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0:00Democrats reinvigorate the debate over
0:01racial reparations for black Americans
0:03Joe Biden talks up his radical agenda
0:05while being unable to sing happy
0:06birthday and we examine how to fight
0:08wokism in the classroom I'm Ben Shapiro
0:10this is the Ben Shapiro show
0:11[Music]
0:16well folks yesterday was MLK day and
0:19that was an excuse for people on the
0:21left start talking about racial
0:22reparations once again San Francisco
0:24apparently is now considering a regime
0:27of racial reparations San Francisco's
0:30reparations committee has now proposed a
0:315 million dollar payment to each black
0:33longtime resident as well as total debt
0:36forgiveness of like all that based on
0:39what I'm unaware that anybody who's
0:42alive today was a slave in the United
0:44States if so then we should probably
0:45find out about that I'm unaware that the
0:47members of the San Francisco taxpaying
0:49Community were slave holders at any
0:51point in their lives and lives of their
0:53parents or in the lives of their
0:54grandparents however that is not
0:56stopping San Francisco from Talking up
0:58race reparations according to Fox News
1:00San Francisco's reparations committee
1:01has proposed paying each black long-time
1:03resident five million dollars by the way
1:05California was a free state when it was
1:06originally admitted to the union and
1:08granting total debt forgiveness due to
1:09the Decades of systemic repression faced
1:11by the local black community the San
1:13Francisco African-American reparations
1:14advisory committee which advises the
1:16city on developing a plan for operations
1:17for black residents released its draft
1:19report last month to address reparations
1:21not for slavery not to quote address the
1:23public policies explicitly created to
1:25subjugate black people in San Francisco
1:26by upholding and expanding the intent
1:29and Legacy of Channel slavery so
1:30presumably these would be policies of
1:32for example redlining despite the fact
1:35that it has been illegal in the United
1:36States to redline since the late 1970s
1:38despite the fact that federal government
1:39and state government in California have
1:41subsidized black home ownership for
1:43decades on end despite the fact that
1:45public policy in the United States has
1:46been heavily tilted in favor of
1:49discriminatory actions on behalf of
1:51black Americans since the affirmative
1:52action moves of the 1960s and 1970s
1:55doesn't matter the draft says quote
1:57while neither San Francisco nor
1:58California formally adopted the
2:00institution of Channel slavery the
2:01tenets of segregation white supremacy
2:03and system systematic repression an
2:05exclusion of black people were codified
2:07through legal and extra legal actions
2:08social codes and judicial enforcement
2:10the draft plan includes a long list of
2:12financial recommendations for black San
2:13Francisco residents including a one-time
2:15lump sum payment of five million dollars
2:17to each eligible individual now you will
2:19notice again the vagary of the language
2:21here
2:22that yeah we didn't actually have
2:23slavery here but there were tenants of
2:25segregation now again there were no Jim
2:28Crow laws in California as far as I'm
2:30aware that was reserved exclusively for
2:32the Southern United States it may have
2:34been informal regimes of racism in
2:36California there certainly were no
2:38question
2:38that does not mean that that was legal
2:41action by the government of California
2:42in order to uphold that so you actually
2:44have to look at each specific law and
2:46each individual person who is impacted
2:48by that specific law and that's on the
2:51moral side right when you're talking
2:52about reparations you have to discuss
2:53who sinned and who was sinned against
2:54you actually have to show who is sinned
2:56against by what policy promulgated by
2:58whom if you actually wish to pay
2:59reparations if you're if you're
3:01seriously talking about repairing a
3:03damage that was done you have to ask who
3:05did the damage and to whom and then you
3:07have to ask a secondary question which
3:08we'll get to in just a moment which is
3:09is this designed to work what ill is
3:12this designed to remedy specifically
3:13when we are talking right now about
3:14people
3:15predominantly in San Francisco who were
3:18born host the Civil Rights era you're
3:20talking to San Francisco people who are
3:22born in the year 2000 right those people
3:24are 23 years old right now
3:26in the year 2000 was vast racial
3:28discrimination the way in San Francisco
3:29is that a Syria's problem in public
3:31policy in San Francisco in say the year
3:332000 or say the year 1990
3:36what how long is this going to go on
3:39a lump sum payment would compensate the
3:41affected population for decades of harms
3:43they've experienced and will redress the
3:44economic and opportunity losses to that
3:46blacks and franciscans have endured
3:47collectively as a result of both
3:49intentional decisions and unintended
3:51harms perpetuated by City policy
3:52according to the draft statement so now
3:54you're supposed to do reparations for
3:55unintended harms so public policy that
3:58accidentally harmed black folks that is
4:00now going to be redress by a giant bag
4:03of cash presumably according to the San
4:05Francisco committee now that's going to
4:08be kind of a problem because as it turns
4:09out virtually every Democratic policy in
4:10a major American city for the last 60
4:12years has harmed black Americans
4:13disproportionately I presume
4:15accidentally do we now pay reparations
4:16for all of that bad policy are we going
4:18to pay reparations for all the bad
4:19policing policy that is
4:21disproportionately harm black Americans
4:22in major American cities over the course
4:24of the last four or five years how's
4:26that going to work
4:28to be eligible for the program the
4:29applicant has to be 18 years old and has
4:31to have identified as black or
4:33African-American on public documents for
4:34at least 10 years it must also prove at
4:36least two of eight additional criteria
4:38choosing from a list that includes born
4:40in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996
4:42and has proof of residency in San
4:44Francisco for at least 13 years and or
4:46personally or the direct descendants of
4:48someone incarcerated by the field so now
4:51we are going to pay reparations to you
4:52if your parent went to jail for drug
4:55dealing
4:57because every aspect of America
4:59according to the woke left has been
5:00impacted by the legacy of slavery and
5:03Jim Crow and that is up to and including
5:05your criminal violations so if you're
5:07selling cocaine to a minor and then you
5:09went to jail and you're the child of
5:10that person now you deserve reparations
5:11because of the failed War on Drugs the
5:14plan also calls on the city to
5:15supplement lower income recipients
5:16income to reflect the area median income
5:18about 97 Grand annually for at least 250
5:21years
5:23250 years
5:25okay racial disparities across all
5:28metrics have led to a significant racial
5:29wealth Gap in the city of San Francisco
5:30it argued by elevating income to match
5:32Ami black people can better afford
5:34housing and achieve a better quality of
5:35life
5:36the plan also seeks to establish a
5:38comprehensive debt forgiveness program
5:40that clears each eligible person student
5:42and housing loans credit card debt Etc
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7:50got your stuff together well in high
7:52school you want to go to college all
7:53your student loan debt is going to be
7:54relieved they also want you to have your
7:56credit card debt relieved so if you've
7:58been spending exorbitant amounts of cash
8:00on random nonsense that should be
8:02relieved also because of the legacy of
8:03slavery and Jim Crow in the year 2023
8:05again calendars exist folks you're not
8:08living in the year 1964 we are living in
8:10the year 2023.
8:12I had my 39th birthday on Sunday I was
8:15born in 1984 20 20 years after the Civil
8:19Rights Act two decades like a full
8:21generation
8:22and so pretty much everybody that we
8:24were talking about in San Francisco
8:25right now
8:27black households are more likely to hold
8:29costly or riskier debt and are more
8:30likely to have outstanding student loans
8:32at the draft explains when this is
8:33combined with lower household incomes
8:34and create inescapable cycle of debt
8:36eliminating the set gives black
8:37households an opportunity to build
8:39wealth so again the idea is that if you
8:41have a bad credit history we have to
8:42wipe away your credit card debt and then
8:44we have to give you a low interest loan
8:46and this is what's going to allow you to
8:47rise out of poverty the problem is all
8:48of these loans have largely been
8:49available to people who have established
8:51decent credit over the course of their
8:52lifetimes why don't the rules apply to
8:55people who are born in San Francisco and
8:56are black and were born in the same year
8:59I was born in 1984 or well after that
9:02because apparently you have to be born
9:04like as long as you were born according
9:06to their recommendations
9:09between 1940 and 1996.
9:131996. okay which would make you again by
9:16my calculation 27 years old
9:18this means that you are now eligible for
9:20the kind of thing they are recommending
9:21Board of Supervisors President Aaron
9:23peskin told the San Francisco Chronicle
9:24he hopes the plan is approved quote
9:26there are so many efforts that result in
9:27incredible reports that just end up
9:28Gathering dust on a shelf we cannot let
9:30this be one of them
9:31amazing stuff there from the San
9:33Francisco reparations committee
9:35now the the is this actually going to be
9:38effectuated of course this is not
9:39actually going to happen because the
9:41immediate result of this would be to
9:42radically increase the cost on San
9:44Francisco city government it would
9:45radically increase the taxes businesses
9:47would flee San Francisco would turn into
9:49a ghost town you want to turn cities
9:51into Detroit Detroit was one of the most
9:53successful cities in the United States
9:54in the 1950s and 1960s and then racial
9:56conflicts increasing taxes
9:58massive regulation drove a lot of people
10:01who had the means out of the city
10:03and you ended up with a de facto
10:05Arena of racial separatism
10:08a largely black City where virtually
10:10everybody who is white moved out of the
10:12interior of the city despite the fact
10:13that it had been one of the more
10:14integrated cities in the American North
10:16and one of the most successful
10:16industrialized cities in the American
10:18North particularly for American blacks
10:21now all of these policies have precisely
10:22the opposite of the consequences that
10:24they seek to achieve but we are having
10:25these conversations now because we have
10:27to achieve a more Equitable world right
10:29this is the buzzword of the Biden
10:30Administration and this has been the
10:31buzzword of Democrats going all the way
10:33back to Lyndon Baines Johnson in the
10:351960s and it has been a complete fail so
10:37here yesterday was the incompetent and
10:41uh horrifically untalented Vice
10:42President of the United States Kamala
10:44Harris who lives in a country so racist
10:46that she's Vice President of the United
10:47States specifically because she was
10:48picked by affirmative action Lottery by
10:51Joe Biden to be the vice president of
10:52the United States if you were a white
10:54lady that she would not be Vice
10:55President of the United States she would
10:56just be a less talented Amy Klobuchar so
10:59here is uh Kamala Harris talking up a
11:01more Equitable world
11:02hey everyone today we honor the legacy
11:06of Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr
11:09Dr King was a prophet he saw the future
11:12as it could be a future of equity
11:16Justice and opportunity for all freedom
11:19is never really one
11:21you earn it and you win it in every
11:24generation
11:26so let us all commit to continue the
11:29fight for justice
11:30for our generation and for generations
11:33to come
11:35then what is she talking about she of
11:37course is talking about vast bevies of
11:39government spending Sonny Hosten on The
11:41View made it clear she said that on
11:43Martin Luther King day we should
11:44remember that the country was built on
11:45the backs of black people for free so we
11:47need to talk about racial reparations
11:49now if we're going to talk about the
11:50history of discrimination and people who
11:53have been victimized in the American
11:54project that list is very very long and
11:57of course black Americans historically
11:59are at the top of the list also included
12:01in the list would be Asian Americans who
12:03exploited to build the railroads for
12:04example or Latino Americans who were
12:06used for extraordinarily cheap labor in
12:07the 1920s 30s 40s and 50s
12:10and there's been a lot of people who've
12:12been victimized in the history of the
12:13United States but the amazing thing
12:14about the United States is that
12:15everybody has the chance to rise in the
12:18modern era
12:19this is the difference the difference
12:20between the United States and every
12:22place else is not the evils that existed
12:23in the United States that have existed
12:24every place else the difference between
12:26the United States and every place else
12:27is the good that exists in the United
12:29States that does not exist nearly any
12:30place else in any case here is sunny
12:32hosting making the claim that we need
12:33racial reparations for people who are
12:35not slaves from people who are never
12:37slaveholders
12:38he was deeply invested in economic
12:41equality and he was deeply invested in
12:45making sure that black people got
12:47reparations and that there was wealth
12:49distribution redistribution and that's
12:52the one area when we talk about
12:54diversity and we talk about inclusion
12:57and we talk about Equity people are real
12:59comfortable lately with diversity
13:00they're real comfortable with inclusion
13:02but when you ask them about giving us
13:04some reparations because this country
13:06was built on the back of black people
13:09for free no one wants to talk about that
13:12and that was really a big part of his um
13:15dream and his legacy
13:18and the liberal white ladies who watch
13:19The View are all clapping in the
13:21background because it makes them feel
13:22good to talk about this sort of stuff
13:23never paying attention to the fact that
13:25we actually have tried massive wealth
13:27redistribution in this country and in
13:28terms of healing the racial wealth Gap
13:30it has been utterly insufficient it has
13:32not worked so LBJ back in 1965 gave a
13:35very famous speech at Howard University
13:37it was a commencement address at Howard
13:38University in which he explained that
13:40negative Freedom was not enough that
13:42basically getting rid of segregation
13:44making it illegal was not enough that
13:46creating an even playing field for
13:48people was not enough because after all
13:49the legacy of racial oppression meant
13:51that the government now had to play
13:53favorites and actually reverse
13:54discriminate in order to redress the
13:56problems of history now you can make
13:57that case certainly in 1965. there's a
14:00case to be made because the people who
14:01are the direct victims of Jim Crow were
14:04alive well and Jim Crow was in operation
14:07so sure you can make that case in 1965.
14:10very difficult to make the case in 2023
14:11and all of that puts aside forget the
14:14moral case for a second the utter in
14:15effect in efficacy and failure of the
14:19regime the regimen of racial reparations
14:21that were put into place by the war on
14:22poverty under LBJ so here's what LBJ
14:24said at the time
14:26he said it's not enough to just open the
14:28gates of opportunity all our citizens
14:30must have the ability to walk through
14:31those Gates you do not take a person who
14:33for years has been hobbled by chains and
14:35liberate him bring him up to the
14:36starting line of a race and then say you
14:37are free to compete with all the others
14:38and still justly believe that you have
14:40been completely Fair
14:41okay I mean again that's a fair enough
14:43point but after 60 years of
14:46extraordinary efforts by the federal and
14:48state governments of the United States
14:49to redress poverty
14:52largely directed toward minority
14:54communities as LBJ openly discussed I
14:55mean this was a commencement speech at
14:57Howard University
14:58has it been a failure or has it been a
15:00success the answer is it has been a
15:02gigantic failure
15:04now the way you can tell it's been a
15:05gigantic failure is because one thing
15:07that actually has happened is that the
15:09income gap in the United States despite
15:11all of the talk about how income
15:12inequality is still the dominant factor
15:14in American life that actually is not
15:15true income inequality has actually
15:17become significantly better in the
15:19United States why because of the
15:21reparations meaning all the poverty
15:23reparations all of these sort of
15:24redistributionism has actually
15:26alleviated much of the income gap in the
15:29United States whenever you see these
15:30gigantic stories about how the income
15:32inequality persists and the the gap
15:34between the top and bottom households is
15:3517-1 that's not actually true if you
15:37include taxes from the top and you
15:40include subsidies to the bottom in the
15:42form of welfare in the form of food
15:43stamps in the form of housing subsidies
15:45and all the rest the 2017 income gap
15:48actually shrinks from 17 to 1 to about
15:50four to one
15:52that the government likes to play this
15:53little game where they point out that
15:54the income gap in terms of private
15:56income has not actually alleviated
15:57between black and white and that's true
15:59what has happened is that all of the
16:01racial redistribution that has been
16:02happening has alleviated the income gap
16:04posted taxes and post benefits
16:07hey but the problem is that doesn't
16:08actually heal the underlying problem
16:10because the underlying problem that
16:11everybody wants to get to is the income
16:13gap without all of that without the
16:15taxes and without the government
16:16subsidization
16:17why hasn't that been healed and the
16:19answer there is that when you
16:21incentivize people to make bad decisions
16:23they continue to make bad decisions
16:25the income that is gained through
16:27welfare social safety net benefits all
16:29of the stuff that's subsidized by the
16:31federal and state governments that does
16:33not actually translate into healing the
16:34wealth Gap because all wealth is is
16:36accrual of income over time
16:38wealth happens when you save your income
16:40and when you invest your income and when
16:42you turn it into a home for example and
16:43then when you take the income from from
16:45your your job you pay your mortgage and
16:47pay off your home then you take the
16:48extra income you buy a second home and
16:49you rent it out this is how you actually
16:51achieve wealth in the United States well
16:53we've done an extraordinary amount to
16:55alleviate poverty directed at
16:57alleviating racial historical gaps and
17:00what we have done is we have alleviated
17:02some of the income gap but we've done
17:03very little to alleviate the wealth Gap
17:05the wealth Gap is essentially the same
17:06as it was in 1960 before any of this
17:08starts
17:09The Washington Post acknowledges as much
17:12if you actually look at the racial
17:15wealth Gap in the United States
17:17in in 1960
17:19black households and white households is
17:21much smaller the wealth Gap in 1960 than
17:24it is today
17:26as of about 2020
17:29white households were worth 149 000 on
17:33average in 2016. Black households are
17:35worth thirteen thousand dollars in 2016.
17:37that is a far larger Gap that existed at
17:40the beginning of the so-called war on
17:42poverty
17:43why because it turns out that when you
17:45expend extraordinary amounts of federal
17:47money and you do so not only in
17:49inefficient ways but without really
17:52tackling the underlying crippling
17:54cultural problems that lead to
17:56intergenerational Poverty you don't end
17:57up alleviating anything you can throw
17:59five million dollars at every black
18:00Citizen of San Francisco and it is not
18:02going to fix the racial wealth Gap in
18:04San Francisco after about 10 years
18:06the reason being that people make
18:08different decisions with their money
18:09people make different life decisions
18:12and the notion that this is just a
18:13problem of marxist redistributionism is
18:15a lie it's not true
18:17there's a good piece
18:18by Lewis Andrews from 2020 over the
18:21American conservative talking about the
18:23failure of the sort of reparations ideal
18:26here
18:27he says one critical fact that it's
18:29always ignored whenever the issues of
18:30operations resurfaces namely that any
18:32Financial financially expressible amends
18:34the country might owe its black citizens
18:36was made long ago in January 1964
18:38president Lyndon Johnson declared an
18:40unconditional war on poverty in America
18:41by 2015 it had cost the nation more than
18:4422 trillion dollars 22 trillion dollars
18:47or three times what we previously spent
18:48on all shooting Wars
18:52in the years since President Johnson's
18:54address in 1965 at Howard University the
18:56poverty rate for African Americans has
18:58fallen a few points in Good Times risen
18:59a few points in bad on average remained
19:01essentially unchanged today 26 of blacks
19:04age 25 and older have a bachelor's
19:05degree compared with the national
19:06average of 36 percent
19:08the failure of Johnson's attempt to make
19:10up for the unfair historical treatment
19:11of American blacks was not an indicator
19:13of whether sufficient money had been
19:15raised for that purpose only of how
19:16effectively it was spent
19:18the villains at that time were not the
19:19taxpayers of every color who allowed
19:20themselves as well as their children and
19:22grandchildren to be put on the hook for
19:23reparations the blame properly falls on
19:25the four groups of intermediaries most
19:26involved in shaping the war on poverty
19:28the first of those groups was the
19:29politicians policymakers and bureaucrats
19:31who channeled those anti-poverty funds
19:33into a complex administrative overlay
19:35involving 100 programs which ended up
19:37benefiting themselves far more than poor
19:39black Americans
19:40feeding the horses to feed The Sparrows
19:42as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
19:43sarcastically described it at the time
19:46the second group was self-serving
19:47intermediaries consisted of all the
19:49university social sciences who prospered
19:51during the 60s and 70s by producing
19:52thick reports and demonstration projects
19:54to confirm whatever their government
19:55sponsors wanted to hear
19:57as John F kogan documents in his 2017
19:59history of Federal entitlement programs
20:01the high cost of Good Intentions all the
20:03seemingly scientific studies of that
20:04time which purported to show how
20:05expanding welfare programs would make
20:07black Americans more independent or
20:08consistently wrong there was in fact
20:10precious little evidence to support the
20:11contention that social welfare services
20:13would prevent welfare dependency or help
20:15existing recipients achieve
20:16self-sufficiency
20:17the third group to siphon off America's
20:19slavery reparations or the opportunistic
20:21attorneys unintentionally empowered by
20:22the centerpiece of President Johnson's
20:24war in poverty the 1964 Economic
20:26Opportunity Act written to financially
20:28incentivize urban and rural minorities
20:30to form Community Action groups which in
20:31turn could help local welfare recipients
20:33become social sufficient self-sufficient
20:35while was soon exploited by Legal
20:37Services lawyers and related
20:38professionals to do the very opposite
20:39sue the government for even more
20:41dependency creating benefits
20:43and this is why you saw a bunch of sort
20:45of community activist organizations that
20:47were rent seeking from local state and
20:48federal governments
20:50all of this created the new non-profits
20:53of the mercy be fourth self-serving
20:54intermediary and local public employee
20:56unions which especially in blue States
20:57could influence how much the legislature
20:59annually donated to various Charities
21:00the result was that policies like school
21:02choice extremely popular with black
21:04families were rarely endorsed by any
21:06state-funded or reunion subsidized group
21:07supposedly set up to look out for blacks
21:10at the same time civil rights groups
21:11were expected to back Union efforts to
21:13keep Washington's war on poverty money
21:14flowing through local welfare
21:15bureaucracies regardless of any negative
21:17effects
21:19all of this happens to be the case but
21:21we're supposed to pretend that none of
21:22it is the case and then if we just shout
21:24about the injustices of life and then
21:26throw a fire hose of money at it is
21:27going to solve all the problems and that
21:29of course is not even remotely true
21:32it also is a great evil to call on
21:36people who have not sinned to pay people
21:39who have not been sinned against by
21:40those people
21:42and it also involves violations of
21:44Liberty
21:45in pursuit of of
21:48redressing problems and in pursuit of
21:50Utopia to be built thereupon there are a
21:53lot of people who are willing to run
21:54directly over individual rights this
21:55includes of course representative Sheila
21:57Jackson Lee
21:58of Texas who yesterday introduced a
22:00house bill criminalizing quote
22:01conspiracy to commit white supremacy
22:03which would include criticism of
22:04non-white people which influences an
22:06individual to commit a hate crime now
22:08all that may sound well and good it does
22:10run directly foul of the First Amendment
22:13white supremacy is not a crime it's an
22:16evil it is not a crime there's a
22:17difference between an evil and a crime
22:20and if we are now in the business of
22:21eviscerating
22:22particular viewpoints by the federal
22:24government to the tune of criminalizing
22:26those viewpoints that is a far remove
22:28from the founding promise of the country
22:30and carries its own dangers
22:32because the people who are in the
22:33political ascendancy today may not be in
22:34the political ascendancy tomorrow
22:37they're also victims to this whole new
22:38attempt at racial reparations those
22:40victims obviously have been have been
22:43largely centralized at this point in the
22:46Asian Community when it comes to
22:47colleges which is why you see an active
22:49discrimination against Asian Americans
22:50in our colleges and universities
22:53very interesting story from the Wall
22:55Street Journal about all of that today
22:56quote before The Supreme Court renders
22:58its decision on harvards and the
22:59University of North Carolina's use of
23:00race preferences and Emissions the
23:02justices might take a glance across the
23:03Potomac
23:04Northern Virginia today offers a
23:06snapshot of how affirmative action
23:07intended as benevolent effort to prevent
23:08discrimination has hardened into an ugly
23:10war on achievement
23:11the latest fuss was kicked off before
23:13Christmas when asra nomani an india-born
23:16mom and reporter wrote a piece for the
23:17Manhattan Institute City Journal
23:18detailing how her son's Virginia High
23:20School never informed him he'd actually
23:21been recognized by the National Merit
23:23Scholarship program
23:24other students at Thomas Jefferson High
23:26School for Science and Technology known
23:28as TJ and regularly ranked America's
23:29number one high school said they have
23:30the same experience so Virginia attorney
23:32general Jason mayares launched a civil
23:35rights investigation on January 4th Days
23:36Later principles at two more Fairfax
23:38County High School's Westfield and
23:39Langley admitted They too had failed to
23:41inform student Award winners
23:43mayarsen expanded his investigations
23:44while Fairfax County no sooner had he
23:47done so than neighboring Loudoun County
23:48reported that three of its high schools
23:50had delayed at notifying its students
23:51officials insisted it wasn't intentional
23:53on Friday for more Fairfax High Schools
23:55Fest up followed by another on Monday
23:58telling kids that they actually were
24:00finalists or semifinalists that stuff
24:01goes on your college resume
24:04given that the program leaves
24:05notifications to the individual schools
24:06it's possible this was bureaucratic
24:08failure but the context offers a less
24:10generous reading public education in
24:12Fairfax County has become the front line
24:13for an equity agenda that has hardened
24:15into a war on Achievers who are
24:16disproportionately Asian American says
24:18Economist for the Wall Street Journal
24:20as the federal judge pointed out in 2022
24:22in a case contesting TJ's new admissions
24:24policy the Fairfax County School Board
24:26eliminated the merit-based entrance
24:27exams make room for African-American and
24:29Hispanic students by reducing the number
24:31of Asian Americans in that sense it
24:32quote unquote worked the class admitted
24:34before the change was 73 Asian three
24:36percent Hispanic one percent
24:37African-American after the change the
24:39figures went to 54 Asian 11 Hispanic
24:42seven percent black the share of white
24:44students grew actually from 17 to 22
24:46percent
24:49what makes Asian American achievement so
24:50resented by our Equity Warriors is that
24:52it exposes as false the narrative about
24:54an irredeemably racist America where
24:55minorities cannot succeed it's
24:57Progressive disdain for Asian Americans
24:58is Amplified by a resentment of moms and
25:00dads who believe they should have a say
25:01in their kids education this happens to
25:03be exactly correct as William mcgrun
25:05writes over at the Wall Street Journal
25:07and this is extending into the way that
25:09our kids are taught
25:11the the attempt to use the educational
25:13system to cram down this perverse view
25:15of American Life in which America is
25:17deeply evil
25:18and the only way to fix that evil is by
25:20racial discrimination it has entered our
25:23classrooms it is being crammed down on
25:24students you have to
25:27Target the youngest members of the
25:28American community and then indoctrinate
25:30them in the idea of intergenerational
25:32racial guilt
25:34and the necessity of violation of
25:36anti-discrimination law
25:39and this is why for example the National
25:41Education Association teachers union has
25:42now created a race-based trauma learning
25:44course according to Fox News the Nea
25:47which is a major labor union in the
25:49educational sphere there are two big
25:51ones the Nea and the American Federation
25:52of teachers led by the X scribble Randy
25:54Weingarten has announced a race-based
25:56trauma Blended learning course the
25:57course will quote explore race-based
25:59trauma its causes and effects and offers
26:01research-based tools to address it
26:02according to the neh Twitter our
26:04students are shouldering the
26:05accumulation of inherited racial trauma
26:07such as implicit bias or racism and can
26:09affect young people's ability to learn
26:10make responsible decisions or maintain
26:12healthy relationships as the Nea it is
26:14imperative to recognize the effects of
26:16racial trauma in order to restore equity
26:18and well-being and that word Equity
26:19again you're not responsible for your
26:20own decisions it must be
26:21intergenerational racial trauma that has
26:23caused you to make a bad decision that
26:25wrecks your life today
26:27the Nea of course has a long history of
26:29involvement in racial and sexual issues
26:30with the organization hosting an annual
26:32conference on racial and social justice
26:34again these are is one of the two big
26:36teachers unions in the United States the
26:37AFT is just as far to the left
26:40Nea experts are frequent speakers at
26:42South by Southwest which include
26:43seminars like why porn literacy belongs
26:45in sex education without Roe impact on
26:48education and Workforce and white
26:49supremacy and anti-Semitism on campus
26:52you can see the impact of all this in
26:54the classroom itself
26:56Libs of tick tock which
26:58hi reject runs that that account does an
27:00excellent job of exposing the woke
27:02indoctrination in our Public Schools
27:04yesterday she uh posted a video of one
27:06teacher bragging about fostering
27:08political unrest in her classroom
27:10today I would like to talk about how I
27:12am the political unrest that Cedar City
27:15needs so besides the fact that I dyed my
27:18hair purple last night and I have two
27:19visible tattoos I wrote my pronouns as
27:22shiani up on the board I was teaching
27:2410th grade and I told the stomach
27:27classes and it wasn't until the last
27:28period where someone was like what's the
27:30second pronoun and so I explained I was
27:32like I do she any pronouns I do go by
27:35any pronouns she he they anything but I
27:39am totally okay with you just referring
27:41to me as she
27:44but but this is fostering of course the
27:46most important thing political unrest in
27:47classrooms you have teachers Across the
27:49Nation work for the Nea and the AFT or
27:52teaching this crap to children
27:54and creating a whole new generation of
27:56intergenerational trauma while
27:58purporting to alleviate
27:59intergenerational trauma there's also
28:01how you end up with Maryland classroom
28:02that looks like this there's a Libs of
28:04tick tock a tweet sent to me by a parent
28:06a classroom in their kids school in
28:07Maryland homeschool your kids and what
28:10is there while blocking Windows a giant
28:11black lives matter flag as well as a
28:13pride progress flag hanging from the
28:16hanging from the wall when it comes to
28:18your kids education so I saw a lot of
28:20responses from people on the right to
28:21this sort of stuff
28:22and the the right seems to think or at
28:25least many members of the right seem to
28:26think that the best analogy is if you
28:29put a cross or the Ten Commandments in a
28:30classroom right the idea being well you
28:32know it's a value neutral space right
28:35all you members on the left you should
28:36at least acknowledge that this is the
28:38equivalent of you pushing your brand of
28:40religion and religion is banned in the
28:41classroom we're not allowed to pray in a
28:43classroom we're not allowed to have the
28:44Ten Commandments in a classroom and thus
28:46you you should acknowledge that that
28:48your flags your black lives matter
28:50propaganda flag and your pride progress
28:52propaganda they don't belong in the
28:53classroom there's only one problem with
28:55this someone is going to win when it
28:56comes to teaching values in the
28:57classroom and someone is going to lose
28:58the notion of value neutrality in public
29:01schools is nonsense it has been nonsense
29:02for a very long time there is no value
29:04neutrality in America's Public School
29:06classrooms there just isn't
29:09what did it worse out but the Nea and
29:11the AFT make sure that is not in fact
29:12the case
29:13which means that if you wish to actually
29:16have your kids taught good values you
29:18need to get active at the school board
29:19level the case that you should be making
29:21against the black lives matter flag and
29:22the pride progress flag in the classroom
29:24is not that they are the equivalent of
29:25the Ten Commandments in the cross
29:26because frankly they are not
29:28they're not
29:29by the way even if you put a cross in
29:31the classroom that is different from the
29:32Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments is
29:34in fact interdenominational
29:36Jews Muslims and Christians all take
29:38very seriously The Ten Commandments that
29:40are the predicate for all moral systems
29:42of government in the west so that this
29:45notion that the Ten Commandments is
29:46somehow an indoctrination into the
29:49religious precepts of Christianity or an
29:50attempt to force you to to Worship in
29:52the classroom is obviously a lie but
29:55the the moral distinction is the one
29:57that matters and people who are
29:59conservative should stop trying to aim
30:01for the value neutral space when it
30:02comes to the classroom instead they
30:03should be as parents protecting the
30:05values that they wish to see their kids
30:07learn if value neutrality is the best
30:09that we can come to if the left will
30:11agree to value neutrality fine and good
30:13but guess what it ain't gonna happen
30:15the left purports that secular religious
30:17practice
30:18is superior that's why they are doing it
30:20they're not doing it because they
30:21believe that secularism is the is the
30:24way of the world and that religion is
30:25false or any of that what they believe
30:26is that they are doing an active good
30:28they're doing an act of Good by
30:30promulgating their point of view the
30:31right needs to start arguing that their
30:33point of view is good because the
30:34response to Black lives matter flags and
30:37pride progress Flags in the classroom is
30:39not no Flags in the classroom it is in
30:41fact the Ten Commandments no idolatry
30:43idolatry is bad
30:45no tribal sectarianism it's bad
30:48no notion of sexual identity as the core
30:51of human living it's bad it's not
30:53something you should be taught to kids
30:55parents had better get aggressive on
30:57this or they are going to lose certainly
30:59the left has been aggressive on this and
31:00how aggressively it is left to use our
31:02Public Schools so Lori Lightfoot The the
31:04awful mayor of Chicago she apparently
31:06attempted to recruit Chicago public
31:08school students to help with her own
31:09re-election she offered them extra
31:10credit
31:12so she was asked about this the other
31:13day like how is it that you are able to
31:15go into public schools and offer extra
31:17credit to students for working for your
31:18campaign
31:19it's just amazing amazing stuff here's
31:21Lori Lightfoot The Terrible mayor of
31:22Chicago
31:24mayor Lightfoot I got to get you on one
31:26controversial thing before we let you go
31:28your campaign uh re-election campaign is
31:31under investigation after being accused
31:33of trying to recruit Chicago public
31:35school students to help you get
31:37reelected what's your response to this
31:39story The out of NBC News look in our Z
31:42in our Zeal to make sure that young
31:44people had an opportunity to participate
31:46in air flocking to our campaign uh one
31:49of our staffers reached out through
31:52publicly available information to CPS
31:54teachers and our city colleges and that
31:56was just simply a mistake
31:59oh oops it was just a oopsie it says
32:01it's not an oopsie Anya in the AFT they
32:04work with politicians like Lori
32:05Lightfoot is all part of a giant machine
32:07the Nea and the AFT get paid by
32:09politicians like Lori Lightfoot and they
32:12get funded by politicians like Lori
32:13Lightfoot and then they all use that
32:15power to indoctrinate your kids
32:17which is why as Lancey zumie writes over
32:19the New York Post the critical race
32:20Theory debate is turning parents into
32:21unlikely activists
32:23quote a multi-disciplinary education
32:25philosophy that places race at the
32:27center of American history and culture
32:28CRT is akin to racial Marxism with
32:30whites viewed as oppressors and
32:31non-whites framed as the oppressed in
32:34the great parent Revolt we profile more
32:35than a dozen parent students in
32:36Grassroots leaders who have courageously
32:38fought up and fought stood up and fought
32:39CRT one unlikely hero is gabs Clark a
32:42widowed low-income African-American
32:43mother of five children who had been
32:45living in a motel in Las Vegas her high
32:47school age son William was in a local
32:48charter school which required a course
32:50called sociology of change according to
32:52Clark a course included an assignment
32:53that asked students to list your
32:54identities you erase your gender your
32:56sexual orientation your religion William
32:58who's mixed race with blonde hair and
33:00blue eyes refused to complete the
33:01assignment and was given a failing grade
33:02for the class which kept him from
33:04graduating according to Clark because of
33:06his fair complexion the class viewed her
33:07son as a dirty filthy oppressor Clark
33:09filed a federal lawsuit charging the
33:11school violating William's First
33:12Amendment Free Speech rights 14th
33:13Amendment equal protection rights and
33:15federal anti-discrimination rights for
33:16compelling him to complete the
33:17race-based assignment the case of sins
33:19been settled out of court
33:21and this sort of stuff is going to
33:22happen more and more commonly because
33:23parents are going to stand up because if
33:25they don't they're going to lose their
33:26kids to this perverse world view which
33:29is it's not only immoral it's wildly
33:31ineffective at achieving even its stated
33:33goals
33:34now this is the sort of stuff that
33:36should theoretically make Democrats more
33:37unpopular because Democrats were not in
33:40fact punished for their radicalism since
33:422020 since the black lives matter Riots
33:44of mid-2020 they've not been punished
33:46for the sexual indoctrination of
33:47children they've not been punished for
33:49any of this right they avoided the
33:50guillotine in 2020 and then in 2020 and
33:53then
33:53may also avoided the guillotine in 2022.
33:57so that means that Joe Biden is is going
34:00strong on this he's moving harshly to
34:02his left at least in terms of his
34:04rhetoric on a wide variety of issues
34:05we'll see how he how this pays off from
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36:29meanwhile while the bubble left
36:32revivifies its radical bona fide ease in
36:35the aftermath of the 2022 election Joe
36:36Biden is no exception he was out there
36:38giving speeches yesterday on civil
36:40rights and he talked about being woke
36:42they said I'm not woke I'm just honest
36:44well no you are woke and by necessity
36:46dishonest this is him speaking
36:47apparently the National Action Network
36:49which is Al Sharpton's grift group
36:52to make Juneteenth the First new federal
36:55holiday since the establishment of Dr
36:57Keith
37:02idea if we can hold a second here the
37:04idea
37:06that we're supposed to remain silent
37:08on the on on the abuses of the past
37:12as they didn't as if they didn't occur
37:16that's not being woke that's being
37:17honest
37:19that's talking about history
37:22well folks but we have a lot of
37:24Unfinished work to do though
37:26a lot of Unfinished work
37:30oh well it's always unfinched for
37:31example it's not being woke it's being
37:33honest to suggest that we need some form
37:35of additional government interventionism
37:37more government spending more racial
37:39reparations I urge the Democrats to run
37:41on this in a time of economic turmoil
37:43we're about to see a recession breakout
37:45in the United States okay real recession
37:46breakout in the United States most
37:48economists are foreseeing that at this
37:49point earnings are way way way down at a
37:52variety of companies so I urge President
37:54Biden to run on redistribution of income
37:56and massive welfare payment and transfer
37:58payment that'll be fascinating and to
38:00say that's being honest not being woke
38:02but he wasn't stopping there for some
38:04odd reason he decided to go sort of into
38:06his Litany of giant government programs
38:08which is a strange thing to do but he
38:11didn't stop him so uh he he gave his
38:13usual shtick about how he wants to ban
38:15AR-15s and particularly how you don't
38:17need an AR-15 because he will just blow
38:19you up with an F-15 which is um not I
38:22think the like if you're encouraging me
38:24to give up my gun to resist government
38:26tyranny and your argument is I could
38:28just nuke your house you're not actively
38:31achieving what you seek to achieve with
38:33this particular argument
38:35I am going to get assault weapons banned
38:38I did it once I'm going to do it again
38:41there's no you're not social redeeming
38:44value
38:45deer aren't wearing Kevlar vests out
38:48there what the hell you need a assault
38:50no I'm serious give me if you need to
38:52work about taking on the federal
38:54government you need some f-15s you don't
38:56need an RAR 15. I'm serious think about
39:00it
39:02anyway
39:03think about how think about you don't
39:06you don't need it and I could just I
39:07could just use a MOAB mother of all box
39:10just drop it on your house and kill your
39:11children you don't need an AR-15 to
39:13defend against me I'm a nice old man
39:15who's threatening you with a nuclear
39:17Arsenal
39:19[Music]
39:20yes this is the way by the way Joe Biden
39:23um he could have tried to be on assault
39:24weapons I noticed that he had control of
39:26the Senate as well as the house about
39:28five minutes ago he did not achieve it
39:29so no he's not going to ban assault
39:31weapons in the United States not just
39:32that Joe Biden also wants more IRS
39:34agents we need more IRS agents guys I
39:36know that this is something that you're
39:37all enthusiastic about I I don't know
39:39about you I love the IRS the IRS is
39:40great and what we need is more IRS
39:42agents more combing through your old
39:44restaurant deductions and trying to
39:46figure out whether or not you cheated on
39:48your taxes to the tune of 12.99 we
39:50really have to find out whether that
39:51burger was at a business lunch or
39:52whether you're just kind of jabbing the
39:54system here is Joe Biden talking about
39:55how we need to spend hundreds of
39:57millions of dollars to hire 87 000 new
40:00IRS members many of whom it will in fact
40:01be agents despite their lies
40:04you know all these new IRS agents we
40:07have is because they fired a lot of them
40:10and a lot of retiring and guess what
40:13who needs serious agents to know what
40:16they're doing or not doing
40:18the billionaires the
40:20multi-multi-millionaires
40:23hmm yeah he keeps saying they're just
40:26going to audit the very very rich people
40:27that is not true one of the great lies
40:29the Democrats like to tell is that there
40:30are enough rich people in the United
40:31States to pay for all of the kind of
40:33programs that Joe Biden wants to pay for
40:35and the answer is that no there aren't
40:37there are not in order for you to
40:38achieve the kind of spending and the
40:40kind of utopian redistribution of
40:42schemes that the Joe Biden wants you
40:43have to have Scandinavian style tax
40:45programs the only person in American
40:47politics is actually honest about this
40:48is Bernie Sanders which is why he's a
40:50fringe old Kook from Vermont
40:52because Bernie at least has the stones
40:53to say
40:55we're going past the toxic person who
40:58makes sixty thousand dollars a year at
40:59seventy percent that's just the way it's
41:01going to go you'll have one type of
41:02bread at the stall I do need seven types
41:04of bread you don't need Rye rice Bud
41:07you'll need white bread maybe a little
41:09nope nope we do not have money for
41:11sourdough so like at least Bernie is
41:13honest but Democrats are like like Biden
41:16are just dishonest we need IRS agents
41:18that they can audit the very rich people
41:19so the very rich people can pay for
41:20these programs it's a lie it's not going
41:22to be the very rich people paying for
41:23the programs you will pay for the
41:24programs through higher inflation rates
41:26you'll pay through the pro for the
41:28programs
41:28through lower economic growth or through
41:31higher taxes right these are that's just
41:32the way that this is going to go
41:34Joe Biden then claimed that Republicans
41:36are quote unquote fiscally demented I
41:38mean if there's one person who should
41:40know dementia it's Joe Biden so I
41:41suppose this makes some sense here we go
41:43I reduced the deficit last year
41:47350 billion dollars
41:50and this year
41:52Federal deficit is down one trillion
41:56plus dollars
41:58hear me that's a fact
42:01and there's going to be hundreds of
42:02billions reduced over the next decade
42:04but so what these guys are the
42:06fiscalator you know the fiscally
42:08demented I think they don't
42:11they don't quite get it
42:14kind of like me when I and I look at my
42:18churros in the morning and I I had a few
42:20words I said one long long word it says
42:23oh
42:24every time I look at my oh
42:27so all the letters in my Cheerios spell
42:30dementia is a thing not kidding guys
42:34um just just to make clear that I'm not
42:36just making fun of Joe Biden for being
42:37old I'm also making fun of him for being
42:39um demented here is Joe Biden flubbing
42:41over and over yesterday
42:45hello hello hello
42:48no ho okay
42:54uh also he uh he forgot who he was
42:57singing happy birthday to yesterday also
42:58so it went amazing when things are going
43:00great guys
43:02well look my wife has a rule in her
43:04family
43:05when somebody's birthday sing happy
43:07birthday you ready happy birthday to you
43:12happy birthday to you happy birthday
43:19happy birthday to you
43:24happy birthday dear
43:27yeah
43:29yeah about Herman
43:33just sound stuff there from the pro but
43:35but at least he has a world beating
43:36agenda it is amazing the attempt to
43:38transform this uh daughtering old fool
43:40into one of the world's great presidents
43:41and people are actually attempting to do
43:43this they really are we will see how
43:45that works out for them it is again a
43:46bold plan hey speaking of bull plans
43:49there was an amazing clip of Sam Harris
43:52making the rounds yesterday Sam has gone
43:54off the rails in the past several years
43:55he was basically driven over the edge by
43:57the election of Donald Trump in 2016. uh
44:00and uh Sam Harris who's been a famous
44:03advocate in favor of everything from
44:05lockdowns to mask mandates with regard
44:07to vaccines and and masking regiments
44:09and all the rest
44:11um yesterday he was trying to make the
44:12case that Cove that we wouldn't have any
44:15vax skepticism if covet had been killing
44:17more kids we wouldn't have had any any
44:19vac skepticism if if we wouldn't have
44:21mask skepticism if it had been killing
44:23more kids or if the death rate were
44:24higher Oh you mean if the conditions
44:25were different we might have different
44:27viewpoints you may why why no you
44:30shocked me sir here's Sam Harris though
44:33unwilling to walk back his own positions
44:34on for example should there be Vex
44:36mandates based on the science instead
44:39creating
44:40bizarre hypotheticals in which the
44:42vaccines were in fact doing the things
44:45they promised to do
44:47if kids were dying
44:49by the hundreds of thousands from from
44:51covid at a rate of whatever it was you
44:55know one percent say
44:57um but it was pretty much all kids
45:00we we would have had a very different
45:03experience let's say the vaccines really
45:05did block transmission but then nothing
45:07else
45:08was you know all of the other mishigas
45:10about how you know untested they are and
45:12how dangerous they it might be and the
45:14spike protein and blah blah blah the the
45:17conspiracy thinking the platforming of
45:19people who were obviously unwell and
45:22unbalanced professionally and mentally
45:25around vaccines and their skepticism
45:29the patience for that would have been
45:32non-existent
45:34so in other words if in fact this
45:36disease had been something completely
45:38different and the vaccines had been
45:39something completely different than we
45:40might have treated it differently
45:42well yes that's that's sort of the point
45:44but the point now is that it's clear
45:45that the vaccines did not do what they
45:47had promised to do namely stop or slow
45:49Transmission in any serious way it is
45:51now clear and it was very clear at the
45:52very beginning that this thing was not
45:53killing kids that it was predominantly
45:55killing the very elderly which meant
45:57that you could shield and protect those
45:58people while allowing everybody else to
45:59go about their lives which was actually
46:00the preferred policy of this show and
46:02the prepared policy throughout the
46:04pandemic of people like Jay bhattacharya
46:06at Stanford University in fact there's
46:08so many people who who have to uphold
46:09the idea that they were right all along
46:11and if only you squint bizarrely through
46:14sort of a cracked glass then you come up
46:16with the proper solution which that they
46:18were right
46:19guys maybe it is that you that what you
46:22promised just did not materialize
46:23because the facts were not on your side
46:25and so your hypotheticals are of no
46:26consequence whatsoever speaking of which
46:28by the way brand new study out from the
46:30Wall Street Journal and you know what it
46:32says it says I know we weren't allowed
46:33to say this during the pandemic if
46:35you're less fat you died less often of
46:37covet I know this is shocking it is a
46:40shocking circumstance quote people who
46:42exercise regularly had lower rates of
46:44hospitalization and death from covid-19
46:45in a study published recently in the
46:47American Journal of preventive medicine
46:48regular exercise improves overall health
46:51and healthier people generally have
46:52fewer serious complications with cover
46:5319. earlier research has shown in
46:55association between exercise and better
46:57covid-19 outcomes this latest study goes
46:59a step further and suggests that even
47:00people whose age and or health
47:01conditions make them higher risk have
47:03better outcomes if they are regular
47:04exercisers you don't say you don't you
47:07mean healthier people died less often
47:09that that is that is crazy talk by the
47:11way everyone knew this
47:12my parents were both 64 when this thing
47:15broke out
47:16and my dad he felt like he wanted to
47:18drop some pounds specifically so he
47:19would not be in a higher risk group in
47:21terms of his weight so he started
47:23exercising a lot more regularly this was
47:24a smart move by my father
47:26a lot of other people should have done
47:27this Joe Rogan was encouraging this and
47:29then people laughed at him how dare you
47:30say that exercise is a cure for disease
47:32Joe never said that exercise is a cure
47:34for disease he said that exercise is a
47:36great way of preventing you from getting
47:37a serious version of the disease because
47:39your body is less vulnerable
47:41but this was considered verboten right
47:43they had to shut down all the gems
47:44because if you go to the gym you might
47:46get infected with covid as opposed to if
47:48you go to the gym you might exercise and
47:49then be less vulnerable to covid because
47:51you're not a fatso
47:52by the way it is really incredible how
47:55much of the left-wing Viewpoint with
47:57regard to health policy is predicated on
47:58ignoring the fact that America is an
48:00enormously fat country
48:01so much of our Healthcare policy is
48:03predicated on just pretending that
48:04America is not fat and that we don't
48:06have horrible eating habits we are fat
48:07we have horrible eating habits here in
48:09the United States
48:10so for example the entire push for
48:12nationalized Health Care along the lines
48:14of Finland or Sweden or Norway you want
48:17to know one reason why they have better
48:19health outcomes over there it's because
48:20they aren't as fat as we are 40 percent
48:23of America is at least in the seriously
48:25overweight to obese category
48:28that is why people are dying at
48:29outside's rates in the United States if
48:30you go into young healthy communities so
48:33you're comparing Apples to Apples with
48:34other countries that have better health
48:35outcomes what you'll find is that
48:37America actually has excellent Health
48:38outcomes in other words swedes in the
48:39United States are very healthy in fact
48:42they probably have just as high lifetime
48:44expectations
48:45maybe higher than they would in Sweden
48:48you cannot compare populations without
48:50recommend without recognizing that the
48:51populations may be different in their
48:53health habits maybe different in their
48:54genetics
48:55it is a simple fact that there are
48:58certain diseases that attack certain
49:00populations at a differential rate
49:02so not comparing Apples to Apples is a
49:05huge mistake with all of this but again
49:07so much of our public policy is rooted
49:09in the idea that if you notice
49:10differences between people this is in
49:13and of itself racist inequitable
49:15problematic
49:16and that makes for a horrible public
49:18policy whether you're talking about
49:19health rate about slavery reparations
49:20whether you're talking about any of this
49:21stuff
49:22the difference is in people's habits the
49:24differences in what people do the
49:25differences in the choices people make
49:26those are the predominant factors in how
49:28their life goes and attempting to cure
49:30all that with broad public policy
49:32mandates redistributionist measures it
49:34is bound to fail alrighty guys the rest
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49:38going to want to miss it we are going to
49:40get to disaster breaking out in terms of
49:42the Chinese economy their population is
49:44actively declining at this point is that
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