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00:01:39.000In order to understand what is going on with COVID, you actually have to look at the charts.
00:01:43.000Because what's actually happening right now is that you are seeing an increased number of cases.
00:01:46.000The people who are getting very ill and dying of COVID right now are almost universally unvaccinated.
00:01:51.000The people who are getting the disease after having been vaccinated are typically getting very mild forms of it.
00:01:57.000They're getting either asymptomatic or very, very mild symptomatic forms.
00:02:01.000And anybody who's being hospitalized after having had the COVID vaccine and then getting COVID, these tend to be older people with significant underlying vulnerabilities.
00:02:10.000And yet, if you look at the way that the media cover this stuff, it's totally wild.
00:02:13.000I mean, they're not giving you the real story.
00:02:15.000They'll tell you things like the increase in COVID deaths.
00:04:05.000Because how many deaths per day are we having in the United States right now?
00:04:08.000If you just looked at the media coverage, you would think that we were up near the top of that chart, right?
00:04:12.000Just like we were when we were at the worst of this thing, when we were averaging, you know, we had two-week running averages of 3,000, 4,000 deaths per day.
00:04:20.000You know, doubling the highest rate of death from another disease in the United States as of 2019.
00:04:26.000You would think that we were up in the stratosphere, somewhere around like heart disease or cancer.
00:04:31.000The seven-day rolling average, as of right now, the seven-day rolling average in terms of deaths in the United States is under 300, which puts us in about the realm of Alzheimer's or diabetes.
00:05:44.000Because as it turns out, the number of people who are getting this thing, who are vaccinated, are not being hospitalized and not dying, generally speaking.
00:05:52.000And the same thing holds true if you look at the statistics from Israel.
00:05:56.000Right now, what you're seeing, there's a lot of misinformation that is circulating right now about the fact that there are some breakthroughs of the Delta variant against the COVID vaccine.
00:06:04.000Again, breakthrough as far as being diagnosed with it, but not a breakthrough as far as dying from it.
00:06:29.000Okay, so in Israel, right, which has been sort of the big headline, wow, look at Israel, so highly vaccinated, and yet, and yet, and now Israel, because politicians always have a stake in control.
00:06:44.000And I think what the last year proved is that Americans are willing to give up their liberty for pretty much anything.
00:06:48.000It is one thing for people to give up their liberty when there is a serious risk to them, but for people to willingly give up their liberty While they are already vaccinated against a disease is pretty messed up.
00:07:00.000And to give up your child's liberty based on pretty much nothing is even more messed up as we'll get to.
00:07:04.000So what is the story in Israel where there are all these headlines about how we need to shut down again?
00:07:08.000Israel has now closed travel to foreigners again through August 1st.
00:07:12.000So what exactly is happening in Israel?
00:07:16.000Right now, the vaccines, mostly Pfizer and Israel, are 90% plus effective against severe disease for people who are under the age of 65 in Israel.
00:07:27.00090% plus effectiveness, which means we have now lowered the rates of death down below the flu for people who are under the age of 65.
00:07:32.000It is 80% plus effective against severe disease for people over the age of 65.
00:07:37.000So Israel right now is looking at booster shots.
00:07:39.000One of the reasons that they're looking at booster shots is because older people have immunity that tends to wane faster.
00:07:44.000But the COVID variant is still not effective against Pfizer in the sense of killing or hospitalizing tons and tons of people.
00:07:53.000And the reason that you're seeing some stats that are out there, again, people need to understand base rates.
00:07:57.000The reason you're seeing some stats that are out there, like, for example, in Israel, 40% of all people who are being hospitalized for COVID are people who have already had the vaccine.
00:08:04.000That's because, like, 75% of Israel's population has already had the vaccine.
00:08:09.000I mean, theoretically, if it were supposed to be equal, then 75% of people who are being hospitalized would have had the vaccine, but that's not what you're seeing.
00:08:15.000What you're seeing is that it is preventative of getting the disease, and it is super preventative of getting seriously ill and dying.
00:08:23.000And as it turns out, the other thing to recall here is that when we are talking about the relative safety of populations, again, one of the reasons that you are seeing a lower level of death, even though you're seeing a spike in cases in both the United States and the UK, as well as Israel, Is that one of the things that has happened here is that the people who are getting COVID are much younger.
00:08:43.000The people who are getting COVID right now are much younger.
00:08:45.000If you look in the United States, for example, at the vaccination rates by age, and right now I'm looking at the statistics from the CDC.
00:08:54.000Right now there are 85.42% of people who are aged 65 to 74 in the United States have had at least one dose of the vaccine.
00:08:59.00065 to 74 in the United States have had at least one dose of the vaccine.
00:09:04.000In fact, if you are 75 and older, 83% of that population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.
00:09:12.000So you have like 76% of all people over the age of 65 essentially, 75-76% of that entire population is completely vaccinated.
00:09:22.000Because people rationally risk assess.
00:09:25.000If you're 65 plus, you're much more scared of COVID and you ought to be much more scared of COVID than if you are 20.
00:09:31.000And so the people who are the most vulnerable are already vaxxed up.
00:09:33.000And those people are tending to get less sick, they're tending to die less, they're tending to get the disease less.
00:09:40.000And so while you're seeing a spike in cases among people who are younger and healthier, they're also not dying at the same rates as people who are 80.
00:09:46.000Because this disease, thank God, because only thank God in the sense that it would have been much, much worse if it had targeted children.
00:09:52.000But it doesn't really affect people who are younger nearly as much as it affects people who are older.
00:09:57.000Right now in the United States, about 50% of the population somewhere in that neighborhood is actually vaxxed in the United States.
00:10:04.000But it really matters what age you're talking about.
00:10:05.000Because if you're under the age of 12, for example, apparently about 31% of people who are aged 12 to 15 have received a dose of the vaccine.
00:10:14.000But I'm not sure, like, why that's a high priority.
00:10:17.000To avoid infecting people who are 65 who already should have had the vaccine?
00:10:29.000And also, we're not at crisis when everybody had the opportunity to get the vaccine.
00:10:34.000You see how the goalposts have shifted in terms of what the goals are of public policy here.
00:10:38.000At the beginning, the lockdowns and the masking recommendations, they were all designed in order to prevent overwhelming of the hospital system.
00:10:45.000Has anybody said anything remotely like that recently?
00:10:47.000That the hospital systems are on the verge of being overwhelmed?
00:10:59.000None of the hospitals in industrialized countries with high levels of vaccination are on the verge of being overwhelmed.
00:11:04.000Okay, so that rationale is out the window.
00:11:06.000That is not a reason for us not to go back to work.
00:11:08.000It's not really even a reason for us to mask at this point, especially if we're vaccinated.
00:11:12.000If you're unvaccinated and you want to prevent yourself from getting it and you don't want to spread it to somebody else unvaccinated, well then, by all means, go ahead and mask.
00:11:19.000But if you are vaccinated, the idea that you should be masking in public places is really, really dumb.
00:11:25.000Beyond that, the notion that we have seen here, which is that we are now experiencing the next goalpost that was set up, if you recall.
00:11:35.000There's the goalpost of don't overwhelm the hospitals.
00:11:39.000Then there's the goalpost of wait and shut everything down and mask up and be very careful until every adult has had the chance to get the vaccine.
00:11:53.000And if you choose not to get it, no one can bully you into it.
00:11:56.000And frankly, the attempts by public policy makers to call you an idiot enough times that you go and get the vaccine does not seem particularly successful.
00:12:02.000By poll data, all it's doing is alienating people.
00:12:06.000If people actually felt driven, the reason they would feel driven is not because Anthony Fauci was lecturing them, or Joe Biden was lecturing them, or because some actress from Hollywood was out there telling young people to get vaccines.
00:12:16.000The reason That people would go get vaccinated right now as if they felt under serious threat.
00:12:21.000The same way that older people got vaccinated en masse because they felt under serious threat.
00:12:26.000And yet, our public policy makers, they don't have an end goal now.
00:12:32.000They are now using arguments that basically argue they can limit your liberty and force you to mask up under any and all circumstances.
00:12:39.000There is no limiting principle to anything they're saying right now.
00:12:43.000Because again, we surpassed that first goal post, which was don't overwhelm the hospitals.
00:12:47.000Then we surpassed the much more important second goal, which was make sure everybody has an opportunity to vaccinate.
00:12:52.000And now it's just this kind of miasmatic, well, you know, we might have to mask up forever because, you know, there could be another variant.
00:13:00.000OK, well, if there's another variant, then we'll talk about it.
00:13:03.000But this notion that we're all going to mask up right now for the rest of time, because this is true forever, right?
00:13:07.000There could be another variant of this virus in five years.
00:13:10.000In fact, there could be a completely different virus in five years.
00:13:12.000Why not mask prophylactically for the rest of your life and mask your children at the same time?
00:13:17.000There's no limiting principle to that.
00:13:20.000The same thing is true with regard to some of the lockdown policies that are now being discussed.
00:13:33.000As mentioned, in the United States, people are now dying at a rate that is similar to the rates that people die on a daily basis from, like, Alzheimer's disease.
00:13:42.000Is that a rationale for locking down large cities in the United States?
00:13:55.000Again, when this was rooted in ignorance, that was one thing.
00:13:57.000When you were saying, shut it all down because we don't know what this virus is going to do, that was one thing.
00:14:00.000It became clear that the lockdowns were ineffective, generally ineffective, by the middle of the summer last time, last year.
00:14:08.000And now we're still doing the same routine based on a threat that is not even remotely close to what we were experiencing back in January, thanks to the presence of the vaccines.
00:14:18.000How disconnected is public policy from reality at this point?
00:14:23.000The American Academy of Pediatrics put out a recommendation yesterday that is utterly crazy.
00:14:29.000Their recommendation is that we have to start masking all the children.
00:14:33.000It is deeply important that we mask all of the kids, pretty much for the rest of time.
00:14:38.000According to NBC New York, everyone older than age 2 should wear masks regardless of vaccination status when schools reopen in the fall, according to updated guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics released on Monday.
00:14:50.000The leading national pediatrician group said it recommends universal masking because so much of the student population isn't yet eligible for vaccination.
00:14:56.000It's not clear how quickly that will change or how likely parents will be to get their younger children dosed when the federal government approves shots for kids under the age of 12.
00:15:04.000And seriously, I'm not sure about dosing my kids.
00:15:09.000There are no longitudinal studies on the effect on children.
00:15:12.000Not only that, the threat to kids from COVID is not severe.
00:15:15.000If we were talking about something like polio, and if we were talking about something like even measles, mumps, rubella, that'd be one thing.
00:15:22.000We are talking about a disease in COVID-19.
00:15:25.000That has killed, from 2020 through 2021, a grand total in the entire United States where there are 75 million people under the age of 18.
00:15:34.000Remember, 75 million kids are in the United States below the age of 18.
00:15:40.000The number of kids who have died under the age of 18 from COVID-19, as of yesterday, was 335 out of 75 million.
00:15:48.000By contrast, the number of kids who had died last year and this year from pneumonia was 809.
00:15:55.000The notion that I'm going to start experimenting on my kids with non-longitudinally proven vaccinations, when the risk to my children from COVID is extremely low, is arguable at best.
00:16:10.000I mean, that's a very arguable assessment.
00:16:12.000So the idea now is that we're going to force you to mask your kid up.
00:16:39.000If the teachers are really worried about being infected by children, then they should go get the vaccinations, because it turns out the vaccinations are incredibly good.
00:18:10.000The virus doesn't care that we're sick of masks.
00:18:13.000The virus is having another version of its wonderful party for itself.
00:18:18.000And to the degree that we can squash that by doing something that maybe is a little uncomfortable, a little inconvenient, it's not like we're asking people to go to the trenches with a shooting war.
00:18:30.000We're just asking you, if it looks like it's going to help, put the mask back on for a while.
00:19:01.000You have Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors, outside of Jill Biden, saying the exact same thing.
00:19:07.000In every respect, the CDC always leaves open the flexibility at the part of local agencies, local enterprises, local cities and states to make a judgment call based on the situation on the ground.
00:19:23.000So, I think that the American Academy of Pediatrics, you know, they're a thoughtful group.
00:19:28.000They analyze the situation and if they feel that that's the way to go, I think that's a reasonable thing to do.
00:20:02.000County is now recording more than 10,000 coronavirus cases a week, a pace not seen since March.
00:20:07.000An alarming sign of the dangers the Delta variant poses to people who have not been vaccinated and heightening pressure on health officials to reverse the trend.
00:21:20.000New York City is doing the same stuff.
00:21:23.000New York City Councilman Mark Levine, who chairs the Health Committee, is calling for the indoor mask mandate to be reinstated in the city, even for the vaccinated.
00:21:31.000So what exactly are the COVID statistics for New York City right now?
00:21:36.000The number of new COVID cases a day in New York City is like 700 cases in the entire city of New York.
00:21:43.000The number of deaths in New York, this is actually the entire state.
00:21:47.000The entire state is averaging six deaths.
00:22:04.000Because if you can treat everything as a crisis, this allows you to control everything all the time.
00:22:08.000And this goes to the broader agenda that you see from the Democratic Party and the media all the time.
00:22:14.000All right, so if you look at how the media and the Democratic Party see the world, crisis is always required in order to effectuate change.
00:22:24.000This is why Joe Biden came into office and he said, we have four crises that are on the table.
00:22:27.000Climate change, and racial polarization, and income inequality, and COVID.
00:22:33.000None of those things, at the time you might've said COVID was a crisis.
00:22:37.000We're rolling out the vaccines already, so it was a crisis that was on the way.
00:22:42.000Okay, climate change, Is it an issue that is worthy of consideration with regard to adaptive measures that governments can help take in order to protect, for example, low-lying populations?
00:23:27.000We need to We need to take capitalism and destroy it in order to save the planet because crisis.
00:23:33.000Then you had the crisis of racial polarization, of the racial reckoning.
00:23:37.000A crisis that demands, wait for it, equity policy from the White House.
00:23:42.000That looks toward equality of outcome between the races and involves the subjugation of capitalism and merit in favor of equality of outcome regardless of the activities undertaken.
00:23:54.000We need a transformation of how America works based on the crisis of racial reckoning.
00:24:01.000As of 2008, race relations were the best point they'd been in the history of the United States.
00:24:05.000And then, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party decided to play racial politics specifically in order to force him to re-election despite his unpopularity.
00:24:14.000Then, there was the crisis of income inequality, and this one is perfectly obvious.
00:24:20.000It depends on poverty could be a crisis, theoretically.
00:24:23.000Poverty could also just be an endemic condition of human life, but poverty could theoretically be a crisis.
00:24:28.000But income inequality itself is not a crisis.
00:24:29.000Just because Jeff Bezos is rich, that's not a crisis.
00:24:33.000But this crisis of income inequality was going to drive Joe Biden to spend trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that had not yet been minted.
00:24:40.000We're just going to produce this money out of thin air.
00:24:44.000This has always been the case with big government advocates.
00:24:47.000Crisis is always the way that you maximize your own power.
00:24:51.000And so if you declare COVID a continuing crisis, this allows you to maximize your own power.
00:24:56.000Now, the way that the Biden administration and the media are seeking to maximize their power is by essentially saying that because COVID is a crisis, we should take the reins on informational dissemination.
00:25:35.000Vaccine hesitancy is not solely the repository of the right.
00:25:38.000As it turns out, by racial data, Hispanics and Blacks are the two racial groups in the United States who are least likely to get the vaccines.
00:25:47.000Those are also the two racial groups in America that were least likely to have voted Republican in the last election cycle.
00:25:53.000So, that is not a convincing case that the only people in the United States who are not getting the vaccine are not getting it because of right-wing propaganda.
00:26:01.000It's also true that a huge number of people who aren't getting the vaccine or were vaccine skeptical or maybe already had COVID and don't want the vaccine.
00:26:07.000And maybe a lot of those people live in rural areas.
00:26:09.000Because one thing that we saw with regard to masking actually throughout the pandemic is that people undertook, as you would expect, rational risk assessment.
00:26:16.000When pandemic numbers went up in people's areas, they started to mask.
00:26:19.000When the pandemic numbers went down, people started to unmask.
00:26:22.000Because that, again, is how people act when they are confronted with an actual risk.
00:26:26.000But the media have an agenda, and the agenda is to suggest that if it were only, if we could only stop people like Trump from talking, stop people on Fox from talking, if we could just stop all of this, if we could end quote-unquote COVID misinformation, well then everybody would get vaxxed.
00:26:42.000Because human beings don't have agency, obviously.
00:26:45.000All we have to do is give them the right information from MSNBC and CNN, and then they will get vaxxed.
00:26:50.000Now, this of course ignores a bunch of holes in this theory.
00:26:54.000Hole number one, as I've mentioned, huge percentages of population that are not Republican are not getting vaxxed.
00:26:59.000Hole number two in this particular theory, Is the fact that there are a lot of people who are not getting vaxxed, not because of watching Fox News or because of Donald Trump, but because they do not trust the authorities.
00:27:11.000And the reason they don't trust the authorities is because the authorities have taken every single position on COVID it is possible to take from the beginning of this pandemic.
00:27:19.000Dr. Fauci, the great and sainted, was saying, don't mask up, and then he was saying, oh yeah, I lied, you should mask up.
00:27:24.000Dr. Fauci, the great and sainted, was saying, don't open the schools, and then he was saying, oh, well, you can open the schools.
00:27:28.000Dr. Fauci, the great and sainted, was saying that once you get the vaccine, you still need to wear a mask, and then he was saying, well, you really don't need to wear a mask anymore, and now he's saying, well, maybe you do need to wear a mask.
00:27:37.000Maybe there's a great lack of trust in our scientific institutions because they spent all of last summer saying that if you were protesting lockdowns, then you were going to spread COVID and kill everyone.
00:27:45.000But if you were out there in the streets working for George Floyd, then probably you'd be fine.
00:27:50.000In other words, maybe you lost your systemic trust because you don't deserve the systemic trust of the American people.
00:27:56.000Now, again, that's not a case against the vaccine.
00:27:59.000I'm not sure there's anybody on the right who's as pro-vaccine as I am.
00:28:01.000I've been encouraging people to get the vaccine since literally the first day it was available.
00:28:05.000I couldn't have been more excited to get the vaccine.
00:28:26.000If there is any sort of crisis in terms of people who are dying, it is a crisis among people who decided not to get vaccinated and then are more likely to die.
00:28:34.000And they're adults, and they get to make those decisions themselves.
00:28:36.000And as long as they're not overwhelming the hospital system, then we really don't have a public policy answer to that.
00:28:41.000But the public policy answer for Democrats, of course, is shut down anyone who says stuff we don't like.
00:28:47.000So here's Mika Brzezinski tearing into Trump and his media allies for vaccine hesitancy.
00:28:50.000This, of course, is the predicate to the notion that places like Fox News should be deplatformed.
00:28:55.000Whether you're talking about David Koresh in Waco, or the Jonestown mass suicides, or Donald Trump's lies about COVID, people died.
00:29:09.000And they are dying because Donald Trump and his evil allies on cable news and on social media and on Capitol Hill Seems like a very strong word, evil.
00:29:21.000Until you understand just how many people this cult continues to kill.
00:29:59.000People are independent actors in the United States.
00:30:01.000They have the ability to make their own decisions.
00:30:03.000Typically, it is younger people who are not getting the vaccines, more rural people who are not getting the vaccines because they live in more rural areas.
00:30:09.000Low-income, Black and Hispanic people are not getting the vaccines at rates that really are where they should be.
00:30:15.000The kind of one-size-fits-all, single-factor analysis, Tucker Carlson says X, therefore people aren't getting the vaccine, ignores the fact that even if you look at Tucker's audience, hey, Tucker might have 4 million people a night watching him.
00:30:27.000A huge percentage of those people, by the way, are older and probably vaxxed.
00:30:32.000But beyond that, the bizarre notion that widespread vaccine hesitancy is solely due to Tucker Carlson or social media, as opposed to all of the other factors mentioned, including some somewhat rational vaccine hesitancy.
00:30:47.000I'm not saying that I agree with people who are not getting the vaccine, but to pretend that these people are all dullards who don't understand anything about how the... I mean, a lot of the people who are not getting the vaccine are like, I already had COVID, it wasn't that bad.
00:30:57.000A lot of the people who are not getting the vaccine are like, I live in a rural area.
00:31:00.000I don't have a lot of contact with people.
00:31:04.000Is that like super duper irrational and crazy?
00:31:06.000I'm not sure it's super duper irrational.
00:31:08.000I might make a different risk assessment, but I also have respect for other human beings and their ability to assess risk.
00:31:13.000But because the left believes that everyone can be controlled from above, their conclusion is that if people make a decision different than their decision, it's because they are controlled from above.
00:31:22.000Therefore, if we just stop those people from controlling people, then we will get our preferred outcome.
00:31:27.000Here is a doctor on MSNBC making this case.
00:31:30.000What I liked about that that was released in the Surgeon General is that it's really pointing to the fact that this is everywhere, right?
00:31:36.000It is a social media amplification in cases where, and it is, you know, sometimes it is influencers that are on cable television, right-leaning cable television.
00:31:46.000But it's also anytime any one of us retweets something that without checking the source, we are adding to that misinformation that's out there.
00:31:53.000And I think it's a whole, it truly is a whole of society approach.
00:31:58.000Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden, you'll recall over the weekend, he suggested that Facebook was killing people, which was the predicate for a governmental intervention in social media to shut down dissemination of information.
00:32:07.000Yesterday, he quasi-reversed himself, he didn't really.
00:32:10.000He said, Facebook isn't killing people, it's people on Facebook who are saying bad stuff who are killing people and Facebook letting them.
00:32:15.000Which means by the transit of property, Facebook is killing people.
00:32:19.000I had just read that on the Facebook, Facebook pointed out, it was pointed out that Facebook Of all the misinformation, 60% of the misinformation came from 12 individuals.
00:32:52.000Okay, and Facebook allowing that is killing people, right?
00:32:56.000So Facebook isn't killing people, but Facebook is killing people.
00:32:58.000In fact, says Joe Biden, Facebook shouldn't take it personally when I say they're killing people.
00:33:01.000They should just do a better job of shutting down all the information I don't like.
00:33:04.000Which may change on a day-by-day basis, but since we run all dissemination of information from the White House via our media allies, we should club social media into doing what we want anyway.
00:33:14.000My hope is that Facebook, instead of taking it personally, that somehow I'm saying Facebook is killing people, Don't take it personally that the President of the United States is saying that you're a murderer.
00:33:25.000Instead, stop being a murderer, says Joe Biden.
00:33:30.000Don't take it personally that the president of the United States is saying that you're a murderer.
00:33:34.000Instead, stop being a murderer, says Joe Biden.
00:33:36.000You can see the manufactured crisis here.
00:33:38.000And again, it is a media manufactured crisis.
00:33:42.000Is driving the sort of change that Democrats have been wanting for a while, which is restrictions on social media, which is crackdowns on people that they don't particularly like.
00:33:51.000Meanwhile, and this is really amazing, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary.
00:33:54.000So she was asked, you know, if it would help stop vaccine hesitancy, would you praise Trump more?
00:34:00.000Like really, instead of turning this into a partisan issue, why aren't you out there getting Trump to, for example, cut a PSA?
00:34:05.000Why aren't you out there saying, the Trump administration did a wonderful job with this and there is a bipartisan agreement that this is a wonderful vaccine that everybody should get?
00:34:14.000Wouldn't that be better than, you know, being out there and yelling at Trump and being out there yelling at people who won't take vaccines and telling them that they're fools and morons?
00:34:23.000It seems to me your end goal isn't to get more people vaccinated.
00:34:25.000It seems to me that your end goal is to polarize the constituency here.
00:34:30.000Even if the administration doesn't partner with the former president, would he consider highlighting or acknowledging in a greater way his role in creating the vaccines to assure the rural voters who still support President Trump but are hesitant to get the vaccine?
00:34:45.000Well, I think you're, do you have data to suggest that that's the issue that's preventing people from getting vaccinated?
00:34:52.000Almost every former president play a role in putting out a PSA, making sure people understood in the country that the vaccine is safe and effective.
00:35:00.000We don't believe that requires an embroidered invitation to be a part of.
00:35:06.000Okay, but you could just ask Trump to do it.
00:35:26.000First, let's talk about the fact you don't want to go to an auto parts store because who wants to go to an auto parts store?
00:35:30.000You stand in line, you finally get to the front of the line, they answer all their very specific questions, and then they look in their inventory and they say, you know what we don't have?
00:36:31.000Yesterday, you may have noticed that NPR ran an insane hit piece on us here at The Daily Wire, complaining about our success as a news organization.
00:36:39.000Basically, NPR was arguing that Facebook should quash our traffic.
00:36:45.000The Democrats and the establishment media, they're ticked off that they don't have centralized control over the flow of information.
00:36:50.000And now the establishment media is in for another hit.
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00:37:23.000Also, as I've been discussing, the White House's attempt to censor anything they deem as misinformation, it is very authoritarian, and it is just part and parcel of a broader authoritarian movement of the left to take over all the institutions and weaponize them against you.
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00:38:04.000And the fact that the White House is now trying to crack down on social media is just the latest indicator that the left's authoritarianism is creeping into your everyday life.
00:38:22.000That you'll have scientists like Dr. Fauci telling you that you don't believe the science if you don't believe every single thing that he says about everything, even if he's reversing himself from last week.
00:38:31.000All of this is symptomatic of an authoritarian mindset that has taken root on the left and is now being crammed down upon you.
00:38:37.000I will be doing a live stream book signing for the authoritarian moment.
00:39:02.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to wish away inflation.
00:39:05.000There are a lot of people, including Janet Yellen, who are saying that inflation is going to maintain for several more months at this point.
00:39:11.000Now, as I've been saying, there are two forces that are at work in the American economy.
00:39:15.000One is Joe Biden blowing dollars into the American economy, artificially lowering the labor rate because people are literally staying out of work because they're being paid to stay home.
00:39:24.000And artificially inflating the price of goods because we have a bunch of bottlenecks in all the distribution systems, and that's being exacerbated by money chasing fewer goods, which leads to price inflation.
00:39:33.000All of this rooted in the notion that somehow equity is achieved if you just helicopter cash to people, which has never been the case anywhere in history.
00:39:40.000Okay, so Joe Biden is saying that that's not raising inflation.
00:40:36.000He wasn't doing that when Trump was president, but that's always the way this works.
00:40:39.000Then Joe Biden follows up that doozy by suggesting that the inflation is temporary.
00:40:43.000And in fact, you know how you were going to solve inflation?
00:40:44.000We're going to solve inflation by artificially boosting the growth.
00:40:48.000This is like the dumbest thing, economically speaking, that I've heard recently.
00:40:52.000His theory is that inflation is going up.
00:40:56.000So if you blow more money into the economy, that will jog the spending, which will eventually bring the inflation down, which is a hell of a take.
00:41:57.000Last year, I said when this was over, there'd be a major economic boom because the economy was doing great.
00:42:02.000And then it was put into an artificial coma.
00:42:04.000And now the artificial coma is ending.
00:42:06.000Maybe, if the left will allow it to end.
00:42:07.000And people are going to go out and they're going to spend again.
00:42:09.000In fact, people ended last year with more net savings than they had the year before because the government had already put so much money in their pocket.
00:42:16.000Joe Biden's idea is we're going to keep spending money up the wazoo.
00:42:19.000And somehow this is going to check inflation.
00:42:23.000Now, the reality is that when you remove this much money from the private economy and when everybody understands that the regulatory schemes that Biden is pursuing will hurt business and that taxation is eventually going to be around the corner, when everybody realizes that, the next move is that the economy starts to stagnate.
00:42:43.000Japan was the country that was going to take over the world in the 1980s.
00:42:47.000If you go back and watch Die Hard in like 1989, 1990, if you go back and watch Die Hard, what you'll see is that the Nakatomi Plaza, right?
00:42:54.000The whole metaphor is supposed to be that Japan was a great threat to the United States.
00:42:58.000They were going to be taking over all of our businesses, taking over the world, economically speaking.
00:43:02.000And then they went into full on like a decade of secular stagnation because they'd inflated their currency.
00:43:08.000And it turns out that the demand was not keeping up with anything remotely approaching the supplies.
00:43:14.000So what you ended up with was this sort of very slow rate of growth that destroyed the Japanese growth and boom of the 1980s.
00:43:22.000By the 1990s, Japan basically burned out.
00:43:25.000You could see exactly the same thing here.
00:43:27.000And Joe Biden's own administration is foreseeing this, by the way.
00:43:30.000You wonder why they're trying to distract with things like all Republicans are Jim Crow, Donald Trump, January 6th.
00:43:34.000The reason they're doing that is because they all know that within two years, secular stagnation is likely to set in and we're going to be growing not at 7% in an artificially boosted rebound from a pandemic, from an artificial coma.
00:43:46.000What's most likely is that in a couple of years, we're going to be growing at like 1.8%, 2%.
00:43:49.000In fact, if you look at Joe Biden's own 10-year proposed budget, That budget suggests that in just a couple of years, we're going to spend the rest of the decade growing at exorbitantly low levels.
00:44:01.000The reason that countries grow at very low levels is because they have put too many burdens on the actual entrepreneurs and job creators in their economy.
00:44:09.000It's because they've made it difficult to do business in their economy.
00:44:12.000Joe Biden doesn't care about that because he understands that the way that politics works is that the bigger the things you get done are, the less it matters whether they actually succeed.
00:44:21.000One of the great annoyances that I have with regard to historians is the way that they treat, for example, the 1920s, which were a boom time in the United States, as some sort of horrible time for American governance, and the 1930s, which was the Great Depression, as a wonderful time for American governance.
00:44:40.000And if a president does big things, it doesn't matter that they're a complete failure.
00:44:44.000LBJ, very important president, complete failure.
00:44:46.000FDR, very, very important president, absolute failure on virtually every level except for the handling of World War II.
00:44:54.000Hey, FDR's handling of the Great Depression was egregiously bad.
00:44:57.000And there's a great hilarity to the fact that presidential historians rate Herbert Hoover super low, but FDR super high, when FDR literally did what Herbert Hoover did, except a little more.
00:45:07.000In fact, everybody in the FDR administration acknowledged that they were doing what Herbert Hoover did.
00:45:11.000The reason that Herbert Hoover is treated with disdain and FDR with glory is because FDR, of course, was a Democrat and Herbert Hoover was a Republican.
00:45:17.000But the best presidents of the 20th century, at least up until Ronald Reagan, the best presidents of the 20th century were the presidents of the early 20s.
00:45:39.000Because the reaction to the Great Depression was not to sit there and wait for it to peter out.
00:45:44.000Instead, the reaction to the stock market crash of October 1929 was to get government involved in extremely invasive ways in American life.
00:45:54.000But this again goes to why Joe Biden is doing any of this.
00:45:57.000Because if you're Joe Biden, the incentives for politicians, and this is true for members of Congress, it's true for senators, it's true for presidents, the incentives, the incentive structure is to get big things done.
00:46:07.000And this is the problem with centralizing this much power in the hands of government.
00:46:10.000Whether you're talking about the public health establishment, where the incentive is to control, centralize, and quote-unquote get things done, or whether you're talking about in the financial sphere, where the incentive is to control and centralize and quote-unquote get things done, The first rule of politics and public health should be very simple.
00:46:45.000And yet that is precisely the opposite of our modern incentive structure, particularly in the media, where people who are the most activist are considered the most thoughtful and the greatest leaders.
00:46:55.000Why Andrew Cuomo was a hero while killing all the olds in his state, while Ron DeSantis, who basically restricted his action to protecting the elderly, was considered some sort of horrific human rights violator by the left.
00:47:07.000We need to change our mindset with regard to what government is designed to do.
00:47:10.000Otherwise, we are just going to get endless government quote-unquote action that brings about precisely the opposite of that which it intends to bring about.
00:47:17.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.