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00:00:23.000There is a strategy that is being implemented, whether consciously or unconsciously, by the elites in our society, and it is to make everybody a loser.
00:00:30.000The reason I say this is because if everybody feels dispossessed by the system, then this allows people in power to claim that they have all of the incentive in order to change the system.
00:00:40.000The system, of course, being the enemy.
00:00:41.000Everything that has to do with the status quo is bad.
00:00:45.000Now, you might think to yourself, wait, hold on, I know that if I make good decisions in a free country, in a country where I have rights, then I tend to do better.
00:00:53.000And if I make bad decisions, I tend to do worse.
00:00:54.000Yes, but that doesn't allow people in power to have the impetus to change the system.
00:00:58.000And so their goal is to create as many losers as humanly possible.
00:01:02.000Their goal is to incentivize people to make bad decisions, to act as fringe as they possibly can, so they have more foot soldiers in the fight against the system.
00:01:11.000Now, this strategy involves sort of three separate steps.
00:01:14.000Step one is you glorify people who make bad life decisions.
00:01:18.000Or people who are exceptions to a rule.
00:01:20.000People who are left out by the system.
00:01:50.000Center the conversation on the marginalized.
00:01:52.000Now, the goal of doing that, of course, is to suggest that the marginalized ought to make all the rules or that the rules ought to be radically changed so that the marginalized are no longer marginalized.
00:02:01.000And there are two types of marginalized people in free societies.
00:02:04.000Marginalized people can be marginalized because they are statistically not the norm or they act in ways that are contra the normal rules.
00:02:42.000And then comes step two, which is you suggest that the reason for their life problems is not the decisions that they have made or the ways in which they are acting, right?
00:02:51.000What has to change is the system itself.
00:02:52.000Now, again, there are two separate categories of people here.
00:02:54.000There are people who are marginalized because the system has legitimately left them out for bad reasons, right?
00:02:58.000This would be the story of the civil rights movement would be the idea that there are people who are marginalized by the system because the system was indeed wrong because people have immutable characteristics that They have no control over and make no difference in life and should make no difference in life.
00:03:10.000And so the system should take account of them.
00:03:13.000And then there is what the left has done now, which is conflate that with marginalized people who are self-marginalized, people who are making decisions in their lives that marginalize them.
00:03:26.000And then we say that the system is bad because the system isn't taking account of those people.
00:03:30.000The reason for their troubles isn't their own decision-making process.
00:03:33.000We shouldn't incentivize them to make better decisions.
00:03:36.000Instead, what we should suggest is the system itself is bad.
00:03:38.000It needs to be torn down and needs to be changed.
00:03:41.000And so when you look at the sort of random chaos of modern culture, you have to understand that there is one unifying grand theory, and that is opposition to the status quo.
00:03:50.000That is the thing that unites all of the disparate parts in American society.
00:03:54.000It helps explain why certain bizarre things seem to be happening in terms of media and culture.
00:04:01.000It explains why the Biden administration, the White House, is pushing equity in all of its executive policy.
00:04:07.000We have to rejigger the entire system to take account of the quote-unquote marginalized, even if we're not actually talking about people who are marginalized anymore.
00:04:15.000Now we're just talking about people who make bad decisions, for example.
00:04:18.000Because the left essentially suggests that all disparity in outcome is a result of disparity in treatment, which of course is not true.
00:04:26.000It also explains the bizarre nature of the cultural waters in which we now swim.
00:04:32.000So today's example of the weirdness of our culture comes courtesy of Hershey's.
00:04:36.000So Hershey's, for the last three years, has been celebrating Women's History Month.
00:04:41.000And so they have now released Hershey Bar.
00:04:59.000They are now selling the Hershey's She Bar, which will be available in two sizes, a 1.55 ounce standard chocolate bar and a 4.4 ounce extra large chocolate bar.
00:05:09.000It will help Single, lonely 40-year-old women relieve their depression by eating as much chocolate as possible, presumably.
00:05:15.000And also, it will cost 77 cents on the dollar.
00:05:17.000Neither of those last two things are true.
00:05:19.000The Hershey Company, headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, now partnered with the North Carolina-based Girls on the Run for the second year for the special offering to build upon their shared mission of uplifting women to recognize their limitless potential.
00:05:38.000I mean, I guess that's better than if Hershey's had made a really awkward and terrible move like doing Hershey's of Color History Month or something.
00:08:09.000Puretalk.com, enter promo code SHAPIRO, save 50% off your very first month.
00:08:13.000So, Women's History Month, it features For Hershey, a dude.
00:08:17.000Faye Johnstone, who's the dude, as the spokesperson.
00:08:21.000Or maybe you have Dylan Mulvaney, celebrating Women's History Month.
00:08:24.000Dylan Mulvaney is, of course, also a dude.
00:08:27.000in a creepy video in which he, having waxed his mustache and beard apparently, has to put on makeup and then gallivant around like a caricature of a cartoon girl.
00:08:38.000I like pink. Pink. Oh, no, it's a TikTok video. Oh, no. Oh, my God.
00:08:48.000Dylan Mulvaney is wearing things that are pink, like a dress that is pink, and then smiling hysterically creepily into the camera for Women's History Month!
00:08:56.000Do you feel all the feminine history happening right here?
00:08:58.000Dylan Mulvaney's history as a woman is less than two years old.
00:09:04.000And in fact, doesn't exist at all because Dylan Mulvaney is in fact a dude.
00:09:08.000Or why, for example, is it that the Democrats in the Senate, they had a hearing the other day about the Equal Rights Amendment.
00:09:16.000Now, the Equal Rights Amendment has been DLA for decades at this point.
00:09:20.000There's a hard push for it in the 1970s.
00:09:21.000It didn't make it across the finish line because a lot of conservatives pointed out you're obliterating the distinctions between the sexes in law.
00:09:29.000Well, Democrats have been trying to revive the Equal Rights Amendment for a while.
00:09:33.000They've been doing so on the faulty legal basis that if an amendment is voted for over the course of like 40 years by various states, that there's no time limit on the amendment, which of course is ridiculous.
00:09:43.000But in any case, The main point here is what a pro-ERA witness named Kathleen Sullivan, who's a lawyer at Quinn Emanuel, said about protecting the differences between men and women.
00:09:53.000So she was asked about, you know, Women's History Month is coming up.
00:09:56.000You're talking about the Equal Rights Amendment.
00:09:57.000If you're going to protect women, then shouldn't there be distinctions between women and men that are actually protected?
00:10:06.000The ERA would simply make constitutional bedrock something we already recognize, which is Women and men should not be treated unequally.
00:10:16.000How that gets worked out when there are real differences between men and women is a question for the future.
00:10:22.000And this court, this court excuse me, the Senate need not specify to courts of the future how to work those questions out.
00:10:31.000We don't even have to bother with determining how men and women are different, actually, according to the newfangled left, which of course led Dick Durbin, one of the dumber senators in America from Illinois, to dismiss all concerns about women in men's sports or men in women's sports.
00:10:46.000Now we hear that what's at stake really is not a constitutional right for women, but the fate of field hockey.
00:10:53.000I mean, I'm trying to keep up with the arguments here.
00:10:57.000It might not mean a lot to you, sir, but it means a lot to the girls who play.
00:11:00.000See, I believe you have a sincere belief in that.
00:11:03.000And I believe those girls would probably feel very strongly about the issue if they're field hockey players.
00:11:09.000Particularly when they're displaced by males on the varsity team.
00:11:12.000But you see, that's what the argument comes down to.
00:11:25.000But the whole point is that you are destroying the role of women in the United States of America by saying that women don't exist, that men can actually be women.
00:11:32.000That's why you're doing it culturally.
00:11:33.000That's why you're doing it in the halls of power.
00:11:36.000It's why we are treated to our cultural betters to the sight of a man dressed as a woman who is the Assistant Human Health and Services Secretary.
00:12:09.000Society has to change how it thinks about things like men and women.
00:12:13.000All the powerful systems in which you have been indoctrinated need to be exploded.
00:12:17.000And that's how you end up with the bizarre spectacle of Rachel Levine, HHS Assistant Secretary, who is a dude talking up health during Women's History Month or something.
00:12:27.000March is National Nutrition Month, and the Biden-Harris administration is taking action to support public health by offering evidence-based guidance on nutrition.
00:12:38.000The 2025-2030 Federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee just met for the first time to begin its review of the relationship between diet and health throughout our lives.
00:12:50.000This committee will make recommendations for the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans based on a number of important factors, including socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and culture.
00:13:02.000Each of these factors impacts the food that we eat, the food that we're able to access in our overall nutritional outlook.
00:13:10.000This work is very timely because our country is facing a genuine crisis of diet-related diseases.
00:13:19.000Oh, I mean, we're not supposed to mention what those diet-related diseases are?
00:13:24.000We're not supposed to mention that because fat positivity and all of that.
00:13:27.000Man, when you look at the weirdness of American society, you have to wonder, why are you seeing so much of it?
00:13:31.000Because the whole goal is the weirdness!
00:13:32.000The whole goal is to re-center all of the weirdness, so that all those people can then feel marginalized, and they can feel bad about the system, and then you have enough people who feel bad about the system, and then you get to wreck the system.
00:13:42.000And this is how you end up with Lori Lightfoot, the former mayor of Chicago.
00:13:47.000She just got her ass kicked in a Democratic first-round race.
00:15:29.000So she was asked by a reporter after a concession address if she'd been treated unfairly over the course of the campaign.
00:15:34.000And her reply was, quote, I'm a black woman in America, of course.
00:15:39.000She'd said the same thing to the New Yorker back in February, quote, I'm a black woman. Let's not forget. Certain folks, frankly, don't support us in leadership roles.
00:15:46.000So that's weird because you'll remember that she actually won 73.7% of the vote in 2019 to become mayor of Chicago. And And the other 27% of the vote or so went to Toni Preckwinkle, who is also a black woman.
00:16:00.000But the whole point here is that she's a victim.
00:16:03.000She's a marginalized member of American society.
00:16:05.000Now, I will say, I did not see coming that Lori Lightfoot, the Smeagol of Chicago politics, intersectional Smeagol, I did not see that she was actually just Jussie Smollett, that she actually is Jussie Smollett.
00:16:17.000She's now claiming that she was victimized as a black woman in Chicago.
00:16:30.000I'm just waiting for her to tell her story about how she was walking down the street at 2am in the middle of a polar vortex getting a Subway sandwich when she was attacked by two dudes in red hats who decided to garret her.
00:16:38.000And then she walked back to her apartment wearing the rope line around her neck.
00:16:45.000By the way, you wonder why Jussie Smollett said what he said?
00:16:48.000He said it for the same reason that all these people are saying these kinds of things.
00:16:51.000They are victims of the society in which they live.
00:16:53.000That is the most important thing for you to remember.
00:16:55.000We have a society that embraces victimhood, that glorifies victimhood, because that is the impetus to change the system.
00:17:01.000It is all about wrecking the institutions around us, the institutions that actually create and enshrine our freedoms.
00:17:06.000The institutions that allow for predictability to life, the institutions, the intermediate institutions that I've been talking a lot about in American society, church, family, local government, community events, right?
00:17:16.000All these things are the things that people on the left would love to rip apart because they need to build something else in the wake of those systems.
00:17:23.000And the only way to tear down the systems is to focus on the marginalized.
00:17:28.000And that is why if you lose power in the system, like Lori Lightfoot said, you immediately declare it's because of your marginalized status, even though the reality is the only reason Lori Lightfoot became mayor of Chicago was, at least in part, her marginalized status in the first place.
00:17:41.000This leads, by the way, to bizarre spectacles like one of the most absurd arguments online that I've ever seen.
00:17:48.000And of course, it features another person who claims victimhood while being one of the least victimized people in American society, Nicole Hannah-Jones.
00:17:54.000She is the pseudo-journalist and creator of the Garbage 1619 Project, who's been turned into a national intellectual hero by the left.
00:18:02.000for telling a pack of lies about American history in an attempt to quote-unquote recenter, right?
00:18:06.000The whole goal is to recenter American history around slavery as though slavery wasn't already a deep and implicit part of American history that gets taught to literally all schoolchildren.
00:18:15.000Nope, she created the 1619 Project and now she's gotten herself in an argument with a survivor of the Maoist cultural revolution.
00:18:25.000According to the New York Post, She sparred with Critical Race Theory opponent, G. Van Fleet, on Twitter on Sunday after the malice survivor challenged Jones's rejection of American exceptionalism.
00:18:35.000In a three-part thread, Hannah-Jones argued that black history is under attack because, quote, our very presence on these lands is the greatest rebuke to the narrative of American exceptionalism.
00:18:44.000Van Fleet fired back, yourself and I, an immigrant from China with 200 borrowed dollars in my pocket when I arrived more than 30 years ago, are proof of American exceptionalism, which is 100% true.
00:18:53.000Nicole Hannah-Jones, being a, a, Pseudo-historian liar, a professional pseudo-historian liar has made herself millions of dollars.
00:19:04.000She's gotten herself a permanent chair at Howard University in a country that she says is terrible to her, in which the systems are geared against her.
00:19:13.000Van Fleet points out that I came here from China as a victim of the Cultural Revolution with 200 borrowed dollars, and I was asked to succeed.
00:19:21.000Van Fleet argued natural rights are unique to America's founding, telling Jones that quote, because of it, we were able to abolish slavery, Jim Crow, anti-Chinese laws to allow individuals to succeed.
00:19:30.000She said, what is not unique to America is slavery, which still exists today.
00:19:34.000People fighting for human rights in China are jailed by the CCP.
00:19:37.000Hannah Jones retorted, ma'am, the idea of natural rights may have been unique, but one fifth of the population was enslaved at our founding and had no natural rights.
00:19:44.000Further, do you not think protesters in the United States face state violence and arrest?
00:19:49.000And then she instructed Van Fleet to watch episode five of her Hulu docuseries.
00:19:54.000Fanfleet responded, her interpretation of America is not a vision, as Hannah-Jones suggested, but is a lived experience under the enslavement of communism, freedom in America, and the current woke revolution aiming to undo America.
00:20:03.000Black Americans are enslaved no more thanks to the persevering principles and humanity of this country, she told Hannah-Jones.
00:20:09.000Now again, it is just amazing to have Nicole Hannah-Jones, one of the most privileged human beings who has ever lived on the face of this planet.
00:20:14.000Nicole Hannah-Jones went to a college in the United States.
00:20:17.000Nicole Hannah-Jones worked at the New York Times.
00:20:18.000She has never written a thing of value, and she's extremely famous and rich.
00:20:23.000And here she is, informing a victim of Mao's Cultural Revolution, who came here and became successful, that America is truly a terrible place.
00:20:30.000The whole point, over and over and over again, is to censor the marginalized, thus to declare victimhood from American society.
00:20:38.000And that's gross, because American society is pretty great.
00:20:41.000The intermediate institutions of America are pretty awesome.
00:20:44.000Those are the things that allow for success for not only the hundreds of millions of people who live in the United States, but billions of people around the world.
00:20:50.000In fact, there are so many people who are arrayed at tearing down those institutions by refocusing all the focus on the marginalized.
00:20:57.000And there are bad reasons for marginalization and good reasons for marginalization.
00:21:02.000Bad reasons for marginalization include immutable characteristics.
00:21:04.000Good reasons for marginalization, meaning that you are economically marginalized, or that you've had a worse life, or that the system hasn't quote-unquote worked for you, is because you made bad decisions.
00:21:13.000And we have a society that is actively, actively incentivizing bad decision-making.
00:21:29.000As we move toward a more polarized world, the supply chains are probably going to start breaking a lot more often.
00:21:34.000And a lot of the stuff that you need is actually not manufactured in the United States.
00:21:37.000But one thing I don't have to worry about is having emergency medications thanks to JaceCase.
00:21:41.000It is a pack of five different antibiotics you can use to treat a host of bacterial illnesses in an emergency.
00:21:46.000You can get your JACE emergency medications right now because the vast majority of vital medications are going to be very hard to get if the supply chains actually get any ores.
00:21:53.000We've already seen antibiotic shortages last month.
00:24:31.000So this is the game that Greta Thunberg is now playing.
00:24:34.000So she's outlived the child prophetess routine because she's now the age of majority, which means I can make fun of her as much as I could possibly want to make fun of her, which is an awful lot because she's terrible.
00:24:42.000So Greta Thunberg got herself detained again.
00:24:45.000And this is a thing that she does every so often now because she needs to be in the press.
00:24:51.000And she can't be in the press anymore for being a small child who dresses down and wear pigtails.
00:24:55.000So she looks like she's six years junior to what she actually is in charge.
00:25:50.000I thought wind turbines were everybody's favorite friend in the environmental community.
00:25:53.000I thought wind turbines were, like, the greatest thing.
00:25:55.000We should all attach them to the top of our cars, and we should just go down the street powered by the wind turbines, like a giant pinwheel on the top of our Ford F-150s.
00:26:03.000Well, if she wanted the removal of 151 wind turbines from reindeer pastures used by Sammy Herders in central Norway, They say a transition to green energy should not come at the expense of indigenous rights.
00:26:15.000There will be no transition to green energy because, factually speaking, Norway is one of the biggest oil producers on planet Earth and their entire social infrastructure relies on them having a giant slush fund made of oil.
00:26:27.000The demonstrators have in recent days blocked access to some government buildings, putting the central left minority government in crisis mode.
00:26:32.000Yeah, as you see, the revolution is ongoing because even central left governments, not far left, even central left governments sometimes have to uphold the institutions that they purport to run.
00:26:40.000Here was a Greta Thunberg happily being being, quote unquote, detained yesterday.
00:27:17.000Thunberg, holding a red, blue, yellow, and green Sami flag, was lifted and carried away by police officers from the finance ministry, while hundreds of demonstrators chanted slogans.
00:27:24.000She told Reuters, quote, We want to make it very clear.
00:27:27.000It is the Norwegian state that is committing the real crime here for violating human rights by building wind turbines.
00:27:35.000Reindeer herders say the sight and sound of the giant wind power machinery frighten their animals and disrupt age-old traditions.
00:27:43.000And how is Santa ever going to have his reindeer if the wind turbines frighten away the reindeer?
00:27:49.000The most delicious thing about the radical leftists, who again, feature the marginalized, there will always be marginalized.
00:27:55.000The marginalized shall always be among you.
00:27:58.000What that means is even if you build your new system, even if the central left is running things, even if they're as green as green can be, there will always be a more marginalized group that is out there awaiting a new radical to tear down the system.
00:28:10.000Which is why it is worthy of note here that hilariously, Germany and Italy, both of whom signed on to all this Green New Deal garbage over in Europe, both of whom essentially disconnected power plants and tried to move toward more environmentally friendly energy.
00:28:25.000And meanwhile, we're kind of shuttling in Russian oil through the back door.
00:28:28.000Well, now Germany and Italy are signaling that they are going to kill the EU's attempt at a internal combustion engine ban.
00:28:34.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a group of large European countries is threatening to block a plan by Brussels to effectively ban the internal combustion engine, endangering the bloc's ambitious agenda to combat climate change.
00:28:44.000Germany and Italy said this week they could block the plan's formal approval at crucial meetings this week and next.
00:28:49.000Berlin said it would oppose the plan unless Brussels agrees to allow so-called synthetic fuels that can burn like gasoline and diesel, but spew fewer climate-damaging emissions alongside fully electric vehicles.
00:28:59.000Now, the reality, of course, is that Europe is going to be relying on oil for a long time to come.
00:29:03.000They do not have the geography that is necessary in order to support, for example, solar energy.
00:29:07.000Solar energy, we don't have the battery power on planet Earth to actually allow us to use solar energy as a substitute for hardier forms of energy.
00:29:16.000Also, Europe tends to have very short days at certain times during the year and not a lot of sun.
00:29:21.000It turns out that Europe is not actually all that land rich, so having wind power things is not going to do it.
00:29:27.000So all of this kind of nonsense about how they're going to do this green transition, even Germany's like, yeah, we can do it.
00:29:33.000The radicalism, it is a privilege of the systems that you guys hate so much.
00:29:39.000All the radicalism, all the attempts to tear down the system, those only exist in systems that are already extremely wealthy and extremely beneficial to the vast majority of their citizens.
00:29:50.000Because then you get to claim that you're marginalized from a system that has generated enormous success.
00:29:56.000See, if no one is successful, it's hard to claim marginalization because everyone is unsuccessful.
00:30:01.000But if you can find a system in which a lot of people are very successful and then you claim to be marginalized to tear down the system, it is success itself that creates the marginalized who then claim that the success must be torn down.
00:30:13.000In other words, these are first world problems.
00:30:15.000And it is fun to watch as the first world problems swing back around on the left.
00:30:19.000There is never any position that will be so radical that the left will not take it in order to tear down whatever the prevailing system is.
00:30:24.000The revolution must go on and the revolution always and forever eats its own.
00:30:30.000Meanwhile, on the Hill yesterday, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, came up to testify on his job thus far.
00:30:36.000He has done an unbelievably poor job over at the DOJ.
00:30:41.000Now, there is some kind of fascinating news that the Washington Post reported the other day regarding exactly how Merrick Garland is running the DOJ.
00:30:51.000According to Hot Air, did the FBI get a bad rap in the wake of the raid on Mar-a-Lago?
00:30:55.000According to the Washington Post, the raid took place only after months of debate between the FBI and prosecutors from the DOJ.
00:31:00.000The FBI argued a request for a full search of the property would have sufficed, according to two senior officials from the bureau.
00:31:15.000While prosecutors argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing secret documents at his Palm Beach home and urged the FBI to conduct a surprise raid at the property, two senior FBI officials resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump's permission to search the property.
00:31:32.000In the tug of war between two arms of the DOJ and then the FBI conducted the unprecedented raid.
00:31:38.000So basically Merrick Garland's DOJ ended up pushing right past the objections of members of the FBI in order to push the raid of Mar-a-Lago.
00:31:48.000So Merrick Garland doing just an amazing job.
00:31:50.000Merrick Garland had to sit in front of a bunch of senators.
00:31:53.000And it turns out it did not go unbelievably well for him.
00:31:56.000So it began with Senator Ted Cruz grilling Merrick Garland on the fact that the DOJ really did virtually nothing to stop people from protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices in the aftermath of the leak of the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
00:32:10.000Merrick Garland could have arrested a lot of those people because it turns out that it is illegal to attempt to use intimidation against a judge.
00:32:18.000Merrick Garland, of course, had no answer.
00:32:20.000So, you just said yes, it's a crime to protest at the home of a judge.
00:32:26.000Same goes for jurors, by the way, with the intent of influencing a case.
00:32:30.000But in the wake of the leak of the Dobbs decision, When rioters descended at the homes of six Supreme Court justices, night after night after night, you did nothing.
00:32:46.000When these same groups posted online information about where the justices worship, or their home addresses, or where their kids went to school, you again sat on your hands and did nothing.
00:33:02.000Your failure to act to protect the safety of the justices and their families was an obvious product of political bias.
00:33:40.000But you're perfectly willing to, at gunpoint, go and arrest a Catholic activist who was involved in a bit of a tussle with a person who was insulting his 12-year-old son.
00:33:52.000Here's Josh Hawley going after Merrick Garland.
00:33:54.000We're supposed to hate long guns and assault-style weapons.
00:33:58.000You're happy to deploy them against Catholics and innocent children.
00:34:09.000The FBI field office in Richmond on the 23rd of January of this year issued a memorandum in which they advocated for, and I quote, the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics, it's their language, including those who favor the Latin mass.
00:34:31.000Attorney General, are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?
00:34:38.000The Justice Department does not do that.
00:34:40.000It does not do investigations based on religion.
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00:35:34.000The first five episodes Okay, meanwhile, the questioning of Merrick Garland by Republican senators continued apace yesterday and Garland had very bad answers to what exactly he thinks the DOJ does for a living.
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00:35:45.000That's dailywire.com slash subscribe today. Okay, meanwhile, the questioning of Merrick Garland by Republican senators continue to pace yesterday and Garland had very bad answers to what exactly he thinks the DOJ does for a living.
00:35:57.000So he was asked about the fact that pro-life protesters are getting prosecuted.
00:36:05.000But meanwhile, people who are firebombing clinics, those people are not getting prosecuted.
00:36:16.000In 2022 and for the first couple of months of 2023, DOJ has announced charges against 34 individuals for blocking access to or vandalizing abortion clinics.
00:36:31.000There have been over 81 reported attacks on pregnancy centers, 130 attacks on Catholic churches since the leak of the Dobbs decision, and only two individuals have been charged.
00:36:43.000So how do you explain this disparity by reference to anything other than politicization of what's happening there?
00:36:52.000There are many more prosecutions with respect to the blocking of the of the abortion centers, but that is generally because those actions are taken with photography at the time during the daylight and seeing the person who did it is quite easy.
00:37:15.000Oh, so basically the DOJ will not expend resources if you firebomb things at night, is the note.
00:37:22.000And this DOJ, they're doing an amazing job.
00:37:24.000They are totally about enforcing the law, which is why America also says that it's good to send biological males to female prisons.
00:37:31.000Because, you know, everyone deserves dignity, except for the females who might be raped in the prison by the biological male, but they don't deserve dignity.
00:37:37.000Some women who rape other women have penises, according to the DOJ.
00:37:42.000What is our policy when it comes to allowing a male prisoner to be transitioned into a female prison?
00:37:52.000I think if you're generally asking the question of how trans people are dealt with in the Bureau of Prisons, my understanding is that these are determinations about where they're placed or where people are placed in general have to do with individualized determinations regarding The security of that individual and the management of the prison.
00:38:14.000These are done on a case-by-case basis.
00:38:17.000Are you concerned that if a biological male is sent to a female prison, that could be a risk to female prisoners?
00:38:22.000I think every person in prison has to be dealt with dignity and respect.
00:38:28.000The determinations of the safety questions you're talking about have to be made on an individualized basis.
00:38:36.000So much wisdom happening here from our DOJ.
00:38:39.000Garland also denied that he activated the DOJ to go after parents, which is weird because there was an actual letter issued from the DOJ talking about the threat to school boards at the behest of a school boards group that suggested that anyone who objected to what school boards was doing, those people were effectively terrorists.
00:38:55.000Here's Garland denying that the DOJ had anything to do with going after parents.
00:39:00.000Didn't you understand The chilling effect that it would have to parents.
00:39:11.000When you issued your directive, when you directed your criminal divisions and your counter-terrorism divisions to investigate parents who are angry at school boards and administrators during COVID.
00:39:31.000Senator, if you'd just give me a moment to put to full context, I did not do that.
00:39:36.000I did not issue any memorandum directing the investigation of parents who are concerned about their children.
00:39:43.000Quite to the contrary, the memorandum that you're talking about says at the very beginning of the memorandum that vigorous public debate is protected by the First Amendment and the kind of concerns that you're talking about are, as expressed by parents, are of course completely protected Yeah, but he's talking about the chilling effect of putting out these giant notices that basically say, but if you cross the line, you know, and you just cross the line, and we've been seeing all over the country a vast swath of violence against school.
00:40:12.000When you do that, it does have a chilling effect.
00:40:13.000Again, they're not sending their best.
00:40:14.000These are the people who are supposed to be expert bureaucrats.
00:40:17.000They're going to usher in the new age.
00:40:19.000Now, speaking of the expert bureaucrats who are going to usher in the new age, John Kirby, who is the national security spokesperson for the Biden administration, he said something the other day that kind of went without notice, and it's crazy.
00:40:29.000So, John Kirby was asked about further gain-of-function research.
00:40:33.000So, gain-of-function research is, of course, where you take a virus and then you make it more deadly, more transmissible.
00:40:39.000It depends on whether you're using the technical definition or not technical definition, but let's use the non-technical definition for a second.
00:40:45.000So, instead of it just being transmissible bat-to-bat, now it's transmissible bat-to-human, for example.
00:40:50.000Gain-of-function research is super risky because if it leaks outside the lab and you haven't come up with a cure for it, that's a real problem.
00:40:56.000So, John Kirby was asked about it and here was John Kirby's answer.
00:41:00.000Does the President believe, though, that the reward outweighs the risk when it comes to gain-of-function research?
00:41:09.000Does the reward outweigh the risk when it comes to gain-of-function research?
00:41:14.000You're going to have to say that again?
00:41:18.000Does the President believe that this type of gain-of-function research is prudent?
00:41:23.000He believes that it's important to help prevent Future pandemics, which means he understands that there has to be legitimate scientific research into the sources or potential sources of pandemics so that we understand it so that we can prevent them and we can prevent them from happening obviously.
00:41:50.000So that's a yes on the gain-of-function research.
00:41:52.000So, yes, more of the gain-of-function research.
00:41:55.000We need more of the gain-of-function research.
00:41:57.000Now, I'd be a little warmer to the case for you guys doing gain-of-function research if you weren't a bunch of political hacksaw garbage at your jobs.
00:42:06.000The same NIH that is suggesting they need to do gain-of-function research and fund gain-of-function research all over the world.
00:42:11.000Gain-of-function research, like, exactly the stuff that may have created COVID-19.
00:42:17.000Those exact people are now promoting DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion on scientists.
00:42:25.000So I don't think that you guys are really into science.
00:42:28.000I think that what you guys are really into is a particular brand of politics and you act outside your area of expertise all the time.
00:42:32.000I just think you're garbage at your jobs.
00:42:34.000I mean, I'll be honest with you, not all of you.
00:42:35.000I think some of you are good at your jobs, but I think that a lot of you are kind of garbage at your jobs.
00:42:38.000According to the Wall Street Journal, John Saylor writing, In 2020, the National Institutes of Health created the Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation program to enhance and maintain cultures of inclusive excellence in the biomedical research community.
00:42:52.000The program will give 12 institutions a total of $241 million over nine years for diversity-focused faculty hiring.
00:42:59.000Under the terms of the grant, only candidates who demonstrate a quote, strong commitment to promoting diversity and inclusive excellence can be hired through the program.
00:43:06.000To apply, candidates must submit a diversity statement.
00:43:10.000So what exactly are the rubrics for evaluating diversity statements?
00:43:14.000The University of South Carolina's program currently seeks faculty in public health and nursing.
00:43:18.000The University of New Mexico's program seeks faculty studying neuroscience and data science.
00:43:22.000Their rubrics call for punishing candidates who espouse race neutrality, dictating a low score for anyone who states an intention to ignore the varying backgrounds of their students and treat anyone the same.
00:43:31.000So yeah, I don't trust you guys to actually do science, since the people who are doing the gain-of-function research may have been appointed based on affirmative action considerations.
00:43:43.000The expert class has not earned the trust to be able to do risky things anymore.
00:43:47.000They've actually actively unearned whatever trust they had.
00:43:51.000This is a point made by our friend, Dr. Marty McCary.
00:43:53.000He was sort of our go-to guy during the pandemic here on the show over at Johns Hopkins University.
00:43:58.000Yesterday, he pointed out that there are a bunch of top scientists who very early on in the pandemic had essentially found that this was a lab leak, that this was probably a lab leak.
00:44:06.000And then, coincidentally, as soon as they reversed themselves on the question, they received a $9 million grant from the federal government.
00:44:13.000He insisted that he was sure that the coronavirus research that the U.S.
00:44:18.000taxpayer dollars funded at WIV was completely unrelated to SARS-CoV-2.
00:44:25.000And I was wondering if any of the three of you had any thoughts on that.
00:44:29.000Two leading virologists, maybe the two Top virologists in the United States, Dr. Michael Farzan from Scripps and Dr. Robert Gary from Tulane, told Dr. Fauci on his emergency call in January of 2020 when he was scrambling soon after learning that the NIH was funding the lab, they both said that it was likely from the lab.
00:44:55.000Both scientists changed their tunes days later in the media And then both scientists received $9 million subsequent in funding from the NIH.
00:45:05.000It's a no-brainer that it came from the lab.
00:45:13.000And the expert class shut everything down.
00:45:14.000Jay Bhattacharya, who's legitimately targeted by members of the federal government, up to and including doctors Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, targeted because he suggested the proper strategy.
00:45:24.000He ripped bureaucrats yesterday for acting like dictators.
00:45:30.000By early 2022, about 95% of Americans had contracted COVID despite the harsh countermeasures in most states, including confinement of broad populations, business closures, cessation of religious and other gatherings, school closures, and widespread violation of civil liberties.
00:45:47.000Very clearly, these measures failed to protect Americans from COVID.
00:45:51.000This fact is confirmed by a comprehensive Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis which included that lockdowns had failed to contain the spread of COVID.
00:45:58.000At best, they temporarily protected the laptop class who could work from home without losing their jobs, perhaps 30% of the population, while being served by the working class.
00:46:08.000Vaccine mandates forced many frontline workers, heroes who contracted COVID early in the pandemic while doing essential work, to choose between their careers and a vaccine that provides less protection than the natural immunity they already had.
00:46:21.000Many faced with these anti-scientific choices will never trust public health authorities again, even on vital topics such as the necessity of traditional childhood vaccines.
00:46:31.000Public health bureaucrats operate more like dictators than scientists during the pandemic, sealing themselves off from credible outside criticism.
00:46:40.000Bhattacharya is right, but here's the dirty little secret.
00:46:43.000The folks who are acting like dictators, they were backed by the political chattering class.
00:46:46.000They were backed by the political class who used their political point of view to promote, quote-unquote, the science.
00:46:52.000This was admitted by Whoopi Goldberg yesterday, of all people.
00:46:55.000She actually admitted that politics got in the way of truth when it came to the lab leak theory.
00:47:01.000The larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus testing each other for our political allegiances.
00:47:17.000And the two things that came out of it were, I'm racist against Asian people, and how dare I align myself with the alt-right?
00:47:27.000Now, he's right that politics got in the way of a lot of looking for the truth.
00:47:33.000But they still are not saying definitively.
00:47:50.000But this is why you shouldn't trust the expert class, because the expert class is talking to people like Whoopi.
00:47:54.000Those are the people who insist that you give them more power, of course, to change the system from within or destroy the system from without.
00:48:00.000OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:48:10.000According to American Wire News, Kayla Lemieux, the biological high school teacher who became famous for strutting around school dressed as a woman with Z-size prosthetic breasts, has now been placed on leave from Oakville Trafalgar High School.
00:48:22.000Now, You might say to yourself, well, isn't that a good thing?
00:48:26.000I mean, after all, this is a male who is walking around with fake prosthetic breasts that were size Z. They were obviously ridiculous with like fake nipples poking out through the shirt.
00:48:40.000Well, it turns out the reason this person has been suspended is not because he was wearing giant Z-sized prosthetic breasts at school in front of high school students.
00:48:49.000No, the reason this person was suspended is because he wasn't wearing the Z-sized prosthetic breasts outside of school.
00:48:58.000The development comes roughly two weeks after the New York Post discovered Lemieux allegedly dresses like a regular dude outside of work.
00:49:03.000The discovery was made by simply following him after he left work.
00:49:06.000The Post reported the teacher, who until a few years ago went by the name Carrie, left Ontario's Oakville Trafalgar High School this week wearing gigantic breasts and blonde wig and glasses.
00:49:13.000It wasn't long until the cartoonish clothing came off.
00:49:16.000After shopping at a department store and pet supplies shop dressed as a woman, Lemieux headed home to get changed, and emerged dressed as a man 30 minutes later.
00:49:22.000Lemieux then spent the afternoon in public wearing men's sweatpants, trainers, a gray t-shirt, and a navy puffer vest without breasts, makeup, glasses, or a wig.
00:49:29.000The post then obtained witness testimony from Lemieux's neighbors.
00:49:32.000Quote, he wears prosthetic breasts extremely infrequently.
00:49:35.000He put the breasts on to teach occasionally when he goes for a walk or when the cops visit, said one neighbor.
00:49:39.000According to the neighbor, the prosthetic breasts appeared out of nowhere last May when Lemieux was spotted parading them around while walking down a busy road.
00:49:51.000Everyone slows down because you can't believe what you're seeing.
00:49:54.000Following the post-investigation, Lemieux contacted them to tell them his side of the story, which was that his obviously fake breasts were somehow real.
00:50:01.000He said, I'm not wearing prosthetic breasts.
00:50:50.000The moment that he wasn't doing it like the rest of his life, that's when the, oh, well, I guess it's not, that's not authentic.
00:50:54.000If it's not authentic, then we can't, but if it were authentic, if this dude were wearing around the fake prosthetic breast full time, well, then it's a civil rights issue.
00:51:02.000Yes, that's how backwards we as a society have become.
00:51:05.000It is worse for you not to wear the fake prosthetic breasts around the rest of your life than it is for you to wear them in school among high school children.
00:51:18.000So, Bill Maher did an interview with Jake Tapper the other night.
00:51:20.000Bill Maher's show now appears on CNN because CNN is dying in the ratings and Maher actually draws flies.
00:51:25.000And Bill, I'm friendly with Bill, he did a very good interview with Jake Tapper in which he discussed what it's like to actually do his job.
00:51:32.000He says when he's trying to hire writers for the writers room he has a real problem because everybody is ideologically monolithic.
00:51:38.000So every year I read these packets of proposed writers, and I read them this year as I do every year, and it's just stunning how uniform their points of view are.
00:51:51.000I don't remember, but I don't think it was ever quite this bad.
00:51:54.000It's the exact same point of view on every single issue, and it's very predictable.
00:52:00.000I have a relationship with people who want to hear what I think is the truth, and I'm going to present both sides.
00:52:08.000Ammar also pointed out that the woke left, they love diversity, but they don't like diversity of ideas very much.
00:52:14.000So you talk about the Democrats being so hemmed in by identity politics.
00:52:18.000The counter-argument would be, it's always been identity politics, it's just always been white people, so people like you and me didn't notice.
00:52:26.000And now it's just an effort at inclusion, which I'm sure, theoretically, you support.
00:53:07.000Remember if you go back to my first book that I wrote in like 2003 when I was still in college.
00:53:12.000If you go back and you look at that book, I talk about Bill Maher.
00:53:14.000I'm pretty disparaging about Bill Maher because he and I were on opposite sides of every single issue.
00:53:17.000Well, Bill Maher is no longer on the opposite sides of every issue.
00:53:20.000It's just that the entire political spectrum has moved so far to the left that him being mildly reasonable now makes him a right winger in the eyes of the left.
00:53:37.000So the situation over in Israel domestically is incredibly stupid right now.
00:53:41.000I say it's incredibly stupid because you're seeing hundreds of thousands of people who are going into the streets to protest an overhaul of the judiciary.
00:53:49.000Now, in reality, they're not protesting the overhaul of the judiciary.
00:53:51.000The people who are in the streets right now and who are very angry are really just angry that Benjamin Netanyahu and the right wing won the last election cycle.
00:53:57.000After a series of sort of stalemate elections, Netanyahu won an overwhelming victory in the last election, got 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament.
00:54:05.000And one of the first things that he took on was an obvious flaw in the Israeli governmental system, which is the judiciary.
00:54:11.000The judiciary in Israel is very weird.
00:54:13.000Essentially, the people who are on the Supreme Court of Israel can make rulings striking down legislation, not on the basis of a constitution, because there is no constitution in Israel.
00:54:22.000They just basically say they don't like a thing and strike it down, which means that they're not actually a judiciary.
00:54:28.000They appoint their own successors, effectively speaking.
00:54:31.000The legislature is not really involved.
00:54:33.000The prime minister is not really involved.
00:54:36.000It's an outside body that selects the people who can actually be the justices on the Israeli Supreme Court, and that includes past Supreme Court justices and members of the Israeli Bar Association and all the rest.
00:54:45.000It doesn't work like the United States does.
00:54:46.000In the United States, it works pretty rationally.
00:54:52.000The Senate has the power of advice and consent.
00:54:55.000And then vote on the Supreme Court justice.
00:54:58.000The justices are then bound to uphold a written constitution in the face of other legislation, and the constitution overrules.
00:55:04.000There is no constitution in Israel, and the judicial branch is basically impervious to any sort of public input in the form of, say, the Prime Minister selecting the justices who are going to be on the Supreme Court, and then the Parliament being able to up or down it.
00:55:20.000Netanyahu came in and he said, I've looked at the Supreme Court.
00:55:23.000The Supreme Court has been a stalwart instrument for the hard left in Israel for literally the entirety of Israel's existence.
00:55:30.000And so he wanted to pass a rule, some laws that would change how the Supreme Court was run in Israel.
00:55:35.000And here are effectively what the changes are.
00:55:38.000One was the Knesset, the parliament, would be allowed to override Supreme Court decisions by majority vote.
00:55:44.000Okay, well, that makes sense if the court is not speaking on behalf of a constitution, on behalf of a higher law.
00:55:52.000All that's saying is that the legislature in Israel rules, which makes sense unless there's going to be, again, another higher document that the Supreme Court can use to strike down legislation.
00:56:00.000You have to have some sort of basis for striking things down.
00:56:04.000The changes would have removed the Supreme Court's ability to judge Knesset legislation for reasonability.
00:56:10.000This is one of the standards they were using, and they weren't judging it against the Constitution.
00:56:37.000It was also going to give the most control over appointing judges to the ruling coalition rather than to the legal experts and representatives who are sort of this independent body.
00:56:45.000So it's going to look more like the American system than it looks right now.
00:56:49.000And finally, one of the weird things in Israel is that every department in the Israeli Executive branch has its own legal advisors.
00:56:58.000OK, but those legal advisors don't give advice to the heads of those branches.
00:57:01.000They literally just strike down legislation inside the department.
00:57:04.000So imagine if Joe Biden went to his EPA and he said, I want you to do X. And the head of the EPA is like, OK, I'm going to implement that.
00:57:12.000And there was a legal advisor inside the EPA who just said, nope, you can't do it.
00:57:22.000So what this would have done is it would have allowed the legal advisors to be advisors as opposed to, you know, sort of independent judicial bodies who are striking down regulations and legislation inside the executive branch.
00:57:37.000And that's probably what's going to end up happening in Israel because the simple fact is the Supreme Court of Israel is going to strike down any law that doesn't get made via negotiation here.
00:57:47.000They want to pass a law changing the nature of the judiciary, but the judiciary still has the ability to strike down the law changing the nature of the judiciary.
00:57:53.000Because again, when you don't have a constitution in the United States, this isn't a problem.
00:57:56.000In the United States, when you want to change the constitution, you make an amendment.
00:57:59.000The amendment prohibits the judiciary from speaking on a particular topic.
00:58:02.000Israel doesn't have a constitution, so there's no way for them to quote-unquote overrule the judiciary.
00:58:06.000The judiciary basically gets to decide what the judiciary gets to do, which is part of the problem.
00:58:12.000But all of this is relatively complex.
00:58:15.000Instead of a negotiation taking place, or instead of the people who oppose Netanyahu and the current coalition just saying, OK, fine, so you want to do that?
00:58:23.000You're going to feel the pain at the ballot box next time around and we're going to win.
00:58:25.000Then we're going to reverse everything you just did, which they could do.
00:58:28.000Instead of them doing that, they send hundreds of thousands of people into the streets to protest.
00:58:31.000Now, again, protest is totally fine, but they were shutting down freeways.
00:58:34.000Not only that, there have been rumored, say this is a rumor, high level officials in the opposing coalition In Israel who have been literally encouraging businesses in Israel to divest from Israel over this because they want power again.
00:58:48.000They want to harm actively some of them.
00:58:50.000The economy of the state of Israel, which is really kind of gross stuff.
00:58:54.000And then beyond that, yesterday you had a really bad situation in which some of the quote-unquote protesters decided that they were going to surround the hair salon where Bibi Netanyahu's wife was getting her hair done yesterday in Tel Aviv.
00:59:05.000And security forces, according to the Jerusalem Post, actually had to rescue Sarah Netanyahu from the salon, where hundreds of thousands of protesters stood blocking the exit, preventing her from leaving.
00:59:14.000So what security forces did is they acted like she was still inside, and then they evacuated her to a vehicle and drove away from the scene.
00:59:20.000And they didn't leave until they were notified.
00:59:22.000The forces didn't leave until notified that the vehicle had been managed to get away.
00:59:27.000Well, even some of the opposition was saying this is too much.
00:59:30.000You have to actually let the prime minister's wife go home.
00:59:32.000But the continuation of this really suggests that a lot of the protests that is happening right now has very little to do with the actual proposed legislation and more to do with the fact that there are a lot of people who just didn't like they lost the last election.
00:59:42.000And this ties into broader politics across Western civilization right now.
00:59:47.000There's been this claim by folks on the left that authoritarian rule is on the way.
00:59:57.000They're places where the right won or had won.
01:00:01.000The left is constantly suggesting that democracy is under threat.
01:00:04.000But when you keep suggesting that democracy is under threat, when you lose, who's putting democracy under threat?
01:00:10.000What is the name, the specific anti-democratic action that is being taken so we can determine whether it's anti-democratic or not?
01:00:16.000What Netanyahu is doing in Israel on the judiciary is actually pro-democratic because it means that people get to vote on issues as opposed to having the judiciary strike things down in the name of a non-constitution that doesn't exist.
01:00:26.000It's very hard to make the case that Netanyahu, who was popularly elected with his coalition and now wants to make judicial decisions subject to more popular feedback, that that is somehow anti-democratic.
01:00:38.000It is more democratic, technically speaking.
01:00:41.000But this is what the left does right now.
01:01:16.000I don't think he's going to win again.
01:01:19.000I do not believe that this election is the last election.
01:01:22.000And people who tend to say things like this election is the last election without actual evidence are the people who are promoting the this is the last election idea.
01:01:28.000Because what they're essentially saying, if you think democracy is going to end, then everything and everything is on the table.
01:01:33.000And that really does break apart societies.