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00:00:00.000Joe Biden does a bizarre interview with CNN, AOC releases a set of expensive t-shirts to decry capitalism, and Republicans are getting concerned over Georgia's Senate races.
00:00:36.000They now think that he has been elected president-elect of the United States.
00:00:39.000Obviously, the electors don't meet until the middle of December to certify the election forms and the election certifications from the various states and all of that.
00:00:47.000But the media have declared that Joe Biden is the winner.
00:00:49.000And now they are starting to ask him questions.
00:00:54.000They don't want to ask him anything tough.
00:00:55.000Every question for Joe Biden is going to be just some sort of massage for Joe Biden.
00:01:00.000So last night, he did this long form interview with CNN with Kamala Harris, sitting right there, looking a lot like Kathy Bates in Misery with the hammer.
00:01:07.000Just waiting to put the old man out of his misery.
00:01:11.000A lot of this interview was about the dynamic between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, in which Joe Biden kind of repeatedly kept saying to her, I'm going to leave soon, Kamala.
00:01:20.000And she was like, yes, yes, you are going to leave soon, aren't you, Joe?
00:02:38.000She'll say, I think we should do A, B, C, or D. And I'll say, I like A. I don't like B and C. And it's OK.
00:02:45.000And like I told Barack, if I reach something where there's a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign.
00:03:02.000Okay, now it's one thing for him to say that to Barack Obama, that he would find a way to resign if he had a fundamental disagreement with Barack Obama.
00:03:10.000He's the one at the top of the ticket.
00:03:22.000Is he incoherent or is he actually saying, like, if I disagree with Kamala Harris, I guess I'm going to make my way out that door right there because I've fulfilled my lifetime goal of entering the White House in the first place.
00:03:34.000It's like, that's kind of amazing because everybody knows that he's not serving two terms, right?
00:03:39.000I mean, this was sort of the foregone conclusion beforehand.
00:03:41.000We were supposed to ignore all of that.
00:03:42.000We're supposed to ignore the fact that he is not going to be a bulwark against the radical left.
00:03:47.000That, at best, he is a temporary stopgap for mainstream Democrats against the radical left.
00:03:53.000But he's probably not even that, because he is still caving to many of the sort of intersectional, woke narratives that the radical left would want.
00:04:02.000See, there's something you have to understand about the Democratic Party.
00:04:04.000It used to be the Democratic Party was a party that was interested in broadcasting, in the sense of like TV broadcasting.
00:04:08.000They were interested in broadcasting, like attempting to propagate a message that was going to win a majority of American voters, right?
00:04:34.000He had gotten us in a lot of hot water on foreign policy.
00:04:37.000He had led to the rise of ISIS already.
00:04:39.000He had pulled out precipitously from Iraq.
00:04:41.000He was making overtures to Vladimir Putin.
00:04:44.000And he had to come up with some explanation as to why his policies were so unpopular.
00:04:48.000And the explanation that Barack Obama came up with in 2010-2011 was one that fit with his generalized worldview, which is if people did not like Barack Obama's policies, it was because they hated him personally.
00:04:58.000Now, there have been references to this in 2008, when Barack Obama had suggested that the reason people didn't like him is because I have a funny name and I look different than the other guys on the dollar bill.
00:05:07.000Well, in the 2012 election, he brought that out like full force.
00:05:10.000He said, we are not going to bother broadcasting.
00:05:14.000Instead of attempting to put out a broad message that maybe people will resonate to, we are going to go in and group by group, we are going to cobble together an intersectional coalition.
00:05:24.000And that intersectional coalition will be a minority-majority coalition that's going to be largely driven by extensive voter turnout from minority groups.
00:05:33.000He won about 80% of the non-white vote in 2012, and he got the same percentage of the white vote Barack Obama did in 2012 that Michael Dukakis got in 1988 when he lost about 87 states.
00:05:43.000So Democrats were seduced by that vision.
00:05:45.000to the difference in demographics in the United States, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney going away in that election, even after losing three and a half million votes.
00:05:52.000Okay, so Democrats were seduced by that vision.
00:05:53.000They were seduced by the vision that Barack Obama's coalition was capable of imitation.
00:06:00.000And Joe Biden has run a very similar sort of campaign to Barack Obama in the sense that he was making overt plays for particular minority groups, an intersectional coalition.
00:06:11.000Now, what unified the intersectional coalition of Barack Obama were two things.
00:06:19.000He also happened to be the first black president, which means that he got extraordinary black turnout in 2012.
00:06:23.000In fact, increased black turnout in places like Ohio basically meant that he won the election, as opposed to losing the election to Mitt Romney.
00:06:30.000If the black turnout in 2012 had been the same as the black turnout in 2004, for example, then Mitt Romney would have been elected president in all likelihood.
00:06:41.000He was able to turn people out because of his unique personal appeal, and also because he directed everybody against the Republicans by unifying them and saying the Republicans were going to take you back to the 50s, right?
00:06:51.000This was his pitch to the intersectional coalition.
00:06:53.000If you're gay, Republicans want to take away your ability to live with somebody who you love.
00:06:58.000If you are black, they're going to put you all back in chains, as Joe Biden himself said in 2012.
00:07:02.000If you're Latino, Republicans are going to reinitiate Eisenhower's Operation Wetback, that was the name of the national operation, and deport everybody in the United States who's an illegal immigrant.
00:07:11.000And Obama sort of passed out goodies to various interest groups, and he cobbled together this coalition, and his slogan was forward.
00:07:16.000We're moving forward from the evil vision of the Republicans of the 1950s and the 1980s.
00:07:21.000And Mitt Romney has returned to the past.
00:07:23.000Okay, in 2020, Joe Biden ran a fairly similar campaign, except that instead of saying that he was running against somebody who wanted to bring us back to the 1950s, he said, I'm running against somebody who wants to bring you back to the 1850s.
00:07:34.000He suggested that Donald Trump was the worst person who has ever been and whoever will be.
00:07:38.000And he cobbled together this intersectional coalition of anti-Trump people.
00:07:41.000Now the problem is, the only way that you can continue to maintain that coalition is by maintaining those intersectional priorities.
00:07:47.000You have to get more and more radical with each element of the intersectional coalition.
00:07:52.000And the real problem is that where Barack Obama could unite that intersectional coalition through sheer force of personality, Joe Biden doesn't have any ability to do so.
00:07:59.000So he is going to be forced to parcel out approval to a variety of these sort of smaller interest groups that he's glomming together in order to create his coalition.
00:08:09.000In other words, he doesn't run the coalition the way that Obama does.
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00:10:06.000There's a whole line of thought inside the Democratic Party that he has to have a certain number of black people, Hispanic people, Asian people, gay people inside his cabinet.
00:10:13.000That somehow, this quote-unquote represents America.
00:10:16.000Now last I checked, what represents America is a diversity of viewpoint because Americans disagree on a wide variety of issues.
00:10:22.000And also what represents America is the belief that individuals are more than simply their race or their ethnicity or their sexual orientation, but not according to Joe Biden.
00:10:31.000So Joe Biden, during the CNN interview last night, he says he's going to make sure that his cabinet looks like America, which I presume means that it's going to be 50% male and 72% white, right?
00:10:45.000This is going to be an incredibly diverse.
00:10:47.000I'm going to keep my commitment that the administration, both in the White House and outside in the cabinet, is going to look like the country.
00:10:56.000Every advocacy group out there is pushing for more and more and more of what they want.
00:11:03.000My job is to keep my commitment to make the decisions.
00:11:06.000And when it's all over, people will take a look and say, I promise you, you'll see the most diverse cabinet representative of all folks.
00:11:14.000Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ, across the board.
00:11:21.000OK, so he says, you hear him say it right there.
00:11:24.000The coalition is going to come to me and they're going to say they want things.
00:11:26.000And then I'm just going to give it to them.
00:11:28.000I'm just going to give them whatever they want.
00:11:30.000And that is the hope for the Democratic Party, is that they can put together this sort of progressive slash racially based coalition.
00:11:37.000This new emergent majority, and that they're going to paper over all of it with the veneer of progressivism.
00:11:43.000That's going to be the glue that holds it together.
00:11:46.000That ain't going to hold it together, because the problem is there's some pretty significant cross-cutting tensions inside that coalition.
00:11:51.000Those are cross-cutting tensions that, by the way, were starting to fissure even during this election cycle.
00:11:57.000One of the reasons that Donald Trump won an increased share of the Hispanic vote is because the radical progressives inside the Democratic Party were pushing for things a lot of Hispanics didn't like.
00:12:07.000I would suggest that it also has something to do with the fact that the Democratic Party decided in this election cycle that because they wanted additional black turnout, they were going to solely and completely focus on black voters in a way that they didn't in 2012.
00:12:18.000There were complaints in 2012 when Barack Obama put together the intersectional coalition that he was pleasing every element of the coalition except for black Americans.
00:12:27.000The article suggested that he was giving DACA to Latinos, and he was giving same-sex marriage to gay Americans, and that he was pushing forward policies for women, but he was basically ignoring black Americans and taking them for granted.
00:12:38.000And it didn't hurt him at all, because, of course, Barack Obama was the first black president, and in his very personage, there was an idea that he was going to serve the interests of black Americans particularly.
00:12:49.000These are articles at CNN in 2012 talking about this.
00:12:53.000Joe Biden doesn't have the same ability to do that, obviously.
00:12:55.000There's no reason that black Americans should think that Joe Biden is going to stand for them any more than any of the other candidates on that stage, except that he was once hanging out with Barack Obama through sheer charity of Barack Obama.
00:13:06.000And so that means that in this election cycle, he went out of his way to attempt to paper over, for example, the violence and looting associated with Black Lives Matter rioting.
00:13:16.000It meant that he denounced his own crime bill from 1994.
00:13:20.000It meant that he picked Kamala Harris, right?
00:13:22.000All of this was designed specifically in order to cater to the black voting base and turn them out at a higher rate.
00:13:28.000Well, a lot of Latinos probably looked at that and said, well, what about us?
00:13:31.000Like, why is it that you are catering to certain members of the intersectional coalition and not other members of the intersectional coalition?
00:13:37.000There are a lot of tensions roiling under the surface of this democratic coalition that was, for just a brief moment, united by anti-Trump sentiment.
00:13:44.000And I can't imagine that that coalition is going to last the long term.
00:13:48.000But Biden's strategy is that he's going to continue to try to paper over all of those divisions with that veneer of progressivism.
00:13:55.000So he's wrapping everything up into a ball.
00:13:58.000The goal is to wrap everything up into a ball.
00:14:00.000Racial justice, meaning the intersectional priorities.
00:14:03.000Racial justice is the same thing as sexual justice, is the same thing as climate change, is the same thing as economic progressivism, is the same thing as COVID policy.
00:14:12.000Now, for just a minute, if you think about that, it makes no sense.
00:14:16.000It is a fact of the matter that various members of the intersectional coalition I have very different views about these issues.
00:14:21.000So, for example, if you're black, why in the world would you be in favor of illegal immigration?
00:14:27.000I mean, particularly if you're talking about blue-collar black workers, many of whom are working in the same industries in which illegal immigrants are coming in and taking jobs, why exactly would you be in favor of an illegal immigrant, a pro-illegal immigration policy from Joe Biden?
00:15:22.000Ironically, they all work for one another.
00:15:25.000The first time the American people looked out there and said, my lord, I guess all those things I heard about, and even though I don't live in neighborhoods that have large black populations, I didn't realize police actually do those kind of things like I saw with George Floyd.
00:15:40.000OK, so again, he's trying to say that everybody is on the same page.
00:16:01.000And you can see it already happening in the form of the battle that is now taking place between the illustrious, honorable representative, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, debartending.
00:16:10.000And Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia.
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00:17:29.000All of the coalitional politics of the Biden coalition are about to break out into the open.
00:17:35.000And we've already started to see this with the battle between Senator Joe Manchin and the illustrious representative, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, D-Twitch.
00:17:43.000I don't call her AOC because I've been informed that that's not nice, even though her actual Twitter handle is AOC, and even though she puts the initials AOC on her own brand of clothing, as we'll discuss in just one moment.
00:17:53.000So, Senator Joe Manchin in the Senate, much more powerful, much more important figure than Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
00:17:59.000The Alexander Ocasio-Cortez Justice Democrats, that is not a large-scale group of people inside the House of Representatives.
00:18:06.000It takes up an enormous amount of mental energy from the media because the media fapped to it, but that is not because they are actually extending any sort of power inside the House.
00:18:16.000They don't have that much power inside the House.
00:18:18.000The number of Justice Democrats, or people who are associated with the Justice Democrats, I believe it's under a dozen members of the House right now.
00:18:25.000And she has not pushed forward any major legislation to any real effect.
00:18:35.000Very often, she has gotten candidates to a level of unsuccess that is absolutely stunning.
00:18:42.000Moderate Democrats have done better across the country, particularly in purple races, than any of the Justice Democrat-backed candidates.
00:18:47.000In any case, Senator Joe Manchin, last week, he took a jab at AOC's abilities as a lawmaker, according to the New York Post, describing her as, quote-unquote, more active on Twitter than anything else.
00:18:59.000Manchin was specifically responding to AOC posting a photo to Twitter last month, in which she could be seen staring daggers at the West Virginia Senator as he looked away.
00:19:06.000And Manchin said, quote, I guess she put the dagger stare on me.
00:19:09.000I don't know, the young lady, I really don't.
00:19:37.000By the way, submitting an amendment just means that you basically go to House leadership and you're like, I'd like to add this to the bill.
00:19:41.000And House leadership says, no, that's crazy.
00:19:58.000Also, he is not, Manchin is not the first person to go after her, obviously.
00:20:02.000Very quickly after the election, Abigail Spanberger suggested that they defund the police sloganeering that was being pushed by people like the Honorable Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:20:12.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez had basically nearly cost Democrats the House, nearly cost Spanberger her Congressional seat because they were pushing radical insanities like defund the police.
00:20:26.000So she tweeted back at Joe Manchin, quote, I find it amusing when politicians try to diminish the seriousness of our policy work, movement organizing, and grassroots fundraisings.
00:20:35.000She just tweets, as though serious politics is only done by begging corporate CEOs for money through wax-sealed envelopes delivered by Raven.
00:20:42.000Okay, so, yeah, that's exactly what he's saying.
00:21:09.000I would not be surprised to see somebody like Joe Manchin, who I believe is up for re-election in 2022, switch parties in the same way that there was a senator named Jim Jeffords from, I believe, New Hampshire, way back in the day, who switched parties.
00:21:21.000You could see that happening because West Virginia is a very red state.
00:21:26.000Alexander Ocasio-Cortez doesn't care about any of that because she is into the posturing and she is part of the intersectional coalition.
00:21:33.000And the problem for the Democrats, again, is that there is no energy for Joe Biden per se.
00:21:38.000All of the energy inside the Democratic caucus is not coming from the policy-minded progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
00:21:45.000It is coming from the intersectional identity politics coalitional wing of the Democratic Party.
00:21:50.000Those are the people who they need agitated.
00:21:52.000Those are the people the Democrats need roiled.
00:21:57.000Now, I will say that Manchin's critique of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it seems somewhat accurate in light of the fact that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does spend most of her time on social media.
00:22:07.000Now, here's the thing about spending time on social media.
00:22:10.000I also spend a lot of time on social media.
00:22:11.000I also am not an elected congressperson.
00:22:16.000Her job may involve some of the tweeting, but every once in a while you would assume that she would want to actually hold a meeting with people to push legislation, but that's not something she's interested in.
00:22:24.000Instead, apparently she's interested, again, in making a quick buck for her campaign off of rubes, off of suckers.
00:22:32.000Politics is such a, it is such a dirty con game.
00:22:35.000There's so many grifters in politics who are simply seeking to make a buck and get famous off of not even providing you with an opinion.
00:22:43.000or providing you with a service or good that you enjoy, but simply off of making you promises that are unfulfillable and then getting you to become billboards for them.
00:22:51.000I'll get to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's t-shirts in just one moment because it's pretty spectacular.
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00:24:37.000It looks like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:24:39.000Again, partially because Barack Obama put the Democratic Party on this trajectory in 2012 when he decided not to push for a broadly popular policy platform.
00:24:49.000He instead decided to abandon that entire aspect of politics and focus in on identity groups and then empower those identity groups and empower the radicals among the identity groups with promises of glory.
00:25:00.000That coalition would be directed against the status quo.
00:25:03.000There were these two kind of conflicting ideas inside democratic circles for decades that have been kind of papered over because that conflict was not really, it was not available for remedy.
00:25:15.000There was no way to rectify the breach.
00:25:17.000One idea was that government was all powerful and could solve all your problems.
00:25:20.000And the other was that government was racist and terrible.
00:25:24.000and was initiated in sin, and therefore everything needed to be torn to the ground.
00:25:27.000Barack Obama somehow squared that circle by essentially saying both, right? Government is all powerful, but only if I run it. Because you see, I am a rebel from within the system.
00:25:35.000And because I'm the rebel from within the system, you should trust me. Well, nobody can characterize Joe Biden as the rebel from within the system, which means that he is currently standing atop a powder keg because he has emboldened all the people who want to tear down the system and simultaneously claimed that he can fix all your problems with government.
00:25:50.000And that is not capable of being held.
00:25:53.000That is not a gap that can be bridged.
00:25:56.000Anyway, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she is out to make a quick buck off of her sloganeering nonsense.
00:26:03.000So, one of the great things about capitalism is that socialists love making money off of capitalism.
00:26:07.000Everybody loves making money off of capitalism.
00:26:10.000So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez started pitching her new line of gear.
00:27:14.000The only person who can afford this is somebody who's rich.
00:27:17.000Can you just imagine a bunch of poor people who just spent, like, half their daily salary minimum on a tax-the-rich sweatshirt to pitch AOC's brand of bullcrap?
00:28:30.000If it says tax the rich today, it doesn't matter.
00:28:32.000You can still wear the insert woke slogan sweatshirt, and you are good to go.
00:28:35.000Okay, but I just love the fact that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, critic of the evils of capitalism, is selling on her website a $58 sweatshirt that says tax the rich.
00:28:47.000But that's not the only stuff that AOC is selling on her website.
00:28:51.000She is also selling a t-shirt It is a t-shirt of herself.
00:28:57.000It is an imitation of a painting called Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog.
00:29:01.000This is a very influential romantic era painting in which it showed originally a man standing on a rock looking over a sea of fog.
00:29:10.000And the basic idea was that enlightenment ideals could allow man to scale the heights and then survey the vistas.
00:29:15.000So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, being her own biggest fan, has now commissioned a painting of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez standing on that same rock, looking out over a beautiful vista like the cover of the Pocahontas VHS.
00:29:29.000And above it, it says, The Green New Deal.
00:29:51.000This is like the cheapest t-shirt in history to produce.
00:29:53.000It's one color, it doesn't have multi-colors on it.
00:29:55.000Any case, it's a student debt, but it's crossed out with a black line.
00:29:59.000So instead of paying back your student debt, instead of taking that $27 and paying down your debt and being a responsible person since you voluntarily took out the debt in the first place, instead you could give AOC's campaign $27 to promote her bullcrap and never pay back your student loan debt.
00:30:37.000Now, all it will cost you to demonstrate how virtuous you are by wearing a sweatshirt that says social, economic, and racial justice, all it will take you is $65.
00:30:48.000Nothing says economic justice and social justice like spending $65 on a sweatshirt.
00:30:56.000The entitlement mentality of the very critics of capitalism who then use capitalism in order to make bucks is pretty spectacular stuff.
00:31:06.000And the self-pitying nature of all of this is also pretty spectacular.
00:31:09.000AOC sees herself as this messianic figure inside the Democratic Party.
00:31:12.000She's gonna push for hope and change and Barack Obama, true fashion.
00:31:16.000But she also really pities herself a lot.
00:31:18.000So last night she tweeted out, the thing conservative senators don't seem to understand is I've actually had a physically difficult working class job without good health care most of my adult life.
00:31:28.000I bring that work ethic to Congress and my community.
00:31:30.000They sit around on leather chairs all day.
00:31:32.000She had a tough guys because she was a waitress.
00:31:34.000Okay, so my dad worked in a restaurant for 20 years.
00:33:02.000Republicans actually have to get their bleep together.
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00:36:31.000People have to be able to hold two thoughts in their head at the same time.
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00:37:06.000So as I keep saying, the Democratic coalition, that coalition is extraordinarily fragile.
00:37:17.000And the predictable effect of the coalition being very fragile is that there has to be a cram down in the cultural sphere in order to get you to shut up.
00:37:27.000There's a reason why cancel culture has become such a thing over the past few years.
00:37:30.000And the answer is, when you have a really fragile coalition, that coalition can only be held together so long as there is not a majority, a loud and vocal majority, that is rejecting certain aspects of the coalitional of the coalitional agenda. So for example, you're trying to create a coalition as a Democrat between Black Democrats and gay Democrats and Asian Democrats, and you push an item that most Americans don't like very much. So let's say that you are in an attempt to placate the LGBT group inside your coalition. What you do is you say, okay,
00:38:00.000from now on, we are all adding pronouns to our profiles and And we are also going to try to pass legislation to suggest that men can go into women's locker rooms and vice versa, so long as they believe they're members of the opposite gender.
00:38:11.000And most Americans go, that sounds crazy.
00:38:14.000Well, what you then have to do is you have to get involved in the cultural sphere and cram down those views on everybody else.
00:38:18.000You have to shut people up in order to engage in cultural renormalization.
00:38:22.000And that's why you have seen over the past few years so much attempt inside corporations and inside the media and inside the halls of academia and on social media to actually shut people up who have various opinions on these issues.
00:38:35.000Because if ever the silenced majority were to get together and just say no to any of this, Then the Democratic coalition would start to fracture because they'd have to make a choice.
00:38:42.000Do they want to win a majority of the vote by jettisoning some of the more radical policy proposals?
00:38:48.000Or do they want to continue to placate the intersectional coalition at the cost of maybe losing a majority?
00:38:57.000Well, that means that the way you fight back against this stuff is by not shutting up, not just on the cultural level, but also politically.
00:39:04.000In other words, do not let Democrats have a majority in the Senate of the United States.
00:39:08.000Do not let them take over the cultural milieus that run the country.
00:39:22.000I'm not going to cite polls to you because polls are very often wrong.
00:39:25.000But I'm now about to cite a poll to you, okay?
00:39:27.000Just because it does demonstrate that what we were talking about in Georgia, at least the only information we have is that this is not a blowout on behalf of Republicans.
00:40:07.000He ran for Congress and lost against Karen Handel.
00:40:10.000Then he ran again and he lost for some other office and now he is running.
00:40:13.000He ran again and he and he lost against David Perdue.
00:40:17.000But the problem is David Perdue didn't get over 50% and so they now have to rerun that race because in Georgia you have to win over 50% in a Senate race in order to enter the United States Senate.
00:40:27.000Right now, he ran a very narrow race against Purdue, separated by less than two percentage points.
00:40:32.000Raphael Warnock was in what they call a jungle primary, meaning that everybody is voting for every candidate.
00:40:38.000It's not just like a Democratic primary and a Republican primary.
00:40:41.000It's a primary where everybody can vote for any candidate.
00:40:43.000And Warnock actually ended up with the most votes in that because Republicans split their vote.
00:40:47.000He won something like 33% of the vote in that so-called jungle primary.
00:40:51.000That's literally the name of the primary.
00:40:55.000And now, according to a new poll from SurveyUSA and WXIA in Atlanta, the poll shows Ossoff narrowly leading Purdue, 50-48, and showing Warnock holding a lead over Kelly Loeffler, the GOP senator, in Georgia.
00:41:14.000Now, I'm gonna take all that polling with a grain of salt.
00:41:16.000I think Republicans still have an institutional advantage.
00:41:18.000But, if you guys don't go out and vote because you are pissed off at the way that Georgia's voting has gone presidentially, you are shooting yourself directly in the foot.
00:41:26.000There is no rationale for this whatsoever.
00:41:29.000Which is why, on Wednesday, a group of 19 prominent Georgia Republicans, including former Governor Nathan Deal and two former U.S.
00:41:35.000Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, issued an open letter warning that focus on fraud allegations could, quote-unquote, detract from the runoffs, which will determine which party controls the U.S.
00:41:44.000They wrote, quote, we have watched with increasing concern as the debate surrounding the state's electoral system has made some within our party consider whether voting in the coming runoff election matters. They warned that if Republicans didn't turn out, the trajectory of our state and nation will be irreparably altered on January 5th. And that, of course, is exactly right.
00:42:00.000This comes directly on the heels of Lin Wood, who apparently is a crazy person, and Sidney Powell, who appears to be more and more of a crazy person, suggesting that Republicans should skip the Senate elections because they're so pissed off at what they think happened to Trump in Georgia.
00:42:13.000And listen, I'm not even saying they shouldn't be pissed off over what happened with Trump in Georgia.
00:42:18.000You can be pissed off if you want to be.
00:42:20.000I mean, I will tell you that I don't see widespread proof of voter fraud in Georgia.
00:42:24.000I'm going to talk in a second about a video that's been making the rounds and the sort of countervailing claims that are now being made by the state of Georgia because that's been making a lot of headlines.
00:42:35.000But if your solution to anything that happened in Georgia is, oh, let's put the Democrats in charge of the Senate, you're a crazy person.
00:42:41.000That is a completely nutty, batty proposition.
00:42:44.000Nobody should be standing in favor of that.
00:42:48.000If Republicans lose those two Senate races in Georgia because they were so frustrated by how Trump was treated in Georgia, that's not just cutting off your nose to spite your face, that's cutting off your head to spite your face.
00:43:00.000It's committing political suicide to spite your face.
00:43:04.000It's just, it's patently nuts that people are even considering that.
00:43:06.000Okay, now, as far as people being pissed off at what is happening in Georgia, I am here to provide you only the full story.
00:43:12.000So, a very suspicious tape emerged last night.
00:43:14.000This is a tape that was presented by an election lawyer in Georgia.
00:43:19.000And this election video that was then blasted out to social media by Team Trump supposedly showed some election workers in Georgia clearing the room, telling people to, poll workers and observers, to leave the room, and then pulling out suitcases filled with ballots from underneath a table and then running them through the counting machines while there was no one there to observe, right?
00:43:39.000This was the allegation that was being made.
00:43:41.000There was some of that video being narrated by this Georgia lawyer.
00:43:46.000So now they're going to start pulling these ballots out from under this table.
00:43:51.000This table, the black one, was placed there by the lady with the blonde braids at about 8.22 a.m.
00:44:02.000So the same person who's staying behind now, the same person who cleared the place out under the pretense that we're going to stop counting, is the person who put the table there at 8.22 in the morning.
00:44:14.000Yeah, I saw four suitcases come out from underneath the table.
00:44:53.000Does security camera video show a Fulton County, Georgia, election supervisor suspiciously pulling suitcases filled with ballots from under a table after telling poll workers to leave the room?
00:45:01.000Did that election official continue to illegally count ballots without required monitors and a manager that calls into question Joe Biden's narrow win over Donald Trump in Georgia?
00:45:09.000According to Lead Stories, no, those claims are not true.
00:45:11.000Two high-level officials with the Georgia Secretary of State's office and a state elections board monitor each told Lead Stories their investigations revealed nothing suspicious in the video.
00:45:19.000The officials said the ballots seen in the video were in regular ballot containers, not suitcases.
00:45:24.000and they'd been removed from their envelopes and processed.
00:45:26.000Well, news media and election observers for the Republican Party and Trump campaign were present.
00:45:30.000The media and party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night, but they apparently followed workers who left once their job of opening envelopes was completed.
00:45:37.000The chief investigator for the Secretary of State told these stories.
00:45:40.000The observers were free to return at any time, she said.
00:45:42.000Georgia law allows observers, but does not require them to be there for ballots to be counted.
00:45:46.000Those claims were originally made, of course, at this hearing before the Georgia State Senate.
00:45:53.000Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, Georgia's voting system implementation manager, told Lead Stories during a phone call that what can be seen on the video is normal procedure and nothing looks quote-unquote bizarre or odd.
00:46:01.000He said election workers known as cutters, because their job was to open absentee ballot envelopes and verify ballots for eventual scanning and counting, were dismissed for the night sometime after 10 p.m.
00:46:10.000on November 3rd because they were done.
00:46:11.000Those workers who remained were responsible for conducting the scanning portion of the process because ballots couldn't be left without being scanned overnight.
00:46:18.000He said, if you look at the videotape, the work you see is the work you would expect, which is you take the sealed suitcase, looking things, you place the ballots on the scanner in manageable batches, and you scan them.
00:46:26.000Frances Watson, the chief investigator for the Georgia Secretary of State, told these stories during a phone call on December 3rd, 2020.
00:46:32.000The ballots were in standard containers.
00:46:34.000The work during the time in question had nothing to do with pulling ballots from under a table.
00:46:37.000She said, there wasn't a bin that had ballots in it under the table.
00:46:40.000The ballots from it were actually out on the table when the media were still there.
00:46:43.000Then it was placed back into the box when the media were still there, and then placed next to the table a little bit later.
00:46:48.000There was never an announcement made to the media and other observers about the counting being over for the night and them needing to leave, according to Watson, who was provided information by the media liaison who was present.
00:46:56.000She said she just followed the Cutters as they left.
00:47:03.000And there is no actual requirement that people be in the room.
00:47:07.000It just gives them the right to be in the room.
00:47:09.000A state election board monitor who asked for his name not to be used due to safety concerns told lead stories that he was present at the vote counting location beginning at 11.52 p.m.
00:47:17.000after leaving briefly earlier in the evening.
00:48:03.000Why would you not vote for the Republican in Georgia?
00:48:05.000Because you are ticked off at what happened in Georgia because you think Democrats... So your idea here is Democrats stole the election in Georgia, so give them control of the Senate?
00:48:30.000How about go out and vote against Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff, no matter what you think of David Perdue or Kelly Loeffler.
00:48:36.000Meanwhile, the Michigan Attorney General came out and said, listen, if Detroit vote count observers are saying that illegality went on, they should file criminal complaints.
00:48:45.000They should go down to the police station.
00:48:48.000Dana Nessel said, last night, Americans watched as Michigan Republicans used tax dollars to sponsor an event wherein a representative called witnesses brave and courageous for calling Detroit one of the most corrupt cities in America and making baseless debunked attacks on our elections.
00:49:01.000And then she said, You have embarrassed our state and defamed Michigan's most populous city.
00:49:04.000I call on the Republicans to renounce these statements or take any evidence of election law violations to the various attorney's offices for investigation.
00:49:13.000Now, it is perfectly legit to present this information in front of a House committee if you're trying to convince legislators to switch your vote.
00:49:20.000It is also the case that full investigations should be initiated into anything credible.
00:49:26.000And she points out, Matthew Schneider, U.S.
00:49:27.000Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, which has Detroit within its jurisdiction, is a Trump appointee, who previously served as Chief Deputy under AG Bill Schruette.
00:49:35.000So why exactly aren't they filing lawsuits?
00:49:37.000And the answer is they should be filing lawsuits.
00:49:39.000They should actually be filing criminal complaints if what they believe happened, happened.
00:49:43.000That would be the way to stop this if you actually want the election over.
00:50:07.000Meanwhile, COVID continues to rack the nation.
00:50:11.000The numbers on COVID are rising all over the place.
00:50:14.000There was indeed a post-Thanksgiving spike, as far as we can tell at this point.
00:50:18.000So I was kind of hopeful late last week, and I mentioned it, and even early this week, that there might not be this giant Thanksgiving spike in terms of total diagnosed cases, because there seemed to be sort of a peak in mid-November, and then it came down all the way to the beginning of December.
00:50:32.000But it now seems that it is jumping again in the aftermath of Thanksgiving, as many of the critics predicted.
00:51:05.000According to the New York Times, California, the first state to impose far-reaching lockdowns because of COVID, announced on Thursday its strictest new measures since the earliest days of the pandemic in an effort to keep a surge in cases from overwhelming hospitals.
00:51:16.000Governor Newsom said the new round of regional stay-at-home orders would take effect as ICU beds filled up.
00:51:21.000Millions of people across Southern and Central California are likely to see outdoor dining shuttered.
00:51:25.000Again, there's no evidence that shows that outdoor dining is conveying disease.
00:52:29.000It didn't seem to help very much because California is getting hit really, really hard.
00:52:34.000California has now recorded 1.2 million virus cases and 19,468 deaths.
00:52:38.000On Thursday, Newsom delivered a grim tally via remote video.
00:52:43.000He said that California is seeing its sharpest increase in cases since the pandemic took hold.
00:52:47.000Even as its coronavirus prevention measures have become more stringent, some early measures such as mask wearing were voluntary.
00:52:53.000If hospitalization rates keep soaring, California's 40 million residents could all be under new stay-at-home orders by Christmas, which is just incredible.
00:53:02.000People are pushing back because, of course, as it turns out, these stay-at-home orders have not been wildly effective.
00:53:13.000But again, this all falls part and parcel as part of the broader COVID take by Democrats, which is that if you just shut everything down, you'll magically make the virus go away.
00:53:22.000So last night on CNN, Joe Biden talked about COVID, and he actually suggested a bunch of things that are anti-scientific.
00:53:27.000He said, we cannot open elementary schools, which is just a teacher's union talking point.
00:53:59.000It was estimated that we could open those schools for somewhere around a hundred billion dollars nationwide.
00:54:07.000Okay, um, so, that is, um, that is not correct.
00:54:10.000Okay, that elementary schools are supposed to remain closed because they don't have precautions in place or anything like that.
00:54:16.000Again, my kids have been in elementary school for months at this point, there have been no outbreaks.
00:54:19.000The middle school, where my kids go, because it goes K through 8, the middle school has been open, they have had some cases, people have been sent home, and then people who are associated with them were sent home, and then they came back a couple of weeks later, and that was the end of it.
00:54:32.000Even Anthony Fauci doesn't believe this.
00:54:34.000Anthony Fauci believes the schools should be open.
00:54:49.000Back in 1968, Nixon said that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War.
00:54:53.000It was a secret plan to end the Vietnam War.
00:54:56.000And then it turned out that it wasn't such a secret plan.
00:54:58.000Well, Joe Biden's secret plan to end COVID is that the old man is going to tell you to wear a mask, and this will magically end COVID, which is weird since they've had a mask mandate in Germany, in Italy.
00:56:13.000By the time of the inauguration, whether it's Trump or Biden, regardless of what happens in January, the numbers have already started to drop.
00:56:21.000The vaccinations will have started to come out in December.
00:56:23.000By the end of February, supposedly about 100 million people will be vaccinated.
00:56:27.000And at that point, if Biden is in the White House, the media will declare that Joe Biden did it.
00:56:31.000They'll declare it was only because of Joe Biden's logistical genius in getting the vaccine out to people before he was even in the White House.
00:56:38.000And developing the vaccine that he had nothing to do with.
00:56:46.000The pattern has been when a Democrat says something and it does not work, then they just wait until the curve goes down and then they declare that it worked.
00:56:53.000And if a Republican does something, then it's always bad.
00:57:12.000And again, shutting it all down is not a solution.
00:57:15.000It has not been a solution in Germany.
00:57:16.000They've been shutting things down there for a very, very long time.
00:57:19.000And there are real life consequences to this sort of stuff.
00:57:22.000In Michigan, they are continuing this push for a massive shutdown order.
00:57:28.000They continue to suggest that there must be more statewide shutdowns, that Christine Whitmer, what is it, Gretchen Whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, the governor over there, that she is, her husband doesn't have to abide by those.
00:57:42.000Everybody else is screwed, but her husband can go fishing.
00:57:44.000Well, here is a Michigan restaurant owner who was caught in the background of a report that was being done about shutting down businesses, saying, you guys are destroying my life.
00:57:52.000Can we stop pretending for a second there are no downsides to these shutdowns?
00:57:56.000There was enough money to give every family, every family in this country, $20,000 to go home for two months.
00:58:03.000They chose to give it to special interest and campaign donors, the Kennedy Space Center, and they abandoned us.
00:58:11.000If you could have given me money, I'd gladly walk away for 60 days and let this virus settle down.
00:58:38.000In a free country, we do risk assessment every single day.
00:58:41.000Every single day, we do risk assessment.
00:58:43.000We should be doing risk assessment now.
00:58:45.000And sort of scaremongering from the media, which is that everybody is equally susceptible to the virus, as I keep saying.
00:58:51.000Every single time they report the number of people who have died, or the susceptibility of the virus, or the death rates of the virus, they should be doing it striated by age and health condition.
00:59:26.000The Washington Post has an editorial today that basically just repeats all of all of Joe Biden's talking points as per our usual arrangement.
00:59:34.000They say, we must not act as a collection of free spirits in denial, but rather as a cohesive nation that recognizes the enormity of the threat. Every single person in the United States should commit themselves to wearing a face mask in public. So presumably you're like out walking your dog, you should wear a face mask. To rigorously following the rules of distancing and good hygiene to avoid tightly enclosed spaces and events that could recklessly transmit the virus.
00:59:55.000And this is my, this is my favorite part.
00:59:59.000So they say in here that we need to do everything that would do what is right.
01:00:23.000If it were up to me and I were running national COVID policy, I would have told every college student in America to be on campus.
01:00:28.000I would have told everybody above the age of 45 to basically clear out, let them party it up without the mask for two months, and then no one would have died.
01:00:36.000And then there would not be vectors of transmission.
01:00:38.000Just don't go home until you are recovered.
01:00:40.000The big problem is that they did shut down the colleges and they sent kids who were infected with COVID back home to their parents and grandparents.
01:00:46.000That was actually a bigger vector of transmission than if you just kept the kids on campus in the first place.
01:00:50.000But according to the Washington Post, we can't have college students partying without masks.
01:02:57.000But this basic idea that you can lock down everything or that Joe Biden shouting masks at the wind is going to solve all of it is just a bunch of propagandistic nonsense.