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00:00:54.000The deaths and the hospitalizations obviously trail COVID-diagnosed cases by a couple of weeks, which means things are going to get worse for at least another couple of weeks, not better.
00:01:01.000And given the fact that we are just coming off of Thanksgiving and a lot of people traveling for Thanksgiving, there are probably more infections.
00:01:08.000Now, again, my view on COVID and COVID rules has been pretty simple for a long time.
00:01:12.000Be cautious and be careful, but be reasonable with yourself. If you're young and you're healthy, your risk factors are not the same as if you're older or if you're infirm. If you have serious underlying conditions, you should be staying away from public places in which there are a lot of people, particularly in enclosed spaces.
00:01:25.000If you're young and you're healthy, you should be staying away from people who are particularly vulnerable. My standard here has been pretty consistent.
00:01:32.000Unfortunately, the standards for everybody else, particularly the Democrats who are setting the standards, are not completely consistent. So here's the actual numbers that we have right now as of this hour.
00:01:41.000There are over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths reported on Wednesday.
00:01:43.000That's an all-time high for the pandemic.
00:01:46.000Healthcare systems are struggling to support the weight of a worsening impact.
00:01:49.000Well, I mean, truthfully, what you're talking about, even in major metro areas where you've seen a significant uptick in cases, is they are worried that the healthcare system might be overwhelmed by maybe the end of December, by about Christmas time.
00:02:00.000In Florida, there's really no worry about that.
00:02:02.000In Texas, there's not been a lot of worry about the healthcare system being overwhelmed.
00:02:06.000Again, even in LA, where they've seen a significant spike, they're not really worried about it being overwhelmed as of today.
00:02:11.000The more recent death toll is an increase of about 20% from the previous record of 2,600 set on April 15.
00:02:16.000Of course, back in March and April, the middle of the country was not affected nearly at all by the pandemic.
00:02:24.000It was really mostly in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.
00:02:26.000Massachusetts phenomenon, but obviously it is now a nationwide phenomenon, including spikes in previously hard-hit places.
00:02:33.000New York has seen a wave of COVID as well.
00:02:37.000Over the course of the pandemic, we are currently at nearly 275,000 people in the United States who have died, and at least 14 million people have been infected, according to data from Johns Hopkins.
00:02:46.000The truth is that it's probably closer to seven or eight times that number because, again, in the early days of the pandemic, testing was just not very good, and there are a ton of people who are walking around asymptomatic.
00:02:56.000The surge has pushed records that set one day to be broken the next. The spike in COVID deaths came on the same day the number of people hospitalized broke 100,000 according to the COVID tracking project. The number of hospitalizations had been steadily growing over the course of the last month. That is because people don't go into the hospital and come out the next day. They linger there for a week, even before they are released. Now, the good news is that if those numbers had been 100,000 back in March and April, many of those, a huge number of those people would have died.
00:03:21.000Right now, some of those people will die, but the number of people who are hospitalized and end up dying in the hospital, much, much lower, down about 80% from where it was back in March and April, thanks to therapeutics and the fact that we now know how to treat this thing a little bit better, and the fact a lot of the people who are ending up in the hospital Are, in fact, younger and healthier.
00:03:37.000It's a different cross-section of the American community.
00:03:40.000According to the American Ambulance Association, the 911 emergency call system is, quote, at a breaking point.
00:03:45.000Without additional relief, it seems likely to break even as we enter the third surge of the virus in the Midwest and the West.
00:03:50.000The CDC said Wednesday things aren't likely to look better for hospitals anytime soon.
00:03:53.000Dr. Robert Redfield said, the reality is December, January, February are going to be really rough times.
00:03:58.000I actually believe they're going to be the most difficult time in public history health of the nation, largely because of the stress that's going to be put on our health care system.
00:04:06.000Well, this has led to calls for massive lockdowns, particularly in highly populated areas.
00:04:12.000Eric Garcetti, who is the idiot mayor of Los Angeles, actually issued a massive lockdown order yesterday.
00:04:23.000Germany has extended its lockdown, for example.
00:04:26.000There are places all over the world that are extending their lockdowns.
00:04:30.000However, Eric Garcetti has now said that he is going to tell everybody to basically stay home.
00:04:35.000Here was Mayor Eric Garcetti from Los Angeles telling everybody to stay home, except if you're in the film production business, in which case, go ahead and go to work.
00:05:27.000And states that all businesses in the city that require people to work on location must stop operations.
00:05:32.000I mean, there are certain exceptions to this.
00:05:34.000If you're a grocery store, you can still operate.
00:05:36.000Apparently, film production is still able to go on because, you know, that's an essential service.
00:05:40.000Walking, driving, travel on public transport, bikes, motorcycles, and scooters are prohibited, other than for those undertaking essential activities.
00:05:50.000The idea that you are not allowed to walk around in your neighborhood for exercise, or that you're not allowed to get out in your car with your kids and just take a drive somewhere, like to a public park, and then drive back home.
00:07:17.000So you've got a city that cannot stop rioting for weeks on end in the middle of the summer and in which Eric Garcetti went down to the protest with no mask to hang out with people.
00:07:26.000And yet they're going to enforce social distancing to the point where if I'm walking around in my neighborhood, if I'm walking a dog, then all of a sudden, a cop's gonna show up and write me a ticket?
00:07:35.000You can't even roust the 65,000 homeless people living in L.A.
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00:09:48.000I've been all along in favor of masking in places where you're in close contact with other people, but this old doddering idiot telling you that you have to talk to veterans of World War I so you feel more patriotic and wear a mask, this is not about mask wearing at this point, okay?
00:10:01.000We have spikes everywhere in the country.
00:10:03.000People are wearing masks, and they are still getting it.
00:10:05.000Because as it turns out, very few people are wearing the most effective type of mask.
00:10:08.000Many of the people who are wearing masks are not doing so in proper medical fashion.
00:10:12.000You actually require PPE training in order to properly wear a mask.
00:10:15.000You can bring down the risk, but when you have community spread that is this prevalent, that community spread is unlikely to stop simply because you have universal masking orders in place.
00:10:24.000Universal masking has been a thing in LA, and they just shut down the entire city.
00:10:28.000Again, it was two weeks to stop the spread in March.
00:10:30.000I remember it was the week after my kid was born.
00:10:31.000And they've been locked down basically ever since.
00:10:35.000And so there was this bizarre, idiotic notion that there was some sort of silver bullet to the pandemic, and it was Joe Biden going on TV and telling people to wear masks, or Democratic mayors of major cities telling people they should stay home, and that was going to solve this thing.
00:10:48.000That was never going to solve this thing.
00:10:49.000There's only one thing that's going to solve this thing, and that is the vaccine.
00:10:53.000Or it's going to move through enough of the population that a certain level of herd immunity is formed.
00:10:56.000The problem with herd immunity, of course, is that you can't actually control who is going to get this thing and who is not going to get this thing, which is why shielding the most vulnerable should have always been the top priority.
00:11:07.000The people who are promulgating these orders, they know that these orders are not keepable because they've not been obeying these orders themselves.
00:11:13.000There's one constant pattern throughout this pandemic, and that is the rules are for the little people.
00:11:18.000The rules are for people like you and like me.
00:11:22.000And not all animals are created equal.
00:11:25.000Some animals are more equal than others.
00:11:27.000And political animals are more equal than you.
00:11:30.000So for example, London Breed is the mayor of San Francisco determined to drive her city directly into the ground by making sure that low level crimes are never ever enforced.
00:11:38.000She suggested that they may need more restrictive action in San Francisco.
00:12:24.000I've heard from people who've been there that it's quite good.
00:12:27.000But I'm just wondering why every politician in California feels the necessity to violate their own COVID regulations by going to the French Laundry.
00:12:34.000Best thing that I saw in the last week was a restaurant in L.A.
00:12:38.000They just put out a big sign on the front of it because they've been told they have to shut down.
00:12:41.000They put out a big sign on the front of it that said French Laundry Outdoor Patio to make fun of the fact that so many of these Democratic politicians have been violating their own rules.
00:12:51.000London Breed just last month had an eye over to the French Laundry restaurant in Napa County.
00:12:57.000That came just after she joined seven others on November 7th to celebrate the 60th birthday of socialite Gorett Loleu, a spokesman for the mayor told the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:13:07.000Their dining area was in a partially enclosed room with a ceiling and a chandelier, just like Gavin Newsom's widely criticized birthday dinner at the restaurant one day earlier.
00:13:20.000Here's a flashback to Gavin Newsom talking about how he was so sad apologizing for the fact that he went to an indoor dining restaurant while telling everybody else to stay home.
00:13:30.000You can quibble about the guidelines, etc., etc., but the spirit of what I'm preaching all the time was contradicted, and I got to own that.
00:13:38.000And so I want to apologize to you because I need to preach and practice, not just preach and not practice.
00:13:52.000We've been out, and I think for three times since, in fact, I know it's been three times because I remember all of those dinners very, very vividly.
00:14:14.000The mayor of Austin, his name is Steve Adler, yesterday, or the day before, he decided that he was going to tell everybody that they ought to stay home.
00:14:56.000We have tried to do contact tracing to see if we may have to close things down if we're not careful.
00:15:03.000Okay, that looks like kind of a nice background there, Steve Adler, mayor of Austin.
00:15:07.000Where would you be, Steve Adler, mayor of Austin?
00:15:09.000Oh, well, he was in Cabo San Lucas in Mexico when he said this, because literally what happened is that while health officials were warning of an impending COVID spike, Austin Mayor Adler hosted an outdoor wedding and reception with 20 guests for his daughter at a trendy hotel near downtown.
00:15:25.000The next morning, Adler and seven other weathering attendees boarded a private jet for Cabo, where they vacationed for a week at a family timeshare.
00:15:31.000And then from the family timeshare in Cabo after having gone to a pretty large event He decided to lecture everybody in Austin about how they needed to stay home.
00:15:39.000Because the rules only apply to the little people, don't you understand?
00:15:42.000The rules only apply to the little people.
00:15:45.000We'll get to more of the rules only applying to the little... I mean, you wonder why we don't trust public officials?
00:15:49.000Because it feels like you guys want to lock everybody down, except yourselves.
00:15:52.000You trust yourselves to be reasonable.
00:15:53.000And again, I'm trusting that Steve Adler isn't making bad decisions for himself and his family.
00:15:58.000I'm trusting that Gavin Newsom isn't making bad decisions... I mean, he's a 52-year-old man, I believe.
00:16:03.000Who's in good health with no pre-existing conditions?
00:16:05.000I trust that Mayor Breed is in decent health and is taking care of herself.
00:16:19.000But this idea that Eric Garcetti is going to lock everybody in their house while allowing riots to overrun his city in the middle of the summer and giant protests to run down Melrose Avenue, smashing windows and burning police cars.
00:16:32.000No one's gonna take you seriously, nor should they take you seriously, because you are not taking this stuff seriously.
00:16:38.000The bizarre sort of elitism of our political class who believe that they are brilliant enough to handle their own health, but you are not brilliant enough to handle your own health.
00:16:48.000It's pretty irritating and I think most Americans are and should be irritated with it.
00:16:52.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:16:54.000First, let us talk about a fantastic gift you can do for somebody this Christmas or this Hanukkah.
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00:19:19.000So now it turns out that San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo appears to have broken health protocols in celebrating Thanksgiving with family members outside of his own household unit.
00:19:29.000The NBC Bay Area investigative unit has learned that Liccardo celebrated with his elderly parents at their Saratoga home with an unknown number of other guests.
00:19:38.000While the mayor's staff did confirm the dinner took place, they haven't disclosed how many other people attended, how many different households were present, and whether any of those in attendance wore masks while not eating.
00:19:46.000This is a private event, not public, said Jim Reed, LaCaro's chief of staff.
00:19:49.000We're going to redraw the line between what is personal and what is public because that line has become blurred.
00:19:53.000Weird, because Gavin Newsom and Eric Garcetti and Democrats all over the state of California have been suggesting that they will drive up to your house and ticket you if you are outside of your home with somebody else's family.
00:20:05.000But apparently, if you're the mayor of San Jose, it's fine.
00:20:12.000You can be there with your elderly parents and a bunch of other strangers in a room, not wearing masks while eating, and it's totally fine.
00:20:19.000But all restaurants in the state of California should be shut down.
00:20:23.000Reid said that Liccardo and other guests practice social distancing while gathering and eating outside.
00:20:26.000Well, if that's true, then why can't everybody do that?
00:20:29.000And the answer is that those other people are not special like Sam Liccardo is special.
00:20:32.000Remember, Sam Liccardo is mayor of San Jose.
00:20:35.000He tweeted, like, while this was happening, like during Thanksgiving weekend, cases are spiking in part because we're letting our guard and masks down with family and friends.
00:20:42.000Let's cancel the big gatherings this year and focus on keeping each other safe.
00:20:57.000Because while telling everybody else that they should stay home, he hopped on an airplane to Mississippi to visit his wife and youngest daughter for Thanksgiving after telling everybody to refrain from traveling.
00:21:23.000back to Denver as soon as I could. I was, I'd already planned to go into self-quarantine until I'm confident through testing I'm not infected, but I realize none of this is really good enough.
00:21:30.000I'm hoping the people of Denver can forgive me." Well, again, he's a special. He shouldn't have to apologize. He's a special person. Because they're all special people, don't you understand?
00:21:39.000If you are a Democrat, you are special.
00:22:23.000Captain American Crisis Leadership Man.
00:22:26.000COVID-19 shipped the elderly people back in the nursing homes with COVID.
00:22:29.000That guy told everybody to stay home for Thanksgiving, and then he just casually announced on the radio that his mother, who's 89, was coming for Thanksgiving along with his daughters.
00:22:36.000That is the intergenerational kind of gathering that we have been told not to pursue during Thanksgiving.
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00:25:55.000Okay, so as always, the media coverage on this stuff is absolutely egregious.
00:25:59.000All you see is the top line stats, right?
00:26:01.000The number of deaths, the number of cases, right?
00:26:04.000They will not tell you how many cases have been diagnosed versus how many asymptomatics are walking around.
00:26:10.000They will not tell you the striation in terms of the public health risk per population.
00:26:14.000And the answer is, unless you have a fairly significant underlying condition, COVID is not Supremely deadly for you.
00:26:20.000It is slightly more deadly than the flu if you are healthy, but even then it depends on the age striation.
00:26:26.000If you're under the age of 20, and you don't have a significant underlying condition, even if you do have a significant underlying condition, you're actually under the age of 20, your chances of death are lower than that of the flu.
00:26:35.000If you're between the ages essentially of 20 and death, and you don't have any significant underlying condition, then this thing is not supremely deadly.
00:26:42.000The vast majority of people who have died of this thing have a significant underlying condition.
00:26:48.000What they found is that of all the people who have died of this thing while on Medicare, meaning everyone in the country over the age of 65, which is like the bulk of people who have died in this country from this thing, a grand total, this is as of maybe a couple of weeks ago, a grand total of 2,500 people over the age of 65 on Medicare died with no serious pre-existing condition.
00:27:09.000It doesn't mean you should willy-nilly go around and act like the thing doesn't exist, and it means that you should assess your own health risk.
00:27:14.000But again, I am fully cognizant of the fact that I think people can be reasonable about their own health, and the health of people they love, and the health of their neighbors.
00:27:22.000That's why I haven't been robustly anti-masking, particularly when you are in close quarters with other people.
00:27:28.000But the mandatory lockdowns, the idea that Democrats can simply lock you in your home, and then they can go out to the French laundry, no.
00:27:40.000So I've been in California where it's full lockdown all the time, crazy towns, people staring at you and yelling at you if you don't wear your mask, even if you're jogging 13 miles away from them.
00:27:49.000They'll call you up on your phone just to chide you if you're not wearing your mask because they've got a satellite watching you.
00:27:53.000And then you come over to Florida and Florida is basically like, listen, Use your own rational.
00:28:43.000You've seen in Great Britain that Boris Johnson has engaged in lockdown orders and he's been hit by both people on his right and people on his left.
00:28:49.000So why is it such a left-right issue in the United States?
00:28:51.000And the answer is the reason it is a left-right issue in the United States is that many people on the right have basically said, listen, the basic function of liberty is that you get to exercise your freedom so long as you're not harming anybody else.
00:29:05.000And that means that we trust you to be smart enough to protect yourself and to take measures to protect people that you love and to protect your neighbors.
00:29:13.000We're not going to go around and allow you to just infect people with COVID willy-nilly, but we are also going to rely on human beings to act reasonably.
00:29:21.000That is a basic conservative position.
00:29:25.000Okay, then there is the left-wing position, which is we don't trust the people to do anything.
00:29:28.000We can run your life better than you can.
00:29:30.000The rules don't apply to us, because we're smart.
00:29:31.000But you're stupid, and so we are going to lock everything down, and we are going to dictate rules to you that are completely onerous, non-sustainable, and we're going to enforce them with the power of law.
00:29:39.000That's why it's become a left-right issue in the United States.
00:29:40.000It didn't have to be a left-right issue in the United States.
00:29:44.000The happy medium tended to be more liberty oriented.
00:29:47.000But the left has decided that liberty itself is the challenge.
00:29:49.000I can't tell you the number of ridiculous think pieces I have seen over the past few months from folks on the left saying it's the American concept of liberty that is to blame for all of this.
00:29:59.000That's weird, because about a million and a half people have died worldwide.
00:30:03.000Also, if your big problem with the pandemic is the American concept of liberty, let me suggest that you are both not understanding how this pandemic works, and also that you don't understand how liberty works.
00:30:12.000And what you really want more than anything is just control.
00:30:15.000And there is this sort of paganistic aspect to so much of how people are thinking about COVID-19.
00:30:20.000The most obvious example of this I can think of, Prince Harry yesterday.
00:30:25.000Okay, so, he said in a recent interview for WaterBear, a streaming platform dedicated to environmental documentaries, which is just, I mean, riveting stuff.
00:30:34.000Can't wait to subscribe to WaterBear and watch a documentary about the salmon swimming upstream.
00:30:38.000That's gonna be some stellar material.
00:30:40.000Prince Harry's lofty wish, according to the New York Post, is for every person to be the, quote, raindrop that falls from the sky and relieves the parched ground.
00:31:00.000He says, somebody said to me at the beginning of the pandemic, it's almost as though mother nature has sent us to our rooms for bad behavior to really take a moment and think about what we've done.
00:31:11.000Um, that is just paganistic crap right there.
00:31:14.000Why do you perform a human sacrifice to Mother Nature there, Harry?
00:31:17.000So Mother Nature apparently is... Mother Nature is sentient.
00:31:20.000And this is the party of... These are the people of science.
00:31:30.000So presumably, if we perform some sort of propitiation ritual, then the gods will alleviate our horrifying condition, and all of this will go away.
00:32:41.000Kristi Noem's grandmother did not, in fact, die of COVID.
00:32:44.000Not only that, Kristi Noem in South Dakota has not prevented people from protecting nursing homes.
00:32:49.000The entire premise of this piece, however, is she doesn't care if her own grandmother died of not COVID.
00:32:54.000I'm gonna get to this piece in a second, because it does demonstrate the full-scale, insane value system and judgment that are brought upon people of the right by people of the left in the media, who will, meanwhile, just sort of... Yeah, it's kind of bad that Gavin Newsom went to the French Laundry, but at least he's promulgating the right policies, guys.
00:33:10.000I mean, sure, Stalin has his Dasha, and it's a really nice Dasha, like, out in the woods.
00:34:36.000Celebrate the moments that matter most and get started right now.
00:34:39.000Okay, in just one second, we're going to get to the media's coverage of Kristi Noem because it is fully crazy.
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00:36:32.000And obviously she's a very good looking woman.
00:36:34.000And this scares the living hell out of the Democrats who see her as a possible Republican nominee or vice presidential nominee in four years if Donald Trump does not emerge victorious.
00:37:08.000Anti-mask gov's grandmother died in nursing home, ravaged by COVID.
00:37:12.000Now, if I just read you that headline, wouldn't that sound like her grandma died of COVID, and then it's kind of her fault?
00:37:17.000Right, isn't that the idea of the headline?
00:37:20.000Especially because the sub-headline is, and yet, Kristi Noem continues to downplay the virus, refuse a mask mandate, and ignore the terrible price her state is paying.
00:37:29.000And I'm gonna read you the story, and as you'll see, not a single fact in this story backs up the headline contention.
00:37:35.000It turns out grandma did not die of COVID.
00:37:37.000It turns out the nursing home in which grandma lived was not infected due to lack of a mask mandate.
00:37:41.000It turns out they took serious precautions in the state of South Dakota, particularly with regard to nursing homes.
00:37:47.000And she's bad, and we're going to rip on her because Grandma died.
00:37:50.000That's how evil and disgusting many of our legacy media are.
00:37:54.000The author of this garbage piece, a guy named Michael Daly, says on Monday, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem buried her grandmother, who was among 13 to die over a two-week period at a top-rated nursing home, swept by COVID-19.
00:38:05.000The 98-year-old grandmother, Aldis Arnold, is said by Noem's office to have tested negative for the virus, though no cause of death was given.
00:38:12.000Why are we talking about how she died of COVID when she didn't actually die of COVID?
00:38:16.000Okay, so now you'd say, okay, well it sounds like if there'd been a mask mandate, then everything would have been fine.
00:38:20.000nursing home are described by the administrator Mike Ward as COVID related.
00:38:24.000All but one, Ward told the Daily Beast.
00:38:25.000But one less is still a dozen COVID deaths in a short period in one small facility.
00:38:29.000The number makes clear the lunacy of Nome's downplaying of the pandemic and her continued refusal to impose a statewide mask mandate.
00:38:35.000Okay, so now you'd say, okay, well, it sounds like if there'd been a mask mandate, then everything would have been fine.
00:38:42.000And Nome tweeted, I've always taken COVID-19 very seriously, but South Dakota trusted our citizens to exercise their personal responsibility to to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.
00:38:51.000But the report from Estaline Nursing Homes, in a town of the same name, made clear South Dakotans are anything but safe.
00:38:57.000Ward confirmed that along with the deaths, all but two of the surviving 38 residents and at least 16 of the staff had tested positive.
00:39:03.000The two most recent deaths were on Saturday, helped raise the statewide daily total to 54, a record for South Dakota, which has fewer than one million people.
00:39:11.000None of this is to say that Noem is at all cold-blooded when the lives include one of her own clan.
00:39:15.000She tweeted a moving tribute to Arnold on November 22nd.
00:39:18.000We lost my grandma today, but she is finally where she's wanted to be for quite some time with Jesus and grandpa and my dad and Ryan and so many loved ones.
00:39:24.000I remember when my dad died, she said to me with tears rolling down her cheeks, children should never die before their parents.
00:39:28.000I had never seen my grandma die before.
00:39:30.000Noam's father, Aldous Arnold's son, was killed in a 1994 accident involving farm machinery.
00:39:35.000Ryan Arnold, Aldous's grandson and Noam's cousin, died in 2010 of surgical complications after donating part of his liver to his brother.
00:39:43.000And she talked about her grandmother and how wonderful she was.
00:39:45.000For Gnome to have mentioned the dozen other dead would have raised the specter of the virus that killed them.
00:39:49.000Even as she was continuing to claim she had brought it under control by invoking personal responsibility rather than mandating a vital precaution.
00:39:55.000Again, mask mandates have been tried in Germany.
00:40:07.000This is not to say you should not wear a mask.
00:40:09.000You should be reasonable for the 1,000th time this show and the 1,000,000th time since the pandemic began.
00:40:15.000But the media have the silver bullet, and if you don't yell mask mandate from the rooftops, then apparently, you're responsible for every COVID death that happens subsequently.
00:40:40.000Nobody could rightly blame the nursing home itself for failing to protect its residents as best it could.
00:40:44.000State and federal inspectors had consistently given the home their highest ratings.
00:40:48.000Its record is unblemished by so much as a serious single violation.
00:40:52.000The family of one of the dead 90-year-old artists, Applin, described Esteline to the Daily Beast as excellent and reported that the home took extensive precautions against COVID-19 long before anybody there tested positive.
00:41:02.000Applin's son-in-law, David Herold, said visitors were required to wear masks and met with a resident in a separate room partitioned by plexiglass and plastic sheeting.
00:41:09.000Visitors and residents were kept separated.
00:41:11.000But through the plastic, Herold could see that Applin was continuing to thrive since moving into the home in June.
00:41:16.000Then, as best as Ward can tell, an asymptomatic staffer brought the virus into the facility from the outside, presumably having caught it in the realm where masks are not required and where Nome has allowed people to gather in crowds as large as a quarter million at a bike rally.
00:41:28.000Okay, so there's no evidence that the person even got it at the bike rally.
00:41:32.000We have no idea where the person who got it got it.
00:41:34.000Lots of people have been getting it in New York, in California.
00:41:36.000California's experiencing a massive surge right now.
00:41:39.000Okay, and the idea is Christy Noem is somehow responsible for an asymptomatic person picking up the virus from community spread and bringing it into a heavily protected nursing home.
00:42:17.000Except it's all too believable, of course.
00:42:20.000Okay, meanwhile, Barack Obama has come out and he says that he's gonna take the vaccine on national TV.
00:42:25.000There are three ex-presidents, actually, who have said that they are going to take the vaccine on national TV.
00:42:29.000George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Obama, I believe, have all said they will take the vaccine on national TV to demonstrate that it is safe.
00:42:53.000If you're a first responder, you should take that vaccine.
00:42:58.000And I promise you that when it's then made for people who are less at risk, I will be Okay, well, I'm glad he does.
00:43:21.000I wish that the Democrats would have said that back during the summer when they were all saying they would not, right?
00:43:25.000Andrew Cuomo said that he would not actually approve the vaccine for use in his state, absent a separate panel in New York State evaluating the efficacy and safety of the vaccine.
00:43:34.000So thanks for intervening on that, President Obama, now.
00:43:37.000Right when it's not all that useful, I really very much appreciate it.
00:43:42.000More seriously, I am glad that he is doing it.
00:43:44.000I'll just note that he didn't say anything about this prior to the election, when it was just Donald Trump is bad all day long.
00:43:50.000Okay, speaking of the election, there's still some remaining lawsuits that are outstanding around the country.
00:43:54.000There's a good rundown by Joel Pollack over at Breitbart on this.
00:43:58.000So basically, in Arizona, Kelly Ward, who leads the Republican Party of Arizona, is challenging the election results, arguing the state's vote-by-mail procedures are too lax.
00:44:05.000Observers were not able to verify the ballots being counted.
00:44:08.000A judge allowed her access to about 100 ballots, so she could check to see whether, in fact, they were being improperly tallied, and whether there were mismatches between signatures and ballots and all of this.
00:44:20.000In Georgia, the only live lawsuit, there are a couple live lawsuits.
00:44:23.000One is from Sidney Powell, claiming bizarre things about Dominion that have yet to be proved in any serious way.
00:44:29.000As we will see, Sidney Powell, things are starting to collapse real fast for Sidney Powell and for Lynn Wood.
00:44:35.000These are the two sort of rogue lawyers who are out there filing lawsuits.
00:44:39.000Meanwhile in Georgia, there's a lawsuit by the Thomas More Society arguing that the Center for Technology and Civic Life funded public safe elections operations in predominantly Democratic counties, violating state law and violating the Equal Protection Clause.
00:44:50.000It's unlikely that that is going to succeed in Michigan.
00:44:53.000Powell has a suit, so does the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society.
00:44:56.000They are suing over Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's decision to send absentee ballot forms To every registered voter allegedly with no authority and lax standards.
00:45:04.000Again, you're going to have to prove that this resulted in fraud that was greater than the 150,000 vote disparity between Trump and Biden in the current count.
00:45:10.000In Nevada, the Trump campaign has sued six electors for Joe Biden on behalf of six Republican electors alleging that Nevada authorities quote developed and implemented an election system that was highly susceptible to fraud and abuse.
00:45:21.000The lawsuit claims a flood of mail-in ballots Officials in Clark County used electronic verification methods that are allegedly unreliable.
00:45:29.000But again, this is more about the possibility of voter fraud, which theoretically could change procedures for the future rather than overturning the results as they currently stand.
00:45:35.000There are a couple of cases that are currently active in Pennsylvania.
00:45:38.000One particularly comes with regard to the expansion of mail-in voting, which is unconstitutional.
00:45:45.000It kind of looks like facially under the Pennsylvania state constitution.
00:45:48.000The problem is the remedy is unlikely to be provided by the federal judiciary because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court didn't provide it.
00:45:54.000And also, the remedy, even if there were to be a remedy, is unlikely to be tossing out all of the ballots that were mailed in absentee in Pennsylvania this year.
00:46:04.000In Wisconsin, there's a lawsuit by the Amos Center for Justice and Liberty.
00:46:07.000It seeks to have the state's mail-in ballots that were placed in drop-off boxes invalidated on the grounds that the boxes were illegal.
00:46:13.000There's also a lawsuit by the Wisconsin Voters Alliance targeting the CTCL, which is that group that has been doing the get-out-the-vote efforts mainly in Democratic areas.
00:46:22.000None of this is to suggest, of course, that voter fraud and voter irregularity aren't real.
00:46:25.000I think they're very real, and we've seen proof of some of it in this election, for sure.
00:46:29.000President Trump gave a 46-minute speech last night talking about how our system is under siege.
00:46:33.000He repeated a lot of the claims that his people have been making all over the country.
00:46:58.000I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the Constitution of the United States.
00:47:04.000That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege.
00:47:12.000Okay, so part of this is not court cases.
00:47:16.000Again, as I've been saying from the beginning, the legal process is going to be basically through the courts.
00:47:21.000And so this last ditch effort being made by the Trump campaign to go in front of various state legislatures in Arizona and Michigan and House Oversight Committees in Michigan and bring people forth to testify that they have seen voter irregularities and or voter fraud.
00:47:35.000And some of these people are pretty compelling.
00:47:36.000Actually, there was an Indian woman last night, as in from India or of Indian extraction.
00:47:43.000And she testified last night in Michigan.
00:47:45.000She's actually pretty compelling talking about how there were people, supervisors, who didn't understand how the voting machines work and that when the machines jammed, instead of taking out the ballot and tossing it because it had now been rendered basically moot because you couldn't actually see who voted, they would instead try to count the vote and count it for Joe Biden.
00:48:00.000I mean, there's been some evidence that's been brought forth here, and all of these allegations should be investigated.
00:48:05.000Probably the most bombshell allegation was brought forth by a truck driver named Jesse Morgan.
00:48:09.000He was testifying in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, I believe this was.
00:48:14.000Actually, he did this at a presser in Arlington, Virginia, rather.
00:48:17.000And here he was claiming that as a truck driver, he was driving completed ballots from New York to Pennsylvania, and they were sort of put aside.
00:48:23.000He was suggesting that these were fraudulent ballots that were eventually not counted.
00:48:27.000Again, it would be good to get some support for these affidavits.
00:48:29.000Just because you file an affidavit not in court where it's not punishable does not mean that what's filed in the affidavit is right.
00:48:35.000There are lots of people who file affidavits that are not, in fact, correct.
00:48:38.000I believe Christine Blasey Ford made allegations that were not substantiated with regard to Justice Kavanaugh.
00:48:56.000Loaded onto my trailer in New York and headed for Pennsylvania.
00:49:01.000At first, I didn't think it was a big deal.
00:49:05.000But as things became weirder, I got to thinking and wondered why I was driving complete ballots from New York to Pennsylvania.
00:49:16.000So apparently he then left the trailer someplace and then the ballots were not counted, something like that. In any case, that's a pretty serious allegation. Obviously, that should be investigated. I'll tell you, however, what is complete idiocy.
00:49:26.000So yesterday, Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, you know, the Kraken lady and Lin Wood, both of whom apparently have donated some significant money to Democrats in the past, particularly Lin Wood, as we'll discuss in a moment.
00:49:38.000They called on Brian Kemp to resign, and they urged Republicans not to show up and vote in the Georgia Senate elections.
00:49:44.000Okay, whatever you think happened in this election, you're nuts if you sit out this election because you're mad about what happened to Trump in the Georgia election 2020.
00:50:54.000Don't vote for the Republicans in the Senate races unless they call on Brian Kemp to call the legislature together to vote for Trump in the presidential?
00:51:04.000So your solution is to put Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff in the Senate.
00:51:07.000And worth noting, Breitbart going very hard after Lin Wood today, pointing out here that there is no record in Georgia of him ever voting for President Trump in 2016 or 2020 in the Republican primaries.
00:51:18.000He did vote in the 2020 and 2016 general elections in Georgia, but there's no record of him pulling a GOP primary ballot either of those years.
00:51:26.000Also, apparently, he has given money to a wide variety of Democrats.
00:51:29.000Apparently, he worked with Stacey Evans, a Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate, in 2017.
00:51:41.000Evans would go on to lose to Stacey Abrams in that gubernatorial primary.
00:51:47.000Wood then donated another $2,500 to Evans in November 2015, $2,300 more in March 2010, $2,400 more in May 2009, and in December 2009, another $100.
00:51:56.000He also gave money to Senator Jason Carter, a Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia in 2014.
00:52:03.000He's donated to basically a bunch of Democrats, Lin Wood, and now he's calling Shocker of Shockers.
00:52:17.000Trump said, we have to work hard for Senator Perdue and Senator Loeffler.
00:52:21.000And so President Trump tweeted, we'll be going to Georgia for a big Trump rally in support of our two great Republican senators, David and Kelly.
00:52:27.000They're fantastic people who love their country and love their state.
00:52:29.000We must work hard and be sure they win.
00:52:33.000So whatever you think happened in this election cycle, don't be an idiot and sit out an election where you can keep an insane, socialist, anti-American, and I say anti-American advisedly, Because Raphael Warnock says that America is steeped in racism.
00:52:46.000He says that America is inherently racist.
00:52:52.000He did youth events for Castro when he came to his youth church or something back in the 90s.
00:52:57.000You want that guy sitting in the Senate or John Ossoff, the offspring of extraordinarily rich people who bought him a house in Washington, D.C.
00:53:03.000and now walks around parroting Bernie Sanders?
00:53:06.000You want that in the Senate because you're mad about what happened in Georgia?
00:53:08.000That's about the dumbest thing you could do.
00:53:10.000Okay, meanwhile, The media continue to fluff Joe Biden.
00:53:15.000So Jimmy Kimmel, doing his best to fluff Joe Biden, he says, you know what?
00:53:19.000It's going to be such a boring four years, guys.
00:53:35.000And now we've got Jimmy Kimmel saying that Joe Biden, who is a doddering old fool, who cannot string together a full paragraph, who broke his foot playing with his dogs like a week ago.
00:54:56.000The next administration will feature a number of historic firsts, but lawmakers and advocates of color are pushing for more.
00:55:02.000This is a reported piece that took three reporters from Politico to put together.
00:55:06.000Megan Casella, Laura Baron Lopez, and Alice Miranda Olsteen.
00:55:10.000A very diverse group because they're all women, as the media would put it.
00:55:13.000Here's what they say, quote, The faces of the economic team of President-elect Joe Biden unveiled publicly Tuesday included an African-American woman, a man born in Nigeria, an Indian-American woman, and just one white man.
00:55:24.000Okay, so let me just note right off the top that that's a horrible way to describe human beings.
00:55:31.000You see a group of supposedly well-qualified candidates and you don't describe them as, you know, a former partner at some big firm or former government official or what they have done in their life.
00:55:41.000You describe them simply by their racial characteristics.
00:55:44.000You know, things that they have had since they were born.
00:55:50.000The faces of the economic team included a black woman, a man born in Nigeria, an Indian American woman, and just one white man.
00:55:56.000I mean, so basically we are now just picking faces from a catalog.
00:56:03.000Remember that time that Mitt Romney was ripped up and down for saying that he had binders full of women because he wanted women to fill cabinet positions?
00:56:08.000And the left was like, that's terrible!
00:56:11.000Well now, Politico is literally just running down Joe Biden's picks by noting their races and their sexes and presumably their sexual orientations.
00:56:21.000And I love this, the response from Asian American, Black, and Latino Democrats.
00:56:29.000As a Jew, which is indeed a minority, and in fact, the most victimized minority in the United States if you take hate crimes per capita.
00:56:37.000As a Jew, it has never once occurred to me that when someone forms a cabinet, or a financial team, or a corporate team, that it is imperative that you have to put a certain number of Jews on the team.
00:56:57.000Like, what are you talking about right here?
00:56:59.000But according to Politico, they want more representation, particularly in the cabinet.
00:57:02.000And after Representative Jim Clyburn, the most senior black member of Congress and a key Biden ally, spoke out last week about the need for more diversity in Biden's burgeoning administration, more black, Latino, and Asian-American lawmakers are joining the chorus.
00:57:14.000Texas Representative Vincente Gonzalez, he said, we're very, very concerned as a community, as a Latino community.
00:57:19.000He called last week for at least five Latinos to be appointed to cabinet-level positions.
00:57:22.000It doesn't matter which ones they are, presumably.
00:57:44.000Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates and officials are warning the Biden administration in writing it will be, quote, deeply disappointing if several Asian American and Pacific Islanders are not nominated to cabinet positions.
00:57:55.000They're growing increasingly convinced the president-elect will not match Barack Obama's total of three Asian-Americans in his first cabinet.
00:58:01.000Meanwhile, the CBC, the Congressional Black Caucus, is urging Biden to choose a black defense secretary and up the number of African-Americans leading departments overall.
00:58:10.000I'm sorry, this is the stupidest, most racist crap ever.
00:58:20.000The skin color of the people you are selecting.
00:58:23.000Now, you know what seems more important to me?
00:58:24.000The character of the people being selected by Joe Biden.
00:58:27.000So, for example, Politico also reported, and this seems like this should get more coverage, Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer reporting for Politico, Biden top economic advisor facing accusations of mismanagement and verbal abuse.
00:58:41.000But she's a woman, so I guess it's okay.
00:58:42.000Right, that's the way that works, apparently.
00:58:44.000A former colleague of Heather Bushey, a top economic advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, is publicly airing prior concerns that Bushey mismanaged the think tank she runs and verbally abused her and other subordinates, saying she wants to prevent future White House employees from enduring a similar experience.
00:58:58.000Claudia Sam, former director of macroeconomic policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Bushey's think tank, published an account of her and other former employees' experience working with Bushey on her personal website Tuesday night.
00:59:10.000She wrote that after her experience, I learned that Heather's abusive behavior was a pattern.
00:59:15.000Former subordinates and employees have alleged that Bushi was quote phenomenally incompetent as a manager and had frequent episodes of yelling and swearing.
00:59:22.000The complaints were serious enough the think tank where she worked hired a management coach to work with her to improve her management style around 2015.
01:00:05.000I know there's some Democrats who believe that it is, like Joe Manchin, I think, believes that it is.
01:00:09.000I think Joe Manchin actually disagrees with many of the policy prescriptions of the Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's and the Rashida Tlaib's and the Ilhan Omar's and such.
01:00:17.000By the way, Ilhan Omar tweeted out yesterday that we should cancel all rent and mortgage payments, which is pretty much the stupidest thing ever.
01:00:22.000She then tweeted out an article pointing out how stupid it was because she didn't even read the article.
01:00:27.000The bottom of the article said this would be a bad idea because presumably thousands of people would lose their jobs if you just cancel rents and cancel mortgage payments.
01:00:34.000Banks eat the loss, have to not give as many loans, and people who are landlords simply stop developing further properties and so rents actually go up, which of course is of course true.
01:00:44.000Okay, but The debate inside the Democratic Party is very rarely between sort of honest-to-God moderates.
01:00:52.000You know, people like Abigail Spanberger in Virginia or Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania.
01:01:41.000Over the past two months, Minneapolis police have logged more than 125 carjackings in the city, a troubling surge authorities had largely linked to a small group of marauding teens, but an increasing number of adults have been arrested in recent weeks for the same crime.
01:01:55.000According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, within a one-hour period Saturday morning, police reported three separate carjackings in southeast Minneapolis, including one where an elderly woman was struck on the head.
01:02:04.000Such attacks are up 537% this month when compared with last November.
01:02:51.000He's in favor of defunding the police.
01:02:53.000He just doesn't want to call it defunding the police, which was Obama's ploy always was to guide, guise his radicalism in the language of moderate politics.
01:03:04.000But here is Barack Obama saying defund the police is a bad slogan.
01:03:07.000And then, of course, he gets clubbed about the ears by the squad.
01:03:10.000If you believe, as I do, that we should be able to reform the criminal justice system so that it's not biased and treats everybody fairly, I guess you can use a snappy slogan like, defund the police, but you know you've lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done.
01:03:31.000The key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done, or do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with?
01:03:38.000Right, so at the very end, that's the party saying, right, do you want to get something done?
01:03:47.000And the best exchange of the last week was Joe Manchin.
01:03:52.000He said to find the police was a stupid idea.
01:03:53.000And AOC was like, she tweeted out a picture of herself like glaring at him during the State of the Union address last year.
01:04:01.000And he said something in an interview like, I saw that she was glaring daggers at me, and she put that picture out, but honestly I don't know what she does other than tweet and do Instagram videos.
01:05:39.000It's hard seeing the same people who uplift her courage attack the movement for black lives and want us to prioritize health, funding of schools, and ending poverty rather than racist policed systems.
01:05:48.000Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, she tweeted, The murders of generations of unarmed black folks by police have been horrific.
01:05:54.000Lives are at stake daily, so I'm out of patience with critiques of the language of activists.
01:05:58.000Whatever a grieving family says is their truth, and I'll never stop fighting for their justice and healing.
01:06:04.000And then you have Cori Bush of Missouri, right, a new adjunct member of the squad.
01:06:08.000At some point, she'll earn her senior assistant, or her senior associate membership.
01:06:12.000She says, with all due respect, Mr. President, Let's talk about losing people.
01:06:31.000Again, I love the fact that the progressives are so stupid that they are like, Barack Obama, he must oppose defunding the police if he doesn't want us to use the slogan.
01:06:37.000He literally said he likes defunding the police.
01:06:40.000He just wants you not to use the slogan.
01:06:43.000And for people on the right, I've been seeing it all over the place, people on the right who want to fall for the trap that Barack Obama is actually a moderate, that Barack Obama is actually a unifying force.
01:07:03.000And they're like, we don't want to say it quietly!
01:07:05.000You think Obama wants to stop the squad?
01:07:07.000No, he doesn't want to stop the squad.
01:07:08.000Here was Obama in that same interview saying that he wants AOC to be given more time at the Democratic National Convention.
01:07:14.000One thing I will say about the Democratic Party, promoting young people is really important.
01:07:19.000We stick so long with the same old folks and don't make room for new voices.
01:07:26.000The Democratic National Convention, I thought, was really successful considering the pandemic, but the fact that an AOC only got, what, three minutes or five minutes?
01:07:35.000Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you.
01:07:38.000When, you know, she speaks to a broad section of young people who are interested in what she has to say, even if they don't agree with everything she says, new blood's always good.
01:07:47.000OK, yeah, so this guy, yeah, he's the one who's going to put a lid on the radicalism inside the Democratic Party.