The Ben Shapiro Show - Your Experts Are Self-Serving Idiots | Ep. 1273

00:00:00.000 Our journalism-ing experts blew it yet again on a major story targeting President Trump.

00:00:05.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci declares that attacks on him are attacks on science!

00:00:09.000 And even the White House is now disappointed.

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00:01:29.000 So, another day, another media narrative that has completely imploded about President Trump.

00:01:37.000 So, what are we up to now?

00:01:38.000 We've had the entire four-year-long saga of how Trump was a Russian cat's paw, and that turned out to be absolute nonsense.

00:01:45.000 And we've had President Trump as the scourge of all Living human beings all over the planet for a variety of reasons.

00:01:54.000 Usually those stories fall apart.

00:01:55.000 We've had a bunch of substories along these lines.

00:01:59.000 Okay, here's the latest.

00:02:00.000 The latest is the media completely blew it on one of the biggest talking points the Democrats used in 2020.

00:02:04.000 That talking point, because they wanted to distract from the BLM riots, was that Donald Trump had cleared a bunch of protesters, peaceful protesters, in Lafayette Park in order so that he could have a photo op in front of a burnt out church.

00:02:18.000 Okay, now that talking point was always pretty dubious because the park police themselves had said at the time, guys, we were clearing the park because people were getting violent at the time.

00:02:27.000 That didn't stop folks from tweeting out about the evils of President Trump clearing the park.

00:02:32.000 So we have like a bunch of tweets from all these people who push this false narrative.

00:02:36.000 For example, NPR Politics tweeted out that day, this is June 1st, 2020, police in Washington, D.C.

00:02:42.000 used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear them away from St.

00:02:45.000 John's Church, which suffered a small fire Sunday night near the White House.

00:02:48.000 President Trump then walked to the church for a photo op.

00:02:51.000 This was the way the media covered it.

00:02:53.000 Joe Biden, who was then running for office, he wasn't president of the United States yet, he tweeted out, he's using the American military against the American people.

00:03:00.000 He tear-gassed peaceful protesters and fired rubber bullets for a photo.

00:03:04.000 For our children, for the very soul of our country.

00:03:07.000 We must defeat him, but I mean it when I say this, we can only do it together.

00:03:12.000 That was Joe Biden back in June 2020.

00:03:14.000 Kamala Harris, your current vice president, then candidate.

00:03:17.000 She said, Donald Trump just tear-gassed peaceful protesters for a photo op.

00:03:20.000 She did that on the basis of a headline from Huffington Post that said, as the president spoke, police deployed tear gas and flashbangs against protesters outside the White House demanding justice for George Floyd.

00:03:30.000 Daniel Dale, the official CNN fact checker.

00:03:33.000 So many facts checked by Daniel Dale.

00:03:35.000 His entire job was just to Firehose.

00:03:39.000 A bunch of things that Donald Trump had said wrong.

00:03:41.000 Now his job is to downplay anything the Democrats say that is wrong.

00:03:44.000 Sort of tut-tut them.

00:03:45.000 Well, back then, he tweeted out, this is February of 2021 actually, he tweeted out, Van Der Veen falsely claims the clearing of Lafayette Square last June happened to establish an appropriate security perimeter from a riotous mob.

00:03:58.000 No, they cleared peaceful protesters out of the way for a Trump photo op.

00:04:01.000 The narrative that Van Der Veen is mocking is correct.

00:04:03.000 That was testimony.

00:04:04.000 That was being made about what happened.

00:04:06.000 So Daniel Dale, the official CNN fact checker, getting it completely wrong, because here is the actual story.

00:04:11.000 There was an inspector general, the inspector general for the Interior Department, and here is what they found, according to the Washington Post.

00:04:17.000 When the U.S.

00:04:18.000 Park Police led law enforcement officers into a crowd of mostly peaceful protesters outside Lafayette Square on June 1st, 2020, including officers equipped with chemical irritants and officers on horseback, they did so as part of a plan made days earlier to build a fence around the park to protect officers.

00:04:33.000 Not to facilitate the visit minutes later by President Trump to a nearby church, an Inspector General's report released Wednesday concluded.

00:04:40.000 The report also found that D.C.

00:04:42.000 police officers fired tear gas at protesters as they moved away from the park toward 17th Street.

00:04:47.000 The park police did not deploy tear gas on June 1st, but did on previous days, and Bureau of Prisons officers fired pepper spray munitions from the park without provocation during the clearing.

00:04:55.000 Investigators also found that the audio warnings issued by the park police before the operation were not widely heard by the crowd and mostly ineffective.

00:05:01.000 The report by the Interior Department's Inspector General focuses on the Park Police and does not fully address questions about the involvement of other agencies or the Trump administration in the events of June 1st.

00:05:10.000 Interior officials said they may not have heard all of the discussions that went on about the operation within the Secret Service or the White House, but that those discussions did not affect how and when the Park Police acted.

00:05:20.000 The investigators did not interview Secret Service or White House personnel.

00:05:24.000 The report found that preparations to clear the protesters and erect a fence began two days before the park clearing.

00:05:31.000 But the idea may have gained greater urgency on the morning of June 1st.

00:05:31.000 Two days!

00:05:34.000 Okay, now they're just speculating.

00:05:35.000 The Washington Post has previously reported Trump was furious at reporting that revealed he had been taken to an emergency bunker on the first night of protests.

00:05:42.000 The group agreed to park police and supporting teams of law enforcement officers would extend the perimeter and gradually push protesters further away from the White House and St.

00:05:49.000 John's Church, which had been vandalized the previous night.

00:05:51.000 By midday, Trump was working with close confidence on a plan to project his control over the city by walking across Lafayette Square.

00:05:58.000 But this had nothing to do with what the Park Police were doing.

00:06:01.000 The Park Police had been planning for days to already clear Lafayette Square.

00:06:05.000 Park Police officials, including then Acting Chief Gregory Monahan and an unidentified incident commander, told Inspector General investigators they learned around mid to late afternoon of the President's unscheduled movement to Lafayette Park.

00:06:15.000 Both Park Police officials reported they were not told a specific time for the President's potential arrival and that learning this information did not change their operational timeline, which was to push protesters back as soon as National Guard officers and the fencing arrived Both of which occurred after 5 p.m.

00:06:29.000 Monaghan told investigators, quote, I can tell you with 100% certainty, the Secret Service and the Park Police timeline did not change the entire day.

00:06:39.000 So the entire media and the Democratic Party ran with the lie that Donald Trump forcibly cleared Lafayette Park in order so that he could have this photo op, that that's what this is about.

00:06:49.000 Instead, Park Police cleared it because they'd been planning to for days.

00:06:53.000 And as it turns out, by the way, there were a bunch of officers who had been injured in Lafayette Park over the prior couple of days.

00:07:00.000 There were a bunch of officers who had... There were 49 officer injuries.

00:07:04.000 Around Lafayette Park, through May 31st, between May 25th and May 31st, 49 officer injuries because park police were, according to the report, being pelted with water bottles, rocks, and fireworks.

00:07:16.000 But wait, we were told these were peaceful protesters, just people who were out there chanting for justice.

00:07:20.000 And they were cleared because Donald Trump, evil Donald Trump, wanted to walk out and hold up a Bible at St.

00:07:26.000 John's Church.

00:07:27.000 Nobody could explain how these peaceful protesters had burned a church five minutes beforehand.

00:07:31.000 But the entire narrative was never very good.

00:07:33.000 And then the media just played it to the hilt.

00:07:35.000 This was part of campaign commercials for the Democrats.

00:07:37.000 This was Joe Biden talking about it openly on the campaign trail.

00:07:40.000 It was Kamala Harris lying about it on the campaign trail. 0.99

00:07:43.000 And again, the media just ran with this thing. 0.98

00:07:46.000 They ran with it because it was beneficial to their narrative, which is that Donald Trump was a fascist.

00:07:50.000 The narrative was not going to be good for them if it turned out that they had been fostering and backing and supporting rioters who had injured 49 police officers or had contributed 49 injuries to police officers and then made excuses for those people and blamed Trump.

00:08:03.000 That would have been a worse narrative. 0.96

00:08:05.000 So instead, it was Donald Trump, evil Nazi fascist, clearing the park of peaceful flower power children. 0.98

00:08:12.000 Oh, except none of that was true. 0.97

00:08:13.000 Except that wasn't true.

00:08:15.000 And when Meet the Press acknowledged that yesterday, it was very, very awkward.

00:08:19.000 Here was the, here was Kenzelanian over at NBC's Meet the Press having to make the awkward announcement that, yeah, we kind of blew this thing for a year.

00:08:28.000 It doesn't second-guess the decision to clear the protesters.

00:08:31.000 It says that the Park Police was within their rights.

00:08:34.000 And this is controversial, Chuck.

00:08:35.000 Black Lives Matter is suing the Justice Department and federal court over this.

00:08:38.000 And our own Garrett Haake was there that day and reported, if you recall, that the protests were not violent at that moment until the police moved in and caused the violence.

00:08:48.000 That was his direct, bird's-eye reporting, Chuck.

00:08:51.000 So, this remains an issue of controversy, but the narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.

00:08:56.000 The narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.

00:08:58.000 Man, doesn't that sum up the entire mainstream media for the past 30 years or so?

00:09:02.000 The narrative we thought we knew is not reality.

00:09:05.000 Why did you think you knew that narrative?

00:09:07.000 Hmm?

00:09:08.000 Why didn't you?

00:09:08.000 I mean, the park police said at the time what the inspector general's report ended up finding, which is that these two events were not connected.

00:09:15.000 That Trump may have taken advantage of the fact the park was cleared to go do the photo op, but that they did not clear the park for the photo op.

00:09:21.000 There's a difference.

00:09:23.000 Okay, but the narrative we thought we knew is not reality.

00:09:26.000 Why did you think you knew the narrative?

00:09:28.000 Hmm?

00:09:28.000 Why?

00:09:30.000 Could it be that you manufactured the narrative?

00:09:32.000 Because the narrative is exactly what you wanted to promulgate.

00:09:36.000 And by the way, this was the constant drumbeat.

00:09:38.000 It was the constant pattern throughout the Trump administration.

00:09:40.000 It's the constant pattern today.

00:09:41.000 The narratives that backed the Biden administration are the ones they want to manufacture.

00:09:44.000 Just like the narratives that undercut the Trump administration, those were the narratives that they wanted to push as hard as they possibly could.

00:09:51.000 Everything from Trump backs white supremacists to Trump is a Russian cat's paw. 0.71

00:09:56.000 All those narratives.

00:09:58.000 Our un-based-in-fact does not matter.

00:10:00.000 They've continued to promote those narratives over and over and over again.

00:10:03.000 Down to, by the way, the idea that Donald Trump is responsible for the riots of January 6th, as though the people who rioted didn't have agency, and ignoring the fact that he explicitly called in his speech for people to be peaceful at the Capitol.

00:10:15.000 You could rip into Trump's rhetoric without suggesting that he is responsible for that any more than Bernie Sanders is responsible for a nutcase going and shooting up a bunch of congressional baseball players.

00:10:25.000 We'll get to more of the journalism-ing media's falsity in just one second.

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00:11:40.000 Alrighty, so, again, big narrative of last year. 0.97

00:11:43.000 Donald Trump cleared the park of peaceful protesters because he's a fascist. 0.77

00:11:47.000 This was, by the way, exhibit A. This was one A in the Trump is a fascist. 0.99

00:11:51.000 Case that the left was putting out there. 0.99

00:11:53.000 He's such a fascist that he sends his brown shirt goons to go clear a park of flower power children, and then take a militant photo op standing in front of a church holding a Bible. 0.99

00:12:02.000 What a fascist! 1.00

00:12:04.000 Except it wasn't true. 0.85

00:12:05.000 The narrative we thought we knew, as Kendallanian says, turns out not to comport with the reality.

00:12:10.000 And that is, how many times are we going to have to see this before you stop believing the media at face value?

00:12:15.000 Before you wait 48 hours before believing whatever headline they are telling you?

00:12:20.000 Another narrative of last year that has now been thoroughly debunked.

00:12:24.000 Remember that time that Donald Trump kept talking about hydroxychloroquine?

00:12:27.000 Remember that time?

00:12:28.000 And the media went nuts. 0.99

00:12:29.000 How dare he, this giant orange buffoon, mention hydroxychloroquine? 0.99

00:12:34.000 Doesn't he know about ta-science? 0.99

00:12:36.000 Doesn't he know?

00:12:36.000 Hydroxychloroquine doesn't do anything.

00:12:39.000 Not only that, but because Donald Trump keeps saying hydroxychloroquine, some crazy lady in Arizona fed her husband fish tank cleaner and he died. 0.55

00:12:46.000 Now, it turns out they may have been murdered, but it doesn't matter.

00:12:48.000 The only reason they did that is because Trump kept saying hydroxychloroquine over and over and over.

00:12:53.000 Because hydroxychloroquine is bad.

00:12:55.000 It's very bad.

00:12:55.000 Okay.

00:12:56.000 Now, new study out this week.

00:12:59.000 According to Yahoo News, quote, a new study shows that the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine, first of all, The fact that it is titled the controversial drug, hydroxychloroquine.

00:13:08.000 Where did the controversy begin, guys?

00:13:10.000 Seriously, where did it begin?

00:13:11.000 It began with you guys declaring that if Trump said anything, it had to be false.

00:13:15.000 If Trump said Wuhan lab leak, it had to be false and it was a conspiracy theory.

00:13:18.000 If Trump said hydroxychloroquine is effective, many doctors have said that it is effective, many doctors are prescribing it, Then it must be that it's false.

00:13:26.000 Now, by the way, we all knew doctors were prescribing hydroxychloroquine.

00:13:30.000 I know people who got COVID, and within the first couple of days, they got a hold of hydroxychloroquine, they took it with azithromycin and zinc, and it did help their symptoms.

00:13:38.000 Well, now a new study is backing this.

00:13:41.000 Okay, there were studies both ways for about a year, and now it turns out a new study suggests actually a pretty significant effect with regard to hydroxychloroquine when you take it with the Z-Pak.

00:13:51.000 The observational study published by MedRxiv found that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine along with zinc, right, this is what, so many of these studies were like, if you just take hydroxychloroquine alone, then it won't do anything.

00:14:03.000 Yes, nobody said it was going to do anything.

00:14:05.000 Everyone knew that the only studies that mattered were going to be about hydroxychloroquine, which is an immunosuppressant, and zinc, okay, along with zinc, azithromycin.

00:14:15.000 The observational study found that hydroxychloroquine along with zinc could increase the coronavirus survival rate by as much as nearly 200% if distributed at higher doses to ventilated patients with a severe version of the illness.

00:14:28.000 The study's conclusion says, we found that when the cumulative doses of two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin zinc, were above a certain level, patients had a survival rate 2.9 times the other patients.

00:14:41.000 The study adds, by using causal analysis and considering of weight-adjusted cumulative dose, we provide that combined therapy greatly increases survival in COVID patients and that the hydroxychloroquine cumulative dose of more than 80 mg per kg works substantially better.

00:15:00.000 These data do not yet apply to hospitalized patients, not on IMB.

00:15:04.000 The study was conducted by St.

00:15:05.000 Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey on 255 patients.

00:15:08.000 Now remember, if you mentioned hydroxychloroquine and you said that it was good, you would actually get kicked off of YouTube.

00:15:15.000 If you said hydroxychloroquine is effective, you would get booted from Facebook and YouTube and Twitter, and they would call you a nut.

00:15:24.000 Because the narrative we thought we knew is not the fact.

00:15:24.000 Why?

00:15:28.000 Just the same way that the Wuhan lab leak, if you mention that, you get booted off YouTube.

00:15:32.000 If you did not simply repeat the experts, you'd get booted.

00:15:37.000 Don't trust people who declare themselves experts without showing you their work.

00:15:41.000 If they don't show you their work, they are not true experts.

00:15:43.000 If they can't tell you how they achieved a conclusion, you don't have to believe their conclusion.

00:15:48.000 That is the trust but verify, but nobody adds but verify, as we'll see in just one moment. 0.97

00:15:53.000 Because we have now entered a world, and this is true really since the beginning of the 20th century, when the great intelligentsia of the West decided that the rest of the world, and particularly people in their own societies, were a bunch of rubes, hicks, and morons, and that the experts had to run everything. 0.96

00:16:08.000 Bureaucracies in the government had to run everybody's life. 0.96

00:16:11.000 We needed experts at all the major universities who were going to run things top-down.

00:16:14.000 It was going to be true in every institution.

00:16:16.000 The experts were going to run things.

00:16:18.000 In science, it wasn't going to be the process of science that was important.

00:16:21.000 It was going to be to science, meaning scientists personally.

00:16:25.000 In journalism, it wasn't the process of journalism that mattered.

00:16:28.000 It was who was deemed a journalist.

00:16:31.000 This is why there's a big fight going on right now about whether people like James O'Keefe are journalists or whether Outlets like Daily Wire are journalistic.

00:16:39.000 And the answer is, if we are performing acts of journalism, then we have acted as a journalist on that day.

00:16:44.000 Certainly better than NBC did for a year on this particular story.

00:16:49.000 You know, science... Most people tend to think of other people's jobs in terms of, like, titles.

00:16:55.000 But the reality is that what makes you a doctor is acts of doctoring.

00:16:59.000 And what makes you a scientist is acts of science.

00:16:59.000 Okay?

00:17:01.000 And what makes you a journalist is acts of journalism.

00:17:04.000 And so we should be able to assume that the only things of value in those particular professions are when you are performing the acts associated with the title.

00:17:11.000 If you are not, your title does not mean anything.

00:17:13.000 So, if you declare yourself a journalist, but then you're Jim Acosta, you're not a journalist.

00:17:17.000 Unless you're performing an act of journalism, you're not a journalist, you're just an opinion giver.

00:17:22.000 If you want to be more accurate, you can call yourself an opinion journalist, that's fine, because sometimes you do opinion and sometimes you do journalism.

00:17:28.000 But to pretend that journalism is a title, that is, a crown set upon you by heaven, and that from now on, anything you say will be deemed true, whereas this guy over here, he's not a journalist because he doesn't do the same things that I do.

00:17:39.000 That's silliness.

00:17:40.000 And the same thing is true in science.

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00:18:55.000 Okay, so meanwhile, you have, as I say, these people who have declared themselves the experts.

00:19:02.000 And yes, they have all the titles, they have all of the proper credentialing, but the credentialing does not matter as much as what you do with the credentialing.

00:19:10.000 If you got a degree from Harvard Medical School, but in your off hours, you're performing Dr. Kevorkian activities, you're no longer acting as a doctor, and you don't deserve the title.

00:19:19.000 If you're a journalist, and in your off hours, or in your on hours, you're just pushing propaganda, you're a propagandist, you're not a journalist.

00:19:25.000 And this is why it is so insulting to watch people conflate processes with job descriptions.

00:19:31.000 Processes with titles.

00:19:33.000 So, again, journalists hide behind the... CNN is very... CNN, that's a bunch of journalists.

00:19:37.000 What they say can be trusted.

00:19:39.000 Or, you could examine whether what they are doing is journalism.

00:19:42.000 This is why I distinguish journalism from journalism-ing.

00:19:45.000 Right?

00:19:46.000 My cynical take on journalism-ing.

00:19:48.000 Okay, same thing is true in science.

00:19:50.000 Science is a process.

00:19:52.000 It is a process whereby you establish a hypothesis, and then that hypothesis is verifiable and testable, and you determine whether the reality comports or conflicts with that particular hypothesis.

00:20:03.000 You see whether the null hypothesis would come up with the same result.

00:20:06.000 It's an actual process, just like journalism is a process.

00:20:09.000 Just like anything you do in life is a process, okay?

00:20:12.000 And that's why we judge people based on their actions, typically, and not based on their title.

00:20:16.000 Your title is not supposed to be a shield, it is not supposed to be a spear, it is supposed to be a description.

00:20:21.000 And yet, Anthony Fauci is now using his title as a sort of shield against his own incompetence.

00:20:27.000 See, Anthony Fauci has been a terrible public servant.

00:20:29.000 He has conflicted with himself, Over and over and over again.

00:20:33.000 He has lied to the American public and then bragged about lying to the American public, whether it is on masking or whether it is on vaccinations and their efficacy.

00:20:41.000 He has changed his standards with regard to the signs over and over and over again.

00:20:46.000 His emails show that he was warned of the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak very early on.

00:20:50.000 He not only ignored it, he actively downplayed it.

00:20:53.000 He was emailing people talking about the inefficacy of masks, and then he shifted his mind, not based on shifting science, which he never really explained.

00:20:59.000 He always says, oh, the science shifted.

00:21:00.000 Did it, though?

00:21:01.000 Show me the evidence that the science shifted.

00:21:03.000 Like, what actually shifted?

00:21:04.000 You can say he got it wrong.

00:21:06.000 That's okay.

00:21:07.000 But don't give me the science shifted when there's not real evidence that the science shifted.

00:21:11.000 In any case, Dr. Fauci has really, he has drunk from the well, he's now drunk off the well, I would say, of the titling and credentialism that has taken over our society.

00:21:24.000 And you, the commenter, you're supposed to just ignore your own common sense and basic judgment and your ability to interpret fact in favor of the experts.

00:21:31.000 The experts are supposed to tell you what to do.

00:21:33.000 And Dr. Anthony Fauci is an expert, and so he is insulted if you ask questions about him.

00:21:37.000 He is insulted if you ask him basic questions like, why did you change your mind on every major topic over the course of the last year, from school reopenings to masking to vaccinations?

00:21:45.000 Why?

00:21:46.000 Here is Dr. Anthony Fauci pulling the full... It's rare you get the full Emperor Palpatine, right?

00:21:51.000 It's pretty rare, seriously.

00:21:52.000 Like in public life where you get the, I am the Senate!

00:21:56.000 It's pretty rare, but here you fully get the Emperor Palpatine, right?

00:21:59.000 You get, Anthony Fauci, I am the science!

00:22:02.000 Okay, here we go.

00:22:04.000 Declaring himself science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors outside of Dr. Joe Biden.

00:22:09.000 A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.

00:22:15.000 Because all of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science.

00:22:24.000 Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people.

00:22:28.000 And there was pushback against me.

00:22:30.000 So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science.

00:22:43.000 Um, nope.

00:22:46.000 Nope.

00:22:47.000 Uh, guys, don't attack me.

00:22:49.000 I am the science.

00:22:52.000 It's what? 0.51

00:22:54.000 Okay, the utter dishonesty, the utter arrogance, tremendous arrogance of the supposed public servants declaring himself the science is insane.

00:23:02.000 You can name off the top of your head half a dozen instances where he just lied, and admitted to lying, and where he was not representing the science.

00:23:09.000 Again, if he didn't show his work, you didn't have to trust what he was saying.

00:23:12.000 It's that simple.

00:23:13.000 Science is supposed to be the most transparent of all fields.

00:23:16.000 You're supposed to be able to understand, if you dedicate enough time to an argument, why people are making the arguments they're making.

00:23:22.000 But Dr. Anthony Fauci literally, I mean, he's literally saying it.

00:23:25.000 If you criticize him, you're criticizing science.

00:23:27.000 And this is the mentality of people who believe they should run your life.

00:23:31.000 This is the mentality of people who believe they should run every aspect of your life.

00:23:34.000 They know better than you.

00:23:35.000 You should trust them.

00:23:36.000 They're the experts.

00:23:38.000 In just one second, we'll talk a little bit more about this because it really is indicative of how perverse this authoritarian view of the world is.

00:23:45.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:24:52.000 Okay, so again, I cannot express how perverse it is that Dr. Anthony Fauci is now conflating himself, his own title, with the science.

00:25:00.000 It's insane.

00:25:02.000 It's insane!

00:25:03.000 And it is perversely authoritarian when somebody says, you cannot criticize me because you are then criticizing my title, and my title is the science.

00:25:13.000 Who made him king?

00:25:14.000 Seriously, who died and made Anthony Fauci king of science?

00:25:17.000 I don't understand how this works.

00:25:19.000 He could not even answer basic questions about why he was masking after being vaccinated.

00:25:24.000 He couldn't answer those questions.

00:25:25.000 He could not answer basic questions about whether the United States had passed through funding via EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan lab, which was performing gain-of-function research.

00:25:34.000 He switched his opinion, by the way, on the lab leak theory as to whether it was important to check out or not.

00:25:39.000 He lied openly and then bragged about it with regard to masking, and yet he is the science.

00:25:44.000 These people do not deserve one iota of your trust.

00:25:47.000 Not one.

00:25:48.000 They need to prove it to you.

00:25:49.000 Trust is earned.

00:25:51.000 Trust does not come along with the title.

00:25:52.000 Okay, the title just means you spent time in school.

00:25:55.000 Well, congratu-freaking-lations.

00:25:57.000 That does not mean that you are going to be transparent or honest.

00:26:02.000 And we're willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

00:26:04.000 I gave Anthony Fauci the benefit of the doubt for months.

00:26:06.000 And then I didn't anymore because he had not earned it.

00:26:09.000 He had lost the benefit of the doubt.

00:26:11.000 But the media, again, you're experts.

00:26:14.000 The people you're supposed to trust, because here's the thing.

00:26:17.000 When you live in a complex society with a lot of interlocking parts, there has to be a certain level of baseline trust in other people in order for you to function in your daily life, right?

00:26:23.000 You've got to get your car fixed.

00:26:24.000 That means you've got to trust your mechanic.

00:26:26.000 You've got to go to the grocery store.

00:26:27.000 You didn't pick that food yourself.

00:26:28.000 You've got to trust the people who brought the food to the store.

00:26:28.000 You've got to trust the farmers.

00:26:30.000 You have to trust the people who are charging you for the food, that they didn't poison it.

00:26:34.000 There's all sorts of people you've got to trust in the chain.

00:26:36.000 But the reason that you end up trusting people in a market system is because of repeatability.

00:26:40.000 Okay, the reason that markets tend to generate, seriously, property rights and markets tend to generate higher levels of trust in society.

00:26:47.000 Why?

00:26:48.000 Because you have repeat transactions with people over and over.

00:26:51.000 The reason you can trust the grocery store is because all your friends went there and they didn't die.

00:26:54.000 And you can go there over and over and over again.

00:26:56.000 Okay, well, all of us went to the Dr. Fauci store for a year, and it turns out that he was not being honest.

00:27:03.000 And now he's declaring that based on his title, we are supposed to trust him.

00:27:06.000 Not based on the repeatability of the trust relationship.

00:27:11.000 Okay, the same thing is true with regard to the journalism experts among us.

00:27:14.000 They declare themselves the experts because they went to NYU School of Journalism.

00:27:17.000 Ooh, ah!

00:27:18.000 Or because they work at CNN, the most trusted name in news.

00:27:21.000 According to whom?

00:27:23.000 And then they say, well, you know what?

00:27:24.000 If you don't trust us, it's because you deny the power of journalism.

00:27:27.000 If Donald Trump declared you guys the fake news because it turns out that half the time what you guys do is just express your own opinion and push narratives that are false, well, then he must be conflicting with journalism as an institution, with the free press as an institution.

00:27:40.000 This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how human action works.

00:27:43.000 You ought to be trusted when you are trustworthy, and you earn trust with repeated acts of honesty.

00:27:49.000 You do not gain trust by dint of being an expert.

00:27:52.000 There's been a great mix-up in our society that if you have a semi-high IQ, you ought to be trusted because you know things or because you are smart.

00:27:59.000 I don't trust you guys to run a popsicle stand.

00:28:02.000 I don't care what your IQ is. 1.00

00:28:04.000 If you can't prove to me you can run a popsicle stand, you don't deserve to run the damn popsicle stand. 0.99

00:28:08.000 But all of democratic governance is rooted in this idea that because these people are smarter and wiser than you on a personal level, they know your business better than you. 0.98

00:28:16.000 This is true in everything from economics to science.

00:28:19.000 You should trust Anthony Fauci, even if he's lying to you because he knows what's best for you.

00:28:23.000 And therefore, he can tell you platonic lies. 1.00

00:28:26.000 You should trust Joe Biden with your money, even though he's a dundering old fool. 1.00

00:28:29.000 You should trust Joe Biden with your money. 1.00

00:28:31.000 Well, because he's probably smarter than you.

00:28:31.000 Why?

00:28:32.000 I mean, after all, he was elected president of the United States.

00:28:36.000 He's an expert.

00:28:38.000 Stop trusting people who declare themselves experts.

00:28:40.000 They don't know more about your own life than you do.

00:28:43.000 They don't.

00:28:45.000 Which is why you should be assessing risk in your own life.

00:28:47.000 And you should be assessing who is trustworthy in these fields.

00:28:50.000 You have a brain.

00:28:52.000 Use it.

00:28:53.000 I'm not suggesting that you don't trust people who have earned your trust.

00:28:56.000 I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't give people the benefit of the doubt who originally have the titles because they do know more than you with regard to science.

00:29:02.000 But once they have proved over and over again they're not trustworthy, they don't get to call on their title to support the lies that they tell you.

00:29:10.000 It really is quite gross.

00:29:11.000 By the way, Dr. Anthony Fauci, at the same time he's telling you that attacking him is attacking the science, he continues to downplay the Chinese lab leak theory.

00:29:17.000 Like today, he continues to do it.

00:29:19.000 Why would the Chinese want to make a virus that equally kills them as kills other people? 1.00

00:29:26.000 So that's the reason why when you talk about that's really way out there and like off the wall, you know, off the chart.

00:29:34.000 The other one is, were they there working with something in which they made somehow manipulating the virus and then it leaked out?

00:29:44.000 Certainly that's a possibility.

00:29:45.000 Nothing that we've seen Okay, nothing that we've seen support except for, you know, some of the actual science and the fact that there are only three sites on earth where they manipulate bat coronaviruses and one of them is in Wuhan.

00:29:56.000 So yeah, there are a few indicators there, but I love how he's setting up this straw man that the Chinese purposely weaponized the virus then released it. 0.90

00:30:02.000 That's not an argument to be made by virtually anybody with any sort of credibility.

00:30:07.000 Okay, but again, once people declare themselves experts on things, you're supposed to listen to them even if what they are spewing is absolute horse manure. 0.99

00:30:14.000 Even if what they are spewing is the flatulence that comes from the asses of cows, you're supposed to believe them. 0.98

00:30:18.000 So long as it is given the imprimatur of science. 0.98

00:30:22.000 They use the titles as a cudgel.

00:30:24.000 That is what they do.

00:30:26.000 This is why, for example, you have an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association titled, On Having Whiteness, by Donald Moss.

00:30:35.000 Now, you may be asking yourself, what the hell does this have to do with psychoanalysis?

00:30:39.000 Well, let Donald Moss tell you.

00:30:41.000 Okay, here's the abstract.

00:30:42.000 Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has. 0.97

00:30:45.000 A malignant, parasitic-like condition to which white people have a particular susceptibility. 0.89

00:30:51.000 The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one's body, in one's mind, and in one's world. 0.97

00:30:56.000 Parasitic whiteness renders its host's appetites voracious, insatiable, perverse. 0.89

00:31:01.000 These deformed appetites particularly target non-white people. 0.97

00:31:04.000 Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.

00:31:07.000 Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social historical interventions.

00:31:11.000 Such interventions can reasonably only aim to reshape whiteness's infiltrated appetites, to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. 0.98

00:31:21.000 When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning, never again, or as temptation, great again.

00:31:31.000 It's the Holocaust versus Donald Trump.

00:31:32.000 Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression.

00:31:37.000 There is not yet a permanent cure.

00:31:38.000 This is in a journal of supposed psychoanalysis.

00:31:42.000 Okay, again, this is expertise in a title being wielded as a club.

00:31:48.000 Understand that's just outright racism.

00:31:49.000 Okay, this is just outright racism. 0.85

00:31:51.000 That if you are white, you suffer from a condition known as whiteness. 0.95

00:31:54.000 It is a parasitic condition that destroys your ability to act morally or decently and makes you likely to engage in a new Holocaust. 0.95

00:32:01.000 Okay, this is in the Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association.

00:32:06.000 Why would you possibly take that institution seriously ever again?

00:32:09.000 The same thing is true with regards to things like the American Medical Association.

00:32:12.000 That's supposed to be a trustworthy body speaking about medicine, and yet they have said, in their journals, things like, you know, maybe we shouldn't put sex on birth certificates anymore, or we should put it below the top line.

00:32:23.000 Because after all, men who declare themselves women are women. 0.85

00:32:26.000 That is the most anti-scientific nonsense ever, but if you put it in the AMA journal, well then it must be true. 1.00

00:32:31.000 You have Scientific American pushing this nonsense, and Science, the magazine, pushing this nonsense.

00:32:36.000 And then in the name of science, you have people who are going to directly target your life in the name of the expertise.

00:32:41.000 Remember, this is not rare, okay?

00:32:43.000 This is common.

00:32:44.000 Once people declare themselves experts with power, they're willing to use that power for just about anything.

00:32:48.000 In the early 20th century, Euthanasia and eugenics were big topics of discussion among the intelligentsia because it wasn't going to apply to them.

00:32:56.000 They were the intelligentsia, the experts.

00:32:59.000 Eugenics, which was a very popular table talk topic for the vast majority of intelligent progressives in the early 20th century internationally.

00:33:07.000 I mean, you have Oliver Wendell Holmes literally writing Supreme Court decisions. 0.98

00:33:11.000 In which he says that we should be sterilizing people who have Down syndrome because, quote-unquote, three generations of imbeciles is enough. 0.99

00:33:19.000 That is in a direct Supreme Court decision. 1.00

00:33:21.000 Buck versus Bell.

00:33:24.000 That mentality that the experts ought to run things and they know what's best for you, up to and including whether you should be able to reproduce, how you should raise your children.

00:33:31.000 That mentality is not only alive and well, it is thriving.

00:33:35.000 It is thriving.

00:33:36.000 They shut down every business in America based on people with doctor in front of their name telling you stuff that was not scientific.

00:33:43.000 They told you over and over in the media, because again, these are your expert journalists.

00:33:48.000 They told you in the media that you were at serious risk of dying if you were 20 years old and you got COVID and it wasn't true.

00:33:54.000 It was a lie.

00:33:55.000 The statistics on death by COVID for people who are 20 years old were very, very, very low.

00:34:00.000 And for people under the 18, basically non-existent.

00:34:03.000 To date, 277 people under the age of 18 have died in the United States of COVID.

00:34:10.000 277 in a country of 330 million people.

00:34:13.000 And now we are told by the experts that if you are two to five years old, we should be working on getting you the vaccine.

00:34:18.000 You have to have the vaccine for two to five years old.

00:34:18.000 It's high priority.

00:34:20.000 Maybe you shouldn't, maybe you shouldn't.

00:34:22.000 But you know what I'd like?

00:34:22.000 A great scientific argument.

00:34:23.000 That's what I would like.

00:34:25.000 I haven't heard one yet.

00:34:26.000 Anytime.

00:34:27.000 Like, seriously, bring it.

00:34:28.000 I'm ready to hear it.

00:34:29.000 I'm super pro-vaccination.

00:34:31.000 But I want to know where you are getting your info.

00:34:34.000 I want to know why are you making the arguments you are making.

00:34:37.000 The history of people declaring themselves experts and then controlling people top-down.

00:34:41.000 It's funny, the same secular authorities who do it now, they are just a woke priesthood.

00:34:45.000 They are a secular priesthood.

00:34:47.000 They started off as just an atheistic secular priesthood in the early 20th century, and now it's a secular woke priesthood, which is even worse, because now it's like a pagan priesthood.

00:34:55.000 At least they used to pretend that they were speaking in the name of science.

00:34:57.000 Now they've merged science with wokeness, such that you get articles that are blatant racism in the middle of scientific journals.

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00:36:29.000 We're gonna get to science being used as a cudgel against parents.

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00:37:14.000 And so when people say that the experts should run your life, they're the experts after all.

00:37:24.000 One thing you should note here is that they will run your life.

00:37:27.000 I mean, they will come after everything you hold dear, including your kids.

00:37:31.000 There's a great piece by Abigail Schreier in City Journal today, which is the Journal of the Manhattan Institute, about the rules in the city of Seattle.

00:37:39.000 She writes a story about this guy named Ahmed, a Pakistani immigrant, faithful Muslim, until recently a financial consultant to Seattle's high-tech sector.

00:37:46.000 Apparently, he, in October 2020, he and his wife had checked their 16-year-old son into Seattle's Children's Hospital for credible threats of suicide.

00:37:53.000 And now, Ahmed was worried that the white coats who had gently admitted his son to their care would refuse to return him.

00:37:58.000 They sent an email to us, you know, you should take your daughter to the gender clinic. 0.99

00:38:03.000 So apparently, his kid was 16, had autism, got depressed, was suicidal, so they checked him in.

00:38:09.000 Okay, the lockdowns hit, and this meant that he couldn't visit his son.

00:38:12.000 So the whitecoats started talking to this 16-year-old autistic kid, and the 16-year-old autistic kid declared, a suicidal autistic kid declared, that he was gender dysphoric. 0.50

00:38:22.000 The experts refused to release the kid to the parents, unless the parents lied and said they were going to take him to the gender clinic.

00:38:29.000 Hey, this is what happens when you let the experts run things.

00:38:32.000 They don't know what they purport to know, but they don't know what they don't know. 0.97

00:38:37.000 And so they continue to promote stuff that is not science, that is just garbage. 0.87

00:38:42.000 Apparently, Ahmed assured Seattle's Children's Hospital he would take his son to a gender clinic and commence his son's transition from male to female. 0.97

00:38:48.000 Instead, he took his son home, quit his job, and moved his family of four out of Washington.

00:38:53.000 A year later, it turns out that his son is not gender dysphoric.

00:38:57.000 It was just the state coming after his kid.

00:38:59.000 By the way, in the state of Washington, kids can start receiving gender dysphoric treatment at the age of 13 without parental consent.

00:39:07.000 Because the experts say so.

00:39:09.000 The experts.

00:39:09.000 Based on nothing.

00:39:10.000 Based on nothing. 1.00

00:39:12.000 Why would you let these morons run your life? 1.00

00:39:14.000 Why would you let them make all the rules? 1.00

00:39:15.000 It's dangerous to let them make all the rules. 1.00

00:39:19.000 And what's amazing about this is their stupidity is on display for all to see all the time. 1.00

00:39:24.000 Kamala Harris is probably going to end up as the successor to Joe Biden. 1.00

00:39:27.000 If Joe Biden makes it through his first term, she's going to run in 2024. 1.00

00:39:31.000 If he doesn't make it through his first term, she'll be president of the United States.

00:39:34.000 And she is terrible at this. 1.00

00:39:36.000 She's an idiot. 1.00

00:39:37.000 Kamala Harris does not know things. 1.00

00:39:38.000 She doesn't care about things.

00:39:39.000 Somehow she's been elevated to a position of public power where we're supposed to believe that she knows how to run things. 1.00

00:39:45.000 And so you'll remember just a couple of days ago, she was asked about going down to the border and she started cackling like a hyena for no reason at all.

00:39:51.000 Well, now it turns out even the CNN is even the White House is disappointed in Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:39:56.000 Here is CNN explaining.

00:39:59.000 Vice President Kamala Harris, back in the United States this morning after a trip to Guatemala and Mexico, her first foreign trip as vice president.

00:40:06.000 This morning, we're told that some of what she said on the trip, her answers to questions, maybe even obvious questions, those answers have White House insiders perplexed.

00:40:17.000 I mean, truly, it is an amazing, amazing thing. 1.00

00:40:20.000 But that moron is going to run everything. 1.00

00:40:23.000 Right, this is what people want. 1.00

00:40:24.000 Apparently, people want these morons to run their... I do not understand for the life of me how you can watch Dr. Anthony Fauci's performance over the last year, or Andrew Cuomo's performance over the last year, or Phil Murphy's performance over the last year, or Gavin Newsom's performance over the last year, and say to yourself, I need these people to have more power over my life. 0.99

00:40:39.000 I don't know how you watch the members of the media lie to you consistently and say, I definitely am gonna... I know, I know that what they're saying about my industry is untrue, because I know my industry, but probably if I switch three pages over, they probably know more about that industry.

00:40:51.000 Or maybe they don't.

00:40:53.000 Or maybe they don't.

00:40:54.000 Okay, again, they're showing you every day who they are. 0.86

00:40:59.000 They're showing you every day how incompetent they are.

00:41:01.000 That they are not experts in anything.

00:41:03.000 They can't even operate like basic systems.

00:41:06.000 Evidence more today.

00:41:07.000 Okay, the prices have now jumped 5% in May.

00:41:10.000 Okay, remember that time when we were told that inflation would not kick in, even if you just inject trillions of dollars into the economy, and meanwhile encourage people not to stay home?

00:41:18.000 Remember that time?

00:41:20.000 Well, now it turns out that when you have more dollars chasing less product, you end up with inflation.

00:41:25.000 According to Rachel Siegel over at the Washington Post, prices were up by 5% in May compared with a year ago.

00:41:30.000 The largest increase since the Great Recession, continuing a steady climb in inflation even as policymakers insist on staying the course.

00:41:36.000 Data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed prices rose 0.6% in the past month alone.

00:41:42.000 Policymakers have predicted prices will rise over the coming months, especially compared to a year ago when the economy was still reeling from the pandemic shutdowns.

00:41:49.000 Now, here is the problem.

00:41:50.000 Inflation will continue if you continue to depress the labor market by telling people not to work.

00:41:56.000 Now, it's possible that inflation levels off, but you're still sucking so much money out of the economy that people don't have money to invest. 0.98

00:42:03.000 That you are redistributing from people who know how to invest and how to create products to a bunch of morons at the top of government. 0.96

00:42:09.000 The same morons who are declaring that inflation is no problem for you as they devalue your savings. 1.00

00:42:13.000 These are the same idiots who are going to be running the economy a year from now. 1.00

00:42:19.000 Why would you trust him? 1.00

00:42:20.000 I don't understand.

00:42:22.000 Joe Biden, you trust this guy to run the world?

00:42:24.000 Seriously?

00:42:25.000 It's amazing.

00:42:26.000 All the same people on the left are like, Donald Trump has too much power.

00:42:28.000 He's an authoritarian. 1.00

00:42:29.000 Why would you trust this bumbling idiot to run the world? 1.00

00:42:32.000 Okay, I can ask the same question about Joe Biden, because he is a bumbling moron. 1.00

00:42:36.000 And here is my question. 1.00

00:42:37.000 Why would you want any of these people to run the world? 0.88

00:42:39.000 Any of them?

00:42:40.000 What if we don't give them power?

00:42:42.000 How's that?

00:42:42.000 How about that?

00:42:43.000 How about we go back to a system where the president doesn't have unending power, where the executive branch doesn't run every aspect of your life, and then you don't have to care.

00:42:51.000 Then you don't have to care.

00:42:52.000 You know why people don't care about the local dog catchers race? 1.00

00:42:55.000 Because unless you need a dog caught, you don't actually care.

00:42:58.000 It doesn't affect your life.

00:43:00.000 But you want to give more power to the president because you think that he is going to weaponize on behalf of your point of view.

00:43:05.000 Instead, he's just going to accrue power in the institution, and then somebody you don't like will take over, and then we'll just have a fight about that.

00:43:13.000 But it's amazing.

00:43:13.000 We're supposed to trust Joe Biden.

00:43:15.000 And the media, again, your journalism experts, they want you to trust Joe Biden.

00:43:19.000 Article in the Washington Post today, Joe Biden is overseas.

00:43:22.000 He's over in England.

00:43:24.000 And now, says the Washington Post, he is such an expert.

00:43:26.000 I mean, my goodness.

00:43:27.000 He's so good at this.

00:43:30.000 I love this.

00:43:31.000 Here's how they describe Joe Biden.

00:43:32.000 Not since George H.W.

00:43:33.000 Bush has a president taking office with such long experience in foreign affairs, Biden came to the Senate in 1973, chaired the Foreign Relations Committee, acted as point man on various global issues when he was Barack Obama's vice president.

00:43:44.000 At every stop in the coming week, from scenic Carbis Bay in Britain's coastal Cornwall district to Brussels in Geneva, Biden will seek to leverage his personal familiarity with fellow leaders in an effort to reestablish American engagement abroad.

00:43:55.000 Jen Psaki said he's been getting ready for 50 years.

00:43:57.000 Yes, but he's been wrong for 50 years.

00:43:58.000 He hasn't been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career.

00:44:03.000 Also, he is addled.

00:44:05.000 Yesterday, here was Joe Biden explaining that he keeps forgetting that he is president.

00:44:10.000 Yes, we know, sir.

00:44:11.000 We're aware.

00:44:12.000 And Sidney, you're 14 years old.

00:44:18.000 When I was 14, if you please, at ease.

00:44:24.000 I keep forgetting I'm president.

00:44:26.000 Yeah, we know.

00:44:27.000 We know, sir.

00:44:28.000 Jill had to tell Joe to pay attention in the middle of his speech.

00:44:32.000 You know, you can sit down.

00:44:33.000 I don't want you to stand for.

00:44:49.000 Joe, pay attention.

00:44:50.000 Oh, my God.

00:44:51.000 Oh, my God.

00:44:52.000 Oh my God, by the way, Joe Biden, we're now just rerunning the Woodrow Wilson administration.

00:44:57.000 Edith is running the show, apparently.

00:44:59.000 Because Joe Biden literally tweeted out yesterday a picture of herself sitting, I guess this is in Joe Biden's office on Air Force One, sitting and reading a briefing book, prepping for the G7.

00:45:10.000 Who elected Jill Biden? 0.70

00:45:13.000 Who?

00:45:14.000 I don't understand.

00:45:15.000 If Laura Bush had done this, people would be like, what the F?

00:45:18.000 She's a librarian, why is she, what? 0.99

00:45:20.000 Huh?

00:45:21.000 If Melania had done this, people have been like, wait a second, she was a model. 0.99

00:45:24.000 Like what are you, huh?

00:45:26.000 Why?

00:45:26.000 No one elected Jill Biden, but apparently Jill Biden is president of the United States now.

00:45:32.000 Sitting there prepping for the G, what is her job at the G7?

00:45:35.000 Seriously, is she making economic policy now? 0.92

00:45:37.000 This genius community college professor?

00:45:40.000 Who wrote apparently the world's greatest dissertation?

00:45:43.000 Dr. Jill Biden, the greatest, these are the experts.

00:45:46.000 She has the title, she's a doctor, she should run the G7, clearly. 0.99

00:45:50.000 We didn't elect her.

00:45:51.000 She has no background in any of this stuff, but you know what?

00:45:54.000 It's all good.

00:45:55.000 Probably she'll be good.

00:45:56.000 She has a doctorate in front of her name, after all.

00:45:57.000 I mean, that's the thing that really, really matters.

00:46:00.000 Meanwhile, Adel Joe is out there telling the military that the greatest threat the military is going to face is global warming.

00:46:07.000 The greatest threat.

00:46:08.000 What are they gonna do?

00:46:10.000 Shoot the sun?

00:46:11.000 What are you talking about?

00:46:13.000 Here is Joe Biden informing the military that their great job is going to be standing there When I first was elected Vice President with President Obama, the military sat us down to let us know what the greatest threats facing America were, the greatest physical threats.

00:46:39.000 This is not a joke.

00:46:41.000 You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was?

00:46:46.000 Global warming.

00:46:48.000 Because there'll be significant population movements.

00:46:52.000 Okay, that's just- Fights over land.

00:46:53.000 Millions of people leaving places because they're literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia. 1.00

00:46:59.000 Okay, this nonsense is just garbage. 0.94

00:47:01.000 Okay, the idea that you're going to have millions of people who are, in short order, going to be shifting population centers. 0.99

00:47:06.000 People have been migrating for literally all of human history.

00:47:09.000 As the water levels gradually rise, presumably people will migrate away from places that will be underwater.

00:47:14.000 But it's not going to be day after tomorrow.

00:47:15.000 And it's not going to be the U.S.

00:47:16.000 military that's in charge of handling this.

00:47:18.000 This is just insanity.

00:47:21.000 When somebody declares they're an expert like Joe Biden, well, the Joint Chiefs said global warming is the big issue.

00:47:25.000 Why?

00:47:26.000 These people should not control your life.

00:47:28.000 You should control your life.

00:47:29.000 The purpose of democracy is that you control what happens.

00:47:31.000 And granting these people more power is a betrayal of the basic notion of Republican self-governance.

00:47:37.000 Self-governance.

00:47:39.000 You govern yourself.

00:47:41.000 Not the experts.

00:47:42.000 Not Dr. Fauci.

00:47:43.000 He was not elected.

00:47:44.000 He is not the king.

00:47:45.000 Not your journalism-ing masters, who are not elected.

00:47:49.000 You don't have to watch them, and you don't have to pay attention to them, and you are certainly allowed to second-guess them.

00:47:53.000 And not Joe Biden and not any other politician, even if you elected him.

00:47:57.000 He was not elected to run your life.

00:47:59.000 He was elected to protect your individual rights.

00:48:01.000 That is the purpose of the Constitution of the United States.

00:48:04.000 And if the American people don't understand that, then we definitely have lost the Republic a long time ago, as it turns out.

00:48:09.000 Alrighty, a little bit later today, we'll be back for an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show coming up soon.

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Your Experts Are Self-Serving Idiots | Ep. 1273

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