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00:01:34.000 All righty, so we begin this morning with the news that now in Wayne County, we have more chaos, more election chaos.

00:01:46.000 So you'll recall, to recap our dramatic story, on Tuesday night, the Wayne County Michigan Board of Canvassers voted 2-2.

00:01:54.000 They deadlocked on whether to actually certify the votes in Wayne County.

00:01:57.000 That includes Detroit.

00:01:59.000 Overall, Wayne County is like 1.4 million voters.

00:02:01.000 Hey, and there are two Republicans and two Democrats on the commission and the Republicans were very upset because the poll books in about 70% of the various absentee counting precincts were not balanced.

00:02:12.000 Well, what that means is that you signed up for the absentee ballot and then your vote actually was not tabulated in the same numbers as you signed the poll books.

00:02:21.000 Right there.

00:02:22.000 The number of votes recorded in the poll books at a precinct didn't match the number of tabulated votes at those precincts.

00:02:26.000 So very often when you go to the precinct, they make you sign into the book and then you go and you vote.

00:02:30.000 If the number of signatures does not match the number of votes, then obviously the books are out of balance, right?

00:02:35.000 This is what the Republicans were worried about.

00:02:38.000 Now, the numbers that the books were out of balance are not generally huge.

00:02:41.000 It's not like they're out of balance by 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 votes in each precinct.

00:02:45.000 No, they're usually off like somewhere between one and four votes.

00:02:48.000 But Republicans were very concerned about this.

00:02:50.000 Now, to be fair, there were exactly the same sorts of problems in Wayne County in 2016.

00:02:55.000 The votes got certified.

00:02:56.000 They had the same problems a little bit earlier this year because they had a special election.

00:02:59.000 The votes still got certified.

00:03:02.000 The Republicans said they initially voted against certifying because they were worried about these discrepancies.

00:03:09.000 And, again, it is perfectly fair to audit the vote and make sure that everybody who legally voted gets counted and everybody who illegally voted does not get counted.

00:03:17.000 Monica Palmer was the Republican chair of the canvassing board.

00:03:20.000 She actually suggested at one point she would have certified if the results of Detroit were excluded.

00:03:23.000 And then, of course, this prompted concerns of racism.

00:03:26.000 Now, we don't know how out of count the ballots were, the poll books.

00:03:30.000 Were they really out of balance in Detroit?

00:03:32.000 Maybe that's why she mentioned Detroit.

00:03:33.000 Okay, but it didn't matter.

00:03:34.000 Everybody came down on her head and they suggested she was trying to disenfranchise people in Detroit, which is a heavily black city, obviously.

00:03:41.000 She said she initially voted against certification based on the discrepancies at various precincts.

00:03:45.000 She said, I believe we do not have complete and accurate information in the poll books.

00:03:50.000 When the poll books are unbalanced, precincts can't be used as part of a recount before the county board reversed its decision.

00:03:55.000 Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued a statement saying, quote, it's common for some precincts in Michigan and across the country to be out of balance by a small number of votes, especially when turnout is high.

00:04:04.000 Importantly, this is not an indication any votes were improperly cast or counted. So this could mean theoretically that you did improperly cast your vote, that you actually signed the poll book and then you screwed up your ballot.

00:04:13.000 It could mean that between the time you signed the poll book and the time you submitted your vote, you decide, you know what?

00:04:18.000 I'm done with this.

00:04:19.000 I really don't have time to wait for this, and you just take off.

00:04:21.000 Wayne County's Board of Canvassers did not certify results in 2013 after Detroit's mayoral primary because the write-in votes for Mayor Mike Dugan hadn't been fully tabulated.

00:04:30.000 That was a little bit different because the canvassing process was completed when Republicans initially did not vote to certify this, according to CBS News.

00:04:37.000 Eventually, a deal was cut, And there was a unanimous agreement to certify those results.

00:04:41.000 OK, so originally there was a 2-2 split.

00:04:43.000 Then the board reversed itself and the Republicans voted unanimously with the Democrats to certify the votes from Wayne County after a long and dragged out listening session where people basically got up and yelled at the various members of the canvassing board and told them that they needed to get on track and the Republicans came.

00:04:59.000 Well, now the Republicans on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, after having cast their vote in favor of certifying the election results, Now apparently they want to rescind their votes.

00:05:08.000 Now that has no legal effect, as far as I'm aware.

00:05:11.000 It does mean there will be lawsuits, presumably, because they have now filed affidavits suggesting that they were pressured into changing their votes in favor of certifying the election.

00:05:18.000 Now, let's make something clear.

00:05:20.000 Just because that board of canvassers, the Michigan-Wayne County Board of Canvassers, did not vote to certify an election result, Does not mean that the state board of canvassers would not certify the election results or that the Republican legislature in Michigan was then going to turn around and vote in favor of Republican electors for President Trump.

00:05:38.000 There are still several steps down the road if you wish to actually reverse the results in Michigan.

00:05:42.000 And again, I will say that you have to have outsized evidence of massive voter fraud in order to make sense of the path whereby you reverse a 150,000 vote discrepancy in favor of Joe Biden.

00:05:55.000 Michigan was not a particularly close state.

00:05:57.000 Joe Biden, in the current count, is up by about 150,000 votes.

00:06:01.000 If you have certain precincts where the poll books are off by one or four votes, that obviously is not 150,000 votes.

00:06:07.000 And simply wiping millions of votes off the playing card That does not seem to make a lot of sense in either a moral or legal sense.

00:06:14.000 Nonetheless, if these Board of Canvassers Republicans were pressured into changing their vote, that is a pretty serious allegation.

00:06:22.000 In an affidavit signed on Wednesday evening, two GOP members of the four-member Wayne County Board of Canvassers allege they were improperly pressured into certifying the election and accused Democrats of reneging on a promise to audit the votes in Detroit.

00:06:32.000 So originally, it was reported that the Republicans, in exchange for getting a state audit of the voting in Detroit, had signed on.

00:06:38.000 Now they're saying, well, now you guys aren't delivering.

00:06:40.000 Jonathan Kinloch, a Democrat and the board's vice chairman, told the Post it's too late for the pair to reverse course, as the certified results have already been sent to the Secretary of State in accordance with state rules.

00:06:48.000 And then he lashed out at Republicans.

00:06:50.000 USA Today reporter Donovan Slack tweeted out a screenshot of an affidavit from Monica Palmer, the Republican chair of the committee, stating that based on allegations she made in the affidavit, she wanted to, quote, rescind my prior vote to certify Wayne County elections, according to Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire.

00:07:04.000 Palmer disputed the promises she was told she received.

00:07:07.000 From one of her Democratic Canvas Board colleagues, Mediaite reported, she claims contrary to what she was told on Tuesday, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has not pledged to conduct an audit of the county's votes to clear up the minor clerical errors found.

00:07:19.000 She wrote, Which suggests that she wasn't going to hold out on certifying the election result forever.

00:07:23.000 for information to assist Wayne County voters that these elections were conducted fairly and accurately.

00:07:29.000 Despite repeated requests, I have not received the requisite information and believes an additional 10 days of canvas by the State Board of Canvassers will help provide the information necessary, which suggests that she wasn't going to hold out on certifying the election result forever.

00:07:40.000 She just wanted a little bit longer in order to certify the election result.

00:07:44.000 Also, Monica Palmer and other Republicans, they've been claiming that they were abused and berated by various people into changing their vote.

00:07:54.000 William Hartman is one of the other canvassers.

00:07:56.000 He is the second Republican canvasser, and he apparently also filed an affidavit.

00:08:00.000 It shows that Hartman claimed he was berated, faced ridicule, and was accused of being a racist after initially voting not to certify the election results.

00:08:05.000 He said, Okay, so does that have any real legal effect?

00:08:16.000 It doesn't have any real legal effect.

00:08:17.000 Obviously, an audit should take place, particularly because it was indeed widely reported at the time that the Democrats had agreed to do an audit.

00:08:23.000 If they decided to back off the audit, that is somewhat suspicious.

00:08:26.000 Does that mean that the proper remedy for this is to throw out the entire state of Michigan vote?

00:08:30.000 Again, over precincts where the poll books were out of balance by 5 or 10 or even 100 votes?

00:08:34.000 In a state with 150,000 vote discrepancy?

00:08:37.000 Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:08:38.000 You need to clean up the system and make it better and make it fairer.

00:08:40.000 And there should be an audit of that system.

00:08:42.000 These poll books should not be out of line every four years, every two years, every single time they vote.

00:08:47.000 It does provide the impetus for voter fraud to be a problem, right?

00:08:51.000 You've seen this in very, very close races.

00:08:53.000 In Clark County, Nevada, there's a race that's actually gonna be rerun because the margin of error in that race is like 10 votes.

00:08:59.000 And so there, you can certainly see how voter fraud would change the outcome of the election.

00:09:03.000 In Michigan, where you're talking about 150,000 vote discrepancy, Even if you're going to claim that the poll books were out of line, it's hard to see how that amounts to 150,000 votes magically appearing on the other side of the ledger.

00:09:14.000 We'll get to more of this in just a second and give you status update in these various states.

00:09:17.000 President Trump has announced that his team will be doing some sort of big press conference today talking about their path forward to victory.

00:09:24.000 There are still lawsuits that are outstanding in Wisconsin where the Trump team is seeking at least a partial recount.

00:09:30.000 There is a recount that is going on in Georgia.

00:09:32.000 It is pretty clear in Georgia that the recount is not going to amount to a Trump victory at this point.

00:09:37.000 There have been extra votes that have been found, right?

00:09:39.000 There's some 5,000 extra votes that were found, most of them cut in favor of President Trump.

00:09:44.000 That's not going to make up the discrepancy in the actual current vote tally.

00:09:48.000 as things currently stand. So there's going to have to be extraneous proof that is brought, the Kraken must be released, there needs to be extraneous proof brought now of voter fraud and voter irregularity sufficient to overcome the 12,900 vote gap between Joe Biden's count in Georgia as currently constituted and Donald Trump's vote in Georgia as currently constituted.

00:10:05.000 Also, I haven't heard a lot about any lawsuits in Arizona.

00:10:07.000 Last time I checked, Arizona is in Joe Biden's column from the votes.

00:10:12.000 I haven't heard about any legal action in Arizona, which is a problem for Trump because Trump needs to win, presumably, Georgia and Arizona and either Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan in order to win the election.

00:10:23.000 So even if he were able to find the evidence of voter fraud and voter irregularity in Georgia sufficient, to set aside the current vote count.

00:10:29.000 And even if you were to do that in Pennsylvania, where the discrepancy is 70,000 votes, or in Michigan, where it's 150,000 votes, you still need Arizona in order to win enough electoral college votes to shift the election.

00:10:40.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second, because we are now coming down to basically crunch time.

00:10:44.000 We are down to the very end of the calendar.

00:10:46.000 States are certifying their votes as we speak, and the legal process is indeed moving forward in real time.

00:10:50.000 So if, as I say, yesterday, Sidney Powell, the president's lawyer, if you're threatening to release the Kraken, stop threatening and now release it.

00:10:56.000 We'd all like to see the Kraken at this point.

00:10:58.000 We've heard a lot of threats about the Kraken.

00:11:00.000 Some people think it's Loch Ness Monster.

00:11:02.000 Some people think it's real.

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00:12:17.000 Okay, so Jim Garrity has a rundown over at National Review.

00:12:21.000 of where things currently stand.

00:12:23.000 So we already discussed the situation in Michigan.

00:12:25.000 Meanwhile, in Georgia, there were at least three counties that found additional votes total.

00:12:30.000 Floyd County found a bunch of votes, like 2,700 votes.

00:12:34.000 Walton County found about 284 votes.

00:12:37.000 And then there was a third county as well that found like 2,400 votes.

00:12:41.000 However, most of the counties have already completed their counts, and their counts do match up to their original counts.

00:12:49.000 As of last night, 78 of Georgia's 159 counties had finished their audits and recounts.

00:12:54.000 57 of the counties, the manual count exactly matched the machine count.

00:12:57.000 In 21 other counties, they were within one vote of the initial count.

00:13:01.000 Okay, so that is going to play out.

00:13:04.000 And as I say, the notion that because you found 2,700 votes in one county, this now applies to all counties, that's not correct.

00:13:12.000 You have to actually individually audit each one of these counties.

00:13:14.000 And I'm very much in favor of the Trump team pushing for full audit of all of these counties.

00:13:19.000 I mean, it's a presidential election.

00:13:20.000 It seems like we should double count these things.

00:13:21.000 Like, let's just go back and let's check it again.

00:13:24.000 And what's the harm?

00:13:25.000 Doesn't seem like there's a big harm here.

00:13:27.000 Meanwhile, in Nevada, the Trump campaign and the state Republican Party have filed another lawsuit related to the election.

00:13:32.000 They contend that Joe Biden's 34,000 vote lead in the state is based on fraudulent votes.

00:13:35.000 They say Trump was victorious in the election.

00:13:38.000 No judge has said any vote was fraudulent.

00:13:40.000 State officials did reject about 2,200 provisional ballots.

00:13:43.000 They were rejected.

00:13:43.000 They were not included in the count.

00:13:46.000 As I mentioned, Clark County, Nevada will have one re-vote for a race, but that is because there was 139 ballots that had discrepancies, and the margin in one county commissioner came down to 10 votes.

00:13:55.000 So the discrepancies were obviously more than the margin of error in that race.

00:13:59.000 Meanwhile, up in Pennsylvania, the Trump team has basically now announced that they are not alleging voter fraud in Pennsylvania.

00:14:05.000 I mean, they said it's in their court filings.

00:14:07.000 Okay, so that's not me saying that.

00:14:08.000 That's the Trump team.

00:14:09.000 They're not alleging that there was voter fraud.

00:14:11.000 They're alleging Voter irregularity and violation of law sufficient to allow for voter fraud and then asking that the remedy be that the entire election in Pennsylvania be set aside.

00:14:23.000 That is a very unlikely legal argument to win.

00:14:27.000 So right now, unless Trump is able to come out with a rabbit out of the hat in terms of voter fraud and voter irregularity, and that means like actual real hard-nosed proof, then these states are going to start certifying and the deadlines begin tomorrow and they go extend through next week.

00:14:42.000 So Sydney Powell's out of time.

00:14:45.000 Again, we've asked her on the show.

00:14:46.000 What is the Kraken?

00:14:48.000 What does the Kraken constitute?

00:14:49.000 Release it, and then we will all know more, right?

00:14:51.000 No more of this, like, either it's there or it's not, and let's see it.

00:14:54.000 Let's see it.

00:14:54.000 Now is the time to show it.

00:14:56.000 Okay, meanwhile, obviously, COVID is washing across the nation.

00:15:00.000 We're seeing a massive uptick in cases all across the nation.

00:15:04.000 And it doesn't matter if you're in a blue area or if you're in a red area.

00:15:06.000 And the media are trying to turn this into a blue versus red thing because this is their favorite thing to do.

00:15:11.000 You're starting to see people like CNN's Breonna Keillor.

00:15:13.000 She's saying, well, look at this.

00:15:14.000 Disproportionately, Republicans are the ones who are getting COVID.

00:15:17.000 And Chuck Grassley got COVID.

00:15:18.000 That means Republicans are bad.

00:15:19.000 OK, let me just make something clear.

00:15:21.000 COVID is not a moral referendum on people who get COVID.

00:15:25.000 The Democrats' paganistic attempt to paint COVID as some sort of moral blight that only affects people who are guilty of a sin, as though it's like a biblical plague, right?

00:15:35.000 It's after Moses breaks the tablet, and then the plague is washing through the Jewish people, but it's only taking the people who are worshiping the golden calf, like...

00:15:42.000 No, that's not how any of this works.

00:15:44.000 Okay, COVID is hitting everyone.

00:15:46.000 COVID is hitting Italy.

00:15:47.000 It is hitting Spain.

00:15:48.000 It is hitting Great Britain.

00:15:49.000 It is hitting Sweden.

00:15:50.000 It is hitting everyone.

00:15:51.000 Everyone is getting hit by COVID.

00:15:52.000 And by the way, it is not about mask mandates because Germany is getting walloped right now and Germany had a mask mandate as early as May.

00:16:00.000 Hey, Italy has had mask mandates in place, getting walloped.

00:16:03.000 New York has had mask mandates, and now they're closing down their schools, which we'll get to in a second.

00:16:07.000 It doesn't matter.

00:16:08.000 According to Breonna Keillor, the only reason that you would presumably get COVID in the first place is because you are morally benighted, because you are morally bereft.

00:16:15.000 This is the narrative the media are trying to draw, and it's really gross.

00:16:18.000 I mean, for a bunch of people who have suggested that Republicans don't care if people die, it wasn't Republicans who were running ads at the DNC suggesting that you'd only get COVID and die if you voted for Trump.

00:16:27.000 I mean, Democrats literally brought forth a woman in Arizona who suggested that her dad, because he voted for Trump and believed in Trump, died of COVID, which is pretty egregiously immoral.

00:16:36.000 Here's Breonna Keillor making the same case about Republican senators.

00:16:39.000 Several senators have tested positive in recent months, disproportionately Republican, and yet this is what Dan Sullivan says.

00:16:48.000 He says the Senate should be showing the American people that it's still safe to work.

00:16:53.000 Well, the Senate is showing the American people something.

00:16:56.000 It's showing us what doctors and medical experts have been warning us for months not to do.

00:17:02.000 It is a teachable moment because it's a cautionary tale.

00:17:06.000 Okay, the Senate is not a cautionary tale.

00:17:08.000 Nancy Pelosi, when she gets up in the well of the Senate and she's 40 feet from anybody, has been speaking without a mask.

00:17:15.000 Chuck Schumer has been speaking without a mask.

00:17:18.000 This is all nonsense.

00:17:20.000 No one has an answer for COVID.

00:17:22.000 How about a little bit of epistemic humility here?

00:17:26.000 Seriously, a little bit of humility about the fact that nobody has a great solution for COVID except for the vaccine makers.

00:17:32.000 As I'm going to tell you about in a second, it turns out that wearing a surgical mask does not actually protect you.

00:17:36.000 It may protect other people.

00:17:37.000 There's a good study, the only good study, really, it's the only controlled study that has been done about mask wearing.

00:17:43.000 It was done by the Danish and what they found in the Netherlands, and what they found is that, in fact, wearing a mask that is not a N95 does not really protect you.

00:17:53.000 It protects other people because if you sneeze and you sneeze into a surgical mask, it has less of a spray, but The surgical mask itself is not going to protect you if somebody else has been breathing COVID into the air for a long period of time.

00:18:03.000 And yet the impli— A cloth mask, same sort of thing.

00:18:06.000 And yet the implication from Breonna Keillor is that if somehow Chuck Grassley had been wearing a cloth mask, then he would be totally fine right now.

00:18:14.000 Follow the science means you actually have to follow the science.

00:18:17.000 As we will see, people are not following the science because there seems to be a bit of a different agenda here than the science.

00:18:22.000 I've been in favor of mask wearing to prevent people from conveying the disease to somebody else for a long time.

00:18:28.000 I've been actually very consistent on this.

00:18:29.000 I've said you should wear a mask when you are in crowded... Listen to the show back in March.

00:18:32.000 I said, listen, wear a mask when you're in crowded areas with others and you can't socially distance.

00:18:37.000 But, at no point did I suggest that, for example, a surgical mask was a guarantee that you weren't going to get this thing, or that it was sort of a religious item that was going to- it was like a crucifix on the wall that protects you against Dracula.

00:18:47.000 That is not the way this disease works.

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00:20:17.000 Three million people in the United States, according to the New York Times, or rather the Washington Post, have active coronavirus infections and are potentially contagious.

00:20:25.000 According to a new estimate from infectious disease experts tracking the pandemic, that number is significantly larger than the official case count.

00:20:31.000 That is based solely on those who have solely tested positive for the virus, right?

00:20:34.000 We'll have like numbers showing 175,000 new cases in a given day.

00:20:38.000 But there are a lot of people who are walking around either asymptomatic or who have not actually been tested as of yet.

00:20:42.000 The vast and rapidly growing pool of coronavirus-infected people poses a daunting challenge to governors and mayors in hard-hit communities who are trying to arrest the surge in cases.

00:20:50.000 Traditional efforts such as testing, isolation of the sick, and contact tracing can be overwhelmed when a virus spreads at an exponential rate, especially when large numbers of asymptomatic people may be walking around without even knowing they are infectious.

00:21:02.000 This is about 1% of the population.

00:21:05.000 Like every school teacher in the country or number of truck drivers.

00:21:09.000 That is a lot of people who are walking around infected with COVID.

00:21:13.000 And testing and tracing ain't gonna get it done at this point.

00:21:15.000 At this point, all you can do is use the same sort of responsible behavior we have been telling you to engage in since the beginning.

00:21:21.000 Stay away from people who are vulnerable, people who are elderly.

00:21:26.000 Socially distance.

00:21:27.000 Wear a mask when you are in close contact.

00:21:29.000 That is all you can do.

00:21:30.000 That's it.

00:21:31.000 Those are all the things.

00:21:33.000 And yet the implication from people on the left is that not only do they have a solution, the solution is going to be holistic and it's going to involve the complete remaking of society.

00:21:44.000 So, let's start with the lockdown policy that is now being praised by the media.

00:21:48.000 So, first of all, Florida and Texas are handling this right.

00:21:51.000 Florida and Texas are saying, you know what?

00:21:52.000 We're not locking down.

00:21:54.000 Because lockdowns don't work.

00:21:55.000 The WHO says that lockdowns don't actually work.

00:21:58.000 I mean, we have found that all that lockdowns do is they might delay the spread of the disease for a while, right?

00:22:04.000 That's what happened in New York or Massachusetts.

00:22:06.000 But then people are going to go out again.

00:22:08.000 And when they go out again, they're going to infect each other again.

00:22:10.000 And it turns out that the more you tell people not to associate with others, the less sustainable you make the lockdown plans.

00:22:16.000 This is why when you set rules for your kids, you set rules that are doable.

00:22:19.000 You don't set rules that are undoable because then once they break the rule, they're more likely to break all the rules.

00:22:25.000 So if you lock everybody down and you say, you gotta wear a mask at all times in your house or out of your house, people are just like, you know what?

00:22:29.000 I'm not doing any of that.

00:22:31.000 If you tell people, look, you can go out, you can go to work.

00:22:34.000 You can go to restaurants, eat outdoors, eat in a restaurant with 50% capacity, stay six feet away from other people, and wear a mask when you can.

00:22:42.000 That is a lot more doable and a lot more realistic about keeping a society open and people living their lives than we're just going to lock down everything and close all the schools willy-nilly and all this kind of crap.

00:22:51.000 So Texas and Florida have announced they're not going to be going into any more lockdowns.

00:22:54.000 The news comes as 45 out of 50 states have seen at least a 10% increase in COVID cases from the previous week.

00:22:59.000 This is according to Ryan Saavedra at Daily Wire.

00:23:01.000 Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in an interview there won't be any more lockdowns in the state.

00:23:04.000 He wants to focus on working to heal those who have COVID so they can leave the hospitals and get back to their normal routines.

00:23:09.000 A spokesperson for the governor told NBC News Abbott's plan to slow the spread of the virus will rely on the data-driven hospitalization metrics used by doctors and medical experts.

00:23:18.000 Renee Eze is a spokesperson for Abbott's office.

00:23:21.000 They said as some communities experience a rise in hospitalizations, the state of Texas is working closely with local officials to quickly provide the resources needed to address these spikes and keep Texans safe.

00:23:30.000 The state's coordination efforts go hand in hand with enforcing the existing protocols, a strategy that proved effective in slowing the spread over the summer and containing COVID-19 while allowing businesses to safely operate.

00:23:39.000 The protocols work, but only if they are enforced.

00:23:41.000 The reality is that COVID-19 still exists in Texas and across the globe.

00:23:44.000 Texans should continue to take this virus seriously and do their part by social distancing, washing their hands, and wearing a mask.

00:23:50.000 These best practices, coupled with the governor's metrics to monitor COVID-19 hospitalizations and local enforcement of protocols, are key to mitigating the virus and keeping communities and our people safe.

00:23:59.000 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also dismissed the idea of locking down.

00:24:02.000 He said, Whenever you mention this, people on the left go nuts.

00:24:05.000 If you mention the survival rate of COVID.

00:24:06.000 positivity rate. We believe yesterday's high number was due to a large submission file and skewed the numbers for the day. The governor will not lock down and hurt families who can't afford to shelter in place for six weeks, especially not for a virus that has a 99.8% survival rate. I know whenever you mention this, people on the left go nuts. If you mention the survival rate of COVID, their survival rate of COVID is 99.8% like for the entire population, meaning like from the time you're born until the time you die in the United States around the age of 82. The fact is that if

00:24:35.000 you are between the ages of 50 and 70, the survival rate is way lower than the age of 80.

00:24:40.000 Like 99.5%.

00:24:42.000 If you are above the age of 70, then the survival rate goes down to about 94.6%.

00:24:47.000 If you're below the age of 20, your survival rate is basically the whole thing, right?

00:24:51.000 Virtually nobody dies under the age of 20 from COVID-19.

00:24:55.000 So it's funny.

00:24:56.000 We are treating this thing like the bubonic plague.

00:24:58.000 We're saying it's not like the flu.

00:24:59.000 It isn't like the flu.

00:25:00.000 It's more deadly than the flu by probably a factor of two or maybe a factor of three.

00:25:04.000 It's more deadly than the flu.

00:25:06.000 It is more transmissible than the flu, like much more easily transmissible than the flu, which is why so many people are getting it and getting it easily.

00:25:13.000 All of that is true.

00:25:14.000 It is not like the flu.

00:25:15.000 It is also not like the bubonic plague.

00:25:17.000 It is not killing one-third of the population or one-half of the population.

00:25:21.000 It is not the black plague.

00:25:22.000 It is not the black death.

00:25:23.000 If you get COVID, the chances that you survive are extremely high unless you have a very significant underlying condition.

00:25:31.000 That happens to be the reality of the situation.

00:25:34.000 And I'm not basing that on anecdotal evidence.

00:25:35.000 I'm basing that on data.

00:25:36.000 I mean, I could base it on anecdotal evidence.

00:25:38.000 I know a bevy of people who have had it and recovered and been just fine.

00:25:40.000 Okay, but...

00:25:42.000 It is worthy of note that nobody in the media ever did like there should be they have the running ticker on the screen of how many people have died from COVID.

00:25:48.000 They should have permanently on the screen at CNN, Fox News, MSNBC.

00:25:52.000 They should have permanently on the screen when they discuss COVID the differential rates of death for age groups.

00:25:56.000 They should because that is much more vital information to you than how many raw numbers of people have died of a particular disease.

00:26:03.000 If you saw the number of people who die every year from, for example, drowning, and they just had a scrolling ticker showing the number of people who died from drowning, you'd think, wow, that's kind of a shocking number of people.

00:26:13.000 I can't believe that many people drown in the United States.

00:26:15.000 Swimming must be incredibly dangerous.

00:26:17.000 But if you show the rate of death of drowning in the United States for various age groups, you'd be like, well, I guess I could probably take my kids swimming.

00:26:23.000 This does not mean you should be happy to get COVID.

00:26:25.000 It doesn't mean that you should be out seeking COVID.

00:26:27.000 It does mean that we should be using our brains in order to differentially assess risk based on our circumstances.

00:26:33.000 That would be the rational way of going about policymaking, but we don't do rational policymaking here in the United States.

00:26:39.000 Instead, we do just insane Kermit the Frog running around with our hands in the air and screaming at Miss Piggy stuff.

00:26:46.000 We're going to get to that in a second because that really does sum up a lot of democratic policy on COVID.

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00:28:01.000 Okay, so over in New York, this is how democratic policy is now being made.

00:28:06.000 They're just shutting down the schools.

00:28:08.000 And this is idiotic policy.

00:28:10.000 I mean, full stop idiotic policy.

00:28:13.000 According to Rebecca Jarvis, who is a reporter over at ABC Biz, She reported that New York public schools have tested more than 140,000 students and staff.

00:28:21.000 They have a positivity rate of 0.23% as of Monday.

00:28:23.000 0.23%.

00:28:23.000 0.23% as of Monday.

00:28:26.000 0.23%.

00:28:27.000 Okay, which is like not a high percentage.

00:28:32.000 Okay, we were told that if New York City hit 3%, they would shut down the schools.

00:28:37.000 But what if, again, differential circumstances have differential rates of positivity?

00:28:42.000 What if bars are significantly more dangerous than schools for people under the age of 10?

00:28:47.000 Which we know happens to be the case.

00:28:49.000 This happens to be the truth.

00:28:51.000 So New York public schools are going to shut down anyway.

00:28:54.000 Yesterday, Bill de Blasio came out and he was like, yeah, you know, we understand that this is bad science, but I guess we're just going to do it anyway.

00:28:59.000 Now let's be clear about this.

00:29:00.000 There's only one reason they're doing this.

00:29:02.000 It has nothing to do with the safety of the kids.

00:29:03.000 It has nothing to do with the safety of the teachers.

00:29:06.000 There is yet to be, to my knowledge, a single instance in the United States, if somebody can fill this in for me, I'm happy to correct the record.

00:29:13.000 There's not a single instance in the United States that has been reported of a teacher obtaining COVID-19 from a student under the age of 10 and then dying from it.

00:29:23.000 Not one.

00:29:24.000 Zero.

00:29:25.000 Zero.

00:29:26.000 And they're shutting down schools across blue areas for kids under the age of 10.

00:29:30.000 Which, of course, makes transmission significantly more likely.

00:29:33.000 Because now you're sending all those kids back home.

00:29:35.000 Where do you think most of the disease is being transmitted?

00:29:37.000 It is in close quarters.

00:29:38.000 In homes.

00:29:39.000 Right?

00:29:39.000 That is what is happening.

00:29:40.000 And in intergenerational situations.

00:29:42.000 Because what happens when mom and dad have to go to work?

00:29:44.000 Well now, seven-year-old Billy is in the house with grandma.

00:29:49.000 And now you have intergenerational transmission happening.

00:29:51.000 Well done, New York.

00:29:52.000 It's like the stupidest thing in the world.

00:29:53.000 They're hurting the kids.

00:29:54.000 They're hurting the parents.

00:29:55.000 They're hurting the grandparents.

00:29:56.000 And they're doing it, really, only one reason why.

00:29:58.000 Because the teachers' unions run New York.

00:29:59.000 The teachers' unions do not give two dams about the kids.

00:30:03.000 They're not a union for the kids.

00:30:04.000 They're not a union for the taxpayers.

00:30:05.000 They're a union that gets the most that they can for the least possible work out of the teachers.

00:30:09.000 This goes back years and years and years and years.

00:30:11.000 Teachers' unions are some of the worst institutions in American society.

00:30:15.000 Not teachers.

00:30:16.000 Teachers are wonderful.

00:30:17.000 They want to help kids.

00:30:17.000 Teachers do incredible work.

00:30:18.000 Teachers' unions are garbage.

00:30:20.000 Teachers' unions.

00:30:21.000 Stump against the interest of taxpayers.

00:30:23.000 They stump against the interest of students.

00:30:25.000 It's how you ended up with rubber rooms in New York where people who couldn't be laid off because they were still in the investigatory phase, thanks to union contracts of having abused kids or something.

00:30:34.000 They're put in a rubber room and paid full salary on the taxpayer dime.

00:30:37.000 Teachers unions undermine the ability of kids to learn, and now they undermine the abilities of schools to stay open, and everybody on the left knows this.

00:30:44.000 But guess who Joe Biden is talking about appointing to his Department of Education?

00:30:48.000 All the heads of the teachers unions.

00:30:50.000 The Democratic Party is run on education issues by the teachers unions.

00:30:54.000 They do not care about the students.

00:30:55.000 I mean, I rarely say that they don't care.

00:30:55.000 They do.

00:30:57.000 I rarely imply that people don't care about X, but it is very clear that the Democratic Party cares more about the support they get from the teachers unions who funnel tons of money into their coffers than they do about the interests of students.

00:31:07.000 That is the only reason you shut down schools in New York right now.

00:31:10.000 That is the only reason.

00:31:11.000 Here was Bill de Blasio saying nobody's happy about shutting down the schools.

00:31:13.000 That's a lie.

00:31:14.000 The teachers unions are super happy.

00:31:16.000 The teachers unions are very clearly happy about shutting down the schools they've been stumping for despite all evidence to the contrary for months at this point.

00:31:23.000 No one is happy about this decision.

00:31:26.000 We all, in fact, are feeling very sad about this decision because so much good work has been put into keeping the schools open, opening them up to begin with.

00:31:35.000 Let's start there, opening the schools when almost no other major school system in America opened, making them so safe.

00:31:42.000 But we set a very clear standard, and we need to stick to that standard.

00:31:47.000 Okay, so he's saying pretty openly, we set a standard, and sure, our standard is moronic, but we're sticking to the standard.

00:31:52.000 Why?

00:31:53.000 Because the teachers' unions are making too much of a fuss, and they're making my life too much of a bother.

00:31:57.000 This is what happens when you have a one-party city in New York.

00:32:00.000 New York is there is no Republican Party to speak of in New York right now.

00:32:03.000 It is just a Democrat run city, which means it's a teachers union run city.

00:32:06.000 Everybody knows this.

00:32:07.000 Everyone.

00:32:08.000 OK, it's not even it's not even a secret.

00:32:10.000 It is an open it is an open fact of the matter.

00:32:13.000 And nobody's willing to rip on the teachers' unions because they're afraid they're going to offend a constituency.

00:32:17.000 It's absolutely unbelievable.

00:32:19.000 By the way, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

00:32:21.000 Remember, that guy just wrote a book about how well he handled COVID-19.

00:32:23.000 Remember that?

00:32:24.000 He wrote a whole book about American crisis, or he had a ghostwriter do it for him.

00:32:28.000 And then he ran around on TV, traipsing around on TV, talking about what a wonderful job he did handling COVID, even though his COVID curve looked exactly like the bad curve in the bad versus good curve.

00:32:37.000 This is the moron who is appearing with his brother on national TV every night to do a comedy bit where his brother showed up with a giant Q-tip to talk about the size of his nose.

00:32:46.000 This guy was hero of the Republic, Andrew Cuomo, while tens of thousands of people died in his state as he was shipping the old back into the nursing homes with COVID.

00:32:54.000 So here's Andrew Cuomo, after having precipitously and preemptively written a book about how wonderfully he did with COVID, announcing astronomical increases happening in New York state.

00:33:04.000 Western New York, worst situation in the state of New York.

00:33:10.000 In western New York, these are the highest rates.

00:33:20.000 Dramatically higher than anywhere else.

00:33:24.000 It's those areas which are astronomical compared to the rest of the state.

00:33:32.000 Okay, you know which part is not astronomical?

00:33:35.000 The schools!

00:33:35.000 The schools are not astronomical.

00:33:37.000 He's talking about rates of 7, 8, 9% in these particular areas.

00:33:40.000 Again, New York City public schools, 0.23% positivity rate.

00:33:44.000 Again, they're shutting down the schools.

00:33:45.000 Also, just worthy of note, Andrew Cuomo has blamed every single thing in the universe except for himself for his bad handling of COVID.

00:33:52.000 All the things, right?

00:33:54.000 He's blamed President Trump.

00:33:55.000 He has blamed God.

00:33:56.000 He has blamed Republicans.

00:33:58.000 He has blamed the press.

00:33:59.000 He's blamed everybody.

00:34:00.000 Well, all of this came to a head yesterday when a Wall Street Journal reporter asked him about the school closures and Cuomo was not up on the news, right?

00:34:07.000 So Cuomo immediately started firing back by suggesting the schools were not closed and he didn't know what he was talking about.

00:34:12.000 And the Wall Street Journal reporter was like, well, I feel like parents are kind of confused because you're saying one thing and de Blasio's saying another.

00:34:17.000 Here's Andrew Cuomo engaged in a vicious attack on the press.

00:34:20.000 If Trump had done this, This would have been the story for the next 48 hours minimum.

00:34:25.000 Andrew Cuomo abuses a member of the press by suggesting that that member of the press is confused and terrible for asking a very straightforward question.

00:34:31.000 The answer is this state is run like crap, okay?

00:34:33.000 It is run- Andrew Cuomo is a bad governor.

00:34:35.000 He's a bad governor and Bill de Blasio is a bad mayor and everybody knows it.

00:34:38.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo going nuts on a member of the press.

00:34:42.000 What are you talking about?

00:34:43.000 You're now going to override We did it already.

00:34:47.000 That's the law.

00:34:49.000 An orange zone and a red zone.

00:34:51.000 Follow the facts.

00:34:53.000 Well, then you're confused.

00:34:56.000 Then I'll tell you what, Jimmy.

00:34:57.000 No, they're not confused.

00:35:01.000 You're confused.

00:35:03.000 Read the law and you won't be confused.

00:35:07.000 OK, but we're confused because what the law says is that if you get above a certain positivity rate, the schools can be shut down.

00:35:12.000 But New York City and New York State were reporting different rates of positivity for New York City.

00:35:17.000 Andrew Cuomo is confused because he has been in this running gun battle with Bill de Blasio.

00:35:21.000 The two hate each other.

00:35:22.000 It's been this ridiculous Mutt and Jeff routine for a while here.

00:35:26.000 It's absurd.

00:35:27.000 It's absurd.

00:35:28.000 But don't worry.

00:35:28.000 These are the people who are following the signs.

00:35:30.000 They know what to do.

00:35:31.000 Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott, they're the bad ones.

00:35:34.000 But Andrew Cuomo, hero of the Republic.

00:35:35.000 Bill de Blasio handling this thing like a champ while he's out there rallying for Joe Biden and having people paint murals on Fifth Avenue in the middle of a pandemic.

00:35:43.000 Slow clap for the science right there.

00:35:45.000 A lot of science following, I am seeing right there.

00:35:47.000 Okay, we're gonna get to California in a second.

00:35:49.000 Another great example of excellent governance.

00:35:51.000 And then we're gonna get to what is the broader agenda for a lot of the folks who are now making policy?

00:35:56.000 Because it turns out that some of them are pretty openly talking about what the broader agenda is for policymaking during the COVID period.

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00:39:02.000 All righty, so in California, they're also pursuing bad policy.

00:39:12.000 So, the California policy is now that you have to mask up outside your home under a new expanded mandate.

00:39:19.000 According to Yahoo News, California health officials issued a new mandate this week requiring residents to wear face coverings whenever they are outside their homes, with few exceptions.

00:39:27.000 The expanded order announced Monday means Californians must mask up unless they are alone in a car or only with those in their household, working alone in an office or room, outdoors and staying at least six feet away from others not in their household, are obtaining a service involving their nose or face, or are actively eating or drinking so long as they maintain a physical distance.

00:39:43.000 The new mandate exempts those younger than two.

00:39:46.000 Younger than two.

00:39:47.000 Yeah, good luck with my four-year-old son.

00:39:49.000 I'm sorry.

00:39:50.000 These mask mandates, they are actually a mask.

00:39:55.000 We're not really having an answer to all of this.

00:39:57.000 The truth is, mask-wearing rates in major cities, I was in LA until very recently, everybody's wearing a mask anyway.

00:40:02.000 The mask mandate is not going to change anything.

00:40:04.000 It is not as though a bunch of people who are not wearing masks are going to go, oh, well, now I'm afraid the cops are going to break down the door and cite me a $100 fine.

00:40:11.000 Okay, that whoever is wearing a mask is wearing a mask, whoever is not is not.

00:40:14.000 There was a previous order, an earlier mask mandate, since June.

00:40:18.000 That previous order required Californians to wear face coverings in specified settings, like shopping, taking public transit, or seeking medical care.

00:40:25.000 They still have not said how the new guidance will be enforced.

00:40:28.000 Some cities threatened to cite or fine face covering scoff laws.

00:40:32.000 Many law enforcement agencies said they would instead focus on educating people not wearing masks.

00:40:36.000 Okay, now, the reality is, again, I'm in favor of mask-wearing in close quarters.

00:40:40.000 I'm not anti-mask-wearing.

00:40:41.000 But mask mandates have not proved to be a, in any way, a problem-solver for a wide variety of countries.

00:40:47.000 Germany has a mask mandate.

00:40:49.000 Italy has a mask mandate.

00:40:50.000 There are mask mandates all over the world.

00:40:52.000 Okay, and in many countries with a mask mandate, you can see the charts.

00:40:55.000 The mask, the rates of COVID are here.

00:40:57.000 There's a mask mandate, goes into place here.

00:40:59.000 Goes like this for a while, then boop!

00:41:00.000 It just spikes during the winter, just like a second wave.

00:41:04.000 And here's the reality about wearing masks.

00:41:07.000 Mask wearing is good for protecting other people, apparently.

00:41:09.000 Apparently, this is what we are told.

00:41:10.000 Okay, we have not a lot of evidence to disprove that at this point, but it is not true that wearing a mask is likely to protect you unless you are wearing, like, the finest, highest grade caliber of medical mask.

00:41:22.000 This is not according to me.

00:41:23.000 This is according to the New York Times.

00:41:24.000 Okay, so before the New York Times checks me for reading the New York Times, this is a New York Times story.

00:41:28.000 Okay, Gina Collada writing, Researchers in Denmark reported on Wednesday that surgical masks did not protect the wearer against infection with the coronavirus in a large randomized clinical trial.

00:41:37.000 The findings conflict with those from a number of other studies, experts said, and is not likely to alter public health recommendations in the United States.

00:41:43.000 Now, when they say there are a number of other studies, no.

00:41:45.000 What the other studies show is they take a mask, and then they take an aerosol, and they spray the aerosol at the mask.

00:41:51.000 Okay, which is not useful.

00:41:52.000 This is like saying that you did a study in ideal conditions, in ideal conditions, and the mask was somewhat more protective than if you were not wearing a mask.

00:42:00.000 Life is not in ideal conditions.

00:42:00.000 Well, guess what?

00:42:03.000 There's a famous joke about economists, right?

00:42:06.000 That economists live in sort of a fantasy world of people who don't really exist.

00:42:10.000 Where you have two economists on a desert island, and they're trying to figure out how to get off the desert island.

00:42:15.000 And one economist turns to the other economist and says, assume a boat.

00:42:20.000 Right, because they live in a world of theoretical construct.

00:42:23.000 Okay, when it comes to mask wearing, it is a theoretical construct that everyone is going to properly fit a mask to their face and wear it properly.

00:42:29.000 They actually have courses in medical school for how to properly don personal protective equipment.

00:42:33.000 Random Joe over here, who just picked up a cloth face mask from a street corner by the gas station, the chances that he is properly donning his mask and treating it well are very, very low.

00:42:43.000 It doesn't mean you shouldn't wear a mask in close contact.

00:42:43.000 Okay, so what does that mean?

00:42:45.000 You should, because again, if you sneeze and you're wearing a mask, as logic would suggest, Your sneeze is at least somewhat more contained than it would be if you were not wearing a mask.

00:42:53.000 However, the evidence suggests that for the vast majority of people, meaning nearly everybody who is wearing the same mask all day, putting it in their pocket, taking it out, putting it back on their face, messing around with their mask, that the chances that you're going to be prevented from getting COVID by wearing a mask that is not an N95 are actually quite low.

00:43:10.000 The study is published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

00:43:13.000 It did not contradict growing evidence that masks can prevent transmission of the virus from the wearer to others, but the conclusion is at odds with the view that masks also protect the wearers, a position endorsed just last week by the CDC.

00:43:23.000 Critics were quick to note the study's limitations.

00:43:25.000 You can see how the New York Times is desperately trying to spin away from this study.

00:43:28.000 It is the only mass study done in real-world conditions, and they're trying to spin away from the conclusions.

00:43:33.000 Critics were quick to note the study's limitations.

00:43:35.000 Among them, the design depended heavily on participants reporting their own test results and behavior at a time when both mask wearing and infection were rare in Denmark.

00:43:41.000 So in other words, we're not going to trust the study because some people may have lied about how often they were wearing masks.

00:43:46.000 What do you think happens in real life?

00:43:47.000 Do you think people always tell the truth?

00:43:49.000 Or what do you think is more likely to be an accurate study of human behavior?

00:43:53.000 An actual study of human behavior?

00:43:54.000 Or you take a mask in a lab and then you fire aerosol spray at it.

00:44:00.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIAID advocates a national mask mandate, as now does Joe Biden.

00:44:07.000 From early April to early June, researchers at the University of Copenhagen recruited 6,000 participants who'd been tested beforehand to make sure they didn't have COVID.

00:44:14.000 Half were given surgical masks and told to wear them when leaving their homes.

00:44:17.000 Others were told not to wear masks in public.

00:44:19.000 About 4,800 participants completed the study.

00:44:21.000 The researchers had hoped that masks would cut the infection rate by half among wearers.

00:44:25.000 Instead, 42 people in the masking group, about 1.8%, got infected.

00:44:30.000 Compared with 53 in the unmasked group, or about 2.1%.

00:44:33.000 That difference is not statistically significant.

00:44:35.000 Dr. Mette Caligar, a professor of medical decision-making at University of Oslo says the study showed, although there might be a symbolic effect, the effect of wearing a mask does not substantially reduce risk for wearers.

00:44:48.000 That is obviously a problematic outcome for people who are insisting that you have to wear a mask to protect yourself.

00:44:55.000 Again, you wanna say you have to wear a mask in close quarters to protect other people, that's okay, but let's not overestimate what it is that masks do, especially because, again, we're seeing spikes nearly everywhere.

00:45:02.000 And there's this baseline assumption by people on the left that fulfill their sort of quasi-paganistic mandates to do X, Y, or Z, you won't get COVID, and that just isn't true.

00:45:10.000 I know a lot of people who mask up regularly, and many of them have gotten COVID.

00:45:13.000 Okay, so this does bring up a bigger question.

00:45:15.000 is easy to obtain and it doesn't take but one moment of you removing your mask or of you breathing in through a mask in an area that has already been contaminated to put you in a bad position.

00:45:26.000 So try to stay outdoors if you can.

00:45:28.000 So this does bring up a bigger question.

00:45:31.000 Why is it that so many members of the left are talking about these sorts of things while not even following the rules themselves?

00:45:39.000 We now know that in California, a state that is mandating mask wearing nearly everywhere, right?

00:45:43.000 Really everywhere.

00:45:44.000 We now know that not only did Gavin Newsom, the governor, go to an opulent birthday dinner at the French Laundry Restaurant, he was joined by officials from the California Medical Association.

00:45:53.000 So let me ask you this.

00:45:54.000 Do you think that the officials at the California Medical Association, do you think those people were there because they thought it was wildly unsafe?

00:46:01.000 Or do you think they were using the sort of differential risk assessment they denied to you?

00:46:04.000 You're too stupid to determine when you can be in contact with other people.

00:46:08.000 You're too stupid to determine whether you can have a Thanksgiving family dinner with a bunch of people under 30.

00:46:12.000 You are too stupid to actually determine the course of your own life.

00:46:15.000 The folks at the California Medical Association will tell you when you can and cannot meet with people and get together and go to work, but they themselves will go to a restaurant and eat in close proximity indoors with Gavin Newsom.

00:46:27.000 Yes, I definitely trust these people to set the standards.

00:46:29.000 There's no hypocrisy here whatsoever.

00:46:33.000 I'm sorry, but the idea that the folks in blue states know what they're doing and the folks in red states just don't know what they're doing, there's no evidence that this is the case, like whatsoever.

00:46:42.000 Doesn't matter, that's the narrative Joe Biden is pushing.

00:46:44.000 Remember that time where in an open debate he said that he's not going to break down COVID cases into red states and blue states, but red states are getting especially hit hard because they're bad?

00:46:52.000 He said that in a debate with President Trump.

00:46:54.000 Now he's pushing that even more.

00:46:56.000 Yesterday, according to the Washington Post, an emotional President-elect Joe Biden praised Republican governors and others who have bucked President Trump to endorse more stringent measures to control the spread of the coronavirus, while warning Wednesday that a tough-guy approach contributes to preventable deaths.

00:47:10.000 Biden contrasted restrictions imposed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and a growing number of other Republican leaders with what he suggested is Trumpian negligence.

00:47:17.000 He says, now you have the governor of North Dakota.

00:47:18.000 You have others figuring out, this is real.

00:47:20.000 We've got to do something.

00:47:21.000 OK, do something is not an actual course of action.

00:47:24.000 I understand that it might be the Democrat slogan.

00:47:26.000 Democrats 2020, do something!

00:47:29.000 It depends what the something is and whether it is well calibrated to achieve the effect that you seek.

00:47:34.000 He says it's not a political statement.

00:47:35.000 It's not about, you know, whether you're a tough guy or not a tough guy.

00:47:37.000 It's about patriotism.

00:47:39.000 If you really care about your country, what you want to do is keep your neighbors and your family safe.

00:47:42.000 I agree.

00:47:43.000 The question is how you keep your neighbors and your family safe and don't destroy the entire society around you.

00:47:49.000 The costs of lockdowns are egregious.

00:47:52.000 The unemployment rate in New York City before the pandemic was 3.4%.

00:47:55.000 Today, it is in excess of 14%.

00:47:57.000 Before they started any of the reopening, it was in excess of 20%.

00:47:59.000 Tens of thousands of people have left New York City.

00:48:04.000 And most of them are high net worth individuals who can afford to leave New York City destroying their tax base.

00:48:04.000 Lift it!

00:48:09.000 There are actual consequences to bad policy.

00:48:12.000 And just shouting mask at the sky does not mean that you are actually solving all of the problems.

00:48:18.000 Now again, I'm not saying that you shouldn't wear a mask.

00:48:20.000 All I'm saying is that this reliance on mask mandates as sort of the be-all end-all ignores how human behavior actually works.

00:48:29.000 I have, for the 1,000th time, I'm recommending if you're in close contact with other people, you should wear a mask to protect them, not to protect you, because the studies show it probably won't protect you unless you know what you're doing and you've perfectly fitted it to your face and you're wearing an N95.

00:48:40.000 But that doesn't mean you shouldn't wear a mask.

00:48:42.000 It does mean that having these jokers who are out there dining and having congressional hearings and meetings dictate to you exactly how you ought to live your life is un-American.

00:48:52.000 It is un-American.

00:48:54.000 That doesn't mean you can't care for other people.

00:48:56.000 I rely on the American people to actually take care of their own family members.

00:48:56.000 You should.

00:49:00.000 And you should take COVID seriously, particularly if you're elderly and if you're vulnerable.

00:49:03.000 But there seems to be something else at play here.

00:49:05.000 Something else at play.

00:49:06.000 And that something else at play is the maintenance of a myth.

00:49:09.000 The myth is that government can solve all your problems, that the government has answers to everything, from every economic slowdown to every life and death circumstances.

00:49:18.000 They don't.

00:49:19.000 The government has done basically one good thing throughout this entire process.

00:49:23.000 The one good thing the government did is they developed the vaccines.

00:49:26.000 Okay, the government worked in... By the way, they didn't develop the vaccines.

00:49:28.000 They worked in conjunction with those big evil pharmaceutical companies by offering them basically a low downside risk in order to develop the vaccines.

00:49:37.000 I also happen to be of the opinion that there is a very, very solid shot that these companies would have been working on a vaccine anyway, given the fact that whoever makes the vaccine was slated to earn more money than has ever been created in the history of humanity.

00:49:50.000 Nonetheless, the narrative continues apace.

00:49:53.000 And of course, then you get Wolf Blitzer on CNN saying, where is Trump?

00:49:56.000 The same people who were saying five seconds ago, they don't want President Trump on TV talking about COVID because he's undermining public confidence and COVID response are now saying, where's Donald Trump?

00:50:06.000 All of this is play acting, k-fobby nonsense.

00:50:09.000 Another 70,000 might die between now and the inauguration on January 20th.

00:50:14.000 You know, Governor Kasich, we passed this awful milestone, a quarter of a million American lives lost.

00:50:20.000 The president is nowhere to be seen at all.

00:50:24.000 It is, in a word, given what's going on in our country right now, I should say, sort of disgraceful.

00:50:30.000 Oh, well, you know, when he was doing daily press conferences, which was like not that many months ago, you were saying it was disgraceful that he was doing daily press conferences.

00:50:37.000 So again, when it comes to politics and COVID, not science and COVID, politics and COVID, it's a nasty combination.

00:50:44.000 We all want fewer people to die from COVID.

00:50:46.000 We should all want kids to be able to go to school because the science suggests that kids should be in school.

00:50:49.000 We should all want businesses to be open, and we want them to reopen safely by taking all the measures they could possibly take, except if you're in the media, in which case, apparently, All you do is see this through a political prism, where everything that your allies do is great, and everything that people you don't like do is absolutely evil, and terrible, and no good, and very bad.

00:51:06.000 Because let's be real about this, Joe Biden doesn't have a plan.

00:51:08.000 He's never had a plan.

00:51:09.000 Andy Slavitt, who is one of Joe Biden's advisors.

00:51:13.000 He has basically said that Joe Biden's plan should be to talk a lot about COVID.

00:51:19.000 Seriously, that's what he writes today.

00:51:21.000 He writes that in USA Today.

00:51:22.000 This is the plan.

00:51:22.000 This is the big plan.

00:51:23.000 After we hear about Captain Science coming in and curing COVID, and how Joe Biden pledged he was going to stop COVID, right?

00:51:28.000 He wasn't going to stop the economy.

00:51:29.000 He wasn't going to stop everything else.

00:51:30.000 He was going to stop COVID.

00:51:31.000 Joe Biden, here's his plan.

00:51:33.000 He apparently is going to just talk about COVID and that's going to solve all the problems.

00:51:38.000 Biden must make it a priority to use the bully pulpit, which has been essentially empty since the crisis has begun to convince Americans why they should wear masks, socially distance, and comply with testing and contact tracing.

00:51:48.000 He must focus in particular on rural Americans who are Trump supporters and are resistant to any public health measures.

00:51:54.000 Oh, if Joe Biden talks to a bunch of people who voted for Trump, probably that's going to solve the problem.

00:51:58.000 I'm sorry, this is all silliness.

00:52:00.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, there is something else that has been happening.

00:52:03.000 There are a lot of people who are talking about something called the Great Reset.

00:52:06.000 Okay, now, the Great Reset, there's two forms of talking about this.

00:52:10.000 One is reasonable, one is not.

00:52:11.000 One is a sort of conspiracy theory which says that a bunch of people get behind a closed door in a smoke-filled room, well, a vape-filled room, and then proceed to discuss how to effectuate a communist takeover of all of society by using COVID as the lever.

00:52:25.000 And then, that's a conspiracy theory.

00:52:27.000 It's not real.

00:52:28.000 Here's the thing about conspiracy theories.

00:52:30.000 They all assume that human beings are competent and good at what they do.

00:52:33.000 Human beings are garbage and really incompetent at what they do.

00:52:37.000 All of politics is veep.

00:52:38.000 It is never house of cards.

00:52:40.000 Nobody ever has a nefarious plan.

00:52:42.000 Nobody is ever able to effectuate their nefarious plan.

00:52:45.000 If you ever think that there is a smoke-filled room in which a bunch of people get together and they effectuate their master plan, it almost never happens.

00:52:52.000 It is very rare.

00:52:53.000 It takes a confluence of ridiculous circumstances and mistake-making in order for conspiracies ever to be successful.

00:53:03.000 And this is not a conspiracy theory, okay?

00:53:05.000 It's just out there in the open.

00:53:06.000 The real discussion here is how the left uses circumstances, like COVID, in order to take more government power or to reshift the nature of the conversation surrounding capitalism towards something they want.

00:53:17.000 And that's not a conspiracy theory.

00:53:18.000 That's out in the open.

00:53:19.000 And they have called it the Great Reset.

00:53:22.000 And it's a bit of gaslighting from the media to suggest that if you say the words Great Reset, you're being conspiratorial when that term originated with people on the left, particularly at the UN, talking about the so-called Great Reset.

00:53:31.000 There are actual articles written by people like Klaus, like Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.

00:53:39.000 He wrote a piece October 22nd, 2020.

00:53:41.000 It is literally called the Great Reset.

00:53:44.000 Okay, so this is not a myth.

00:53:48.000 There's a lot of talk about people basically using every crisis in order to effectuate the political agenda that was already on the back burner for them.

00:53:56.000 They already had this political agenda.

00:53:57.000 They want to use this crisis as a way of wedging that political agenda through the front door.

00:54:01.000 They just Crisco up that doorframe and they shove their political agenda through a mismatched doorframe.

00:54:07.000 Right?

00:54:08.000 The agenda is too big for the doorframe.

00:54:09.000 Doesn't matter.

00:54:10.000 They're going to shove it through anyway.

00:54:11.000 And this is what has been happening, at least a little bit, with COVID.

00:54:14.000 An indicator of this, the Social Justice Warrior contingent is getting together today, which is really, really exciting stuff.

00:54:20.000 They have decided that they are going to be holding a press conference.

00:54:22.000 A squad.

00:54:24.000 Community activists, climate advocates, and members of Congress are rallying at the DNC.

00:54:29.000 Washington, D.C.

00:54:30.000 on Thursday, November 19th, a coalition of community activists, climate advocates, and newly elected members of Congress will hold a rally at the headquarters of the DNC.

00:54:37.000 Oh, a rally.

00:54:38.000 I thought that those were not good.

00:54:39.000 It's a pandemic, right?

00:54:40.000 Demanding bold action to address the COVID pandemic, the economic crisis, and accelerating climate change.

00:54:45.000 The rally will push Joe Biden to appoint a corporate-free cabinet and an administration staffed with personnel committed to addressing the climate threat, as well as following through on promises made during the campaign to, quote, build back better.

00:54:56.000 And this is going to include people like Alexander Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush, who's the newly elected congresswoman from Missouri, and Jamal Bowman from New York, and Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, Manzar Jones, and Senator Ed Markey.

00:55:07.000 So the squad is growing, and it's actually a fairly large contingent.

00:55:11.000 That is some seven members of the House and Senator Ed Markey, who are now speaking, in favor of basically using COVID-19 as a lever for being able to effectuate their favored policy positions.

00:55:23.000 So how radical is the squad?

00:55:25.000 Well, first of all, I mean, pretty damn radical.

00:55:27.000 We already know about the Honorable Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez DeTwitch.

00:55:31.000 We already know about her.

00:55:32.000 But over the course of the last few hours, Cori Bush, Who was a Black Lives Matter activist elected to Congress in a Democratic district.

00:55:41.000 Cori Bush tweeted out yesterday, it's simple really, we want to cancel student and medical debt because we believe education and healthcare are human rights.

00:55:50.000 By the way, if you just declare something a right and then say there can't be debt on that basis, these are the same people who say housing is a right, so we should cancel all the mortgages.

00:55:57.000 Also, you use your credit card for food.

00:55:59.000 Food is a right, so we should cancel all your credit card debt.

00:56:01.000 And then, when we're done with that, we can ensure that nobody ever gets a loan.

00:56:05.000 We can go back to trading with actual seashells and stuff.

00:56:07.000 It'll be really great.

00:56:08.000 And there's a radical group of folks, obviously.

00:56:10.000 And just as always, just as Rahm Emanuel suggested, let no good crisis go to waste.

00:56:14.000 They're not going to let a good crisis go to waste.

00:56:16.000 Justin Trudeau.

00:56:17.000 Handsome Bernie Sanders up there in Canada.

00:56:20.000 He suggested just the other day that COVID is an opportunity to build back better.

00:56:24.000 And he used the words Great Reset, which obviously set off some of the conspiracy theorists suggesting these people are all getting together and coordinating policy.

00:56:31.000 They're not.

00:56:32.000 It's just that the left will never miss an opportunity to take a bad situation and try to spin it into an instrument, a blunt force instrument to ram through their agenda.

00:56:41.000 Here's Justin Trudeau.

00:56:43.000 Building back better.

00:56:44.000 means getting support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs.

00:56:53.000 Canada is here to listen and to help.

00:56:56.000 This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.

00:57:00.000 This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts, to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.

00:57:11.000 Remy, he sounds like Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, right?

00:57:13.000 Every bad thing that happens in the world is an opportunity to reset capitalism.

00:57:17.000 And it doesn't matter what the crisis is.

00:57:20.000 Whatever the crisis is, is the thing that requires me to do this thing I already wanted to do.

00:57:24.000 Climate change is such an existential crisis.

00:57:26.000 We have to completely remake the economy.

00:57:27.000 We have to all get rid of airplanes, and we have to kill all the cows, and all of this sort of nonsense.

00:57:32.000 And then, you know what?

00:57:33.000 COVID requires us to do exactly the same sort of stuff.

00:57:35.000 Incredible how this works.

00:57:37.000 Okay, so there is the far left wing of the sort of great reset mentality, which suggests that COVID is an opportunity for us to remake capitalism wholesale.

00:57:44.000 Then, there's the sort of softer great reset mentality, and this is the stuff by Klaus Schwab.

00:57:50.000 And this is the attempt to turn corporations and business and supposedly capitalistic enterprises into corporatist enterprises.

00:57:58.000 Now, capitalism is a system whereby you, as a producer, are attempting to cater to consumers and bring them the products and services they desire.

00:58:06.000 Corporatism is where you decide what you think the consumer ought to want, and then because the consumer doesn't want it, you get the government to sponsor it.

00:58:12.000 You get the government to push forward the program.

00:58:14.000 Right, this is why what people use in sort of the great reset world as the example of excellent, excellent policy is Operation Warp Speed, right?

00:58:22.000 They say government was able to combine with big business in order to promote an agenda that was good, not just for shareholders, but also for the world, which is why I've pointed out, you know what would have been great for Pfizer shareholders?

00:58:31.000 If they developed the COVID vaccine and also hadn't had to take any government money, right?

00:58:35.000 That also would have been fine.

00:58:36.000 It just made their downside risk less, so they didn't have to worry so much if they didn't develop the vaccine properly.

00:58:41.000 They could sink a lot of money into the development of the vaccine.

00:58:45.000 And what should be more of an indicator of the efficacy of private industry is the fact that government had to use private industry to actually make the vaccines.

00:58:53.000 If government were so great at things, why didn't they just develop this thing within the NIAID?

00:58:57.000 They didn't have the capacity.

00:58:57.000 They couldn't.

00:58:58.000 Because government kind of sucks at things.

00:59:00.000 Government is just a giant gun.

00:59:02.000 A giant gun and a bag of money, and that is what government is.

00:59:04.000 Okay, so.

00:59:06.000 There is this push now to basically shift corporations from serving their shareholders to what they call stakeholder capitalism.

00:59:13.000 Stakeholder capitalism is the suggestion that corporations are supposed to take into account not just the needs of consumers and the desires of consumers and therefore the desires of the people who hold stock and shares in their company.

00:59:24.000 Companies are supposed to instead take into account all of the myriad factors in the universe.

00:59:29.000 This is the beauty of stakeholder capitalism.

00:59:31.000 Stop caring so much about your shareholders.

00:59:33.000 Instead, start caring about everyone else.

00:59:35.000 Now, in order to foster this particular mentality, you have to create a false dichotomy.

00:59:39.000 That false dichotomy is that if you care about your shareholders and you want to make sure that your shareholders make money, this means you're going to exploit other people, right?

00:59:46.000 You are going to foist costs onto third parties.

00:59:49.000 So the typical example people like to use is shareholder capitalism is you pollute the lake in order to make money for your shareholders.

00:59:56.000 But stakeholder capitalism, as you understand, there are people who live along that lake, and you take their concerns into account, too.

01:00:02.000 Now, the reason this is stupid is because if you are a company and you actually pollute the lake, there are tort laws in the United States and everywhere else, and you will be sued into the ground.

01:00:10.000 So shareholder capitalism is actually not in favor of you doing things that are suable, right?

01:00:15.000 It is not in favor of you, quote-unquote, defraying costs for the moment by blowing up your company two minutes from now.

01:00:20.000 The very concept that shareholder capitalism and quote-unquote stakeholder capitalism are in direct conflict is the idea that America and the world, generally everybody's a sucker and all businesses are trying to do is scam.

01:00:33.000 That is not true.

01:00:34.000 If you run a company, you have to think beyond, we run a company here, you have to think beyond the next two minutes.

01:00:40.000 Sure, if you're a scamster, then you could theoretically make a cash grab.

01:00:44.000 You could.

01:00:44.000 And that happens sometimes.

01:00:45.000 But, to suggest that is the bulk of the American economy, or the bulk of the global economy, or that economic growth, which is exponential since 1800, and since the rise of the Enlightenment, that economic growth is driven by a bunch of scam artists, who are basically taking short-term interests over long-term interests, is just a lie.

01:01:00.000 It's not true at all.

01:01:02.000 Okay, but, Stakeholder capitalism really is a way for policymakers to suggest that corporations should do our dirty work so that we don't have to do that dirty work ourselves.

01:01:10.000 We should get corporations to do the things we want them to do.

01:01:12.000 So, this guy Klaus Schwab, who again writes about, he wrote a book called The Great Reset, and he is the head of the World Economic Forum.

01:01:20.000 He writes, In the immediate months that followed the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world as we knew it was turned upside down.

01:01:25.000 Like most people, I was constrained to observing the situation from inside my home and the World Economic Forum's empty offices, and I relied on video calls to know how others were doing.

01:01:32.000 Since those early moments of the crisis, it has been hard to be optimistic about the prospect of a brighter global future.

01:01:37.000 The only immediate upside perhaps was the drop in greenhouse gas emissions, which brought slight temporary relief to the planet's atmosphere.

01:01:44.000 Okay, like if that's how you see things that like, you know, hundreds of thousands of people dying, nobody has a job, but hey, we brought down the global gas emissions.

01:01:53.000 Good stuff happening there, right?

01:01:54.000 All right, okay.

01:01:56.000 It shouldn't have come as a surprise that many started to wonder, says Klaus Schwab, will governments, businesses, and other influential stakeholders truly change their ways for the better after this?

01:02:04.000 Or will we go back to business as usual?

01:02:06.000 So I have a question.

01:02:07.000 Did big business cause the outbreak of COVID-19?

01:02:10.000 Or is big business solving the outbreak of COVID-19?

01:02:13.000 Did Big Pharma start this?

01:02:15.000 Or was government inability to actually control this thing part of the problem in the first place?

01:02:19.000 Was it a Chinese communist tyranny that released this thing on an unsuspecting world responsible for this?

01:02:25.000 Or is this really an opportunity to remake capitalism?

01:02:28.000 I feel like these two things are unrelated, and yet, for people who are into the Great Reset mentality, it's obviously a chance for them to do all the things they've wanted to do.

01:02:35.000 Now is your opportunity.

01:02:38.000 It's like your free day from... In some sort of paganistic religions, there's this idea that you sort of have a free day from want, worry, and answerability.

01:02:50.000 You can sin at will for like one day.

01:02:51.000 It's like the purge.

01:02:52.000 Okay, so basically this is that, right?

01:02:54.000 COVID is an opportunity to do all the things we've always wanted to do, but couldn't get anybody to agree to in the first place.

01:03:00.000 Looking at the news headlines about layoffs, bankruptcies, and the many mistakes made in the emergency response to this crisis, anyone may have been inclined to give a pessimistic answer, says Klaus Schwab.

01:03:07.000 Indeed, the bad news related to COVID-19 came on top of the enormous economic, environmental, social, and political challenges we were already facing before the pandemic.

01:03:15.000 Okay, let me just make clear.

01:03:16.000 The economy in the United States was at record highs.

01:03:18.000 We were lowering greenhouse gas emissions in the United States thanks to fracking.

01:03:22.000 The environment was getting better in the United States, not worse.

01:03:25.000 Okay, like, This is just myth-making.

01:03:28.000 With every passing year, these issues, as many people have experienced directly, seem to get worse, not better.

01:03:32.000 That's just a lie.

01:03:32.000 It's not true.

01:03:33.000 Global prosperity has been going up year on year, for decades, on end.

01:03:38.000 It is also true there are no easy ways out of this vicious cycle, even though the mechanisms to do so lie at our fingertips, says Klaus Schwab.

01:03:43.000 Every day we invent new technologies that could make our lives better and the planet's health better.

01:03:47.000 Free markets, trade and competition create so much wealth that in theory they could make everyone better off if there was the will to do so.

01:03:52.000 But that is not the reality we live in today.

01:03:54.000 Again, this is just myth-making.

01:03:55.000 Shareholder capitalism, designed at profit, designed at making sure that people get the products and services they want and need, has made people all over the world wealthier since 1980.

01:04:06.000 80% of the world has been lifted from abject poverty because of all of this.

01:04:11.000 Because of free trade and capitalism and all the things he is saying don't make everybody richer.

01:04:15.000 He says, Again, this is just a lie.

01:04:16.000 It's not true.

01:04:16.000 take place in a monopolized economy and are used to prioritize one company's profits over societal progress. The same economic system that created so much prosperity in the golden age of American capitalism in the 50s and 60s is now creating inequality and climate change. Again, this is just a lie. It's not true. The economic system of the 50s and 60s, okay, it created prosperity, but also Europe had been completely wrecked since the 1940s because of World War II.

01:04:39.000 In fact, globally, much more prosperity was created from 1980 to 2000 than was created in the 1950s and 60s.

01:04:45.000 I mean, look at the living standards in the United States.

01:04:47.000 Look at life expectancy in the United States.

01:04:50.000 Okay, but the idea here is that we have to redo everything.

01:04:52.000 So, what should we do?

01:04:54.000 We should model everything on the Operation Warp Speed COVID response, basically where government leverages the power of the free markets to do things the government wants.

01:05:02.000 Government top-down control.

01:05:03.000 That's the answer.

01:05:05.000 That's the answer.

01:05:07.000 He says, rather than chasing short-term profits or narrow self-interest, companies could pursue the well-being of all people on the entire planet.

01:05:13.000 Now, here's where you get into really dicey and ugly territory.

01:05:16.000 Who decides what the well-being of the entire planet looks like?

01:05:18.000 Seriously.

01:05:20.000 All policy is trade-off.

01:05:22.000 All policy is trade-off.

01:05:23.000 Who decides?

01:05:25.000 Who's dictator of the world?

01:05:26.000 Who decides what the well-being of the entire planet looks like?

01:05:29.000 So, for example, let's say that you have an economic program that raises prosperity all around the world, but also increases greenhouse gases.

01:05:36.000 What does the prosperity of the world look like?

01:05:38.000 Which one do you pick?

01:05:39.000 This is a pretty serious question because that is the question of carbon emissions, right?

01:05:42.000 Carbon is a significantly more powerful source of energy than any of the alternatives that have been provided.

01:05:47.000 And if you decide to put heavy environmental restrictions on the use of carbon, that mostly hurts people at the bottom end of the economic spectrum.

01:05:52.000 But according to Klaus Schwab, just like all technocrats, he believes that there is one simple answer to this question, and that he has it.

01:05:59.000 He can dictate what is best for the world, and then companies should do what Klaus Schwab wants.

01:06:03.000 This is how you get to stakeholder capitalism.

01:06:05.000 Stakeholder capitalism says that Klaus Schwab should have something to say about companies in which he bears no risk, has no skin in the game, does not bear the downside risk of the company going broke and putting all of its employees out of work.

01:06:17.000 Now, the basic idea of the free market is Mandeville's idea of the bees, is that because there are so many people who want so many different things, diversity of marketplaces, competition, this drives down prices, it creates innovation, and it creates better stuff for everybody.

01:06:30.000 But technocrats, intelligent people, for all of time have thought that if they could just grab the levers of the economy, they could do all the things that they wanted.

01:06:37.000 They could shift shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism, and the only stakeholder who really matters is somebody like Klaus Schwab.

01:06:43.000 This is The Great Reset.

01:06:44.000 We are going to redo everything in the model that I want, and we're going to grab the power of somebody else in order to do it.

01:06:49.000 He says, this does not require a 180-degree turn.

01:06:52.000 Corporations don't have to stop pursuing profits for their shareholders.

01:06:54.000 They only need to shift to a longer-term perspective on their organization and its mission.

01:06:58.000 Oh, but you know what a corporation needs.

01:07:00.000 You know what their long-term interest should be.

01:07:03.000 Not the person who runs the corporation and hires people.

01:07:05.000 You know what we here at Daily Wire need to think about 10 years from now.

01:07:07.000 You do.

01:07:08.000 You don't know anybody who works here.

01:07:09.000 You don't know how the company works.

01:07:10.000 You don't know any of the family members.

01:07:11.000 You don't know our financial situation.

01:07:13.000 But you know what's best for the world.

01:07:15.000 Therefore, we should think about what Klaus Schwab wants.

01:07:18.000 He says they should look beyond the next quarter or fiscal year to the next decade and generation.

01:07:22.000 Some are already doing so.

01:07:24.000 Building a virtuous economic system is not a utopian ideal.

01:07:27.000 Most people, including business leaders, investors, and community leaders, have a similar attitude about their role in the world and the lives of others.

01:07:33.000 Most people want to do good and believe that doing so will ultimately benefit everybody, including a company's shareholders.

01:07:37.000 But what's been missing in recent decades, here it is, is a clear compass to guide those in leading positions in our society and economy.

01:07:45.000 There we go.

01:07:47.000 There we go.

01:07:48.000 So he acknowledges people don't want to actively do bad.

01:07:50.000 They actually don't want to take into account just short-term interests at the expense of long-term interests.

01:07:54.000 They want to build for the future, but they need guides.

01:07:57.000 Wise guides.

01:07:58.000 Wise guides like Klaus Schwab.

01:08:00.000 And COVID is an opportunity for us to leverage those companies into doing exactly what we want.

01:08:06.000 And now, what corporations have been doing in response to this is they've been kind of paying lip service to stakeholder capitalism.

01:08:11.000 They've been saying, yes, yes, that's a great idea.

01:08:13.000 We will be more virtuous and we will be more kind and we will be more generous.

01:08:17.000 Just leave us alone.

01:08:18.000 Just please leave us alone.

01:08:19.000 And government's like, oh, okay, we'll leave you.

01:08:21.000 Also, we need you to do X, Y, and Z. Why do you think corporations have been bullied into wokeness?

01:08:25.000 Why do you think they've been bullied into undermining their fundamental core tenets?

01:08:29.000 Because they've been playing at this game.

01:08:32.000 Now, just a few months ago was the anniversary of a very famous essay by Milton Friedman talking about shareholder capitalism.

01:08:39.000 It came under severe fire, that essay, because how dare people pay attention to their shareholders instead?

01:08:44.000 We should pay attention to the stakeholders.

01:08:46.000 But here's the reality.

01:08:48.000 You have the capacity to answer to your shareholders.

01:08:49.000 It makes you answerable.

01:08:50.000 Metrics have to be delivered.

01:08:52.000 Your shareholders are thinking long-term.

01:08:53.000 Most people are not day traders.

01:08:54.000 Most people invest in a company because they want long-term interest in their company to hold.

01:08:59.000 Okay, but what these folks want is a social responsibility answerable to government actors.

01:09:04.000 They want the government to run this stuff.

01:09:08.000 Okay, corporatism is tricky.

01:09:10.000 There's a great piece over at National Review back in August by Andrew Stutterford talking about this.

01:09:14.000 Corporatism, where you have the government basically telling people what to do.

01:09:17.000 It's tricky.

01:09:18.000 He says it has taken different forms over the years, some more benign than others.

01:09:21.000 All of the forms are based on the belief society should be organized by and for its principal interest groups, let's call them stakeholders, intermediated by, ultimately subordinated to, the state.

01:09:29.000 The individual doesn't get a look-in, but to the management of large corporations, it is an opportunity as well as a threat, because a lot of the power that is taken from shareholders will end up with those to whom they unwisely entrusted their funds.

01:09:41.000 Right, so there are a lot of corporate heads who are very into stakeholder capitalism.

01:09:44.000 Why?

01:09:44.000 Because let's say you run a corporation, and let's say you're crappy at your job.

01:09:47.000 All you have to do is point to the stakeholders for your lack of success.

01:09:51.000 So let's say you're an oil company executive, and you have decided that you're going to waste a bunch of money on windmills.

01:09:56.000 Your shareholders might be like, that's a waste of money.

01:09:57.000 Why would you do that?

01:09:58.000 You say, ah, but I'm thinking of people who are not the shareholders.

01:10:00.000 I'm thinking of people who don't have skin in the game.

01:10:02.000 See, the beauty of capitalism, the beauty of markets, is that it puts skin in the game.

01:10:07.000 If you're going to have a say in a system, you're supposed to invest in the system.

01:10:10.000 What so many people have been declaring in the Great Reset is that you ought not have a stake in the system in order to be Okay, again, this is a complete misread.

01:10:26.000 You see it on the right as well as the left, this idea that the economic system can be shaped from without to the benefit of all.

01:10:31.000 That is not how economic systems work.

01:10:32.000 And whenever you have a top-down centralized source of all knowledge.

01:10:36.000 You end up with a worse, less effective, and more unfair system than diffuse bases of knowledge that form a capitalist system.

01:10:43.000 Capitalism is about the acknowledgement that there are many individuals in a society, they are all the best to understand, they all have the best understanding of their own particular interests, and that when you aggregate all of those interests, what you end up with is a better answer, the wisdom of crowds, you end up with a better answer than one guy at the top who knows better than everybody else.

01:10:59.000 Okay, but this is something that global elitists do not understand and do not like.

01:11:06.000 They wish to run this thing.

01:11:07.000 They're all very much in favor of somebody being at the top, so long as the person at the top is them.

01:11:12.000 According to Klaus Schwab, great reset guy, the stakeholder capitalism metrics are just one of many initiatives that are needed to get to such an outcome.

01:11:18.000 Time is quickly running out.

01:11:19.000 In a world where pessimism is increasingly the order of the day and narrow and short-term self-interest is still alluring, initiatives like these demonstrate a more inclusive and sustainable model is possible.

01:11:29.000 Okay, now understand that that quote-unquote sustainable model, that stakeholder capitalism model, that's going to bleed over very quickly into Justin Trudeau running the show.

01:11:37.000 It's going to bleed over very quickly into the Honorable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez running the show because, of course, she is the voice of the stakeholders.

01:11:44.000 See, government can always claim to be the voice of the stakeholders because that's everybody in society and you vote, right?

01:11:50.000 Corporations are by nature only small entities in a vast sea of stakeholders, and so you're going to have more people from outside a corporation controlling the future of a corporation than inside.

01:11:59.000 So what is the Great Reset?

01:12:00.000 The Great Reset is not some sort of conspiratorial backroom deal.

01:12:04.000 The Great Reset is just an attempt by members of the political left to grab control of things they do not own and leverage those things on behalf of their own interests.

01:12:12.000 That's all it is.

01:12:13.000 And they will continue to do this.

01:12:14.000 This will not be the first or last time that you see the Great Reset.

01:12:17.000 You're gonna see it with regard to climate change.

01:12:18.000 You're going to see it with regard to COVID.

01:12:20.000 And you'll see it whenever the next crisis appears on the horizon.

01:12:23.000 And if there is no crisis, they will simply manufacture a crisis for the future.

01:12:26.000 It is that simple.

01:12:27.000 That's what the Great Reset is.

01:12:28.000 And we should all be afraid of it because anybody who declares that they know what's best for the globe and then tries to grab the power to effectuate it is somebody who's scared the living daylights out of you.

01:12:37.000 All right, we'll be here later today for two additional hours of content.

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The Great Reset | Ep. 1141

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