The Ben Shapiro Show - Freedom For Me But Not For Thee | Ep. 1149

00:00:00.000 Democrats ignore their own COVID rules while calling for everybody else to lock down.

00:00:04.000 Lin Wood and Sidney Pell call for Republicans to boycott the Georgia Senate races for some insane reason.

00:00:08.000 And Barack Obama touches off a battle on the left by suggesting that the slogan, defund the police, is actually a bad idea.

00:00:14.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:28.000 Obviously, the big news of the day remains this giant COVID spike that the country is in the middle of.

00:00:33.000 It looked like it might have been waning a little bit before Thanksgiving.

00:00:36.000 It looked like we were on the other side of a slight curve, but then it turned out that that was not, in fact, the case.

00:00:42.000 What we are looking at today is the highest number of diagnoses of COVID that we have ever had in the country.

00:00:47.000 We have over 200,000 diagnoses of the cases yesterday, and hospitalizations are at an all-time high as well.

00:00:53.000 So are deaths.

00:00:54.000 The 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.

00:01:01.000 And given the fact that we are just coming off of Thanksgiving and a lot of people traveling for Thanksgiving, there are probably more infections.

00:01:08.000 Now, again, my view on COVID and COVID rules has been pretty simple for a long time.

00:01:12.000 Be 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.

00:01:25.000 If 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.

00:01:32.000 Unfortunately, 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.

00:01:41.000 There are over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths reported on Wednesday.

00:01:43.000 That's an all-time high for the pandemic.

00:01:45.000 This is CNN reporting.

00:01:46.000 Healthcare systems are struggling to support the weight of a worsening impact.

00:01:49.000 Well, 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.

00:02:00.000 In Florida, there's really no worry about that.

00:02:02.000 In Texas, there's not been a lot of worry about the healthcare system being overwhelmed.

00:02:06.000 Again, even in LA, where they've seen a significant spike, they're not really worried about it being overwhelmed as of today.

00:02:11.000 The more recent death toll is an increase of about 20% from the previous record of 2,600 set on April 15.

00:02:16.000 Of course, back in March and April, the middle of the country was not affected nearly at all by the pandemic.

00:02:22.000 It really was a coastal phenomenon.

00:02:24.000 It was really mostly in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.

00:02:26.000 Massachusetts phenomenon, but obviously it is now a nationwide phenomenon, including spikes in previously hard-hit places.

00:02:33.000 New York has seen a wave of COVID as well.

00:02:37.000 Over 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.

00:02:46.000 The 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.

00:02:56.000 The 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.

00:03:21.000 Right 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.

00:03:37.000 It's a different cross-section of the American community.

00:03:40.000 According to the American Ambulance Association, the 911 emergency call system is, quote, at a breaking point.

00:03:45.000 Without additional relief, it seems likely to break even as we enter the third surge of the virus in the Midwest and the West.

00:03:50.000 The CDC said Wednesday things aren't likely to look better for hospitals anytime soon.

00:03:53.000 Dr. Robert Redfield said, the reality is December, January, February are going to be really rough times.

00:03:58.000 I 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.

00:04:06.000 Well, this has led to calls for massive lockdowns, particularly in highly populated areas. 0.92

00:04:12.000 Eric Garcetti, who is the idiot mayor of Los Angeles, actually issued a massive lockdown order yesterday. 0.99

00:04:19.000 My message couldn't be simpler. 1.00

00:04:20.000 It's time to hunker down.

00:04:21.000 I mean, that is worthy of note.

00:04:23.000 Germany has extended its lockdown, for example.

00:04:26.000 There are places all over the world that are extending their lockdowns.

00:04:30.000 However, Eric Garcetti has now said that he is going to tell everybody to basically stay home.

00:04:35.000 Here 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.

00:04:43.000 My message couldn't be simpler.

00:04:45.000 It's time to hunker down.

00:04:47.000 It's time to cancel everything.

00:04:49.000 And if it isn't essential, don't do it.

00:04:52.000 Don't meet up with others outside your household.

00:04:55.000 Don't host a gathering.

00:04:56.000 Don't attend a gathering.

00:04:59.000 And following our targeted safer at home order, if you're able to stay home, stay home.

00:05:06.000 Okay, well, this actually supersedes his lockdown order from June, and it mirrors the L.A.

00:05:09.000 County rules that are stricter even than the L.A.

00:05:11.000 City rules.

00:05:12.000 Garcetti's order, according to fortune.com, prohibits public and private gatherings of people.

00:05:19.000 From more than one household, right?

00:05:21.000 All gatherings of people from more than one household.

00:05:23.000 So, you want to get together with your brothers and sisters?

00:05:26.000 No good.

00:05:27.000 And states that all businesses in the city that require people to work on location must stop operations.

00:05:32.000 I mean, there are certain exceptions to this.

00:05:34.000 If you're a grocery store, you can still operate.

00:05:36.000 Apparently, film production is still able to go on because, you know, that's an essential service.

00:05:40.000 Walking, driving, travel on public transport, bikes, motorcycles, and scooters are prohibited, other than for those undertaking essential activities.

00:05:47.000 Okay, that's insane.

00:05:49.000 I mean, that's perfectly crazy.

00:05:50.000 The 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.

00:06:00.000 That's crazy.

00:06:01.000 That's crazy.

00:06:02.000 And then people wonder, on the left, why it is that people are not obeying the lockdowns, why this has not been particularly effective.

00:06:07.000 Because when you promulgate insane regulations, nobody is going to keep them.

00:06:12.000 There are several exemptions, including for faith-based outdoor services and the homeless.

00:06:16.000 Others that can continue to operate include supermarkets, grocery stores, healthcare operations.

00:06:20.000 That does not cover gyms and similar facilities.

00:06:23.000 The city's safety protocols on social distancing follow those developed by L.A.

00:06:27.000 County, of course.

00:06:27.000 And L.A.

00:06:28.000 County, of course, also happens to be a place where they banned outdoor dining the other day.

00:06:32.000 So these regulations make no sense.

00:06:36.000 Even if you were to claim.

00:06:38.000 I think rightly, that indoor dining is more dangerous, based on the data, than outdoor dining.

00:06:42.000 To ban walking and driving to places other than those for undertaking essential activities is nuts.

00:06:48.000 And what in the hell is he ta- You're not allowed to bike around the neighborhood?

00:06:52.000 You're gonna be spitting on people while you bike? 0.96

00:06:54.000 This is crazy.

00:06:55.000 And then people wonder why people got COVID fatigue and just decided, you know what, screw it.

00:07:00.000 I'm relatively young, I'm relatively healthy.

00:07:02.000 We're done here.

00:07:03.000 And I'll tell you what else undercuts this.

00:07:04.000 The fact that everybody in public life, including these Democrats, knows these regulations are not going to be obeyed.

00:07:10.000 So actually in L.A., they're now trying to hit you with a misdemeanor fine if you do any of these things.

00:07:14.000 They're actually going to try and enforce this thing.

00:07:16.000 Good luck.

00:07:17.000 So 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.

00:07:26.000 And 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?

00:07:35.000 You can't even roust the 65,000 homeless people living in L.A.

00:07:37.000 County.

00:07:38.000 Good luck with that.

00:07:39.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:08:51.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is out there telling people that they should stop complaining about the COVID restrictions.

00:08:56.000 He actually told people to talk to veterans of World War I, which is kind of difficult because they're all dead.

00:09:01.000 It's now 2020.

00:09:02.000 Okay, so meanwhile, Joe Biden is out there telling people that they should stop complaining about the COVID restrictions.

00:09:09.000 He actually told people to talk to veterans of World War I, which is kind of difficult because they're all dead.

00:09:12.000 It's now 2020.

00:09:13.000 Anyway, here is Joe Biden.

00:09:15.000 Well, I have this mask on.

00:09:17.000 It's less about me being safe.

00:09:19.000 It's about me making sure that you're safe.

00:09:23.000 It's a patriotic thing to do.

00:09:25.000 It really is.

00:09:26.000 You know, I hear all this about, well, it's a great sacrifice of my freedom.

00:09:31.000 Well, tell that to all the people who went to World War I and gave their lives and World War II and the Korean War.

00:09:39.000 I mean, come on.

00:09:42.000 You're helping other people.

00:09:43.000 It's not you.

00:09:45.000 It's other people.

00:09:46.000 Other people.

00:09:47.000 Okay, now, listen. 0.97

00:09:48.000 I'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? 0.97

00:10:01.000 We have spikes everywhere in the country. 0.97

00:10:03.000 People are wearing masks, and they are still getting it.

00:10:05.000 Because as it turns out, very few people are wearing the most effective type of mask.

00:10:08.000 Many of the people who are wearing masks are not doing so in proper medical fashion.

00:10:12.000 You actually require PPE training in order to properly wear a mask.

00:10:15.000 You 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.

00:10:24.000 Universal masking has been a thing in LA, and they just shut down the entire city.

00:10:27.000 Again.

00:10:28.000 Again, it was two weeks to stop the spread in March.

00:10:30.000 I remember it was the week after my kid was born.

00:10:31.000 And they've been locked down basically ever since. 0.96

00:10:35.000 And 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. 0.97

00:10:48.000 That was never going to solve this thing. 0.98

00:10:49.000 There's only one thing that's going to solve this thing, and that is the vaccine.

00:10:53.000 Or it's going to move through enough of the population that a certain level of herd immunity is formed.

00:10:56.000 The 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.

00:11:05.000 But I'll tell you something else.

00:11:07.000 The people who are promulgating these orders, they know that these orders are not keepable because they've not been obeying these orders themselves.

00:11:13.000 There's one constant pattern throughout this pandemic, and that is the rules are for the little people. 0.98

00:11:18.000 The rules are for people like you and like me.

00:11:21.000 They're not for the specials.

00:11:22.000 And not all animals are created equal.

00:11:25.000 Some animals are more equal than others.

00:11:27.000 And political animals are more equal than you.

00:11:30.000 So 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. 1.00

00:11:38.000 She suggested that they may need more restrictive action in San Francisco.

00:11:42.000 Here was Mayor Breed.

00:11:44.000 It's not good.

00:11:46.000 Cases are spiking.

00:11:48.000 Hospitalizations are increasing quickly.

00:11:51.000 Our infection rate is higher than it was at a point during the summer.

00:11:55.000 Our dangerous winter has arrived.

00:11:59.000 The truth is, we are going to have to take more restrictive action.

00:12:03.000 And it pains me to say that.

00:12:05.000 Everything we are asking you to do over the coming weeks and months is about that.

00:12:09.000 Saving lives.

00:12:10.000 Okay, that's nice.

00:12:12.000 So why were you at the French Laundry last month?

00:12:15.000 Seriously, London Breed was dining at the upscale French... I don't know what's up with the French Laundry. 1.00

00:12:19.000 Is it like just a hidey hole for the rich and famous?

00:12:22.000 It's 400 bucks a plate or something.

00:12:22.000 I guess it is.

00:12:24.000 I've heard from people who've been there that it's quite good.

00:12:27.000 But I'm just wondering why every politician in California feels the necessity to violate their own COVID regulations by going to the French Laundry.

00:12:34.000 Best thing that I saw in the last week was a restaurant in L.A.

00:12:37.000 that looked like a taco shop. 0.74

00:12:38.000 They just put out a big sign on the front of it because they've been told they have to shut down.

00:12:41.000 They 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.

00:12:51.000 London Breed just last month had an eye over to the French Laundry restaurant in Napa County.

00:12:57.000 That 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.

00:13:07.000 Their 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.

00:13:15.000 One day earlier.

00:13:16.000 Okay, so remember, It's not just London Breed, right?

00:13:19.000 It was Gavin Newsom.

00:13:20.000 Here'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.

00:13:30.000 You 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.

00:13:38.000 And so I want to apologize to you because I need to preach and practice, not just preach and not practice.

00:13:46.000 And I've done my best to do that.

00:13:48.000 We're all human.

00:13:49.000 We all fall short sometimes.

00:13:52.000 We'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.

00:14:00.000 Oh, so he said, I love that.

00:14:01.000 He sort of just slides right in there.

00:14:02.000 By the way, I did this a couple more times also.

00:14:06.000 Okay, it's not just Democratic politicians in California, however.

00:14:10.000 It is also Democratic politicians in Texas.

00:14:13.000 So, this is a great story.

00:14:14.000 The 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.

00:14:22.000 Don't travel, stay home.

00:14:24.000 Stay home if you can.

00:14:25.000 Here was Steve Adler telling Austin residents to stay home in a Facebook video just in the last couple of weeks.

00:14:33.000 The thrust of the most important messages trying to get out to the community right now is that our numbers are increasing.

00:14:40.000 And everybody has to be aware of that.

00:14:42.000 And we need to, you know, stay home if you can.

00:14:45.000 Do everything you can to try to keep the numbers down.

00:14:49.000 This is not the time to relax.

00:14:51.000 We're going to be looking really closely.

00:14:54.000 And I'm going to add a new message.

00:14:56.000 We have tried to do contact tracing to see if we may have to close things down if we're not careful.

00:15:03.000 Okay, that looks like kind of a nice background there, Steve Adler, mayor of Austin.

00:15:07.000 Where would you be, Steve Adler, mayor of Austin?

00:15:09.000 Oh, 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.

00:15:25.000 The next morning, Adler and seven other weathering attendees boarded a private jet for Cabo, where they vacationed for a week at a family timeshare.

00:15:31.000 And 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.

00:15:39.000 Because the rules only apply to the little people, don't you understand? 0.98

00:15:42.000 The rules only apply to the little people. 0.99

00:15:45.000 We'll get to more of the rules only applying to the little... I mean, you wonder why we don't trust public officials?

00:15:49.000 Because it feels like you guys want to lock everybody down, except yourselves.

00:15:52.000 You trust yourselves to be reasonable.

00:15:53.000 And again, I'm trusting that Steve Adler isn't making bad decisions for himself and his family.

00:15:58.000 I'm trusting that Gavin Newsom isn't making bad decisions... I mean, he's a 52-year-old man, I believe.

00:16:03.000 Who's in good health with no pre-existing conditions?

00:16:05.000 I trust that Mayor Breed is in decent health and is taking care of herself.

00:16:09.000 Because you know what?

00:16:10.000 I trust people to make good decisions for themselves.

00:16:12.000 This does not mean that you can't have local businesses that say you're not allowed to come in here without a mask.

00:16:16.000 That's fine.

00:16:17.000 You're a local business.

00:16:18.000 You can do whatever you want.

00:16:19.000 But 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.

00:16:30.000 Uh, no.

00:16:31.000 I mean, the answer is no.

00:16:32.000 No one's gonna take you seriously, nor should they take you seriously, because you are not taking this stuff seriously.

00:16:38.000 The 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.

00:16:48.000 It's pretty irritating and I think most Americans are and should be irritated with it.

00:16:52.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:18:25.000 Okay, so it turns out that it is not just the Austin mayor either.

00:18:30.000 County Supervisor, Sheila Kuhl.

00:18:30.000 It is the L.A.

00:18:32.000 So remember, just a couple of days ago, it was reported that the L.A.

00:18:35.000 County Board of Supervisors had banned outdoor dining.

00:18:38.000 That did not stop Sheila Kuhl on Tuesday from attending a fancy Italian restaurant in Santa Monica outdoors. 1.00

00:18:47.000 She was at Il Forno Trattoria in Santa Monica.

00:18:49.000 I don't know what's up with California. 0.76

00:18:50.000 Maybe because they're so strict and so crazy and it's a one-party state.

00:18:53.000 But apparently every single politician in California will do this.

00:18:55.000 All of them.

00:18:57.000 Apparently, Sheila Kuhl's spokesperson said she did dine al fresco at Il Forno on the very last day it was permissible.

00:19:03.000 She loves Il Forno, has been saddened to see it, like so many restaurants, suffer from a decline in revenue.

00:19:08.000 She ate there, taking appropriate precautions, and sadly will not dine there again until our public health orders permit.

00:19:14.000 Aww.

00:19:15.000 Well, how about San Jose's mayor?

00:19:16.000 Is he doing any better?

00:19:17.000 No, of course not.

00:19:19.000 So 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.

00:19:28.000 Ah, there's a shocker.

00:19:29.000 The 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.

00:19:38.000 While 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.

00:19:46.000 This is a private event, not public, said Jim Reed, LaCaro's chief of staff.

00:19:49.000 We're going to redraw the line between what is personal and what is public because that line has become blurred.

00:19:53.000 Weird, 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.

00:20:05.000 But apparently, if you're the mayor of San Jose, it's fine.

00:20:07.000 You can be there.

00:20:08.000 COVID doesn't affect you.

00:20:09.000 You're a Democrat.

00:20:11.000 I mean, it's amazing.

00:20:12.000 You 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.

00:20:19.000 But all restaurants in the state of California should be shut down.

00:20:23.000 Reid said that Liccardo and other guests practice social distancing while gathering and eating outside.

00:20:26.000 Well, if that's true, then why can't everybody do that?

00:20:29.000 And the answer is that those other people are not special like Sam Liccardo is special.

00:20:32.000 Remember, Sam Liccardo is mayor of San Jose.

00:20:35.000 He 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.

00:20:42.000 Let's cancel the big gatherings this year and focus on keeping each other safe.

00:20:46.000 Well, again, doesn't apply to him.

00:20:49.000 And by the way, you think I'm done here?

00:20:50.000 There's plenty more where this came from, gang.

00:20:50.000 I'm not done here.

00:20:52.000 The Denver mayor, Mayor Hancock.

00:20:55.000 He apparently made national headlines.

00:20:57.000 Why?

00:20:57.000 Because 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.

00:21:07.000 He apologized on Monday.

00:21:08.000 He said, first, I want to say my decision was unwise and hypocritical, a mistake that I want to deeply apologize for.

00:21:14.000 My mayor, my job as mayor is not only help come up with safe practices for the entire city.

00:21:19.000 It's also to set an example.

00:21:20.000 On that measure, I failed.

00:21:21.000 And they said to try.

00:21:22.000 He shouldn't have to apologize.

00:21:23.000 back 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.

00:21:30.000 I'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?

00:21:39.000 If you are a Democrat, you are special.

00:21:41.000 And the rules do not apply to you.

00:21:42.000 If you were protesting for Black Lives Matter and spitting all over other people, COVID didn't apply to you because it's a woke virus. 0.98

00:21:47.000 If you're a Democratic elected official, it doesn't apply to you. 0.92

00:21:50.000 If, however, your last name is Trump, then you are actually the creator of the virus.

00:21:54.000 You are the person who wants the virus to spread.

00:21:56.000 If you're a governor around Los Angeles and Florida, you are to blame for the virus's spread.

00:21:59.000 It doesn't matter that right now the per capita rates in Florida are way below most other states at the top of that chart.

00:22:07.000 Okay, but doesn't matter.

00:22:08.000 Ron DeSantis is bad. 0.98

00:22:09.000 Trump is bad. 0.99

00:22:10.000 Kristi Noem is bad. 0.70

00:22:11.000 All the Democrats who put in place these rules and then ignore them, those are good. 0.59

00:22:14.000 Those are good Democrats.

00:22:16.000 And it's all of them.

00:22:17.000 It's all of them.

00:22:18.000 Remember, Andrew Cuomo, the greatest governor in all the land.

00:22:22.000 Governor of New York.

00:22:23.000 Captain American Crisis Leadership Man.

00:22:26.000 COVID-19 shipped the elderly people back in the nursing homes with COVID.

00:22:29.000 That 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.

00:22:36.000 That is the intergenerational kind of gathering that we have been told not to pursue during Thanksgiving.

00:22:41.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo.

00:22:43.000 The story is my mom is going to come up and two of my girls is the current plan. 1.00

00:22:53.000 But the plans change.

00:22:56.000 Um, but that's my plan.

00:22:59.000 And then it was whoopsie doodle, right?

00:23:01.000 You know what?

00:23:01.000 Then it was whoopsie.

00:23:02.000 My plan is we've changed our plans.

00:23:04.000 We're not doing that anymore.

00:23:05.000 You'll remember Mayor Lori Lightfoot from Chicago, the woman who suggested after the election that science was back, science was back.

00:23:13.000 Remember that Lori Lightfoot went out to get her hair done in the middle of the pandemic.

00:23:17.000 And then she was asked about it.

00:23:18.000 And she's like, you know, it's an essential service that I get a haircut because I'm special.

00:23:22.000 I mean, first of all, whoever does her hair doesn't do a great job.

00:23:25.000 But beyond that, I'm pretty sure that's not an essential service.

00:23:28.000 Here was Mayor Lori Lightfoot defending her own violation of her quarantine rules. 1.00

00:23:31.000 I'm the public face of this city.

00:23:34.000 I'm on national media and I'm out in the public eye.

00:23:38.000 And, you know, I'm a person who I take my personal hygiene very seriously.

00:23:44.000 As I said, I felt like I needed to have a haircut.

00:23:48.000 I'm not able to do that myself.

00:23:49.000 And so I got a haircut.

00:23:51.000 First of all, if she has a Black and Decker cordless saw, she could do that haircut.

00:23:55.000 OK, but not that I'm a stylist, but that that is not like Jennifer Aniston hair circa 1997.

00:24:04.000 OK, not a lot of fancy stuff going on with that hair, but that was an essential service because she's special.

00:24:09.000 Bill de Blasio was so special.

00:24:10.000 He could go to the gym like to the YMCA just hours ahead of the New York coronavirus shutdown early on.

00:24:15.000 The rules only apply to people who are not Who are not these people. 0.99

00:24:19.000 The specials don't have to follow the rules.

00:24:21.000 And then people wonder, well why aren't you following the rules?

00:24:23.000 Because you know what?

00:24:25.000 None of these people are better than I am.

00:24:26.000 And they certainly ain't smarter than I am.

00:24:28.000 So guess what?

00:24:28.000 I'm going to follow reason.

00:24:30.000 I'm going to follow logic.

00:24:31.000 I'm going to take precautions I should be taking.

00:24:33.000 And I trust other Americans to do the same.

00:24:34.000 Because that's the nature of freedom.

00:24:36.000 Not that you get to run around spitting in everybody's face, but that you get to exercise your own reason so long as you are not threatening others.

00:24:42.000 End of story.

00:24:44.000 And we'll get to more of this in just one second because the media coverage on this stuff is just egregious as always, as always.

00:24:48.000 We'll get to more of it in a second.

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00:25:55.000 Okay, so as always, the media coverage on this stuff is absolutely egregious.

00:25:59.000 All you see is the top line stats, right?

00:26:01.000 The number of deaths, the number of cases, right?

00:26:04.000 They will not tell you how many cases have been diagnosed versus how many asymptomatics are walking around. 0.99

00:26:10.000 They will not tell you the striation in terms of the public health risk per population.

00:26:14.000 And the answer is, unless you have a fairly significant underlying condition, COVID is not Supremely deadly for you.

00:26:20.000 It is slightly more deadly than the flu if you are healthy, but even then it depends on the age striation.

00:26:26.000 If 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.

00:26:35.000 If 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.

00:26:42.000 The vast majority of people who have died of this thing have a significant underlying condition.

00:26:46.000 Johns Hopkins University did a study.

00:26:48.000 What 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.

00:27:08.000 Okay, what does that mean?

00:27:09.000 It 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.

00:27:14.000 But 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.

00:27:22.000 That's why I haven't been robustly anti-masking, particularly when you are in close quarters with other people.

00:27:28.000 But 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.

00:27:34.000 The answer is no!

00:27:36.000 It doesn't have to be this way.

00:27:37.000 People can be reasonable.

00:27:38.000 I've talked about this before.

00:27:40.000 So 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.

00:27:49.000 They'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.

00:27:53.000 And then you come over to Florida and Florida is basically like, listen, Use your own rational.

00:28:00.000 Use your own rationality.

00:28:02.000 Use reason.

00:28:03.000 And you know what?

00:28:03.000 We are using reason.

00:28:05.000 Okay?

00:28:05.000 If I want to eat outdoors with my family, I will eat outdoors with my family.

00:28:09.000 If I want to get together with others and socially distance, I will do that.

00:28:13.000 We recently got together with the rabbi of my synagogue.

00:28:15.000 The rabbi of my synagogue happens to have an underlying condition.

00:28:19.000 We sat very far apart outside and we talked and it was great.

00:28:23.000 Because guess what?

00:28:24.000 People have brains.

00:28:27.000 This does go to liberal versus conservative.

00:28:28.000 A lot of people have wondered, why is it that lockdown orders in the United States have broken down left versus right?

00:28:32.000 Because actually what you see all over the world Is that it has broken down in reverse in some areas, right?

00:28:38.000 Is the left in Israel that is protesting against Benjamin Netanyahu's lockdown orders?

00:28:42.000 Netanyahu is of the right.

00:28:43.000 You'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.

00:28:49.000 So why is it such a left-right issue in the United States?

00:28:51.000 And 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.

00:29:05.000 And 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.

00:29:13.000 We'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.

00:29:21.000 That is a basic conservative position.

00:29:25.000 Okay, then there is the left-wing position, which is we don't trust the people to do anything.

00:29:28.000 We can run your life better than you can.

00:29:30.000 The rules don't apply to us, because we're smart. 1.00

00:29:31.000 But 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. 0.99

00:29:39.000 That's why it's become a left-right issue in the United States. 1.00

00:29:40.000 It didn't have to be a left-right issue in the United States.

00:29:42.000 There was a happy medium.

00:29:44.000 The happy medium tended to be more liberty oriented.

00:29:47.000 But the left has decided that liberty itself is the challenge.

00:29:49.000 I 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.

00:29:58.000 Well...

00:29:59.000 That's weird, because about a million and a half people have died worldwide.

00:30:03.000 Also, 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.

00:30:12.000 And what you really want more than anything is just control.

00:30:15.000 And there is this sort of paganistic aspect to so much of how people are thinking about COVID-19.

00:30:20.000 The most obvious example of this I can think of, Prince Harry yesterday. 0.97

00:30:24.000 He's a nut.

00:30:25.000 Okay, so, he said in a recent interview for WaterBear, a streaming platform dedicated to environmental documentaries, which is just, I mean, riveting stuff. 0.83

00:30:34.000 Can't wait to subscribe to WaterBear and watch a documentary about the salmon swimming upstream.

00:30:38.000 That's gonna be some stellar material.

00:30:40.000 Prince 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.

00:30:49.000 Lit.

00:30:50.000 Okay.

00:30:51.000 He said, at the end of the day, nature is our life source.

00:30:54.000 Wow.

00:30:55.000 Tell me next that people need water to survive and air to breathe.

00:30:58.000 Yes, this is true.

00:30:59.000 Now, this is my favorite part.

00:31:00.000 Here he goes.

00:31:00.000 He 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.

00:31:11.000 Um, that is just paganistic crap right there. 0.85

00:31:14.000 Why do you perform a human sacrifice to Mother Nature there, Harry? 0.98

00:31:17.000 So Mother Nature apparently is... Mother Nature is sentient. 0.51

00:31:20.000 And this is the party of... These are the people of science.

00:31:22.000 The people of science, right?

00:31:23.000 Follow the science.

00:31:24.000 Also, Mother Nature is angry at us.

00:31:28.000 Right, the pandemic is angry at us.

00:31:30.000 So presumably, if we perform some sort of propitiation ritual, then the gods will alleviate our horrifying condition, and all of this will go away.

00:31:40.000 Thanks, Prince Harry.

00:31:41.000 Really appreciate it.

00:31:42.000 And the media treat it the exact same way.

00:31:44.000 They treat it the exact same way.

00:31:46.000 Here's an example.

00:31:47.000 Christy Noem.

00:31:48.000 They're now doing to Christy Noem what they tried to do to Ron DeSantis very early on.

00:31:51.000 So, very early on, the talk was, Ron DeSantis killing millions in Florida. 0.99

00:31:55.000 They had this idiot who was walking around wearing, like, a death costume on the beaches in Jacksonville. 0.99

00:32:02.000 Where, by the way, I'm not aware there were any diagnosed cases spread on the beaches in Jacksonville. 1.00

00:32:05.000 He was walking around in, like, a Grim Reaper costume telling people to socially distance.

00:32:09.000 He was a lawyer, which says a lot for my industry.

00:32:12.000 And, um, Ron DeSantis was, of course, the font head of death.

00:32:15.000 And we got headlines from the Atlantic about how Brian Kemp in Georgia, he was performing an experiment in human sacrifice.

00:32:21.000 That was an actual headline in the Atlantic.

00:32:23.000 Georgia's experiment in human sacrifice. 0.84

00:32:25.000 Didn't happen.

00:32:27.000 Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo up north in New York was doing a fantastic job.

00:32:30.000 Well, now they are doing the same thing to Kristi Noem.

00:32:33.000 So, Kristi Noem is super-duper-pooper-scooper bad. 1.00

00:32:35.000 She's awful, awful, awful. 1.00

00:32:37.000 She's so awful, she kills her own grandmother, according to the Daily Beast. 0.99

00:32:40.000 Now, there's only one problem. 0.86

00:32:41.000 Kristi Noem's grandmother did not, in fact, die of COVID.

00:32:44.000 Not only that, Kristi Noem in South Dakota has not prevented people from protecting nursing homes.

00:32:49.000 The entire premise of this piece, however, is she doesn't care if her own grandmother died of not COVID.

00:32:54.000 I'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.

00:33:10.000 I mean, sure, Stalin has his Dasha, and it's a really nice Dasha, like, out in the woods. 0.51

00:33:15.000 It's really fantastic.

00:33:16.000 And sure, everybody else is super poor, but it's the system that matters, and that system is bringing equality and justice.

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00:36:19.000 So as I'm mentioning, the media have been going hard after Kristi Noem.

00:36:27.000 Why?

00:36:28.000 Well, because she is a very good governor. 1.00

00:36:30.000 She's very effective.

00:36:31.000 She's very charismatic.

00:36:32.000 And obviously she's a very good looking woman. 1.00

00:36:34.000 And 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.

00:36:43.000 Maybe even if he does in 2024.

00:36:45.000 Okay, so here is the Daily Beast take on Kristi Noem, right?

00:36:48.000 She's in the new face of the villainous crew. 1.00

00:36:50.000 Before, it's always Republican governors, you've noticed.

00:36:52.000 Have you noticed, right?

00:36:53.000 It's Ron DeSantis, or Greg Abbott, or perhaps Brian Kemp in Georgia. 0.99

00:36:57.000 Meanwhile, Governor Gavin Newsom in California, who's doing a crappy job, or Andrew Cuomo, who's doing crap. 0.99

00:37:02.000 Amazing. 0.95

00:37:02.000 Amazing at their jobs. 0.95

00:37:04.000 Okay, so Kristi Noem is the new villainess of the day. 0.55

00:37:06.000 This is the worst story ever.

00:37:08.000 Okay, you ready?

00:37:08.000 Anti-mask gov's grandmother died in nursing home, ravaged by COVID.

00:37:12.000 Now, 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?

00:37:17.000 Right, isn't that the idea of the headline?

00:37:20.000 Especially 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. 1.00

00:37:29.000 And I'm gonna read you the story, and as you'll see, not a single fact in this story backs up the headline contention.

00:37:35.000 It turns out grandma did not die of COVID.

00:37:37.000 It turns out the nursing home in which grandma lived was not infected due to lack of a mask mandate.

00:37:41.000 It turns out they took serious precautions in the state of South Dakota, particularly with regard to nursing homes.

00:37:46.000 Doesn't matter.

00:37:46.000 Kristi Noem's bad.

00:37:47.000 And she's bad, and we're going to rip on her because Grandma died. 1.00

00:37:50.000 That's how evil and disgusting many of our legacy media are. 0.98

00:37:54.000 The 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. 0.97

00:38:05.000 The 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. 0.96

00:38:12.000 Why are we talking about how she died of COVID when she didn't actually die of COVID?

00:38:16.000 Okay, so now you'd say, okay, well it sounds like if there'd been a mask mandate, then everything would have been fine.

00:38:20.000 nursing home are described by the administrator Mike Ward as COVID related.

00:38:24.000 All but one, Ward told the Daily Beast.

00:38:25.000 But one less is still a dozen COVID deaths in a short period in one small facility.

00:38:29.000 The number makes clear the lunacy of Nome's downplaying of the pandemic and her continued refusal to impose a statewide mask mandate.

00:38:35.000 Okay, so now you'd say, okay, well, it sounds like if there'd been a mask mandate, then everything would have been fine.

00:38:39.000 Nope.

00:38:42.000 And 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.

00:38:51.000 But the report from Estaline Nursing Homes, in a town of the same name, made clear South Dakotans are anything but safe.

00:38:57.000 Ward confirmed that along with the deaths, all but two of the surviving 38 residents and at least 16 of the staff had tested positive.

00:39:03.000 The 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.

00:39:11.000 None of this is to say that Noem is at all cold-blooded when the lives include one of her own clan.

00:39:15.000 She tweeted a moving tribute to Arnold on November 22nd.

00:39:16.000 November 22nd.

00:39:18.000 We 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.

00:39:24.000 I remember when my dad died, she said to me with tears rolling down her cheeks, children should never die before their parents.

00:39:28.000 I had never seen my grandma die before.

00:39:30.000 Noam's father, Aldous Arnold's son, was killed in a 1994 accident involving farm machinery.

00:39:35.000 Ryan Arnold, Aldous's grandson and Noam's cousin, died in 2010 of surgical complications after donating part of his liver to his brother.

00:39:43.000 And she talked about her grandmother and how wonderful she was.

00:39:45.000 For Gnome to have mentioned the dozen other dead would have raised the specter of the virus that killed them.

00:39:49.000 Even as she was continuing to claim she had brought it under control by invoking personal responsibility rather than mandating a vital precaution.

00:39:55.000 Again, mask mandates have been tried in Germany.

00:39:57.000 Boom.

00:39:58.000 Spike. 0.95

00:39:58.000 Italy. 0.95

00:39:58.000 Spike. 0.95

00:39:59.000 UK.

00:39:59.000 Spike.

00:40:00.000 France.

00:40:00.000 Spike.

00:40:02.000 The idea that mask mandates are the cure-all is idiocy. 1.00

00:40:04.000 It is not backed by the evidence. 0.98

00:40:07.000 This is not to say you should not wear a mask.

00:40:09.000 You should be reasonable for the 1,000th time this show and the 1,000,000th time since the pandemic began.

00:40:15.000 But 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. 0.54

00:40:22.000 Now, here's the best part.

00:40:23.000 Okay, so, they start off with the assumption that her grandmother died of COVID.

00:40:26.000 Then, within the first two paragraphs, it turns out grandma didn't die of COVID.

00:40:29.000 Then, the next assumption is, well, she must have blown it somehow with regard to policy at the nursing home, right?

00:40:33.000 I mean, after all, the entire article is predicated on her not caring about the elderly in her own state.

00:40:39.000 Whoops.

00:40:39.000 Here we go.

00:40:40.000 Nobody could rightly blame the nursing home itself for failing to protect its residents as best it could.

00:40:44.000 State and federal inspectors had consistently given the home their highest ratings.

00:40:48.000 Its record is unblemished by so much as a serious single violation.

00:40:52.000 The 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.

00:41:02.000 Applin'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.

00:41:09.000 Visitors and residents were kept separated.

00:41:11.000 But through the plastic, Herold could see that Applin was continuing to thrive since moving into the home in June.

00:41:16.000 Then, 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.

00:41:28.000 Okay, so there's no evidence that the person even got it at the bike rally.

00:41:32.000 We have no idea where the person who got it got it.

00:41:34.000 Lots of people have been getting it in New York, in California.

00:41:36.000 California's experiencing a massive surge right now.

00:41:39.000 Okay, 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.

00:41:48.000 That's the Daily Beast's idea. 0.76

00:41:49.000 I mean, I'm sorry, this is ridiculous. 0.97

00:41:54.000 It's ridiculous on its face. 0.90

00:41:56.000 But this is the way that the media are going to cover this stuff. 0.97

00:41:58.000 You can break whatever rules you damn well please if you're a Democrat.

00:42:01.000 And if you are a Republican, then you don't have to break any rules.

00:42:05.000 In fact, you can try to protect the elderly.

00:42:07.000 In fact, they will blame you for everything.

00:42:10.000 They'll blame you for a grandmother who didn't die of COVID in a facility that was basically wrapping people in bubbles.

00:42:16.000 It's unbelievable.

00:42:17.000 Except it's all too believable, of course.

00:42:20.000 Okay, meanwhile, Barack Obama has come out and he says that he's gonna take the vaccine on national TV.

00:42:25.000 There are three ex-presidents, actually, who have said that they are going to take the vaccine on national TV.

00:42:29.000 George 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.

00:42:34.000 That is a good thing.

00:42:35.000 Little late here.

00:42:37.000 President Obama.

00:42:38.000 Just gonna note that.

00:42:39.000 Kamala Harris spent half of the presidential race suggesting that she would not take the vaccine if it was approved by Trump. 0.93

00:42:44.000 Here is Barack Obama now walking that back.

00:42:46.000 I'm glad he's walking it back.

00:42:47.000 By the way, you want to hear more about vaccines, take a listen to Knowles' show today.

00:42:49.000 He talks at length about the vaccines.

00:42:51.000 Here is Obama.

00:42:53.000 If you're a first responder, you should take that vaccine.

00:42:58.000 And 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.

00:43:21.000 I wish that the Democrats would have said that back during the summer when they were all saying they would not, right?

00:43:25.000 Andrew 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.

00:43:34.000 So thanks for intervening on that, President Obama, now.

00:43:37.000 Right when it's not all that useful, I really very much appreciate it.

00:43:42.000 More seriously, I am glad that he is doing it.

00:43:44.000 I'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.

00:43:50.000 Okay, speaking of the election, there's still some remaining lawsuits that are outstanding around the country.

00:43:54.000 There's a good rundown by Joel Pollack over at Breitbart on this.

00:43:58.000 So 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.

00:44:05.000 Observers were not able to verify the ballots being counted.

00:44:08.000 A 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.

00:44:20.000 In Georgia, the only live lawsuit, there are a couple live lawsuits.

00:44:23.000 One is from Sidney Powell, claiming bizarre things about Dominion that have yet to be proved in any serious way.

00:44:29.000 As we will see, Sidney Powell, things are starting to collapse real fast for Sidney Powell and for Lynn Wood.

00:44:35.000 These are the two sort of rogue lawyers who are out there filing lawsuits.

00:44:39.000 Meanwhile 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.

00:44:50.000 It's unlikely that that is going to succeed in Michigan.

00:44:53.000 Powell has a suit, so does the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society.

00:44:56.000 They 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.

00:45:04.000 Again, 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.

00:45:10.000 In 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.

00:45:21.000 The lawsuit claims a flood of mail-in ballots Officials in Clark County used electronic verification methods that are allegedly unreliable.

00:45:29.000 But 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.

00:45:35.000 There are a couple of cases that are currently active in Pennsylvania.

00:45:38.000 One particularly comes with regard to the expansion of mail-in voting, which is unconstitutional.

00:45:45.000 It kind of looks like facially under the Pennsylvania state constitution.

00:45:48.000 The problem is the remedy is unlikely to be provided by the federal judiciary because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court didn't provide it.

00:45:53.000 It's a state issue.

00:45:54.000 And 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.

00:46:04.000 In Wisconsin, there's a lawsuit by the Amos Center for Justice and Liberty.

00:46:07.000 It 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.

00:46:13.000 There'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.

00:46:22.000 None of this is to suggest, of course, that voter fraud and voter irregularity aren't real.

00:46:25.000 I think they're very real, and we've seen proof of some of it in this election, for sure.

00:46:29.000 President Trump gave a 46-minute speech last night talking about how our system is under siege.

00:46:33.000 He repeated a lot of the claims that his people have been making all over the country.

00:46:36.000 Here was President Trump last night.

00:46:58.000 I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the Constitution of the United States.

00:47:04.000 That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege.

00:47:12.000 Okay, so part of this is not court cases.

00:47:16.000 Again, as I've been saying from the beginning, the legal process is going to be basically through the courts.

00:47:21.000 And 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.

00:47:35.000 And some of these people are pretty compelling.

00:47:36.000 Actually, there was an Indian woman last night, as in from India or of Indian extraction.

00:47:43.000 And she testified last night in Michigan.

00:47:45.000 She'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.

00:48:00.000 I mean, there's been some evidence that's been brought forth here, and all of these allegations should be investigated.

00:48:05.000 Probably the most bombshell allegation was brought forth by a truck driver named Jesse Morgan.

00:48:09.000 He was testifying in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, I believe this was.

00:48:14.000 Actually, he did this at a presser in Arlington, Virginia, rather.

00:48:17.000 And 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.

00:48:23.000 He was suggesting that these were fraudulent ballots that were eventually not counted.

00:48:27.000 Again, it would be good to get some support for these affidavits.

00:48:29.000 Just 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.

00:48:35.000 There are lots of people who file affidavits that are not, in fact, correct.

00:48:38.000 I believe Christine Blasey Ford made allegations that were not substantiated with regard to Justice Kavanaugh.

00:48:43.000 But should this be investigated?

00:48:44.000 Absolutely.

00:48:45.000 Here is this truck driver.

00:48:47.000 I know I saw ballots with return addresses filled out.

00:48:51.000 Thousands of them.

00:48:52.000 Thousands.

00:48:56.000 Loaded onto my trailer in New York and headed for Pennsylvania.

00:49:01.000 At first, I didn't think it was a big deal.

00:49:05.000 But as things became weirder, I got to thinking and wondered why I was driving complete ballots from New York to Pennsylvania.

00:49:16.000 So 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.

00:49:26.000 So 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. 0.94

00:49:38.000 They called on Brian Kemp to resign, and they urged Republicans not to show up and vote in the Georgia Senate elections.

00:49:43.000 That's insane.

00:49:44.000 Okay, 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. 0.81

00:49:51.000 That's crazy.

00:49:52.000 So you're gonna allow Raphael Warnock to take that Senate seat and Jon Ossoff to take that Senate seat? 1.00

00:49:56.000 Are you out of your damned mind? 1.00

00:49:58.000 Are you crazy? 1.00

00:50:00.000 So your solution to Democrats, in your view, stealing an election, is to allow them to take control of the Senate? 0.98

00:50:05.000 That is your solution? 0.94

00:50:07.000 Hey, here were Linwood and Sidney Powell demonstrating full-scale there being crazy people.

00:50:11.000 Until Brian Kemp comes out and orders a special session of the Georgia legislature.

00:50:17.000 Get us our legislature and tell everybody we want our legislator to meet and we want him to fix the mess that he created.

00:50:27.000 And then he can resign.

00:50:28.000 They've got to demand publicly, repeatedly, consistently, Brian Kemp call a special session of the Georgia legislature.

00:50:40.000 And if they do not do it, if Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue do not do it, they have not earned your vote.

00:50:50.000 Don't you give it to them.

00:50:52.000 So, excuse me?

00:50:54.000 Don'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?

00:51:04.000 So your solution is to put Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff in the Senate.

00:51:07.000 And 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.

00:51:18.000 He 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.

00:51:26.000 Also, apparently, he has given money to a wide variety of Democrats.

00:51:29.000 Apparently, he worked with Stacey Evans, a Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate, in 2017.

00:51:38.000 He gave her nearly $13,000.

00:51:41.000 Evans would go on to lose to Stacey Abrams in that gubernatorial primary.

00:51:47.000 Wood 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.

00:51:56.000 He also gave money to Senator Jason Carter, a Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia in 2014.

00:52:03.000 He's donated to basically a bunch of Democrats, Lin Wood, and now he's calling Shocker of Shockers.

00:52:08.000 He's now calling Genius move.

00:52:10.000 Genius move.

00:52:16.000 By the way, you know who disagrees with this?

00:52:17.000 President Trump.

00:52:17.000 Trump said, we have to work hard for Senator Perdue and Senator Loeffler.

00:52:21.000 And 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.

00:52:27.000 They're fantastic people who love their country and love their state.

00:52:29.000 We must work hard and be sure they win.

00:52:31.000 That of course is exactly correct. 1.00

00:52:33.000 So 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. 1.00

00:52:46.000 He says that America is inherently racist. 1.00

00:52:49.000 He has praised Jeremiah Wright.

00:52:52.000 He did youth events for Castro when he came to his youth church or something back in the 90s.

00:52:57.000 You 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.

00:53:03.000 and now walks around parroting Bernie Sanders?

00:53:06.000 You want that in the Senate because you're mad about what happened in Georgia? 1.00

00:53:08.000 That's about the dumbest thing you could do. 0.97

00:53:10.000 Okay, meanwhile, The media continue to fluff Joe Biden. 0.98

00:53:15.000 So Jimmy Kimmel, doing his best to fluff Joe Biden, he says, you know what?

00:53:19.000 It's going to be such a boring four years, guys.

00:53:21.000 It's going to be so boring.

00:53:22.000 This is the media's line.

00:53:23.000 When a Democrat is in office, there's nothing to cover and nothing to laugh about.

00:53:25.000 We can't even make jokes.

00:53:27.000 And Chris Rock once said that you literally could not make jokes about Barack Obama because of his godlike veneer.

00:53:31.000 There was just no way to make jokes about him.

00:53:33.000 He was inherently unfunny. 0.99

00:53:35.000 And 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. 0.99

00:53:45.000 That guy's not funny. 0.99

00:53:46.000 It's just gonna be a boring four years, guys, says Jimmy Kimmel.

00:53:48.000 Weird, because I noticed that you weren't very bored the last four years.

00:53:52.000 Maybe that's Trump, and maybe that ain't.

00:53:53.000 I'm gonna go with it ain't.

00:53:54.000 Here's Jimmy Kimmel.

00:53:56.000 Our president-elect was out and about today showing off his brand new orthopedic boot.

00:54:00.000 Mr. President-elect, how does your foot feel?

00:54:07.000 How's your foot?

00:54:09.000 Good.

00:54:14.000 Thanks, Boniva.

00:54:16.000 It's going to be a very boring four years.

00:54:21.000 Yeah.

00:54:22.000 And then there's your media asking tough questions like, how does your foot feel, Joe Biden?

00:54:25.000 Solid.

00:54:26.000 So how do you think his foot feels?

00:54:26.000 He's wearing a boot.

00:54:28.000 Yeah, it feels fantastic.

00:54:29.000 Bob, everything's great.

00:54:31.000 Solid stuff right there.

00:54:32.000 Meanwhile, Politico honing in on the things that matter with regard to Joe Biden's picks. 0.94

00:54:37.000 So, I gotta say, the left is so racist. 0.99

00:54:40.000 The left is so unbelievably racist. 0.99

00:54:42.000 They see other people simply in terms of their essentialist racist characteristics. 0.98

00:54:47.000 It's incredible.

00:54:48.000 It's incredible.

00:54:50.000 Okay, so there's an article in Politico.

00:54:52.000 It's called Lawmakers to Biden.

00:54:53.000 Step it up on cabinet diversity.

00:54:56.000 The next administration will feature a number of historic firsts, but lawmakers and advocates of color are pushing for more.

00:55:02.000 This is a reported piece that took three reporters from Politico to put together.

00:55:06.000 Megan Casella, Laura Baron Lopez, and Alice Miranda Olsteen.

00:55:10.000 A very diverse group because they're all women, as the media would put it. 1.00

00:55:13.000 Here'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.

00:55:24.000 Okay, so let me just note right off the top that that's a horrible way to describe human beings.

00:55:29.000 Is it not?

00:55:31.000 You 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.

00:55:41.000 You describe them simply by their racial characteristics.

00:55:44.000 You know, things that they have had since they were born.

00:55:46.000 It's like a Benetton ad. 0.99

00:55:48.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:55:50.000 The faces of the economic team included a black woman, a man born in Nigeria, an Indian American woman, and just one white man. 0.97

00:55:56.000 I mean, so basically we are now just picking faces from a catalog.

00:56:03.000 Remember 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?

00:56:08.000 And the left was like, that's terrible!

00:56:09.000 How could he do that?

00:56:11.000 Well now, Politico is literally just running down Joe Biden's picks by noting their races and their sexes and presumably their sexual orientations.

00:56:21.000 And I love this, the response from Asian American, Black, and Latino Democrats.

00:56:23.000 It's not enough.

00:56:24.000 Who thinks like this?

00:56:25.000 Seriously, who thinks like this?

00:56:27.000 I find this stuff so irritating.

00:56:29.000 As 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.

00:56:37.000 As 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. 0.98

00:56:48.000 It's a ridiculous contention! 0.98

00:56:50.000 Why would you? 0.99

00:56:51.000 What the hell does that have to do with anything?

00:56:53.000 Is it the genetics of having a Jewish mother that matter here?

00:56:56.000 Or is it qualifications?

00:56:57.000 Like, what are you talking about right here?

00:56:59.000 But according to Politico, they want more representation, particularly in the cabinet.

00:57:02.000 And 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.

00:57:14.000 Texas Representative Vincente Gonzalez, he said, we're very, very concerned as a community, as a Latino community.

00:57:19.000 He called last week for at least five Latinos to be appointed to cabinet-level positions.

00:57:22.000 It doesn't matter which ones they are, presumably.

00:57:25.000 Just as long as they are Latino. 1.00

00:57:26.000 Which is crazy!

00:57:28.000 Is there such a thing as, like, a Latino interest?

00:57:31.000 Seriously, there's a Latino perspective on the world. 1.00

00:57:34.000 There's a Black perspective.

00:57:35.000 You know who agrees with this? 0.98

00:57:36.000 Racists. 0.99

00:57:37.000 Like actual, honest to God, neo-Nazis and alt-white racists believe this. 0.99

00:57:41.000 And apparently the Democratic Party. 0.94

00:57:43.000 This is mainstream.

00:57:44.000 Asian 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.

00:57:55.000 They're growing increasingly convinced the president-elect will not match Barack Obama's total of three Asian-Americans in his first cabinet.

00:58:01.000 Meanwhile, 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. 1.00

00:58:10.000 I'm sorry, this is the stupidest, most racist crap ever. 1.00

00:58:14.000 Ever. 1.00

00:58:14.000 It is so stupid and so racist. 1.00

00:58:16.000 And the fact that everybody is just like, oh, this is, you know, that's, it's important, guys. 1.00

00:58:19.000 It's really important.

00:58:20.000 The skin color of the people you are selecting.

00:58:23.000 Now, you know what seems more important to me?

00:58:24.000 The character of the people being selected by Joe Biden.

00:58:27.000 So, 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.

00:58:41.000 But she's a woman, so I guess it's okay.

00:58:42.000 Right, that's the way that works, apparently.

00:58:44.000 A 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.

00:58:58.000 Claudia 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.

00:59:10.000 She wrote that after her experience, I learned that Heather's abusive behavior was a pattern. 1.00

00:59:15.000 Former subordinates and employees have alleged that Bushi was quote phenomenally incompetent as a manager and had frequent episodes of yelling and swearing.

00:59:22.000 The 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.

00:59:30.000 So, good times, good times.

00:59:32.000 But the important thing is she's a woman.

00:59:34.000 I mean, that's really what we should focus in on.

00:59:36.000 Because it's the diversity that matters right here.

00:59:39.000 That is serious diversity that matters.

00:59:43.000 We need a woman even if she is abusive to people. 1.00

00:59:46.000 So really, really good stuff.

00:59:48.000 Okay, meanwhile, war is breaking out inside the Democratic Party over the direction of the Democratic Party.

00:59:54.000 It was initiated by Barack Obama, who, oddly enough, was not actually cutting against the progressives.

00:59:58.000 See, the real debate inside the Democratic Party is truly not over the future of the direction of policy.

01:00:04.000 It isn't.

01:00:05.000 I know there's some Democrats who believe that it is, like Joe Manchin, I think, believes that it is.

01:00:09.000 I 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. 0.96

01:00:17.000 By the way, Ilhan Omar tweeted out yesterday that we should cancel all rent and mortgage payments, which is pretty much the stupidest thing ever. 0.97

01:00:22.000 She then tweeted out an article pointing out how stupid it was because she didn't even read the article. 0.94

01:00:27.000 The 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. 0.96

01:00:34.000 Banks 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.

01:00:44.000 Okay, but The debate inside the Democratic Party is very rarely between sort of honest-to-God moderates.

01:00:52.000 You know, people like Abigail Spanberger in Virginia or Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania.

01:00:56.000 It's usually not that.

01:00:57.000 Usually, and this is the peculiar self-obsession of many of the Democrats, it's about how we approach the issue.

01:01:04.000 It's not that we're wrong. 1.00

01:01:05.000 It's that the American people are too stupid. 1.00

01:01:07.000 So, Barack Obama being raked over the coals because progressives are mad that he said that defund the police is a bad slogan. 1.00

01:01:15.000 Now, defund the police happens to be an unbelievably crappy slogan. 0.65

01:01:17.000 It also happens to be a terrible policy.

01:01:19.000 Police departments need more money right now.

01:01:22.000 Police departments should not be defunded right now.

01:01:25.000 You're seeing skyrocketing murder rates in major cities across the United States.

01:01:30.000 We are seeing massive increases in carjackings in Minneapolis.

01:01:34.000 According to Hot Air, carjackings are up 537%.

01:01:39.000 537%.

01:01:41.000 Over 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.

01:01:55.000 According 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.

01:02:04.000 Such attacks are up 537% this month when compared with last November.

01:02:10.000 Okay, 537%.

01:02:11.000 I wonder how this could have happened.

01:02:13.000 Could it be because the city council has voted to basically defund the police?

01:02:17.000 It's a bad policy.

01:02:18.000 But according to Barack Obama, it's not that it's a bad policy, it's that it's phrased badly. 1.00

01:02:21.000 Because you see, according to Barack Obama, every single stupid thing he thinks is actually a wonderful thing he thinks. 1.00

01:02:27.000 It's just you are too stupid to understand him. 1.00

01:02:28.000 Okay, but the left is also too stupid to understand him. 1.00

01:02:32.000 So instead of them being like, you know, maybe Barack's right. 1.00

01:02:34.000 Maybe we could sell.

01:02:36.000 The real debate in the Democratic Party ain't over the ends.

01:02:43.000 It is only over the means.

01:02:45.000 Here's Barack Obama.

01:02:46.000 And people on the right who are falling for this say, Oh, well, you know, Obama's moderate.

01:02:49.000 He's against defunding the police.

01:02:50.000 No, he's not.

01:02:51.000 He's in favor of defunding the police.

01:02:53.000 He 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.

01:03:03.000 He's not a moderate.

01:03:04.000 But here is Barack Obama saying defund the police is a bad slogan.

01:03:07.000 And then, of course, he gets clubbed about the ears by the squad.

01:03:10.000 If 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.

01:03:31.000 The 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?

01:03:38.000 Right, so at the very end, that's the party saying, right, do you want to get something done?

01:03:40.000 Or do you want to feel good?

01:03:42.000 And the progressive left, they're like, we want to feel good!

01:03:46.000 That's their answer.

01:03:47.000 And the best exchange of the last week was Joe Manchin. 1.00

01:03:52.000 He said to find the police was a stupid idea. 0.99

01:03:53.000 And AOC was like, she tweeted out a picture of herself like glaring at him during the State of the Union address last year. 0.99

01:04:01.000 And 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. 0.74

01:04:10.000 And AOC was like, that's not true!

01:04:12.000 I do hard legislative work!

01:04:13.000 And then the next day she put out a bunch of t-shirts for $58 on her website.

01:04:17.000 I'm not joking.

01:04:18.000 That's a serious thing that happened.

01:04:19.000 But the progressives are angry with Obama. 1.00

01:04:22.000 And this is the nature of the dumbest... Our politics is so, as always, unbelievably, unbelievably stupid. 1.00

01:04:28.000 So you have idiots on the right who are like, Barack Obama's a moderate. 1.00

01:04:30.000 He said don't defund the police. 1.00

01:04:31.000 That's not what he said.

01:04:32.000 He said defund the police, just call it something else. 1.00

01:04:34.000 And then you have the idiots on the progressive left, and they're like, he said don't defund the police! 1.00

01:04:38.000 And we want to say defund the police! 1.00

01:04:41.000 So, you ended up with Ilhan Omar.

01:04:43.000 Genius Ilhan Omar tweeting out, we lose people in the hands of police.

01:04:47.000 It's not a slogan, but a policy demand.

01:04:49.000 And censoring the demand for equitable investments in budgets for communities across the country gets us progress and safety.

01:04:55.000 It's not a slogan, it's a policy demand to defund the police.

01:04:59.000 And then she proceeds to explain it without using the words, defund the police.

01:05:03.000 We lose people in the hands of police.

01:05:05.000 She is from Minneapolis.

01:05:07.000 The carjackings are 537% year on year.

01:05:11.000 We lose people in the hands of police.

01:05:13.000 Other members of the squad were similarly mad.

01:05:15.000 Rashida Tlaib, again, it's the anti-Semitic geniuses of the squad. 1.00

01:05:21.000 She tweeted, quote, Rosa Parks was vilified and attacked for her civil disobedience. 0.88

01:05:25.000 My favorite thing about the squad and Obama, really, it's all the same when it comes to the arrogance, right?

01:05:30.000 They are all transformational figures in their own mind.

01:05:32.000 So here is Rashida Tlaib comparing herself to Rosa Parks. 1.00

01:05:36.000 Rosa Parks was vilified and attacked for her civil disobedience.

01:05:38.000 She was targeted.

01:05:39.000 It'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.

01:05:48.000 Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, she tweeted, The murders of generations of unarmed black folks by police have been horrific.

01:05:54.000 Lives are at stake daily, so I'm out of patience with critiques of the language of activists.

01:05:58.000 Whatever a grieving family says is their truth, and I'll never stop fighting for their justice and healing.

01:06:04.000 And then you have Cori Bush of Missouri, right, a new adjunct member of the squad.

01:06:08.000 At some point, she'll earn her senior assistant, or her senior associate membership.

01:06:12.000 She says, with all due respect, Mr. President, Let's talk about losing people.

01:06:16.000 We lost Michael Brown.

01:06:18.000 You didn't lose Michael Brown.

01:06:19.000 Michael Brown attacked a police officer and tried to shoot him with his own gun in his car.

01:06:23.000 We lost Breonna Taylor.

01:06:24.000 We're losing our loved ones to police violence.

01:06:26.000 It's not a slogan.

01:06:27.000 It's a mandate for keeping our people alive.

01:06:28.000 Defund the police. 0.99

01:06:31.000 Again, 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. 1.00

01:06:37.000 He literally said he likes defunding the police. 1.00

01:06:40.000 He just wants you not to use the slogan.

01:06:43.000 And 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.

01:06:52.000 He is not!

01:06:54.000 He is just trying to hide the ball. 1.00

01:06:56.000 At least Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley and all these jokers, at least these idiots, are actually saying what they think out loud. 1.00

01:07:00.000 Obama's like, say it quietly, guys. 1.00

01:07:02.000 Say it quietly.

01:07:03.000 And they're like, we don't want to say it quietly!

01:07:05.000 You think Obama wants to stop the squad?

01:07:07.000 No, he doesn't want to stop the squad.

01:07:08.000 Here was Obama in that same interview saying that he wants AOC to be given more time at the Democratic National Convention.

01:07:14.000 One thing I will say about the Democratic Party, promoting young people is really important.

01:07:19.000 We stick so long with the same old folks and don't make room for new voices.

01:07:26.000 The 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?

01:07:35.000 Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you.

01:07:38.000 When, 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.

01:07:47.000 OK, yeah, so this guy, yeah, he's the one who's going to put a lid on the radicalism inside the Democratic Party.

01:07:51.000 So here's the deal.

01:07:53.000 Maybe Joe Biden represents sort of the old guard of the Democratic Party.

01:07:56.000 Maybe he's more like Joe Manchin.

01:07:57.000 He actually opposes some of these policy prescriptions.

01:07:59.000 Or maybe he doesn't.

01:08:00.000 But the bottom line is that the momentum is not with him.

01:08:02.000 It is with the squad.

01:08:03.000 It is with the defund the police crowd.

01:08:05.000 They can try to paper it over with these niceties, but that papering is not going to last very long.

01:08:09.000 It ain't going to last long at all.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 03, 2020

Freedom For Me But Not For Thee | Ep. 1149

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