The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democrats' January 6th Push To Ruin Democracy | Ep. 1406

00:00:00.000 According to Democrats, January 6th was the turning point for democracy and one of the most important dates in American history.

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00:01:32.000 Okay, so today is January 6th.

00:01:34.000 It is the first anniversary of the only important moment in modern American history, according to the left.

00:01:39.000 Here is the thing.

00:01:40.000 The reason that the left is paying attention to January 6th is pure politics.

00:01:44.000 This is pure political theater.

00:01:46.000 Because politics is always politics.

00:01:48.000 And it is not possible to be too cynical about politics.

00:01:50.000 It really is not.

00:01:51.000 The big news of the day is not January 6th.

00:01:54.000 The big news of the day is that the Federal Reserve officials at their meeting last month, according to the Wall Street Journal, are now eyeing a faster timetable for raising interest rates this year, potentially as soon as March.

00:02:03.000 And Democrats are panicking.

00:02:05.000 Because when the Fed raises the interest rates, yes, inflation gets curbed.

00:02:08.000 But also, unemployment is likely to go up.

00:02:10.000 Because typically, when you raise the interest rates, you make it harder for people to borrow.

00:02:14.000 When you make it harder for people to borrow, they cannot then spend that money on hiring people.

00:02:18.000 And so employment tends to go down.

00:02:19.000 And so Democrats are freaking the hell out.

00:02:22.000 And they should be freaking out.

00:02:24.000 This is all bad policy brought about by Joe Biden's interventionist take on economics.

00:02:30.000 And the Federal Reserve raising its rates is going to have some pretty dire effects for the Democrats come 2022 in the midterm elections.

00:02:36.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, minutes of their December 14th to 15th meeting, released Wednesday, showed officials believe that rising inflation and a very tight labor market could call for lifting short-term rates sooner or at a faster pace than participants had earlier anticipated.

00:02:49.000 Some officials also thought the Fed should start shrinking its $8.76 trillion portfolio of bonds and other assets relatively soon after beginning to raise the rates.

00:02:57.000 Investors would see the move as another way for the Fed to tighten financial conditions to cool the economy.

00:03:03.000 The predictable effect of this revelation is that stocks immediately dumped.

00:03:07.000 They turned sharply lower after the minutes were released on Wednesday afternoon.

00:03:11.000 The Dow Jones fell 1.1 percent.

00:03:13.000 The Nasdaq lost 3.3 percent.

00:03:15.000 Meanwhile, government bond yields rose on Wednesday.

00:03:18.000 Trading in interest rate futures implied a roughly two-thirds probability that the Fed would raise rates in March.

00:03:24.000 Okay, so what does this mean?

00:03:25.000 It means that Democrats desperately, desperately have to redirect to January 6th.

00:03:30.000 So both Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, and Joe Biden spoke at the Capitol Rotunda this morning.

00:03:36.000 They did so because, of course, they have to make hay while the sun shines.

00:03:38.000 January 6th being the most important thing in history.

00:03:40.000 Joe Biden is not great at this.

00:03:41.000 Kamala Harris is just absolutely abysmal at this. 1.00

00:03:44.000 So Joe Biden was able to sort of cover some of his some of his tracks.

00:03:48.000 Kamala Harris just kind of puts it all right out there. 0.51

00:03:50.000 Here in this very building, a decision will be made about whether we uphold the right to vote and ensure free and fair elections.

00:04:01.000 Let's be clear.

00:04:02.000 We must pass the voting rights bills that are now before the Senate.

00:04:08.000 And the American people must also do something more.

00:04:14.000 We cannot sit on the sidelines.

00:04:18.000 We must unite in defense of our democracy.

00:04:25.000 Here was Vice President Kamala Harris claiming that January 6th was just like, wait for it, Pearl Harbor and 9-11.

00:04:32.000 Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.

00:04:49.000 Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, But a place in our collective memory.

00:04:58.000 December 7th, 1941.

00:05:02.000 September 11th, 2001.

00:05:04.000 And January 6th, 2021.

00:05:09.000 Here's Joe Biden talking about the threat to democracy from which he must save us all.

00:05:14.000 I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today.

00:05:20.000 But I will not shrink from it either.

00:05:23.000 I will stand in this breach.

00:05:26.000 I will defend this nation.

00:05:28.000 And I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.

00:05:33.000 We will make sure the will of the people is heard.

00:05:37.000 That the ballot prevails, not violence.

00:05:40.000 That authority in this nation will always Be peacefully transferred.

00:05:44.000 You can't love your country only when you win.

00:05:46.000 You can't obey the law only when it's convenient.

00:05:47.000 You can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.

00:05:50.000 unprecedented threat on January 6th, but he will stand in the breach.

00:05:53.000 All you have to do is give him complete ultimate power.

00:05:57.000 You can't love your country only when you win.

00:06:00.000 You can't obey the law only when it's convenient.

00:06:04.000 You can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.

00:06:09.000 Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America and American democracy.

00:06:25.000 It's so tiresome.

00:06:26.000 It's so tiresome because we know the game that he's playing, right?

00:06:28.000 I mean, the game that he is playing right here is let me pass the legislation I want.

00:06:32.000 Otherwise, you are the dagger at the throat of democracy. 0.96

00:06:35.000 When he compares what happened on January 6th to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, you know, like black people being beaten up for being black as part of a broader Jim Crow effort to subvert the rights of black people. 0.75

00:06:45.000 When he compares it to, when he compares it to December 7th, what he's really saying is that anybody who disagrees with his agenda is the enemy because when he says he wants a renaissance of democracy, He does not mean respect for elections purely and simply.

00:06:58.000 What he really means is pass my Voting Rights Act.

00:07:00.000 He means let me add 87 justices to the Supreme Court and kill the filibuster and federalize election procedure.

00:07:06.000 That's what he means.

00:07:07.000 It's a political game and pretending that it's not, pretending that this is all just good-hearted, let's get together and be more civil about our election, that's not what he's doing and anyone with half a brain knows that's not what he's doing.

00:07:17.000 The worse things get for the Democrats, the more they're going to redirect to January 6th.

00:07:21.000 Now why?

00:07:23.000 I mean, this is the real question that should be asked.

00:07:24.000 Why?

00:07:25.000 So January 6th was a bad moment in American history.

00:07:28.000 It was.

00:07:28.000 And it was a moment in American history.

00:07:30.000 What I mean by that is that President Trump spent from November 4th to January 6th telling people that he had duly won the election and that for fraudulent reasons, Joe Biden was being selected as president.

00:07:41.000 And then he had his legal advisors telling people falsely that under the Electoral Count Act, the Vice President of the United States had the capacity to simply throw away state-certified votes.

00:07:50.000 That is not true.

00:07:51.000 Donald Trump had every legal avenue available to him to challenge election results.

00:07:55.000 He did it sometimes.

00:07:56.000 He didn't allege half of the stuff that he has alleged publicly.

00:07:59.000 And so by the time that it came time to certify the election, which happened in early December, by the time that happened, the Trump team had basically Made no case as to why states should throw out their own election results.

00:08:10.000 That is not to deny that there is election fraud in a country with 155 million votes.

00:08:15.000 There will be some election fraud.

00:08:16.000 This is not to deny that there wasn't screwing around with the elections given the procedures of 2020.

00:08:21.000 Thanks to the pandemic and thanks to democratic opportunism, there are a bunch of absentee ballots that were being sent out to people who did not ask for them or you had increased Drop in mailboxes or you had increase in terms of the number of people who were voting early, right?

00:08:36.000 All of this is true.

00:08:37.000 And it is also true that the election was, in fact, rigged from the perspective of the media, silencing information, preventing true information from getting to the public, and manipulating information that you did see, right?

00:08:49.000 All of that can be true.

00:08:49.000 And also, Donald Trump did not have a legal case for overturning the election.

00:08:52.000 And that's just the simple fact of the matter.

00:08:54.000 If he had had a legal case for overturning the election, he would have won some cases legally.

00:08:58.000 He did not win.

00:08:59.000 He won one case legally, and that was quickly overturned out of something like 80 across the country.

00:09:05.000 And the ballot recounts that have been done in places like Georgia and in Arizona, including the audit that was done in Arizona, the much ballyhooed Maricopa County audit found that there was not mass electoral fraud on the scale necessary to declare that Donald Trump had won the election in Arizona, for example.

00:09:20.000 So Donald Trump from November 4th to January 6th was maintaining that he was the rightfully elected President of the United States or that the election was totally fraudulent or that the Senate Majority Leader and the Vice President of the United States had the legal capacity to simply throw out duly certified state votes.

00:09:34.000 That was not true.

00:09:36.000 But Donald Trump did not tell people to storm the Capitol building.

00:09:40.000 He did not.

00:09:41.000 He said that people should peacefully protest at the Capitol building.

00:09:44.000 So a bunch of people went over there.

00:09:45.000 There was a huge rally.

00:09:46.000 I mean like tens of thousands of people.

00:09:49.000 The vast majority of those people went home.

00:09:51.000 The vast majority of those people did not engage in the violence at the Capitol building.

00:09:55.000 And then several hundred people did engage in violence at the Capitol building.

00:09:58.000 Something like 100 police officers were injured and some of those people broke into the Capitol building and some of the people in the Capitol building were running around yelling for Mike Pence.

00:10:07.000 Or assaulting police officers.

00:10:09.000 And some of those people were just kind of wandering around inside.

00:10:10.000 Okay, that is what happened on January 6th.

00:10:12.000 And then, within three hours, the entire place was clear.

00:10:15.000 All the Congress people were back in their seats.

00:10:17.000 And Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence were certifying the election.

00:10:19.000 That's what actually happened on January 6th.

00:10:20.000 Okay, we were all there.

00:10:22.000 We all remember it.

00:10:23.000 It was bad.

00:10:24.000 It was not good.

00:10:26.000 The president of the United States waited too long to tell people to go home.

00:10:29.000 But all of that said, was this a full-blown coup?

00:10:33.000 No, because a coup requires some sort of institutional support that would legitimate a failure of an effective transition of power.

00:10:40.000 And people say there was no peaceful transition of power.

00:10:42.000 That is a lie.

00:10:43.000 There was a peaceful transition of power.

00:10:45.000 The presence of a riot does not mean that there was no peaceful transition of power.

00:10:48.000 If that were the case, there was no peaceful transition of power back in 2017 when Donald Trump, at his inauguration, there were massive riots outside Trump's inauguration involving the arrest of over 200 people.

00:10:59.000 Was that a peaceful transition of power?

00:11:00.000 It was because Joe Biden left and Donald Trump took office.

00:11:03.000 Well, on January 20th of 2021, Donald Trump left and Joe Biden took office.

00:11:08.000 That is called a peaceful transition of power.

00:11:10.000 Was this a moment of crisis for our democracy?

00:11:13.000 No, it wasn't. 1.00

00:11:13.000 Within three hours of idiots invading the Capitol building, the election was being certified. 1.00

00:11:20.000 So then why is this a moment of national disgrace, a moment of national shame? 1.00

00:11:23.000 And the answer is because for the left, it must be.

00:11:26.000 It must be because of the left's goal.

00:11:28.000 Within 24 hours of this event, forget 24 hours, then 24 minutes of this event, it became wildly apparent that for the Democrats and for the media, this was gold.

00:11:36.000 And it was gold because they got to try and lump in everyone who voted with Trump To people who protested the election and then lump in all those people with the Capitol rioters.

00:11:45.000 So the idea was that if you voted for Trump, or if you voted against Biden, or if you would ever consider voting for Trump, or if you would ever consider voting for any other Republican, you were complicit in the actions of January 6th.

00:11:56.000 This became perfectly clear when Parler was knocked offline by Amazon Web Services.

00:12:00.000 Amazon Web Services is a neutral service provider.

00:12:03.000 The suggestion was that Parler had been used to organize the January 6th riots, and therefore, Parler needed to be dumped offline.

00:12:09.000 Well, Facebook was used much more than Parler for that.

00:12:11.000 They weren't dumped offline.

00:12:12.000 Twitter was used.

00:12:14.000 Twitter was not dumped offline.

00:12:15.000 It became very clear very quickly that major institutions in the United States were going to use January 6th As the excuse and the predicate for cracking down on political opposition.

00:12:25.000 And that's what continues today.

00:12:27.000 The left's argument is that January 6th is not just something that happened.

00:12:30.000 It's not just a bad thing perpetrated by people who acted criminally and are going to jail.

00:12:35.000 It was not even about Donald Trump saying things that were not true.

00:12:38.000 It was not about any of that.

00:12:39.000 It was about a full-fledged attempt by the right wing in the United States to subvert democracy.

00:12:44.000 And that can only be stopped, according to the left, by allowing them to subvert democracy.

00:12:48.000 Tear away at the fundamental institutions of Republicanism in this country.

00:12:52.000 Get rid of the Senate filibuster, for example, so they can pass a Voting Rights Act, which is not really a Voting Rights Act.

00:12:56.000 It's a Federalization of Elections Act.

00:12:59.000 Complete with insanely loose election restrictions.

00:13:04.000 This is their argument.

00:13:05.000 Their argument is you must give them total power to prevent the Republicans from taking total power. 0.90

00:13:09.000 Because after all, those evil, evil Republicans are seeking to take total power.

00:13:13.000 Now, what are they basing that on?

00:13:14.000 They're basing that on the fact that there are laws that have been passed in states like Georgia that shore up certain election procedures and actually loosen certain election procedures.

00:13:22.000 Everyone who looks at the Georgia law just facially understands this is not a device for stealing elections in Georgia.

00:13:29.000 Anyone who suggests to you that the Georgia election law is about Republicans stealing election is out of their mind or lying to you.

00:13:36.000 The great election threat here does not exist.

00:13:39.000 Okay, Republicans are not stealing elections across the country.

00:13:43.000 The left is suggesting, for example, that the John Lewis Voting Rights Act be used in order to crack down on particularly red states when it comes to redistricting.

00:13:52.000 There's only one problem, according to Cook Political, in Republican states in which they've engaged in redistricting this year.

00:13:57.000 There really is no major shift toward Republican seats.

00:14:00.000 There's actually more of a shift in Democratic states with Democratic redistricting than there is in Republican states with Republican redistricting.

00:14:06.000 In other words, this is not a major problem.

00:14:08.000 Democrats have decided it's a major problem because they wish to use this as the excuse to seize more power.

00:14:14.000 That's what this is about.

00:14:15.000 This is not a sincere effort.

00:14:16.000 Nobody believes this is sincerely about January 6th.

00:14:21.000 Which part of it would be sincere from the left?

00:14:23.000 The part where they're very upset about people protesting elections?

00:14:26.000 Who's going to make that case?

00:14:27.000 Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia, who lost an election by 50,000 votes and was declared in 2020 a governor of Georgia by the Democratic Party at their national convention?

00:14:36.000 Who exactly on the Democratic side of the aisle is really upset about people who protest elections?

00:14:40.000 The same people who spent four years declaring that Donald Trump was only president because of Russian collusion and Facebook memes?

00:14:47.000 Or maybe we're supposed to believe that the Democratic left is deeply, deeply upset and angry over the treatment of police officers on January 6th.

00:14:55.000 I mean, hell, the New York Times has an entire piece today titled, Capitol Police Bear Scars of Riots.

00:15:01.000 Now, I just have a question.

00:15:04.000 About 100 police officers, 120 police officers were injured on January 6th over the course of the Black Lives Matter riots, which were predicated on a huge lie.

00:15:13.000 A much bigger lie, by the way, in consequence for literally millions of Americans than the lie that President Trump openly won the 2020 election, for example.

00:15:21.000 The lie that America's police are systemically racist, targeting black men and shooting them down in the streets.

00:15:25.000 That's what Black Lives Matter was predicated upon. 0.70

00:15:27.000 It was a full-blown lie promoted by every major Democrat to the point where you had the current Vice President of the United States bailing rioters out of jail in Minnesota.

00:15:37.000 In those riots, over 2,000 police officers were injured.

00:15:40.000 Not one word from Democrats on this.

00:15:43.000 So are we supposed to believe that the reason that this is a truly historic event is because of mistreatment of police?

00:15:48.000 Is that what we're meant to believe from the media and the Democrats?

00:15:52.000 Which part of January 6th is the part that they are really, they're standing on solid ground in terms of their own approach toward, for example, elections, or treatment of police, or treatment of political violence, which they winked and nodded at, and in some cases openly promoted in the middle of 2020.

00:16:07.000 That's why, as always, this is a political game, and pretending that it is anything but a political game is being pretty damned dishonest.

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00:17:26.000 So Joe Biden says, Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?

00:17:31.000 I don't know, Joe.

00:17:31.000 Are we?

00:17:32.000 Where were you for all of summer 2020?

00:17:35.000 Where?

00:17:36.000 Where was your entire party for all of summer 2020 when I was locked in my home in LA thanks to the riots that were occurring on Sunset Boulevard and down the street from me on Whitsitt?

00:17:44.000 I just have a question.

00:17:45.000 Where were you?

00:17:45.000 Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?

00:17:49.000 You already did.

00:17:52.000 You already did.

00:17:53.000 Don't shed me no crocodile tears about January 6th after you spent an entire summer greenlighting $5 billion in uninsured property damage across the country and pretending it's not a big deal because after all, George Floyd.

00:18:05.000 Biden says, are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?

00:18:14.000 Well, I mean, I don't know, Joe, are we?

00:18:16.000 Nancy Pelosi challenged a duly held election in the state of Iowa in which there is a very close congressional race, and she held up the results for months. 0.98

00:18:25.000 There's even talk of seating the Democrat in place of the Republican in that particular race.

00:18:29.000 So I'm all for verifiable procedures.

00:18:31.000 I'm all for certified elections being carried forward.

00:18:34.000 I think that Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell did the right thing in January of 2020.

00:18:40.000 I also think that it would be good if states, for example, carry out their votes and then tally their votes and then certify their votes without political interference.

00:18:51.000 I agree with that.

00:18:51.000 I'm just wondering, do you still think that Governor Stacey Abrams is the governor of Georgia?

00:18:57.000 We can't allow ourselves to be that kind of nation.

00:19:01.000 Joe Biden is going to speak about January 6th incessantly because he's a crappy president and he has to get you to think about something else.

00:19:06.000 Don't pay attention to the inflation over here.

00:19:09.000 Please don't pay attention to the fact that we are shutting down schools in Chicago and in New York and in Philadelphia, or at least trying in New York.

00:19:15.000 Don't pay attention to any of that.

00:19:17.000 Pay attention to the fact that January 6th happened.

00:19:21.000 See the shiny object?

00:19:22.000 Pay attention to this hand, not to this hand.

00:19:24.000 So Jen Psaki talked a little bit yesterday about Biden's plans for January 6th.

00:19:28.000 Here's what she had to say.

00:19:30.000 President Biden has been clear-eyed about the threat the former president represents to our democracy and how the former president constantly works to undermine basic American values and rule of law.

00:19:41.000 And President Biden has, of course, spoken repeatedly about how the former president abused his office, undermined the Constitution, and ignored his oath to the American people in an effort to amass more power for himself and his allies.

00:19:53.000 He sees January 6th as a tragic culmination of what those four years under President Trump did to our country.

00:20:00.000 Okay, that right there is the key, right?

00:20:03.000 So when Jen Psaki says that Joe Biden sees January 6th as the tragic culmination of what Trump did to the country.

00:20:08.000 Okay, first of all, the democratic idea about politics is that the world began spinning the moment Trump became president, and then it stopped spinning on January 6th.

00:20:15.000 That is the only period of history that we are ever allowed to look at.

00:20:18.000 Actually, there are a couple periods, right?

00:20:19.000 There's when America allowed slavery, and then you fast forward all the way to Trump becoming president.

00:20:25.000 These are the only periods in American history that have ever mattered, according to the left, apparently.

00:20:30.000 When Jen Psaki says that, what she means to do is to tie every Trump policy to January 6th.

00:20:34.000 If you supported Trump's tax cuts, well, it did culminate in January 6th.

00:20:38.000 If you supported Trump's foreign policy, the Abraham Accords, strengthening our position vis-a-vis China, well, that did culminate in January 6th.

00:20:46.000 If you supported Trump's judicial nominees, well, that did culminate in January 6th.

00:20:50.000 She's not being specific.

00:20:51.000 Deliberately.

00:20:52.000 She's being deliberately vague because the idea is if you disagree with us on any of these things, you are part of the problem.

00:20:58.000 You're part of the problem.

00:21:00.000 So they have to continue to maintain that there is this vast threat to American democracy that justifies exactly what they are doing.

00:21:07.000 And again, what's amazing about this is they are not hiding the ball in any way, shape or form.

00:21:12.000 If you mention it, people get mad at you because we're all supposed to believe that the only thing that matters in American life is January 6th.

00:21:18.000 But they are pretty much just saying it.

00:21:22.000 They are pretty much just saying what it is that they want to do.

00:21:26.000 They want to push this rejiggering of all voting law.

00:21:30.000 That is the goal.

00:21:32.000 And they're going to use this as the lever to do it.

00:21:35.000 Again, this is not a shock.

00:21:36.000 This is what people do in politics.

00:21:37.000 It's not unique to Democrats, not unique to Republicans.

00:21:40.000 Politicians exploit situations.

00:21:42.000 January 6th is a situation Democrats believe they can exploit.

00:21:45.000 And so they will shed crocodile tears in orders that they can push forward a bunch of stuff they wanted to do anyway.

00:21:51.000 That is the goal here.

00:21:54.000 And that is why you're seeing them play up the notion that there's like this giant threat.

00:21:57.000 Okay, January 6th is not going to be repeated today.

00:22:00.000 That's not a thing.

00:22:02.000 I mean, they spent months putting barbed wire around the Capitol when there was no threat.

00:22:07.000 None.

00:22:08.000 Why?

00:22:09.000 Because they had to maintain the idea that there is a threat so grave that you have to let us do exactly what we want to do.

00:22:14.000 You'll get some more of this in just one second, because this is the universal message from the left on January 6th, the first anniversary.

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00:23:43.000 Joe Biden's entire shtick here is again to promote the idea that democracy is under grave threat and therefore we can do what we want.

00:23:49.000 He's trotting out his DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to say, there is indeed a continuing and real threat from insurrectionists a la January 6th.

00:23:57.000 Meanwhile, why don't we leave the southern border open?

00:23:58.000 Like completely open.

00:23:59.000 We'll just, we'll do that.

00:24:01.000 Here's Alejandro Mayorkas, the terrible, terrible head of Homeland Security.

00:24:05.000 domestic violent extremism does in fact remain one of the greatest threats that we face on the homeland. And what we in the Department of Homeland Security do is obtain information and share information and make sure that not only we across the federal enterprise, but also our state and local partners are fully equipped with the information and best positioned

00:24:34.000 to prevent a threat from materializing.

00:24:37.000 The threat is real but it is our job to be prepared for it and to be responsive if in fact it should materialize.

00:24:46.000 Okay, no, the threat of a coup is not real.

00:24:49.000 The threat of a mass-scale insurrection is not real.

00:24:51.000 I mean, how motivated are Democrats to come up?

00:24:56.000 With this narrative, they've been sending polls showing that something like 4% of Americans want Trump to lead a coup right now.

00:25:02.000 10% of Americans think Elvis is still alive.

00:25:03.000 And the margin of error on these polls is like 4%.

00:25:05.000 But we're supposed to believe that there's 10 million Americans who are desperate and willing to pick up arms in order to effectuate a coup.

00:25:14.000 Uh, no.

00:25:15.000 No.

00:25:16.000 By the way, the people who violated the law on January 6th have been prosecuted to the hilt by the federal government.

00:25:22.000 Much, much more than the rioters of Black Lives Matter summer. 0.77

00:25:26.000 There were literally thousands of people committing crimes across the country during 2020.

00:25:32.000 A huge majority of those people are not going to jail.

00:25:35.000 I wish to God that we had the same sort of law and order attitude toward the rioters of 2020 that we did toward the rioters of January 6th.

00:25:42.000 This is why I don't believe Democrats when they start talking about, yes, well, January 6th, it's all about law and order.

00:25:46.000 Here's Merrick Garland doing that routine.

00:25:50.000 With increasing numbers of individuals having breached the Capitol, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, including the President of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence, had to be evacuated.

00:26:04.000 As a consequence, proceedings in both chambers were disrupted for hours, interfering with a fundamental element of American democracy, the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.

00:26:20.000 Those involved must be held accountable.

00:26:24.000 And there is no higher priority for us at the Department of Justice.

00:26:30.000 It's the only priority at the Department of Justice because the Department of Justice is a political tool of the Biden administration.

00:26:35.000 Well, how about, honestly, it's not whataboutism to say that there is a standard and it should apply across the board.

00:26:40.000 If it does not apply across the board, I have a feeling that it's politically driven.

00:26:43.000 That's not whataboutism.

00:26:45.000 It's not whataboutism because I think that the people who broke the law on January 6th should go to jail.

00:26:48.000 It would be whataboutism if I were making the argument that they shouldn't go to jail.

00:26:51.000 But if you broke the law, you should go to jail.

00:26:53.000 But I believe that about everybody who breaks the law.

00:26:56.000 But Merrick Garland and DOJ don't believe that.

00:26:58.000 They're currently cramming down consent decrees on police departments, making it easier for criminals to effectuate their crime.

00:27:05.000 Here's Merrick Garland continuing along these lines.

00:27:07.000 January 6th, of course, being the only important event in American history.

00:27:11.000 The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.

00:27:17.000 The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law, whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.

00:27:36.000 We will follow the facts wherever they lead.

00:27:42.000 Okay, meanwhile, so I have some doubts about the way that this sort of stuff is portrayed.

00:27:47.000 The reason I have some doubts about the way this is portrayed is because, for example, the idea here is that Trump led the insurrection.

00:27:53.000 Okay, now, again, Trump said things that were not true between November 4th and January 6th.

00:27:58.000 I've been very clear about this.

00:28:00.000 I do not think that Trump had the evidence to overturn the 2020 election.

00:28:03.000 I don't think he presented it in court.

00:28:04.000 I don't think that the allegations that he made publicly are the ones he tried to substantiate in court.

00:28:08.000 It's not that I don't think that, I know that, because I've looked at the court filings.

00:28:12.000 But, when President Trump is accused of, for example, quote-unquote, inciting the violence at the Capitol, there's two questions here.

00:28:20.000 One is, did he incite the violence at the Capitol?

00:28:21.000 And two is, did he tamp it down fast enough once it broke out?

00:28:24.000 Two is still an open question at the very least.

00:28:28.000 One is not really an open question.

00:28:29.000 Because the fact is, he said in his speech to peacefully protest at the Capitol building, I've held a very consistent standard on this.

00:28:35.000 If a politician raises the level of rhetoric, he is guilty for raising the level of rhetoric.

00:28:38.000 He is not guilty of incitement.

00:28:40.000 Bernie Sanders is not guilty for the congressional baseball shooting.

00:28:42.000 Barack Obama was not guilty for the 2016 assassination of six Dallas police officers.

00:28:47.000 And Donald Trump is not guilty for the break-in at the Capitol building.

00:28:51.000 But the goal for the media is always to turn whatever Trump says into incitement.

00:28:58.000 So, for example, Yesterday, Trump put out a statement regarding VAX mandates.

00:29:03.000 He said the Biden administration's response to COVID is getting worse every day.

00:29:06.000 Joe Biden said there is no federal solution to the pandemic, but he then federalized the distribution of antibodies.

00:29:10.000 Red states are getting the short end of the stick.

00:29:12.000 In my administration, we respected the role of governors to take care of their own states, and they could request antibodies and therapeutics depending on what they needed.

00:29:18.000 That's the way our country is supposed to run.

00:29:21.000 Now there's talk by the Biden administration again about closing schools and even VAX mandates for schoolchildren.

00:29:25.000 This is an outrage.

00:29:27.000 The federal government must be reined in and give people back the freedom to decide whether they want to be vaccinated or not.

00:29:33.000 Right?

00:29:33.000 And he suggests that MAGA should, quote unquote, rise up.

00:29:37.000 Right?

00:29:37.000 He says that the exact phrase that he uses is, this is an outrage and MAGA nation should rise up and oppose this egregious federal government outreach.

00:29:45.000 OK, overreach.

00:29:47.000 And so the media immediately said that because he used the language rise up, he means violent insurrection.

00:29:51.000 No, he doesn't.

00:29:53.000 No, he doesn't.

00:29:53.000 People use that language routinely when it comes to politics.

00:29:57.000 I mean, that's just, that's silly. 0.99

00:30:00.000 That's silly. 0.80

00:30:02.000 But again, the goal is any association with January 6th can be used to smear literally everyone.

00:30:08.000 And that is, at the very least, wildly objectionable.

00:30:12.000 But that's the talking point for today.

00:30:15.000 And so we have Jimmy Carter writing guest pieces for the New York Times about fearing for democracy.

00:30:20.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:31:26.000 Okay, so.

00:31:27.000 And the entire media are now repeating the Democratic talking points because this is what we do.

00:31:32.000 And so we have Jimmy Carter.

00:31:33.000 The 1,000-year-old former president of the United States writing in the New York Times about how we almost descended into complete tyranny in January of 2020.

00:31:44.000 We didn't.

00:31:45.000 I'm sorry, we didn't.

00:31:46.000 There was no institutional support for the Capitol rioters who were cleared from the Capitol building, I repeat, again, within three hours.

00:31:53.000 They went to jail, and then the election was certified by Donald Trump's vice president.

00:31:58.000 But according to Jimmy Carter, it was a crisis for democracy, and that crisis has not abated.

00:32:03.000 He says, one year ago, a violent mob guided by unscrupulous politicians stormed the Capitol and almost succeeded in preventing the Democratic transfer of power.

00:32:09.000 No, they didn't.

00:32:10.000 They didn't even come close to preventing the Democratic transfer of power.

00:32:13.000 They did not come within 100 yards of preventing the Democratic transfer of power.

00:32:19.000 They occupied a building, were cleared from the building within three hours.

00:32:23.000 The only person who was killed, by the way, is one of the protesters shot, Ashley Babbitt.

00:32:27.000 Everybody else who died, died of a heart attack or died of other extraneous conditions.

00:32:31.000 There's no direct evidence that any police officer was murdered on January 6th.

00:32:38.000 But again, it has to be blown up into, we're on the verge of losing our democracy, which of course is really, really, really silly.

00:32:44.000 He says, all four of us former presidents condemned their actions and affirmed the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

00:32:49.000 There followed a brief hope that the insurrection would shock the nation into addressing the toxic polarization that threatens our democracy.

00:32:55.000 Is what Jimmy Carter, Captain Polarization himself has to say.

00:32:58.000 However, one year on, Promoters of the lie that the election was stolen have taken over one political party and stoked distrust in our electoral systems.

00:33:06.000 These forces exert power and influence the relentless disinformation which continues to turn Americans against Americans.

00:33:12.000 Politicians in my home state of Georgia, as well as in others, such as Texas and Florida, have leveraged the distrust they have created to enact laws that empower partisan legislatures to intervene in election processes.

00:33:22.000 They seek to win by any means, and many Americans are being persuaded to think and act likewise, threatening to collapse the foundations of our society and democracy with breathtaking speed.

00:33:31.000 I now fear that what we have fought so hard to achieve globally, the right to free, fair elections unhindered by strongman politicians, has become dangerously fragile at home.

00:33:39.000 Okay, so I have a question for Jimmy Carter.

00:33:42.000 In 2006, Jimmy Carter, I mean, speaking of free and fair elections, Jimmy Carter, in 2006, presided over an election in the Gaza Strip.

00:33:51.000 Okay, in the Middle East.

00:33:53.000 That election was won by Hamas. 0.98

00:33:55.000 Hamas is a terrorist group. 0.78

00:33:57.000 That election was marred by tremendous abuses of power because Hamas is, as stated, a terrorist group.

00:34:03.000 Jimmy Carter then proceeded to certify that election and say that election was good and say that Hamas should be given a chance. 0.93

00:34:08.000 So I'm just wondering what leg he has to stand on in talking about democracy promotion and electoral fraud.

00:34:16.000 But, you know, they've got to call everybody out of the woodwork to make the case.

00:34:21.000 He makes some recommendations.

00:34:22.000 He says, first, while citizens can disagree on policies, people of all political stripes must agree on fundamental constitutional principles and norms of fairness, civility, and respect for the rule of law.

00:34:32.000 Agree.

00:34:33.000 I have no problem with any of that.

00:34:36.000 I'm just wondering why it only applies to one side of the political aisle, but I have no problem with any of that.

00:34:41.000 Second, we must push for reforms that ensure the security and accessibility of our elections and ensure public confidence in the accuracy of results.

00:34:48.000 Okay, that's, again, no objections.

00:34:51.000 Third, we must resist the polarization that is reshaping our identities around politics.

00:34:55.000 We must focus on a few core truths that we are all human, we are all Americans, we have common hopes for our communities and our country to thrive.

00:35:01.000 Again, agree.

00:35:02.000 Fourth, violence has no place in our politics.

00:35:04.000 We must act urgently to pass or strengthen laws to reverse the trends of character assassination, intimidation, and the presence of armed militias at events.

00:35:12.000 Um, okay, I don't know how that is going to materialize in a country where we still respect the First Amendment.

00:35:17.000 There is a pretty wide distinction between violence in politics and trends of character assassination.

00:35:25.000 That seems like a... Now you're starting to verge on the conflation of good ideas with very, very bad ideas.

00:35:32.000 Finally, he says, lastly, the spread of disinformation, especially on social media, must be addressed.

00:35:36.000 We must rein in these platforms and get in the habit of seeking out accurate information.

00:35:41.000 Corporate America and religious communities should encourage respect for democratic norms, participation in elections, and efforts to counter disinformation.

00:35:48.000 So now he's talking again about how he gets to define what is disinformation and what is not, and he gets to control that.

00:35:54.000 So we went very quickly from things we can all agree on to things that very few of us can agree on because we don't trust you to actually handle those systems.

00:36:01.000 But that's the entire goal.

00:36:05.000 Okay, so Joy Behar.

00:36:06.000 I'm not going to her as some sort of apex of democratic intellectualism, because that would be disingenuous.

00:36:13.000 She's not.

00:36:13.000 What she is is the id of the Democratic Party.

00:36:15.000 When Joy Behar says something, this is what lies at the gut level of the Democratic Party.

00:36:20.000 What she says here is pretty much the whole ball of wax.

00:36:23.000 The reason that this has to be done right now, the reason January 6th is important, the reason they have to federalize election law, the reason that they have to go back to the Voting Rights Act, even though the Supreme Court basically says this doesn't apply 50 years on, The reason they have to do this is because Republicans might win.

00:36:36.000 That's why.

00:36:37.000 That's why the urgency.

00:36:38.000 That's why the outsized screaming. 1.00

00:36:40.000 That's why the crocodile tears.

00:36:42.000 Here's Joy Behar of The View.

00:36:44.000 You know, I remember in Watergate, it took a long time before they actually nailed all these people.

00:36:49.000 It doesn't happen that fast.

00:36:51.000 The wheels of justice grind slowly.

00:36:54.000 I'm not losing hope yet, but I will worry in November if the Republicans take over the House and the Senate.

00:37:00.000 That will be the beginning of the end for this country.

00:37:05.000 Oh, if they win the House and the Senate, it's the beginning of the end of the country.

00:37:08.000 Well, that justifies pretty much anything, does it?

00:37:10.000 I thought from Jimmy Carter we're supposed to end polarization.

00:37:13.000 Nothing ends polarization quite like saying that if your political opponents win an election, it's the end of the country.

00:37:18.000 But that's what I'm... They are simultaneously making the case that political polarization has to end, and the only way for political polarization to end is for them to win from now until the end of time.

00:37:28.000 That is one way to end polarization, is to create a monopoly.

00:37:32.000 Monopolies end polarization, because now you don't have two polls.

00:37:35.000 You only have one.

00:37:37.000 But that is not the way that you effectuate actual peace, harmony and civility in the United States.

00:37:42.000 I said this when Joe Biden took office.

00:37:43.000 He came in, he said, I'm going to be a unifier, not a divider.

00:37:46.000 And I said, OK, unity is great.

00:37:47.000 But by unity, do you mean tolerance for other people's points of views, pursuit of moderate policies approved by a majority of Americans?

00:37:53.000 Or do you mean I'm going to cram down whatever the hell I want and you shut the hell up?

00:37:57.000 Because that's two separate ways of creating unity.

00:37:59.000 It is fairly obvious that he meant the latter.

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00:39:56.000 Alrighty, so again, the agenda here is very clear.

00:40:06.000 January 6th is the center of the universe because the left wants to do things.

00:40:08.000 So, for example, there's a piece in the New York Times today from Cynthia Miller Idris, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.

00:40:18.000 The first part of this column, America's most urgent threat now comes from within.

00:40:22.000 Our most urgent threat now comes from within.

00:40:24.000 And what is that threat?

00:40:25.000 That threat, of course, is the January 6th riot types.

00:40:29.000 So what is her recommendation as to policy?

00:40:33.000 Because extremist ideas are no longer limited to an isolated lone wolf fringe, the United States should focus less on isolating and containing a few bad cells, and more on reducing the fertile ground in which anti-democratic and violent extremist ideologies thrive.

00:40:46.000 It needs a public health approach to preventing violent extremism.

00:40:49.000 This is where all the bells should be clanging.

00:40:51.000 Because whenever the left says public health approach, think about what they did over public health over the last year and a half.

00:40:57.000 Over the last few years, public health meant they could lock you in your home and send your children home from school interminably.

00:41:01.000 They could force masks on your face and force vaccines into your arm.

00:41:05.000 And when the left says public health approach, they mean, we can force you to do anything we want.

00:41:09.000 That's what they mean.

00:41:10.000 Says this columnist, This means that federal, state, and local governments should invest in and promote digital and media literacy programs, civic education, and other efforts to strengthen democratic norms and values.

00:41:21.000 American leaders should lead by example in rejecting disinformation, propaganda, online manipulation, and conspiracy theories.

00:41:27.000 It's not an easy fix, and this shift in mindset will not happen overnight, but inclusive, equitable democracies make it harder for extremist ideas to take root and spread.

00:41:35.000 No one wants the federal government to police people's beliefs.

00:41:38.000 But!

00:41:40.000 But!

00:41:40.000 And always remember the first rule of but.

00:41:42.000 Everything that comes before the but don't matter.

00:41:44.000 But!

00:41:45.000 The U.S.

00:41:46.000 government's focus on using conventional counterterrorism tools fails to account for the generally unchecked spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories, propaganda targeting racial and religious minorities, and the increasing dehumanization of those with whom one disagrees.

00:41:59.000 These are important precursors to violence.

00:42:01.000 What would January 6th have looked like if policymakers had focused on these precursors?

00:42:06.000 Many of the Americans who stormed the Capitol last year were immersed in a universe of disinformation that convinced them they were heroes acting to save democracy.

00:42:13.000 A public health approach to preventing violent extremism would shift prevention work away from security and intelligence experts, away from wiretaps and cultivated informants, and toward social workers, school counselors and teachers, mental health experts, and religious leaders to focus on social support and democratic resilience.

00:42:30.000 In such a world, the rioters' lives would look very different.

00:42:34.000 They would have been taught in school or through programs in sports clubs or faith communities to recognize disinformation.

00:42:38.000 They would have been less susceptible to claims about a stolen election.

00:42:42.000 If you were to flirt with those claims and mention them to a family member or a friend, the relative or friend would know how to get help.

00:42:48.000 There would be dedicated resources like a toll-free support line or gatherings akin to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings that could offer counseling and intervention.

00:42:56.000 No approach can totally prevent radicalization, but a more holistic one is better suited to defend against mainstream extremism.

00:43:05.000 So, the idea here is that we need the federal government to get involved in how people consume information.

00:43:12.000 Won't nothing go wrong there.

00:43:14.000 Just leave the feds involved in how people consume information and sponsoring programs with regard to how people consume information.

00:43:19.000 That'll be good.

00:43:20.000 That'll probably work out well.

00:43:21.000 No danger there.

00:43:23.000 Everything's fine.

00:43:24.000 So here is the thing.

00:43:25.000 The notion from the left is that January 6th represented an institutional threat to democracy.

00:43:31.000 The truth is, the true powers in our society are all on the other side.

00:43:35.000 Every major power in the United States is not only on the other side of January 6th, they're on the other side of the aisle from the conservatives generally.

00:43:43.000 The great myth of January 6th is that Democrats and their allies are a put-upon group of people who have no power in the American political discourse and therefore they must use the power of government in order to cram down their point of view and restructure elections.

00:44:00.000 The reality is that every major institution in the United States has been performing a soft takeover of all of our political thought and the way politics is done in the United States.

00:44:13.000 Thomas Edsel has a piece in the New York Times that's just astonishing.

00:44:16.000 This piece is about what happened in 2020, which, for the record, is much more an American tipping point than what happened in 2021.

00:44:22.000 What happened in 2020 with the Black Lives Matter riots, in which every major institution in American public life immediately swiveled into line and began pouring billions of dollars into a radical cause, should be far more of a cause for concern than 200, 300, 500 droogs running into the Capitol building, breaking some windows, and getting arrested. 0.94

00:44:44.000 Because here's the thing.

00:44:45.000 In order for there to be a coup or an insurrection, typically, you have to, number one, have a plan, which they didn't on January 6th, and number two, you actually have to have some sort of institutional backing, which again, they did not on January 6th.

00:44:56.000 But the radicals on the left do have institutional backing.

00:45:00.000 There's no one who's too radical for the left, and there's no program too radical for the left and the institutions that back it.

00:45:06.000 Thomas Edsel has a piece yesterday about the institutional support for the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

00:45:11.000 in 2020. Ready for this? The killing of George Floyd and the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that followed drove an exceptionally large increase in foundation grants and pledges to criminal and racial justice reform groups and other causes.

00:45:22.000 Candid is a website that connects people who want to change the world with the resources Publish.

00:45:28.000 What does Candid's grants data say about funding for racial equity in the United States?

00:45:31.000 By a person named Anna Koob.

00:45:33.000 July 24th, 2020.

00:45:35.000 Kubrot, in the months since George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police, witnessed a surge in attention to long-standing anti-Black racism in the United States.

00:45:42.000 Although racial inequality is hardly a new phenomenon, the public reaction to these events does feel bigger and more broad-based.

00:45:48.000 Before Floyd's death, Candid found that philanthropies provided $3.3 billion in racial equity funding in the nine years from 2011 to 2019.

00:45:54.000 So something in excess of $300 million a year.

00:45:55.000 So something in excess of 300 million dollars a year.

00:46:00.000 Major corporations and philanthropies from 2011 to 2019.

00:46:04.000 Since then, candid calculations revealed these totals for 2020.

00:46:09.000 $12.7 billion in 2020.

00:46:09.000 $11.6 billion in 2021 for quote-unquote racial equity funding.

00:46:12.000 Okay, that is a grand total, if I'm doing my math correctly, of $24.3 billion.

00:46:15.000 billion dollars in 2021 for quote unquote racial equity funding.

00:46:19.000 Okay, that that that is a grand total if I'm doing my math correctly of 24.3 billion dollars 24.3 billion dollars in 2020 2021 coming from major institutions in our society for the Black Lives Matter movement.

00:46:35.000 I know the conservative movement really well.

00:46:36.000 There is no way in hell the conservatives have ever spent anything remotely like that in a two-year period on anything political, including elections.

00:46:42.000 Okay, on a presidential election, conservatives might spend, I don't know, what, a billion dollars?

00:46:48.000 Maybe?

00:46:50.000 But on all other... 24 billion dollars?

00:46:55.000 In two years?

00:46:56.000 On Black Lives Matter?

00:46:58.000 This included Mackenzie Scott, $2.9 billion.

00:47:02.000 The Ford Foundation, $3 billion.

00:47:03.000 JPMorgan Chase, $2.1 billion.

00:47:05.000 Kellogg, $1.2 billion.

00:47:06.000 Bill and Melinda Gates, $1.1 billion.

00:47:08.000 Silicon Valley Community Foundation, $1 billion.

00:47:10.000 Walton Family Foundation, $689 million.

00:47:12.000 The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $438 million.

00:47:15.000 Foundation to Promote an Open Society, that's George Soros, $350.5 million.

00:47:21.000 The institutions in our society do run in one direction.

00:47:25.000 The institutional power in our society runs in one direction.

00:47:28.000 To suggest that the institutional power and the threat to our country lies in the direction of a few hundred people who went, as far as I'm aware, unarmed into the Capitol building.

00:47:40.000 There's no guns found on anybody in the Capitol building, so far as I'm aware.

00:47:43.000 That that is the true threat to democracy.

00:47:45.000 And the true threat to democracy is not the fact that all of our institutions, from politics to media to corporate life, have swiveled behind a radical agenda that undermines political comedy in the country.

00:47:57.000 Is a wild misdirect, which of course is what this really is, right?

00:47:59.000 It is all a wild misdirect.

00:48:01.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:48:03.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Moll's show.

00:48:05.000 In today's show, Trump cancels his January 6th rally.

00:48:08.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show that's available right now.

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The Democrats' January 6th Push To Ruin Democracy | Ep. 1406

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