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00:00:00.000Hunter Biden is caught on tape telling a prostitute about his prior laptop problems.
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00:01:35.000Alrighty. So Hunter Biden is apparently the smartest person that Joe Biden knows, which is incredible because what this means is that Joe Biden just spends his days hanging around That is the only plausible explanation for how Hunter Biden is the smartest person that he knows.
00:01:50.000Because kids are unintelligent and Hunter Biden is really unintelligent.
00:01:54.000And so I have picked the age of five because if you go to the age of six, Hunter Biden still would not be the smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
00:02:01.000So now we have this story about Hunter Biden in which he violates all the rules of prostitution.
00:02:08.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Hunter Biden claimed that Russians stole one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Las Vegas hotel room, the Daily Mail can reveal.
00:02:19.000The alleged incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers.
00:02:22.000The first, abandoned at a Delaware computer store.
00:03:10.000It's like the after the credits section of the sex tape.
00:03:13.000He left the camera rolling as he recounted a Vegas bender in which he spent 18 days Going around from penthouse suite to penthouse suite, sometimes costing $10,000 a night.
00:03:24.000He earned all that kind of money by being the smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
00:03:28.000He didn't use the Biden name in any way, shape, or form to get extremely wealthy and then use all of that money on Coke-fueled binges with multiple prostitutes, moving hotel to hotel.
00:03:49.000I mean, like the greatest doctor in all the land.
00:03:51.000And then you got Hunter, who is just a world beating businessman, like an incredible, incredible businessman.
00:03:57.000It's, it's really an impressive, it's an impressive show.
00:04:00.000So here was a little bit of what it sounded like when Hunter was speaking to this prostitute who had to be like, God, you're so boring, but you're also paying me $2,000 an hour.
00:04:31.000My computer, it's like taking tons of like, um, like just left it like that came on. He would always put him like in like a Pascal and all that bullshit. You know what I mean?
00:04:41.000And it was like, I mean, like, what is this? And somebody stole them, like during that period of time.
00:04:50.000What does the computer have to do with it?
00:04:53.000They have videos of me doing this. They have videos of me doing like crazy sex. You know?
00:05:06.000And also, the pee tape is real, but it stars Hunter Biden.
00:05:10.000Now, the reason we're leading with this story is number one, because it's hilarious, but number two, because if this were Donald Trump Jr., you know that it would lead every network news hour for like the next month.
00:05:21.000But it's Hunter Biden, so he's just a wayward child, guys.
00:05:23.000He's just a small child who's 51 years old.
00:05:26.000He's just a very small wayward child who's 14 years my senior.
00:05:47.000Usually you have to be the artist first before he can be a dissolute artist, but he actually started with the dissolution and then he became an artist, which is actually going at it sort of ass backwards, right?
00:05:54.000He started off with the coke-fueled binges and the vendors with prostitutes, and then he moved into making crappy art, as opposed to usually it's the other way around, which is you start off as an artist and then So, a few things about this.
00:07:04.000Two, if you are going to use a prostitute, don't talk to them about all your life problems.
00:07:09.000Because you're literally having to pay them for sex so they don't care about them, and they probably are not great repositories of information.
00:07:15.000Like, I don't think that they are big on the NDA, per se.
00:07:19.000Like, it doesn't seem like the most trustworthy crowd.
00:07:24.000If you are going to talk about all your life problems, being a famous person like Hunter Biden, if you are, in fact, going to do that, then probably don't talk on tape, on a laptop.
00:07:37.000If you are going to, one, have sex with a prostitute, two, talk to the prostitute about all your life problems, three, do all of it on tape, on your laptop, Then four, what you talk about should not be how your prior laptops have been stolen to your great discontent, because that creates a sort of incentive structure for people to steal your laptop.
00:07:58.000And it turns out, of course, that this laptop did not end up in his hands, just like every other laptop.
00:08:04.000So guys, if you're ever at the airport and you see Hunter Biden there and you really have to go to the bathroom and your laptop is in your backpack, do not ask Hunter Biden to watch your backpack.
00:08:25.000Because Hunter Biden is a wonderful, wonderful man.
00:08:27.000And we know he's a wonderful man because his last name is Biden and Joe Biden is a wonderful man.
00:08:32.000My favorite part of this, this is really great.
00:08:34.000The prostitute asked Hunter if he was worried, remember, he said that he had a laptop and the Russians stole it, quote, from the Daily Mail.
00:08:41.000The prostitute asked Hunter if he was worried the Russian alleged thieves would try to blackmail him.
00:08:46.000Hunter replied, yeah, in some way, yeah.
00:08:53.000If they do, he also knows I make like a gazillion dollars.
00:08:58.000Hunter appeared to be dismayed that if the video was sold by the alleged thieves to porn or news companies, he would be unable to cash in on the explicit videos himself.
00:09:05.000Yeah, because there's a huge market, it turns out, for Hunter Biden sex tapes.
00:09:09.000It's like one night in Paris, except with a slightly overweight, dissolute politician's son.
00:09:39.000OK, like I love that Hunter Biden, the smartest person that Joe Biden knows, his big business idea is what if I screw a prostitute, put it on my laptop and then sell the tape?
00:09:50.000I guarantee you, you know, there's a breed of man who when he's dating a woman or when he's trying to date a woman, he's not even dating her.
00:09:56.000When he's trying to date a woman, he thinks that the best available thing that he can do to woo a woman is to send a picture of his.
00:10:43.000Okay, by the way, photos on the laptop hard drive obtained by the Daily Mail include pictures of a woman's Russian passport and photos of Hunter topless, pulling the woman's brunette hair while she kneels on a bed.
00:10:52.000Other photos show the woman and three young men driving to Hunter's former Hollywood Hills rented home, drinking and partying by the pool, and two women naked with Hunter by the pool.
00:11:00.000It's unclear whether the Russian woman and three men are the same people Hunter accused of stealing his laptop.
00:11:05.000So the good news is that that all got sent to the cloud, so apparently he could re-download that.
00:11:09.000To the new computer to make sure that he had it with him wherever he went.
00:11:13.000You know, some people, we like to have pictures of our wives and our kids on the cloud.
00:11:16.000Hunter has very important things, like random people he has sex with and does drugs with, on the cloud.
00:11:23.000Ah, well, at least he's not the president's son.
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00:12:01.000If any of that were to happen, You need life insurance, right?
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00:13:01.000Well, Hunter Biden is going around inflating his own finances as well as his genitals.
00:13:05.000It turns out that his father is just busy inflating the economy.
00:13:08.000According to the Wall Street Journal, we now have another terrible inflationary report.
00:13:12.000According to the Wall Street Journal, inflation remained elevated in July as the economic recovery continued, but prices showed evidence of cooling amid pandemic-related supply problems and signs that the recent rise in coronavirus infections is starting to crimp some business activity.
00:13:25.000So it sounds like a great time to blow more money into the economy.
00:14:12.000Some people are not going back to work.
00:14:13.000Another problem that we are experiencing right now is a continued price inflation.
00:14:17.000And then the biggest problem of all is what happens if we just don't have systemic demand?
00:14:22.000This is what happened throughout the 1990s in Japan.
00:14:24.000So throughout the 1980s, Japan was supposed to be the place that was on the make.
00:14:29.000Japan was going to overtake the United States.
00:14:30.000And then it turns out the demand dropped off and they just had stagnation for like a decade.
00:14:35.000And they really have never recovered, the Japanese economy.
00:14:38.000The idea of secular stagnation, I've talked about it on the program before, that is actually a greater threat at this point to the possible growth of the American economy than inflation is.
00:14:51.000But inflation is still a major problem for many, many Americans.
00:14:55.000And so Joe Biden said, no, no, no, this is a good monthly report.
00:15:01.000The latest report on consumer prices show that we've expanded some easing, excuse me, the expected easing we thought was going to come has increased.
00:15:38.000If you actually look at the numbers and the trends over the last several months, it shows that core inflation was not only below expectations, but it decelerated from last month and even from the month prior.
00:15:52.000So over the last couple of months, Okay, so they're saying that the inflation is starting to wane.
00:16:05.000The inflation that is already baked in because you guys are pouring money into the economy is resulting in a lot of people not going back to work.
00:16:12.000According to the Wall Street Journal two days ago, millions of Americans are unemployed despite record job openings.
00:16:17.000The hardest-hit industries have yet to get back to the pre-pandemic levels.
00:16:21.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of available jobs since May has outnumbered Americans looking for work.
00:16:26.000One factor is a mismatch between where people want to work and which industries are hiring.
00:16:30.000The hardest-hit industries have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, when 63% of Americans were in the labor force.
00:16:35.000In July, there were 5.7 million fewer jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis than there were in February of 2020, according to Labor Department data.
00:16:43.000The number of people trying to get back into the workforce has rebounded since the early days of the pandemic.
00:16:48.000The share of adults working or looking for a job has increased slightly from a low of 60.2% in April of last year to 61.7% in July.
00:16:56.000However, what this means is that there are millions of jobs that are going unfilled right now.
00:17:02.000Employers still have 6.6 million fewer jobs on the payroll than they did last year, but there's still 10 million job openings from June.
00:17:12.000Okay, and if those were filled, we'd be back above where we were before the pandemic started.
00:17:16.000But those jobs aren't being filled because people are being told to stay home.
00:17:22.000There's a serious holdup in the economy, and that is pouring all this money into the economy right now.
00:17:27.000And it's affecting people on a pretty day-to-day level.
00:17:30.000Tyson Foods, for example, just raised its prices to keep up with inflation.
00:17:33.000This is how inflation works, by the way.
00:17:35.000When there is too much money chasing too few products, everybody has to raise prices to compensate.
00:17:40.000According to Reuters, Tyson Foods cannot increase prices for chicken and prepared foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain, Chief Executive Donnie King said on Monday after the company reported higher than expected quarterly earnings.
00:17:53.000And we have lots of reports right now that are being cheered by the left, reports about how employers are offering these insane benefits to get people to work.
00:18:08.000If you're artificially increasing the economy and telling people to come home or tell people to stay home, they won't come to work unless you offer them these exorbitant benefits.
00:18:17.000The exorbitant benefits come with price increases.
00:18:18.000But what happens when the demand levels off because the stimulus stopped?
00:18:23.000Because you can't just do quantitative easing forever.
00:18:45.000Well, President Biden, he admits that the gas prices, he says that they're lower than they were, you know, 10 years ago, but they're still really, really high right now.
00:18:53.000Today, gas prices are lower than they were early in this decade, but they're still high enough to create a pinch on working families.
00:19:02.000One key thing about the infrastructure bill that just passed the Senate is there are no gas tax increases.
00:19:21.000I was informed that gas is really, really bad for the environment.
00:19:26.000In fact, it turns out that the White House is now calling on OPEC and its oil-producing allies to boost production in an effort to combat climbing gasoline prices.
00:19:33.000But I was told by the left that climbing gasoline prices are a good, that is a good thing, isn't it?
00:19:40.000I thought that the price inflation we're seeing, that's just, that's not a reflection of inflation.
00:19:45.000That is a reflection of all the pent up demand.
00:19:47.000So if that's the case, why are you trying to artificially decrease oil prices?
00:19:51.000Wouldn't it be good for oil prices to remain high from an environmental perspective?
00:19:54.000After all, that would create the market incentive for people to get with the green energy program.
00:20:00.000But Joe Biden is not willing to risk that because Joe Biden understands the reality here, which is that the fundamentals of the economy are still quite problematic.
00:20:07.000And that when you inflate the economy, you end up blowing up the price of gas.
00:20:11.000And there are a lot of people out there who still need the gas.
00:20:14.000And so instead, he is carving a hole in his entire environmental agenda by going direct to OPEC and asking them to increase the supply of oil in order to lower the price.
00:20:23.000It's worth pointing out the hypocrisy of the Biden administration.
00:20:25.000They're all for green energy until comes the point when the price of gasoline rises, at which point they immediately say no gas taxes and also OPEC Do you mind, you know, cranking up the production just a little bit?
00:20:37.000Meanwhile, is the Senate slowing down at all?
00:20:53.000Over the last 24 hours, the Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
00:20:57.000That includes $517 billion in new spending and a reauthorization of funding from the highway bill.
00:21:02.000The Senate then moved to debate on the Democrats' filibuster-proof $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation proposal.
00:21:08.000The framework for the plan authorizing that level of federal spending passed in a 50-49 vote early Wednesday morning at 3.50 a.m.
00:21:15.000The reconciliation bill includes new spending programs related to tuition-free community college, which is a terrible idea, universal pre-K, support for childcare, Medicaid expansion.
00:21:25.000It contains tax increases like a corporate tax rate hike to pay for part of the bill.
00:21:29.000Once the proposal is turned into formal legislative language, it will be put up for a final vote on the Senate floor.
00:21:34.000It can only pass if all the Democrats vote in favor of it.
00:21:36.000And the Democrats are making clear that this is exactly what they want to do.
00:21:39.000In fact, House Democrats are already threatening that they're not going to vote for the infrastructure plan, the bipartisan infrastructure plan, unless they get precisely what they want, which is this $3.5 trillion boondoggle of a budget.
00:21:52.000So we're just going to continue throwing money into the system even as inflation rises and even as the demand seems to be stagnating, which is what is causing a crimp in the inflation right now.
00:22:04.000Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the greatest indicator that our Congress just doesn't know what the hell it is doing, and that they see everything as just a grab bag of cash for themselves.
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00:23:46.000If you don't understand what cryptocurrency is, I have a YouTube video that you definitely should check out where I go through what Bitcoin is and what the roots of it are and all of that.
00:23:53.000Suffice it to say, what cryptocurrency really is, is it's a threat to the fiat currency regime of the United States and other countries.
00:24:00.000Cryptocurrency allows people to trade with each other without having to resort to currencies that can be inflated by centralized governments.
00:24:07.000And also they act as a repository of value, sort of like gold, right?
00:24:10.000Because basically what Bitcoin is, for example, is it is a digital form of, it's basically a digital code that churns out so-called coins at regularized intervals.
00:24:23.000And then does not do any more than that, right?
00:24:26.000And there's a whole system by which the ownership of these coins is verified and all of that.
00:24:31.000But what the main kind of cache of the thing is, is that it's a trustless system.
00:24:35.000It doesn't require you to go to a bank.
00:24:37.000You don't have to have a bank account in order to use Bitcoin, right?
00:24:40.000And you don't have to worry about transferring your Bitcoin from one currency into another currency.
00:24:46.000And so this is a threat to a lot of governments because governments like for you to use dollars or it's the Yuan or the Renminbi.
00:24:52.000If you're talking about the Chinese government, they like for you to use centralized currencies because this is how they get out of their debt problem.
00:24:57.000Every time a government racks up a monster debt, what they do is they inflate their currency and they just start slowly inflating their way out of that debt.
00:25:05.000Bitcoin provides an alternative to that.
00:25:07.000It also, by the way, disintermediates like the entire banking system.
00:25:12.000You don't think about how when you use your credit card, every time you use your credit card, there are between seven and 10 companies that are involved in every single use of your credit card.
00:25:22.000And by the way, it takes like days for every credit card transaction to actually be verified, which is why you'll get a call from your fraud company two days after you've used your credit card on a particular transaction.
00:25:32.000So there are all sorts of middlemen that are cut out of the process by Bitcoin, by cryptocurrencies generally.
00:25:40.000And cryptocurrencies are becoming ever more sophisticated.
00:25:44.000What it is more than anything is it's an almost anarchic decentralization of a process that the elitists in our society believe they should have control over and not you.
00:25:54.000So what is government doing about this?
00:25:56.000Well, what government could be doing in the United States is using Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a way to break the Chinese financial stranglehold on that part of the world.
00:26:05.000Because Chinese citizens right now have to trade using the Yuan, for example.
00:26:11.000They have to trade using digital currencies that are being created by the Chinese government.
00:26:17.000What if they could trade straight in dollars?
00:26:18.000What if the United States, for example, created its own Fed coin or pushed forward a stable coin, which is tied to the price of the dollar?
00:26:26.000Well, then the Chinese would be in real trouble.
00:26:28.000But the American government is too stupid to see this.
00:26:29.000So instead, what you get is them attempting to undermine cryptocurrencies because those cryptocurrencies could theoretically be a threat to America's ability to be the world currency and America's ability to blow out the spending and then inflate their way out of it later.
00:26:46.000Which is why it makes it kind of troubling that along with this infrastructure package, according to Quartz.com, the U.S.
00:26:51.000Senate passed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Tuesday with a glaring problem for the cryptocurrency industry.
00:26:57.000The bill includes vague new tax reporting requirements that digital rights advocates say threaten individual privacy and crypto advocates say could hamstring industry innovation in the United States.
00:27:06.000The bill's authors focused on closing the so-called crypto tax gap to pay for some of the massive spending plan.
00:27:13.000There are a lot of people who are using crypto to trade.
00:27:15.000There are a lot of people who are buying crypto.
00:27:17.000And the government doesn't like that you're making money.
00:27:19.000And so the government wants to take that money away from you.
00:27:21.000And they want to penalize you for engaging in a system that rivals the United States dollar in some ways.
00:27:27.000Even though it is not nearly big enough to rival the U.S.
00:27:29.000dollar in any real sense, even though not enough companies have adopted the ability to pay with Bitcoin yet, for it even to be seen as a true kind of global currency in the same way that the U.S.
00:27:38.000dollar is, when government sees a thing that is successful, government's first move is, how can I steal that money and use it to my own benefit?
00:27:46.000And that is what they're doing with cryptocurrency.
00:27:48.000The bill requires any crypto broker, defined as anyone responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfer of digital assets on behalf of another person, to report a user's names and addresses.
00:27:59.000That leaves all sorts of players in the crypto space, including miners and software developers on the hook, even though many of them do not currently gather or access personal information about users, many of whom are anonymous.
00:28:09.000Like, suffice it to say, There is a wide scale understanding this is a bad piece of legislation.
00:28:16.000The people who are attempting to push back against this, by the way, were people ranging from the far left, like Ron Wyden in Oregon, all the way to Ted Cruz on the right.
00:28:27.000Anyone with any semblance of understanding of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency was against what this bill did.
00:28:32.000They pushed forward with the bill anyway.
00:28:35.000And they push forward with it because in the end, Congress does not care what sort of innovation they stifle.
00:28:40.000Congress does not care what industries they strangle in the crib.
00:28:43.000They don't care about any of that stuff.
00:28:44.000All they care about is how can they grab your cash?
00:28:50.000The original language, by the way, of the bill, there were amendments that were proposed, but those amendments were put to the side because it was important that nothing be amended so that they could pass this stupid infrastructure bill.
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00:30:51.000We knew in Israel, for example, there was some data that suggested that the Pfizer vaccine was only 30-something percent effective against the transmission of Delta among the vaccinated.
00:31:00.000That you could get a breakthrough case fairly easily, even if you were vaccinated in Israel.
00:31:49.000Okay, what this actually should say is, okay, well since everybody who has had the vaccine can still get this thing and then presumably still transmit it, although we don't have the full data on transmission yet, Even if that's the case.
00:32:02.000What that really means is there is no way we're getting to zero COVID.
00:32:05.000Zero COVID is not a thing that's going to happen.
00:32:07.000And so everybody should go out and live their lives now.
00:32:17.000It's just about control at this point.
00:32:19.000That's the part that's totally maddening.
00:32:21.000No one has a way to prevent a future variant.
00:32:23.000If a future variant is coming, it's coming.
00:32:26.000No one has a way to prevent this thing from transmitting because literally hundreds of millions of human beings have had this thing at this point.
00:32:34.000In fact, the only country right now that I'm aware of that has had no real Delta surge in terms of death is Sweden.
00:33:06.000They're not seeing a giant spike in Sweden.
00:33:08.000Could that have something to do with the fact that they pursued a very Floridian strategy of shield the vulnerable and let everybody else go to work?
00:33:19.000One of the things that we now know, according to Israeli studies, is that natural immunity may be more durable than vaccine immunity.
00:33:27.000And nonetheless, the idea here is that if you want people to live any form of real life, if you want people to get back to work at any point, if you want anyone to go back to normal at any point, it is because you are selfish and terrible.
00:33:38.000That's because we are now engaged in a bizarre single-factor analysis where the only thing we care about is preventing transmission of COVID.
00:33:48.000I was talking with someone today at length about this particular issue.
00:33:51.000And he was saying, well, don't you, why do you have different answers than so many of the public health specialists?
00:33:56.000And I said, first of all, it depends which ones you talk to.
00:33:58.000If you talk to Mario Makary over at Johns Hopkins, or if you talk to Jay Bhattacharya over at Stanford, even if you talk to former CDC director, Robert Redfield, even by the way, if you talk to former FDA commissioner, Scott Golley, they all agree with a lot of what the things that I'm saying, but put that aside.
00:34:13.000Maybe the reason that I disagree with so many public health experts is not because we are looking at different data.
00:34:18.000Maybe we're looking at the same data, but their priority is not my priority.
00:34:21.000Their priority is no one should ever get COVID again.
00:34:25.000And my priority is people should be allowed to live free now that the risk has been mitigated to the fullest possible extent available for normal human beings.
00:34:34.000Hey, this is why it is so maddening to me when you are seeing, for example, the, the Jen Psaki's and Joe Biden's of the world attacking Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.
00:35:07.000Florida's an extremely elderly populated state.
00:35:12.000And DeSantis still, without the population adjustments, ranks like 26th in terms of deaths per 100,000.
00:35:18.000The media are not interested in telling you that.
00:35:20.000They're interested in ripping on DeSantis.
00:35:22.000And the answer is because DeSantis, like you, like me, like many Americans, is trying to balance a variety of factors when it comes to COVID.
00:35:28.000And those factors do include things like, do I really need to mask my kid when they go to school?
00:35:33.000In the United States, fewer than 400 children have died under the age of 18, a subgroup of 73 plus million Americans.
00:35:41.000There is no evidence that Delta is more deadly for kids than the prior variants.
00:35:45.000That is according to Joe Biden's own administration.
00:35:59.000There is no comparative masking in classrooms versus non-masking in classrooms study that demonstrates that masking in classrooms is deeply effective in preventing some sort of cataclysm that's to come.
00:36:11.000Okay, but if you don't care about any of those priorities, if your only priority is no one should ever get sick again, the answer is going to be John Travolta in The Bubble Boy, and that's what these folks want.
00:36:20.000This is why Jen Psaki is trying to make an enemy of Ron DeSantis.
00:36:23.000Like, listen to Jen Psaki, it's pretty wild.
00:36:26.000A headline from the New York Post, from I believe...
00:36:30.000Two days ago, Team Biden's war on DeSantis is all about kneecapping a successful governor, a GOP governor. Could you address that concern, please?
00:36:40.000Our war is not on DeSantis. It's on the virus, which we're trying to kneecap. And he does not seem to want to participate in that effort to kneecap the virus. Hence our concern.
00:36:50.000Screw you. He doesn't want to participate in it. On what planet?
00:36:56.00093% of Florida seniors have had at least one dose of the vaccine, and well over 80% of seniors in Florida have had two doses of the vaccine.
00:37:06.000No, it's just that he does not believe that it is possible to completely kill off the virus, because there's no evidence it's possible to completely kill off the virus worldwide.
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00:41:23.000Well, in the absence of evidence and also in the absence of any sort of real moral case for why they're doing what they're doing, the Democrats, the left across the board, their basic idea here is to just imply that everybody they don't like wants people to die, right?
00:41:43.000We are back to where we were at the beginning of the pandemic when people were saying, we really need to take into account all of the countervailing factors.
00:41:49.000And people were saying, well, you just want to kill grandma.
00:41:53.000And right now, the only thing that they keep saying over and over and over again is that they want zero COVID and zero COVID is not a thing. It is just not a thing. So instead, they're not talking about all of the dictatorial measures they're going to take. So Jen Psaki said, we are lifting up and supporting private sector vaccination mandates. Okay. Now let's just recall, this is the federal government talking about how it wants private industries to do what the federal government itself will not do. Right. That's what this is.
00:42:21.000This is the exact same thing as when the federal government says they want Facebook to ban particular types of speech.
00:42:25.000Now, they're saying, what we would really like is for all of these corporations to do what we're not doing and mandate the vaccines.
00:42:33.000Remember, still FDA emergency use authorization.
00:42:45.000And that means that I don't care whether you have the vaccine or not.
00:42:49.000I mean, I'd prefer that you do for your own peace of mind, for your own safety.
00:42:53.000But if you choose not to get the vaccine, it doesn't affect me because all that's going to happen to me in all likelihood.
00:42:59.000And when I say in all likelihood, I mean in 99.99% of cases.
00:43:02.000All that's going to happen to me if I get a breakthrough case is I will have the sniffles, which is perfectly acceptable to me.
00:43:08.000That is a massive downgrade from the possibility that I was going to die from this thing or that my parents were going to die from this thing.
00:43:15.000So I care, like, again, I have more faith in the vaccines than any of these people, apparently.
00:43:19.000And yet they're the ones who are saying they want to cudgel corporations into doing what they want to.
00:43:25.000It's a front door way of lifting up private sector companies who are taking steps Through carrots and sticks, through incentives, and through mandates in some cases to get more people vaccinated and to make sure they're protecting their workforce.
00:43:40.000I would note that this was intentionally a diverse group of industries.
00:43:44.000So the airline industry, university systems, healthcare industry, small businesses.
00:43:49.000We wanted to share the work they're doing and support these efforts.
00:43:53.000And today is an example of us lifting up the private sector, taking steps that make sense.
00:43:59.000It's funny how they're in favor of the private sector when the private sector is being hijacked by them to do what they want.
00:44:03.000When Sean Penn is talking about how corporations need to mirror Sean Penn, you should be very afraid.
00:44:09.000Sean Penn is a dude who hangs out, he gave a eulogy for Hugo Chavez.
00:44:15.000This is not somebody who is congenitally pro-corporation.
00:44:19.000This is somebody who's happy with corporations when they do his bidding.
00:44:23.000This is one of those things that should be mandatory that we all get.
00:44:28.000With the exception, the very few exceptions of those people who for whatever the medical condition might offset it.
00:44:35.000But I do think that vaccines need to be mandatory.
00:44:38.000And I do think that business, all businesses, movie business, all business need to take the lead.
00:44:45.000Okay, it's funny how all the people on the left who hate corporations and believe the corporations are the root of all evil now want corporations to take the lead.
00:44:53.000Meanwhile, it's getting dystopian out there.
00:44:55.000So YouTube apparently has now suspended Rand Paul for the great sin of questioning the efficacy of masks.
00:45:02.000Recently, I shared a video on my YouTube page.
00:45:04.000Republican Senator Rand Paul announced Tuesday he has been censored by YouTube, which he described as becoming a quote-unquote arm of the government.
00:45:12.000He told Just the News Tuesday on a conference call, we've had two speeches taken down. This last one was, I think, a short speech.
00:45:17.000The access to the entire YouTube channel is no longer available.
00:45:20.000Recently, I shared a video on my YouTube page. It was an interview between myself and a journalist where we discussed a variety of topics, including the science behind wearing masks.
00:45:31.000Apparently, because I dared to contradict Dr. Fauci and the government, YouTube has removed my video.
00:45:38.000YouTube said the video violated their policy because of my comments on masks, and that they don't allow videos that contradict government's guidance on COVID.
00:45:47.000YouTube may be a private entity, but they're acting like an arm of the government, censoring those who present an alternative view to the science deniers in Washington.
00:45:56.000So who exactly are they going to listen to then?
00:47:11.000It's proper masking, including the nose, and it's masking with a good mask, like an N95.
00:47:17.000Okay, can I mention something about KN95s?
00:47:19.000So I asked my wife about this because she had to take classes with regard to how you properly wear personal protective equipment, right, when you're in a hospital.
00:47:27.000You're supposed to change your KN95 every time you leave a patient.
00:47:31.000Every single patient you're supposed to change your KN95.
00:47:34.000Have you ever seen anyone operate this way?
00:47:37.000People wear the KN95, the same one, for like weeks on end, right?
00:47:40.000They go home, they take it off because they're expensive.
00:47:42.000They put them back on and then they wear it the next day.
00:47:45.000Again, this does go to questions of efficacy.
00:47:47.000It's not just Zeke Emanuel, by the way.
00:47:48.000Michael Osterholm is a former Biden advisor on COVID.
00:47:49.000Like to put it again, this does go to questions of efficacy.
00:47:53.000It's not just Zeke Emanuel, by the way.
00:47:55.000Michael Osterholm is a former Biden advisor on COVID.
00:47:58.000We know that face cloth coverings can reduce the amount of virus that you may But to be fully protected in the way that we believe, particularly with this variant that we have today, Delta, you need to have the kind of protection that comes with an N95 or a KN95 for kids, which are available in children's sizes.
00:48:20.000And just putting something over your face in of itself doesn't protect you.
00:48:23.000Now that doesn't give anybody license to take my statement and say masking doesn't work.
00:48:28.000What you have to do is use effective masking, and we have done a poor job of communicating that, and I think CDC is in part responsible for that.
00:50:17.000They've come to me. They've come to the school boards and said this has been very difficult on their young kids to have to sit there for eight hours with It's not natural.
00:50:27.000It's never been studied what the effects of that are.
00:50:29.000You know, NIH has a $42 billion budget.
00:50:32.000They've not spent a single penny since COVID started studying how these mitigations affect kids.
00:50:38.000So ultimately, my view is It's a parent's decision.
00:50:42.000Okay, and it should be a parent's decision, but apparently it's not supposed to be.
00:50:45.000Because in the end, your freedom is of very little concern to our great public health overlords.
00:50:52.000Here's Arnold Schwarzenegger saying that you shouldn't worry about your freedom anymore.
00:51:05.000And the only way we prevent it is to get vaccinated, to wear masks, to do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.
00:51:46.000Again, this is like saying that I am somehow responsible for you after I put on my seatbelt in my car.
00:51:54.000What I really need to do is I need to strap a mattress to the front of my car in case you decided you didn't want to wear your seatbelt and you go crashing through the front windshield of your car in a car crash.
00:52:05.000I need to drive around with a mattress on the front of my car to make sure that it catches you in case you didn't wear your seatbelt.
00:53:20.000Whilst it is in human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly, unfortunately this is not the time to do that.
00:53:30.000So even if you run into your next door neighbour in the shopping centre, in the Coles, whilst you're at Coles Warriors or Aldi or any other grocery shop, don't start up a conversation.
00:53:43.000Now is the time for minimising your interactions with others.
00:53:51.000The cabinet in Israel just voted to expand what they call the Green Pass to all branches of the economy except malls and places of commerce.
00:53:58.000It will apply starting at the age of three.
00:54:02.000Now, you may be asking yourself, wait a second, I thought kids couldn't get the vaccine yet.
00:54:07.000It means that anyone who is unvaccinated, including small children, will now be required to present a negative COVID test before going to a swimming pool, gym, academic institution, sport and cultural event, conference museum, library, restaurant or hotel.
00:54:21.000So if I want to take my five-year-old to a restaurant in Israel, I have to present a negative COVID test.
00:54:27.000Presumably one from the last couple of days.
00:54:31.000The test for children up to 11 will be paid for by the state, whereas anyone 12 or older will be required to fund the screening on their own.
00:54:40.000The entire world has lost their minds.
00:54:43.000They have no connection with reality anymore.
00:54:46.000Everybody is so... You talk about the rise of safetyism, this is the triumph of safetyism.
00:54:51.000It's over for freedom, if people have the perception of safety.
00:54:54.000That a vaccine is out there, you can protect yourself, and we still have to lock down every aspect of society, including talking to other people, and basic freedom, according to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and not masking children, and also, you know, like, going to a restaurant with your kids.
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