On this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, Ben talks about the Pope's call to protect the environment on Earth Day, and the radical left's belief that Mother Nature is trying to get back at us for all the things we do to the environment. Plus, Congress passes another round of aid for small businesses, and it's Earth Day! Happy Earth Day. Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. His latest novel Other Words For Smoke is out now and available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Click here to get your free copy of the book, "Man Sometimes forgives, but Nature Never Forgives." If you like the show, please give a five-star rating and a review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to the show and tell a friend about how much you love Ben Shapiro's show. Thanks to our sponsor ExpressVPN. Stand Up For Your Digital Rights! Stand Up for Digital Rights. by standing up for your digital rights! by taking action at Express VPN.org/standupforyourdigitalrights. Ben Shapiro is on a mission to make digital rights a priority in the fight against climate change and the fight for the environment, and why you should care about the environment and the future of our planet. It s a matter of life, liberty and the planet, not just our environment. . Ben is all about being kinder to nature, not more nice things, and not more selfish, and less stuff like that. Thank you for listening to nature. - Ben Shapiro: - The Ben and more! - I hope you enjoy the planet on this is not better than you can be kinder than you do that than you know what you can do than you need to be nice, and that you do it, right? "Good luck with that? - ENJOYING it? -- THE PODCAST: - Thank you, Ben Shapiro ? -- Thank you Ben Shapiro :) ENERGY AND THE POPE: Thank you to the Pope:) - THE PENNYC: The Pope: -- "God Always forgives me, but never forgives you, but he always forgives us, right, and so on and so much so, and he never forgets us, but does he does not have to forgive us?
00:00:42.000The guy who started Earth Day, killed his girlfriend, and put her in a trunk in his closet where she proceeded to drip into the bottom apartment, which is how she was originally.
00:00:56.000Listen, we all appreciate our environment, particularly when it's trying to kill us.
00:00:59.000I will say that my original take on nature has stood up pretty well over time, which is nature is trying to murder you.
00:01:05.000And basically, all of human life is about trying to avoid nature murdering you.
00:01:09.000The reason that I bring this up is because this morning, I'm starting to see the pagan awakening of some members of the radical left, many members of the radical left, suggesting that this is nature's revenge.
00:01:20.000Now, I have been informed by reliable sources That nature does not actually have intent.
00:01:26.000I've been informed by reliable sources on the left that God doesn't exist, number one, and then even if God did exist, nature does not have intent, right?
00:01:35.000I mean, evolutionary biology suggests that basically it's survival of the fittest out there, that nature is trying to kill you, and that those who survive, survive.
00:01:42.000So the idea that nature is having her revenge because we were mean to nature, and now Mother Nature is coming out and just blasting us.
00:01:50.000Mother Nature has decided to release a virus, unleash a plague upon us.
00:02:07.000He made an impassioned plea, according to Reuters, for protection of the environment on Wednesday's 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, which, again, is a pagan holiday.
00:02:14.000Environmentalism has become a religion for a lot of folks, and complete with activities, like we have to separate our recycling and our trash, even though most of the time the recycling goes to the same place as the trash does, namely to the dump, or that it is more expensive in many cases to recycle than it is to throw things in the garbage.
00:02:31.000I've talked about articles in the past that actually detail the cost breakdown to the environment, by the way.
00:02:38.000It also does some things that are pretty not great for the environment, including some fairly significant carbon emissions, depending on how you process all of that.
00:02:45.000But it's become sort of a ritualistic thing for a lot of environmentalists to talk about the environment as though it has its own level of brute force intent, which, of course, it does not.
00:02:58.000And the fact that the Pope is buying into it is pretty amazing.
00:03:01.000Now, listen, I'm all in favor of protecting the environment from predations.
00:03:02.000been saying it was necessary for young people to quote, take it to the streets to teach us what is obvious.
00:03:06.000That is, there will be no future for us if we destroy the environment that sustains us.
00:03:10.000Now, listen, I'm all in favor of protecting the environment from predations.
00:03:15.000I'm all in favor of environmental regulations that prevent externalities, prevent you from polluting a river that I'm going to use, prevent you from just willy-nilly chopping down forests for no apparent reason.
00:04:30.000You know, I want to take my walk every day.
00:04:32.000I want to go out and go for a hike with my kids.
00:04:34.000But this bizarre idea that nature is taking revenge on us and that this is a punishment for global warming or some such is really quite insane.
00:04:43.000And we are starting to see sort of the inklings of that on the left, an almost quasi celebration.
00:04:48.000It started off a few weeks ago in like the in what they call the deep green movement, people who are celebrating.
00:04:53.000Look at the cities going back to the animals, the cities being overrun by nature again.
00:04:57.000Look how clear the sky is over Los Angeles.
00:05:01.000We'll get in a second to the left's take on global warming, because the radical left, and it's not the entire left, right?
00:05:05.000Most people on the left want to get back to work.
00:05:07.000Most people who are liberals want to get back to work, and they are not into the whole, what if we just shut down all of human civilization?
00:05:27.000The Earth doesn't have its own paganistic capacity.
00:05:32.000He said, I think if I ask the Lord now what he thinks about this, I don't think he would say it's a very good thing.
00:05:35.000It is we who have ruined the work of God.
00:05:38.000I mean, right now, I'm fairly certain it is the environment that is responsible for, you know, hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, tens of millions of people out of work.
00:05:47.000The Earth's response to our... The Earth did not respond.
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00:07:41.000OK, so as I as I mentioned, sort of last note on the environmentalist movement that is using this as using this pandemic as sort of a bizarre pagan ...belief system in which, because we drove cars, now nature has taken her revenge by killing 85-year-olds.
00:08:00.000That is how nature has gone about doing this.
00:08:03.000One aspect of this is the Green Movement's focus on global warming.
00:08:08.000So Eric Holthaus, who is just a very, very clever fellow, apparently, he writes on climate at the cores.
00:08:33.000This is roughly the same pace the IPCC says we need to sustain every year until 2030, to be on pace to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and hit the Paris climate goals.
00:08:43.000This is what rapid, far-reaching, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society looks like.
00:08:49.000We need to take some serious time and energy during this pandemic to look around and see what parts of this new way of living we can keep, like less air travel, and what parts we can't, like huge unemployment.
00:09:01.000We need a just transition for workers and those who have been marginalized by the excesses of the capitalist system that got us into this mess.
00:09:08.000We can build a better world for everyone out of the ashes of the old one.
00:09:12.000And all I can think of here is that Monty Python sketch with Jesus on the cross singing, always look on the bright side of life.
00:09:23.000In the middle of a global pandemic, it's killing hundreds of thousands of people and tens of millions of people are out of work and can't feed their families.
00:09:28.000And Eric Holdcost is like, yes, We can do this indefinitely.
00:09:31.000And we can bring down the climate by 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next hundred years if we just keep this up for like the next decade.
00:09:37.000If we just figure out how to do this for like the next decade.
00:10:04.000It was created Tuesday to send hundreds of billions of dollars in fresh aid to small businesses and hospitals.
00:10:08.000That's the federal government's latest efforts to keep pace with the twin economic and public health crises created by the coronavirus pandemic.
00:10:14.000The Senate on Tuesday evening passed the $484 billion bill by a voice vote, sending it to the House for an approval expected on Thursday.
00:10:20.000President Trump said on Twitter he supported the legislation.
00:10:22.000Its final components were hammered out between top White House officials and congressional leaders in the early morning hours on Tuesday.
00:10:29.000The package which lawmakers dubbed an interim emergency bill.
00:10:32.000So we have now spent, by the Senate and by the Congress of the United States, we've now spent in excess of $2.6 trillion in the last four weeks.
00:10:39.000That does not include the $4 trillion expended by the Treasury.
00:10:42.000Also includes funding to ramp up the country's testing for new coronavirus.
00:10:45.000It does not include funding sought by Democrats for hard-hit state and local budgets, which was instead pushed off to the next round of stimulus negotiations.
00:10:51.000As I've said, you got to be real careful about that.
00:10:54.000It's one thing to fill in the gaps created by federal policy.
00:10:57.000It is another thing to pay off California for California's crap policy for the last 10 years, running up its debt.
00:11:04.000Top Republican signaled concerns about the mounting debt would play a bigger role in talks about future stimulus aid, which it should.
00:11:09.000We cannot spend this money endlessly, guys.
00:11:11.000And by the way, the original CARES Act was filled with holes.
00:11:14.000It now turns out that the Republican objection that the CARES Act, which paid people $1,200 a month and then added $600 a month on top of that so that some people were making more money by staying home than by going to work, that has actually had some fairly significant effects.
00:11:26.000It turns out a lot of people were like, OK, well, I'm not going back to work.
00:11:30.000We've taken calls on the radio show from business owners who are going to their employees and saying, we want you to come back to work so we can get a small business loan because you have to maintain 90% employment to get the small business loan through the Paycheck Protection Act.
00:11:42.000And employees being like, no, I'm not coming back to work.
00:11:44.000I'm making more money staying at home.
00:11:46.000Because that's what happens when you create perverse incentives.
00:11:50.000This one might be necessary, and it also might suck.
00:11:52.000Both of those things can be true at the same time.
00:11:55.000The Democrats held this thing up for a week for no reason at all.
00:11:58.000Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, he says, you're going to have to explain, like, name one thing that Nancy Pelosi has done well during this pandemic.
00:12:05.000Because all she's been doing is holding up aid relief bills in the middle of a crisis, and that will lead to further unemployment.
00:12:11.000Name me one productive thing Speaker Pelosi has accomplished during this pandemic.
00:12:16.000When President Trump on January 31st put in the ban from China, February 24th she asked people to gather together in San Francisco.
00:12:33.000There's 700,000 small business applications in right now trying to keep their doors open.
00:12:39.000Last week we watched 5 million people, new numbers, for unemployment.
00:12:43.000How many more millions of Pelosi's layoffs will we have to endure before she'll put people before politics?
00:12:50.000And the answer is, as many as Nancy Pelosi sees fit to make people endure so that she can dump a bunch of pork into each one of these programs.
00:12:56.000At the core of our agreement, says Mitch McConnell, is $320 billion more for the Paycheck Protection Program, which is already saving millions of small business jobs and helping Americans get paychecks instead of pink slips.
00:13:06.000Those funds were exhausted inside of like two weeks.
00:13:09.000Businesses are just shutting down everywhere because nobody, the market doesn't exist.
00:13:14.000I mean, the reason that oil prices sank to negative levels as of May 1st, is because nobody's driving to work.
00:13:25.000All we had to do was make all of human civilization stop dead and put tens of millions of people out of work.
00:13:30.000Democrats were pressing for changes to the program to widen its access to loans.
00:13:35.000$60 billion will be set aside for small, midsize, and community lenders.
00:13:39.000A separate program, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Fund, aimed at delivering a mix of grants and loans, gets $60 billion in the legislation.
00:13:48.000Loans can be forgiven if businesses maintain the size of their workforce.
00:13:52.000Nancy Pelosi held it up again to basically achieve nothing.
00:13:56.000And this is the second time that she has done this, right?
00:13:58.000She held up the CARES Act for a week after it had already been hammered out by Schumer and McConnell.
00:14:02.000She held it up for a week for no apparent reason.
00:14:03.000She held this one up for a week for no apparent reason because she's just awful.
00:14:06.000She's just awful in every possible way.
00:14:08.000Here she was on MSNBC this morning suggesting Republicans had held up the bill even though, again, the deal had been hammered out and then she jet-setted in from her very expensive palatial estate in California to hold the thing up.
00:14:19.000We're very pleased that the Senate finally accepted the fact that we needed more money for testing, for hospitals, for lower and smaller businesses to participate in the Paycheck Protection Program.
00:14:35.000Mitch McConnell likes to say we delayed the bill.
00:16:17.000That doesn't mean we're not going to get some treatments, but we need to be realistic about what the future looks like if we hope to get back to anything presuming normal or even remotely approaching normal.
00:16:41.000Your favorite devices are a major source of blue light, whether it's your phone or your tablet or your computer or your TV.
00:16:46.000And this can create eye strain, right?
00:16:48.000Bright screens in a dark room, that creates eye strain.
00:16:51.000I used to get headaches fairly regularly from blue light.
00:16:53.000Then I started using my Felix Gray glasses.
00:16:55.000Felix Gray glasses, they are first straight because they filter out 90% of blue light in the most damaging range.
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00:17:05.000This is better than those lenses you're going to get online where people just sort of paint something on the lens, and then it starts cracking and glazing off.
00:18:17.000As I say, there's been very little evidence that vaccines for coronavirus have been particularly successful.
00:18:21.000Remember, it took us like 30 years to even come up with a drug cocktail that was effective against HIV AIDS.
00:18:26.000So the idea that you're going to come up inside of a year with a vaccine for a coronavirus seems fairly difficult.
00:18:32.000Also, the Jerusalem Post reports a new study in China has found that the novel coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different variations, showing that medical officials have vastly underestimated the overall ability of the virus to mutate.
00:18:42.000So if it's mutating, then you're not going to be able to create a successful vaccine for it.
00:18:47.000And meanwhile, the CDC director is saying that the second wave in winter could theoretically be even worse.
00:18:53.000Robert Redfield spoke with the Washington Post.
00:18:54.000He said there's a possibility the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through.
00:19:00.000When I've said this to others, they kind of put their head back.
00:19:05.000So, you know, the reason that he is saying that is if the virus is still around and if people go out and they are back in school and they're going about their business, well, then presumably the spread will be wider.
00:19:15.000I mean, right now the spread is not all that wide because everybody has locked down and it depends on area.
00:19:21.000So there's an article that I saw today in Spiked Online Magazine talking about the effectiveness of lockdowns.
00:19:29.000The article is by a guy named Wilfred Riley, who's a political scientist, and he points out that states that have not locked down are not doing worse than states that have locked down.
00:19:38.000The seven states that have not locked down are Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
00:19:45.000The states reported 37, 60, 21, 9, 7, 20, and two deaths, respectively, for an average of 22.3 deaths.
00:19:51.000Throwing in South Carolina, the states averaged 33 deaths.
00:19:55.000If you measure up those states against the rest of the United States, what you see is that they're actually doing significantly better than the rest of the United States.
00:20:02.000Now, the answer is that it has nothing to do with those states don't have lockdowns, the other states do have lockdowns.
00:20:07.000It has to do with population density, obviously.
00:20:09.000Okay, and you can adjust for population density, sort of, but you can't really adjust for the fact that New York City is a massively, massively populous place that is responsible for something like 30%, 30, 25 to 30% of all deaths in the United States are just New York City.
00:20:23.000So, really heavily populous places, you might need lockdowns if you hope to curb the spread of this thing.
00:20:28.000But if you're looking at Utah, probably not.
00:20:34.000You can adjust for population in the stats, but it doesn't completely adjust for populations in the stats.
00:20:40.000So, if you extend this more broadly across the world, it is not clear that lockdowns are going to be particularly effective, at least not for long, because as people go out, they're going to infect each other again.
00:21:03.000We can hope for the effectiveness of that particular drug.
00:21:06.000We can hope that some of the new techniques that are being used, like immunosuppressants, because there's a belief that maybe cytokine storms are leading, too strong an immune response is leading to overload of the system, basically.
00:21:17.000We can't really hope for the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine anymore.
00:21:21.000There's a new malaria study on hydroxychloroquine, a nationwide study.
00:21:26.000With 368 patients, it was the largest look so far at hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin.
00:21:32.000The study was posted online and it found that 28% of those who were given hydroxychloroquine plus usual care died versus 11% of those getting routine care alone.
00:21:42.00022% of those getting the drug plus azithromycin died too.
00:21:44.000The difference between that group and the usual care was not considered large enough to rule out other factors.
00:21:49.000Hydroxychloroquine made no difference in the need for a breathing machine either.
00:21:52.000So hydroxychloroquine has not been effective.
00:21:55.000They stopped part of a study testing chloroquine, which is an older drug similar after heart rhythm problems developed in one quarter of people, given the higher doses of two being tested.
00:22:04.000So Plaquenil, which is the on brand version of the drug, has not been effective against There was anecdotal evidence that maybe it was working, but it appears not to be.
00:22:14.000Meanwhile, there's another drug that is being put out in Israel, a COVID-19 treatment called Pluristem.
00:22:20.000Which is now being utilized and tested in the United States.
00:22:23.000There's a report by the company showing that six critically ill coronavirus patients in Israel considered high risk for mortality were treated with Pluristem's placenta-based cell therapy product and survived, according to preliminary data provided by the Haifa-based company.
00:22:39.000That patient was critically ill with respiratory failure due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, was intubated in an ICU for three weeks.
00:22:46.000So they're hoping that maybe this will be a mitigating circumstance.
00:22:51.000That's probably the best that we can hope for at this point, is that by the time we get to fall, there are some new drugs on the market that help curb the effect of this thing.
00:23:01.000But other than that, I don't think there are going to be a lot of major changes until the fall.
00:23:05.000Other than the development of drugs, I don't think there's going to be a lot of major changes until the fall.
00:23:07.000So, what are you locking down until, is the question.
00:23:11.000Like, what is the purpose of locking down?
00:23:12.000So, if you're locking down until you have curbed the spread such that we can actually measure hotspot increases, as I mentioned yesterday, that's fair, right?
00:23:20.000We want to at least get it to the point where you can identify a hotspot when it arises.
00:24:41.000Okay, so in a piece of good news, Despite all of this, as Dr. Deborah Brooks said yesterday, the United States still has one of the lowest death rates on planet Earth.
00:24:50.000So the talk about how the United States has completely botched this and mishandled this, there's this massive disconnect in the media between how they think the U.S.
00:25:16.000Okay, we have a one city that has an extraordinarily dense population with a lot of people with pre-existing conditions, a lot of elderly folks, and the death rates there are exceedingly high.
00:25:27.000Even there, the healthcare system is not overwhelmed.
00:25:29.000Here's Dr. Deborah Birx pointing out that we still have one of the lowest death rates in the world.
00:25:33.000They have been on the front lines now for weeks and weeks and weeks.
00:25:37.000And so no matter what city they have been in, they have not seen the relief that we've been able to talk about at the end of the tunnel because of the delay in hospitalizations and deaths.
00:25:48.000So to our health care providers, to our respiratory therapists, and to everyone in the labs, thank you for the work that you're doing to protect Americans and give us one of the lowest mortality rates in the entire world.
00:26:17.000There are people who seem to be actively rooting against what Sweden is doing.
00:26:20.000Because maybe they like the lockdown policy so much that they're rooting against Sweden or they're rooting against Georgia.
00:26:25.000They're sort of hoping against hope that something bad happens in Georgia to convince people to stay home across.
00:26:30.000You should be rooting for the success in Sweden.
00:26:32.000According to the Swedish experts, they're now saying, They're now saying that there will be a fairly high percentage of people who have been infected in Sweden in very short order, so they are approaching herd immunity.
00:26:47.000You sort of let people walk around and be responsible.
00:26:50.000I've now asked pretty much everybody, left, right, and center, where we are going to end up in terms of actual policy.
00:26:54.000The answer is we will end up doing what Sweden does.
00:26:56.000The only question is whether we do that sooner or whether we do that later.
00:27:00.000And as we are seeing, some states are doing it sooner and some states are doing it later.
00:27:02.000And pretending that all states are equivalent is ridiculous.
00:27:05.000The New York-based media is so angry at Georgia for suggesting reopening of shops.
00:27:09.000And by the way, just because you say that shops can reopen does not mean that shops will reopen.
00:27:13.000Many shops are not reopening in Georgia.
00:27:15.000Many shops are saying, listen, we don't have the capacity to do temperature checks.
00:27:18.000We don't have the ability to socially distance.
00:27:20.000So we're just not going to open until the spread has been slowed a little bit more.
00:27:24.000The media, I think, completely got wrong the Georgia policies as well, because those suggestions seem to be that people are going to willy-nilly go out bowling, no masks, no social distancing, that people are going to go to restaurants and spit on each other.
00:27:36.000In order for you to reopen your business, you have to take certain preliminary steps, like everyone has to be masked, everybody has to socially distance, right?
00:27:44.000Brian Kemp, who's the governor of Georgia, was on Fox News with Martha McCallum, and he was explaining the policy.
00:27:49.000Can you explain why you would start with those kinds of businesses on day one?
00:27:54.000Well, those are the ones that are closed.
00:27:56.000The other businesses in Georgia are still currently opening under the order that I have now, and we're coming down.
00:28:03.000I think that's what a lot of people don't understand, but you also have to give that fitness owner or that owner in a hair salon the ability to be able to be a partner in this fight that we're in.
00:28:16.000This is going to take some common sense.
00:28:18.000Our people in our state have learned a lot through this.
00:28:21.000They have helped us be a solution to the problem, to flatten the curve, and to start getting on the other side of this.
00:28:29.000Okay, people on the left are wildly angry at Brian Kemp for doing this.
00:28:32.000Like, they should be rooting for it to work, right?
00:28:34.000Because that way we can all start tranching back into work, which would be the idea.
00:28:38.000People who are vulnerable will still be out of the workforce, people who have pre-existing conditions, people who are elderly, people who live with people who are older, right?
00:28:44.000Those people will be last to go back to the workforce because you don't want to expose people.
00:28:47.000But we're going to have to start getting back to something that approaches a workforce at this point.
00:28:52.000The media, we're fighting mad about this.
00:28:54.000So Chris Hayes over at MSNBC says this is reckless, it's illogical, it's just terrible.
00:28:58.000Why is Georgia doing something like this?
00:29:00.000Look at the state of Georgia, which is about to reopen a wide range of businesses under Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
00:29:07.000If that sounds insane to you, you're not alone.
00:29:11.000For the record, Georgia does not meet the White House guidelines.
00:29:15.000It does not have a 14-day trajectory of declining cases.
00:29:18.000It has tested less than 90,000 people out of a population of more than 10 million.
00:29:23.000Mayors in Georgia are describing the governor's decision as reckless, dangerous, and illogical.
00:29:30.000Okay, well, those mayors are ignoring the fact that actually the infection rate is now below one in Georgia.
00:29:36.000If you actually look at the stats in Georgia, what you'll see is that there's an increasing number of positive tests, but if you chart that against the number of tests overall that are being taken, that chart shows the lines diverging, meaning that hugely increasing number of tests, slightly and consistently increasing number of positive cases.
00:29:54.000You can actually see the chart if you're watching the show.
00:29:56.000That red line is the number of total tests being taken in Georgia.
00:29:59.000That blue line is the number of positive tests.
00:30:01.000What you would expect to see is the blue line trending up at a faster rate as the number of tests increases.
00:30:05.000Instead, what you are seeing is a consistency in the number of tests that are coming back positive, which is a smaller percentage than the total number of tests that are coming back in.
00:30:16.000Eric Erickson, who's a radio host in Georgia, he says, The infection rate does not get talked about a lot.
00:30:22.000It's the measure of a virus's ability to reproduce, the reproduction rate.
00:30:25.000If the RT, which is what it's called, is above 1, the virus will spread.
00:30:28.000If it's below 1, the virus will stop spreading.
00:30:30.000Healthcare experts have been telling us since March people need to shelter in place to get the RT below 1.
00:30:35.000Once it was below 1, we could start slowly reopening.
00:32:19.000Until there's new treatments that come out, a vaccine, as I say, is I think unlikely.
00:32:25.000We're going to have to deal with the increased risk, and we're going to have to go back to a certain level of reality, because this cannot last.
00:32:31.000What is happening right now simply is not palatable.
00:32:35.000And as we will see, the federal government is going to take some steps to step in if states continue to lock down indefinitely without any sort of actual measurement, any metric of when it is safe.
00:32:44.000By Gupta's standard there, there is no metric by which it is safe to go back to work.
00:32:48.000If we can't go back to work until everybody feels secure that the virus is no longer out there, well, then we're going to get the Eric Holdhout solution of being home for the next 10 years.
00:33:01.000Let's talk about the fact that if you have a medical problem that is really affecting you right now, it's tough to go to the doctor's office.
00:33:06.000And if it's something that would be embarrassing to talk to about a doctor in person anyway, well, maybe you weren't doing it in the first place.
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00:36:06.000So there seems to be this sort of panicked belief that we are not going anywhere until there's a vaccine.
00:36:16.000I'm part of many in the media, many Democrats, that somehow there's going to be a deus ex machina, that there will be some outside intervention that will fix all of this tomorrow.
00:36:25.000And part of that is our attention span in modern society is five seconds long.
00:36:28.000And so you're constantly refreshing Twitter to see if somebody has come up with a cure.
00:36:31.000Part of that is also our risk level in society has dropped so dramatically.
00:36:36.000That we are not willing to undertake certain risks.
00:36:38.000And listen, I'm not saying that if you are elderly or vulnerable, if you don't have a pre-existing condition, and when I say elderly, I really mean above age 60, that you should be out running around willy-nilly no problem, right?
00:36:48.000You should be taking all the measures you can take to keep yourself safe.
00:36:51.000If you're in regular contact with those people, you should be taking measures to keep those people safe.
00:37:03.000And if governors are waiting for something, I'm not sure what they are waiting for.
00:37:06.000Once you have, again, lowered the rate to the point where your healthcare system will not be overwhelmed, and two, you can actually identify hotspots as they grow, that's pretty much all you can do.
00:37:14.000Well, Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday the DOJ is going to consider supporting people and groups who allege that their rights have been violated by pandemic policies, which is good.
00:37:20.000You're starting to see these bizarre videos emerge all over the country of police arresting people doing, like, absolutely nothing.
00:37:27.000There was a video that was floating around Twitter, and unless there's more to the story, it's egregious, of a mother being arrested because she took her kid to the park.
00:37:38.000The American people should not stand for this kind of garbage.
00:37:41.000I will say, I've never been proud of America.
00:37:43.000And I was when I saw the story that Bill de Blasio had requested that everybody in New York send tips to the mayoral office of people who are not socially distancing.
00:38:02.000Here was Attorney General William Barr saying, listen, if governors are pursuing policies that violate people's civil liberties and violate their constitutional rights, and there is not evidence to back those policies, we are going to sue those governors.
00:38:15.000I think the president's guidance has been, as I say, superb and very commonsensical.
00:38:21.000And I think a lot of the governors are following that.
00:38:25.000And, you know, to the extent that governors don't and impinge on either civil rights or on the national commerce, our common market that we have here, then we'll have to address that.
00:38:39.000These are very, very burdensome We have to remember, for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread, that is bending the curve, we didn't adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease.
00:39:27.000Like, there's nothing wrong with the executive order.
00:39:29.000There are some people who say it's not strict enough in limiting immigration because all it really does is it temporarily bars new immigrants, including some family members of U.S.
00:39:36.000citizens and foreign workers, looking to move to the United States in the next 60 days alone under a new executive order.
00:39:42.000The temporary immigration suspension is designed to reduce immigration at a time when tens of millions of Americans have lost jobs.
00:39:48.000There are some people who are saying that's not going to do it.
00:39:49.000I mean, a 60-day ban isn't going to do it because people aren't even going back to work, many of them, in the next 60 days, particularly in areas like New York or New Jersey.
00:39:57.000The executive order does not impact immigrants already living in the United States or foreigners coming on temporary visas for work or travel.
00:40:04.000So that means that you're actually not even decreasing the number of workers, which, you know, frankly, it seems to me that if you're trying to limit the amount of labor in American society at a time when 30 million people are out of work, Which is not the world's worst idea, then this is insufficient.
00:40:17.000That category includes H-1B visas, which allow more than 85,000 high-skilled foreigners to come to the United States for at least three years to work.
00:40:24.000It also includes seasonal migrant workers who come to the U.S.
00:40:26.000annually to work on farms where they make up about a tenth of the agricultural workforce.
00:40:30.000And in other businesses, such as resorts and county fairs, the executive order is less restrictive than advocates on both sides had earlier expected.
00:40:37.000It doesn't actually impact most employment-based immigration.
00:40:40.000So basically it just says you can't come in right now.
00:40:42.000Mark Krikorian, who is the strict-on-immigration president of the Center for Immigration Studies, he says it's a PR stunt more than anything else, which it may very well be.
00:40:51.000So all of the objections that this is like the end of the world, that's just not correct.
00:40:55.000That has not prevented people from fulminating in the most idiotic fashion.
00:40:58.000Beto O'Rourke tweeted about how he wanted people to work on the farms.
00:41:02.000I mean, honestly, if a Republican had tweeted this, everybody would be like, this guy's kind of a racist.
00:41:06.000Beto O'Rourke tweeted, and this is great because I get to bring back my Beto.
00:41:10.000Who the bleep do you think is working on the farms and feedlots, brah, in the packing houses and processing plants at a time when we are struggling to feed ourselves?
00:42:03.000I don't want them to compete right now.
00:42:05.000There's a big difference when we have a full economy and frankly where some of the companies, we have many companies moving in, where they need actually, they need workers.
00:42:14.000That's a big difference between that and where all of a sudden a lot of people lose jobs.
00:42:19.000Okay, so again, there's the reporter completely blowing it.
00:42:22.000Speaking of the media completely blowing it, the continued insanity of Chris Cuomo is pretty amazing.
00:42:27.000So yesterday, Chris Cuomo emerged from his basement To the wild cheers of, I guess, the internal staff at CNN, he emerged from his basement in what is obviously the most produced video everywhere, of any time.
00:42:41.000He's overacting more than Nicolas Cage in every Nicolas Cage movie.
00:42:50.000Now, what's hilarious about this, of course, is that CNN's Chris Cuomo had been spotted Like actually traveling from one of his houses to a construction site where construction was taking place in another one of his houses.
00:43:00.000So this is not the first time he's emerged from the basement.
00:43:02.000I guess the idea here was that if he emerged from the basement and then went back down into the basement, then we would get six more weeks of winter.
00:43:08.000But here was Chris Cuomo emerging from the basement over at CNN in the most dramatic possible fashion.
00:43:58.000So, Chris Cuomo, when he's not emerging in a fake, obviously, second-take video, when he's not emerging from his basement, he has also explained that we're not seeing urgency from our leaders.
00:44:07.000And this is the media narrative that drives me up a wall.
00:44:09.000The media have promoted two specific lies here.
00:44:12.000Lie number one is that there will come a time in the near future when we are all safe and we can all go back to work as normal, and that will require 87 million tests a day, and also it will require a vaccine, and anybody who says differently wants to kill you.
00:44:29.000So that is deeply irresponsible of the media.
00:44:32.000The other thing that the media keeps saying is that the federal administration, because Trump is the president, that they are not doing sufficient action, that they don't care deeply about this.
00:44:59.000Here's Chris Cuomo explaining that our leaders are not showing great urgency in the middle of the worst pandemic in modern American history.
00:45:07.000People are doing amazing things all the time to help other people during this pandemic.
00:45:12.000My frustration is we need that from our leaders as well.
00:45:16.000That desperate times, desperate measures, doing what you can.
00:46:05.000As everybody knows, that's going to be the next step as we go forward.
00:46:08.000The President sent up a Navy ship, the Comfort, which was a hospital ship, which, by the way, was very good to have in case we had overflow.
00:46:18.000But I said, We don't really need the comfort anymore.
00:46:22.000It did give us comfort, but we don't need it anymore.
00:46:25.000So if they need to deploy that somewhere else, they should take it.
00:46:37.000The media's coverage here is basically just a Democratic talking point, because everybody sort of understands at this point the administration is doing what they need to do.
00:46:46.000And yet the Democratic talking point is that everything the administration does is insufficient, and the only thing that would be sufficient are things that are not possible.
00:46:52.000So you end up with people like Anderson Cooper suggesting on national television that we need 4 million tests per day.
00:46:58.000We don't need 4 million tests per day to open.
00:47:23.000Everybody wants to get out of their house.
00:47:25.000There are a lot of safe ways to do it, but the safest way of all is clearly by being able to test the virus itself, who has it, and being able to test the antibodies to determine who may have had it.
00:47:37.000There are about 150,000 tests being done roughly every day right now.
00:47:41.000A latest Harvard study was showing initially 4 million would need to be done every day, maybe going up into double digits by July just to get everything going and people confident.
00:47:55.000Okay, by the way, that Harvard study did not suggest that that was going to be the bar to governors opening states.
00:47:59.000What the Harvard study suggested is that if you want people to like go back to concerts and movie theaters in mass numbers, you need 20 million a day.
00:48:07.000But the media have been using that number as a cudgel to wield against the Trump administration.
00:48:10.000Well, if you don't make 20 million tests available, first of all, all of this is basically on governors.
00:48:14.000Remember, we have a federalist system.
00:48:15.000Somehow Gavin Newsom in California was able to obtain enough ventilators that we were sending ventilators from this coast to the other coast in the middle of the pandemic.
00:48:22.000Well, they can do the same with state budgets.
00:48:25.000It turns out that if states can pay for all the stupid crap that they pay for, they should be able to pay for some of these tests.
00:48:31.000But all of this feeds into the general democratic talking point here, which is that the Trump administration is a giant failure.
00:48:37.000Here's AOC summing it up, suggesting that the government is responsible for a 9-11 worth of death every single day.
00:48:43.000We are going to pass a small potatoes bill and then we are talking about recessing again until May 4th.
00:48:52.000And if we are going to bring every member or call back almost every member who can back to D.C.
00:49:00.000to pass a small incremental bill and with the knowledge that we are not coming back until next month again, that's two rent checks.
00:49:08.000And the last time we left again, we lost Over one 9-11's worth of people due to this lack of action.
00:49:41.000And the states, many of them are trying to do what they can do, and some of them are overzealous in doing it, and some of them are saying, listen, Georgia is not New York.
00:49:48.000But to pretend that public officials are insufficiently acting so that you can elect Democrats is pretty disgusting.
00:49:53.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:49:58.000If you are a music fan, and not too discriminating in your taste, then you might enjoy a video that we just posted on YouTube.
00:50:05.000My dad and I have had a little bit of extra time to practice violin and piano together, and so we put together basically a single take of Ave Maria by Bach and Gounod.
00:51:02.000Okay, so you can go listen to the whole thing over there.
00:51:06.000Also, I believe we are posting a singletake version of Meditation from Thai East by Jules Massenet, which is one of the more famous violin solo pieces.
00:51:26.000One thing that I really do love about some members of the social left is that many of the things that they say are moral, they will not engage in themselves because they inherently know they're not particularly moral.
00:51:35.000Now, this is not the libertarian position.
00:51:36.000The libertarian position very often is that things that I don't think are moral are still allowed.
00:51:41.000In a free society, lots of stuff I don't approve of, but that doesn't actively harm other people.
00:51:46.000It's not really my job to step in and do something about that, because if we all use our subjective preferences as to what is right and wrong, but with regards to things that don't damage other people, that's how you end up with authoritarian states.
00:52:03.000The leftist position is only things I like should be legal.
00:52:06.000If I don't like your language, it should be illegal.
00:52:08.000If you say a thing I don't like, it's hate speech.
00:52:10.000If you participate in a religious service I don't like, we should shut it down.
00:52:12.000If you want to homeschool your kids, that should be illegal.
00:52:15.000We talked about this a little bit earlier this week.
00:52:16.000There was a Harvard Magazine piece about how homeschooling should be illegal because evil, evil Christians are teaching social priorities that this professor at Harvard does not like.
00:52:24.000So the leftist position is not a libertarian one.
00:52:26.000Like, I don't like this moral position, but it should still be allowed because I have a different view of what government should do than enforce morality.
00:52:35.000No, the leftist position is the government should enforce morality.
00:52:38.000So, therefore, the government should only allow things that I personally like.
00:52:42.000Well, this has led to some very weird sort of, some weird contradictions.
00:52:45.000And it leads to this very puzzled piece that I absolutely love from Mel Magazine.
00:52:50.000The piece was written by Ceci Kuwabara Blanchard.
00:52:54.000It is called, Why Won't Woke Boys Pay for Sex?
00:52:57.000Bernie bros, male feminists, and good guy liberals all support sex work.
00:53:01.000But for some reason, they aren't paying girls like me for sex.
00:53:05.000Four months before Violet, a 25-year-old transsexual with dollish cheekbones and primary color wardrobe, moved to Brooklyn, she toyed with the idea of holding a farewell tour in her lifelong home of Portland, Oregon.
00:53:15.000Her approach to putting a bow on her 20-plus years in a city, mocked for its liberal leanings, was to collide her two disparate worlds, her friend circle of jewel-puffing, mulleted Bernie bros, with her recent professional foray into bleeping for cash.
00:53:29.000What if I put it out there that I'm available as a sex worker for people I know for highly discounted rates?
00:53:33.000Violet, now a good friend of mine, recently tells me over FaceTime, recalling the logic behind her maniac idea.
00:53:38.000She admits it was both a stab at giving her friends a last chance to F while also raking in as much money as she could before she hit the Big Apple.
00:53:45.000Violet took to Instagram stories to vibe-check these guys.
00:53:52.000She assumed that her peers, millennial Zoomer cusps with art degrees and hard-ons for progressive politics, would be prime clients.
00:53:59.000After all, as youngish liberals, they seemed to overwhelmingly support sex workers and the decriminalization of their profession, and they were right in line with those of others in their demographic categories.
00:54:08.000Despite stereotypes of Johns being unattractive older men, some research shows that clients of sex workers tend to have their first experience of paid sex when they're young, hot, and in their 20s.
00:54:17.000In other words, the numbers suggest that more of Violet's followers should have been down with paid sex, but that's not what happened.
00:54:23.000The woke guys in her social circle who responded weren't bringing the same kind of hurrah they had for the idea of standing in solidarity with sex workers, and exactly none of them offered to cough up cash.
00:54:34.000If these young dudes were politically rooting for sex workers, and are in the period of their lives when they're most likely to first see one, why aren't they seizing en masse the opportunity for one of Violet's bargain bin leaps?
00:54:44.000Or one of those friendly neighborhood sex workers, for that matter?
00:54:56.000As two trans girls who keep leftist male hotties in their company and turn tricks as a side hustle, Violet and I both have observed that our peers can't get our politics straight.
00:55:04.000For one, these guys support decriminalizing sex work because they're feminists, but they also seem to not pay for sex because they're feminists.
00:55:10.000So they are they are so woke that they are all in favor of people being paid for sex.
00:55:20.000Like they think it's perfectly moral to pay for sex, but also they think it's a little bit immoral to pay for sex because that might be violating feminist precepts.
00:55:28.000Because the feminist movement is actually confused about this thing, so they are confused similarly.
00:55:32.000Also, it turns out, a lot of people on the left, the social policies that they proclaim are actually moral and decent and wonderful, they're engaging themselves.
00:55:57.000Being a single mother and kicking dad out of the house because he's a bad guy that you decided to have sex with irresponsibly and now you have a baby, that's actually a brave decision according to most Hollywood and TV films.
00:56:17.000Well, because it turns out that in people's actual lives, the moral decisions that they make are not the moral decisions that they promote.
00:56:23.000So there is a great irony to this article from Mel Magazine lamenting that, number one, a lot of leftist guys who say that trans women are women will not have sex with a trans woman because it turns out that trans women are not, in fact, women.
00:57:52.000Knowing this, I checked in with him multiple times throughout the night to make sure his heterosexual ego was still intact.
00:57:57.000I couldn't help but feel the whole latte flirtation and wine date was a charade to bed me, secure his shemale fantasy, and then return to his cis girlfriend.
00:58:04.000If he was looking to bleep a girl's male genitalia, he should have just paid a prostitute, ideally me.
00:58:26.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:58:28.000So Joe Biden continues to not be sentient.
00:58:34.000Joe Biden continues to not be able to string sentences together.
00:58:37.000Yesterday, like every live stream he holds, and I live stream every day and I'm sure I make errors, but not errors like this.
00:58:42.000Every live stream Joe Biden has, he makes errors not because he's distracted, but because he is not with us.
00:58:47.000Joe Biden is clearly not with us in the way that Entering the latter part of his last term, Woodrow Wilson was not with us and his wife, Edith, ended up governing the country basically for the last year and a half of the Wilson administration.
00:58:58.000Joe Biden, just yesterday, he was doing his live stream from his basement and he confused Labor Day and Memorial Day and called the Pennsylvania governor Dale instead of Tom, who's a completely different human being.
00:59:12.000Here was Joe Biden just screwing things up left and right.
00:59:16.000And all Dale's been saying, Governor Wolf, is listen to the scientists.
00:59:20.000Do you think we'll have a candidate by Memorial Day?
00:59:24.000I'm quite sure that'd be the case because right now the convention is scheduled in August before Memorial Day.
00:59:44.000But he is thinking about Michelle Obama as a potential VP pick.
00:59:49.000I thought we were done with sort of the era.
00:59:51.000Trump was a ringing rebuke of the era of sort of family politics, right?
00:59:58.000Because we'd had two Bushes, and so the idea of Jeb was just unpalatable to a lot of Republicans, and then we'd already had Bill Clinton, and then Hillary was running, and people were like, well, we're not super into that.
01:00:06.000So now Joe wants to bring in Michelle, right?
01:00:09.000Michelle Obama has done a magnificent job of remaking herself from the radical she was in 2008, talking about how this is the first time she was proud of her country, was her husband's nomination.
01:00:18.000She's remade herself into a sort of late night TV host figure or midday TV host figure, inspiring and apolitical.
01:00:26.000And obviously, Joe Biden is trying to appeal to the black community by saying that he would pick Michelle Obama as his running mate.
01:00:53.000And this is the part I hate is the pandering in the Democratic Party is actually not directed at black Americans.
01:00:58.000The people who actually care in America about the race of the presidential candidate, it turns out, are a bunch of woke white liberals.
01:01:04.000And those are the people who actually care.
01:01:06.000OK, that is according to Pew Research data.
01:01:08.000So they put out a poll in the last couple of weeks.
01:01:12.000And what they found is that here is the question.
01:01:16.000Regardless of who you supported for the Democratic nomination, would you say that the fact that the likely Democratic nominee is a white man in his 70s either bothers you or doesn't bother you?
01:01:24.000So 59% of all Democrats and leaning Democrats registered voters say it doesn't bother them.
01:02:00.000So it's a bunch of woke white liberals, the sort of people who pay Sarah Rao to talk about how racist they are at dinner parties, at $300 dinner parties with Cabernet Sauvignon on the table and, and a nice red meat vegan steak, right?
01:02:16.000The, Those sorts of people are the ones who are super bothered by the fact that Joe Biden is old and white and isn't actually black Americans.
01:02:22.000I think that the idea that black Americans believe that America is inherently, deeply, unapologetically, and forever racist, I think that's overplayed.
01:03:19.000And it's, oh, look at them, Republicans shouldn't talk about this.
01:03:23.000If the younger part of our country is interested in the sort of woke virtue signaling attendant here, then that is very bad news.
01:03:31.000By the way, the other thing you see is that there is indoctrination going on at these colleges, at these universities.
01:03:37.000You would think that racial politics would be the preserve of people who are less educated, right?
01:03:43.000This is always what people say in the Republican Party, is that the people who are most racist are the people who are less educated.
01:03:48.000Opposite in the Democratic Party, apparently.
01:03:49.000If you're a post-grad worker, If you have a postgraduate degree, 58% of people with a postgraduate degree say they are bothered that Joe Biden is old and white.
01:03:58.000If you're a high schooler, 76% say they are not bothered by the fact that Joe Biden is old and white.
01:04:05.000So, just shows you where the Democratic Party is.
01:04:07.000And that is bad for the future of the country.
01:04:09.000If you are breaking people down by race and by age in order to determine their merit, you are doing all of these things wrong.
01:04:16.000And yet the Democratic Party, as it gets younger and more educated, is actually moving in the wrong direction.
01:04:20.000Hilariously enough, it is the racially divergent contingent, the racially diverse contingent of the Democratic Party that is still tethered to some form of reality.
01:04:28.000All the white woke liberals, they've completely lost it.
01:04:30.000They've completely lost touch with reality.