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00:01:48.000Okay, so we have some good news on Omicron.
00:01:53.000People continue to freak out about Omicron.
00:01:55.000And the reason they're freaking out about Omicron is because they cannot let up the control.
00:01:59.000To let up the control means to admit that they never could have controlled this thing in the first place.
00:02:03.000That basically the only thing that government did right is to help produce the vaccines by incentivizing all of the big pharma vaccine makers to take on the risk of mass producing the vaccine.
00:02:19.000But that is not the promise your government made to you.
00:02:21.000The promise your government made to you, and this happened particularly in blue states, Joe Biden made this promise as well, is that he would shut down the virus.
00:02:27.000No one is capable of shutting down the virus.
00:02:29.000I know that we live in a pagan era in which people think the government is literally God and can control every element of your life, including protecting you from death.
00:02:50.000It doesn't protect against the initial infection, but on demand, it kicks in to keep it there.
00:02:54.000This later appears to be the main reason why Omicron appears mild.
00:02:58.000So that means that you may still get Omicron, but it ain't gonna hurt you.
00:03:02.000Also, Pfizer is now announcing that it has a brand new COVID pill.
00:03:06.000Its COVID pill helps starve off severe disease, the company announced on Tuesday.
00:03:11.000The antiviral pill worked in lab studies against Omicron as well, and is 90% effective in terms of preventing hospitalization and death if given within five days.
00:03:43.000Many of us said very early on, That this was largely a pandemic of the elderly.
00:03:49.000The people who are most likely to die are people who are elderly.
00:03:51.000This was clear inside the first couple of months of the pandemic.
00:03:54.000And some of us were ripped up and down in the legacy media for making the suggestion that this changes how you do public policy.
00:04:00.000It means you shield the elderly and you encourage younger people to get back into the workforce.
00:04:04.000And if people who are 20 start getting COVID, that is not the end of the world.
00:04:07.000That's actually partially a solution because many of the people who are 20, so long as they're not infecting people who are innately vulnerable or elderly, those people getting it now have natural immunity.
00:04:18.000But this was considered very bad to talk about.
00:04:21.000And if you mentioned the fact that years of life lost, which is a common statistic used in the actuarial investigations, right?
00:04:28.000Constantly insurance companies are using number of years of life lost.
00:04:33.000They call it potential years of life lost, PYLL.
00:04:36.000Insurance companies do it all the time to determine what sort of risks they're going to insure and what sort of risks they're not going to insure.
00:04:42.000And you have to look at those stats in order to determine how to make public policy.
00:04:45.000If you even mentioned this at the beginning of the pandemic, you were considered immoral and bad.
00:04:49.000Well, now the media have caught on to the fact, you know, a year and a half later, when we all know the data, that this was chiefly a risk to people who are very elderly.
00:04:58.000According to the New York Times, as the United States nears 800,000 virus deaths, one of every 100 older Americans has perished.
00:05:06.000That means that of the people above the age of 65 over the past couple of years, about 1 in every 100 has died of COVID.
00:05:13.000That sounds particularly bad until you realize that on average in like 2019, out of every 100,000 people age 65 plus, about 4,000 will die.
00:05:23.000Which means that if you reduce that down, you're talking about essentially four in 100 people who are above the age of 65 in the United States are going to die every year.
00:05:34.000So was there excess mortality because of COVID?
00:05:36.000Yes, it was about 20% excess mortality because of COVID.
00:05:39.000But the way that the newspapers play with stats is to make you think that zero out of 100 older Americans would have died without COVID.
00:05:45.000And now one out of 100 Americans will die with COVID.
00:05:52.000It was a pretty significant incremental increase.
00:05:54.000But to pretend that elderly people were not already innately vulnerable because they are elderly is, of course, incredibly silly.
00:06:00.000And trying to, like, I don't understand why it took the media so long to come to a conclusion that we all knew from the very beginning.
00:06:07.000Specifically, and here's why it matters, because the lockdown policies currently being pursued are directed not at the elderly, they are directed at the young.
00:06:13.000They're directed at people who are in schools.
00:06:15.000In New York City, you cannot take your five-year-old to a McDonald's without getting your five-year-old vaccinated, even though your five-year-old is safe from COVID by all available statistics.
00:06:24.000In New York City, you are more likely to be locked down if you are not vaccinated.
00:06:28.000You are not allowed to go to work in New York City.
00:06:31.000And this is happening in blue states across in California, vaccinated or unvaccinated.
00:06:35.000They just went back into masking everyone in the state.
00:06:39.000That is a policy that targets everyone, including people who are younger and not vulnerable to COVID.
00:06:45.000To protect the elderly, many of whom Would have died anyway.
00:06:49.000That does not mean we're not seeing excess death.
00:06:51.000We are seeing excess death among the elderly, although now that you have the vaccines, that's about all you can do for the elderly anyway.
00:06:57.000But it's amazing how the media are upplaying something that we already knew from the very beginning, as though it doesn't undercut their case for a broad spectrum, quote unquote, solutions to COVID.
00:07:07.000Some of us were pointing out that there was age striation from day one.
00:07:11.000And the media said it was really bad to point that out.
00:07:12.000Instead, they would send out Anthony Fauci on TV and say, well, yeah, well, it's true that older people are dying, but younger people could die too.
00:07:20.000So, well, yes, but not at the same numbers, not at the same rates, which would suggest that you should construct policy that is not designed to harm young people.
00:07:28.000And yet the left continues to design one size fits all policy when it comes to COVID, which makes no sense.
00:07:35.000According to the New York Times, People are very worried right now, said Ann Cunningham, 84, who lives in a high-rise designated for seniors in Chicago, where a TV room and community room have remained shut down since March 2020.
00:07:45.000If you've been inside for a long time, and the only time you talk to somebody is to get your mail or go down to the deli, that's a lot of isolation and loneliness for some people.
00:07:52.000They feel like nobody in the world cares for them.
00:07:55.000One of the things that people apparently don't care about when it comes to the elderly is their social lives, which makes an enormous difference.
00:08:01.000I have two grandmothers, thank God, in their 90s.
00:08:04.000And they've both lived the last couple of years in basically social isolation.
00:08:10.000But particularly if you're elderly and you don't have a spouse because your spouse passed away 10 years ago and now your family can't come visit you and you can't hang out with anybody else.
00:08:18.000That's unbelievably depressing and terrible for elderly people.
00:08:20.000But we were supposed to ignore all of these costs because government knew best and government would save us all.
00:09:22.000It's going to have generational ramifications, what we just did over the last few years.
00:09:25.000Not just in terms of the financial world, where we blew out the economy to the point where we basically incentivized a huge number of Americans never to work again.
00:09:35.000But it's going to have generational costs in terms of social isolation, in terms of the ability of young people to recover from an educational vacuum.
00:09:44.000The last two years were a horrible, horrible policy mistake, and it was made because your policymakers lied to you about what they can do and what they cannot.
00:09:53.000You could say all of this is justifiable, at least morally, back in May or June of 2020, because we didn't know enough.
00:09:59.000We now know enough, and we have therapeutics, and we have vaccines, and they're still doing it, which demonstrates that the control is the point.
00:10:06.000It is no longer about, if you do X, the government will allow you to be free.
00:10:21.000You should join it at DoNotComplyPetition.com.
00:10:25.000You should join it right now because, again, it demonstrates resistance to the mandates and authoritarian top-down nonsense pushed by this administration.
00:10:32.000We're trying to get to a million signatures, so go check it out right now at do not comply petition dot com.
00:10:37.000But if you don't show resistance, why would they resist?
00:10:39.000You've set up an incentive structure where they're going to continue to crack down and ruin lives, particularly young people's lives.
00:10:44.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:11:54.000Okay, again, the media are trying to now apparently continue to push panic, but I don't understand on what basis they continue to push the panic.
00:12:03.000It doesn't make any sense at this point.
00:12:06.000Again, three quarters of all COVID deaths in the United States are people above the age of 65.
00:12:09.000Every one of those is a tragedy, but you don't direct policy at five-year-olds in order to save 65-year-olds.
00:12:26.000It turns out that when you tell a bunch of five-year-olds they have to mask up and sit six feet apart from each other and sit on the floor while eating lunch, that's going to depress them and make them upset.
00:12:34.000According to the New York Times, a recent cartoon in the French daily Le Monde featured a bedraggled man arriving at a doctor's office for a COVID-19 vaccine.
00:12:41.000I'm here for the fifth shot because of the third wave, he says, or vice versa.
00:12:44.000His bewilderment as France suffers its fifth wave of the pandemic, with cases of Delta variant rising sharply along with Omicron anxiety, captured a mood of exhaustion and simmering anger across the world two years after the deadly virus began to spread in China.
00:13:10.000This means that, as I said yesterday, Alec Baldwin has so far documentedly killed more people than Omicron.
00:13:17.000It means that the Waukesha murderer has killed multiple times more people than Omicron.
00:13:22.000And we are locking down all of society for this.
00:13:25.000According to the New York Times, The sense of endlessness, accompanied by growing psychological distress leading to depression, was a recurrent theme in two dozen interviews conducted in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
00:13:36.000After two years of zigzagging policy and rollercoaster emotions, terrible loss, and tantalizing false dawns, closing borders and intermittently shuttered schools, people's resilience has dwindled.
00:13:45.000That is sure to pose new challenges for leaders trying to protect their people and their economies.
00:13:49.000Will the weary obey new restrictions or risk seeing family and friends after months of forced separation?
00:13:53.000The question of just how draconian leaders can be when people's mental health has become so fragile appears to be a core dilemma as the pandemic enters its third year.
00:14:00.000First of all, I love the New York Times' take on this.
00:14:02.000Because the New York Times' take here is it's the people who are wrong.
00:14:48.000That is why life is out of control at this point.
00:14:52.000And again, the statistics show that natural immunity, I know we're supposed to pretend natural immunity is not a thing, natural immunity is a thing.
00:14:58.000Martin Koldorf, who's an epidemiologist, he, who's a member of the Great Barrington Declaration, he's one of the more free society guys, he points out, like, several months ago, that in Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity.
00:15:15.000In other words, natural immunity is a thing, but we're supposed to pretend it's not a thing, and focus only in on vaccinations.
00:15:21.000Because the government can't control natural immunity, but it can control vaccinations.
00:15:26.000It's like a drunk searching for his keys under the streetlight.
00:15:29.000He loses his keys and he's searching for his keys under the streetlight, and somebody asks him, why do you keep checking under the same area?
00:15:34.000He says, well, that's where the light is.
00:15:37.000The solution to the pandemic is not necessarily pure vaccines.
00:16:05.000Rochelle Walensky, who is the awful head of the CDC, she was asked about that Pfizer pill that lowers the rates of death if you take it within the first three days by 90% and 88% in the first five days.
00:16:18.000And her answer was, quote, another great tool in our toolbox, but the best way to protect yourself against COVID is not to get it in the first place.
00:16:43.000The lie, of course, is that we can reach zero COVID if you just listen to the government enough.
00:16:49.000And this, of course, as I keep saying, this has very serious consequences.
00:16:54.000Back in September 2021, Sarah Napton wrote, Over at the UK Telegraph, quote, while focus remains firmly fixed on COVID-19, a second health crisis is quietly emerging in Britain. Since the beginning of July, there have been thousands of excess deaths not caused by coronavirus.
00:17:07.000According to health experts, this is highly unusual for the summer, although excess deaths are expected during the winter, when cold weather and seasonal infections combine to put pressure on the NHS.
00:17:16.000Summer sees it all. But according to the Office for National Statistics, between July and August in Britain, there were 10,000 excess deaths in England and Wales, 48.
00:17:24.00048% of those were not caused by COVID-19.
00:17:35.000There was a massive increase in acute and chronic respiratory infection.
00:17:40.000Because people were not coming into the doctor to get diagnosed.
00:17:43.000And then there's the mental health problems that we are seeing that are now widespread, thanks to the insanity of all of this.
00:17:49.000There's a paper in PLOS One, which is a scientific journal, came out early September and it pointed out that the crackdowns were significantly more, in terms of health effects, the effects of COVID-19 We're far worse directly among people aged 65 plus.
00:18:07.000If you're 65 plus, COVID hurt you worse than the lockdowns did.
00:18:10.000But, on the other hand, if you were between the ages of 5 and 44, you were heavily affected.
00:18:15.000This is a direct quote from the study.
00:18:17.000Heavily affected due to the indirect effects of COVID-19 in comparison to the direct efforts.
00:18:22.000It was the crackdowns that made a difference.
00:18:24.000And yet it's the crackdowns that the left seems to be completely focused on.
00:18:34.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:19:41.000So again, the media continue to push crackdowns.
00:19:44.000The Biden administration continues to push crackdowns.
00:19:47.000And they keep suggesting that the crackdowns are the solution, when in fact they are, for the vast majority of the population at this point, the problem.
00:19:54.000So yesterday, Elon Musk, who was recently given the Time Magazine Person of the Year well-deserved honor for an innovator who is changing the face of everything from Bitcoin to space exploration, he was asked about his position on vaxxing, on vaccinating and vax mandates.
00:20:09.000And he was ripped up and down by the media for this answer, even though he's obviously completely correct.
00:20:47.000And they believe that we should actually start triaging patients at the hospital based on VAX status.
00:20:52.000So David Frum, who used to be a Republican in some sense of the word, I suppose, he tweeted out, seems the best option is keep encouraging vaccines and boosters.
00:21:01.000Impose VAX mandates where it can be done.
00:21:03.000Otherwise, return to normal as fully as we can, especially the schools, and let hospitals quietly triage emergency care to serve the unvaccinated last.
00:21:11.000Okay, that's not how you triage emergency care, by the way.
00:21:13.000The way that you triage emergency care is by triaging the risk factors of the patients.
00:21:19.000If you have an 85-year-old who's vaccinated and you have a 5-year-old who's unvaccinated, why would you possibly triage the 85-year-old before the 5-year-old?
00:21:27.000And by the way, if the underlying notion here is that you bear responsibility for your own health decisions.
00:21:32.000And so if you're unvaccinated and then you get COVID and then you get very sick from it, you should be held accountable for that on a personal level.
00:21:38.000As I've said before, and the media, they get very angry when I say this, it happens to be true.
00:21:43.000If we are going to start triaging based on your prior health decisions, good luck with obesity and smoking, gang.
00:21:56.000And if the idea is that any health condition caused by something that you yourself could have avoided is now your responsibility, and so we should triage the guy who exercised a lot before you, even if you are in worse condition than the guy who exercised a lot, then I don't know how you... Where's the limiting principle there?
00:22:13.000It's a violation of the Hippocratic Oath to do exactly what David Frum is talking about right there.
00:22:17.000Because again, the idea is that we are going to assert our control over your life in any way possible, and we'll blackmail you with your own possible death if we don't like the decisions that you made.
00:22:29.000Meanwhile, yesterday, the Supreme Court announced that they would not allow for a Bax Exception when it came to religious exemptions.
00:22:43.000The Supreme Court turned away two emergency requests on Monday from healthcare workers, doctors, and nurses in New York to block the state's VAX mandate.
00:22:48.000Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas dissented.
00:22:52.000Because there were a bunch of people who challenged the mandate, arguing it allowed exemptions for those with medical exemptions, but not for people with religious objections.
00:22:59.000The court turned that away because apparently the idea is that it's very bad to cite religious objections on this basis.
00:23:10.000Gorsuch in his dissent said, even if one were to read the state's actions as something other than signs of animus, they leave little doubt the revised mandate was specifically directed at the applicant's unorthodox religious beliefs and practices.
00:23:20.000But apparently that wasn't good enough for the Supreme Court.
00:23:23.000So, the Supreme Court is now allowing states to ram this down with any sort of exceptions.
00:23:27.000By the way, no exception for natural immunity either, which is anti-scientific.
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00:24:44.000Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to push forward with its attempts to spend more money than God has ever seen.
00:24:51.000The other day, yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office came up with an estimate of how much Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan would actually cost if it weren't filled with lies.
00:25:02.000So the Build Back Better plan was essentially altered in a pretty obviously dishonest way.
00:25:08.000They created false sunsets for programs.
00:25:10.000What they did is they said, okay, well, what if we put in place a child tax credit, but for only the next two years?
00:25:16.000The reason they're saying that is because if it were estimated over the next 10 years, it would cost a lot of money.
00:25:21.000So it's sort of like buying a subscription to a magazine and saying, I'm going to allow it to expire three years from now.
00:25:29.000But meanwhile, you know, you're not going to allow it to expire three years from now.
00:25:31.000You know, it's going to go for 10 years.
00:25:33.000And that is what they're doing with Build Back Better.
00:25:34.000So Build Back Better, they set up these false sunsets they know are never going to actually apply.
00:25:38.000And then they say, well, it's only going to cost a certain amount of money.
00:25:42.000So CBO analyzed what exactly would the bill cost if all of these programs became permanent.
00:25:46.000And it turns out it would cost something like $4 to $5 trillion over the course of the next 10 years.
00:25:55.000And this, of course, is very bad for Jen Psaki and the White House and Joe Biden and all, because there are still Democrats in the Senate who are going to have to go home and explain to their voters why they voted for a bill that is going to increase the national debt by trillions and trillions of dollars.
00:26:09.000So Jen Psaki's immediate response was to call it fake news.
00:26:14.000When a press secretary calling things fake news was a full frontal assault on the journalistic establishment.
00:26:19.000It was a threat to freedom of the press.
00:26:21.000I'm old enough to remember when if Donald Trump had said about the CBO that it was filled with people who are making fake analyses, that would be an attack on our institutional integrity here in the United States.
00:26:33.000Now the Biden administration does this routinely and everybody sort of shrugs.
00:27:00.000But it's important to understand that when anybody raises a question about this new CBO score, it is a fake score about a bill that doesn't exist.
00:27:09.000Oh, so it's a fake score about a bill that doesn't exist, but which would exist if you guys weren't lying about what you're doing right now.
00:27:16.000It's not an attack on the press when Democrats say it.
00:27:17.000It's not an attack on the CBO when Democrats do it.
00:27:20.000When Democrats attack the Supreme Court, it's not an institutional attack.
00:27:22.000When Democrats attack the filibuster, it's not an institutional attack.
00:27:25.000When Mitch McConnell doesn't vote, I think it would be very transparent for the public to see exactly what they'd be getting for what we're spending for 10 years.
00:27:31.000So you won't support it if these programs are temporary?
00:27:35.000I'm just, you know, I'm listening to everybody, but, you know, I'm just telling you, ask me about inflation is real.
00:27:37.000It is not transitory and everybody who's saying differently is lying to you.
00:27:41.000I think it would be very transparent for the public to see exactly what they'd be getting for what we're spending for 10 years.
00:27:45.000So you won't support it if these programs are temporary?
00:27:47.000No, we're going to talk. We're still talking. I'm just, you know, I'm listening to everybody, but, you know, I'm just telling you, ask me about inflation is real. It's not transitory. It's alarming.
00:27:58.000Joe Manchin's body language here is no, no, and no, which it should be, considering that Joe Biden is 1 million points underwater in his home state of West Virginia.
00:28:05.000If Joe Manchin wishes to retain his job, he is not going to be voting for Build Back Better.
00:28:09.000According to the New York Times, he is the most prominent Democratic holdout on Biden's $2.2 trillion social safety net, climate, and tax bill.
00:28:17.000That, of course, is not the real price.
00:28:20.000He cast fresh doubt on Monday on his party's plans to speed the measure through the Senate before Christmas, saying he still had grave concerns about how it would affect the economy.
00:28:29.000He said he was still engaged, but it is very unlikely that this is going to happen quickly, which means it's not going to happen at all.
00:28:35.000Once we are into an election year, nothing is going to happen here.
00:28:38.000Meanwhile, there is the real possibility of a Biden stagflation.
00:28:41.000Phil Graham and Mike Solon writing for The Wall Street Journal.
00:28:44.000They say the White House continues to insist that inflation will soon fade away and the country will return to its pre-pandemic prosperity.
00:28:50.000But the Biden administration's regulatory agenda virtually ensures that the post-pandemic economy will be nothing like it was before.
00:28:56.000Announcing regulatory burden of Mr. Biden's executive orders, his regulators' open hostility toward America's economic system, and the return of progressive-era antitrust enforcement will stifle growth, all the ingredients will be present to turn the current inflation into stagflation.
00:30:05.000Instead, we got 2.1% from 2010 to 2016.
00:30:10.000Now Democrats are openly claiming it's gonna be below 2% for the next few years.
00:30:14.000Democrats claim the nation suffered from secular stagnation when subsequent deregulation and tax cuts revived the economy and the Biden administration needed justification for more stimulus spending.
00:30:23.000Democrats suddenly decided Obama had not done enough to stimulate the economy.
00:30:29.000So they're going to continue to double down on all of this and you will get people investing less in the economy.
00:30:34.000Why would you invest in an economy where the government seizes more of your money and regulates your ability to control your own business?
00:30:41.000The answer is, you're not going to do that.
00:30:43.000And all of this, of course, ties into the alarmism, the environmental alarmism of this administration.
00:30:47.000They're always looking for an excuse to do the thing they wanted to do anyway.
00:30:51.000So anytime something bad happens in life, this administration immediately jumps to, we need more regulation and we need more top-down control.
00:30:57.000COVID, more regulation, more top-down control.
00:30:59.000A tornado in Kentucky, more regulation, more top-down control.
00:31:05.000If you went to a doctor, and no matter what symptoms you complained of, he offered you morphine, you might start to think that maybe the guy was a drug pusher.
00:31:12.000Well, that is what you've got right now.
00:31:14.000You've got a government that is offering the same solution to every problem.
00:31:17.000So either you believe that this solution really is the gold standard, the all-purpose solution, or it turns out that these people are just pushing an addictive drug of spending and regulation, regardless of the first part of the statement.
00:31:33.000Regardless of the contingency, the solution is always the same.
00:31:37.000We'll get to more on this in just one second, because the environmental policy of this administration is a full-scale disaster, and it happens to be based on lies.
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00:33:12.000As I mentioned, the Supreme Court turned away two emergency requests on Monday from healthcare workers, doctors, and nurses in New York to block the state's vaccine mandate.
00:33:18.000So we really do need to sound off, push back when we do.
00:33:22.000It makes it very clear to political actors there is a consequence to this.
00:33:24.000Actually, over the last couple of days, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, he came out and he said, we're basically done here.
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00:33:43.000So meanwhile, the Biden administration, which is pushing massive expansionary monetary policy, pushing huge spending.
00:33:55.000Meanwhile, they're pushing more and more regulation and they're using the environment to do this.
00:33:59.000The New York Times has an unbelievable piece of propaganda out about the world burning.
00:34:05.000They say this is their next big thing.
00:34:07.000Their next big thing is what a failed planet looks like.
00:34:10.000They say this is their next big study.
00:34:11.000Well, considering their last big study was the 1619 Project, which was just laced with garbage and lies, they say this should be taken with a grain of salt.
00:34:19.000So they have an entire interactive exhibit over at the New York Times called What a Failed Planet Looks Like.
00:34:25.000And then it's a picture of planet Earth literally on fire.
00:34:49.000It has been warming for quite a while.
00:34:51.000It's actually been warning for decades at this point.
00:34:54.000And that global warming is caused, at least in large part, by anthropogenic climate change.
00:34:59.000It means that carbon emissions actually do make a difference.
00:35:02.000That stuff's going to be up in the air for thousands of years.
00:35:04.000The globe is going to gradually warm and human beings are going to adapt, because it turns out that we are excellent at adaptation.
00:35:08.000And fewer people are dying of climate-related events now than were dying of climate-related events, say, 50 or 60 years ago, because we are so good at adaptation.
00:35:17.000It's a crisis because they need a crisis in order to justify the policies that they are pushing.
00:35:22.000By the way, some of the things that the New York Times labels as postcards from a world on fire, there's actually a sort of hilarious video of a man ice skating on one of the Netherlands canals in his bathing suit and going sailing right through the ice headfirst.
00:35:38.000I'm not sure why that's supposed to make me afraid as opposed to making me laugh.
00:35:43.000According to the New York Times, skating on the Netherlands' many canals has long been a favorite winter activity.
00:35:48.000But in the past decade, Amsterdam's canals have frozen only three times.
00:35:51.000When canals do freeze, as they did in February, skaters can find themselves on dangerously thin ice.
00:35:56.000Well, clearly we should be sacrificing trillions and trillions of dollars that the skaters can go to the Netherlands' canals and not fall through thin ice.
00:36:06.000Okay, so the latest example of global warming that's going to kill us all, of course, is this tornado in Kentucky.
00:36:15.000The worst tornado in Kentucky history is actually in 1925.
00:36:19.000But Joe Biden is blaming the tornadoes on climate change.
00:36:22.000As we will explore, this is not backed by the data.
00:36:25.000The intensity of the weather across the board has some impact as a consequence of the warming of the planet and the climate change.
00:36:34.000The specific impact on these specific storms, I can't say at this point.
00:36:40.000I'm going to be asking the EPA and others to take a look at that, but the fact is that we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming.
00:37:05.000His wife is a doctor, so maybe she's a doctor of climatology as well.
00:37:07.000Maybe we should ask her about that since she's a doctor of medicine and also of everything else.
00:37:12.000The expertise here is just off the charts here from Joe Biden.
00:37:15.000I have no idea if the tornadoes have anything to do with global warming, but rest assured, they definitely have something to do with global warming.
00:37:21.000Meanwhile, here's the FEMA administrator, Deanne Criswell, who's saying this is going to be the new normal.
00:37:29.000Because I feel like it's kind of abnormal for tornadoes to rip across the state and kill dozens and dozens of people, which is why it's a big news story.
00:37:36.000If it were normal, I wouldn't even know about it.
00:37:37.000Here is the FEMA administrator saying the new normal is going to be Mad Max Hellscape.
00:37:42.000This is going to be our new normal, and the effects that we're seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation.
00:37:49.000We're taking a lot of efforts at FEMA to work with communities to help reduce the impacts that we're seeing from these severe weather events.
00:38:05.000Now, the reality is, again, there are a few things that we can do with regard to climate change.
00:38:09.000Geoengineering is something that some states have been exploring.
00:38:13.000There's machinery that is going to be built if climate change becomes this grave a threat that is going to be subsidized, presumably by government, to suck carbon out of the air.
00:38:22.000Ron DeSantis, by the way, down in Florida, he said, I'm not going to use the terms climate change to use the sort of lingo of the left, but We are going to make our infrastructure harder and we're going to make it more difficult for the climate to affect that infrastructure.
00:38:34.000So we're going to build new seawalls, right?
00:38:35.000This is actual responsible policymaking.
00:38:37.000You'll notice that one of the things that our policymakers like to do is yell about climate change and then do nothing except say you should pay higher taxes.
00:38:45.000If you stop driving your car today, 100 years down the road, the climate will be helped by 0.0000000000 degrees over the course of the next century.
00:38:58.000But they will not do anything to, you know, actually like build new seawalls or there's a giant hurricane you may have noticed that hit Louisiana this year.
00:39:05.000It didn't do anything remotely like the damage that Hurricane Katrina did.
00:39:08.000Because the infrastructure was way better than Hurricane Katrina.
00:39:12.000It turns out a good solution to hurricanes down there, at least in preventing death, is to actually harden your infrastructure.
00:39:18.000Meanwhile, when that storm made its way all the way up into the New York, New Jersey area, and there was a lot of flooding, you started to see Phil Murphy and Andrew Cuomo, then governor of New York, talking about the evils of climate change.
00:39:30.000How about do a better job building your infrastructure, you idiot?
00:39:34.000This is like you go to the doctor and you say, I have a broken leg.
00:39:37.000And the doctor says, well, over the course of the next 30 years, if you eat better, then presumably you'll have less of a risk of future leg breaks.
00:39:45.000Okay, right, but my leg is broken right now.
00:39:48.000I mean, it's all about avoiding actual culpability for the things they could be doing right now.
00:39:53.000Also, it's about making excuses for things they want to do anyway, like shutting down their opposition.
00:39:56.000Michael Mann, was famously embroiled in a rather large-scale controversy over whether he had skewed his data in order to achieve particular visual effects.
00:40:08.000You remember he was famous for the hockey stick chart, which went back only a certain amount of time in terms of the temperature, but didn't go back far enough.
00:40:14.000That was some of the accusation, or that he had sort of gamed the stats on it.
00:40:20.000claiming that thanks to the tornadoes, we should now actually Censor people, like actively censor people who are quote-unquote climate deniers.
00:40:28.000Now, it's unclear what he means by climate denier.
00:40:30.000One of the things you've seen from the left is the constantly shifting terminology and definitions.
00:40:35.000So, it used to be that to be an anti-vaxxer, you had to actively oppose vaccinations.
00:40:39.000Now, according to Webster's, you're an anti-vaxxer if you oppose vax mandates, which of course is crazy.
00:40:44.000I can be very pro-vaccine and also anti-vax mandate.
00:40:46.000Well, they've done the same thing with climate denial.
00:40:48.000They'll suggest that you are a climate denier, which of course is supposed to Ring with echoes of Holocaust denial, which is in and of itself pretty gross.
00:40:57.000Denying the Holocaust is not the same thing as denying the human impact on climate change on a moral level.
00:41:01.000But even put that aside, climate denial has now shifted in its definition from you deny the climate is changing at all to you accept everything the IPC says, the international, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
00:41:14.000You accept everything they say about climate change.
00:41:16.000You just don't agree with our solutions.
00:41:17.000So I don't even know what definitions he's using.
00:41:19.000But here's Michael Mann calling for censorship of all of his political opponents.
00:41:23.000It's fairly easy for these big tech companies, these social media companies to stop, you know, showing COVID denial for suppressing COVID denial videos and posts.
00:41:36.000There isn't a huge corporate interest that's going to get in their way.
00:41:40.000With climate change, it's a whole different story.
00:41:43.000We are talking about an effort by the world's largest, most powerful industry, the fossil fuel industry, to prevent any meaningful action on climate and to accomplish that in part by using social media to promote denialism and dismissal.
00:41:59.000So he's calling on tech companies to literally stop people from saying things.
00:42:55.000So where is the data to back the idea that these tornadoes were caused by climate change?
00:43:01.000The answer is they can't present the data because they don't have the data.
00:43:04.000Instead, it's just part of their broader... As always with the left, it is not important that the individual incident actually be connected to their larger narrative.
00:43:51.000Any sort of news hook is going to push the policies they want.
00:43:57.000Eugene Robinson says, it's not unprecedented to see tornadoes late this year.
00:44:02.000But the ones that ravaged Kentucky and neighboring states Friday, killing at least 74, are likely to end up the most powerful and lethal December storms on record.
00:44:08.000They were fueled by unusually warm air.
00:44:10.000Temperatures in the area were more than 20 degrees above normal, creating atmospheric conditions more like April than the weeks before Christmas.
00:44:15.000Meteorologists say the path of the jet stream was another key factor.
00:44:18.000Climate change may or may not have played a role in Friday's rare and deadly storms.
00:44:23.000But there's plenty of circumstantial evidence suggesting it did.
00:44:26.000In fact, climate scientists have been warning us for years that extreme weather events of all sorts would become more frequent as the planet heats up thanks to humankind's burning of fossil fuels.
00:44:34.000This year has been one long and tragic.
00:44:52.000There were a lot of hurricanes that were out there in the middle of the ocean.
00:44:55.000Not a ton of them hit land and did severe damage.
00:44:58.000It used to be that people who are anti the climate change agenda would say things like, it's really weird because I'm noticing that it's snowing a lot.
00:45:09.000They're like, oh, that's weather, not climate, you idiots.
00:45:11.000You can't cite individual weather instances as proof that the climate is changing in a way that you say it is.
00:46:00.000And the vast majority of emissions at this point are coming from the developing world.
00:46:03.000So we could get rid of all of the gas-powered cars on America's roads today and replace them with electric vehicles, and it would not even put a dent into the kind of climate change we're talking about.
00:46:12.000But that's not stopping this administration from saying we're going to waste presumably hundreds of millions of dollars trying to incentivize people to get electric vehicles.
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