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Who Really Rigged the Election? | Ep. 1136


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Today we discuss the real rigging of the election, the media sacrificing its credibility to attack Donald Trump, whether the Woke will rule the roost if Joe Biden takes office, and why COVID doesn t care about your politics. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on the Fox News Channel and host of the conservative podcast, The Weekly Standard, and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, USA Today, CNN, and the New York Times. He is also a frequent contributor to The Daily Wire and has been featured on CNN, NPR, CBS, and NPR. His new book, is out now and it's available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you haven't already checked it out, you can do so here. You can also get a free copy of the book for your Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, or Hardcover Hardcover Audio Book, which can be pre-ordered for just $99.99 at Amazon, or you can get 20% off for as little as $99 at amazon.com/TheBenShapiro. We'll get to all the news in just one moment! Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podcasting friends! Tweet me if you have a question or suggestion for Ben Shapiro! or a story you d like to be featured on the next episode! Timestamps: in the comments? using the hashtag or on Insta: , and tag . to get a shoutcast Subscribe to the podcast tag=aaron_tweet so we can spread the word about the podcast! Subscribe on your thoughts, stories, tips, opinions, thoughts, and thoughts on the podcast? or any other podcast you re listening to Ben Shapiro s new podcast episode can be reached on social media using the hashtags by tagging , and other things like that s=a_t=1_t_t& tag=t=4_t embed ? tweet=a7 t=1&t=a&q&q=3s=8 Thank you, Ben Shapiro thank you, thank you for listening & thanks for listening, Ben - Tim s the Reverend


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00:00:00.000 Today, we discuss the real rigging of the election, the media sacrificing its credibility to attack Donald Trump, whether the woke will rule the roost if Joe Biden takes office, and COVID doesn't care about your politics.
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00:01:43.000 Okay, so, the media narrative, the Democratic narrative continues apace until the moment Donald Trump declares that Joe Biden is President-elect of the United States.
00:01:51.000 We are on the precipice.
00:01:52.000 On the precipice of disaster, of doom, millions will die.
00:01:57.000 We were all killed by climate change.
00:01:57.000 I know.
00:01:59.000 And I know that we were all killed also by net neutrality.
00:02:03.000 We were killed by pretty much everything that Trump ever did.
00:02:05.000 But the good news is that like a cat, we have nine lives and we're back.
00:02:08.000 Only to be killed again by President Trump's failure to say that Joe Biden is president-elect yet, even though not a single state has yet certified its vote, and also none of the electors have actually voted.
00:02:17.000 Now, I've heard some rumors today about Republicans talking about Republican state legislators just certifying slates of electors who are Republican and would vote for Trump.
00:02:26.000 You can't do that in contravention to whatever evidence there is available.
00:02:29.000 If you're in Michigan and Biden ends up winning the actual vote count by 140,000 and you have some sporadic claims or even many claims of individual voter fraud, that is not enough to overcome the presumption of proof that is required for 140,000 vote lead in Michigan for Biden to be overturned by another slate of electors.
00:02:45.000 So how about we don't talk about silly things that is not going to happen and virtually no one is calling for that to happen because of course that would be on the verge of breaking democracy.
00:02:53.000 Now, we'll point out here, There were Democrats who called for that with Hillary Clinton in 2016, right?
00:02:58.000 So it is not unprecedented for people to say it, but it's dumb no matter who is saying it.
00:03:02.000 Okay, with that said...
00:03:04.000 The willingness of the media and Democrats to go along with the narrative that we are on the precipice.
00:03:09.000 As I said yesterday, this has very little to do with reality and very much to do with the entire narrative the media have set up for themselves.
00:03:15.000 So the media decided, and the Democrats decided, that they had to take down Donald Trump at any cost.
00:03:20.000 And that meant bending, breaking the rules.
00:03:22.000 It meant politicizing the intelligence agencies.
00:03:24.000 It meant turning journalistic outlets into open activist outlets.
00:03:26.000 Well, now, as it turns out, Donald Trump may have lost the 2020 election.
00:03:28.000 If he is found to have lost the election, if the electors vote and he is no longer president, he will leave peacefully.
00:03:33.000 because of course Donald Trump was not just Orange Man bad, he was incipient Hitler.
00:03:37.000 Well now, as it turns out, Donald Trump may have lost the 2020 election.
00:03:41.000 If he is found to have lost the election, if the electors vote and he is no longer president, he will leave peacefully.
00:03:46.000 If you think that Donald Trump is going to stick around and get violent or something.
00:03:49.000 He's going to thrash and you're going to drag him out in handcuffs.
00:03:51.000 That's leftist fantasy thinking.
00:03:53.000 It is not going to happen.
00:03:54.000 But here's the thing.
00:03:55.000 The left requires the fantasy because if it turns out that Donald Trump was, you know, he bloviated a lot and he did a lot of unconventional things as president, but he really didn't threaten the system.
00:04:03.000 And he's not really threatening the system now.
00:04:05.000 It turns out that all of the sacrifices they made to their own credibility, all of their institutional collapse in pursuit of Donald Trump was not justified.
00:04:15.000 It turns out that they sacrificed themselves on the altar of Donald Trump for nothing because it turns out he was never the kind of threat they determined him to be.
00:04:23.000 And they can't have that.
00:04:23.000 So they're just gonna continue to portray him as that kind of a threat.
00:04:27.000 There's a famous scene in A Man for All Seasons.
00:04:29.000 I've quoted this before, but it is really one of my favorite scenes in all of theater and all of movies.
00:04:34.000 It's a great film, everybody should watch it, in which it's about Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII.
00:04:39.000 And Sir Thomas More, of course, refuses to acknowledge that Henry VIII has the capacity to divorce his wife in order to marry Anne Boleyn.
00:04:46.000 And there's a scene where Sir Thomas More is talking to his son-in-law Roper about Sir Richard Rich, who's this guy who used to work for Sir Thomas More and now is going to testify against More that More actually doesn't believe that the divorce is okay and that the new marriage is okay and this will get More executed.
00:05:02.000 So Richard Rich comes and he threatens Thomas More and Roper turns to Thomas More and he says, you should arrest that man.
00:05:08.000 And Thomas More says, there's no law.
00:05:10.000 He hasn't broken any law.
00:05:11.000 I can't arrest him.
00:05:13.000 And his son-in-law says, well, he's going to get you killed.
00:05:17.000 You need to arrest him.
00:05:18.000 And Sir Thomas More says, so you're saying that we should just carve down the law in order to go after the devil?
00:05:23.000 And Roper says, yes, I'd carve down every law in England to go after the devil.
00:05:27.000 And Sir Thomas More says, OK, and then when the devil turns around on you and all the laws are gone, where are you going to hide before us all being flat?
00:05:33.000 The idea being when you get rid of the law, when you decimate the institutions, when you turn the institutions into nothing in pursuit of something bad, what happens when those institutions no longer provide a bulwark or a framework against something truly bad?
00:05:46.000 What if Donald Trump is not Orange Hitler?
00:05:47.000 He's just a guy they don't like.
00:05:49.000 And now all of those institutions have collapsed.
00:05:51.000 And what if something really bad does happen?
00:05:53.000 All the institutions have lost all their institutional credibility.
00:05:56.000 So the left can't acknowledge that possibility.
00:05:58.000 So they have to keep maintaining that they are always in pursuit of the devil.
00:06:01.000 And if this devil goes away, if Donald Trump goes away, they will find a new devil in order to justify their constant disregard and undermining of their own institutions.
00:06:09.000 Right, this is what's happening right now.
00:06:10.000 Okay, so, hence the outsized outrage at Donald Trump not just coming out and saying that Joe Biden is president-elect, despite the fact that, fact check, guys, he's not the president-elect.
00:06:20.000 Okay, just because media outlets project somebody as president-elect, he's the expected president-elect.
00:06:24.000 You could say that.
00:06:25.000 I mean, that's fair.
00:06:26.000 He's not the actual president-elect of the United States until a single state certifies its vote, legally speaking.
00:06:32.000 And I've been informed by all the various best fact-checkers that we are supposed to be as technical and factual as possible in our claims.
00:06:39.000 So let's just point out, he's not actually president-elect of anything yet.
00:06:42.000 He will be president-elect if the vote counts hold, if the lawsuits don't overturn those vote counts.
00:06:46.000 So Donald Trump is not, in fact, Orange Hitler for not calling him president-elect Joe Biden or for not starting the transition right away.
00:06:53.000 But the left is fully invested in this narrative that Donald Trump is Hitler because this justifies them doing whatever they can in order to stop Donald Trump.
00:07:01.000 It justifies them doing whatever they can to undermine institutional credibility of the media, of government, And they're doing it full scale.
00:07:08.000 OK, so here's a great example.
00:07:09.000 Jim Clyburn, a well-respected Democrat, probably one of the leading forces behind Joe Biden being president.
00:07:14.000 If it had not been for Jim Clyburn stumping for support for Joe Biden in South Carolina, a very good shot to Bernie Sanders might have been the nominee.
00:07:21.000 Inside the Democratic Party.
00:07:22.000 So Jim Clyburn was talking yesterday on CNN about the unwillingness of Donald Trump to declare Joe Biden the president-elect.
00:07:31.000 And this is pure, ridiculous hysteria.
00:07:34.000 He compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
00:07:37.000 Now, quick rule of thumb.
00:07:39.000 Most of the things that you don't like have nothing to do with Hitler.
00:07:43.000 Things can be things that are bad and also have nothing to do with Hitler.
00:07:45.000 In fact, nearly everything in your entire life that you don't like will not be Hitler.
00:07:50.000 It turns out that Hitler is basically Hitler and not tons of other Hitlers out there.
00:07:53.000 Thank God.
00:07:54.000 But here is Jim Clyburn comparing Donald Trump to Hitler for not recognizing that Joe Biden is president-elect of the United States.
00:08:03.000 There are many historical problems with this particular narrative.
00:08:07.000 One of them is that Adolf Hitler actually was elected in November of 1932 to head the largest party in the Reichstag.
00:08:15.000 And then he was asked by the I'm beginning to see what happened in Germany back in the 1930s.
00:08:21.000 the acting head of state to form a coalition government.
00:08:24.000 And then Hitler took power and then liquidated all of his enemies.
00:08:26.000 It turns out Donald Trump hasn't done any of those things.
00:08:28.000 But Jim Clyburn compares him to Hitler anyway, because if you call somebody Hitler, that means that you can do whatever the hell you want and lie as much as you want.
00:08:34.000 I'm beginning to see what happened in Germany back in the 1930s.
00:08:39.000 I never thought that could happen in this country.
00:08:42.000 How do you elect a person president, then all of a sudden give him the authority to be dictator?
00:08:50.000 That's what we're teetering on here.
00:08:52.000 That's what Hitler did in Germany.
00:08:54.000 He was elected chancellor, and then because he successfully discredited the news media, took over the churches.
00:09:03.000 What, no?
00:09:04.000 This is not anything like what Hitler did in Germany.
00:09:06.000 Like, zero things are currently held in common.
00:09:11.000 I'm sorry, nobody was talking about, hey, Hitler, you lost an election.
00:09:14.000 Would you like a hundred million dollar book deal?
00:09:16.000 And then Hitler was like, oh, okay.
00:09:18.000 No, no, that's not what happened.
00:09:21.000 When everything is Hitler, nothing is Hitler.
00:09:22.000 And by the way, this is deeply, deeply disgusting on virtually every level.
00:09:28.000 As a member of the Jewish community, I know many people who have tattoos of numbers in their flesh thanks to Hitler.
00:09:34.000 Comparing Donald Trump to Hitler because he won't say that old doddering Joe Biden isn't president-elect yet?
00:09:39.000 Spare me.
00:09:40.000 It's just self-justificatory nonsense.
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00:10:44.000 Okay, so it's not just Jim Clyburn who is ramping up the hysteria.
00:10:46.000 It's CNN, of course.
00:10:47.000 So CNN's Jim Sciutto.
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00:10:56.000 So it's not just Jim Clyburn who is ramping up the hysteria.
00:11:00.000 It's CNN, of course.
00:11:01.000 So CNN's Jim Sciutto, he says, this could put us at risk for another 9-11 if Donald Trump doesn't start the transition process immediately.
00:11:08.000 Let's be very clear about this.
00:11:10.000 9-11 didn't happen because the transition was slow in 2000.
00:11:13.000 I know that this is one of the talking points of the 9-11 Commission.
00:11:16.000 The evidence on that is extraordinarily scanty.
00:11:18.000 9-11 happened for a variety of reasons.
00:11:20.000 The fact the transition was kind of slow, meaning it carried on for 37 days in court before Al Gore conceded the election.
00:11:27.000 That's not why 9-11 happened.
00:11:28.000 Hey, there were institutional barriers that would not been alleviated if the transition had happened faster.
00:11:33.000 Bill Clinton let Al Qaeda basically run roughshod and fired a couple of missiles at camel butts in the middle of nowhere in order to retaliate for the USS Cole.
00:11:41.000 There are a lot of reasons why 9-11 happened.
00:11:44.000 Slow transition, but now we're now grasping at straws.
00:11:46.000 So the reason that it's super, we're like trying to figure out why it's super bad.
00:11:50.000 The media start with a proposition.
00:11:51.000 The proposition is it's super bad what Trump is doing.
00:11:54.000 Then they have to Sort of backfill why it's super bad, what Trump is doing.
00:11:58.000 They can't say that it's illegal because it's not illegal.
00:12:00.000 They can't really say it's a threat to democracy because it's not a threat to democracy.
00:12:03.000 The process is moving forward.
00:12:04.000 And if Donald Trump is not president-elect in December, when all the states certify their votes, when the electors vote, then he will leave.
00:12:11.000 Everybody acknowledges this, including members of the Trump administration, including the much ballyhooed Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State.
00:12:18.000 Everybody knows this.
00:12:19.000 And all of this is pretend.
00:12:20.000 All of this is pretend.
00:12:21.000 So they have to backfill.
00:12:22.000 So they say, oh, well, you know, if the transition doesn't happen fast enough, well, then that means that there might be another 9-11.
00:12:26.000 OK, let's be real about this again.
00:12:29.000 Joe Biden is not going to formally take office, even if he is president-elect until January 20th.
00:12:34.000 Joe Biden himself has said he is not worried about the transition process.
00:12:37.000 But the media have to spin this thing up because it justifies all the things they've been doing for the past several years to get Trump.
00:12:42.000 OK, here's Jim Sciutto suggesting 9-11 is on the horizon if Donald Trump doesn't immediately declare Joe Biden president-elect or some such.
00:12:50.000 The 9-11 Commission report specifically cited the shortened transition after the 2000 election for having an impact on national security.
00:12:59.000 I'm quoting here, it hampered the new administration in identifying, recruiting, clearing, and obtaining Senate confirmation of key appointees.
00:13:08.000 The fact is we have experience for how shortened transitions make a difference in national security.
00:13:15.000 Why are we hearing from Republicans about that, granting that potential danger?
00:13:22.000 I'm sorry, this is...
00:13:25.000 The ramped up hysteria is because the media are invested and they can't get uninvested.
00:13:28.000 Okay, meanwhile, the process continues to move forward.
00:13:31.000 Georgia yesterday announced they would do a full hand recount of all the votes.
00:13:36.000 Now, the Secretary of State of Georgia, who's now, I will say, it's hilarious that Brian Kemp, right, who was the Secretary of State of Georgia when the Stacey Abrams race happened, he was accused of voter suppression and all this.
00:13:47.000 Now Democrats are like, the Georgia system of voting, it's fine.
00:13:50.000 It's fine.
00:13:51.000 It's good.
00:13:52.000 Everything is good in Georgia.
00:13:53.000 Okay.
00:13:54.000 I tend to agree.
00:13:54.000 I don't see tons of evidence that there's huge swaths of voter fraud or that a recount is going to change the results in Georgia.
00:14:00.000 I just don't see the evidence of that presented to the extent that would be necessary to overturn a 12,000 vote gap in Georgia.
00:14:06.000 But Georgia yesterday announced a full hand recount.
00:14:08.000 So the process is moving forward, guys, and there will be an outcome.
00:14:10.000 So cool your jets for five seconds.
00:14:13.000 We'll then move to the Risk Limiting Audit, or RLA.
00:14:17.000 At 1pm today, I will make the official designation of which race will be the subject of the RLA.
00:14:24.000 At that time, I will designate that the RLA will be the presidential race.
00:14:30.000 With the margin being so close, it will require a full, by-hand recount in each county.
00:14:37.000 This will help build confidence.
00:14:39.000 It will be an audit, a recount, and a re-canvas all at once.
00:14:44.000 Okay, so first of all, for Trump to win, he would have to then win the recount.
00:14:49.000 Then he would have to overturn the result in Arizona.
00:14:51.000 Then he would have to overturn the result in Pennsylvania.
00:14:53.000 All of those things would be necessary in order for Trump to win.
00:14:56.000 So there is a very heavy burden here, but the process, again, is moving forward.
00:14:59.000 Georgia's Secretary of State says, listen, I have a job to do, my integrity matters, and I'm not going to, yeah, I'm not going to simply allow voter fraud to be the thing in Georgia.
00:15:09.000 Are you worried, Mr. Secretary, you could be next if you say something that the president doesn't like?
00:15:14.000 He doesn't like the fact that the people of Georgia have spoken and he's losing right now by more than 14,000 votes.
00:15:21.000 I have my job to do and I'll follow it faithfully.
00:15:25.000 I think that integrity still matters.
00:15:27.000 So here's the bottom line.
00:15:28.000 The process will move forward.
00:15:30.000 The states will certify their votes.
00:15:32.000 There are allegations out there.
00:15:34.000 Kayleigh McEnany has put out allegations.
00:15:36.000 In Michigan, of a wide variety of efforts to affect the election, voter fraud, voter irregularities in a country of 150 million people, you would assume, in any process involving that many people, 150 million voters, you would assume that there was some voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:15:51.000 The question is, does it meet the legal burden of overturning an election?
00:15:53.000 The answer is probably no, but that's why we have a process, and that's why it's going to be carried forward.
00:15:57.000 And no, this is not Hitler, and yes, there is a legal process, and everybody calm down.
00:16:00.000 But this goes to a deeper and broader point.
00:16:03.000 While everybody in the world, on the right particularly, is worried about the supposed rigging or stealing of the election via voter fraud or voter irregularities, the evidence of that is scanty.
00:16:13.000 The idea that the entire election was rigged.
00:16:17.000 Again, there are a bunch of holes in this particular theory.
00:16:19.000 One of the holes in that particular theory is that Republicans all over the country seem to outperform President Trump in battleground states.
00:16:26.000 That just happens to be the statistical case.
00:16:28.000 It also happens to be that if you were going to rig the election across the country, you probably wouldn't want the Republicans to pick up somewhere from 10 to 17 seats in the House, as well as hold the Senate, right?
00:16:36.000 If you're going to rig this thing, then you rig it.
00:16:37.000 Okay, but even assuming that that process is going to play forward, it is still true And I think much more importantly for the future of the country, it is still true that the media rigged the election.
00:16:48.000 I don't mean that they formally went in and changed vote totals.
00:16:50.000 I don't mean that the media went in and stole the election by pulling levers.
00:16:54.000 I don't mean any of that.
00:16:54.000 What I mean is that the media make it nearly impossible, nearly impossible for a Republican presidential candidate to win.
00:17:01.000 And the reason that that is obviously true is because they themselves are just the apparatus of the Democratic Party.
00:17:07.000 There are a wide variety of ways in which this election was preset in terms of narratives by your organs of informational dissemination.
00:17:14.000 We're going to get to that in just a moment because that really is the threat to the future of us living in the same republic.
00:17:19.000 A lot of people have talked about the fact that we seem to be living in two different realities.
00:17:22.000 We're living in two different realities because the media live in their bubble and they refuse to allow any information outside of that bubble to penetrate.
00:17:28.000 That's a dangerous thing.
00:17:29.000 It's a really, really dangerous thing.
00:17:31.000 Because if we're living in two separate realities, it's going to be very difficult for us to occupy the same country.
00:17:36.000 We're seeing those two separate realities play out right now.
00:17:38.000 People on the right are saying we should investigate every claim of voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:17:42.000 And members of the media are saying there is no voter fraud and no voter irregularity.
00:17:46.000 OK, which is crazy.
00:17:47.000 There is voter fraud and there is voter irregularity.
00:17:50.000 Now, you can say, as I have said, that I don't see the full scale evidence that voter fraud and voter irregularity make up the margins of victory for Joe Biden in some of these states.
00:17:58.000 Right, I think that that is an accurate take, but the media aren't saying that.
00:18:00.000 The media immediately go to, if you even distribute information surrounding voter fraud or voter irregularity, that has to be stopped, because they have created an anodyne bubble, and they live inside that anodyne bubble, and no information is allowed to penetrate that bubble.
00:18:13.000 And because it's not just that that bubble exists for them, it's because they then expand that bubble outward to encompass everybody who simply wants information.
00:18:19.000 This rigs elections, okay?
00:18:21.000 This rigs how people think about politics.
00:18:23.000 It separates the American public's, the American public mind into two.
00:18:28.000 It creates a schizophrenic American public.
00:18:30.000 And that's where we are right now.
00:18:31.000 We're going to get into all the ways that the media are really the factor behind the quote-unquote rigging of the 2020 election.
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00:19:51.000 Who actually rigged the 2020 presidential election?
00:19:54.000 And the answer is your media, right?
00:19:56.000 Your beloved establishment, journalistic betters.
00:19:59.000 They rigged this thing in a variety of ways.
00:20:01.000 So the first way is they just silenced conservatives in the lead up to the election.
00:20:06.000 We saw this, right?
00:20:07.000 We could tell this was happening on Facebook, for example.
00:20:10.000 On my personal Facebook page, for example, you could see the reach on my personal Facebook page.
00:20:14.000 It was like a big, it was like a big giant Godzilla foot came down and just crushed the reach.
00:20:18.000 And you could see it happening in real time.
00:20:20.000 It was not as though it was an organic change in the nature of our Facebook reach in the lead up to the election.
00:20:26.000 It was that somebody flipped the switch and suddenly fewer people were able to see our posts.
00:20:30.000 Why, who could have done that?
00:20:32.000 And why would they have done that?
00:20:32.000 And the answer is very obvious.
00:20:33.000 The social media bros decided they did not want dissemination of information they didn't like.
00:20:37.000 The most obvious example of this was, of course, the entire Hunter Biden story.
00:20:42.000 You'll recall that the New York Post reported that Hunter Biden had a laptop and that laptop had texts and messages that made one suspicious that perhaps Joe Biden knew more than he was telling about Hunter Biden's corrupt business associations abroad and use of the Biden family name.
00:20:55.000 And this was just crushed from top down by Twitter.
00:20:58.000 It was crushed from top down by Facebook.
00:20:59.000 Facebook announced before there was even a fact check that they were going to crush the dissemination of the information.
00:21:05.000 And then the tech bros just announced, you know what, it's really not our fault.
00:21:08.000 I mean, sure, we shouldn't have quashed that story, but we don't affect elections.
00:21:11.000 Jack Dorsey testified in front of Congress, said, we don't affect elections.
00:21:14.000 That's not what we do.
00:21:16.000 Does Twitter have the ability to influence elections?
00:21:20.000 No.
00:21:23.000 You don't believe Twitter has any ability to influence elections?
00:21:27.000 No, we are one part of a spectrum of communication channels that people have.
00:21:32.000 So you're testifying to this committee right now that Twitter, when it silences people, when it censors people, when it blocks political speech, that has no impact on elections?
00:21:42.000 People have choice of other communication channels.
00:21:45.000 OK, woke Rasputin Jack Dorsey then admitted that the suppression of the New York Post story was purely political.
00:21:52.000 He said there's no evidence that it was disinformation, but we called it disinformation.
00:21:55.000 We suggest that it was hacked materials.
00:21:57.000 You guys distributed like everything regarding Trump's tax returns.
00:22:00.000 I mean, it's very obvious what what Twitter was doing in the run up to the election here.
00:22:03.000 Do any of you have any any information whatsoever?
00:22:07.000 They're not authentic or that they are Russian disinformation.
00:22:10.000 Mr. Dorsey.
00:22:12.000 We don't.
00:22:15.000 So why would you censor it?
00:22:16.000 Why did you prevent that from being disseminated on your platform that is supposed to be for the free expression of ideas, and particularly true ideas?
00:22:25.000 We believe to fell a foul of our hacking materials policy.
00:22:29.000 OK, so again, Twitter decided what it wanted you to see.
00:22:32.000 Facebook decided what it wanted you to see.
00:22:34.000 And the left was cheering us on the entire way.
00:22:36.000 Understand that the social media companies and the press and the Democratic Party, they are all part of the same bubble.
00:22:42.000 They are all working together.
00:22:43.000 There's an iron triangle that exists between the press, which play this outside game where they pretend they're objective journalists simply holding social media to account.
00:22:50.000 The woke staffers at these tech companies who decide that they are going to push from within for those tech companies to become the expositors of left-wing viewpoints and the Democratic Party, which is providing the ideological impetus for all of it.
00:23:00.000 That is an iron triangle.
00:23:01.000 Democratic Party, media, social media companies.
00:23:04.000 It is an iron triangle.
00:23:05.000 They all work with each other.
00:23:06.000 That rigs elections, okay?
00:23:08.000 That has a massive impact on how people think.
00:23:10.000 Senator Ed Markey even chided Twitter and Facebook for the crime of putting up too much information during the election.
00:23:17.000 The big tech business model, which puts profits ahead of people, is a real problem.
00:23:22.000 Anti-conservative bias is not a problem.
00:23:27.000 The issue is not that the companies before us today are taking too many posts down.
00:23:32.000 The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up.
00:23:37.000 In fact, they're amplifying harmful content so that it spreads like wildfire and tortures our democracy.
00:23:45.000 Okay, this is not because they're worried about disinformation.
00:23:47.000 It's because they're worried about information they don't want you seeing get out.
00:23:50.000 And they've made this very clear.
00:23:51.000 The most obvious example came out yesterday.
00:23:53.000 Kevin Roos from the New York Times, who's an activist.
00:23:55.000 He's a tech activist masquerading as a journalist for the New York Times.
00:23:58.000 He put out a post saying Facebook is absolutely teeming with right-wing misinformation right now.
00:24:02.000 These are all among the 10 most engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours.
00:24:06.000 Here are the articles that he declared misinformation.
00:24:08.000 One from the Daily Wire, my site, saying, Republican in Michigan goes from loser to winner after technical glitch fixed.
00:24:13.000 Officials urge confidence in system.
00:24:16.000 That happens to be true.
00:24:17.000 There was one from Breitbart.
00:24:19.000 A.G.
00:24:19.000 William Barr authorizes DOJ to look into voting irregularities.
00:24:22.000 Also true.
00:24:23.000 One from Bongino.com.
00:24:24.000 Michigan legislature holds rare emergency session to investigate election irregularities.
00:24:29.000 Also happens to be true.
00:24:30.000 And one from Breitbart.com.
00:24:31.000 Purdue, Leffler, call on Georgia Secretary of State to resign over election.
00:24:35.000 Also happens to be true.
00:24:36.000 So in other words, all four of those headlines were true, but Kevin Roos did not want any of them distributed on Facebook, and then he admitted why.
00:24:41.000 He said, for the conservatives who are mad about this, yes, it is possible for a story to be factually accurate and for it to be part of a misinformation campaign aimed at undermining confidence in an election.
00:24:51.000 In other words, your media bros, they are not interested in the truth.
00:24:55.000 They are interested in the narrative, and they're going to push the social media companies into censoring stories they don't like that are true, that they admit are true, in order to suppress narratives they don't like.
00:25:05.000 You think that has an impact on rigging elections?
00:25:06.000 It absolutely does.
00:25:08.000 It absolutely does.
00:25:08.000 And we saw this kind of model applied all the way across the board, narrative after narrative for the last four years.
00:25:15.000 That has an impact on how Americans think.
00:25:16.000 It divides Americans from Americans.
00:25:18.000 And it also creates the impetus for folks on the left to call everybody on the right who is privy to facts that the media will not report conspiracy theorists.
00:25:25.000 And here's what you see.
00:25:26.000 Oh, you read Breitbart, you read Daily Wire, you read Daily Call.
00:25:28.000 That's because you're a conspiracy theorist.
00:25:29.000 No, it's that you have shielded yourself from information that you do not like.
00:25:33.000 This is why the media went nuts when Kayleigh McEnany said that the left never sees quote-unquote alternative facts.
00:25:40.000 The idea was not that she was saying that people don't see bad facts.
00:25:43.000 She was saying there's a whole set of facts you are not privy to because the media do not want you to see them.
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00:26:55.000 So that broad model, that iron triangle that I've been discussing between Democrats and the media and social media, that broad model has been applied to nearly every major narrative of the last four years, which of course is going to shift dramatically how people think about an election.
00:27:08.000 The true rigors of the election, as I keep saying, are the members of the establishment media and their friends in the social media space who have decided that the only outlets that are quote-unquote credible are the outlets they like.
00:27:20.000 So here is a perfect example.
00:27:22.000 You have been told that Donald Trump is solely and completely responsible for 200,000 deaths in the United States from COVID.
00:27:29.000 Joe Biden said this openly during debate, which is a disgusting thing to say.
00:27:33.000 We've seen hundreds of thousands of people die across Europe.
00:27:35.000 We've seen over a million people die globally.
00:27:37.000 Donald Trump is not president of France.
00:27:40.000 He's not the prime minister of Italy.
00:27:42.000 He's not the prime minister of the UK.
00:27:44.000 He's not the prime minister of Germany or the chancellor of Germany.
00:27:47.000 He's not any of those things.
00:27:48.000 And yet, according to Joe Biden, if it were not for Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands of people would literally be alive today.
00:27:53.000 This is the Democratic Party talking point.
00:27:54.000 You'll see how it filters directly through the media.
00:27:57.000 And then social media suppresses any message that is contrary to this.
00:27:59.000 Here is Joe Biden.
00:28:00.000 220,000 Americans dead.
00:28:05.000 You hear nothing else I say tonight.
00:28:08.000 Hear this.
00:28:10.000 Anyone who's responsible for not taking control.
00:28:13.000 In fact, not saying I take no responsibility initially.
00:28:18.000 Anyone who's responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.
00:28:23.000 Okay, and Biden kept doubling down on this throughout the campaign.
00:28:25.000 This was maybe his main closing pitch on the campaign trail was Donald Trump is a giant, miasmatic orange blob lingering over the land and causing you to die of COVID.
00:28:35.000 Here he was.
00:28:36.000 Again, this is just before the election.
00:28:39.000 If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive.
00:28:47.000 All the people.
00:28:47.000 I'm not making this up.
00:28:48.000 Just look at the data.
00:28:50.000 Look at the data.
00:28:51.000 OK, where's the fact check from Anderson Cooper?
00:28:53.000 He's standing right there on stage with Joe Biden.
00:28:55.000 No fact check forthcoming from Anderson Cooper.
00:28:57.000 In fact, this message is mirrored over and over and over by members of the media.
00:29:01.000 So obviously you get Keith Olbermann, who's a wild member of the media, suggesting that Donald Trump should get the death penalty because he's responsible for 200,000 deaths.
00:29:09.000 I'm tired of the thought that we're now going to repeat the months of March and April in this country, a country that should have learned something, but which in large part has been authorized to wallow and die in its own stupidity because of one man, one dumb bastard, one selfish son of a-
00:29:27.000 One real-life major French attacking the only hope we have, the science, and insisting science is wrong and Fauci is an idiot and only I can save you, and insisting you can do whatever you want and the disease affects almost nobody.
00:29:41.000 Donald Trump should be on trial for 220,000 murders, death penalty for each count.
00:29:47.000 I mean, okay, so that's the insane version.
00:29:48.000 The less insane version is Chris Cuomo on CNN.
00:29:53.000 Right, talking about how you should be afraid of COVID and it can kill you, right?
00:29:57.000 He did this whole routine after having hosted his brother, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, and holding up a giant nasal swab and all of that, right?
00:30:05.000 The members of the media were fully complicit in this particular argument, right?
00:30:08.000 Donald Trump had completely botched the COVID response.
00:30:10.000 Every death was on Donald Trump.
00:30:13.000 And if you said, well, I don't see an alternative strategy, you're bad.
00:30:16.000 So CNN's Breonna Keillor, she said there are 220,000 reasons to talk about COVID.
00:30:21.000 Trump had said we're talking about COVID too much.
00:30:22.000 And the reason he said that is because you have not provided any alternative strategy.
00:30:25.000 And so naturally you have CNN saying, no, no, no, we have to talk about it every day, all the time, because Trump just wants to ignore it.
00:30:33.000 There are 220,417 reasons to talk about coronavirus.
00:30:39.000 There are nearly 60,000 cases per day in the U.S.
00:30:42.000 and rising.
00:30:43.000 The person whose response has failed on most objective measures is not fixing his government's approach to the crisis.
00:30:50.000 Instead, he's suggesting we just ignore it.
00:30:52.000 The president doesn't even regularly acknowledge the huge loss of life that we've experienced here in the last nine months.
00:30:59.000 In fact, he has instead questioned whether that horrifying number is accurate.
00:31:03.000 220,000 dead.
00:31:06.000 Right, again, keep repeating the number and suggesting that it's all Trump's fault.
00:31:09.000 This was the media's narrative.
00:31:10.000 And then you had social media that was actively suppressing any counter-information.
00:31:15.000 So for example, if you said anything that was contrary to WHO guidelines, then YouTube would actually ding you, right?
00:31:21.000 You get a Facebook fact check.
00:31:23.000 If you said, okay, you know, the WHO was kind of wrong about masks in the first place, and the WHO was wrong about lockdowns in the first place, and now they've reversed themselves.
00:31:30.000 Then it was, you know, you're not allowed to put that up on social media.
00:31:32.000 We'll ding you, we'll suppress the content.
00:31:34.000 Again, the idea here is that only the party line could be repeated on any of this.
00:31:38.000 And you don't have to downplay COVID or pretend that COVID is not dangerous in order to get dinged for that sort of thing.
00:31:44.000 There was a narrative.
00:31:45.000 The narrative was that Trump failed and everybody else succeeded.
00:31:47.000 And if you cut against that narrative, there was a good shot social media was going to find a way to ding you.
00:31:52.000 And that narrative had a lot of traction.
00:31:54.000 How about the narrative that Trump was a threat to democracy?
00:31:56.000 For four long years, four long years, all we heard from the media is that Trump was not just an orange Hitlerian figure.
00:32:02.000 Donald Trump was a stand-in for Vladimir Putin.
00:32:04.000 He was a traitor.
00:32:05.000 He had sold out the United States to Vladimir Putin.
00:32:08.000 Trump had participated with the Russians in stealing the election.
00:32:11.000 And here are a bunch of members of the media talking about Russian collusion, which, as it turns out, there is no evidence of.
00:32:16.000 Breaking news, President Trump off the rails.
00:32:18.000 It was the beginning of the end today.
00:32:20.000 The beginning of the end.
00:32:21.000 Breaking news tonight, new bombshell.
00:32:23.000 This is the beginning, not the end.
00:32:24.000 The beginning of the end.
00:32:25.000 The walls are closing in.
00:32:27.000 The wall's closing in.
00:32:28.000 The wall's closing in.
00:32:29.000 It's over.
00:32:30.000 The wall's closing in.
00:32:31.000 The wall's closing in.
00:32:32.000 This is going to be the Achilles' heel.
00:32:34.000 Breaking news tonight, I expect Trump to depart.
00:32:36.000 This week will be the watershed week.
00:32:38.000 Trump is in big trouble.
00:32:39.000 Trump's in a lot of trouble.
00:32:40.000 It's the sight of a terrified old man who feels the wall's closing in.
00:32:43.000 The wall's A billion, a billion, a billion members of the media saying that Russian collusion was at hand.
00:32:56.000 We're going to find out Trump was a traitor.
00:32:58.000 And then, of course, nothing ever materialized on that.
00:33:01.000 OK, again, the narrative is Trump was a threat to democracy and it was universal.
00:33:04.000 It was a tsunami, a wave.
00:33:07.000 He was a threat to democracy.
00:33:08.000 It was promoted by your media.
00:33:10.000 I mean, every Twitter trend was directed toward this end for several years.
00:33:14.000 Every CNN breaking news update, which was not a breaking news update, for several years, every time I was in the gym, it would be Wolf Blitzer announcing a breaking news update about how Trump was in Putin's pocket, and then it turns out none of it was true.
00:33:25.000 The media did the same thing with white supremacy.
00:33:26.000 They suggested that Donald Trump was a white supremacist.
00:33:29.000 He was not just a racist.
00:33:30.000 He was an even worse form of a racist.
00:33:33.000 He was a white supremacist.
00:33:35.000 Which, of course, they never explained the difference.
00:33:37.000 They say he was a white supremacist.
00:33:38.000 He's a terrible, terrible bad man.
00:33:39.000 He was forwarding white supremacy.
00:33:41.000 They lied overtly about this.
00:33:42.000 They ignored the fact that Trump repeatedly condemned white supremacy.
00:33:46.000 And they just kept saying this over and over and over, right?
00:33:48.000 Trump is a white supremacist, over and over and over.
00:33:51.000 This was the narrative.
00:33:52.000 Threat to democracy, Donald Trump.
00:33:54.000 Can I just say one thing?
00:33:56.000 Of course he doesn't denounce white supremacy, Sonny, because he is a white supremacist.
00:34:02.000 Americans have to decide whether they want a white supremacist in the White House.
00:34:07.000 We've never had it before.
00:34:08.000 Maybe we didn't know we had it, but we certainly know we have it now.
00:34:11.000 This translated over into the supposedly objective media coverage.
00:34:14.000 John Roberts on Fox pestering Kayleigh McEnany to have her condemn white supremacy, even though Trump had already done it, and then refusing to accept yes for an answer.
00:34:22.000 As the person who speaks for the President, does the President denounce white supremacism and groups that espouse it in all their forms?
00:34:31.000 This has been answered yesterday by the President himself.
00:34:34.000 The day before, by the President himself, on the debate stage, the President was asked this.
00:34:38.000 He said, sure, three times.
00:34:40.000 Yesterday, he was point blank asked, do you denounce white supremacy?
00:34:45.000 And he said, I've always denounced any form of that.
00:34:48.000 I can go back and read for you, in August 2019, in one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.
00:34:55.000 In August of 2017, racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups.
00:35:04.000 I have an entire list of these quotes that I can go through with you.
00:35:07.000 He has condemned white supremacy more than any president in modern history.
00:35:11.000 Just to clear it up this morning, can you, naming it, make a declarative statement that you denounce, that the president denounces?
00:35:19.000 I just did.
00:35:20.000 I mean, the media just refused to accept the answer because, of course, they've got a narrative to promulgate.
00:35:24.000 They have a narrative to promote.
00:35:26.000 This tsunami effect that you get in the media, this echo chamber effect, this feeling that because the message is bouncing around at you from 17 different messages and you're not hearing counter messages because they are suppressed.
00:35:37.000 That is, in effect, an intellectual and philosophical rigging of the election.
00:35:41.000 We're going to get to more of this in just a second, because the final theme here is that Trump is a threat to democracy.
00:35:47.000 And this was the media pushing this thing hard, and they continue to push this thing hard, which brings us back to Jim Clyburn suggesting that Trump is Hitler for not acknowledging Joe Biden as president-elect.
00:35:55.000 But this has been an ongoing theme with, again, that iron triangle, social media and media and the Democratic Party.
00:36:01.000 The message starts at the Democratic Party.
00:36:02.000 It is amplified by the media.
00:36:04.000 And then the media browbeat social media into suppressing any counter messages.
00:36:07.000 That is the iron triangle.
00:36:08.000 And the Democrats browbeat social media into listening to them with threats that they're going to break up social media or regulate social media if social media don't become another partisan outlet on their behalf.
00:36:17.000 That is the way this works.
00:36:18.000 We'll get to more of that.
00:36:19.000 And then they claim that Trump is the threat to democracy.
00:36:22.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second.
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00:38:09.000 All right, we're gonna get to more of the media, the establishment media's rigging of the election.
00:38:13.000 But if you were not already disgusted by the legacy media, you certainly should be now.
00:38:18.000 The media preemptively called the election in favor of Joe Biden, and now they are saying that we should not even investigate voter fraud or voter irregularity claims, and that you're a bad, evil, bad dictator, bad person, if you don't acknowledge that Joe Biden is president-elect, despite the fact that not a single state has certified its vote yet.
00:38:30.000 Just because CNN and Fox News declare something does not make it true, it means very often they are pushing a narrative that benefits them.
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00:40:20.000 And we're talking here about the actual rigging of the election, meaning changing people's minds via suppression of information and propagandizing efforts.
00:40:34.000 The media are responsible for this.
00:40:35.000 I know everybody right now is focusing in on voter irregularities and voter fraud and all those cases will be investigated.
00:40:40.000 All of those cases.
00:40:42.000 We have officials whose literal job it is to investigate all of those cases over the DOJ.
00:40:46.000 We have Republican secretaries of state in many of the states that are currently being battled over.
00:40:50.000 We have a lot of Republican officials in various counties whose job it is to oversee these elections.
00:40:54.000 Those will all be investigated.
00:40:55.000 Long term, I'm significantly more worried about the rigging of elections by our media, which are worth 5 to 10 points in every election for Democrats.
00:41:01.000 Because if people actually were able to see alternative sources of information, if people actually were able to view alternative information in serious numbers, if they were not being suppressed, if the media were not lying, if the media hired one Trump supporter, It would be a radical sea change in how politics was viewed inside the United States.
00:41:17.000 It's the final narrative that was pushed by the media.
00:41:19.000 And what I'm calling right now, this media iron triangle, this informational iron triangle, the media, Democratic Party, social media, that is the triangle, right?
00:41:28.000 The final narrative that was pushed really, really hard is, of course, the biggest one, which is that Trump is himself a threat to democracy.
00:41:33.000 That not only is he a threat to democracy because of Russian collusion, and he personally is a Russian tool, and not only is he a white supremacist, but also that he is literally going to threaten your vote.
00:41:43.000 This is the part that's so ironic and so hilarious.
00:41:43.000 So all the same people today.
00:41:46.000 And sad.
00:41:47.000 The entire media infrastructure that right now is declaring that the vote is clean and legal and good, five minutes ago was claiming that the vote was going to be overtly thwarted by Donald Trump.
00:41:58.000 There was going to be widespread voter suppression in places like Georgia.
00:42:02.000 There was going to be an inability to vote all across the country.
00:42:05.000 Donald Trump was going to go personally set fire to your mailbox so you couldn't send in a mail-in ballot.
00:42:08.000 He was going to dismantle voting machines.
00:42:10.000 Donald Trump was going to make sure you couldn't vote.
00:42:12.000 Democracy itself would be thwarted.
00:42:15.000 This is how you get Chris Hayes saying that Donald Trump is now plotting a coup, right?
00:42:20.000 He said this, right?
00:42:21.000 Donald Trump's plan to steal the election.
00:42:22.000 Remember, these are the same people who right now are saying that because Donald Trump is not conceding the election, but he's also not sticking around if the actual election results are certified, these are the same people saying that's bad, that's a coup.
00:42:33.000 They were saying five seconds ago that Trump was planning to steal the election.
00:42:36.000 They were saying this months in advance and he was gonna do so because he was a threat to democracy.
00:42:39.000 Here's Chris Hayes who's become just a hysterical screed writer on Twitter.
00:42:44.000 If you're talking to a person and you ask them to commit to behave peacefully and they refuse, they're threatening violence, right?
00:42:52.000 What the president is doing here is the most explicit that he has been about his plans for this election.
00:42:57.000 He's plotting, in open, in public, repeatedly, a coup to steal the election and hold on to power.
00:43:04.000 Again, it all sounds crazy to say.
00:43:06.000 It is what we are seeing.
00:43:07.000 Those are the plain facts as assembled before us.
00:43:11.000 It's not a behind-the-scenes type of thing.
00:43:14.000 It's happening in public, in plain view.
00:43:17.000 Okay, this is all Democrats were talking about in the lead-up to the election.
00:43:19.000 Trump was going to thwart the election.
00:43:21.000 He was going to not allow a free and fair election to even take place.
00:43:23.000 Barack Obama at the DNC said the administration is going to tear down democracy.
00:43:28.000 This demagogue said this while standing in front of a wall plastered with the words of the Constitution of the United States.
00:43:32.000 Here's Barack Obama.
00:43:35.000 You're the missing ingredient.
00:43:38.000 The ones who will decide whether or not America becomes the country that fully lives up to its creed.
00:43:45.000 That work will continue long after this election.
00:43:49.000 But any chance of success depends entirely on the outcome of this election.
00:43:55.000 This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes for them to win.
00:44:03.000 So we have to get busy building it up.
00:44:06.000 It's a coup, it's a coup, it's a coup, it's a coup.
00:44:07.000 Right? They were saying this for months in advance.
00:44:08.000 They were going to pervert the election.
00:44:10.000 This is how they were getting their early votes out, right?
00:44:11.000 They're saying you need to vote early and you need to vote right now because if you don't, Donald Trump is going to come to your house with a bat and he's going to smack you in the grill and then he's going to steal your vote, fill it out, Donald Trump, and send it in.
00:44:21.000 This was the narrative.
00:44:22.000 It was pushed by the media.
00:44:23.000 It was pushed by Democratic parties.
00:44:25.000 And then it was pushed by social media.
00:44:27.000 Now, the same social media who are saying you can't talk about voter fraud or voter irregularity today, they're suppressing those stories because it undermines confidence in the election.
00:44:34.000 Five seconds ago, we're perfectly happy disseminating all sorts of bullcrap about how the post office of the United States was going to thwart the election and how the Republicans were going to defund the post office in order to prevent your mail-in vote from being counted.
00:44:45.000 As it turns out, Literally tens of millions, like an unprecedented number of people voted mail-in and all their votes were counted.
00:44:52.000 It doesn't matter.
00:44:54.000 Way back when it was the post office, the post office, right?
00:44:56.000 It was all undermining of democracy.
00:44:58.000 This is how elections get rigged.
00:45:00.000 Okay, again, not in the hard sense that the members of the media are out there changing votes, but in the soft sense that they are rigging the informational sources that you are capable of seeing.
00:45:10.000 This was the Democratic narrative.
00:45:12.000 And don't let them rewrite the history.
00:45:14.000 Barack Obama suggested that Donald Trump was trying to discourage voting.
00:45:18.000 This is conspiratorial thinking.
00:45:20.000 We're told now that it's a conspiracy theory to talk about voter fraud or voter irregularity, even if you say like I do, that I don't think that the voter fraud and voter irregularity numbers are gonna come in where Trump needs them to be in order to overturn the apparent results of the election.
00:45:33.000 Even that is considered conspiratorial thinking.
00:45:35.000 But Barack Obama and the entire Democratic Party, the entire media infrastructure suggested that the election was going to be perverted and thwarted by the will of one orange Hitler, Donald Trump.
00:45:43.000 Here's Barack Obama way back when.
00:45:46.000 What we've seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a president who's explicit in trying to discourage people from voting.
00:45:57.000 What we've never seen before is A president say, I'm going to try to actively kneecap the Postal Service to encourage voting.
00:46:08.000 And I will be explicit about the reason I'm doing it.
00:46:10.000 Yeah.
00:46:11.000 That's sort of unheard of.
00:46:12.000 OK, well, no, actually, democracy was not thwarted.
00:46:16.000 It was never in danger of being thwarted.
00:46:17.000 But again, that didn't stop anybody.
00:46:18.000 Here's Rachel Maddow crying about the Postal Service, right?
00:46:21.000 They're taking away the post office boxes.
00:46:23.000 We saw actual photos being disseminated by left-wing media figures of post office boxes being removed.
00:46:28.000 Yes, because nobody uses the mail anymore, idiots.
00:46:31.000 We've dismantled hundreds of thousands of post office boxes since the beginning of the of the 21st century.
00:46:37.000 But again, this was the big story in the media.
00:46:39.000 Don't let them rewrite the history where we now pretend they were objective all the way through this.
00:46:42.000 They were not even close to objective, nor did they pretend to be.
00:46:44.000 Now, Rachel Maddow's not an objective news figure, but again, Rachel Maddow is a stand-in here for so many members of the news who decided they were going to treat their own objectivity as a dispensable item.
00:46:55.000 It's how we get our letters.
00:46:56.000 It's how we get our ballots now because of the COVID crisis.
00:46:58.000 It's the freaking fracking mail.
00:46:59.000 We need it.
00:47:00.000 But this is a fight against a thing that Americans actually and quite broadly love.
00:47:06.000 And respect.
00:47:07.000 And don't want to go away.
00:47:10.000 This is the kind of fight that most Americans have a side they want to be on.
00:47:14.000 And it is not the side that is stealing the mailboxes and telling us that, yeah, I don't think it's going to work out for you to get your ballot in on time.
00:47:21.000 Getting weepy over the mailboxes.
00:47:24.000 And this, again, some of these stories, I'm sure your grandmother saw.
00:47:27.000 And some of these stories, I'm sure your grandmother did not see.
00:47:30.000 I am sure that millions of people never saw the Hunter Biden stories, but learned that Donald Trump was going to steal your mailbox.
00:47:36.000 I am sure that there are millions of people across the country In fact, everybody across the country who heard that Donald Trump was a white supremacist and a Russian stand-in, but never heard a single word about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, like at all.
00:47:49.000 They didn't even exist in this campaign.
00:47:51.000 Joe Biden spent the entire campaign hiding in a basement and the media asked him questions like, what flavor of ice cream are you ordering?
00:47:56.000 So, when we talk about the rigging of an election, there are two ways you can rig an election.
00:48:00.000 One is like the old-fashioned, Castro-Stalin way of rigging an election, where you hold an election, you win 99% of the vote because you are the one counting the votes.
00:48:08.000 Then, there is the media's way of rigging an election, which is to add 5 to 10 points to every Democratic vote total by simply suppressing information they don't want you to see and promoting narratives that they do want you to see.
00:48:18.000 The establishment media blew out their credibility in this election cycle.
00:48:21.000 They blew it out.
00:48:22.000 Since 2016, I don't think they should have had a lot of credibility in the first place, but presumably hundreds of millions of Americans think they do.
00:48:30.000 For worse, not for better.
00:48:32.000 They blew out that credibility.
00:48:33.000 Everybody should take note of that moving forward.
00:48:36.000 Now, among the things that the media refused to cover is, of course, what Joe Biden plans to do once all of this is over, if Joe Biden is in fact legally made the president-elect of the United States, not just projected, legally made the president-elect of the United States.
00:48:47.000 What's going to happen next?
00:48:48.000 Now, we were shielded from the actual knowledge of those things, right?
00:48:53.000 We were shielded from knowledge of those things because the media didn't want you to talk about any of that.
00:48:56.000 And in fact, if you talked about what Joe Biden supported, they would fact check you in ways that were completely false.
00:49:02.000 They would just issue these false fact checks.
00:49:03.000 I mean, this is another way in which the media perverted the narrative here.
00:49:06.000 They have these fact-checking organizations.
00:49:07.000 They outsource all of their dirty work to the fact-checking organizations.
00:49:12.000 The fact-checking organizations then perform fact checks on implications, and then social media quash stories based on it.
00:49:18.000 So, perfect example.
00:49:19.000 During the election cycle, there was an ad that was taken out against Gary Peters, who's a Michigan senatorial candidate who defeated John James in the vote count in Michigan.
00:49:29.000 Okay, Gary Peters supports the so-called Equality Act, which is a congressional act that essentially makes it possible for biological boys to race against biological girls.
00:49:37.000 There was an ad that was taken out by Super PAC against Gary Peters pointing out that this is wildly out of step with what most Americans and Michiganders feel about who should be able to race in athletics and what it would do to women's athletics if men were allowed to compete inside women's athletics.
00:49:50.000 Facebook took down the ad.
00:49:52.000 Why?
00:49:52.000 Because it was fact-checked.
00:49:54.000 The fact-check didn't say the ad was false.
00:49:56.000 The fact-check said that it was a little bit overbroad, or that it drew implications that may not be true, but it was really more opinion than it was facts, so there was really no way to fact-check it.
00:50:03.000 That didn't matter.
00:50:04.000 That was enough.
00:50:04.000 Facebook simply suppressed the ad.
00:50:06.000 We saw Facebook suppress an ad from the Trump campaign saying that Joe Biden was going to raise your taxes.
00:50:12.000 Joe Biden is going to raise your taxes.
00:50:14.000 Joe Biden says he's not going to raise taxes on anybody making above $400,000, but he's raising the corporate tax rate, which gets passed down to you.
00:50:20.000 He's raising the payroll tax that gets passed down to you.
00:50:23.000 In fact, most kind of bipartisan and nonpartisan economic studies suggest that Joe Biden is planning to raise taxes on a vast variety of people, because if you get rid of the Trump tax cuts, as it turns out, you are raising taxes on a huge majority of the American public.
00:50:37.000 Okay, that ad was fact-checked as false and then Facebook removed it.
00:50:40.000 Okay, so the fact-checkers play this game.
00:50:44.000 And then the social media companies simply suppress information on the basis of false fact-checks.
00:50:48.000 It's horrifying.
00:50:50.000 The fact-checking sites are themselves members of the Praetorian Guard, of the Democratic Party Praetorian Guard.
00:50:56.000 And they guarded you from having to ask questions about what exactly Joe Biden was going to do.
00:51:00.000 Every time Donald Trump said Joe Biden supports the Green New Deal, and then pointed out that AOC's version of the Green New Deal is a radical document filled with wild garbage, the media were like, well, he doesn't really support that.
00:51:10.000 Every time Donald Trump or Mike Pence said that Joe Biden stands with defund the police, The media would say, well, he's overtly said he's not for defund the police.
00:51:18.000 And then the Trump campaign would bring out the clip of him saying that he's interested in shifting funding from the police to elsewhere.
00:51:23.000 This is technically a defunding of the police.
00:51:25.000 If I say to you, I'm going to shift your salary dollars from you to Bob, am I defunding you?
00:51:32.000 Yes.
00:51:32.000 Yes, I am.
00:51:33.000 Okay, but apparently that was fact-checked false, and so those messages got suppressed.
00:51:37.000 So we never found out exactly what it was that Joe Biden was going to do.
00:51:39.000 It was all about Trump.
00:51:40.000 It was all about Trump.
00:51:42.000 That is how you rig an election.
00:51:43.000 You make the person on the other side of the election a complete non-entity.
00:51:46.000 Even today, Joe Biden is a complete non-entity.
00:51:49.000 Alright, so with that said, now we are finding out what Joe Biden and the Democratic Party plan to do if indeed they are initiated into power.
00:51:56.000 So, Joe Biden has now announced his first plans.
00:51:59.000 His first plans are he's going to open the borders.
00:52:01.000 According to CBS News, After Biden is sworn in in January, his administration will move to fully restore an Obama-era program that shields 640,000 undocumented immigrants who are brought to the U.S.
00:52:11.000 as children from deportation, halting Mr. Trump's unsuccessful efforts to end it.
00:52:15.000 People familiar with the plans told CBS News.
00:52:17.000 The incoming administration also intends to rescind Trump's travel and immigration restrictions on 13 mostly African or predominantly Muslim countries.
00:52:24.000 OK, so already you can see the media bias here.
00:52:26.000 Number one.
00:52:28.000 The original DACA program put in place by Barack Obama was unconstitutional.
00:52:33.000 He had no power to do it.
00:52:34.000 He admitted dozens of times.
00:52:35.000 He could not, through executive action, simply refuse to enforce immigration law.
00:52:38.000 He did it anyway.
00:52:39.000 Then, they found some Democrat judges to suggest that Donald Trump could not undo an executive action done by Barack Obama.
00:52:46.000 Now, it's going to be Joe Biden coming in and redoing the illegal thing that Barack Obama did.
00:52:52.000 Also, the The way that the media characterized Trump's travel ban as a Muslim ban, there are countries on the list that are not Muslim.
00:53:00.000 So instead, they just they just broaden the description, right?
00:53:03.000 His travel and immigration restrictions on 13 mostly African or predominantly Muslim countries, right?
00:53:08.000 The implication being that Trump is a xenophobe.
00:53:10.000 This has nothing to do with our inability to vet people coming into the country from countries that actually have no functional government.
00:53:16.000 So we have no idea who's coming into the country.
00:53:19.000 This means that Joe Biden is good, right?
00:53:20.000 He's not xenophobic.
00:53:21.000 This is the narrative.
00:53:23.000 Also, Joe Biden will look to implement a 100-day freeze on deportations, a complete freeze on deportations.
00:53:28.000 Now, that's ridiculous.
00:53:29.000 We know that there are thousands of criminals in the United States, like in our jails, who we should deport.
00:53:34.000 We know this.
00:53:35.000 This is a fact.
00:53:36.000 There are criminals in the United States who should be deported.
00:53:40.000 He's gonna issue an entire freeze, a moratorium on deportations.
00:53:43.000 Now, how do you think that would look if that had been the headline for six months instead of bullcrap claims about the postmaster general?
00:53:48.000 How would it look if it were Joe Biden on entering office is going to stop all deportations, including of criminals?
00:53:55.000 Obama-era memos that prioritize the deportation of immigrants with criminal convictions, recent border crossers, and those who entered the country illegally more than once were scrapped in 2017 by Trump, so no unauthorized immigrant would be exempted from being arrested and removed from the country.
00:54:08.000 A source familiar with Biden's plan said new guidance would be designed to curb so-called collateral arrests, which are apprehensions of immigrants who are not the target of U.S.
00:54:15.000 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, but are nevertheless taken into custody because they are in the country without legal status.
00:54:20.000 So he's going to decriminalize basically being in the country illegally.
00:54:23.000 You're not going to be deported unless you've committed an overt second crime.
00:54:27.000 So he's basically just going to undo all of Trump's executive actions on illegal immigration.
00:54:32.000 Also, Biden has pledged to discontinue the Trump administration's policy of requiring non-Mexican migrants to wait in Mexico for the duration of their U.S.
00:54:39.000 asylum cases.
00:54:40.000 Now, that is a simple and reasonable request, right?
00:54:43.000 Is that if you are attempting to immigrate into the United States, you don't have to set foot on American soil in order for you to apply for asylum.
00:54:50.000 Because what happens there is you apply for asylum.
00:54:53.000 While the application goes forward, you just disappear into the interior of the United States.
00:54:56.000 So Trump made a deal with Central American and Latin American countries that immigrants could wait in Mexico in order so that they could have their asylum process before entering the United States and then just getting lost in the shuffle.
00:55:08.000 Biden's gonna undo that.
00:55:10.000 A source familiar with Biden's team planning said the incoming administration will withdraw from the three bilateral agreements Trump brokered with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras that allowed the U.S.
00:55:18.000 to send rejected asylum seekers to those countries and have them seek refuge there.
00:55:21.000 So if you enjoyed those caravans that we were getting in the Obama era and the early Trump era, get ready, those are coming back.
00:55:26.000 We're gonna get hundreds of thousands of people marching to the U.S.
00:55:28.000 border and declaring that they are eligible for asylum, even though they have no actual asylum claims, and then housed and kept in the United States until those asylum claims are adjudicated, by which point many of those people will have disappeared into the interior of the United States.
00:55:39.000 So if you enjoyed that, Then get ready, we're gonna get more of that.
00:55:42.000 We didn't hear any discussion of that during the campaign.
00:55:44.000 It was all about Orange Hitler.
00:55:46.000 Because, again, for the 1,000th time, the media rigged this thing.
00:55:50.000 They're also going to apparently get rid of, they're going to scrap Trump's pandemic era limits on immigration and work visas.
00:55:59.000 Biden's campaign promised the former VP will direct the CDC to review the expulsions policy to ensure that people have the ability to submit their asylum claims while ensuring we are taking appropriate COVID-19 safety precautions.
00:56:09.000 Also, he's going to dramatically increase refugee admissions, moving away from the record low 15,000 spots set by Trump and raising the cap to 125,000.
00:56:17.000 Okay, now, again, I have no problem with bringing in refugees to the country who fulfill all of the requirements we want for people living in the United States and becoming American citizens.
00:56:25.000 We're a welcoming, open country, and I think it's great that we welcome refugees, particularly from countries with repressive regimes, and people are coming in seeking freedom.
00:56:33.000 But you do have to vet people who are coming into the country.
00:56:35.000 That's kind of an important thing.
00:56:37.000 Biden's not going to do any of that.
00:56:38.000 Okay, so he's undoing basically all of the immigration policies, including ones that should have wide bipartisan approval, like wait in another country to see if your asylum claim is adjudicated properly in the United States.
00:56:49.000 So that is Biden's first step.
00:56:51.000 Meanwhile, inside the Democratic Party, the battle over the future of the Democratic Party continues to rage.
00:56:56.000 And I think we all know who's going to win this battle.
00:56:58.000 It's not going to be the mainstream Liberal Democrats.
00:57:01.000 It's not gonna be Conor Lamb or Abigail Spanberger.
00:57:03.000 The woke are going to win.
00:57:05.000 And the woke are going to win because there is a systemic flaw inside liberal thinking.
00:57:09.000 So a lot of liberals, they don't actually agree with tearing down the system.
00:57:13.000 They don't agree with tearing down the system, but they've been making the argument for decades that the system is itself perverse, that the system itself is rooted in hierarchies of power, which is why we need to use the system in order to engage in redistributionism, and we need to curb the rights of some in order to guarantee privileges for others.
00:57:29.000 And along come this group of wokesters, and they say, okay, you guys keep nibbling around the edges, but that's just because you want to stay in power.
00:57:35.000 What you need to do is turn over power to us, and we need to tear down the system as a whole.
00:57:39.000 There is no immune system to this inside the Democratic Party, which is why Stacey Abrams, now, you know, obviously the governor of Georgia, but besides being governor of Georgia, now being hailed as the great heroine of Georgia because she was involved in a voter registration drive in Georgia, she is continuing to say that Democrats need to stop moving away from identity politics.
00:57:57.000 Doesn't matter.
00:57:58.000 Here she was speaking at an event in Washington, D.C.
00:57:59.000 of House seats, came close to taking back a House majority in a time when no one really thought they would, are going to maintain the Senate majority in all likelihood.
00:58:06.000 Stacey Abrams says identity politics is how the Democratic Party moves forward.
00:58:11.000 Here she was speaking at an event in Washington, D.C. at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference.
00:58:17.000 For those of us who are in this coalition of new and engaged, who are in this pursuit of progress, we have to recognize that the internal threat we face is a fear of who we are.
00:58:29.000 The notion of identity politics has been peddled for the last ten years, and it's been used as a dog whistle to say that we shouldn't pay too much attention to the new voices coming into progress.
00:58:39.000 I would argue that identity politics is exactly who we are and it's exactly how we won.
00:58:44.000 Identity politics is who they are and how they won. The coalition of the oppressed rising up to strike down all of the systems and institutions. The quick note that I was going to make there is if you actually watch that video, she's speaking in a closed room. Wow, with lots of people in it.
00:58:58.000 See, if the Republicans hold a rally in a closed room with lots of people in it, it's a it's a COVID hotbed.
00:59:04.000 If Stacey Abrams speaks to the Center for American Progress at a dinner where everybody's sitting around tables and many are not wearing masks, it's no problem because, of course, the virus is woke.
00:59:11.000 But this is the future of the Democratic Party.
00:59:15.000 Black Lives Matter sent a letter to the leaders of the Democratic Party saying, we want something for our vote.
00:59:21.000 We know where this is all going.
00:59:23.000 According to The Federalist, BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors sent a letter to former Vice President Joe Biden and his vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris congratulating them on winning the presidential election, demanding a meeting to discuss BLM's expectations for their administration.
00:59:36.000 A well-thought-out, community-driven, fully-resourced agenda that addresses the particular challenges faced by Black people must be the priority.
00:59:43.000 He wrote, according to colors, a democratic victory would not have happened without the resounding support of black people.
00:59:43.000 That is what she wrote.
00:59:48.000 In short, black people won this election, she said, noting the group's efforts to vote and organize alongside black led organizations around the nation.
00:59:54.000 Black Lives Matter invested heavily in this election.
00:59:58.000 Black people cannot afford to live through the vitriol of a Trump like presidency, nor through the indifference of a Democrat controlled government that refuses to wrestle with its most egregious and damnable shame.
01:00:09.000 Colors claims that Biden and Harris, who both ran on a platform at mentioning systemic racism, owed it to the movement to act on their rhetoric and further the work of black liberation.
01:00:15.000 She said, we want something for our vote.
01:00:17.000 We want to be heard.
01:00:18.000 We want our agenda prioritized.
01:00:20.000 We issue these expectations, not just because black people are the most consistent and reliable voters for Democrats, but also because black people are truly living in a crisis in a nation that was built on our subjugation.
01:00:28.000 You think the Democratic Party is gonna turn this down?
01:00:32.000 Joe Biden said, in his quasi-acceptance address, he said, Black Americans stood behind them, and so I'm going to stand behind you.
01:00:32.000 Do you?
01:00:39.000 Which again, if you said that about any other racial group in America, you would recognize how racist and divisive and terrible that is.
01:00:45.000 But apparently it's totally okay for Joe Biden to say it, and he's going to be the guy who stands in for America's institutions?
01:00:50.000 I think not.
01:00:51.000 Meanwhile, the Justice Democrats are preemptively declaring all of their opponents racists.
01:00:56.000 They sent a letter to the entire Democratic Caucus saying, quote, They say that we cannot abandon the identity politics.
01:01:01.000 the terms and people we blame and fear year by year, but Democrats must take on the Republican party's divide and conquer racism head on and not demobilize our own base.
01:01:10.000 They say that we cannot abandon the identity politics.
01:01:14.000 The lesson to be learned from this election, says Justice Democrats, and this is like AOC and sorry, the Honorable Representative, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, de fresh face.
01:01:23.000 They say the lesson to be learned from this election cannot and should not be to lean into racist resentment politics or back away from the social movements that push Democrats to power.
01:01:31.000 If Democrats cower from the national conversation sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement, then the only ones left owning this space will be the GOP.
01:01:37.000 The Democratic Party has long taken the party, the base of its party, black voters for granted.
01:01:41.000 Do you think Joe Biden's going to stand up to that?
01:01:43.000 I have questions.
01:01:44.000 We cannot allow billionaires on Fox News to divide and conquer America.
01:01:44.000 I think not.
01:01:48.000 We must invest in all our workers to create good paying jobs, safety, and shared prosperity for all, not just for those on the top.
01:01:55.000 Do you think Joe Biden's gonna stand up to that?
01:01:57.000 I have questions.
01:01:59.000 I think not, I think not.
01:02:02.000 This agenda really has no end except for political dominance.
01:02:06.000 The agenda does not have an endpoint except for tearing away all of the institutions that apparently are vestiges of power politics.
01:02:14.000 See, for a lot of the Marxist theoreticians in the Democratic Party and inside organizations like BLM, The basic idea is that society is structured by hierarchies of power.
01:02:26.000 And the institutions that you treasure, the institutions Joe Biden claims to stand for, that he claims he wants to unify around, those institutions were created in order to perpetuate those hierarchies of power.
01:02:35.000 And it is not sufficient to perpetuate those hierarchies of power or to use those hierarchies of power for redistribution.
01:02:41.000 Instead, they need to be torn out at the root.
01:02:43.000 Do you think Joe Biden has the ability to deny these folks that?
01:02:47.000 There is no logical endpoint.
01:02:49.000 Okay, that is the agenda.
01:02:50.000 That is the agenda moving forward.
01:02:53.000 Republicans are going to need to fight back against this agenda because you can see it playing out in Georgia.
01:02:57.000 So, right now, the next step, putting aside the presidential election, which will come out how it comes out, the next step is going to be January 5th.
01:03:04.000 In early January, there's going to be two special elections in Georgia.
01:03:08.000 Those two special elections pit Republicans against Democrats, Kelly Loeffler, in one race.
01:03:13.000 versus Raphael Warnock, who's a radical, and David Perdue, sitting senator in Georgia, against John Ossoff, who has been run 1,000 times.
01:03:21.000 He's sort of like Beto O'Rourke except Georgia, right?
01:03:22.000 All he does is run for office and lose in Georgia, right?
01:03:25.000 He lost his race this time around to David Perdue.
01:03:27.000 It's just that Georgia has a weird system where if you don't win a majority of the vote outright, then you have to redo the race.
01:03:33.000 So David Perdue won like 49.8% of the vote, and John Ossoff won 47% of the vote.
01:03:39.000 Doesn't matter.
01:03:39.000 They have to do a runoff again in January.
01:03:42.000 And Democrats are pulling out all the stops.
01:03:43.000 They're making very clear what they want here.
01:03:44.000 They want to fundamentally transform the country.
01:03:47.000 You think these are people who are satisfied with the sort of unity, nibbling around the edges approach of Joe Biden?
01:03:51.000 I think not.
01:03:53.000 John also said this Democratic Senatorial candidate who is just a socialist in disguise.
01:04:00.000 He said, change is coming to America.
01:04:02.000 Right, I think that's kind of what we're afraid of.
01:04:03.000 He said, the people of our state have made an extraordinary statement in these last few weeks.
01:04:06.000 And let's be honest, there were some who doubted us.
01:04:08.000 When I got in this race about 14 months ago, I was telling everyone that Georgia is the most competitive state in the country.
01:04:13.000 I know that y'all believe me, but there were some who did not.
01:04:15.000 But what we have proven in these last few weeks is that change has come to Georgia, change is coming to America, and retirement is coming for Senator David Perdue.
01:04:22.000 What kind of change?
01:04:23.000 Well, why don't we examine the other race?
01:04:26.000 Raphael Warnock, who is protected by the media and will continue to be protected by the media, is a deeply, deeply radical candidate.
01:04:32.000 How radical is Raphael Warnock?
01:04:35.000 He praised Reverend Jeremiah Wright's speeches.
01:04:39.000 Warnock has for years been one of the most vocal defenders of Wright's infamous 2003 GD America sermon, which compared U.S.
01:04:45.000 leaders to Al Qaeda and claimed HIV was invented by the government as a way to kill black people.
01:04:48.000 This is according to the Washington Free Beacon.
01:04:51.000 According to Politico, the Democratic candidate is expected to face negative ads that target his ties to Jeremiah Wright.
01:04:57.000 Warnock has a long history of anti-Israel extremism, Leffler wrote on Twitter.
01:05:00.000 That is absolutely true.
01:05:01.000 He gave a speech last, like this year, talking about how Israel was an oppressive regime murdering Palestinian innocents.
01:05:08.000 Not only that, Wright came to national attention in 2008, obviously as the spiritual advisor to Barack Obama.
01:05:15.000 And then John McCain, because he was a pansy in that election, refused to mention Jeremiah Wright anywhere throughout the election, even though he was an ideological mentor to Barack Obama.
01:05:23.000 Warnock is an open defender of Jeremiah Wright.
01:05:26.000 In 2014, he praised that GD America sermon in a speech at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.
01:05:31.000 He said, quote, You ought to go back and see if you can find and read, as I have, the entire sermon.
01:05:34.000 It was a very fine sermon.
01:05:36.000 Jeremiah Wright was right when he said the attack on him, in a real sense, was an attack on the black church.
01:05:41.000 The message of Jeremiah Wright was that public policy has consequences.
01:05:44.000 In 2013, Warnock called Wright's sermon a very fine homily in his 2013 book, The Divided Mind of the Black Church.
01:05:51.000 He actually compared Jeremiah Wright to the biblical prophet Jeremiah.
01:05:54.000 This would be the same Jeremiah Wright who engaged the US and Israel of engaging in state terrorism and said that September 11th was America's chickens coming home to roost.
01:06:03.000 Okay, that is Raphael Warnock, who's running for Senate in Georgia right now.
01:06:07.000 Okay, Raphael Warnock also, it turns out, was implicated, he was actually arrested in 2002, apparently after allegedly obstructing a police investigation into suspected child abuse.
01:06:18.000 Tom Cotton, the senator from Arkansas, tweeted out about this yesterday.
01:06:21.000 He said, in 2002, when the police investigated suspected child abuse at Raphael Warnock's church camp for children, Warnock was arrested for obstructing the investigation.
01:06:29.000 Will the media ask Raphael Warnock why he interfered with the police investigation?
01:06:33.000 According to original reporting at the time, Warnock and Marc-Andre Wainwright, the assistant minister for youth, were accused of trying to bar a state trooper from interviewing counselors at the camp.
01:06:42.000 Neither Warnock nor Wainwright was a suspect in the child abuse investigation, but they interrupted a police interview of a counselor, the ministers interrupted a police interview of a counselor Wednesday in a room at the camp, and after investigators moved the interview to a nearby picnic area, interfered again, and subsequently tried to prevent a camper from directing police to another potential witness, according to charging documents.
01:07:00.000 This is according to the Baltimore Sun in 2002.
01:07:03.000 So, this is Raphael Warnock.
01:07:04.000 Excellent, excellent stuff.
01:07:05.000 This is who the Democrats have decided to put up as their nominee.
01:07:07.000 This is what Republicans are going to have to fight back against.
01:07:10.000 Joe Biden's administration is not going to turn these people away.
01:07:12.000 interviewed. So this is this is Raphael Warnock. Excellent, excellent stuff. This is who the Democrats have decided to put up as their nominee. This is what Republicans are going to have to fight back against. Joe Biden's administration is not going to turn these people away. Joe Biden's administration is going to welcome these people. Joe Biden is acting like he's a bulwark for moderation.
01:07:33.000 Yeah, fat chance.
01:07:34.000 Fast chance.
01:07:34.000 And Republicans know this, by the way.
01:07:36.000 Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, he pointed out yesterday the best way for Republicans to win is just to let these people talk, and he is correct.
01:07:45.000 You, this cycle, raised more money than any House Republican ever.
01:07:49.000 More than any of your speaker predecessors.
01:07:53.000 What did you learn, and how did you pull this off?
01:07:57.000 The best way to raise money is just let Nancy Pelosi and AOC talk.
01:08:01.000 So you bring up a relatively junior member, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.
01:08:06.000 Why do your people respond so vociferously to her?
01:08:10.000 Well, she runs the floor.
01:08:11.000 Wait, what do you mean by that?
01:08:13.000 That wing of the party, the socialist wing of the party, they are the new power.
01:08:19.000 of the Democratic Party.
01:08:20.000 Senator Marco Rubio made the same point yesterday.
01:08:23.000 He said, listen, not all the Democrats are socialists, but all the socialists are Democrats.
01:08:26.000 Okay, now, that's not totally true.
01:08:28.000 There are a lot of socialists who are not Democrats.
01:08:29.000 There are a lot of socialists in Antifa.
01:08:30.000 There are a lot of socialists who don't vote.
01:08:33.000 But it is certainly true that the bulk of socialists in the United States will identify more closely with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
01:08:38.000 That's for damn sure.
01:08:39.000 Here was Senator Rubio yesterday.
01:08:41.000 There are people in America who work in places where they are afraid to put a bumper sticker on their car or wear a hat, because they could get fired.
01:08:49.000 And if you think I'm exaggerating, they're making lists.
01:08:52.000 There are people right now making lists of people they want to go after.
01:08:56.000 Members of Congress making lists about people.
01:08:58.000 We're going to go after these people and destroy their lives.
01:09:01.000 This is lunacy.
01:09:03.000 All that reminds me of is this.
01:09:05.000 It is true.
01:09:07.000 To be fair, not all Democrats are socialists.
01:09:11.000 But all the Socialists are Democrats!
01:09:13.000 Okay, this happens to be true.
01:09:15.000 It also happens to be the strongest argument that Republicans are going to have going forward.
01:09:21.000 Okay, Joe Biden is a danger, but you never heard that from the media, right?
01:09:23.000 Joe Biden was just a nice old man who was basically going to restore normalcy.
01:09:26.000 Nope, no, he absolutely is not.
01:09:28.000 By the way, normalcy has been completely lost.
01:09:29.000 Let's just point this out here.
01:09:31.000 I will point to one indicator that I think is pretty indicative.
01:09:36.000 So, there is a new policy in Norway, apparently, okay, in which Norway has now made biphobic and transphobic speech illegal.
01:09:44.000 According to Out Magazine, bi, trans, and non-binary folks in Norway are celebrating a huge win after the country recently expanded its penal code that previously only protected lesbian and gay people from hate speech to include gender identity and all forms of sexual orientation.
01:09:57.000 The penal code states those who are guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to a year in jail for private comments and a maximum of three years in jail for public comments.
01:10:05.000 Okay, so that's a radical policy.
01:10:07.000 That is if you are at home and you say something, you quote Leviticus, in your house, The government of Norway can come and take you out of your house and put you in jail for a year.
01:10:18.000 So Out Magazine, the gay advocacy magazine in the United States, they tweeted out, buy us a one-way ticket.
01:10:26.000 They're into it, man.
01:10:27.000 They want to live in a country where people can be prosecuted for saying a thing in their own home.
01:10:32.000 And that's how radical the left in the United States is becoming.
01:10:35.000 It's amazing how fast we went in the United States from, you know, what we do in our bedroom is none of your business, to what you say about us in your bedroom should get you thrown in jail.
01:10:44.000 Pretty incredible transition, right?
01:10:45.000 It went from, you should tolerate more people doing what they want in the privacy of their own home to, if you say something I don't like in the privacy of your own home, I hope they take you and throw you in jail right now.
01:10:55.000 You wonder why folks in the United States may be a little wary of the radical left?
01:10:59.000 Because the radical left has no actual allegiance to institutions and fundamental principles like freedom of speech and open discussion.
01:11:05.000 They oppose them.
01:11:06.000 And Joe Biden is not gonna be able to work against that.
01:11:09.000 That is why Republicans across the country did much better than expected in the 2020 elections.
01:11:13.000 And if it were not for the mainstream media spending 24 hours a day lying about Trump, presumably Trump would have won the election.
01:11:22.000 So that is the ongoing story here, and that's going to be the battle left to be fought.
01:11:26.000 That battle is going to have to be waged on a media level.
01:11:30.000 Because the media will simply hide these messages from you.
01:11:32.000 The media will not promulgate these messages.
01:11:34.000 They will not give you the truth about this stuff.
01:11:35.000 They will suppress anybody who talks about this sort of stuff.
01:11:38.000 That is their job.
01:11:39.000 Because they are in open competition with other forms of informational dissemination.
01:11:43.000 They'll try to hijack all of the platforms of informational dissemination in order to prevent you from seeing information they don't like.
01:11:49.000 And that's what we are all fighting back against today.
01:11:52.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
01:11:54.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
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