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00:01:47.000Okay, so going into the final weekend of the election, the big piece of news really should be the fact that the economy bounced back in a massive way in the third quarter.
00:01:56.000There was a massive Q3 recovery number.
00:02:39.000Lawrence, Senior Portfolio Manager at Accenture Wealth Advisor says, the obvious caveat is when you drop 30% and you gain 30%, you're still below where you started.
00:02:46.000That's because if you drop 30% from 100, you're now at 70%.
00:02:48.000And then if you take 30% of 70, 30% of 70 is not 30.
00:02:54.000So you're back up and it's like 90, 92.
00:02:56.000So you're still below where you started.
00:02:58.000But the bottom line is that that is indeed a massive, massive recovery from what was an exogenous shock to the system that could not have been foreseen or predicted.
00:03:07.000If it could have been, then presumably somebody in Europe would have predicted it.
00:03:11.000I'm constantly amazed at the willingness of everybody in the United States to believe that President Trump knew what was going on, decided deliberately to allow this thing to happen and wreck the American economy in not only a re-election year, but just as a general moral matter.
00:03:42.000It was war for revenge and all that kind of crap.
00:03:44.000And the reality is lots of mistakes get made in politics because lots of mistakes get made in life.
00:03:49.000But one of the things that is perfectly obvious that the business community This should be the talking point going into the weekend, is that Joe Biden is likely to stagnate the economy at an extraordinary level.
00:03:58.000He's already talked about radically raising taxes.
00:04:00.000He's talked about raising the corporate income tax rate.
00:04:02.000He's talked about raising the top income tax rate.
00:04:04.000Pence spoke about this yesterday, bragged about the economy growing more than 33%.
00:04:08.000This should be the talking point going into the weekend, is that Joe Biden is likely to stagnate the economy at an extraordinary level.
00:04:14.000He's already talked about radically raising taxes.
00:04:16.000He's talked about raising the corporate income tax rate.
00:04:19.000He's talked about raising the top income tax rate.
00:04:21.000He's talked about raising the payroll tax.
00:04:24.000He's talked about extraordinary regulations, particularly regulations that benefit big labor.
00:04:29.000Everything that he has talked about is likely to dampen the economy.
00:04:32.000Trump is more trusted than Biden is on the economy, and he should be.
00:04:36.000Here's Mike Pence making the case yesterday.
00:04:38.000With today's new GDP numbers just this morning, the American economy grew by more than 33% Okay, so that should be the final pitch going into the election.
00:05:00.000As we will see, that is not the final pitch going into the election.
00:05:02.000Instead, it's a bunch of other sort of random things that people don't care about nearly as much, which is not a great election strategy.
00:05:08.000However, The economists are already starting to try to play this down.
00:05:11.000So, NBC News says, Okay, but exactly how are you supposed to fix that?
00:05:14.000I mean, we're in the middle of COVID still.
00:05:15.000shape nature of the recovery that has caused economic sectors such as housing to rebound strongly while other industries like airlines and restaurants remain morbid.
00:05:22.000Okay, but exactly how are you supposed to fix that?
00:05:24.000I mean, we're in the middle of COVID still.
00:05:25.000So yes, a lot of restaurants are shut because if they are indoor restaurants with a lot of recirculated air conditioning, people are afraid that they're gonna get COVID.
00:05:34.000And it turns out that airlines have been hit really hard, even though the studies tend to show that there's not transmission on airlines.
00:05:40.000There have been no serious outbreaks on any airline, even though we are now up over a million passengers a day in the United States, which is not nearly where it was.
00:05:51.000And there's been no outbreak on planes because planes do have these HEPA filters that filter the air.
00:05:56.000And when they recycle the air, they're actually taking out the virus when they recycle the air.
00:05:59.000Basically, somebody would have to sneeze directly on you in close quarters Or, you know, leave their germs in the bathroom or something in order for you to get it on a plane.
00:06:06.000Everybody on these planes is masked up anyway, and they do have the power under the law to kick you off a plane if you refuse to mask properly on a plane.
00:06:12.000So there's not been any outbreaks on planes.
00:06:15.000But the goal of the media is to downplay the recovery because, again, what the recovery shows is that the measures that Trump has been taking are actually successful.
00:06:24.000Not just because he wants to reopen, but also because President Trump would like to retain a lot of the economic base that made the economy so strong leading up to the COVID depression.
00:06:35.000Remember, before the COVID depression, the economy was going great guns.
00:06:38.000I mean, we had the lowest unemployment rate in half a century.
00:06:40.000Wages were rising extraordinarily high.
00:06:42.000They were rising mostly at the bottom end of the spectrum.
00:06:45.000The median income in the United States had risen dramatically under President Trump, under the first three years of his administration.
00:06:51.000So the underlying fundamentals remain good.
00:06:53.000And this should be the argument, right?
00:06:54.000The argument going into the election should be the underlying fundamentals of the economy under Trump would be much, much, much stronger than the underlying fundamentals of an economy under Joe Biden, who would seek to put restraints on the economy in the name of various other priorities, ranging from a Green New Deal to big labor's priorities to the attempt to create income equality, which, of course, is an idiotic goal.
00:07:14.000Income equality should not be the goal.
00:07:43.000Joe Biden would like to actually harm the economy.
00:07:46.000His actual policy goals are likely to harm the economy.
00:07:49.000Apparently, he's flirting with Elizabeth Warren.
00:07:52.000Politico, citing three Democratic officials who have spoken with Warren's inner circle, reports that the Massachusetts Senator and third-place Democratic presidential candidate has her eyes set on the role of Treasury Secretary and plans to advocate for herself starting next week, should Democrats take control of the White House.
00:08:08.000She wants it, two of the officials told the news agency of Warren's ambitions.
00:08:12.000As Politico notes, the Treasury Secretary and the next president's administration will be tasked with steering the U.S.
00:08:16.000economy out of a deep recession, even as the country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic.
00:08:23.000This means, presumably, that Elizabeth Warren will be negotiating budgets.
00:08:26.000It means that Elizabeth Warren will be trying to cram down particular programs on business via the Fed.
00:08:33.000Her plan, her economic plan, was likely to really, really have a dire impact on the economy.
00:08:39.000I mean, she was calling for a full-on wealth tax, right?
00:08:41.000She wanted wide-scale wealth confiscation for people with a net worth greater than $50 million.
00:08:45.000And as I pointed out at the time, measuring people by their net worth is not actually a measure of their wealth.
00:08:50.000A net worth is what your stock is worth.
00:09:24.000So if you're talking about a 2% tax on $100 million, a 2% wealth tax on $100 million, then what you would actually be talking about is a $2 million tax every single year for a company that may not actually be earning $2 million in profit.
00:09:38.000Okay, so none of this makes any sense.
00:09:40.000But Elizabeth Warren's plans didn't have to make sense.
00:09:56.000What drives the economy is people creating new, excellent products and services with heavy levels of investment that actually change your life.
00:10:04.000This is the famous Henry Ford line that if I had done what the market wanted, I would have created a more efficient horse and buggy, right?
00:10:10.000It is entrepreneurs and innovators and people are constantly attempting to discern what the public would love to see from their imagination and then investing their own resources, time, and money in that stuff.
00:10:20.000That is what drives the economy forward.
00:10:21.000That is why you are living a better lifestyle now than you would have in 1980 for all of the Bizarre nostalgia for living standards in 1950.
00:10:28.000If you lived in 1950, okay, if you're the richest person in 1950, you had less amenities available to you than the poorest person who's living in the United States today, right?
00:10:39.000You were lucky if you had a nice car in 1950.
00:10:41.000If you had a house, that was like a big deal in 1950.
00:10:45.000The average living space in the United States is significantly larger than the average living space was in 1950.
00:10:51.000There's this nostalgia for a time that didn't exist.
00:10:54.000And it's funny, people on the left accuse the right of having nostalgia for a time that didn't exist in the 1950s, this sort of clean, socially conservative time.
00:11:01.000Okay, but the reality is that everybody on the left has a nostalgia for an economy that didn't exist in the 1950s.
00:11:07.000Okay, they have a nostalgia for a time they would not wish for.
00:11:08.000Like, no one had air conditioning in the 1950s.
00:11:35.000The economy will only be great again after COVID if you allow business to do what business does.
00:11:40.000And you cannot do that if you're talking about endless lockdowns.
00:11:42.000You cannot do that if you're talking about outsourcing America's policy to people who do not do multivariate analysis of all of the COVID-based issues, right?
00:11:50.000If you're just outsourcing everything to Dr. Fauci, and Dr. Fauci's sole goal in life is not to balance the economic needs of the American people with the need to protect elderly from COVID, right?
00:12:01.000His sole goal, I mean, he's the head of the NIAID, right?
00:12:03.000I mean, he's the head of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
00:14:06.000The other way is the way we all know politics affects our everyday life, which is the social ostracization the left has now thrust upon anybody who thinks differently.
00:14:13.000If you think differently, if you're the Girl Scouts, they will ostracize you.
00:14:16.000If you tweet out a nice thing about Amy Coney Barrett, They will force you to back down.
00:14:20.000If you are a person working in an office and you suggest, just suggest, that Barack Obama was a bad president, you will be labeled a racist.
00:14:27.000If you say that you support Trump, you will obviously be labeled a racist.
00:14:30.000That is how politics affects your everyday life and Democrats have invested heavily in that message because it is a social intimidation campaign to get you to cave and vote Democrat.
00:14:39.000That is what is happening on the left side of the aisle.
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00:16:28.000Okay, so the closing pitch for Democrats is the same as the pitch has always been.
00:16:32.000You're a bad person if you vote Republican.
00:16:34.000It has nothing to do with Republican policies.
00:16:37.000It has nothing to do with why Joe Biden will be better for the country.
00:16:46.000You're a bad person if you vote for Donald Trump.
00:16:49.000Don Lemon is making this case overtly in the media.
00:16:51.000You must be delusional to vote for Donald Trump, says Don Lemon over at CNN.
00:16:54.000In fact, he says, I'm getting rid of Trump voters in my life.
00:16:57.000There are people who I like who are Trump voters.
00:16:58.000I can't have them in my life because they're so delusional.
00:17:00.000Here is Don Lemon on CNN saying the quiet part out loud about what the Democratic agenda really is, which is to close the Overton window to the point where you no longer are allowed in polite society if you have conversations that differ from the mainstream.
00:17:13.000I have many people who I love in my life.
00:17:20.000There are a lot of friends who I had to really get rid of because they are so nonsensical.
00:17:25.000When it comes to this issue, they have the whole, every single talking point that they hear on state TV and that they hear from this president.
00:17:32.000They repeat it and they are blinded by it.
00:17:35.000I just, I had to get rid of a lot of people in my life because sometimes you just have to let them go.
00:17:39.000I think that they have to hit rock bottom like an addict, right?
00:17:49.000So a long time ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, who is still the greatest observer of America and American life, he wrote back in the 1840s, and he was writing about touring the United States of America.
00:17:59.000And Alexis de Tocqueville talked about the big problem in American life.
00:18:04.000He said one of the big problems is that social sanctions, when used, can be extraordinarily powerful.
00:18:09.000He says that the mob could allow freedom of thought technically, but only to an extent.
00:18:14.000Here's de Tocqueville, again, writing nearly two centuries ago.
00:18:17.000The person who says they are for freedom of thought but in favor of social stricture of mainstream opinion, he says, quote, you are free to think differently from me and to retain your life, your property and all that you possess. But if such be your determination, you are henceforth an alien among your people. You may retain your civil rights, but they will be useless to you, for you will be never chosen by your fellow citizens if you solicit their suffrages, and they will affect to scorn you if you solicit their esteem.
00:18:38.000You will remain among men, but you will be deprived of the rights of mankind.
00:18:41.000Your fellow creatures will shun you like an impure being, and those who are most persuaded of your innocence will abandon you too, lest they should be shunned in their turn.
00:18:48.000I have given you your life, but it is an existence incomparably worse than death.
00:18:54.000The majority lives in the perpetual practice of self-applause, and there are certain truths which the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience.
00:19:00.000So the idea here is, again, that social stricture is one way that politics is done.
00:19:06.000The left knows this, and so they have decided that they are going to excoriate anybody who votes differently than they do.
00:19:12.000And you see this in nearly every arena of American life.
00:19:15.000It's why it feels like the country is falling apart.
00:19:17.000It used to be that you would get together with somebody, and you'd go to a baseball game.
00:19:21.000And at the baseball game, you'd put your politics aside because there was a baseline recognition that you were both Americans and that while you may have different political priorities in terms of how you vote, you still want what's best for America.
00:19:31.000You still believe in traditional American values.
00:20:34.000Put aside the Donald Trump is bad stuff.
00:20:37.000The reason they hate Trump is not because they hate Trump so much.
00:20:39.000It's because they hate everybody who would possibly vote for Trump or think of voting for Trump.
00:20:43.000And Trump is just the brutal and vulgar version of those people.
00:20:47.000You can't have 40% or so of the country being so angry that they will continue to vote for somebody like Trump who will do absolutely nothing to improve their lives.
00:20:59.000But he speaks to their anger, resentments, and fear of people like you and me.
00:21:06.000Alrighty, so leading up to the election, then, Democrats are pretty confident that they are going to be able to ram through their agenda.
00:21:13.000They're pretty sure that Joe Biden is going to be elected.
00:21:15.000Now, according to the polling, they're probably right.
00:21:17.000Now, there is a plausible read of the polling where the polls don't actually have to be wrong in Trump wins.
00:21:22.000In order for that to happen, Trump simply has to close the gap in a couple of states He has to close the gap in Pennsylvania, most importantly.
00:21:30.000But he needs to win Georgia, win North Carolina, win Arizona, and win Florida.
00:21:35.000Right now, all of those are margin of error states.
00:21:38.000Pennsylvania is slightly outside of margin of error, but not by much.
00:21:56.000I mean, he's down seven points in the national polling.
00:21:58.000There is literally no way he's going to win the popular vote.
00:22:00.000That is the one safe prediction I can make.
00:22:02.000Donald Trump's not going to win the popular vote.
00:22:03.000People in California are standing in line to vote against Trump, even though it makes absolutely no difference to the presidential outcome, because California will remain blue.
00:22:12.000There is a world where Trump wins a fairly broad electoral college victory, where he wins Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, let's say Minnesota and Pennsylvania, right?
00:22:21.000That means that he wins as broad an electoral victory as he did last time.
00:22:25.000There's a plausible road where Joe Biden wins going away, where Biden swings all those states, where Biden wins Florida, he wins Georgia, he wins North Carolina, he wins Iowa, he wins Wisconsin, he wins Ohio, because Ohio is tied.
00:22:37.000The polls would not have to be wrong for any of this to happen, by the way.
00:22:40.000Right now, Texas is within margin of error.
00:22:42.000So Biden could theoretically win Texas and the polls couldn't be wrong.
00:22:45.000So recognize that there is a lot of flexibility in those polling numbers.
00:22:48.000When people say, the polls were wrong.
00:22:50.000Now, there's a range in which polls are still considered accurate.
00:22:53.000If you're within like two or three points of the final outcome, those polls are still basically considered accurate.
00:22:58.000This is why you have margin of error measurements on polls.
00:23:01.000So nobody should be too sanguine about where we are in this election, nor should people on the right think, That if Donald Trump loses, that that is solely because of voter fraud.
00:23:10.000I have Trump voters who come up to me sometimes and they say this sort of stuff, right?
00:23:12.000I voted for Trump already, by the way.
00:23:15.000In Florida, I already voted early, like a lot of people.
00:23:18.000Yesterday, I was walking around and a fellow pulled me over and he said, you know, if Trump loses, it seems to me the only way Trump can lose is if there's massive voter fraud.
00:23:26.000And I said, there's always the possibility of voter fraud, but I don't think that that's the only way that Trump could lose.
00:23:30.000And I think that we should get out of this mindset.
00:23:32.000Well, the problem is that the left is in that mindset, right?
00:23:34.000Everybody seems to be in that mindset.
00:23:36.000A lot of Trump voters think that if Trump loses, it's going to be because the system is corrupt.
00:23:40.000I mean, that's true for the media, okay?
00:23:42.000The media had a massive outsized influence on this election.
00:23:44.000They are corrupt, but it's not because the voting system is corrupt.
00:23:48.000If Trump wins, it's gotta be because of voter fraud.
00:23:52.000And this leads Nancy Pelosi to say, literally, as we'll see, that no matter how the voting goes on Tuesday, if you just keep counting the votes long enough, Joe Biden will be president of the United States.
00:25:09.000I don't think hundreds of thousands of people are mailing in fake ballots.
00:25:12.000I think we have measures to take if that is the case.
00:25:15.000Voter fraud matters on the small scale.
00:25:16.000It does not tend to matter on a broad national scale, where again, the margin of victory is going to be hundreds of thousands of votes, at the very least tens of thousands of votes.
00:25:23.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:26:58.000The easiest thing for him to do is to stand up like a man and accept the results of an election of the American people.
00:27:07.000For him to make these kinds of statements shows his lack of patriotism, Ah, so Trump is undermining the integrity of the election by talking about voter fraud.
00:27:18.000is like his friend Putin to undermine the integrity of our election.
00:27:24.000So Trump is undermining the integrity of the election by talking about about voter fraud.
00:27:30.000Meanwhile, Democrats are not undermining the integrity of the election by constantly suggesting that millions of people are about to be disenfranchised.
00:27:36.000So let's talk about that for a second.
00:27:38.000So, a wide variety of states have taken variant measures with regard to COVID-19 and when the balloting deadline will be.
00:27:45.000Now, it seems to me that it was idiotic in the extreme in the first place to make all of these bizarre sort of legal arrangements with regard to COVID-19, considering that we've known for months that you're not getting COVID from a polling place.
00:27:57.000They had massive polling in Wisconsin months ago, like in the middle of the pandemic, and there was not a major outbreak.
00:28:01.000We've had significant in-person voting across the country in a variety of elections since March.
00:28:08.000Because standing in line outdoors, six feet apart, is not going to give you COVID.
00:28:13.000We've known this for a very, very long time.
00:28:15.000Nonetheless, there was a major push by Democrats for mail-in voting because their suggestion was, and they thought that they were going to be able to consolidate that mail-in vote very early.
00:28:22.000Trump was campaigning against the mail-in vote.
00:28:24.000Then Trump realized he was telling his own people not to vote in, not to mail in their votes.
00:28:49.000And judges don't get to willy-nilly rewrite the law.
00:28:52.000And if they do, that can be appealed to the federal level because that is violation of the Republican form of government.
00:28:57.000It is violation of the federal laws governing voting, which are supposed to really delegate not to state courts, but to state legislatures.
00:29:05.000And so this has been the consistent Bizarre messaging surrounding voter suppression across the country.
00:29:13.000The question is not what the standard is.
00:29:32.000So I saw Chris Hayes yesterday and he was like, imagine, imagine if people just said that we were going to stop looking at your tax returns on April 15th.
00:29:38.000Imagine if we just shifted it and we said that if any income tax return that was sent in after April 15th, we won't look at.
00:29:48.000Everybody would just mail it in two days earlier because it turns out that whatever the deadline is, is what the deadline is.
00:29:53.000Institutionally and legally speaking, the question is who gets to make the rules?
00:29:57.000So the left has been going nuts over this because their suggestion is no matter who It's the content of the rule that matters, not the process by which the rule is made.
00:30:07.000So if a legislature correctly and legally makes a decision to cut off the counting of the vote at midnight on election night, and then a judge stands in without any legal precedent and simply extends that for seven days, the left is like, excellent, excellent.
00:30:22.000And it makes no difference to them who actually creates the rule.
00:30:26.000And then if you step in, you say, hold on, the legislature, that's the legislature's job.
00:30:29.000You can't have, Members of the executive agencies rewriting the law, or you can't have members of the judiciary rewriting the law, then they call it voter suppression.
00:31:16.000Minnesota law dictates that election officials only count ballots received by Election Day.
00:31:20.000That is what it says in Minnesota law.
00:31:23.000The Minnesota Alliance for a Tired American's Education Fund and some of its members sued Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon in Minnesota State Court alleging the statutory deadline was unconstitutional.
00:31:33.000The Secretary and the Alliance then entered into a consent decree purporting to change the rules by essentially making the statutorily mandated absentee ballot receipt deadline inoperative.
00:31:41.000So in other words, a bunch of liberals went to another liberal, the Secretary of State of Minnesota, and said, okay, let's sign a consent decree to just rewrite the law.
00:31:58.000This is what the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
00:32:01.000They said that the extension of the deadline likely violates Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution because the Secretary extended the deadline for receipt of the ballots without legislative authorization.
00:32:10.000We therefore reverse the District Court's denial of a preliminary injunction and remand the District Court to enter an injunction requiring the Secretary and those under his direction to identify, segregate, and otherwise maintain and preserve all absentee ballots received after the deadlines set forth in Minneapolis State Code.
00:32:26.000So they say that this has really screwed up the process.
00:32:30.000They say voter confusion was inevitable once the secretary issued guidance to voters that was directly in contradiction to Minnesota election law.
00:32:36.000An orderly process was hopelessly compromised when he usurped the authority of the legislature under the electors clause of the constitution.
00:32:44.000During the entire pendency of this litigation, Minnesota voters have been left with two sets of contradicting instructions, one from the Secretary, another that has long been and remains codified in the election laws of Minnesota.
00:32:52.000In the end, it is always in the public interest to protect constitutional rights.
00:32:55.000In other words, the legislature gets to make the decision.
00:32:58.000Naturally, this has been characterized by Democrats as voter suppression.
00:33:14.000Standing in line is called being at a grocery store at Disneyland or voting.
00:33:19.000Being in line is not voter suppression.
00:33:20.000Voter suppression is when you literally don't get to vote.
00:33:23.000It is also not voter suppression when the legislature passes a law saying you have to vote and it has to be counted by the state and then somebody tries to unilaterally rewrite the law and then a court steps in and says you can't unilaterally rewrite the law.
00:34:40.000All they requested way back early this year is that you not make the voting deadline so late and close to the election that it gives them no ability to actually deliver the mail properly.
00:34:49.000So when people talk about ramp up to violence in the election, when people talk about the possibility of people not accepting the results of the election, recognize the left is doing this mainstream and the entire social media infrastructure is echoing this.
00:35:11.000First, I gotta tell you about this incredible new service.
00:35:14.000Okay, this is really a fantastic service.
00:35:16.000So, I take lots of photos of my kids, right?
00:35:17.000But then they just sit there on my phone.
00:35:19.000And then eventually I get around to uploading them to a computer, and maybe I print them out, maybe I don't, and then they sort of go by the wayside, right?
00:35:26.000Well, what if there was a service where you could send that photo in to a service and the service would send you back a beautifully printed photo that that photo to you on acrylic or wood on a beautiful piece of product.
00:35:39.000Some of the most beautiful photos in my house, they come from myphoto.com.
00:36:25.000I've got a bunch of them all around the house right now and it's super easy again because all I'm doing is just like sending the photo into the service and I get back this incredible product.
00:36:32.000By the way, I know the founders of the company.
00:37:06.000But Democrats don't want to accept any of this.
00:37:08.000Okay, Michael Moore, who predicted that Trump was going to win last time, he says he thinks Trump is going to win this time.
00:37:11.000Now listen, you got to always take this with a grain of salt.
00:37:14.000I don't do election predictions anymore.
00:37:16.000One of the reasons is because all of the incentive structures are skewed for election predictions.
00:37:20.000If you're the one person who bucks the data and says Trump is going to win and then Trump wins, then everybody declares that you are a prophet.
00:37:26.000If you are the person who follows the data and says that Trump is going to lose, you don't get any credit because you followed the data.
00:37:32.000If you are the person who says that Trump is going to win and then he loses, everybody just forgets about it immediately.
00:38:11.000OK, so there is one area where Trump could pull kind of a stunner.
00:38:15.000What the polls are showing is something that people don't really want to recognize, which is that Trump is drawing an outside share of both the Hispanic vote and the black vote, particularly among black males.
00:38:22.000Among black females, black females hate the guy.
00:38:25.000But among black males, there's a heavier share of the black male vote going to Trump than any other Republican candidate of my lifetime, which people on the left find absolutely astounding.
00:38:34.000But I'm not sure why it's astounding, considering that he has pursued criminal justice reform, for example.
00:38:38.000Considering that he has pursued these opportunity zones, considering that he has been featured in rap songs going back to the 90s as sort of the prototypical rich guy, right?
00:38:49.000So he's sort of been, in some ways, heroized by rap for several decades.
00:38:58.000Despite the fact I am myself a platinum award winning rapper.
00:39:02.000I really have no experience with anything around this.
00:39:05.000Lil Wayne, who I guess is also known as Weezy, he tweeted out, just had a great meeting with President Trump.
00:39:09.000Besides what he's done so far with criminal reform, the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership.
00:39:13.000He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done.
00:39:18.000And of course, Lil Wayne then received an extraordinary amount of blowback because you are not allowed to say that Donald Trump is a decent man.
00:40:06.000DC luxury shops are already boarding up in anticipation of the election.
00:40:11.000Which just goes to show you, the rioters and looters, you think they're Trump supporters?
00:40:14.000For all the talk about the fascist brownshirts running around the land creating violence, it seems like a lot of people who are going to vote for Joe Biden, who if they vote at all, are going to go break into stores should Donald Trump win.
00:40:24.000Walmart is now removing guns and ammo from store displays ahead of the election because they are worried about civil unrest.
00:40:31.000The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which said the retailer was looking to head off any potential theft of firearms if stores are broken into amid any civil unrest caused by the upcoming presidential election on Tuesday.
00:40:41.000By the way, in my theory, there will be civil unrest either way.
00:40:44.000If Biden wins, people are going to use it as an opportunity to go ahead and break things and steal things.
00:40:49.000But if Trump wins, the world will burn.
00:40:50.000If Trump wins, people will go out in the streets.
00:40:52.000It will get extremely violent, extremely quickly.
00:40:59.000Walmart said, we've seen some isolated civil unrest and as we've done on several occasions over the last few years We've moved our firearms and ammo off the sales floor as a precaution for the safety of our associates and customers These items do remain available for purchase by customers a New USA Today Suffolk University poll found Americans are increasingly worried About what will happen as this year's tumultuous election comes to a conclusion next week including whether the voting will be peaceful and the outcome broadly accepted
00:41:24.000Only one in four say they are very confident the nation will have a peaceful transfer of power if Democratic challenger Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump.
00:41:30.000But that, of course, is the wrong question.
00:41:31.000The real question is, if Trump wins, will anybody on the left accept that?
00:41:35.000And I think the answer is going to be almost universally no.
00:41:39.000And of course, they'll be fully justified in not accepting it because Trump is a terrible fascist and it's all voter suppression.
00:41:44.000It's amazing how the media have focused entirely on Trump's allegations of voter fraud.
00:43:50.000First, it is that glorious time of the week when I give a shout out to a Daily Wire member.
00:43:53.000Today, it is Charlotte Catherine on Instagram.
00:43:58.000In this picture, two skeletons stand on the front porch prepared to greet trick-or-treaters.
00:44:02.000One is wearing a vote-or-die t-shirt, while the other holds the world's greatest beverage vessel in one hand and a sign saying, still waiting for socialism to work.
00:44:10.000The caption reads, In a neighborhood full of lawn-signed virtue signaling, it helps remind people that facts don't care about your feelings.
00:44:16.000My peacefully protesting skeletons stay hydrated with the most glorious drinking vessel, a leftist-steers tumbler.
00:44:35.000Also, you may have noticed the country is falling apart, and there's a massive conflict of visions.
00:44:40.000As I've been talking about, We're literally years at this point.
00:44:42.000What we are watching is the breakdown of America in real time into two groups.
00:44:46.000One that believes that America's fundamental rights ought to be preserved, and one that believes America's fundamental rights are indeed the actual obstacle to prosperity and decency and equality.
00:44:56.000If you want to educate your kids, if you want to educate the college students you know, if you want to educate your friends, on what is at stake, why American philosophy is good, why American history is good.
00:45:04.000Pick up a copy of my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:45:11.000I think it'll be even more important post the election because there needs to be a reacquaintance with the founding principles of the country.
00:45:17.000And we need to understand why people are attacking those founding principles.
00:45:20.000How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:45:21.000Go pick it up at Amazon.com or anywhere else that books are sold.
00:45:25.000Also, this weekend we have another great episode of the Sunday Special, this time with author, columnist, documentarian Shelby Steele.
00:45:30.000You've heard me reference his work before.
00:45:32.000In our conversation, Shelby details his struggles with Amazon and the journey he has gone through to get his important documentary made.
00:45:39.000It's a documentary all about Black Lives Matter and Michael Brown and the lies about Michael Brown.
00:45:43.000Steele and I discuss the reason President Trump and his supporters are so often labeled as racist and the huge issue underlying so much of American politics, white guilt.
00:45:51.000So, head on over, watch early at dailywire.com, listen this Sunday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
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00:47:29.000Okay, so just a quick reminder, this election is not just about the supposed evils of Donald Trump.
00:47:40.000Joe Biden will be president if Joe Biden is elected.
00:47:42.000I know people forget about that because we have been told that the signal sign of your own evil is voting for President Trump.
00:47:50.000And so you can alleviate your evil simply.
00:47:52.000You can exercise that evil by just voting for Joe Biden.
00:47:56.000So yesterday, Joe Biden was speaking and he was talking about being a standard bearer for democracy.
00:48:00.000This just shows you the overt lies that are told by Joe Biden.
00:48:03.000He said he was campaigning in Florida before he was hit with a rainstorm.
00:48:06.000He immediately ran away from the rainstorm, which, you know, not a great shock.
00:48:10.000And William Henry Harrison died 40 days into his term because he stayed out in a rainstorm.
00:48:13.000Although I will say that the rain in Florida is quite warm.
00:48:16.000Anyway, here was Joe Biden suggesting that Donald Trump is a terrible standard bearer for democracy.
00:48:22.000I will explain how idiotic this statement is in just one moment.
00:48:25.000President Trump can't advance democracy and human rights for the Cuban people or the Venezuelan people.
00:48:31.000For that matter, when he has embraced so many autocrats around the world, starting with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
00:48:41.000Trump is the worst possible standard bearer for democracy in places like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea.
00:48:49.000OK, I have to just say that last line there is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard Joe Biden say.
00:48:53.000And that man says stupid things every single day, every single day.
00:48:56.000I mean, first of all, he is obviously losing his crispness just in his articulation there.
00:49:01.000But beyond that, OK, for him to say that Trump is a terrible standard bearer for democracy in Cuba and Venezuela, dude, Dude, dude, let me just.
00:49:10.000OK, the reason he's mentioning Cuba and Venezuela in Florida is obviously there are tons of Cuban expatriates and their children.
00:49:16.000There are a lot of new expatriates to Florida who are Venezuelan and who are voting Republican because they don't wish America to look like Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
00:49:28.000Joe Biden's plan is to dump over Juan Guaido in Venezuela.
00:49:32.000Who is the head of the assembly, who is supposed to be the sort of interim president once Maduro, who's a dictator, was deposed.
00:49:40.000He's planning to dump over Guaido, just abandon him completely, and go back to negotiating with Nicolas Maduro, who's a brutal dictator, right?
00:49:46.000Who's been suppressing the people of Venezuela.
00:49:49.000I mean, Hugo Chávez and Maduro reduced the most oil-rich country in South America into a trash heap.
00:49:55.000People literally eating dogs to survive.
00:49:57.000And this has been going on for years on end.
00:50:00.000The Obama administration wants to deal with Maduro.
00:50:29.000There's a picture of Barack Obama in Cuba standing in front of a giant mural of Che Guevara.
00:50:35.000Barack Obama was at baseball games with Raul Castro.
00:50:38.000So don't tell me that the great standard bearer for democracy is going to be Joe Biden in Cuba and Venezuela.
00:50:44.000I mean, it's just like the number of lies that Joe Biden thinks he can tell just because Donald Trump is orange man who's bad and orange is truly crazy.
00:50:51.000And of course, Joe Biden still doesn't have to answer any questions about his son.
00:50:55.000So it's not just that Joe Biden, like, listen, there's still lack of substantiation on Joe Biden being directly involved in business with his son or benefiting directly from business with his son.
00:51:05.000There is no controversy at all that Joe Biden knows full well that his son Hunter was jet-setting all over the globe doing corrupt deals on the basis of his name.
00:51:12.000He was allowing members of his family to do this for literally decades.
00:51:16.000Now, there's a report from James Rosen that the Justice Department has confirmed that in 2019 the FBI actually opened up a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden and his associates focused on allegations of money laundering and that that investigation remains open and active today.
00:51:31.000Rosen is a reporter with the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
00:51:35.000Of course, this follows hard on Tony Bobulinski, suggesting that he was questioned by six FBI agents.
00:51:39.000Bobulinski is Hunter Biden's former business partner, with counsel present for five hours on October 23rd, listing him as a material witness in an ongoing investigation focused on Hunter Biden and his associates.
00:51:49.000An FBI spokesman told the Washington Examiner, we have no comment in keeping with our standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the existence of an investigation.
00:51:56.000Materials of course tied to Hunter Biden come from a laptop that he apparently left with a computer repair store in Delaware and then abandoned and then it ended up in the hands of Rudy Giuliani and such.
00:52:08.000Now Biden's people keep refusing to answer the question.
00:52:12.000And again, it is perfectly plausible for Joe Biden to say, I've never made money off of any of this.
00:52:15.000But he has said Hunter Biden never did anything wrong and that there are no serious accusations Hunter Biden has ever done anything wrong.
00:52:23.000There have been lots of accusations that Hunter Biden has done wrong stuff.
00:52:26.000Hunter Biden himself acknowledges that he benefits from daddy's name in order to pick up bags of cash in foreign countries where he has no connections.
00:52:33.000Naturally, Biden's spokespeople refused to answer any questions at all.
00:52:37.000Because we saw big tech react the way they did on the New York Post story, that the allegations in it are off the table.
00:52:45.000They are false as far as you're concerned.
00:52:47.000Look, we're not going to waste any seconds on this smear campaign.
00:52:50.000So to clarify, there were more accusations made this week on that most-watched Fox News interview a couple nights ago from Tucker Carlson.
00:52:57.000Did those meetings happen as they had been alleged when Joe Biden was a private citizen?
00:53:03.000We're not going to waste any time on this smear campaign.
00:53:06.000They don't have to waste any time on this quote-unquote smear campaign because the media is covering up for them no matter what they do.
00:53:11.000Here's MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle saying the entire Hunter Biden story has been debunked, which is weird because it has not in fact been debunked.
00:53:17.000Do you think we need to know who President Trump personally owes over $400 million to in the next four years?
00:53:23.000Well, the touche point here is, uh, would be simply, do you think we ought to know more about Hunter Biden's laptop and that?
00:53:51.000There's an entire article from NBC News today called, How a Fake Persona Laid the Groundwork for a Hunter Biden Conspiracy Deluge.
00:53:58.000One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake intelligence document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving Vice President Joe Biden's son and business in China.
00:54:08.000The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Trump, appears to be the work of a fake intelligence firm called Typhoon Investigations.
00:54:16.000Okay, there's only one problem with this.
00:54:17.000As Kimberly Strassel points out, none of this has to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:54:21.000Okay, that fake dossier that was passed out has nothing to do with any of the stories we have ever talked about on the show.
00:54:26.000Not one story that we have ever talked about on the show.
00:54:29.000So now, the media are putting focus on an actual fake story, so they don't have to cover the very real story of Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:54:36.000It has now been confirmed that, according to the New York Post, forensic analysis says that all of the Hunter Biden emails are 100% authentic.
00:54:44.000Okay, so we're not gonna focus on that.
00:54:46.000Instead, we are going to focus on non-authentic emails, so as to misdirect from serious questions about all of this.
00:54:51.000Well, Glenn Greenwald, who I am no fan of Glenn Greenwald, and Glenn Greenwald, I know, is no fan of mine.
00:54:57.000Glenn Greenwald has routinely taken, I think, anti-American positions.
00:55:01.000He was doing propaganda on behalf of WikiLeaks.
00:55:04.000He has been an enemy of the state of Israel for a very long time, and very much in favor of Israel compromising its own security.
00:55:12.000Glenn Greenwald, I disagree an awful lot, but Glenn Greenwald has at least been consistent enough to call out the Hunter Biden story and to call out false claims about Russian collusion.
00:55:22.000Well, now he has resigned from The Intercept, which is an organization he founded on Thursday afternoon, signaling an abrupt and acrimonious end to his time at the publication he co-founded in 2014 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras.
00:55:33.000Greenwald, who shared the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his reporting on the NSA that was uncovered by Edward Snowden, said his departure was related to a piece he planned to write about the former Vice President Joe Biden.
00:55:45.000In a lengthy note published on Substack, Greenwald said the publication refused to publish the piece in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom unless he removed all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New York-based intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.
00:56:02.000The Intercept instead said, no, no, no, he's just whining, that he was asked to support his claims in innuendo about corrupt actions by Joe Biden with evidence.
00:56:09.000And they said it's preposterous that Glenn Greenwald is accusing them of any sort of bias at all.
00:56:14.000So there's a schadenfreude in watching the left attack itself this way.
00:56:17.000But when Glenn Greenwald quits the organization that he founded, saying that they are trying to suppress stories on behalf of Joe Biden, You know, that is not a nothing.
00:56:26.000Okay, meanwhile, the new push by the media because the economy is in a state of recovery and because it is absolutely clear at this point by all available evidence that you cannot control the pandemic.
00:56:55.000Now Germany is experiencing thousands and thousands and thousands of cases.
00:56:59.000France was until very recently experiencing a downturn in cases, and now they've seen a massive uptick in the number of cases.
00:57:06.000Italy is experiencing a massive uptick in cases after it was widely assumed that they'd gotten this thing under control with mask mandates, for example.
00:57:14.000So this thing is going to hit everywhere, and it's going to be bad, and it's going to kill a lot of people.
00:57:18.000And honestly, the only thing that you can do is when you're in close quarters, you socially distance as much as you can, and you wear a mask in close quarters.
00:57:24.000But mask mandates have actually done virtually nothing.
00:57:27.000Germany, as of October 29th, had almost 19,000 cases.
00:57:41.000You can only hope to quote-unquote contain it.
00:57:44.000And all you can really do is try to shield the most vulnerable by telling them to stay home.
00:57:48.000And then if a bunch of 20-year-olds get it, a bunch of 20-year-olds get it.
00:57:51.000I've been a long time a proponent Of the idea that if you are 20 years old and you are at university and you get this thing, that is not the end of the world.
00:57:58.000You should just isolate from your elderly relatives.
00:58:01.000I've been a long time proponent of the basic idea proposed by Hebrew University scientists suggesting what they call control the avalanche.
00:58:08.000The idea being that if you are ever to reach herd immunity because a vaccine may only be 50 to 60% effective.
00:58:35.000With that said, if you ever reach, if you ever hope to reach some level of herd immunity, that's going to have to happen by protecting and shielding the vulnerable and the elderly.
00:58:43.000And by basically allowing the virus to move as it will through a 20-year-old population.
00:58:49.000You start with the least vulnerable populations, and if they get it, they get it.
00:58:53.000Pretending that a 20-year-old getting COVID and recovering from it is the end of the world is ridiculous, anti-scientific nonsense.
00:58:58.000Okay, but naturally, because the economy is recovering and because the baseline awareness that you can't contain the virus is setting in, this is driving the media up a wall, because their entire narrative is that Donald Trump blew this.
00:59:10.000So when Donald Trump's narrative, which is basically that we're gonna have to live our lives and learn to live with the virus, becomes the mainstream narrative, then the talking point about COVID goes away.
00:59:19.000But Democrats and members of the media, but I repeat myself, continue to push talking points about COVID that are just outdated.
00:59:25.000So here is Shep Smith, Now over at CNBC, asking Anthony Fauci why we cannot impose a 111-day lockdown the way they did in New Zealand.
00:59:34.000Okay, New Zealand has had a 111-day lockdown.
00:59:36.000They locked down the entire country when there were four cases in the country.
00:59:40.000Okay, and the answer is because we have an economy supporting 330 million people plus the rest of the globe.
00:59:46.000The reason is because you should not lock hundreds of millions of healthy people in their homes, because that is a violation of basic civil liberties.
00:59:54.000You certainly should not do so when we're not talking about airborne Ebola, when you're talking about a virus that largely targets people who are identifiable, namely the elderly and the infirm.
01:00:03.000And when you're talking about a virus with death rates for people below the age of 20 that are lower than that of the flu, Here is Shep Smith, though, begging Anthony Fauci, why can't we just lock down the entire country, you know, indefinitely?
01:00:13.000You were talking about what an extraordinary thing has happened in Melbourne.
01:00:17.000They had a 111-day lockdown, started with 20,000 cases a day, and as you pointed out, two days ago they had zero cases.
01:00:45.000Sacrificing every freedom and liberty that you have on the basis of a virus that, again, is deadlier than the flu, but is not nearly as deadly as many of the other diseases that we have talked about as being, you know, kind of contagion-style diseases.
01:01:22.000Okay, on the restaurants, he's not totally wrong.
01:01:24.000to reconsider those particular parts of society right now in the midst of an out of control pandemic? Yes, I do. Because right now, the only way you can safely open up schools, Craig, is on-site testing. And unless you're an affluent school district, you don't have access to it right now. Indoor dining, we know it's needless, and we know that that's been a source of spread of this virus. So I do think that certain parts of society— Okay, I'm sorry, this is anti-scientific.
01:01:46.000Okay, on the restaurants, he's not totally wrong. On the schools, he's utterly and absolutely wrong.
01:01:53.000Okay, the reason there's been no outbreak is because you are asked to fill in a wellness report every day.
01:01:57.000If any kid shows a symptom, they are immediately sent home, and then they are quarantined until it can be determined whether they are healthy.
01:02:03.000Plus, kids are not passing this in the same numbers as adults, particularly kids under the age of 10.
01:02:14.000The myth is that we know the solution to COVID, and the solution to COVID is all the stuff Trump doesn't want to do.
01:02:19.000So Trump doesn't want to do lockdowns.
01:02:20.000That means that the solution to COVID is lockdown.
01:02:23.000Trump doesn't like masks particularly much.
01:02:24.000That means that the solution to COVID is masking.
01:02:27.000So Joe Biden is now pushing national mask mandates, according to the New York Times.
01:02:32.000As the nation heads into what public health experts are calling a dark winter of coronavirus illness and death, public health experts are coalescing around Joe Biden's call for a national mask mandate, even as they concede such an effort would require much more than the stroke of a presidential pen.
01:02:44.000Over the past week, a string of prominent public health experts, notably Fauci, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the FDA under Trump, have said it is time to seriously consider a national mandate to curb the spread of the virus.
01:02:55.000Overseas this week, President Vladimir Putin of Russia became the latest foreign leader to impose a national mandate for citizens to wear masks.
01:03:02.000Biden has conceded a presidential order for Americans to wear masks would almost certainly face and most likely fall to a legal challenge.
01:03:08.000Biden has already said that as president, he would mandate masks on all federal property, an executive order that could theoretically have wide reach.
01:03:14.000Also, he could require masks on public transportation under federal transit law, and he could prod governors who are resisting mask mandates to at least require masks in public buildings in their states.
01:03:24.000Okay, so let's talk about mask mandates for a second.
01:03:26.000First of all, when caseload gets heavy, people wear masks.
01:04:19.000And here are just some graphs of how mask mandates have worked out in particular countries.
01:04:23.000Okay, so if you look at European COVID-19 cases per million, masks required versus no masks required, what you see is Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are coming in well below right now.
01:04:33.000Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Austria, UK, Spain, France, Czech Republic, and Belgium, all of which have mask mandates.
01:04:39.000Okay, so it is not really about mask mandates being the great solution.
01:04:43.000And you can do this by country, right?
01:05:50.000This does not mean that masks are useless.
01:05:52.000Masks are useful in certain scenarios, but the idea that a mask mandate is going to solve this thing is absolute silliness.
01:05:57.000People are going to wear masks when they feel like they're in danger.
01:05:59.000They're not going to wear masks when they don't feel like they are in danger.
01:06:02.000But again, this is all about promulgating a narrative in the United States that the solution is at hand and that all that is required is for Joe Biden to implement that solution.
01:06:18.000This is the same Democratic Party downplaying the vaccine.
01:06:20.000I mean, Andrew Cuomo, the worst governor in America.
01:06:23.000Andrew Cuomo, who's out pushing a book about what a great job he did with COVID in a state that had the second worst death per million rate in America.
01:06:30.000He's now saying the federal government hasn't started to focus on a COVID vaccine.
01:06:33.000He's spouting absolute bullcrap, but he's Captain Science here.
01:06:37.000Here is Andrew Cuomo, upheld by the DNC as a model of what you should do about COVID.
01:06:42.000This is basically, let's call it halftime in the game, right?
01:06:46.000We went through the first phase, we had a brief respite before the fall, and now we're going to have the fall and the winter, and then vaccination, which is a whole, long, difficult process that the federal government hasn't even started to focus on.
01:07:06.000You then have to administer 330 million doses, right?
01:07:10.000Okay, um, actually the federal government has been working on that for quite a long time, you idiot.
01:07:14.000By the way, he also lies about his own record.
01:07:15.000He then says it's a conspiracy theory if you're worried about nursing homes in New York, despite the fact that there was an actual policy to ship people with COVID back into nursing homes, and that he then refused to reveal the actual stats on how many people had died in nursing homes, and falsified the stats by claiming that people who were diagnosed with COVID in nursing homes and then died at the hospital were not actually in nursing homes.
01:07:33.000Here is liar and fabulous Andrew Cuomo.
01:07:35.000If you look at how many people died in New York nursing homes, New York is number 46 out of 50 states in the percentage of deaths in nursing homes.
01:07:47.000The conspiracy they're trying to spread just has no factual basis.
01:07:54.000But yes, people in nursing homes died and they're playing politics with the issue, which I think is especially cruel.
01:08:01.000Okay, playing politics with the issue?
01:08:03.000Dude, you put out a poster, you sold a poster about your own incredible performance after a horrifying performance and a creation of a death curve that looked a lot like the don't have this death curve chart that we were all shown at the beginning of the pandemic.
01:08:15.000But don't worry, this is the party of science.
01:08:22.000The issues that plague the United States, the gap between people in the United States who believe that Western civilization is worthy of upholding and that American philosophy is worthy of upholding, that gap continues to exist, not just in the United States, it continues to exist across the West.
01:08:39.000I'd be remiss if I didn't comment on a story that happened in France over the course of the last few days.
01:08:44.000There were two separate horrifying attacks, two separate horrifying attacks in France Three people died in a knife attack in a church in Nice over the last couple of days in what French President Emmanuel Macron said was an Islamist terror attack.
01:08:58.000He said France would not surrender its core values after visiting the Notre Dame Basilica in the southern city.
01:09:02.000An extra 4,000 troops were being deployed to protect churches and schools in Nice.
01:09:07.000In Nice, one elderly victim was virtually beheaded.
01:09:13.000Well, presumably they should have tried to tase him, according to those who don't like the police.
01:09:19.000According to the French anti-terrorist prosecutor, Jean-Francois Ricard, he said the attacker was seriously wounded by police, that he was a 21-year-old Tunisian national who had arrived in France earlier this month.
01:09:33.000He had a document issued by the Italian Red Cross.
01:09:36.000He had traveled by boat from Tunisia to the Italian island of Lampedusa in September.
01:09:40.000He was placed in coronavirus quarantine there before he was released and told to leave Italy.
01:09:45.000The suspect had been cutting off people's heads while shouting endlessly, Allahu Akbar.
01:09:49.000Two other attacks took place on Thursday, one in France and one in Saudi Arabia.
01:09:53.000A man was shot dead in Montfavette near a southern French city of Amignon after threatening police with a handgun.
01:09:59.000Also, a guard was attacked outside the French consulate in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
01:10:07.000This, of course, follows closely on the recent murder of the teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded close to his school outside Paris earlier this month after he showed a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad in his classroom.
01:10:18.000Police have not suggested a motive for the attack in Israel.
01:10:20.000I think that the part where he's screaming Allahu Akbar while chopping off someone's head is a pretty good indicator.
01:10:25.000It follows days of protests in some Muslim-majority countries triggered by President Macron's defense of the publication of cartoons that depicted Muhammad.
01:10:32.000There have been calls in some countries for a boycott of French goods.
01:10:51.000So, what we are watching in France is a small wave of terrorism that follows hard upon controversy over people showing a cartoon of Muhammad.
01:11:02.000The question is whether the West is going to have enough of a belief in its own value system to stand up to this sort of disgusting Islamic fascism.
01:11:15.000There are many, many Muslims, many Muslims, some of whom I've talked to on this program, who believe that you have the right to show a picture of Muhammad.
01:11:23.000That you can do all of that and not have your head chopped off.
01:11:26.000Unfortunately, there are in fact hundreds of millions of people who believe that if you show a picture of the Prophet Muhammad, that at the very least, you may deserve to have your head chopped off.
01:11:34.000And to pretend this is a completely fringe phenomenon is to ignore the fact that it is not in fact a completely fringe phenomenon.
01:11:40.000Because the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, is a country with a population of right now 31.53 million people, Malaysia.
01:11:53.000It is one of the larger Muslim countries on planet Earth.
01:11:55.000The former prime minister of Malaysia tweeted out, Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.
01:12:06.000Mohammed said killing is not an act that as a Muslim I would approve, but he also doesn't think insulting other people should be included in freedom of expression.
01:12:13.000He said you cannot go up to a man and curse him simply because you believe in freedom of speech.
01:12:17.000Irrespective of the religion professed angry people kill, the French in the course of their history have killed millions of people, many were Muslims.
01:12:23.000Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right to punish the French.
01:12:29.000Any boycott cannot compensate the wrongs committed by the French all these years, and that's when he said Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.
01:13:18.000There's a Scottish bill that would criminalize hate speech in private homes.
01:13:22.000Mayreed McArdle reporting for National Review.
01:13:31.000Members of the Scottish Parliament questioned Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf for the first time on Tuesday about the Hate Crime and Public Order Bill, which would establish a new crime, quote-unquote, stirring up hatred.
01:13:40.000The legislation criminalizes hate speech related to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and variations in sex characteristics, including, potentially, hate speech spoken in private residences.
01:13:53.000After criticisms from groups saying that the bill threatens to stifle free speech, Yusuf agreed to amend the legislation when it reaches stage two of consideration in Parliament.
01:14:01.000The amendment will stipulate offenders may only be prosecuted if they had quote-unquote intent to stir up hatred.
01:14:07.000He said, he said, I'm very actively considering both the breadth and depth of freedom of expression clauses.
01:14:11.000We have to be aware of some of the concerns that may be expressed if we were to have a generic freedom of expression clause.
01:14:16.000Would that be specific enough to give people the reassurances that they desire?
01:14:19.000It is a full-scale destruction of basic individual rights.
01:14:23.000It is being pursued in Western countries.
01:14:25.000It has unfortunately become a talking point of many on the left in the United States as well, which is that the individual rights that you hold are a danger to others.
01:14:33.000The right to free speech is a danger because you might commit blasphemy, right?
01:14:36.000You might harm somebody's perception of their own religion.
01:14:40.000He has said, no, you do have the right to actually exhibit pictures of the Prophet Muhammad if you wish to do so in a Western country.
01:14:46.000I just wonder if, as we move forward in time, as we continue to apologize for Western civilization, as we continue to apologize for our rights, as we continue to suggest that the roots of Western civilization lie in racism, bigotry, homophobia, and cruelty, if we are willing to stand up for individual rights with a multicultural left intent on the idea that rights are themselves responsible for the violation of the rights, that all you have to do is curb rights and you'll reach utopia,
01:15:13.000It doesn't mean that everybody's in favor of beheading people who draw pictures of Muhammad, but it does mean there are an awful lot of people on the left who would like to see that sort of activity, drawing Muhammad, made illegal so as not to set people off so we can all live in a world free of offense.
01:15:28.000All righty, we'll be back here on Monday because we have, at that point, one day until the election.