For a year, women, including friends and family of mine, have refused to get the COVID vaccine out of fear that it would disrupt their menstrual cycle. The experts called these women idiots, conspiracy theorists, anti-scientists. The public health establishment spoke with one voice through the largest media channels in America to fact check and debunk these claims. The science, we were told, was clear. The vaccines do not affect women s menstrual cycles.
00:13:15.720the smartest way to hire. It feels as though we are living in a mass psychosis. When you walk up to a
00:13:22.940friend of yours or a family member and they've got three masks on and they've taken 57 jabs and
00:13:28.300they tell you they've done everything Dr. Fauci told them to do and then they're still getting
00:13:32.440the virus and they're still transmitting it and they can't make sense of it and they don't
00:13:35.700understand it, but they just keep doing what Fauci tells them to do. It seems as though a man with a
00:13:40.980long pocket watch must have hypnotized them. And that is what Dr. Robert Malone, who is one of the
00:13:46.940pioneers of the mRNA vaccines, though he's now become a big skeptic of the COVID response
00:13:52.220and of those vaccines. He went on Joe Rogan's show and he said, we are living in a sort of mass
00:13:57.900psychosis. What the heck happened in Germany in the 20s and 30s? You know, very intelligent,
00:14:04.160highly educated population, and they went barking mad. And how did that happen?
00:14:09.100Um, the answer is mass formation psychosis. When you have a society that has become decoupled from
00:14:17.440each other and has free floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense, we can't
00:14:24.100understand it. And then their attention gets focused by a leader or a series of events on one small point,
00:14:30.640just like hypnosis. They literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere. And one of the aspects of
00:14:38.420that phenomena is the people that they identify as their leaders, the ones typically that come in
00:14:43.500and say, you have this pain, and I can solve it for you. I and I alone, okay, can fix this problem
00:14:49.640for you. Okay, then they will lead, they will follow that person through. It doesn't matter whether
00:14:54.640they lie to them or whatever. The data are irrelevant. And furthermore, anybody who questions
00:15:00.700that narrative is to be immediately attacked. They are the other.
00:15:04.340So, what Robert Malone is describing here is he's saying it seems like people have gone crazy.
00:15:10.040It seems like the people who are still following the rulers and the leaders who have gotten
00:15:16.300everything wrong, the fact that they're still following them seems crazy. And the fact that they're
00:15:20.380wearing all these masks and taking all these jabs and cowering in fear from the cough really seems
00:15:24.780kind of crazy, doesn't it? When he uses this phrase mass formation psychosis, it's just a
00:15:31.220strange, unusual way of saying it seems like our whole society has gone nuts.
00:15:36.940And we're all under the spell of a ruling class that peddles its propaganda constantly.
00:15:44.980So, in response to this, the ruling class and their propagandists issued a fact check.
00:15:50.240And they said, Reuters, Reuters, fact check. There is no evidence to suggest a mass formation
00:15:56.500psychosis has occurred during the pandemic, experts told Reuters. Oh, yeah, that's going to convince me
00:16:03.040that that didn't happen. Yeah, the fact that the hypnotists are denying it. Yeah, that'll totally
00:16:08.020convince me. Do what you're getting very, very sleepy. Yeah, you're getting sleepy, sheep,
00:16:16.780and you need to give me all of your rights and your way of life. Hey, I think that guy's hypnotizing
00:16:22.100us. No, no, I'm not. Dr. Fauci is totally not hypnotizing you. Pay no attention to the man
00:16:30.880behind the curtain. That's not whether it's true or not. That is not going to be persuasive
00:16:36.280when the people that you accuse of doing something wrong deny it and don't provide any evidence
00:16:42.940as to how they're not doing that. It does seem to me that the people who have led us,
00:16:48.780who have been exposed repeatedly as not knowing what they're talking about or deceiving us,
00:16:58.080that maybe they're doing something wrong. And maybe that the fact that we continue to follow them
00:17:05.420is a sign that we're not totally in our right minds. Fact checks are the cheapest form of propaganda
00:17:12.820out there. Because what a fact check is, it was this phenomenon that really only became popular
00:17:19.140maybe 10 or so years ago. It was a way for left-wing news outlets to turn left-wing opinion columns
00:17:26.440into an unassailable news story. So many of these fact checks are simply presenting a left-wing
00:17:38.020perspective on certain facts, but they say this is a fact. You have five Pinocchios. This is a fact,
00:17:43.640mostly true, mostly false, pants on fire. And because it's a fact, you're not permitted to disagree
00:17:49.240with it. The right-wing opinion here is that people have lost their minds, that people have
00:17:53.560gone crazy by following Dr. Fauci, that it's not rational to follow Dr. Fauci. And then the left
00:17:59.060comes out and they say, no, it is rational. Fact check. Seven Pinocchios. So I'll give you an example
00:18:04.880of a really egregious fact check. Reuters again came out and they are focusing on vaccine adverse
00:18:11.940events, the side effects, the vaccine injuries, of which there are many.
00:18:17.660Since 1990, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS, has provided data on any
00:18:23.760adverse reactions that have been reported following a vaccination. Anyone can submit a report, which gives
00:18:29.940the system transparency, but is also a limitation. You see, what the fact check is, though you might
00:18:37.020be seeing a lot of events reported in VAERS, the vaccine injury system, you got to remember,
00:18:43.200these aren't verified vaccine injuries, okay? Anyone can submit a report. So there's a lot of
00:18:48.700problems here. You probably shouldn't believe all those vaccine injuries you see in VAERS, okay?
00:18:53.080So from that quote unquote fact check, you would infer that vaccine injuries are over-reported
00:19:01.480in the vaccine adverse event reporting system, right? They're saying it's not verified. So
00:19:06.720presumably a lot of these are just not real. Ignore them. Forget about it. Except that not only are
00:19:14.600vaccine injuries not over-reported in VAERS, they're significantly under-reported. They're
00:19:19.760under-reported by 99% actually. There's a 2010 HHS review that came out of the VAERS system,
00:19:28.380the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, showed, quote, adverse events from drugs and vaccines are
00:19:34.160common but under-reported. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event,
00:19:39.800less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events, and 1 to 13% of serious events are reported to the FDA,
00:19:45.100likewise, here's the money line, likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.
00:19:53.160This is from the Department of Health and Human Services. You can get this on the government
00:19:56.220website right now. Less than 1%. So if you just read the fact check, you would conclude the opposite
00:20:07.400of the facts. The fact is that there are a lot of vaccine injuries and they are drastically
00:20:13.840under-reported. Almost none of them are reported relative to the total number of vaccine injuries.
00:20:21.000But wait a second. I thought we were told by the propagandists that vaccine injuries
00:20:24.620either never happen or barely ever happen or look the other way or don't look at the man behind the
00:20:31.000curtain. Incredibly dishonest stuff. You're not just getting it out of Reuters and the propagandists,
00:20:37.660you're getting it from the Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor, the self-styled wise Latina woman
00:20:44.220on the Supreme Court, that's how she pitched herself to join the court. She was hearing oral arguments over
00:20:51.140the Biden administration's vaccine mandate. And she pulled a fact of COVID hospitalizations
00:21:00.900out of thin air. We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on
00:21:09.000ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition,
00:21:16.240and many on ventilators. 100,000 children in very serious condition hospitalized. Many of that
00:21:24.980100,000 on ventilators. That's just completely made up. There are right now, and this is the most
00:21:33.680wild, outlandish, generous liberal estimate. There were fewer than 3,500 pediatric hospitalizations
00:21:41.920from COVID. How many of those are really serious? Totally unclear, because a lot of people are pretty
00:21:48.000trigger happy now. If they get the cough, they'll run to the hospital. Fewer than 3,500 hospitalizations.
00:21:54.100Very different than 100,000. I'm beginning to conclude that Justice Sotomayor may not be the
00:22:01.580wisest Latina woman out there. I'm beginning to, but she went to very fancy schools. I think she went to
00:22:07.840Yale Law School. She's on the Supreme Court, and she seems to believe this stuff. If a United States
00:22:15.820Supreme Court justice believes a completely outlandish delusion about the scope of the
00:22:25.600coronavirus epidemic, I suspect a lot of other people do too. I suspect that the fantasy
00:22:33.680is driving our discourse much more than the facts. And I suspect that we are living our lives and
00:22:42.720ordering our society and making our laws and rules much more based on fantasy than on fact.
00:22:50.300I think if people knew the facts about the risk to children, we would have reopened the schools
00:22:58.540much, much sooner. I think if people knew the facts about the COVID risk to relatively young,
00:23:05.960relatively healthy people, we would have gone back to work a long, long time ago.
00:23:10.160I just had COVID. I just recovered about a week ago. It wasn't pleasant, but it's fine. My whole
00:23:14.060family had. It wasn't pleasant. It's fine. People get sick. That's what happens. I think if women knew
00:23:19.940the facts about the now accepted reality that the vaccines can alter a woman's menstrual cycle,
00:23:28.580at least somewhat, then maybe they would be more reluctant to get it, or they would have some
00:23:34.460justification for refusing to get it. If people knew the facts about the moral compromise involved
00:23:39.460in creating the vaccines, if people knew the risk, if people knew the realities here, and if people knew
00:23:45.420that the public health experts, quote unquote, and the officials and their propagandists in the media,
00:23:51.100if they knew that they were freaking lying to us and just getting stuff wrong constantly from the very
00:23:58.120beginning, they might look on this biomedical terror regime with a little more skepticism.
00:24:07.260But the liberal establishment has done basically a pretty good job at controlling the narrative.
00:24:15.660With fact check after fact check after fact check that if you contradict it, you could be ostracized,
00:24:21.420censored, kicked out of society, and no one will hear from you again.
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00:25:02.760You know, when everyone else was kneeling, some men had the courage to stand alone.
00:25:08.540One of those men is NBA star Jonathan Isaac, who, despite facing heavy criticism from the media for his views on social issues and vaccines over the past few years, still stood strong.
00:25:18.360Which is why I'm extraordinarily excited to announce that he has decided to write a book with The Daily Wire called Why I Stand.
00:25:24.420Jonathan's book will be about the rise of his basketball career, his journey into faith, and his strength to stand alone in the face of immense pressure.
00:25:49.060And I'm writing a book with The Daily Wire.
00:25:50.740Courage does not mean the absence of fear.
00:25:57.340And in today's day, there are so many things that you can be afraid of facing because of believing what you believe or deciding to stand for what you believe in.
00:26:05.520And I believe this book gives you a blueprint of my story of how Christ has made the difference in my life.
00:26:10.780From a young kid who struggled with fear, anxiety, self-insecurity, to a man willing to stand for what he believes in.
00:35:08.720On the contrary, testing will not allow us to get back to normal.
00:35:11.920It will stop us from ever getting back to normal.
00:35:13.760Because when you test, when you test everyone in the country all the time for a mild illness, you're going to get some positive results.
00:35:24.160And when everyone is constantly on a hair trigger about locking down and, and, and, and terrified, deathly terrified of this virus, then every time you get a positive test, you're going to shut down the schools again.
00:35:37.060This is what's happening for my friends and relatives.
00:35:39.720They send their kids to these schools or preschools and then one kid tests positive and they shut this place down for a week.
00:35:45.960But if you test everyone all the time for an extraordinarily contagious virus that isn't really that dangerous to the vast, vast, vast majority of people, you're always going to get a positive test and you're always going to lock down.
00:36:00.040The reason that the liberal establishment is now clamoring for more tests is because they don't want the epidemic to go away.
00:36:08.140They always want these emergency powers.
00:36:11.020They always want to be able to rule you with whim and caprice and they never want you to question what they're saying, even when what they're saying is contradicting what they said the day before.
00:36:21.340This has been a power play from day one.
00:36:23.460They've done everything they can in terms of the vaccines.
00:36:26.600They've done everything that they said was going to work in terms of locking down and making everyone wear masks and that didn't really work.
00:36:32.720They haven't done everything they can in terms of getting therapeutics out there.
00:36:36.060They've actually suppressed a number of therapeutics that would have helped some people to recover from the virus more quickly.
00:36:43.980They have said, no, forget about that because they've taken, as that Washington Post correspondent says, a vaccine only approach and they didn't want therapeutics to get into the way of the narrative that everyone needs to take the vaccine.
00:36:55.320But they've done what they are going to do.
00:36:58.260And just testing everyone and freaking everyone out all the time over what is effectively, for the vast majority of people, a mild cold is only going to prolong this.
00:39:02.220For certain very, very deadly illnesses, we will, every year or two years or five years or ten years, get certain tests done to make sure that everything's looking good.
00:39:16.840Because in some cases, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
00:39:19.840However, we don't do that for the flu.
00:40:47.140The headline from the Women's Ivy League 100-meter race is that the Yale transgender swimmer beat the pen transgender swimmer in the women's competition.
00:41:11.020Now, when most people read this, they assumed it was a dude who's pretending to be a woman beat another dude who's pretending to be a woman at the women's sport.
00:41:20.920And this just shows you how awful it is and transgenderism is destroying women's sports.
00:41:24.920But there's a twist to this story, which is that the Yale transgender swimmer is a woman who wants to become a man.
00:41:33.880But she allegedly hasn't started taking hormones or chemicals yet, so she's still allowed to compete on the women's team.
00:41:40.600And the pen transgender swimmer is a man who is pretending to be a woman.
00:41:46.360But he is obviously physically much bigger and stronger than all the other women, so he keeps winning all the races.
00:41:50.620But he lost to the girl who's pretending to be a man.
00:41:54.140This actually throws a wrench into the transgenderism narrative of a lot of people on the right.
00:42:01.420But it doesn't throw a wrench into my theory on transgenderism.
00:42:06.160We talked about this, I think, on the very last episode of the show on Friday, Thursday or Friday of last week.
00:42:11.280I mentioned that, and I've said this before as well, that it's a mistake for conservatives to stake their argument against transgenderism on fairness in women's sports or some other disingenuous point that no one really cares about.
00:42:29.580I don't really care who gets the medal at the women's track meet.
00:42:34.180That's not what's wrong with transgenderism is not that it takes some accolades away from 11th grade girls.
00:42:42.620What's wrong with transgenderism is that it contradicts reality.
00:42:48.840If you stake your argument against transgenderism on women not being able to compete in women's sports anymore,
00:42:57.700then this story about the Yale trans swimmer beating the pen trans swimmer completely destroys your argument.
00:43:05.240Because in this case, the woman beat the man.
00:43:08.240And, you know, that's going to happen sometimes.
00:43:28.180Then the men, then the men can compete in women's sports and the women have a fighting chance.
00:43:33.200If fairness in women's sports is the standard, conservatives just lost.
00:43:36.300If reality is the standard, conservatives still have an argument.
00:43:42.860When we stake our arguments on statistics, we're going to lose because there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
00:43:52.700Ron DeSantis was talking about this too.
00:43:54.460If you're staking your argument as to why we shouldn't completely reorder society.
00:43:59.640And take away all of people's rights and close all the churches and shut down business and have a massive transfer of wealth.
00:44:05.520If you're basing that on testing statistics or even hospitalization statistics, you're going to lose because everyone's got their own statistics.
00:44:19.000If you base it on justice, you're going to have a much better argument.
00:44:23.380It is unjust to take away all people's rights and give it all to Dr. Fauci, the schmuck who lies out of both sides of his mouth every single day.
00:44:30.760That would be unjust regardless of the statistics.
00:44:52.000If you make that argument, then transgenderism is still preposterous.
00:44:56.020But if you try to make the squishy, we're all individuals, kind of libertarian, you do you, I'll do me, but don't infringe on my right to win the trophy.
00:45:05.340If you make that argument, you're not going to win.
00:45:09.200The Yale trans swimmer just destroyed your argument.
00:45:12.700Speaking of weird sex stuff, Britney Spears is celebrating her release from her conservatorship, the hashtag free Britney campaign,
00:45:23.760by tweeting out a fully nude photo of herself, or I suppose posting it to Instagram.
00:45:30.260The caption reads, quote, free woman energy has never felt better.
00:45:36.980And I'm beginning to think maybe this free Britney campaign was not such a great idea after all.
00:45:42.38012-year-old Michael, I'm sure, is furious right now with 31-year-old Michael for complaining about a naked photo of Britney Spears.
00:45:55.300But I have to complain about it because this is not a great idea.
00:46:02.100It actually does undermine the free Britney argument because this is pretty strange, wacky, self-destructive behavior.
00:46:09.300Now, Britney Spears is a pop star, and pop stars do these sorts of things, so it's not completely out of the ordinary.
00:46:15.220But the purpose of a conservatorship is to put some constraints on people's autonomy and individual choices because they are not capable of handling their freedom, right?
00:46:25.100And maybe it's because you've got some mental problem.
00:46:27.020Maybe it's because you've got a drug problem.
00:46:28.440But the idea behind a conservatorship is not to take away your freedom, but actually to protect your freedom from your own basest desires and your own basest inclinations, which will destroy your freedom.
00:46:41.320It gets down to this argument that we're having on the right right now about what freedom really is.
00:46:45.460And the libertarians are saying that, I'm painting with something of a broad brush, but generally, the libertarians are saying freedom is the ability to do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.
00:46:56.800If I want to do drugs and sleep around and have all sorts of self-destructive behaviors, that's my freedom.
00:47:03.240And the conservatives are saying, no, freedom isn't the ability to just do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.
00:47:09.520Freedom is the right to do what you ought to do.
00:47:12.720So for the libertarian point of view, the modern liberal point of view, freedom is the heroin addict shooting up heroin.
00:47:19.300But the conservative knows that the heroin addict is not free.
00:47:21.660He's actually a slave to his own basest desires.
00:47:24.060If a society treats its freedom as an excuse to just get naked and dance around and do a bunch of drugs and sleep around and abuse liberty to licentiousness, in the words of our founding fathers, then we're not going to stay free for very long.
00:47:45.920That kind of people is not capable of freedom.
00:47:49.180And so some guardrails are going to have to be put on their individual choice.
00:47:52.680And that's what you're seeing happen in your government.
00:47:55.080I don't really care that much about the Britney Spears story in and of itself, but I care about the political significance of it.
00:48:01.420What we have done as a people in recent decades is strip naked and post a bunch of pictures of ourself on Instagram.
00:48:11.440Literally in many cases, but figuratively as well.
00:48:15.600We have abused our freedom to licentiousness.
00:48:18.720We have proven ourselves incapable of freedom in many instances.
00:48:21.900We can't even really conduct elections anymore.
00:48:25.080No one trusts the result of our national elections anymore.
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00:51:24.640Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, appointed to the Supreme Court as a wise Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor proves herself a fool.