Ep. 544 - The European Virus
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A virus by any other name is just as deadly, but the left doesn t know that. And the reason why they're trying to shift the blame away from China and put it on Europe is because they don't know that the virus comes from Europe.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is blaming Europe for the coronavirus,
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even as evidence mounts that China knew about the virus, covered it up,
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destroyed the world economy, and killed lots of people.
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But American leftists keep defending the Chinese Communist Party
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because no less than their whole political program rides on it.
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There is a reason why they're trying to shift blame and take it away from China and put it on Europe.
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And the left, playing these new word games when it comes to the coronavirus, is showing us a lot,
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not just about how they use words, not just about political correctness,
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not just about how they view the West versus the East.
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It shows us a key part of the liberal international political agenda.
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It shows us how desperate they are to defend China.
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Here is Andrew Cuomo bestowing the new name on the Wu flu, the European virus.
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If you had said, when we started this, yes, we have more cases than anyone else.
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Yes, we had this European virus attack us and nobody expected it.
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But we're not only going to change our trajectory,
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we're going to change the trajectory more dramatically than any place else in the nation.
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So the first issue, of course, with what he's saying is, it's not true.
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There's no evidence the virus comes from Europe.
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No one before Andrew Cuomo has ever even suggested that the virus comes from Europe.
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He's trying to be provocative and change the conversation.
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You know, Governor Cuomo, it actually is from China.
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He knows, even he, Andrew Cuomo, a trained liar for his whole life, knows that that isn't true.
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The third issue with this is, isn't that racist by the left standards?
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Remember, the left said, if you say where the virus comes from, then that's racist and bigoted and terrible.
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Well, you can't call it the Chinese virus or the Chinese coronavirus.
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Well, of course, that's the way, that's the way the left always works.
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If they didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all.
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It's okay to demean your own country and your own civilization.
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I mean, I guess Europe's not our country, but it's the continent that we come from.
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It's the civilization that we come from here in America.
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So you're allowed to demean that, but you're not allowed to demean foreign places.
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Because according to the left, the West is bad and everywhere else is good.
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According to the left, our civilization is bad.
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And so we, we deserve all the scorn that we can get.
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And the, the way that Cuomo defended this argument is he said, well, we shut down flights from China,
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but we didn't shut down flights from Europe, even though we actually did.
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And so people were coming in from Europe and maybe they had the virus.
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And it doesn't matter where it came from in the first place.
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But it's more than just political correctness run amok.
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It's more than just a Westerner hating his own civilization.
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China actually matters to the left's ongoing international agenda.
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The fight over who to blame for the virus is not just about pointing fingers for the heck of it.
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It's about where we go from here as a civilization.
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And obviously, on the, on the don't blame China side, you've got Andy Cuomo making up new phrases.
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On the blame China side, you have more and more evidence mounting.
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Senator Tom Cotton was on Maria Bartiromo's show the other day.
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And Maria has been very good on sussing out what's really going on with this story.
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Senator Cotton pointed out that it appears from cell phone data that there were road closures around Wuhan way, way back at the very beginning of this virus.
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Road closures suggesting that the Chinese government knew about this.
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They were trying to stop it in their own country.
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But they weren't blowing the whistle to help save the rest of us.
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There is cell phone data that we have seen now that indicates that there was a shutdown of the Wuhan virology lab, the origin, likely origin, of the coronavirus.
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Explain the cell phone data and why it's important.
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Maria, reports emerged yesterday in the media that publicly available cell phone data suggests that roads around the lab in Wuhan was closed in the middle of October.
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American media has used it to analyze mobility patterns in states to see if our people are practicing social distancing.
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So the reports indicate that on major roads around these labs in Wuhan, you obviously had thousands and thousands of cell phones pinging towers day in and day out.
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And then all of a sudden in October, it stopped and it remained stopped for several days.
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That would suggest, without any further information, that those roads were blocked for some reason.
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I think these two guys, Andy Cuomo and Tom Cotton, do a pretty good job of representing the two sides in this debate over China's guilt in the coronavirus.
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You have Andy Cuomo, he says, it's not China, it's Europe, it's Europe's fault.
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And then you have Tom Cotton, he says, well, actually, we have the data from the cell phones for weeks and weeks, and we can see the road closures very precisely around this time.
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And then Andy Cuomo cuts him off and goes, no, not China, la, la, la, I can't hear you.
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We now have a report out of German intelligence that when China found out about the virus, which happened very early on,
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Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party, personally called the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Gabrizius, and told him to cover it up.
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So, according to this new report from German intelligence, the world could have gained four to six weeks in tackling the coronavirus if Xi Jinping had not personally asked the WHO chief to delay warning the rest of the world about human-to-human transmission.
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You remember early on, WHO was saying, there's no human-to-human transmission, don't worry, calm down, they weren't sending anybody to China.
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We think it's because Xi Jinping was the one who pushed it.
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Don't forget, there was a survey or study that came out of the University of Southampton probably a month or a month and a half ago now,
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which said if the coronavirus had not been covered up for just one extra week, if China had just acted one week more quickly than they did,
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they could have reduced the spread of this virus by 66% around the world.
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If they had acted two weeks earlier, they would have reduced it by 86%.
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If they had acted three weeks earlier, just three weeks, they could have reduced the spread by 95%.
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Many, many people would still be alive today and they didn't do it.
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And now we have even more information that China covered it up because we got it out of German intelligence.
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That call from Xi Jinping to the WHO was reportedly on January 21st, that far back.
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And yet, the mainstream media, the main mouthpieces for the left, continue to carry water for the Chinese Communist Party.
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This time we saw it just this week on 60 Minutes.
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I mean, we could go on and on and on showing all the evidence for China's guilt, but I think you get the point.
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All right, and there's no evidence on the other side that China is somehow not guilty for this.
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CBS News on 60 Minutes, which is a very major television news program, highly respected, been around for a long time.
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60 Minutes is doing its level best to get China off the hook and to actually place blame, not just on Europe, but even on the United States.
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So, just listen to the kind of language they use to cover for China.
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Why did the president just cancel DASAC's funding?
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It's the kind of politics which might seem ill-advised in a health crisis.
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President Trump is blaming China's government for the pandemic.
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The outbreak was first detected in the city of Wuhan.
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The administration has said at times the virus is man-made or that, if it's natural, it must have leaked out of a Chinese government lab.
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Both the White House and the Chinese Communist Party have been less than honest.
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And so, in China and in the U.S., the work of scientists like Peter DASAC is being undercut by pandemic politics.
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He says, so, the big dishonesty here is that the United States said that this might have come from a lab,
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which, by the way, every single day it seems more and more likely that this virus came from the lab.
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As, as, not just senators, but as other scientists have been talking about as well.
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And he says, but, look, and maybe China hasn't been totally honest,
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but it's mostly the, the examples I'm going to give you are how the United States hasn't been honest.
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And so, at the very least, we can say both sides haven't been honest.
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It's this false equivalency between China, which created the virus one way or another,
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whether it was made in nature and then observed in the Wuhan laboratory,
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or whether it was made in nature and just happened to escape into the world because of these Wuhan wet markets,
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because of these unsafe food practices, which, by the way, does not seem very likely.
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And then the United States calls them out for it,
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but because it's not 100% certain that that's what happened because we don't know because China covered it up.
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Then you're saying the United States is also dishonest, bizarre behavior,
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especially for an allegedly American television news program.
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Then he tries to pull out and say, look, there's really just this third party called the scientists.
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And both of the political actors, China and the United States, they're basically both the same.
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And so don't give the U.S. any more credit than you give to China.
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Then he goes on to defend even more the alleged objectivity, untouchability of the scientists.
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The Wuhan Institute is internationally respected.
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Two years ago, a team from the U.S. embassy visited.
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That team sent a cable to Washington concerned that one lab in the complex
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had a serious shortage of trained investigators.
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But the cable, first reported by the Washington Post,
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emphasized the Wuhan Institute is critical to future outbreak prediction and prevention.
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So what this guy just did is what I call the compliment sandwich.
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If they want to break some bad news, they'll say a really good thing.
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And then they'll say another really good thing.
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So he opens up, he says, the Wuhan Institute of Virology is internationally respected.
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I think, actually, it's the least respected lab in the world right now.
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I think people hate the damn Institute of Virology in Wuhan because it gave us this global plague.
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Also, how do I know it's not internationally respected?
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Because the very next thing he says is, you know, some U.S. inspectors pointed out that it wasn't very safe.
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But it was only one lab and it wasn't all the places.
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Well, okay, well, if it's not very safe, then how on earth would you call it internationally respected?
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And actually, the people who pointed out that it wasn't safe were international in China.
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This lab is very important in fighting diseases.
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It would appear that the lab is very important in spreading diseases.
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So one good way to fight those diseases might be to shut down the lab and not fund it as we in the United States did.
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And as a lot of people, including Dr. Fauci, seem to be involved with this decision to fund the laboratory.
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Yeah, okay, they might have started this global pandemic.
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So far, we haven't had any criticism of China, just about.
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You have the compliment sandwich, then CBS gets to the hard work of blaming America.
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EcoHealth's work with Wuhan ended one week after Mr. Trump's briefing room pledge when the NIH revoked the grant.
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But in the following weeks, testing in the U.S. failed to catch up to the need.
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Vital equipment was short, bodies filled refrigerated trailers, and science was continuously challenged.
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As the U.S. led the world in illness and death, the White House moved the focus to the Chinese government.
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Initially, he blames America for defunding the Wuhan laboratory, as if this is some great tragedy.
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If you start a global pandemic, if you're, and I'm not saying they constructed the virus.
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They say there is no evidence that they constructed the virus in the lab.
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We're simply saying that the virus was very likely present in the lab and may have escaped.
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And a lot of evidence is suggesting that that was the case.
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They're saying, they're trying to obviously fight a straw man because they can't argue against that pretty salient observation.
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He says, defunding the Wuhan lab was a terrible idea.
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If starting a global pandemic is not enough to get your lab defunded, then there is no criterion for getting your lab defunded.
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Then, he says, the bodies started piling up in the United States as the United States led the world in death and carnage.
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Then, maybe there's a little plateau, but it keeps following this pattern.
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And then, one day, it just completely drops down.
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Now, do you think that's because the Chinese people have some amazing fact of their biology that all on one day just shuts down viruses?
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Do you think that the Chinese have some amazing magic, some wizardry, where they wave a wand and then just one day magically the virus goes away?
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Or is the Communist Party lying about their numbers?
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They actually admitted they were lying about the numbers.
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They're still lying, but they admitted that the numbers out of Wuhan were not true.
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So, that total, total shill for the Chinese Communist Party.
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Then, he keeps going on and says, science was being denied in the United States.
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The one who believes that the virus just magically disappeared in China one day?
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The one who believes that the laboratory that very likely started this pandemic still should be funded?
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Because all the models contradicted each other, and it turns out they were all wrong, too.
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He, of course, is treating science as though it's a sort of religious faith.
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You could be a denier, but, you know, then you're a heretic.
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You ought to be burned at the stake, practically.
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Oh, we could do a whole episode on the word science.
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It comes from shire, the Latin word shire, to know.
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And the word has been so politicized now that one political interest group, these materialists, people who engage in a very modern study of empirical material investigation, have now monopolized the entire word for knowledge.
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But it does play into the politics here, because what he is saying, when he talks about science being denied is, we know everything.
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And it's being denied by mean old conservatives like Donald Trump.
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And that is why the U.S. has led the world in death and destruction, none of which is true.
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And then he takes one final swipe to defend China.
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Last Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted to resurrect a debunked theory that the virus was man-made in China.
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It's a debunked theory that the virus was man-made.
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We know very little about this virus to begin with.
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But second of all, nobody's saying it was man-made.
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We're saying it had something to do with the laboratory.
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And because the CCP's lapdogs and the American media can't actually argue against what appears to be pretty likely that the lab had something to do with the virus, they try to argue against this straw man.
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This is not just about Trump doesn't like China, so the left does like China.
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It was maybe five, six years ago, something like that.
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Joe Biden was giving a speech on this topic, actually with some lucidity, with some clarity.
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Those are rare attributes for Joe Biden these days.
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The real question at the time and today was, is a rising China good for America?
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It's good for China to be able to lift people out of poverty.
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It's good for China to be able to, I don't know, have more material goods.
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But is it good for the rest of the world that this brutal, vicious government, the CCP, is growing in strength and influence?
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And Joe Biden's response was emphatically, yes.
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There was a debate here in the United States and, quite frankly, throughout most of the West, is whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world.
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As a young member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said, and I believed then what I believe now, that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.
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I think maybe Joe is doing better for himself these days that he just kind of mumbles confusedly in these meandering stories about corn pop.
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Because when he says his actual views about politics, they're not so great.
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Maybe that's why Joe Biden doesn't want his files opened up at the University of Delaware.
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He said, I don't want people to know my positions on things.
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There are a lot of speeches and policy positions I've had in there.
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We probably don't want to hear those things because you were dead wrong about the most important political questions of our time.
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The left has been pushing this for many years, decades now at this point, that we need to have a rising China.
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There was a kind of consensus on the left and the right.
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We're all just going to have total unfettered free trade and there aren't going to be any distinctions.
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Trump comes on the scene and says, no, China's not treating us right.
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We need to have our own national policies regardless of what it means for China themselves.
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At the White House briefing yesterday, the media kept pushing this idea that the virus is like America's fault or Europe's fault.
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And President Trump pushes back, as always, he goes, ask China.
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Put your focus back on China, the real source of the problem.
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Many times that the U.S. is doing far better than any other country when it comes to testing.
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Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day?
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Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world.
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And maybe that's a question you should ask China.
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When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer.
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Sir, why are you saying that to me specifically?
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I'm saying it to anybody that would ask a nasty question like that.
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And now I'm calling on the young lady in the back.
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That woman, that first woman that asked the question, should be fired.
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I mean, she won't be fired because she wasn't doing her job as a reporter, but she was doing
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So, obviously, she'll probably get a promotion.
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She basically makes the accusation that America is doing a terrible job on the virus and letting
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lots of people die and is probably to blame for a lot of the pandemic.
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A lot of, a lot of the, we're not controlling the spread.
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They're the one that actually is to blame for all of this.
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And she doesn't have an answer for that because she knows it's true.
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So she says, the woman, if you couldn't see the clip, the woman is, is Asian.
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And so she says, why'd you ask me that question specifically?
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Is this the first time you've ever heard Trump say, talk to China?
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I think Trump's been saying that since he came down the elevator in 2015.
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I think he's been saying that almost as much as build the wall.
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So it's a totally dishonest, disingenuous playing of the race card from this woman,
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whatever reporter she is, whoever she works for.
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It's because you're a racist or something like that.
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And then he says it was a nasty question and she fights back.
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She goes, it's not a nasty question, but why does it matter?
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You said it matters whose policies are not working that well, right?
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Well, you said it matters when you blame the United States.
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But then all of a sudden, when you mentioned that it's actually China's fault, it doesn't matter.
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We're not allowed to use a term that describes where the virus comes from.
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And when we call it the Wuhan virus or the chop fluey or the wubonic plague or whatever,
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you're not allowed, that's terrible and bigoted and racist and sexist probably.
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But then when you call it the European virus, like Andy Cuomo, that's a fine thing.
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Later on on CNN, you had Brian Stelter there making the same racism accusation.
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Because China is the key to the current liberal agenda.
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So the woman in the press briefing calls Trump a racist for mentioning China because it's
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And then Brian Stelter on CNN doubles down, says this is key evidence.
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Well, clearly the president was rattled, rattled enough to walk off because he didn't want to
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hear the questions from Caitlin Collins and Weijia Zhang.
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And I think what we saw in that exchange with Weijia Zhang is something that has racial overtones.
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It is racist to look at an Asian American White House correspondent and say, ask China.
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This is part of a pattern of behavior from the president that goes back many years.
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So he doesn't have the benefit of the doubt that someone might have if for the first time
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ever in their life, they made a comment like that to a reporter.
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But the president has been rattled by Weijia Zhang's questions in the past.
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He has treated her and other female reporters differently in the past.
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And he's also had this pattern of reacting to minority journalists in a very specific and
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And he's saying that if President Trump mentions China and the person that he's talking to
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is Asian, if anybody that he's talking to is Asian, he mentions China, that's racist
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What they're telling you is, hey, when you are trying to upset our agenda, shut up.
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Do you remember they did this to Trump the last time he was at a press briefing and an
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Asian reporter who said she was from Hong Kong came out and asked this very fluffy question
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He goes, yes, that owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
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They said he's a racist, he's calling out this Asian reporter and suggesting that she
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The news organization, Phoenix TV, is owned by the Chinese government.
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They actually bought a station just over the border in Mexico and they're broadcasting into
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And Senator Cruz and I spoke about this on our show Verdict and Senator Cruz is now trying
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And, uh, but Trump was right the first time on this and they still called him racist.
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And then here he's not making any sort of suggestion or that, you know, this woman's
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He's just saying, ask China, like he's asked of many other reporters throughout this entire
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There, there's a reason that, that the left and parts of the right, the globalist right
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or the kind of, you know, economists and sophister and accountant, right?
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The, the right that just looks at the world as an economic question.
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That vision of the world is one in which we'll have relative peace all around the world as
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And the most important market to expand to is China, obviously, because they've got the
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most people and they keep buying up all of our news media.
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They keep buying up all of our Hollywood movies.
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And the NBA, I mean, you remember there was that NBA scandal where the, there was some criticism
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made of the Chinese government by an NBA employee.
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There was some support given to Hong Kong and they had to back off of that.
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They had to defend the Chinese communists over the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong because
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That's the problem with that world order that there suggests, oh, wouldn't it be so nice
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you can get global free trade and, you know, all the prices of goods goes down and yeah,
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you might lose your job and yeah, we might not have any manufacturing in the United States.
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And yeah, as a result of that opioid overdoses might go up and yeah, suicides might go up,
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but we'll get really cheap consumer goods and we'll have relative peace.
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Some sort of international organizations, international trade treaties that have no bonds of loyalty
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to our local communities, to our families, to our states, to our country.
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No accountability, obviously to you, the citizen, that that's the problem.
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You lose all of the political rights that we've come to cherish in our self-government
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And the people who have, who have gone all in, who have put all their chips in on this
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utopian vision of a world order based on trade and, and primarily trade with China
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And they're, they're doing that by defending one of the worst regimes ever in the history
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And they're doing it through absurd tactics like trying to blame Europe for the virus or,
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you know, just whenever you point out that China might have a problem, they call it a
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And then when it turns out the conspiracy theory is true, they call you a racist.
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According to liberalism, all of politics is reduced to economics.
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I mean this of liberalism on the left, what we'd call progressivism or leftism.
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And I, I also think of that on the right, you know, the kind of more squishy conservative
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types, the, the people who still view politics primarily economically.
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And during a pandemic, that's a good time to remember that we are not primarily economic
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I mean, just consider, just consider the New York Times.
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Yesterday, two days ago for Mother's Day, they put out this piece, forget pancakes, pay
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It's an idea that's gaining currency on the left and even a little bit on the right.
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This idea that, that the state should pay mothers to raise their own children.
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One lesson from the pandemic, childcare is work and it should be compensated.
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After just six days of sheltering in place, I found myself thinking about all the women
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So this woman, Kim Brooks writes, I started with Griselda who cared for my kids when they
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If someone had asked me why I paid these women to do things that I could do myself, particularly
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when I made so little money with the time they freed up, I'd say that I did it because
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I wanted to work, because I needed to work, not just out of economic necessity, but also
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How pathetic that in this liberal order, we're told that the only thing that matters is,
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is your job, your court, your making widgets as a middle manager at Widget Inc.
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is so much more important than raising children, even though the hand that rocks the cradle rules
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And obviously this woman has bought it hook, line, and sinker.
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Throughout my 30s, I found myself largely occupied with keeping a home and raising children.
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This work, despite bringing joy and meaning to my life, shared many of the qualities of
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The work I've done as a mother, I've done for free.
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So she says, it's like the compliment sandwich, you know, it's brought a lot of joy and meaning
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to my life, but actually it's terrible and I hate it.
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And, you know, look, we, I've, I've gotten paid for other work.
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That's a lot better than making 15 bucks an hour at the Widget Factory.
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Then she points out that she had a, she's been divorced with attitudes like this.
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You know, maybe not the most shocking thing to, to learn.
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I mentioned this article because some conservatives are, are, are embracing these kinds of ideas.
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They say, oh, maybe it's a good idea where if, if the problem is that all people are now
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being compelled to go work at the Widget Factory, they're all being compelled just to get jobs
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Maybe we need a new government policy, a new entitlement or something to encourage women
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No, you're being played for suckers if you think that's what this is about.
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She says in 2012, the Marxist feminist, Sylvia Federici published a collection of essays.
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Ms. Federici writes, to say that we want wages for housework is the first step toward refusing
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And that's the point, that gives away the whole game.
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It's, it's not the first step in returning to raise children and keep a home.
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It's the first step toward abolishing it altogether, toward making this problem of economic modernity
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This idea that we're all just cogs in a machine, even worse.
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She says, as I wrote this, my sweet daughter reminded me it was almost mother's day, you
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She says, everybody likes pancakes, but everybody also likes to be compensated for the contributions
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You know, it's, it's, it's such a ridiculous argument because they say pay women a wage.
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What, what is, what is the hourly wage or the annual salary that, that mothers should
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be paid or that wives should be paid for keeping a home?
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You can't because any number you pick is going to be offensive.
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There's no, there's no, you couldn't go to the feminists and say, okay, I'll tell you
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You think my work is only worth 30 bucks an hour.
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If you look at it primarily as a job instead of as a life, but there's no price.
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Obviously I'm not going to get paid a salary to do what I do as a husband.
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I don't do all that much around the house as a husband, but I guess there's some things,
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What do you, how do you quantify these basic and ineffable aspects of our humanity?
00:41:45.440
The egghead economists on the left and the right, there's an article just came out and
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It's very, very long and not really worth reading, but it brings up a point that they're
00:41:58.880
As the U S economy reopens amid a deadly pandemic, a dire question looms.
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As a society, we have historically been willing to incur costs to save lives and improve public
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To save a vast number of lives, we'll pay a huge cost until that cost seems too high.
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This calculation is fundamental to the way Americans make policy decisions in normal
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Maybe that's how, how these modern utilitarians view it, but that's not how I view policy decisions.
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It's not just a matter of spreadsheets and tabulating and saying, okay, this will save one
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No, that's not, first of all, in this shutdown, there's an irony here because they locked down
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And yet there's no evidence that the lockdowns have saved any lives, right?
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The point is don't overwhelm the healthcare system and buy time for a vaccine.
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Lots of evidence that the lockdowns have cost lives and oversees that there's evidence.
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It's going to cost like millions of lives, but even in the United States.
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So I don't think you always need to make that calculation.
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But even if you did, the way to think about politics is not as just this cold, sterile,
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It's about people and it's about eternal questions.
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One with families or one with autonomous individuals working for the widget factory?
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How do we view ourselves as just mere consumers of goods or as citizens?
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Some international trade institution or we ourselves?
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The same people that are pushing this liberal global economic utopia are the ones pushing for
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open borders because of course borders wouldn't matter.
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All that matters is that we continue to exist as consumers in this kind of nation-free world.
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That's one vision and then there's another vision.
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Those are the questions of politics, not just tabulating things on a spreadsheet.
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You know, but before we go, I've got to, I've got to get just a little bit.
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There's too many things to get to, but I've got to get to this transgender case.
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I'll, you know, I'll tell you a little bit about it today.
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The ADF, the Alliance Defending Freedom, these guys are so great.
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They filed a lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference on behalf
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of three girls who were, they're runners and they were forced to compete against boys in
00:44:47.000
girls' sports because the boys identified as girls.
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This is the problem when it comes to, to sporting of transgenderism, right?
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Is that boys compete against girls and boys are stronger than girls, so boys win.
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And then therefore there's no more girls' sports.
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The judge in this case, he decides to hear the case, but he says, hey, you can't refer
00:45:11.880
You have to refer to the boys who identify as girls as girls or as transgender girls or
00:45:24.580
If you begin the case by saying, those boys are really girls, well, then the plaintiffs
00:45:32.540
You're already saying, I believe that you are in the wrong here.
00:45:36.040
I'm going to rewrite the meaning of sex in Title IX.
00:45:42.640
We'll get a little bit more into that case tomorrow because it's a very important story.
00:45:47.320
But this is the way the deck is sort of stacked against you in the language.
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This is the way the language matters so much, the Chinese virus or the European virus.
00:45:56.480
They're trying to win at the game of politics before the debate even begins, before the case
00:46:02.740
Now, finally, before we go, this story, I just couldn't pass this one up.
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This from Slate, which teaches us so much about our relationships.
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This is what a woman is writing him into Slate.
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My partner is the most compassionate, loving, and respectful partner I could ask for.
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He has supported me through difficult times, weight fluctuations, questioning my gender,
00:46:28.600
changing my name, and sobriety, among other things.
00:46:38.740
I, so you question your gender while you're dating this guy.
00:46:56.760
But now you say, I'm incredibly attracted to women.
00:47:03.640
However, he's on the spectrum of asexuality and is only interested in having sex with me.
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Asexuality, I guess, means you don't want to have sex.
00:47:21.600
So if you are having sex, if you do have sex sometimes, then you're not asexual.
00:47:26.220
You might not be a nymphomaniac or something, but you're not asexual.
00:47:32.320
But he's only interested in having sex with me, meaning he's my boyfriend.
00:47:38.280
He didn't used to have to explain what that term meant.
00:47:40.980
The thought of me having sex with other people makes him deeply uncomfortable as we both relate to sex in different ways.
00:47:47.400
We have had this conversation a few times in the year that we've been together, but with no solid plan or outcome.
00:47:52.540
I respect and appreciate our relationship more than my desire to sleep around, but I'm worried that I will be missing something.
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I'm only 20, and I know that feelings change, but he's an incredible domestic and sexual partner.
00:48:05.180
That's what you say about the love of your life.
00:48:10.280
And I would like to be with him for a long time.
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Not forever, not endless love, but, you know, for a long time.
00:48:15.900
Is there a way to figure this out, or will this core incompatibility be what breaks us apart?
00:48:22.000
He wants to date you, and you want to cheat on him.
00:48:27.820
She's obviously very confused, and she's being encouraged in her confusion by a very confused culture.
00:48:34.080
She said she's young, and we're told that the whole purpose of life is to get as much pleasure as we can.
00:48:40.880
And so if you're young, and you're not sleeping with a ton of people all the time, then you're missing out on life.
00:48:48.840
Because we're told that monogamy and commitment and marriage is bad, and we should delay it and put it off.
00:48:53.940
I was told this for much of my life, certainly by the popular culture, but that's kind of the culture we're living in.
00:48:59.080
And we're told that, you know, sleeping around and all that sort of stuff is really ultimately fulfilling, which if anyone's ever tried it, you find out in the end, it's not ultimately all that fulfilling.
00:49:23.460
Don't view your partner as an instrument for your own pleasure.
00:49:29.220
View him as a real-life human being with flesh and blood and a soul that you are not just taking from, but that you are giving yourself to.
00:49:38.940
View comes down a lot to these political questions that we're talking about, all right?
00:49:44.160
We're not just, we're not just here looking at our fellow Americans and seeing them as, as sort of instruments for our own pleasure and our own benefit.
00:49:54.400
We're not just looking around at our politics that way either.
00:49:59.680
We have, first of all, we're members of families, and we're members of communities, and we're members of states, and we're citizens of this country.
00:50:05.900
We have loyalties, we have duties, we have affections.
00:50:10.320
The media has totally sold out their country, and now they're shilling for our number one geopolitical adversary.
00:50:15.420
They, they have no understanding of this at all.
00:50:17.420
They're willing to go to the highest bidder, whoever's going to buy them off, like China.
00:50:26.280
Not, not all that different from the way this, this chickie is thinking about life either, but that's the wrong way.
00:50:30.920
It ultimately will not be particularly gratifying.
00:50:33.820
You will find much more, much more satisfaction in gratitude.
00:50:39.200
Your, your babies are not just an instrument for your pleasure, and you, you shouldn't be paid to raise your own children, right?
00:50:45.880
You will find much more satisfaction in a position that views the world with some gratitude, with some humility, with some loyalty.
00:50:53.540
And with, with you having a, a real role in it, rather than this total alienation willing to be bought off by the highest bidder,
00:51:03.260
like our sad, pathetic mainstream media apparatus that President Trump very rightly is smacking down,
00:51:09.900
and we will continue to smack down, and we will continue to tell you the truth about it, because they won't do it.
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