The Michael Knowles Show - Daily Wire Backstage： Biden’s Congressional Address

00:00:00.000 Hey, Michael Knowles here. The latest episode of Daily Wire Backstage,

00:00:03.000 Biden's congressional address is around the corner. Will Joe Biden fall asleep during his

00:00:08.140 own speech? Will President Harris be called up to speak on behalf of Joe? Join me, Ben Shapiro,

00:00:13.780 Andrew Klebin, Matt Walsh, and the God King, Jeremy Boring, as we discuss everything from

00:00:17.940 Biden's first 100 days to the Republicans' chances in 2022. Don't miss it.

00:00:24.600 Intro. Welcome to Daily Wire Backstage, Biden's congressional address. I'm Jeremy Boring,

00:00:29.620 known around these parts, well, known around these parts by lots of things. We're glad that

00:00:34.780 you've tuned in. Will Biden be able to make it to the end of this speech without taking a nap?

00:00:38.740 If he manages to make it all the way through without a single, come on, man, are we positive

00:00:42.860 that it isn't pure fakery like the moon landing? How many times could Kamala have visited the border

00:00:47.280 between the start and finish of this crap show? The answer is $10 trillion, because that's how 0.99

00:00:52.500 much spending Biden has proposed in his first three months. It's truly insane.

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00:01:59.740 I mean, we were just here last week, so what the hell? Like, that's my first question. What the hell?

00:02:05.300 Ben has, like, a quota, and he will not go above the quota backstage.

00:02:09.180 Oh, my goodness. That is certainly true. And we are well above the quota. And also, I hate this.

00:02:13.080 This is, like, all the things I hate. Backstage, State of the Union, Knowles. It's just, the State

00:02:20.800 of the Union is the most monarchic garbage thing that we do in American politics. I hate it. It 0.99

00:02:24.720 doesn't matter who the president is. Stop trying to get me to like it, Ben. It's such garbage.

00:02:29.240 Monarchy. Apist. The ridiculousness of the State of the Union address, in which we all pretend that 1.00

00:02:36.580 the president of the United States is an elected king. And then he comes in, and everybody cheers,

00:02:40.440 and they feed him like he's an important person, as opposed to a geriatric daughter that they're

00:02:44.020 wheeling in on a gurney so that he can babble nonsensically for an hour, and they can cheer

00:02:47.760 for proposals that won't be passed. It's really maddening. I hate it in general. Tonight, we're

00:02:52.460 going to get Joe Biden proposing another $2 trillion in spending. He's also going to, because it's a

00:02:56.360 day, ending in Y. And also, he is going to be apparently saying that January 6th was worse than

00:03:02.640 any event in American political life since the Civil War, which skips, you know, like, the murder of

00:03:08.340 tens of thousands of people by the KKK over several decades, and, you know, the assassinations

00:03:12.320 of at least four presidents, and the shooting of another one, and, you know, Pearl Harbor,

00:03:18.040 9-11, spate of bombings in the 60s, Vietnam War. Yeah. I mean, I feel like there are a few,

00:03:23.100 like, he was alive for all of these, so he really should know about them. And it's kind of astonishing

00:03:26.560 that he's saying that, but that's not a shock. I mean, so I put together my preview of his speech.

00:03:31.260 Here we go. Here we go. I've been working on this all day. So it goes like this.

00:03:34.940 My fellow Americans, Shazidim and Stevim, and come on. Woo! Everybody gets up and they scream.

00:03:44.860 Except they're Republicans. I promise that by the end, it might hurt him in office. Every

00:03:51.820 black American will have a blueberry and two belly buttons. Woo! President Harris, who you... 0.96

00:04:02.660 He's going to keep going. I heard a preview of this. To my left and also to my right. And all around.

00:04:10.140 She's very woman and also black. Woo! This is what it'll be for an hour, so I just saved you an hour. 1.00

00:04:19.960 I know, it's over. It's over, guys. That plus two trillion dollars. Done. So why do we keep doing this?

00:04:26.480 Well, look, this is a great American political tradition when we all gather in late April

00:04:32.740 when the president shows up with like four congressmen or something and goes on Zoom to

00:04:38.720 the rest of them. No, it's funny because the monarchical aspect of it, frankly, I think is

00:04:44.660 the best part. You know, the conference... Oh, God. However...

00:04:47.580 Michael Hamburg over here.

00:04:48.840 But we don't even get that. We don't... The one aspect of this whole State of the Union thing

00:04:57.840 that everyone tunes in for is the pomp and circumstance and ladies and gentlemen, the

00:05:01.760 president, right? Even if you don't like it, you still... That's what you're watching. But we're not

00:05:04.700 getting that. We're getting a doddering old man who does not know which end is up reading some lines

00:05:10.380 that have been written for him to a half-empty chamber. Well, I will say there's one thing I'm excited

00:05:13.660 about, and that is that whenever Joe Biden speaks for more than 37 seconds, it's like watching

00:05:18.280 Nick Wallen to walk over a volcano. Right? Like, you just... Like, there's always that possibility.

00:05:22.860 Nick Wallen is real good at walking over volcanoes. But let's be real about this. You're really

00:05:26.960 watching on the off chance that you will have been watching live when he fails to make it over

00:05:30.780 the volcano. Right. And when Joe Biden speaks, I mean, he'll be slurring his words and he'll be

00:05:34.880 messing things up and he'll be talking about why he has to give every child a pony delivered by

00:05:40.560 catapult or some such nonsense. And then he'll just slip into a reverie. And we're all sort of

00:05:46.220 hoping he goes there. Right? I mean, let's be real about this. We want, like, a full dream

00:05:49.200 sequence. Yeah. Like, a full WandaVision thing to happen where he's, like, back in the 1950s

00:05:54.600 doing sitcoms with Dick Van Dyke. Like, that's what I'm rooting for. Yeah. But it's scripted. That's

00:05:59.040 the problem. You get that moment from Joe Biden when it's not scripted. I have actually... I don't

00:06:03.960 know that I've ever watched a State of the Union address or a joint speech to Congress because

00:06:09.040 they're so uninteresting to me. I've pretended that I've watched them. I've even live tweeted

00:06:12.980 them without watching them. So this will be my first experience of this. And I'm kind

00:06:19.080 of excited about that. The most fun thing about Joe Biden is watching the press report

00:06:23.300 on him. Yeah. Because they have gone to a level of dishonesty that actually is comedy.

00:06:27.880 Well, normally it's X-rated to see that many people orgasm at once. Especially faking it.

00:06:33.580 That's exactly it. That's exactly it. It's the O-face. It's not really the orgasm.

00:06:37.320 I am interested to see... I'm a little interested to see the Republican response from Tim Scott.

00:06:42.880 What... Well, you're new to this by your own admission. The worst part of the night is always

00:06:49.780 the response. It doesn't matter who gives it. That's true. I'm expecting that. But I am also

00:06:54.840 curious if they go all in on police reform, which is the exact wrong thing for the Republican...

00:07:00.120 Oh my God. They will. You know they will. Right. I know they will already.

00:07:02.200 No, they will. Because there's nothing that Republicans do except things wrong.

00:07:06.220 Yeah. I heard that Tim Scott, he gave a little quick preview on Twitter and he said,

00:07:10.040 we're going to talk about how, you know, we're a diverse nation and in that, that's why we're

00:07:14.700 so unified. And I'm like, no, that's... We're not unified at all, man. That's exactly the opposite

00:07:19.180 of the truth. I like... There must be something about Tim Scott because the Washington Post,

00:07:23.340 a white guy in the Washington Post, wrote a fact check of Tim Scott saying he wasn't black

00:07:28.440 enough, basically, that he had... I guess he had some white people in his... No, no, it wasn't

00:07:32.200 that. It was that he... What they suggested is that he had said that his grandfather... He

00:07:36.340 basically went from sharecropper to Congress in one generation. And they were like, yeah,

00:07:41.240 but your father wasn't a sharecropper. If you go back to your grandfather and your great

00:07:44.520 grandfather, he had accumulated 500 acres in South Carolina. It's like, okay, so now you're

00:07:47.960 just saying that he's the American dream in spite of vicious Jim Crow racism. So, well,

00:07:53.080 solid hit there, Washington Post. I just... I think that the Washington Post, which now

00:07:56.520 basically has announced it's going to stop fact-checking Joe Biden. He's just that honest.

00:08:01.720 When do they ever start, though? Well, they occasionally say... I mean, Joe... The funny

00:08:07.420 thing is the difference between the way Joe Biden lies and Donald Trump lied is substantial. I mean,

00:08:12.740 Donald Trump was an exaggerator, and he used to say, I exaggerate the truth. And that was actually

00:08:17.280 pretty true for the most part. You know, obvious exceptions. But still, Biden just lied.

00:08:22.720 Well, yeah, I'll say it this way. I think that Trump lied casually. Like, if you were just in

00:08:27.540 a conversation with him, he'd be the guy who'd be, like, shaving five points out, five strokes off

00:08:32.040 his handicap on his off course. That's what Trump is. But Joe Biden is the kind of guy who lies

00:08:36.420 purposefully. Like, he's like, what do I need to say to achieve this effect? And I'll just lie to do

00:08:41.860 it. Right? So I'll just say for months on end that Georgia's voting law is Jim Crow. Or I will just

00:08:46.460 say over and over and over that you still need to mask up for no reason. Like, no reason at all.

00:08:50.900 Right. And that is a significantly worse form of lie. Because the thing about Trump and kind of

00:08:55.560 the way that he would fib is that nobody took that stuff seriously. Like, they kept fact-checking

00:09:00.120 him. And I just kept thinking to myself, OK, and? Well, you know, before...

00:09:03.740 None of that. They counted the lies and said, oh, he lied so many more times. But there's a difference

00:09:08.140 between saying I had a lot of people at my inauguration and saying this is just...

00:09:11.420 Yeah, the magnitude of the lie kind of matters. Like, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

00:09:14.760 A much bigger lie then. That's right.

00:09:16.120 There were so many people at my inauguration. Like, one is a mild irritant that goes to

00:09:20.660 character. And the other one is like, you just lied about a massive piece of policy that

00:09:24.040 has hundreds of millions of Americans.

00:09:25.520 Also, the lies of the left are the reason that no one trusts government. You know, we've

00:09:29.720 been talking a lot about why people won't get the vaccine. I happen to think that the vaccine

00:09:33.640 is one of the great, maybe the great, scientific achievements of the 21st century.

00:09:38.760 My cell service has never been better.

00:09:40.160 Yeah. I think that it's, you know, up there with the Apollo program. It's up there with

00:09:46.760 the Manhattan Project. It's amazing. It's hard for me to get the vaccine right now because

00:09:50.820 I just don't want to be told what to do. I want to be free. But the reason so many millions

00:09:54.880 of people on the right won't get the vaccine is because the government keeps lying about

00:09:58.820 it and the media keeps reinforcing those lies.

00:10:00.720 Well, let me just debunk real fast. The Bill Gates put microchips in the vaccine. If he had,

00:10:05.360 they'd be glitching all over.

00:10:06.520 Yeah, that's right. They wouldn't know where the hell we were.

00:10:10.540 It'd be the spinning color wheel of doom, right?

00:10:12.540 The new variants are just viruses from like the, you know, mid-eastern Europe somewhere.

00:10:16.560 But this is the problem with the lies of the left. The lies of the left make you actually

00:10:20.720 distrust the institutions that are the only institutions that can create any unifying

00:10:25.320 message of truth around things that do matter. Pandemics actually matter. They actually have 1.00

00:10:29.540 consequences. We should be able to believe what the media and the government tell us about

00:10:33.040 them. We can't. And we can't because people like Joe Biden have spent their entire career

00:10:38.880 lying about such major issues whenever they think they can squeeze just a little bit of advantage

00:10:43.320 out of them.

00:10:43.800 By the way, the left-wing media used to admit this about Biden before he was their guy.

00:10:49.040 The most really disconcerting of his lies is, you know, the central tragic fact of his life is his

00:10:55.040 wife was killed in this car accident. And the guy who was in the other car felt terrible about this

00:11:00.880 and lived for many years. And it was very sorry, but he was totally found to have been innocent.

00:11:05.680 He wasn't drinking, nothing like that. Joe Biden never said he was. After the man died,

00:11:10.160 Joe Biden on the campaign trail started to say he was a drunk who was drunk driving. It was a really

00:11:15.300 vicious, vicious smear. So much so that I forget if it was the Atlantic or Vanity Fair called him out

00:11:20.260 for this. It's such a deep, intentional lie. And it gets to the intrinsic dishonesty of his whole

00:11:27.580 political career. Guy's been doing it since the 70s. Well, it's also amazing that how many of

00:11:32.540 these people are right now they're in the chamber. Every single person there's vaccinated. Every

00:11:36.980 single person there's vaccinated. They're in a chamber. They're socially distanced and vaccinated

00:11:40.500 far away from each other. And they're all still wearing masks because the same people are telling

00:11:44.300 you the vaccines are so, so important, which by the way, they are telling you that you can never

00:11:48.120 strip the mask off your face, even if you're vaccinated, which makes zero scientific sense.

00:11:52.160 There's no data to back it, but it's just an article of faith now because Trump didn't like

00:11:55.100 masks. And now we're just going to wear masks until we die. They don't bother giving any data.

00:11:58.740 They don't even, they don't, they say they're insulted. They're insulted. If you like, give

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00:13:30.220 fact that we're looking at an almost empty chamber. This is supposed to be, it's inspiring. Uh, uh,

00:13:35.300 this is supposed to be a joint session of Congress. They're not even filling 50% of the seats. It doesn't

00:13:40.000 look like, how did they determine who was going to be there? So they gave a set number of seats to the

00:13:43.580 Democrats and sent over the Republicans. If you were, if you were one of the Republicans and they

00:13:48.020 said only a few of you can go and you have to wear a diaper on your face, even though you've been

00:13:52.560 vaccinated, why wouldn't you just say no? So a bunch of them did. Steve Scully said no. Did he really? 0.98

00:13:57.240 He was like, I'm not interested. And honestly, why would you be? First of all, if I had any excuse not

00:14:02.460 to go to the state of the union, I'd be there. I tried to get out of this. Antonin Scalia famously would

00:14:07.580 not attend. He thought for the same reason he thought it was ridiculous, anti-American nonsense. 0.97

00:14:11.280 Right. Biden should just send a letter to Congress saying, I'm going to do whatever I want. 0.90

00:14:15.160 And actually, I'm just going to do whatever my chief of staff wants, Ron Klain, President Klain.

00:14:18.780 And he's the one who's actually just going to write the agenda. But the thing that's amazing

00:14:22.260 about what we're watching is the media's attempt to build Joe Biden up into an important figure in

00:14:28.460 his own right is pretty impressive because everybody really kind of secretly understands

00:14:32.460 that Joe Biden is a truly unimpressive figure in American public life. He really is. He's been a

00:14:37.140 non-entity or a bloviating idiot for most of his career. And now he's president of the United 1.00

00:14:41.720 States. And they are solely reliant on this man because if God forbid, and he's the president of

00:14:45.020 the United States, you don't want to see anything bad happen to him. If God forbid something happens

00:14:48.020 to Joe Biden, the Democratic agenda is DOA. It is dead because Kamala Harris saying the exact same

00:14:53.780 stuff as Joe Biden is completely unpalatable to the American people because Joe Biden does not,

00:14:59.440 he does not give off a sense of threat. But he's an elderly daughter who does not know what the

00:15:03.680 hell he's talking about. And so he's not threatening because houseplants are not threatening.

00:15:06.980 That's how he got away with the speech. The speech he gave yesterday was was disgusting and repugnant. 0.99

00:15:12.480 I mean, he's he's giving us permission to have a picnic if you're with vaccinated people. And if 0.94

00:15:18.740 you're not, you have to mask at the picnic. Since since when is this the relationship we have with

00:15:22.900 the government that we have to tune into the president to find out if we could have a picnic out

00:15:26.620 at the park? And to me, that wasn't even as radical as what he was saying last week about the

00:15:31.120 about the Floyd trial or the trial where he was literally coming out and just calling the country

00:15:34.940 racist based on an incident where no one has yet presented any evidence of racism or before that

00:15:39.880 or right after that. You talk about lies of Joe Biden and the Biden administration. I think hands

00:15:45.260 down the worst lie we've heard from this administration and perhaps any administration

00:15:48.460 recent memory is what they said about the Micaiah Bryant situation where they were. She clearly 16 year

00:15:55.300 old girl, but she was in the process of trying to stab someone to death. That is very clear,

00:15:59.120 indisputable. It's like a textbook, a good shoot by a police officer, valid, legitimate,

00:16:05.100 and they come out and tie it to systemic racism. They throw this is a hero police officer put in

00:16:11.060 that situation. By the way, not only not only a good shoot in the in the sense of it was clean and

00:16:15.960 legal and appropriate, but a great shot. You know, people like to say, oh, why didn't he shoot the

00:16:21.480 gun, shoot the knife out of her hand? Well, because he's not the Lone Ranger. Why didn't the cop shoot

00:16:26.780 her in the leg? I mean, if you actually watch that video, the fact is a split second to hit 0.89

00:16:32.380 her and not hit the girl and not hit the girl that she's trying to stab. Not many trained police

00:16:36.780 officers could have effectuated that shot as successfully as he did. It's he's not only he

00:16:42.480 is a true American hero for what he did. And he's also he's also willing. Sorry, he's also that police

00:16:47.720 officer knows that his life might be over when he does this, but he did it anyway. Yeah. To save this

00:16:53.500 other this other girl's life. It's incredibly telling when they say things like that, because

00:16:57.120 it means they've never been in a physical altercation. Right. No idea the kind of adrenaline

00:17:01.580 that pumps through your your body. They have no idea what it takes to hit somebody's center.

00:17:07.220 Here's the thing. You're assuming honesty. And I don't even think that they honestly think what

00:17:10.380 they're saying. Yeah, I like I rarely attribute bad motive to people. But that tape is so unbelievably

00:17:15.980 clear that it's just there is no possible way that you could be motivated by anything other than

00:17:20.420 a belief that every data point involving a black suspect and a white cop is bad. That is the only 0.58

00:17:25.440 that is the only way that you can get to that conclusion after having watched that tape. You

00:17:28.160 can't come to the honest conclusion after watching that tape that you should have shot or trigger 0.58

00:17:31.980 finger like it's blazing saddles or something. But no, but the very fact that they would ask that kind

00:17:37.500 of question and expect to get away with it means that they have lived lives that are completely out

00:17:42.840 of touch with the moment that they're reporting on. It doesn't even occur to them to go and say to

00:17:47.180 somebody, you know, you were a police officer who was in a shooting. You were a soldier who was in

00:17:50.700 a battle. You know, what's that like? What is that? What happens when you do that?

00:17:53.840 Well, there is this thing about narrative that narrative compounds narrative. Narrative builds

00:17:57.640 upon narrative. I tweeted out this morning that COVID is to disease what nuclear weapons are to energy

00:18:04.840 and explosives. And what I mean is that all the people who say believe the science don't actually

00:18:10.560 know anything about the science. They don't believe the science. Instead, we've attributed to

00:18:14.520 nuclear and we've attributed to COVID these sort of magical, mythical, destructive properties where

00:18:20.220 they're actually not constrained by science. They have almost unlimited power to do unbelievable

00:18:24.940 damage. And the problem is over time, because of the power of narrative, experts, authoritative people

00:18:30.320 actually believe not reality, but they believe, you know, so when it comes to nuclear weapons,

00:18:37.300 you know, everybody believes that like we have enough, people will say all the time, you will hear

00:18:40.460 people in the military say, we have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out all life on earth a hundred

00:18:46.000 times. And that's absolutely absurd. Like we have a thousand strategic nuclear weapons in our arsenal

00:18:52.840 or something like that. For context, we detonated 1000 nuclear weapons during the fifties and sixties,

00:18:59.460 65 miles north of Las Vegas, a major American city, 65 miles north. We detonated 1000 nuclear weapons. 0.75

00:19:06.760 Like nuclear weapons are bad. Nuclear weapons are very destructive compared to non, to, to

00:19:12.480 conventional ordinances, but they're still just things. It's just a bump. COVID is a virus.

00:19:18.320 But this is the virus. That's all it is. This is the entire thesis of the left and has been for

00:19:23.480 about 50 years that narrative shapes reality. But the part they leave out is that it can shape it

00:19:29.960 dishonestly or honestly. So a narrative can be true or false. You know, this is, this is Yuval Harari wrote

00:19:35.140 this book about what is different about humans than every other animal is that we tell fictions.

00:19:40.160 And among these fictions, he includes rights, money, religion. And you think like, well, wait,

00:19:45.580 wait, wait a minute. You know, I must, I've been making up fiction all my life. You can make a

00:19:50.200 fiction that's true, or you can make a fiction that isn't true. Anybody who walks out of a movie

00:19:54.280 theater can say that wouldn't happen. That was unbelievable. Right. The thing about money is

00:19:59.080 money is a language. It is a language, but it's a language for expressing value. It's something

00:20:03.780 we cannot tell how our minds calculate value, but they do it almost exactly. They do it to the penny

00:20:10.000 and money expresses that. It's a fiction that's true when it's, when it's not controlled by the

00:20:14.400 government, when it's free exchange. You know, the problem is not the narrative. It is the absolute

00:20:20.380 disbelief that there is such a thing as a truth that goes beyond the physical facts of life. Now

00:20:26.500 they don't even believe in those. Well, one of the things that I've been noticing is that there have

00:20:29.060 been a couple of polls in recent memory, like in the last month or so, talking about percentages of

00:20:33.960 Americans who believe certain things about things that are factual. Yeah. Like how many black Americans 1.00

00:20:38.340 get shot every year by the cops? Yeah. Right. And that poll will show you that liberals are just 0.99

00:20:42.160 way the hell off. Like they're off by a factor. They think 1,000. Right. They're off by a factor,

00:20:47.900 and that's unarmed black men. Right. They'll say like a thousand unarmed black men are shot. That's

00:20:51.280 like 20. They're off by a factor of 50. Right. And then if you ask liberals, how likely are you to die

00:20:56.880 of COVID? They'll be off by a factor of 10 or a factor of 20. And then conservatives, these supposedly

00:21:00.960 ascientific, data-free, fundamentalist crazies, if you ask them like, how likely are you to die of COVID?

00:21:06.800 They're way closer to the actual reality than the liberals are. And the same thing about racial

00:21:11.460 violence in America. They're way closer to the actual reality. Even they, by the way, even overestimate

00:21:15.920 the number of black men who get shot in America. But this is why I'm saying narrative builds on 1.00

00:21:21.300 narrative because these reporters, not only have they never been in physical danger, not only have

00:21:25.420 they never fired a firearm, everything that they believe about them, and they've researched,

00:21:29.700 they believe they're experts, but everything that they know is just what someone else before them was

00:21:35.240 saying when they were shaping the narrative. Right. So it compounds over time that people get more and

00:21:40.720 more and more certain about things that they know less and less about. It's not that they don't,

00:21:45.120 I mean, it really is Ronald Reagan. It's not that they don't know much. It's everything they know.

00:21:48.300 There's a very famous line about the left, which is, unfortunately, you can sometimes apply it to

00:21:52.400 the right, but it's so true with the left, which is, they'll say, who cares if it works in practice?

00:21:58.240 Does it work in theory? The obsession with theory, because that is a narrative.

00:22:01.860 And your reference to the Lone Ranger, by the way, is exactly dead on, because the Lone Ranger

00:22:04.980 actually used to say, I only shoot to wound. It tells you where they're getting their information.

00:22:09.560 That's right. They do get their information.

00:22:10.660 There's something else happening in the scientific community also. And it really, it's true on everything

00:22:14.720 from transgenderism and treatment for it to the treatment for gender dysphoria to COVID. And

00:22:21.420 that is what has become my new favorite word, because I just think it applies so often these

00:22:25.380 days, ultra crepidarianism, people just speaking outside of their purview of expertise. So scientists

00:22:30.180 are not being asked anymore. Some up the data for me, right? Some up the data for me. That's the

00:22:34.040 question you ask a scientist. Instead, they're being asked questions like, what do you think Americans

00:22:38.840 ought to do about masking or not masking? That is a policy and or moral question.

00:22:42.520 Yeah. Your job is to like, I don't go to my doctor and then say to him, you know, what do you think

00:22:47.460 that I should do with the rest of my life? Like, what decisions should I make in my life? He can tell

00:22:51.020 me what the data suggests about what particular things will happen if I do X, Y, or Z. But that's

00:22:56.780 not what the scientists are doing about COVID. They're not doing any of that.

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00:24:42.520 few minutes away from what promises to be a riveting speech, which from the video I'm seeing will be

00:24:48.620 seen by at least 18 people in the House chamber. It really, it's remarkable.

00:24:53.680 Not to fall asleep. Normally you've got a chamber of like hundreds of people. And so if you start to

00:24:57.960 doze off, I think cameras will just shoot elsewhere. But like if you start to lose it in the middle of

00:25:02.120 this thing, cameras on you. You pull the RBG, classically fell asleep. You know, there is

00:25:07.360 something to remember as we go into this absolute snooze fest here, which is totally to your point,

00:25:12.500 Ben, that now the scientific experts pontificate about everything that they don't know anything about

00:25:18.040 because it's the only sort of expertise we acknowledge in this country. We don't acknowledge

00:25:22.380 philosophical, moral, or religious expertise. In self-government, citizens are supposed to be

00:25:27.480 the experts on that sort of thing. But that's all gone now. And I bet, I bet he's not going to

00:25:32.320 acknowledge it tonight either. I want to know what, any Republicans that chose to be a part of this

00:25:37.220 charade with the masks on, I mean, they should be held accountable for that by the voters because

00:25:42.360 this is, I actually agree with you. This is a grotesque, I'm actually, it's depressing and

00:25:47.560 infuriating the more I watch this. And the fact that I got to sit now for an hour and watch it

00:25:51.080 is making me, is causing me anxiety. But this is, this is, this spectacle. Look at the guy there

00:25:56.660 in two masks. Listen, I've been in a room since I was vaccinated. I've been in a room with like

00:26:01.540 350 other people, everybody unmasked. And if the media had been there, they would have been like,

00:26:05.960 oh my God, we're all going to die of COVID. No one got COVID. You know why? Because everybody's

00:26:09.740 either had COVID or they're vaccinated. Everybody in that room is vaccinated.

00:26:13.360 Why did any Republican, every Republican there should have to explain why they- 1.00

00:26:16.820 Because Republicans are cowards. They're there because they are cowards. And they're there 1.00

00:26:21.000 because they're too afraid to stand up to the other side, which is not cowardly, but is decidedly

00:26:26.620 convinced that they know what's good for you. They know they don't need the mask, but they're afraid

00:26:32.140 that if they don't wear it, you might not wear it. And they want to control you. They want to

00:26:36.300 determine what is good for you. They want to decide when you have a picnic with your family.

00:26:39.740 And they'll say that they have good intentions. No, we just know that people will make bad

00:26:43.520 decisions and we're responsible for public health and we need to protect the preponderance

00:26:47.280 of people. You do that by arming people with good information and letting them make their own risk

00:26:52.340 assessments. Instead, they're going to lie to you, pose for you, virtue signal for you in order that

00:26:58.380 they might own you. 1.00

00:26:58.900 What you don't get, Jeremy, is that the people are a bunch of deplorable, irredeemable idiots. 1.00

00:27:04.820 And Maxine Waters is really, really smart. 1.00

00:27:07.300 And that's why they told us that's the irony is that's why they told us originally not to mask 1.00

00:27:11.280 because they were treating us like idiots and children. And they thought we'd go and hoard 1.00

00:27:14.960 all the masks. And, uh, you know, I actually asked my doctor who is a far left guy, but a brilliant

00:27:20.260 guy. I said, now I've been vaccinated. Do I have to wear a mask? He said, no, but you should as a

00:27:24.940 political statement. He said that to me. And I said, I said, that's not my politics. There are fewer

00:27:29.380 people in that chamber than watch the Oscars.

00:27:31.660 There's an entire article by this woman. There's an entire, there's an entire article by this woman

00:27:35.600 on medium about why she is still going to jog with a mask, even after all of this is over. And it's,

00:27:40.740 she said, it's because it's a sign that I care about my fellow man. Really, this is what she said.

00:27:45.060 She says, it's because I've been running around with the mask and I've, I've had the vaccine for

00:27:48.720 six weeks, but you know, there's so many other people out there who get uncomfortable when I don't

00:27:52.000 wear the mask that I've decided to wear the mask. And this goes to so many areas of our politics that if,

00:27:56.660 if anything I do in my life, to exercise my freedom, makes you uncomfortable in any way,

00:28:01.760 it is my job to curtail my freedom of speech. It is my job to curtail my freedom of the press

00:28:06.060 or my freedom to bear arms or my freedom to walk around without a mask in order to make you feel

00:28:10.500 more comfortable, even though I pose zero threat to you. That's where things are right now. By the way,

00:28:14.520 we should note that the greatest doctrine in America was just ushered into the chamber.

00:28:17.400 Dr. Joe Biden.

00:28:18.620 Wow.

00:28:18.980 She's a great surgeon. She's a great, as Joy Behar pointed out, or Whoopi Goldberg, one of the two, 0.98

00:28:23.440 she pointed that out. We should also acknowledge with the masks, I am not saying that the state

00:28:28.880 can't take emergency police action sometime and say, Hey, maybe you should wear the mask for a

00:28:33.060 very short period of time, but to wear the mask all the time, to have the entirety of the American

00:28:39.380 people wearing the secular keffia, looking like banditos walking around is actually disordered.

00:28:45.280 It's actually bad for our politics. 0.98

00:28:46.640 People's brains have been broken. I think there's a real mental illness factor to it. Someone, 0.99

00:28:50.240 one of my, someone, uh, one of my listeners left a comment on the YouTube, uh, video today saying

00:28:56.400 that her aunt wears a mask to sleep. And, uh, and I wish I could think that that's, that she's

00:29:02.440 joking or making that up.

00:29:03.360 Well, I wear one on my eyes.

00:29:04.520 This is what people, people are, and we're sending our kids to school. They wear masks for

00:29:08.300 seven hours a day.

00:29:09.080 I find the saddest comment with the ones that I see on Twitter, people saying, what's so bad

00:29:12.920 about a mask? And I think like, really not to look at a human face, not to see a pretty

00:29:17.020 girl, not to, you know, not to know each other, smile at each other. I mean, what the hell?

00:29:21.140 Have you, have you guys all had the weird experience over the past few months as people take off

00:29:24.820 their masks of people you've met with the mask on and they took off the mask like, whoa.

00:29:29.940 I was not aware that you, that you look like that. It's happened to many people with me.

00:29:34.280 I'm like, they take off the mask. Oh my God, that's what he looked like under there.

00:29:37.760 If you're an ugly person with, with nice eyes, then you've been living. 0.94

00:29:45.560 You're a best guy. I know. I see you're a best guy. 0.98

00:29:49.120 Well, eventually they're going to wheel Joe Biden in.

00:29:53.260 They may just lower him in. They may, yeah.

00:29:55.440 Open the roof and just drop him in.

00:29:57.740 You know, I have to say, Walsh is right, that Republicans showed up for this in masks.

00:30:06.660 They actually should be answerable for that.

00:30:08.880 So my understanding is that the reason that they are doing that is because Nancy Pelosi runs the

00:30:14.000 chamber, Chuck Schumer runs the chamber. And so there are actual, like, I believe criminal penalties

00:30:19.360 they're trying to attach for not wearing masks on the floor.

00:30:21.480 They should get it. And they shouldn't go.

00:30:23.380 Yeah. Or if they get dragged out by the police and they're yelling for my civil rights to breathe

00:30:28.360 and have my nose out, that would be beautiful politics.

00:30:30.700 That would be such a great moment. And these morons and cowards are too stupid to realize it. 1.00

00:30:35.720 Yeah. So we've got a question from Daily Wire. 1.00

00:30:37.320 You guys have no idea, by the way. If you go to, like, leftist places like Brooklyn and you don't

00:30:42.720 wear a mask, which I haven't, you know, I haven't worn a mask in public for a long time outdoors.

00:30:47.940 You are actually socially rejected. People get very, very upset. They actually take it badly.

00:30:54.360 You might as well be wearing a MAGA hat.

00:30:56.380 Yeah.

00:30:56.620 Yeah. Yeah.

00:30:57.300 Well, that's how much of this is about that, right? It's because Trump made light of the masks

00:31:00.180 originally, like, while during the middle of the pandemic. And so the entire left decided

00:31:03.680 that this was not just a, he was not just wrong on that. And it was not just a temporary

00:31:08.180 expedience that we could all go back to work or something. Yeah.

00:31:10.320 What it really was, was a symbol that you were a good person who cared about other people to

00:31:13.540 wear the mask. It's the new pink hat, right? It's just the pink hat of 2021.

00:31:17.000 If only Trump had been pro-mask, then no one would be wearing masks.

00:31:19.400 Yeah, that's right.

00:31:20.040 It would open up the country a year ago.

00:31:21.660 He really let us down. Here's a question from a DailyWire.com subscriber.

00:31:26.060 On one hand, it seems promising that states like Tennessee are lifting the mask mandate.

00:31:29.980 I actually want to correct you. The state of Tennessee never had a mask mandate.

00:31:33.180 What happened is Governor Bill Lee made the bold step this week of saying that even

00:31:37.500 the cities in the state that have had mask mandates must lift them before Memorial Day.

00:31:42.960 But yes, places are removing their mask mandates. But when I see other states cracking down even

00:31:48.120 more like Michigan, I just really don't know how to feel on whether or not this will ever end.

00:31:52.860 Do you think it will end? When? How? I just want to be perfectly clear.

00:31:56.820 They're saying, do you believe the masks will ever end? Not what we're about to witness.

00:32:00.820 And what do you think?

00:32:04.060 So I think that this is going to last approximately another five months until Joe Biden gets a bunch

00:32:10.340 more of his legislation passed and then it stops. I think this is all about generating a feeling of

00:32:14.000 crisis for Americans. I think that Joe Biden doesn't want this to go to the midterms, right?

00:32:18.020 He would like to be able to declare victory before the midterms over COVID. And so I think that it'll

00:32:21.840 last about as long as it's convenient for it to last. He said going in that we're facing four crises

00:32:26.340 and three of them are complete nonsense. It was like racial inequity, income inequality,

00:32:30.960 climate change, and no one cares about climate change. Let's just be clear about this. Like

00:32:34.740 that doesn't mean it's not happening. But like on the list of American concerns, it's like number

00:32:38.140 87. Yeah. And so the only one that people were actually worried about was COVID because, you know,

00:32:41.800 half a million people died of it. And so he's just prolonging this at this point. And so it'll last

00:32:46.160 until he can ram through some more legislation by saying COVID has completely exposed so many

00:32:51.940 terrible things about American society that must be fixed. It's unmasked all of American society.

00:32:56.340 And then after all, after we fixed all of American society and I can ride off into the nursing home,

00:33:01.340 then I will, then at that point, everybody will, will be able to take off the masks and breathe free

00:33:06.160 air again. I really think it's that simple. I think it will last longer than that. Politically,

00:33:09.840 I think you're right. But a lot of people, like we were just saying, their brains are broken. 0.99

00:33:15.520 Oh, no, I agree with this. Yeah. A lot of, a lot of people really, and they'll openly say it. 0.97

00:33:19.680 I feel safer wearing it. And so I just wear it. And I don't think that goes away magically in five

00:33:25.020 months. I don't know if it ever goes away. Yeah. I think it's just, it's a cultural thing.

00:33:28.920 We'll never live to see a day where no one in America wears masks.

00:33:31.900 This is the issue. You know, politics is downstream of culture. We all know that. That's

00:33:35.480 the famous Breitbart doctrine. It is also true that politics can influence culture. The great

00:33:41.280 example of this is that East Germany is still atheist. West Germany is not atheist because it was 0.55

00:33:45.260 dominated by commies for the Cold War. People, because of the policies of our exalted leader,

00:33:51.800 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the high priest of progressivism, he has, I think, broken people's brains. And I

00:33:58.520 think you're going to see a lot of people who just insist on wearing this thing basically in

00:34:03.320 perpetuity. Maybe it's not most of the country, but what will happen is there's going to be a

00:34:07.980 massive exacerbation of the big sort that's already happening, right? People are just going to say,

00:34:11.760 I don't want to live in a place that's like New York or like Michigan, where at any moment they

00:34:15.180 can just shut everything down again. And they move here, they move to Florida.

00:34:18.660 No, that's happening already. Coeur d'Alene is the place in Idaho. It's a place where most people

00:34:23.020 are moving. At least in the Civil War, we'll know which side people are on based on who's got the

00:34:26.880 mask on. That's exactly right. So we just saw Schumer enter the chamber, dutifully masked. This will be

00:34:34.780 how we know. When will Republicans stop going along with it? When will airlines stop going along with it?

00:34:40.100 That's, as long as you have to wear a mask on an airline, it's awful. It's, it's really awful.

00:34:45.460 It makes it almost impossible. I was so tolerant. I was way more tolerant than anybody else in this

00:34:49.900 room with a magazine, right? I was like, I would, because my parents are in their sixties, they were,

00:34:53.320 I was, I was more tolerant of it. Then I got vaccinated and it started to feel physically

00:34:58.340 restricting to wear the mask because now I know it's pointless and stupid and there's no reason for it 0.99

00:35:02.780 at all. Yeah. The terrible thing about the airplane too, is it's all, it's absolutely awful. It's the one 0.99

00:35:07.520 place where it makes the most sense because airplanes are the terribly unhealthy. Well,

00:35:13.280 except for the fact that it's not true. No, they were never, no, it wasn't at the beginning. There

00:35:16.860 was an, airplanes were not a vector of transmission. Airplanes have HEPA filters. Yeah. Yeah.

00:35:20.740 I think they circulate. You notice, I noticed the real shift because I've been flying through this

00:35:25.220 whole thing. I think a lot of us have. And you notice the real shift at a certain point, a few

00:35:29.000 months in people didn't, they weren't fidgeting with the mask anymore on the flight. They just wear it the

00:35:33.040 whole time. They didn't have it under the nose. And I guess we were supposed to see that as a

00:35:36.340 positive change, but I actually find it kind of creepy now. I'm on a plane for six hours and

00:35:40.120 no one is even touching the mask. I mean, I still am, but everyone else just sits there.

00:35:43.600 By the way, we have to point out. Joe Biden just entered the chamber. So Biden entered the chamber.

00:35:46.860 He's got his mask on and he's doing the fist bumps with everybody because handshake, that'll spread

00:35:52.660 COVID. Your knuckles are free of COVID. But your knuckles, they're coated in Purell or something. So

00:35:58.320 that's fine. Because science. Because it's science. So now we have the president of the United States

00:36:03.220 entering the chamber. We're going to go watch the president's speech. We'll be back with you as

00:36:07.940 soon as it is over to give you our absolute expert analysis. It was boring. Yeah.

00:36:14.580 Spoiler. Save us some time. Yeah. We'll be back as soon as the president's speech is concluded.

00:36:24.000 The president of the United States concluding his first hundred days in office and his first

00:36:29.060 State of the Union address with the greatest line in the history of State of the Union addresses.

00:36:33.540 Thank you for your patience. Jeremy, before we get into it, should someone wake Ben up?

00:36:38.540 Benjamin. Benjamin. I think he's I think he's gone.

00:36:41.340 Oh, he's good. Thank God you have life insurance on it.

00:36:45.340 So what? Yeah.

00:36:48.460 That was the worst thing I've ever. That was genuinely.

00:36:52.040 Let's begin to get together, guys. Yeah. Yeah. That was the line.

00:36:54.820 We're just going to do 60s song lyrics now. Well, it's funny that you bring up 60s song

00:37:00.880 lyrics because it was a 1960s boilerplate speech. Yes, it was. It was a 1930s boilerplate speech

00:37:06.360 in a lot of ways. Yeah. It was a 1330s. And, you know, it was that really that line where 0.58

00:37:13.240 he said, we, the people are the government, because he doesn't mean that we, the people

00:37:17.500 form the government. What he means is the government are the people.

00:37:20.140 No, he was explicit. He said, we, we are the people. We're not a distant force. We're

00:37:25.580 you. OK, then if you're me, then shut the fuck up. 1.00

00:37:29.840 I mean, everything he says, you know, when he talks about he had this line, American tax 0.99

00:37:35.080 dollars are going to buy American property and build American jobs. That's actually not

00:37:40.880 the way it works. As always with socialists, they never ask the question, where does the

00:37:44.940 money come from? It comes from horrible, evil, dastardly capitalists like yourself who they 0.99

00:37:51.420 take that tax money from. Just simple logic. Simple logic tells you that you can pay, create 0.98

00:37:57.920 more jobs with a dollar than a company that, than a government that takes your dollar away,

00:38:03.920 distributes it among its bureaucracies and then creates a job. So you're going to create

00:38:08.260 10 times more jobs. I have a question. We're all, we can focus on the content as much as we

00:38:12.860 want. This guy's not making it four years, is he? It doesn't feel like it, no. He looks

00:38:17.480 absolutely ghastly. He looks awful. He sounds awful. He can be slurring his speech. That seemed 0.94

00:38:22.000 like four years. Does that count? Yeah. I mean, I don't know how anyone thinks he's running for

00:38:27.400 reelection. I don't know how you can watch that. I don't think anyone, I don't know that anyone

00:38:30.380 thinks he's running for reelection. I just, the question is, will he serve out a term? But this is,

00:38:34.760 but here's the thing. What the speech makes clear is two things. One, he's not going to make it

00:38:38.660 for reelection. I mean, he's just not. And two, they desperately need this guy. They need him so

00:38:43.700 badly. Because if you actually just read the text of the speech, what you will see is a litany of

00:38:48.900 spending and regulation and taxation and big government and rethinking of the fundamental

00:38:55.200 relationship between the American people and the government that sounds like it's coming directly

00:38:59.960 from Bernie Sanders. I mean, it is extraordinarily radical stuff. But because the person who is saying

00:39:04.780 it is a mush mouth old man that nobody fears because he is a mush mouth old man, they are 0.97

00:39:09.500 deeply around forever. Yeah. Well, not just that, because he, I honest to God, wonder if the entire

00:39:15.560 design of the speech, because he backloaded all the controversial stuff you noticed about how

00:39:18.820 America's racist and about how the government is the people. I think he put all of that in the last

00:39:22.460 10 minutes of the speech. I honest to God, wonder whether his strategy here was, I will just bore you

00:39:28.600 into unconsciousness. So you don't actually know what I'm saying. And I can go to the left and I can tell

00:39:32.240 them I said all the stuff that I said. And then I can use that as the predicate for all of the things

00:39:36.280 I want to pass. But you, you went to sleep, right? Wasn't that scary? You fell asleep. Because that's

00:39:40.960 what it was. I mean, Joe Biden is capable. He could have done what he's done before, which is

00:39:46.540 do a 25 minute speech. Yeah. Right. Do it like he could do that. He could go in there, give a 25

00:39:50.600 minute speech. Instead, he goes for an hour and a half. It is soporific nonsense. And he can't even speak

00:39:55.960 it clearly. I mean, he's stumbling over his own words. He's repeating himself. And he gets to the end,

00:39:59.620 you kind of feel bad for the guy. You're like, this guy is not with it. But then you actually read

00:40:03.160 what he's saying. And he's talking about spending not 10 trillion dollars. He's talking about spending,

00:40:07.040 I'm sure, at least twice that when you add up everything that he's talking about over the course

00:40:10.060 of years. And you're supposed to just be like, well, you know, he's a nice old gentleman. I guess

00:40:13.620 that was OK. And it was good for the country. And I can't wait to see the media reactions and the

00:40:17.520 media reactions will like if you can get to the sort of climax, the media will reach based on that

00:40:24.240 speech. Hats off to you, man. I mean, that like at that point, you definitely don't need to get

00:40:29.380 Roman. Because there's something going on here that is not. Bill Whittle talks about this idea

00:40:35.560 of government as we the people as eloquently as anyone I've ever heard discuss it. Essentially,

00:40:41.760 the Constitution is a legal compact between three groups. The federal government, which it is creating,

00:40:51.120 the states and the people, we the people is the people who are consenting to the creation of this

00:40:59.640 federal government, saying, saying we the having the president of the United States say we up here,

00:41:05.620 we were you, we the people are the government would be akin to like in in any criminal case.

00:41:13.500 If if the defendant said, no, we the plaintiff, we the plaintiff, you see the trick of the whole

00:41:21.000 thing that the left has been pushing in overdrive for the past year is this blurring of the distinction

00:41:26.600 between the federal government and the state government. Right now, H.R. one, the first thing

00:41:30.740 they're taking up. That's right. Is designed to steal all that power from the states, particularly

00:41:34.780 over elections. What could go wrong there? Right. Congressman writing their own election laws

00:41:38.560 and the people. But then what they're doing is they're outsourcing all of that political power

00:41:43.120 per Woodrow Wilson and the progressives for a century to these bureaucrats that are, you know,

00:41:49.000 it's the the random agencies that are really making the laws. There's something else that's

00:41:52.740 happening when they say that we the people are the government. And that is that what our government

00:41:56.340 originally was supposed to be was a limited government designed to protect individual rights.

00:41:59.800 That's what the I mean, it's in the Declaration of Independence, in the Constitution of the United

00:42:03.360 States, the government of enumerated powers. But there's something else there, too. It's a government of

00:42:07.060 checks and balances specifically created in order to protect those rights. When you say we the people

00:42:11.360 are the government, what you are saying is that checks and balances are a bad. They're an obstacle

00:42:15.460 because the people are the government. And if the people collectively are the government, well,

00:42:20.680 then they don't have arguments among themselves. They don't have checks and balances. You don't need

00:42:24.180 checks and balances. Checks and balances are a bar to what he calls democracy in action.

00:42:28.340 That's what the Democrats have been saying since Wilson. Which is called mob rule.

00:42:31.420 Which is called mob rule. What's interesting is that it was Lincoln who basically said

00:42:36.280 declared that the declaration was the philosophy behind the Constitution. And it has been the

00:42:43.120 Democrats who have been trying to unwrite that. Yeah. Ever since. Civil war. No, they make the

00:42:47.620 same argument now that Calhoun made. They just make it on different faces. And the trick, too, is we

00:42:51.620 debate it between small and big government. And that's often where the but but really the distinction

00:42:56.240 here is limited. Yes. And unlimited. That's right. Right. It's enumerated powers, government and

00:43:00.680 government that can do whatever. Joe Biden literally said that we have the power in our hands to cure

00:43:04.660 cancer. He said that in that speech. And everybody's just going to be like, oh, you know what? That's

00:43:08.000 totally fine. Explain to me that. Seriously, I want to know. I want to know who are these evil people

00:43:11.700 standing in the way of us curing cancer? Because if it's adult Joe Biden who's going to cure cancer, why

00:43:16.520 has he been holding back to cure all this time? It seems like that would have been a little bit

00:43:18.900 useful. Is it Dr. Jill? Is it Fauci? Like who? I want to know who in their safe can open up that

00:43:23.320 safe and there's the cure for cancer. If only we just throw a bunch of cash at things and magically

00:43:27.120 these things get cured. I'll also note that, you know, he spent a little bit of time there bashing

00:43:31.780 big pharma. He spends the entire beginning of his speech talking about the magic of the vaccines

00:43:35.600 and we've pranched out these vaccines. Who do you think created the vaccines? Wasn't Joe Biden?

00:43:39.300 Wasn't useless Dr. Fauci? Wasn't the CDC or the FDA? It was big pharma. It was big pharma.

00:43:44.900 That's always the tension because the other problem is you spend the first part of the speech and the

00:43:48.500 last part talking about America. We're a light to the world. We're unified. We're a great country.

00:43:53.860 And then you take that detour in the middle saying that, oh, yeah, we're systemically racist. 0.97

00:43:57.120 We're oppressing black people. Well, which is it? I mean, this is this is a horrible country for 0.60

00:44:01.380 minorities to live in. We're killing them in the street just for existing. But we have to defeat 1.00

00:44:05.240 China. Right. And we're right. But we have to admit here that Joe Biden is riding a wave created by

00:44:11.620 Donald Trump to some degree. He's riding a double wave. One is that the vaccine, which was brought

00:44:17.740 into existence by Trump's program, by the Warp Speed, Operation Warp Speed, is basically bringing an

00:44:23.220 end to this this pandemic. That's one thing. And this shutdown, this ill-advised and overlong and

00:44:29.840 ridiculous shutdown is is going to come to an end and the economy is going to boom. And so Biden knows

00:44:35.380 that he's he's riding that way. Right. He's riding the wave of the end of this pandemic, which is going

00:44:39.940 to create good feelings, as it should. And he's riding the wave of the economy coming back. The question

00:44:44.840 that I have about Biden right now is, is he waiting for is he hoping that through this he can get this

00:44:50.540 left wing agenda? Because let's let's face it, Biden is not a leftist. He's not anything. He's

00:44:55.540 he's right. He's a weathervane. He goes with where the party goes. He wants his legacy. Right now,

00:44:59.600 the party he wants. He wants his legacy. He wants his legacy. But right now, the party is a left wing

00:45:04.720 party. It is a far left party and is pushing him along. If he loses in the midterms, if he loses the

00:45:11.420 majority in the House and even could lose the majority in the Senate, really, is that better for him in some

00:45:18.080 way? Yes, because he doesn't because he doesn't. Here's the thing. He doesn't care what happens

00:45:23.080 four years from now. He's not running for reelection. Right. All he wants to be known

00:45:26.400 as is a he doesn't want to be the old man who is just the bridge to Kamala. He wants to be the guy

00:45:30.560 who they should put on Mount Rushmore because he had the most consequential single term in American

00:45:34.000 history. And so he's going to ram through as much of this crap as possible. He has the single best 0.99

00:45:38.280 issue ever to do it, namely this covid pandemic. So that's why he's hanging on to this thing with the skin

00:45:42.760 of his teeth. I mean, he is just grabbing onto the covid pandemic. He's like, we've got to remake

00:45:46.200 the economy. We've got to make racial politics in this country. We've got to redo our foreign policy.

00:45:50.360 We've got to redo our unionization laws. We've got to pass everything. We've got to do it right now,

00:45:53.740 right now, right now, because of what you're saying. But if he waits too long, the economy

00:45:57.460 already will have recovered. And then we're going to be like, we don't need any of this.

00:45:59.560 That's one of the many reasons why it's insane that we allow a 78 year old man to be president in

00:46:04.440 the first place, because they're not going to be around for the future. So they've sort of got

00:46:08.240 nothing to lose. I don't know why this should be. He's a lame duck. There should be agreement across

00:46:13.220 the entire country that there should be an age limit for the presidency on the upper end,

00:46:17.360 just like there is in the lower end. 35, you can't run before 35. Why should we allow you after 75 to

00:46:22.820 run? That gives you a 40 year window to become president. You can't do it then. Go home to

00:46:27.220 your family, sit in a rocking chair, talk to your grandchildren. It wasn't meant to be. I mean,

00:46:30.740 that's I do think they should put him on Mount Rushmore because he's as lively as the other

00:46:35.100 president. I want to push back on some conventional wisdom that you just you cited. You said,

00:46:41.220 you know, he's going to ride this wave of goodwill that will accompany the end of the pandemic. He's

00:46:47.140 going to ride the economic boom that comes at the end of the pandemic. He had one other thing about

00:46:52.520 the end of the pandemic. Just the good feeling of people coming back. I actually wonder if any of

00:46:58.260 those things are true. OK, I think they could have been true. And I think in the final analysis,

00:47:03.780 they will not be true. I think that the economy is not going to surge. I think that the economy has to

00:47:09.540 some degree surged already because red states started going back to work six months ago.

00:47:16.480 But I think they've printed so much money during this pandemic that what we're actually going to

00:47:22.240 see is this huge wave of economic activity that everybody's kind of been counting on. I think it's

00:47:27.740 not going to happen the way that we thought it would. And the markets, because they've been so wound

00:47:32.380 up waiting for that to happen, are going to suddenly become disillusioned. And markets run on

00:47:37.480 the illusion of momentum. I think that that economic surge isn't coming. I think inflation

00:47:42.400 is coming instead. And I don't think there's going to be a wave of euphoric goodwill at the end of the

00:47:46.540 pandemic, because I actually think they've created it since the lockdowns weren't actually. That was

00:47:51.120 your other one, the lockdowns. Since the lockdowns weren't actually driven by the science of the

00:47:55.380 pandemic, masks weren't driven by the science of the pandemic, the CDC guidelines weren't driven by

00:48:00.060 the science of the pandemic. Nothing therefore has changed scientifically to justify the end of

00:48:06.160 quote unquote. But what I mean is this, people aren't going to take their masks off. People

00:48:11.600 aren't going to acknowledge an end of the pandemic. You're going to have the people who were the most

00:48:14.900 afraid, who wore masks every day, got vaccinated, still wear masks. And the people who were not very

00:48:21.220 afraid, made a different risk assessment, probably never wore masks that much, don't get vaccinated and

00:48:26.220 have been living their lives more or less already. Those two camps are just going to remain. I don't

00:48:30.820 think Joe Biden can wave a wand and say, congratulations, pandemic done over. It's gone,

00:48:36.000 done, totally over. They can't put it back together. I actually think that what we're actually

00:48:42.860 disagreeing on is timing. I think there's going to be an economic boom. I think there's going to be

00:48:49.480 an end to the pandemic. But the question is, over the long term, the things that Biden is doing are

00:48:54.460 going to cost us dearly, but not for two years. Well, that's the question. Is it going to be two

00:48:59.640 years? It's going to be a year and a half, right? That's the gamble. That really is the gamble.

00:49:02.640 If things start to crash in the middle of next year, then they lose the Congress. First of all,

00:49:06.080 I think they lose the Congress anyway. I think that they're going to lose the House of Representatives.

00:49:11.080 I find it very hard to believe that they're going to retain the House, considering that they did so

00:49:14.800 poorly when Joe Biden won seven million more popular votes than Donald Trump, and they barely held

00:49:21.180 onto the House. But there is a question here, which is, do they get through this major election

00:49:26.660 overhaul that gives a distinct advantage? Well, they can't. I mean, not without Manchin breaking

00:49:31.040 the filibuster, right? And Sinema breaking the filibuster. And I don't think either of them are

00:49:34.920 going to do that. And it may not be constitutional. Well, that too. I mean, I think it's pretty wildly

00:49:39.140 unconstitutional. What was interesting to me, too, about the speech, though, is what wasn't in it.

00:49:44.000 There was no mention of free speech. There was no mention of wokeness, of any of the kinds of

00:49:48.480 things, of the critical race theory. You know, even though he said we were racist.

00:49:52.220 Well, he's in favor of it. Yes, he is in favor of it. And those are things that are really starting

00:49:56.020 to bother them. And the way you can tell they're starting to bother them is the left is starting

00:49:59.480 to say, woke is a bad term. Woke is a bad term. Whenever they get caught being who they are,

00:50:04.160 they change the word. You know, that is like, yeah, we used to be liberal. Now we're progressive.

00:50:08.300 That's what political correctness is, right?

00:50:09.900 I think Biden knows that his time is limited and it's rushing him for two reasons, not just because of

00:50:15.880 the four year thing and him being in obviously declining health and all of that. I think that

00:50:20.420 there's something else going on. The poll numbers for him are not good. They're just not good. He's

00:50:24.160 at 52, 53 percent. He won at 51 percent. And I think that's belonging. Okay, but even if you think

00:50:28.760 it's true, he's at the exact same percentage that he was in the popular vote. Okay, with the end of

00:50:33.120 the pandemic, with the booming economy, with no major foreign crisis, right? And with the media

00:50:39.120 fawning all over him and treating him as though he's a historic president with 100 percent positive

00:50:43.000 media coverage. And he's still at 51 percent, which means that he only has one direction that

00:50:47.820 he can go at this point, right? And it ain't up. What can he do to make himself more popular at this

00:50:52.780 point? Seriously, he's handed literal cash checks to Americans. He's just sent checks to millions of

00:50:58.140 Americans. He's said to them, here are your vaccines. And you know what? He hasn't said go

00:51:03.700 back to life, but he will. Nobody, there's no place to go for him but down from here. And so he's

00:51:09.180 like, okay, well, time's wasting, right? The clock is ticking. Because if I start hitting 45 percent,

00:51:13.660 40 percent, everything's gone. We're going to take questions from some of our

00:51:16.980 DailyWire.com subscribers. They're the reason that we're here tonight and able to bring this

00:51:20.920 show to you. So we want to hear from him. Question, how dumb does he think we are? Who

00:51:26.100 will pay for all of this? Of course, those of low income will vote for him. And Democrats,

00:51:30.880 they can continue to get things for free and all of these reductions for staying at a low

00:51:35.700 income. I mean, we all know the answer. Who's going to pay for it? Ben's going to pay for it.

00:51:38.700 Right. But he's not. He goes, because you can't tax billionaires to get trillions of dollars.

00:51:43.500 It doesn't make any sense. I'm sorry. It really doesn't. And the question of how dumb does he

00:51:47.840 think we are? Dumb. Every D-U-M-B with big letters. But my problem is it is humanly possible 1.00

00:51:52.640 to be. I was screaming at the television when he was talking about taxes. Because what he is saying

00:51:56.900 is so obviously asinine. When he says that rich people don't pay their fair share in this country, 0.95

00:52:00.980 that is just an abject, disgusting lie. It is a lie. The top 10 percent of income earners in this 0.91

00:52:06.820 country pay all net taxes. Not some of the net taxes. All of the net taxes. Because net taxes

00:52:11.500 are defined as what you pay into the government minus what you get back from the government. So

00:52:15.980 if you get back from the government more than you paid in, this means that you were not a person

00:52:20.220 who paid net taxes into the government. Only the people at the top of the spectrum are paying

00:52:24.220 net taxes in this country. All of the net taxes in this country. When he says they're not paying

00:52:27.800 their fair share, the only thing he means by they're not paying their fair share is it should be

00:52:30.820 nearly all of your income goes to the federal government. And when he says things like,

00:52:34.540 I'm not going to tax anybody who's making under $400,000 a year, he is lying to you through his

00:52:39.460 teeth. When he says I'm going to tax corporations, corporations are not human beings for purposes of

00:52:44.020 taxes. The money that would have been passed on to you via income is being taxed up here. That money

00:52:48.780 is now being withdrawn from the system and taken away from you. Corporations are going to have to

00:52:52.740 raise prices in order to deal with the taxation effects. When he says that I'm going to tax all of

00:52:57.220 these rich people on their capital gains taxes, what do you think those rich people are going to do

00:53:01.560 rather than put their money in the stock market where they get taxed on capital gains? They're

00:53:05.140 not going to put their money in the stock market. So what happens to your 401k if you're a union

00:53:08.880 member or a teacher's union member? What do you think happens to all the other 50 percent of the

00:53:12.680 population who are invested in the stock market right now? And what happens to the businesses that

00:53:16.520 hire you when Joe Biden decides that your boss needs to be taxed out of existence in order so that

00:53:21.520 he can determine where the dollars go? This jackass who's never created a single job in his entire life. 0.98

00:53:26.420 The people who don't pay their fair share in this country are the poor. We need to raise taxes on the poor. 0.99

00:53:31.560 I'm not joking. I'm not joking. The poor in this country pay zero. The lower middle class in this 1.00

00:53:36.660 country pay net zero. So we have a group of people who pay no taxes, a group of people who pay no net

00:53:41.660 taxes, a group of people who pay all the net taxes. And his argument is that it's category three who

00:53:46.800 don't pay their fair share. Fair share means your percentage of taxes. We've determined that there are

00:53:53.260 some people who shouldn't pay any percent of taxes. The only fair taxing system is one in which everyone

00:53:59.400 pays. But you know what's what's complicated about this, and it's the bait that Biden wants us to

00:54:04.240 take, is he wants to make this a class issue. Poor people vote for Democrats. Rich people vote for

00:54:09.460 Republicans. It's just not true. Millionaires broke for Biden. And very often it's those poor

00:54:14.420 deplorable Americans who vote for Republicans. And it's it's just a lie that Biden and all these.

00:54:19.680 And it's always it's just all double taxation. It's all double taxation. Every dollar is getting

00:54:24.080 taxed seven different ways. And if I earn a dollar, I get pay. I get I get taxed as income if I earn a

00:54:28.820 dollar. Then if I invest in the stock market, they tax that dollar. Then if God forbid I die and I pass

00:54:33.440 it on my kids, they they tax that dollar. Then if I use it in transaction, they tax that dollar. If I used

00:54:39.280 to buy a house, they tax it in property tax. The problem is nobody cares. Like, of course, spending is, I think,

00:54:45.160 sort of the Republican climate change in that it's an issue we talk about, but nobody cares because

00:54:50.160 it's not a reality. Now, the difference is that spending is an actual problem where climate change

00:54:53.660 isn't. But but but in people's lived experience, which is the phrase that we hear from from the

00:54:58.300 left all the time, it's just not a reality to them. They don't feel it. So it's just this doesn't

00:55:02.500 mean anything on top of it. We also know that for the last four years, there's this sort of glaring

00:55:08.560 dead zone where Republicans stopped talking about this issue completely. And now and now they're getting

00:55:14.600 back to it. It just I think it rings hollow. I mean, that's 100 percent true. I will say that

00:55:18.340 there is a difference that is not even degree anymore. It is now turning into a difference of

00:55:22.660 kind between you spend four trillion dollars a year and you spend 10 trillion dollars a year.

00:55:27.080 Right. Yes. Republicans did a horrible job restraining themselves on spending, but that's

00:55:31.240 been true for decades. I mean, seriously, really only in the 90s with Newt Gingrich, they do anything

00:55:35.220 serious about spending. Other than that, Republicans have spent like drunken sailors. But Joe Biden isn't

00:55:39.820 spending like a drunken sailor. Joe Biden is spending like an entire drunken Navy. I mean,

00:55:44.400 it's insane. I mean, and there will be effects to this on the taxation side. What people should

00:55:49.880 understand is that it's not just me bitching about paying too much of my taxes, even though

00:55:52.860 I do pay way too much of my taxes. And in fact, I one of the main reasons for me leaving a high

00:55:56.820 tax state was because I did not wish to spend large sums of money with the worst government

00:56:02.120 in America, the government of the state of California. Right. So that I could have a drug

00:56:06.240 addicted homeless person standing directly outside my front gate suffering and threatening my

00:56:11.120 family. Is it like that? That seemed like not a great tax dollars. But the but it's what people

00:56:15.660 need to understand is that when he talks about raising taxes, those are the dollars that go to

00:56:19.640 make your job. This is this lie that is when he says the middle class built this country. Where did

00:56:25.020 the middle class get its money? Where does he think that came from? That is such crap. I mean,

00:56:30.540 like I'm a middle I was a middle class person for the vast majority of my life. My parents were

00:56:33.420 middle class people for the vast majority of their lives. The middle class is great, but people are in 1.00

00:56:37.620 and out of the middle class. It's not a set group of human beings. Yeah, that's right. You start off

00:56:41.460 in America as a poor person. Then you move into the middle class as you age. And then by the time

00:56:44.860 you retire, usually your upper middle class age. Same for minimum wage workers. That's not a set

00:56:47.680 group. You're supposed to be a minimum wage worker for, you know, a couple of years. We're not

00:56:51.260 living. We're not living in like this is why in a British TV show from 1773, right, where everybody is

00:56:56.280 a part of a class and you just stay there your whole life and you can never escape it. That's not how it works.

00:56:59.820 Every time a president or a government worker uses the word investment, I want to explode because

00:57:07.060 the investment means that they, you make, you go out to work, you make a dollar. They take the

00:57:11.960 dollar and say, you know what? I'm going to spend this dollar on. I'm going to spend it on what I

00:57:15.060 want to spend it on. Whereas if you choose, if you go and say, I'm going to buy a Chinese meal,

00:57:19.600 you've actually created another job. You've actually invested your money where you think it should go.

00:57:25.080 Investment by nature, by definition, entails taking a risk. Okay. When I invest a dollar,

00:57:31.940 I am taking a risk. I'm putting the dollar in. And then maybe if things go well, I will make more

00:57:36.280 dollars out than the dollar that I put in. When the government invests your money, they don't give

00:57:40.100 a, they don't give two craps whether a dollar comes back in the other end. In fact, they know

00:57:44.100 that a dollar is not coming in back and back in the other end. But investment also involves choice.

00:57:47.740 And who's going to make that choice? Is it going to be you who earned the money or them? You know,

00:57:51.560 I mean, we had that system in the South before the civil war where somebody else did

00:57:55.040 the work and the other guy got the money. That's right. That's not the way it's supposed to be.

00:57:57.660 By the way, if the government wanted to invest, it would actually be fairly remarkable.

00:58:01.020 So we pay approximately $2,000 a month to people over 65 in this country for social security.

00:58:07.040 It's almost impossible to live a good life on $2,000 a month in this country. But that's what

00:58:11.280 we give them. And we tell them that we're very charitable and we're very caring because we do it.

00:58:15.860 Now, if you, if you live for, let's say 20 years and we're paying you $2,000 a month,

00:58:23.060 we're paying you $24,000 a year, we're paying you $240,000 a decade, we're paying you approximately

00:58:28.460 $500,000 every 20 years, every 20 years for the 20 years of your retirement. During that period of

00:58:36.300 time, there is no money. It's not your money. They told you it was your money. They said they

00:58:40.000 were going to take your money, put it in a lockbox. They didn't. They spent all your money. Now they're

00:58:44.580 taking the money from younger people to give to you. And there are fewer of them too. And there are fewer and

00:58:49.320 fewer of them. So they're taking money from people who are working, giving it to people who aren't

00:58:53.420 working to the tune of $2,000 a month, $24,000 a year. You're not doing very well. And the government

00:58:59.820 owns you, block stock. That's right.

00:59:01.720 Now, if the government wanted to invest, it could, instead of doing that, it could say,

00:59:06.960 instead of paying you $2,000 when you retire, we're going to put $2,000 a month into the market

00:59:13.740 in your name on the day that you're born. And if they did that for 24 months, you would have

00:59:20.340 three times more money in retirement and you could live more than 20 years. You could retire at 65

00:59:25.460 and live for 40 years.

00:59:27.180 If they put it in Dogecoin, you'd be a trillion.

00:59:29.700 The point being, investments bear returns. The government just confiscates money from the people

00:59:36.680 who have it and give it to the people most likely to vote for them. And they call that an investment.

00:59:40.740 How do you get people to care about this issue, though? That's what I can't...

00:59:44.280 They're about to care. They're about to care. We haven't carried here to four because there's

00:59:49.340 been more and more and more money. The problem is now the interest that we actually... The debt

00:59:54.520 isn't free. You have to pay interest on the debt. It's been the case that up until now,

00:59:59.580 the interest on the debt was a serviceable number. But we're getting to a place now where the interest

01:00:04.240 on the debt will require us to pay higher and higher taxes and get nothing else in return for it.

01:00:10.220 Well, this is where we're about to hit within the next five to 10 years where Germany was. 0.96

01:00:15.140 We're going to start having to take austerity measures. And the Democrats are not going to

01:00:18.440 want to do austerity measures, but they're really not going to have a choice because even Angela

01:00:22.300 Merkel has to do austerity measures. Even the Greeks had to do austerity measures. There comes a point

01:00:27.460 where you just don't have any choices left. And then it's basically going to be a fight over how

01:00:32.840 much austerity is too much austerity and how much taxation is too much taxation. But we're going to find

01:00:36.880 ourselves in a world of hurt. And the only way that you're going to be able to get out of that

01:00:39.580 world of hurt is by actively cutting benefits. And if you want actual economic growth, actively

01:00:44.460 cutting taxes. Because otherwise, the only solution is to raise taxes sky high and cut benefits,

01:00:48.620 in which case you get a stagnant economy and crappy social service.

01:00:51.140 And we're living on the illusion that the American dollar is still the strongest

01:00:54.860 economic vehicle in the world, where ultimately, eventually, that's just not going to be true.

01:01:00.740 This is why I think the next step that's going to be made is they're going to come after Bitcoin

01:01:04.040 with a vengeance. They're going to wreck Bitcoin. The government cannot allow Bitcoin to exist.

01:01:08.580 They can't. Because more and more people are saying, as you inflate the dollar, I'm just going

01:01:12.360 to take my money and I'll put it in gold or I'll put it in Bitcoin. FDR didn't like when people

01:01:16.340 were investing in gold for a very specific reason, right? They're going to do exactly the same thing

01:01:20.340 with Bitcoin, which basically just is a repository of value that is not inflatable by a centralized

01:01:24.860 government.

01:01:25.180 So can I talk about the best part of the speech, the part I like the most? It's the part where Joe Biden

01:01:30.100 sold 100,000 AR-15s. I think at the end of that speech, he sold approximately 100,000 AR-15s

01:01:38.860 by saying that he's going to take away AR-15s.

01:01:41.040 And the Washington Post, by the way, debunked, actually called him on the idea that

01:01:45.000 Republicans and gun owners support him in this. They just don't.

01:01:48.700 Oh, of course not. Of course not. Gun control is becoming less and less popular every day.

01:01:52.260 One of the amazing things that's actually happening in the country and was really escalated

01:01:56.600 during COVID is that not only did we sell more guns in the last year than it had ever

01:02:01.520 been sold before, there were more first-time gun owners.

01:02:04.760 Why is it possible to get ammo now, unfortunately?

01:02:06.640 Right.

01:02:07.200 But the more people buy guns, the less people support.

01:02:10.680 Well, they keep saying things like, what if we got rid of all the guns because guns are

01:02:13.960 bad? Also, what if we got rid of all the cops because cops are bad? And you're like, well,

01:02:17.600 that's a bit of a problem.

01:02:19.020 Also, what if we shut down all the prisons because prisons are bad?

01:02:22.000 Also, what if we take away all of your investments so you have any money?

01:02:25.520 This is the one issue. Gun control is maybe the one issue that Republicans and conservatives

01:02:30.900 have held the line on for decades and have actually won this one issue. It's a very important

01:02:36.360 issue. It's not, to my mind, the most important issue, but it's very, very important. And I always

01:02:41.840 wonder what lessons can we take from that? Look at what the gun rights lobby has done. 0.86

01:02:46.860 And can we do similar things with the life issue and protecting children and those sorts

01:02:52.380 of things?

01:02:52.600 I don't agree. We've held the line well on the life issue. And it is another issue that

01:02:57.060 we went on. What we haven't done a good job of is actually using government to forward

01:03:03.800 the life issue when we have power.

01:03:05.760 Good point.

01:03:06.260 But we have done a great job, I think. There are no pro-choice Republicans in national elected

01:03:13.060 office, are there?

01:03:13.680 Right. Now, the fact that we suck at doing anything about it once we're in power, I

01:03:17.340 totally agree. But those are the only two, I would say there are two issues that we've

01:03:21.180 been incredibly ideologically pure on.

01:03:24.660 It's also different math with regard to legislation, just because on guns, it's easier to obstruct

01:03:29.140 than it is to pass, right?

01:03:30.300 Yeah.

01:03:30.460 It's much easier to say, okay, you guys want to pass this stuff, you don't have the votes

01:03:32.900 for it, than to say, okay, we're going to roll back all of this pro-choice nonsense.

01:03:35.920 Well, but we also, but, you know, $500 million a year going to Planned Parenthood.

01:03:40.540 I agree with you.

01:03:41.040 It kills 330,000 babies a year, and that continued when Republicans had total control of the

01:03:46.300 government, so.

01:03:47.220 They do not.

01:03:47.800 Absolutely.

01:03:48.320 They do. They're talking about Republicans being cowards. They do not want to do it. 0.99

01:03:51.640 They're so afraid.

01:03:51.840 Well, even think about it. I mean, Trump stripped something, what was it, 60 million, I think,

01:03:55.380 from Planned Parenthood?

01:03:56.300 It just doesn't matter.

01:03:57.200 Yeah.

01:03:57.540 It's going to go right back.

01:03:58.940 You can't really do it.

01:04:00.460 The thing is, we talk about following the science. The science is on our side in this.

01:04:04.040 The technology is on our side. You can now see a baby in the, you know, this didn't

01:04:08.260 happen before. When Aquinas was writing about the quickening, he didn't have a sonar machine

01:04:12.940 that he could just say, oh, there's the baby.

01:04:14.780 Yeah.

01:04:14.980 It's a baby, you know?

01:04:16.200 You know, I'll give an example on this. My cute little son, I never got a good sonogram

01:04:20.160 of him because he had his fist right by his face. I actually couldn't. I paid for the

01:04:24.100 extra 3D sonogram. I never got it. And you know what? My little son, after he came out

01:04:27.860 of the womb, you know what he always does? He always has his hand by his face because

01:04:30.620 he's the baby. He's the same baby that was in the womb.

01:04:32.880 What I'll say about the abortion argument, there is something happening in America right 1.00

01:04:37.580 now, which I don't, I think goes unnoticed. And that's that the states are winning huge

01:04:41.440 victories on the life issue.

01:04:42.980 Our argument about Roe v. Wade has always been that it was an issue better decided by the

01:04:47.200 states. And we're right. The federal government can't make the right decision about it. States,

01:04:52.860 Texas, Tennessee are making great decisions on the life issue, consequential decisions. It's

01:04:58.180 much harder to get an abortion in the reddest of red states than it has been at any point

01:05:02.920 in the lifetime of anyone except true.

01:05:05.340 We just had a new bill passed two days ago in Idaho, another heartbeat bill.

01:05:08.600 Yeah, that's right.

01:05:09.660 What you're seeing also with Joe Biden accelerating it, I mean, this is real accelerationism,

01:05:13.880 what he is doing right now.

01:05:14.700 And what it's going to result in is the amount of movement by conservatives into red states

01:05:20.660 is just going to be overwhelming.

01:05:21.920 It's already pretty amazing.

01:05:23.600 I mean, yeah, I can tell you that in Florida, the real estate market is just extraordinary.

01:05:27.860 People are buying houses sight unseen because they're like, I got to get out of here and

01:05:32.200 I got to get someplace sane.

01:05:33.600 There are people at this company who bought houses sight unseen in Tennessee, actually.

01:05:36.880 I'm looking forward as an Angelino leaving Los Angeles. I'm looking forward to bringing

01:05:40.640 homelessness and ugly, ugly billboards to the rest of the country.

01:05:45.600 Yeah, you're going to be great.

01:05:47.260 You're going to be great.

01:05:48.500 So I'm going to take a few more questions from dailywire.com subscribers.

01:05:52.820 They are the people keeping the show on the air. Go over to dailywire.com slash subscribe

01:05:56.480 and get your question in for the group. Biden refers to China as our direct competition.

01:06:01.000 But do you think he will stand up against them if China follows through and becomes aggressive

01:06:05.300 toward Taiwan? Michael, how much money did Hunter Biden have on the line there with that private

01:06:11.860 equity deal that didn't, I guess it didn't go through. No, of course not. The thing that we

01:06:17.260 have learned over the last couple of years, I think, and the conservative movement is that

01:06:21.560 there is the blob, the liberal establishment, which there's an uncomfortable overlap between

01:06:28.520 the government and the administrative state and big tech and big corporations, those big

01:06:32.780 woke corporations in Georgia. And where are they getting a lot of their money from? Just ask LeBron

01:06:37.060 James. Just ask the NBA. That's right. They get it from China. So is Joe Biden, who not that long

01:06:43.320 ago was cheering on the rise of China, saying this is a wonderful thing. A rising China is great for

01:06:48.220 everybody. Let him into the WTO. Of course not. He's the last guy that's going to stand up.

01:06:52.540 Well, I think that I don't think China is going to make a full on militarily aggressive move against

01:06:57.220 Taiwan because I think they don't think they need to. I think what they're going to do is they're 0.91

01:07:00.740 going to start a low level pressure campaign against Taiwan, see if they can get a government

01:07:05.020 elected in Taiwan that is much more pro-China, and then just start using authoritarian measures

01:07:09.540 because this is exactly what they did in Hong Kong and the rest of the world just shrugged.

01:07:12.360 I mean, it is an amazing thing that we have watched in our lifetime. The first

01:07:16.080 reversal of a free state into absolute tyranny through a foreign country's influence. It's

01:07:22.280 the first thing that this is the first time this has happened basically since the end of the Cold

01:07:25.100 War. And and the rest and everybody just shrugged. They went, OK, so they just subjected seven million 0.58

01:07:29.680 people in Hong Kong to absolute tyranny. No one cared. You know, we have a serious problem with

01:07:34.100 China. First of all, I want to say that if I were China, I'd go into Taiwan tomorrow. I take it over 0.96

01:07:38.060 tomorrow. I do it militarily. And I mean, they just what is Biden going to do at this point? He has not got

01:07:43.360 the wherewithal. It proves America to be neutered if they do it. What's that? They both get Taiwan 0.94

01:07:47.780 and they get to show that America. That's right. And the American people don't want to go send the 0.93

01:07:51.840 military. They'd be able to take it, but there would be some pretty significant economic consequences

01:07:56.940 for them. So why not do it the easy way? The left's problem with China is the left is China. 0.75

01:08:00.460 They actually believe in a free market, but in chained people. And China has shown so far, 0.99

01:08:09.120 I don't actually believe that's going to work in the long run, but they have shown so far that they

01:08:12.860 can make that work. Well, our belief, our belief, our belief is China is just sans Holocaust. And if

01:08:19.720 you include what's going on in Shenzhen, including Holocaust, they're just Nazi Germany. Yeah, 0.62

01:08:23.720 that's all they are. I mean, they have a Nazi economy, which they top down corporatist economy in 0.93

01:08:27.820 which they have a few approved companies. And the government of China says you're allowed to make

01:08:31.080 a lot of money here and you're allowed to make a lot of money here. It's basically mercantilism.

01:08:34.000 And you're going to and we'll allow you. I don't agree that that's a free market. That's not a free

01:08:37.300 market. It's mercantilist corporatism. That's that. But that's essentially what the Democrats

01:08:41.120 are for. I mean, they believe in control. Yeah. They believe in controlling the people

01:08:45.720 through the corporations and controlling the corporations through the government. Right.

01:08:49.360 That is China. So why? Why should they fight? How can we count on Republicans? Asks,

01:08:53.420 one daily wire dot com subscriber to actually fight back against these policies that Biden is

01:08:58.100 implementing. Oh, we can't. I mean, that's what I and we didn't see the whole Tim Scott speech,

01:09:04.380 but what we needed to see and maybe he did it. I'm skeptical is a fiery defense of law and order,

01:09:14.300 you know, a defense of free speech. This is what people care about. They need to get fired up, 1.00

01:09:19.520 getting on board with police reform in any capacity at all. We shouldn't even be entertaining

01:09:24.080 the idea. There's no reason for it because this crisis of police brutality is manufactured by the left.

01:09:31.120 But I don't have any confidence in the Republican Party at all, especially because,

01:09:34.900 as we talked about before we went there, these Republicans came to the speech and wore their

01:09:38.860 masks, including some Republicans who previously had great moments where they said, I'm not going

01:09:42.720 to wear the mask because I don't need to. And there they are sitting. Well, you know, we just said

01:09:47.100 that there is this model here where the liberal establishment is going to use the corporations to

01:09:51.820 control the people. Money talks and BS walks. And just a few hours ago, there was an excellent op-ed

01:09:58.000 published in the Wall Street Journal by our pal Ted Cruz. Cruz came out and he said, look,

01:10:03.260 Republicans were wrong to shill for corporations before. We were all part of it. We're not going

01:10:07.400 to do it anymore. We're not going to let them do it. I'm not going to take a penny from corporate

01:10:10.800 PACs. More than that, I call on all of my fellow Republicans not to take a penny from corporate PACs.

01:10:16.280 Is that going to solve the problem? I don't think it's going to solve the problem. Is it a step in the

01:10:20.400 right direction? Absolutely. Especially if it pressures Republicans to break this hold. Because how many

01:10:27.340 big tech hearings did we see where those senators, they sat there and they yelled at Mark Zuckerberg. 0.71

01:10:33.260 They yelled at all these guys. And then what followed from that? Absolutely nothing. Because

01:10:38.160 big tech was donating to their campaigns. Yeah. I think it's not just that big tech donates to

01:10:43.540 their campaigns. I think that it's also what we've been talking about all night. It's a fundamental

01:10:50.060 kind of cowardice among Republicans to take action. Yeah. One of the things that's happened is that

01:10:55.120 Congress generally has ceded all of its constitutional authorities to the executive

01:11:00.800 and the bureaucracy. They don't want to do anything because you can't really be judged

01:11:05.600 on nothing. You only are going to lose, their theory goes, if we do something, there'll be

01:11:11.520 people who don't like it and then we'll lose. It's also true that there are a lot of conservatives

01:11:15.340 who think that conservatism is really more attitudinal than programmatic. Meaning it's more of the

01:11:19.520 attitude that you take about stopping change as opposed to a program for actually implementing

01:11:23.780 change. Well, if it's just about the attitude and what you're conserving is a system that is

01:11:28.040 largely moved to the left, you're not actively being conservative. And you see this over and

01:11:32.800 over from members of government, which is, well, you know, we did thwart their plans, right? Our job

01:11:36.440 is to be there and it's to stand to thwart the rails of history shouting stop. Well, what happened if the

01:11:39.880 train already pushed you several hundred yards in this direction? It doesn't matter if you're like

01:11:44.280 this train needs to be put on a completely different track. They don't understand. They act like

01:11:48.780 European conservatives and they don't understand that American conservatives are liberal. American

01:11:53.520 conservatives are conserving the constitution, the most liberal document in the old style, uh,

01:11:58.600 meaning of liberal, most liberal document ever invented because it leaves people free.

01:12:04.040 Liberalism is freedom and it leaves people free. We are defending something, a philosophy,

01:12:08.520 an active philosophy, as opposed to Europeans defending blood and soil and rank and all the things that

01:12:15.080 conservatives in Europe, uh, defended. We don't, we don't defend any of that. We defend the

01:12:19.660 constitution. We are defending a revolutionary idea. The only revolutionary political idea that's

01:12:25.160 existed for 200 years. I mean, it's kind of incredible. I spoke to the House Republican

01:12:29.560 Caucus a little bit earlier this week, as reported in a few of the kind of political outlets. And one of

01:12:34.560 the things that I was talking about was the contract with America. I said, you guys ought to have a

01:12:37.280 second contract with America. And as I went back, I looked at the original contract with America.

01:12:40.780 What I noticed is that the original contract with America, which promised that the

01:12:44.720 Republicans had passed about 10 different bills and eight different reforms. They did pass all

01:12:48.560 of those things. And then many of them were vetoed by Bill Clinton, but a lot of those things are

01:12:53.000 still not done, right? Things like zero baseline budgeting, right? They're like, that's, that's an

01:12:57.460 easy one, right? There, there, there are certain things that are, that are, that they were like

01:13:00.680 police reform was being proposed, like not police reform, additional police funding was being

01:13:04.100 proposed by the Republicans in 93 so that they would win back to Congress in 94 because there were

01:13:08.360 serious problems with crime at that point. Even Joe Biden thought there were serious problems with

01:13:11.900 crime at that point, back when he had not completely lost his mind. And the back when

01:13:17.020 Kamala was marching at Selma, I think so. And the, and the fact is that the Republicans have held

01:13:23.900 Congress several times since then with a Republican president and with the Republican Senate, and they

01:13:28.460 didn't make that stuff permanent. They only passed it when Democrats were in control. We should be fair

01:13:32.500 though. We did have a Republican leader read green eggs and ham. And you know, that was an important

01:13:39.300 moment for all of us. Yeah. We, we less, less than, uh, four years ago, Republicans controlled the

01:13:47.440 Congress and the presidency and they did nothing. And you know, there, there is a way. Oh, they passed a

01:13:52.620 tax cut. They passed a tax cut. A temporary. They changed me as a copyright law. That was big. They, there is

01:13:58.280 a way. That's actually a good thing. No, it was a good thing. But it wasn't. Like on my list of priorities, it

01:14:01.940 wasn't like. You know, there were a lot of conservatives right now who hear when we talk about the

01:14:05.780 constitution and these abstract philosophical ideas who say, that's, I don't, I don't care

01:14:11.040 about things that are floating in the sky. I want tangible results. And I think there is a way to

01:14:16.440 bring these things together, which is the American way of life. There is an American way of life where

01:14:21.300 all these great philosophical ideas have actually been embodied in real institutions and real rights

01:14:26.680 that we've all cherished for a very long time that the left is trying to destroy. And I just think

01:14:31.480 if Republicans would get down to brass tacks and say, you know, this, the stuff that's going on in

01:14:36.840 our streets, it's just wrong. We don't like it. It's not part of our political tradition, which comes

01:14:41.640 from our ideas and the way it's been enacted. Get back to that, get back to that America that we

01:14:45.760 cherish and love. Trump did a very good job of, of putting it in really practical terms. And I just

01:14:51.720 fear sometimes Republicans were too pie in the sky about it. Just give people something to hold onto

01:14:56.560 in this country. You know, it is funny. Trump didn't do a good job of telling stories. He was

01:15:00.880 really good at that. And it was something that Republicans and conservatives in general need to

01:15:04.920 learn. But you know, all the time Trump was in office, I would complain about his personality and

01:15:10.560 his rudeness and his unkindness. And I think like that really was the turning point in the sense that,

01:15:16.820 for instance, John McCain destroyed the end of Obamacare because he was ticked off. He had been

01:15:23.340 mistreated and he, you know, these guys are all narcissists and they don't want to be mistreated.

01:15:26.920 We are left with, and I think you, Matt, tweeted this out yesterday or today, that we're left with

01:15:33.940 a Republican administration that left us nothing of enduring value. And unfortunately that happens

01:15:40.540 just too often because of what you're saying, Ben, that they don't have a positive vision of what it

01:15:46.460 means to be a conservative. And I think you're right too. I think that the idea, we are talking about

01:15:51.840 things that maybe are a little too pie in the sky. We have to show people how they work. It's a harder

01:15:56.840 story to tell. It's a harder story to tell that each individual person making decisions on his own,

01:16:02.400 each individual person trying to better his life actually betters the country more than Joe Biden's

01:16:07.840 idea that he's just going to pour money. What's kind of fascinating is that Democrats do one thing

01:16:12.140 that I've never really heard a Republican do. Democrats do something that is very useful in nearly

01:16:18.140 every state that has popular support. And that is they ask for sacrifice, right? They do this all

01:16:22.900 the time. You're going to have to sacrifice this for climate change. You're going to have to sacrifice

01:16:26.020 this for racial inequity. You're going to have to sacrifice this for income inequality. And the

01:16:29.900 truth is that Republicans never do that. They sort of suggest, okay, well, you can have your cake and

01:16:33.440 you can eat it too, which is how you end up with tax cuts and high spending, right? At no point do they

01:16:36.740 ever say, you know what? For the sake of the country and for the sake of your children, we're going to have to cut

01:16:40.860 spending and it's going to come from places that you're upset about, right? It's going to come from places

01:16:45.540 where you may be upset at me that I'm cutting this, but for the sake of your kids, you are going to have

01:16:50.020 to just take the hit. You're going to have to be an adult. And, and so what they've done is they've

01:16:54.040 trained an entire generation of Republican voters to vote for Republicans. But then when it comes time to

01:16:58.000 pass a piece of legislation that requires some sacrifice here or there, the Republican voter goes, well, I do

01:17:02.420 want to cut spending, but I really don't want to cut that. But the difference is, the difference is, I

01:17:05.520 totally agree with what you're saying. I think that needs to be the message from the Republican

01:17:07.880 Party. Absolutely. But the one advantage that the Democrats have is they ask for sacrifice, but it's someone else

01:17:14.760 who's making the sacrifice. So you as the voter are not sacrificing. So on climate change, on taxes,

01:17:20.160 everything, it's, it's the bad guys, it's the evil. I'm actually not sure, Matt. I think that.

01:17:24.380 But they like the sacrifice, right? Recycling is a sacrifice. The masking is a sacrifice.

01:17:27.300 The mask is a sacrifice. And this is Orwell on Hitler, right? Orwell very famously during the war,

01:17:32.540 early in the war, 41 maybe. 41.

01:17:34.520 Writes. 40. 40. Writes an introduction to Mein Kampf. And it's one of the most fascinating reads. If you've

01:17:41.160 never read, it's very short, two or three pages. It's fascinating because he, he predicts the end

01:17:46.980 of the pact between German and, uh, Germany and Russia, uh, vis-a-vis Poland. He, he, he basically

01:17:53.040 tells the future. Uh, and so you read it now and it feels like, well, yeah, we all know that that's

01:17:57.400 what happens. At the time, no one knew that's what was going to happen except Orwell, right? And he's

01:18:02.000 saying exactly what's going to happen. And at the, at the conclusion, he says, very close to what you're

01:18:07.120 saying, Ben. He essentially says that, you know, the, the liberal West offers its people,

01:18:12.800 the promise of a life of security and ease. Yeah. And the power of Hitler is that he stands 0.93

01:18:18.960 before his people, uh, against the backdrop of Western ease and promises them only, uh, honor

01:18:26.640 and valor and toil and sacrifice. And so does Churchill. Churchill did the exact same thing.

01:18:32.860 Blood, sweat, and tears. Blood, sweat, and tears. Which is why people see him as an inspirational

01:18:36.560 leader. That's right. The lie of, the lie of, of modern liberalism is that what people actually

01:18:42.180 want from their leaders is stuff, right? That if you give them a prosperous state, then they'll be

01:18:47.260 super happy. And it's just a lie. We have the most prosperous America that we've ever had. We had it

01:18:51.020 before the pandemic and we'll have it again after the pandemic. And yet people are deeply unhappy

01:18:55.480 because normally the things that they would be called to sacrifice for, like their religion,

01:18:59.300 even their religions are not calling for them to sacrifice anymore. Their religions aren't even 0.83

01:19:02.820 calling for them to sacrifice their own personal desires on behalf. Is it less,

01:19:05.840 Is it less sacrifice? It's, it's, it's, there's, there's an element of sacrifice, but I think the

01:19:10.560 main thing with, with Democrats and the left, especially somebody like Bernie Sanders, it's,

01:19:15.540 it's, he's making a moral argument. So that's what he's talking about. He's saying this is the

01:19:18.840 right thing to do and that's why we need to do it. Uh, whether there's sacrifice or not, it's just

01:19:23.400 the right thing. It might not be the most practical thing, but it's the right thing. And that's what,

01:19:27.240 and that's the argument that the Republican party doesn't make. They've sacrificed the moral

01:19:30.060 argument. There is a liturgical element to this in that you remember a few years ago,

01:19:34.220 and I guess more than a few years now under Obama, Obama said, look, we'll solve this

01:19:37.920 terrorism thing. Once we get some more jobs in Pakistan, then it's all good. And more jobs in 1.00

01:19:42.300 Afghanistan, then they'll all be happy because they'll have iPhones. And you had this strange 1.00

01:19:46.660 phenomenon of third generation foreigners, you know, third generation immigrants in the United 0.87

01:19:52.340 Kingdom flying to the Middle East to join ISIS. Oh my, why are you leaving London to join ISIS?

01:19:58.140 Because of exactly what Orwell said. That's right. Because that is a life imbued with meaning and

01:20:02.940 sacrifice and an enactment of these. But you guys are leaving one thing out. You're leaving one

01:20:06.660 thing out. In order to call for sacrifice, you have to have a crisis. And the left manufacturer's

01:20:10.860 crisis is again and again and again. And we never do. What we always say is the only crisis is the

01:20:15.920 left. But we do have a crisis in this country. We have a crisis of spirit. We have a crisis of vision.

01:20:20.220 We have a crisis of freedom, most importantly of all. And we have to push that forward and make

01:20:25.460 people understand that those things are things you sacrifice for. I'm not sacrificing to turn

01:20:29.880 off the sun. I'm sorry. The sun is going to be there. And if it's not there, it's just going to

01:20:34.040 be a very, very cold night. But I will sacrifice. We were talking about Nick Fuentes today, a guy all

01:20:41.920 of us despise. And we despise the things he believes in. I personally am offended by what Nick Fuentes says,

01:20:48.800 but he got on a plane and they wouldn't let him fly. And I want to defend his rights, not because I

01:20:53.900 defend him, but because his rights are my rights, and they're your rights. And we want to preserve

01:20:58.100 those rights. We've got to make people understand. And for our children, too. I mean, it sounds like

01:21:02.420 a cliche, but that's a real crisis. We're murdering our children. They're being corrupted and perverted

01:21:07.720 in schools. We're literally trying to turn boys into girls, drugging and mutilating them. That's a real 0.99

01:21:13.360 crisis that I think most people are willing to sacrifice for their children. And that's a message

01:21:18.740 that somehow the Republican Party doesn't make.

01:21:20.160 One of the most essentially left-wing moments of these last few weeks was the New York Times

01:21:27.020 saying that we mustn't judge, we mustn't talk about the fact that these children who have been

01:21:31.480 out of school are never going to catch up because that stigmatizes them. So in other words,

01:21:36.740 our lousy programs, our lousy ideas, the terrible things that we did are not going to be addressed

01:21:42.220 because, oh, that would stigmatize the children. Of course we have to defend our children. The left

01:21:46.880 has sold them to the teachers' union. Can I make an unpopular decision?

01:21:50.580 No. Damn it. We want you to be popular every damn minute. 1.00

01:21:54.240 More unpopular than tax the poor? 0.98

01:21:58.580 Taxing the poor is moral, and we should do it. 1.00

01:22:01.240 The only thing immoral.

01:22:02.160 I'm just going to keep double down on this one.

01:22:03.400 Can we also beat up the poor?

01:22:04.680 No, no, no. Stop that.

01:22:06.220 We preach in this country the virtue of not working. You have books, the 40-hour work week.

01:22:17.220 Everyone wants early retirement. How can I retire by 35? Retire by 40? How could I retire by 50?

01:22:24.180 We are meant in a fallen world to work.

01:22:27.460 Bingo. Bingo.

01:22:28.200 The Bible doesn't say, take one day of your two-day weekend and don't work.

01:22:34.540 The Bible says, six days you will toil. It's a biblical both prescription and description,

01:22:42.840 to borrow from Ben, that you would work six days of your life and rest on the seventh day.

01:22:47.600 We're going to talk about the theological ramifications of that. That's a great conversation,

01:22:50.300 but I'm not. I'm talking in a very practical sense. God commands and describes man as one who will

01:22:56.620 work six out of seven days.

01:22:58.280 By the sweat of your brow.

01:22:59.860 By the sweat of your brow. And we say you shouldn't. I see all these women in America 1.00

01:23:04.280 today who are miserably unhappy. And they're miserably unhappy, Christian women, because 1.00

01:23:09.280 they believe that it's wrong for a woman to work outside the house. They believe they're supposed 1.00

01:23:12.880 to be homemakers. And listen, if you've got young children at home, I think it's very beautiful for

01:23:18.680 you not to work and to raise those young children. That is a kind of toil. That is a kind of labor.

01:23:24.520 But a lot of these women in America, they have one kid or two kids. They leave the workforce. 1.00

01:23:29.600 They raise them until they're six. Then they send them to public school. And then they call

01:23:34.140 themselves stay-at-home housewives or stay-at-home homemakers. But the problem is we've replaced

01:23:39.740 that job. The 20th century replaced the job of the homemaker. We have washing machines. We have 0.60

01:23:47.160 dishwashers. We have vacuums. All the things that caused a homemaker to toil were replaced. And women 1.00

01:23:54.180 in that position became less and less happy. And they believe that the Bible tells them,

01:23:58.520 many of these Christian women, that they're supposed to stay home and watch daytime TV 1.00

01:24:02.040 instead of having a job. And that isn't true.

01:24:04.460 That is toil.

01:24:05.600 That is true toil.

01:24:06.960 But you're not supposed to stay home and watch daytime TV. That is a miserable life,

01:24:10.740 and it makes you miserable. You're supposed to stay home and toil. Raising kids, yes.

01:24:15.400 Homeschooling kids, of course. I'm not saying that everybody has to have a job outside the house.

01:24:18.800 But you have to have a job. You have to have a thing that you do with your hands that creates

01:24:23.240 value.

01:24:24.060 Listen, I have to say in my new book, which comes out in April, The Truth and Beauty,

01:24:28.540 I write an entire chapter about this.

01:24:29.800 Wait, what's the title?

01:24:30.560 The Truth and Beauty.

01:24:31.980 It's called Another Good Thing.

01:24:33.680 Can I please write your titles?

01:24:35.500 For the love of God, Drew.

01:24:37.140 Can you please?

01:24:39.300 This is like the third straight title where I'm...

01:24:41.400 I think that's a great title.

01:24:42.640 Thank you very much.

01:24:43.400 But you're absolutely right about this, that every...

01:24:47.340 When you look at the, what is it, the Proverbs 31 woman that they talk about?

01:24:51.140 She does everything.

01:24:52.180 She's making clothes.

01:24:53.180 She's buying property. 0.99

01:24:54.260 She toils. 0.91

01:24:54.940 But all of those things, all of those things were taken out...

01:24:57.160 You've seen that every Friday night in the Jewish community.

01:24:58.820 No, they were destroyed by the Industrial Revolution.

01:25:01.080 They absolutely were.

01:25:02.060 Children were taken out of home.

01:25:03.340 All these things that made a woman's work less valuable. 1.00

01:25:06.600 To me, the great prospect is because I think the toil of making a home for people is a huge humanizing task.

01:25:16.560 I think homemakers are the most important people in America.

01:25:19.920 I think that's the central job that all other jobs, as C.S. Lewis said, were built to support.

01:25:25.460 And what I think the answer to this is, is that there will be new...

01:25:28.940 There are new versions of work that can be done in the home.

01:25:32.380 I don't think women should leave the home. 1.00

01:25:33.960 I think homemaking is the humanizing job of women that we discount so much. 1.00

01:25:41.560 But let me just say, for the record, in Media Matters, that women should definitely do whatever they want with their work. 1.00

01:25:45.740 No, they need to...

01:25:46.360 But we're not saying that for Media Matters.

01:25:48.540 I know.

01:25:49.520 Screw Media Matters.

01:25:50.640 But, I mean, of course, everybody has their own choice about what they're going to do.

01:25:54.540 I'm simply saying that this should be a dignified, celebrated choice.

01:25:58.340 Yes.

01:25:58.380 That's all I'm saying.

01:25:59.100 We should distinguish between...

01:26:00.960 And this is where a lot of confusion comes in.

01:26:02.960 And distinguish, but a job and work are two...

01:26:06.080 Not necessarily the same thing.

01:26:07.460 You can work at your job, but there's a lot of work to be done at home.

01:26:12.520 Recently, there was some left-wingers that were tweeting about how they don't respect stay-at-home moms because there's no...

01:26:19.620 They want people who have ambition.

01:26:21.320 And it takes a lot of ambition to work at home and to build a home.

01:26:26.000 Now, you can be an unambitious parent and your kids are going to be miserable and your spouse is going to be miserable.

01:26:31.080 It's going to be a terrible home.

01:26:32.740 But there's a difference between ambitious parenting and an ambitious spouse.

01:26:35.560 And, by the way, forcing women out of the home is an actual structured strategy of the left. 0.54

01:26:41.600 There's a great story that I recount in my upcoming book, Speechless Conflict.

01:26:45.400 It's available June 22nd, now for pre-order.

01:26:48.340 Between...

01:26:48.600 This title is better than yours.

01:26:49.720 Oh, yes.

01:26:50.640 It's like the first compliment.

01:26:51.880 I know, but the bar is so low.

01:26:54.580 So there was this great moment between Simone de Beauvoir, very famous feminist theorist. 0.96

01:26:59.640 She was the jilted common-law wife of Jean-Paul Sartre, the notorious philanderer, and Betty Friedan, who was the American feminist.

01:27:06.860 And Betty Friedan said, women, if they want to go out and work at the widget factory, they should be allowed to do it. 1.00

01:27:12.180 And Simone de Beauvoir said, no, you're getting it wrong.

01:27:14.900 Women must leave the home. 1.00

01:27:16.820 They should not be given the choice to stay at home and raise the family.

01:27:20.420 Because if they are given that choice, they will take it.

01:27:23.960 Too many of them will take it, and that will not live.

01:27:26.360 Hang on.

01:27:27.200 I appreciate what you guys are saying, but I'm saying something else.

01:27:31.200 I'm saying that women should not stay home and not work. 1.00

01:27:34.740 I'm saying that men should not retire at age 30.

01:27:38.920 Yes.

01:27:39.240 I'm saying that we should not promise people lives of leisure.

01:27:42.600 Yes.

01:27:42.800 I'm saying that we shouldn't burden Christian women with the idea that being home alone with nothing to do makes you virtuous.

01:27:48.640 I'm saying that God expects everyone, male and female, to work.

01:27:52.620 I'm saying that 65, you shouldn't be promised not to have to do anything anymore except sit on the boat because you earned it.

01:27:58.060 You didn't earn it.

01:27:59.000 You earned it back when people died at 66.

01:28:01.300 People now die at 95, and you should work.

01:28:04.100 You should work.

01:28:05.380 Because it's better for you.

01:28:06.320 It is better for you, and it is better for society.

01:28:08.220 It all goes back to this idea that we are not offering anyone any piece of dignity.

01:28:14.960 We're not offering anyone any path to creating with their hands.

01:28:21.860 We're not offering them any path.

01:28:23.600 That's because we've changed the definition of dignity, though.

01:28:26.440 Because it used to be that dignity was earned.

01:28:28.740 It wasn't something that you were just handed.

01:28:30.200 There was no idea that you had the sort of right to dignity.

01:28:33.860 What you had was the right to go out and –

01:28:36.820 No, of course, it's silly because that's literally a right to somebody else's sentiment.

01:28:40.260 Dignity is something somebody else gives you, right?

01:28:41.840 Right.

01:28:42.260 The idea changed.

01:28:43.720 It was that dignity was something that is to be found in your own sense of authenticity.

01:28:49.240 Because you're authentic, therefore you deserve dignity.

01:28:51.600 And that's not correct.

01:28:52.320 It's because of what you do in your life.

01:28:53.880 It's because of the actions that you take in the world and in relationship with your society that you are provided with dignity.

01:28:58.960 Now, that doesn't mean that people can treat it like garbage, but it's an abuse of the word dignity to treat the word dignity the way that we have.

01:29:04.980 The word dignity never meant treat somebody decently.

01:29:08.120 Decently is not the same as dignity.

01:29:09.940 Dignity has an element of honor to it.

01:29:13.360 Everybody should be treated decently, of course.

01:29:15.320 I'm saying that if you expect nothing from anyone, they will be miserable.

01:29:20.920 Do you remember what Nancy Pelosi said when she was selling Obamacare?

01:29:24.280 She said, this is a wonderful, it's an entrepreneurial bill because now you don't have to work.

01:29:29.840 It frees you from labor.

01:29:30.480 You can be a poet.

01:29:32.140 You can be a musician.

01:29:33.780 And you know the thing about poets is there aren't that many of them.

01:29:37.440 And most of them are not very good.

01:29:39.120 And the good ones work hard.

01:29:40.860 All the vast numbers, millions of Americans on welfare programs and food stamps and disability,

01:29:45.960 I noticed how many just unbelievable poets, painters, and string quartet members there are in this.

01:29:53.580 Like, that's how people spend their time.

01:29:55.340 That's not a rip on people's skill sets, by the way.

01:29:57.360 That's just a recognition that when you pay people a lot to work, they don't spend the time doing wonderfully productive things.

01:30:03.880 Okay?

01:30:04.140 Like, Shakespeare spent, you know, a pandemic writing Lear, supposedly.

01:30:08.640 Okay?

01:30:09.020 But that's because Shakespeare was Shakespeare.

01:30:10.520 It wasn't like if they paid him not to write Lear.

01:30:12.220 If they'd incentivize Shakespeare, they're like, you know what, dude, same stipend, don't write Lear.

01:30:16.600 He probably doesn't write Lear because that's the way things work.

01:30:18.860 It's another great Bill Whittle observation that this idea that if the people had the means of production,

01:30:25.860 they'd only have to work two hours a day, and they could devote the rest of their time to learning art and learning music.

01:30:32.140 And Bill says the Internet disproves that because we now, in our pocket,

01:30:35.380 carry around all human knowledge and wisdom available at our fingertips for free.

01:30:40.940 At any moment, you could be learning a language, you could be reading Lear,

01:30:45.000 and instead we look at pornography and we play Candy Crush.

01:30:48.200 That's all we do all day long.

01:30:50.000 Isn't there, I mean, there's potentially a, I agree with what everyone is saying,

01:30:53.900 but also I maybe have a problem with the idea that you could just go outside of the house

01:31:00.420 and get a job somewhere, and you're going to find dignity in that because the way that the job market is set up

01:31:05.360 and the way that a lot of companies operate, you know, it can be a very dehumanizing experience.

01:31:11.460 Now, does it make it better to sit at home and do nothing? No.

01:31:14.880 But the problem is that...

01:31:16.220 Well, I mean, charity work was always a thing that many people did.

01:31:18.340 They get involved in the religious community, right?

01:31:20.040 As communities die, that takes away a lot of work that people typically did outside the home.

01:31:24.080 Like, when people would retire, this was, you know, for most Americans, I would say,

01:31:28.020 when most people retired at age 65, if they were church involved,

01:31:30.840 it would be like they would go and get involved in their church.

01:31:32.060 They got more involved in church.

01:31:33.140 Exactly. They spent that extra time going and doing charity work.

01:31:35.680 I mean, I lived for many years in Montecito, one of the richest communities in the world.

01:31:40.540 Living in a very wealthy community is really interesting because people do what they want to do, right?

01:31:44.940 They have free choice, and so you see what people want to do.

01:31:47.880 The women stayed home, but they also manufactured the community. 0.99

01:31:51.720 They went to the schools. They made sure the schools ran on time.

01:31:54.600 They ran the charities.

01:31:55.440 They did all, you know, they called them Montecito Moms.

01:31:59.260 Talk about dignity.

01:32:00.600 When Montecito Moms walked down the street, everybody stood still because everybody respected them

01:32:05.520 because they ran the community.

01:32:06.940 They gave us the community in which we worked and for which we worked.

01:32:10.480 And I think that those are things, of course, you don't have to get a paycheck for those for them to be worked.

01:32:15.200 But they also speak to which...

01:32:16.260 In a weird way, this gets us back to Biden because what Biden is creating is a culture of expectation.

01:32:20.000 Yes.

01:32:20.960 It's a culture where... 0.94

01:32:22.240 And Republicans are accepting the premise.

01:32:24.000 Of course.

01:32:25.800 They're saying, you're right.

01:32:26.960 You do deserve all these things.

01:32:28.160 We just want to give them to you in a more effective way.

01:32:30.520 Effectiveness is never a good argument.

01:32:33.040 Efficiency and effectiveness are not good arguments.

01:32:34.920 That's right.

01:32:35.380 A good argument here would be there should be no culture of expectation.

01:32:38.720 You do not deserve to expect anything from us.

01:32:41.620 And society can expect that you are going to be a productive citizen in order for you to actually earn things.

01:32:46.460 Like, the culture that we've created, this culture of expectation is what's created Occupy Wall Street.

01:32:51.380 It's what's created BLM in the streets.

01:32:53.280 It's what's created so many of the things that are destroying the country right now.

01:32:57.880 It's this expectation that you...

01:32:59.860 Like, I've stopped using the term soft bigotry of low expectations.

01:33:03.160 I now use the term bigotry of no expectations because that's where we are right now.

01:33:06.360 And when we are now living in a society where every single time there is a police shooting, we full-on expect that there will be riots.

01:33:13.680 We full-on expect it.

01:33:14.960 That is not a culture that expects any sort of good behavior.

01:33:18.020 That's a culture that expects bad behavior and treats it as virtuous.

01:33:21.200 You made a point many years ago that somebody who actually liked you did a satire of it that was very funny,

01:33:27.840 where you said that to say that health care is a right is to say that you have the right to other people's labor,

01:33:34.120 which is just not true.

01:33:35.260 And you were right.

01:33:36.980 You were absolutely right.

01:33:37.820 The joke they made about you was a friendly joke, but it was very funny of you saying, you know,

01:33:41.640 you have no right to other people's labor.

01:33:43.660 But you don't have a right to other people's labor.

01:33:45.800 You have a right to be left alone.

01:33:47.580 You have a right to say what you want to say.

01:33:49.400 You have a right to think what you want to think.

01:33:50.700 And you have a right to make your own choices.

01:33:52.240 But you don't have a right to other people's labor, including the labor of health care workers.

01:33:56.740 No one owes you anything.

01:33:58.280 Anything.

01:33:59.240 No one owes you anything.

01:34:00.340 You owe me a couple of bucks.

01:34:01.520 That's...

01:34:02.120 I got a cigar bill.

01:34:05.260 No one owes you anything.

01:34:07.480 This is the fundamental problem.

01:34:09.320 I mean, the fundamental problem, obviously, is that we reject God.

01:34:11.880 Well, yes.

01:34:12.360 But in a very practical sense, the fundamental problem with our society today is that everyone

01:34:17.900 believes that they're owed something by someone.

01:34:19.540 What you're describing is an emanation of your first place.

01:34:23.020 But, you know, and it's true in every area of life.

01:34:25.400 If you want to talk about why marriages are dying, it's because you believe that you have 0.98

01:34:29.540 a right to expect things from your spouse.

01:34:32.040 And expectations kill marriages. 0.61

01:34:33.600 They absolutely do.

01:34:34.760 In a family, though, I would say that's the one place where you are owed something.

01:34:39.100 Your children are owed.

01:34:40.780 And this actually should be the pro-life message, in fact, that you as a parent, you have a

01:34:49.180 responsibility to your child.

01:34:50.060 You owe them something.

01:34:51.040 You brought them into this world.

01:34:52.900 And you have to take care of them.

01:34:54.460 Children are the only people who have a right to expect something.

01:34:56.360 Right.

01:34:56.440 Exactly.

01:34:56.980 That's the only thing.

01:34:59.120 Well, I want to take issue with this a little bit.

01:35:01.600 I mean, I think that individuals, especially in relationships like marriage, they do have a

01:35:07.740 right to expectations of what they are.

01:35:08.800 Yeah, you've entered a covenant.

01:35:09.900 Yeah, that's right.

01:35:10.800 You've made an agreement.

01:35:11.560 You've entered an agreement.

01:35:12.700 Fidelity.

01:35:13.420 Yeah.

01:35:13.700 Yeah.

01:35:14.340 Integrity.

01:35:14.860 Breakfast.

01:35:15.140 And so I think that's the very difference we're talking about.

01:35:20.980 Individuals.

01:35:21.720 Individuals owe each other things.

01:35:23.300 You know, individuals entered agreements.

01:35:26.400 The society owes you nothing.

01:35:28.360 Right.

01:35:28.500 The world owes you nothing.

01:35:29.800 That's a very different thing.

01:35:29.960 Although I will say that when it comes to marriage, I think one of the big things that

01:35:33.900 does plague marriage is people having expectations without having expectations of themselves.

01:35:37.840 Yeah.

01:35:37.940 So when I say that, like the idea of a covenant in marriage is the idea that now the trade

01:35:43.900 is over and not ongoing.

01:35:45.560 Right.

01:35:45.960 Like, oh, well, we signed a contract, so I guess that's the end of the deal.

01:35:48.660 No, no, no, no.

01:35:49.420 The earnings continue, right?

01:35:51.360 You have to work in order to receive from your partner.

01:35:54.000 And if you actually want to have a happy marriage and you're sitting there and you're

01:35:56.680 like, yeah, but under the contract, it says you owe me X, Y, and Z.

01:35:58.920 That's going to be miserable.

01:35:59.620 Well, it's like in a job, you know, you say, okay, I've signed my employment contract.

01:36:02.620 Great.

01:36:02.840 Like, now I'm getting my paycheck.

01:36:04.700 Right.

01:36:04.800 Yeah. 1.00

01:36:05.260 One of the most popular stupid memes and slogans you see out there is something like, if you 1.00

01:36:12.220 don't, if you don't, if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best. 0.99

01:36:16.960 You know, that's, I think, attributed to Marilyn Monroe incorrectly.

01:36:20.480 But, you know, that's, and that's the attitude people bring into romantic relationships is

01:36:24.100 that you have, you have to sort of deserve me to, you have to, you know. 0.95

01:36:28.140 Deal with my bull crap in order to, in order to get me at my best. 0.71

01:36:30.780 And it's like, well, or you could just not do that. 0.99

01:36:33.160 Or just be a good person and also be forgiving of my fault.

01:36:36.300 I always say, if you want to be my lover, you got to give it to my friend.

01:36:39.640 Yeah, yeah.

01:36:41.260 I've never actually understood what that was.

01:36:42.600 That's the words.

01:36:43.300 What does that mean?

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