The Ben Shapiro Show - They Lied About Covid, And Young People Paid The Price | Ep. 1596

00:00:00.000 The Washington Post reveals that the Biden White House knew early that vaccines did not prevent COVID transmission.

00:00:05.000 School scores plummeted during the pandemic lockdowns and Joe Biden wanders into the woods again.

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00:00:39.000 Plus, experts are now saying that the increase of the interest rates from the Federal Reserve may not bring down inflation For literally years.

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00:02:36.000 Well, from the very outset of the COVID vaccine movement, there were a couple of rationales that were given for why people should take the COVID vaccines.

00:02:43.000 One was, apparently there was robust data on the lowering of the risk of death, particularly if you were old and vulnerable, from baseline COVID.

00:02:52.000 If you were young and you were healthy, then the idea that you were going to die from COVID was always a misnomer.

00:02:57.000 The chances of you dying from COVID at the age of 30, if you work out four times a week and you eat healthy and you don't have diabetes or something, Well, those chances were always extremely low, but if you were 65 plus and you were obese and you had diabetes, the chances of you dying from COVID were actually fairly high compared to things like the flu.

00:03:11.000 And then COVID lowered the rates of death on that.

00:03:14.000 So that was one reason to take the COVID vaccine was to protect yourself.

00:03:17.000 And that case was fairly strong for a large percentage of the population because we have a lot of elderly people in the United States and we have a lot of fat people in the United States and we have a lot of people with pre-existing conditions in the United States.

00:03:27.000 Then there was a secondary case that was made.

00:03:28.000 And that case was made largely on the basis of Pfizer claims and Moderna claims that it would lower the transmission rates to take the COVID vaccine.

00:03:35.000 And the way to bring an end to the pandemic was get the vaccine so your friends wouldn't get COVID.

00:03:39.000 Get the vaccine so your parents wouldn't get COVID.

00:03:42.000 And this was promoted very early on by Pfizer and Moderna, like back in November, December of 2020, before Joe Biden even took office.

00:03:50.000 And given that that was the data that was being released, that was the data that most of us in the media used, including in conservative media, because that was the available data.

00:03:58.000 I suggested that people should get the vaccine back in about December of 2020 for specifically this reason.

00:04:02.000 That was the available information at the time.

00:04:04.000 Now, there are people who are saying, ignore that information.

00:04:06.000 It's not true.

00:04:07.000 And maybe they turned out to be right, as it turns out.

00:04:10.000 Jumping to conclusions based on the absence of data is not the same thing as trying to follow the data until it turns.

00:04:16.000 In any case, it is now perfectly clear that we were lied to.

00:04:20.000 That we were lied to and we were lied to at a very high level from very, very early on by both the vaccine companies in terms of the Ability of the vaccine to prevent transmission.

00:04:30.000 And we were also lied to by our politicians who apparently knew better.

00:04:33.000 And they just kept lying.

00:04:35.000 And this is creating, and you want to know why there's mistrust in the institutions?

00:04:38.000 It would be because of this kind of stuff.

00:04:40.000 It's because you have experts who are constantly telling the platonic lie to people.

00:04:44.000 And people who want to have faith in the experts, because you have to use heuristics when it comes to the world, right?

00:04:49.000 You can't study down on every single issue.

00:04:51.000 When you go to the doctor, the reason you go to the doctor is because you didn't have time to go to medical school.

00:04:55.000 The reason you go to the plumber is because you didn't have time to learn to become a plumber.

00:04:59.000 The reason that you go to the mechanic is because you don't know how to take cars.

00:05:01.000 You have to rely on the expertise of another human being who has spent an enormous, inordinate amount of time studying an issue.

00:05:07.000 And then you have to sort of take that data and use it as best you can.

00:05:09.000 Now, it can be that you distrust the data.

00:05:11.000 It can be you don't trust the people who are giving you the data, but The big problem here is that when you have an entire institution like the scientific institutions or the government, and the government is issuing laws in order to get you to do a thing, and then it turns out that these things are lies, well, people's distrust in the institution is going to skyrocket, right?

00:05:30.000 Again, if you outsource your plumbing to a plumber and the plumber just keeps clogging the lines, at a certain point, you don't use that plumber anymore.

00:05:36.000 If you keep taking your car to the mechanic and the mechanic drops the engine out the bottom of the car, you're not going to go to that mechanic ever, ever again.

00:05:42.000 Well, the same thing is true when it comes to the lies that we were apparently told about the ability of the vaccines to block transmission.

00:05:48.000 So, for example, just a couple of weeks ago, there was a Pfizer executive who was being grilled by members of the ECR, the EU, the European Commission.

00:05:59.000 And this Pfizer executive basically said that they never even tested the COVID jab to determine whether it controlled transmission or not.

00:06:07.000 This is an astonishing acknowledgement.

00:06:10.000 She was asked a question and her name is Janine Small.

00:06:12.000 She was Pfizer's President of International Developed Markets.

00:06:15.000 She made this admission before the European Union Parliament.

00:06:17.000 She was asked by European Union Member of Parliament, Rob Bruce, if the company tested the mRNA vaccine on stopping transmission before they rolled it out.

00:06:24.000 And here is what she said.

00:06:27.000 The Pfizer-Covid vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market.

00:06:37.000 If not, please say it clearly.

00:06:40.000 If yes, are you willing to share the data with this committee?

00:06:45.000 And I really want a straight answer, yes or no, and I'm looking forward to it.

00:06:49.000 Thank you very much.

00:06:51.000 Regarding the question around, did we know about stopping humanisation before it's entered the market?

00:06:57.000 No!

00:06:59.000 These, you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market.

00:07:07.000 But you didn't move at the speed of science.

00:07:08.000 In fact, it turns out that you were basically lying to the American public and to the global public about the ability of these vaccines to stop transmission, which is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:07:18.000 Because again, huge swaths of people were pushing Vax mandates.

00:07:21.000 So I never pushed vaccine mandates.

00:07:22.000 My company actually sued to prevent the Biden Vax mandate from going forward in the United States with regard to OSHA.

00:07:28.000 But this was pushed on the basis that you would not infect mom and dad if you got the vax yourself.

00:07:34.000 You did it for the community.

00:07:35.000 You didn't just get the vax for yourself.

00:07:36.000 You got the vax for the community.

00:07:37.000 Well, if you got the vax for yourself, good for you.

00:07:40.000 I mean, that was your choice.

00:07:42.000 But again, the idea that was promoted, and it makes me really, really angry to be lied to by these people, especially because these people then continue to claim their expertise.

00:07:51.000 They continue to claim that we should believe them on everything.

00:07:53.000 And then they whine that people don't believe the science.

00:07:55.000 You never presented science.

00:07:57.000 Instead, you presented a platonic lie about what exactly was going to happen if people took the vaccine.

00:08:01.000 It was going to die down.

00:08:02.000 There would be no more transmission.

00:08:04.000 And what's more, it turns out the Biden White House knew this and they promoted the lie anyway.

00:08:08.000 This is truly amazing stuff here.

00:08:11.000 According to the Washington Post, this was this is basically glossed over in nearly all the media.

00:08:14.000 I'm not sure anybody caught it.

00:08:16.000 So the Washington Post did this long story.

00:08:19.000 It came out just on Sunday or Saturday.

00:08:23.000 It was called Inside the Successes, Missteps, and Failures of Biden's Early Presidency.

00:08:26.000 And it was sort of a recapitulation of the first year and two-thirds of the Biden presidency, which had been a gigantic failure.

00:08:34.000 And they talk in this article about Joe Biden's COVID response.

00:08:37.000 And here's what the Washington Post says, quote, From the start, Biden's COVID response was anchored around two ideas.

00:08:43.000 He would follow the science, and the science would show the way to ending the pandemic.

00:08:46.000 After his first meeting with his COVID team, he gave them a pep talk.

00:08:49.000 He said, I know this is going to be hard.

00:08:50.000 I know there will be ups and downs.

00:08:51.000 Things will not always go smoothly, but promise me this.

00:08:54.000 You will tell me when there's a problem.

00:08:55.000 You'll put it on the table and together we can solve it.

00:08:57.000 For months afterward, he had a catchphrase he would use.

00:09:00.000 Tell me what to do, docs, the president would frequently say.

00:09:03.000 But the reality was more complicated.

00:09:05.000 Pfizer-BioNTech announced after the 2020 elections that their vaccine was more than 90% effective at preventing infection.

00:09:10.000 Weeks later, Moderna announced over 94% efficacy at preventing infection.

00:09:14.000 We still have not seen where that data came from since it turns out not to be remotely true.

00:09:17.000 That was the data that people like me were citing back in December 2020 when we suggested that it was important to get the vaccine.

00:09:24.000 Again, being anti-mandate, because I don't believe that the government should mandate this sort of stuff, because, again, the vaccine protects you once you take it yourself, and the number of people who couldn't take the vaccine was vanishingly low, but the stats that were being put out there by Moderna and Pfizer apparently were just not true.

00:09:39.000 Nearly everything the president and his scientific advisors assumed for the next six months hinged on those numbers, even though it had become clear that summer that the vaccines Though highly effective at stopping death and hospitalization, did a far worse job of blocking infection than originally expected, as potency waned and new more transmissible variants emerged.

00:09:55.000 Okay, so.

00:09:57.000 This is the Washington Post admitting that by June of 2021, it was perfectly clear that the vaccines were not actually stopping transmission.

00:10:03.000 Still, the political imperative remained, says the Washington Post.

00:10:07.000 As the July 4th celebration drew closer, Biden flagged to his staff that they need to add some caveats to his remarks, echoing the warnings he had been issuing about potential variants in the weeks prior.

00:10:15.000 His top advisors worked to scale back the tone, cutting several overly triumphant lines, and added some fine print with cautions like COVID-19 has not been vanquished.

00:10:22.000 But the event went on as planned, and the message delivered was ultimately one of victory.

00:10:26.000 Biden said we are emerging from the darkness.

00:10:27.000 Just three weeks later, spurred in part by a Delta outbreak among a highly vaccinated population in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that even fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors.

00:10:38.000 62% of the nation approved of how Biden was handling the COVID pandemic in late June, shortly before he gave the speech.

00:10:42.000 That number fell 10 percentage points to 52% approval in late August and September, 47% by November, dragging down his overall rating according to the Washington Post-ABC News polling.

00:10:51.000 We go with what we know at the time, with the best possible information, with what the experts are telling us, and we do our best," said Mike Donilon, a senior Biden advisor.

00:10:59.000 That is an amazing sequence of events.

00:11:03.000 So according to the Washington Post, again, they said that It was clear that the potency was waning, that people were getting infected, and Biden went ahead and declared independence anyway, because he needed the win.

00:11:15.000 And then he went ahead and tried to backfill that by suggesting a VAX mandate.

00:11:18.000 And remember, this remained the Biden line up until today, is that you need a VAX mandate in the workplace.

00:11:23.000 He's still suing to get OSHA to force employees to get vaccinated.

00:11:27.000 On what basis?

00:11:28.000 On what basis?

00:11:29.000 On the basis that the vaccines are supposed to stop transmission.

00:11:33.000 But we now know that we were lied to by everyone.

00:11:35.000 We were lied to by the scientists.

00:11:37.000 We were lied to by Pfizer.

00:11:38.000 We were lied to by the government.

00:11:39.000 We were lied to by the Biden administration.

00:11:40.000 We were lied to.

00:11:42.000 I don't like being lied to.

00:11:42.000 I don't know about you.

00:11:44.000 And it makes me not believe these people.

00:11:47.000 Now again, I think that it can be easy to take this too far.

00:11:50.000 I think there are people out there who will say, I will never believe any doctor who talks to me again about this stuff.

00:11:54.000 I will never believe the CDC.

00:11:56.000 No, what it just means is that you have to now verify, but you can't use them as an expert heuristic.

00:12:01.000 You now actually do have to do your own research.

00:12:04.000 And that's a problem because society doesn't have time for that. 0.92

00:12:07.000 When you are no longer able.

00:12:10.000 To go to a plumber and when you're no longer able to go to the mechanic because they're all bad at their jobs, you're no longer able to go to anybody.

00:12:15.000 You can't go to your doctor because your doctor might be lying to you.

00:12:18.000 What are you supposed to do exactly?

00:12:19.000 You can't be a jack of all trades.

00:12:21.000 The answer is we need to build up new institutions.

00:12:23.000 The answer is that we need to build up alternative institutions that we can actually trust, but that's going to take a long time and serious effort, and that's going to have to be a major American project.

00:12:33.000 Everybody who's involved in this sort of stuff needs to be thrown out of office.

00:12:36.000 If they're in the private sector, they need to be fired.

00:12:40.000 There may need to be actual criminal prosecutions if you are disseminating false health information to people on the basis of zero evidence.

00:12:47.000 This is nasty and horrific.

00:12:49.000 And again, the way that the Pfizer lady justified all of this is she said, well, you know, there are certain studies that say we may have saved 20 million lives.

00:12:56.000 OK, well, let's say that that's true.

00:12:59.000 You also lied to the public about this stuff in order to get them to do a thing you wanted them to do.

00:13:03.000 Which in free democracies is supposed to be bad.

00:13:07.000 And here's the other thing.

00:13:10.000 If that's really how the vaccines had worked, don't you think that as that became clear, more and more people would have taken them?

00:13:16.000 Also, as I said before, if my 65-year-old parents took the vaccine and it was wildly preventative of serious disease and death, I didn't really need to get the vax either.

00:13:27.000 Now, as I've spoken out before, I got vaxed twice or had them double vaxed.

00:13:31.000 My wife being a doctor and seeing vulnerable patients is triple vaxed. 0.98

00:13:34.000 But knowing now what I know then, Knowing then what I know now, rather, would I have actually gotten Vaxxed based on the information?

00:13:43.000 That my actual chances of death from COVID were exorbitantly low, and I wouldn't be preventing my parents from getting it.

00:13:51.000 That was really what I was concerned about because we were bubbled with my parents.

00:13:53.000 Would I have gotten it?

00:13:54.000 I don't know.

00:13:56.000 I think maybe not.

00:13:56.000 I really don't know.

00:13:58.000 Because again, my personal risk when it comes to the vaccine was extremely low when it came to COVID.

00:14:05.000 I'm a young, healthy male with no pre-existing conditions.

00:14:09.000 This doesn't mean that everybody who took it did something wrong.

00:14:11.000 It doesn't mean that if you were vulnerable and you took it, you did something wrong.

00:14:14.000 It doesn't mean even if you were healthy and you took it, you did something wrong. 0.99

00:14:16.000 What it does say is garbage in, garbage out. 0.54

00:14:18.000 When you're given bad information, you have to make decisions based on that information. 0.66

00:14:22.000 But now the sources of the information have proved that they not only don't know what they're doing, but they do incredible damage.

00:14:27.000 Without even paying attention to it.

00:14:29.000 We've now seen study after study coming out with people who are making complaints about side effects from the vaccine, for example.

00:14:35.000 But pretending the vaccine doesn't have side effects or fibbing about it, that's not the solution either.

00:14:39.000 And we've seen this in every aspect of how COVID was treated.

00:14:42.000 And this should say something about how much we trust our experts and how much we trust our government.

00:14:47.000 It was a lesson to me, I'll be honest with you.

00:14:49.000 Because again, I come from a traditionalist background.

00:14:53.000 I come from a background where you're supposed to Believe in the received wisdom of the ages.

00:14:59.000 We're supposed to believe that people who spend their days studying a topic know more than you do.

00:15:03.000 But when it turns out they're just lying to you, all that trust is violated.

00:15:08.000 So you can see this with regard to, for example, what just happened with the data on school closings.

00:15:14.000 So it is now perfectly clear that the data on school closings, the schools that closed, are a disaster area.

00:15:21.000 Now, we were told over and over by everyone from Randy Weingarten at the American Federation of Teachers to the Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, that, you know, if we shut down the schools to help protect the kids, it's not going to damage them too much.

00:15:35.000 It'll all be okay.

00:15:36.000 And we were told, you know, small children wearing masks, that would have no impact on speech.

00:15:40.000 Even if it's completely ineffective by all available data at preventing transmission among children.

00:15:45.000 And even if children are not at serious risk of dying from the disease in the first place, they're more likely to die of pneumonia than they are to die of COVID.

00:15:51.000 Even if that's the case.

00:15:53.000 They don't worry.

00:15:54.000 Worst case scenario, we made them do all of these things that were not particularly useful.

00:15:58.000 And you know what?

00:15:59.000 It's not going to hurt them that bad.

00:16:01.000 And then go home from school.

00:16:02.000 So they won't be in school for a year.

00:16:04.000 Would you rather have your kid get COVID or would you rather have your kid just be at home?

00:16:08.000 What will be the cost?

00:16:09.000 It won't be a big deal.

00:16:11.000 It turns out it was a really, really big deal.

00:16:13.000 According to the New York Times, U.S.

00:16:15.000 students in most states and across all demographic groups have experienced troubling setbacks in both math and reading, according to an authoritative national exam released on Monday, offering the most definitive indictment yet of the pandemic's impact on millions of schoolchildren.

00:16:26.000 Now remember, I can show you a montage right now.

00:16:28.000 Members of the media, members of government, scientists telling us, guys, if we shut down the schools, we have to do it.

00:16:32.000 We have to shut down the schools.

00:16:33.000 The impact?

00:16:33.000 And you know what?

00:16:34.000 We'll just deal with it after.

00:16:35.000 It probably isn't going to be that great.

00:16:37.000 Here it is.

00:16:38.000 You've got to realize that you have infection in your community, so you've got to have the capability.

00:16:44.000 of protecting the children and the teachers by doing certain things.

00:16:47.000 Overnight, the CDC released new guidelines strongly supporting the opening of schools.

00:16:54.000 But if it's not safe enough to hold the GOP convention in Florida, how is it safe enough to reopen schools?

00:17:00.000 We are listening to what the doctors and the scientists are telling us.

00:17:05.000 Right now, you know, we have to do this remote learning Secretary of Education indicated that children should go to school.

00:17:16.000 They have to take risks.

00:17:17.000 Everybody takes risks.

00:17:18.000 Take risks to ride a bicycle, to be an astronaut.

00:17:21.000 We don't want our children to take risks to go to school.

00:17:24.000 Any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down.

00:17:30.000 I do think that in large parts of the country right now, the infection rates are so high that it's probably not safe to send kids back.

00:17:36.000 Not every state is created equal, not every school district is created equal, so we have to be very vigilant about cases and hold back in those areas where the uptick is still significant.

00:17:47.000 If you have a situation in which you don't have a real good control over an outbreak and you allow children to gather together, they likely will get infected.

00:17:55.000 And these recommendations and his push for schools to reopen is going against the advice of federal health experts.

00:18:01.000 Tonight, President Trump pushing for schools to reopen, despite rising cases in more than half the country.

00:18:08.000 But according to the New York Times...

00:18:10.000 The declines in student performance have been exorbitant, extraordinary.

00:18:14.000 In math, the results were especially devastating, representing the steepest declines ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, which tests a broad sampling of 4th and 8th graders and dates to the early 1990s.

00:18:25.000 In the test's first results since the pandemic began, math scores for 8th graders fell in nearly every state.

00:18:31.000 Every state, a meager 26% of 8th graders were proficient.

00:18:34.000 That is down from 34% in 2019.

00:18:36.000 That is a massive decline.

00:18:39.000 34 to 26%.

00:18:39.000 That is a decline, depending on how exactly you're measuring it, of 20-25%.

00:18:48.000 4th graders fared only slightly better, with declines in 41 states.

00:18:51.000 Just 36% of 4th graders were proficient in math, down from 41%.

00:18:55.000 Reading scores also declined in more than half the states, continuing a downward trend that had begun even before the pandemic.

00:19:01.000 No state showed sizable improvement in reading.

00:19:03.000 Only one in about three students met proficiency standards, a designation that means students have demonstrated competency and are on track for future success.

00:19:09.000 One in three students.

00:19:12.000 These trends are egregious.

00:19:14.000 They are terrible.

00:19:16.000 For the country's most vulnerable students, the pandemic left them even further behind.

00:19:21.000 So the Biden administration is even admitting this is a wake-up call and this is a problem.

00:19:25.000 Here's Miguel Cardona, the education secretary, who again did not force the schools to reopen despite the fact that the schools should have been open in the first place, admitting this is a wake-up call.

00:19:34.000 Secretary, thank you for being with us.

00:19:36.000 I mean, this is bad news.

00:19:37.000 How are you reacting to this this morning?

00:19:41.000 Well, look, you know, I'm saying if this is not a wake up call for us to double down our efforts and improve education, even before it was before the pandemic, then I don't know what will.

00:19:53.000 We really need to make sure we're utilizing the ARP dollars to help our students in reading and math and go beyond the data that we had in 2019.

00:20:02.000 We have to double down now.

00:20:03.000 OK, so double down on what?

00:20:07.000 On your garbage policy that created this in the first place?

00:20:10.000 By the way, it is worth noting here that the federal government, this is not about spending. 0.96

00:20:13.000 And so the AFT, the NEA, all the Democrats said, why don't we throw money at the schools?

00:20:17.000 We'll throw money at the schools.

00:20:18.000 But we don't reopen the schools because all we have to do really is just placate our teachers union buddies who are then going to funnel a lot of that money back into getting us reelected.

00:20:25.000 But last year, the federal government made its largest single investment in American schools, $123 billion or about $2,400 per student to help students catch up.

00:20:33.000 School districts were required to spend at least 20% of the money on academic recovery.

00:20:36.000 So by the way, that is an amazing stat.

00:20:39.000 So the school district, they were being given $2,400 per student, and they were required by the Democrats to spend a grand total of $480 per student on actual student education.

00:20:49.000 The rest of the money just disappears into the ether to placate the unions.

00:20:53.000 With funding slated to expire in 2024, research suggests it could take billions more dollars and several years for students to properly recover.

00:21:00.000 Well, maybe you shouldn't have shut down the schools in the first place and lied to everybody about it.

00:21:05.000 Places where they didn't shut down the schools did better.

00:21:08.000 It is simply that easy.

00:21:11.000 For example, Texas, where many schools opened sooner, held steady in reading.

00:21:16.000 In California, which stood out for its cautious reopening, scores declined less than national averages in several categories, but they did decline.

00:21:25.000 Like, this is, it's a mess.

00:21:28.000 You shut down the schools, it made things worse, And by the way, again, spending money ain't gonna fix it.

00:21:33.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

00:21:34.000 First, you may have noticed mass spikes in crime in America's major cities.

00:21:38.000 FBI stats reveal that violent crime is actually up across the nation.

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00:23:41.000 According to the Washington Post yesterday, in March 2021, the Biden administration released the federal government's largest pool of pandemic relief for public schools.

00:23:48.000 The American Rescue Plan infused campuses with $122 billion to reopen buildings, address mental health needs, and help students who had fallen behind academically.

00:23:55.000 The need was supposedly so urgent that two-thirds of the money, $81 billion, was released less than two weeks after the plan was signed into law and before the Education Department could approve each state's spending plan.

00:24:04.000 Despite having access to the dollars, school systems reported spending less than 15% of the federal funding.

00:24:10.000 During the 2021-2022 school year, the spending rates varied considerably between states, even among school districts within the state.

00:24:16.000 But the trend of a slow rollout was especially apparent in some of the school districts that have incurred the steepest learning losses in English and math, according to the data.

00:24:23.000 Meanwhile, national test scores in elementary school math and reading have plunged to levels that haven't been seen in decades.

00:24:30.000 We don't have enough money, said Kerry Rodriguez, president of the Education Advocacy Group at the National Parents Union.

00:24:34.000 Now we have a historic amount of spending like never before.

00:24:36.000 You're not even spending the money.

00:24:38.000 So apparently it wasn't spent for a variety of reasons, including delayed access to funds, a nationwide educator shortage, and a desire to make the money last.

00:24:45.000 Or, alternatively, you just didn't want to use it.

00:24:48.000 You just didn't want to use it for the kids.

00:24:49.000 Instead, you decided to use it for a bunch of random stuff that you haven't earmarked for in the future.

00:24:55.000 The perversion of our kids' education in order to achieve particular political results, including lockdowns.

00:25:01.000 Again, lies that were told to us.

00:25:03.000 Just lies.

00:25:04.000 Corine Jean-Pierre, for her part, the worst press secretary in American history, she blamed Donald Trump for all of this, which is an amazing statement considering the schools were shut in 2020 because nobody knew what was going on. 1.00

00:25:13.000 And by 2021, we all knew what was going on.

00:25:15.000 He kept the schools shut.

00:25:17.000 Are there any plans to mount a similarly widespread, wide-ranging, and comprehensive effort to respond to the educational consequences of this pandemic?

00:25:25.000 So, as you all know, from when the president walked into this administration, it was a top priority for him to safely reopen schools.

00:25:34.000 And he did that, especially for our kids, right?

00:25:37.000 Across the country, millions of kids.

00:25:39.000 And let's not forget, when he walked into this administration, the COVID response was incredibly mismanaged by the former administration.

00:25:47.000 And he understood, just because it was mismanaged, that action could not come at the expense of our children.

00:25:59.000 You kept the schools closed for like an additional year.

00:26:03.000 I was there, I remember.

00:26:03.000 One of the reasons we moved from Los Angeles to Florida is specifically because the schools were open in Florida.

00:26:11.000 Well, this is one of the reasons undergirding so much of what's going on is still the aftermath of the pandemic.

00:26:16.000 So we're watching the election dynamics that we're seeing right now.

00:26:19.000 The COVID-19 chickens are coming home to roost for the Democrats.

00:26:22.000 They pushed school lockdowns.

00:26:23.000 They pushed forcible masking.

00:26:25.000 They pushed massive bailouts.

00:26:27.000 They pushed all of this on the back of a pandemic that had already waned by the time that Joe Biden took office, and for which a vaccine was available that prevented significant disease and death for the most vulnerable among us.

00:26:36.000 They continue to push this stuff, and the consequences have been absolutely dire.

00:26:41.000 And people aren't forgetting this.

00:26:42.000 People aren't forgetting who's pushing the lockdowns.

00:26:44.000 People aren't forgetting the fact that Gavin Newsom in California says that his emergency declaration about COVID-19 will end in February of 2023.

00:26:51.000 Which, by the way, is a hell of a way to treat an emergency.

00:26:53.000 I don't know an emergency where I can actually predict the end to the month.

00:26:57.000 My house is on fire.

00:26:58.000 Well, I'm going to clear an end to this house on fire emergency by next week, by next Monday or so.

00:27:03.000 That's when I'll declare the end.

00:27:04.000 That's not how emergencies work, dude.

00:27:06.000 But this is how Democrats have treated this all along.

00:27:08.000 It was a policy issue.

00:27:10.000 It was not, in fact, a health crisis the way that they saw it.

00:27:14.000 This is the reason why Florida has now swiveled red.

00:27:17.000 So there was a big debate last night between Ron DeSantis and Charlie Crist.

00:27:20.000 It got very heated.

00:27:21.000 But DeSantis right now in the polls is absolutely clocking Charlie Crist.

00:27:25.000 This was a purple state.

00:27:26.000 Ron DeSantis beat Andrew Gillum, an alleged gay meth addict who was now under indictment by the DOJ for corruption. 0.78

00:27:34.000 He beat him by 30,000 votes. 0.81

00:27:37.000 Like 30,000 in a very large state, Florida.

00:27:41.000 He is now leading in the polls, according to RealClearPolitics polling averages, by 10 points.

00:27:47.000 The latest polls, and it's two separate ones, Mason-Dixon and Florida Atlantic University, have dissensed up 11.

00:27:53.000 The reason for that is specifically because he did not shut down the state.

00:27:57.000 It's because he reopened the state fast.

00:28:00.000 He attempted to make sure that people didn't lose their businesses.

00:28:02.000 How bad is this for Democrats?

00:28:04.000 It's so bad that Charlie Crist has to just lie about it.

00:28:05.000 He actually tweeted out last week, quote, Governor DeSantis is the only governor in Florida history to shut down the schools and lock down businesses.

00:28:13.000 Which is just unbelievable gaslighting.

00:28:16.000 I mean, he was the, like, at the beginning of the pandemic when everyone did?

00:28:19.000 Would that be what you're talking about?

00:28:20.000 Because Ron DeSantis is actually quite famous for reopening the state of Florida.

00:28:24.000 The media made him their bugaboo.

00:28:25.000 He was the worst.

00:28:26.000 Andrew Cuomo was the hero.

00:28:28.000 Andrew Cuomo was here to do three things. 1.00

00:28:30.000 Kill elderly people, grab ass, and shut down the economy. 1.00

00:28:33.000 And he achieved all three of those things before he was booted from office. 0.99

00:28:36.000 Ron DeSantis Actually didn't do any of those things.

00:28:40.000 He didn't shut down the economy.

00:28:41.000 He didn't kill all the seniors in Florida. 1.00

00:28:41.000 He didn't grab ass. 1.00

00:28:43.000 And Ron DeSantis is now a wildly popular governor of what used to be a purple state, but is now pretty obviously a significantly red state. 0.97

00:28:50.000 You know what changed that?

00:28:52.000 What changed that was Ron DeSantis' COVID response.

00:28:55.000 If you look at his approval ratings, it was his COVID response that really launched him into the stratosphere, politically speaking.

00:29:00.000 Here's Ron DeSantis' debate last night talking about it.

00:29:03.000 You mentioned, Liz, that people are flocking to Florida.

00:29:06.000 That would not have happened if Charlie Criss had his way.

00:29:09.000 He wrote me a letter in July of 2020 saying you need to shut down the state of Florida.

00:29:15.000 He said you need to force people to shelter in their own homes.

00:29:19.000 That would have destroyed the state of Florida. 0.99

00:29:22.000 That would have caused our tourism industry to go into the toilet. 1.00

00:29:27.000 It would have locked out millions of kids from school. 0.99

00:29:30.000 I rejected Charlie Crist's lockdown letter.

00:29:33.000 I kept this state open, and I kept this state free.

00:29:38.000 Okay, that is DeSantis' big claim to fame.

00:29:41.000 It also happens to be the reason why Ron DeSantis is now winning a majority of Hispanic voters in the state of Florida.

00:29:46.000 And we want to talk about stats that just scare the living hell out of Democrats.

00:29:49.000 When Republicans start winning a majority of Hispanic voters, they got a real problem. 0.62

00:29:52.000 According to floridapolitics.com, DeSantis now leads Charlie Criss 51-44 among Hispanics.

00:29:58.000 That's a Telemundo poll.

00:30:00.000 Okay, by seven points.

00:30:02.000 That's not even a slight majority.

00:30:03.000 That's a significant majority.

00:30:05.000 Those poll results flip fortunes from just four years ago for Republicans among Hispanics.

00:30:09.000 According to CNN exit polling from 2018, Andrew Gillum took 54% of the Latino vote against DeSantis's 44% of the vote that year.

00:30:17.000 DeSantis's strength comes largely from those with Cuban backgrounds who hate communism and therefore don't like what the Democrats are pitching.

00:30:24.000 Chris leads other Hispanics by a fairly wide margin.

00:30:28.000 But DeSantis has the support of 56% of Hispanics who were born in another country and 48% of Hispanics born in the United States.

00:30:36.000 Among Hispanic independents, DeSantis enjoys a 56 to 34 lead.

00:30:40.000 The reason for all of this, the reason DeSantis is running away with this race is again because he didn't, he had his own experts that he went to when it came to whether to shut down the state or whether to mandate vaccines or whether to forcibly mask children.

00:30:52.000 This is the reason he's doing so well.

00:30:53.000 MSNBC is freaking out about this, as well they should be.

00:30:55.000 There was MSNBC highlighting that poll result for Ron DeSantis yesterday.

00:30:59.000 Meanwhile, there's brand new polling from likely Hispanic voters in Florida, which shows Ron DeSantis with a solid advantage there.

00:31:07.000 What does it tell us?

00:31:08.000 Well, it tells us that he has buy-in and it confirms a lot of the Republican claims that Hispanic voters are trending further and further to the right in Florida.

00:31:16.000 Now, it's important to point out that a Hispanic voter in Florida is significantly different than a Hispanic voter in other parts of the Sun Belt, but Republicans clearly are effective in messaging to these groups of Hispanic voters in Florida.

00:31:29.000 Right now, DeSantis is a seven-point lead over Charlie Crist for this upcoming race, but what's maybe even more telling is his 56% Okay, which means they probably will end up voting for DeSantis.

00:31:48.000 So, Charlie Criss is about to get absolutely whomped in Florida.

00:31:51.000 Again, that state has turned red because Ron DeSantis didn't listen to the Democrats on all of this sort of stuff.

00:31:57.000 By the way, the same is true on all of the supposed policies that are that are supposed to make him unpopular.

00:32:02.000 The media is very, very angry at Ron DeSantis, for example, for cutting down on the indoctrination of children in schools.

00:32:06.000 They've decided this is their top priority.

00:32:08.000 Ron DeSantis, the debate last night, the governor of Florida, he ripped into woke history.

00:32:12.000 This happens to be a popular perspective among, wait for it, Hispanics.

00:32:17.000 But what I think is not good is to scapegoat students based on skin color.

00:32:22.000 It's not good to distort American history by saying that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery, which is not true.

00:32:31.000 I think we should have a history like Abraham Lincoln believed in our founding, like Frederick Douglass.

00:32:38.000 These are great eternal principles.

00:32:40.000 We've got a great Constitution and people have used those principles to make great progress.

00:32:45.000 over the course of our country's history.

00:32:47.000 I'm proud of our history.

00:32:48.000 I don't want to teach kids to hate our country.

00:32:51.000 I don't want to teach kids to hate each other.

00:32:53.000 And the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

00:32:59.000 Okay, this stuff has made DeSantis very, very popular.

00:33:04.000 The most viral line of the night was when Ron DeSantis went after Charlie Crist pretty directly.

00:33:09.000 He called him an old donkey, which, I mean, I got nothing on that, because fact check, kind of true. 1.00

00:33:18.000 Ron, you talk about Joe Biden a lot. 0.80

00:33:20.000 I understand.

00:33:21.000 You think you're going to be running against him.

00:33:23.000 I can see how you might get confused.

00:33:25.000 But you're running for governor.

00:33:27.000 And I have a question for you.

00:33:27.000 You're running for governor.

00:33:29.000 You're running for governor.

00:33:30.000 Why don't you look in the eyes of the people of the state of Florida and say to them, if you're reelected, you will serve a full four-year term as governor?

00:33:38.000 Yes or no?

00:33:42.000 Yes or no, Ron?

00:33:44.000 Will you serve a full four-year term if you're re-elected governor of Florida?

00:33:47.000 It's not a tough question.

00:33:50.000 It's a fair question.

00:33:51.000 He won't tell you.

00:33:52.000 We did not agree on the candidates asking each other questions.

00:33:55.000 Governor, it's your turn.

00:33:57.000 Well, listen, I know that Charlie's interested in talking about 2024 and Joe Biden, but I just want to make things very, very clear.

00:34:04.000 The only worn-out old donkey I'm looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Priss.

00:34:12.000 So the reason the dissents didn't answer the question is because Chris broke the rules of the debate.

00:34:15.000 The rules of the debate were the candidates were not allowed to ask each other direct questions, and Chris violated all of that.

00:34:20.000 Okay, so, leading up to the midterms, there's a lot of anger out there, and a lot of the anger is being driven by the bad policy and the lies that we've been told for the past several years by the media, by Democrats, by the expert.

00:34:29.000 In just a second, we'll get to an NBC News poll that shows that interest in the midterms is very high, and so is polarization.

00:34:35.000 We'll get to why that is in just one second.

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00:36:17.000 Okay, so the polls are showing the Democrats are falling further and further behind on the generic ballot.

00:36:22.000 The polls are also showing high levels of political polarization, which of course is no shock.

00:36:26.000 According to NBC News, less than three weeks before Election Day, voter interest has reached an all-time high for a midterm election, with a majority of registered voters saying the election is more important to them than past midterms.

00:36:34.000 What's more, 80% of Democrats and Republicans believe the political opposition poses a threat that, if not stopped, will destroy America as we know it.

00:36:41.000 Which is not a wonderful sign.

00:36:43.000 Which, again, is not a shock.

00:36:44.000 We've known this for quite a while.

00:36:45.000 It was true for Bill Clinton on the Democratic side of the aisle back in the 90s. 0.62

00:36:47.000 even if that person had a moral failing that wasn't consistent with their own values.

00:36:51.000 Which again is not a shock, we've known this for quite a while.

00:36:54.000 It was true for Bill Clinton on the Democratic side of the aisle back in the 90s, it was true for Donald Trump in 2016.

00:36:58.000 These are some of the major findings of a new national NBC News poll, which shows a competitive contest for November and offers positive signs for both parties.

00:37:05.000 On the Democrats' side, Joe Biden's approval rating is supposedly at 45%.

00:37:08.000 Congressional preference continues to be relatively even.

00:37:11.000 Apparently, it's 47 to 46, which is within margin of error.

00:37:15.000 Threats to democracy are voters' number one issue for the third straight NBC News poll.

00:37:19.000 For Republicans, the positive signs are that Biden's approval among independents and swing state voters is in the 30s and low 40s, that the GOP once again holds the enthusiasm advantage that Republicans' leading congressional preference among the smaller set of likely voters, 48 to 47.

00:37:33.000 But the biggest issue here is that when you look at the poll statistics, people believe that the other side is basically going to destroy the country.

00:37:39.000 Now, you can see why a lot of people believe that the country is on the verge of being destroyed.

00:37:43.000 If you are on the right, you believe that the country is being destroyed by a coterie of elitists who wish to undermine traditional morality, lock you in your home during COVID, make sure that you pay exorbitantly high taxes, undermine Race comedy in the United States and pursue an equity agenda that requires centralization of massive government in pursuit of environmental utopianism.

00:38:04.000 All of which I agree with.

00:38:06.000 The hard left does want to do all of those things.

00:38:08.000 Does that mean that every election is the end of democracy?

00:38:10.000 No, no, it does not.

00:38:11.000 But are those things that the left wants to do?

00:38:12.000 I mean, they've made pretty clear that these are things they want to do.

00:38:14.000 On the left, they have whipped themselves into a frenzy over January 6th.

00:38:18.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:38:19.000 They thought that Trump was a threat to democracy long before January 6th.

00:38:22.000 They thought that Republicans were a threat to democracy.

00:38:24.000 Mitt Romney was running for office in 2012.

00:38:26.000 They called that the most important election of your lifetime to defeat the milquetoast, then Massachusetts Republican.

00:38:32.000 That was huge, right?

00:38:33.000 If you didn't defeat Mitt Romney, then Mitt Romney is going to send y'all back to the back to the chains, according to Joe Biden.

00:38:40.000 Okay, but this sort of polarization is right now being largely driven by Democrats, not Republicans.

00:38:48.000 I say this because they keep ramping up the rhetoric.

00:38:50.000 For all the talk about Republican rhetoric here, and Republicans are making clear that, you know, it's kind of an extraordinary thing when the President of the United States is talking about the moral duty to trans the kids.

00:38:58.000 Like, that seems to me destroying Western civilization.

00:39:01.000 For the left, the fact of an election is what is destroying Western civilization.

00:39:06.000 They just keep saying over and over, democracy is at stake, like there will never be another election in this country.

00:39:09.000 Maybe the election will be stolen.

00:39:11.000 They sound conspiratorial.

00:39:13.000 All the accusations that they make about the election deniers on the Republican side of the aisle, they themselves are making.

00:39:18.000 And they keep claiming over and over and over that democracy is at stake, that we are at the end of democracy, that enemies of the Democratic Party are enemies of the Republic.

00:39:25.000 Here we go.

00:39:26.000 This is Hallie Jackson on MSNBC making the claim.

00:39:29.000 The court is asking Fulton County to respond, and that'll happen later this week.

00:39:35.000 And it could go to the full nine justices.

00:39:37.000 We don't know the answer to that yet.

00:39:39.000 Or Justice Thomas could decide on his own.

00:39:41.000 So this is a temporary pause, but it's a very notable one, given how important this case is to the issue of democracy, Hallie.

00:39:49.000 Which is at stake in this election, as you well know, especially with so many election-denying Republicans running for some of these secretary of state races, for example, gubernatorial attorney general.

00:39:59.000 Again, the idea is democracy is on the line here.

00:40:02.000 Hillary Clinton is doing the same thing. 0.91

00:40:04.000 She's saying that we are now preparing for all elections to be stolen in the future.

00:40:07.000 So we now have everybody who doesn't trust the elections.

00:40:10.000 I know we're all focused on the 2022 midterm elections, and they are incredibly important.

00:40:17.000 But we also have to look ahead, because you know what?

00:40:21.000 Our opponents certainly are.

00:40:24.000 Right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election.

00:40:31.000 And they're not making a secret of it.

00:40:34.000 Mm.

00:40:35.000 Well, I was I was informed that this is a danger to democracy itself.

00:40:37.000 I mean, doubting future election results like that's that's scary stuff right there.

00:40:42.000 Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg is out there saying that forget about future elections.

00:40:44.000 Past elections were stolen.

00:40:45.000 Whoopi Goldberg and the crew at The View combined IQ 71.

00:40:49.000 They had on Ted Cruz, senator from Texas, yesterday, and they were talking about stolen elections.

00:40:54.000 And Ted Cruz, like, you know, you guys are constantly claiming that elections are stolen.

00:40:57.000 He's like, well, they are stolen.

00:40:58.000 Hillary won. 0.92

00:41:00.000 Was Biden legitimately elected?

00:41:02.000 Because half the party thinks that he wasn't, and it'd be very powerful for you to tell the truth.

00:41:06.000 So listen, Biden is the president today.

00:41:08.000 There's a lot of folks in the media that anytime... Hold on, I'm answering exactly that question.

00:41:13.000 There are a lot of folks in the media that try to, anytime a Republican is in front of a TV camera, try to say the election was fair and square and legitimate.

00:41:21.000 You know who y'all don't do that to?

00:41:23.000 You don't do it to Hillary Clinton, who stood up and said Trump stole the election.

00:41:28.000 I'm talking about to Stacey Abrams who said that the election was stolen.

00:41:32.000 They sat here and said it was illegitimate and you guys were fine with it.

00:41:36.000 Okay, so it's illegitimate when Republicans win but not when Democrats win.

00:41:40.000 You know, here's the thing.

00:41:41.000 We may not like when Republicans win, but we don't go and we don't storm.

00:41:45.000 We don't try to change.

00:41:46.000 We'll go to court.

00:41:47.000 We don't do that.

00:41:48.000 Did I miss an entire year of Antifa riots where cities across this country were burning It is.

00:41:56.000 Police car.

00:41:58.000 Just know an Antifa riot is.

00:42:00.000 Hillary's election was stolen.

00:42:01.000 Again, the idea that this is all happening on one side of the aisle is incredibly bizarre.

00:42:05.000 Nicole Wallace on MSNBC, she says that maybe we should have foreign observers to monitor American elections now, which is a pretty radical observation.

00:42:12.000 Do you think it's time to ask for friends and allies to come over and help us monitor our elections?

00:42:18.000 We used to do that in other burgeoning and threatened democracies.

00:42:24.000 Yeah, no, Nicole, I'm not there yet, and I know why you're asking what you're asking, and you're not wrong, right?

00:42:28.000 I mean, you know, the kind of intimidation that is threatened around polling places.

00:42:32.000 I mean, you've seen the pictures of the guys with assault weapons near boxes.

00:42:36.000 That stuff is intimidating.

00:42:38.000 And again, that used to be sort of the province of, I hate to use the term, but third world countries that didn't care about democracy.

00:42:45.000 But no, look, this is something for us to work out ourselves.

00:42:51.000 At some point, the United States is going to need to collectively decide that not only are we going to oppose Russians and Chinese and North Koreans and Iranians messing around with our elections, we're not going to allow the Republican Party to do it either. 0.92

00:43:06.000 I was just like that.

00:43:07.000 I was unaware that like the Republican Party, as it turns out, is a domestic political party that is campaigning.

00:43:13.000 That's not the same thing as the Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians.

00:43:16.000 Like the mix up there is so telling.

00:43:18.000 And Nicole Wallace suggesting that we need the U.N.

00:43:21.000 to come in and monitor our elections is really something.

00:43:23.000 All of this panic, of course, is because elections are perfectly sacrosanct when Democrats win.

00:43:27.000 When Democrats are in danger of losing, then, of course, elections become not sacrosanct anymore.

00:43:30.000 And you have to worry about the possibility that they are going to be stolen.

00:43:34.000 And the reason the Democrats are freaking out about this, of course, is because Democrats are underperforming.

00:43:38.000 One reason that they are underperforming is because the president of the United States is no longer a sentient human being. 0.96

00:43:42.000 His brain is not functioning properly.

00:43:44.000 And this means that Democrats at the top of their ticket have a person who is wildly unpopular.

00:43:47.000 They have a bad economic situation.

00:43:49.000 The social policy they are pursuing is extraordinarily radical.

00:43:52.000 And they're no longer progressives, they're transgressives.

00:43:55.000 This is the main motivating factor in being on the left these days.

00:43:59.000 It's not about progressing society in any significant way.

00:44:02.000 It's about transgressing all of the rules and destroying all of those rules.

00:44:05.000 And then when they begin to lose, then the most obvious thing that they can do is suggest that the election is going to be stolen.

00:44:10.000 So when it comes to election deniers, there is no monopoly on the right side of the aisle with regard to this.

00:44:14.000 When you wonder why society is polarized, this would be the reason.

00:44:18.000 And I said, after Donald Trump won in 2016, all he would have to do to win re-election was not be crazy.

00:44:22.000 And then I said, after Joe Biden won, all he would have to do is not be crazy.

00:44:25.000 And it seems as though no one has the capacity to just not be crazy, is the impression that I'm getting at this point.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 25, 2022

They Lied About Covid, And Young People Paid The Price | Ep. 1596

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