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Jan. 7, 2022 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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It’s The Democrats’ January 6 Spectacular!!! | Ep. 1407
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Democrats roll out the cast of Hamilton, the faux emotion of Kamala Harris and angry Joe Biden to remind Americans that January 6th was the inflection point for humanity.
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It was the first anniversary of January 6th.
And it was like Christmas in January for the Democrats.
They couldn't really determine whether it was supposed to be a solemn commemoration or a celebration or what exactly it was supposed to be.
They just knew it was really, really important.
And the reason it was really important is because Joe Biden's poll numbers are in the toilet.
And the only reason that Joe Biden was elected in 2020 to begin with is because there were a lot of people who did not like Donald Trump.
And so Joe Biden ran on, I'm gonna restore the soul of this country!
And people were like, okay, that sounds all right.
And then he immediately got into office and started pursuing Bernie Sanders' agenda.
And his entire popularity, which had been close to 60%, is now all the way down to 40%.
So he's trying to revive his flagging presidency by going back to January 6th and just whipping that dead horse as much as he possibly can.
And you can tell, How much the Democrats are reliant on January 6th, how much they see it as a political opportunity.
You can see that by how they treated it.
It was sort of how they treated it.
You remember there was a senator named Paul Wellstone from Minnesota.
This is, I don't know, now 15, 20 years ago.
And he died in a plane crash and there was a big democratic event.
For him.
A memorial event.
And instead of it being a unifying event involving members of both sides of the political aisle, instead Democrats just went to Paul Wellstone's funeral and proceeded to basically throw a political rally.
This is pretty much what they did yesterday on January 6th.
And here's the dead giveaway.
Nancy Pelosi literally had the cast of Hamilton sing a song in the middle of the January 6th, quote unquote, memorial.
First of all, the January 6th memorial, normally when you have some sort of commemorative memorial, it's because a lot of people died.
Typically, you have a 9-11 memorial because 3,000 Americans were killed, or you have a December 7th, 1941 memorial because 2,300 Americans were killed.
Typically, when you have a memorial, it's because there was tremendous human suffering involved.
The grand total number of people who were killed Not people who died of associated heart attack, or being crushed by a crowd, or died later.
The number of people who were actively killed on January 6th is one, and it was Ashley Babbitt who was shot by a Capitol Police officer while trying to move through a broken window to get a congresspeople.
So they have this big memorial event, and here's Nancy Pelosi introducing the cast of Hamilton for a number of... Is there anything more in the bubble than this?
First of all, the people who desperately love Hamilton, they all live in blue states.
There's not a huge crowd for Hamilton in the red states.
I'm not even ripping on the musical right now, although it's not my favorite musical for a variety of reasons, but the people who are just obsessed with it, they are all people who are kind of theater majors living in blue states.
So where is the broad popular appeal?
It reminds me of 2016 when Hillary Clinton was running for president and at the Democratic National Convention, they brought forth all of these pop stars to speak precisely to their base, but to no one else.
Here was Nancy Pelosi yesterday introducing the cast of Hamilton for some odd reason.
I have no idea what this has to do with January 6th, but here we go.
We're privileged to have a contribution from one of the great creative talents of our time, Lin Manuel.
Miranda, may his beautiful words be an inspiration to us.
Among the words he said, and in the music, we'll make it right for you.
If we lay a strong enough foundation, we'll pass it on to you, and we'll give the world to you.
What in the world?
I'm supposed to take these people seriously?
Really?
How am I supposed to take these people seriously?
I mean, this would be the equivalent of Republicans holding some sort of commemoration for the BLM riots of 2020, and then bringing out Lee Greenwood to sing God Bless the USA, right?
This is the kind of stuff that Democrats listen to in the shower, but I'm not sure what it has to do with January 6th, per se.
But that's because it's all a big show.
That's all this is.
It's just a big show.
So, the first person they brought out was Kamala Harris.
I don't know why they keep bringing forth Kamala Harris to speak at these sorts of things.
I really don't.
She is absolutely awful at this.
It is extraordinary how bad she is at this.
Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States.
Normally, you might assume a baseline level of competence for somebody like Kamala Harris.
After all, she has been an Attorney General of a major state, she was elected Senator from a major state, and now she's Vice President.
But here is the thing.
Nope.
I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone in American politics fail upward the way that Kamala Harris has failed upward.
I mean, to the point where the administration knows she's so bad that they're like, well, maybe we should fail her upward to the Supreme Court just to get rid of her.
You know how much people hate you when they're talking about elevating you to the Supreme Court just to get rid of you?
Like, we'll do anything to get rid of this lady.
Make her God Emperor.
I don't care.
Just get her the hell out of here.
Anyway, Kamala Harris spoke yesterday at the Capitol building and was predictably awful.
We'll get to that in just one moment.
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Okay, so, here we go with the most incompetent vice president of my lifetime.
I mean, it is not...
Would it be fair to say ever?
I think it'd be fair to say ever.
It's like Spiro, Agnew, or Herr, right?
There are not a lot of contenders here on this short list of bad vice presidents.
Here's Kamala Harris speaking from the Capitol Rotunda, because of course, this was the most important inflection point in American history, so we have to do exactly what Democrats say we have to do, comparing January 6th to some of the worst days in American history.
Certain dates echo throughout history.
Including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.
Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.
December 7th, 1941.
September 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021.
Um, no.
No.
I don't think that 20 years from now, if somebody asks, what were you doing on January 6th, 2021?
Everybody's like, I know exactly where I was.
In fact, if you asked me what I was doing on January 6th, 2021, I was watching TV and watching some of it happen, but I don't actively remember where I was.
I think I was at the office for part of the day, but I don't remember.
If you ask me exactly what happened when I heard about September 11th, I can tell you exactly, to the moment, where I was when I heard about September 11th.
This one is not on that list.
Beyond that, Are you really comparing a day on which a couple of hundred idiots went into the Capitol building?
Some of them with violent intent, some of them just kind of wandering in?
Are you really comparing that?
A riot in which one person total was killed, like, in the riot.
One person was actually killed in the riot.
Are you comparing that to December 7, 1941, which not only ended with the death of 2,300 American service members, but also began America's involvement in World War II, which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, or September 11, 2001, which was the terrorist murder of 3,000 Americans, the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City, the attack on the Pentagon, The taking down of a plane in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the initiation of the War on Terror, which involved two major American wars in two different theaters.
Is that what we are comparing January 6th to now?
Because just on the calendar, that was not probably among the 10 most damaging riots of the last year.
Probably there were 10 more damaging riots during 2020 than there were January 6th.
There's $1.5 million in damage done total to the Capitol building on January 6th and one person who was killed.
There's some 25 people who died in the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 and $5 billion in uninsured property damage and about $2 billion in insured property damage done during that period.
So, no.
Okay, but what this is really about is that we have to strengthen the rule of law, strengthen the rule of democracy.
Now, this is really galling stuff to hear from some of the exact same people who were literally attempting to bail out rioters in 2020.
People who had built a narrative.
I know everybody forgets about this stuff, but leading up to the election of 2020, it was not just President Trump who was suggesting that the election was going to be corrupt and there were going to be problems.
It was Democrats who were suggesting this also.
You'll recall that Louis DeJoy, who was the postmaster general, right?
The guy who's in charge of the post office?
He was accused of actively removing mailboxes to prevent people from sending in their absentee ballots.
This was like a big controversy.
And the groundwork had been laid that if Trump had won again, the Democrats would have claimed that that was illegitimate.
Because there were riots in 2017 when Trump was inaugurated.
On inauguration day, 200 people were arrested in 2017.
I know we're supposed to pretend that didn't happen.
It did.
People were burning cars in the middle of Washington, D.C.
in 2017.
People tried to occupy the steps of the Capitol building, like some of the members of the Women's March.
But here is Kamala Harris suddenly in favor of the rule of law.
Honestly, it is the hypocrisy here that is so galling.
Some of us have said that all lawbreakers should go to prison.
Some of us have said that only lawbreakers on their side should go to prison.
If you're one of the latter, you don't get to talk about rule of law.
You don't.
But that's exactly what Kamala Harris does.
You see, the strength of democracy is the rule of law.
The strength of democracy is the principle That everyone should be treated equally.
That elections should be free and fair.
That corruption should be given no quarter.
The strength of democracy is that it empowers I'm sorry, when you say the strength of democracy is the principle that everybody should be treated equally, and your entire administration is built on the principle not of equality of rights, but equity, which is a suggestion that there ought to be equality of outcome, and that any disparity in American life you can chalk up to the failures of our institutions?
Like, it's hard for me to buy that we can all come together around a set of principles when I know on a fundamental level you do not believe in those principles.
I'm perfectly happy to say, and have said many, many times, don't lie about elections.
Accept election results.
You should not break the law.
If you violate the law, you should go to jail.
Right?
This applies across the board.
But the fact that I'm saying it applies across the board makes people on the left mad.
If I say it applies across the board like, well, you're doing whataboutism, it's not whataboutism to say that something should apply equally.
It's what aboutism for you guys to say that it shouldn't apply to your side.
It should only apply to the other side.
And here's the point from Kamala Harris, and she's so obvious.
She's so bad at this.
My God, she's bad at this.
There's a tremendous lack of subtlety.
I don't know whether it is just because she's not particularly smart or whether it's because she thinks she's smarter than she is, but whatever it is, Kamala Harris then comes out and she says exactly what she wants, which is give me more power.
I want more power.
And then somehow she botches the Constitution of the United States.
She tries to recite it word for word.
It does not go well.
Let's be clear.
We must pass the voting rights bills that are now before the Senate.
And the American people must also do something more.
We cannot sit on the sidelines
We must unite in defense of our democracy in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure
Blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our prosperity and posterity.
Okay, so at the very end there, my favorite part of this is that all she's doing here is just reading the Constitution like a bad third grade candidate for secretary, for class secretary.
That's what she's doing right there.
She gets to the end of that and she's like, we have to pass everything I want you to pass.
And now I'm just going to read you the preamble to the Constitution of the United States.
Except I'm going to completely blow it.
We're not securing the blessings of prosperity to ourselves at the end of the Constitution.
That's not a thing.
It's posterity.
She corrects herself and she almost starts laughing at herself because she knows that she's blown it.
Okay, that was all preamble to President Biden.
So Kamala Harris's shtick was, I'm here as an empathetic person.
I'm here as an empathetic person who wants you to do everything I want you to do.
She's like Galadriel from Lord of the Rings.
I will be a queen, not a queen of darkness, but a queen of power.
It starts off all nice, you're like being nice to Frodo, and then all of a sudden she's like, BUTTER QUEEN!
It's quite wonderful.
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Well, then you're tempting me.
Joker grin.
You're tempting me.
Right.
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Okay, so now we get to old man Biden yelling at clouds.
So, President Biden takes to the podium.
And most of this speech was just about how bad Trump is.
Trump is very bad, and bad is Trump, and Trump is bad.
Okay, but that would not in any real way be about January 6th, because January 6th was about more than Trump.
The activities that Trump involved himself in, from November 4th to January 6th, in which he denied the election, in which he suggested that the election was completely the result of electoral fraud, that he had outright won more votes in places like Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
All of that was bad behavior.
That was malfeasance.
It was not true.
There was certainly some electoral fraud, because in a country with 155 million voters, there will be some electoral fraud.
There was certainly corruption when it came to some of the election rules.
Many states embraced rules that were completely out of the box, originally because of COVID.
But then as it became clear that you could vote without really risking your own health, it was not because of COVID anymore.
So when Pennsylvania decided to overrule its own constitution and simply put in place a bunch of full-scale absentee balloting, Well, that was a violation of law, even if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court didn't call it that way.
But Trump had every opportunity to challenge that stuff in court.
He brought some 80 lawsuits.
I believe all but one ended up being struck down.
Even the one that wasn't struck down ended up being overruled at a certain point.
He didn't even make most of the allegations in court that he made publicly.
But that's not what Biden is talking about.
What Biden is saying is that Trump is responsible for the destruction of democracy.
That's on Trump, and mostly it's on everyone who disagrees with Joe Biden.
You have to give Joe Biden your full faith because he's standing in the face of a full-scale assault on democracy that continues to this very day.
Because here's the thing.
Trump left office.
He's no longer president.
January 6th happened over a year ago.
So the notion that we are all just waiting for Joe Biden to save us from the grave threat of Trump, I'm not sure who he's talking to other than his base.
But being very, very angry about Trump and then suggesting the entire Republican Party is going to overthrow elections, when it was the Republican Party, by the way, that certified the 2020 election.
Remember, never forget, it was Mike Pence who certified the election.
That was the guy who was the incumbent vice president.
It was Senator Mitch McConnell who oversaw the certification of election results.
It was Republican secretaries of state like Brad Raffensperger in Georgia and Republican governors in Arizona.
It was a bunch of Republican state legislatures that certified these votes.
And so we were not close to a coup.
We were not close to an overthrow of American democracy.
And so that kind of gives the lie to everything that Biden is saying, but Biden has to gin up the outrage.
He has to gin up the rage because if he does not gin that stuff up, he's got nothing.
It is all January 6th or bust for Joe Biden at this point.
He's riding at 40% in the approval ratings and 2022 is going to hit him like a tsunami.
So he steps up to the microphone and he gets animated for the first time in his presidency.
This is the first time he has looked alive for at least a year.
Joe Biden has been wandering around in a stupefied zombie state as though under the influence of opiates for nearly his entire presidency.
He looks as though he's constantly falling asleep, but not yesterday.
Yesterday, he actually looked mildly alive.
It was strange.
He kind of looked like he was... The only time that Joe Biden looks alive is when he can yell about Trump.
So that's what he did yesterday.
And you're all supposed to give him power and pretend that he's not a bad president because Trump.
So, he began by suggesting that the January 6th was a grave assault on democracy that nearly ended the 230-odd year experiment of the United States, which of course is ridiculous and silly on its face.
State the obvious.
One year ago today, in this sacred place, Democracy was attacked.
Simply attacked.
The will of the people was under assault.
The Constitution, our Constitution, faced the gravest of threats.
Wait, so the gravest of threats was, just to get this straight, a couple of hundred idiots Trespassing, yelling, breaking windows, and committing criminal acts against police officers in the Capitol, being cleared out within three hours, and then the certification taking place.
Honestly, if our Constitution and our liberty is that fragile, then the problem ain't Donald Trump.
The problem is our institutions.
But here's the thing, it isn't that fragile.
It isn't remotely close to that fragile.
There are a bunch of people in the Oval Office who are passing around dumb memos about what Mike Pence could do to stop the election.
None of it was true, and so none of it was effectuated.
End of story.
This was not a grave threat to democracy.
You know, there are other countries where there are grave threats to democracy.
Those threats usually include things like disbanding the legislature by the executive branch.
Those things usually include military occupations of capitals.
Those things usually include laws passed by legislatures that grants ultimate power to the executive branch, essentially removing the legislature from the purview of the entire process.
Those things include stacking the Supreme Court or getting rid of the Supreme Court.
Look at countries all over the world where democracy has fallen.
It includes actual changes to institutions.
It does not include a couple of hundred rowdies going into a place and being cleared out by the cops.
That's called, like, Most political events that are bad in the United States, that's been happening for quite a while.
Again, that is not to downplay the evils of January 6th or the people who committed crimes.
That is not to downplay Trump's lies from November 4th to January 6th and some of the stuff that he says today.
What it is to say is that if you are saying that we were like this far away from democracy falling in the United States on January 6th, I don't know what to tell you, you're a moron.
You're stupid.
If you actually believe that we were this close to democracy falling completely on January 6th, that you're a motivated believer or an idiot.
You want to believe it or you're just dumb and you're taken in.
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All right.
So Joe Biden steps to the lectern and he talks about January 6th in very colorful language, some of which actually is is false.
Or very least wildly exaggerated.
So here he is talking about using your imagination.
Use your imagination, folks.
Put yourself back on January 6th, the most important day in American history.
Close your eyes.
Go back to that day.
What do you see?
Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol.
Confederate flag that symbolized the cause to destroy America.
to rip us apart. Even during the Civil War, that never ever happened. But it happened here in 2021.
So is he now suggesting that this was like worse than the Civil War?
There's a Confederate flag in the Capitol building.
That never even happened during the Civil War.
Well, I mean, 600,000 Americans did die during the Civil War, so there was that.
And there was a massive battlefront that ranged all the way from, like, Texas to Washington, D.C.
So, I mean, I feel like that was worse.
But there was one moron carrying a confederate flag in the Capitol building, so I guess we're all supposed to... I guess that's the same, sort of.
By the way, I love that he's like, the fact that there was a confederate flag in the Capitol building, that's never happened even in the Civil War.
Until five seconds ago, there was a statue of Jefferson Davis in Statuary Hall where he is speaking right now.
They removed it last year.
They removed it in 2021.
Right, so, um, what?
Okay, but it's just, that idiot waving the Confederate flag in Statuary Hall, well, that means that the Republic was this close to falling because of helmet-horned guy, because of the Wagnerian opera helmet guy.
Again, then he talks about the assaults on police officers, and this kind of stuff really gets my goat.
It really does.
You can't spend years, literally years, ripping on the police as systemically racist enforcers of the patriarchal institutions of the United States, seeking to criminalize blackness.
The new Jim Crow, as Michelle Alexander puts it, you can't say that police all across the country are emissaries of evil, but then when it suits your purposes, they become heroes again.
That's not the way any of that crap works.
The people who assault police officers across the board should go to jail.
I feel that way.
Democrats don't.
But here is Joe Biden, all of a sudden, a friend of the police.
A crowd that professes their love for law enforcement assaulted those police officers.
Dragged them, sprayed them, stomped on them.
Over 140 police officers were injured.
Can you muster this kind of rage for the 2,000 police officers plus who were injured during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020?
Nope.
Can you muster any of that outrage for the police officers who have been wrongly castigated by the press over the course of the last seven years?
Because remember, this really started in 2014 with the Ferguson riots.
That's really when this started.
So going back years and years and years, The Democrats have been wildly anti-police.
The attempt now to retcon this into, oh, we found one event where some people who were allied with the right, or felt they were on the right, where those people assaulted police officers, therefore the police are now good.
Bring forth the hero police officers.
It really is an astonishing thing.
It is.
They just assume that we have no common sense or memory, that we have the memory of a guppy.
He continued along these lines.
Police were assaulted.
Lives at risk.
The nation's capital under siege.
This wasn't a group of tourists.
This was an armed insurrection.
Okay, so for there to be an armed insurrection, usually people need to be armed.
This is a general rule.
They need to be armed, right?
In the term armed insurrection, there needs to be both an insurrection and there needs to be people who are armed.
So far as I'm aware, there's not been a single criminal charge brought against people who went into the Capitol building.
That's not to say that people weren't being violent.
They were.
usually implies that you are armed with, you know, like an actual gun, armed with actual dangerous weaponry.
I'm not aware that any of the charging documents include a single firearm.
If you're going to do an armed insurrection, typically you want to bring a firearm because that's usually the weapon you used in an armed insurrection.
Second, an insurrection usually requires an element of planning.
Like if you're going to plan an insurrection, you actually have to plan the insurrection.
Typically, it's not just a bunch of people who get pissed off and go into a building and do damage to it.
That's not an insurrection.
Okay, so if you don't believe that Black Lives Matter matter burning storefronts in 2020 was an insurrection, then you really should not believe that this was an insurrection.
So it was not an armed insurrection, it was a riot.
There is a difference.
Okay, riots are bad too.
People who riot should go to jail.
Armed insurrection is a different thing.
When he says armed insurrection, what he means is that his political enemies planned to violate the government.
They planned to overthrow the government of the United States.
Therefore, I deserve all power.
Wartime power.
This is something that Democrats routinely invoke.
There's a war on poverty.
War on climate change.
There's a war on whatever they say.
War on income inequality.
War on racism.
There's always a war.
Why?
Why do Democrats use that language?
I mean, aren't they pacifists?
The reason they use the language of war is because during wars, you get to invoke wartime powers.
And when you invoke authoritarian powers, you get to do whatever the hell you want.
So when you say there's an armed insurrection, the natural consequence of that is, I need to be empowered in order to stomp out armed insurrections.
I need wartime powers, which is exactly what Joe Biden wants.
I have to point out one more thing with regard to his rhetoric on police officers.
It really is astonishing.
So a little bit later on in the speech, he talks about mourning police officers with Jill in the Capitol Rotunda.
And here's what he had to say.
Jill and I have mourned police officers in this Capitol Rotunda not once but twice.
In the wake of January 6, once to honor Officer Brian Sicknick, who lost his life the day after the attack, and a second time to honor Officer Billy Evans.
Who lost his life defending his capital as well.
This is such a peculiar move that he's making right now.
This is such a peculiar move.
So first, Officer Brian Sicknick was not actually killed at the January 6th riot.
Originally it was reported that he was struck in the head with a fire extinguisher and then he died as a result of those injuries.
That turned out not to be true.
It turns out that he died as a result of presumably a heart attack.
And he died after January 6th.
But put that one aside.
Because maybe you could make the medical case that the stress of January 6th induced the heart attack or something.
The other guy he mentions there, the other guy he mentions there, Officer Billy Evans, Billy Evans died as a result of an attack at the Capitol building that had nothing to do with January 6th.
So lumping the two of them in so they're both results of January 6th is crazy.
Do you remember the death of Officer Billy Evans?
I do.
It didn't become a national issue because the way that the media determined whether a crime story is a national issue or not is by determining whether the victimizer is a person with whom they are politically allied in some sense.
If the person is a political enemy, it's a national story.
If the person could theoretically be conceived of as a political ally, it's not a national story, it's a local crime story.
So Sicknick's death was a national story because January 6th was super duper duper terrible, but Officer Billy Evans's death was not a national story.
The reason, by the way, that Joe Biden went to the rotunda for Officer Billy Evans specifically is because he wanted to create the presumption that he was going to do this for all officers.
It wasn't just officers who died in the line of duty with some relation to his political enemies.
But lumping them in together does precisely the reverse.
He's now suggesting that Billy Evans died as a result of January 6th.
That's not what happened.
Here's the actual story.
Billy Evans died In April.
He died in April of 2021 when he was struck by a car.
Who exactly was driving that car?
A 25-year-old black nationalist who espoused viewpoints consummate with the Nation of Islam.
So, um, what, why is he being lumped into this?
What does he have to do with January 6th?
He doesn't.
He has nothing to do with January 6th.
But if you can look, I mean, they're just willing to do anything.
They're willing to lump anyone together.
They have to do in order to, in order to get where they want to go.
It really is pretty incredible.
Okay.
In a second, we're going to get to Joe Biden's attack on the Republican party.
Because again, the idea here is that January 6th is not a criminal act carried out by people who are now paying criminal penalties.
From a year ago.
No, January 6th is an ongoing trauma.
It's an ongoing wound.
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His real point is that everyone who disagrees with him politically is complicit in January 6th.
So he says, sure, there are some courageous men and women in the Republican Party who stood up to Donald Trump.
Here's Liz Cheney and here's Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney showed up at the Capitol building yesterday to support his daughter Liz.
And suddenly Democrats love him.
Whenever you are being treated with quote-unquote strange new respect, You should have a second thought.
You might think, hmm, why are all these people who hate everything about them?
They literally made a movie about the evils of Dick Cheney called Vice by Adam McKay, who is one of the most overrated filmmakers in Hollywood.
Dick Cheney was Darth Vader.
He was the Bugaboo of the left.
And suddenly, he's a hero of the Republic.
Amazing how that works.
Almost as though they will use whatever object is available to clock whoever is in power now.
Okay, so here was Joe Biden trying to lump in the entire Republican Party.
Not just with Trump, but more broadly with January 6th.
Well, some courageous men and women in the Republican Party are standing against it, trying to uphold the principle of that party.
Too many others are transforming that party into something else.
They seem no longer to want to be the party, the party of Lincoln.
Eisenhower, Reagan, the Bushes.
Okay, can we stop pretending that these people loved the party of Lincoln, Reagan, Eisenhower, the Bushes?
They hated all those people.
I mean, George W. Bush was Bush-Hitler.
George W. Bush was an illegitimate president, according to the Democrats, because of 2000.
George W. Bush was a warmonger who led us into a Bush lied, people died.
I mean, it is so tiresome, it is so tiresome to hear Democrats proclaim the virtues of people they hated until 30 seconds ago, when those people became much more convenient to them.
And I will say, I'll say this about Dick Cheney or the Bushes, I have a lot of fondness for some of these people from the Bush administration.
I do, because I remember defending a lot of their actions during the Bush administration.
Hey, but, but, if you spend your entire post-political career saying nothing when Democrats run roughshod across everything that you held dear, and then you can only be found to speak to a camera, as soon as something bad happens from the Republican side of the aisle, I have some questions.
Consistency, folks.
A little bit of consistency.
If you couldn't be found anywhere during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, if you couldn't be found anywhere during the Russia collusion stuff, if you couldn't be found anywhere while the Democrats are trying to ram through authoritarian COVID measures, you can't be found anywhere defending many of the people who supported you, but you can be dredged up in order to do a January 6th Extravaganza.
On behalf of Nancy Pelosi and the cast of Hamilton, I have some questions about the people that are hanging out within your priorities.
Really, I may agree with some of the stuff they even say, but I have some real questions about your sense of loyalty to the people who got you where you are.
Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?
And then he gets into, again, the double standards here are just, they are mind boggling.
And they're, they're maddening.
They're maddening.
So Joe Biden starts talking about the higher standards of America that he supposedly hold.
And every line here, it's like, buy yourself a mirror, Joe, please, for the love of God, look in a mirror, get your party a damned mirror, sir.
Here we go.
Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?
Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?
Are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth, but in the shadow of lies?
We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation.
Okay, so I have many, many, many questions for the Democratic Party.
Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?
Says Joe Biden.
Oh, I don't know.
Did your vice president literally attempt to bail out rioters a year ago?
I feel like that happened because I was there.
That was a year and a half ago.
Where were you during the Black Lives Matter riots, Joe Biden?
Except political violence is a norm.
I mean, honest to God, these people, it's unbelievable.
They just are going to 1984 your memories out of existence.
They're just going to memory hole all this crap.
Anything bad that happened on their side, until now, until January 6th, did you know there had been no acceptance of political violence as a norm?
Did you know that that didn't exist?
It was only Trump.
It wasn't Maxine Waters saying you should get up in people's faces or calling the LA riots the LA uprising in 1993-1994.
It wasn't Democrats poo-pooing massive rioting across the country in 2020 saying it was mostly peaceful.
It wasn't Democrats ignoring the violence in Portland that went on for months and months and months.
And when Donald Trump sent federal troops in to try and stop that by protecting federal buildings, they called him a fascist.
I remember that stuff because I'm not an idiot.
I have a functional brain.
But some of these people apparently think that they can just get away with saying that the only people who have normed political violence are people on the right.
It's crazy.
And it's wild.
And then he said, are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of, I don't know, didn't you guys claim that Stacey Abrams is still the governor of Georgia?
Aren't you currently engaged in redistricting that is far more beneficial to Democrats than Republican redistricting has been to Republicans?
Are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies?
Okay, I have no words for this.
From the Biden administration, which lies as a matter of routine, they do it over and Afghanistan was a months-long lie from, don't worry, the government won't collapse, it'll be fine, to, we always knew the government was going to collapse, and it'll still be fine, to, we're not allying in any way with, like, Al-Qaeda has gone from the country to, don't worry, our soldiers are safe, to, don't worry, we're evacuating people in the most brilliant evacuation since Dunkirk.
All they do is lie.
Shadow of lies, my ass.
We can't allow ourselves to be that kind of nation.
We, I'm sorry, like, we, too late.
You made it happen, Joe Biden.
You've been in office since 1831.
And then he gets to the same point as Kamala Harris.
It just takes him longer to get there.
His new point is, you have to let us completely rewrite election law in the United States in order to save democracy.
We have to wreck democracy by federalizing all election procedure under the auspices of people Joe Biden likes.
Right now, in state after state, new laws are being written, not to protect the vote, but to deny it.
Not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it.
Not to strengthen or protect our democracy, but because the former president lost, instead of looking at the election results from 2020 and saying they need new ideas or better ideas to win more votes, the former president and his supporters have decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections.
It's wrong.
It's undemocratic.
And frankly, it's un-American.
Okay, I mean, this is the same schtick that this schmuck was trotting out with regard to the Georgia law, which he called a new form of Jim Crow.
So no, I don't believe you.
I also don't believe that you care very much about election integrity when you spend literally a year talking about how all of the emergency protocols taken during COVID ought to be made the new normal.
We ought to be sending absentee ballots to every household in the nation.
We ought to be having Democratic employees engaged in ballot harvesting, going door-to-door to Democratic registered voters and picking up their ballots.
We ought to get rid of voter ID everywhere across the country.
We ought to federalize all election procedures that states have no say in it whatsoever.
You know, I don't believe that you care about election integrity.
I believe that you want to rig the rules.
Because you do.
I mean, the Democrats won't even get together with the Republicans to reform the Electoral Count Act.
If you are worried about people, quote-unquote, stealing federal elections, the Electoral Count Act, which led to the vagary of some people wrongly believing that the Vice President and that the Congress had the ability to throw out state-certified votes, If you believe that that's a problem, then there have been a bunch of Republicans, including mainstream right-wing Republicans, who have called for a revision of the Electoral Counts Act to clarify how that procedure works.
You know what Democrats have done?
They said, not enough.
We're not going to do it.
We're not going to revise the Electoral Counts Act because you don't care.
You don't care.
What you really care about is rigging the rules for yourself.
He'll get to the conclusion of Joe Biden's speech in just one moment, then we'll get to some of the other Democrats sounding off on January 6th.
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All righty, so finally Joe Biden concludes with his statement.
He is going to stand at the door of democracy and block it from the dagger that's there.
You're going to have to prize democracy for my cold, lifeless... Here's Joe Biden.
Believe me.
No.
I know how difficult democracy is.
I don't believe you.
And I'm crystal clear about the threats that America faces.
But I also know that our darkest days can lead to light and hope.
From the death and destruction, as the Vice President referenced in Pearl Harbor, came the triumph over the forces of fascism.
From the brutality of Bloody Sunday and the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.
So now let's step up.
Write the next chapter in American history.
We're January 6th marks not the end of democracy, but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play.
I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today, but I will not shrink from it either.
I will stand in this breach.
I will defend this nation, not allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.
Um, okay, so he's really comparing January 6th to the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
You mean, you know, like a protest that the literal authorities sicked dogs on people who were protesting a century of Jim Crow?
That's the same thing as January 6th?
Or comparing it to Pearl Harbor?
Because it's just like Pearl Harbor, when 2,300 Americans died.
Or alternatively, you just want what you want, and this is your excuse.
My favorite part of this is that Joe Biden was asked, after his ridiculous speech, about why he had not used Donald Trump's name, right?
He kept avoiding Trump's name.
He kept saying the former president this, and the former president that.
His answer is just, it's one for the ages.
Here was Joe Biden's answer to that question.
It's not about whether I'm president or she's vice president.
It's about the system, and about somebody who decides to put himself above everything.
And so, but I did not want to turn it into a contemporary political battle between me and the president.
It's way beyond that.
He didn't want to turn it into a contemporary political battle.
Really, that is literally the only thing that they are doing yesterday.
It's the whole point of the exercise is to turn it into a contemporary political battle.
That's why you do a memorial for January 6th.
That's why you do all these commemorative editions, CNN specials, and all of this kind of stuff.
That's why you do it.
The whole point of it is this.
You know what the real point of this is?
The real point is that non-farm job estimates came in 200,000 jobs below what they were supposed to this month.
That's the real story.
Okay, the actual Democratic, the December jobs report came in adding 199,000 jobs against expectations of 422,000 jobs.
That's the real story under Joe Biden, not that he's standing preventing the dagger from entering the throat of democracy or some such self-serving bull bleep.
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