The Michael Knowles Show - Daily Wire Backstage： The State Of The Union Address

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

00:00:03.820 the State of the Union Address, is available now. Join me, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan,

00:00:08.600 Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, and the God King Jeremy Boring as we discuss everything like

00:00:13.060 the war in Ukraine, propaganda, and of course, our reaction to Joe Biden's rousing

00:00:19.260 State of the Union Address. Take a listen.

00:00:30.000 Even the fake laughs are phoned in around here, folks. Welcome to the Daily Wire Backstage,

00:00:55.160 State of the Union coverage. Joining us tonight, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Andrew Klavan, Matt

00:00:59.260 Walsh, Michael Knowles, and I, your friendly neighborhood, lowercase g, lowercase k, God

00:01:04.660 King. We're going to be watching the President of the United States here in 45 minutes or

00:01:09.500 probably more likely an hour and 45 minutes. Democrats are notoriously late for everything 0.75

00:01:14.220 because they have no respect for anyone. And Joe Biden is no exception. I believe last

00:01:18.400 week he was almost 90 minutes late to a speech. So who knows? We could be up all night. But

00:01:23.540 when the President does make his debut, once they get him good and doped up and propped

00:01:27.120 up, we will be hearing a farcical report on the State of our Union. I say farcical because

00:01:34.480 if the President were to tell the truth, he would have to cede his office tomorrow and

00:01:39.840 then Kamala Harris would be President and all would be well and the Republic would be

00:01:43.720 immediately restored. As soon as the President finishes his remarks, we'll come back and spend

00:01:50.440 a little bit of time breaking them down for you, giving you our reaction, and then exactly

00:01:54.880 15 minutes after the President wraps his remarks, our very own Benjamin Shapiro will

00:01:59.840 be giving the Daily Wire official State of the Union response. People have been asking

00:02:04.300 me all week, you know, why are you doing that? I mean, there's already an official GOP

00:02:07.680 response. And I say, that is why we're doing it. The whole problem with the official party

00:02:13.240 response to the, and this isn't just picking on the GOP, both parties are guilty of this.

00:02:17.180 The problem with the official response to the State of the Union is that it has to go

00:02:20.680 through all of the different, the party apparatus, the leadership of the party in both houses

00:02:26.800 of Congress. It has to go through all these staffers to get approvals. The result of that

00:02:31.380 is it isn't actually a response to the President's State of the Union address. It's actually something

00:02:35.740 that's been written many days or even weeks in advance. And that's why nobody cares about

00:02:41.020 it. It's basically like the graveyard of a political career when you get the nod to come

00:02:45.800 up to the big leagues and give the response. That's it. That's as far, you have reached the

00:02:49.800 pinnacle of your political career. Even for President Bobby Jindal?

00:02:54.360 Well, Rubio, President Rubio.

00:02:55.600 President Rubio, yeah.

00:02:56.380 It's just the worst thing you can be asked to do is to give this response. And so it's tepid,

00:03:00.700 it's polled, it's overly censored. What Ben's going to do is the exact opposite. As only Ben can,

00:03:08.440 he's going to watch the President speak. And then 15 minutes later, he is going to react to the

00:03:13.680 President's speech. And in that way, even I, a lowly God king, will not have been able to approve

00:03:19.360 the things that are going to come out of Ben's mouth. And so they will be more or less true,

00:03:23.360 although with a slightly Jewish perspective.

00:03:28.180 Things will be said.

00:03:29.240 Things will be said.

00:03:29.700 That cannot be unsaid. And I mean, look, the truth is that predicting what Joe Biden is going

00:03:34.520 to say tonight is really easy. There'll be a lot of Bill Buckshanker. He's going to talk a little

00:03:37.960 about the Kramberus. He's going to talk about Afgadabberus.

00:03:41.020 Yep.

00:03:41.440 Right? There's a lot that he can say.

00:03:43.120 Candace, you made a good point that at some point we'll get angry Joe Biden.

00:03:46.380 Yeah. Out of nowhere. He just gets angry every time he's speaking. And you're like,

00:03:49.160 whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down, old man.

00:03:52.680 He's going to come out against cancer. That I'm excited about. They've announced that he's

00:03:55.640 going to come out with his new initiative, which is to cure cancer.

00:03:58.980 It's a very bold move on his part.

00:04:00.680 I thought so, too.

00:04:01.360 Because the pro-cancer lobby will not like that at all.

00:04:05.540 I wouldn't be surprised if some people in the GOP actually took that stance.

00:04:09.500 We are pretty reactionary these days. Like, right-wing Twitter tonight is not going to

00:04:13.640 be a place for anyone with something.

00:04:15.200 What do you mean you're against cancer? What's wrong?

00:04:17.160 He will misread. He'll actually read out loud the cues on the prompter at some point.

00:04:20.780 Yeah, yeah.

00:04:21.020 Applause.

00:04:21.680 Applause.

00:04:23.320 I just want him to whisper. I love him to whisper.

00:04:25.180 Pause.

00:04:25.800 This is your whisper?

00:04:26.740 Squire. Squire. Squire.

00:04:28.020 Well, you know, Kamala Harris already gave the State of the Union address when she went

00:04:32.300 off script yesterday and said, you know, told her audience that you got what you asked for.

00:04:39.540 That's the State of the Union. People are getting what they asked for.

00:04:41.300 As H.L. Mencken said, good and hard.

00:04:43.900 Democracy is a theory that people deserve what they want. Get it good and hard.

00:04:47.200 Yeah, that's right. You know, obviously, we don't need to say too much about it now because

00:04:52.980 we're going to get a chance to react directly to it. But obviously, the State of the Union

00:04:56.300 is complete disrepair. I mean, in my lifetime, our country has not been in this bad a predicament.

00:05:01.940 I mean, Jimmy Carter was president when I was born, but it was toward the end. Like,

00:05:04.860 you could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

00:05:06.860 Jimmy Carter, I remember Carter. He was nowhere near this bad. And he actually course corrected.

00:05:11.800 He did what Obama never did. He changed his mind. He said, oh, I was wrong about things.

00:05:15.340 He said he was wrong about business. When the Soviets went into Afghanistan, he was shocked

00:05:21.200 and realized that he had made a mistake. I mean, he was a terrible president.

00:05:26.240 But even he.

00:05:27.240 Yeah, but he was not asleep.

00:05:28.800 The other thing is that everything that has happened in the last year is on Joe Biden.

00:05:33.520 Yes.

00:05:33.780 When you look at the worst first years of any president in history, usually you have to go

00:05:38.600 like Abraham Lincoln had an actual secession at the beginning of his presidency.

00:05:42.120 Or you have to talk about George W. Bush, who had 9-11.

00:05:44.020 Those are things that happened to them.

00:05:45.940 Nothing that's happening right now happened to Joe Biden.

00:05:48.680 It happened because of Joe Biden.

00:05:50.280 Joe Biden happened.

00:05:51.360 Right. Joe Biden happened.

00:05:52.520 Like, there was no way.

00:05:54.780 It is beyond imagining how he could have screwed things up this badly.

00:05:57.580 Like, when he came into office, you're like, there's no way he can screw this up.

00:06:00.240 He's being given a vaccine. It works.

00:06:01.980 He's going to be. He's being given a distribution plan.

00:06:05.000 He's given an economy that's about to come back if he just gets the hell out of the way.

00:06:08.040 He's been having the Abraham Accords in the Middle East. 0.98

00:06:09.720 He's got Russia and China fairly in check. 0.91

00:06:11.540 Things will be fine, right?

00:06:12.500 I mean, like, all the old man has to do is do what he did during the campaign.

00:06:15.300 Go back down into the basement, drink insure, and go to sleep.

00:06:17.680 That's all he has to do.

00:06:18.740 And somehow he managed to screw this thing up so badly.

00:06:21.360 I was actually concerned when he ascended to the presidency

00:06:23.440 that the Democrats would be undefeatable afterwards.

00:06:27.060 Because when you artificially shut down a roaring economy...

00:06:31.280 Yeah.

00:06:31.600 It's going to come back.

00:06:32.240 It's going to come back.

00:06:33.300 Well, they are saying that now.

00:06:34.460 They are saying he's the greatest jobs president ever.

00:06:36.620 Because when you lock everyone at home and then you let them go out,

00:06:39.180 the numbers look pretty good.

00:06:40.560 But the question I have for this state of the union is,

00:06:44.400 how does he get away with it?

00:06:46.060 How does a man with a 37% approval rating,

00:06:48.900 whose vice president had a 27% approval rating,

00:06:51.800 who the highest rated member of his cabinet,

00:06:54.300 is Pete Buttigieg, has a 38% approval rating.

00:06:56.620 It seems like people are so awake on these issues.

00:06:59.340 I don't really see how the gaslighting is going to work.

00:07:01.960 So what does he say beyond just another pro-cancer replacement rating?

00:07:07.180 Right here.

00:07:08.000 You underestimate their disdain for the American people.

00:07:11.340 Joe Biden actually said people are doing great.

00:07:14.360 They're psychologically impaired by COVID

00:07:16.640 so they can't experience the happiness that I've brought to them.

00:07:19.520 He actually said that.

00:07:21.320 And I mean...

00:07:21.600 I mean, he is psychologically impaired.

00:07:24.420 He's actually...

00:07:25.340 He's not totally wrong in that people have been psychologically damaged by...

00:07:28.340 Sure.

00:07:28.580 By him.

00:07:29.240 Right, by him.

00:07:30.060 And especially kids.

00:07:31.880 Speaking of which, I mean, we're...

00:07:33.420 So we've got 30 minutes left of COVID, which is big news.

00:07:36.520 COVID is officially over now.

00:07:38.080 I mean, of course, it's one big coincidence that

00:07:39.780 right before the State of the Union, you know,

00:07:41.880 California drops the mask mandate.

00:07:44.120 New York.

00:07:44.900 Congress drops the mask mandate.

00:07:46.020 Congress, the White House.

00:07:47.620 The CDC changes their recommendations as well.

00:07:50.720 I'm pretty pissed at him because, I mean, honestly,

00:07:52.520 if I had known that Joe Biden had the capacity

00:07:54.460 to literally just end the pandemic with the State of the Union,

00:07:57.080 why didn't he do this in like April 2020?

00:07:58.740 Yeah.

00:07:58.920 Right, he could have just done it then.

00:07:59.920 We would have skipped two years of this suffering.

00:08:02.100 I mean, because that's what's happening.

00:08:03.440 Or the signs changed radically just in time with the State of the Union.

00:08:06.200 Or midterms are coming up and they kind of are betting on the fact that Americans have a very short memory.

00:08:12.620 And it's true. 0.56

00:08:13.040 We've proven over and over again that we do have a very short memory.

00:08:15.060 So, like, let them get some fresh air outside and then midterms will hit

00:08:18.400 and hopefully we can run on other things.

00:08:19.820 But this time I don't think it's going to work.

00:08:22.240 And I think it's just because of the parents.

00:08:24.440 I really do think that that's going to be the game changer.

00:08:26.440 And I think that they're done.

00:08:27.500 And that's why the poll numbers have just been sinking.

00:08:29.560 Ben said this the last time that we were together in this forum, 0.99

00:08:32.780 which is that no politician in American history has ever been stupid enough 0.99

00:08:37.880 to turn parents into a voting bloc until Joe Biden. 1.00

00:08:42.760 Yeah, it's an incredible thing.

00:08:44.180 And the fact that he's done that is young.

00:08:46.820 So, obviously our president tonight, if nothing else, will be very, very sleepy.

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00:10:50.180 I know what you're in it for.

00:10:51.360 So I want to take a minute.

00:10:52.640 Obviously, we've talked about the president.

00:10:53.980 We're going to talk a lot more about that throughout the course of the evening.

00:10:56.920 We obviously have to talk about the situation taking place right now in Ukraine,

00:11:00.540 and I want to get to that while Ben is still with us.

00:11:02.260 He's going to have to leave a few minutes before the speech

00:11:04.000 to begin mentally preparing for destroying the president with facts and logic.

00:11:08.760 But before that, I want to take a minute while we're all together

00:11:11.080 to remember our friend Andrew Breitbart.

00:11:15.420 At 5.30 in the morning 10 years ago today,

00:11:18.940 when I was 33 years old, I got a phone call,

00:11:23.700 and it woke me, of course, because I'm not awake at 5.30 in the morning,

00:11:26.260 and it was Ben on my caller ID.

00:11:29.120 And as soon as I saw the phone at 5.30 in the morning and saw Ben's name,

00:11:32.920 I knew that this call was to let me know that Andrew Breitbart had died.

00:11:37.140 Almost anyone who knew Andrew at that time knew the enormous burden that he was under,

00:11:43.560 knew the enormous stress that he carried,

00:11:45.540 knew that he had in some ways lost his joy in those last months

00:11:48.820 because he was under such attack because of the pressure of being one of the earliest Twitter warriors,

00:11:54.520 the pressure of the Shirley Sherrod sort of betrayals that he experienced

00:11:57.740 on the right from some people who are friends of ours,

00:12:02.120 but nevertheless a real betrayal that he suffered.

00:12:04.860 Many of us had spoken to Andrew about his health,

00:12:06.880 about the enormous burdens that he was carrying.

00:12:08.940 That's why the people who knew Andrew well

00:12:11.140 didn't actually fall for the kind of conspiracy theories

00:12:13.560 about him being murdered by the left

00:12:15.800 because we all knew that Andrew was a very likely,

00:12:19.580 in fact, our friend Bill Whittle and I took Andrew to dinner a few months,

00:12:24.600 maybe six months before he died

00:12:27.140 and had what amounts to an intervention about his health.

00:12:30.140 And I said, Andrew, you are going to have a heart attack and die.

00:12:33.040 And the next, that night or the next night he had a heart attack.

00:12:35.680 And he called me from the hospital and he said,

00:12:38.140 hey, Jeremy, did you hear the news?

00:12:40.020 And I was like, yeah, Andrew, I heard the news.

00:12:42.140 He goes, you're a clairvoyant, like you're an actual prophet.

00:12:45.360 And I said, yeah, it's true.

00:12:47.360 I saw what no one could see except every other person.

00:12:49.680 I said, have you learned anything?

00:12:51.080 And he said, yeah, I've got to start eating better.

00:12:53.240 And I was like, no, yes, but no, that's not the takeaway.

00:12:56.620 It's this unbelievable burden,

00:12:58.140 which is why of the many lessons there are to learn

00:13:00.340 from our friend Andrew Breitbart,

00:13:02.080 an unbelievable entrepreneur,

00:13:04.900 an unbelievable happy warrior,

00:13:07.920 an unbelievable fighter,

00:13:09.640 and really in many ways began to teach the right to fight.

00:13:13.180 It's that happy warrior thing I think that's so important.

00:13:15.400 You know, he started off as happy warrior.

00:13:17.560 He ended up with righteous indignation.

00:13:19.300 He taught us both of those things,

00:13:20.720 but we've latched onto the latter more than the former.

00:13:22.940 And the former was his true superpower.

00:13:26.320 I mean, you go back and watch Andrew skating up,

00:13:29.500 rollerblading up to protesters and taking them to Applebee's.

00:13:32.120 You go back and watch the greatest media moment

00:13:34.460 in modern American political history

00:13:36.460 when he took over the Anthony Weiner press conference

00:13:39.500 in New York.

00:13:40.060 But this is a man so full of life

00:13:43.280 and so full of joy for the fight.

00:13:45.560 And because today I'm the age that he was

00:13:48.000 on the day that he died,

00:13:49.580 I've been thinking about him all week

00:13:51.080 knowing that this was coming.

00:13:54.200 And I've just reflected on

00:13:55.300 what a privilege it is for us to be alive

00:13:58.020 in this place, in this time,

00:14:00.120 and to get to fight this fight.

00:14:01.740 And sometimes it begins to feel like a burden to us.

00:14:04.380 Sometimes you feel like you're losing.

00:14:05.400 Sometimes you bemoan the fact that we were born

00:14:07.760 in a time that's hard and not a time that was easy.

00:14:10.840 But what a privilege that we get to do this

00:14:13.000 and we should approach it with that same joy

00:14:15.920 that Andrew approached it when we all got to know him

00:14:19.880 and spent time with him.

00:14:20.460 The thing that I remember about him most

00:14:22.180 was his generosity.

00:14:23.760 The way that he would just say,

00:14:25.640 oh, Ben Shapiro, here's Andrew Klavan.

00:14:27.960 You want to meet him?

00:14:28.960 And people would hire us.

00:14:31.020 He couldn't pay us when he started.

00:14:32.440 Remember when he started Big Hollywood?

00:14:33.720 I think I may have written the first article

00:14:35.500 for Big Hot, and he couldn't pay you.

00:14:37.000 So when PJTV hired me,

00:14:39.640 he was like, go, get the money, take the money.

00:14:41.960 You've got to be paid for your work

00:14:43.000 because he couldn't pay you.

00:14:44.380 And he introduced you to people.

00:14:46.140 He never cared.

00:14:47.420 I mean, he said to me once,

00:14:49.220 I remember one of the last times I saw him,

00:14:51.400 he said to me once,

00:14:52.580 whatever doesn't kill me makes me more famous.

00:14:54.740 Yeah.

00:14:55.800 I've used that line of words.

00:14:56.960 And so he did care about the way he saw it,

00:14:58.840 but he didn't feel like your fame

00:15:00.720 took away from his fame.

00:15:01.620 You know, it was all bringing people together.

00:15:04.380 The California movement,

00:15:05.600 which has been really,

00:15:07.700 until we left,

00:15:08.680 until the Daily Wire left,

00:15:09.720 was really the center of the conservative movement,

00:15:12.980 is his.

00:15:13.560 He created it.

00:15:15.240 He did not introduce us directly,

00:15:17.380 but we would not know each other without Andrew Breitbart.

00:15:19.040 He did not introduce us directly,

00:15:20.440 but we would not know each other without Andrew Breitbart.

00:15:22.160 So Andrew was a hub.

00:15:23.280 There are certain people who are sort of the nodes in networks,

00:15:25.860 and he was the hub of a network.

00:15:27.360 And so everybody knew each other via Andrew.

00:15:29.240 Andrew was also the most spontaneous and sweet human being.

00:15:31.840 I mean, like,

00:15:32.280 the characterization of him in the media by the end of his life 0.93

00:15:34.440 is that he was this monstrous, vicious brute 0.90

00:15:36.840 who was mean to everybody. 0.99

00:15:38.120 Right.

00:15:38.300 And everyone who knew him

00:15:39.440 knew how not true this was.

00:15:41.560 Yeah.

00:15:41.880 And it hurt him, I think,

00:15:43.520 on a really deep level to be seen that way

00:15:45.640 because it was so contrary

00:15:46.780 to how he was and who he was.

00:15:49.280 And so when the media started calling him racist,

00:15:50.960 and when the media started suggesting that he was a bigot,

00:15:52.840 and Andrew was the most tolerant person I've ever met.

00:15:54.860 I mean, like, wildly tolerant.

00:15:56.020 And when people characterized him that way,

00:15:59.000 he got so deeply hurt.

00:16:00.220 He was, there was a fundamental innocence about Andrew

00:16:03.140 that I think was deeply marred by the process of a politics

00:16:08.320 that he, when he first entered the movement,

00:16:09.880 he thought, we're all brothers in this fight, right?

00:16:11.480 We're all on the same side,

00:16:12.660 and we're all fighting the good fight.

00:16:14.620 And America, we all kind of want the same thing.

00:16:16.760 We're just having different ways of getting there.

00:16:17.940 And that's really how he approached things.

00:16:19.020 And I think politics really, you know,

00:16:20.760 hit him square across the jaw a few times.

00:16:23.160 And he responded correctly, aggressively, and angrily,

00:16:26.960 and in defense of other people he thought were being bullied.

00:16:29.140 And that was powerful, and it was good,

00:16:30.640 and it was a good instinct.

00:16:31.780 But it's also, if you don't protect yourself,

00:16:33.320 it can really, really damage you.

00:16:34.840 And I think that that was...

00:16:35.640 You know what it is?

00:16:36.320 He was serious.

00:16:37.800 He meant to fight for the country.

00:16:39.700 And a lot of people, it's partly serious,

00:16:42.320 but it's partly business.

00:16:43.200 Yeah, no, that's right.

00:16:43.800 And it's partly politics.

00:16:45.240 I don't think he ever...

00:16:46.080 He had no self-protective instinct.

00:16:47.320 Yes.

00:16:47.700 Andrew had no self-protective instinct.

00:16:49.080 What Andrew Breitbart...

00:16:50.480 He was barely even a conservative, right?

00:16:52.020 I mean, Andrew was a Hollywood left...

00:16:54.280 He was the Clarence Thomas issue, right?

00:16:56.540 It was the Clarence Thomas issue.

00:16:58.260 It was Joe Biden.

00:16:59.440 Yeah, right.

00:17:00.020 Joe Biden made Andrew Breitbart one of us. 0.67

00:17:02.340 What Andrew loathed more than anything else was a bully.

00:17:05.700 That's right.

00:17:06.260 And the way that they responded to him

00:17:07.860 was to bully him in a way that they had never bullied anyone

00:17:10.400 up until that time.

00:17:11.720 And they came at the guy with such a vengeance,

00:17:13.560 and I think that that's what shocked him.

00:17:15.380 I've said this before on the one-year anniversary of his death,

00:17:18.240 but it always merits repeating that Andrew had this singular gift that...

00:17:22.540 I've met a few very famous people who have this quality,

00:17:26.080 but it's an incredibly rare quality

00:17:27.600 where every person who met Andrew Breitbart

00:17:31.580 felt that they were an intimate of him instantly.

00:17:34.800 If you met Andrew, you were a six.

00:17:37.800 He would tell you on the day that you met him

00:17:39.520 about his health problems, his dreams,

00:17:42.180 this crazy thing that happened to him in the third grade,

00:17:44.060 like an open book, very generous, as you say, with himself.

00:17:49.420 And people who are like that,

00:17:51.760 everyone who meets them is their friend.

00:17:53.540 The problem is it's very hard to ever get to seven.

00:17:56.360 Because you started at six, very few people ever get to seven.

00:17:59.040 And I feel that I knew Andrew well enough

00:18:01.460 to know how well I didn't know Andrew.

00:18:03.060 That's exactly right.

00:18:04.120 That's exactly right.

00:18:04.920 I was very close to Andrew, but there was an inner circle,

00:18:07.280 and the inner circle was basically his wife, his kids,

00:18:09.160 his Orson, Larry, Larry Solove, his business partner.

00:18:14.200 There was this very, very core group of people

00:18:15.920 with whom he, I think, really was true intimate.

00:18:19.020 But for a lot of other people, it was like,

00:18:21.220 I knew him for 10 years,

00:18:23.000 and people who had met him for five minutes

00:18:24.080 knew him about 98% as well as I knew Andrew.

00:18:27.440 And that was his quality, that was his magic,

00:18:28.880 but that was also, it made him kind of a lonely person

00:18:31.120 because of that.

00:18:31.840 Because if everybody is your friend,

00:18:33.200 then you really don't have all that many friends.

00:18:35.420 And again, I think it's because he, on a fundamental level,

00:18:37.580 did not know how to guard himself.

00:18:39.160 And, you know, that sounds like a rip on Andrew,

00:18:40.780 but it isn't.

00:18:41.220 It's a quality.

00:18:41.940 It's a quality.

00:18:42.740 He was such an innocent.

00:18:43.280 No, it was one of the best.

00:18:43.600 It was the best thing about him.

00:18:44.300 The way that we all met him is like just the,

00:18:46.980 it's an apothe, it's a perfect example of who he was.

00:18:49.620 The way I met Andrew Breitbart is I was 17 years old,

00:18:51.700 and I was writing for the UCLA Daily Bruin,

00:18:53.720 and he lived in Westwood,

00:18:54.680 and one day he picked up a copy of the UCLA Daily Bruin,

00:18:56.780 and there's this crazy kid writing a very conservative column,

00:18:58.980 and he emailed me.

00:18:59.960 He said, I'm this guy who works at Drudge Report.

00:19:01.260 Do you want to come out with me and get a burrito?

00:19:03.400 That's really what he wrote.

00:19:04.160 And I wish I still had the letter,

00:19:06.280 and we went over to like a greasy taco joint

00:19:09.880 down on Westwood Boulevard,

00:19:11.260 and I watched him pig out on tacos,

00:19:13.120 and I ate nothing,

00:19:13.820 and I'm sipping like seltzer water or something,

00:19:15.820 and he's trying to tell me dirty jokes

00:19:17.060 because I'm wearing a yarmulke,

00:19:17.880 and he wants to like make me feel awful.

00:19:19.600 And that was so typically Andrew,

00:19:22.660 and I think in the last part of his life,

00:19:24.400 you kind of missed that

00:19:25.260 because he was so ensconced in the fight,

00:19:27.000 and so I think when people watch,

00:19:28.500 you know, the documentaries about Breitbart

00:19:31.220 near the end of his life,

00:19:32.280 or when they read his book,

00:19:34.260 Righteous Indignation,

00:19:34.900 which is a good book,

00:19:36.000 when you read all that stuff,

00:19:37.020 I think that if you want to know Andrew better,

00:19:39.080 watch the earliest tapes of Andrew.

00:19:40.500 Watch him on early Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld,

00:19:43.120 who he made a thing, by the way.

00:19:44.500 Andrew got Greg Gutfeld his job.

00:19:46.320 I mean, if you,

00:19:47.660 like the number of people that Andrew put

00:19:48.840 in certain positions because he was just

00:19:50.440 We all live in Andrew's world.

00:19:52.060 All of us are where we are in some way

00:19:53.420 because of Andrew,

00:19:53.940 and he,

00:19:55.680 that joy that he brought

00:19:57.660 is his lasting legacy.

00:19:59.840 His wife, his kids,

00:20:01.060 obviously are his personal legacy,

00:20:03.620 but the legacy that he really should leave

00:20:05.380 with all of us

00:20:05.920 is that we should be happy

00:20:07.200 for our good fortune to be in this battle,

00:20:09.300 and we should approach the battle tomorrow

00:20:10.640 with some of that joy

00:20:11.560 that Andrew brought to it.

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00:21:29.540 So, before we lose Ben,

00:21:32.720 Ben, could you catch us up

00:21:34.040 on the unfolding situation in Ukraine?

00:21:36.580 What's happened in the last five days,

00:21:39.240 the last 24 hours since all the pod,

00:21:41.440 12 hours since the podcast this morning?

00:21:43.120 Yeah, so, I mean,

00:21:44.140 about a week ago,

00:21:46.580 five days ago,

00:21:47.640 the Russian army invaded Ukraine,

00:21:50.640 unlike sort of prior invasions,

00:21:52.100 they didn't bother to use...

00:21:52.440 Wait, wait, wait.

00:21:53.200 Ukraine, a small country?

00:21:55.040 A small country in Europe.

00:21:57.340 Okay.

00:21:58.020 And Russia's a big country

00:21:59.120 on its borders.

00:22:00.280 And when a big country

00:22:00.900 goes into a small country,

00:22:02.520 that's bad.

00:22:03.400 Could you speak slowly, please?

00:22:04.080 Yeah, like the vice president

00:22:05.120 of the United States.

00:22:06.060 And so, basically,

00:22:07.680 Russia had been threatening for months

00:22:10.200 that they were going to go into Ukraine.

00:22:11.360 It was unclear

00:22:11.920 how far they were going to go into Ukraine.

00:22:13.580 I think that most people thought

00:22:14.680 that they were going to solidify

00:22:15.700 their grasp over what's called

00:22:16.660 the Donbass region,

00:22:17.440 which is a region of eastern Ukraine,

00:22:19.240 which is largely Russian-speaking.

00:22:20.440 They had already grabbed on to Crimea

00:22:21.800 and essentially annexed it in 2014.

00:22:24.360 And that had followed on

00:22:25.120 their invasion of Georgia in 2008,

00:22:26.780 which was met with

00:22:27.340 very little world resistance.

00:22:29.700 And so, Putin had been making

00:22:31.220 these sorts of noises.

00:22:32.020 The Biden administration kept saying

00:22:33.000 he's going to go into Ukraine.

00:22:34.600 He's preparing for some sort

00:22:35.340 of major military action in Ukraine.

00:22:37.760 And then Biden kept giving off signals

00:22:39.360 over and over and over again

00:22:40.300 that we really weren't going to...

00:22:41.140 By signals, he literally said,

00:22:42.300 if you invade Ukraine,

00:22:44.120 we won't do anything.

00:22:44.880 Well, he said,

00:22:45.860 he said if it's a minor incursion.

00:22:47.500 Yeah.

00:22:47.720 He basically said just the tip.

00:22:48.740 He said if it's a minor incursion,

00:22:50.140 then we won't do anything.

00:22:52.220 And Putin took that to mean

00:22:53.420 I can do whatever the hell I want

00:22:55.340 because the West historically

00:22:56.240 has not really done anything.

00:22:57.260 And if they do hit me

00:22:57.920 with some sanctions,

00:22:58.660 they'll be temporary

00:22:59.180 and not much will happen.

00:23:00.460 And so, he decides,

00:23:01.540 I'm going to make this power move

00:23:02.860 and I'm going to ensure my legacy.

00:23:04.400 It's sort of a Peter the Great move

00:23:05.540 because Putin is not actually

00:23:07.380 thinking in terms of USSR.

00:23:09.260 He's thinking in terms of

00:23:10.140 Peter the Great

00:23:11.060 or Catherine the Great

00:23:11.800 or historic Russian leaders

00:23:12.700 who are attempting to recreate

00:23:14.280 the sort of Russian empire.

00:23:15.780 That's how he's been thinking

00:23:16.620 for a very long time.

00:23:17.620 So, he invades Ukraine 0.97

00:23:18.980 and he's hit with

00:23:19.760 some really harsh sanctions,

00:23:21.700 sanctions that do not include

00:23:22.900 the natural gas and oil industry

00:23:24.640 because too much of Europe

00:23:25.460 is dependent on that

00:23:26.220 and the United States 1.00

00:23:26.860 because Joe Biden's a moron, 1.00

00:23:28.200 partially dependent on that as well. 1.00

00:23:29.460 We're importing hundreds

00:23:30.280 of thousands of barrels

00:23:31.040 of Russian oil

00:23:31.720 even at the same time

00:23:32.480 that we're levying sanctions.

00:23:33.720 But there's all sorts

00:23:34.560 of financial sanctions

00:23:35.520 that have basically

00:23:36.060 crashed the ruble.

00:23:37.560 They've turned Russian bonds

00:23:38.820 into meaningless pieces of paper.

00:23:40.640 Their economy

00:23:41.060 is completely shut down.

00:23:42.980 Russia's invasion 0.98

00:23:43.640 was at the beginning

00:23:45.160 very slow going,

00:23:46.740 pretty unsuccessful.

00:23:47.740 People thought that

00:23:48.300 this was going to be

00:23:48.600 a very quick and easy invasion.

00:23:49.720 I think Putin thought

00:23:50.420 because he had convinced himself

00:23:51.740 that Ukrainians were going 1.00

00:23:52.860 to sort of act like the Afghans 1.00

00:23:54.200 after the Taliban

00:23:55.480 started to make advances

00:23:56.680 and just completely

00:23:57.500 disintegrate the defenses

00:23:59.360 and just go away.

00:24:00.380 He thought that he was going

00:24:00.980 to be able to establish

00:24:01.560 full air superiority.

00:24:02.680 He was not able to do that.

00:24:03.820 Even now,

00:24:04.540 he still doesn't have

00:24:05.140 full air superiority.

00:24:06.560 He thought it was going

00:24:07.020 to be easy.

00:24:07.840 And so now,

00:24:08.760 he's kind of in a morass

00:24:09.880 of his own making

00:24:10.500 and it's very difficult

00:24:11.580 to see how this gets resolved.

00:24:12.880 And this is the real problem

00:24:13.740 right now

00:24:14.120 because Vladimir Putin

00:24:15.260 has to win.

00:24:16.080 If he does not win,

00:24:17.100 there's every possibility

00:24:17.960 that he's no longer

00:24:19.000 the head of Russia.

00:24:19.700 And this guy 1.00

00:24:20.540 is a murderer. 1.00

00:24:21.640 He is a thug. 1.00

00:24:22.340 He is a very, very bad man 1.00

00:24:23.620 who has literally 0.98

00:24:24.640 poisoned people

00:24:25.560 on British territory

00:24:26.840 who's murdered

00:24:27.540 political opponents,

00:24:28.340 jailed political opponents,

00:24:29.380 killed dissenters,

00:24:30.280 invaded several

00:24:30.840 sovereign countries.

00:24:31.880 And so if he feels

00:24:33.660 as though he's not

00:24:34.380 going to get a victory,

00:24:35.440 he is going to do

00:24:36.360 what he started to do today.

00:24:37.380 And that's why

00:24:37.680 over the last 24 hours,

00:24:38.720 he started to full-on

00:24:39.780 attack civilian centers,

00:24:40.880 which is not a shock

00:24:41.480 because he did this

00:24:42.020 to Grozny in Chechnya

00:24:43.040 in 1999-2000.

00:24:44.520 He killed several thousand

00:24:45.980 civilians in an attempt

00:24:47.440 to simply bring Grozny

00:24:48.920 to its knees.

00:24:49.420 He succeeded in bringing

00:24:50.280 Grozny to its knees 1.00

00:24:51.080 to a certain extent.

00:24:52.300 And so the take is

00:24:53.940 that he's going to continue

00:24:55.060 to exert extraordinary

00:24:56.960 military pressure,

00:24:58.080 particularly on civilian centers.

00:24:59.860 The West has responded

00:25:00.720 with sanctions.

00:25:01.300 They've responded

00:25:01.700 with military materiel.

00:25:02.920 There's been no indication

00:25:03.720 that NATO is going

00:25:04.540 to establish a no-fly zone. 0.94

00:25:05.620 It would be foolish

00:25:06.060 to establish, 0.78

00:25:06.700 in my opinion,

00:25:07.060 a no-fly zone

00:25:07.640 because then you come

00:25:08.280 into the possibility

00:25:08.980 of direct conflict

00:25:09.960 with the Russians.

00:25:10.440 And when you have

00:25:11.460 a rogue dictator

00:25:13.060 who is mainly interested

00:25:14.520 in this territorial land grab,

00:25:16.080 then he does not care

00:25:17.500 if he has to knock down

00:25:18.860 some American jets

00:25:19.660 or if he has to unleash

00:25:21.000 even a tactical nuclear weapon

00:25:22.100 in Ukraine.

00:25:22.540 I don't think that we're

00:25:23.080 on the verge of an all-out

00:25:23.980 both sides nuclear war,

00:25:25.680 but Russian doctrine

00:25:26.840 sort of suggests

00:25:27.560 that if you're losing

00:25:28.540 in the battlefield,

00:25:29.260 the possibility

00:25:29.680 of unleashing a tactical...

00:25:31.080 Russian foreign policy

00:25:32.500 is that if you're losing

00:25:33.940 on the battlefield,

00:25:34.460 the possibility

00:25:34.880 of using a tactical nuclear weapon

00:25:36.220 in a place like Kharkiv,

00:25:37.080 the second biggest city

00:25:38.060 in Ukraine,

00:25:38.680 you might very well do that.

00:25:40.160 He's explicitly threatened.

00:25:41.520 Yes.

00:25:41.960 So the West basically

00:25:43.400 has to do two things

00:25:44.260 right now, in my opinion.

00:25:45.200 They have to continue

00:25:45.740 to exert pressure

00:25:46.360 and they have to offer him

00:25:47.120 some sort of off-ramp.

00:25:48.020 There's got to be an off-ramp

00:25:48.880 because if there's not

00:25:49.500 an off-ramp,

00:25:50.200 then he's just going

00:25:50.940 to devastate Ukraine. 0.60

00:25:52.620 I agree with this.

00:25:53.180 We can continue to pump up Zelensky. 1.00

00:25:55.580 We can continue to pump up Ukraine. 1.00

00:25:57.080 We can watch as it turns

00:25:58.420 into a guerrilla war

00:25:59.260 that lasts years at a time.

00:26:00.420 Ukraine almost certainly

00:26:01.240 cannot actually win.

00:26:02.860 And for that reason,

00:26:03.580 it's horrible to think

00:26:05.480 that you would reward

00:26:06.100 this behavior,

00:26:06.760 but probably what needs

00:26:07.720 to happen

00:26:08.100 is that Putin needs

00:26:09.440 to get those eastern provinces.

00:26:11.780 If he withdraws his troops,

00:26:13.420 he can keep the eastern provinces.

00:26:15.240 We have to let up

00:26:15.940 some of the sanctions

00:26:16.560 because there has to be

00:26:17.220 a carrot as part of it.

00:26:18.680 And then you have to make

00:26:19.800 an overture to Zelensky, too,

00:26:22.080 which is that

00:26:22.480 if Putin withdraws

00:26:23.680 and just takes

00:26:24.480 those two provinces,

00:26:25.500 then NATO can establish

00:26:26.620 a temporary no-fly zone

00:26:27.920 and start rearming Ukraine 0.97

00:26:29.400 or something.

00:26:29.720 I mean, it has to be

00:26:30.300 that kind of a...

00:26:31.660 Nobody's going to...

00:26:32.280 And what has to happen

00:26:33.320 is a deal

00:26:33.660 that no one is going to like.

00:26:35.140 The only options here

00:26:36.540 are deals that not everyone

00:26:37.700 is going to like.

00:26:38.440 Because the other alternative

00:26:39.480 is that Putin is going

00:26:40.640 to continue to insert

00:26:41.520 hundreds of thousands of troops.

00:26:42.560 That's right.

00:26:42.820 He's going to establish

00:26:43.640 complete air superiority

00:26:44.520 and he's going to bomb 0.99

00:26:45.340 Ukraine into the ground. 0.93

00:26:47.020 It is important to note

00:26:48.040 that when you get

00:26:49.400 to a situation like this

00:26:50.400 where all the choices are bad,

00:26:51.960 it's because mistakes

00:26:52.840 have been made

00:26:53.440 along the way.

00:26:54.520 Primary among them,

00:26:56.180 the destruction

00:26:56.780 or at least the thwarting

00:26:58.160 of the American energy industry

00:27:00.120 that could have just

00:27:01.120 essentially isolated

00:27:02.480 Putin entirely.

00:27:03.360 Well, and the green lighting

00:27:04.300 of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

00:27:06.520 Yes.

00:27:06.960 Well, there you go.

00:27:08.040 Putin's pipeline, right,

00:27:08.860 to cut out Ukraine 1.00

00:27:09.880 for bringing his energy

00:27:11.180 to Europe.

00:27:12.220 And Joe Biden

00:27:13.240 essentially gave it

00:27:13.940 the green light.

00:27:14.600 And the fact that Biden

00:27:15.400 is not going to say

00:27:16.280 in his speech tonight,

00:27:17.180 he's not going to say,

00:27:17.760 oh, we're changing

00:27:18.220 the energy policy.

00:27:19.300 It shows you

00:27:20.480 that something is terribly wrong.

00:27:21.900 Well, there's also

00:27:22.440 the new world

00:27:23.440 that's sort of being established

00:27:24.300 on the back of this

00:27:24.980 is not one I think

00:27:25.600 a lot of people

00:27:26.020 are going to like

00:27:26.600 because it's not just

00:27:27.400 that Russia and China

00:27:28.080 are very much aligned

00:27:28.800 and they're both aligned

00:27:29.320 with Iran.

00:27:30.140 It is also that

00:27:31.160 we can talk all we want

00:27:32.300 about how Germany

00:27:33.380 is paying its share,

00:27:34.660 which they should.

00:27:35.280 I mean, they should be paying

00:27:35.840 2% of their GDP

00:27:36.680 toward military budgets.

00:27:37.900 But the complete rearming

00:27:39.020 of Europe has not historically

00:27:40.100 gone particularly well

00:27:40.920 for the world.

00:27:41.740 Japan is talking about 0.99

00:27:42.580 how maybe now

00:27:43.100 they want a nuclear weapon.

00:27:44.180 I mean, if you are

00:27:44.980 a non-aligned country right now,

00:27:46.020 you want a nuke

00:27:46.560 and you want a nuke yesterday

00:27:47.480 because the biggest mistake

00:27:48.560 that Ukraine made 1.00

00:27:49.060 was giving up its nukes in 1994.

00:27:50.560 Although its nukes

00:27:51.540 were actually Russian nukes,

00:27:52.780 it was not really

00:27:53.920 in control of those nukes.

00:27:55.160 You know, that story

00:27:55.920 that's gone out

00:27:56.600 that they gave up their nukes

00:27:58.240 is not entirely right.

00:27:59.760 I mean, those nukes

00:28:01.200 were Russian nukes 0.76

00:28:02.020 that they didn't really

00:28:03.140 have the capacity

00:28:03.960 to take control of

00:28:04.820 without staging.

00:28:06.420 All they needed was one, though.

00:28:07.280 They had 5,000

00:28:08.000 stationed in their territory.

00:28:09.120 There is this fear

00:28:10.140 also of escalation.

00:28:11.900 We're talking about

00:28:12.400 non-aligned countries

00:28:13.340 and neutral countries.

00:28:14.260 We've completely lost

00:28:15.300 the sense of

00:28:16.320 what are called

00:28:17.380 buffer states

00:28:18.320 or even Switzerland

00:28:19.360 in this battle

00:28:20.100 is now taking sides.

00:28:21.140 Amazingly.

00:28:22.140 Yeah, it's been neutral

00:28:22.880 forever.

00:28:23.840 And yet they're now

00:28:26.240 signing on to

00:28:26.740 Russian sanctions.

00:28:27.820 And there is a fear

00:28:28.820 that Ukraine 0.91

00:28:29.460 has been a buffer state

00:28:30.980 between Russia,

00:28:32.120 a relatively strong power,

00:28:33.640 and Europe and the West,

00:28:34.880 a very strong power.

00:28:36.340 And as Ukraine

00:28:37.340 has had alternately

00:28:38.420 more pro-Russian governments,

00:28:40.200 alternately more

00:28:40.780 pro-Western governments,

00:28:42.140 this creates some tension.

00:28:43.580 But now if Zelensky

00:28:45.420 is trying to apply

00:28:46.620 for EU membership

00:28:47.720 and trying to accelerate

00:28:48.480 that process,

00:28:49.080 the European Parliament

00:28:50.300 has voted to advance that.

00:28:52.360 There will still be

00:28:52.860 a long process.

00:28:53.900 But if you now

00:28:54.800 are in a situation

00:28:55.520 where Ukraine,

00:28:56.820 right up on the edge,

00:28:58.040 actually bordering,

00:28:58.980 you know,

00:28:59.120 the breadbasket of Europe

00:28:59.960 is bordering Russia,

00:29:01.180 is now a member

00:29:02.140 of the European Union,

00:29:03.900 that would seem to me

00:29:04.700 to be an escalation

00:29:05.780 rather than an off-ramp.

00:29:07.460 And so it's hard

00:29:08.340 to see at this stage.

00:29:09.180 The problem is,

00:29:10.340 it's hard to ask Ukraine

00:29:11.200 to continue to be

00:29:11.920 a buffer state

00:29:12.740 when there's no buffer.

00:29:14.300 No, there were terrible

00:29:16.420 decisions made

00:29:17.320 over the last 10 years,

00:29:19.060 20 years,

00:29:19.620 and crucially,

00:29:20.380 over the last 12 months

00:29:21.880 that have really lived.

00:29:22.820 Can I make one

00:29:23.320 outlying observation?

00:29:25.220 I know that China

00:29:26.060 won't do this

00:29:26.600 because I know that China

00:29:27.440 is in league with Russia 0.78

00:29:28.900 and they're so intent

00:29:30.100 on humiliating us

00:29:31.640 that they kind of like this.

00:29:33.740 If I were China, 0.94

00:29:34.560 what I would do now

00:29:35.200 is make peace.

00:29:36.060 I would force the Russians 1.00

00:29:37.440 to make peace

00:29:38.200 because then you're

00:29:39.380 the big boy in town.

00:29:40.940 They need Russian oil, though.

00:29:41.900 China is already 0.99

00:29:43.020 the big boy in town.

00:29:44.200 What's that?

00:29:44.720 I think China is already 0.87

00:29:45.820 the big boy in town.

00:29:46.320 Well, yeah.

00:29:47.260 The people that are winning

00:29:47.800 in all of this.

00:29:48.380 But this is how you make it clear.

00:29:50.240 Yeah, and I totally agree

00:29:51.640 that so much happened

00:29:52.640 leading up to this

00:29:53.560 and most crucially

00:29:54.480 in the last 12 months.

00:29:55.520 But I think it's very difficult

00:29:56.760 to discern,

00:29:57.300 and I think a lot of people

00:29:57.960 feel right now,

00:29:58.940 it's very difficult to discern

00:29:59.700 what is actually happening.

00:30:01.440 I mean, we started

00:30:01.980 this entire talk

00:30:02.900 talking about how nothing

00:30:03.720 that we hear from Joe Biden

00:30:04.700 tonight is going to be true.

00:30:06.060 And yet we seem to switch

00:30:06.980 our brains and think

00:30:07.820 that everything that we're

00:30:08.800 hearing about foreign wars

00:30:09.800 is true.

00:30:10.240 So I find it interesting

00:30:11.020 when we rely on the media

00:30:12.680 for information

00:30:13.280 and when we don't rely

00:30:14.060 on the media for information.

00:30:15.060 And I think that we don't

00:30:16.800 really know what the big play

00:30:18.620 is in all of this.

00:30:19.080 It feels like there's

00:30:19.880 something more.

00:30:20.520 Like, if this is really

00:30:21.300 about taking out Russia, 0.89

00:30:22.680 why aren't they talking

00:30:23.760 about making America

00:30:25.040 energy independent again?

00:30:26.100 Instead, they're saying,

00:30:26.660 oh, this is an opportunity

00:30:27.460 for us.

00:30:28.320 Now we should be talking

00:30:29.160 about electric vehicles

00:30:30.220 or a new deal.

00:30:31.580 And so it's just,

00:30:32.160 a lot of it,

00:30:32.660 I think that more

00:30:33.320 will come out with time.

00:30:34.980 Obviously, like,

00:30:35.620 you know,

00:30:36.560 what Russia is doing

00:30:37.160 is absolutely terrible.

00:30:38.280 But I think there's

00:30:38.680 a lot of information,

00:30:39.560 a lot of things

00:30:40.000 that are going on at play

00:30:40.740 that are not being

00:30:41.860 discussed just yet.

00:30:42.680 because, I don't know,

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00:30:45.540 any type of speech,

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00:32:28.900 Part of the story,

00:32:30.340 to your point,

00:32:31.340 is also Ukraine

00:32:32.720 is certainly winning

00:32:33.900 the propaganda war.

00:32:35.020 Right.

00:32:35.460 And they've won that

00:32:36.920 by a landslide.

00:32:37.900 Of course,

00:32:38.220 in the West,

00:32:38.820 they have a certain advantage

00:32:39.640 because the institutions

00:32:40.660 are on their side.

00:32:41.460 But very early on,

00:32:43.560 for the first few days,

00:32:44.560 there was just this barrage

00:32:46.760 of just Hollywood

00:32:47.880 sort of stories.

00:32:49.300 The ghost of Kiev.

00:32:49.960 The Snake Island guys

00:32:51.580 who said,

00:32:52.320 go F yourself.

00:32:52.840 And it turns out

00:32:53.360 that actually they surrendered.

00:32:54.960 You know,

00:32:55.380 the supermodels

00:32:56.280 who are charging down

00:32:56.980 to the front lines.

00:32:57.980 With eyelashes on.

00:32:58.860 It turns out that they have

00:32:59.660 that actually they're

00:33:00.420 holding airsoft rifles.

00:33:01.620 And then a lot of the pictures

00:33:02.460 of Zelensky himself

00:33:03.360 actually were taken months ago.

00:33:04.780 So, you know,

00:33:05.620 and lots of things like that.

00:33:07.760 And I think that,

00:33:08.400 you know,

00:33:09.320 that makes sense

00:33:10.120 for Ukraine

00:33:11.300 to engage in war propaganda

00:33:13.160 as part of any war.

00:33:14.840 And it would be malpractice

00:33:16.220 not to do that.

00:33:16.980 But that does lend credence

00:33:19.380 to this idea

00:33:19.820 that it's actually,

00:33:20.640 there's a lot that's happening

00:33:22.440 that's sort of strange.

00:33:23.160 It's hard to discern

00:33:23.680 exactly what's going on.

00:33:24.580 Like, for example,

00:33:25.840 Ukraine says

00:33:26.440 that they've killed

00:33:26.960 5,000 Russians already, 0.54

00:33:28.780 which would mean

00:33:29.320 that they've doubled,

00:33:30.120 you know,

00:33:31.180 American casualties

00:33:31.940 in Afghanistan

00:33:32.560 over the course of 20 years.

00:33:33.860 Maybe that's true.

00:33:34.840 I'll push on you

00:33:35.640 just a little bit, Matt,

00:33:36.360 because I do agree

00:33:37.600 there's wartime propaganda.

00:33:38.760 I do agree that

00:33:39.500 we've lost faith

00:33:40.460 in our institutions.

00:33:41.640 I agree that our politicians

00:33:42.520 lied to us.

00:33:43.000 All of that's true.

00:33:44.280 But we shouldn't lean

00:33:45.440 on this propaganda situation

00:33:47.340 that is happening.

00:33:48.020 Listen,

00:33:48.180 it's the first social media war

00:33:49.560 in modern nation states

00:33:51.960 in Europe

00:33:52.400 that's happened ever, right?

00:33:53.900 So there's just

00:33:54.800 this constant flood

00:33:55.520 of information and propaganda

00:33:56.360 even possible

00:33:57.080 that's never been possible

00:33:58.360 at this level before.

00:33:59.100 But it isn't as though

00:34:01.140 we know nothing.

00:34:02.360 Like, we know that Russia 0.62

00:34:03.420 has invaded Ukraine.

00:34:04.280 We know that Russia, 0.97

00:34:05.380 a country with a military

00:34:06.400 of almost 2 million,

00:34:07.460 has invaded a country

00:34:08.120 with a military of 200,000.

00:34:09.480 We know that invading

00:34:10.900 a nation that doesn't want,

00:34:12.160 you know,

00:34:12.580 a very small nation

00:34:14.140 has been invaded by a very large nation.

00:34:15.720 Like, we do know these things.

00:34:18.200 We have photos from space

00:34:18.980 of a 40-mile convoy, right?

00:34:20.160 It's also true that

00:34:21.080 America didn't lose

00:34:22.120 very many people

00:34:23.120 by any historic metric

00:34:24.820 in the war on terror

00:34:26.080 because America

00:34:27.240 is the only military

00:34:28.600 on Earth

00:34:29.200 that can actually

00:34:30.380 forward project power

00:34:32.080 the way that we do.

00:34:33.040 We've spent 10 times

00:34:34.160 as much money

00:34:34.900 as the rest of the world combined

00:34:36.660 for 60 years

00:34:39.160 on our military.

00:34:39.780 Like, the amount of capacity

00:34:41.620 that America has

00:34:42.240 is so enormous

00:34:42.800 and we were fighting

00:34:43.880 in truly primitive,

00:34:46.620 in truly primitive lands.

00:34:49.180 When you start talking

00:34:50.380 about Russia and Ukraine,

00:34:51.340 you are talking about

00:34:52.020 a situation where

00:34:52.880 people are hurling

00:34:54.160 far less sophisticated weapons

00:34:55.900 at people with

00:34:57.220 far less sophisticated tactics.

00:34:58.740 Do I think the Ukrainians 1.00

00:34:59.520 have killed 5,000 people?

00:35:00.820 I suspect all that

00:35:01.680 is propaganda, of course.

00:35:02.980 But I do think that losses,

00:35:05.160 you can't compare losses

00:35:06.200 in a war like this

00:35:07.860 to losses in a war

00:35:09.340 like America 0.94

00:35:09.920 goes into Afghanistan

00:35:10.860 and uses highly precision

00:35:12.760 weapons,

00:35:13.920 satellite-guided munitions,

00:35:15.600 the best trained

00:35:16.220 special operators

00:35:17.140 ever to operate

00:35:18.380 in human history.

00:35:19.320 I agree with you.

00:35:19.780 Against, against.

00:35:21.780 I agree with you.

00:35:23.480 And also, again,

00:35:24.260 I don't blame,

00:35:25.500 of course Ukraine's

00:35:26.340 going to do this

00:35:27.000 that it would be crazy

00:35:27.660 not to

00:35:28.160 because they have to

00:35:29.060 get the West

00:35:29.680 on their side

00:35:30.340 and, which it already

00:35:32.660 would have been anyway,

00:35:33.320 obviously.

00:35:33.880 But my only concern

00:35:35.520 with the propaganda

00:35:36.160 and why I think

00:35:37.000 it's important to,

00:35:37.820 first of all,

00:35:38.140 I think the truth

00:35:38.560 is important,

00:35:39.120 so we always have to

00:35:40.000 discern truth

00:35:40.680 from fiction.

00:35:42.420 But also,

00:35:42.900 my personal

00:35:44.440 overarching concern

00:35:45.440 is the United States

00:35:47.340 of America

00:35:47.740 and us not getting

00:35:48.620 sucked into this thing

00:35:49.460 that could potentially

00:35:50.480 be cataclysmic

00:35:51.220 and result in thousands

00:35:52.420 if not millions

00:35:53.000 of American deaths.

00:35:53.700 A border dispute

00:35:54.640 that has existed

00:35:55.280 for a thousand.

00:35:55.660 Right, right.

00:35:56.280 That, for me,

00:35:57.480 is what I care about

00:35:58.400 the most.

00:35:59.540 And so,

00:36:00.160 the effect of the propaganda

00:36:01.420 when lots of Americans

00:36:02.360 buy into it

00:36:02.860 is that their emotions

00:36:03.660 get tied up in it.

00:36:05.200 And then you start

00:36:05.800 hearing more and more,

00:36:06.920 and I know,

00:36:07.420 you know,

00:36:07.600 on the first day

00:36:08.180 everyone was saying,

00:36:08.760 well, no one is suggesting

00:36:09.700 that Americans

00:36:10.720 would get involved

00:36:11.360 militarily.

00:36:12.460 Fast forward a couple of days

00:36:13.540 and next thing you know

00:36:14.100 you have prominent

00:36:14.900 members of Congress

00:36:15.720 actually saying.

00:36:16.740 You have one member

00:36:17.180 of Congress

00:36:17.520 and one member

00:36:18.080 of the Senate.

00:36:18.440 Right, but that's.

00:36:18.960 There's no serious move

00:36:19.960 for there to even

00:36:20.780 be a no-fly zone.

00:36:21.500 Well, but that's. 0.55

00:36:22.220 I mean, I came out

00:36:22.680 on my show today

00:36:23.200 and I said Jen Psaki

00:36:24.040 was writing it.

00:36:24.400 Also prominent members

00:36:25.440 of the media.

00:36:26.040 I mean, there was

00:36:26.420 Richard Engel yesterday

00:36:27.400 who floated the idea

00:36:28.180 that we go bomb 0.90

00:36:28.880 Russian convoys. 0.99

00:36:30.240 So, yes,

00:36:31.300 it always starts that way.

00:36:32.460 First they're saying

00:36:32.980 no one's saying it,

00:36:33.700 then a few people

00:36:34.140 are saying it.

00:36:34.840 And then you look

00:36:35.200 at the polling data

00:36:36.300 and more Americans

00:36:37.620 are saying,

00:36:38.420 well, maybe we should

00:36:39.720 get involved in this.

00:36:40.740 And that's just my concern.

00:36:41.820 Fast forward another week,

00:36:42.860 another two weeks.

00:36:44.200 Do people get swept up?

00:36:45.400 I agree, and I want

00:36:45.500 to add to that.

00:36:46.260 I think that,

00:36:47.680 you know,

00:36:48.020 your point is obviously

00:36:49.520 well taken

00:36:50.040 and the war fever

00:36:51.320 is a real thing

00:36:52.260 and it does really

00:36:53.140 happen to people.

00:36:54.340 But this is,

00:36:55.360 you know,

00:36:55.660 when I go to New York

00:36:56.920 and I say to my friends

00:36:58.380 and relatives,

00:36:59.200 crime is really up,

00:37:00.500 they frequently say to me,

00:37:01.560 not in my neighborhood,

00:37:02.620 I say,

00:37:02.940 your neighborhood

00:37:03.320 is three blocks away

00:37:04.520 from that neighborhood.

00:37:05.400 The world we're living in

00:37:06.420 is a very, very small world.

00:37:08.000 This is actually

00:37:08.760 on the border of Europe.

00:37:09.860 This is actually

00:37:10.500 on the border of Poland.

00:37:11.500 This is on the place

00:37:12.280 where wars begin.

00:37:13.840 And, you know,

00:37:14.840 there is a point

00:37:15.680 at which even knowing

00:37:17.100 that a war

00:37:17.640 would be disastrous,

00:37:18.980 you have no other choice.

00:37:19.940 And that's the place

00:37:21.080 you're trying,

00:37:21.420 that's the thing

00:37:21.840 you're trying to avoid

00:37:22.960 right now.

00:37:23.500 Ben is absolutely right

00:37:24.440 when he says

00:37:24.900 we don't want to know flies on

00:37:26.220 because we don't want

00:37:27.020 our pilots facing

00:37:28.160 their pilots in the sky.

00:37:29.500 But at the same time,

00:37:31.720 sanctions have historically

00:37:33.220 not had the kind of effect

00:37:34.580 we want.

00:37:35.880 And so I really think

00:37:36.840 that this is a moment,

00:37:38.220 Germany gets this,

00:37:39.180 oddly enough,

00:37:39.660 Germany gets this,

00:37:40.220 this is a moment

00:37:40.680 when you change

00:37:41.880 your policy.

00:37:42.920 This is the moment

00:37:43.400 when you change

00:37:44.080 the way you run

00:37:45.140 your country.

00:37:45.780 And Joe Biden

00:37:46.380 is not up to that task.

00:37:47.880 Right.

00:37:48.000 That means that we're going

00:37:48.920 to need the people

00:37:50.280 to be up to that task

00:37:51.340 in a very decisive way.

00:37:54.020 And it's difficult

00:37:54.560 because you're right.

00:37:55.400 There is a way

00:37:56.900 out of this though,

00:37:57.740 I think,

00:37:58.700 and it's been part

00:38:00.060 of the battle

00:38:00.460 of the last 10 years.

00:38:01.480 There was an article

00:38:01.980 in CBS News

00:38:02.820 just came out today

00:38:03.740 over the real problem

00:38:05.880 of the war

00:38:06.440 is the war within the war,

00:38:08.100 the transgender Ukrainians.

00:38:10.040 That's my favorite article.

00:38:10.920 Yes,

00:38:11.260 they're not allowed out

00:38:12.220 because they're men

00:38:12.780 and they're supposed

00:38:13.140 to fight to defend

00:38:13.820 their country.

00:38:15.240 That's right,

00:38:15.720 when they say

00:38:16.080 women and children

00:38:16.660 first,

00:38:17.060 they're like...

00:38:17.660 Yeah,

00:38:17.940 yeah,

00:38:18.120 no,

00:38:18.300 I'm identifying to that.

00:38:19.620 And so,

00:38:20.200 what this,

00:38:21.220 I think,

00:38:21.520 will remind a lot

00:38:22.420 of liberals

00:38:22.820 is that Ukraine

00:38:23.960 is not your toy.

00:38:26.500 Ukraine is not 0.98

00:38:27.380 this magical,

00:38:28.380 mythical place

00:38:28.960 that we've just decided

00:38:29.880 is a liberal,

00:38:31.900 western democracy

00:38:32.980 with transgenderism 0.65

00:38:34.560 and pride parades.

00:38:35.580 Ukraine is its own nation 0.96

00:38:36.880 with its own interests

00:38:38.140 and its own culture

00:38:39.140 and its own way

00:38:39.980 of viewing the world.

00:38:40.680 And I think it was

00:38:41.800 a mistake for Ukraine

00:38:43.300 to cozy up too much

00:38:45.040 to NATO

00:38:45.620 and to the European Union.

00:38:47.340 I think it was a mistake

00:38:49.000 for western governments

00:38:49.840 to support that

00:38:51.160 with money

00:38:52.020 and with propaganda

00:38:52.860 in 2013 and 2014.

00:38:55.080 I think what's probably

00:38:55.920 most likely

00:38:56.580 is,

00:38:57.600 as you say,

00:38:58.260 Putin's got to win.

00:38:59.340 Putin's got to have

00:39:00.020 some kind of win here.

00:39:01.320 And I don't think

00:39:01.920 the win is that

00:39:02.480 Vladimir Putin

00:39:03.020 is going to sit in Kiev

00:39:03.880 and run that country himself.

00:39:05.640 I suspect what would happen

00:39:06.800 is he will install

00:39:08.320 some kind of puppet regime

00:39:09.460 or some government

00:39:10.180 that is more conducive

00:39:12.040 to Russia's interests.

00:39:14.080 And that's what we had

00:39:15.080 before 2014

00:39:16.100 and it's probably

00:39:17.160 what we're going to have

00:39:17.760 after this.

00:39:19.280 Only because

00:39:20.340 the president's cabinet

00:39:21.960 has begun entering

00:39:22.880 the chamber,

00:39:25.280 Ben Shapiro has to adjourn

00:39:26.800 and go start working

00:39:27.600 on his response

00:39:28.620 to the State of the Union.

00:39:30.780 And so, Ben,

00:39:31.520 many thanks to you.

00:39:33.440 Godspeed.

00:39:34.340 Yeah.

00:39:34.680 I want that to be

00:39:37.880 your response.

00:39:38.900 I do want to say

00:39:39.960 the only thing

00:39:40.660 I want to close out

00:39:41.320 on Ukraine is

00:39:42.380 it is true

00:39:43.740 that war fever

00:39:44.380 can lead to a war.

00:39:45.900 Listen,

00:39:46.200 the reason we don't want

00:39:46.880 to enforce a no-fly zone

00:39:47.800 is because we would

00:39:48.580 decimate Russia.

00:39:50.980 The entire Russian military

00:39:51.980 couldn't stand up

00:39:52.580 against the American military

00:39:54.060 for a week.

00:39:55.100 That's actually why

00:39:55.800 we don't want to enforce

00:39:56.580 the no-fly zone

00:39:57.220 because we don't want

00:39:57.900 to push Putin

00:39:58.400 into a corner

00:39:58.960 where nuclear weapons

00:40:00.120 are his only option

00:40:02.500 for inflicting damage

00:40:03.980 on the West.

00:40:06.540 But it is almost always

00:40:09.080 historically weakness

00:40:10.180 that leads to major conflict.

00:40:13.360 The Second World War

00:40:14.420 was created by the weakness

00:40:15.600 of the West.

00:40:16.580 And so we can't simply

00:40:17.660 take the position

00:40:18.400 we don't want America

00:40:19.560 engaged in foreign conflict.

00:40:21.060 The end of American hegemony

00:40:22.680 dramatically increases

00:40:25.180 the chances of global conflict.

00:40:28.640 American hegemony 0.67

00:40:29.240 has kept the peace

00:40:29.840 for 60 years.

00:40:30.760 Nuclear weapons

00:40:31.320 have kept the peace

00:40:31.960 for 60 years.

00:40:33.480 The end of American hegemony

00:40:35.040 will lead to the proliferation

00:40:36.840 of weapons of mass destruction

00:40:38.560 into the hands of nations 0.96

00:40:39.960 that care less and less

00:40:40.940 and less about how

00:40:42.520 those weapons get used.

00:40:44.720 We have to be strong.

00:40:47.120 Our foreign policy

00:40:47.620 has to be strong.

00:40:48.480 This is the fundamental

00:40:49.240 failure of Joe Biden.

00:40:50.540 We are in this situation today

00:40:51.740 because of the weakness

00:40:52.700 of Joe Biden,

00:40:53.900 the literal goading

00:40:54.820 by Joe Biden

00:40:55.560 of Vladimir Putin

00:40:56.580 over the last 12 months.

00:40:59.660 We have to have strength

00:41:00.800 in the White House.

00:41:01.360 And if we don't have strength

00:41:02.460 in the White House,

00:41:03.280 global conflict is inevitable.

00:41:05.780 Peace has only ever

00:41:06.600 been maintained

00:41:07.200 in the 20th century

00:41:08.020 and 21st century thus far

00:41:09.140 by American peace.

00:41:10.600 With that said,

00:41:11.400 you may be wondering,

00:41:12.340 Jeremy, why are you grouchy?

00:41:14.120 Why do you have bags

00:41:14.720 under your eyes?

00:41:15.600 Why don't you ever let anyone

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00:41:18.300 And that, my friends,

00:41:19.020 is because I am tired.

00:41:20.120 And I am tired

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00:43:08.240 We are drawing near

00:43:09.200 to the moment

00:43:10.320 where everyone realized

00:43:11.180 that Joe Biden

00:43:11.920 is supposed to be here

00:43:12.800 and he is not yet here.

00:43:15.240 We see Dr. Jill Biden

00:43:17.280 walking into the chamber

00:43:19.000 right now

00:43:19.720 and taking her seat.

00:43:24.240 Soon,

00:43:24.460 the president,

00:43:25.180 in theory,

00:43:25.820 will join us

00:43:26.380 for what I'm sure

00:43:26.960 will be a riveting discussion

00:43:30.580 about the state of our union.

00:43:33.040 Candace,

00:43:33.320 what are we going to get tonight?

00:43:34.760 Not much.

00:43:38.180 Not much.

00:43:39.140 Listen,

00:43:39.700 at least I think

00:43:40.340 her dress is lovely.

00:43:41.380 That's about the only thing

00:43:42.400 I'm going to say tonight

00:43:43.060 that's going to be a compliment.

00:43:45.040 I still think

00:43:46.220 it's torturous

00:43:46.760 to make us sit here

00:43:47.500 and watch 45 minutes.

00:43:49.300 You know,

00:43:49.500 the good thing is

00:43:50.120 if anything goes wrong

00:43:51.320 with the president

00:43:51.920 on the podium,

00:43:52.800 they can say,

00:43:53.220 is there a doctor

00:43:53.880 in the house?

00:43:54.540 And Joe Biden,

00:43:55.360 don't worry,

00:43:56.100 I'm here.

00:43:57.000 Let me at him. 1.00

00:43:58.820 You're a terrible human being. 1.00

00:43:59.860 That's just not right. 1.00

00:44:01.540 Yeah,

00:44:01.700 it wasn't a very kind thing.

00:44:05.600 Drew,

00:44:06.000 how many of these

00:44:06.500 have you lived through?

00:44:07.380 Oh my God,

00:44:08.000 150.

00:44:08.520 I remember George Washington.

00:44:09.520 George Washington

00:44:09.880 just sent a letter.

00:44:10.780 I appreciated that.

00:44:12.060 He used to say,

00:44:12.460 thank you.

00:44:12.940 Every president

00:44:13.500 should send a letter.

00:44:14.040 I think I've told you guys

00:44:15.020 one of the moments

00:44:17.660 that really struck me

00:44:18.620 during Obama's

00:44:19.900 first year in office

00:44:20.620 is he gave a speech,

00:44:22.200 not a State of the Union address.

00:44:23.260 He had just been elected.

00:44:24.380 But this is a new thing.

00:44:25.400 It used to be

00:44:25.840 that presidents

00:44:26.380 gave their first

00:44:27.220 State of the Union speech

00:44:28.180 after they'd been in office

00:44:29.060 for a year.

00:44:29.700 Now they all give a speech

00:44:31.000 to a joint session

00:44:31.720 like a month

00:44:32.240 after they come into office.

00:44:33.160 And when Barack Obama

00:44:35.020 walked up to the podium,

00:44:36.740 he handed an envelope

00:44:38.380 to the vice president

00:44:39.720 and the speaker of the house.

00:44:41.780 And I realized

00:44:42.700 how it's all pageantry.

00:44:44.320 Yeah.

00:44:44.460 Because the reason

00:44:45.200 that presidents do that

00:44:46.260 before a State of the Union

00:44:47.280 is because the document

00:44:49.200 that they hand

00:44:50.020 to the vice president,

00:44:51.960 who is the president

00:44:52.500 of the Senate,

00:44:53.320 and the speaker of the house,

00:44:54.380 who of course is the head

00:44:55.020 of the House of Representatives,

00:44:56.320 that is fulfilling

00:44:57.340 the constitutional requirement

00:44:58.720 that the president

00:44:59.780 deliver a State of the Union address.

00:45:02.660 Right.

00:45:02.960 The speech

00:45:03.660 is just fanfare and publicity.

00:45:05.740 Yeah.

00:45:06.060 And here Barack Obama

00:45:06.960 was giving a speech

00:45:07.640 that was not even

00:45:08.940 the State of the Union,

00:45:10.360 but he was fulfilling

00:45:11.060 the sort of,

00:45:12.640 in a vestigial way,

00:45:14.280 or in a symbolic way,

00:45:15.900 he was handed,

00:45:16.880 because they don't even know

00:45:18.200 why they do the things

00:45:19.160 that they do.

00:45:19.920 It's a monarchical tradition.

00:45:22.560 Of course it is.

00:45:23.480 But you know,

00:45:23.920 the thing to remember

00:45:24.800 about this is

00:45:25.720 that the presidency

00:45:26.760 is a kind of monarchical,

00:45:28.920 I mean,

00:45:29.580 the point of the executive,

00:45:31.360 you don't want

00:45:32.080 a full-on monarch,

00:45:33.000 but the framers

00:45:33.920 of the Constitution

00:45:34.620 created it

00:45:35.640 to embody that kind of

00:45:37.060 spirited part

00:45:37.860 of the government, right?

00:45:38.800 Remember those, like,

00:45:39.680 Republican values they had

00:45:41.000 where, like,

00:45:41.340 George Washington

00:45:41.940 would get up

00:45:42.780 and, like,

00:45:43.300 put on, like, a coat

00:45:44.120 and say,

00:45:44.360 oh, he's acting like a king.

00:45:45.980 You know?

00:45:47.260 You know,

00:45:47.740 I want that back.

00:45:48.740 I want people to,

00:45:50.480 these guys to just

00:45:51.120 manage our resources,

00:45:52.420 you know?

00:45:52.780 I do wish that

00:45:54.380 if you're going

00:45:55.180 to have the fanfare,

00:45:56.100 you know,

00:45:56.300 listen,

00:45:56.460 I'm of Roman extraction.

00:45:57.800 We have a certain

00:45:58.560 appreciation for these

00:45:59.580 things.

00:46:00.080 I do wish they were

00:46:01.420 good speeches.

00:46:02.920 I mean,

00:46:03.060 I remember,

00:46:03.500 Trump gave one or two

00:46:04.460 good ones.

00:46:04.960 A couple of good ones,

00:46:05.600 yeah.

00:46:05.720 Yeah,

00:46:05.940 Reagan gave,

00:46:07.040 I think,

00:46:07.420 like,

00:46:07.600 one good one.

00:46:09.140 Clinton's, 0.99

00:46:09.620 he's one of the worst. 0.98

00:46:10.560 I mean, 0.96

00:46:10.680 his went on and on.

00:46:11.360 On and on.

00:46:11.780 You do wish,

00:46:12.760 though,

00:46:13.460 if this is going to

00:46:14.480 really embody

00:46:15.760 the spirited aspect

00:46:16.820 of your country,

00:46:18.080 you know,

00:46:18.300 give a rousing speech,

00:46:19.360 buddy.

00:46:20.020 Especially since

00:46:20.740 nobody listens to them.

00:46:21.880 They lay out their agenda

00:46:23.300 and the Congress is like,

00:46:24.760 well.

00:46:26.360 I'm thanking God

00:46:27.260 because if this had

00:46:27.920 happened a week ago,

00:46:29.320 they'd all be killing

00:46:29.880 each other right now

00:46:30.460 because they're not

00:46:30.740 wearing masks.

00:46:31.180 Yeah.

00:46:32.220 But today,

00:46:33.720 it's okay.

00:46:34.840 They're still doing

00:46:35.340 the social distancing,

00:46:36.060 though,

00:46:36.160 right?

00:46:36.360 Is that?

00:46:37.440 No,

00:46:37.720 I think just no one

00:46:38.320 showed up because

00:46:38.900 there was a testing

00:46:39.560 requirement.

00:46:40.480 Is that right?

00:46:40.880 So Rubio wouldn't show up.

00:46:43.120 Thomas Massey didn't show up.

00:46:44.320 I had him on my show

00:46:44.860 a couple of weeks ago.

00:46:45.720 Massey,

00:46:46.020 that's great.

00:46:46.700 Yeah.

00:46:47.180 He just said,

00:46:47.640 I'm not showing up

00:46:48.320 because I'm perfectly healthy

00:46:50.400 and I don't need to submit

00:46:51.000 to a test.

00:46:51.680 He's one of the few good ones.

00:46:52.740 He's great.

00:46:53.080 Yeah,

00:46:53.100 he's great.

00:46:53.620 He didn't sign that

00:46:54.160 anti-lynching law,

00:46:55.300 which was a total...

00:46:56.000 Yeah.

00:46:56.720 I just,

00:46:57.240 I think...

00:46:57.560 Here we go.

00:46:58.240 The pro-lynching. 0.98

00:46:59.380 The pro-lynch. 0.97

00:47:00.720 Well,

00:47:00.880 because lynching has to be

00:47:01.920 illegal three times.

00:47:02.680 It's already illegal twice.

00:47:03.680 Now we've got to make it a law

00:47:04.300 to make it illegal a third time.

00:47:05.700 Yeah,

00:47:10.880 Italian-American.

00:47:11.640 The Italians were the victims 1.00

00:47:12.540 of the largest mass...

00:47:13.400 Wait, you're an Italian.

00:47:14.140 I don't know if you heard about that.

00:47:15.240 Yeah.

00:47:15.620 You know,

00:47:16.140 the Italians were the victims 1.00

00:47:16.980 of the largest mass lynching

00:47:18.240 in American history.

00:47:19.380 That's right.

00:47:19.600 And so it's a very

00:47:20.820 pro-Italian legislation they passed.

00:47:22.600 The other crazy thing,

00:47:24.000 there was an academic study

00:47:25.140 of the height of American lynching,

00:47:26.820 which I don't know why

00:47:27.900 this is a topic of conversation

00:47:29.060 70 years after lynching was a thing.

00:47:31.360 Right.

00:47:31.600 But during the height,

00:47:33.500 the roughly, what,

00:47:34.480 58-year period of American lynching

00:47:36.100 from the late 19th

00:47:37.260 to the early 20th centuries,

00:47:39.140 there were an estimated

00:47:40.120 4,400 lynchings committed

00:47:42.160 in the United States.

00:47:43.760 That's a lot.

00:47:44.100 It's a big problem.

00:47:44.900 That's still a big...

00:47:45.680 4,400.

00:47:46.740 That is the number of people...

00:47:48.720 That's actually slightly more

00:47:50.000 than the number of people

00:47:50.980 who were murdered

00:47:51.820 in just a dozen American cities

00:47:54.040 just last year.

00:47:55.420 The Democrats are not

00:47:56.520 putting forward any bill

00:47:57.500 on how to stop

00:47:58.140 the massive crime spike

00:47:59.180 that they caused

00:48:00.240 over the last two years.

00:48:01.540 They're solving a problem

00:48:02.460 that was solved.

00:48:02.920 Well, they're like Doctor Who.

00:48:03.940 They're traveling back

00:48:04.600 in the past.

00:48:05.840 Part of the way

00:48:06.320 they get away with it,

00:48:06.920 by the way,

00:48:07.240 is that they expand

00:48:08.460 the definition of lynching

00:48:09.420 so that it's like

00:48:10.080 any race-based violence.

00:48:12.280 So Ahmaud Arbery,

00:48:13.180 they say, is a lynching.

00:48:14.140 Well, the thing about that

00:48:14.960 though is that Ahmaud Arbery's

00:48:15.920 killers were convicted

00:48:17.360 of murder and a hate crime.

00:48:18.720 So it's like,

00:48:19.300 that's without this bill.

00:48:20.340 What do you need the bill for?

00:48:21.680 Another 30 years

00:48:22.620 on top of the death penalty.

00:48:23.980 I don't know.

00:48:24.280 Right, yeah.

00:48:25.260 There was the other thing

00:48:25.860 about this anti-lynching law

00:48:27.800 that they passed last night.

00:48:29.260 It says that the maximum penalty

00:48:31.560 for lynching

00:48:32.660 is 30 years in prison.

00:48:34.700 They've actually lessened

00:48:35.880 the penalty for lynching.

00:48:37.100 From death.

00:48:37.780 Yeah, I don't know.

00:48:38.980 Call me a bleeding heart.

00:48:39.960 I think it should be

00:48:40.600 stiffer than that.

00:48:41.480 You know, I don't know.

00:48:42.980 That's criminal justice

00:48:43.780 reform right there.

00:48:44.940 Yeah.

00:48:45.340 Yeah, I just love

00:48:48.260 how proud they all are

00:48:49.320 of themselves

00:48:49.760 when they do something

00:48:50.460 that's absolutely meaningless.

00:48:51.940 Yeah.

00:48:52.440 Why also?

00:48:53.360 They just can't pat themselves

00:48:54.400 hard enough on the back

00:48:55.440 for their bravery.

00:48:56.320 I think Joe Manchin

00:48:57.140 has the answer 0.98

00:48:57.880 for his hypocrisy. 0.96

00:48:59.000 A guy calls himself 0.99

00:48:59.640 a Democrat

00:49:00.240 and yet he voted

00:49:01.280 against slaughtering children.

00:49:02.680 I know. 0.99

00:49:02.940 I mean, what the hell, you know?

00:49:05.180 Listen, buddy, be consistent.

00:49:06.500 Yeah, really.

00:49:07.340 Well, it is funny

00:49:08.680 that in the very same night

00:49:10.460 they voted to pass

00:49:11.820 historic anti-lynching legislation

00:49:13.820 and also to lynch 0.87

00:49:15.080 all the babies in America. 1.00

00:49:16.040 And to kill the baby. 1.00

00:49:16.860 You know, 1.00

00:49:17.340 no country on earth

00:49:19.020 has a savage law like that.

00:49:20.360 No other country

00:49:21.520 allows babies to be killed.

00:49:23.540 North Korea, China, and Canada. 0.98

00:49:25.360 They did also try to.

00:49:26.640 They tried to pass a law

00:49:28.620 against hair discrimination,

00:49:30.580 which didn't go through,

00:49:31.320 but because this is a...

00:49:32.760 What?

00:49:33.040 You know, we know that people are...

00:49:34.640 Racial minorities are protected

00:49:35.840 just because they're racial minorities,

00:49:37.620 but we also have to protect

00:49:38.380 their heads as well

00:49:39.240 because there's a specific type...

00:49:41.120 Maybe you...

00:49:41.480 Have you experienced this, Candace?

00:49:42.760 Hair discrimination

00:49:43.440 against racial minorities 0.99

00:49:45.620 is a thing.

00:49:45.820 I've experienced it.

00:49:47.880 I don't think it means

00:49:49.520 what you think it means.

00:49:50.040 Oh, okay.

00:49:50.800 Sorry.

00:49:53.280 I can't say I have experienced

00:49:55.160 hair discrimination,

00:49:56.220 but we knew it was coming

00:49:57.060 when they started talking about

00:49:58.080 people having to wear their hair

00:50:00.220 a certain way to swim

00:50:01.120 and things like that.

00:50:01.820 All of these sports rules

00:50:02.780 they've now taken out of context,

00:50:04.160 which really just be about

00:50:05.320 keeping people safe on the court,

00:50:07.060 like not having dreadlocks

00:50:08.320 running around.

00:50:09.220 Yeah.

00:50:09.480 And now they've made it,

00:50:10.240 like, it's racial

00:50:10.840 and this is my heritage

00:50:11.940 and it's actually not.

00:50:14.040 So, yeah, it's just... 0.94

00:50:15.160 It's ridiculous. 0.93

00:50:15.760 There's a good heritage pun 0.98

00:50:16.760 in there somewhere, right?

00:50:17.500 There is.

00:50:18.100 We'll find it by the end of this.

00:50:19.620 Yeah, it'll give it something

00:50:20.900 to think about

00:50:21.460 when the president's up there

00:50:22.380 groaning out and on.

00:50:23.200 I will say,

00:50:24.020 I don't recall

00:50:24.760 a State of the Union address

00:50:25.940 this sparsely populated before.

00:50:27.600 It's really remarkable.

00:50:29.380 And this is voluntarily

00:50:31.020 because before they...

00:50:32.200 They did have social distancing

00:50:33.360 last year, right?

00:50:34.720 Last year wasn't

00:50:35.580 a State of the Union address, right?

00:50:37.580 Last year was just...

00:50:38.480 Oh, right.

00:50:38.920 It was just...

00:50:39.300 Joe Biden making a speech

00:50:40.160 to a joint session of...

00:50:41.160 I don't know.

00:50:41.440 If there's any chance

00:50:42.460 of any president

00:50:43.300 abolishing the State of the Union,

00:50:44.460 it would have been Trump

00:50:45.040 and he didn't do it.

00:50:45.880 So, we're stuck with this forever.

00:50:47.100 If you think Donald Trump

00:50:48.400 was going to get rid

00:50:49.160 of an opportunity

00:50:49.820 to stand up in front of the camera

00:50:51.740 but then give a speech...

00:50:53.780 Yeah.

00:50:54.180 Good point.

00:50:54.680 Donald Trump

00:50:55.240 has some good qualities.

00:50:57.480 That is not one of them.

00:51:00.200 The only thing

00:51:00.860 that I was upset

00:51:01.360 with Trump about

00:51:01.940 is not that he didn't get rid

00:51:02.660 of the State of the Union,

00:51:03.380 which I never expected,

00:51:04.260 but it said he didn't add

00:51:04.960 pyrotechnics

00:51:05.900 or a bald eagle

00:51:07.360 just swooping through.

00:51:09.300 And the guy calls himself

00:51:10.260 a showman.

00:51:10.780 I know.

00:51:11.420 That's outrageous.

00:51:12.360 Just hot babes, 1.00

00:51:13.320 you know, in swimsuits.

00:51:14.400 What's the dance number?

00:51:15.620 I will tell you, though,

00:51:16.380 when he brought Rush

00:51:17.620 and then gave him the medal

00:51:19.460 during the State of the Union,

00:51:22.220 that was showmanship.

00:51:23.740 That was showmanship.

00:51:24.760 The chances that

00:51:26.040 President Biden

00:51:28.000 does the same thing

00:51:28.960 with Anthony Fauci tonight

00:51:30.760 will really be something to see.

00:51:32.680 The president is now

00:51:33.300 entering the chamber

00:51:34.100 to tepid applause

00:51:35.600 from the handful

00:51:37.540 of congressional leaders

00:51:38.620 who are actually there.

00:51:40.260 A handful of board

00:51:41.500 who wish there was

00:51:43.360 some place else.

00:51:44.040 He's not wearing a mask.

00:51:45.200 He's shaking hands

00:51:46.080 with other people

00:51:46.640 not wearing masks. 1.00

00:51:47.240 What a madman. 1.00

00:51:48.140 He's so reckless. 1.00

00:51:49.500 It is truly over.

00:51:50.860 It is truly over.

00:51:52.280 And we will take you now

00:51:53.680 to the chamber

00:51:55.300 and to the president

00:51:56.280 of the United States,

00:51:56.840 and we will see you back here

00:51:57.920 as soon as

00:51:58.720 the president concludes.

00:52:04.300 The president of the United States

00:52:05.500 just concluding

00:52:06.320 his State of the Union

00:52:07.080 with a declaration

00:52:07.800 that America,

00:52:09.300 a country with spiraling

00:52:11.040 unemployment,

00:52:12.520 with an out-of-control inflation,

00:52:14.820 with ending its hegemony

00:52:16.400 around the world

00:52:17.280 as our enemies

00:52:18.280 begin invading

00:52:19.100 Europe,

00:52:20.960 is strong.

00:52:21.980 So, there it is.

00:52:23.180 He said it so.

00:52:24.140 It must be.

00:52:24.680 It's basically

00:52:25.140 an executive order.

00:52:26.200 You can't even contest it

00:52:27.780 in the courts.

00:52:28.620 The State of our Union

00:52:29.600 is strong.

00:52:30.400 Michael.

00:52:31.240 It was not

00:52:32.060 a State of the Union address.

00:52:34.020 It began

00:52:34.920 for the first 10 minutes

00:52:36.020 as a State of the Putin address,

00:52:38.180 which talked about

00:52:39.120 this war going on

00:52:40.040 in Ukraine

00:52:40.560 and didn't acknowledge

00:52:42.160 all of the things

00:52:42.820 we should have done

00:52:43.440 in the last 10 years

00:52:44.140 that Biden specifically

00:52:44.900 should have done.

00:52:45.860 And then you saw

00:52:47.280 the turn,

00:52:47.940 which was the rest

00:52:48.500 of the speech,

00:52:49.340 which was Biden

00:52:50.120 couldn't talk about

00:52:51.060 anything good

00:52:51.960 that happened

00:52:53.020 on his watch.

00:52:54.360 He couldn't talk about

00:52:55.040 anything good

00:52:55.800 that he did.

00:52:57.200 And he did talk

00:52:58.120 about a lot of good things,

00:52:59.400 not very heavy

00:53:01.120 on the specifics.

00:53:02.360 He was using

00:53:02.820 broad language.

00:53:03.780 But he said,

00:53:04.220 things are going to be

00:53:04.900 really great

00:53:05.560 when I do this next year,

00:53:07.180 when I do this in five years,

00:53:08.820 when I do this in ten.

00:53:09.780 It was all about

00:53:11.140 the State of the Union

00:53:12.700 in his imagination

00:53:14.100 in the future.

00:53:15.140 He couldn't actually

00:53:16.180 talk about the present

00:53:17.080 State of the Union today

00:53:18.420 because the State of the Union

00:53:19.680 today is extraordinarily weak.

00:53:22.100 Even the way

00:53:22.780 that he ended it,

00:53:23.360 he said,

00:53:23.740 the State of our Union

00:53:24.400 is strong,

00:53:24.820 which he had to say.

00:53:25.340 And he said,

00:53:26.300 but it'll be stronger

00:53:27.140 next year,

00:53:27.860 as if to sort of

00:53:28.840 make an excuse.

00:53:29.520 It was truly,

00:53:31.260 I've watched so many

00:53:32.400 of these

00:53:32.820 for my whole

00:53:33.520 conscious political life.

00:53:34.640 I've watched every one.

00:53:36.040 It was,

00:53:36.660 I don't think I'm being

00:53:37.280 hyper-partisan.

00:53:38.040 A lot of them are bad,

00:53:38.880 too,

00:53:39.180 you know,

00:53:39.460 on the Republican side,

00:53:40.520 too.

00:53:40.760 It was the worst,

00:53:42.920 saddest State of the Union

00:53:44.200 I've ever seen.

00:53:44.940 The State of the Union

00:53:45.460 is strong,

00:53:46.100 and it will be stronger

00:53:46.720 next year

00:53:47.300 is the most condemning

00:53:48.780 statement I've ever heard.

00:53:50.120 Like, ugh.

00:53:51.100 I have to take exception.

00:53:52.440 You say he was short

00:53:53.780 on specifics,

00:53:54.380 but he did specifically

00:53:56.300 say that we have

00:53:57.020 to cut costs,

00:53:58.360 and the way

00:53:59.060 to do that

00:53:59.780 is to cut costs.

00:54:01.400 Yes, yes.

00:54:02.180 While also raising wages,

00:54:04.000 which is a cost.

00:54:05.500 So,

00:54:06.140 I don't know exactly

00:54:06.740 how that works.

00:54:07.480 He also said,

00:54:08.600 though,

00:54:08.680 that we have to add,

00:54:09.720 we have to end

00:54:10.340 unemployment by adding jobs.

00:54:11.940 So, I don't know.

00:54:12.240 Right.

00:54:12.740 I think end unemployment

00:54:13.840 by just not being

00:54:15.200 unemployed anymore.

00:54:16.220 You know,

00:54:16.600 it's pretty simple.

00:54:16.900 It's like Paris Hilton.

00:54:17.860 Stop being poor.

00:54:18.940 Right.

00:54:19.120 And, of course,

00:54:20.660 he ends on the bold

00:54:22.880 sort of anti-cancer stance,

00:54:24.580 which, you know,

00:54:25.040 after watching COVID spike

00:54:26.840 to record highs

00:54:27.620 under his watch,

00:54:28.580 he's going to turn

00:54:29.300 his magic touch now

00:54:30.180 to cancer.

00:54:30.720 So, I'm a little

00:54:31.340 disturbed by that.

00:54:32.300 I agree.

00:54:33.100 I thought that the

00:54:33.940 most significant thing

00:54:35.800 in that speech,

00:54:36.260 if there's anything

00:54:36.680 significant at all,

00:54:37.460 which really, you know,

00:54:38.060 in the State of the Union

00:54:38.720 there never is,

00:54:39.340 but if there's anything

00:54:39.840 significant,

00:54:40.440 it was the entire

00:54:43.100 Democrat Party

00:54:43.860 admitting defeat

00:54:45.460 on the defund

00:54:46.880 the police movement.

00:54:47.880 Unbelievable.

00:54:48.180 Unbelievable.

00:54:48.280 After two years

00:54:50.520 of trying to defund

00:54:51.220 the police,

00:54:52.600 Biden just called

00:54:53.420 for funding the police

00:54:54.340 and got a standing

00:54:55.760 ovation from every

00:54:57.100 Democrat in the room

00:54:59.360 there.

00:54:59.660 So, this was...

00:55:00.620 Including Nancy Pelosi.

00:55:01.640 Every Democrat

00:55:02.340 who specifically had said

00:55:04.020 we should defund

00:55:04.580 the police

00:55:05.100 stood up to applaud

00:55:06.460 funding the police.

00:55:07.520 And because, of course,

00:55:08.200 they actually,

00:55:08.800 not only did they try

00:55:09.460 to defund the police,

00:55:10.200 but in many places

00:55:11.240 they actually did,

00:55:12.260 or at least they reduced

00:55:13.640 the funding of police

00:55:14.340 significantly,

00:55:15.020 and we saw just

00:55:16.240 total chaos ensue

00:55:17.460 because of it.

00:55:18.280 And so, this was a

00:55:19.100 massive defeat

00:55:19.760 for the Democrats,

00:55:20.960 but they get to

00:55:22.140 celebrate their defeats

00:55:22.900 with applause.

00:55:23.780 That's the magic

00:55:25.700 of being a Democrat.

00:55:27.100 I have to say,

00:55:28.100 first of all,

00:55:28.780 I want to thank

00:55:29.460 Jeremy the God King

00:55:30.580 for providing this whiskey

00:55:31.640 because I've been

00:55:32.520 drinking steadily

00:55:33.220 throughout the show

00:55:33.900 and I'm still not

00:55:34.800 drunk enough

00:55:35.280 to have endured

00:55:35.920 that State of the Union

00:55:37.560 with the, you know,

00:55:38.860 calm.

00:55:40.000 No, you know,

00:55:40.640 what really struck me

00:55:41.440 about it was the

00:55:41.920 rank dishonesty.

00:55:42.900 The defund the police

00:55:43.640 was a perfect example.

00:55:45.100 Don't defund the police,

00:55:46.000 fund the police,

00:55:46.440 and the same people

00:55:47.120 who had called

00:55:47.540 for defunding the police

00:55:48.480 standing up.

00:55:49.120 We're going to secure

00:55:50.040 the borders.

00:55:51.980 In what universe

00:55:53.040 are we securing the borders?

00:55:53.480 The worst immigration crisis 1.00

00:55:54.700 in American history

00:55:55.920 in the last 12 years.

00:55:57.140 And, you know,

00:55:58.280 we talked for the first,

00:56:00.140 I don't know,

00:56:00.740 20 minutes of the speech

00:56:01.700 were about Russia.

00:56:03.180 What did he say

00:56:03.920 we were going to do?

00:56:05.000 I mean, he said

00:56:05.620 we were standing strong

00:56:07.060 and we were standing together,

00:56:08.240 but what exactly

00:56:09.040 were we doing

00:56:09.720 and how did we get

00:56:10.860 into that position?

00:56:12.080 How are we going to change?

00:56:13.640 After telling us

00:56:14.540 that Putin wasn't going

00:56:16.560 to invade for years,

00:56:18.980 when Putin did invade,

00:56:20.640 why?

00:56:21.460 Why?

00:56:21.920 What went wrong?

00:56:22.920 And why weren't we changing

00:56:24.060 our policies in that regard?

00:56:25.320 I thought, frankly,

00:56:26.880 when he said

00:56:27.500 fund the police,

00:56:29.060 I thought we were going

00:56:29.620 to have to sedate Kansas.

00:56:31.140 I thought, you know.

00:56:33.660 I mean, because,

00:56:34.220 but the rank dishonesty

00:56:36.060 and the fact that

00:56:37.040 it was an empty speech,

00:56:38.600 a speech that really

00:56:39.460 had nothing,

00:56:40.620 provided nothing

00:56:41.520 to confront the things

00:56:44.100 that we're actually confronting.

00:56:45.340 Crime, inflation,

00:56:47.400 weakness throughout the world.

00:56:49.280 Those are the things

00:56:50.020 that we're confronting

00:56:50.660 and everybody knows it.

00:56:52.000 You can't tell people

00:56:52.840 that their jobs are better

00:56:54.660 or they have more money.

00:56:55.320 When they don't,

00:56:56.400 they know they don't.

00:56:58.000 So it's just,

00:56:59.260 I don't know,

00:57:00.160 it's almost an insult

00:57:01.180 to sit and listen

00:57:01.860 to a guy lie to you

00:57:02.620 like that for 45 minutes.

00:57:05.420 Candace?

00:57:06.200 I totally agree.

00:57:07.120 I mean, it's like,

00:57:07.700 hey, Nancy Pelosi,

00:57:08.500 if you wanted to dramatically

00:57:09.460 rip up a speech

00:57:10.300 based on the lies in it,

00:57:11.600 this was your time.

00:57:12.920 You actually missed your moment.

00:57:14.400 And I was saying to you

00:57:15.140 as we were watching it,

00:57:16.080 it actually makes you

00:57:16.860 miss Obama, right? 0.94

00:57:17.920 Because at least

00:57:18.580 when Obama lied to your face,

00:57:19.780 it sounded nice.

00:57:20.540 He was a great orator

00:57:21.280 and you went,

00:57:21.680 okay, nothing you said was true,

00:57:23.340 but it made me feel so good

00:57:24.660 when you lied, right?

00:57:25.900 With Trump,

00:57:26.380 you had the opposite

00:57:27.020 where it was.

00:57:27.520 It never sounded good,

00:57:28.580 but he was actually

00:57:29.240 telling you the truth.

00:57:30.340 And with Biden,

00:57:30.920 you get neither.

00:57:31.540 It sounds horrible

00:57:32.460 and he's telling you

00:57:33.520 nothing but lies.

00:57:34.500 And it's frustrating

00:57:35.920 because you know

00:57:36.820 that it's so contingent 0.98

00:57:38.120 on American ignorance. 0.87

00:57:39.060 Like, this speech

00:57:39.800 is something that has been

00:57:40.900 dedicated to people

00:57:41.520 that he views

00:57:42.240 to be low information voters.

00:57:44.060 Nothing he said

00:57:44.700 made any sense, right?

00:57:45.580 I mean, he talked about

00:57:46.640 America,

00:57:47.680 things are going to get cheaper

00:57:48.960 when we bring the jobs

00:57:49.720 back here

00:57:50.200 and everything's made in America.

00:57:51.340 That's actually just

00:57:52.160 fundamentally not true, right?

00:57:53.480 That's the whole reason

00:57:54.100 why people are sending

00:57:54.740 everything to China.

00:57:55.560 And that's because

00:57:56.380 of government policy.

00:57:57.740 People don't understand

00:57:58.820 economics 101.

00:57:59.900 That's the point.

00:58:00.760 They have the school systems

00:58:01.620 focused on CRT, right?

00:58:03.360 You're turning children 1.00

00:58:03.980 into toddlers,

00:58:04.720 whiny toddlers,

00:58:05.680 learning about LGBTQ issues,

00:58:08.020 critical race theory,

00:58:09.180 all these things

00:58:09.760 that mean nothing

00:58:10.260 so they don't understand

00:58:10.980 what it actually means

00:58:12.040 when a man sits up

00:58:13.080 and really says,

00:58:13.800 I'm going to give you

00:58:14.400 a little more communism.

00:58:15.160 What we need

00:58:15.720 is really price controls.

00:58:17.020 The very thing

00:58:17.400 that's the reason

00:58:17.940 that you're living

00:58:18.400 in this disaster

00:58:19.120 is because there's

00:58:20.040 too much government involvement.

00:58:21.480 So he pivots away

00:58:22.200 from the state

00:58:23.420 of the European Union

00:58:24.420 address for 20 minutes

00:58:25.480 and then he goes on

00:58:26.380 and talks about

00:58:26.760 how COVID's been

00:58:27.480 a horrible thing

00:58:28.320 that's happened

00:58:28.640 to our country.

00:58:29.460 Actually, no, it hasn't.

00:58:30.760 Government policy

00:58:31.540 has been a horrible thing

00:58:32.840 that's happened

00:58:33.260 to our country.

00:58:34.300 And in response

00:58:34.800 to horrible government policy,

00:58:36.180 he's offering you

00:58:37.000 more horrible government policy.

00:58:38.360 We're going to have

00:58:39.000 price controls with insulin.

00:58:40.320 Again, relying on 0.98

00:58:41.200 American ignorance 0.99

00:58:41.820 not to understand 0.99

00:58:42.580 that the reason

00:58:43.320 our healthcare system

00:58:44.060 is a mess

00:58:44.660 is because we don't

00:58:46.040 have free markets there.

00:58:47.320 We don't have

00:58:48.060 price transparency.

00:58:49.320 Things that Trump

00:58:49.880 tried to establish.

00:58:51.220 And the latter end

00:58:51.880 was just him building

00:58:52.680 a pipe dream.

00:58:53.940 Just like a pipe dream.

00:58:54.880 Here are some problems.

00:58:55.900 I'm actually going to offer

00:58:56.480 no solutions.

00:58:57.640 And I'm actually the person

00:58:58.520 that was behind the problems.

00:59:00.000 Very frustrating to watch.

00:59:01.280 But at least we're going 1.00

00:59:01.800 to kill all the babies. 1.00

00:59:02.640 But yeah, exactly. 1.00

00:59:03.640 In the end,

00:59:03.900 whatever that maternal,

00:59:04.640 what was that weird phrase?

00:59:05.400 So it was the weirdest euphemism

00:59:06.800 because we've heard

00:59:07.480 women's healthcare

00:59:08.820 reproductive rights. 0.98

00:59:09.740 These are weird euphemisms

00:59:10.540 for abortion.

00:59:11.460 In this one,

00:59:12.080 he said maternal healthcare.

00:59:15.380 Admitting it's a mother,

00:59:16.840 it's a baby, 1.00

00:59:17.580 and we're going to kill the baby. 1.00

00:59:18.320 Right. 1.00

00:59:18.860 Except for Joe Manchin, 1.00

00:59:20.060 voted to kill babies 0.99

00:59:22.160 up to the moment of birth. 1.00

00:59:23.620 Yeah.

00:59:23.900 That's, you know,

00:59:24.540 it's savagery.

00:59:25.560 Yeah, the thing,

00:59:26.180 you're just,

00:59:27.380 every one of you

00:59:28.240 is such an extreme right-winger.

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01:00:27.500 from our very own

01:00:28.540 Ben Shapiro

01:00:29.100 giving his real

01:00:30.260 State of the Union address,

01:00:32.120 something you've never

01:00:32.760 seen before,

01:00:33.480 which is a response

01:00:34.860 to the President's

01:00:35.700 State of the Union address

01:00:36.580 in real time,

01:00:37.960 an actual reaction

01:00:38.860 to what the President

01:00:39.540 actually said

01:00:40.800 instead of a focus group

01:00:42.240 tested,

01:00:43.260 party committee approved

01:00:45.940 boilerplate speech

01:00:47.400 like we usually get,

01:00:48.380 and we will get

01:00:49.020 at some point tonight

01:00:49.660 from some governor

01:00:50.300 somewhere who will never

01:00:51.600 achieve any higher office

01:00:52.760 because that's what happens

01:00:54.060 when you give the official

01:00:55.200 GOP response

01:00:56.000 to the State of the Union address.

01:00:57.020 So again,

01:00:57.760 probably seven minutes

01:00:58.640 out from Ben

01:00:59.240 giving his response.

01:01:01.020 A few things I noticed

01:01:02.400 about the speech.

01:01:02.940 One,

01:01:03.700 it was actually quite short

01:01:04.900 for a modern State of the Union

01:01:06.720 address.

01:01:07.720 It ran about an hour

01:01:08.640 and 15 minutes.

01:01:09.620 That's on the shorter side

01:01:10.440 of what these things run.

01:01:11.260 It's still Tuesday.

01:01:12.260 It was interminable.

01:01:13.720 It was so difficult

01:01:14.640 to watch

01:01:15.000 because the President

01:01:15.760 said almost nothing.

01:01:17.640 The entire speech

01:01:18.480 was so hollow.

01:01:20.980 It's difficult.

01:01:21.960 I felt this about Biden

01:01:22.940 from the very beginning.

01:01:23.640 It's difficult

01:01:24.020 to watch the Democrats

01:01:25.040 prop up a man

01:01:26.380 at this advanced stage

01:01:27.640 of his life

01:01:28.300 in the way that they do.

01:01:31.260 It's bad for society

01:01:32.540 when people in this age demographic

01:01:34.480 are running the world.

01:01:35.680 It happens at moments

01:01:36.940 of great global conflict.

01:01:37.980 If you look back

01:01:38.540 at the First World War,

01:01:40.040 we were in a very similar situation.

01:01:41.740 The people who were running Europe

01:01:42.800 were all very advanced in age.

01:01:44.980 That isn't a sign

01:01:45.860 of a healthy,

01:01:46.940 thriving civilization.

01:01:47.980 It's one thing to say

01:01:48.740 that we need adults

01:01:49.400 in the room,

01:01:49.880 that we need the wisdom

01:01:50.600 of the ages to be present.

01:01:51.660 We don't want impetuous,

01:01:54.060 youthful people

01:01:55.140 who haven't been shaped

01:01:57.860 and seasoned by reality.

01:01:59.360 But you also don't want people

01:02:00.580 who are past their prime.

01:02:01.720 You don't want people

01:02:02.280 who don't have stakes

01:02:03.340 in the game.

01:02:04.260 It's very easy

01:02:04.980 for an 80-year-old man

01:02:06.140 to say that we're going

01:02:07.120 to combat inflation

01:02:08.300 by spending off

01:02:09.200 all of our money.

01:02:10.060 He will not be here

01:02:10.860 to pay any of the consequences

01:02:12.440 of these policies

01:02:13.600 that he's foisting

01:02:14.660 upon the American people.

01:02:16.180 I think global conflict

01:02:17.460 is upon us in particular

01:02:18.660 because the boomers 0.94

01:02:19.600 have been unwilling

01:02:22.880 to move on from the stage.

01:02:24.620 Biden's actually

01:02:25.240 a pre-boomer.

01:02:26.080 I mean, not by much,

01:02:26.940 but he's technically

01:02:27.700 a pre-boomer.

01:02:28.760 But the boomers, 1.00

01:02:29.940 almost all of whom

01:02:30.840 actually gave us

01:02:32.000 all of this left progressivism,

01:02:34.040 all this left movement

01:02:34.820 since the Second World War,

01:02:36.680 are now like people

01:02:38.520 who hit a patch of ice

01:02:39.400 trying to grasp the will

01:02:41.040 as hard as they can

01:02:41.700 and turn against the momentum.

01:02:43.060 But it's not fair to say

01:02:44.720 they won't leave

01:02:45.400 if we keep electing them, right?

01:02:47.200 Well, they keep electing themselves.

01:02:48.440 I mean, the beauty

01:02:49.580 of the boomers 0.97

01:02:50.160 is that they are the boomers.

01:02:51.120 They're a very large

01:02:52.040 demographic of people.

01:02:52.760 And they didn't have many kids, also.

01:02:54.000 Yeah, they didn't have many kids

01:02:55.060 and their kids

01:02:55.520 don't have many kids.

01:02:56.420 So, in one sense,

01:02:58.200 I think they keep

01:02:58.680 electing themselves.

01:02:59.740 Because I completely agree

01:03:01.180 with this,

01:03:01.540 and especially now

01:03:02.580 when technology

01:03:03.560 is changing everything

01:03:04.600 and the internet

01:03:05.140 is changing everything,

01:03:06.940 you know,

01:03:07.580 younger people

01:03:08.120 understand it better.

01:03:09.180 I would rather,

01:03:09.920 I was watching the Super Bowl

01:03:11.040 and you're watching

01:03:11.540 these two young coaches

01:03:12.520 go against each other

01:03:13.360 using new techniques.

01:03:14.980 That's what I want to see

01:03:15.900 in government.

01:03:16.400 I actually want to see.

01:03:17.260 I'd rather have

01:03:18.240 an impetuous young person 0.73

01:03:19.480 in government today

01:03:20.840 at this particular moment.

01:03:22.600 The beauty is,

01:03:23.220 even, I'd settle for someone

01:03:24.020 in their 60s.

01:03:24.820 Yeah, exactly.

01:03:25.680 Just give me an impetuous young person.

01:03:26.540 To me, that is an impetuous young person.

01:03:28.240 Yeah.

01:03:29.280 You know, I mean, seriously.

01:03:30.600 On this point of the really sad,

01:03:32.560 lethargic kind of aged room,

01:03:35.420 the saddest part of the whole speech

01:03:37.000 to me was when Biden 1.00

01:03:38.820 made some stupid point 1.00

01:03:40.300 and then at the script 1.00

01:03:42.220 that they were all following,

01:03:43.200 they all stood up,

01:03:44.100 the Democrats,

01:03:45.020 and tried to chant USA

01:03:47.400 as if they were Republicans

01:03:49.240 who actually sincerely chant USA.

01:03:51.620 So the Democrats

01:03:52.200 who have told us now,

01:03:53.120 not just for 12 months,

01:03:54.220 but for decades,

01:03:55.700 that America is evil.

01:03:57.160 These are people 0.65

01:03:57.640 who protest the American flag.

01:03:59.220 America, AKK. 0.72

01:04:00.180 There was all that stuff.

01:04:01.320 You know, he talked about

01:04:02.520 transgenderism at the end, 1.00

01:04:04.120 but where was all the woke garbage 1.00

01:04:06.100 that they've been stuffing 1.00

01:04:07.340 down our throats for years?

01:04:08.880 It's a midterm year, Drew.

01:04:10.220 I don't know if you know that.

01:04:11.400 November is coming up.

01:04:13.000 Well, if it's gone, it's gone.

01:04:14.340 If it's gone, announce,

01:04:15.360 we are now rejecting

01:04:16.640 everything we've told you

01:04:17.640 for the last 20 years.

01:04:19.640 That's what...

01:04:20.280 But not really.

01:04:20.760 They're just saying stuff.

01:04:21.700 They're just saying stuff.

01:04:22.240 There's no policy

01:04:23.040 that he's implemented

01:04:23.720 to change anything.

01:04:24.760 He's just saying stuff.

01:04:25.860 The guy has a sub-35

01:04:27.420 approval rating, too.

01:04:28.380 Nothing he said tonight

01:04:29.480 will amount to anything.

01:04:30.880 He has absolutely

01:04:31.600 no political capital.

01:04:33.340 And in a midterm election year,

01:04:34.960 Congress is going to have

01:04:35.700 no will to act

01:04:36.720 on any of his agenda.

01:04:38.940 So really,

01:04:40.000 we just wasted an hour

01:04:41.140 and a half of our lives

01:04:41.980 and of your life.

01:04:43.200 No, but we're engaging

01:04:44.840 in political theater

01:04:46.440 of the highest order

01:04:48.780 except the quality

01:04:49.320 of it's quite low.

01:04:49.820 You remember...

01:04:50.560 That's all it is.

01:04:51.160 Bill Clinton shows up

01:04:52.540 to a State of the Union.

01:04:53.520 What does he say?

01:04:54.120 He says,

01:04:54.280 the era of big government

01:04:56.400 is over.

01:04:57.260 He says,

01:04:57.620 I've heard the voters.

01:04:59.000 I get it, guys.

01:05:00.520 And he changes course.

01:05:02.400 That was a significant moment.

01:05:04.740 To your point, Candace,

01:05:05.800 to what we've all

01:05:06.380 been talking about,

01:05:07.520 there was nothing significant.

01:05:08.920 What's that take-away line?

01:05:09.940 Nothing will change.

01:05:11.460 Clinton's lack of integrity

01:05:12.520 was the best thing about it.

01:05:13.560 Yes, it was.

01:05:14.440 Because he did change his mind

01:05:15.560 because he followed the voters.

01:05:17.520 Yeah.

01:05:18.320 So we're two minutes out

01:05:19.420 from Ben Shapiro's

01:05:20.420 real State of the Union,

01:05:21.600 the first actual

01:05:22.560 State of the Union

01:05:23.060 rebuttal of our lifetimes.

01:05:25.160 And, you know,

01:05:26.100 I got a peek

01:05:27.160 during the speech

01:05:27.840 at some of what

01:05:28.740 Ben was working on.

01:05:29.400 He was texting with me.

01:05:30.020 It's going to be

01:05:30.400 absolutely terrific.

01:05:31.240 I thought it was canceled.

01:05:32.260 He's got nothing to rebut to.

01:05:33.200 Nothing happened.

01:05:35.320 I think the whole speech

01:05:36.360 will be,

01:05:37.560 the State of the Union 0.99

01:05:38.200 kind of sucks. 0.99

01:05:39.200 Joe Biden's old. 1.00

01:05:39.860 Yeah.

01:05:40.620 All right.

01:05:41.280 Enjoy your night.

01:05:42.320 He didn't say anything.

01:05:43.120 Nothing happened

01:05:43.600 in that entire thing. 0.99

01:05:44.520 I mean, just absolute garbage. 1.00

01:05:46.580 It's nonsense. 1.00

01:05:47.300 And it's sad, too,

01:05:48.300 because I don't think

01:05:49.420 this will work again

01:05:50.040 because we keep talking about

01:05:50.980 there is a shift happening,

01:05:52.020 especially when he makes

01:05:52.820 this pitch about small businesses.

01:05:54.320 You just fought

01:05:54.860 small businesses in court

01:05:55.720 for a year,

01:05:56.700 trying to tell them

01:05:57.200 what they had to do.

01:05:57.860 You didn't care

01:05:58.280 if everyone was going

01:05:58.780 to lose their jobs

01:05:59.460 over choosing

01:06:00.000 not to get a vaccination.

01:06:01.280 He made a pitch

01:06:01.780 towards the end

01:06:02.280 about children.

01:06:03.260 You just literally

01:06:03.980 fought parents,

01:06:05.160 you know,

01:06:05.360 said they were

01:06:05.760 domestic terrorists

01:06:06.760 and were going to enable

01:06:08.480 our Department of Justice

01:06:09.320 to go after them.

01:06:10.460 So it was almost like

01:06:11.560 he's saying one thing

01:06:12.640 and yet he's done

01:06:13.420 the exact opposite

01:06:14.400 and expects American people

01:06:15.740 to forget.

01:06:16.120 He also said,

01:06:16.840 on that point,

01:06:17.620 he also said

01:06:18.180 that we have to stop

01:06:18.680 treating each other

01:06:19.200 like enemies.

01:06:19.760 And this is the guy

01:06:21.160 who said that PTA moms 0.99

01:06:22.480 are domestic terrorists. 0.64

01:06:23.960 And that half the country 0.99

01:06:24.700 is neo-Nazis

01:06:25.500 and Bull Connor.

01:06:26.160 He said that

01:06:26.540 like a month ago.

01:06:29.400 Every part of the speech

01:06:30.560 in some way

01:06:31.240 was fund the police, right?

01:06:33.020 Every part of the speech

01:06:33.840 was just going back on

01:06:34.760 things that the same guy

01:06:35.900 has been saying.

01:06:36.680 That's all the time

01:06:37.440 we have for tonight.

01:06:38.180 Thank you for joining us

01:06:38.780 for Backstage State of the Union.

01:06:40.380 Here is Mr. Ben Shapiro.

01:06:41.680 Ladies and gentlemen,

01:06:44.020 we gather here tonight

01:06:44.900 to mourn the state

01:06:45.780 of our nation

01:06:46.260 because the state

01:06:47.340 of our nation 1.00

01:06:47.920 is pathetic. 1.00

01:06:49.380 And it is pathetic 1.00

01:06:50.320 in the main 0.99

01:06:50.740 because of the president

01:06:51.480 of the United States.

01:06:53.060 As it turns out,

01:06:54.200 we all should have listened

01:06:55.080 to Barack Obama.

01:06:56.260 In 2020,

01:06:57.500 former President Obama

01:06:58.440 said something simple

01:06:59.420 yet profound

01:07:00.240 about his former vice president,

01:07:01.960 a man he had labeled

01:07:02.880 his brother.

01:07:04.140 He said,

01:07:05.120 don't underestimate

01:07:05.740 Joe's ability

01:07:06.520 to F things up.

01:07:08.380 Barack Obama

01:07:08.920 was right.

01:07:10.480 Joe Biden came into the office

01:07:11.820 on the wings of eagles.

01:07:13.520 He was handed

01:07:13.960 a working vaccine

01:07:14.960 and a distribution plan

01:07:16.220 for that vaccine.

01:07:17.480 He was handed

01:07:18.260 an economy

01:07:18.920 that had been placed

01:07:20.060 into an artificial coma

01:07:21.040 in order to prevent

01:07:22.060 the spread of COVID,

01:07:23.220 but that was about

01:07:23.940 to rebound

01:07:24.500 to record growth rates.

01:07:26.700 He was handed

01:07:27.200 a stable foreign policy

01:07:28.180 and he had been blessed

01:07:30.220 with the unending bounty

01:07:31.760 of sycophantic media coverage

01:07:33.360 welcoming him

01:07:34.460 into the Oval Office

01:07:35.580 with an approval rating

01:07:36.560 of nearly 56%.

01:07:38.280 What did he do

01:07:40.160 with these advantages?

01:07:41.560 He presided over

01:07:42.500 perhaps the worst

01:07:43.200 first 14 months

01:07:44.100 of any presidency

01:07:44.860 since the Civil War

01:07:45.840 and unlike Abraham Lincoln,

01:07:47.420 our current crisis

01:07:48.040 is entirely

01:07:48.920 of Joe Biden's making.

01:07:51.120 On issue after issue,

01:07:52.740 Joe Biden is not

01:07:53.580 merely wrong,

01:07:54.400 he is aggressively wrong. 0.99

01:07:56.060 He is not merely foolish, 1.00

01:07:57.160 he is stubbornly foolish. 1.00

01:07:59.260 Joe Biden became president 1.00

01:08:00.220 with one goal,

01:08:01.360 to enshrine himself

01:08:02.120 in history

01:08:02.580 as a great leader.

01:08:04.240 Today,

01:08:04.660 we can safely say

01:08:05.780 that he is one 0.94

01:08:06.400 of the worst leaders

01:08:07.040 in American history.

01:08:08.740 On foreign policy,

01:08:10.240 Joe Biden has made America

01:08:11.160 a laughing stock.

01:08:12.300 Our enemies don't respect us,

01:08:13.560 they don't fear us,

01:08:14.320 they laugh at us.

01:08:16.000 Biden promised stability.

01:08:17.640 He promised he would be

01:08:18.780 the adult in the room.

01:08:20.260 Instead,

01:08:21.060 he has acted like a toddler,

01:08:22.780 whining,

01:08:23.440 mewling,

01:08:23.900 throwing tantrums,

01:08:24.540 and then,

01:08:25.000 in the end,

01:08:25.420 capitulating.

01:08:26.380 He precipitously withdrew

01:08:27.640 from Afghanistan

01:08:28.280 for no apparent reason

01:08:29.280 and with no actual strategy,

01:08:31.120 destroying a country

01:08:32.120 for which America

01:08:32.880 had expended thousands

01:08:33.860 of lives

01:08:34.400 and trillions of dollars

01:08:35.400 by handing it over

01:08:36.480 to a group

01:08:36.980 of 8th century

01:08:38.060 radical Islamist barbarians.

01:08:40.280 Those barbarians 1.00

01:08:41.180 promptly blew up

01:08:42.260 13 American service members

01:08:44.020 and,

01:08:44.900 in retaliation,

01:08:45.860 Joe Biden's Reaper drones

01:08:46.880 eviscerated an innocent family,

01:08:48.580 including seven children.

01:08:50.160 Now,

01:08:50.940 millions will starve,

01:08:52.420 thousands will be sold 0.56

01:08:53.100 into sex slavery,

01:08:54.240 and terror groups 0.96

01:08:54.840 will reconstitute

01:08:55.960 on the very soil

01:08:56.980 from which the attacks

01:08:58.100 of September 11th

01:08:59.140 were launched.

01:09:00.000 And thousands of Americans

01:09:01.140 were left behind

01:09:01.880 to suffer under the Taliban.

01:09:02.980 Joe Biden cut off

01:09:05.280 the Keystone XL pipeline

01:09:06.560 and greenlit

01:09:07.440 the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline,

01:09:09.300 enriching Vladimir Putin

01:09:10.220 and destroying

01:09:10.960 America's energy independence.

01:09:12.740 Then,

01:09:13.300 he proceeded to futz about

01:09:14.280 uselessly

01:09:14.880 as Putin prepared

01:09:15.600 and launched

01:09:16.080 a full-scale invasion

01:09:17.040 of Ukraine,

01:09:18.600 all of which paves the way

01:09:19.700 for a Chinese attack

01:09:20.540 on Taiwan

01:09:20.980 and more aggressive

01:09:22.160 Chinese moves

01:09:22.780 in the South China Sea.

01:09:24.000 And when it comes

01:09:24.580 to our own borders,

01:09:25.860 Joe Biden has ushered

01:09:26.980 in the greatest wave

01:09:28.020 of illegal immigration

01:09:29.000 in modern history.

01:09:31.000 In his first year,

01:09:31.880 Joe Biden's administration

01:09:33.060 was on track

01:09:33.780 for 2 million

01:09:35.360 border apprehensions.

01:09:37.000 The reason is clear.

01:09:38.700 Illegal immigrants 1.00

01:09:39.300 have been openly

01:09:39.880 telling media members

01:09:40.760 they're here

01:09:41.580 because they believe

01:09:42.400 Joe Biden will welcome them.

01:09:44.440 Meanwhile,

01:09:45.060 on our northern border,

01:09:46.880 Joe Biden has stood

01:09:47.620 in solidarity

01:09:48.120 with Justin Trudeau

01:09:49.000 as he claimed

01:09:49.460 emergency powers

01:09:50.280 to crush freedom in Canada.

01:09:52.140 But at least Joe Biden

01:09:53.220 has brought transgenderism 0.81

01:09:54.660 and diversity,

01:09:55.820 equity,

01:09:56.140 and inclusion

01:09:56.580 to the Defense Department.

01:09:57.960 Don't you feel safer already?

01:10:00.320 On the economy,

01:10:01.100 Joe Biden has somehow

01:10:02.020 turned a historic recovery

01:10:03.680 into a chaotic nightmare.

01:10:05.640 For four decades,

01:10:06.640 inflation had not been

01:10:07.700 a persistent problem

01:10:08.660 in American life.

01:10:10.180 Today,

01:10:10.900 inflation rates are running

01:10:11.760 at a four-decade high

01:10:13.080 thanks to his

01:10:14.000 socialistic spending plans 0.97

01:10:15.080 and ridiculous regulations.

01:10:16.580 Wage gains

01:10:17.000 have been erased,

01:10:18.200 gas prices are emptying wallets,

01:10:19.860 and the hundreds of thousands

01:10:20.880 of small businesses

01:10:21.920 that went dark

01:10:22.720 thanks to Democratic-induced

01:10:24.200 lockdown policies

01:10:25.040 will never come back,

01:10:26.660 erasing the life-savings,

01:10:28.320 dreams, and jobs

01:10:29.280 of millions of Americans.

01:10:31.180 We face future stagnation

01:10:32.520 thanks to our unsustainable

01:10:33.780 $30 trillion national debt.

01:10:36.500 Joe Biden blames

01:10:37.300 supply chain problems,

01:10:38.220 of course,

01:10:38.620 but at least Joe Biden's

01:10:39.540 Transportation Secretary,

01:10:40.760 Pete Buttigieg,

01:10:41.360 has been on the case.

01:10:42.800 I mean,

01:10:43.100 when he's not taking

01:10:43.700 two months off

01:10:44.300 for paternity leave,

01:10:45.180 well, nobody in the media

01:10:46.200 seems to care.

01:10:47.500 On crime,

01:10:48.480 Joe Biden has consistently

01:10:49.420 sided against police

01:10:50.500 and with those

01:10:51.060 who would make

01:10:51.380 their job harder.

01:10:52.040 He has unleashed

01:10:52.920 his Department of Justice

01:10:53.780 on police departments

01:10:54.660 all over the country.

01:10:56.460 And innocent Americans,

01:10:57.620 many of them black,

01:10:58.320 have paid for his

01:10:59.180 soft-on-crime policies

01:11:00.220 with their lives.

01:11:01.580 A dozen major cities

01:11:02.620 have recorded

01:11:03.080 the highest number

01:11:04.020 of homicides ever

01:11:04.900 in the United States.

01:11:06.420 But at least

01:11:07.000 his vice president

01:11:07.640 did help bail

01:11:08.760 Black Lives Matter

01:11:09.420 rioters out of prison.

01:11:11.020 And then there's

01:11:11.600 our society.

01:11:12.780 Joe Biden has made

01:11:13.540 nearly every aspect

01:11:14.700 of our society worse.

01:11:17.040 Joe Biden promised

01:11:17.900 America unity

01:11:18.860 when he entered office.

01:11:20.540 Instead,

01:11:21.220 he labeled his

01:11:22.000 fellow Americans enemies.

01:11:24.000 He encouraged businesses

01:11:25.000 to bar the unvaccinated, 1.00

01:11:26.640 even those with

01:11:27.340 natural immunity,

01:11:28.500 from public spaces.

01:11:29.920 Then he sought

01:11:30.660 to have them fired

01:11:31.440 from their jobs

01:11:32.220 en masse

01:11:32.780 in the single largest

01:11:33.720 executive overreach

01:11:34.720 in modern American history.

01:11:36.880 Joe Biden treated

01:11:37.520 political dissenters 1.00

01:11:38.360 as scum of the earth. 1.00

01:11:39.500 Biden said 1.00

01:11:39.980 those who didn't agree

01:11:40.940 with his plans

01:11:41.700 to federalize

01:11:42.400 voting procedures

01:11:43.080 were aligned

01:11:43.820 with Jim Crow

01:11:44.440 and the Confederacy.

01:11:46.020 Biden's Justice Department

01:11:47.080 cracked down on parents

01:11:48.060 after being encouraged

01:11:49.280 to do so

01:11:50.000 by the National School

01:11:51.040 Boards Association,

01:11:52.400 which encouraged

01:11:53.000 the DOJ

01:11:53.720 to treat parents

01:11:54.560 as domestic terrorists

01:11:55.840 for opposing

01:11:56.660 the indoctrination

01:11:57.400 of their children

01:11:58.220 into radical gender

01:11:59.360 and race theory

01:12:00.220 for simply wanting

01:12:01.340 to determine

01:12:01.800 how their kids

01:12:02.500 were educated.

01:12:04.180 Joe Biden's administration

01:12:05.240 slurred traditionally

01:12:06.480 moral Americans 0.97

01:12:07.280 as retrograde bigots 0.93

01:12:08.900 for the great sin

01:12:09.740 of believing

01:12:10.140 that men are men

01:12:10.940 and women are women. 1.00

01:12:13.220 Joe Biden's White House

01:12:13.940 encouraged social media

01:12:15.140 to shut down critics

01:12:15.980 from misinformation

01:12:16.580 and defined misinformation

01:12:17.880 as anything

01:12:18.440 the White House

01:12:18.880 didn't like.

01:12:19.660 And then,

01:12:20.500 he and his lackeys

01:12:21.100 said he was doing this

01:12:22.040 in defense of

01:12:22.840 the science.

01:12:24.620 As it turns out,

01:12:25.540 Joe Biden is not merely

01:12:26.540 a brutal failure

01:12:27.400 of a president. 0.98

01:12:28.180 He's an aspiring tyrant 0.96

01:12:29.180 held back only

01:12:30.040 by the strength

01:12:30.640 of our constitutional structure.

01:12:32.400 A structure

01:12:32.860 he now wishes

01:12:33.600 to overthrow

01:12:34.180 by trashing the filibuster,

01:12:35.760 issuing unconstitutional

01:12:36.780 executive orders,

01:12:37.880 and at least threatening

01:12:38.580 to pack the Supreme Court.

01:12:40.440 And, of course, 1.00

01:12:41.860 Joe Biden is a liar. 1.00

01:12:43.820 He doesn't lie 1.00

01:12:44.700 as well as he used to.

01:12:45.880 He's no longer capable

01:12:46.820 of speaking smoothly

01:12:47.960 or coherently.

01:12:49.520 But if a man

01:12:50.040 spends a lifetime lying,

01:12:51.500 he's not going to start

01:12:52.120 telling the truth

01:12:52.720 when he enters

01:12:53.220 his eighth decade.

01:12:54.980 Tonight,

01:12:55.740 Joe Biden lied

01:12:56.440 and lied

01:12:57.240 and lied again to you.

01:12:59.480 For example,

01:13:00.460 Joe Biden told you tonight

01:13:01.360 that his plan

01:13:01.880 to fight inflation

01:13:02.580 will lower your costs

01:13:04.000 and lower the deficit.

01:13:05.540 He said he would

01:13:06.440 lower inflation

01:13:07.040 by pouring more cash

01:13:08.660 into the economy

01:13:09.460 on top of the trillions

01:13:11.000 he has already spent

01:13:12.480 while we are

01:13:13.360 $30 trillion in debt.

01:13:14.940 That is an insane lie.

01:13:17.360 Build Back Better

01:13:18.120 would,

01:13:18.540 according to the

01:13:19.040 Congressional Budget Office,

01:13:20.000 increase the federal budget

01:13:21.400 deficit by $3 trillion

01:13:23.340 over the next 10 years

01:13:24.780 if all Biden's proposed

01:13:26.200 temporary programs

01:13:27.260 became permanent,

01:13:28.260 which is what he wants.

01:13:29.820 And pouring the gasoline

01:13:30.860 of government spending

01:13:31.740 onto the raging fire

01:13:32.840 of inflation

01:13:33.320 is a perfect way

01:13:34.420 to increase costs. 1.00

01:13:36.100 Only a fool 1.00

01:13:36.760 would propose it. 1.00

01:13:38.040 Maybe that's why

01:13:38.820 Joe Biden was telling you

01:13:39.840 until the last five minutes

01:13:40.980 that inflation

01:13:41.680 would be temporary.

01:13:43.380 And Joe Biden told you

01:13:44.560 that his American Rescue Plan,

01:13:46.180 his massive

01:13:46.680 boondoggle stimulus plan,

01:13:48.320 created jobs,

01:13:49.300 lots of jobs.

01:13:50.060 He said he created

01:13:50.700 6.5 million jobs.

01:13:52.480 That is another lie.

01:13:53.820 There is no evidence

01:13:54.740 Biden's spending

01:13:55.540 produced one job.

01:13:57.300 Nonpartisan projections

01:13:58.220 for job growth

01:13:58.920 in 2021,

01:14:00.220 not including

01:14:00.740 that American Rescue Plan,

01:14:01.940 showed higher job growth

01:14:03.080 than Biden produced.

01:14:04.940 Joe Biden said,

01:14:05.740 we prepared extensively

01:14:06.680 for the Russian invasion

01:14:07.760 of Ukraine.

01:14:08.800 That was untrue.

01:14:10.340 We were manifestly

01:14:11.180 unprepared.

01:14:12.120 We reacted,

01:14:12.920 as the rest of the world

01:14:13.620 did and should have.

01:14:15.300 But had Joe Biden

01:14:16.160 been prepared,

01:14:16.820 perhaps he could have

01:14:17.660 helped deter Russia's invasion 0.95

01:14:19.080 rather than encouraging

01:14:20.320 Vladimir Putin's miscalculation.

01:14:22.780 Joe Biden also told you

01:14:23.800 tonight that corporations

01:14:24.880 and the wealthiest Americans

01:14:25.980 aren't paying

01:14:26.820 their fair share of taxes.

01:14:28.240 That, again,

01:14:29.280 is a lie.

01:14:30.480 The highest income Americans

01:14:31.540 pay nearly all

01:14:32.400 net income taxes

01:14:33.360 after government benefits

01:14:34.420 in the United States.

01:14:36.100 Joe Biden said

01:14:36.660 that inflation

01:14:37.140 could be blamed

01:14:37.860 on exploitation

01:14:38.800 by corporations.

01:14:40.040 Another lie.

01:14:40.920 Inflation is a

01:14:41.680 monetary phenomenon.

01:14:43.020 Corporations didn't 0.85

01:14:43.840 get more greedy last year.

01:14:45.320 Joe Biden just became

01:14:46.140 president.

01:14:47.360 And Joe Biden said

01:14:48.260 we will never just accept

01:14:49.480 living with COVID-19.

01:14:50.580 Another lie.

01:14:51.440 Most Americans

01:14:51.980 have been living free

01:14:52.740 since vaccines

01:14:53.360 became available.

01:14:54.740 Only Democratic

01:14:55.640 panic-mongering

01:14:56.360 has prevented

01:14:56.880 more Americans

01:14:57.520 from doing the same.

01:14:58.880 Not COVID itself.

01:15:00.680 Joe Biden said tonight

01:15:01.520 that the right to vote

01:15:02.220 is under assault.

01:15:03.160 Another lie.

01:15:04.100 Widespread voter suppression

01:15:04.960 is not an issue

01:15:06.240 in the United States.

01:15:07.960 Joe Biden simply means

01:15:08.920 he wants to rig

01:15:09.720 the voting rules

01:15:10.400 the way he prefers.

01:15:11.900 Lie after lie

01:15:13.360 after lie.

01:15:15.020 Enough.

01:15:16.340 Enough of Joe Biden.

01:15:18.080 Enough of his 0.99

01:15:18.640 bizarrely incompetent 0.98

01:15:19.780 vice president 0.93

01:15:20.260 who has failed upward

01:15:21.300 into every job

01:15:22.160 she has ever held

01:15:22.780 and who can't seem

01:15:23.840 to keep a straight face

01:15:24.820 when asked a straight question.

01:15:27.180 Enough of his

01:15:27.680 Senate majority leader

01:15:28.600 who spends more time

01:15:29.640 worrying about being

01:15:30.600 primaried by an

01:15:31.360 Instagram communist

01:15:32.360 than worrying about

01:15:33.540 passing solid

01:15:34.160 bipartisan legislation.

01:15:36.020 Enough of his

01:15:36.520 Speaker of the House

01:15:37.280 who kneels in

01:15:38.300 kente cloth 0.98

01:15:38.880 in the Capitol Rotunda

01:15:40.000 to protest America's

01:15:41.200 supposed racism,

01:15:42.000 then goes home

01:15:43.400 and eats gelato

01:15:44.080 in front of her

01:15:44.680 sub-zero fridge

01:15:45.540 as businesses

01:15:46.220 are forced into

01:15:46.900 bankruptcy

01:15:47.280 by her preferred

01:15:48.080 policies.

01:15:49.540 America deserves

01:15:50.460 better.

01:15:51.920 America deserves

01:15:52.480 a president

01:15:52.900 who sides

01:15:53.400 with parents

01:15:53.880 rather than

01:15:54.760 corrupt teachers

01:15:55.440 unions that shut

01:15:56.180 down schools

01:15:56.640 and mask toddlers

01:15:57.600 and indoctrinate

01:15:58.460 kids into the

01:15:59.360 perverse lies

01:16:00.200 of gender theory

01:16:00.880 and the overt

01:16:01.420 bigotry of

01:16:02.020 critical race theory.

01:16:03.680 America deserves

01:16:04.200 a president

01:16:04.620 who sides

01:16:05.200 with the police

01:16:05.780 who protect

01:16:06.320 law-abiding

01:16:06.800 citizens

01:16:07.220 rather than

01:16:08.140 the criminals

01:16:08.480 who target them

01:16:09.100 or the Black Lives Matter

01:16:10.500 or radicals

01:16:11.020 who slander America

01:16:11.980 as systemically racist

01:16:13.040 while pocketing

01:16:13.820 tens of millions

01:16:14.360 in cash.

01:16:15.760 America deserves

01:16:16.360 a president

01:16:16.780 who sides

01:16:17.320 with innovators

01:16:17.940 rather than

01:16:18.680 the jealous

01:16:19.020 plutocrats

01:16:19.600 who seek

01:16:20.020 to steal wealth

01:16:20.820 they never created

01:16:21.760 and use it

01:16:22.420 to pay off

01:16:22.760 their friends.

01:16:24.220 America deserves

01:16:24.840 a president

01:16:25.260 who sides

01:16:25.660 with freedom

01:16:26.020 of speech

01:16:26.440 rather than

01:16:27.080 demanding

01:16:27.400 that social media

01:16:28.080 companies

01:16:28.500 crack down

01:16:29.260 on everything

01:16:29.700 he doesn't like.

01:16:31.280 America deserves

01:16:31.840 a president

01:16:32.260 who sides

01:16:32.760 with the blue-collar

01:16:33.420 workers who pay

01:16:34.000 his salary,

01:16:34.720 not the blue

01:16:35.500 check marks

01:16:35.940 on Twitter.

01:16:37.260 America deserves

01:16:37.780 a president

01:16:38.200 who sides

01:16:38.820 with those

01:16:39.200 who take

01:16:39.620 their families

01:16:40.060 to church

01:16:40.420 every Sunday

01:16:40.900 not those

01:16:41.960 who pledge

01:16:42.240 to blot out

01:16:42.840 our shared

01:16:43.300 Judeo-Christian

01:16:44.000 heritage

01:16:44.420 from public

01:16:45.020 life.

01:16:46.300 America deserves

01:16:46.860 a president

01:16:47.300 who sides

01:16:47.960 with America's

01:16:48.480 allies

01:16:48.880 rather than

01:16:49.620 surrendering

01:16:49.980 to America's

01:16:50.480 enemies.

01:16:51.620 America deserves

01:16:52.180 a president

01:16:52.580 who sides

01:16:52.980 with the

01:16:53.200 Constitution

01:16:53.720 rather than

01:16:54.680 seeking to

01:16:55.180 rewrite it

01:16:55.600 to push

01:16:55.900 forward

01:16:56.220 his bureaucratic

01:16:57.020 tyranny.

01:16:58.120 We are more

01:16:58.880 than a year

01:16:59.400 into Joe Biden's

01:17:00.340 presidency.

01:17:01.360 That year

01:17:02.140 is an unblemished

01:17:03.080 record of failure,

01:17:04.300 viciousness,

01:17:04.860 and lies.

01:17:06.100 Too many Americans 1.00

01:17:06.860 have been told

01:17:07.420 by the radical left

01:17:08.160 and its compliant

01:17:08.900 lackeys in the

01:17:09.760 media that America

01:17:10.540 is rooted in racism

01:17:11.560 and bigotry,

01:17:12.360 that freedom is

01:17:13.400 dangerous,

01:17:14.040 that if we listen

01:17:14.520 to the experts

01:17:15.240 and delegate control

01:17:16.520 over our lives

01:17:17.340 to them,

01:17:18.100 all will be well.

01:17:19.700 Too many Americans 1.00

01:17:20.360 listen,

01:17:21.160 and so we are in

01:17:22.160 the midst of a

01:17:22.800 great American

01:17:23.360 decline.

01:17:24.420 But that decline

01:17:26.000 is reversible.

01:17:27.540 It starts now.

01:17:29.200 Attend your local

01:17:30.120 school board meetings,

01:17:31.080 demand an end to

01:17:32.220 the radical

01:17:32.600 indoctrination of

01:17:33.440 your children.

01:17:34.620 Join campaigns in

01:17:35.580 your cities and states

01:17:36.340 for candidates who

01:17:37.280 care about your rights.

01:17:38.840 Vote Joe Biden's

01:17:39.560 enablers out of

01:17:40.320 Congress and the

01:17:41.040 Senate in November

01:17:41.640 and then vote Joe

01:17:43.200 Biden out of office

01:17:44.060 in 2024.

01:17:45.600 The great American

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 02, 2022

Daily Wire Backstage： The State Of The Union Address

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