Louder with Crowder - "Nursing Shortage" LIE Explained! And Larry Elder ATTACKED! Donald Trump Jr. Guests | Crowder

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00:00:12.000 Listen, it can hold it. 0.99

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00:00:24.000 Look, folks, can we just restart it all?

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00:02:45.000 Hey, just so you know, the technical difficulties really quickly for people on YouTube.

00:02:48.000 No conspiracy.

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00:02:52.000 He does not have the COVID.

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00:02:55.000 We wish you the best, Quarter Black, with your quarter-singles sale when you come back in. 0.99

00:02:59.000 Quarter-singles?

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00:03:07.000 He has an adorable blanket.

00:03:11.000 No, so no conspiracy there.

00:03:12.000 We just have had some technical issues, but we have a lot to get to today.

00:03:16.000 Donald Trump Jr.

00:03:17.000 is on the show.

00:03:17.000 Boom!

00:03:18.000 Really excited about that.

00:03:18.000 He's going to be commentating some fights this weekend between Evander Holyfield and Vitor Belfort, so place your bets on the roided-up athlete of your choice.

00:03:27.000 And that's not just in case you want to come at me for defamation or slander.

00:03:32.000 I don't know which one is written versus uttered.

00:03:35.000 Vitor Belfort tested positive in the UFC several times, and Evander Holyfield was part of that steroid ring.

00:03:41.000 But you know, they both seem like decent guys.

00:03:43.000 Just, you know, mmm.

00:03:44.000 All natural.

00:03:46.000 And we are going to be talking about quite a bit here today.

00:03:49.000 One thing that I really wanted to touch on.

00:03:51.000 And I don't know if this is, you know, trending like Chris Pratt, who didn't do anything wrong, but everyone just looking for a scalp on a slow news day, is CNN has been talking about this all day, the ICU bed shortage, the nursing staff shortage, why everything that you, and I shouldn't speak in absolutes, but why absolutely everything you have been told is a lie, is wrong.

00:04:11.000 A lot of people out there think COVID has happened, hospitals have been overrun, And that's why there are no beds in the ICUs?

00:04:18.000 That's not true.

00:04:20.000 And I will explain to you point by point why that is the case.

00:04:22.000 We'll also be watching the new Matrix trailer.

00:04:25.000 Yes!

00:04:26.000 Because my team hates me.

00:04:29.000 We have to do something like that.

00:04:30.000 So before we get Dave, actually, Dave Landau, how are you?

00:04:34.000 I'm good.

00:04:34.000 Ahoy.

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00:04:36.000 You have an announcement to make.

00:04:38.000 I do.

00:04:38.000 But first, actually, just before the show, Gerald A. has an announcement to make of his own.

00:04:43.000 Is that okay, Dave?

00:04:43.000 Are we good?

00:04:44.000 Yeah, go for it, man.

00:04:46.000 So yeah, my wife and I are expecting kiddo number two.

00:04:48.000 Hey! 0.99

00:04:49.000 Really?

00:04:51.000 I knew this!

00:04:53.000 We're going to have another kiddo coming up.

00:04:55.000 How far along are you?

00:04:56.000 Very early on in the process.

00:04:58.000 I think it's right around that 8-10 week range.

00:05:01.000 I should know these things more precisely.

00:05:03.000 That's early.

00:05:05.000 You knew a couple weeks ago.

00:05:06.000 Right around your last vacation.

00:05:10.000 Exactly.

00:05:10.000 If you could time it back, I think Branson.

00:05:14.000 Yes, because Branson is a storybook romance.

00:05:18.000 Who hasn't made a baby in Branson?

00:05:20.000 We went on down to the Dolly Parton Rodeo, a subsidiary of Medieval Times.

00:05:26.000 I get a little wet after watching Yakov Smirnoff.

00:05:29.000 Yakov Smirnoff, acrobat extraordinaire, and then going on the non-gambling riverboat.

00:05:34.000 Listen, there are tons of Crowder fans.

00:05:36.000 You can gamble, just not with money.

00:05:37.000 You can skip the chips.

00:05:39.000 And then I saw the Ripley's Believe It or Not, which gets the crappy leftover like, oh, is that the Stuntman's Judge Dredd costume?

00:05:46.000 Yeah, I didn't believe it.

00:05:49.000 Congratulations.

00:05:50.000 Hey guys, you can leave a comment.

00:05:51.000 That's the best way to do it.

00:05:52.000 We have obviously usually a comment on issues where we ask you guys questions, but come on, let Gerald know that you love him.

00:05:57.000 Give him a congratulations.

00:05:58.000 Nice comments.

00:06:00.000 Dave also has a major announcement.

00:06:04.000 Oh, uh, well we should definitely reverse this.

00:06:07.000 I'm gonna be on a fishing show.

00:06:12.000 That's cool, too.

00:06:14.000 Oh, he's a fan and he's watching.

00:06:16.000 No, in seriousness, check out BassSquatchHunter.tv.

00:06:19.000 It's on the Pursuit channel, which you can check local listings.

00:06:22.000 Starting next week, I'm on the season finale.

00:06:25.000 It's my buddy Mike McKinstry.

00:06:27.000 It's a really, really fun show, and then it'll be up on YouTube after that, and you can watch me looking for bass.

00:06:32.000 Did you catch any?

00:06:33.000 Are you supposed to reveal that, or is that like the big thing?

00:06:36.000 He was looking for bass, you were looking for...

00:06:39.000 Yeah, I was going to do that and then I held off because I got a little eyeball from Steven.

00:06:44.000 But yeah, I did.

00:06:46.000 I caught, I did catch fish.

00:06:49.000 I'm not gonna say many fish.

00:06:50.000 Yeah, well, you know, Gerald caught a little more.

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00:06:57.000 And Dave is also in the Spokane Comedy Club in Washington this Friday and Saturday at 7.30 and 10.30.

00:07:05.000 Okay, before we move on to Larry Elder being hit with eggs by a racist in a gorilla mask.

00:07:11.000 I don't think she was a racist.

00:07:12.000 I just don't think she could afford a new mask.

00:07:14.000 Yeah, still raised.

00:07:15.000 It's still wrong.

00:07:16.000 I mean, could you imagine someone threw eggs at Barack Obama in a gorilla mask?

00:07:20.000 Like, oh, President, blah, blah, blah.

00:07:23.000 It would just be awful.

00:07:24.000 And rightfully so, like, President, blah, blah, blah. 0.98

00:07:28.000 Like, seriously, it's just, everything about this is ridiculous. 0.93

00:07:31.000 Also, I've learned that private security, in some cases, are useless. 0.84

00:07:35.000 But before we get to that, lefty TikTokers, and the nursing scandal right now, Leftist tiktokers, they want you to know that you can refer to your daughter... This is where we are, okay?

00:07:48.000 It's offensive to refer to your daughter as Princess.

00:07:54.000 So I don't know if this is considered an unpopular opinion, but if you have a daughter, you need to stop calling her princess if you do.

00:08:02.000 The way that Disney has branded the princess is based on her beauty as her most important asset.

00:08:08.000 This term also encourages the damsel in distress that needs to be rescued by a man, and it doesn't focus on their intelligence or integrity or any other character trait.

00:08:20.000 Why don't we call girls scientist, engineer, doctor? 1.00

00:08:24.000 Like, why does it have to be something fancy?

00:08:27.000 My wife plays a good doctor. 0.99

00:08:28.000 Yes.

00:08:28.000 Oh, princess, what do you mean?

00:08:29.000 She involves a hammock.

00:08:31.000 No!

00:08:32.000 My daughter's father called her princess yesterday, and I had to lecture him again, because we do not use that term in this house.

00:08:40.000 My daughter's father?

00:08:41.000 Even my own sisters have called her princess.

00:08:42.000 I hope you threw your tuna casserole against the wall.

00:08:44.000 Don't call her that.

00:08:45.000 Maybe I come across as very controlling, but I think it's a very harmful word and she shouldn't look up to that term. 0.99

00:08:53.000 I hate you.

00:08:55.000 No, because we wouldn't want anyone to perpetuate, of course, the stereotype of princess.

00:09:01.000 That's not something that we would ever want there.

00:09:03.000 You can be a little more timely there, Tim.

00:09:06.000 Well, as long as you're a man.

00:09:08.000 Yeah, as long as you're a man.

00:09:09.000 It's like, oh no, listen.

00:09:11.000 Listen, this is just, I believe I'm a woman.

00:09:13.000 Really?

00:09:13.000 How many transgender individuals Uh, are saying, I want to be a woman.

00:09:18.000 Why?

00:09:18.000 So I can become a scientist.

00:09:20.000 No! 1.00

00:09:21.000 They want to become a woman so they can have big ol' fake tits and clown makeup. 1.00

00:09:24.000 Let's be really clear about it. 1.00

00:09:26.000 Okay?

00:09:27.000 And all of a sudden it's like, oh, Caitlyn Jen- Bruce Jenner, is now Caitlyn Jenner, is dressed like a Barbie, wearing a corset with those dimensions, and is wearing a princess tiara.

00:09:37.000 But, hey, well no, that's fine.

00:09:38.000 Just not for biological women. 1.00

00:09:40.000 Well, do you see the example she used?

00:09:41.000 She's like, oh, princess, what do you need?

00:09:43.000 And she's like, why can't we call him scientist doctor?

00:09:44.000 Because I don't call my son, oh, scientist, what do you need?

00:09:47.000 I don't believe he's ever been to an accredited university.

00:09:51.000 I don't believe that she has a degree for me to call her a doctor.

00:09:55.000 Also, one! 0.93

00:09:57.000 It's a bit early to be calling.

00:09:58.000 And I love how she referred to her husband as my child's father.

00:10:04.000 What is it with labels in you?

00:10:05.000 Is that not appropriate?

00:10:07.000 Are you not husband and wife anymore?

00:10:08.000 That's fine.

00:10:09.000 I wouldn't be.

00:10:10.000 Well, I hope if you leave that you don't try and take any said finances from your child's father, since you're such a strong, independent woman.

00:10:18.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:10:19.000 No, no, no, no.

00:10:21.000 I want my cake and eat it too.

00:10:23.000 I just think everything's terrible.

00:10:26.000 Don't call them princess.

00:10:27.000 Look, do you know why particularly men will call their daughter princess?

00:10:31.000 That's what's most common.

00:10:32.000 There's a great book called Wild at Heart, actually, that you should read.

00:10:34.000 And it talks about how every young man needs a battle to fight, a dragon to slay, and a

00:10:38.000 princess to save.

00:10:40.000 That's also why women have been told for a very long time, until recently, that you don't

00:10:44.000 just want to give it all away, that you want the man to pursue you.

00:10:48.000 Fathers call their daughters princesses because they want to elevate them, and they hope that

00:10:53.000 women think highly of themselves, they're young girls, and they develop self-esteem

00:10:56.000 so that other men end up esteeming them and treating them as a princess.

00:11:01.000 That's the idea.

00:11:02.000 The idea is they're saying, you're so special, I'm going to treat you like a princess.

00:11:07.000 To act as though that comes from anything other than love.

00:11:10.000 By the way, by the way, there have been princesses, there have been queens, who've been very accomplished.

00:11:15.000 Yes.

00:11:15.000 I don't know why you're knocking them.

00:11:17.000 She just doesn't like Disney.

00:11:17.000 Why don't you just say that?

00:11:19.000 Many liked horses.

00:11:20.000 They liked horses?

00:11:21.000 And long hair.

00:11:22.000 They made good quotes?

00:11:23.000 Let them eat cake?

00:11:26.000 That's all I got.

00:11:27.000 Some are better than others.

00:11:28.000 It just doesn't matter.

00:11:29.000 You're just pretending to be offended by something.

00:11:31.000 Right.

00:11:32.000 And then you're going on TikTok trying to lecture them. 0.54

00:11:34.000 You're a white woman. 1.00

00:11:35.000 Stop acting like you're not the second worst. 1.00

00:11:39.000 Your daughter, if you continue down this line, is going to be the absolute worst child. 0.79

00:11:44.000 In the order of worst, it goes... 0.94

00:11:47.000 South African prince.

00:11:48.000 There you go.

00:11:49.000 Princess. 1.00

00:11:51.000 Your daughter's gonna treat men like garbage because of you. 1.00

00:11:54.000 And be single until she's 35. 1.00

00:11:56.000 And then never be happy.

00:11:57.000 And then overvalue her sexual value in the marketplace when she's in her 20s. 1.00

00:12:04.000 Because she's going to think that, well, I believe, I identify as a chemical engineer.

00:12:09.000 But you're not.

00:12:09.000 No, maybe biochemist.

00:12:10.000 But you're none of those things.

00:12:11.000 You got a gender studies degree and you dropped out of that and then demanded someone else pay your student loans. 0.99

00:12:16.000 Are you calling me princess?

00:12:17.000 That would be a step up. 0.99

00:12:18.000 I think you should shut up and hopefully find a nice home and a gutter. 0.96

00:12:21.000 Now, uh, New World Order is something that does bother me. 0.94

00:12:26.000 This is trending number three right now.

00:12:27.000 What?

00:12:28.000 Because someone said the quiet part out loud.

00:12:29.000 Uh-oh.

00:12:30.000 Doctor... well, Australian doctor.

00:12:33.000 I don't know.

00:12:34.000 I don't know.

00:12:34.000 Does that count?

00:12:35.000 I don't know what kind of vetting they do there.

00:12:36.000 Come on.

00:12:37.000 It's a penal colony.

00:12:39.000 What are you getting?

00:12:40.000 What are you getting?

00:12:40.000 A major in rape and a minor in keelhauling?

00:12:44.000 Ugh. 0.99

00:12:45.000 That's what I call my daughter, major rape. 1.00

00:12:48.000 Yes, major rape. 1.00

00:12:50.000 Women can be majors too. 1.00

00:12:52.000 Yeah, what, you got a problem with majors?

00:12:54.000 I'm sorry, the rank is what threw me off.

00:12:55.000 So Australian Public Health Chief Dr. Carrie Chant just said this.

00:13:00.000 This is why it's trending.

00:13:01.000 These words, actually.

00:13:04.000 We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the new world order.

00:13:10.000 Yes, it will be pubs and clubs and other things if we have a positive case there.

00:13:14.000 Our response may be different if we know that people are fully vaccinated.

00:13:18.000 First off, good on her, good on all of Australia for getting the first signer we've seen without manhands.

00:13:23.000 Yeah, that is nice.

00:13:24.000 I don't want to say normal.

00:13:28.000 At least an average signer.

00:13:31.000 It just doesn't need to be like a Seinfeld episode.

00:13:33.000 Yeah, a non three-ring circus signer.

00:13:38.000 I still think it's fake.

00:13:39.000 Yeah.

00:13:41.000 They said this out, usually I don't like to get into conspiracy theories because the term New World Order has often been attributed to people who are creating conspiracies.

00:13:49.000 Or wrestling.

00:13:50.000 But she said this out loud and didn't someone else, wasn't there someone who, I feel like this is something that has actually been talked about.

00:13:58.000 You know what this is?

00:13:59.000 This is Ivermectin for humans at one of the Nobel Prizes in antiviral.

00:14:02.000 And this is inhalable, or these are the tablets, steroids.

00:14:06.000 So let me show ya.

00:14:06.000 I was gonna do this anyways earlier.

00:14:09.000 See this?

00:14:10.000 See this, Fauci?

00:14:11.000 You see this, Bill Gates? 1.00

00:14:12.000 I'm gonna kill those prions, you b****** murders. 1.00

00:14:15.000 Gonna hit me with a bioweapon, you monster. 1.00

00:14:17.000 You wanna suppress me, you wanna kill me, you son of a b******. 1.00

00:14:19.000 You b****** damn demon. 1.00

00:14:20.000 You think I'm easy to kill? 1.00

00:14:22.000 You damn monster. 1.00

00:14:27.000 That's a hell of a plug for Topo, is that right? 1.00

00:14:29.000 Nobel Prize winning for humans!

00:14:34.000 Nobel Prize winning for you!

00:14:36.000 You know, if it weren't for the movements- I'm glad that's not a beer, I thought it was.

00:14:39.000 If it weren't for the movements that actually can't be caught by a 60 frame rate-

00:14:44.000 Right.

00:14:44.000 Everything you just said is entirely right!

00:14:48.000 And he's talking about, he went on to talk about the New World Order.

00:14:51.000 That's what he said, in the New World Order.

00:14:52.000 And she's like, ah, I misspoke. 0.94

00:14:54.000 What I meant is One World Government.

00:15:00.000 Look, this is something, and we're going to get to some more of what they've talked about on CNN today.

00:15:04.000 They want to force you.

00:15:06.000 Let's not be confused here that the left believes in your right to choose when it comes to anything outside of murdering a baby inside the womb.

00:15:15.000 They don't believe in your right to choose when it comes to what car you can drive, what

00:15:18.000 kind of food you can eat, what kind of place you can live in, what kind of transportation

00:15:21.000 you can use, drinks, big gulps, nor what you can do as it relates to experimental to new

00:15:29.000 vaccines.

00:15:30.000 Look, this is the only thing anyone, if anyone talks about the vaccines, this is the issue

00:15:35.000 here.

00:15:36.000 I think that if you weigh the risks and rewards just like anything else, and you think that

00:15:40.000 it's worth the reward, you should take the vaccine.

00:15:43.000 And there are some people who cannot.

00:15:45.000 There are people with actual medical conditions, like GBS.

00:15:47.000 This is something I ran into with my wife.

00:15:49.000 It's a nerve condition that she woke up from.

00:15:50.000 It was triggered by anesthesia.

00:15:52.000 She can't even take a flu shot. 1.00

00:15:54.000 These things exist.

00:15:55.000 And anyone who says that we have long-term studies, you're lying.

00:16:00.000 You can't.

00:16:01.000 Now, it doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with the vaccine.

00:16:03.000 No one is saying that.

00:16:05.000 But the problem is when you go out and you so overreach, that it's a lie that people can recognize. Well, guess what?

00:16:09.000 That's when you create people who don't trust you. And we'll get to some of those

00:16:13.000 demographics here in the country in a second.

00:16:15.000 But first, this is something that was, I would say, surprising to me, that it was surprising to

00:16:22.000 our government, but it's not. The Taliban announced their new government leadership, and then

00:16:29.000 Lincoln.

00:16:32.000 I swear to you.

00:16:33.000 Blinken was absolutely shocked at their lack of diversity.

00:16:38.000 That's not a joke.

00:16:39.000 Here's a clip.

00:16:39.000 Yesterday, the Taliban named a new interim government.

00:16:44.000 We're assessing the announcement, but despite professing that a new government would be inclusive, the announced list of names consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban or their close associates.

00:16:56.000 and no women.

00:16:57.000 It just makes common sense.

00:16:58.000 We understand the Taliban has presented this as a caretaker cabinet.

00:17:06.000 We will judge it and them by its actions.

00:17:12.000 The international community has made clear its expectations.

00:17:15.000 Yeah, well, look. 1.00

00:17:20.000 One in one hand and shit in the other, Blinken. 0.99

00:17:22.000 See which one fills up first. 0.99

00:17:23.000 We're really hoping the Taliban includes someone. 1.00

00:17:26.000 This is the difference.

00:17:26.000 In the United States, someone loses their office if they don't fervently support a George Floyd mural.

00:17:33.000 In the Taliban, they're still enforcing Sharia law and they're going to stone women to death if they're even accused of adultery.

00:17:43.000 Hopefully we see some good representation.

00:17:45.000 Do you have any idea how much they're laughing at you?

00:17:47.000 Oh my god.

00:17:48.000 Well, the women can't drive to work. 1.00

00:17:50.000 That's why they can't.

00:17:51.000 It's a transportation issue.

00:17:53.000 I love how he's focused on the lack of diversity and not on the fact that there's a country run by terrorists with our tanks and Blackhawks! 0.97

00:18:03.000 What the hell is the matter with you? 1.00

00:18:04.000 Yeah, they're terrorists. 1.00

00:18:05.000 They're not diverse. 0.96

00:18:08.000 They have our Blackhawks for crying out loud.

00:18:11.000 Do you have any idea what they're going to do with the women?

00:18:12.000 I can show you the world of Blackhawks.

00:18:15.000 Shining, shimmering, bye bye.

00:18:18.000 They're going to toss them from Blackhawks.

00:18:21.000 This is the actual leader, the supreme leader, sorry, of the Taliban, according to former Vice President Joe Biden.

00:18:28.000 Why give them the respect of pronouncing it as they would?

00:18:31.000 I think it's funny.

00:18:32.000 It's like a joke to me.

00:18:34.000 Yeah, to us, not to him.

00:18:35.000 But to them, they're dead serious.

00:18:37.000 They're like, we don't want to mispronounce the people.

00:18:38.000 We don't want to mispronounce the people.

00:18:40.000 We could offend the guys who took all of our weapons and murdered people.

00:18:43.000 Right, yeah, we wouldn't want to offend the people who mutilate their women and allow them no rights whatsoever. 0.97

00:18:50.000 So, the Taliban Supreme Leader, Hayyabatullah Ahmad, you know what, I can't pronounce it, the Taliban, the asshole leader of the Taliban, He said, in the future, all matters of governance and life in Afghanistan will be regulated by the laws of the Holy Sharia. 0.92

00:19:07.000 Hey, by the way, remember when the left said that a Sharia law is not a thing? 0.62

00:19:12.000 Because Dr. Ben Carson said, I actually believe that anyone who agrees with Sharia law, that it's incompatible with the Constitution.

00:19:20.000 And you know why?

00:19:21.000 Because Islam, actually, particularly the Quran, is a political prescription just as much as it is a religion.

00:19:27.000 It outlines a system of laws, and that is the reason that entire area of the world has never gotten it right when it comes to women's rights. 1.00

00:19:38.000 They can't.

00:19:38.000 I know someone will send me a picture of someone in Iran in the 70s wearing a one-piece.

00:19:43.000 Okay!

00:19:43.000 They had like three good years.

00:19:46.000 It was downhill from there.

00:19:47.000 Check in now.

00:19:48.000 Yeah, there was a point when that happened.

00:19:50.000 Yeah, for like three good years.

00:19:52.000 Three good years.

00:19:52.000 Write a song about that one, Sinatra!

00:19:54.000 But even making that point to you, it's like, yeah, you're just proving exactly what my point is.

00:19:59.000 Right.

00:19:59.000 They jumped right back onto it and ruined their lives.

00:20:01.000 Well, not only do they not have women in government, they also banned the Taliban, women from playing sports.

00:20:07.000 With the exception, of course, of the all-female Taliban softball champions.

00:20:11.000 So they're pretty, yeah, they're good.

00:20:12.000 Yeah, those are...

00:20:15.000 The one on the right almost looks like Maddie.

00:20:18.000 Not in a bad way.

00:20:19.000 They live in a nice three story.

00:20:21.000 I'm sorry, they were thrown from a nice three story.

00:20:23.000 Oh, that's right.

00:20:26.000 They should have known when they were asked to volunteer to play softball.

00:20:29.000 I mean, look, can you guys let me in?

00:20:32.000 Just comment.

00:20:34.000 I was watching this going, are we beyond parody?

00:20:39.000 Yes.

00:20:39.000 Did anyone out there, here's my question, did anyone out there actually expect the Taliban to be inclusive, not even getting to menstruating persons?

00:20:50.000 Did we expect them to be inclusive?

00:20:55.000 Women? 1.00

00:20:56.000 And I know you're thinking, synonym?

00:20:58.000 No, it's not, apparently.

00:21:00.000 Did anyone actually out there expect them to be fair and to give equal treatment?

00:21:05.000 Now, I know most of you are going, rhetorical questions, Stephen.

00:21:08.000 And don't get so smarmy in the comment section.

00:21:10.000 So, my follow-up question is, did you actually expect the left to expect equal treatment of women?

00:21:18.000 Do you think they actually expected that?

00:21:20.000 This is what surprises me.

00:21:21.000 Like, were they actually blindsided?

00:21:23.000 Hell yeah! 0.95

00:21:23.000 Hey, Mr. Taliban! 0.95

00:21:23.000 Hey, what? 0.95

00:21:23.000 What? 0.95

00:21:34.000 What Yeah, I heard the people also getting the knocks on the door in the dead of night and getting shot in their beds were also a little pissed off that there wasn't more diversity in the assassination squad.

00:21:42.000 You know, the Taliban's show on the Peacock has a lot of diversity.

00:21:47.000 Oh.

00:21:47.000 And I think it's important.

00:21:48.000 We have to give credit where it's due.

00:21:50.000 It's true.

00:21:51.000 Why would you ever even bring it up?

00:21:53.000 That's the problem with America. 0.91

00:21:55.000 We're so woke, we've become just a clown circus. 0.97

00:21:58.000 Do you understand what is required to kill to win a war? 0.74

00:22:03.000 This is the thing.

00:22:03.000 I don't think Americans have the stomach for it.

00:22:05.000 We may not have the time to do the whole woke military segment today, but I don't think that Amer... Do you know what a war... Do you know how you win a war?

00:22:12.000 You go in, you destroy all enemies, you level everything, You enslave the women, which is not... I'm not saying it's right. 1.00

00:22:19.000 This is what happened though since the beginning of time, up until the evil empire that is the United States.

00:22:24.000 You take all of their resources and you make sure that it is so brutal, so swift, that no one else even dare speak up about challenging you.

00:22:35.000 And instead, we go in and we don't take their resources, we don't take their oil, we try to build up a democracy, and we ask for nothing more than the land in which to bury the dead who died for them.

00:22:44.000 Are militaries capable of winning wars?

00:22:47.000 Our people at the desks, the people like Blinken's, don't have the stomach for it, and I don't think that Americans have the stomach for winning a war today.

00:22:55.000 No.

00:22:55.000 We used to have people commit suicide because they could not go to war.

00:22:59.000 Because they were not found capable.

00:23:00.000 They didn't have the eyesight or they had a body condition.

00:23:02.000 We've gone from people now, they don't care.

00:23:05.000 They don't care what it costs to be free.

00:23:07.000 The older brother in The Wonder Years had flat feet.

00:23:09.000 Couldn't join the army.

00:23:10.000 He was depressed for like a week.

00:23:11.000 Yeah he was.

00:23:12.000 I got flat feet.

00:23:13.000 But then he bounced back with those Golden Graham commercials.

00:23:15.000 He did.

00:23:17.000 And using the F word a lot, if you see the movie Monster Squad.

00:23:21.000 Yes. 0.80

00:23:23.000 Watching Wayne just throw out three gay slurs is really something.

00:23:27.000 Well, at least Matt Damon stopped.

00:23:29.000 So here's another thing.

00:23:30.000 A man.

00:23:30.000 Larry Elder.

00:23:31.000 A woman.

00:23:32.000 Yes, a menstruating person.

00:23:35.000 A person.

00:23:36.000 So Larry Elder, who's running for governor against Gavin Newsom.

00:23:40.000 He's been on the show quite a few times.

00:23:41.000 I won't have him back until he grows back the mustache.

00:23:44.000 He was touring a homeless encampment in Venice.

00:23:47.000 First mistake. 0.98

00:23:50.000 But an insane person!

00:23:51.000 He was walking through Venice?

00:23:52.000 Yes!

00:23:53.000 Just any part.

00:23:55.000 Greater Los Angeles area.

00:23:56.000 There you go.

00:23:58.000 And I warn you that this will be upsetting.

00:24:02.000 I don't know what you call this person.

00:24:03.000 A person in a gorilla mask attacked Larry Elder, a black candidate for governor, by whipping eggs at him and then assaulted his security guards who were non-violently protecting him all on camera.

00:24:18.000 And as of this show right now, as the airing of this broadcast, it is 10 39 A.M.

00:24:25.000 Eastern.

00:24:26.000 I don't think that anyone has been arrested.

00:24:28.000 There haven't been any charges pressed.

00:24:29.000 It's on camera.

00:24:30.000 Multiple angles.

00:24:31.000 Here you go.

00:24:34.000 Here's a gorilla mask.

00:24:38.000 On the right.

00:24:40.000 Throwing.

00:24:40.000 Missed.

00:24:41.000 That was throws like a girl. 1.00

00:24:44.000 You f***ing take your guy's hands off me mother f***er. 1.00

00:24:46.000 Touch me again. 1.00

00:24:47.000 Touch me again.

00:24:48.000 Don't touch her.

00:24:49.000 Don't touch her. 0.83

00:24:50.000 Quintessential feminism. 1.00

00:24:51.000 Commits assault and then is offended when a man says stop committing assault.

00:24:57.000 Alright, we won't call your daughter princess.

00:25:00.000 I got it.

00:25:00.000 Alright.

00:25:01.000 Come on, guy!

00:25:06.000 The security should be going through there and just laying people out! 0.99

00:25:12.000 A white woman yelling at a black man, you're not black enough. 1.00

00:25:16.000 Right. 1.00

00:25:17.000 Dressed in a gorilla mask.

00:25:19.000 Wouldn't it have been more offensive had she gone Larry Elder?

00:25:26.000 I've taken a lot of LSD and I don't know what's real anymore.

00:25:30.000 I really don't.

00:25:31.000 Every day I wake up, I'm like, that happened, right?

00:25:34.000 Was that a nightmare?

00:25:35.000 It's a lady, a white lady, in a gorilla mask. 1.00

00:25:39.000 And then they will say, all domestic, they will say that all political violence is committed from those on the right.

00:25:45.000 This person did it to the leading Republican candidate in California, in plain view, with several people backing this broad, I assume, in the gorilla mask, up, and then assaulting security officers.

00:25:57.000 Again, it's not that they did this, it's that the left fears no accountability.

00:26:01.000 Yeah.

00:26:01.000 No retribution whatsoever, and that is not a good path to go down.

00:26:04.000 Because guess what?

00:26:05.000 Someone's going to start dishing out retribution soon.

00:26:07.000 Government, you need to do your job.

00:26:09.000 Media, you need to do your job.

00:26:10.000 Or the Americans who are tired of getting physically assaulted will do it for you. 0.99

00:26:16.000 And I pray that it doesn't come to that, but it will!

00:26:18.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:26:19.000 I'm kind of offended that she missed from eight feet.

00:26:22.000 Well, she's a menstruating person. 1.00

00:26:24.000 Yeah, these aren't great athletes.

00:26:26.000 Exactly.

00:26:27.000 Larry Elder should have turned around and been like, time of the month?

00:26:31.000 You should have just belted her. 1.00

00:26:32.000 You should have been like, I'm sorry, I thought you were a gorilla.

00:26:35.000 That's exactly what I was going to say.

00:26:36.000 Would you have a defense?

00:26:37.000 Like, if you got hit, first off, you've been punched.

00:26:39.000 Are you allowed to punch back?

00:26:40.000 Is it legal in California?

00:26:41.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:26:42.000 California's really stupid. 1.00

00:26:43.000 But nonetheless, could you be like, oh, I thought, I didn't know you were a woman. 1.00

00:26:46.000 How am I supposed to know?

00:26:47.000 You're behind that mask.

00:26:48.000 You'd be anything.

00:26:48.000 I'm sorry, princess.

00:26:50.000 Well, next time I'll get it right.

00:26:52.000 Ah, why?

00:26:53.000 Put a tiara on that gorilla mask.

00:26:55.000 I would have just acted like it was real and been like, is that a gorilla riding a bike?

00:26:59.000 Wow.

00:27:01.000 That's insane.

00:27:03.000 Just stop.

00:27:03.000 Well, Larry Elder, godspeed.

00:27:05.000 Yes, I hope you win.

00:27:05.000 It's like dressing up as a Nazi and calling someone a Nazi.

00:27:08.000 They think they can do whatever they want, and then they just throw it at you. 0.99

00:27:12.000 You can't call a girl princess, but you can dress up like a gorilla and attack a black man. 0.99

00:27:17.000 I'll give you one even more. 0.96

00:27:19.000 Obviously the swastika symbol, which really shouldn't be as offensive as it is because it was originally an Indian symbol for peace.

00:27:25.000 No, it was an Indian symbol for peace, the swastika, then it was co-opted.

00:27:29.000 However, the hammer and sickle, which resulted in far more deaths now, let me be really clear.

00:27:33.000 Nazis, bad.

00:27:35.000 Deaths from Nazis, bad. 0.99

00:27:36.000 Complete condemnation. 0.92

00:27:37.000 What I'm saying is that was a co-opted symbol.

00:27:39.000 It wasn't originally a Nazi symbol.

00:27:41.000 However, the Hammer and Sickle is responsible for just as many deaths, and you can go to breweries and pro-labor protests and find the Hammer and Sickle everywhere.

00:27:51.000 There is a brewery in Traverse City, Michigan, when we were driving through, and I took my grandmother-in-law there, she was 92, and she looked up and she saw portraits of Stalin and Mao, and she almost had a tear brought to her eye, because she was around for it, by the way, Russian, and said, uh, I've got to get out of here. 0.88

00:28:10.000 I've got to get out of here.

00:28:11.000 Why don't we treat them the same?

00:28:13.000 Yeah.

00:28:13.000 Tens of millions of people died under that symbol.

00:28:16.000 Actually, hundreds.

00:28:17.000 It's more like hundreds.

00:28:18.000 I was trying to lowball it.

00:28:20.000 Let's lowball it and call it somewhere between 50 and 100.

00:28:24.000 Well, it's also, look at the skull and crossbones on my lower back.

00:28:29.000 That's just to let people know it's a pirate and also my booty hole's poison.

00:28:32.000 There might be some plundering afoot.

00:28:35.000 There is going to be pillaging.

00:28:37.000 Oh my gosh.

00:28:38.000 This is something else before we move on here.

00:28:40.000 Again, I want to get into the nursing shortage issue and some stories here that I encountered and also Gerald did.

00:28:48.000 But before that, look, we have a This Week in Biden.

00:28:51.000 Before I go to this, I have never seen a president, I think this is something that cannot be up for debate, I have never seen a president in my lifetime, and I've watched every single major presidential debate, by the way, going back to I want to say Mondale.

00:29:08.000 I used to watch them on C-SPAN, and you can watch them online.

00:29:11.000 Really?

00:29:11.000 Yeah, just because I wanted to see what they were about.

00:29:12.000 I've never seen any president abdicate his responsibility as much.

00:29:17.000 Every single time Joe Biden goes up and speaks, and he'll be going up and speaking tomorrow.

00:29:23.000 He spoke yesterday, he'll speak tomorrow, which is very busy for him.

00:29:26.000 Yeah, it's a lot.

00:29:27.000 Ten minutes, two days.

00:29:28.000 So I want you to watch for this when he comes up later today.

00:29:34.000 He always says, they told me.

00:29:36.000 I was told.

00:29:37.000 Afghanistan, not his fault.

00:29:38.000 It was other advisors.

00:29:39.000 COVID, not his fault.

00:29:40.000 They told me this.

00:29:41.000 I'm not allowed to do this.

00:29:43.000 I have to do this.

00:29:44.000 My advisors have said you have to do X. And so this is just a small portion.

00:29:48.000 We could do a clip of this for 10 minutes.

00:29:50.000 You can say what you want about Donald Trump.

00:29:52.000 Say what you want about George W. Bush.

00:29:54.000 They did not say, well, I'm basically a puppet.

00:29:56.000 So let me make this as clear as I can this week in Biden. 0.88

00:30:00.000 If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.99

00:30:04.000 You guys are bad. 0.99

00:30:05.000 I'm not supposed to be answering all these questions.

00:30:07.000 I'm supposed to leave, but I can't resist your questions.

00:30:10.000 I'm supposed to stop and walk out of the room here.

00:30:14.000 I'm going to stop.

00:30:15.000 With your permission, I'm going to walk into the room because I want to say a little.

00:30:19.000 I'm not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead.

00:30:21.000 I'm not going to answer again.

00:30:24.000 Stand down.

00:30:25.000 They gave me a list here.

00:30:28.000 The first person I was instructed to call on was Kelly O'Donnell of NBC.

00:30:33.000 I'll take your questions and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I'm going to call on.

00:30:39.000 So, uh, Jonathan, Associated Press.

00:30:41.000 I'm not going to punish anybody, but everyone should pay a fair share.

00:30:46.000 I can lay out for you.

00:30:46.000 I won't now because they'll shoot me.

00:30:48.000 But here's the deal.

00:30:50.000 Thank you.

00:30:51.000 And I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do.

00:30:57.000 I'm sorry, this is the last question I'll take.

00:31:00.000 I'm really going to get in trouble.

00:31:01.000 I'm sorry I'm going to get in trouble with staff if I don't do this the right way.

00:31:04.000 Jennifer Jacob Bloomberg.

00:31:06.000 Thank you very much.

00:31:08.000 Thank you.

00:31:10.000 Thank you.

00:31:12.000 I'm going to get in trouble with my staff.

00:31:14.000 Yeah, go ahead.

00:31:15.000 I'll pretend that you didn't answer.

00:31:16.000 Thank you very much, sir.

00:31:19.000 You have often said repeatedly that America is back.

00:31:23.000 Yes.

00:31:23.000 At the same time, you've kept in place some Trump-era steel and aluminum sanctions.

00:31:29.000 And I wanted to ask you, when you're having these conversations with European allies, who are very concerned about these sanctions, how do you justify that?

00:31:38.000 And what are your plans?

00:31:40.000 120 days.

00:31:41.000 Give me a break.

00:31:43.000 Need time. 0.97

00:31:44.000 If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.99

00:31:49.000 The buck stops... 0.87

00:31:53.000 He's totally in control.

00:31:55.000 We have Donald Trump Jr.

00:31:56.000 coming on in 50 minutes, so we're going to move some stuff to Mug Club, by the way.

00:32:00.000 You can join Mug Club. 0.70

00:32:01.000 Crowder, come back, get $20 off.

00:32:03.000 Crowdershop.com if you don't want to buy Mug Club.

00:32:06.000 And the best way to watch... Quarter Black Garrett's not here. 0.52

00:32:10.000 The best way to just tune in, because notifications don't necessarily work, is it's a live show Monday through Thursday.

00:32:16.000 10 a.m.

00:32:16.000 Eastern, we're back on a regular schedule, and of course you get an hour in addition to Mug Club.

00:32:21.000 So my question to you, before I move on with this, is...

00:32:27.000 Why do you think the media, before we get to this, why do you believe the media is pushing the scare tactic?

00:32:34.000 No available beds again.

00:32:35.000 We were just, before CNN went to reverse mortgage commercials, they were just talking about in Kentucky extreme measures.

00:32:41.000 They've been talking about how we have ICU beds shortages.

00:32:43.000 So let me, hold on a second, I want to make sure I get the right montage because we had to cut some stuff short here with Donald Trump Jr.

00:32:50.000 coming on.

00:32:52.000 Oh no, that's wrong.

00:32:53.000 We have to run that clip of the Michael Schmerconish from CNN.

00:32:56.000 You want to do that now?

00:32:57.000 No, no, no.

00:32:57.000 We'll do it for Mug Club.

00:32:58.000 You're going to love this Mug Club. 1.00

00:33:00.000 You're going to lose your mind.

00:33:01.000 But, Dave, can you, what are you doing?

00:33:05.000 Let's just stop with the, oh, geez.

00:33:08.000 Let's are you.

00:33:10.000 He's been antsy all show?

00:33:11.000 Yeah.

00:33:11.000 I'm hungry.

00:33:12.000 Okay, well look, look, because you guys can't see, he's shaking his leg and we have some built bars.

00:33:16.000 You forbid me from eating in the studio, Steven.

00:33:18.000 No, I didn't forbid you from eating in the studio.

00:33:19.000 Yes, you did.

00:33:20.000 I forbid you from hawking Reese's, who are not a sponsor, to this show.

00:33:25.000 We have some built bars out there in the green room.

00:33:28.000 Just go.

00:33:28.000 Go, go, go, go, go.

00:33:29.000 Alright, fine.

00:33:30.000 Fine.

00:33:30.000 Go, go, go.

00:33:31.000 Fine.

00:33:32.000 Take off your headphones.

00:33:33.000 I have to do that.

00:33:34.000 Alright, let him go.

00:33:41.000 Hey Dave, you trying out those built bars?

00:33:53.000 Yeah, I am.

00:33:55.000 Oh, they are symphony of flavors.

00:33:58.000 So what flavor is that?

00:34:02.000 Looks like it's a birthday cake.

00:34:05.000 Why don't you come over and have a taste?

00:34:07.000 Alright, really quick before we move on to the nursing shortage, ICU bed shortage lie,

00:34:20.000 it is a built bar.

00:34:22.000 Let me be really clear here.

00:34:23.000 No one needs to eat protein bars.

00:34:25.000 And people that, I don't really use a lot of supplements.

00:34:27.000 These things taste like candy bars.

00:34:28.000 They're really good.

00:34:29.000 That's the only reason I eat them is at night I'm like, oh, I want something sweet.

00:34:33.000 I eat a built bar.

00:34:34.000 The salted caramel is amazing.

00:34:36.000 And they're double chocolate.

00:34:37.000 Because they actually put real chocolate in the built bar, like coated in dark chocolate.

00:34:41.000 Yeah, I eat candy in a hat, actually.

00:34:43.000 I don't know if you knew that.

00:34:44.000 Yeah, I have a hat for eating candy.

00:34:46.000 So, yeah, it's really good.

00:34:49.000 But they are really good, actually.

00:34:51.000 The mint chocolate one?

00:34:53.000 Oh, yeah, that's the one.

00:34:53.000 That one, that's the king of mint.

00:34:55.000 That's Tocanalan's favorite, and Thomas Finnegan loves the coconut.

00:34:58.000 So go to built.com.

00:35:00.000 Cryder 15.

00:35:00.000 You get 15% off.

00:35:02.000 I will say this.

00:35:03.000 I was 260, a big part of it was fluid, after the surgery.

00:35:07.000 Two weeks.

00:35:08.000 I went from 233 the morning of the surgery to 260 in two weeks.

00:35:12.000 So I cut out all sweets.

00:35:15.000 Then I cut out all carbohydrates.

00:35:17.000 I mean, weight still kept going up, so I was panicking.

00:35:19.000 Once they removed the fluid, I was down to, like, 238.

00:35:22.000 And then all I did was, look, if I wanted to eat something, I just would eat a Bilt Bar.

00:35:25.000 And I dropped back down to 230 in another two weeks.

00:35:27.000 So, yeah.

00:35:28.000 Helped me from eating those Reese's Cups.

00:35:30.000 You have 30 pounds of stuff in your lungs, and you're like, I should cut out eggs.

00:35:36.000 No idea.

00:35:37.000 Maybe, maybe, Michaela Peterson, I should only eat ribeye.

00:35:42.000 Why are you throwing up my figure?

00:35:44.000 I actually did accidentally go on the carnivore diet.

00:35:46.000 You did?

00:35:47.000 Well, the only reason was because I was by myself, recovering by myself, and so I would have to grill, like, my own steak, and it was just too much work to make vegetables.

00:35:54.000 I was like, I don't like this anyway.

00:35:55.000 You're like, I'm just eating two steaks a night.

00:35:57.000 I'm like, what?

00:35:57.000 I was like, yeah!

00:35:58.000 That's your only steak.

00:35:59.000 It wasn't on purpose!

00:36:00.000 Okay.

00:36:01.000 I don't want no broccoli.

00:36:02.000 I'm with you.

00:36:03.000 It's a lot of work for no flavor.

00:36:05.000 Yeah, steaming it.

00:36:06.000 I don't know.

00:36:07.000 Okay, so let's go through.

00:36:08.000 The media has been, of course, talking about the hospital bed shortage.

00:36:11.000 This is the main talking point du jour.

00:36:13.000 Guys, we may be five minutes late with Donald Trump Jr.

00:36:16.000 Let him know.

00:36:18.000 Remember, this all started, so we need some context here so this information doesn't exist in a vacuum.

00:36:22.000 We prepared for a crazy COVID surge.

00:36:25.000 This all started as two weeks To flatten the curve.

00:36:31.000 Let's go.

00:36:33.000 The U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy is pulling into the port behind me here in San Pedro,

00:36:38.000 California.

00:36:39.000 It has 1000 much needed hospital beds, 900 medical personnel, and that is really going

00:36:45.000 to help relieve the pressure on L.A. area hospitals during this pandemic.

00:36:49.000 Couldn't make their bed when the news was coming?

00:36:51.000 You'd think so.

00:36:52.000 When COVID-19 cases really started to spike in Massachusetts, the state rushed to increase

00:36:55.000 its hospital bed capacity.

00:36:56.000 22 News Statehouse reporter Jody Reed joins us live from Boston.

00:37:01.000 Jody, there are big questions tonight about whether the measures the state took early on were actually necessary.

00:37:09.000 Right now, two out of the four field hospitals in the state remain empty.

00:37:13.000 In fact, they never even saw a single patient.

00:37:16.000 UK's $6.7 million field hospital at Nutter Fieldhouse is officially closed.

00:37:22.000 That word today from UK officials.

00:37:24.000 Based on the data we have now, based on the models that have been established that we have now, we don't believe we'll need that field hospital.

00:37:31.000 Well, that's because I think in that case, look, that's an exception.

00:37:34.000 I don't think people trusted the medical personnel at a place called Nutter.

00:37:36.000 Is that Jack Ruby, by the way? 0.97

00:37:39.000 Where are you going, a nutter? 0.97

00:37:40.000 No, no, no, I'm going to get my transplant at SACTAP. 1.00

00:37:45.000 I hear that place is nuts.

00:37:47.000 I don't know, every time I walk in, they keep doing this, and then they hit me.

00:37:47.000 Right?

00:37:51.000 Yeah, it's so strange.

00:37:52.000 So childish.

00:37:52.000 I keep looking at it every time.

00:37:54.000 It's only to ball-sweat you.

00:37:56.000 Yes.

00:37:57.000 So this was the whole thing, right?

00:37:59.000 Flatten the curve.

00:37:59.000 They had all of these empty hospitals and buildings.

00:38:01.000 I want to make sure you understand, because now People are saying, well, we don't have enough beds.

00:38:06.000 Well, that's partially true.

00:38:08.000 Partially true.

00:38:09.000 But the reason why, it's not just because of COVID.

00:38:12.000 It's not just because there was a crazy surge of COVID and we weren't ready for it.

00:38:15.000 No, that's actually the opposite of what happened in a lot of these cases.

00:38:18.000 So now the claim is hospitals, after you just saw those empty hospitals, for a very, very long time.

00:38:22.000 Hospitals have no free beds now and they're overcapacity.

00:38:25.000 Here you go.

00:38:25.000 South Carolina hospitals are once again reaching their limits due to an influx of COVID-19 patients.

00:38:32.000 At the Asate Three Rivers Medical Center in Grants Pass, things are as busy as ever.

00:38:36.000 100% of the patients in the ICU suffer from the COVID-19 virus.

00:38:41.000 The current COVID surge is still overwhelming the hospital.

00:38:44.000 We are perilously close, as you mentioned in the beginning of the segment, of having, in certain areas of the country, getting so close to having full occupancy that you're going to be in a situation where you're going to have to make some very tough choices.

00:38:59.000 Okay, so here's something that a lot of hospitals operate close to capacity as a business model, period.

00:39:05.000 Yeah.

00:39:06.000 OK?

00:39:07.000 Dr. Mark Boone, the CEO of Houston Methodist Hospital, he actually explained this in August.

00:39:11.000 Now, I'm just using this as a specific example.

00:39:13.000 However, this is well known as a business model, for the same reason that we only bought enough studio space

00:39:18.000 that we were going to use.

00:39:19.000 Right, yeah.

00:39:20.000 You don't want a ton of excess capacity.

00:39:21.000 You don't want a ton of excess capacity.

00:39:23.000 That's not only when you're talking about rent, when you're talking, if you're even buying this property, talking about heating, cooling, utility costs.

00:39:30.000 This is how, not to mention staffing, this is very, very commonplace.

00:39:33.000 So the context matters.

00:39:35.000 Let's have Dr. Mark Boom talk about this from Houston Methodist.

00:39:39.000 So I pulled up June 25th, 2019, exactly one year ago, and said, okay, what was our ICU capacity at one year ago today?

00:39:49.000 It was at 95%.

00:39:51.000 We are highly experienced at utilizing our ICU beds for the sickest of the sick patients, day in, day out, as I've said.

00:39:59.000 and it is completely normal for us to have ICU patients that run in the 80s and 90s.

00:40:05.000 All the hospitals operate. What's different now of course is that about one in four of

00:40:13.000 those ICU patients are COVID patients at our hospital system right now.

00:40:18.000 So clearly that means some of the non-COVID ICU care has already been titrated down a little to allow that level to happen.

00:40:25.000 But this is an activity we do day in, day out, as I've said.

00:40:29.000 So we have many levers in our ability to adjust our ICU usage.

00:40:35.000 And I want to get to, because your wife is a nurse. 0.99

00:40:37.000 She is.

00:40:38.000 And we're going to get to your story in a second because it's very important and she gave you permission to talk about it.

00:40:43.000 And I had a recent run-in in a hospital.

00:40:43.000 She did, yeah.

00:40:45.000 A pregnant nurse. 0.99

00:40:46.000 Pregnant nurse, yeah. 1.00

00:40:47.000 Which is like most of my Google history.

00:40:49.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:40:52.000 Twins! 0.98

00:40:55.000 Now we're also being told that the nurses are burnt out, right?

00:40:59.000 That they're burnt out overall, despite the empty hospitals that you just saw, that were built for this, and that this is the reason there is a staffing shortage.

00:41:07.000 Again, all of this is being crafted so that you believe in narrative.

00:41:11.000 There's a crack in the front line in the battle against COVID.

00:41:14.000 Nurses are burned out and considering leaving the profession altogether.

00:41:18.000 The state and nation facing a nurse shortage that's only expected to get worse.

00:41:23.000 Our health care workers are overworked.

00:41:25.000 They're mentally and emotionally exhausted and now some Valley nurses are leaving the profession to pursue other careers. 0.99

00:41:31.000 On TikTok.

00:41:32.000 Doctors across the United States are struggling under the burden of a fourth wave of hospitalizations

00:41:32.000 Alright, that's enough.

00:41:37.000 and deaths driven by the Delta variant and the close to 40% of Americans who remain unvaccinated.

00:41:50.000 It's not because all of them are burnt out, despite what nurses tell you on TikTok.

00:41:53.000 Many hospitals were forced to pause all elective procedures, meaning it was all hands on deck COVID, build up new hospitals for COVID exclusively, and stop Stop any treatment for anything other than COVID, even though you just heard, you know, from Houston Methodist, for example, at any point in time, one in four patients may be COVID.

00:42:09.000 What would constitute elective procedures, by the way?

00:42:13.000 Well, minor things like heart stints, right?

00:42:17.000 Heart valve surgery, mammograms, kidney stone removal, hip and knee replacements.

00:42:22.000 These were all put on pause.

00:42:24.000 Back surgery.

00:42:25.000 They were all put on pause.

00:42:26.000 And so, what happened was a record number of nurses were laid off. 1.00

00:42:31.000 They were laid off, or they were furloughed, which is, I guess, basically, they don't technically fire a nurse. 0.93

00:42:35.000 Yeah, it's like, we don't really want to kind of fire you.

00:42:37.000 We're going to call you back in, like, three months.

00:42:38.000 Well, see, the issue with that is when I saw furlough with nurses about a year back, I was thinking, like, when they furlough prisoners, which I remember the first time I heard about that.

00:42:46.000 For those who don't know, it's someone who's in prison and they let them out for the weekend.

00:42:50.000 That happens?

00:42:51.000 That's still a thing?

00:42:52.000 Yeah!

00:42:52.000 He had someone whacked!

00:42:54.000 Yeah, he left prison to kill someone. 0.97

00:42:56.000 He left prison to kill someone, then walked back into his 20x40 cell with a wine cellar!

00:43:04.000 So the point is not interchangeable terms.

00:43:07.000 Nurses who've been furloughed, nurses who've had their hours cut.

00:43:11.000 In April 2020, this is overlay P, a record number, 1.4 million healthcare workers, 1.4 million healthcare workers were laid off or had their hours cut.

00:43:22.000 That's insane.

00:43:24.000 And of course, many of the field hospitals constructed never had any patients.

00:43:27.000 No.

00:43:28.000 A lot of the ships didn't have patients.

00:43:30.000 77 total at the Mercy.

00:43:33.000 I think they need more ghost ships.

00:43:36.000 Yes.

00:43:38.000 182 total patients for the Comfort New York in New York.

00:43:40.000 155 million spent on tents at Stony Brook University.

00:43:44.000 Zero patients.

00:43:44.000 Oh my gosh.

00:43:45.000 So just to be clear, this is a self-inflicted wound.

00:43:48.000 They said, we need to flatten the curve.

00:43:50.000 We need to flatten the curve and all elective procedures.

00:43:53.000 And so then a record number of health care workers were laid off.

00:43:58.000 And so what happens is you don't have the staffing for a lot of these beds that are already operating at capacity anyway.

00:44:05.000 This is a self-inflicted wound because of mass media hysteria.

00:44:10.000 Let's be really, really clear.

00:44:12.000 Also, I would make the argument that someone who needs serious cardiovascular surgery should probably be given priority over someone with a milder case of COVID.

00:44:22.000 That's just opinion.

00:44:24.000 I'm not a doctor, and neither are you!

00:44:27.000 Well, I think they should certainly be giving it over zero patients.

00:44:30.000 Right.

00:44:31.000 They need a heart stint. 0.92

00:44:32.000 It's like, I'm sorry, there's no one here.

00:44:33.000 I can't help you.

00:44:36.000 So now the claim is, well nurses are quitting because of now these burdens that come with treating COVID patients.

00:44:40.000 So they want you to believe that now, even though there's a record number of layoffs, now a lot of nurses are leaving.

00:44:45.000 And that is true.

00:44:46.000 Yeah.

00:44:47.000 But it's because of, they just can't even.

00:44:49.000 This is what they're saying now.

00:44:52.000 Clip L1.

00:44:56.000 A 2010 LDI study that looked at hospital understaffing in New York and Illinois found that, quote, each additional patient per nurse was associated with significant increases in the odds of nurses reporting poor outcomes, including job dissatisfaction, intent to leave their job, and high burnout.

00:45:16.000 The latest surge is pushing his healthcare workers to the breaking point.

00:45:20.000 We've had people literally walk off the job because they couldn't take it anymore.

00:45:25.000 Somebody walking off of their shift at this hospital.

00:45:28.000 We've had people walk off their shift.

00:45:32.000 They walked right past 155 empty beds.

00:45:34.000 Because they just couldn't take it anymore.

00:45:36.000 In the state of Mississippi, some 2,000 nurses have quit since the pandemic.

00:45:42.000 It's every day.

00:45:43.000 I mean, just people can't take it.

00:45:44.000 It's not because they don't want to do a good job.

00:45:47.000 We've made it really hard for them with this influx to our healthcare system.

00:45:50.000 Okay, let's cut this.

00:45:51.000 Let's cut this because this is going to keep going on.

00:45:53.000 Stress, burnout, fatigue.

00:45:54.000 Actually, no.

00:45:55.000 There's another reason that there's a staffing shortage with nurses. 1.00

00:45:58.000 That nurses are walking off the job.

00:46:02.000 There you go.

00:46:03.000 I was actually going to ask you, before you comment, what do you think it is?

00:46:09.000 A huge portion of nurses are refusing to get the vaccine.

00:46:13.000 No.

00:46:14.000 At least 153 employees, by the way.

00:46:19.000 From Houston Methodists. 0.91

00:46:21.000 They were fired for refusing the vaccine.

00:46:22.000 One third of all nurses at the University of Cincinnati, their medical centers, said that they'd rather quit than get the vaccine.

00:46:30.000 In New York, 20% of hospital workers, all hospital workers, Not vaccinated.

00:46:35.000 Florida, 42%.

00:46:36.000 Nationally, one in four workers have not gotten vaccinated.

00:46:41.000 Now, I know you're saying, oh, only 42%.

00:46:42.000 Only a third.

00:46:44.000 Here's the thing.

00:46:45.000 When you've laid off a record number of nurses because you couldn't afford them due to putting basically a moratorium on all treatment that is not COVID, right?

00:46:54.000 You're probably overextended because you built new wings that you didn't need with hospitals.

00:46:58.000 One third, that's 33%, Yeah.

00:47:01.000 nurses refusing to be vaccinated will absolutely have catastrophic results as it relates to a

00:47:08.000 labor shortage. That would happen in any industry. Imagine 33% of people at this show gone,

00:47:14.000 33% of people in any assembly line gone. That's a huge reason.

00:47:20.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:47:21.000 A lot of these things happening at the same time, too, right?

00:47:23.000 So this self-inflicted wound with some spikes in COVID, with the problem that people have this mass hysteria that they have to go to the hospital if they have the sniffles, right?

00:47:32.000 So this whole like, oh, Delta variant surge thing.

00:47:34.000 And it is a surge, absolutely, right?

00:47:35.000 But everybody is so scared right now.

00:47:37.000 Which I don't understand how there's a surge when 75% of Americans have received at least one vaccine.

00:47:41.000 We're not doctors.

00:47:42.000 We can't talk about that.

00:47:43.000 Don't make an inference!

00:47:44.000 That's a conspiracy theory.

00:47:45.000 If you go, wait, most people are vaccinated, but there's the same number as last year.

00:47:49.000 So many people get sick.

00:47:51.000 Who would have ever thought?

00:47:52.000 Go ahead.

00:47:52.000 I know when I'm freaking out from being busy at a hospital, I have time to stop and talk to the news.

00:48:00.000 Let's be really clear here though, because I do want to tell a story here, Gerald, and I'll tell my story there for Mug Club, but you can't also argue that nurses are leaving because, let's say right now, they're not being paid fairly.

00:48:17.000 No, as a matter of fact, hospitals want these nurses so badly.

00:48:21.000 that it's you know how it's a buyer's market it's a nurse's market right now uh yeah massive sign

00:48:27.000 on bonuses upwards of a hundred dollars an hour right these are more than some doctors make

00:48:32.000 certainly some uh like i think or other people who are who've been

00:48:36.000 who've attended more medical school than nursing.

00:48:38.000 People like some anesthesiologists, physicians assistants, Miami area hospitals,

00:48:42.000 they're paying 85 to $105 an hour, $1,200 a week in travel expenses.

00:48:48.000 Taylor Scott and White is offering a $15,000 sign on bonus.

00:48:53.000 Why?

00:48:54.000 Because right now there are enough nurses that are not just going, I'm stressed.

00:48:57.000 They're saying, I don't wanna get this vaccine. 0.99

00:49:01.000 Whether you think they're crazy stupid or not, because you'll say that we're not doctors, well, guess what? 0.99

00:49:05.000 They do work in the medical field, and a significant portion, certainly enough to disrupt the supply chain, of nurses have said they will quit sooner than get a vaccination. 0.99

00:49:14.000 And Gerald, your wife, is a nurse, and we have permission to talk about this.

00:49:18.000 Yeah, yeah, she's a nurse. 1.00

00:49:19.000 And so when we talked about what people should do with forced vaccines, which is coming up October 1st, I think is the deadline for a lot of people in different hospital systems in the country where they have to have the vaccination or be very, very, very clear about this.

00:49:32.000 Be fired.

00:49:33.000 There is no grace.

00:49:34.000 There is nothing after that.

00:49:35.000 You don't go on like some administrative leave.

00:49:37.000 You don't have to work from home.

00:49:39.000 You are fired.

00:49:39.000 You are done.

00:49:40.000 There are nurses right now that are just walking off the job. 1.00

00:49:43.000 Like we've heard stories in the nursing community of 20 people on one shift.

00:49:48.000 Saying, we're just gonna leave.

00:49:50.000 Yeah.

00:49:50.000 In one shift of some of the best of the best workers that these hospitals have leaving and going away.

00:49:54.000 And so my wife... Mid-catheter. 1.00

00:49:56.000 Exactly, like, ah, you're gonna have to take it out yourself.

00:49:59.000 It's self-lubricating, though.

00:50:00.000 I saw a commercial.

00:50:00.000 I'll make it easier for you.

00:50:01.000 Hold it on the table, whack it with a hammer, break it like a Kit-Kat. 0.50

00:50:04.000 Oh, jeez.

00:50:05.000 I got an inch in, the rest is up to you.

00:50:08.000 So my wife was given the choice, right?

00:50:10.000 Okay, get the vaccine or be fired.

00:50:12.000 Yeah.

00:50:13.000 Your pregnant wife. 1.00

00:50:15.000 Well, so we didn't know that at the time.

00:50:16.000 She's breastfeeding right now. 0.99

00:50:17.000 We were a little concerned about that.

00:50:18.000 There are several reasons that we're worried about this, but we're not anti-vax at all.

00:50:21.000 My wife actually made fun of me for saying, hey, you should watch this thing about vaccinations early on in our relationship. 1.00

00:50:27.000 So it was kind of funny.

00:50:28.000 We're not even close to that.

00:50:29.000 Then we find out my wife is pregnant, And my wife works from home 100% of the time. 0.99

00:50:36.000 She never even goes near the hospital.

00:50:38.000 And my wife has a note from her OBGYN who said, I would not recommend you take this.

00:50:42.000 And she has it from her primary care provider, unsolicited.

00:50:46.000 She didn't say, give me a note.

00:50:47.000 She said, what do you think about this?

00:50:49.000 Yes.

00:50:49.000 And then give me a note to that, whatever you say.

00:50:52.000 So she's got all of that.

00:50:53.000 And she's in her first trimester.

00:50:54.000 Do you know what they do with first trimester pregnant women? 1.00

00:50:57.000 They give you nothing.

00:50:58.000 Well, if you're in the Air Force, they give you a stretchier flight suit.

00:51:01.000 You need it, right?

00:51:02.000 You start to show a little bit of that.

00:51:04.000 So they give you nothing.

00:51:05.000 They say, look, in the first trimester, you need to be as careful as humanly possible.

00:51:08.000 And you know what they're telling my wife right now?

00:51:10.000 None of that matters.

00:51:11.000 Yeah.

00:51:12.000 None of that matters.

00:51:13.000 You are going to have to get the vaccine and put your wife... Well, the hospital where your wife works. 1.00

00:51:16.000 Right.

00:51:17.000 Yeah.

00:51:17.000 Not her doctors.

00:51:18.000 No, no, no, no.

00:51:18.000 The hospital where she works.

00:51:19.000 I'm not going to... And to be clear, just to be clear, your wife... 0.99

00:51:23.000 I would assume wouldn't take ibuprofen while she's in her first trimester either. 0.99

00:51:27.000 My wife won't take ibuprofen while she's pregnant. 1.00

00:51:30.000 Well, we tell women not to eat soft cheese or shellfish or all of these other things and we're telling them to take a vaccine right now that they have to mandate have to have to have a job. 1.00

00:51:39.000 Right.

00:51:39.000 And by the way, guess what happens if she gets fired on October 1st?

00:51:42.000 Healthcare.

00:51:43.000 Gone.

00:51:44.000 Now my wife's pregnant without healthcare. 1.00

00:51:46.000 Yeah, well also to be fair, your wife though, tell people this and then we're going to bring Donald Trump Jr. 1.00

00:51:49.000 on.

00:51:50.000 She was offered a job.

00:51:51.000 So just to give you an example, because this hospital requires vaccinations, there have been mass walk-offs, and this has been happening at a lot of hospitals, but a hospital that does not require vaccination... Yeah, there's several hospitals that don't require this.

00:52:02.000 One of the things was that Miami job was like seven or eight grand a week.

00:52:06.000 No, for your wife.

00:52:07.000 Yeah.

00:52:07.000 Yeah, so tell them.

00:52:08.000 I was talking about it in general.

00:52:09.000 Your wife was specifically offered what?

00:52:10.000 A signing bonus?

00:52:11.000 I think it was a signing bonus of like $10,000, but it was through those offers, right?

00:52:15.000 So she's in that group.

00:52:16.000 She's an ICU qualified nurse, which is the top level that you can be.

00:52:20.000 I think it was like a $10,000 signing bonus and a huge hourly rate.

00:52:24.000 The bonus rate, or sorry, the overtime rate on that Miami job that we showed?

00:52:28.000 $225 an hour.

00:52:30.000 $225 an hour in 36 hours is full-time.

00:52:31.000 They wanted you to do 48.

00:52:32.000 So you can do the math.

00:52:33.000 It's an amazing amount of money being offered to people right now because of what the hospitals are doing to themselves for no other reason.

00:52:40.000 Literally.

00:52:41.000 What reason can you possibly think of for somebody who works from home 100% of the time?

00:52:45.000 And you didn't give them an exception.

00:52:48.000 If you come to the campus you have to have the vaccine.

00:52:50.000 What possible reason could there be?

00:52:52.000 Yeah, and then they blame you and say, oh, stop playing politics with science.

00:52:56.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:52:57.000 The science says that a first trimester pregnant woman should be taking a vaccine with no long-term... Look, that's anything. 0.74

00:53:03.000 Like you said, when my wife was first trimester pregnant, all of us, we were borderline obsessive, okay?

00:53:09.000 It is not unreasonable at this point.

00:53:11.000 It doesn't make you anti-vax at all.

00:53:13.000 You can say, hey, a 70-year-old who's not pregnant makes sense. 0.99

00:53:17.000 A 32-year-old who is first trimester working from home?

00:53:21.000 It doesn't make sense.

00:53:22.000 That is the issue that is going on right now.

00:53:25.000 And they're playing politics with science.

00:53:27.000 And now we are creating a labor shortage.

00:53:29.000 And here's something, too.

00:53:30.000 A lot of people out there will offer anecdotal evidence.

00:53:32.000 There can be a regional problem.

00:53:34.000 In other words, this kind of situation can create a problem, let's say, in Houston, Texas, where they are overburdened.

00:53:40.000 Absolutely.

00:53:40.000 And you go to a hospital and go, oh, it was crazy full.

00:53:42.000 And then you go to a hospital in Miami, and they say, well, you can go to any hospital you want.

00:53:46.000 We're running like clockwork.

00:53:47.000 Awkward, right?

00:53:48.000 So, two things can be true.

00:53:49.000 You can anecdotally experience seamless care right now, or horrible care, depending how woke the hospital wants to virtue signal.

00:53:57.000 If we have him on, do we have a stinger here?

00:54:00.000 Coming on the show right now, of course, we are thrilled to have him.

00:54:03.000 He's always a lot of fun, and we get some good stuff, is Donald Trump Jr.

00:54:07.000 Stinger! 1.00

00:54:14.000 How are you, sir?

00:54:16.000 I'm doing good.

00:54:16.000 How are you doing?

00:54:17.000 I'm doing better, thank you for asking.

00:54:19.000 You know, it's a little bit tough on the breathing front.

00:54:22.000 You look like you're tan and slim.

00:54:24.000 Is it less stressful being... Living in Florida is good compared to New York.

00:54:31.000 It's just so much more active, naturally.

00:54:34.000 It's a little bit better.

00:54:35.000 It's a no-brainer.

00:54:38.000 Okay, I have so many questions for you.

00:54:39.000 First off, you're competing in the fight with your dad this weekend, Evander Holyfield versus Vitor Belfort, right?

00:54:44.000 Yes.

00:54:44.000 Okay, which roided up guy are you rooting for?

00:54:49.000 Well listen, what's sort of funny is when I was talking to my dad about it, we got into some of this because we watched the first one when they did, you know, the Tyson-Roy Jones fight.

00:54:57.000 Yeah.

00:54:58.000 We watched it from Camp David as like a family and just had a good time and it was sort of amazing listening to my father talk about boxing because you see all the things that he does but you forget that like All those decades in Atlantic City.

00:55:09.000 I mean, he hosted, like, UFC 1.

00:55:12.000 Yeah, early on.

00:55:12.000 He hosted all of those big fights.

00:55:14.000 And so I'm listening to him talk about all of these fighters.

00:55:17.000 He's like, you know, when that guy was fighting at 187, it was... And I'm just like, oh, my God.

00:55:22.000 Like, this is sort of amazing.

00:55:23.000 And so his fight knowledge is actually pretty incredible.

00:55:26.000 And so, you know, I know the guys over at Triller.

00:55:29.000 I was going anyway.

00:55:30.000 I've been, you know... And we're like, this could be really fun and really cool.

00:55:34.000 And I think it will be.

00:55:35.000 So it's Saturday night.

00:55:37.000 My father's gonna be commentating on all of those fights, and some of them are friends.

00:55:40.000 Tito Ortiz, obviously, he's been a huge supporter politically, but he's been a friend for years.

00:55:45.000 I mean, he did, even in his prime, he did The Apprentice and all of that stuff.

00:55:50.000 So Vitor Belfort's a friend.

00:55:52.000 Evander did a lot with my father in all of those fights.

00:55:55.000 Like I said, the most fascinating thing was listening to my father talk about the history

00:55:59.000 and how much recall he had about some of the behind the scenes stuff when those guys

00:56:04.000 We're fighting in Atlantic City in front of them.

00:56:06.000 Yeah, I mean, he's been a combat sport fan for a long time.

00:56:10.000 I'm hoping that you and your dad don't get as high as Snoop Dogg and Oscar De La Hoya did at the last one there, commentating.

00:56:18.000 I hope you do.

00:56:19.000 Yeah, listen, we're two teetotalers, but I imagine it's still Trump and Trump, so there's

00:56:25.000 probably, there's not a lot of filter going on in there.

00:56:29.000 I mean, that's right.

00:56:30.000 You know, Tourette's of, you know, just Tourette's.

00:56:32.000 We don't need to throw in.

00:56:33.000 I'm sure it's Tourette's of the thumbs over there.

00:56:34.000 It's just going to be Tourette's.

00:56:35.000 Yeah, we don't need to throw in the shrooms.

00:56:37.000 Triller's putting it on.

00:56:38.000 You can just check out any of the links on my social media.

00:56:40.000 You're beautiful.

00:56:44.000 He is beautiful.

00:56:45.000 You are beautiful. 0.91

00:56:46.000 I was like shut up James Blunt.

00:56:48.000 So moving away from that, where can people tune in really quickly because this is something

00:56:53.000 I will be watching.

00:56:54.000 Yeah, it's pay per view on Saturday night.

00:56:56.000 Triller's putting it on.

00:56:57.000 You can just check out any of the links on my social media.

00:56:59.000 It'll take you there.

00:57:00.000 But yeah, Saturday night he's going to be commentating on all of those fights down here

00:57:05.000 in Fort Lauderdale.

00:57:06.000 Just going to be a lot of fun.

00:57:07.000 Good card, a lot of friends involved.

00:57:09.000 It's just going to be a good time.

00:57:10.000 I think a bunch of the even current fighters and some of the UFC guys that are going to be there because so much of that is based in South Florida, they're going to come up and join us and talk, I think.

00:57:19.000 Yeah, it sounds like it's going to be fun.

00:57:20.000 Now, I'm going to shift gears here a little bit.

00:57:21.000 Michael Chandler's going to be there, a couple other guys.

00:57:23.000 So it should be a lot of fun getting their commentary as well and just watching those

00:57:28.000 guys interact with my dad and myself.

00:57:30.000 Yeah, it sounds like it's going to be fun.

00:57:32.000 Now I'm going to shift gears here a little bit.

00:57:34.000 Obviously with your dad having been out of office, but you guys have been having rallies.

00:57:39.000 For me, I wanted to, and obviously I was still recovering, so I haven't spoken with you in

00:57:43.000 a while.

00:57:45.000 What was it like, or what did you think, with former Vice President Joe Biden attempting to blame his Afghanistan disaster?

00:57:53.000 On the Trump administration.

00:57:55.000 That for me was... Look, let me tell you where I line up really quickly so that that way we... I think if someone acts like they don't understand the difference between withdrawing American allies, ambassadors, citizens, being protected by the troops, and then taking out the troops last while leveling all of our military bases, if they don't understand the difference between that and withdrawing our military protection before our citizens, I think they're being intellectually disingenuous, but This was something the media really, they even kind of admitted Biden did a bad job, but then they pivoted really quickly and said actually it's Donald Trump's fault.

00:58:27.000 What was that like being in your shoes? 0.98

00:58:29.000 I mean, it was ridiculous. 0.86

00:58:30.000 I mean, you can even see it in my ears, like, oh wow, they're losing the press. 0.91

00:58:33.000 And they were desperately trying, but it was so bad, even they couldn't defend it.

00:58:38.000 And, you know, you're right, there is a difference.

00:58:40.000 I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, no, no, we should have stayed in Afghanistan for the next two millennia. 0.99

00:58:46.000 No one thinks that, other than maybe the military-industrial complex and some of those DC people that are going to get the Raytheon board seat.

00:58:53.000 John Bolton is going to be cryogenically frozen just so we can check in in 2000 years and make sure we're still in Afghanistan.

00:59:01.000 But yes.

00:59:02.000 Other than those people, no one thinks we should still be at war.

00:59:05.000 But you know, I think Joe Biden and really it's a Democrat problem.

00:59:09.000 They're so used to the media running cover for them, blaming anyone else, blaming everyone else.

00:59:17.000 He didn't think that changing the plan that my father had worked on and negotiated would be a problem, right?

00:59:22.000 I mean, he delayed the entire withdrawal till now.

00:59:26.000 Now is the fighting season.

00:59:27.000 That's when these, you know, animals come out of the caves after a long winter, and they're bored, so they're gonna go fight and kill stuff.

00:59:34.000 I mean, you ask any guy that's boots on the ground, and they'll tell you this.

00:59:39.000 Uh, you know, so many of my friends that were involved and were fighting over there, they're like, I mean, I can't even believe it.

00:59:43.000 Now, our generals probably don't know that because they've been so busy pushing critical race theory and wanting to learn about white rage.

00:59:52.000 Right.

00:59:52.000 you know, that they didn't think that that would be a factor.

00:59:55.000 But Joe Biden was so used to the press covering for him that he was like, hey, man,

00:59:59.000 you know what, if I do this, I can delay till September 11th and I can get that incredible photo op, you know, like the

01:00:05.000 Kamala Harris photo op a thousand miles away from the border.

01:00:07.000 Like, right. As long as you're kind of sort of traveling to the you're on a border.

01:00:12.000 It may not be the border.

01:00:14.000 It may not be near the epicenter of where the problem is.

01:00:17.000 But we check that box.

01:00:19.000 We showed off and now we will allow the media to do their job as our marketing

01:00:23.000 department. So when he was losing the media, even still, it was like, but think about it.

01:00:28.000 You honestly think that Trump would have left, you know, 80 billion dollars worth of equipment.

01:00:34.000 Do you honestly think that Trump, if he saw this coming, wouldn't have been droning, you know, the caravans of cars coming in to take it?

01:00:41.000 You know, you think he would have maybe pulled out the civilians first? 0.98

01:00:44.000 I mean, Joe Biden, what he really wanted is he wanted to make it his own.

01:00:49.000 He wanted to get the credit for actually doing this.

01:00:52.000 So he changed what was a negotiated plan.

01:00:56.000 He eliminated all conditions so that he could get a photo op and take full credit for it

01:01:01.000 because they're still used to getting credit for doing nothing as long as they're present

01:01:07.000 because that's what's happened in our country, in our system. 0.99

01:01:10.000 That it's asinine. 0.91

01:01:11.000 I mean, to think that our military, we have generals that got on press conferences.

01:01:16.000 We had no way, we had no way of knowing that this could have possibly happened.

01:01:20.000 I'm like, I don't know, I'll scroll through Instagram, I'll see videos of some of these, you know, Afghan fighting forces that we, they can't do a jumping jack.

01:01:27.000 You know what I'm talking about?

01:01:28.000 I know exactly what you're talking about.

01:01:30.000 They're on the elliptical with a rocket launcher going backwards.

01:01:34.000 I was like, you couldn't see this coming?

01:01:36.000 Like, I don't know, like, I could see it coming, and let's just say I know absolutely nothing about this, and I could see it coming.

01:01:44.000 Or Blinken, did you hear Blinken's quote?

01:01:45.000 We just played that earlier in the show where he said, uh, where, uh, we are concerned that they don't have any women. 1.00

01:01:50.000 I'm like, well, who the fuck thought that was gonna happen, asshole? 0.99

01:01:53.000 I did something for, you know, a video for Facebook on this last night, and it's like, Really? 1.00

01:01:58.000 Like, really?

01:01:59.000 Like, you had no idea?

01:02:00.000 You're totally shocked that the Taliban didn't turn out to be the all-inclusive and gender-representing administration?

01:02:15.000 It's like if you animated South Park and turned it into a real life movie, that is this administration.

01:02:26.000 And that's what you get when you have an administration whose only focus has been diversity, meaning You know, it's wonderful that they have this incredibly diverse cabinet.

01:02:36.000 Are they competent?

01:02:37.000 I don't know.

01:02:38.000 It doesn't seem like that was even a criteria.

01:02:40.000 Like, if competence, intelligence, knowledge, experience is not a criteria, but like, you know, finding some sort of magical unicorn that checks off a lot of boxes, you know, that's what you get.

01:02:53.000 And this is the result of it.

01:02:55.000 It's not just Afghanistan.

01:02:56.000 You know, it's the border.

01:02:58.000 It's inflation.

01:03:00.000 It's all of these things.

01:03:01.000 And we're getting to the point where even today's insanely biased media can no longer cover for the clown show that is there.

01:03:10.000 I mean, you have the Secretary of State on TV not just saying he's shocked, shocked that the Taliban was not as inclusive and diverse.

01:03:19.000 I mean, I don't know.

01:03:23.000 No, I think you do. 0.99

01:03:24.000 It's not like they don't have 20 years of experience realizing that the Taliban could give a shit about diversity or inclusion, you know? 0.97

01:03:34.000 But by the way, that will not stop the UN from putting the Taliban or their representatives on like a Human Rights Council because that's the batshit world in which we live today, Steven. 0.98

01:03:47.000 You know it's coming.

01:03:48.000 No, I absolutely do know that it's 100% coming.

01:03:54.000 They're going to have a seat at the table at the UN.

01:03:57.000 They'll probably even put them on some like the Council for Women's Rights. 1.00

01:04:00.000 I mean, Iran, I think was on there and some of these other crazy regimes, like, because we live in a clown world. 0.89

01:04:07.000 And you know, that's the it's like addiction. 0.90

01:04:09.000 I think, you know, America's gonna have to hit rock bottom For them to realize it.

01:04:13.000 I've said this for months now.

01:04:15.000 Every day I wake up and be like, okay, we're at rock bottom.

01:04:19.000 Man, we're not even close.

01:04:21.000 Like, two weeks ago, I thought we were at rock bottom, and now I'm looking up.

01:04:25.000 Rock bottom, and Blinken's like, did someone say auger?

01:04:30.000 Yeah, well, I mean, look, if you're our ally, imagine you're an American ally, you know, who's making decisions, you know, under the assumption, the false assumption now, but what would have historically been a good assumption, that America will be there to have your back.

01:04:44.000 I mean, we don't even have the backs of our own citizens.

01:04:47.000 Yeah.

01:04:48.000 We don't even have the backs of the people who helped us.

01:04:51.000 Now, that doesn't prevent us from airlifting 100,000 unvetted Afghans, some of whom are on terrorist watch lists.

01:04:58.000 Some of whom are convicted rapists. 0.88

01:04:58.000 Of course. 0.88

01:05:01.000 We take care of them before we do our own citizens, which is like the most Joe Biden slash really Democrat Party decision ever.

01:05:10.000 It's like going back to the Obama-Biden days where it's like you saw him talking about it the other day because Four of the five people that they traded for a trader, Bo Bergdahl, that were in Guantanamo.

01:05:23.000 We had five Taliban terrorists in Guantanamo Bay because they were bad guys.

01:05:28.000 We traded those five people for a trader who deserted Americans, who had Americans go out and look for him, some of whom were killed. 1.00

01:05:38.000 We traded to get this piece of shit back. 1.00

01:05:42.000 We traded five Taliban terrorists, okay? 1.00

01:05:46.000 And four of them are now sitting on the council!

01:05:48.000 Yes, and you know what?

01:05:49.000 By the way, let me, that reminds me to fact check myself.

01:05:51.000 Yesterday, I said three for Bo Bergdahl.

01:05:54.000 It was four.

01:05:55.000 We forgot, you always forget that fourth.

01:05:57.000 You think they'll use that to de-platform you even if you're helping there.

01:06:01.000 Like it wasn't that bad.

01:06:02.000 It was only three.

01:06:03.000 Yeah, I said three when it was four.

01:06:05.000 They'll still fact check you and ding you. 1.00

01:06:07.000 So let's be clear that it's four piece of shit terrorists for one piece of shit traitor. 1.00

01:06:12.000 Like that's like the most Obama Biden deal ever. 1.00

01:06:17.000 I know and they tried to and I will come in here.

01:06:19.000 That's like the Democrat Party platform like summed up in one sentence. 0.97

01:06:23.000 These clowns are now running the Taliban and we're saying, you know, and over the last few weeks, I'm watching the 0.97

01:06:29.000 Secretary of State. 0.99

01:06:29.000 I'm watching the generals. 0.99

01:06:31.000 Well, we are going to have to ask permission of the Taliban to see if maybe we can get our citizens who we abandoned after leaving the dogs, after leaving military equipment. 0.69

01:06:44.000 And not just military equipment, there's also like a couple M4s.

01:06:46.000 I mean, they have freaking Apaches! 0.97

01:06:49.000 Yeah.

01:06:49.000 I know.

01:06:51.000 Blackhawks.

01:06:52.000 They're selling them to the Chinese who are reverse engineering them and within about two weeks they will have a helicopter that will destroy the Apache after we spent billions in R&D and years developing it. 1.00

01:07:03.000 The Chinese now will have that. 1.00

01:07:05.000 They will reverse engineer it to create a better piece of equipment for two cents on the dollar after we spent trillions in development.

01:07:12.000 That's how the world works.

01:07:14.000 The Chinese are now talking about taking over Bagram Air Force Base that we sunk billions in. 0.98

01:07:19.000 That would have been a nice place to maybe have a presence essentially on the border of China, but our genius military really focused on white rage and critical race theory and teaching us that diversity will somehow make us a stronger fighting force.

01:07:33.000 No one who actually fights understands even remotely how that is possible, but our generals do and they have told us it Uh, distinctly, if you question that, you will be thrown out of the military.

01:07:43.000 We've seen that.

01:07:44.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:07:44.000 Now, if you're a, you know, a lunatic, uh, preaching the leftist BS that they're talking about on a daily basis, you will likely be promoted. 0.97

01:07:53.000 Uh, you know, see them, you see the conservative purge in the military. 0.90

01:07:56.000 I saw it, I have friends in the SEAL teams, like, literally operators, like, doing, they, they have told me verbatim, they spend more time in diversity training than they do shooting.

01:08:07.000 Yeah.

01:08:08.000 SEAL teams.

01:08:09.000 Okay, so imagine what they're doing with like, you know, less elite, you know, forms.

01:08:13.000 Imagine who's taking this over when the military is paying for your transgender surgery and 1.00

01:08:18.000 highlighting it, right?

01:08:19.000 You've seen the highlight reels like men's people's videos.

01:08:23.000 The I am I am.

01:08:26.000 I have incredible anxiety.

01:08:27.000 I can barely function in the real world.

01:08:31.000 I have no idea what's going on around me, but the CIA was incredibly welcoming, and I am your first line of defense. 0.99

01:08:37.000 I'm saying, holy shit! 0.98

01:08:41.000 I mean, remember this? 0.99

01:08:43.000 You know what I'm talking about, right?

01:08:44.000 I know exactly what you're talking about, yes.

01:08:46.000 This guy, he's a wonderful person, I'm sure.

01:08:49.000 He is probably not capable of going to the supermarket without being in fear.

01:08:54.000 He is leading, like, our charges in the intelligence community against, like, China and Russia.

01:09:00.000 You think, like, they're looking at that and being like, oh wow, we got a problem here, you think?

01:09:05.000 Sweet.

01:09:05.000 Like, if you're China, Your plans, which were inevitable, probably, but your plan to take over Taiwan just accelerated.

01:09:13.000 Whatever it used to be, it's like 1% of that.

01:09:17.000 Yeah, no.

01:09:17.000 Within weeks, probably.

01:09:18.000 I agree. 0.99

01:09:18.000 Because they know America's got no balls. 0.99

01:09:20.000 Well, hold on a second. 0.99

01:09:21.000 I want to continue that.

01:09:22.000 We're going to go here to Mug Club where we can, you know, really let it rip, I guess.

01:09:25.000 But no, I agree with you.

01:09:26.000 I think they want the military— Am I holding back, Steven?

01:09:28.000 No, no, no, it's perfect.

01:09:29.000 I just don't want to be accused of being low-energy.

01:09:32.000 Yeah, no, it's just with, if we talk about COVID at all, I guarantee you will be removed.

01:09:36.000 So I want to avoid that one.

01:09:37.000 That's just, that's no longer a minefield.

01:09:39.000 It's one big mine with no more fields left.

01:09:42.000 Uh, I will say this.

01:09:43.000 Yeah.

01:09:43.000 They want, they want us to turn the military into, we have great members in the military.

01:09:47.000 Like you've talked about, there's different people on the ground and people at desk.

01:09:50.000 They want to turn them from, uh, uh, what was it? 0.92

01:09:52.000 Missing in action to, to that shitty little planeteer with the power of hearts. 0.99

01:09:57.000 And that's not how it works in the real world. 0.97

01:09:58.000 We're going to continue with Donald Trump Jr.

01:10:00.000 Uh, at Mug Club.

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