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00:02:17.000It is 140 times as transmissible as the original variant.
00:02:21.000It is 70 times as transmissible as Delta.
00:02:23.000Now, the really, really good news is it is also about 20% as deadly as Delta, which means that it is about as deadly as Delta would be after you were vaccinated for Delta.
00:02:33.000So you unvaccinated with Omicron, you have about the same odds as you would be vaccinated with Delta.
00:02:45.000And a bunch of people in the blue states who are starting to get Omicron, despite having done all the things that their great scientific authorities told them to do, they now have a challenge, because they can either look at their worldview and realize that COVID was not a pagan god, COVID is in fact just a disease, and it has certain vectors, and you can do certain things to mitigate against the risks of the disease, like getting vaccinated if you are unhealthy or if you are elderly,
00:03:07.000Or if you are in a very crowded area, theoretically, you could be wearing an N95 mask, although not quite as effective against Omicron as it was against prior variants, right?
00:03:16.000But that's pretty much all you can do.
00:03:17.000And also, even if you get vaccinated, you're probably going to get Omicron.
00:03:21.000Instead of seeing the virus as just a challenge in life, Against which you have to make certain risk-reward calculations.
00:03:27.000The left started to see it as this pagan god.
00:03:29.000Well, once Omicron came, we are back to basic risk-reward calculations because you're getting punished whether you did the right thing or the wrong thing.
00:03:45.000Choice number one is to suddenly discover all the things that some of us have been saying for well over a year and realize that you have to live with a certain level of risk in your life.
00:03:53.000Or possibility two is you have to crack down even harder.
00:03:56.000If only we had shown more fealty to the health authorities, if only we listened more to Dr. Fauci, if only we worshipped more at the altar of Joe Biden, then perhaps Omicron would spare us.
00:04:05.000And you can see this bifurcation happening on the left.
00:04:09.000So, I want to begin with just a couple of brief stats because I know that stats are verboten where many on the militant COVID lockdown left come from.
00:04:18.000Here are the current deaths in California.
00:04:22.000They're averaging about 65 deaths a day in California.
00:04:26.000As you see, this number is actually lower than it was back in September.
00:04:31.000This despite the fact that the case count in California has indeed been going up.
00:04:35.000That is not a surprise because, again, Omicron is not nearly as deadly as Delta, right?
00:04:42.000The case count is going to, like, on a daily basis, it will be the highest it has ever been in California in very short order.
00:06:18.000The only logic seems to be that everybody is stuck in the March 2020 mindset in which a COVID diagnosis meant that you were supposed to absolutely panic and freak out.
00:06:28.000I don't even understand if you're asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic for COVID, they're not going to do anything for you on a treatment level.
00:06:33.000I was talking to my wife about this yesterday.
00:06:34.000She's like, I am completely unaware of any medical perspective from which you are supposed to test people for disease when it does not actually change your treatment vectors.
00:06:43.000In other words, why test for something if you don't?
00:06:47.000Change how you're going to treat the thing.
00:07:01.000For a lot of people on the left, they know this.
00:07:03.000A lot of people on the left know this, and they're beginning to accept the reality.
00:07:07.000Not fully accept it, not intellectualize it, but sort of accept it in practice and even in some of their rhetoric.
00:07:12.000So you started to see this over the course of the last week and a half.
00:07:14.000So Joe Biden, the President of the United States, once tweeted that he was going to stop the virus, which of course he has not because no one can because it's a virus.
00:07:24.000This is late December, saying there is no federal solution for COVID, which is weird because last I checked, he's attempting to mandate that all of my employees be vaccinated or he will fine me.
00:07:34.000So for a guy who says he has no control, he seems to be trying to assert an extraordinary amount of control. Here's the President of the United States saying, well, that is not my fault.
00:07:55.000And it ultimately gets down to where the rubber meets the road, and that's where the patient is in need of help, or preventing the need for help.
00:08:06.000Alrighty, well, I know that you can't solve this.
00:08:09.000Why don't you accept that you can't solve this?
00:08:11.000By the way, Joe Biden then took off for Delaware.
00:08:12.000So we have to sort of recapitulate what happened over the break.
00:08:53.000She decamped from Lockton Town, New York City, where everybody is still masked, where they have vaccine mandates despite the fact that the vaccinated are still passing the disease.
00:09:16.000She left a locked down state that she helped create to come down here to my state, which she is constantly ripping on as a hellscape, death sentence, burning, flaming, Dante's 7th circle, carnage ridden landscape of horror.
00:09:34.000She decamped down here so that she could vacation in the sun.
00:09:40.000And then, when people pointed out, hey, AOC, it's weird because your vacationing in the state that you keep talking about is being the worst, right?
00:09:45.000Rhonda Sands is going to get everybody killed, and he doesn't care if people die.
00:09:48.000And yet, here you are, enjoying the sun and the fun with your boyfriend.
00:09:53.000She tweeted out in response, If Republicans are mad, they can't date me.
00:09:57.000They can just say that instead of projecting that, they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend's feet, ya creepy weirdos.
00:10:07.000So, her response to, you are a flaming, ridiculous hypocrite for moving from your lockdown state down here to vacation.
00:10:16.000While constantly mewling that Republicans are killing everyone.
00:10:21.000You don't seem that afraid, I noticed.
00:10:22.000It seems like in your personal life, when you're not parking your Tesla illegally at the Whole Foods, you're decamping to Florida for vacation.
00:10:29.000When we notice that, her response is, it's just because you want to have sex with me.
00:10:32.000Well, maybe it's because you're a moron.
00:12:04.000The man needs his nap, and he needs his insure, and he needs his Matlock.
00:12:08.000And it's Christmas break, so why the hell not?
00:12:11.000And they don't care that AOC is decamping down to Florida to enjoy vacation in the land of sun and fun that she decries as, once again, a landscape of death.
00:13:21.000I'm not saying we should legally bar you from entering the state.
00:13:24.000I'm saying that you're... that if you are going to crap all over the state where I live, and then come here for vacation, and then rip on the governor, who has done all the things that you did not want to do, You should maybe just stay home.
00:13:38.000Maybe you should just go home, you jackass.
00:13:41.000But honestly, this is how I'm feeling about all of this stuff lately.
00:13:45.000The reason I'm feeling this is because there are newfound discoveries happening each and every day from the left about things that all of us, those of us who've been listening to the show, those of us who've been following the data, There are many things that we have been saying for well over a year, and some things we've been saying for a couple of months since Omicron, that you guys have been ignoring.
00:14:03.000And yet suddenly it has dawned upon you like a ray of light from the heavens.
00:14:10.000The voice, not of God, but of God as a woman.
00:14:14.000Ariana Grande's voice came down from the heavens and suddenly you were bestowed with vast wisdom with regard to COVID that some of us have been saying by looking at the data for the last several months.
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00:15:54.000And this new information changes everything.
00:15:57.000It's amazing how the new information coincided directly with a bunch of them and their friends getting Omicron.
00:16:03.000Literally, as soon as they got a cold and they realized that this wasn't the end of the world, and that they had done all of the things, and that God had still smoked them with Omicron, at exactly that point in time, they went, oh, maybe I should be able to go to work.
00:16:16.000Oh, maybe I shouldn't have to shut down my business.
00:16:17.000Hey, you know, should we shut down all of American society over all this stuff?
00:16:26.000You guys spent almost two years, you spent almost two years killing people's businesses, destroying their lives, forcing their kids out of school, only to now turn around and pretend that it has dawned upon you, like the prophets of old, the great truth from above, the same crap we've been saying for months and at this point almost years, Yeah, you can shove it where the sun don't shine, man.
00:17:31.000Once you were vaccinated, you were good to go.
00:17:33.000And yet these people treated it as panic time the entire time.
00:17:37.000If you even said that post-vaccination you really should not be afraid, you should go and live your life and you're fine, you're treated as a COVID denier.
00:17:45.000Now here's Chris Hayes, and it has suddenly dawned on him, wait, this thing isn't so bad.
00:17:54.000Those people who are vaccinated, particularly those who are boosted, you know, the risk, the personal risk of being exposed to this went from something that we hadn't really dealt with specifically like this before in our lifetimes.
00:18:04.000We hadn't quite had an illness this infectious and this possible to cause serious illness, to something that does look more like the flu.
00:18:12.000And the flu, of course, can still be dangerous.
00:18:13.000It kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.
00:18:16.000But we don't orient our lives around the flu.
00:19:14.000COVID works like pretty much every other disease.
00:19:16.000But Dr. Anthony Fauci, it's now dawning on him that natural immunity is a thing, but apparently still only in South Africa.
00:19:21.000In the United States, you have to vax, boost, boost again.
00:19:23.000In fact, you have to get that punch card.
00:19:24.000And if you finally get to 12 boosters, Then you get a free donut, and also they give you a new punch card so you can start over, because it's more like your dry cleaners than it is like an actual fulfillment of some sort of curriculum.
00:19:34.000There will never be an end to the boosters, according to Anthony Fauci, but natural immunity does apply in South Africa.
00:19:40.000So, yeah, I didn't know that biology was different in South Africa than here, but according to Fauci, it is.
00:19:45.000Here is Fauci discovering natural immunity.
00:19:46.000It dawned on him for the first time with Omicron.
00:19:51.000It is likely that the reason that it is less severe is that in South Africa what you have is a very large proportion of the population has already been infected and recovered and a relatively smaller proportion have been vaccinated.
00:20:09.000So it is likely that the protection against infection is not very good because it'll get into the nasopharynx and infect you.
00:20:17.000The reason they may have a less severe is that the underlying cross protection that you have from an experience of a virus of a different variant might actually be protecting you from severe disease which predominantly involves the lungs.
00:20:38.000I'm sitting here in sun silence because some of us have been saying this for two years!
00:20:43.000Okay, and captain best doctor in the world, after Dr. Joe Biden, is suddenly discovering natural immunity.
00:22:02.000So, again, I'm just amazed that all of our health experts, all of our policy experts are just accepting the reality now, as we'll see, not for long.
00:22:11.000So Dr. Fauci made an incredible statement over the course of the Christmas holiday, Christmas, New Year's holiday.
00:22:47.000Studies done in like the 1930s and 40s.
00:22:48.000Okay, so the six-foot standard is meaningless.
00:22:51.000All of the mask studies that have been done that are showing that masks are super duper effective are basically lab studies that have not been applied in the real world.
00:22:59.000There is one study from Bangladesh about real-world masks and that did not apply to Delta, which is much more infectious than the original variant and certainly does not apply to Omicron.
00:23:06.000So, so much of the quote-unquote science that is surrounded this is just based on faulty data.
00:23:11.000So the CDC has now announced that once you're five days in, you can go back to work.
00:23:17.000Well, because if they force everybody out of work for Omicron, it shuts down the economy again.
00:23:21.000Like some of us were saying several weeks ago, that if you wish to go into soft lockdown, test everybody and force them all to quarantine for 10 days.
00:23:28.000So Anthony Fauci and the CDC accepted that over the course of the last week.
00:23:33.000The reason is that now that we have such an overwhelming volume of cases coming in, many of which are without symptoms, there's the danger that this is going to have a really negative impact on our ability to really get society to function properly.
00:23:49.000You're hearing reports from cities throughout the country of substantial percentages of firefighters, policemen, people with critical jobs who are infected and required to stay home in isolation for 10 days.
00:24:04.000So the CDC made a decision to balance what's good for public health at the same time as keeping the society running.
00:24:12.000But what if we just let the CDC do what it wants to do?
00:24:22.000If the CDC had taken that approach from the beginning, then you were killing grandmas!
00:24:47.000If you said that protecting people who are 80 should be the priority, and that you don't shut down all of society to protect the people who are 80, if you said this, it's because you wanted Grandma to die.
00:25:06.000So you gotta mask up your grandmother, and then even after she's dead, you go into a graveyard, you dig it open if she's dead, and you put the mask on her skull, on her moldering skull.
00:25:15.000You gotta make sure that her skin doesn't degrade into some sort of, you know, something terrible, like she gets COVID and then she dies again.
00:25:21.000Because even though she's dead, she could die twice.
00:25:23.000It's like double masking, double death.
00:25:24.000You gotta be very, she might be mostly dead, not totally dead, mostly dead.
00:25:28.000And then she infects the ground, it gets into the groundwater, and then some child in upstate New York might get COVID because of that.
00:26:23.000So immediately upon the left beginning to deal with reality, which by the way is a good thing.
00:26:28.000I'm ripping on them because it's pathetic that we spent two years listening to these mewling idiots who don't bother to follow the data and are so consumed with their hatred of people on the other side of the political aisle that they are willing to rip on decent policy so long as the person promulgating the policy has an R next to their name.
00:26:46.000I'm not even talking about people who are anti-vaccine.
00:26:47.000You know, ripping on people who are anti-vaccine and pushing stuff that's not true about vaccines.
00:26:50.000I'm talking about they're ripping on Ron DeSantis, for example, in Florida, who is pushing vaccine and vaccinated the elderly and protected them better than the great and sainted, late departed Andrew Cuomo of grabassery.
00:27:04.000The fact that they were so engulfed in their own hatred of everybody who didn't think like them, that they embraced the position that was anti-data, and now that they have embraced the data-driven position, or started to embrace the data, now it's a good position.
00:27:38.000Like, we're all getting Omicron, and you say Omicron isn't that bad, but I also know I'm supposed to be super scared.
00:27:43.000I've been told for the last two years that I should be living in abject fear of this virus.
00:27:47.000Whether I'm vaccinated, whether I have natural... I should be living day to day In terror, that the virus is going to crash through my door like the Kool-Aid man, and just bash me over the skull with a copy of the CDC handbook.
00:28:03.000Dana Bash, representative of this class, here she is on CNN, trying to cudgel Dr. Fauci and the CDC back into line.
00:28:08.000You know, maybe you guys shouldn't change the standard from 10 days to 5 days.
00:28:11.000Maybe you should change it back to 10 days, because, you know, we wouldn't want to be realistic here at all.
00:28:16.000These are relaxed, quarantined guidelines that came from the CDC, and they're coming under fire from some public health experts.
00:28:23.000CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner sent out a tweet saying, quote, the latest CDC guidelines which allow people to leave isolation after five days without a test remind me of when the public was told we didn't need masks, when in reality the problem was the U.S.
00:28:57.000Meaning that the underlying reality of not testing people after five days and sending them back into the workforce, the underlying reality is that we're not trying to stop the spread at this point.
00:29:06.000And the reason we're not trying to stop the spread is because we can't.
00:29:08.000And the reason that we can't is because this thing is wildly infectious.
00:29:11.000And the very good news is that it being wildly infectious and also being not all that deadly All right, we can all live with that.
00:29:25.000And those of us in Florida have been doing so for literally a year.
00:29:29.000Those of us in Florida have been doing so for well over a year, maybe a year and a half at this point.
00:29:33.000And that's why you're all vacationing down here, you jerks.
00:29:36.000Go back home, go live in your miserable basements, being sad and miserable, triple masked, while staring at the walls, and worshipping an icon of St.
00:29:49.000So, within five minutes of saying, yeah, we've got to take into account the actual realities of the situation on the ground, All of a sudden, Fauci's like, Well, you know, maybe we should reconsider.
00:30:30.000People are getting concerned about why not test people at that time.
00:30:34.000I myself feel that that's a reasonable thing to do.
00:30:37.000I believe that the CDC soon We'll be coming out with more clarification of that since it obviously has generated a number of questions about at that five day period, should you or should you not be testing people?
00:30:53.000So then five seconds of him recognizing that reality is reality, he's immediately cuddled back into fantasy.
00:30:59.000Maybe we should have tests of the asymptomatic to make sure that they're not transmitting.
00:32:25.000And meanwhile in New York, by the way, they're continuing to maintain their garbage policy despite the fact that they have this record spike.
00:32:30.000They have higher levels of Omicron in New York City than they ever had of Delta.
00:32:35.000I mean, they're getting like 40,000 cases a day in New York City.
00:32:39.000And Bill de Blasio, on his way out, announced these vax mandates that every business in New York was going to need to mandate that all of its employees were vaxxed.
00:32:47.000Now, I know a bunch of business owners in New York, they're just going to relocate because half their employees are not vaxxed.
00:32:54.000Half their employees have natural immunity.
00:32:55.000There's no exception for natural immunity, by the way.
00:32:59.000According to the New York Times, the spike has caused crippling shortages of workers that have forced restaurants to close, subway lines to shut down, Broadway theaters to shutter.
00:33:07.000Concerns about the virus even caused the Westminster Kennel Club to postpone its January show.
00:33:12.000The test positivity rate is above 20% in New York City.
00:33:14.000So what did Eric Adams, the incoming mayor of New York, the great savior of New York, do?
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00:35:18.000So I know a lot of you are making New Year's resolutions this year.
00:35:20.000One of your resolutions might be to read more.
00:35:22.000I get a lot of people who have been emailing me over the course of years asking about the kind of books that I'm reading.
00:35:27.000Well, as you know, I read all the time.
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00:37:28.000Watching all of this, the American public is having a nervous breakdown.
00:37:31.000And because we are all having a nervous breakdown, apparently, this is having a rather large toll on businesses.
00:37:36.000And this means that the Democrats are set for a shellacking in 2022, and they know it.
00:37:41.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the rapid spread of COVID-19's Omicron variant is weighing on U.S.
00:37:45.000businesses, keeping more workers homesick or quarantined, leading some companies to cut services and reduce hours.
00:37:50.000The rise of COVID-19 infections to record levels in recent days has driven thousands of canceled flights, prompted retailers to train available employees on new jobs, closed some stores altogether.
00:37:59.000The rapidly spreading Omicron variant is hitting businesses at a time when consumers' demand for products and services has surged.
00:38:05.000Many companies are already struggling with staffing and supply chain challenges.
00:38:13.000As always, when you treat Omicron as a crisis and send lots of people who are asymptomatic home and force them to test, and when you have tens of thousands of people getting tests for asymptomatic or mild colds, You're going to end up with a soft lockdown.
00:38:25.000This has some rather large ramifications for most Americans.
00:38:28.000Meanwhile, stocks face a rockier path in 2022 as a Fed rate increase looms, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:38:36.000Okay, first of all, this was not an economic rebound stronger than most had expected.
00:38:38.000interest rate increases is tempering investors optimism heading into 2022. A contrast to their vaccine and stimulus fueled enthusiasms of a year ago.
00:38:46.000Investors had plenty to feel good about over the holidays, supported by an economic rebound even stronger than most had expected. The S&P 500 climbed at 27% in 2021. The third largest gain of the past 20 years. Okay, first of all, this was not an economic rebound stronger than most had expected. It was significantly weaker than most had expected. But heading into 2021, economists surveyed had expected that the US economy would grow 3.7%.
00:39:10.000Instead, it likely expanded more than 5%, but inflation also expanded massively.
00:39:18.000One major concern of investors is how different problems might feed on each other.
00:39:21.000Fresh waves of COVID-19 cases caused by new or existing variants might slow economic growth by reducing consumer spending.
00:39:27.000But some worry such surges could help sustain already hot inflation by contributing to supply chain problems and labor shortages.
00:39:33.000Okay, so the Democrats' confused policy and their refusal to just go back to something mildly resembling normal means that they are going to pay the price.
00:39:43.000Here's why I say it's a problem of policy.
00:39:44.000It is not a problem of Omicron, per se.
00:39:47.000Because if you actually look at the states in the United States that, for example, did not engage in the stupidity of randomly lengthening the period of unemployment benefits ad infinitum, those states did fine in terms of job recovery.
00:40:01.000The states that decided to continue to support people staying home for COVID, those states have not done particularly well in terms of job recovery.
00:40:10.000According to a Wall Street Journal piece from the editorial board over at the Wall Street Journal, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly household survey, early termination of unemployment led to a 14 percentage point increase in the flow from unemployment to employment.
00:40:27.000The unemployment rate among prime-age working Americans in the 24 states that maintain big benefits through Labor Day would have been 0.7 percentage points lower in August had they ended benefits in June.
00:40:37.000The national unemployment rate would have been 0.3 percentage points lower had all states ended benefits early.
00:40:42.000But Democrats want to keep blowing out the spending.
00:40:52.000And so this leaves the Democratic media complex with a problem.
00:40:55.000The problem is, if Joe Biden's message is not resonating, and if, in fact, we're about to see Fed rate increases, which means the stock market doesn't do what it did last year, and if that means that it's going to have an impact on employment rates, which typically happens when you raise interest rates, employment rates tend to go down a little bit.
00:41:11.000If all that happens and people are still paranoid, then the Democrats are headed for a massive red wave in November.
00:41:20.000And so the media have to do two things.
00:41:22.000One, they have to somehow save Joe Biden.
00:41:25.000And two, they have to come up with an alternative talking point to, you know, reality and current affairs.
00:41:31.000And they've come up with both of these.
00:41:32.000So the first thing that they've come up with is the idea that if you oppose Biden, it's because you're very, very bad.
00:41:36.000So over the Christmas holiday, the biggest story in America for at least a couple of days, the biggest story in America is that Joe Biden was doing some sort of Christmas shtick from the fake Oval Office Where he called up a bunch of people, random people, as Santa was supposedly flying over their houses using the cute graphic from the Defense Department of Santa flying around.
00:42:03.000Joe Biden was calling up random people and saying, can you see Santa from your house?
00:42:06.000And one of the people he called up proceeded to drop, let's go Brandon on him.
00:42:09.000And Joe Biden, because he does not know what year it is or which country he lives in or what office he holds, Joe Biden was like, that sounds great.
00:43:59.000They're panicked over the fact that Republicans are about to take Congress.
00:44:01.000And if Republicans take Congress, one of the things that they might do is ban things like ballot harvesting, which is a super corrupt practice by which Democrats basically hire a bunch of activists to go door-to-door to people who did not order an absentee ballot but were sent an absentee ballot by the Democrats in the state legislature.
00:44:18.000They go door-to-door, they pick up the ballots.
00:44:22.000It's a recipe for it, because you're just going to somebody's door, and you know that person's a registered Democrat, and you tell them how to vote, and then they hand you the ballot.
00:44:30.000Or they hand you the ballot and you fill it out for them.
00:44:32.000All right, ballot harvesting is a really corrupt practice.
00:44:34.000By the way, it's been used by both Republicans and Democrats, depending on where you are.
00:44:38.000Just across the board, Democrats wish to enshrine that, Republicans wish to avoid that.
00:44:45.000And they know that their window of opportunity closes in 2022, because there is a very good shot that come the election in November, They're in real trouble.
00:46:14.000If the Democrats just say January 6th over and over, like Betelgeuse into the mirror, it will suddenly appear.
00:46:20.000And then, if January 6th appears, then all will be made right with the world because you will remember that Donald Trump is a bad man, even though Donald Trump isn't on the ballot and isn't running for office this year.
00:46:29.000And even though you are much more concerned over whether your real wages decreased over the course of the last year, and even though you're much more worried about whether your business is still going to be open this year, or whether you're allowed to send your kids to school, or are they going to mask up your four-year-old, even though you're worried about those things, what you really should be laser-focused on is the fact that some idiots and droogs went into the Capitol building on January 6th, were quickly expelled by the police within a couple of hours, and then Joe Biden was certified as the election winner.
00:46:55.000That's what you're supposed to remember.
00:47:20.000The reason they're so happy about that is because they get to talk about it and try to proclaim that no matter how bad Democrats are at governing, at least they're not in league with weird Wagnerian helmet guy.
00:47:32.000At least they're not in league with barbarian, droog, bare-chested, in-the-capital rotunda guy.
00:47:45.000So according to CNN, Several lawmakers and members of the law enforcement community tasked with protecting the U.S.
00:47:50.000Capitol will mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly insurrection there next month during a live event hosted by CNN, the network announced Thursday.
00:47:56.000So first of all, the deadly insurrection?
00:48:01.000First of all, calling it an insurrection is a bit of an overstatement because typically when you talk about an insurrection, you're talking about a military attack on an installation, not a bunch of idiots walking in unarmed and selfie-ing themselves while they're in the building.
00:48:16.000That does not mean there weren't people attacking cops.
00:48:18.000There were some cops that were injured.
00:48:20.000The thing that made it deadly, by the way, the only person who was actually killed during that entire That entire debacle was Ashley Babbitt, who was one of the rioters that she shot to death.
00:48:30.000All the other officers who died that day or in the surrounding days, there's no evidence that they died because of January 6th.
00:48:36.000That is not to downplay what January 6th was.
00:48:37.000I think it was an awful image for the United States.
00:48:39.000I thought it was a terrible image for the rest of the world.
00:48:47.000I thought that the people who were there were operating under assumptions that were untrue, propagated by the President of the United States.
00:48:54.000All of that does not make it a deadly insurrection, right?
00:48:57.000But that's how CNN is going to cover it.
00:49:00.000They're not covering the one-year anniversary.
00:49:01.000They didn't cover it last summer, the one-year anniversary of the Black Lives Matter riots that caused $5 billion in uninsured property damage and ended with the deaths of, I believe, a couple of dozen people.
00:49:13.000But they are going to have a full-on Inauguration-style coverage of the one-year anniversary of a few hundred people breaking the windows at the Capitol building and then being expelled by the Capitol Police who got there late.
00:49:27.000Live from the Capitol, January 6th, one year later, will air on January 6th, 2022, exactly one year after the riot, quote, honoring the heroes who protected our democracy in the face of an insurrection, according to a release.
00:49:37.000Okay, so I look forward to the interview.
00:49:40.000With Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, both of whom were in charge of the actual certification of the election.
00:49:47.000The two-hour conversation will feature Nancy Pelosi, as well as Democratic Representatives Lisa Blunt, Rochester of Delaware, Jason Crow of Colorado, Veronica Escobar of Texas, Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Dan Kildee of Michigan, and Susan Wild of Pennsylvania.
00:50:41.000Even the much maligned Fox News hosts, who were supposedly supportive of this, were apparently texting Donald Trump Direct, being like, stop this crap!
00:50:50.000The entire corporate world, with regard to Black Lives Matter, put out statements in support of Black Lives Matter.
00:50:57.000Nary a word about the violence, about the looting, about the murderers.
00:51:02.000All, by the way, based on a giant lie that America's law enforcement is systemically racist, which is the sole reason why you have a discrepancy and a disparity between the number of blacks and whites in prison.
00:51:12.000When it came to January 6th, which has no institutional support, That is the threat to the democracy.
00:51:18.000And they have to up the threat, right?
00:51:19.000They have to talk about how deep the threat was.
00:51:21.000And this is why you have Politico reporting all of these various polls showing that America's on the precipice of disaster.
00:51:31.000If Democrats retain power, everything will be fine.
00:51:34.000If Republicans take power, all will end.
00:51:39.000According to Politico, roughly 4 in 10 Republicans and independents say that violence action against the government is sometimes justified, according to a startling new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
00:51:49.000Overall, the percentage of Americans who say violence action against the government is justified at times stands at 34%, which is considerably higher than in past polls by The Post or other major news organizations.
00:52:26.000It doesn't mean violence based on current policy.
00:52:29.000But I think it would be hard pressed to say that violence against, say, the state governments of Alabama in 1861 was unjustified.
00:52:36.000I feel like it was kind of justified, wasn't it?
00:52:38.000I mean, they were propagating slaveholding.
00:52:41.000So, again, treating that as like, oh my god, it's all gonna- To get the dead giveaway in that particular poll is that 41% of independents agree with Republicans.
00:52:51.000A new CBS YouGov poll finds 68% of respondents see the January 6th attacks as a harbinger of increasing political violence, not an isolated incident.
00:53:00.000Well, you can't lament the message that you guys have been promoting being taken up by the American public.
00:53:05.000You guys keep saying over and over, it's the end of democracy.
00:53:36.000The margin of error on these types of polls is typically 2 to 4%.
00:53:38.000So in other words, the answer is pretty much no one thinks that Donald Trump should initiate a violent coup against the American government.
00:54:39.000Now, if it is for you, it's because you're a crazy person.
00:54:41.000I mean, I don't know if you are, Bill Murray, and you're waking up in Washington, D.C., and every time you hit that clock, I need a little hand in mine, and it's January 6th again.
00:55:20.000The New York Times has a piece, quote, One year after the smoke and broken glass, the mock gallows, and the very real bloodshed of that awful day, it is tempting to look back and imagine what we can, in fact, simply look back.
00:55:31.000To imagine that what happened on January 6th was horrifying, but that it is in the past and that we as a nation have moved on.
00:55:38.000After four years of chaos, cruelty, and incompetence culminating in a pandemic and the once unthinkable trauma of January 6th, most Americans were desperate for some peace and quiet.
00:56:28.000Nearly three dozen laws have been passed that empower state legislatures to sabotage their own elections, overturn the will of their voters.
00:56:35.000Some bills would change the rules to make it easier for lawmakers to reject the votes of their citizens if they don't like the outcome.
00:56:39.000By the way, those bills have not passed.
00:56:41.000Others replace professional election officials with partisan actors.
00:56:45.000Yet more attempt to criminalize human errors by election officials, in some cases even threatening prison.
00:56:50.000This is why what we need is to kill the filibuster.
00:57:05.000They say Democrats hold unified power.
00:57:07.000They're not confronting the urgency of the moment.
00:57:10.000What we have to do is basically kill the filibuster, and then we have to pass a bunch of new laws, including the For the People Act, which is the voting act that would completely rejigger voting in the United States.
00:57:46.000Because, um, I have noticed that some Democrats have denied election results in the past, but apparently this is the only day that has ever happened is January.
00:57:52.000Just like the world began turning the day that Donald Trump was elected.
00:57:56.000It apparently ceased turning on January 6th.
00:58:09.000Are you worried that an attack on our democracy like we're seeing right there with our own two eyes on January 6th last year could happen again going forward?
00:58:27.000We saw all those points and some others that's not in that video that really causes us significant concern that unless we get it right, given the attitude of what's occurring in this country now.
00:58:43.000It could happen again. Okay, so what's their solution?
00:58:46.000Their solution, of course, is rig the voting procedures. And this is their their actual solution, just like they did in Pennsylvania, right? They've avoided the Pennsylvania state constitution and simply crammed down the everybody gets to vote absentee. We have to have drop boxes everywhere, ballot harvesting up the wazoo. This is what they wish to do federally. And the way that they're going to gin up support for this is by claiming that if they don't do this, every election will be you have to let us steal the next election so that you don't steal the election. If we steal it, you can't steal it.
00:59:28.000We've got some people that just haven't been educated.
00:59:31.000They haven't been found out and they've grown in power Um, through perhaps inaction, uh, on the parts of some of our key leaders.
00:59:41.000And we need to do what we can do now to identify those people, get them out of our ranks and train the rest of the force on Civics 101 about how our country is supposed to work, how elections work.
00:59:53.000Stop listening to the pillow guy and start learning about our country and how it's actually supposed to run.
01:00:01.000It's a threat that's coming directly from... So again, if you ramp up the alarmism, what do you get?
01:00:05.000You get to do all the things that you wanted to do, which is really what it's about.
01:00:08.000As Politico reports today, quote, it's going to be an emotional week for a lot of people on Capitol Hill.
01:00:13.000But the one year anniversary of the January 6th Capitol siege Thursday, Congress is planning an array of memorials and speeches to commemorate one of the darkest days in American history.
01:00:22.000Okay, it was a very dark day in American history.
01:00:24.000It was not, in fact, one of the top five to ten darkest days in American history.
01:00:28.000You know, the reason that I say that is because we've had some pretty dark days.
01:00:32.000We've had presidents who have been assassinated.
01:00:33.000John F. Kennedy had his head blown off in public.
01:00:36.000We've had literally, I mean, the Senate building was bombed in the 1970s.
01:00:40.000We had a giant civil war in this country.
01:00:44.000Like, this one is not at the top of the list.
01:00:46.000If you exaggerate the threat, you get to do what you want to do.
01:00:48.000Democrats are hoping Thursday will be more than just a day of remembrance.
01:00:52.000In the Senate, we hear from well-positioned sources there's a desire to take the opportunity to supercharge the party's long-stalled voting rights legislation, possibly even using the anniversary to try to get Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to go nuclear on the filibuster or embrace rules changes.
01:01:07.000Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to lay out a plan today that will bring the party's push to nationalize voting rights protections to the floor in the coming days.
01:01:15.000A week, Democrats will argue that a flurry of voting restrictions that have passed in GOP-controlled states over the last year are a direct result of the January 6th riots and the big lie promulgated by former President Donald Trump, and that democracy is still very much on the line.
01:01:28.000So we have to kill the filibuster, and then we have to cram through a bill that's not only going to allow, it's going to mandate that states allow ballot harvesting across the spectrum, for example.
01:01:39.000And that absentee ballots are just sent directly to your house regardless of whether you requested one or not.
01:01:43.000And that the time of voting be expanded dramatically, even though we really all should be voting on Election Day.
01:01:51.000You have to let us change all the rules about voting so that you don't steal democracy.
01:01:56.000Guys, to save democracy, because a bunch of people went into the Capitol building and tried to beat police officers and now go to jail, or are already in jail.
01:02:05.000Because that happened, you have to let us kill the filibuster in the Senate, overhaul America's voting procedures, and federalize everything.
01:02:15.000If you allow us to kill democracy, it will 100% save democracy.
01:02:19.000This is what they are talking about right now.
01:02:22.000Some Democrats think an argument pegged to January 6th could win over Sinema and Manchin, the party's two major holdouts against making an end run around the filibuster.
01:02:30.000Schumer has signaled that when the bill goes down, he will open a debate about changing Senate rules to enable passage of voting measures without the chamber's 60-vote threshold.
01:02:38.000That debate could push into next week as the party puts the squeeze on cinema and mansion.
01:03:00.000And no matter how much they try to misdirect over to January 6th, it turns out January 6th happened a full year ago and no one's gonna care.
01:03:09.000about their pocketbook, then they're going to be worried about the people who decided to invade the Capitol building January 6, 2021, when we hit November 2022.
01:03:20.000All righty, we'll be back here later today with much more content.
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