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00:02:00.000Equity is the thing that is going to drive all Biden administration policy.
00:02:04.000And there are certain institutions in America that I think conservatives correctly felt were sort of biased toward conservatives.
00:02:10.000Among those institutions, business, which has been completely hijacked by the woke and now militarized against people who think differently.
00:02:19.000The military was an institution that generally tends to vote conservative.
00:02:23.000It is filled by people who tend to be patriotic, because you have to be pretty patriotic to sign up for a life of service in the American military.
00:02:29.000You tend to be pretty hawkish on foreign policy.
00:02:31.000This is one of the great hilarities of the left always using the so-called chicken hawk argument, is that if somebody didn't serve in the military, they can't be hawkish on foreign policy.
00:02:39.000My response was, all right, if you want to poll the members of the American military, and we will only use their votes, I have very little doubt about which way that is going to go.
00:02:46.000But now, all these institutions have, in fact, been taken over by the woke, or at least cudgeled into submission by the woke.
00:02:53.000I don't think that the rank and file in the military agree with what the top brass are doing at the military right now, but that's of little consequence when the people at the top of the military have decided to mirror the priorities of the far left.
00:03:03.000The same thing is happening in police departments around America.
00:03:06.000Those police departments have been cuddled into silence by left-wing federal agencies, as well as by police chiefs who are hired by left-wing mayors.
00:03:15.000And what that ends up doing is it ends up driving good people out of the police force.
00:03:18.000It ends up making the police force less efficient.
00:03:21.000So now the military, according to the left, the military is bad when it is used as an instrument of American foreign policy.
00:03:26.000It is good when it is used as an instrument of social engineering.
00:03:28.000So the American military is bad when it is used in Afghanistan or Iraq.
00:03:32.000At that point, American soldiers become just people who are dropping bombs on civilians, as Barack Obama once suggested about Afghanistan.
00:03:38.000But when the American military is used as an instrument of instituting transgender policy, or when it is used as an instrument of forcing forward certain policies with regard to same-sex marriage, Then it is a very good institution because it's under total government control.
00:03:53.000Well now, the American military has decided to apparently embrace the standards of political correctness.
00:03:59.000And not just political correctness, they've decided that the top brass in the military are now going to focus their fire on public relations fights with journalists they don't like.
00:04:10.000Imagine if under President Trump, top members of the American military, having heard slanderous things about them for years from the left-wing media like MSNBC, had decided, you know what, one day we're just all going to go hard out after Rachel Maddow.
00:04:21.000Rachel Maddow says something about the military and the entire military brass decides they're just going to go directly after Rachel Maddow.
00:04:27.000Now cries of authoritarianism would have been deafening.
00:04:30.000The cries of fascism would have been deafening.
00:04:31.000Why is our civilian-controlled military speaking out as an independent body and suggesting that it should be in competition with members of the private sphere?
00:04:40.000And one of the great things about America is we do have civilian control of the military.
00:04:43.000The military does not control the military.
00:04:44.000The civilian branches of government control the military.
00:04:48.000We all get to have opinions on how the military is used, whether or not we have served.
00:04:52.000And none of that, again, is a referendum on the bravery of the people serving.
00:04:55.000As I've said many times, I didn't have the bravery to serve.
00:04:57.000There are lots of people today who disagree with me, who have the bravery to serve.
00:05:00.000And I appreciate that, but it does not make their opinion significantly more valuable than mine, considering my vote counts the same as theirs.
00:05:11.000The bottom line is that civilian control of the military is one of the hallmarks of American democracy.
00:05:15.000And one of the other hallmarks of American democracy is that the military does not speak out as an independent body against members of the civilian sphere.
00:05:22.000In fact, it is a regulatory violation for members of the military to do this.
00:05:26.000They're allowed to have private-based opinions.
00:05:29.000They're not allowed to speak on behalf of the military in matters of public policy.
00:05:34.000So all of this began last week when Tucker did a segment talking about how Joe Biden had been out there bragging about how they have these brand new uniforms for pregnant women.
00:05:41.000And the general point that Tucker Carlson was making is the point of a military is to be efficient, is to break things and kill people, basically.
00:05:48.000The job of the American military is to make America more secure.
00:05:51.000And typically, when you're talking about the military, that is through the threat or use of violence.
00:05:56.000And top priority for a body that is designed to do this is not, in fact, the design of new uniforms for pregnant women.
00:06:04.000That's nice that they have designs for uniforms for pregnant women, but this isn't exactly the bleeding edge of what you need from your military.
00:06:10.000If you're talking about what you need from your military, it is more firepower, it's excellent troop cohesion, it is High levels of efficiency in being able to threaten or to perform the act of breaking things and killing people, right?
00:06:23.000That's what the military is there to do, or to preserve the peace with the threat of breaking things or killing people.
00:06:30.000And so Tucker says, you know what, if we're talking about top priorities in the military, the top priorities in the military ought not be the maternity leave policy for pregnant women.
00:06:36.000It's great they have that, but that is not top priority, and why you have top members of the administration touting that as like, this is the most amazing thing happening within the military, as opposed to, here is a retrofit of all of the obsolete equipment that the military requires to be replaced, right?
00:06:52.000If you're talking about maternity leave, then maybe you ought to look to You know, some of the other federal agencies, if you even want to do that.
00:06:58.000But using the military as an instrument of social engineering, or at least pretending that the top priority of the military's social engineering is bizarre and does not make us more competitive.
00:07:14.000And then, what's worse, is that the military decides that they are going to get involved in this.
00:07:20.000This is the part where things get really wild.
00:07:23.000So, according to the UK Independent, a top military official at U.S.
00:07:26.000Space Command has hit out at Tucker Carlson's comments against women in the military, pointing out the host has never served a day in his life.
00:07:52.000They're entitled to their opinion, and Tucker's entitled to his opinion.
00:07:55.000Doesn't make your opinion any more or less valuable whether you've served in the military.
00:07:58.000Again, if only people who serve in the military were able to speak out on military matters, the military would not be doing the stuff that it's doing right now.
00:08:04.000Because I promise you, if you ask rank-and-file Americans who are in the military what they think about the woke policy now coming down from the top echelon to the military, they don't agree with it.
00:08:13.000They've never agreed with it, by the way.
00:08:16.000So, there's this guy from SpaceCom who now put out a video.
00:08:24.000His name is Master Gunnery Sergeant Scott Stalker.
00:08:27.000He is the Command Senior Enlisted Leader at U.S.
00:09:01.000Okay, I mean, that's an amazing statement.
00:09:03.000When he says that his opinion is based off zero days in the military, again, you want to pull members of the military, Donald Trump would still be president.
00:09:09.000You want to poll members of the military?
00:09:11.000I'm not sure a Republican would have lost since about 1976, maybe.
00:09:15.000But beyond that, the basic notion that the strength of the American military is pregnant women is not really true.
00:09:21.000You want to say that America is better off for having women in the military?
00:09:24.000There's an argument in favor of that for sure.
00:09:26.000If you want to argue that pregnant women are the strength of the military, that of course is very silly.
00:09:31.000Pregnant women are not the strength of the American military.
00:09:33.000Giving women the ability to take maternity leave may be a positive and worthwhile thing for purposes of retaining females in the military who have volunteered to serve.
00:09:40.000But that's not the same thing as saying that pregnant women are, like, the strength of the American military.
00:09:45.000In fact, all of the Army regulations are precisely the opposite.
00:09:48.000Army regulations say that at 20 weeks pregnant, a soldier is exempt from field duty.
00:09:53.000They say that weight standards are made irrelevant by pregnancy.
00:09:56.000Soldiers are not available for deployment during pregnancy if you're the mother of a newborn for four months after delivery until the soldier waives.
00:10:03.000Soldiers cannot be assigned to duties when they have nausea, easy exhaustion, sudden lightheadedness.
00:10:07.000If that'd be hazardous to a soldier or to others, that includes all aviation duty and classes.
00:10:12.000Again, this is according to the Army regulations.
00:10:13.000This is not the brutal sexist over at Fox News or something.
00:10:17.000The Army has regulations that basically waive all standards when a woman is pregnant.
00:10:21.000As they should, because when a woman is pregnant, she's not nearly in the same physical condition as she would be otherwise.
00:10:27.000And by the way, on average, women are not in the same physical condition as men otherwise, because men have higher performance athletically than women do on average.
00:10:33.000Not always at the tail of the bell curve for a woman is going to be above average for a man, but the tail of the bell curve for a man is way above the tail of the bell curve for a woman.
00:10:44.000Again, the Army regulations have significant restrictions on what women can and cannot do if they are pregnant.
00:10:49.000They are not permitted to paint, weld, solder, grind, sand on metal, wash parts, or perform other duties where they are routinely exposed to carbon monoxide.
00:10:57.000Soldiers cannot participate in indoor weapons training.
00:10:59.000You can't wear individual body armor after 14 weeks being pregnant.
00:11:04.000Upon the diagnosis of pregnancy, a soldier is exempt from mandatory PT and from PT testing.
00:11:10.000At 20 weeks of pregnancy, a soldier is exempt from standing at parade rest or attention for longer than 15 minutes.
00:11:15.000At 28 weeks of pregnancy, a soldier must be provided a 15-minute rest period every 2 hours.
00:11:22.000A soldier's work week is not allowed to exceed 40 hours.
00:11:24.000A soldier can't work more than 8 hours in any one day if they are pregnant.
00:11:28.000Okay, so for Tucker to say, yeah, you know, you're focusing a lot on what we do for soldiers who are pregnant.
00:11:33.000That is not the part where we strengthen the American military as a general policy.
00:11:37.000What we should be focused on is, can we win wars?
00:11:41.000Honest to God, over the last week, we had a top general, Jack Keane, say there is no guarantee that we would even win a war against China were we to fight it.
00:11:49.000In the last 10 years, different sponsors have run wars on this very subject.
00:11:58.000When I was on the Congressional Commission looking at the National Defense Strategy in 2018, we said this.
00:12:05.000If we entered in a war with China, the losses to personnel and high capital assets would be on a scale not seen since World War II.
00:12:13.000We would be challenged to win and indeed we could lose.
00:12:17.000Well, if that is the concern, at a certain point, you know, you might want to actually worry about the state of the military rather than what sort of magical performance for political correctness purposes you're doing.
00:12:28.000And it was Joe Biden who decided that he was going to do a presser about female uniforms for pregnant soldiers.
00:12:33.000So the point that Tucker was making is not wrong.
00:12:36.000If you're focused on the efficiency of the American military, again, fine to have soldiers who are pregnant in the military having uniforms.
00:12:45.000I think there's a little more question to be had about whether you ought to be admitting soldiers who are then going to be eligible for transition surgery at the cost of taxpayers.
00:12:52.000That seems bizarre to me, considering we have minimum standards of getting into the military that excludes people who have any sort of severe mental disorder and, by the way, anybody who even has depression.
00:13:02.000So you can't have depression, you can't get into the military.
00:13:05.000If you don't have depression, you can't get into the military.
00:13:08.000Rather, if you have depression, you cannot get into the military.
00:13:10.000But if you're a man who believes you're a woman, you can get into the military, and the military will then pay for your surgery.
00:13:15.000This seems like a bizarre military policy.
00:13:17.000But beyond that, even if that is the policy, that is where you're putting your chief focus?
00:13:22.000By the way, we are all doing this at the same time that, according to the UK Telegraph, the US Army is now considering a reversal of its new gender-neutral physical test to instead include different evaluation categories for men and women.
00:13:32.000Research showed that the Army Combat Fitness Test, which is the same for male and female soldiers, was leading to lower results for women, with a knock-on effect for promotions.
00:13:40.000Because it turns out that women and men are not physically the same.
00:13:44.000There are also studies that have been out for years suggesting that all-male combat units perform better than mixed units do.
00:13:50.000This is according to NPR 2015, a year-long Marine Corps study trying to understand how gender integration would affect combat readiness has found that all-male units were faster, more lethal, and able to evacuate casualties in less time.
00:14:01.000Okay, so pointing all of this out, if you're looking for combat efficiency that's not the same as the standards that are purported to be pushed forward by the social engineers, okay, none of that should be supremely controversial.
00:14:11.000But Tucker said it, so it's controversial.
00:14:12.000And not only is it controversial, you're gonna get now hit by the military itself, which is crazy.
00:14:17.000Okay, that's the part that's really nuts.
00:14:19.000It's not that people are giving Tucker flack.
00:14:21.000These issues have long been in the public eye.
00:14:23.000The idea of the top levels of the military are now tweeting out woke talking point slogans against Tucker Carlson is nuts.
00:14:30.000It's the hijacking of an American institution that is required to be nonpartisan for partisan purposes.
00:14:35.000If it had happened under Trump, they'd be talking authoritarian fascism.
00:14:39.000It happens under Biden, and it's just considered fine and wonderful and good for the American military.
00:14:43.000First time the left has liked the military in like decades.
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00:16:07.000So Marine Corps Twitter actually targeted Tucker specifically.
00:16:12.000And they put out a tweet of a woman carrying a man over her shoulder and it said, what it looks like in today's armed forces, Tucker Carlson, get right before you get left, boomer.
00:16:30.000And they followed up, somebody was like, you might want to focus more on defeating the Chinese than you're focusing on defeating Tucker Carlson.
00:16:36.000And they were like, when was the last time you signed up for service, boomer?
00:16:40.000Okay, so it's now become Taylor Lorenz is running the Marine Twitter account, apparently.
00:16:50.000This is the way you really think you're going to draw people to the military, but it isn't about drawing people to the military.
00:16:54.000It's not about attractiveness to the military.
00:16:56.000You know how many people aren't going to sign up because of this woke crap?
00:16:58.000You know how many people I get letters from who are in the military asking whether they should re-up because of this woke crap, and I'm not sure, frankly, what to tell them because operating under these auspices is very difficult?
00:17:07.000In the same way that if you're a cop, I got lots of emails from cops asking, you know, my department has decided that they are basically cracking down on my ability to do my job.
00:17:18.000This is not about making the military stronger.
00:17:20.000This is, of course, about weaponizing the military against political targets like Tucker Carlson.
00:17:25.000And really, weaponizing against an entire side of the political aisle.
00:17:30.000If you're the Chinese military, you have to be laughing at this point.
00:17:33.000But if you're America's enemies, and you are seeing that the military is expending its resources fighting with Tucker Carlson about whether it is worthwhile for your publicity to lead with pregnant women, not whether to have women in the military.
00:17:48.000But whether the most important thing the military can do right now is provide additional maternity leave to women, and you're the Chinese military, and you're looking at taking over the South China Sea, you're like, wow, I feel like these people don't have their priorities in order at this point.
00:18:00.000And now for the media, the media love this kind of stuff.
00:18:02.000So the media who have despised the military for decades, they've always seen the military as bad and an instrument of American imperialism and colonialism, well now, they're over the moon.
00:18:13.000Because what they think is that they think, first of all, a bunch of traditional-minded Americans who love the military, Again, I promise you, conservatives, by poll statistics, love the military significantly more than members of the political left.
00:18:26.000And if you ask the average conservative how many members of the military they know, the answer is going to be a lot higher than members of the traditional left.
00:18:33.000But the left seems to think that all the people in America who love the military are now going to turn on Tucker because they're members of the military tweeting out PC crap.
00:18:40.000Okay, but that is not what's going to happen here.
00:18:42.000But the media are super happy about it because they think that's what's going to happen here.
00:18:45.000Anytime there is a major institution that is gutted by the woke and then taken over by the woke, the left are super happy about this.
00:19:03.000Trump was your enemy because Trump said things you didn't like.
00:19:05.000And because Trump boosted your ratings, the ratings at CNN have dropped precipitously since the election.
00:19:11.000It's true for virtually all the networks, but it's dropped actually much more precipitously for CNN than, for example, MSNBC.
00:19:17.000So Brian Stelter is saying, Tucker is the new Trump.
00:19:19.000No, you want to make Tucker the new Trump so you have something to cover.
00:19:22.000There are reporters who spend all day at CNN, like Media Matters gurus, just sitting there, monitoring Fox for bad things that they can then put on the chyrons at CNN.
00:19:31.000If you want to know what's happening on Fox, all you have to do is tune over at CNN, and you will know what's happening on Fox.
00:19:35.000Here's Brian Stelter saying, Tucker is the new Trump.
00:19:37.000No, you need to make Tucker the new Trump because you have to have Trump.
00:19:40.000You have to have a Trump, and Tucker could be that.
00:19:49.000Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump.
00:19:52.000Tucker has taken Trump's place as a right-wing leader, as an outrage generator, as a fire starter.
00:19:59.000And it's all happening on Fox, just like Trump's campaign did.
00:20:03.000I mean, think about all the ways these two men are similar.
00:20:06.000Every day, Carlson is throwing bombs, making online memes, offending millions of people, also delighting millions of others, tapping into white male rage and resentment, Uh, stoking distrust of big tech in the media, generally coarsening the discourse, never apologizing for anything, and setting the GOP's agenda.
00:20:27.000Okay, um, actually, you know who's setting the GOP's agenda?
00:20:31.000You guys, on the left, you're setting the GOP's agenda by being crazy.
00:20:34.000And then Tucker comments on your crazy, and then you say that it's Tucker's fault.
00:20:37.000This is the exact same thing they did with Trump.
00:20:38.000Don't make Tucker president, by the way.
00:20:50.000It's always Tucker pounces, or Shapiro pounces, or look at this outrageous thing that these right-wingers are saying in response to us doing a crazy thing.
00:20:58.000We ban a book, and then the right goes, we don't like banning books.
00:21:01.000Polarizing terrible people talking about banning books.
00:21:45.000This is inhumane what he's doing and we know a judge had to rule over Tucker Carlson when his attorney talked about him.
00:21:53.000He's not a news reporter, he's an entertainer.
00:21:55.000This entertainment value of Tucker Carlson is deadly and Fox News should be ashamed of it because people's lives are in jeopardy.
00:22:04.000We saw the threats that came into reality on January 6th because a brew, a poisonous witch's brew was stirred by Tucker Carlson and others over there.
00:22:14.000Okay, and this is the real goal, is to get rid of your opposition.
00:22:18.000You build up your opposition so that you can tear it down.
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00:23:44.000And as the left pushes further and further, because they think that they now have the ability to walk over America, they believe that they can just, they've grabbed the power in these institutional strongholds, and they're just going to bulldoze America.
00:23:54.000They're going to generate an outsized amount of blowback.
00:23:57.000I'm not sure that they are aware of this, or maybe they just don't care.
00:24:00.000Maybe they think they can just steamroll the blowback, but I think that's going to be trouble for them.
00:25:07.000And this is what the left pushes every single day.
00:25:09.000Because they need a target every single day.
00:25:11.000See, when you have a roving mob on the internet waiting for the target, then you need a target.
00:25:16.000It used to be that mobs had to mobilize around usually a terrible purpose.
00:25:21.000Everybody would come home from work and then they would see something bad happen and then they would mob and do something awful and evil.
00:25:26.000Now, you have a roving mob on the internet that just spends all day on the internet.
00:25:30.000And so the only question is, around what drop of blood are they going to congregate?
00:25:34.000You put a drop of blood in the water and then they all just swarm.
00:25:37.000And it's pretty obvious what kind of culture they're attempting to build here.
00:25:39.000It's a culture of censorious righteousness porn, as she says.
00:25:43.000That actually tolerates actual porn, right?
00:25:45.000You have to understand that what they are acting in defense of is not a counterculture.
00:25:50.000What they are acting in defense of is an anti-culture that tears away all traditional standards.
00:25:54.000And so anybody who is a defender of any element of traditional standards, up to and including your individual right to offend, that must be torn down too.
00:26:02.000It is important that anything that smacks of the old ways, and the old ways is not just, you know, two parent household, the white picket fence, and the two and a half kids.
00:26:58.000The new puritans are great with porn and very bad with political dissidents.
00:27:03.000If you disagree with them, then you must be burned at the stake.
00:27:07.000But if you want to simulate lesbian sex acts on stage in front of millions of people, then not only is that good, that is wonderful for our culture.
00:27:13.000So Bill Burr, he gets up and he makes a joke because why the hell... And he's right.
00:27:19.000He was there to introduce the best Latino or Latina artist or something.
00:27:25.000And Bill Burr's like, why am I doing this?
00:28:41.000But you know what is great for our culture?
00:28:43.000What is great for our culture is Harry Styles wore a boa because he was doing a bad David Bowie impersonation from 1983.
00:28:49.000And then what is also fantastic, fantastic for our culture is extraordinarily graphic simulated lesbian sex acts on stage for the brand new artist of the year, Megan Thee Stallion, her given name.
00:29:02.000Her parents decided that her middle name had to be Thee, not with one E, which would make sense.
00:29:42.000They are the same people who will say that WAP is a deeply empowering feminist song because nothing says empowerment quite like rapping about the moisture state of your genitals for the pleasure of men to consume your actual content.
00:30:11.000But if you give your kid puberty blockers at the age of five so they can decide their gender at the age of 13, and if you infuse the culture with a bunch of warmed-over, softcore pornography on the Grammys, and then call it high culture, that's not bad for the culture.
00:30:29.000Now listen, I'm not sure that there is a deep connection between the quality of art that a culture produces and the morality of the culture.
00:30:37.000German culture produces some wonderful highs, but I will say this, I have yet to see a culture that produces low art and pretends that it is high art that is worthwhile.
00:30:47.000That is not a thing that, so just because a culture produces high art doesn't mean the culture is good, but just because a culture produces low art and that becomes the height of art, that's a pretty good indicator that you have a culture in decline.
00:30:58.000This is a culture in decline right here.
00:31:35.000Our new culture, however, has amazing things like this, like showing on Major national television, in the evening time, full-on simulated lesbian pornography.
00:32:39.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
00:32:41.000First, We have been talking about it for a week now.
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00:33:52.000I mean, there has to be a limit to this, right?
00:34:00.000But we're not going to reach that limit for quite a while.
00:34:02.000Remember, I've been reporting to you, thanks to producers Savvy and Jessica, I've been on top from the beginning of this Bachelor controversy, in which Chris Harrison got himself into super giant hot water.
00:34:14.000For the great sin of defending a Bachelor contestant named Rachel Kirkconnell, because a few years ago, she went to some sort of antebellum-themed costume party.
00:34:23.000And because it was an antebellum-themed costume party, this meant that they were neglecting the evil sins of slavery.
00:34:28.000Now, again, slavery, the great evil of American history, no question.
00:34:33.000Also, wearing a floofy dress from 1850 does not mean that you are, in fact, a fan of slavery.
00:35:21.000Harrison then did an ill-advised interview with a woke former bachelorette, and during that interview, he said that she needed to have a little grace.
00:35:30.000He said, we all need to have a little grace, a little understanding, a little compassion.
00:35:33.000I've seen some of the stuff online, this judge jury executioner thing where parents are just tearing this girl's life apart and diving into like her parents voting record.
00:35:39.000It's unbelievably alarming to watch this.
00:35:41.000He was then issued, he was forced to issue an apology and then a second apology.
00:35:45.000But now it turns out that Chris Harrison will no longer be actually hosting the show at all.
00:35:52.000That is after he did another one of these mewling interviews, the Good Morning America, in which he announced he was taking drastic steps to save his job, including lessons with a race educator.
00:36:01.000He was going to get the woke re-education, and that still wasn't enough.
00:36:06.000Show producers announced that he was being permanently replaced, at least as host of The Bachelorette, the female version of the show.
00:36:12.000The outlet reported, Chris Harrison will not host the next season of The Bachelorette for the first time in the history of the franchise, which began as a guilty pleasure when it debuted in 2002.
00:36:21.000We are dedicated to improving the BIPOC representation of our crew, including among the executive producer ranks, said Warner and ABC.
00:36:28.000These are important steps in effecting fundamental change so that our franchise is a celebration of love that is reflective of our world.
00:36:34.000Yes, nothing says a reflection of love quite like forcing somebody to lose his job for suggesting that perhaps you should have grace for other human beings.
00:36:41.000The backlash when this comes is going to be significant.
00:36:43.000And then, of course, when there is a backlash, it will be attributed to racism and sexism and brutality and homophobia and all the rest.
00:36:49.000Because that's the way our stupid culture works.
00:36:52.000The way that all of this works is that the left does something extreme and extraordinary while mainstreaming a bunch of fringe behavior.
00:36:59.000And then, when you protest, they say it's because you're a bad person.
00:37:05.000Americans are going to stand for this up to the point where they don't stand for it anymore.
00:37:08.000And when the backlash comes, it is going to be incredibly strong.
00:37:10.000But good news, before the backlash comes, the Democrats are going to take advantage of the fact that they have the commanding heights of all of our institutions and the government to ram through everything they could possibly want.
00:37:21.000And in order to do that, they also have to prolong the crisis that they believe we are in with regard to COVID.
00:37:26.000We are not in a crisis anymore with regard to COVID.
00:37:28.000ICUs around the country are threatened nowhere.
00:37:30.000There's not a single place in the United States where ICUs are under threat of being overwhelmed.
00:37:34.000There are still a lot of COVID patients that are coming in.
00:37:36.000They tend to be mainly younger and less severe because a huge percentage of the elderly in America's elderly states, places like Florida, are already vaccinated.
00:37:44.000The vaccines are going out at an extraordinary rate.
00:37:46.000we're doing about 2 million shots a day.
00:37:51.000But in order to ram through massive government policy, the left has to pretend that the crisis is never going to end.
00:37:57.000And they're already starting to morph this, right?
00:37:59.000So they're already starting to say, well, it's no longer a COVID crisis.
00:38:01.000Now there's the possibility that climate change will be the big problem, right?
00:38:04.000This is how you have Chuck Todd saying, you know what?
00:38:07.000Sure, this pandemic might be coming to an end, but we need more government spending and we need to build back better because there could be more pandemics in the future Remember, before this, the suggestion was we needed to overthrow the structure of the American economy because of climate change and income inequality.
00:38:23.000Then it turned out that actually the best possible response to income change, income inequality, and climate change, it turns out, is actually more capitalism in a lot of circumstances, not less capitalism.
00:38:32.000But The left is pushing that as the crisis.
00:38:35.000Now this crisis appears to be winning.
00:38:36.000So Chuck Todd is saying, you know what?
00:38:37.000We'll have more pandemics because of climate change.
00:38:39.000So maybe we should continue doing this stuff.
00:38:42.000You know, when you think about sadly having to prepare for this again, right?
00:38:46.000And I know there's a lot of folks who who think that, you know, due to climate change and due to the globalization in general, it's inevitable we're going to deal with more and more viruses like this.
00:38:59.000The biggest lesson you're going to take away to prepare for the next one.
00:39:06.000The desire to prolong the crisis is obvious, and captain crisis here is Dr. Anthony Fauci, the second greatest doctor in America, after Dr. Joe Biden, who, if you have a heart attack, will immediately diagnose you with a community college degree.
00:39:16.000Dr. Fauci was on with Chuck Todd, and he was explaining that, you know what?
00:39:33.000And if people don't want to show, they don't have to show.
00:39:34.000You can schedule a wedding indoors right now.
00:39:36.000And if you're vaccinated, you don't have to worry about it.
00:39:38.000The CDC standards say that if you are vaccinated and you are in contact with a person who is positive for COVID-19, you do not even have to quarantine, which means they are not worried that you're going to pass along the disease.
00:39:48.000By the way, that's what the studies show from Israel.
00:39:50.000They show that the rates of transmission for people who have already been vaccinated and have the antibodies are extremely low.
00:39:56.000If you're vaccinated and if you've had the opportunity to get a vaccine and you are not vaccinated, at that point, that one's on you.
00:40:03.000I can tell you right now when people are going to start rescheduling weddings.
00:40:25.000No, this is still a free republic, supposedly.
00:40:28.000We are not going to listen to you just because 40 years ago you were appointed the head of a government agency.
00:40:34.000I will say, the amount of respect the media have for Fauci is not matched in any sense by the amount of respect that people in private sector medicine have for Dr. Fauci.
00:41:12.000You know, I can't give you that exact date because it's going to absolutely depend, and this gets back to our conversation a minute or two ago.
00:41:20.000It's going to depend on the level of infection in community.
00:41:30.000Our scientific establishment has been corrupted by politics.
00:41:32.000We've talked about the military being corrupted by politics.
00:41:34.000Our culture has been completely destroyed by politics.
00:41:37.000And we also now have the scientific community destroyed by politics.
00:41:40.000It is incredible to me that we spent a year suggesting that Trump was tearing the heart out of the scientific community while he was allowing Fauci to go on TV and spout whatever Fauci wanted to say.
00:41:50.000And yet the Biden administration is clearly and obviously and openly changing CDC standards to match their political priors.
00:41:58.000And the entire media is like, oh, well, I guess they're following the science.
00:42:12.000Getting enough doses, which we will have with the new contracts with the pharmaceutical companies, but once you get those doses, to get it into people's arms.
00:42:22.000And that's the reason why when the president said by the 4th of July, we'll believe strongly that if we do all these things, we'll reach a certain degree of normality by then, and then well into the summer we'll get even better and better towards normal.
00:42:37.000It's amazing how he turned toward the positive tack, by the way, as soon as this giant useless and counterproductive stimulus act passed.
00:42:44.000Okay, that thing is replete with pork.
00:42:46.000And we all know the actual priorities here.
00:42:48.000Again, prolonging the crisis so that you can continue to force forward all sorts of insane spending.
00:42:52.000Here's Nancy Pelosi talking about the bailout to unions.
00:42:55.000So there's a $90 billion bailout to private sector unions in this thing.
00:42:58.000They'd signed bad contracts with their companies, their pension funds were running out of money because they were predicated on false promises.
00:43:03.000And now you, the taxpayer, you get to pick up the check for that.
00:43:07.000So Nancy Pelosi says the bailout to the unions was about the children, and also their grandparents, and also their grandparents, In other words, yes, we are just paying off our chief constituencies.
00:43:17.000And we're pretending it's about the crisis, but it ain't.
00:43:20.000I've always said that the three most important issues facing the Congress are our children, our children, our children.
00:43:26.000Their health, their education, the economic security of their families, including pension security for their grandparents, and an environment in which they can thrive safely, a world at peace in which they can reach their fulfillment.
00:43:41.000Well, the first three of those, their health, their education, And the economic security of their families was very much affected by the Biden American rescue plan.
00:43:52.000Again, they're just going to keep talking this thing up.
00:43:53.000Plus, you know what's coming on the other end.
00:43:55.000What Democrats really want, which is higher taxes.
00:44:05.000You could confiscate every dollar of wealth from the top 1% in America and redistribute it today, and it would not dent America's national debt.
00:44:12.000It would not dent the kind of spending that we are doing right now.
00:44:14.000Here's Nancy Pelosi openly embracing the idea of raising taxes down the line.
00:44:19.000Again, there are going to be consequences for the spending binge that we have all decided to go along with here.
00:44:25.000I'm glad that we have decided as a culture that the giant gaping hole in our hearts left as a result of the death of religion and community can be filled with puritanical wokeness.
00:44:34.000Ridiculous hedonism on TV and government stimmy checks, but it can't.
00:45:36.000At least in the 60s, there was an argument to be made that you were trying to rectify deep and abiding American imbalances.
00:45:41.000At this point, all you're attempting to do is cram down a socialistic version of big government in which government and corporations were canned in hand to destroy your freedoms and to restrict competition in favor of some sort of bizarre version of utopia in which you're not allowed to speak freely and the government hands you a check.
00:45:57.000That is the direction in which we're moving.