As the campaign heats up, Joe Biden, stumbling and bumbling, begins to bite him. The Biden campaign dumps a scurrilous COVID ad on the Trump administration, and we tell the amazing story of a fake Native American bisexual professor who didn t die of COVID.
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00:02:14.000It 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.
00:02:21.000And let's face it, Joe Biden used to be not that great.
00:02:52.000And he says weird thing after weird thing.
00:02:54.000So 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.
00:03:00.000As we see more and more of Biden, there are going to be serious questions to be asked.
00:03:03.000And 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.
00:03:09.000In fact, there's some pretty good poll numbers suggesting that the race is tightening even this early.
00:03:13.000And when I say this early, I mean, it's still kind of early, right?
00:03:16.000We haven't had conventions or anything yet.
00:03:18.000Biden's RealClearPolitics polling average is now only six points up.
00:03:22.000He's only six and a half points up on Donald Trump.
00:03:25.000Okay, well, just a couple of weeks ago, that looked a lot more like nine or 10 points.
00:03:30.000In fact, in three of the last four national polls, Donald Trump is within striking distance, namely three or four points of Joe Biden.
00:03:37.000According to a new Hill-Harris poll, Biden is up only three nationally, 43 to 40.
00:03:41.000And if he's up 43 to 40, Trump wins the election.
00:03:44.000Really, because Trump is going to do better than 40.
00:03:46.000And 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.
00:04:14.000Then you have a Rasmussen poll that shows Biden up 48, 45.
00:04:16.000And you have an Emerson poll showing Biden up 50 to 46.
00:04:21.000In all of those, Donald Trump is significantly within striking distance.
00:04:24.000Now 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.
00:04:34.000He's within about four in North Carolina.
00:04:45.000Especially again, if the focus begins to shift to Biden.
00:04:47.000Speaking of which, so Joe Biden over the last 48 hours, he's just fallen all over himself.
00:04:52.000So 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.
00:05:02.000Unlike Latino people who are quite diverse, black people all think alike.
00:05:05.000Here is Joe Biden falling all over himself.
00:05:09.000What 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.
00:05:24.000Okay, 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...
00:05:31.000Everybody's like, well, what, what now, Donald?
00:05:34.000But Joe Biden's out there being like, Latinos are very diverse and very diverse, unlike black people who are not diverse at all.
00:05:39.000They all kind of are thinking the same.
00:06:48.000Because if this person were out there on the campaign trail, this would be all the footage, wall to wall, all the time.
00:06:54.000And then he botched his own China policy.
00:06:56.000So again, it's not like he's doing this a little bit.
00:06:57.000He's doing it pretty much every single thing he says.
00:07:00.000Here was Joe Biden yesterday botching his own China policy.
00:07:03.000The 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.
00:07:23.000That's when China's behavior is going to change.
00:07:30.000And 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.
00:07:36.000And 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?
00:08:11.000Again, 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.
00:08:16.000Yesterday, he asked a black journalist from CBS News if he was a junkie, not joking, a thing that happened in real life.
00:08:27.000Please clarify, specifically, have you taken a cognitive test?
00:09:04.000Well, it's no wonder that many medical professionals are wondering about what they are seeing in Joe Biden.
00:09:09.000And don't give me the, you don't get to speculate from afar on his medical condition.
00:09:12.000I'm not speculating on his medical condition.
00:09:14.000I'm just telling you what I see in front of my very own eyes.
00:09:17.000This didn't work for Hillary Clinton when she tried to claim that she was totally fine and then collapsed into a van.
00:09:20.000It certainly is not going to work for Democrats whistling past the graveyard, no pun intended, with Joe Biden.
00:09:26.000With Joe Biden going around basically pretending he's perfectly fine and we can all see that he is basically bumping into the furniture.
00:09:31.000There'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.
00:09:42.000Again, 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.
00:09:48.000He was talking about a CNN anchor that made that mistake.
00:09:53.000I'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.
00:10:32.000I 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.
00:10:39.000Okay, either his senility is a point in his favor or it is a point against him.
00:10:43.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:10:45.000First, we all hear stories in the news where a good guy uses a gun to protect his family from criminals, and then he's the one arrested.
00:10:51.000In fact, we just saw this happen in Missouri, where a couple Try to defend their property by bringing guns outside their property and then they were essentially hit with criminal charges.
00:11:01.000The legal system is not fair when it comes to gun owners very often and responsibly armed Americans often become political targets.
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00:13:16.000Yes, I'm sure that that's exactly what's going to happen.
00:13:18.000I'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.
00:13:27.000Meanwhile, President Trump is campaigning against Biden, and he is correct.
00:13:30.000He says, listen, Joe Biden is going to be whatever they tell him to be.
00:13:33.000Joe Biden is not in control of himself.
00:13:35.000He is not in control of this campaign, and he is not in control of the Democratic Party platform.
00:13:39.000There was Trump going after Biden yesterday.
00:13:42.000Joe Biden's whatever they tell him to be.
00:13:44.000And I think it's good that a wife is... I would expect a wife to say that.
00:13:52.000Look at the manifesto that he and Bernie agreed to.
00:13:55.000That's further left than Bernie ever was.
00:14:00.000And Trump is exactly right about all of this.
00:14:02.000Mike 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.
00:14:11.000Here was the vice president going after Joe Biden.
00:14:14.000I mean, in the midst of a pandemic, Joe Biden would raise taxes by a trillion dollars.
00:14:27.000President 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.
00:14:37.000More broadly, Pence is saying that Biden is going to set us on a path toward socialism and decline.
00:14:42.000The Trump campaign basically has to make a two-step argument when it comes to Joe Biden.
00:14:47.000Step number one, dude's not in control of himself.
00:14:48.000Step number two, the people who are in control are the people who are radical.
00:14:52.000The 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.
00:15:00.000This is why I think his smart pick is probably Susan Rice.
00:15:02.000She appears somewhat more moderate in public than, for example, a communist like Karen Bass.
00:15:07.000She's not nearly as off-putting as Kamala Harris.
00:15:08.000I think it'll probably end up being Susan Rice, if I had to bet money on it.
00:15:12.000But with that said, whoever he selects, whomever Biden selects, is likely to become the focal point of the campaign.
00:15:19.000Pence says, listen, Biden is going to set us on a path toward socialism and decline.
00:15:23.000And 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.
00:15:30.000Cuz the truth is Joe Biden and the Radical Democrats would set America on a path of socialism and decline.
00:15:38.000President Trump set our nation on a path of freedom and opportunity from the very first day of this administration.
00:15:47.000All 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.
00:15:57.000So in 2016, the great myth is that people were thinking about Trump when they cast their ballot.
00:16:01.000The truth is they were thinking about Hillary and how much they didn't like Hillary Clinton.
00:16:04.000And that is why voters who didn't like either Hillary or Trump voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
00:16:08.000Well, in 2020, the same question applies.
00:16:10.000Are people thinking about Biden or are they thinking about Trump when they go into the voting booth?
00:16:14.000Right now, they're overwhelmingly thinking about Trump.
00:16:16.000But if Biden continues to gaffe and if he selects someone radical as his VP, that could seriously change.
00:16:21.000It could also change if President Trump would tone it down a little bit and be concerted in his actual approach to his own campaign.
00:16:27.000That 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?
00:16:40.000Yesterday, President Trump dismissed legal questions on accepting the nomination directly from the White House, an unprecedented move.
00:16:48.000Senator John Thune questioned whether or not that's actually legal given the Hatch Act.
00:16:53.000Is this something that you would get clearance for?
00:17:23.000Yeah, 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.
00:17:53.000We 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.
00:18:11.000You don't have political events in the Capitol.
00:18:14.000You don't have political events in the White House.
00:18:16.000No, 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.
00:18:24.000So, 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.
00:18:54.000And 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.
00:19:01.000And this ties into the COVID policies that are currently being pursued.
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00:20:23.000Okay, so the Democratic campaign against President Trump is now basically about one issue and one issue only, and that is his handling of COVID.
00:20:32.000You know, his personality was always going to be an issue because his personality is an issue.
00:20:36.000It's very off-putting to many suburban women.
00:20:39.000It's very off-putting to certain members of minority groups, for example.
00:20:42.000But that was always going to be an issue.
00:20:44.000It didn't matter because Trump was probably going to win if the economy was as good as it was back in January or February.
00:20:48.000Well, now that COVID has hit, the big issue has become COVID.
00:20:51.000And that means that the Biden campaign has to play it as though Trump totally blew it on COVID.
00:20:56.000Now, the problem with that is that everyone kind of blew it on COVID.
00:20:58.000There's no such thing as not blowing it on COVID.
00:21:00.000We're seeing spikes all around the world.
00:21:05.000Now we are seeing secondary waves in certain blue states.
00:21:09.000And yet the notion, the going mythology and narrative that's being promoted is that blue states handled this perfectly.
00:21:14.000And the only person who screwed this up was Donald Trump.
00:21:16.000So 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.
00:22:31.000Because nobody has this under control.
00:22:33.000There 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.
00:22:56.000But 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.
00:23:01.000And I keep asking people, okay, what is Trump supposed to do?
00:23:08.000Where the virus is the hottest, people are wearing masks.
00:23:10.000This has been true for a very long time.
00:23:12.000It 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.
00:26:08.000Because they said that it was inaccurate.
00:26:09.000It was in violation of Twitter rules on COVID-19 misinformation, said a Twitter spokeswoman.
00:26:14.000By the way, a Twitter spokesperson came out and said that as well.
00:26:18.000That spokesperson happened to be a former press secretary for Kamala Harris.
00:26:21.000So 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.
00:26:38.000The number of kids who are dying from COVID-19 is a fraction of a percent.
00:26:42.000A fraction of a fraction of a percent.
00:26:43.000It is a tiny number of children who have died from this.
00:26:46.000Like, we're still talking in the mid-double digits.
00:26:48.000Last 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.
00:27:15.000The virus is more active in Germany amid warnings France could, quote, lose control at any moment.
00:27:19.000According 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.
00:27:29.000The 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.
00:29:10.000It really is more the first wave, because the first wave basically just got a little bit squished and delayed.
00:29:16.000Basically, everything just got delayed.
00:29:19.000Meanwhile, Sweden seems to be coming out the other end of this.
00:29:22.000According to Newsweek, as of Sunday, the latest death rate in Sweden, death per 100,000 people, was reported to be 56.4.
00:29:28.000The 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.
00:29:37.000The UK currently has the world's fourth highest death toll.
00:29:40.000Spain and Italy were the former two European countries hit worst by the outbreak.
00:29:45.000Sweden's latest case fatality ratio, that's the portion of deaths compared to total cases, was reported to be about 7.1%.
00:29:50.000That figure is more than half the percentage reported in the UK, half that of Italy and Belgium, and nearly half that of France.
00:29:57.000The 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.
00:30:02.000Sweden'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.
00:30:12.000Two average daily new deaths on August 2nd, according to Worldometer.
00:30:18.000New 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.
00:30:26.000Meanwhile, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, each spiking between 58 and 206% in new cases.
00:30:33.000New 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.
00:30:47.000So what that sort of says is it looks like Sweden may have beat this thing.
00:30:53.000Anders 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.
00:30:59.000If compared to how much we travel in Scandinavian countries, the decrease in travel is the same in Sweden as in the neighboring countries.
00:31:05.000In many ways, the voluntary measures we put in place in Sweden have been just as effective as complete lockdowns in other countries.
00:31:10.000In other words, when you tell people, don't travel all that much, people take it pretty seriously.
00:31:14.000But 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.
00:31:21.000Sweden didn't lock down and Sweden may be the smartest of all.
00:32:42.000Because it turns out that kids giving this thing to other kids is not killing kids.
00:32:45.000In 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.
00:32:56.000Schools are not the chief transmission vectors here.
00:32:58.000But here was Ezekiel Emanuel yesterday saying we have to reduce the amount of time kids are spending with other kids.
00:33:03.000Doing things indoors has to be limited.
00:33:06.000You have to, what's called, de-densify.
00:33:08.000Reduce the number of children to allow physical distancing.
00:33:13.000You have to have face masks for the older children.
00:33:17.000You have to not use the cafeteria where crowding can take place.
00:33:22.000So 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.
00:33:34.000Okay, well, no, you could also just, you know, have younger teachers teaching young kids.
00:33:38.000But again, lockdown has become the all-purpose solution to all of this.
00:33:41.000And this is political, because if lockdowns are the all-purpose solution and Trump isn't saying lockdown, then Trump is the bad guy.
00:33:47.000So some of this is just plainly political.
00:33:48.000Eric Garcetti was pushing this yesterday.
00:33:50.000Eric Garcetti, our idiot mayor here in Los Angeles.
00:33:53.000He said yesterday he is going to shut off the power to any place holding an unregistered gathering or party.
00:33:59.000He's literally just going to cut off the water power.
00:34:00.000I have no idea how this is possibly legal.
00:34:02.000This 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.
00:34:10.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:34:22.000Meanwhile, he's not opening anything in New York City.
00:34:24.000So I'm not sure why does he care about quarantining when everything is still locked down?
00:34:28.000If everybody's still in their house, then what exactly is he so worried about?
00:34:31.000Here is Bill de Blasio saying something that probably is also patently illegal.
00:34:33.000I 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.
00:34:50.000We will have checkpoints at key entry points to the city.
00:34:54.000Travelers coming in from those states will be given information about the quarantine.
00:35:00.000They will be reminded that it is required, not optional.
00:35:04.000They'll be reminded that failure to quarantine is a violation of state law, and it comes with serious penalties.
00:35:11.000In fact, under certain circumstances, the fines can be as high as $10,000.
00:35:17.000So this doesn't sound totalitarian at all.
00:35:20.000You come into the state of New York, you go to New York City, and what?
00:35:22.000He's going to shut down all the bridges and the tunnels?
00:35:30.000I will say one of my favorite things about New York State politics is the gap between Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio.
00:35:34.000Basically, if de Blasio takes a position, Cuomo hates his gut, and so he'll immediately take the reverse position.
00:35:40.000Shockingly, Andrew Cuomo is now the voice of reason in New York.
00:35:43.000So 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.
00:35:52.000Welcome to the Republican Party, Andrew Cuomo, when reality finally hits.
00:35:57.000I 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.
00:36:22.000And then he says, 1% of the population is paying 50% of all the taxes.
00:36:26.000Welcome 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.
00:36:35.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the continuing cultural battle over whether America sucks or not.
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00:38:56.000All righty, so meanwhile, our cultural battles continue apace.
00:39:06.000I'm putting aside the insanity over COVID and the presidential election.
00:39:09.000The 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.
00:39:15.000My 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.
00:39:31.000In the former category, people who think Americans suck are a great many people who have benefited inordinately from America.
00:39:37.000People who grew up in abject poverty in the direst of circumstances and have become insanely powerful and wealthy.
00:39:43.000One of those people, case A1, would be Oprah Winfrey.
00:39:45.000Oprah Winfrey, her life story is truly an American miracle.
00:39:48.000I 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.
00:39:59.000She owns like half the island of Maui.
00:40:01.000That didn't stop her yesterday from denouncing America's white privilege.
00:40:04.000She says that if you're white, you have this privilege no matter what.
00:40:07.000White 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.
00:40:28.000Oh, well, they still have their whiteness.
00:40:29.000I mean, I would trade my whiteness right now for for Oprah Winfrey as well.
00:40:33.000That seems like a really, really solid deal, frankly.
00:40:35.000In fact, I would trade my whiteness for like like I don't care about my whiteness.
00:40:41.000I think most people don't care very much about the color of their skin.
00:40:44.000And if they do, I think that they're spending their time in life on the wrong things.
00:40:48.000I don't see why the color of your skin should define you.
00:40:50.000It seems like there are many, many other attributes about you as a character and as a human being that should define you.
00:40:54.000But for Oprah Winfrey, she's now pushing this new book called C.A.S.T.
00:40:58.000This is written by the same person who suggested that there have been only three durable C.A.S.T.
00:41:18.000And nonetheless, Oprah Winfrey pushed that one yesterday as well.
00:41:21.000And 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?
00:41:33.000Does she believe that she's the only exception?
00:41:35.000The average black income in the United States is $58,000 a year.
00:41:39.000The median household income in the United States for black Americans is $41,000 a year.
00:41:43.000Black Americans are richer than any other African-origin people anywhere on Earth.
00:41:49.000Black Canadians do not earn as much as black Americans.
00:41:51.000Black Britishers do not earn as much as black Americans.
00:41:54.000Black people in Africa do not earn as much as black Americans.
00:41:59.000So 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.
00:42:05.000You can make that case when Jim Crow was in place, certainly, obviously.
00:42:08.000You can make that case when slavery was in place, certainly and obviously.
00:42:11.000You can't make that case very well today when we've had a two-term black president of the United States overwhelmingly elected.
00:42:17.000We've had black people in nearly every powerful position in the United States, which is great.
00:42:27.000I 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.
00:42:33.000I mean, that's a pretty amazing thing that's unprecedented in virtually all of world history.
00:42:38.000But apparently critical race theory, which is the theory that we can all basically be melted down into our racial essentials.
00:42:47.000And so if you're white, your essential is that you are privileged at the expense of black people.
00:42:50.000And if you're black, then you are racially essentialized into victimhood at the hands of white Americans.
00:42:55.000And that leads to the predictable result that any disparity between black and white is the system at work.
00:43:01.000So this is how you get Ibram Kendi, who literally says this.
00:43:04.000He literally says any inequality between black and white is attributable to the system.
00:43:08.000You 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.
00:43:15.000He's going to have to explain in which society black people are not dying at higher rates than white people.
00:43:19.000Literally across Europe, black people are dying at higher rates than white people.
00:43:25.000I do not understand what is his control.
00:43:28.000In order to make this sort of claim, it's a pretty far-reaching claim, you have to have a control group.
00:43:34.000If 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.
00:43:47.000It's because there's something wrong with our policies.
00:44:13.000He's not talking about race issues, right?
00:44:14.000There are a lot of poor white people who are working.
00:44:15.000There are a lot of poor white people who live in polluted neighborhoods.
00:44:17.000But everything boils down to racial essentialism.
00:44:19.000The problem is that all of this is incredibly counterproductive.
00:44:22.000So 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.
00:44:36.000There'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.
00:44:49.000In 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.
00:44:58.000When 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.
00:45:08.000A company is better off doing nothing than mandatory diversity training, Kalev concluded.
00:45:13.000Some of the most popular training approaches are of dubious value.
00:45:15.000There'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.
00:45:22.000Actually, what those studies tend to show is that social liberals don't feel better about black people.
00:45:27.000They just feel worse about white people.
00:45:28.000There'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.
00:45:42.000The main beneficiaries of these people are the diversity trainers themselves, who've been able to rake in oodles of cash, obviously.
00:45:49.000So, if it doesn't work at companies, how do you think it works for a country?
00:45:52.000When 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?
00:46:12.000Mashable reports it, but it was all over the internet yesterday.
00:46:15.000Quote, 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.
00:46:22.000Multiple 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.
00:46:32.000It 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.
00:46:40.000In 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.
00:46:49.000On 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.
00:47:04.000The university also closed its campus in March, so there couldn't have been classes in April.
00:47:07.000ASU 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.
00:47:15.000We've been in touch with several deans and faculty members.
00:47:17.000No one can identify the account or who might be behind it.
00:47:20.000The 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.
00:47:32.000Lots 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.
00:47:43.000McLaughlin denied she created Sciencing By out of whole cloth, but did admit she had access to the account.
00:47:49.000She claimed that as far as she knew, this account did die of COVID-19.
00:47:53.000She said she got that from a family contact.
00:47:55.000McLaughlin has reportedly declined to reveal Sciencing By's actual identity, and also said she had met her in real life.
00:48:03.000After the alleged death, McLaughlin seemed to suggest they were in an intimate relationship, tweeting, looking at her side of the bed and crying.
00:48:13.000This is not the first instance of controversy surrounding McLaughlin.
00:48:16.000A 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.
00:48:23.000In 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.
00:48:35.000That says something about where the halls of power in America truly lie, does it not?
00:48:39.000You don't see a lot of people who are seeking power attempting to ape conservatives, like pretend to be a conservative.
00:48:45.000You don't see a lot of people who want power attempting to be white.
00:48:50.000You don't have reverse Rachel Dolezals.
00:48:52.000And that is an indicator of where power lies in a society, right?
00:48:55.000During Jim Crow, it was a fairly common and horrific thing.
00:48:59.000I mean, horrifically that anybody felt that they needed to do this, that light-skinned black people would sometimes attempt to pass for white, right?
00:49:04.000This 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.
00:49:11.000Well, 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.
00:49:21.000The halls of power are replete with the diversity crew, and that is where people are attempting to pander in order to get ahead.
00:49:28.000Which says something about where America stands.
00:49:29.000It doesn't say that America is deeply intolerant of diversity.
00:49:31.000It 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.
00:49:40.000Alrighty, we'll be back here tomorrow with more content, or later today with a couple additional hours of content.
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