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00:00:33.000We are now at the mercy of one-party control.
00:00:35.000That means a giant, giant tax and spend agenda.
00:00:38.000I mean, this is what Joe Biden has promised.
00:00:40.000It's what the Democrats are eager to implement.
00:00:42.000I don't need to get into the social ramifications, but fiscally, you can expect compounded growth of the national debt, a systematic devaluation of the U.S.
00:01:31.000Again, text my name, Ben, to 474747 to get started.
00:01:35.000Okay, so the big news of the day continues to be this enormous cold snap that is hitting the vast majority of the United States.
00:01:41.000We in Florida are just I'm just waving at the rest of you guys because it's great down here, but pretty much everywhere else in the United States is frozen.
00:01:47.000Some 74% of the United States right now is under snow or ice.
00:02:24.000I lived there for nearly all of my life.
00:02:26.000And every year, there would be rolling blackouts of some sort or another because of the completely predictable weather pattern of it being hot during the summer in Los Angeles.
00:02:35.000That is not the same thing as a once-in-a-century cold snap that hits Texas and then the power grid fails.
00:02:41.000See, unexpected events tend to have unforeseen consequences.
00:02:44.000Why would Texas spend bajillions of dollars to protect against something that happens once every 120 years, apparently?
00:02:50.000Okay, so they're not equivalent in that way.
00:03:38.000And so, the case that many conservatives are making today is, what if we had invested more in, you know, the more efficient form of energy, and less in the wind turbines?
00:03:46.000Would that have given us enough capacity to overcome the shortages created by the cold snap?
00:04:29.000And again, wind turbines are a factor.
00:04:31.000To pretend they are not a factor is to ignore the fact that, again, crises usually have multiple parents.
00:04:37.000It is a financial structure for power generation that offers no incentive to power plant operators to prepare for winter.
00:04:42.000In the name of deregulation and free markets, critics say Texas has created an electrical grid that puts an emphasis on cheap prices over reliable service.
00:04:49.000Well, I mean, Texas created an electrical grid that puts an emphasis on cheap prices because, generally speaking, cheap prices are very, very good for consumers, and that seems to make a bit of a difference.
00:04:59.000But the Washington Post take here is that it's deregulation that created all of this, because the highly regulated power grid in California has been such a wild, massive success.
00:05:08.000So it's not the wind turbines, according to the Washington Post, it's the deregulation of the electrical grid system.
00:05:12.000As though the government would have solved this sort of thing just right away.
00:05:16.000That's what the government is great at, solving crises.
00:05:18.000According to the Washington Post, the temporary train wreck of that market Monday and Tuesday has seen the wholesale price of electricity in Houston go from 22 bucks a megawatt hour to about $9,000.
00:05:26.000Meanwhile, four million Texas households have been without power.
00:05:28.000Well, yes, it turns out when there is a dramatic increase in demand and there is a dip in supply, the prices go up.
00:05:35.000That is how supply and demand grids work.
00:05:38.000One utility company, Gritty, which sells power at wholesale rates to retail customers without locking in a price in advance, told its patrons Tuesday to find another provider before they get socked with tremendous bills.
00:05:47.000Which, by the way, I mean, should be noted, if these were just capitalist greedy pigs, they'd be like, yeah, keep on ordering those $9,000 a megawatt hour.
00:05:57.000The widespread failure in Texas, and to a lesser extent Oklahoma and Louisiana, shines a light on what some see as the derelict state of America's power infrastructure, a mirror reflection of the chaos that struck California last summer.
00:06:08.000So the entire case from the Washington Post, of course, is that the grid's failures are due to privatization.
00:06:14.000Because, again, if there's one thing we know about government-run systems, it is that they are incredibly efficient and they are insulated against every form of attack.
00:06:38.000He said he would work with the legislature to find ways to ensure our state never experiences power outages like this again.
00:06:44.000Meanwhile, people on the right side of the aisle, they were saying, you know, one of the problems here is, in fact, the windmills.
00:06:49.000So, for example, Dan Crenshaw, our friend from Texas, He said, This is correct.
00:06:53.000So he points out that West Texas had wind turbines that had to be de-iced.
00:06:55.000Leftists are cheering a red state having energy problems.
00:06:57.000Here is the truth about what happened.
00:06:59.000Summary, a mix of over-subsidized wind energy and under-investment in gas power means we didn't have enough base load energy for a massive spike in demand.
00:07:06.000Also, Texas infrastructure isn't designed for once in a century freezes.
00:07:11.000So he points out that West Texas had wind turbines that had to be de-iced.
00:07:14.000The little energy the power regulators planned on being supplied from wind was now gone.
00:07:19.000He says, we have almost 31 gigawatts of wind installed on the grid.
00:07:22.000On Monday, we couldn't even depend on 6 gigawatts working.
00:07:25.000To make matters worse, existing storage of wind energy and batteries was also gone because batteries were losing 60% of their energy in the cold.
00:07:31.000Bottom line, renewables don't work well in extreme weather.
00:07:45.000We only have four nuclear units in Texas, near Houston and Dallas.
00:07:48.000One of the reactors near Houston turned off due to a safety sensor freezing.
00:07:51.000No problem with the reactor, but the lack of the sensor forced the plant to shut down as a precaution.
00:07:56.000He says this is also a good indicator as to how safe nuclear is because they have all sorts of safety switches.
00:08:00.0003. We don't have enough natural gas online.
00:08:03.000ERCOT, again that is the Texas power grid, planned on 67 gigawatts from natural gas and coal, but could only get 43 gigawatts of it online.
00:08:10.000We didn't run out of natural gas, but we lost the ability to get it transported.
00:08:14.000Pipelines in Texas don't use cold insulation, so they froze.
00:08:16.000Every natural gas plant stayed online.
00:08:18.000The downed plants were due to schedule maintenance.
00:08:20.000Governor Abbott made the right call in diverting all natural gas to home heating fuel and then electricity for homes.
00:08:24.000Gas and coal brought a stable supply of energy, but still not enough.
00:08:28.000Why don't we have extra gas power when we need it most?
00:08:30.000Because years of federal subsidies for wind has caused an over-reliance on wind and an under-investment in new gas and nuclear plants.
00:08:36.000The bottom line is that fossil fuels are the only thing that saved us.
00:08:45.000And this is where Crenshaw hits the nail on the head.
00:08:47.000So, Crisis has many parents, as I say.
00:08:51.000Failures of the electrical grid, which, in retrospect, are somewhat foreseeable, but not completely foreseeable, considering this is, you know, a once-in-a-lifetime event.
00:08:58.000Two, the freezing of a lot of the natural gas and oil pipelines.
00:09:13.000So which factor here is the cheapest to build, the cheapest to maintain, and the most reliable over the course of its development?
00:09:20.000And the answer here is not wind turbines.
00:09:22.000So if you're looking from problems to solutions, if you're looking to actually solve problems like this in the future, there are a few things that you can do.
00:09:28.000One, you can make sure that the pipelines actually have the heating infrastructure necessary so they don't freeze.
00:09:32.000Two, you can make sure that the nuclear power plants, there are more of them, Three, you can stop subsidizing the most expensive form of energy and the form of energy that is most likely to fail.
00:09:43.000So when it comes to solutions, the solution is indeed fewer subsidized wind turbines and more subsidization of the most efficient form of energy, if this is what you are worried about.
00:09:51.000We'll get to more of this in just one second because the media don't want to focus on the answers to the problem.
00:09:56.000Because if they focus on the answers to the problem, it might necessitate them taking a second look at the expensive nature of giant wind turbines in the middle of nowhere.
00:10:03.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:10:04.000First, let us talk about your sleep quality.
00:10:07.000So, I will admit that my little baby woke us up at 4 a.m.
00:11:12.000Okay, so according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, they say, while Texas attempts to identify the causes of the tragic blackouts this week and the sources of mismanagement, it's clear that poor policy decisions are the root of this problem.
00:11:24.000Texas has lost significant fossil fuel generation capacity over the past several years and instead counted on nearly 20,000 megawatts of new wind and solar generation to satisfy steadily rising electricity demand.
00:11:36.000It has been known for years that a weather event combining low wind and solar production and record demand could lead to blackouts.
00:11:40.000This week, that event became reality as new wind and solar generation failed to produce when it was needed the most.
00:11:46.000As temperatures dropped further on Sunday night and electricity demand started rising, wind generation also began to drop, eventually bottoming out at 2% of installed capacity last night.
00:11:56.000Natural gas and oil was operating at Maybe 70% of its installed capacity?
00:12:02.000Wind generation was operating at maybe 2% of installed capacity.
00:12:06.000Preliminary data indicates conservation measures and rolling outages were not initiated quickly enough.
00:12:10.000Contrary to numerous false reports that coal and natural gas plants were also frozen, almost all of those reliable generators were operating without interruption until the system failure, just as they do in much colder climates all over the world.
00:12:23.000Now, PolitiFact, of course, is going to say that you can't blame the wind turbines.
00:12:25.000had our grid not been so deeply penetrated by renewable energy sources that contribute the least when they are needed the most, yet are prompted by billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies every single year. Okay, so this happens to be the truth.
00:12:37.000Now, PolitiFact, of course, is going to say that you can't blame the wind turbines. Never, ever blame the wind turbines because the leftists at PolitiFact love the wind turbines. So here's what they say.
00:12:47.000They say Texas does have a bodacious amount of wind power.
00:12:49.000In winter, it supplies about 25% of the state's electricity.
00:12:52.000And nearly half of that capacity shut down when ice coated the turbine blades.
00:12:57.000As residents tried to heat their homes, demand surged.
00:12:59.000The agency that manages the state's power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, imposed rolling blackouts.
00:13:04.000The question is, was the state's reliance on wind power its Achilles heel?
00:13:07.000Did it fail to have enough gas and coal capacity to meet people's needs during extreme conditions?
00:13:11.000The numbers show that natural gas plants were the biggest cause of the power shortfall, not wind.
00:13:15.000The state's grid operator said February 15th that about 34 gigawatts of power were offline.
00:13:19.000But of that, about 4 gigawatts was due to a problem with wind turbines.
00:13:23.000The rest came mainly from the state's primary sources, natural gas and coal.
00:13:27.000Those of you who have heard that frozen wind turbines are to blame, think again, tweeted Jesse Jenkins, engineering professor at Princeton.
00:13:32.000The extreme demand and thermal power plant outages are the principal causes.
00:13:36.000While the extreme demand, of course, is a principal cause, the question is, where's the flexibility in the supply?
00:13:44.000If the natural gas and oil facilities were responsible for a bulk of the loss of energy, but also are responsible for the vast bulk of the power that is supplied, then the problem is probably with the other 25% of the power supply.
00:14:01.000You see how they're playing with numbers here.
00:14:03.000What PolitiFact is saying is that in winter, wind turbines are usually responsible for 25% of the state's electricity.
00:14:09.000In the middle of this power outage, essentially, half the capacity shut down.
00:14:27.000Okay, but because it provides a larger percentage generally, that means that the absolute amount of energy lost in that particular sector was higher.
00:14:36.000Okay, that does not speak to the most efficient source of power.
00:14:39.000It's pretty obvious what the most efficient source of power here was, and it was not wind.
00:14:43.000So again, the solution here is not going to be more wind turbines and more investment into renewable energy resources or anything like that.
00:14:51.000The solution, as everybody knows, is going to be less subsidization of the least efficient forms of energy.
00:14:55.000There's a certain irony to the fact that the same day that this happened, the same day that this happened in Texas, the editorial board of the Washington Post says that they want to raise the gas tax.
00:15:12.000Because they want electrical vehicles to take over the road.
00:15:14.000The only way to make electrical vehicles competitive in the American market is to raise the gas tax and artificially boost the price of carbon-based energy sources.
00:15:23.000So, I mean, the same people who say that they want to blame natural gas and oil and coal and nuclear and all the other forms of energy that are the most efficient forms of energy, all those same people are saying, what if we took those forms of energy and made them more expensive?
00:15:36.000And they brought out this editorial on the same day that Texas was frozen over and people were dying in their homes because they literally didn't have heat.
00:15:44.000You can see how the environmental left is really doing yeoman's work over here.
00:15:49.000Because unfortunately, environmentalism, Sometimes a great idea, sometimes it has some pretty significant costs.
00:15:55.000And those costs make themselves most apparent in crisis times, when the least reliable form of energy is relied upon too much.
00:16:01.000And that is one of the many things that happened here, but it is also the easiest one to fix, and the one that people on the left are desperate not to have fixed at any point in the near future.
00:16:10.000Alrighty, in just a second, we are going to get to Joe Biden doing a town hall on CNN, which essentially meant that they did a propaganda hour for CNN.
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00:17:25.000Okay, so meanwhile, Joe Biden being given the kid glove treatment by the media.
00:17:30.000I have to say that if you are in the center, on the right, anybody who actually wants an honest accounting from the media right now, you're not going to get it.
00:17:38.000There's a certain amount of gaslighting that's happening.
00:17:41.000Okay, and what it is, is that Joe Biden and the Biden administration will say things that are overtly false.
00:17:47.000They'll just say things that are not true.
00:17:48.000And the media, instead of being the sort of bulldog media counting every single Trump lie, instead of that, you get the media spinning on behalf of Joe Biden while declaring itself objective.
00:18:02.000This is the same media that when Donald Trump would say something like, I have tremendous African-American support, they'd be like, that is a lie.
00:18:09.000That is a lie that he has tremendous African-American support.
00:18:11.000Okay, there is no way to gauge whether that is a lie because it's an opinion.
00:18:14.000It depends on your definition of tremendous, obviously.
00:18:16.000Okay, but they would count that as like an overt lie.
00:18:19.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden will say things that are overtly untrue, like factually on their face, baldly untrue.
00:18:25.000The members of the media will immediately spin it away, because they understand their job, and their job is to be the propaganda outlets for Joe Biden.
00:18:32.000Because we must never, under any circumstances, tell the truth about Joe Biden unless people figure out that the man is a doddering, elderly, far-left facade, and that he really is not running his own administration.
00:18:45.000We should never think about the stuff he's doing.
00:18:46.000We should just treat him as like, you know, a charming old dude who likes to play Luigi in Mario Kart.
00:18:51.000That's really where we should put our focus.
00:18:52.000Okay, so last night, Joe Biden did one of these town hall events.
00:18:55.000And it is weird that we now exist in a world where the soft bigotry of low expectations for our politicians is so obvious.
00:19:02.000For Donald Trump, there was some of this, right?
00:19:04.000Every time he would give a speech from teleprompter, he'd be like, that was amazing.
00:19:06.000I was like, well, yeah, because he was reading from teleprompter.
00:19:08.000With Joe Biden, you get the same thing.
00:19:10.000It's like, oh my God, he strung together half a sentence.
00:19:19.000He was having trouble stringing together coherent thoughts.
00:19:21.000But we're supposed to pretend that he is utterly with it.
00:19:24.000He's just as with it as he was back in the 80s when he was barely with it anyway.
00:19:28.000So the media's treatment of this stuff is pretty amazing.
00:19:30.000So Joe Biden had a lot of things to say, a lot of things to say.
00:19:35.000Perhaps the most weird portion of this town hall is when he was talking about China policy.
00:19:40.000So he was asked specifically by the moderator about the fact that China had been engaging in a genocide against Uyghur Muslims.
00:19:47.000And his answer was not only nonsensical, it was basically propaganda talking points on behalf of the Chinese government.
00:19:53.000And the media immediately shifted and swiveled into full-scale Joe Biden defense mode.
00:20:01.000Here was Joe Biden talking about his conversation with Xi Jinping, the dictator of China, about the Chinese genocide against Uyghur Muslims.
00:20:10.000I don't know what he thinks he's saying here, but it's not good.
00:20:15.000And so the idea, I'm not going to speak out against what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghurs in western mountains of China, and Taiwan trying to end the one China policy by making it forceful.
00:20:31.000I said, and by the way, he said, he gets it.
00:20:35.000Culturally, there are different norms in each country, and their leaders are expected to follow.
00:21:02.000I mean, they have their cultural norms.
00:21:03.000I'm gonna read you the entire transcript of what he said, okay?
00:21:06.000Because I think it is well worth reading, because some people are going to suggest that this is taken out of context, and it is really, really, really not.
00:21:15.000So here's what Biden actually said, right?
00:21:17.000There will be repercussions for China, and Xi Jinping knows this.
00:21:20.000What I'm doing is making clear that we, in fact, are going to continue to reassert our role as spokesperson for human rights at the UN and other agencies that have an impact on their attitude.
00:21:28.000And then he continued, and this is the part that you just heard.
00:21:34.000And so the idea is, I'm not gonna speak out against what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghurs in the western mountains of China and Taiwan, trying to end the One China policy by making it forceful.
00:21:45.000Culturally, there are different norms that each country and that leaders are expected to follow.
00:21:48.000China is trying very hard to become the world leader, and to get that moniker and be able to do that, they have to gain the confidence of other countries.
00:21:54.000As long as they are engaged in activity that is contrary to basic human rights, it's going to be hard for them to do that.
00:21:59.000And then he said that the issue in China policy in general is, quote, much more complicated than that.
00:22:03.000I shouldn't try to talk China policy in 10 minutes on television.
00:22:08.000Yes, he is saying that the human rights abuses are bad, but also he, I mean, Xi Jinping really understood where I was coming from, because we just have different cultures, you see.
00:22:16.000That kind of excuse making from Trump would be ripped up and down by the media.
00:22:20.000But here, they're like, no, no, no, it's fine what he said.
00:22:23.000How dare you point out that it's bad when he says that there are just cultural differences that lead to, you know, genocide.
00:22:31.000And that was not the only example of this, of course.
00:22:33.000Maybe the most obvious example is Joe Biden suggesting openly that they didn't have any vaccine when he came into office.
00:22:38.000Here was Joe Biden last night during the CNN town hall.
00:22:41.000The biggest thing, though, as you remember, when you and I... I shouldn't say it that way, as you remember, but when you and I talked last, we talked about it's one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn't have when we came into office, but a vaccinator.
00:22:54.000How do you get the vaccine into someone's arm?
00:23:06.000Biden says it, and Daniel Dale, fact checker extraordinaire, over at CNN says, Biden had said just prior there were only 50 million doses when he took office. I'm looking into that claim, but he clearly wasn't trying to claim the vaccine did not exist at all under Trump.
00:23:18.000Oh, you mean now you're going to contextualize?
00:25:35.000I think we'll be close to that at the end of the first hundred days.
00:25:41.000Okay, so now he's shifting the standard again.
00:25:42.000Do you believe him or do you think they're going to walk that one back today?
00:25:46.000My guess is within the next week, they will walk down on backs.
00:25:48.000That's not what the teachers unions want.
00:25:49.000That is not what the teachers unions want.
00:25:51.000Meanwhile, he is again shifting timelines.
00:25:53.000He now says that all the shots are going to be available, right?
00:25:56.000He changed it even over the course of 24 hours.
00:25:58.000He said, we're going to try and get everybody inoculated by like July.
00:26:01.000Now he's like, well, we'll have enough vaccines to inoculate everybody by July, which means not everybody's going to be inoculated by July.
00:26:07.000So he's finally asked, when will things be back to normal?
00:26:10.000And here's Biden explaining that things will be back to normal You know, like in forever.
00:26:15.000Here is the President of the United States.
00:26:19.000By next Christmas, I think we'll be in a very different circumstance, God willing, than we are today.
00:26:27.000I think a year from now, when it's 22 below zero here, no, a year from now, I think that there'll be significantly fewer people having to be socially distanced, have to wear a mask, etc.
00:26:52.000You're saying February 2022, a significantly different number of people will be wearing masks and socially distancing than are now, but we don't know?
00:27:13.000Nobody's going to do any of this crap.
00:27:14.000Nobody's going to do any of this crap.
00:27:16.000As soon as there is any significant level of vaccination in the American community, meaning people over 65 have gotten vaccinated, and people who are more vulnerable have gotten vaccinated, we're all going back to normal.
00:27:30.000This is not how human beings were meant to live.
00:27:32.000We are not going to continue doing this just because Joe Biden fears that there might be a COVID variant at some point in the unspecified future that could do damage.
00:27:41.000By the way, if we are treating schools this way, for COVID, we should truly shut down the schools entirely.
00:27:46.000Because guess what's more dangerous to kids than COVID?
00:28:40.000So Dr. Anthony Fauci, the COVID clarifier, the man who speaks truth to power, right?
00:28:44.000He's just given him a $1 million prize for quote-unquote speaking truth to power.
00:28:47.000The highest paid man in the federal government, Anthony Fauci.
00:28:51.000He was asked about Andrew Cuomo, lying about nursing home numbers.
00:28:55.000Remember, he had said that Andrew Cuomo was essentially a model governor.
00:28:58.000Fauci said earlier this year that Andrew Cuomo was doing exactly all the right things in New York and we should follow the lead of Andrew Cuomo.
00:29:04.000Then he was asked, you know, Andrew Cuomo lied about the number of people who died in nursing homes and were infected in nursing homes.
00:29:20.000He's argued that his state was following federal guidelines when he ordered those long-term care facilities to accept patients returning from hospitals.
00:30:06.000So, here was Anthony Fauci defending Kamala Harris' lie because he knows where his bread is buttered at this point.
00:30:11.000He knows that the right doesn't like him very much and that the left loves him.
00:30:14.000Gotta keep that credibility flow in there, Dr. Fauci.
00:30:18.000Here he was defending Kamala Harris, the apolitical scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:30:22.000What I think the vice president is referring to is that the actual plan of getting the vaccine doses into people's arms was really rather vague.
00:30:33.000I mean, it was not a well-coordinated plan.
00:30:36.000Getting the vaccines made, getting them shipped through Operation Warp Speed was okay.
00:30:41.000But I believe what the vice president is referring to is what is the process of actually getting these doses into people.
00:30:49.000Oh, weird, because if you actually take a look at the tranching out of doses, what you will see is that, number one, states are the ones making those decisions.
00:30:57.000Number two, you can see what the line looks like in terms of the number of vaccines that have been tranched out, and it looks like a direct straight line, starting at the beginning of January.
00:31:05.000There was no dramatic exponential uptick under Joe Biden.
00:31:08.000It's just a continuation of the exact same line, which means that Biden has been using the same plan.
00:31:13.000Okay, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, super apolitical.
00:31:23.000And they will be defended under all circumstances.
00:31:26.000Which is why Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, can get out there and just say ridiculous things on a regular basis to the wild cheers of the media.
00:31:33.000We're gonna get to Jen Psaki, the most transparent and wonderful of all members of the White House Press Corps, in just one second.
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00:32:51.000All right, we're gonna get to more of the Jen Psaki show in just a moment, and our leftist media covering for everything Democratic.
00:32:59.000And we have a lot more coming up, but reminder, Remember actress Gina Carano was cancelled by Disney Plus and Lucasfilm for the great sin of being conservative.
00:33:08.000And that would have been the end of the story normally.
00:33:10.000But we here at Daily Wire, we are dedicated to fighting back against this sort of cancel culture nonsense.
00:33:15.000And that is why we are now working with Gina Carano to produce and develop a film for her.
00:33:20.000The Daily Wire rejects cancel culture and everything it stands for.
00:33:22.000We are prepared to fight back against the authoritarian woke left.
00:33:25.000Which is why we announced a movie deal with Gina.
00:33:27.000She's developing, producing, starring in an upcoming film that will be released exclusively to Daily Wire members.
00:33:32.000We've all said it, conservatives need to do more than just complain and critique the culture.
00:33:35.000We need to compete in the culture, give you an alternative.
00:33:37.000That's what we are attempting to do here right now.
00:33:39.000That's why we're so excited to be announcing our new partnership with Gina.
00:33:42.000We have a lot more entertainment content coming for you as well.
00:33:45.000Here's the thing, we need your help because this stuff is expensive to produce.
00:33:48.000Disney Plus has $8 billion to spend every single year.
00:33:59.000And I gotta tell you, the number of people who were enthusiastic about this stuff, the number of people who had joined up just because they wanted to help out Gina, people get it, and I think you get it too.
00:34:07.000You get that if you wanna be part of the fight, the best way to be part of the fight is to contribute.
00:34:10.000And really, that's what I'm asking you to do.
00:34:11.000Head on over to dailywire.com slash subscribe.
00:35:35.000I think the president leads by example, and I try to do the same.
00:35:39.000And on Saturday, when we announced that T.J.
00:35:43.000Ducklow had resigned his position, something we all agreed was the right path forward, I made clear that every day we're going to try to meet the standard set out by the president in treating others with dignity and respect, with civility, and with a value for others through our words and our actions.
00:35:59.000He's no longer employed here, and I think that speaks for itself.
00:36:03.000Well, I mean, you know what speaks for itself?
00:36:04.000The fact that you guys tried to suspend him for a week and get away with it.
00:36:19.000This is the worst answer I have ever heard to this particular question.
00:36:23.000What is President Biden doing for my small business?
00:36:25.000First and foremost, he nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration who formerly worked there.
00:36:31.000Second thing is he signed an executive order to make it easier for minority-owned small businesses to get access to the funding that they need.
00:36:39.000Okay, so I want to focus in there on that first answer.
00:36:43.000So, the first thing, the most important thing.
00:36:45.000How are you going to help my small business?
00:36:47.000Well, someone with a vagina, I assume, is going to be leading the small business administration.
00:36:52.000Although, according to the White House press secretary, Some women have penises.
00:36:56.000So I really don't know what it means that a woman was nominated to lead the SBA because it could literally be a woman or a man.
00:37:02.000But it is very important to you that your small business will be helped because a person who identifies as female is going to be leading the Small Business Administration, as opposed to like, you know, under the Trump administration, where Linda McMahon was leading the SBA.
00:37:48.000First administration in my lifetime they didn't.
00:37:50.000They brokered several peace deals in the Middle East.
00:37:53.000First administration in my lifetime to seriously do that.
00:37:56.000And the takeaway is all of that was wrong, according to Joe Biden's press secretary.
00:38:01.000What we need is a return of the foreign policy blob that bullies Israel into making concessions to terrorists and also kowtows to China and all the rest of this nonsense.
00:38:14.000I can assure you that the president, this president does not have, is not looking to the last presidency as the model for his foreign policy moving forward. President Biden has been working in the global arena for decades. And what he means by foreign policy for the middle class is ensuring that our team working on economic issues, our team working on national security issues, our teams thinking about how policies impact the American people are talking and that we make
00:38:43.000decisions and make policies through that prism.
00:38:46.000So that was a lot of oatmeal coming out of her mouth right there.
00:38:49.000Because that meant nothing except that we don't like Trump and so we're going to dump over all of his foreign policy accomplishments.
00:39:14.000Your establishment media are a propaganda outlet on behalf of Joe Biden's administration.
00:39:18.000The same people who are declaring for years that Fox News is a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump, they are significantly worse when it comes to Biden.
00:39:25.000At least there were hosts on Fox News who were critical of Trump when Trump did dumb or bad things.
00:39:31.000You cannot find hosts on CNN who are critical of the Biden administration when they do bad things.
00:39:36.000Because according to people at CNN, they've never done a bad thing.
00:39:39.000Occasionally, Jake Tapper will ask a tough question.
00:39:43.000Meanwhile, the entire media has dedicated itself to focusing in on the thing that affects the most Americans right now, the most important thing in the world, and that, of course, is the January 6th riots that happened six weeks ago and are over, and which Trump was impeached in the House for, and he's not in office anymore.
00:39:58.000But the good news is, you've got the media defending the Democratic Party against any and all who point out that the Democratic Party is, in fact, a radical party that has backed violence in the past.
00:40:11.000They are working overtime for the Democratic Party at this point.
00:40:13.000So, gotta play a couple clips on this.
00:40:15.000So, Joe Scarborough, a person who five minutes ago was chuckling it up with Donald Trump when he was running for president in 2016.
00:40:22.000He was getting together with him, he and Mika, they were watching debates together.
00:40:27.000It was all good times for Joe Scarborough.
00:40:29.000Then, Scarborough decided that Trump was the font head of all evil.
00:40:32.000Now, Joe Scarborough is saying that there is no way to criticize the Black Lives Matter riots of the summer In comparison with the Capitol attack.
00:40:41.000The level of elitism that is implicit in this commentary is pretty astonishing.
00:40:48.000Let's just listen to what Scarborough has to say, because this does reflect what many in the media think, and it is so dismissive of the concerns of tens of millions of Americans.
00:40:55.000Here is Joe Scarborough saying, you can never, ever, ever point out that there's violence on both sides of the aisle and that many mainstream figures on the left side of the aisle have given the go-ahead to violence.
00:41:05.000I know there are idiots on other cable news channels that will say, well, you know, this mom-and-pop store was vandalized during the summer riots, and that's just as bad as the United States Capitol being vandalized.
00:41:24.000The Capitol of the United States of America is the center of American democracy.
00:41:30.000And while I am a fierce believer in people's right to defend their private property, I'm not going to confuse a taco stand with the United States Capitol.
00:41:41.000See, the taco stand is just something that you personally invested in and built a business yourself.
00:41:45.000And if somebody burns that down, I mean, that's not that big a deal.
00:41:48.000If they attack a taxpayer building and then the taxpayer building immediately gets cleaned by a crew and is defended by, you know, police officers and everything, then that's much like, why do we care about your taco stand again?
00:42:09.000It is absolute evil to burn down somebody's private property because you are pissed about an unrelated issue or because you're just taking advantage of the chaos surrounding that unrelated issue to do damage to somebody.
00:42:18.000By the way, it wasn't just a taco stand, Joe.
00:42:21.000The Black Lives Matter riots did $2 billion in damage.
00:42:25.000$2 billion, according to insurance estimates.
00:42:27.000It was the single most damaging spate of rioting in American history, what happened over the summer.
00:42:33.000The amount of property damage done at the Capitol was far less than that.
00:42:37.000That's not to minimize what happened at the Capitol.
00:42:38.000On an ideological level, it was an act of evil.
00:42:40.000It was an attempt to overthrow the workings of democracy.
00:42:47.000It didn't have massive support from the political infrastructure.
00:42:51.000There's a bunch of nutcases deciding they were gonna run into the Capitol building and act like jackasses and photograph themselves and put it on Instagram so they can get arrested later.
00:43:46.000They don't care if your business gets burned down.
00:43:48.000All they care about is their political point of view.
00:43:52.000All they care about is the stuff that is important to them.
00:43:54.000Now, the stuff that's important to them can be important.
00:43:56.000But the stuff that's important to you is also important.
00:43:58.000And by the way, has a much more dramatic impact on your life.
00:44:00.000If somebody burns down your store, that has a much more dramatic personal impact on you than a bunch of Yahoo jackasses running into the Capitol building and breaking some windows.
00:44:09.000In terms of personal impact to you, not in terms of impact on the country at large, in terms of personal impact on you, and you know it has a big impact on the country as well, when a bunch of political figures and members of media say it's okay to burn down your taco stand.
00:44:21.000The dismissive and derisive tone toward people who run businesses in this country and who have invested their life savings in those businesses and who want to live in peace and security in their communities, the dismissive tone is astonishing.
00:44:31.000Here is Don Lemon defending Kamala Harris bailing out rioters.
00:44:36.000After the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last spring, thousands of people, including Black Lives Matter supporters, took to the streets.
00:44:43.000Kamala Harris tweeted support for donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.
00:44:51.000Which helped people post bail if they were arrested while protesting.
00:45:00.000Kamala Harris tweeted about a fund to help people post bail, which is entirely legal.
00:45:09.000Okay, so, um, no, that's called bailing out.
00:45:11.000If I post a donation link to a bailing out people fund, and those people are not generally arrested for protesting, because protesting is legal, The people who are in jail were rioting.
00:45:37.000The President of the United States saying untrue things about an election and telling people to peacefully and patriotically march to protest at a Capitol.
00:46:16.000I've said things that many of my listeners disagree with because I think that it's important for you to know the difference between my opinion and something that is factual.
00:46:22.000Members of our media, they don't care.
00:46:23.000And I'm honest with you about my own biases.
00:46:27.000That imbalance is creating the massive distrust of institutions.
00:46:30.000And know that distrust of institutions is not going to go away.
00:46:34.000It's not going to go away anytime soon.
00:46:35.000And that is why you're starting to see the left get more and more authoritarian.
00:46:38.000The left realizes that in order for them to have a prevailing point of view here, in order to end the polarization, there are only two ways to do it.
00:46:50.000The other is to cram down their particular point of view through woke purges.
00:46:55.000Speaking of which, let's talk about the cancel culture for a moment.
00:46:57.000So one of the greatest forms of gaslighting that's happening in our society right now is this push by the left to cancel people, to destroy their careers, to go to people's bosses, to get them fired, to destroy their livelihoods, to get them kicked out of schools, based on old media posts or misinterpreted comments.
00:47:12.000And then, and then, to say that's not happening.
00:47:16.000Cancel culture is just consequences for your actions, guys.
00:47:43.000The authoritarian left, which has taken over nearly every institution of American life.
00:47:46.000We're talking about from corporate America, which is now cramming down bullcrap diversity woke training sessions on you, to Hollywood, which has determined that if you are a conservative, you cannot work there.
00:47:56.000And also, they're only going to produce films that trend toward one political side of the aisle.
00:48:00.000And TV shows that trend toward one political side of the aisle.
00:48:03.000Whether you're talking about the scientific community, which has caved in large measure to the woke, there are scientific journals that now ban studies.
00:48:12.000There are scientific journals that ban studies if those studies have quote-unquote disparate impact.
00:48:16.000You're not allowed to publish a study if people could use the study to push for policy that is not in conjunction with leftist points of view.
00:48:25.000Every place from science to Hollywood to corporate America, Every place from government to universities, the authoritarian left is in control of the means of dissemination of information, and they're in control of millions of people who work every single day in this country and pay taxes.
00:48:44.000And so, what the left is afraid of, very much, is that the authoritarian left, which does not represent the majority in this country, the woke authoritarian left, which loves canceling people, and makes life miserable, and wishes to eliminate all jokes and all fun, and wants to keep tabs on Clubhouse, and wants to keep tabs on Facebook and Twitter, and make sure that they're watching you every minute of every day, to make sure you don't say anything that they don't agree with, those people are annoying, they are Puritan, they are McCarthyists, and nobody likes them.
00:49:11.000Okay, but they have, We've created a power structure at the top of these institutions by being what is called an intransigent minority in social science talk.
00:49:21.000So I've talked before on the show about renormalization.
00:49:23.000The process of renormalization is how you take over an organization.
00:49:26.000So if you want to take over an organization, it does not require you to have a majority of the stock in a corporation to take over the corporation from the inside, for example.
00:49:33.000All it requires is about 20% of people to agree that they are not going to go along with an agenda item and the other 80% of people to be kind of wishy-washy about it or silenced.
00:49:43.000Renormalization is pretty easy to make happen.
00:49:45.000The example that I've used before is an example that is taken from Nicholas Nassim Taleb, which is the example of a vegan daughter in a meat-eating home.
00:49:57.000The vegan daughter says to mom, listen, you guys can make whatever meal you want, I'm only eating vegan tonight.
00:51:14.000The other 80% of people who don't like this kind of crap, they are not getting together and saying, listen, we're going to fight back against this.
00:51:21.000So now, now, we here at The Daily Wire and a lot of people on the right, we're starting to fight back against this.
00:51:34.000Tell your employer that you're not gonna work with that guy if he wants to cancel you.
00:51:37.000Tell him that you and 80% of your colleagues are not going to listen to Robin DiAngelo spew bullcrap to you about how being white is inherently supremacist.
00:51:47.000And if you do that, you can actually re-normalize the institutions.
00:52:31.000So here's Philip Bump at the Washington Post today.
00:52:34.000One of the best encapsulations of the past few years of politics came from President Donald Trump about a month after he lost his re-election bid last year.
00:52:40.000Quote, we're all victims, he told an audience at a rally December 5th in Georgia.
00:52:43.000Everybody here, all these people here tonight, they're all victims, every one of you.
00:52:49.000He said they were victims of voter fraud, which wasn't true.
00:52:50.000But Bump is going to use this as the jumping off point.
00:52:52.000The sentiment was central to Trump's appeal to many Republican voters.
00:52:56.000In the 2016 election, a sense that white Americans were losing out in modern society was a better predictor of support for Trump than economic disadvantage.
00:53:03.000Trump voters, more than anyone else, saw racism against whites as a potent problem and were more likely to view whites as victims of discrimination at rates similar to racial and ethnic minorities.
00:53:11.000Trump promised to make America great again, to wind back the clock to a time before things such as Black Lives Matter, to a time when the distributions of the rewards of American society weren't questioned.
00:53:21.000The reframing here is that if you just want to be treated as an individual, it's really because you're in favor of white supremacy and you don't want the hierarchies of power to be torn down.
00:53:30.000All of that, that entire line of attack is replete in the cancel culture.
00:53:36.000If I stand up for individual liberty and the meritocracy, it's because I'm secretly a racist and I should be canceled for saying these sorts of things.
00:53:43.000Folks on the left are not, on the authoritarian left, they are not shy about saying this sort of stuff.
00:53:51.000It's hard to articulate this sentiment explicitly, though, particularly to a group of Americans who are at the same time hyping their profane indifference to feelings and hawking mugs to hold liberal tears.
00:54:01.000How dare we say that we are not in favor of feelings?
00:54:06.000It's coded, packaged in other ways, such as the framing offered by delegate Kirk Cox, Republican of Virginia, a candidate for governor in the state.
00:54:13.000quote, there's been so much silencing and shaming because of cancel culture it's gone too far.
00:54:17.000He said in an ad released on Twitter, we can't even have a competition of ideas and for representative democracy to work you have to have that. The left simply cannot be allowed to ignore other opinions. So I as governor will not stand for that.
00:54:27.000And now there's nothing wrong with that sentiment. But Philip bump is going to say that it's racist and paranoid to point out that people are being silenced, which is his attempt to silence people, ironically.
00:54:37.000As you may be aware, it's an umbrella term for incidents in which people, usually public figures, have faced blowback for comments or actions, generally ones seen as culturally inappropriate.
00:54:45.000It's a nebulous phrase, your definition may vary, but it centers on the idea that some people have been canceled, exiled from society for their views.
00:54:52.000Cox obviously sees this as a politically potent position to take, and that we're mentioning it seems to bolster that idea, but so does a poll from the Huffington Post released on Conducted by YouGov, it found that while only half the country was familiar with the term, the vast majority of Republicans familiar with it see cancel culture as somewhat or very serious as a problem.
00:55:08.000Since a similar poll conducted in September, the percentage of Trump voters familiar with the term who say cancel culture is a very serious problem increased by 14 percentage points.
00:55:16.000If you're seeking a Republican nomination, amplifying those concerns seems to be warranted.
00:55:34.000Some concern about cancel culture also derives from social media bans.
00:55:37.000But it's often the case, says Philip Bump of the Washington Post, that the concern expressed as part of the backlash to the perceived phenomenon is the same concern that Trump expressed to applause during his first primary Republican debate in August 2015.
00:55:49.000His obnoxious comments about women were simply a mark that he wouldn't be beholden to a politically correct worldview.
00:55:55.000And then he talks about why cancel culture is good, right?
00:55:57.000Because cancel culture is about canceling the people that we don't like.
00:56:01.000So, if you don't go along with that, it's because you have adopted a victimhood mentality, says Philip Bum.
00:56:07.000He says, The message is that cultural elites, including the media, are trying to silence opposing views, but it's often a convenient claim.
00:56:23.000Conflating all criticism into some Big Brother-esque effort at silencing half the country is a facile approach to the moment, which, of course, is why it's appealing to political actors.
00:56:30.000Okay, this entire column is basically saying that if you're worried about the cancel culture, it's because you're a white supremacist.
00:56:35.000Also, stop worrying about the cancel culture.
00:56:56.000So The Hollywood Reporter was reporting about the firing of Mandalorian star Gina Carano, who is now over here with us over at Daily Wire, producing and starring in a film.
00:57:04.000The Hollywood Reporter has a long piece about why Carano was tossed from Lucasfilm.
00:57:09.000There's one quote in this piece that is particularly relevant.
00:57:13.000It is from a crisis PR representative named Judah Engelmeyer.
00:57:15.000Quote, I don't know what people at Disney personally believe or don't believe with regard to politics, but as a corporate entity, they want to stay as trouble-free as possible.
00:57:23.000And anything that's going to offend the left is a problem.
00:57:27.000I have clients who are making an extraordinary effort to post what the social left wants to see.
00:57:33.000It's perfectly obvious what's going on here.
00:57:35.000It's happening in every aspect of our culture.
00:57:37.000You're not wrong to feel that you are under attack because you are under attack from all of the institutions that have been hijacked by the authoritarian left and then covered for by the mainstream establishment media that love this kind of stuff because it puts them in the driver's seat in American life.
00:57:58.000Bachelor stars are now coming out and saying that Chris Harrison must be fired and major changes must be made to address The Bachelor's racism.
00:58:05.000This is according to Emily Zanotti over at The Daily Wire.
00:58:08.000If you've missed this story, which we've talked about a few times at this point, this is the most insane cancel culture story of the last few weeks.
00:58:47.000We now have first-degree racism, which is you did it yourself.
00:58:49.000Now we have second-degree racism, which is that you said a not-racist thing in favor of a person who might or might not have done a racist thing.
00:59:07.000He said the same thing, but because he's black, we ignore that.
00:59:09.000And because Harrison is white, this means that he is covertly a white supremacist.
00:59:14.000He's being accused of perpetuating racism for speaking out against cancel culture and saying that she should be allowed to explain herself, this particular contestant, rather than face a judge, jury, and executioner on social media.
00:59:25.000So now, old members of The Bachelor are coming out and saying that they want Harrison axed permanently.
00:59:33.000Demario Jackson and Jubilee Sharp, two alumni of The Bachelor program, said that Harrison should lose his job.
00:59:39.000Jubilee shared that during her time on the show, according to TMZ, she noticed that white contestants were treated better by producers.
00:59:44.000DeMario told the site the franchise needs to make major changes in order to deflect further charges of racism.
00:59:49.000Jackson said, Women who took part in the 25th season of The Bachelor released their own statement, demanding better treatment for black indigenous people of color contestants without naming Harrison specifically, and denounced the host for defending quote-unquote racist behavior.
01:00:09.000They said we denounce any defense of racism.
01:00:12.000These experiences are not to be exploited or tokenized.
01:00:16.000Okay, so our mainstream establishment media, the people who, of course, are standing up for your right to speak freely, people like Don Lemon.
01:00:23.000So Don Lemon hosts Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay.
01:00:25.000Now, recognize, Harrison said this on Rachel Lindsay's podcast, I believe.
01:00:29.000And Rachel Lindsay got very offended because she is a former contestant.
01:00:58.000Just keep repeating it over and over until it makes sense.
01:01:00.000Here is Don Lemon with Rachel Lindsay going after Chris Harrison.
01:01:02.000By the way, producer Savvy suggests that the play here is going to be that they eventually make Rachel Lindsay the host of The Bachelor, which would be The most perfectly predictable move.
01:01:14.000Here is Don Lemon and the Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay going after Chris Harrison for the great crime of saying that people deserve grace.
01:01:20.000Why do you think Chris Harrison was willing to give Rachel Kirkconnell so much room for her hurtful actions, yet couldn't muster an empathy towards communities of color who were offended?
01:01:33.000Well, I think that's the problem in our society, is that people aren't trying to understand the other side.
01:01:39.000He knew how to defend himself and what he represents.
01:01:42.000He hasn't taken the opportunity or the chance in almost 50 years.
01:01:47.000Especially doing what he does in the history of this show to learn about racism and America.
01:01:54.000That's actually the definition of privilege.
01:01:57.000He's a white privileged man because he has been cancelled from the show for the great crime of saying that people should be treated decently and not mobbed by social media.
01:02:04.000And Don Lemon is pushing that forward.
01:02:05.000But don't you worry about cancel culture.
01:02:25.000He should have told them to stick it the way that Gina Carano told them to stick it.
01:02:29.000And more and more people in Hollywood, in business, we all need to do this together.
01:02:32.000There needs to be a solidarity among those of us who wish to have open debate and discussion and not buy into a culture that says your life should be ruined because you said something that crosses the priorities of the woke left.
01:02:43.000But again, the game of the media here is to pretend that you are a bad person for even noticing the bad thing they are doing to you.
01:02:51.000Well, here's the thing, you're not the problem, they're the problem.
01:02:52.000And we all need to stand up and fight back against this nonsense.
01:02:55.000Okay, quick note here on Rachel Lindsay, because I've just been informed of this by producer Savvy, who's on top of these things.
01:03:00.000I mean, she really knows, I don't know what she does the rest of her day, honestly.
01:03:03.000But in any case, she let me know about this yesterday.
01:03:05.000So Rachel Lindsay, right, who you saw and heard in that clip with Don Lemon talking about the, Awful, evil Chris Harrison who committed the great sin of saying that people deserve grace and they shouldn't be wrecked on social media.
01:03:16.000Let me just say, if a white person did what Rachel Lindsay did on her Instagram just a few months ago, that person would have been destroyed.
01:03:24.000Because here's what Rachel Lindsay did a few months ago.
01:03:26.000Okay, in the middle of the Black Lives Matter protest, she tweeted out a picture of herself in front of, I kid you not, a Cadillac XT6.
01:03:36.000And here's what she wrote, quote, We are living in unprecedented times right now.
01:03:41.000I know we cannot escape our reality, but we do what is necessary to take care of ourselves physically and mentally.
01:03:46.000For me, I like to clear my head by going for a drive in my Cadillac XT6.
01:03:51.000With its Bluetooth connectivity, I can easily connect to my phone to stream almost anything and everything with crystal clear audio on the standard Bose speaker system.
01:03:57.000I can take this time to listen and learn from podcasts that support and uplift black voices.
01:04:03.000It is so important that we take the time to understand what and why things are happening in our country.
01:04:08.000What are some of your favorite podcasts that discuss these issues?
01:04:11.000Share your recommendations in the comments and tell me how you're doing your part to share some good these days.
01:04:23.000So, there's some privilege happening right here.
01:04:27.000And in Chris Harrison, I think that we can call you privileged.
01:04:31.000If you are literally cutting an ad for Cadillac, While talking about uplifting black voices by listening to podcasts in your brand new Cadillac XT6 with Bluetooth capability on your Bose system.
01:04:49.000That might be the definition of privilege right there.
01:04:58.000And not only are they victims, they have the power to cancel.
01:05:00.000They've been given the power to cancel despite the fact that they are making presumably millions of dollars a year in the case of Don Lemon.
01:05:06.000Or Rachel Lindsay, who is literally using Black Lives Matter to cut ads for a Cadillac Capitalism always wins, number one, is a lesson from this.
01:05:15.000But number two, it is amazing to see the purveyors of cancel culture determine that they themselves can decide who is privileged and who is not based simply on skin color while standing in a very expensive outfit with an expensive purse, it looks like.
01:05:29.000In front of a Cadillac XT6, bragging about how woke you are.