The Matt Walsh Show - Daily Wire Backstage： Biden’s Congressional Address

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, this is Matt Walsh and you're about to listen to a special episode of Daily

00:00:03.040 Wire Backstage with me, Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boring, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan as

00:00:06.580 we analyze and discuss Joe Biden's first congressional address since becoming president.

00:00:10.320 It's a great discussion. You don't want to miss it. Thanks for listening.

00:00:13.580 Intro. Welcome to Daily Wire Backstage, Biden's congressional address. I'm Jeremy Boring,

00:00:18.820 known around these parts, well, known around these parts by lots of things. We're glad that

00:00:23.760 you've tuned in. Will Biden be able to make it to the end of this speech without taking a nap?

00:00:27.500 If he manages to make it all the way through without a single, come on, man,

00:00:30.860 are we positive that it isn't pure fakery like the moon landing? How many times could Kamala

00:00:35.440 have visited the border between the start and finish of this crap show? The answer is 10 trillion, 0.99

00:00:40.980 because that's how much spending Biden has proposed in his first three months. It's truly insane.

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00:01:47.840 I mean, we were just here last week. So what the hell? Like, that's my first question. What the

00:01:53.940 hell? Ben has like a quota and he will not go above the quota backstage. Oh my goodness. That is

00:01:59.140 certainly true. And we are well above the quota. And also, I hate this. And this is like all the

00:02:02.680 things I hate. Backstage, State of the Union, Knowles. The State of the Union is the most monarchic

00:02:10.920 garbage thing that we do in American politics. I hate it. It doesn't matter who the president is. 1.00

00:02:14.720 You got me to like it, Ben. It's such garbage. Monarchy. Papist. But the ridiculousness of the 1.00

00:02:23.340 of the State of the Union address in which we all pretend that the president of the United States is

00:02:26.920 an elected king. And then he comes in and everybody cheers and they feed him like he's an important

00:02:30.840 person as opposed to a geriatric daughter that they're wheeling in on a gurney so that he can

00:02:34.480 babble nonsensically for an hour and they can cheer for proposals that won't be passed is it's really

00:02:39.380 maddening. I hate it in general. Tonight, we're going to get Joe Biden proposing another two trillion

00:02:43.000 dollars in spending. He's also going to because it's a day ending in Y. Yeah. And also, he is

00:02:47.620 going to be apparently saying that January 6th was worse than any event in American political life

00:02:53.740 since the Civil War, which skips, you know, like the murder of tens of thousands of people by the

00:02:58.320 KKK over several decades. And, you know, the assassinations of at least four presidents and 0.53

00:03:02.920 the shooting of another one. And, you know, Pearl Harbor, 9-11, spate of bombings in the 60s,

00:03:09.580 you know, more. Yeah. I mean, I feel like there are a few like he was alive for all of these. So

00:03:13.280 he really should know about them. And it's kind of astonishing that he's saying that. But that's

00:03:17.320 not a shock. I mean, so I put together my preview of his speech. Here we go. Here we go. I've been

00:03:21.540 working on this all day. So it goes like this. My fellow Americans, shazudim and shazudim and

00:03:30.660 come on. Woo! Everybody gets up and they scream. Except the Republicans. I promise that by the end,

00:03:38.400 it might hurt him in office. Every black American will have a blueberry and two belly buttons. Woo! 1.00

00:03:49.540 President Harris, who you are. He's going to keep going. I heard a preview of this. To my left

00:03:55.140 and also to my right. And all around. She's very woman and also black. Woo! 1.00

00:04:05.320 This is what it'll be for an hour. So I just saved you an hour. I know. It's over. It's over, guys.

00:04:10.880 That plus two trillion dollars. Done. So why do we keep doing this? Well, look, this is a great

00:04:17.400 American political tradition when we all gather in late April when the president shows up with like

00:04:24.700 four congressmen or something and goes on Zoom to the rest of them. No, it's funny because the

00:04:30.780 monarchical aspect of it, frankly, I think is the best part. You know, however, Michael Hamburg over

00:04:37.580 here. But we don't even get that. We don't. The one aspect of this whole State of the Union thing

00:04:46.820 that everyone tunes in for is the pomp and circumstance and ladies and gentlemen, the

00:04:50.760 president. Right. Even if you don't like it, you still that's what you're watching. But we're not

00:04:53.700 getting that. We're getting a doddering old man who does not know which end is up reading some lines

00:04:59.360 that have been written for him to a half empty chain. Well, I will say there's one thing I'm excited

00:05:02.640 about, and that is that whenever Joe Biden speaks for more than 37 seconds, it's like watching Nick

00:05:07.460 Walenda walk over a volcano. Right. Like you just like there's always that possibility. Nick Walenda is real

00:05:12.480 good at walking over volcanoes. But let's be real about this. You're really watching on the

00:05:16.780 off chance that you will have been watching live when he fails to make it over the volcano. Right.

00:05:20.780 And when Joe Biden speaks, I mean, he'll be slurring his words and he'll be messing things up and

00:05:24.800 he'll be talking about why he has to give every child a pony delivered by catapult or some such

00:05:30.740 nonsense. And and then he'll just slip into a reverie. And we're all sort of hoping he goes

00:05:35.780 there. Right. I mean, let's be real about this. We want like a full dream sequence. Yeah.

00:05:39.020 Like a full WandaVision thing to happen where he's like back in the 1950s doing sitcoms with

00:05:44.740 Dick Van Dyke. Like that's what I'm rooting for. Yeah. But it's scripted. That's the problem.

00:05:48.480 You get that moment from Joe Biden when it's not scripted. I have actually I don't know that I've

00:05:53.280 ever watched a State of the Union address or a joint speech to Congress because they're so

00:05:58.500 uninteresting to me. I've pretended that I've watched them. I've even live tweeted them

00:06:02.300 without watching them. So this will be my first experience of this. And that's I'm kind of excited

00:06:08.400 about that. The most fun thing about Joe Biden is watching the press report on him. Yeah.

00:06:12.960 Because they have gone to a level of dishonesty that actually is comedy.

00:06:16.880 Well, normally it's X-rated to see that many people orgasm at once.

00:06:20.460 Especially faking it.

00:06:22.540 That's exactly it. That's exactly it. It's the O face. It's not really the orgasm.

00:06:26.680 I am interested to see. I'm a little interested to see the Republican response from Tim Scott.

00:06:31.780 What what? Well, you're new to this by your own admission.

00:06:35.120 The worst part of the night is always the response. It doesn't matter who gives it.

00:06:41.340 That's true. I'm I'm expecting that. But I am also curious if they go all in on police reform,

00:06:47.200 which is the wrong thing for the public. Oh, my God. They will. You know, they right.

00:06:50.460 I know they will already. They will because there's nothing that Republicans

00:06:53.140 do except things wrong. Yeah. I heard the Tim Scott. He gave a little quick preview on Twitter

00:06:58.580 and he said, we're going to talk about how, you know, we're a diverse nation. And in that,

00:07:03.180 that's why we're so unified. And I'm like, no, that's we're not unified at all, man.

00:07:07.340 Exactly the opposite. I like they must there must be something about Tim Scott because the Washington

00:07:11.920 Post, a white guy in the Washington Post wrote a fact check of Tim Scott saying he wasn't black

00:07:17.420 enough, basically, that he had I guess he had some white people in his. No, no, it wasn't that it was that

00:07:21.600 what they suggested is that he had said that his grandfather, he basically went from

00:07:26.220 sharecropper to Congress in one generation. And they're like, yeah, but your father wasn't a

00:07:31.600 sharecropper. If you go back to your grandfather and your great grandfather, he had accumulated 500

00:07:35.220 acres in South Carolina. It's like, OK, so now you're just saying that he's the American dream

00:07:38.800 in spite of vicious Jim Crow racism. Well, solid hit there. I just I think that the Washington Post,

00:07:45.060 which now basically has announced is going to stop fact checking Joe Biden. He's just that honest.

00:07:50.620 When do they ever start? Well, they occasionally say this, you know, I mean, Joe, but the

00:07:56.000 funny thing is the difference between the way Joe Biden lies and Donald Trump lied is substantial.

00:08:01.420 I mean, Donald Trump was an exaggerator and he used to say, I exaggerate the truth. And that was

00:08:05.820 actually pretty true for the most part. You know, obvious exceptions. But still, Biden just lied.

00:08:11.800 Well, yeah, I'll say it this way. I think that Trump lied casually. Like if you're just in a

00:08:16.620 conversation with him, he'd be the guy who'd be like shaving five points, five strokes off his

00:08:21.120 handicap. That's that's what Trump is. But Joe Biden is the kind of guy who lies purposefully.

00:08:26.100 Like he's like, what do I need to say to achieve this effect? And I'll just lie to do it. Right.

00:08:31.360 So I'll just say for months on end that George's voting law is Jim Crow. Or I will just say over 0.53

00:08:36.000 and over and over that you still need to mask up for no reason. No reason at all. And that is a

00:08:41.880 significantly worse form of lie, because the thing about Trump and kind of the way that he would fib

00:08:45.480 is that nobody took that stuff seriously. Like they kept fact checking him. And I just kept thinking

00:08:50.060 to myself, OK, and well, you know, before they counted the lies and said, oh, he lied so many

00:08:55.640 more times. But is the difference between saying I had a lot of people at my inauguration and saying

00:08:59.960 this is the magnitude of the lie kind of matters. Like if you like your doctor, you can keep your

00:09:03.340 doctor. A much bigger lie. That's right. There were two. There were so many people in my

00:09:06.580 inauguration. Like one is a mild irritant that goes to character. And the other one is like you just

00:09:11.320 lied about a massive piece of policy. Also hundreds of millions of Americans. Also, the lies of the

00:09:16.020 left are the reason that no one trusts government. You know, we've been talking a lot about why

00:09:19.740 people won't get the vaccine. I happen to think that the vaccine is one of the great,

00:09:24.620 maybe the great scientific achievements of the 21st century. My cell service has never been better.

00:09:29.160 Yeah. I think that it's, you know, up there with the Apollo program. It's up there with the Manhattan

00:09:36.080 projects. It's amazing. It's hard for me to get the vaccine right now because I just don't want to be

00:09:40.640 told what to do. I want to be free. But the reason so many millions of people on the right won't get the

00:09:45.080 vaccine is because the government keeps lying about it and the media keeps reinforcing those

00:09:49.440 lies. Well, when you say bunk real fast, the Bill Gates put microchips in the, in the vaccine. If he

00:09:54.080 had, they'd be glitching all over. They wouldn't know where the hell we were spinning color wheel

00:10:00.300 of doom, right? The new variants are just viruses from like the, you know, Eastern Europe somewhere.

00:10:05.280 But this is the problem with the lies of the left. The lies of the left make you actually distrust

00:10:10.720 the institutions that are the only institutions that can create any unifying message of truth

00:10:14.920 around things that do matter. Pandemics actually matter. They actually have consequences. We 1.00

00:10:19.280 should be able to believe what the media and the government tell us about them. We can't. And we

00:10:24.040 can't because people like Joe Biden have spent their entire career lying about such major issues

00:10:29.680 whenever they think they can squeeze just a little bit of advantage out of. By the way, the left wing

00:10:34.100 media used to admit this about Biden before he was their guy. Right. There was, you know, the most

00:10:39.160 really disconcerting of his lies is, you know, the central tragic fact of his life is his wife

00:10:44.340 was killed in this car accident. And the guy who was in the other car felt terrible about this and

00:10:50.000 lived for many years. And it was very sorry, but he was totally found to have been innocent. He

00:10:54.740 wasn't drinking, nothing like that. Joe Biden never said he was. After the man died, Joe Biden on the

00:11:00.060 campaign trail started to say he was a drunk who was drunk driving. It was a really vicious,

00:11:04.860 vicious smear. So much so that I figured if it was the Atlantic or Vanity Fair called him out for

00:11:09.420 this. It's such a deep, intentional lie. And it gets to the intrinsic dishonesty of his whole

00:11:16.560 political career. Guy's been doing it since the 70s. Well, it's also amazing that how many of these

00:11:21.660 people are right now they're in the chamber. Every single person there's vaccinated. Every single

00:11:26.180 person there's vaccinated. They're in a chamber. They're socially distanced and vaccinated far away

00:11:29.980 from each other. And they're all still wearing masks because the same people are telling you the

00:11:33.500 vaccines are so, so important, which by the way, they are, are telling you that you can never strip

00:11:37.360 the mask off your face, even if you're vaccinated, which makes zero scientific sense. There's no data

00:11:41.720 to back it, but it's just an article of faith now because Trump didn't like masks. And now we're

00:11:44.600 just going to wear masks until we die. They don't bother giving any data. They don't even,

00:11:48.260 they don't, they say they're insulted. They're insulted. If you're like, give us data. They're like,

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00:13:19.360 that we're looking at an almost empty chamber. This is supposed to be, it's inspiring. Uh, uh, this is

00:13:24.600 supposed to be a joint session of Congress. They're not even filling 50% of the seats. It doesn't look

00:13:29.140 like how did they determine who was going to be there? So they gave a set number of seats to the

00:13:32.580 Democrats and set number of the Republicans. If you were, if you were one of the Republicans and

00:13:36.880 they said only a few of you can go and you have to wear a diaper on your face, even though you've

00:13:41.420 been vaccinated, why wouldn't you just say no? So a bunch of them did. Steve Scully said no. Did he

00:13:45.560 really? Mm-hmm. Yeah. He was like, I'm not interested. And honestly, why would you be? First of all,

00:13:50.580 if I had any excuse not to go to the state of the union, I would be there. I tried to get out of this.

00:13:55.040 Antonin Scalia famously would not attend. He thought for the same reason,

00:13:58.120 he thought it was ridiculous, anti-American nonsense. Right. Biden should just send a 0.99

00:14:01.880 letter to Congress saying, I'm going to do whatever I want. And actually, I'm just going

00:14:05.000 to do whatever my chief of staff wants, Ron Klain, President Klain. And he's the one who's

00:14:08.320 actually just going to write the agenda. But the thing that's amazing about what we're watching

00:14:12.240 is the media's attempt to build Joe Biden up into an important figure in his own right is pretty

00:14:18.260 impressive because everybody really kind of secretly understands that Joe Biden is a truly

00:14:23.100 unimpressive figure in American public life. He really is. He's been a non-entity or

00:14:27.060 a bloviating idiot for most of his career. And now he's president of the United States. 1.00

00:14:30.940 And they are solely reliant on this man because if God forbid, he's the president of the United

00:14:34.180 States. You don't want to see anything bad happen to him. If God forbid something happens

00:14:37.000 to Joe Biden, the Democratic agenda is DOA. It is dead because Kamala Harris saying the exact

00:14:42.520 same stuff as Joe Biden is completely unpalatable to the American people because Joe Biden does

00:14:47.680 not. He does not give off a sense of threat, but he is an elderly daughter who does not know

00:14:52.480 what the hell he's talking about. And so he's not threatening because houseplants are not

00:14:55.700 threatening. That's how he got away with the speech. The speech he gave yesterday was

00:14:59.160 disgusting and repugnant. I mean, he's giving us permission to have a picnic if you're with 0.97

00:15:06.660 vaccinated people. And if you're not, you have to mask at the picnic. Since when is this the

00:15:10.640 relationship we have with the government that we have to tune in to the president to find out if

00:15:14.660 we could have a picnic out at the park? And to me, that wasn't even as radical as what he was

00:15:19.120 saying last week about the about the Floyd trial or the Chauvin trial, where he was literally

00:15:22.840 coming out and just calling the country racist based on an incident where no one has yet

00:15:26.380 presented any evidence of racism or before that or right after that. You talk about lies of Joe

00:15:31.260 Biden and the Biden administration. I think hands down the worst lie we've heard from this

00:15:35.900 administration and perhaps any administration in recent memory is what they said about the

00:15:40.140 Micaiah Bryant situation where they were. She clearly 16 year old girl, but she was in the process of trying

00:15:45.880 to stab someone to death. That is very clear, indisputable. It's like a textbook good shoot by

00:15:52.480 a police officer, valid, legitimate. And they come out and tie it to systemic racism. They throw,

00:15:58.400 this is a hero police officer put in that situation. By the way, not only a good shoot in the in the

00:16:03.820 sense of it was clean and legal and appropriate, a great shot. You know, people like to say,

00:16:09.400 why didn't he shoot the gun, shoot the knife out of her hand? Well, because he's not the Lone 1.00

00:16:13.420 Ranger. Why didn't the cop shoot her in the leg? Well, because I mean, if you actually watch that 0.88

00:16:19.380 video, the fact is a split second to hit her and not hit the girl and not hit the girl that she's

00:16:23.140 trying to stab. Not many trained police officers could have effectuated that shot as successfully

00:16:29.060 as he did. It's he's not only he is a true American hero for what he does. He's also he's also willing.

00:16:34.980 Sorry. He's also that police officer knows that his life might be over when he does this,

00:16:39.960 but he did it anyway. Yeah. To save this other this other girl's life. It's incredibly telling

00:16:44.820 when they say things like that, because it means they've never been in a physical altercation.

00:16:48.800 Right. No idea the kind of adrenaline that pumps through your your body. They have no idea what

00:16:53.760 it takes to hit somebody's center. Here's the thing. You're assuming honesty. And I don't even

00:16:58.240 think that they honestly think what they're saying. Yeah, I like I rarely attribute bad motive to people.

00:17:02.580 But that tape is so unbelievably clear that it's just there is no possible way that you could be

00:17:07.980 motivated by anything other than a belief that every data point involving a black suspect and a

00:17:12.580 white cop is bad. That is the only that is the only way that you can get to that conclusion after

00:17:16.480 having watched that tape. You can't come to the honest conclusion after watching that tape that

00:17:19.700 you should have shot or trigger finger like it's blazing saddles or something. But no,

00:17:24.080 the very fact that they would ask that kind of question and expect to get away with it means that

00:17:29.480 they have lived lives that are completely out of touch with the moment that they're reporting on.

00:17:34.120 It doesn't even occur to them to go and say to somebody, you know, you were a police officer who

00:17:38.060 was in a shooting. You were a soldier who was in a battle. You know, what's that like? What does

00:17:41.720 that what happens? Well, there is this thing about narrative that narrative compounds narrative

00:17:45.640 narrative builds upon narrative. I tweeted out this morning that covid is to disease what nuclear

00:17:52.700 weapons are to energy and explosives. And what I mean is that all the people who say believe the

00:17:58.320 science don't actually know anything about the science. They don't believe the science. We instead,

00:18:02.560 we've attributed to nuclear and we've attributed to covid these sort of magical, mythical, destructive

00:18:08.220 properties where they're actually not constrained by science. They have almost unlimited power to do

00:18:13.500 unbelievable damage. And the problem is over time, because of the power of narrative, experts,

00:18:18.400 authoritative people actually believe not reality, but they believe. So when it comes to nuclear weapons,

00:18:26.300 everybody believes that like we have people will say all the time you will hear people in the

00:18:30.180 military, say we have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out all life on Earth a hundred times.

00:18:36.640 And that's absolutely absurd. Like we have a thousand strategic nuclear weapons in our arsenal

00:18:41.820 or something like that. For context, we detonated one thousand nuclear weapons during the fifties

00:18:47.500 and sixties, 65 miles north of Las Vegas, a major American city, 65 miles north. We detonated

00:18:54.640 one thousand nuclear weapons like nuclear weapons are bad. Nuclear weapons are very destructive

00:18:59.960 compared to non to conventional ordinances. But they're still just things. It's just a bomb.

00:19:05.540 It probably is a virus. It's used to apply. But this is the virus. That's all it is.

00:19:10.020 This is the entire thesis of the left and has been for about 50 years that narrative shapes reality.

00:19:16.160 But the part they leave out is that it can shape it dishonestly or honestly. Right.

00:19:20.880 So a narrative can be true or false. You know, this is this Yuval Harari wrote this book about

00:19:24.720 what is different about humans than every other animal is that we tell fictions. And among these

00:19:29.640 fictions, he includes rights, money, religion. And you think like, well, wait, wait, wait a minute.

00:19:35.340 You know, I must I've been making up fiction all my life. You can make a fiction that's true or you

00:19:40.680 can make a fiction that isn't true. Anybody who walks out of a movie theater can say that wouldn't

00:19:44.820 happen. That was unbelievable. Right. The thing about money is money is a language. It is a language,

00:19:50.320 but it's a language for expressing value. It's something we cannot tell how our minds

00:19:54.620 calculate value, but they do it almost exactly. They do it to the penny and money expresses that.

00:20:00.540 It's a fiction that's true when it's when it's not controlled by the government, when it's free

00:20:04.380 exchange. You know, the problem is not the narrative. It is the absolute disbelief that

00:20:11.140 there is such a thing as a truth that goes beyond the physical facts of life. Now they don't even

00:20:15.880 believe in those. Well, one of the things that I've been noticing is that there have been a couple

00:20:18.400 of polls in recent memory, like in the last month or so, talking about percentages of Americans who

00:20:23.460 believe certain things about things that are factual. Like how many black Americans get shot 0.96

00:20:27.720 every year by the cops? Right. And that poll will show you that liberals are just way the hell off. 0.99

00:20:32.040 Like they're off by a factor. They think 1,000. Right. They're off by a factor. And that's unarmed

00:20:37.540 black men. They'll say like a thousand unarmed black men. That's like 20. They're off by a factor of 50. 0.76

00:20:43.200 Right. And then if you ask liberals, how likely are you to die of COVID? They'll be off by a factor of 10

00:20:47.380 or a factor of 20. And then conservatives, these supposedly ascientific, data-free,

00:20:52.780 fundamentalist crazies. If you ask them like, how likely are you to die of COVID? They're way

00:20:56.260 closer to the actual reality than the liberals are. And the same thing about racial violence in

00:21:00.920 America. They're way closer to the actual reality. Even they, by the way, even overestimate the number

00:21:05.240 of black men who get shot in America. But this is why I'm saying narrative builds on narrative

00:21:10.520 because these reporters, not only have they never been in physical danger, not only have they never

00:21:14.680 fired a firearm, everything that they believe about them. And they believe, they've researched,

00:21:18.700 they believe they're experts, but everything that they know is just what someone else before them

00:21:24.040 was saying when they were shaping the narrative. Right. So it, it compounds over time that people

00:21:28.980 get more and more and more certain about things that they know less and less about. It's not that

00:21:33.600 they don't, I mean, it really is Ronald Reagan. It's not that they don't know much. It's everything.

00:21:37.240 There's a very famous line about the left, which is, unfortunately you can sometimes apply it to the

00:21:41.500 right. But, but it's so true with the left, which is they'll say, who cares if it works in practice?

00:21:47.240 Does it work in theory? The obsession with theory, because that, that is. And your reference to the

00:21:51.540 Lone Ranger, by the way, is exactly dead on because the Lone Ranger actually used to say,

00:21:54.960 I only shoot to wound. It tells you where they're getting their information. That's right. They do get

00:21:59.260 their information. There's something else happening in the scientific community also. And it really,

00:22:02.640 it's true on everything from transgenderism and treatment for it to the treatment for gender

00:22:07.580 dysphoria, uh, to COVID. And that is what has become my new favorite word, because I just think

00:22:12.900 it applies so often these days, ultra crepidarianism, people just speaking outside of their purview of

00:22:17.960 expertise. So scientists are not being asked anymore. Some up the data for me, right? Some up the data

00:22:22.300 for me. That's the question you ask a scientist. Instead, they're be asking, they're being asked

00:22:25.940 questions like, what do you think Americans ought to do about masking or not masking? That is a policy

00:22:30.400 and or moral question. Yeah. Your job is to like, I don't go to my doctor and then say to him,

00:22:35.100 you know, what do you think that I should do with the rest of my life? Like what decisions should I

00:22:38.660 make in my life? He can tell me what the data suggests about what particular things will happen

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00:24:32.140 from what promises to be a riveting speech, which from the video I'm seeing will be seen by at least

00:24:38.540 18 people in the House chamber. It really is remarkable.

00:24:42.600 It's not to fall asleep. Normally, you've got a chamber of hundreds of people. If you start to

00:24:46.960 doze off, I think cameras will just shoot elsewhere. But if you start to lose it in the middle of this

00:24:51.280 thing, camera's on you. You pull the RBG, classically fell asleep. There is something

00:24:56.600 to remember as we go into this absolute snooze fest here, which is totally to your point, Ben,

00:25:02.000 that now the scientific experts pontificate about everything that they don't know anything about

00:25:07.000 because it's the only sort of expertise we acknowledge in this country. We don't acknowledge

00:25:11.380 philosophical, moral, or religious expertise. In self-government, citizens are supposed to be

00:25:16.480 the experts on that sort of thing. But that's all gone now. And I bet he's not going to acknowledge

00:25:21.600 it tonight either.

00:25:22.300 I want to know what any Republicans that chose to be a part of this charade with the masks on,

00:25:27.840 I mean, they should be held accountable for that by the voters, because this is

00:25:31.940 I actually agree with you.

00:25:33.100 This is a grotesque.

00:25:34.380 Yeah, I'm actually it's depressing and infuriating the more I watch this. And the fact that I got to

00:25:39.040 sit now for an hour and watch it making me is causing me anxiety. But this is this is this

00:25:44.360 spectacle. It's look at the guy in the room asks. I listen, I've been in a room since I was

00:25:49.080 vaccinated. I've been in a room with like 350 other people, everybody unmasked. And if the media

00:25:53.920 had been there, they would have been like, oh, my God, we're all going to die. COVID. No one got

00:25:57.260 COVID. You know why? Because everybody's either had COVID or they're vaccinated. Everybody in that

00:26:01.620 room is vaccinated.

00:26:02.180 Why did any Republican there? Every Republican there should have to explain why.

00:26:05.600 Because Republicans are cowards. Yeah, they're there because they are cowards. And they're there 1.00

00:26:09.980 because they're too afraid to stand up to the other side, which is not cowardly,

00:26:13.940 but is decidedly convinced that they know what's good for you. They know they don't need the mask,

00:26:20.640 but they're afraid that if they don't wear it, you might not wear it. And they want to control you.

00:26:24.920 They want to determine what is good for you. They want to decide when you have a picnic with your

00:26:28.240 family. And they'll say that they have good intentions. No, we just know that people will

00:26:32.160 make bad decisions and we're responsible for public health and we need to protect the preponderance

00:26:36.280 of people. You do that by arming people with good information and letting them make their own

00:26:41.060 risk assessments. Instead, they're going to lie to you, pose for you, virtue signal for you in order

00:26:47.180 that they might own you. 1.00

00:26:47.840 What you don't get, Jeremy, is that the people are a bunch of deplorable, irredeemable idiots. 1.00

00:26:53.600 And Maxine Waters is really, really smart. 1.00

00:26:56.600 And that's why they told us that's the irony is that's why they told us originally not to mask 1.00

00:27:00.260 because they were treating us like idiots and children. And they thought we'd go and hoard all 1.00

00:27:04.100 the masks. And, you know, I actually asked my doctor, who is a far left guy, but a brilliant

00:27:09.240 guy. I said, now I've been vaccinated. Do I have to wear a mask? He said, no, but you should as a

00:27:13.940 political statement. He said that to me. And I said, I said, that's not my politics. There are fewer

00:27:18.380 people in that chamber than watch the Oscars. There's an entire article about this woman. 0.99

00:27:22.640 There's an entire there's an entire article about this woman on Medium about why she is still going to 1.00

00:27:27.100 jog with a mask even after all of this is over. And she said it's because it's a sign that I care about

00:27:32.140 my fellow man. This is what she said. She said it's because I've been running around with the

00:27:36.400 mask and I've had the vaccine for six weeks. But, you know, there's so many other people out there

00:27:39.780 who get uncomfortable when I don't wear the mask that I've decided to wear the mask. And this goes

00:27:43.380 to so many areas of our politics that if anything I do in my life to exercise my freedom makes you

00:27:49.240 uncomfortable in any way, it is my job to curtail my freedom of speech. It is my job to curtail my

00:27:54.400 freedom of the press or my freedom to bear arms or my freedom to walk around without a mask in

00:27:58.360 order to make you feel more comfortable, even though I pose zero threat to you.

00:28:02.140 That's where things are right now. By the way, we should note that the greatest doctor in America

00:28:05.300 was just ushered into the chamber. Dr. Joe Biden. Wow. Absolutely.

00:28:08.220 She's a great surgeon. She's a great as Joy Behar pointed out or Whoopi Goldberg, one of the two. 1.00

00:28:12.680 She pointed that out. We should also acknowledge with the masks. I am not saying that the state

00:28:17.860 can't take emergency police action sometime and say, hey, maybe you should wear the mask for a very

00:28:22.200 short period of time. But to wear the mask all the time, to have the entirety of the American

00:28:28.360 people wearing the secular keffia looking like banditos walking around is actually disordered.

00:28:34.260 It's actually bad for our politics. People's brains have been broken. I think there's a real 0.99

00:28:37.800 mental illness factor to it. Someone, one of my, someone, one of my listeners left a comment under

00:28:42.660 the YouTube video today saying that her aunt wears a mask to sleep. And, uh, and I wish I could think

00:28:50.020 that that's, that she's joking or making that up. I wear one on my eyes. This is what people,

00:28:54.920 people are, and we're sending our kids to school. They wear masks for seven hours a day.

00:28:58.040 I find the saddest comment with the ones that I see on Twitter, people saying, what's so bad

00:29:01.920 about a mask? And I think like, really not to look at a human face, not to see a pretty girl,

00:29:06.380 not to, you know, not to know each other and smile at each other. I mean, what the hell?

00:29:10.120 Have you, have you guys all had the weird experience over the past few months as people take off

00:29:13.800 their masks of people you've met with the mask on and they take off the mask like, whoa.

00:29:17.480 Yeah. I was not aware that you, that you look like that. Many people with me, I'm like,

00:29:23.480 they take off the mask. Oh my God, that's what he looked like under there. If you're an ugly scene

00:29:27.680 from Phantom of the Opera. No, no. If you're an ugly person with, with nice eyes, then you've been

00:29:34.180 living your best life. Well, eventually they're going to wheel Joe Biden in. They may just lower 0.97

00:29:43.240 him in. They may, yeah. Open the roof and just drop him in. I like it. All right, here it comes

00:29:47.460 out. Woo! You know, you know, I have to say, Walsh is right that Republicans showed up for this in

00:29:54.620 masks. They actually should be answerable for that. So my understanding is that the reason that they

00:30:00.660 are doing that is because Nancy Pelosi runs the chamber, Chuck Schumer runs the chamber, and so there

00:30:06.020 are actual, like, I believe criminal penalties they're trying to attach for not wearing masks on the

00:30:10.260 floor. They should get it. And they shouldn't go. Yeah. Or if they get dragged out by the police

00:30:15.180 and they're yelling for my civil rights to breathe and have my nose out, that would be beautiful

00:30:19.400 politics. That would be such a great moment. And these morons and cowards are too stupid to realize

00:30:24.480 it. Yeah. So we've got a question from Daily Wire. You guys have no idea, by the way, if you go to, 1.00

00:30:28.280 like, leftist places like Brooklyn and you don't wear a mask, which I haven't, you know, I haven't worn

00:30:33.660 a mask in public for a long time outdoors. You are actually socially rejected. People get

00:30:40.220 very, very upset. They actually take it badly. They might as well be wearing a MAGA hat.

00:30:45.380 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's how much of this is about that, right? It's because Trump made light

00:30:48.740 of the masks originally, like, well, during the middle of the pandemic. And so the entire left

00:30:52.180 decided this was not just a, he was not just wrong on that. It was not just a temporary expedience that

00:30:57.820 we could all go back to work or something. Yeah. What it really was, was a symbol that you were a good

00:31:01.340 person who cared about other people to wear the mask. It's the new pink hat, right? It's just the pink hat

00:31:05.280 of 2021. If only Trump had been pro mask, then no one would be wearing masks. Yeah, that's right.

00:31:08.940 It would open up the country a year ago. He really let us down. Here's a question from

00:31:12.700 a dailywire.com subscriber. On one hand, it seems promising that states like Tennessee are lifting

00:31:17.920 the mask mandate. I actually want to correct you. The state of Tennessee never had a mask mandate.

00:31:22.620 What happened is Governor Bill Lee made the bold step this week of saying that even the cities in

00:31:27.840 the state that have had mask mandates must lift them before Memorial Day. But yes, places are removing

00:31:34.120 their mask mandates. But when I see other states cracking down even more like Michigan,

00:31:37.960 I just really don't know how to feel on whether or not this will ever end. Do you think it will end?

00:31:43.300 When? How? I just want to be perfectly clear. They're saying, do you believe the masks will

00:31:47.800 ever end? Not what we're about to witness. Ben, what do you think?

00:31:53.040 So I think that this is going to last approximately another five months until Joe Biden gets a bunch

00:31:59.320 more of his legislation passed and then it stops. I think this is all about generating a feeling of

00:32:03.000 crisis for Americans. I think that Joe Biden doesn't want this to go to the midterms, right? He would like

00:32:07.480 to be able to declare victory before the midterms over COVID. And so I think that it'll last about as long

00:32:11.800 as it's convenient for it to last. He said going in that we're facing four crises and three of them are

00:32:16.260 complete nonsense. It was like racial inequity, income inequality, climate change, and no one cares about

00:32:22.020 climate change. Let's just be clear about this. Like that doesn't mean it's not happening. But like on the list of

00:32:25.700 American concerns, it's like number 87. Yeah. And so the only one that people were actually worried

00:32:29.800 about was COVID because, you know, half a million people died of it. And so he's just prolonging this

00:32:33.560 at this point. And so it'll last until he can ram through some more legislation by saying COVID has

00:32:38.960 completely exposed so many terrible things about American society that must be fixed. It's unmasked

00:32:44.180 all of American society. And then after all, after we fixed all of American society and I can ride off

00:32:49.200 into the nursing home, then I, then at that point, everybody will, will be able to take off the

00:32:54.300 masks and breathe free air again. I really think it's that simple. I think it will last longer than

00:32:57.700 that. Politically, I think you're right. But a lot of people, like we were just saying, their brains

00:33:03.960 are broken. No, I agree with this. Yeah. A lot of, a lot of people really, and they'll openly say it, 0.98

00:33:08.700 I feel safer wearing it. And so I just wear it. And I don't think that goes away magically in five

00:33:14.020 months. I don't know if it ever goes away. Yeah. I think it's just, it's a cultural thing.

00:33:17.700 We'll never, we'll never live to see a day where no one in America wears masks. This is the issue.

00:33:21.620 You know, we, politics is downstream of culture. We all know that that's the famous Breitbart

00:33:25.160 doctrine. It is also true that politics can influence culture. The great example of this

00:33:30.880 is that East Germany is still atheist. West Germany is not atheist because it was dominated by commies 1.00

00:33:35.180 for the cold war. People, because of the policies of our exalted leader, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the high

00:33:42.460 priest of progressivism, he has, I think, broken people's brains. And I think you're going to see a

00:33:48.200 lot of people who just insist on wearing this thing basically in perpetuity. Maybe it's not

00:33:53.740 most of the country, but what will happen is there's going to be a massive exacerbation of the

00:33:58.240 big sort that's already happening, right? People are just going to say, I don't want to live in a

00:34:01.440 place that's like New York or like Michigan, where at any moment they can just shut everything down

00:34:05.020 again. And they move here, they move to Florida. No, that's happening already. Coeur d'Alene is the

00:34:09.300 place in Idaho. It's a place where most people will move. At least in the civil war, we'll know

00:34:13.880 which side people are on based on who's got the mask on. That's exactly right. So we just saw

00:34:19.540 Schumer enter the chamber, dutifully masked. This will be how we know. When will Republicans

00:34:25.660 stop going along with it? When will airlines stop going along with it? As long as you have to wear

00:34:31.080 a mask on an airline, it's awful. It's really awful. It makes it almost impossible. I was so

00:34:36.900 tolerant. I was way more tolerant than anybody else in this room. I was like, because my parents are in

00:34:41.360 their 60s, I was more tolerant of it. Then I got vaccinated and it started to feel physically

00:34:47.340 restricting to wear the mask because now I know it's pointless and stupid and there's no reason 0.99

00:34:51.420 for it at all. The terrible thing about the airplane, too, is it's absolutely awful. It's the 0.99

00:34:56.200 one place where it makes the most sense because airplanes are the terribly unhealthy atmosphere.

00:35:02.060 Well, except for the fact that it's not true. No, it wasn't at the beginning. Airplanes were not a

00:35:07.160 vector of transmission. Airplanes have HEPA filters. Yeah, yeah. They have HEPA filters and they

00:35:10.940 circulate. You notice, I noticed a real shift because I've been flying through this whole thing.

00:35:14.680 I think a lot of us have. And you notice the real shift at a certain point a few months in,

00:35:18.580 people didn't, they weren't fidgeting with the mask anymore on the flight. They just wear it the

00:35:22.040 whole time. They didn't have it under the nose. And I guess we were supposed to see that as a

00:35:25.340 positive change, but I actually find it kind of creepy now. I'm on a plane for six hours and

00:35:28.880 no one is even touching the mask. I mean, I still am, but everyone else just sits there.

00:35:32.560 By the way, we have to point out. Biden just entered the chamber.

00:35:34.460 So Biden entered the chamber. He's got his mask on and he's doing the fist bumps with everybody

00:35:39.980 because handshake that'll spread COVID. But your knuckles, they're coated in Purell or something.

00:35:47.220 So that's fine. Because science. Because it's science. So now we have the president of the

00:35:51.820 United States entering the chamber. We're going to go watch the president's speech. We'll be back

00:35:56.460 with you as soon as it is over to give you our absolute expert analysis. It was boring.

00:36:01.700 Yeah. Spoiler. Save us some time.

00:36:05.660 We'll be back as soon as the president's speech is concluded.

00:36:12.900 The president of the United States concluding his first hundred days in office and his first

00:36:18.040 State of the Union address with the greatest line in the history of State of the Union addresses.

00:36:22.540 Thank you for your patience.

00:36:24.820 Jeremy, before we get into it, should someone wake Ben up?

00:36:27.540 Benjamin. Benjamin.

00:36:28.880 Wait, I think he's I think he's gone. Thank God you have life insurance on him.

00:36:34.340 So what? Yeah. That was the worst thing I've ever.

00:36:39.780 That was genuinely. Let's begin to get together, guys. Yeah. Yeah.

00:36:43.280 That was the line. We're just going to begin to get the 60s song lyrics.

00:36:48.220 Well, it's funny that you bring up 60s song lyrics because it was a 1960s boilerplate speech.

00:36:52.920 Yes, it was. It was a 1930s boilerplate speech in a lot of ways. Yeah.

00:36:56.640 It was a 1330s.

00:36:59.920 And, you know, it was that really that line where he said, we, the people are the government,

00:37:04.080 because he doesn't mean that we, the people form the government.

00:37:07.320 What he means is the government are the people.

00:37:09.320 He was explicit. He said, we, we are the people.

00:37:12.360 If we're not a distant force, we're you. 0.99

00:37:15.260 OK, then if you're me, then shut the up. 0.93

00:37:18.820 I mean, everything he says, you know, when he talks about he had this line,

00:37:23.300 American tax dollars are going to buy American property and build American jobs.

00:37:29.020 That's actually not the way it works.

00:37:30.560 As always with socialists, they never ask the question, where does the money come from? 0.93

00:37:34.600 It comes from horrible, evil, dastardly capitalists like yourself, who they take that tax money from.

00:37:41.820 Just simple logic, simple logic tells you that you can pay, create more jobs with a dollar

00:37:48.060 than a company that, than a government that takes your dollar away,

00:37:52.900 distributes it among its bureaucracies, and then creates a job.

00:37:56.280 So you're going to create 10 times more jobs.

00:37:58.420 I have a question.

00:38:00.100 We can focus on the content as much as we want.

00:38:02.820 This guy's not making it for years, is he?

00:38:04.820 It doesn't feel like it, no.

00:38:05.960 He looks absolutely ghastly. 0.92

00:38:08.140 He looks awful.

00:38:09.420 He sounds awful.

00:38:10.620 He's slurring his speech.

00:38:11.680 That seemed like four years.

00:38:12.580 Does that count?

00:38:13.120 Yeah.

00:38:14.020 I don't know how anyone thinks he's running for re-election.

00:38:17.040 I don't know how you can watch that.

00:38:18.420 I don't know that anyone thinks he's running for re-election.

00:38:21.300 The question is, will he serve out a term?

00:38:22.840 But here's the thing.

00:38:24.880 What the speech makes clear is two things.

00:38:26.240 One, he's not going to make it for re-election.

00:38:28.340 I mean, he's just not.

00:38:29.460 And two, they desperately need this guy.

00:38:31.760 They need him so badly.

00:38:33.060 Because if you actually just read the text of the speech, what you will see is a litany

00:38:37.600 of spending and regulation and taxation and big government and rethinking of the fundamental

00:38:44.200 relationship between the American people and the government.

00:38:46.960 That sounds like it's coming directly from Bernie Sanders.

00:38:49.760 I mean, it is extraordinarily radical stuff.

00:38:51.960 But because the person who is saying it is a mush-mouthed old man, then nobody fears

00:38:56.320 because he is a mush-mouthed old man.

00:38:58.300 Because he's been around forever.

00:38:59.600 Well, not just that, because he, I, honest to God, wonder if the entire design of the

00:39:05.120 speech, because he backloaded all the controversial stuff you noticed about how America's racist

00:39:08.440 and about how the government is the people.

00:39:10.260 He put all of that in the last 10 minutes of the speech.

00:39:13.120 I, honest to God, wonder whether his strategy here was, I will just bore you into unconsciousness

00:39:18.580 so you don't actually know what I'm saying.

00:39:20.240 And I can go to the left and I can tell them I said all the stuff that I said.

00:39:22.640 And then I can use that as the predicate for all of the things I want to pass.

00:39:26.120 But you, you went to sleep, right?

00:39:27.640 It wasn't that scary.

00:39:28.220 You fell asleep.

00:39:29.020 That's right.

00:39:29.260 Because that's what it was.

00:39:30.860 I mean, Joe Biden is capable.

00:39:33.100 He could have done what he's done before, which is do a 25-minute speech.

00:39:37.160 Yeah.

00:39:37.480 Right?

00:39:37.700 Do it like he could do that.

00:39:38.500 He could go in there and give a 25-minute speech.

00:39:40.040 Instead, he goes for an hour and a half. 0.93

00:39:41.740 It is soporific nonsense. 0.97

00:39:43.800 And he can't even speak it clearly. 0.99

00:39:45.460 I mean, he's stumbling over his own words.

00:39:46.760 He's repeating himself.

00:39:48.080 And he gets to the end, you kind of feel bad for the guy.

00:39:49.700 You're like, this guy is not with it.

00:39:51.440 But then you actually read what he's saying.

00:39:52.880 And he's talking about spending not $10 trillion.

00:39:55.340 He's talking about spending, I'm sure, at least twice that when you add up everything

00:39:57.880 that he's talking about over the course of years.

00:39:59.860 And you're supposed to just be like, well, you know, he's a nice old gentleman.

00:40:02.400 I guess that was okay.

00:40:03.120 And it was good for the country.

00:40:03.980 And I can't wait to see the media reactions.

00:40:06.340 And the media reactions will, like, if you can get to the sort of climax the media will reach,

00:40:12.220 based on that speech, hats off to you, man.

00:40:15.440 I mean, like, at that point, you definitely don't need to get Roman.

00:40:18.980 Because there's something going on here.

00:40:21.180 Bill Whittle talks about this idea of government as we the people,

00:40:26.760 as eloquently as anyone I've ever heard discuss it.

00:40:28.980 Essentially, the Constitution is a legal compact between three groups.

00:40:37.400 The federal government, which it is creating, the states, and the people.

00:40:44.080 We the people is the people who are consenting to the creation of this federal government.

00:40:50.120 Saying we the people, having the President of the United States say,

00:40:53.740 we up here, we, we're you.

00:40:56.180 We the people are the government.

00:40:58.140 Would be akin to, like, in any criminal case, if the defendant said,

00:41:04.860 no, we the plaintiff.

00:41:07.880 We the plaintiff.

00:41:08.980 You see the trick of the whole thing that the left has been pushing in overdrive for the past year

00:41:13.160 is this blurring of the distinction between the federal government and the state government.

00:41:18.020 Right now, H.R. 1, the first thing they're taking up,

00:41:20.260 is designed to steal all that power from the states, particularly over elections.

00:41:24.700 What could go wrong there, right?

00:41:26.020 Congressmen writing their own election laws and the people.

00:41:28.880 But then what they're doing is they're outsourcing all of that political power,

00:41:32.400 per Woodrow Wilson and the progressives for a century,

00:41:35.280 to these bureaucrats that are, you know, it's the random agencies that are really making the laws.

00:41:41.100 There's something else that's happening when they say that we the people are the government.

00:41:43.900 And that is that what our government originally was supposed to be

00:41:46.420 was a limited government designed to protect individual rights.

00:41:48.700 That's what the I mean, it's in the Declaration of Independence,

00:41:51.220 in the Constitution of the United States, the government of enumerated powers.

00:41:53.840 But there's something else there, too.

00:41:55.340 It's a government of checks and balances specifically created in order to protect those rights.

00:41:59.060 When you say we the people are the government,

00:42:00.980 what you are saying is that checks and balances are a bad.

00:42:03.640 They're an obstacle because the people are the government.

00:42:06.700 And if the people collectively are the government,

00:42:09.240 well, then they don't have arguments among themselves.

00:42:11.400 They don't have checks and balances.

00:42:12.840 You don't need checks and balances.

00:42:13.940 Checks and balances are a bar to what he calls democracy in action.

00:42:16.820 That's what the Democrats have been saying since Wilson.

00:42:19.140 Which is called mob rule.

00:42:20.120 And what's interesting is that it was it was Lincoln who basically said,

00:42:26.080 declared that the declaration was the philosophy behind the Constitution.

00:42:30.720 And it has been the Democrats who have been trying to unwrite that.

00:42:34.860 Ever since.

00:42:35.340 Civil war.

00:42:35.960 No, they make the same argument now that Calhoun made.

00:42:37.740 They just make it on a different basis.

00:42:38.740 And the trick, too, is we debate it between small and big government.

00:42:43.100 And that's often where.

00:42:43.820 But but really, the distinction here is limited.

00:42:46.620 Yes.

00:42:46.940 And unlimited.

00:42:47.780 That's right.

00:42:48.120 Right.

00:42:48.240 It's enumerated powers, government and government that can do whatever.

00:42:51.000 Joe Biden literally said that we have the power in our hands to cure cancer.

00:42:54.440 He said that in that speech.

00:42:55.320 And everybody's going to be like, oh, you know what?

00:42:56.840 That's totally fine.

00:42:57.740 Explain to me that.

00:42:58.640 Seriously, I want to know.

00:42:59.520 I want to know who are these evil people standing in the way of us curing cancer? 0.85

00:43:03.120 Because if it's adults, Joe Biden is going to cure cancer.

00:43:05.360 Why has he been holding back to cure all this time?

00:43:06.920 It seems like that would have been a little bit useful.

00:43:08.140 Is it Dr. Jill?

00:43:09.040 Is it Fauci?

00:43:09.700 Like who?

00:43:10.320 I want to know who in their safe can open up that safe.

00:43:12.560 And there is the cure for cancer.

00:43:13.700 If only we just throw a bunch of cash at things and magically these things get cured.

00:43:17.860 I'll also note that, you know, he spent a little bit of time there bashing big pharma.

00:43:21.760 He spends the he spends the entire beginning of his speech talking about the magic of the vaccines.

00:43:24.600 And we've tranched out these vaccines.

00:43:26.100 Who do you think created the vaccines?

00:43:27.340 Wasn't Joe Biden?

00:43:28.300 Wasn't useless Dr. 0.72

00:43:29.120 Fauci?

00:43:29.660 Wasn't the CDC or the FDA?

00:43:31.560 It was big pharma.

00:43:32.700 It was big pharma.

00:43:33.880 That's always the tension, because the other problem is you spend the first part of the speech and the last part.

00:43:38.660 Talking about America, we're a light to the world, we're unified, we're a great country. 0.67

00:43:42.860 And then you take that detour in the middle saying that, oh, yeah, we're systemically racist, we're oppressing black people.

00:43:47.940 Well, I mean, which is it? 0.96

00:43:48.820 I mean, this is this is a horrible country for minorities to live in. 1.00

00:43:51.460 We're killing them in the street just for existing. 0.99

00:43:53.520 But we have to defeat China. 1.00

00:43:54.920 Right.

00:43:55.100 We have to admit here that Joe Biden is riding a wave created by Donald Trump to some degree.

00:44:02.480 He's riding a double wave.

00:44:03.840 One is that the vaccine, which was brought into existence by Trump's program, by the Warp Speed, Operation Warp Speed, is basically bringing an end to this pandemic.

00:44:14.280 That's one thing.

00:44:15.680 And this shutdown, this ill-advised and overlong and ridiculous shutdown, is going to come to an end and the economy is going to boom.

00:44:23.220 And so Biden knows that he's riding that wave.

00:44:25.940 Right.

00:44:26.240 He's riding the wave of the end of this pandemic, which is going to create good feelings, as it should.

00:44:30.400 And he's riding the wave of the economy coming back.

00:44:33.020 The question that I have about Biden right now is, is he waiting for is he hoping that through this he can get this left wing agenda?

00:44:40.560 Because let's let's face it.

00:44:42.000 Biden is not a leftist.

00:44:43.560 He's not anything.

00:44:44.320 He's he's he's a weathervane.

00:44:45.940 He goes with where the party goes.

00:44:47.260 He wants his legacy.

00:44:48.120 Right now, the party he wants.

00:44:49.860 He wants his legacy.

00:44:50.800 He wants his legacy.

00:44:51.520 But right now, the party is a left wing party.

00:44:54.140 It is a far left party and is pushing him along.

00:44:56.520 And if he loses in the midterms, if he loses the majority in the House and even could lose the majority in the Senate, really, is that better for him in some way?

00:45:07.360 Yes, because he doesn't because he doesn't.

00:45:09.580 Then he doesn't care.

00:45:11.240 He doesn't what happens.

00:45:12.180 That's four years from now.

00:45:13.240 He's not running for reelection.

00:45:14.360 Right.

00:45:14.560 All he wants to be known as is a he doesn't want to be the old man who is just the bridge to Kamala.

00:45:18.640 He wants to be the guy who they should put on Mount Rushmore because he had the most consequential single term in American history. 0.98

00:45:23.640 And so he's going to ram through as much of this crap as possible. 0.95

00:45:26.100 He has the single best issue ever to do it, namely this covid pandemic. 0.98

00:45:29.700 So that's why he's hanging on to this thing with the skin of his teeth.

00:45:32.220 I mean, he is just grabbing onto the covid pandemic.

00:45:34.360 He's like, we've got to remake the economy.

00:45:35.700 We've got to make racial politics in this country.

00:45:37.340 We've got to redo our foreign policy.

00:45:39.340 We've got to redo our unionization laws. 0.91

00:45:40.860 We've got to pass everything.

00:45:41.880 We've got to do it right now, right now, right now, because of what you're saying.

00:45:44.560 If he waits too long, the economy already will have recovered.

00:45:47.360 And then we're going to be like, we don't need any of this.

00:45:48.540 That's one of the many reasons why it's insane that we allow a 78 year old man to be president in the first place,

00:45:53.880 because they're not going to be around for the future.

00:45:56.700 So they've sort of got nothing to lose.

00:45:57.840 I don't know why.

00:45:59.160 This should be. 1.00

00:46:00.280 He's a lame duck. 0.97

00:46:00.940 There should be agreement across the entire country that there should be an age limit for the presidency on the upper end, 0.97

00:46:06.340 just like there is a lower end.

00:46:07.520 Thirty five.

00:46:08.120 You can't run before thirty five.

00:46:09.560 Why should we allow you after 75 to run?

00:46:12.000 That gives you a 40 year window to become president.

00:46:14.040 You can't do it.

00:46:14.520 Then go home to your family, sit in a rocking chair, talk to your grandchildren.

00:46:18.520 It wasn't meant to be.

00:46:19.220 I mean, that's I do think they should put him on Mount Rushmore because he's as lively as the other president.

00:46:25.120 I want to push back on some conventional wisdom that you just you cited.

00:46:29.480 You said, you know, he's going to ride this wave of goodwill that will accompany the end of the pandemic.

00:46:35.720 He's going to ride the economic boom that comes at the end of the pandemic.

00:46:40.300 You had one other thing about the end of the pandemic.

00:46:42.680 Just the good feeling of people coming back.

00:46:46.020 I actually wonder if any of those things are true.

00:46:47.940 OK, I think they could have been true.

00:46:50.940 And I think in the final analysis, they will not be true.

00:46:54.320 I think that the economy is not going to surge.

00:46:56.880 I think that the economy has to some degree surged already because red states started going back to work six months ago. 0.95

00:47:05.420 But I think they've printed so much money during this pandemic that what we're actually going to see is this huge wave of economic activity that everybody's kind of been counting on.

00:47:16.020 I think it's not going to happen the way that we thought it would.

00:47:18.840 And the markets, because they've been so wound up waiting for that to happen, are going to suddenly become disillusioned.

00:47:25.760 And markets run on the illusion of momentum.

00:47:28.200 I think that that economic surge isn't coming.

00:47:30.600 I think inflation is coming instead.

00:47:32.220 And I don't think there's going to be a wave of euphoric goodwill at the end of the pandemic, because I actually think they've created it since the lockdowns weren't actually.

00:47:39.760 That was your other one, the lockdowns.

00:47:41.020 Since the lockdowns weren't actually driven by the science of the pandemic, masks weren't driven by the science of the pandemic.

00:47:47.480 The CDC guidelines weren't driven by the science of the pandemic.

00:47:49.900 Nothing, therefore, has changed scientifically to justify the end of, quote, unquote.

00:47:56.540 But what I mean is this.

00:47:58.440 People aren't going to take their masks off.

00:48:00.220 People aren't going to acknowledge the end of the pandemic.

00:48:02.340 You're going to have the people who were the most afraid, who wore masks every day, got vaccinated, still wear masks.

00:48:08.320 And the people who were not very afraid, made a different risk assessment, probably never wore masks that much, don't get vaccinated, and have been living their lives more or less already.

00:48:17.640 Those two camps are just going to remain.

00:48:19.280 I don't think Joe Biden can wave a wand and say, congratulations, pandemic done, over.

00:48:24.400 It's gone, done, totally over.

00:48:27.000 They can't put it back together.

00:48:28.820 You know, I actually think that what we're actually disagreeing on is timing.

00:48:34.140 I think there's going to be an economic boom.

00:48:37.760 I think there's going to be an end to the pandemic.

00:48:39.520 But the question is, over the long term, the things that Biden is doing are going to cost us dearly, but not for two years.

00:48:47.500 Well, that's the question.

00:48:48.100 Is it going to be two years?

00:48:48.800 Is it going to be a year and a half?

00:48:49.580 Right?

00:48:49.740 That's the gamble.

00:48:50.580 That really is the gamble.

00:48:51.580 I mean, if things start to crash in the middle of next year, then they lose the Congress.

00:48:54.760 First of all, I think they lose the Congress anyway.

00:48:56.280 Yeah.

00:48:56.580 I think that they lose.

00:48:57.720 Let us hope.

00:48:58.380 I think they're going to lose the House of Representatives.

00:49:00.060 I find it very hard to believe that they're going to retain the House, considering that they did so poorly when Joe Biden won seven more million, seven million more popular votes than Donald Trump.

00:49:09.080 And they barely held on to the House.

00:49:10.680 But there is a question here, which is, do they get through this major election overhaul that gives a distinct advantage?

00:49:17.420 Well, they can't.

00:49:18.220 I mean, not without Manchin breaking the filibuster.

00:49:20.700 Right.

00:49:21.200 And Sinema breaking the filibuster.

00:49:22.800 And I don't think either of them are going to do that.

00:49:24.200 And it may not be constitutional.

00:49:26.580 Well, that too.

00:49:27.100 I mean, I think it's pretty wildly unconstitutional.

00:49:28.800 You know, what was interesting to me, too, about the speech, though, is what wasn't in it.

00:49:33.000 There was no mention of free speech.

00:49:34.540 There was no mention of wokeness, of any of the kinds of things, of the critical race theory.

00:49:39.660 You know, even though he said we were racist.

00:49:41.260 Well, he's in favor of it.

00:49:41.880 Yes, he is in favor of it.

00:49:43.560 And those are things that are really starting to bother them.

00:49:45.760 And the way you can tell they're starting to bother them is the left is starting to say woke is a bad term.

00:49:50.760 Woke is a bad term.

00:49:51.320 Whenever they get caught being who they are, they change the word.

00:49:54.320 You know, that is like, yeah, we used to be liberal.

00:49:56.500 Now we're progressive.

00:49:57.240 That's what political correctness is.

00:49:58.680 I think Biden knows that his time is limited and it's rushing him for two reasons, not just because of the four year thing and him being in obviously declining health and all of that.

00:50:08.980 I think that there's something else going on.

00:50:10.240 The poll numbers for him are not good.

00:50:11.920 They're just not good.

00:50:12.620 I agree.

00:50:13.040 He's at 52, 53 percent.

00:50:14.760 He won at 51 percent.

00:50:15.600 And I think that's belong.

00:50:16.600 OK, but even if you even if you think it's true, he's at the exact same percentage that he was in the popular vote.

00:50:21.280 OK, with the end of the pandemic, with the booming economy, with no major foreign crisis.

00:50:26.060 Yeah.

00:50:26.240 Right.

00:50:26.960 And with the media fawning all over him and treating him as though he's a historic president with 100 percent positive media coverage.

00:50:32.500 And he's still at 51 percent, which means that he only has one direction that he can go at this point.

00:50:38.140 Right.

00:50:38.420 And it ain't up.

00:50:39.560 There's what can he do to make himself more popular at this point?

00:50:42.100 Seriously, he's handed literal cash checks to Americans.

00:50:45.260 He's just sent checks to millions of Americans.

00:50:47.980 He's he's said to them, here are your vaccines.

00:50:49.780 And you know what, you know, now he hasn't said go back to life, but he will.

00:50:54.140 Nobody.

00:50:55.160 There's no place to go for him but down from here.

00:50:57.780 And so he's like, OK, well, time's time's wasting.

00:51:00.380 Right.

00:51:00.560 The clock is ticking because if I start hitting 45 percent, 40 percent, everything's gone.

00:51:04.500 We're going to take questions from some of our dailywire.com subscribers.

00:51:07.760 They're the reason that we're here tonight and able to bring this show to you.

00:51:10.880 So we want to hear from a question. 0.99

00:51:13.120 How dumb does he think we are? 0.99

00:51:14.780 Who will pay for all of this? 1.00

00:51:16.560 Of course, those of low income will vote for him.

00:51:19.380 And Democrats, they can continue to get things for free and all of these reductions for staying at a low income.

00:51:25.200 I mean, we all know the answer.

00:51:26.340 Who's going to pay for it?

00:51:27.020 Ben's going to pay for it.

00:51:28.100 But he's not because because you can't tax billionaires to get trillions of dollars.

00:51:32.480 It doesn't make any sense.

00:51:33.600 I'm sorry.

00:51:34.340 It really doesn't. 0.98

00:51:35.220 And the question of how dumb does he think we are? 1.00

00:51:37.320 Dumb. 1.00

00:51:37.920 Every D-U-M-B with big letters. 1.00

00:51:40.300 But by the way it is humanly possible to be.

00:51:41.880 I was screaming at the television when he was talking about taxes. 0.99

00:51:44.420 Because what he is saying is so obviously asinine. 0.99

00:51:47.700 When he says that rich people don't pay their fair share in this country, that is just an abject, disgusting lie. 0.99

00:51:52.980 It is a lie.

00:51:54.380 The top 10% of income earners in this country pay all net taxes.

00:51:57.440 Not some of the net taxes.

00:51:58.840 All of the net taxes.

00:51:59.900 Because net taxes are defined as what you pay into the government minus what you get back from the government.

00:52:04.740 So if you get back from the government more than you paid in, this means that you are not a person who paid net taxes into the government.

00:52:11.200 Only the people at the top of the spectrum are paying net taxes in this country.

00:52:14.380 All of the net taxes in this country.

00:52:15.880 When he says they're not paying their fair share, the only thing he means by they're not paying their fair share is it should be nearly all of your income goes to the federal government.

00:52:22.420 And when he says things like, I'm not going to tax anybody who's making under $400,000 a year, he is lying to you through his teeth.

00:52:28.820 When he says I'm going to tax corporations, corporations are not human beings for purposes of taxes.

00:52:33.360 The money that would have been passed on to you via income is being taxed up here.

00:52:37.380 That money is now being withdrawn from the system and taken away from you.

00:52:40.920 Corporations are going to have to raise prices in order to deal with the taxation effects.

00:52:44.480 When he says that I'm going to tax all of these rich people on their capital gains taxes, what do you think those rich people are going to do rather than put their money in the stock market where they get taxed on capital gains?

00:52:53.960 They're not going to put their money in the stock market.

00:52:55.500 So what happens to your 401k if you're a union member or a teacher's union member?

00:52:59.420 What do you think happens to all the other 50 percent of the population who are invested in the stock market right now?

00:53:04.020 And what happens to the businesses that hire you when Joe Biden decides that your boss needs to be taxed out of existence in order so that he can determine where the dollars go? 0.91

00:53:11.900 This jackass who's never created a single job in his entire life. 0.83

00:53:15.360 The people who don't pay their fair share in this country are the poor. 0.99

00:53:18.780 We need to raise taxes on the poor.

00:53:20.600 I'm not joking.

00:53:21.680 I'm not joking.

00:53:22.460 The poor in this country pay zero.

00:53:24.460 The lower middle class in this country pay net zero.

00:53:27.060 So we have a group of people who pay no taxes, a group of people who pay no net taxes, a group of people who pay all the net taxes.

00:53:33.540 And his argument is that it's category three who don't pay their fair share.

00:53:37.100 Fair share means your percentage of taxes.

00:53:41.280 We've determined that there are some people who shouldn't pay any percent of taxes.

00:53:44.320 The only fair taxing system is one in which everyone pays.

00:53:49.400 But you know what's what's complicated about this, and it's the bait that Biden wants us to take, is he wants to make this a class issue.

00:53:56.300 Poor people vote for Democrats.

00:53:57.700 Rich people vote for Republicans.

00:53:59.120 It's just not true.

00:54:00.220 Millionaires broke for Biden.

00:54:01.820 And very often it's those poor, deplorable Americans who vote for Republicans.

00:54:05.460 And it's just a lie that Biden and all these.

00:54:09.240 And it's just all double taxation.

00:54:11.100 It's all double taxation.

00:54:12.200 Every dollar is getting taxed seven different ways.

00:54:14.220 If I earn a dollar, I get taxed as income if I earn a dollar.

00:54:18.240 Then if I invest it in the stock market, they tax that dollar.

00:54:20.800 Then if, God forbid, I die and I pass it on to my kids, they tax that dollar.

00:54:24.660 Then if I use it in a transaction, they tax that dollar in sales tax.

00:54:27.860 If I use it to buy a house, they tax it in property tax.

00:54:30.040 The problem is nobody cares.

00:54:32.260 Of course.

00:54:32.960 Spending is, I think, sort of the Republican climate change in that it's an issue we talk about, but nobody cares because it's not a reality.

00:54:40.200 Now, the difference is that spending is an actual problem where climate change isn't, but in people's lived experience, which is the phrase that we hear from the left all the time, it's just not a reality to them.

00:54:49.900 They don't feel it.

00:54:50.660 So it's just this doesn't mean anything.

00:54:51.920 And on top of it, we also know that for the last four years, there's this sort of glaring dead zone where Republicans stopped talking about this issue completely.

00:55:02.060 And now they're getting back to it.

00:55:04.220 I think it rings hollow.

00:55:05.180 I mean, that's 100 percent true.

00:55:06.460 I will say that there is a difference that is not even degree anymore.

00:55:10.540 It is now turning into a difference of kind between you spend four trillion dollars a year and you spend ten trillion dollars a year.

00:55:16.060 Right.

00:55:16.240 Yes.

00:55:16.700 Republicans did a horrible job restraining themselves on spending, but that's been true for decades.

00:55:21.240 I mean, seriously, really only in the 90s with Newt Gingrich, they do anything serious about spending. 0.84

00:55:25.520 Other than that, Republicans are spent like drunken sailors.

00:55:27.620 But Joe Biden isn't spending like a drunken sailor.

00:55:30.720 Joe Biden is spending like an entire drunken Navy.

00:55:33.060 I mean, it's insane.

00:55:34.700 I mean, and there will be effects to this on the taxation side.

00:55:38.460 What people should understand is that it's not just me bitching about paying too much of my taxes, even though I do pay way too much of my taxes.

00:55:43.100 And in fact, I one of the main reasons for me leaving a high tax state was because I did not wish to spend large sums of money with the worst government in America, the government of the state of California.

00:55:52.880 Right.

00:55:53.320 Right.

00:55:53.580 So that I could have a drug addicted homeless person standing directly outside my front gate suffering and threatening my family.

00:56:00.440 Is it like that?

00:56:00.900 That seemed like not a great tax dollars.

00:56:02.620 But the but it's what people need to understand is that when he talks about raising taxes, those are the dollars that go to make your job.

00:56:09.900 This is this lie that when he says the middle class built this country, where did the middle class get its money?

00:56:15.980 Where does he think that came from? 1.00

00:56:17.460 That is such crap. 0.99

00:56:19.220 I mean, like I'm a middle I was a middle class person for the vast majority of my life. 1.00

00:56:21.980 My parents were middle class people for the vast majority of their lives.

00:56:24.500 The middle class is great, but people are in and out of the middle class.

00:56:27.440 It's not a set group of human beings.

00:56:28.980 Yeah, that's right.

00:56:29.520 You start off in America as a poor person.

00:56:31.740 Then you move into the middle class as you age.

00:56:33.420 And then by the time you retire, usually you're upper middle class.

00:56:35.260 Same for minimum wage workers.

00:56:36.140 That's not a set group.

00:56:36.900 You're supposed to be a minimum wage worker for, you know, a couple of years.

00:56:39.760 We're not living in like a British TV show from 1773, right, where everybody is a part of a class and you just stay there your whole life and you can never escape it.

00:56:48.160 That's not how it works.

00:56:48.980 Every time a president or a government worker uses the word investment, I want to explode because the investment means that you go out to work, you make a dollar.

00:57:00.360 They take the dollar and say, you know what I'm going to spend this dollar on?

00:57:03.000 I'm going to spend it on what I want to spend it on.

00:57:04.700 Whereas if you choose, if you go and say, I'm going to buy a Chinese meal, you've actually created another job.

00:57:10.580 You've actually invested your money where you think it should go.

00:57:14.300 Investment by nature, by definition, entails taking a risk.

00:57:19.140 Okay, when I invest a dollar, I am taking a risk.

00:57:22.160 I'm putting the dollar in.

00:57:23.280 And then maybe if things go well, I will make more dollars out than the dollar that I put in.

00:57:26.980 When the government invests your money, they don't give two craps whether a dollar comes back in the other end.

00:57:32.480 And in fact, they know that a dollar is not coming in back in the other end.

00:57:35.300 But investment also involves choice.

00:57:36.740 And who's going to make that choice?

00:57:38.040 Is it going to be you who earned the money or them?

00:57:40.380 You know, I mean, we had that system in the South before the Civil War where somebody else did the work and the other guy got the money.

00:57:45.620 That's right.

00:57:45.820 That's not the way it's supposed to be.

00:57:46.640 By the way, if the government wanted to invest, it would actually be fairly remarkable.

00:57:50.200 So we pay approximately $2,000 a month to people over 65 in this country for Social Security.

00:57:56.180 It's almost impossible to live a good life on $2,000 a month in this country.

00:57:59.580 But that's what we give them, and we tell them that we're very charitable and we're very caring because we do it.

00:58:04.840 Now, if you live for, let's say, 20 years and we're paying you $2,000 a month, we're paying you $24,000 a year, we're paying you $240,000 a decade, we're paying you approximately $500,000.

00:58:19.660 Every 20 years.

00:58:20.520 Every 20 years for the 20 years of your retirement.

00:58:22.980 During that period of time, there is no money.

00:58:26.580 It's not your money.

00:58:27.680 They told you it was your money.

00:58:28.720 They said they were going to take your money and put it in a lockbox.

00:58:31.240 They didn't.

00:58:31.780 They spent all your money.

00:58:33.220 Now they're taking the money from younger people.

00:58:34.760 That's right.

00:58:35.460 To give to you.

00:58:36.700 And there are fewer of them, too.

00:58:37.760 And there are fewer and fewer of them.

00:58:38.740 So they're taking money from people who are working, giving it to people who aren't working to the tune of $2,000 a month, $24,000 a year.

00:58:46.320 You're not doing very well.

00:58:48.140 And the government owns you.

00:58:49.520 Lock stock.

00:58:50.080 That's right.

00:58:50.360 Now, if the government wanted to invest, it could, instead of doing that, it could say, instead of paying you $2,000 when you retire, we're going to put $2,000 a month into the market in your name on the day that you're born.

00:59:05.180 And if they did that for 24 months, you would have three times more money in retirement, and you could live more than 20 years.

00:59:13.260 You could retire at 65 and live for 40 years.

00:59:16.140 If they put it in Dogecoin, you'd be a trillion.

00:59:18.140 The point being, investments bear returns.

00:59:22.500 The government just confiscates money from the people who have it and give it to the people most likely to vote for them.

00:59:28.580 And they call that an investment.

00:59:29.840 How do you get people to care about this issue, though?

00:59:32.400 That's what I can't.

00:59:33.260 They're about to care.

00:59:34.780 They're about to care.

00:59:35.880 We haven't cared here to four because there's been more and more and more money.

00:59:40.620 The problem is now the interest that we actually – the debt isn't free.

00:59:44.140 You have to pay interest on the debt.

00:59:46.300 It's been the case that up until now the interest on the debt was a serviceable number.

00:59:51.140 But we're getting to a place now where the interest on the debt will require us to pay higher and higher taxes and get nothing else in return for it.

00:59:59.280 Well, this is where we're about to hit within the next five to ten years where Germany was, right? 0.99

01:00:04.200 We're going to start having to take austerity measures.

01:00:06.420 And the Democrats are not going to want to do austerity measures, but they're really not going to have a choice because even Angela Merkel has to do austerity measures, right?

01:00:13.240 Even the Greeks had to do austerity measures.

01:00:15.740 Like there comes a point where you just don't have any choices left.

01:00:17.960 And then it's basically going to be a fight over how much austerity is too much austerity and how much taxation is too much taxation.

01:00:25.200 But we're going to find ourselves in a world of hurt.

01:00:26.940 And the only way that you're going to be able to get out of that world of hurt is by actively cutting benefits.

01:00:31.220 And if you want actual economic growth, actively cutting taxes because otherwise the only solution is to raise taxes sky high and cut benefits, in which case you get a stagnant economy and crappy social service.

01:00:40.100 And we're living on the illusion that the American dollar is still the strongest economic vehicle in the world, where ultimately, eventually, that's just not going to be true.

01:00:49.440 Well, this is why I think the next step that's going to be made is they're going to come after Bitcoin with a vengeance.

01:00:53.860 They're going to wreck Bitcoin.

01:00:55.800 The government cannot allow Bitcoin to exist.

01:00:57.560 They can't.

01:00:58.200 Because more and more people are saying, as you inflate the dollar, I'm just going to take my money and I'll put it in gold or I'll put it in Bitcoin.

01:01:04.320 FDR didn't like when people were investing in gold for a very specific reason, right?

01:01:07.180 They're going to do exactly the same thing with Bitcoin, which basically just is a repository of value that is not inflatable by a centralized government.

01:01:14.240 So can I talk about the best part of the speech, the part I like the most?

01:01:16.860 Yeah.

01:01:17.260 It's the part where Joe Biden sold 100,000 AR-15s.

01:01:23.140 I think at the end of that speech, he sold approximately 100,000 AR-15s by saying that he's going to take away AR-15s.

01:01:30.040 And the Washington Post, by the way, debunked, actually called him on the idea that Republicans and gun owners support him in this.

01:01:37.420 Oh, of course not.

01:01:38.240 Of course not.

01:01:38.900 Gun control is becoming less and less popular every day.

01:01:41.560 One of the amazing things that's actually happening in the country and was really escalated during COVID is that not only did we sell more guns in the last year than had ever been sold before, there were more first-time gun owners.

01:01:53.780 Well, it's impossible to get ammo now, unfortunately.

01:01:55.620 Right.

01:01:55.720 But the more people buy guns, the less people support.

01:01:59.660 Well, they keep saying things like, what if we got rid of all the guns because guns are bad?

01:02:03.280 Also, what if we got rid of all the cops because cops are bad?

01:02:05.580 And you're like, well, that's a bit of a problem.

01:02:08.000 Also, what if we shut down all the prisons because prisons are bad?

01:02:10.980 Also, what if we take away all of your investments so you have any money?

01:02:14.500 This is the one issue.

01:02:15.380 Gun control is maybe the one issue that Republicans and conservatives have held the line on for decades and have actually won this one issue.

01:02:24.840 It's a very important issue.

01:02:25.560 It's not, to my mind, the most important issue, but it's very, very important.

01:02:29.980 And, you know, I always wonder what lessons can we take from that?

01:02:32.600 Look at what the gun rights lobby has done.

01:02:36.060 And can we do similar things with, like, the life issue and protecting children and those sorts of things?

01:02:41.600 I don't agree.

01:02:42.080 We've held the line well on the life issue.

01:02:43.740 And it is another issue that we went on.

01:02:47.040 What we haven't done a good job of is actually using government to forward the life issue when we have power.

01:02:54.700 Good point.

01:02:55.240 But we have done a great job, I think.

01:02:56.960 There are no pro-choice Republicans in elected, national elected office, are there?

01:03:02.740 Right.

01:03:03.440 Now, the fact that we suck at doing anything about it once we're in power, I totally agree.

01:03:07.220 But those are the only two.

01:03:08.300 I would say there are two issues that we've been incredibly ideologically pure on in my life.

01:03:14.320 It's also different math with regard to legislation just because on guns, it's easier to obstruct than it is to pass, right?

01:03:19.300 It's much easier to say, OK, you guys want to pass this stuff, you don't have the votes for it, than to say, OK, we're going to roll back all of this pro-choice nonsense.

01:03:24.920 Well, but we also, but, you know, $500 million a year going to Planned Parenthood.

01:03:29.520 I agree with you.

01:03:30.600 Kills 330,000 babies a year.

01:03:32.420 And that continued when Republicans had total control of the government.

01:03:35.740 So they do not.

01:03:36.800 Absolutely. 1.00

01:03:37.380 They're talking about Republicans being cowards. 0.98

01:03:39.760 They do not want to do it. 0.99

01:03:40.640 They're so afraid.

01:03:41.280 Well, even think about it.

01:03:41.900 I mean, Trump stripped something.

01:03:43.100 What was it?

01:03:43.420 $60 million, I think, from Planned Parenthood.

01:03:45.280 It doesn't matter.

01:03:46.520 It's going to go right back.

01:03:47.660 You can't really do it.

01:03:49.440 The thing is, we talk about following the science.

01:03:51.280 The science is on our side in this.

01:03:53.040 The technology is on our side.

01:03:54.580 You can now see a baby in the, you know, this didn't happen before.

01:03:57.900 When Aquinas was writing about the quickening, he didn't have a sonar machine that he could just say, oh, there's the baby.

01:04:03.820 It's a baby, you know?

01:04:05.200 You know, I'll give an example on this.

01:04:06.980 My cute little son, I never got a good sonogram of him because he had his fist right by his face.

01:04:11.820 I actually couldn't.

01:04:12.620 I paid for the extra 3D sonogram.

01:04:14.060 I never got it.

01:04:15.100 And you know what?

01:04:15.640 My little son, after he came out of the womb, you know what he always does? 0.99

01:04:18.220 He always has his hand by his face because he's the baby.

01:04:20.520 He's the same baby that was in the womb.

01:04:22.200 What I'll say about the abortion argument, there is something happening in America right now, which I think goes unnoticed.

01:04:28.740 And that's that the states are winning huge victories on the life issue.

01:04:31.500 Our argument about Roe v. Wade has always been that it was an issue better decided by the states.

01:04:36.880 And we're right.

01:04:38.200 The federal government can't make the right decision about it.

01:04:41.280 States, Texas, Tennessee are making great decisions on the life issue, consequential decisions.

01:04:46.860 It's much harder to get an abortion in the reddest of red states than it has been at any point in the lifetime of anyone except Drew.

01:04:54.360 We just had a new bill passed two days ago in Idaho, another heartbeat bill.

01:04:57.600 Yeah, that's right.

01:04:58.680 What you're seeing also with Joe Biden accelerating it, I mean, this is real accelerationism what he is doing right now.

01:05:03.840 And what it's going to result in is the amount of movement by conservatives into red states is just going to be overwhelming.

01:05:10.880 People are just going to say it's already pretty amazing.

01:05:12.440 I mean, yeah, it's I can tell you that in Florida, the real estate market is just extraordinary right now.

01:05:17.600 People are buying houses sight unseen.

01:05:19.580 Yeah.

01:05:19.780 Because they're like, I got to get out of here and I got to get someplace sane.

01:05:22.540 There are people at this company who bought houses sight unseen in Tennessee, actually.

01:05:25.860 I'm looking forward as an Angelino leaving Los Angeles.

01:05:28.660 I'm looking forward to bringing homelessness and ugly, ugly billboards to the rest of the country.

01:05:34.500 Yeah, you're great.

01:05:36.060 You're great.

01:05:37.460 So I'm going to take a few more questions from DailyWire.com subscribers.

01:05:40.980 They are the people keeping the show on the air.

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01:05:47.800 Biden refers to China as our direct competition.

01:05:50.000 But do you think he will stand up against them if China follows through and becomes aggressive toward Taiwan?

01:05:55.720 Michael, how much money did Hunter Biden have on the line there with that private equity deal that didn't I guess it didn't go through?

01:06:03.540 No, of course not.

01:06:04.180 The thing that we have learned over the last couple of years, I think, and the conservative movement is that there is the blob, the liberal establishment, which there's an uncomfortable overlap between the government and the administrative state and big tech and big corporations, those big woke corporations in Georgia.

01:06:23.000 And where are they getting a lot of their money from?

01:06:25.400 Just ask LeBron James.

01:06:26.540 Just ask the NBA.

01:06:27.380 That's right.

01:06:27.800 They get it from China.

01:06:29.040 So is Joe Biden, who not that long ago was cheering on the rise of China, saying this is a wonderful thing.

01:06:35.840 A rising China is great for everybody.

01:06:37.760 Let him into the WTO.

01:06:39.440 Of course not.

01:06:40.040 He's the last guy that's going to stand up.

01:06:41.500 Well, I don't think China is going to make a full-on militarily aggressive move against Taiwan because I think they don't think they need to.

01:06:48.840 I think what they're going to do is they're going to start a low-level pressure campaign against Taiwan, see if they can get a government elected in Taiwan that is much more pro-China, and then just start using authoritarian measures because this is exactly what they did in Hong Kong and the rest of the world just shrugged.

01:07:01.120 I mean, it is an amazing thing that we have watched in our lifetime, the first reversal of a free state into absolute tyranny through a foreign country's influence. 0.96

01:07:11.240 It's the first time this has happened basically since the end of the Cold War.

01:07:14.900 And everybody just shrugged.

01:07:17.080 They went, OK, so they just subjected 7 million people in Hong Kong to absolute tyranny and no one cared.

01:07:21.380 You know, we have a serious problem with China. 0.97

01:07:23.300 First of all, I want to say that if I were China, I'd go into Taiwan tomorrow.

01:07:26.560 I'd take it over tomorrow.

01:07:27.500 I'd do it militarily.

01:07:28.500 And I mean, they just, what is Biden going to do at this point?

01:07:31.700 He has not got the wherewithal.

01:07:33.220 It proves America to be neutered if they do it. 0.86

01:07:35.500 What's that?

01:07:35.940 They both get Taiwan and they get to show that America.

01:07:38.140 That's right.

01:07:38.720 And the American people don't want to go send the military into it.

01:07:41.380 No, it wouldn't turn into a military conflict.

01:07:43.020 They'd be able to take it, but there would be some pretty significant economic consequences for them, so why not do it the easy way?

01:07:47.200 The left's problem with China is the left is China.

01:07:49.480 They actually believe in a free market, but in chained people.

01:07:55.640 And China has shown so far, I don't actually believe that's going to work in the long run, but they have shown so far that they can make that work.

01:08:02.920 Our belief, our belief, our belief is the case.

01:08:05.740 China is just sans holocaust. 0.87

01:08:08.560 And if you include what's going on in Xinjiang, even including holocaust, they're just Nazi Germany. 0.83

01:08:12.480 Yeah.

01:08:12.700 That's all they are.

01:08:13.260 I mean, they have a Nazi economy, which they top down, corporatist economy, in which they have a few approved companies. 0.89

01:08:18.460 And the government of China says, you're allowed to make a lot of money here, and you're allowed to make a lot of money here.

01:08:21.880 It's basically mercantilism.

01:08:22.980 And you're going to, and we'll allow you.

01:08:24.620 I don't agree that that's a free market.

01:08:25.860 That's not a free market.

01:08:26.560 It's mercantilist corporatism.

01:08:28.140 But that's essentially what the Democrats are for.

01:08:30.540 I mean, they believe in controlling.

01:08:31.880 I agree with that.

01:08:32.220 Yeah, they believe in controlling the people through the corporations and controlling the corporations through the government.

01:08:38.200 That is China. 0.90

01:08:39.140 So why should they fight?

01:08:40.480 How can we count on Republicans, asks OneDailyWire.com subscriber, to actually fight back against these policies that Biden is implementing?

01:08:47.960 Oh, we can't.

01:08:50.540 We didn't see the whole Tim Scott speech, but what we needed to see, and maybe he did it skeptical,

01:08:57.980 is a fiery defense of law and order, you know, a defense of free speech.

01:09:04.980 This is what people care about.

01:09:07.540 They need to get fired up, getting on board with police reform in any capacity at all.

01:09:12.000 We shouldn't even be entertaining the idea.

01:09:14.460 There's no reason for it because this crisis of police brutality is manufactured by the left.

01:09:20.560 But I don't have any confidence in the Republican Party at all, especially because, as we talked about before we went there,

01:09:25.000 these Republicans came to the speech and wore their masks, including some Republicans who previously had great moments where they said,

01:09:31.400 I'm not going to wear the mask because I don't need to, and there they are sitting.

01:09:34.680 Well, you know, we just said that there is this model here where the liberal establishment is going to use the corporations to control the people.

01:09:42.100 Money talks and BS walks.

01:09:44.260 And just a few hours ago, there was an excellent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal by our pal Ted Cruz.

01:09:50.300 Cruz came out and he said, look, Republicans were wrong to shill for corporations before.

01:09:55.000 We're all part of it.

01:09:55.980 We're not going to do it anymore.

01:09:57.120 We're not going to let them do it.

01:09:57.980 I'm not going to take a penny from corporate PACs.

01:10:00.280 More than that, I call on all of my fellow Republicans not to take a penny from corporate PACs.

01:10:05.260 Is that going to solve the problem?

01:10:07.280 I don't think it's going to solve the problem.

01:10:08.640 Is it a step in the right direction?

01:10:10.380 Absolutely.

01:10:11.260 Especially if it pressures Republicans to break this hold.

01:10:15.560 Because how many big tech hearings did we see where those senators, they sat there and they yelled at Mark Zuckerberg. 0.61

01:10:22.260 They yelled at all these guys.

01:10:23.840 And then what followed from that?

01:10:26.060 Absolutely nothing.

01:10:26.840 Because big tech was donating to their campaigns.

01:10:30.400 I think it's not just that big tech donates to their campaigns.

01:10:33.680 I think that it's also what we've been talking about all night.

01:10:38.360 It's a fundamental kind of cowardice among Republicans to take action.

01:10:42.460 One of the things that's happened is that Congress generally has ceded all of its constitutional authorities to the executive and the bureaucracy.

01:10:50.760 They don't want to do anything because you can't really be judged on nothing.

01:10:56.500 You only are going to lose, their theory goes, if we do something, there will be people who don't like it and then we'll lose.

01:11:02.160 It's also true that there are a lot of conservatives who think that conservatism is really more attitudinal than programmatic.

01:11:07.160 Meaning it's more about the attitude that you take about stopping change as opposed to, you know, a program for actually implementing change.

01:11:13.420 Well, if it's just about the attitude and what you're conserving is a system that is largely moved to the left, you're not actively being conservative.

01:11:20.360 And you see this over and over from members of government, which is, well, you know, we did thwart their plans, right?

01:11:25.100 Our job is to be there and it's to stand to thwart the rails of history shouting stop.

01:11:28.120 Well, what happened if the train already pushed you several hundred yards in this direction?

01:11:31.760 It doesn't matter if you're like this train needs to be put on a completely different track.

01:11:35.600 They don't understand. They act like European conservatives.

01:11:39.260 They don't understand that American conservatives are liberal.

01:11:42.220 American conservatives are conserving the Constitution, the most liberal document in the old style meaning of liberal, most liberal document ever invented because it leaves people free.

01:11:52.980 Liberalism is freedom and it leaves people free.

01:11:55.120 We are defending something, a philosophy, an act of philosophy as opposed to Europeans defending blood and soil and rank and all the things that conservatives in Europe defended.

01:12:06.360 We don't we don't defend any of that.

01:12:07.940 We defend the Constitution.

01:12:09.700 We are defending a revolutionary idea, the only revolutionary political idea that's existed for 200 years.

01:12:16.120 I mean, it's kind of incredible. I spoke to the House Republican Caucus a little bit earlier this week, as reported in a few of the kind of political outlets.

01:12:22.860 And one of the things that I was talking about was the contract with America.

01:12:25.540 I said, you guys ought to have a second contract with America.

01:12:27.340 And as I went back, I looked at the original contract with America.

01:12:29.780 What I noticed is that the original contract with America, which promised that the Republicans would pass about 10 different bills and eight different reforms.

01:12:36.140 They did pass all of those things and many of them were vetoed by Bill Clinton.

01:12:39.960 But a lot of those things are still not done.

01:12:43.620 Right. Things like zero baseline budgeting.

01:12:45.200 Right. They're like that's that's an easy one.

01:12:47.120 Right. There are certain things that are that are that they were like police reform was being like not police reform.

01:12:52.020 Additional police funding was being proposed by the Republicans in 93 so that they would win back to Congress in 94 because there were serious problems with crime at that point.

01:12:59.380 Even Joe Biden thought there were serious problems with crime at that point, back when he had not completely lost his mind.

01:13:03.880 And the is that back when Kamala was marching at Selma?

01:13:08.240 I think so. She was in the scroller. Yeah.

01:13:10.420 And the and the fact is that the Republicans have held Congress several times since then with a Republican president and with the Republican Senate.

01:13:17.180 And they didn't make that stuff permanent. They only passed it when Democrats were in control.

01:13:20.920 We should be fair, though. We did have a Republican leader read green eggs and ham.

01:13:26.580 And, you know, that was an important moment for all of us.

01:13:29.660 Yeah, we we less less than.

01:13:33.880 Four years ago, Republicans controlled the Congress and the presidency and they did nothing.

01:13:39.800 And, you know, there is a way. Oh, they passed a tax cut.

01:13:42.240 They passed a tax cut, a temporary.

01:13:43.960 They changed me as a copyright law. That was big.

01:13:46.640 There is actually a good thing.

01:13:48.340 No, it was a good thing. But it wasn't like my list of priorities.

01:13:50.920 It wasn't like, you know, there are a lot of conservatives right now who hear when we talk about the Constitution and these abstract philosophical ideas who say that's I don't I don't care about things that are floating in the sky.

01:14:01.400 I want tangible results. And I think there is a way to bring these things together, which is the American way of life.

01:14:08.600 There is an American way of life where all these great philosophical ideas have actually been embodied in real institutions and real rights that we've all cherished for a very long time that the left is trying to destroy.

01:14:19.640 And I just think if Republicans would get down to brass tacks and say, you know, the stuff that's going on in our streets, it's just wrong.

01:14:27.520 We don't like it. It's not part of our political tradition, which comes from our ideas and the way it's been enacted.

01:14:32.220 Get back to that. Get back to that America that we cherish and love.

01:14:35.880 Trump did a very good job of of putting it in really practical terms.

01:14:40.320 And I just fear sometimes Republicans were too pie in the sky about it.

01:14:43.560 Just give people something to hold on to in this.

01:14:46.320 You know, you know, it is funny. Trump didn't do a good job of telling stories.

01:14:49.700 He was really good at that. And it was something that Republicans and conservatives in general need to learn.

01:14:54.180 But, you know, all the time Trump was in office, I would complain about his personality and his rudeness and his unkindness.

01:15:01.720 And I think, like, that really was the turning point in the sense that, for instance, John McCain destroyed the end of Obamacare because he was ticked off.

01:15:11.400 Yeah.

01:15:11.680 He had been mistreated. And, you know, these guys are all narcissists and they don't want to be mistreated.

01:15:15.520 And we are left with and I think you, Matt, tweeted this out yesterday or today that we were left with a Republican administration that left us nothing of enduring value.

01:15:27.920 And unfortunately, that happens just too often because of what you're saying, Ben, that they don't have a positive vision of what it means to be a conservative.

01:15:36.840 And I think you're right, too. I think that the idea we are talking about things that that maybe are a little too pie in the sky.

01:15:43.480 We have to show people how they work. It's a harder story to tell.

01:15:46.820 It's a harder story to tell that each individual person making decisions on his own, each individual person trying to better his life, actually betters the country more than Joe Biden's idea that he's just going to pour money.

01:15:58.040 What's kind of fascinating is that Democrats do one thing that I've never really heard a Republican do.

01:16:03.380 Democrats do something that is very useful in nearly every state that has popular support.

01:16:09.120 And that is they ask for sacrifice.

01:16:10.580 Right. They do this all the time is you're going to have to sacrifice this for climate change.

01:16:14.380 You have to sacrifice this for racial inequity. You're going to sacrifice this for income inequality.

01:16:18.360 And the truth is that Republicans never do that.

01:16:20.700 They sort of suggest, OK, well, you can have your cake and you can eat it, too, which is how you end up with tax cuts and high spending.

01:16:24.620 Right. Yeah. And no point did they ever say, you know what?

01:16:26.900 For the sake of the country and for the sake of your children, we're going to have to cut spending.

01:16:30.080 And it's it's going to come from places that you're upset about.

01:16:33.160 Right. It's going to come from places where you may be upset at me that I'm cutting this.

01:16:36.960 But for the sake of your kids, you are going to have to just take the hit.

01:16:40.360 You're going to have to be an adult.

01:16:41.560 And and so what they've done is they've trained an entire generation of Republican voters to vote for Republicans.

01:16:45.860 But then when it comes time to pass a piece of legislation that requires some sacrifice here or there, the Republican voter goes, well, I do want to cut spending, but I really don't want to cut that.

01:16:53.120 But the difference is the difference is I totally agree with what you're saying.

01:16:55.560 I think that needs to be the message from the Republican Party. Absolutely.

01:16:57.540 Absolutely. But the one advantage that the Democrats have is they ask for sacrifice, but it's someone else is making a sacrifice.

01:17:04.720 So you as the voter are not sacrificing. So on climate change, on taxes, everything, it's it's the bad guys.

01:17:10.680 I'm actually not sure, Matt. I think that they like the sacrifice.

01:17:14.340 I think that people like the idea that the masking, the mask is a sacrifice.

01:17:17.320 And this is Orwell on Hitler. Right. Orwell, very famously, during the war, early in the war, 41, maybe.

01:17:22.920 Forty writes an introduction to Mein Kampf. And it's one of the most fascinating reads.

01:17:29.740 If you've never read, it's very short, two or three pages.

01:17:32.280 It's fascinating because he he predicts the end of the pact between German and Germany and Russia vis-a-vis Poland.

01:17:40.820 He he he basically tells the future. And so you read it now and it feels like, well, yeah, we all know that that's what happens at the time.

01:17:47.900 No one knew that's what was going to happen except Orwell. Right.

01:17:50.500 And he's saying exactly what's going to happen. And at the at the conclusion, he says very close to what you're saying, Ben.

01:17:56.800 He essentially says that, you know, the the liberal West offers its people the promise of a life of security and ease.

01:18:04.620 Yeah. And the power of Hitler is that he stands before his people against the backdrop of Western ease and promises them only honor and valor and toil and sacrifice. 0.85

01:18:19.460 And so does Churchill. Churchill did the exact same thing. Blood, sweat and tears.

01:18:22.640 Blood, sweat and tears.

01:18:23.160 Well, I think why people see him as an inspirational leader.

01:18:25.900 That's right.

01:18:26.280 The lie of the lie of modern liberalism is that what people actually want from their leaders is stuff.

01:18:33.740 Right. That if you give them a prosperous state, then they'll be super happy.

01:18:36.900 And it's just a lie. We have the most prosperous America that we've ever had.

01:18:39.560 We had it before the pandemic and we'll have it again after the pandemic.

01:18:42.660 And yet people are deeply unhappy because normally the things that they would be called to sacrifice for, like their religion, even their religions are not calling for them to sacrifice.

01:18:50.600 That's right. Their religions aren't even calling for them to sacrifice their own personal desires on behalf.

01:18:54.360 Is it less is it less sacrifice? It's it's it's there's there's an element of sacrifice.

01:18:58.840 But I think the main thing with with Democrats and the left, especially somebody like Bernie Sanders, it's it's he's making a moral argument.

01:19:06.120 Yeah, that's what he's talking about. He's saying this is the right thing to do.

01:19:09.080 And that's why we need to do it. Whether they're sacrifice or not, it's just the right thing.

01:19:13.320 It might not be the most practical thing, but it's the right thing.

01:19:15.540 And that's what and that's the argument that the Republican Party doesn't make.

01:19:18.160 They've sacrificed the moral. There is a liturgical element to this in that you remember a few years ago,

01:19:23.200 and I guess more than a few years now under Obama. Obama said, look, we'll solve this terrorism thing once we get some more jobs in Pakistan.

01:19:29.700 Then it's all good and more jobs in Afghanistan. And then they'll all be happy because they'll have iPhones. 0.99

01:19:33.860 And you had this strange phenomenon of third generation foreigners, you know, third generation immigrants in the United Kingdom flying to the Middle East to join ISIS. 0.96

01:19:44.880 Oh, my. Why are you leaving London to join ISIS? Because of exactly what Orwell said.

01:19:49.000 Because that is a life imbued with meaning and sacrifice and an enactment of these values.

01:19:53.680 But you guys are leaving one thing out. You're leaving one thing out.

01:19:56.060 In order to call for sacrifice, you have to have a crisis.

01:19:58.680 And the left manufactures crisis again and again and again, and we never do.

01:20:02.460 What we always say is the only crisis is the left.

01:20:05.300 But we do have a crisis in this country. We have a crisis of spirit. We have a crisis of vision.

01:20:09.480 We have a crisis of freedom, most importantly of all.

01:20:11.840 And we have to push that forward and make people understand that those things are things you sacrifice for.

01:20:17.220 I'm not sacrificing to turn off the sun. I'm sorry. The sun is going to be there.

01:20:21.620 And if it's not there, it's just going to be a very, very cold night.

01:20:24.660 You know, but I will sacrifice.

01:20:28.720 You know, we were talking about Nick Fuentes today, a guy all of us despise.

01:20:31.840 And we despise the things he believes in.

01:20:33.860 I personally, I personally am offended by what Nick Fuentes says.

01:20:37.900 But he got on a plane and they wouldn't let him fly.

01:20:40.320 And I want to defend his rights, not because I defend him, but because his rights are my rights.

01:20:45.220 And they're your rights. And we want to preserve those rights.

01:20:47.820 We've got to make people understand that.

01:20:49.260 And for our children, too. I mean, it sounds like a cliche, but that's a real crisis.

01:20:53.580 We're murdering our children. They're being corrupted and perverted in schools.

01:20:57.420 We're literally trying to turn boys into girls, drugging and mutilating them. 0.99

01:21:01.500 That's a real crisis that I think most people are willing to sacrifice for their children.

01:21:06.440 And that's a message that somehow the Republican Party doesn't make.

01:21:09.140 One of the most one of the most essentially left wing moments of these last few weeks was the New York Times saying that we mustn't judge.

01:21:18.140 We mustn't talk about the fact that these children who have been out of school are never going to catch up because that stigmatizes them.

01:21:24.900 So, in other words, our lousy programs, our lousy ideas, the things, terrible things that we did are not going to be addressed because, oh, that would stigmatize the children.

01:21:33.400 You know, we of course we have to defend our children.

01:21:35.500 The left has sold them to the teachers.

01:21:37.500 Can I make an unpopular?

01:21:39.560 No. 1.00

01:21:40.200 Damn it. 1.00

01:21:40.620 We want you to be popular every damn minute. 1.00

01:21:43.260 More unpopular than tax the poor. 0.98

01:21:47.580 Taxing the poor is moral and we should do it. 1.00

01:21:50.240 The only thing immoral.

01:21:51.160 I'm just going to keep double down on this one.

01:21:52.380 Can we also beat up the poor?

01:21:53.660 No, no, no.

01:21:54.540 Stop that.

01:21:55.800 God.

01:21:56.640 We preach in this country the virtue of not working.

01:22:03.800 Yeah.

01:22:04.080 You have books, the 40-hour work week.

01:22:05.940 You know, everyone wants early retirement.

01:22:07.560 How can I retire by 35?

01:22:09.160 Retire by 40?

01:22:10.120 How could I retire by 50?

01:22:13.100 We are meant in a fallen world to toil.

01:22:16.840 Bingo.

01:22:17.200 The Bible doesn't say, take one day of your two-day weekend and don't work.

01:22:22.560 The Bible says, six days you will toil.

01:22:27.520 It's a biblical both prescription and description, to borrow from Ben, that you would work six

01:22:34.020 days of your life and rest on the seventh day.

01:22:36.580 We're going to talk about the theological ramifications of that.

01:22:38.640 That's a great conversation.

01:22:39.380 But I'm not.

01:22:39.820 I'm talking in a very practical sense.

01:22:42.120 God commands and describes man as one who will work six out of seven days.

01:22:47.260 By the sweat of your brow.

01:22:48.840 By the sweat of your brow.

01:22:50.260 And we say you shouldn't.

01:22:51.840 I see all these women in America today who are miserably unhappy. 0.94

01:22:55.600 And they're miserably unhappy, Christian women, because they believe that it's wrong for a 1.00

01:22:59.880 woman to work outside the house. 1.00

01:23:01.240 They believe they're supposed to be homemakers. 0.89

01:23:03.700 And listen, if you've got young children at home, I think it's very beautiful for you

01:23:07.940 not to work and to raise those young children.

01:23:10.380 That is a kind of toil.

01:23:12.000 Yeah.

01:23:12.280 That is a kind of labor.

01:23:13.520 But a lot of these women in America, they have one kid or two kids. 1.00

01:23:17.340 They leave the workforce.

01:23:18.580 They raise them until they're six.

01:23:20.400 Then they send them to public school.

01:23:22.220 And then they call themselves stay-at-home housewives or stay-at-home homemakers.

01:23:26.620 But the problem is we've replaced that job.

01:23:30.060 The 20th century replaced the job of the homemaker.

01:23:33.260 We have washing machines.

01:23:35.800 We have dishwashers.

01:23:36.900 We have vacuums.

01:23:37.740 All the things that caused a homemaker to toil were replaced.

01:23:42.380 And women in that position became less and less happy. 1.00

01:23:45.540 And they believe that the Bible tells them, many of these Christian women, that they're

01:23:48.800 supposed to stay home and watch daytime TV instead of having a job.

01:23:52.680 And that isn't true.

01:23:53.320 That is toil.

01:23:54.500 That is true toil.

01:23:55.940 But you're not supposed to stay home and watch daytime TV. 0.68

01:23:58.780 That is a miserable life, and it makes you miserable.

01:24:00.880 You're supposed to stay home and toil.

01:24:03.200 Raising kids, yes.

01:24:04.340 Homeschooling kids.

01:24:04.900 Of course, I'm not saying that everybody has to have a job outside the house, but you

01:24:08.180 have to have a job.

01:24:09.260 You have to have a thing that you do with your hands that creates value.

01:24:13.040 Listen, I have to say in my new book, which comes out in April, The Truth and Beauty,

01:24:17.540 I write an entire chapter about this.

01:24:18.780 Wait, what's the title?

01:24:19.540 The Truth and Beauty.

01:24:21.040 It's called Another Good Thing.

01:24:22.660 Can I please write your titles?

01:24:24.540 For the love of God, Drew.

01:24:28.340 It's like the third straight title where I'm like, I think that's a great title.

01:24:31.620 Thank you very much.

01:24:32.380 She said, but you're absolutely right about this, that every, when you look at the, what

01:24:37.820 is it, the Proverbs 31 woman that they talk about?

01:24:40.100 She does everything.

01:24:41.160 She's making clothes.

01:24:42.180 She's buying property. 0.99

01:24:43.240 She toils. 0.91

01:24:43.940 But all of those things, all of those things were taken out.

01:24:46.300 You've seen that every Friday night in the Jewish community.

01:24:47.420 They were just, no, they were destroyed by the Industrial Revolution.

01:24:50.080 They absolutely were.

01:24:51.080 Children were taken out of home.

01:24:52.340 All these things that made a woman's work less valuable. 1.00

01:24:55.600 To me, the great prospect is because I think the toil of making a home for people is a huge

01:25:03.720 humanizing task.

01:25:05.560 I think homemakers are the most important people in America.

01:25:08.920 I think that's the central job that all other jobs, as C.S. Lewis said, were built to support.

01:25:14.460 And what I think the answer to this is, is that there will be new, there are new versions

01:25:18.980 of work that can be done in the home.

01:25:21.360 I don't think women should leave the home. 1.00

01:25:22.940 I think homemaking is the humanizing job of women that we discount so much. 1.00

01:25:30.540 Let me just say, for the record, in Media Matters, that women should definitely do whatever 1.00

01:25:33.520 they want with their work.

01:25:34.720 No, they need to say that.

01:25:35.380 But we're not saying that for Media Matters.

01:25:37.520 I know.

01:25:38.500 Screw Media Matters.

01:25:39.640 But I mean, of course, everybody has their own choice about what they're going to do.

01:25:43.540 I'm simply saying that this should be a dignified, celebrated choice.

01:25:47.320 We should distinguish between, and this is where a lot of confusion comes in, distinguish

01:25:52.360 but a job and work are two, not necessarily the same thing.

01:25:56.460 You can work at your job, but there's a lot of work to be done at home.

01:26:01.520 Recently, there was some left-wingers that were tweeting about how they don't respect

01:26:06.500 stay-at-home moms because they want people who have ambition. 1.00

01:26:10.340 And it takes a lot of ambition to work at home and to build a home.

01:26:14.960 Now, you can be an unambitious parent, and your kids are going to be miserable, and your

01:26:19.260 spouse is going to be miserable. 1.00

01:26:20.060 It's going to be a terrible home.

01:26:21.720 But there's a difference between ambitious parenting and an ambitious spouse.

01:26:24.020 And by the way, forcing women out of the home is an actual structured strategy of the

01:26:30.160 left.

01:26:30.560 There's a great story that I recount in my upcoming book, Speechless.

01:26:34.360 It's available June 22nd, now for pre-order.

01:26:37.440 The title is better than yours.

01:26:38.680 Oh, yes.

01:26:39.620 It's like the first compliment.

01:26:40.860 I know, but the bar is so low.

01:26:43.580 So there was this great moment between Simone de Beauvoir, very famous feminist theorist. 0.96

01:26:48.540 She was the jilted common law wife of Jean-Paul Sartre, the notorious philanderer, and Betty

01:26:53.820 Friedan, who was the American feminist.

01:26:55.820 And Betty Friedan said, women, if they want to go out and work at the widget factory, they 1.00

01:26:59.920 should be allowed to do it.

01:27:01.140 And Simone de Beauvoir said, no, you're getting it wrong.

01:27:03.880 Women must leave the home. 1.00

01:27:05.800 They should not be given the choice to stay at home and raise the family.

01:27:09.400 Because if they are given that choice, they will take it.

01:27:12.940 Too many of them will take it, and that will not live.

01:27:15.340 Hang on.

01:27:16.200 I appreciate what you guys are saying, but I'm saying something else.

01:27:20.180 I'm saying that women should not stay home and not work. 1.00

01:27:23.720 I'm saying that men should not retire at age 30.

01:27:27.900 Yes.

01:27:28.220 I'm saying that we should not promise people lives of leisure.

01:27:31.580 Yes.

01:27:31.760 I'm saying that we shouldn't burden Christian women with the idea that being home alone

01:27:35.500 with nothing to do makes you virtuous.

01:27:37.640 I'm saying that God expects everyone, male and female, to work.

01:27:41.620 I'm saying that 65, you shouldn't be promised not to have to do anything anymore except sit 0.96

01:27:45.860 on the boat because you earned it.

01:27:47.040 You didn't earn it.

01:27:47.980 You earned it back when people died at 66.

01:27:50.280 People now die at 95, and you should work.

01:27:53.100 You should work.

01:27:54.360 Because it's better for you.

01:27:55.320 It is better for you, and it is better for society.

01:27:57.220 It all goes back to this idea that we are not offering anyone any piece of dignity.

01:28:03.800 We're not offering anyone any path to creating with their hands.

01:28:10.840 We're not offering them any path.

01:28:12.640 That's because we've changed the definition of dignity, though.

01:28:15.440 Because it used to be that dignity was earned.

01:28:17.720 It wasn't something that you were just handed.

01:28:19.600 There was no idea that you had the sort of right to dignity.

01:28:22.840 What you had was the right to go out and...

01:28:25.820 No, of course, it's silly because that's literally a right to somebody else's sentiment.

01:28:29.260 Dignity is something somebody else gives you, right?

01:28:30.840 Right.

01:28:31.260 The idea changed.

01:28:32.720 It was that dignity was something that is to be found in your own sense of authenticity.

01:28:38.220 Because you're authentic, therefore you deserve dignity.

01:28:40.600 And that's not correct.

01:28:41.320 It's because of what you do in your life.

01:28:42.860 It's because of the actions that you take in the world and in relationship with your society

01:28:46.300 that you are provided with dignity. 0.97

01:28:48.320 Now, that doesn't mean that people can treat you like garbage, 0.94

01:28:50.100 but it's an abuse of the word dignity to treat the word dignity the way that we have.

01:28:53.980 The word dignity never meant treat somebody decently.

01:28:57.140 Decently is not the same as dignity.

01:28:58.940 Dignity has an element of honor to it.

01:29:02.360 Everybody should be treated decently, of course.

01:29:04.500 I'm saying that if you expect nothing from anyone, they will be miserable.

01:29:09.920 Do you remember what Nancy Pelosi said when she was selling Obamacare?

01:29:13.760 She said, this is a wonderful...

01:29:15.380 It's an entrepreneurial bill because now you don't have to work.

01:29:18.760 It frees you from labor.

01:29:19.400 You can be a poet.

01:29:21.060 You can be a musician.

01:29:22.560 And you know the thing about poets is, there aren't that many of them.

01:29:26.480 And most of them are not very good.

01:29:28.180 Well, I also noticed that of all the vast numbers, millions of Americans on welfare programs

01:29:33.560 and food stamps and disability, I noticed how many just unbelievable poets, painters,

01:29:39.520 and string quartet members there are in this...

01:29:42.580 That's how people spend their time.

01:29:44.340 That's not a rip on people's skill sets, by the way.

01:29:46.300 That's just a recognition that when you pay people a lot to work, they don't spend the

01:29:50.140 time doing wonderfully productive things.

01:29:52.880 Okay?

01:29:53.140 Like, Shakespeare spent, you know, a pandemic writing Lear, supposedly.

01:29:57.640 Okay?

01:29:58.000 But that's because Shakespeare was Shakespeare.

01:29:59.520 It wasn't like if they paid him not to write Lear.

01:30:01.360 If they'd incentivize Shakespeare, they're like, you know what, dude?

01:30:04.220 Same stipend.

01:30:05.020 Don't write Lear.

01:30:05.520 He probably doesn't write Lear, because that's the way things work.

01:30:07.840 It's another great Bill Whittle observation, that this idea that if we, if the people had

01:30:13.540 the means of production, they'd only have to work two hours a day, and they could devote

01:30:17.060 the rest of their time to learning art and learning music.

01:30:21.120 And Bill says, the internet disproves that, because we now, in our pocket, carry around

01:30:25.180 all human knowledge and wisdom available at our fingertips for free.

01:30:29.820 At any moment, you could be learning a language, you could be reading Lear, and instead we look

01:30:34.820 at pornography, and we play Candy Crush.

01:30:37.200 That's all we do all day long.

01:30:39.000 Isn't there, I mean, there's potentially a, I agree with what everyone is saying, but

01:30:43.000 also, I maybe have a problem with the idea that you could just go outside of the house

01:30:49.400 and get a job somewhere, and you're going to find dignity in that, because the way that

01:30:53.280 the job market is set up, and the way that a lot of companies operate, you know, it could

01:30:57.820 be a very dehumanizing experience.

01:31:00.440 Now, it's, does it make it better to sit at home and do nothing?

01:31:03.500 No, but the problem is that...

01:31:05.200 Well, I mean, charity work was always the thing that many people did.

01:31:07.320 They get involved in the religious community, right?

01:31:09.040 As communities die, that takes away a lot of work that people typically did outside

01:31:12.640 the home.

01:31:13.260 Like, when people would retire, this was, you know, for most Americans, I'd say, when

01:31:17.140 most people retired at age 65, if they were church-involved, it'd be like they would

01:31:20.220 go and get involved in their church.

01:31:21.040 They got more involved in church.

01:31:22.160 Exactly.

01:31:22.620 They spent that extra time going and doing charity work.

01:31:24.600 I mean, I lived for many years in Montecito, one of the richest communities in the world,

01:31:29.400 and living in a very wealthy community is really interesting, because people do what

01:31:32.740 they want to do, right?

01:31:33.940 They have free choice, and so you see what people want to do.

01:31:36.860 The women stayed home, but they also manufactured the community. 0.99

01:31:41.100 They went to the schools.

01:31:42.080 They made sure the schools ran on time.

01:31:43.560 They ran the charities.

01:31:44.840 They did all, you know, they called them Montecito Moms.

01:31:48.260 Talk about dignity.

01:31:49.480 When Montecito Moms walked down the street, everybody stood still, because everybody respected them,

01:31:54.500 because they ran the community.

01:31:55.920 They gave us the community in which we worked and for which we worked.

01:31:59.460 And I think that those are things, of course, you don't have to get a paycheck for those,

01:32:02.840 for them to be worked, but they also speak to-

01:32:05.260 In a weird way, this gets us back to Biden, because what Biden is creating is a culture

01:32:07.980 of expectation.

01:32:08.980 Yes.

01:32:09.960 It's a culture where- 0.93

01:32:11.200 And Republicans are accepting the premise.

01:32:13.080 They always accept the premise.

01:32:14.440 Of course.

01:32:14.780 They're saying, you're right.

01:32:15.920 You do deserve all these things.

01:32:17.060 We just want to give them to you in a more effective way.

01:32:19.560 Effectiveness is never a good argument.

01:32:22.040 Efficiency and effectiveness are not good arguments.

01:32:23.880 That's right.

01:32:24.360 A good argument here would be, there should be no culture of expectation.

01:32:27.740 You do not deserve to expect anything from us, and society can expect that you are going

01:32:32.060 to be a productive citizen in order for you to actually earn things.

01:32:35.940 Like, the culture that we've created, this culture of expectation is what's created Occupy

01:32:39.600 Wall Street.

01:32:40.360 It's what's created BLM in the streets.

01:32:42.280 It's what's created so many of the things that are destroying the country right now.

01:32:46.640 Is this expectation that you, like, I've stopped using the term soft bigotry of low expectations.

01:32:52.200 I now use the term bigotry of no expectations, because that's where we are right now.

01:32:55.900 And when we are now living in a society where every single time there is a police shooting,

01:32:59.940 we full-on expect that there will be riots.

01:33:02.640 We full-on expect it.

01:33:03.960 That is not a culture that expects any sort of good behavior.

01:33:07.000 That's a culture that expects bad behavior and treats it as virtuous.

01:33:09.860 You made a point many years ago that somebody who actually liked you did a satire of it

01:33:15.920 that was very funny, where you said that to say that health care is a right is to say

01:33:20.940 that you have the right to other people's labor, which is just not true.

01:33:24.760 And you were right.

01:33:25.960 You were absolutely right.

01:33:26.800 The joke they made about you was a friendly joke, but it was very funny of you saying,

01:33:30.240 you know, you have no right to other people's labor.

01:33:32.740 But you don't have a right to other people's labor.

01:33:34.780 You have a right to be left alone.

01:33:36.540 You have a right to say what you want to say.

01:33:38.180 You have a right to think what you want to think, and you have a right to make your own choices.

01:33:41.240 But you don't have a right to other people's labor, including the labor of health care workers.

01:33:45.680 No one owes you anything.

01:33:47.240 Anything.

01:33:48.220 No one owes you anything.

01:33:49.220 You owe me a couple of bucks.

01:33:51.740 I got a cigar bill.

01:33:55.300 No one owes you anything.

01:33:56.480 This is the fundamental problem.

01:33:58.320 I mean, the fundamental problem, obviously, is that we reject God.

01:34:00.860 Well, yes.

01:34:01.240 But in a very practical sense, the fundamental problem with our society today

01:34:06.180 is that everyone believes that they're owed something by someone.

01:34:08.540 What you're describing is an emanation of your first place.

01:34:12.020 But, you know, and it's true in every area of life.

01:34:14.400 If you want to talk about why marriages are dying,

01:34:16.180 it's because you believe that you have a right to expect things from your spouse.

01:34:21.040 And expectations kill marriages. 0.61

01:34:22.600 They absolutely do.

01:34:23.740 In a family, though, I would say that's the one place where you are owed something.

01:34:28.160 Your children are owed.

01:34:29.780 And this actually should be the pro-life message, in fact,

01:34:35.420 that you as a parent, you have a responsibility to your child.

01:34:39.040 You owe them something.

01:34:40.020 You brought them into this world, and you have to take care of them.

01:34:43.420 Children are the only people who have a right to expect something.

01:34:45.240 Right, exactly.

01:34:46.140 That's the only thing.

01:34:48.120 Well, I want to take issue with this a little bit.

01:34:50.580 I mean, I think that individuals, especially in relationships like marriage,

01:34:55.640 they do have a right to expectations of what they are.

01:34:57.800 Yeah, you've entered a covenant.

01:34:58.740 Yeah, that's right.

01:34:59.760 You've made an agreement.

01:35:00.540 You've entered an agreement.

01:35:01.660 Fidelity, yeah.

01:35:02.700 Yeah, yeah.

01:35:03.360 Integrity, yeah.

01:35:03.880 And so I think that that's the very difference we're talking about.

01:35:09.980 Individuals, individuals owe each other things.

01:35:12.280 You know, individuals entered agreements.

01:35:15.380 The society owes you nothing.

01:35:17.340 The world owes you nothing.

01:35:18.840 Although I will say that when it comes to marriage,

01:35:21.500 I think one of the big things that does plague marriage

01:35:23.640 is people having expectations without having expectations of themselves.

01:35:26.440 So when I say that you have to do that.

01:35:28.900 Like the idea of a covenant in marriage is the idea that now the trade is over

01:35:33.280 and not ongoing, right?

01:35:34.940 Like, oh, well, we signed a contract, so I guess that's the end of the deal.

01:35:37.640 No, no, no, no.

01:35:38.400 The earnings continue, right?

01:35:39.880 Like, you have to work in order to receive from your partner.

01:35:43.000 And if you actually want to have a happy marriage and you're sitting there and you're like,

01:35:45.920 yeah, but under the contract it says you owe me X, Y, and Z, that's going to be a miserable one.

01:35:48.620 Well, it's like in a job, you know, you say, okay, I've signed my employment contract.

01:35:51.620 Great.

01:35:52.100 Now I'm getting my paycheck. 1.00

01:35:53.400 One of the most popular stupid memes and slogans you see out there is something like, 1.00

01:36:01.040 if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best. 0.99

01:36:05.960 You know, that's, I think, attributed to Marilyn Monroe incorrectly.

01:36:09.700 But, you know, and that's the attitude people bring into romantic relationships is that you have to sort of deserve me to,

01:36:15.880 you have to, you know, warrant. 0.96

01:36:17.120 Deal with that bull crap in order to get me at my best. 0.98

01:36:19.720 And it's like, well, or you could just not do that. 0.99

01:36:22.140 Or just be a good person and also be forgiving of my fault.

01:36:25.280 I always say, if you want to be my lover, you've got to give it to my friends.

01:36:28.640 Yeah, yeah.

01:36:30.260 I've never actually understood what that's.

01:36:31.580 Are those the words?

01:36:32.280 What does that mean?

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