The Ben Shapiro Show - The Golden Calf Of Politics | Ep. 1101

00:00:00.000 Democrats continue to scream over Republicans voting on a Trump Supreme Court nominee.

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00:00:08.000 And Wells Fargo's CEO comes under fire for saying something perfectly obvious about lack of minority job candidates.

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00:00:29.000 So it looks as though Republicans have the votes.

00:00:31.000 Mitt Romney now says that he is going to vote at least in favor of the nominee, if the nominee is qualified, which presumably the nominee will be.

00:00:38.000 Now even Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska, she is apparently giving signs that she may vote for the nominee.

00:00:44.000 Because I haven't seen the nominee yet, but if I see the nominee and the nominee is qualified, not sure why I shouldn't vote for that nominee, which leaves only Susan Collins in vulnerable state in Maine as the lone Republican who would not vote for a Trump nominee, which means that whoever Trump nominates is likely to pass with flying colors.

00:00:59.000 President Trump signaled his pleasure with this yesterday.

00:01:01.000 He praised Mitt Romney.

00:01:03.000 So Mitt Romney has this very weird career where he goes from being good to bad and bad to good and good to bad for everybody.

00:01:08.000 Now he is on Trump's good side.

00:01:10.000 Honestly, I've always been relatively Warm toward Mitt Romney.

00:01:14.000 I think that Romney is an honest guy, even when I disagreed with a lot of the stuff he was doing, including how he voted on impeachment.

00:01:19.000 I was not quite as sure as some other people on the conservative side were that Romney was going to say that he wasn't going to vote on this nominee.

00:01:26.000 I just thought that that would be a career ender for him, and it would be immoral to vote.

00:01:29.000 Here was Trump praising Mitt Romney, the senator from Utah, yesterday.

00:01:34.000 We have great support from the Republican Party, tremendous support.

00:01:37.000 It's never been this unified before, ever, ever.

00:01:41.000 In the fake impeachment, we had 196 to nothing Republican support, and we had 52 and a half to a half in the Senate.

00:01:50.000 Who was the half?

00:01:51.000 I can't imagine.

00:01:53.000 I can't.

00:01:54.000 But he was very good today, I have to tell you.

00:01:57.000 Now I'm happy.

00:01:58.000 Thank you, Mitt.

00:01:59.000 Thank you.

00:02:01.000 Okay, that's a little bit funny.

00:02:03.000 By the way, some of this seems to be having a little bit of an effect in state polls.

00:02:07.000 There are a couple of new polls out today from ABC News that show Trump up slightly in Arizona, which would be a move.

00:02:12.000 That'd be a real move in the polls for Trump.

00:02:13.000 Shows him up 49-48 over Joe Biden in Arizona.

00:02:16.000 It also shows him up 51-47 over Joe Biden in Florida, which puts Trump much closer toward a path to re-election.

00:02:22.000 I think everybody was sort of assuming that Arizona had escaped Trump come 2020's election.

00:02:27.000 Meanwhile, the late night hosts are winding.

00:02:29.000 You can always tell where the emotional center of the Democratic Party base is simply by looking at the late night hosts who are aghast that Republicans would move forward with a Republican nominee when the president is a Republican and the Senate is Republican.

00:02:41.000 Here are a bunch of late night hosts pretending to be comedians but actually just being essentially slightly more or maybe slightly less humorous than the hosts on MSNBC.

00:02:52.000 I get that the hypocrisy is baked in.

00:02:55.000 Pointing it out won't change their minds.

00:02:56.000 It's like telling a middle school bully, give me a wedgie, we'll make your parents get back together.

00:03:01.000 He knows that.

00:03:02.000 He just wants to give you that wedgie.

00:03:04.000 It's truly amazing how Mitch McConnell's rules keep changing.

00:03:08.000 First it was, oh, we can't nominate a Supreme Court justice during an election year.

00:03:13.000 And then it's like, oh, asterisks, that rule doesn't apply when we have the White House, meh.

00:03:17.000 Less than two hours after we learned of Ginsburg's death, we heard from Senate Majority Leader and neutered dog sack, Mitch McConnell. 0.99

00:03:27.000 Wow, he called him a neutered dog sack, guys, because he looks like testicles. 1.00

00:03:33.000 Wow. 1.00

00:03:34.000 Can you hear the humoring?

00:03:35.000 Can you hear the comedying?

00:03:37.000 Now, one of the questions here has always been, why the hue and cry?

00:03:40.000 I mean, seriously, why the insane response to what is a perfectly normal operation of government?

00:03:46.000 Namely, a seat comes open, the president nominates, the Senate gets to vote on the nomination or not vote on the nomination as it sees fit.

00:03:52.000 But the level of ire over this is so insane.

00:03:56.000 It can only be explicable if you recognize that for many Democrats, for many Democrats, including purportedly religious Democrats, politics is the religion.

00:04:04.000 This is the idol.

00:04:05.000 This is the golden calf.

00:04:06.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not merely a powerful figure who is worthy of emulation in many views of leftists.

00:04:12.000 She's a godlike figure.

00:04:13.000 This is why you saw people screaming, crying to the skies.

00:04:16.000 This is why you see people gnashing their teeth, rending their garments, Dowsing themselves in ash, sitting outside the walls of the Supreme Court.

00:04:26.000 I mean, this is the reaction, and it is completely outsized.

00:04:29.000 Now, again, I remember when Justice Antonin Scalia died, and everybody was very upset about this.

00:04:34.000 I mean, this happened in the middle of the 2016 election, and Scalia was a far more weighty justice than Ginsburg was.

00:04:43.000 To put this in context, 100 years from now, no one is gonna remember a single decision that Ginsburg wrote.

00:04:48.000 You can't name a single decision that Ginsburg wrote right now.

00:04:49.000 Okay, Ginsburg was not an extraordinarily weighty justice.

00:04:52.000 Her career was weighty because of the power of women to rise to the top ranks of American law. 1.00

00:04:58.000 Although Sandra Day O'Connor had already been on the Supreme Court for years by the time that Ruth Bader Ginsburg got there. 1.00

00:05:02.000 So this notion that her confirmation to the Supreme Court acted as a sort of push forward for women generally was not true. 0.70

00:05:10.000 I mean, that supposed glass ceiling had already been broken.

00:05:13.000 That's not to demean her life, but her judicial legacy is really non-existent.

00:05:16.000 She does not have tons of judicial legacy outside of the realm of civil procedure where she was a purported expert.

00:05:24.000 Scalia was a much more consequential justice whose decisions will still be read a hundred years from now.

00:05:29.000 Republicans were upset about it.

00:05:30.000 Republicans did not go into the apoplexy of mourning and rage that you saw over Ginsburg.

00:05:38.000 They didn't.

00:05:39.000 It wasn't a thing that happened.

00:05:40.000 I remember because I was there.

00:05:42.000 But Democrats are pulling out all the stops here.

00:05:46.000 They're treating this as though a saint has passed away.

00:05:48.000 Like an actual religious saint.

00:05:49.000 Not like she's a saintly person.

00:05:50.000 Like an actual religious saint has passed away.

00:05:53.000 Which means that they are now going to react to Republicans attempting to fill that seat with outsized outrage and insane overreaction.

00:06:02.000 Chuck Schumer yesterday actually blocked an intelligence hearing, a counterintelligence hearing.

00:06:06.000 So there was a counterintelligence hearing that was supposed to start.

00:06:09.000 It was supposed to be about election threats.

00:06:11.000 Democrats have been claiming for years that Republicans are going soft on election threats.

00:06:14.000 How much do Democrats care about threats to the integrity of American elections?

00:06:18.000 They care so little that they were willing to put off the hearing in a fit of sheer pique at the fact that Republicans were going to vote on whoever Trump nominates.

00:06:25.000 Here was Chuck Schumer blocking an intelligence hearing yesterday.

00:06:29.000 On behalf of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, that that meeting occurred during today's session of the Senate.

00:06:36.000 Is there objection?

00:06:37.000 Observing the right to object.

00:06:40.000 Democratic leader.

00:06:44.000 Reserving the right to object because the Senate Republicans have no respect for the institution.

00:06:50.000 We won't have business as usual here in the Senate.

00:06:53.000 I object.

00:06:54.000 I object.

00:06:55.000 I object that we're not going to do business at all.

00:06:56.000 We're going to stop business as usual because Republicans have no respect for the institution.

00:07:00.000 We don't do the things the Senate is supposed to do from now on.

00:07:03.000 I mean, this was the hallmark, by the way, of Chuck Schumer's response yesterday.

00:07:06.000 We love the Senate so much that we are going to stop all business in the Senate and also wreck the institution of the Senate.

00:07:12.000 Which suggests to me you don't love the Senate all that much.

00:07:15.000 And as I've been saying for the past several days, for Democrats, they like the Senate when it is a tool of power on their behalf.

00:07:19.000 They do not like the Senate when it is not a tool of power on their behalf.

00:07:22.000 They like the filibuster when it's a tool of power on their behalf.

00:07:24.000 They don't like it when it is not a tool of power on their behalf.

00:07:26.000 They love the Supreme Court when it is cramming down same-sex marriage on the entire country. 0.83

00:07:31.000 In direct contravention to both the Constitution of the United States and state laws all over the country, they don't like it so much when the Supreme Court is rejecting their particular arguments on the constitutionality of rescinding DACA, for example.

00:07:46.000 In other words, the institutions are only good when they do what they want them to do, which is the sign that you have no institutional allegiance at all.

00:07:52.000 You don't care about the institution.

00:07:53.000 What you care about is the power, and everybody knows it, which is one of the reasons why Republicans are unwilling to cut a deal with Democrats In order to come to some sort of conclusion here, because why would you trust anybody who hates the institution so much they are willing to wreck it in the first place?

00:08:07.000 I mean, here was Chuck Schumer yesterday, again reiterating this thing.

00:08:10.000 They're ruining the institution of the Senate.

00:08:12.000 They're ruining it.

00:08:13.000 They're ruining it so much that I would like to get rid of the filibuster, which has been around and in use since 1837, and I want to add states to the Senate willy-nilly with Democratic senators.

00:08:21.000 That's how much I love the Senate.

00:08:22.000 All I want to do is completely skew it.

00:08:26.000 Leader McConnell's actions may now very well destroy the institution of the Senate.

00:08:34.000 If Leader McConnell presses forward, The Republican majority will have stolen two Supreme Court seats, four years apart.

00:08:43.000 Leader McConnell has basically decided the rules don't apply to Republicans, even their own rules.

00:08:49.000 It's just brute political force.

00:08:51.000 Okay, first of all, let's point something out.

00:08:53.000 If Chuck Schumer were in charge of the Senate in 2016, he would have rammed through Merrick Garland.

00:08:57.000 He wouldn't have waited.

00:08:59.000 Let's stop pretending that he's going to abide by the so-called McConnell rule.

00:09:01.000 And McConnell, by the way, did say at the time that when the parties are not the same for the president and the Senate, that that makes a difference in this calculation.

00:09:09.000 But again, the notion that the Democrats are the great Senate defenders, the institutional defenders, beggars the imagination.

00:09:16.000 It's truly wild.

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00:10:27.000 So the Democrats continue to push forward this notion that they are deeply, deeply upset With the very basic constitutional function of filling a seat.

00:10:35.000 Pete Buttigieg, who apparently knows nothing about how the Constitution works or how voting works.

00:10:42.000 He tweeted out, we're in danger of a majority of justices on the Supreme Court being chosen by presidents who didn't even get the majority of the popular vote.

00:10:49.000 Any way you look at it, we're getting less democratic by the day.

00:10:52.000 Okay, so note, if you're talking about majority of the popular vote, Bill Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote.

00:10:58.000 JFK did not win a majority of the popular vote.

00:11:00.000 Woodrow Wilson did not win a majority of the popular vote.

00:11:03.000 They all got to appoint justices.

00:11:05.000 In fact, of the Democratic presidents since the turn of the 20th century, Democratic presidents who have not won the popular vote have appointed some 11 justices to the Supreme Court during that time.

00:11:16.000 Also, if the great problem here is that we are in danger of justices being chosen by popular minorities, you know who was okay with that?

00:11:22.000 The founders.

00:11:23.000 You know how I know they were okay with it?

00:11:24.000 Because they did not give the function of judicial confirmation to the House of Representatives, which is staffed by population.

00:11:30.000 They gave it to the Senate, which is fundamentally not based on popular representation.

00:11:35.000 If they had actually wanted the function of confirming justices to be put in the hands of the popular assembly, they would have put it in the House.

00:11:43.000 They didn't.

00:11:43.000 They put it in the Senate.

00:11:45.000 So thank you, Pete Buttigieg, for yet another example of your complete ignorance about how constitutional law works.

00:11:51.000 That's really exciting stuff.

00:11:52.000 But again, what this really goes back to more than anything is the levels of idolatry that Democrats have for politics.

00:11:58.000 Because if you believe that you are this far short of utopia, utopia is ever-receding, of course, because you never reach it.

00:12:03.000 But if you are this far short of utopia and doing your part and fulfilling your religious obligation, and then you have a setback, well, that's a day of mourning.

00:12:13.000 That's like in the Jewish calendar Tisha B'Av.

00:12:15.000 It's like the destruction of the temple.

00:12:16.000 And I've never seen anything made more clear than this.

00:12:21.000 There's a video from a congregation, a Reform congregation in New Jersey.

00:12:26.000 I guess it's called Temple Ner Tamid.

00:12:30.000 Now let me make clear my opinion of Reform Judaism.

00:12:33.000 I think that Reform Judaism as currently constituted has almost literally nothing to do with traditional Judaism in any way.

00:12:41.000 Except that occasionally Reform Judaism suggests that you wear some of the same funny accoutrements as people who are Orthodox. 0.91

00:12:49.000 But Reform Judaism does not strictly abide by any form of halakha, doesn't abide by Jewish law, it has nothing to do with Jewish philosophy.

00:12:56.000 It really is just progressivism masquerading as religion.

00:12:59.000 But it's not masquerading as religion, it is progressivism as the religion.

00:13:03.000 It's not progressivism pretending to be religion, even.

00:13:05.000 It is progressivism is the religion, and adherence to progressivism must conquer all.

00:13:09.000 If you want to make your way into heaven, Then what you have to do is declare your fealty to progressivism and progressive icons, progressive saints.

00:13:17.000 You have to do your penance to progressivism.

00:13:21.000 I've never seen anything made more clear that the substitution of progressivism for Judaism, which, by the way, has been ongoing in the Jewish community for an extremely long time. 0.52

00:13:30.000 There's a vast divide between how Orthodox Jews vote, for example, and the rest of the Jewish community.

00:13:34.000 Orthodox Jews tend to vote overwhelmingly Republican because it turns out that biblical values tend to be a lot more socially conservative and a lot more pro-Israel.

00:13:43.000 But progressive Jews, meaning Jews who by and large do not believe very much in Jewish religion, they kind of like the cultural Judaism aspect, they like the bagels, they like the lox, they like the matzo balls.

00:13:55.000 Every so often they like to go to synagogue, mainly so they can hear people sing for like an hour and a half and then they break on Yom Kippur for lunch.

00:14:04.000 That is not Judaism as a religion. 0.99

00:14:06.000 In fact, it has nothing to do with Judaism as a religion.

00:14:08.000 It is basically just some sort of cultural solidarity unlinked in any serious way to underlying Jewish values or Jewish philosophy.

00:14:16.000 Progressivism is the religion.

00:14:18.000 And then you just slap a little bit of Jewish kind of flavoring on top. 0.76

00:14:21.000 You slap a little bit of matzo ball soup and some schmaltz on top. 0.85

00:14:25.000 And then you're like, oh, well, I guess this is Judaism now. 0.97

00:14:27.000 That's what Reform Judaism has become.

00:14:29.000 Even more Reconstructionist Judaism. 0.97

00:14:31.000 Conservative Judaism doesn't really exist anymore.

00:14:33.000 Conservative, like, old-style Jewish theological seminary Judaism.

00:14:37.000 It's broken down into modern Orthodox and then into Reform and Reconstructionist.

00:14:41.000 The reason I bring this up is because this is the greatest example of substitution of progressivism for religion I have ever seen.

00:14:47.000 So this temple, Ner Tamid, again, it is a Reform synagogue in New Jersey.

00:14:52.000 The rabbi of the congregation gets up in the aftermath of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.

00:14:59.000 And his name is Mark Katz.

00:15:02.000 He stands alongside a cantor named Meredith Greenberg, and they decide to do the Haftorah.

00:15:07.000 So the Haftorah, for folks, again, who are not versed in Jewish ritual, the Haftorah is a segment that you read after the Torah reading.

00:15:13.000 So every Saturday, and on holidays, you read a section of the Torah.

00:15:17.000 You've heard me on this show before do full-on analyses of the Torah portion of the week.

00:15:22.000 So you read a section of the Torah, and then, because for a long time, particularly during the Roman period, Jews were barred from reading from the Torah, the Jews added a Haftorah, meaning that they added a segment from the Nevi'im, from the prophets, from the writings of the prophets.

00:15:39.000 And that was supposed to substitute sort of for the Torah reading, and then eventually, when the Torah was allowed to be read again, you would read the Torah reading, and then you would read a section from the prophets.

00:15:45.000 Okay, so the Haftorah has its own special sort of cancellation, it has its own sort of trope, And Trump are sort of the way you sing it.

00:15:54.000 So this temple decided.

00:15:57.000 It's beyond blasphemy what this is.

00:16:01.000 They decided that they were going to substitute for the words of the prophets, instead of a segment from Isaiah or a segment from Ezekiel or a segment from the book of Samuel or something, they were going to substitute the writings of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:16:17.000 A woman whose most prominent stances were fairly obviously not in favor of Judaism.

00:16:24.000 She was a very strong cultural Jew, was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and that's wonderful and fine.

00:16:29.000 But Ruth Bader Ginsburg's rulings from the bench were largely in favor of abortion on demand and restrictions on religion via the hand of government.

00:16:37.000 If you're going to talk about her in a religious context, that's where she was.

00:16:40.000 So they decide that they are going to read The Ahav Torah, right?

00:16:45.000 They're literally going to take the words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, substitute them for the words of the prophets, and then sing them to the same tunes you would sing the actual Jewish prophets in a synagogue.

00:16:55.000 Okay, this is not only blasphemous, it is a perfect, a perfect crystallization of the substitution of progressivism for religion.

00:17:02.000 It's especially true in the Jewish community. 0.88

00:17:04.000 Unfortunately, it has also happened in a wide variety of other communities, ranging from the Catholic to the Protestant.

00:17:09.000 It is obviously most pronounced in the Jewish community, and by far, it is not close.

00:17:12.000 Okay, so here is what this sounded like.

00:17:14.000 When I saw this, I couldn't believe it.

00:17:15.000 I honestly couldn't believe it.

00:17:16.000 I thought it was a parody.

00:17:17.000 I thought it was something from Saturday Night Live.

00:17:19.000 It is so bizarre and insane on every level, but This is a thing that happened.

00:17:24.000 This is a thing that happened because when politics is your golden calf, when you don't really believe in God, when what you really believe in is the power of the collective to shape the imagination, then this is what you end up with.

00:17:36.000 So here are people donning the garb of Judaism in order to preach the words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 0.69

00:17:42.000 All right, here we go.

00:17:45.000 I tell all students, if you are going to be a lawyer and just practice your profession, you have a skill.

00:17:58.000 Very much like a plumber.

00:18:01.000 But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself.

00:18:11.000 Something that makes life a little better for people less fortunate than you.

00:18:19.000 OK, a few things here. 0.82

00:18:22.000 Gross. I mean, truly gross. 0.79

00:18:25.000 Using the trappings and the halachic accoutrements to promote the verbiage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg from the deus inshul is unbelievable levels of golden calf idolatry. 0.61

00:18:40.000 I mean, really, like, top-notch stuff right there on Rosh Hashanah.

00:18:43.000 Really, really well done right there.

00:18:46.000 Okay, and then beyond all of that, I challenge you to recite back to me that quote.

00:18:52.000 Was that anything nearly as memorable as anything from, you know, the Book of Samuel?

00:18:56.000 Either one or two?

00:18:57.000 Was that anything remotely memorable in any way?

00:19:02.000 But these are the words of the prophets.

00:19:03.000 I mean, this is literally what this doof said.

00:19:06.000 This doof said, he said that she was a modern day prophet.

00:19:13.000 She was a modern day prophet.

00:19:15.000 And so he decided to substitute her words for those of, you know, actual prophets.

00:19:21.000 Well, I mean, obviously she was not a modern-day prophet.

00:19:23.000 She was just a political leftist. 0.99

00:19:25.000 That doesn't mean you're a modern-day prophet.

00:19:27.000 What is the prophecy exactly?

00:19:28.000 I mean, one of the things prophets are supposed to do is have an accurate depiction of the future.

00:19:34.000 I mean, I can say that she obviously would have liked to sit on the court until a Democrat was president. 1.00

00:19:40.000 So, I mean, when we're talking about prophecy, not so much prophecy happening there, but this was not rare in the Jewish community.

00:19:45.000 I'm going to get some more examples of this in one second, because again, the substitution of progressivism for religion, it is a religion.

00:19:50.000 Progressivism is a religion in which there are saints and sinners, in which forgiveness is never truly earned.

00:19:56.000 You're always held to the fire, no matter what.

00:19:59.000 I'd say progressivism in many ways is more like a cult than a religion even.

00:20:02.000 At least in religion, there comes a point where once you've repented, you are cleansed of your sin.

00:20:06.000 In progressivism, you're never cleansed of your sin.

00:20:08.000 Your sin can always be brought back up to you and thus used as a cudgel in order to get you to do more progressive things.

00:20:14.000 That is the chief aspect of progressivism that is truly mortifying.

00:20:18.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:21:48.000 So unfortunately, this particular synagogue, this Reform Synagogue in New Jersey, was not the only one that participated in this sort of insanity. 0.95

00:21:56.000 Apparently, at Central Synagogue, a large Reform congregation in Manhattan, Rabbi Angela Buckdahl, who's also a cancer, sang a Hebrew version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah along a slideshow of photos of Ginsburg.

00:22:08.000 By the way, there's nothing quite like honoring Rosh Hashanah by showing slideshows on Rosh Hashanah.

00:22:15.000 And in the process, also elevating Ruth Bader Ginsburg to an Oscar tribute.

00:22:19.000 Really stellar stuff right there.

00:22:22.000 Rabbi Joshua Stanton of East End Temple, this is Forward.com, reporting.

00:22:25.000 Another Reformed congregation in Lower Manhattan heard the news minutes after closing the synagogue's Rosh Hashanah livestream on Friday night.

00:22:31.000 Later that evening, he joined an impromptu Zoom call where about 30 congregants remembered the justice as an inspiration and exemplar.

00:22:36.000 Attorneys on the call said they had modeled their careers after Herr Stanton recalled.

00:22:40.000 Others worried aloud about the sacred role, sacred!

00:22:42.000 The court plays in our democracy.

00:22:44.000 Sacred.

00:22:45.000 It is not a sacred role.

00:22:46.000 It is a check and balance.

00:22:47.000 It is not a sacred role.

00:22:49.000 Sacred means ordained by God.

00:22:50.000 Okay?

00:22:50.000 That is not a sacred role.

00:22:52.000 It can be a cherished role.

00:22:54.000 It is not a sacred role.

00:22:54.000 It can be an important role.

00:22:56.000 The substitution of progressivism for religion is one of the great and awful developments of the 20th century.

00:23:04.000 And it is awful.

00:23:05.000 It is absolutely terrible.

00:23:08.000 Using, again, Rosh Hashanah, which is one of the high holy days in the Jewish calendar, in order to forward progressivism and to elevate Ruth Bader Ginsburg into the sort of high echelon of the prophets is pretty incredible stuff.

00:23:24.000 This is not relegated, by the way, to the Jewish community.

00:23:27.000 It is not.

00:23:28.000 The way that progressivism views religion is that, like everything else, for progressives, religion is a tool.

00:23:36.000 And it really is more about the trappings of religion so that you can pretend that you are allied with the religious rather than it is about the actual doctrines of the religion.

00:23:42.000 In fact, anybody who says that they are in favor of the doctrines of their religion is anti-progressivism and is therefore some sort of blasphemer.

00:23:49.000 Right?

00:23:49.000 If you're a religious Jew, there is nobody that Reform Jews are more angry at than religious Jews.

00:23:55.000 I mean, seriously, Reform Jews, when they look at religious Jews who take the Torah seriously and take Jewish law seriously, not to get in sort of the dirty business of the Jewish community, the antipathy that Reform Judaism holds for Orthodox Judaism is extraordinary. 0.80

00:24:07.000 And the same thing is true in a lot of Christian communities.

00:24:10.000 Progressive Christians feel a lot of antipathy for Evangelical Christians.

00:24:14.000 Progressive Catholics feel an extraordinary level of antipathy for religious Catholics, for more Orthodox Catholics.

00:24:21.000 See, for progressives, religion is supposed to be about the trappings.

00:24:25.000 It's not supposed to be about the doctrine.

00:24:26.000 If you take the doctrine seriously, you got a problem.

00:24:28.000 Because the doctrine could be in direct conflict with the progressive doctrine.

00:24:32.000 And if those two are in conflict, the progressive doctrine, the golden calf, and the actual religion, then the religion has to be torn down.

00:24:39.000 And you can see this most obviously in the way that Democrats are preparing to treat Amy Comey Barrett.

00:24:44.000 So Amy Comey Barrett, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge, She is an Orthodox Catholic, has described herself that way.

00:24:52.000 She has seven children.

00:24:54.000 Five of them are natural born, two of them are adopted from Haiti.

00:24:57.000 By all accounts has led a pretty model, stellar life.

00:25:01.000 Clerked for Justice Scalia, taught at University of Notre Dame Law School.

00:25:05.000 Is really a great candidate in a variety of ways, and seems like a really good person.

00:25:09.000 She seems like a really good person.

00:25:11.000 But she is called into question.

00:25:13.000 Because why?

00:25:15.000 According to progressives, if you refuse to follow the sacred code of Roe vs. Wade, or if you refuse to signify your allegiance to the sacred code of Roe vs. Wade, and if you have signified that you actually believe in God or you believe in the doctrine of your particular faith, this means you are unqualified for the court.

00:25:34.000 Now let's be straight about this.

00:25:35.000 You can be an excellent Catholic and still recognize the limitations of your job.

00:25:39.000 Antonin Scalia was a very, very devout Catholic.

00:25:43.000 He still recognized the limitations of his job.

00:25:46.000 He did not use his Catholicism as a battering ram, for example, against the death penalty.

00:25:52.000 So the Catholic Church opposes the death penalty, last I checked.

00:25:54.000 Antonin Scalia did not say that it is unconstitutional to pursue the death penalty.

00:25:59.000 He understood the limitations of his job.

00:26:01.000 His idea was that if I do my job properly as a justice on the Supreme Court, I'm not here to make my doctrine law.

00:26:09.000 If I do my job properly, then I have forwarded the kingdom of God by both modeling good behavior and also by forwarding the power and liberty of the United States of America, where people get to make their own decisions.

00:26:21.000 Religious people, they're not all theocrats.

00:26:24.000 See, for progressives, the substitution of progressivism for religion means that there's a sort of supersession theology.

00:26:31.000 Supersession theology is the idea that You are the new religious.

00:26:35.000 You are the new chosen.

00:26:36.000 So for many progressives, they are the new chosen.

00:26:38.000 And that means that they have to get rid of the old chosen. 1.00

00:26:40.000 The old chosen would be any form of any traditional religion. 0.99

00:26:44.000 And so what that means is that if you are a traditionally religious person, we have to cast you as a theocrat because progressivism is in direct opposition to quote-unquote theocracy.

00:26:55.000 So instead, Antonin Scalia becomes a theocrat.

00:26:58.000 He can't simultaneously be a good Catholic and also a good justice.

00:27:02.000 And you've seen the Democrats already start to say this sort of stuff about Amy Coney Barrett.

00:27:05.000 This is going all the way back to 2017.

00:27:06.000 So in 2017, Dianne Feinstein overtly said to Amy Coney Barrett, who was being, at that point, heard for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Feinstein chided her for being Catholic, saying, the dogma lives loudly in you.

00:27:21.000 Now again, if you're a Catholic, or if you're an Orthodox Jew, or if you're a religious Muslim, I think it is perfectly plausible, and in fact, the history of humanity shows, And that you can be any of these things and also understand the limitations of your job and what you are supposed to do.

00:27:36.000 I mean, last I checked, this is literally part of the New Testament Rendered to Caesar section, okay?

00:27:41.000 And I'm not Christian.

00:27:43.000 Under Judaism, that would be called Dina Demalkhusa Dina, meaning the law of the land is the law.

00:27:47.000 And so this has been a long time religious doctrine.

00:27:50.000 But for people who are anti-religious or a-religious, their perspective on religion is that religion dictates not only every aspect of your life, but also dictates that you cram down your religion on everybody else.

00:28:00.000 Which is not something that religion necessarily dictates.

00:28:02.000 In any case, here is Dianne Feinstein, progressive figure, basically suggesting that Amy Comey Barrett cannot be a good justice because she's a Catholic. 0.99

00:28:13.000 I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma.

00:28:18.000 The law is totally different.

00:28:22.000 And I think in your case, Professor, When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.

00:28:42.000 And therefore, she could not be a good justice, right?

00:28:45.000 She couldn't be a good judge because the dogma lived loudly in Amy Comey Barrett. 0.90

00:28:49.000 Dick Durbin, Did the same thing.

00:28:50.000 He asked Amy Comey Barrett about being an Orthodox Catholic.

00:28:53.000 What's your definition of an Orthodox Catholic?

00:28:54.000 Now, again, it is very funny.

00:28:57.000 Hugh Hewitt, who is a friend and radio host, he pointed out online that Democrats have taken a pretty anti-Catholic line throughout their questioning of people like Amy Comey Barrett.

00:29:06.000 They did the same thing with Justice Scalia.

00:29:07.000 The implication, of course, is that if you're a religious Catholic, then you're a theocrat.

00:29:11.000 And Kevin Cruz, who is a liberal professor, I believe, at Princeton, if that's correct, Kevin Cruz tweeted back, well, you know, look how many Catholics have been in positions of power in the Democratic Party.

00:29:21.000 I mean, their last three vice presidential nominees were Catholics.

00:29:25.000 Most of the Catholics who are in Congress are Democrats.

00:29:28.000 OK, that may very well be true.

00:29:30.000 And there are Jews on the Supreme Court, too.

00:29:32.000 None of them are Orthodox and none of them actually practice the doctrine of Judaism outside the court in any serious way.

00:29:39.000 Just because you have people... I mean, Joe Biden has been refused communion for his position on abortion by particular local churches.

00:29:47.000 Nancy Pelosi, same deal. 1.00

00:29:49.000 In other words, what religion is designed to do in this iteration is to be sort of a cultural thing.

00:29:53.000 Like, you know, you go out on Sunday nights and you get Chinese food and then on Monday nights, you go to mass and you say a few words and then you go back home and then you talk about how abortion is wonderful.

00:30:02.000 For a lot of religious people in the country, that is not how they view That is not how they view what religion ought to be.

00:30:10.000 And so here is Dick Durbin questioning Amy Comey Barrett about orthodox Catholicism as though orthodox Catholicism is in direct contravention of sort of liberal values and that there's something bad about being an orthodox Catholic that makes her inherently intolerant. 0.90

00:30:22.000 The only true form of Catholicism that we should be seeking to emulate is the kind where you mumble a few words in Latin every so often and then you go out at night and do exactly whatever the damn well hell you please.

00:30:36.000 You use a term in that article, or you both use a term in that article, I've never seen before.

00:30:40.000 You refer to orthodox Catholics.

00:30:43.000 What's an orthodox Catholic?

00:30:45.000 Um, as I recall, that term, um, we said something like, for lack of a better term, we're using the term orthodox Catholic, and there was a long footnote saying, you know, that that was an imperfect term.

00:30:57.000 Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?

00:31:01.000 I am a Catholic, Senator DeDurbin.

00:31:03.000 I don't, well, Orthodox Catholic, we kind of, as I said in that article, we just kind of use that as a proxy.

00:31:09.000 It is not to my knowledge, you know, a term Curlean use, but if you're asking whether I take my faith seriously and I'm a faithful Catholic, I am.

00:31:17.000 Okay, so again, the fact that you have to be questioned about being a faithful Catholic is really quite crazy.

00:31:23.000 I mean, I thought this went out with JFK, but again, JFK, I guess, would not have been considered an Orthodox Catholic, is the idea.

00:31:31.000 So the idea is that you're an anti-Catholic bigot if you ask a Democrat about their Catholicism, but if you ask an Orthodox Catholic about their Catholicism, it's not anti-Catholic bigotry whatsoever.

00:31:41.000 By the way, both Dick Durbin and Dianne Feinstein both defended themselves on charges of anti-Catholic bigotry over all of this stuff way back in 2017.

00:31:49.000 They said it's completely fair.

00:31:52.000 They said it's completely fair to go after people for their Catholicism. 1.00

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00:33:08.000 Okay, so again, Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin, they have actually defended this in the past, suggesting, of course, that what they were doing was asking legitimate questions about whether you can be a good Catholic and still be on some of the nation's highest courts.

00:33:23.000 And we are seeing Maisie Hirono do the same thing.

00:33:25.000 She's attacked judicial nominees for their faith before.

00:33:29.000 Asked if her religious view should be off-limits, according to CNN.

00:33:32.000 Senator Hirono said no.

00:33:34.000 She said no, they absolutely should not.

00:33:35.000 And we have now seen two, count them, two articles, one from Newsweek and one from Reuters, suggesting that because Judge Amy Coney Barrett was part of a self-described charismatic Christian community called People of Praise, this means that she is a character from The Handmaid's Tale.

00:33:51.000 I'm not kidding.

00:33:52.000 This is what the argument is.

00:33:53.000 So the argument is, she is such a handmaid, and she is of whatever her husband's name is, she's a handmaid, and she's such a handmaid that she serves on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:34:03.000 Now, I've read that book. 0.98

00:34:04.000 I don't remember any of the women who were being used as vessels for childbearing being members of some of the nation's highest courts or being nominated for the Supreme Court, but forgive me if I forget that part of that stupid book. 1.00

00:34:15.000 And the book is indeed incredibly stupid. 0.99

00:34:18.000 Again, truly religious people have to be excoriated by the left. 1.00

00:34:21.000 True religion, according to the left, is reading Ruth Bader Ginsburg from the pulpit on Rosh Hashanah.

00:34:27.000 Let me just say, if you are substituting politics for your religion, you're not talking about eternal values.

00:34:33.000 You're not talking about living a deep and fulfilling life.

00:34:37.000 Because every time something does not go your way on this moral coil in the world of politics, it becomes a deep threat to your own worldview.

00:34:45.000 It ratchets things up.

00:34:47.000 One of the great developments in human history was in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.

00:34:52.000 There were a bunch of religious wars between Catholic countries and Protestant countries and Protestant rebellions and Catholic leaders and all of this.

00:34:59.000 And the Treaty of Westphalia essentially said that there was going to be much, much more religious tolerance in Europe.

00:35:05.000 And it ended a lot of the religious warfare in Europe for centuries.

00:35:09.000 Warfare came out in other ways, obviously, but religious warfare was basically put on the back burner because everybody sort of said, OK, we're going to have to acknowledge that we exist.

00:35:17.000 Religious warfare is truly awful, as you can see in the Muslim world between Shia and Sunni. 1.00

00:35:21.000 It's really bad, religious warfare.

00:35:23.000 Turning politics into religion is not going to make things better.

00:35:27.000 It's going to make it a lot worse.

00:35:30.000 And this is the direction we have moved.

00:35:31.000 Human beings have a religious need.

00:35:33.000 One of the great developments in civilizational history is the recognition that social fabric built through religion could be separate from what the government is supposed to do.

00:35:40.000 Reading back into what the government is supposed to do, all of the religious things that you want, is a form of theocracy, but that theocracy these days is not coming from the right.

00:35:49.000 It is coming almost entirely from the political left in this country.

00:35:52.000 And it's really ugly, and it's really bad for the country, and it's really bad for religion, by the way, which has become completely secondary. 0.92

00:35:57.000 The Golden Calf, remember, was not supposed to be next to God.

00:36:00.000 It was an idol.

00:36:01.000 It was supposed to be a replacement for.

00:36:03.000 And that's what progressivism, for many folks, has become. 0.99

00:36:06.000 Okay, meanwhile, stupidest controversy of the day yesterday. 0.99

00:36:10.000 So, a Wells Fargo CEO, quote-unquote, ruffled feathers. 0.99

00:36:14.000 Why?

00:36:14.000 Well, his name is Charles Scharf.

00:36:17.000 He exasperated some black employees in a Zoom meeting this summer when he reiterated the bank has trouble reaching diversity goals because there were not enough qualified minority talents, according to two participants.

00:36:26.000 He made the assertion in a company-wide memo June 18th that announced diversity initiatives as nationwide protests broke out following the death of George Floyd.

00:36:34.000 While it might sound like an excuse, the unfortunate reality is that there's a very limited pool of black talent to recruit from, Scharf said in the memo.

00:36:40.000 Sharf spent more time listening than speaking during the 90-minute call which he initiated and has not been previously reported.

00:36:45.000 His comments about black talent rubbed some attendees the wrong way, according to the two employees who spoke on condition of anonymity.

00:36:52.000 Several black senior executives across corporate America said they're frustrated by claims of a talent shortage and called the refrain a major reason companies have struggled to add racial and ethnic diversity to leadership ranks despite stated intentions to do so.

00:37:04.000 According to Ken Bacon, a former mortgage industry executive who's on the board of Comcast, Ally Financial Corp, and WealthTower, He said he was shocked and puzzled by Sharf's comments.

00:37:12.000 He said, if people say they can't find the talent, they either aren't looking hard enough or they don't want to find it.

00:37:17.000 Okay, so this happens to be a statistical lie.

00:37:21.000 It happens to be a statistical lie that there are people of every particular racial group who exist in direct proportion to their population who are available for each particular job.

00:37:31.000 It happens not to be true.

00:37:32.000 Okay, it's true in nearly every industry.

00:37:34.000 In the NBA, Jews are really underrepresented.

00:37:36.000 Why?

00:37:37.000 Not a lot of qualified Jews for the NBA.

00:37:39.000 That's just the way it works. 0.62

00:37:41.000 Hey, and there are not a lot of qualified black applicants for Wells Fargo.

00:37:46.000 That is not because of innate ability.

00:37:48.000 That is because of shortcomings in familial upbringing.

00:37:51.000 It is because of shortcomings in the education system.

00:37:53.000 But it remains a fact.

00:37:55.000 And that is not on Wells Fargo.

00:37:56.000 Wells Fargo doesn't have to just go hire a random black person in order to meet a diversity quota because they are a company that has to run at a profit and has to fulfill job requirements.

00:38:05.000 The willingness to completely—all of these articles about this Wallace Fargo CEO, they quote somebody who's like, you know, it's just insulting he would say something like that.

00:38:13.000 It's just not true he would say something like that.

00:38:15.000 There's only one problem.

00:38:16.000 At no point do they provide statistical evidence that black recruits are available in wide numbers sufficient to their percentage of the population at large.

00:38:24.000 Why don't they provide those numbers?

00:38:25.000 Because those numbers don't exist.

00:38:27.000 I'll get into it in just one second, but this goes to a lot of the sort of critical race theory nonsense that we are being treated to these days.

00:38:32.000 A lot of the anti-racism nonsense we're being treated to these days.

00:38:35.000 Again, the principal idea of anti-racism is put forward by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi, which has now infused so many of our corporations, is that any policy that does not result in an equal outcome by group is a racist policy that must be done away with.

00:38:50.000 What if there are other confounding factors?

00:38:52.000 Anti-racist policy just ignores them.

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00:41:08.000 Alrighty, so again, there's this trend in American thought that is deeply disturbing and incredibly stupid, which is that if there is any policy and it results in a disparity, it's because discrimination took place. 0.87

00:41:24.000 So this Wells Fargo CEO is now under fire, as I've been mentioning, for suggesting on a phone call back in June, right? 0.94

00:41:29.000 It is now, last I checked, September.

00:41:31.000 So everybody sort of waited, lurking in the wilderness to spring this political trap on the Wells Fargo CEO.

00:41:38.000 It trended number one on Twitter yesterday because he said there weren't enough qualified black applicants to work at Wells Fargo sufficient to staff them according to percentage of the population.

00:41:48.000 Because black Americans represent about 13% of the population, far lower percentage of Wells Fargo employees.

00:41:53.000 And people are like, that's unfair!

00:41:55.000 That's terrible!

00:41:56.000 There's only one problem.

00:41:57.000 He happens to be correct.

00:41:58.000 Now, the media will always obscure this because, again, they wish to attribute all disparities to discrimination.

00:42:03.000 As Thomas Sowell has pointed out in his book, Disparities and Discrimination, this is untrue.

00:42:07.000 And very often, the media will acknowledge it's untrue.

00:42:10.000 They'll bury it in paragraph 17 of a piece, but they will acknowledge that it is untrue that an equal number of qualified applicants by percentage of population are available.

00:42:19.000 So, for example, February 2016, piece in the New York Times, why tech degrees are not putting more blacks and Hispanics into tech jobs. Technology companies employ strikingly few black and Hispanic workers. They blame the recruitment pipeline, saying there aren't enough of them graduating with relevant degrees and applying for tech jobs. Yet the data show there are many more black and Hispanic students majoring in computer science and engineering than work in tech jobs.

00:42:39.000 So why aren't they being hired?

00:42:40.000 Those who enter the candidate pipeline fall out somewhere along the way.

00:42:44.000 And the culture and recruiting methods of tech companies seem to have a lot to do with it.

00:42:47.000 The pipeline problem is not a myth.

00:42:49.000 Black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in computer science and engineering programs relative to their share of the population, while Asian students are overrepresented.

00:42:59.000 Yet the pipeline is still more fruitful than tech companies make it out to be.

00:43:02.000 Among young computer science and engineering grads with a bachelor's or advanced degrees, 57% are white, 26% are Asian, 8% are Hispanic, 6% are black, according to the American Community Survey data.

00:43:13.000 At the top 25 undergrad programs, nearly 9% of graduates are underrepresented minorities, according to the Education Department data.

00:43:20.000 But technical workers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter, according to the company's diversity records, are on average 56% white, 37% Asian, 3% Hispanic, and 1% black.

00:43:29.000 What?

00:43:30.000 One issue is that black and Hispanic computer science and engineering grads are less likely than white and Asian ones to go into tech jobs.

00:43:36.000 Well, wouldn't that be one of the problems?

00:43:40.000 10% of black computer science and engineering grads have office support jobs, including administrative support and accounting jobs, compared with 5% of white graduates and 3% of Asians.

00:43:49.000 It also happens to be that you are talking about the top tech companies in America.

00:43:53.000 I have relatives who work for some of these companies.

00:43:55.000 And let me tell you, the screening procedures for getting into Google are extraordinary.

00:43:59.000 To be an employee at Google, you gotta go through a withering barrage of testing.

00:44:04.000 And not everybody's gonna get through. 1.00

00:44:06.000 The attempt to suggest that all policy is due to some systemic racism, when it's pretty obviously due to personal choice and the consequences thereof, It is really ugly and makes for bad public policy, and it's really stupid. 0.99

00:44:21.000 Here is some information from Georgetown University. 0.98

00:44:23.000 Georgetown University did a full study of black American college majors and earnings.

00:44:28.000 It turns out that the number of people who are majoring in, that among black Americans, STEM degrees are not in the top 10.

00:44:39.000 They're not in the top 10 for bachelor's degrees.

00:44:42.000 Computer and information systems like 14% is computer and information systems.

00:44:46.000 That's like the highest.

00:44:48.000 Health and medical administration services, 21%.

00:44:50.000 Human services and community organization, 20%.

00:44:53.000 Social work, 19%.

00:44:54.000 Public administration, 17%.

00:44:55.000 Criminal justice and fire protection, 15%.

00:44:57.000 I believe that this same study showed that STEM degrees, it was like 7% of black Americans major in the STEM field.

00:45:05.000 Well, that's gonna have some pretty significant ramifications for how many of them end up actually working at Wells Fargo or at Google.

00:45:13.000 By the way, you know what's not listed among these top 10?

00:45:15.000 Would be anything having to do with finance.

00:45:17.000 Again, the rest of the top 10 is sociology, computer and information systems, human resources and personnel management, interdisciplinary social sciences, and pre-law and legal studies.

00:45:26.000 As it turns out, the industries most likely to have high earnings, the majors that are most likely to have high earnings for black Americans, tend to be the majors that are least taken by black Americans.

00:45:38.000 The top earning industries are Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Nursing, General Engineering and Computer Science.

00:45:51.000 Those industries, I don't think a single one of those majors actually is listed in the top 10 that black Americans tend to take.

00:45:58.000 That's going to make a difference in terms of earnings.

00:46:01.000 But you see, when we are attempting to forward a lie, and the lie is that America is racist, and the proof that America is racist is in disparity, then you have to ignore actual statistics in many of these cases.

00:46:13.000 Now, there is good news, which is that this philosophy is now being fought back on by the Trump administration.

00:46:18.000 So yesterday, the president signed a full executive order abolishing critical race theory from the federal government, the military, and all federal contractors.

00:46:24.000 The federal contractors is a big one because it means private companies that contract with the federal government can no longer do the Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, diversity training, re-education, malice struggle sessions.

00:46:36.000 Under the executive order, the president explains our nation was founded on the ideal that all men are created equal and denounces critical race theories, pernicious and false belief that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist country.

00:46:48.000 This is according to Christopher Rufo, who has been reporting on this for City Journal, among other places.

00:46:53.000 The executive order allows you to sue your company if your company is creating a hostile work environment.

00:46:56.000 from supporting critical race theory trainings in the federal government, in the military, and by all federal contractors.

00:47:01.000 Furthermore, the executive order allows you to sue your company if your company is creating a hostile work environment.

00:47:11.000 According to the executive order, the attorney general should continue to assess the extent to which workplace training that teaches the divisive concepts set forth in this particular executive order may contribute to a hostile work environment and give rise to potential liability under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

00:47:25.000 In other words, if your boss brings in somebody to train you that all white people are racist, is this a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?

00:47:36.000 Sure, why not?

00:47:37.000 So I'm glad that the Trump administration is fighting back on this.

00:47:40.000 But it goes to a broader guilt complex that has been promoted by the media in the United States.

00:47:45.000 The suggestion, of course, is that any disparity whatsoever is attributable to white Americans and to the systems more broadly.

00:47:52.000 And we're simply supposed to overlook all the bad stuff that is happening in the name of this movement.

00:47:57.000 The most obvious example of this, by the way, was ESPN's Max Kellerman yesterday.

00:48:02.000 It was just awful.

00:48:03.000 Stick to boxing, Max.

00:48:04.000 ESPN's Max Kellerman blamed the riots in America's major cities, which have been thoroughgoing Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

00:48:11.000 He blamed on right-wing protesters.

00:48:12.000 Because again, when you are pursuing a narrative, the facts simply do not matter at all.

00:48:17.000 When he talks about, like, Black Lives Matter, 93% of the protests are peaceful.

00:48:22.000 The vast, overwhelming majority are peaceful.

00:48:25.000 And by the way, the 7% that are not, they have a very broad definition of what's not quote-unquote peaceful.

00:48:30.000 For example, if you block traffic or something like that.

00:48:32.000 Or if you respond to police provocation.

00:48:35.000 And even then, a big percentage of that, that wasn't peaceful, is actually outside agitators Extremist right-wing agitators posing as protesters in order to make the protests look bad.

00:48:48.000 That's the first thing.

00:48:49.000 Okay, so he's making this stuff up.

00:48:50.000 Again, when it comes to the narrative that America is racist, what that means is excusing criminality, in many cases bailing out the criminals, right?

00:48:57.000 Remember, Kamala Harris wanted criminals bailed out of jail. 1.00

00:49:00.000 It means overlooking the fact that many disparities in American life are created by personal choice or by circumstances that have nothing to do with racism and have much more to do with class.

00:49:10.000 It means ignoring data.

00:49:12.000 That is not the way any public policy should get done in the country.

00:49:14.000 Unfortunately, a lot of public policy gets done exactly that way.

00:49:19.000 Okay, meanwhile, I gotta tell you an awful story.

00:49:21.000 This is being reported by the Post-Millennial.

00:49:23.000 When you talk about Black Lives Matter movement, and the good or evil of the Black Lives Matter movement, this is an unbelievably shocking and terrifying story, and a tragic story, in fact. 1.00

00:49:34.000 Mia Cathill, reporting for the Post-Millennial, In the wake of Jake Gardner's tragic death, his close friend, who organized two since-deleted GoFundMe pages for his legal defense, spoke to the Post Millennial about the relentless doxing and defamation by a leftist mob prior to the Trump supporter's suicide.

00:49:50.000 The conservative 38-year-old bar owner from Omaha, Nebraska, took his own life after a grand jury indicted him for the fatal shooting of a black man who assaulted his family and vandalized his storefront, among other neighboring businesses, amid George Floyd protests in May.

00:50:01.000 You may remember this case.

00:50:03.000 There's a man named Jake Gardner.

00:50:04.000 He's 38 years old.

00:50:05.000 And the facts of the case were caught on tape.

00:50:09.000 Basically, he came out with a gun to try and defend a business, and he was attacked on the street, and a confrontation ensued in which he shot a young black man.

00:50:20.000 And this was the cause of rioting.

00:50:22.000 It was the cause of major consternation.

00:50:26.000 And at the time, the Douglas County District Attorney said that it was self-defense.

00:50:32.000 Because the district attorney, his name was Don Kline, he had determined that the man who was shot, a man named Scurlock, I think his name was James Scurlock, dived on Gardner's back and choked him, according to the New York Post.

00:50:42.000 Gardner could be heard in another bystander's video shouting, get off me, get off me.

00:50:46.000 With his right arm pinned, Kline noted, Gardner switched the gun to his left hand and fired over his shoulder.

00:50:50.000 The bullet hit Scurlock in the shoulder-neck area, killing him.

00:50:52.000 But Kline buckled after BLM activists took to the district attorney's house in July, demanding justice for Scurlock.

00:50:58.000 According to a friend of Gardner's, you can't tell me a person found completely innocent on the grounds of self-defense was later found indicted because of pressure and numerous anonymous witnesses that came forth against Jake later on.

00:51:08.000 I don't believe them to be even credible in Jake's death.

00:51:10.000 I believe it's personally at the feet of weak city officials and the mob rule.

00:51:16.000 According to the coroner's toxicology report, methamphetamine and cocaine was found in Skrlok's urine. That is the person who was shot, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

00:51:23.000 Skrlok was also stained by a significant criminal history, just 22 years old.

00:51:27.000 According to an affidavit obtained by the Nebraska News Channel, it revealed that Skrlok was arrested in 2014 for robbery and use of a firearm to commit a felony.

00:51:33.000 Law enforcement officers implicated Skrlok's involvement in a home invasion robbery as part of a group of black males who entered the residence and threatened four civilians at gunpoint for drugs and money. He was sentenced to three to five years in prison. He served less than a year, was released the following August. Skrlok was found guilty of assault and battery charges.

00:51:48.000 Last year, he served one day in jail. The suspect additionally pled guilty to third degree domestic assault past February, completed a 90 day jail sentence.

00:51:55.000 Now, after the shooting, everybody simply just decided that Gardner was a racist, despite evidence that he was not, in fact, a racist.

00:52:04.000 He was informed earlier this week that he was going to be tried for murder.

00:52:10.000 His GoFundMe accounts were taken down.

00:52:13.000 He was targeted by Black Lives Matter.

00:52:16.000 A Black Lives Matter activist group contacted his place of employment with a scripted demand claiming to blackball him and any of the companies he works for.

00:52:23.000 Justin stated that he had never been targeted so viciously, Justin being the friend of Jake Gardner.

00:52:30.000 Justin tried to create a spot fund page for Jake Gardner, and it sadly has now been turned into a memorial fund because Gardner killed himself.

00:52:39.000 So again, to recap this case, on May 30th, he was confronted and attacked by BLM activists outside Gardner's Hive Bar in the Old Market neighborhood in Omaha.

00:52:46.000 While backing up, he reportedly lifted his shirt to show a handgun.

00:52:48.000 He cautioned instigators he was armed.

00:52:50.000 Then when he was knocked to a puddle on the ground, Gardner fired two warning shots in the air, attempting to rise to his feet.

00:52:55.000 An 18-second scuffle broke out with James Scurlock, and then Gardner shot Scurlock.

00:53:00.000 Gardner, by the way, is a military veteran.

00:53:04.000 He killed himself after he was told that he would be charged.

00:53:09.000 He served two tours in Iraq.

00:53:10.000 He suffered two traumatic brain injuries from combat that placed the veteran on disability.

00:53:16.000 So, again, there are consequences, as it turns out, to labeling people racist without proper evidence, suggesting that they have participated in murder when they have not.

00:53:26.000 Which brings us to the case of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:53:28.000 So people are going nuts because last night, Tucker Carlson had the temerity to show tape on his show that basically told the whole story of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:53:35.000 Kyle Rittenhouse is, of course, the 17-year-old young man, and I use young man advisedly because once you're 17, you are, in fact, a young man.

00:53:43.000 He's the young man who shot three people at this riot in Kenosha.

00:53:49.000 And it was pretty obvious from the tape that it was self-defense.

00:53:52.000 I mean, we showed the tape at the time.

00:53:54.000 We analyzed it moment by moment.

00:53:55.000 Well, now there's new video of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:53:59.000 He came to this particular protest, hoping to offer medical aid.

00:54:05.000 Apparently what happened is that one of the people he shot was going around lighting fires.

00:54:10.000 He was following them around with a fire extinguisher.

00:54:12.000 At some point, the guy who was lighting the fire started chasing Rittenhouse.

00:54:16.000 Another unidentified person started shooting his gun into the air.

00:54:19.000 Rittenhouse was running away.

00:54:21.000 He was apparently pinned between a car and one of these riders, at which point he shot one of the riders and the rider died.

00:54:28.000 He then tried to get to the police.

00:54:30.000 He was chased down.

00:54:30.000 He was knocked in the back of the head.

00:54:32.000 Somebody attempted to attack him with a skateboard.

00:54:34.000 Another man approached him and pretended that he was going to try and help him and then pulled out a gun and then...

00:54:39.000 Rittenhouse shot that man in the arm.

00:54:41.000 So he shot three people.

00:54:42.000 Two of them died.

00:54:43.000 The one who survived and had his bicep blown off, essentially.

00:54:47.000 That guy has been treated by the media as a nurse.

00:54:49.000 It doesn't matter that his friend, after visiting the man who was shot, said that the man's only regret was not having murdered Rittenhouse. 0.93

00:54:57.000 The bottom line is that according to the media, he's a white supremacist.

00:54:59.000 There's no evidence, by the way, of white supremacy anywhere in here.

00:55:01.000 None.

00:55:02.000 Here's some of the tape that was shown on Tucker's show last night.

00:55:06.000 To prevent the total destruction of their community, Good Samaritans united to guard local businesses.

00:55:13.000 Among them was 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:55:17.000 So people are getting injured.

00:55:19.000 And our job is to protect this business and part of my job is also helping people.

00:55:28.000 If there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way.

00:55:30.000 That's why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself, obviously.

00:55:35.000 All three of the people who were shot in these particular circumstances were people with significant criminal records, which does not mean that they necessarily should have been shot.

00:55:43.000 It does mean that if you're going to talk about the character of the people who are being shot versus the person who is doing the shooting, there's a wide disparity in character.

00:55:51.000 The tape, again, shows what happened and what it shows that it's going to be nearly impossible to convict Kyle Rittenhouse of murder, especially given the fact that Rittenhouse then, after the first shooting, attempted to go to the police and surrender to police and inform them what had happened.

00:56:05.000 Here's a little bit of the tape of the first shooting.

00:56:08.000 As Richard McGinnis began tending to Rosenbaum, Rittenhouse returned to the scene and began placing a call for help.

00:56:18.000 As the mob begins calling for the attack of Rittenhouse, he is forced to flee the scene.

00:56:39.000 Okay, so he runs away and then obviously the next shootings take place.

00:56:44.000 The way that the media have treated this is that he went to kill.

00:56:47.000 There's no evidence at this point that Rittenhouse went there to commit murder.

00:56:50.000 In fact, the evidence pretty strongly shows he went there in order to perform other functions.

00:56:54.000 Should he have been there?

00:56:55.000 The answer is no.

00:56:55.000 I've said from the very beginning Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there.

00:56:57.000 Does that mean that you get to nail the guy on a first-degree murder charge?

00:56:59.000 Absolutely not.

00:57:01.000 But again, in order to whitewash Black Lives Matter and pretend that Black Lives Matter is a wonderful movement and that Antifa is really not a problem, they're just anti-fascist.

00:57:08.000 It is necessary to make some human sacrifices, and if those human sacrifices include people like Jake Gardner or Kyle Rittenhouse, BLM simply does not care.

00:57:15.000 They simply do not care.

00:57:16.000 They don't even wait for all the facts to come out at any point here, and yet they are being proclaimed by the media as a wonderful movement.

00:57:22.000 Now, I have to say, most ironic story of the day, comes courtesy of Alyssa Milano.

00:57:27.000 So she is a defund the police activist.

00:57:29.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, she was quick to call cops when she believed an armed gunman was on her Bell Canyon property on Sunday morning.

00:57:35.000 The call ignited a response that included seven Ventura County Sheriff's vehicles, one canine unit, a police helicopter, and one LA Fire Department team that sat down the street on standby.

00:57:44.000 Daily Mail obtained exclusive photos showing the first responders coming to the aid of the 47-year-old at her five bed, six bath, 8,000 square foot, $2.5 million home in the upscale gated community that sits just 20 minutes north of LA.

00:57:56.000 A neighbor told Daily Mail, we first noticed the helicopter circling overhead very low.

00:58:00.000 We knew something was going on.

00:58:01.000 It's usually such a quiet community.

00:58:02.000 Then we saw all the police cars parked in front of Alyssa's home.

00:58:05.000 They had their guns at the ready and they seemed very serious.

00:58:08.000 Melissa and her talent agent husband, they said, had dialed 911 when they heard what they believed to be gunshots on their 1.39 acre property.

00:58:16.000 They allegedly told the emergency hotline the sound scared their dogs and made them feel the gunman was nearby.

00:58:21.000 They described the person as male, 40 years old, with a long rifle.

00:58:25.000 The two have been married since 2009.

00:58:28.000 She's used the enforcement of law enforcement before, I mean, properly.

00:58:33.000 She got a restraining order against a stalker.

00:58:36.000 The search by air and street level lasted over three hours, ended abruptly at 1220.

00:58:39.000 It turned out it was a neighborhood teen with an air gun shooting at squirrels.

00:58:43.000 The male teenager witnessed the emergency response, later realized he was the cause, and turned himself in.

00:58:48.000 And now, listen, do I think that there's anything wrong with somebody calling the police if you got somebody on your property walking around with an air gun, which, by the way, you cannot tell the difference, in some cases, between an air gun and a real gun?

00:58:58.000 No, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, unless you have suggested that calling the police is, in and of itself, an act of evil and racism, and that the police are the problem.

00:59:06.000 So, Alyssa Milano deserves all of the mockery that she is getting. 1.00

00:59:10.000 It turns out that many of the same people who believe in defunding the police are very much happy to use the police when it suits their particular purposes.

00:59:17.000 They don't have to live by the standards they set for everybody else.

00:59:20.000 Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

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The Golden Calf Of Politics | Ep. 1101

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