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00:01:34.000Alrighty, so the big story of the day continues to be that Facebook has maintained its ban on Donald Trump.
00:01:40.000Donald Trump, as you'll recall, was banned on January 7th from Facebook, as well as YouTube, as well as Twitter, as well as Instagram, pretty much everywhere.
00:01:47.000There was a blanket ban put on the sitting president of the United States because he said a bunch of stuff that people didn't like.
00:01:53.000And it was not clear how it had violated the rules in any substantial way.
00:01:56.000Certainly no more than Ayatollah Khomeini or Louis Farrakhan or a wide variety of other deplorables around the world.
00:02:02.000But Donald Trump was banned because the tech bros decided that he was innately dangerous and therefore he had to be banned until after the election.
00:02:11.000And then they just were like, okay, well, I guess we'll just leave him banned.
00:02:14.000Well, the Facebook Oversight Board made two decisions yesterday.
00:02:17.000One was, was the original ban appropriate?
00:02:19.000They said yes, based on the idea that Trump had said positive things about people doing violence, which, again, is an odd standard considering the entire Democratic Party came out in strong defense of people doing violence and looting during the summer last year.
00:02:32.000And continue, by the way, to defend a wide variety of criminals, as long as they are in some sort of tussle with the police.
00:02:38.000And then the Facebook oversight board did what Facebook didn't want them to do and they tossed the ball back to Facebook.
00:02:43.000So Facebook set up this oversight board specifically to avoid responsibility for these sorts of things.
00:02:48.000And then the oversight board was like, well, you can't suspend Trump indefinitely.
00:02:50.000So we're going to toss this back at you.
00:02:52.000And in six months or so, you will reevaluate whether Trump ought to be put back on the platforms.
00:02:57.000Now, all of this should frighten you because the reality is that the rules are just an excuse for Facebook to kick off whoever they want to.
00:03:06.000You don't actually have to violate the rules in order for public blowback to cause YouTube or Facebook or Twitter to throw you off the internet.
00:03:15.000They like to say that all of this is algorithmic, and some of it is algorithmic, but somebody sets up the algorithms.
00:03:20.000And some of it is just not algorithmic at all.
00:03:21.000When you make the decision to ban the sitting president of the United States from social media, that is not a decision that is being made by a computer.
00:03:27.000That is a decision that is being made by high-level people at the companies in question, and in coordinated fashion.
00:03:33.000I kind of fail to see how it's not collusion, in fact, to see all of the social media companies all at once decide to ban the president of the United States, the same way they did, by the way, to Alex Jones or Milo Yiannopoulos.
00:03:42.000Doesn't mean I agree with a lot of the things that are said by these folks, but the fact that social media have this sort of top-down control is pretty astonishing.
00:03:49.000Now, there's this widespread perception out there, and it's a real misperception.
00:03:53.000that the left and the right agree on this stuff.
00:03:56.000People on the right are angry at big tech because they believe that big tech has too much control over the dissemination of information, that big tech can be cuddled and bullied by the mainstream media into basically shutting off all other sources of information.
00:04:09.000As I've discussed before, the real threat to establishment media is indeed social media.
00:04:13.000And the reason for that is because with the rise of the internet, you could now go to places like Fox News or Daily Wire if you wanted an alternative view of the news, or if you just wanted to hear news from a conservative perspective or maybe see news covered that the establishment media wouldn't cover.
00:04:27.000And then, because social media became so big, people started consuming their news via social media.
00:04:32.000You used to go directly to Fox News or directly to Daily Wire, and now most people get their news by going to Facebook and checking their news feed.
00:04:38.000Well, this created a sort of almost a sort of bottleneck in the pipeline for informational flow.
00:04:45.000And the establishment media saw this and they said, oh, look at that.
00:04:49.000It used to be that all information flowing out through the internet through disparate means, you could go to this website here and this website over there, and it was very difficult to shut that off.
00:04:57.000But now if everybody is getting their news through Facebook's newsfeed, well, what if we just, you know, took that bottleneck and just kind of closed it?
00:05:04.000What if we just made sure the only things that could get through the bottleneck are the establishment media sources?
00:05:09.000And this is what the social media tech bros have been going along with.
00:05:12.000They set up this measure at Facebook for what they called sort of news authoritativeness.
00:05:17.000And the way they ranked that was if you're an establishment media source, then you are more authoritative.
00:05:21.000And if you are not an establishment media source, you are not.
00:05:24.000Which, of course, to conservatives is anathema because we look at CNN and we say these people report fake news and fake narratives on a fairly regular basis.
00:05:35.000Facebook has attempted to sort of outsource, they're constantly attempting to outsource all of this to outside groups.
00:05:40.000So what they will do is they'll say, well, you know, to determine which news is authoritative, we'll go to fact-checkers.
00:05:45.000But then the fact-checkers are all left-wing fact-checkers.
00:05:47.000It's like PolitiFact or Snopes and all these folks are far to the left.
00:05:51.000And so Facebook basically outsourced its own perspective on free speech to a bunch of outside leftist groups.
00:05:56.000They tried to do this with the Facebook Oversight Board as well.
00:05:59.000And the Facebook Oversight Board basically said, look at that, Facebook did the right thing in the first place, but at a certain point, they're going to have to determine whether to permanently ban Trump or not.
00:06:07.000Okay, so the left's perspective is that the big problem with social media is that too much information is disseminated via social media.
00:06:13.000The right's perspective is that too little information is disseminated via social media.
00:06:18.000The right would prefer that there be a broader range of viewpoints that are allowed on social media.
00:06:23.000And the left would prefer, as always, that only their viewpoint be allowed on social media.
00:06:28.000And they have basically cudgeled and bullied all of these companies into mirroring that perspective.
00:06:32.000Because if you look back at the history of social media, if you look back at the statements made by places like Twitter and Facebook, when they first started, their main mandate was, we are going to allow more people to speak.
00:06:42.000And then it became, we are going to better the conversation.
00:06:44.000And by bettering the conversation, they meant that they were going to Work on what you could see.
00:06:49.000They were going to make you a better person because your betters in Silicon Valley were going to determine what you could and could not see.
00:06:55.000And so this is what you see from the left today in the aftermath of the news that Facebook is going to maintain that ban on Trump.
00:07:11.000Now, this is really dangerous because the White House, you may have noticed, is a government agency.
00:07:15.000This is the executive branch of the most powerful government in world history.
00:07:18.000And the executive branch is saying, we want all of these social media companies who are the chief mechanism by which Information is now disseminated.
00:07:26.000We want them actively to crack down on things we deem misinformation.
00:07:31.000Now, it's important to note here that the left has made a move linguistically from disinformation to misinformation.
00:07:36.000You remember just a few years ago, 2016, there was a lot of talk about Russian disinformation.
00:07:42.000Well, the term disinformation has a specific meaning.
00:07:44.000Disinformation means a foreign government is putting out false information in order to bamboozle or hoodwink Americans and pervert the political process.
00:07:53.000The United States engages in disinformation campaigns against foreign regimes too, right?
00:07:56.000This is just something that happens in international politics.
00:07:59.000And there's certainly a strong case to be made that if Facebook knows that the Russians are disseminating disinformation, that they should shut that down.
00:08:06.000It's a foreign government attempting to affect American elections, for example.
00:08:09.000But there's a difference between disinformation and misinformation.
00:08:12.000By shifting one letter and conflating the two, now you can just declare anything you don't like misinformation.
00:08:28.000We can't allow that sort of misinformation to thrive.
00:08:31.000Even when people say things from an American perspective that are not true.
00:08:35.000If Donald Trump says that voter fraud and irregularity 100% decided the election, we won in Atlanta, that kind of stuff.
00:08:40.000Even if that's not true, to suggest that that is akin to a Russian source promoting active disinformation is not right.
00:08:46.000I mean, Donald Trump does have a First Amendment right to say things that are objectively untrue, that is not banned by the First Amendment.
00:08:55.000You do have the right in the United States to say things that, in your own viewpoint, you think are true, even if they are not true.
00:09:02.000I've never called for Ibram X. Kendi, who's a grifter par excellence, to be banned from social media, even though he routinely says things that are wildly untrue, because that's fascistic.
00:09:11.000You don't get to use the means of the government in order to push that.
00:09:14.000So what they've done is, instead, they've shifted over the onus to these corporations.
00:09:19.000They're working hand-in-glove with these corporations, and they're basically saying to the corporations, we'll leave you alone.
00:09:25.000In fact, we will promote your monopoly so long as you do exactly what we want.
00:09:29.000They basically turned these corporations into agencies of the federal government and then used those corporations in order to shut down the First Amendment in a way they could not do directly.
00:09:39.000If the federal government were to legislate that information they don't like, Had to be shut down by social media?
00:09:45.000If the federal government threatens Facebook that they are going to regulate them in some way, if Facebook does not do that, then the claim is that's not illegal, that's just good governance.
00:09:54.000So here's Jen Psaki from the White House saying we hope that they go further in fighting misinformation.
00:09:59.000The president's view is that the major platforms have a responsibility related to the health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, disinformation and misinformation, especially related to COVID-19 vaccinations Okay, this is maddening and insane.
00:10:29.000It's maddening and insane for two reasons, which I'll get to in just one second.
00:10:33.000First, let us talk about the fact that you don't want to go to the post office.
00:10:35.000I mean, the post office does a lot of wonderful things, but why would you want to stand in line at the post office, schlep your packages over there?
00:11:55.000These big tech companies are platforms.
00:11:57.000The whole point of them is that it is not their job to police what's in the comments.
00:12:01.000Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was specifically designed to protect companies so that those companies would not be held liable legally.
00:12:12.000Right now they're going to say that Facebook ought to be held responsible for stuff that a third party posts on Facebook, which completely defeats the purpose of open threads.
00:12:19.000It defeats the purpose of comment sections.
00:12:21.000It defeats the purpose of YouTube and Twitter and Facebook.
00:12:25.000If they are responsible for the material that appears on their platforms, Then this means that they are effectively the same as the New York Times or the Daily Wire.
00:12:34.000Number two, when she says that we want them to crack down on misinformation with regard to COVID and elections, let's just note here that the Biden administration has routinely lied about both COVID and elections.
00:13:49.000One of the things that I discuss is one of the reasons that the left wants to keep focusing on January 6th, because January 6th was really terrible.
00:13:55.000It was a terrible, terrible event for the country.
00:13:58.000But the reason they want to keep their focus on January 6th is to overlook the fact that the reaction to January 6th on the left is significantly more authoritarian than the actual effect of January 6th.
00:14:10.000On January 6th, a bunch of authoritarians went in and tried to overturn the legitimate results of an election.
00:14:15.000And it was like several hundred idiots, and then they were immediately cleared out, and then a bunch of Republicans certified the election.
00:14:22.000The major institutions in American life, the biggest, most powerful institutions in American life, are attempting to destroy your ability to disseminate information, to see information.
00:14:32.000They are attempting to destroy your ability to raise your child as you see fit.
00:14:35.000They are looking to destroy your business if you fail to comply with their woke standards.
00:14:40.000The authoritarian movement in the United States is not chiefly from the right.
00:14:43.000This doesn't mean there aren't authoritarians on the right.
00:14:46.000But the authoritarian movement in the United States, the dangerous authoritarianism that we experience in everyday life and at every level of American society is coming from the institutional heads inside blue America.
00:14:57.000Like, I don't know what to say about the fact that Hillary Clinton, who is Secretary of State and Senator from New York and nearly the President of the United States, she's out there saying, yeah, yeah, I know this is great.
00:15:05.000Big Tech needs to shut down Trump or we should shut down Big Tech.
00:15:09.000Hey, this is just authoritarian stuff.
00:15:12.000There must be a reckoning by the tech companies for the role that they play in undermining the information ecosystem that is absolutely essential for the functioning of any democracy.
00:15:27.000And it's going to be up to governments, and I would even hope some global rules, but let's start with governments, to try to rein in the disinformation on the social media platforms First of all, that should scare the living hell out of you.
00:15:42.000When Hillary Clinton and Democrats start talking about global governance, what, do we want Zimbabwe's input on how information gets disseminated?
00:15:49.000This is one of the big problems for Facebook.
00:15:56.000They're seeking explicitly to have other governments regulate them because they don't know what to do, because otherwise they're held liable in places like Germany for speech they're not held liable for in places like the United States.
00:16:05.000So when you say, when Hillary Clinton says, we need an international global standard on free speech, Understand that's what we're talking about here.
00:16:11.000The idea that government's job is to rein in the dissemination of information is precisely the reverse of the First Amendment.
00:16:17.000It is precisely the opposite of the First Amendment.
00:16:19.000And the fact that they've gotten all these social media companies to basically do this stuff voluntarily under threat just demonstrates that essentially they're using these major corporations as their agents.
00:16:29.000We are now operating not in a free market capitalist America with regard to social media.
00:16:33.000We are operating in a corporatist America with regard to social media where they are given special privileges by the government and then the government tells them all you have to do is implement standards that we like about information that we don't like.
00:16:45.000Adam Schiff, one of the great purveyors of misinformation for years.
00:16:48.000I mean, this douchebag was on MSNBC every single day talking about how the other shoe was going to drop.
00:16:53.000It was going to come out that Trump was was actually peeing on Russian prostitutes and they were peeing on him.
00:16:58.000And all of this was it was all Russian collusion.
00:17:00.000The evidence would show up sooner or later.
00:17:02.000Here is Adam Schiff saying that he hopes that the ban from Facebook is permanent on Trump.
00:17:08.000The president here is continuing to go out and push the big lie about the election, continuing, I think, to endanger our democracy by doing that.
00:17:18.000And so he continues to make the case that he would violate the policies if they readmitted him.
00:17:25.000And I think, frankly, Pathologically, he's incapable of changing.
00:17:31.000It will likely be, if we're fortunate, a permanent ban, because the president is not going to stop the lies about the last election or lies about the next one.
00:17:43.000I swear, I don't want to hear about authoritarianism from a group of people who are using their perch in government to attempt to literally stop a political opponent from being able to speak.
00:17:50.000I mean, that is the essence of authoritarianism.
00:17:53.000What you're watching right now from the White House, from Congress, from Hillary Clinton, from this whole cadre of the mainstream establishment left, is we want to use the methods of informational dissemination to shut down our political opponents.
00:18:08.000We're gonna threaten these companies in order to make that happen and give them special privileges and pat them on the head if they're good little boys and girls.
00:18:18.000By the way, Not to be self-serving here, but the reality is this is one of the reasons why you should go subscribe to the services that you love right now, because at any moment, this entire tsunami of authoritarianism nonsense could be pushed against anybody, including places you like.
00:18:32.000It could be pushed against Daily Wire.
00:18:34.000Go subscribe right now over at Daily Wire, because again, you want to protect the content that you love, because I don't trust these people, do you?
00:18:41.000I don't trust these tech companies are gonna stand up to the overwhelming tsunami of authoritarian nonsense being pushed by the establishment left.
00:19:23.000Now, according to the establishment left, you disagree with us and we will find a way to shut you down.
00:19:28.000Including, by the way, the sitting president of the United States at the time.
00:19:30.000We will find a way to stop you from speaking.
00:19:34.000And it would be one thing if they had any sort of articulable standard that is consistently applied, but there is no articulable standard that's consistently applied.
00:19:53.000So what this really is, is just about power.
00:19:55.000It's so funny, the entire deconstructionist movement, the sort of philosophical deconstructionist movement, is about the idea that there are no centralizing principles, everything is just a power game.
00:20:03.000That when people talk about freedom and equality, when people talk about the principles of the Declaration of Independence, they're lying.
00:20:09.000That really all that was, was a guise for power.
00:20:47.000You can go pre-order it right now on Amazon, because I go through all of this in detail.
00:20:50.000They have renormalized America's institutions in order to silence everyone they disagree with, and they are doing it with big tech right now.
00:20:57.000And so for people on the right who are like, yeah, there's a wide right-left agreement that we need to shut down big tech.
00:21:03.000No, they disagree for completely different, They don't like big tech for completely different reasons.
00:21:08.000The right wants big tech to consistently apply any standard, hopefully a very broad free speech standard.
00:21:13.000The left wants to simply run these companies.
00:21:16.000The left simply wants to make sure that you cannot speak, that you cannot share, that you are not allowed to have organic reach with the stories that you push, that you never see the information they don't want you to see.
00:21:25.000The most obvious example being that Hunter Biden story, the New York Post Twitter account shut down a month before the election because of a true Hunter Biden story?
00:21:41.000What you will see is that now that Donald Trump has started his quasi-blog on his page, the next move by Twitter and Facebook will be, you are not allowed to tweet any link from that blog.
00:21:51.000Because again, this is not about freedom.
00:21:57.000They want to completely rewrite the rules of the game.
00:21:59.000They want to completely federalize every election procedure in the United States.
00:22:03.000They want to make ballot harvesting legal.
00:22:05.000They want to make sure that voter ID cannot be put into law.
00:22:08.000And then they want to cram a bunch of seats into the Senate in undemocratic fashion in order to stack the system in favor of their own political priorities.
00:22:17.000They don't give a damn about democracy or the procedures of the Constitution.
00:22:27.000If you're a believer that there are principles from the same people who are saying that misinformation has to be shut down on the internet, but we can lie as much as we want, I don't know what to tell you.
00:24:33.000Biden is the luckiest man ever to be elected president, not only because he's not sentient, but also because he inherited an entire vaccination program, an entire rollout program, and then he gets credit for it.
00:24:43.000Okay, so in any case, A huge number of Americans have already been vaccinated.
00:24:47.000Right now, we are going from like 3 million vaccinations a day down to like 1 million.
00:24:51.000Well, number one, the people who wanted it the most already went and got it.
00:24:53.000And number two, they're now running into what's called the demand wall.
00:24:56.000One of the reasons for the demand wall, the reason that people are not out there clamoring for the vaccine, is because if you are vaccine hesitant, there is no incentive being promoted by this administration to get the vaccine.
00:25:53.000Philip Klein writes for the National Review.
00:25:56.000So the standards themselves are just ridiculous.
00:25:59.000The standards are like, kids have to wear masks outdoors, so you don't have to wear a mask outdoors, but only if you're vaccinated, which is ridiculous.
00:26:07.000There's no reason to be wearing a mask outdoors if you're distanced from other people.
00:26:11.000And kids, masking outdoors is absurd in the first place.
00:26:15.000Kids are not passing this in vast numbers.
00:26:17.000Kids are not affected, as a general rule, harshly by COVID.
00:26:21.000The number of kids who have died from COVID is still under 300 in a nation of 330 million people.
00:26:27.000So Anthony Fauci, for example, was asked about the summer camp standards, and he can't even defend it.
00:26:31.000I mean, it doesn't even make any sense.
00:26:34.000Again, how this guy became the most trusted doctor in America, or second most trusted after Dr. Joe Biden, the greatest of all doctors, is beyond me, because he has conflicted himself 1,000 times.
00:28:25.000You know, I think not all outside is the same.
00:28:28.000So outside playing tennis, outside swimming, all of those things where you're far apart from one another.
00:28:34.000If you have a group of 10-year-olds crowded trying to get over a soccer ball, and they're all breathing heavily, I think you need to wear a mask.
00:28:41.000Because yes, there's decreased infection risk outside, but if you're all breathing heavily on top of a singular soccer ball, that has the potential.
00:28:50.000And we've seen a lot of outbreaks associated with youth sports.
00:28:53.000These are the same people who said during the entire George Floyd summer that dancing outside and twerking in large groups was totally fine.
00:29:02.000And remember, in Arlington, Texas, they just had opening day.
00:29:05.00040,000 people were crammed into a stadium outdoors.
00:29:11.000Okay, the data to support these standards are non-existent.
00:29:13.000Like, there are no data to support the standards, which is why Rochelle Walensky is asked about the standards, and she can't even explain them.
00:29:26.000We have over 87 million people in the United States who have been double-vaxxed at this point, or single-vaxxed with Johnson & Johnson.
00:29:33.000And the grand number of people, grand total number of people, last I checked, which was like three days ago, who had died of COVID after being fully vaxxed was 88.
00:29:40.000In other words, your chances of dying from COVID after being vaxxed are like one in a million.
00:30:04.000But if I'm working with everyone in my office is also vaccinated, why?
00:30:12.000So I was going to say, indoors and really in public settings.
00:30:15.000So, you know, in our private settings guidance, we say if you know for certain that everyone around you has been vaccinated, they're not at risk of, they have no high-risk people in their households, then we say in those settings that you could take off your mask.
00:30:28.000Okay, so she can't even answer the question.
00:30:30.000And by the way, let's be real about this.
00:30:32.000If you're vaccinated and you are in a room with a person who has COVID, you will be fine.
00:30:56.000Because none of their standards make any sense.
00:30:57.000They say that if you are in a room, unmasked, with a person with COVID, and you have had the vaccines, you don't have to quarantine unless you become symptomatic.
00:31:07.000So they're not worried about you asymptomatically passing this thing.
00:31:30.000You know, when people, it's amazing to me, people be like, you know, California and Florida, they have very similar death rates and they took opposite views.
00:31:35.000They don't have similar death rates because the thing you have to remember is that Florida has the second oldest population in America after Maine.
00:31:42.000And Maine has like seven people and a beaver.
00:31:48.000It has by far the oldest population in America.
00:31:51.000California has like the third youngest population in America.
00:31:54.000So if you have two states, one of which has a very young population and one of which has a very old population and their deaths per million ratio is the same, you know what that means?
00:32:03.000It means the person who ran the old population state did a fantastic job.
00:32:07.000But still, this administration is going to claim that Ron DeSantis doesn't know what he's doing, because Ron DeSantis put out an order that there are no more locally justified mask mandates.
00:32:15.000He said if you're a business and you want to have a mask mandate, that's your problem, you're a private business, you can do what you want, but no local mask mandate.
00:34:44.000The reason for this is not just because of their simple paranoia about the virus, although this has become a sort of virtue signaling lifestyle choice for a lot of Democrats at this point.
00:34:52.000It's not about preventing the spread of COVID.
00:34:54.000It's about I'm a better person than you because I wear a mask.
00:34:56.000Just like everything else in American life, this is broken down into virtue signaling horse nonsense.
00:35:00.000OK, so in a second, I'll explain what really is backing this for the political actors and not for the common everyday Democrat who's decided they're better than you because they're wearing triple masks and a bag around their head with duct tape around their neck for the rest of time.
00:35:12.000But why exactly your political branches are pushing this?
00:35:17.000First, if 2020 taught us anything, now is an excellent time to get prepared.
00:35:21.000Make sure your family will have food in times of need.
00:35:24.000Remember, empty grocery store aisles are not just associated with the pandemic.
00:35:27.000If there's an earthquake or if there is any sort of natural disaster, you know, people run out to the grocery store and they buy what they need and then you might get caught up short.
00:36:27.000We're gonna get to the actual agenda behind so much of this actual misinformation being put out by the political branches of our government and the media in just one second.
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00:38:26.000Alrighty, so what is the actual agenda here?
00:38:28.000The actual agenda, of course, is to grow the government.
00:38:30.000If you can continue to promote the idea that America is in a state of crisis and that everybody has to mask up and that nobody's going back to work, then you can continue to promote these giant government programs.
00:38:41.000So Democrats right now are continuing to promote the idea of a national eviction moratorium.
00:38:52.000The only reason, hand over fist, the only reason why we have not added more jobs is because we have paid people to stay home.
00:38:59.000Right now, small businesses are having trouble getting people to actually come in and work because there are so many people who are making more money by being on unemployment.
00:39:09.000But Democrats don't want to accept that we are back in an upward economic swing.
00:39:12.000Number one, because they want to take credit for it with stimulus that has not yet even gone out.
00:39:16.000And number two, because they want to promote the idea that the pandemic continues so they can continue to ram through trillions upon trillions of dollars in spending.
00:39:25.000So, let's be real about this in the first place.
00:39:27.000The federal government did not have the ability to simply declare via executive fiat an eviction moratorium.
00:39:32.000The CDC does not have the power to simply declare across the nation.
00:39:35.000The Center for Disease Control, or the Center for Rent?
00:39:38.000Like, where's the empowering legislation that allows the CDC to decide that you no longer have to pay rent?
00:39:43.000And by the way, who exactly compensates the landlords?
00:39:45.000You know, you talk about these housing shortages in America's major cities.
00:39:48.000It turns out, when you deprive landlords of rent for like a year, The predictable response is, I'm not going to build any more buildings and rent them out.
00:39:56.000You end up with more of a shortage, like rent control.
00:39:58.000The more you prevent the free market from having its way, the more you prevent supply from meeting demand.
00:40:04.000Okay, in any case, a federal judge in Washington, D.C.
00:40:06.000on Wednesday, according to the Washington Post, ruled that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its legal authority by issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium, a ruling that could affect millions of struggling Americans.
00:40:16.000Well, yeah, but that's not... Like, if Congress wants to pass an eviction moratorium, they can go ahead and try.
00:40:22.000First of all, I think that's probably unconstitutional.
00:40:25.000Freedom of contract that is inherent in freedom of association in the United States.
00:40:29.000But since we long ago gave up on anything like limited government, I suppose that you could try to pass that via Congress.
00:40:35.000The idea that the CDC unilaterally gets to decide that you don't have to pay your rent anymore is an absurdity on its face.
00:40:41.000The order says it is the role of the political branches and not the courts to assess the merits of policy measures designed to combat the spread of disease, even during a global pandemic.
00:40:49.000The question for the court is a narrow one.
00:40:50.000Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide eviction moratorium?
00:41:04.000The ruling does not affect state or local eviction moratoriums.
00:41:06.000In Washington, D.C., for example, the city government's ban on all evictions remains in place.
00:41:11.000Landlords and property owners have consistently challenged the CDC order, arguing the policy sets an undue financial burden on business owners.
00:41:18.000It turns out that if you run an apartment complex and you can't evict anybody for not paying their bills, you're the one who ends up footing the bill for that.
00:41:25.000And they want to continue this, like indefinitely.
00:41:27.000They want to continue these eviction moratoriums.
00:41:30.000The question at this point is not even the legal authority to do this.
00:41:33.000The question at this point is, why are you even pushing eviction moratoriums when we are at the end of the pandemic?
00:41:38.000And the answer is, they want a forever pandemic.
00:41:41.000Folks on the Democratic side of the aisle want a forever pandemic because every crisis is an opportunity.
00:41:47.000So we're gonna promote bad scientific standards with regard to COVID.
00:41:52.000We are going to promote endless spending because COVID is still a crisis.
00:41:58.000This is why you have the entire Democratic Party Still promoting the idea that we need to spend tons and tons and tons of money on infrastructure Okay, let's be straight about this The United States does not have a major infrastructure problem The Brookings Institute says and has been saying for years the United States our infrastructure is actually in pretty good shape This ain't about infrastructure. It's about everything if you can call it infrastructure. It becomes infrastructure Here is co-president Harris yesterday suggesting that infrastructure is childcare I'd like to hear from each of you as though you are talking to the people in Washington DC
00:42:30.000To explain Why childcare is part of infrastructure And let me just tell you the way I define infrastructure, one of my definitions, is the things you just need to get where you need to go.
00:42:45.000So let's talk about why childcare is a part of that.
00:42:52.000I define infrastructure as anything I want, anytime I want it.
00:42:56.000So let's talk about why Free ice cream is infrastructure.
00:43:01.000This is why they need the pandemic, because otherwise everybody would look at this and go, are you insane?
00:43:12.000But the entire Democratic Party is into this because, of course, they don't care about deficits.
00:43:16.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she's out there, this genius, this economic genius, Democrat, Twitch, she says, You know, we keep worrying about deficits.
00:43:25.000Why are we even worrying about deficits?
00:43:26.000I mean, I've never had to actually meet a payroll, but sure, I know how to spend your money.
00:43:31.000I don't think that the deficit is the most important thing upon which we should be hinging our infrastructure and jobs plan on.
00:43:46.000It's things like our poverty rate in the United States, or rather, unemployment as well.
00:43:54.000That's a long way of saying I don't want to pay for anything because I don't need to pay for anything because I've never paid for anything.
00:44:10.000That's a really easy way of doing that.
00:44:13.000Joe Biden also defending his massive spending plans in his typically incoherent fashion.
00:44:19.000Everything I'm proposing that be done to generate economic growth, employment, and put us in a position where we can out-compete any other country in the world with research and development and moving ahead.
00:44:49.000By the way, he says he's pushing higher taxes.
00:44:50.000The language he uses with regard to higher taxes is so patently crazy.
00:44:54.000And he says things like, First of all, talk to Bernie.
00:45:01.000He seems to like that lake house an awful lot.
00:45:03.000You seem to like your multiple houses an awful lot, Mr. President.
00:45:07.000But beyond that, that's not the question.
00:45:09.000The question is whether you confiscate wealth from the people who have typically created jobs and hand it to a bunch of doofy over at the federal government to decide how exactly to disseminate that wealth in the most inefficient possible fashion, or whether you allow the economy to grow.
00:45:23.000But for him, it's all about confiscation of wealth.
00:45:25.000The real motivating factor here is that Joe Biden wants to go down in history as not an inconsequential figure.
00:46:15.000It doesn't matter that LBJ's economic program took a very strong economy, circa 1963-1964, and proceeded to transform it into a stagnating government, a stagnating economy, all the way from 1967 essentially to 1981.
00:46:30.000That's okay, because he grew the government.
00:46:38.000Because if you think of historic American Democratic presidents, nobody thinks of Bill Clinton, even though the economy did great under Bill Clinton.
00:46:43.000Everybody thinks instead of who grew the government most.
00:46:45.000Joe Biden knows this, and that's why he's pushing this nonsense.
00:46:48.000And that's also why he's pushing his class warrior nonsense.
00:46:51.000Pretty ironic stuff from a guy who allowed his son to run around the globe, picking up bags of cash, using his last name.
00:46:58.000We're not going to deprive any of these executives of their second or third home, travel privately by jet.
00:47:05.000It's not going to affect their standard of living at all.
00:47:11.000But I can affect the standard of living that people I grew up with, if they have a job, I can expect to make sure the standard of living of the people I grew up with get childcare, can afford it, so 20 million women can be back in the workforce.
00:47:27.000I can expect the standard of living of the people I grew up with...
00:47:32.000This incoherent old doddered talking about how, you know, if he confiscates wealth from the wealthy and then he gives it to people at the other end of the spectrum, this is going to create jobs.
00:47:41.000Yeah, you know, they've tried this in many, many places.
00:47:51.000Because if we went right back to that 3% unemployment rate we had under Trump, everybody recognizes you don't need to do what the Democrats are talking about.
00:47:58.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.