The Ben Shapiro Show - Is Joe Biden Mentally There? | Ep. 1068

00:00:00.000 As the campaign heats up, Joe Biden, stumbling and bumbling, begins to bite him.

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00:01:33.000 What you do need Okay, so before I begin, you may have noticed that we have changed venue a little bit.

00:01:43.000 The reason we have changed venue is for the same reason my voice sounds a little bit different today.

00:01:47.000 I got a bit of a cough, got a bit of a cold, and so I had a COVID test yesterday.

00:01:50.000 I'm waiting for the results.

00:01:51.000 In the meantime, I am isolating here in Casa de Shapiro.

00:01:56.000 When I find out what's going on, then I will head back into the office when I am clean and am no longer a danger to others around me.

00:02:02.000 Okay, so I just want to make that brief note so you know what the hell is going on.

00:02:05.000 Meanwhile, I'm not the only one relegated to my basement.

00:02:07.000 Joe Biden continues to be relegated to his basement.

00:02:10.000 The big problem for Joe Biden is that he is falling apart.

00:02:13.000 He's just falling apart.

00:02:14.000 It is perfectly obvious to anyone, any sentient human being with a functioning pair of eyes and a prefrontal cortex that Joe Biden is not even what he used to be.

00:02:21.000 And let's face it, Joe Biden used to be not that great.

00:02:24.000 So he's even less great now. 1.00

00:02:25.000 Joe Biden is just mentally inept. 1.00

00:02:29.000 He can't string sentences together anymore. 1.00

00:02:33.000 He sounds like He sounds like a normal person after they've had a bunch of Ambien.

00:02:38.000 And that is what Joe Biden sounds like.

00:02:39.000 And this is not due to the fact that he had a stutter when he was younger.

00:02:42.000 He overcame that.

00:02:43.000 What we are seeing now is simply age manifest.

00:02:46.000 It doesn't mean that he's completely senile.

00:02:49.000 It does mean that his faculties have begun to degrade.

00:02:51.000 And you can see it in real time.

00:02:52.000 And he says weird thing after weird thing.

00:02:54.000 So far, it has not come back to bite him because Donald Trump is so volatile that all Biden has to do is basically point to Trump.

00:03:00.000 As we see more and more of Biden, there are going to be serious questions to be asked.

00:03:03.000 And if Trump can somehow hold himself together for more than five seconds, a lot of the focus in this campaign is going to shift to Joe Biden.

00:03:09.000 In fact, there's some pretty good poll numbers suggesting that the race is tightening even this early.

00:03:13.000 And when I say this early, I mean, it's still kind of early, right?

00:03:15.000 I mean, it's the beginning of August.

00:03:16.000 We haven't had conventions or anything yet.

00:03:18.000 Biden's RealClearPolitics polling average is now only six points up.

00:03:22.000 He's only six and a half points up on Donald Trump.

00:03:25.000 Okay, well, just a couple of weeks ago, that looked a lot more like nine or 10 points.

00:03:30.000 In fact, in three of the last four national polls, Donald Trump is within striking distance, namely three or four points of Joe Biden.

00:03:37.000 According to a new Hill-Harris poll, Biden is up only three nationally, 43 to 40.

00:03:41.000 And if he's up 43 to 40, Trump wins the election.

00:03:44.000 Really, because Trump is going to do better than 40.

00:03:46.000 And if Biden is stuck down to 43, that looks very much like a lot of the polls that Hillary Clinton had going into 2016, where she was getting like 44% of the vote and Trump was at 39.

00:03:56.000 There are a couple numbers to watch.

00:03:58.000 One is the gap.

00:03:59.000 The other is the fact that Biden seems unable to break 50% in nearly any poll.

00:04:03.000 He's having real trouble breaking 50% in the last few polls.

00:04:07.000 He's down around 47, 48%.

00:04:09.000 Trump will finish somewhere up around 45%.

00:04:11.000 He will.

00:04:13.000 So you've got the Hill-Harris poll.

00:04:14.000 Then you have a Rasmussen poll that shows Biden up 48, 45.

00:04:16.000 And you have an Emerson poll showing Biden up 50 to 46.

00:04:21.000 In all of those, Donald Trump is significantly within striking distance.

00:04:24.000 Now in the swing states, Biden is leading in all the swing states at this point, but it is also true that Trump is within striking distance in a lot of those swing states.

00:04:34.000 He's within about four in North Carolina.

00:04:36.000 He's within about four in Florida.

00:04:38.000 He's within about five in Pennsylvania.

00:04:40.000 He's within three in Arizona.

00:04:41.000 He needs to win a lot of those states, but Could it happen?

00:04:45.000 Sure.

00:04:45.000 Especially again, if the focus begins to shift to Biden.

00:04:47.000 Speaking of which, so Joe Biden over the last 48 hours, he's just fallen all over himself.

00:04:52.000 So he was doing an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, and he just randomly decided that he was going to say that all black people think alike, unlike Latino people.

00:05:02.000 Unlike Latino people who are quite diverse, black people all think alike. 1.00

00:05:05.000 Here is Joe Biden falling all over himself.

00:05:09.000 What you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly different attitudes about different things.

00:05:23.000 So, that's wild.

00:05:24.000 Okay, like, really, if Donald Trump went out there and he's like, all the black people, they think the same, and they, like, look the same, and... 0.78

00:05:31.000 Everybody's like, well, what, what now, Donald? 0.95

00:05:34.000 But Joe Biden's out there being like, Latinos are very diverse and very diverse, unlike black people who are not diverse at all. 0.97

00:05:39.000 They all kind of are thinking the same.

00:05:43.000 Okay, so that guy is not with us.

00:05:44.000 Joe Biden is not with us.

00:05:45.000 And it's literally every other word that comes out of his mouth is incoherent.

00:05:50.000 I mean, yesterday, again, National Association of Black Journalists, here he is just stumbling all over himself again.

00:05:56.000 And this is like a regular thing.

00:06:01.000 I'm so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the President or stand with the President in debates.

00:06:09.000 There's going to be plenty of time.

00:06:11.000 And by the way, as I joke with him, you know, I shouldn't say it.

00:06:15.000 I'm going to say something I probably shouldn't say.

00:06:18.000 Anyway, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical as well as my mental fitness.

00:06:28.000 Guys, he's super happy to have the American public judge his physical and mental fullness.

00:06:36.000 That guy is who the Democrats chose.

00:06:44.000 He is very lucky right now.

00:06:46.000 That he is basically in the basement.

00:06:48.000 Because if this person were out there on the campaign trail, this would be all the footage, wall to wall, all the time.

00:06:54.000 And then he botched his own China policy.

00:06:56.000 So again, it's not like he's doing this a little bit.

00:06:57.000 He's doing it pretty much every single thing he says.

00:07:00.000 Here was Joe Biden yesterday botching his own China policy.

00:07:03.000 The way China will respond is when we gather the rest of the world that in fact believes in open trade and making sure that we're in a position that the world, that we deal with WHO the right way, that in fact, that's when things begin to change.

00:07:23.000 That's when China's behavior is going to change. 1.00

00:07:27.000 He's not speaking English, guys.

00:07:29.000 He is not speaking English.

00:07:30.000 And it is perfectly fair to point this out because what it really means is that whoever he picks as his VP is going to be president.

00:07:36.000 And we can fairly assume that within a couple of years, Joe Biden, I mean, if he's declined this much just over the course of the campaign, and he has, then who is going to be effectually be the president?

00:07:45.000 It ain't going to be Biden.

00:07:46.000 That is not an absurd contention, nor is it an ageist contention.

00:07:50.000 He is just not fully there.

00:07:51.000 There are plenty of people who are 80 who are fully there.

00:07:54.000 Joe Biden is declining.

00:07:56.000 Listen, I had a violin teacher when I was younger.

00:07:57.000 He was 80 years old.

00:07:58.000 His name was Abram Stern.

00:07:59.000 Fantastic, fantastic teacher.

00:08:01.000 He was sharp.

00:08:01.000 He was with it.

00:08:02.000 I have a grandmother who's 89. 0.97

00:08:04.000 She's with it.

00:08:05.000 She is sharp.

00:08:06.000 She's much more with it than Joe Biden is right now.

00:08:08.000 No question.

00:08:10.000 How not with it is Joe Biden. 1.00

00:08:11.000 Again, if you just reversed the parties, he'd be getting ripped up and down for the kind of crap that spews out of his mouth on a regular basis. 0.99

00:08:16.000 Yesterday, he asked a black journalist from CBS News if he was a junkie, not joking, a thing that happened in real life. 0.98

00:08:27.000 Please clarify, specifically, have you taken a cognitive test?

00:08:31.000 No, I haven't taken a test.

00:08:33.000 Why the hell would I take a test?

00:08:36.000 Come on, man. 0.69

00:08:37.000 That's like saying you, before you got in this program, you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not.

00:08:42.000 What do you think, huh?

00:08:44.000 What do you say to President Trump who brags about his test and makes your member state an issue for voters?

00:08:44.000 Are you a junkie?

00:08:54.000 Are you a junkie? 1.00

00:08:55.000 Look at that crazy-ass Cesar Romero Joker smile pasted on that grill. 0.99

00:09:02.000 My goodness. 0.99

00:09:03.000 My goodness.

00:09:04.000 Well, it's no wonder that many medical professionals are wondering about what they are seeing in Joe Biden.

00:09:09.000 And don't give me the, you don't get to speculate from afar on his medical condition.

00:09:12.000 I'm not speculating on his medical condition.

00:09:14.000 I'm just telling you what I see in front of my very own eyes.

00:09:17.000 This didn't work for Hillary Clinton when she tried to claim that she was totally fine and then collapsed into a van. 1.00

00:09:20.000 It certainly is not going to work for Democrats whistling past the graveyard, no pun intended, with Joe Biden.

00:09:26.000 With Joe Biden going around basically pretending he's perfectly fine and we can all see that he is basically bumping into the furniture.

00:09:31.000 There's a doctor named Mark Siegel, he's on Fox, he was on with Sean Handy last night, he said, Joe Biden should probably have some sort of diagnostic assessment because this does not look particularly good.

00:09:42.000 Again, I can't diagnose him over a video camera, but when he was talking about those two animals, he wasn't even talking about the president.

00:09:48.000 He was talking about a CNN anchor that made that mistake.

00:09:51.000 That show is wandering.

00:09:53.000 I've made my career about not diagnosing remotely, but I'm concerned about a lot of the things I'm seeing, and I feel more towards the president's point that it's fair game.

00:10:03.000 It's something that's fair game.

00:10:04.000 If these tests aren't done, then the voters have to decide, right?

00:10:08.000 But I think it's right to have an assessment.

00:10:10.000 Now, we had a medical examination in December, a full medical examination, but this was not addressed at that time, Sean.

00:10:18.000 Again, he seems to be falling apart.

00:10:19.000 We're going to get to more of Joe Biden in just a second.

00:10:21.000 The fact that he's falling apart is allowing him to avoid the actual blame for the stuff that he's saying.

00:10:26.000 I mean, saying that all black people think the same while all Latino people do not is pretty racist.

00:10:31.000 It really is. 0.83

00:10:32.000 I mean, I don't know what he thinks he is saying there, but it's pretty incredible that he said it out loud, and then everybody's like, oh, okay, well, that's just Joe being senile.

00:10:39.000 Okay, either his senility is a point in his favor or it is a point against him.

00:10:42.000 You cannot have it both ways.

00:10:43.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:11:56.000 Alrighty, so...

00:11:58.000 Good news for Biden is that Biden gets to continue hiding in the basement.

00:12:01.000 He has announced that he is not ever going to leave the basement.

00:12:04.000 Originally, he was scheduled to fly to Wisconsin to accept the party nomination.

00:12:08.000 Now he's not going to.

00:12:09.000 No one else will go to Milwaukee.

00:12:11.000 He's instead going to just stay in his basement and accept the nomination from there, which, again, makes sense.

00:12:15.000 He's basically playing prevent defense here, is Joe Biden.

00:12:18.000 It's not like he has a great offense here.

00:12:20.000 Joe Biden's entire campaign is, I'm not Trump, and I'm also barely alive.

00:12:24.000 So staying in the basement serves him perfectly well.

00:12:27.000 It is hilarious to watch Nancy Pelosi say the reason that Biden is staying home is because he's so serious about COVID.

00:12:34.000 That seems somewhat unlikely to me.

00:12:36.000 I mean, Biden could certainly do a socially distanced speech in Milwaukee.

00:12:39.000 He's staying at home because it's very comfortable at home.

00:12:42.000 And it means that he never has to leave the basement or ask or answer any significant questions.

00:12:46.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi, dentures a-clackin'. 1.00

00:12:51.000 Oh, I think that we're all learning this at the same time now, that he won't be there.

00:12:57.000 But I think it's an indication of the seriousness with which he judges the situation.

00:13:04.000 This pandemic is dangerous and the increase in numbers just demands that we keep our distances.

00:13:12.000 I commend him for doing that.

00:13:13.000 It's going to be a great convention.

00:13:16.000 Yes, I'm sure that that's exactly what's going to happen.

00:13:18.000 I'm sure that it's all about the pandemic, and it has nothing to do with the fact that Joe Biden is perfectly comfortable staying out of the limelight and letting Trump have his own way with the limelight.

00:13:27.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is campaigning against Biden, and he is correct.

00:13:30.000 He says, listen, Joe Biden is going to be whatever they tell him to be.

00:13:33.000 Joe Biden is not in control of himself.

00:13:35.000 He is not in control of this campaign, and he is not in control of the Democratic Party platform.

00:13:39.000 There was Trump going after Biden yesterday.

00:13:42.000 Joe Biden's whatever they tell him to be.

00:13:44.000 And I think it's good that a wife is... I would expect a wife to say that. 0.99

00:13:47.000 That's the appropriate thing to say.

00:13:49.000 But Joe is being taken so far left.

00:13:52.000 Look at the manifesto that he and Bernie agreed to.

00:13:55.000 That's further left than Bernie ever was.

00:14:00.000 And Trump is exactly right about all of this.

00:14:02.000 Mike Pence did a speech yesterday in which he went after Biden with alacrity as well, pointed out that Joe Biden wants a $1 trillion tax increase in a time of economic crisis, which is pretty much the worst idea ever.

00:14:11.000 Here was the vice president going after Joe Biden.

00:14:14.000 I mean, in the midst of a pandemic, Joe Biden would raise taxes by a trillion dollars.

00:14:26.000 The contrast?

00:14:27.000 President Donald Trump cut taxes for the American people and we're going to keep fighting for tax relief for the American people for four more years.

00:14:37.000 More broadly, Pence is saying that Biden is going to set us on a path toward socialism and decline.

00:14:41.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:14:42.000 The Trump campaign basically has to make a two-step argument when it comes to Joe Biden.

00:14:47.000 Step number one, dude's not in control of himself.

00:14:48.000 Step number two, the people who are in control are the people who are radical.

00:14:52.000 The good news for them is that Biden is providing evidence of that every day, and whoever he selects as his VP pick is going to go a long way toward opening a door for Republicans.

00:15:00.000 This is why I think his smart pick is probably Susan Rice. 0.98

00:15:02.000 She appears somewhat more moderate in public than, for example, a communist like Karen Bass.

00:15:07.000 She's not nearly as off-putting as Kamala Harris.

00:15:08.000 I think it'll probably end up being Susan Rice, if I had to bet money on it.

00:15:12.000 But with that said, whoever he selects, whomever Biden selects, is likely to become the focal point of the campaign.

00:15:19.000 Pence says, listen, Biden is going to set us on a path toward socialism and decline.

00:15:23.000 And he's not going to be a bulwark in favor of any of the values of capitalism or Americanism that America historically has stood for.

00:15:30.000 Cuz the truth is Joe Biden and the Radical Democrats would set America on a path of socialism and decline.

00:15:38.000 President Trump set our nation on a path of freedom and opportunity from the very first day of this administration.

00:15:47.000 All Trump has to do, so the question of this campaign, just like the question of the last campaign, is who voters are focused on when they go into the voting booth or when they mail in their mail-in ballot, as the case may be.

00:15:57.000 So in 2016, the great myth is that people were thinking about Trump when they cast their ballot.

00:16:01.000 The truth is they were thinking about Hillary and how much they didn't like Hillary Clinton.

00:16:04.000 And that is why voters who didn't like either Hillary or Trump voted overwhelmingly for Trump.

00:16:08.000 Well, in 2020, the same question applies.

00:16:10.000 Are people thinking about Biden or are they thinking about Trump when they go into the voting booth?

00:16:14.000 Right now, they're overwhelmingly thinking about Trump.

00:16:16.000 But if Biden continues to gaffe and if he selects someone radical as his VP, that could seriously change.

00:16:21.000 It could also change if President Trump would tone it down a little bit and be concerted in his actual approach to his own campaign.

00:16:27.000 That is why it seems like just another foolish move for the president to decide that he is going to give his nomination acceptance speech from the White House, which raises all sorts of questions about the legality of, are you allowed to use taxpayer resources in order to campaign this way?

00:16:40.000 Yesterday, President Trump dismissed legal questions on accepting the nomination directly from the White House, an unprecedented move.

00:16:48.000 Senator John Thune questioned whether or not that's actually legal given the Hatch Act.

00:16:53.000 Is this something that you would get clearance for?

00:16:55.000 John Thune did.

00:16:56.000 The Republican John Thune.

00:16:59.000 Okay, well, it is legal.

00:17:02.000 There is no hat check because it doesn't pertain to the president.

00:17:05.000 But if I use the White House, we save tremendous amounts of money for the government in terms of security, traveling.

00:17:13.000 If we go to another state or some other location, the amount of money is, you know, very enormous.

00:17:20.000 So that's something to consider also.

00:17:23.000 Yeah, the kind of backhanded slap at John Thune, as though John Thune is doing something wrong by pointing out that typically American presidents don't conduct openly political campaign speeches from the White House.

00:17:33.000 Trump is wrong about this, Nancy.

00:17:34.000 It gives it gives Democrats room to run.

00:17:36.000 It's just, again, political malfeasance.

00:17:37.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi saying Trump can't do that.

00:17:40.000 He can't do that.

00:17:41.000 You can't do that.

00:17:42.000 I mean, you would be very surprised, I think, at the fact that when you're at the White House, you're talking about policy and the rest.

00:17:51.000 You're not talking politics.

00:17:53.000 We never did You would have a limited reference as it probably to our civic life as terms of politics, but you don't talk politics in the White House, and you don't talk politics under the dome of the Capitol, except perhaps a reference to it, but not an event.

00:18:11.000 You don't have political events in the Capitol.

00:18:14.000 You don't have political events in the White House.

00:18:16.000 No, I'm just going to point out that five minutes ago, she was kneeling wearing kente cloth on the floor of the Capitol with the other Democrats.

00:18:24.000 So, you know, look, Trump is always saying the quiet part out loud, namely that politics obviously infuses the White House, obviously infuses halls of Congress and all the rest.

00:18:32.000 But is it a good precedent?

00:18:33.000 Do we actually want Democrats doing this sort of thing from the White House?

00:18:36.000 Probably not.

00:18:37.000 Is it a smart political move?

00:18:39.000 I don't think it's a smart political move either.

00:18:41.000 My goodness, we need to start teaching English as the first language because Pelosi doesn't speak English.

00:18:48.000 Trump sometimes speaks English.

00:18:50.000 Joe Biden doesn't even speak human language anymore.

00:18:53.000 It's all very weird.

00:18:54.000 And in just a second, we're going to get to the chief line of attack for Joe Biden, because the chief line of attack in favor of Joe Biden right now is all COVID stuff.

00:19:01.000 And this ties into the COVID policies that are currently being pursued.

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00:20:23.000 Okay, so the Democratic campaign against President Trump is now basically about one issue and one issue only, and that is his handling of COVID.

00:20:32.000 You know, his personality was always going to be an issue because his personality is an issue.

00:20:36.000 It's very off-putting to many suburban women. 0.97

00:20:39.000 It's very off-putting to certain members of minority groups, for example.

00:20:42.000 But that was always going to be an issue.

00:20:44.000 It didn't matter because Trump was probably going to win if the economy was as good as it was back in January or February.

00:20:48.000 Well, now that COVID has hit, the big issue has become COVID.

00:20:51.000 And that means that the Biden campaign has to play it as though Trump totally blew it on COVID.

00:20:56.000 Now, the problem with that is that everyone kind of blew it on COVID.

00:20:58.000 There's no such thing as not blowing it on COVID.

00:21:00.000 We're seeing spikes all around the world.

00:21:03.000 We are seeing spikes in blue states.

00:21:05.000 Now we are seeing secondary waves in certain blue states.

00:21:09.000 And yet the notion, the going mythology and narrative that's being promoted is that blue states handled this perfectly.

00:21:14.000 And the only person who screwed this up was Donald Trump.

00:21:16.000 So Joe Biden put out an ad in Florida featuring a couple from the villages talking about how they can't visit their grandkids and blaming Trump for that.

00:21:23.000 Here's the ad.

00:21:24.000 It really is quite scurrilous.

00:21:27.000 Roger and I decided that we wanted to move to the villages.

00:21:29.000 We were ready to retire.

00:21:30.000 We were both 60.

00:21:32.000 He was in the military.

00:21:33.000 I had the business for 10 years.

00:21:36.000 My husband and I are both concerned about the virus and catching it.

00:21:40.000 I know other people have things a lot worse, but we feel trapped here because we can't go to be with the ones that we love.

00:21:47.000 My husband and I have been gifted with two beautiful grandchildren.

00:21:51.000 We try to see them as often as possible, and it's been six months.

00:21:56.000 And it's way too long.

00:21:59.000 And while I don't blame Donald Trump for the virus, I blame him for his lack of action.

00:22:06.000 And because of that, we're sitting here, Zooming or FaceTiming with our grandchildren instead of hugging and kissing them.

00:22:14.000 And that's hard.

00:22:15.000 Joe Biden knows that every moment is precious.

00:22:19.000 I trust Joe Biden to get this virus under control.

00:22:23.000 I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message.

00:22:26.000 I mean, I'm sorry, that's a disgusting message.

00:22:28.000 You trust Joe Biden to get this under control?

00:22:30.000 How?

00:22:31.000 Seriously, how?

00:22:31.000 Because nobody has this under control.

00:22:33.000 There are literally zero places on planet Earth where if you're a grandparent who is in a vulnerable health position, you should feel supremely comfortable about hugging your 10-year-old, 12-year-old grandkids.

00:22:43.000 This is a bizarro world ad.

00:22:46.000 Again, the idea, I don't blame Trump for the virus, I blame him for the fact that I can't visit my grandkids.

00:22:50.000 Question, are people visiting grandkids all over the world?

00:22:52.000 How's that going?

00:22:53.000 Because it's not.

00:22:54.000 The answer is it's not.

00:22:56.000 But again, there's this mythology that's been created by the media, that's been created by the Democrats, that Trump really blew this thing.

00:23:01.000 And I keep asking people, okay, what is Trump supposed to do?

00:23:03.000 Like, what do you want him to do?

00:23:04.000 And people say things like national mask mandate.

00:23:06.000 Okay, let's be real about this.

00:23:08.000 Where the virus is the hottest, people are wearing masks.

00:23:10.000 This has been true for a very long time. 0.97

00:23:12.000 It turns out that people were socially distancing before the government told them to do so, because overall, people are self-driven and are self-perpetuating and are not idiots. 0.97

00:23:20.000 They're gonna protect themselves. 0.97

00:23:22.000 But what else is Trump saying?

00:23:23.000 He's supposed to ramp up the testing.

00:23:24.000 The United States is doing more tests on a per capita basis than virtually any other nation on earth.

00:23:29.000 We're doing hundreds of thousands of tests every single day.

00:23:32.000 Is there a delay in the results of the tests?

00:23:34.000 Sometimes there is, sometimes there's not.

00:23:36.000 Can we help with that?

00:23:37.000 Should states do a better job?

00:23:37.000 Sure.

00:23:39.000 Absolutely.

00:23:39.000 But what would Biden be doing that's any different?

00:23:41.000 I have no idea and nobody can explain what he would be doing that is any different.

00:23:45.000 That ad is really gross.

00:23:46.000 I mean, saying that grandparents can't visit their grandkids because of Trump? 0.75

00:23:49.000 Weird.

00:23:50.000 I didn't hear Andrew Cuomo's name anywhere in there, or Phil Murphy from New Jersey.

00:23:53.000 I didn't hear his name anywhere in there.

00:23:55.000 There's a headline from Politico, by the way, talking about the success of New Jersey and flattening the curve.

00:23:59.000 New Jersey literally has the worst death per million rate, I think, on planet Earth.

00:24:03.000 It's like 1,789 deaths per million in New Jersey.

00:24:09.000 So, I'm sorry, the narrative that Donald Trump is the one who blew this, I just, I don't get it.

00:24:14.000 I don't understand it.

00:24:16.000 Meanwhile, the social media giants are cracking down on Trump's comments.

00:24:19.000 They're fact-checking them with alacrity.

00:24:21.000 So, both Facebook and Twitter removed some comments that Trump made on COVID.

00:24:25.000 The problem is that Trump was basically right.

00:24:27.000 Okay, the language he used was inexact, but as per our usual arrangement, Trump's inexact language masks something fundamentally true.

00:24:35.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:25:41.000 Okay, so...

00:25:43.000 Facebook and Twitter removed some comments that Trump made about COVID.

00:25:46.000 The suggestion, of course, was that Trump had done something deeply, deeply wrong.

00:25:49.000 What exactly did they remove?

00:25:51.000 Well, it was a clip of President Trump talking in a phone interview about children.

00:25:56.000 And he says, if you look at children, children are almost, and I would say almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease.

00:26:03.000 And they removed that clip from Facebook and Twitter.

00:26:07.000 Why?

00:26:08.000 Because they said that it was inaccurate.

00:26:09.000 It was in violation of Twitter rules on COVID-19 misinformation, said a Twitter spokeswoman.

00:26:14.000 By the way, a Twitter spokesperson came out and said that as well.

00:26:18.000 That spokesperson happened to be a former press secretary for Kamala Harris.

00:26:21.000 So if you wonder whether Big Tech is biased, depends on the company, but Twitter is using a former Kamala Harris aide to shut down Trump tweets and then explain it.

00:26:30.000 Now here's the reality.

00:26:31.000 Kids may not be immune to COVID-19.

00:26:33.000 They do obtain COVID-19.

00:26:35.000 Kids aren't dying of it.

00:26:37.000 They're not.

00:26:38.000 The number of kids who are dying from COVID-19 is a fraction of a percent.

00:26:42.000 A fraction of a fraction of a percent.

00:26:43.000 It is a tiny number of children who have died from this.

00:26:46.000 Like, we're still talking in the mid-double digits.

00:26:48.000 Last I checked, in the United States, kids who had died of COVID-19, far, far less than nearly any other disease you can name in the United States.

00:26:56.000 So is Trump totally wrong?

00:26:57.000 They're just taking that down so they can claim that he's putting out misinformation.

00:26:57.000 No.

00:27:01.000 Now, meanwhile, again, Trump's getting blamed for everything bad that's happening on planet Earth.

00:27:06.000 But let's be real about this.

00:27:07.000 Things are not great everywhere.

00:27:08.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, second wave is striking Europe.

00:27:12.000 Spain reintroduces lockdown.

00:27:13.000 Greece sees worrying rising cases.

00:27:15.000 The virus is more active in Germany amid warnings France could, quote, lose control at any moment.

00:27:19.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, a second wave of COVID-19 appears to be striking Europe, forcing Spain to reimpose lockdowns and cases spiking to a three-month high in Greece.

00:27:29.000 The head of Germany's doctors' union has declared the country is already in the midst of the second wave because people have flouted social distancing rules.

00:27:36.000 Well, this is perfectly predictable.

00:27:37.000 You can't keep people locked down forever, like for literally years at a time.

00:27:42.000 It's not a thing that you can do.

00:27:43.000 Instead, you're going to have to at some point allow people who are young and healthy to go out there, and if they get it, they get it.

00:27:48.000 That is in fact what Sweden is doing.

00:27:50.000 And Sweden, which remember until five minutes ago was the bad guy, Sweden has basically flattened the curve.

00:27:55.000 It looks like Sweden may have reached herd immunity, is what it actually looks like.

00:27:58.000 Meanwhile, in other countries, they got a problem.

00:28:01.000 In fact, it seems pretty obvious what's happening here.

00:28:03.000 Italy has not seen a second uptick.

00:28:05.000 Why hasn't Italy seen a second uptick?

00:28:07.000 Because they got nailed.

00:28:08.000 Basically, here is the rule.

00:28:09.000 If it burned through your population, maybe you're done.

00:28:12.000 If it has not burned through your population, you probably are not done.

00:28:15.000 Spain saw 8,500 new cases over the weekend.

00:28:17.000 An all-inclusive resort in Majorca was shut down.

00:28:20.000 Two towns north of Madrid have been put under strict lockdown as well.

00:28:23.000 Finland today announced that it plans to reintroduce recommendations to work from home whenever possible.

00:28:27.000 By August 1st, Finland's cases had risen by more than 300% in two weeks.

00:28:31.000 That Ron DeSantis, that governor of Florida, can't believe he's also governor of Finland.

00:28:34.000 Donald Trump obviously blowing it over in Finland.

00:28:37.000 He's blowing it over in France as well.

00:28:39.000 Authorities in France grappling with a sharp increase in fresh cases, which has seen more than 7,000 new infections within the last week.

00:28:45.000 As well as a rise in the number of people being treated for COVID-19 in the ICU.

00:28:49.000 Around 1,200 new cases are being reported per day two weeks ago.

00:28:52.000 The rolling average was 719.

00:28:56.000 Meanwhile, in Germany, they're seeing an uptick as well.

00:28:58.000 Some 730 cases have been reported each day on average this week against the 460 being recorded per day about two weeks ago.

00:29:06.000 So the second wave is in fact hitting Europe.

00:29:08.000 It really is kind of the first wave.

00:29:10.000 It really is more the first wave, because the first wave basically just got a little bit squished and delayed.

00:29:16.000 Basically, everything just got delayed.

00:29:19.000 Meanwhile, Sweden seems to be coming out the other end of this.

00:29:22.000 According to Newsweek, as of Sunday, the latest death rate in Sweden, death per 100,000 people, was reported to be 56.4.

00:29:28.000 The figure is lower than that reported in the UK, 69.6, Spain, 60.88, and Italy, according to the latest report Sunday by Johns Hopkins University.

00:29:37.000 The UK currently has the world's fourth highest death toll.

00:29:40.000 Spain and Italy were the former two European countries hit worst by the outbreak.

00:29:45.000 Sweden's latest case fatality ratio, that's the portion of deaths compared to total cases, was reported to be about 7.1%.

00:29:50.000 That figure is more than half the percentage reported in the UK, half that of Italy and Belgium, and nearly half that of France.

00:29:57.000 The reason being that a lot of young people are getting it in Sweden, and it's burned through some of the young population, and now they're basically done.

00:30:02.000 Sweden's seven-day rolling average of daily new cases has been mostly declining since as far back as April 16th, when the average was at 99.

00:30:10.000 The average dropped to two.

00:30:12.000 Two average daily new deaths on August 2nd, according to Worldometer.

00:30:18.000 New infections for 100,000 people in Sweden reported in the past 14 days has dropped some 46% compared to that reported in the 14 days prior.

00:30:26.000 Meanwhile, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, each spiking between 58 and 206% in new cases.

00:30:33.000 New cases in Denmark, Norway, and Finland, all the other places that supposedly handled it better than Sweden, they've also seen their percentages increasing at around three times the percentage drop in new cases seen in Sweden in the past two weeks.

00:30:47.000 So what that sort of says is it looks like Sweden may have beat this thing.

00:30:51.000 It may look like it's over in Sweden.

00:30:53.000 Anders Teknell, the chief epidemiologist at Sweden's public health agency noted last week, quote, we've cut down on movement in society quite a lot.

00:30:59.000 If compared to how much we travel in Scandinavian countries, the decrease in travel is the same in Sweden as in the neighboring countries.

00:31:05.000 In many ways, the voluntary measures we put in place in Sweden have been just as effective as complete lockdowns in other countries.

00:31:10.000 In other words, when you tell people, don't travel all that much, people take it pretty seriously.

00:31:14.000 But the point here is that for all the talk about how we know how to handle this and we just have to shut everything down, lockdown this, lockdown that.

00:31:21.000 Sweden didn't lock down and Sweden may be the smartest of all.

00:31:25.000 Sweden may be the smartest of all.

00:31:27.000 Speaking of which, even Anthony Fauci is now saying he doesn't think that we're going to have to do another shutdown.

00:31:32.000 So as I've said before, the experts keep kind of shouting lockdown.

00:31:35.000 At the same time, they're acknowledging that lockdown is kind of a bad idea.

00:31:37.000 Here's Anthony Fauci yesterday.

00:31:40.000 I don't think we have to go into shutdown mode, Sanjay.

00:31:45.000 I am cautiously optimistic.

00:31:47.000 I do have an abiding faith in the American spirit.

00:31:55.000 And that's the reason why I invest the time, and I love being on with you in any forum, because we can start talking about the science.

00:32:04.000 And the more we give a consistent message, the more people are going to start to understand what we need to do.

00:32:13.000 Okay, and everybody sort of understands all that we can do, which is social distance, wear some masks, that's about it.

00:32:18.000 That's about it.

00:32:19.000 And then there are experts who are just saying things that don't make tons of sense.

00:32:22.000 So, for example, Ezekiel Emanuel yesterday, he said we have to reduce the amount of time kids are spending with other kids.

00:32:28.000 Why?

00:32:29.000 Seriously, why?

00:32:30.000 My kids are in camp right now.

00:32:31.000 They should be in camp right now.

00:32:33.000 The reason that they're at home today is because they came down with some cold symptoms.

00:32:36.000 So, if they're sick, we isolate them.

00:32:39.000 And if they're not sick, we don't isolate them.

00:32:40.000 And that's pretty much it.

00:32:42.000 Because it turns out that kids giving this thing to other kids is not killing kids.

00:32:45.000 In fact, there's a study out of Japan today, and it demonstrates that school closures carried out in Japan did not show any mitigating effect on the transmission of novel coronavirus infection.

00:32:55.000 Again, not a great shot.

00:32:56.000 Schools are not the chief transmission vectors here.

00:32:58.000 But here was Ezekiel Emanuel yesterday saying we have to reduce the amount of time kids are spending with other kids.

00:33:03.000 Doing things indoors has to be limited.

00:33:06.000 You have to, what's called, de-densify.

00:33:08.000 Reduce the number of children to allow physical distancing.

00:33:13.000 You have to have face masks for the older children.

00:33:17.000 You have to not use the cafeteria where crowding can take place.

00:33:22.000 So you have to think through every step of the process and, you know, reduce the crowds, reduce the congestion, reduce time that kids spend with other kids and teachers.

00:33:34.000 Okay, well, no, you could also just, you know, have younger teachers teaching young kids.

00:33:38.000 But again, lockdown has become the all-purpose solution to all of this.

00:33:41.000 And this is political, because if lockdowns are the all-purpose solution and Trump isn't saying lockdown, then Trump is the bad guy.

00:33:47.000 So some of this is just plainly political.

00:33:48.000 Eric Garcetti was pushing this yesterday. 1.00

00:33:50.000 Eric Garcetti, our idiot mayor here in Los Angeles. 0.99

00:33:53.000 He said yesterday he is going to shut off the power to any place holding an unregistered gathering or party. 1.00

00:33:59.000 He's literally just going to cut off the water power.

00:34:00.000 I have no idea how this is possibly legal. 1.00

00:34:02.000 This is also the same idiot, Eric Garcetti, who's out there protesting without a mask in the middle of BLM protests with a bunch of other people without masks. 0.97

00:34:10.000 Meanwhile, in New York City, they've announced that they're going to be setting up quarantine checkpoints So Bill de Blasio is saying that they're going to announce $10,000 fines and checkpoints for any traveler who flouts the New York City quarantine. 0.98

00:34:22.000 Meanwhile, he's not opening anything in New York City.

00:34:24.000 So I'm not sure why does he care about quarantining when everything is still locked down?

00:34:27.000 Seriously.

00:34:28.000 If everybody's still in their house, then what exactly is he so worried about?

00:34:31.000 Here is Bill de Blasio saying something that probably is also patently illegal.

00:34:33.000 I have no idea how Bill de Blasio has the power to tell people who are coming in from out of state that they have to So starting today, we're going to do something new in New York City.

00:34:50.000 We will have checkpoints at key entry points to the city.

00:34:54.000 Travelers coming in from those states will be given information about the quarantine.

00:35:00.000 They will be reminded that it is required, not optional.

00:35:04.000 They'll be reminded that failure to quarantine is a violation of state law, and it comes with serious penalties.

00:35:11.000 In fact, under certain circumstances, the fines can be as high as $10,000.

00:35:17.000 So this doesn't sound totalitarian at all.

00:35:20.000 You come into the state of New York, you go to New York City, and what?

00:35:22.000 He's going to shut down all the bridges and the tunnels?

00:35:24.000 He's Bane from Batman?

00:35:27.000 What in the world is going on here?

00:35:30.000 I will say one of my favorite things about New York State politics is the gap between Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio.

00:35:34.000 Basically, if de Blasio takes a position, Cuomo hates his gut, and so he'll immediately take the reverse position.

00:35:40.000 Shockingly, Andrew Cuomo is now the voice of reason in New York.

00:35:43.000 So Andrew Cuomo, yesterday, was telling Bill de Blasio, do not raise taxes on people in New York City, and he was begging rich people to come back to New York City because the tax base is basically gone.

00:35:52.000 Welcome to the Republican Party, Andrew Cuomo, when reality finally hits.

00:35:57.000 I literally talk to people all day long who are now in the Hamptons' house, who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house.

00:36:09.000 And I say, you gotta come back!

00:36:11.000 When are you coming back?

00:36:13.000 We'll go to dinner!

00:36:14.000 I'll buy you a drink!

00:36:16.000 Come over, I'll cook! 0.99

00:36:19.000 They're not coming back right now.

00:36:22.000 And then he says, 1% of the population is paying 50% of all the taxes.

00:36:26.000 Welcome to the Republican Party, Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's realizing that raising taxes randomly on high earners drives them out of major cities and out of major states.

00:36:35.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the continuing cultural battle over whether America sucks or not.

00:36:40.000 Oprah has now taken a side.

00:36:42.000 A woman worth $2.6 billion who rose from abject poverty to become one of the most powerful people on earth. 0.99

00:36:47.000 She says America blows. 0.99

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00:38:56.000 All righty, so meanwhile, our cultural battles continue apace.

00:39:06.000 I'm putting aside the insanity over COVID and the presidential election.

00:39:09.000 The deeper battles in the country continue to be over the nature of America and whether America is fundamentally good or whether it fundamentally is not.

00:39:15.000 My book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, on the New York Times bestseller list again this week, that book is all about this gap, this gap between people who believe that America inherently sucks and people who believe that America's founding principles were good, imperfectly realized over time, but increasingly perfectly realized over time.

00:39:31.000 In the former category, people who think Americans suck are a great many people who have benefited inordinately from America.

00:39:37.000 People who grew up in abject poverty in the direst of circumstances and have become insanely powerful and wealthy.

00:39:43.000 One of those people, case A1, would be Oprah Winfrey.

00:39:45.000 Oprah Winfrey, her life story is truly an American miracle.

00:39:48.000 I mean, this is a person who was in the worst circumstances, in just terrible personal circumstances, endemic poverty, and she somehow makes her way to be worth $2.6 billion.

00:39:59.000 She owns like half the island of Maui. 1.00

00:40:01.000 That didn't stop her yesterday from denouncing America's white privilege. 0.99

00:40:04.000 She says that if you're white, you have this privilege no matter what.

00:40:06.000 Here is Oprah Winfrey yesterday.

00:40:07.000 White people, there are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people, the caste system that's been put in place, but they still, no matter where they are on the wrong or the ladder of success, they still have their whiteness. 0.91

00:40:28.000 Oh, well, they still have their whiteness. 0.98

00:40:29.000 I mean, I would trade my whiteness right now for for Oprah Winfrey as well. 0.91

00:40:33.000 That seems like a really, really solid deal, frankly.

00:40:35.000 In fact, I would trade my whiteness for like like I don't care about my whiteness. 0.58

00:40:41.000 I think most people don't care very much about the color of their skin.

00:40:44.000 And if they do, I think that they're spending their time in life on the wrong things.

00:40:48.000 I don't see why the color of your skin should define you.

00:40:50.000 It seems like there are many, many other attributes about you as a character and as a human being that should define you.

00:40:54.000 But for Oprah Winfrey, she's now pushing this new book called C.A.S.T. 0.84

00:40:58.000 This is written by the same person who suggested that there have been only three durable C.A.S.T.

00:41:01.000 systems in world history.

00:41:03.000 Nazi Germany, the United States and India, which is patently crazy.

00:41:07.000 Caste, unfortunately, is a feature of a wide variety of cultures and subcultures all around the earth.

00:41:11.000 And the notion that the United States has a durable caste system today in 2020 is patently crazy.

00:41:16.000 It's insane.

00:41:17.000 It's insane.

00:41:18.000 And nonetheless, Oprah Winfrey pushed that one yesterday as well. 0.84

00:41:21.000 And at this point, you have to imagine to yourself, what does she, like, does she really believe that black Americans don't have any opportunity in a country where she went from absolute poverty to being one of the wealthiest people on earth?

00:41:33.000 Does she believe that she's the only exception?

00:41:34.000 Because she obviously is not.

00:41:35.000 The average black income in the United States is $58,000 a year.

00:41:39.000 The median household income in the United States for black Americans is $41,000 a year.

00:41:43.000 Black Americans are richer than any other African-origin people anywhere on Earth. 1.00

00:41:49.000 Black Canadians do not earn as much as black Americans. 0.97

00:41:51.000 Black Britishers do not earn as much as black Americans. 0.99

00:41:54.000 Black people in Africa do not earn as much as black Americans. 0.98

00:41:59.000 So if the idea is that the United States is uniquely terrible, I'm just wondering what the evidence is for the United States being uniquely terrible. 0.95

00:42:05.000 You can make that case when Jim Crow was in place, certainly, obviously. 0.62

00:42:08.000 You can make that case when slavery was in place, certainly and obviously.

00:42:11.000 You can't make that case very well today when we've had a two-term black president of the United States overwhelmingly elected. 0.63

00:42:17.000 We've had black people in nearly every powerful position in the United States, which is great.

00:42:25.000 I mean, all of this is a good thing.

00:42:27.000 I mean, I don't like Barack Obama, but it says something good about our country that we elected a black man president of the United States in a majority white country. 0.76

00:42:33.000 I mean, that's a pretty amazing thing that's unprecedented in virtually all of world history.

00:42:38.000 But apparently critical race theory, which is the theory that we can all basically be melted down into our racial essentials.

00:42:47.000 And so if you're white, your essential is that you are privileged at the expense of black people. 0.83

00:42:50.000 And if you're black, then you are racially essentialized into victimhood at the hands of white Americans. 0.92

00:42:55.000 And that leads to the predictable result that any disparity between black and white is the system at work.

00:43:01.000 So this is how you get Ibram Kendi, who literally says this.

00:43:04.000 He literally says any inequality between black and white is attributable to the system.

00:43:08.000 You get Ibram Kendi on MSNBC suggesting that when black people die at higher rates of COVID, that suggests that there is something wrong with the society.

00:43:15.000 He's going to have to explain in which society black people are not dying at higher rates than white people.

00:43:19.000 Literally across Europe, black people are dying at higher rates than white people.

00:43:25.000 I do not understand what is his control.

00:43:28.000 In order to make this sort of claim, it's a pretty far-reaching claim, you have to have a control group.

00:43:31.000 What's his control group here?

00:43:34.000 If the problem is COVID racial disparities, Black people being two and a half times more likely to die of COVID-19, we need to realize that it's not because there's something wrong with Black people.

00:43:47.000 It's because there's something wrong with our policies.

00:43:49.000 There's something wrong with society.

00:43:51.000 There's something wrong with that Black and Brown people are more likely to have to essentially be essential workers. 0.99

00:43:58.000 They can't work from home or They're more likely to live in polluted neighborhoods.

00:44:02.000 They're less likely to have access to health insurance or high quality care.

00:44:07.000 And those are systemic issues that need to be changed.

00:44:11.000 Now he's talking about class issues.

00:44:13.000 He's not talking about race issues, right?

00:44:14.000 There are a lot of poor white people who are working.

00:44:15.000 There are a lot of poor white people who live in polluted neighborhoods. 0.99

00:44:17.000 But everything boils down to racial essentialism.

00:44:19.000 The problem is that all of this is incredibly counterproductive.

00:44:22.000 So there's a study that demonstrates pretty significant and clearly that the sort of diversity training where you hire Robin DiAngelo or Ibram Kendi to tell all of your white staffers how racist they are, That sort of training not only doesn't work, it causes an enormous amount of racial tension.

00:44:36.000 There's a good piece over at theconversation.com by Amna Khalid, an associate professor of history at Carleton College, and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, another associate professor over at Carleton College, all about diversity training.

00:44:48.000 And here's what they say.

00:44:49.000 In terms of reducing bias and promoting equal opportunity, diversity training has failed spectacularly, according to the expert assessment of sociologists Frank Dobbin and Alexander Kolob.

00:44:58.000 When Dobbin and Kolob evaluated the impact of diversity training at more than 800 companies over three decades, they found that the positive effects are short-lived and that compulsory training generates resistance and resentment.

00:45:08.000 A company is better off doing nothing than mandatory diversity training, Kalev concluded.

00:45:13.000 Some of the most popular training approaches are of dubious value.

00:45:15.000 There's evidence, for example, introducing people to the most commonly used readings about white privilege can reduce sympathy for poor whites, especially among social liberals.

00:45:22.000 Actually, what those studies tend to show is that social liberals don't feel better about black people.

00:45:27.000 They just feel worse about white people.

00:45:28.000 There's also evidence that emphasizing cultural differences across racial groups can lead to an increased belief in fundamental biological differences among races, which means that well-intentioned efforts to celebrate diversity may in fact reinforce racial stereotyping.

00:45:42.000 The main beneficiaries of these people are the diversity trainers themselves, who've been able to rake in oodles of cash, obviously.

00:45:49.000 So, if it doesn't work at companies, how do you think it works for a country?

00:45:52.000 When you decide to re-educate the entire country that America is a racially essentialist caste system, when you suggest that every inequality is a reflection of the evils of the United States, do you think that's going to result in more anger, or do you think that it's going to result in a diverse new tolerance?

00:46:05.000 What do you think? 1.00

00:46:06.000 The answer is more anger, and also more stupidity. 1.00

00:46:09.000 This is one of my favorite stories ever. 1.00

00:46:10.000 It's a pretty spectacular story.

00:46:12.000 Mashable reports it, but it was all over the internet yesterday.

00:46:15.000 Quote, what first seemed to be a tragic story, a professor was forced to work in person and later died of COVID, now seems to be a strange hoax.

00:46:22.000 Multiple reports and information uncovered from online sleuths suggest the Twitter account Sciencing Bi, who claims to be a bisexual professor of Native American descent, may have actually been fake.

00:46:32.000 It appears it was the creation of Beth Ann McLaughlin, the head of a group called MeToo STEM, which aims to fight sexual harassment in scientific fields.

00:46:40.000 In June, the account Sciencing By claimed on Twitter that her employer, Arizona State University, forced her to deliver lectures in person in April to 200 students, which led her to get COVID.

00:46:49.000 On July 31st, McLaughlin announced from her Twitter account But ASU officials said it had no reports of a faculty member dying from the coronavirus, and that it never employed a professor matching Sciencing By's description.

00:47:04.000 The university also closed its campus in March, so there couldn't have been classes in April.

00:47:07.000 ASU spokesperson Katie Paquette told BuzzFeed News, we've been looking into this for the last 24 hours and cannot verify any connection with the university.

00:47:15.000 We've been in touch with several deans and faculty members.

00:47:17.000 No one can identify the account or who might be behind it.

00:47:20.000 The account had apparently tweeted for years about their experiences as an indigenous woman being LGBTQ in academic circles and more recently their long drawn out suffering from COVID-19.

00:47:32.000 Lots of folks familiar with this particular corner of Science Twitter pointed out inconsistency with the stories, including in now inaccessible instances where they apparently used stock images to accompany apparent real-life experiences.

00:47:43.000 McLaughlin denied she created Sciencing By out of whole cloth, but did admit she had access to the account.

00:47:49.000 She claimed that as far as she knew, this account did die of COVID-19.

00:47:53.000 She said she got that from a family contact.

00:47:55.000 McLaughlin has reportedly declined to reveal Sciencing By's actual identity, and also said she had met her in real life.

00:48:03.000 After the alleged death, McLaughlin seemed to suggest they were in an intimate relationship, tweeting, looking at her side of the bed and crying.

00:48:09.000 Just a lot of crying.

00:48:10.000 I literally can do nothing.

00:48:13.000 This is not the first instance of controversy surrounding McLaughlin.

00:48:16.000 A March report from Science Magazine detailed that McLaughlin, while hosting Me Too STEM, allegedly sidelined people of color and bullied volunteers, activists, and fellow leaders.

00:48:23.000 In other words, this is a crazy lefty lady who was using all of the trappings and all of the hallmarks of woke culture in order to get ahead, in order to generate sympathy for an agenda that she was pushing. 1.00

00:48:35.000 That says something about where the halls of power in America truly lie, does it not?

00:48:39.000 You don't see a lot of people who are seeking power attempting to ape conservatives, like pretend to be a conservative.

00:48:44.000 You don't see that a lot.

00:48:45.000 You don't see a lot of people who want power attempting to be white. 0.72

00:48:50.000 You don't have reverse Rachel Dolezals. 1.00

00:48:52.000 And that is an indicator of where power lies in a society, right?

00:48:55.000 During Jim Crow, it was a fairly common and horrific thing.

00:48:59.000 I mean, horrifically that anybody felt that they needed to do this, that light-skinned black people would sometimes attempt to pass for white, right? 1.00

00:49:04.000 This is a very, very, there've been a number of famous novels on this particular topic, because white was power for a lot of American history.

00:49:11.000 Well, now there are not a lot of black people masquerading as white people, but you will see a Rachel Dolezal attempting to be black, and here you will see a professor pretending to be a bisexual Native American woman. 0.61

00:49:21.000 The halls of power are replete with the diversity crew, and that is where people are attempting to pander in order to get ahead.

00:49:28.000 Which says something about where America stands.

00:49:29.000 It doesn't say that America is deeply intolerant of diversity. 0.97

00:49:31.000 It says precisely the opposite, that we are so militantly in favor of diversity that we'll swallow any stupid thing put forth so long as you slap a diversity label on it. 0.63

00:49:40.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here tomorrow with more content, or later today with a couple additional hours of content. 0.78

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00:50:15.000 Joe Biden forgets about his cognitive decline.

00:50:18.000 Billionaire Oprah Winfrey tells poor white people that they have a whole lot of privilege.

00:50:23.000 And Millard Fillmore gets canceled 170 years after the Compromise of 1850.

00:50:29.000 Shocking, shocking stuff.

00:50:30.000 Plus the mailbag.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 06, 2020

Is Joe Biden Mentally There? | Ep. 1068

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