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00:01:57.000He's obviously in somewhat frail health.
00:01:59.000Every time he speaks for longer than about a couple of sentences, you feel your guts start to churn.
00:02:04.000I mean, it's to the point where you can't even really mock.
00:02:07.000Like you feel bad mocking because the guy is 78 years old.
00:02:11.000And honestly, like a lot of 78 year old people have trouble going upstairs the way that Joe Biden obviously has some trouble going up these stairs.
00:02:18.000So you can see here Joe Biden climbing up the stairs of Air Force One.
00:02:21.000There's a little bit of a breeze, but this is not like Hurricane Gales here.
00:02:41.000Now, listen, do I think slipping on the stairs is the world's biggest deal?
00:02:44.000I don't think it's the biggest deal, but I will point out that Joe Biden has prided himself on his peak physical condition for well over a couple of years now.
00:02:51.000He's been challenging people in the crowd to fight.
00:02:53.000He challenged President Trump to like a push-up contest or something.
00:02:55.000And you'll remember that when Donald Trump went down a ramp slowly, when he took little steps to go down a ramp, and there was mockery about how he was afraid of stairs, Joe Biden jumped right in on that.
00:03:05.000So I guess that if you're going to be a jerk like Joe Biden was, then apparently, you know, what goes around comes around.
00:03:11.000Look at how he steps and look how I step.
00:03:14.000Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps, OK?
00:04:06.000So it just demonstrates the kind of double standard that Joe Biden is being treated to.
00:04:12.000And of course, it is that double standard that is responsible for the fact that his approval ratings are extremely high right now.
00:04:18.000Joe Biden's approval ratings are by pretty much every measure significantly higher than President Trump's, even than President Obama's at this point in his presidency, I believe.
00:04:26.000According to Gallup, President Biden has averaged 56% job approval across three Gallup polls since taking office, including 54% in the latest survey from March 1st to 15th.
00:04:50.000As long as you speak the vocabulary, you can be as garbage at your job as it is possible to be, and you will still be treated as though you are a wondrous, wondrous politician because you say the right things.
00:05:00.000And you can see this in the way that the demographic breakdowns go in terms of who really likes Joe Biden.
00:05:32.000If you look at college graduate versus non-college graduate, because Joe Biden speaks the equity language, which is what you are indoctrinated with in college.
00:05:39.000Remember, colleges these days are not about providing you a skill set so you can actually enter the marketplace.
00:05:53.000And on the other hand, they allow you to speak in the language that the upper crust new ruling class speak in America.
00:06:01.000And so college graduates look at Joe Biden, he speaks that language Trump didn't, and therefore he's at 64% in the approval ratings versus only 51% for people who are not college graduates.
00:06:12.00066% of people aged 18 to 29 support Joe Biden compared to only 51% of people over the age of 65.
00:06:18.000So there are these huge gaps in approval rating for Joe Biden, utterly disconnected from his performance, by the way, because his performance so far has been pretty abysmal.
00:06:27.000In fact, his performance has been so abysmal that he has now been relegated to telling George Stephanopoulos, the sycophantic quasi reporter for ABC News, Hey, you know what?
00:06:35.000You know, I know you're asking a bunch of tough questions about why I'm not working with Republicans and why I'm just sort of ramming things through by executive order and also why I have this crisis on the border.
00:06:43.000Listen, man, I've only been here for six weeks, which is a really disingenuous excuse from Joe Biden because he was vice president for eight years before the last four years.
00:06:51.000So he's now been in power nine of the last 13 years.
00:06:57.000I'm not saying this is going to be easy, George.
00:07:00.000But I do believe there's enough Republicans over time who are going to have... They haven't had that epiphany you said you were going to see in the campaign.
00:07:21.000I mean, if this is the first six weeks, wait to see what you get over the next couple of years.
00:07:26.000It's going to get really, really bad over the next couple of years, especially because the Democrats are talking about doing away with the filibuster, which is basically the only check on Democrats adding states to the union, completely federalizing all elections and therefore screwing up all of the voting procedures so we have less trust in our elections, ramming down radical rethinking of the American way of life with regard to government.
00:08:36.000First, let's talk about the fact that now's not a great time to go to an auto parts store because never is a great time to go to an auto parts store.
00:08:41.000You wait in line for a really long time, then you finally get up to the front, and then you have to answer a bunch of specific questions, and then they either have a generic part or they don't have the part at all, and they have to order it online, then they upcharge you for the privilege.
00:08:51.000Instead, why don't you just skip the middleman and do what you do with everything else?
00:09:51.000Okay, so according to the Washington Post, A bipartisan pair of senators called for more press access to government facilities, holding the rising number of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, as they described overcrowded conditions for minors who are being held days longer than legally allowed.
00:10:07.000Remember, when it was Donald Trump, it's because he was Hitler.
00:10:09.000When it's Joe Biden, it's just because he's so compassionate.
00:10:11.000Same exact thing, except way more kids arriving at the border and being held in cages than any time under President Trump.
00:10:16.000And that's just because Joe Biden has such a big heart.
00:10:18.000This is the beauty of speaking the vocabulary.
00:10:20.000If you say equity over and over, if you say, yes, we love illegal immigrants over and over and over, it doesn't matter if you're keeping kids in cages.
00:10:28.000All that matters for Democrats is what you say, not what you do.
00:10:31.000And then later they can ram down a bunch of radical policy on the back of what you say, of course.
00:10:35.000More than 200 border agents have now been diverted to a CBP facility to care for children.
00:10:43.000The children who arrived at the southern border without a parent are legally allowed to be held for only 72 hours in CBP custody before being transferred elsewhere, but many are there for days longer than that.
00:10:53.000According to Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, she says, Senator Chris Murphy, of course, said these kids are not kids in so-called cages.
00:10:59.000about the overstay in the facility, they'll move 50 out a night to have another hundred come in at that night.
00:11:04.000Senator Chris Murphy, of course, said these kids are not kids in so-called cages, but he said, they're not facilities anyone would want your child in for more than 10 minutes.
00:11:34.000But I will note that every single time she gets up behind the podium, she has a mask that is color-coordinated to her outfit, which is really a nice stylistic choice.
00:11:43.000You know, when she's not eating her $20 a quart gelato, she's definitely got the color-coordinated mask on with the pearls the size of your hand.
00:11:51.000Don't worry, she's one of the people, guys.
00:11:53.000She says that Joe Biden has this under control.
00:11:55.000That Biden administration has this under control.
00:12:02.000It will take, it is change, and it'll take some time, but it is values-based, humanitarian in its aspects, pragmatic in how to, with a plan to get things done, and not just a diversionary tactic on the part of the Republicans because they are bankrupt of ideas on how to improve the lives of the American people.
00:12:57.000But there ain't no plan, according to the Washington Post.
00:13:00.000Shortly before Christmas last year, Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, the two top advisors to President-elect Joe Biden, sat for an interview with EFE, a Spanish wire service to issue a stark warning to migrants considering journeying north to the nation's southern border.
00:13:12.000Don't come now, but help is on the way.
00:13:14.000The next day, Biden was similarly pointed, saying his administration, while eager to roll back Donald Trump's immigration policies, first needed to implement guardrails to avoid winding up with two million people on our border.
00:13:22.000Less than a month later, The new president began tearing down some of the guardrails himself.
00:13:26.000He issued five immigration executive orders on Inauguration Day alone, promised an immigration policy far more humane and welcoming than that of his predecessor.
00:13:33.000His administration also began allowing unaccompanied minors into the country, a marked departure from the Trump administration's approach.
00:13:39.000Now, the Biden administration is scrambling to control the biggest surge in 20 years.
00:13:46.000With the nation on pace for as many as 2 million migrants at the southern border this year, the outcome Biden said he wanted to avoid.
00:13:53.000The situation at the border, which Biden and his advisors steadfastly refused to call a crisis, is the result of an administration that was forewarned of the coming surge, yet still ill-prepared and lacking the capacity to deal with it.
00:14:04.000Administration officials have been plagued by muddled messaging, sometimes making appeals that seem directed at more liberal activists than the migrants they need to dissuade from coming to the country. And there it is. There it is.
00:14:13.000It's not about helping the American people.
00:14:15.000It is not even about helping the migrants.
00:14:16.000It is simply about pleasing the left base because the left base is the media.
00:14:20.000And if the left base is the media, they will constantly defend no matter what Joe Biden does.
00:14:23.000The man can fall down flights of stairs.
00:14:25.000The man can have a massive migrant crisis on the border with two million people slated to arrive this year.
00:14:29.000And the entire media will continue to massage his ass because all he does is speak the language of the vocabulary.
00:15:00.000That the man is essentially a houseplant hiding the water stains.
00:15:03.000All that matters is that Joe Biden says the right things when he's capable of speech coming out of his face, and when he says those things, you are supposed to simply repeat and believe them.
00:15:14.000Joe Biden and his administration, by the way, are going around saying that the massive upswell of people arriving at the border has nothing to do with Joe Biden.
00:15:20.000Weird, because you might want to ask about the illegal immigrants about that.
00:15:22.000Here's one illegal immigrant talking to Martha Raddatz saying, um, yeah, we wouldn't have tried to come when Trump was president.
00:17:17.000I was going to mention but a minute ago that we encountered three children under the ages of 10, three siblings, whose mother was murdered during the journey.
00:17:31.000Give us the time to build an orderly system that will enable you to make your claim under United States law without taking the journey and imperiling your lives.
00:17:44.000Or they could come now because they don't trust you and they figure that if they come right now you will just let them in.
00:17:48.000Why do you think all these unaccompanied minors are arriving at the border?
00:17:54.000Unless they believe that the kids are going to be allowed into the country and then they will be used as an anchor in order for them to bring their parents over, which we all know is what this is really all about.
00:18:02.000By the way, don't worry, the Biden administration isn't letting in the media either.
00:18:04.000Mayorkas says, you know, the media can't come because of COVID.
00:18:07.000Oh, weird, because if Trump had said this, you know what you guys would have said?
00:18:10.000You would have said that this is a fascistic tactic directed at limiting the amount of information available to the American public.
00:18:16.000And yet here you guys are saying that the media can't show up because of COVID.
00:18:44.000By the way, Fox News now reporting that a senior source from Customs and Border Protection says a plan is under consideration for Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector to begin releasing illegal border crossers who claim asylum without even issuing a notice to appear.
00:18:57.000Meaning they disappear, they just disappear.
00:19:00.000They can depart custody, no court date.
00:19:02.000So normally, when you show up and you claim asylum, under our dumb system, we don't even hold you until your asylum court date.
00:19:08.000Instead, we issue you a notice to appear.
00:19:10.000The majority of people who get that notice to appear show up because they recognize that if they show up for the first appointment, then there's usually a second appointment, and then many of them don't show up for the second appointment.
00:19:19.000Now they're telling people, we're not even going to give you a notice to appear.
00:19:23.000You have to initiate the notice to appear.
00:19:25.000How many people do you think are going to initiate the notice to appear?
00:19:27.000How many people who disrespect America's immigration laws to the extent they just cross the border are going to come into the country and then say, you know what?
00:19:33.000I really didn't fill out that DMV form.
00:19:34.000I'm going to head on over and I'm going to set up a notice to appear.
00:19:40.000The source says the reasoning for the decision is that the situation has become so dire that Border Patrol has no choice but to release people nearly immediately after apprehension because there's no space to hold people even to do the necessary notice to appear paperwork.
00:19:54.000The process of issuing each migrant an NTA can take hours per individual or family.
00:19:58.000This would not apply to unaccompanied minors.
00:20:01.000Right now, the Rio Grande Valley is ground zero for the surge in border crossings.
00:20:05.000They're currently at more than 700% overcapacity.
00:20:09.000Don't worry, guys, everything is fine because Joe Biden says equity a lot and barely talks and stumbles downstairs.
00:20:16.000And because he's a nice man, we don't care whether he is good at his job or not.
00:20:20.000We don't care whether a crisis that was it appears that it was essentially mitigated over the past couple of years because Trump said mean things about immigrants.
00:20:30.000If you have a choice between a president who says, we don't want you here, don't come, get out, which is language I'm not totally in love with.
00:20:38.000And we don't have a crisis at our border, and a president who says, we love you, come on in, and then we get a crisis at our border?
00:20:44.000You know what I care about from the president?
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00:22:46.000Purchasing Manager surveys found prices in both the manufacturing and services sector at their highest levels since the eve of the global financial crisis and rising fast.
00:22:55.000These have been good leading indicators of inflation in the past.
00:22:58.000In other words, prices are going up radically, which is not a shock because people have a bunch more dollars that have been blown out by the federal government.
00:23:04.000By the way, you didn't need $2 trillion spent.
00:23:07.000We all know that the pandemic is ending.
00:23:09.000In fact, we'll get to that in just a little while.
00:23:10.000Meanwhile, bond yields climb sharply around the world while yield curves steepen.
00:23:15.000Bond yields increase when people don't want American bonds.
00:23:18.000People don't want American bonds because they're afraid they're going to get paid back in inflated dollars.
00:23:22.000In the U.S., the spread between two and 10-year yields is the widest in more than five years, barring only a few days after the election of Donald Trump in late 2016.
00:24:28.000Inflation comes when a government has made too many promises it cannot keep and papers over the shortfall with currency, which ultimately becomes confetti and faith is lost.
00:24:35.000Okay, and this is kind of what we are looking at right now.
00:24:39.000Inflation psychology is difficult to change, but last year might do the job.
00:24:44.000And what we are looking at right now, again is that inflation is going to pop.
00:24:51.000Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, he says this is the least responsible fiscal policy we have had in four decades, in 40 years, which would take you back to, count it, count it, the 70s.
00:25:01.000It would take you back to, essentially, 1970, which is when inflation started to run out of control.
00:25:06.000By the end of the decade, you had serious stagflation, in which the economy stagnated because demand started to decrease, but inflation continued to rise.
00:25:14.000I think this is the least responsible macroeconomic policies we've had in the last 40 years.
00:25:23.000I think fundamentally it's driven by intransigence on the Democratic left and intransigence and completely unreasonable behavior in the whole of the Republican Party.
00:25:38.000It's driven us to the kind of political deals that we're seeing.
00:25:44.000Okay, so I love that he somehow finds a way to blame the Republicans for a $2 trillion bill that was passed only by Democrats.
00:25:49.000That's pretty impressive stuff right there.
00:25:52.000Okay, the Republicans offered a deal right there.
00:25:53.000Look, Summers is a Democrat, so of course he's gonna try to find a way to blame the Republicans.
00:25:56.000We have, on this issue, zero power in Congress.
00:26:08.000This is about Democrats blowing out the dollar because they wish to pay you with dollars that do not yet exist so they can make you more dependent on government.
00:26:15.000And then the answer from Democrats to every problem is more government.
00:26:18.000So when the economy fails in maybe three years, then you're going to see them claim that what we need is another bound of spending.
00:26:31.000It takes a little while to materialize.
00:26:32.000Immigration policy materializes like that.
00:26:34.000The minute you say the border's open, people rush it.
00:26:36.000But inflation policy takes a couple of years to materialize, especially when you have an artificial depression that was created by COVID beginning to alleviate.
00:26:43.000And so that means that you're going to have high demand coming out of this depression.
00:26:47.000And then what you're going to see is high growth rates that are tamped down slightly by inflation, tamped down Slightly by increased taxes.
00:26:54.000And then a couple of years down the road, when it turns out that we've blown so much air into the dollar, that the dollar is worth a lot less and people don't have savings, and then the demand crashes, then you're going to see a serious economic problem.
00:27:07.000Probably by the time you hit 2024, you're going to be looking at a pretty serious economic downturn.
00:27:14.000Okay, but all of this is okay, because we're just rethinking the nature of the relationship between government and the American people.
00:27:20.000And the media are fully complicit in this, because no matter what Joe Biden does, he is always just going to claim that everything is about equity.
00:27:26.000Again, recognize the gap between the policy, which is bad, and the rhetoric, which is exactly what the media want to hear, and what so many people want to hear these days, which is the government is going to solve all your problems.
00:27:37.000Joe Biden is here to tell you that the era of small government is over.
00:27:42.000Okay, the era of small government lasted basically from Reagan all the way probably until the beginning couple years of Barack Obama.
00:27:50.000Even Obama in 2004 and even in 2008 used to talk about how the government was not there to solve all your problems.
00:27:54.000By 2012, he was saying the government is the only thing we share.
00:27:56.000So really by 2012, the era of small government was over.
00:27:59.000When we were spending $4 trillion a year, but now, rhetorically speaking and overtly speaking, the era of small government is over.
00:28:05.000Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, they would love to completely rethink the nature of the relationship between government and the American people.
00:28:11.000Government is not only there to solve all of your personal problems, government is there to solve all cosmic problems.
00:28:17.000And our media are fully complicit in this.
00:28:19.000They love this idea, which is why they are now turning over the keys to the car to grifters like Ibram X. Kendi.
00:28:23.000You have to understand how all this ties together.
00:28:27.000Ibram X. Kendi is the guy who says that racism just means stuff he disagrees with.
00:28:31.000Racism is any system that ends with inequality of outcome.
00:28:35.000Any system that ends with inequality of outcome is shot through with racism because otherwise you would be suggesting the inherent inequality of human beings.
00:28:52.000I mean, the reality is that we all have different qualities, and those manifest in our behaviors, and our decisions manifest in our behaviors, and that creates differential outcome, even in a free and open system.
00:29:02.000And there are things that we can do to make sure that everybody has an easier shot at getting ahead, but the notion that you can pick and choose the winners and losers, that is, in and of itself, inequitable.
00:29:14.000But the left's version of inequitable is, we can just see from the results that the system itself is broken, and therefore, Ibram X. Kendi gets to dictate to everyone how the system should work so as to achieve a completely equal outcome.
00:29:27.000Ibram X. Kendi is an ideological fascist.
00:29:28.000He has openly said that he wants a department of anti-racism inside the United States government answerable to no elected body of Americans.
00:29:36.000That is, created in order to strike down any law, regulation, or policy at the state, local, or federal level that does not achieve equality of outcome.
00:29:45.000Which is just called the fascist regime.
00:29:47.000Now, Ibram X. Kendi is being handed the keys to the car over at the Boston Globes.
00:29:50.000You already have the pseudo-historian and fiction writer, Nikole Hannah-Jones, heading up editorial coverage at the New York Times.
00:29:57.000Now, you have Ibram Kendi, who is a grifter of extraordinary, extraordinary rank.
00:30:04.000Over at the Boston Globe, Ben Smith writes about this today.
00:30:08.000Dr. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman met last summer when their big Boston institutions, Boston University and the Boston Globe were grappling with protests over racial justice.
00:30:18.000Ms. Venkataraman, the editor of the Boston Globe's editorial page asked Dr. Kendi, Dr. Kendi, okay, again, Ibram Kendi, in the same way that Dr. Joe Biden will heal you with a junior college degree, Dr. Kendi, who has no medical degree or really any degree of any worth in my view.
00:30:35.000He is going to prescribe racial equity for your heart attack.
00:30:41.000He's the author of a book called How to Be an Antiracist, which is an extremely racist book.
00:30:45.000Venkataraman, I'm just gonna keep screwing up this name, is gonna ask Kendi why he decided to found the Center for Anti-Racist Research, which, by the way, is this giant catch-all for corporations to just sign a check, right?
00:30:56.000Twitter's Jack Dorsey signed a $10 million check to Kendi's Center for Anti-Racist Research, which has generated, to this point, zero actual research, so far as I'm aware.
00:31:07.000Okay, so the editor of the Globe's editorial page asked Kendi why he decided to found the Center for Anti-Racist Research in a city known for the backlash to busing and quote, where sports fans boo athletes of colors, she recalled in an interview.
00:31:19.000They started talking about their shared obsession with different Boston history, 19th century abolitionist newspapers.
00:31:24.000Then they wondered what it would mean to found in 2021, a newspaper in the spirit of William Lloyd Garrison's legendary The Liberator.
00:31:31.000Well, I mean, what it might mean is that you want the races to be treated the same, I mean, that's what The Liberator was about.
00:31:41.000I really doubt that William Lloyd Garrison was desperate to segregate the races and then treat them by race, the way that Ibram Kendi wants that to happen.
00:31:49.000But in any case, The New York Times reports, Ben Smith, in particular, they wonder what would it mean to bring to American racism the same sense of urgency with which Garrison in 1831 started in the newspaper, abandoning a more gradualist approach to slavery.
00:32:02.000Now with the backing of their institutions and a seven-figure budget, millions of bucks, they plan later this year to start an online publication that blends reportage, opinion, and academic research, some of which will appear in The Globe.
00:32:13.000Look at that, they're just going to create a partnership where the Globe is taken over by Ibram Kendi.
00:32:16.000They hope to revive the tradition of a generation of media that predates the formal division of news and opinion in 20th century American journalism.
00:32:22.000Funny how it's fine when it's on the left.
00:32:24.000If we hit the daily wire to it, by the way, right, we openly say we're a conservative publication, a conservative news organization, then we get hit with fact checks.
00:32:30.000But if Ibram Kendi takes over the editorial page of the Boston Globe or starts a new journalistic enterprise that blends news and opinion, that's totally cool and worth celebrating.
00:32:39.000They want to channel the energy that has produced a year of newsroom conversations and arguments about racism.
00:32:46.000Venkataraman said in an interview, if you don't have people agitating for urgent change, it becomes easy to just turn to other problems.
00:32:51.000And I think that's sort of an inspiring framework for thinking about why you need a publication or platform like this now, because you need to keep it on people's minds, the past, past the news cycle.
00:33:00.000This, of course, is not a simple project.
00:33:01.000The politics of the two venerable institutions means the new publication will be hiring two editors-in-chief, one with more academic bent and one more journalistic, amid a national scramble for editorial talent.
00:33:11.000The founders said they'd have preliminary conversations with CBS's Wesley Lowry.
00:33:15.000Of course they talked with Wesley Lowry.
00:33:16.000Lowry is the former Washington Post reporter who has basically argued in favor of the complete abolition of journalistic integrity.
00:33:26.000The project has backing from the University and newspapers.
00:33:28.000So BU is going to be spending money on it.
00:33:31.000And the Boston Globe is going to be spending money on it.
00:33:34.000And then there's the matter of the name.
00:33:36.000A Christian nonprofit already trademarked the Liberator.
00:33:38.000So they are looking at the Emancipator.
00:33:42.000But how are they going to use the word racism?
00:33:44.000Should it be reserved for Nazis and Klansmen and used with extreme caution?
00:33:47.000Or should it be applied, as a new generation of writers have argued, to daily features of American injustice?
00:33:52.000Dr. Kendi has played a central role in the debate with his 2019 book.
00:33:56.000Dr. Kendi said, if there was ever a body of people who should be arguing out of the definition of a term, particularly a seemingly politically charged term like racism, why would it not be journalists?
00:34:05.000They should define the term based on evidence.
00:34:07.000So he just wants his newspaper, backed by the Boston Globe, to just say that anything is racist that Kendi declares is racist.
00:34:25.000Dr. Kendi said he would not police how people use his work.
00:34:27.000People should be held accountable when they're being racist.
00:34:29.000But I think people should be able to repair the damage.
00:34:31.000I don't view racist as a fixed category.
00:34:33.000He added he does not believe if someone said something racist 20 years ago or even two days ago, right now, in this moment, they're also racist.
00:34:53.000And so that means that all of this is secondary.
00:34:55.000Understand, the job of Democrats in government is not to create more prosperity.
00:34:59.000The job of Democrats in government is not to create more safety.
00:35:02.000The job of Democrats in government is the quest for cosmic justice, as Thomas Sowell put it, to completely rethink the nature of individualism in America and meritocracy in America.
00:35:10.000And if they have to wreck the dollar in order to do so, that's okay.
00:35:12.000And if they have to wreck the border in order to do so, that's also okay.
00:35:15.000So long as you learn the lessons that you must be taught about social justice and group dynamics and the reality of America's institutionally racist institutions, everything can be torn down to the root.
00:35:26.000And meanwhile, Joe Biden will provide a happy face on it because he's the empath in chief.
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00:38:07.000So the goal for so much of today's American left, Democratic Party, the mainstream media, their goal is to completely ignore individual liberty, ignore individual rights, and to remake the country how they wish it were.
00:38:31.000Results as indignity, and by dignity what they mean is forcing you to cheerlead for everybody else's self-identification no matter how ridiculous, and freedom, freedom to identify however you want without any consequences for the decisions you make.
00:38:44.000And this means twisting every narrative.
00:38:58.000No evidence as of yet that this is a quote-unquote hate crime that was specifically designed at targeting Asians or that had anything to do with Trump or that had anything to do with the Chinese virus or anything like that.
00:39:08.000Hey, the media have decided what the narrative is, and the narrative is that this is indicative of deeper American racism, because when you are attempting to remake the world, every single piece of data must either be ignored or transmuted into a weapon for tearing down the existing system.
00:39:21.000This is how you end up with the narrative.
00:39:22.000This is the narrative, but if you ask, if you polled Americans right now, do you think what happened in Atlanta was a hate crime?
00:39:26.000I guarantee you the vast majority will say yes, despite the fact that there is no evidence at this point it was a hate crime.
00:39:31.000It may have been a hate crime, but you don't know that, and I don't know that, and all that matters is that the media certainly don't know that, and they are lying to you about how they do know that.
00:39:38.000So, for example, you have Nancy Grace saying about Atlanta, it was a hate crime against women, sex workers, and Asians.
00:39:44.000How about every single crime is a crime of hate in some way?
00:39:47.000But you have no evidence that this was specifically designed to target Asian people, certainly not on the back of what the left has said, that this is about a wide anti-Asian upsurge among right-wingers.
00:39:55.000Okay, the reality is that the vast majority of upswing against violent crime against Asian Americans is happening in major cities not dominated by right-wingers.
00:40:04.000And according to anecdotal reports, disproportionately from members of the black community, unfortunately.
00:40:10.000Anyway, here's Nancy Grace trying to push that narrative.
00:40:13.000I think that most of these women, I mean, Jessie, let's get real.
00:40:15.000You think these women want to work in a massage parlor, turning sex acts in the back room with baby lotion heated up on the side of the bed?
00:40:50.000When it comes to the Democratic Party, certain types of racism against Asians are completely okay.
00:40:55.000It is only in the aftermath of this particular shooting, by the way, when the Democrats are trying to say that they are against anti-Asian hate, that they've decided, oh, it's a little inconvenient to have members of the publicly elected sector who openly hate Asians.
00:41:09.000So San Francisco officials, according to the Daily Wire, including Mayor London Breed, are now calling on the vice president of the San Francisco school board, Allison Collins, Now let's be real about this.
00:41:17.000This is something that is a mainstream thought on the left.
00:41:20.000The shocking tweets show Collins accusing Asians of adopting quote, white supremacist ideology and of working to become model minorities in order to take advantage of a white supremacist system that she claims is typically biased against people of color.
00:41:31.000This is something that is a mainstream thought on the left.
00:41:33.000Many people on the left do not consider Asian-Americans to be a minority in the United States and therefore subjected to hate because they're the most successful subgroup of Americans in terms of household income.
00:41:43.000And that is because there's extraordinary cultural value placed on hard work and working toward testing And this has been ingrained for centuries in particular cultures, according to Wesley Yang.
00:41:53.000So the insanity of declaring that Asians are basically white because they decided to take advantage of the white supremacist systems of the United States to succeed.
00:42:02.000All that is is just, again, a reinforcement of the notion that America's systems are inherently racist.
00:42:08.000So America's systems are inherently racist when Asian Americans succeed, and America's systems are also inherently racist when Asian Americans are disproportionately targeted on the streets.
00:42:17.000Amazing how no matter what the antecedent, no matter what the predicate, the conclusion is always the same.
00:42:25.000And this allows you to engage in the sort of remaking of the world that the left really wants.
00:42:30.000So in Evanston, Illinois, according to Reuters, There's a Chicago suburb that now is going to pay reparations to black Americans.
00:42:37.000Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted.
00:42:39.000The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments.
00:42:46.000The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments, and a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
00:42:54.000Now, do they have to prove that these people were actually victimized by the racist housing policies?
00:42:59.000Because some of these people, I'm sure, are very young.
00:43:00.000Some of these people were probably born in 2000, right?
00:43:03.000At which point, segregation in the United States had been federally illegal for 35 years.
00:43:09.000In Congress, a bill that would establish a National Reparations Commission to study the issue has drawn 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives.
00:43:17.000Other cities, including Chicago, Providence, Rhode Island, Burlington, Vermont, Asheville, and Amherst, Massachusetts, have launched initiatives.
00:43:23.000California passed a bill modeled after the federal legislation.
00:43:25.000New York and Maryland are introducing similar measures.
00:43:29.000The practicality of implementing reparations programs is still a matter of debate.
00:43:32.000Well, first of all, how about the legality of saying that you get money if you are of a particular race?
00:43:36.000This is precisely the opposite of equal opportunity based on race.
00:43:39.000Treating people as individuals requires that you don't look at their melanin level and then make financial decisions as a government based on that.
00:43:45.000And yet that is precisely what these governments are now doing.
00:43:49.000In Evanston, black residents are eligible for the housing program if they or their ancestors lived in the city between 1919 and 1969, or if they can show they suffered housing discrimination due to the city's policies.
00:43:59.000The recipients will be randomly selected if there are more applicants than available funds in the housing program.
00:44:05.000Some people are saying it's inadequate.
00:44:07.000Some people are saying it's not gonna be, and it will never be enough.
00:44:09.000No matter what the reparations program is that is adopted, on both a moral level and a fiscal level, it's not gonna be enough.
00:44:15.000Because if you say, give everybody $100,000, people are gonna say, for 400 years of slavery?
00:44:20.000It'll just turn into a permanent government check signing program, which is, of course, on the basis of race, which is precisely the reverse of what federal law allows.
00:44:29.000But this is the remaking of America, in real time, on the basis of equity rhetoric, that is essentially unfair.
00:44:46.000And when I talk about the cudgeling, Let's talk about the cuddling for a moment.
00:44:50.000So, over the weekend, in what has to be the most amusing turn, you remember that Alexi McCammon was going to be the editor of Teen Vogue, that great prestigious publication Teen Vogue.
00:45:06.000Well, now it turns out that one of the people who backed Alexi McCammon's ouster, a senior Teen Vogue staffer, Alexi McCammon was thrown out because Alexi McCammon, when she was 17, wrote anti-Asian tweets.
00:45:18.000Now, a senior Teen Vogue staffer who backed Alexei McCammon being fired, it turns out that this lady wrote a bunch of tweets back in 2009-2010 using the n-word.
00:45:31.000Christine Davitt, senior social manager at Teen Vogue in 2009, wrote two tweets to a friend identifying him as a N-I-G-G-A and in 2010 used that word in a joke tweet.
00:45:43.000Davitt says in multiple tweets she has a mixed Irish and Filipino heritage.
00:45:48.000So, not a black person, so you don't get to use these sorts of terms, right?
00:45:51.000McCammon, 27, and a rising reporter at Axios have been set to take the top job at Teen Vogue before her past tweets set off a firestorm among Teen Vogue staff.
00:45:58.000After the Atlanta shooting left Asian Americans dead, McCammon and Teen Vogue parted ways.
00:46:05.000Neither Davitt nor McCammon or Teen Vogue could immediately be reached for comment.
00:46:09.000David on March 8th posted a letter on Instagram from Teen Vogue staff expressing concern to Condon Ast about hiring McCammon, quote, in light of her past racist and homophobic tweets.
00:46:24.000Okay, after Alexi McCammon got fired, and many of us on the right have defended many people on the left from firing and people on the right from firing, because it turns out that a culture in which you can just uncover anybody who's old tweets and then use it to wreck their career is an ugly and gross culture.
00:47:00.000So you're all for the purity culture when it comes for people you don't like, but when it comes for people you do like, then all of a sudden you're upset with the purity culture.
00:47:44.000Making sure that everybody that Brian Stelter personally does not like is cancelled.
00:47:49.000And making sure that everybody that he does like is defended.
00:47:51.000I happen to agree with him about Alexi McCammond.
00:47:53.000But the point is this, he doesn't agree with him about Alexi McCammond.
00:47:56.000He just doesn't like the fact that one of his friends, somebody that he's apparently friendly with or somebody who he agrees with, just got ousted from her job.
00:48:04.000And here's the thing, the cancellations will continue until the morale improves.
00:48:09.000It's funny, folks on the right, we have real trouble understanding the left, because we keep looking for the through line.
00:48:14.000Why is it that Alexi McCammon can get fired, but this Davitt lady probably will not be fired from Teen Vogue?
00:48:19.000Why is it that Gina Carano can get fired for putting up a meme that included a picture from the Holocaust, but Pedro Pascal puts up a picture from the Holocaust comparing American immigration policy to the Holocaust, based on a picture that was not even from America?
00:48:49.000Because Piers Morgan said he didn't believe Meghan Markle and you're certainly not allowed to do that because Meghan Markle is now, she's been sainted.
00:48:56.000They're actually going to build shrines to Meghan Markle now.
00:48:59.000So it appears Morgan said he didn't believe Meghan Markle.
00:49:01.000By the way, for the record, neither do I. I'm the vast majority of what she said.
00:49:04.000I'm in no position to doubt her personal feelings about suicide.
00:49:07.000But I don't believe that she was deeply victimized by Buckingham Palace.
00:49:27.000So over the weekend, Tiffany Cross on MSNBC starts talking about how evil Sharon Osbourne is.
00:49:33.000A message to the biggity Brit Sharon Osbourne.
00:49:37.000After this read, maybe you should go read, because there are numerous books which greatly detail how some of your ancestors colonized, raped, and pillaged many parts of this globe.
00:50:57.000Deathsantis, Ron DeSantis, happens to be the best governor in America for the challenges he faced, considering Florida is super old, and it ranks somewhere in the middle of the pack, like near California, in terms of deaths per million.
00:51:09.000And all of the stories about how Tampa was gonna be the center of a hotspot, Tampa was gonna be just a COVID hotspot, it was a disaster, it never happened.
00:51:16.000The beaches at Jacksonville was gonna be a COVID, never happened.
00:51:19.000Spring break, it's gonna be a COVID, never happened.
00:51:25.000So the media didn't even get the story right.
00:51:26.000Now, they're not just getting the angle wrong, they're just getting the story completely wrong.
00:51:31.000So the story that you have heard over the weekend is that there is a panic in Florida because of COVID, and that Miami Beach had to shut down because of the COVID risks.
00:51:40.000That is not why Miami Beach shut down.
00:51:42.000The reason that Miami Beach is shutting down is because people are committing crimes.
00:51:46.000There's open fistfights in the streets of Miami Beach.
00:51:50.000Okay, we are talking about people running up bar tabs of $2,000 and then just running out.
00:52:05.000Those people happen to be, according to the Miami Herald, disproportionately black.
00:52:10.000According to the Miami Herald, Martin Vassallo reporting, after weeks of uninhibited partying on South Beach by spring breakers, police turned away throngs of people, many of them black, from world famous Ocean Drive with a SWAT truck, pepper balls, and sound cannons.
00:52:23.000The tactics were intended to enforce an 8 p.m.
00:52:25.000curfew announced only hours earlier on Saturday to rid the city of what police and politicians have described as unruly and sometimes violent late-night crowds.
00:52:32.000The tactics appeared to have the desired effect, but the use of force to clear out people of color from South Beach alarmed some black leaders.
00:52:39.000If Miami Beach has openly recoiled at the behavior of the at-times chaotic crowds filling the city's entertainment district every weekend, Not just this weekend, every weekend.
00:52:49.000Some in South Florida are having a similar reaction to the way the city and its police have handled the presence of thousands of people of color.
00:52:56.000There are a lot of people of color in South Beach, according to the Miami Herald, and they are engaging in criminal activity resulting in a thousand arrests.
00:53:03.000By the way, there's plenty of tape that is not being shown in the mainstream media.
00:53:06.000The mainstream media is showing tapes of people milling around.
00:53:08.000They're like, this is the real threat.
00:53:26.000You're just lying about the situation there.
00:53:29.000Videos on social media showed Miami Beach Police arriving on Ocean Drive Saturday evening to find a massive crowd still on the street after the curfew kicked in.
00:53:35.000Okay, this is... Again, you can see all the videos.
00:53:42.000Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said the curfew and causeway closing announced at 4 p.m.
00:53:46.000Saturday were aimed to prevent violence and disorder.
00:53:50.000He described the city as a powder keg ready to blow.
00:53:53.000Residents cheered the crackdown, some saying they're afraid to leave their homes.
00:53:58.000So this is not, I'm sorry, this is not about COVID.
00:54:03.000But if you read the headlines, it's about COVID.
00:54:06.000Nowhere do the police even cite COVID as a risk.
00:54:09.000And yet the idea is that it's about co- This is ridiculous!
00:54:12.000I'm sorry, it's not- Here's the headline over at Drudge.
00:54:35.000The narrative is that black people are being cracked down on by the police, and simultaneously, unrelated, COVID's a real threat.
00:54:42.000So they want the two stories simultaneously now.
00:54:44.000The police are being mean to black Americans, according to the Miami Herald, at a time when the country is undergoing a racial reckoning.
00:54:50.000The optics of police officers grappling with crowds and city leaders condemning a largely black group of visitors has been unavoidable.
00:54:56.000Daniela Pierre, president of the NAACP's Miami-Dade Chapter, tweeted, Okay, so again, the problem, of course, is that, so, two simultaneous problems.
00:55:09.000One, it's all DeSantis, because look at these maskless people.
00:55:16.000At no point can you say, oh yeah, maybe there are a bunch of people engaged in criminal activity in downtown, and that's requiring the police to go in.
00:55:21.000Because that would cut against the exact narrative that they're trying to fight against.
00:55:26.000Which, by the way, ties into the broader narrative here about COVID.
00:55:29.000So, they continue to try to panic you about COVID.
00:55:32.000They just continue to try and panic you about COVID.
00:56:23.000Nadav Kidron, who's the CEO, said that they could revolutionize the marketplace by uniting.
00:56:28.000He said an oral vaccine could become even more valuable in the case that a COVID-19 vaccine may be recommended annually like the standard flu shot.
00:56:36.000It can be shipped at refrigerator temperatures.
00:56:38.000Okay, so we have more and more solutions every day.
00:56:42.000Our great experts are saying there's no fourth wave.
00:56:44.000Remember, they keep saying that the COVID stuff is the reason why we have to be worried about what's happening in Miami Beach, when that's really not the story at all.
00:56:50.000Here's Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, widely respected in bipartisan circles, saying there's not going to be a fourth wave.
00:56:57.000Well, I don't think we're going to have a fourth wave.
00:56:59.000I think what we're seeing around the country is parts of the country that are plateauing.
00:57:02.000We're seeing upticks in certain parts of the country.
00:57:05.000I think the fact that we have so much prior infection, 120 million Americans have been infected with this virus.
00:57:10.000The fact that we've now vaccinated, we've gotten one shot in at least 70 million Americans.
00:57:14.000Even if you account for the fact that maybe about 30% of the people being vaccinated previously had COVID, we're talking about some form of protective immunity in about 55% of the population.
00:57:24.000So there's enough of a backstop here that I don't think you're going to see a fourth Okay, not only does he say that, Dr. Ashish Jha, who's again a person from the left side of the aisle from Brown University, he says there's not going to be a fourth wave.
00:57:37.000We're not going to have a major fourth surge.
00:57:40.000But what we are looking towards and what looks like is about to happen is we are going to see a significant bump in cases in a bunch of states.
00:57:49.000And that means more infections, more hospitalizations, more deaths.
00:57:52.000The reason I'm pretty confident we're going to avoid what is happening in Europe is twofold.
00:57:56.000One is we vaccinated a lot more people.
00:58:00.000And second is that we vaccinated a lot of our highest people.
00:58:35.000It's why we need to blow out the dollar.
00:58:36.000It's why you need to wear a mask until the end of time.
00:58:39.000This is why you have Dr. Mansef Slaoui, who's the head of Operation Warp Speed, out there saying, yeah, you know, we should probably still be wearing masks.
00:58:44.000If you're vaccinated and you are four weeks after your first vaccination, two weeks after your last vaccination, you are good to go.
00:58:49.000OK, you don't need to wear a mask anymore.
00:59:03.000The Democrats need people to continue being scared to justify all of the crap that they are attempting right now, fiscally.
00:59:09.000So here we have Dr. Slaoui saying we should still wear masks.
00:59:12.000As long as the herd immunity levels have not yet been attained, that people who have been vaccinated should continue wearing a mask when in public and in crowded areas, because what we don't know yet is whether the vaccine prevents replication of the virus.
00:59:29.000It's an act of, frankly, you know, civility, I would say, vis-a-vis the people around us who have not yet been vaccinated.
00:59:37.000Okay, we know that people are not transmitting the virus at, like, 90% of the rate once they're vaccinated.
00:59:43.000Those studies are out already in Israel.
00:59:44.000They can't cite a single study suggesting widespread spread of the virus after vaccination, but they're still pushing the mask wearing.
01:02:04.000And Rand Paul isn't infecting anybody.
01:02:07.000But don't worry guys, it's all part of the narrative, and the narrative is America's terrible, America's awful, and you need the government to save you from ongoing crises that aren't crises at all.
01:02:40.000There's a reason people say that politics is the world's second oldest profession.
01:02:43.000Okay, it's, and bears significant resemblance to the first.
01:02:50.000The bizarre nature of Americans who have decided that politicians are their friends, it shows the death of community, shows the death of religion, and shows the death of family, that's for sure.
01:02:58.000If you're looking to these people for your empathy and for your comfort and for taking care of you, man, there's some holes in your life that ain't gonna be filled by slow old Joe Biden stumbling down a bunch of airplane steps.
01:03:10.000Alrighty, well, we'll be back here a little bit later today with additional hour of content.
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