?

00:35:37.000 Get ready, man.

00:35:38.000 This is so short-sighted.

00:35:41.000 It is so unbelievably short-sighted.

00:35:43.000 Mitch McConnell put that point out.

00:35:44.000 He said, you know, corporate America, you might want to not do this because there are going to be some consequences for you.

00:35:50.000 My warning, if you will, to corporate America is to stay out of politics.

00:35:56.000 It's not what you're designed for.

00:35:59.000 And don't be intimidated by the left into taking up causes that put you right in the middle of one of America's greatest political debates.

00:36:11.000 So that's my admonition, and Delta and the other Coca-Cola and the other companies that basically Okay, and that, of course, is a paraphrase of a line that Michael Jordan once used in the 1990s that Republicans buy sneakers to.

00:36:28.000 Okay, and that of course is a paraphrase of a line that Michael Jordan once used in the 1990s that Republicans buy sneakers to.

00:36:34.000 It's true.

00:36:35.000 We do.

00:36:35.000 And I am not in favor of boycotts as a general rule.

00:36:38.000 I think it's better if we were able to just patronize whichever businesses we think make the best products.

00:36:41.000 But so long as they're going to spit in our face, well, there are going to be a lot of Republicans who say, nope, we're not doing that anymore.

00:36:46.000 If Harry's Razor decides that it's going to withdraw advertising from some of our shows, well, get ready.

00:36:51.000 We'll launch our Razor brand, and then we'll go right after the same audience that you advertised in order to gain access to.

00:36:56.000 This works both ways.

00:36:58.000 They're going too far.

00:36:59.000 The backlash is coming.

00:37:00.000 The backlash is coming, by the way, with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement's propaganda about police.

00:37:06.000 The backlash is coming because it turns out that crime rates have been rising dramatically around the United States.

00:37:10.000 The U.S., according to CNN, saw a significant crime rise across major cities in 2020.

00:37:15.000 According to CNN, major American cities saw a 33% increase in homicide last year, Okay, that is because of the attempt to absolutely hamstring the cops and make it impossible for them to do their jobs.

00:37:29.000 You think people are gonna go along to get along on these particular issues?

00:37:32.000 Tom Cotton is getting dragged through the mud, the senator from Arkansas, because he tweeted out, we have a major under-incarceration problem in America and it's getting worse.

00:37:38.000 And people are like, well, yeah, we already incarcerate a lot of people.

00:37:40.000 The question isn't how many people we incarcerate.

00:37:42.000 The question is how many of those people are innocent.

00:37:44.000 Answer, not a lot.

00:37:45.000 And how many people who are guilty are out walking the streets?

00:37:47.000 Answer, some.

00:37:50.000 There's a very simple question to ask when it comes to under-incarceration versus over-incarceration.

00:37:54.000 It is not percentage of people incarcerated.

00:37:56.000 It's percentage of people who committed crimes in jail.

00:37:58.000 That's the only question I care about.

00:38:00.000 If you committed a murder, I don't care if we have more people in jail than other countries.

00:38:04.000 You should be in jail.

00:38:05.000 You committed a murder.

00:38:07.000 So Tom Cotton, on the numbers, is correct.

00:38:09.000 If there's a 33% increase in homicide, that means too few people are in jail.

00:38:13.000 At least when it comes to homicide.

00:38:15.000 Okay, but it doesn't matter because, again, the left can't stop itself.

00:38:18.000 In corporate America, that ship can't be turned.

00:38:21.000 In the media, they cannot re-steer themselves because they've dedicated themselves to activism.

00:38:25.000 The Biden administration can't turn away from its own radicalism.

00:38:29.000 And in the criminal justice system, the Black Lives Matter movement can't steer away from its own radicalism. 0.90

00:38:32.000 This is how you end up with videos of BLM activists saying that cities will burn if Derek Chauvin isn't convicted.

00:38:38.000 You think this is gonna play in America?

00:38:38.000 How do you think this is gonna play?

00:38:40.000 You think this is really gonna go well for you?

00:38:42.000 Here is this BLM activist.

00:38:45.000 If George Floyd's murderer is not sentenced, just know that all hell is gonna break loose.

00:38:54.000 Don't be surprised when buildings are on fire.

00:38:58.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:39:00.000 As I've been pointing out this whole time, and I think most people who have a brain are noticing, is that this Chauvin case is not clear-cut.

00:39:08.000 Not only is it not clear-cut, yesterday happened to be a particularly bad day for the prosecution in the Derek Chauvin murder case with regard to George Floyd.

00:39:16.000 There were a bunch of witnesses who were interviewed yesterday, and it did not turn out well for the prosecution.

00:39:20.000 In fact, it turned out so not well for the prosecution, that one of the witnesses the prosecution called, the defense announced they wanted to recall the witness as a defense witness.

00:39:29.000 That's how badly it went for the prosecution.

00:39:31.000 You know the prosecution is doing a crappy job when they call a witness, and the defense cross-examines the guy.

00:39:35.000 And they're like, you know what?

00:39:36.000 We like you so much, we want you back on our side.

00:39:39.000 Like, that ain't good.

00:39:40.000 The state called a Minneapolis Police Department lieutenant named Johnny Mercil, who's a use-of-force trainer.

00:39:46.000 And the prosecution asked him a bunch of questions about whether Chauvin was using approved use-of-force procedures.

00:39:52.000 But then, Eric Nelson, who is the defense attorney, began asking questions related to Mersel's time as a street cop.

00:39:57.000 This is according to LegalInsurrection.com, who's been doing a good job analyzing this on a day-to-day level.

00:40:03.000 Nelson asked questions related to Mersel's time as a street cop, with a particular emphasis on the tendencies of suspects being subject to arrest to come up with all kinds of nonsense about why they shouldn't be arrested that day.

00:40:12.000 Dangerous job being a police officer.

00:40:13.000 Yes.

00:40:14.000 Are people unhappy about being arrested?

00:40:15.000 Very rarely are they happy, said Mersel.

00:40:17.000 Do suspects frequently engage in a wide variety of behaviors to avoid arrest, including fighting, arguing, and making excuses?

00:40:22.000 Yes, they do, answered Mersel.

00:40:24.000 Indeed, when asked if he himself had ever disbelieved a suspect's claim of a medical emergency in an apparent effort to avoid arrest, Mersel answered, he had personally done so.

00:40:33.000 All of this undercuts the part of the prosecution narrative that is relying on Floyd's purported pleas and excuses about claustrophobia and anxiety and crying out for his mother.

00:40:40.000 Perhaps that's real, but a reasonable officer has to consider maybe it's an effort to avoid arrest.

00:40:46.000 Nelson also, once again, put the use of pressure and body weight techniques in a favorable light.

00:40:51.000 The state wants to present Chauvin's knee in a negative light, as deadly mechanical asphyxiation or as a blood choke, as attested to by this other witness, Derek Williams.

00:41:00.000 In fact, however, the use of pressure and body weight to restrain a suspect was adopted by the MPD because it was a less intense use of force than prior practice of using strikes, either barehanded or with batons or even with weighted gloves, to compel compliance.

00:41:13.000 Mersel concurred.

00:41:14.000 The take-home message for the jury is that Chauvin's knee, far from being a public execution in a public street, was a lesser force than would otherwise have been required.

00:41:24.000 So, bottom line is this prosecution is not particularly going well for the prosecution.

00:41:29.000 Nelson explored with Mersell whether there were circumstances in which it would be appropriate for an officer to maintain a neck restraint for a substantial period of time.

00:41:35.000 Mersell said yes.

00:41:37.000 Sometimes to maintain the neck restraint for however long it took EMS to arrive, asked Nelson.

00:41:41.000 Mersell answered that he personally had maintained restraint on suspects for the duration required for EMS to arrive.

00:41:48.000 The state's own use-of-force expert testified on cross he personally had engaged in the exact same activity that Shalvin is currently being demonized for.

00:41:56.000 That is not a good day for the state, as Legal Insurrection points out.

00:42:01.000 So again, it was just a very, very bad day for the prosecution.

00:42:05.000 The reason that I'm pointing this out is because what you're hearing from the media is that if Chauvin doesn't get convicted, it's a referendum on American racism, cops are all bad, fewer cops on the street.

00:42:15.000 You think this isn't going to backfire?

00:42:16.000 It's going to backfire.

00:42:17.000 It absolutely will backfire on the left.

00:42:20.000 Because all they would have to do is say, listen, we're going to look at the facts of the case.

00:42:23.000 And we have a jury system for a reason? 0.75

00:42:25.000 They can't do that.

00:42:25.000 They have to say that this is deep American racism regardless of whatever the evidence shows.

00:42:30.000 And again, it wasn't just that it went badly for that state's witness.

00:42:33.000 There's another state's witness.

00:42:34.000 MPD officer Nicole McKenzie, who's the medical support coordinator.

00:42:39.000 According to legal insurrection, McKenzie did really poorly.

00:42:44.000 On direct, the prosecutor had McKenzie testify about how officers had a duty of care to suspects, that Chauvin had CPR and other training that would qualify him to provide emergency care, and that such care must be provided by the officer, even if an ambulance had already been called.

00:42:57.000 Isn't it true, Nelson then asked McKenzie, that you train officers to consider not just the suspect, but the totality of the scene?

00:43:02.000 She said yes.

00:43:03.000 Isn't it true that police officers have a competing duty of safety to themselves, partners, bystanders, paramedics, to the point that if the scene is unsafe, if the officers haven't already announced a code for all safe, EMTs will stage a distance away until they are told safety has been achieved?

00:43:15.000 Yes, said McKenzie.

00:43:17.000 Isn't it true safety concerns might not come from the suspect, but from the crowd?

00:43:20.000 Yes.

00:43:20.000 Okay, and by the way, The mob was there shouting at, I mean, that's why we have tape, shouting at Chauvin the entire time, which prevents the MTs from getting it.

00:43:30.000 All of this generates at least a picture of reasonable doubt.

00:43:34.000 All of this pictures at least the possibility of reasonable doubt.

00:43:37.000 So it's, you know, none of this is going particularly well for the state.

00:43:42.000 And if this results in more riots, if this results in more calls for the end of policing in America, it ain't going to go well for the left either.

00:43:49.000 The left is overreaching on every area in American life right now.

00:43:51.000 You knew it was coming.

00:43:52.000 It is coming.

00:43:53.000 And the backlash is going to be extremely strong.

00:43:56.000 So it's not just the areas of the White House, or the media, or corporate America, or even the law, where the left feels its oath, they feel ascendant, but the backlash is coming.

00:44:05.000 It's in the area of culture.

00:44:06.000 They're going way, way too far in the culture.

00:44:09.000 So, for example, Marvel, for some ungodly reason, for some reason that no one can comprehend, decided that it would be a wonderful idea to have Ta-Nehisi Coates Write Captain America comics.

00:44:18.000 This makes no sense at all.

00:44:19.000 Captain America's character is a character who was frozen in the 1940s and then reanimated years and years later.

00:44:28.000 He's supposed to be a refugee from 1940s America, rah-rah, that's why he's Captain America. 1.00

00:44:34.000 He's supposed to stand for all of the values of the United States.

00:44:37.000 Among them are not.

00:44:38.000 America is a deeply racist country plagued by By structural injustices, America's rooted in evil and racism and cruelty.

00:44:47.000 So to have somebody write Captain America, you might want to pick somebody who actually likes the country.

00:44:51.000 Who likes the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

00:44:53.000 Somebody who doesn't think America is evil from its inception.

00:44:57.000 You know, somebody who doesn't think, like the 1619 Project. 0.87

00:44:59.000 But no, Marvel decided it was not good enough to have Ta-Nehisi Coates write the Black Panther comics.

00:45:05.000 He had to also write the Captain America comics, which is nuts.

00:45:08.000 Okay, Ta-Nehisi Coates is a person who said in an interview with the New Yorker, I believe, he said that on 9-11, he sat on the top of his Brooklyn apartment building, slightly stoned, watched 9-11 happen, watched the planes go into the buildings and people throwing themselves from the 80th story of the World Trade Center down to their deaths, watched the towers collapse and felt nothing.

00:45:29.000 That's how much he hates the country, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:45:32.000 That is something he has said openly, and that was considered okay, because after all, there's been racial evil in America. 0.73

00:45:38.000 And Ta-Nehisi Coates, who's gotten extraordinarily wealthy and extraordinarily famous by talking about how terrible America is, he should write the Captain America comic.

00:45:45.000 So, on its face, this is an absurdity.

00:45:47.000 It's like having Noam Chomsky write Superman.

00:45:50.000 Yeah, get Noam to write it.

00:45:56.000 Noam Chomsky should write Superman. 1.00

00:45:59.000 Ta-Nehisi Coates writing Captain America is the same thing, so it's stupid on its face. 1.00

00:46:02.000 But it's not just stupid. 0.96

00:46:04.000 What they actually allowed Ta-Nehisi Coates to do here His portrait, Red Skull, who's the villain in the Captain America. 0.97

00:46:11.000 And people say, why do you even bother talking about the culture?

00:46:13.000 Because more people in America engage with the culture than engage in politics.

00:46:17.000 Culture is important.

00:46:18.000 Culture is upstream of politics.

00:46:20.000 And when you start mainstreaming complete and utter nasty and slanderous bull crap about not only the country, but about anybody who disagrees with you into discourse that is meant mainly for teenagers, You know what you get? 0.96

00:46:31.000 A worse country. 0.97

00:46:32.000 They're gonna push too hard here?

00:46:33.000 So Ta-Nehisi Coates put out this comic.

00:46:33.000 They really are.

00:46:36.000 The comic shows Red Skull recruiting people online.

00:46:40.000 You know where this is going, don't you?

00:46:42.000 Recruiting people online, Red Skull, right?

00:46:44.000 Who's a Nazi, right?

00:46:45.000 Red Skull, as a character, is a Nazi who had his face burned off and he's now a mutant and all this.

00:46:51.000 Okay, and here is the panel.

00:46:53.000 It says, The Red Skull.

00:46:55.000 It is a picture of the Red Skull On a laptop, and it says, 10 rules for life, next to his face.

00:47:02.000 Who do you think that's supposed to be?

00:47:04.000 10 rules for life.

00:47:06.000 Could that possibly be Jordan Peterson?

00:47:07.000 Just to reiterate the point, just to make sure that you know it's supposed to be Jordan Peterson, it then says in the corner, chaos and order.

00:47:14.000 Because of course, Jordan's books are all about leading a, finding order within the chaos, Right?

00:47:22.000 These are terms that Jordan frequently uses.

00:47:23.000 And he talks about feminism.

00:47:24.000 And so just to make sure, it says, the feminist trap. 1.00

00:47:27.000 Right?

00:47:27.000 The feminist trap.

00:47:28.000 So you're supposed to know that this is, in fact, Jordan Peterson.

00:47:35.000 And not only that, he then has a reference to Karl Luger, who of course is a deeply famous anti-Semite, viewed as sort of a model for Nazism in the pre-Nazi era, who's sort of the proto-Nazi.

00:47:49.000 So the idea is that Jordan is a Nazi.

00:47:50.000 Okay, that's absurd on its face. 0.93

00:47:53.000 It's absurd, it's slanderous. 1.00

00:47:55.000 Honest to God, it's disgusting, because Ta-Nehisi Coates is just a damned liar. 1.00

00:47:59.000 So I know Jordan, I've read pretty much everything Jordan's written. 0.99

00:48:04.000 I've watched many of his videos, as you have, I'm sure.

00:48:06.000 The notion that he is pro-Nazi is insane. 1.00

00:48:08.000 It is insipid and it is ridiculous. 1.00

00:48:10.000 But, the Red Skull is a Nazi. 0.97

00:48:13.000 And is actually Jordan Peterson in this comic.

00:48:15.000 Directed toward teenagers.

00:48:17.000 And then there's this other conversation that happens about how Red Skull is recruiting people.

00:48:22.000 In which Captain America says, it's the same for all of them.

00:48:25.000 Young men, weak, looking for purpose. 1.00

00:48:27.000 I found the flag.

00:48:28.000 You found the badge.

00:48:29.000 They found the skull.

00:48:31.000 He tells them what they've always longed to hear.

00:48:33.000 That they are secretly great.

00:48:34.000 That the whole world is against them.

00:48:35.000 That if they're truly men, they'll fight back.

00:48:37.000 And bingo, that's their purpose.

00:48:38.000 That's what they live for.

00:48:39.000 And that's what they'll die for. 0.98

00:48:40.000 So if you tell young men that they have a purpose in the world, if you try to tell young men not to pity themselves and be losers, if you tell them to make their bed, this makes you a Nazi, like Red Skull. 0.75

00:48:51.000 Ta-Nehisi Coates writing that in a comic book.

00:48:54.000 Our culture, the wokeness in comics, by the way, has been going on for a long time.

00:48:58.000 DC did this too.

00:48:59.000 DC tried to make Superman into an anti-police figure.

00:49:03.000 They had a Batman comic in which Batman was railing against the cops, not just the corrupt Gotham City cops, but like cops generally and about racial injustice and all this kind of stuff.

00:49:11.000 Marvel has now trotted out a gay teen Captain America.

00:49:15.000 This is not a surprise, but to have Ta-Nehisi Coates mainlining all of this crap into like the Captain America comic does tell you something about where our culture is. 0.91

00:49:25.000 And our entire cultural infrastructure has been taken over by people who are completely removed from the everyday lives of the people with whom they are supposed to be talking. 0.78

00:49:31.000 Because your typical comic consumer is not somebody who believes that Jordan Peterson is the Red Skull.

00:49:37.000 Just like your typical consumer of television is not somebody who believes that we should be spending our days fretting over how to turn girls into boys and boys into girls when they are young people.

00:49:47.000 When they are tiny.

00:49:49.000 And yet, this is the direction in which our culture is moving.

00:49:51.000 By the way, there are some soft-hearted Republicans, and I shouldn't say soft-hearted, soft-headed, because they're not soft-hearted.

00:49:57.000 In fact, what they are promoting here is really not soft-hearted.

00:49:59.000 Soft-headed Republicans.

00:50:00.000 Asa Hutchinson, the governor of Arkansas, comes to mind.

00:50:02.000 He was thoroughly shellacked by Tucker Carlson last night on his show, as he should have been, because he decided that he was going to veto a bill, which was then overridden by the Arkansas legislature.

00:50:11.000 The bill prohibited the use of transgender Medicine on children below the age of 17, I believe.

00:50:19.000 And he vetoed that.

00:50:20.000 And he said, well, you know, we shouldn't be getting government involved in these areas.

00:50:23.000 Oh, you mean protecting children from the destruction of their bodies by pseudo-medical professionals who don't know the first thing about what they're talking about and are simply following woke precepts with regard to gender?

00:50:34.000 In any case, our culture has been promoting that.

00:50:36.000 That's why we ended up in this situation.

00:50:38.000 So you have Sophia Bush, who says that, you know, we are, that if you don't allow Sophia Bush tweeted out, voting rights are under attack.

00:50:51.000 The GOP has launched over 250 voter suppression bills.

00:50:54.000 Just a lie.

00:50:54.000 They're trying to kill democracy.

00:50:55.000 It's the new Jim Crow. 0.98

00:50:57.000 It's against all we stand for.

00:50:57.000 Okay, that's lie number one.

00:50:58.000 Put that to the side because the left is always promoting the lie that Republicans are engaged in voter suppression, even though that is obviously not true.

00:51:05.000 Then she tweeted out, hashtag trans kids are under attack across the country.

00:51:09.000 AR just banned them from accessing healthcare.

00:51:11.000 This is tantamount to murder.

00:51:13.000 Kids will tell us who they are.

00:51:15.000 It's our job to support them, not demonize or harm them. 0.99

00:51:18.000 Okay, first of all, the baseline notion that kids will tell you who they are is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard in my life. 0.94

00:51:24.000 I have three children, all under the age of eight. 0.98

00:51:27.000 If my four-year-old tells me he is a robot, guess what he is not?

00:51:31.000 A robot.

00:51:32.000 You know what it would make me if I said, okay, you're a robot? 1.00

00:51:34.000 It would make me a deeply irresponsible and moronic parent. 0.99

00:51:37.000 It is your job to civilize your child. 1.00

00:51:39.000 It is not your child's job to proclaim their authentic self to you at four and for you to take everything that they say super seriously because that's idiotic. 1.00

00:51:47.000 You are smarter than a four-year-old, and if you're not, you shouldn't be a parent. 1.00

00:51:50.000 But, beyond that, this is just a lie. 0.97

00:51:51.000 She says that Arkansas banned trans kids from accessing healthcare.

00:51:54.000 No.

00:51:55.000 Arkansas banned trans— Arkansas banned all children from being experimented on by doctors using hormone therapies to block puberty and mutilate their bodies.

00:52:05.000 That's what Arkansas just banned. 1.00

00:52:08.000 But don't worry, if you watch our culture, this is not just a position, this is the position.

00:52:12.000 It's a position that is parroted by the entire mainstream media, which uses the exact same phraseology with regard to the Arkansas bill.

00:52:17.000 The idea is that if you as a state don't allow doctors to practice medical chicanery on children, that if you don't allow doctors to mutilate children with hormone therapy, again, you don't know the long-term costs of using puberty blockers on an eight-year-old, that if you do this, then this somehow makes you a murderer.

00:52:35.000 A murderer!

00:52:37.000 Whereas presumably you're a better person if you say, a seven-year-old is gender confused because we keep preaching to them in public school that they might be a member of the opposite sex and they don't know what that means because it doesn't make any internal sense.

00:52:47.000 And also, they don't know what it means because they are children.

00:52:49.000 So number one, if you're an adult, you shouldn't know what it means because it makes no sense. 1.00

00:52:52.000 If you're a child, you certainly shouldn't know what it means because you're stupid and it makes no sense. 0.99

00:52:55.000 And yet the idea here, from our entire media and from our entire cultural sphere, is that if you stand in the way of this, that you are somehow the bad guy. 1.00

00:53:02.000 The backlash to this is going to happen.

00:53:04.000 It is going to be tremendous.

00:53:06.000 There will be a backlash to all of this.

00:53:07.000 There'll be a backlash to the coarsening of our culture.

00:53:10.000 And the left is begging for it at this point, because what they want is the shock value.

00:53:14.000 They want to push the boundaries.

00:53:16.000 And then, when you notice that they're pushing the boundaries, when you notice that they're doing things just for shock value, then they say, why are you even offended?

00:53:22.000 Look at you being offended, eugh!

00:53:24.000 Yeah, when you purposefully do things that are offensive, I am offended.

00:53:28.000 It turns out I am offended when you create sneakers that are designed to promote Satan.

00:53:32.000 I'm slightly offended.

00:53:33.000 Forgive me if I don't want that being promoted to children, as Lil Nas X has been doing.

00:53:37.000 So Lil Nas X, this musical star for no obvious reason to me.

00:53:43.000 Lil Nas X, Who is now openly gay, and came out with a big, big story, because obviously we have to treat it as a huge story whenever any pop star comes out as gay.

00:53:52.000 That's like 70% of pop stars at this point coming out as some form of gender fluid. 0.99

00:53:56.000 But in any case, Lil Nas X came out as gay, and then he put out this ridiculous song, Montero, Call Me By Your Name. 0.98

00:54:03.000 It is a crappy song. 0.99

00:54:05.000 I mean, an unbelievably bad song. 1.00

00:54:06.000 But the entire music video is about him literally having sex with Satan, who is male, of course, having sex with Satan, And then taking Satan's crown and... 0.98

00:54:18.000 It's almost tired because people have been doing this anti-religious crap since Madonna was writhing around as a faux Catholic back in the 1980s and proclaiming that she was like a virgin touch for the very first time and all of this. 0.98

00:54:35.000 And it really isn't all that transgressive. 0.91

00:54:37.000 It's kind of faux transgressive.

00:54:39.000 But the fact that Lil Nas X has appeared on Sesame Street and half of his crowd are people under 15 probably is somewhat disturbing.

00:54:47.000 So Lil Nas X tweeted out, Y'all told a 19-year-old who had just escaped the lowest point of his life that he would never have a hit again.

00:54:53.000 No one actually said that.

00:54:55.000 You told him to stop while he's ahead.

00:54:56.000 Nope.

00:54:57.000 He could have gave up.

00:54:57.000 But four multi-platinum songs and two number ones later, he's still here.

00:55:00.000 Thank you to my team and my fans.

00:55:02.000 I love you.

00:55:02.000 So this is the number one song in the country.

00:55:05.000 You think that the left isn't pushing too far in the culture?

00:55:06.000 You think there won't be a backlash?

00:55:07.000 Okay, here is the number one song in the country. 1.00

00:55:12.000 It is Lil Nas X dressed up as a stripper Swiveling down a stripper pole into hell where he proceeds to engage in anal sex with Satan This is First of all the song is just crap. 0.99

00:55:30.000 I mean like if this is an unmemorable It is a ripoff obviously of the title of the movie. 1.00

00:55:35.000 Call me by your name Like okay, he's stripping down into hell Swiveling down and like all right.

00:55:43.000 This is what you want from your culture This is what you're gonna get from your culture And now he's about to enter the palace of Satan.

00:55:51.000 And, uh, he is, uh, then going to engage in various unspeakable acts with Satan. 0.92

00:55:57.000 And give Satan a lap dance, then have sex with Satan, and, uh, and then he's going to take Satan's crown at the end, because obviously this is what we should all aspire to, uh, is to become Satan, which is the end of this video. 0.96

00:56:09.000 Now, again, free country, do what you want, but if you think that the height of our culture is WAP, And this? 0.99

00:56:20.000 And you think that Americans are just going to be like, yeah, it's all good. 0.99

00:56:23.000 Keep marketing this crap to our kids, please. 0.94

00:56:25.000 Please keep telling us how deeply important all of this is and how empowering all of it is and how it's going to make for a wonderful, fulfilling life for children. 0.99

00:56:32.000 Man, you guys keep pushing this way in the culture, you keep pushing this way on the left. 0.99

00:56:36.000 By the way, just a note here that the sort of take here, which is that you can act like garbage so long as you are of a sexual orientation minority, is ridiculous. 0.99

00:56:48.000 You know how many gay people there are who don't act like this in music videos? 0.99

00:56:53.000 Virtually all of them. 0.97

00:56:54.000 But you want to promulgate, you know, some pretty nasty messages.

00:56:58.000 About folks, this is the way to do it.

00:57:01.000 Lil Nas X really doing yeoman's work there on behalf of the gay rights movement for some odd reason.

00:57:07.000 In any case, the point is larger and the point is the same.

00:57:11.000 The left is overstepping its boundaries.

00:57:13.000 Some of them have realized it.

00:57:14.000 Biden's already realizing it because he has his finger in the wind more than most.

00:57:17.000 The corporations haven't yet realized it.

00:57:18.000 They will.

00:57:20.000 The cultural figures, they haven't yet realized it.

00:57:21.000 They're going to.

00:57:22.000 There will be a backlash.

00:57:24.000 It's been too long in coming.

00:57:25.000 And I'm very much looking forward to the backlash.

00:57:27.000 I'm looking forward to people stopping their monetary patronization of these various corporations.

00:57:33.000 I'm looking forward to people turning off MTV and not listening to songs like this in the future.

00:57:39.000 I'm looking forward to alternatives cropping up.

00:57:41.000 And if we have to have two separate cultures and two separate Ways of raising our children.

00:57:47.000 And if we have to go our separate ways, maybe that's one solution.

00:57:49.000 The other possibility here is that the American people are not going to be as enthusiastic about all of this stuff as everybody on the left is.

00:57:56.000 And then when the backlash comes, it's going to come in a lot of political ways that people on the left aren't particularly fond of.

00:58:00.000 So get ready for it.

00:58:01.000 All right, we'll be back here today with an additional hour of content.

00:58:03.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Noll Show on today's episode.

00:58:06.000 Michael will be talking about the double mutant fourth wave of coronavirus.

00:58:09.000 It's not happening.

00:58:10.000 That episode is available right now.

00:58:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:58:40.000 The governor of Arkansas defends the chemical castration of kids.

00:58:43.000 The MLB moves its all-star game out of Georgia to a whiter state with stricter voting laws.

00:58:48.000 And the experts warn of a double mutant fourth wave of coronavirus.

The Ben Shapiro Show - April 07, 2021

The Blowback Is Coming | Ep. 1230

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