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00:00:00.000Seattle's black female police chief quits as the city council cuts her salary.
00:00:04.000America looks for a new normal as the media continue pushing COVID panic.
00:00:07.000And Joe Biden makes final VP preparations.
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00:00:29.000Alrighty, so there's actual news happening as the world turns and things actually happen and people discover that occasionally I read rap lyrics on this show.
00:00:39.000Well, I mean, people find things out on the Internet all the time, don't they?
00:00:48.000But the good news is that all the good white liberals over in Seattle have now basically forced the resignation of the black female Seattle police chief.
00:00:58.000Which makes perfect sense, because she was really bad at her job in that she actually wanted to police crime, and the people of Seattle don't want her to police crime, or at least the City Council does not want her to police crime, and so they've now forced her resignation.
00:01:09.000Her name is Carmen Best, and she has spent an awful lot of time pointing out that the Seattle City Council has basically allowed crime to run roughshod through the city, that they allowed the setting up of an alternative republic chess shop.
00:01:24.000So the good white folks, the good white woke liberals have decided that in the name of racial justice, the black female police chief of Seattle had to go.
00:02:49.000Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best is going to resign.
00:02:51.000Two sources familiar with her decision confirmed it to Brandi Kruse of Q13.
00:02:55.000The decision comes after the Seattle City Council voted to slash the department's budget and voted to slash her particular salary by like $100,000.
00:03:04.000The white person who occupied her position before Was being paid $100,000 more.
00:03:08.000They had to make sure the black lady got her salary cut by $100,000 so a bunch of woke white people could run roughshod through the city and or a racialized army could take over the middle of Seattle for two months on end and then shoot people and prevent the police from getting in.
00:03:24.000The council on Monday approved proposals that would reduce the police department by up to 100 officers through layoffs and attrition.
00:03:30.000Chief Best was vocal in her opposition to the cuts.
00:03:32.000Budget cuts approved by the council will eliminate nearly $4 million of the department's $400 million annual budget.
00:03:38.000While the cuts fell well short of what Black Lives Matter protesters were demanding, council members pledged further cuts in 2021.
00:03:45.000A call to Chief Best went unanswered on Monday night, and Mayor Jenny Durkan's office did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.
00:03:51.000She was the first black woman to lead the SPD.
00:03:55.000She said about the proposal to cut her pay by 40%, quote, I do feel like it's animus toward me specifically.
00:04:01.000She is well respected by the rank and file inside the department.
00:04:05.000I remember when she was hired, and there was controversy over whether she was going to be soft on crime, and she obviously was not, because nobody in Seattle is soft on crime enough.
00:04:14.000Nobody in Seattle is soft on crime enough.
00:04:15.000Carmen Best certainly was not, and so Carmen Best has to go.
00:04:21.000The media wonder, why in the world is crime spiking all over the United States?
00:04:25.000Why is crime spiking all over the United States?
00:04:27.000Well, I have a couple of ideas of why crime is spiking all over the United States.
00:04:30.000So do the folks over at The Daily Caller.
00:04:32.000Peter Hassan, who writes for the Daily Caller, has a good report today talking about how left-wing prosecutors are basically letting criminals off the hook in major cities around the United States.
00:04:41.000According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, left-wing prosecutors have implemented soft-on-crime approaches to criminal justice across America, in some instances making it a matter of policy in major cities not to prosecute specific crimes.
00:04:52.000A common, though not universal, feature of prominent left-wing district attorneys is the backing of political organizations funded by George Soros, And let me note, the criticism of George Soros here is not because he is Jewish.
00:05:03.000The criticism is because he is awful in the organizations he chooses to fund in the United States.
00:05:07.000He's just as up for that criticism as anybody else.
00:05:10.000Cook County, Illinois State Attorney Kimberly Fox, whose jurisdiction includes Chicago, took office in 2017 after winning her election with the help of a Soros-funded super PAC.
00:05:19.000Soros poured more than $400,000 into Illinois Justice and Public Safety PAC in 2016, Illinois State Board of Election Records show.
00:05:26.000She was the only candidate Fox the PAC supported in 2016.
00:05:29.000She announced in December 2016 that her office would not charge shoplifters with felonies unless they either had more than 10 previous felony convictions.
00:05:45.000Store owners blamed Fox's policies in December 2019 for what they said was a string of brazen thefts targeting their businesses.
00:05:50.000And then Fox announced in June she wouldn't prosecute protesters charged with minor crimes like curfew violations and disorderly conduct.
00:05:58.000Multiple analyses of Fox's record have found significant decreases in prosecutions since she took office.
00:06:03.000The Chicago Tribune on Monday reported that Fox dropped all charges against 30% of all defendants in her first three years in office.
00:06:11.000Her predecessor, a woman named Anita Alvarez, who was a Democrat and also soft on crime, dropped charges against 20% of defendants in her final three years on the job.
00:06:20.000A separate study from the Marshall Project, a nonprofit supporting criminal justice reform, found Fox dropped thousands of cases that would have been prosecuted by her predecessors, not just her.
00:06:29.000Suffolk County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Rachel Rollins, whose jurisdiction includes Boston, campaigned in 2018 on a list of 15 crimes her office would not prosecute as a matter of policy, including trespassing, wanton or malicious destruction of property, shoplifting, and larceny under $250.
00:06:45.000The Boston Herald reported in May 2019, an attempted shoplifter was shocked when he was arrested for allegedly pilfering more than $100 worth of goods from the local store.
00:06:53.000He didn't realize that he was outside Rollins' jurisdiction.
00:06:56.000He said he knew that he wouldn't be prosecuted thanks to Rollins' policies, but unfortunately, he was in the neighboring city.
00:07:05.000Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is a former defense attorney who had never prosecuted a case before becoming Philadelphia's top prosecutor.
00:07:12.000George Soros put $1.45 million into a Super PAC backing Krasner in the Democratic primary in May 2017.
00:07:19.000He said in an NBC News podcast interview last month, law enforcement agencies point to repeat offenders as evidence of the need for harsher sentences.
00:07:25.000But he says that he rejects that view, quote, the list all of the arrests they've had, all the contacts they've had, as if what they are doing is explaining that these people are of terrible character. And that explains this phenomenon.
00:07:35.000What they're not saying is the system has engaged this person, arrested this person 15 times, convicted them seven times, put them in jail four times and nothing worked. It all failed.
00:07:44.000So in other words, when a person is a repeat criminal, to the tune of dozens of crimes, then that's not because the person's a bad person, it's because the system is a bad system.
00:08:01.000In San Francisco, District Attorney Chesa Bowden pledged during his campaign that certain quality of life crimes, including public urination, would not be prosecuted by his office.
00:08:10.000So people peeing freely and doing heroin on the streets of San Francisco.
00:08:15.000Bowden said in a July 29, 2019 interview that he would challenge the legitimacy of laws by not bringing certain charges.
00:08:22.000He said the types of charges a DA declines to bring has a ripple effect and changes the culture of a community, citing prostitution as an example of a crime he would not prosecute.
00:08:32.000He said he would not prosecute contraband charges that originated as minor traffic infractions.
00:08:36.000Also, he stopped using gang affiliation status in sentencing enhancements, so makes it easier for gangs.
00:08:42.000Really solid stuff in major cities across the United States.
00:08:45.000And then we wonder, why in the world is crime increasing across the board?
00:09:24.000All summer, demonstrators have marched through Chicago to protest police misconduct, reported the New York Times.
00:09:28.000In many neighborhoods, gun violence has been unrelenting, soaring to levels not seen in decades.
00:09:33.000The coronavirus pandemic is resurging, now sickening hundreds of people a day.
00:09:36.000Then, early Monday morning, hundreds of people spurred by a police shooting and by calls on social media to take action in the gleaming heart of the city converged on Magnificent Mile, Chicago's most famous shopping district.
00:09:47.000They broke windows, looted stores and clashed with the police.
00:09:49.000A chaotic and confusing scene that prompted city officials to briefly raise bridges downtown and halt nearby public transit to stem the unrest.
00:09:57.000At least 13 police officers were injured.
00:09:58.000Apparently, people were literally on the upper levels of buildings and they were throwing planters down on the heads of cops in Chicago.
00:10:06.000Okay, which is assault with a deadly weapon.
00:10:09.000The events instantly played into a broader political dynamic of the season, in which President Trump has regularly portrayed Chicago as a poorly governed hotbed of violent crime.
00:10:16.000Yeah, it's about how Trump portrayed it.
00:10:18.000It's not that it's a poorly governed hotbed of violent crime, it's that Trump keeps preferring it that way.
00:10:55.000But when Mayor Lori Lightfoot was asked, for example, like, maybe it's because you guys refuse to actually stop crime, that crime is rising in your city.
00:11:07.000It almost sounds as though you're saying this is... The reason we have it is because the courts and the prosecutors were not doing their job, that they were going too easy on the looters from the last time around.
00:11:49.000By the way, aren't those attacks on a free press?
00:11:52.000Every time Trump gets a little bit mad at the media, every time he gets a little uppity with the media, Trump, then everybody's like, wow, that's an attack on a free press.
00:12:01.000When somebody asks her a perfectly legit question about her own garbage policies, everybody's like, well, you know, that's Lori Lightfoot, Slay Queen, slay.
00:12:07.000We'll get to more of this in a second.
00:12:08.000But by the way, the Chicago police superintendent, for his part, he was asked about this.
00:13:07.000First, it is time to point out that you need a nice watch.
00:13:12.000When we finally emerge from all of this, there is going to be a moment where people go out and they're having fun, they're going to parties, and you want to have a nice watch.
00:15:44.000I mean, in Chicago, quote, the events left Chicagoans shaken and wondering what had sparked the burst of vandalism that destroyed storefronts and littered sidewalks with debris on one of the most recognizable avenues in the city.
00:15:55.000Since spring, downtown Chicago has often had a quiet, eerie feel without the hordes of tourists and commuters that usually fill the sidewalks, theaters, restaurants, and bars.
00:16:02.000Office vacancies remain high because of fears over COVID, and previous bouts of civil unrest earlier this summer have also kept crowds low.
00:16:09.000Reverend Cory Brooks, a pastor on Chicago's South Side, said these last few months have been tremendously difficult People are hurting financially, emotionally, psychologically.
00:16:23.000In the light of day, there were many questions over whether the violence had resulted because of differing versions of what had happened in this police shooting.
00:16:54.000I mean, aside from the media, that will immediately jump on any story of a black person being shot by the police and not wait for any of the details to come out.
00:17:02.000And a political class that will repeat lies about situations like that.
00:17:05.000I mean, Joe Biden yesterday was literally retweeting lies about Michael Brown's death in St.
00:17:10.000Okay, Michael Brown, it's been found by multiple different investigations, including the Obama DOJ, attacked a police officer, and then tried to attack a police officer again before he was shot.
00:17:20.000And still, a democratic factotum has become this idea that Michael Brown was an innocent who was shot in cold blood with his hands up.
00:17:29.000So the combination of a media that is deeply irresponsible on racial issues and deeply irresponsible on the shootings that police sometimes are forced to do, and a Democratic Party infrastructure that repeats open lies about what happens under many circumstances.
00:17:44.000That combination combined with, again, a deeply irresponsible media that pretends that rioting and looting are a legitimate form of protest, and a Democratic Party that is willing to allow criminality to go unchecked, I can't imagine how that heady brew resulted in a rise in crime that is devastating cities across the country.
00:18:01.000Detroit's police chief, by the way, is saying the same thing.
00:18:05.000Which, again, crime being up in Detroit is like saying that the sun rises in the morning.
00:18:10.000And crime is always up in Detroit, so the fact that it's up even more in Detroit is disquieting.
00:18:14.000So Detroit's police chief, a guy named James Craig, he said, you know what's been happening here?
00:18:17.000These false narratives perpetuated by criminals and then repeated by the media, which of course is right.
00:18:23.000One of the things that we saw here in Detroit, almost eerily similar to what happened last night in Chicago, a false narrative was perpetrated by these criminals very quickly and indicated that an unarmed teen was shot and then called for people to come downtown and loot.
00:18:39.000The one similarity is that the criminals tried to do the same thing here in Detroit about three weeks ago when our officers were fired upon and we ended up using deadly force.
00:18:49.000They put out a false narrative that we shot an underarm African American man seated on his porch.
00:18:59.000All they do is they just light a fire under all of this, and then if you say, you know what, we need more cops, we need to stop the crime, then you're the bad guy.
00:19:07.000It's not just conservative people saying this.
00:19:09.000As it turns out, there are lots of people who live in these cities who would like to see more cops.
00:19:13.000In fact, 81, according to a recent Gallup poll, 81% of black Americans say they want to see at least the same level of policing or more policing in their communities.
00:19:22.000That is not the narrative you'll hear from the media.
00:19:23.000That's not the narrative you're going to hear from Democrats.
00:19:25.000That's why you get all these white woke idiots in Seattle basically forcing the black female police chief out of her job in Seattle.
00:19:34.000Worth noting, in a huge number of America's major cities, if not a majority, a very large minority of the police force is itself minority.
00:19:43.000In Los Angeles, where the police are constantly criticized, a majority of the police force is minority.
00:19:47.000In Washington DC, a majority of the police force is minority.
00:19:50.000In New York City, about 50% of the police force is minority.
00:19:53.000In Chicago, about 50% of the police force is a minority.
00:19:59.000The cops are systemically racist, and we remove the cops, and the criminals should be allowed free reign, and then the crime rates go up, and everybody's like, mystery, mystery, how could it have happened?
00:20:06.000The only people who don't like this stuff are the people who actually have to live in these cities.
00:20:09.000At a certain point, they're gonna have to stop voting for damned morons if they want to have their city back.
00:20:15.000Because otherwise, as I'm more and more frequently quoting HL Mencken here, the American people Get what they deserve good and hard.
00:20:22.000If you keep voting for the same politicians who do this kind of crap, then you shouldn't be surprised when they are breaking into the nicest areas of your city and smashing and grabbing things and shooting people in the worst parts of the city.
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00:21:47.000Okay, so it turns out that it is not merely conservatives who are upset about, you know, the rising crime in the cities.
00:21:52.000It turns out that there are a lot of black lawmakers who are not particularly fond of the idea that the cops are the problem.
00:21:59.000According to the New York Times, with New York City on the cusp of cutting $1 billion from the police department, a city councilwoman, Vanessa Gibson, told her colleagues enough was enough.
00:22:06.000She acknowledged some council members spurred by the movement to defund police were seeking to slash even more from the department's budget, but she pointed out her constituents did not agree.
00:22:15.000They want to see cops in the community, said Miss Gibson.
00:22:17.000By the way, why did it take the New York Times months to report on this?
00:22:21.000Why was it that for months it was the cops were the bad guys?
00:22:23.000And then, oh, you know, maybe we ought to ask some, you know, actual black people living in heavily crime-ridden areas, like, what they think about the cops.
00:22:30.000Maybe we ought to, like, survey that as opposed to surveying the heavily white population of the New York Times editorial board.
00:22:36.000Maybe we should stop asking Paul Krugman about policing in the inner cities.
00:22:39.000And maybe we should start asking, you know, the impoverished person living in a crime-ridden area who just wants a job and to raise their children in safety.
00:23:22.000What it really reflects is the fact that the media refuse to cover the fact that cops generally do a very, very good job and keep people safe.
00:23:28.000Which is why, again, it is an 8 to 2 proposition in the black community.
00:23:47.000It might have been justifiable in a time when the cops were literally an instrument of racial oppression, particularly in the Jim Crow South.
00:23:53.000It has not been true for decades in the United States.
00:23:56.000When the chief methodology of relieving poverty is ensuring that people can go to work without their store being robbed.
00:24:02.000That their kids can go to school without being shot by a gang member.
00:24:06.000Lori Combo, a black councilwoman from Brooklyn who's a majority leader, compared calls to defund the police to colonization pushed by white progressives.
00:24:38.000During the debate, black and Latino council members representing both poor and middle-class communities of color, including Brownsville, Brooklyn, and Jamaica, Queens, wanted to take a measured approach to cutting the police budget.
00:24:47.000White progressives allied with some Latino council members from gentrifying and racially mixed neighborhoods and two black council members called for more aggressive reductions and reforms.
00:24:57.000So the people who are least affected by bad policy are the ones who are calling for the greatest change.
00:25:02.000Who could have predicted such a thing?
00:25:03.000We definitely need to hear from upper-class communist mayor Bill de Blasio talking about the needs of lower-income black Americans living in high-crime gang-infested areas.
00:25:13.000Clearly, we need to hear from Bill de Blasio.
00:25:23.000By a 32 to 17 vote, the council, with Mr. Bill de Blasio's support, eventually passed an $88.2 billion budget that included a reduction in police funding.
00:25:31.000The $1 billion cut was mostly cosmetic, moving responsibilities from the PD to other agencies.
00:25:35.000The size of the force will barely change, says the New York Times.
00:25:38.000Nearly all the no votes were cast by white conservatives, opposed to reductions, or white and Latino council members who wanted deeper cuts.
00:25:45.000Corey Johnson, council speaker, said he would have preferred to cut more, but he wanted to defer to his black and Latino colleagues who raised concerns about the safety of their neighborhoods.
00:25:52.000Well, if you wanted to defer to them, why wouldn't you increase the funding for cops?
00:25:57.000How it became a controversial proposition that high crime areas require more police officers It's dereliction of media duty, but that is what we've been watching, because the narrative matters far, far more than the reality of people living lives in health and happiness, guaranteed the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
00:26:17.000It remains an absolutely incredible feat that boggles the imagination that so many white, woke leftists have been able to completely ignore the actual needs that every American citizen deserves for law and order.
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00:28:01.000Okay, meanwhile, in COVID land, Russia now says that they have approved a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens, despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months, according to the AP.
00:28:15.000Now, Russia has sort of a national interest in presenting itself as the leader on the bleeding edge of fighting COVID.
00:28:23.000Vladimir Putin, in unsurprising fashion, announced that he'd injected his own daughter with this thing, which, given the history of Russian leaders and their treatment of their own children, is not supremely surprising.
00:28:34.000Putin said while announcing the approval, one of his two adult daughters was already inoculated.
00:28:38.000He said the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and was shown to provide lasting immunity to COVID.
00:28:43.000Russian authorities have to this point offered zero proof to back up their claims of safety or effectiveness.
00:28:48.000He says, I know it has proven efficient and forms a stable immunity.
00:28:51.000Scientists in Russia and other countries sounded an alarm.
00:28:53.000They said, you haven't even had like a phase three trial yet.
00:28:57.000Phase one is like you develop a vaccine.
00:28:58.000Phase three is where you have widespread human trials.
00:29:01.000They haven't even done that like at all.
00:29:03.000Fast-tracked approval will not make Russia the leader in the vaccine race.
00:29:06.000It will just expose consumers of the vaccine to unnecessary danger, said Russia's Association of Clinical Trials organization.
00:29:11.000They urged the government to postpone clearing the vaccine without completing advanced trials.
00:29:16.000The vaccine developed by the Gamalaya Institute in Moscow uses a different virus, the common cold-causing adenovirus that's been modified to carry genes for the spike protein that coats the coronavirus as a way to prime the body to recognize if a real COVID-19 infection comes along that is similar to the vaccines being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.
00:29:34.000Well, we're gonna find out in pretty short order whether this thing works or whether Russia is just rushing out an untested vaccine in order to quote-unquote, win the race.
00:29:42.000Russia apparently is gonna inject all its healthcare workers with this thing.
00:30:26.000I've been pointing out for months, months, months, months at this point, that there is a vast difference between if you are 20 and you get COVID, and you are 80 and you get COVID.
00:30:34.000You're 80 and you get COVID, solid chance it kills you.
00:30:37.000If you're 20 and you get COVID, you ain't dying from it.
00:30:38.000Statistically speaking, the number of people who have died from COVID at age 20 is minute.
00:30:44.000In fact, if you compare the Chances of death at age 80 from COVID to the chances of death for each prior 20 years, just cut it by about 10 times.
00:30:58.000So you are 10 times less likely to die of COVID if you are 60 than if you are 80.
00:31:01.000You are 100 times less likely to die of COVID if you are 40 than if you are 80.
00:31:05.000And you are 1,000 times less likely to die of COVID if you are 20 than if you are 80.
00:31:10.000Which is to say, if you're 20, statistically speaking, you're not dying of COVID.
00:31:14.000Like, there are rare occasions in which people will die of COVID at the age of 20 to pretend that this act as some sort of rationale for shutting down society for 20-year-olds is utterly nuts.
00:31:24.000It's utterly nuts, and we should also be very skeptical of people who suggest that when a 20-year-old gets COVID and then doesn't die of COVID and is basically fine of COVID, something terrible has happened.
00:31:34.000When a young person obtains COVID and doesn't infect somebody old, something good has happened.
00:31:38.000The person is now, presumably, immune to COVID, which means they cannot pass it.
00:31:44.000Okay, so the media have been treating it as though each additional diagnosed case is in and of itself a disaster.
00:31:49.000If a 15 year old is diagnosed with COVID and doesn't infect somebody who's vulnerable, and then has a cold for a week, that is not only not the end of the world, something good has happened.
00:32:08.000There's pretty good evidence that Sweden got it right.
00:32:12.000So the death numbers in Sweden are not good.
00:32:14.000The reason the death numbers in Sweden are not good is because they didn't protect their nursing homes properly at the very beginning.
00:32:18.000But if you look at their day-on-day cases and their day-on-day deaths at this point, and they never shut down, then what you see is that Sweden is actually now in great shape.
00:33:19.000Daily new deaths in Sweden, I'm gonna read you for the last couple of weeks.
00:33:22.000weeks. 1-2-3-1-0-1-1-2. Okay, so Sweden's curve looks exactly like you would expect when you reach herd immunity because they didn't shut down.
00:34:02.000You want to slow the spread, but the notion that we have to prevent 20-year-olds from going to parties or that 20-year-olds partying, like what we saw over the weekend, Lori Lightfoot getting very mad.
00:34:11.000There was some sort of LGBT party in which there are a bunch of people out at a park and she shut it down and she was tweeting out about how terrible this was.
00:34:17.000Meanwhile, the Chicago Loop was getting completely ransacked.
00:34:20.000Nothing horrifying was happening there.
00:34:22.000Nothing horrifying was happening there.
00:34:24.000If there's a block party with a bunch of 20-year-olds who then don't go home and infect their families, It ain't bad.
00:34:43.000Dr. Anthony Fauci, even, is saying, listen, the virus is not disappearing.
00:34:46.000He says we should wear masks to reopen the schools, mainly because we are concerned about kids going home and infecting their parents.
00:34:51.000But if a 15-year-old gets COVID, it is not only not the end of the world, it is not particularly dangerous by any stretch of the imagination.
00:34:56.000We have not seen any systemic evidence that suggests that 15-year-olds are a dire threat.
00:35:00.00015-year-olds are significantly more likely to die of the flu than they are to die of COVID.
00:35:25.000Should all students in this country be wearing masks?
00:35:28.000You know, I'm one, and I've said it for so long, David, that I really do believe, and it's part of what I call a comprehensive way to really avoid the things that you were just referring to.
00:35:41.000There should be universal wearing of masks.
00:35:44.000Okay, so he says there should be universal mask wearing.
00:35:46.000Okay, well, here's Vineet Menchari, coronavirus researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, told NPR's Weekend Edition that it is unlikely the vaccine is going to be the end of this thing.
00:35:56.000He says, in fact, there's a good chance that COVID-19 never fully goes away with or without a vaccine.
00:36:29.000Okay, there are new reports out that Andrew Cuomo basically hit thousands of COVID deaths in nursing homes.
00:36:34.000Which is, we gotta get Chris on this right away.
00:36:36.000When he's not reporting on giant nasal swabs for his bro, then we gotta get Chris on this right away.
00:36:41.000By the way, what this doctor says, he says, the expectation I have is the virus will actually become the next common cold.
00:36:46.000What we don't know with these common cold coronaviruses is if they went through a similar transition period.
00:36:51.000He says it's been historically reported there was an outbreak associated for the transition from something like OC43, that is the common cold coronavirus.
00:36:59.000He said there was something, there was an outbreak associated with the transition of that virus from cows to humans.
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00:40:24.000So alarmism leads to incredibly stupid policy.
00:40:33.000The Big Ten is now talking about completely canceling their football season.
00:40:37.000According to the Detroit Free Press, the Big Ten is expected to cancel its fall college football season in a historic move that stems from concerns related to the COVID pandemic.
00:40:46.000It's done, one high-ranking source in the Big Ten said Monday afternoon.
00:40:48.000Sources said the presidents were in favor Sunday of not playing sports in the conference this fall.
00:40:52.000Michigan and Michigan State, which both have physicians as presidents, were among the schools in favor of not playing, according to sources.
00:40:58.000Jim Harbaugh, by the way, said that college football should be played.
00:41:00.000presidents voted 12 to 2 to not play this fall.
00:41:02.000But the Big Ten said Monday afternoon no official vote had taken place.
00:41:05.000Dan Patrick, who first reported the 12 to 2 vote, said on his radio show Iowa and Nebraska were the two schools in favor of playing.
00:41:13.000Jim Harbaugh, by the way, said that college football should be played.
00:41:16.000He says like, these are all young, healthy people.
00:41:19.000Coaches and players in the conference, including Jim Harbaugh, Ohio State's Ryan Day, Nebraska's Scott Frost, OSU quarterback Justin Fields, have lobbied for the season to commence.
00:41:26.000Day said it's swinging as hard as we possibly can right now for these players.
00:41:31.000Harbaugh put out hashtags, hashtag WeWannaPlay and hashtag WeWannaCoach.
00:41:37.000On Monday afternoon, ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstree tweeted, to be clear regarding Big Ten football and their impending announcement, they are looking to delay the start of the season, not to cancel.
00:41:45.000The Chicago Tribune reported around noon, a top-level Big Ten source texted, no decisions had been made, but it is pretty obvious that this is the direction in which they are moving.
00:41:55.000Okay, the fact is that a bunch of 20-year-olds playing football, presumably within some sort of bubble, and if some of them get COVID, that is not, it's not, they're on a campus, okay?
00:42:07.000They're not in contact with their parents.
00:42:08.000They're not going home and being with grandma.
00:42:11.000Trevor Lawrence, the Heisman-winning quarterback, He put out a tweet that said, hashtag we want to play.
00:42:18.000It says, we all want to play football this season.
00:42:21.000Establish universal mandated health and safety procedures and protocols to protect college athletes against COVID-19 among all conferences throughout the NCAA.
00:42:27.000Give players the opportunity to opt out, respect their decision, guarantee eligibility whether a player chooses to play the season or not.
00:42:33.000Use our voices to establish open communication and trust between players and officials.
00:42:37.000Ultimately, create a college football players association representative of the players of all power five at conferences.
00:43:26.000Ah, but we are going to ignore the science, because we all have to pretend that if a 20-year-old gets COVID-19, it is the worst thing that has ever happened to that person, even though, again, the chances of you dying from COVID-19 at age 20 are worse than the chances that you're going to die of flu at age 20.
00:43:37.000Meanwhile, we are still being told by the media that Andrew Cuomo was a great governor.
00:43:40.000The gaslighting from the media on COVID is absolutely insane.
00:44:28.000According to the AP, Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears on paper to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146 bed facility.
00:44:38.000The truth, according to the home, is far worse.
00:44:41.00021 dead, most transported to hospitals before they succumbed.
00:44:44.000It was a cascading effect, said Administrator Emil Fuzayev, one after the other.
00:44:48.000New York's coronavirus death toll in the nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount.
00:44:54.000Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property, and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.
00:45:00.000So if you called the hospital, and you're like, bring an ambulance, and the person died five minutes later in the ambulance, they don't count as a nursing home death in New York because Andrew Cuomo has to cover up the stats.
00:45:08.000That statistic could add thousands to the state's official care home death toll of just over 6,600.
00:45:14.000So far, Andrew Cuomo has refused to divulge the number.
00:45:18.000That's a problem, bro, states Senator Gustavo Rivera, Democrat, told New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker during a legislative hearing.
00:45:24.000By the way, Cuomo said yesterday, we don't need an independent investigation into my handling of this.
00:45:36.000Since May, federal regulators have required nursing homes to submit data on coronavirus deaths each week, whether or not residents died in the facility or at a hospital.
00:45:44.000Because the requirement came after the height of New York's outbreak, the available data is relatively small.
00:45:50.000Even if half the undercount held true from the start of the pandemic, that would translate into thousands more nursing home resident deaths than the state has acknowledged.
00:45:58.000State Health Department surveys show 21,000 nursing home beds are lying empty this year, 13,000 more than expected.
00:46:05.000That's an increase of almost double the official state nursing home death tally.
00:46:08.000So it could be up to 13,000 people died in the nursing homes.
00:46:12.000That has not stopped Andrew Cuomo from being a damned liar.
00:46:16.000He said, look at the basic facts, where New York is versus other states.
00:46:19.000This is on a briefing on Monday, on Monday.
00:46:21.000You look at where New York is as a percentage of nursing home deaths, it's all the way at the bottom of the list.
00:46:25.000Yeah, when you lie about it, that's what happens.
00:46:28.000When you lie about it, that's what happens.
00:46:30.000Boston University geriatrics expert Thomas Pearl said, whatever the cause, there's no way that New York's nursing home resident deaths are only 20% of the total deaths.
00:46:52.000And then, just to make sure that nobody could actually speak openly about this, Janet Dean, Janice Dean, rather, on Fox News, who does some of the weather over there, she had a mom who died in a nursing home facility in New York, and she was going off on Andrew Cuomo's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
00:47:11.000She was invited to testify before the New York State Legislature about the COVID handling in New York, and then she was uninvited because they were afraid of what she might say about the garbage governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
00:47:22.000Assemblyman Kevin Byrne was the one that was, you know, emailing me back and forth and saying that he was talking to the chair and that the chair said, absolutely, she'll get her day on August the 10th today.
00:47:34.000And then I was supposed to hear something over the weekend.
00:47:56.000I mean, obviously, the media are fully invested in the cover-up of Andrew Cuomo's garbage governance, and Andrew Cuomo is fully invested in that cover-up as well.
00:48:03.000I mean, imagine if Ron DeSantis were fully, full-on hiding thousands of deaths in nursing homes so he could pretend they protected the nursing homes.
00:48:10.000Like, full-on hiding it, and everybody knows it.
00:48:12.000And then the media were like, Like the AP reported it weeks late.
00:48:16.000We've been talking, by the way, I mentioned this on the show like a full month ago, probably six weeks ago on the show.
00:48:20.000I mentioned the fact that New York was not counting, as nursing home death, people who died outside the nursing home, but got COVID inside a nursing home.
00:48:27.000Meanwhile, speaking of the media doing heavy lifting on behalf of the Democrats.
00:48:30.000So Democrats continue to prevent any sort of deal from being cut to provide some form of relief to the American people in the middle of a middle of a COVID pandemic where governments across the country have basically been shutting down people from working.
00:48:43.000By the way, worth noting that when we talk about the differential in how states have treated this thing, There has been a pretty widespread differential on unemployment rate by states in the United States, and it's pretty obvious that it has to do with the treatment of COVID.
00:48:58.000In Tennessee, which really didn't shut down fully, Tennessee, their unemployment rate is like 4.6% right now.
00:49:07.000What you are seeing is unemployment rates by states.
00:49:10.000It is fairly obvious which states are seeing Massive increases in unemployment, and it's all the ones that decided to do the full-scale lockdowns.
00:50:28.000The media narrative here is pretty incredible.
00:50:29.000So meanwhile, while Republicans try to actually push out some sort of relief bill for people who are unable to work thanks to the government crackdowns, Democrats continue to put out there trillions and trillions of dollars in unnecessary spending.
00:50:42.000So Mitch McConnell pointed out, the senator from Kentucky, he pointed out that Democrats are now pushing bills that would incentivize people to stay home.
00:50:48.000According to a variety of studies, the Democrat bill would basically pay four out of five Americans more not to work than to work if it were continued through the end of 2020.
00:51:13.000The senior senator from Maryland said, quote, we certainly understand we don't want to have a higher benefit than what someone can make working.
00:52:23.000Don't worry, the media will provide, literally their entire job is just to provide cover for Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Andrew Cuomo.
00:52:31.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
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