The Ben Shapiro Show - The Greatest Cover-Up In History | Ep. 1676

00:00:00.000 The Energy Department and FBI finally admit COVID-19 probably started in a Chinese lab. 0.94

00:00:05.000 Joe Biden still can't answer why he won't go to East Palestine.

00:00:08.000 And the left proves that racism is just fine so long as it's against white people.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:12.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:13.000 So you remember that time for like two years, you couldn't say that COVID-19 probably started in a Chinese lab.

00:00:24.000 Now, the evidence was there very early on that there was a high probability that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.

00:00:30.000 Number one, it was covered up by the Chinese government since the very earliest days.

00:00:34.000 And even people who are considered sort of Mainstream establishment COVID figures were saying as much if you go all the way back to 2020.

00:00:43.000 There were people who are looking at the actual genetic coding of COVID-19 and they were saying there are a lot of hallmarks here that do not look as though this is naturally changing in the bat population.

00:00:52.000 In fact, no one could actually find COVID-19 in the bat population, but the going theory was that it was some rando who ate a bat or something, and that is what generated COVID-19.

00:01:01.000 And in fact, we were supposed to believe that China was so wildly competent that it didn't happen at their lab, but they could find the one bat that one dude, Ozzy Osbourne style, had bit the head off of or he was eating bat soup or something. 0.78

00:01:14.000 And that is the reason why COVID-19 broke out among the population.

00:01:17.000 Now, the thing that we know, by the way, is that the state of China was actually Prohibiting information about the virus, which they knew about, in like October of 2019, like literally months in advance, and if China weren't a repressive totalitarian communist dictatorship, then COVID-19 probably doesn't break out of its borders, and it certainly doesn't kill millions of people.

00:01:37.000 Instead, China lied, and literally millions of people died because China lied.

00:01:41.000 And it turns out now, of course, that the most likely scenario for COVID-19 is that it was developed in the Wuhan lab and that it leaked outside.

00:01:50.000 Now, this has started to become sort of a more mainstream idea over the course of the last year and a half or so.

00:01:55.000 You had even people like Jon Stewart doing rants on late night television about how there's literally one institute of virology in the entire area.

00:02:02.000 I mean, we're talking like the global area and just happens to be in Wuhan.

00:02:06.000 And this is exactly the epicenter of this pandemic.

00:02:09.000 But you'll remember that from the very earliest days, if you mentioned this sort of thing, you were considered out of bounds.

00:02:13.000 Well, now here is the breaking news.

00:02:15.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S.

00:02:18.000 Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.

00:02:26.000 The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.

00:02:35.000 The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic's origin.

00:02:40.000 The Energy Department now joins the FBI in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese lab.

00:02:46.000 Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge it was likely the result of a natural transmission.

00:02:52.000 Two are undecided.

00:02:53.000 The Energy Department's conclusion is the result of new intelligence.

00:02:56.000 It's significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S.

00:03:00.000 national laboratories, some of which actually conduct advanced biological research.

00:03:05.000 Now, the Energy Department did make the judgment with quote unquote, low confidence.

00:03:08.000 The FBI previously came to a conclusion the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with a moderate confidence and still holds to that view.

00:03:17.000 Now again, the other possibilities seem a lot less likely.

00:03:21.000 Because there is no train of transmission that shows that COVID-19, a version of it existed in the bat population, then it sort of gradually became human oriented and then was transmissible via humans.

00:03:33.000 The National Intelligence Council, which conducts long-term strategic analysis, and four agencies, which officials declined to identify, still assess with low confidence the virus came about through natural transmission.

00:03:43.000 Now, this was not a biological weapons program per se, but it turns out that when you are screwing around with viruses, and when you are China, And you essentially unleash a worldwide Chernobyl, that is quite a bad thing. 0.98

00:03:55.000 Now remember, at the very beginning of the pandemic, there were in fact scientists who were writing to Anthony Fauci and saying to him, this thing looks engineered.

00:04:04.000 And then, Anthony Fauci took a leading role in preventing the information from being disseminated.

00:04:12.000 Because he was of the belief, apparently, that if that information got out, that would endanger our relationship with China, that this would somehow Blow back on him, because the NIH had been providing, obviously, funding to Chinese laboratories, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, for what he says was not gain-of-function research, but was clearly a form of gain-of-function research.

00:04:35.000 The Intercept reported, all the way back in January of 2022, that Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform released a letter painting a damning picture of U.S.

00:04:43.000 government officials wrestling with whether the coronavirus may have leaked out of a lab they were funding, acknowledging it may have, and then keeping the discussion from spilling out into public view.

00:04:50.000 There's a letter signed by James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio.

00:04:53.000 and was followed by pages of notes on emails that were first obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by BuzzFeed and the Washington Post, but then were heavily redacted in June 2021.

00:05:00.000 Those redacted emails included the agenda for a February 1, 2020 telephone conference between Anthony Fauci, his then-boss at the NIH, Francis Collins, and several of the world's leading virologists.

00:05:11.000 The communications contained extensive notes summarizing what was said during the call, but their substance was hidden during the time.

00:05:17.000 Apparently, on that call, virologist Michael Farzan and Robert Gehry told Fauci and Collins the virus may have leaked from the Wuhan lab.

00:05:24.000 It might have been genetically engineered, the transcription of Gehry's notes suggests, but this now seems unlikely.

00:05:28.000 Another possibility was that it could have been involved in the lab through a process known as serial passage.

00:05:33.000 The two methods represent two different ideas behind the so-called lab leak hypothesis.

00:05:38.000 Well, not long after that particular call, Actually, the day before the call, Scripps Research infectious disease expert Christian Anderson had warned Fauci the virus might have been engineered in a lab, and they agreed to have a call.

00:05:49.000 Well, not long after the call, Anderson then wrote a paper in Nature magazine titled, The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.

00:05:57.000 And one of those possible transmission vectors was, in fact, the lab leak.

00:06:02.000 On February 2nd, Jeremy Farrar, an infectious disease expert and director of Wellcome, sent around notes, including to Fauci and Collins, summarizing what some of the scientists had said on the call.

00:06:11.000 And apparently, again, this issue came up and Anthony Fauci was encouraged not to actually say anything about the lab leak hypothesis and in fact to downplay the lab leak hypothesis as they discussed what to present to the public.

00:06:24.000 The scientists determined questions of potential lab origin might prove more trouble than they were worth.

00:06:28.000 Ron Fauci, a virologist at the Erasmus MC Center for Viroscience in the Netherlands, said, given the evidence presented and the discussions around it, I would conclude a follow-up discussion on the possible origin of COVID-19 would be of much interest.

00:06:39.000 Years earlier, Fauci's gain-of-function research had brought the discipline under fire for a 2011 experiment in which he infected ferrets with avian influenza virus, allowing it to become airborne and infect mammals.

00:06:49.000 But Fauci wrote, Further debate about such accusations would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active duties and do unnecessary harm to science in general, and science in China in particular.

00:06:59.000 It would harm science.

00:07:00.000 The science would be harmed if people actually talked about this stuff.

00:07:02.000 China would be harmed if people actually talked about this stuff.

00:07:06.000 And then it turns out that Fauci and Collins looked like they were putting some backdoor pressure on people not to talk about this sort of stuff.

00:07:14.000 In fact, there was an email from Anthony Fauci to Peter Daszak, who was involved in EcoHealth Alliance, which was the sort of cutout by which the NIH supported the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in which Fauci said, thanks for your kind note.

00:07:28.000 What was the kind note from Peter Daszak?

00:07:30.000 The kind note was, thanks for shutting down the discussion about whether this was a lab leak.

00:07:36.000 He said, I want to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators for publicly standing up and stating that scientific evidence supports a natural origin, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:07:45.000 From my perspective, your comments are brave.

00:07:47.000 Coming from your trusted voice will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus's origins.

00:07:51.000 So again, Anthony Fauci and company were working in order to shut down the lab leak hypothesis.

00:07:56.000 And as we'll talk about in a second, this attempt to quash any discussion about whether this thing came from a Chinese lab extended to the entire realm of social media, as well as to the legacy media as well.

00:08:06.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:09:11.000 Okay, so how invested were members of the media in the lie that this thing had nothing to do with the Chinese lab? 0.75

00:09:17.000 Pretty damned invested.

00:09:19.000 In fact, again, Anthony Fauci was asked about this. 0.97

00:09:21.000 He laughed at the idea that he wasn't transparent.

00:09:24.000 I've always been transparent.

00:09:25.000 It turns out that was not true.

00:09:26.000 This is PBS NewsHour.

00:09:29.000 But another criticism is that you and other public health officials were not transparent enough at points along the way about what you knew and what you didn't know about COVID.

00:09:41.000 That's nonsense.

00:09:43.000 That is total nonsense that we weren't transparent about it.

00:09:46.000 What the public needed to know, and perhaps we could have done a better job, is that we were dealing with a dynamic, evolving situation.

00:09:55.000 What the public needed to know, what the public needed to know, but this is always the question for people like Anthony Fauci is what you needed to know.

00:10:01.000 And so what are the real question is, why exactly were they so focused on shutting down the lab leak hypothesis when it turns out that there's really good evidence that the lab leak hypothesis is the most probable hypothesis?

00:10:11.000 Well, there are a few different reasons.

00:10:11.000 Why?

00:10:13.000 One, again, is a cover your ass thing happening inside the federal government. 0.96

00:10:16.000 Anthony Fauci and company were in fact sending money via EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 0.91

00:10:23.000 They're doing so to do gain-of-function research.

00:10:26.000 They say it's not gain-of-function research.

00:10:28.000 That is a technical battle over the definition of gain-of-function research.

00:10:31.000 This does not mean that the money was used to develop COVID-19 directly.

00:10:35.000 It does mean that money is fungible.

00:10:36.000 It also means that when you are funding laboratories that do not have proper containment facilities, you're upping the risk that something like this will happen. 0.99

00:10:43.000 So that is one reason is cover your ass. 0.93

00:10:44.000 The other reason is because every major administration Over the course of the last 30 years has essentially been doing the work of China when it comes to public relations. 0.99

00:10:56.000 And we didn't want anybody thinking badly of China, despite the fact that China unleashed this virus on the rest of the world. 0.97

00:11:03.000 We were scared of people knowing that China is in fact a nefarious and egregious force in the world responsible for millions of deaths.

00:11:10.000 We were afraid that that might undermine whatever negotiations we had going with China.

00:11:13.000 So it's imperative that the American public not be even allowed to discuss the issue.

00:11:18.000 That's the other reason that this thing was swept under the rug and purposefully swept under the rug by both our health authorities, as well as members of the federal government and the media.

00:11:25.000 And it was the entire media, by the way, because you were called a conspiracy theorist if you talked about the lab leak hypothesis.

00:11:31.000 You're also called a racist, by the way.

00:11:32.000 This is always the weirdest thing to me.

00:11:34.000 It's apparently it was more racist to suggest that China had blown it in a lab and the virus had escaped from the lab.

00:11:42.000 That apparently was more racist than saying it was a random Chinese dude eating a bat.

00:11:46.000 Which, I gotta say, the last one sounds more damaging to China, random dude eating a bat, than you guys released it from a lab by accident. 0.73

00:11:57.000 But, again, the entire media decided on this narrative and you were literally not allowed to talk about it on places like Twitter or YouTube or Facebook.

00:12:04.000 They would ban you. 0.91

00:12:05.000 They would ding you if you talked about the so-called lab leak conspiracy theory.

00:12:09.000 So, for example, PolitiFact PolitiFact fact-checked Tucker Carlson because a Tucker Carlson guest talked about the lab leak theory.

00:12:18.000 And here is what PolitiFact's headline was, quote, Tucker Carlson guest debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab.

00:12:25.000 Debunked conspiracy theory.

00:12:27.000 That was from Politico.

00:12:28.000 Or how about this one from the Washington Post?

00:12:31.000 Headline from the Washington Post, Paulina Firozzi, February 17th, 2020.

00:12:36.000 Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.

00:12:40.000 Well, scientists disputing, I mean, presumably there's lots of disputation inside scientific circles, but it was a coronavirus fringe theory, a fringe conspiracy theory back in February 2020, at the exact time, by the way, that there were people writing to Anthony Fauci and having phone calls with Anthony Fauci talking about the possibility that this was, in fact, leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:13:00.000 Or if you don't like that one, how about this one from The New York Times?

00:13:04.000 This one again, February 17th, 2020, same exact day.

00:13:07.000 Senator Tom Cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins.

00:13:10.000 Because you weren't supposed to talk about any of this.

00:13:13.000 Or how about Scientific American?

00:13:14.000 Scientific American has become just a parody of itself between telling you that boys can be girls and girls can be boys and suggesting that John Fetterman's brain is fine.

00:13:23.000 Scientific America has just blown out.

00:13:25.000 Scientific American has blown out any brand credibility it ever had.

00:13:29.000 They released a piece.

00:13:30.000 This is in March of 2022.

00:13:30.000 This one was not in 2020.

00:13:32.000 March of 2022.

00:13:35.000 From Steven Lewandowski, Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Bristol, Peter Jacobs, Climate Scientist and Strategic Science Advisor at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Stuart Neal, Professor of Virology and Head of the Department of Infectious Disease at King's College London.

00:13:49.000 And the headline was, quote, The Lab Leak Hypothesis Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth.

00:13:55.000 Virus origin stories have always been prone to conspiracy theories, they say.

00:13:59.000 COVID disinformation has threatened research and lives.

00:14:02.000 Again, the idea was you are threatening the science.

00:14:04.000 You're threatening the science.

00:14:05.000 You're not allowed to talk about the things we don't want you to talk about because it threatens the science for that to happen.

00:14:10.000 By the way, Facebook had actually banned any post claiming that COVID-19 was man-made.

00:14:15.000 It actually banned it for like years on end.

00:14:19.000 Because they didn't want you to have access to the truth on any of this sort of stuff.

00:14:23.000 And then people wonder why the institutional credibility of the media and of our scientific institutions is in the dumpster.

00:14:29.000 That would be the reason.

00:14:31.000 That would be the reason.

00:14:32.000 You want to talk about leaving room for conspiracy theories?

00:14:35.000 Well, it turns out that when your conspiracy theory was true, Well, two conspiracy theories, in air quotes.

00:14:42.000 And conspiracy theory number one, it was a lab leak.

00:14:44.000 That was true, apparently.

00:14:46.000 And conspiracy theory number two, you were all silencing the talk about the first conspiracy because you had ulterior motives.

00:14:52.000 And that turns out to be true also.

00:14:54.000 And then you wonder why we don't trust you?

00:14:56.000 That would be the reason we don't trust you.

00:14:58.000 Institutional credibility in the scientific, in the scientific institutions, in the media, in our government, is at a low ebb.

00:15:06.000 And there is a reason for that.

00:15:07.000 They have destroyed themselves.

00:15:10.000 It's truly impressive how they've destroyed themselves in the course of just a few years here.

00:15:16.000 Just because they had to cling to that patina of expertise, even when their expertise did not match up to their actual performance.

00:15:22.000 Honestly, the quote-unquote elites in our society, the people who consider themselves your masters, the people who consider themselves the people who ought to tell you what to think, and tell you what to do, and ought to be able to regulate you into silence, and ought to be able to silence all the channels of dissent, all those people, they've exercised more control over the past three years than any time in my lifetime, and they've done a poorer job than at any time in my lifetime.

00:15:41.000 That is not a coincidence.

00:15:43.000 They're not competent. 0.99

00:15:44.000 And in some cases, their motivations suck as well. 0.98

00:15:47.000 And it's about the projection of their power over you. 0.88

00:15:49.000 Again, you're on a need-to-know basis about your own life.

00:15:51.000 You're on a need-to-know basis about crucial facts that you need to take into consideration when you are making personal decisions.

00:15:58.000 I'm angry that we were lied to.

00:15:59.000 You should be angry too.

00:16:01.000 Because the fact is that if you're like me and you had some level of baseline credulity about some of our institutions, that credulity is gone.

00:16:07.000 The veil is gone.

00:16:09.000 The mask is gone.

00:16:10.000 And these people have shown what they are willing to do in order to control you.

00:16:13.000 And it is really, really ugly.

00:16:14.000 Speaking of not trusting the people in control.

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00:16:20.000 The debt ceiling has now exceeded $31.4 trillion.

00:16:23.000 We're aiming, in terms of national debt, up at the $34-35 trillion mark at this point.

00:16:28.000 To dig our country out of this mountain of debt, eventually, every single taxpayer in America is going to have to write a check for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:16:34.000 Well, that really means one of three things.

00:16:36.000 Increase in taxes, economic stagnation, or inflation.

00:16:39.000 Those are really the only choices.

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00:17:21.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of people who have blown out their institutional credibility, The media like to claim that they are the experts when it comes to the race debate.

00:17:36.000 They're the ones who will tell you what is appropriate speech and what is not appropriate speech. So just as in the scientific context, they will tell you what you're allowed to talk about.

00:17:43.000 Ixnay on the Ab Eek Lay hypothesis.

00:17:46.000 It's now no, no talking about that. You weren't allowed to talk about the problems of transmission despite the vaccine.

00:17:53.000 You weren't allowed to talk about natural immunity.

00:17:54.000 There are like a thousand things you were not allowed to talk about when it came to COVID because they were the experts and you're not the experts.

00:18:00.000 They feel the same way about basic social interactions.

00:18:03.000 There are certain things you are just not allowed to say.

00:18:05.000 There are certain things that you are not allowed to.

00:18:07.000 And conversely, there are certain things that you are allowed to say and you are allowed to do if your skin is of a particular color.

00:18:13.000 It's really, really hideous stuff.

00:18:15.000 Now again, I'm all for one standard when it comes to racism.

00:18:18.000 Don't malign groups.

00:18:20.000 Done!

00:18:20.000 That's the end of it.

00:18:21.000 Do not malign racial groups.

00:18:23.000 Do not treat one racial group differently than you would treat another racial group.

00:18:27.000 Do not promote the idea that a group is worse or better based on skin color.

00:18:32.000 This is very basic stuff, but the left doesn't actually hold to those standards.

00:18:36.000 The left doesn't hold to those standards, not remotely.

00:18:38.000 There were a couple of big controversies about this over the weekend.

00:18:42.000 So, the first big controversy was Scott Adams.

00:18:45.000 So Scott Adams, who is the creator of Dilbert, he had an unfortunate clip that went viral because he was talking about a poll from Rasmussen.

00:18:55.000 And this poll from Rasmussen is super disturbing.

00:18:57.000 The poll from Rasmussen polled Americans on the question of, quote, it's okay to be white.

00:19:03.000 Is it okay to be white? 0.89

00:19:05.000 72% of Americans agree that it's okay to be white.

00:19:09.000 12% disagree.

00:19:11.000 69% of Democrats agree and 12% disagree.

00:19:13.000 But among Black Americans, 53% agree that it's okay to be white.

00:19:18.000 26% disagree.

00:19:19.000 21% not sure.

00:19:22.000 So only a bare majority of black Americans, according to Rasmussen, think it's, quote, OK to be white.

00:19:27.000 Now, there are a couple of reads on that poll.

00:19:29.000 One is that people are not actually listening to the poll question.

00:19:32.000 They're hearing that as a slogan.

00:19:33.000 And so they're hearing that as a responsive slogan that is sort of racist in intent.

00:19:38.000 Now, again, I think they're divining too much in the question.

00:19:40.000 It's OK to be white. 0.97

00:19:41.000 But that is a plausible read that people see here.

00:19:44.000 It's OK to be white. 0.97

00:19:45.000 What they what they are thinking is it's superior to be.

00:19:47.000 OK, fine.

00:19:48.000 That is the kind read.

00:19:49.000 Bottom line, though, is if those poll numbers are representative, at least a quarter of black Americans think it's not OK to be white.

00:19:55.000 That would be the actual converse of it's OK to be white. 0.85

00:19:55.000 Right. 0.85

00:19:59.000 Which is disturbing, because if you had 26 percent of white Americans saying it's not OK to be black, that would be incredibly disturbing and super problematic and it would spell, you know, some real problems in our public. 0.98

00:20:11.000 So Scott Adams decided to go off on it, but the way that he went off on it was in the dumbest possible way. 0.96

00:20:16.000 So here was Scott Adams talking about this. 0.99

00:20:19.000 So if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that's a hate group. 0.96

00:20:31.000 That's a hate group. 0.96

00:20:33.000 And I don't want to have anything to do with them. 1.00

00:20:35.000 And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people. 1.00

00:20:45.000 Just get the f*** away. 1.00

00:20:48.000 Wherever you have to go, just get away. 0.97

00:20:53.000 So, that's really terrible.

00:20:55.000 That's a really terrible racist thing to say. 1.00

00:20:57.000 That based on this poll, you should just run away from all black people. 1.00

00:21:00.000 Now, here is the thing. 0.99

00:21:01.000 Here's the thing.

00:21:02.000 You can agree with that.

00:21:03.000 Also agree with that's a terrible racist thing to say.

00:21:07.000 Also, if you replaced every word that says black in that sentence with white in that sentence, the mainstream media will not only cheer you, they will give you an op-ed slot at the New York Times.

00:21:16.000 Herein lies a major problem in American society.

00:21:18.000 We'll get to that major problem momentarily.

00:21:21.000 First, simple facts of the matter.

00:21:23.000 100%... Facts don't care about your feelings.

00:21:24.000 100% of people are going to die.

00:21:26.000 I know.

00:21:26.000 That includes you.

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00:22:28.000 Okay, so, Scott Adams says something that pretty much everybody acknowledges is racist. 0.98

00:22:32.000 Right, which is, he says that that poll shows that black people are a hate group, seems to be what he is saying there. 0.92

00:22:38.000 Right, that seems to be what he is saying, that there's a poll and it shows that only 53% of black Americans think it's okay to be white, which means 47% of black Americans think it's not okay to be white. 0.95

00:22:46.000 And so there's a direct quote, quote, if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people, according to this poll, that's a hate group.

00:22:51.000 I don't want anything to do with them. 0.97

00:22:51.000 That's a hate group. 0.97

00:22:52.000 And just to clarify, he continued along these lines and he, and he suggested That you should then avoid black people, right? 0.98

00:23:02.000 You should live as far away from them as humanly possible. 0.99

00:23:06.000 You should move in order to avoid black people. 1.00

00:23:08.000 That is what he is saying. 0.99

00:23:10.000 So now we're going to play a quick game of reverse the races.

00:23:13.000 OK, this quick game is useful because, as we'll discuss in just a moment, the left is totally fine with racism so long as it actually is coming from one particular group against another particular group.

00:23:24.000 You want to know why there are so many people in America who believe that it's OK to be racist against white people?

00:23:29.000 It's because of the media's treatment of these particular issues.

00:23:32.000 Okay, so here is, we're going to just read Scott Adams' full quote here.

00:23:36.000 And we're going to read his entire quote based on, by reversing the race.

00:23:42.000 Quote, if nearly half of all whites are not okay with black people, according to this poll, not according to me, that's a hate group. 0.89

00:23:49.000 That's a hate group and I don't want anything to do with them. 0.99

00:23:52.000 Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to black people is to get the hell away from white people. 1.00

00:23:57.000 This can't be fixed. 1.00

00:23:58.000 You just have to escape.

00:24:00.000 All I did in that quote is just reverse the races.

00:24:02.000 That's all I did in that quote.

00:24:03.000 That is a direct quote from Scott Adams.

00:24:05.000 Dilbert has been canceled from every major newspaper in the United States.

00:24:09.000 It's a really, really bad quote from him when it's about black people.

00:24:12.000 If it were about black people treating white people, if the races were reversed, the entire media would be putting this guy on the front page of the 1619 Project. 0.65

00:24:21.000 If this were a black person saying that half of white people are not okay with black people, the best thing you can do is get away from the white people, that person is now speaking on major college campuses.

00:24:30.000 That person is being given op-ed slots over at the New York Times. 0.97

00:24:34.000 That person is being given a Hulu deal.

00:24:37.000 And when it comes to racism in the United States, there is, in fact, a massive double standard.

00:24:41.000 Some of us believe racism is bad across the board, and then others of us on the left, we tend to believe that racism is OK, so long as that racism is being performed by people who are not white against people who are white.

00:24:51.000 And I give you just a quick example.

00:24:52.000 So there's a video that's going around from a site called The Cut.

00:24:55.000 Hey, The Cut.

00:24:57.000 Is a website that has to do with it's an aspect of New York Magazine.

00:25:03.000 OK, so this is a major publication.

00:25:05.000 The Cut is owned by New York Magazine.

00:25:07.000 It is one of their brands.

00:25:09.000 And it very often deals with minority issues.

00:25:14.000 They put together a video.

00:25:16.000 The video asked a bunch of non-white people, what are white people superior at? 0.84

00:25:21.000 Now again, reverse the races, and this is the most racist video, according to the left, ever made. 0.91

00:25:25.000 What are black people superior at, right? 1.00

00:25:27.000 Listen to the answers that these people of color give.

00:25:31.000 And this is considered not only perfectly okay, but insightful.

00:25:34.000 Insightful and good, because white people have to challenge their own preconceived notions and biases.

00:25:38.000 They have to look inside themselves for their own flaws.

00:25:41.000 They have to do the work.

00:25:43.000 This video is just pure racism. 0.97

00:25:44.000 It is just pure, unbridled racism against white people. 0.96

00:25:47.000 That's all this video is. 0.92

00:25:48.000 It was at the cut.

00:25:48.000 Here we go.

00:25:50.000 What are white people superior at? 0.76

00:25:52.000 What exactly are white people superior at? 1.00

00:25:55.000 They're real good at violence. 1.00

00:25:56.000 Violence.

00:25:57.000 Genocide.

00:25:58.000 It's like stealing people's lives just because they feel like it. 1.00

00:26:00.000 If you are white, and you know this is happening, and you say nothing, then you're a killer too. 0.99

00:26:06.000 What exactly are white people superior at? 1.00

00:26:08.000 Pretending. 0.97

00:26:08.000 Insecurity. 0.97

00:26:09.000 Fear.

00:26:10.000 Being fearful of nothing. 0.99

00:26:12.000 Being ignorant. 0.99

00:26:13.000 Blame. 1.00

00:26:13.000 Letting their egos control their every move. 1.00

00:26:15.000 Superior.

00:26:16.000 Being. 0.73

00:26:18.000 What exactly are white people superior at?

00:26:20.000 Oppression. 0.96

00:26:20.000 Gaslighting. 0.96

00:26:21.000 Lack of empathy.

00:26:22.000 Intellectualizing oppression.

00:26:24.000 Did I say oppression?

00:26:25.000 What exactly are white people superior at?

00:26:27.000 Taking what's not there. 1.00

00:26:28.000 Taking sh**. 0.99

00:26:29.000 Taking our ideas. 0.99

00:26:30.000 Copycatting.

00:26:30.000 Gentrification.

00:26:31.000 Appropriating things that do not belong to them.

00:26:33.000 Taking over other people's cultures. 0.97

00:26:35.000 And making you believe that they invented it.

00:26:37.000 Maybe they're thinking of it as repurposing.

00:26:39.000 It's like recycle and repurpose.

00:26:41.000 As my grandma would say, them white folk, they'll take it if you don't copyright it. 1.00

00:26:47.000 Okay, so just to go through a list of those things.

00:26:49.000 It's a comedic video, guys.

00:26:49.000 This is super funny.

00:26:51.000 There's a bunch of people of color talking about white folks.

00:26:53.000 What are white people the best at? 1.00

00:26:55.000 It turns out white people are just sheer garbage. 1.00

00:26:57.000 They're just the worst people in the entire universe. 1.00

00:27:00.000 According to this group of people at The Cut, this is considered fine to be distributed by legacy media over at The Cut.

00:27:06.000 Let me just go through the list of some of the things, this isn't even the entirety of the things that were said in that video.

00:27:11.000 Again, none of those people are going to lose their job.

00:27:13.000 Those people will be given raises.

00:27:14.000 Those people are heroes of the Republic.

00:27:16.000 Scott Adams will lose his entire comic strip.

00:27:19.000 And there's a case we made he should.

00:27:22.000 And those people will be rewarded and they will be put over at New York Magazine, no problemo. 0.83

00:27:27.000 So just a few things they say that white people are better at. 0.98

00:27:29.000 Violence. 0.98

00:27:30.000 Can you imagine that you were asked a question about what are black people better at? 0.98

00:27:33.000 And you answered violence. 0.97

00:27:34.000 Your job is over.

00:27:35.000 You lose your job.

00:27:37.000 It's gone.

00:27:37.000 I mean, you're just not, you're never getting it back.

00:27:39.000 If you said that what black people are better at is insecurity, ego, that black people are dicks. 1.00

00:27:45.000 That's literally what somebody said on that video. 1.00

00:27:47.000 That they are better at oppression.

00:27:49.000 That they are better at lack of empathy. 1.00

00:27:51.000 Black people have no empathy. 1.00

00:27:52.000 If you said that sort of thing, just reverse the races. 1.00

00:27:54.000 If you said that sort of thing, no job for you.

00:27:56.000 You're toast. 0.98

00:27:58.000 If you said what black people are the best at is cultural appropriation, taking things that don't belong. 0.99

00:28:02.000 I mean, first of all, I said stealing, actual stealing. 0.98

00:28:04.000 Then they said taking things that don't belong to them and culturally appropriating them.

00:28:09.000 If you said any of that sort of stuff, you would be out of a job tomorrow.

00:28:12.000 It is that simple.

00:28:13.000 In other words, racism is totally fine with the left, but only toward one group.

00:28:19.000 I shouldn't say only toward one group.

00:28:20.000 There are certain types of racism that are totally fine from the left, depending on whether you are higher or lower on the intersectional pyramid.

00:28:26.000 So if you are a white person and you're anti-Asian, that's racism.

00:28:30.000 If you're a black person and you're anti-Asian, we don't talk about that sort of stuff. 0.98

00:28:34.000 If you are a white person, you're a white supremacist and you hate Jews, we talk about that a lot. 1.00

00:28:37.000 If you are a black person and you're beating the shit out of a Jew in Williamsburg, that does not get any media coverage whatsoever. 1.00

00:28:45.000 We don't care about that. 1.00

00:28:45.000 That is not worth discussing. 1.00

00:28:47.000 We need to stop talking about that right now.

00:28:50.000 All of which suggests that for the left, unfortunately, racism is not actually the problem.

00:28:54.000 It is a power game, which is what it is.

00:28:58.000 The left believes in a deconstructionist vision of society in which all words and all societal forces are merely guises for power.

00:29:04.000 And so when you say to yourself, wait a second, this makes no sense.

00:29:08.000 And just on a pure human level, it makes no sense that you're okay with racism against white people, but you're super anti-racism against black people.

00:29:14.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:29:16.000 You have to understand that for the left, it isn't about the racism.

00:29:18.000 It's about the power.

00:29:19.000 And they'll say this.

00:29:19.000 They'll say that racism is only possible from the powerful toward the powerless.

00:29:23.000 So if you have people who are less powerful, who actually hold some of the most egregious views in society, if you have those people, if those people exist, it doesn't matter.

00:29:29.000 They don't have power.

00:29:30.000 It's about power.

00:29:31.000 It's about restoring a balanced power and not just a balance.

00:29:33.000 About restoring supreme power for certain groups at the expense of other groups in order to overturn the system generally.

00:29:40.000 Which means that it's all lies.

00:29:42.000 It's not actually about preserving a moral system.

00:29:44.000 It's about upending what they perceive to be a power hierarchy.

00:29:48.000 And if you catch them in an off moment, this is precisely what they will say.

00:29:51.000 It's why they add the definition of power to the definition of racism.

00:29:55.000 And most of us say racism is based on your bad feelings about another group of people based on ethnicity or race, right?

00:30:03.000 That's what racism is.

00:30:04.000 People on the left will say no.

00:30:05.000 It's that combined with power.

00:30:07.000 Which means it's really just about the power, it's not about the thought whatsoever.

00:30:12.000 Which is why, again, it doesn't excuse us from holding a standard as good human beings for what racism is and is not and holding everybody to that same standard.

00:30:19.000 It does mean that what the left is actually doing when they do this sort of stuff They're undermining whatever credibility they supposedly have on these issues in the first place.

00:30:28.000 And meanwhile, speaking of people who have been ousted from polite society, Libs of TikTok, Chaya Raychik, has now been informed by the software company Slack that it permanently suspended her from being able to use their services over a non-specified violation.

00:30:41.000 What exactly did Chaya Raychik do?

00:30:42.000 No one knows.

00:30:43.000 Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, who's a top supporter of Libs of TikTok, posted a screenshot of the email the company sent explaining their decision not to do business with Libs of TikTok.

00:30:51.000 And this is Daily Y reporting.

00:30:53.000 The company said, quote, we are writing to let you know we have suspended your workspace for violations of our acceptable use policy.

00:31:00.000 As highlighted in Slack's acceptable use policy, Slack may exercise its right to suspend or terminate your access.

00:31:06.000 So what exactly is it that Libs of TikTok does? 0.99

00:31:10.000 Libs of TikTok, again, all that Chaya does is she literally finds clips of people talking and then she puts it on the interwebs.

00:31:16.000 That's it.

00:31:17.000 It's very short on the explanatory journalism.

00:31:20.000 It's very short on the commentary.

00:31:22.000 It's just clips of people saying things, and that's enough to get you banned from Slack.

00:31:27.000 Raycheck wrote, quote, Slack is angry that an account is working to protect childhood innocence by educating people about mutilation surgeries, porn in schools, and inappropriate adult entertainment being presented to kids.

00:31:39.000 Apparently, Dylan added an update after I tweeted that Slack had suspended libs of TikTok.

00:31:43.000 I got a reply from them saying they were looking into it.

00:31:45.000 Sounds like they might do the right thing, but instead of reinstating the account, they deleted this tweet that said that they were looking into it.

00:31:52.000 So, again, major corporations, the institutional powers that be, they are perfectly happy to shut you down based on your politics.

00:32:00.000 This is why you must have the right politics.

00:32:01.000 And they will decide what the right politics are.

00:32:02.000 There is no objective standard.

00:32:04.000 The whole thing for the left is about the changing standard, because this is the best way to maintain power.

00:32:09.000 The best way to demonstrate power over others is not to have a bright line that if people violate, they get punished.

00:32:13.000 That's actually not the best way to maintain power.

00:32:15.000 You see this in dictatorial oppressive regimes.

00:32:18.000 The best way to maintain power is to constantly move the line.

00:32:21.000 So people don't know which violation they are going to perform on a day in, day out basis.

00:32:25.000 They're walking around the street.

00:32:26.000 They don't know if they're going to be arrested.

00:32:28.000 They don't know if they violated the new regulation.

00:32:30.000 They don't know if they've actually broken the law or if they violated some sort of social scruple.

00:32:34.000 This is why the left keeps changing the line.

00:32:36.000 It's amazing to watch as American society performs the role of Charlie Brown to the left's Lucy with the football.

00:32:43.000 The left will be like, you know, guys, we have to fight homophobia.

00:32:45.000 And Americans, I'd be like, OK, all right. 1.00

00:32:47.000 And then the minute that that's they approach the football, we're going to kick it, guys.

00:32:50.000 We're going to kick it.

00:32:51.000 And then it turns out we're not fighting homophobia after all.

00:32:55.000 It turns out that you are transphobic if you say that men and women exist as separate dichotomous sexes in the human species.

00:33:04.000 Well, I mean, that wasn't the football.

00:33:05.000 You remove the football.

00:33:06.000 This is what the left does.

00:33:07.000 They do it for power because for them, again, it's not a cynical game.

00:33:11.000 It's a cynical game to anyone outside.

00:33:12.000 But for them, it's perfectly within principle.

00:33:14.000 You don't have to tell the truth.

00:33:15.000 You don't have to set standards.

00:33:16.000 The whole game is about upending the structure of power.

00:33:20.000 I mean, that is, in essence, Marxism.

00:33:22.000 Marxism suggests that the system defines the individual.

00:33:24.000 That the system has created us to be a certain way.

00:33:27.000 And thus, the only way to reshape human nature is to remake the system.

00:33:30.000 And whatever you have to do in order to remake the system, in order to give power to the powerless, in order to restructure society's hierarchies, this you must do.

00:33:39.000 And if that includes lying, if it includes double standards, if it includes saying that certain people can speak and other people cannot, that's totally fine.

00:33:45.000 You do it.

00:33:47.000 And then you wonder why institutional trust is gone.

00:33:49.000 Institutional trust in those sorts of people should be gone.

00:33:51.000 Those people should not be running institutions in the first place.

00:33:54.000 Now, speaking of people who should not be running institutions in the first place, we're going to get to the Biden administration in East Palestine first.

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00:35:45.000 All righty, meanwhile, Joe Biden is still not going to East Palestine, Ohio.

00:35:49.000 And then there's really no reason for him not to go.

00:35:51.000 The media is in full defense mode of Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg arriving there like three weeks too late.

00:35:57.000 I am amused by people whose entire job is to just do photo ops, now telling us that photo ops aren't important.

00:36:02.000 So Pete Buttigieg, who is a walking photo op, that is all he is.

00:36:05.000 He was the mayor of like the fourth largest city in Indiana.

00:36:08.000 You're talking like the fourth largest city in New York or the fourth largest city in California.

00:36:12.000 You're talking about the fourth largest city in Indiana, which means that there are like 150,000 people.

00:36:18.000 Here is Pete Buttigieg, who is a walking photo op, explaining that going, not going to East Palestine, it really is not about, in any way, shape or form, you know, the image of it.

00:36:29.000 So much information and frankly, so much misinformation thrown at this community and thrown at this situation that a lot of them are asking who they can even trust.

00:36:38.000 And it's so important to continue to make sure that they can get good, accurate information about the things they care about most, which isn't national politics or who looks good or who looks bad.

00:36:51.000 It's continuing to know that their air, water and soil are going to be safe, that their homes are going to be safe.

00:36:58.000 That's what anybody would want to know in this country.

00:36:59.000 That dude is political toast.

00:37:02.000 Smear some butter on him, he is political toast.

00:37:04.000 He is burnt toast, man.

00:37:04.000 He is done.

00:37:07.000 By the way, I was wrong.

00:37:08.000 The population of South Bend, Indiana, I was guessing 150,000 off the top of my head, 100,000.

00:37:12.000 There are 100,000 people in South Bend, Indiana, and that dude is the Secretary of Transportation.

00:37:16.000 After not filling the potholes there so much, the Domino's Pizza had to do a fundraiser to fill potholes.

00:37:22.000 In South Bend, Indiana, they're like, this one, he's gotta be our Secretary of Transportation.

00:37:26.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden says that he can't even recall if he talked to the mayor of East Palestine.

00:37:30.000 To be fair to Joe Biden, he literally cannot recall what he ate for breakfast.

00:37:35.000 So do you plan to travel there and have you talked with the mayor?

00:37:37.000 I can't recall that.

00:37:39.000 I don't think I've talked to the mayor.

00:37:40.000 I've talked to everyone else there multiple times.

00:37:43.000 I've talked to both the senators, both governors.

00:37:46.000 I've talked to everyone there is to talk to.

00:37:49.000 And we've made it clear that everything is available.

00:37:53.000 Oh, well, I don't remember who I talked to because I'm, you know... He didn't remember who he talked to over in East Palestine.

00:38:01.000 He did remember to make some weird musical jokes that were relevant in like 1962, I think.

00:38:06.000 That was weird.

00:38:07.000 Have you ever been to East Palestine, Ohio?

00:38:11.000 Were you playing in East Palestine?

00:38:14.000 It's probably not.

00:38:15.000 I did a whole video on, you know, what the hell.

00:38:23.000 Zoom?

00:38:23.000 Zoom!

00:38:23.000 All I see every time I think of Zoom is that song in my head.

00:38:27.000 Who's Zoom and who?

00:38:31.000 Well, thank you for that reference to an Aretha Franklin song that apparently came out in 1985, the year after I was born.

00:38:36.000 Literally the year after I was born.

00:38:39.000 I will say his circle of references is rather limited, but underlying so much of the angst from the left about the treatment of East Palestine is the fact that a lot of people on the left ain't no fond of the kind of people who are in East Palestine.

00:38:49.000 So let's just take an example. 0.98

00:38:51.000 The loudmouth Joy Behar, Over at The View, who is an excellent repository of all things stupid. 1.00

00:38:56.000 Here she was, over the course of the last few days, lashing out at East Palestine. 1.00

00:39:00.000 She's mad that Trump showed up.

00:39:03.000 She's really mad that Trump showed up and had himself a really good moment there politically. 0.94

00:39:07.000 And so her answer is, you guys deserve to be hit with a toxic wave of ash, essentially.

00:39:14.000 Because you did vote for Trump. 0.94

00:39:16.000 I mean, let's be real about this.

00:39:18.000 He is a president for all Americans, I believe that, but he needs to show that he is.

00:39:21.000 People don't know why they would ever vote for him.

00:39:24.000 For somebody who, by the way, he placed someone with deep ties to the chemical industry in charge of the EPA's chemical safety office.

00:39:32.000 That's who you voted for in that district.

00:39:35.000 Donald Trump, who reduces all safety.

00:39:37.000 He did.

00:39:39.000 By the way, that has been thoroughly debunked by the National Transportation Safety Board.

00:39:43.000 They said it had nothing to do with the Trump regulations that this thing happened.

00:39:46.000 One of the things that happens when you have such an overarching government that is supposedly in every nook and cranny of our lives is that we actually believe that the government can protect us from literally every bad thing happening.

00:39:55.000 Sometimes bad stuff just happens.

00:39:58.000 That is a reality of life.

00:39:59.000 And sometimes it wasn't about a regulatory failure.

00:40:01.000 Sometimes just bad stuff happens.

00:40:03.000 I mean, like, it happens in your life.

00:40:05.000 It happens in my, like, literally everybody has bad stuff that just happens to them.

00:40:08.000 But because we are so dependent on government fixing all of our problems, we're like, OK, well, it must have been some government failure.

00:40:13.000 It wasn't Trump.

00:40:14.000 You can say it wasn't even Biden.

00:40:15.000 OK, what you can say is that their reaction to the disaster in East Palestine has been absolutely lackluster because it was.

00:40:22.000 And maybe one of the reasons it was so, I mean, it wasn't Flint, Michigan.

00:40:26.000 In Flint, Michigan, you got the President of the United States flying over there to talk about lead in the water.

00:40:30.000 Maybe it has to do with the demographics of people who tend to support Democrats versus the people who tend to support Republicans in East Palestine, which won 72% for Donald Trump.

00:40:38.000 Okay, meanwhile...

00:40:39.000 The action continues over in Ukraine.

00:40:42.000 China is apparently now proposing some sort of peace deal in Ukraine.

00:40:48.000 Vladimir Zelensky, who is the president of Ukraine, according to Politico, cautiously welcomed Beijing's efforts toward ending the war in Ukraine, said he'd like to meet with Xi Jinping to discuss Chinese proposals.

00:40:58.000 Speaking at a press conference in Kiev on Friday to mark the first anniversary of Moscow's invasion, Zelensky said he was open to considering some aspects of the 12-point position paper published by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

00:41:07.000 Both NATO and the EU have criticized the initiative, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen saying that China has taken side in the Ukraine conflict.

00:41:14.000 Beijing claims that it is neutral, but it also says that it has a no-limits relationship with Moscow.

00:41:19.000 Zelensky said that a meeting with Xi could be useful to both countries and for global security.

00:41:23.000 It's a smart move by Zelensky to at least take the meeting because he wants to show that he is willing to at least come to the table, perhaps in a way that Vladimir Putin is not.

00:41:32.000 With that said, the United States can't seem to make up its mind, this administration, on whether they want to go balls-to-the-wall or whether they want to pull back.

00:41:38.000 And that actually is a problem.

00:41:39.000 So instead, they've settled on kind of the same strategy that we actually used in Vietnam.

00:41:42.000 It's called graduated escalation.

00:41:43.000 Graduated escalation in Vietnam was the idea that if we gradually kept upping the amount of force that we were using in Vietnam, eventually the Viet Cong would surrender.

00:41:51.000 And then, after Nixon took office, he started obviously on a wide-scale bombing campaign against the Viet Cong, and he forced them to the table with overwhelming force.

00:42:01.000 If you actually, if the theory.

00:42:03.000 of the Ukraine war is put serious military pressure on Vladimir Putin to force him to the table, then you have to give the Ukrainians everything they want. If the strategy is stalemate until we can draw this line properly, then you actually have to make it clear that that is your strategy. The problem is the administration is not clear at all about what its strategy is.

00:42:20.000 So they're kind of half-assing it. They'll be on the one hand, they'll say things like we have to, we are here for the long haul. We will look at the Ukraine, everything, not F20, not F16s, everything except for those, those particular, no, no, not that you can't have it both ways.

00:42:35.000 Graduated escalation is kind of the worst of both worlds because it leads to prolonged conflict.

00:42:40.000 That is the nature of graduated escalation.

00:42:43.000 And so you have a couple of conflicting sentiments inside the same administration.

00:42:47.000 So over the weekend, Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary, he admitted that this thing is probably not going to end with just Ukraine shoving Russia off the board.

00:42:56.000 He said it'll probably end with some sort of negotiation.

00:42:59.000 I want to talk more about the weaponry in a moment, but when you look at this and you're making your assessments, do you think this ends with negotiations or does it end on the battlefield?

00:43:09.000 Most likely it will end with some sort of negotiation.

00:43:14.000 And what the Ukrainians are interested in is getting the Russians out of their sovereign territory. 0.88

00:43:22.000 And I think that's probably going to be their going in point, but I'll let the Ukrainians speak for themselves. 0.84

00:43:30.000 And so he says, you know, it'll probably end with some sort of negotiation, but the Ukrainians get to speak for themselves. 0.93

00:43:34.000 Well, no, they don't.

00:43:35.000 You're the one who's funding them.

00:43:38.000 National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

00:43:39.000 On the one hand, you have Austin who says it will end negotiation.

00:43:43.000 On the other hand, you have Jake Sullivan saying, well, it's really up to Ukraine to decide if recapturing Crimea means military victory or not.

00:43:48.000 Is it, though, since you're the one signing the check?

00:43:51.000 I'm unaware that this has ever been the case, like literally at any time, that the sponsor state allows the client state, right now Ukraine is the client state, the United States is the sponsor state, that the client state gets to decide the nature of the end of the war without reference at all to the sponsor state.

00:44:07.000 Again, if you want to say this, if you want to make Jake Sullivan's case, you give them every bit of support they could possibly want in order to achieve whatever their goal would be.

00:44:14.000 You give them the F-16s.

00:44:15.000 You give them what they want.

00:44:17.000 That'd be possibility number one.

00:44:18.000 Or alternatively, you actually have in your mind what you think a negotiation should look like, in which case you probably should hold back.

00:44:22.000 But they're doing both at the same time.

00:44:24.000 On the one hand, they're like Ukraine should be able to do whatever they want.

00:44:26.000 Also, we're not going to give them the weapons they need.

00:44:27.000 It's a very, very weird kind of take on this.

00:44:30.000 Here's Jake Sullivan.

00:44:32.000 I wanted you to sort of give a yes or no answer to this.

00:44:34.000 If Ukraine decided that victory means recapturing Crimea militarily, would the United States support that?

00:44:45.000 Dan, I can't give a yes or no answer to what is a hypothetical question.

00:44:49.000 Right now, what President Zelensky is focused on is getting into the best possible position on the battlefield so that he can be in the best possible position at the negotiating table.

00:44:59.000 And he spoke as recently as this week about diplomacy.

00:45:02.000 We want to help Ukraine.

00:45:04.000 Turn battlefield gains into diplomatic leverage.

00:45:07.000 And that requires us to give them the military assistance they need to make those gains.

00:45:12.000 What ultimately happens with Crimea in the context of this war and a settlement of this war is something for the Ukrainians to determine.

00:45:22.000 Again, they want it both ways.

00:45:23.000 Always and forever both ways.

00:45:25.000 Then, by the way, Dana Bash did ask Jake Sullivan, you know, so are you turning down the F-16s out of fear, right?

00:45:29.000 If the idea is that you need to give the Ukrainians whatever they want, then why aren't you just giving them the F-16s they're asking for? 0.98

00:45:35.000 I know you said that Ukraine doesn't have the training and the maintenance capacity to use the jets, but is the real reason you're not giving Ukraine these jets because you're trying to balance how far to go in supporting Ukraine without antagonizing Russia too much?

00:45:53.000 The real reason, Dana, is that we are taking a very hard look at what it is that Ukraine needs for the immediate phase of the war that we're in.

00:46:01.000 And this phase of the war requires tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, artillery, tactical air defense systems, so that Ukrainian fighters can retake territory that Russia currently occupies.

00:46:15.000 F-16s are a question for a later time, and that's why President Biden said that, for now, he's not moving forward with those.

00:46:23.000 I mean, they're not a question for a later time.

00:46:25.000 Literally, Ukraine asked for them now.

00:46:26.000 So is it yes or is it no?

00:46:28.000 The answer is they don't know.

00:46:29.000 Because again, it's always leading from behind with this administration.

00:46:31.000 The idea that they're the ones who kind of mobilize the coalition is not true in the first place.

00:46:34.000 It was their failure to provide Ukraine the weapons that Ukraine actually asked for before the war began and that led Russia to invade, at least in part.

00:46:40.000 So not a shock that they still don't quite know what they're doing, which means, in all likelihood, a prolonged war.

00:46:45.000 What you saw in Vietnam and graduated escalation leads to prolonged conflict.

00:46:49.000 It does not draw conflict quicker to a close.

00:46:51.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden, you know, that Ukrainian reset didn't seem like it's really helped a whole hell of a lot.

00:46:56.000 Doesn't seem like it's helped a whole hell of a lot.

00:46:58.000 Well, if that's not helping him, the economy certainly is not going to help him right now.

00:47:02.000 Investors right now are bracing for a surge in market volatility.

00:47:05.000 Warren Buffett is warning about economic stagnation and inflation as of today.

00:47:09.000 And according to the Wall Street Journal, fear is creeping back into the stock market to protect against a potential downturn.

00:47:13.000 Traders are scooping up hedges at the fastest clip since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:47:17.000 Hedges are essentially a way of preventing yourself from losing a lot of money.

00:47:22.000 You sell a hedge to hedge against the possibility that the stock goes down.

00:47:27.000 None of this is a tremendous shock.

00:47:29.000 Inflation continues to pile up.

00:47:31.000 Even Joe Biden is saying it's understandable why people are down, economically speaking.

00:47:36.000 So I think things are a little out of whack.

00:47:38.000 And I don't blame people for being down.

00:47:40.000 You know, when you have a year or two years of the pandemic, kids out of school, the mental health problems in the country are seriously increased, especially among young people.

00:47:51.000 Some things are, for example, feeling down about employment.

00:47:55.000 They've got better jobs.

00:47:56.000 They're making more money.

00:47:58.000 Inflation is still higher than it should be.

00:48:01.000 And, you know, everything from gasoline prices to a war going on in Ukraine.

00:48:07.000 I mean, so I can't think of a time when there's been greater uncertainty.

00:48:13.000 Notwithstanding the fact we've created 800,000 manufacturing jobs.

00:48:16.000 We're better off than virtually any other major nation in the world economically.

00:48:20.000 But it's understandable why people are just down.

00:48:24.000 It's understandable why people are just down is the campaign commercial that Republicans have been waiting for for this entire presidency.

00:48:30.000 It's understandable why people are down is like that's just a ready-made campaign commercial.

00:48:35.000 And it's also why Joe Biden will be in serious trouble in 2024 if Republicans nominate somebody who doesn't alienate every independent from here until the end of time.

00:48:44.000 All right, it's time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:48:48.000 So, things that I like.

00:48:49.000 So, believe it or not, Michael Knowles, who is a person, he's not the thing that I like today, but Michael Knowles does have a game.

00:48:55.000 It is called Yes or No, and essentially it is intended to generate controversy at the dinner table.

00:49:00.000 He and I played a game of Yes or No.

00:49:02.000 It was very awkward and slightly terrifying.

00:49:05.000 You should check it out over at YouTube.

00:49:06.000 Here is a brief clip.

00:49:09.000 Currently, half the country has no accountability or ability to reason.

00:49:13.000 And it's just a coincidence, half of the people are women.

00:49:18.000 Ah, this is such a, this is such a trap right here.

00:49:20.000 Okay, okay.

00:49:21.000 One can make a question.

00:49:21.000 Okay, alright.

00:49:22.000 Here we go.

00:49:22.000 One, two, three.

00:49:24.000 ♪ Okay, it is this game.

00:49:40.000 I know, I'm actually doing Michael a favor here.

00:49:41.000 We're selling Michael Moulse's game.

00:49:42.000 You can go check out that video over at his YouTube.

00:49:45.000 Spoiler alert, I don't think that all women are unreasonable. 1.00

00:49:49.000 So, in any case.

00:49:51.000 In any case, the game is fun.

00:49:53.000 You should go check out the video over at Michael's YouTube channel.

00:49:55.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:49:57.000 I have to say, I'm extremely pleased at what the Florida Democratic Party has decided to do.

00:50:02.000 They have now elevated former Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Freed to be their next party chair in the state.

00:50:10.000 Yes, do it!

00:50:13.000 So, she lost to Charlie Crist.

00:50:15.000 Charlie Crist is about as dull as ditch water, and about half as tasty.

00:50:24.000 Charlie Crist, man, she lost to him. 0.99

00:50:27.000 And basically, her entire Twitter feed is just filled with insane levels of crazy.

00:50:34.000 Nikki Freed, others like her in the Florida Democratic Party, have led their party into a box canyon from which they cannot escape. 0.98

00:50:42.000 She said, you better believe we're going to take it to Ron DeSantis every damn day. 0.90

00:50:45.000 Are you, though? 0.94

00:50:46.000 Are you, though?

00:50:47.000 Because Ron DeSantis won his last gubernatorial race by almost 20 points over Charlie Kress.

00:50:52.000 That was after winning by 0.4 percentage points, thanks to people like Nikki Freed. 0.67

00:50:56.000 So we are so excited that Nikki Freed is now the He's now the head of the Florida Democratic Party.

00:51:03.000 No wonder they are just in trash shape.

00:51:05.000 So I'm pleased. 0.75

00:51:06.000 This is my home state.

00:51:07.000 So this makes me very happy.

00:51:08.000 OK, other things that I like.

00:51:10.000 So Ronna Romney McDaniel, she's doing her best here.

00:51:13.000 And I will say that she's now saying that in order for any of the Republicans to debate, they have to pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee, which seems like fairly reasonable to me.

00:51:23.000 It seems like a reasonable thing to say that if you want to debate on this party stage, you have to pledge to support this party's nominee.

00:51:30.000 Otherwise, like, go about your business.

00:51:31.000 Here is Romney McDaniel saying that even that includes Donald Trump.

00:51:35.000 So if Donald Trump refuses to say that he's going to support the eventual nominee, then he doesn't get to debate.

00:51:40.000 Anybody getting on the Republican National Committee debate stage should be able to say, I will support the will of the voters and the eventual nominee of our party.

00:51:47.000 I want you to listen to what former President Donald Trump said a couple of weeks ago in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on this very topic.

00:51:58.000 If you're not the nominee, will you support whoever the GOP nominee is?

00:52:02.000 It would depend.

00:52:03.000 I would give you the same answer I gave in 2016 during the debate.

00:52:08.000 It would have to depend on who the nominee was.

00:52:11.000 So are you prepared to block the former president?

00:52:14.000 He signed it in 2016.

00:52:15.000 He did.

00:52:16.000 Everybody signed it in 2016.

00:52:17.000 But this is about the here and the now.

00:52:19.000 He didn't commit to it.

00:52:20.000 I think they're all going to sign it.

00:52:21.000 I really do.

00:52:22.000 I think the voters are very intent on winning.

00:52:24.000 And they do not want to see a debate stage of people saying, I'm not going to support this guy.

00:52:28.000 I'm not going to support this guy.

00:52:30.000 What they need to say is, I'm going to do everything I can to defeat Joe Biden.

00:52:36.000 Well, she's right about that.

00:52:37.000 She's right about that.

00:52:38.000 And there are a lot of people I know who are very concerned that if Trump doesn't get the nomination, he'll run third party.

00:52:42.000 I don't think he will.

00:52:43.000 I don't think there's any upside in it for him if he were to do so.

00:52:45.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate. 0.99

00:52:47.000 So Bryan Cranston is a tremendous actor and also an idiot, which those two things go together pretty well, is the truth. 1.00

00:52:58.000 There are a lot of actors who are idiots. 1.00

00:53:00.000 They're very good at inhabiting the emotions of the characters that they play. 1.00

00:53:04.000 They're tremendous at reading lines, and also their thoughts are quite stupid. 0.93

00:53:08.000 And there's a halo effect that applies to an enormous number of people in society, where if people are famous, then we give them extra credibility that they don't actually have in particular fields. 0.98

00:53:18.000 And it's a mistake.

00:53:20.000 And we listen to celebrities about politics.

00:53:21.000 Or we listen to politicians about running a business.

00:53:25.000 Or we listen to business people about politics.

00:53:26.000 Like, just because you're good at one thing and it made you rich and famous does not mean that you're good at this other thing over here.

00:53:31.000 Well, Bryan Cranston is very good at the acting and he's very, very bad at the thinking.

00:53:34.000 It's always amusing to hear from people like Bryan Cranston about deep ideas.

00:53:38.000 Bryan Cranston, a graduate of Los Angeles Valley College.

00:53:41.000 So I used to live, like, literally across the street from LA Valley College.

00:53:45.000 Let me just tell you, it is the Harvard of the San Fernando Valley.

00:53:48.000 It is the Yale of, like, the Yale of North Hollywood.

00:53:54.000 Really just spectacular intellectual achievements happening at Valley College.

00:53:58.000 So, Bryan Cranston was on with Chris Wallace.

00:54:00.000 He, yes, he's still on TV.

00:54:02.000 Did you know that, Chris Wallace?

00:54:03.000 Kind of.

00:54:04.000 He's kind of on TV.

00:54:05.000 He's over at, he's over at CNN.

00:54:06.000 But in any case, he sat down with, with Bryan Cranston, and Cranston decided that he was going to talk about how Make America Great Again is inherently racist.

00:54:16.000 Here we go.

00:54:17.000 The Make America Great Again, my comment is, do you accept that that could possibly be construed as a racist remark?

00:54:30.000 And most people, a lot of people go, how could that be racist?

00:54:34.000 Make America great again?

00:54:36.000 I said, so just ask yourself, from an African American experience, when was it ever great in America for the African American?

00:54:47.000 When was it great?

00:54:49.000 So if you're making it great again, it's not including them.

00:54:54.000 So it's to teach us in the woke world to open up and accept the possibilities that our privilege has created blind spots for us.

00:55:06.000 And maybe I haven't seen what is really happening yet in all my year.

00:55:11.000 It's so tight.

00:55:12.000 He's doing the work.

00:55:13.000 He's doing the work, guys.

00:55:14.000 And there's so many actors and actresses, or actors as we call them now because we're not allowed to say actresses because men and women don't exist anymore, who are doing the work.

00:55:20.000 So Sally Field, she's a terrific actress.

00:55:24.000 She won a Lifetime Screen Actors Guild Award last night.

00:55:28.000 And Sally Field, in accepting her award, had to proclaim her privilege malice style. 0.79

00:55:33.000 She got up there and she talked about how she grew up in Pasadena as a white girl.

00:55:37.000 And that means that all of her challenges are as known.

00:55:39.000 All of her challenges are completely of no consequence whatsoever.

00:55:42.000 Here was Sally Field. 0.99

00:55:43.000 Honestly, I was a little white girl with a pug nose born in Pasadena, California.

00:55:54.000 And when I look around this room tonight, I know my fight, as hard as it was, was lightweight compared to some of yours.

00:56:06.000 I thank you and I applaud you.

00:56:09.000 And I know that for you, just like for me, it has not been easy.

00:56:15.000 So this is the de rigueur proclamation of nonsense that you get now.

00:56:21.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:56:24.000 By the way, it's not as though Sally Field herself did not experience some real troubles.

00:56:29.000 So, for example, she was apparently sexually abused by her stepmother. 0.75

00:56:33.000 Her parents were divorced when she was four years old.

00:56:36.000 That's not exactly, like, the world's best.

00:56:39.000 Best life for a child?

00:56:41.000 But apparently it says because she was white and she grew up in Pasadena.

00:56:44.000 And that's the thing.

00:56:45.000 It really, really matters.

00:56:47.000 And the notion that Brian Cranston puts out there that if you believe in make America great again, this means because make America great again.

00:56:52.000 When was it great for black? 1.00

00:56:54.000 Let me explain something.

00:56:55.000 As a Jew, there are times that living in the United States has not been like amazing as a Jew.

00:56:59.000 Not for me, but for my grandparents, my great grandparents.

00:57:02.000 There were no Jews allowed country clubs in the United States.

00:57:06.000 They were fairly common.

00:57:07.000 There's an entire movie called Gentleman's Agreement that actually won Best Picture at the Oscars in 1947.

00:57:19.000 It won Best Picture, starring Gregory Peck, and the entire thing was about the treatment of Jews in 1930s, 1940s America.

00:57:26.000 Was America not great during the 1940s?

00:57:28.000 America was pretty great during the 1940s.

00:57:30.000 I don't mean like it was great for every single person or for every group it was equivalently great.

00:57:35.000 But America has always been great because our founding principles were great.

00:57:40.000 And if you compare the United States to other countries, America is the most phenomenal beacon of light in human history.

00:57:46.000 Saying make America great again means make America great on the world stage, for example, or go back to America's founding ideals, for example, or go back to the notion that America's constitutional rights are good.

00:57:57.000 That's what make America great.

00:57:58.000 Everyone knows this.

00:57:59.000 Everyone knows this, of course.

00:58:01.000 If you say to somebody, what was what was like the best time of your life?

00:58:05.000 What was the best?

00:58:06.000 Somebody will name you, you know, like an age period.

00:58:08.000 That was the best time of their life.

00:58:10.000 If you said, well, you know, when the best time of your life for Bob, Bob over here, wasn't great for Bob.

00:58:16.000 You know what's happened to Bob?

00:58:17.000 He had a problem that year.

00:58:18.000 Or, do you remember that year this bad thing happened?

00:58:20.000 Yes!

00:58:21.000 I do remember that that bad thing happened.

00:58:23.000 All these things can be true simultaneously.

00:58:25.000 Life is extraordinarily complex.

00:58:27.000 History is extraordinarily complex.

00:58:28.000 Does that mean America was never great?

00:58:30.000 This is the left's response, that America was never great.

00:58:33.000 But great compared to what?

00:58:34.000 Great is a relative term, generally speaking.

00:58:37.000 It's an absolute.

00:58:39.000 If you are saying America was never great compared to the utopia that we shall create, that's messianic thinking and it ain't true.

00:58:45.000 If you're saying America was never great in relation to other countries, that's obviously untrue.

00:58:51.000 But what is this really about?

00:58:52.000 It's really about Bryan Cranston patting himself on the back.

00:58:54.000 We're all look at him.

00:58:55.000 He's a white guy, but he's not. 0.83

00:58:56.000 He's not like the rest of those white people. 0.99

00:58:57.000 He's not like the rest of white people. 0.99

00:58:58.000 He's he's a white guy who dissociates from the other white people because he understands he's doing.

00:59:04.000 Sally Field, she's doing.

00:59:06.000 Hey guys, just go, go act, make movies, make plays, like do the stuff that you're good at.

00:59:10.000 Leave the politics to the people who actually have read a book.

00:59:12.000 Alrighty folks, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 27, 2023

The Greatest Cover-Up In History | Ep. 1676

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