Trump's impeachment trial begins today in the Senate, with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer starting the process of bringing a case against former President Donald Trump. Trump's defense will focus on the fact that he is not responsible for inciting the riot that broke out in the Capitol on January 6th, 2019, and that he was not personally responsible for the violence that erupted in the streets of Washington, D.C. after the vote on whether or not he should be charged with incitement to commit a crime. He will argue that the charge against him is absurd, because there is no evidence that he intentionally incited the riot. And that if anything, he was merely a bystander to the chaos that erupted on that day, not a perpetrator of it. Ben Shapiro argues that Trump is not a criminal, but a victim of the political consequences of his own silence on social media in the aftermath of the election. This is a case where the country is better off if Trump bears the consequences of what he has wrought over the past four years, because if he had been as silent on his social media as he has been since the election, he would have been as loud and clear on the matter as he was on the social media during that time period, and would have faced the consequences that he has become silent on the internet in the years since then. Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by Express VPN. Don't like Big Tech? Don t like big tech and the government spying on you? Visit ExpressVPN.org/Don't Like Big Tech and the spying that goes along with it? Don't hesitate to join ExpressVPN? Visit Eavesdrop on the ExpressVPN and get 50% off your first month for $50 or more! Don't forget to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review our podcast! Subscribe to our new podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show! The best podcast on all things podcasting platform on the podcasting experience in the world! in iTunes! Shout out to: Ben Shapiro: and Slashdot: Subscribe, Slash, Ben Shapiro Subscribe and review Ben Shapiro on Podchaser on Podcoin: The Best of the Week? Subscribe? And don't miss out on all the latest in podcasting and social media and podcasting on the world's best vlogs on the best places to listen to Ben Shapiro s newest podcast? and more! Subscribe to his new show on the road?
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00:01:31.000Today, the Senate of the United States, led by Chuck Schumer, should have been led by Mitch McConnell, but now it's led by Chuck Schumer, is going to start the consideration on the conviction of President Trump for the impeachment charge that was brought against him by the House of Representatives.
00:01:45.000Remember, that single impeachment charge essentially suggested that Trump was responsible for inciting a riot at the Capitol building on January 6th.
00:01:52.000That was the main part of the impeachment charge.
00:01:54.000There were other ancillary parts, like his earlier call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, but the main part of the charge is that he was personally responsible for the incitement of the violence that happened on January 6th.
00:02:05.000Now, the big problem with that charge is really that he is not by any legal definition responsible for incitement.
00:02:12.000And it's very difficult to make the claim that he is responsible for incitement because of the colorful language that he used in the months leading up to January 6th.
00:02:20.000But that other politicians who use similarly colorful language are not also guilty of incitement when violent breaks out from people who agree with them.
00:02:26.000This is the biggest flaw in the entire Democratic argument with regard to impeachment.
00:02:30.000Now, there are some Republicans who voted for impeachment in the House.
00:02:33.000There are cases that Trump had abused his power, that he'd been lying about the results of the election, that he'd been telling lies about voter irregularity and voter fraud and whipping people into a frenzy, and that it was sort of a foreseeable effect of that, that something bad would happen.
00:02:45.000But again, the wording of the incitement charge is pretty specific.
00:02:49.000And beyond that, there is no neutral standard that applies across the board when it comes to an impeachable offense on the basis of this fact pattern.
00:02:56.000And that is the case that Trump's defense is making.
00:02:58.000So we're going to get to what Trump's defense looks like because that's going to start rolling out today.
00:03:02.000The trial actually begins with a four-hour debate today on the constitutionality of bringing an impeachment charge against a person who is no longer in office.
00:03:10.000Remember, he is former President Trump.
00:03:13.000And frankly, if you wanted what was best for the country, I think there's a solid case to be made that the country is better off just kind of moving on.
00:03:21.000And the reason I say that is not because Trump shouldn't bear the political consequences of what he wrought over the couple of months after the election.
00:03:28.000I think he is going to bear those political consequences in whatever way the American public sees fit to bring those consequences.
00:03:34.000I mean, the number one consequence of his behavior over the past four years is that he's no longer president of the United States.
00:03:38.000The simple fact of the matter is, if he had been as silent on social media during his presidency as he has been since he was banned from social media in the aftermath of January 6th, he would probably still be president.
00:03:48.000So it's not as though consequences have not attended to Trump's behavior.
00:03:52.000And the people who actually engaged in violence, those people will be tracked down.
00:03:55.000Those people will be brought to trial.
00:03:56.000Those people will spend time in jail, as well they should.
00:03:59.000And if Democrats are ever willing to bring forth evidence of their most outrageous allegations, which is that there are members of Congress who are complicit in the attack, well then, members of Congress will end up in jail.
00:04:09.000But when it comes to the question of whether it is good for the country as a broad matter for us to be re-litigating Trump's presidency after he lost an election in November, Or whether we ought to be focused on, you know, the crises at hand, namely COVID, the economy, and all the rest.
00:04:24.000I think that increasingly, there's a reason both Democrats and Republicans want to move fast on this thing.
00:04:28.000Republicans want to move fast on it because they think that it's basically just political gamesmanship, which is correct.
00:04:33.000And Democrats want to move fast on this thing because I think they recognize that if this drags out for weeks and weeks, Americans are just gonna get tired of it.
00:04:40.000Because this is what happens with virtually every impeachment trial.
00:04:42.000At the very beginning of the impeachment trial over Ukraine, Americans were largely supportive of impeaching Trump by polling data.
00:04:49.000And then, as the thing continued, Americans were like, what are we doing again?
00:05:52.000I mean, just on the face of it, it's kind of bizarre.
00:05:55.000So, here is how the trial is going to roll out today.
00:05:57.000According to the Hill, Senate leadership announced on Monday they have reached a deal on the framework for former President Trump's impeachment trial. It'll start today. For the information of the Senate, the Republican leader and I, in consultation with both the House managers and former President Trump's lawyers, have agreed to a bipartisan resolution to govern the structure and timing of the impending trial, said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Apparently, they confirmed on the right side of the aisle that this was happening. The timeline would allow the trial to wrap up as early as next week if both sides agree not to call witnesses.
00:06:25.000And this is the big question right now, is whether the sides are going to call witnesses.
00:06:28.000Under the current deal, the Senate is going to debate and vote today on whether the trial is constitutional.
00:06:33.000The effort to declare the trial unconstitutional will fall short.
00:06:35.000Rand Paul folks were forced to vote on this issue late last month.
00:06:39.00044 Republican senators supported that particular effort.
00:06:42.000There were very few Republicans who sided with the idea that it was constitutional.
00:06:46.000Now that was an easy procedural way out.
00:06:48.000There are some Republicans who are making the case it's not constitutional to push forward with this.
00:06:51.000Tom Cotton from Arkansas is one of those.
00:06:53.000Here's Senator Cotton explaining the constitutional case against convicting a president of an impeachable offense after he has already left office.
00:07:01.000I think it's beyond the Senate's constitutional authority to have an impeachment proceeding, the point of which is to convict and remove from office a man who left office three weeks ago.
00:07:09.000I think it's also a set of misplaced priorities.
00:07:12.000The Democrats continue to obsess about Donald Trump, when Donald Trump left office and went to Florida three weeks ago, when the Senate should be focused on things like how to expand vaccine production and distribute it more quickly.
00:07:23.000Those are the priorities the American people want us to focus on, not an inquest into who is now a private citizen.
00:07:28.000It's an interesting constitutional debate on the right side of the aisle.
00:07:30.000Basically, the Republicans who say that it's unconstitutional to push forward with this, that's people like Tom Cotton or Rand Paul, their case is that it is an impeachment trial.
00:07:38.000The purpose of an impeachment trial is to remove from office a person who apparently is now already out of office.
00:07:45.000On the other side of the aisle, there are people who say, yes, he was impeached in the House, but the conviction is still part of the process.
00:07:52.000And one of the possibilities is barring somebody from running for office in the future on the basis of a Senate conviction.
00:07:57.000So here's Pat Toomey, who's a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, making the opposite case.
00:08:02.000You did have 45 Republican Senators vote to suggest that they didn't think it was appropriate to conduct a trial, so you can infer how likely it is that those folks will vote to convict.
00:08:19.000I think it's clearly constitutional to conduct a Senate trial with respect to an impeachment.
00:08:25.000In this case, the impeachment occurred prior to the President's leaving office.
00:08:28.000Okay, so how is this actually going to roll out?
00:08:31.000The way that this is actually going to roll out is the opening arguments then start on Wednesday.
00:08:35.000So under the current deal, the House impeachment managers and Trump's team will have 16 hours over two days each to present their case to the Senate, which is actually a faster pace than the first Trump trial.
00:08:44.000Both sides got 24 hours in that Trump trial.
00:08:46.000At that point, Chuck Schumer was like, we're rushing this thing even now.
00:08:49.000Because Mitch McConnell was in charge.
00:08:50.000Now, Chuck Schumer wants to rush this thing so much that both sides get 16 hours to present their case.
00:08:55.000And you can bet money that if the Democrats start calling witnesses, like if they start calling up AOC to testify to how terrified she was in the building that was, you know, 0.3 miles away from the Capitol building, protected by police and was never under assault from rioters.
00:09:08.000If they want to call people like AOC, then you can certainly bet Republicans will then call AOC to rebut AOC and ask her about her own violent language with regard to Republicans and riots and all of the rest.
00:09:18.000The way this is going to work is if one side opens that can of worms with regard to impeachment witnesses, you can bet the other side certainly will as well.
00:09:25.000The deal does leave open the door to calling witnesses.
00:09:29.000The House impeachment managers previously invited Trump to testify under oath.
00:09:33.000His attorneys rejected that because if you are Trump's attorney, the last thing you ever want is Donald Trump in a legal proceeding saying anything.
00:09:39.000It is the worst job in the world being Donald Trump's attorney.
00:09:45.000Because the first rule of lawyering is that you get your client to shut up.
00:09:48.000And then you are the one who is the mouthpiece for your client.
00:09:51.000But that is not Donald Trump's forte, is shutting up.
00:09:55.000And so being Donald Trump's lawyer is always difficult.
00:09:57.000Although there are reports out today that Donald Trump shockingly has finally learned that actually his best PR tactic may be to not say things.
00:10:05.000Apparently he's like off on the golf courses and people around him are telling him, you know, people are still paying attention to you and you using your social media sparingly as opposed to using it like You know, just word vomit?
00:10:16.000Like, that's actually an effective tactic, and Trump seems to have learned that, which is why he's making so few public statements.
00:10:21.000Would to God that he had learned that in the first year of his presidency.
00:10:25.000Both sides are going to end up with two hours for closing arguments.
00:10:28.000Chuck Schumer says, as in previous trials, there will be equal time for Senator questions and for closing arguments and an opportunity for the Senate to hold deliberations if it so chooses.
00:10:35.000And then we're going to vote on the articles of impeachment.
00:10:38.000So that is the procedure as it is going to play out.
00:10:40.000In a second, we're going to get to what the content is likely to be in the actual Senate trial for President Trump on this impeachment charge.
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00:12:16.000Okay, so what exactly is the content likely to be?
00:12:19.000Well, from the Democrats, what you're likely to hear is how terrified they personally were and also All of their other arguments, which is that the riots were white supremacy.
00:12:29.000You're likely to hear about how close we were to losing our democracy in the words of representative Jackie Speier from California Democrat.
00:12:34.000She says, you know, we have to hear during this trial how close we were to losing our democracy.
00:12:41.000I mean, we just weren't as a factual matter.
00:12:45.000A bunch of yahoos, idiot criminal yahoos, evil yahoos, running into the Capitol building and putting their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
00:12:53.000It's ugly, and it's terrible, and it's bad, and it's horrible for the country.
00:12:57.000That was not us being close to losing our democracy.
00:12:59.000You know what losing a democracy looks like?
00:13:01.000It sort of looks like what happens in countries all over the world when the military just marches into presidential palaces and starts arresting officials, right?
00:13:34.000A coup, specifically speaking, is when one regime is exchanged for a more legitimate regime through the mechanisms of institutional power generally.
00:13:43.000That's when you have the military that intervenes on the behest of one political party, for example, and then else a sitting democratically elected person, for example.
00:14:19.000This could have been a unifying moment that lies are bad and people believing lies is really bad and people then acting on those lies to do violence and terrible damage.
00:14:29.000We can all be on the same side of all those questions, but instead it's, well, you know, Donald Trump tried to launch a coup and he almost, he was barely thwarted.
00:15:43.000I intend, like so many of my colleagues, to put into words that every American can hear for decades to come how close we came to losing our democracy.
00:15:56.000This is a man that intended to overtake this government.
00:16:02.000And it's astonishing to me that so few of my colleagues on the Republican side, even after witnessing that, even after being part of that insurrection, are unwilling to do their jobs and protect the Constitution and protect the democracy.
00:16:19.000OK, again, the democracy was not under threat.
00:16:22.000There were people who were threatening to do bad things.
00:16:25.000At no point was the institutional democracy of the United States under threat.
00:16:29.000To pretend otherwise is to ignore the realities on the ground.
00:16:32.000The military would not have participated in anything like that.
00:16:35.000Republican members of Congress voted to ratify the election.
00:16:38.000Vice President Pence was the vice president under Donald Trump, lest we forget.
00:16:41.000He was the person leading the ratification.
00:16:43.000Mitch McConnell was the head of the Senate.
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00:18:49.000Alrighty, so, again, what this trial is really about for the Democrats is ratcheting up the amount of ire at Republicans more generally.
00:18:56.000Which is why you see Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez clinging to the patently absurd notion that Ted Cruz tried to have her murdered.
00:19:02.000Because the goal here is not to castigate Trump for the lies that he told about the election and the aftermath of the election.
00:19:07.000The goal of this is to castigate all Republicans who she doesn't like.
00:21:07.000And yet somehow it was about white supremacy to Ayanna Pressley because she thinks literally everything on earth fits into the white supremacy narrative.
00:21:19.000And of course, January 6th, about white supremacy.
00:21:21.000When everything is about white supremacy, then you have now bought into a false narrative and you are using that false narrative as a cudgel to wield against your political enemies, which is ugly stuff.
00:21:31.000As a black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles, on the ground, in the dark, that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me.
00:21:51.000And I want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is white supremacy in this nation.
00:22:22.000I've like run out of patience with the stupidity of our politics.
00:22:24.000It's unreal how stupid our politics is.
00:22:27.000Okay, so Trump's response to all of this is a very long trial memorandum test.
00:22:31.00078 page trial memorandum talking about the charges against him.
00:22:35.000It's sort of a mix of decent argumentation together with a bunch of Trumpian flourishes because if Trump looks, because of course Trump is going to look over the final document.
00:22:44.000And so it references Trump's Arrangement Syndrome on like the very first page of the trial memorandum.
00:22:48.000What Trump's team understands is that this is all just a PR effort.
00:22:51.000That the trial is not about holding him legally responsible.
00:22:55.000He is not going to be held legally responsible via conviction in the Senate.
00:22:59.000They don't have the votes and everybody knows it.
00:23:01.000So that means that Trump's team is basically going to present the countervailing case.
00:23:04.000And the countervailing case, according to the memorandum, is pretty obvious, which is Trump didn't incite anything on January 6th, that by all available evidence, the action was pre-planned, which is correct, by the way.
00:23:15.000Virtually everyone has already reported that this was pre-planned.
00:23:20.000Apparently, you know, the Democrats had started their impeachment effort before they'd even conducted an investigation.
00:23:26.000That during the actual rally before the riots, Trump talked about peacefully protesting at the Capitol building, that the riots started in the middle of his speech.
00:23:36.000They didn't actually start after his speech.
00:23:37.000It wasn't like he finished and then they went over.
00:23:39.000They started in the middle of his speech.
00:23:40.000Now critics are saying, oh yeah, he'd already said the inflammatory part.
00:23:43.000But he called for peaceful protest in the speech.
00:23:50.000And, they are correct, law enforcement had reports of a potential attack on the Capitol several days before Trump's speech itself, which suggests that it was not the speech that actually triggered the violent events of January 6th.
00:24:01.000You can say that Trump's rhetoric contributed to the attitude of the people who stormed the Capitol, but if the argument is incitement, that means that you incited the violence with the speech of January 6th, that's the impeachment charge.
00:24:12.000So all of those are fairly good defenses, and those will be brought to bear.
00:24:16.000The Democrats, the more rabid Democrats are saying that they want to bring witnesses.
00:24:39.000Democrats in the media do not want Trump to go away.
00:24:41.000They want Trump there so they can use him as a foil.
00:24:43.000Without Trump there as a foil, they have to find some other Republican, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a first-term backbencher from Georgia that they can use as the face of all Republican evil.
00:24:52.000So they're going to try and keep this alive as long as possible.
00:24:54.000The American people are bored with it, and I think they're going to want to move on ASAP.
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00:26:48.000A lot of that is due to the fact that we've seen this pattern before.
00:26:51.000Basically, you have variants of COVID or waves of COVID.
00:26:55.000They burn through a community, they run out of people to burn through, and then they wane.
00:27:00.000So hopefully, by the time we move forward with this thing, by the time the next variant hits, a lot of people are vaccinated.
00:27:06.000And we are rolling out vaccines at a fast pace, and that is largely thanks to the Trump administration, which the Biden administration has denied over and over and over again.
00:27:38.000But if it were not for COVID, do you think Americans would be on board with spending $1.9 trillion with AT?
00:27:44.000Do you think Americans would be on board with a $15 national minimum wage, which is more than significant percentages of people in less wealthy states earn?
00:27:55.000Like, do you think that that makes a lot of sense?
00:28:21.000It is also true that in the actual Super Bowl Stadium, because you had to, everybody was masked up.
00:28:26.000But these CNN reporters are very selective in when they get outraged about lack of masks.
00:28:31.000If it's happening in New York, they're really not all that concerned about it.
00:28:33.000If it's happening in Florida, they are super concerned about it, despite the fact that Florida has performed admirably, given the fact that Florida has, by far, the oldest population in America.
00:29:25.000I mean, if you look at these pictures, you cannot spot a person over the age of 30 years old in these pictures.
00:29:30.000So, the very basic notion that this poses a massive health risk to the United States because a bunch of 25-year-olds are walking around without masks.
00:30:06.000She saw this CNN report, obviously, and now she's like, everybody who is maskless at the Super Bowl is going to be identified by law enforcement.
00:30:11.000Yes, this sounds like a tremendous use of resources.
00:30:15.000My favorite part of this is the cop standing directly behind her who's got the mask on under his nose.
00:30:20.000You know, we had tens of thousands of people all over the city.
00:30:25.000Downtown, out by the stadium, Ybor City, down here in Channelside, and very, very few incidents.
00:30:33.000So, I'm proud of our community, but those few bad actors will be identified, and the Tampa Police Department will handle it.
00:30:42.000Now, the media want to sort of have it both ways, because one of the things that has been happening, and it is a reality, is that populations mask up or associate at different rates.
00:30:50.000So you've seen that the media are very, very down on Orthodox Jews in New York and New Jersey, right?
00:30:55.000They've been very down on them since the beginning of the pandemic.
00:30:58.000I think there's some justification to the idea that if you're getting together in closed spaces without masks and then you are transmitting the virus at high rates, that has to do with personal behavior.
00:31:05.000But the media completely ignore that when it comes to people who are also getting the virus at disproportionate rates.
00:31:11.000At no point have they suggested, for example, that disproportionate rates of COVID in the black community in New York, which is a thing, that maybe that has to do with personal behavior as well.
00:31:20.000It's either personal behavior or systemic racism for each.
00:31:24.000But the way that it works is if a bunch of Jews get it in New York, that is called personal behavior.
00:31:27.000And if a bunch of black folks get it in New York, then it is all about systemic racism is the way that this works.
00:31:32.000Well, now you have the New York Times justifying black people refusing to get the vaccine.
00:31:36.000Now, if this were a bunch of white people refusing to get the vaccine, it would be about QAnon and Trump support, right?
00:31:41.000But Charles Blow over at the New York Times has an entire piece about why it is that many black Americans are not getting the vaccine, and he's attempting to justify or excuse it.
00:31:56.000And the people getting it at the highest rates are people of color in the United States.
00:32:01.000So why would you be making excuses for people opting out of that?
00:32:04.000This is like the fifth editorial from the New York Times making this case.
00:32:10.000He says that black Americans are justified in not getting the vaccine because they don't trust the government.
00:32:16.000Which is a weird way for... That's a weird argument given that black Americans are voting in a 92-8 clip for a party that wants to expand the size, scope, and reach of government.
00:32:26.000If you don't trust the government, it seems like a weird indicator how much you distrust the government to vote for the party that vows to expand it in every area of your life.
00:32:34.000But in any case, here's what Charles Blow says.
00:32:36.000He says, the distrust in the healthcare system is real in the black community.
00:32:40.000Perhaps most notably, at least in the last century, was the Tuskegee experiments, in which hundreds of black men were told they were being treated for syphilis, when in fact, they were not.
00:32:48.000They were being observed to see how the disease would progress.
00:32:50.000Those men suffered under this experiment for 40 years.
00:32:55.000Okay, the people today who are denying vaccines and are 30 years old, their grandparents were not alive when the Tuskegee experiments happened.
00:33:03.000The Associated Press exposed the program in 1972, but the black people in the age group most resistant to the vaccine weren't alive when that experiment was conducted, as Charles Bull acknowledges.
00:33:11.000Indeed, older men, those who might have been alive at that time, are more likely to want the vaccine.
00:33:16.000Yes, because they're the people who are most vulnerable to COVID, generally.
00:33:20.000He says it occurs to me something bigger might be contributing to those numbers, an overall mistrust of a government that has repeatedly disappointed, disrespected, and dehumanized black people.
00:33:28.000Ah, so, when black Americans refuse to get the vaccine, then it's because of justified distrust of the government from a population that overwhelmingly votes for the party of government.
00:33:38.000When white people refuse to get the vaccine, it's because they are doing something dumb.
00:33:42.000The media double standard is pretty amazing there.
00:34:12.000If we can get, and I have used this as an estimate, it's not definitive, that if we can get 70-85% of our population vaccinated and get to what we would hope would be to a degree of herd immunity, which really is an umbrella or a veil of protection against the community, Where the level of virus is so low, it's not a threat at all, then at that point you could start thinking in terms of not having to have a uniform wearing of masks.
00:34:42.000Okay, it's that last, it's that last sentence that's insane.
00:34:45.000When the virus, the risk of it, does not exist, then you can take off the mask.
00:34:50.000Okay, so when we have learned to defeat death generally, you can leave your house.
00:34:54.000When the risk of the virus does not exist, Are you out of your damned mind?
00:34:59.000We've shut down the entire world economy for a year for a disease that mainly kills people over the age of 70.
00:35:04.000And you can make the argument that that's a good idea.
00:35:07.000You can make the argument that's a bad idea.
00:35:08.000I will tell you what is an absolute crap, idiotic, anti-scientific idea.
00:35:11.000The idea that the virus is going to have a 0% risk rate.
00:35:22.000On a practical level, once people have the shots, they're going to say, I am done with this and I'm taking off the mask.
00:35:27.000And I'm not going to stay away from grandma.
00:35:28.000I'm not going to stay away from parties I want to go to.
00:35:32.000If grandma's at a particular risk, like a super high risk, maybe, if I'm really worried, I might stay away.
00:35:37.000But generally speaking, people have to live their lives.
00:35:39.000And this idea that we live in a bubble where risk does not exist, and the risk from COVID is gonna go down to zero before we all start taking off our masks?
00:36:15.000If I have to wear a mask forever and the mask is supposed to protect the people around me from the risk of transmission, I can just skip the shot and wear the mask if we're all going to be wearing masks until the end of time anyway.
00:36:38.000From least great doctor to greatest doctor.
00:36:41.000It goes like Jonas Salk, Dr. Pepper, Dr. J, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education from the prestigious University of Delaware after writing a dissertation about the importance of junior college.
00:36:54.000Here is Dr. Jill Biden informing you how you should live your life when it comes to masking.
00:37:00.000Hi there, I'm Jill Biden here at the White House with our two dogs, Champ and Major.
00:37:05.000For a lot of us during this pandemic, our pets have been such a source of joy and comfort, and maybe a bark or two on a video conference.
00:37:14.000The unconditional love from a dog is one of the most beautiful things on earth, and we owe it to them to keep ourselves healthy.
00:37:21.000So please keep wearing your mask, even when you're out walking your dog.
00:38:10.000Because you wait in line for a really long time, then you get to the front, and then you are having to answer a bunch of very specific questions about your car you probably don't know the answers to.
00:38:17.000Finally, You tell them what part you need and they're like, you know what?
00:38:19.000Why don't we order that online for you and then upcharge you?
00:38:22.000Or you could just order it online yourself and not pay the upcharge by going to rockauto.com.
00:38:27.000Rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear like airlines do.
00:38:33.000Why spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:38:36.000RockAuto.com is a family business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.
00:38:39.000Head on over to RockAuto.com shop for auto and body parts from hundreds of manufacturers.
00:38:43.000Best of all, prices at RockAuto.com are always reliably low and the same for professionals and do-it-yourselfers.
00:38:48.000Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
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00:40:47.000So that Biden administration really big on the science.
00:40:54.000Speaking of which, is Joe Biden with us?
00:40:55.000We always have to ask this because usually he's kind of not.
00:40:59.000They can kind of get him up and wheel him around Weekend at Bernie style for like a short period of time before he starts to babble nonsense.
00:41:07.000So yesterday he was on a COVID call with a registered nurse and he creepily started babbling about how young she looked, which by the way, if Donald Trump had done that, endless headlines about his sexism and all the rest.
00:41:17.000But Joe Biden doesn't, he's just a charming older fellow.
00:42:06.000She came out yesterday and she said, you know, when Donald Trump was president, There were a few COVID guidelines, minority of COVID guidelines, that were politically impacted.
00:42:16.000Rochelle Walensky said that Anne Schuchat, the CDC's principal deputy director and career civil servant, is in charge of the review of those regulations.
00:42:24.000She said a vast minority of the public health agency's guidelines on how the nation should respond to the coronavirus pandemic have been, quote unquote, politically swayed by former President Donald Trump's appointees and that the agency is in the process of updating those.
00:42:34.000So the headline became, Biden's CDC director says that a minority of COVID guidelines were politically swayed.
00:42:41.000I'll just remind you that this week, Joe Biden completely undercut his own CDC director because she said schools can reopen without teachers being vaccinated.
00:42:49.000And then Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, was like, well, she was just speaking in her personal capacity.
00:42:55.000Obviously, politics no longer matter when it comes to the CDC.
00:43:26.000Okay, so it's a national emergency, but Joe Biden, I have a question.
00:43:29.000If it's such a national emergency, when are we going to reopen?
00:43:32.000Well, the answer is we're going to reopen when other teachers unions say that we can reopen, because Joe Biden does not run his own administration.
00:43:40.000Do you think it's time for schools to reopen?
00:43:42.000I think it's time for schools to reopen safely.
00:43:46.000You have to have fewer people in the classroom.
00:43:49.000You have to have ventilation systems that have been reworked.
00:43:52.000Our CDC commissioner is going to be coming out with science-based judgment within, I think, as early as Wednesday, as to lay out what the minimum requirements are.
00:44:11.000So I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about.
00:44:14.000Schools in Florida, they never closed.
00:44:16.000Schools in Europe, many of those never closed.
00:44:19.000Schools in Israel, largely never closed.
00:44:21.000All over, all over the world, particularly for elementary school children, the risk of transmission in elementary schools is extraordinarily low.
00:44:53.000The teachers are allowed to bargain against the interests of students and taxpayers.
00:44:58.000And the fat cats at the top, who are earning million-dollar salaries and building giant monuments to themselves in Washington, D.C., in order to prevent children from learning, are doing nobody any favors.
00:45:08.000The New York Times, nonetheless, has a SOP piece on Randi Weingarten from just the other day, from yesterday, talking about how she is going to work with Joe Biden to reopen schools.
00:45:23.000Weingarten, have good reasons to be anxious.
00:45:25.000They don't trust soap and running water will always be available in schools because sometimes they haven't been.
00:45:29.000They don't trust that extra funding will materialize for masks, hand sanitizer, and nurses because in so many other years, budgets were cut.
00:45:36.000It can't just be that these unions are taking advantage of a really bad situation in order to bargain for more things.
00:45:42.000By the way, undercutting the demand for their services.
00:45:44.000The number of people who are opting for homeschooling is at record rates, record rates.
00:45:48.000But one of the things that we have to understand about what is going on right now is that in order to gin up panic, ginning up panic about COVID is largely at this point, when vaccines are right around the corner from millions of Americans.
00:45:59.000Millions of Americans already had them.
00:46:01.000Ginning up panic is all about pushing the concomitant political agenda.
00:46:05.000More power to the teachers' unions and more spending.
00:46:09.000So you've got Jen Psaki over at the White House saying it's time to roll out these giant economic plans, $1.9 trillion in stimulus.
00:46:15.000Now again, recognize that by most economic standards, people believe that the economic spending shortfall due to COVID this year is going to be about $450 billion.
00:46:23.000So they're spending about four times that amount of money in order to quote unquote rectify the breach.
00:46:30.000And in order to do this, they're now claiming that they also want to kill a bunch of jobs.
00:46:34.000So Jen Psaki was specifically asked about fossil fuel workers because one of the things that Joe Biden has been pushing in the middle of a pandemic is new restrictions on fossil fuel development and fracking.
00:46:46.000She was asked, okay, so you want a bunch of people, Keystone XL, you want a bunch of people to lose their jobs in the middle of a pandemic.
00:46:51.000And her answer was, how dare you, sir?
00:46:54.000So much, how refreshing, so much transparency and factual accuracy coming from Jen Psaki.
00:47:00.000When is it that the Biden administration is going to let the thousands of fossil fuel industry workers, whether it's pipeline workers or construction workers, who are either out of work or will soon be out of work because of a Biden EO, when it is and where it is that they can go for their green job?
00:47:19.000And that is something the administration has promised.
00:47:44.000Can you show anybody who's gotten a green job?
00:47:46.000Because you keep saying that when somebody is laid off from a fracking job, when somebody loses their job in the Keystone XL pipeline, don't worry, they'll get a green job.
00:47:52.000And Ducey's like, OK, so can you name them?
00:48:22.000Shama Sawant is a socialist from Seattle.
00:48:23.000She's been preaching $15 minimum wage in Seattle.
00:48:26.000Seattle, you may have noticed, is not Birmingham, Alabama.
00:48:29.000In fact, they are two very, very different places.
00:48:30.000And $15 minimum wage drove a lot of small businesses out of business in Seattle.
00:48:35.000Here is Jen Psaki, however, saying it is vital in the middle of a pandemic, with unemployment at extraordinary rates, for us to raise the minimum wage to throw people out of work and create lower margins for businesses to operate.
00:48:49.000The president remains firmly committed to raising the minimum wage to $15.
00:48:54.000That's why he put it in his first legislative proposal.
00:48:57.000And he believes that any American who is working a full-time job, trying to make ends meet, should not be at the poverty level.
00:49:04.000And it's important to him that the minimum wage is raised.
00:49:08.000Okay, by the way, just legislating that somebody be paid more money does not mean that they will actually be paid more money.
00:49:13.000Many of those people, their minimum wage will now be zero because they will be laid off, or people are just gonna put a bunch of self-checkout lines in grocery stores, which is what Kroger is going to do.
00:49:21.000They're now experimenting with getting rid of all checkout specialists, like all of them, and they're just gonna put machines in place.
00:49:26.000By the way, if you're not worried about any of this, Anthony Pompliano, the investor, he tweeted out, within the last 12 months, we have increased the US dollar supply by 40%, by 40%.
00:49:34.000There will be consequences for that sort of stuff.
00:49:38.000Okay, meanwhile, the culture wars continue apace.
00:49:41.000So if you think that things weren't falling apart fast enough, the culture wars definitely continue apace.
00:49:46.000The New York Times is very angry at the Super Bowl.
00:49:49.000So every time there's a Super Bowl, and the Super Bowl is not sufficiently woke, people get super ticked off.
00:49:55.000So Ken Belson has a long piece of the New York Times about the evils of the Super Bowl.
00:49:58.000He says, But when it comes to topics like race, health, and safety, the league's certainty dissolves into a series of mixed messages.
00:50:04.000Air Force jets fly over stadiums just as the Star Spangled Banner reaches its peak.
00:50:08.000But when it comes to topics like race, health, and safety, the league's certainty dissolves into a series of mixed messages.
00:50:15.000That was the case on Sunday at the Super Bowl, the NFL's crowning game, typically watched by about 100 million viewers in the United States.
00:50:21.000The championship game provides the league a massive platform each year to promote itself as America's corporate do-gooder with the best interests of its enormous fan base at heart.
00:50:32.000On Sunday, the NFL trumpeted its support for the fight against social injustice.
00:50:35.000The national anthem was performed by two musicians, one black and one white.
00:50:38.000The poet Amanda Gorman, who wowed the country with her recitation of President Biden's inauguration, read an ode to three honorary captains.
00:50:48.000The TV announcers spoke often of the work that the league and players have done to battle racial inequities.
00:50:52.000Yet, moments later, says the New York Times, when the Kansas City Chiefs took the field, the NFL played a recording in the reduced-capacity stadium of the made-up war cry that is a team custom.
00:51:02.000The prompts got fans to swing their arms in a tomahawk chop, an act many find disrespectful and a perpetuation of racist stereotypes of the nation's first people.
00:51:12.000I mean, just the brutality of the NFL.
00:51:14.000Plus, no one mentioned Colin Kaepernick.
00:51:17.000I mean, frankly, I have to admit, like Matt Walsh, I was appalled that no one mentioned Colin Kaepernick because, yes, Tom Brady cemented his status as the greatest quarterback ever to play football, but He was the second greatest quarterback to ever play football because we all know that the true greatest is the person who has been denied a slot in the NFL for years after backing up the immoral Blaine Gabbard in San Francisco, Colin Kaepernick.
00:51:42.000I mean, after all, Mariah Carey did tweet out, Happy Colin Kaepernick Appreciation Day.
00:51:47.000There was no talks, says the New York Times, of the league's abysmal record hiring people of color as head coaches and general managers, or even as television cameras showed, the Chiefs' successful offensive coordinator Eric Bename, who is black, had been unable to land a head coaching position in multiple hiring cycles.
00:52:01.000Before the game, CBS Sports showed a segment that featured Viola Davis saluting Kenny Washington, a black player who in 1946 reintegrated the NFL, which had an unofficial color barrier for 13 years.
00:52:10.000But there was no discussion of a lawsuit brought by two former NFL players who accused the league of rigging the concussion settlement.
00:52:16.000Well, I mean, probably that's what they should have led with at the Super Bowl.
00:52:19.000You know, as a piece of marketing, probably they should have led with, also, we're secret racists.
00:52:22.000I will say the NFL did its best to buy into woke nonsense.
00:52:58.000What an amazing contribution by the NFL.
00:53:00.000In fact, I think the NFL has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to quote-unquote ending systemic racism considering a huge percentage of the league's players are black and people in the league are being paid an exorbitant amount of money far above the average American.
00:53:12.000So that seems like that's a good way to end systemic racism.
00:53:14.000Nonetheless, here is the NFL pledging to do more because corporate wokeness is now a thing, gang.
00:53:21.000To fulfill the promise of one nation, To be part of the solution.
00:54:03.000The reason people watch the Super Bowl for many, many, many people, including me, the only game I watched all season was the Super Bowl.
00:54:10.000And maybe they did the wokeness routine in the commercials.
00:54:12.000I can tell you in the stadium, it was not really a thing.
00:54:14.000In the stadium, the NFL really did not play that stuff up.
00:54:18.000And they didn't play that stuff up because guess what?
00:54:19.000When you call the American system systemically racist, and suggest that America is a deeply offensive place, and suggest that NFL players are victimized by systemic racism on a regular basis, most people sense the bullcrap in that.
00:55:08.000And yet, this is something that all of corporate America is now buying into, including these social media bros who are disseminating their own information and policing how dissemination of information actually works.
00:55:19.000Here was Google's ad touting the fact that you can now search for who owns a business by race, unironically believing that they are fighting racism in the process.
00:55:38.000Right here, between these walls, is a lot of history.
00:55:41.000To have a place where you have dignity and belong, that's the legacy of the 4-Way.
00:55:51.000identifies as Black-owned. I do like identifies as Black-owned is what pops up because that means they're not actually checking. That's what it means. They say identifies, not Black-owned, identifies as Black-owned means that somebody checked that box that it's a Black-owned business.
00:56:04.000But I also love the implication, which is that Black-owned businesses are a place where Black people belong, but apparently white-owned businesses are not.
00:56:13.000I mean, that's what's said in that commercial?
00:56:15.000I mean, this is what you saw during the BLM riots, by the way.
00:56:20.000We saw people who were boarding up their businesses and writing on the plywood, black-owned business, which is the most racist Passover story ever, basically.
00:56:29.000I was like, oh, maybe they will pass over my store if I just write black-owned business on the front of the store.
00:56:35.000They're only gonna target people who are not of a particular race.
00:56:37.000The fact that corporate America has, like, where's the unity?
00:56:51.000That is my, is that standard terrible?
00:56:53.000It seems like a pretty good standard to me.
00:56:56.000And yet we have an entire corporate infrastructure that is devoted to the idea of a racial segregation that we were supposed to abhor and should abhor.
00:57:24.000Nicole Hannah-Jones is the de facto editor over there.
00:57:26.000As I said yesterday, Nicole Hannah-Jones is not a journalist.
00:57:28.000She's an activist, and she's a bad person.
00:57:30.000And Nicole Hannah-Jones basically just got a man fired for having said the N-word in the context of explaining a story in which the N-word was the key part.
00:57:40.000By the way, she has tweeted out using the N-word before herself, right, in discussing a story, as we'll see.
00:57:45.000So Aaron Siberian writes this over at the Washington Free Beacon.
00:57:48.000The resignation of star New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr.
00:57:51.000has sparked a furious back and forth among Times staffers, many of whom are outraged over the Gray Lady's handling of his departure.
00:57:57.000The Washington Free Beacon reviewed a series of postings to a Facebook group for current and former Times staffers, where a tense debate is unfolding over McNeil's exit.
00:58:05.000One camp asserts that his dismissal was justified, another asserts it sets a troubling precedent, which the New York Times union should have done more to prevent.
00:58:13.000Whatever happens in the notion of worker solidarity to giving a fellow worker the benefit of the doubt, asked Stephen Greenhouse, who spent three decades covering labor issues for the New York Times.
00:58:20.000Why didn't the News Guild, that's the union, do far more to defend and protect the job of a longtime Times employee, one who at times did tireless heroic work on behalf of the Guild to help improve pay and conditions for all New York Times employees?
00:58:33.000Times crossword columnist Deb Amlin accused Greenhouse of an excessive focus on the perpetrator, arguing that he and others should shift their attention to the people McNeil had harmed.
00:58:43.000By the way, there's no evidence that McNeil actually harmed anybody.
00:58:45.000He was literally asked a question about whether a person in high school should be canceled for at 12 using the n-word, and he said, was the person saying bleep in the context of a rap song or not?
00:58:55.000That is the sin that he was fired for, essentially.
00:58:59.000When asked about this, Deb Amelin said, McNeil's ouster came nearly two years after the incident that precipitated it.
00:59:11.000While chaperoning high school students on a pricey trip to Peru, the science reporter responded to a question from a student about whether one of her classmates should have been suspended for using the N-word.
00:59:19.000In the process, he uttered the offending syllables himself.
00:59:21.000An Internal Times investigation found his judgment wanting, but stopped short of firing him.
01:00:12.000McNeil's resignation on Friday and Baquette's post-hoc explanation that intent doesn't matter renewed the bitter debate among staff with reporters warring with each other in public and private, says the Free Beacon.
01:00:21.000A Times spokeswoman muddied the waters further on Sunday, telling the Free Beacon that racial epithets had no, quote, place in the newspaper.
01:00:27.000The paper, as the Free Beacon notes, printed the same epithet last week in a magazine profile of Princeton Classics professor Don L. Padilla-Peralta.
01:00:36.000Even in ironic or self-mocking quotations about a speaker's own group in rap lyrics, for example, their use erodes the worthy inhibition against brutality in public discourse, said Danielle Rhodes-Ha.
01:00:45.000That was the spokesperson for the paper.
01:00:47.000She declined to say if that policy extends to social media, where other New York Times writers, including Nicole Hannah-Jones and Asted Herndon, have quoted the slur.
01:00:55.000So, for example, back in 2016, Hannah-Jones wrote, Larry Wilmore did not say you did it, my n-word.
01:01:02.000She said there's a linguistic difference between the N-word with an ER at the end and the N-word with an A at the end.
01:01:07.000So the Washington Free Beacon asked Hannah Jones whether intent made a difference in her case, because of course this is the standard she's been pushing.
01:01:13.000Racist language doesn't require intent.
01:01:18.000She responded by posting the reporter's inquiry, including his cell phone number on Twitter, in direct violation of the website's terms of service.
01:01:25.000You think she's going to be suspended?
01:01:30.000Greenhouse argued staffers who went after McNeil, including Hannah Jones and race reporter John Elgin, had their priorities backward.
01:01:35.000Many of them, he wrote, were, quote, far more willing to sympathize with these privileged 15- and 16-year-olds than with a longtime colleague who has done much great work for The Times over the years.
01:01:44.000When one Times reporter posted a statement from a nonprofit literary organization called PEN calling McNeil's ouster chilling, What if they just think that you're a schmuck?
01:02:10.000Apparently according to the free beacon, the lack of clear standards has generated frustration I don't think anybody feels like we have any clarity about what happened with this incident or other alleged incidents, said one New York Times reporter.
01:02:21.000We demand transparency of other people.
01:02:23.000We don't have it in our own processes, but this is the point.
01:02:25.000When it comes to the woke, there is no standard to meet.