Another day, another media narrative that has completely imploded about President Trump. This time, it's about a photo op in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. on June 1st, 2020, and how it was covered by the media and other liberal media outlets as if Donald Trump was a Russian cat's paw. Ben Shapiro points out that this is exactly the opposite of what the media reported at the time, and that it was actually a peaceful protest by peaceful protesters in order to get a photo with President Trump in front of a burnt-out church. Ben also points out the fact that a fact checker found that the whole thing was a complete FAKE story, not a true one. Your data is your business, and your business is protected at ExpressVPN. If you like what you're getting, you can get 50% off your first month with discount code "VPN" and start saving yourself hundreds of bucks! When you do, you get unlimited, unlimited talk, unlimited text, and 6GB of data for $30 a month. You can even keep your phone and your number but you have nothing to lose! by becoming a patron of the service. You get the same great coverage as one of the big carriers, but you will save a fortune in fees and get a better deal on your phone service! Ben Shapiro and you will be saving hundreds of dollars in the process! - and you'll be saving yourself a lot more than you're paying way too much for your phone bill! Get your very first month's worth of phone service by calling in and getting 50% discount when you use the discount code: Dial PUNDPOT 250. . - Ben Shapiro's Freebie of the week! Connect with Ben Shapiro: bit.ly/BenShapiroShoesShoes and get $50 off the first month of the month! and get 20% off the entire month for a chance to become a member of the VIP VIP membership! to save $150. of The Ben Shapiro Show. Thanks Ben Shapiro is giving you an ad-free version of the Ben Shapiro Podcast! And he'll be giving you access to all the best listening to the show and access to his newest book, Ben Shapiro s new book, "Ben Shapiro's Unfiltered version of his new book "Unleash Yours Truly, Uncut and Uncut & Uncut. and more!
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00:02:00.000The latest is the media completely blew it on one of the biggest talking points the Democrats used in 2020.
00:02:04.000That 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.
00:02:18.000Okay, 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.
00:02:27.000That didn't stop folks from tweeting out about the evils of President Trump clearing the park.
00:02:32.000So we have like a bunch of tweets from all these people who push this false narrative.
00:02:36.000For example, NPR Politics tweeted out that day, this is June 1st, 2020, police in Washington, D.C.
00:02:42.000used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear them away from St.
00:02:45.000John's Church, which suffered a small fire Sunday night near the White House.
00:02:48.000President Trump then walked to the church for a photo op.
00:02:51.000This was the way the media covered it.
00:02:53.000Joe 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.
00:03:00.000He tear-gassed peaceful protesters and fired rubber bullets for a photo.
00:03:04.000For our children, for the very soul of our country.
00:03:07.000We must defeat him, but I mean it when I say this, we can only do it together.
00:03:14.000Kamala Harris, your current vice president, then candidate.
00:03:17.000She said, Donald Trump just tear-gassed peaceful protesters for a photo op.
00:03:20.000She 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.
00:03:30.000Daniel Dale, the official CNN fact checker.
00:03:45.000Well, 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.
00:03:58.000No, they cleared peaceful protesters out of the way for a Trump photo op.
00:04:01.000The narrative that Van Der Veen is mocking is correct.
00:04:04.000That was being made about what happened.
00:04:06.000So Daniel Dale, the official CNN fact checker, getting it completely wrong, because here is the actual story.
00:04:11.000There was an inspector general, the inspector general for the Interior Department, and here is what they found, according to the Washington Post.
00:04:18.000Park 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.
00:04:33.000Not to facilitate the visit minutes later by President Trump to a nearby church, an Inspector General's report released Wednesday concluded.
00:04:42.000police officers fired tear gas at protesters as they moved away from the park toward 17th Street.
00:04:47.000The 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.
00:04:55.000Investigators also found that the audio warnings issued by the park police before the operation were not widely heard by the crowd and mostly ineffective.
00:05:01.000The 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.
00:05:10.000Interior 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.
00:05:20.000The investigators did not interview Secret Service or White House personnel.
00:05:24.000The report found that preparations to clear the protesters and erect a fence began two days before the park clearing.
00:05:31.000But the idea may have gained greater urgency on the morning of June 1st.
00:05:35.000The 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.
00:05:42.000The 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.
00:05:49.000John's Church, which had been vandalized the previous night.
00:05:51.000By midday, Trump was working with close confidence on a plan to project his control over the city by walking across Lafayette Square.
00:05:58.000But this had nothing to do with what the Park Police were doing.
00:06:01.000The Park Police had been planning for days to already clear Lafayette Square.
00:06:05.000Park 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.
00:06:15.000Both 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.
00:06:29.000Monaghan told investigators, quote, I can tell you with 100% certainty, the Secret Service and the Park Police timeline did not change the entire day.
00:06:39.000So 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.
00:06:49.000Instead, Park Police cleared it because they'd been planning to for days.
00:06:53.000And 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.
00:07:00.000There were a bunch of officers who had... There were 49 officer injuries.
00:07:04.000Around 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.
00:07:16.000But wait, we were told these were peaceful protesters, just people who were out there chanting for justice.
00:07:20.000And they were cleared because Donald Trump, evil Donald Trump, wanted to walk out and hold up a Bible at St.
00:07:27.000Nobody could explain how these peaceful protesters had burned a church five minutes beforehand.
00:07:31.000But the entire narrative was never very good.
00:07:33.000And then the media just played it to the hilt.
00:07:35.000This was part of campaign commercials for the Democrats.
00:07:37.000This was Joe Biden talking about it openly on the campaign trail.
00:07:40.000It was Kamala Harris lying about it on the campaign trail.
00:07:43.000And again, the media just ran with this thing.
00:07:46.000They ran with it because it was beneficial to their narrative, which is that Donald Trump was a fascist.
00:07:50.000The 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.
00:08:03.000That would have been a worse narrative.
00:08:05.000So instead, it was Donald Trump, evil Nazi fascist, clearing the park of peaceful flower power children.
00:08:15.000And when Meet the Press acknowledged that yesterday, it was very, very awkward.
00:08:19.000Here 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.
00:08:28.000It doesn't second-guess the decision to clear the protesters.
00:08:31.000It says that the Park Police was within their rights.
00:08:35.000Black Lives Matter is suing the Justice Department and federal court over this.
00:08:38.000And 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.
00:08:48.000That was his direct, bird's-eye reporting, Chuck.
00:08:51.000So, this remains an issue of controversy, but the narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.
00:08:56.000The narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.
00:08:58.000Man, doesn't that sum up the entire mainstream media for the past 30 years or so?
00:09:02.000The narrative we thought we knew is not reality.
00:09:05.000Why did you think you knew that narrative?
00:09:08.000I 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.
00:09:15.000That 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.
00:09:41.000The narratives that backed the Biden administration are the ones they want to manufacture.
00:09:44.000Just like the narratives that undercut the Trump administration, those were the narratives that they wanted to push as hard as they possibly could.
00:09:51.000Everything from Trump backs white supremacists to Trump is a Russian cat's paw.
00:10:00.000They've continued to promote those narratives over and over and over again.
00:10:03.000Down 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.
00:10:15.000You 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.
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00:11:40.000Alrighty, so, again, big narrative of last year.
00:11:43.000Donald Trump cleared the park of peaceful protesters because he's a fascist.
00:11:47.000This was, by the way, exhibit A. This was one A in the Trump is a fascist.
00:11:51.000Case that the left was putting out there.
00:11:53.000He'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.
00:12:36.000Hydroxychloroquine doesn't do anything.
00:12:39.000Not only that, but because Donald Trump keeps saying hydroxychloroquine, some crazy lady in Arizona fed her husband fish tank cleaner and he died.
00:12:46.000Now, it turns out they may have been murdered, but it doesn't matter.
00:12:48.000The only reason they did that is because Trump kept saying hydroxychloroquine over and over and over.
00:12:59.000According 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.
00:13:08.000Where did the controversy begin, guys?
00:13:11.000It began with you guys declaring that if Trump said anything, it had to be false.
00:13:15.000If Trump said Wuhan lab leak, it had to be false and it was a conspiracy theory.
00:13:18.000If 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.
00:13:26.000Now, by the way, we all knew doctors were prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
00:13:30.000I 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.
00:13:38.000Well, now a new study is backing this.
00:13:41.000Okay, 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.
00:13:51.000The 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.
00:14:03.000Yes, nobody said it was going to do anything.
00:14:05.000Everyone knew that the only studies that mattered were going to be about hydroxychloroquine, which is an immunosuppressant, and zinc, okay, along with zinc, azithromycin.
00:14:15.000The 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.
00:14:28.000The 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.
00:14:41.000The 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.
00:15:00.000These data do not yet apply to hospitalized patients, not on IMB.
00:15:28.000Just the same way that the Wuhan lab leak, if you mention that, you get booted off YouTube.
00:15:32.000If you did not simply repeat the experts, you'd get booted.
00:15:37.000Don't trust people who declare themselves experts without showing you their work.
00:15:41.000If they don't show you their work, they are not true experts.
00:15:43.000If they can't tell you how they achieved a conclusion, you don't have to believe their conclusion.
00:15:48.000That is the trust but verify, but nobody adds but verify, as we'll see in just one moment.
00:15:53.000Because 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.
00:16:08.000Bureaucracies in the government had to run everybody's life.
00:16:11.000We needed experts at all the major universities who were going to run things top-down.
00:16:14.000It was going to be true in every institution.
00:16:31.000This 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.
00:16:39.000And the answer is, if we are performing acts of journalism, then we have acted as a journalist on that day.
00:16:44.000Certainly better than NBC did for a year on this particular story.
00:16:49.000You know, science... Most people tend to think of other people's jobs in terms of, like, titles.
00:16:55.000But the reality is that what makes you a doctor is acts of doctoring.
00:16:59.000And what makes you a scientist is acts of science.
00:17:01.000And what makes you a journalist is acts of journalism.
00:17:04.000And 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.
00:17:11.000If you are not, your title does not mean anything.
00:17:13.000So, if you declare yourself a journalist, but then you're Jim Acosta, you're not a journalist.
00:17:17.000Unless you're performing an act of journalism, you're not a journalist, you're just an opinion giver.
00:17:22.000If 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.
00:17:28.000But 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.
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00:18:55.000Okay, so meanwhile, you have, as I say, these people who have declared themselves the experts.
00:19:02.000And 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.
00:19:10.000If 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.
00:19:19.000If 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.
00:19:25.000And this is why it is so insulting to watch people conflate processes with job descriptions.
00:19:52.000It 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.
00:20:03.000You see whether the null hypothesis would come up with the same result.
00:20:06.000It's an actual process, just like journalism is a process.
00:20:09.000Just like anything you do in life is a process, okay?
00:20:12.000And that's why we judge people based on their actions, typically, and not based on their title.
00:20:16.000Your title is not supposed to be a shield, it is not supposed to be a spear, it is supposed to be a description.
00:20:21.000And yet, Anthony Fauci is now using his title as a sort of shield against his own incompetence.
00:20:27.000See, Anthony Fauci has been a terrible public servant.
00:20:29.000He has conflicted with himself, Over and over and over again.
00:20:33.000He 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.
00:20:41.000He has changed his standards with regard to the signs over and over and over again.
00:20:46.000His emails show that he was warned of the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak very early on.
00:20:50.000He not only ignored it, he actively downplayed it.
00:20:53.000He 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.
00:20:59.000He always says, oh, the science shifted.
00:21:07.000But don't give me the science shifted when there's not real evidence that the science shifted.
00:21:11.000In 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.
00:21:24.000And 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.
00:21:31.000The experts are supposed to tell you what to do.
00:21:33.000And Dr. Anthony Fauci is an expert, and so he is insulted if you ask questions about him.
00:21:37.000He 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?
00:22:30.000So 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.
00:22:54.000Okay, the utter dishonesty, the utter arrogance, tremendous arrogance of the supposed public servants declaring himself the science is insane.
00:23:02.000You 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.
00:23:09.000Again, if he didn't show his work, you didn't have to trust what he was saying.
00:23:38.000In 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.
00:23:45.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:23:46.000First, let's talk about the greatest Father's Day gift.
00:25:03.000And it is perversely authoritarian when somebody says, you cannot criticize me because you are then criticizing my title, and my title is the science.
00:25:25.000He 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.
00:25:34.000He switched his opinion, by the way, on the lab leak theory as to whether it was important to check out or not.
00:25:39.000He lied openly and then bragged about it with regard to masking, and yet he is the science.
00:25:44.000These people do not deserve one iota of your trust.
00:26:14.000The people you're supposed to trust, because here's the thing.
00:26:17.000When 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?
00:27:23.000And then they say, well, you know what?
00:27:24.000If you don't trust us, it's because you deny the power of journalism.
00:27:27.000If 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.
00:27:40.000This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how human action works.
00:27:43.000You ought to be trusted when you are trustworthy, and you earn trust with repeated acts of honesty.
00:27:49.000You do not gain trust by dint of being an expert.
00:27:52.000There'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.
00:27:59.000I don't trust you guys to run a popsicle stand.
00:28:04.000If you can't prove to me you can run a popsicle stand, you don't deserve to run the damn popsicle stand.
00:28:08.000But 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.
00:28:16.000This is true in everything from economics to science.
00:28:19.000You should trust Anthony Fauci, even if he's lying to you because he knows what's best for you.
00:28:23.000And therefore, he can tell you platonic lies.
00:28:26.000You should trust Joe Biden with your money, even though he's a dundering old fool.
00:28:29.000You should trust Joe Biden with your money.
00:28:31.000Well, because he's probably smarter than you.
00:28:53.000I'm not suggesting that you don't trust people who have earned your trust.
00:28:56.000I'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.
00:29:02.000But 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.
00:29:11.000By 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.
00:29:45.000Nothing 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.
00:29:56.000So 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.
00:30:02.000That's not an argument to be made by virtually anybody with any sort of credibility.
00:30:07.000Okay, 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.
00:30:14.000Even if what they are spewing is the flatulence that comes from the asses of cows, you're supposed to believe them.
00:30:18.000So long as it is given the imprimatur of science.
00:30:26.000This is why, for example, you have an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association titled, On Having Whiteness, by Donald Moss.
00:30:35.000Now, you may be asking yourself, what the hell does this have to do with psychoanalysis?
00:31:04.000Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.
00:31:07.000Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social historical interventions.
00:31:11.000Such 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.
00:31:21.000When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning, never again, or as temptation, great again.
00:31:31.000It's the Holocaust versus Donald Trump.
00:31:32.000Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression.
00:31:51.000That if you are white, you suffer from a condition known as whiteness.
00:31:54.000It is a parasitic condition that destroys your ability to act morally or decently and makes you likely to engage in a new Holocaust.
00:32:01.000Okay, this is in the Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association.
00:32:06.000Why would you possibly take that institution seriously ever again?
00:32:09.000The same thing is true with regards to things like the American Medical Association.
00:32:12.000That'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.
00:32:23.000Because after all, men who declare themselves women are women.
00:32:26.000That is the most anti-scientific nonsense ever, but if you put it in the AMA journal, well then it must be true.
00:32:31.000You have Scientific American pushing this nonsense, and Science, the magazine, pushing this nonsense.
00:32:36.000And then in the name of science, you have people who are going to directly target your life in the name of the expertise.
00:32:44.000Once people declare themselves experts with power, they're willing to use that power for just about anything.
00:32:48.000In the early 20th century, Euthanasia and eugenics were big topics of discussion among the intelligentsia because it wasn't going to apply to them.
00:32:56.000They were the intelligentsia, the experts.
00:32:59.000Eugenics, which was a very popular table talk topic for the vast majority of intelligent progressives in the early 20th century internationally.
00:33:07.000I mean, you have Oliver Wendell Holmes literally writing Supreme Court decisions.
00:33:11.000In which he says that we should be sterilizing people who have Down syndrome because, quote-unquote, three generations of imbeciles is enough.
00:33:19.000That is in a direct Supreme Court decision.
00:33:24.000That 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.
00:33:31.000That mentality is not only alive and well, it is thriving.
00:34:47.000They 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.
00:34:55.000At least they used to pretend that they were speaking in the name of science.
00:34:57.000Now they've merged science with wokeness, such that you get articles that are blatant racism in the middle of scientific journals.
00:35:04.000Hey, in just a second, I'm gonna tell you how they're gonna take, I mean, really, they're gonna use the expertise to come after your children.
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00:36:29.000We're gonna get to science being used as a cudgel against parents.
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00:37:14.000And so when people say that the experts should run your life, they're the experts after all.
00:37:24.000One thing you should note here is that they will run your life.
00:37:27.000I mean, they will come after everything you hold dear, including your kids.
00:37:31.000There'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.
00:37:39.000She writes a story about this guy named Ahmed, a Pakistani immigrant, faithful Muslim, until recently a financial consultant to Seattle's high-tech sector.
00:37:46.000Apparently, 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.
00:37:53.000And now, Ahmed was worried that the white coats who had gently admitted his son to their care would refuse to return him.
00:37:58.000They sent an email to us, you know, you should take your daughter to the gender clinic.
00:38:03.000So apparently, his kid was 16, had autism, got depressed, was suicidal, so they checked him in.
00:38:09.000Okay, the lockdowns hit, and this meant that he couldn't visit his son.
00:38:12.000So 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.
00:38:22.000The 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.
00:38:29.000Hey, this is what happens when you let the experts run things.
00:38:32.000They don't know what they purport to know, but they don't know what they don't know.
00:38:37.000And so they continue to promote stuff that is not science, that is just garbage.
00:38:42.000Apparently, 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.
00:38:48.000Instead, he took his son home, quit his job, and moved his family of four out of Washington.
00:38:53.000A year later, it turns out that his son is not gender dysphoric.
00:38:57.000It was just the state coming after his kid.
00:38:59.000By the way, in the state of Washington, kids can start receiving gender dysphoric treatment at the age of 13 without parental consent.
00:39:39.000Somehow she's been elevated to a position of public power where we're supposed to believe that she knows how to run things.
00:39:45.000And 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.
00:39:51.000Well, now it turns out even the CNN is even the White House is disappointed in Kamala Harris.
00:39:59.000Vice President Kamala Harris, back in the United States this morning after a trip to Guatemala and Mexico, her first foreign trip as vice president.
00:40:06.000This 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.
00:40:17.000I mean, truly, it is an amazing, amazing thing.
00:40:20.000But that moron is going to run everything.
00:40:24.000Apparently, 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.
00:40:39.000I 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.
00:41:07.000Okay, the prices have now jumped 5% in May.
00:41:10.000Okay, 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?
00:41:20.000Well, now it turns out that when you have more dollars chasing less product, you end up with inflation.
00:41:25.000According to Rachel Siegel over at the Washington Post, prices were up by 5% in May compared with a year ago.
00:41:30.000The largest increase since the Great Recession, continuing a steady climb in inflation even as policymakers insist on staying the course.
00:41:36.000Data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed prices rose 0.6% in the past month alone.
00:41:42.000Policymakers 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.
00:41:50.000Inflation will continue if you continue to depress the labor market by telling people not to work.
00:41:56.000Now, 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.
00:42:03.000That 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.
00:42:09.000The same morons who are declaring that inflation is no problem for you as they devalue your savings.
00:42:13.000These are the same idiots who are going to be running the economy a year from now.
00:42:43.000How 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.
00:43:00.000But 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.
00:43:05.000Instead, 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.
00:43:33.000Bush 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.
00:43:44.000At 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.
00:43:55.000Jen Psaki said he's been getting ready for 50 years.
00:43:57.000Yes, but he's been wrong for 50 years.
00:43:58.000He hasn't been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career.
00:44:52.000Oh my God, by the way, Joe Biden, we're now just rerunning the Woodrow Wilson administration.
00:44:57.000Edith is running the show, apparently.
00:44:59.000Because 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.
00:46:13.000Here 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.