During the Obama years, many in the media declared that Barack Obama was a godlike figure. Now, when Donald Trump came in, he supplanted Barack Obama as the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. Is this a good or bad thing? Is he a bad man who says dumb things, or a man who does dumb things? And if so, what does that make Donald Trump a bad person? And why does it matter that he's not a bad guy? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why this is a bad thing, and why it's a good thing that Donald Trump is not just a boar who says very bad things, but a bad human being who says some very dumb things too. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Don't let others track what you do - keep yourself safe at ExpressVpn. Keep yourself safe by using the VPN service to protect yourself, and your data, from becoming a victim of the dark side of the political system. Protect yourself, Ben Shapiro and don't let anyone else do it for you! Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe and comment to stay up to date on all things political and social media! If you like what you hear, share it on your social media, and help spread the word to your friends and family about Ben Shapiro's new book, "The Dark Side of the Universe." by becoming a supporter of the Ben Shapiro Podcast! Subscribe and subscribe to his new book "Dark Side Of The Universe" wherever you get your free copy of The Dark Side Of It? by clicking here. And don't forget to leave a rating and review the book review on iTunes and leaving us a review on your thoughts on the podcast! and we'll be listening to his podcast recommendations and reviews on the book "Good News, Good News, Bad News, I'm Ben Shapiro" by you'll get a chance to review it on Good Things, Too Bad, Too Good, Good Stuff, Good Things by Ben Shapiro, Too Funny, Too Weird, Too Sensible, Too Stupid, Too Strange, Too Beautiful, Too Sad, Too Brilliant, Too Cool, Too Much Good, Too Scary, Too Sweeted, Too Thoughtful, So Good, Righteous, and Much More! by You'll Have It All by Good News Too Good by Bad News Too Weird? and more! Thank you for listening and sharing it!
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00:01:30.000Okay, well, over the course of yesterday, it occurred to me as I was watching the news flash before my eyes that we have entered the converse of what we had during the Obama years.
00:01:41.000During the Obama years, many in the media, many on the Democratic side of the aisle declared that basically Barack Obama was a godlike figure.
00:01:48.000There was worship of Barack Obama across the land.
00:01:51.000The entire comedic infrastructure decided that jokes could no longer be told.
00:01:55.000We were told that Barack Obama was not funny in any way, which of course is asinine.
00:01:59.000Barack Obama was hilarious because the man had such pretensions to being a messianic prophet and he fell short of those pretensions.
00:02:19.000He was like our father, is what Chris Rock said.
00:02:22.000Barack Obama was this father figure to so many folks on the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:02:26.000This cult of personality was built up around Obama, not just by Democrats, but by members of the media who declared it off limits to ask him tough questions.
00:02:32.000Or if you yelled a question at him, then you were considered a racist.
00:02:36.000I mean, the man was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the great accomplishment of being an alive human who was breathing and had the correct ethnic heritage.
00:02:45.000That is literally why he was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:02:47.000So, it is no wonder that there is another side to this gnostic view of the universe in so many democratic circles.
00:02:55.000So if Barack Obama is a sort of god-like figure, then this means that Donald Trump is the devil.
00:02:59.000Donald Trump came in, he supplanted Barack Obama.
00:03:02.000He isn't a fallen angel in the mold of Lucifer.
00:03:05.000No, he is a malevolent force in the universe.
00:03:08.000Gnosticism posits that all of the universe is torn between these two forces.
00:03:36.000When you talk to Democrats, the very idea that anyone would vote for Trump is akin to walking into a Catholic church and saying, I'm voting for Satan.
00:03:43.000It is akin to walking into any religious institution in America and declaring that you are on the side of the devil.
00:03:51.000That is how people view you if you say that you are going to vote for Trump.
00:03:54.000And you can see it in how people are treating this.
00:03:57.000I mean, first of all, there are the wild pagans out there who actually are engaging in pagan ritual because they hate Trump so much.
00:04:03.000There was a video that was flying around the internet over the course of the past week in which anti-Trump protesters literally set an American flag on fire and then ate a bloody heart while meanwhile shouting about Indiana Jones or something.
00:05:01.000Two, it means that you now see the people who live next to you, the people who are voting for Donald Trump, the people who say that they don't like Joe Biden very much or that they are uncomfortable with both candidates, but they're pulling the lever for the guy who brought about the greatest economy in 50 years.
00:05:14.000You see those people as servants of this dark, malevolent force.
00:05:18.000And you can see that in how folks are talking again about not only Trump, but the people who support Trump.
00:05:23.000If you want to divide the country, it's really not about the election.
00:05:26.000It's about how you see your neighbors.
00:05:27.000If you want to destroy the social fabric, it's really not about how you view the political candidate on the other side or the political party on the other side.
00:05:34.000It's how you view the people who vote for that political party or that candidate.
00:05:38.000We've been treated to four long years of people essentially saying that if you consider voting Republican when Donald Trump is president of the United States or on the ballot, this means that you are evil in and of yourself.
00:05:49.000Okay, that is not something that's going to be bridged if Joe Biden is elected.
00:05:54.000This is why Robert Reich, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, suggested we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which anyone in any position of prominence who supported Trump in any way is called out and thrown from the public discourse.
00:06:06.000The cult of Trump hatred has grown extraordinarily strong.
00:06:13.000First, you get the crazy people who are ripping apart, I assume, pig hearts on public streets.
00:06:17.000Then you get Keith Olbermann, who's only slightly less crazy.
00:06:19.000Keith Olbermann, very serious commentator.
00:06:23.000You can tell he's serious because he went to Cornell Agricultural School.
00:06:27.000And let me tell you that Donald Trump is the worst, the most malevolent, the most evil, the cruelest, the most disgusting human being who has ever or will ever walk the earth.
00:06:40.000I'm tired of the thought that we're now going to repeat the months of March and April in this country, a country that should have learned something, but which in large part has been authorized to wallow and die in its own stupidity because of one man, one dumb bastard, one selfish son of a-
00:06:58.000One real-life major French attacking the only hope we have, the science, and insisting science is wrong and Fauci is an idiot and only I can save you, and insisting you can do whatever you want and the disease affects almost nobody.
00:07:12.000Donald Trump should be on trial for 220,000 murders, death penalty for each count.
00:07:29.000And you'll do this like 220,000 times, which is really exciting stuff from Keith Olbermann.
00:07:33.000OK, well, I understand those of you who are moderate left, you know, people who are voting for Biden and don't necessarily think like Keith Olbermann.
00:07:40.000You're saying to yourself right now, Shapiro's doing nut picking, right?
00:07:42.000Nut picking is this process that people do online or in politics where you find the most outlandish versions of what your opponent is saying and then you highlight those.
00:07:52.000There is not all that much difference in the theme here between the stuff that crazy pig heart guy and Keith Olbermann are saying and mainstream Democrats are saying.
00:08:02.000Elizabeth Warren came out over the last 48 hours and suggested that if Donald Trump is reelected, all life on earth will be endangered.
00:08:10.000Not just human life, not just like during his term, all life on the planet, plant life, animal life, that badger you love so much, all of them will be endangered by Donald Trump's presence in the Oval Office.
00:08:22.000This is something Elizabeth Warren, right?
00:09:25.000I mean, Barack Obama tweeted out in the middle of the California wildfires that your life literally depends on Donald Trump not being in office.
00:09:33.000He tweeted out pictures of the wildfires and the bad air quality in San Francisco, which by the way, again, last I checked, California is a democratic state and it's wildfire management that is largely responsible for the wildfires in California.
00:09:46.000Global warming may be responsible for a slight uptick in wildfires over the course of the century, but it is not responsible for the kind of wildfires we saw in California this year.
00:09:54.000That is solely due to forest management.
00:09:56.000But Barack Obama tweeted out, quote, the fires across the West Coast are just the latest examples of the very real ways our changing climate is changing our communities.
00:10:02.000Protecting our planet is on the ballot.
00:10:05.000And then he concluded, well, like your life depends on it because it does.
00:10:08.000Your life depends on how you vote. Right.
00:10:31.000There was no point at which I believed that if Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012, life on planet Earth was in existential danger, or I was going to die, or family members were going to die, because Barack Obama was President of the United States.
00:10:44.000You have to believe that politics is religion, and religion has set up this Gnostic binary between absolute good and absolute evil.
00:10:51.000That is the only way you can come to this conclusion.
00:10:55.000There's Barack Obama promoting the cult of anti-Trump.
00:10:59.000Think about what would possibly compel you to accept this level of chaos, violence, and confusion under this president and be willing to watch our country continue to spiral out of control because we can no longer pretend that we don't know exactly who and what this president stands for.
00:11:23.000Search your hearts and then vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it.
00:11:30.000Vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it.
00:11:34.000And again, that entire commercial, if you can see the imagery, it's all white supremacists marching and it's Proud Boys firing tear gas at people.
00:11:41.000And again, it is absolute good versus absolute evil.
00:11:44.000That is the binary that is being drawn.
00:11:46.000This is not a political difference anymore.
00:11:53.000And not only is it cult-like, people who are leading the charge here know that it's cult-like.
00:11:58.000Because here's the deal about being in a cult.
00:12:00.000As you know from every cult documentary you've ever seen, the people in charge of the priesthood of the cult, they're always the ones who benefit.
00:12:06.000If you are the person who declares that you are the vessel of all good, and your opponents are the vessel of all evil, and the only way that your constituents can be purged of that evil is to embrace the light.
00:12:19.000Well, cult leaders usually take advantage of that.
00:12:31.000If you lead a cult, you know what you are doing.
00:12:34.000Okay, Paul Begala sort of let the cat out of the bag today.
00:12:37.000Paul Begala, the Democratic commentator, you know, he pointed out that for Democrats, basically their reaction to this election is just primal panic.
00:12:46.000They're stuck somewhere between excitement and absolute primal panic, because again, they believe that they are right on the verge of the country falling into complete disrepair and America falling into mass chaos and death.
00:12:57.000They believe they're on the verge of that.
00:12:58.000And he says, and that's exactly where Democrats want them.
00:13:01.000Democrats want them there because it gets them excited about voting for the Democrats, right?
00:13:05.000They channel all of that toward their own political gain.
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00:15:06.000Okay, so again, this binary is being drawn by people who are set to gain from the binary.
00:15:11.000The absolute division between good and evil, the non-nuanced version of politics, and the castigation of all your political opponents as servants of Satan.
00:15:20.000Which is why the Lincoln Project, Stuart Stevens, Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, and Reid Galen, who have picked up 50 million bucks from the gullible cult members of the Democratic Party, They've put 12 million of that toward operating expenses.
00:15:33.000These guys are buying private jets off the cult.
00:15:35.000They have a piece in the Washington Post, of course.
00:15:37.000Of course, the Washington Post gives them the space.
00:15:40.000Called, Republicans, it's time to choose between autocracy and a republic.
00:15:43.000Weird, because the Democrats right now are threatening to pack the court, overthrow the filibuster, add states willy-nilly, and strengthen the executive branch that the legislature becomes a vestigial organ of American government.
00:15:54.000But apparently, Trump is the authoritarian.
00:15:57.000The Lincoln Project suggests that this is an absolute moral battle.
00:16:49.000The devil still lurks in cosseted corners.
00:16:52.000The devil still lurks just in the shadows.
00:16:54.000And so if you give me more power, if you give me more money, if you give me more ability to control your life, then we'll certainly hunt out the devil.
00:17:01.000We're always just this far away from hunting out the devil.
00:17:04.000But the Lincoln Project grifters, they're treating this as not just a political battle that is important and has ramifications for the future of the country, but as an absolute moral conflict.
00:17:14.000They say those who went before faced dogs and fire hoses, and yet they did not flinch.
00:17:18.000In war and peace, Americans have displayed unparalleled courage in the face of evil and injustice.
00:17:22.000It doesn't take courage to stand up to Trump.
00:17:24.000It takes courage to stand up for your country.
00:17:25.000This is the legacy we inherited and are called to defend.
00:17:48.000And brownshirts deserve to be punched.
00:17:50.000And naturally, you see this corollary.
00:17:52.000So, some of the Lincoln Project grifters decided they were not happy with the video that I cut a few days ago explaining why I'm voting for Trump.
00:17:59.000I explained it in great detail without whitewashing, I think, any of Trump's personality issues.
00:18:04.000I was heavily critical of the president in that video where I endorsed him in 2020.
00:18:08.000And Matthew Dowd, who I believe is a member of the Lincoln Project, tweeted out, Ben Shapiro isn't a conservative, which... Joe Lockhart at CNN then promptly tweeted out, he's not human.
00:18:25.000If you have ever thought about not going along with the woke crowd, if you ever thought about being friends with a Republican, if you have ever thought about voting for Donald Trump, this is how members of the left, and I'm talking many mainstream members of the political left, consider you.
00:18:40.000I was human up until the moment, apparently, when I said that Trump deserves your vote over Joe Biden and a Democratic Party that's lost its mind.
00:18:48.000The minute I said that, not human anymore.
00:18:50.000It was all strange new respect in 2016 when I said, a pox on both your houses.
00:20:21.000But in the aftermath of the Amy Coney Barrett hearings, she said that the hearings were civil and nice, and then she hugged Lindsey Graham.
00:21:06.000Now, the cult-like behavior is most focused when it comes to treatment of COVID.
00:21:11.000Because COVID is a perfect way for Democrats to pretend that these vast global forces have a certain morality to them.
00:21:18.000There's a paganistic aspect to the left's treatment of COVID.
00:21:20.000Now, if you look at COVID with any sort of objective eye, what you'll notice is that COVID has devastated countries around the globe, regardless of political orientation.
00:21:43.000The EU is outpacing the United States in terms of identified COVID-19 cases.
00:21:48.000But in the same way that so many Democrats talk about global warming as a sort of natural force that has descended upon America, thanks to Donald Trump, right?
00:21:57.000We're all going to die if Donald Trump isn't president, unless Donald Trump is thrust from the presidency.
00:22:03.000In the same way, COVID is a moral virus, according to many members of the left.
00:22:07.000We were treated to this particular notion in the very beginning of this thing, when people were not only angry at Trump, but they also decided that COVID did not matter so long as you were protesting for racial justice.
00:22:17.000At this point, it became perfectly clear that cult-like behavior was not relegated to non-COVID matters.
00:22:23.000COVID was now seen in the same way that the Black Plague was seen back when it hit Europe.
00:22:29.000The priesthood of the time suggested that this was sort of God's revenge for sinful mankind.
00:22:34.000Well, this is exactly how many members of the left view COVID.
00:22:37.000COVID is either directly facilitated by Trump, Trump is the COVID president, or COVID has hit us because we sort of deserve it and it's Trump's failures that have caused all of this.
00:22:45.000Never mind the fact that it's devastated countries all over the world and nobody has a great handle on it.
00:22:50.000Unless you had initial low caseload, everybody gets hit by this thing because it's extraordinarily transmissible.
00:22:56.000The way the Democrats portray COVID is that every single death from COVID is attributable to Donald Trump because Donald Trump is the malevolent force.
00:23:02.000The virus, of course, is wonderfully woke.
00:23:05.000If you were out protesting about George Floyd, and you weren't wearing a mask, and you were twerking in the streets for George Floyd, or you were burning down a business for George Floyd, and you weren't wearing a mask, and you were giving COVID to other people.
00:23:14.000And by the way, you want to see the media coverage, biased media coverage.
00:23:17.000Look at how they cover the George Floyd protests as compared to Memorial Day.
00:25:16.000If you said Chinese virus, you were racist.
00:25:18.000But if you called it the Trump virus, this was just good politics and obviously true.
00:25:22.000Joe Biden literally said just a few weeks ago that if Donald Trump had done his job, every single human being who died of COVID in the United States would still be alive.
00:25:32.000It was trotted forth at the DNC, by the way.
00:25:35.000They literally put out a video of a woman from Arizona who said that because her father voted for Donald Trump and believed Donald Trump, he was dead from COVID.
00:25:41.000The vast majority of people in the United States who have died from COVID, I would bet you money, did not die having voted for Donald Trump because blue states have been hit harder in terms of death than red states have.
00:25:52.000Okay, turns out the virus doesn't care about your politics.
00:25:55.000But Democrats, members of the media, they certainly care about your politics.
00:25:58.000And so they're gonna use the brick bat of COVID to suggest that this nefarious dark force, this miasmatic evil that is Donald Trump, he goes away, everything will get better.
00:26:06.000Here is Joe Biden suggesting that every death in America attributable to COVID is actually attributable to Trump.
00:26:12.000If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive.
00:26:20.000All the people, I'm not making this up, just look at the data.
00:26:24.000OK, every single one of them, look at the data and then they and then they appeal to science.
00:26:29.000So their twin gods are the Democratic Party and science, right?
00:26:33.000Joe Biden and science, except for the fact that, of course, they don't believe in science too much.
00:26:37.000Boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
00:26:39.000And babies inside the womb are clusters of mere cells.
00:26:42.000And we can alleviate global warming by building like high speed rail or some such nonsense.
00:26:50.000That sort of stuff is just, that's an obvious religious appeal, is it not?
00:26:55.000Vote for me and I will bring those 200,000 people back to life.
00:26:58.000Or at least, I will stop all further death.
00:27:02.000Gretchen Whitmer made the same point, the governor of Michigan.
00:27:04.000She suggested that the only reason you are wearing masks right now is because Donald Trump is president.
00:27:09.000If it were not for Trump, nobody would be wearing a mask.
00:27:11.000Weird, because I'm looking all over Europe, and everybody is wearing a mask, and they are going back into lockdown.
00:27:15.000In fact, countries like Sweden, that heretofore had been kind of light on the lockdowns, they're using targeted lockdowns now.
00:27:20.000Seems as though nobody's in control of this thing, but according to Gretchen Whitmer, if you had just cast out the evil force that is Donald Trump, no one would be wearing a mask.
00:27:34.000We've got people in food pantry lines who never would have imagined that they'd be there.
00:27:39.000And no light on the horizon because our numbers keep going up.
00:27:44.000This is a gravely serious moment for all of us.
00:27:47.000And if you're tired of lockdowns, or you're tired of wearing masks, or you wish you were in church this morning, or watching college football, or your kids were in person instruction, it is time for change in this country.
00:27:58.000And that's why we've got to elect Joe Biden.
00:28:01.000Ah, well, if you elect Joe Biden, then you won't have to wear a mask anymore.
00:28:03.000The sunlight will shine through the clouds.
00:28:46.000If a vaccine is approved before the end of the year, post-election, we're already going to know who won the presidency.
00:28:51.000In December, we're already going to know who won the presidency.
00:28:53.000At that point, even if you believe that Trump was willing to lie about a vaccine and that his scientists were also willing to lie about a vaccine in the run-up to an election, at that point, it's after the election.
00:29:03.000So there's no further incentive for there to be any untruth about a vaccine, even if you are Even if you were likely to believe for some odd reason that scientists were willing to lie and kill presumably tens of thousands of human beings in order to push a false vaccine on Trump's behalf, which is a crazy proposition in the first place.
00:29:18.000Andrew Cuomo is now out there downplaying the development of vaccine that will only be out after the election happens.
00:29:24.000That is because Donald Trump is so evil that everything he touches turns to draws.
00:29:27.000Here is Andrew Cuomo, religious leader.
00:29:30.000I'm not that confident, but my opinion doesn't matter.
00:29:33.000I don't believe the American people are that confident.
00:29:36.000You're going to say to the American people now, here's a vaccine, it was new, it was done quickly, but trust this federal administration and their health administration that it's safe?
00:29:51.000I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine and it should be they should be they should be skeptical About taking the vaccine even after the election even when Trump isn't gonna be the lead on this thing And then Gavin Newsom the governor of California said the same thing He said he's going to set up his own board in California in order to determine if a vaccine is safe.
00:30:10.000So we're going to wait for two more months for California's bureaucracy to work its way through the vaccine to determine if it's safe before anybody in California can take the vaccine.
00:30:19.000So you've now just extended Gavin Newsom's onerous lockdowns For months, on end, based on nothing except for the idea that Trump is nefarious and evil.
00:30:27.000By the way, how bad are those lockdowns?
00:30:29.000Disneyland just announced they will be shut for the foreseeable future, despite the fact that they say they know how to open, the labor unions want to open, but Gavin Newsom has continued to keep Disneyland shut.
00:30:37.000Worth noting, Disney World, here in Florida where I am, Disney World has been open since June.
00:30:42.000They have apparently zero outbreaks at Disney World.
00:30:45.000But still, you can't go to Disneyland in California because Gavin Newsom says so, because Trump is evil.
00:31:28.000Therefore, the FDA will put out flawed vaccine in order to harm Americans post-election when it doesn't matter to Trump's electoral prospects one iota.
00:31:44.000It will happen presumably by the end of the year, according to Pfizer.
00:31:47.000Not only that, two new peer-reviewed studies, according to NPR, are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
00:31:53.000The drop is seen in every group, including older patients and those with underlying conditions, suggesting that physicians are getting better at helping patients survive their illness.
00:32:01.000The study, which was of a single health system, finds that mortality has dropped among hospitalized patients by 18 percentage points since the pandemic began.
00:32:09.000That actually is understating the size of the drop.
00:32:12.000Because it depends on proportionality.
00:32:47.000Yes, mask wearing when we can't stay away from other people.
00:32:51.000But instead, it's everything is wrong, everything is bad, we're all going to die, unless we get rid of Trump, in which case everything will be good again.
00:32:58.000Not only that, I mean, we can tell, I mean, the data are out there now, that death tolls are up in non-vulnerable populations from a wide variety of other diseases, thanks to lockdown.
00:33:09.000Excess deaths, for example, from all causes, was up among adults aged 25 to 44, 26.5%.
00:33:17.000That is the largest number of excess deaths by percentage.
00:33:20.000There are lots of excess deaths in the elderly age range, but excess deaths generally means people who would not have died anyway.
00:33:27.000Elderly people are more apt to die from a wide variety of other causes.
00:33:30.000Excess deaths among young people are really up extremely dramatically, and a lot of that is deaths of despair.
00:33:35.000We are seeing highs in terms of deaths of despair.
00:33:39.000We are seeing that in Great Britain, for example, figures from the Office for National Statistics from March to September reveal that almost 1,000 deaths are being recorded every week, up 26,000 on the same period last year.
00:33:51.000Among the biggest killers are diabetes, up 86% Parkinson's, 79% prostate cancer, 53% breast cancer, 47% and bowel cancer, 46%.
00:33:59.000So there's excess deaths of despair in young people.
00:34:01.000And then among people who are older, there are a lot of people who are not going to the hospital when they should be.
00:34:29.000There's a piece in the Wall Street Journal today by David Henderson and Ryan Sullivan Tens of millions of students started the school year completely online, including those in 13 of the 15 largest school districts in the United States.
00:34:40.000The primary reason is concern over safety for students and staff.
00:34:43.000But recent data are shifting the discussion on school safety and infection rates of COVID.
00:34:46.000They argue strongly for opening K-12 schools.
00:34:50.000Previous evidence has suggested schools are not super spreaders.
00:34:53.000That research came from other countries or very specific cases in America like YMCA summer camps.
00:34:58.000While this suggested little impact on infection rates from opening the schools, it was possible that maybe schools would be different outcomes in the United States, but they're about the same.
00:35:05.000A group of researchers, spearheaded by Brown University professor Emily Oster, have created and made available the most comprehensive database on schools and COVID case rates for students and staff since the pandemic started.
00:35:16.000Her data, covering almost 200,000 kids across 47 states from the last two weeks of September, showed a COVID case rate of 0.13% among students and 0.24% among staff.
00:35:27.000That's a shockingly and wonderfully low number.
00:35:31.000case rate is 2.6% in order of magnitude higher.
00:35:34.000Other research has shown hospitalization and fatality rates for school-age children are also extremely low.
00:35:39.000People 19 and younger account for only 1.2% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States during the peak of the pandemic.
00:35:46.000The CDC reported that of all COVID-19 deaths up to October 10th, only 74 were of children under age 15.
00:35:53.000During the 2019-2020 flu season, the CDC estimates that 434 children under 18 died of the flu, but we don't shut down schools over the flu.
00:36:03.000Well, it turns out that various countries that never shut their schools say teachers have the same fatality rate as people in other professions.
00:36:11.000The cost of reopening the schools measured in hospitalizations and fatalities is low.
00:38:44.000First, you may have noticed this has been a completely insane year.
00:38:46.000Statues toppled, coupled with radical rioting, looting in American cities.
00:38:50.000It can feel at times like America is coming apart.
00:38:52.000Well, right now would be the perfect time to read my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:38:55.000The book is really a primer on America.
00:38:58.000It's not just about destroying America in three easy steps and how disintegrationists wish to do it.
00:39:02.000It really is about why America is worth holding together.
00:39:04.000It's about the philosophy, culture, and history of the United States.
00:39:07.000You want to give your kid an education in what's great about the United States?
00:39:10.000That's what this book is about, and it discusses why people are trying to tear it down and how they are trying to tear it down.
00:39:15.000Why they are looking at the philosophy of the United States, the philosophy of the Declaration, and trying to throw it out.
00:39:20.000Why they are looking at the culture of entrepreneurialism, and adventure, and tolerance of the United States, and they're trying to destroy it.
00:39:26.000Why they are trying to pretend that the history of the United States is an unmitigated rule of evil, as opposed to what it really is, an incredible story of good triumphing over evil, and over the evils of human nature progressively over time.
00:39:39.000Check out my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:39:41.000It is not just relevant for the election, it is relevant long past the election.
00:39:44.000It is the best inoculation against leftist claptrap, I think, if not ever written, then certainly on the market today.
00:39:50.000Go check it out right now, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:39:53.000Now meanwhile, as with everything in 2020, there's been a lot of drama with the presidential debates, but We are ready for the second and final debate this Thursday.
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00:40:52.000Again, so the argument that Democrats keep making is that they cannot open the schools until after the election.
00:41:02.000If you look at Washington, D.C., they've openly announced that they are preparing to welcome up to 21,000 elementary school students back for in-person learning in November.
00:41:12.000Well, November, you know, like November is a better time.
00:41:14.000Probably after the election, that'd be like a real good time to do it.
00:41:17.000According to the Washington DC-ist, the DC-ist, on October 5th, So, if it's good enough to open, like, in November, why isn't it good enough to open right now?
00:41:26.000You're losing a full month of education.
00:41:28.000It is hitting people who are low-income the hardest.
00:42:01.000We also know at this time that learning at home is not working for every student.
00:42:04.000Under the first option considered by the Washington DC school districts, about 7,000 students will attend in-person classes led by a teacher.
00:42:10.000Each school will offer one class for each grade beginning on November 9th.
00:42:14.000Oh, look at that, right after the election.
00:42:19.000And meanwhile, in LA County, Barbara Farrar, the LA County Department of Health public official, whose degree is not in anything related to public health, Barbara Farrar, she says, you know, why don't we reevaluate this whole school's being closed thing?
00:42:36.000So we don't realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier two or to reopening.
00:42:44.000K-12 schools at least until after the election, after, you know, in early November.
00:42:51.000Like, when we just look at the timing of everything, it seems to us a more realistic approach to this would be to think that we're going to be where we are now until we get after, until we are done with the election.
00:43:05.000Oh, well, you know, after the election is when you're going to...
00:43:43.000This year, we're facing the most difficult circumstances, and we're seeing an awful lot of heart and a lot of grit from our educators, our students, and to try to rise to the occasion here.
00:43:55.000But our government hasn't come up to that bar.
00:43:58.000I haven't shown much grit at all or determination.
00:44:38.000If you believe this crap, you're a sucker.
00:44:40.000Okay, you're a sucker to believe it about Obama.
00:44:42.000If you're on the right and you believe that Trump is a cult leader, you're a sucker.
00:44:44.000Anybody who believes a political leader ought to be trusted with this kind of power or believes that this person will be the solution to all your problems, you're a sucker.
00:44:51.000And politicians know that you are a sucker, but there's a sucker born every single minute.
00:44:55.000At least you could be forgiven for thinking of Barack Obama, who's at least very well styled rhetorically and spoke in these lofty terms.
00:45:02.000At least you could be forgiven for treating him as some sort of quasi-messianic figure, I guess from a political observational standpoint.
00:45:11.000Treating Joe Biden as a messianic figure?
00:46:10.000Meanwhile, if you doubt any of the prevailing COVID narrative that is being put out by the media or by the Democrats, then this means that you are engaging in ultra-Crepidarianism.
00:46:20.000Which is a big word that just means operating outside your sphere of knowledge.
00:46:25.000Sanjay Gupta, by the way, is a neuroscientist who misread Chris Cuomo's lung charts on air on CNN.
00:46:31.000He accuses Scott Atlas of engaging outside of his field of expertise, ignoring the fact that there are a lot of people who disagree with Anthony Fauci about particular policies, including Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford, who actually is an epidemiologist.
00:46:42.000There are lots of epidemiologists out there that don't all agree with Anthony Fauci on everything there is to say.
00:46:47.000But again, the idea is that we have set up this coterie, this beautiful priesthood of the knowledgeable.
00:46:53.000And the knowledgeable are Democrats and people who Trump doesn't like, like Anthony Fauci.
00:46:56.000Here was Sanjay Gupta and Jake Tapper accusing Scott Atlas, who is one of the White House advisers, of engaging in ultra-crepidarianism, while meanwhile engaging in ultra-crepidarianism, because neither Sanjay Gupta nor Jake Tapper are epidemiologists.
00:47:10.000Dr. Scott Atlas is a neuroradiologist.
00:47:12.000He is not an expert on infectious diseases.
00:47:15.000And this is what President Trump likes to do.
00:47:16.000He likes to get these people, like oral surgeons, who are not experts on infectious disease, a test to either how great he is or how the pandemic should be treated, how the federal response should be.
00:47:30.000Dr. Scott Atlas might be a very smart guy, but what he is doing right now is reinforcing these beliefs.
00:47:40.000Okay, so again, it is fun to watch as we say that Scott Atlas knows nothing, but Sanjay Gupta knows everything, which is an interesting take.
00:47:48.000Now, here is the beauty of living in this world.
00:47:51.000If Donald Trump is the devil, then that's the only way that you can get Joe Biden to be what you need him to be, if you want people to be enthusiastic about voting for him.
00:47:58.000If you want people enthused about voting for Joe Biden, you somehow have to transform this near 80-year-old Near-octogenarian, non-coherent, finger-in-the-wind, corrupt politician, career-long corrupt politician who has sponged off the public dime since he was 30 years old.
00:48:14.000You have to treat that guy as a sort of light-bringer, a bringing-together dude.
00:48:20.000So the worse Trump is, the better Biden is by contrast.
00:48:23.000So while Joe Biden declares that the people who don't support him are not black, if they if they are black and support Trump, they're not actually black.
00:48:30.000While Joe Biden declares that if you support Trump, then you're probably a racist.
00:48:34.000While Joe Biden declares and has his surrogates declare that all human life on Earth is put in danger by Donald Trump's presidency, which means that if you support him, you are, by nature, by simple logic, you are now supporting the end of all human life on Earth and animal life and plant life, according to Elizabeth Warren.
00:48:52.000That guy is now portraying himself as Captain Unity.
00:48:55.000Because again, if you give him power, everything not only goes back to normal, it's better than it ever was.
00:53:17.000also shared an image of himself and Chris Pratt.
00:53:19.000Pratt said, What a world the sinless are casting stones in my brother, Chris Pratt, a real Christian who lives by principle has never demonstrated anything but positivity and gratitude.
00:53:27.000And he just married into a family that makes space for civil discourse and just plain facts insists on Nash on service is the highest value.
00:53:32.000If you take issue with Chris, I've got a novel idea.
00:53:34.000Delete your social media accounts, sit with your own defects of character, work on them, and then celebrate your humanness.
00:53:45.000Do you think any of those actors would come out in support of someone they didn't personally know?
00:53:48.000This is the way it works in leftist Hollywood.
00:53:50.000In leftist Hollywood, if you personally know an open conservative like John Voight or Adam Baldwin, then they are acceptable and decent people.
00:53:57.000If not, they are bad people and you should never hire them.
00:53:59.000So Chris Pratt getting dragged for the simple sin of not supporting Biden.
00:54:06.000Because when you set up the binary, Between you support Biden as a cure to all of the problems and ills of the world, or you are a bad person, that binary holds.
00:54:18.000It also means that there is now an excuse for media and social media And this is why you saw a former Twitter executive yesterday saying that social media platforms should mute President Trump.
00:54:33.000You can't let him get his message out.
00:54:34.000Because better that you should misuse your chair at the head of America's social media companies.
00:54:41.000To prevent dissemination of information than to let a bad, evil, bad, very bad, orange, bad, no, bad, terrible, bad man like Donald Trump tweet things.
00:54:49.000I mean, the hilarious thing about this is that Trump's tweets, if he loses the election, will probably have been a key reason why.
00:54:54.000But the social media heads don't want anything Trump says to penetrate.
00:54:57.000Here is a former Twitter executive saying social media platforms should mute Trump in the lead up to the election.
00:55:03.000According to a recent Harvard study, the leading propagandists of false information come from the top.
00:55:12.000It's coming from Donald Trump and some of the leading conservative voices that echo him.
00:55:16.000We are in a unique and I believe a fraught moment in time with a president who is desperate and he's facing a very difficult situation.
00:55:25.000I think the time is to mute the president.
00:55:27.000Temporarily, while votes are being cast right now and until the winner is decided.
00:55:33.000Social media has decided that because Trump is the devil, it's time to violate every rule that social media was supposed to be about.
00:55:38.000Remember, social media was supposed to be about the open discussion and dissemination of ideas.
00:55:43.000So Twitter decided in the run-up to the election, you are no longer allowed to just retweet things.
00:55:49.000Why aren't you allowed to just retweet things?
00:55:50.000Because what they are afraid of is that you are going to retweet a link from the New York Post, or you will retweet a Trump tweet without comment, and that it will rocket around the internet.
00:55:57.000And they're hoping that they will slow the virality of informational movement by forcing you to type in a couple of words.
00:56:10.000They said that it's about the election.
00:56:12.000They said that you're no longer just allowed to retweet things, because then you might retweet what Trump is saying, and it might rocket around the internet.
00:56:18.000You might retweet that New York Post story, and people might find out about it.
00:56:21.000So now instead, you have to put your own spin or commentary on it in order to even tweet it out.
00:56:25.000Not only that, they are now quote-unquote showing context on trends in Explore.
00:56:31.000This is according to Twitter, quote, Oh, how interesting.
00:56:41.000So now trends are going to be contextualized by Twitter.
00:56:45.000So Twitter will explain to you how things work.
00:56:52.000So Twitter is going to have to explain to you why things are trending.
00:56:57.000And they will explain it to you, I'm sure, in the least biased possible way.
00:57:00.000I'm sure that's exactly what's going to happen.
00:57:04.000Meanwhile, we are supposed to completely ignore any serious questions about Joe Biden.
00:57:08.000So, day after day, there are more kind of drips and draps about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
00:57:14.000So apparently, there is a new twist in the Hunter Biden saga.
00:57:19.000It is Andrew McCarthy who is revealing it.
00:57:22.000He says, it turns out, that Hunter Biden brought an elite Chinese group to the White House to meet with Joe Biden.
00:57:28.000Quote, just imagine if something like this happened during the Trump administration.
00:57:30.000Ask yourself what the media Democrat complex would be saying.
00:57:32.000In November 2011, an elite group of Chinese Communist Party members and billionaire cronies of the repressive regime in Beijing secured a meeting in the White House, said to be with Vice President Biden and other Obama administration officials through Hunter Biden's associates.
00:57:48.000News of the meeting has been broken by Peter Schweitzer and Seamus Bruner.
00:57:51.000Schweitzer, who has spent years tracking Washington's web of money, influence, and access, is the author most recently of Secret Empires, which focuses on the Biden family, among other intriguing money trails on both sides of the political aisle.
00:58:02.000Schweitzer and Bruner have obtained the cooperation of Hunter Biden's former business partner, Bevan Cooney, who is serving a federal prison sentence for a fraud scheme.
00:58:09.000Another Hunter Biden business partner, Devin Archer, was also convicted.
00:58:12.000Hunter Biden was featured in the evidence but not charged.
00:58:14.000Cooney has given the investigative journalist access to his email account, which contains years of correspondence with Biden, Archer, and others.
00:58:21.000The authors have begun writing reports published at Breitbart.
00:58:23.000Schweitzer has also been interviewed about this on Hannity.
00:58:26.000Obviously, these are very pro-Trump venues.
00:58:28.000It is worth noting that solid reporting Schweitzer did on the Clinton Foundation was closely examined and relied upon by the New York Times, based on Cooney's emails.
00:58:35.000The authors report that in November 2011, Hunter Biden's business associates arranged meetings at the Obama White House for a delegation of the China Entrepreneur Club.
00:58:43.000Established in 2006, the CEC is led by high officials of the Chinese Communist Party, some government officials, including diplomats, and billionaire business executives with close ties to the regime.
00:58:53.000This visit to the White House is said to have included a meeting with then-Vice President Biden.
00:58:56.000In discussions amongst themselves, Hunter Biden's associates reportedly made it clear they anticipated cashing in on business prospects that were expected to arise from providing the Chinese with high-level access to the Obama administration.
00:59:09.000According to the Schweitzer Brunner Report, the CEC had struck out, trying to get meetings with top Obama officials until they contacted Hunter Biden's associates through an intermediary named Mohammed Khashoggi.
00:59:20.000On an October 19, 2011 email in which he described the CEC visitors as China Inc, Khashoggi told Hunter's associate Gary Frears that helping the group could be a good opportunity for Patty to have potentially outstanding new clients.
00:59:35.000Khashoggi elaborated he understood people are hesitant but he said a group like this has not come along every day.
00:59:39.000The CEC contention was hoping for a tour of the White House and a meeting with a member of the Chief of Staff's office as well as John Kerry, who of course was at the time chairing the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate and later became Secretary of State.
00:59:51.000Devon Archer is of course his stepson, I believe.
00:59:56.000Khashoggi stressed to fears that the CEC's mandate was to let the United States know that the Chinese private sector is ready and willing to invest in America.
01:00:04.000So, they ended up setting up the meeting.
01:00:07.000Apparently, on November 11th, Archer sent Frears two emails in quick succession because he wanted to leave Hunter out of the second one, in the first, on which Hunter and Bevan Cooney were copied.
01:00:16.000Archer said that he had met with Khashoggi, it had gone well, and it seemed like there's a lot to do together down the line.
01:00:22.000Although Khashoggi did not appear to be a fit for the current Podash private placement, Archer anticipated he's a good strategic relationship as the mine develops.
01:00:30.000Archer encouraged Fears and Cooney to meet with Khashoggi in Miami.
01:00:33.000He also explained Hunter had not been able to call Fears because Hunter is traveling in the UAE with royalty.
01:00:38.000One minute later, Archer sent a one-line email to Fears and Cooney omitting Hunter, in which he said, couldn't confirm this with Hunter on the line, but we got him, presumably Khashoggi, his meeting at the White House Monday for the Chinese folks.
01:00:50.000The White House meeting did occur Monday, November 14th.
01:00:53.000In an email, Cooney informed Fears that Archer got all the Chinese guys taken care of in DC.
01:01:00.000The Chinese visitors got high-level access, including a personal meeting with Vice President Biden.
01:01:04.000According to the authors, it was an off-the-books meeting, not recorded in the official White House logs.
01:01:10.000So this is all a story that is completely independent of the emails developed by the New York Post.
01:01:15.000All of this eventually ends up fitting together, and apparently more reporting is on the way.
01:01:20.000Will Hunter Biden or Joe Biden be asked any questions about that?
01:01:33.000So apparently, Hunter was trading on Daddy's name, and Daddy full well knew about it.
01:01:36.000A new photograph has emerged of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden posing with Hunter Biden and Kenneth Rakhishev, a Kazakh oligarch who reportedly worked with the former Veep's scandal-scarred son.
01:01:59.000In the undated photo, the former VP can be seen smiling with Kazakhstan's former Prime Minister Kassym Masumov and his son, who is flanked by Rakishev.
01:02:07.000A Daily Mail report published Friday detailed Hunter Biden's alleged work with Rakishev, claiming he dined regularly with the Kazakh businessman and attempted to facilitate investment for his cash in New York, Washington, D.C.
01:02:20.000Rakishev, who enjoys close ties to Kazakhstan's kleptocratic former president, apparently ran into trouble when Western business partners realized that the opaque origins of his fortune could become a political liability.
01:02:32.000So once more, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden in close cahoots with somebody who is dicey.
01:02:39.000I mean, going all the way back to 2008, Joe Biden helped the credit card industry win passage of a new law, making it harder for consumers to file for bankruptcy protection.
01:03:03.000There's an email from Hunter to his daughter saying, you know, at least I'm not holding half of your money the way that Pop does to me.
01:03:10.000And then there's another email saying 20% of a Chinese venture held for Hunter and 10% held for the big guy.
01:03:16.000Fox News sources say the big guy would be Joe Biden.
01:03:19.000So is money flowing through to Joe Biden?
01:03:22.000We have literally no idea because the media refused to ask about it.
01:03:25.000Because again, when it comes to whether or not, the media have decided they would rather not report what is clearly a developing story And get Joe Biden elected, then report the developing story if it even created the slightest doubt about Joe Biden's election.
01:03:41.000This is how you end up with Senator Chris Murphy on national television saying this is all probably Russian propaganda.
01:03:46.000At some point, you sort of have to believe what you see, which is that when individuals who are either identified Russian agents or are conspiring with Russian agents are providing the information upon which mainstream media are reporting, you have to understand what the deal is here.
01:04:07.00050 high-level intelligence agents, people who have worked in the intelligence agencies, came out and said that this is mostly Russian propaganda.
01:04:16.000Okay, there's no evidence it's Russian propaganda.
01:04:17.000The DNI has overtly said it's not Russian propaganda.
01:04:19.000I'm not saying Chris Murphy being fact-checked with a chyron on CNN.
01:04:22.000Eli Stokols of MSNBC suggested that the New York Post story has been quote-unquote widely disavowed.
01:04:37.000It's just a lie here from Eli Stokols.
01:04:40.000It's largely that no one can tell him to stop, and also that he thinks this is a winner, and he's just looking to repeat exactly what he did in 2016, trying to recreate the October surprise instead of Comey and the letter.
01:04:52.000He's hoping to get some traction about the New York Post story that's been widely disavowed and is very dubious, and he's trying to do that.
01:05:01.000To defend the cult leader, you must ignore everything bad about the cult leader, or any possible bad thing about the cult leader.
01:05:09.000If you've turned politics into a cult, it justifies nearly anything.
01:05:12.000Nearly anything, which is why you see the Associated Press today reporting on behalf of Antifa members.
01:05:55.000But they say many have had no previous run-ins with the law and no apparent ties to Antifa.
01:05:59.000Well, you don't have to have like official ties with Antifa to be in the middle of an Antifa violent riot. My favorite thing in this article is that they say these people were just misguided.
01:06:11.000First of all, I'd like to point something out.
01:06:13.000If you want to talk about, there's a racial narrative about criminal justice, which is that if you are a suburban white person, you get a different standard of criminal justice than if you're an inner-city black person.
01:06:21.000The AP here is openly stumping for it in order to defend Antifa.
01:06:25.000They're now saying that if you go and burn a cop car but you're a white person from a suburban area, you should be treated differently than if you're a black person in the inner city and you burn a cop car.
01:06:32.000That's basically what they're saying right here in this Associated Press piece.
01:06:36.000But everyone on the left will simply ignore that because it is inconvenient to their narrative.
01:06:41.000They actually say in the article that people just let their passions get the best of them.
01:07:24.000Oh, so they're white and suburban, so we treat them differently, I guess.
01:07:28.000Regular citizens caught up in the moment.
01:07:29.000I can't, you know, every time I get caught up in a moment, like I'm just at a baseball game and I'm caught up in the moment, or I'm at a religious ceremony, it's like the end of Yom Kippur, I get caught up in a moment.
01:07:39.000First thing I do, I grab a crowbar and I just try to beat the living hell out of a cop.
01:07:42.000I don't know about you, that's what I do.
01:08:11.000Maybe it won't come the day after the election.
01:08:13.000Maybe the backlash won't be the election itself.
01:08:15.000Maybe that backlash is going to continue to brew.
01:08:18.000And when it comes, it could be a lot more sweeping than anything that we saw in 2016.
01:08:24.000Because Democrats are just putting a lid on it.
01:08:26.000Meanwhile, stoking the flames underneath.
01:08:28.000Meanwhile, declaring that half of Americans who disagree with them Our deplorable, evil people who support the end of all life on Earth, according to Elizabeth Warren.
01:08:38.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
01:08:40.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
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