The Ben Shapiro Show - Andrew Cuomo Is Here To Grab Ass And Kill The Elderly...And He's All Out Of Elderly | Ep. 1311

00:00:00.000 New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces life passports for the vaccinated and bans for everyone else, and New York Attorney General Letitia James blows up New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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00:01:28.000 So, Mayor Bill de Blasio has now announced the time has come.

00:01:34.000 Vaccine passports.

00:01:35.000 Now, you knew it was coming.

00:01:37.000 You knew it was only a matter of time before some blue city mayor decided, we need to check your papers.

00:01:43.000 Your papers!

00:01:45.000 We need to check your papers.

00:01:46.000 It's very important that we know whether you are vaccinated or not.

00:01:50.000 And no, that's not a Nazi thing, okay?

00:01:51.000 There are lots of other nations that have been doing it.

00:01:53.000 It's a bad idea everywhere it is, and it is violative of basic human liberty.

00:01:57.000 Number one, it's going to be very difficult to check everybody's vaccine passports because, frankly, a lot of people who got the vaccine didn't receive a vaccine card.

00:02:04.000 Some people's vaccine cards, like mine, got misspelled.

00:02:07.000 Some people Didn't bother to get a vaccine cards or they got the first vaccine somewhere in like New York and then they went for the second shot somewhere in Massachusetts.

00:02:14.000 It's gonna be very difficult to actually enforce all of this.

00:02:17.000 You've seen this at Lollapalooza.

00:02:19.000 So Lollapalooza in Chicago, you're all supposed to show your vaccine card.

00:02:21.000 What that really amounts to when you watch the video is people holding up a paper, a piece of paper and walking through a line with hundreds of people.

00:02:28.000 It's like TSA except without any metal detectors, meaning it is completely theater, right?

00:02:33.000 It's all for show.

00:02:34.000 And all of this in order to what?

00:02:37.000 Presumably protect the vaccinated?

00:02:38.000 Like it doesn't make any sort of logical sense.

00:02:40.000 The vaccinated themselves are not at grave risk of hospitalization or death from COVID.

00:02:45.000 The unvaccinated If you wish to lower the curve, the unvaccinated should be hanging out with the vaccinated, not in their own special spaces. 0.94

00:02:52.000 So I guess the logic here is that if you're vaccinated, you're one of the special people.

00:02:56.000 If you're unvaccinated, you're one of the unspecial people. 1.00

00:02:59.000 And if we punish you for being unvaccinated, then sooner or later you'll get bored with it and you will go and get yourself vaccinated.

00:03:05.000 Well, there's an alternative possibility, which is that you won't.

00:03:09.000 Right?

00:03:09.000 Which is that you'll be so off-put, you'll be so alienated, that you just won't get the vaccine.

00:03:13.000 And instead, you'll hang out with the other unvaccinated in restaurants outside of New York City, and you will infect each other, and you will actually end up with a higher rate of people passing the virus to one another.

00:03:23.000 Now, the reason I say this is because New York is not the first place to have tried this.

00:03:27.000 Let's start with this. 0.91

00:03:27.000 Here's Bill de Blasio actually announcing this kind of dumbassical policy. 0.91

00:03:32.000 The key to NYC Pass will be a first-in-the-nation approach.

00:03:37.000 It will require vaccination for workers and customers in indoor dining, in indoor fitness facilities, indoor entertainment facilities.

00:03:47.000 This is going to be a requirement.

00:03:49.000 The only way to patronize these establishments indoors will be if you're vaccinated, at least one dose.

00:03:56.000 All right, now, here is the thing.

00:03:59.000 A couple problems with this.

00:04:01.000 First, the logical, which we've mentioned.

00:04:02.000 Then, there's the intersectional problem with this.

00:04:05.000 So, for example, what exactly is going to happen in New York City when black people can't go to, like, any of the places?

00:04:12.000 Because right now, Bill de Blasio is arguing that unless you have a COVID vaccine or proof of a COVID vaccine, then you can't go to an indoor eatery, a gym, or an entertainment center.

00:04:23.000 De Blasio says the city is going to start fining businesses.

00:04:25.000 First of all, this should not be a governmental thing.

00:04:27.000 If you're a private business and you only want to allow the vaccinated in because you have a bunch of paranoid people in your company or whatever, that's your business. 0.63

00:04:34.000 If the city is cramming this down on you, they better have pretty good public health reason.

00:04:39.000 They really don't.

00:04:40.000 De Blasio says the city is going to start fining and inspecting businesses for compliance in mid-September.

00:04:44.000 All affected customers and workers can either provide their vaccination cards or upload their proof of vaccination to the Excelsior Pass application.

00:04:52.000 And obviously, if New York City knows one thing, it is how to do public sort of service.

00:04:58.000 They're really, really good at handling complex ID-based transactions, sort of like how it took them multiple weeks to figure out who the actual new mayor of New York is going to be after screwing up the original vote totals.

00:05:10.000 They're going to be great.

00:05:11.000 There are going to be no bugs.

00:05:13.000 There's going to be no hiccups.

00:05:14.000 It's going to be just absolutely smooth.

00:05:17.000 This, by the way, came a day after de Blasio mandated vaccinations for all of the city's new hires, requiring them to provide proof of vaccination by their first day of work without the option to get tested regularly.

00:05:26.000 Instead, he issued similar mandates for city employees and healthcare workers in July, according to CNBC.

00:05:33.000 According to de Blasio, about 11,000 people have picked up $100 in order to get their vaccinations so far.

00:05:38.000 That started on July 30th.

00:05:40.000 And so, basically, we now have a two-tier system in New York.

00:05:44.000 You are a citizen if you are vaccinated.

00:05:46.000 You are an un-citizen if not. 0.83

00:05:47.000 Well, there's going to be a major intersectional problem for Bill de Blasio here.

00:05:51.000 It is lurking in the stats.

00:05:53.000 So, here are the stats.

00:05:55.000 COVID vaccine data by racial group in New York City.

00:05:59.000 He has himself a bit of a problem with the intersectional coalition.

00:06:03.000 He percent of Asians who are fully vaccinated in New York City.

00:06:09.000 And remember, you need to be fully vaccinated.

00:06:10.000 One vaccine's enough.

00:06:11.000 Fully vaccinated in order to get the vaccine passport.

00:06:14.000 The percentage of Asians who are fully vaccinated in New York City, 71%.

00:06:17.000 The percentage of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives who have been vaccinated fully, 67%.

00:06:23.000 The percentage of white people who've been fully vaccinated is 45%.

00:06:30.000 And the percentage of Black people in New York City who have been fully vaccinated is 31%.

00:06:36.000 7 out of every 10 Black people in New York City has not been fully vaccinated.

00:06:39.000 So, how do you think this is going to play out for Bill de Blasio and his Democrats?

00:06:43.000 How do you think this is going to play out when restaurants are overtly turning away a disproportionate number of Black people?

00:06:49.000 Now, I have been told by Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo that any inequality in society is proof of systemic inequity. 0.89

00:06:57.000 And so, obviously, Bill de Blasio is a racist.

00:07:00.000 I mean, just as testing, just as SAT testing is racist, just as we have learned that picking up people for crimes is racist, even if they committed the crime, if a disproportionate number of those people are black, that's racist, a disproportionate number of people are now not going to be able to go to the New York City Bodega because they're not vaccinated. 0.95

00:07:18.000 And those people will happen to be black disproportionately.

00:07:20.000 And it's going to be fun to watch as New York eats itself in the battle between the hyperactive and super afraid upper crust white liberals in New York and the black population, which is overwhelmingly not vaxxed in New York. 0.89

00:07:37.000 It's going to be fun to watch the Robin DiAngelo half of the white liberal population go to war with itself.

00:07:43.000 Am I racist?

00:07:44.000 I don't know if I'm racist.

00:07:45.000 I mean, I really want people to get vaccinated, right? 0.94

00:07:46.000 But the blacks aren't getting vaccinated. 0.99

00:07:47.000 What do we do? 0.98

00:07:48.000 I don't know!

00:07:48.000 Oh, I hate me!

00:07:51.000 Watch, the sort of bizarre schizophrenia of the New York upper crust left is going to come out in a rabid, rabid way. 0.98

00:07:58.000 Then, of course, they'll just blame Trump.

00:07:59.000 Then they'll just say it's the American system. 0.99

00:08:01.000 The real reason black Americans aren't getting vaccinated is because America, writ large, is racist. 0.98

00:08:06.000 That's always the solution. 0.84

00:08:07.000 Now, let's go to the question of whether these vaccine passports actually work.

00:08:11.000 So here's the thing.

00:08:12.000 We have some evidence that the answer is not so much.

00:08:15.000 Okay, back in January, Israel launched a COVID immunity passport.

00:08:19.000 According to CNBC, this January of this year, Israel has been lauded for deploying what is currently the fastest COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the world.

00:08:26.000 Less than a month after receiving its first shipments of the Pfizer BioNTech jab, the country of 9 million has vaccinated about 20% of its population.

00:08:34.000 More than 72% of people over the age of 60 had already gotten their first dose.

00:08:39.000 Essentially, they are now releasing what they called, this began back in January, what was called the Green Booklet.

00:08:46.000 The green booklet would be given to people who've received two doses of the vaccine.

00:08:50.000 The booklet would offer vaccinated individuals significant freedom from COVID-19 safety restrictions.

00:08:54.000 People holding it would no longer have to go into isolation after coming in contact with an infected person, or go into isolation after traveling internationally.

00:09:02.000 They would no longer have to be tested before entering certain touristy areas known as Green Islands.

00:09:06.000 They would still have to be wearing a mask in public and maintaining social distancing, right?

00:09:10.000 This is the vaccinated, okay?

00:09:12.000 So they were still pretty strict in Israel for the vaccinated since January.

00:09:16.000 So what has the result of all of that been?

00:09:18.000 Quote, Times of Israel.

00:09:19.000 Today, daily COVID cases surge past 3,800.

00:09:23.000 Ministers to mull new restrictions.

00:09:25.000 The high-level coronavirus cabinet was set to convene Tuesday to approve new restrictions as the daily COVID-19 caseload surpassed 3,000 for the first time since March.

00:09:33.000 According to the health ministry, 3,800 new cases were diagnosed on Monday, with 3.78% of tests returning positive.

00:09:39.000 The number of serious cases stood at 221, of whom 46 were on ventilators.

00:09:44.000 So, the so-called Green Pass, by the way, was reinstated by the government on Thursday, with entry to events of more than 100 people, both indoors and outdoors, allowed only to those who are vaccinated, recovered, or who present a negative COVID test.

00:09:56.000 Children under the age of 12 are largely exempt from the system.

00:10:00.000 So, they kind of went in with the Green Passport, then they went out with the Green Passport, and here's the thing, it really has done very little.

00:10:06.000 The green passports are not really accomplishing what they seek to accomplish. 0.96

00:10:10.000 In fact, I've not seen these vaccine passports anywhere accomplish what they seek to accomplish in terms of either forcing all of the unvaccinated to get vaccinated or in terms of lowering the rate of infection from COVID-19.

00:10:23.000 And in fact, things are going very poorly in France.

00:10:25.000 So France also has a vaccine passport system and it's resulting in mass protests across France.

00:10:31.000 There's an entire piece in the New York Times today From a person named Pauline Bach, who's a French journalist, she says, at a time of the year when the French are traditionally divided, between those who go on holiday in July and those who go in August, the past few weeks have seen hundreds of thousands of people coming together with a single rallying cry, Liberté.

00:10:48.000 These protesters are united against France's new system of vaccine passes, which was announced with much fanfare by the government on July 12th and is gradually coming into effect. The measures intended to lift the vaccination rate as the Delta variant courses around the country make proof of vaccination or a negative COVID mandatory to get into cultural venues, bars and restaurants.

00:11:05.000 By September, all care workers will need such a pass to retain their job, and workers on a permanent contract may be suspended without pay until they can provide one.

00:11:14.000 Though to some extent, it's successful in its primary aim.

00:11:16.000 In the weeks since this was announced, 6.5 million people have been vaccinated, taking the level to 47%, about the same proportion as in the U.S.

00:11:23.000 The move, however, has rebounded badly against the government.

00:11:27.000 Many people, unhappy at the act of coercion, are taking to the streets in a collective display of defiance, potentially coalescing into a substantial protest movement that could mar President Emmanuel Macron's reelection efforts next year.

00:11:38.000 And France's experience is a cautionary tale.

00:11:41.000 So you have tons and tons and tons of people who have been out protesting against this.

00:11:46.000 Not because tons of French people are vax deniers.

00:11:49.000 Only about 16% of French residents say they intend not to be vaccinated.

00:11:54.000 And by the time that Macron announced the rollout of vaccine passes, over half of the French population had gotten at least one dose.

00:12:01.000 Their concerns instead were about freedom and rights, and exactly how this was going to take place.

00:12:07.000 According, again, to this columnist in the New York Times, protesters fear that the passes will allow for wide-ranging state surveillance, potentially targeting the most vulnerable and even suppressing dissent.

00:12:16.000 There's no guarantee, they warn, that the system will be retired once the virus is defeated.

00:12:22.000 Ironically, the only trade exempt from mandatory vaccination, the cops, will be the ones to make sure everyone else obeys.

00:12:27.000 The policy is ripe for authoritarian misuse.

00:12:30.000 Again, this is not coming from the American right wing.

00:12:32.000 This is coming from the French.

00:12:35.000 Okay, so the idea of a vaccine passport in New York City, they tried it in Israel.

00:12:39.000 It's been pretty unsuccessful.

00:12:40.000 They tried it in France.

00:12:42.000 It's been, so far, not supremely successful and a driver of mass unrest.

00:12:49.000 And yet, people keep rushing forward with all of this.

00:12:51.000 Again, based on what?

00:12:52.000 Based on what?

00:12:53.000 Like, I'm just wondering, why is this panic happening right now?

00:12:56.000 If you look at New York City, the number of COVID deaths in New York City, right now, day on day, average, five.

00:13:04.000 In New York City, five.

00:13:06.000 Again, New York City population right now is approximately 8.4 million.

00:13:13.000 There are a day-on-day average of five deaths per day in New York City.

00:13:18.000 Five out of 8.5 million.

00:13:20.000 And they're talking about vaccine passports for everyone.

00:13:23.000 By the way, if you look at the number of cases, the number of cases has been rising.

00:13:26.000 Their seven-day average is about 1,200 cases.

00:13:30.000 Hey, that's a somewhat big number.

00:13:31.000 When they were at their sort of highest numbers back in January, they were getting something like 6,000, sometimes 7,000 cases a day.

00:13:38.000 Right now, they're at like 1,200 cases a day, so they're like one-fifth of that.

00:13:41.000 But again, the vaccines are available to everyone.

00:13:45.000 Leave everybody alone.

00:13:46.000 But they're not going to leave everybody alone.

00:13:47.000 In fact, it's going to get even worse.

00:13:49.000 The National Institute of Health, Director Francis Collins, again, I don't know where they get these folks, but they're just, they're terrible at this.

00:13:54.000 NIH Director Francis Collins is now telling parents that they should wear masks in their own homes to protect their kids from COVID.

00:14:03.000 Despite the fact that there is no evidence at this point of increased deadliness from the Delta variant in kids.

00:14:09.000 According, by the way, to people who work for the Biden administration, Collins is saying stuff like this.

00:14:15.000 It's clear that the variant is capable of causing serious injury in children.

00:14:19.000 You've heard stories coming out of Louisiana pediatric ICUs where there are kids as young as a few months old who are sick from this.

00:14:24.000 That's rare.

00:14:26.000 But anyone that tried to tell you you don't have to worry about it if you're a young healthy person, there's a lot of counter examples all around.

00:14:31.000 No, that's anecdotal.

00:14:33.000 You can't do that.

00:14:34.000 Okay, if your basic pitch is you should worry about your kids, because here's some anecdotal data of kids getting super ill from COVID.

00:14:40.000 No stats, just anecdotal data.

00:14:43.000 You're arguing in the exact same preserve as people who are like, I'm not giving my kid a vaccine because I heard about this one kid who had an adverse effect from the vaccine.

00:14:51.000 Anecdotal data means zero.

00:14:53.000 It means nothing.

00:14:54.000 Zero things does it mean in terms of your personal risk assessment.

00:14:58.000 Because there are anecdotes of lots of bad stuff happening on Earth all the time.

00:15:03.000 This is why, again, it sounds like this is very much about control.

00:15:06.000 Here's Francis Collins pushing this thing yesterday.

00:15:08.000 You have heard those stories coming out of Louisiana pediatric ICUs where there are kids as young as a few months old who are sick from this.

00:15:17.000 That is rare.

00:15:18.000 Certainly younger people are less likely to fall ill.

00:15:21.000 But anybody who tries to tell you, ah, you don't have to worry about it if you're a young healthy person, there's many counterexamples all around us now.

00:15:28.000 So yeah, you do need to think about it.

00:15:31.000 And that's the reason why the recommendations are for kids under 12.

00:15:35.000 At home?

00:15:36.000 No!

00:15:36.000 At home?

00:15:36.000 Are you insane?

00:15:37.000 What do you mean parents of unvaccinated kids? 0.98

00:15:38.000 Let's just be straight about this.

00:15:40.000 of mask wearing in schools and that at home, parents of unvaccinated kids.

00:15:45.000 At home? At home? No! Are you insane? What do you mean parents of unvaccinated kids? 0.88

00:15:50.000 Let's just be straight about this. He means every parent.

00:15:52.000 You cannot legally give a vaccine to a child under 12 in the United States.

00:15:58.000 He means every single parent in the United States should be wearing a mask in their home with their kids. 1.00

00:16:05.000 Are you out of your damned mind? 1.00

00:16:06.000 The answer is yes. 1.00

00:16:07.000 They're out of their damn minds. 1.00

00:16:09.000 And here's the thing. 1.00

00:16:10.000 Once again, Human beings are not capable of controlling everything that happens. 1.00

00:16:13.000 We have, human beings, an unbelievable ability to adapt.

00:16:15.000 We created one of the great scientific creations of all time in this vaccine.

00:16:19.000 It's unbelievable.

00:16:20.000 It's miraculous.

00:16:21.000 It's unbelievably miraculous.

00:16:24.000 But we can't control everything, and because we can't control everything, people on the left think we can, and so they're just going to keep doubling down.

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00:17:34.000 Okay, so again, the reason that I point out that maybe human beings aren't in control of this is because human beings obviously are not in control of this.

00:17:40.000 Bangladesh is seeing a massive spike right now.

00:17:43.000 According to the New York Times, With Bangladesh under a nationwide lockdown to fight a third wave of COVID, hospitals in the capital, Dhaka, are reaching capacity.

00:17:51.000 Demand for oxygen is exceeding supply.

00:17:53.000 Obviously, Governor Ron DeSantis is at fault here.

00:17:55.000 On Sunday, the government granted an exemption, allowing the country's critical ready-made garments industry to keep operating, prompting fears among experts the health crisis could worsen.

00:18:04.000 But it's not just Bangladesh.

00:18:06.000 It's also back in China, where they lied. 0.89

00:18:08.000 By the way, China says that this entire time they've lost like 5,000 people. 0.96

00:18:12.000 They're just unbelievable liars. 0.99

00:18:14.000 Just unbelievable liars. 0.97

00:18:16.000 Right now, Wuhan is planning to test all 11 million residents for COVID.

00:18:21.000 Now, I was told by the health experts China just did an amazing job locking this stuff down.

00:18:26.000 Nope!

00:18:28.000 I don't think that they detected three cases and they're testing 11 million people.

00:18:30.000 I think they have a lot of cases.

00:18:31.000 a half month lockdown helped eradicate the virus there. But city officials say they had detected three symptomatic local cases in the previous 24 hours, five asymptomatic cases. They're testing all 11 million people. I don't think that they detected three cases and they're testing 11 million people. I think they have a lot of cases. Japan is starting to see a surge as well.

00:18:48.000 According to the New York Times, as Japan strains to contain its galloping coronavirus outbreak and to keep an Olympic bubble from bursting in the final days of the games, the government is now trying a new tactic, public shaming.

00:18:59.000 On Monday, Japan's health ministry released the names of three people who broke COVID-19 rules after returning from overseas.

00:19:05.000 Apparently, this was two Japanese nationals in their 20s who just came back from South Korea, a third who came from Hawaii.

00:19:11.000 Apparently, they had acted to avoid contact with the authorities.

00:19:14.000 They're trying to shame the hell out of people because infections over there are rising.

00:19:17.000 On Tuesday, officials said they had recorded more than 8,300 daily cases nationwide.

00:19:22.000 It's starting to come down the other side of the curve, it looks like, in Japan a little bit.

00:19:27.000 But here's the bottom line.

00:19:29.000 This sort of stuff is happening nearly everywhere.

00:19:32.000 And Ron DeSantis came out in Florida because, of course, Ron DeSantis is always the bad guy in all of this, according to the left.

00:19:39.000 He came out and he said, I don't think we've reached the peak yet, but he said hospitals are not overwhelmed yet.

00:19:44.000 They're open for non-COVID business, which, by the way, is still true.

00:19:48.000 He said, we're not shutting down.

00:19:49.000 We're going to have schools open.

00:19:50.000 We're protecting every Floridian's job in this state.

00:19:52.000 These interventions have failed time and again in this pandemic.

00:19:54.000 They have not stopped the spread.

00:19:56.000 Correct.

00:19:58.000 And then he said that when reporters were like, what about kids with COVID-19?

00:20:03.000 He said the reporter was blaming kids for not wearing masks and getting sick and called the question deplorable, which it is.

00:20:08.000 And then he said, listen, what I did is I focused on protecting the seniors and I accomplished that.

00:20:13.000 He's correct about all of that.

00:20:14.000 The media, however, have decided that Ron DeSantis is the worst.

00:20:17.000 So it is now worthwhile to explore why there is a surge in Florida.

00:20:21.000 Okay, here's the thing.

00:20:22.000 The answer is really, really obvious.

00:20:23.000 There's a surge in Florida right now because it's really hot outside.

00:20:27.000 It's hot and simultaneously rainy.

00:20:29.000 Okay, I'm a new immigrant to Florida.

00:20:30.000 And let me just tell you, Florida is wonderful.

00:20:32.000 In the summer, it gets unbelievably hot, unbelievably humid, and it rains a lot in the afternoon.

00:20:37.000 And what this means is that people go inside.

00:20:39.000 Where do you think COVID is transmitted?

00:20:41.000 It is transmitted inside.

00:20:42.000 And there's lots of aerosolized spit blowing all over the place from air conditioning and heating.

00:20:48.000 This is not a shock.

00:20:48.000 Okay, here, for example, is a chart, cases by region, in the United States.

00:20:54.000 Look at this chart, cases by region.

00:20:55.000 What you see, first of all, is Louisiana's really spiking.

00:20:57.000 Why?

00:20:58.000 I wonder.

00:20:58.000 Well, could it be because Louisiana's in the South and it's really damned hot outside in Louisiana right now, and so people are staying inside?

00:21:04.000 Okay, so, this chart from the New York Times cuts the United States into four regions.

00:21:09.000 West, Midwest, South, and Northeast.

00:21:12.000 You will notice that this virus is seasonal, depending on the weather.

00:21:15.000 So right now, the South leads the way in terms of cases count.

00:21:18.000 Then the West, because it's really hot in the South and in the West.

00:21:21.000 Then, the Midwest, where it's cooler.

00:21:23.000 And then finally, the Northeast, where it is coolest.

00:21:26.000 Now, let's reverse back to, say, you know, like January, right?

00:21:31.000 When things were really bad.

00:21:33.000 If you look at January, what you will see is that the weather dictates exactly how this goes.

00:21:38.000 Right in the middle of January, in the middle of the spike, what you see is that the West and the South, where there were fewer people who had already, you know, had the virus, generally speaking, than in the Northeast, what you see is that Northeast spikes.

00:21:49.000 And now the Northeast is close to the top of the pack, along with the West and the South.

00:21:53.000 And you will see that if you go back even further than that, if you go back to like November, December, when the spike first started, the Midwest takes over.

00:22:00.000 Why did the Midwest take over in like December and November?

00:22:02.000 Why?

00:22:03.000 Could it be because it gets really cold outside?

00:22:05.000 And so a lot of people go to the inside.

00:22:09.000 Oh, so maybe it doesn't have to do with policy.

00:22:11.000 It has to do with the weather.

00:22:13.000 Oh, I mean, we knew this last year, by the way.

00:22:15.000 We knew this.

00:22:16.000 So that is not a shock.

00:22:18.000 At all.

00:22:19.000 At all.

00:22:20.000 All right.

00:22:20.000 So is all this the predicate to government passports and nearly everything, right?

00:22:25.000 Because, again, the case in favor of government passports for vaccines at this point is extremely weak.

00:22:31.000 Statistically, it's extremely weak.

00:22:33.000 On a logical level, it's really weak.

00:22:35.000 There's no real sort of End goal here that justifies the notion that if you're unvaccinated, now we're just going to bar you from every business by the government. 0.86

00:22:44.000 I mean, that's kind of crazy, and it's going to result in a massive anti-government backlash.

00:22:49.000 OK, well, you can see that this, again, is part and parcel of a broader sort of authoritarian move that you can see in terms of ideology.

00:22:56.000 There's a good piece today from Kristen Tate over at The Hill.

00:23:00.000 called Coming Soon, America's Own Social Credit System, and here's what she says.

00:23:03.000 says the new domestic war on terror kicked off by the right on January 6th has prompted several web giants to unveil predecessors to what effectively could become a soft social credit system by the end of this decade.

00:23:12.000 Relying on an indirect hand from D.C., our social betters in corporate America will attempt to force the most profound changes our society has seen during the Internet era.

00:23:20.000 China's social credit system is a combination of government and business surveillance that gives its citizens a score that can restrict the ability of individuals to take actions, such as purchasing plane tickets, acquiring property or taking loans because of behaviors.

00:23:31.000 Given the position of several major American companies, a similar system may be coming here sooner than you think.

00:23:35.000 Here's the thing.

00:23:36.000 If we can start basically telling people whether they are allowed to engage in business based on whether they decide to get a vaccine or not as an individual adult human being, you can quickly see that the left, which has declared anything they don't like an actual danger, right?

00:23:50.000 This is part of the broader sort of microaggression ideology pushed by the left.

00:23:55.000 It is not a far leap from, we need vaccine passports because we have to protect ourselves against the public health menace of the unvaccinated, to we need social credit passports because we need to protect ourselves against the menace of people who disagree with us. 0.71

00:24:08.000 If you think that's a long jump, all you have to do is look at college campuses where they've already started implementing this sort of language all the time on the left.

00:24:15.000 Last week, says this columnist for The Hill, PayPal announced a partnership with the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to investigate the role of white supremacists and propagators of anti-government rhetoric, subjective labels, that potentially could impact a large number of groups or people using their service.

00:24:29.000 Facebook is taking similar measures, recently introducing messages that ask users to snitch on their potentially extremist friends.

00:24:36.000 Which, considering the platform's bias, seems mainly to target the political right.

00:24:39.000 At the same time, Facebook and Microsoft are working with several other web giants and the UN on a database to block potential extremist content.

00:24:48.000 The actions of these major companies may seem logical in an internet riddled with scams and crime.

00:24:52.000 No one's going to defend far-right militias or white supremacist groups using these platforms.

00:24:55.000 But the same issue with government censorship exists with corporate censorship.

00:24:59.000 If there is a line, who draws it?

00:25:01.000 And you've seen that this is sort of the left's take more generally on who ought to be part of the American body politic and who ought not to be.

00:25:10.000 This is why they're making such a big deal out of January 6th, six months after it happened.

00:25:15.000 And even though the people who are responsible have been arrested and will end up going to jail.

00:25:19.000 Now the latest sort of iteration of this particular argument is an argument over two DC police officers who were present at the January 6th riot.

00:25:29.000 And have now died by suicide, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

00:25:32.000 These are the third and fourth officers to commit suicide.

00:25:34.000 MPD spokesperson Kristen Metzger told CNN on Monday, Officer Gunther Hashida, an 18-year veteran on the force, was found dead at his residence on Thursday, which, of course, is tragic and terrible.

00:25:44.000 Hashida was assigned to the emergency response team within the Special Operations Division, was dispatched to the Capitol on January 6th.

00:25:50.000 Only hours later, the MPD confirmed another suicide had taken place.

00:25:53.000 That, of course, didn't happen the same day.

00:25:54.000 It had happened in mid-July.

00:25:57.000 We don't have any information as to whether these officers committed suicide because of January 6th or whether there's a connection to January 6th.

00:26:04.000 Realistically speaking, unfortunately, police officers are disproportionately likely to commit suicide.

00:26:10.000 About 176 police officers died by suicide in 2020 alone.

00:26:15.000 We don't know the departmental breakdown on those numbers.

00:26:17.000 You would assume basically the bigger the police department, the more police officers probably committed suicide.

00:26:21.000 So you would assume more police officers commit suicide just on an absolute raw number level in New York, LA, Chicago, DC than elsewhere.

00:26:30.000 But this is being used as an excuse to basically say that all Republicans are now responsible for police officers committing suicide.

00:26:38.000 Chris Cuomo said just that.

00:26:39.000 He said Republicans are to blame for these suicides.

00:26:40.000 Does he have information we don't?

00:26:42.000 Who knows.

00:26:43.000 May he rest in peace.

00:26:45.000 We need to see his life and death for what it is.

00:26:48.000 Know his name, Hashida.

00:26:50.000 Same for Capitol Officer Howard Liebengood and D.C.

00:26:53.000 Metro Officer Jeffrey Smith.

00:26:55.000 Why?

00:26:56.000 All three died by suicide after the January 6th attack.

00:27:00.000 Hashida's death last week was announced today.

00:27:04.000 They had 45 years of experience among them.

00:27:06.000 Yet, the same people who claimed blue lives matter, mocked, Laugh disparaged the wounds inflicted on these men.

00:27:17.000 Wounds of that day are going to go far beyond 140 officers beaten with flagpoles, stabbed with metal fence stakes, smashed over the head with fire extinguishers and more.

00:27:28.000 The survivors told you the extent themselves last week.

00:27:32.000 Okay, all of this would count if we were talking about the police officers who testified last week.

00:27:38.000 Again, we don't even know why these police officers committed suicide.

00:27:41.000 There are a wide variety of reasons, unfortunately, why people become suicidal.

00:27:45.000 Unless there's information that he has that we don't, we don't know that this actually was connected to January 6th in any way, which is sort of important to point out.

00:27:51.000 Also, I've noticed that there have been no reports on any of the suicides that have taken place this year in other police departments.

00:27:57.000 Apparently there have been 18 suicides overall in the United States by police officers.

00:28:02.000 Were those connected to Black Lives Matter last year?

00:28:04.000 Who the hell knows, right?

00:28:05.000 We don't know in the same way that he doesn't know that this was connected to January 6th, per se, because a lot of police officers were put in pretty ugly situations last year.

00:28:12.000 But the goal here is to blame all Republicans for this.

00:28:15.000 In fact, the former D.C.

00:28:16.000 police deputy, a chief, blamed Republicans for these police suicides as well.

00:28:22.000 When you hear our elected officials, people that you should really look up to, start to try to spin a story of something as serious as what took place on January 6th and try to make it into something that never happened, or it was just like a regular tourist event.

00:28:35.000 We all know that's not true.

00:28:37.000 The same people saying that were barricading the doors and hiding in the basement of the visitor center at that particular point in time.

00:28:44.000 But to hear them say that is not only disrespectful, it does create additional trauma.

00:28:50.000 This has become the latest talking point.

00:28:52.000 And if you think, again, that the sort of social credit system that's being created now, the power given to government now, to basically allow you to attend businesses or not attend businesses based on the quote unquote danger that you pose to others, in defiance of the data, by the way, if that can't be extended to ideology, I mean, I have doubts.

00:29:10.000 I have doubts that the left will not attempt to do something like that.

00:29:13.000 And I find that highly disquieting.

00:29:15.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to be getting to Letitia James. 0.98

00:29:19.000 The attorney general of the state of New York has now released a devastating report on Andrew Cuomo's unfortunate pension.

00:29:25.000 Not for killing the elderly, right?

00:29:26.000 That doesn't matter anymore.

00:29:27.000 The DOJ, the Biden DOJ decided it was not worth investigating Andrew Cuomo killing all the old people in New York and then covering it up. 0.99

00:29:33.000 It was much worthier of investigation that the man loves to grab ass, apparently. 0.99

00:29:37.000 And yes, that's really bad. 0.99

00:29:39.000 You know, it's worse killing a bunch of old people than lying about it, but it is indeed bad that the New York governor has a penchant for putting both his hands in inappropriate places, apparently.

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00:33:20.000 Alrighty. 0.99

00:33:26.000 Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo under fire, not for killing all the elderly people in New York and then covering it up, but because the man apparently cannot keep his hands off other people's asses. 0.99

00:33:36.000 Apparently, this is like the big thing over there right now. 0.91

00:33:38.000 Now, you'll recall that the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, said in an interview back in March that if the allegations against Andrew Cuomo were confirmed, that he should resign.

00:33:48.000 And here was Joe Biden saying just that.

00:33:50.000 If the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should he resign?

00:33:54.000 Yes, I think he probably ended up being prosecuted too.

00:33:58.000 And well now, it has been confirmed that this is precisely what Andrew Cuomo did.

00:34:03.000 According to Attorney General Letitia James, who herself, I will say, has her eye on the gubernatorial seat. 1.00

00:34:08.000 I mean, it's pretty obvious that Letitia James wants to run for governor. 1.00

00:34:11.000 This is part of the problem with having an AG with her eye on that top seat. 1.00

00:34:14.000 It's like they get you in the crosshairs and it can get real ugly real fast. 0.72

00:34:19.000 It's pretty obvious from, I mean, the report on Andrew Cuomo's penchant for ass-grabbery is 168 pages long. 0.98

00:34:27.000 So that is a lot of buttocks grabbed. 1.00

00:34:30.000 That is a lot of body parts groped.

00:34:33.000 According to the report, the direct contact with intimate body parts, including the touching of Executive Assistant No.

00:34:39.000 1's breast, the grabbing and touching of the butts of various women, including Executive Assistant No.

00:34:43.000 1 and State Entity Employee No. 0.77

00:34:44.000 1, and the governor's touching of Trooper No.

00:34:47.000 1's stomach and back unquestionably amounted to sexual harassment.

00:34:50.000 In fact, the law provides that direct contact with an intimate body part constitutes one of the most severe forms of sexual harassment.

00:34:57.000 The governor denies or states he does not recall any of these allegations of physical contact, but we find that the credible evidence establishes that the governor in fact touched these complainants in the way they have described.

00:35:06.000 Those incidents amount to conduct that clearly constitutes sexual harassment.

00:35:10.000 These are the findings of Attorney General Letitia James, elected Democrat.

00:35:13.000 Second, The governor's numerous comments of a sexually suggestive nature, including discussions about age differences in partners, at the same time as the governor asked about finding a girlfriend.

00:35:22.000 Miss Bennet and Trooper number one, the criteria for the girlfriend being someone who can handle pain. 0.99

00:35:28.000 Trooper number one, and experiences with and views about monogamy, whether an employee had been with an older man, feeling lonely and wanting to be touched, the attractiveness of the employee in comparing her to an ex-girlfriend, wanting to go out with two assistants and calling them mingle mamas, whether an aide would be willing to cheat on her partner, playing strip poker, putting a tattoo on the butt as opposed to the shoulder, and locations of piercings other than the ears, individually and collectively constitute unlawful sexual harassment.

00:35:53.000 This is according to Letitia James again, Democrat.

00:35:55.000 We find these comments, some of which the governor denied, other of which she claimed were merely misrepresented, to be by any reasonable measure, gender-based, offensive and harassing.

00:36:03.000 The law provides the comments such as these need not have been overtly sexual or motivated by sexual desire.

00:36:08.000 Okay, first of all, it is important to point out here that sexual harassment law is super duper vague.

00:36:13.000 Particularly in states like California and New York.

00:36:15.000 So, making a joke at the office can easily be construed as sexual harassment.

00:36:19.000 However, it seems that Andrew Cuomo had the unfortunate penchant for saying all these sexually suggestive things to aides and randoms that he met, like, over and over and over again.

00:36:31.000 The law is clear.

00:36:32.000 These types of sexually suggestive comments, if made as a joke or otherwise, particularly when part of a pattern of comments and conduct, as it was with the governor, constitute unlawful sexual harassment.

00:36:42.000 The complainants, not surprisingly, said that these types of suggestive comments made them feel uncomfortable, humiliated, unsettled, taken advantage of, uncomfortable, and creeped out.

00:36:50.000 For the recipients of these inappropriate comments and jokes from the governor, we find the governor indeed created a hostile work environment.

00:36:56.000 Ah, wait, there's more.

00:36:58.000 Third, we find that under the totality of the circumstances, even the governor's less overtly sexual comments that were nonetheless gender-based also created a hostile work environment.

00:37:07.000 Although the governor and certain of his senior staff sought to downplay what the evidence has revealed as frequent gender-based comments and conduct by the governor as simply old-fashioned or cultural, neither explains nor justifies his behavior nor makes it non-harassing.

00:37:19.000 For example, referring to female staff as Honey, Sweetheart, and Darling, kissing staff members on the forehead and some of the senior staff on the lips, holding them tightly around the waist for pictures and other occasions, allowing senior staff members to sit on his lap at official functions, and lying down with his head on the lap of staff members who are women, We find, based on our interviews with numerous Executive Chamber employees, did in fact create a hostile work environment for many staff who were women.

00:37:42.000 Okay, yeah, the last ones I'm gonna go with, yeah, that's weird, okay?

00:37:44.000 Like, if you got a guy who's 60, and he says to women, honey, or sweetheart, I don't think that that's, like, the end of the world.

00:37:51.000 I know too many 65-year-old guys who address everyone that way, and also address, like, pretty much anyone who's of a younger generation that way, because they've been used to calling their kids that.

00:37:59.000 That doesn't sound like Andrew Cuomo here.

00:38:01.000 And Andrew Cuomo, I think it's a fairly good bet that when you take your head and put it in the lap of a female employee that... What?

00:38:09.000 Say... Hmm?

00:38:10.000 In the... But... So... Yeah... Yeah, that's not good.

00:38:16.000 As a matter of law, claiming that the gender-based behavior is simply a function of being old-fashioned or culturally more affectionate is not a defense to sexual harassment.

00:38:24.000 One of his employees, named Miss Liss, experienced the work environment saying, for whatever reason, in his office the rules were different.

00:38:30.000 It was just, you should view it as a compliment if the governor finds you aesthetically pleasing enough.

00:38:34.000 So even though it was strange and uncomfortable and technically not permissible in a typical workplace environment, I was in this mindset that it was the twilight zone and the typical rules did not apply.

00:38:43.000 What these witnesses and many others described is not just old-fashioned, affectionate behavior.

00:38:47.000 It was sexual harassment, says the Letitia James report.

00:38:50.000 Apparently, they also found that the executive chamber failed to report and investigate allegations of sexual harassment that's violated their own internal policies, according to the report.

00:39:00.000 Like, people made reports.

00:39:01.000 These were not investigated or followed up upon.

00:39:04.000 So that is a serious problem.

00:39:06.000 Here is the thing, though.

00:39:07.000 So, Letitia James says, I don't know about the whole, like, prosecution of this thing.

00:39:12.000 You know, not really.

00:39:14.000 By the way, they also found unlawful retaliation.

00:39:17.000 This report concludes that the executive chamber, meaning Cuomo, engaged in prohibited retaliation against Lindsay Boylan in response to the allegation she made on December 13th, 2020, that the governor had sexually harassed her.

00:39:28.000 Unlawful retaliation occurs when the employer takes an adverse action against an employee or former employee because that person made a good faith complaint, formal or informal, of unlawful discrimination or harassment.

00:39:39.000 We find this occurred with respect to Lindsay Boylan.

00:39:43.000 As detailed above, the incidents Boylan described in her Medium article and her testimony have been admitted and corroborated as well.

00:39:50.000 So, he engaged in a cover-up and the original activity.

00:39:54.000 He engaged in an unwillingness to even investigate, so the governor's office did not investigate.

00:39:59.000 However, according to Letitia James, they have no real feelings on whether a prosecution should take place.

00:40:07.000 which is real cop out here by Letitia James, obviously. 0.65

00:40:11.000 Like the fact that she is not pushing forward with any sort of criminal prosecution is fairly incredible, but that is where things stand.

00:40:20.000 So now the question is, does he live this down?

00:40:23.000 Does he live this down?

00:40:24.000 And the answer is probably, because if there's one thing that we have learned at this point, it's if you don't leave, no one can make you.

00:40:30.000 First, I want you to know directly from me that I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances.

00:40:42.000 I I am 63 years old.

00:40:45.000 I've lived my entire adult life in public view.

00:40:50.000 That is just not who I am.

00:40:54.000 And that's not who I have ever been.

00:40:56.000 So are Democrats in the state legislature actually going to throw him overboard?

00:41:00.000 Are they actually going to toss him?

00:41:03.000 I have serious doubts.

00:41:05.000 I don't think so.

00:41:05.000 I think he's going to stick around and then he's going to hope that people forget about this because they did the first time.

00:41:11.000 These allegations have been out there for a very long time.

00:41:13.000 Everybody has known that Andrew Cuomo engages in this sort of behavior for years on end.

00:41:18.000 Apparently, if you just wait long enough, it goes away.

00:41:22.000 There is another complaint I want to address from a woman in my office who said that I groped her in my home office.

00:41:29.000 Let me be clear.

00:41:30.000 That never happened.

00:41:32.000 She wants anonymity, and I respect that.

00:41:36.000 So I am limited but what I can say.

00:41:39.000 But her lawyer has suggested that she will file a legal claim for damages.

00:41:45.000 That will be decided in a court of law.

00:41:48.000 Trial by newspaper or biased reviews are not the way to find the facts in this matter.

00:41:57.000 And I will say, I'm astonished.

00:42:00.000 I continue to be astonished that CNN maintains ties with Chris Cuomo.

00:42:05.000 Okay, there is a report appendix.

00:42:08.000 It includes Charlotte Bennett's texts about her interactions with Andrew Cuomo and an email from Chris Cuomo appearing to draft a statement on behalf of his brother.

00:42:17.000 So apparently Chris helped his brother draft a statement responding to the allegations.

00:42:22.000 Quote, questions have been raised about some of my past interactions with people in the office.

00:42:26.000 I spent most of my time at work and colleagues are often personal friends.

00:42:29.000 I never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm.

00:42:31.000 Sometimes I'm playful and make jokes.

00:42:33.000 You've seen me do it at briefings hundreds of times.

00:42:35.000 My only desire is to add some levity and banter to what is a very serious business.

00:42:39.000 I now understand my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal, and some of my comments given my position made others feel in ways I never intended.

00:42:46.000 I'm sorry and feel deeply embarrassed about that.

00:42:48.000 Separately, my office has heard anecdotally some people have reached out to Ms.

00:42:51.000 Bennett to express displeasure about her coming forward.

00:42:53.000 My message to anyone doing this is you have misjudged what matters to me and my administration.

00:42:57.000 You should stop now.

00:42:58.000 Period.

00:42:59.000 This is a statement apparently drafted by Chris Cuomo.

00:43:02.000 on behalf of his brother, who at the exact time was covering his brother on COVID, you'll recall, in the middle of this. It's pretty amazing stuff. So CNN has zero credibility at this point, frankly, when it comes to covering these sorts of issues.

00:43:22.000 It is a shame for the CNN reporters who don't suck.

00:43:25.000 But the fact that Chris Cuomo gets to go out there and pretend to be a moral better for everybody continues to befuddle, to say the very least. 0.97

00:43:34.000 So that is where things stand.

00:43:35.000 I think that he probably outlives this.

00:43:37.000 Because that is the rule in American politics these days.

00:43:40.000 It is that you basically, it's not that you live, that you die as a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

00:43:46.000 It's that you die as a hero, live long enough to become the villain or live even longer and then become the hero again, which I think will eventually happen with Andrew Cuomo.

00:43:56.000 I wouldn't be surprised if Andrew Cuomo pushes statewide lockdowns as a result of this.

00:44:00.000 I would not be surprised at all if New York kicks into high gear with regard to COVID just so we can go back to Andrew Cuomo giving briefings about how necessary he is.

00:44:10.000 That would not be a giant surprise in any way, shape, or form.

00:44:14.000 Okay, so before we part today, I have a quick Olympic update.

00:44:18.000 The Olympic update is that Gwen Berry, you remember her, she was the hammer thrower who turned away from the U.S.

00:44:23.000 flag.

00:44:24.000 Sadly, she has failed to medal at the Olympics, which only demonstrates once and for all that hammers are racist. 0.96

00:44:30.000 According to the New York Post, Gwen Berry failed to medal during the women's hammer throw finals on Tuesday.

00:44:33.000 Berry finished in 11th place out of 12 competitors, registering a distance of 71.35 meters.

00:44:39.000 So, she did not win.

00:44:41.000 That is sad.

00:44:42.000 She said that if she had won, she would have represented the oppressed people, had she won a medal in Tokyo, saying, that's been my message for the last three years.

00:44:51.000 Well, she has been denied that possibility, and America weeps for her.

00:44:55.000 It is the saddest story of the day, obviously.

00:44:59.000 Also, worth noting, I'm just gonna have to play you this clip because this clip is really astonishing, and I feel that it deserves some level of independent comment.

00:45:07.000 So, all of the racial conversations that we have been having in the United States over the past year or so, at the head of those racial conversations is a woman named Robin DiAngelo.

00:45:16.000 You'll recall her as the author of White Fragility.

00:45:19.000 It's an entire 45-minute breakdown of that awful, awful book, one of the worst books ever written on YouTube.

00:45:24.000 You can go find it.

00:45:25.000 It's pretty funny.

00:45:26.000 Okay, so Robin DiAngelo, I think that she speaks for so many on the left when she talks about her embarrassment at her own race.

00:45:33.000 This is how bad things have gotten in the United States, and people are listening to Robyn D'Angelo for racial advice, and this just deserves comment. 0.99

00:45:40.000 So here is Robyn D'Angelo, yesterday, talking about her discovery of her own white privilege.

00:45:46.000 Talk to me about when you first realized you were white, and whiteness. 0.95

00:45:50.000 Yeah, talk to me about that.

00:45:54.000 It was a very abstract sense.

00:45:57.000 I honestly believe I was about 34 years old.

00:46:01.000 I was college educated.

00:46:02.000 I was a parent.

00:46:05.000 And someone handed me Peggy McIntosh's article.

00:46:09.000 And I read through that list and I had an out-of-body experience.

00:46:14.000 I could tell you where it was sitting.

00:46:17.000 I'm not ever going to forget that moment where all of a sudden I was like, oh my God, I'm white.

00:46:24.000 And I felt so loudly white that I remember being hesitant to go outside. 0.79

00:46:29.000 I didn't want to go outside because everybody could see that I was white.

00:46:33.000 Pagan cult. 0.76

00:46:35.000 Pagan cult. 0.76

00:46:37.000 Wow, my skin color makes me bad and I was hesitant to walk outside.

00:46:40.000 And the sort of ritual performative nature of this interview that she's doing with a black interviewer is really amazing.

00:46:46.000 But I guess this is what we have become, a society of ritual performances.

00:46:50.000 It's a society of religious ritual performances in which we are asked to pay fealty to our public health authorities and to our racial authorities.

00:46:59.000 To come into conflict, we got a bit of a problem as they're about to in New York City, but put that aside.

00:47:03.000 Man, there is a sickness in the head of the United States public at this point, and it may be fatal.

00:47:10.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show, coming up soon as The Matt Wall Show airs at 1.30 p.m.

00:47:15.000 Eastern.

00:47:15.000 Be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com.

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Andrew Cuomo Is Here To Grab Ass And Kill The Elderly...And He's All Out Of Elderly | Ep. 1311

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