The Ben Shapiro Show - June 29, 2020


Covidiocy | Ep. 1041


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Ben Shapiro talks about the spike in coronavirus cases across the U.S. over the weekend, and why the CDC has not seen a major increase in death from the virus. He also takes a look at the culture war, and explains why the media is pushing a "red-blue" narrative that makes no sense at all. Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect yourself at ExpressVpn.co/Protect Yourself, Ben Shapiro Subscribe to the show on iTunes and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Use the promo code: "ELISSA" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to The Ben Shapiro Foundation. You can also become a supporter of the show by visiting bit.ly/support-the-ben-shapiroform. Thanks to our sponsor ExpressVPN for sponsoring the show. We are a proud affiliate of ExpressVPN, and your online activity should not be public. If you like the show, please consider making a five-star rating and reviewing it on your favorite streaming platform. Thank you for supporting the show and/or sharing it with your friends and family. The opinions expressed in the show are those of your friends, family, colleagues, and the ones you care deeply about the show's quality and are willing to share it with the rest of the world. It helps us spread the word about what we're doing it. - and we hope you enjoy it! Thanks again and again, again, thank you for listening! - Ben Shapiro, the truthfully and truly cares about the truth and love you, again and truly and truly, truly, Thank you. Your continued support is so much, truly and deeply, truly deeply, - your support is appreciated, truly appreciates it, truly cares deeply, appreciate it, and so much so, truly understands it, really cares about you, truly means it, deeply, deeply appreciates you, really does, truly does it, you're a lot, really means it. - Thank you, - thank you, very much, really deeply, really, truly loves you, appreciate you, and really, really gets it, much more than that, really truly, really needs it, etc., truly, and truly does, really helps it, more, really loves it, it means it... ...and so much more... - Timestamps: 1.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The media push a red-blue narrative that makes no sense at all on coronavirus, President Trump's poll numbers nosedive as his Twitter habit continues to hurt him, and the culture wars continue apace.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:00:25.000 Alrighty.
00:00:25.000 Well, I hope that you had yourself a mildly relaxed weekend.
00:00:28.000 We're going to get to all the news.
00:00:29.000 There's a lot happening out there from people defending their houses with guns.
00:00:34.000 To the president dropping in the polls and all of the culture wars and all of that.
00:00:38.000 I want to start with obviously the big news of the day.
00:00:40.000 Continues to be the spike that we are seeing in many states, really across the country.
00:00:45.000 I think virtually all states except for a couple have seen increases in cases in COVID-19.
00:00:49.000 That of course is not a major shock.
00:00:51.000 As you continue to release people back into public, you are going to see more cases.
00:00:55.000 The question is, does it overwhelm the hospital systems?
00:00:57.000 One of the big questions has been whether the lockdowns are actually that effective, because we saw increasing levels of death in places like New York City, even after the lockdown.
00:01:05.000 Also, one of the things that we saw is that when people get alarmed, they go back in their house without you actually having to tell them to go back into their house.
00:01:11.000 One of the things that seems to be happening right now is that in states that are very hot, where there's a lot of air conditioning being used, the rates are going up.
00:01:18.000 And that's because people are going away from the public places where they were gathering, outdoors, and they're going back inside and staying inside.
00:01:25.000 You're seeing upticks in places like California and Texas and Arizona.
00:01:28.000 And the only common thread there is not a thread of policy.
00:01:30.000 It is a thread that has more to do with the weather.
00:01:33.000 If it gets really hot, you go inside.
00:01:34.000 You're inside with a lot of other people.
00:01:36.000 You're in close proximity with those people.
00:01:37.000 And it's easier to get infected.
00:01:39.000 Now, one of the things that we are seeing, and we really have not seen a major uptick in death, and that's been quite mysterious for a lot of folks.
00:01:45.000 The death numbers over the weekend continued to be pretty low.
00:01:49.000 I mean, meaning that the death numbers on Sunday across the nation were actually the lowest that they had been since March, which is pretty shocking considering that we're supposedly experiencing this massive spike in the number of deaths across the United States.
00:02:01.000 One of the reasons for that is because the age of people who are being infected is now extremely low, like a lot lower than it was originally.
00:02:07.000 Before, it was mainly older people being sent back into nursing homes, and basically it was killing everybody off in that first wave.
00:02:12.000 As I've said before, maybe the only thing that you can do here is protect the nursing homes.
00:02:17.000 and wear masks and socially distance.
00:02:19.000 Those are all the things.
00:02:19.000 And that's pretty much it.
00:02:20.000 There is not another thing that you can do to prevent this thing from spreading.
00:02:23.000 And once you have gone outside and you've been with other people, well, then there's gonna be a certain number of infections.
00:02:31.000 But there's some good news here.
00:02:33.000 I mean, if the number of infections is going up and the rate of death is going down, that means the overall infection fatality rate is a lot lower than originally was supposed.
00:02:40.000 Again, the CDC now estimates that 0.26% of people who actually get this thing and are infected by it are going to die.
00:02:47.000 So 26 out of every 10,000 people who get this thing are going to die, which Again, terrible number, but not the kind of number where you shut down all of society for it, perhaps.
00:02:56.000 That is certainly a question worth thinking about.
00:02:59.000 So, whatever the actual overall numbers on this thing, we'll get to more of that in a second.
00:03:04.000 The media have decided they're going to make this an attack on red states, which is unbelievable.
00:03:08.000 I mean, if you follow the media narrative over the past few months, the media narrative went something like this.
00:03:12.000 President Trump didn't act hard enough.
00:03:14.000 He didn't act well enough.
00:03:14.000 He didn't act strong enough at the very beginning.
00:03:16.000 And therefore, there was this vast uptick.
00:03:18.000 If it had not been for President Trump poo-pooing this thing at the beginning, or Fox News, or Sean Hannity, then this never would have happened.
00:03:23.000 And that was sheer crap.
00:03:24.000 Nobody was calling for an actual shutdown anywhere in the country until the very beginning of March, by which point it was too late.
00:03:29.000 The thing was already in circulation.
00:03:30.000 New York didn't even shut down its state until late March.
00:03:34.000 After President Trump had already basically started urging people to shut down, which was like mid-March, like March 15th, March 16th, when you started to see national attention brought from places like San Francisco and L.A.
00:03:44.000 to shut down.
00:03:44.000 But even the shutdowns in L.A.
00:03:46.000 and San Francisco are not preventing the spike that we are now seeing in L.A.
00:03:49.000 County.
00:03:50.000 So the idea that Trump was responsible for this is very silly.
00:03:52.000 Then you saw a narrative, and the narrative was, everybody needs to stay inside.
00:03:55.000 It was imperative that everybody stay inside.
00:03:57.000 Lockdown, this thing was going to kill you, it was going to kill your grandmother, it was going to kill everybody.
00:04:01.000 And then there's a gradual release, and that began at the very beginning of May.
00:04:04.000 And for about a month, there was no uptick.
00:04:07.000 For about a month, there was an uptick in the number of cases, but there was not only not an uptick in the number of deaths.
00:04:11.000 Nationally, there was a downtick, meaning in most states, it basically stayed stable, and New York really declined rapidly.
00:04:18.000 That was the story of the death rate from COVID-19.
00:04:22.000 But the idea was that those red states were bad, right?
00:04:24.000 Ron DeSantis in Florida was very bad.
00:04:26.000 Ryan Kemp in Georgia was very bad.
00:04:27.000 Greg Abbott in Texas was very bad.
00:04:28.000 All of those places were very bad because they had not shut down, even though they weren't experiencing vast, overwhelming death.
00:04:34.000 Then, there were these big protests.
00:04:36.000 And the media suddenly swiveled.
00:04:37.000 And the media narrative turned again.
00:04:38.000 So remember, it started with, this is all Trump's fault, you need to shut down forever.
00:04:42.000 Then it turned to, well, you know, actually, if you go out and you're protesting for the right things, it's more important for you to protest in favor of overturning the American perception of itself and its own history.
00:04:53.000 You need to go out and you need to protest the police.
00:04:55.000 Go out and do it, en masse, no problem, you're gonna be immune.
00:04:58.000 It's gonna be fine.
00:04:59.000 Racism is a more important public health threat than COVID-19.
00:05:02.000 And so we saw literally hundreds of thousands of people across the United States out there protesting.
00:05:06.000 Then the protests end, or at least they kind of fade off a little bit, and people start going out again because they're like, OK, hold up a second.
00:05:14.000 You just said it's OK for me to be out.
00:05:15.000 So you know what?
00:05:16.000 I'm going to go out.
00:05:17.000 All right.
00:05:17.000 You know, you said it.
00:05:18.000 We're done.
00:05:19.000 And people's activity starts to change and you start to see an uptick.
00:05:23.000 And now the media's rage is turning back on the same red governor as it was 60 days ago, when it was like, oh, look at this bad Ron DeSantis and bad Brian Kemp and bad Greg Abbott.
00:05:31.000 Look at these terrible, terrible red states with their reopening.
00:05:33.000 It's like, OK, hold up a second.
00:05:34.000 They reopened the beginning of May.
00:05:35.000 Nothing happened for a month.
00:05:37.000 And then there were a bunch of protests right around Memorial Day.
00:05:40.000 And you notice in the media coverage, it's always Memorial Day is really what set this thing off.
00:05:44.000 Memorial Day was May 25th.
00:05:45.000 The protest began May 26th.
00:05:47.000 There is literally no way, statistically speaking, to tell the difference between an infection that was initiated May 25th and an infection initiated May 26th, and the media don't want to know about it.
00:05:56.000 In New York, contact tracers have been told not to ask people whether they attended a protest.
00:06:02.000 So the idea here is that it is only the reopening, but not the protest.
00:06:05.000 Apparently, if you go to a bar really bad, if you go to an open-air bar where you're just drinking and shouting about George Floyd, then fine, no problem whatsoever, right?
00:06:13.000 Not a problem at all.
00:06:14.000 And so we've seen, as things have spiked, all of the blame in the media is gonna go on the red states.
00:06:19.000 And it's amazing, it's truly amazing, because in the process of putting all the blame on the red states that have reopened, they're also trying to rehabilitate the worst governor in America, Andrew Cuomo, whose state has lost over 30,000 people.
00:06:30.000 Now, recognize that to this point, the state of Florida has lost between 3,000 and 4,000 people.
00:06:34.000 The state of California has lost something like 4,000 people.
00:06:37.000 The state of Texas has lost under 3,000 people last time I checked.
00:06:41.000 New York got absolutely wallowed.
00:06:43.000 New York got killed.
00:06:45.000 I mean, literally speaking, many New Yorkers got killed.
00:06:47.000 And Andrew Cuomo is being trotted out there as a model of what a governor should do.
00:06:51.000 Well, meanwhile, these red states are very bad.
00:06:53.000 So, CNN showed a chart.
00:06:55.000 And this is just, it just goes to show you the political narrative of the media.
00:06:59.000 Super dishonest.
00:07:00.000 CNN, over the weekend, they show a chart.
00:07:02.000 And what the chart shows, for people who can't see, is they divvied up the seven-day moving average of new cases in Trump states and in 2016 Clinton states.
00:07:10.000 And what it shows is that the 2016 Clinton states, they had this massive spike, and then it sort of It sort of wavered off, and then it's increasing again mildly.
00:07:19.000 Meanwhile, the red states, what you see is it increased fairly quickly, then it held steady for a long time, and now it's zooming up again.
00:07:26.000 It's zooming up again, beginning, shock of shocks, like near the beginning of June, about a week and a half after the protests began.
00:07:33.000 But we can't blame it on the protests.
00:07:34.000 It's probably the reopening.
00:07:35.000 You see that long period on this chart?
00:07:37.000 If you can see the chart, you see the long period on the chart between the beginning of May and the beginning of June, where everything is perfectly stable?
00:07:43.000 Well, apparently no, right?
00:07:44.000 Apparently that doesn't exist anymore.
00:07:45.000 So in any case, the idea is that red states are bad and blue states are good.
00:07:49.000 Now, this chart is flawed in about 30 different ways.
00:07:51.000 It's flawed, number one, because the original spike does not really take into account the number of cases, like at all.
00:07:58.000 Like if you're suggesting that back in March, like late March, there were only 30, like about 20,000 cases.
00:08:05.000 Daily?
00:08:05.000 In places like New York?
00:08:07.000 Absolute sheer nonsense.
00:08:08.000 Sheer nonsense.
00:08:08.000 So the testing was not up to par.
00:08:10.000 In the blue states, overall, overall across the country, the testing was not up to par.
00:08:14.000 So it's very difficult to tell how many positive tests there were in places like New York.
00:08:17.000 Like, if you believe that the blue states were only experiencing twice the number of positive tests as the red states in that period, then why was it that New York was hit with 30,000 dead?
00:08:26.000 The testing was just under par.
00:08:26.000 That doesn't make any sense.
00:08:28.000 So that's problem number one.
00:08:29.000 But there's a bigger problem.
00:08:30.000 And the bigger problem is, if you're honest and you look at red by blue counties, right, not just states, because states are giant subdivisions of the country, but counties, because it turns out that a lot of red states include places like Dallas and Austin and Houston, that tend to be a lot more liberal.
00:08:46.000 Right.
00:08:46.000 If you look at county by county, blue counties versus red counties, what you see is they're identical.
00:08:50.000 The county by county division, basically you see that same spike.
00:08:54.000 And then you see the blue counties start to level off.
00:08:57.000 The red counties are fairly low.
00:08:58.000 And then they start to pick up right around the beginning of June.
00:09:01.000 And now they're on exactly the same trajectory.
00:09:03.000 Like, literally on the same line, on the same trajectory.
00:09:06.000 So, no, this is not a matter of red states versus blue states, or evil red people versus good blue people, or anything like that.
00:09:13.000 So the media are promulgating a narrative.
00:09:15.000 The narrative is that red is very bad, and blue is very good.
00:09:18.000 Now, in order to do that, they also have to explain away Andrew Cuomo.
00:09:21.000 So they've decided that they're basically going to now recapitulate the Andrew Cuomo is the best governor in America story, which is just it's amazing.
00:09:27.000 I mean, the utter gall of people to suggest that Andrew Cuomo is a good governor.
00:09:31.000 It's incredible.
00:09:31.000 We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:10:42.000 Okay, so they have to do two things.
00:10:43.000 One, blame the red governors, and two, somehow rehabilitate Andrew Cuomo.
00:10:46.000 And so the media are full on board with the rehabilitation of Andrew Cuomo.
00:10:50.000 And Andrew Cuomo...
00:10:52.000 I mean, I'll give this to the man.
00:10:53.000 The man has serious stones.
00:10:55.000 I mean, to oversee a state where 30,000 people die, and then sit around ripping on states where like 3,000 people have died with the same population.
00:11:02.000 And by the way, places like Florida are disproportionately elderly.
00:11:05.000 Obviously, big nursing home population in Florida, but they didn't see a vast killing of the elderly.
00:11:10.000 For Andrew Cuomo to be going around ripping on others is incredible.
00:11:14.000 So here's Andrew Cuomo suggesting that Trump's decision to reopen the economy was wrong.
00:11:18.000 Quick note, when Andrew Cuomo says things like this, recognize that the lockdowns in New York City may not in fact have been responsible for the actual decline of cases in New York City.
00:11:28.000 It is possible that what happened is that it ran rampant through the population and knocked out everyone it was going to knock out.
00:11:34.000 I mean, that is a real possibility in places like New York.
00:11:37.000 Because what you're seeing right now is that New York is reopening.
00:11:40.000 New York is starting to open.
00:11:40.000 We've seen pictures of people who are hanging around outside of bars in New York, right?
00:11:43.000 Big crowds in New York.
00:11:45.000 And they're not seeing a significant uptick in the number of cases.
00:11:47.000 Maybe that's because a lot of people have already had it.
00:11:49.000 And so they are not now transmission vectors.
00:11:51.000 We don't know the answer to that.
00:11:53.000 So it may not be that Andrew Cuomo's policy was all that good.
00:11:56.000 It may be that he basically achieved a certain low level of quasi-herd immunity by allowing this many people to get the thing.
00:12:05.000 Anyway, here's Andrew Cuomo suggesting that it's Trump's decision to reopen the economy that's caused all of this, which is weird because he's not in charge of states, is he?
00:12:11.000 Are you now thinking that maybe we might not see everything goes remote now in the fall, given we're living with this virus until there's a vaccine?
00:12:21.000 Well, on your first point, yes, I agree with that.
00:12:26.000 You know, everybody talked about the economic consequence and the president said we should reopen and that's going to help the economy.
00:12:33.000 It turned out to be exactly wrong.
00:12:35.000 But there's also a social consequence.
00:12:37.000 Okay, well, he didn't turn out to be exactly wrong.
00:12:39.000 We're actually seeing a shocking V-shaped recovery in the economy.
00:12:42.000 As people go back out, it turns out the economy has been upticking at a rather rapid rate.
00:12:46.000 But it's not just Andrew Cuomo who's now trying to rehabilitate.
00:12:48.000 Mark Levine, who's just a disaster area.
00:12:49.000 Mark Levine is, of course, the chair of the New York City Council Health Committee.
00:12:54.000 He's also the same guy who claimed, in the middle of this pandemic, first he told everybody to go out to Chinatown and party it up.
00:13:00.000 Then Mark Levine claimed that the protests were gonna be fine.
00:13:04.000 The protests were totally cool.
00:13:06.000 Now Mark Levine is claiming, and by the way, if you got it at the protest, it's because of racism.
00:13:11.000 Racism was the cause of the uptick in COVID.
00:13:13.000 Now he's just frankly lying.
00:13:14.000 He says, on the single worst day in New York City, back in mid-April, we had under 8,000 new cases.
00:13:19.000 Well, no.
00:13:21.000 Your testing was off by like an order of magnitude.
00:13:25.000 You did not have only 8,000 positives in a day.
00:13:27.000 If you had been testing properly, the number would have been a hell of a lot higher than that.
00:13:31.000 The reason he's saying that is because Florida had 9,000 cases yesterday.
00:13:34.000 Now, again, if you look at the Florida numbers, if you look at the state-by-state numbers in the United States, what you actually see is that Florida is basically stable in the number of deaths it's been experiencing on a day-by-day basis.
00:13:46.000 I'm actually looking at the Florida statistics right this instant.
00:13:50.000 And what you've seen, daily deaths per day in Florida, I'm gonna read you, since June 16th.
00:13:59.000 55, 25, 43, 40, 17, 12, 64, 45, 44, 37, 26, 27.
00:14:04.000 Does that sound like an incredible, massive uptick?
00:14:08.000 Like vast scores of deaths?
00:14:10.000 Again, maybe it will happen.
00:14:11.000 It could seriously happen.
00:14:12.000 I mean, you're seeing more cases.
00:14:13.000 That means more hospitalizations.
00:14:15.000 But this notion that New York City somehow handled this thing well, and that Florida's handling this thing badly, and that we are seeing vast numbers of deaths in Florida, not so far.
00:14:24.000 Now again, that could all change.
00:14:26.000 It could be the health system gets overwhelmed.
00:14:27.000 And it is important to recognize here that there is no way that a lot of people are not going to get this.
00:14:32.000 The whole purpose of flattening the curve was not to change the area under the curve.
00:14:35.000 I've explained this 1,000 times on the show.
00:14:38.000 The whole point of flattening the curve was to prevent the overwhelming of the healthcare system.
00:14:42.000 There has yet to be any serious evidence that Florida is being overwhelmed in terms of its healthcare system.
00:14:47.000 In fact, Ron DeSantis did a presser yesterday in which Ron DeSantis explained at length that Florida is not being overwhelmed.
00:14:56.000 He says basically the number of people who are getting hit here, it's mostly people who are young.
00:15:01.000 You're mostly seeing this in people who are young.
00:15:04.000 And by the way, before I get to DeSantis, you can see that this is the reality, right?
00:15:08.000 You can see in the chart of diagnosed cases versus deaths, you can see that there's this vast gap that has now emerged that shows that there's a huge, huge disparity between the number of diagnosed cases and deaths.
00:15:20.000 Do we have that chart?
00:15:21.000 It's a chart of diagnosed cases.
00:15:23.000 A couple more charts.
00:15:24.000 Let's see.
00:15:25.000 Keep going.
00:15:27.000 This is the seven-day moving average of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths with the seven-day lag.
00:15:27.000 There we go.
00:15:33.000 And what do you see?
00:15:34.000 You see the lines completely diverging.
00:15:36.000 They were basically on point up until late April.
00:15:38.000 Then the deaths started to drop rapidly, and the cases started to level off and then rise rapidly.
00:15:44.000 Now, maybe that red line is going to turn around.
00:15:46.000 Maybe you're going to see a big spike.
00:15:47.000 But we haven't seen it quite yet.
00:15:49.000 So the idea that New York handled this thing right and Florida handled this thing wrong, I'm waiting to see any evidence of that whatsoever at this point.
00:15:56.000 By the way, again, it makes me crazy, but the idea that New York did this thing absolutely right is totally crazy.
00:16:02.000 And here is a chart of New York excess deaths in nursing homes.
00:16:05.000 Suffice it to say, this does not look good for New York.
00:16:08.000 This is the total weekly deaths from COVID-19, in particular in metropolitan areas, above the normal.
00:16:13.000 This is by percentage.
00:16:15.000 This is the total COVID-19 deaths An entire metropolitan area in thousands.
00:16:21.000 And what you see is excess deaths.
00:16:22.000 Look at that spike in New York City metropolitan area.
00:16:25.000 It's unbelievable.
00:16:27.000 And then when you look at the actual percentage basis, what you see is that places like Cleveland or Detroit may have seen like three times as many people in nursing homes die as normal.
00:16:34.000 But if you actually look at New York, it's like 35 times as many people died in nursing homes as normal.
00:16:40.000 Okay, that is a giant fail by Andrew Cuomo and by the New York City government.
00:16:45.000 But apparently, again, the bad guys here are the people in the red states.
00:16:49.000 We're gonna get to more on the... I mean, a lot of this is just lying.
00:16:52.000 It really is.
00:16:53.000 It's lying with statistics.
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00:18:31.000 Okay.
00:18:31.000 So again, as I say, The notion that New York handled this right and everybody else handled this wrong is totally crazy.
00:18:37.000 It is also true that one of the reasons that you're seeing that gap emerge between number of cases and number of deaths is because a huge percentage of people who are testing positive are now under the age of 35.
00:18:45.000 And as we know, if you're under the age of 25, particularly, this is not a deadly disease.
00:18:49.000 Okay, meaning it can kill you, but it's less deadly than the flu if you're under age 25 by statistics.
00:18:54.000 So here's Mike Pence, the vice president, pointing out, guys, yeah, we're seeing a spike, but that's basically a bunch of young people socializing.
00:18:59.000 There's another way, John, that this is different from early on, and that is that one of the things that we've heard in Texas and Florida in particular is that nearly half of those who are testing positive are Americans under the age of 35.
00:19:15.000 That's contributing to the fact that those that are requiring to be hospitalized who are testing positive for coronavirus is significantly lower than it was two months ago.
00:19:29.000 Okay, so he is right about this.
00:19:31.000 Ron DeSantis said the same thing.
00:19:32.000 He said 20% of the tests are for those who are 25 to 34 positive.
00:19:36.000 So basically a bunch of people are going to bars and they're getting it and they're young.
00:19:39.000 And so we're not seeing a lot of those people hospitalized.
00:19:41.000 Here was Governor DeSantis yesterday, who again, is the bad guy here.
00:19:43.000 Remember, he's the villain.
00:19:44.000 Andrew Cuomo's the good guy in the media narrative here.
00:19:46.000 He's the black hat, Ron DeSantis.
00:19:49.000 You still see the numbers in those younger age groups compared to the number of positive tests.
00:19:55.000 Very, very, very low fatality rates.
00:19:59.000 And so you're seeing it in those groups who are less at risk, but you're seeing them test positive at much higher rates.
00:20:06.000 I think 25 to 34 has been pretty close to 20%.
00:20:10.000 And we're seeing it all across in the different areas of the state.
00:20:14.000 This is the one kind of consistent thing.
00:20:17.000 By the way, it's also happening in other states.
00:20:19.000 So if you look at the share of new Minnesota COVID cases by age, you see a huge, enormous spike for people who are 20 to 29.
00:20:27.000 I'm looking at a chart right now that shows those Minnesota COVID cases by age.
00:20:30.000 You can see it has declined in every single demographic group except for people who are 20 to 29.
00:20:36.000 And most importantly, it's declined for people who are 60 to 69 and 70 and above.
00:20:40.000 The people at the very bottom of that chart are the people who are most likely to die from this thing.
00:20:43.000 So it's really, really spiking among people who are 20 to 29.
00:20:47.000 Notice that that spike begins right around the beginning of June, right around June 15th or so, which would have been exactly two weeks after the beginning of these protests, but the protests didn't do anything, apparently.
00:20:57.000 So a lot of young people are getting this thing.
00:20:59.000 Now, again, could that be dangerous?
00:21:00.000 Yeah, sure, it could be dangerous.
00:21:02.000 It could also be dangerous that in border counties, there's immigration across the border, something Phil Kirpin has pointed out.
00:21:09.000 Phil Kirpin points out that if you look at the charts in areas with different border populations, the positivity rate in Mexico on these tests right now, the positivity rates in Mexico on COVID-19 tests is nearly 50%.
00:21:19.000 It's like 48%, which means a lot of people in Mexico have it.
00:21:23.000 He points out that cases per 100,000 residents, high population at non-border counties, like Maricopa County or LA County or Santa Clara County, They're not having tons of cases per 100,000 residents, but places like Yuma or Santa Cruz or Imperial are having a lot of cases.
00:21:37.000 So there are a bunch of different factors, but until the system is in danger of being overwhelmed, This is not the same thing as it was before.
00:21:45.000 The media basically been saying we're back to square one.
00:21:48.000 All of the hard work was blown because of all these evil red governors who release people.
00:21:52.000 And some things have changed.
00:21:53.000 Again, the people who are getting infected by and large are people who are younger, which means that it is less dangerous.
00:21:57.000 And you're basically getting the controlled avalanche strategy that I actually kind of talked about.
00:22:02.000 Months ago.
00:22:03.000 You're effectively getting a controlled avalanche strategy that says, if you are elderly, then avoid this thing, and if you're younger, and you get it, then, okay, alright.
00:22:12.000 I mean, like, not great.
00:22:14.000 Some people are gonna be ill-affected by it, obviously.
00:22:16.000 And there are gonna be more people in hospitals, and you are seeing increased hospitalizations, but the rate of people who are dying in hospitals is going down fairly dramatically as well.
00:22:23.000 And this is true, by the way, across the world.
00:22:24.000 I mean, this is a news story that has not been reported very much, but late last week, it was reported by the science editor at the UK Telegraph.
00:22:32.000 That according to an Oxford study, hospital patients are now four times less likely to die than they were in April.
00:22:38.000 Because there are a bunch of different drugs that are being used that actually mitigate the impact, and doctors are becoming better at treating patients.
00:22:43.000 It used to be they were sticking everybody on a ventilator.
00:22:44.000 It turns out that is one of the worst things that you can do.
00:22:48.000 So, hospitals are getting better at treating patients.
00:22:50.000 More of the people who are getting this are young.
00:22:51.000 Does this mean that you should go out willy-nilly without a mask?
00:22:54.000 No, it doesn't.
00:22:54.000 Because again, as you spread it, there are two risks.
00:22:57.000 One, you pass it on to somebody who's older who can't handle it.
00:22:59.000 And two, that you overwhelm the hospital system.
00:23:01.000 But the notion that we are exactly back where we were, and that we were back where we were because of red state policy, is utterly crazy.
00:23:08.000 And by the way, the red states are actually being pretty cautious about this.
00:23:12.000 Texas, last week, shut down all the bars again.
00:23:15.000 Hey, then California two days later shut down all the bars and it was like, well, look at Gavin Newsom.
00:23:18.000 He's responsible as opposed to that horrible Greg Abbott.
00:23:20.000 It's like, no, that's not, no, that's not how any of this works.
00:23:23.000 That's not how any of this works.
00:23:25.000 It is also worth noting that when I suggest that this thing is less dangerous for people who are young, that is not just me saying this.
00:23:32.000 This is the American Academy of Pediatrics.
00:23:35.000 The American Academy of Pediatrics is openly saying at this point that all the schools should basically be reopened at this point.
00:23:42.000 They put out a full statement suggesting that kids should be in schools.
00:23:45.000 They say school policies must be flexible and nimble in responding to new information.
00:23:48.000 Administrators must be willing to refine approaches when specific policies are not working.
00:23:52.000 But no child or adolescent should be excluded from school unless required in order to adhere to a local public health mandate or because of unique medical needs.
00:23:59.000 They say we strongly advocate that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with the goal of having students physically present in school.
00:24:06.000 That's the American Academy of Pediatrics.
00:24:07.000 It's not radical right-wingers who are making that particular claim.
00:24:11.000 So, concerned but not crazy would be the answer here.
00:24:16.000 Concerned but not out of your mind with worry would be the answer here.
00:24:20.000 Cautiously, maybe even at this point, if you're talking about that, again, disparity between deaths and hospitalizations, maybe cautiously optimistic that this thing is starting to peter out a little bit.
00:24:31.000 That doesn't mean be irresponsible.
00:24:33.000 It means wear a mask and socially distance.
00:24:35.000 We've seen this, again, radical increase in the number of cases.
00:24:38.000 But notice how the media have decided they're going to talk about COVID-19 cases and they're not going to talk about deaths anymore.
00:24:44.000 They're only going to talk about cases and they're not going to talk about deaths.
00:24:46.000 Ron DeSantis has said that Florida has flattened the curve with respect to maintaining health care capacity.
00:24:51.000 He says the testing capacity and PPE are in fine shape.
00:24:54.000 He says treatments are improving too and in good supply.
00:24:56.000 He says way fewer people now need medical ventilation than in March or April.
00:25:01.000 He says that it's probably people who are going indoors that are really spreading this thing.
00:25:05.000 He says family units are largely testing positive as a group, right?
00:25:08.000 People are going out to a bar, they're getting it, and then they're going home, and they're basically getting everybody sick.
00:25:16.000 He said that certain hospital systems, his round of senses, are picking up asymptomatic COVID cases because a lot of electives are coming back in, right?
00:25:23.000 Elective surgeries are coming back in, and they're picking up asymptomatic COVID cases when they do basic blood tests for them.
00:25:30.000 He said, for most people in younger demos, the symptoms are like the common cold.
00:25:33.000 So, is this something that we should be, like, over the moon crazy about?
00:25:39.000 No.
00:25:40.000 Is it something we should be concerned about?
00:25:41.000 Sure.
00:25:42.000 You know who's not really concerned about this?
00:25:43.000 The media.
00:25:44.000 There was a massive, massive LGBT rally in Chicago yesterday.
00:25:47.000 Like, crazy large.
00:25:49.000 With, I'm telling you, Tens of thousands of people in the street on top of each other.
00:25:54.000 The media had nothing to say about COVID.
00:25:55.000 Nothing.
00:25:56.000 Nothing.
00:25:57.000 If you go back to work, a problem.
00:25:58.000 If you go to a restaurant and sit outdoors, a problem.
00:26:00.000 If you're outdoors and you're... This isn't even Black Lives Matter, right?
00:26:03.000 This is just like an LGBT pride parade in Chicago.
00:26:05.000 It's like an LGBT rally in Chicago.
00:26:07.000 Deeply vital to the moment because it's Pride Month, right?
00:26:12.000 Not a word of condemnation for any of this, obviously.
00:26:15.000 Really, really solid stuff.
00:26:16.000 Okay, we're going to get to our political situation in just one second, and then we're going to get to the ongoing culture war that continues to rage out of control.
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00:27:31.000 Meanwhile, in the political sphere, all the news is bad for President Trump.
00:27:35.000 I'm I mean, it is unfortunate, fact of life.
00:27:37.000 Apparently, there are news reports that President Trump is starting to feel the pressure.
00:27:40.000 Well, yes, it's beyond time to feel the pressure.
00:27:42.000 Everybody around Trump, even his friends, have been telling him, dude, you need to whip it into shape.
00:27:46.000 I mean, this is not... Your poll numbers are no good.
00:27:49.000 They are no good.
00:27:50.000 And when Tucker Carlson is going on national TV and saying, Mr. President, get this together or you're going to lose, it's pretty obvious exactly what is going on here.
00:27:57.000 And in order for people to understand just how bad the situation is for President Trump, you have to understand that not only is he losing by nearly double digits in the RealClearPolitics polling average, but if you look at the electoral map right now, if there were no toss-ups, right, if you just took the RealClearPolitics poll average in every state, Trump would lose the Electoral College 353 to 185.
00:28:13.000 He gets to act like McCain by Obama in 2008 as an incumbent president, which is nearly unheard of, right?
00:28:19.000 Certainly the first time since George H.W.
00:28:22.000 Bush for an incumbent president to lose, but at least H.W.
00:28:25.000 Bush had the excuse of Ross Perot.
00:28:28.000 Let's go through this state by state in the RealCourt Politics polling average.
00:28:31.000 Okay, Biden is now leading by 4 in Arizona, by 8 in Wisconsin, by 7 in Florida, by 9 in Michigan, by 6 in Pennsylvania, by 2.4 in North Carolina, by 16 in Minnesota, which the Trump team was trying to flip.
00:28:42.000 Blue.
00:28:43.000 Trump is only leading by 2 in Texas, by 4 in Georgia.
00:28:45.000 He's statistically tied in Ohio.
00:28:47.000 He's only up by 1.5 in Iowa.
00:28:49.000 And Biden is up by 4 in Nevada.
00:28:52.000 Those are really, really unpleasant numbers for President Trump.
00:28:55.000 Which means you would think that he really needs to step up his game.
00:28:58.000 Because no matter whether you want him elected or you don't want him elected, a simple fact of the matter is that the President's current performance is not going to win him re-election.
00:29:05.000 It's not.
00:29:06.000 If things keep going this way, he's going to lose.
00:29:08.000 Okay, and that is not an out-of-the-box anti-Trump thing.
00:29:13.000 Again, I plan on voting for the guy.
00:29:14.000 But if he doesn't pull this thing out, he's in a tailspin right now.
00:29:19.000 And something needs to change, it needs to change radically.
00:29:21.000 You know it won't change it, the Twitter habit.
00:29:24.000 I don't like talking about Trump's tweets because I find it boring.
00:29:26.000 I think that President Trump simply sits there and when he's bored, he tweets.
00:29:29.000 I think it really is that simple.
00:29:30.000 I think like everybody else on Twitter, that's what he does.
00:29:32.000 When I'm bored, I tweet.
00:29:33.000 When President Trump is bored, he tweets.
00:29:35.000 Twitter is a place for bored people.
00:29:37.000 The problem is that when you have a window directly into the brain of the commander-in-chief... I mean, if Barack Obama had been...
00:29:43.000 Every thought that floated across his mind had been tweeted out.
00:29:45.000 He would have been a lot more unpopular.
00:29:47.000 People don't want every aspect of a politician's mind in front of them.
00:29:51.000 It's what they don't want.
00:29:52.000 In the same way that people don't like celebrities because they don't want to know what your favorite actor has to say about a particular topic because he's an actor.
00:30:00.000 This is why back in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, the studios used to keep their stars really under wraps.
00:30:04.000 They were sort of the public face of the star.
00:30:05.000 And then everything that went on behind closed doors went on behind closed doors.
00:30:08.000 When it comes to politicians, The public generally wants that to be true as well.
00:30:12.000 Listen, we're all gossip mongers and we all like salacious details, but the country, I think, was a lot better off when people were, let's say, less concerned with the sex lives of our presidents than when they were deeply concerned.
00:30:26.000 JFK was a monster in private and he's still widely considered a good president, by the left particularly, simply because all that stuff was basically buried by the media voluntarily.
00:30:34.000 I'm not saying we should bury this stuff voluntarily.
00:30:36.000 I'm saying be dull enough there's nothing to cover.
00:30:39.000 Or at the very least, don't spill your guts out into public on a regular basis.
00:30:42.000 So this reared its ugly head yesterday again, when President Trump decided to retweet a video.
00:30:47.000 And this made national news, because again, it is reflective of a narrative that the left would like to push, which is that President Trump is a white supremacist.
00:30:54.000 Now, I think what actually happened here is the same thing that happens to a lot of people on Twitter.
00:30:58.000 When you are bored, you just start retweeting things.
00:31:00.000 And when you retweet things, you don't always watch the video all the way to the end.
00:31:03.000 And President Trump, as we know, has the attention span of an ass, right?
00:31:06.000 The president of the United States, I mean, he literally will not read presidential briefings that are put on his desk.
00:31:11.000 They have to put them in bullet point form and then he doesn't even read those.
00:31:14.000 He'll ask for those to be shortened.
00:31:16.000 The man is not famous for sitting there and reading tomes of Winston Churchill.
00:31:20.000 So when it comes to watching videos online, my guess is he saw a person driving past with a Trump sign and then he just retweeted it.
00:31:28.000 That is the most likely explanation.
00:31:30.000 Does anyone really think That President Trump, even the people who think that, wow, he's a racist dummy and all that, even those people, do you think that he really would intentionally retweet a video in which somebody is shouting white power, which is what happens in this video?
00:31:45.000 Like, are there a lot of people who think that that would be like, like, just out of simple self-preservation?
00:31:50.000 If he had actually known what was in the video, you think he would have tweeted it?
00:31:52.000 Or is it more likely that, like everybody else, the sound was off on his computer, he sees a person yelling with a Trump 2020 sticker on the front of the golf cart.
00:31:59.000 Trump loves everybody who loves him, and this is a simple fact of the matter, and so he retweets the thing.
00:32:03.000 Anyway, here's the video of Trump where he tweeted and then had to take down.
00:32:05.000 Okay, it's a bunch of old people yelling at each other.
00:32:15.000 And then it's just a guy in a Trump golf cart shouting white power over at the villages.
00:32:22.000 And then President Trump didn't just retweet this.
00:32:24.000 He was like, thank you to everybody over at the villages.
00:32:29.000 Because they're a bunch of old, these old, they're like elderly women holding signs that Trump is a racist and a bunch of golf carts going by in a Trump processional with little American flags on the back.
00:32:39.000 Really very, very weird, weird stuff.
00:32:42.000 And there's a bunch of seniors yelling at each other.
00:32:44.000 This is my grandfather and grandmother.
00:32:47.000 Good times over there, except my grandfather and grandmother aren't racist.
00:32:50.000 And so you have the one guy shouting, white power.
00:32:53.000 And President Trump retweets that, okay?
00:32:55.000 Then he has to take it down.
00:32:57.000 And this leads to, it's another tweet that launches a thousand chips.
00:32:59.000 It again, removes his ability also to do things like attack Joe Biden on policy.
00:33:04.000 So when he says things like he's going to launch the same attacks on Joe Biden that Kamala Harris said, he's going to say, you hung out with segregationist senators.
00:33:09.000 And I'm old enough to remember when he supported the 94 crime bill.
00:33:12.000 And Biden's just going to look at him if he still has enough brain cells to rub together.
00:33:15.000 And he's just going to say, right.
00:33:16.000 And you retweet videos from white supremacists shouting white power.
00:33:20.000 It's just a mistake.
00:33:21.000 It is a it is a useless blunder.
00:33:23.000 By the way, most Republicans are not super happy with the tweeting.
00:33:27.000 I think most people at this point, they understand that this is not likely to win him friends and influence people.
00:33:33.000 And I gotta say, it feels like President Trump is off his game these days.
00:33:36.000 It does.
00:33:37.000 It feels like he is not on his game.
00:33:38.000 He hasn't been on his game.
00:33:39.000 Something has gotten under his skin to the point where he is seriously off his game, and when he is bothered, he tends to revert to a sort of narcissistic egoism that does not serve him well electorally.
00:33:48.000 So he was on with Sean Hannity, and Hannity asked him a simple question.
00:33:51.000 What are you gonna do in your second term?
00:33:53.000 And his answer is so self-centered and rambling that, again, this is not helpful to him.
00:33:57.000 The word experience is a very important word.
00:34:00.000 It's in a very important meaning.
00:34:03.000 I never did this before.
00:34:04.000 I never slept over in Washington.
00:34:05.000 I was in Washington, I think, 17 times.
00:34:07.000 All of a sudden, I'm president of the United States.
00:34:09.000 You know the story of riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady, and I say, this is great.
00:34:15.000 But I didn't know very many people in Washington.
00:34:17.000 It wasn't my thing.
00:34:17.000 I was from Manhattan, from New York.
00:34:20.000 Now I know everybody.
00:34:22.000 And I have great people in the administration.
00:34:24.000 You make some mistakes, like, you know, an idiot like Bolton, all he wanted to do is drop bombs on everybody.
00:34:29.000 You don't have to drop bombs on everybody.
00:34:30.000 Okay.
00:34:33.000 There's so much wrong with this answer.
00:34:35.000 First of all, you hired Bolton.
00:34:36.000 Second of all, you then killed Soleimani at Bolton's behest.
00:34:41.000 Also, just generally speaking, the question was, what are you going to do in your second term?
00:34:45.000 Why do you need a second term?
00:34:48.000 Did that answer have anything to do with the question at all?
00:34:51.000 That's such a softball too, right?
00:34:52.000 I mean, that is the number one question every president gets asked.
00:34:55.000 It's like, what do you plan for the second term?
00:34:57.000 And the answer isn't, that boat needs trapping bombs and everybody.
00:35:00.000 Again, this is not coming from a place of, I want Trump to lose.
00:35:03.000 It's coming from a place of, he's going to unless he changes something.
00:35:05.000 Something has to change right the hell now.
00:35:07.000 It cannot continue this way.
00:35:08.000 The poll numbers are not going to support it.
00:35:11.000 And don't get me, they're all fake polls.
00:35:12.000 Not in every state, they're fake polls.
00:35:14.000 Not when he's losing not just one swing state, but every swing state.
00:35:16.000 There's not a single swing state he's currently leading in.
00:35:18.000 Not one.
00:35:19.000 He's losing right now, or a competitive in, places where he should not be competitive.
00:35:24.000 If we enter Election Day, and Trump is only winning Texas by one point, he's gonna get walloped.
00:35:29.000 He's gonna get swamped.
00:35:30.000 Okay?
00:35:30.000 Republicans need to win Texas by six to ten points, if they hope to win the presidency.
00:35:35.000 Republicans need to win Ohio by a significant number of points.
00:35:37.000 They cannot be in statistical ties.
00:35:39.000 And when you act like this, it is not helping you in any way.
00:35:43.000 And again, there's so much for him to campaign on.
00:35:46.000 The economy is recovering.
00:35:47.000 The economy is coming back.
00:35:48.000 It's coming back at an extraordinarily rapid rate.
00:35:50.000 Why not champion that?
00:35:52.000 I still don't understand why the Trump administration has not cut an ad that simply is just video over and over and over again of Democratic governors saying they gave us what we need with COVID-19.
00:36:00.000 Because those videos are out there.
00:36:01.000 We played them on the show.
00:36:03.000 I don't get it.
00:36:04.000 I don't understand why the President of the United States is not promoting the fact, and solely promoting the fact, that Joe Biden has nothing to say about the destruction of American history.
00:36:13.000 That he's been hiding in the basement saying nothing about the destruction of American history.
00:36:16.000 Now hopefully he will say something, I think he's supposed to do a July 4th address from Mount Rushmore, and hopefully he'll say something there.
00:36:21.000 I won't say that he's completely ignored that issue, he hasn't.
00:36:23.000 But when the country is going up in flames and it looks like the President can't do anything about it, that's not a good look.
00:36:28.000 This is the lowest point of Trump's presidency.
00:36:30.000 Right now, what we are watching is the lowest point of Trump's presidency.
00:36:32.000 He needs to pick it up and he needs to pick it up fast.
00:36:35.000 Part of that would be fighting back against... There's a story that's out today that really is devastating.
00:36:39.000 Again, more to the strong mentality that Trump was supposed to exhibit in the presidency on foreign policy.
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00:38:40.000 If there's a feeling among Trump voters that law and order is not prevailing at home and also that we're not being strong abroad, that's about the worst combo for the president.
00:38:53.000 And right now, that's sort of what a lot of people are feeling like.
00:38:55.000 And something needs to change, and change very quickly.
00:38:57.000 There's a story out of the Wall Street Journal that a Russian spy unit actually paid members of the Taliban to conduct lethal attacks on US troops in that country, according to a classified American intelligence assessment.
00:39:06.000 The assessment of the role played by the GRU, which is the new-fangled KGB, in fostering attacks on American soldiers comes as President Trump is pushing the Pentagon to withdraw a significant portion of U.S.
00:39:16.000 forces from Afghanistan and as U.S.
00:39:18.000 diplomats try to forge a peace accord involving the Taliban and the U.S.
00:39:21.000 back-to-Afghan government.
00:39:23.000 The intelligence assessment regarding Russia's actions in Afghanistan was delivered to the White House earlier this spring, until recently had been known only to a handful of officials, a person familiar with it said.
00:39:32.000 Its contents were reported earlier Friday by the New York Times.
00:39:35.000 It couldn't be determined whether Russian bounties paid to Taliban fighters did result in any American combat deaths, although follow-on reports suggest the answer is yes.
00:39:42.000 The White House, without confirming the existence of the intelligence assessment, said President Trump has never been briefed on Russian bounty payments, Responding to Democratic and Republican critics who charged that Trump knew of the activity and should have halted it.
00:39:54.000 So obviously it would be horrible, horrible for the administration and for the American people if the White House knew that the Russians were paying the Taliban to kill American soldiers and the White House was not doing anything to Russia about it and simultaneously negotiating with the Taliban over it.
00:40:09.000 That would be a disastrous issue for the Trump administration.
00:40:14.000 It's not surprising that Russia was doing this.
00:40:16.000 Russia has obviously been attacking American forces directly in places like Syria.
00:40:21.000 That is not particularly a shock.
00:40:23.000 But it is a problem for the president if it appears that the White House knew that Russia was doing this and said nothing and did not hold Russia to account.
00:40:34.000 This, of course, allowed Joe Biden the ability to go after President Trump and slam President Trump, suggesting that the White House shouldn't ignore this sort of behavior.
00:40:42.000 Now, worth noting, Good information that the Russians have been doing this in places like Iraq with the Iranian forces and in places like Syria for a long time, even under Obama.
00:40:52.000 So this is Joe Biden being dishonest.
00:40:53.000 But again, it's a line of attack against Trump.
00:40:56.000 It's truly shocking revelation that if the Times report is true, I emphasize again, Is that President Trump, the commander in chief of American troops serving in a dangerous theater of war, has known about this for months, according to the Times, and done worse than nothing.
00:41:15.000 Not only has he failed to sanction or impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of international law, Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin.
00:41:29.000 Now again, Biden is wildly dishonest here because Obama literally offered flexibility to the Russian government in the run-up to the 2012 election if they would lay off before the election.
00:41:38.000 So let's be perfectly clear about this.
00:41:40.000 The Obama administration was so soft on Russia.
00:41:42.000 I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Mitt Romney was running for president and said Russia was our number one geopolitical threat.
00:41:48.000 So I'm not going to hear this crap from Joe Biden, but is that a good look for the president?
00:41:55.000 No, it's not a particularly good look for the president.
00:41:57.000 You combine this sort of stuff with the overall feeling of just chaos in the country right now, and that's never going to redound to the benefit of an incumbent president.
00:42:07.000 There's a story that's getting a lot of attention out of St.
00:42:09.000 Louis, Missouri.
00:42:11.000 According to KMOV4, hundreds of protesters chanted and marched to St.
00:42:14.000 Louis Mayor Lita Crewson's home Sunday night, calling for her resignation.
00:42:18.000 A group of 300 protesters chanting, resign Lita, take the cops with you, marched after Crewson read the names and addresses of demonstrators calling for police reform during a Friday afternoon Facebook Live video.
00:42:27.000 Now she has been doing that consistently.
00:42:29.000 In these videos, she wasn't singling out.
00:42:32.000 My understanding is only these people.
00:42:34.000 Apparently, for the last three or four weeks, public records require that you are supposed to submit your name and your address.
00:42:39.000 And she's been reading those out loud for weeks.
00:42:41.000 But only these ones were the ones that caused an issue.
00:42:43.000 In any case, a group of 300 protesters broke into a gated community.
00:42:47.000 I mean, that's literally labeled private property.
00:42:50.000 And then they broke into the gated community, they walked past these big palatial estates, and they walked over to the mayor's house and they painted something on the ground.
00:42:57.000 But the thing that's creating all sorts of news is the fact that there was a husband and wife who came walking out of their house and they saw this big crowd coming into their private gated neighborhood.
00:43:06.000 They walked out of their house and they were holding guns.
00:43:13.000 Now, quick point.
00:43:15.000 Okay, if a bunch of people had broken into my property and were walking across my front porch, and this group of people had been threatening to get rid of the police, like wanting to get rid of the police, And protests have very often degraded into violent activity in the past several weeks.
00:43:34.000 I don't know if these people are protesters, I don't know if they're rioters, I don't know anything.
00:43:36.000 All I know is that they've walked into my neighborhood by breaking into private property.
00:43:40.000 They've broken through a private gate in order to get there.
00:43:42.000 They've walked directly, they've trespassed.
00:43:44.000 Then I'm wondering exactly what, unless they're using the guns irresponsibly, meaning they're pointing them, right?
00:43:50.000 They shouldn't be pointing them at people.
00:43:51.000 But if they're just out there saying like, if you come on my property, I will shoot you.
00:43:56.000 Louis, my understanding is that that's legal.
00:43:56.000 In St.
00:43:58.000 And more than that, All the people who are very angry at this couple for even having guns.
00:44:05.000 These people are literally chanting, defund the police while trespassing.
00:44:07.000 I'm wondering what exactly you expect private citizens to do.
00:44:10.000 And generally, I'm wondering what you expect private citizens to do.
00:44:13.000 You're gonna see more of this.
00:44:15.000 As the police are withdrawn, more and more Americans who are law-abiding are gonna be put in a situation where it's like, do I let my house get ransacked or am I supposed to get my gun?
00:44:23.000 Literally, what do I do?
00:44:24.000 I don't understand what I'm supposed to do.
00:44:26.000 We've seen this in the United States over the past few weeks.
00:44:29.000 We've seen shop owners who are having to defend their stores with guns.
00:44:32.000 This is not good stuff.
00:44:33.000 You remove the cops, and this is the sort of stuff that happens.
00:44:37.000 That's not to say this couple is acting well with the guns.
00:44:39.000 I mean, look at the video.
00:44:40.000 It doesn't look like they're supremely familiar with the handling of the firearms that they're holding, right?
00:44:44.000 I mean, they're sort of pointing them all over and all that, but the notion that they shouldn't have the guns at all, or that they shouldn't be scared, like, why are they scared?
00:44:50.000 Are people who just broke into their community?
00:44:52.000 And are marching past, they have no idea who they are.
00:44:55.000 I'm not gonna get on board with that.
00:44:56.000 I'm not.
00:44:57.000 That doesn't make any sense to me.
00:44:59.000 These people literally walked into a private gated community, where it says on it, private property, and they just walked right in.
00:45:05.000 Am I supposed to believe that they have some sort of root belief in the sanctity of private property?
00:45:10.000 Because I'm not seeing the rationale for that.
00:45:14.000 Now, meanwhile, I will say, That the media are doing an incredible job of paying attention where they can pay attention to Republicans doing stuff that is at best insensitive.
00:45:24.000 And they're ignoring stuff where Republicans are doing stuff they actually kind of like.
00:45:27.000 So take an example.
00:45:29.000 There is a there is a story today that Mississippi is about to lose the the rebel flag from the from the state flag.
00:45:38.000 So the state flag of Mississippi has the Confederate battle flag upon it.
00:45:41.000 And the Confederate battle flag is That's probably not a bad thing, right?
00:45:45.000 believe, 124 years, something like that was put in 1894 or 1896, something to that effect.
00:45:52.000 So the Mississippi state legislature has now come out and they've pointed out and they've gotten rid of this.
00:45:58.000 They've decided they voted in favor of getting rid of the Confederate symbol that is on the state flag.
00:46:03.000 And I think that's probably not a bad thing, right?
00:46:05.000 I mean, I think that's probably a good thing.
00:46:07.000 I mean, the idea that the Confederate symbol should be a part of the flag of a state of the United States and was placed there, you know, only 30 years after the Civil War, it's a weird thing.
00:46:17.000 Like, at the very best, it's a weird thing.
00:46:19.000 And at the very most, it's a race-based thing, obviously.
00:46:22.000 It's a very, very race-based thing.
00:46:23.000 And I can see why.
00:46:24.000 If you're a black American living in Mississippi and you look at the Confederate battle flag on the state flag, you go, well, that's uncomfortable.
00:46:28.000 That was the flag that flew over the army of the people who were enslaving my father or grandfather.
00:46:33.000 That's not something I'm cool with.
00:46:35.000 I get that.
00:46:35.000 I get that.
00:46:36.000 So, you know who else got that?
00:46:37.000 The Mississippi State Legislature.
00:46:39.000 And I'm going to read you from this NBC story.
00:46:41.000 See if you can spot what they've changed the story now.
00:46:44.000 Let's see if you can spot what was missing in the original story.
00:46:48.000 Quote, Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has flown for more than 120 years.
00:46:55.000 The state House and Senate approved a suspension of the rule Saturday, allowing for debate and a vote on the bill.
00:46:59.000 It passed the House on Sunday by a vote of 91 to 23, quickly followed by a 37 to 14 Senate vote.
00:47:05.000 Speaking before the vote, State Senator Derek Simmons urged his colleagues to vote for the Mississippi of tomorrow.
00:47:10.000 He said, He said, This thing passed last night, and the governor said, if it's sent to me, then I will sign it.
00:47:31.000 He says the argument over the 1894 flag has become as divisive as the flag itself.
00:47:35.000 It's time to end it.
00:47:35.000 If they send me a bill this weekend, I will sign it.
00:47:38.000 It's the original story.
00:47:38.000 The story now contains some party signifiers, but it would be kind of important to note at this point that the Mississippi legislature that voted to get rid of the Confederate battle flag that is on the state flag That that legislature breaks down extraordinarily heavily in favor of Republicans.
00:47:56.000 The Mississippi House is 74-45 Republican.
00:47:58.000 The Senate is 36-16 Republican.
00:48:01.000 The governor was a Republican.
00:48:03.000 I searched the story twice.
00:48:03.000 I had to read it twice just to make sure.
00:48:05.000 The original story, which has now been changed, the original story did not include any reference to party.
00:48:10.000 None.
00:48:11.000 It did not say Democratic.
00:48:12.000 It did not say Republican.
00:48:13.000 The assumption is that it's generic legislators.
00:48:15.000 Now, if that had been a Democratic state getting rid of it, don't you think that would have led the story?
00:48:18.000 Democrats in state get rid of?
00:48:20.000 Wouldn't that be the story?
00:48:21.000 When you have an overwhelmingly Republican state that gets rid of the Confederate battle flag, that sort of implies that most people in that state and most of the legislatures are not racist.
00:48:29.000 It sort of implies the Republican Party is trying to do its best to mitigate the effects of past racism.
00:48:35.000 But the media will do its best to obscure that.
00:48:38.000 Only later will they go in and self-edit the story.
00:48:41.000 Meanwhile, Orange County Democrats want John Wayne removed from the Orange County Airport because he made quote-unquote racist comments back in the 1970s.
00:48:50.000 Because he said in 1971, there was a 1971 Playboy interview in which he said, quote, I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility.
00:48:58.000 I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.
00:49:02.000 He said, although he didn't condone slavery, I don't feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago, these people were slaves.
00:49:08.000 Obviously not great stuff from John Wayne.
00:49:10.000 Circa 1971.
00:49:10.000 we did wrong about Native Americans and taking this great country away from them.
00:49:13.000 Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival.
00:49:16.000 There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
00:49:20.000 Okay, not great stuff, right?
00:49:21.000 Obviously not great stuff from John Wayne.
00:49:23.000 Circa 1971, circa 19...
00:49:26.000 I mean, what are we going to do?
00:49:27.000 Exhume him and like burn him an effigy?
00:49:29.000 By the way, the reason that John Wayne is on the Orange County airport is not because of John Wayne's personal political views.
00:49:35.000 The reason he's on the Orange County Airport is because, let's be frank about this, not tons of stuff is going on in Orange County.
00:49:40.000 I'm from LA, okay?
00:49:41.000 Not tons of stuff is going on in Orange County.
00:49:43.000 John Wayne lived in Orange County, and John Wayne is an iconic symbol in American film.
00:49:49.000 There is not a single film star you could ever build a statue to or name a thing for who would be okay at this point.
00:49:57.000 Bob Hope was the airport in Burbank.
00:49:58.000 They changed it to the Burbank Airport.
00:49:59.000 It was the Bob Hope Airport.
00:50:01.000 I am sure you could dig up stuff that Bob Hope said that was politically incorrect and or wrong.
00:50:05.000 I'm sure you could.
00:50:07.000 But there are no limiting principles to this cultural revolution.
00:50:10.000 Woodrow Wilson is going to be removed from the Princeton campus.
00:50:13.000 They're going to do that because he was a vicious racist.
00:50:16.000 I mean, Woodrow Wilson was in fact a vicious racist who attempted to foster segregation and who showed birth of a nation at the White House.
00:50:24.000 I mean, really a terrible, terrible person.
00:50:27.000 But let's be frank about this again.
00:50:29.000 He was a Democratic president.
00:50:31.000 And the notion that you are just going to get rid of all... He wasn't a confederate.
00:50:35.000 He was just a bad, bad man who was president.
00:50:38.000 So I guess all of the names have to go.
00:50:40.000 All of the names.
00:50:41.000 Except for the names on the back of the NBA jerseys.
00:50:43.000 NBA players are now going to be allowed to put social justice statements on the back of their jerseys, per the report.
00:50:47.000 I assume that we will see no social justice statements on the back of jerseys condemning the Chinese government for its forcible imprisonment of a million Uyghurs and the forcible sterilization of tens of millions of women over the past 40 years.
00:50:57.000 I really don't think we're going to see a lot about human rights on that.
00:50:59.000 Just a guess.
00:51:00.000 Just a guess.
00:51:02.000 But if you, by the way, if the NBA thinks that this is going to add to its appeal, to have people wearing on the back of their jerseys political statements, good luck with that.
00:51:12.000 Good luck with that.
00:51:13.000 Really, making the world more annoying one step at a time.
00:51:17.000 Players can speak out however they want, but the idea that you're watching a baseball game and suddenly you see on the back of somebody's shirt, I voted Dole, like what in the world?
00:51:26.000 How about this?
00:51:27.000 How about go to the New York Yankees style where nobody even has their name on the back of the jersey?
00:51:31.000 Solid, solid stuff happening here.
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