On this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, Ben talks about the theory that the 2020 election was rigged by the left, and why the idea that Donald Trump actually won the election is a big no-brainer. He explains why the left has the motive, the means, and the opportunity to steal an election, and how they can do so. Plus, he explains why people don t accept the results of elections anymore. And why they don't accept the result of an election if the other guy won. Plus, Ben explains why we should all be worried about inflation and the impact it's having on our day-to-day lives and how to deal with it. Thanks to PureTalk, PureTalk is offering their best discount ever to my listeners. They're offering one month for free when you make the switch from one of PureTalk's most reliable 5G network services (PureTalk) to Puretalk. That's $1.99 a month for one month, plus you get 1GB of data for free! Get 1 GB of data and access to all PureTalk features including the latest features and features for as little as $99 a year! Subscribe to the show to get 1 GB free of charge! Subscribe today using the promo code SHIPPERSHIP and get 1 month of Pure Talk for 1 month for only $99.99. Get PureTalk for 1 MONTH of Talk, Talk, Text, and Text, for just $99! Ben Shapiro: The Big Lie, Ben Shapiro Ben's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, the premium 5Gadgets, the fastest-grade VPN service on the highest rated VPN service in the world. Ben explains how you can get 5GB of 5Gigabytes of data, anywhere in the US, anywhere you get the best deal on the fastest fastest and the most affordable 5G connection in the fastestest possible speed and the fastest way to get the most of it all of the best experience on the best 5G and most affordable option in the cheapest possible, the most personalized experience possible, and most secureest experience in the whole place on the planet. . Get 5G Talk, you get 5G + FREE 7GB, fastest 5G, fastest, fastestest 5GPRICING, fastest and the biggest 5GPG, the best way to connect to the fastest & the most reliable, most personalized 5G & fastestest FREE
00:01:29.000Well, it's been labeled the big lie, the idea that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election thanks to voter fraud and the attempts by the left to create an almost global conspiracy to deny him the presidency.
00:01:43.000The folks who suggest that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, one of the reasons they suggest that is because they say, well, the left had the motive, the means and the opportunity.
00:01:50.000That is the argument that I have heard and it is the strongest argument that they make because the truth is that there's no way to prove that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election based on the vote count.
00:01:59.000There's no way to actually show that fraudulent voters were present in the sort of numbers that would have overturned the results in many of these states.
00:02:05.000The best that you can say in favor of the idea that the 2020 election was rigged is that it was sort of informally and and generically rigged in the sense that the media denied people the access to the information that would have needed to change their votes in the sense that the rules were actively changed in some cases like in Pennsylvania against the constitution of the state of Pennsylvania in order to make it easier for people to vote absentee. It's possible to say that ballot harvesting creates the the massive possibility of border front right all of those things can be true.
00:02:31.000The actual notion that Donald Trump won based on he definitely had enough falsified ballots that he could have proved or the ballots we can show were shipped in in the middle of the night and people were in the back room punching holes in the chats.
00:02:45.000But the argument that is the most, I think, strong and convincing from the right, from those who argue this point of view, If you're trying to steal man, the argument is that the left has the motive means and the opportunity to steal elections.
00:02:59.000And the idea here is that they had the means, right?
00:03:01.000The means would be, you know, the broadening of the voting procedures and the ballot harvesting.
00:03:05.000They had the opportunity because people were voting for months in advance and they had the motive and the motive is really, I think the thing that people are latching onto.
00:03:13.000The motive is really what is driving polarization in our politics because it used to be when people say, you know, why don't people accept the results of elections anymore?
00:03:21.000Why don't people accept the results of elections anymore?
00:03:23.000The answer is because it used to be in this country that you would suggest, yeah, no matter how much I hate the other guy, I don't have the motive to steal an election.
00:03:31.000To steal an election means that I truly believe that the country is at an end if we don't steal this election.
00:03:37.000If I don't subvert the democracy, then the democracy is gone.
00:03:40.000The argument in favor of subverting a democratic election is, if I don't do this, catastrophe occurs.
00:03:46.000And you can see times in human history where that argument could be made.
00:03:49.000The communists are about to take over in a particular place, and so the CIA has to get involved to prevent Stalin from taking over Italy.
00:03:56.000That argument was made in the 1950s, for example.
00:03:59.000I think that you could make the argument with regard to Hitler.
00:04:02.000Hitler is about to take over in Germany.
00:04:04.000You do everything you possibly can to stop Hitler from taking over in Germany.
00:04:26.000But it is not so bad that you have the motive to steal the election.
00:04:30.000You wouldn't have the motive to undermine an election itself, to destroy election integrity.
00:04:35.000Increasingly, as we have seen in recent years, the feeling on both sides of the aisle, but particularly on the left side of the aisle, is that anything necessary in order to prevent Republicans from gaining power is justified.
00:05:34.000Sam is very much of the left, and he's definitely a Democrat voting person.
00:05:41.000And apparently he believes, and this is why this is so telltale, because Sam is not a wild leftist.
00:05:48.000Sam is not somebody who is a radically left person.
00:05:50.000Sam tends to be left of center on a lot of issues, but he's not somebody who I would characterize as like a woke radical leftist or something.
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00:07:12.000So he was on a podcast called Trigonometry and he made some comments that I think totally throw gasoline on the flaming raging fire of election denial and on the raging fire that's going on in terms of polarization in the country.
00:07:26.000The belief that there are in fact people who are willing to create conspiracies in order to deny the proper results of an election.
00:07:32.000Or even willing to subvert elections entirely.
00:07:34.000Now, Sam tried to walk this back yesterday a little bit on Twitter.
00:07:37.000I don't think he did a very good job of it.
00:07:38.000But these comments went viral for a reason.
00:07:40.000Because they support the idea that so many people have about people on the left.
00:07:45.000And people on the left, if they had the chance, would steal an election from Donald Trump.
00:07:49.000So here is Sam Harris a couple of days ago on Triggernometry.
00:07:52.000Again, this went totally viral yesterday.
00:07:54.000I mean, Hunter Biden, at that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.
00:08:05.000First of all, it's Hunter Biden, right?
00:08:07.000It's not, it's like, it's not Joe Biden, but even if Joe, like even whatever scope of Joe Biden's corruption is, like if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he's getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden's deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right?
00:08:25.000It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.
00:08:32.000It's like a firefly to the sun, right?
00:08:35.000I mean, it doesn't even stack up against Trump University, right?
00:08:41.000Trump University as a story is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden's laptop, in my view, right?
00:08:48.000Now that doesn't answer the people who say it's still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the New York Post's Twitter account.
00:09:00.000That's a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.
00:09:36.000But the thing is, it's just not left-wing, right?
00:09:39.000So Liz Cheney is not left-wing, right?
00:09:41.000Liz Cheney is doing everything in her power.
00:09:42.000You're content with a conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratic?
00:09:46.000No, but there's nothing... Conspiracy... It was a conspiracy out in the open, but it doesn't matter if it was... It doesn't matter what part's conspiracy, what part's out in the open.
00:09:55.000I mean, I think it's like... If people get together and talk about what should we do about this phenomenon, you know, it's like... If there was an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, And we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation about what we could do to deflect its course, right?
00:10:16.000I mean, that's an amazing statement there from Sam Harris.
00:10:18.000So he openly says, okay, so there are people who are complaining that the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed by the media, right?
00:10:23.000So he's not even talking right now about election fraud.
00:10:26.000He's talking about what sort of information could and should be suppressed in order to effectuate an election win for Joe Biden.
00:10:32.000And he even says, what if on that laptop had been the stuff that a lot of right-wingers suspect about Joe Biden, which is that he was getting direct kickbacks from Hunter Biden for corrupt activities in Ukraine and China.
00:10:42.000Because that is the gravest accusation on the laptop.
00:10:44.000Forget about Hunter Biden smoking crack off hooker's asses and all the rest.
00:10:48.000The stuff that people really are concerned about with regard to Joe Biden is not the fact that Hunter Biden is a drug-addicted derelict and a horrible person.
00:10:55.000The thing that people are really concerned about in terms of the presidency is, was Hunter Biden traveling overseas to China, receiving massive amounts of money from the Chinese government, and then kicking back 10% to the big guy?
00:11:06.000That would actually be really troubling because that would be significantly worse than anything that was even proved About Donald Trump, right?
00:11:14.000That was the actual accusation about Trump.
00:11:16.000The accusation about Trump was that Trump was in thrall to the Russians.
00:11:19.000That Trump had basically made a trade with the Russians that they would subvert the election.
00:11:24.000And in return, he would be really, really nice to them because if they did that, then they would also green light the Trump Hotel in Moscow.
00:11:31.000Or that he had a deal with Deutsche Bank, some financial deal that would allow some sort of kickback where he was being enriched personally by the Russians in order to effectuate different American policy toward Russia.
00:11:49.000But what he's saying, what Sam Harris is saying, is even if that stuff were true about Joe Biden and China, Or Joe Biden and Ukraine.
00:11:57.000If it turned out that Joe Biden is everything we said Donald Trump was, but could never prove, that still would not justify allowing information to flow freely to the American people.
00:12:08.000It would not allow people to see that information, because it's so important to stop Trump, right?
00:12:12.000Trump is so bad, he's an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, that it doesn't matter what you have to do to stop that asteroid.
00:12:17.000It doesn't matter if you call it a conspiracy or not a conspiracy.
00:12:21.000The idea here is that you have to mold the minds of the American people to prevent Donald Trump from being president of the United States.
00:12:29.000Now, Sam Harris tried to then walk this back a little bit on Twitter, and I want to be fair to Sam by reading what he actually said here.
00:12:35.000He says, there's a podcast clip circulating that seems to be confusing many people about my views on Trump, which is understandable because I wasn't speaking very clearly.
00:12:42.000So for what it's worth, here's what I was trying to say.
00:12:45.000I was essentially arguing for a principle of self-defense, where there's a continuum of proportionate force that is appropriate and necessary to use.
00:12:51.000I've always viewed Trump as a very dangerous person to elect as president of a fake university, let alone the United States.
00:12:55.000And when he became a sitting president who would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, I viewed him as more dangerous still.
00:13:00.000However, I've never been under any illusion that he's Orange Hitler.
00:13:03.000On the podcast, I was speaking narrowly about the wisdom and propriety of ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story until after the election.
00:13:09.000I've always thought that this was a very hard call, ethically and journalistically.
00:13:12.000Now, right there, he gives away the game.
00:13:14.000What makes that a hard call ethically and journalistically?
00:13:26.000On Hunter Biden's laptop could have been proved direct that Xi Jinping sent hookers, blow, and $10 million directly to Joe, not Hunter.
00:13:34.000And that would have been worthy of ignoring because that's how bad Donald Trump was and how scary Donald Trump was.
00:13:39.000This is a hard call ethically and journalistically, but given what happened with the Anthony Weiner laptop in the previous election, I think it was probably the right call.
00:13:45.000So again, that's an amazing statement because what happened, if you recall, in the last election cycle, is that there were serious questions about how Hillary Clinton had treated classified information as Secretary of State.
00:13:54.000And she had stored a bunch of classified information on her laptop, and then when she was subpoenaed for all this information, she bleach-bit her servers and destroyed all the information.
00:14:04.000And Anthony Weiner's laptop, in a separate investigation of Anthony Weiner, came up, and a bunch of Hillary's emails basically found their way onto Anthony Weiner's laptop, because after all, she was married to Huma Abedin, Huma Abedin was very close with Hillary Clinton, she was one of her top aides.
00:14:18.000And so he's saying that because the Anthony Weiner laptop story ended up effectuating a move toward Donald Trump in the last days of the 2016 election, and so Donald Trump ended up winning, it would have been better that that story were suppressed.
00:14:35.000That story should have been suppressed.
00:14:36.000And note, he's saying that before Donald Trump had been president.
00:14:41.000So the notion that between 2016 and 2020, Trump proved himself to be so dangerous, it was about elections and aisle, that he proved himself so dangerous in July, August, September, October of 2020, that you could not allow him to remain as president of the United States.
00:14:57.000I mean, Sam is openly saying now that he, if he had a choice, would go back and have suppressed the Anthony Weiner laptop information.
00:15:04.000That's 2016, before Trump has done any of this kind of stuff.
00:15:08.000He says, nothing I said on the podcast was meant to suggest that Democrats would have been right to commit election fraud or to take other illegal measures to deny Trump the presidency, nor do I think they did that.
00:15:17.000But I don't know why the principle doesn't hold.
00:15:21.000So according to Sam Harris, there's a continuum.
00:15:23.000The continuum goes from suppressing open stories by the New York Post that affect the election to openly just shoving fake ballots into boxes.
00:15:33.000He says, I'm not going to do the latter thing, but suppressing the former thing that I'm kind of okay with.
00:15:37.000I'm kind of okay with denying Trump the presidency.
00:15:40.000Once you're on that continuum, that's not just a slippery slope.
00:15:43.000You're going to have to explain the principle.
00:15:45.000Why is Donald Trump so dangerous that you can shut down the ability of people to distribute true information about Joe Biden in order to prevent Joe Biden from losing?
00:15:55.000But he's not dangerous enough that you're actually willing to stuff ballot boxes.
00:15:58.000Like, explain to me how that continuum works.
00:16:04.000So a lot of conservatives suspect there is no continuum.
00:16:06.000A lot of conservatives suspect that this is completely ad hoc.
00:16:10.000That if, in the secret recesses of the Democratic halls of power, they had the ability to actually stuff ballot boxes, they would do it.
00:16:18.000And that if you're openly saying, if the part you say out loud is, I'm willing to shut down the New York Post distribution of Hunter Biden stories, the stuff that you're really saying in the back of your mind is pretty much anything that we have to do to deny Donald Trump the presidency, we are willing to do.
00:16:30.000So why should I believe you when you say that the election was carried out in fair and decent fashion?
00:16:36.000That is the thinking of a lot of people on the right side of the aisle.
00:16:38.000Now, again, that doesn't prove that the election was stolen.
00:16:42.000It doesn't prove means and opportunity.
00:16:43.000And it certainly doesn't prove that it actually even happened.
00:16:45.000Because, again, the states that we are talking about that actually certified their ballots were all run by Republicans, right?
00:16:51.000You had a Republican legislature in Pennsylvania, you had a Republican legislature in Arizona, and a Republican secretary of state, and a Republican secretary of state in Georgia, and a Republican governor.
00:16:58.000Also in Arizona, you had a Republican governor, right?
00:17:00.000The notion that the mere presence of the motive proves that the thing happened is not true.
00:17:05.000And many people have terrible, terrible motives with regard to other people.
00:17:09.000It doesn't prove that they committed any crime against that person.
00:17:11.000However, it's the motive that is really undergirding the complete separation in the United States, the complete polarization in the United States.
00:17:19.000And that lack of trust is tearing us apart on an institutional level.
00:17:22.000Tearing us apart because you believe the minute that guy gets access to the levers of power, you know what he thinks.
00:17:43.000We know that you spent four years going after him for a bunch of garbage with regard to Russia.
00:17:47.000And now you have control of that sword again.
00:17:49.000So why should we believe you that you are using that in fair fashion when you've made very clear that you don't wish to use that in fair fashion?
00:17:57.000People have these suspicions about, for example, Big Tech.
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00:19:19.000All right, Sam Harris said the quiet part out loud, and even his attempts to walk it back are not really strong enough.
00:19:26.000Because the moment that you say, information should be suppressed so my guy can win, the question becomes, okay, what else are you willing to do so that your guy can win?
00:19:34.000And why do you draw this line, but not that line?
00:20:00.000That motive question is so dangerous in America.
00:20:04.000One thing that I really despise in American politics, and it happens again on both sides a lot, is what we call emotivism.
00:20:10.000Emotivism is the idea that somebody makes an argument, and instead of you arguing with the argument, you argue with the motive of the argument.
00:20:15.000You attribute a motive to the person, and then you argue with the motive.
00:20:18.000You see this happen all the time in, for example, gender ideology.
00:20:21.000You see it happen, Matt Walsh, When he did his fantastic documentary, What is a Woman?
00:20:26.000He would go around and he would ask a bunch of gender theorists, what is a woman?
00:20:29.000And their first question back to him would be, why are you asking?
00:21:07.000Then at that point, it is your motive that's on the table.
00:21:09.000And once the motives are on the table, very difficult to put that genie back in the bottle.
00:21:14.000And so, yes, people are very fearful that the institutions of power in the United States have been infected with these motives, and that it has poisoned all those institutions.
00:21:24.000So, there's a very good piece in the Wall Street Journal a couple days ago from our friend Vivek Ramaswamy and Jed Rubenfeldt.
00:21:30.000of Yale talking about Alex Berenson. So Alex Berenson, he's now back on Twitter after being banned for nearly a year over COVID-19 misinformation. Last week, the former New York Times reporter settled his lawsuit against the social media company, which admitted error and then restored his account. The First Amendment doesn't apply to private companies like Twitter, Berenson wrote last week on Substack, but because the Biden administration brought pressure to bear on Twitter, he believes he has a case, his constitutional rights were violated. He is correct.
00:21:53.000So what exactly happened here? Well, Berenson went through the discovery process ensuing Twitter.
00:22:00.000And that discovery process confirmed that the White House has been secretly asking social media companies to shut down the contents of specific prominent critics of administration policy.
00:22:08.000On July 16th, 2021, a reporter asked President Biden, quote, on COVID misinformation, what's your message to platforms like Facebook?
00:22:14.000And Biden replied, quote, they are killing people.
00:22:17.000Later that day, Twitter locked Berenson's account on August 28th and banned him permanently.
00:22:21.000Last Friday, Berenson published conversations from an internal Twitter Slack channel, referring to an April 2021 meeting with White House officials.
00:22:28.000One Twitter employee noted that the meeting overall was pretty good, but added the White House had one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn't been kicked off the platform.
00:22:36.000Another employee asked, any high-level takeaways from the meeting?
00:22:39.000Anything we should keep an eye out for?
00:22:42.000They really wanted to know about Alex Berenson.
00:22:44.000The employee wrote that Andy Slavitt, then a senior White House COVID advisor, quote, suggested they had seen data that had showed that he was the epicenter of disinformation that radiated outwards to the persuadable public.
00:22:58.000At a July 15, 2021 meeting, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, quote, We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.
00:23:06.000There's about 12 people who are producing 65 percent of anti-vax misinformation on social media platforms.
00:23:11.000This is a reference to the so-called disinformation dozen, 12 named individuals identified in a report by the U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, a report that Facebook disputed even as it said it had taken action against the targets.
00:23:22.000Saki went on to say that 12 of them remained active on Facebook despite some being banned on other platforms, including ones that Facebook owns.
00:23:32.000Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on social media companies to purge more COVID posts.
00:23:35.000He said we're asking them to consistently take action against misinformation super spreaders on their platform.
00:23:40.000And a week later, Nick Clegg, a former UK Deputy Prime Minister, now Facebook parent, met as President for Global Affairs, emailed Murthy to thank him for meeting with Facebook and to report on the steps we took just this past week to further address the disinformation dozen.
00:23:52.000We removed 17 additional pages, groups, and Instagram accounts tied to the disinformation dozen, resulting in every member having had at least one such entity removed.
00:24:00.000So you now have the White House overtly coordinating with the biggest platforms to effectuate policy changes by silencing critics, by silencing voices.
00:24:11.000Well, there aren't a lot of people out there, not a lot of institutions that you can trust.
00:24:15.000That's particularly true when it comes to the economy.
00:24:18.000One thing that you can trust is the simple fact that if you're a business owner and you can get some money back from the government, why exactly would you not do that?
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00:25:31.000He says, our approach to the 2022 midterm elections applies learnings from the 2020 election cycle and exceeds the measures we implemented during the last midterm election in 2018. This includes advanced security operations to fight foreign interference and domestic influence campaigns, our network of independent fact-checking partners.
00:25:46.000Those independent fact-checking partners are universally left-wing, and when they fact-check, what they actually do is the implication checks.
00:25:53.000So if you say something that is true, Snopes will say, mostly false.
00:25:57.000He'll say, yeah, what you said is true, sure, but the implication is mostly false.
00:26:01.000Our industry-leading transparency measures around political advertising and pages, as well as new measures to help keep poll workers safe.
00:26:08.000As we did in 2020, we have a dedicated team in place to combat election and voter interference, while also helping people get reliable information about when and how to vote.
00:26:17.000Nick Clegg says our teams fight both foreign interference and domestic influence operation and have exposed and disrupted dozens of networks that have attempted to interfere with U.S.
00:26:25.000And some of this is about preventing Russia from intervening.
00:26:29.000But the second thing is about downgrading particular information.
00:26:32.000Remember, it was Facebook that, and it was Nick Clegg, who originally said, yeah, you know what we're going to have to do here is we're going to have to suppress this New York Post story.
00:26:39.000So all those institutions of power are perfectly willing to suppress information on behalf of a particular political cause or at the behest of the White House.
00:26:47.000And this is why people are deeply suspicious of the FBI search on Donald Trump's home.
00:26:52.000Because institutional trust is at all-time lows, as well it should be.
00:26:55.000Once the motive has been said, it cannot be unsaid.
00:26:57.000Once you say your motive out loud, the bell cannot be unrung.
00:27:01.000And so, what we are learning right now is that, and then you have, you know, the FBI trotting out disgraced former agents like Peter Strzok saying, trust us.
00:27:18.000He was screwing her, they were both married, and they were texting one another about how much they hated Donald Trump.
00:27:21.000Throughout the investigation, he was leading into both Hillary Clinton and the 2016 emails, and he was also leading the investigation into Trump and the Trump-Russia collusion kind of stuff.
00:27:38.000Now, Peter Strzok ended up being fired unceremoniously.
00:27:51.000Well, you know, he says, well, it reveals sources and methods.
00:27:54.000Okay, invariably, the people who are calling for lack of transparency in these particular types of cases are the people you probably shouldn't trust.
00:28:09.000You know, in any other case not involving a former president of the United States, I'd expect the judge to rule immediately at the conclusion of the presentations from both sides.
00:28:18.000He may in this case, because of the significant nature of the case, want to go and draft an opinion and make sure all the T's are crossed and I's dotted, but ordinarily I would not expect to have it released and I would expect to have an order or decision out of the judge during this hearing.
00:28:35.000And the people in the media are like, oh yeah, that's fine.
00:28:48.000But when it comes to, for example, surveillance footage of the FBI going through Donald Trump's belongings, then you got Peter Strzok out there on CNN saying, yeah, no, no, no, we definitely can't.
00:28:56.000And I mean, that tape should not be available to the general public.
00:28:58.000I mean, it's only the most controversial single FBI action of the last, I don't know, 40 years or so.
00:29:06.000You know, my main concern is one of physical security for the agents and other personnel involved in the search.
00:29:12.000If these are images where people can be identified, where they can have a name identified along with their image, that obviously in the context of what we're looking at now with threats to the judge, with threats to FBI personnel and offices, that really heightens the risk to those agents and other personnel who took part in that search.
00:29:32.000From an optics perspective, you know, Trump and his camp are talking a big game about releasing it, but I have some question about whether an average American viewer watching FBI agents walk out with box after box after box of highly classified information, whether that in fact is an image that is going to serve Trump very well.
00:29:55.000Garrett Graff has a piece over at the New York Times today.
00:29:58.000He's the author of a book called Watergate A New History.
00:30:00.000He has an op-ed at the New York Times today talking about how basically the right should leave the FBI alone because the FBI is congenitally conservative.
00:30:07.000He says, historically, the FBI has been arguably the most culturally conservative and traditionally white Christian institution in the entire U.S.
00:30:13.000It's an institution so culturally conservative, even by the standards of law enforcement, that Democratic presidents have never felt comfortable or politically emboldened enough to nominate a Democrat to head the Bureau.
00:30:22.000Far from being a bastion of progressive thinking, every single director of the FBI has been a Republican-aligned official going all the way back to its creation.
00:30:40.000Well, I mean, there's only one problem with that, and that is the institutional forces inside all of these institutions, including the FBI, if they are congenitally predisposed at the top levels against Donald Trump, and if that's being approved by the DOJ under Merrick Garland, I'm not sure what that says about the everyday agent sitting behind his desk.
00:31:00.000I mean, this is the same sort of complaint that you hear.
00:31:02.000So the right will say, we are very critical of the leadership of the U.S.
00:31:06.000military have bought into sort of the woke, progressive, equity-based agenda with regard to the United States military.
00:31:11.000They are woke-ifying the military, and it's really stupid, and it's undermining combat readiness.
00:31:16.000And the left will go, well, yeah, but you guys love the military.
00:31:18.000The military is filled with people who agree with you.
00:31:20.000Well, yes, throughout the military, but at the very top levels, the way that you become at a top level general in the military is by being political.
00:31:29.000Everybody, talk to anybody in any branch of the military, and what they will tell you is once you hit the upper levels of the political echelon of the military, you're a political general.
00:31:37.000You got up there because you're very good at politicking.
00:31:39.000The same thing happens to be true with the upper levels of the FBI.
00:31:43.000So just because the average FBI agent may be politically conservative doesn't change whether the FBI has at its top levels a bunch of politicians who are maneuvering Because that's what happens in every bureaucracy.
00:31:56.000And so, again, trust us tends to go by the wayside when you have undermined your own trust.
00:32:02.000And I keep saying that it's true in every institution.
00:32:04.000This is why it feels like the country is breaking, even though the United States is still the most powerful force on planet Earth by a wide margin.
00:32:11.000China cannot challenge the United States.
00:32:13.000The United States is a massively powerful economy.
00:32:15.000The United States has the most powerful military in world history.
00:32:21.000And yet we are talking about The kind of breakup of the United States in terms of social fabric and the reason is because all the institutions that used to unify us are now falling apart because you can't trust the guy in charge because his motives seem to be wrong.
00:32:34.000And it's every part of the American government and the CDC is a perfect example of this.
00:32:38.000So yesterday Rochelle Walensky announced that they are shaking up The CDC.
00:32:43.000By shaking up, it doesn't mean that they've actually recognized their big mistakes.
00:32:47.000The big mistakes here were politicizing all of the data that was coming out, lying about it to the American public, making statements that were way beyond their capacity to make, saying that you didn't need masks, and then you did need masks, and then you might need to mask up your two-year-old, and then you need seven different vaccinations, and that if you did get vaccinated, you wouldn't transmit, or if you did transmit, well, you still probably had to quarantine, and if you did quarantine, well, you didn't quarantine long enough, and you have to shut down your, like the CDC was issuing rulings about eviction moratoria.
00:33:58.000Get information to the public more rapidly.
00:34:00.000Create a new office to promote equity in health care.
00:34:04.000And develop a more nimble workforce that can quickly respond to public health crises.
00:34:09.000We need to have special forces, if you will, to deploy during pandemic times.
00:34:14.000Do you think they're up to the task of now changing their whole culture and thinking of themselves more like special forces that can be deployed wherever they're needed?
00:34:22.000I have no doubt that they're up to the task.
00:34:34.000Equity, as we learned from Kamala Harris, is the basically stupid idea that everybody in the United States is equally likely to accomplish or be subjected to anything in a normal situation, and any imbalance in result is due to some sort of evil in the system.
00:34:48.000Did that sound something like that the CDC should be promoting?
00:34:52.000But apparently that is what they are promoting.
00:35:01.000They want to establish an Office of Intergovernmental Affairs to smooth partnerships with other agencies and a higher level office on health equity.
00:35:10.000She says that she wants to be able to move with more alacrity to get out actionable data.
00:35:15.000And by actionable data, that presumably means telling people what to do.
00:35:19.000Because again, the notion that the CDC was not active enough during this pandemic is pretty insane.
00:35:24.000Like in the very early days, you might say that was true for like the first month.
00:35:28.000But for the next two years, all the CDC was giving you bad blanket advice that was scientifically erroneous.
00:35:55.000I think they should be commended in the fact, particularly Dr. Walensky, realizing and recognizing the shortcomings that have been there for quite a long time, long anti-dating Dr. Walensky's tenure.
00:36:11.000And I think it was the stress and the challenge of a historic pandemic that brought some of those deficiencies into sharp relief.
00:36:20.000So I believe we should commend them for realizing that, particularly Dr. Walensky.
00:36:40.000Again, all the institutions in American life, I keep repeating it over, they seem to be falling apart because the people in charge of these institutions have motives that are at odds with the motivations of the American people.
00:36:50.000That's not just true inside of actual governmental institutions.
00:36:52.000It's true in terms of the institutions that we should have the most trust in in America.
00:36:55.000Namely, like the scientific institutions.
00:36:58.000The institution of science has brought about more progress and prosperity than any institution over the course of the last century.
00:37:05.000And yet they are continuously undermining themselves with questions of motive and injecting politics and ideology into what should be a hypothesis result ordering.
00:37:17.000Science used to be about, here's my hypothesis, and then we get the data, and then we see what the result is.
00:37:20.000And now it's about, I'm not even allowed to posit a hypothesis that contradicts anything that the woke ideology says.
00:37:27.000So you've got the CDC and Fauci saying, they're going to fix everything.
00:37:30.000Well, I can tell you how they should fix everything.
00:37:31.000They should fire everyone and hire a new, which is why they should be using, theoretically, ZipRecruiter.com.
00:37:36.000You need a ZipRecruiter to find the best candidates for the jobs at your company.
00:37:40.000So for example, Mathis, he started off as like an intern here.
00:37:43.000And now Mathis runs production because Mathis is an excellent employee.
00:38:51.000It's an exploration of what America means and biblical stories of Cain and Abel and Adam and Eve.
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00:38:59.000Maybe the best political novel ever written.
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00:39:14.000Again, all the institutions in our society are falling apart because they've been injected with ideology.
00:39:18.000And when you inject institutions that are supposed to be nonpartisan with ideology, when you take principles like electoral integrity and you inject them with partisan ideology, what you end up doing is breaking them down.
00:39:28.000And this is particularly true in the field of science.
00:39:30.000Science was supposed to be the most impervious to this kind of stuff.
00:39:32.000And instead, it seems that science is now the bleeding edge of institutional breakdown.
00:39:38.000It doesn't help when you have articles like this one from Science Magazine.
00:41:03.000You have to learn about quantum mechanics in order to get to the idea that you are both, quote, I found the label non-binary through friends on Twitter.
00:41:13.000With its fluidity and disavowal of the traditional two-gender system, non-binary felt right.
00:42:01.000Except that the scientific institutions have been completely broken.
00:42:05.000As Julia Mason and Lior Sapir write in a piece for the Wall Street Journal, the American Academy of Pediatrics is now pushing dubious transgender science.
00:42:14.000Quote, a spate of headlines this month declared America's surge in transgender identification was not being caused by social contagion.
00:42:20.000These articles were prompted by a new study by Jack Turbin and colleagues in Pediatrics, the flagship journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
00:42:27.000Turbin, by the way, is a propagandist extraordinaire.
00:42:36.000The study claimed that social influence isn't the reason that as many as 9% of America's youth now call themselves trans.
00:42:41.000Thus, Dr. Truman argues, efforts in conservative states to regulate on-demand puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery must be resisted.
00:42:48.000Dr. Turbin's study is deeply flawed and likely couldn't have survived a reasonable peer-review process.
00:42:53.000The swift response from the scientific community made both points clear.
00:42:56.000Even those who support hormones in surgery for gender dysphoric youth noted that Dr. Turbin's shoddy science undermined their cause.
00:43:02.000Nevertheless, the media have promoted his work as a refutation of the claim that the wildfire spread of trans identity is an example of social contagion.
00:43:09.000The Turbin study rejects the social contagion theory on the grounds that more biological boys than girls identified as trans in 2017 and 2019, according to data collected from 19 states by the CDC.
00:43:19.000But the researchers who helped design the CDC questionnaire explicitly warned that youths who identify as trans may list their sex as their gender identity, making it impossible to discern who is a male to female or female to male.
00:43:31.000In this latest study, he cites three sources suggesting that respondents interpret sex as sex assigned at birth, even though none of the studies says anything of the sort.
00:43:39.000But the AAP keeps giving Dr. Turbin a platform.
00:43:48.000Pediatrics published his highly flawed 2020 study alleging puberty blockers reduce suicide in teens.
00:43:53.000The journal even chose that article as its best of 2020, despite receiving rebuttals that pointed out that the rate of attempted suicide was twice as high among the puberty block group.
00:44:02.000And that Dr. Turbin had not controlled for the possibility that better mental health outcomes might be the result of factors other than hormonal intervention.
00:44:09.000The AAP keeps ignoring the evidence that has led Sweden, Finland, and most recently the UK to place severe restrictions on medical transition for minors.
00:44:20.000And not only should you trust the science, by the way, the DOJ will now try to prosecute you if you doubt the science.
00:44:26.000So massive controversy has now broken out over people committing the grave sin of showing clips of members of the Boston Children's Hospital trans team talking about transing the children.
00:44:36.000If you show the clips, this makes you a stochastic terrorist.
00:44:39.000I can see why they're upset about people showing the clips.
00:44:41.000The clips are super disturbing and make you look at the BCH and think, why are you committing active acts of child abuse and trauma against children?
00:44:49.000And for example, here is a BCH doctor, Boston Children's Hospital, bragging about mastectomies, double mastectomies for 15 year old girls.
00:44:55.000The eligibility for getting gender-affirming surgeries at Boston Children's Hospital is basically the same as it would be for most other hospitals or surgeons in the United States.
00:45:05.000And that's the case because we all follow the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, standards of care.
00:45:12.000For top surgery, you are Requested, but not required, to have been on gender-affirming hormones for at least a year.
00:45:21.000If you're a trans woman, it's really encouraged that you be on estrogen for at least a year because you want to maximize your natural breast growth.
00:45:28.000Many surgical centers require you to be 18.
00:45:31.000At Boston Children's Hospital for top surgeries, we'll see people as young as age 15 if they've been affirmed in their gender for a long period of time and don't really have any other life complications that make surgery inappropriate.
00:45:46.000And I love the happy-dappy music underneath.
00:45:48.000WPATH, by the way, is a propaganda organization on behalf of mutilation of children.
00:45:54.000Meanwhile, the Boston Children's Hospital is promoting a program called HOTT, H-O-T-T, in which adults teach minors how to tuck their penis with medical tape so it looks like a vagina.
00:46:07.000It's a welcoming, non-judgmental, confidential program designed specifically to meet the health and wellness needs of LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign young adults aged 13 to 24.
00:46:16.000And one of those services is teaching them how to tuck And tape your genitals up underneath you if you are a boy to look more like a girl.
00:47:15.000I want to make clear that the DOJ will ensure equal protection of transgender people under the law.
00:47:20.000I've made, as Attorney General Merrick Garland recently said, at the Justice Department we view confronting hate crimes as both our legal and our moral obligation.
00:47:27.000I have made confronting hate crimes a priority of my administration, establishing a unit dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of civil rights violations.
00:47:34.000So the DOJ is now stepping in, just like they stepped in to fight parents who are defending their kids, high schoolers.
00:47:40.000Now the DOJ is stepping in with all of its institutional integrity to push this sort of stuff.
00:47:47.000Just amazing, amazing stuff from the people you ought to trust the most, right?
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