The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1334 -The Decline And Fall Of The United States

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 10:00: Robert E. Lee, ExpressVPN, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter
2. 10:00 – 20:00: Virginia, Legacybox, Legacybox, Nicole Hannah-Jones
3. 20:00 – 30:00: Warby Parker, White Supremacy Pyramid, Portland State University, Allform
4. 30:00 – 40:00: Taliban, Haqqani Network, Al-Qaeda, Bret Weinstein
5. 40:00 – 50:00: Taliban, RockAuto.com, RockAuto.com, Nashville, Tennessee
6. 1:00:00 – 1:06:35: Cradle to Grave, The Ben Shapiro Show, Matt Walsh, Matt Walsh Show

Notable quotes from "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1334 -The Decline And Fall Of The United States"

• Virginia creates a time capsule so future Generations can learn just why America collapsed and As Americans remain trapped in Afghanistan covered lockdowns Loom and culture War breaks.

  about Virginia · at 0:00

• Indicator of this was the situation that has now Arisen over the removal of the Robert E Lee statue in Virginia now here's the thing I totally understand why people would want…

  about Robert E. Lee · at 2:09

• One of the people who was taking this thing down had been tasked with taking this down putting up the black lives matter fist as this was taken down now you can say that maybe…

  about Black Lives Matter · at 5:43

• Like this little box right here I'll explain in just one second first let us talk about the fact that big Tech big government one of the things that they have in common is they…

  about Big Tech · at 7:32

• Including me like me personally I'm depicted in the layer of the white supremacy pyramid culminating in genocide so they had an allyship learning session in a model in a module called allyship in action Google train employees to.

  about White Supremacy Pyramid · at 18:25

• Infused to all of our institutions all of our major institutions which is why you saw over the weekend Warby Parker which is some sort of eyeglasses store I'll admit to not…

  about Warby Parker · at 25:07

• Abroad and obviously what's been happening in Afghanistan is the greatest case in point the Taliban has now unveiled it's brand new Afghan government and I'm amused to see that…

  about Taliban · at 34:41

• Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread the word please give us a five.

  about The Ben Shapiro Show · at 1:05:12

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People

• Robert E. Lee — Person · 9 mentions · first at 2:14
• Matt Walsh — Person · 3 mentions · first at 44:03
  Because you might just be on your way to Nashville to meet and hang out with me Jeremy boring Michael Knowles Matt Walsh Andrew Cleveland and Candace Owens next month you're…
• Nicole Hannah-Jones — Person · 2 mentions · first at 19:25
  Racist also you're racist because you just admitted you're racist also Nicole Hannah Jones admitted in a lecture to Google that she created the 1619 project to verify her…
• Fabiola Christina — Person · 2 mentions · first at 30:27
  March a tenured profession Professor disrupted a public conversation I was holding with author Christina Hoff Summers an evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein and Heather…
• Larry Elder — Person · 2 mentions · first at 32:06
  Couple of days is this video that I discovered when I came online of my friend Larry Elder who's running for governor of California and who happens to be a black man walking through a crowd and a woke awoke person wearing a gorilla mask.
• Edward Gibbon — Person · 1 mention · first at 7:15
  Capsule and they're going to go up well that was not a Tuffy that was not difficult it's not going to be Edward Gibbon writing a millennium later trying to figure out exactly…
• Ralph Northam — Person · 1 mention · first at 9:08
  They said that the objects in the old capsule were believed to have ties to the Confederacy Ralph Northam the governor who also apparently had ties to the Confederacy…
• Pamela Northam — Person · 1 mention · first at 11:13
  Between men and women in law we have a first lady face mask submitted by First Lady Pamela Northam so first so it's her own face mask that goes in the Time Capsule it's…
• Richard Florida — Person · 1 mention · first at 15:58
  And diversity it's a driving force in the battle between left and right according to Richard Florida an urbanologist at the University of Toronto this ideological transition…
• Neil Blumenthal — Person · 1 mention · first at 26:50
  The woodlands in Addison at West Bend in Fort Worth at Legacy Point in Plano Warby Parker's co-ceo Neil Blumenthal rejoices in the Greenwich Village address and which he pays a…
• Jeff Koons — Person · 1 mention · first at 26:56
  Address and which he pays a multi-million dollar home decorated with Jeff Koons paintings but he's about a good chunk of his customer base lives elsewhere so to his employees…
• Bret Weinstein — Person · 1 mention · first at 30:28
  Disrupted a public conversation I was holding with author Christina Hoff Summers an evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein and Heather heying in June 2018 someone triggered the…
• Heather Heying — Person · 1 mention · first at 30:30
  Holding with author Christina Hoff Summers an evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein and Heather heying in June 2018 someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation…
• Dr. Danny Benjamin — Person · 1 mention · first at 30:35
  2018 someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation with popular cultural credit Carl Benjamin in October 2018 an activist pulled the speaker wires to interrupt a…
• Tony Blinken — Person · 1 mention · first at 45:19
  Trained them in the basement other than that they're totally free to leave here's Tony blinken making that absurd contention as of now the Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart they claim that some of the passengers.
• John Maynard Keynes — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:04:49
  We'll eat and drink because tomorrow we're dead as John Maynard Keynes once suggested in the long run we're all dead so you know that's just the way that it works if you're willing to make that trade then this Biden Administration is for.
• Andrew Klavan — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:36
  To podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt wall show thanks for listening the…
• Mathis Glover — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:45
  Show is produced by Elliot Feld executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford…
• Pavel Wydowski — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:47
  Executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber…
• Bradford Carrington — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:49
  Supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam sayevitz…
• Justin Barber — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:51
  Production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam sayevitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica.
• Adam Sayevitz — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:53
  Associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam sayevitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire.
• Mike Caromina — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:56
  Post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam sayevitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright daily wire 2021.
• Sarah Jessica — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:05:59
  By Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright daily wire 2021 one of the oldest and largest Confederate statues has now come down in.
• Chong Ki Chong — Person · 1 mention
• Chris Rufo — Person · 1 mention
• Christina Hoff Sommers — Person · 1 mention
• Haibatullah Akhundzada — Person · 1 mention
• Ibram X. Kendi — Person · 1 mention
• James Damore — Person · 1 mention
• Jen Psaki — Person · 1 mention
• John Zimmer — Person · 1 mention
• Kevin Williamson — Person · 1 mention
• Logan Green — Person · 1 mention
• Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund — Person · 1 mention
• Peter Boghossian — Person · 1 mention
• Sirajuddin Haqqani — Person · 1 mention
• Thomas Edsall — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

• The 1619 Project — Book · 2 mentions · first at 10:15
  Right so we have it we have a kente cloth in commemoration of the 1619 project which again is a designation that America is rooted in evil and can never be extricated from that evil and all of its institutions are shot through.
• The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct — Book · 1 mention · first at 29:42
  Garbled peer-reviewed paper that took aim at the new Orthodoxy it's titled what its title was quote the conceptual penis as a social construct it was published in cogent social…
• The Authoritarian Moment — Book · 1 mention
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Book · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

• Taliban — Company · 15 mentions · first at 34:44
• Warby Parker — Company · 6 mentions · first at 25:10
• The Ben Shapiro Show — Company · 4 mentions · first at 0:14
• Portland State University — Company · 3 mentions · first at 29:09
  University system obviously so over the weekend Peter bagosian who is this professor over at Portland State University he quit Portland State University because he said it's just become unlivable here you guys have made it so.
• RockAuto.com — Company · 3 mentions · first at 41:32
  Reason to go to an auto parts store like pretty much ever especially when you can just use rockauto.com rockauto.com is so much easier than walking into the store waiting in…
• Haqqani Network — Company · 2 mentions · first at 35:20
  And then that would solve all of their problems they gave senior posts to the leader of haqqani network which of course is an Al-Qaeda link group he's the minister of the…
• Matt Walsh Show — Company · 2 mentions · first at 1:05:10
  Back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon is the Matt Walsh show it airs at 1 30 p.m Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show.
• 400 Years of African-American History Commission — Company · 1 mention · first at 10:05
  They have writing a new history kente cloth worn by the commissioners of the congressionally chartered 400 years of African-American history commission and ghanian emissaries that participated in the 400th commemoration of 1619.
• Virginia State Police — Company · 1 mention · first at 11:50
  The only thing that really has to do with the institutions of Virginia per se is a photo of the Virginia State Police at 14th Street and F Street Northwest in Washington helping Washington Metro Police Department Patrol the city for unrest.
• Washington Metro Police Department — Company · 1 mention · first at 11:57
  At 14th Street and F Street Northwest in Washington helping Washington Metro Police Department Patrol the city for unrest after the Insurrection at the U.S Capitol on January 6th right so we have a commemoration of January 6th.
• Manhattan Institute — Company · 1 mention · first at 18:11
  Again every institutional level in our society so Chris Ruffo has been doing excellent work over at Manhattan Institute he uncovered an indoctrination session over at Google according to rufo Google has launched an.
• Helix Sleep — Company · 1 mention · first at 23:35
  The fact that if you've been listening to the show for a while you know I love my Helix Sleep mattress it is the only thing that allows me to sleep since my kids simply won't…
• Al-Qaeda — Company · 1 mention · first at 35:22
  Problems they gave senior posts to the leader of haqqani network which of course is an Al-Qaeda link group he's the minister of the Interior so he's going to handle all…
• Andrew Klavan Show — Company · 1 mention · first at 1:05:36
  To podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt wall show thanks for listening the…
• Michael Knowles Show — Company · 1 mention · first at 1:05:36
  To podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt wall show thanks for listening the…
• Atiyat Iras — Company · 1 mention
• Cogent Social Sciences — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

• Legacybox — Product · 2 mentions · first at 14:27
  Be Revisited and shared for Generations this week Legacy box is offering 50 off at legacybox.com Shapiro so you can turn a lifetime of memories into a highlight reel your…
• Kente cloth — Product · 1 mention · first at 10:01
  Racist so you've got these stickers saying America's irredeemably racist they have writing a new history kente cloth worn by the commissioners of the congressionally chartered…
• Virginia is for Lovers — Product · 1 mention · first at 10:27
  Never be extricated from that evil and all of its institutions are shot through with that evil we have a Virginia is for Lovers Pride pin and sticker which is great so we have…
• Allform — Product · 1 mention · first at 24:35
  Still looks fantastic right now all form is offering 20 off all orders for our listeners at allform.com event again that's all form.com slash pen I have a forever warranty…
• Raycon — Product · 1 mention · first at 34:10
  Guarantee so you really can't lose give them a try you'll see what I mean create your own soundtrack with raycon today right now my listeners can get 15 off their raycon order…
• Apple TV+ — Product · 1 mention · first at 43:15
  She had a lot to say go stream it right now at dailywire.com on The Daily wire Apple TV or Roku app or on my YouTube channel Ben Shapiro daily wire members get access to…
• Pride flag — Product · 1 mention
• Roku — Product · 1 mention
• Wall-E — Product · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

• White Supremacy Pyramid — Concept · 5 mentions · first at 18:29
• Black Lives Matter — Concept · 3 mentions · first at 5:46
• Big Tech — Concept · 3 mentions · first at 7:35
• Cradle to Grave — Concept · 3 mentions · first at 1:01:30
  Right that's the social welfare benefits they have this article on it here's the title of it from cradle to grave Democrats move to expand social safety net Cradle to grave and…
• Constitution of the United States — Concept · 2 mentions · first at 13:46
  In the United States who still want to live by the promises in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States and instead want us to plant a racial…
• Critical Race Theory — Concept · 1 mention · first at 6:19
  Stricken by the American systems of power that it's the same sort of rationale as critical race Theory black lives matter that if you're a black person in America you live with…
• British Empire — Concept · 1 mention · first at 7:28
  The various rationales it is not going to be trying to discern the complexity of the fall of the British Empire it's gonna be like oh yeah this time capsule kind of tells the…
• Equal Rights Amendment — Concept · 1 mention · first at 10:53
  Like the pride pen we have also the Virginia ratify era Equal Rights Amendment Sash and the Equal Rights Amendment 2020 pins so that's very important right so we have an equal…
• Stop Asian Hate — Concept · 1 mention · first at 11:28
  Presumably until the end of the American Republic we have photos and flyers from stop Asian hate protests in May 2021 in the Virginia time capsule now so far have you heard…
• The Life of Julia — Concept · 1 mention · first at 1:03:53
  Obama Administration when the when Barack Obama declared in 2012 that the life of Julia was to be emulated I don't know if you remember all this way back because nearly a decade ago it was widely derided in 2012 it was widely mocked it.
• 1619 — Concept · 1 mention
• Grievance Studies Affair — Concept · 1 mention
• IPO — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

• Virginia — Place · 8 mentions · first at 0:00
• Nashville, Tennessee — Place · 2 mentions · first at 43:31
  Excellent news for you this October not only will we be live and on stage at the famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville we're also giving one lucky member a chance to win two VIP…
• Richmond, Virginia — Place · 1 mention · first at 2:21
  Here's the thing I totally understand why people would want the Robert E Lee statue removed in Richmond Virginia I do I get it I understand if you're a black American and you…
• Greenwich Village — Place · 1 mention · first at 26:52
  Fort Worth at Legacy Point in Plano Warby Parker's co-ceo Neil Blumenthal rejoices in the Greenwich Village address and which he pays a multi-million dollar home decorated with…
• Pakistan — Place · 1 mention · first at 36:47
  York Times tensions flared with neighboring Pakistan Afghanistan's long-standing humanitarian crisis has deepened and the militants brutal Crackdown on descent threatened to further erode public trust the Taliban who witnesses say crushed.
• Ryman Auditorium — Place · 1 mention · first at 43:31
  Excellent news for you this October not only will we be live and on stage at the famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville we're also giving one lucky member a chance to win two VIP…
• Ghana — Place · 1 mention
• Texas — Place · 1 mention
• Warby Parker Legacy West — Place · 1 mention
• Warby Parker NorthPark Center — Place · 1 mention
• Warby Parker The Woodlands — Place · 1 mention
• Warby Parker West Bend — Place · 1 mention

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• Legacybox — Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at 14:27
  Be Revisited and shared for Generations this week Legacy box is offering 50 off at legacybox.com Shapiro so you can turn a lifetime of memories into a highlight reel your…
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Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Virginia creates a time capsule so future Generations can learn just why America collapsed and As Americans remain trapped in Afghanistan covered lockdowns Loom and culture War breaks out everywhere the Biden Administration has a new old plan throw money at all the things I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show Today's Show is sponsored by expressive VPN thousands of my listeners have already secured their internet join them at expressvpn.com benwell Joe Biden is not deterred he's going to spend more money than anyone has ever seen and this means now is an excellent time for you to diversify at least a little bit into precious metals you can see it at the pump the grocery store and construction costs another month of the highest inflation since 2008 another month where paper money you're carrying around is worth less than it was you know just a couple of months ago so what exactly is

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1:33 touch with my friends over at Birch gold to get started alrighty so first of all just want to say all of my listeners that means have a happy and sweet new year because the last couple of days I was off thanks to the Jewish New Year which is a time for reflection it's a time for thought it's a time for making new resolutions it's a time for renewal in fact and the good news is that we did that in my community we spent some time thinking about all those things and then the bad news was I came back and I read the news and I realized that the United States isn't apparently an irreversible state of decline that seems to be all the news that is fit to print and the great indicator of this was the situation that has now Arisen over the removal of the Robert E Lee statue in Virginia now here's the thing I totally understand why people would want the Robert E Lee statue removed in Richmond Virginia I do

2:24 I get it I understand if you're a black American and you look at a statue of Robert E Lee who presided over the army of the Confederacy which was an Army that was in favor of the remaining the the continuation of slavery you look at that statue and you say why exactly are people paying homage to this man why exactly would we do that isn't that a Vestige of American racism I get it I do I also understand the people who are descended from Southerners who fought in the Civil War who look at Lee and what they see was a a man who presided over the the Civil War yes but also presided over reconstruction to the extent that he didn't continue the Guerrilla War right this is a major issue at the time is whether Robert E Lee was actually going to continue to foment the civil war after his surrender at Appomattox and he pledged that he would not do so and he would use all of his efforts to bring the country back together

3:10 there was a feeling in the South that he was sort of the the Romantic figure of gentlemanliness some of that image has been obviously tarnished by historians who have now come forth with new details about his life but Lee was a very human figure in a lot of variegated forms and what that means that people view him in different ways so I totally understand the argument to remove Robert E Lee's statute I get it I think that there are people who make the argument that Robert E Lee statue should come down for the same reason that a George Washington or Abraham Lincoln statue should come down that's idiotic and that is a different argument and herein lies the problem and the problem is not the pure removal of the Robert E Lee statue although my view of this generally is with Condoleezza Rice's view of this which is that statues generally ought to remain up because they remind us of a past when

3:55 people were in fact held in high esteem despite having really really bad views and fighting for really bad things and so that provides you a jumping off point for discussion of these issues what was going on in America in 1858 right why did people think in 1890 it was worthwhile to build this statue of Robert E Lee's gigantic 21-foot statue of Robert E Lee right all of those things are good for the discussion of the American Body politic and American history it's kind of funny that in a time when we are told that we have to review American history and we have to rethink American history there's a simultaneous attempt to remove all the iconography of the past in orders that we never have to discuss it ever again right that's that's kind of bizarre so my view is that the statue should remain and we should discuss the statue in all of its complexity and all of its nuance okay however that's really not my issue

4:40 here my issue is what we replace things with what we replace American history with well we replace that discussion with and what we have decided to replace the discussion of American history with but we've decided to replace our own history with is a perverse simplified wokeness that does spell the end of America in pretty much all of its forms not the getting rid of the Robert E Lee statue per se but what we are replacing it with and what I mean here is that there was a time capsule that was buried under the Robert E Lee statue in the base of the statue we are now replacing it okay this is the part that's kind of astonishing and also the imagery that was associated with the removal of the Robert E the statue right if you're going to remove the iconography of the past it should be done in a sort of I would say solemn fashion it should be done very seriously instead the Robert E Lee statue was removed to

5:27 the wild celebration of a crowd below as though they were toppling a statue of Saddam Hussein or something Robert E Lee does not preside over the country nor did he ever preside over the country per se right he was the general of the Confederacy the Confederacy Was Defeated between 1861 and 1865. and uh you saw one of the people who was taking this thing down had been tasked with taking this down putting up the black lives matter fist as this was taken down now you can say that maybe the statue should be taken down by replacing it with the ideology of black lives matter which is that America is invariably racist not only conflicts with the actual imagery which is a black man taking down a statue of a confederate general which does not be speak the white supremacy of the United States in 2021 but also black lives matter is is pushed and and based on a lie the lie that black Americans are immutably

6:16 stricken by the American systems of power that it's the same sort of rationale as critical race Theory black lives matter that if you're a black person in America you live with the boot of America on your throat all day long that obviously is not true I mean we're literally taking down statues right now right that offend people but that sort of imagery is telling what's even more telling is again the Time Capsule so the Time Capsule to me is the story not even the removal of the statue the Statue is a story but a much bigger story and a more indicative story is this time capsule removal because then remove the Time Capsule right which is generally you put vestiges of what you think are the most important objects of the day and you bury them and then in 100 years the cool thing about a time capsule is you open it up and you have all the artifacts from 120 years ago 130 years ago and you can see what was

6:59 important to people at the time what we replaced the objects in the time capsule with underneath the Robert E Lee statue says everything about this future archaeologists are going to have zero problems whatsoever understanding that a client and fall of the United States they're going to look at this time capsule and they're going to go up well that was not a Tuffy that was not difficult it's not going to be Edward Gibbon writing a millennium later trying to figure out exactly why Rome declined and fell and trying to suss out all of the various rationales it it is not going to be trying to discern the complexity of the fall of the British Empire it's gonna be like oh yeah this time capsule kind of tells the story like this this little box right here I'll explain in just one second first let us talk about the fact that big Tech big government one of the things that they have in common is they want to

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9:04 they said that the objects in the old capsule were believed to have ties to the Confederacy Ralph Northam the governor who also apparently had ties to the Confederacy considering he was either wearing blackface or a KKK outfit in his medical yearbook he says this monument and its time capsule reflected Virginia in 1890 and it's time to remove both so our public space is better reflect who we are as a people in 2021. now here we go what exactly was in the new time capsule right what it what what did they decide that they were going to place inside the new time capsule this is supposed to remember signify what America is all about what is in the artifact list now okay so here's what they put in there they put in there a black lives matter sticker which is again signification of a movement that suggests that America is irredeemably racist they took General Robert E Lee statue because America's your dream of blue

9:57 racist so you've got these stickers saying America's irredeemably racist they have writing a new history kente cloth worn by the commissioners of the congressionally chartered 400 years of African-American history commission and ghanian emissaries that participated in the 400th commemoration of 1619. right so we have it we have a kente cloth in commemoration of the 1619 project which again is a a designation that America is rooted in evil and can never be extricated from that evil and all of its institutions are shot through with that evil evil we have a Virginia is for Lovers Pride pin and sticker which is great so we have a pride pin signifying our our love and and celebration of alternative sexual proclivities and behaviors not not of the family no you not not like the signification of the family but like the pride pen we have also the Virginia ratify era Equal Rights Amendment Sash and the

10:55 Equal Rights Amendment 2020 pins so that's very important right so we have an equal rights amendment Sash and pins for a constitutional amendment that is not actually adopted and that suggests that there are no differences between men and women in law we have a first lady face mask submitted by First Lady Pamela Northam so first so it's her own face mask that goes in the Time Capsule it's important future Generations know that we were insane and that we face masked presumably until the end of the American Republic we have photos and flyers from stop Asian hate protests in May 2021 in the Virginia time capsule now so far have you heard anything that celebrates America like a single thing in this time capsule that says that America is good or that our fundamental institutions are good nope zero things none the only thing that really has to do with the institutions of Virginia per se is a photo of the Virginia State Police

11:52 at 14th Street and and F Street Northwest in Washington helping Washington Metro Police Department Patrol the city for unrest after the Insurrection at the U.S Capitol on January 6th right so we have a commemoration of January 6th which is really important so people understand that the real threats of the United States which respond to drugs who ran into the Capitol building we have an expired vial of the covid-19 Pfizer vaccine and the CDC vaccination record card so if you think that America has always been rooted in a Creed and America has a Civic religion and typically that Civic religion is embodied by the Declaration of Independence say the American flag you know apple pie motherhood all of that we've now replaced this with the pride flagpin a kensei claw for 1619.

12:37 the the pseudo-pagan worship of scientific materialism via a covid-19 vaccine vial and a face mask for the First Lady yeah I really don't think that the future is going to have a very tough time figuring out exactly why um why America fell I feel like this one's gonna be real easy for us and here's the thing as America collapses within and America collapses without the story is that we are basically just going to eat ourselves to death we're now the plot of Wally right the best hope for the United States according to the Democrats and according to Joe Biden is that as we rip ourselves apart as we lose all centralizing Principle as we collapse on the Forefront as we do all of those things at the very least what we can do is Park our asses in a recliner and just eat a bunch of fatty foods until we die that's it and the government will pay for all of that unless you're unvaccinated in which case

13:29 die on your own but otherwise the government will pay for all of these things we'll get to all of this in just one second because the polarization continues to Pace what we're watching is a America come apart at the seams the intolerant left that refuses to acknowledge that there are other people in the United States who still want to live by the promises in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States and instead want us to plant a racial tribalism and a sort of sexual profligacy that is uh unmoored from reality growth or decency they want to do all of these things and and then they want to pay you to basically ignore it we'll get to more of this in a second I know it's a depressing message coming back from the Jewish New Year but I call them like I see them we'll get to more of this in just one second first let's talk about something great you can do for your family let's talk about Legacy

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15:43 ideological transition reflecting a massive four decade long shift in political values and attitudes among more educated people a shift from concern with traditional materialist issues like redistribution to a concern for public goods like the environment and diversity it's a driving force in the battle between left and right according to Richard Florida an urbanologist at the University of Toronto this ideological transition has been accompanied by the concentration of liberal Elites in urban centers Florida continued in an email brought on by the dramatic shift to a knowledge economy which expresses itself on the left as wokeness and on the right as populism I worry that the middle is dropping out of American politics this is not just an economic or cultural or political phenomenon it is inextricably Geographic or spatial as different groups pack and cluster into different types of community

16:25 recent decades have witnessed what Dennis trong political scientists at University of Southern California describes in an email as quote a demographic realignment of political tolerance in the U.S that first became evident in the late 1980s and early 1990s before that Chong pointed out the college educated and younger Generations were among the most tolerant groups in the Society of all forms of social and political non-conformity since the 1990s these groups have become significantly less tolerant of quote unquote hate speech pertaining to race gender and social identities Chung argued the expansion of equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities women lgbtq and other groups that have suffered discrimination has caused a reevaluation of the harms of slurs and other derogatory expressions in professional and social life the result Chong writes in a striking reversal Liberals are now consistently

17:10 less tolerant than conservatives of a wide range of controversial speech about racial gender and religious identities so there's been a shift from the program of left being about materialist redistribution right we're just going to take some money from here we're going to put it over here toward an attempt to cram down a particular woke point of view you might call it an authoritarian moment yes that is indeed a self-referential mention of my book title because that is what we are experiencing we're experiencing an authoritarian moment a replacement ideology the traditional American ideology is being replaced wholesale with an ideology that divides us along racial and religious and tribal and sexual orientation lines and then demands that everybody who disagrees with you shut the hell up and this is being crammed down at every level of our society it's part of the dissolution of American

18:02 influence it's part of the dissolution of American principles what exactly unifies us it's being crammed down and again every institutional level in our society so Chris Ruffo has been doing excellent work over at Manhattan Institute he uncovered an indoctrination session over at Google according to rufo Google has launched an anti-racism initiative claiming that America is a system of white supremacy and that all Americans are raised to be racist including me like me personally I'm depicted in the layer of the white supremacy pyramid culminating in genocide so they had an allyship learning session in a model in a module called allyship in action Google train employees to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and then rank themselves in a hierarchy of power and privilege then manage their reactions through crying and accessing their happy place again this is all being taught at Google

18:48 the single most powerful company on planet Earth and nearly everybody gets their information through Google or one of its Associated companies like YouTube in a video guest lecturer Ibrahim Kenzie claimed all Americans including children as young as three months old are racist he said to be raised in the United States is to be raised as racist and to be raised to be racist is to be raised to be almost addicted to racist ideas and says candy the heartbeat of racism is denial and the sound of that denial is I'm not racist we now have a pure Kafka trap in which if you say I'm not racist this means that you are a hundred percent definitely racist if you say you're racist also you're racist because you just admitted you're racist also Nicole Hannah Jones admitted in a lecture to Google that she created the 1619 project to verify her lifelong theory that everything in the modern day United States can be traced back to

19:35 slavery quote if you name anything in America I can relate it back to slavery she says if you're white in this country or the beneficiary of a 350-year system of white supremacy How about if you're a a tenured professor without any teaching experience or any apparently apparent skill set celebrated and paid money to do what you do are you a beneficiary of the 350-year system of white supremacy also Nicole Hannah Jones and then they came up with a graphic titled the white supremacy pyramid again this is the tolerant left and this is the cultural left that has decided that again all of America's founding ideals and even nuanced parts of American History are replaced with a simple narrative in which America is just bad and the only things that are good are people who stand up to that evil system okay so they have the white supremacy pyramid trusting the myth of white genocide in South Africa I don't know what this has

20:27 to do with white genocide in South Africa but they say the white supremacy pyramid at the bottom is indifference hey there are two sides that again this is being taught to all of your Bettors at Google the people who control the flow of information indifference there are two sides to every story apolitical beliefs avoiding confrontation politics don't affect me so if you just beg out of a question if you just say listen I'm really not involved in this or I don't follow it closely or I don't know enough that's not okay minimization okay and then there's a picture of me right I'm I'm on the bottom of the white supremacy pyramid that leads to mass murder there's a picture of yours truly now as we all know if there's one person that the white supremacist absolutely adores me they just love me which is why they routinely send me death threats why the FBI had to arrest the white supremacist two years ago for threatening my family

21:11 yeah the whites they just love me they spend all day just singing my praises okay that is sarcasm for those in the media who apparently are incapable of understanding human expression okay so I am again engaged according to the white supremacy pyramid in minimization the white savior complex I'm confused what it seems to me that as liberals who are involved in the white savior complex they believe that they are the only ones with the moral wherewithal to fix the evil systems of the United States minimization not all white people so um how's minimization to say not a white people but it is somehow not minimization to say not all black people not all white people and not all black people that's being more specific specificity is good not believing people of colors experiences well my general rule is that I believe your emotional state but that does not mean that your emotional state is always Justified

22:03 Justice Malay was not justified also like I can I can believe that you misinterpreted something denial of white privilege again hard to see how the heroin addicts living in a Rust Belt town in Ohio is a is a beneficiary of white privilege post-racism so if you say that we should move Beyond racism that's minimization and intentions are greater than impact okay so I say when I say that in order to be racist you actually have to do a racist thing meaning that there has to be like actual racist content to the thing you're doing their argument is that if there is any disparate impact based on race of any policy this is minimization that eventually leads to mass murder then you get to Veiled racism which is like victim blaming and racist jokes a eurocentric curriculum to teach Shakespeare they teach Chaucer all of this is eurocentric discriminate racist icons which I assume would mean like presumably

22:55 who racist icons would be like George Washington maybe for these folks discrimination calls for violence violence and then finally mass murder right this is the um this is the notion here and um and the cops of course are included in um lynching hate crimes and police brutality all the same all the same so uh that's that is what your Bettors are teaching people over at Google right and this is spread across the corporate sector this is all about the collapse of the United States at home the militarization of our institutions of power against at least half of the population and probably a lot more it's more of this in just one second first let us talk about the fact that if you've been listening to the show for a while you know I love my Helix Sleep mattress it is the only thing that allows me to sleep since my kids simply won't but now the folks at Helix they've gone further than this they've created a fantastic new couch it

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25:08 of our major institutions which is why you saw over the weekend Warby Parker which is some sort of eyeglasses store I'll admit to uh not knowing them particularly well apparently Warby Parker decided that they were angry that their ads cropped up on our website daily wire so here's the thing ads on our site are largely automated it is not as though Warby Parker was like we definitely need to appear on daily wire but even if they had who cares like that's good I don't care if Warby Parker appears on the on the ABC news or NBC news or or Hell Daily Coast website I don't care it makes no difference to me but it apparently makes a huge difference to people on the left got very very angry at Warby Parker for one of their ads automatically cropping up on the daily wire page and uh Warby Parker then decided to make a statement that they were not going to allow their ads to appear on our page ever ever again

26:06 so here's the thing all of you guys you know all my fans feel free to never go to Warby Parker again really they just lost a lot more customers by me saying that than they did by taking the ad by leaving the ad on the site if they left the ad on the site I wouldn't be on the air right now telling you not to shop at Warby Parker but don't bother because obviously their wokeness takes priority over their interest in reaching you the consumers who include by the way many people who don't agree with me on politics as Kevin Williams in a National Review puts it he says all of these people you know who listen to my show they do buy reasonably priced eyewear they've bought eyewear at the Warby Parker store at North Park Center in Dallas at the Warby Parker Boutique in the woodlands in Addison at West Bend in Fort Worth at Legacy Point in Plano Warby Parker's co-ceo Neil Blumenthal rejoices in the Greenwich Village

26:53 address and which he pays a multi-million dollar home decorated with Jeff Koons paintings but he's about a good chunk of his customer base lives elsewhere elsewhere so to his employees so do a lot of his potential investors because the company is currently planning an IPO so I look forward to none of the people who listen to my show buying their stock or short selling that would be just terrible if Warby Parker's stock were to tank over this I'd feel so so bad but the point is this these corporations have decided they are going to mirror the woke priorities of a radical left that is seeking to destroy any level of common cause in the United States which is why Lyft is now proudly coming out and saying that they're going to pay the legal bills for any drivers who get sued under the new Texas abortion law now maybe they have to do that legally because they don't want people who work for Lyft quitting their job out

27:37 of fear of legal liability but that's not all they said they didn't just say listen we want to protect all of our drivers from legal liability no matter where they're transporting people because listen we're just a transportation company and so we're going to contribute to their defense instead the lift general counsel came out and said every single company should follow our lead and actually fund the abortion process like this is we're doing an active good abortion is an active good these are your major corporations here's the lift general counsel you know Nicole I wish I knew um I I think abortion has been historically considered a third rail issue one that businesses don't take a stand on I I hope that that changes I hope that this is the moment that that changes um I'm very proud to work at Lyft where we bring our values to the Forefront and I'm very proud to have two male co-founders John and Logan who actually

28:29 this idea originated with Logan our CEO and of course I was very happy to stand in support of it and I'm happy to be speaking with you now um many women and many men nearly everybody knows a loved one maybe themselves a partner who has had an abortion and this is a women's rights a women's health issue so this should be an issue that every company is willing to speak out on America's corporations are militarized against traditional Americans and their World Views and their values right from Google to Lyft and not just that our University system obviously so over the weekend Peter bagosian who is this professor over at Portland State University he quit Portland State University because he said it's just become unlivable here you guys have made it so like freedom of inquiry is just not a thing here he says I eventually became convinced corrupted bodies of scholarship were responsible for justifying radical departures from the

29:25 traditional role of liberal arts schools and basic civility on campus and so he engaged in what was called the so-called squared hoax right where he he submitted a bunch of fake papers to a bunch of academic journals to demonstrate how stupid the academic journals are one of them in 2017 was an intentionally garbled peer-reviewed paper that took aim at the new Orthodoxy it's titled what its title was quote the conceptual penis as a social construct it was published in cogent social science Sciences which is a journal it argued penises were the product of the human mind and responsible for climate change okay this resulted in such blowback from Portland State University that he ended up having to quit administrators and faculty were so angered by the papers as Peter pogosian they published an anonymous piece in the student paper and Portland State filed formal charges against me they accused

30:09 him of research misconduct based on the Absurd premise the journal editors who accepted are intentionally deranged articles were human subjects right as though he was experimenting on them with a drug of some sort meanwhile ideological intolerance continued to grow Portland State in March a tenured profession Professor disrupted a public conversation I was holding with author Christina Hoff Summers an evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein and Heather heying in June 2018 someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation with popular cultural credit Carl Benjamin in October 2018 an activist pulled the speaker wires to interrupt a panel with former Google engineer James Deboer no one was punished or disciplined he said this is about the kind of Institutions we want and the kind of values we choose every idea that has advanced human Freedom has always without fail been initially condemned as

30:53 individuals who often seem incapable of remembering this lesson that's exactly what our institutions are for to remind us the freedom to question is our fundamental right Portland State University has failed in fulfilling this duty this of course is exactly right and it's not just those institutions it's our scientific institutions that are failing us over the weekend a series of medical journals 200 of them decided to issue a statement about climate change medical journals I don't know what your podiatrist knows about climate change hell I don't know what your podiatrist your podiatrist knows about Gastroenterology but apparently we're supposed to believe that if you have an MD after your name you're suddenly an expert in climatology okay because all of our institutions have been corrupted by woke Group Thing by left-wing group thing which is taking all of the commonalities that we have

31:39 and tearing them apart from science to Higher Learning to free speech two even the notion of a colorblind meritocracy all of those things are being destroyed piece by piece in the United States and of course we are supposed to ignore it all of this culminates by the way in Bully tactics that are given the full go-ahead by the media most obvious case in point over the course of the last couple of days is this video that I discovered when I came online of my friend Larry Elder who's running for governor of California and who happens to be a black man walking through a crowd and a woke awoke person wearing a gorilla mask throwing an egg at him but this woman is woke and white so this means that she's an anti-racist activist and Larry is conservative and black which means of course that he's a white supremacist the headline from the media is more like anti-racist activist throws egg at evil white supremacist but here's

32:34 the actual video of a black man having an egg thrown at him by a woman wearing a gorilla mask which is apparently totally fine because again morality is beside the point there's Larry walking down the street with the security and there is a white woman with pink hair and a gorilla dance and then hitting a security guard so all of this is fine all of this is good by the way imagine if the situation reversed and over a white tea party or throwing an egg at a black Congress person from the Democratic party and you can imagine what the response would be about the systemic racism of America in just one second we'll get to the collapse of America abroad because the collapse of America at home is perfectly clear first let's talk for a second about the earbuds that you are using so you need to chill out for a second you need to just take a breath but for me that means popping a great set of earbuds in my ears and then listening to

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35:08 what the Taliban should just do is say you know Muhammad here is a woman and the left would have nothing to say because obviously a man can be a woman and then that would solve all of their problems they gave senior posts to the leader of haqqani network which of course is an Al-Qaeda link group he's the minister of the Interior so he's going to handle all interior security is a terrorist associated with Al Qaeda so things are going just as beautifully according to the Wall Street Journal in an appointment that would complicate any recognition of the new government by Western Nations Sarah hudina hakani designated a global terrorist by Washington because of close links between Al Qaeda and the haqqani network he had was named minister of the Interior with oversight of Afghanistan's police and internal security the FBI is currently offering a reward of up to five million dollars for information

35:51 leading to his arrest okay I have some information on where he is he's in the government building right now he's like the seat of government he's minister of the interior in Afghanistan am I up for the 5 million now FBI while the Taliban supreme leader haibatula akunzada retains overall oversight of the state affairs the new prime minister is MOA Hassan akun who served as foreign minister in the old Islamic Emirate which Harvard which Harvard Osama Bin Laden was ousted by from power in 2001. akunzada said quote our previous 20 years of struggle in Jihad had two major goals first and foreign occupation and aggression and Liberate the country and secondly to establish a complete independent stable and Central Islamic system in the country based on this principle in the future all matters of governance and life in Afghanistan will be regulated by the laws of the Holy Sharia what does that look like well it looks

36:40 like the talent I'm beating living hell out of people so that's great according to the New York Times tensions flared with neighboring Pakistan Afghanistan's long-standing humanitarian crisis has deepened and the militants brutal Crackdown on descent threatened to further erode public trust the Taliban who witnesses say crushed several small protests around the country on Wednesday have been rounding up scores of demonstrators and subjecting them to abuse in overcrowded jails according to journalists who were present the repression followed a Taliban announcement Tuesday protests would not be allowed without government approval which is the best kind of protest the best kind of protest is the one where the government says okay to the protest several Afghan journalists said they've been arrested and beaten in custody they didn't just say they took pictures of what it looked like after they'd been

37:18 beaten in custody so um I noticed that um we heard constant yammering during the Trump Administration about the terrible fate of American journalists like Jim Acosta sitting in an air-conditioned radio Studio reading his brand new book uh and How brave they were I'm not I'm noticing a significant lack of concern by these very same people over the treatment of journalists in Afghanistan that's that's totally fine that they are having the absolute hellbeat out of them apparently nemat a videographer for atiat IRAs a local newspaper said that he and his colleagues had just arrived in the street where several dozen women were gathered with placards and a loudspeaker when Taliban militants from the police station sees this camera and arrested him he said they took me into a room tied my hands with a scarf and started beating me with a cable also Taliban fighters uh started beating women who arrived at a university the

38:09 other day that video was available online as well they're women arriving in University and uh there they are just getting a beat with sticks by the Taliban it's different Taliban guys more moderate our friends now our friends now so Peter juicy headed to Mary to ask this to jensaki said um I I noticed I I might have noticed that um there are more people in the Afghan government who are recognized Global terrorists than are women do you have anything to say about that jensaki no no of course not there are now more terrorists wanted by the FBI than the new Afghan government than there are women does the president think that is a foreign policy success well first of all no one in this Administration not the president nor anyone on the National Security team would suggest that the Taliban are respected and valued members of the global community um yeah now that's going to do it I mean we need to we need you know they're gonna

39:11 have to earn their way into the global Community I noticed that China is about to recognize them it turns out that you just lost a war to them for no reason literally no reason just to placate your 80 year old daughtering senile boss so really well done everybody really well done by the way saki did not rule out recognizing the government and she was asked specifically about recognizing the government she's like man maybe waiting for them to do they just form their government what are you waiting for something waiting for what you're saying that we're not going to rush to recognition that means that there could be recognition as we've said many times the International Community is watching the United States is watching it's whether they let people uh depart the country who want to depart whether they treat women across the country as they have committed to treat them and how they behave and operate and therefore we're

40:00 not moving toward recognition uh yeah I've I've noticed that they're not doing any of those things I've noticed I love Tony blink and downplaying this the Secretary of State uh he was asked about the Taliban regime he's like well you know their their track records are challenging challenging uh challenging is is a word for like you have a test tomorrow in biology and you didn't study until the last minute that's challenging not challenging is what to do about the fact that you just handed over an entire country to terrorists second with regard to the composition of this uh government or interim government I noted uh the fact that it certainly does not meet the test of inclusivity and it includes wow people who um have a very challenging track records harsh words there Taliban failing the test of inclusivity who could have I mean honestly I'm not sure why he says that it's the most diverse government

41:01 I've ever seen we've been told that diversity is not a matter of reflecting the population generally diversity is just a matter of you're not white so I've noticed that there are no white people who are members of the Taliban government and they're all Muslim actually so that's it by American Standard it's a very diverse government actually is the way that this works but uh it is an absurdity piled on top of absurdity and on top of that obviously they're still Americans who are trapped in Afghanistan and the Biden Administration made that happen we'll get to that in just one moment first let us talk about the fact there's no reason to go to an auto parts store like pretty much ever especially when you can just use rockauto.com rockauto.com is so much easier than walking into the store waiting in line to get to the front of the line they ask a bunch of specific questions about your car and then like

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43:00 the chance check it out right now obviously one of the most brilliant women in the history of American politics also a person with the front row view of what exactly was going on on September 11th in Afghanistan in Iraq she had a lot to say go stream it right now at dailywire.com on The Daily wire Apple TV or Roku app or on my YouTube channel Ben Shapiro daily wire members get access to special bonus content from Sunday special episodes don't miss out join daily wire today also if you like daily wire backstage I have some excellent news for you this October not only will we be live and on stage at the famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville we're also giving one lucky member a chance to win two VIP tickets to get front row seats not just that the winner will receive a fifteen hundred dollar gift card to cover travel expenses and meet and greet with the backstage host and more tickets for the ramen chart

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44:28 the Taliban imposed more restrictions on flights out of the country according to people involved in the rescue efforts the Taliban have refused to allow any commercial flights out of Afghanistan since the US military withdrawal since then private efforts to fly people out of Afghanistan have hit roadblock after roadblock U.S negotiations with the Taliban have failed to clear the way khalilzad America's special Envoy on Afghanistan peace talks has been sending urgent requests to the talent ban to allow Americans and Afghans to leave San Juan State Department official but the efforts have produced no breakthrough okay so the Taliban are just holding them hostage but says the administration they're not being held hostage just as remember they were not stranded now they're not being held hostage it's just that the Taliban are not letting them leave right which is like saying that a person who has been kidnapped is not kidnapped

45:14 it's just that the kidnapper refuses to allow them to leave the house and has trained them in the basement other than that they're totally free to leave here's Tony blinken making that absurd contention as of now the Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart they claim that some of the passengers do not have the required documentation while there are limits to what we can do without Personnel on the ground without an airport with normal security procedures in place we are working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground that's what we've done that's what we will continue to do we're going to jabber at the Taliban it's worked so far it's working just fabulous like meanwhile gen saki was asked uh you know I noticed that there's nobody on the ground actually negotiating with talibans who get these people out or provide them Aid or

46:02 anything there's no one on the ground at all whose fault is that and gensak has no answer because obviously it's this administration's fault so instead she's just like we're not going to discuss blame us blame no no we're not going to do that following up on these charter flights that the Taliban is holding up in Afghanistan the Secretary of State said there are limits to what we can do without Personnel on the ground yeah you just said we are not on the ground you're right whose fault is that I don't think this is about fault here I'm convinced I think what people want to understand is what we're doing to help address it it's not about fault guys it's not about fault that's not at all okay so what we have here is an America in collapse at home in terms of values Now in America that is consequently in collapse abroad and we can't even bring our citizens home in the face of 8th Century barbarians that we gave tens of billions

46:53 of dollars of American Weaponry to and then so what is the offer here so what is the offer seriously by the Democrats for keeping the country together so I get the offer from some people which is let's restore the basic idea of the American bargain right that's my idea my idea is we go back to the Declaration of Independence we look at its founding principles we look at the basic ideas that brought America together as a country and then we're perfected in their performance over the course of two centuries and we go back to that right we actually build on the Creed again we try to reinstill social institutions with some value we try to to find communities in which we treat each other decently right these would be my preferred Solutions but Democrats have a different preferred solution their preferred solution is top down control because they're not opposing the wokes right they don't oppose the social agenda they forward

47:38 the social agenda and foment the social agenda of the radical left and tearing apart The creedal American Nation in order to replace it with a big gut like the idea here is if you can tear down all the systems what you will replace it with is a command and control economy complete with command and control of how people raise their children in the end the promise is utter control right you are going to basically be hooked up to the government IV and you won't have to move you don't have to do anything you don't have to be a parent you're going to be a worker you won't have to be a Community member you won't have to do anything the government is going to take care of you and protect you from all bad things in the world so long as you do everything the government tells you to do this is the subtle promise behind what the government is constantly telling us about their vaccine policies it is the

48:25 subtle promise behind what not so subtle promise behind what Joe Biden says about economics the idea is we traded away American greatness the greatness of our original ideals we traded away the Declaration of Independence in the Constitution of the United States in American history and our power abroad we traded away all of those things for a promise that the government will keep us fat and happy until we die that is the promise that the Democrats are making to us and you can see it reflected in two particular ways of late one is in coveted policy and the other is in Economic Policy so let's talk about covet policy for a second so as I have been saying in a normal world where the government's job was not to protect you from every ill of life we would now be at the end of the pandemic because the government has now done all it can do it has funded the development of a near-miraculous vaccine that

49:13 radically lowers the hospitalization and death rates from covid how successful are these vaccines okay so you've been hearing all the propaganda about breakthrough infections and how you're going to die from it from both right and left right from anti-vaxxed people but also from the people who are in favor of top-down government control and forever masking and never go back to work in all of this crap how effective are these vaccines I'm the biggest vaccine Advocate I believe on either right or left why because they're damned effective they're unbelievably effective here's how effective they are according to the New York Times the rate of infection in unvaccinated people is about five times the rate of infection in vaccinated people so every week the average incidence of covid-19 among vaccinated people per week right like your chances of getting coveted this week if you are a if you are if you are

49:59 a vaccinated person is about 64 per 100 000 people 64 per 100 000 people so boil that down it's about six in ten thousand right or one in 25 in 2000 one in one in 1500 1600 those are your chances of getting a case of covet and not of being hospitalized or dying your chances of being hospitalized if you are if you are if you get a breakthrough if you're vaccinated your chance of being hospitalized if you're vaccinated total is one in one hundred thousand people if you are currently vaccinated your chance of going to the hospital is one in one hundred thousand this now means that for the vaccinated this pandemic is over was over and has been over for a very long time what it also means is that for the unvaccinated the pandemic is over to the extent that it is no one else protect yourself anymore then it is somebody else's job to strap a mattress to the front of their car if you don't wear a seat belt

51:01 because God forbid you should get in a car crash you might fly through your windshield and we have to put a mattress in front of our car to make sure that it catches you that is no one's obligation it is your job to wear your seatbelt it is your job to get the vaccine or not to get the vaccine now it's up to you right that's what we would say in a free country with an effective vaccine instead what we have decided is to cram down the idea that the government can keep you safe from every single thing that exists and they have to look for a hook for this right because it's killing the economy Democrats are still pursuing lockdown policies Democrats are still pursuing Universal masking they're still suggesting that we need economic stimulus so they need some sort of hook for this so the hook they've come up for this is that pediatric cases are spiking right there are a lot of cases that are coming

51:41 up of children who are being diagnosed with covid now the reason the more children are being diagnosed with covet is not because tons and tons and tons of kids are stacking up in the ICU that is not correct the reason that there are more cases of covet that are now being identified is because most schools before you go back to school require a covet test and a huge number of asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic coveted positive tests are coming back according to the CDC the risk to children from covid right the infection fatality rate from covet for children Remains the Same now postalta as it was pre-delta it is not more dangerous to kids it is just more widespread among kids there's a difference between dangerous and widespread your chances of dying if you get coveted and you're under the age of 18. are basically not basically precisely so far as we are aware of the same as they were before the Delta variant it's just that

52:29 there's a better chance that you're going to get covered and have to undergo that risk but the media have decided to make this in an area of absolute Panic which by the way is not the case in the UK where they're not masking kids it is not the case in anywhere in Scandinavia it is not the case in Spain it's not the case in Italy it is not the case nearly in a bunch of places in Europe it is not the case but we gotta Panic everybody so according to the New York Post pediatric coronavirus cases have spiked Across the Nation and schools prepare to reopen their doors for a new Academic Year according to the American Academy of Pediatrics pediatric covid-19 cases flew past 250 000 for the week ending September 2nd The Washington Post reported that more than a quarter of all cases that week were among kids and teens almost 2400 of those infections required hospitalization okay but the amount of hospitalization

53:19 required is generally pretty low the number of kids who have died total in the United States is about 400 over the course of the entire pandemic hey so the the notion that we should be panicking over children at this point is also kind of crazy nonetheless Los Angeles is now mandating that every person 12 and up get a vaccine a la according to the New York Times is poised to become the first major School District in the nation to mandate coveted vaccines for students 12 and older attending class in person s would need to receive their first vaccine dose by November 21st and their second dose by December 19th in order to begin the next semester fully inoculated those are 212 after those dates will have 30 days after their birthday to receive their first shot students participating in extracurriculars will need to receive both Shots by the end of October now here is the thing the risk to Children

54:11 of this like if you're a parent this is not something that um is necessarily super clear-cut particularly the second shot okay there is a study it is now in pre-print okay it's a study from Tracy Beth Hogg Allison Krug Josh Stevenson and Josh mandrella and the study ISM of the myocarditis symptoms of kids between the ages of 12 and 17 who get the vaccine so what they did is they analyzed the vaccine adverse event Reporting System right which is sort of you know a system that where you're reporting all of your Adverse Events it is you can't always tell whether this is driven by the vaccine which is why the data is kind of sketchy but it's what that's the only data that we have because the government refuses to do any of the actual research it should be doing so what they did is they went through the search criteria for myocarditis pericarditis and myooperate carditis to identify kids with evidence of cardiac

55:06 injury they included the word troponin in the laboratory findings to see if uh troponin rather was required element in the laboratory findings they're trying to narrow down cases in which parents were complaining that their kids had a heart related vaccine symptom what they found is that the rates per million following dose 2 among males were 162.2 and 94.0 for ages 12 to 15 and 16 to 17. that's per million rates among females were 13 and 13.4 per million for boys 12 to 15 without medical comorbidities the rate of these cardiac Converse events is 3.7 to 6.1 times higher than their 120-day covet hospitalization risk as of August 21st 2021 and 2.6 to 4.3 fold higher at times of high weekly hospitalization risk such as during January 2021 so in other words it is not like super duper clear-cut for parents that you know you desperate you desperately want your 13 year old to get the vaccine especially dose two right dose one

56:13 doesn't seem to be nearly as affected by these uh these myocarditis and pericarditis events but those two seems to have some problems okay well La is just mandating it right because the idea is that if you listen to the government they can keep you safe if you listen to the government they can always keep you safe which is of course why the the media keeps suggesting over and over invariably that you must mask up your children now again the evidence on masking for kids does not exist there is no study done anywhere that masking for kids significantly lowers danger of transmission among children why because kids don't wear the masks properly as kids associate outside of school and because again kids are are generally not in significant danger of hospitalization and death from covid in fact the stats tend to show that if you're under the age of 18 there are less risk of hospitalization and death

57:03 from Cova than if you're vaccinated in 40. hey so this idea that the government has to mandate this stuff is just disconnected from reality but again the promise that has been made by the people who are pushing for the cultural dissolution of the United States and our foreign policy Retreat the the case that they make is they can protect you forever which is why Joe Biden is now going to push private businesses for vaccine mandates apparently according to the New York Times is going to impose new vaccination mandates as part of a part of a broad plan to put pressure on private businesses federal agencies and schools to enact stricter vaccination and testing policies as the Delta variant continues to spread across the United States now all of this is part and parcel of a broader economic push because the reality of course is that the economy has been slowing now the case that has been made by people on the

57:50 left is that the economy is slowing because of Delta right according to the fed's beige book according to the Wall Street Journal quote the U.S economic recovery slowed and prices continued rising over the summer as a Resurgence of kova 19 cases linked to the Delta variant LED consumers to pay back spending and persistent supply chain problems hamper business the Federal Reserve said in a report on Wednesday the deceleration and economic activity was largely attributable to a pullback in dining out travel and tourism in most districts reflecting safety concerns due to the rise of the Delta variant in New York City for instance the rise of Delta forced the cancellation of summer events such as the fancy foods show and the auto show in Minneapolis the commercial real estate industry which is expected to benefit from workers returning saw those hopes dashed when firms postponed plans in San Francisco the residential

58:33 real estate market sagged slightly as would-be buyers put off their home searches in part because of the Delta variant now there is a difference in how states are doing on this thing as I've noted before the unemployment rates in red States the top be the best states for unemployment in the United States right now are almost universally read and the worst states for unemployment in the United States are almost universally blue and that's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics right now these states that are doing the best in terms of unemployment our Nebraska Utah New Hampshire South Dakota Idaho Vermont Alabama Oklahoma Montana Georgia Kansas Minnesota North Dakota Wisconsin Indiana Iowa Missouri okay of the states that I just mentioned the only ones that could be considered blue like seriously blue are Minnesota and Vermont that's it all of the others are at the very least purple or red

59:22 leaning and meanwhile if you go to the worst states in terms of unemployment you are looking at in order Nevada New York New Mexico California New Jersey Hawaii Connecticut Illinois DC okay every single one of those is a solid Blue State that is not a coincidence it's because it is not Delta that is killing the economy it is the forced restrictions and panic driven nature of government that is killing the economy by the way even Biden's own people are acknowledging this so for example his labor secretary right Walsh Marty Walsh says yeah these lockdowns are just killing business you need to continue to get people back in the workplace we need to continue to keep industry moving forward we can't afford a shutdown like we had a year ago or a year and a half ago now this time I was in a different role I was the mayor of Boston back then and when we shut down the economy or shut down the city

1:00:08 it was devastating to so many businesses we just need to continue to move one step in front of the other one foot in front of the other the president has a plan he's going to continue on his plan the stock market for the most part is doing great now every day it's still moving forward so there's confidence there wages are up but yes we're dealing with a little bit of inflation but but I think I think that we've never lived through times like this we've never had to recover from a pandemic like this the recovery is in many ways economically speaking wildly disproportionate to what is actually going on with the disease okay but but the idea here again is that the prom the innate promise here is that you have surrendered your your country and you've surrendered your values and you've surrendered your Liberties to people who are going to protect you for all time which is why now when they're

1:00:51 coming up short on that their answer is we have to crack down harder we have to crack down harder now you say to yourself wait I Surrender My Liberty so you're gonna crack down harder on me it's going to be worse for me yes but here is the compensatory part the compensatory part is they are going to pay you they're going to give you money in the end as always the final part of the democratic program is just spend money just throw cash at everything the New York Times admits as much the New York Times has an article today about this 3.5 trillion dollar bill which is just a pork barrel of garbage and everlasting social benefits right that's the social welfare benefits they have this this article on it here's the title of it from cradle to grave Democrats move to expand social safety net Cradle to grave and that's it that's it we are fat and we are stupid and we are hooked up to an ivy that is

1:01:41 just a dripping apparently dehydrated Cheetos into our blood and uh and we're just going to Batten ourselves to death we're going to surrender on the floor in front we're gonna destroy ourselves on the home front but at least we'll have Cradle to grave everything at least we'll we'll have brought all the resources home and we will pay you to give up all of your liberties and you will be supported by this vast bureaucracy by this incredible government according to the New York Times when congressional committees meet this week to begin formally drafting Democrats ambitious social policy plan they'll be undertaking the most significant expansion of the nation's safety net since the war on poverty in the 60s devising legislation that would touch virtually every area of Americans life from conception to aged infirmity passage of the bill is anything but certain there is some debate between the

1:02:25 so-called moderate faction of the democratic party and the progressives but the proposed legislation would be transformative a cradle to grave re-weaving of a social safety net frayed by Decades of expanding income inequality as the New York Times making the case for why we need the government to take care of us from the time we are born until the time that we die and so long as the government's doing that do we really need anything else do we need a system of common values do we need to live with each other in comedy do we need to have any tolerance for dissenting points of view in fact there can't be dissensing points of view against a Godlike government that protects you from death infirmity and fear and poverty I mean if that government can do all of those things what sort of dissent should be tolerated or even or even allowed under such a system the pandemic loosened the reins on federal spending says the New York Times

1:03:08 prompting members of both parties to support showering the economy with Aid it also Uncorked decades-old policy desires like expanding Medicare coverage or paid family and medical leave that Democrats content have proved to be Necessities as the country has lived through the coronavirus crisis polls have shown for a long time these issues to support American families were important and were popular but all of a sudden they become not a nice to have but a must-have said Heather bouchi a member of Biden's Council of economic advisors they're not going to pay for any of this they're going to blow out the deficits everyone's completely undermine the American currency or they're going to raise taxes radically but again what this is about is establishing that government is your father government is your protector government is the great Sky God and this goes all the way back to the Obama Administration

1:03:51 when uh the when when Barack Obama declared in 2012 that the life of Julia was to be emulated I don't know if you remember all this way back because nearly a decade ago it was widely derided in 2012 it was widely mocked it was seen as a major misstep by the Obama Administration the Obama campaign put out a graphic and it showed what Julia's life would be like under Mitt Romney versus what it would be like under Obama and every single element of Julia's life was a government program that was going to give her something if he went back and looked at the program that Julia espoused that was a spouse for jewelry for Julia by the by the Obama campaign it talked about how as a little girl Julia would be given all of these wonderful social benefits and then as a young woman she'd be given social and then as an old woman and then in her death she'd be given benefits this is the promise so the question is

1:04:35 is that a deal you're willing to make right no future for the country financially in terms of values or culture in terms of foreign policy no future for the country but we'll eat and drink because tomorrow we're dead as John Maynard Keynes once suggested in the long run we're all dead so you know that's just the way that it works if you're willing to make that trade then this Biden Administration is for you if you're not now would be an excellent time to push back because there ain't going to be a long time for a concerted period for us to do so in the future alrighty we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon is the Matt Walsh show it airs at 1 30 p.m Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread the word please give us a five

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