The Ben Shapiro Show - The FBI Can’t Understand Jew-Hatred | Ep. 1413

00:00:00.000 After an Islamic extremist takes hostages at a synagogue, the FBI announces it's puzzlement over motive.

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00:01:30.000 Over Sabbath, there was a hostage situation at a synagogue in a place called Colleyville, which is near Dallas, Texas.

00:01:37.000 And it started with an Islamist radical going into this synagogue and demanding the freeing of a terrorist.

00:01:47.000 And it ended with all of the hostages freed and the terrorist shot dead.

00:01:51.000 The hostage taker shot dead.

00:01:53.000 Which is the way all of these situations should end and God bless the folks from SWAT who put this guy down.

00:01:59.000 And thank God that nobody innocent was injured in this process.

00:02:04.000 Well, according to the local paper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the FBI on Sunday identified the hostage taker in the standoff at a Colleyville synagogue as a 44-year-old British citizen.

00:02:14.000 By British citizen, they mean that the guy is a radical Muslim from Britain.

00:02:19.000 I don't do the names of terrorists on this program.

00:02:21.000 I don't do the names of mass shooters on this program because they are looking for notoriety, so we do not provide that.

00:02:25.000 But this guy was a radical Islamist.

00:02:27.000 He could be heard speaking during a live stream that broadcast a portion of the 11-hour standoff.

00:02:31.000 Died Saturday night after a hostage rescue team breached the building.

00:02:34.000 The four hostages We're unarmed.

00:02:36.000 Authorities said Saturday that the hostage taker was killed in the shooting did not answer a question about whether he was shot by law enforcement or if the gunshot was self-inflicted.

00:02:43.000 The man claimed to have explosives, according to statements he made on live stream videos.

00:02:48.000 President Biden did call this an act of terror.

00:02:50.000 He said there were apparently no explosives.

00:02:53.000 This particular person was demanding the freeing of a woman who is a terrorist.

00:03:01.000 I mean, she's been in prison.

00:03:01.000 She's going to be in prison for the next several decades.

00:03:05.000 Before this Facebook live stream was taken offline about 2 p.m., an angry man could be heard ranting at times talking about religion.

00:03:11.000 I love the Star Telegram's description of this.

00:03:14.000 Ranting about Judaism and Islam would be the answer to this. 1.00

00:03:17.000 The hostage taker apparently was singularly focused on one issue.

00:03:21.000 He repeatedly mentioned his sister and Islam and used profanities.

00:03:24.000 Hilariously, everybody was like, well, he's not actually sisters with the terrorists.

00:03:28.000 Yes, I know.

00:03:30.000 In religious communities, particularly Islamic religious communities, this is just true in religious communities all over the place.

00:03:35.000 People sometimes call each other brother and sister.

00:03:36.000 It's not like it doesn't mean they're literally brother and sister.

00:03:40.000 He apparently said, once I have my sister here, let me tell you, I will not take these four guys out, I swear by Allah.

00:03:45.000 So, Islamist radical trying to free a terrorist.

00:03:48.000 This person was trying to free a person named Afia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who attracted the attention of American law enforcement in the years after the September 11th attacks.

00:03:58.000 Top FBI and Justice Department described her as an al-Qaeda operative and facilitator. 0.86

00:04:03.000 At a May 2004 news conference in which they warned of intelligence showing that al-Qaeda plans an attack in the coming months.

00:04:08.000 For years, supporters have called for the release of Siddiqui.

00:04:11.000 She was a neuroscientist who's an MIT graduate.

00:04:13.000 She's currently being held at a women's prison in Fort Worth. 0.50

00:04:16.000 She was convicted in 2010 on charges related to the attempted murder and assault of US officers and employees in Afghanistan two years earlier.

00:04:24.000 The hostage taker said a few times he didn't want anyone hurt.

00:04:26.000 He mentioned his own kids.

00:04:27.000 He said repeatedly he believed he was going to die.

00:04:30.000 couple of his kids were just arrested in Great Britain.

00:04:33.000 This person was apparently from the Blackburn area of Lancashire.

00:04:38.000 A rabbi with the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement Sunday they believe the hostage taker was able to enter the synagogue by posing as a homeless man.

00:04:44.000 And this was a synagogue.

00:04:46.000 They said OK come on in and then it turns out that he was in fact a hostage taker.

00:04:49.000 Now what is amazing about this particular situation is that it is not particularly surprising.

00:04:54.000 The reason that is not particularly surprising and the reason that synagogues all over the United States have security is because there are a lot of people who target Jews because they are anti-Semites, because It is not a giant, giant shock.

00:05:05.000 And this particular hostage-taking shouldn't have been supremely surprising, at least over the issue of Afiya Siddiqui, because this has been a cause celebre in the Islamist community for a very, very long time, as well as among left-wing allies.

00:05:20.000 National Review had a piece by Sam Westrop in September titled Islamists exploit Western progressives hand wringing to support their own.

00:05:29.000 Siddiqui was known as Lady Al Qaeda and is supposedly a victim of the security state's cruelty.

00:05:36.000 Siddiqui earned the moniker in 2004 after the FBI named her as one of seven senior al-Qaeda figures plotting attacks against the United States.

00:05:42.000 FBI Director Robert Mueller described her at the time as an al-Qaeda operative and facilitator.

00:05:47.000 Years later, Siddiqui was captured in Afghanistan.

00:05:49.000 Upon her arrest, investigators found handwritten notes that referred to a mass casualty attack and that listed various locations in the United States, including Pluma Island, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, and the Brooklyn Bridge.

00:06:00.000 Other notes in Siddiqui's possession referred to the construction of dirty bombs and discussed various ways to attack enemies, including by destroying reconnaissance drones using underwater bombs and deploying gliders.

00:06:09.000 In the lead up to her trial, Siddiqui, who hated Jews, demanded that Jews be excluded from the jury, claiming the entire prosecution had been orchestrated by unnamed Jews.

00:06:18.000 She was sentenced in 2010 to 86 years in prison, after the jury found that Siddiqui attempted to murder Americans serving in Afghanistan, as well as their Afghan colleagues.

00:06:27.000 Since her conviction, a bunch of jihadist groups have demanded her release.

00:06:30.000 Apparently, the Taliban offered to exchange Siddiqui for captured U.S.

00:06:33.000 Army Sergeant Bo Bergdahl.

00:06:35.000 ISIS also offered to exchange prisoners, as did Al Qaeda.

00:06:39.000 Indeed, the Pakistani regime has long been a leading voice in the call to release Siddiqui, with tacit support from elements of the regime, her jihadist group, such as the Taliban and Yaish-e-Mohammed.

00:06:49.000 Siddiqui was linked to both groups' Pakistani Prime Minister, Yusuf Ghazi Gilani, once referred to Siddiqui as a daughter of the nation.

00:06:56.000 Siddiqui was a beacon to Islamists everywhere. 0.99

00:06:58.000 European jihadists tied charitable convoys to Syria, named vehicles after her.

00:07:02.000 In 2018, one jihadist even attempted an attack on the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth in an attempt to free her.

00:07:08.000 So this is not even the last time.

00:07:09.000 This is not the first time that somebody has attempted to free Lady Al-Qaeda by engaging in violent action. 0.54

00:07:17.000 A wide variety of lawful American Islamist groups and clerics, many of whom have grown increasingly close to Pakistan over the past decade, also now campaign on Siddiqui's behalf.

00:07:26.000 This includes a bunch of major American Islamist organizations.

00:07:31.000 Okay, so this has been sort of a cause celeb among left-wing advocates as well as Islamist advocates for quite a while in the United States.

00:07:40.000 And yet the narrative in the middle of this particular hostage-taking is that we had no clue what was happening.

00:07:45.000 And in fact, anybody who suggested this might have to do with the innate anti-Semitism of Islamism is somehow Islamophobic.

00:07:53.000 Now, this is a bizarre contention, because I was actually texting with a Muslim friend of mine on Saturday night, and he was saying that he was praying, obviously, for the freeing of the Jews who'd been taken hostage, because it turns out that a huge number of Muslims are not in favor of people taking Jews hostage in order to free terrorists.

00:08:09.000 I know, shocker.

00:08:10.000 Shocker.

00:08:10.000 There are many Muslims who are not in favor of this, but For a very wide swath of the left-wing media, and for many of the Muslim voices promoted by the mainstream media, the idea that this has anything to do with Islamism, which is a radical form of Islam that unfortunately has many adherents around the world, that if you mention this sort of stuff, this makes you an Islamophobe.

00:08:30.000 No, it does not.

00:08:33.000 One of the people who was pushing the left-wing perspective was Wajahat Ali, who used to be on CNN.

00:08:37.000 He tweeted, you're about to hear some ugly and vicious Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry this weekend from elected officials, commentators, and even mainstream media.

00:08:44.000 Hope I'm wrong.

00:08:45.000 People will use it to divide Jewish and Muslim communities for their political agenda. 0.89

00:08:49.000 Don't fall for it. 0.95

00:08:50.000 Yes, whenever Jews are taken hostage by a radical Muslim, the real victims are Muslims. 1.00

00:08:56.000 Obviously. 0.96

00:08:56.000 Islamophobia is obviously the thing we ought to worry about. 0.96

00:08:59.000 And this has been a pattern in American public life with regard to a wide variety of crimes for a very long time.

00:09:04.000 If you are identified by the left in the United States as a victim group, if a member of that supposed victim group perpetrates a crime, you're supposed to pretend that it is not a crime or that it is a mystery.

00:09:14.000 We've had the same thing happening with regard to anti-Semitism for years in New York and New Jersey.

00:09:19.000 When a black Hebrew Israelite attempted to murder a bunch of Jewish children in New Jersey, and actually did kill some people in New Jersey, it was treated as a not national story for more than about 25 seconds.

00:09:28.000 When a white supremacist targets Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, that's a national story because there you have a member of a quote unquote not victimized group attacking Jews, where a more victimized group... 0.62

00:09:39.000 Therefore, the intersectional hierarchy has been upheld.

00:09:41.000 The victimized group was victimized.

00:09:43.000 The victimizing group was the victimizer.

00:09:45.000 And therefore, that is a newsworthy story. 0.98

00:09:47.000 However, it is not newsworthy when a poor black person attacks a Jew in Williamsburg. 0.97

00:09:53.000 If that happens, that is not a story. 0.98

00:09:55.000 And if a Muslim attacks a Jew, that's also not a story.

00:09:57.000 Because according to the left, for some odd reason, radical Muslims attacking Jews is somehow a story of the victimized group attacking the victimizing group.

00:10:07.000 Now, just on a pure kind of global power level, you have to question why that would possibly be the case.

00:10:14.000 There are well over a billion Muslims on planet Earth.

00:10:16.000 There are a grand total, at current, of like 15 million Jews on the planet.

00:10:21.000 Muslims are in control of some 57, 58 countries.

00:10:24.000 On planet Earth, Jews are in control of one. 1.00

00:10:28.000 Jews are a minority in every country, except for Israel.

00:10:31.000 Muslims are a majority in a wide variety of countries. 0.95

00:10:35.000 And yet, somehow, according to the left, whenever there is a conflict between Jew and Muslim, it must be the Jews who are the perpetrators. 0.51

00:10:41.000 And if it's the reverse, then we have to pretend that it's not happening, or we have to downplay it.

00:10:45.000 We have to pretend it's some sort of enigma wrapped in a mystery.

00:10:48.000 Again, this has nothing to do with the idea that all Muslims are anti-Semitic or all Muslims are terrorists or anything remotely like that.

00:10:54.000 That's not true.

00:10:56.000 What it does have to do with is the left's willingness to cover up crimes because it does not back the narrative that they wish to purvey, which is that in the intersectional hierarchy, Jews are the victimizers when posited next to Muslims.

00:11:06.000 This also has to do, by the way, with the wild anti-Israel sentiment on the left that has now cropped up.

00:11:14.000 There are a lot of people who wonder, why is it that the left is so radically anti-Israel these days, considering that Israel is significantly more in line with a lot of the social views of the left than the Muslim world is?

00:11:25.000 In Israel, famously, you can live openly as a gay person in Israel.

00:11:29.000 In Israel, women have tremendous amounts of rights.

00:11:32.000 Israel is very liberal with regard to women's rights.

00:11:34.000 Israel has very liberal abortion law.

00:11:35.000 You would figure that the left would be very much in favor of Israel, and yet not so.

00:11:38.000 Why?

00:11:38.000 Well, because, essentially, leftism is now a class conspiracy theory, whereby anybody who is successful violated somebody who is unsuccessful, which is how they got successful.

00:11:48.000 Well, that theory sounds a lot like anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews in control of the media, Jews in control of world finance, Jews in control of the power centers, and therefore Jews must have victimized somebody in order to achieve their power. 0.68

00:12:02.000 The leftist narrative, as applied to Jews more specifically, is the same as the anti-Semitic narrative, which is why there is this stream crossing, and why we have to, the minute the Jews are taken hostage at a Dallas synagogue, a huge part of the media is immediately like, this is going to be about Islamophobia, isn't it? 0.55

00:12:19.000 This is why the Democratic Party, when Ilhan Omar, who is a radical anti-Semite, when she says a bunch of Jew-hating crap, this is why the Democratic Party immediately has to pass a resolution condemning both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as though one can't be condemned without condemning the other. 0.95

00:12:34.000 It's absurd. 0.98

00:12:35.000 And unfortunately, this has bled up into the major institutions of American life.

00:12:39.000 And anti-Semitism can only be taken seriously by the left when the person who is purveying the anti-Semitism is a white person.

00:12:46.000 That is the only time it is worth noting. 0.67

00:12:48.000 Which of course is bizarre since the vast majority of anti-semitism pervaded on planet Earth right now is not pervaded by white people.

00:12:54.000 I hate to break it to folks but that is not the case. 0.99

00:12:58.000 If there are white supremacists, they're incredibly dangerous. 1.00

00:13:01.000 There are white supremacists who hate Jews, they're incredibly dangerous. 0.99

00:13:03.000 I know this personally because the FBI arrested a white supremacist about four years ago who was targeting my family and that person is now in jail. 0.99

00:13:09.000 So I get it.

00:13:11.000 But the vast majority of anti-Semitism on planet Earth right now is not being purveyed by white supremacists because that's a very small number of white supremacists. 0.94

00:13:18.000 The vast majority of anti-Semitism in terms of hate crime, in terms of action, in terms of broad policy that is being purveyed, is being purveyed by radical Muslims. 0.91

00:13:30.000 Or in domestic context, it's being purveyed by people of color.

00:13:33.000 This is true in New York.

00:13:35.000 But you can't pay attention to that because antisemitism only matters when the people who are promoting the antisemitism are people that the left has decided are members of the power class.

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00:14:49.000 Okay, so the response from the federal government, the immediate response was bewildering to say the least.

00:14:54.000 The FBI came out and they made a statement.

00:14:56.000 See if you can spot the problem with this particular statement.

00:15:00.000 We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.

00:15:08.000 But we'll continue to work to find motive, and we will continue on that path.

00:15:13.000 What did it have to do with the Jewish community?

00:15:15.000 It's part of a broader anti-Semitic conspiracy theory held by radical Muslims that Jews are in control of all the levers of power.

00:15:21.000 Lady Al-Qaeda literally said it at her trial. 0.66

00:15:23.000 She literally said the Jews are behind this.

00:15:25.000 So is it a giant shock that a radical Islamist decided to invade a synagogue and hold Jews at gunpoint, saying that somehow they had the magical weather-controlling power to free terrorists?

00:15:35.000 I mean, it's not a surprise in any sort of way.

00:15:38.000 But we have to pretend that we don't know.

00:15:40.000 By the way, it doesn't just apply to Jews, this sort of logic.

00:15:42.000 Remember that the military for years denied that the Fort Hood Massacre, which was carried out by a radical Islamist, that that had anything to do with radical Islam.

00:15:50.000 They said that it was sort of a, they called it a workplace violence incident.

00:15:53.000 Because for the left, anytime there's a member of a victimized population who commits a crime, we cannot, we cannot acknowledge the hatred implicit therein.

00:16:03.000 Because to do so would recognize that sometimes the quote-unquote victimizing group is actually the victim group.

00:16:07.000 And we can't ever, ever have that.

00:16:10.000 Joe Biden did some of the same stuff.

00:16:11.000 He said, you know, we kind of know why he targeted the synagogue, but at the same time, then he buys it back because this is what Joe Biden does.

00:16:17.000 Do you know why he targeted that specific synagogue?

00:16:20.000 Well, no, I don't.

00:16:22.000 I don't think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue, why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged, why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments.

00:16:44.000 We just don't have enough facts.

00:16:45.000 We don't have enough facts?

00:16:46.000 How about he's a radical Islamist?

00:16:48.000 That's the only fact you need.

00:16:50.000 Which is true.

00:16:50.000 I think that's it.

00:16:53.000 Done.

00:16:54.000 But he can't acknowledge that.

00:16:55.000 Why is it so tough to acknowledge?

00:16:57.000 I honestly, God, don't understand this.

00:16:58.000 If it had been a white supremacist who had gone into a synagogue and shot a bunch of people, do you think Joe Biden would be there like, we don't know enough to know his motive? 0.90

00:17:04.000 He'd just say he's a white supremacist. 0.99

00:17:05.000 Of course he was there to shoot Jews. 1.00

00:17:07.000 Why is that in any way a mystery?

00:17:09.000 But somehow, again, It always comes back to the narrative, always and forever.

00:17:13.000 And then Joe Biden turned and swiveled and he blamed guns or something, which I'm sorry.

00:17:17.000 Come on.

00:17:18.000 Come on.

00:17:19.000 The guy bought the gun illegally, by the way, as Joe Biden acknowledges.

00:17:22.000 Joe Biden acknowledges this guy literally bought the gun off the street.

00:17:24.000 He didn't walk into a gun shop and then buy it just over the counter.

00:17:28.000 The idea of background checks are critical, but you can't stop something like this if someone is on the street buying something from somebody else on the street. 0.52

00:17:36.000 Except that there's so many guns that have been sold of late, it's just ridiculous.

00:17:41.000 And it's because of the failure of us to focus as hard as we should, and as consistently as we should, on gun purchases, gun sales, ghost guns, and a whole range of things that I'm trying to do.

00:17:52.000 Okay, that would have nothing to do with stopping what happened in Collieville. 0.96

00:17:58.000 That's a ridiculous, ridiculous statement by Joe Biden. 0.98

00:18:00.000 Again. 1.00

00:18:02.000 He does not want to acknowledge the reality.

00:18:03.000 Meanwhile, the New York Times didn't even put this on their front page.

00:18:05.000 So the New York Times front page the day after has a lot of stories, including a woman killed after a shove in the subway, and Vladimir Putin could cause trouble not just in Ukraine, but in the West.

00:18:16.000 But nothing on the front page about the attempt to kill four Jews in Dallas after a 12-hour standoff.

00:18:24.000 Nothing there.

00:18:25.000 Kind of amazing.

00:18:27.000 You think of a white supremacist that might have made the front page?

00:18:29.000 You think?

00:18:29.000 Maybe?

00:18:30.000 Just a little bit?

00:18:31.000 Now, what's amazing about all of this, from a Jewish perspective, you know, as an Orthodox Jew and someone deeply ensconced in the Jewish community, one of the things that is perfectly obvious from all of this is that there are so many Jews As a commentary to some of my Jewish brothers and sisters, there are a lot of Jews who think that by dissociating from the Jewish community, or who think that by ripping on Israel, that somehow they're going to buy the love of anti-Semites all over the world.

00:18:55.000 I'm not saying that you have to take a wildly right-wing position on the same issues that I do.

00:18:59.000 I'm not saying you have to mirror my perspectives.

00:19:01.000 All I'm saying is that for anti-Semites, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

00:19:03.000 And it does not matter how much you say that Israel is bad or quote-unquote apartheid, no matter how much you fib about that or lie about that, no matter how much you attempt to buy the love of leftists who supposedly will treat you decently, the minute that you are victimized by somebody who is higher than you on the totem of intersectionality, on the totem pole of intersectionality, the minute that happens, you become baggage.

00:19:27.000 This particular congregation is a very far-left congregation, politically speaking.

00:19:32.000 It's a reformed congregation.

00:19:33.000 The rabbi at this congregation is a guy named Charlie Citron Walker, and he's a very progressive dude.

00:19:39.000 According to Forward.com, He was a person who was constantly holding iftar dinners and he arrived at Beth Israel in 2006 shortly after his ordination from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion.

00:19:54.000 He was the Small Reform Congregation's first full-time rabbi.

00:19:57.000 He is the kind of person who took his wife's name as like a hyphenated name.

00:20:02.000 He's a very Left-leaning guy, for sure.

00:20:05.000 And his wife works for a group called the Multicultural Alliance.

00:20:08.000 The couple has two daughters, the younger of whom became Bat Mitzvah during the pandemic.

00:20:13.000 Before starting rabbinical school, he worked at Focus Hope, a civil and human rights organization in Detroit, and at a soup kitchen and food pantry in Amherst, Massachusetts.

00:20:21.000 There's a lot of talk about his positions with regard to Israel, which are extremely progressive.

00:20:27.000 And this is not to say that he has to hold the same positions that I do.

00:20:29.000 He certainly does not.

00:20:29.000 There's a lot of diversity in the Jewish community about this sort of stuff, no matter how much I think that certain perspectives are wrong, and in some cases even anti-Judaic.

00:20:37.000 That's not the point I'm making.

00:20:38.000 The point that I'm making is when it comes to anti-Semites, they do not care.

00:20:41.000 Anti-Semites don't care, neither does the left.

00:20:43.000 It wasn't like Joe Biden was like, well, he attacked a progressive Jewish synagogue.

00:20:46.000 Therefore, this is anti-Semitism and we should really pay attention to the deep levels of anti-Semitism that paint all Jews with the same brush, et cetera, et cetera.

00:20:55.000 There's just not a lot of that.

00:20:57.000 There's not a lot of that.

00:20:57.000 And the reason there's not a lot of that is because to anti-Semites, all Jews are the same.

00:21:01.000 When it comes to the intersectional pyramid, which is rooted in identity politics, all Jews are the same as well.

00:21:07.000 The Reform Jew is the same as the Orthodox Jew. 0.72

00:21:09.000 The pro-Israel Jew is the same as the anti-Israel Jew. 0.90

00:21:11.000 They're all the same. 0.94

00:21:12.000 Because again, when it comes to which group is a victimized group and which group is a victimizing group, which is the only question that matters from the progressive left, Jews are the victimizing group. 0.89

00:21:21.000 They somehow moved from being the victimized group to the victimizing group when they became wildly successful and highly educated, and when Israel became a successful state in the Middle East.

00:21:30.000 When that happened, all sympathy went out the window for all of this, and so it won't be on the front page anymore.

00:21:35.000 It won't be on the front page.

00:21:36.000 This is something, by the way, that Jews have been lamenting for quite a while.

00:21:38.000 Again, the rate of hate crimes against Jews in 2020-2021 in New York City was astonishing.

00:21:44.000 And Bill de Blasio had said he didn't even know it was happening.

00:21:46.000 He didn't know it was happening because the people doing it weren't wearing MAGA caps.

00:21:50.000 Alrighty, coming up.

00:21:51.000 We'll get to Joe Biden.

00:21:54.000 Polls demonstrate that Americans are not fond.

00:21:57.000 There's a shock.

00:21:57.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:23:09.000 Okay, so brand new poll out today, and it shows that according to CBS News, half of the respondents say they're frustrated with Joe Biden.

00:23:16.000 Half.

00:23:18.000 When asked in the poll how Biden's presidency made them feel, half of respondents said they were frustrated and disappointed.

00:23:22.000 40% said his presidency made them feel nervous.

00:23:25.000 A quarter of respondents only said it made them feel calm and satisfied.

00:23:29.000 25% of respondents said that Joe Biden's presidency made them feel calm and satisfied.

00:23:34.000 Whew! 0.99

00:23:35.000 Those are hideous numbers.

00:23:38.000 Nearly 75% of those surveys said they felt America was doing somewhat or very badly in a general sense.

00:23:43.000 A majority of people said they disapproved of the way Biden was handling the economy, immigration, race relations, crime, inflation, policing, and Afghanistan.

00:23:52.000 Only 49% of Americans even said he was doing a good job of handling COVID.

00:23:56.000 51% said he was doing a bad job handling COVID.

00:23:59.000 Only 45% of Americans said they believed that Joe Biden cared about people like them.

00:24:03.000 54% said they had serious doubts about all of this.

00:24:09.000 Now, by the way, this is still a group of people who are widely favorable to Democrats generally.

00:24:15.000 61% told CBS News they felt Democrats were concentrating on issues they cared about.

00:24:21.000 53% said they even liked Biden's Build Back Better plan.

00:24:23.000 They just don't like Biden.

00:24:25.000 They just think that Biden is a bad president who is bad at his job.

00:24:28.000 So naturally, instead of focusing in on the things that Americans actually care about, Joe Biden and company continue to focus in on things that nobody cares about.

00:24:35.000 Namely, this lie that they keep promoting that if they do not rig all the voting procedures from the top down federally, that Republicans are going to steal every election from here on in.

00:24:44.000 The problem is they don't even have the support of their own party.

00:24:46.000 James Clyburn Are the election reform bills dead, do you think?

00:24:50.000 No, I don't.

00:24:50.000 They may be on life support.

00:24:51.000 congressional politics. He said these voting bills are now on life support.

00:24:56.000 Are the election reform bills dead, do you think?

00:24:59.000 No, I don't. They may be on life support. But, you know, John Lewis and others did not give up after the 64 Civil Rights Act. That's why we got the 65 Voting Rights Act.

00:25:15.000 So I'm going to tell everybody, we aren't giving up.

00:25:18.000 We're going to fight and we plan to win because the people of goodwill are going to break their silence and help us win this battle.

00:25:29.000 Yeah, well, I mean, he's not going to win.

00:25:30.000 He started ripping on Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

00:25:33.000 You know they're desperate when they start ripping on their own party.

00:25:35.000 At this point, they're not even trying to woo Manchin and Sinema.

00:25:36.000 They're just like, those are bad people.

00:25:38.000 Good luck running against your own party in a congressional election in about 11 months here.

00:25:43.000 I know that these two Democrats have decided that it is much more important to them to protect the voting rights of the minority on the Senate floor than to protect the voting rights of minorities in this great country of ours.

00:26:03.000 This great country, the minorities that made it possible for them to be in the position that they're currently in. 0.95

00:26:09.000 I mean, this is wild stuff.

00:26:11.000 Meanwhile, another congressman, Adriano Espaillat, he says that there have to be consequences for Sinema.

00:26:17.000 What exactly are those consequences going to be?

00:26:19.000 That she loses a primary in Arizona and then proceeds to lose a general?

00:26:21.000 Like, really, these people, it's amazing.

00:26:23.000 They are so in their own bubble that they actually believe that this is somehow a winning political strategy.

00:26:29.000 There must be consequences.

00:26:31.000 It's as simple as that.

00:26:34.000 The president calls you, and you're gonna derail his top, one of his top initiatives.

00:26:46.000 Our vision of, there's gotta be consequences for this.

00:26:51.000 And you know, they're very, very precise.

00:26:53.000 They fit Uh, each state and each leader in very precise ways.

00:27:01.000 And so, I'm sure once the consequences are laid out for them, there may be an opportunity for a meeting of the minds.

00:27:10.000 You know, but there's gotta be consequences for this.

00:27:12.000 Yeah, what exactly do those consequences look like?

00:27:14.000 Meanwhile, the left wing of the Democratic Party is openly now calling Kyrsten Sinema a white supremacist.

00:27:18.000 So, here's MSNBC's Tiffany Cross. 1.00

00:27:20.000 Like, really, go for this, guys.

00:27:21.000 Seriously.

00:27:22.000 More of this.

00:27:23.000 Do it.

00:27:25.000 Sinema is a Democrat, but she is in many ways upholding white supremacy. 0.98

00:27:29.000 You and I both know what the filibuster was originally used for.

00:27:31.000 I don't think I can roll my eyes hard enough, and you kind of just want to say, girl, bye.

00:27:35.000 Girl, keep going with this.

00:27:37.000 Seriously, more, more of this.

00:27:39.000 The Democrats are so disconnected from the American people, and then they're surprised when they lose.

00:27:42.000 Meanwhile, in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin just took office.

00:27:46.000 Glenn Youngkin immediately got rid of all conversion, got rid of all critical race fury in Virginia law.

00:27:54.000 And there was some in Virginia law.

00:27:56.000 He immediately moved to get rid of masking of children in his state.

00:28:00.000 This is what you guys brought about.

00:28:02.000 The Democrats decided to go left?

00:28:04.000 You will get Republican governors in states like Virginia.

00:28:06.000 Here's Glenn Youngkin talking about removing politics from the classroom in his inauguration.

00:28:11.000 We'll start where the future is determined, in the classroom.

00:28:15.000 Preparing Virginia's children.

00:28:18.000 Preparing Virginia's children to be career and college ready.

00:28:23.000 Starting today, we will raise standards.

00:28:27.000 We will remove politics from the classroom and refocus on essential.

00:28:32.000 Yes, we will remove politics from the classroom.

00:28:35.000 And we will focus on essential math and science and reading.

00:28:40.000 And we will teach all of our history, the good and the bad.

00:28:46.000 This is amazing stuff, right?

00:28:47.000 Nothing he's saying here should be remotely controversial, but it is.

00:28:50.000 It is.

00:28:51.000 Ralph Northam, the outgoing governor, in contrast, he says that anytime you mention critical race theory, it's because it's a dog whistle.

00:28:57.000 So, Glenn Youngkin is like, we'll teach them all the history, good and bad.

00:29:00.000 And Ralph Northam, who used to dress up in a KKK outfit or blackface, he's like, yeah, you know, whenever you mention CRT, it's because of racism.

00:29:09.000 And Jonathan Capehart at MSNBC is just nodding along, of course.

00:29:13.000 Critical Race Theory is nothing more than a dog whistle.

00:29:17.000 We don't teach Critical Race Theory.

00:29:19.000 It's not a part of our curriculum in K-12 schools.

00:29:23.000 What it also says, and perhaps more importantly, is that anger and fear are very strong emotions.

00:29:30.000 And I think their campaign was a lot based on that.

00:29:33.000 It was out there provoking fear and anger in people, and they responded to it, and the rest is history.

00:29:40.000 Okay, by the way, I do love the fact that this guy was called upon by everyone to leave office after the blackface KKK incident. 0.51

00:29:47.000 And then he said, yeah, one of those people is me, but I'm not sure which.

00:29:50.000 Then he said, neither of those people is me, but I'm hunting the real one-armed man.

00:29:52.000 Now he says he's a better person, by the way, Ralph Northam.

00:29:56.000 You know, at the end of the day, it was a hurtful time.

00:29:58.000 I am glad that Virginians stuck with me.

00:30:02.000 I can tell you that I'm a better person.

00:30:04.000 I certainly understand racial issues much better than I did prior to that episode.

00:30:11.000 And I really think Virginia, more importantly, is a better commonwealth.

00:30:15.000 A commonwealth that is more open, more inclusive, and really welcoming to people.

00:30:20.000 Oh, really?

00:30:21.000 Because they just rejected your party?

00:30:22.000 En masse?

00:30:23.000 Like they just got rid of Terry McAuliffe.

00:30:25.000 You left office.

00:30:26.000 I love where he's like, I'm grateful that the people of Virginia stuck with me.

00:30:29.000 What choice did they have, dude?

00:30:30.000 Unless you were going to resign, no one was impeaching you.

00:30:33.000 Your own party controlled the assembly.

00:30:36.000 It is fairly incredible.

00:30:37.000 Meanwhile, Glenn Youngkin continues to say very obvious things.

00:30:41.000 So he says, listen, we're going to fight the masking of children.

00:30:43.000 And the left is fighting him on this.

00:30:45.000 It's amazing.

00:30:48.000 Arlington County Public Schools essentially said it was going to ignore the order.

00:30:52.000 Is there anything you're going to do to make that school system comply?

00:30:55.000 Well, first of all, we wrote the order specifically to give all of the school systems basically eight days to get ready to listen to parents.

00:31:06.000 And the fact that that tweet came out from Arlington County within minutes of my executive order, what that tells me is they haven't listened to parents yet.

00:31:13.000 And if there's one thing that hopefully everybody heard in November is it is time to listen to parents.

00:31:18.000 Man, he is so right about this.

00:31:20.000 And this is good, honestly.

00:31:22.000 This is good politics.

00:31:23.000 OK, what he's talking about parents as an interest group.

00:31:25.000 This is good politics.

00:31:26.000 It used to be the parents weren't an interest group.

00:31:27.000 You know why?

00:31:27.000 Because everybody sort of understood that parents needed the ability to raise their own children and that you did not get to control and take away kids from their parents and then indoctrinate them and use them as little social experiments.

00:31:39.000 And then the left like went completely overboard in every available arena.

00:31:43.000 And the further left these folks push, the worse the backlash is going to get.

00:31:47.000 Jen Psaki over at the White House, she tweeted out there.

00:31:49.000 There's no data that kids are dying in outsized numbers from Omicron.

00:31:52.000 Don't believe you are, Glenn Youngkin, but correct me if I'm wrong.

00:31:54.000 Thanks to APS Virginia for standing up for our kids, teachers and administrators, and their safety in the midst of a transmissible variant. 0.99

00:32:01.000 There is no data that kids are dying in outsized numbers from Omicron.

00:32:06.000 There is no data to support this.

00:32:08.000 By the way, there's still not a single study that demonstrates that schools that masked had a better record with regard to Delta than schools that did not mask.

00:32:16.000 And that was the Atlantic that reported that.

00:32:20.000 And yet you have Jen Psaki still pushing this. 0.53

00:32:22.000 How crazy are they going?

00:32:23.000 According to Julie Gunlock, who is a co-host over at WMAL, she says, in Alexandria, ACP officials are making the mask requirements more strict That's Alexandria.

00:32:36.000 Alexandria City public school officials are making mask requirements more strict in light of Glenn Youngkin's executive order.

00:32:42.000 No exemptions.

00:32:43.000 All kids must either wear KN95 masks all day or double mask with at least one surgical mask. 0.98

00:32:50.000 They're all crazy. 1.00

00:32:51.000 These people are all crazy. 1.00

00:32:53.000 This is nuts. 0.99

00:32:54.000 My kids, at this point, I believe have all had Omicron.

00:32:57.000 And guess what?

00:32:58.000 They're all fine because they're all children.

00:33:00.000 It turns out that children are made of child and children are generally not hurt by this virus and have not been the entirety of the pandemic.

00:33:08.000 But they really think that the more they control your kids, the better things are going to be.

00:33:12.000 It's incredible.

00:33:13.000 And then they wonder why they're unpopular.

00:33:15.000 By the way, we can also see the writing on the wall when it comes to the left and this sort of stuff, because if you thought it was bad with critical race theory and trying to teach racial essentialism to your children, what they're about to try and do, the radical left in the United States, because they're doing it in Canada already, to teach your children gender theory and try and pervert your kids, it's insane.

00:33:33.000 Canada just passed a law that they're calling an anti-conversion therapy bill.

00:33:37.000 OK, and it's it's an insane law.

00:33:39.000 I mean, I'm reading the text of it. 0.88

00:33:41.000 It is nuts. 0.80

00:33:42.000 It is nuts.

00:33:43.000 And you know, the left would love to apply this here in the United States.

00:33:45.000 I'll bring that to you in just one moment, because it really is not only insane, it's insulting.

00:33:49.000 It is child destroying this law.

00:33:51.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:34:57.000 This Canada law, I gotta talk about it because I think that the left is gonna bring it to the United States in short order.

00:35:01.000 I mean, they already are in places like Jersey and California.

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00:37:30.000 So again, what Glenn Youngkin ran on in Virginia and what he's going to govern on is the idea that parents ought to have control over how their kids live their lives, at least up to the point where the kids are age of majority.

00:37:46.000 That used to be just how everyone thought.

00:37:48.000 It is incredible to me that there are so many folks on the left in this country who believe that the right is fighting the culture war.

00:37:53.000 You guys declared a war and then we just said no.

00:37:56.000 That's all that happened.

00:37:57.000 And you can see that the march toward the progressive left continues apace in radical fashion.

00:38:03.000 If you just want to see where the left is going to go, don't look to just California or New Jersey, look to Canada.

00:38:07.000 So, Canada just put into effect a law banning so-called conversion therapy.

00:38:11.000 Now, all these laws on conversion therapy in places like California or New Jersey, when you hear conversion therapy, you probably think of what used to actually be called conversion therapy, where you would actually, like, tape electrodes to people and then electrocute them if they demonstrated any sign of same-sex sexual attraction, right?

00:38:28.000 You used to think of, like, a form of torture.

00:38:29.000 That's what most people think of when they think of conversion therapy.

00:38:31.000 They generally don't think of a person who goes into a psychologist and says, I'm struggling with my sexuality.

00:38:37.000 And the psychologist says, let's talk about that.

00:38:40.000 But that is actually what is banned in places like New Jersey and California.

00:38:43.000 You're supposed to only just affirm that the person has an alternative sexual orientation.

00:38:50.000 In Canada, it just got a lot worse.

00:38:51.000 In Canada, it's really, really bad.

00:38:53.000 So, Canada just passed a law that in the United States would have to be found, you would imagine, unconstitutional.

00:38:58.000 It's insane.

00:38:59.000 But, this is what the left would like when it comes to how parents are able to parent their kids.

00:39:03.000 With the new law, according to the New York Times, Canada's criminal code will prohibit forcing someone to undergo conversion therapy, taking a minor abroad to take part, so you can't even take your kid down to the United States to visit a psychologist, and profiting from promoting or advertising the practice.

00:39:17.000 Violations can draw sentences of up to five years in prison.

00:39:21.000 The law was the Canadian government's second attempt last year to bring an end to the quote-unquote widely discredited practice, and it's third since 2020.

00:39:28.000 By widely discredited, do they mean talking to a psychologist?

00:39:30.000 Because again, there's a difference between a kid coming to you and saying, I'm struggling with my sexuality, and you talking to the kid, and taping electrodes to the kid. 0.63

00:39:37.000 Okay, but the attempt to conflate all conversion therapy with like the actual horrible evil conversion therapy that used to be practiced is ridiculous.

00:39:45.000 Here's what the Canada law actually says.

00:39:47.000 Because you'll see how insane this is.

00:39:47.000 I'm gonna read you the text, okay?

00:39:49.000 Here's what the Canada law actually prohibits.

00:39:50.000 You ready?

00:39:51.000 They define conversion therapy, which is now banned and punishable by five years in prison.

00:39:55.000 It means a practice, treatment, or service designed to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual.

00:40:03.000 Change a person's gender identity to cisgender.

00:40:07.000 Cisgender means that your gender aligns with your biological sex.

00:40:11.000 So in other words, if you have a kid, and your kid says, you know, I think I might be a girl, and your kid's a boy, and you take them to a therapist, and the therapist says, let's talk about this because you're actually a boy.

00:40:21.000 That therapist could now be in violation of Canadian law and go to jail for five years.

00:40:26.000 That's what they're doing in Canada.

00:40:28.000 If you bring a confused adolescent in, who's struggling with sexuality and confusing thoughts, and you say, you know, you might be straight and you might grow out of this, that could be conversion therapy. 0.74

00:40:38.000 Notice, by the way, that it only works one way. 0.97

00:40:40.000 If you go to a therapist and you say, you know, I'm confused about my sexuality, I think I'm straight, but I'm having some same-sex sexual attraction, and the therapist says, you're gay, just let it, you're gay. 0.98

00:40:50.000 Then that is not conversion therapy under the Canada law and not punishable.

00:40:52.000 But if you do the opposite, if the person says, I'm confused, you say, you know what?

00:40:55.000 You might be straight.

00:40:56.000 Conversion therapy now.

00:40:59.000 If conversion therapy, it means to change a person's gender expression so that it conforms to the sex assigned to the person at birth.

00:41:06.000 So if a kid comes in, we're talking about children now.

00:41:09.000 If a parent brings a child in and the child is cross-dressing at the age of eight, and the therapist says, you know, you might want to think about wearing sex appropriate attire.

00:41:19.000 For a variety of reasons, including your own mental health.

00:41:20.000 This is now conversion therapy punishable with jail time in Canada.

00:41:25.000 It goes further.

00:41:26.000 If you get any therapy in Canada that is, quote, designed, a practice designed to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior.

00:41:36.000 Reduce it!

00:41:36.000 Not even, not even ban it, not even convert.

00:41:40.000 Reduce it!

00:41:41.000 Which, by the way, is what most parents do with their kids when they don't let them watch pornography, right?

00:41:47.000 Like, reducing sexual behavior in your, like, you're not allowed to attempt to reduce Non-heterosexual behavior? 0.93

00:41:57.000 I mean, I do that with, like, most parents do that with heterosexual and non-heterosexual behavior in their teenagers.

00:42:03.000 Like, they don't want their teens having sex, but if you attempt to reduce the sexual behavior in your therapist, this is conversion therapy.

00:42:11.000 Repress a person's non-cisgender gender identity. 1.00

00:42:13.000 So, okay, so what this assumes is that all of gender theory is not only factually based, it is biologically ingrained.

00:42:20.000 So if you're gay, it's absolutely biologically ingrained. 0.53

00:42:23.000 Also, if you're a man in a woman's body, that's biologically ingrained. 1.00

00:42:26.000 But being a man is not biologically ingrained.

00:42:29.000 And being straight is not biologically ingrained.

00:42:33.000 This is what the Canada law suggests.

00:42:37.000 If you attempt to repress or reduce a person's gender expression that does not conform to the sex assigned to the person at birth, for greater certainty, this definition does not include a practice, treatment, or service that relates to the exploration or development of an integrated personal identity, such as a practice, treatment, or service that relates to a person's gender transition, and that is not based on an assumption that a particular sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression is to be preferred over another.

00:43:01.000 By the way, it doesn't just apply to the therapist.

00:43:04.000 Everyone who knowingly causes another person to undergo conversion therapy, including by providing conversion therapy to that other person, is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or guilty of an offense punishable on summary conviction.

00:43:19.000 That could mean a parent.

00:43:20.000 If you, a parent, bring your child into a therapist because your child says that they believe that they're a boy in a girl's body.

00:43:28.000 If you bring that kid to a therapist, Who's going to pursue watchful waiting and not gender affirmation?

00:43:35.000 You could go to jail now.

00:43:36.000 And now the reason I bring this up is because the left in the United States wants exactly this.

00:43:40.000 This is what the left in the United States would like.

00:43:42.000 Because this is the natural outgrowth of their belief that biology somehow applies to both sex and gender, but gender is non-biological and also sex is non-biological.

00:43:53.000 Right?

00:43:53.000 None of this makes any sense on an internal logical level.

00:43:55.000 The only ideal here is that they get to control the definition of your child.

00:44:00.000 And it only runs in one direction.

00:44:03.000 So this is now the law in Canada.

00:44:06.000 This is now part of Canada's chapter 24 criminal code.

00:44:11.000 That's amazing.

00:44:12.000 Amazing.

00:44:13.000 Okay, and again, this will happen in the United States sooner or later in states like California.

00:44:18.000 And then you wonder why people like Glenn Youngkin are getting elected in Virginia saying that parents should have power to raise their own children.

00:44:23.000 This is all part of the broader cultural milieu in which we live.

00:44:26.000 You guys declare a culture war where you declare that biological sex is not ingrained and that sexual orientation is utterly unchangeable and unchanging under all circumstances.

00:44:36.000 Except if it moves in the direction of straight-to-gay, or straight-to-bisexual, or bisexual-to-gay.

00:44:41.000 You say all of those things, and then you say that is enforceable by law!

00:44:44.000 And then you wonder why parents are like, I'm not trusting my kid with any of you people.

00:44:48.000 I'm not trusting you on race, where you say that racial essentialism is a fundamental feature of life.

00:44:53.000 I don't believe that. 0.86

00:44:54.000 I don't believe it when it comes to your gender identity nonsense. 1.00

00:44:56.000 I don't believe any of this stuff.

00:44:58.000 And I'm not going to allow you to control how I raise my kids.

00:45:02.000 This goes back to the general belief of the left That they care about your kids more than you do because they know how to raise your kids better than you do.

00:45:09.000 Which is a unique thing because I've yet to see people who raise their kids this way with, I would say, highly well-adjusted kids on average.

00:45:16.000 This does not seem like a recipe for the success of the mental health of your child.

00:45:20.000 To raise them gender neutral and suggest that all sexual behavior is equally worthwhile. 0.64

00:45:28.000 I've yet to see how this is a healthy way of raising children.

00:45:30.000 But apparently it's so healthy it needs to be mandated by law in Canada and punishable by fine if you violate it.

00:45:37.000 Man, the parental backlash in this country is gonna be so strong, and it is well-deserved, and it is absolutely coming.

00:45:42.000 It is absolutely coming.

00:45:43.000 And again, Glenn Youngkin is one aspect of that.

00:45:47.000 Ron DeSantis is another.

00:45:48.000 Keep going with this, guys.

00:45:50.000 Keep going.

00:45:52.000 Okay, meanwhile, the president of the United States continues to flounder when it comes to Omicron.

00:46:01.000 So Omicron continues to rush through the United States, On average, it's not killing all that many people, because the infection fatality rates for Omicron are pretty low.

00:46:09.000 But now, you have the CDC recommending that everybody wear N95 or KN95 masks forever.

00:46:16.000 The level of control these folks wish to cram down on you truly is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:46:21.000 And the way that they're going to do this is they're going to try and scare you.

00:46:23.000 I'm not sure why their strategy to scare you is worthwhile, but they are going to try to scare you.

00:46:28.000 The Associated Press says, get ready to learn more Greek letters.

00:46:31.000 Scientists warn that Omicron's whirlwind advance practically ensures it won't be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world.

00:46:37.000 Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate.

00:46:40.000 Omicron has an edge over its predecessors.

00:46:41.000 It spreads way faster.

00:46:43.000 Experts don't know what the next variants will look like or how they might shape the pandemic.

00:46:46.000 They say there's no guarantee the sequels of Omicron will cause milder illness or existing vaccines will work against them.

00:46:52.000 Okay, well, isn't that a case for everyone to sort of get Omicron?

00:46:55.000 Isn't that the case?

00:46:56.000 Get the mild version, not the more severe version and get some natural immunity.

00:46:59.000 But we can't pursue this logically.

00:47:01.000 Instead, we just have to scare the hell out of you.

00:47:03.000 Good luck with that.

00:47:04.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon as The Matt Wall Show airs 1.30 p.m.

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