The Ben Shapiro Show - The Wokes Rebel Against Reality | Ep. 1361

00:00:00.000 Barack Obama tells Americans they're wasting time on fake outrage, while the Democratic Party pursues a radical equity agenda, the Biden economic program goes extreme, and Anthony Fauci is under fire for experimenting on puppies.

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00:00:25.000 Well, you may have missed the big news last week, but if you recall, Alison Williams was a reporter at ESPN.

00:00:31.000 She'd already had COVID.

00:00:32.000 She was trying to get pregnant. 1.00

00:00:33.000 And so when ESPN hit their entire staff with a vaccine mandate, they said basically everybody has to be vaxxed or you're going to get fired.

00:00:40.000 Alison said, well, I'd rather resign than do that. 0.95

00:00:43.000 And she quit to oppose the mandate, right?

00:00:45.000 She actually put her money where her mouth was. 1.00

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00:02:52.000 Alrighty, so over the weekend...

00:02:53.000 The Glenn Youngkin-Terry McAuliffe race continued to be hot in Virginia.

00:02:57.000 That thing is basically neck and neck.

00:02:59.000 You always have to give the edge to the person who is in line with the state registration numbers.

00:03:05.000 The state registration numbers in Virginia tilt toward blue, which means that if you're a betting man, you probably still have to bet on McAuliffe despite the fact that Youngkin is now running very, very close.

00:03:14.000 But that's kind of the whole point, is this was never supposed to be close in the first place.

00:03:17.000 It has gotten so close that now Terry McAuliffe has been forced to call in the reinforcements in the form of Barack Obama, who arrived in Virginia to do what he does best, sneer at enormous number of Americans. 0.99

00:03:28.000 Because Barack Obama is both such a good communicator and because he is such a beloved media figure, people seem to ignore the fact that Barack Obama is a giant elitist jerk. 0.95

00:03:37.000 Barack Obama spends an enormous amount of his time in politics just sneering at other human beings, just sneering at half the American people. 0.97

00:03:45.000 And telling them that all of their concerns are really just a waste of time.

00:03:50.000 The things that they worry about on a day-in, day-out basis, those are not the highfalutin things that Barack Obama, in his ginormous mind, worries about.

00:03:58.000 He used to do this all the time as president.

00:04:00.000 He would say, why do we have to embrace a false choice?

00:04:03.000 It's a false choice between X and Y. When the real answer is, listen to me and do whatever I want.

00:04:08.000 This is kind of his shtick.

00:04:09.000 Well, he never went away from that shtick because it worked for him.

00:04:12.000 Politicians find what works for them and then they just keep doing it.

00:04:15.000 So Barack Obama was campaigning for Terry McAuliffe and he did this again, right? 0.96

00:04:18.000 The idea is that if you're concerned about any of the issues in Virginia surrounding critical race theory or bathrooms in education or Loudoun County School Board covering up people being raped in the bathrooms, If you're concerned about any of that, according to Barack Obama, it's because you're kind of crazy, and it's a figment of your imagination, and you're wasting your time.

00:04:37.000 Any issue that you deeply care about is a waste of time, according to Barack Obama, because it's fake outrage. 0.79

00:04:41.000 Nobody's really outraged.

00:04:42.000 Nobody's truly outraged that the Loudoun County Public Schools decided to tell the entire public that nobody had been raped in a bathroom, and then it turns out that a girl had been allegedly raped in a bathroom.

00:04:53.000 Nobody is truly outraged over critical race theory, which indeed is being taught in a huge number of American public schools.

00:04:59.000 Nobody is super worried about that.

00:05:01.000 It's all fake.

00:05:01.000 It's all pretend.

00:05:02.000 In reality, everybody that doesn't like Barack Obama is pretending not to like Barack Obama.

00:05:07.000 Deep down, they actually like Barack Obama and Terry McAuliffe and the Democratic Party agenda.

00:05:11.000 It's all fake.

00:05:11.000 So here is Barack Obama pretending that everyone who is not on his side of the aisle is engaged in what he called fake outrage.

00:05:20.000 We don't have time to be wasting on these phony, trumped-up culture wars.

00:05:27.000 This fake outrage that right-wing media pedals to juice their ratings.

00:05:34.000 And the fact that he's willing to go along with it, instead of talking about serious problems that actually affect serious people?

00:05:40.000 That's a shame.

00:05:41.000 That's not what this election's about.

00:05:45.000 Phony trumped up culture wars.

00:05:47.000 And so according to the left, anything you're worried about is phony trumped up culture wars.

00:05:51.000 Now, you'll notice that there is a trend here.

00:05:53.000 The left does something very radical, and then the right responds to the thing that has been done that is radical.

00:05:57.000 And then the left says, you're engaged in a phony trumped up culture war.

00:06:02.000 So if they decide, for example, just on a very light, kind of minor level, Culturally speaking, that Superman is no longer going to say truth, justice, and the American way.

00:06:11.000 He's going to say truth, justice, and a better tomorrow.

00:06:13.000 And you notice this.

00:06:14.000 And you say, oh, that's weird.

00:06:15.000 And that seems to reflect a sort of underlying anti-Americanism.

00:06:18.000 That's a phony Trump-Trump culture war.

00:06:20.000 Why are you saying that?

00:06:22.000 When it comes to critical race theory, if it turns out that your children are being told that they bear a certain level of historic guilt because of the color of their skin, And you notice this and you say, you know what?

00:06:33.000 I don't want my kids being taught that stuff.

00:06:35.000 Or let's say that in your kid's school library, there is LGBTQ plus radical propaganda for small children in the library.

00:06:43.000 And you say, I don't really want that at the school because you noticed it at the school.

00:06:47.000 That's a phony trumped up culture war.

00:06:48.000 Why are you paying attention to that?

00:06:49.000 Stop it.

00:06:50.000 Okay, because the idea from the left is that unity can only be achieved if you just don't notice what they are doing.

00:06:57.000 If you just ignore what they're doing, then we can all be unified.

00:06:59.000 Because here's the thing, the people who have pushed the culture war in this country are the people on the left.

00:07:04.000 When you disturb the status quo, and when you push in radical directions culturally, and then other people notice that you're pushing in a radical direction culturally, it is not they who are being divisive by noticing, it is you who are being divisive by pushing the policy.

00:07:16.000 You can see this all over American life right now.

00:07:20.000 You see it with regard to mask policy.

00:07:22.000 You'll have people who say, kids have to mask up forever.

00:07:25.000 And then if you notice this and you get mad, they're like, it's a phony Trump-Trump culture war.

00:07:28.000 Why are you so upset?

00:07:29.000 Well, maybe it's because you're the one who's mandating that I put a cloth mask on my five-year-old.

00:07:33.000 Maybe it's that.

00:07:34.000 If you change the status quo, and people notice you changing the status quo, and people are angry, overwhelmingly, at you changing the status quo, the problem is not them.

00:07:42.000 Maybe the problem is you.

00:07:44.000 The reason I bring this up is because this is the entire Biden administration in a nutshell.

00:07:48.000 They're pushing extremely radical policy.

00:07:50.000 And then when you note that they are pushing extremely radical policy, then they say it's a phony trumped up culture war.

00:07:56.000 So to take a perfect example, right now we have a supply chain crisis in the United States and it's leading to higher prices.

00:08:01.000 We have a blowout spending crisis that we've created over the course of the last two years, partially Explainable because of the COVID pandemic, particularly some of the financial activity last year.

00:08:12.000 But this year, not so much.

00:08:14.000 We've just been blowing out the spending for no particular reason other than that Joe Biden wants to fundamentally shift the way we do economics in this country.

00:08:21.000 So we have a major inflationary crisis.

00:08:23.000 We have millions of people who are not reentering the workforce.

00:08:25.000 We have a border crisis in which we have record numbers of people who are crossing the southern border illegally.

00:08:30.000 We have a complete surrender on the foreign policy front to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

00:08:34.000 We have a very threatening China on the rise. 0.97

00:08:36.000 Those would be the kind of serious issues that serious people talk about in the words of Barack Obama, right?

00:08:40.000 Those are the serious issues that serious people talk about.

00:08:42.000 So, what would you call an administration that is deploying its useless vice president to talk about the national gender strategy? 1.00

00:08:51.000 Would that be serious people talking about serious topics?

00:08:53.000 Now, I imagine that Barack Obama would consider this a serious person talking about a serious topic.

00:08:58.000 Because that's not a phony culture war.

00:09:00.000 That's a thing that requires real change.

00:09:01.000 According to the left, when the left declares a culture war, they're not declaring a culture war.

00:09:05.000 They're fighting back against the pillars of the institutional hierarchy that must be torn to the ground.

00:09:10.000 So again, while this administration is experiencing crisis after crisis that is affecting real lives, and the polls show it, right now Americans care more than anything else about issues like bread and butter issues, inflation, job creation.

00:09:23.000 Are people going to get back to work?

00:09:24.000 Are there going to be products on the shelves?

00:09:27.000 Am I going to have to compete in my local community with vast swaths of illegal immigrants who are coming in without any sort of papers? 1.00

00:09:33.000 Or am I going to have to deploy more taxpayer dollars in order to help those people?

00:09:38.000 Are we going to be able to fight off the rising threat of China? 1.00

00:09:39.000 These are real world issues.

00:09:41.000 Instead of doing that, this administration is declaring culture wars.

00:09:44.000 So Kamala Harris, who again, was selected solely on the basis of her race and gender. 0.94

00:09:49.000 Literally, Joe Biden said this.

00:09:51.000 He said, I am looking for a person who is a black woman. 0.93

00:09:55.000 Which meant that it was not about her qualifications as a politician, per se. 0.91

00:09:59.000 She'd run a horrible campaign to this point and slandered him in the course of the campaign. 0.92

00:10:03.000 I'm old enough to remember, because I'm more than two years old, when I was defending Joe Biden against Kamala Harris.

00:10:09.000 And then he picked her as his VP because he needed a black woman on the ticket to fulfill all the intersectional criteria. 1.00

00:10:14.000 Again, that's not a culture war.

00:10:15.000 When he does that, it's not a culture war.

00:10:16.000 Only when you notice it's a culture war. 0.86

00:10:18.000 So, VP Kamala Harris, who is so useless that she has to have her own crisis management team. 1.00

00:10:24.000 She put out a tweet over the weekend in the middle of all of these crises.

00:10:27.000 Here's what it said, quote, President Biden and I released the first ever national gender strategy.

00:10:33.000 This is our vision for the future of our nation, one that is bold in strategy and one that this moment calls for.

00:10:39.000 So you might first be asking yourself, what in the hell is a national gender strategy? 0.94

00:10:44.000 And really, what does that even mean?

00:10:46.000 Like gender exists. 0.92

00:10:48.000 That's that's like saying a national human strategy.

00:10:51.000 What are we talking about here?

00:10:52.000 Well, you know what they're talking about.

00:10:53.000 What they're talking about is the fundamental principle of this foolish movement on the left, which is that every inequality in American life can be chalked up to structural inequalities, can be chalked up to the structural evils of the American system.

00:11:08.000 And so in the middle of an economic crisis, In the middle of all these other crises, they're focused like a laser in on the fact that some women choose not to work in the same industries as some men.

00:11:19.000 Now, realistically speaking, there are more women in college than men. 1.00

00:11:22.000 There are many, many more women with graduate degrees than men.

00:11:26.000 According to studies, women fresh into the workforce with the same qualifications as men are making the same amount or more than men are in most major American cities.

00:11:33.000 Hey, but according to Kamala Harris, because again, this is a, we don't talk about a phony trumped up culture war. 0.97

00:11:38.000 The notion that women are widely relegated to second class status in the United States is a lie, okay? 1.00

00:11:44.000 It is just a stupid lie that is easily falsifiable. 1.00

00:11:48.000 And Kamala Harris is put, you want to talk about a phony trumped up culture, this would be it. 1.00

00:11:52.000 This is also part of what Barack Obama did back in 2012.

00:11:54.000 And he declared that Mitt Romney had declared some sort of war on women.

00:11:57.000 Yes, Mitt Romney, most milquetoast human being ever to be born on this planet.

00:12:00.000 So what exactly is their national gender strategy? 0.51

00:12:03.000 According to the White House, President Biden and Vice President Harris believe that advancing gender equity and equality is fundamental to every individual's economic security, safety, health, and ability to exercise their most basic rights.

00:12:15.000 It is also essential to economic growth and development, democracy and political stability, and the security of nations across the globe.

00:12:21.000 Ensuring that all people, regardless of gender, have the opportunity to realize their full potential is therefore both a moral and strategic imperative.

00:12:28.000 More or less, it's a strategic imperative, right, to compete with other nations.

00:12:31.000 We have to make sure that there are gender-neutral toiles at the local target.

00:12:36.000 Very, very important stuff here.

00:12:38.000 One of the things I enjoy the most about the left is that they all talk like Kendall from Succession.

00:12:42.000 Have you ever watched Succession on HBO?

00:12:44.000 Kendall is one of the characters on Succession, and all he does is he uses sort of Murky, piecey, lefty tech jargon.

00:12:52.000 So everything is synergistic.

00:12:54.000 That's how these people talk.

00:12:55.000 They just string together words that make no sense together in a paragraph of gobbledygook and then declare themselves morally superior.

00:13:02.000 So says the White House.

00:13:04.000 No country in the world has achieved gender equality.

00:13:06.000 And we are at an inflection point.

00:13:08.000 Well, maybe the reason that no country in the world has achieved, quote unquote, gender equality.

00:13:11.000 Like, what do you mean by gender equality?

00:13:12.000 What they mean is every outcome is the same.

00:13:14.000 Maybe the reason not every outcome is the same is because men and women are different. 0.55

00:13:17.000 I know, very controversial stuff here.

00:13:20.000 What the statistics show, by the way, is that countries that have the widest social safety nets, like in Northern Europe, the ones that Bernie Sanders loves the most, also have the most gender discrepancy in terms of, for example, STEM jobs.

00:13:33.000 It turns out that when women don't have to work STEM jobs, they don't like working STEM jobs as much. 1.00

00:13:37.000 This should not be a surprise.

00:13:38.000 Men and women, on a broad level, on average, have different preferences.

00:13:41.000 Doesn't mean you can't have female STEM technicians. 1.00

00:13:44.000 Doesn't mean that you can't have female engineers. 1.00

00:13:45.000 You can.

00:13:46.000 But they are going to be far more rare in a free-choice society than in a non-free-choice society.

00:13:52.000 But so long as that discrepancy exists, we have to fight back against reality.

00:13:55.000 The wokes are at war with reality. 1.00

00:13:56.000 They're at war, in many cases, with nature.

00:13:58.000 And then when you notice this, they say that you have declared a phony trumped-up culture war.

00:14:03.000 It's true gaslighting.

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00:15:13.000 Okay, so according to the White House, again, very important that we have a national gender plan. 0.99

00:15:19.000 They say the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a health crisis, an economic crisis, and a caregiving crisis that have magnified the challenges that women and girls, especially women and girls of color, have long faced.

00:15:28.000 Now, I just, quick note here, Men die at a higher rate than women do of COVID-19.

00:15:33.000 So if we're talking about, maybe that's, is that because society is structured to advantage women?

00:15:38.000 Or is it because men and women are different?

00:15:41.000 It has also exacerbated, they say, a shadow pandemic of gender-based violence in the United States and around the world.

00:15:47.000 These overlapping crises have underscored that for far too long, the status quo has left too many behind.

00:15:51.000 I do enjoy the Biden administration preaching to us about gender-based violence after abandoning 19 million women to the Taliban.

00:15:57.000 There's a certain irony to the Taliban beheading women who refuse to follow their diktats with regard to dress, while the Biden administration is like, well, you know, we really do care deeply about gender parity.

00:16:08.000 This moment, says the White House, demands that we build back better.

00:16:11.000 It requires that we acknowledge and address long-standing gender discrimination and the systemic barriers to full participation that have held back women and girls.

00:16:19.000 Okay, what exactly are those long-standing barriers to full participation?

00:16:24.000 They don't really name them.

00:16:25.000 They just say that anywhere there is a discrepancy, then there must be a discrimination problem.

00:16:30.000 Anywhere there's a disparity, there must be discrimination.

00:16:33.000 They say this strategy adopts an intersectional approach.

00:16:35.000 There we go.

00:16:36.000 I mean, it's just, it's all left-wing radical buzzwords.

00:16:38.000 And if you notice, again, if I noticed this, if I were a politician and I campaigned on this, Barack Obama would then say, why are you paying attention to that?

00:16:46.000 Why aren't you paying attention to the fundamentals, the bread and butter?

00:16:49.000 Because you're not.

00:16:50.000 And we can see it.

00:16:51.000 It's in plain sight.

00:16:52.000 It is Terry McAuliffe who declared in Virginia that parents should not be involved in choosing the educations of their children.

00:16:59.000 That was Terry McAuliffe who said that.

00:17:01.000 Not Glenn Youngkin.

00:17:02.000 Okay, but if you notice it, then you're bad.

00:17:05.000 This is why so many people are enraged with the media, because they feel like the media just act as a cover strategy for these folks.

00:17:12.000 These people preach radicalism, and then the media cover for them, and then when you notice it, the media say, why are you noticing that?

00:17:19.000 According to the White House, the strategy adopts an intersectional approach that considers the barriers and challenges faced by those who experience intersecting and compounding forms of discrimination and bias related to gender, race, and other factors, including sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, and socioeconomic status.

00:17:34.000 This includes addressing discrimination and bias faced by Black, Latino, Indigenous, Native American people, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other people of color.

00:17:43.000 So you have to say it all in one breath or Beetlejuice appears since it is all one giant woke term.

00:17:50.000 Again, the entire underlying notion here is that if there is any discrepancy between men and women, it must be because the system is unfair and you should give full power to Joe Biden in this administration in order to correct those discrepancies.

00:18:04.000 And unless you think that this is only with regard to sexual discrepancies, Kamala Harris Your gender warrior.

00:18:11.000 She also makes clear that this is about racial discrepancies.

00:18:14.000 Anytime there's a discrepancy in American life, anytime there's a disparity in American life, it must be discrimination.

00:18:19.000 And the only way, you'll be shocked to learn this, the only way to rectify these imbalances is to give these people more power to completely take over the economic system and redistribute as they see fit.

00:18:32.000 But if you're not... Now, to me, that seems like a very basic, rude issue.

00:18:35.000 If the entire case that you are making for more power is that bad things happen in life, give us all the power and we will fix all the bad things.

00:18:42.000 And by bad things, we mean differential consequences that stem, in many cases, from differential decision-making.

00:18:49.000 Understand that in a free market capitalist system, your decisions are generally rewarded or punished based on the utility of your action.

00:18:57.000 If you make a bad decision, you tend to be punished in the real world.

00:19:00.000 Reality does this.

00:19:02.000 But the entire basis of Democratic Party policy now is that if somebody does something smart and is rewarded, and then if somebody does something dumb and is not rewarded, this is in and of itself bad.

00:19:13.000 This is why they like to chalk everything up to luck, right?

00:19:14.000 This is the language they use with regard to wealth.

00:19:16.000 There's always the more fortunate and the less fortunate.

00:19:19.000 Well, I'm sorry, but Jeff Bezos isn't just quote unquote more fortunate.

00:19:22.000 If you look at his life story and you looked at his childhood, you'd say that guy is not super fortunate.

00:19:27.000 But he made many, many good decisions.

00:19:30.000 The complete disconnecting and the overt disconnecting between positive action and positive results is a goal of many people in politics.

00:19:38.000 They want to insulate you from your own decision making.

00:19:40.000 And that's comfortable for a lot of people because it means that if you fail, that's not your failure, that's society's failure.

00:19:47.000 So here is Kamala Harris suggesting that every injustice is linked with economic injustice.

00:19:52.000 So she says racial injustice is linked with economic injustice.

00:19:56.000 The notion, of course, being that if there is disparity in the wealth holdings between black and white in the United States, that is entirely due to current day discrimination.

00:20:04.000 Which is entirely false.

00:20:05.000 If you want to say that that is due in certain measure, that we have not yet really disclosed, that that is due in certain measure to historic injustices, that's inarguable.

00:20:16.000 That's not the argument that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are making.

00:20:18.000 The argument they're making is that any disparity between black and white wealth holdings today is because the system today, today, like right now, is racist.

00:20:26.000 And we have to completely redo the economic system to give them more power, to presumably redistribute along the lines of race. 0.53

00:20:32.000 Here's Kamala Harris pushing this. 1.00

00:20:34.000 Racial injustice today is inextricably linked to economic injustice, to the impact of the climate crisis, to the impact of COVID-19, and to the threats to our democracy.

00:20:56.000 And I believe then, knowing and seeing that, the path forward is clear.

00:21:04.000 We must put people to work in good union jobs.

00:21:10.000 Oh, weird.

00:21:11.000 So, like, you could completely disregard everything she said in the first part of that statement and just finish with the last part of the statement.

00:21:17.000 You should therefore do this thing I want you to do.

00:21:18.000 So she just throws all these buzzwords out there. 1.00

00:21:21.000 Climate justice.

00:21:22.000 And the environment.

00:21:23.000 And COVID-19.

00:21:24.000 And the fact that there aren't enough women around the world who can access tampons. 1.00

00:21:28.000 And the fact that there are wild injustices in the way that small children are being treated in Bangladesh.

00:21:33.000 Right?

00:21:33.000 Like, she's just throwing everything against the wall, and then at the very end, she's like, oh yeah, and because the world is filled with injustices and bad things, therefore, do this thing I want you to do.

00:21:42.000 Hey now, this is why when Barack Obama says things like this is fake outrage.

00:21:47.000 It's not fake outrage because your entire strategy is tied up in a generalized viewpoint that delivers and must deliver culture war.

00:21:55.000 The culture warriors here are on the left and it is part and parcel of an ideological agenda to rejigger all of humanity.

00:22:04.000 Understand there's a fundamental debate here about the nature of human beings.

00:22:09.000 So on the right you have people who believe that there is such a thing as a fundamental human nature.

00:22:12.000 That people are both capable of sin and people are capable of great things.

00:22:16.000 And that you have a free ability As much as humanly possible to make choices within that context that drive you toward success or toward failure.

00:22:23.000 You, as a human being, are given the ability to reason, you have a prefrontal cortex, and this allows you to make decisions and be held responsible by reality for those decisions.

00:22:31.000 And reality tends to punish bad decisions.

00:22:32.000 And then you have people who believe, very left-wing viewpoint, that human nature is entirely malleable, that reality counts for nothing, and that if you shift the systems in which we live, then that will transform humanity into something better.

00:22:45.000 That is the root messianic vision of the left.

00:22:50.000 It's something that Marx talks about.

00:22:51.000 He really never talks about human nature.

00:22:52.000 What he does talk about is human beings as sort of widgets who are shaped by the environment in which they live.

00:22:56.000 Now, there's a lot of self-contradiction there because the idea is also that people at the top levels get to reshape the systems in which we live, which means that they are free of the burdens of being widgets.

00:23:07.000 But if you put that aside, the basic idea here is give Kamala Harris and company enough power and they will reshape all of the systems and thus usher in a new era for humanity in which all of the bad things will disappear.

00:23:20.000 All of them.

00:23:20.000 Economic justice will happen and then everything that follows will just be wonderful.

00:23:24.000 There will be equity and equality and every other word beginning with E, including elephantitis.

00:23:29.000 All of those things will just happen all at once.

00:23:31.000 And this is being preached by this administration through and through.

00:23:34.000 This is not an irrelevant side battle.

00:23:35.000 This is the battle.

00:23:37.000 And all these little issues that we argue about on a day-by-day basis, whether it is CRT or whether it is transgender bathrooms, all these little issues are merely little blips on the surface of the underlying debate, which is very vast and very deep and really matters a lot.

00:23:52.000 So, this administration continues to foster the notion that any inequality in American life is due to inequity, is due to unjustness.

00:23:59.000 Merrick Garland.

00:24:01.000 Remember, this guy was supposed to be milquetoast.

00:24:02.000 He was supposed to be bland, Merrick Garland.

00:24:03.000 When he was picked as AG, this guy was a representative of the law.

00:24:06.000 Now he just targets parents who are complaining about critical race theory.

00:24:09.000 Merrick Garland gave a speech the other day in which he talked about the racial inequalities in American life in terms of, for example, the wealth gap.

00:24:17.000 Redlining contributed to the large racial wealth gap that exists in this country.

00:24:25.000 The practice made it extremely difficult for people of color to accumulate wealth through the purchase, refinancing, or repair of their homes.

00:24:36.000 That discrepancy in wealth is clearly reflected in current homeownership rates.

00:24:41.000 Today, a white family is 30% more likely to own a home than a black family.

00:24:48.000 This present-day gap in home ownership rates is larger than it was in 1960.

00:24:54.000 Okay, perhaps the reason that the black home ownership rate is larger than it was in 1960 is not due to additional racism in the system.

00:25:01.000 Maybe that is due to a giant welfare state that incentivizes bad behavior.

00:25:06.000 Maybe it's that.

00:25:07.000 In fact, so Glenn Lowry, who's an economist over at Brown University, he does an excellent podcast and he has conversations with other economists and he speaks very often with them about race and inequality and all of this.

00:25:18.000 So he writes this week.

00:25:20.000 In my recent discussion with historian David Kaiser, he noted the vast majority of racial wealth disparities between black and white Americans occurs among the top 10% of the income distribution, while black-white disparity in the bottom 50% are very, very small.

00:25:32.000 The way that you hear Merrick Garland talking, the idea is that all black people are 30% less likely than all white people to own houses.

00:25:38.000 That's not right.

00:25:39.000 Hey, what is being suggested here by the historian David Kaiser is that if you look at people in the bottom half of the income distribution, their economic lives look very similar.

00:25:48.000 It is only at the very top end where you have a wide discrepancy in terms of wealth ownership.

00:25:53.000 Moreover, says David Kaiser, between 1940 and 1980, black homeownership rates rose slightly faster than white homeownership rates.

00:26:01.000 Those numbers tend to deflate the narrative that redlining excluded blacks from the economic boom that followed the New Deal and World War II.

00:26:07.000 It also happens to be the fact that while redlining was undoubtedly racist and had a racial component, while that is true, by the late 1960s, by the 1970s, that was illegal under federal law.

00:26:19.000 So we've had two generations of that being illegal under federal law.

00:26:22.000 Not only that, it turns out the vast majority of people who are living in red-line districts, as pointed out by John McWhorter in the New York Times, again, these folks are not wild conservatives.

00:26:31.000 John McWhorter is a typical down-the-line Democrat when it comes to his voting habits.

00:26:36.000 When it comes to red-line districts, some 85% of people who are living in red-line districts were white, which suggests that a lot of those red-line districts had a lot to do with the income of those districts, and maybe something to do with race, but it wasn't entirely due to race.

00:26:52.000 According to that historian, David Kaiser, and I'm pointing this stuff out because, again, the idea is that any inequality that exists today is because the system today is bad.

00:27:01.000 Even, by the way, if you believe that it was only entirely because of redlining, that would not explain what you're supposed to do today.

00:27:07.000 Are you supposed to discriminate against people today in favor of discrimination in the past?

00:27:10.000 I mean, that's Ibram X. Kendi's solution.

00:27:13.000 According to David Kaiser, The black population was not left out of the economic gains generated by the New Deal, the Second World War, and the immediate post-war period.

00:27:21.000 It gained more rapidly during that period than it has since.

00:27:23.000 That tells me that progress depends a lot more on the general economic climate and the government's policy toward lower-income Americans than it does on the extent of racism, since legal racism was much worse in the earlier period than since 1980.

00:27:36.000 According to Samuel Cronin writing for Quillette, the wealth gap perfectly illustrates a problem with using statistical disparities to diagnose and address social issues.

00:27:44.000 An analysis by the People's Policy Project, which is a left-leaning institute, reflects just one of the problems with what Coleman Hughes has called the disparity fallacy by uncovering an element of the racial wealth gap that's gone unremarked upon in most mainstream discourse.

00:27:56.000 The gap between the wealthiest 10% of the white population and the wealthiest 10% of the black population accounts for 77.5% of the total wealth gap.

00:28:04.000 In other words, when you look at the average wealth gap, that is a misleading stat because basically what you're saying is that the wealthiest white Americans are a lot wealthier than the wealthiest black Americans.

00:28:14.000 But when you get below the wealthiest 10%, the disparities start to disappear.

00:28:18.000 Although the racial wealth gap exists to some degree across class lines, if we were to eliminate the disparity between the bottom 50% of blacks and whites in terms of wealth, a full 97% of the total gap would remain.

00:28:29.000 Only 3% of the racial wealth gap is explained by the disparity between the poorer half of each population, which is the part that we're focused on when you talk about, for example, Merrick Garland saying it's much easier for a white person to get a house than for a black person to get a house.

00:28:41.000 Hey, nobody is worried about whether Jeff Bezos has a bigger house than Kanye.

00:28:46.000 That is not the wealth gap that we are concerned about.

00:28:47.000 You're concerned, theoretically, about the wealth gap for the bottom 50%, which statistically is much, much more of a minor issue.

00:28:54.000 But you have to pretend that it's a much bigger issue in order to call for world-beating change.

00:29:00.000 And this is true across this administration.

00:29:02.000 Again, across this administration, everything, inevitably, is about the notion that inequality and inequity are exactly the same thing.

00:29:13.000 And your kids are being indoctrinated with this.

00:29:16.000 So UNC Chapel Hill is now giving out mandatory woke training. 0.97

00:29:21.000 According to Hot Air, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently held a mandatory training session for all Greek organizations on campus.

00:29:28.000 Carolina Review, the campus conservative newspaper, got leaked audio from the training and also spoke to people who attended.

00:29:34.000 Apparently, the person who was speaking here, whose name is Parle, started a presentation with an indigenous land recognition, after which hundreds of Greek attendees were advised they should make a habit of repeating the political catechism in their daily lives and taught how to do so.

00:29:49.000 After establishing her lecture was on stolen land, Parle asked students their feelings about the system.

00:29:53.000 Were they warm toward it, apathetic, or ready to dismantle it?

00:29:58.000 At this point, Parle started talking about the role of identity and the social constructs which define them, a subject which introduced the presentation and remained a focal point throughout.

00:30:08.000 She emphasized that identity is a primary factor in life experience, explaining that identity guides the way you navigate the world, and students were instructed to write their intersectional identities, like sex, and race, and sexual orientation, and body size, on a piece of paper.

00:30:23.000 And here's what it sounded like.

00:30:25.000 How many of you go to the grocery store and you need somebody to help you with the top shelf?

00:30:30.000 Okay, so we've got a good number of you.

00:30:32.000 That is a system of oppression.

00:30:35.000 It means that every grocery store, literally almost across the nation, was built for the average white person.

00:30:42.000 All you get is this living experience that I'm giving you.

00:30:48.000 Okay, I'm sorry this is insanity, but this again this goes back to the idea that any disparity is some form of she literally says in this presentation Okay, this is not... Now, because I'm discussing a woke training session at UNC Chapel Hill, this is what Barack Obama would call a culture war that is fake outrage.

00:31:12.000 Okay, except that it goes to the heart of left-wing ideology right now.

00:31:16.000 This lady is speaking to it.

00:31:18.000 She literally says that if you have to reach for the top shelf at a grocery store because you can't reach it, you have to ask somebody else to help, you have suffered oppression.

00:31:28.000 Right?

00:31:28.000 Every single person in the room, she says, has benefited from oppression and suffered from oppression because the world was built for the average.

00:31:35.000 Okay, so I just have a question.

00:31:36.000 Who else would it be built for?

00:31:38.000 What is her proposed solution?

00:31:40.000 Should we have...

00:31:42.000 Presumably, the height of the shelves, because it's built for the average person, should it be built for the lowest common denominator?

00:31:48.000 Presumably, that means that all the shelves at the grocery store should only be about three foot five high, and you'd have to lease twice the space at the grocery store in order to fit everything.

00:31:57.000 You'd have to have a much, much bigger store in order to be able to even lay out the goods.

00:32:02.000 So nobody has to take the horrifying step of asking a person who works at the store or a person walking down the aisle to reach something for them.

00:32:08.000 By the way, I'll just note here that actually, It creates a sort of communal comedy, the fact that people have to ask each other for help sometimes.

00:32:15.000 That's not the end of the world.

00:32:17.000 I was at Target the other day, and there was a lady there, and she'd lost her glasses, and she couldn't read the label on the bottom of a lamp that she wanted to buy, so she asked me for help.

00:32:24.000 And I read it for her, and we kind of smiled at each other, and we moved on.

00:32:28.000 That wasn't a bad thing, because she wasn't oppressed.

00:32:32.000 But the idea here, again, is that all structures of oppression are bad, and how are you going to dismantle them?

00:32:38.000 That's not a mild cultural issue.

00:32:40.000 It has ramifications for everything across all areas of American life.

00:32:44.000 This is how you end up with videos from BuzzFeed about how you have six separate genders, and if society doesn't take into account six separate genders, that's because society is oppressive.

00:32:53.000 When you get to the point where everybody's subjective identity is supposed to be accepted, celebrated, and built for by the society, Then you can't have a society at all because literally this stuff is subjective.

00:33:04.000 It changes on a moment's notice.

00:33:05.000 You have no objective way of verifying any of that.

00:33:08.000 You can't construct a society.

00:33:09.000 The point is the chaos.

00:33:11.000 The point is the confusion.

00:33:12.000 It is the same as the gobbledygook that is being spewed by this administration in justification of radical economic policy.

00:33:18.000 It is all part of the same deal.

00:33:20.000 Which is that there will be no objective reality to which we all answer.

00:33:25.000 That will just disappear into the ether.

00:33:26.000 And any objective reality is a form of oppression.

00:33:29.000 It is a form of oppression if somebody doesn't accept that you call yourself a unicorn.

00:33:34.000 It is a form of oppression if you have to reach for the top shelf.

00:33:37.000 And it is a form of oppression if there's one group of people in the United States that is poorer than another group of people in the United States.

00:33:42.000 And you don't even have to look at whether there is a disparity between how people in one group Act in the aggregate, not individually, in the aggregate.

00:33:49.000 You don't have to look at the historic circumstances.

00:33:52.000 And you don't have to look at whether the corrective to that might be more of a problem than the actual problem itself.

00:33:58.000 In terms of gender, it manifests as just complete gobbledygook, sheer insanity. 1.00

00:34:02.000 Here we go from this insane BuzzFeed video. 0.75

00:34:05.000 What is your gender?

00:34:06.000 I identify female.

00:34:08.000 I am male.

00:34:10.000 For me, there's a little bit of a difference between gender and gender expression.

00:34:15.000 I would say my... Is it fem? 0.94

00:34:18.000 I can't say the word fem.

00:34:19.000 My gender is feminine.

00:34:21.000 I was born anatomically, scientifically.

00:34:25.000 Doctors were like, that's a girl.

00:34:26.000 But as I grew up, I was like, that doesn't really work for me.

00:34:29.000 I feel like I'm a more masculine person.

00:34:32.000 It's a matter of education, right?

00:34:45.000 It's a matter of indoctrination.

00:34:47.000 I'm just uneducated. 0.83

00:34:48.000 None of these people know what they're talking about because it's complete nonsense.

00:34:50.000 But the idea is that if all of reality is not reconstructed to fit their particular identity, then society itself is oppressive.

00:34:57.000 You cannot have a society this way.

00:34:59.000 What you can have is sheer tyranny.

00:35:02.000 You can have people who are empowered to fix every problem in American life and protect you from the vicissitudes of an actual real world that is going to bite back against you. 1.00

00:35:12.000 See, this is the stupidity of all this. 0.97

00:35:13.000 We can play this navel-gazing game where we pretend that all of these systems of reality no longer apply because we've become so wealthy and so fat. 1.00

00:35:20.000 Maybe we can do that.

00:35:21.000 But eventually, reality will win because reality is still out there.

00:35:24.000 Reality is still reality. 1.00

00:35:26.000 If we decide that just as a society we're going to embrace stupidity, societies that don't embrace stupidity are going to benefit and flourish in the reality that exists. 1.00

00:35:34.000 And those ones will overtake us. 1.00

00:35:36.000 People who deny reality lose.

00:35:36.000 It is that simple.

00:35:38.000 Societies that deny reality lose. 0.98

00:35:41.000 I root for reality because I think that reality always wins anyway.

00:35:44.000 It's like rooting for the Yankees.

00:35:45.000 Eventually they're always going to win.

00:35:47.000 We'll get to the economic plans of this administration, which again are tied in very heavily to this underlying ideological remolding and reshaping of humanity in just one second.

00:35:57.000 First, Let's talk about the fact that your gas prices right now are just out of control.

00:36:01.000 Out of control.

00:36:02.000 Somebody showed me the gas price in California yesterday.

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00:37:05.000 Alrighty, folks, Disney did it again.

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00:37:10.000 As you may have heard last week, the Entertainment Goliath fired Alison Williams, essentially.

00:37:15.000 They forced her to resign because she wasn't going to vaccinate. 0.99

00:37:18.000 And they have a vaccine mandate over there.

00:37:19.000 She announced her resignation.

00:37:20.000 Her decision did not go unnoticed, specifically by us.

00:37:23.000 She said that she had already had COVID.

00:37:26.000 She wanted to get pregnant. 1.00

00:37:27.000 She was concerned about the vaccine.

00:37:28.000 She didn't want to get the vax.

00:37:29.000 And so she left because she still believes in freedom to choose whether you're going to inject yourself with a vaccine to prevent a disease that has a very low chance of killing you.

00:37:39.000 We at Daily Wire are very much against these vaccine mandates.

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00:38:54.000 Alrighty, so what is all of this wokeness and radicalism in service to?

00:39:02.000 Control.

00:39:03.000 It's in service to more economic control.

00:39:06.000 Now, what's amazing about the economic control that's currently being leveraged by the Biden administration is that it is resulting in bad things, like, right away.

00:39:13.000 If you go back and listen to my podcast at the beginning of the year, before Biden took office, I said that Biden was going to take office, and my prediction was he was going to have a solid two years of economic growth.

00:39:20.000 Like, really, really good economic growth, because all he had to do was sit there and be a tree stump.

00:39:25.000 And he was actually qualified for that, right?

00:39:27.000 He's barely alive.

00:39:28.000 He maybe performs basic photosynthesis functions at this point, but that's pretty much it.

00:39:33.000 So all he had to do was sit there and drink Ensure through a straw and watch Matlock for two years, and the economy was going to grow because we're going to come out of the pandemic.

00:39:40.000 Everybody was going to go back to work, and that was going to be that.

00:39:42.000 Instead, he decided, no, no, no, we need to blow out the spending.

00:39:45.000 We need to freak everybody out about COVID for no apparent reason at this point.

00:39:49.000 We're just going to freak everybody out.

00:39:51.000 And the predictable results have been bad.

00:39:53.000 And so now you have the amazing spectacle of this administration actively talking down expectations.

00:40:00.000 Actively telling you, you need to expect less.

00:40:02.000 Expect less.

00:40:03.000 By the way, there's always a great dating strategy.

00:40:05.000 On a first date, you should always tell the person you're dating to expect less.

00:40:07.000 Now, politics is a constant date, right?

00:40:09.000 Because no one ever really gets married in politics.

00:40:12.000 At the very end, you have to decide, you know, whether you're going to vote for somebody or not.

00:40:15.000 But then they have to run for re-election.

00:40:18.000 So, you know, it is a bad date strategy.

00:40:19.000 You go on the first date and you're like, you know what?

00:40:21.000 I'm just going to tell you, I may look good right now, but you really got to have set your expectations low, like really lower those expectations.

00:40:29.000 That would be a good indicator that you need to get up and run from the room. 0.98

00:40:32.000 But that's exactly what this administration is now doing because their policies suck. 0.97

00:40:35.000 Here is Jen Psaki saying from the perch at the White House that we need to expect less from Joe Biden on gas prices. 0.97

00:40:41.000 It turns out this is their line across pretty much everything now.

00:40:44.000 I think the president, as I said earlier, was quite candid last night, as the American people should express from him, expect from him and from any president.

00:40:52.000 And there are limitations to what any president can do as it relates to gas prices.

00:40:57.000 Here's what we have been doing.

00:40:58.000 As we've said for some time, we are engaging broadly with OPEC on our concerns at a range of levels.

00:41:05.000 And that is something we will continue to do.

00:41:07.000 Lower your expectations.

00:41:10.000 Vox has an entire piece today titled It's time for Americans to buy less stuff.

00:41:17.000 And this is going to be good for you.

00:41:18.000 According to Terry Nguyen, who's writing for Vox, it's going to be good for you.

00:41:21.000 It'll make your life better.

00:41:22.000 Quote, the alternative isn't a moral neutral.

00:41:25.000 Must we continue to drown in our unlimited and unfettered need for more stuff?

00:41:29.000 Or could we start buying less?

00:41:32.000 We should just stop.

00:41:33.000 This would be good for you.

00:41:34.000 You understand.

00:41:34.000 You always thought that having the ability to buy what you want and having it delivered on time was a good thing.

00:41:39.000 Wrong you are.

00:41:40.000 It turns out we should reframe the conversation around sustainable living.

00:41:44.000 Turns out, you should be happy with less.

00:41:46.000 Your life is better with less.

00:41:48.000 Your life getting materially worse is better for you spiritually.

00:41:51.000 According to Daniel Fisher, assistant professor at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, people often assume they're adopting a lower quality of life by owning and buying less.

00:42:01.000 We need to flip this narrative around, he says, and emphasize how sustainability allows you to have a better quality of life.

00:42:05.000 It's not about renunciation, but choice.

00:42:08.000 In a consumer society, he says, our base impulse is to desire material goods that satisfy our needs.

00:42:13.000 People have fundamental needs, food, shelter, safety, and more advanced, self-actualized wants.

00:42:17.000 Most people aren't aware of how to discern those motivations.

00:42:20.000 They buy because they feel like it.

00:42:22.000 Fisher believes people can be trained to break out of this cycle of consumption.

00:42:26.000 Okay, so understand they're not making this as like a spiritual religious claim that we should cling to the spiritual and eternal, right?

00:42:35.000 This is not their claim.

00:42:36.000 Their claim is instead that you should be happy now that you can't buy like actually the Biden administration is doing you a favor by making you not be able to buy stuff for Christmas.

00:42:46.000 That's actually very exciting stuff.

00:42:48.000 It's really, it's great, it's great.

00:42:51.000 So what exactly are the Democrats now doing with regard to policy?

00:42:55.000 They're trying to blow out the spending and make it worse.

00:42:57.000 If you want inflation to get worse, what you do is put more money in people's pockets without a consummate rise in the supply of goods.

00:43:05.000 As Milton Friedman famously explained, inflation is anywhere and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

00:43:11.000 Putting more money in people's pockets when there are not enough goods to go around creates inflation.

00:43:16.000 So Janet Yellen, who is now the Treasury Secretary, and again, I'm not upset that Janet Yellen's the Treasury Secretary.

00:43:21.000 I'm upset she was ever the head of the Fed.

00:43:23.000 It just demonstrates how quote-unquote nonpartisan the Fed is, that a person can shift directly from being Federal Reserve Chair to being Treasury Secretary under the succeeding administration without even a gap in policymaking.

00:43:34.000 So Janet Yellen was asked by Jake Tapper why Joe Biden's throw-money-at-everybody policies won't superheat inflation.

00:43:41.000 Suffice it to say, she doesn't do great with those. 0.99

00:43:43.000 If the American economy is already overheating, it's spending even more money potentially pouring gas on the inflation fire.

00:43:54.000 Well, the additional spending in the infrastructure package and in the Build Back Better package, both of those are spending over 10 years, not in a single year.

00:44:08.000 The rescue package did involve substantial spending this year.

00:44:17.000 Let's remember that a benefit of that package is that unemployment has declined to 4.8%.

00:44:28.000 She's lying to you.

00:44:29.000 The idea is that without the ridiculous spending package passed on purely partisan lines earlier this year, unemployment wouldn't have declined.

00:44:36.000 No, I'm pretty sure unemployment would have declined given the fact that people had gotten the vaccine and were going back to work.

00:44:41.000 You know how I know that?

00:44:42.000 Because unemployment never even spiked in many red states where people sort of treated COVID more casually.

00:44:47.000 So Janet Yellen is just lying to you now, right? 0.50

00:44:47.000 So there's that. 0.50

00:44:50.000 That if they blow out the spending, it's not going to create more inflation.

00:44:53.000 And so some people are rightly asking, okay, so you have a few problems.

00:44:56.000 One, you want to spend a lot of money.

00:44:57.000 You want to blow out the debt.

00:44:59.000 You also would like to restructure how work is done and you're causing people to drop out of the workforce.

00:45:04.000 So a lot of problems.

00:45:05.000 So the Democrat solution is yet again something else that they have pursued.

00:45:09.000 It's amazing how every Democratic problem has a solution that drives you further along this path.

00:45:13.000 Everything is more cowbell.

00:45:14.000 It's all SNL, Will Ferrell, more cowbell.

00:45:18.000 You got a problem with inflation?

00:45:19.000 Throw more money at it.

00:45:20.000 The problem with the monetary inflation is getting worse.

00:45:24.000 Well, we could throw more money at it.

00:45:26.000 And then what if we don't have enough money?

00:45:27.000 Well, what we could do is we could take other people's money, which is what we wanted to do in the first place.

00:45:32.000 It's not a bug of the system, it's a feature.

00:45:33.000 So now this administration is claiming that they want to redo how taxes are done.

00:45:38.000 Okay, particularly for people who are very wealthy.

00:45:41.000 So, just understand, anytime people on the left say that a tax policy is going to begin with the wealthy, it never ends with the wealthy.

00:45:47.000 Remember, the original income tax proposed by Woodrow Wilson was something like 8% on people in the top 1%.

00:45:54.000 And now, it's a huge percentage on everybody.

00:45:57.000 So it's pretend nonsense, or you institute a tax, and it just applies to these five people, and it's gonna stay that way forever.

00:46:03.000 It never stays that way.

00:46:04.000 Because as soon as the government gets its foot in the door, it just wedges its shoulder, and soon enough, it's in your house, eating all the eggs out of your fridge.

00:46:10.000 Okay, so here is Nancy Pelosi promoting a wealth tax. 1.00

00:46:15.000 Now, it is not clear at all whether this is constitutional.

00:46:18.000 A tax on actual unrealized gain, federally speaking, Very questionable whether this is constitutional given the fact we had to pass an amendment to even allow the income tax.

00:46:27.000 But here's Nancy Pelosi now promoting the idea of a wealth tax. 1.00

00:46:30.000 We probably will have a wealth tax.

00:46:32.000 Yeah.

00:46:33.000 But again, it's only 10% of what we need.

00:46:36.000 And the other things are more like $800 billion versus $200 billion.

00:46:41.000 But we can use them another time if they don't go away as a source of revenue to pay for how we go forward.

00:46:49.000 And we want to pay for what we do.

00:46:50.000 But you said you probably will have a wealth tax.

00:46:52.000 Well, we haven't seen the bill yet.

00:46:55.000 And you said also that it's being written right now and you're going to send it to the... This is a Senate proposal and they supposedly are writing it today.

00:47:03.000 Tomorrow they would introduce it and then the Joint Tax Committee is the one that says this is how much you get from that.

00:47:12.000 Okay, Janet Yellen also wants a wealth tax. 1.00

00:47:15.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:47:15.000 They all understand that the predictable effect of taxing unrealized capital gains is that people are going to invest less.

00:47:20.000 Everybody knows this.

00:47:21.000 Here's Janet Yellen trying to push it anyway. 1.00

00:47:24.000 I think what's under consideration is a proposal that Senator Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee have been looking at that would impose a tax on unrealized capital gains.

00:47:42.000 on liquid assets held by extremely wealthy individuals, billionaires.

00:47:49.000 I wouldn't call that a wealth tax, but it would help get at capital gains which are an extraordinarily large part of the incomes of the wealthiest individuals.

00:48:04.000 Unrealized capital gains are not a part.

00:48:07.000 If you don't realize a capital gain, you're not receiving that as income.

00:48:11.000 If I don't sell stock, I didn't receive the upside of the stock.

00:48:14.000 Unless I also get to write off unrealized losses as tax losses.

00:48:18.000 But you don't.

00:48:19.000 It only works in one direction.

00:48:21.000 So this is an insane proposal.

00:48:22.000 It is a crazy proposal.

00:48:23.000 So the Democrats are now proposing that for the people who are the wealthiest in our society, as adjudicated by some sort of valuation of their stock portfolio, publicly traded, maybe not publicly traded, we really have no idea.

00:48:36.000 We are now going to force them to pay taxes on unrealized gains on their stocks.

00:48:41.000 So you own stock probably, right?

00:48:42.000 Over 50% of Americans do.

00:48:44.000 Every year, you get your 401k report.

00:48:47.000 Let's say that your 401k went up 10% this year.

00:48:50.000 It is conceptually speaking.

00:48:51.000 Your 401k went up 10%.

00:48:53.000 You didn't sell any of that stock.

00:48:54.000 Did you realize any of that gain?

00:48:56.000 Of course not.

00:48:56.000 That's unrealized gain.

00:48:58.000 They're now proposing that for people who are very wealthy, that they be taxed on unrealized gain, on stock they did not sell.

00:49:06.000 That's nuts.

00:49:07.000 That's nuts.

00:49:07.000 First of all, you'd have to figure out exactly how the valuation is done because a huge number of quote unquote billionaires Our people are not in a publicly traded stock.

00:49:16.000 And there are a lot of billionaires across the United States who own companies valuated at over a billion dollars.

00:49:20.000 But the stock is not fluid.

00:49:22.000 It is not liquid.

00:49:23.000 It is not fungible.

00:49:24.000 Or you can't take that stock and just sell it on the open market.

00:49:28.000 Or if you did sell it to sort of the highest available bidder, you might undercut the price of the stock.

00:49:32.000 According to the Democrats, quote, a new annual tax on billionaires' unrealized capital gains is likely to be included to help pay for the vast social policy and climate package lawmakers hope to finalize this week, according to senior Democrats, Wall Street Journal reporting.

00:49:44.000 The proposal under consideration from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, would impose an annual tax on unrealized capital gains on liquid assets held by billionaires.

00:49:55.000 And then you heard Yellen say that she wouldn't call that a wealth tax, but it is a wealth tax.

00:49:59.000 Groups such as the National Taxpayers Union have objected to the tax on billionaires on realized capital gains, saying it would add more bureaucracy to the tax system and impose new burdens on business investors.

00:50:08.000 The tax is expected to affect people with a billion dollars in assets or a hundred million dollars in income for three consecutive years, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

00:50:17.000 The idea for which Biden recently expressed support after excluding it from his original campaign plans would affect a narrower group of people than the capital gains changes that have already flopped among congressional Democrats.

00:50:28.000 The emerging Wyden proposal would be significantly more progressive.

00:50:30.000 It would raise its money from the very, very rich, likely fewer than a thousand taxpayers instead of the merely rich.

00:50:36.000 But House Democrats are questioning whether it makes sense to add a relatively untested idea at this late stage.

00:50:42.000 The proposal under consideration would focus on unrealized gains and it is expected to include a one-time tax on gains to date, which means a tech company founder with $5 billion, almost all of which is unrealized gains, would be taxed more heavily than someone who just inherited $5 billion and has no unrealized gains under the tax codes.

00:51:02.000 I think it's likely I'm pushing hard, said Elizabeth Warren.

00:51:05.000 So just to understand this, this means that if you founded a company and your company is valuated at, say, $2 billion, They're not making clear, by the way, what percentage they're going to try and grab every year.

00:51:16.000 But let's assume it's 2%.

00:51:18.000 So let's say that you are talking about a $2 billion valuation, and you are supposed to pay 2% of that each year, of the $2 billion.

00:51:29.000 Well, 2% of $2 billion is about $40 million.

00:51:30.000 Okay, so $40 million.

00:51:35.000 Now, let's say that that valuation is not publicly traded stock.

00:51:40.000 Let's say that your $2 billion company is actually a company that does, say, $200 million a year in business.

00:51:45.000 It's got like a 10 times gross to do some sort of valuation.

00:51:49.000 And let us say that you've been paying yourself a salary every year of maybe $5 million, right?

00:51:53.000 You're paying yourself a nice salary, not like one of these crazy $50 million salaries, but like $5 million a year because you want your company to grow.

00:52:01.000 So let's say you make $5 million a year.

00:52:04.000 And your company, and you own 100% of your company, your company is worth $2 billion now.

00:52:08.000 If you sell the stock, then you've realized the gain and you have to pay capital gains, right?

00:52:12.000 That's the current law.

00:52:13.000 But you didn't sell the stock.

00:52:14.000 And the reason you didn't sell the stock is because you wanted to stay in control of your company.

00:52:17.000 Also, you realized that if you sold the stock, you would lower the value of your company because it would look like you wanted to get out of your own company.

00:52:23.000 This actually happened to Mark Zuckerberg a few years ago.

00:52:25.000 He tried to sell a billion dollars worth of his stock in Facebook and it tanked the stock because people thought that he was trying to sell out of his own company.

00:52:30.000 Okay, so.

00:52:33.000 Let's say that you've made five million bucks a year.

00:52:35.000 Let's say you built this company over the course of the last three years.

00:52:37.000 So you got $15 million in the bank.

00:52:39.000 Now, let's put aside expenses.

00:52:40.000 It's five million bucks post-tax.

00:52:41.000 You have 15 million bucks in the bank.

00:52:43.000 And now, they want to tax you, let's say, 2% on the $2 billion capital gains that you have not realized from your company.

00:52:52.000 Your total liquid wealth in the bank right now is 15 million bucks, plus stock that you can't really sell.

00:53:00.000 And they're going to tax you at $40 million a year.

00:53:03.000 That would be the simple math there.

00:53:05.000 That's crazy.

00:53:07.000 And again, it's not going to stop here.

00:53:09.000 Once they start saying they're going to tax unrealized gain, you understand that what this is going to do is lead to a radical disincentive from investment.

00:53:16.000 Instead, you're going to see people find places to put their money that is not in this sort of situation.

00:53:22.000 Or they're going to find tax loopholes.

00:53:24.000 They're going to find ways to convey that money to a trust, for example, put their stock in a trust.

00:53:28.000 They don't realize the gain.

00:53:29.000 The trust realizes the gain.

00:53:30.000 There are ways that people can work around this sort of stuff.

00:53:32.000 So it simply is not going to come up with the same sort of numbers Democrats think it will.

00:53:36.000 They tried this in France.

00:53:37.000 People found ways around it and started incorporating their companies offshore and moving offshore to avoid the wealth tax.

00:53:44.000 But for the Democrats, it's not about anything except for the concept.

00:53:47.000 They want the concept.

00:53:48.000 The reason that Elizabeth Warren is fighting hard here is not because she gives a damn about deficits. 0.95

00:53:51.000 Elizabeth Warren is a proponent of modern monetary theory, which suggests that deficits literally do not matter.

00:53:57.000 She says this.

00:53:58.000 She says it openly.

00:53:59.000 Debt does not matter.

00:54:00.000 Deficits do not matter.

00:54:01.000 Nobody's ever going to call it in.

00:54:02.000 We're still the best economic bet on the block.

00:54:04.000 We can spend as much money as we want.

00:54:05.000 So understand that when she wants a wealth tax, it is not because she cares about filling in the gap created by Democrats' budgeting proposals.

00:54:13.000 She wants a wealth tax because she wants to punish people for investment. 1.00

00:54:16.000 She wants a wealth tax because she would love to see all investment taxed at a higher rate for redistributive purposes. 1.00

00:54:24.000 That is the goal here.

00:54:26.000 And then you have the media that is pushing this stuff like incredibly hard because they also would like to restructure work.

00:54:34.000 So just in the sort of modern moral parlance of anti-capitalism in the media, the basic idea is that if you invest and you create a company that's worth $2 billion, you should be taxed on the unrealized gains from that company.

00:54:44.000 But if you're a teacher who dumps out of school, you're a hero.

00:54:48.000 That is the way the media treat you right now.

00:54:50.000 Article in the Washington Post today, quote, why so many teachers are thinking of quitting.

00:54:55.000 Seven educators on how the pandemic drove them to finally say enough is enough.

00:54:59.000 Now let's face it.

00:55:01.000 Teachers, who work particularly with public sector unions in states like California and New York, have a pretty sweet gig.

00:55:06.000 You can almost never be fired.

00:55:08.000 You have three months of the year off.

00:55:12.000 Your salary and benefits are pretty good.

00:55:15.000 But the idea here...

00:55:17.000 The teachers are the great victims.

00:55:18.000 Now, it may be that kids didn't get educated for over a year here because the teachers' unions decided to basically leave your kid adrift in public school.

00:55:25.000 But it's the teachers who are the heroes.

00:55:26.000 You have an entire left-wing infrastructure that has decided if you stay home from work, you're a hero.

00:55:31.000 If you build a company, you're a villain.

00:55:34.000 That's the essential point here.

00:55:36.000 According to the Washington Post, teachers are dropping out at extraordinary rates.

00:55:42.000 Whoever said those who can't do teach obviously never experienced the modern educational system where teachers do everything.

00:55:48.000 They're more than the people who give math and science lessons.

00:55:50.000 They might find themselves makeshift social workers to troubled students, surrogate parents checking if children eat, security guards breaking up fights, and funders of the most basic of classroom supplies from their own shallow pockets.

00:56:00.000 Now listen, none of this is to deride what teachers do.

00:56:03.000 Teachers do something quite important.

00:56:05.000 But to pretend it's somehow heroic to walk away from that is insane.

00:56:09.000 And yet that's exactly what this article is about.

00:56:11.000 Teachers aren't the only American workers taking part in the so-called Great Resignation, which has seen many people in many industries leave their jobs since the start of the pandemic to find better pay and satisfaction.

00:56:21.000 But the sheer numbers of those contemplating an exit from the classroom raises the question, what's happening and why?

00:56:27.000 This Washington Post columnist says they interviewed seven public school teachers from around the country who have left their jobs since March 2020 to understand what they faced.

00:56:34.000 The overarching sentiment, quote, Teaching was already too much, and with the increased stresses and demands introduced by the pandemic, they'd simply had enough.

00:56:43.000 Their specific reasons for resigning vary.

00:56:45.000 Fear for their health and that of their family.

00:56:47.000 Again, first of all, fear of your health as a teacher is no greater than fear of your, it should be less, than fear for your health in any other endeavor in which you have to be in a room with humans.

00:56:56.000 Kids have been transmitting this at not the same rates as adults.

00:56:59.000 Juggling work and parenting from the literal confines of their home.

00:57:02.000 So then why are they quitting?

00:57:04.000 Now they're just going to be at home.

00:57:06.000 Presumably they'll have to find other work, you would think.

00:57:08.000 Existing frustrations with an education system that never quite seemed to meet the needs of students and staff.

00:57:12.000 Some struggled with remote learning.

00:57:13.000 Others didn't want to go back to the classroom.

00:57:16.000 Whatever their particular motivations, these former teachers were ready to move on.

00:57:20.000 While many of them have been isolated from their peers over the past year and a half, they are now united by the bold act of walking away.

00:57:26.000 Bold!

00:57:27.000 It's bold to quit your job now.

00:57:30.000 There's an agenda here.

00:57:31.000 And the agenda is very clear.

00:57:33.000 It is bold to walk away from your job.

00:57:35.000 It is bold to rely on the taxpayers.

00:57:38.000 That is bold.

00:57:39.000 And if you earn, if you build companies for whom hundreds of people will work, thousands of people, you're bad and we should tax you.

00:57:39.000 That makes you better.

00:57:47.000 And we should punish you.

00:57:49.000 Joe Manchin apparently is now warming up to the possibility of a wealth tax to pay for this huge bill.

00:57:54.000 I don't know if Joe Manchin just wants to not win his Senate seat in West Virginia or what.

00:57:58.000 I don't know what Joe Manchin's incentive structure here is to pass Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan. 0.98

00:58:03.000 By the way, if Terry McAuliffe narrowly beats Glenn Youngkin by like a point or two, or if he loses, and then Joe Manchin votes for Build Back Better, he's a political fool. 0.84

00:58:10.000 Because those states, they're right next door to each other. 0.88

00:58:13.000 West Virginia is the reddest state in America.

00:58:15.000 He will not have a Senate seat if he continues along these lines.

00:58:20.000 Manchin apparently is also thinking about a corporate tax hike as well.

00:58:25.000 According to the Associated Press, pivotal Democratic Senator Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden's scale-back social services and climate change package.

00:58:37.000 They're not talking about a $1.75 trillion package.

00:58:40.000 That's within a range that could still climb considerably higher, apparently.

00:58:44.000 And again, remember that all the numbers they're throwing around are just a lie.

00:58:47.000 The numbers that they are throwing around are false because they're using false sunsets to pretend that these programs are not going to be re-upped by Democrats.

00:58:53.000 They're kicking in some programs years down the road so that they extend the 10-year timetable to 15, 20 years for some of the programs.

00:59:01.000 So apparently the talk of $3.5 trillion is out the window, but apparently Manchin is now considering the possibility of this wealth tax and so is Sinema.

00:59:11.000 So, as much as we would hope for the moderation of these particular characters, apparently that moderation is not going to extend to not punishing people for the great sin of creating a business.

00:59:20.000 Okay, meanwhile, the other big story of the day, it is amazing.

00:59:24.000 I will say America's love affair with dogs is pretty astonishing.

00:59:27.000 The way that it works in the United States is that the Taliban The Taliban kill a bunch of American soldiers and behead a bunch of people and take over an entire country and Americans are like mildly upset about that or pretty upset about that.

00:59:40.000 If we leave the dogs behind, that's a major issue, okay?

00:59:43.000 In similar ways, so Anthony Fauci lied about gain-of-function research.

00:59:49.000 He defined gain-of-function research as gain-of-function within an animal, right?

00:59:53.000 Not gain-of-function meaning a bat virus is now transmissible among humans.

00:59:56.000 He says that's not gain-of-function.

00:59:58.000 Then there was a letter that just came out From EcoHealth Alliance admitting that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was making bat viruses transmissible to humans by testing it in mice.

01:00:09.000 And so it turns out they were lying the whole time.

01:00:10.000 So Anthony Fauci is out there defending himself on the charge that he lied in front of Congress.

01:00:16.000 I obviously totally disagree with Senator Paul.

01:00:19.000 He's absolutely incorrect.

01:00:21.000 Neither I nor Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, lied or misled about what we've done.

01:00:27.000 The framework under which we have guidance about the conduct of research that we fund, the funding at the Wuhan Institute, was to be able to determine what is out there in the environment in bat viruses in China.

01:00:43.000 Okay, so he's still fibbing about this.

01:00:45.000 People care a lot less about this than the fact that he was experimenting on puppies.

01:00:49.000 Now, isn't that a Bond villain twist?

01:00:50.000 It turns out that the guy who is funding bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research And this is not to suggest that Fauci funded the creation of COVID-19 specifically because the strains of virus that were being researched under the NIH grant were different.

01:01:06.000 But the guy who was funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Money is Fungible, the guy who's done a horrible job throughout this pandemic while trying to control all of our lives, it turns out that also he had greenlit experimentation on puppies.

01:01:19.000 Little too on-the-nose.

01:01:20.000 The writing this year is really on-the-nose.

01:01:21.000 I gotta say, this year, so we're in season, what, six now of Trump?

01:01:25.000 And the writing has gotten progressively worse, like most series.

01:01:28.000 Once you get past season three, the writing really starts to collapse.

01:01:31.000 And the writing this season has just been really on-the-nose.

01:01:34.000 According to Yahoo News, Dr. Fauci is facing a demand from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to divulge information regarding the alleged use of an experimental drug on puppies.

01:01:44.000 Democratic and Republican lawmakers sent a letter Friday to Joe Biden and the NIAID requesting they share information regarding the alleged infection of 44 beagle puppies with parasites in order to test an experimental drug on them, according to The Hill.

01:01:57.000 The letter, written by Republican South Carolina Representative Nancy Mason and 23 other lawmakers, says, quote, We write with grave concerns about reports of costly, cruel, and unnecessary taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs commissioned by the NIAID.

01:02:11.000 Apparently, cordectomies were performed on six to eight-month-old dogs.

01:02:16.000 Apparently, this is a devocalization.

01:02:18.000 It involves splitting a dog's vocal cords in order to prevent them from barking, howling, or crying.

01:02:24.000 It's opposed by the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Animal Hospital Association.

01:02:30.000 And apparently, they're requesting answers on how many drugs have been performed on dogs since the beginning of 2018.

01:02:39.000 The original report is slightly more graphic.

01:02:42.000 Apparently, the parasites with which they were infected were really, like, very, very unpleasant.

01:02:49.000 Apparently, they're characterized as cruel puppy experiments.

01:02:53.000 According to the White Coat Waste, they said, quote, our investigators show that Fauci's NIH division shipped part of $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sandflies so that the insects could eat them alive. They also locked beagles alone in cages in the desert overnight for nine consecutive nights to use them as bait to attract infectious sandflies.

01:03:17.000 So basically, they were reenacting the Nicolas Cage scene from Wicker Man.

01:03:24.000 And like Locking the beagle's head in cages.

01:03:28.000 Which is just horrifying with NIH funding.

01:03:32.000 It will be kind of amazing if what brings Anthony Fauci down is that he was mean to dogs, not, you know, the 4 million dead people across the world thanks to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and also not his complete failures during the pandemic.

01:03:44.000 But Americans do love their dogs.

01:03:46.000 That is for sure.

01:03:48.000 Meanwhile, on the COVID front, I will admit that the Bond villains are now coming out of the woodwork.

01:03:53.000 So the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who is getting all sorts of plaudits for locking down her entire country, which is basically... What is the population of New Zealand?

01:04:06.000 The New Zealand population is something like 5 million.

01:04:10.000 And like a couple million hobbits and some sheep.

01:04:13.000 So she locked down her entire country. 0.68

01:04:14.000 It was an island.

01:04:15.000 They didn't get a big outbreak.

01:04:16.000 And she was celebrated for this because as it turns out, when you're an island with five million people, a couple million hobbits and sheep, it's a lot easier to lock down.

01:04:23.000 And then she didn't vaccinate anybody.

01:04:25.000 And then there was an outbreak there anyway.

01:04:26.000 So now they have vaccine passports over there that they're really pushing.

01:04:29.000 And she just admits straight up that she's trying to create two classes of citizens. 0.95

01:04:33.000 So you basically said this is going to be like, almost like, you probably don't see it like this, the two different classes of people if you're vaccinated or if you're unvaccinated, you have all these rights if you are vaccinated. That is what it is. So yep. Yep. Yep.

01:04:48.000 And she's smiling while she says yep.

01:04:50.000 If you're vaccinated, you have all these rights.

01:04:51.000 If you're unvaccinated, you don't have any rights. 0.60

01:04:53.000 Man, when they say the quiet part out loud and they celebrate it.

01:04:56.000 It just demonstrates that if you have populations that are basically willing to concede to anything the so-called experts tell them, they will do anything to you.

01:05:05.000 They will do anything to you.

01:05:07.000 So long as you decide to give up liberty in favor of a little temporary safety, things tend not to work out particularly well.

01:05:16.000 Especially when it turns out that your experts are just lying to you.

01:05:19.000 Which they are.

01:05:19.000 I mean, it is amazing.

01:05:21.000 Every time the experts are asked about why they got things wrong, they just have no good answer.

01:05:24.000 Rochelle Walensky over at the CDC was asked over the weekend about the simple fact that everybody from Anthony Fauci to Rochelle Walensky to everybody else were like, we can't have stadiums full of people.

01:05:33.000 Stadiums full of people are bad.

01:05:34.000 And we've had stadiums full of people for months at this point.

01:05:36.000 No major outbreaks at any of the stadiums.

01:05:38.000 Walensky was asked about it and she still won't back off the idea that it's a really bad thing.

01:05:42.000 What does it tell you that there have not been spikes in most of these communities when you have people crowded into football or baseball stadiums?

01:05:52.000 We would still encourage people who are unvaccinated to wear a mask in those situations, but given that these games are outdoors, that tends to be a much safer environment.

01:06:02.000 Hmm.

01:06:03.000 Well, then maybe you should have said that, but you won't because it's about the control.

01:06:07.000 It's not about fixing anything.

01:06:08.000 As always, it all, as always, is about the tyranny and is about the control.

01:06:12.000 Alrighty.

01:06:13.000 We'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 25, 2021

The Wokes Rebel Against Reality | Ep. 1361

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