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Your Experts Are Self-Serving Idiots | Ep. 1273

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	Our journalism-ing experts blew it yet again on a major story targeting President Trump.
	Dr. Anthony Fauci declares that attacks on him are attacks on science!
	And even the White House is now disappointed.
	I'm Kamal Harris.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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	So, another day, another media narrative that has completely imploded about President Trump.
	So, what are we up to now?
	We've had the entire four-year-long saga of how Trump was a Russian cat's paw, and that turned out to be absolute nonsense.
	And we've had President Trump as the scourge of all Living human beings all over the planet for a variety of reasons.
	Usually those stories fall apart.
	We've had a bunch of substories along these lines.
	Okay, here's the latest.
	The latest is the media completely blew it on one of the biggest talking points the Democrats used in 2020.
	That talking point, because they wanted to distract from the BLM riots, was that Donald Trump had cleared a bunch of protesters, peaceful protesters, in Lafayette Park in order so that he could have a photo op in front of a burnt out church.
	Okay, now that talking point was always pretty dubious because the park police themselves had said at the time, guys, we were clearing the park because people were getting violent at the time.
	That didn't stop folks from tweeting out about the evils of President Trump clearing the park.
	So we have like a bunch of tweets from all these people who push this false narrative.
	For example, NPR Politics tweeted out that day, this is June 1st, 2020, police in Washington, D.C.
	used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear them away from St.
	John's Church, which suffered a small fire Sunday night near the White House.
	President Trump then walked to the church for a photo op.
	This was the way the media covered it.
	Joe Biden, who was then running for office, he wasn't president of the United States yet, he tweeted out, he's using the American military against the American people.
	He tear-gassed peaceful protesters and fired rubber bullets for a photo.
	For our children, for the very soul of our country.
	We must defeat him, but I mean it when I say this, we can only do it together.
	That was Joe Biden back in June 2020.
	Kamala Harris, your current vice president, then candidate.
	She said, Donald Trump just tear-gassed peaceful protesters for a photo op.
	She did that on the basis of a headline from Huffington Post that said, as the president spoke, police deployed tear gas and flashbangs against protesters outside the White House demanding justice for George Floyd.
	Daniel Dale, the official CNN fact checker.
	So many facts checked by Daniel Dale.
	His entire job was just to Firehose.
	A bunch of things that Donald Trump had said wrong.
	Now his job is to downplay anything the Democrats say that is wrong.
	Sort of tut-tut them.
	Well, back then, he tweeted out, this is February of 2021 actually, he tweeted out, Van Der Veen falsely claims the clearing of Lafayette Square last June happened to establish an appropriate security perimeter from a riotous mob.
	No, they cleared peaceful protesters out of the way for a Trump photo op.
	The narrative that Van Der Veen is mocking is correct.
	That was testimony.
	That was being made about what happened.
	So Daniel Dale, the official CNN fact checker, getting it completely wrong, because here is the actual story.
	There was an inspector general, the inspector general for the Interior Department, and here is what they found, according to the Washington Post.
	When the U.S.
	Park Police led law enforcement officers into a crowd of mostly peaceful protesters outside Lafayette Square on June 1st, 2020, including officers equipped with chemical irritants and officers on horseback, they did so as part of a plan made days earlier to build a fence around the park to protect officers.
	Not to facilitate the visit minutes later by President Trump to a nearby church, an Inspector General's report released Wednesday concluded.
	The report also found that D.C.
	police officers fired tear gas at protesters as they moved away from the park toward 17th Street.
	The park police did not deploy tear gas on June 1st, but did on previous days, and Bureau of Prisons officers fired pepper spray munitions from the park without provocation during the clearing.
	Investigators also found that the audio warnings issued by the park police before the operation were not widely heard by the crowd and mostly ineffective.
	The report by the Interior Department's Inspector General focuses on the Park Police and does not fully address questions about the involvement of other agencies or the Trump administration in the events of June 1st.
	Interior officials said they may not have heard all of the discussions that went on about the operation within the Secret Service or the White House, but that those discussions did not affect how and when the Park Police acted.
	The investigators did not interview Secret Service or White House personnel.
	The report found that preparations to clear the protesters and erect a fence began two days before the park clearing.
	Two days!
	But the idea may have gained greater urgency on the morning of June 1st.
	Okay, now they're just speculating.
	The Washington Post has previously reported Trump was furious at reporting that revealed he had been taken to an emergency bunker on the first night of protests.
	The group agreed to park police and supporting teams of law enforcement officers would extend the perimeter and gradually push protesters further away from the White House and St.
	John's Church, which had been vandalized the previous night.
	By midday, Trump was working with close confidence on a plan to project his control over the city by walking across Lafayette Square.
	But this had nothing to do with what the Park Police were doing.
	The Park Police had been planning for days to already clear Lafayette Square.
	Park Police officials, including then Acting Chief Gregory Monahan and an unidentified incident commander, told Inspector General investigators they learned around mid to late afternoon of the President's unscheduled movement to Lafayette Park.
	Both Park Police officials reported they were not told a specific time for the President's potential arrival and that learning this information did not change their operational timeline, which was to push protesters back as soon as National Guard officers and the fencing arrived Both of which occurred after 5 p.m.
	Monaghan told investigators, quote, I can tell you with 100% certainty, the Secret Service and the Park Police timeline did not change the entire day.
	So the entire media and the Democratic Party ran with the lie that Donald Trump forcibly cleared Lafayette Park in order so that he could have this photo op, that that's what this is about.
	Instead, Park Police cleared it because they'd been planning to for days.
	And as it turns out, by the way, there were a bunch of officers who had been injured in Lafayette Park over the prior couple of days.
	There were a bunch of officers who had... There were 49 officer injuries.
	Around Lafayette Park, through May 31st, between May 25th and May 31st, 49 officer injuries because park police were, according to the report, being pelted with water bottles, rocks, and fireworks.
	But wait, we were told these were peaceful protesters, just people who were out there chanting for justice.
	And they were cleared because Donald Trump, evil Donald Trump, wanted to walk out and hold up a Bible at St.
	John's Church.
	Nobody could explain how these peaceful protesters had burned a church five minutes beforehand.
	But the entire narrative was never very good.
	And then the media just played it to the hilt.
	This was part of campaign commercials for the Democrats.
	This was Joe Biden talking about it openly on the campaign trail.
	It was Kamala Harris lying about it on the campaign trail.
	And again, the media just ran with this thing.
	They ran with it because it was beneficial to their narrative, which is that Donald Trump was a fascist.
	The narrative was not going to be good for them if it turned out that they had been fostering and backing and supporting rioters who had injured 49 police officers or had contributed 49 injuries to police officers and then made excuses for those people and blamed Trump.
	That would have been a worse narrative.
	So instead, it was Donald Trump, evil Nazi fascist, clearing the park of peaceful flower power children.
	Oh, except none of that was true.
	Except that wasn't true.
	And when Meet the Press acknowledged that yesterday, it was very, very awkward.
	Here was the, here was Kenzelanian over at NBC's Meet the Press having to make the awkward announcement that, yeah, we kind of blew this thing for a year.
	It doesn't second-guess the decision to clear the protesters.
	It says that the Park Police was within their rights.
	And this is controversial, Chuck.
	Black Lives Matter is suing the Justice Department and federal court over this.
	And our own Garrett Haake was there that day and reported, if you recall, that the protests were not violent at that moment until the police moved in and caused the violence.
	That was his direct, bird's-eye reporting, Chuck.
	So, this remains an issue of controversy, but the narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.
	The narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.
	Man, doesn't that sum up the entire mainstream media for the past 30 years or so?
	The narrative we thought we knew is not reality.
	Why did you think you knew that narrative?
	Hmm?
	Why didn't you?
	I mean, the park police said at the time what the inspector general's report ended up finding, which is that these two events were not connected.
	That Trump may have taken advantage of the fact the park was cleared to go do the photo op, but that they did not clear the park for the photo op.
	There's a difference.
	Okay, but the narrative we thought we knew is not reality.
	Why did you think you knew the narrative?
	Why?
	Hmm?
	Could it be that you manufactured the narrative?
	Because the narrative is exactly what you wanted to promulgate.
	And by the way, this was the constant drumbeat.
	It was the constant pattern throughout the Trump administration.
	It's the constant pattern today.
	The narratives that backed the Biden administration are the ones they want to manufacture.
	Just like the narratives that undercut the Trump administration, those were the narratives that they wanted to push as hard as they possibly could.
	Everything from Trump backs white supremacists to Trump is a Russian cat's paw.
	All those narratives.
	Our un-based-in-fact does not matter.
	They've continued to promote those narratives over and over and over again.
	Down to, by the way, the idea that Donald Trump is responsible for the riots of January 6th, as though the people who rioted didn't have agency, and ignoring the fact that he explicitly called in his speech for people to be peaceful at the Capitol.
	You could rip into Trump's rhetoric without suggesting that he is responsible for that any more than Bernie Sanders is responsible for a nutcase going and shooting up a bunch of congressional baseball players.
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	Alrighty, so, again, big narrative of last year.
	Donald Trump cleared the park of peaceful protesters because he's a fascist.
	This was, by the way, exhibit A. This was one A in the Trump is a fascist.
	Case that the left was putting out there.
	He's such a fascist that he sends his brown shirt goons to go clear a park of flower power children, and then take a militant photo op standing in front of a church holding a Bible.
	What a fascist!
	Except it wasn't true.
	The narrative we thought we knew, as Kendallanian says, turns out not to comport with the reality.
	And that is, how many times are we going to have to see this before you stop believing the media at face value?
	Before you wait 48 hours before believing whatever headline they are telling you?
	Another narrative of last year that has now been thoroughly debunked.
	Remember that time that Donald Trump kept talking about hydroxychloroquine?
	Remember that time?
	And the media went nuts.
	How dare he, this giant orange buffoon, mention hydroxychloroquine?
	Doesn't he know about ta-science?
	Doesn't he know?
	Hydroxychloroquine doesn't do anything.
	Not only that, but because Donald Trump keeps saying hydroxychloroquine, some crazy lady in Arizona fed her husband fish tank cleaner and he died.
	Now, it turns out they may have been murdered, but it doesn't matter.
	The only reason they did that is because Trump kept saying hydroxychloroquine over and over and over.
	Because hydroxychloroquine is bad.
	It's very bad.
	Okay.
	Now, new study out this week.
	According to Yahoo News, quote, a new study shows that the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine, first of all, The fact that it is titled the controversial drug, hydroxychloroquine.
	Where did the controversy begin, guys?
	Seriously, where did it begin?
	It began with you guys declaring that if Trump said anything, it had to be false.
	If Trump said Wuhan lab leak, it had to be false and it was a conspiracy theory.
	If Trump said hydroxychloroquine is effective, many doctors have said that it is effective, many doctors are prescribing it, Then it must be that it's false.
	Now, by the way, we all knew doctors were prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
	I know people who got COVID, and within the first couple of days, they got a hold of hydroxychloroquine, they took it with azithromycin and zinc, and it did help their symptoms.
	Well, now a new study is backing this.
	Okay, there were studies both ways for about a year, and now it turns out a new study suggests actually a pretty significant effect with regard to hydroxychloroquine when you take it with the Z-Pak.
	The observational study published by MedRxiv found that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine along with zinc, right, this is what, so many of these studies were like, if you just take hydroxychloroquine alone, then it won't do anything.
	Yes, nobody said it was going to do anything.
	Everyone knew that the only studies that mattered were going to be about hydroxychloroquine, which is an immunosuppressant, and zinc, okay, along with zinc, azithromycin.
	The observational study found that hydroxychloroquine along with zinc could increase the coronavirus survival rate by as much as nearly 200% if distributed at higher doses to ventilated patients with a severe version of the illness.
	The study's conclusion says, we found that when the cumulative doses of two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin zinc, were above a certain level, patients had a survival rate 2.9 times the other patients.
	The study adds, by using causal analysis and considering of weight-adjusted cumulative dose, we provide that combined therapy greatly increases survival in COVID patients and that the hydroxychloroquine cumulative dose of more than 80 mg per kg works substantially better.
	These data do not yet apply to hospitalized patients, not on IMB.
	The study was conducted by St.
	Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey on 255 patients.
	Now remember, if you mentioned hydroxychloroquine and you said that it was good, you would actually get kicked off of YouTube.
	If you said hydroxychloroquine is effective, you would get booted from Facebook and YouTube and Twitter, and they would call you a nut.
	Why?
	Because the narrative we thought we knew is not the fact.
	Just the same way that the Wuhan lab leak, if you mention that, you get booted off YouTube.
	If you did not simply repeat the experts, you'd get booted.
	Don't trust people who declare themselves experts without showing you their work.
	If they don't show you their work, they are not true experts.
	If they can't tell you how they achieved a conclusion, you don't have to believe their conclusion.
	That is the trust but verify, but nobody adds but verify, as we'll see in just one moment.
	Because we have now entered a world, and this is true really since the beginning of the 20th century, when the great intelligentsia of the West decided that the rest of the world, and particularly people in their own societies, were a bunch of rubes, hicks, and morons, and that the experts had to run everything.
	Bureaucracies in the government had to run everybody's life.
	We needed experts at all the major universities who were going to run things top-down.
	It was going to be true in every institution.
	The experts were going to run things.
	In science, it wasn't going to be the process of science that was important.
	It was going to be to science, meaning scientists personally.
	In journalism, it wasn't the process of journalism that mattered.
	It was who was deemed a journalist.
	This is why there's a big fight going on right now about whether people like James O'Keefe are journalists or whether Outlets like Daily Wire are journalistic.
	And the answer is, if we are performing acts of journalism, then we have acted as a journalist on that day.
	Certainly better than NBC did for a year on this particular story.
	You know, science... Most people tend to think of other people's jobs in terms of, like, titles.
	But the reality is that what makes you a doctor is acts of doctoring.
	Okay?
	And what makes you a scientist is acts of science.
	And what makes you a journalist is acts of journalism.
	And so we should be able to assume that the only things of value in those particular professions are when you are performing the acts associated with the title.
	If you are not, your title does not mean anything.
	So, if you declare yourself a journalist, but then you're Jim Acosta, you're not a journalist.
	Unless you're performing an act of journalism, you're not a journalist, you're just an opinion giver.
	If you want to be more accurate, you can call yourself an opinion journalist, that's fine, because sometimes you do opinion and sometimes you do journalism.
	But to pretend that journalism is a title, that is, a crown set upon you by heaven, and that from now on, anything you say will be deemed true, whereas this guy over here, he's not a journalist because he doesn't do the same things that I do.
	That's silliness.
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	Okay, so meanwhile, you have, as I say, these people who have declared themselves the experts.
	And yes, they have all the titles, they have all of the proper credentialing, but the credentialing does not matter as much as what you do with the credentialing.
	If you got a degree from Harvard Medical School, but in your off hours, you're performing Dr. Kevorkian activities, you're no longer acting as a doctor, and you don't deserve the title.
	If you're a journalist, and in your off hours, or in your on hours, you're just pushing propaganda, you're a propagandist, you're not a journalist.
	And this is why it is so insulting to watch people conflate processes with job descriptions.
	Processes with titles.
	So, again, journalists hide behind the... CNN is very... CNN, that's a bunch of journalists.
	What they say can be trusted.
	Or, you could examine whether what they are doing is journalism.
	This is why I distinguish journalism from journalism-ing.
	Right?
	My cynical take on journalism-ing.
	Okay, same thing is true in science.
	Science is a process.
	It is a process whereby you establish a hypothesis, and then that hypothesis is verifiable and testable, and you determine whether the reality comports or conflicts with that particular hypothesis.
	You see whether the null hypothesis would come up with the same result.
	It's an actual process, just like journalism is a process.
	Just like anything you do in life is a process, okay?
	And that's why we judge people based on their actions, typically, and not based on their title.
	Your title is not supposed to be a shield, it is not supposed to be a spear, it is supposed to be a description.
	And yet, Anthony Fauci is now using his title as a sort of shield against his own incompetence.
	See, Anthony Fauci has been a terrible public servant.
	He has conflicted with himself, Over and over and over again.
	He has lied to the American public and then bragged about lying to the American public, whether it is on masking or whether it is on vaccinations and their efficacy.
	He has changed his standards with regard to the signs over and over and over again.
	His emails show that he was warned of the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak very early on.
	He not only ignored it, he actively downplayed it.
	He was emailing people talking about the inefficacy of masks, and then he shifted his mind, not based on shifting science, which he never really explained.
	He always says, oh, the science shifted.
	Did it, though?
	Show me the evidence that the science shifted.
	Like, what actually shifted?
	You can say he got it wrong.
	That's okay.
	But don't give me the science shifted when there's not real evidence that the science shifted.
	In any case, Dr. Fauci has really, he has drunk from the well, he's now drunk off the well, I would say, of the titling and credentialism that has taken over our society.
	And you, the commenter, you're supposed to just ignore your own common sense and basic judgment and your ability to interpret fact in favor of the experts.
	The experts are supposed to tell you what to do.
	And Dr. Anthony Fauci is an expert, and so he is insulted if you ask questions about him.
	He is insulted if you ask him basic questions like, why did you change your mind on every major topic over the course of the last year, from school reopenings to masking to vaccinations?
	Why?
	Here is Dr. Anthony Fauci pulling the full... It's rare you get the full Emperor Palpatine, right?
	It's pretty rare, seriously.
	Like in public life where you get the, I am the Senate!
	It's pretty rare, but here you fully get the Emperor Palpatine, right?
	You get, Anthony Fauci, I am the science!
	Okay, here we go.
	Declaring himself science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors outside of Dr. Joe Biden.
	A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.
	Because all of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science.
	Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people.
	And there was pushback against me.
	So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science.
	Um, nope.
	Nope.
	Uh, guys, don't attack me.
	I am the science.
	It's what?
	Okay, the utter dishonesty, the utter arrogance, tremendous arrogance of the supposed public servants declaring himself the science is insane.
	You can name off the top of your head half a dozen instances where he just lied, and admitted to lying, and where he was not representing the science.
	Again, if he didn't show his work, you didn't have to trust what he was saying.
	It's that simple.
	Science is supposed to be the most transparent of all fields.
	You're supposed to be able to understand, if you dedicate enough time to an argument, why people are making the arguments they're making.
	But Dr. Anthony Fauci literally, I mean, he's literally saying it.
	If you criticize him, you're criticizing science.
	And this is the mentality of people who believe they should run your life.
	This is the mentality of people who believe they should run every aspect of your life.
	They know better than you.
	You should trust them.
	They're the experts.
	In just one second, we'll talk a little bit more about this because it really is indicative of how perverse this authoritarian view of the world is.
	We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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	Okay, so again, I cannot express how perverse it is that Dr. Anthony Fauci is now conflating himself, his own title, with the science.
	It's insane.
	It's insane!
	And it is perversely authoritarian when somebody says, you cannot criticize me because you are then criticizing my title, and my title is the science.
	Who made him king?
	Seriously, who died and made Anthony Fauci king of science?
	I don't understand how this works.
	He could not even answer basic questions about why he was masking after being vaccinated.
	He couldn't answer those questions.
	He could not answer basic questions about whether the United States had passed through funding via EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan lab, which was performing gain-of-function research.
	He switched his opinion, by the way, on the lab leak theory as to whether it was important to check out or not.
	He lied openly and then bragged about it with regard to masking, and yet he is the science.
	These people do not deserve one iota of your trust.
	Not one.
	They need to prove it to you.
	Trust is earned.
	Trust does not come along with the title.
	Okay, the title just means you spent time in school.
	Well, congratu-freaking-lations.
	That does not mean that you are going to be transparent or honest.
	And we're willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
	I gave Anthony Fauci the benefit of the doubt for months.
	And then I didn't anymore because he had not earned it.
	He had lost the benefit of the doubt.
	But the media, again, you're experts.
	The people you're supposed to trust, because here's the thing.
	When you live in a complex society with a lot of interlocking parts, there has to be a certain level of baseline trust in other people in order for you to function in your daily life, right?
	You've got to get your car fixed.
	That means you've got to trust your mechanic.
	You've got to go to the grocery store.
	You didn't pick that food yourself.
	You've got to trust the farmers.
	You've got to trust the people who brought the food to the store.
	You have to trust the people who are charging you for the food, that they didn't poison it.
	There's all sorts of people you've got to trust in the chain.
	But the reason that you end up trusting people in a market system is because of repeatability.
	Okay, the reason that markets tend to generate, seriously, property rights and markets tend to generate higher levels of trust in society.
	Why?
	Because you have repeat transactions with people over and over.
	The reason you can trust the grocery store is because all your friends went there and they didn't die.
	And you can go there over and over and over again.
	Okay, well, all of us went to the Dr. Fauci store for a year, and it turns out that he was not being honest.
	And now he's declaring that based on his title, we are supposed to trust him.
	Not based on the repeatability of the trust relationship.
	Okay, the same thing is true with regard to the journalism experts among us.
	They declare themselves the experts because they went to NYU School of Journalism.
	Ooh, ah!
	Or because they work at CNN, the most trusted name in news.
	According to whom?
	And then they say, well, you know what?
	If you don't trust us, it's because you deny the power of journalism.
	If Donald Trump declared you guys the fake news because it turns out that half the time what you guys do is just express your own opinion and push narratives that are false, well, then he must be conflicting with journalism as an institution, with the free press as an institution.
	This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how human action works.
	You ought to be trusted when you are trustworthy, and you earn trust with repeated acts of honesty.
	You do not gain trust by dint of being an expert.
	There's been a great mix-up in our society that if you have a semi-high IQ, you ought to be trusted because you know things or because you are smart.
	I don't trust you guys to run a popsicle stand.
	I don't care what your IQ is.
	If you can't prove to me you can run a popsicle stand, you don't deserve to run the damn popsicle stand.
	But all of democratic governance is rooted in this idea that because these people are smarter and wiser than you on a personal level, they know your business better than you.
	This is true in everything from economics to science.
	You should trust Anthony Fauci, even if he's lying to you because he knows what's best for you.
	And therefore, he can tell you platonic lies.
	You should trust Joe Biden with your money, even though he's a dundering old fool.
	You should trust Joe Biden with your money.
	Why?
	Well, because he's probably smarter than you.
	I mean, after all, he was elected president of the United States.
	He's an expert.
	Stop trusting people who declare themselves experts.
	They don't know more about your own life than you do.
	They don't.
	Which is why you should be assessing risk in your own life.
	And you should be assessing who is trustworthy in these fields.
	You have a brain.
	Use it.
	I'm not suggesting that you don't trust people who have earned your trust.
	I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't give people the benefit of the doubt who originally have the titles because they do know more than you with regard to science.
	But once they have proved over and over again they're not trustworthy, they don't get to call on their title to support the lies that they tell you.
	It really is quite gross.
	By the way, Dr. Anthony Fauci, at the same time he's telling you that attacking him is attacking the science, he continues to downplay the Chinese lab leak theory.
	Like today, he continues to do it.
	Why would the Chinese want to make a virus that equally kills them as kills other people?
	So that's the reason why when you talk about that's really way out there and like off the wall, you know, off the chart.
	The other one is, were they there working with something in which they made somehow manipulating the virus and then it leaked out?
	Certainly that's a possibility.
	Nothing that we've seen Okay, nothing that we've seen support except for, you know, some of the actual science and the fact that there are only three sites on earth where they manipulate bat coronaviruses and one of them is in Wuhan.
	So yeah, there are a few indicators there, but I love how he's setting up this straw man that the Chinese purposely weaponized the virus then released it.
	That's not an argument to be made by virtually anybody with any sort of credibility.
	Okay, but again, once people declare themselves experts on things, you're supposed to listen to them even if what they are spewing is absolute horse manure.
	Even if what they are spewing is the flatulence that comes from the asses of cows, you're supposed to believe them.
	So long as it is given the imprimatur of science.
	They use the titles as a cudgel.
	That is what they do.
	This is why, for example, you have an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association titled, On Having Whiteness, by Donald Moss.
	Now, you may be asking yourself, what the hell does this have to do with psychoanalysis?
	Well, let Donald Moss tell you.
	Okay, here's the abstract.
	Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has.
	A malignant, parasitic-like condition to which white people have a particular susceptibility.
	The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one's body, in one's mind, and in one's world.
	Parasitic whiteness renders its host's appetites voracious, insatiable, perverse.
	These deformed appetites particularly target non-white people.
	Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.
	Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social historical interventions.
	Such interventions can reasonably only aim to reshape whiteness's infiltrated appetites, to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation.
	When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning, never again, or as temptation, great again.
	It's the Holocaust versus Donald Trump.
	Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression.
	There is not yet a permanent cure.
	This is in a journal of supposed psychoanalysis.
	Okay, again, this is expertise in a title being wielded as a club.
	Understand that's just outright racism.
	Okay, this is just outright racism.
	That if you are white, you suffer from a condition known as whiteness.
	It is a parasitic condition that destroys your ability to act morally or decently and makes you likely to engage in a new Holocaust.
	Okay, this is in the Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association.
	Why would you possibly take that institution seriously ever again?
	The same thing is true with regards to things like the American Medical Association.
	That's supposed to be a trustworthy body speaking about medicine, and yet they have said, in their journals, things like, you know, maybe we shouldn't put sex on birth certificates anymore, or we should put it below the top line.
	Because after all, men who declare themselves women are women.
	That is the most anti-scientific nonsense ever, but if you put it in the AMA journal, well then it must be true.
	You have Scientific American pushing this nonsense, and Science, the magazine, pushing this nonsense.
	And then in the name of science, you have people who are going to directly target your life in the name of the expertise.
	Remember, this is not rare, okay?
	This is common.
	Once people declare themselves experts with power, they're willing to use that power for just about anything.
	In the early 20th century, Euthanasia and eugenics were big topics of discussion among the intelligentsia because it wasn't going to apply to them.
	They were the intelligentsia, the experts.
	Eugenics, which was a very popular table talk topic for the vast majority of intelligent progressives in the early 20th century internationally.
	I mean, you have Oliver Wendell Holmes literally writing Supreme Court decisions.
	In which he says that we should be sterilizing people who have Down syndrome because, quote-unquote, three generations of imbeciles is enough.
	That is in a direct Supreme Court decision.
	Buck versus Bell.
	That mentality that the experts ought to run things and they know what's best for you, up to and including whether you should be able to reproduce, how you should raise your children.
	That mentality is not only alive and well, it is thriving.
	It is thriving.
	They shut down every business in America based on people with doctor in front of their name telling you stuff that was not scientific.
	They told you over and over in the media, because again, these are your expert journalists.
	They told you in the media that you were at serious risk of dying if you were 20 years old and you got COVID and it wasn't true.
	It was a lie.
	The statistics on death by COVID for people who are 20 years old were very, very, very low.
	And for people under the 18, basically non-existent.
	To date, 277 people under the age of 18 have died in the United States of COVID.
	277 in a country of 330 million people.
	And now we are told by the experts that if you are two to five years old, we should be working on getting you the vaccine.
	It's high priority.
	You have to have the vaccine for two to five years old.
	Maybe you shouldn't, maybe you shouldn't.
	But you know what I'd like?
	A great scientific argument.
	That's what I would like.
	I haven't heard one yet.
	Anytime.
	Like, seriously, bring it.
	I'm ready to hear it.
	I'm super pro-vaccination.
	But I want to know where you are getting your info.
	I want to know why are you making the arguments you are making.
	The history of people declaring themselves experts and then controlling people top-down.
	It's funny, the same secular authorities who do it now, they are just a woke priesthood.
	They are a secular priesthood.
	They started off as just an atheistic secular priesthood in the early 20th century, and now it's a secular woke priesthood, which is even worse, because now it's like a pagan priesthood.
	At least they used to pretend that they were speaking in the name of science.
	Now they've merged science with wokeness, such that you get articles that are blatant racism in the middle of scientific journals.
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	And so when people say that the experts should run your life, they're the experts after all.
	One thing you should note here is that they will run your life.
	I mean, they will come after everything you hold dear, including your kids.
	There's a great piece by Abigail Schreier in City Journal today, which is the Journal of the Manhattan Institute, about the rules in the city of Seattle.
	She writes a story about this guy named Ahmed, a Pakistani immigrant, faithful Muslim, until recently a financial consultant to Seattle's high-tech sector.
	Apparently, he, in October 2020, he and his wife had checked their 16-year-old son into Seattle's Children's Hospital for credible threats of suicide.
	And now, Ahmed was worried that the white coats who had gently admitted his son to their care would refuse to return him.
	They sent an email to us, you know, you should take your daughter to the gender clinic.
	So apparently, his kid was 16, had autism, got depressed, was suicidal, so they checked him in.
	Okay, the lockdowns hit, and this meant that he couldn't visit his son.
	So the whitecoats started talking to this 16-year-old autistic kid, and the 16-year-old autistic kid declared, a suicidal autistic kid declared, that he was gender dysphoric.
	The experts refused to release the kid to the parents, unless the parents lied and said they were going to take him to the gender clinic.
	Hey, this is what happens when you let the experts run things.
	They don't know what they purport to know, but they don't know what they don't know.
	And so they continue to promote stuff that is not science, that is just garbage.
	Apparently, Ahmed assured Seattle's Children's Hospital he would take his son to a gender clinic and commence his son's transition from male to female.
	Instead, he took his son home, quit his job, and moved his family of four out of Washington.
	A year later, it turns out that his son is not gender dysphoric.
	It was just the state coming after his kid.
	By the way, in the state of Washington, kids can start receiving gender dysphoric treatment at the age of 13 without parental consent.
	Because the experts say so.
	The experts.
	Based on nothing.
	Based on nothing.
	Why would you let these morons run your life?
	Why would you let them make all the rules?
	It's dangerous to let them make all the rules.
	And what's amazing about this is their stupidity is on display for all to see all the time.
	Kamala Harris is probably going to end up as the successor to Joe Biden.
	If Joe Biden makes it through his first term, she's going to run in 2024.
	If he doesn't make it through his first term, she'll be president of the United States.
	And she is terrible at this.
	She's an idiot.
	Kamala Harris does not know things.
	She doesn't care about things.
	Somehow she's been elevated to a position of public power where we're supposed to believe that she knows how to run things.
	And so you'll remember just a couple of days ago, she was asked about going down to the border and she started cackling like a hyena for no reason at all.
	Well, now it turns out even the CNN is even the White House is disappointed in Kamala Harris.
	Here is CNN explaining.
	Vice President Kamala Harris, back in the United States this morning after a trip to Guatemala and Mexico, her first foreign trip as vice president.
	This morning, we're told that some of what she said on the trip, her answers to questions, maybe even obvious questions, those answers have White House insiders perplexed.
	I mean, truly, it is an amazing, amazing thing.
	But that moron is going to run everything.
	Right, this is what people want.
	Apparently, people want these morons to run their... I do not understand for the life of me how you can watch Dr. Anthony Fauci's performance over the last year, or Andrew Cuomo's performance over the last year, or Phil Murphy's performance over the last year, or Gavin Newsom's performance over the last year, and say to yourself, I need these people to have more power over my life.
	I don't know how you watch the members of the media lie to you consistently and say, I definitely am gonna... I know, I know that what they're saying about my industry is untrue, because I know my industry, but probably if I switch three pages over, they probably know more about that industry.
	Or maybe they don't.
	Or maybe they don't.
	Okay, again, they're showing you every day who they are.
	They're showing you every day how incompetent they are.
	That they are not experts in anything.
	They can't even operate like basic systems.
	Evidence more today.
	Okay, the prices have now jumped 5% in May.
	Okay, remember that time when we were told that inflation would not kick in, even if you just inject trillions of dollars into the economy, and meanwhile encourage people not to stay home?
	Remember that time?
	Well, now it turns out that when you have more dollars chasing less product, you end up with inflation.
	According to Rachel Siegel over at the Washington Post, prices were up by 5% in May compared with a year ago.
	The largest increase since the Great Recession, continuing a steady climb in inflation even as policymakers insist on staying the course.
	Data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed prices rose 0.6% in the past month alone.
	Policymakers have predicted prices will rise over the coming months, especially compared to a year ago when the economy was still reeling from the pandemic shutdowns.
	Now, here is the problem.
	Inflation will continue if you continue to depress the labor market by telling people not to work.
	Now, it's possible that inflation levels off, but you're still sucking so much money out of the economy that people don't have money to invest.
	That you are redistributing from people who know how to invest and how to create products to a bunch of morons at the top of government.
	The same morons who are declaring that inflation is no problem for you as they devalue your savings.
	These are the same idiots who are going to be running the economy a year from now.
	Why would you trust him?
	I don't understand.
	Joe Biden, you trust this guy to run the world?
	Seriously?
	It's amazing.
	All the same people on the left are like, Donald Trump has too much power.
	He's an authoritarian.
	Why would you trust this bumbling idiot to run the world?
	Okay, I can ask the same question about Joe Biden, because he is a bumbling moron.
	And here is my question.
	Why would you want any of these people to run the world?
	Any of them?
	What if we don't give them power?
	How's that?
	How about that?
	How about we go back to a system where the president doesn't have unending power, where the executive branch doesn't run every aspect of your life, and then you don't have to care.
	Then you don't have to care.
	You know why people don't care about the local dog catchers race?
	Because unless you need a dog caught, you don't actually care.
	It doesn't affect your life.
	But you want to give more power to the president because you think that he is going to weaponize on behalf of your point of view.
	Instead, he's just going to accrue power in the institution, and then somebody you don't like will take over, and then we'll just have a fight about that.
	But it's amazing.
	We're supposed to trust Joe Biden.
	And the media, again, your journalism experts, they want you to trust Joe Biden.
	Article in the Washington Post today, Joe Biden is overseas.
	He's over in England.
	And now, says the Washington Post, he is such an expert.
	I mean, my goodness.
	He's so good at this.
	I love this.
	Here's how they describe Joe Biden.
	Not since George H.W.
	Bush has a president taking office with such long experience in foreign affairs, Biden came to the Senate in 1973, chaired the Foreign Relations Committee, acted as point man on various global issues when he was Barack Obama's vice president.
	At every stop in the coming week, from scenic Carbis Bay in Britain's coastal Cornwall district to Brussels in Geneva, Biden will seek to leverage his personal familiarity with fellow leaders in an effort to reestablish American engagement abroad.
	Jen Psaki said he's been getting ready for 50 years.
	Yes, but he's been wrong for 50 years.
	He hasn't been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career.
	Also, he is addled.
	Yesterday, here was Joe Biden explaining that he keeps forgetting that he is president.
	Yes, we know, sir.
	We're aware.
	And Sidney, you're 14 years old.
	When I was 14, if you please, at ease.
	I keep forgetting I'm president.
	Yeah, we know.
	We know, sir.
	Jill had to tell Joe to pay attention in the middle of his speech.
	You know, you can sit down.
	I don't want you to stand for.
	Joe, pay attention.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh my God, by the way, Joe Biden, we're now just rerunning the Woodrow Wilson administration.
	Edith is running the show, apparently.
	Because Joe Biden literally tweeted out yesterday a picture of herself sitting, I guess this is in Joe Biden's office on Air Force One, sitting and reading a briefing book, prepping for the G7.
	Who elected Jill Biden?
	Who?
	I don't understand.
	If Laura Bush had done this, people would be like, what the F?
	She's a librarian, why is she, what?
	Huh?
	If Melania had done this, people have been like, wait a second, she was a model.
	Like what are you, huh?
	Why?
	No one elected Jill Biden, but apparently Jill Biden is president of the United States now.
	Sitting there prepping for the G, what is her job at the G7?
	Seriously, is she making economic policy now?
	This genius community college professor?
	Who wrote apparently the world's greatest dissertation?
	Dr. Jill Biden, the greatest, these are the experts.
	She has the title, she's a doctor, she should run the G7, clearly.
	We didn't elect her.
	She has no background in any of this stuff, but you know what?
	It's all good.
	Probably she'll be good.
	She has a doctorate in front of her name, after all.
	I mean, that's the thing that really, really matters.
	Meanwhile, Adel Joe is out there telling the military that the greatest threat the military is going to face is global warming.
	The greatest threat.
	What are they gonna do?
	Shoot the sun?
	What are you talking about?
	Here is Joe Biden informing the military that their great job is going to be standing there When I first was elected Vice President with President Obama, the military sat us down to let us know what the greatest threats facing America were, the greatest physical threats.
	This is not a joke.
	You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was?
	Global warming.
	Because there'll be significant population movements.
	Okay, that's just- Fights over land.
	Millions of people leaving places because they're literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia.
	Okay, this nonsense is just garbage.
	Okay, the idea that you're going to have millions of people who are, in short order, going to be shifting population centers.
	People have been migrating for literally all of human history.
	As the water levels gradually rise, presumably people will migrate away from places that will be underwater.
	But it's not going to be day after tomorrow.
	And it's not going to be the U.S.
	military that's in charge of handling this.
	This is just insanity.
	When somebody declares they're an expert like Joe Biden, well, the Joint Chiefs said global warming is the big issue.
	Why?
	These people should not control your life.
	You should control your life.
	The purpose of democracy is that you control what happens.
	And granting these people more power is a betrayal of the basic notion of Republican self-governance.
	Self-governance.
	You govern yourself.
	Not the experts.
	Not Dr. Fauci.
	He was not elected.
	He is not the king.
	Not your journalism-ing masters, who are not elected.
	You don't have to watch them, and you don't have to pay attention to them, and you are certainly allowed to second-guess them.
	And not Joe Biden and not any other politician, even if you elected him.
	He was not elected to run your life.
	He was elected to protect your individual rights.
	That is the purpose of the Constitution of the United States.
	And if the American people don't understand that, then we definitely have lost the Republic a long time ago, as it turns out.
	Alrighty, a little bit later today, we'll be back for an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show coming up soon.
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