The Michael Knowles Show - April 06, 2020


Ep. 523 - Hindsight Is 2020


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

180.53094

Word Count

9,541

Sentence Count

685

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Even hard hit areas like Italy and New York may be turning the corner earlier than projected, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We will examine the value of hindsight and how shoulda, coulda, woulda affect the 2020 election. Then, despite months of mainstream media insistence that the Wuhan virus has nothing whatsoever to do with the shadowy WuhAN Institute of Virology, news reports suggest a link between the two.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Over the past few days, evidence is emerging that coronavirus models may have overestimated
00:00:05.720 the pandemic. Even hard hit areas like Italy and New York may be turning the corner earlier
00:00:11.540 than projected. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and a whole lot of people will have
00:00:16.560 a whole lot of explaining to do as to why we just destroyed the global economy. We will examine the
00:00:21.860 value of hindsight and how shoulda, coulda, woulda will affect the 2020 election. Then,
00:00:26.980 despite months of mainstream media insistence that the Wuhan virus has nothing whatsoever to do
00:00:33.000 with the shadowy Wuhan Institute of Virology, news reports suggest a link between the two.
00:00:39.460 We will take a look at the latest and how a conspiratorial press has abused the term
00:00:44.600 conspiracy theory. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:48.460 Some good news. Isn't that nice to report for a change? Italy may have turned the corner.
00:01:02.240 Now, we're just looking at numbers from Friday and Saturday right now. We'll have more numbers,
00:01:06.160 obviously, coming out later this morning. Italy on Friday reported 766 new deaths. That's no good.
00:01:14.520 Brings the total up to 14,681. That's no good. But the fact that it was only 766 deaths and not more
00:01:23.900 than that shows that we're now seeing a slowdown in Italy over multiple days. Infections grew
00:01:31.760 from Thursday to Friday by 2.8%. Also, doesn't sound great, except that is lower than it was growing
00:01:40.140 before. So before the rate was 3%. Now it's down to 2.8. Looks like we're seeing a slowdown.
00:01:45.780 And the number of people who got the virus and then were sick and then recovered also jumped pretty
00:01:51.720 high on Friday in Italy to 19,758. So it looks as though we can say with some confidence, Italy has
00:01:58.760 peaked. You know, we've all been talking about flattening the curve. It now seems to have gone over
00:02:02.600 the top of the curve and it's on the way down. Really good news for us is that may also be true in New
00:02:09.000 York. It may not be true in New York. Andrew Cuomo, the governor there has been cautious to say,
00:02:16.020 listen, we had a little bit of a slowdown. That might just be a blip though. It might go back up
00:02:19.900 again, but there does seem to be light at the end of the tunnel there. So New York's count of daily
00:02:24.960 coronavirus deaths fell for the first time on Saturday compared to Friday. So on Friday, there were 630 deaths
00:02:32.880 in New York. On Saturday, there were 594 deaths, which is significantly down. If you're talking
00:02:39.260 about 36 deaths down to the number 594. New hospitalizations were also down. They were way
00:02:48.020 down. They went down to 574 on Saturday compared to 1095 on Friday. This trend holds for daily ICU
00:02:57.540 admissions that decreased from 395 on Friday to 250 on Saturday. So again, way down. Intubations fell
00:03:08.360 only a little bit, but down from 351 on Friday down to 316 on Saturday. And probably best of all,
00:03:15.680 the discharge rate went way, way up to 1709 on Saturday compared to 1502 on Friday. So pretty much
00:03:24.600 every number coming out of New York got better from Friday to Saturday. Might've just been a blip.
00:03:32.240 It might, might, still might spike again this week, but across the board, hospitalizations, ICU, discharge,
00:03:39.660 death, all of those numbers going in the right direction, at least from Friday to Saturday. Now,
00:03:46.500 who knows? We'll see over the next few days if New York really has peaked.
00:03:49.520 Even if New York has not peaked, we are seeing evidence that that malaria drug that has been
00:03:55.080 around for a long time, that President Trump and others have touted as showing promise on
00:04:00.820 treating coronavirus actually is doing a great job of treating coronavirus. Here is just one physician
00:04:08.080 who is seeing a lot of coronavirus patients, who has been prescribing it to his patients saying
00:04:12.980 that in virtually all cases, hydroxychloroquine has worked.
00:04:18.040 What we're finding clinically with our patients is that it really only works in conjunction with
00:04:22.120 zinc. So the hydroxychloroquine opens a zinc channel, zinc goes into the cell, it then blocks
00:04:27.080 the replication of the cellular machinery. So it has to be used in conjunction with zinc.
00:04:31.540 We are seeing some clinical responses in that regard. There are people that take it regularly for
00:04:36.900 other disease processes. We have to be cautious and mindful that we don't prescribe it for patients who
00:04:42.740 have COVID that are well. It really should be reserved for people that are really sick in the
00:04:47.300 hospital or at home very sick that need that medication. Otherwise, we're going to blow through
00:04:51.600 our supply for the patients that take it regularly for other disease processes.
00:04:54.740 But what you're saying is you're prescribing it and it is working for COVID-19 patients.
00:05:00.580 Every patient I've prescribed it to has been very, very ill. And within eight to 12 hours,
00:05:05.380 they were basically symptom free.
00:05:07.000 That's a pretty amazing endorsement. The person was very, very ill. And with eight to 12 hours,
00:05:13.240 it was done. It was all better. Notice he has a word of caution here. He says, look,
00:05:19.180 if you're not showing symptoms, if you're not very sick, do not take this drug. But he's not saying
00:05:24.320 don't take this drug because the drug will make you sicker. He's saying don't take the drug because
00:05:27.460 the drug is so damn good that we don't want to burn through our whole supply. And because some people
00:05:31.680 take the drug for other reasons, not just for coronavirus. In fact, that's the whole reason
00:05:36.540 this drug is working is because it doesn't need to go through an extensive FDA approval process.
00:05:42.360 It's already gone through that process. The drug has already been around. It's not like scientists
00:05:46.680 had to discover a new drug in a lab and test it on animals, then test it on people, then go through
00:05:51.140 this whole process. And within 18 months, we still don't have a drug for coronavirus. The drug has
00:05:56.520 been tested for a long time and it appears to be working on coronavirus. This is great news,
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00:07:19.780 This is, this is good news. I know we haven't had a lot of good news recently,
00:07:23.700 but good news on hospitalizations, on the death rate, on this drug working and the media are so
00:07:32.620 upset specifically on the drug. You know, President Trump does these daily press conferences. He is his
00:07:38.640 own press secretary. They're the best stuff on TV. They are even slightly better than Tiger King
00:07:43.380 and Tiger King is a great show. We got a few press conferences to catch up on over the weekend.
00:07:49.280 The biggest takeaway I had from all of them is how much the press does not want this pandemic to get
00:07:55.520 better. They seem furious when the drugs work. They seem furious when the numbers are going in
00:08:00.280 the right direction. In fact, one reporter is asking President Trump if he thinks it's really
00:08:07.600 responsible to go out there on television every day and tell people that there's actually hope
00:08:13.760 in the form of this new drug.
00:08:15.500 Mr. President, as President of the United States, your words carry enormous weight in this country
00:08:21.040 and around the world. And while you acknowledge you're not a physician, you do promote these
00:08:25.580 medicines extensively here. How do you not go so far as to be giving medical advice? And you said
00:08:32.280 yesterday, you might take some of these medicines even though you don't have symptoms.
00:08:35.980 Are you still planning to do that? And how do you calibrate being enthusiastic and not playing
00:08:41.840 doctor?
00:08:42.420 Because I want people to live and I'm seeing people dying and I've seen people that are
00:08:49.480 going to die without it. And you know the expression when that's happening, they should do it.
00:08:57.320 What really do we have to lose? We also have this medicine's been tested for many years for malaria
00:09:03.280 and for lupus. So it's been out there. So it's a very strong, powerful medicine, but it doesn't kill
00:09:08.800 people.
00:09:09.720 He's almost flabbergasted, I think. You look at his confusion. He said, Mr. President, your words carry
00:09:14.960 so much weight. Why on earth would you tout this drug that's shown great efficacy at treating
00:09:19.420 coronavirus? Because I want people to live. You monsters. Do you not want people to live? Think
00:09:27.080 about how perverse that is. The mainstream media know of this drug, which has been shown to be
00:09:33.000 effective at treating the global pandemic that there is currently no cure for and no vaccine for.
00:09:39.040 And the press are angry that Trump would tell people about the drug.
00:09:44.740 Look also at how the press wants to have it both ways with Trump. They get angry with Trump that he's
00:09:51.060 not acting fast enough, right? They say they're the administration's bungled response to coronavirus.
00:09:55.960 They're not working fast enough. They didn't have an answer in place. And then the press gets angry
00:10:01.340 that Trump is acting too fast. They say, we had no response to this virus. You have no cure for this
00:10:07.680 virus. Okay, well, we've got a cure now. You can't have a cure. That's terrible. You haven't gone through
00:10:13.620 18 months of clinical testing. It seems pretty clear. They just don't want the problem to go away.
00:10:19.560 I thought Trump gave a very good answer. The reporters were not pleased with that answer.
00:10:24.200 Actually, the reporters came back and asked the same question, again, phrased even more
00:10:30.840 offensively. The next reporter then asked the question as to why those pesky elected politicians
00:10:37.240 keep leading our politics and making these decisions instead of just turning over all of
00:10:42.660 their power to the scientists, to science itself. The doctors who are treating coronavirus patients,
00:10:49.580 they have the medical expertise to determine whether or not they should prescribe hydroxychloroquine.
00:10:54.320 And many of them do. And there are already clinical trials in place looking at hydroxychloroquine.
00:10:59.220 Sure. Sure. They should be finished in about a year.
00:11:01.720 So why not just let the science speak for itself? Why are you promoting this drug?
00:11:06.040 I'm not. I'm not. I'm just saying very simply, I'm not at all. I'm not. Look, you know what I'm trying to do?
00:11:11.720 I'm trying to save lives. You come out here every day, right, sir, talking about the benefits of hydroxychloroquine.
00:11:14.580 I want them to try it. And it may work and it may not work. But if it doesn't work, it's nothing lost
00:11:21.120 by doing it. Nothing. Because we know long term, what I want, I want to save lives. And I don't want
00:11:26.800 to be in a lab for the next year and a half as people are dying all over the place.
00:11:31.060 It's already out there. Doctors are already able to prescribe it off labor.
00:11:33.460 That's right. I don't want to wait a year and a half to find out. And only CNN would ask that question.
00:11:39.880 Fake news. Go ahead. So true. Well, actually, let me, let me caveat that a little bit. It's true
00:11:47.600 that CNN is such fake news that they would ask that question. But a lot of reporters in this room
00:11:52.620 are asking this kind of ridiculous question. What that reporter's question boils down to is,
00:11:57.420 Mr. President, why are you being the president? Mr. President, why are you showing political
00:12:02.440 leadership and giving Americans hope and trying to point them in the right direction? Why aren't,
00:12:07.460 look? And then Trump answers. He says, because I want to save lives. He says, look,
00:12:12.860 the drug is out there. Okay. The reporter says it like grudgingly. Oh, the drug is out there. Fine.
00:12:17.780 Okay. There's a cure for coronavirus. Or if there's not a cure, at least there's a good treatment for it,
00:12:22.920 but you don't need to promote it. You don't need to tell people there's a cure. We were hoping this
00:12:26.980 pandemic would go on for six months. We were hoping if we were lucky, this thing would go on for 18
00:12:31.380 months and then you would lose the election. And then Joe Biden would become president. He probably
00:12:35.720 wouldn't even be aware of it if he got elected, but then, then we could do whatever we want. And
00:12:39.300 now you're going around our backs, you, you pesky Donald Trump, and you're giving people hope and
00:12:45.720 showing them that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. How dare you, Mr. President? Why not
00:12:50.620 let science speak for itself? Guess what? Science doesn't act on its own. That's the other side of
00:12:56.500 this. It's not like you just, you, I don't know, you put a bunch of microscopes in a lab and you have
00:13:02.540 a couple white coats hung on the wall and then science happens. Okay. Science is led by people
00:13:08.240 who follow the scientific method. And then once the scientists do the sciencey things,
00:13:13.100 then you have drugs, which now we have. And then it is up to our leaders to promote those drugs.
00:13:21.420 It is up to our leaders to tell us that those drugs are available, to communicate that to us,
00:13:25.360 to lead in the crisis. And the press hates it that Trump is leading right now. And they apparently
00:13:33.120 hate it that things are going better than before. But the press is not just upset that people have
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00:14:55.320 people now have access to medicine for coronavirus. If they can't stop the medicine from getting out
00:14:59.900 there, they at least want to stop people from getting access to food. I'm not joking. I'm not
00:15:04.380 exaggerating. One reporter chastised President Trump for allowing grocery stores to remain open.
00:15:11.220 You know, obviously we know anyone can spread the disease, right? Unwittingly. Right. So why even
00:15:16.060 have a few businesses open? Why not just shut everything down? There are grocery stores that
00:15:19.720 are open, fast food places. Why even take a little chance to shut it down? We'll answer that question
00:15:25.240 later. All I can say is that right now things are looking really good and opening up with a bang will
00:15:30.660 be a great thing. And there's nobody going to be happier than me. Mr. President, why not let people
00:15:34.940 just starve to death in the apartment pods that the governors are forcing them to remain in?
00:15:40.200 Why are you allowing people suffering to be alleviated? It is pretty clear at this point,
00:15:48.440 as if it wasn't clear from the beginning. Some of us knew this from the beginning,
00:15:52.180 but at this point it is undeniable. The press does not want this pandemic to lift.
00:15:59.760 They don't. They want the hysteria to remain just as high as they all ginned it up.
00:16:03.960 They want the pain to become more intense. They want to hide the fact that there's an effective
00:16:09.080 drug. They want to keep you from getting groceries so that you go hungry.
00:16:13.960 They want there to be maximum chaos because they realize that by maximizing political pain during
00:16:22.340 this pandemic, they are helping themselves politically and they are hurting their number
00:16:28.600 one enemy, Donald Trump politically. That, you know, I usually try not to use terms like enemy
00:16:36.860 when I'm talking about domestic politics. It was Ronald Reagan who said, when we're talking about
00:16:41.180 Democrats and Republicans, no one has enemies. We only have opponents. But I'm beginning to think
00:16:45.540 for the left, they have an enemy. For instance, when you think about coronavirus, you would think that,
00:16:51.020 okay, maybe you disagree with Trump or you like Trump, but he's not the enemy. The enemy is China,
00:16:55.880 which is 100% responsible for spreading this pandemic. And yet when you look at the left-wing
00:17:02.280 press, they are constantly covering for China. They can't get enough of it. And they are constantly
00:17:10.340 attacking Trump and trying to make it as though Donald Trump put on a white lab coat, went into
00:17:14.460 a lab in Wuhan and concocted this coronavirus. By the way, we'll get to the connection between this
00:17:20.160 virus and that lab in Wuhan in, in just a moment. Regardless of all that, the evidence is that
00:17:27.500 things are getting better. And increasingly the, the evidence is showing that the doomsday models
00:17:33.620 that we were all told two million Americans dead or more were wrong. And, and people are bringing up
00:17:39.920 now, even some reporters are bringing up what to do about those models. And you're, you're about to
00:17:45.700 see this conversation shift rapidly from, we have to believe the models. We have to believe the most
00:17:50.360 extreme models to the models were wrong. Why did you guys get it wrong? Here's a reporter putting
00:17:55.820 that question to president Trump. Some of the models that you guys are using, the IHME model in
00:18:00.440 particular has been very accurate when it comes to projecting deaths over the last couple of days,
00:18:05.040 but there's a couple of other metrics that they seem to be pretty far off on specifically hospital
00:18:10.460 beds. Are you guys, you know, happy with the models you're currently using? Is there any need to
00:18:15.960 adjust those? Well, it's turning out that we need less hospital beds, right? That's what you're
00:18:20.260 talking about. And that's what we, well, we may have models, but we've been sort of saying that
00:18:24.080 in New York, we were saying, we think you're going to need less. Now let's hope that continues. But
00:18:29.860 right now I heard governor Cuomo this morning and he was saying less hospital beds, also less death.
00:18:37.120 That was a very big thing. First time, less death today than yesterday, right? That's a big thing,
00:18:42.300 but also less hospital beds. That means less patients because basically it's less patients.
00:18:48.180 This is such a dishonest new narrative that is just today emerging from the mainstream media.
00:18:54.080 You're going to see it for weeks now, which is initially they attacked Trump because he was
00:18:59.680 underestimating the virus. And now pretty soon you're going to see them attack Trump for overestimating
00:19:06.440 the virus. Why aren't you doing more? Why did you do so much? And they're going to do it
00:19:11.420 with a completely straight face. They're going to do it without blinking.
00:19:15.820 That's how used, used to pushing a narrative these people are. This is good news, I guess,
00:19:21.580 right? They don't need as many hospital beds as they thought they needed. They don't need,
00:19:24.880 they brought this ship, the federal government sent this hospital ship to New York to treat all the
00:19:30.340 people who don't have coronavirus. They figured they could get all the otherwise healthy people
00:19:34.420 treated on the ship and then all the hospitals would be used for coronavirus. Now they're actually
00:19:38.520 using the ship for some people with coronavirus because all the other deaths and injuries are
00:19:42.740 way, way down because no one's allowed to leave their apartments. And it is good news to say there
00:19:49.060 are fewer people in the hospital than we thought. There are fewer people getting sick than we thought.
00:19:54.340 It's, it is good news, but there is a downside to that. The downside is hooray,
00:19:58.220 look at how great we did. We destroyed the global economy for no reason, right? That's assuming the
00:20:05.340 best case that the models really were overblown as some people were suggesting weeks ago, not naming
00:20:11.180 any names, not raising any hands, but that is great news, right? Cause fewer people then are sick,
00:20:16.180 but then there is a political accountability question, which is why did we just shut down the
00:20:22.020 global economy? Why are, why did 10 million people lose their jobs within just two weeks?
00:20:26.120 Who knows what that number is going to be by the end of this week when we get the numbers on
00:20:31.180 Thursday? So good on the health front, a little tougher on the political front. President Trump is
00:20:39.140 already trying to get ahead of this narrative. He's already trying to distance himself from the models.
00:20:44.940 He came out at the last press conference and he said, look, I've never worked with models. Well,
00:20:49.800 at least not those kinds of models. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. You know what I
00:20:55.160 want to do? I want to come way under the models. The professionals did the models. I was never
00:21:00.620 involved in a model, but at least this kind of a model. I love that line. Well, look, at least not
00:21:08.080 this kind of a model. Okay. Maybe you've all seen Melania, beautiful lady. Okay. But other kinds of
00:21:12.780 models I'm not involved in a really smart line. Also politically smart for Trump to distance himself
00:21:19.400 from those models that he initially showed some skepticism toward, that he has repeatedly said he
00:21:25.240 didn't think the doomsday scenario was necessarily going to happen. This is going to be the next great
00:21:31.160 debate. Okay. This coronavirus pandemic and probably even more so the global shutdown that has resulted
00:21:39.740 from it is the biggest event to happen to our country and our world since 9-11. It's the most
00:21:47.780 significant event. Even after 9-11, which was an epoch changing event, we didn't shut down the global
00:21:58.820 economy for two months or three months or however long this is going to go on. Okay. 2020, the 2020
00:22:04.900 election is now about this. A month ago, it was about the greatest economy in the world and unemployment
00:22:10.000 and Trump's mean tweets and all that stuff. Now it is about this and the lead up to this and the
00:22:16.700 fallout from this. Joe Biden is already trying to rewrite history to make the case that he would
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00:24:01.020 coronavirus much better than Trump. Here is Joe Biden criticizing Trump for not shutting down
00:24:05.840 travel from China sooner. Got to go faster than slower. And we started off awfully slow. He indicated
00:24:12.500 that I complimented him on dealing with China. Well, you know, 45 nations had already moved to keep
00:24:21.040 block China's personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved.
00:24:28.100 Uh, so it's just, it's about pace. It's about, it's about the urgency and I don't think there's
00:24:34.120 been enough of it. That is an unbelievable criticism. Now it's going to skate by people
00:24:39.800 who only watch the mainstream media. It's going to skate by people who are kind of casually paying
00:24:44.460 attention to politics. Frankly, it's going to skate by most people because most people I think have
00:24:49.440 forgotten that Joe Biden's even running for president at this point. They've forgotten about the whole
00:24:53.500 election. All of the news cycle has been about coronavirus and Joe Biden is particularly good at
00:24:58.820 revising history and lying with a straight face. Not even because he's so deceitful and, and duplicitous,
00:25:04.480 but really just because he has no regard for the truth. He just says falsehoods with, with total ease,
00:25:10.960 with total talent and skill just flows right out of him. So for instance, what he just said, 45 nations
00:25:22.420 cut travel from China before the United States did. That's just not true. I don't even know how to
00:25:26.860 refute that because I have no idea where he even got that figure from. It's just completely pulled out
00:25:31.840 of thin air. But the most dishonest part of that statement is that Joe Biden would have shut down
00:25:39.360 travel from China much faster. We have video recordings. We know for a fact that when Donald
00:25:45.800 Trump shut down travel from China early in January, he was pilloried for it from the left,
00:25:52.060 specifically from Joe Biden, who said that shutting down travel from China was a bad idea and it was
00:25:57.920 xenophobic. Coronavirus emanated from China, a national emergency, you know, worldwide alerts.
00:26:06.160 The American people need to have a president who they can trust what he says about it,
00:26:12.320 that he is going to act rationally about it. In moments like this, this is where the credibility
00:26:18.920 of a president is most needed as he explains what we should and should not do.
00:26:24.820 There it is. Now is not the time for that awful Trump xenophobia that says that we're allowed to
00:26:38.440 decide who comes into our country. And maybe even though we take the highest number of immigrants
00:26:43.200 anywhere in the world, maybe we could slightly reduce that and it would be okay. Or maybe during
00:26:47.720 a pandemic, we should shut down travel from the place where the pandemic started. You know,
00:26:54.360 crazy ideas like that. He said, we can't do that. We got to leave the borders open.
00:26:58.980 Trump said, no, now we've got the pandemic, which probably one of the most important things to
00:27:03.100 stopping the spread of this virus was shutting down travel from China. And all of a sudden,
00:27:08.380 Joe Biden comes, he says, yeah, he didn't shut down travel soon enough. Does Joe Biden just
00:27:12.400 forget what he said? Possibly. I guess he might forget what he said. He clearly doesn't have
00:27:19.380 a grip on very much these days in the way of either political issues or his own memory. But the media
00:27:26.360 are already playing into this. We'll get to how that is in just one moment. First, I got to say
00:27:31.020 goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. By the way, I also want to give a little plug out right now.
00:27:37.100 Glenn Beck has a new book out called Arguing with Socialists. And once we move past this
00:27:42.060 coronavirus thing, we're going to probably spend the rest of the year arguing with socialists. So
00:27:45.660 it's a good book to get a primer on that. You can get that book now on Amazon or wherever,
00:27:49.840 wherever you buy fine books. And if you haven't had a chance to check out the All Access Live show,
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00:28:38.640 So the media are already playing into this Joe Biden revisionist history on coronavirus,
00:28:56.540 on his whole political career, on the main issues of 2020. And they're pushing this to
00:29:04.280 Donald Trump. You know, people forget about Joe Biden because he's just such a secondary news story
00:29:10.280 at this point. And he's such a weak candidate to begin with that all the focus is on Trump. So
00:29:15.540 the press are trying to get Joe Biden back in the conversation. They ask President Trump about
00:29:20.860 Biden's attacks on him. And Trump's answer has been characteristically savage.
00:29:27.300 Joe Biden actually just attacked you in a tweet. I don't know if you have seen it. He just what
00:29:32.600 attacked you? He just said he didn't write anything. Look, he has people. He has professionals
00:29:36.820 from the Democrats. Let me just read what he said. He said Donald Trump is not responsible for the
00:29:41.640 coronavirus, but he is responsible for failing to prepare our nation to respond to it. How do you
00:29:47.100 respond to that? He didn't write that. That was done by a Democrat operative. He doesn't write.
00:29:53.520 He doesn't, he's probably not even watching right now. Uh, and if he is, he doesn't understand what
00:29:59.400 he's watching. This is so brutal. It's, it's like it keeps following in the path of his attacks since
00:30:08.900 Joe Biden nearly clinched the nomination or put himself on the way to get the nomination where he
00:30:14.200 says, look, if Joe Biden gets elected, they say Joe Biden's a little more moderate. Doesn't matter.
00:30:18.340 Joe's not going to be president. They're going to put Joe in a home. Okay. Joe's going to be in a home
00:30:22.700 watching TV. It's fine. It's, he's not going to know what's going on, but that's okay. It's going
00:30:26.600 to be all of his staff and his cabinet running things. And that's true. Joe Biden does not write
00:30:31.940 his own tweets. Donald Trump writes his own tweets. How do we know that? Well, one, because he's been
00:30:36.640 doing that for as long as Twitter has been around and he gets himself in trouble for it. Two, on that
00:30:42.140 point, his staff very often doesn't like what he's tweeting because it creates political headaches
00:30:46.180 for them. Three, there are some kind of random misspellings, just the way that you and I,
00:30:50.020 when we text, we misspell things because you just do it really quickly on your phone.
00:30:55.180 He's writing it, right? Trump is in command of this and the coronavirus has really shown it.
00:30:59.480 That guy is in charge. Okay. That guy, love him or hate him, agree with him or disagree with him.
00:31:04.580 He knows what he's doing. Joe Biden, that's not the case. He can't get a word out of his mouth
00:31:09.200 without flubbing it. Okay. Joe is fine on Twitter because other people are writing his tweets for him.
00:31:14.700 Joe is fine on podcasts because other people are speeding it up. For one, they're literally speeding
00:31:19.180 up the pace of his voice and they're editing it extensively so that you don't have the ums and
00:31:25.220 the awes and the weird things that he's saying. They've actually done it too much. It moves too
00:31:29.420 fast and it's too tightly edited that you can hear that there's nowhere even to breathe in the podcast.
00:31:34.620 Not that anyone's going to be listening to that podcast, but Joe just speaking off the cuff
00:31:39.560 is awkward and usually incoherent. He's been going on friendly media to try to get his message out.
00:31:46.760 It's mostly turned into nonsensical blathering. Here's Joe Biden on ABC news with former Clinton
00:31:54.640 communications director, George Stephanopoulos doesn't get more friendly than that. And Joe
00:32:00.160 still can barely see his way through the interview. We cannot let this. We've never allowed any crisis
00:32:08.000 from the civil war straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around 16. We have never,
00:32:14.160 never let our democracy second fiddle way that we can both have a democracy and elections and at the
00:32:21.640 same time, correct the public health. Can anybody tell me what that means?
00:32:27.520 Could anybody tell me from the beginning to the end of that clip? And since we had in the civil and the,
00:32:33.240 and the flu and we've always been having, uh, and have our cake and not, uh, but make hay while the
00:32:40.780 sun shines and 30 days had September, April, June, and November public health.
00:32:47.760 I think the point at the very end, you could see he got to his talking point, which is we can protect
00:32:53.680 our freedoms, but we can protect public health. Nothing he said in that statement up until that point,
00:33:00.020 which he didn't even totally get out. I'm just reading into what he, I think was trying to say
00:33:05.140 nothing up until that point in that statement had anything to do with that. The guy doesn't know
00:33:14.600 what's happening right now. Okay. He doesn't, it's not even just an age thing. Joe Biden has always been
00:33:22.740 a bumbling, jumbling, not all that with it, glad handing empty suit of a politician,
00:33:29.260 but it's gotten especially bad now because he's not even the man he was four years ago.
00:33:36.240 Joe Biden now cannot even remember how many grandkids he has.
00:33:42.180 And frankly, it's probably worse than that. It's probably the case that Joe Biden can remember how
00:33:48.000 many grandkids he has, but he just doesn't want to acknowledge one of them because one of his
00:33:51.800 grandkids is recently born within the last couple of years and is the illegitimate child that his
00:33:57.580 son Hunter had with a stripper. And Joe Biden doesn't want to even acknowledge that grandchild.
00:34:02.480 Here's Joe. It's been changing every few days, but here's Joe recently on air saying that he's got
00:34:10.140 five grandchildren. I've been doing that forever though. There's a, there's a deal we have.
00:34:15.340 I have five grandchildren and, uh, okay. That is not true. Like many things that Joe Biden says,
00:34:22.300 it's just factually not true. Joe Biden has seven grandchildren. Now Joe says five grandchildren.
00:34:31.120 He forgot about two of them. Okay. Maybe Joe is just losing it a little bit. So in the next interview,
00:34:38.180 Joe Biden has his wife, Jill on Jill, clearly a little bit more with it, but even Jill doesn't
00:34:45.060 seem to remember how many grandchildren they have. Jill says the number is just six.
00:34:50.260 So my name is Jill and this is my husband, Joe. And, uh, your children may not know,
00:34:56.700 but we have three children and we have six grandchildren.
00:34:59.760 Still not true. You have seven grandchildren. Now Jill just can't rely on the excuse that she's
00:35:08.720 lost her marbles. I don't think Jill's lost her marbles, but Beau Biden, Joe Biden's late son
00:35:16.760 had two kids. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's degenerate son has five kids.
00:35:23.500 They appear now. I mean, if it were just Joe, I'd say he forgot the number, but because Jill is saying
00:35:30.740 this also wrong number, different wrong number, it seems to me that they are just leaving out Hunter
00:35:36.920 Biden's illegitimate child who was born in August of 2018. Biden you'll recall has been in a child
00:35:43.540 support battle over this kid because Hunter Biden is a deadbeat dad and he doesn't want to pay child
00:35:50.460 support to the mother of one of his children. So now we see it's not just that Hunter Biden is a
00:35:56.780 degenerate when it comes to this kid, Joe and Jill are too. Joe and Jill, it would appear are refusing
00:36:04.080 to acknowledge one of their grandchildren because they, they don't like the fact that this child was
00:36:11.600 born under difficult circumstances. That's an ugly thing. And it actually matters to his campaign.
00:36:16.580 I'm not just digging up family dirt here for the sake of it. It matters to the campaign
00:36:20.400 because Joe Biden's whole campaign is I'm going to restore dignity to the office of the president.
00:36:26.660 Joe Biden's entire campaign beginning to end is Donald Trump says mean things and I say nice things.
00:36:32.600 Donald Trump is a mean guy and I'm a nice guy. So in order for that campaign to hold any weight,
00:36:38.920 Joe Biden has to be a nice guy, but nice guys don't refuse to acknowledge one of their grandchildren
00:36:45.400 because they don't like the circumstances of his birth. Okay. This is a bad look. It's a very ugly
00:36:50.280 look for Joe Biden and it's going to come back to haunt him. If, if they were smart, I think probably
00:36:57.100 what Joe and Jill are thinking is let's not even acknowledge the kid because that's going to bring
00:37:01.220 up more headaches. It's going to get it into the news. Maybe it'll screw up the child support and
00:37:05.360 paternity lawsuits that have been going on. That's short-sighted thinking. It's a much worse look
00:37:11.680 for them to callously refuse to acknowledge one of their grandkids than to say, yeah, we have this
00:37:16.960 grandkid. He was born under strange circumstances. All families have some difficulties, but we love
00:37:23.060 our, all of our grandkids, including this one, but they haven't done that. Now moving beyond Joe,
00:37:28.800 who is even now he's got the best political opportunity in his entire life, global pandemic.
00:37:34.160 He could pin a lot of it on Trump if he, if he wanted to twist the facts and he still can't do it
00:37:37.980 successfully. Speaking of 2020 and how hindsight is 2020, we are now beginning to get a better
00:37:44.660 picture of how this virus originated. Okay. And it's making the conservatives who were skeptical
00:37:50.300 look pretty good and it's making China and China's propagandists in the mainstream media
00:37:56.440 look pretty bad. So this idea has been floated for a little while now that it's a hell of a coincidence
00:38:02.840 that this virus begins in a Wuhan wet market, allegedly. And Wuhan is one of the very few
00:38:11.220 places on earth that has a high level virology Institute where China studies very infectious
00:38:18.840 and dangerous diseases, specifically coronavirus diseases. What a weird coincidence, huh? Oh, well,
00:38:25.260 and the mainstream media, I kid you not, they've been saying since the beginning, yup, it's just a weird
00:38:29.060 coincidence. And if you say it's not a coincidence, if you say it's, there's something more going on,
00:38:33.320 then you're a terrible person and a racist and a bigot and a conspiracy theorist. So here's Tom
00:38:37.740 Cotton a couple months ago, floating this theory or not, I guess about a month ago, a little over a
00:38:43.340 month ago, floating this theory that perhaps there's a link between the Wuhan virus and the Wuhan Institute
00:38:51.020 of Virology. We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China's only
00:38:57.840 biosafety level four super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases. Now,
00:39:04.100 we don't have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China's duplicity and dishonesty
00:39:11.240 from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says. And China
00:39:16.080 right now is not giving any evidence on that question at all. So, so this super lab that you
00:39:21.520 refer to, this super lab is the only one of its kind in this area, in Wuhan, in the province,
00:39:29.400 that area. And what do they do with this super lab? It's unclear, Maria. We have such laboratories
00:39:37.420 ourselves in the United States run by our military in large part done for preventative purposes. We're
00:39:43.320 trying to discover vaccines or to protect our own soldiers. China is obviously very secretive
00:39:48.640 about what happens at the Wuhan laboratory. We don't know, again, where this virus originated.
00:39:54.880 That's why it's so important that we at least ask the questions and get the evidence. But China
00:39:59.620 continues to block our ability to ask those questions and get that evidence. Totally measured,
00:40:05.180 totally reasonable. He's not saying that Xi Jinping threw on a lab coat and created this bioweapon and
00:40:09.860 unleashed it on the world. He's saying there might be a link between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and
00:40:14.680 the virus that began in Wuhan. And we should look into that. And even if it was an accident,
00:40:18.680 we should look into that. Now, lots of evidence is emerging that he was right. But guess what? At
00:40:24.200 the time when he said that, the left called him a conspiracy theorist all over the pages of the
00:40:29.460 mainstream media, all on television. Tom Cotton's a conspiracy theorist pushing a debunked, discredited
00:40:35.100 conspiracy theory, right? Except it wasn't debunked. I guess it's being rebunked right now because a lot
00:40:40.300 of evidence is emerging that he was right and the media were wrong and they were propagandizing
00:40:44.480 for China. So Jim Garrity at National Review had a great piece on this, outlining the evidence the
00:40:49.780 other day. And most of the piece is quoting this guy, Matthew Tai, who creates YouTube videos and who
00:40:57.120 says that he's found the source of the coronavirus. Here are just a smattering of facts. Go watch the
00:41:04.340 YouTube video. Go read the piece at NR. The Wuhan Institute of Virology in China posted a job
00:41:11.220 opening on November 18th, 2019. So right around the time that we're seeing this thing crop up last
00:41:17.440 year, asking for scientists to come research the relationship between coronavirus and bats.
00:41:24.580 Just a coincidence though, probably, right? That's, it's just a, what, what are the odds?
00:41:29.580 Then on December 24th, 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology posted another job opening
00:41:34.280 that said, long-term research on the pathogenic biology of bats carrying important viruses has
00:41:40.500 confirmed the origin of bats of major new human and livestock infectious diseases, such as SARS and
00:41:47.520 SADS and a large number of new bat and rodent new viruses have been discovered and identified.
00:41:52.720 Probably just a coincidence though. I bet the Institute had no idea what was going on. It was
00:41:56.560 just in the wet markets after all. It's just that someone bought a bad bat at the wet market.
00:42:01.340 Then there were reports that a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology named Wang Yanling
00:42:07.220 is believed by many people to be patient zero and is believed by many people to be dead.
00:42:13.500 Now, what did the Chinese government say about this? They said, never happened. They don't know
00:42:17.460 who she is. She never worked there. So for the mainstream media, that's good enough. They'll just
00:42:21.400 print whatever the Chinese government wants them to print for maybe ideological reasons and also
00:42:27.020 financial reasons because China buys up so much American media. Now, this, this woman, Wang Yanling
00:42:33.240 is still not listed on the Institute website, but her, or rather she, she is listed on the Institute
00:42:39.740 website, but her photo and her biography have been removed. There's still a link there, but the link
00:42:44.220 is now dead. So there's clearly a connection, right? South China Morning Post, which is not an anti-Beijing
00:42:50.200 newspaper. It's actually generally friendly to Beijing. They posted on March 13th, quote,
00:42:54.340 according to the government data seen by the Post, a 55 year old from Hubei province could have been
00:42:58.980 the first person to have contracted COVID-19 on November 17th. Now the Institute denied that this
00:43:07.300 person, Wang Yanling existed. Then when they got called out on that, they said she did work there,
00:43:13.320 but she no longer does work there. And most importantly, she's not accounted for. They have no idea where she
00:43:17.580 is. Another report around all this time from Chen Huang Zhao, pardon my pronunciation, who's a
00:43:26.400 researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said that the director of the Institute was responsible
00:43:30.960 for leaking the coronavirus. There's just another report, just adding to the mountain of evidence
00:43:36.980 that may or may not be true, but a lot of it's adding up. Here's another crazy aspect of this that
00:43:43.000 we're getting from all these reports. We were told that the Wuhan wet market that spread the virus
00:43:48.260 was responsible because some people hunted bats and they sold the bats at the wet market and the bat
00:43:52.600 had the disease and the disease spread to everybody. Remember the whole, the whole virus came from bad
00:43:57.640 bat soup. Don't eat bat soup. Don't eat pangolin. Okay. Now there is evidence that the bats that carry
00:44:04.900 this coronavirus do not occur naturally around Wuhan. They don't, you can't just go to a cave in Wuhan
00:44:14.320 and hunt this bat and that's where you're going to get it. That the bat would have to come from
00:44:18.580 someplace else, maybe through the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Just another strange suggestion.
00:44:27.440 Another researcher, Zhao Bo Tao, who goes by a couple other names, a scholar from South China
00:44:31.800 University of Technology, recently published a report that researchers at the Wuhan virus
00:44:36.560 laboratory had been splashed with bat blood and urine and they were quarantined for 14 days
00:44:41.720 because of some kind of accident at the lab. And then cherry on top, if you don't believe any of
00:44:48.860 that, you don't believe any of these people from around the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
00:44:53.340 the CDC, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization,
00:45:00.720 which is a China mouthpiece, could not confirm if the bats that carry the coronavirus were even
00:45:07.940 present at the wet market. So now you're talking about, well, a China source, which is WHO,
00:45:13.820 and a US source, CDC. Neither of them can confirm that the bats that spread the disease
00:45:20.220 were even there at the Wuhan wet market. All these little pieces of evidence start to be adding up
00:45:28.400 and start to dismantle this idea that China, the government knew nothing about this whatsoever.
00:45:33.620 It had nothing to do with the Institute of Virology. And let me tell you, if you believe that it did,
00:45:39.240 you're a crazy conspiracy theorist. Does that mean that China intentionally created and spread this
00:45:44.200 disease? No, it doesn't have to mean that. That's not what Tom Cotton was saying in that interview.
00:45:49.060 Okay, scientists are saying right now that the disease doesn't look manufactured. What does that
00:45:53.000 mean? I have no idea, but I have no reason to dispute the scientists. But of course, the virus
00:45:58.800 could have occurred naturally, been brought to the Institute of Virology to study, had some accident,
00:46:04.340 like the ones described in these reports from China, occur, and then have the virus leak from the lab.
00:46:10.400 Or it could have been deliberate. I don't know. But it doesn't have to be deliberate for there to be a
00:46:14.700 connection there with the Institute. This is not a conspiracy theory, as the left attacked Tom Cotton
00:46:24.720 for saying. Or as the left attacked Tom Cotton for allegedly promoting. Okay, it's a very plausible
00:46:33.360 theory. Actually, when all of that adds up, it's just common sense. Even the Washington Post now,
00:46:39.600 by the way, the people who were calling it a conspiracy theory, they now admit it.
00:46:43.620 From David Ignatius, how did COVID-19 begin? Its initial origin story is shaky.
00:46:48.540 U.S. intelligence officials don't think the pandemic was caused by deliberate wrongdoing.
00:46:52.380 The outbreak that has now swept the world began with a simpler story, albeit one with
00:46:56.140 tragic consequences. The prime suspect is natural transmission from bats to humans,
00:47:00.580 perhaps through unsanitary markets. But scientists don't rule out that an accident at a research
00:47:04.940 laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly bat virus that had been collected for scientific study.
00:47:10.220 So they have to begin with their defense of the Chinese government.
00:47:13.620 They have to begin looking. It shouldn't, it's not deliberate. Okay, it could have been at the
00:47:17.200 wet market, even though we don't have any evidence that the bats were even there.
00:47:21.240 But okay, it could have come from this research laboratory as an accident. And then unbelievably,
00:47:26.480 he goes on to attack Tom Cotton and still kind of hold on to this conspiracy theory idea,
00:47:32.200 even though what Tom Cotton said is essentially what this guy just admitted in the Washington Post.
00:47:36.260 Two big takeaways here. One, we need to know how the disease started. If China intentionally unleashed
00:47:42.740 this thing, then we're at war. If China accidentally unleashed this thing, then we're in the most tense
00:47:50.220 global conflict you can be in short of war. If it's just a coincidence, then the mainstream media
00:47:55.980 still acted recklessly to ignore all of the evidence on the other side and dismiss even the
00:48:02.500 suggestion that there might be a link between the Wuhan virus and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:48:07.200 Second big takeaway here. The mainstream media will now label anything that disputes their narrative
00:48:12.320 as a conspiracy theory. I've seen this happening recently. Okay, it's been increasing. I don't like
00:48:18.560 conspiracy theories. I am in no way an adherent to conspiracy theories. I always prefer simpler answers
00:48:23.900 to things. But the left is now abusing the term conspiracy theory in exactly the way they've abused
00:48:28.960 the terms racism and sexism and bigotry and all of that to mean things that, to mean basically anything,
00:48:34.980 anything that they don't like. Here's an example. I was recently doing a little research on cultural
00:48:40.280 Marxism. Cultural Marxism is a more recent form of Marxism after Karl Marx himself, which applies
00:48:47.080 tenets of Marxism, which would typically apply to economics and politics, to the culture. Cultural
00:48:52.680 Marxism has a long intellectual pedigree. It begins most conspicuously with an Italian thinker,
00:49:00.640 Antonio Gramsci. Now, I studied a lot of Italian literature and Italian writing when I was in
00:49:06.380 college. So I've known about Antonio Gramsci for a long time. I was taught by mostly left-wing
00:49:11.160 professors. This was, you know, obviously as establishment as it gets when I was in college,
00:49:16.160 right? I've now learned that the phrase cultural Marxism, according to the mainstream media,
00:49:20.460 is a conspiracy theory. And most remarkably, they call it an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory
00:49:26.960 because some cultural Marxists have been Jews. Now, most people who know nothing about cultural
00:49:35.000 Marxism, who know nothing about these writers, they'll just read that and they'll say, okay,
00:49:38.520 it's a conspiracy theory. Anybody who uses that phrase is a conspiracy theorist. But if you have any
00:49:44.080 historical literacy on this topic, you know that cultural Marxism has been around for a long time.
00:49:49.480 There are many Marxists who have referred to themselves as cultural Marxists, Marxists
00:49:53.820 who want to apply the tenets of Marx to the culture, and that the father of cultural Marxism
00:50:01.300 isn't Jewish. He's an Italian guy named Gramsci. It's, how is that anti-Semitic? I guess it's anti-Italo,
00:50:09.480 Italophobic maybe, I guess. But it's certainly not anti-Semitic. But what the mainstream media are
00:50:17.080 counting on is that you have no idea who Gramsci is, or you have no idea what Marxism even is.
00:50:22.740 And certainly as it applies to the culture, you have no idea what ideas like cultural hegemony
00:50:25.860 and the long intellectual history of this topic is. They just want to shut up people who
00:50:31.740 cut through their own narrative. Ironically, in this case, or perhaps expectedly in this case,
00:50:39.300 cultural Marxism. And it's the same thing we're seeing here. If you cut through the mainstream
00:50:43.320 narrative, which is carrying water for China, and you say, you know, maybe we got to take a look at
00:50:47.260 this lab that's a couple miles away from where they say the virus was discovered, the lab that's
00:50:53.140 studying coronavirus and bats, maybe there's something there. They tell you, no, no way,
00:50:57.080 you're a crazy conspiracy theorist. Well, now we've punctured that veil. The only conspiracy theories
00:51:01.700 are the propaganda being peddled by the mainstream media to cover up for very, very bad actors around
00:51:07.140 the world. There's some good news that we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but now
00:51:12.000 we're going to have to look backward and figure out who got us to this unprecedented moment of a global
00:51:19.300 shutdown in the first place. There's going to be a lot of value placed on hindsight, and that hindsight
00:51:24.420 is probably going to determine how we look into the future and how we look at 2020. All right,
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