The Ben Shapiro Show - February 28, 2020


The Black Swan | Ep. 963


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1 hour and 7 minutes

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215.21675

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14,563

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971

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57

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24


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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Coronavirus tanks the stock market, Joe Biden seeks a big comeback victory, and perhaps we check the mailbag.
00:00:05.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:06.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:00:20.000 Alrighty, so the market is tanking again today.
00:00:23.000 As of this morning, it was dropping almost a thousand points again below 25,000, which means that we've seen a significant market selloff over the course of the last five days, all the way down from about 29,000, all the way down to below 25,000.
00:00:36.000 That is a market correction.
00:00:38.000 Anything below 10% down, Is a market correction we have seen well below 10% down and this is leading to questions about how real this drop is.
00:00:47.000 Is this going to last?
00:00:48.000 Are we going to see a gradual rise again as the market improves based on the market pricing in all of the global supply chain disruptions?
00:00:55.000 What you are seeing in the news today is people trying to make political hay out of this thing.
00:00:59.000 There's just no question this is happening and it's really a point of irritation to watch the media who are definitely spinning people into a panic over this thing.
00:01:06.000 Try to pretend that they are not involved in spinning people into a panic over this thing.
00:01:09.000 Or Democrats, who continue to claim that the government response is completely lackluster, then claim, how dare President Trump responds to our claims that he is botching a pandemic response?
00:01:18.000 I mean, the fact is that there are people out there who, without evidence, are suggesting that a pandemic is directly on the horizon, that the United States is going to be hit with a wave that it is unprepared for.
00:01:28.000 And not only that, but that President Trump is solely responsible for this.
00:01:31.000 You've seen Democrats out there claiming that the stock market drop is somehow reflective of President Trump's inability to quell A president said something so strange that you really have to wonder.
00:01:40.000 He said the reason the market dropped is because of the debate the other night.
00:01:44.000 markets.
00:01:45.000 The markets dropped even as Trump was talking.
00:01:46.000 A president said something so strange that you really have to wonder.
00:01:52.000 He said the reason the market dropped is because of the debate the other night.
00:01:56.000 Well, the market had dropped 1,800 points before the debate the other night.
00:02:01.000 The market dropped while he was speaking yesterday in his press conference.
00:02:06.000 So, you know, So, you know, let's not be silly about what that is.
00:02:12.000 Okay, what that is, is global supply chains being disrupted.
00:02:15.000 The fact is that the United States has very strong underlying economic fundamentals by every expert that I have talked to and most experts out there.
00:02:22.000 The U.S.
00:02:22.000 is not the problem.
00:02:23.000 With the global economy right now.
00:02:24.000 The global economy is in trouble, specifically because of China.
00:02:28.000 And because when China's supply chains disrupt global supply chains, it slows down the ability of customers to buy.
00:02:34.000 It slows down the ability of distributors to distribute.
00:02:37.000 It slows down the ability of producers to produce.
00:02:39.000 And this means that you have holdups.
00:02:41.000 And that means that companies are not able to fulfill their orders.
00:02:45.000 It means that they are not able to make money and then they're not able to pay off those debts.
00:02:48.000 So China's mishandling of this entire thing from the very outset, It just demonstrates the dangers of investing heavy amounts of money in factories and authoritarian dictatorships that are more willing to kill their own people for speaking openly about threats like coronavirus than they are to actually crack down on coronavirus after the cat is already out of the bag, after the hen is already out of the coop.
00:03:10.000 So the fact is this has really nothing to do with the United States.
00:03:12.000 This has to do with China botching this thing.
00:03:14.000 It has to do with the fact that the European economy was already on relatively shaky footing.
00:03:18.000 Their growth rates were already incredibly low.
00:03:20.000 We've had on Mohamed El-Erian, who's now getting all sorts of credit.
00:03:23.000 He's the head of Alianz.
00:03:24.000 He's getting all sorts of credit, correctly so, for forecasting a couple of days ago, don't buy into the stock market drop yet.
00:03:30.000 Wait a little bit more, because it's really a stock market correction.
00:03:33.000 He's been on my show pointing out that the fundamentals of the economy in the United States are fine.
00:03:37.000 It's the fundamentals of the economy in Europe that are a real problem, because Europe has been blowing out the spending, because Europe has not actually got its debt in line with its spending, because European growth rates have been low, and because China's growth rates have been unduly inflated.
00:03:51.000 And so he was predicting for a long time that as central banks continue to manipulate currencies in order to keep the market up, eventually they would run out of bullets in their gun and you would have to see some actual underlying fundamental economic changes in places like Europe and China in order to sustain growth.
00:04:05.000 That's what you're seeing here.
00:04:06.000 You're not seeing correction based on failures of American policy.
00:04:09.000 You're seeing corrections here based on failures of European and Chinese policy specifically.
00:04:13.000 And you're seeing what happens when vulnerable global supply lines Actually become vulnerable.
00:04:19.000 The fact is globalization is fantastic in the sense that if you can widely distribute The factors of production across various country lines, you can make that cheaper, you can make it quicker, you can make products more easily and better.
00:04:32.000 All of that is true.
00:04:33.000 It also means that just as if you were playing a game of telephone, the chances are much better that the longer the line goes on, somebody is going to miss the message somewhere in the middle.
00:04:41.000 Well, the longer the supply chain is, the better chances that there is some sort of disruption in one of those areas, and that disruption is going to affect the entire supply chain.
00:04:49.000 So companies are constantly trying to evaluate what are the sort of downside risks here.
00:04:54.000 This event is sort of a black swan.
00:04:57.000 A black swan is an event that is completely unforeseen.
00:04:59.000 It's somewhat unforeseeable.
00:05:01.000 It's an event that is so large and out of the box that nobody has really planned for it.
00:05:05.000 There was no real contingency plan for it.
00:05:07.000 Now, I think it's fair to say that people should have taken into account that China was a significant area of risk for a very long time.
00:05:13.000 I mean, the fact is, again, it's an authoritarian regime.
00:05:15.000 That means that they can shift policy at a moment's notice.
00:05:18.000 But more than that, There have been a series of diseases coming out of China, ranging from bird flu to SARS, right?
00:05:25.000 And all of these diseases coming out of China, maybe that should have been more predictable that something like this would happen, but they were cropping up once every few years.
00:05:31.000 They really did not disrupt global supply lines the way that this has disrupted global supply lines.
00:05:36.000 So it was sort of an unforeseeable black swan.
00:05:37.000 To blame that on Trump, or to suggest that that is reflective of underlying problems in the American economy, Is really not true, particularly since President Trump has been very harsh on China, right?
00:05:46.000 President Trump has suggested that investments in China are actually a mistake in the first place and that we should be bringing a lot more of those investments home.
00:05:53.000 And I think companies in the future are going to think twice about whether they want to invest in China based on the factor that you never know five years from now whether China is simply going to step in and declare that all business in the country is done, right?
00:06:03.000 That they're just not going to operate anymore.
00:06:05.000 We'll get into more of this in just one second, and the sort of parochial nature of Americans' view of the economy, which is that everything in the American economy is reliant on the American economy alone.
00:06:14.000 That just is not true.
00:06:14.000 It's never been true.
00:06:15.000 It's why it's always very silly.
00:06:17.000 I mean, I've said this while Trump was president.
00:06:18.000 I think it's very silly for any one president to be credited with a stock market drop or a stock market increase, unless the president takes policies that are directly related to a stock market crash.
00:06:28.000 Very often, global economic factors have very little to do with sort of the tinkering around the margins that presidents tend to do.
00:06:33.000 We'll get into more of this in just one second.
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00:08:12.000 Okay, so the New York Times reporting on the real reasons why this thing is dropping.
00:08:17.000 And the lead is always buried.
00:08:19.000 But the reality, again, is that the cause of the global stock market drop is not the United States.
00:08:24.000 It is pretty much everybody else.
00:08:26.000 The global stock market, according to the New York Times, slid for the sixth straight day on Thursday.
00:08:29.000 Of course, it's sliding again today.
00:08:31.000 On Friday, the S&P 500 slid 4.4% on Thursday.
00:08:34.000 As I say again, as of early trading this morning, the stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was down another 1,000 points.
00:08:41.000 The downturn continued on Friday as Asian markets closed sharply lower and European stocks tumbled at the start of trading.
00:08:46.000 The widening scope of the health crisis threatens to overwhelm global supply chains, especially in China, the world's second largest economy after the United States.
00:08:53.000 In addition, the outbreak could crush consumer demand as people limit travel or stay home even without a government order to do so.
00:08:59.000 And this is where the uncertainty really comes in.
00:09:02.000 It's why China has really botched this thing.
00:09:04.000 Because even if China had an outbreak, but they were transparent about what exactly was going on, the market could price in the information.
00:09:10.000 That's what markets do.
00:09:10.000 Markets are fantastic at pricing in information.
00:09:14.000 There's a theory of the stock market that is called the efficient markets theory.
00:09:18.000 There's sort of a strong version and a weak version.
00:09:20.000 The strong efficient markets theory says that no single trader can ever beat the stock market in general because it is a collectivized aggregation of all knowledge on a particular topic.
00:09:29.000 The more information is available, the more the stock market is able to price it in.
00:09:32.000 When you see tremendous stock market drops like you've seen over the last week, what that means is tremendous uncertainty.
00:09:37.000 It means that people are trying to figure out exactly how much uncertainty there is in the global market, exactly how much information has been made available, and the fact that China has been very stingy about the information that they've actually put out there is the rationale for this drop because investors are trying to figure out, okay, well, I'm not sure whether this thing is going to continue for a month or six months.
00:09:57.000 I'm not sure whether we're going to see cancellations of public events.
00:10:00.000 Already in Switzerland, they've cancelled, apparently, all public events over a thousand people.
00:10:03.000 Not sure why a thousand people is the limit, but you could easily see something like that in the United States if this outbreak starts to worsen.
00:10:10.000 You could see public, I mean, sporting events could be shut down, for example.
00:10:14.000 Scott Clemens, the chief investment strategist for private bankers at Brown Brothers Harriman, said the outbreak's potential to alter American consumers' habits was at the heart of the sell-off.
00:10:21.000 To the degree that consumers change their behavior, so they stop going out to eat, they don't take the vacation, they cancel the business trip, that consumption, that spending, personal consumption, is 68% of GDP.
00:10:31.000 Over the past few days, companies as varied as United Airlines, MasterCard, and Pfizer have said the outbreak poses a threat to their 2020 earnings.
00:10:37.000 Analysts at Goldman Sachs predict that companies in the S&P 500 would generate no profit growth the entire year as a result of the crisis because of a severe decline in Chinese economic activity.
00:10:49.000 On Wednesday, President Trump tried to address the outbreak and said that the risk to the United States was low, but people aren't really confident in that because, frankly, even the United States government doesn't know enough about coronavirus.
00:10:59.000 Again, this is the problem with China withholding all sorts of information.
00:11:02.000 Nobody knows the death rate.
00:11:03.000 There are two real factors, as I discussed yesterday, in deciding what the risk factors are with regard to coronavirus.
00:11:09.000 One is the transmission rate, and the other is the death rate, and we don't have good information on either one of those.
00:11:13.000 Because China has not been revealing the information and you're seeing widely variant reports across the globe on the impact of coronavirus.
00:11:21.000 You are seeing that coronavirus in Iran is killing like a crapload of people, but coronavirus in Italy isn't killing that many people.
00:11:28.000 Which is not like a major shock, considering that public health in Iran is garbage, and the government of Iran is garbage.
00:11:34.000 A bunch of their top ministers have gotten coronavirus over in Iran, according to Farnaz Fasihi and Rick Gladstone reporting for the New York Times.
00:11:41.000 A senior figure in Iran's government who sits just a few seats away from President Hassan Rouhani at cabinet meetings.
00:11:46.000 coronavirus, making her Iran's seventh official to test positive, including one prominent cleric who has died.
00:11:46.000 That's just what's been reported.
00:11:52.000 There have been almost 300 deaths in Iran.
00:11:54.000 That's just what's been reported.
00:11:55.000 Vice President Masuma Ebtikar, Mr. Rouhani's deputy for women's affairs and the highest ranking woman in the government, also one of the lead revolutionaries during the Iranian revolution in which they took hostages.
00:12:06.000 She was actually one of the hostage takers.
00:12:08.000 So she's a delightful human being.
00:12:09.000 She has a confirmed coronavirus infection.
00:12:11.000 Couldn't happen to a nicer gal.
00:12:12.000 Is quarantined at home.
00:12:13.000 That his closure came a day after a cabinet meeting in which she was in close contact with other government leaders, including Rouhani.
00:12:21.000 A photo posted by a BBC Persia reporter on Twitter showed she was sitting within a few yards of Rouhani.
00:12:26.000 She was known as Mary during the Tehran hostage crisis four decades ago.
00:12:30.000 Iran now appears to have the highest number of government officials infected by coronavirus.
00:12:34.000 It was officially first reported in the holy Iranian city of Qom on February 19th.
00:12:38.000 The disease is believed to have spread to the country from China, which retains close economic relations with Iran.
00:12:43.000 They've already reported something like 26, it was 245 people infected, something like 26 deaths already.
00:12:50.000 But health experts estimate the number of infections is far higher because the country's fatality rate of about 20% seems so high compared to other countries.
00:12:57.000 Meanwhile, we've seen that In Italy, coronavirus is shutting down public activity, but we're not seeing tons of deaths.
00:13:05.000 So there is a wide difference in how countries' death rates are varying and transmission rates are varying as well.
00:13:11.000 Because we don't have enough information, the stock market is trying to price in a tremendous amount of uncertainty right now.
00:13:15.000 So when you see that stock market dip, what you should recognize is that if as information emerges, it turns out that coronavirus is really not going to have as grave an impact on global health rates as it was originally suspected it might, then you're going to see the stock market quickly reprice and people buy back in.
00:13:32.000 The question is where the bottom is and nobody really knows the answer.
00:13:34.000 My guess is that we are approaching the bottom because uncertainty seems like it's at its height right now.
00:13:39.000 I'm not recommending that people go and buy stocks.
00:13:40.000 All I'm saying is that I would be looking in the very near future to buy stocks given the stock market dip that has taken place over the last few days.
00:13:47.000 Whenever the stock market drops this much, that tends to be a fairly good time to buy stocks, not a great time to sell stocks.
00:13:52.000 You don't want to sell into a dropping market.
00:13:53.000 Buying into a dropping market's a good idea.
00:13:55.000 And by the way, when people say my 401k is worth less, that's true.
00:13:58.000 Your 401k is worth less, but if you're not cashing it out, it doesn't really matter.
00:14:02.000 And Warren Buffett was once asked how much money he lost during the 2007-2008 stock market crash, and he said, I didn't lose a dime because I didn't sell a stock.
00:14:09.000 As long as you don't realize the loss, the loss is not realized, which is something good to keep in mind when you're panicking over the value of your 401k.
00:14:15.000 If you don't have to access your 401k right now, doesn't really matter.
00:14:17.000 You can wait another year, the stock market goes back up, which, by the way, is the best investment strategy.
00:14:22.000 Buy and hold is a very, very good investment strategy over time.
00:14:25.000 Playing around with the stock market is generally not a great investment strategy.
00:14:29.000 The outbreak of coronavirus in and around Milan is light years from the horrors of the plague.
00:14:32.000 For now, only just over a dozen people have died.
00:14:35.000 They were elderly or with serious underlying health conditions.
00:14:37.000 And this seems to be the pattern.
00:14:39.000 Even in the Chinese statistics that have been made available, the death rates are much higher for older people and people with pre-existing conditions than they are for people who are young.
00:14:47.000 Nonetheless, people are staying home.
00:14:49.000 People are freaked out.
00:14:50.000 You can see the pictures from Milan.
00:14:51.000 It's a bustling city.
00:14:52.000 But now, basically everybody is staying home.
00:14:56.000 On Via Alessandro Manzoni, hardly any cars or people went by, and long lines of white taxis waited for fares that didn't come.
00:15:01.000 It led down to Piazza del Duomo, where Milan's landmark cathedral, usually crammed with tourists and people rushing to the subway, was mostly empty.
00:15:08.000 Only a few tourists, often wearing masks, showed up and took pictures of themselves, swarmed in gray clouds of the pigeons they fed, out of their hands.
00:15:15.000 La Scala is still shuttered.
00:15:17.000 The shopkeepers and bars and stores stared absentmindedly out the windows or checked their phones.
00:15:21.000 Again, none of this is a grave shock.
00:15:23.000 Everybody is being very cautious at this point.
00:15:26.000 Meanwhile, in the United States, There's been a lot of focus on California because there are apparently 8,400 people who are being monitored in the state of California.
00:15:36.000 Our Ken Doll of a governor, Gavin Newsom, who has presided over one of the worst health crises in modern California history in terms of a massive homeless crisis that has spread disease in areas like downtown Los Angeles.
00:15:46.000 Gavin Newsom came out yesterday and announced that we are monitoring 8,400 people and that 33 confirmed cases of coronavirus have cropped up in California alone.
00:15:56.000 Thousands and thousands of other people have come in on more traditional flights through the state of California.
00:16:02.000 Some 8,400 plus are currently being monitored with 49 local jurisdictions doing those protocols and monitoring as it relates to more traditional commercial flights that came in from points of concern and potential points of contact, particularly in Asia.
00:16:22.000 Okay, so 8,400 people is a lot of people to monitor.
00:16:24.000 The people they're monitoring are people who have had points of contact in China.
00:16:27.000 We have seen the first case in California.
00:16:29.000 This is the one that's kind of freaky.
00:16:30.000 The first case of what they call a community infection, meaning we have no idea where the person got the coronavirus infection.
00:16:35.000 According to the New York Times, coronavirus diagnosis in California is highlighting testing flaws.
00:16:40.000 Doctors suspected that one person was infected with coronavirus for days, but the patient didn't fit the federal criteria because they hadn't been in contact with anyone from China, and they weren't tested for days, which means they were running around the state of California.
00:16:51.000 Without any testing protocol in place.
00:16:54.000 Even before the announcement on Wednesday, frustration had been mounting among health providers and medical experts that the agency was testing too few Americans, which may slow preparations for an outbreak and may obscure the scope of infections.
00:17:04.000 Lauren Sauer, Director of Operations at Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, says, CDC officials said on Thursday they had not been made aware that doctors in California made an urgent appeal for diagnostic testing of the woman.
00:17:20.000 By the end of the day, the agency had revised and broadened its testing criteria, adding to the number of Americans who qualify.
00:17:26.000 Right now they're saying there is a shortage of testing kits, so all the talk about testing everybody, that apparently is not a thing that is possible right now.
00:17:37.000 CDC is worrying that maybe the health system gets overwhelmed, but the fact is that we are going to be spending billions of dollars on this thing.
00:17:43.000 Okay, we're going to get into more of what the government has been doing, where the shortcomings are, in just one second.
00:17:43.000 I mean, billions of dollars.
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00:18:58.000 Okay, so updates from ABC News.
00:19:02.000 The FDA is now announcing that the issue of a drug shortage is a possibility.
00:19:09.000 Again, these drugs will be ramped up fairly quickly, you would imagine.
00:19:12.000 Japan has reported a couple additional Diamond Princess cruise ship deaths.
00:19:16.000 The individuals were a British man and a Japanese woman.
00:19:18.000 They were the fifth and sixth passengers to die from coronavirus after being aboard the quarantined cruise ship.
00:19:23.000 Of course, like 700 people were actually infected on that quarantined cruise ship.
00:19:28.000 Not a huge surprise that that many people die, because if there were 800 people infected aboard the cruise ship and six or seven people die, that's obviously tragic and it's obviously terrible, but that means that the death rate is not 10% or 20% or even 5%.
00:19:44.000 Right now, China still leads the way in terms of number of infections.
00:19:47.000 Apparently, at least 2,800 people, according to the WHO.
00:19:49.000 South Korea has the second highest national total of coronavirus cases behind China.
00:19:55.000 Of the more than 81,000 people tested in that country, about 2,300 had tested positive for coronavirus.
00:20:01.000 More than 30,000 others were waiting test results at this point.
00:20:06.000 Meanwhile, a majority of the cases who were on board the Diamond Princess cruise ships, the people in the United States who were diagnosed with the disease, they were on board that Diamond Princess cruise ship that was placed under quarantine in Japanese waters.
00:20:19.000 No American has yet died from coronavirus.
00:20:23.000 The CDC is investigating the source of the various infections that have been seen around the country.
00:20:28.000 The FDA said on Thursday it was not aware of any reports at this time of human illnesses that suggest the coronavirus can be transmitted by food or by food packaging.
00:20:36.000 Meanwhile, there's the other big story today from the U.S.
00:20:38.000 government is that a whistleblower within the U.S.
00:20:40.000 Department of Health and Human Services had filed a complaint alleging that more than a dozen workers were sent to receive the first Americans repatriated from Wuhan, China without proper training or protective gear for coronavirus infection control.
00:20:50.000 This was reported by the Washington Post.
00:20:53.000 They suggest that the coronavirus basically was treated without any sort of protective gear, according to this whistleblower.
00:21:03.000 The underlying complaint, apparently, has not been substantiated at this point.
00:21:07.000 A spokesperson for the U.S.
00:21:08.000 Office of Special Counsel confirmed it received the whistleblower complaint and that the case has been assigned.
00:21:13.000 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Caitlin Oakley told ABC News, we take all whistleblower complaints very seriously and are providing the complainants all appropriate protections under the Whistleblower Protection Act.
00:21:13.000 When asked for comment, U.S.
00:21:23.000 We're evaluating the complaint.
00:21:23.000 Have nothing further to add at this time.
00:21:26.000 ABC News has not revealed the complaint.
00:21:28.000 Lawyers representing the whistleblower have refused to provide the complaint.
00:21:31.000 One of the whistleblower's attorneys told ABC News that the allegations laid forth are accurate.
00:21:37.000 He says, we are hopeful Congress and the OSC will investigate this case in a timely and comprehensive manner.
00:21:41.000 There's no evidence, by the way, that anybody who actually met the folks coming back from Wuhan, that any of those folks were actually infected with coronavirus.
00:21:50.000 Nonetheless, that is leading to questions about the federal handling of this entire situation.
00:21:56.000 Now, with all of that said, there's no question that the Democrats and the media are making hay out of all this.
00:22:01.000 Brian Stelter was saying, we may be looking at a crisis, and meanwhile, we're having a crisis in leadership.
00:22:05.000 Okay, we're not anywhere near crisis point in the United States at this point, guys.
00:22:08.000 We are just not.
00:22:09.000 We're not.
00:22:10.000 And the fact is that we have double digit numbers of actual infected in the United States.
00:22:15.000 There's only 60 total infected in the United States.
00:22:18.000 In a country of 330 million people, we have zero deaths so far.
00:22:21.000 So the notion that we are like on the verge of a widespread outbreak, Now, this stuff is fluid, it could move, but there's no evidence at this point that a pandemic is in the offing in the United States, particularly since the US has done a fairly good job, it seems so far, of quarantining people.
00:22:35.000 Meanwhile, over in Israel, There are reports that Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofer Akunas.
00:22:45.000 I look forward to Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar suggesting boycott, divestment and sanction from the coronavirus vaccine because it's produced in Israel.
00:22:52.000 If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a press release.
00:22:57.000 Congratulations to the Galilee Research Institute on this exciting breakthrough, said the Science and Technology Minister Acunas.
00:23:03.000 I am confident there will be further rapid progress enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat.
00:23:09.000 For the past four years, scientists have been developing a vaccine against infectious bronchitis virus, which causes a bronchial disease affecting poultry.
00:23:16.000 The effectiveness of that vaccine had been proven in preclinical trials.
00:23:20.000 So we'll see how well this coronavirus vaccine works, but at least there are some glimmers of hope on the horizon.
00:23:29.000 But this is not stopping anybody in the media from speculating that the end of the world is upon us.
00:23:33.000 We're going to get to that in a second, because that really is the big story in the United States.
00:23:36.000 Right now, the big story is not the actual coronavirus outbreak, because there is no coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
00:23:41.000 The big story in the United States is twofold.
00:23:43.000 One, the drop in the stock market, which again, is not attributable to Trump.
00:23:47.000 It is attributable to the weakness of the global economy and the fact that China has screwed everything up.
00:23:51.000 And two, it is the Democrats and the media trying to spin this thing into crisis.
00:23:55.000 And again, the evidence just ain't there for crisis at this point.
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00:25:12.000 Okay, so the Democrats, meanwhile, have been trying to spin this thing as a failure to the Trump administration.
00:25:16.000 As I say, President Trump's original comments about the coronavirus were very silly.
00:25:21.000 He He came out and then he suggested that he spelled it wrong.
00:25:25.000 He came out and he said that we're on the verge of a vaccine in the United States.
00:25:28.000 That wasn't true.
00:25:29.000 And then his people had to come out and say he meant the Ebola vaccine.
00:25:31.000 What the president should have done is what all presidents should do in case of crisis.
00:25:35.000 Immediately turn to your experts, put your experts in charge, and then just hands off.
00:25:39.000 My experts are in charge.
00:25:40.000 They know epidemiology better than I do.
00:25:43.000 A very easy solution.
00:25:44.000 The president, however, has an unfortunate habit of running over to Twitter and then just saying things.
00:25:49.000 And that, of course, is not smart.
00:25:50.000 However, the president does have a right to push back against Democrats who have been claiming falsely that the end of the world is upon us.
00:25:58.000 Even the Associated Press called out Democrats yesterday.
00:26:00.000 The Associated Press, which is no right-wing source, reported that Democrats who keep suggesting that President Trump is defunding the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, or decreasing the National Institute for Health budget, The AP says these people are wrong.
00:26:15.000 You say that this is just not true.
00:26:16.000 Trump's budget's proposed cuts to public health only to be overruled by Congress, where there is strong bipartisan support for agencies like the CDC and the NIH.
00:26:23.000 Instead, funding has increased.
00:26:26.000 Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
00:26:31.000 Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness.
00:26:39.000 But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that comes before Trump.
00:26:45.000 The broader point about there being nobody here to coordinate the response is not true.
00:26:48.000 The public health—I mean, this is the AP, right?
00:26:50.000 This is the AP.
00:26:50.000 This is not me.
00:26:52.000 The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation, regardless of whose president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House.
00:26:59.000 Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic, but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.
00:27:05.000 Among the health authorities overseeing the work are Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC's principal deputy director and veteran of previous outbreaks, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIH's infectious disease chief, who has advised six presidents.
00:27:16.000 John Auerbach, president of the Nonpartisan Trust for America's Health, says the CDC's response has been excellent, as it has been in the past.
00:27:22.000 our back says cdc's top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years now there may be problems going forward but that is not because of cuts that trump supposedly undertook and this is but this is not stopping the media from speculating and speculating and I mean, they are indeed trying to whip people into a frenzy over all this, which, by the way, may provide you a buying opportunity in the stock market if the stock market is responding to that ridiculous feeding frenzy.
00:27:49.000 The Washington Post has several pieces today trying to suggest that the White House response is lackluster, despite the fact that we're like a week into the White House response.
00:27:56.000 According to Beth Reinhart, Emma Brown, and Nina Satieja over at the Washington Post.
00:28:01.000 The White House official charged with leading the U.S.
00:28:03.000 response to deadly pandemics left nearly two years ago as his global health security team was disbanded.
00:28:08.000 Federal funding for preventing and mitigating the spread of infectious disease has been repeatedly threatened since President Trump's election.
00:28:14.000 But by the way, repeatedly threatened does not mean that it was cut.
00:28:17.000 It was not actually cut.
00:28:18.000 By the way, this is one area of government spending that actually makes a difference.
00:28:22.000 If you're talking about pandemic prevention, there are a thousand other places to cut in American government.
00:28:26.000 Pandemic prevention seems like a fairly good place to actually put some federal money.
00:28:29.000 Despite the mounting threat of a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, Trump says he has no regrets about those actions and that expertise and resources can be quickly ramped up to meet current needs.
00:28:37.000 But again, the cuts never took place.
00:28:39.000 So the Washington Post is proclaiming that cuts took place that never happened.
00:28:44.000 The Washington Post is trying to stir up a feeling of unease about the federal government's response.
00:28:49.000 When again, there's no evidence that the CDC at the top levels is understaffed.
00:28:53.000 There's no evidence that the CDC is underfunded at this point.
00:28:56.000 Trump is going back to Congress for more money tomorrow.
00:28:59.000 If we have to spend money, it's not as though the federal government is unable to spend money.
00:29:02.000 The federal government spends $4 trillion a year.
00:29:05.000 A few billion dollars is not going to, like, the question is where you allocate for that in future budgets to repay.
00:29:10.000 But lest you forget, we have $22 trillion in debt here in the United States.
00:29:13.000 in federally undertaken debt in the United States.
00:29:16.000 So racking up a few more billion ain't gonna bankrupt the United States.
00:29:20.000 Former federal officials and public health experts argue that an effective response to an epidemiological crisis demands sustained planning and investment, while the administration's response to coronavirus, says the Washington Post, has been criticized in recent weeks as slow and disjointed.
00:29:33.000 People in and outside the White House have warned for years the nation is ill-prepared for a dangerous pandemic.
00:29:38.000 Okay, let me just remind you.
00:29:39.000 People said exactly the same thing about Ebola.
00:29:41.000 People said exactly the same thing about bird flu.
00:29:43.000 There has yet to be a federal response to a disaster in my lifetime in which people said, ah, the federal government really handled that thing beautifully.
00:29:50.000 Because guess what?
00:29:51.000 The federal government ain't God.
00:29:52.000 They can only do what they can do.
00:29:53.000 And the fact is, that most of the time, they're gonna botch something.
00:29:56.000 Because that's what the federal government does.
00:29:58.000 They're a big botchery.
00:29:59.000 The only question is whether they are the best available resource at this given point in time.
00:30:03.000 And right now, they basically are.
00:30:05.000 Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security says, you build a fire department ahead of time, you don't wait for a fire.
00:30:10.000 There's an underappreciation for the amount of time and resources required to build a prepared system.
00:30:14.000 But again, we have a prepared system when it comes to flu.
00:30:17.000 The question is how large the ramp up is.
00:30:21.000 President Obama, in 2014, appointed Ronald Klain, a veteran Democratic operative, to serve as Ebola czar.
00:30:26.000 Now, by the way, this should be noted.
00:30:28.000 Remember that time when everybody said that it's very bad that Mike Pence was made the coronavirus czar here?
00:30:35.000 People ripping on Mike Pence, specifically ripping on Mike Pence because when he was governor of Indiana, he didn't stand in favor of needle exchanges and so they blame him for an HIV outbreak because of needle exchanges, which is just an absurdity at the highest level.
00:30:48.000 It is not the responsibility of the government to provide you free needles, clean needles so you can shoot up.
00:30:53.000 Okay, that is a very controversial public policy issue.
00:30:56.000 To blame Mike Pence for an HIV outbreak because he didn't provide government-provided free needles to people is just an insane contention.
00:31:03.000 Nonetheless, people are ripping on Pence.
00:31:05.000 Well, how could you appoint Pence to this thing?
00:31:07.000 President Obama appointed Ronald Klain a Democratic operative.
00:31:12.000 The Obama administration, according to the Washington Post, also set up a special National Security Council team to oversee epidemic preparedness on a permanent basis.
00:31:20.000 Okay, but would we be significantly better off if that guy were employed right now?
00:31:22.000 year in office before John Bolton dismantled the unit when he took over as NSA in 2018.
00:31:28.000 That led to the abrupt departure of its leader, Rear Admiral Timothy Zimer, who had led the White House's anti-malaria efforts under Obama and George W. Bush.
00:31:35.000 Okay, but would we be significantly better off if that guy were employed right now?
00:31:40.000 Not a ton of evidence to suggest that that would be the case.
00:31:43.000 It was a clear loss, and now we are behind the balls.
00:31:46.000 Had a former White House official familiar with Zemer's team.
00:31:49.000 They had the context and the relationships and knew who to talk to.
00:31:52.000 Okay, I have a feeling that people can find phone numbers in the federal government.
00:31:56.000 Like really, I have a feeling that this is just trying to whip people into a ridiculous level.
00:32:01.000 a frenzy over government shortcomings that have yet to be proved in the Washington Post.
00:32:06.000 And they ran like three pieces like this yesterday.
00:32:08.000 They ran a bunch of pieces like this yesterday trying to suggest shortcomings in the White House.
00:32:11.000 This is a political issue.
00:32:12.000 I mean, the Democrats are trying to make this political and it really should not be political.
00:32:16.000 Mike Pence yesterday came out.
00:32:17.000 He said, listen, we have no higher priority than coronavirus.
00:32:19.000 I mean, we are working on this thing.
00:32:20.000 President Donald Trump has no higher priority than the health, safety and well-being of the American people.
00:32:29.000 As the president said yesterday, we're ready.
00:32:33.000 Thank you.
00:32:34.000 We're ready for anything.
00:32:35.000 Yesterday, President Trump directed me to lead a whole-of-government approach to address the coronavirus in this country.
00:32:42.000 And I promise you, We will continue to bring the full resources of the federal government to bear to protect the American people.
00:32:51.000 And you know what?
00:32:52.000 That's probably true.
00:32:53.000 I mean, and when I say that's probably true, I mean, like, what would be the upside of not bringing the full force of the federal government to bear on something that's at the tip of everybody's tongue?
00:33:00.000 What Penn says there is the proper response.
00:33:02.000 That is the proper response.
00:33:03.000 Democrats, however, are trying to complain about this thing endlessly.
00:33:06.000 I mean, it's so bad that even Democrats were storming out of a meeting with other Democrats after Democrats were complaining about the Trump response.
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00:34:39.000 How irritating has the Democratic and media response It's even irritating other Democrats.
00:34:49.000 According to Politico, several House Republicans walked out of a closed-door coronavirus meeting on Friday with Trump health officials in protest after a senior Democrat, who looks a lot like Keith Richards for some reason, blasted the Trump administration's handling of the response effort.
00:35:02.000 Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut kicked off the briefing sharply criticizing the administration as disorganized and lacking urgency in combating the coronavirus.
00:35:10.000 Her eight-minute speech frustrated Republicans and some Democrats.
00:35:13.000 There's only one problem.
00:35:13.000 Other Democrats were pissed off at DeLauro.
00:35:14.000 They were like, what are you doing?
00:35:16.000 Like, we're all on the same page here.
00:35:17.000 Here's what Politico didn't put in the headline.
00:35:18.000 You see, Republicans storm out of coronavirus briefing after Democrat rips Trump's response.
00:35:22.000 There's only one problem.
00:35:24.000 Other Democrats were pissed off at DeLauro.
00:35:25.000 They were like, what are you doing?
00:35:27.000 Like, we're all on the same page here.
00:35:29.000 Seriously, this is where, really?
00:35:30.000 Representative Paul Mitchell of Michigan, Republican, said if I wanted to hear the politics of it, I'd read Politico.
00:35:36.000 DeLauro's comments were indicative of the growing political tensions around the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus response.
00:35:41.000 Trump, who's tried to publicly downplay the virus through misleading claims just after midnight, took to Twitter to complain that Democrats were pinning the crisis on him.
00:35:48.000 And of course, that's true.
00:35:49.000 I mean, the Democrats are trying to pin the crisis on him.
00:35:53.000 Trump says, he tweeted out, So the coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S.
00:35:59.000 because President Trump closed our border and ended flights very early, is now being blamed by the do-nothing Democrats to be the fault of Trump.
00:36:06.000 And then he said that Democratic lawmakers were wasting time on other legislative priorities.
00:36:10.000 He says the do-nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the immigration hoax and anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early border and flight closings put us way ahead in our battle with coronavirus.
00:36:20.000 Dems called it very wrong.
00:36:22.000 That's kind of factual.
00:36:25.000 By the way, again, even Democrats were annoyed by this ridiculous Rosa DeLauro character grandstanding on this issue.
00:36:31.000 Donna Shalala, who led the health department under Bill Clinton, said no one wanted to hear that, either Democrats or Republicans.
00:36:36.000 We just wanted to hear the substance.
00:36:39.000 DeLauro, the leading health appropriator, accused the administration of a lack of urgency and warned there were several crucial questions that remained unanswered.
00:36:46.000 As lawmakers transferred to a bigger room, a visibly frustrated DeLauro told colleagues she didn't give a rat's ass about the reaction and that members needed answers from the administration.
00:36:55.000 The briefing was led by the CDC director Robert Redfield and NIH infectious disease specialist Tony Fauci, who was called to update members on the state of the coronavirus' spread.
00:37:04.000 Asked about an HHS whistleblower complaint, officials did not directly contradict the allegations, but they insisted they believed everyone was properly trained and protocols were followed.
00:37:11.000 That was about that whistleblower complaint mentioned earlier.
00:37:13.000 Meanwhile, CNN, trying to claim that Trump is silencing scientists.
00:37:16.000 This is based on a New York Times piece that points out that the White House is now running all messaging through Mike Pence, which again, Makes a lot of sense, okay?
00:37:23.000 It makes a lot of sense.
00:37:24.000 You want to have a singular message coming out of the administration.
00:37:26.000 If there is a cover-up, okay?
00:37:28.000 If it turns out that the coronavirus outbreak is much more widespread, then that will damage the administration far worse than anything else.
00:37:34.000 Radical transparency is called for, and the administration, I think, knows this.
00:37:37.000 What they don't want is exactly what has happened.
00:37:39.000 A bunch of low-level officials running out and saying different things, and then the media reporting chaos in the administration.
00:37:44.000 So the media are trying to create this Catch-22.
00:37:47.000 If you have a bunch of low-level officials, Running out there, uncoordinated, saying different things.
00:37:51.000 Then they say, chaos in the administration!
00:37:52.000 No one's heading this up!
00:37:53.000 It's a complete disaster show!
00:37:54.000 Okay, and then, if you have one person heading it, like Pence, and all the messaging is going through Pence, then it's, they've bottlenecked this thing.
00:38:01.000 This is censorship.
00:38:02.000 Okay, so in other words, there's nothing that Trump can do right here, right?
00:38:04.000 And there's nothing that Pence can do right.
00:38:06.000 Here is CNN trying yesterday to suggest that Trump was silencing scientists to prevent them from talking about coronavirus, which is absolutely absurd.
00:38:15.000 The problem occurs when, A, you have a president who starts with very little credibility, and then, B, you have an administration that has had mixed messages.
00:38:25.000 And what the people want is the truth.
00:38:27.000 And the question is whether you can get the truth more from the scientists or whether you believe the politicians are the right people to get the truth.
00:38:35.000 When scientists use the word pandemic, they don't take that lightly.
00:38:40.000 And they say that it is a possibility, and if they are muzzled from talking about that possibility, I think that could threaten public health.
00:38:47.000 Okay, muzzled from talking?
00:38:49.000 No one's muzzling anybody.
00:38:50.000 Okay, seriously, nobody is muzzling anybody.
00:38:53.000 The problem is that there are a bunch of different stories coming out, and that is shocking the stock market, because when you are getting multiple different stories, that raises the level of uncertainty.
00:39:01.000 That's a problem.
00:39:03.000 If you want a coordinated response, then you want a coordinated response.
00:39:06.000 If you want an uncoordinated, discombobulated response, then by all means, don't set up some sort of head at the head of the system.
00:39:12.000 This is pure ridiculousness from the media.
00:39:14.000 The RNC chair, Romney McDaniel, she came out and she said, like, this is ridiculous.
00:39:21.000 Schumer and Pelosi are acting like political hacks.
00:39:22.000 We should all be on the same page with this thing.
00:39:24.000 And this, of course, is true.
00:39:25.000 They're trying to stoke fear in the American people.
00:39:28.000 This is a time when Americans usually come together, and they put aside their political differences, and they say, how can I help this president?
00:39:34.000 How can I make sure we calm the fears of the American people?
00:39:38.000 And that's precisely the opposite of what Democrats are doing.
00:39:41.000 They're politicizing this.
00:39:42.000 We are preparing.
00:39:42.000 We are putting protocols in place, and we're going to be ready.
00:39:45.000 And Democrats should be joining him and saying, Guess what?
00:39:48.000 We're going to work together across party lines to make sure our country is safe.
00:39:51.000 And instead, they're politicizing it, which they've done with every single issue when it comes to this president.
00:39:56.000 And that is why they're just so shameful and they haven't helped solve many, many problems that the American people are facing.
00:40:02.000 She's saying she speaks truth.
00:40:04.000 She speaks truth.
00:40:05.000 Okay, that is 100% true.
00:40:06.000 I mean, you can see it in the Washington Post.
00:40:08.000 The Washington Post has another piece today about how Trump is mean to bureaucrats.
00:40:11.000 So obviously this threatens the country because Trump has ripped on the deep state.
00:40:14.000 Throughout his more than three years as president, says the Washington Post, Trump has obsessed at times conspiratorially over what he calls the deep state.
00:40:21.000 The thousands of career government specialists in national security, intelligence, science, and other areas whose expertise he shuns in part because he suspects they are disloyal saboteurs.
00:40:29.000 And so with the first case of coronavirus not tied to foreign travel being announced in California on Wednesday, Trump finds himself grappling with a crisis for which his record suggests he's particularly ill-suited to respond.
00:40:40.000 So because Trump is ripping on his intel people because they were in fact leaking a bunch of crap about him for years on end, this means he's ill-equipped to respond by letting health officers do their job?
00:40:51.000 I mean, come on, come on.
00:40:53.000 This is exactly what Democrats are looking for.
00:40:58.000 This doesn't mean that Trump can't handle this better.
00:41:00.000 I've said it right from the beginning.
00:41:02.000 President Trump should be quiet and now let Pence handle this thing and not say a word about it.
00:41:05.000 That's what he should do.
00:41:06.000 And he should let his people handle it.
00:41:07.000 But to proclaim that we are in the midst of a public relations and Trump-caused crisis is just missing the fact that the rest of the world is the source of coronavirus, is the source of the global economic risk, that the United States is actually the only solid island in a sea of chaos.
00:41:22.000 And meanwhile, we are approaching the South Carolina primary.
00:41:25.000 That is supposed to happen tomorrow.
00:41:27.000 And this is Joe Biden's last gasp.
00:41:28.000 If Joe Biden doesn't win big in South Carolina, this sucker is over, and Bernie Sanders is the nominee.
00:41:32.000 Even if Joe Biden does win in South Carolina, there's the possibility that Bernie Sanders runs away with this thing anyway.
00:41:40.000 We've now been treated to a bevy of new polling data.
00:41:43.000 There are three new polls out today.
00:41:45.000 One from Data for Progress, a Democratic firm.
00:41:47.000 It shows that Joe Biden up 34-25 over Bernie Sanders.
00:41:50.000 One from The Post and Courier.
00:41:51.000 In South Carolina, which has Biden over a very narrow lead.
00:41:55.000 Sanders, he's got 28-24 over Sanders.
00:41:58.000 And then there's an Emerson poll which shows Biden blowing Sanders the F out, blowing him out 41-25, like really blowing him out.
00:42:05.000 Biden needs a double-digit victory here.
00:42:07.000 He needs at least a double-digit victory.
00:42:08.000 If he wins narrow, Sanders takes the nomination.
00:42:11.000 If he wins broad, then all of a sudden you might see a bump for Joe Biden.
00:42:15.000 You're starting to see Democrats, again, sort of They're sort of splitting the baby.
00:42:19.000 So on the one hand, they really don't want Bernie to be the nominee.
00:42:22.000 On the other hand, they're sort of creating a backup plan where they can try to retcon Bernie's history, as I mentioned yesterday.
00:42:27.000 Nancy Pelosi yesterday, she says, well, you know, if we have to support Bernie's agenda, I guess we will.
00:42:33.000 I mean, don't like him so much, but I mean, I guess we'll do it.
00:42:39.000 Whoever our nominee is, we will support.
00:42:42.000 With respect for his or her positions, and hopefully with their respect for our positions as well.
00:42:49.000 So we have made a decision to win.
00:42:51.000 And as I say to the members, if you make a decision to win, you have to make every subsequent decision to win.
00:42:59.000 No friction, no nothing.
00:43:02.000 Just stay on the path to victory.
00:43:04.000 Because it's so very important.
00:43:06.000 Okay, so yes, we will get behind Bernie Sanders if we have to.
00:43:10.000 If we have to.
00:43:10.000 At the same press conference, she suggested that if Bernie goes into the convention with a plurality of delegates but not a majority of delegates, then she will not necessarily support Bernie Sanders.
00:43:19.000 So, they are adjusting to the possibility of Bernie Sanders without handing over the keys to the car to Bernie Sanders at this point.
00:43:27.000 There's a reason for that.
00:43:28.000 Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to Barack Obama, and of course, mayor of Chicago, former mayor of Chicago, he says, listen, for all this talk about Bernie driving up turnout, In controversial areas, it ain't happening.
00:43:37.000 He does not have the turnout numbers.
00:43:39.000 The turnout model that he's looking at has not materialized.
00:43:43.000 One of the things I'm concerned about right now is that while viewership in the debates are up, 2018, big turnout, 2019, big turnout for Democrats.
00:43:53.000 Participation in our primaries is barely surpassing 2016, and that's a flashing yellow light.
00:44:00.000 And it is indeed a flashing yellow light.
00:44:01.000 But again, you're starting to see Democrats sort of hedge their bets here by defending every bad thing that Bernie ever does.
00:44:06.000 So remember that time that the entire media proclaimed that the Republican Party had been hijacked by Trump and now everybody approved his worst excesses?
00:44:12.000 Yeah, all of that's true of Bernie Sanders, like every single element of it.
00:44:15.000 So yesterday, House Republicans tried to bring to the floor a resolution condemning Bernie Sanders for his comments over Cuba and condemning Cuba's human rights abuses.
00:44:22.000 And Democrats voted to block the resolution.
00:44:24.000 Here's Representative Mario Diaz-Balart from Florida, Republican, talking about it.
00:44:28.000 But I remind Senator Sanders and the progressive movement that the Castro regime is not only a threat, a threat to the national security interests of the United States, but also to the democracies, the democracies in our hemisphere.
00:44:46.000 I want to remind Senator Sanders of Cuba's close relationship, of the Cuban regime's close relationship with some of the world's worst thugs.
00:44:55.000 And that, of course, is true, but it's not really gonna matter because Democrats have decided that they will defend anything and everything with regard to Bernie Sanders.
00:45:03.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues, again, in these polls in South Carolina, to do very well.
00:45:06.000 We're gonna know within 24 hours whether Joe Biden's candidacy is still alive.
00:45:10.000 He may not be.
00:45:11.000 He continues to just stumble around out there.
00:45:13.000 Yesterday, on the campaign trail, Joe Biden randomly started talking about ladies taking off their clothes and why you're not allowed to touch them, which is a very, very weird thing to do.
00:45:21.000 No man has a right To lay a hand on a woman for any other reason than self-defense.
00:45:27.000 And I'm going to make the controversial statements you've always made.
00:45:30.000 If someone in this room got up, took off all her clothes and walked out the door, no man has the right to touch her.
00:45:37.000 Zero.
00:45:39.000 She can be arrested for indecent exposure.
00:45:43.000 Woo!
00:45:43.000 Indecent exposure and no assault.
00:45:47.000 Woo!
00:45:47.000 Everybody's like clapping confusedly.
00:45:49.000 What's he even talking about?
00:45:50.000 Like what?
00:45:51.000 What?
00:45:51.000 What's going on now?
00:45:53.000 So those are your choices.
00:45:54.000 Democrats, a senile old dude with corrupt ties to his son, maybe, or at least his son is corrupt.
00:46:00.000 Or the bat bleep loony communist who spends his entire career being a useless piece of crap.
00:46:05.000 So, congratulations.
00:46:06.000 This is the choice you have made for yourself.
00:46:08.000 Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg continues to be a weapon against Bernie Sanders.
00:46:10.000 He released some medical information about his heart health.
00:46:16.000 And he said that Senator Sanders ought to do the same.
00:46:19.000 I mean, it is pretty incredible that Sanders had a heart attack on the campaign trail last year, and he has not released his complete health records, and everybody's like, oh, well, I guess no big deal.
00:46:27.000 No biggie.
00:46:28.000 We had a caller into our radio show yesterday who asked a question, what happens if Bernie Sanders gets nominated and then, God forbid, something happens to him?
00:46:34.000 Who actually takes the nomination?
00:46:35.000 The answer, by the way, is that the DNC gets to appoint the replacement for anybody who would plot before an election, but You know, that's never happened before in American history.
00:46:47.000 In a new report from CNN, Bloomberg campaign spokesman Stu Lesser ripped Sanders for not releasing the same left ventricular ejection fraction data Bloomberg did in his own health report.
00:46:55.000 That's a very specific report talking about the ability of the heart to continue pumping blood properly.
00:46:59.000 Lesser said releasing the single scientific number about heart health could start to put to rest any concerns about Senator Sanders' secrecy about his recent heart attack.
00:47:07.000 He said Mike Bloomberg's doctor shared Mike's number.
00:47:09.000 Will Senator Sanders ask his doctor to do the same?
00:47:13.000 Okay, the answer, of course, is no.
00:47:14.000 Sanders says we're not going to be releasing any more health records, which is weird because earlier in the campaign he said he was going to release all of these health records.
00:47:22.000 Suffice it to say that this Democratic field is so weak at this point that the two choices at the top, neither one of them seems to be a massive A massive victory for Democrats.
00:47:35.000 With all of that said, again, there are these black swans that are out there.
00:47:39.000 This coronavirus is a black swan.
00:47:40.000 It does really upturn the entire conventional wisdom about this election.
00:47:46.000 I mean, if the stock market were to continue to drop, if the economy were to stagnate, then everything is on the table and things get really ugly really quickly.
00:47:52.000 So obviously we'll continue to bring you all the updates on all of this.
00:47:55.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then we'll do a couple of things that I hate.
00:47:59.000 So, things that I like today.
00:48:01.000 There's a great kind of sci-fi slash horror film that came out just a couple of years ago.
00:48:05.000 It didn't get the kind of attention that it should.
00:48:07.000 It made some money.
00:48:08.000 The budget on it was like three to five million dollars.
00:48:10.000 It was really Well made film.
00:48:12.000 Really great.
00:48:13.000 I really like it a lot.
00:48:14.000 It's a movie called Upgrade.
00:48:15.000 I heard about it, honestly, on a podcast done by my friend Sonny Bunch over at Rebeller Media, which you should go check out.
00:48:22.000 Pretty cool.
00:48:23.000 It's got all sorts of good Hollywood content.
00:48:25.000 Anyway.
00:48:26.000 Sonny recommended it along with some of his co-hosts.
00:48:29.000 The movie is really first rate.
00:48:31.000 I watched it this week.
00:48:32.000 The basic premise of the film is that there is a guy who is attacked and left for dead basically.
00:48:37.000 His girlfriend, his wife is killed.
00:48:39.000 He's attacked and left for dead.
00:48:40.000 He's made a quadriplegic in the process and he knows sort of this tech type who implants in him something called STEM and STEM Allows him to regain the use of his functions.
00:48:52.000 But STEM also does more than that.
00:48:53.000 STEM is infiltrating his brain and having conversations with him the whole time.
00:48:58.000 Sort of like a user system talking to you.
00:49:00.000 I mean, it's almost like you talking to Siri.
00:49:02.000 Basically, it's like Siri in his head who's helping him run his limbs.
00:49:04.000 The movie's really well made.
00:49:06.000 It's beautifully produced.
00:49:07.000 And it's supremely creepy because you'd think that it's basically just a revenge thriller.
00:49:10.000 It is not just a revenge thriller.
00:49:12.000 It really is sort of a parable about the dangers of science and tech overtaking your life.
00:49:16.000 life, here's a little bit of the preview of Upgrade. - Permission granted! - Thank you.
00:49:33.000 It's well acted.
00:49:33.000 You can see actually one of the things that's kind of cool is how the actor moves.
00:49:36.000 He acts as though he's not actually in control of his limbs, which is pretty kind of hard to do.
00:49:40.000 So it's pretty great, actually.
00:49:52.000 I mean, I will say that the movie moves incredibly quickly.
00:49:55.000 It's got a good script.
00:49:56.000 It's well-acted.
00:49:57.000 So if you're looking for kind of... And sure, I will say I'm a big fan of movies that understand what their actual length ought to be.
00:50:03.000 This film runs about an hour and thirty-five.
00:50:06.000 And it should run about an hour and thirty-five.
00:50:08.000 And it's really solid.
00:50:09.000 It's really tight.
00:50:10.000 Good film.
00:50:10.000 Go check it out this weekend if you're looking for something fun and creepy to watch.
00:50:14.000 Upgrade.
00:50:14.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:50:17.000 All right, thing that I hate, number one.
00:50:23.000 So, there is a video that has now gone viral on TikTok.
00:50:26.000 TikTok is one of these things for the Gen Zers and Millennials.
00:50:29.000 Basically, you upload these little videos to TikTok.
00:50:33.000 They're supposed to be sort of edited into, what, 10, 15 seconds or something?
00:50:37.000 And then, basically, it acts almost like Snapchat, except they don't disappear.
00:50:42.000 You put them out publicly, and then people view them.
00:50:43.000 This video has been viewed A bajillion times now because it's just horrifying and disgusting.
00:50:48.000 Basically, it's a young woman who goes with her friend to get an abortion and she is happy the whole way through.
00:50:53.000 She goes there and she's making fun of people who are at the abortion clinic who seem to be a little bit upset about, you know, killing a baby.
00:50:59.000 And here is a little bit of the TikTok video.
00:51:02.000 I'll read it to you because a lot of it is done in Texas.
00:51:04.000 Abortion time!
00:51:05.000 Take two.
00:51:07.000 Take two.
00:51:08.000 It's a pregnancy test.
00:51:14.000 And then she's laughing, nervous laugh.
00:51:16.000 There's two abortion moods.
00:51:17.000 People who are sad and then her partying it up.
00:51:21.000 Her like pumping her fist and smiling while she gets an abortion.
00:51:23.000 And then it shows the ultrasound as that baby is, as that fetus is sucked into a tube.
00:51:28.000 So let me just point something out about the modern American left.
00:51:32.000 I'm old enough to remember when people on the left at least acknowledged the moral quandaries involved in abortion.
00:51:39.000 I'm old enough to remember Safe, Legal, and Rare, which was the Bill Clinton line.
00:51:42.000 Now, it never made any logical sense, but at least it made a certain amount of emotional sense.
00:51:45.000 It didn't make any logical sense because if you believe that it's a wrong, then it should not be legal.
00:51:50.000 Right, but if you are at least making the moral, at least if you're making the emotional case that there is something that is worthy of consideration here, that at least is living in the realm of reality.
00:52:00.000 Acting as though it is nothing more than getting a polyp removed to take an incipient human life and then kill it.
00:52:04.000 And by the way, what does that mean, abortion take two?
00:52:07.000 Is that her second abortion?
00:52:07.000 I mean, that's all I can take away from that because I really don't know what that means.
00:52:11.000 Her celebrating, fist pumping, as though this is women's empowerment.
00:52:15.000 This is what our culture has done to the notion of femininity.
00:52:18.000 It's absolutely horrifying.
00:52:20.000 So my wife is like literally on the verge of giving birth, right, to child number three.
00:52:23.000 Thank God, thank God, everything looks healthy.
00:52:26.000 Thank God.
00:52:27.000 I can tell you that from the very instant we knew she was pregnant, obviously this was now a part of our life.
00:52:32.000 And not only was this a part of our life, this was an individual soul that was going to have a place in this world.
00:52:38.000 And if God forbid something had happened to that child, we would have mourned for the unborn child.
00:52:43.000 I mean, that is the way that Megan McCain wrote a beautiful column about this for the New York Times when she had a miscarriage.
00:52:47.000 People mourn for their unborn children.
00:52:49.000 They don't know them as well as they know their born children, obviously, but this is still a thing with moral weight.
00:52:54.000 This is still the vision of people celebrating.
00:52:57.000 The shout your abortion movement as though it is a mark of femininity and womanhood.
00:53:02.000 To cast out that which most makes you a woman.
00:53:06.000 And yes, it does, okay?
00:53:07.000 I'm sorry.
00:53:07.000 Pregnancy is one of the things that makes you most a woman, as distinguished from most a man.
00:53:11.000 It's not what makes you most a human being, what reason makes you most a human being, but your capacity to have a child is one of the key features of being a woman as opposed to being a biological man.
00:53:21.000 And to pretend that that doesn't matter.
00:53:22.000 And to pretend that femininity is to actively cast that out.
00:53:26.000 That female empowerment is to take that which makes you most uniquely female.
00:53:30.000 Your superpower.
00:53:31.000 It is a superpower.
00:53:32.000 You're able to grow a child in your own body and then feed that child using your own body.
00:53:37.000 That's a superpower, man.
00:53:38.000 That is a superpower.
00:53:39.000 And to pretend that that is something negative and bad.
00:53:41.000 And that casting that child out.
00:53:43.000 And that killing that unborn human being.
00:53:46.000 That that is some sort of mark of bravery or femininity.
00:53:51.000 That you're more of a woman for doing that than you would be if you had taken the child to term?
00:53:54.000 That somehow it's degrading to you as a woman, right, not as a human being, as a woman, to carry a child to term and have that child?
00:54:00.000 To exercise your superpower?
00:54:02.000 I mean, it's the, honest to God, it's the equivalent of Superman deliberately grounding himself and then saying, I feel more like a Kryptonian today.
00:54:09.000 Like, that's just not the way that this works.
00:54:11.000 Your superpower is this thing.
00:54:12.000 This is, talk to any woman who has been pregnant.
00:54:15.000 This isn't just a me point, okay?
00:54:16.000 This is a my wife point.
00:54:17.000 This is any woman who's been pregnant point.
00:54:19.000 Okay, this is an amazing, amazing gift that God has given you, or nature has given you, if you don't believe in God.
00:54:25.000 And that gift, that amazing gift, to take that and to degrade that, to pretend that the mark of womanhood is to take that which most makes you a woman and then throw it away, is really insane.
00:54:35.000 I mean, it truly is.
00:54:39.000 The celebration is just, it's beyond the moral pale.
00:54:41.000 But that is our society now.
00:54:42.000 Our society is you celebrate the sin.
00:54:44.000 It's not enough to just acknowledge that a sin is being committed, or to say, listen, I believe I should have the right to commit the sin, even if I think it's a sin, even if I think it's bad, I think I should have the right to commit the sin.
00:54:53.000 It's not a good argument, but at least that's an argument.
00:54:54.000 But to celebrate the sin is an act of evil.
00:54:56.000 To celebrate doing something that harms another human being, And by the way, I'm not seeing any evidence in the, I mean, she took a pregnancy test.
00:55:05.000 She doesn't look as though she was forced into the sex in this particular video.
00:55:09.000 If that is different, then I will amend that statement.
00:55:12.000 But I've seen no information to suggest that.
00:55:14.000 If she had consensual sex with a person and then she got pregnant, which is a result of consensual sex in many cases, turns out these two things are interlinked.
00:55:20.000 And then her natural response is to celebrate, presumably, both the casual sex and then also the abortion.
00:55:31.000 How does this make anybody a better human being?
00:55:32.000 How does this make society better?
00:55:33.000 How does this make femininity better?
00:55:35.000 How does this strengthen womanhood in any real way?
00:55:37.000 If you don't watch that, if you watch that and you're not horrified, I'd say you're doing morality wrong whether you're left, right, or center.
00:55:43.000 You gotta take this stuff with a certain level of moral seriousness for you to even be taken seriously as a moral human being.
00:55:48.000 The other blithe attitude toward abortion is utterly astonishing.
00:55:51.000 The Michelle Wolf, celebrate your abortion, fire off fireworks.
00:55:54.000 This is what makes us free.
00:55:57.000 If your freedom is the killing of an unborn human being and celebrating it and fist-pumping it while you do it and making fun of people who are depressed and upset about doing it, even if they're doing it, I mean, what utter callousness.
00:56:08.000 Truly amazing.
00:56:09.000 Okay, time for one more thing that I hate.
00:56:14.000 I used to do something on the show called Deconstructing the Culture.
00:56:16.000 We may bring it back at some point.
00:56:17.000 But basically this is an episode of Deconstructing the Culture where we take a piece of culture that people are examining and taking a look at and we talk about how important it is and why it affects your kids and affects you.
00:56:28.000 So, Taylor Swift, obviously, one of the most popular artists in America, and as her songs get worse, she gets more woke.
00:56:34.000 Now, I don't know which precedes the other.
00:56:36.000 I don't know whether her talent has abandoned her, and now she's relying on wokeness in order to force her forward, or maybe she just got woke because she had had enough of being insulted for not being woke enough, and so she decided to get overtly political, and then her songs started to be crap.
00:56:51.000 By the way, I think there is something to this.
00:56:53.000 I think the more overtly political artists get, I think the worse their art tends to be, because the art comes now second to the politics.
00:56:59.000 This is true in movies.
00:57:01.000 It's true for conservative as well as liberal films, by the way.
00:57:04.000 If there's a conservative movie where the chief goal of the movie is to foist conservative politics on you, it's usually not a good movie.
00:57:09.000 If the chief goal is to entertain you, And then it happens to embed conservative politics.
00:57:14.000 It can be very good.
00:57:14.000 The same thing is true of leftist politics.
00:57:16.000 I've seen a lot of good movies with leftist politics, where the politics were not at the heart of the story.
00:57:21.000 But if you have a story that is built on leftist politics, Then very often it's just not very good.
00:57:25.000 The same thing happens to be true of Taylor Swift.
00:57:28.000 Every song she releases now is pop star, never stop, never stopping.
00:57:32.000 Her trying to get woke and to do it publicly for the plaudits of the Twitterati.
00:57:39.000 Right now, it's not enough for her to be a very rich artist and very famous artist and very popular artist.
00:57:42.000 She has to be an important artist.
00:57:44.000 She has to use her voice, guys.
00:57:46.000 She has to use her voice.
00:57:48.000 And so she came out with that ridiculous song last year in which she was like, yeah, gay people!
00:57:51.000 And it was like, okay, you're like 30 years late on this lady.
00:57:54.000 You are really late on this.
00:57:56.000 And gay marriage was legalized in Obergefell in 2013.
00:57:58.000 You're like half a decade late on this.
00:58:00.000 It was exactly the case from Popstar, Never Stop Never Stopping, where the artist trying to get woke cuts a gay marriage music video after it's been legal for several years.
00:58:12.000 In which she also insists he's not gay.
00:58:13.000 Okay, so Taylor Swift has been doing that.
00:58:15.000 Well now she has a new video.
00:58:16.000 And this new video is about feminism.
00:58:20.000 Feminism.
00:58:20.000 So what is feminism really about?
00:58:21.000 It's not about female empowerment.
00:58:23.000 It's not about things that make females unique and cool, which they are.
00:58:27.000 It's about why women are victimized by men.
00:58:29.000 Why men have it so great.
00:58:30.000 And it's called The Man.
00:58:32.000 In this video, Taylor Swift, who directed, produced, wrote, directed, produced.
00:58:36.000 Like, this is the very end of her video.
00:58:37.000 It's just her talking about how she did everything because she's so empowered.
00:58:39.000 Yeah, you're worth like $200 million, lady.
00:58:41.000 Like, I'm sure you're capable of doing a lot of these things.
00:58:43.000 She dresses up as a man, and then the basic suggestion of this music video is that her life would be better if she were a man.
00:58:50.000 Now let me explain a very simple truth.
00:58:52.000 If Taylor Swift were a man, she'd be homeless and living down by the river.
00:58:56.000 Okay, the reality is there are lots of men who write songs like Taylor Swift, and none of them are nearly as popular as Taylor Swift, because there is something to the idea of a sexy woman singing songs to you.
00:59:06.000 This is how she made her career.
00:59:07.000 And for those who don't believe this is the case, let me ask you why you were celebrating Jennifer Lopez strip dancing on a pole.
00:59:14.000 It turns out that human beings like to look at pretty people, and pretty people doing things is a thing that human beings like to look at.
00:59:20.000 So if Taylor Swift had been 400 pounds, She would not be famous.
00:59:24.000 If Taylor Swift had looked like she does in this video, like a man, she would not be famous.
00:59:29.000 Taylor Swift has, of course, again, this is not a rip on her.
00:59:32.000 It's just a simple fact.
00:59:33.000 The fact that she is a very beautiful human being obviously has to do to a large extent with her success.
00:59:41.000 But her suggestion is that if she were a man, her life would be better in some way.
00:59:44.000 All she has received is plaudits from the critics for her wokeness.
00:59:49.000 All she has received for her entire career is basically unending praise.
00:59:53.000 Show me the hardship that Taylor Swift has experienced other than some people being mean to her on Twitter, poor baby.
00:59:58.000 But here she is cutting a video about how her life would be so much better if she were a man.
01:00:01.000 I would be complex.
01:00:09.000 I would be cool.
01:00:11.000 They'd say I played the field before I found someone to commit to.
01:00:16.000 That would be okay.
01:00:18.000 Okay, pause it for a second.
01:00:25.000 Okay, so this critique that she's making, that males are treated with sort of reverence for conquest and all of this, I actually sort of agree with this critique.
01:00:34.000 Okay, this critique is actually a conservative critique of quote-unquote liberated sexual revolution America.
01:00:40.000 I kind of agree with it.
01:00:41.000 The problem is that her conclusion is that she should be allowed to do the same stuff that men should do, not that men should stop acting like pigs.
01:00:47.000 This is my big critique of large parts of the feminist movement, is that they critique men for being pigs, and then they're like, and so we should also be pigs!
01:00:54.000 It's like, well, how about, like, you should just say that men shouldn't be pigs.
01:00:57.000 Like, I'm on board with that one.
01:00:59.000 This is why it's so hilarious to me to watch the entire left come around to me too.
01:01:03.000 I've been on the Me Too bandwagon since before there was a Me Too.
01:01:07.000 Men should never treat women this way.
01:01:09.000 Why is this suddenly a shock to you?
01:01:11.000 Okay, so the critique here is fine.
01:01:12.000 The problem is that the conclusion that she then proceeds to draw is that she should be able to act like a man and then be treated like a man as opposed to men should stop acting like jackasses.
01:01:21.000 Okay, here is more of this idiotic song.
01:01:23.000 I'd be a fearless leader.
01:01:25.000 I'd be an alpha type.
01:01:28.000 When everyone believes you.
01:01:30.000 What's that like?
01:01:33.000 Okay, she's sitting there with her legs spread.
01:01:41.000 She's manspreading and smoking on the subway, which, by the way, is illegal in New York.
01:01:44.000 And, um...
01:01:47.000 Okay, let's pause it there.
01:01:50.000 Now this is where it gets really stupid.
01:01:52.000 Okay, this is where she leaves the realm of reality and just gets into stupid land.
01:01:56.000 So she says, I'd be a fearless leader, I'd be an alpha type, when everyone believes ya, what's that like?
01:02:01.000 Literally the entire media worships at the altar of Taylor Swift and calls her a fearless leader and an alpha type.
01:02:05.000 Literally everyone, except for me apparently.
01:02:07.000 And I'll get all sorts of crap for pointing this out, but it happens to be the truth.
01:02:11.000 She says, I'm so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man.
01:02:15.000 Okay, physically you would, because men run faster than women, just as a typical rule, on average.
01:02:19.000 But, if we're talking about, like, figuratively, which is what you're talking about, That you're sick of running as fast as you can?
01:02:25.000 Because you'd get there quicker if you were a man?
01:02:28.000 If you were a man, you wouldn't be famous.
01:02:30.000 You wouldn't be rich.
01:02:31.000 What the hell are you talking about?
01:02:34.000 She's behind the 8-ball guys.
01:02:36.000 Taylor Swift has been behind the 8-ball her entire unbelievably rich and wealthy life.
01:02:39.000 She's been behind the 8-ball guys.
01:02:41.000 And you male songwriters out there lagging in obscurity because you're not an attractive woman who can attract cameras to you?
01:02:46.000 Let me just tell you, you have the advantage.
01:02:48.000 She is not privileged.
01:02:49.000 You are privileged.
01:02:51.000 The whiny victimhood from a woman worth hundreds of millions of dollars is just, like, it's unbelievable.
01:02:59.000 It's just, it's incredible.
01:03:00.000 And she'll be celebrated for this because, of course, she is intersectional in the extreme.
01:03:03.000 And then the video is her unzipping and peeing on the wall of the 13th Street station.
01:03:07.000 By the way, if a dude in a Wall Street business suit started peeing on the wall of a New York subway station, you know how fast that person would be arrested?
01:03:16.000 Okay, that's just insane.
01:03:19.000 Okay, then the lyrics continue.
01:03:20.000 They'd say I hustled, put in the work.
01:03:22.000 They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve.
01:03:24.000 What I was wearing, if I was rude.
01:03:30.000 Could all be separated from my good ideas and power moves.
01:03:35.000 And they would toast to me or let the players play.
01:03:40.000 I'd be just like Leo in Saint-Tropez.
01:03:44.000 Okay, so, again, the insane stupidity of this is just incredible.
01:03:48.000 She says, they say I hustle, put in the work, they wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve.
01:03:52.000 Last I checked, there's an entire democratic race being run on the basis that if you earn a billion dollars, you didn't deserve it.
01:03:58.000 Michael Bloomberg is being ripped as undeserving.
01:04:00.000 Is he a lady?
01:04:01.000 Okay, every single person who earns in this country and is not a wild, woke leftist is considered to have not earned their money by Taylor Swift and her people.
01:04:11.000 I mean, by people like Taylor Swift of the left.
01:04:14.000 And then in this video, it shows her as a man picking up a child, world's greatest dad, and all of this.
01:04:20.000 You're celebrated for being a great dad.
01:04:22.000 Yes, you should be celebrated for being a great dad.
01:04:24.000 What is the problem with this?
01:04:25.000 I'm confused.
01:04:26.000 Why is that bad now?
01:04:27.000 That women celebrate men who are great dads?
01:04:29.000 That seems like a good thing to do.
01:04:30.000 Again, which critique does she want?
01:04:32.000 Because if she wants to critique men for being pigs, she can't then say that she should be treated well for being pigs.
01:04:37.000 Which is it?
01:04:39.000 Seriously, if you have to decide, is being a pig bad or is being a pig good?
01:04:42.000 If being a pig is good, then what you should be complaining about is that women aren't being pigs enough and that you wish that you could be a pig more.
01:04:49.000 Okay?
01:04:50.000 But if the complaint is that men are pigs, then the complaint should be that men are pigs.
01:04:56.000 What's it like to brag about raking in dollars and getting bitches and models?
01:04:59.000 This is one of the lyrics.
01:05:00.000 And it's all good if you're bad.
01:05:01.000 And it's okay if you're mad.
01:05:04.000 Again, when has she been victimized ever?
01:05:07.000 She's a victim?
01:05:09.000 She's a victim?
01:05:09.000 Okay, this is one of my favorite parts of the video.
01:05:11.000 It shows an old man marrying a young lady, who shows off like a big ring.
01:05:15.000 And then, in this video, that woman ends up being abused by the old man.
01:05:19.000 It's not that the woman freely consented to enter a loveless marriage for the money.
01:05:24.000 Right?
01:05:25.000 It is that the man has somehow taken advantage of the woman and is humiliating her.
01:05:28.000 And that she- She volunteered in!
01:05:31.000 Okay, she literally shows off in the video this giant ring that she got for marrying an old guy.
01:05:36.000 But all the blame is on the guy for marrying the young woman?
01:05:38.000 Last I checked, she had to consent to the marriage.
01:05:41.000 The whole thing is just ridiculous.
01:05:43.000 But guys, Taylor Swift is super empowered.
01:05:46.000 She's super duper empowered in every way.
01:05:48.000 And now I feel like she's woke because she's proclaimed herself a victim.
01:05:51.000 And if she proclaims herself a victim, then she is a victim.
01:05:53.000 And now she'll get to show the video of me talking about her stupid ass video?
01:05:57.000 She'll get to show the video of this and claim that I'm victimizing her for criticizing her when she is worth more money than God, is more successful in the public sphere than presumably somebody like me will ever be.
01:06:08.000 All because I'm a man.
01:06:10.000 Guess what, Taylor, you're not a victim.
01:06:11.000 You're not a victim.
01:06:12.000 You are the greatest beneficiary of a free American society that treats women pretty damned well, historically speaking.
01:06:17.000 Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
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