Ben Shapiro on the removal of the Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond, VA, and why it's time to get rid of the Confederate Flag in honor of a man who served as a Confederate general in the Civil War. Ben also talks about why the removal is a good thing and why we should all be grateful for it, and how it shows how far we have come since the days of slavery and Jim Crow laws that were passed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. And, of course, he talks about the decline of the United States as a nation and the need for a time capsule to remember America as it was in the 19th and 20th centuries, a time when the country was at its lowest point in its economic, political, and moral standing. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Thousands of my listeners have already secured their internet connections, so join them at ExpressVpn.me/BenShapiroShow to join me on the show. If you haven't reached out to Birch Gold to diversify your IRA or 401k into a precious metals IRA, go ahead and do it today. Text Ben to 474747 and get a free information kit on protecting your savings with gold and silver. They have an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and get in touch with the BBB to get a FREE information kit. Talk to them to get started. Have them help you safeguard your retirement savings and get started! to get the first step-by step in protecting your future in a tax-sheltered account. and get the best possible chance to achieve financial freedom and protection today! Text Ben Shapiro on The Bench Bureau is a safe, secure, secure future in the world of gold and precious metals! and silver! Ben Shapiro is a writer, editor, and historian, and he also writes for the New York Times bestselling book . and he is a regular contributor for the Wall Street Journal. . He is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times, and hosts a podcast, and is an avid reader, and you can reach out to him on social media on all of those who are interested in what he writes about the best things going on the best places in the best of what he finds on the internet, including the best, the best thing he reads, the most authentic thing he writes, and everything else he does, including what he does online.
00:00:00.000Virginia creates a time capsule so future generations can learn just why America collapsed.
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00:01:37.000So, first of all, I just want to say Shana Tovah U'mtukah to all of my listeners.
00:01:41.000That 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.
00:01:54.000And the good news is that We did that in my community.
00:01:57.000We spent some time thinking about all of those things.
00:01:59.000And 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.
00:02:06.000That seems to be all the news that is fit to print.
00:02:09.000And the great indicator of this was the situation that has now arisen over the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia.
00:02:24.000I 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.
00:02:35.000You look at that statue and you say, why exactly are people paying homage to this man?
00:02:43.000I 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?
00:02:59.000This 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.
00:03:10.000There is a feeling in the South that he was sort of the romantic figure of gentlemanliness.
00:03:15.000Some of that image has been obviously tarnished by historians who have now come forth with new details about his life.
00:03:21.000But Lee was a very human figure in a lot of variegated forms, and what that means is that people view him in different ways.
00:03:27.000So I totally understand the argument to remove Robert E. Lee's statue.
00:03:33.000I 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.
00:03:43.000The 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.
00:04:00.000And so that provides you a leap, a jumping off point for discussion of these issues.
00:04:07.000Why 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?
00:04:13.000All of those things are good for the discussion of the American body politic and American history.
00:04:17.000It'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.
00:04:45.000And 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.
00:04:59.000Not the getting rid of the Robert E. Lee statue per se, but what we are replacing it with.
00:05:03.000And 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.
00:05:24.000Instead, 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.
00:05:32.000Robert E. Lee does not preside over the country, nor did he ever preside over the country per se, right?
00:05:38.000He was the general of the Confederacy, the Confederacy was defeated between 1861 and 1865.
00:05:42.000And, 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.
00:05:49.000Now 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.
00:06:18.000It's the same sort of rationale as critical race theory, Black Lives Matter.
00:06:22.000And if you're a black person in America, you live with the boot of America on your throat all day long.
00:06:39.000But, a much bigger story, and a more indicative story, is this time capsule removal.
00:06:44.000Because 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.
00:06:52.000And 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.
00:07:01.000What we replaced the objects in the time capsule with underneath the Robert E. Lee statue says everything about this.
00:07:06.000Future archaeologists are going to have zero problems whatsoever understanding the decline and fall of the United States.
00:07:11.000They're going to look at this time capsule and they're going to go, oh, well, that was not a toughie.
00:07:16.000It'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.
00:07:26.000It is not going to be trying to discern the complexity of the fall of the British Empire.
00:07:29.000It'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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00:08:46.000Alrighty, so here is the actual story behind the story.
00:08:50.000So 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.
00:09:05.000They said that the objects in the old capsule were believed to have ties to the Confederacy.
00:09:10.000Ralph 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.
00:09:45.000They put in there a Black Lives Matter sticker, which is, again, signification of a movement that suggests that America is irredeemably racist.
00:09:54.000They took down a Robert E. Lee statue because America's irredeemably racist.
00:09:58.000So you've got these stickers saying America's irredeemably racist.
00:10:02.000They 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.
00:10:14.000So 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.
00:10:30.000We have a Virginia is for Lovers pride pin and sticker, which is great.
00:10:34.000So we have a pride pin signifying our love and celebration of alternative sexual proclivities and behaviors.
00:11:00.000So 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.
00:11:11.000We have a First Lady face mask submitted by First Lady Pamela Northam.
00:11:16.000So it's her own face mask that goes in the time capsule.
00:11:19.000It's important future generations know that we were insane and that we face masked presumably until the end of the American Republic.
00:11:27.000We have photos and flyers from Stop Asian Hate protests in May 2021 in the Virginia time capsule.
00:11:35.000Now so far, have you heard anything that celebrates America?
00:11:36.000Like a single thing in this time capsule that says that America is good or that our fundamental institutions are good?
00:11:46.000The 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.
00:11:58.000Helping Washington Metro Police Department patrol the city for unrest after the insurrection at the U.S.
00:12:04.000So 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.
00:12:13.000We have an expired vial of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine and the CDC vaccination record card.
00:12:20.000So, 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,
00:12:49.000Yeah, I really don't think that the future is going to have a very tough time figuring out exactly why America fell.
00:12:56.000I feel like this one's going to be real easy for us.
00:13:11.000The 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.
00:13:26.000And the government will pay for all of that.
00:13:28.000Unless you're unvaccinated, in which case die on your own.
00:13:30.000But otherwise, the government will pay for all of these things.
00:13:32.000We'll get to all of this in just one second.
00:13:34.000Because the polarization continues to pace.
00:13:36.000What we're watching is America come apart at the seams.
00:13:40.000An 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.
00:13:49.000And instead want to supplant a racial tribalism and a Sort of sexual profligacy that is unmoored from reality, growth, or decency.
00:14:01.000They want to do all of these things and then they want to pay you to basically ignore it.
00:14:06.000We'll get to more of this in a second.
00:14:07.000I know it's a depressing message coming back from the Jewish New Year, but I call them like I see them.
00:14:11.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:15:20.000Okay, 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.
00:15:35.000There is no tolerance for other points of view.
00:15:38.000This comes courtesy of Thomas Edsel, who is certainly no conservative writing for the New York Times.
00:15:42.000He has a piece today that is quite fascinating.
00:15:44.000He 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.
00:16:04.000This 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.
00:16:16.000I worry that the middle is dropping out of American politics.
00:16:19.000This is not just an economic or cultural or political phenomenon.
00:16:21.000It is inextricably geographic or spatial, as different groups pack and cluster into different types of community.
00:16:28.000Recent 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.
00:16:37.000that first became evident in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
00:16:40.000Before 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.
00:16:49.000Since the 1990s, these groups have become significantly less tolerant of, quote, unquote, hate speech pertaining to race, gender and social identities.
00:16:56.000Chong 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.
00:17:09.000Chong 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.
00:17:21.000So there's been a shift from the program of the left being about materialist redistribution, right?
00:17:26.000We're just going to take some money from here, we're going to put it over here.
00:17:29.000Toward an attempt to cram down a particular woke point of view.
00:17:33.000You might call it an authoritarian moment.
00:17:35.000Yes, that is indeed a self-referential mention of my book title.
00:17:39.000Because that is what we are experiencing.
00:17:41.000We're experiencing an authoritarian moment, a replacement ideology.
00:17:45.000The 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.
00:18:00.000And this is being crammed down at every level of our society.
00:18:03.000It's part of the dissolution of American influence.
00:18:05.000It's part of the dissolution of American principles.
00:18:08.000And it's being crammed down at, again, every institutional level in our society.
00:18:12.000So Chris Rufo, who's been doing excellent work over at Manhattan Institute, he uncovered an indoctrination session over at Google.
00:18:19.000According 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.
00:18:29.000Like me personally, I'm depicted in the layer of the white supremacy pyramid culminating in genocide.
00:18:34.000So they had an allyship learning session.
00:18:37.000In 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.
00:18:49.000Again, this is all being taught at Google, the single most powerful company on planet Earth.
00:18:53.000And nearly everybody gets their information through Google or one of its associated companies like YouTube.
00:18:58.000In a video, guest lecturer Ibram Kendi claimed all Americans, including children as young as three months old, are racist.
00:19:04.000He 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.
00:19:12.000And, says Kendi, the heartbeat of racism is denial.
00:19:16.000And the sound of that denial is I'm not racist.
00:19:17.000We now have a pure Kafka trap in which if you say I'm not racist, this means that you are 100% definitely racist.
00:19:23.000If you say you're racist, also you're racist because you just admitted you're racist.
00:19:27.000Also, 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.
00:19:38.000Quote, She says, if you're white in this country, you are the beneficiary of a 350-year system of white supremacy.
00:19:48.000How 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?
00:19:57.000Are you a beneficiary of the 350-year system of white supremacy also, Nicole Hannah-Jones?
00:20:02.000And then, they came up with a graphic titled, The White Supremacy Pyramid.
00:20:09.000This 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.
00:20:19.000And the only things that are good are people who stand up to that evil system.
00:20:23.000So they have the White Supremacy Pyramid, busting the myth of white genocide in South Africa.
00:20:29.000I 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.
00:20:47.000So 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.
00:21:03.000Now, 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.
00:21:13.000Yeah, the white supremacists, they just love me.
00:21:15.000They spend all day just singing my praises.
00:21:19.000Okay, that is sarcasm for those in the media who apparently are incapable of understanding human expression.
00:21:24.000Okay, so I am engaged according to the white supremacy pyramid in minimization.
00:22:14.000Again, hard to see how the heroin addict living in a Rust Belt town in Ohio is a beneficiary of white privilege, post-racism.
00:22:22.000So if you say that we should move beyond racism, that's minimization.
00:22:25.000And intentions are greater than impact.
00:22:27.000Okay, 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.
00:22:43.000Then you get to veiled racism, which is like victim-blaming and racist jokes.
00:22:46.000A Eurocentric curriculum, if you teach Shakespeare, if you teach Chaucer, all of this is Eurocentric.
00:22:54.000Racist icons, which I assume would mean, like, presumably, who?
00:22:58.000Racist icons would be like, George Washington, maybe, for these folks.
00:23:02.000Discrimination, calls for violence, violence, and then finally, mass murder.
00:23:17.000So, that is what your betters are teaching people over at Google.
00:23:22.000And this is spread across the corporate sector.
00:23:25.000This 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.
00:23:32.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:24:58.000This 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.
00:25:09.000This 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.
00:25:21.000Apparently Warby Parker decided that they were angry that their ads cropped up on our website, Daily Wire.
00:26:26.000Because obviously their wokeness takes priority over their interest in reaching you, the consumers.
00:26:32.000Who include, by the way, many people who don't agree with me on politics.
00:26:36.000As 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.
00:26:45.000They'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.
00:26:53.000Warby 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.
00:27:20.000These 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.
00:27:28.000Which 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.
00:27:34.000Now, 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.
00:27:42.000They 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.
00:27:49.000And so we're going to contribute to their defense.
00:27:51.000Instead, the Lyft General Counsel came out and said, every single company should follow our lead and actually fund the abortion process.
00:27:59.000Like this is, we're doing an act of good.
00:29:07.000And not just that, our university system, obviously.
00:29:09.000So 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.
00:29:18.000You guys have made it so that, like, freedom of inquiry is just not a thing here.
00:29:22.000He 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.
00:29:31.000And 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.
00:29:39.000One of them, in 2017, was an intentionally garbled, peer-reviewed paper that took aim at the new orthodoxy.
00:29:45.000Its title was, quote, The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.
00:29:49.000It was published in Cogent Social Sciences, which is a journal.
00:29:53.000It argued penises were the product of the human mind and responsible for climate change.
00:29:58.000Okay, this resulted in such blowback from Portland State University that he ended up having to quit.
00:30:04.000Administrators 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.
00:30:11.000They accused him of research misconduct.
00:30:13.000Based on the absurd premise, the journal editors who accepted our intentionally deranged articles were human subjects.
00:30:19.000As though he was experimenting on them with a drug of some sort.
00:30:23.000Meanwhile, ideological intolerance continued to grow at Portland State.
00:30:25.000In March, a tenured professor disrupted a public conversation I was holding with author Christina Hoffsommers and evolutionary biologists Brett Weinstein and Heather Hying.
00:30:34.000In June 2018, someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation with popular cultural critic Carl Benjamin.
00:30:39.000In October 2018, an activist pulled the speaker wires to interrupt a panel with former Google engineer James DeBoer.
00:31:40.000Which 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.
00:31:49.000All of those things are being destroyed, piece by piece, in the United States.
00:31:55.000And of course, we are supposed to ignore it.
00:31:58.000All of this culminates, by the way, in bully tactics that are given the full go-ahead by the media.
00:32:03.000Most 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.
00:32:23.000But 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.
00:32:30.000The headline from the media is more like, anti-racist activist throws egg at evil white supremacist.
00:32:36.000But 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.
00:32:44.000So there's Larry walking down the street with his security and there is a white woman with pink hair in a gorilla mask.
00:33:09.000By the way, imagine if the situation reversed and a white tea party are throwing an egg at a black congressperson from the Democratic Party.
00:33:16.000And you can imagine what the response would be about the systemic racism of America.
00:33:21.000In 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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00:34:32.000As 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.
00:34:44.000And obviously what's been happening in Afghanistan is the greatest case in point.
00:34:47.000The Taliban has now unveiled its brand new Afghan government.
00:34:51.000And I'm amused to see that the media are deeply upset that the new Taliban government includes zero women and zero trans people.
00:34:59.000They 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.
00:35:04.000If they had a woman on there, they'd say, brand new Taliban, same old principles, but there's a person who is a woman.
00:35:10.000I 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.
00:35:21.000They gave senior posts to the leader of Haqqani Network, which of course is an al Qaeda linked group.
00:35:26.000He's the Minister of the Interior, so he's going to handle all interior security as a terrorist associated with Al-Qaeda.
00:35:34.000According 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.
00:35:50.000The FBI is currently offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest.
00:35:54.000Okay, I have some information on where he is.
00:35:57.000He's in the government building right now.
00:36:05.000While 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.
00:36:20.000Akhundzada said, quote, Our previous 20 years of struggle and jihad had two major goals.
00:36:26.000First, to end foreign occupation and aggression and liberate the country.
00:36:28.000And secondly, to establish a complete, independent, stable and central Islamic system in the country.
00:36:34.000Based on this principle, in the future, all matters of governance and life in Afghanistan will be regulated by the laws of the Holy Sharia.
00:36:42.000Well, it looks like the Taliban are beating the living hell out of people.
00:36:45.000So that's great, according to the New York Times.
00:36:48.000Tensions 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.
00:36:56.000The 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.
00:37:05.000The repression followed a Taliban announcement Tuesday protests would not be allowed without government approval, which is the best kind of protest.
00:37:11.000The best kind of protest is the one where the government says OK to the protest.
00:37:15.000Several Afghan journalists said they'd been arrested and beaten in custody.
00:37:18.000They didn't just say it, they took pictures of what it looked like after they'd been beaten in custody.
00:37:22.000So 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.
00:37:37.000I'm noticing a significant lack of concern by these very same people over the treatment of journalists in Afghanistan.
00:37:43.000That's totally fine that they are having the absolute hell beat out of them.
00:37:49.000Apparently, 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.
00:38:03.000He said, they took me into a room, tied my hands with a scarf and started beating me with a cable.
00:38:07.000Also, Taliban fighters started beating women who arrived at a university the other day.
00:38:11.000That video was available online as well.
00:38:14.000There are women arriving at the university and there they are just getting beaten with sticks by the Taliban.
00:38:30.000So Peter Doocy had the temerity to ask this to Jen Psaki.
00:38:32.000He said, I noticed, I might've noticed that there are more people in the Afghan government who are recognized global terrorists than are women.
00:38:39.000Do you have anything to say about that, Jen Psaki?
00:38:44.000There are now more terrorists wanted by the FBI and the new Afghan government than there are women.
00:38:52.000Does the president think that is a foreign policy success?
00:38:56.000Well, 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.
00:39:52.000It'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.
00:40:02.000And therefore, we're not moving toward recognition.
00:40:06.000Yeah, I've noticed that they're not doing any of those things.
00:40:27.000Not challenging is what to do about the fact that you just handed over an entire country to terrorists.
00:40:34.000Second, 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.
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00:42:33.000All right, we'll get to more on this in a second.
00:42:35.000The surrender of Afghanistan, collapse at home, collapse abroad, but don't worry, they'll try to bribe you after controlling you.
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00:44:12.000Meanwhile, if you thought that Afghanistan, well, you know, we're just forgetting about it.
00:44:22.000So there are a bunch of Americans who are still stuck there.
00:44:24.000According 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.
00:44:33.000According to people involved in the rescue efforts, the Taliban have refused to allow any commercial flights out of Afghanistan since the U.S.
00:44:45.000negotiations with the Taliban have failed to clear the way.
00:44:48.000Zalmay 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.
00:44:57.000But the efforts have produced no breakthrough.
00:44:59.000OK, so the Taliban are just holding them hostage.
00:45:02.000But, says the administration, they're not being held hostage.
00:45:04.000Just as, remember, they were not stranded.
00:45:08.000It's just that the Taliban are not letting them leave.
00:45:11.000Right, 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.
00:45:20.000Other than that, they're totally free to leave.
00:45:22.000Here's Tony Blinken making that absurd contention.
00:45:26.000As of now, the Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart.
00:45:31.000They claim that some of the passengers do not have the required documentation.
00:45:36.000While 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.
00:45:58.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:46:18.000Following 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.
00:46:44.000Okay, so what we have here is an America in collapse at home in terms of values.
00:46:47.000We have an America that is consequently in collapse abroad.
00:46:50.000And 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.
00:47:13.000We 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.
00:47:40.000They 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.
00:47:59.000In the end, the promise is utter control.
00:48:03.000You are going to basically be hooked up to the government IV, and you won't have to move.
00:48:15.000The 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.
00:48:22.000This is the subtle promise behind what the government is constantly telling us about their vaccine policies.
00:48:26.000It is the subtle promise behind what Joe, not so subtle promise behind what Joe Biden says about economics.
00:48:31.000The 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.
00:48:43.000We traded away all of those things for a promise that the government will keep us fat and happy until we die.
00:48:48.000That is the promise that the Democrats are making to us, and you can see it reflected in two particular ways of late.
00:48:54.000One is in COVID policy, and the other is in economic policy.
00:48:59.000So, let's talk about COVID policy for a second.
00:49:01.000So, 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.
00:49:11.000It has funded the development of a near-miraculous vaccine that radically lowers the hospitalization and death rates from COVID.
00:49:20.000Okay, 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?
00:49:24.000From 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.
00:49:41.000According to the New York Times, the rate of infection in unvaccinated people is about five times the rate of infection in vaccinated people.
00:49:49.000So 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.
00:50:17.000Those are your chances of getting a case of COVID.
00:50:20.000Okay, not of being hospitalized or dying.
00:50:22.000Your 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.
00:50:35.000If you are currently vaccinated, your chance of going to the hospital is one in 100,000.
00:50:42.000This now means that for the vaccinated, this pandemic is over, was over, and has been over for a very long time.
00:50:49.000What 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.
00:50:58.000Then it is somebody else's job to strap a mattress to the front of their car if you don't wear a seatbelt.
00:51:03.000Because 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.
00:51:29.000Democrats are still pursuing lockdown policies.
00:51:31.000Democrats are still pursuing universal masking.
00:51:33.000They're still suggesting that we need economic stimulus.
00:51:36.000So they need some sort of hook for this.
00:51:37.000So the hook they've come up for this is that pediatric cases are spiking.
00:51:41.000There are a lot of cases that are coming up of children who are being diagnosed with COVID.
00:51:45.000Now, 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.
00:51:53.000The 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.
00:51:59.000And a huge number of asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic COVID positive tests are coming back.
00:52:06.000According 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.
00:52:16.000It is just more widespread among kids.
00:52:19.000There's a difference between dangerous and widespread.
00:52:22.000Your 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.
00:52:31.000It's just that there's a better chance that you're going to get COVID and have to undergo that risk.
00:52:36.000But the media have decided to make this an area of absolute panic.
00:52:40.000Which, by the way, is not the case in the UK, where they're not masking kids.
00:52:43.000It is not the case anywhere in Scandinavia.
00:52:55.000So 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.
00:53:01.000According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, pediatric COVID-19 cases flew past 250,000 for the week ending September 2nd.
00:53:09.000The Washington Post reported that more than a quarter of all cases that week were among kids and teens.
00:53:14.000Almost 2,400 of those infections required hospitalization.
00:53:19.000But the amount of hospitalization required is generally pretty low.
00:53:23.000The number of kids who have died total in the United States is about 400 over the course of the entire pandemic.
00:53:30.000So the notion that we should be panicking over children at this point is also kind of crazy.
00:53:37.000Nonetheless, Los Angeles is now mandating that every person 12 and up get a vaccine.
00:53:43.000LA, 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.
00:53:51.000Students 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.
00:53:58.000Those who turn 12 after those dates will have 30 days after their birthday to receive their first shot.
00:54:04.000Students participating in extracurriculars will need to receive both shots by the end of October.
00:54:21.000There 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.
00:54:42.000So what they did is they analyzed the vaccine adverse event reporting system, right?
00:54:45.000Which 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.
00:54:55.000But 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.
00:55:00.000So what they did is they went through the search criteria for myocarditis, pericarditis, and myoopericarditis to identify kids with evidence of cardiac injury.
00:55:09.000They included the word troponin in the laboratory findings to see if, troponin rather, was a required element in the laboratory findings.
00:55:16.000They were trying to narrow down cases in which parents were complaining that their kids had a heart-related vaccine symptom.
00:55:24.000What 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.
00:55:38.000Rates among females were 13 and 13.4 per million.
00:55:42.000For 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.
00:55:56.000And 2.6 to 4.3 fold higher at times of high weekly hospitalization risk, such as during January 2021.
00:56:03.000you 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.
00:56:51.000Because kids don't wear the masks properly, as kids associate outside of school.
00:56:54.000And because again, kids are generally not in significant danger of hospitalization and death from COVID.
00:57:02.000In 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.
00:57:07.000Okay, so this idea that the government has to mandate this stuff is just Disconnected from reality.
00:57:14.000But 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.
00:57:30.000He 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.
00:57:43.000Now, all of this is part and parcel of a broader economic push.
00:57:47.000Because the reality, of course, is that the economy has been slowing.
00:57:50.000Now, the case that has been made by people on the left is that the economy is slowing because of Delta.
00:57:55.000It is according to the Fed's beige book, according to The Wall Street Journal, quote, The U.S.
00:57:59.000economic 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.
00:58:11.000The 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.
00:58:21.000In 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.
00:58:26.000In Minneapolis, the commercial real estate industry, which had expected to benefit from workers returning, saw those hopes dashed when firms postponed plans.
00:58:33.000In 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.
00:58:41.000Now, there is a difference in how states are doing on this thing.
00:58:45.000As 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.
00:58:56.000And that's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:58:58.000Right 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.
00:59:11.000Of the states that I just mentioned, the only ones that could be considered blue, like seriously blue, are Minnesota and Vermont.
00:59:21.000All of the others are at the very least purple or red-leaning.
00:59:26.000And 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.
00:59:34.000Okay, every single one of those is a solid blue state.
01:00:06.000I 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.
01:00:12.000We just need to continue to move one step in front of the other, one foot in front of the other.
01:00:16.000The 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.
01:00:28.000But I think that we've never lived through times like this. We've never had to recover from a pandemic like this.
01:00:33.000The 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.
01:01:20.000The 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.
01:01:40.000We are fat, and we are stupid, and we are hooked up to an IV that is just dripping apparently dehydrated Cheetos into our blood.
01:01:49.000And we are just going to fatten ourselves to death.
01:01:52.000We'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.
01:01:57.000At least we'll have brought all the resources home, and we will pay you to give up all of your liberties.
01:02:02.000And you will be supported by this vast bureaucracy, by this incredible government.
01:02:06.000According 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.
01:02:24.000Passage of the bill is anything but certain.
01:02:26.000There is some debate between the so-called moderate faction of the Democratic Party and the progressives.
01:02:31.000But the proposed legislation would be transformative.
01:02:34.000A 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.
01:02:45.000And so long as the government's doing that, do we really need anything else?
01:02:54.000dissenting points of view against a god-like government that protects you from death, infirmity, and fear and poverty.
01:02:59.000I mean, if that government can do all of those things, what sort of dissent should be tolerated or even allowed under such a system?
01:03:08.000The pandemic loosened the reins on federal spending, says the New York Times, prompting members of both parties to support showering the economy with aid.
01:03:14.000It 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.
01:03:24.000Polls 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.
01:03:34.000They're not going to pay for any of this.
01:03:35.000They're going to blow out the deficits.
01:03:37.000They're going to completely undermine the American currency, or they're going to raise taxes radically.
01:03:41.000But again, what this is about is establishing that government is your father.
01:04:04.000It was seen as a major misstep by the Obama administration.
01:04:07.000The 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.
01:04:12.000And every single element of Julia's life was a government program that was going to give her something.
01:04:19.000If 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.
01:04:40.000No 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.
01:04:52.000As John Maynard Keynes once suggested, in the long run, we're all dead.
01:04:55.000So, you know, that's just the way that it works.
01:04:58.000If you're willing to make that trade, then this Biden administration is for you.
01:05:01.000If 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.
01:05:10.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.