The Ben Shapiro Show - The Decline And Fall Of The United States | Ep. 1334

00:00:00.000 Virginia creates a time capsule so future generations can learn just why America collapsed.

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00:01:36.000 Alrighty.

00:01:37.000 So, first of all, I just want to say Shana Tovah U'mtukah to all of my listeners.

00:01:41.000 That means have a happy and sweet New Year because the last couple of days I was off thanks to the Jewish New Year, which is a time for reflection.

00:01:47.000 It's a time for thought.

00:01:49.000 It's a time for making new resolutions.

00:01:52.000 It's a time for renewal, in fact.

00:01:54.000 And the good news is that We did that in my community.

00:01:57.000 We spent some time thinking about all of those things.

00:01:59.000 And then the bad news was I came back and I read the news and I realized that the United States is in apparently an irreversible state of decline.

00:02:06.000 That seems to be all the news that is fit to print.

00:02:09.000 And the great indicator of this was the situation that has now arisen over the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia.

00:02:17.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:02:18.000 I totally understand why people would want the Robert E. Lee statue removed in Richmond, Virginia.

00:02:23.000 I do.

00:02:24.000 I get it.

00:02:24.000 I understand if you're a black American and you look at a statue of Robert E. Lee who presided over the Army of the Confederacy, which was an army that was in favor of the Remaining the continuation of slavery.

00:02:35.000 You look at that statue and you say, why exactly are people paying homage to this man?

00:02:39.000 Why exactly would we do that?

00:02:41.000 Isn't that a vestige of American racism?

00:02:42.000 I get it.

00:02:43.000 I do.

00:02:43.000 I also understand the people who are descended from Southerners who fought in the Civil War who look at Lee and what they see was a man who presided over the Civil War, yes, but also presided over Reconstruction to the extent that he didn't continue the guerrilla war, right?

00:02:59.000 This is a major issue at the time is whether Robert E. Lee was actually going to Continue to foment the Civil War after his surrender at Appomattox and he pledged that he would not do so and he would use all of his efforts to bring the country back together.

00:03:10.000 There is a feeling in the South that he was sort of the romantic figure of gentlemanliness.

00:03:15.000 Some of that image has been obviously tarnished by historians who have now come forth with new details about his life.

00:03:21.000 But Lee was a very human figure in a lot of variegated forms, and what that means is that people view him in different ways.

00:03:27.000 So I totally understand the argument to remove Robert E. Lee's statue.

00:03:32.000 I get it.

00:03:33.000 I think that there are people who make the argument that Robert E. Lee's statue should come down for the same reason that a George Washington or Abraham Lincoln statue should come down. 1.00

00:03:39.000 That's idiotic. 0.99

00:03:40.000 And that is a different argument. 1.00

00:03:41.000 And herein lies the problem.

00:03:43.000 The problem is not the pure removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, although my view of this generally is with Condoleezza Rice's view of this, which is that statues generally ought to remain up because they remind us of a past when people were in fact held in high esteem despite having really, really bad views and fighting for really bad things.

00:04:00.000 And so that provides you a leap, a jumping off point for discussion of these issues.

00:04:04.000 What was going on in America in 1858?

00:04:07.000 Why did people think in 1890 it was worthwhile to build this statue of Robert E. Lee, this gigantic 21-foot statue of Robert E. Lee?

00:04:13.000 All of those things are good for the discussion of the American body politic and American history.

00:04:17.000 It's kind of funny that in a time when we are told that we have to review American history and we have to rethink American history, there's a simultaneous attempt to remove all the iconography of the past in order so that we never have to discuss it ever again.

00:04:30.000 That's kind of bizarre.

00:04:32.000 So my view is that the statue should remain and we should discuss the statue in all of its complexity and all of its nuance.

00:04:37.000 Okay, however, that's really not my issue here.

00:04:40.000 My issue is what we replace things with.

00:04:42.000 What we replace American history with.

00:04:44.000 What we replace that discussion with.

00:04:45.000 And what we have decided to replace the discussion of American history with, what we have decided to replace our own history with, is a perverse simplified wokeness That does spell the end of America in pretty much all of its forms.

00:04:59.000 Not the getting rid of the Robert E. Lee statue per se, but what we are replacing it with.

00:05:03.000 And what I mean here is that there was a time capsule that was buried under the Robert E. Lee statue in the base of the statue.

00:05:08.000 We're now replacing it.

00:05:09.000 This is the part that's kind of astonishing.

00:05:11.000 And also, the imagery that was associated with the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.

00:05:15.000 If you're going to remove the iconography of the past, it should be done In a sort of, I would say, solemn fashion.

00:05:22.000 It should be done very seriously.

00:05:24.000 Instead, the Robert E. Lee statue was removed to the wild celebration of a crowd below, as though they were toppling a statue of Saddam Hussein or something.

00:05:32.000 Robert E. Lee does not preside over the country, nor did he ever preside over the country per se, right?

00:05:38.000 He was the general of the Confederacy, the Confederacy was defeated between 1861 and 1865.

00:05:42.000 And, uh, you saw one of the people who is taking this thing down, who'd been tasked with taking this down, putting up the Black Lives Matter fist as this was taken down. 0.70

00:05:49.000 Now you can say that maybe the statue should be taken down, but replacing it with the ideology of Black Lives Matter, which is that America is invariably racist, not only conflicts with the actual imagery, which is a black man taking down a statue of a Confederate general, which does not bespeak the white supremacy of the United States in 2021, but also Black Lives Matter is pushed and based on a lie, the lie that black Americans are immutably stricken by the American systems of power. 0.56

00:06:18.000 It's the same sort of rationale as critical race theory, Black Lives Matter.

00:06:22.000 And if you're a black person in America, you live with the boot of America on your throat all day long. 0.80

00:06:27.000 That obviously is not true. 0.98

00:06:28.000 I mean, we're literally taking down statues right now, right, that offend people.

00:06:32.000 But that sort of imagery is telling.

00:06:34.000 What's even more telling is, again, the time capsule.

00:06:35.000 So, the time capsule, to me, is the story.

00:06:37.000 Not even the removal of the statue.

00:06:38.000 The statue's a story.

00:06:39.000 But, a much bigger story, and a more indicative story, is this time capsule removal.

00:06:44.000 Because it removes the time capsule, which is, generally, you put vestiges of what you think are the most important objects of the day, and you bury them.

00:06:52.000 And then, in 100 years, the cool thing about a time capsule is you open it up, and you have all the artifacts from 120 years ago, 130 years ago, and you can see what was important to people at the time.

00:07:01.000 What we replaced the objects in the time capsule with underneath the Robert E. Lee statue says everything about this.

00:07:06.000 Future archaeologists are going to have zero problems whatsoever understanding the decline and fall of the United States.

00:07:11.000 They're going to look at this time capsule and they're going to go, oh, well, that was not a toughie.

00:07:15.000 That was not difficult.

00:07:16.000 It's not going to be Edward Gibbon writing a millennium later trying to figure out exactly why Rome declined and fell and trying to suss out all of the various rationales.

00:07:26.000 It is not going to be trying to discern the complexity of the fall of the British Empire.

00:07:29.000 It's going to be like, oh yeah, this time capsule kind of tells the story, like this little box right here.

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00:08:46.000 Alrighty, so here is the actual story behind the story.

00:08:50.000 So they got rid of the Robert Ely statue and then They took away the artifacts that were inside this time capsule that had been placed in the pedestal of the monument on October 27, 1887.

00:09:05.000 They said that the objects in the old capsule were believed to have ties to the Confederacy.

00:09:10.000 Ralph Northam, the governor who also apparently had ties to the Confederacy considering he was either wearing blackface or a KKK outfit in his medical yearbook, he says this monument and its time capsule reflected Virginia in 1890 and it's time to remove both so our public spaces better reflect who we are as a people in 2021.

00:09:24.000 Now here we go.

00:09:27.000 What exactly was in the new time capsule?

00:09:31.000 What did they decide that they were going to place inside the new time capsule?

00:09:37.000 This is supposed to, remember, signify what America is all about.

00:09:41.000 What is in the artifact list now?

00:09:43.000 So here is what they put in there.

00:09:45.000 They put in there a Black Lives Matter sticker, which is, again, signification of a movement that suggests that America is irredeemably racist.

00:09:54.000 They took down a Robert E. Lee statue because America's irredeemably racist.

00:09:58.000 So you've got these stickers saying America's irredeemably racist.

00:10:02.000 They have writing a new history kente cloth worn by the commissioners of the congressionally chartered 400 years of African American History Commission and Ghanaian emissaries that participated in the 400th commemoration of 1619.

00:10:14.000 So we have a kente cloth in commemoration of the 1619 Project, which, again, is a designation that America is rooted in evil and can never be extricated from that evil, and all of its institutions are shot through with that evil. 0.91

00:10:30.000 We have a Virginia is for Lovers pride pin and sticker, which is great.

00:10:34.000 So we have a pride pin signifying our love and celebration of alternative sexual proclivities and behaviors.

00:10:45.000 Not of the family.

00:10:46.000 Not like a signification of the family, but like a pride pin.

00:10:51.000 We have also the Virginia Ratify ERA, Equal Rights Amendment sash, and the Equal Rights Amendment 2020 pins.

00:10:58.000 So that's very important, right?

00:11:00.000 So we have an Equal Rights Amendment sash and pins for a constitutional amendment that is not actually adopted and that suggests that there are no differences between men and women in law.

00:11:11.000 We have a First Lady face mask submitted by First Lady Pamela Northam. 0.98

00:11:16.000 So it's her own face mask that goes in the time capsule.

00:11:19.000 It's important future generations know that we were insane and that we face masked presumably until the end of the American Republic.

00:11:27.000 We have photos and flyers from Stop Asian Hate protests in May 2021 in the Virginia time capsule.

00:11:35.000 Now so far, have you heard anything that celebrates America?

00:11:36.000 Like a single thing in this time capsule that says that America is good or that our fundamental institutions are good?

00:11:41.000 Nope!

00:11:42.000 Zero things! 0.54

00:11:44.000 None!

00:11:46.000 The only thing that really has to do with the institutions of Virginia, per se, is a photo of the Virginia State Police at 14th Street and F Street Northwest in Washington.

00:11:58.000 Helping Washington Metro Police Department patrol the city for unrest after the insurrection at the U.S.

00:12:03.000 Capitol on January 6th.

00:12:04.000 So we have a commemoration of January 6th, which is really important so people understand that the real threat to the United States was a bunch of droogs who ran into the Capitol building. 1.00

00:12:13.000 We have an expired vial of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine and the CDC vaccination record card.

00:12:20.000 So, if you think that America has always been rooted in a creed, that America has a civic religion, and typically that civic religion is embodied by the Declaration of Independence, the American flag, apple pie, motherhood, all of that, we've now replaced this with the pride flag pin, a kente cloth for 1619, the pseudo-pagan worship of scientific materialism via a COVID-19 vaccine vial and a face mask for the First Lady, 0.78

00:12:49.000 Yeah, I really don't think that the future is going to have a very tough time figuring out exactly why America fell.

00:12:56.000 I feel like this one's going to be real easy for us.

00:12:59.000 And here's the thing.

00:13:01.000 As America collapses within, and America collapses without, The story is that we are basically just going to eat ourselves to death.

00:13:09.000 We're now the plot of WALL-E. 0.98

00:13:11.000 The best hope for the United States, according to the Democrats and according to Joe Biden, is that as we rip ourselves apart, as we lose all centralizing principle, as we collapse on the foreign front, as we do all of those things, at the very least what we can do is park our asses in a recliner and just eat. 0.97

00:13:24.000 A bunch of fatty foods until we die. 0.98

00:13:25.000 That's it.

00:13:26.000 And the government will pay for all of that.

00:13:28.000 Unless you're unvaccinated, in which case die on your own.

00:13:30.000 But otherwise, the government will pay for all of these things.

00:13:32.000 We'll get to all of this in just one second.

00:13:34.000 Because the polarization continues to pace.

00:13:36.000 What we're watching is America come apart at the seams.

00:13:40.000 An intolerant left that refuses to acknowledge that there are other people in the United States who still want to live by the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

00:13:49.000 And instead want to supplant a racial tribalism and a Sort of sexual profligacy that is unmoored from reality, growth, or decency.

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00:15:20.000 Okay, so it is not merely that the sort of Virginia Time Capsule is a time capsule of America is that the people who are putting together things like the Virginia Time Capsule believe that this is what America should look like uniformly.

00:15:35.000 There is no tolerance for other points of view.

00:15:37.000 This doesn't come courtesy of me.

00:15:38.000 This comes courtesy of Thomas Edsel, who is certainly no conservative writing for the New York Times.

00:15:42.000 He has a piece today that is quite fascinating.

00:15:44.000 He says, A highly charged ideological transition reflecting a massive four-decade long shift in political values and attitudes among more educated people, a shift from concern with traditional materialist issues like redistribution to a concern for public goods like the environment and diversity, is a driving force in the battle between left and right, according to Richard Florida, an urbanologist at the University of Toronto.

00:16:04.000 This ideological transition has been accompanied by the concentration of liberal elites in urban centers, Florida continued in an email, brought on by the dramatic shift to a knowledge economy, which expresses itself on the left as wokeness and on the right as populism.

00:16:16.000 I worry that the middle is dropping out of American politics. 0.87

00:16:19.000 This is not just an economic or cultural or political phenomenon.

00:16:21.000 It is inextricably geographic or spatial, as different groups pack and cluster into different types of community.

00:16:28.000 Recent decades have witnessed what Dennis Chong, political scientist at University of Southern California, describes in an email as, quote, a demographic realignment of political tolerance in the U.S.

00:16:37.000 that first became evident in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

00:16:40.000 Before that, Chong pointed out, the college-educated and younger generations were among the most tolerant groups in the society of all forms of social and political nonconformity.

00:16:49.000 Since the 1990s, these groups have become significantly less tolerant of, quote, unquote, hate speech pertaining to race, gender and social identities.

00:16:56.000 Chong argued the expansion of equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ, and other groups that have suffered discrimination has caused a re-evaluation of the harms of slurs and other derogatory expressions in professional and social life.

00:17:08.000 The result?

00:17:09.000 Chong writes, in a striking reversal, liberals are now consistently less tolerant than conservatives of a wide range of controversial speech about racial, gender, and religious identities.

00:17:21.000 So there's been a shift from the program of the left being about materialist redistribution, right?

00:17:26.000 We're just going to take some money from here, we're going to put it over here.

00:17:29.000 Toward an attempt to cram down a particular woke point of view.

00:17:33.000 You might call it an authoritarian moment.

00:17:35.000 Yes, that is indeed a self-referential mention of my book title.

00:17:39.000 Because that is what we are experiencing.

00:17:41.000 We're experiencing an authoritarian moment, a replacement ideology.

00:17:45.000 The traditional American ideology is being replaced wholesale with an ideology that divides us along racial and religious and tribal and sexual orientation lines and then demands that everybody who disagrees with you shut the hell up.

00:18:00.000 And this is being crammed down at every level of our society.

00:18:03.000 It's part of the dissolution of American influence.

00:18:05.000 It's part of the dissolution of American principles.

00:18:07.000 What exactly unifies us?

00:18:08.000 And it's being crammed down at, again, every institutional level in our society.

00:18:12.000 So Chris Rufo, who's been doing excellent work over at Manhattan Institute, he uncovered an indoctrination session over at Google.

00:18:19.000 According to Rufo, Google has launched an anti-racism initiative, claiming that America is a system of white supremacy and that all Americans are raised to be racist, including me.

00:18:29.000 Like me personally, I'm depicted in the layer of the white supremacy pyramid culminating in genocide.

00:18:34.000 So they had an allyship learning session.

00:18:37.000 In a module called Allyship in Action, Google trained employees to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and then rank themselves in a hierarchy of power and privilege and manage their reactions through crying and accessing their happy place.

00:18:49.000 Again, this is all being taught at Google, the single most powerful company on planet Earth.

00:18:53.000 And nearly everybody gets their information through Google or one of its associated companies like YouTube.

00:18:58.000 In a video, guest lecturer Ibram Kendi claimed all Americans, including children as young as three months old, are racist.

00:19:04.000 He said to be raised in the United States is to be raised as racist, and to be raised to be racist is to be raised to be almost addicted to racist ideas.

00:19:12.000 And, says Kendi, the heartbeat of racism is denial.

00:19:16.000 And the sound of that denial is I'm not racist.

00:19:17.000 We now have a pure Kafka trap in which if you say I'm not racist, this means that you are 100% definitely racist.

00:19:23.000 If you say you're racist, also you're racist because you just admitted you're racist.

00:19:27.000 Also, Nicole Hannah-Jones admitted in a lecture to Google that she created the 1619 Project to verify her lifelong theory that everything in the modern day United States can be traced back to slavery. 0.79

00:19:38.000 Quote, She says, if you're white in this country, you are the beneficiary of a 350-year system of white supremacy.

00:19:48.000 How about if you're a tenured professor without any teaching experience or any apparent skill set, celebrated and paid money to do what you do?

00:19:57.000 Are you a beneficiary of the 350-year system of white supremacy also, Nicole Hannah-Jones?

00:20:02.000 And then, they came up with a graphic titled, The White Supremacy Pyramid.

00:20:07.000 Again, this is the tolerant left.

00:20:09.000 This is the cultural left that has decided that, again, All of America's founding ideals and even nuanced parts of American history are to be replaced with a simple narrative in which America is just bad.

00:20:19.000 And the only things that are good are people who stand up to that evil system.

00:20:23.000 So they have the White Supremacy Pyramid, busting the myth of white genocide in South Africa.

00:20:29.000 I don't know what this has to do with white genocide in South Africa, but they say the White Supremacy Pyramid at the bottom is indifference.

00:20:35.000 Hey, there are two sides.

00:20:36.000 Again, this is being taught to all of your betters at Google, the people who control the flow of information.

00:20:40.000 Indifference.

00:20:41.000 There are two sides to every story.

00:20:42.000 Apolitical beliefs.

00:20:44.000 Avoiding confrontation.

00:20:45.000 Politics don't affect me.

00:20:47.000 So if you just beg out of a question, if you just say, listen, I'm really not involved in this, or I don't follow it closely, or I don't know enough, that's not okay.

00:20:54.000 Minimization.

00:20:55.000 Okay, and then there's a picture of me, right? 0.85

00:20:57.000 I'm on the bottom of the white supremacy pyramid that leads to mass murder.

00:21:01.000 There's a picture of yours truly.

00:21:03.000 Now, as we all know, if there's one person that the white supremacist absolutely adores me, they just love me, which is why they routinely send me death threats, why the FBI had to arrest a white supremacist two years ago for threatening my family.

00:21:13.000 Yeah, the white supremacists, they just love me.

00:21:15.000 They spend all day just singing my praises. 0.84

00:21:19.000 Okay, that is sarcasm for those in the media who apparently are incapable of understanding human expression.

00:21:24.000 Okay, so I am engaged according to the white supremacy pyramid in minimization.

00:21:29.000 The white savior complex.

00:21:31.000 I'm confused what... It seems to me that it's liberals who are involved in the white savior complex.

00:21:35.000 They believe that they are the only ones with the moral wherewithal to fix the evil systems of the United States.

00:21:40.000 Minimization.

00:21:41.000 Not all white people. 0.76

00:21:43.000 So, how is it minimization to say not all white people, but it is somehow not minimization to say not all black people?

00:21:51.000 Not all white people and not all black people, that's being more specific.

00:21:54.000 Specificity is good.

00:21:56.000 Not believing people of color's experiences. 1.00

00:21:58.000 Well, my general rule is that I believe your emotional state, but that does not mean that your emotional state is always justified.

00:22:06.000 Jussie Smollett was not justified.

00:22:08.000 Also, I can believe that you misinterpreted something.

00:22:12.000 Denial of white privilege.

00:22:14.000 Again, hard to see how the heroin addict living in a Rust Belt town in Ohio is a beneficiary of white privilege, post-racism.

00:22:22.000 So if you say that we should move beyond racism, that's minimization.

00:22:25.000 And intentions are greater than impact.

00:22:27.000 Okay, so when I say that in order to be racist, you actually have to do a racist thing, meaning that there has to be actual racist content to the thing you're doing, their argument is that if there's any disparate impact, Based on race, of any policy, this is minimization that eventually leads to mass murder.

00:22:43.000 Then you get to veiled racism, which is like victim-blaming and racist jokes.

00:22:46.000 A Eurocentric curriculum, if you teach Shakespeare, if you teach Chaucer, all of this is Eurocentric.

00:22:54.000 Racist icons, which I assume would mean, like, presumably, who?

00:22:58.000 Racist icons would be like, George Washington, maybe, for these folks.

00:23:02.000 Discrimination, calls for violence, violence, and then finally, mass murder.

00:23:07.000 This is the notion here.

00:23:11.000 And the cops, of course, are included in lynching, hate crimes, and police brutality.

00:23:15.000 All the same.

00:23:17.000 So, that is what your betters are teaching people over at Google.

00:23:22.000 And this is spread across the corporate sector.

00:23:25.000 This is all about the collapse of the United States at home, the militarization of our institutions of power against at least half of the population and probably a lot more.

00:23:32.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:24:58.000 This obviously has crossed all sorts, this wokeness, the intolerant left, which is destroying our culture from within and destroying any level of comedy and any level of unity from within.

00:25:09.000 This is infused to all of our institutions, all of our major institutions, which is why you saw over the weekend Warby Parker, which is some sort of eyeglasses store, I'll admit to not knowing them particularly well.

00:25:21.000 Apparently Warby Parker decided that they were angry that their ads cropped up on our website, Daily Wire.

00:25:28.000 So, here's the thing.

00:25:31.000 Ads on our site are largely automated.

00:25:34.000 It is not as though Warby Parker was like, we definitely need to appear on Daily Wire.

00:25:37.000 But even if they had, who cares?

00:25:39.000 Like, that's good.

00:25:40.000 I don't care if Warby Parker appears on the, on the ABC News or NBC News or, or hell, Daily Kos website.

00:25:46.000 I don't care.

00:25:47.000 It makes no difference to me.

00:25:48.000 But it apparently makes a huge difference to people on the left.

00:25:51.000 Got very, very angry at Warby Parker for one of their ads automatically cropping up on the Daily Wire page.

00:25:58.000 And Warby Parker then decided to make a statement that they were not going to allow their ads to appear on our page ever, ever again.

00:26:09.000 So, here's the thing.

00:26:11.000 All of you guys, all of my fans, feel free to never go to Warby Parker again.

00:26:16.000 Really, they just lost a lot more customers by me saying that than they did by taking the ad, by leaving the ad on the site.

00:26:21.000 If they'd left the ad on the site, I wouldn't be on the air right now telling you not to shop at Warby Parker.

00:26:24.000 But don't bother.

00:26:26.000 Because obviously their wokeness takes priority over their interest in reaching you, the consumers.

00:26:32.000 Who include, by the way, many people who don't agree with me on politics.

00:26:36.000 As Kevin Williams in a National Review puts it, he says, all of these people who listen to my show, they do buy reasonably priced eyewear.

00:26:45.000 They've bought eyewear at the Warby Parker store at North Park Center in Dallas at the Warby Parker boutique in the woodlands in Addison at West Bend in Fort Worth at Legacy Point in Plano.

00:26:53.000 Warby Parker's co-CEO Neil Blumenthal rejoices in the Greenwich Village address at which he pays a multi-million dollar home decorated with Jeff Koons paintings, but a good chunk of his customer base lives elsewhere.

00:27:04.000 So do his employees.

00:27:05.000 So do a lot of his potential investors because the company is currently planning an IPO.

00:27:08.000 So I look forward to none of the people who listen to my show buying their stock.

00:27:13.000 Or short-selling.

00:27:14.000 That would be just terrible if Warby Parker's stock were to tank over this.

00:27:17.000 I'd feel so, so bad.

00:27:18.000 But the point is this.

00:27:20.000 These corporations have decided they're going to mirror the woke priorities of a radical left that is seeking to destroy any level of common cause in the United States.

00:27:28.000 Which is why Lyft is now proudly coming out and saying that they're going to pay the legal bills for any drivers who get sued under the new Texas abortion law.

00:27:34.000 Now, maybe they have to do that legally because they don't want people Who worked for Lyft, quitting their job out of fear of legal liability.

00:27:41.000 But that's not all they said.

00:27:42.000 They didn't just say, listen, we want to protect all of our drivers from legal liability, no matter where they're transporting people, because listen, we're just a transportation company.

00:27:49.000 And so we're going to contribute to their defense.

00:27:51.000 Instead, the Lyft General Counsel came out and said, every single company should follow our lead and actually fund the abortion process.

00:27:59.000 Like this is, we're doing an act of good.

00:28:00.000 Abortion is an act of good. 0.65

00:28:02.000 These are your major corporations.

00:28:03.000 Here's the Lyft General Counsel.

00:28:05.000 You know, Nicole, I wish I knew.

00:28:07.000 I think abortion has been historically considered a third rail issue, one that businesses don't take a stand on.

00:28:15.000 I hope that that changes.

00:28:18.000 I hope that this is the moment that that changes.

00:28:21.000 I'm very proud to work at Lyft, where we bring our values to the forefront.

00:28:26.000 And I'm very proud to have two male co-founders, John and Logan, who actually, this idea originated with Logan, our CEO.

00:28:36.000 And of course, I was very happy to stand in support of it.

00:28:39.000 And I'm happy to be speaking with you now.

00:28:43.000 Many women and many men, nearly everybody knows a loved one, maybe themselves, a partner who has had an abortion.

00:28:51.000 And this is a women's rights, a women's health issue. 1.00

00:28:55.000 So this should be an issue that every company is willing to speak out on.

00:29:00.000 America's corporations are militarized against traditional Americans and their worldviews and their values.

00:29:06.000 From Google to Lyft.

00:29:07.000 And not just that, our university system, obviously.

00:29:09.000 So over the weekend, Peter Boghossian, who is this professor over at Portland State University, he quit Portland State University because he said it's just become unlivable here.

00:29:18.000 You guys have made it so that, like, freedom of inquiry is just not a thing here.

00:29:22.000 He says, I eventually became convinced corrupted bodies of scholarship were responsible for justifying radical departures from the traditional role of liberal arts schools and basic civility on campus. 0.96

00:29:31.000 And so he engaged in what was called the so-called squared hoax, right, where he submitted a bunch of fake papers to a bunch of academic journals to demonstrate how stupid the academic journals are.

00:29:39.000 One of them, in 2017, was an intentionally garbled, peer-reviewed paper that took aim at the new orthodoxy. 0.95

00:29:45.000 Its title was, quote, The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.

00:29:49.000 It was published in Cogent Social Sciences, which is a journal. 0.94

00:29:53.000 It argued penises were the product of the human mind and responsible for climate change.

00:29:58.000 Okay, this resulted in such blowback from Portland State University that he ended up having to quit.

00:30:04.000 Administrators and faculty were so angered by the paper, says Peter Boghossian, they published an anonymous piece in the student paper and Portland State filed formal charges against me.

00:30:11.000 They accused him of research misconduct.

00:30:13.000 Based on the absurd premise, the journal editors who accepted our intentionally deranged articles were human subjects.

00:30:19.000 Right?

00:30:19.000 As though he was experimenting on them with a drug of some sort.

00:30:23.000 Meanwhile, ideological intolerance continued to grow at Portland State.

00:30:25.000 In March, a tenured professor disrupted a public conversation I was holding with author Christina Hoffsommers and evolutionary biologists Brett Weinstein and Heather Hying.

00:30:34.000 In June 2018, someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation with popular cultural critic Carl Benjamin.

00:30:39.000 In October 2018, an activist pulled the speaker wires to interrupt a panel with former Google engineer James DeBoer.

00:30:45.000 No one was punished or disciplined.

00:30:48.000 He said, this is about the kind of institutions we want and the kind of values we choose.

00:30:51.000 Every idea that has advanced human freedom has always, without fail, been initially condemned.

00:30:55.000 As individuals who often seem incapable of remembering this lesson, that's exactly what our institutions are for.

00:31:00.000 To remind us, the freedom to question is our fundamental right.

00:31:02.000 Portland State University has failed in fulfilling this duty.

00:31:04.000 This, of course, is exactly right.

00:31:07.000 And it's not just those institutions, it's our scientific institutions that are failing us.

00:31:12.000 Over the weekend, a series of medical journals, 200 of them, Decided to issue a statement about climate change.

00:31:20.000 Medical journals.

00:31:21.000 I don't know what your podiatrist knows about climate change.

00:31:24.000 Hell, I don't know what your podiatrist knows about gastroenterology.

00:31:28.000 But apparently, we're supposed to believe that if you have an MD after your name, you're suddenly an expert in climatology.

00:31:33.000 Okay, because all of our institutions have been corrupted by woke groupthink.

00:31:38.000 By left-wing groupthink.

00:31:40.000 Which is taking all of the commonalities that we have and tearing them apart from science, to higher learning, to free speech, To even the notion of a colorblind meritocracy.

00:31:49.000 All of those things are being destroyed, piece by piece, in the United States.

00:31:55.000 And of course, we are supposed to ignore it.

00:31:58.000 All of this culminates, by the way, in bully tactics that are given the full go-ahead by the media.

00:32:03.000 Most obvious case in point over the course of the last couple of days is this video that I discovered when I came online of my friend Larry Elder, who's running for governor of California and who happens to be a black man walking through a crowd and a woke person wearing a gorilla mask throwing an egg at him.

00:32:23.000 But this woman is woke and white, so this means that she's an anti-racist activist, and Larry is conservative and black, which means, of course, that he's a white supremacist. 0.64

00:32:30.000 The headline from the media is more like, anti-racist activist throws egg at evil white supremacist. 0.92

00:32:36.000 But here's the actual video of a black man having an egg thrown at him by a woman wearing a gorilla mask, which is apparently totally fine because again, morality is beside the point. 0.95

00:32:44.000 So there's Larry walking down the street with his security and there is a white woman with pink hair in a gorilla mask. 0.97

00:32:59.000 Don't touch me again! 0.95

00:33:00.000 Don't touch me again! 0.95

00:33:05.000 And then hitting a security guard.

00:33:07.000 So, all of this is fine.

00:33:09.000 All of this is good.

00:33:09.000 By the way, imagine if the situation reversed and a white tea party are throwing an egg at a black congressperson from the Democratic Party.

00:33:16.000 And you can imagine what the response would be about the systemic racism of America.

00:33:21.000 In just one second, we'll get to the collapse of America abroad because the collapse of America at home is perfectly clear.

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00:34:31.000 Alrighty, so...

00:34:32.000 As we collapse here at home, as our values are undermined, as we replace our values with time capsules of wokeness, it is a natural progression that as a country declines from within, it declines abroad.

00:34:44.000 And obviously what's been happening in Afghanistan is the greatest case in point.

00:34:47.000 The Taliban has now unveiled its brand new Afghan government.

00:34:51.000 And I'm amused to see that the media are deeply upset that the new Taliban government includes zero women and zero trans people.

00:34:58.000 It's very, very upsetting.

00:34:59.000 They don't care that it's a terrorist state, but the fact that there are no women Who work with the Taliban is very upsetting to them.

00:35:04.000 If they had a woman on there, they'd say, brand new Taliban, same old principles, but there's a person who is a woman. 1.00

00:35:10.000 I mean, frankly, what the Taliban should just do is say, you know, Mohammed here is a woman and the left would have nothing to say because obviously a man can be a woman and then that would solve all of their problems.

00:35:21.000 They gave senior posts to the leader of Haqqani Network, which of course is an al Qaeda linked group.

00:35:26.000 He's the Minister of the Interior, so he's going to handle all interior security as a terrorist associated with Al-Qaeda. 0.89

00:35:32.000 So things are going just beautifully.

00:35:34.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, in an appointment that would complicate any recognition of the new government by Western nations, Sirahuddin Haqqani, designated a global terrorist by Washington because of close links between Al Qaeda and the Haqqani network he heads, was named Minister of the Interior with oversight of Afghanistan's police and internal security.

00:35:50.000 The FBI is currently offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest.

00:35:54.000 Okay, I have some information on where he is.

00:35:57.000 He's in the government building right now.

00:35:58.000 He's at like the seat of government.

00:35:59.000 He's the Minister of the Interior in Afghanistan.

00:36:01.000 Am I up for the $5 million now, FBI?

00:36:05.000 While the Taliban's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, retains overall oversight of the state affairs, the new prime minister is Mullah Hassan Akhund, who served as foreign minister in the old Islamic Emirate, which harbored Osama bin Laden and was ousted from power in 2001.

00:36:20.000 Akhundzada said, quote, Our previous 20 years of struggle and jihad had two major goals.

00:36:26.000 First, to end foreign occupation and aggression and liberate the country.

00:36:28.000 And secondly, to establish a complete, independent, stable and central Islamic system in the country.

00:36:34.000 Based on this principle, in the future, all matters of governance and life in Afghanistan will be regulated by the laws of the Holy Sharia. 0.92

00:36:41.000 What does that look like?

00:36:42.000 Well, it looks like the Taliban are beating the living hell out of people.

00:36:45.000 So that's great, according to the New York Times.

00:36:48.000 Tensions flared with neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan's long-standing humanitarian crisis has deepened, and the militants' brutal crackdown on dissent threatened to further erode public trust.

00:36:56.000 The Taliban, who witnesses say crushed several small protests around the country on Wednesday, have been rounding up scores of demonstrators and subjecting them to abuse in overcrowded jails, according to journalists who were present.

00:37:05.000 The repression followed a Taliban announcement Tuesday protests would not be allowed without government approval, which is the best kind of protest. 1.00

00:37:11.000 The best kind of protest is the one where the government says OK to the protest.

00:37:15.000 Several Afghan journalists said they'd been arrested and beaten in custody.

00:37:18.000 They didn't just say it, they took pictures of what it looked like after they'd been beaten in custody.

00:37:22.000 So I noticed that we heard constant yammering during the Trump administration about the terrible fate of American journalists like Jim Acosta sitting in an air-conditioned radio studio reading his brand new book and how brave they were.

00:37:37.000 I'm noticing a significant lack of concern by these very same people over the treatment of journalists in Afghanistan.

00:37:43.000 That's totally fine that they are having the absolute hell beat out of them.

00:37:49.000 Apparently, Nemat, a videographer for Etiyat-e-Raz, a local newspaper, said that he and his colleagues had just arrived in the street where several dozen women were gathered with placards and a loudspeaker when Taliban militants from the police station seized his camera and arrested him.

00:38:03.000 He said, they took me into a room, tied my hands with a scarf and started beating me with a cable.

00:38:07.000 Also, Taliban fighters started beating women who arrived at a university the other day.

00:38:11.000 That video was available online as well.

00:38:14.000 There are women arriving at the university and there they are just getting beaten with sticks by the Taliban.

00:38:26.000 Different Taliban guys. 0.89

00:38:27.000 More moderate.

00:38:28.000 Our friends now.

00:38:30.000 So Peter Doocy had the temerity to ask this to Jen Psaki.

00:38:32.000 He said, I noticed, I might've noticed that there are more people in the Afghan government who are recognized global terrorists than are women. 0.54

00:38:39.000 Do you have anything to say about that, Jen Psaki?

00:38:42.000 No, no, of course not.

00:38:44.000 There are now more terrorists wanted by the FBI and the new Afghan government than there are women. 0.85

00:38:52.000 Does the president think that is a foreign policy success?

00:38:56.000 Well, first of all, no one in this administration, not the president, nor anyone on the national security team, would suggest that the Taliban are respected and valued members of the global community. 0.99

00:39:09.000 Mmm.

00:39:10.000 Mmm.

00:39:10.000 Yeah, that's gonna do it.

00:39:12.000 We need to, you know, they're gonna have to earn their way into the global community. 0.88

00:39:15.000 I noticed that China is about to recognize them.

00:39:17.000 It turns out that you just lost a war to them.

00:39:20.000 For no reason.

00:39:21.000 Literally no reason.

00:39:21.000 Just to placate your 80-year-old doddering senile boss.

00:39:25.000 So really, well done everybody.

00:39:27.000 Really well done.

00:39:28.000 By the way, Psaki did not rule out recognizing the government.

00:39:30.000 And she was asked specifically about recognizing the government.

00:39:32.000 She's like, man, maybe.

00:39:33.000 Waiting for them to do.

00:39:36.000 They just formed their government.

00:39:38.000 But are you waiting for something?

00:39:40.000 Some waiting for what?

00:39:42.000 You're saying that we're not going to rush to recognition.

00:39:45.000 That means that there could be recognition.

00:39:47.000 As we've said many times, the international community is watching.

00:39:51.000 The United States is watching.

00:39:52.000 It's whether they let people depart the country who want to depart, whether they treat women across the country as they have committed to treat them, and how they behave and operate.

00:40:02.000 And therefore, we're not moving toward recognition.

00:40:06.000 Yeah, I've noticed that they're not doing any of those things.

00:40:09.000 I've noticed.

00:40:10.000 I love Tony Blinken downplaying this.

00:40:11.000 The Secretary of State.

00:40:13.000 He was asked about the Taliban regime.

00:40:14.000 He's like, well, you know, their track records are challenging.

00:40:17.000 Challenging.

00:40:19.000 Challenging is a word for like, you have a test tomorrow in biology and you didn't study until the last minute.

00:40:26.000 That's challenging.

00:40:27.000 Not challenging is what to do about the fact that you just handed over an entire country to terrorists.

00:40:34.000 Second, with regard to the composition of this government or interim government, I noted the fact that it certainly does not meet the test of inclusivity and it includes people who have very challenging track records.

00:40:57.000 Harsh words there.

00:40:58.000 The Taliban failing the test of inclusivity.

00:41:00.000 Who could have?

00:41:01.000 I mean, honestly, I'm not sure why he says that.

00:41:03.000 It's the most diverse government I've ever seen.

00:41:05.000 We've been told that diversity is not a matter of reflecting the population generally.

00:41:08.000 Diversity is just a matter of you're not white. 0.96

00:41:10.000 So I've noticed that there are no white people who are members of the Taliban government and they're all Muslim, actually.

00:41:14.000 So that's, by American standards, a very diverse government.

00:41:17.000 Actually is the way that this works.

00:41:19.000 But it is an absurdity piled on top of absurdity.

00:41:22.000 And on top of that, obviously, there's still Americans who are trapped in Afghanistan.

00:41:26.000 And the Biden administration made that happen.

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00:42:26.000 The surrender of Afghanistan.

00:42:27.000 Collapse at home.

00:42:28.000 Collapse abroad.

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00:42:33.000 All right, we'll get to more on this in a second.

00:42:35.000 The surrender of Afghanistan, collapse at home, collapse abroad, but don't worry, they'll try to bribe you after controlling you. 1.00

00:42:41.000 First, in remembrance of the men and women who lost their lives 20 years ago in the worst terror attack committed on American soil, I sat down with one of the people who shouldered much of the political burden placed on the Bush administration in the aftermath on last Sunday's episode of the Sunday special.

00:42:55.000 I was joined by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

00:42:58.000 She was an excellent and moving guest.

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00:44:12.000 Meanwhile, if you thought that Afghanistan, well, you know, we're just forgetting about it.

00:44:20.000 No big deal.

00:44:20.000 Well, um, no one can get out.

00:44:22.000 So there are a bunch of Americans who are still stuck there. 0.89

00:44:24.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, efforts to get 100 stranded Americans and thousands of vulnerable Afghans out of Afghanistan founded on Wednesday as the Taliban imposed more restrictions on flights out of the country.

00:44:33.000 According to people involved in the rescue efforts, the Taliban have refused to allow any commercial flights out of Afghanistan since the U.S.

00:44:39.000 military withdrawal.

00:44:40.000 Since then, private efforts to fly people out of Afghanistan have hit roadblock after roadblock.

00:44:44.000 U.S.

00:44:45.000 negotiations with the Taliban have failed to clear the way.

00:44:48.000 Zalmay Khalilzad, America's special envoy on Afghanistan peace talks, has been sending urgent requests to the Taliban to allow Americans and Afghans to leave, said one State Department official.

00:44:57.000 But the efforts have produced no breakthrough.

00:44:59.000 OK, so the Taliban are just holding them hostage.

00:45:02.000 But, says the administration, they're not being held hostage.

00:45:04.000 Just as, remember, they were not stranded.

00:45:07.000 Now they're not being held hostage.

00:45:08.000 It's just that the Taliban are not letting them leave.

00:45:11.000 Right, which is like saying that a person who has been kidnapped is not kidnapped, it's just that the kidnapper refuses to allow them to leave the house and has chained them in the basement.

00:45:20.000 Other than that, they're totally free to leave.

00:45:22.000 Here's Tony Blinken making that absurd contention.

00:45:26.000 As of now, the Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart.

00:45:31.000 They claim that some of the passengers do not have the required documentation.

00:45:36.000 While there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground, without an airport with normal security procedures in place, we are working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground.

00:45:50.000 That's what we've done.

00:45:51.000 That's what we will continue to do.

00:45:54.000 We're going to jab her at the Taliban. 0.99

00:45:55.000 It's worked so far.

00:45:56.000 It's working just fabulously.

00:45:58.000 Meanwhile, Jen Psaki was asked, you know, I noticed that there's nobody on the ground actually negotiating with the Taliban to get these people out or provide them aid or anything.

00:46:04.000 There's no one on the ground at all.

00:46:06.000 Whose fault is that?

00:46:07.000 And Jen Psaki has no answer because obviously it's this administration's fault.

00:46:10.000 Instead, she's just like, we're not going to discuss blame.

00:46:13.000 Us blame?

00:46:14.000 No, no, we're not going to do that.

00:46:18.000 Following up on these charter flights that the Taliban is holding up in Afghanistan, the Secretary of State said there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground.

00:46:26.000 Yeah.

00:46:27.000 You just said we are not on the ground.

00:46:29.000 You're right.

00:46:29.000 Whose fault is that?

00:46:31.000 I don't think this is about fault here.

00:46:34.000 I'm convinced.

00:46:34.000 I think what people want to understand is what we're doing to help address it.

00:46:39.000 It's not about fault, guys.

00:46:41.000 It's not about fault.

00:46:42.000 That's not at all.

00:46:44.000 Okay, so what we have here is an America in collapse at home in terms of values.

00:46:47.000 We have an America that is consequently in collapse abroad.

00:46:50.000 And we can't even bring our citizens home in the face of 8th century barbarians that we gave tens of billions of dollars of American weaponry to. 0.99

00:46:58.000 And then, so what is the offer here?

00:47:00.000 So what is the offer, seriously, by the Democrats for keeping the country together?

00:47:03.000 So I get the offer from some people, which is, let's restore the basic idea of the American bargain, right?

00:47:08.000 That's my idea.

00:47:09.000 My idea is we go back to the Declaration of Independence.

00:47:11.000 We look at its founding principles.

00:47:13.000 We look at the basic ideas that brought America together as a country, and then were perfected in their performance over the course of two centuries.

00:47:19.000 And we go back to that, right?

00:47:20.000 We actually build on the creed again.

00:47:22.000 We try to re-instill social institutions with some value.

00:47:26.000 We try to, to, Find communities in which we treat each other decently, right?

00:47:31.000 These would be my preferred solutions, but Democrats have a different preferred solution.

00:47:35.000 Their preferred solution is top-down control because they're not opposing the wokes, right? 1.00

00:47:39.000 They don't oppose the social agenda.

00:47:40.000 They forward the social agenda and foment the social agenda of the radical left in tearing apart the creedal American nation in order To replace it with a big... The idea here is if you can tear down all the systems, what you will replace it with is a command and control economy, complete with command and control of how people raise their children.

00:47:59.000 In the end, the promise is utter control.

00:48:03.000 You are going to basically be hooked up to the government IV, and you won't have to move.

00:48:08.000 You won't have to do anything.

00:48:09.000 You don't have to be a parent.

00:48:10.000 You don't have to be a worker.

00:48:12.000 You won't have to be a community member.

00:48:13.000 You won't have to do anything.

00:48:15.000 The government is going to take care of you and protect you from all bad things in the world so long as you do everything the government tells you to do.

00:48:22.000 This is the subtle promise behind what the government is constantly telling us about their vaccine policies.

00:48:26.000 It is the subtle promise behind what Joe, not so subtle promise behind what Joe Biden says about economics.

00:48:31.000 The idea is we traded away American greatness, the greatness of our original ideals We traded away the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in American history and our power abroad.

00:48:43.000 We traded away all of those things for a promise that the government will keep us fat and happy until we die.

00:48:48.000 That is the promise that the Democrats are making to us, and you can see it reflected in two particular ways of late.

00:48:54.000 One is in COVID policy, and the other is in economic policy.

00:48:59.000 So, let's talk about COVID policy for a second.

00:49:01.000 So, as I have been saying, In a normal world where the government's job was not to protect you from every ill of life, we would now be at the end of the pandemic because the government has now done all it can do.

00:49:11.000 It has funded the development of a near-miraculous vaccine that radically lowers the hospitalization and death rates from COVID.

00:49:18.000 How successful are these vaccines?

00:49:20.000 Okay, so you've been hearing all the propaganda about breakthrough infections and how you're going to die from it from both right and left, right?

00:49:24.000 From anti-vax people, but also from the people who are in favor of top-down government control and forever masking and never go back to work and all of this crap.

00:49:33.000 How effective are these vaccines?

00:49:34.000 I'm the biggest vaccine advocate, I believe, on either right or left.

00:49:36.000 Why?

00:49:37.000 Because they're damned effective. 0.91

00:49:38.000 They're unbelievably effective. 0.92

00:49:39.000 Here's how effective they are.

00:49:41.000 According to the New York Times, the rate of infection in unvaccinated people is about five times the rate of infection in vaccinated people.

00:49:49.000 So every week, The average incidence of COVID-19 among vaccinated people per week, your chances of getting COVID this week, if you are a vaccinated person, is about 64 per 100,000 people.

00:50:01.000 64 per 100,000 people.

00:50:01.000 vaccinated person is about 64 per 100,000 people.

00:50:06.000 64 per 100,000 people.

00:50:09.000 So boil that down, it's about six in 10,000, right?

00:50:12.000 Or one in 25, in 2000, one in.

00:50:16.000 One in 1,500, 1,600.

00:50:17.000 Those are your chances of getting a case of COVID.

00:50:20.000 Okay, not of being hospitalized or dying.

00:50:22.000 Your chances of being hospitalized, if you are, if you are, if you get a breakthrough, if you're vaccinated, your chance of being hospitalized, if you are vaccinated total, is one in 100,000 people.

00:50:35.000 If you are currently vaccinated, your chance of going to the hospital is one in 100,000.

00:50:42.000 This now means that for the vaccinated, this pandemic is over, was over, and has been over for a very long time.

00:50:49.000 What it also means is that for the unvaccinated, the pandemic is over to the extent that it is no one else's job to protect you from getting a disease against which you can protect yourself.

00:50:58.000 Anymore.

00:50:58.000 Then it is somebody else's job to strap a mattress to the front of their car if you don't wear a seatbelt.

00:51:03.000 Because God forbid you should get in a car crash, you might fly through your windshield and we have to put a mattress in front of our car to make sure that it catches you.

00:51:09.000 That is no one's obligation.

00:51:10.000 It is your job to wear your seatbelt.

00:51:12.000 It is your job to get the vaccine or not to get the vaccine.

00:51:14.000 Now it's up to you.

00:51:15.000 Right?

00:51:15.000 That's what we would say in a free country with an effective vaccine.

00:51:18.000 Instead, what we have decided is to cram down the idea that the government can keep you safe from every single thing that exists.

00:51:26.000 And they have to look for a hook for this, right?

00:51:28.000 Because it's killing the economy.

00:51:29.000 Democrats are still pursuing lockdown policies.

00:51:31.000 Democrats are still pursuing universal masking.

00:51:33.000 They're still suggesting that we need economic stimulus.

00:51:36.000 So they need some sort of hook for this.

00:51:37.000 So the hook they've come up for this is that pediatric cases are spiking.

00:51:41.000 There are a lot of cases that are coming up of children who are being diagnosed with COVID.

00:51:45.000 Now, the reason that more children are being diagnosed with COVID is not because tons and tons and tons of kids are stacking up in the ICU.

00:51:52.000 That is not correct.

00:51:53.000 The reason that there are more cases of COVID that are now being identified is because most schools, before you go back to school, require a COVID test.

00:51:59.000 And a huge number of asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic COVID positive tests are coming back.

00:52:06.000 According to the CDC, the risk to children from COVID, right, the infection fatality rate from COVID for children remains the same now, post-Delta, as it was pre-Delta.

00:52:15.000 It is not more dangerous to kids.

00:52:16.000 It is just more widespread among kids.

00:52:19.000 There's a difference between dangerous and widespread.

00:52:22.000 Your chances of dying if you get COVID and you're under the age of 18 are basically, not basically, precisely, so far as we are aware, the same as they were before the Delta variant.

00:52:31.000 It's just that there's a better chance that you're going to get COVID and have to undergo that risk.

00:52:36.000 But the media have decided to make this an area of absolute panic.

00:52:40.000 Which, by the way, is not the case in the UK, where they're not masking kids.

00:52:43.000 It is not the case anywhere in Scandinavia.

00:52:46.000 It is not the case in Spain.

00:52:48.000 It is not the case in Italy.

00:52:49.000 It is not the case nearly in a bunch of places in Europe.

00:52:52.000 It is not the case.

00:52:54.000 But we gotta panic everybody.

00:52:55.000 So according to the New York Post, pediatric coronavirus cases have spiked across the nation as schools prepare to reopen their doors for a new academic year.

00:53:01.000 According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, pediatric COVID-19 cases flew past 250,000 for the week ending September 2nd.

00:53:09.000 The Washington Post reported that more than a quarter of all cases that week were among kids and teens.

00:53:14.000 Almost 2,400 of those infections required hospitalization.

00:53:19.000 But the amount of hospitalization required is generally pretty low.

00:53:23.000 The number of kids who have died total in the United States is about 400 over the course of the entire pandemic.

00:53:30.000 So the notion that we should be panicking over children at this point is also kind of crazy.

00:53:37.000 Nonetheless, Los Angeles is now mandating that every person 12 and up get a vaccine.

00:53:43.000 LA, according to the New York Times, is poised to become the first major school district in the nation to mandate COVID vaccines for students 12 and older attending class in person.

00:53:51.000 Students would need to receive their first vaccine dose by November 21st and their second dose by December 19th in order to begin the next semester fully inoculated.

00:53:58.000 Those who turn 12 after those dates will have 30 days after their birthday to receive their first shot.

00:54:04.000 Students participating in extracurriculars will need to receive both shots by the end of October.

00:54:10.000 Now, here is the thing.

00:54:12.000 The risk to children of this, like if you're a parent, this is not something that is necessarily super clear-cut.

00:54:19.000 Particularly the second shot.

00:54:21.000 There is a study, it is now in pre-print, okay, it's a study from Tracy Beth Hoag, Alison Krug, Josh Stevenson, and Josh Mandrola, and the study is of the myocarditis symptoms of kids between the ages of 12 and 17 who get the vaccine.

00:54:42.000 So what they did is they analyzed the vaccine adverse event reporting system, right?

00:54:45.000 Which is sort of, you know, a system that where you're reporting all of your adverse events and it's, you can't always tell whether this is driven by the vaccine, which is why the data is kind of sketchy.

00:54:55.000 But it's what, that's the only data that we have because the government refuses to do any of the actual research it should be doing.

00:55:00.000 So what they did is they went through the search criteria for myocarditis, pericarditis, and myoopericarditis to identify kids with evidence of cardiac injury.

00:55:09.000 They included the word troponin in the laboratory findings to see if, troponin rather, was a required element in the laboratory findings.

00:55:16.000 They were trying to narrow down cases in which parents were complaining that their kids had a heart-related vaccine symptom.

00:55:24.000 What they found is that the rates per million following dose 2 among males were 162.2 and 94.0 for ages 12 to 15 and 16 to 17.

00:55:32.000 That's per million.

00:55:33.000 94.0 for ages 12 to 15 and 16 to 17.

00:55:37.000 That's per million.

00:55:38.000 Rates among females were 13 and 13.4 per million.

00:55:42.000 For boys 12 to 15 without medical comorbidities, the rate of these cardiac adverse events is 3.7 to 6.1 times higher than their 120 day COVID hospitalization risk as of August 21st, 2021.

00:55:56.000 And 2.6 to 4.3 fold higher at times of high weekly hospitalization risk, such as during January 2021.

00:56:03.000 you So in other words, it is not like super-duper clear-cut for parents that, you know, you desperately want your 13-year-old to get the vaccine.

00:56:13.000 Especially dose 2, right?

00:56:15.000 Dose 1 doesn't seem to be nearly as affected by these myocarditis and pericarditis events, but dose 2 seems to have some problems.

00:56:23.000 Okay, well.

00:56:24.000 L.A.

00:56:24.000 is just mandating it, right?

00:56:25.000 Because the idea is that if you listen to the government, they can keep you safe.

00:56:29.000 If you listen to the government, they can always keep you safe.

00:56:31.000 Which is, of course, why the media keeps suggesting over and over, invariably.

00:56:36.000 that you must mask up your children.

00:56:39.000 Now again, the evidence on masking for kids does not exist.

00:56:42.000 There is no study done anywhere that masking for kids significantly lowers danger of transmission among children.

00:56:50.000 Why?

00:56:51.000 Because kids don't wear the masks properly, as kids associate outside of school.

00:56:54.000 And because again, kids are generally not in significant danger of hospitalization and death from COVID.

00:57:02.000 In fact, the stats tend to show that if you're under the age of 18, you are at less risk of hospitalization and death from COVID than if you're vaccinated in 40.

00:57:07.000 Okay, so this idea that the government has to mandate this stuff is just Disconnected from reality.

00:57:14.000 But again, the promise that has been made by the people who are pushing for the cultural dissolution of the United States and our foreign policy retreat, the case that they make is they can protect you forever, which is why Joe Biden is now going to push private businesses for vaccine mandates.

00:57:30.000 He apparently, according to the New York Times, is going to impose new vaccination mandates as part of a broad plan to put pressure on private businesses, federal agencies, and schools to enact stricter vaccination and testing policies as the Delta variant continues to spread across the United States.

00:57:43.000 Now, all of this is part and parcel of a broader economic push.

00:57:47.000 Because the reality, of course, is that the economy has been slowing.

00:57:50.000 Now, the case that has been made by people on the left is that the economy is slowing because of Delta.

00:57:55.000 It is according to the Fed's beige book, according to The Wall Street Journal, quote, The U.S.

00:57:59.000 economic recovery slowed and prices continued rising over the summer as a resurgence of COVID-19 cases linked to the Delta variant led consumers to pare back spending and persistent supply chain problems hampered business, the Federal Reserve said in a report on Wednesday.

00:58:11.000 The deceleration in economic activity was largely attributable to a pullback in dining out, travel, and tourism in most districts, reflecting safety concerns due to the rise of the Delta variant.

00:58:21.000 In New York City, for instance, the rise of Delta forced the cancellation of summer events such as the Fancy Foods Show and the Auto Show.

00:58:26.000 In Minneapolis, the commercial real estate industry, which had expected to benefit from workers returning, saw those hopes dashed when firms postponed plans.

00:58:33.000 In San Francisco, the residential real estate market sagged slightly as would-be buyers put off their home searches, in part because of the Delta variant.

00:58:41.000 Now, there is a difference in how states are doing on this thing.

00:58:45.000 As I've noted before, the unemployment rates in red states, the top, the best states for unemployment in the United States right now are almost universally red, and the worst states for unemployment in the United States are almost universally blue.

00:58:56.000 And that's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:58:58.000 Right now, the states that are doing the best in terms of unemployment are Nebraska, Utah, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Idaho, Vermont, Alabama, Oklahoma, Montana, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri.

00:59:11.000 Of the states that I just mentioned, the only ones that could be considered blue, like seriously blue, are Minnesota and Vermont.

00:59:20.000 That's it.

00:59:21.000 All of the others are at the very least purple or red-leaning.

00:59:26.000 And meanwhile, if you go to the worst states in terms of unemployment, you are looking at, in order, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, California, New Jersey, Hawaii, Connecticut, Illinois, D.C.

00:59:34.000 Okay, every single one of those is a solid blue state.

00:59:38.000 That is not a coincidence.

00:59:39.000 It's because it is not Delta that is killing the economy.

00:59:42.000 It is the forced restrictions and panic-driven nature of government that is killing the economy.

00:59:46.000 By the way, even Biden's own people are acknowledging this.

00:59:48.000 So, for example, his labor secretary, right, Walsh, Marty Walsh, says, yeah, these lockdowns are just killing business.

00:59:55.000 We need to continue to get people back in the workplace.

00:59:57.000 We need to continue to keep industry moving forward.

00:59:59.000 We can't afford a shutdown like we had a year ago, or a year and a half ago now this time.

01:00:05.000 I was in a different role.

01:00:06.000 I was the mayor of Boston back then, and when we shut down the economy, or shut down the city, it was devastating to so many businesses.

01:00:12.000 We just need to continue to move one step in front of the other, one foot in front of the other.

01:00:16.000 The president has a plan. He's going to continue on his plan. The stock market, for the most part, is doing great. Every day, it's still moving forward. So there's confidence there. Wages are up. But yes, we're dealing with a little bit of inflation.

01:00:28.000 But I think that we've never lived through times like this. We've never had to recover from a pandemic like this.

01:00:33.000 The recovery is in many ways, economically speaking, wildly disproportionate to what is actually going on with the disease. OK, but the idea here, again, is that the innate promise here is that you have surrendered your country and you've surrendered your values and you've surrendered your liberties to people who are going to protect you for all time, which is why now, when they're coming up short on that, their answer is we have to crack down harder.

01:00:56.000 We have to crack down harder.

01:00:57.000 Now, you say to yourself, wait.

01:00:59.000 I surrendered my liberty, so you're going to crack down harder on me?

01:01:02.000 It's going to be worse for me?

01:01:04.000 Yes, but here is the compensatory part.

01:01:06.000 The compensatory part is they are going to pay you!

01:01:09.000 They're going to give you money.

01:01:10.000 In the end, as always, the final part of the democratic program is just spend money.

01:01:15.000 Just throw cash at everything.

01:01:18.000 The New York Times admits as much. 0.96

01:01:20.000 The New York Times has an article today about this $3.5 trillion bill, which is just a pork barrel of garbage and everlasting social benefits. 0.86

01:01:28.000 That's the Social Welfare Benefits. 0.56

01:01:30.000 They have this article on it.

01:01:32.000 Here's the title of it.

01:01:33.000 From Cradle to Grave, Democrats Move to Expand Social Safety Net.

01:01:36.000 Cradle to Grave.

01:01:37.000 And that's it.

01:01:39.000 That's it. 1.00

01:01:40.000 We are fat, and we are stupid, and we are hooked up to an IV that is just dripping apparently dehydrated Cheetos into our blood. 1.00

01:01:49.000 And we are just going to fatten ourselves to death. 1.00

01:01:52.000 We're gonna surrender on the foreign front, we're gonna destroy ourselves on the home front, but at least we'll have cradle to grave everything.

01:01:57.000 At least we'll have brought all the resources home, and we will pay you to give up all of your liberties.

01:02:02.000 And you will be supported by this vast bureaucracy, by this incredible government.

01:02:06.000 According to the New York Times, when congressional committees meet this week to begin formally drafting Democrats' ambitious social policy plan, they will be undertaking the most significant expansion of the nation's safety net since the war on poverty in the 60s, devising legislation that would touch virtually every area of Americans' lives, from conception to aged infirmity.

01:02:24.000 Passage of the bill is anything but certain.

01:02:26.000 There is some debate between the so-called moderate faction of the Democratic Party and the progressives.

01:02:31.000 But the proposed legislation would be transformative.

01:02:34.000 A cradle-to-grave reweaving of a social safety net frayed by decades of expanding income inequality is the New York Times making the case for why we need the government to take care of us from the time we are born until the time that we die.

01:02:45.000 And so long as the government's doing that, do we really need anything else?

01:02:47.000 Do we need a system of common values?

01:02:48.000 Do we need to live with each other in comedy?

01:02:50.000 Do we need to have any tolerance for dissenting points of view?

01:02:52.000 In fact, there can't be.

01:02:54.000 dissenting points of view against a god-like government that protects you from death, infirmity, and fear and poverty.

01:02:59.000 I mean, if that government can do all of those things, what sort of dissent should be tolerated or even allowed under such a system?

01:03:08.000 The pandemic loosened the reins on federal spending, says the New York Times, prompting members of both parties to support showering the economy with aid.

01:03:14.000 It also uncorked decades-old policy desires like expanding Medicare coverage or paid family and medical leave that Democrats contend have proved to be necessities as the country has lived through the coronavirus crisis.

01:03:24.000 Polls have shown for a long time these issues to support American families were important and were popular, but all of a sudden they become not a nice-to-have, but a must-have, said Heather Boushey, a member of Biden's Council of Economic Advisors.

01:03:34.000 They're not going to pay for any of this.

01:03:35.000 They're going to blow out the deficits.

01:03:37.000 They're going to completely undermine the American currency, or they're going to raise taxes radically.

01:03:41.000 But again, what this is about is establishing that government is your father.

01:03:46.000 Government is your protector.

01:03:48.000 Government is the great sky god.

01:03:50.000 And this goes all the way back to the Obama administration.

01:03:53.000 When Barack Obama declared in 2012 that the life of Julia was to be emulated.

01:03:59.000 I don't know if you remember all this way back.

01:04:01.000 It was nearly a decade ago.

01:04:02.000 It was widely derided in 2012.

01:04:03.000 It was widely mocked.

01:04:04.000 It was seen as a major misstep by the Obama administration.

01:04:07.000 The Obama campaign put out a graphic and it showed what Julia's life would be like under Mitt Romney versus what it would be like under Obama.

01:04:12.000 And every single element of Julia's life was a government program that was going to give her something.

01:04:19.000 If you went back and looked at the program that Julia espoused, that was espoused for Julia by the Obama campaign, it talked about how as a little girl, Julia would be given all of these wonderful social benefits, and then as a young woman, she'd be given social, and then as an old woman, and then in her death, she'd be given benefits.

01:04:35.000 This is the promise.

01:04:36.000 So, the question is, is that a deal you're willing to make?

01:04:40.000 Right?

01:04:40.000 No future for the country, financially, in terms of values or culture, in terms of foreign policy, no future for the country, but We'll eat and drink because tomorrow, we're dead.

01:04:52.000 As John Maynard Keynes once suggested, in the long run, we're all dead.

01:04:55.000 So, you know, that's just the way that it works.

01:04:58.000 If you're willing to make that trade, then this Biden administration is for you.

01:05:01.000 If you're not, Now would be an excellent time to push back because there ain't gonna be a long time for a concerted period for us to do so in the future.

01:05:10.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 09, 2021

The Decline And Fall Of The United States | Ep. 1334

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