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00:01:29.000We begin at this hour with a piece of good electoral news.
00:01:32.000Our friend Burgess Owens, NFL veteran and Republican, has defeated Representative Ben McAdams, who is the only Democrat in Utah's congressional delegation.
00:01:40.000He conceded his race to Burgess Owens on Monday.
00:01:42.000That makes Owens the 12th GOP challenger to unseat his incumbent Democratic opponent during the 2020 election, as the Republican Party continues to cut into the Democrats' House majority.
00:01:50.000This is Tim Pearce at Daily Wire reporting.
00:01:53.000Owens announced that McAdams had conceded the race in a tweet on Monday evening.
00:02:11.000That was supposed to be a race that was fairly easily won by McAdams and in the late polling, Burgess was down and he ended up winning the race, demonstrating once more that the Republican Party wildly outperformed expectations in this particular election.
00:02:26.000The Democratic Party has a real problem on its hands, regardless of what happens in the presidential race, which again, there's still legal cases outstanding.
00:02:33.000Whatever happens there, Democrats have a real problem.
00:02:35.000They have a real problem so long as Republicans actually go out and vote in Georgia.
00:02:40.000So I'm going to remind you right now, if you are a Republican, you need to give money to David Perdue in Georgia and to Kelly Loeffler in Georgia, because the last thing that you want is the specter of a 50-50 Senate.
00:02:49.000With presumably Kamala Harris presiding as Joe Biden's vice president and breaking ties.
00:02:53.000That is the last thing you could possibly want.
00:02:55.000Checking the ambitions of the Democratic Party is a must at this point.
00:02:58.000So, you need to, like, there's no time to rest on your laurels.
00:03:02.000There is no time to fulminate about stuff that has already happened.
00:03:05.000Instead, you need to focus on what's coming up January 5th.
00:03:07.000There is a double election in Georgia.
00:03:10.000David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, they deserve your support.
00:03:15.000The Democrats must be defeated in those Senate races.
00:03:18.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of Georgia, yesterday, 2,600 votes were discovered in Floyd County.
00:03:23.000They had not originally been tallied, and they did reduce the deficit that Trump has to Joe Biden in the state.
00:03:29.000According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Trump could gain nearly 800 net votes from the discovered ballots.
00:03:34.000There were 1,643 new votes for Trump and 865 for Biden.
00:03:38.000According to the Atlantic Journal-Constitution, the problem occurred because county election officials did not upload votes from a memory card in a ballot scanning machine.
00:03:46.000As according to Gabriel Sterling, the state's voting system manager, he called it an amazing blunder.
00:03:50.000He said the county's election director should resign.
00:04:19.000It's important that all votes are counted.
00:04:21.000The ballots will be re-scanned and tabulated before the results are finalized on Friday, director Chris Harvey. He said you want every vote counted right the first time.
00:04:27.000That is one of the goals of the audit to identify problems.
00:04:30.000All the votes will be uploaded. The results will be what they are. So the the state is insisting that the audit is exactly what found it anyway. That it wasn't Trump putting pressure that found these additional votes. Eric Erickson tweeted out about this.
00:04:45.000He said this was a scanner malfunction.
00:04:46.000It wasn't a machine error per se, a human error in scanning ballots, but most counties still align identically with the machine count at this point.
00:04:53.000He has an entire thread about Dominion voting systems in Georgia, and he says that he talked with the Georgia Secretary of State about signature issue.
00:05:02.000He says that Georgia verified signatures for absentee ballot applications, not just the ballots themselves.
00:05:07.000The applications were matched with both the voter's driver's license and their voter registration card.
00:05:11.000So Georgia's actually been attempting to verify that people requested the ballots legally.
00:05:15.000It's not just that they filled out the ballots legally, but that they requested the ballots legally.
00:05:19.000Apparently, Lindsey Graham asked specifically about this.
00:05:21.000This pissed off the Georgia Secretary of State, who then suggested openly that Lindsey Graham wanted to exclude legal ballots.
00:05:28.000But according to the guy's name is Raffensperger, this was reported by Mediaite.
00:05:33.000In their conversation, Graham questioned Raffensperger about the state's signature matching law and whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots with non-matching signatures, according to Raffensperger.
00:05:42.000Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of non-matching signatures, according to Raffensperger.
00:05:49.000Raffensperger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots.
00:05:54.000Graham says, no, no, no, I was just asking if there is a way to toss ballots that are not legally requested or in which there is no way to verify the matching signature in any case.
00:06:04.000The process is working, as the process should work.
00:06:07.000Eric Erickson points out that all claims of dead people voting in Georgia have thus far been debunked.
00:06:11.000He says no dead person has actually voted in Georgia.
00:06:13.000He says contrary to claims about Dominion voting systems, the hand counts in Georgia align perfectly with the machine counts.
00:06:18.000There could not have been hacked machines in Georgia altering votes for Joe Biden.
00:06:21.000That's according to Eric Erickson, who does a show down there on WSB, obviously.
00:06:26.000The Biden camp, meanwhile, is demonstrating full scale what the real corruption in this election was.
00:06:32.000And it has very little to do with the voting systems.
00:06:34.000Again, we have legal cases that are proceeding.
00:06:37.000Sidney Powell, the lawyer for President Trump, she has suggested that she is about to release the Kraken, which, of course, is a very colorful phrase.
00:07:22.000According to Sam Stein, Reporting about the Daily Beast.
00:07:26.000The Daily Beast had a piece all about Joe Biden online.
00:07:29.000Sam Stein, who reports for the Daily Beast now, he says, According to Biden campaign metrics, online chatter about the Hunter Biden story during the elections last week was greater than it was around Hillary's emails during the last month of 2016.
00:07:46.000So the fact is that you are now bragging.
00:07:48.000The Biden campaign is now bragging that they were able to suppress information That was bad for Joe Biden.
00:07:54.000That mainstream media decided to do the dirty work of the Biden campaign by not allowing well-reported and factual stories to emerge into the public view because mainstream media never jumped on it.
00:08:04.000Mainstream media just decided it was more important to defeat Trump than to report truly reported stories.
00:08:08.000I mean, we all knew this was the case.
00:08:12.000The fact is that the Biden campaign and the media are one and the same.
00:08:22.000In the Obama era, the press walked around holding drool cups for Barack Obama.
00:08:25.000Now we are back there, and they're walking around holding drool cups for Joe Biden, in which both of them are drooling Biden because he's falling apart, and the media because they're drooling over Joe Biden, and then trying, straining, to get themselves enthusiastic about Kamala Harris, which is good luck with that, gang.
00:08:39.000According to the Daily Beast, fearing a redux of the disastrous end-of-campaign implosion of Hillary Clinton, the team dove further into the research.
00:08:47.000While the Hunter Biden story had taken off on Facebook, YouTube, and various right-wing sites, it had not crossed over into mainstream outlets.
00:08:52.000The campaign's internal polling, meanwhile, showed that voters largely weren't persuaded by it.
00:08:56.000The wildfire ended up being mostly smoke, but even so, it provided the Biden campaign with yet another reminder about the perils that social media platforms present to Democrats as they traverse the modern political landscape.
00:09:07.000This is why Democrats are attempting to quash the social media companies.
00:09:12.000Democrats would love nothing better than for social media companies to act as their suppressive wing, stopping stories from trending, preventing people from disseminating information they do not like.
00:09:24.000That is the informational battle that we are going to be about to wage in this country.
00:09:27.000The platforms are now being perverted by Democrats.
00:09:29.000They're being threatened by Democrats that if they do not suppress information Democrats don't like, then Democrats themselves will go in and break up these major corporations or regulate those corporations.
00:09:37.000And these corporations, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, they are responding predictably by catering to the left and hoping for the goodwill of the right.
00:09:44.000They're responding by suppressing exactly the information the left wants and hoping that the right's focus in on free markets and free speech will prevent the right from siding with the left in regulating these companies.
00:09:54.000They can only count on the kindness of people who you are batting, who you are clubbing about the ears for so long.
00:09:59.000And there will be a breaking point here with the right.
00:10:02.000There's going to come a point where the right says to these social media companies, Listen, like Batman, at the end of Batman Begins, we're not gonna kill you, but we don't have to save you.
00:10:12.000And that is the direction in which all of this is moving.
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00:12:41.000She lost her gubernatorial race by 50,000 votes in that state.
00:12:45.000And then she went around claiming she was governor of Georgia.
00:12:47.000The DNC touted her as the elected governor of Georgia after losing by 50,000 votes.
00:12:52.000And then if you say to the media, by the way, you know, you guys keep feeding Stacey Abrams, like F-E-T-I-N-G, you keep feeding Stacey Abrams, you keep praising her, even though she continues to maintain that she was ripped off and deprived of her gubernatorial seat in Georgia.
00:13:06.000At the same time that she's going on TV claiming that Donald Trump is a whiner?
00:13:28.000Joe Biden, after he gave his quasi-victory address, obviously precipitously, because not a single state has yet been declared, Joe Biden came out and he said that he's all for unity.
00:13:37.000It's time for America to come together and it's time to heal.
00:14:27.000Okay, well, when does Joe Biden actually move to the moderate lane by chiding people on his own side for castigating everybody who disagrees with them as a Klan member?
00:14:33.000So Ilhan Omar, truly a terrible human being.
00:14:50.000We'll check out those allegations, but those allegations have been floating around for quite a while and seem to be mounting.
00:14:54.000In any case, Ilhan Omar, the person who poses on the cover of magazines with Nancy Pelosi before declaring that for the Jews, it's all about the Benjamins.
00:15:01.000She says that Donald Trump rallies are like Klan rallies.
00:15:04.000I can feel all the peace and healing, can't you?
00:15:23.000You see, when tens of thousands of people show up for rallies for Donald Trump, those are Klan rallies.
00:15:28.000Which is strange, because there are a lot of people of color at those particular supposed Klan rallies, which don't actually seem a lot like Klan rallies.
00:15:44.000It's Trump voters who are interested in tyranny, which is weird because I keep hearing from the Democratic Party that they want to run nearly every aspect of my life, but it's Trump voters who are tyranny curious.
00:15:52.000Here's Brian Williams, fake journalist.
00:15:55.000As you look at home from there, and when you come home on your next visit, do you view it as a changed country because millions of people decided, maybe over time, like the frog boiling experiment, to become at least tyranny curious?
00:16:16.000So now we know from Ilhan Omar that they are Klan members.
00:16:19.000We know from Brian Williams that Trump voters are tyranny curious.
00:16:22.000And we also know from Whoopi Goldberg that Republicans literally don't care if you die.
00:16:52.000And when you go in to vote in Georgia, remember, this is the party that doesn't care if you drop dead because you can't breathe.
00:16:59.000Clearly, they know what has to happen, and they're not doing it.
00:17:03.000Weird, because I'm reliably informed that half of the Democratic legislature of California just traveled over to Maui for a conference, then traveled back and didn't quarantine.
00:17:12.000So yeah, by the way, a lot of people died in New York and New Jersey, but it's the Republicans.
00:17:19.000OK, in just a second, we're going to get to the gaslighting of the American people, because at root, so much of what's going on is the gaslighting of the American people.
00:17:25.000It's an attempt to get you to shut up.
00:17:27.000There is a process that is used to get you to shut up, particularly if you are culturally conservative, that we need to talk about.
00:17:33.000OK, we'll get to that in just one second.
00:17:35.000First, Let's talk about the fact that, right now, guns are flying off the shelves.
00:17:38.000They have been flying off the shelves for a while.
00:17:41.000Might it be the fostering of chaos in America's major cities?
00:17:44.000Might it be the fact that the media and the Democratic Party are fully willing to overlook violence so long as it is violence that aligns with their political worldview?
00:17:52.000Well, whatever your reason, you might be looking for a gun.
00:17:55.000And when the Framers wrote the Constitution, the first thing they did was to make sacred your right to keep and bear arms.
00:18:00.000This is the thing that they were focused on at heart.
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00:20:20.000It's that you're not supposed to ignore it when your friend sins.
00:20:24.000You're supposed to chide him and correct him.
00:20:26.000But it is very easy to fall into the trap, because it's seductive, of basically saying that I'm a nice guy and so I'm never going to say anything offensive.
00:20:34.000And so what the left does is they simply deem anything that you are saying offensive.
00:20:38.000And thus, you have now violated the niceness principle.
00:22:13.000Step three, so we went from you should be quiet to be nice, to you should be quiet because you're harming me, to you being quiet is the problem.
00:22:20.000Now, when folks on the left say silence is violence, what they don't mean is we want you to speak freely.
00:22:25.000What they mean is we want you to speak and repeat exactly what we are about to tell you.
00:22:29.000And if you do not mirror our preference, if you do not celebrate our preference, if you do not celebrate our political point of view, this means that you are a bad person.
00:24:12.000You get this phenomenon a lot in, for example, Los Angeles.
00:24:16.000The kind of attention-seeking behavior that you see very often.
00:24:18.000And then if you pay attention to the behavior, they go, why are you paying attention?
00:24:21.000Because you asked me to pay attention.
00:24:24.000This is all leading up to a discussion of Harry Styles, by the way, if you were not aware where this was going.
00:24:30.000There's a thing that happens very often in places like LA where you walk into a coffee bean and the barista has pink hair and a ring on the nose and a ring on the ear and a chain connecting both, connecting all the way to the other ear.
00:24:42.000And then you kind of look for a moment too long and the person looks at you and says, what are you looking at?
00:24:48.000Well, it feels like you were seeking attention when you decided to connect a chain from your ear to your nose to your other ear.
00:24:53.000That's an actual overt sign that you might want to... Like, your hair is shockingly bright pink.
00:24:57.000I feel like you might want some attention there.
00:24:58.000And then it's like, well, why are you paying attention?
00:25:05.000If you want to act that way, it's a free country.
00:25:07.000But us paying attention to having opinions is not, in fact, a violation of the niceness principle, nor is it an excuse to silence other people.
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00:27:05.000OK, because men wearing women's dresses, typically that's like there's a reason that Bugs Bunny plays it for comic effect when he puts on a dress to fool Elmer Fudd.
00:27:28.000And by the way, Vogue knows that it's strange and something different.
00:27:31.000See, here's where the gaslighting comes in.
00:27:32.000Vogue treats this as groundbreaking and wonderful.
00:27:35.000Now, in your regular life, if somebody, let's say that you're a married woman and your husband comes through the door wearing one of your gowns.
00:27:43.000Would your first reaction be, I love how you're bending gender norms, honey.
00:27:47.000Fabiola, I asked our hair and makeup person, Fabiola, about this.
00:27:52.000And her reaction, I thought, was on the mark.
00:27:55.000She said, if my husband walked through the door wearing one of my dresses, I would punch him.
00:28:34.000And the reason he's wearing a dress is because he's trying to violate preconceived notions about masculinity.
00:28:39.000Okay, and Vogue makes this perfectly clear.
00:28:41.000So, we are told by various interview subjects that Stiles' cross-dressing represents, quote, the image of a new era, of the way that a man can look.
00:28:51.000And that the pop star is, quote, redefining what it can mean to be a man with confidence.
00:28:55.000Ah, you see, the most confident men are the ones who wear dresses.
00:28:58.000The more confident you are in your masculinity, the more you can afford to be not masculine.
00:29:03.000In fact, the highest form of masculinity is to completely castrate yourself.
00:29:06.000That would actually be the highest form of masculinity, because if you do that, that shows how masculine you are, because you had to have balls to take them off, right?
00:29:12.000I mean, that really is the highest form of masculinity, is to do things that make you as little masculine as humanly possible.
00:29:20.000Okay, the actress Olivia Wilde says, quote, Okay, so first of all, it's not just devoid of toxic masculinity, it's devoid of any masculinity.
00:29:25.000of toxic masculinity is indicative of his generation and therefore the future of the world.
00:29:31.000I think he's in many ways championing that, spearheading that.
00:29:33.000It's pretty powerful, kind of extraordinary to see someone in his position, redefining what it can mean to be a man with confidence.
00:29:39.000Oh, that's, okay, so first of all, it's not just a word of toxic masculinity, is devoid of any masculinity.
00:29:44.000Okay, this is not, there's nothing masculine about this.
00:29:47.000In fact, the whole point here is to rob masculinity of its masculine side, right?
00:29:52.000The point is to redefine masculinity to now include doing feminine things.
00:29:56.000If it were just about a man being confident to wear what he wants to wear, then he'd be out there like Borat in a banana hammock or something, right?
00:30:01.000But that's not what he's doing, right?
00:30:03.000What he's doing instead is he's putting on a dress because he's trying to mix up the stereotypes of male and female.
00:30:08.000So this is an attention-seeking behavior, right?
00:30:10.000This is Harry Styles with the pink hair and the nose ring and the chain going from ear to ear, right?
00:30:44.000We'll get to what Candace had to say and then what I had to say about this in just a moment because there is a broader point to be made.
00:30:49.000If the left is now going to claim that being a man wearing a dress is the highest form of masculinity because you have shed toxic masculinity, and then I say, I think that this is a perversion of masculinity because feminizing males is not the goal of being masculine.
00:31:05.000Masculine and feminine have definitions.
00:31:09.000It is a good thing to train boys to be masculine.
00:31:13.000And then, for masculinity to be tempered by civilization.
00:31:18.000For all of human history, masculinity unbound has had very, very negative effects.
00:31:23.000Masculinity unbound from anything like responsibility, the aggressive instinct that is inherent in males, generally speaking, Unbound from civilization and civilizing influences and traditional Judeo-Christian morality has had dire, dire effects.
00:31:37.000Okay, but masculinity has also done incredibly great things for the world.
00:32:05.000Somebody else comments on the outrageous thing, you should shut up.
00:32:08.000Don't comment on the outrageous thing.
00:32:10.000Celebrate the outrageous thing, or silence is violence.
00:32:13.000Okay, we're gonna get to the actual analysis of this particular issue in a second, because masculinity is important.
00:32:18.000What the left wants to do is rewrite masculinity.
00:32:20.000They do not want to fight toxic masculinity, they want to fight masculinity itself.
00:32:26.000Being a man is a bad thing, unless you are treating manhood as actually acting in feminine ways, because feminine and masculine have definitions.
00:32:35.000Confusion is the goal here, because if they were to make this argument straight up, that men should act like women, that men should don dresses and act just like women, everybody would realize how stupid this is.
00:32:43.000So instead, they've decided to deliberately confuse the terminology.
00:32:46.000First, they say masculine and feminine are categories.
00:32:49.000And then they say feminine and masculine are not categories.
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00:37:15.000Aristotle talks about masculinity in exactly these sorts of terms.
00:37:18.000Harvey Mansfield has an excellent book called Manliness, all about masculinity and what distinguishes it from femininity.
00:37:24.000Now, it's not that the left doesn't acknowledge these are qualities.
00:37:26.000The left fully acknowledges the qualities of masculinity and femininity, right?
00:37:30.000Which is why they suggest that there are a wide variety of genders because they suggest that a man can be very feminine and this actually makes him a woman, right?
00:37:37.000So they agree that this means that there is such a thing as masculinity and femininity.
00:37:43.000They then just suggest that men should act like women, that masculinity should be made more feminine.
00:37:49.000She says that when you make men more feminine, when you suggest that men need to be like women, they need to wear dresses, that this undermines some fundamentally good thing about men.
00:38:00.000In the same way that if you said that women ought to act like men, it's funny, if you say that women ought to act more like men, this is considered sexist, because it actually is sexist.
00:38:07.000But if you say that men ought to act more like women, this is considered progressive and forward-thinking.
00:38:11.000The attempt to feminize men is ongoing on the left.
00:38:14.000Okay, so this prompted me to defend Candace's comment.
00:38:17.000And I said, this is perfectly obvious.
00:38:19.000Anyone who pretends it is not a referendum on masculinity for men to don floofy dresses and then be celebrated by magazines like Vogue is gaslighting you.
00:38:27.000Masculinity and femininity are categories.
00:39:36.000Boys are taught to be more masculine in virtually every human culture because the role of men is not, in fact, always the same as the role of women.
00:40:25.000The idea is to rethink masculinity as femininity, to feminize men, to get rid of toxic masculinity by suggesting that men should act like women.
00:40:34.000Otherwise, it would not be headline worthy for Harry Styles to put on a dress.
00:40:37.000If it were just about Harry Styles, again, playing with dress the way he says that it is, then he would have dressed up as a giant baby in a diaper with a pacifier, right?
00:41:28.000Let's assume for a second the honesty of some folks on the left who at least acknowledge that femininity and masculinity exist.
00:41:35.000They also have indicators, outward indicators.
00:41:37.000Dress has been, for virtually all time and in virtually all cultures, an outward indicator, which is why the Bible explicitly says that it is against cross-dressing, for example.
00:41:45.000Okay, but in virtually every culture, men and women dress differently.
00:41:48.000This does not mean that all men dress the same and all women in all cultures dress the same.
00:41:52.000It means that in every culture there is a distinction between how men dress and how women dress.
00:41:56.000The stupidest form of the argument that I saw yesterday online was, well in Scotland they wear kilts.
00:42:01.000That means that a man in America wearing a skirt, a floofy skirt, is the same as a man in Scotland wearing a kilt.
00:42:21.000And women wore a different form of clothing.
00:42:23.000At the time, women and men were distinguishable by dress.
00:42:26.000They have always been distinguishable by dress in virtually every human culture.
00:42:29.000And noting that men wore floofier stuff in the 16th century in Britain does not change the fact that women wore completely different clothing in the 16th century in Britain.
00:42:37.000This is a category error, you morons, to suggest that because men wore something like a kilt in Scotland, that if you transferred over to America would look more feminine.
00:42:47.000Therefore, a man wearing a skirt in America in 2020 is just the same in the male-female paradigm as a man wearing a kilt in Scotland in 1590 is insane and idiotic and ridiculous on its face, and we all know that.
00:43:01.000Pretending that men dressing like women is not about feminizing men is ridiculous.
00:43:04.000Because they are overtly celebrating the fact that Styles is feminizing masculinity.
00:43:11.000So this is all a big gaslighting effect, right?
00:43:33.000And then folks on the left don't respond by saying, well, why is it a bad thing to feminize masculinity?
00:43:37.000Because then they would lose the argument because masculinity has very many good things and ought to be upheld.
00:43:41.000Instead, what the left does is this weird gaslighting shut up routine where they say, how dare you say that men wearing dresses undermines masculinity?
00:43:48.000You said, you on the left, you said that wearing a dress undermines masculinity.
00:43:52.000That is the whole point of putting people on the cover of magazines who are men wearing dresses.
00:44:17.000It is important to inculcate in your children that boys and girls are different.
00:44:20.000And any parent who fails to inculcate in a boy that manliness is a good thing and that responsible manliness helps build civilization.
00:44:27.000Any person, any parent does not teach their girls that femininity, meaning the protection of hearth and home in a different way than masculinity is a good thing.
00:44:37.000Any person who doesn't teach their girls that is not doing their kid any favors.
00:44:40.000And they're undermining the civilizational compact between men and women that exists based on biology in virtually every human culture.
00:44:47.000And the left knows that they can't win this argument because biology cuts directly against them.
00:45:04.000And we shouldn't be shy about discussing these issues because the left certainly isn't shy about discussing these issues.
00:45:07.000The left will put these in public schools, right?
00:45:09.000The left will tell your kindergartner that real men wear dresses.
00:45:13.000And then you'll be explaining to a five-year-old why real men do not wear dresses.
00:45:17.000And I don't feel that that is an acceptable ramification of our cultural discussion, is that you're supposed to shut up because it's offensive and rude for you to say that boys and girls are different.
00:45:26.000But it is inoffensive and groundbreaking to treat as completely without debate that men and women are exactly the same in every respect, except that men suffer from toxic masculinity that must be bred out of them by wearing 17th century floofy dresses on the cover of Vogue.
00:45:59.000I'm not saying don't listen to his music.
00:46:01.000I'm not saying don't watch the movies he's in.
00:46:02.000All I'm saying is that when you put out there an argument that men ought to act like women, and that this is a good thing, you are doing something that undermines and tears at the fabric of not only civilization, but of families.
00:46:13.000It tears at the fabric of child-rearing and child-raising, and everybody with half a brain knows this.
00:46:18.000And don't be silenced by people who just tell you that it's rude to talk about it while simultaneously demanding that you put on the Kramer AIDS ribbon or they're going to club you about the head for not celebrating that which you don't find worthy of celebration.
00:46:32.000Okay, so, meanwhile, in actual news, COVID continues to blight the land and the responses of various political figures continues to not be particularly useful.
00:46:43.000So, Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that they are closing the schools in New York, despite evidence.
00:46:47.000It is perfectly obvious at this point that schools are not chief vectors of transmission.
00:46:51.000They're shutting down the schools anyway, because all of the political incentives are aligned to shut things down, even if there's no actual evidence suggesting that things ought to be shut down.
00:46:59.000We said we would make health and safety the priority.
00:47:29.000We asked everyone to trust it and believe in it.
00:47:32.000It's important to keep consistency with that.
00:47:34.000Okay, first of all, I love Bill de Blasio talking about consistency.
00:47:37.000His consistency standard has been yell at the Jews while suggesting systemic racism is responsible for upticks of COVID in every other racial minority.
00:47:44.000So Captain Consistency over here has been like, let's have giant riots and looting in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
00:48:01.000I hope that you've enjoyed that two weeks of schooling in New York that you got.
00:48:04.000I hope that it went really, really well for you.
00:48:07.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is out there still maintaining that he has a plan.
00:48:11.000It must be wonderful being Joe Biden at this point, not having to have a plan, but getting to blame Trump for every bad thing that is happening.
00:48:16.000He said some very bizarre things yesterday in front of his cardboard His cardboard display saying Office of the President-Elect.
00:48:22.000There is no Office of the President-Elect, as we have noted going all the way back to 2008, when Barack Obama actually created a placard that said Office of the President-Elect.
00:48:31.000In any case, Joe Biden said that the vaccine is coming, and I trust the vaccine because Fauci says the vaccine is good.
00:48:36.000He says people only question the vaccine because of Trump, which is a weird take considering your vice president, your vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, openly said that she would not take the vaccine if Trump said to take it.
00:48:47.000So I feel like the undermining of vaccines and taking vaccines, that's actually been your party, Joe.
00:48:53.000But I'm glad that now you're on board.
00:48:56.000Funny how you switched from, I'm a little wary about vaccines, your vice president saying that, to vaccines are the most wonderful thing and Trump is the only person obstructing them when he's the one who created the program to develop them in the first place.
00:49:08.000The only reason people question the vaccine now is because of Donald Trump.
00:49:13.000That's the reason why people are questioning the vaccine, because all the things he says and doesn't say, whether it's truthful, is it not truthful, the exaggerations.
00:49:23.000We're on a clear path with the international community and national leaders and the scientific community have focused on these two vaccines.
00:49:31.000They appear to be ready for prime time, ready to be used.
00:49:36.000And if that continues along those roads, I would take the vaccine.
00:49:53.000The fact is that apparently Biden is receiving some sort of national security briefing today.
00:49:56.000So, um, yeah, here's Biden trying to blame everything on Trump as per our usual arrangement.
00:50:02.000What do you see as the biggest threat to your transition right now, given President Trump's unprecedented attempt to obstruct and delay a smooth transfer of power?
00:50:11.000More people may die if we don't coordinate.
00:50:14.000If we have to wait until January 20th to start that planning, it puts us behind over a month, month and a half.
00:50:22.000And so it's important that it be done, that there be coordination now.
00:50:28.000Now or as rapidly as we can get that done.
00:50:31.000Okay, so again, everything is Trump's fault.
00:50:33.000Meanwhile, the media pushing the idea that if you're a Republican, you're more likely to get COVID because you're an idiot.
00:50:37.000So it is very odd how the virus pretty much affects everybody.
00:50:42.000And that if you are more careful, there's a lower likelihood that you're going to get a severe strain of the virus and if you are or a severe case of the virus.
00:50:50.000And if you are less careful, then you are probably going to have a higher chance of getting it.
00:50:54.000Nonetheless, here is CNN declaring that President Trump and every Republican, those people are responsible for their own COVID cases.
00:51:00.000They hosted a South Dakota nurse who then proceeded to explain that people are dying in South Dakota while declaring that COVID is not real. And this is, of course, because of President Trump, as opposed to the huge number of people who died in New York who who thought presumably COVID was real and also died.
00:51:13.000It turns out the virus doesn't care what you think because the virus is not in fact a woke mind reading tool.
00:51:19.000I think the hardest thing to watch is that people are still looking for something else and they want a magic answer and they don't want to believe that COVID is real.
00:51:28.000And the reason I tweeted what I did is it wasn't one particular patient.
00:51:31.000It's just a culmination of so many people and their last dying words are, um, this can't be happening.
00:51:40.000And when they should be spending time FaceTiming their families, They're filled with anger and hatred and it just made me really sad the other night.
00:51:49.000And I just can't believe that those are going to be their last thoughts and words.
00:51:55.000I mean, by the way, we also heard stories a little bit earlier before the election about people whose last dying words were things like, I hope Trump loses or something.
00:52:01.000It turns out people have all sorts of weird.
00:52:03.000Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is laying forth his economic plans.
00:52:06.000So, in the final days of President Trump's first term, depending on what happens here, Joe Biden is laying forth his economic plans.
00:52:13.000So in the final days of President Trump's first term, you know, depending on what happens here, Joe Biden is laying forth his economic plans.
00:52:25.000If Joe Biden ends up as the president-elect of the United States, if he ends up taking office in January, then Joe Biden might be the luckiest cat on planet Earth.
00:52:34.000Not just because he presumably would have been declared the winner, but also because if the Republicans win the Senate, Joe Biden is going to get the benefit of Operation Warp Speed.
00:52:43.000He's going to be handed a vaccine that will be widely available by March and April, which means that the economy is going to boom.
00:52:48.000It means that the V-shaped recovery that started under President Trump will continue.
00:52:52.000It means the economy is going to spike.
00:52:54.000And because he will have a Republican Senate, Joe Biden will have no way of stopping the economy from growing, right?
00:52:59.000He'll have wanted to put forth all of these crappy proposals, raising taxes and increasing regulations and all of this, and he'll have very little ability to actually implement that.
00:53:06.000You want to know why the stock market jumped on election night.
00:53:08.000The reason the stock market jumped after election night is because there was an assumption that Republicans were going to keep the Senate, which is why those Georgia Senate races are really important.
00:53:15.000But this does put Joe Biden in particularly rich In a particularly rich political area, meaning that for Joe Biden, all he has to do is continue to sit in the basement and just reap the rewards of Trump's economic plan and Trump's vaccines, and then the media will credit him.
00:53:32.000So that's a wonderful thing, but he's at least going to pay lip service to all of his party's most idiotic economic plans.
00:53:38.000So yesterday he gave a speech on the economy, which basically amounted to Trump as a big, bad, mean, orange man.
00:53:42.000At some point, you would figure the specter of Trump will suddenly just dissipate, but never.
00:53:48.000Barack Obama is still blaming George W. Bush seven years into his term.
00:53:51.000So you can imagine that that's exactly what Joe Biden will be doing as well.
00:53:54.000So Joe Biden says he wants to restructure the tax structure.
00:53:57.000We need a fairer tax structure where people at the top pay more, which is insane considering the people at the top pay literally all net taxes in the United States.
00:54:15.000The same people who will suggest that America's rich are not paying their fair share and also say that Norway is wonderful, neglect the fact that Norway and Denmark and Sweden, all these places, have incredibly regressive tax systems compared to the United States.
00:54:26.000America has an incredibly progressive graduated tax system where people at the top get absolutely shellacked And if you're not earning all that much money, or if you're middle class, you're not paying very high taxes.
00:54:35.000If you go over to Europe, everybody is paying high taxes.
00:54:37.000In any case, here's Joe Biden just lying and saying we don't have a fair tax system, which is code for, I want to seize more money from people who earn a lot.
00:54:44.000It's time to reward work, not just wealth in America.
00:54:48.000We're going to have a fair tax structure that makes sure the wealthiest among us in corporations pay their fair share.
00:54:55.000Our plan will create millions of good-paying union jobs in manufacturing, building the vehicles, products, technologies that we're going to need for the future to compete with the rest of the world.
00:55:08.000From autos to our stockpiles, we're going to buy American.
00:55:13.000Okay, so let's just be real about this.
00:55:15.000When he talks about how work must be rewarded, family income grew under Donald Trump in the first three years of his administration faster and more completely in total than under eight years of Barack Obama.
00:55:27.000And the people who are mostly making that money are people in the middle and the bottom end of the spectrum.
00:55:31.000There's actually faster income growth among people who are at the lower end of the spectrum than in people at the top end of the spectrum.
00:55:38.000Joe Biden is gonna continue to push these crappy plans.
00:55:40.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden has another plan.
00:55:42.000And this one, again, is incredibly regressive.
00:55:44.000So, first of all, it's hilarious that Joe Biden continues to suggest that America's tax system is regressive when it is actually quite progressive.
00:55:51.000Also, he wants to push what sounds like the most regressive policy prescription that I can think of.
00:55:58.000He wants to simply cancel student loan debt.
00:56:40.000My parents helped me out with college.
00:56:41.000We all took on debt and we all paid off that debt in order to pay off our debts.
00:56:45.000And we did so in the assumption that that was going to be a way of investing in the future.
00:56:50.000And here comes Joe Biden saying basically you're suckers because not only did you pay off your debt, Now the taxpayer is going to assume everybody else's debt, which means that you're going to have to pay for some jackass Antifa student's degree in queer studies.
00:57:05.000If you're a taxpayer, you're a sucker.
00:57:06.000If you're a high school student, if you're a high school grad and you didn't go to college, you're a serious sucker because you could have gone for free and then just had Joe Biden alleviate the debt.
00:57:14.000Not only that, you're not going to have to pay because the taxes are going to come.
00:57:17.000You're going to have to pay for that college student to get that ridiculous degree.
00:57:21.000What this really is is a subsidy to a university system that indoctrinates kids in stupidity.
00:57:26.000There are two types of degrees that come out of college systems.
00:57:29.000There's the type of degree where you actually learn something.
00:57:30.000My wife was pre-med, so she was in psychobiology.
00:57:49.000The only reason that you got a poli-sci major was so that you could go to law school or brag that you got a poli-sci degree from UCLA without any concomitant skill set.
00:57:56.000It was a scam designed to give you a degree.
00:58:02.000They are designed as sorting mechanisms, as feeder mechanisms.
00:58:06.000The idea is that employers are, I believe, banned by federal law from giving things like IQ tests in order to determine whether or not you are smart enough to be hired.
00:58:14.000So instead, we have an entire Ridiculous and backwards and convoluted system where you're supposed to incur tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to basically take an IQ test, which is all that that a degree from a college basically is, right?
00:58:26.000Because you take an SAT, which is a low level IQ test or an ACT, same sort of thing.
00:58:30.000And then you get funneled into a college, and then the college weeds out people who are not particularly hardworking, and then you get the degree, and all an employer learns from that is not that you have a marketable skill set, they learn that you are quote-unquote smart, right?
00:58:41.000This is why if you have Harvard on your diploma, even if you majored in something really stupid, you're probably more likely to get a job than if you have junior college on your diploma and you majored in something not particularly stupid.
00:58:51.000Because everybody sort of understands that unless you're majoring in science, technology, engineering, math, then you are basically learning not much of anything.
00:58:58.000You're just going there to get the degree, and then that sorting mechanism can be used to get you into a job somewhere.
00:59:03.000We'd be much better off pushing apprenticeship programs.
00:59:13.000There's no such thing as free college.
00:59:14.000There's just taxpayers paying for your crappy major.
00:59:18.000One of the reasons that I like the idea of private institutions providing the loans for colleges, as opposed to the federal government backing them, is because private institutions sometimes take a look at your degree and determine whether they think you're going to pay back.
00:59:29.000See, the thing about a degree is that it is not foreclosable.
00:59:32.000When a bank gives you a mortgage on a house, they make an assessment.
00:59:36.000One, are you going to pay back the debt?
00:59:37.000Two, if you don't pay back the debt, can they seize the property?
00:59:44.000There is no collateral they can seize if you stop paying back your debt.
00:59:47.000So what banks typically do is they look at what you are getting a degree in.
00:59:50.000If you are getting a degree from Harvard Law, then they can assume that you're going to pay back the debt because you're probably going to get a high-flying law job that makes you a couple hundred grand a year start.
00:59:58.000That's a better bet than if you are getting a theater major at Wesleyan.
01:00:03.000That might be harder to get a loan for in the private sector, which is right.
01:00:06.000The federal government comes in and guarantees all of these loans, which is idiotic because now they are subsidizing a bunch of crappy majors at a bunch of colleges that are just there to indoctrinate you into wokeism.
01:00:15.000Okay, so this should all be privatized in the first place, but I have another idea.
01:00:19.000If we are going to actually forgive these debts, how about this?
01:00:22.000How about instead of having the taxpayers forgive the debts, how about if you have a useless major and you're not earning a lot of money and you actually have serious loan debt because you took out a bunch of loans to do that theater major in lesbian dance theory over at Wesleyan?
01:01:03.000It does not care for people who don't feel like wasting four years of their lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars at a college to earn a degree in crap.
01:01:11.000It doesn't help people who have already paid their debts.
01:01:13.000And it subsidizes people who are in the least profitable and least useful majors.
01:01:18.000This is a very regressive program that Joe Biden is pushing.
01:01:24.000I mean, the left-wing Democratic Party is now basically a coalition of the intersectionally aggrieved and the woke white people.
01:01:34.000That's what the Democratic Party coalition is.
01:01:35.000Well, good luck with that in the future.
01:01:37.000Okay, meanwhile, the media are trying to pave the ground Going forward for a Biden administration, they're trying to somehow create the narrative that Biden ought to get back in the Iran deal.
01:01:46.000So one of the signal achievements of the Trump administration was getting out of the Iran deal, which put the Iranian mullahs behind the eight ball economically.
01:01:52.000It put them in a very difficult situation because all of their ability to access world markets basically collapsed.
01:01:57.000They've been in a state of economic collapse for years.
01:01:59.000It has prevented them from achieving the kind of So now the media have to come up with some excuse why Joe Biden should be able to cut a new deal with the Iranian government, which is on the ropes.
01:02:10.000in Syria. So that was very successful. And it also happened to result in an anti-Iranian alliance between Israel and the UAE and de facto Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan. All of that was very good.
01:02:22.000So now the media have to come up with some excuse why Joe Biden should be able to cut a new deal with the Iranian government, which is on the ropes. So the way that they are now crafting this narrative is that Donald Trump is going to nuke Iran, right?
01:02:35.000That Donald Trump is creating danger in Iran.
01:02:38.000And Iran has created new nuclear facilities that Trump wants to pursue militants.
01:02:43.000And the only alternative is for Joe Biden to come in and sign an agreement with the Iranians.
01:02:47.000So they are pushing a headline suggesting that Trump sought options for attacking Iran to stop its growing nuclear program.
01:02:52.000This is the article from the New York Times.
01:02:55.000OK, now here's what the article says, and you'll see how it doesn't agree with the headline.
01:02:58.000President Trump asked senior advisors in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran's main nuclear site in the coming weeks.
01:03:04.000The meeting occurred a day after international inspectors reported a significant increase in the country's stockpile of nuclear material, four current and former U.S.
01:03:12.000A range of senior advisors dissuaded the president from moving ahead with the military strike.
01:03:16.000The advisors, including Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Pompeo, Christopher Miller, the acting defense secretary, and General Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, warned a strike against Iran's facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Trump's presidency.
01:03:29.000Trump asked his top national security officials what options were available and how to respond.
01:03:34.000After Pompeo and Milley described the potential risks, officials left the meeting believing a missile attack inside Iran was off the table.
01:03:40.000So in other words, Trump said, what are our options on nuclear facilities?
01:03:43.000They said, well, we shouldn't do anything military.
01:03:46.000The headline is Trump considered military attack because the media are now attempting to craft a narrative where the only alternative to Joe Biden making concessions to a terrorist regime is war.
01:04:05.000Ben Rhodes bragged openly that this is what they were doing.
01:04:07.000Ben Rhodes, who was then Deputy National Security Advisor, bragged openly that the Obama administration had crafted a lie around Iran, which is that there were only two alternatives, full-fledged war with Iran and submitting to Iran's will.
01:04:18.000And it turned out that was crap because Trump came in and did a third way and was very successful in containing Iran.
01:04:23.000He killed off their terrorist leader, Qasem Soleimani.
01:04:26.000He created an alliance against them that checked their power.
01:04:29.000He drove their economy into the ground.
01:04:41.000It is a media crafted narrative and it is garbage.
01:04:44.000But the media will shift on a dime when it comes to foreign policy anyway.
01:04:47.000There is a certain humor in the fact that the media are very upset that Trump is now talking about a troop drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this prompted CNN's Breonna Keillor to rip Trump for this, say this is very bad.
01:04:57.000Now, I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama pledged a troop drawdown in Iraq, did it, and created ISIS.
01:05:02.000I'm old enough to remember when he pledged a troop drawdown in Afghanistan and was negotiating with the Taliban.
01:05:06.000And you know what the media said then?
01:05:07.000What a forward-thinking foreign policy leader.
01:05:09.000Now, CNN's like, how dare Trump do this exact same thing Joe Biden and Barack Obama pushed?
01:05:24.000I think what he's trying to do is go through his bucket list, quite honestly, and saying, you know, he promised to get out of these wars, and he was going to do it.
01:05:33.000And Jake Tapper was... But Gloria, can we just be clear on that?