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00:00:00.000States across America move toward reopening, Democrats reveal big plans for America's reshaping, and Joe Biden tries to talk to a recording.
00:00:23.000So the big discussion that seems to be happening nationwide about how to reopen, it is now moving state to state and a lot of blue states are moving toward reopening.
00:00:34.000So all the talk about how if you want to reopen, it's just because you don't care about saving human life.
00:00:38.000It turns out that was all a bunch of bull crap and that everybody is going to have to reopen at some point or other, and everybody is going to do so in some fashion or other.
00:00:46.000Some places are going to lock down longer, some places are going to lock down shorter.
00:00:48.000And then we're going to have a fair number of case studies as to who was right and who was wrong.
00:00:52.000One thing is becoming eminently clear, and that is the economy simply cannot stay shut down this way.
00:00:57.000There is just no way for the economy to stay shut down.
00:00:59.000And the reason that the economy cannot stay shut down this way is because in the end, as President Trump originally suggested, the fact is that we will end up losing more years of life if the economy is shut down for a prolonged period of time than we would through coronavirus itself.
00:01:13.000That, by the way, comes courtesy of a study that's being quoted in The Week over at the UK.
00:01:19.000They have an article there called why the economic crash could cost more lives than coronavirus.
00:01:24.000The idea there being, of course, that as people lose their lives due to health conditions brought on by poverty, as people kill themselves, as people engage in opioid overdoses, That all of these things factored in means that people are losing significant years of their lives.
00:01:40.000And so when you actually measure lives lost, it is not just enough to measure lives lost.
00:01:43.000I've said this before and people have gotten very upset with me.
00:01:46.000The reality is that when you make actuarial tables and when you decide how to set policy, There are a couple of stats that are necessary.
00:01:53.000One is how many lives on just a pure simple level are lost.
00:01:55.000But the second is how many quality adjusted life years are lost.
00:01:58.000Meaning that if you have one policy that kills a certain number of 30 year olds, and one policy that is likely to raise the risk for a certain number of 81 year olds, You have to take into account the difference in quality adjusted life years for people who are 30 and people who are 81.
00:02:12.000In fact, if somebody dies at 30, they have lost more life years than somebody who dies at 81.
00:02:16.000That does not mean that we should not mitigate risk for people who are 81.
00:02:18.000It does mean that when you make a risk calculation about generalized policy, you do have to take that into account.
00:02:47.000At the same time, for the majority of adults, their income and ability to pay current bills appeared to remain generally stable during the initial weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, Also essentially unchanged was the percentage of people who reported they could pay off an unexpected $400 emergency expense entirely using cash, savings, or a credit card at the next statement.
00:03:02.000And that is because the government has been floating everybody checks.
00:03:06.000The findings back up other reports that show that lower-income Americans, as well as Black and Hispanic people, are bearing the brunt of the outbreak's financial fallout.
00:03:12.000They're more likely to work in sectors that are laying off or furloughing workers, such as food services.
00:03:16.000More than one in five Americans have filed initial jobless claims since the pandemic began, according to the Federal Reserve.
00:03:21.000CNN reporting from the start of March through April 2020.
00:03:25.00019% of adults said they lost a job, were furloughed, or had their hours reduced.
00:03:28.000Some 64% of adults who reported a job loss or reduction in hours expected to be able to pay all their bills in full in April, compared to 85% of those without an employment disruption.
00:03:37.000But 9 in 10 people who lost a job reported their employer indicated they would return to work, though their bosses did not say when that would occur.
00:03:45.000Now, one of the big problems is that the Paycheck Protection Act has created a bit of a catch-22 for a lot of businesses.
00:03:50.000You're supposed to retain 90% of your payroll.
00:03:52.000However, you're only supposed to remain 25 or 50% open for the duration.
00:03:57.000So, if you take the loan, the only way that that loan gets forgiven is if you make your business utterly unsustainable by paying employees not to work, effectively speaking.
00:04:07.000Meanwhile, the Paycheck Protection Act and the CARES Act The CARES Act has made it so that a huge number of American workers actually make more money off of the unemployment benefits being paid by the federal government than they would back in the regular jobs.
00:04:23.000And that is a problem as we move out of the pandemic, as we start to open up again.
00:04:27.000How many people are just going to say, OK, well, you know what?
00:04:40.000According to FiveThirtyEight.com, The estimated percentage of earnings replaced by unemployment benefits for the median unemployed worker in 10 common occupational fields is above 100% for, this is the median payment, is above 100% that you will make from unemployment for the following services.
00:05:00.000Food service, janitorial, medical assistance, sales and retail, transportation, construction, and teachers.
00:05:05.000The only people who are earning less from unemployment than they would from their normal jobs are people who are nurses and therapists, managers, and people in information technology.
00:05:15.000So in other words, if you are not on the low-income scale, then you will make more by going back to work.
00:05:20.000But if you are on the low-income scale, then we're going to pay you not to work according to these bills.
00:05:24.000Now, in the short term, that at least makes some sense in the sense that if you can't go back to work, then paying you not to work makes some sense.
00:05:30.000We don't want people rushing back to work willy-nilly.
00:05:32.000But as states start to open up, we have started to see, I've talked to people who are employers who are saying, I offered my workers to stay at their jobs and they don't want to come back because they're getting paid more by the government not to come back.
00:05:43.000Now, at the same time, this has become a class issue because the people who are most likely to tell you that they want the government to remain the payer for all of this, the people most likely to tell you that they would like these lockdowns to remain in place forever are people in the mainstream media who are not losing their jobs.
00:05:58.000Fareed Zachariah, actually, has pointed this out over at the Washington Post.
00:06:02.000Fareed has a very good piece over there.
00:06:04.000I'll talk to you about it in just one second.
00:06:05.000First, let's talk about the fact that now is like a great time to take care of your mind and body.
00:06:10.000I mean, the fact is that a lot of people are down I hear you.
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00:07:18.000Okay, so Fareed Zachariah has a good piece on the class differences between the people who are calling for lockdown and the people who are saying that we need to get back to work.
00:07:25.000And I will say that there is one other distinction.
00:07:27.000There are a lot of people who are business owners who are saying we need to get back to work even if they're high income earners.
00:07:32.000So a lot of high income earners who are just sitting at home and the pandemic is basically as comedian Patton Oswalt suggested, wow it's so tough you're watching Netflix all day.
00:07:40.000Turns out there are a lot of people who are not watching Netflix all day.
00:07:42.000Turns out there are a lot of people who are struggling to put food on the table.
00:07:44.000Turns out there are tons of people who own businesses who are struggling to figure out how to pay their employees and how to keep their businesses afloat and how to keep their life savings from being drained away.
00:07:53.000Fareed Zachariah has a good piece on this over at the Washington Post.
00:07:56.000He says, Many people are wondering why partisanship has become so strong in the United States that people will not listen to experts, even at the risk of their own health.
00:08:03.000But there's a broader distrust we need to understand.
00:08:05.000As I recognized it while reading a book that is not about COVID-19 at all, but sheds strong light on the situation.
00:08:10.000Explaining why so many people across the West have rejected the government establishment, Michael Lind writes, The issue is not the issue.
00:08:27.000Lin's new book, The New Class War, argues that the best way to understand America today is through the lens of class conflict, which has been sharpened by the rise of an overclass that dominates the three spheres he mentioned.
00:08:35.000In all three, leaders tend to be urban, college-educated professionals, often with a postgraduate degree.
00:08:39.000That makes them quite distinct from the rest of the country.
00:08:41.000Only 36% of Americans have a bachelor's degree, only 13% have a master's or more, and yet the top echelons everywhere are filled with this credentialed overclass.
00:08:50.000So when he says it's a class distinction, he doesn't actually mean an economic class distinction.
00:08:54.000He means that it is a class distinction as far as people who have gone to university, people who are generally secular, people who have a particular worldview about the role of government, And who happen to be in charge of a lot of major industries, a lot of cultural totems.
00:09:08.000And this is something that's not new to Michael Lynn.
00:09:11.000Charles Murray was talking about this in his book, Coming Apart, 15 years ago.
00:09:15.000But says Fareed Zachariah, for many non-college educated people, especially those living in rural areas, there's a deep alienation from this new elite.
00:09:21.000They see the overclass as enacting policies presented as good for the whole country, but really mostly benefit people from the ruling class whose lives have gotten better over the past few decades, while the rest are left behind.
00:09:31.000In this view, trade and immigration help college-educated professionals who work for multinational corporations but hurt blue-collar workers.
00:09:36.000So when they hear from experts about the inevitability of globalization and technological change and the need to accept it, they resist because it does not resonate with their lived experience.
00:09:43.000He says, let's look at the COVID-19 crisis through this prism.
00:09:46.000Imagine you're an American who works with his hands and you just lost your job because of the lockdowns as of more than 36 million people.
00:09:51.000You turn on the TV and you hear medical experts, academics, technocrats, and journalists explain, we have to keep the economy closed because public health is important.
00:10:48.000I'm not saying that I should make the risk assessment for you.
00:10:51.000I'm saying you should make the risk assessment for you.
00:10:52.000And it is the job of the so-called experts to provide you information so you can make your own independent risk assessment.
00:10:58.000And this is why it is so utterly unhelpful when the media refuse to report to you actual information, instead just giving you anecdotes.
00:11:05.000So, for example, there's a piece in the New York Times yesterday by Mara Gay, who's the head of the 1619 Project and very well-respected columnist at the New York Times.
00:11:11.000By the left, hey, Mara Gay got COVID-19.
00:11:31.000And I'm extremely happy that Maragay is feeling better.
00:11:35.000God forbid anybody should get sick and die with COVID-19.
00:11:39.000But it is very important that if you are running the world's most quote-unquote respected newspaper, that you actually at some point in an article like that give me the numbers so I can assess my own risk.
00:11:47.000I understand that if somebody gets hit side-on in a car crash, that that's going to be really bad.
00:11:52.000And that the recovery time is going to be really bad.
00:11:54.000I need to know when I go out the door in the morning, what are my odds of being hit side-long in a car crash?
00:11:59.000Because I'm making my own risk assessment.
00:12:01.000All media information should be geared toward giving Americans enough information that they can make their own risk assessment.
00:12:05.000And most media information is not geared toward that.
00:12:08.000Most media information is geared toward a certain level of alarmism and a level of distrust with the American public.
00:12:13.000And ironically, what ends up happening is that people respond to the media By then saying, okay, the entire thing is BS.
00:12:19.000Now I'm hearing from some conservatives this about, for example, face mask wearing.
00:12:23.000People suggesting on the conservative side, there are a few people on the conservative side, I would say, who say, you know what?
00:12:27.000I don't want to wear a face mask because the experts have been wrong all the time and they just want to control my liberty.
00:12:33.000And I've said, no, face mask wearing is probably a good idea.
00:12:36.000It prevents other people from getting it.
00:12:37.000It's to protect everybody who is around you.
00:12:39.000And if the goal is to slow the spread enough that we don't spike over the healthcare system's capacity, and if the goal is to go back to work in fast-moving action, then wearing face masks is a great way of preventing all this, right?
00:12:54.000And it is not you signing away your liberty to say that you're going to wear a face mask.
00:12:57.000It is you saying that you care about your neighbors, that you're going to wear the face mask until some better therapeutic is found or until we tranche populations such that herd immunity is pursuable.
00:13:05.000But you have to understand that for a lot of people, they look at the experts who are telling them that the best option is for them to stay inside forever.
00:13:11.000And those same experts are yelling at people not wearing face masks.
00:13:14.000And so you get exactly the sort of political polarization we've seen in the country, which is people responding to each other, not responding to information.
00:13:19.000And when the media make themselves a character in this story, When the media's entire narrative is, we stand up for lockdowns because we care about your life, and then they provide you no information.
00:13:30.000Then people are going to say, well, I care about my life more than you care about my life, and I care about my freedom more than you care about my freedom, so I'm just going to discount whatever you say.
00:13:37.000And so there is that natural reaction, because the media do have this disconnect with the American people at this point.
00:13:42.000They are not trying to bring Americans the information.
00:13:45.000They instead are trying to push an agenda.
00:13:47.000You can see that most clearly when it comes to the state-by-state lockdown attitudes of the media.
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00:15:01.000Okay, so the media simply don't get this.
00:15:03.000They simply don't understand why people are angry at them.
00:15:05.000So yesterday, there's a clip going around by a guy named Kevin Vesey, and it has, you know, six million hits on Twitter.
00:15:11.000And this video basically shows this person walking around a rally where people are rallying for opening, and people are yelling at the media.
00:15:19.000They're saying, you guys don't understand what we're going through.
00:15:21.000You guys are attempting to portray us as kooks and nuts for wanting to reopen and going back to our work.
00:15:27.000You're suggesting that we want to get people killed.
00:16:23.000And by the way, Rick Bright, who is the doctor who was supposedly fired from the Trump administration yesterday, he literally said about vaccines, you guys are being too optimistic about vaccines.
00:16:33.000You're saying 12 to 18 months, it could be two years.
00:16:54.000I try to provide you the information first, but I am very clear about my opinion.
00:16:56.000And I try to state what my agenda is up front.
00:17:00.000And then you can make your own decision.
00:17:01.000But what you are seeing from the media is not that.
00:17:03.000You're seeing they're quote-unquote objective journalists who are very angry that people can see their bias and are recognizing that the media are not actually providing us information.
00:17:11.000So last night, for example, Anderson Cooper on CNN He was very, very angry.
00:17:28.000What level of expertise can she provide?
00:17:30.000And so apparently she was there to talk about the fact that she had donated $100,000 from her fund for coronavirus funding or something.
00:17:36.000Okay, well then why don't you have on, you know, first of all, I know personally many people who have given more money than that to the coronavirus fight and are spending more of their own money out of their own pocket in order to try and do something about this.
00:17:46.000And those people happen to know more than a 17-year-old girl most famous for shouting at adults.
00:17:50.000But Anderson Cooper was very upset with you.
00:17:54.000Very upset with anybody who would question CNN's bona fides in bringing on a 17-year-old girl most famous for shouting at adults in a Swedish accent.
00:17:59.000A blue check on Twitter saw the initial ad and was outraged and claimed that we had booked Greta Thunberg to be an expert on a coronavirus panel with other health experts.
00:18:10.000Then, of course, Donnie Trump Jr. jumped into this, which is weird because I thought he was allegedly running whatever remains of the Trump organization.
00:18:17.000I mean, shouldn't that be like a really busy job since it's, you know, allegedly such a great big company?
00:18:22.000Anyway, once DJ TJ started typing, then other people with blue checks on Twitter also started doing their thing because everyone has to produce content these days.
00:18:36.000That would pretty much describe a lot of CNN coverage.
00:18:39.000A tween on TikTok would describe Chris Cuomo walking out of his basement on camera, as though that's providing us any useful information other than the reality TV drama of the whole thing.
00:18:47.000Okay, so again, that's why the people are angry at the media, and it's also why there's new information that Americans are increasingly just not paying attention to a lot of the information that the so-called experts are providing.
00:18:58.000And when I say so-called experts, I don't mean Fauci.
00:19:00.000I mean people like Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon and the rest.
00:19:03.000The fact is, by the way, that there is a new poll out showing that social distancing is dropping dramatically.
00:19:08.000And as I've said, this is going to be led from the bottom up.
00:19:10.000People are just going to say, I'm not doing this anymore.
00:19:12.00058% right now of Americans say they are completely or mostly self-isolating.
00:20:34.000That's a fraction of the dire predictions made for Florida when spring breakers swarmed the beaches.
00:20:37.000And those numbers are dwarfed by similarly sized New York, which has seen 12 times more deaths and nearly eight times more infections.
00:20:43.000More people reportedly died in New York nursing homes than in all of Florida.
00:20:47.000They say good evening and greetings from Florida, where we feel the need to inform you.
00:20:50.000It's not a post-apocalyptic hellscape of coronavirus infection and cadavers stacked like cordwood.
00:20:54.000That is, Florida just doesn't look nearly as bad as the national news media and sky-falling critics have been predicting for about two months now.
00:21:00.000But then, the national news media is mostly based in New York and loves to love its Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, about as much as it loves to hate on Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.
00:21:40.000Politico does acknowledge there is media bias.
00:21:43.000Cuomo also has something else DeSantis doesn't, a press that defers to him, one that preferred to cover quote-unquote Florida morons at the beach, where it's relatively hard to get infected, over New Yorkers riding cramped subway cars where it's easy to get infected.
00:21:54.000In fact, people can still ride the subways most hours of the day in New York, but Miami Beach of Sands remained closed.
00:21:59.000Maybe things would be different if DeSantis had a brother who worked in cable news and interviewed him for a sweet moment in prime time.
00:22:11.000The entire narrative here, which is that President Trump blew it, and Democrats are doing it right, and those who push lockdown are winning, and those who push opening up are losing, and want to sacrifice people like Georgia's human sacrifice experiment.
00:22:24.000That was all a bunch of crap, and I'm not going to trust anybody who tells me that sort of stuff.
00:22:28.000I didn't trust them then, I'm not going to trust them now.
00:22:30.000Instead, I'm going to assess my own risk based on the information that is provided to me, and I think most Americans feel the same way.
00:22:35.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:22:37.000First, let's talk about the fact that right now is not the world's best time to go to the auto parts store.
00:22:42.000In fact, going to the auto parts store is usually a waste of time.
00:22:44.000Instead, what you should be doing is using the interwebs.
00:22:46.000Well, first, you're going to say, buddy, when you go to rockauto.com.
00:22:50.000Because rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear, like airlines do.
00:22:56.000Why spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:22:58.000Rockauto.com is a family business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.
00:23:02.000Go to rockauto.com to shop for auto and body parts from hundreds of manufacturers.
00:23:05.000Best of all, prices at rockauto.com are always reliably low and the same for professionals and do-it-yourselfers.
00:23:11.000Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:23:41.000Okay, so here is the dirty little secret.
00:23:43.000The dirty little secret is that every state is reopening to a certain extent.
00:23:46.000While there are states and places like LA that are insisting that nobody reopen, I've been out here on the roads, people are going to work.
00:23:55.000And this happens to be true across the United States.
00:23:58.000And the more the authorities shout at people, and the more they promote stupid policy, the more that policy will get ignored.
00:24:05.000If you actually want people to pay attention to your policy, you have to explain to them why you're doing what you're doing and why it makes any sense.
00:24:11.000This is true with children when you're teaching children.
00:24:13.000You actually have to explain to them the rationale for the rules.
00:24:15.000Saying, because I said so, only works for kids who are about three.
00:24:18.000Once they hit about five or six, they actually want to know why you are doing what you are doing.
00:24:21.000When you get to be full-grown adult, you don't just pay attention to rules because you are told to do so, unless you are a SOP.
00:24:29.000I mean, really, there is no reason for you to pay attention to rules unless those rules are designed to do a thing.
00:24:35.000Or as I said yesterday, unless you're being bribed to follow the rules or you're being threatened to follow the rules.
00:24:38.000And both of those last two rationales are just not sufficient.
00:24:41.000Because over time, unless that bribe is pretty steep, you're not going to want to follow it.
00:24:45.000And unless that punishment is rigidly enforced, you're just going to ignore it.
00:24:49.000Most people are not going to put on masks at the beach ten feet away from each other and never sit on the sand because our stupid Governor Gavin Newsom said so here in California.
00:25:00.000Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, for example, they're saying now that masks are mandatory when you go outside for anyone above the age of two.
00:25:10.000And knowing that, I'm not going to put him near an old person because I am a responsible human being.
00:25:14.000Knowing that, I'm not going to put him near anybody who's outside of my family, right?
00:25:18.000We're going to continue social distancing.
00:25:19.000But the stricter you set the rules, the fewer people are going to obey the rules, and the more the rules get broken.
00:25:24.000And then, the institution that promulgated the rules loses its legitimacy.
00:25:28.000An easy way for an institution to lose its legitimacy is to have people basically ignore it.
00:25:33.000This is true whether you're the media or whether you are the government.
00:25:36.000But the media have this narrative and they continue to push the narrative despite the fact that, again, places all over America are opening up, Democrat and Republican.
00:25:42.000They're doing so step-by-step and they're all following the Florida model.
00:25:47.000They're doing so with levels of social distancing and a fairly heavy level of mask wearing.
00:25:52.000But the way the media portray this is that Republicans want to willy-nilly let everybody out of the box so that they can just go have kissing parties and kill each other.
00:26:07.000The Supreme Court of Wisconsin said that the government of Wisconsin does not have authority for the kind of lockdowns that they have been doing.
00:26:13.000Certainly not without legislative approval.
00:26:16.000So, after the Supreme Court decision, a lot of mayors came in with their own local rules, and those rules are basically being obeyed.
00:26:22.000But if you listen to Tony Evers, the governor of Wisconsin, the mere suggestion that he does not get to willy-nilly lock down anything he wants in any fashion he wants Means that Wisconsin has turned into the Wild West.
00:26:34.000Remember there was all that talk about how the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that suggested that people had to vote in person, that you couldn't just decide on the spur of the moment that all voting was going to be mail-in?
00:26:46.000That was going to kill massive numbers of Americans.
00:26:48.000The grand total number of Americans who went out and voted that day who got COVID-19, out of the tens and maybe I think it was over 100,000 people who voted in Wisconsin that day, the grand total number of people who got a COVID-19 infection, and it's not even obvious that it came from the voting booths, 52.
00:27:05.000We were told it was going to kill tens of thousands of people.
00:27:07.000That if you go out to the voting booth and you socially distance, everybody's going to die.
00:27:10.000Here's Governor Tony Evers, though, pushing the narrative accompanied by Chris Cuomo, who couldn't even who couldn't even follow his own rules when it came to socially distancing.
00:27:34.000Not unexpected because clearly there were four justices that were looking for any way they could to concur with the Republican majority in the legislature.
00:27:45.000So it happened and now we have the Wild West.
00:27:53.000There's an article in the New York Times about various states reopening today.
00:27:56.000And it talks about the reopening deepening political divides.
00:27:59.000They say, in Wisconsin, residents woke up to a state of confusion on Thursday after the conservative majority on the state Supreme Court sided with the Republican majority in the legislature on Wednesday night, overturning a statewide stay-at-home order by Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat.
00:28:10.000In Michigan, hundreds of protesters, many of them armed, turned out at the state capitol in a drenching rainstorm.
00:28:15.000In Pennsylvania, some Republican lawmakers urged defiance of the Democratic governor's orders to keep non-essential businesses closed.
00:28:21.000And President Trump flew to Allentown for a politically charged visit to a medical supply facility.
00:28:27.000to the coronavirus in these three states, which determines the 2016 presidential election and could strongly influence the one in November, is becoming a confused and agitated blend of health guidance, protest, and partisan politics, leaving residents to fend for themselves.
00:28:40.000When we say leaving residents to fend for themselves, isn't that generally what you call freedom?
00:28:44.000Okay, I don't mean that people shouldn't be taken care of if they are forced not to work by the government, that the government didn't drive a Ford F-150 through the front wall of your house, and now the government has to pay.
00:28:53.000But, you know what we used to call being left alone?
00:28:57.000Okay, that's not, again, not to suggest that people should go out willy-nilly and start kissing each other in the streets.
00:29:02.000That is to suggest that you are best capable of determining your own risk level, you do it every damn day, and because the baseline risk level has risen, and because depending on your population trench, it may have risen more for you, you get to decide what is the most risky.
00:29:15.000You get to decide whether you believe that the members of your community are being responsible and whether you are going to go out today.
00:29:20.000This is just something, it's your decision, basically.
00:29:24.000Across Wisconsin, the court ruling left some residents in a festive mood, heading directly to one of the state's many taverns to celebrate.
00:29:29.000Others were determined to stay home, worried it was too soon to return to crowded restaurants and shops, says the New York Times.
00:29:36.000Despite all of this, most Americans are continuing to be responsible.
00:29:40.000Most Americans are continuing to make risk-averse decisions if they can do so.
00:29:44.000But the notion again is this partisan divide is so deep that basically it's one or the other.
00:29:49.000Either you want to lock down and cower in fear or you want to go out there without a mask and you want to infect as many people as humanly possible and you don't care what happens next.
00:29:56.000And that is just not the way most Americans are responding.
00:29:59.000And by the way, that is not the way that even blue states are responding.
00:30:03.000New Jersey is about to open its beaches.
00:30:06.000Jersey Shore is going to be open now, according to NewJersey.com.
00:30:10.000Under Governor Murphy's executive order, beaches and lakefronts must limit the number of visitors given access so people can properly socially distance.
00:30:17.000Families and households are allowed to cluster together.
00:30:19.000Otherwise, people need to be six feet apart.
00:30:21.000The opening goes into effect May 22nd, the beginning of Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer season.
00:30:27.000Murphy said, the Jersey Shore, after all, is where memories are made.
00:30:30.000The last thing any of us wanted was for a summertime down the shore to be a memory.
00:30:33.000But I thought that, according to Governor Phil Murphy, just like Andrew Cuomo, any attempt to open anything was going to end inevitably in more death.
00:30:41.000Notice, everybody's following the same policies.
00:30:54.000May 22nd is also when we're going to let the travel ban expire.
00:30:59.000The travel ban has been very important to where we are and to flattening the curve.
00:31:05.000And we still need to be very careful about where we travel to.
00:31:10.000If you are thinking about going to the beach right now, it is still very dangerous.
00:31:14.000And remember, there are hundreds of cases in western Kentucky related to a trip to the beach.
00:31:19.000But if you have family that lives close by that's coming in for Memorial Day, again, you can socially distance.
00:31:26.000They don't fall into the vulnerable categories.
00:31:29.000That's at a place that we're now at, and we're seeing a number of these travel bans expiring.
00:31:35.000Okay, so even the Democrats are saying, you know what, this is just not workable and we are starting to reopen.
00:31:41.000And by the way, the longer you tighten people down, the more people are going to move from areas that are unreasonable to areas that are reasonable, in fact.
00:31:48.000And you're starting to see that trend.
00:31:51.000You're going to see, I'm predicting, within the next year and a half, you'll see a rush from places like New York and Los Angeles out to other places.
00:31:58.000The places that lock down the tightest are the places that are going to squeeze the air out of the balloon.
00:32:21.000And then we're going to get charged twice in taxes because they're going to have to fill in whatever payroll gap they created because of their crappy fiscal policies.
00:32:27.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:33:41.000Well, we're going to get to more of this in just one second.
00:33:43.000It is amazing to watch as the entire informational story put out by the media turns out to Turns out to have been a complete lie.
00:33:51.000This lie that there is a harsh division between lockdown states and non-lockdown states and that lockdown states were going to benefit, non-lockdown states were all going to die.
00:34:08.000First, got to tell you that it is that time of the week, that special time of the week, when we feature one of our listeners, one of our fans with the Daily Wire Tumblr, the famed leftist-tears Tumblr today.
00:34:21.000We feature Tsipora on Twitter, keeping excellent company during these lockdown days in this picture.
00:34:25.000An adorable, happy little baby boy is nestled in his rocker, smiling for the camera while holding the world's greatest beverage vessel.
00:34:31.000The caption reads, he can't wait to be on the podcast with Uncle Ben.
00:34:33.000He's never actually met any family members anyway, so we figured we could include Ben Shapiro.
00:35:34.000Also, we should note that when you're a Daily Wire member, you also get all of our bonus questions on things like the Sunday Special.
00:35:40.000This week's Sunday Special features Douglas Murray, the great columnist and author from Great Britain, who tells us about how coronavirus is going over in Europe and European perceptions of President Trump.
00:35:52.000These unbelievable race baiters who pretend they're anti-racist, who pretend that people can find meaning in their life because of their skin pigmentation.
00:36:02.000Find meaning in your life, definitely.
00:36:05.000But don't think you're going to get it from your chromosomes.
00:37:03.000A vastly disproportionate number of people are dying in nursing homes because this is a disease that targets elderly people with compromised immune systems and people who have pre-existing conditions.
00:37:11.000Only now are you beginning to realize, hey wait a second, Andrew Cuomo's a crappy governor and all of his little cute stories with Chris Cuomo don't solve for the problem?
00:37:19.000That his state has lost more people than any other state by probably a factor of three at this point?
00:37:26.000According to the Washington Post editorial board, residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities account for roughly half of one percent of the U.S.
00:37:32.000population and more than a third of the COVID-19 deaths.
00:37:36.000That justifies extreme measures by federal officials and states.
00:37:39.000So far, both have blocked, so they're going to try and blame the feds for the fact that Andrew Cuomo didn't shut down his own nursing homes.
00:37:49.000Dr. Deborah Birx said, we really believe that all one million nursing home residents need to be tested within the next two weeks, as well as the staff.
00:37:56.000New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has ordered twice-weekly testing for nursing home staff in his state, is leading the way.
00:39:08.000Okay, this is correct, and he's being ripped up and down by the left yesterday for this.
00:39:12.000Explain to me what's inaccurate about this.
00:39:13.000Joe Rogan yesterday says, listen, I may have to leave California because this is unlivable.
00:39:18.000I can't tell you how many friends I've taken calls from in the last week or two who have said exactly the same thing.
00:39:22.000And you know who can afford to leave California?
00:39:24.000The people who can afford to leave California.
00:39:25.000The people who are getting absolutely jacked are the people who are losing their jobs.
00:39:28.000And no matter how many times Eric Garcetti promises you there will be money to fill in your bank account, when all the people who can afford to leave do, ain't gonna be nobody paying those bills.
00:40:11.000You are going to see population movements.
00:40:13.000People are going to walk with their feet.
00:40:16.000You're going to see a big swell in population in states that treated this thing the way it should be treated, namely in localized fashion, allowing individuals to exercise their freedom.
00:40:26.000Recognizing your own risk-reward ratios and then going out and acting on them?
00:40:31.000And that doesn't mean that those risk-reward ratios can't, like, there are certain areas where enforcement would be necessary.
00:40:36.000So, for example, I don't think that it is out of the realm of possibility in the middle of this pandemic without any real solution if the goal is to slow the spread such that you don't want to spike over the healthcare system for local officials to say, if you are in a place where you're going to be within six feet of others, you should be wearing a face mask.
00:40:51.000But I think most people are doing that anyway.
00:41:15.000But here's the real agenda here for a lot of people.
00:41:17.000And this is where the failures of the media to just provide you information that allow you to make decisions cross streams with the partisan agenda.
00:41:26.000And that is when you see Democrats who in open fashion are talking about using the pandemic to radically reshift how American life is going to work for the long haul.
00:41:35.000Then it starts to feel like, okay, you guys, it's not even that you're just ignorant and stupid in making these policies that have nothing to do with data.
00:41:41.000That you shouting science at me while telling me I need to wear a mask alone in my car, or I need to mask up my four-year-old son when we're out on the street a hundred feet from somebody else.
00:41:49.000That's not just you being ignorant or terrible at your job.
00:41:51.000It's actually an agenda-driven thing, is when you start saying the agenda out loud.
00:41:55.000So AOC always says the quiet part out loud, AOC.
00:42:18.000AOC, she said yesterday that we need to pay illegal immigrants to stay away from work because, obviously, we should be using taxpayer dollars to support illegal immigrants.
00:42:27.000And then she added on, because undocumented workers pay billions more than many corporations do, which is just insane.
00:42:33.000Okay, she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about.
00:42:35.000She doesn't know how corporate taxes work.
00:42:36.000She doesn't understand that when Jeff Bezos When Amazon pays Jeff Bezos, but Jeff Bezos pays money on his income, she doesn't understand how corporate structures work.
00:42:46.000So she thinks that corporations, ironically enough, the same people who say corporations are not people for purposes of free speech, treat corporations like people for purposes of taxation.
00:42:56.000It doesn't matter to them that if you and your friend organize an LLC and then the profits flow through to you and you pay an income tax, you have now paid tax on the money that flows through the corporation.
00:43:04.000She thinks the corporation's like a separate person that goes out for a burger or something.
00:43:07.000Here's AOC saying dumb crap about illegal immigrants and why we should pay them.
00:43:23.000But long term, we need to address health care, housing, wages, and we need to make sure that we do it in a way that's not means tested, where there's all these Swiss holes that people fall through and their problems aren't addressed.
00:43:35.000OK, but AOC went even further than this.
00:43:37.000She says, listen, not only do we need universal health care, that's just the first step, guys.
00:43:41.000Now that we've seen what a pandemic can do, let's just pay everybody.
00:43:44.000And not only is everybody a socialist during a pandemic, says AOC, everybody should be a socialist forever.
00:44:07.000Because when we get to a point where we're struggling to afford a meal or when we're struggling to feel economic security or material security, it's because all of these things are chipping away at us.
00:44:20.000It's healthcare, it's student loans, it's rent, it's the high cost of housing and the high cost of living, and all of that.
00:45:25.000Many folks who still are in the process of getting their unemployment benefits, people who are graduating without any foresight on to what their future looks like.
00:45:40.000We need relief bills that put the people first.
00:45:43.000And this is a way to put the people first.
00:45:46.000By eliminating the debt, by eliminating the worry, and putting money back in their pockets.
00:45:58.000Trump's campaign, as these lockdowns end, as more Americans recognize that they're going to have to make their own individual risk calculations, Trump's campaign here is actually a fairly strong one.
00:46:07.000Now, the Democrats are going to try and campaign on Trump botched this thing.
00:46:11.000But Trump being able to campaign against people who obviously want to restrict your ability to make your own decisions is going to be a strong one.
00:46:16.000Here's Trump yesterday saying people would like their freedom back, please.
00:47:04.000And the people who are saying it don't have to worry about feeding their kids.
00:47:07.000The people who are saying it don't have to worry about losing their life savings in their business.
00:47:11.000The people who are saying that are not the ones who are suffering right now.
00:47:14.000The people who are most pro-lockdown seem to be the ones who are suffering the least right now.
00:47:18.000And that is an eminently ugly way of promoting a lockdown.
00:47:25.000Again, most Americans, if they are told right now that their neighbors are going to take care and their neighbors are going to be responsible, I think that the polls would show that most Americans are ready to get back to work and they're ready to get back to work in a responsible fashion.
00:47:36.000I don't want to hear any more polls about lockdown versus complete opening.
00:47:48.000So the entire Democratic candidacy for 2020, the entire Joe Biden candidacy is reliant on the notion that President Trump blew the COVID-19 response.
00:48:02.000And this is leading to some rather extraordinary Rather extraordinary messaging from the left.
00:48:08.000Okay, so ActBlue, which is a Democratic super PAC, they have an account called BidenWarRoom, just like Trump has TrumpWarRoom, and it's a super PAC outside of the Trump campaign.
00:48:18.000Their BidenWarRoom is a super PAC outside of the Biden campaign, and they put out a tweet today that really is full-scale disgusting.
00:49:38.000There are guidelines today that say that should you consider opening, will you be consistent with applicable state and local orders?
00:49:44.000Are you ready to protect employees at higher risk for severe illness?
00:49:47.000If any of those are no, then do not open.
00:49:49.000Are the recommended health and safety actions in place?
00:49:52.000Encouraging social distancing and enhancing spacing between employees, including physical barriers, changing layout of workspaces, encouraging telework, considering modifying travel and commuting practices.
00:50:01.000If the answer to any of these are no, then you have to meet the safeguard first.
00:50:05.000And then you have to have an ongoing monitoring system in place.
00:50:08.000Developing and implementing procedures to check for signs and symptoms of employees daily upon arrival as feasible.
00:50:26.000But that is the idea here from Team Biden.
00:50:29.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden literally cannot string a sentence together.
00:50:32.000So if I'm supposed to believe that Joe Biden is going to provide the steady, strong leadership that Donald Trump has failed to provide, you're going to need to do better than Joe Biden talking to pre-recorded messages.
00:50:42.000He did an interview yesterday where the interviewer played him, it was on MSNBC, with Lawrence O'Donnell.
00:50:50.000Lawrence O'Donnell played him a tape of a question.
00:50:53.000And because Joe Biden is not with us, He passed away, it seems, several years ago.
00:50:58.000Joe Biden tries to answer the caller as though the caller is live on air.
00:51:57.000In the meantime, it's going to matter, Lawrence, whether or not between now and then, this president has used his powers and used the organizational ability that the White House has, that the president has, to make sure we have enough PPP, those protective gear, for this second wave.
00:52:17.000So if there's going to be that second wave, which is predictable.
00:52:21.000And the good news for Joe Biden is that the media will protect him no matter what.
00:52:24.000It doesn't matter that he can't string a sentence together.
00:52:26.000It doesn't matter that his record has been fairly abysmal.
00:52:29.000None of that matters because Joe Biden has the media on his side.
00:52:32.000So, for example, Joe Biden yesterday, he was asked specifically about Michael Flynn because it turns out that Joe Biden was one of the people who requested the unmasking of Michael Flynn.
00:52:38.000Now, it's not illegal to request the unmasking of somebody if you are in the executive branch.
00:52:42.000It is, however, a pretty good indicator that you were involved in the decision-making regarding Michael Flynn.
00:52:47.000Here was Joe Biden dodging questions on it yesterday.
00:52:51.000Mr. Vice President, what was your involvement in the investigation of Michael Flynn and the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn?
00:53:02.000I was never a part or had any knowledge of any criminal investigation into Flynn while I was in office, period.
00:53:13.000Okay, nobody said that you had knowledge of the criminal investigation, although it is weird that you were talking with Barack Obama about Flynn's conversation before the DOJ even knew about it, courtesy of the FBI.
00:53:24.000Okay, but the good news is, again, the media will carry water for Biden no matter what.
00:53:28.000There's a piece in the Daily Beast titled, The New CBS Reporter Driving Democrats and Some of Her Own Colleagues Crazy.
00:53:35.000And it's all about the evils of Catherine Herridge.
00:53:37.000Because Catherine Herridge, of course, is a reporter for CBS who used to work at Fox News.
00:53:41.000And so now there's an entire piece about how she is pushing GOP talking points.
00:54:03.000The first wave of long-promised negative ads from the Trump campaign began this week in caustic form, flooding Facebook pages and television screens in swing states with harsh messages that make unfounded inferences about Joseph Biden's mental state.
00:54:15.000I don't think you have to make an unfounded inference about his mental state.
00:54:17.000All you got to do is watch the man for more than six minutes and paint the presumptive Democratic nominee as too friendly to the Chinese government.
00:54:22.000In May alone, the Trump campaign has spent or reserved about $7 million on television airtime in local markets.
00:54:28.000Fueling negative ads that repeat xenophobic tropes regarding the Chinese origin of the coronavirus.
00:54:34.000He's actually just blatantly labeling Trump a racist on the basis that he points out that this virus came from China.
00:54:40.000Just pick up that water and carry it, man.
00:54:42.000This is Jack and Joe go up the hill carrying water for Joe Biden.
00:54:52.000Definitely, definitely trust these people.
00:54:55.000The Biden campaign needs all the help it can get, because this campaign is a disaster area.
00:54:58.000And it's going to be even more of a disaster area if Joe Biden continues to message that the country is supposed to stay shut down until the end of time.
00:55:04.000Okay, time for one more quick thing that I hate.
00:55:08.000So, remember that time when the ACLU stood for the idea that you have civil rights no matter your political perspective?
00:55:15.000Remember that time when they stood for the idea that people had a right to due process and a right to free speech?
00:55:21.000I'm old enough to remember when the ACLU was sort of the de facto organization for, I may disagree with what you say, but you have every right to say it.
00:55:29.000Now, the ACLU's message is, if we don't like you, then we are going to sue you.
00:55:33.000So they've just become like every other left-wing legal agitprop association.
00:55:39.000According to NBC News, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses are the target of a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, claiming that the changes would inflict significant harm on victims and dramatically undermine their civil rights.
00:55:56.000The suit, filed on behalf of four advocacy groups for people who have been sexually assaulted, is the first that seeks to block the Education Department's new provisions before they go into effect on August 14th.
00:56:05.000The rules championed by DeVos effectively bolster the rights of due process for those accused of sexual assault and harassment, allowing for live hearings and cross-examinations.
00:56:13.000It's what agency officials say was lacking during the Obama administration to protect all students under Title IX.
00:56:18.000And by the way, federal courts have said the same.
00:56:19.000Federal courts have said that the Obama-era rules on Title IX, they basically said if you're accused, you can't confront your accuser, you can't cross-examine your accuser, you have to take the allegations as factually true.
00:56:30.000That those rules did not meet with the requirements of due process.
00:56:33.000So Betsy DeVos changed the rules to meet with the requirements of due process.
00:56:38.000Now, the ACLU is filing a lawsuit against due process.
00:56:45.000District Court in Maryland by the ACLU and Strook Strook & Levin, LLP, says this new federal effort to weaken Title IX makes it more difficult for victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault to continue their educations and needlessly comes amid a global pandemic.
00:56:59.000So the ACLU has now completely shifted its perspective.
00:57:04.000The suit, according to Rhea Tabakomar, director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project, challenges Title IX regulations that will redefine sexual misconduct in narrower terms, as misconduct so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it denies a person equal access to the school's education program or activity.
00:57:19.000Tabakomar argued it created a double standard for how schools must treat sexual discrimination complaints compared to how they handle allegations of racial, national origin, and disability discrimination.
00:57:29.000Well actually no, that's just what sexual harassment law has always been.
00:57:32.000Severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive.
00:57:34.000It can't just be, you perceived something as bad and now we ban students.
00:57:37.000But the key here is not even the argument, because the argument's bad.
00:57:40.000The key here is that the ACLU is pursuing this argument, which just demonstrates how the left's perspective on rights themselves has shifted.
00:57:46.000It used to be that the left in America relied on the framework of rights in order to make its arguments.
00:57:51.000So the ACLU used to say, listen, we may not like Nazis marching through Skokie, but American rights mean that sometimes you have to just Suck it up and understand that people who suck have the same rights that you do, and they will exercise them in ways you don't like.
00:58:05.000But so long as they're not punching you in the face, that is not a violation of your rights.
00:58:08.000The ACLU used to stand up for the proposition that rights were non-discriminatory.
00:58:14.000That rights themselves were a good that everybody had.
00:58:29.000Because the right to free speech might offend some people.
00:58:31.000Because there are more powerful people and less powerful people, and so if everyone has the right to free speech, the people who are most likely to benefit from the right to free speech are the people who are the most powerful.
00:58:39.000And so now the ACLU has bought into what Professor Erbarmar-Cuse once suggested was an idea of repressive tolerance.
00:58:46.000In order for true free speech to flourish, we have to silence the most powerful members of society so that everybody else gets a chance to talk.
00:58:53.000It's this bizarre version of rights that you see sort of imitated.
00:58:57.000By crazy people like Sarai Rao when she will have white privilege sessions at people's dining room tables and tell the white people to shut up and people will pay her for this privilege.
00:59:06.000Because she'll say, well, you don't get to talk because of your privilege.
00:59:08.000This is what you see on college campuses a lot.
00:59:10.000This idea that any right that is equally applied can never actually be equal.
00:59:15.000It is actually an application of inequality and a deepening of inequality.
00:59:24.000True property rights would be removing rights to property for people who are more powerful and richer, and giving them to people who have less power and are poorer.
00:59:32.000Now understand that's no longer a right.
00:59:33.000That is now a redistributive Coercive tactic.
00:59:37.000But that's what the ACLU is now standing for.
00:59:39.000They're basically saying due process should be redistributed.
00:59:41.000Due process, which used to be a right for everybody.
00:59:44.000Whether you were rich or poor, you got due process.
00:59:46.000Whether you were black or white, you got due process.
00:59:47.000This is what the ACLU used to stand for.
01:00:35.000And it demonstrates the mentality shift that has happened in this country.
01:00:39.000I talk about all this at length in my new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, that's going to be coming out in the end of July.
01:00:45.000But it is, again, indicative of a mindset shift that is incredibly dangerous for the future of the country.
01:00:49.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.