The Ben Shapiro Show - They’re Sneering At You | Ep. 1152

00:00:00.000 The media cheer COVID authoritarianism while ignoring the science, Hollywood sneers at non-leftists, and Los Angeles decides to let crime flourish.

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00:01:32.000 The covid wave that is engulfing the country continues unabated.

00:01:36.000 We have not seen hospitals overrun generally in the United States yet.

00:01:40.000 We are starting to see obviously capacity being strained particularly in rural areas that don't have a lot of open ICU beds.

00:01:47.000 In big urban areas we're not starting to see that Quite yet.

00:01:49.000 One of the big problems right now is we don't have a lot of flex capacity.

00:01:52.000 What we mean by that is you can't shift resources from rural areas to urban areas the way that we did early on in the pandemic because the wave is hitting pretty much everywhere all at once.

00:02:00.000 If you look at each state chart, every state is now seeing increases in COVID cases, increases in hospitalizations, increases in ICU beds being taken up.

00:02:09.000 And we are expected to see that for at least the next week minimum, thanks to Thanksgiving.

00:02:13.000 Presumably, that will also happen after Christmas.

00:02:15.000 Public health authorities are telling people they ought to stay home.

00:02:18.000 Not because it is necessarily dangerous to travel in and of itself, but if you have COVID and you go somewhere else in the country, you could be seeding a new pocket of COVID in that place.

00:02:27.000 And right now, obviously, you could be asymptomatic while traveling.

00:02:31.000 Okay, with all of that said, and all the usual provisos, be careful, be reasonable, socially distance, make sure that you're not in direct contact with people who have pre-existing conditions, at least in close proximity to those people.

00:02:43.000 If you are in close proximity to virtually anybody, out of fear that you would spread this thing to others and they will spread it to somebody who's vulnerable, you should mask up if you are in close proximity with people, right?

00:02:51.000 These are all the reasonable measures that we have been told for months.

00:02:54.000 None of that has changed.

00:02:56.000 The glee with which our authoritarian legislators and governors and mayors, the glee with which they are shutting down society is truly something to behold.

00:03:07.000 It's really amazing because they're sneering at us.

00:03:10.000 They really are.

00:03:10.000 They're sneering at us.

00:03:12.000 They believe that they are the reasonable ones, they are the rational ones, and therefore they are capable of making their own risk-reward calculations.

00:03:18.000 Andrew Cuomo in New York, just a couple of weeks ago, was saying that he was going to have a gathering for Thanksgiving, including his 89-year-old mother and his two daughters, who are in their 20s.

00:03:26.000 Right, which is the definition of an intergenerational gathering.

00:03:30.000 And meanwhile, he was telling everybody else they need to shut down and not travel for Thanksgiving.

00:03:33.000 You had the mayor of Austin, who was literally telling people from his timeshare in Cabo not to travel.

00:03:39.000 You've seen Eric Garcetti, who's out there protesting with people during the Black Lives Matter protests without a mask, now telling everybody that they need to shut down their outdoor restaurants at the exact same time that he is telling Hollywood that they can go ahead and continue filming and they can continue doing their catering services in food tents directly outside of their shoots.

00:03:56.000 The hypocrisy! 0.72

00:03:57.000 From our leftist authoritarian leaders is astonishing. 0.99

00:04:02.000 And their self-congratulatory hypocrisy is really the most galling part. 0.86

00:04:05.000 Because it is not that they are doing this in sadness. 0.68

00:04:07.000 It is not that they are doing this with a level of regret.

00:04:09.000 Listen, we have no other choice.

00:04:10.000 We've tried everything else and this just isn't working.

00:04:13.000 And so in order to protect our medical capacity, we're going to have to use well-calibrated policies to shut down the possibility of spread.

00:04:19.000 Like that, I think we would all understand.

00:04:21.000 I mean, seriously, I think that if you have a major spike in a particular area and you're running up against hospital capacity, then there may be a necessity for suggesting, for example, that you have to limit indoor dining to a certain percentage of full capacity or that you only do outdoor dining.

00:04:37.000 There are times when you're going to have to use these sorts of measures.

00:04:39.000 I mean, even Sweden, which was sort of the case model of a country that had not fully shut down, even Sweden is now backing off and starting to throw in the towel on this particular subject.

00:04:49.000 According to Ala Pundit writing for Hot Air, The Swedish government is now backing off of its own procedures here.

00:04:57.000 Before, they had basically suggested that they were going to continue to allow everything to remain open, and that herd immunity would eventually be reached.

00:05:05.000 It turns out, statistically speaking, it just really didn't happen.

00:05:08.000 Instead, they started to see spikes again, just like the surrounding countries, and so they have now engaged in some of the same lockdown procedures that some of the other countries around them had engaged in.

00:05:16.000 Okay, so you have to follow the data, and you have to follow the policies where it leads.

00:05:19.000 But, at the very least, we should be assured that our politicians are not excited about limiting our freedom, that they are not excited about limiting our liberty, and that if they believe that freedom and liberty ought to be limited, it ought to be limited for them as well.

00:05:32.000 And yet the policy is not well calibrated.

00:05:34.000 And our politicians are patting themselves on the back.

00:05:36.000 Their arm, it's like Mrs. Incredible in the Incredibles.

00:05:40.000 The arm has lengthened, it's physically lengthened, so they can pat themselves on the back for what a wondrous job they are doing, even as people die, and even if they blew it in the first place.

00:05:48.000 The most obvious example of this is, of course, Andrew Cuomo, who wrote an entire book about his leadership during the crisis.

00:05:53.000 He did a presser yesterday, and he called in Anthony Fauci.

00:05:58.000 Again, I have not been critical of Fauci throughout this pandemic.

00:06:01.000 I think that he's been doing the best that he can as a general rule.

00:06:04.000 He didn't get it all right.

00:06:05.000 He said early on he shouldn't wear masks.

00:06:07.000 Then he reversed himself.

00:06:08.000 He suggested early on that schools should be closed.

00:06:10.000 Then he reversed himself.

00:06:11.000 But he's been doing the best that he can.

00:06:13.000 My problem with Fauci is his willingness to become a sort of popular figure of worship. 0.98

00:06:20.000 That part is ridiculous.

00:06:22.000 The fact that Fauci was posing for the cover of InTouch magazine and that he was throwing out first pitches at Washington Nationals baseball games and this kind of stuff, that is not appropriate for a public health counselor.

00:06:31.000 For somebody who is doing a public service job, the whole point of public service is not the plot, it is not the accolades, it is to serve the public.

00:06:39.000 It is not to be posing on the cover of magazines telling us what we all ought to do, the most popular doctor in America, this kind of stuff.

00:06:45.000 Okay, so he and Cuomo had a bout of self-congratulation.

00:06:49.000 This is really more on Cuomo, but this is just absurdity piled on top of absurdity.

00:06:53.000 While Cuomo is calling for mass shutdowns across his own state and across the country, and while he's evading responsibility for his own failures, he suggested that he and Fauci are just like the modern-day Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

00:07:06.000 Maybe in Righteous Kill?

00:07:07.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo.

00:07:10.000 Maybe we enlist you.

00:07:12.000 I'll do it with you.

00:07:13.000 We'll do an ad telling New Yorkers it's safe to take the vaccine.

00:07:16.000 To, you know, put us together.

00:07:20.000 We're like the modern-day De Niro and Pacino.

00:07:23.000 You can be whichever you want.

00:07:26.000 You can be the De Niro or Pacino.

00:07:29.000 Fauci and Cuomo, I'll give you a front boy.

00:07:32.000 Who do you want to be?

00:07:33.000 De Niro or Pacino?

00:07:35.000 Which one do you want to be?

00:07:36.000 I love them both!

00:07:37.000 I don't want to insult one or the other.

00:07:37.000 I love them both!

00:07:39.000 If I say one, I don't want to hurt the feelings of the other.

00:07:42.000 So either one!

00:07:43.000 Who's the politician? 1.00

00:07:45.000 That guy's a schmuck. 1.00

00:07:47.000 Andrew Cuomo, schmuck-tastic, that guy. 1.00

00:07:49.000 What a putz. 1.00

00:07:49.000 I mean, seriously, the fact that he's sitting there. 1.00

00:07:51.000 He's had over 30,000 people die in his state.

00:07:53.000 And he's seeing spikes again in his state.

00:07:55.000 He's saying, am I Al Pacino or am I Robert De Niro?

00:07:57.000 If I tell people to take the vaccine, they'll take the vaccine.

00:08:00.000 If I tell people to mask up, they'll mask up.

00:08:02.000 I mean, that guy has enjoyed flexing his power more than anybody in America, with the possible exception of Gavin Newsom out in California.

00:08:09.000 And the media have continued to portray him as some sort of great, popular hero, Andrew Cuomo. 0.87

00:08:14.000 And it's ridiculous. 1.00

00:08:16.000 By the way, he happens to be an absolute jerk. 1.00

00:08:18.000 Apparently, yesterday, a former Andrew Cuomo advisor put out a tweet thread talking about what a jerk he was. 1.00

00:08:23.000 Her name is Lindsey Boylan. 0.99

00:08:25.000 She said her most toxic team environment was working for Governor Andrew Cuomo.

00:08:29.000 And then she put out like a 13-tweet thread.

00:08:31.000 She said, I've had many jobs.

00:08:32.000 Waitressing at Friendly's as a teenager was an infinitely more respectful environment, even though I had bad customers who tipped for me.

00:08:40.000 If people weren't deathly afraid of him, they'd be saying the same thing, and you'd already know the stories.

00:08:44.000 Again, this is a former Andrew Cuomo staffer, but don't worry, the media treats him as though he is just a wonderful, wonderful man.

00:08:49.000 And again, all of this really comes down to, we have a class of people in this country who believe that they are better than you, they believe they know more than you, and they believe that they have to paternalistically guide you through life.

00:09:01.000 Another example of this, there's a piece in the New York Times today by a woman named Elizabeth Rosenthal.

00:09:07.000 She is a doctor.

00:09:09.000 She worked as an emergency room physician before becoming a journalist.

00:09:12.000 She's the author of a book called An American Sickness, How Healthcare Became Big Business.

00:09:16.000 So her piece today in the New York Times is titled, It's Time to Scare People About COVID. 1.00

00:09:20.000 You see, you're a fool. 0.99

00:09:21.000 And so she has to scare you about COVID. 1.00

00:09:23.000 Now, nowhere in this piece Does she actually cite data?

00:09:27.000 Because if you knew the data, then you might be able to make a rational risk-reward calculation.

00:09:27.000 Nowhere.

00:09:31.000 Instead, her idea is that we have to scare the living hell out of people about COVID, so they make absolutely non-rational decisions about their own level of risk.

00:09:40.000 So here's what she writes in the New York Times.

00:09:42.000 And again, this is the general perspective that so many elitists in our society have.

00:09:46.000 The rules don't apply to them, but they do apply to you.

00:09:49.000 And they have to scare you, because you're an emotional creature, and because you haven't been following the rules.

00:09:54.000 You're the person who's been violating all the rules, and so we have to scare you now.

00:09:57.000 Here's what she says.

00:09:58.000 I still remember exactly where I was sitting decades ago during the short film shown in class for a few painful minutes.

00:10:03.000 We watched a woman talking mechanically, raspily through a hole in her throat, pausing occasionally to gasp for air.

00:10:08.000 The public service message, this is what can happen if you smoke.

00:10:11.000 I had nightmares about that ad, which today would most likely be tagged with a trigger warning or deemed unsuitable for children, but it was supremely effective.

00:10:17.000 I never started smoking and doubt that few, if any of my horrified classmates did either.

00:10:21.000 When the government required television and radio stations to give $75 million in free airtime for anti-smoking ads between 1967 and 1970, smoking rates plummeted.

00:10:29.000 Since then, numerous smoking scare campaigns have proved successful.

00:10:33.000 Some even featured celebrities like Yul Brynner's posthumous offering with a warning after he died from lung cancer, As the United States faces out-of-control spikes from COVID-19, with people refusing to take recommended, even often mandated, precautions, our public health announcements from governments, medical groups, and healthcare companies feel lame compared to the urgency of the moment.

00:10:51.000 A mix of clever catchphrases, scientific information, and calls to civic duty, they are virtuous and profoundly dull.

00:10:57.000 Instead, it's time to focus on some sharp, terrifying realism.

00:11:02.000 Fear appeals can be very effective, says Jay Van Bevel, Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU.

00:11:08.000 I'm not talking fear-mongering, but showing in a straightforward and graphic way what can happen with the virus.

00:11:12.000 From what I could find, the state of California came close to showing the urgency.

00:11:15.000 A soft-focus video of a person on a ventilator featuring the sound of a breathing machine but not a face, it exhorted people to wear a mask for their friends, moms, and grandpas.

00:11:22.000 But maybe we need a PSA, featuring someone actually on a ventilator in the hospital.

00:11:25.000 You might see that person bucking the vent.

00:11:27.000 Bodies naturally rebel against the machine forcing pressurized oxygen into the lungs, which is why patients are typically sedated.

00:11:33.000 Another message could feature a patient lying in an ICU bed, immobile, tubes in the groin, with a mask delivering 100% oxygen, over the mouth and nose, eyes wide with fear, watching the saturation numbers rise and dip on the monitor, over the bed.

00:11:46.000 These PSAs might sound harsh, but they might overcome our natural denial.

00:11:50.000 Okay, here's the thing.

00:11:51.000 Nowhere, nowhere in this piece does she actually talk about the rates of death from COVID for particular populations.

00:11:58.000 This is my great criticism.

00:11:59.000 It's been my criticism since the beginning.

00:12:01.000 You have not been given data.

00:12:03.000 You have been given opinion.

00:12:05.000 Instead, you have been given large numbers like how many people have died or how many cases there are generally in the country.

00:12:11.000 You have not been given the striated data explaining what your risk factors are or the risk factors of people around you so you can make a rational decision.

00:12:19.000 Everybody understands it is possible to die of COVID.

00:12:21.000 The question is, what sort of daily activities are you going to rule out in order to prevent somebody from dying of COVID and what is your risk or their risk of dying of COVID?

00:12:29.000 This is how you make rational decisions.

00:12:32.000 The basic idea from our betters is that they're going to scare us into compliance with ridiculously authoritarian health diktats.

00:12:40.000 And when you compare this to lung cancer and smoking commercials, recognize that smoking is a voluntary activity.

00:12:46.000 And that not smoking is something that the vast majority of people do.

00:12:50.000 But not going to the grocery store, not going to hang out with friends, not going out into public areas for a walk without a mask, which is apparently what they're now telling you in LA you're not allowed to do.

00:13:01.000 That stuff is the stuff of everyday life.

00:13:02.000 We're not talking about smoking, an optional activity you may or may not enjoy.

00:13:07.000 We are talking about what is your risk factor if you let your five-year-old go to school.

00:13:10.000 And yet these jokers are telling us that the best way to get people to comply with dictates of non-rational behavior is to scare the hell out of you.

00:13:19.000 And then they wonder why we don't trust them?

00:13:21.000 If you are openly saying that your job is to scare me into complying with health measures that are not calibrated to succeed, then You know what?

00:13:29.000 You're the bad guy.

00:13:30.000 You're the bad guy.

00:13:31.000 And there's a reason that people are not trusting the experts here.

00:13:34.000 Because the experts have been completely inconsistent.

00:13:36.000 Because the rational risk-reward calculation has been thrown completely out the window in favor of policies that make no sense at all.

00:13:44.000 Admiral Brett Giroir, who's the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services, He was pointing out yesterday that you're seeing cities around the country now starting to ban outdoor dining.

00:13:52.000 He said there's literally no data to support the idea that we should be banning outdoor dining.

00:13:56.000 It doesn't matter.

00:13:57.000 Apparently, you shouldn't dine outdoors unless you work in Hollywood, in which case you can totally dine outdoors.

00:14:02.000 And also, the best way to make people comply with this nonsense is to scare the living hell out of them, even if they are 20 and healthy.

00:14:07.000 And this is why whenever you see these stories, and you saw these stories from the media repeatedly, teacher dies.

00:14:14.000 And then you find out, halfway down through the story, the teacher was never in school and acquired it at some other event.

00:14:14.000 Of COVID-19.

00:14:20.000 Or you see these stories. 0.64

00:14:22.000 Ridiculous stories about outbreaks on college campuses. 0.64

00:14:25.000 And then they never tell you.

00:14:25.000 How many kids have actually died of this on college campuses?

00:14:28.000 The answer, best as I can tell, is close to zero.

00:14:31.000 And they never tell you this stuff.

00:14:33.000 Instead, it's all scare tactics.

00:14:35.000 And then when people say, well, I'm not sure that you should be that scared.

00:14:38.000 You can make a rational calculation.

00:14:40.000 They say that you're taking COVID lightly. 0.91

00:14:42.000 People are not going to obey ridiculous, insane regulations that make no sense.

00:14:46.000 Here's Admiral Bretouart pointing out that all these places shutting down outdoor dining are doing so not on the basis of science, they're doing so on the basis of political incentivization.

00:14:54.000 Political incentives right now for our authoritarian leaders is that if you lock down, you get all sorts of credit, and if you don't lock down, you get all sorts of blame, and it doesn't matter what the outcome is.

00:15:03.000 What really breaks my heart is that I don't know of any data that says you need to shut down outdoor dining or outdoor bars.

00:15:10.000 We really wanted to limit the indoor crowded places.

00:15:13.000 The evidence clearly does not support limitations on things like outdoor dining, particularly that are spaced outdoor bars.

00:15:24.000 You know, the evidence just isn't there.

00:15:25.000 And remember, shutting down completely, particularly if you don't have evidence, can be counterproductive.

00:15:31.000 It can be counterproductive.

00:15:32.000 As we'll see in a second, experts are saying that it can be counterproductive.

00:15:35.000 But don't worry, your media experts, who are certainly acting outside the purview of their expertise, are telling you that you must lock down forever ad infinitum, and if you don't agree, this is because you're a COVID denier, which is insane.

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00:16:53.000 Okay, so again, our moral betters keep telling us that we ought to listen to them.

00:16:58.000 But the problem is that they are promulgating regulations that make absolutely no sense.

00:17:01.000 And then if you take account of countervailing concerns, like for example, the health effects of a completely destroyed economy, or the economic effects of shutting people's businesses down, then they tell you you're taking this thing too lightly.

00:17:15.000 So we're back where we were in March and April, where if you said, listen, if we're gonna formulate policy, we should look at trade-offs here.

00:17:21.000 Then people said he wanted to kill grandma.

00:17:22.000 We are right back there.

00:17:24.000 It doesn't matter that the data now show that people can act safely and securely so long as they act reasonably.

00:17:29.000 Instead, we are supposed to simply fall for the same propaganda that we were pushed in in March and April.

00:17:36.000 And that is why you're not seeing in the establishment media any interviews with business owners.

00:17:41.000 Business owners who are being put out of business.

00:17:43.000 You're seeing it on shows like this one.

00:17:44.000 You're seeing it on shows on Fox News.

00:17:46.000 You're hearing it on talk radio.

00:17:47.000 You're not hearing it anywhere on CNN or MSNBC.

00:17:50.000 Instead what you hear is that business owners who want to open up are bad people.

00:17:50.000 The business concerns.

00:17:54.000 Here's a Minnesota bar owner who happens to be a woman of color speaking on Fox News about how the governor of Minnesota is now shutting everything down.

00:18:02.000 A governor cannot shut down businesses at a whim.

00:18:05.000 He cannot pick and choose who's going to be a winner, who's essential and who's not essential, because that's basically what he did.

00:18:10.000 He said that we are not essentials.

00:18:12.000 All Americans are essential to me.

00:18:14.000 And for him to pick and say that my business is not essential and that we have to shut down — I have two businesses.

00:18:20.000 I have a gymnastics gym and a restaurant.

00:18:23.000 And I have to shut down both businesses because he thinks we're not essential.

00:18:26.000 And for me, I'm not going to back down to tyranny.

00:18:31.000 Okay, and again, this is what it feels like right now, is are you going to back down to tyranny by agreeing with health officials who are promulgating regulations that are not reasonable in the extreme, and agreeing with the media that is willing to misinform you all the time?

00:18:43.000 Dr. Monica Gandhi told Yahoo News, she's an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, it's not because the public is irresponsible, it's because they are losing trust in public health officials who put out arbitrary restrictions.

00:18:52.000 We are failing in our public health messaging.

00:18:55.000 She says there is a better way to engage in all of this.

00:18:57.000 She says a harm reduction approach would be to encourage masking and social distancing instead of demanding that people have no contact at all with friends or family they don't live with.

00:19:04.000 In other words, even during a pandemic, abstinence only is not effective.

00:19:07.000 But you are seeing public officials take the just say no approach.

00:19:10.000 Because there's only political benefit in just say no.

00:19:12.000 That way, if somebody does something wrong, you can always tell them that they broke your rules.

00:19:17.000 That way, you can never be blamed.

00:19:18.000 Only the people can be blamed.

00:19:19.000 Only the little people can be blamed. 0.75

00:19:21.000 After all, you said don't do it, ever.

00:19:23.000 Don't go out of your house.

00:19:24.000 Stay in a bubble.

00:19:25.000 Don't open your business.

00:19:26.000 Make everybody unemployed.

00:19:28.000 And the politicians get to sit there and they get to benefit.

00:19:30.000 And they get to smile and talk about how they're like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

00:19:34.000 When politicians enjoy their authoritarianism this much, it is demonstrative of a serious problem in American life.

00:19:42.000 Do you think this is the last time they're going to try to use this sort of authority?

00:19:45.000 I was a skeptic of this.

00:19:47.000 At the very beginning, there were a lot of people, friends, family of mine, who were saying, you know, this sort of power grab, We're uncomfortable with it because we're afraid that it could become something permanent.

00:19:56.000 I said, well, listen, there's a global pandemic on.

00:19:58.000 We don't know all the facts.

00:19:59.000 As the facts come out, these regulations will be relaxed.

00:20:02.000 The American people won't stand for it.

00:20:04.000 And then it became clear that a lot of Americans would stand for it.

00:20:06.000 And in fact, many Americans will call for it.

00:20:09.000 And so the question becomes, what now is the bar going to be for mayors and governors to declare an emergency and simply use all of the authority they've accrued to themselves to do whatever it is that they want?

00:20:20.000 This is dangerous, dangerous stuff.

00:20:21.000 Yes, individual liberty is at stake when you are not relating rational policy in any way to the risks that are currently out there.

00:20:30.000 And this is exacerbated by the fact that the media are utterly inconsistent.

00:20:34.000 There's only one consistent message from the media, and that is the message of the left.

00:20:36.000 It is certainly not the message of truth or the message of objective fact.

00:20:41.000 The media are wildly inaccurate about everything they cover with regard to this pandemic, and then they blame you for not believing them.

00:20:47.000 Perfect example of their misinformation today.

00:20:50.000 So, the media started repeating and featuring a woman named Rebecca Jones on TV last night. 0.80

00:20:57.000 I believe she was on CNN.

00:20:59.000 There are a bunch of stories printed about her.

00:21:02.000 She was originally a low-level worker in the COVID data center for Florida.

00:21:09.000 And the reason that she was fired, originally, she said that she was a whistleblower, and that she was trying to reveal data in Florida that Governor Ron DeSantis was trying to cover up.

00:21:17.000 And as it turns out, that was just a lie.

00:21:19.000 This is going back to, I believe, like, May?

00:21:25.000 In the middle of May, she was fired.

00:21:27.000 Okay, so they claim that she was the architect of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard and that she had tried to reveal data and that Florida had fired her for attempting to reveal that data.

00:21:37.000 That is not true.

00:21:38.000 Okay, so she actually was asked to manipulate, she said she was asked to manipulate data to support Ron DeSantis' plan to reopen Florida.

00:21:45.000 Instead, she was asked to temporarily disable the ability to export data from the dashboard so it could be verified that the data matched other sources.

00:21:54.000 She originally was actually fired because she was fired for insubordination. 0.70

00:21:58.000 According to the DeSantis administration, Rebecca Jones exhibited a repeated course of insubordination during her time with the department, including unilateral decisions to modify the department's COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from Okay, so she was fired for performance issues.

00:22:20.000 Okay, the reason she's back in the headlines is because now she's out on Twitter claiming that the actual reason that she was fired is not just because she was revealing data and she was a whistleblower, but now she's claiming that Ron DeSantis authorized the police to raid her house Right, that all of her technology was seized at gunpoint by the authorities in Florida because Ron DeSantis is engaged in some sort of fascist takeover.

00:22:42.000 There's only one problem.

00:22:43.000 Not a word of that story is true.

00:22:45.000 The media are running with it anyway, because they don't care about what is true and what is false.

00:22:48.000 All they care about is their narrative, which is that governors who want to remain open are bad, and governors who are authoritarians are good.

00:22:55.000 Because in the end, they want those authoritarians to control you, not to control them, to control you.

00:23:00.000 We're gonna get to the actual story here in just one second, because the media are not telling you the truth, broadly read.

00:23:06.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:24:20.000 So, as I've been saying, there's this story out in the media that Rebecca Jones, the supposed data scientist over in Florida, she had her house raided at Ron DeSantis' behest.

00:24:28.000 It turns out that that is just an absolute falsehood.

00:24:31.000 The actual story is that according to the Florida Department of Health, someone hacked into a system used to send emergency communications earlier this month and sent an unauthorized message to members of the state emergency response team responsible for coordinating public health and medical response.

00:24:47.000 The November 10th message obtained by the Tampa Bay Times urged recipients to quote, speak up before another 17,000 are dead.

00:24:53.000 You know, this is wrong.

00:24:54.000 You don't have to be a part of this.

00:24:55.000 Be a hero.

00:24:55.000 Speak out before it's too late.

00:24:58.000 So who exactly hacked into the system then sent an unauthorized message?

00:25:01.000 Apparently, according to a court warrant, it was this.

00:25:04.000 It came from the ISP address of Rebecca Jones's house.

00:25:07.000 So, the reason that she was actually arrested is because she hacked into a public information system that she did not work for.

00:25:14.000 That is why she was arrested.

00:25:15.000 That is why her house was raided. 1.00

00:25:17.000 It was not because Rhonda Sanchez was trying to shut up the whistleblower. 0.66

00:25:20.000 Okay, but it doesn't matter.

00:25:21.000 The media are just gonna lie to you.

00:25:22.000 And they're gonna continue to lie to you.

00:25:24.000 And the media are going to continue to promulgate insane double standards. 0.92

00:25:28.000 So some of the media double standards include, you are a very, very bad person.

00:25:32.000 You are a very bad person if you choose to go out in public, even if you're wearing a mask, even if you're socially distancing, the fact that you have not holed up in your house.

00:25:41.000 Until the vaccine is available and maybe beyond. 0.96

00:25:43.000 This means that you are a bad person. 0.94

00:25:45.000 Not only that, if you're a member of particular religious communities, you're a particularly bad person. 1.00

00:25:49.000 So if you're a Jew in New York and you are attending a minyan, even if it's a socially distanced minyan, a group of 10 men praying together, then this means that you are a bad person.

00:25:58.000 You are responsible for the COVID surge.

00:26:00.000 However, if there are surges in minority communities, that's due to systemic American racism.

00:26:04.000 We are seeing the same narrative now promulgated with regard to vaccination.

00:26:08.000 So, there have been polls done, and what they show is that a huge percentage of Americans are quite unfortunately skeptical of taking the coronavirus vaccine.

00:26:16.000 Now, I'm not skeptical of it.

00:26:17.000 I will be happy to take it right here on air if it makes people feel any better.

00:26:21.000 I do not care.

00:26:22.000 I'm very much in favor of vaccinations.

00:26:24.000 This thing will be vetted all the way down to the ground by the time that it is released to people who are of my age range.

00:26:30.000 It has already been vetted.

00:26:31.000 It is already going out in the UK.

00:26:32.000 In fact, it is a blight on the FDA that a vaccine that was developed in the United States by an American company, Pfizer, is going out in the UK before it's going out in the United States.

00:26:41.000 It just demonstrates the crappiness of our bureaucracy.

00:26:44.000 But beyond that, there are a huge percentage of Americans who are skeptical about the vaccine.

00:26:48.000 And that's not just the usual sort of skeptical about the vaccine crowd.

00:26:52.000 This includes a huge percentage of people who are skeptical about this particular vaccine for a wide variety of reasons, some from the right because they have some sort of conspiracy theory about the profitability of the vaccine.

00:27:02.000 I've been hearing weird rumors about how Fauci owns stock and this or that.

00:27:05.000 That's not how vaccines get developed.

00:27:07.000 We're not rolling out a vaccine to make Anthony Fauci rich.

00:27:09.000 That's a bunch of nonsense.

00:27:11.000 And then on the left, you hear, I don't trust the vaccine specifically because it was developed under President Trump. 0.76

00:27:15.000 That one came directly from Kamala Harris, which is completely crazy.

00:27:19.000 OK, but what the media have said is that the refusal to get a vaccination, it is blameworthy if you are of a particular group.

00:27:26.000 And if you are of a different particular group, then it is not blameworthy.

00:27:29.000 So if you're a white person and you are skeptical about the vaccine, this is because you're an anti-vaxxer.

00:27:33.000 If, however, you're black and you're skeptical about getting the vaccine, this is because of America's long history of systemic racism.

00:27:38.000 There's a long piece in the Washington Post today called, amid history of mistreatment, doctors struggle to sell black Americans on coronavirus vaccine.

00:27:46.000 So you're not seeing any of the sort of moral opprobrium attached to black Americans who don't want to get the vaccine that you are seeing to a huge number of other Americans who don't want to get the vaccine.

00:27:55.000 What is the rationale?

00:27:56.000 Because the history of healthcare in the United States is intertwined with racism, says the Washington Post.

00:28:03.000 Fewer than half of black Americans say they will get the COVID vaccine, which is wild considering that COVID is disproportionately affecting black Americans.

00:28:10.000 It is actually more important for black Americans to get the COVID vaccine than nearly any other racial group in America.

00:28:16.000 63% of Hispanics and 61% of white people say they will get it.

00:28:18.000 Many black people say they do not trust the medical establishment because of glaring inequities in modern day care and historical examples of mistreatment.

00:28:26.000 This deep-seated skepticism has led to a burst of confidence-building efforts across the country, some led by the nation's top black doctors and scientists and funded by the U.S.

00:28:33.000 So far, the response has been mixed at best with many black Americans, like those in certain black congregations, saying they want more information or cannot count on the federal government to work in their best interest.

00:28:33.000 government.

00:28:44.000 And one of the reasons that they are skeptical is because they are thinking back to the Tuskegee, the infamous Tuskegee study that was done in the 1930s, in which federal health officials conducted secret experiments on black men to study the progression of syphilis, obviously an act of official evil from the United States government at the time.

00:29:01.000 Okay, but that also happened in the 1930s.

00:29:03.000 Okay, it is now, last I checked, 2020.

00:29:07.000 The very notion that we are supposed to act as though it is legitimate for more legitimate for black Americans to refuse a vaccine because they're worried about systemic American racism in 2020 thanks to stuff that was evil that was done in the 1930s. 0.61

00:29:21.000 Like, the double standard here is, again, pretty wild.

00:29:24.000 So if you're an American of any race who wants to open a business, the media don't want anything to do with you.

00:29:30.000 You're bad, you don't care about other people.

00:29:32.000 If you don't want to get the vaccine because you're skeptical generally, you're bad, and the media don't want to have anything to do with you. 0.96

00:29:37.000 If, however, you're a black person who doesn't want to get the vaccine, then we have long pieces about how it is perfectly reasonable for you not to want to get the vaccine because back in the 1930s, the American government was racist.

00:29:49.000 You wonder why people don't trust the public health officials or the media who are supposed to be disseminating information because there's always an agenda.

00:29:54.000 There is always an agenda.

00:29:57.000 And that agenda is being propagandized by people in Hollywood.

00:30:01.000 Again, it's elitists in the media and in Hollywood and in government who believe they ought to rule your lives and decide what is morally okay and what is morally not.

00:30:10.000 And this is how you end up with the specter of Pete Davidson on SNL on Saturday Night Live.

00:30:15.000 Telling people over the weekend that if you're protesting lockdown, you look like a baby.

00:30:19.000 I'm noticing that Pete Davidson was sitting on the set of Saturday Night Live like a foot and a half from another human being while he was saying this.

00:30:27.000 I saw the protest.

00:30:29.000 People were outside the bar shouting about freedom, taunting the cops, chanting that they should arrest the governor.

00:30:35.000 But it's Staten Island, so I assumed that it was just like a typical last call.

00:30:39.000 And are you against these protests?

00:30:41.000 I mean, kind of, but I'm also just happy I'm no longer the first thing people think of when they say, what's the worst thing about Staten Island?

00:30:48.000 I take it that you found these protests frustrating.

00:30:51.000 Yeah, man, they're making us look like babies.

00:30:53.000 You know, it's bad when even people in Boston are like, ah, drink at home, you queers! 1.00

00:30:59.000 OK, first of all, I'm still not sure why people find Pete Davidson humorous.

00:31:03.000 But beyond that, Pete Davidson is sitting at his workplace a foot and a half from another person wearing a mask.

00:31:09.000 A foot and a half from another person wearing a mask.

00:31:11.000 But he gets to lecture you about what you ought to do.

00:31:14.000 And his business, I've noticed, is not being destroyed.

00:31:17.000 Also, you may have noticed there's a live studio audience for SNL.

00:31:19.000 You know how?

00:31:20.000 Because they actually designated, I'm not kidding, they actually designated live studio audiences, employees, for purposes of essential services for SNL.

00:31:29.000 Okay, so it only applies to the little people.

00:31:32.000 It only applies to little people like you. 0.99

00:31:33.000 You own a business.

00:31:34.000 You want to spend time with your family.

00:31:36.000 The rules must be applied to you.

00:31:38.000 And you are a bad person if you buck the rules or if you protest.

00:31:42.000 The level of arrogance that is applied to one half of the American population is just insane. 0.85

00:31:46.000 It's just insane.

00:31:48.000 And you'll be ripped up and down, by the way, if you note this.

00:31:50.000 So Matthew McConaughey committed this grave sin.

00:31:53.000 So McConaughey happens to be, he is on the left.

00:31:56.000 Last I checked, he's a Democrat.

00:31:58.000 I know that he's in favor of gun control, he spoke at March for Our Lives, but he happens to be sort of more culturally moderate.

00:32:04.000 And so he was on a show with Russell Brand, and he said, the far left in Hollywood is arrogant toward conservatives, and the world just caved in on him.

00:32:10.000 How dare he say this? 0.98

00:32:11.000 Because there is one thing that the left cannot stand, and that is someone calling out their bullcrap. 1.00

00:32:15.000 Here was Matthew McConaughey calling out their bullcrap and getting a bunch of crap for it. 0.99

00:32:19.000 There is a lot on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize, and are arrogant towards that other 50%. 0.99

00:32:26.000 You and you say, hey, we want to get out the vote.

00:32:29.000 We want people to go be able to go vote.

00:32:31.000 We're going to do a campaign to let people vote.

00:32:33.000 I'm like, 100%.

00:32:35.000 Yes, everyone.

00:32:36.000 Is there anyone who would say no to that?

00:32:38.000 And then they can't help themselves.

00:32:39.000 At the very end of it, they go, so we don't let those criminal get back in office.

00:32:47.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:32:49.000 You're like, no, don't say the last part.

00:32:51.000 You lost 50% of your audience. 0.98

00:32:53.000 Okay, McConaughey got a bunch of crap from people in Hollywood for this. 0.98

00:32:55.000 How dare he? 0.97

00:32:56.000 Because how dare he point out that there's an entire other side to the political aisle?

00:33:00.000 This is the kind of scorn that Hollywood has for you.

00:33:02.000 This is the kind of scorn the media have for you and your politicians.

00:33:05.000 This group of elitists who all traffic in the same circles, these people believe they ought to rule you from above.

00:33:13.000 And if you buck that system in any way, regardless of the industry that you are in, then you will be called out and you'll be ostracized.

00:33:19.000 You'll be socially ostracized.

00:33:21.000 We're going to get to more of that in just one second because, you know, it does feel in the United States, and it has felt for quite a while, I'm firmly convinced that this is what the Trump backlash has been about.

00:33:29.000 I'm firmly convinced that it feels, if you are on one side of the political aisle, which is to say anywhere to the right of Karl Marx at this point, but certainly anywhere to the right of Hillary Clinton, that you are under constant assault.

00:33:41.000 You're under constant assault from authoritarian government officials, from a media that will lie to you and about you, You're under assault from Hollywood that wishes to promulgate messages that run directly counter to your values.

00:33:52.000 You're under assault from social media that censors your viewpoints.

00:33:55.000 And from journalists who will go digging through all of your old posts to find something that they can use as a club to cudgel you.

00:34:02.000 You're under assault from corporations and from your bosses who might fire you if a bad old tweet is resurfaced.

00:34:08.000 It feels like that.

00:34:09.000 It feels like the walls are closing in.

00:34:11.000 And that is not a coincidence.

00:34:13.000 There is a plan from elitists to make the walls close in on you.

00:34:16.000 Because they must.

00:34:18.000 They must achieve your silence.

00:34:19.000 They must achieve not just your silence, but your ascent.

00:34:21.000 They want you to be complicit in the destruction of your own values.

00:34:25.000 That is the goal here.

00:34:26.000 And that is why it feels monolithic.

00:34:28.000 That's why it feels like a tsunami right now, a cultural tsunami.

00:34:31.000 And Trump was a middle finger to that.

00:34:33.000 That middle finger is not going to go away post-election, regardless of what happens, regardless of how this election ends up being adjudicated, regardless of what the Electoral College does.

00:34:42.000 That push to take over all of the institutions of power in our society, from government, to Hollywood, to academia, to the education system, to all of the main outlets of media, to social media, that push is going to continue unabated from the left because they're engaged in renormalization of American values.

00:35:01.000 They're engaged in institutional captures so they can cram down on you a particular agenda and then ostracize you if you dare to speak up against it.

00:35:07.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:38:46.000 And so this monolithic culture war that is being waged by every institution in American society on one side of the particular aisle, it is particularly strong in Hollywood, which is a monolithic media culture.

00:39:02.000 I mean, the people in Hollywood are 100% on the left, except for people who are underground.

00:39:06.000 There are many, many people who are underground.

00:39:07.000 I've met with heads of studios who are conservatives.

00:39:10.000 We meet in anonymous places.

00:39:12.000 Wearing baseball caps to ensure that nobody recognizes us because everybody is afraid of what will happen if, God forbid, it is found out that they don't agree with this overwhelming left culture in Hollywood.

00:39:22.000 Well, the problem is that the content that Hollywood puts out, of course, echoes all of the left's messaging.

00:39:27.000 So, perfect example, The Hollywood Reporter today reporting, ABC's The Rookie is leaning into calls for a more nuanced approach of how cops are portrayed.

00:39:34.000 We want to change things for as long as we get to do this show.

00:39:37.000 When the writing staff of The Rookie remotely reconvened in June, they weren't exactly sure what to do.

00:39:41.000 Not only were they setting out to make a third season of their ABC drama during a pandemic, they had to break stories for a cop show, as countless Americans took to the streets in protest of George Floyd's murder days earlier by Minneapolis police, and of the systemic racism that made his tragedy all too common.

00:39:53.000 By the way, I just gotta point out, I'm old enough to remember when the media used to say things like alleged murder.

00:39:58.000 Right?

00:39:59.000 Isn't it kind of amazing that the media just go George Floyd murder?

00:40:02.000 I mean, really, that's actually an issue that is under contention and will be under contention at the trial for Derek Chauvin, who's the cop in that particular case.

00:40:10.000 But the media just say George Floyd's murder as though there is no issue under contention there, factually speaking.

00:40:15.000 It just demonstrates that the media have no actual objective fact standard.

00:40:19.000 According to executive producer and writer Terrence Paul Winter, he says, we've always been aspirational in our storytelling, but we realize being aspirational isn't good enough. We can't do one special episode where we feel good and solve racism in the end and then go back to our usual thing the next week. We want to change things for as long as we get to do the show.

00:40:34.000 So they have decided that they are going to put in a bunch of messages promoted by the interest Now Color of Change is a far-left interest group.

00:40:43.000 This is not unusual for Hollywood.

00:40:45.000 For many, many years, for example, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has pre-screened Hollywood shows to make sure that portrayals of gays and lesbians don't make gays and lesbians into villains, and also that there are enough gay and lesbian characters on particular shows for them to get the GLAAD stamp of approval.

00:40:59.000 So this is not unusual.

00:41:00.000 Color of Change, apparently, is now going to be doing the same for Hollywood shows.

00:41:03.000 The civil rights advocacy nonprofit, which has sprawling initiatives pursuing criminal justice, voting rights, and economic reform, is becoming more and more involved in the entertainment industry in an effort to help it move away from the unhelpful narratives audiences see on camera.

00:41:16.000 What we see on TV, it impacts the way we vote, the way we react to people, even the way we either believe Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization or not, says Color of Change Culture and Entertainment Advocacy Director Kristen Marston, who's consulted on more than 100 TV series about issues facing black Americans.

00:41:31.000 These things are so foundationally important.

00:41:35.000 100 different TV shows.

00:41:37.000 So now, basically all of these shows are going to be run by Color of Change.

00:41:42.000 That is the idea here.

00:41:43.000 I mean, that's pretty incredible stuff.

00:41:45.000 Color of Change has taken several steps to make it easier for the film and TV to show up for the black community since the summer.

00:41:51.000 The group partnered with Michael B. Jordan in June on Change Hollywood, an initiative that aims to provide concrete steps that can be taken by studios, production companies, and agencies to invest in, quote, anti-racist content, authentic black stories, and black talent.

00:42:03.000 Anti-racist content doesn't mean anti-racism content.

00:42:05.000 It means content that is designed to tear down the system in true Robin DiAngelo or Ibram X. Kendi fashion.

00:42:11.000 Hollywood is just a propaganda machine for the values of the left, which is why they cancelled cops.

00:42:15.000 It's why they cancelled Live PD.

00:42:19.000 It's why they thought about cancelling Paw Patrol.

00:42:21.000 The fact is that Hollywood is repeating these messages because there is a monolithic culture war that is going on.

00:42:26.000 All of the institutions have been taken over by people who agree with the left.

00:42:30.000 And now it's going to be crammed down on you from every possible angle.

00:42:33.000 And this does have real life effects.

00:42:35.000 It does.

00:42:35.000 Here is one of the real life effects.

00:42:37.000 So Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gaskin issued a directive yesterday to prosecutors.

00:42:42.000 He announced the following misdemeanors in LA will be declined for prosecution with exemptions.

00:42:48.000 Trespassing, disturbing the peace, driving without a license, prostitution, and resisting arrest.

00:42:55.000 All of those misdemeanors will now be declined for prosecution.

00:42:57.000 So if you resist arrest, right, an officer comes to arrest you and you resist arrest, then this will be declined for prosecution in LA.

00:43:05.000 Prostitution, no longer a crime in LA.

00:43:07.000 Driving without a license is no longer a crime in LA, which is madness.

00:43:13.000 I mean, that's craziness.

00:43:15.000 Disturbing the peace and trespassing.

00:43:17.000 So you just walk onto somebody's property.

00:43:20.000 No problem anymore.

00:43:22.000 They've decided they're just not going to enforce these laws anymore.

00:43:24.000 Why?

00:43:25.000 Because we know the police are bad. 0.99

00:43:26.000 Now, simultaneously, you'll hear that the police should be used to track down all of you bastards who've been having family gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas. 0.98

00:43:34.000 We gotta activate the cops to do that, because the cops are great in those circumstances. 0.95

00:43:37.000 But you know, when they are enforcing laws against, say, trespassing or prostitution, Or breach of peace.

00:43:45.000 Then, all of a sudden, the cops are bad again.

00:43:50.000 The culture war is driving more of the division in the country than anything else.

00:43:53.000 I know there are a lot of people in America who want to attribute America's current divisions to issues of race or issues of class.

00:43:59.000 Those are not the current divisions in America.

00:44:00.000 What we have is a culture war on our hands.

00:44:02.000 What we have is one culture that suggests that the other half of the culture is evil and needs to be extirpated from American society.

00:44:09.000 There's a reason that the Democratic Party has put together an intersectional coalition not with white working-class Americans.

00:44:15.000 That was historically what Democrats thought they were doing, right?

00:44:16.000 They were going to get impoverished minority members who wanted more government programs together with white working-class people who wanted more government interventionism and that would be their coalition. 0.52

00:44:25.000 And then they discovered in the 1960s and beyond, they discovered that instead they were going to aim at college-educated Americans.

00:44:32.000 So it's gonna be white woke people who are college graduates getting together with the intersectional coalition and they were going to be fighting against quote-unquote traditional American values, right?

00:44:41.000 They're gonna be tearing down the systems in favor of anti-racist systems. 0.95

00:44:45.000 That is the battle that is going on right now.

00:44:48.000 And it motivates nearly everything.

00:44:50.000 And if you're looking for a common theme to everything from cheering on authoritarianism from the top of government to a culture war that decides that the police are bad and that anybody of the right must be thrown out of the halls of polite society, that is the common thread.

00:45:04.000 That is also the common thread to the backlash.

00:45:06.000 It is not a racial backlash.

00:45:08.000 There's this going theory on the left that the reason for the Trump coalition and the reason the white working class rebelled is because the white working class don't like seeing the intersectional coalition.

00:45:15.000 Well, that doesn't explain why Trump won an increased percentage of Latinos and blacks in the last election cycle.

00:45:20.000 The answer is not that.

00:45:21.000 The answer is a culture battle is being waged, is being crammed down on you.

00:45:24.000 You can feel it.

00:45:25.000 The number one question I get every single day from people, I'm talking people in the highest halls of power.

00:45:30.000 I'm talking about athletic stars, everybody ranging from athletic stars to the heads of major Hollywood studios is, I am afraid that if I speak up, I'm going to get fired.

00:45:37.000 What do I do?

00:45:38.000 From the most powerful to people who are just high school students and are afraid that their friends will never talk to them again.

00:45:44.000 Or teachers who are afraid they're going to get fired.

00:45:46.000 Or factory workers who are afraid that their bosses are going to throw them out.

00:45:49.000 I get these sorts of questions.

00:45:50.000 I probably get dozens of these questions every single day.

00:45:54.000 Cancel culture is real.

00:45:55.000 Okay?

00:45:56.000 And cancel culture is ugly.

00:45:57.000 And cancel culture is tied to an ideology, which is that the elitists get to decide what is appropriate and what is not, and then they get to cram it down with the force of government behind them.

00:46:06.000 And the culture wars are going to continue apace.

00:46:08.000 It's going to get more and more radical because one thing you have to acknowledge is that the intersectional coalition that is pushed by the Democrats, and when I say intersectional coalition, what I mean is this.

00:46:15.000 Kimberly Crenshaw was a theorist, basically a critical race theorist, who suggested something true and then built on that an entire Implausible fiction that has become sort of the going concern of the left.

00:46:27.000 The truth was that in America, you can be discriminated against for multiple reasons.

00:46:31.000 So for example, you can be discriminated against as a black woman in a way that you are not discriminated against as a black man because you're discriminated against because you're both black and a woman, right?

00:46:39.000 The intersection of your identities is the place of discrimination.

00:46:42.000 Okay, that is quite possible.

00:46:43.000 There's nothing really wrong or implausible with that theory, but she then built from that a sort of postmodern Victimhood hierarchy whereby we can determine who is most victimized by the number of intersectional groups to which they belong.

00:46:57.000 And then we give those people the most credit in tearing down the system.

00:47:00.000 Those are the people who need to be listened to and otherwise you should sit down and you should shut up.

00:47:04.000 Right?

00:47:04.000 That is the intersectional theory that has been pushed.

00:47:07.000 Well, the problem is the intersectional coalition is filled with victim groups or supposed victim groups who are constantly pushing for the next item on their agenda.

00:47:14.000 They're growing more and more radical over time.

00:47:17.000 You can see this, right?

00:47:19.000 Every element of the intersectional democratic victim group coalition is pushing for more and more radical policies.

00:47:24.000 So you have places like Color of Change pushing defund the police, and you have the LGBT movement not just pushing for leave us alone and let us have gay marriage, but pushing for religious institutions must be forced, forced into acquiescence with our policies. 0.79

00:47:39.000 You've got the transgender groups pushing for the idea that men, biological men, must be allowed into women's bathrooms.

00:47:45.000 All of these groups are pushing for whatever is the next agenda item.

00:47:48.000 And the problem is, as those agenda items grow ever more radical, there is a majority of Americans who oppose that stuff, including many minority members.

00:47:54.000 And they start to push back against it.

00:47:56.000 This is why the left has to win the culture war.

00:47:58.000 It is a battle of life or death for the intersectional woke coalition.

00:48:01.000 They have to grab those commanding heights of culture and cram it down on you.

00:48:06.000 And everybody feels it.

00:48:08.000 This is why these issues matter.

00:48:09.000 They do matter.

00:48:10.000 To pretend they don't matter is to ignore the actual battle that is happening every day in the lives of Americans.

00:48:15.000 Because guess what?

00:48:16.000 Tax rates matter an awful lot less than whether you believe that you're going to be leading a life of social isolation because all of your moral betters have decided on Twitter that if you don't use specifically preferred pronouns, this means you are a bad person not to be conversed with.

00:48:30.000 This is why it does matter when the Supreme Court turns down a case from a group of parents asking whether it is a violation of their kids' rights for boys to be allowed in the girls' locker room.

00:48:41.000 This does matter.

00:48:42.000 Those issues are not side issues.

00:48:44.000 They are core issues because they go to the question of whether or not a majority of Americans are still capable of mobilizing in defense of their own rights and in defense of basic truths and basic reason.

00:48:55.000 The goal here is to enervate.

00:48:56.000 Whether we are talking about COVID policy and your acquiescence to shutdowns that are not rational, or whether we are talking about ridiculous gender policies that are being pushed by the left. 0.87

00:49:06.000 The goal here is to silence you.

00:49:08.000 The goal is to take a majority and silence it.

00:49:10.000 And we talked about the silent majority in the United States.

00:49:13.000 Trump has talked about this a lot.

00:49:15.000 The truth is, you are the silenced majority.

00:49:17.000 And all the institutions of culture will be brought to bear in order to silence you.

00:49:21.000 That is the common thread.

00:49:22.000 And the question is, are we going to fight back or are we not going to fight back?

00:49:27.000 Alrighty, meanwhile, a couple of stories of corruption that have been breaking on the scene.

00:49:32.000 So this is a pretty incredible story.

00:49:34.000 Well, it turns out that Ilhan Omar, member of the squad, ideologue extraordinaire, well, it turns out that her husband just got a bunch of COVID-19 loans that he didn't need.

00:49:48.000 According to Hot Air, and this is Ed Morrissey reporting, Ilhan Omar's 2020 campaign paid the firm co-owned by her husband, Tim Minette, over $2.7 million for services rendered, allowing the couple to keep a significant part of the $5.7 million they raised for her re-election.

00:50:02.000 They raised $5.7 million for her re-election, and nearly half of it went to the firm co-owned by her husband.

00:50:08.000 Which is one hell of a grift right there.

00:50:10.000 The E Street Group LLC was by far the biggest recipient of Omar's campaign, accounting for half of all disbursements.

00:50:16.000 The second-ranking recipient was the state Democratic Party with just under $400,000.

00:50:20.000 At the same time that E Street Group and MyNet slash Omar scored big incomes with the campaign, they also scored big on COVID-19 relief, according to Fox News.

00:50:28.000 Public records now show that the E Street Group, co-owned by Omar's husband, Tim Minette, received nearly $135,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans and $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans.

00:50:40.000 Federal Election Commission filings also show the firm received payments for other campaigns, including $175,000 from the Committee of Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington and nearly $130,000 from the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party.

00:50:53.000 So why exactly was the E Street Group LLC in need of taxpayer support?

00:50:57.000 Why did a member of Congress who personally benefited from campaign donations through E Street Group allow her husband's firm access to $635,000 in subsidized relief loans in the first place?

00:51:07.000 You might think that this should get the attention of federal prosecutors.

00:51:11.000 I mean, it is not a shock that Omar suddenly announced in mid-November that she'd be cutting ties with her husband's firm after winning re-election in Minnesota's 5th congressional district.

00:51:20.000 The Star Tribune noted at the time this was not a spontaneous demonstration of transparency.

00:51:25.000 She cut ties because an outside group had filed a complaint about her campaign finance ties. 0.99

00:51:28.000 The FEC, according to the Star Tribune, has taken no public action in response to a complaint last year from a conservative group alleging money from Omar's campaign paid to now-husband Tim Minette and his E Street Group LLC for personal travel expenses.

00:51:40.000 The contract was a lucrative one for E Street Group.

00:51:42.000 The Omar campaign reported paying more than $1.1 million for advertising and consulting in the third quarter of the year alone.

00:51:50.000 This is a grift. 0.93

00:51:50.000 Ilhan Omar is obviously corrupt, or if she is not corrupt, she best show her cards, because that is about as corrupt as it looks. 0.93

00:51:56.000 Speaking of corruption, fascinating story from Axios today, demonstrating that suspected Chinese intelligence operatives developed extensive ties with local and national politicians, particularly Democrats.

00:52:09.000 Who could have predicted such a thing?

00:52:10.000 Including a U.S.

00:52:11.000 Congressman.

00:52:13.000 Axios did a year-long investigation, and what they found was a political intelligence operation run by China's main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015.

00:52:22.000 Apparently, while the suspected operatives' activities appear to have ended during the Obama administration, concerns about Beijing's influence operations have spanned President Trump's time in office and will continue to be a core focus for U.S.

00:52:32.000 counterintelligence during the Biden administration.

00:52:34.000 The woman at the center of the operation is a Chinese national named Fang Fang, or Christine Fang.

00:52:38.000 She targeted up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage.

00:52:45.000 Through campaign fundraising, extensive networking, personal charisma, and romantic or sexual relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors, Feng was able to gain proximity to political power, according to current and former U.S.

00:52:56.000 intelligence officials and one former elected official.

00:52:59.000 Even though U.S.

00:52:59.000 officials do not believe that Fang received or passed on classified information, the case was a big deal because there was really some really sensitive people caught up in the intelligence network, according to a current senior U.S.

00:53:09.000 intelligence official.

00:53:11.000 Again, this is Axios reporting on ties between Democratic politicians and a Chinese spy.

00:53:17.000 Among the most significant targets of Fang's effort was one Eric Swallow, D, Farding, California.

00:53:22.000 Fang took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell's 2014 re-election campaign, according to a Bay Area political operative and a current U.S.

00:53:29.000 intelligence official.

00:53:30.000 Swalwell's office was directly aware of these activities on its behalf, the political operative said.

00:53:35.000 FEC records don't indicate Fang herself made donations.

00:53:38.000 But Fang did help place at least one intern in Swalwell's office and interacted with Swalwell at multiple events over the course of several years.

00:53:46.000 Amid a widening counterintelligence probe, federal investigators became so alarmed by Fang's behavior and activities that around 2015, they alerted Swalwell to their concerns, giving him what is known as a defensive briefing.

00:53:56.000 Apparently, Swalwell immediately cut off all ties to Fang, and Fang left the country unexpectedly in mid-2015.

00:54:03.000 Axios concludes, the case demonstrates China's strategy of cultivating relationships that may take years or even decades to bear fruit.

00:54:09.000 The CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, knows that today's mayors and city council members are tomorrow's governors and members of Congress.

00:54:16.000 Beijing has been engaged in serious act of intelligence gathering.

00:54:22.000 And honestly, it was doing the kind of stuff that you see in shows like The Americans.

00:54:27.000 At least two separate sexual interactions with elected officials, including one of these Midwestern mayors, were caught on FBI electronic surveillance of Feng, according to two intelligence officials.

00:54:36.000 She volunteered for Ro Khanna's unsuccessful 2014 House bid.

00:54:40.000 He eventually ended up joining the House in 2016.

00:54:44.000 Khanna's office said the FBI did not brief him on her activities.

00:54:48.000 Fang helped with a fundraiser for Tulsi Gabbard in 2013.

00:54:51.000 She appeared in photos over multiple years with a host of California politicians, including Khanna, Swalwell, representative Judy Chu of California, and then-representative Mike Honda, Democrat of California.

00:55:03.000 Apparently, Honda said he had no memory of meeting Fang, but it's pretty obvious that she was gathering political intelligence.

00:55:09.000 China continues to be an enemy.

00:55:12.000 And apparently they were targeting people who were just around Joe Biden.

00:55:17.000 According to a top U.S.

00:55:18.000 official, he told a think tank last week U.S.

00:55:20.000 intelligence has seen a sharp uptick by the CCP to influence Democrat Joe Biden's team and those around him.

00:55:25.000 According to National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina, he told Aspen Institute that China has launched an influence campaign on steroids targeting Biden.

00:55:34.000 That is according to Ryan Saavedra of Daily Wire.

00:55:37.000 He said, I think the last few months, parallel to the elections, we've been dealing really heavily on the COVID-19 front and China's efforts to thwart that, not only in the vaccine, but also in the promulgation of a supply chain and the movement of a vaccine all the way to inoculation.

00:55:49.000 But we've also seen an uptick on influence campaigns to the new administration.

00:55:54.000 Obviously, the attempt by China to influence Biden is nothing new.

00:55:59.000 You'll recall that in the middle of the campaign, there was a report that came out that the media then studiously ignored, suggesting that China was in fact attempting to influence the election from outside in favor of Joe Biden.

00:56:09.000 Remember that Evanina released a statement In the middle of the year, in August, saying, quote, So, China is engaged in influence operations, and it is worthy of keeping an eye on them, especially considering the kind of nicety with which Joe Biden has treated China.

00:56:19.000 its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment in the United States and pressure political figures it views as opposed to China's interests and deflect and counter criticism of China. So China is engaged in influence operations and it is worthy of keeping an eye on them, especially considering the kind of nicety with which Joe Biden has treated China.

00:56:38.000 Remember, he refused to label them an opponent. Instead, Joe Biden has suggested that their flourishing would be good for the world, which is an arguable proposition at best.

00:56:46.000 Just ask the people of Hong Kong, who now live under the tender mercies of the Chinese government.

00:56:52.000 Okay, meanwhile, the media continue to suggest that we have a crisis of faith in American democracy.

00:56:59.000 Weird, because they didn't seem to think there was a crisis of faith in American democracy when they spent four years declaring that President Trump was a Russian plan.

00:57:05.000 But now, Eugene Robinson is deeply worried about the future of American democracy.

00:57:08.000 He writes in the Washington Post today, democracy requires faith.

00:57:12.000 President Trump and his unscrupulous enablers, including most Republican elected officials, are cynically destroying that faith for millions of Americans.

00:57:18.000 I fear the nation will pay a terrible price.

00:57:21.000 Oh, have you yet acknowledged that Stacey Abrams is not governor of Georgia?

00:57:25.000 Have you acknowledged that the Mueller report turned up absolutely nothing of relevant interest with regard to Trump-Russia collusion?

00:57:32.000 .

00:57:33.000 But Eugene Robinson is deeply worried about the institutions of our democracy.

00:57:38.000 The insane irony of hearing from Democrats who have spent years undermining fundamental institutions of American democracy, saying that the Senate is bad, saying the Electoral College is bad, suggesting that Trump was going to burn the mailboxes to stop the vote.

00:57:49.000 And now they're turning around, they're like, well, Trump won't accept the results of the election.

00:57:52.000 Democracy is in threat.

00:57:54.000 No, it's not.

00:57:55.000 There's a process and the process is playing out.

00:57:58.000 But they're hitting the panic button now.

00:58:00.000 Jim Clyburn is suggesting that there are some fragile, that there are some threats to our fragile democracy.

00:58:06.000 Remember, James Clyburn is also the sort of character who has suggested in the past Holocaust comparisons.

00:58:13.000 I believe he compared, I believe, Republicans to Nazis at one point in the last several weeks.

00:58:17.000 Here is Jim Clyburn, the Democratic Majority Whip.

00:58:21.000 There are some genuine threats to this fragile democracy of ours.

00:58:28.000 We've seen that play out now for the last four years, and it's now being put on steroids.

00:58:34.000 And so anytime this kind of invitation that this president is giving to people around the country, and that comes to the floor of the House, it's serious.

00:58:51.000 I don't think it will prevail.

00:58:53.000 Right, so it's a threat to democracy, says Jim Clyburn.

00:58:55.000 It's all a threat to democracy.

00:58:57.000 Okay, I mean, if you're talking about threats to democracy and the undermining of faith in public institutions, this guy literally said, I believe the week after the election, that Donald Trump was like Adolf Hitler for refusing to concede the results of the election.

00:59:09.000 No?

00:59:10.000 I'm gonna go no on that?

00:59:12.000 And then I've been telling people for a long time now, I'm beginning to see what happened in Germany back in the 1930s.

00:59:18.000 I never thought that could happen in this country.

00:59:21.000 How do you elect a person president, then all of a sudden give him the authority to be dictator?

00:59:29.000 That's what we're teetering on here.

00:59:31.000 That's what Hitler did in Germany. 0.83

00:59:34.000 Meanwhile, as far as whether the process is working, the process is working.

00:59:38.000 Okay, right now there's apparently one kind of final lawsuit that is happening in Georgia.

00:59:42.000 Eric Erickson has been very skeptical of the lawsuits filed by the Trump team and Lin Wood and Sidney Powell in places like Georgia.

00:59:48.000 He tweeted out this morning about this case in Georgia.

00:59:51.000 While I remain skeptical, it is the first case the Trump team has filed that is based on actual voting data that alleges a number of people voted who should not have and that their voting exceeded the margin of victory.

00:59:59.000 They have the names of the voters, et cetera.

01:00:01.000 They filed the case this past Friday.

01:00:03.000 They forgot to pay the filing fee, so it got thrown out.

01:00:05.000 Today is the last possible day to file it and get a judge-to-reverse certification of the election.

01:00:09.000 But he says this is a serious, credible lawsuit.

01:00:12.000 So, that is good news, right?

01:00:13.000 I mean, that is what you want.

01:00:14.000 You want a serious, credible lawsuit.

01:00:16.000 You don't want more press releases.

01:00:17.000 You don't want more hearings that are public but not actually legal in intent.

01:00:21.000 What you want, if you want to change the outcome of the election, is proof of the allegations that have been made.

01:00:26.000 And apparently, that is now being brought in a lawsuit in Georgia.

01:00:30.000 Which is probably a good thing, considering that these so-called Kraken lawsuits were all dismissed over the course of yesterday.

01:00:36.000 Hot air reporting, a federal judge swatted down Sidney Powell's so-called Kraken lawsuit in Michigan, ruling her team never provided evidence of either fraud or legal errors.

01:00:44.000 A Michigan federal judge, Linda Viparka, ruled against a request from Powell to force the state to award its electoral votes to Trump, despite Joe Biden winning the state by about 150,000 votes.

01:00:53.000 A 36 page opinion said in fact this lawsuit seems less to be about achieving the relief plaintiffs seek as much of that relief is beyond the power of this court and more about the impact of their allegations on people's faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government.

01:01:08.000 They don't have any really further next steps.

01:01:12.000 Apparently, the injunctive relief was denied.

01:01:15.000 Not only was the injunctive relief denied, there was another lawsuit that was thrown out.

01:01:19.000 The Georgia lawsuit from Sidney Powell, again, this is the Kraken lawsuit, was thrown out by a judge who was a George W. Bush appointee.

01:01:28.000 The judge said state courts need to hear those sorts of cases, not federal courts, and said the plaintiffs do not have standing, and also dinged Sidney Powell for untimeliness, because they could have challenged this a while back.

01:01:38.000 Meanwhile, the calls for a special session of the legislature in Georgia, those are going unheeded, mainly because it's not super legal.

01:01:46.000 According again to Hot Air, despite public castigation by Donald Trump and demands from four state senators, both Governor Brian Kemp and Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan announced they would not call a special session to choose new presidential electors.

01:01:56.000 Under both state and federal law, the legislature is not able to pick new electors anyway.

01:02:00.000 They say, while we understand four members of the Georgia Senate are requesting the convening of a special session of the General Assembly, doing this in order to select a separate slate of presidential electors is not an option allowed under state or federal law.

01:02:10.000 State law is clear.

01:02:11.000 The legislature could only direct an alternative method for choosing presidential electors if the election was not able to be held on the date set by federal law.

01:02:19.000 In the 60s, the General Assembly decided Georgia's presidential electors will be determined by the winner of the state's popular vote.

01:02:24.000 Any attempt by the legislature to retroactively change that process for the November 3rd election would be unconstitutional and immediately enjoined by the courts, resulting in a long legal dispute and no short-term resolution.

01:02:35.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is trying to do the same thing with the Pennsylvania House, apparently.

01:02:39.000 According to the Washington Post, President Trump called the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives twice during the past week to make an extraordinary request for help reversing his loss in the state, reflecting a broadening pressure campaign by the President and his allies to try to subvert the 2020 election result.

01:02:52.000 The calls, confirmed by House Speaker Brian Cutler's office, make Pennsylvania the third state where Trump has directly attempted to overturn a result since he lost the election, allegedly, to Vice President Joe Biden.

01:03:02.000 He previously reached out to Republicans in Michigan, They didn't do it.

01:03:05.000 He tried to pressure Brian Kemp to do it.

01:03:07.000 That's illegal.

01:03:08.000 And now he's trying to do this with the Republicans in the State House.

01:03:12.000 Cutler told the president the legislature didn't have the power to overturn the state's chosen slate of electors.

01:03:19.000 The House Speaker was among about 60 Republican state lawmakers who sent a letter to Pennsylvania's congressional representatives urging them to object to the state's electoral slate on January 6th.

01:03:27.000 That is when Congress is set to formally accept the results.

01:03:31.000 Although such a move is highly unlikely to gain traction, at least one Pennsylvania Republican said that he would probably try to do that.

01:03:37.000 So, is any of that likely to succeed?

01:03:39.000 So that Georgia lawsuit is where it's at, and they have to file similar lawsuits that actually evidence the harms alleged in places like Pennsylvania.

01:03:39.000 No.

01:03:48.000 Because remember, even if Georgia were to be overturned, Trump still is behind in Arizona, and he is behind in Pennsylvania.

01:03:54.000 He would need to win Georgia and Arizona and Pennsylvania, or reverse the Constituted results there in order to overturn the status of the election in those states right now.

01:04:04.000 So for all those people who are saying that this is all a threat to democracy, it's not a threat to democracy.

01:04:07.000 There's a process.

01:04:08.000 The process is moving forward.

01:04:10.000 If Team Trump is going to show their proof, then now would be the time to do it in places like Georgia as well as in the other states.

01:04:16.000 And there are allegations out there.

01:04:18.000 The allegations are out there.

01:04:20.000 I talked on this program yesterday.

01:04:22.000 about this tape. I've talked to about a week ago. There's this tape that emerged from Fulton County showing people allegedly taking boxes of ballots and then processing them after telling everybody to essentially clear out of the room. And then I talked on the show about the claims of the officials involved who suggested there was nothing really unusual about this, that the ballots had been there because everybody knew the ballots were there.

01:04:47.000 They were not hidden.

01:04:48.000 These boxes of ballots, basically, they're absentee ballots.

01:04:51.000 You have what are called ballot cutters.

01:04:53.000 The cutters take off the signature portion of the ballot because ballots are supposed to be anonymous.

01:04:58.000 And then you process all of the ballots after you box them up.

01:05:01.000 The allegation is that these were fake ballots or that these were stacked ballots or something like that.

01:05:07.000 Border fraud took place, the Republican observers were cleared out, and then these were all processed through the machines.

01:05:11.000 The state has said no normal process is that you take out those boxes and you process them, and that even if people made the mistake of leaving, There were state election observers who were there within an hour of that happening, and also there were cameras in the room.

01:05:23.000 There are outstanding questions to be asked about that case.

01:05:26.000 It should be fairly easy to prove if a bunch of ballots were put through that were never registered, if the numbers don't match up, if the number of registered absentee ballots does not match up with the number of signature slips.

01:05:43.000 Does not match up with the number of votes that were actually processed.

01:05:45.000 That would be a pretty easy way of telling if there's voter fraud.

01:05:47.000 All that stuff is going to have to come out in the wash.

01:05:51.000 Molly Hemingway has a good piece over at the Federalist talking about open questions with regard to that video.

01:05:58.000 That piece is worthy of a little bit of review.

01:06:01.000 She points out that, well, the state claims that people were not cleared out of the room.

01:06:06.000 So the state said people were not cleared out of the room.

01:06:07.000 That never happened.

01:06:08.000 There was no official who said that everybody should leave.

01:06:10.000 But as Molly Hemingway points out, Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Schaffer has consistently said that that is what happened at State Farm Arena beginning hours after the election.

01:06:18.000 He said, 2 p.m.

01:06:19.000 November 4th, Fulton County told our observers last night to go home because they were closing up and then continued to count ballots in secret.

01:06:25.000 That is backed by sworn affidavits from two Republican observers.

01:06:27.000 They further alleged they were kept an unreasonable distance from the ballots, even while they were at State Farm Arena.

01:06:32.000 And the video seems to back that up as well.

01:06:34.000 So as Molly Hemingway says, on the one hand, you have sworn affidavits from observers saying supervisors told ballot counters to go home for the evening shortly after 10 p.m.

01:06:42.000 and a video showing everybody leaving at that time.

01:06:43.000 On the other hand, you have two government officials promising no one was told that counting was over.

01:06:48.000 ABC News did report that ballot counters were sent home at the time Republican observers said everyone was told counting had stopped.

01:06:55.000 Apparently, the election department sent the ballot counters home at State Farm Arena at 10.30 p.m., according to Regina Waller, the Fulton County public affairs manager for elections.

01:07:04.000 Now, the sort of debunking of this story focused in on the idea that a state election board monitor said that he was present at the vote counting location beginning at 11.52 p.m., but that leaves about an hour and 20 minute gap between when the room was cleared and when he showed up.

01:07:19.000 Now, does that mean that voter fraud took place?

01:07:21.000 No, not necessarily.

01:07:22.000 Again, it's all on video.

01:07:24.000 And it is unclear on the video whether these ballots were there, whether they were not there.

01:07:28.000 Apparently, people who are in the know in Georgia suggest that the ballots had been properly tabulated before and put in the boxes and everybody knew the boxes were there.

01:07:35.000 That's really the key question here.

01:07:37.000 With that said, should all of these questions be pursued?

01:07:40.000 Absolutely.

01:07:40.000 I assume that that is the basis of that lawsuit in Georgia.

01:07:44.000 So we'll continue to bring you the latest.

01:07:45.000 Is that a threat to democracy, that lawsuit in Georgia?

01:07:47.000 I don't see why.

01:07:48.000 It's a lawsuit.

01:07:48.000 And just like all the other lawsuits, it will be processed and it will be gone through.

01:07:51.000 Meanwhile...

01:07:52.000 There's that Pennsylvania case that is going to probably be elevated to the Supreme Court at this point.

01:07:56.000 The Pennsylvania case is not allegations of voter fraud.

01:07:59.000 It is allegations that the Pennsylvania state legislature had no power to create universal mail-in balloting back in 2019 because the state constitution requires an amendment in order to allow that sort of process.

01:08:10.000 Senator Ted Cruz has announced that if that does make it to the Supreme Court, he will argue it in front of the Supreme Court.

01:08:15.000 Is that likely to overturn the results of the election itself?

01:08:18.000 The remedy is probably not to overturn the election results, but it will speak to the ways in which these election processes have been perverted in order to make it less clear, not more clear, who is voting and how.

01:08:27.000 You can hear a lot more about that story over on the Michael Noll Show today.

01:08:30.000 Michael's episode is out and available right now when we wrap here.

01:08:32.000 Might head on over there because he's got the inside scoop, maybe.

01:08:34.000 The man does a show with Ted Cruz, so you should have the inside scoop over there.

01:08:38.000 All right.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 08, 2020

They’re Sneering At You | Ep. 1152

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