The Ben Shapiro Show - Turning Biden Into The Normcore President | Ep. 1180

00:00:00.000 The media push President Biden as the most normal, normal person who has ever normaled.

00:00:04.000 But there is only one problem.

00:00:05.000 His policy?

00:00:06.000 Not normal.

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00:01:37.000 Okay, so years ago, there was a trend in fashion.

00:01:41.000 It was called norm-coring.

00:01:42.000 Okay, norm-coring is a term that is a mashup of two terms, normal and hardcore, right?

00:01:47.000 You were hardcore normal was the basic idea of this.

00:01:52.000 The term was coined in 2013.

00:01:54.000 There was a trend at Casting Group called K-Hole, and they published a report in which they talked about norm-coring.

00:02:00.000 The idea was to blend into the crowd.

00:02:01.000 You were gonna start wearing like J. Crew clothes and stuff from The Gap, right?

00:02:05.000 This was norm-core.

00:02:06.000 You're gonna be militantly normal.

00:02:08.000 Okay, so this is the media's attempt to do... Biden is the normalcore guy.

00:02:16.000 That's what they're going to do.

00:02:17.000 So Biden campaigned in 2020 as, I'm going to return to normalcy, right?

00:02:21.000 This is so crazy.

00:02:23.000 Everything is nuts.

00:02:24.000 And of course, this was the call from the moment that Trump entered office was, we can never pretend this is normal.

00:02:29.000 This is not normal.

00:02:30.000 Every single thing Trump did was, this is absolutely not normal.

00:02:33.000 Even if it was totally normal.

00:02:35.000 If he fired a U.S.

00:02:35.000 attorney, which he had every power to do, and happened pretty regularly when an administration enters office, it was, this is not normal.

00:02:42.000 We cannot pretend this is normal.

00:02:43.000 Now, there are a lot of things about President Trump that weren't normal, right?

00:02:46.000 I mean, President Trump liked to tweet a lot.

00:02:48.000 President Trump liked to say crazy stuff on a fairly regular basis.

00:02:51.000 President Trump was certainly the only person, as the President of the United States, who have uttered the word covfefe.

00:02:56.000 President Trump, A lot about him that wasn't normal.

00:02:59.000 But here was the weird thing for a lot of conservatives about President Trump.

00:03:03.000 While he himself was not a normal human, and while he himself was this garrulous and bloviating real estate reality TV star, I mean, that's what he was.

00:03:14.000 Many of his policies, super normal, right?

00:03:16.000 Restoring America on the military stage, perfectly normal. 0.84

00:03:19.000 Lowering taxes, perfectly normal.

00:03:21.000 Putting in place judges who are going to properly interpret the law, perfectly normal, right?

00:03:24.000 His actual policy was super normal compared to the absolute abnormality of the Obama administration, which radically moved us in the direction of identity politics, which revised the relationship entirely between the United States government and the American citizen.

00:03:39.000 Which completely racialized American politics, if you compare not the personal manner and affect of the Commander-in-Chief.

00:03:46.000 Right.

00:03:47.000 If you compare the personal affect of the commanders in chief, Barack Obama was more normal than Trump.

00:03:52.000 And Biden is more normal than Trump.

00:03:53.000 If you compare the policy, Trump was more normal than both.

00:03:56.000 Like a lot more normal than both.

00:03:58.000 Because if you look at the shift of radical change, radical change was coming from Obama.

00:04:02.000 It was not coming from Trump.

00:04:03.000 There was no radical change in policy.

00:04:05.000 There was a bit of a backtrack on some of the radical change of Obama's policy.

00:04:09.000 But even there, it wasn't as radical as you would hope if you were a conservative.

00:04:12.000 We were still spending $4 trillion a year.

00:04:15.000 We were still blowing up the amount of money that the government was spending.

00:04:19.000 So his policy was a lot more normal, Trump's was, than Obama's.

00:04:22.000 Now Biden comes in and what we're going to do is we're going to say, okay, we're restoring normalcy.

00:04:26.000 This was Biden's entire campaign.

00:04:28.000 He's the most normal normal who has ever normal.

00:04:30.000 What a normie.

00:04:30.000 He's just a normal dude who normals for a living.

00:04:33.000 Like that's, that's all he's been for 50 years.

00:04:35.000 He has been normal.

00:04:36.000 I mean, sure.

00:04:38.000 He's not super normal.

00:04:38.000 Sure.

00:04:39.000 I mean, he's been in government service since he was 29 years old.

00:04:42.000 He was elected to the Senate at the age of 29.

00:04:43.000 Sure.

00:04:45.000 He's spent virtually every moment since then either on the public dole or making money having been on the public dole.

00:04:51.000 Sure, he doesn't actually live a normal lifestyle for most Americans.

00:04:56.000 It happens to be true that by any American standard at this point in his life, he's a very, very wealthy man.

00:05:00.000 I think his net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of about $10 million.

00:05:03.000 But he's the most normal person who has ever normal, right?

00:05:06.000 I mean, he took Amtrak.

00:05:07.000 Super normal guy.

00:05:09.000 And the more normal they can make Biden seem, the more you are going to ignore the fact that his policy is absolutely abnormal.

00:05:15.000 The more they can make it seem like Joe Biden is basically like your friendly uncle or your friendly grandpa or your friendly great, great, great, great grandpa, the more they can make it seem like that, the less you're going to pay attention to the fact that he's actually cramming down a particular view of the United States that is wrongheaded and a bunch of policy that is super not normal.

00:05:31.000 And the media are invested in this because the media are just the public relations wing of the Democratic Party.

00:05:36.000 It's astonishing.

00:05:37.000 How fast the media have kicked into gear on this one.

00:05:40.000 On virtually every front.

00:05:42.000 We, on the right, we said, you know what?

00:05:44.000 Your newfound aggressiveness against the Trump administration?

00:05:46.000 We find it weird because you didn't do any of that when Obama was president.

00:05:49.000 They're like, no, we're aggressive with everybody.

00:05:51.000 And then Biden enters office and they just start slavering. 0.92

00:05:53.000 I mean, it's the best little whorehouse in Texas for the Biden administration over there. 1.00

00:05:57.000 It's incredible. 0.57

00:05:59.000 So let me give you an example.

00:06:01.000 So, yesterday, Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, very normal.

00:06:06.000 Everybody there is normal.

00:06:07.000 Norm, norm, norm, normal.

00:06:08.000 Okay, so, Jen Psaki, she is taking questions on her cell phone for the President of the United States.

00:06:14.000 And she tweets out, last week I asked you for your questions and you delivered.

00:06:18.000 Answered a bunch here.

00:06:18.000 I'm looking forward to doing this again soon.

00:06:20.000 Spoiler, revealing POTUS' favorite ice cream.

00:06:24.000 And President Biden tweeted back, can confirm it's chocolate chip.

00:06:28.000 So normal, man.

00:06:30.000 So normal.

00:06:31.000 I mean, he's so normal that his favorite ice cream is chocolate chip.

00:06:34.000 Which is, like, the most normal ice cream, right?

00:06:36.000 I mean, if he said vanilla, then he'd be like, oh, well, he doesn't like chocolate.

00:06:39.000 And if he said chocolate, he'd be like, well, probably he doesn't like vanilla.

00:06:42.000 And if he said cookie dough, he'd be like, well, you know, there's a lot of carbs in there.

00:06:46.000 So instead, he was just like, chocolate chip.

00:06:47.000 And everyone's like, wow, look how normal that guy is.

00:06:49.000 That guy is so normal.

00:06:51.000 I've never met somebody as normal as Joe Biden.

00:06:53.000 So Yasha Monk, who's writing I typically like at The Atlantic, he immediately tweets out, It's so nice to have a boring president.

00:06:59.000 Okay, and that's gonna be the theme.

00:07:00.000 He's a boring president.

00:07:01.000 Now, you can have a boring man who is president without him being a boring president. 0.57

00:07:07.000 This is the thing.

00:07:08.000 You can have a boring man who is the president of the United States without the presidency being particularly boring.

00:07:13.000 Okay, Woodrow Wilson, extraordinarily boring human being.

00:07:17.000 Or like just a bore from top to bottom.

00:07:19.000 His presidency was one of the worst presidencies in American history.

00:07:22.000 It was characterized by vast amounts of terribleness.

00:07:25.000 You have perfectly normal people as president of the United States and yet the presidency is not boring because it turns out the presidency is not just the personality.

00:07:32.000 The presidency is what you do with the power.

00:07:34.000 The presidency is the policy that you implement that affects, at this point, 330 million Americans.

00:07:39.000 Yasha Monk then followed up, he said, Okay, well, what if I'm mostly concerned, as I was during the Trump administration, with the policy that comes out of the White House that affects me?

00:07:46.000 What if I'm mostly concerned with the direction the United States moves?

00:07:48.000 We have very different assessments of the past four years.

00:07:51.000 Okay, well, what if I'm mostly concerned, as I was during the Trump administration, with the policy that comes out of the White House that affects me?

00:07:58.000 What if I'm mostly concerned with the direction the United States moves?

00:08:01.000 Now, none of that is an attempt to justify the various excesses and insanities of the Trump White House.

00:08:09.000 But I think that we can acknowledge on a baseline level that the policy pursued by the Trump administration was shockingly normal.

00:08:15.000 Again, for a president who is definitely not a normal dude, that was a shockingly normal policy, White House.

00:08:21.000 And then we get this, which is, he's so normal, guys.

00:08:24.000 He's so normal, we can go to sleep.

00:08:25.000 We can just go to sleep.

00:08:26.000 We don't even have to do our jobs here in the media.

00:08:28.000 In fact, it's over.

00:08:30.000 We no longer have to worry about anything.

00:08:32.000 Okay, so the norm-coring, the attempt to pretend that Joe Biden is like the most normal person who has ever lived is so in swing on the left.

00:08:41.000 I mean, to the point We're there now out there taking the least normal parts of Biden and making them normal.

00:08:46.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:08:47.000 So here's Brian Stelter, who reliable sources, he's supposed to be the media watchdog. 0.97

00:08:52.000 And instead, of course, he is just Joe Biden's lapdog. 0.75

00:08:54.000 Here he was. 0.86

00:08:55.000 Honestly, I'm just getting my new nickname for the main for the establishment media when it comes to Democratic administrations.

00:09:00.000 They're the human centipede.

00:09:01.000 They're just the human centipede.

00:09:02.000 Anyway, here's here's Brian Stelter explaining that Joe Biden is making news boring again.

00:09:07.000 He's making news.

00:09:08.000 See, here's the thing.

00:09:09.000 If you were a news person, Brian Stelter, the news would not be boring.

00:09:12.000 He's pursuing some fairly radical policy right off the bat.

00:09:15.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:09:16.000 But it's boring because you see all you wanted to cover.

00:09:19.000 Trump made their job so easy.

00:09:20.000 He really did.

00:09:21.000 The reason that Trump made their job easy is because every day they would get up, they would look at Trump's Twitter feed, and that would decide what they cover that day.

00:09:27.000 He would literally just tweet out the news cycle.

00:09:30.000 He'd be like, this country is a bleep hole.

00:09:32.000 I mean, oh my God, that's 12 hours of content.

00:09:33.000 Get me a panel, Jamel Hill.

00:09:36.000 I want, get, you know, I need it on air right now.

00:09:39.000 Get Michael Eric Dyson on the phone.

00:09:40.000 Stat, the president tweeted out that a country is a bleep hole country.

00:09:43.000 And everybody's like, okay, yeah, that's like not great, but I'm just wondering what that has to do with policy.

00:09:49.000 I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no The truth is, the saddest people in the world in the media that Trump's Twitter got banned are the members of the media.

00:10:03.000 Because now, they actually are supposed to have to do their jobs.

00:10:05.000 But here's the thing, they're not going to do their jobs.

00:10:07.000 Instead, literally their new policy in the media is to declare themselves irrelevant.

00:10:13.000 I've never seen anything like this in the media.

00:10:16.000 We felt that we were relevant during the Trump administration because we were calling balls and strikes.

00:10:19.000 I'm a conservative.

00:10:20.000 I was going to give you my opinion of what Trump did.

00:10:22.000 I was going to give you my opinion of, yes, the tweets, but also the policy.

00:10:26.000 The media were like, no, we're not going to cover the policy at all.

00:10:27.000 We're just going to cover the tweets.

00:10:29.000 And then everything with regard to policy will be seen through the prism of the tweets.

00:10:33.000 But now that a Democrat is in the White House and the Democrats have Congress, now the media are declaring that they no longer are relevant.

00:10:41.000 I've never heard of anything like this.

00:10:42.000 It's amazing.

00:10:44.000 They have the same perspective about their job that I would if I were a politician, which is my job would be to make myself irrelevant so you can live your life.

00:10:50.000 But the media, their job is not to be irrelevant.

00:10:53.000 Their job is to cover the news.

00:10:55.000 But here's Brian Stelter of Reliable Sources explaining.

00:10:58.000 Basically, we're done.

00:10:59.000 The news is boring.

00:11:00.000 You don't have to watch anymore.

00:11:01.000 Turn off CNN.

00:11:02.000 What is going on here?

00:11:04.000 Here's Brian Stelter.

00:11:06.000 Is President Biden making the news boring again?

00:11:10.000 People are always asking what the media will do post-President Trump.

00:11:14.000 This week, after Biden's inauguration, they've been asking, are reporters going through withdrawal?

00:11:19.000 Are they missing Trump's tweets?

00:11:21.000 Are they lost without outrages to cover?

00:11:24.000 These headlines from Axios and other websites point out that Biden's plan is dull by design.

00:11:31.000 So is he making the news boring again?

00:11:33.000 Is he making the news boring?

00:11:36.000 And then he shows a couple of headlines, right?

00:11:38.000 Axios.

00:11:38.000 Biden's dull by design plan.

00:11:39.000 The Atlantic.

00:11:40.000 Boring is better.

00:11:41.000 Mashable.

00:11:41.000 Joe Biden's first presidential tweet is refreshingly boring.

00:11:44.000 See, he's so normal, guys.

00:11:46.000 Normal.

00:11:47.000 Boring.

00:11:47.000 With normalcy and boringness.

00:11:49.000 Isn't that amazing?

00:11:51.000 By the way, Stelter then tweeted out a chyron on his show.

00:11:55.000 This is the Chiron.

00:11:56.000 Saki promises to share accurate info in parentheses.

00:12:00.000 How refreshing.

00:12:01.000 What do you think your job is, Brian Stelter?

00:12:05.000 Like, seriously, what do you perceive your job to be?

00:12:08.000 How refreshing!

00:12:10.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:12:11.000 Every single person who gets up at the White House podium says they are about to provide you accurate information.

00:12:16.000 They then lie to you.

00:12:18.000 Okay, this has happened for every single White House press secretary of whom I'm aware.

00:12:21.000 Some of them lied less than others.

00:12:23.000 Dana Perino and Ari Fleischer lied less than Robert Gibbs and Jay Carney.

00:12:26.000 But the basic idea that you in the media are going to be like, how refreshing, a politician has promised me honesty, literally the opposite of your job.

00:12:34.000 Your job is to say, yes, I know you're promising me honesty, and now I'm going to hold you accountable.

00:12:38.000 But they don't do that.

00:12:39.000 They have no intention of doing that.

00:12:41.000 I mean, the wild shift between, look how normal and boring this is, and five minutes ago when it was everything is a crisis, every single thing is a crisis.

00:12:49.000 It's like New Orleans floods every day.

00:12:51.000 It's like the planes go into the towers every day.

00:12:53.000 Stelter was saying, this is we're back to normal, guys.

00:12:55.000 It's boring. It's normal.

00:12:56.000 This is Brian Stelter just a few months ago being like nothing is normal.

00:12:59.000 There's not a single thing that's happening that's normal right now.

00:13:02.000 It's like New Orleans floods every day.

00:13:07.000 It's like the planes go into the towers every day and to look away or act like it's now normal or acceptable.

00:13:18.000 Is a disgrace to the victims.

00:13:22.000 Okay, I just gonna point out, while you guys are talking about Joe Biden's ice cream flavor, while you guys are talking about how normal Joe Biden is, and the new boring and the new normal, more people are dying on a daily basis in the United States than have ever died from COVID in the entire history of COVID.

00:13:35.000 Just gonna point that out.

00:13:37.000 So if we were the media, and we were to cover this consistently, right now, Brian Stelter would have been on TV yesterday.

00:13:42.000 He'd have been like, look, there was Joe Biden tweeting out about chocolate chip ice cream.

00:13:45.000 Yesterday was 9-11 in the United States.

00:13:48.000 Yesterday, planes were flying into buildings in the United States, and this guy was tweeting about chocolate chip ice cream.

00:13:55.000 This is not normal.

00:13:56.000 But no, no, no, they're never gonna do that, right?

00:13:57.000 Because it's so normal.

00:13:58.000 Everything's normal.

00:13:59.000 And the media are determined to talk about how normal this is.

00:14:03.000 Okay, so last week, one of the reporters in the White House press room asked Jen Psaki, does Joe miss being a candidate?

00:14:10.000 These are the kind of questions that you are going to get from your establishment media, the human centipede over here.

00:14:16.000 Presidents and candidates have some events where They're fun for the candidate.

00:14:22.000 The big crowd on the acceptance speech at the convention.

00:14:26.000 The big crowd at the inauguration.

00:14:30.000 Big rallies.

00:14:31.000 Because of COVID, this president has been denied all those.

00:14:35.000 Has he ever been at all wistful about sort of missing the fun parts of being a candidate and the inauguration?

00:14:43.000 Look at how Jen Psaki's face reacts to that question. 0.99

00:14:48.000 It's like when one of my kids asks a cute question to my wife.

00:14:52.000 That is what that looks like. 0.99

00:14:53.000 She's looking at this reporter like he's her child, asking a dumb but sweet question. 1.00

00:14:59.000 Because that is a dumb but sweet question. 0.99

00:15:01.000 Does he ever feel like he missed out on having big crowds, Joe Biden? 0.97

00:15:04.000 Does he ever feel like he missed it?

00:15:07.000 In the first 48 hours of his presidency, he signed into law 13 executive orders, many of them extremely radical.

00:15:14.000 And your question is, did he miss out on having crowds?

00:15:18.000 You guys, I wonder why no one trusts you.

00:15:20.000 Seriously, no one trusts you.

00:15:22.000 And meanwhile, the media are just, they're openly declaring themselves irrelevant.

00:15:26.000 It's unbelievable.

00:15:28.000 Again, I keep coming back to this because it's astonishing to me.

00:15:31.000 I almost can't fathom doing this.

00:15:34.000 It's the opposite of what everyone else in life does, which is you make it relevant to everybody else what your job is, right?

00:15:42.000 But the media, whose literal job is to cover the news, they're like, well, I guess there's no more news to cover.

00:15:45.000 I guess we just don't, we won't cover it anymore.

00:15:48.000 So Glenn Kessler, who is the fact checker at the Washington Post, he's like, you know what?

00:15:51.000 We're not gonna need to fact check them like Trump.

00:15:53.000 We had a running list of the number of times Trump lied.

00:15:56.000 We're not gonna have to deal with Joe Biden because he's a truth teller, guys.

00:15:59.000 He's a truth teller.

00:16:00.000 Here is the editor and chief writer for the Washington Post fact checker.

00:16:03.000 Glenn Kessler announcing.

00:16:05.000 We don't need to fact check them the way that we did Donald Trump.

00:16:07.000 No, no, no, no.

00:16:12.000 I assume the Biden, you know, I did five years of Obama, and I assume the Biden presidency will be a lot like the Obama presidency in that they will be responsive and will be able to quickly back up what they're saying.

00:16:26.000 And occasionally the president will go off kilter, particularly when he's, you know, speaking extemporaneously and not following something that had previously been fact-checked.

00:16:36.000 In the very first press conference, Jen Psaki and Biden, by the way, lied repeatedly, lied repeatedly about the idea that there was no vaccine plan, lied repeatedly about it.

00:16:46.000 That's a big lie.

00:16:47.000 That is a very, very large lie, is the idea they were handed nothing.

00:16:47.000 That's not a small lie.

00:16:51.000 The day of the inauguration, over one million vaccinations were performed in the United States.

00:16:56.000 They were not handed nothing.

00:16:57.000 Okay, if Trump had come in and been like, there is no plan at all.

00:17:00.000 None.

00:17:01.000 Zero.

00:17:01.000 Zero plan.

00:17:01.000 I have to ramp this up from zero.

00:17:03.000 Everyone's like, that's a lie.

00:17:04.000 That's not true.

00:17:04.000 How dare he?

00:17:06.000 And now they're like, you know what?

00:17:07.000 It'll just be like the Obama. 0.60

00:17:08.000 Yes, it will be like the Obama administration that Obama repeatedly lied.

00:17:11.000 People in his administration bragged about lying to you guys, and you guys insisted they were honest to you.

00:17:17.000 Like an abused girlfriend, the media.

00:17:19.000 I know my boyfriend cheats on me regularly and he meets up with random strangers and does blow in the bathroom, but he's really a good guy.

00:17:27.000 He would never lie to me.

00:17:29.000 Sure, I checked his cell phone and it was just full of pictures with him and Instagram models, but he would never cheat on me.

00:17:34.000 Stop that.

00:17:36.000 Why are you saying that about him?

00:17:37.000 Stop it.

00:17:38.000 This is your media.

00:17:40.000 Amazing.

00:17:41.000 My favorite is that they continue to bring Jay Carney on TV to talk about the integrity of the Biden administration.

00:17:46.000 Talk about somebody who has a bit of a rooting interest.

00:17:48.000 Jay Carney was the press secretary for Barack Obama.

00:17:51.000 He worked with Jen Psaki.

00:17:53.000 And here he is like, you know, who's you know, he's got a lot of integrity.

00:17:55.000 I mean, I'm going to shock you with this.

00:17:56.000 You know, he's got a lot of integrity.

00:17:57.000 The people I agree with.

00:17:58.000 Here's Jay Carney.

00:18:01.000 The administration telegraphed very early how they were going to be honest and truthful.

00:18:06.000 Instead of spinning about it's, you know, today Joe Biden is president, tomorrow COVID's, you know, the beginning of the end is near.

00:18:12.000 They've been very clear that it's going to get worse before it gets better.

00:18:15.000 And I think you begin to make deposits in the integrity bank.

00:18:20.000 When you're honest with the press and therefore the people, and I was glad to see that, and I know we're going to see more of it.

00:18:25.000 By the way, they've been so clear about how it's going to get worse before it gets better that Joe Biden said that he was going to shut down the virus.

00:18:30.000 That was like part of his actual pitch.

00:18:32.000 Just gonna note that.

00:18:34.000 October 30th, 2020, quote, I'm not going to shut down the country.

00:18:37.000 I'm not going to shut down the economy.

00:18:39.000 I'm going to shut down the virus.

00:18:40.000 Joe Biden's official Twitter account.

00:18:42.000 Okay, but so much honesty, guys, happening.

00:18:44.000 So much, okay, but it's not just about the honesty and the integrity and the normalcy of a Biden administration.

00:18:50.000 It's also about how normal Biden is on a personal level.

00:18:52.000 The guy is just normal beyond normal.

00:18:55.000 So my favorite piece of the weekend, I really love this piece because I'm a watch guy, right?

00:18:58.000 I like luxury watches.

00:19:00.000 I don't just wear the Vincero, I have like a bunch of luxury watches at home.

00:19:03.000 So I know something about watches.

00:19:05.000 And there's a piece in the New York Times about Joe Biden and his watches.

00:19:09.000 And now Joe Biden owns a number of very expensive watches.

00:19:12.000 By very expensive, I mean that these are watches that price upwards of $6,000, $7,000, $8,000.

00:19:18.000 So there's an article in the New York Times.

00:19:20.000 Their task, in this article, should they choose to accept it, is to turn it into a normal habit to collect watches.

00:19:25.000 Now, I'm fully aware that it is not a normal habit to have many expensive watches.

00:19:29.000 I know this, because like five years ago, I didn't have any expensive watches.

00:19:33.000 And it was a luxury that as I was able to afford it, I was able to indulge in that luxury.

00:19:38.000 But it is not a normal thing.

00:19:40.000 It's not a normal thing.

00:19:41.000 When I give watches to friends and family, which I do fairly regularly, when I do that, it's like a big deal to them, as it should be, because these are expensive watches.

00:19:49.000 So the New York Times has to somehow come up with the idea that Joe Biden is the super normalist guy who ever normaled.

00:19:54.000 Well, he has super expensive watches.

00:19:56.000 So here's how they do it.

00:19:56.000 Listen to this.

00:19:57.000 I love this so much.

00:19:59.000 The article is titled, Joe Biden watch geek in chief.

00:20:03.000 Recent presidents not named Trump have tended to wear every man time pieces such as Timex and Chinola.

00:20:08.000 Here's what the piece says.

00:20:09.000 President Biden may cast his arrival in the White House as a return to business as usual at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but there's at least one way he's breaking from prevailing presidential tradition.

00:20:17.000 He wears a Rolex.

00:20:18.000 At his inauguration, Mr. Biden laid his hand on the family Bible wearing a stainless steel Rolex Datejust watch with a blue dial, a model that retails for more than $7,000.

00:20:25.000 And it's a far cry from the everyman timepieces that every president not named Trump has worn conspicuously in recent decades.

00:20:32.000 Okay, so here's cheat number one.

00:20:34.000 How much does the watch cost?

00:20:36.000 So it's a Rolex Datejust, right?

00:20:37.000 That's a nice watch.

00:20:38.000 That's a very nice watch.

00:20:40.000 How much does that cost?

00:20:41.000 So they say that it retails for more than $7,000.

00:20:43.000 How much more?

00:20:45.000 They click through to the link.

00:20:46.000 If you click through to the link, the answer is it retails not for about $7,000.

00:20:49.000 Almost $8,000.

00:20:49.000 It retails for $7,900.

00:20:50.000 So instead of them wording it as the watch is worth almost $8,000, they word it that the watch is worth over $7,000.

00:20:53.000 Hmm.

00:20:53.000 them wording it as the watch is worth almost $8,000.

00:20:55.000 They word it that the watch is worth over $7,000.

00:20:58.000 Interesting how they do that.

00:21:00.000 And then they say to many, a president wearing a luxury watch might not seem unusual.

00:21:05.000 Shouldn't the leader of the free world wear a power watch befitting his position?

00:21:08.000 Never mind that it costs the equivalent of a dozen or so stimulus checks.

00:21:12.000 That concept was widely accepted once, back when Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson posed guiltlessly for Oval Office portraits wearing gold Rolexes.

00:21:19.000 Not for nothing is Rolex's storied gold Day-Date model known as the president.

00:21:23.000 Such political power watches, however, had gone out of style in the internet age when most recent presidents and politicians in general seem to consider the luxury watch as a signifier of out-of-touch elitism.

00:21:32.000 I'm going to get to more of this in just one second because it is just spectacular.

00:21:36.000 The way that the New York Times twists Joe Biden owns expensive watches into But look how normal he is while owning expensive watches.

00:21:43.000 It's amazing.

00:21:44.000 It's really great.

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00:22:58.000 Okay, so, back to the New York Times attempting to turn So they say that Bill Clinton used to wear a Timex Ironman, and George W. Bush wore a Timex Indiglio.

00:23:10.000 The choice of a watch that cost 50 bucks or less was either a man-of-the-people statement, says the New York Times, even though Mr. Bush was an oil scion who went to Yale, or a masterstroke of old-money preppyism, where any hint of gilded glimmer is considered vulgar.

00:23:23.000 Barack Obama, too, avoided heirloom-level timepieces.

00:23:25.000 During his presidency, he opted for mid-priced All-American watches by Shinola, or a sporty watch by George Gray based in Southern California that cost less than $500.

00:23:33.000 This may come as a shock, but Trump shattered those norms.

00:23:36.000 He remained on brand during his term, flashing mogul-worthy gold, what else, watches by Patek Philippe, Rolex, and Vacheron Constantin, right?

00:23:42.000 Those are very, very expensive watches.

00:23:44.000 Which brings us to Mr. Biden, who seems to balance both horological sensibilities, horological meaning having to do with watches, he seems to balance both horological sensibilities, and is unafraid to show off his house Swiss watches, all stainless steel, including his Rolex, an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional, And an Omega Seamaster Diver 300M, both of which retail for around $5,000 or $6,000.

00:24:06.000 Okay, first of all, depends on the model you're looking at.

00:24:09.000 The Moonwatch Professional very often retails about $8,000, and the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M, depending if you're getting like the Bond edition, that also retails about $8,000.

00:24:17.000 So what you're talking about is at least $20,000 worth of watches, is what you're talking about right here.

00:24:23.000 Here's the New York Times.

00:24:24.000 To be fair, none of Mr. Biden's watches scream luxury, at least to watch connoisseurs who are acclimated to the thin air of Swiss watch prices.

00:24:32.000 Wait, they don't scream luxury?

00:24:34.000 Really?

00:24:35.000 Do they not?

00:24:38.000 To many people, whose entire salary on a yearly basis might be $50,000 or $60,000, it seems to me that owning $20,000 of watches in excess of that, easily, might be considered at least a little bit of luxury.

00:24:50.000 Just a little.

00:24:51.000 Again, there's nothing wrong with this, okay?

00:24:52.000 I'm not anti-collecting luxury watches.

00:24:54.000 I collect luxury watches.

00:24:55.000 I love it.

00:24:56.000 I think it's fun.

00:24:57.000 Okay, and I don't think there's anything wrong with Joe Biden doing it.

00:24:59.000 I'm just pointing out that the media have to take even the things about Joe Biden that scream not normal, and then pigeonhole them back into normal.

00:25:07.000 So what they're doing is they're taking a habit that is not inexpensive.

00:25:10.000 And they're like, yeah, but that's like a normal guy would do, right?

00:25:12.000 I mean, like, come on, is it?

00:25:13.000 Come on, really?

00:25:14.000 Yeah, why not?

00:25:16.000 His Rolex Datejust, for example, is considered an undisputed classic, but in another sense, almost could be regarded as entry level for a brand with head-turners that quickly climb into the five figures.

00:25:27.000 He's saying the Rolex Datejust, which is like eight grand at retail.

00:25:31.000 You know, yeah, that's a really expensive watch.

00:25:33.000 That's like a used car right there.

00:25:35.000 But, and Joe Biden is Captain Normalcy who takes Amtrak, so it's a little incongruous.

00:25:39.000 And we wouldn't want to betray the fact that Joe Biden is worth $10 million, owns three separate houses.

00:25:44.000 Like, we wouldn't want to do any of that because that seems not normal.

00:25:46.000 But, you know, here's the thing.

00:25:47.000 If you look at it in a certain way, a Rolex Datejust is actually just like a Timex.

00:25:51.000 Like, if you compare a Rolex to other Rolexes, it's just like a Timex.

00:25:55.000 Because the Datejust is one of their down model brands.

00:25:58.000 Right?

00:25:59.000 If you look at the Datejust, that's like one of their lesser expensive watches.

00:26:04.000 Okay.

00:26:05.000 I could say the exact same thing.

00:26:06.000 It's going to be very specific about the Patek Philippe Calatrava.

00:26:09.000 Calatrava is the baseline of Patek Philippe.

00:26:11.000 Patek Philippe is in the HBO show Succession.

00:26:15.000 There is a great line about Patek Philippe.

00:26:18.000 The line is uttered by one of the sons-in-law of the mogul who's supposed to be kind of Rupert Murdoch, and he wants to give his father-in-law a Patek Philippe.

00:26:25.000 And when he gives him the watch, he says, it's a watch that tells you how rich you are.

00:26:29.000 Right, so Patek Philippe, the baseline Calatrava model, if you buy it new, is gonna cost you almost $20,000.

00:26:34.000 Okay, that's a very, very upscale luxury line, but compared to other Patek Philippes, which can run all the way up to a million dollars, that's really down brand, right?

00:26:42.000 It's like a Timex.

00:26:43.000 So Rolex Datejust, it's just like a Timex if you compare it to, you know, like the Rolex Daytona, or if you compare it to, you know, the Rolex Seamaster, right?

00:26:53.000 If you compare it to the Yachtmaster, whatever it is.

00:26:57.000 The Seadweller.

00:26:58.000 The James Cameron Seadweller.

00:27:00.000 Okay, come on.

00:27:01.000 You're working too hard here, guys.

00:27:03.000 Likewise, his omegas do not connote fanciness, at least in the eyes of watch snobs.

00:27:06.000 The Moonwatch, while Swiss in origin, has been embraced as an American emblem ever since the Apollo 11 astronauts wore this story model to the Moon.

00:27:13.000 They do connote fanciness, actually, because they cost a lot of money.

00:27:16.000 Also, they're like, the Seamaster's a brawny scuba watch worn by Daniel Craig's bone-breaking James Bond.

00:27:21.000 That doesn't connote fanciness.

00:27:22.000 James Bond is literally the guy who wears a tux with the Seamaster.

00:27:27.000 Okay, so they are working so hard.

00:27:29.000 So here's how they finish.

00:27:30.000 You ready?

00:27:31.000 Whether a conscious fashion statement or not, the high-end but macho watches suggest that even at 78, this former high school football star of the Kennedy years still wants to be seen as a he-man, rugged and young at heart.

00:27:43.000 See his aviator sunglasses.

00:27:44.000 They also embody a classic version of the American dream, that anyone, even a kid from Scranton, can make it to the pinnacle of power.

00:27:51.000 Then again, he may just wish to make it to White House meetings on time.

00:27:54.000 Aww.

00:27:56.000 Like, he's the American dream.

00:27:56.000 It's so normal, guys.

00:27:58.000 Now, if a Republican wore an expensive watch and came from nothing...

00:28:02.000 If the New York Times were to do an article about the fact that I own expensive watches, do you think that it would be really rooted in, Shapiro grew up in a two-bedroom home of 1,100 square feet, sharing a room with three siblings with one bathroom.

00:28:15.000 So six people, 1,100 square feet, one bathroom, one phone.

00:28:19.000 Do you think that it would be about the rising from humble beginnings to be able to own an expensive watch?

00:28:23.000 Or do you think it would be like, look at that elitist with his expensive watch.

00:28:27.000 But it's Joe Biden, guys.

00:28:28.000 He's so normal.

00:28:30.000 He's so normal.

00:28:31.000 I mean, sure, he owns a house in Wilmington, Delaware.

00:28:36.000 The property was purchased for $350 and the property is now worth More than $2 million?

00:28:41.000 Sure, he has another one in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware that's worth like $3 million.

00:28:45.000 And sure, they rented a house in McLean, Virginia that is over 12,000 square feet.

00:28:50.000 But he's a normal dude.

00:28:51.000 He's so normal.

00:28:53.000 So much normalcy.

00:28:55.000 Wow, just unbelievable levels of normalcy.

00:28:56.000 Okay, so this is the goal.

00:28:57.000 The goal is we are going to push Joe Biden as a normal human.

00:29:01.000 And the reason we're going to push Joe Biden as a normal human is so we don't have to cover the fact that his policy is absolutely abnormal.

00:29:06.000 And that's the thing. The more you pretend he's normal, the less you have to focus on his policy.

00:29:10.000 So for example, he just killed the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:29:13.000 That's not a normal thing to do.

00:29:15.000 It just killed at least 11,000 American jobs. It pissed off our northern neighbors in Canada.

00:29:20.000 Ted Cruz asked Pete Buttigieg about this and Buttigieg was like, well, yeah, I understand we're killing lots of jobs, but you have to understand that overall it's going to create jobs.

00:29:28.000 No, it's not.

00:29:29.000 It's not, okay?

00:29:30.000 It is not a normal policy to kill Keystone XL.

00:29:32.000 But we have to—this is a boring presidency, guys.

00:29:34.000 Stop paying attention to the policy.

00:29:35.000 Here is Ted Cruz with the—the hoping for—the incoming Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg.

00:29:42.000 I think the most important thing is to make sure that we make good on the promise of the president's climate vision as being one that, on net, creates far more jobs.

00:29:52.000 Millions, we hope.

00:29:53.000 I know that won't just happen.

00:29:54.000 We'll have to do a lot of work to make sure that's real.

00:29:57.000 But getting this right means ensuring that there are more good-paying union jobs for all Americans delivered through that infrastructure vision.

00:30:06.000 Right, so normal.

00:30:06.000 So normal to just kill 11,000 jobs for no real reason.

00:30:10.000 Also normal, federal agents were firing tear gas to defend an ICE facility.

00:30:14.000 In Portland over the weekend.

00:30:15.000 Remember when that was fascist?

00:30:17.000 Remember when Trump sent federal agents to fight back people who were trying to invade a federal facility, and it was fascist?

00:30:23.000 Not normal.

00:30:24.000 Not normal.

00:30:25.000 This can't happen in America.

00:30:26.000 Joe Biden does it.

00:30:27.000 So normal, it's not even worth reporting on.

00:30:29.000 So normal that when Jen Psaki was asked about it at a press conference, she literally did not know that it was even happening.

00:30:34.000 That's how normal things are.

00:30:35.000 Okay, other normal things that have been happening over the weekend.

00:30:38.000 So Joe Biden is now set to lift restrictions on transgender military service members.

00:30:42.000 So, to understand exactly what this means, you have to understand what the policy was before.

00:30:48.000 So the actual policy on transgender service members was, in 2019, rewritten slightly.

00:30:55.000 And the basic idea is that it was okay to identify as transgender in the military.

00:30:59.000 There actually was no formal transgender military ban as implemented by the United States military.

00:31:05.000 But the actual transgender military ban was designed to prevent, essentially, people from joining up And then suffering from severe mental illness, gender dysphoria, and then needing transgender surgeries.

00:31:17.000 That's what it was designed to do, right?

00:31:19.000 So the policy allowed that if you wanted a transgender surgery, the military could discharge you because now you're basically joining up and then you required surgeries that shouldn't be paid for by the taxpayer was the basic idea. 0.55

00:31:30.000 Biden is now reversing that.

00:31:32.000 By the way, the idea that this was some form of discrimination is completely bizarre, considering the fact that there are a bevy of mental illnesses that make you ineligible for military service.

00:31:41.000 According to thebalancecareers.com, here are some of the disqualifying medical conditions for serving in the military.

00:31:47.000 No one has a right to serve in the military.

00:31:49.000 First of all, this is not what I'm about to say right here.

00:31:51.000 None of this is a referendum on individuals, transgender or otherwise, who are joining the military and doing something far more patriotic than I have done.

00:31:58.000 All of those people should be given enormous, enormous tribute.

00:32:00.000 This is a question of how you make military policy.

00:32:04.000 Military policy does not allow the following people to join the military.

00:32:07.000 If you suffer, From ADHD.

00:32:10.000 You cannot join the military.

00:32:11.000 Unless you can demonstrate passing academic performance and no use of medication in the prior year.

00:32:17.000 You are not allowed to join the military if you have a current or history of academic skills or perceptual defects, including but not limited to dyslexia.

00:32:27.000 If you have any history of disorders that have psychotic features like schizophrenia or paranoid disorder, Any mood disorder like depression or bipolar or psychosis, all of that is disqualifying.

00:32:38.000 Any history of mood disorder requiring medication and or outpatient care for longer than six months by a mental health professional is also disqualifying.

00:32:46.000 Also, any symptoms of mood and mental issue that affect social ability, school and learning, or work efficiency, disqualifying.

00:32:52.000 Behavioral disorders, disqualifying.

00:32:57.000 Speech-affected disorders.

00:33:00.000 Any speech impediment, stammering, stuttering, or other receptive or expressive language disorder that may significantly interfere with the ability to repeat commands is disqualifying.

00:33:08.000 Any history of suicidal behavior that even includes discussions, gestures, or the actual attempt is disqualifying.

00:33:13.000 Self-mutilation is disqualifying.

00:33:14.000 Anxiety issues.

00:33:16.000 Either current or historic.

00:33:17.000 Panic, agoraphobia, social phobia, simple phobias, OCD.

00:33:20.000 OCD.

00:33:21.000 Other acute reactions to stress.

00:33:23.000 PTSD.

00:33:24.000 All of these are disqualifying for entry into the service.

00:33:26.000 But if you're a man who believes you're a woman, Joe Biden believes that should not be anything that disqualifies you for service.

00:33:33.000 That seems fairly radical.

00:33:35.000 Kind of radical.

00:33:35.000 No?

00:33:36.000 Apparently not.

00:33:37.000 Apparently that is not radical in any way, shape, or form.

00:33:42.000 But again, that's because everything is normal.

00:33:44.000 Everything is super duper normal.

00:33:46.000 The policy, by the way, was, until Joe Biden came into power, that currently serving transgender troops, anyone who's signed an enlistment contract would be able to continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition, but no one with gender dysphoria who is taking hormones or had transitioned to another gender would be allowed to enlist.

00:34:01.000 Anyone currently serving, any currently serving troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria will have to serve in birth gender, you can't just switch gender, and barred from taking hormones or getting transition surgery.

00:34:10.000 That was the Trump administration policy.

00:34:11.000 That is being completely overthrown.

00:34:12.000 Does that seem like super normal to you?

00:34:15.000 Interesting.

00:34:16.000 Interesting that this is what is now normal.

00:34:18.000 Also, other things that are normal.

00:34:19.000 They're going to be pursuing equity, above all.

00:34:21.000 By equity, the Democrats mean that they're going to be seeking equal outcome, not the enforcement of equal rights.

00:34:29.000 According to the New York Times, In his first days in office, President Biden has devoted more attention to issues of racial equity than any new president since Lyndon Baines Johnson, a focus that has jeered civil rights activists and drawn early criticism from conservatives.

00:34:41.000 In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to defeat white supremacy, using a burst of executive orders on day one to declare that, quote, advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of our whole government.

00:34:54.000 He has ordered his coronavirus response team to ensure that vaccines are distributed equitably, not on the basis of risk, equitably.

00:35:01.000 His $1.9 trillion recovery plan targets underserved communities by calling for paid leave for women forced out of jobs, unemployment benefits that largely help black and brown workers, and expanded tax credits for impoverished Americans who are disproportionately non-white.

00:35:14.000 So they are looking at equity issues above all.

00:35:18.000 Not freedom, equity.

00:35:20.000 But don't worry, guys, this is all normal.

00:35:22.000 This is just, this is the new normal, because Biden's a normal guy.

00:35:25.000 So don't pay any attention to what his actual agenda is.

00:35:28.000 Just pay attention to the fact that he's a normal dude who likes chocolate chip ice cream.

00:35:32.000 And even though he wears expensive watches, it's like a normal guy wearing expensive watches, not like a rich guy wearing expensive watches.

00:35:36.000 Okay, in a second, we're gonna get to more of the abnormal policy and what it means for the country.

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00:37:59.000 ♪♪ So normalcy, normalcy, normalcy.

00:38:06.000 Many of the people who are still pushing normalcy are overtly calling for Joe Biden to do things that are not normal.

00:38:10.000 So for example, David Brooks, who is like the normal guy, right?

00:38:14.000 He is normcore.

00:38:15.000 He is normcore to the extreme.

00:38:16.000 He's the guy who once praised Barack Obama because Barack Obama creased his khakis, I kid you not.

00:38:21.000 That is a thing that David Brooks did.

00:38:22.000 So David Brooks had a piece in the New York Times over the weekend in which he said this.

00:38:26.000 The Biden values are there.

00:38:28.000 Humility.

00:38:28.000 Vulnerability.

00:38:29.000 Compassion.

00:38:30.000 Resilience.

00:38:31.000 Interdependence.

00:38:32.000 Solidarity.

00:38:33.000 Donald Trump's patriotism was bloated and fear-based.

00:38:36.000 Biden's is the self-confident patriotism he absorbed by growing up in a certain sort of country during the American century.

00:38:42.000 Biden is setting the stage for a moral revival.

00:38:45.000 A moral revival.

00:38:47.000 Biden has the right agenda.

00:38:48.000 The redistribution of dignity.

00:38:51.000 And then, my favorite, he just skipped forward a couple paragraphs?

00:38:54.000 He says, Oh!

00:38:54.000 I was struck by how Republicans and Democrats are committed to each other across party lines, how fervently they want to break the partisan logjam is all the normality.

00:39:01.000 And then he says this, if this doesn't work and Republicans go into full obstruction mode, Democrats should absolutely kill the filibuster.

00:39:07.000 Oh, that seems normal.

00:39:09.000 Oh, you mean you're going to kill the filibuster, which has been the greatest procedural check on majoritarian excesses for the past, I don't know, 180 years or so?

00:39:22.000 That seems like kind of not normal, actually.

00:39:25.000 But no, it's super duper normal.

00:39:27.000 Everything is normal.

00:39:28.000 Over at the Washington Post, E.J.

00:39:31.000 Dionne saying, you know what?

00:39:32.000 We don't need unity.

00:39:33.000 We need urgency.

00:39:35.000 Because that's what normalcy is, right?

00:39:36.000 Normalcy is ignoring your political opposition and just running roughshod over them.

00:39:40.000 So much normalcy.

00:39:41.000 Amazing normalcy happening.

00:39:44.000 I can feel the normalcy breaking out all over.

00:39:46.000 Just not in the policy.

00:39:47.000 Everywhere else, the normalcy is breaking out all over.

00:39:49.000 Speaking of normalcy breaking out all over, so Anthony Fauci now says that he feels free.

00:39:55.000 He's free!

00:39:56.000 At last!

00:39:57.000 Okay, so number one, Anthony Fauci was made the face of all of this by Donald Trump's administration.

00:40:02.000 He also proceeded to botch this thing six ways from Sunday.

00:40:04.000 I know we're all supposed to worship at the altar of Anthony Fauci, but let me just point out, Anthony Fauci has not been good.

00:40:09.000 Okay, Anthony Fauci was wrong about people worrying about this in January, when we were told that Donald Trump knew and all.

00:40:16.000 Anthony Fauci was saying in late January, don't worry about this.

00:40:18.000 He was saying that through February, by the way.

00:40:20.000 He was saying in early March, do not mask up.

00:40:22.000 Then he was saying that the rate of herd immunity was going to be 70-75%, and then later he's like, oh, I was lying, it was like 90.

00:40:28.000 Whoops!

00:40:29.000 I was just lying about that.

00:40:30.000 Then he was in In Touch magazine, you know, he was taking all the plaudits, what a hero he was, just incredible.

00:40:37.000 Well now, Anthony Fauci, who literally was on the cover of In Touch magazine while Trump was president, He's saying, now I feel free.

00:40:44.000 He's so free.

00:40:46.000 And so here's Anthony Fauci over the weekend explaining, science will rule in the Biden administration and science will speak.

00:40:50.000 Sure, the COVID vaccination terms, according to the New York Times, are going to be set through equity.

00:40:55.000 Not science, equity.

00:40:57.000 Equity is about the idea that if you have a disproportionate number of white old people, you should ignore the elderly in favor of younger black people, right? 0.69

00:41:03.000 That's what equity would dictate.

00:41:05.000 Because after all, we have to have the same racial outcomes.

00:41:08.000 It's not about protecting the most vulnerable, it's about equity.

00:41:11.000 Anyway, here was Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all scientists.

00:41:14.000 Again, in terms of doctors, it goes like Dr. J, Dr. Strange, Jonas Salk, Anthony Fauci.

00:41:20.000 That's how it goes.

00:41:21.000 Here was Dr. Fauci explaining that now he is free, science will rule, science will speak, men are ladies, babies don't exist until they're born. 0.70

00:41:29.000 Go, Dr. Fauci.

00:41:31.000 The president made it very clear that what we were going to do going forward is everything is going to be based on science and evidence and data.

00:41:42.000 And science will rule and science will speak.

00:41:46.000 We will be transparent.

00:41:48.000 There will be bumps in the road.

00:41:50.000 There will be potholes.

00:41:51.000 There might be mistakes that we make.

00:41:54.000 And what we're going to be doing is instead of pointing fingers, making blame, we're going to try and fix it.

00:42:02.000 Okay, so he's amazing.

00:42:03.000 Now, the new day has dawned.

00:42:05.000 Now, let's just be frank about this.

00:42:07.000 The vaccine that's been put in place was created under the Trump administration.

00:42:10.000 The vaccine plan that will be put in place will be a Trump administration plan with very, very minor tweaks by the incoming Biden administration.

00:42:16.000 But don't worry, guys.

00:42:17.000 Now, we're back to normal.

00:42:19.000 Things are gonna be amazing.

00:42:21.000 By the way, speaking of things that are normal, apparently Joe Biden is now gonna reinstate all these COVID travel restrictions.

00:42:27.000 He's imposing a new ban on South Africa.

00:42:29.000 Only American citizens in South Africa can now come home. 0.84

00:42:32.000 Everybody else is barred from coming in.

00:42:33.000 I seem to remember when Joe Biden thought that doing this with China was a really, really bad idea.

00:42:37.000 You know who else, by the way, thought it was a bad idea?

00:42:38.000 Apparently, Anthony Fauci, in the early days, thought that this was a particularly bad idea.

00:42:43.000 Also, it turns out that the incoming Biden administration Literally doesn't have any idea on what they are doing.

00:42:50.000 But the normalcy is there, guys.

00:42:51.000 It's really about the normalcy.

00:42:52.000 It's about the normal attitude.

00:42:53.000 It's not so much about what they do as much as the attitude.

00:42:56.000 So Xavier Becerra, who is a radical leftist.

00:42:59.000 He was the Attorney General of the state of California.

00:43:01.000 There is no reason in hell this man should be up for Secretary of Health and Human Services other than he checks particular intersectional boxes.

00:43:09.000 He has no history.

00:43:10.000 Of really knowing what he's doing with regard to public health.

00:43:12.000 Doesn't matter.

00:43:13.000 He's going to be the incoming Health and Human Services Secretary for no reason.

00:43:16.000 Again, because the way that Biden did this administration was, here are some people.

00:43:20.000 Here are some positions.

00:43:21.000 What if I randomly assigned them?

00:43:23.000 Just pick a card.

00:43:23.000 Who wants to be Secretary of Health and Human Services?

00:43:25.000 It's you.

00:43:25.000 Bob?

00:43:27.000 Very exciting stuff.

00:43:28.000 Here is Xavier Becerra openly playing down the response of the Biden administration.

00:43:33.000 You see, when bad things happen and you say they're going to happen, I feel like the joker here, but this is how the media approach this stuff.

00:43:38.000 If you say bad things are going to happen and then they happen, the media take it in stride.

00:43:42.000 If you say bad things are not going to happen and then they happen, this means that you're a bad person.

00:43:46.000 So here is Xavier Becerra being like, yeah, lots of people are going to die.

00:43:49.000 Yeah, on your watch, presumably.

00:43:51.000 But you won't get held to account because that's not the way the media work.

00:43:55.000 I believe President Biden is making it very clear.

00:43:58.000 The plane is in a nosedive, and we've got to pull it up.

00:44:02.000 And you're not going to do that overnight.

00:44:04.000 But we're going to pull it up.

00:44:05.000 We have to pull it up.

00:44:06.000 We can do better.

00:44:08.000 We can not only control COVID, but get us back to real normality.

00:44:12.000 But it takes everybody, all hands on deck.

00:44:14.000 We've got to make sure we're coordinating, and we are talking to people.

00:44:17.000 We can't just tell the states, here's some PPE, some masks, here's some vaccines, now go do it.

00:44:22.000 No, no.

00:44:24.000 Okay, um, what?

00:44:25.000 That sounds like a plan.

00:44:26.000 We're going to talk to people.

00:44:27.000 Because phones.

00:44:29.000 Phones are your plan.

00:44:30.000 Well done.

00:44:31.000 And then, Becerra was asked specifically, so when are the vaccines going to be available?

00:44:34.000 Right?

00:44:34.000 Your captain plan over here.

00:44:35.000 You're saying you're going to federally coordinate this whole thing.

00:44:37.000 So, when can anyone who wants a vaccine get a vaccine?

00:44:39.000 And Becerra's like, and Tana Bash is like, oh! 0.97

00:44:43.000 Sounds great!

00:44:46.000 Here's Becerra. 1.00

00:44:49.000 Can you give a timeline?

00:44:50.000 Well, I first have to be sworn in to give you a timeline, but what I can tell you is this.

00:44:57.000 President Biden has made it very clear to us.

00:44:59.000 We give people straight shot information.

00:45:01.000 We don't try to hide the ball.

00:45:02.000 And once we have that information, I guarantee you, we will share it.

00:45:06.000 Can you give me a general timeline?

00:45:08.000 Is your goal this summer?

00:45:10.000 Well, let's put it this way.

00:45:11.000 The president, before he had an opportunity to be in the Oval Office for one day, had already committed 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days.

00:45:22.000 Okay, I'm just going to point out here that Fauci has already backtracked on this.

00:45:26.000 So originally, Fauci said, by 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days, that's not what he said.

00:45:30.000 He said 100 million vaccinated in 100 million days.

00:45:33.000 So 200 million vaccine shots, right?

00:45:34.000 Because it takes two shots.

00:45:36.000 Okay, then Fauci was like, nope, just meant 100 million vaccine shots.

00:45:39.000 Oh, so it sounds like things are going great over there.

00:45:41.000 Normalcy.

00:45:42.000 Can you feel it?

00:45:43.000 Can you feel the normalcy in the air?

00:45:45.000 Speaking of normalcy, California, it turns out they are now lifting their stay-at-home order on all regions of California.

00:45:50.000 Why, that's amazing.

00:45:51.000 Just as Joe Biden took place, California is releasing everybody from their lockdown and going back to the tier system.

00:45:57.000 Why, it's almost as though that's somewhat political.

00:46:00.000 California was asked for its metrics, and they were like, no, we're not going to release that to you.

00:46:04.000 You shouldn't know that.

00:46:05.000 According to KTVU, his administration won't disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted.

00:46:12.000 But today, he's announcing that you're free to move around.

00:46:14.000 Oh, that's exciting.

00:46:16.000 By the way, California is getting walloped right now by COVID.

00:46:16.000 How incredible.

00:46:18.000 So obviously, everything is working fine.

00:46:20.000 And there's nothing to see here, because everything is boring.

00:46:23.000 Okay, meanwhile, this week is supposed to launch the impeachment effort against President Trump in the Senate.

00:46:37.000 Now, if you're asking yourself, like, isn't he out of office?

00:46:39.000 Yes, he is indeed out of office.

00:46:41.000 This goal would be to prevent him from ever running for office again.

00:46:47.000 According to the Washington Post, Democratic members of Congress are pressing ahead with preparations for the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, saying there is a compelling case for Trump to be convicted of inciting an insurrection and arguing that moving forward with the trial is imperative for the country's healing.

00:47:00.000 Meanwhile, fractures within the Republican Party were evident on Sunday.

00:47:03.000 GOP senators appeared split on whether it was even constitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a president who had already left office.

00:47:09.000 Mitt Romney said that they should push forward an impeachment trial because we need unity.

00:47:15.000 So here is Mitt Romney, who, again, voted for the impeachment the first time around.

00:47:19.000 So he's saying, shockingly, that he's going to vote for impeachment the second time around.

00:47:21.000 And also, this will bring unity, right?

00:47:23.000 Like the first impeachment trial did.

00:47:24.000 So much unity.

00:47:25.000 You can feel the unity.

00:47:26.000 It seems like unity basically is just do whatever the media want these days, but here is Senator Romney.

00:47:31.000 Again, I'm not saying Senator Romney is a bad moral character for pushing for this.

00:47:37.000 I think Senator Romney is a very moral dude.

00:47:39.000 I do.

00:47:40.000 I think he's wrong about this, but here's Senator Romney.

00:47:43.000 Well, we're certainly going to have a trial.

00:47:45.000 I wish that weren't necessary, but the president's conduct with regards to the call, the Secretary of State Raffensperger in Georgia, as well as the incitation towards the insurrection that led to the attack on the Capitol calls for a trial.

00:48:00.000 And, you know, if we're going to have unity in our country, I think it's important to recognize the need for accountability, for truth and justice.

00:48:08.000 So I think there will be a trial and I hope it goes as quickly as possible.

00:48:12.000 But that's up to the council.

00:48:13.000 on both sides.

00:48:14.000 Okay, Elizabeth Warren said, I can't imagine how Republican opposition to insurrection would fade over the space of a couple of weeks.

00:48:21.000 It's not the Republican opposition to the attempted insurrection inside the Capitol building faded.

00:48:25.000 It's that Trump isn't in office anymore.

00:48:27.000 The urgency of making him go away has somehow faded when he is not the president of the United States anymore.

00:48:32.000 That happens to be the case.

00:48:34.000 Later on on the same show, Romney was on with Chris Wallace. 1.00

00:48:37.000 Rubio said this was stupid and bad for America. 1.00

00:48:40.000 And Mike Rounds of South Dakota said the same thing. 1.00

00:48:43.000 He said, Impeaching Trump is basically a moot point.

00:48:45.000 The man isn't in office anymore.

00:48:47.000 To begin with, I think it's a moot point, because I think right now Donald Trump is no longer the president.

00:48:53.000 He is a former president.

00:48:55.000 Constitution, and I think, and I know that there are other people out there that may disagree with me, but Article 1 sections, I think it's 6 and 7, specifically point out that you can impeach the president, and it does not indicate that you can impeach someone who is not in office.

00:49:12.000 So I think it's a moot point, and I think it's one that That they would have a very difficult time in trying to get done within the Senate.

00:49:22.000 Senator Rand Paul feels the same way.

00:49:23.000 He said that this is a sham.

00:49:25.000 He writes a piece in The Hill talking about this.

00:49:28.000 He said, I worked against that impeachment.

00:49:29.000 2019 was a witch hunt filled with fabricated charges, unsupported evidence, partisan rancor, disguised as legal concern.

00:49:29.000 I'll grant you one thing.

00:49:36.000 I worked against that impeachment.

00:49:37.000 I'll grant you one thing.

00:49:38.000 While wrongheaded, the Democrats had every right to do it.

00:49:40.000 Fast forward to January 2021, a national tragedy occurred when militants, agitators, and zealots were convinced and allowed to believe that January 6th could produce any results other than the certification of the electors of President Joe Biden.

00:49:50.000 I stood firmly on the side of those who believe Congress should not overturn state-certified electors and that doing so might destroy the Electoral College.

00:49:56.000 Did Trump push Congress to overturn the electors?

00:49:58.000 Yes.

00:49:59.000 Did some of my colleagues perform a little play for their supporters in which they claimed to be fighting for a different outcome they all knew couldn't happen?

00:50:04.000 Yes.

00:50:05.000 Did the combination of an out-of-control crowd And this is the right point, okay?

00:50:08.000 Forget about the constitutional question of whether you can impeach a person who's no longer sitting in office.

00:50:11.000 January 6th, also yes. But to argue that any politician that tells a crowd to fight back to take back your country is somehow guilty of incitement is absurd. And this is the right point. Okay, this is forget about the constitutional question of whether you can impeach a person who's no longer sitting in office. That's sort of an open constitutional question. The historical precedent seems to be you can impeach somebody who is or at least convict somebody after they've already left office in order to prevent them from running for office again.

00:50:36.000 Now, I will say that the political acumen of people like Mitt Romney for saying that they think that if they push forward here and the Republicans vote to acquit, which will probably happen, right?

00:50:45.000 Again, you need two thirds of the Senate to vote in favor of a conviction here, which is likely not going to happen.

00:50:50.000 You'd require 17 Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching Trump here.

00:50:55.000 If that doesn't happen, and your goal as Mitt Romney is to, or Mitch McConnell, is to minimize Trump's presence in the party going forward, him not being convicted in the Senate would be like the best thing for him.

00:51:07.000 Because what Trump would then argue is, the reason that they were coming after me is not because they wanted me out of office.

00:51:12.000 I was already out of office.

00:51:13.000 The reason they came after me is they wanted to prevent you from voting for me again.

00:51:17.000 And so I am running again to give you the opportunity to vote for me again.

00:51:21.000 Counterintuitively, the thing that if Republicans are done with this, and I mean elected Republicans, if elected Republicans, politically speaking, are saying, we're done with this, then pretty much the worst thing they can do is push forward with this entire thing, knowing that it's going to fail.

00:51:37.000 Because that tends to, and as I've said before, I think the American people are done with even thinking about this as a general rule.

00:51:44.000 The American enthusiasm for impeachment is very high at the beginning, and then it steadily drops off.

00:51:48.000 Post-election impeachment talk?

00:51:50.000 In the middle of a COVID pandemic?

00:51:52.000 In the middle of an economic crisis?

00:51:53.000 I think many Americans are being like, why are we talking about Trump still?

00:51:56.000 Like, isn't he not the president?

00:51:57.000 Didn't he lose by 7 million votes?

00:51:59.000 And by 80 electoral votes?

00:52:01.000 Isn't that what happened on January 6th?

00:52:04.000 In any case, Rand Paul makes the best sort of principled point with regard to impeachment.

00:52:10.000 He says, if we're to blame politicians for the most violent acts of their craziest supporters, many of my colleagues would face some pretty harsh charges themselves. I've been shot at, assaulted and harassed by supporters of the left, including some who directly said the words of politicians moved them to violence. I was at the ball field when a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter almost killed Steve Scalise and seriously wounded several others. At the time, Democrats were arguing the GOP plan for health care was you get sick and then they let you die.

00:52:33.000 Is it any wonder an insane left-wing gunman took that rhetoric to heart and concluded, if the GOP is going to let me die, maybe I'll just kill them first?

00:52:39.000 Interestingly, not one Republican stepped up to blame Bernie Sanders or suggest he be impeached or held responsible for the attempted assassination of more than 20 congressmen.

00:52:48.000 And he says, what of this exercise the House started and the Senate is about to take up, which some will dutifully report as impeachment?

00:52:54.000 Impeachment is a tool to remove somebody from office.

00:52:57.000 And again, I think the constitutional question is a lot more unsettled than Paul is making it out to be, but I think that his argument there, which is if the charge is incitement, you actually have to prove incitement.

00:53:07.000 And it's very difficult to prove incitement in a speech in which Trump said, I want you to peacefully protest down at the Capitol building.

00:53:12.000 That's a very difficult charge to prove just on the face of it.

00:53:15.000 Everybody knows that if Trump were in court, there is no way to prove criminal incitement against him on that basis.

00:53:20.000 With the Raffensperger call to prove that he was intimidating Raffensperger.

00:53:24.000 Number one, you'd have to show that he actually had leverage over Raffensperger.

00:53:26.000 And number two, you'd have to show he wasn't just mouthing off.

00:53:28.000 We talked about that on the show, even when it happened.

00:53:31.000 Many things can be true at once.

00:53:32.000 Trump's behavior could be egregious and bad and wrong and lying and anti-factual.

00:53:36.000 All of that can be true.

00:53:37.000 And also, it can be not a crime and not particularly impeachable on the basis of any sort of consistent principle.

00:53:44.000 And that's the question, because what we're talking about is the establishment of the consistent principle.

00:53:48.000 Anything's impeachable, right?

00:53:50.000 It's a political thing.

00:53:51.000 You can impeach anybody for anything.

00:53:53.000 But the basic idea of impeachment for the Democrats is, of course, political.

00:53:57.000 They want to keep Trump top of the headlines.

00:53:58.000 The more they keep Trump top, this ties back into the idea that what they are looking for is to contrast Biden's supposed personal normalcy with Donald Trump's supposed personal abnormality.

00:54:09.000 And that way, you'll ignore all of the underlying policy that is shifting radically in the direction of a hardcore left.

00:54:14.000 And this is why Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are really pushing this thing. 0.95

00:54:16.000 Here is Chuck Schumer, late in the week, explaining bizarrely that President Trump actually incited an erection. 0.94

00:54:23.000 I don't know what Chuck Schumer is thinking about here. 0.91

00:54:25.000 That's a weird thing to say, but here we go.

00:54:28.000 Make no mistake, there will be a trial, and when that trial ends, senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the erection, Insurrection against the United States.

00:54:44.000 Mm-hmm.

00:54:46.000 Mm-hmm.

00:54:49.000 Okay.

00:54:51.000 Yeah, there we go.

00:54:52.000 By the way, Anderson Cooper apparently made the same mistake about a week ago, so I'm not sure.

00:54:58.000 It's a fraught time.

00:54:59.000 It's a fraught time in American politics.

00:55:01.000 And meanwhile, the generalized push in the culture continues to be, and this is going to be, I think, part of the pushback on the right to any sort of impeachment effort, is going to be there's a broader effort Right now, in the media, to not just go after Trump, obviously, but to suggest that if you don't want Trump impeached, or if you ever voted for Trump and you do want him impeached, if you ever supported any element of Trump, you're part of the abnormality.

00:55:24.000 Right, the goal of, again, if the whole campaign here is we are the new normal ones, the Democrats, we're the normal ones, right?

00:55:30.000 And look at Trump, that guy wasn't normal.

00:55:31.000 We're normal. 0.99

00:55:32.000 Sure, we're pushing for a bunch of random crap that most Americans don't actually like very much. 0.98

00:55:36.000 And sure, the election was mostly a referendum on Trump's personality. 0.97

00:55:40.000 We're gonna make it about policy, though.

00:55:42.000 You can see the attempt to lump everybody who has a generalized conservative worldview in with Trump.

00:55:49.000 I've said this since the day that this happened.

00:55:51.000 There were two actual horrific events on January 6th.

00:55:56.000 One was the horrific event itself, right?

00:55:57.000 And everything surrounding it, the behavior leading up to it, the behavior by Trump, the behavior by senators, right?

00:56:01.000 There's a lot of bad stuff involved on January 6th.

00:56:03.000 Act of evil by the people who actually perpetrated the crime at the Capitol.

00:56:06.000 Okay.

00:56:07.000 That was one bad thing that happened.

00:56:09.000 And then there was the backlash that has now been caused against 74 million Americans on the other side.

00:56:13.000 And it's more than that because many more people actually agree with basic conservative principles than actually voted for Trump.

00:56:19.000 The press are going hard after anybody who disagrees with them.

00:56:23.000 The founding fathers believed that the greatest protectors of press freedoms would be members of the press.

00:56:28.000 As it turns out, the people who are leading the charge in terms of taking away press freedoms are members of the press going after their political opponents.

00:56:36.000 This is why you have a piece by Margaret Sullivan, the media columnist over at the Washington Post, about how to basically take Fox News off the air.

00:56:42.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:56:43.000 Fox News has never called for the Washington Post to be taken out of circulation.

00:56:47.000 Trump hated the Washington Post.

00:56:49.000 He ripped down the Washington Post regularly.

00:56:51.000 I can't remember a single person at Fox News ever saying the Washington Post should be deplatformed.

00:56:55.000 I don't think that's ever happened.

00:56:58.000 And yet here was the Washington Post, quote.

00:57:00.000 Margaret Sullivan over at the Washington Post.

00:57:02.000 I happened to be watching Fox News on election night when the network started the political world by calling Arizona for Joe Biden.

00:57:07.000 It was a weird moment without the fanfare that usually accompanied the announcement that a state was being put in one column or another.

00:57:12.000 A few hours later, the AP made the same call.

00:57:15.000 Many other organizations, including the Washington Post, took days to reach that daring conclusion.

00:57:20.000 Trump world was enraged.

00:57:21.000 Losing the traditionally red state would make it that much harder to proclaim the election was so close, it must in fact have been stolen by the Democrats.

00:57:27.000 It would disrupt the big lie narrative.

00:57:29.000 By the way, the fact that the media have universally taken to calling this the big lie, as in like Joseph Goebbels' big lie, is pretty astonishingly tone deaf. 0.97

00:57:38.000 There's a difference between saying the election was stolen, which is a lie, and suggesting the Jews are responsible for all our problems, let's genocide them. 0.98

00:57:44.000 That was the big lie, right? 0.98

00:57:46.000 Like if we're gonna use that kind of term and capitalize big and lie, Kind of ugly.

00:57:51.000 Anyway, Margaret Sullivan says, last week, two key members of Fox News' decision desk abruptly departed the network.

00:57:59.000 One was laid off, the other has retired.

00:58:00.000 Some insiders are calling it a purge.

00:58:02.000 In recent days, Fox has taken a sharp turn toward a more extreme approach as it confronts a post-Trump ratings dip.

00:58:07.000 The result of some of its furthest right viewers moving to outlets like Newsmax and One America News and some middle of the roaders apparently finding CNN or MSNBC more to their liking.

00:58:15.000 With profits as the one true religion at Fox, something had to change.

00:58:18.000 89-year-old Rupert Murdoch, according to a number of reports, has stepped in to call the shots directly.

00:58:23.000 Most notably, the network has decided to add an hour of opinion programming to its primetime offerings.

00:58:28.000 Okay, so what is the solution for Margaret Sullivan?

00:58:31.000 The solution for Margaret Sullivan is to basically destroy Fox News. 1.00

00:58:36.000 She says, how to get the Fox News monster under control.

00:58:39.000 I do not believe the government should have any role in regulating what can and can't be said on the air, although I often hear that proposed.

00:58:44.000 That would be a cure worse than the disease.

00:58:45.000 But let's not count on the hope that Fox controlling Murdoch's will develop a conscience.

00:58:50.000 No, the only answer is to speak the language the bigwigs at Fox will understand.

00:58:53.000 Ratings, advertising dollars, profit.

00:58:56.000 Corporations that advertise on Fox News should walk away.

00:59:00.000 Citizens who care about the truth should demand that they do so, in addition to trying to steer their friends and relatives away from the network.

00:59:08.000 When you think about Fox's role in the 400,000 U.S.

00:59:11.000 lives lost to the pandemic, it's fair to call their coverage deadly.

00:59:15.000 Some corporations don't want to be a part of that.

00:59:18.000 If reality-based America wants to communicate clearly with Fox News, they'll have to do it in a language they understand.

00:59:22.000 The language of money.

00:59:24.000 So, here's Margaret Sullivan calling for mass boycotts against a competing news network. 1.00

00:59:29.000 Meanwhile, Armin Rosen has a terrific piece over at Tablet Mag pointing out how many journalists are now mobilizing against free speech.

00:59:36.000 And it's a bunch.

00:59:37.000 A bunch.

00:59:38.000 Over the weekend, Anand Giridharadas, an MSNBC talking head and New York University journalism professor, former New York Times writer, he tweeted, Should Fox News be allowed to exist?

00:59:49.000 Brainmashing as a business shouldn't be legal.

00:59:52.000 He continued, I'm not a lawyer, but I don't understand why you're not allowed to manufacture Bucatini that doesn't have a certain threshold of iron in it, but you can broadcast brainmashing, falsehoods, and goad people toward terrorism.

01:00:04.000 So that's pretty astonishing stuff there from a journalism professor at New York University.

01:00:09.000 How about Steve Kahl?

01:00:11.000 He's a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning dean of Columbia Journalism School.

01:00:14.000 In a December appearance on MSNBC, he decried the wide latitude of self-expression on Facebook.

01:00:21.000 He said, That's insane.

01:00:28.000 So free speech is bad because it undermines journalism.

01:00:31.000 Richard Stengel, who is now going to be serving inside the Biden administration.

01:00:34.000 He made an argument that we should have hate speech laws that are deemed constitutional.

01:00:39.000 He said, all speech is not equal.

01:00:40.000 Where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails.

01:00:44.000 Masha Gessen and Andrew Marantz over at the New Yorker.

01:00:48.000 They've been writing about how we should basically restrict media because free speech can't fulfill its function if people are allowed to hear dissenting views.

01:00:56.000 They said, the news media have traditionally borne the responsibility for ensuring that the actual purpose of the First Amendment is fulfilled.

01:01:02.000 Yet Americans are content to leave this essential component of democracy to profit-driven corporations with next to no regulatory oversight.

01:01:09.000 They complained that Mark Zuckerberg had given a speech in which he said free speech was good.

01:01:15.000 Okay, this is, and the list goes on and on and on.

01:01:19.000 The push by big name members over at the Washington Post and the New York Times.

01:01:24.000 Max Boot last week suggesting that we ought to regulate outlets they don't like.

01:01:28.000 Okay, the push for cancellation is incredibly strong right now.

01:01:31.000 Incredibly, and it's only gonna get stronger.

01:01:34.000 Again, to restore normalcy, all we have to do is do unbelievably non-normal things.

01:01:38.000 And then normalcy will be restored.

01:01:39.000 That's exciting.

01:01:40.000 I will say that there is some joy to be had, at least some schadenfreude to be had, in the fun of watching the left cancel itself.

01:01:49.000 So we're watching this happen on a fairly regular basis now.

01:01:52.000 Here's the thing.

01:01:53.000 Once you let the woke out of the cage, they just go wild.

01:01:56.000 And that is what's been happening on social media.

01:01:58.000 Latest to find herself in the box is Miley Cyrus, So that's exciting stuff.

01:02:03.000 Miley Cyrus, who identifies as bisexual, or pansexual, right? 0.83

01:02:07.000 She said she's pansexual, which means she likes pans.

01:02:09.000 But also, she likes both guys and girls. 0.99

01:02:12.000 So, she did an interview with SiriusXM's Barstool Radio, where she said, She said that she's not interested in the male genitalia, and she suggested that everyone knows that breasts are prettier than A male genitalia are prettier than testicles. 0.99

01:02:33.000 Okay, and this is why she says that she's into girls. 1.00

01:02:36.000 Okay, here's what happened.

01:02:37.000 Out magazine, which is the LGBT magazine, THE LGBT magazine, tried to cancel her for saying this.

01:02:44.000 So she says that she is interested in lesbianism because of her physical attraction to women.

01:02:49.000 And Out is like, that's transphobic!

01:02:51.000 I can't, I will admit, that's hilarious.

01:02:53.000 That's really funny.

01:02:54.000 Here's what Out Magazine wrote about all of this.

01:02:58.000 A person named May Rood wrote all of this.

01:03:00.000 Okay, here's what this person wrote.

01:03:02.000 I don't know what the person's gender is because I have no idea.

01:03:05.000 And literally, No idea.

01:03:07.000 Okay, so here's what this person wrote.

01:03:08.000 Quote, You understand this? 1.00

01:03:09.000 A real lesbian would be having sex with dudes who say they're ladies. 1.00

01:03:11.000 but Cyrus's quote is littered with transphobia. 0.99

01:03:14.000 This kind of gender essentialism was left behind by most of the queer community years ago.

01:03:19.000 Genitals do not equal gender and Miley should know this. 0.99

01:03:22.000 As a lesbian, Miley Cyrus should be having sex with dudes and find dude genitalia just as attractive as non-dude genitalia. 1.00

01:03:30.000 You understand this? 1.00

01:03:31.000 A real lesbian would be having sex with dudes who say they're ladies. 1.00

01:03:35.000 And if not, you're a TERF. 1.00

01:03:37.000 A TERF is a person who is reinforcing the anti-trans positions of the lesbian community. 0.77

01:03:46.000 In an age where TERFs are more vocal than they've ever been, comments like these reinforce some very dangerous ideas about bodies and gender, says Out Magazine.

01:03:54.000 Having a gender preference or even a genitalia preference in who you sleep with is obviously not a problem, but to reduce the genitalia to men's bodies contributes to dangerous beliefs about trans women. 0.99

01:04:03.000 Some women have penises. 1.00

01:04:07.000 Clappy hands emoji. 0.99

01:04:09.000 Because so many people like Miley believe that genitals determine gender, trans women, and girls are often considered to be men in public spaces.

01:04:16.000 Oh, you mean like men are considered to be men in public spaces? 0.97

01:04:20.000 Trans women are kicked out of women's restrooms, locker rooms, and school sports, not allowed in women's shelters, put in prison with men, murdered all because they have male genitalia. 0.96

01:04:29.000 First of all, Andy Ngo has done some interesting work on the actual number of trans people who are being murdered. 0.95

01:04:35.000 Is it disproportionate?

01:04:36.000 Who's actually doing the killing?

01:04:37.000 In any case, put that aside for a second.

01:04:40.000 The basic notion that biological men should not be allowed in ladies' locker rooms seems fairly unobjectionable, but again, everybody is subject to the cancel culture.

01:04:47.000 Here is the thing, guys.

01:04:49.000 Left, right, center.

01:04:50.000 Once you let the cat out of the bag, once you start canceling people for views you don't like, And once you start conflating your own views with quote-unquote the facts, there is no limit to the kind of censorship you will pursue.

01:05:02.000 This is what the left is going to do.

01:05:03.000 This is their push.

01:05:05.000 This is what they are, and they're not going to stop.

01:05:08.000 This will continue forever.

01:05:10.000 But again, at least we can enjoy a little bit of the schadenfreude of watching people who have been doing the cancelling in the past being cancelled.

01:05:18.000 One of these, Lauren Wolf, was an editor over at the New York Times.

01:05:22.000 By the way, I don't think she should have been cancelled for this.

01:05:23.000 I don't think she should have lost her editorial job.

01:05:25.000 I think the New York Times should just own it.

01:05:26.000 She tweeted out something about how she had chills, how she had chills when Joe Biden landed in Air Force One.

01:05:33.000 Just a few months ago, she tweeted, it's hilarious, this refrain of cancel culture, as if it is actually anything.

01:05:38.000 Then she was fired, apparently, over that tweet about Trump.

01:05:41.000 And then she's like, you know, when people talk about canceling, they forget that I'm a real person with a real life and a real job who now has to make the bills.

01:05:49.000 Yes, we know.

01:05:51.000 We are aware.

01:05:52.000 Would that you had picked up on this a little bit sooner.

01:05:54.000 Oh, how sad.

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Turning Biden Into The Normcore President | Ep. 1180

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