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00:01:32.000Okay, so Andrew Cuomo continues to be under fire for basically being really creepy and a weirdo.
00:01:40.000And if he did any of this stuff in the private sector, he would be fired tomorrow.
00:01:43.000So the latest story to break about Andrew Cuomo, frankly, this is the least disturbing of the story.
00:01:48.000So we had a couple of stories already.
00:01:49.000One was from a person named Lindsay Boylan, who worked with Cuomo.
00:01:52.000She suggests that basically he called her up to his office for the express purpose of trying to kiss her.
00:01:57.000And then he gave her an unwanted kiss.
00:01:58.000We've had People suggest that he has harassed them in the past, made lewd comments to them.
00:02:04.000A 25-year-old woman came forward and said that while she was working for him, he asked questions about whether she had sex with older men and whether she had a tramp stamp and this kind of stuff.
00:02:10.000Okay, well, this particular story is the third in a line.
00:02:44.000Rooch was bewildered by the entreaty, she said, and pulled away as the governor drew closer.
00:02:47.000She said I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed.
00:02:50.000I turned my head away and I didn't have words in the moment.
00:02:53.000This account comes after two former aides accused Cuomo of sexual harassment in the workplace, plunging his third term into turmoil as the governor's defenders and Cuomo himself strained to explain his behavior.
00:03:03.000He put out a statement suggesting that this was misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation.
00:03:08.000He said, to the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that.
00:03:27.000Like whatever the lighting here is, it's a problem for him.
00:03:30.000And this woman has on her face the same exact expression as Peloton Lady, right?
00:03:36.000It looks as though Andrew Cuomo is about to perform the scene from The Dark Knight in which the Joker asks Maggie Gallagher if she wants to know how he got that smile.
00:03:44.000It's very weird, like very, very weird.
00:03:46.000Now, there are gradations of behavior that are, you know, the end of your career.
00:03:53.000The gradations of the behavior range from, you know, Harvey Weinstein, like he actually raped people, to an unwanted kiss, to he asked her and she said no, and then he let go of her head.
00:04:04.000Now, number one, as the practicing Orthodox Jew in your life, let me tell you, you shouldn't be touching people without their permission.
00:04:14.000In fact, I've been mocked in the past for doing the Keanu Reeves hover hand in pictures, right?
00:04:19.000I don't want to touch people without their permission.
00:04:21.000And so in long rope lines of people where I'm taking pictures with people, you'll very often see my hand kind of above their shoulder because I don't really want to touch people, right?
00:05:26.000And when Andrew Cuomo became an obstacle, Andrew Cuomo is in serious trouble right now because there's every major politician in New York, all of them have their long knives out for this guy.
00:05:48.000A year ago, he was very useful as a tool against Donald Trump.
00:05:50.000But now Donald Trump is no longer president.
00:05:52.000And that means that Andrew Cuomo, he gotta go.
00:05:55.000Right, it's perfectly convenient to get rid of Andrew Cuomo, because at the same time, you're getting rid of a guy that nobody really likes very much, because he's very aggressive and very nasty, and he's a jerk to everybody.
00:06:03.000And also, you're clearing the way for the Letitia Jameses of the world, and the AOCs of the world, and that's something that the Democratic Party would like to do, frankly.
00:06:10.000Not only that, you also get to, quote-unquote, re-establish the standard that you care about Me Too, because one of the things you may have noticed about the Me Too moment is that it has wavered in its strength and consistency.
00:06:20.000At the very beginning, it was like, well, you know, Harvey Weinstein is real bad, and if he's a Democrat, so be it, he's still gotta go.
00:06:26.000And then it started to waver just a little bit, right?
00:06:29.000If it was Tara Reade accusing Joe Biden of something, well, then we just sort of black out those accusations.
00:06:46.000They did that because they were in the middle of a race in Alabama in which Roy Moore was running.
00:06:50.000Roy Moore was the Senate candidate in Alabama who had been accused of trolling the food court for 14-year-old girls like 30 years ago.
00:06:56.000And so the Democratic Party wanted to set a standard.
00:06:59.000And the standard the Democratic Party wanted to set was, at least we're not those guys.
00:07:02.000And that was when all of the Al Franken stuff came out.
00:07:04.000You know, the pictures of him hovering over the breasts of a sleeping woman and making some sort of weird, funny pose over it.
00:07:11.000Until Al Franken lost his job in the Senate over that, and five minutes later, they were like, oh, that was a mistake, because they thought Roy Moore was going to win in Alabama, and then they would be able to hang that around the neck of the Republicans like an albatross for the rest of time.
00:07:22.000It turns out Roy Moore lost, and then they're like, oh, we shouldn't have got rid of Al Franken.
00:07:26.000Politics is always the name of the game here.
00:07:27.000Andrew Cuomo is going down right now, not because of any of this.
00:07:30.000He's going down because of the nursing home scandal, but they can't say it's because of the nursing home scandal, because then that would be to admit that they should have known all along.
00:07:38.000It would be to admit that they blew this story from the very beginning.
00:07:41.000They would have to admit that their approach to COVID has been dead wrong the entire time, because if it turns out that Andrew Cuomo's real sin here is not his behavior with women, yes, that's sinful, and yes, it's gross, and it's yucky, but that, in and of itself, would not get him canceled.
00:07:53.000Right, the only thing that would really, truly, justifiably get Andrew Cuomo kicked out of office would be him covering up the fact that his policies led directly to the deaths of elderly people in nursing homes.
00:08:03.000They can't, but they can't admit that.
00:08:04.000Because then that would be to admit that they, because we all knew that.
00:08:08.000We all knew in the middle of last year that Andrew Cuomo had been participating in cover-ups in New York.
00:08:15.000We knew that his nursing home policy was garbage.
00:08:18.000And we knew, more than anything else, that his nursing home policy stood in direct contrast to the nursing home policy of the person that the left hated most in terms of governors, Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:08:27.000DeSantis had protected the nursing homes and then told everybody else, you know what, you got to live like free Americans, make your own decisions.
00:08:40.000Florida is ranking number 27 with the second oldest population in America after Maine, which really means the oldest population in America because Maine has seven people in a moose.
00:08:49.000So the reality here is that the media have decided to cover the Andrew Cuomo sex stuff because they don't want to cover the Andrew Cuomo nursing home stuff.
00:08:58.000So instead, they will make it about, look at how honest we are.
00:09:01.000We're so honest and now we're covering this stuff.
00:09:03.000I mean, we couldn't have covered it last year.
00:09:05.000This is what Chris Chaliza of CNN said.
00:09:06.000We couldn't have covered this last year.
00:09:07.000We didn't know about this stuff last year.
00:09:09.000How would we have known that he was sexually harassing the help?
00:09:13.000By the way, there are a bunch of great tweets over the course of the last couple of years about the LoveGov that are coming back to haunt people now.
00:09:18.000Remember that for the last year or so, the establishment media decided that Andrew Cuomo was a sex symbol.
00:09:24.000That he was the one that all the ladies wanted to be with.
00:09:27.000I mean, my personal favorite tweet in all of this was Katie Hill, the disgraced California congresswoman who was shtipping half her staff.
00:09:35.000She had the whole thing about like how she was attracted to Andrew Cuomo.
00:09:37.000It's like, well, yeah, you could see that one coming, couldn't you?
00:09:39.000But again, there is a reason that the media have decided to cover this right now.
00:09:43.000And what you're seeing is that when conservatives complain about media coverage of Cuomo, The media will say two things.
00:09:48.000One, we didn't know about any of this sex stuff a year ago, and now we do know about it.
00:10:04.000Like, it's important, and there should be an investigation, and it's bad.
00:10:08.000The behavior of Andrew Cuomo in, again, there are gradations to each of these incidents.
00:10:13.000Like calling a woman up to your office works for you so you can kiss her is bad behavior and may be fireable behavior.
00:10:18.000Going up to a woman at a wedding and asking if you can kiss her is not actually fireable behavior.
00:10:22.000Grabbing her head is a different story.
00:10:23.000There are gradations to all this stuff, but there is one thing.
00:10:25.000That not only should Andrew Cuomo have been tossed out of office for, he should have been tossed out of office last year for it, because we all knew about it back in May, which is that he was lying about his nursing home stats and that his policies in nursing homes had gotten a lot of people killed.
00:10:36.000And by the way, it is amazing that the media ever chose Andrew Cuomo as their guy.
00:10:41.000Because very early on in the pandemic, you will remember, Andrew Cuomo shut down the state very late, very late.
00:10:47.000If you go back to his comments in early March, they sound exactly like Trump's comments in early March.
00:10:51.000It was only later in March that Andrew Cuomo started to be like, look at the lockdown, Gov.
00:10:56.000So again, everything being about politics and nothing being about truth is a very simple rule to watch in action.
00:11:03.000And you can see it most of all when it comes to the media coverage from his bro.
00:11:08.000I will never say he's Fredo because I've heard from Chris Cuomo that it is somehow racist to call him Fredo, like the dumber brother from The Godfather.
00:13:06.000Like the fact that CNN thinks they can get away with this.
00:13:08.000I mean, I'm going to repeat the words very slowly for those of you who continue to think Andrew Cuomo is a good governor and vote for Democrats thinking that they actually care about you.
00:13:17.000I'm gonna repeat this very slowly for you guys, okay?
00:14:03.000All it is about for them is the narrative.
00:14:04.000The narrative last year is that Andrew Cuomo was good, and Donald Trump was bad.
00:14:07.000And now the narrative is that Andrew Cuomo is bad, and therefore, we have to, as a matter of journalistic objectivity, not allow Chris to cover his brother.
00:14:19.000When it comes to the rest of the CNN crew over there, They are all Chris Cuomo when it comes to the Democratic Party.
00:14:26.000As Chris Cuomo is to Andrew Cuomo, so CNN is to the Democratic Party.
00:14:30.000They're brothers in arms, they agree with the agenda, they're sycophants, and they're covering the people that they love.
00:14:36.000That is the reality of the situation, which is why you shouldn't trust their takes on a lot of these particular issues.
00:14:41.000Okay, in just a second, We're gonna get to the continuation of the fragmentation of our culture, and I wanna talk a little bit about what's gonna go down over the next week or so, because next week, the trial of Derek Chauvin in the alleged murder of George Floyd is going to begin, so we'll get to what is going on in Minnesota.
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00:16:03.000Okay, so, Over in Minneapolis, all hell is about to break loose over the next couple of weeks.
00:16:09.000According to the Daily Wire, Ash Scow reporting, the Minneapolis courthouse that will feature the trial connected to George Floyd, who died while in police custody on May 25th, 2020, has been, quote, turned into a veritable fortress, according to the New York Post.
00:16:21.000Jury selection begins on March 8th for the trial.
00:16:23.000That is where Derek Chauvin is charged with murdering Floyd.
00:16:26.000The Post reports that Hennepin County District Court has, quote, been ringed with concrete barriers, security fencing, and barbed wire.
00:16:32.000This is in addition to increased security in the area, including Minneapolis Police, Hennepin County Sheriff's Deputies, Minneapolis State Troopers, Minnesota State Troopers, and the National Guard.
00:16:41.000Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said we're not going to be caught flat-footed.
00:16:45.000Apparently, the Post reported that Minneapolis authorities have, quote, been hatching security plans for the trial since July, when outrage over Floyd's death on May 25th while in police custody sparked massive protests worldwide.
00:16:55.000Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, sought to assure residents, saying, quote, there's going to be very high emotion on all sides of this, and we will be prepared.
00:17:01.000Apparently, according to the mayor of Minneapolis, as many as 3,000 law enforcement personnel could be deployed before the case goes to a jury.
00:17:11.000It's not just the courthouse that's being prepared for unrest.
00:17:12.000The city jail, city hall, also being reinforced with fencing, barbed wire, and barriers.
00:17:18.000Also, the city of Minneapolis, they just backed off of a plan, they had an actual plan, to hire social media influencers to combat misinformation during the Derek Chauvin trial.
00:17:27.000The reason for this, of course, is because we have seen many instances over the past year in which there will be rumors that go around about a particular incident involving police that are just not true, and people then riot based on those rumors.
00:17:38.000Many times over the course of the last year where there will be a text that goes out that somebody was shot unarmed and it turns out not only were they not unarmed they were threatening the police but a riot starts anyway because the facts do not matter in these particular cases.
00:17:49.000Now the reason I bring this up is because it is a very bad situation.
00:17:53.000We are in a very bad situation in our country when only a verdict that a particular side of the political aisle likes Results in peace, right?
00:18:02.000In other words, if Derek Chauvin gets convicted of second-degree murder, which I think is an overcharge, legally speaking, this looks more like third-degree murder to me, if that at all, right?
00:18:10.000Like, there's a better case for excessive force than either of those two.
00:18:12.000Frankly, I think that Chauvin has a fairly strong defense here.
00:18:16.000I mean, just on a legal level, put aside the morality of what Derek Chauvin did.
00:18:19.000Chauvin, on a legal level, is going to have a fairly strong defense here.
00:18:22.000And I'm just warning people about this right now.
00:18:24.000Because the way the media are going to portray this is if Derek Chauvin gets off, then it's going to be because the system failed and your eyes are... You can trust your eyes when you watch that tape, but you can't trust the system.
00:18:35.000Derek Chauvin's defense is pretty straightforward here.
00:18:38.000His defense is going to be that George Floyd had enough fentanyl in him to kill a horse.
00:18:43.000And there's gonna be fairly good evidence for that.
00:18:45.000There was a medical autopsy done after George Floyd died.
00:18:47.000The medical examiner said explicitly that if George Floyd had been found dead in his house with that level of fentanyl in his blood, then he would have immediately declared it a drug overdose.
00:18:57.000The medical examiner in that particular case struggled to find evidence that the knee on the neck of George Floyd is what actually caused his death.
00:19:08.000There's good video evidence from before, the actual 8-minute clip that everybody has seen, that George Floyd was acting in extraordinarily erratic ways, that he was resisting arrest, that he appeared to be suffering from a condition that is known in the police community as excited delirium, where people are high on drugs, and then their heart rate starts to rise extremely fast, they start to act very, very erratic.
00:19:29.000And then if they have underlying health conditions in any way, then in certain instances they die of that underlying health condition.
00:19:37.000The Minneapolis statutes with regard to police use of force do allow the kind of hold that Chauvin was using on George Floyd.
00:19:45.000George Floyd explicitly asked not to be put in the car.
00:19:47.000They tried to push George Floyd into the car.
00:19:52.000He then pushed his way out of the car.
00:19:54.000And then he said he wanted to be outside the car, at which point they held him down.
00:19:59.000And again, just medically speaking, if somebody says that they cannot breathe, if you can say that you can't breathe, that typically means that you can actually breathe.
00:20:08.000What that means, medically speaking, is that you're having a heart condition.
00:20:12.000Very often when someone says they can't breathe, that is not because you are having a closure of the trachea.
00:20:16.000It's not about Your neck being in some way pressured, right?
00:20:21.000There's no damage that was actually done to George Floyd's neck in the autopsy.
00:20:26.000So again, all of this is gonna be what the defense is for Derek Chauvin.
00:20:29.000And they have to prove some level of intent by Chauvin, which is gonna be super difficult.
00:20:33.000The notion that you can say that this police officer came to kill that day, which is kind of what you have to say in a second degree murder trial.
00:20:39.000First degree, like he fully intended to kill him, he wanted to do it.
00:20:42.000Second degree is reckless disregard that he did it knowing that George Floyd might die.
00:20:49.000Again, if they really wanted to get Chauvin, the best they could have done here, I think, is probably an excessive force charge.
00:20:53.000Now, maybe because of all the hubbub surrounding the trial, the jury decides to convict anyway, because they don't want to be the people who are known as letting Derek Chauvin off the hook for what is the most celebrated case of alleged police brutality in our lifetime, at least since Rodney King.
00:21:06.000But still, the defense here is going to be pretty strong.
00:21:09.000And I'm giving that warning right now, because what you're going to see for the next several weeks is that There will be justifications for riots put forth on all sides.
00:21:15.000That it was a foregone conclusion Derek Chauvin should be convicted of second-degree murder, no matter the evidence.
00:21:20.000If the jury does not vote to convict Chauvin, then the call will go forth that the American justice system is incredibly unjust and that George Floyd did not receive the due process of the law in terms of his victimization and in terms of the treatment of the supposed perpetrator.
00:21:41.000It was used as an indicator of the ill will of many on the right when we had to fence off the Capitol building in the aftermath of January 6th.
00:21:47.000It should be used as an indicator that people are not going to care about the facts.
00:21:50.000They're not going to care about the process here if you're putting up the fences preliminarily in a trial.
00:21:55.000That is not a good sign for the country.
00:21:57.000But that is the country that we now reside in.
00:22:10.000In the same way, I'm perfectly willing to look at the facts of each individual case because I think that the facts matter.
00:22:16.000And when it's Ahmaud Arbery, that looks a lot like a racist killing.
00:22:19.000When it comes to George Floyd, that looks a lot less like a racist killing to me just on the facts of the matter.
00:22:23.000When it came to Jacob Blake, that didn't look like an act of police brutality at all.
00:22:26.000That looked like Jacob Blake resisting arrest with a knife in his hand.
00:22:28.000Every situation is different because the facts matter in every situation.
00:22:32.000If you are talking about Philando Castile, which is an unjustified police killing, that is a very, very different story than the story of Eric Garner, or even the story of Trayvon Martin.
00:22:44.000All of these stories have different fact patterns.
00:22:46.000There are differential levels of guilt.
00:22:48.000And we, as human beings, are called upon to evaluate the fact patterns in each of these circumstances.
00:22:53.000But I fear that as a culture, we have moved beyond fact.
00:22:56.000I fear that as a culture, we have decided that facts no longer matter.
00:22:59.000All that matters is people's self-definition and their personal feelings.
00:23:03.000There's a sentence from a story in the New York Times that I talked about at length last week that I think really sums up where we are as a country.
00:23:08.000The sentence was in the story about Smith College where it turns out that there was a black woman who alleged that a janitor and a college administrator and a cafeteria worker who was utterly uninvolved had combined in order to perpetrate a racist act against her.
00:23:21.000She was eating in a dormitory and they came and they told her to leave.
00:24:15.000Once you even do that as a society, once you decide that the facts are at the very best, only on par with a deeply felt sense of personal truth, namely your opinion or your feelings or what lies you tell yourself so you can sleep at night, once you do that, you cannot have A republic.
00:24:30.000A republic literally is rooted in the idea that you and I can have a conversation about a common set of facts.
00:24:38.000And that we have the capacity as human beings to sympathize with one another and even understand each other's emotional states on a basic level.
00:24:45.000Not fully, because you can never fully understand somebody else's emotional state because you're not them.
00:24:50.000What you can do is at least understand where they are coming from, right?
00:24:54.000All of discussion, all of conversation, all of a republic, all of a republic is based on these basic notions.
00:25:00.000We have now cut against all of those basic notions.
00:25:02.000Because if I appeal to facts in a given situation, that in and of itself is considered discriminatory.
00:25:08.000It is considered as though I am doing something bad to you.
00:25:11.000I see this most clearly in the realm of the transgenderism debate, in which somebody declares that they are a member of the opposite sex.
00:25:17.000And I say, well, the facts are against that because you are not, in fact, a member of the opposite sex.
00:25:20.000And they say, you are infringing on my liberty.
00:25:27.000In fact, you should be banned for citing those facts.
00:25:30.000That is a perfect example of a society in which your identification, your notion of self, is deeply tied into rejecting facts that are objectively verifiable about the world.
00:25:41.000And once that happens, you can't have a conversation.
00:25:43.000Because we have now become the Tower of Babel.
00:25:48.000That story where God basically says to the people who are building a tower together, he says, okay, now you speak a variety of different languages.
00:25:54.000What does it mean to speak a variety of different languages?
00:25:56.000It means we can't understand one another.
00:25:58.000There's an active movement in this country to make it so we can't understand one another and that any appeal to a common language, a common basis in facts or stats or data, that that is bad and wrong and infringing on my liberty of self-identification.
00:26:13.000This is the sort of deconstructionist movement at its root.
00:26:17.000The deconstructionist movement of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, right?
00:26:21.000That deconstructionist movement basically said that there are these things called facts, but the priority that your society places on facts is different, right?
00:26:29.000There are different societies and they treat facts in different ways.
00:26:31.000And there's nothing inherently better about the way that your society treats facts, right?
00:26:36.000An Enlightenment society that treats facts as paramount, there's nothing better about that than a non-Enlightenment society that doesn't treat facts as paramount, that treats instead myths as paramount, right?
00:26:47.000And once you get to the point where we can no longer assume that we, as a people, care about facts more than we care about opinion, then you literally cannot have a society anymore.
00:26:56.000And that's what we're seeing right now.
00:26:58.000Every trial turns into a battle of narrative, not a battle over the facts on the ground.
00:27:01.000This is what happened in, for example, Ferguson, Missouri.
00:27:05.000Where the fact of that situation with Michael Brown became completely irrelevant.
00:27:08.000It did not matter that hands up, don't shoot never happened.
00:27:10.000Millions of people around the country marched, holding up their hands and saying, hands up, don't shoot, because it was symbolically true, even if it was factually false, right?
00:27:19.000Does it even matter if my facts are wrong so long as my morality is right?
00:27:24.000And the answer is, yeah, it matters an awful lot.
00:27:26.000It matters an awful, awful lot, because we can't have a conversation otherwise.
00:27:30.000If facts are merely a reflection of how your society sees truth, Then facts really have no claim that is superior to any other claim, right?
00:27:39.000This is why the left, instead of appealing to facts, the left very often appeals to structures of power, right?
00:27:46.000So how do you determine who wins in a conversation?
00:27:48.000If we can't appeal to facts and decide who is bringing facts to support their case and then decide the argument on that basis, then how do you determine who ought to win and who ought to lose?
00:27:57.000Well, according to the left, the answer is the person who ought to win is the person who has been victimized systematically.
00:28:03.000The person who is the victim of hierarchies of power is the person who ought to have more credibility.
00:28:08.000This is why, for example, in that Smith College case, you saw Nikole Hannah-Jones ask, what is the social class of the black student that this entire piece centers on?
00:28:15.000What is the actual power dynamic at play here?
00:28:17.000As though her lying about a janitor is somehow justified if she was poorer than the janitor.
00:28:22.000Or if she had a different skin color than the janitor.
00:28:25.000Because then her deeply felt sense of personal truth would be rooted in class or race hierarchies.
00:28:30.000And that means that she ought to be given additional credibility even when the facts cut directly against her.
00:28:34.000The reason I'm talking about all of this is because I believe that this sense of facts not mattering, this sense that we ought to instead look into our own hearts, not in anybody else's heart, because you can't, right?
00:28:44.000Look into your own heart for a definition of the world, and then everybody else is just supposed to go around acknowledging your definition of the world.
00:28:50.000This ends republics, and it lies at the center of everything that is happening in our culture right now.
00:28:55.000Every single thing, from math to literature, from journalism to criminal law, it's underlying a sense of everything.
00:29:05.000I've long had this tagline, facts don't care about your feelings.
00:29:08.000The reality is that at this point, we are now in a completely reverse situation in the United States where feelings don't care about your facts.
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00:30:26.000Alrighty, in just a second, we'll get to some examples of how the facts no longer matter, how a basis in logic and reason no longer matters.
00:30:34.000This ties into a broader thing that we're doing here at Daily Wire.
00:30:36.000There are a lot of narratives around hot topic issues.
00:30:38.000It's hard to keep track of all the newest BS narratives the left is pushing any given day.
00:30:42.000Right now, obviously, the left is pushing the idea that men are women and women are men, for example.
00:30:46.000It is difficult to respond to these arguments because the standards are constantly shifting.
00:30:49.000Trying to argue with people on the left very often feels like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.
00:30:53.000And honestly, the only thing you can do is create a solid argument of your own that is based in fact and based in research and based in the data.
00:32:07.000We should all be able to agree literally that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
00:32:09.000It should be something very, very easy.
00:32:11.000Well, John McWhorter, who is a black professor of linguistics, very famous in his field, he has a piece over at Substack titled, Is it racist to expect black kids to do math for real?
00:32:23.000Says there's a document getting around called Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction, a guide put together by a group of educators.
00:32:30.000The idea is to show us how our racial reckoning of late ought to change how we expose black kids to math.
00:32:36.000I suppose the council is also intended for kids of other types of melanin, but this is, in essence, a document that could be called Math for Black Kids.
00:32:42.000The latest is that state-level policymakers in Oregon are especially intrigued by this document.
00:32:47.000There is all reason to suppose that its influence will spread more widely.
00:32:50.000This is to be resisted, as this lovely pamphlet is teaching us that it is racist to expect black kids to master the precision of math to wit.
00:32:56.000Its message, penned by people who consider themselves as some of the most morally advanced souls in the history of the human species, is one that Strom Thurmond would happily have taken a swig of whiskey to.
00:33:05.000Of course, the authors have it that, quote, Okay, well, that is a lot of jargon.
00:33:08.000Whenever the left talks about deconstructionism and why facts don't matter, they use all this jargon, right?
00:33:12.000They're talking about hierarchies of power and anti-racism.
00:33:14.000white supremacy in math classrooms by visualizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture.
00:33:19.000Okay, well, that is a lot of jargon. Whenever the left talks about deconstructionism and why facts don't matter, they use all this jargon, right? They're talking about hierarchies of power and anti-racism. By anti-racism, they mean disrupting those quote-unquote hierarchies of power.
00:33:33.000Dismantling white supremacy is code for we don't like things and therefore we're just going to say that they're white supremacists.
00:33:39.000Translated, says John McWhorter, this means that math as we have known it is racism.
00:33:48.000Now, part of anti-racist math teaching, writes John McWhorter, is to teach about black mathematicians, or to air facts such as that the traditional Yoruba approach to numbers use base 20.
00:33:59.000No one would object to these things, nor to the idea that, quote, we teach students of color about the career and financial opportunities in math and STEM fields.
00:34:05.000But 96% of people reading this kind of thing will be thinking, yeah, but what about the math?
00:34:09.000And there's nothing white supremacist in that question.
00:34:11.000The substance of a serious proposal about teaching math will be, well, teaching how to do math itself, not its history and sociology.
00:34:17.000For example, one idea in this fashicle is that the black students learn how math has hurt people.
00:34:24.000But it's no slam-dunk little kids need to be taught this.
00:34:26.000Wouldn't this affect a child's attitude toward mastering the skills?
00:34:30.000More to the point is that this entire document is focused on an idea that making black kids be precise is immoral.
00:34:36.000The document pays lip service otherwise, claiming at one point to seek to teach rich, thoughtful, complex mathematics.
00:34:40.000And rather often, the word praxis is used.
00:34:43.000But the thrust of the pamphlet is that one, a focus on getting the right answer is perfectionism and either-or thinking.
00:34:49.000Two, the idea that teachers are teachers and students are learners is wrong.
00:34:53.000Three, to think of it as a problem that the expectations you have of students are not met is racist.
00:34:58.000Four, to teach math in a linear fashion with skills taught in sequence is racist.
00:35:01.000Five, to value procedural fluency, i.e.
00:35:04.000knowing how to do fractions and long division over quote-unquote conceptual knowledge, is racist.
00:35:09.000That is, black kids are brilliant to know what math is trying to do, to know what it's all about, rather than actually trying to do the math.
00:35:15.000Just as many of us read about what physics or astrophysics accomplishes without ever intending to master the math that led to the conclusions.
00:35:20.000Six, to require students to show their work is racist.
00:35:23.000And seven, requiring students to raise their hand before speaking can quote, reinforce paternalism and power hoarding.
00:35:30.000You may wonder if this is a cartoon, says John McWhorter, but no, this is real.
00:35:33.000This is actually what this document tells us again and again.
00:35:36.000To distrust this document is not to be against social justice, but against racism.
00:35:41.000Now, the point that McWhorter is making is a very real one.
00:35:45.000We have seen that this polarized, atomistic thinking about ourselves as individuals, that our self-definition matters a lot more, our feelings matter a lot more than learning objective skills, or looking at the data, or trying to figure out true answers, that that has deep ramifications for every area of our society.
00:36:04.000Because here's the thing, most people don't look at the deep substratum of thought here, the deep substrata of thought when it comes to All the stuff that we are hearing about.
00:36:29.000If you're transgender, then maybe you will have a preferred pronoun.
00:36:32.000But the fact that you have a bunch of people who are cisgender putting pronouns in their profiles is just a way of coding that you are a member of this new upper-crust elite who speak the vocabulary.
00:36:43.000And Americans want to be part of that upper-crust elite because Americans have always wanted to be part of the new upper-crust elite.
00:36:48.000They've wanted to be part of the new ruling class.
00:36:50.000It used to be that if you wanted to be a member of the new ruling class in the United States, what you would do is you would work super hard and you'd dress really well, like above your station.
00:36:59.000And you would try and get a nice wristwatch, and you would learn the word of the day, and you would try to get a good education.
00:37:05.000All right, that was the way that you demonstrated that you were a member of the New Ruling class.
00:37:10.000And more has changed, more has changed, and so you see now that to be a member of the new ruling class means to actually dress down, right?
00:37:16.000If you're Mark Cuban, then you wear jeans and a t-shirt, or if you're Mark Zuckerberg, you wear a hoodie, right?
00:37:19.000There are certain things that change, but the best way to become a part of the new ruling class these days is to speak the vocabulary.
00:37:25.000It is just the shave and a haircut two bits of entry into the secret society, as I've said before, right?
00:37:29.000When it comes to the use of these terms, it is not about understanding the terms.
00:37:34.000Most of the terminology does have a deep academic background that is complete BS, but people don't have to know that and they don't have to buy into it.
00:37:41.000This is why if you ask Americans, do you believe America is systemically racist?
00:37:44.000Nobody understands what the term systemically racist means because that is a term that originated in the centers of academia.
00:37:50.000It has actual content, but it has been robbed of its content for purposes of polling.
00:37:54.000All you know is that if you don't say that America is systemically racist, then you will be labeled a racist and you can never be part of the New Orleans class.
00:38:02.000That is why this sort of vocabulary is used.
00:38:05.000This is why it is now de rigueur for prominent people to talk about how they are embarrassed to be a member, to be a white person, for example.
00:38:12.000So John Brennan, who seriously ought to be in jail.
00:38:15.000I mean, he lied to the Senate, openly lied to the Senate, but John Brennan is still considered a person worth listening to.
00:38:20.000He was on MSNBC, and he just throws out a comment like this, right?
00:38:23.000He says he's embarrassed to be a white male.
00:38:34.000Okay, but this is now considered a way into... By saying that you're embarrassed to be a white male, you can actually be super proud of yourself being a white male who says he's embarrassed to be a white male.
00:38:42.000So here is John Brennan, former CIA director, saying this nonsense, speaking the vocabulary.
00:38:48.000I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days.
00:38:50.000I don't know what I see in my other white male saying, but it just shows that with very few exceptions like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, there are so few Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity.
00:39:06.000Okay, all the rest of his take on the Republican Party doesn't matter at all.
00:39:09.000The fact that Nicole Wallace, who's a white lady, is laughing when he says he's embarrassed to be a white male, question, why?
00:39:33.000But again, it's about speaking the vocabulary.
00:39:35.000And if you don't speak the vocabulary, then you can lose your job.
00:39:38.000You could have been a member of the new ruling class one second ago.
00:39:41.000But if you don't speak the vocabulary, then you're out.
00:39:43.000Which is what happened to Donald McNeil over at the New York Times.
00:39:46.000He has now released this long, four-part essay explaining why he was fired from the New York Times.
00:39:51.000You'll remember, Donald McNeil was the lead COVID reporter at the New York Times.
00:39:54.000He was nominated for a Pulitzer this year.
00:39:56.000And he was ousted from the New York Times for the great crime of having, several years ago, gone on a trip to Peru, where somebody asked him, about the use of the n-word by a 12-year-old girl.
00:40:06.000And he says, well, in what context was she using that?
00:40:23.000You're the leading newspaper in America.
00:40:25.000You give a crap what the, quote-unquote, newsroom thinks about your lead reporter on COVID in the middle of a pandemic?
00:40:31.000But according to the Washington Free Beacon, Dean Paquette, the public, the executive editor of the paper, said, I know you're not a racist, but encouraged him to resign anyway because he had, quote unquote, lost the newsroom.
00:41:05.000The reason for all of this, of course, is because he didn't speak the vocabulary.
00:41:09.000He said some things that were impolitic, and if you say things that are impolitic, meaning they violate the precepts of the woke, they violate the precept that facts matter and the data matters, then, like, that entire incident was not about him using the N-word.
00:41:21.000The entire incident was about him asking for specifics.
00:41:24.000You're not allowed to ask for specifics, because specifics provide clarity.
00:41:29.000Generalities provide confusion and room to wiggle.
00:41:32.000Right now, all of politics is about this.
00:41:34.000If you ask for specifics, you are seen as bad.
00:41:48.000It can violate the strictures of the moment at any point.
00:41:52.000Twitch hilariously found this out yesterday.
00:41:53.000So Twitch, the streaming service, They received backlash from both liberals and conservatives after referring to Women's History Month as Wimx History Month.
00:42:05.000And now nobody with a brain has ever referred to women as W-O-M-X-N, but they were trying to make it so that women were different than wo-men.
00:42:14.000It's like, so I married an axe-murderer.
00:42:58.000I read Dr. Seuss's books to my kids pretty much every day.
00:43:02.000Okay, but according to a Virginia school district, Dr. Seuss's birthday can no longer be touted on Read Across America Day because a study said the author's work is, quote, filled with Orientalism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy.
00:43:15.000Now, I grew up reading Dr. Seuss books.
00:43:37.000It is about setting new standards, hoops for people to jump through.
00:43:40.000And if you ask for any sort of context that provides whether the book is racist, whether it is racist to read If I Ran the Zoo, because there are people of Asiatic appearance in the book If I Ran the Zoo, If you even ask that, even the question is racist.
00:44:00.000If you say, okay, well, you know, he drew that in 1940, and let's just say that it was insensitive in 1940.
00:44:07.000Has any child read this in the last 20, 30, 40 years and come away with a bad impression of people from Japan because they read a Dr. Seuss book?
00:44:15.000To ask that question is to be the problem because now you are asking for evidence of a claim that is by nature a claim that is rooted solely in feelings.
00:44:25.000So how did the Dr. Seuss Foundation respond to this?
00:44:32.000Official organization that controls the legacy of Dr. Seuss said it will no longer sell six of the author's children's books of racist and insensitive depictions, including his very first major book, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street.
00:44:44.000I can't even remember what is supposed to be racist and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street.
00:44:48.000If I ran the zoo and McGillicudts Pool, by the way, I own all of them.
00:44:54.000The notion that this is, that he perpetuated Jewish stereotypes as financially stingy, And that all of this appears in his books.
00:45:04.000The study published in 2019 examined 50 books by doctors who's found 43 out of the 45 characters of color have quote, characteristics aligning with the definition of Orientalism.
00:45:19.000But again, to call for an end to the insanity is to excise yourself from the community of the new ruling class.
00:45:27.000And that is what all of this is about in the end.
00:45:30.000There's only one way to fight back against people who have declared themselves to be at the top of the ruling class, and that's to say, you don't get to rule us.
00:45:46.000The Biden administration, being members of the new ruling class, and Joe Biden being an old, white, corrupt politician, has decided that he speaks the vocabulary too.
00:45:56.000And it's very important that he speak the vocabulary.
00:45:58.000Because what the left has basically done is they've decided that by banding together identity politics and socialistic thinking, they can craft enough of a working majority to cram through their actual political agenda.
00:46:13.000To go back to the original thesis of today's show, it's all about politics.
00:46:16.000It is all about power and getting things done.
00:46:19.000It's about the authoritarian cram down of certain policies.
00:46:22.000Basically, there are a bunch of people who don't really buy into the vocabulary, who have decided they're gonna make common cause with people who do buy into the vocabulary, and a bunch of people who actually believe in the inequity is inequality argument, who have decided that they will make common cause with the socialistic wing of the Democratic Party in order to cobble together a new coalition of the ascendant.
00:46:43.000You can see this actually pretty well in Bernie Sanders.
00:46:45.000If you look back at Bernie Sanders' original presidential campaign in 2016, he didn't speak about race nearly at all.
00:46:51.000It was all about how all the problems in our society can be laid at the root of the capitalistic system, and if you just get more socialists, it solves everything.
00:46:57.000Then, over the course of the next few years, something interesting happened to the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:47:01.000He was told that it was not racially sensitive to speak only in terms of class.
00:47:06.000Now, Bernie Sanders is basically a commie, right?
00:47:08.000I mean, his perspective on life is rooted in Marxist fundamental lies about class conflict and how all of human life is driven by this class conflict.
00:47:19.000And so, if you believe that everything at root is about class conflict, it's not at root about racial conflict, right?
00:47:23.000The black working man and the white working man have more in common than the white working man and the white rich man, or the black working man and the black rich man.
00:47:30.000If it's about class, it's not about race, but Bernie Sanders was told that this was racially insensitive.
00:47:35.000And so, he decided to make common cause with the woke and start pushing as many woke policies as he could get his hands on.
00:47:41.000And this was, writ small, what has happened with the Democratic Party, writ large.
00:47:45.000This was the magic of Barack Obama, right?
00:48:06.000By 2010, Barack Obama was breaking down Americans into their identity groups so that he could specifically appeal to members of those identity groups to create a coalition.
00:48:15.000This is the reason why he actually shrank his number of votes between 2008 and 2012, but it was enough to get him by Mitt Romney.
00:48:23.000So the merger between identity politics and typical sort of Democratic Party politics has been ongoing, and Joe Biden is the culmination of that, which is how you end up with a machine politician like Joe Biden, and that's what he is.
00:48:35.000A sort of machine, typical, corrupt old white politician who has suddenly become the face and voice of the racial reparations movement.
00:48:43.000According to one of Joe Biden's top advisors, he is going to start acting now to address reparations to Black Americans.
00:48:50.000Speaking to Axios on HBO in an interview set to air on Monday, White House senior advisor Cedric Richmond discussed efforts targeted to helping minority communities.
00:48:57.000Richmond said they're not waiting on Congress.
00:48:59.000He said, we don't want to wait on a study.
00:49:32.000If you're talking about free college, the reality is that the great imbalance in our society is the number of people going to college between people who are black and white.
00:49:41.000The number of people who are white going to college by percentage is significantly higher than the number of people going to college who are black.
00:49:46.000That's not because of lack of affirmative action programs or benefits programs or scholarship programs.
00:49:59.000It's a typical democratic policy smuggled in under the guise of the vocabulary.
00:50:03.000It's a typical democratic policy position that is now being smuggled in under the guise of doing racial justice.
00:50:09.000You call it reparations, and then you can push forward the idea that you are speaking the vocabulary, and you can build your coalition on the back of all of this.
00:50:42.000And yet, because he's using the language of quote-unquote equity, And the language of anti-racism to push forward typical policy proposals.
00:50:49.000The idea becomes now that it is white supremacy to oppose Joe Biden's policy positions.
00:50:58.000And so that gives him enormous ability to push forward these positions while calling all of his opponents racist, which is, again, bizarre.
00:51:05.000Barack Obama could do it because he could just say, people who hate me are racist.
00:51:08.000And while it was a lie, he could at least pretend it was true because, obviously, at least the factual basis of him being a black person was right.
00:51:15.000Joe Biden, not a black person, still making the same exact claims.
00:51:19.000So when you merge the Democratic coalitional ideal, with the racial ideal, and all of it becomes about those systems of power, right?
00:51:26.000Not about facts, not about the success of the policies, about the systems of power.
00:51:30.000You can get away with nearly anything, and Joe Biden knows this.
00:51:33.000He's pushing all of his typical policies, but all of it's gonna be based on racial politics.
00:51:37.000According to the Daily Wire, the Biden administration is reportedly considering scheduling a controversial vote on a gun control bill in the next couple of weeks.
00:51:46.000Well, I mean, of course he is, because he's always wanted a gun control bill.
00:51:50.000A report by Punchbowl News, which was founded by former political reporters, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats were focused on turning their attention to other issues the Biden administration has on its agenda, including gun control, after passing this giant quote-unquote COVID relief package, which is really not a COVID relief package at all.
00:52:07.000Some of these controversial votes would require universal background checks on gun sales, which of course would create a giant gun registry.
00:52:13.000Another bill would close the so-called Charleston loophole, which allows gun purchases to proceed.
00:52:17.000If the background check isn't completed in three business days, you can hold these things up interminably, of course.
00:52:24.000And essentially, he is calling for a ban on semi-automatic firearms.
00:52:27.000I mean, that is what, when he says banning assault weapons, there's no definition to all of this.
00:52:32.000So this is, you know, typical Democratic policy being pushed under the guise of equity.
00:52:36.000Other typical Democratic policy being pushed under the guise of equity is immigration policy.
00:52:41.000So Joe Biden has basically decided to open the borders wide.
00:52:45.000Joe Biden has decided he's not going to enforce immigration law.
00:52:47.000He's going to go right back to not enforcing immigration law.
00:52:50.000He's attempting to kill agreements whereby people have to wait in Mexico in order to see if they ought to be granted asylum in the United States.
00:52:57.000Instead, Biden just wants to release them into the interior of the United States.
00:53:00.000And meanwhile, he's trotting out his own members of the government to just lie about it.
00:53:03.000So he's got the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying there is no crisis at the border.
00:53:34.000I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.
00:53:41.000One of your predecessors, Jay Johnson, he said that 1,000 illegal border crossings a day constitutes a crisis, that it overwhelms the system.
00:53:49.000We're at between 3,000 and 4,000 now, according to CDP officials.
00:53:56.000Um, I have explained that quite clearly.
00:53:58.000I, um, uh, we are challenged at the border.
00:54:02.000Oh, well, if you say it's a challenge and not a crisis, it's totally fine.
00:54:04.000And if you say it's a challenge and not a crisis, see, a crisis would require you to actually do something to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
00:54:12.000For purposes of equity, the Biden administration has no interest in stemming the tide of illegal immigration.
00:54:17.000In fact, they are now openly saying, well, you know, it's kind of awkward for us right now, so if you could just like hold off on the illegal immigration for seven minutes, that'd be awesome.
00:54:23.000But, you know, in the end, we're kind of okay with it.
00:54:25.000Here's the director of Homeland Security, the secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, saying, we're not saying don't come to illegal immigrants, we're just saying don't come right now, guys.
00:54:37.000I don't have a particular timeline, but all I can do is communicate both to the American public and to the individuals seeking protection that we are working around the clock seven days a week to make that time frame as short as possible, but they need to wait.
00:54:53.000But they need to wait with a particular goal in mind.
00:55:33.000Everybody knows this, including Democratic representatives.
00:55:36.000One Democratic representative named Vincente Gonzalez, Democrat of Texas.
00:55:38.000He says, this immigration policy is absolutely catastrophic.
00:55:41.000Again, this is a Democrat from Texas saying that the current administration policy makes no sense.
00:55:47.000My concern in the recent weeks in my district, migrants who made it across the border, who even passed the line of MPPs who are 5,000 folks that have been waiting for two years across the border, made it across the Rio Grande Valley, were processed and released.
00:56:04.000If that is the message that we send to Central America and around the world, I can assure you it won't be long before we have tens of thousands of people showing up to our border and it'll be catastrophic for our party, for our country, for my region, for my district.
00:56:19.000In the middle of a pandemic in an area where we've lost over 3,000 people in my small congressional district.
00:56:25.000Okay, I mean, that is just the reality.
00:56:28.000But it all ties into the vocabulary again.
00:56:31.000It all ties into the idea that if you can tie everything into race, if you object to this, it must be because you object to America getting more brown or something, which is absurd.
00:56:40.000I've said 1,000 times, I do not care about the race of Americans.
00:56:43.000All I care about is the ideology, philosophy, and decency of Americans.