The Ben Shapiro Show - The Hundred Days’ War | Ep. 1061

00:00:00.000 As rioters continue to plague democratic cities across the country, the media blame Trump and conservatives.

00:00:04.000 The COVID wars grow even stupider and a gap develops between Biden and the Bernie bros.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:24.000 Alright, so remember that time when the media kept telling us over and over and over that the protests were mostly peaceful?

00:00:30.000 Mostly peaceful protesting.

00:00:31.000 Remember that?

00:00:32.000 That was good times, wasn't it?

00:00:33.000 That was fun!

00:00:34.000 There's that ABC News headline, one of the best headlines ever over the past 48 hours, quote, protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station, and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified.

00:00:47.000 Not kidding, that was the actual headline from ABC News.

00:00:50.000 The peace intensified.

00:00:52.000 Intensified.

00:00:53.000 See, normally when peacefulness intensifies, then people get more peaceful.

00:00:56.000 But apparently, when peacefulness intensifies, according to ABC News, that's when you set fire to a courthouse, damage a police station, and assault police officers.

00:01:03.000 But it's mostly peaceful, guys.

00:01:04.000 We keep hearing mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful.

00:01:07.000 And there's a stark divide between the protesters and the rioters and the looters.

00:01:11.000 Now, I'm willing to hear that stark divide.

00:01:13.000 Obviously, if you're rioting and you're looting, you're doing something criminal.

00:01:15.000 If you're protesting, then you are not.

00:01:16.000 That is the stark divide for me.

00:01:18.000 There is, however, a problem, and that is that the media sympathize with the rioters and the looters.

00:01:22.000 And as it turns out, so do many members of the protest movement, according to the New York Times today.

00:01:27.000 And remember, we are told the protesters were super peaceful.

00:01:29.000 They had no intent on doing violence.

00:01:31.000 They didn't even have sympathy for violence, right?

00:01:33.000 They were against the violence.

00:01:34.000 They recognized that violence was a bad idea.

00:01:35.000 Well, not so much.

00:01:37.000 Now, some of you knew this.

00:01:39.000 My friend Ami Horowitz, he's reported from on the ground at these riots and at the protests, and he said he couldn't find anybody who actually condemned the rioting and the looting from the protests.

00:01:49.000 So the sort of stark divide, at least ideologically, not in terms of behavior, but ideologically, between the protesters and the rioters and looters basically has not existed since the early days of the BLM protests.

00:02:00.000 Which have now morphed into Antifa protests.

00:02:02.000 Well, according to the New York Times, they're now confirming what AMI reported on my radio show.

00:02:06.000 They say peaceful protesters with quote, room for rage sympathize with aggressive tactics.

00:02:12.000 Minutes before midnight on Sunday, the first firework of the evening screeched low over the heads of protesters gathered in Portland, Oregon, sprinkling them with white flecks of light and ricocheting into the courthouse that has become a symbol of an unwelcome federal incursion into a local outcry over police brutality.

00:02:26.000 Now, I love, first of all, how the New York Times immediately posits that the only reason they're attacking the courthouse is because of the federal incursion.

00:02:34.000 Now, that completely reverses the timeline.

00:02:35.000 Remember, the feds did not arrive until they attacked the courthouse.

00:02:38.000 But the way the New York Times reports this, if you were an alien from outer space and you arrived and you read just that paragraph, you would assume that the feds arrived and then the attacks began.

00:02:46.000 The New York Times says some ducked under makeshift shields to protect themselves from the falling sparks, while others cheered at the sight of the blazing projectile hurtling toward the courthouse and the federal law enforcement agents inside.

00:02:57.000 This is what democracy looks like.

00:03:00.000 That's not what democracy looks like.

00:03:02.000 Typically speaking, when you think of democracy, you don't think of people firing projectiles at law enforcement agents.

00:03:08.000 It isn't high on the list of democratic activities is to actually engage in anti-civilization violence.

00:03:14.000 Typically, that's not high on the list of democratic agenda items.

00:03:19.000 In recent weeks, says the New York Times, protesters in Portland have pointed laser beams, lobbed water bottles and trash bags, and in one case, according to the Portland Police Bureau, hurled an open pocket knife at the officers guarding the courthouse.

00:03:29.000 They've used power tools, crowbars and bolt cutters to yank down a fence.

00:03:32.000 In Seattle, demonstrators over the weekend set fire to several construction trailers at a youth detention facility.

00:03:37.000 Protests in Richmond, Virginia, L.A.

00:03:39.000 and Oakland were also marked by fires.

00:03:41.000 Yet the nightly assault on the federal courthouse has been part of a much wider peaceful resistance.

00:03:45.000 Ah, so much peace!

00:03:47.000 Peacefulness intensifying across the nation.

00:03:49.000 I'm just going to point out here, if there had been one firework shot at police officers during the Tea Party movement, that would have been the end of the world.

00:03:57.000 They were called terrorists by members of the Obama administration as it was.

00:04:01.000 They were called the Tea Party terrorists by members of the Obama administration and members of the media.

00:04:05.000 If the anti-lockdown protesters had so much as sneezed at the officers who were trying to stop them from breaking the law, that would have been an assault.

00:04:15.000 They would have been charged, right?

00:04:16.000 I mean, the media would have said that the anti-lockdown protesters were the worst people in the world.

00:04:19.000 They did, by the way, anyway, without them actually overtly breaking the law.

00:04:22.000 Here you have people overtly breaking the law.

00:04:24.000 But don't worry, this is part of a much wider peaceful resistance.

00:04:27.000 High school students, military veterans, off-duty lawyers, lines of mothers who call themselves the Wall of Moms, No, that's not the aim.

00:04:42.000 The aim is, frankly, for a lot of these people, it's a good time.

00:04:46.000 Seriously.

00:04:47.000 You cannot watch footage of these protests and not come away with the conclusion these are not people attempting to actually effectuate change.

00:04:52.000 These are folks who are having a good time.

00:04:53.000 We're in the middle of a lockdown.

00:04:55.000 We've basically been told that you can't do anything.

00:04:57.000 You can't go to church.

00:04:58.000 Not that a lot of these folks are going to church.

00:05:00.000 You can't go out to a bar.

00:05:02.000 You can't go to a concert.

00:05:03.000 In fact, there was a concert in New York last night and Andrew Cuomo was very angry at the concert.

00:05:07.000 Sadly, no one thought to bring a Black Lives Matter t-shirt or it all would have been fine. 0.98

00:05:11.000 The only thing you are allowed to do in today's society, in public, with others, is overtly resist law enforcement and or have dance parties in the thousands in the middle of the streets.

00:05:21.000 So, this has basically become the outlet for a bored and angry country.

00:05:26.000 For a lot of people.

00:05:27.000 And that doesn't mean everybody isn't genuine.

00:05:29.000 It does mean there are a lot of people who are not genuine.

00:05:31.000 I'm not going to pretend that I think that everybody who is firing projectiles at police officers is looking for quote-unquote systemic change as opposed to just being a jerk having a good time at two o'clock in the morning.

00:05:41.000 The raucous escalation in recent days brought about by the deployment of federal law enforcement officers and the harsh tactics they have used against protesters has prompted new debates among the protesters over their own tactics and goals.

00:05:51.000 Now battling nightly rounds of pepper spray and impact munitions fired by federal forces, some activists worry that the nightly clashes are distracting from their demands for defunding or reforming local police departments.

00:06:00.000 Yeah, you think?

00:06:01.000 It turns out that when you fire crap at police officers, people are less sympathetic to the perspective that we don't need police officers.

00:06:07.000 To see people standing in Portland destroying property was not actually doing the work of advocating for black people.

00:06:12.000 Was disturbing, said Rachel Dixon, the vice president of the Multnomah County Democrats, organizer in the black community.

00:06:18.000 I think they're a distraction from the everyday needs of people of color, especially black people. 0.84

00:06:21.000 My life is not going to improve because you broke the glass at the Louis Vuitton store.

00:06:25.000 Well, that, of course, is true, but there's only one problem.

00:06:29.000 A huge percentage, according to this article, of people who are engaged in the protests actually have a lot of sympathy for the people who are engaging in more aggressive tactics.

00:06:39.000 Apparently, there are a lot of people who are kind of happy with this.

00:06:42.000 I mean, that's the headline of the piece.

00:06:44.000 Kat Brooks, racial justice organizer in Oakland.

00:06:46.000 I don't know how you even apply for that job.

00:06:48.000 And the co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project said Black Lives Matter protests and the movement to oust federal forces from cities were one connected struggle.

00:06:55.000 The debate among organizers, she said, is the tactics that protesters should use.

00:06:58.000 Her own view is that protesters cannot be blamed for forcefully responding when confronted with rubber bullets and pepper spray, as they have been in Portland.

00:07:05.000 I don't consider property destruction violence, she said.

00:07:07.000 Violence is when you attack a person or another living, breathing creature on this planet.

00:07:10.000 Windows don't cry, and they can't die.

00:07:12.000 Okay, first of all, the idea that property damage does not amount to a form of violence is insane.

00:07:16.000 Okay, it's patently insane.

00:07:18.000 If I come to your house and I burn it down, I have done an act of violence against you.

00:07:21.000 I have.

00:07:22.000 And if you don't believe me, then I'll come to your house and I'll burn it down.

00:07:24.000 I mean, like, this is crazy.

00:07:26.000 If somebody went to this lady's apartment and just broke in and trashed the place, would you be like, you know what?

00:07:30.000 This wasn't an act of violence.

00:07:31.000 I mean, no one was hurt after all.

00:07:32.000 This is all fine.

00:07:33.000 It's all fine.

00:07:34.000 Not a big deal.

00:07:35.000 Advocating for systemic change.

00:07:38.000 Organizers in Oakland, which has a long tradition of loud protests, are watching closely whether federal forces will be deployed there.

00:07:43.000 If the feds come to Oakland, it's going to make Portland look like Disneyland. 1.00

00:07:46.000 She said, Ms.

00:07:47.000 Brooks, she rejected the notion put forward by Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland that violence and property destruction reinforced Trump's message that anarchists were taking over the country's streets.

00:07:55.000 She says, we could sit there and sing Kumbaya and suck lollipops between now and November.

00:07:59.000 But if Donald Trump thinks it makes sense to hit Oakland and Detroit and some of the other cities with large black populations, then that's what Donald Trump is going to do.

00:08:06.000 So a lot of sympathy among the protesters for people who are engaging in violence.

00:08:12.000 And it's important to recognize this because that is what federal law enforcement and local law enforcement are actually facing down.

00:08:16.000 They're not facing down protesters.

00:08:18.000 These protests have been going on for months.

00:08:19.000 It did not escalate to people firing pepper balls at people unless the people who were having the pepper balls fired at them were engaged in violation of law.

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00:09:54.000 Okay, so.

00:09:55.000 More federal agents have been dispatched to Portland as protests are increasing, according to the Washington Post.

00:10:00.000 The Trump administration is sending more federal agents to Portland.

00:10:02.000 The U.S.

00:10:03.000 Marshal Service decided last week to send more deputies, according to an internal email reviewed by the Washington Post, with personnel beginning to arrive last Thursday night.

00:10:10.000 The Department of Homeland Security is also considering a plan to send an additional 50 U.S.

00:10:14.000 Customs and Border Protection personnel to the city, according to a senior administration official involved in the federal response.

00:10:20.000 This would mark a significant expansion of the federal force operating at the Portland Federal Courthouse.

00:10:24.000 There were 114 agents there in mid-July.

00:10:26.000 It's unclear how many existing personnel could be sent home after the arrival of 100 reinforcements.

00:10:32.000 Anybody treating this as completely out of bounds is just ignoring the realities on the ground, but that's exactly what is happening.

00:10:38.000 attorney for Oregon is ripping Portland officials over the handling of the riots.

00:10:38.000 One U.S.

00:10:42.000 U.S.

00:10:43.000 Attorney Billy Williams, he urged Portland residents to demand action from local officials.

00:10:46.000 He's saying, listen, the only reason the feds are even here is because the local officials refuse to do anything about this, which suggests that they have some sympathy for the violence because they think the violence is going to actually effectuate change.

00:10:58.000 From my standpoint, it's nonsensical.

00:11:02.000 It's just political theater.

00:11:05.000 It's unfortunate because everything law enforcement accomplishes to address on multiple fronts is done through partnerships.

00:11:15.000 To pass a resolution that you're barred from talking with law enforcement partners, it's just political.

00:11:22.000 And that's just so unfortunate, short-sighted.

00:11:28.000 It doesn't help anything.

00:11:31.000 But, you know, it is what it is.

00:11:34.000 That, of course, is absolutely right.

00:11:35.000 But what you're seeing from local officials is open admiration for people who are engaged in violence.

00:11:40.000 Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, who's just awful. 1.00

00:11:42.000 I mean, she's just an awful mayor. 0.99

00:11:43.000 She allowed city blocks of her own city to be ripped away from law and order and dominated by people who really can be described as terrorists. 0.94

00:11:51.000 I mean, if you take over a two block area of downtown and then there are shootings that take place therein and the first responders are not allowed to come in.

00:11:57.000 I don't know what else to describe that as.

00:12:00.000 I mean, that's insurrection.

00:12:01.000 The Seattle mayor, however, says that by President Trump deploying federal law enforcement to protect federal property, it's a dry run for martial law.

00:12:08.000 Now, if you're suggesting it's a dry run for martial law, what you really are suggesting is that violent uprisings against a dry run for martial law are justified.

00:12:15.000 How else do you read that?

00:12:16.000 This is just justification for violence by the Seattle mayor, who has tolerated violence in her own city and has tolerated the degradation of her own law and order in her own city. 0.98

00:12:24.000 Here's Mayor Jenny Durkan, just a trash heap of a mayor. 1.00

00:12:27.000 Every time this president promises to sow division, he's successful at it.

00:12:32.000 And he's clearly targeted cities run by Democratic mayors.

00:12:36.000 He said so himself.

00:12:37.000 He's using law enforcement as a political tool.

00:12:40.000 I hate to say it, Aaron, but I really believe that we are seeing the dry run for martial law.

00:12:45.000 This is a president that is using law enforcement and federal forces for political purposes.

00:12:51.000 And that should be chilling to every American.

00:12:53.000 It's a dry run for martial law.

00:12:55.000 She's absolutely suggesting that the president of the United States is going to use federal force to overwhelm all resistance to his own agenda.

00:13:02.000 That's what she's suggesting.

00:13:03.000 Martial law, by the way, these are the same folks who suggest that President Trump should put down a national mask mandate enforceable by federal law enforcement.

00:13:10.000 It's very funny to watch all the same people who claim that Trump is a fascist asking him It's really exciting.

00:13:14.000 But that's pretty crazy stuff.

00:13:16.000 And that is the mayor of a major democratic city.

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00:13:27.000 This makes you actually positive.

00:13:28.000 It's a good thing.

00:13:30.000 We'll get to more of this in just a second because the media, some of the media are just cheering this on.

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00:15:01.000 Okay, so Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor, he's of course blaming the federal government.

00:15:05.000 He's saying that the real problem here is that people are conflating the protestors and the rioters and looters.

00:15:10.000 Except that the rioters and the looters are among the protestors, and the protestors, many of them, are expressing open sympathy for the rioters and the looters, and so are members of the media.

00:15:18.000 So there's this inside-outside game that's being played here by Democrats.

00:15:20.000 How dare you lump together these people?

00:15:23.000 And we're like, okay, I don't want to lump together those people.

00:15:25.000 And then the media's like, yeah, but they're the same.

00:15:27.000 So why are you ripping rioters and looters?

00:15:29.000 The most beloved tactic these days is the so-called Mott and Bailey tactic of argumentation, where you make an extraordinarily extreme claim, somebody attacks the extraordinarily extreme claim, and then you basically...

00:15:42.000 Run away, right?

00:15:44.000 You go into retreat, up into an argument that is less attackable.

00:15:49.000 So you see this with Black Lives Matter. 0.88

00:15:50.000 Somebody says, you know, Black Lives Matter means defund the police.

00:15:53.000 You're like, defunding the police is a terrible idea.

00:15:55.000 They say, well you, what I really meant is that Black Lives Matter, you don't believe Black Lives Matter?

00:15:55.000 It's going to hurt black people.

00:15:59.000 That's a Mott & Bailey tactic.

00:16:01.000 It's named after the old sort of medieval fortresses, where you'd have a town, right?

00:16:05.000 That was the the mott down at the bottom of a hill.

00:16:08.000 And then if that was attacked, everybody would retreat up the hill to the Bailey, which was the which was the central castle, right?

00:16:13.000 This is what you're seeing over and over.

00:16:14.000 You're seeing this with regards to the rioters and the looters as well.

00:16:17.000 People will say the rioters and looters, right?

00:16:19.000 I mean, they're just they're justified because I mean, martial law is on the horizon.

00:16:23.000 That's ridiculous.

00:16:24.000 I mean, why are you justifying rioting and looting?

00:16:27.000 How dare you conflate rioting and looting with protesting?

00:16:29.000 I didn't I never did that.

00:16:30.000 Here's Rahm Emanuel doing that routine.

00:16:33.000 There are people trying to hijack these legitimate protesters and create violence.

00:16:38.000 And I think in the response from the federal government, you shouldn't be trying to make Antifa the face of the protest.

00:16:44.000 Let the local law enforcement take the lead.

00:16:45.000 If they need federal assistance, they'll ask for it, like we've done in every other situation going back.

00:16:50.000 And in this situation, understand the protesters who are asking America to live up to the promise of America, and know that others, individuals, not a lot, but are trying to hijack these protests for their own violent needs.

00:17:04.000 So, that's good stuff here.

00:17:06.000 Also good stuff, an activist named Erica was on MSNBC featured on MSNBC, your source for all left-wing news, and suggested openly, this activist, that what's actually happening in major cities is that violence is rising, not because the police are absent, violence is rising because the federal government is shipping guns into inner cities in order to create violence.

00:17:24.000 This was featured on MSNBC in a segment called America in Crisis.

00:17:28.000 Racial injustice protests across US spur police clashes.

00:17:31.000 Again, notice even in that chyron, conflation between protests and violence, right? 0.75

00:17:37.000 Racial injustice protests spur.

00:17:38.000 Once again, people were in the house for three months.

00:17:40.000 They had lost their jobs, lost their family members.

00:17:42.000 They was grieving.

00:17:43.000 They don't have money to buy these guns.

00:17:45.000 Here's this activist suggesting something absolutely nuts to virtually no pushback by the MSNBC hosts.

00:17:49.000 We see the influx of guns in communities across the nation.

00:17:56.000 Once again, people were in the house for three months.

00:17:59.000 They lost their jobs, lost their family, and they was grieving.

00:18:02.000 They don't have money to buy these guns.

00:18:04.000 Where are they coming from?

00:18:06.000 And so just like in the 70s and the 80s, when we saw the counterintelligence program put guns and drugs into certain communities to create certain behaviors, to stop the rise of protests and movements, Okay, this is absolutely bizarre nonsense, and there's no pushback on MSNBC so far as I can tell to any of this.

00:18:27.000 This is just an activist, right?

00:18:29.000 Spouting activism.

00:18:31.000 Things are going really well in the country, it seems.

00:18:33.000 Well, I think that the only way that the country can truly heal is if HBO has itself a really important session.

00:18:40.000 Like a really important, an important talk.

00:18:43.000 So HBO has now finally given a voice to left-wing voices.

00:18:47.000 HBO, that notoriously right-wing outlet, they finally opened up a space for left-wingers to talk.

00:18:53.000 HBO Sports is now going to air Seeing America with Megan Rapinoe on August 1st.

00:18:58.000 Showing a conversation between the U.S.

00:19:00.000 women's soccer team captain, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, famous sportsperson, 1619 Project founder and Pulitzer Prize winner Nicole Hannah-Jones and great fiction writer, also famous sportsperson, and comedian and television host Hasan Minhaj, also amazing, amazing sportsperson.

00:19:14.000 So I'm so glad that HBO Sports is going to air a conversation between Megan Rapinoe, who's mostly famous for complaining about how America sucks while making millions of dollars, Complaining about how America sucks. 1.00

00:19:24.000 Colin Kaepernick of soccer over here.

00:19:27.000 AOC, who of course is famous as a sports commentator.

00:19:31.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones, who is famous for just making up American history.

00:19:35.000 And Hasan Minhaj, who is a comedian and TV host.

00:19:38.000 Peter Nelson, Executive Vice President of HBO Sports, I quote, We are grateful Megan Rapinoe would choose HBO as home for this conversation and look forward to more opportunities with her to continue this dialogue.

00:19:47.000 Megan is fearless in speaking out on issues.

00:19:51.000 Joined by Representative AOC, Nicole Hannah-Jones, and Hasan Minhaj, this conversation embraces the challenges we collectively face.

00:19:59.000 So basically, it is a Bill Maher panel without Bill Maher, is what we are seeing right here.

00:20:04.000 In the trailer, Rapinoe says, I'm a gay female athlete.

00:20:07.000 I can't ever just be one thing, because she's intersectionality.

00:20:10.000 Intersectionality, she can't ever just, well, she can. 0.99

00:20:12.000 She can just be a social justice warrior. 1.00

00:20:13.000 That's what she is.

00:20:15.000 Hannah-Jones says she views the upcoming election as, quote, the first election where we are actually voting for our lives.

00:20:21.000 Okay, this person, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is just... The fact that they made her de facto editor of the New York Times bespeaks the fact that the New York Times is a flaming bag of human feces at this point.

00:20:31.000 It is just... This is the first election where black people are actually voting for their lives?

00:20:36.000 Truly?

00:20:37.000 Truly is it?

00:20:39.000 For a pseudo-historian, she should know a little bit about American history.

00:20:42.000 It seems like there have been a lot more risky times to be a black person in America than 2020, the first election where we're actually voting for our lives.

00:20:50.000 Rapinoe, according to Mediaite, who led her team to victory during the 2019 World Cup, has consistently dedicated herself to activism and human rights issues.

00:20:58.000 It's an honor to host a show where a critical conversation between some of America's most innovative thought leaders.

00:21:02.000 I'm so thankful to HBO for providing such a powerful platform.

00:21:05.000 So much powerful platforming.

00:21:09.000 I look forward to a conversation in which one person says something that a bunch of other people nod along.

00:21:14.000 It'll be very, very exciting stuff.

00:21:16.000 Very exciting stuff.

00:21:17.000 It is interesting to note how liberals have a choice to make.

00:21:22.000 I've been talking about this for a few weeks now.

00:21:25.000 Liberals have a choice to make in our culture.

00:21:27.000 Choice number one is they can fight back against the radical left and they can join forces with people in the middle.

00:21:33.000 And they can recognize that while they may agree with the radical left on some policy prescriptions, they actually agree more with the middle and maybe even some on the right about the rights that we all have and how the country should basically be rooted in notions of rights.

00:21:44.000 Or they can cave to the radical left.

00:21:47.000 And you can see who's choosing which way.

00:21:49.000 In Hollywood, everybody is moving to the woke left very, very quickly.

00:21:52.000 Octavia Spencer, the actress, she now says that the only way that people should play disabled people is if they are actually disabled.

00:22:01.000 So acting is out the window, according to Octavia Spencer.

00:22:03.000 Here's Octavia Spencer yesterday.

00:22:03.000 That's exciting stuff.

00:22:06.000 Nothing can replace lived experience and authentic representation.

00:22:13.000 That's why it's imperative that we cast the appropriate actor for the appropriate role.

00:22:19.000 And that means people with disabilities as well.

00:22:23.000 Casting able-bodied actors in roles for characters with disabilities is offensive, unjust, and deprives an entire community of people from opportunities. 1.00

00:22:36.000 You know it's true because there's a lot of piano music in the background.

00:22:38.000 That's how you always know these videos are true online is when there's somebody in the background who's playing intense piano music.

00:22:43.000 But the intense piano music never has a left hand.

00:22:45.000 It's really just the right hand up near the upper register of the keys.

00:22:48.000 You gotta love actresses coming out and saying that acting is now wrong. 1.00

00:22:51.000 So, the woke left on the march.

00:22:53.000 Also, you've seen how the ACLU has turned.

00:22:55.000 Remember that time the ACLU used to defend sort of the liberal notion of rights, the KKK? 0.61

00:23:01.000 She did, by the way, play somebody with schizophrenia, is my understanding, Octavia Spencer.

00:23:05.000 I don't think she suffers from schizophrenia.

00:23:06.000 Anyway, an ACLU staff attorney was tweeting out in the same vein.

00:23:11.000 So ACLU used to be kind of traditionally liberal.

00:23:14.000 The ACLU was an organization that said, we may not agree with what you say, but we definitely will defend your right to say it.

00:23:20.000 Well, now they've decided, nope, we're caving to the radical left as well.

00:23:23.000 The culture wars really are not happening on the right as much as they are happening between the left and the liberals.

00:23:29.000 It looks like increasingly the liberals are losing.

00:23:31.000 But what's happening there is that means it's driving everybody in the center to the right.

00:23:34.000 Now, the question is whether Trump could take advantage of that electorally.

00:23:37.000 That's another question.

00:23:37.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:25:17.000 Okay, so.

00:25:19.000 The ACLU has decided to embrace the radical left as well.

00:25:22.000 There's an ACLU staff attorney named Chase Strangio.

00:25:26.000 Chase Strangio.

00:25:28.000 And Chase Strangio has basically decided that the ACLU's old slogan of, say what you want, if it falls inside the First Amendment, we'll defend your right to say it.

00:25:35.000 They've moved from that to, if you say something we don't like, it's now a danger.

00:25:39.000 A danger!

00:25:40.000 Chase Strangio is a staff attorney for the ACLU, says it would be nice to ignore the Harry Potter person, that'd be J.K.

00:25:45.000 Rowling, but the rhetoric being used on her massive platform is feeding a genocidal impulse that already exists in governments and within individuals. 0.99

00:25:53.000 She is dangerous. 0.88

00:25:55.000 Situating the trans subject and the trans body in the contested discursive space the way she does pulls the conversation around transness into the posture of working to locate the legitimate trans subject.

00:26:04.000 Okay, that's just that's just gobbledygook.

00:26:05.000 That's not even in English.

00:26:07.000 The idea being that we must defend against the allegation that too many trans people in the world reflects a problem.

00:26:11.000 That is, after all, her point.

00:26:13.000 And in so doing, we cede the conversation to cis people and institutions.

00:26:16.000 And perhaps most insidiously in doing so, we give the false impression that sexed bodies are things only trans people have.

00:26:22.000 By obscuring the larger structural impulses behind bodily policing and the violence of the sex binary, we ensure the continuation of these structures. 0.80

00:26:29.000 Ah, the violence of the sex binary, guys. 0.96

00:26:31.000 The fear that a trans person of any age might actually love and embrace their body is what drives JK and others.

00:26:36.000 They don't want to just make it harder for us to survive.

00:26:38.000 They want to destroy any joy we might feel in our journeys.

00:26:41.000 Okay, this is the ACLU staff attorney now saying the JK Rowling is dangerous and is pushing genocidal impulses by pointing out that biological women exist. 0.98

00:26:49.000 Okay, liberals are going to have to make a choice. 0.99

00:26:51.000 Do they wish to side with this kind of nuttiness?

00:26:53.000 Or do they wish to acknowledge that conversations should and can take place?

00:26:57.000 And this is an open debate because what we're seeing right now in America's major cities is that liberals are increasingly saying, okay, if you want to do violence, do violence.

00:27:04.000 All right, well, and if anybody says that the violence is bad, stop focusing on the violence.

00:27:08.000 Why are you even focusing on the violence?

00:27:10.000 Well, what this is driving rational people to do is run headlong from the radical left.

00:27:14.000 Like, run screaming from the radical left.

00:27:17.000 This is why you're seeing Elon Musk increasingly tweet things that are pissing off the radical left.

00:27:21.000 Yesterday, he tweeted out a graphic.

00:27:23.000 It said, Das Kapital in a Nutshell, Karl Marx's book.

00:27:26.000 There's a picture of Karl Marx.

00:27:28.000 It said, Give me that for free, Hungry Santa.

00:27:35.000 Good for Elon Musk, a man who's actually built a company, as opposed to all these people who just want to steal other people's labor.

00:27:35.000 Good for Elon Musk.

00:27:41.000 But this is going to be the gap that opens up.

00:27:42.000 You're starting to see it open up a little bit inside the Democratic Party as well.

00:27:46.000 And this is the gap that Joe Biden is going to have to bridge over.

00:27:48.000 So far, anti-Trumpness has basically bridged over the gap between radical left and liberals who may not like the radical left very much.

00:27:55.000 It'll be interesting to see whether that lasts.

00:27:57.000 So yesterday, the DNC platform committee voted down Medicare for All as part of the platform.

00:28:02.000 They did it overwhelmingly.

00:28:04.000 Members, voting has closed on this amendment.

00:28:07.000 The motion was not approved by the members and the language as proposed will remain unchanged.

00:28:10.000 of the platform. Members, voting on this, voting has closed on this amendment. The motion was not approved by the members and the language as proposed will remain unchanged. There were 36 yes, 125 no, and three abstentions. That's on amendment 328194. Okay, so the Bernie people are super duper pissed because the Bernie people are saying, why don't you give us everything

00:28:10.000 There were 36 yes, 125 no, and 3 abstentions.

00:28:40.000 we want? And the Biden people are like, because if we do that, nobody will like us. That is a battle that is going to rage out into the open. It started to break out a little bit yesterday when a Sanders campaign co-chair named Nina Turner ripped Biden. She actually suggested, this is a direct quote. It's like saying to somebody about choosing between Biden and Trump, quote, it's like saying to somebody, you have a bowl of bleep in front of you and all you've got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing. It's still bleep, bleep being the S word.

00:29:04.000 So this is going to be a problem that does eventually rip open the Democratic Party.

00:29:08.000 The question is...

00:29:10.000 Whether Trump can exploit it.

00:29:11.000 And this is why Trump needs to be very focused in the way he campaigns.

00:29:15.000 And I know there are a lot of people out there who just think all the polls are wrong and that everything is hunky-dory.

00:29:20.000 Let me just tell you something.

00:29:20.000 People inside the Trump administration, inside the Trump campaign, they understand that the polls aren't all fake.

00:29:24.000 They do.

00:29:25.000 They get that Trump is not in good shape electorally right now.

00:29:28.000 And they understand that Trump has to be a lot more focused in how he has approached this campaign so far.

00:29:33.000 There is a gap emerging in the Democratic Party.

00:29:35.000 It is a gap between the radical left And the old school liberals.

00:29:39.000 But that's been glossed over again by anti-Trumpness.

00:29:41.000 You can see that gap starting to expose itself with regard to the violence and protests in the cities.

00:29:45.000 You can see it starting to expose itself in terms of the cancel culture, where members of the traditional liberal left are looking at their radical left compatriots and going, you guys are kind of fascist, aren't you?

00:29:55.000 That is a gap that a professional politician who is good at this could rip wide open.

00:30:00.000 And that's what Trump should be doing.

00:30:02.000 That requires two things.

00:30:03.000 One, him to focus completely on ripping open that scene because it's very important for the country that scene be ripped open.

00:30:09.000 The radical left needs to be excised.

00:30:11.000 Anybody who claims that violence is a solution to political problems needs to be excised from the conversation.

00:30:11.000 They need to be excised.

00:30:17.000 That does not mean, obviously, not violence or anything.

00:30:20.000 I'm explicitly denouncing violence for those in media matters who don't understand English.

00:30:24.000 When I say excised, I mean there is an Overton window.

00:30:26.000 If you are claiming that attacks on federal law enforcement are part of that Overton window, you're doing it wrong.

00:30:32.000 The liberals need to take back over the Democratic Party.

00:30:35.000 And Trump can help that happen.

00:30:37.000 And if the Democratic Party keeps caving to the radical left, maybe traditional liberals might think about moving away from a Democratic Party that no longer represents them.

00:30:44.000 I know a lot of traditional liberals who are looking in horror at what's happening right now.

00:30:49.000 Trump, if he's skillful, can exploit that, and he should exploit that.

00:30:52.000 That requires two things, focus and not providing the Democrats with a shiny object, namely Trump, to gather around and attack.

00:30:59.000 We're gonna get to that in a second, because that brings us to COVID policy.

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00:34:40.000 Alrighty, so as I've been talking about here, there is a gap that's emerging between the radical left and the liberals.

00:34:52.000 And the radical left, I will say, they are acting a little bit more tepid than they were just a few weeks ago.

00:34:58.000 Take as an example, Nikole Hannah-Jones, right?

00:35:00.000 Fresh off her Pulitzer Prize winning essay that was so bad, four other Pulitzer Prize winning historians called it bad.

00:35:05.000 And then she won a Pulitzer for it, in true New York Times Walter Durante fashion.

00:35:09.000 Today, she tweeted out that the 1619 Project, which openly posited that the actual origin of the country was not 1776, it was 1619, that every structure in America was designed in order to effectuate slavery and racism.

00:35:23.000 I mean, this is what the 1619 Project openly says.

00:35:26.000 Now, she is saying, the revisionist historian is now revising the history of her own revisionist history project.

00:35:33.000 She says, it's no longer a history.

00:35:34.000 And she tweeted this out yesterday.

00:35:35.000 She says, it wasn't meant to be a historic project.

00:35:37.000 It was a journalistic enterprise.

00:35:39.000 Okay, sure.

00:35:41.000 Now she says, quote, I've said consistently, the 1619 Project is an origin story, not the origin story.

00:35:47.000 Our intro says explicitly, what would it mean to consider 1619 our founding?

00:35:50.000 Not that it is our founding.

00:35:52.000 Is that what it says?

00:35:53.000 Because the original language of the 1619 Project, which apparently is no longer available online, but I remember it because I quoted it in my book.

00:36:00.000 They said that 1619 was, quote, our true founding.

00:36:03.000 They stated, quote, on the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.

00:36:08.000 It was not meant as a sort of balancer or corrective to whitewashed history.

00:36:12.000 Not even close.

00:36:13.000 But now you're starting to see Nikole Hannah-Jones walk back her own project and say, oh, it was meant to be kind of a critique. 0.91

00:36:13.000 It was meant as a replacement. 0.91

00:36:18.000 It wasn't meant to be like an alternative history.

00:36:21.000 Doesn't matter that the very first page of the 1619 Project declares, quote, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully by reframing American history, treating 1619 as our nation's birth year, and placing slavery at the very center of our national narrative.

00:36:35.000 So, you know, she's walking it back a little bit because it turns out that all of the sort of radicalism of the Robins, the Angelos, even members of the liberal literati are beginning to say, well, I'm not so into this.

00:36:47.000 Now, Trump could exploit that, right?

00:36:48.000 Because the radical left has gone off the rails.

00:36:51.000 Trump could push on this particular scene, and it would be important to do that.

00:36:54.000 In order for that to happen, he has to not make boo-boos on COVID.

00:36:58.000 So over the past week and a half, the President of the United States, there's one issue at the forefront of everybody's mind.

00:37:02.000 That's when the hell can we get back to anything remotely resembling normal, right?

00:37:05.000 That is the big question right now as states consider additional lockdowns.

00:37:09.000 Now again, what the data show, is that we are already seeing a flattening in Texas, in Florida, in Arizona.

00:37:14.000 Hospitalizations are going down.

00:37:15.000 ICUs are going down.

00:37:17.000 We saw the curve.

00:37:17.000 The curve went up, and now the curve is coming back down.

00:37:19.000 And that was happening before, quote-unquote, additional lockdowns, which is good, which is good.

00:37:24.000 And frankly, I'm very curious to see what happens in New York as New York continues to reopen.

00:37:28.000 Because if New York reopens and we do not actually see a second wave, we don't see a second spike, what that would suggest is that herd immunity doesn't kick in at 60 or 70%.

00:37:36.000 Thanks to T-cell immunity, it actually kicks in a lot lower, right?

00:37:39.000 That would be like the best of all scenarios is that once it runs through a community, that's it, like you're basically done.

00:37:44.000 That'd be, you know, my mouth to God's ears.

00:37:46.000 We don't know that yet, right?

00:37:48.000 There's a lot of scientific controversy over T-cell resistance and T-cell immunity, but that would be great.

00:37:53.000 The bottom line is what we're seeing in the Sunbelt, for example, is a receding of the cases.

00:37:58.000 And we never saw death levels like death levels that we saw in New York.

00:38:01.000 So over the last week and a half, the president has become, or had until the last 24 hours, a lot more, I would say, studied and focused on the COVID issue.

00:38:13.000 He just didn't seem as wild.

00:38:14.000 And that was good, right?

00:38:15.000 So he gave his typical daily presser yesterday, and he sounded pretty good, right?

00:38:18.000 Here was President Trump yesterday encouraging people to wear masks and socially distance, which has been sort of the going scientific advice for the last several months.

00:38:27.000 I trust all Americans to do the right thing, but we strongly advise everyone to especially, especially focus on maintaining a social distance, maintaining rigorous hygiene, avoid large gatherings and crowded indoor bars, and wear masks when appropriate.

00:38:46.000 We also strongly urge citizens to take extra precautions to shield those at highest risk, which are, in most cases, in many cases, the elderly.

00:38:57.000 That's good.

00:38:57.000 I mean, that's what he should be saying.

00:38:58.000 There's new evidence out today, according to the Wall Street Journal, that says that face masks are still fairly useful.

00:39:03.000 Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he believes the pandemic could be brought under control over the next four to eight weeks if we could get everybody to wear a mask right now.

00:39:11.000 Apparently, it has like a very small impact on the transmission of COVID in small numbers.

00:39:16.000 But the more people wear masks, the more the curve is really brought down because fewer and fewer people, like it reduces your risk of transmitting COVID by like 30 or 40% was what I'd seen in the studies.

00:39:26.000 But if everybody does that, then it reduces it by a very, very large percentage.

00:39:29.000 There's a newly published study suggesting that universal use of surgical masks helps reduce rates of confirmed coronavirus infections among healthcare workers at Mass General Brigham Healthcare Systems in Massachusetts.

00:39:41.000 Redfield's comments are the clearest message yet from the CDC that they are pushing the mask wearing.

00:39:47.000 The CDC currently recommends the use of cloth face coverings in public.

00:39:50.000 Several states have made the coverings a requirement for most people in wide ranging public situations.

00:39:54.000 An analysis published Sunday in the BMJ, a medical journal, found face coverings are now recommended or mandated in 160 countries to reduce coronavirus transmission.

00:40:03.000 Apparently, according to researchers, they say that a homemade face mask will radically reduce the amount of time that the virus is in the air, which is good, right?

00:40:18.000 And that it reduces the amount of distance traveled when you breathe.

00:40:22.000 It reduces it from up to apparently 100 inches, if you have an uncovered face, to if you have like a stitched mask, nearly zero.

00:40:31.000 In other words, it goes like a little bit beyond your mask, but not much further than that.

00:40:34.000 So all of that is good, right?

00:40:37.000 I've never understood the perspective that says that we want the economy to reopen, therefore nobody wear masks.

00:40:41.000 If you want the economy to reopen, you should wear a mask.

00:40:44.000 I mean, that is the best way you can get back to work.

00:40:45.000 And I'm back at work.

00:40:46.000 That's because everybody around me is wearing a mask.

00:40:48.000 And when I'm not on the camera, I'm wearing a mask, too.

00:40:51.000 It seems to me that the easiest way for us to get back to work is to be safe, because you know what would happen if there was a COVID outbreak?

00:40:55.000 People would go home again.

00:40:56.000 So what you actually want is to reduce the transmission.

00:40:59.000 So Trump is saying that, too.

00:41:00.000 Also, Trump is now pushing on the vaccine button, which is good. 1.00

00:41:04.000 Operation Warp Speed is continuing.

00:41:06.000 We've now moved to phase three in certain vaccine trials.

00:41:09.000 Here's the president talking about this yesterday.

00:41:12.000 A groundbreaking agreement with Pfizer includes a guarantee to deliver 100 million doses shortly after the vaccine's approval, almost immediately, with the option to purchase an additional 500 million thereafter.

00:41:26.000 Not only is Operation Warp Speed accelerating the development of a vaccine, we're also directing a colossal industrial mobilization to ensure its rapid delivery.

00:41:37.000 Nothing's happened like this since the end of World War II.

00:41:42.000 Okay, and he's not wrong about this, right?

00:41:44.000 This is a more concerted Trump.

00:41:44.000 All of this is good, right?

00:41:45.000 This is what you want to see.

00:41:46.000 Anthony Fauci, right?

00:41:47.000 Yesterday he was out there celebrating a stage three progression for the vaccine.

00:41:51.000 He's saying this is very good news.

00:41:53.000 The virus was first put on a public database, the sequence, early on in January.

00:42:00.000 So to go from not even knowing what the virus was in early January to a phase three trial is really record time.

00:42:08.000 And I might add, it was not done compromising safety, nor was it done compromising scientific integrity.

00:42:16.000 I can't guarantee you the success of the vaccine because only a clinical trial will determine that.

00:42:23.000 But I can virtually guarantee you that this has got off to a good start and we will get this trial completed.

00:42:30.000 So all of this is positive news, obviously.

00:42:33.000 Now, where the Democrats prefer to put their focus is on chaos inside the administration, which is why, again, if Trump wants to exacerbate the scene between radical left and liberals, which is good for the country, it's something that should happen, then he needs to not provide them a common rallying point when he does silly things.

00:42:47.000 What the Democrats would prefer to do is rally around, we hate Trump.

00:42:50.000 And that's what you're seeing from Andrew Cuomo.

00:42:52.000 He says, lack of a plan is called Trump.

00:42:53.000 The absolute arrogance of Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, suggesting that Trump's Activities during COVID-19 are really the problem when his state got walloped.

00:43:02.000 Actually, this is Chris, his brother, sorry.

00:43:03.000 His idiot brother who has helped push the propaganda here.

00:43:07.000 Here's idiot brother Chris talking about how a lack of a plan is called Trump as opposed to his brother who he was having on the air and holding up giant fake nasal swabs.

00:43:17.000 Solid stuff here from Chris Cuomo.

00:43:20.000 Help is not coming from on high.

00:43:24.000 Proof?

00:43:26.000 There's no plan for better testing.

00:43:28.000 I hear you all over this country saying you can't get results fast enough.

00:43:32.000 I know.

00:43:33.000 There's no plan for it to get better.

00:43:36.000 There's no plan to help us reopen schools.

00:43:40.000 And there is a reason for this inaction, and it has a name.

00:43:44.000 Trump.

00:43:45.000 Really?

00:43:45.000 Your brother's the governor of New York.

00:43:46.000 What's his plan?

00:43:47.000 Seriously, what's his plan?

00:43:48.000 33,000 people died in that state.

00:43:51.000 And by the way, the Washington Post is now saying what we should do is shut down the entire country for months on end in the hope that this will bring the coronavirus infections down to zero.

00:43:58.000 And then we can test and trace everybody in a country of 330 million people, ignoring the fact that we are seeing in Europe is spikes again in a huge number of countries that initially brought the cases down near zero.

00:44:09.000 Israel had the cases down near zero.

00:44:10.000 They had a spike.

00:44:10.000 They had to shut down again.

00:44:12.000 So that is not really a solution either.

00:44:13.000 The bottom line is that there aren't a lot of good solutions here other than the stuff that we already know tends to reduce transmission, namely the socially distance and the mask wearing.

00:44:22.000 The idea of going into a full-scale national... The Washington Post is now encouraging people, by the way, like they would like to see that if you are COVID positive, that you would be forced to stay in a hotel, that the government would set up hotels for you, and you would be forced to stay there by law.

00:44:33.000 Like they say this in a Washington Post editorial today.

00:44:36.000 They don't explicitly say that they want you forced into it.

00:44:38.000 They say, we'll set up hotels for people who want to go.

00:44:40.000 Yeah, sure.

00:44:40.000 Because if I get COVID, what I desperately want to do is go to a hotel with a bunch of other people with COVID.

00:44:44.000 Sounds fantastic.

00:44:46.000 Yeah, but in any case.

00:44:47.000 Trump has to be aware of making boo-boos on COVID.

00:44:52.000 COVID has really hurt his re-election chances.

00:44:54.000 Look at the polls.

00:44:55.000 When COVID started, his re-elect chances went from basically 50-50 or 55-45 down to about 20%, which means don't make boo-boos that make it look like you are not on solid footing.

00:45:06.000 Which is why yesterday when the president decided to retweet a Breitbart video, and it was a video of some frontline doctors, they call themselves America's frontline doctors, and they're speaking, it looks like at the White House, talking about how hydroxychloroquine was a cure, Like, literally a cure.

00:45:23.000 And then he was retweeting things that said in the video, like, implying that Anthony Fauci was bad at his job and he's at fault for all of this.

00:45:31.000 That's not the kind of stuff that is going to make people feel a sense of durability and a sense of solidity in a time where everything feels chaotic.

00:45:37.000 So Trump retweeted this.

00:45:39.000 The tweet also included, again, ripping on Fauci, which is... Like, the media have been begging for Trump to go right at Fauci for literally months.

00:45:46.000 For months.

00:45:47.000 Which is bad for the country and bad for Trump.

00:45:50.000 The reason that they've been pushing this is because they want this to be a battle between Fauci, who's become sort of hero of the resistance, simply because Trump and he seem to be at odds.

00:45:58.000 They want that battle.

00:45:59.000 They want it to look like Trump versus the science.

00:46:01.000 So Trump tweets this stuff out.

00:46:03.000 By the way, that Houston doctor, she's now being ripped up and down because apparently she has made some claims about alien DNA and she has made claims about demon sperm and such. 0.65

00:46:15.000 It's not great stuff.

00:46:17.000 It's not great stuff, right?

00:46:18.000 She said, nobody needs to get sick.

00:46:19.000 This virus has a cure.

00:46:21.000 And she said, you don't need a mask.

00:46:22.000 There is a cure.

00:46:23.000 So none of that is really Based in any sort of science.

00:46:27.000 But in any case, Anthony Fauci then went on TV and defended himself from Trump saying that basically he's bad at his job.

00:46:33.000 Here was Fauci, and now you got exactly what the media wanted, that Fauci versus Trump battle.

00:46:36.000 This is not good for Trump.

00:46:37.000 For folks who support Trump, if you think that him battling openly with his own guy, right?

00:46:43.000 I mean, Fauci is the guy he put out front in the first place.

00:46:45.000 It ain't a good look.

00:46:46.000 He's been doing this with every official in his administration for a long time.

00:46:49.000 He did it with Jeff Sessions.

00:46:50.000 He did it with his own chief of staff for a while.

00:46:54.000 It's a frequent thing, but When it looks like that guy stands for science and you don't, that's a bad look for you, especially because, again, Trump's been more focused over the last week.

00:47:00.000 So, set the Simpsons Day Since Work Accident counter back to zero here.

00:47:04.000 Here's Anthony Fauci going at Trump.

00:47:06.000 I don't tweet, I don't even read them, so I don't really want to go there.

00:47:11.000 I just will continue to do my job no matter what comes out, because I think it's very important.

00:47:16.000 We're in the middle of a crisis with regard to an epidemic, a pandemic.

00:47:20.000 This is what I do, this is what I've been trained for my entire professional life, and I'll continue to do it.

00:47:25.000 To the charge you've been misleading the American public?

00:47:29.000 I have not been misleading the American public under any circumstances.

00:47:32.000 Okay, so obviously this sort of conflict is bad for Trump.

00:47:35.000 If you want Trump re-elected, this is bad stuff.

00:47:37.000 Meanwhile, Twitter has decided they're going to ban anybody who retweets that video.

00:47:40.000 So that video comes out.

00:47:42.000 I don't think that that video is supported by the best available science.

00:47:45.000 I think that the lady in the video is making some pretty extraordinary claims that don't seem to be based, like the idea that it's a cure does not seem to be reality.

00:47:53.000 Donald Trump Jr.

00:47:54.000 retweeted that particular video.

00:47:56.000 He tweeted, this is a must watch, so different from the narrative everyone is running with.

00:48:00.000 Twitter then suspended him.

00:48:02.000 Twitter suspended him, and this is insane.

00:48:04.000 Twitter suspended him, saying that under their policies, they violated the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.

00:48:11.000 That policy is wildly overbroad.

00:48:13.000 That policy is really stupid.

00:48:15.000 The reason that it's wildly overbroad is because if you had tweeted back in March that people should wear masks, you would have been in contradiction to the CDC and Fauci and the WHO.

00:48:24.000 The thing about science is that until the science is quote-unquote settled, you actually don't know whether the science is settled.

00:48:29.000 And the studies on hydroxychloroquine, again, they're pretty mixed, right?

00:48:32.000 There's some that say that it's somewhat effective.

00:48:34.000 There's some that say that it is not at all effective.

00:48:36.000 The original studies were completely debunked.

00:48:37.000 The ones that said that it was gonna kill you of a heart attack, those completely fell apart.

00:48:41.000 They just weren't real.

00:48:43.000 But the bottom line is that politically speaking, for Trump, the biggest thing that he can do right now to push for his own victory is to force the liberals to repudiate the radical left instead of centering on him and his particular foibles.

00:48:55.000 Again, set the counter back to zero because that is not what he did today.

00:48:58.000 Keep the man off of Twitter, for the love of God, keep the man off of Twitter for five seconds if you actually want him re-elected.

00:49:04.000 All right, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.

00:49:08.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 28, 2020

The Hundred Days’ War | Ep. 1061

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