The Ben Shapiro Show - You Are Being Manipulated | Ep. 1190

00:00:00.000 Time magazine acknowledges that elites manipulated the levers of power during election 2020 and the New York Times fires a reporter for not being racist.

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00:01:32.000 OK, so few quick notes to begin about last night's Super Bowl.

00:01:37.000 It is the only NFL game I have watched this season because of all the wokeness. 1.00

00:01:40.000 And I will say it was kind of astonishing how missing in action the wokeness was at the Super Bowl, which makes sense because the NFL is not stupid enough to try and cram that down the throats of 100 million Americans during their biggest broadcast of the year and the biggest event in American entertainment. 0.62

00:01:54.000 And so it was the usual stuff. 0.86

00:01:55.000 It was patriotism and unity and togetherness and all of the rest.

00:01:59.000 That's not to say that it didn't have its bizarre moments like the halftime show, but It was.

00:02:03.000 It was not a good game, but Tom Brady demonstrates once again that he is the greatest quarterback of all time at 10 Super Bowls.

00:02:08.000 He is seven and three in those Super Bowls.

00:02:09.000 And you just have to you just have to admire the quality.

00:02:12.000 I mean, you really do.

00:02:13.000 And you have to admire the quality, by the way, of defenses of Tampa Bay's defensive scheme.

00:02:17.000 And they really stymied Patrick Mahomes.

00:02:19.000 But that's enough sports talk.

00:02:20.000 We'll get to the cultural side of this.

00:02:22.000 I will say that the halftime show was super weird.

00:02:25.000 I know that it's not aimed at me.

00:02:27.000 I know that when people think of like Chief Demographic for The Weeknd, they don't think of me because I listen to classical music and read straight the lyrics of Cardi B. But with that said, I thought that even for a weird halftime show, this one was super duper weird.

00:02:42.000 I think my favorite part, there were a couple parts that were pretty great.

00:02:45.000 One was when he was The Weeknd, which I assume was his given name.

00:02:48.000 Like he was born, his mother looked at him and called him The Weeknd.

00:02:51.000 But in any case, I assume that he was stumbling through the mirrored halls with a camera up in his face.

00:02:57.000 That was like me after a second COVID shot right there.

00:03:00.000 And then, I don't know if this was meant to be like Joe Biden's COVID troops mask coming for you if you don't wear a mask, or what this was supposed to be.

00:03:08.000 But the creepy, red-coated, fascist marchers with no faces coming at you in the night was a vision.

00:03:17.000 Also, he should pay some royalties to Michael Jackson.

00:03:20.000 This is just the Thriller video, isn't it?

00:03:22.000 So we had him doing a little bit of Michael Jackson dancing, and then we have the Thriller video here, and now we have the COVID fascist troops coming for you, so that's exciting stuff. 0.91

00:03:32.000 It was weird.

00:03:33.000 It was weird.

00:03:34.000 And also, isn't this Bruno Mars' song?

00:03:37.000 No, a different song.

00:03:38.000 Okay, so, that's that.

00:03:42.000 Yeah, that's not Bruno Mars.

00:03:43.000 That's that's the weekend.

00:03:44.000 OK, so in any case, that was one sort of weird highlight of the show.

00:03:48.000 But when it came to the commercials, the commercial that everyone is talking about this morning, the commercial that's got everybody hot and bothered is this commercial narrated by Bruce Springsteen for Jeep.

00:04:01.000 Okay, so there's always one of these commercials during the Super Bowl where some major company is like, wouldn't it be great if America got together?

00:04:07.000 A few years back during the recession, Clint Eastwood did one for one of the car companies.

00:04:12.000 I'm trying to remember which car company, which shows you how successful the ad was in retrospect.

00:04:15.000 But Jeep had this ad with Bruce Springsteen narrating.

00:04:19.000 And when I think of people who represent middle America, I think of the guy from New Jersey with the earring. 0.87

00:04:24.000 Who votes Democrat all the time.

00:04:27.000 Quintessential Americans, I think of like people who represent the middle of America, the partisan middle of America. 0.71

00:04:33.000 I tend to think of Bruce Springsteen.

00:04:35.000 And he puts on a cowboy hat, which like that makes him the second most awkward person to have put on a cowboy hat.

00:04:40.000 I would be number one on that list after our company moved to Tennessee.

00:04:44.000 In any case, here was the ad for Jeep.

00:04:47.000 And a lot of people in the media were just in love with this.

00:04:49.000 Brian Stelter was like, I wish this could have gone on for an hour, an hour.

00:04:54.000 No, you don't.

00:04:56.000 Because the ad is super boring and it says nothing, and it just demonstrates sort of where we are politically, is that this sort of pap is now popular with the left, specifically because the ad says nothing.

00:05:06.000 It says that we are all supposed to be reunited.

00:05:07.000 The idea here is that Donald Trump is gone, of course, and therefore we can all reunite around shared values, like churches, that the left wants to invade and revoke its nonprofit status.

00:05:17.000 And also dirt, apparently.

00:05:18.000 Here's the ad.

00:05:20.000 There's a chapel in Kansas.

00:05:24.000 Standing on the exact center of the lower 48.

00:05:27.000 The middle has been a hard place to get to lately.

00:05:30.000 Between red and blue.

00:05:33.000 Between servant and citizen.

00:05:36.000 Between our freedom and our fear.

00:05:40.000 We need the middle.

00:05:43.000 We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground.

00:05:51.000 To the reunited states of America.

00:05:53.000 And it sounds like super nice and bland and meaningless.

00:05:58.000 Like literally completely meaningless.

00:06:00.000 There's nothing there.

00:06:02.000 I do like when he likes dirt.

00:06:03.000 That is one of my favorite parts.

00:06:04.000 I don't know if that's the dirt that Beto O'Rourke ate after he lost to Ted Cruz or like the very soil we stand on is common ground.

00:06:11.000 Okay, well, yes, the entire earth, in fact, is made out of generally the same materials.

00:06:16.000 And so we therefore have common ground with, like, all the people.

00:06:19.000 Like us and Yemen.

00:06:21.000 Common ground.

00:06:22.000 Because we're on a planet together.

00:06:24.000 So that's exciting stuff.

00:06:26.000 Also, a lot of shots of churches there.

00:06:28.000 And the Equality Act, not very much in favor of the churches.

00:06:32.000 But this is the new unity, right?

00:06:33.000 The new unity is, get on board.

00:06:35.000 We're unified.

00:06:36.000 We're moving forward together.

00:06:37.000 And oh, by the way, if you disagree with us, you're not part of the unity.

00:06:42.000 You're not part of the unit.

00:06:43.000 That's the subtext there because when you think of unifying political figures Bruce Springsteen is a partisan Democrat has performed it like every DNC since 1873 that guy is is not a unifying figure in any way shape or form and so I Calls for unity that actually have content like why don't we recommit to our local communities and helping one like that would be nice But that's not what that's about right.

00:07:02.000 It's the reunited States of America because Trump tore us apart and And now, now we can be reunited.

00:07:09.000 Nobody mentioned that Trump won Kansas.

00:07:12.000 Don't tell him.

00:07:13.000 OK, in any case.

00:07:15.000 All of this is part of a broader manipulation that is currently happening in the United States, in which we are all supposed to have bought into the new golden age, the post-partisan age of unity, ushered in by Joe Biden's administration.

00:07:27.000 And it's going to be great, guys.

00:07:28.000 It's going to be great.

00:07:29.000 And in fact, we should celebrate the accession of Joe Biden to the presidency, and we should celebrate everybody who helped make that happen, including people who sort of manipulated the system.

00:07:40.000 Now, note what I am not going to contend here.

00:07:42.000 I'm not going to contend that voter fraud and voter irregularity decided the election.

00:07:45.000 I don't think they did.

00:07:46.000 I did not make that contention since literally day one.

00:07:48.000 I said that I did not think it was true.

00:07:49.000 I did not think there was evidence to back it, and the evidence was not brought.

00:07:52.000 However, I did say since day one that there are systems of power in this country, institutions of power controlled by the left at the top level, and those were in fact manipulated in order to Rig the body politic in favor of particular points of view.

00:08:08.000 And this can happen when you have an entire mainstream establishment media on one side of the political aisle.

00:08:12.000 This can happen when, for example, you black out an entire late-breaking story on the president's son and his relationship with foreign powers and what the president knew about that and when.

00:08:22.000 As did happen with all of social media to the New York Post story.

00:08:25.000 This can happen when you have the social media giants cracking down on people with dissenting points of view and downgrading traffic to particular websites that do not reflect that point of view.

00:08:36.000 If you have the institutions of power in the United States all controlled by one side of the political aisle and those institution of powers kick into gear, that is going to have an effect on the election, obviously.

00:08:45.000 You don't have to expressly suggest that people had their votes switched or their votes stolen in order to point out that when you have institutions of power that have a heavy impact on how people live and how people think and how people consume information, And that that certainly can have an impact on how an election goes.

00:09:00.000 And this is not a theory.

00:09:02.000 Molly Ball over at Time Magazine has a piece that the left is celebrating, but really should scare the living hell out of everybody.

00:09:07.000 Molly Ball, who is on the left, wrote a piece for Time.

00:09:09.000 It's called The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election.

00:09:12.000 This is one of my favorite things that is happening in the media right now.

00:09:15.000 And when I say favorite, I mean least favorite.

00:09:16.000 You have members of the media who are openly acknowledging that blue America has taken control of the levers of power in every major institution and are wielding those levers of power against you. 0.54

00:09:26.000 In order to manipulate you, in order to change your life.

00:09:29.000 And then if you say, hey, wait a second, all of these institutions seem like they're controlled by the left and they're being wielded against me.

00:09:35.000 Then the same media will say, you're paranoid.

00:09:37.000 You're paranoid.

00:09:38.000 It's not happening to you.

00:09:39.000 They have Jim VandeHei from Axios literally writing that blue America is in control of every major institution in the United States, from Hollywood to sports, to corporate America, to social media, to government.

00:09:52.000 And that they are using that power in order to rethink how freedom of speech is done.

00:09:56.000 And then when people like me say that on the show, then Axios reports, Hey, look at these right-wingers.

00:10:01.000 This is their new narrative.

00:10:01.000 It's not my narrative, dude.

00:10:02.000 It's your narrative.

00:10:03.000 You literally wrote that narrative because you happen to be telling the truth about this.

00:10:06.000 We're going to get to what Time Magazine said actually happened during election 2020.

00:10:09.000 Because again, The institutional obstacles to open debate in the United States are massive, and they are becoming ingrained, and it's extraordinarily dangerous.

00:10:21.000 You're being manipulated.

00:10:22.000 You are being manipulated, and the left is sometimes openly admitting they are manipulating you.

00:10:26.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

00:10:27.000 First, let us talk about some of that manipulation.

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00:11:30.000 Okay, so Molly Bauhaus's piece in Time Magazine, and here is what she says.

00:11:34.000 She says, a weird thing happened right after the November 3rd election.

00:11:36.000 Nothing.

00:11:37.000 The nation was braced for chaos.

00:11:38.000 Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country.

00:11:42.000 Right-wing militias were girding for battle.

00:11:43.000 In a poll before election day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

00:11:47.000 Then, an eerie quiet descended.

00:11:49.000 As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action, but crickets.

00:11:53.000 When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on November 7th, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the United States to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump's ouster.

00:12:03.000 A second odd thing happened amid Trump's attempts to reverse the result.

00:12:06.000 Corporate America turned on him.

00:12:08.000 Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump's candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede.

00:12:13.000 To the president, something felt amiss.

00:12:15.000 It was all very, very strange, Trump said on December 2nd.

00:12:17.000 Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner even while many key states were still being counted.

00:12:23.000 In a way, says Molly Ballentine magazine, Trump was right. 0.94

00:12:26.000 There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.

00:12:33.000 Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.

00:12:37.000 The pact was formalized in a terse little-noticed joint statement of the U.S.

00:12:41.000 Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day.

00:12:44.000 Both sides would come to see it as some sort of implicit bargain, inspired by the summer's massive, sometimes destructive racial justice protests, in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.

00:12:56.000 So she's talking about the post-election period there, but then she says, oh yeah, there's the pre-election period too, right?

00:13:02.000 And here's what she says, Molly Ball.

00:13:04.000 The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election, an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote, but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.

00:13:18.000 For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America's institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless panic and an autocratically inclined president.

00:13:27.000 So the way that Molly Ball is pitching this is that all of these left-wing institutions, they threw themselves into high gear in order to ensure free and fair and wonderful and clean elections.

00:13:37.000 And wow, what an amazing job they did.

00:13:39.000 And the result of that amazing job is Joe Biden as president.

00:13:41.000 Now, to somebody who's not on the left, What that actually looks like is, hey, look at all these institutions of power that kicked into high gear in order to sometimes suppress opinion, in order to downgrade particular informational dissemination, in order to change the rules of voting.

00:13:53.000 So they had universal mail-in voting five months early in many of these states before much of the information for the election was actually relevant or available.

00:14:02.000 But remember, Molly Ball's on the left, so this is a celebratory article, right?

00:14:05.000 She says, Well, actually, it was kind of more like the Trump victory.

00:14:23.000 These people, generally speaking, were pretty concerned with the outcome of the vote, not merely the mechanisms of the vote.

00:14:29.000 That is a lot of revisionist history right there.

00:14:32.000 Says Molly Ball, their work touched every aspect of the election.

00:14:34.000 They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.

00:14:40.000 They fended off voter suppression lawsuits.

00:14:42.000 Voter suppression lawsuits are also things like voter ID and lawsuits that challenge whether votes should be cast in a particular way.

00:14:49.000 Things like vote gathering, ballot harvesting.

00:14:52.000 They recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.

00:14:56.000 That's just called voter turnout. 0.90

00:14:57.000 Right?

00:14:58.000 That's a political campaign.

00:14:58.000 campaign. They successfully pressured, here's the part that's great, they successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. Oh, you mean they rigged the levers of informational determination in the United States so that they would be the sole arbiters of what information should actually be spread during the election. Sounds on the up and up.

00:15:20.000 They executed national public awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days and weeks.

00:15:25.000 After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure Trump could not overturn the election.

00:15:32.000 So here, what exactly does that mean?

00:15:34.000 So, Malibal says, the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream. A well-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information.

00:15:51.000 They were not rigging the election.

00:15:53.000 They were fortifying it.

00:15:56.000 That's what was... By the way, if Trump had won and they'd done all the exact same things, do you think Molly Ball would be writing about the fortified election?

00:15:56.000 Oh!

00:16:03.000 Or do you think she'd be writing about how corrupt the election was? 0.98

00:16:06.000 So, what kinds of stuff did they do in order to, quote-unquote, fortify the election?

00:16:11.000 Fortify the election?

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00:17:37.000 Okay, so Molly Ball writing in Time Magazine.

00:17:40.000 And she talks about how all of these groups basically got together in order to quote-unquote fortify the election.

00:17:47.000 So what exactly did that fortification look like?

00:17:50.000 Well, it looked like an alliance between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce.

00:17:56.000 And one of the heads of these unions was a guy named Mike Podhorzer.

00:18:02.000 He was the senior advisor to the president of the AFL-CIO.

00:18:04.000 He put together a memo, and he started making connections with people.

00:18:07.000 On March 3rd, Podhorzer drafted a three-page confidential memo titled, "'Threats to the 2020 Election.' Trump has made it clear this will not be a fair election, that he will reject anything but his own." They kicked into high gear for rapid mail-in voting.

00:18:17.000 he wrote on November 3rd to the media report.

00:18:19.000 Otherwise, he will use the right wing information system to establish his narrative and incite his supporters to protest.

00:18:24.000 The memo laid out four categories of challenges, attacks on voters, attacks on election administration, attacks on his political opponents, and efforts to reverse the results of the election.

00:18:33.000 They kicked into high gear for rapid mail-in voting.

00:18:33.000 So what did they do?

00:18:38.000 And by the way, they started, and this is the part that's scarier to me, they started securing the methods of informational distribution.

00:18:46.000 So according to Malibal, time. Bad actors spreading false information is nothing new.

00:18:50.000 For decades, campaigns have grappled with everything from anonymous calls claiming the election has been rescheduled to flyers spreading nasty smears about candidates' families.

00:18:57.000 But Trump's lies and conspiracy theories, the viral force of social media, and the involvement of foreign meddlers made disinformation a broader, deeper threat to the 2020 vote.

00:19:04.000 Okay, so there's something you have to understand about the whole disinformation, misinformation nonsense that's been pushed by the left.

00:19:09.000 Since 2016, the left has completely flipped On social media.

00:19:13.000 So, in 2012, social media was a godsend.

00:19:15.000 Because the Obama administration knew how to use it.

00:19:15.000 Why?

00:19:17.000 They were micro-targeting people.

00:19:18.000 They were using data in new and innovative ways.

00:19:21.000 Then, Trump used that same information in very similar ways in 2016, and the meme became, the reason that Trump won in 2016 is because Facebook and Twitter and YouTube didn't shut off the mechanisms of informational distribution and misinformation had decided the election.

00:19:35.000 How would we define misinformation?

00:19:36.000 We define it as, quote, not from the New York Times, not from CNN, not from MSNBC.

00:19:41.000 Anything that comes from a partisan outlet on the right must be disinformation or misinformation.

00:19:47.000 And this needs to be stopped.

00:19:48.000 The spigot needs to be closed.

00:19:51.000 So, says Time Magazine, Laura Quinn, a veteran progressive operative who co-founded Catalyst, began studying this problem a few years ago.

00:19:57.000 She piloted a nameless secret project, which she has never before publicly discussed, that tracked disinformation online and tried to figure out how to combat it.

00:20:04.000 One component was tracking dangerous lies that might otherwise spread unnoticed.

00:20:08.000 Researchers then provided information to campaigners or the media to track down the sources and expose them.

00:20:12.000 Okay, so first of all, what that sounds like is that the media are just doing the work for progressive groups.

00:20:16.000 She's a progressive operative. 0.96

00:20:18.000 She runs Catalyst.

00:20:19.000 Catalyst will send these media updates to members of the media, who will then ram them into their fact checks, the same way that Media Matters does.

00:20:26.000 The most important takeaway from Quinn's research, says Time, was that engaging with toxic content only made it worse.

00:20:32.000 When you get attacked, the instinct is to push back, call it out, say this isn't true.

00:20:35.000 But the more engagement something gets, the more popular, the more the platforms boost it.

00:20:39.000 The algorithm reads that as, oh, this is popular, people want more of it.

00:20:43.000 Okay, so this is where it gets good.

00:20:44.000 So instead of countering the information, instead of somebody putting out something that you disagree with, and you counter the information, which by the way, you see all the time in the media, and by the way, half the time the media calls something false, it actually isn't false.

00:20:56.000 I saw that last week when Snopes decided to fact check The idea that AOC was in the Capitol by admitting that she was not in the Capitol building, but saying that it was mostly false to say that she had exaggerated her account because she was not in the Capitol building.

00:21:09.000 It was an amazing fact check.

00:21:11.000 Because the way the fact checkers typically work is that if conservatives say something false, they fact check it as false, which is correct.

00:21:17.000 If the left says something false, they fact check it as mostly true.

00:21:21.000 And if conservatives say something true, they fact-check it as mostly false.

00:21:24.000 That's the way these fact-checkers often work, and they do it by biasing exactly what they're fact-checking, as we discussed last week.

00:21:29.000 Okay, but here's the thing.

00:21:30.000 What the left was pushing for was not more engagement, or even more of a boost to content that rebutted things they thought were not true.

00:21:36.000 Instead, the solution, she concluded, was to pressure platforms to enforce their rules, both by removing content or accounts that spread misinformation, and by aggressively policing it in the first place.

00:21:49.000 The platforms have certain policies against certain types of malignant behavior, but they haven't been enforcing them, she says.

00:21:53.000 Quinn's research gave ammo to advocates pushing social media platforms to take a harder line.

00:21:58.000 In November 2019, Mark Zuckerberg invited nine civil rights leaders to dinner at his home, where they warned him about the danger of the election-related falsehoods that were already spreading unchecked.

00:22:07.000 Here's the best part of this entire article.

00:22:08.000 You ready?

00:22:09.000 It took pushing, urging, conversations, brainstorming, all of that to get to a place where we ended up with more rigorous rules and enforcement, says Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who attended the dinner and also met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and others.

00:22:24.000 It was a struggle, but we got to the point where they understood the problem.

00:22:26.000 Was it enough?

00:22:27.000 Probably not.

00:22:28.000 Was it later than we wanted?

00:22:29.000 Yes, but it was really important, given the level of official disinformation, that they had those rules in place and were tagging things and taking them down.

00:22:37.000 So remember that I said the person who said that last quote is a person named Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who's saying, we got the social media platforms to mirror our recommendations and start taking down content we didn't like.

00:22:50.000 Gupta is Joe Biden's current nominee to Associate Attorney General.

00:22:56.000 Does that sound a little corrupt to you?

00:22:57.000 A little corrupt to you?

00:22:59.000 That people who are about to enter the Biden administration and were essentially part of the adjunct Biden campaign were bullying and pressuring social media companies into taking down and banning information they didn't like?

00:23:11.000 Isn't that kind of a problem?

00:23:12.000 Isn't that just a little bit of a problem?

00:23:15.000 So when people say that they feel like the election was not honest, that can take two forms.

00:23:20.000 One is, oh, it was voter fraud.

00:23:22.000 Oh, it was people cheated on the vote.

00:23:24.000 Or it could be the reality, which is that there are a lot of people who are pushing at the top levels from powerful positions in order to pull every lever of influence they could, including ones that have an impact on you and have an impact on me daily.

00:23:41.000 That is, they call it fortifying the election.

00:23:44.000 Sounds a lot like rigging, does it not?

00:23:46.000 I mean, rigging can, again, for the third time, I'm not talking about voter fraud or voter irregularity, when you pull every lever of power in order to achieve a particular result and you do it top down, does that sound like respect for the American people?

00:23:58.000 Or does that sound like you want to run the place?

00:24:01.000 Okay, you are being manipulated.

00:24:02.000 And the manipulation continues on a daily basis.

00:24:04.000 This is not about unity.

00:24:05.000 It's not about neutral principles that can be applied broadly across the spectrum.

00:24:10.000 This is about creating a monopoly of informational distribution, a monopoly on who gets punished by the rules.

00:24:14.000 And we're gonna get to that in just one second.

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00:25:35.000 Okay, so the manipulation continues apace because the members of the media have an agenda.

00:25:40.000 This is why when you see ads like the Bruce Springsteen ad from Jeep, When that pretends that that's an apolitical ad, it's not an apolitical ad.

00:25:48.000 The suggestion that we need reuniting after the age of Trump, as opposed to, you know, during the age of Obama, when we actually did have race riots, when we did have an extraordinarily slow recovery, when we had incredible divisions in the body politic.

00:26:01.000 Actually look at the polls.

00:26:02.000 When race relations in America started to go south, it was under Barack Obama.

00:26:06.000 We didn't hear about how he was dividing America.

00:26:08.000 He was a unifier.

00:26:09.000 And then Trump came along and he was a divider.

00:26:11.000 And now, America is reuniting.

00:26:13.000 And you know what unites us?

00:26:14.000 Apparently, churches in the middle of the country that the left doesn't particularly like.

00:26:17.000 And also dirt.

00:26:18.000 Those are the things that unify us.

00:26:19.000 But the real answer is, what unifies us is that you listen to the left.

00:26:23.000 What unifies us, what's supposed to unify us, is that you agree with the precepts of the left.

00:26:28.000 And here's the thing.

00:26:29.000 This is directed at my friends who are liberal but not leftist.

00:26:32.000 I make this distinction every single day on the program.

00:26:35.000 There's a reason that we sell leftist tierist tumblers, not liberal tierist tumblers.

00:26:39.000 I explicitly rejected liberal tierist tumblers because I think liberals are just people who disagree with me about politics.

00:26:44.000 I think leftists are people who want to see everybody else banned in the search for an authoritarian unity.

00:26:50.000 The left is ascendant.

00:26:51.000 The left is moving, and they're moving in strong fashion in order to subject you, the citizen, to the curtailment of your rights so they can reach the sort of unity that they wish.

00:27:02.000 Okay, and this is happening inside supposedly liberal institutions.

00:27:06.000 I mean, this is an unbelievable story.

00:27:09.000 Okay, over at the New York Times.

00:27:10.000 The New York Times is just getting purged right now.

00:27:11.000 You remember the story about James Bennett, who was their op-ed editor?

00:27:14.000 And you remember that they had an internal staff rebellion because he had the temerity to publish a column by Tom Cotton.

00:27:18.000 You remember that?

00:27:20.000 It was good times.

00:27:20.000 Okay, well now, they've decided they're going to purge another person.

00:27:24.000 This person's name is Donald McNeil Jr.

00:27:27.000 Now Donald McNeil Jr.

00:27:29.000 is apparently a health reporter, and he has a long history of being an excellent reporter.

00:27:34.000 He was nominated for a Pulitzer for his COVID work.

00:27:37.000 Now, he has resigned and apologized for his quote-unquote extraordinarily bad judgment over his use of the n-word after his Pulitzer Prize winning colleague Nicole Hannah-Jones threatened to launch her own investigation of him because she is the de facto editor-in-chief of the New York Times now.

00:27:50.000 This pseudo-journalistic, lying, fictionalized, anti-American... Nicole Hannah-Jones, like, Honestly, she's a figure who deserves contempt. 0.97

00:28:05.000 She deserves intellectual contempt. 0.94

00:28:06.000 She's a person who has rejected any criticism of her own project as racist.

00:28:12.000 She's gone back and self-edited her own project and changed the nature of the project.

00:28:16.000 She has made accusations that are completely unfulfilled about a wide variety of journalists, from liberal to conservative.

00:28:24.000 Nikole Hannah-Jones is everything that is wrong with modern-day American journalism.

00:28:28.000 She's an activist opinion hack masquerading as something more, and she's not. 0.82

00:28:35.000 And by the way, a lot of what she says is just plain wrong.

00:28:37.000 It's just anti-factual.

00:28:38.000 Okay, so here's what happened.

00:28:41.000 In a letter to staff on Friday, Donald McNeil Jr.

00:28:43.000 announced he was standing down from the paper after 45 years, saying he, quote, originally thought the context in which I use this ugly word could be defended, but now realized it cannot.

00:28:52.000 So it sounds like he had, you know, called someone the N-word, right?

00:28:54.000 I mean, usually when you have a scandal and you get fired for using the N-word, it's because you called somebody the N-word, right?

00:29:00.000 That's not what happened here.

00:29:01.000 That's not what happened here.

00:29:02.000 Do you know how insane that is?

00:29:04.000 That standard?

00:29:04.000 We don't tolerate racist language regardless of intent.

00:29:06.000 Understand what is packed into that small phrase.

00:29:08.000 Okay, normally, when you accuse somebody of being a racist, it's because they have racist thoughts.

00:29:12.000 It's all about intent.

00:29:12.000 quote, we do not tolerate racist language, regardless of intent.

00:29:12.000 Right?

00:29:16.000 Do you know how insane that is?

00:29:17.000 That standard?

00:29:19.000 We don't tolerate racist language, regardless of intent.

00:29:21.000 Understand what is packed into that small phrase.

00:29:25.000 Okay, normally, when you accuse somebody of being a racist, it's because they have racist thoughts.

00:29:29.000 Right, it's all about intent.

00:29:30.000 Racism is all about intent.

00:29:32.000 Because there are actions that can be interpreted a wide variety of ways.

00:29:36.000 When a cop pulls over a black person for speeding, is that cop doing something racist? 0.92

00:29:40.000 Or is the cop pulling somebody over for speeding who happens to be black? 0.94

00:29:43.000 We don't know until we search the officer's intent.

00:29:45.000 Until we know something about the officer.

00:29:47.000 But according to the New York Times, racist words do not need to have intent attached to them.

00:29:53.000 They are on their face racist.

00:29:55.000 So we can disconnect racism from intent.

00:29:57.000 Okay, what this really is, is the Ibram X. Kendi idea.

00:30:00.000 That what is truly racist is not intent.

00:30:02.000 Racism has nothing to do with intent.

00:30:03.000 You can be a racist without intent.

00:30:06.000 What does it take to be a racist without intent?

00:30:08.000 Not mirroring the priorities of Nikole Hannah-Jones.

00:30:11.000 And not taking the perspective of the woke staffers.

00:30:14.000 That is racist.

00:30:15.000 Right?

00:30:16.000 And we don't need to prove intent.

00:30:17.000 We don't need to prove you're a racist.

00:30:18.000 All we have to do is find an instance in which you said a not racist thing.

00:30:23.000 That's all we have to do.

00:30:25.000 If you used a word in a not-racist context, we will still say that you are a racist, even if it is provable that you are not a racist.

00:30:32.000 So what exactly happened?

00:30:33.000 Well, the ousting of the man, as according to the Daily Mail, who is the paper's star COVID-19 reporter, came after a group of 150 staffers sent a letter to the executive leadership Wednesday saying they were deeply disturbed by the paper's handling of the incident and demanding a full investigation into quote-unquote newly surfaced complaints against McNeil.

00:30:49.000 Hannah Jones, the reporter behind the 1619 Project, also vowed to call parents and students who took part in the trip in question to find out what McNeil said and in what context, sources told the Daily Beast.

00:30:59.000 So here's what happened.

00:31:00.000 The Daily Beast first reported last week multiple students and parents had lodged complaints against McNeil back in 2019 after he allegedly used the N-word, said white privilege does not exist, and made disparaging comments about black people during a company-sponsored school trip to Peru.

00:31:13.000 Now, there's only one thing there that really got him fired.

00:31:16.000 The thing that got him fired is that he said that he doesn't believe in the concept of white privilege.

00:31:20.000 That's what got him fired.

00:31:20.000 It was not the use of the N-word.

00:31:21.000 Because you know what the context was when he was using the N-word?

00:31:24.000 You know what actually happened?

00:31:25.000 What actually happened is this.

00:31:28.000 Here is his letter.

00:31:28.000 Quote.

00:31:33.000 I was asked at dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur.

00:31:40.000 To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title.

00:31:45.000 In asking the question, I used the slur itself.

00:31:48.000 That's it.

00:31:49.000 That's the whole thing.

00:31:50.000 That's the whole thing.

00:31:52.000 Right, this report, a person asked, a high school student asked, I know a 12-year-old who used the N-word, and McNeil said, oh, well, did they use the word bleep as like a rap lyric, or did they use it not as a rap lyric?

00:32:08.000 That should make it, right, that is literal, what he is literally saying is, what was the intent?

00:32:12.000 What was the intent?

00:32:14.000 Was the intent racist, or was the intent not racist?

00:32:16.000 That makes a difference.

00:32:17.000 The Times has rejected the standard, however, to even say the N-word to clarify means that you have done something racist.

00:32:25.000 Even if you are attempting to clarify, like, if I were to get on the air today and say that N-word is a racist term that should never be uttered by anyone, but I would actually say the N-word, the left would demand that I be cancelled.

00:32:36.000 That's the way that this works now.

00:32:38.000 If you use the N-word to condemn the N-word, you will now be cancelled.

00:32:41.000 That's how insane this is.

00:32:43.000 These are the people you're supposed to unify with?

00:32:45.000 How?

00:32:46.000 Like, how?

00:32:47.000 That's my question.

00:32:48.000 I want Bruce Springsteen to tell me how I'm supposed to unify with this.

00:32:51.000 So good-hearted liberals, how can you unify with this?

00:32:53.000 Okay, McNeil says, quote, I should not have done this.

00:32:57.000 First of all, number one, never apologize to the mob. 0.94

00:33:00.000 Never apologizing to the banged jackass mob. 0.94

00:33:02.000 Never apologize to the woke mob. 0.97

00:33:04.000 There is never anything good that has ever come from apologizing to a woke mob for doing nothing wrong.

00:33:08.000 He didn't do anything wrong here.

00:33:09.000 And the fact that he apologized I understand he was doing it to try to keep his job.

00:33:13.000 It's an act of cowardice.

00:33:14.000 He shouldn't have apologized.

00:33:15.000 And by the way, the minute that you apologize, they will take your head.

00:33:18.000 That is the way that this works.

00:33:20.000 Originally, said McDill, I thought the context in which I used this ugly word could be defended.

00:33:24.000 I now realize it cannot.

00:33:25.000 It is deeply offensive and hurtful.

00:33:27.000 The fact I even thought I could defend it itself showed extraordinarily bad judgment.

00:33:30.000 For that, I apologize.

00:33:31.000 To the students on the trip, I extend my sincerest apology.

00:33:34.000 But my apology needs to be broader than that.

00:33:36.000 Not just to the students.

00:33:37.000 He needs to apologize to aliens who have not yet visited Earth.

00:33:41.000 My lapse of judgment has hurt my colleagues in science, the hundreds of people who trusted me to work with them closely during this pandemic, the team at The Daily that turned to me during this frightening year, and the whole institution which put its confidence in me and expected better.

00:33:54.000 Just apologize to the world.

00:33:57.000 Kneel before Zod.

00:33:58.000 Kneel before Zod.

00:33:59.000 So I have a question.

00:34:00.000 Liberals, do you feel like kneeling before the woke diktats of Hannah Nicole Jones?

00:34:04.000 Is that the world you want to live in?

00:34:06.000 Is that the unity that you are willing to achieve?

00:34:09.000 That you're willing to go along with people who get people fired from their jobs for saying things that are not racist because you don't like their political point of view?

00:34:18.000 That's the way that this works now?

00:34:19.000 And by the way, the woke will continue along this mission.

00:34:22.000 And they don't need evidence.

00:34:23.000 Evidence!

00:34:24.000 They don't need evidence. 1.00

00:34:24.000 Don't be silly. 1.00

00:34:25.000 All they want to do is ruin people. 1.00

00:34:27.000 That's all this is about.

00:34:28.000 It's about castigating people they disagree with as evil.

00:34:31.000 This is why Taylor Lorenz of the New York Times, who basically just reports on like things happening at TikTok, Journalism-ing.

00:34:38.000 Incredible journalism-ing at the New York Times these days.

00:34:41.000 So, you know what she tried to do the other day? 0.99

00:34:42.000 She tried to go after the Silicon Valley investor, Marc Andreessen.

00:34:47.000 She suggested that he use the R-word.

00:34:51.000 The R-word is a reference, historically, to people who had mental disabilities.

00:34:57.000 I'm not even gonna say it because, as we know, once you say the R-word to even clarify what the R-word is, you get canceled.

00:35:01.000 That's the way this works.

00:35:02.000 Okay, so, there's only one problem.

00:35:04.000 Marc Andreessen never said it.

00:35:06.000 That's all that happened.

00:35:07.000 Marc Andreessen never said it.

00:35:08.000 Taylor Lorenz tried to smear him. 1.00

00:35:11.000 According to Glenn Greenwald, who has emerged as a voice of sanity.

00:35:14.000 I mean, this is how wild things are.

00:35:16.000 Glenn Greenwald, who I disagree with about, like, all the things, is now a voice of sanity when it comes to this sort of stuff.

00:35:20.000 He says the profound pathologies driving all of this were on full display on Saturday night as the result of a reckless and self-humiliating smear campaign by one of the New York Times' Star Tech reporters, Taylor Lawrence.

00:35:30.000 She falsely and very publicly accused Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Mark Andreessen of having used the slur word during a discussion about the Reddit GameStop uprising.

00:35:38.000 Lorenz lied.

00:35:39.000 Andreessen never said the word.

00:35:40.000 And rather than apologize and retract it, she justified her mistake by claiming it was a male voice that sounded like his, then locked her Twitter account as though she was the victim.

00:35:50.000 It's like unbelievable.

00:35:51.000 By the way, you know how this happened?

00:35:53.000 Because there was an app called Clubhouse.

00:35:54.000 I've been invited to use that app.

00:35:55.000 I haven't joined it for specifically this reason.

00:35:57.000 And I told, by the way, the people who created it, this would happen.

00:35:59.000 Clubhouse was supposed to be a place for people who are prominent to be able to have open conversations.

00:36:03.000 People like Taylor Lawrence then logged in in order to find gotcha moments so they could go after famous people.

00:36:09.000 Because this is what the new left lives for.

00:36:11.000 And they're not doing it because they care about Marc Andreessen.

00:36:13.000 They're not doing it because they care about Donald McNeil.

00:36:15.000 They're doing it because they care about you.

00:36:16.000 They're doing it because they hate your guts.

00:36:18.000 Because let them be an example.

00:36:20.000 Let us put this head on a pike, like Game of Thrones, to warn off all of those who might dissent. 1.00

00:36:26.000 It could be your head on that pike next. 1.00

00:36:29.000 Okay, that is what is going on.

00:36:31.000 And by the way, it could be your head on the social media pike next. 0.98

00:36:34.000 I'll give you the greatest example of this in just a second.

00:36:38.000 It truly is.

00:36:39.000 It truly is astonishing.

00:36:39.000 By the way, again, they will go after anyone.

00:36:42.000 And it's places that were formerly liberal and now are leftist.

00:36:45.000 The ACLU, right?

00:36:45.000 The American Civil Liberties Union, right?

00:36:47.000 They're all about civil liberties, right?

00:36:49.000 Like free speech, and they'll die for your right to say it, even if they don't agree with what you're saying. 0.93

00:36:54.000 Now they have this ridiculous human being, Chase Strangio, Who is one of their lawyers. 0.94

00:37:00.000 He's one of their lawyers. 0.97

00:37:01.000 The most famous lawyer, maybe.

00:37:03.000 Tweeting out that J.K.

00:37:04.000 Rowling and Abigail Shrier, quote, and the rest of them, are closely aligned with white supremacists in power.

00:37:10.000 Their rhetoric in turn creates dangerous policy proposals and eventually laws.

00:37:13.000 We have a lot of mobilizing to do.

00:37:15.000 Always good when you have the ACLU, their lawyer, calling for the censorship of people they disagree with and smearing them as white supremacist fellow travelers.

00:37:24.000 Again, the warning is to you.

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00:37:26.000 It's not to Abigail.

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00:40:51.000 So the manipulation of the body politic, it's about you.

00:40:56.000 It's about mobilizing people against people like you if you disagree.

00:40:59.000 And again, I'm not talking about if you're conservative.

00:41:02.000 I'm talking about if you dissent from the woke orthodoxy in any way.

00:41:05.000 And you think you're safe if you're a liberal.

00:41:07.000 If you agree with the left on some of their policy priorities, you think you're safe.

00:41:10.000 You're not.

00:41:11.000 You're not safe for one moment in time.

00:41:13.000 The minute you become inconvenient, they run you over.

00:41:15.000 So here's the thing about the left.

00:41:16.000 If you are a normal human being, Then generally, you're a little uncomfortable about the idea of the mob, but you like people individually, right?

00:41:22.000 You like people on an individual level.

00:41:24.000 You want those people to be treated decently.

00:41:26.000 But the idea of the mob, you know, the idea of the people collectively being the big deciders, that's a little bit uncomfortable, right?

00:41:32.000 That's why we like checks and balances in the United States.

00:41:34.000 If you are on the left, they love, quote-unquote, the people, but they hate individuals.

00:41:38.000 And if you are in their way, they will run you over as though they're in a Ford F-150 truck, and you are just standing out there in their way.

00:41:45.000 That is, that is, All that the left is.

00:41:47.000 I mean, the left is just a machine for running people over in their pursuit of utopia.

00:41:52.000 And so if you believe, as a good-hearted liberal who just disagrees with me about tax rates and about abortion and about key issues, right?

00:41:58.000 We can have those key disagreements.

00:41:59.000 But if you agree with me about individual rights, like freedom of speech and the ability to disseminate information and have discussions with people across the other side of the aisle, Then you're gonna have to make a decision.

00:42:09.000 Do you wish to move along with the woke left because you'll agree with them on policy and run over rights in the process?

00:42:15.000 Or do you wish to preserve rights and maybe it'll make it a little bit tougher for you to convince people of your political agenda, but at least you'll have preserved the rights.

00:42:21.000 That's the decision that's going to be up to people who are liberals but not leftists.

00:42:25.000 Okay, that's your choice.

00:42:27.000 Not up to me.

00:42:27.000 It's up to you.

00:42:29.000 Okay, because they're coming for everyone.

00:42:31.000 Okay, I'm gonna give you an example, and it doesn't matter how nice you are.

00:42:34.000 This is a perfect example of individuals not mattering, all that matters.

00:42:37.000 See, here's the thing.

00:42:38.000 On the left, what they actually believe is that your belief system, it's so weird.

00:42:41.000 They believe that your belief system is what makes you good or bad.

00:42:44.000 You can be a perfectly crappy human being, but if you believe the right things, this makes you a good human being.

00:42:49.000 Normal people believe that it's the things you do on a daily basis that make you a good human being. 0.96

00:42:53.000 It's your aspiration to continue to do more good things on a daily basis.

00:42:55.000 That's what makes you a good human being.

00:42:58.000 Folks on the left, On the hard left, they believe that you can be the nicest person in the world, but if you believe the wrong things, they will run you over.

00:43:04.000 So, here's a perfect example.

00:43:06.000 This column just struck me so hard over the weekend.

00:43:08.000 It's a piece by a woman named Virginia Heffernan.

00:43:11.000 Virginia Heffernan.

00:43:12.000 writing for the Los Angeles Times.

00:43:14.000 It's called, What Can You Do About the Trumpites Next Door?

00:43:17.000 Quote, Oh, heck no.

00:43:19.000 The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.

00:43:29.000 How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

00:43:33.000 On some level, of course, I realize I owe them thanks.

00:43:37.000 And man, it really looks like the guy backdragged the driveway like a pro.

00:43:40.000 But how much thanks?

00:43:42.000 These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives.

00:43:45.000 And there aren't a lot of anything other than white lives in this neighborhood. 0.94

00:43:47.000 Oh my god, they like cops. 0.51

00:43:48.000 Holy... They like cops.

00:43:50.000 This is also kind of weird.

00:43:52.000 Back in the city, people don't sweep other people's walkways for nothing.

00:43:56.000 Maybe it's like what Eddie Murphy discovered in that old Saturday Night Live sketch, White Like Me.

00:43:59.000 He goes undercover in white makeup and finds that when white people are moving among their own, they pop free champagne and live the high life. 0.92

00:44:05.000 As Murphy puts it, Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party in Lebanon, also gives things away for free. 0.78

00:44:16.000 The favors Hezbollah does for people in the cities Tyre and Sidon probably don't involve snowplows, but like other mafias, Hezbollah tends to its own. 0.99

00:44:23.000 The Shiite, sick, elderly, and hungry. 1.00

00:44:25.000 They offer protection and hospitality and win loyalty that way.

00:44:28.000 And they also demand devotion to their brutal us-versus-them anti-Sunni cause. 0.77

00:44:32.000 Some of us are family, the favors say.

00:44:33.000 The rest are infidels. 1.00

00:44:34.000 The same is true with Louis Farrakhan, who currently helms the Nation of Islam. 1.00

00:44:37.000 This person is crazy. 0.93

00:44:38.000 This person needs to be in a rubber room, like, immediately. 0.99

00:44:41.000 Like, put this person in a straitjacket and drag them to the hoo-hoo house. 1.00

00:44:44.000 This is like... While the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies him as a dangerous anti-Semite, much of his flock says he's just a little screwy and unfailingly magnanimous.

00:44:52.000 To them.

00:44:53.000 When someone helps you when you're down or snowed in, it's almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world.

00:44:57.000 In fact, you're more likely to be overwhelmed with gratitude and convinced of the person's inherent goodness.

00:45:02.000 You might end up like the upper-class family I stayed with in France as a teenager.

00:45:06.000 They did not attend a citywide celebration for the 100th birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944.

00:45:13.000 They did have several portraits of Philippe Petain, Nazi collaborator, on their wall.

00:45:17.000 When I screwed up the courage to ask how it was for them during the occupation, the lady of the house replied we were happy because the Nazis were very polis. 0.87

00:45:23.000 I didn't know the word, so I excused myself to consult a French-English dictionary.

00:45:27.000 I was in tears when I found the entry.

00:45:28.000 Polite. 0.64

00:45:29.000 So when I accept generosity from my pandemic neighbors, acknowledging the legitimate kindness with a wave or a plate of cookies, am I also sealing us in as fellow travelers who are very polis to each other, but not so much to them?

00:45:40.000 Now let it be said, there are certain perspectives on the world That can actually make you a bad person, right?

00:45:45.000 If you believe that slavery is a good idea, this can make you a bad person.

00:45:49.000 If you believe in the murder of all members of X group, this can make you a bad person.

00:45:55.000 But she is currently likening a Trump supporter who plowed her driveway for her to Hezbollah, Louis Farrakhan, and the Nazis.

00:46:06.000 I have a feeling that this person's beliefs are making her an actual, honest-to-goodness, in-daily-deed bad person.

00:46:12.000 As this person says, loving your neighbor is evidently much easier when your neighborhood is full of people just like you.

00:46:16.000 I love that she's just throwing it.

00:46:17.000 Like, how does she know? 0.96

00:46:18.000 If she were black, how does she know the neighbors wouldn't come over and plow the driveway? 1.00

00:46:23.000 Does she know that? 0.98

00:46:24.000 She has no evidence of that whatsoever, other than her own unjustified moral superiority and belief that her next-door neighbors for being Trump supporters must be vicious Nazi racists who would only do this for a person living next door who is white. 0.96

00:46:34.000 She's thrusting that on them. 1.00

00:46:36.000 She doesn't know them at all.

00:46:37.000 Literally, the only two things she knows about them Or that they're nice, and plowed her driveway for her, and did her a favor, and that they voted for Trump.

00:46:43.000 So instead of her saying to herself, instead of her saying to herself, you know, maybe it's possible that some Trump supporters are nice people, and I've miscast and mischaracterized many Trump supporters and their belief systems.

00:46:55.000 Instead of her thinking that, it's, no, it must be they who are wrong.

00:47:00.000 It must be I who am the morally wonderful one.

00:47:04.000 Okay, I don't care what dirt this person lives on with me, we ain't in the same country.

00:47:10.000 This is wild stuff.

00:47:12.000 She says, what do we do about the Trumpites around us?

00:47:14.000 Like Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who spoke eloquently this week about her terrifying experience during the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, Americans are expected to forgive and forget before we've even stitched up our wounds or gotten our vaccines against the pandemic that former President Trump utterly failed to mitigate.

00:47:30.000 My neighbors supported a man who showed near murderous contempt for the majority of Americans.

00:47:34.000 They kept him in business with their support.

00:47:37.000 But the plowing...

00:47:40.000 On January 6th, after the insurrection, Senator Ben Sasse issued an aw-shucks plea for all Americans to love their neighbors.

00:47:45.000 At the time I seethed, the Capitol had been just desecrated.

00:47:48.000 But maybe my neighbor heard Sasse and was determined to make a bid for reconciliation.

00:47:51.000 So, here's my response to the plowed driveway for now.

00:47:54.000 Politely, but not profusely, I'll acknowledge the Sassean move.

00:47:57.000 With a wave and a thanks, a minimal start on building back trust, I'm not ready to knock on the door with a covered dish yet.

00:48:03.000 I also can't give my neighbors absolution.

00:48:06.000 It's not mine to give. 1.00

00:48:07.000 Nobody asked you for absolution, you crazy person. 0.98

00:48:11.000 What are you absolving them of? 0.96

00:48:12.000 Is it a nice thing for you and have different views on politics?

00:48:15.000 And your answer is they're asking you for absolution but you can't give it?

00:48:20.000 Honestly, if I was this lady's neighbor and I read this piece, I would take my snow plow, I would go out into the street, I would gather as much snow as humanly possible and dump it directly on her driveway.

00:48:29.000 I'd plow that sucker like eight feet high and she can dig that out with a trowel for all I care. 1.00

00:48:37.000 What a nasty piece of goods. 1.00

00:48:38.000 Seriously.

00:48:40.000 But this is the world.

00:48:41.000 Do you feel the unity?

00:48:42.000 Do you feel it?

00:48:42.000 I feel the unity.

00:48:44.000 And I especially feel the unity when elites in our society mirror this perspective and then mobilize the levers of power in order to push forward this perspective, such that if you disagree with them, it's because you just want to break the country.

00:48:55.000 I love this.

00:48:55.000 She says, So in other words, I don't care that you did a nice thing for me.

00:48:57.000 make amends, not with a snowplow, but by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration, and more important, by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed.

00:49:05.000 So in other words, I don't care that you did a nice thing for me.

00:49:08.000 Only when you bow before Zod, only when you agree with me, will you be deemed one of the morally elect.

00:49:14.000 This is the woke priesthood at work.

00:49:16.000 So, which side do you want to be on, liberals?

00:49:18.000 This is my question.

00:49:18.000 Do you want to be on the side of Virginia Heffernan?

00:49:20.000 Does she sound like somebody that you want to live next door to?

00:49:22.000 Or, would you like to live in the same neighborhood as the Trump supporter who disagrees with you on tax rates and immigration, but also might plow your driveway once in a while and recognizes that you actually are brothers in arms against many of the myriad ills that wreck countries all over the world historically?

00:49:37.000 There can be no unity with this.

00:49:38.000 There can't.

00:49:39.000 And if people who agree with this sort of stuff control the levers of power, there will not be any unity.

00:49:43.000 It's just going to get worse.

00:49:45.000 It's just going to be worse from here on in.

00:49:47.000 Alrighty.

00:49:48.000 So, Michael Molls is guest hosting Hour 2, and you can listen to his show today.

00:49:53.000 It should be up very, very shortly.

00:49:55.000 In the meantime, I will see you here tomorrow.

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You Are Being Manipulated | Ep. 1190

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