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00:02:05.000Okay, so over the weekend, President Trump headed down to Georgia to campaign for these Senate Georgia Republicans.
00:02:11.000Now, I've been saying for weeks on end, anybody who is telling you that you should boycott a bunch of Republican races that will decide the fate of the United States Senate and could place the United States Senate at the tender mercies of, if Trump does not become president, Kamala Harris, or in any case, at the hands of Chuck Schumer, This is like the dumbest thing you could do.
00:02:32.000And anybody who's telling you to do that is a grifter.
00:02:34.000Anybody who's telling you that you need to boycott races because you're mad about what happened to Trump in Georgia, or you're mad about the national election, or you suspect voter fraud, so you're gonna stay home and simply hand Senate seats to John Ossoff?
00:02:45.000Who is a radical Bernie Sanders leftist living off his parents' trust fund.
00:02:49.000Or Raphael Warnock, a man so radical that he did full speeches from the pulpit in his congregation talking about the wonders of Jeremiah Wright.
00:02:57.000Putting those people in the Senate as a solution to your upset about the Georgia presidential race is the dumbest thing you could do.
00:04:08.000Whether that is based or whether that is baseless.
00:04:10.000Okay, the bottom line is you need to vote for the Republicans against the Democrats in Georgia.
00:04:14.000I do not, for the life of me, I will never understand people who are saying that they're going to boycott a Georgia Senate race and hand the Senate to the Democrats in order to do what?
00:04:22.000Punish the Democrats for helping to cheat?
00:05:42.000Well, over the weekend, a top Jewish group slammed Democrat Senate candidates John Ossoff and Rafael Warnock in a statement late on Saturday night.
00:05:48.000They campaigned with Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat of Georgia, who has referred to Jews as termites and accused them of stealing the homes of Palestinians, according to Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire.
00:05:57.000The trio reportedly campaigned together on Saturday during a drive-in rally hosted by county-level Democrat parties in their attempts to drive voter registration.
00:06:04.000Ossoff and Warnock's decision to campaign with Johnson, who has made anti-Semitic remarks in the past, comes as Warnock has faced scrutiny on the campaign trail for controversial comments he made a few years ago about Israel, in which he suggested that Israel was willy-nilly killing Palestinians for no reason.
00:06:17.000This drove the Republican-Jewish coalition to put out a statement decrying the anti-Semitism of campaigning alongside Johnson.
00:06:26.000The fact, again, remains that these are extraordinarily radical candidates.
00:06:29.000And you know who pointed that out last night?
00:06:30.000There were a couple of debates last night.
00:06:32.000One was an actual debate, one was not.
00:06:33.000One was a debate between Kelly Loeffler and Raphael Warnock.
00:06:36.000Kelly Loeffler is the sitting United States Senator in Georgia.
00:06:41.000Raphael Warnock is running against her, of course.
00:06:43.000They ran in this open primary, jungle primary election in Georgia.
00:06:48.000In which Warnock won the plurality of the vote, but that's because Loeffler was splitting the vote with Doug Collins on the Republican side of the aisle.
00:06:55.000So Loeffler went after Warnock repeatedly.
00:07:02.000Don't run a guy who was involved in a church praising Fidel Castro.
00:07:06.000Don't run a guy who praised Jeremiah Wright.
00:07:09.000Don't run a guy who decries America as inherently racist if you don't want him to be called a radical liberal over and over and over in Georgia.
00:07:18.000And so, when Kelly Loeffler points out that, in fact, this human is a radical liberal... Sorry, that one's on you.
00:07:24.000Here's Kelly Loeffler doing that last night.
00:07:27.000My opponent, radical liberal Raphael Warnock, has called police officers gangsters, thugs, bullies, and a threat to our children.
00:07:35.000When I gave him the chance to apologize in our first debate, he declined.
00:07:38.000He's also said that you can't serve God and the military.
00:07:42.000He's used the Bible to justify these types of attacks and make other divisive statements.
00:07:48.000What we need is someone who can bring together, that can help us get through this pandemic and rebuild our economy across this country and right here in Georgia.
00:08:13.000The only thing that he had to say to Loeffler over and over and over was, you won't say whether Trump lost Georgia.
00:08:18.000There's only one problem with this particular strategy.
00:08:21.000A plurality of Georgians believe Trump didn't lose Georgia.
00:08:24.000There's a poll that was done over the weekend, and apparently, actually, a slight majority of people in Georgia actually believe that there was some hanky-panky in Georgia.
00:08:32.000So here is Raphael Warnock trying to hit Loeffler with an unpopular proposition in Georgia as though this is going to win him the Senate race.
00:08:38.000Here we are several weeks after the election, and Kelly Loeffler continues to cast doubt on an American democratic election.
00:08:48.000It's time to put this behind us and get focused on the concerns of ordinary people.
00:08:53.000While she's playing political games trying to represent somebody who doesn't live in Georgia, Georgians are wondering when are they going to get some COVID-19 relief.
00:09:01.000OK, if we're talking about COVID-19 relief, which we'll get to in a little while, guess who's holding up COVID-19 relief?
00:09:14.000And he had no responses to anything Loeffler said about him last night.
00:09:16.000So if anybody watched that debate in Georgia, And then decides you're going to sit it out after Loeffler correctly points out how radical Warnock is?
00:09:32.000Meanwhile, Jon Ossoff did a debate with David Perdue's podium.
00:09:35.000So David Perdue was like, you know what, I'm not debating this guy because every time I do a debate with this guy, all he does is slander me, so forget it.
00:09:40.000So he did a debate last night in which he just talked to an open podium.
00:09:44.000And it turns out that Jon Ossoff can't even win a debate against an open podium.
00:09:48.000I mean, he lost a race against Karen Handel for Congress.
00:09:51.000Very hotly contested race in Georgia just a couple of years back.
00:09:54.000And now he is back debating empty podiums.
00:09:56.000So here he was, and this was supposed to be a great winning moment for him.
00:10:01.000Well, it's a strange situation to be asking a question of a sitting United States Senator who is not here to debate as he asks for the votes of the people to be re-elected.
00:10:17.000Senator Perdue, I suppose, doesn't feel that he can handle himself in debate, or perhaps is concerned that he may incriminate himself in debate.
00:10:30.000both of which, in my opinion, are disqualifying.
00:10:38.000When the opposite podium is actually more interesting than you are in a debate, like at least when Clint Eastwood did the empty chair thing, it was actually kind of funny and interesting and creative.
00:10:48.000This guy lost a debate to an empty podium, which is really, really difficult to do, Jon Ossoff.
00:10:52.000OK, in just a second, we're going to get to the continuing controversy over the election because President Trump didn't just talk about why he should vote Republican in Georgia in the Senate elections.
00:11:01.000He also talked about his own election and the prospect for his for a second term or a Joe Biden first term.
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00:13:07.000I feel like we're going to move forward with the process, but I feel like I got cheated.
00:13:11.000And also, you should go out and vote for the Senate candidates.
00:13:13.000And Democrats were unduly angry at this because, of course, they were hoping that Trump would go down there and basically do exactly what Lin Wood and Sidney Powell have been doing and tell people not to vote for the Senate candidates because Democrats, all they care about is that Republicans lose power.
00:13:51.000And they're going to try and rig this election too.
00:13:55.000OK, so again, that's actually not a horrible get out the vote message, which is they're going to try to rig the election.
00:14:00.000So get out and vote really early and make sure that they can't do with the mail-ins what I'm saying they did with the mail-ins.
00:14:06.000No, Trump pushing that message is actually not a bad message.
00:14:09.000Now, I'm getting a lot of mail from people who are asking, like, why do so many Republicans believe that this election was rigged?
00:14:14.000Why do so many Republicans seem to be clinging to the idea that Trump was cheated in this election?
00:14:20.000Well, I mean, listen, there are some puzzling questions about the election, like the fact that Trump seemed to underperform the rest of the Republican ticket.
00:14:26.000I think there are plausible answers as to why that happened, if indeed it turns out that voter irregularity and voter fraud are not responsible for the current results.
00:14:32.000There are people saying, okay, he got He overperformed among minorities, he underperformed in the suburbs, but why didn't that amount to a Trump victory?
00:14:40.000So why are so many Republicans buying into Trump's narrative that this whole thing was voter irregularity?
00:14:48.000When people have been lied to for years and years and years and years, then the same people who lied to them for years and years and years turn around and say another thing, people are immediately going to assume it's a lie.
00:14:59.000If you spent four years claiming that Donald Trump was not the legitimate president in 2016 because he was manipulating the system with the Russians, nobody is going to believe you when you say that he was booted from office in a fully legitimate election.
00:15:13.000Acknowledge that it was a legitimate election in 2016, and now here you are in 2020 saying, well, suddenly it's a legitimate election again.
00:15:20.000When you blow out your own credibility, it makes it very difficult for anybody to trust you on issues like, is this current election legit?
00:15:29.000It makes it very difficult for anybody on the right to believe anybody in the media who, less than three months ago, was claiming that Donald Trump was going to rig the election through getting rid of mailboxes.
00:15:40.000That Donald Trump was going to engage in voter suppression.
00:15:43.000And then they flip and suddenly it's the cleanest election in the world.
00:15:47.000Now, it may be that the election was not rigged.
00:15:50.000It may be that the election was clean.
00:15:52.000Or it may be that two things could be true at once.
00:15:53.000The election was not decided by voter fraud and voter irregularity, but the processes by which the election happened did tend toward Democrats, and they are not the way we should run elections in the future.
00:16:02.000And the media helped rig this election via its refusal to focus on actual stories that damaged Joe Biden And lying narratives over and over and over again, ranging from Trump is responsible for COVID, to Trump is a white supremacist, to Trump is a Russian plant, right?
00:16:16.000All of those things can be true at once.
00:16:18.000But here's one thing that is certainly true.
00:16:20.000If you look at a list of institutions Americans trust right now, media is at the very, very bottom of that list.
00:16:25.000And so members of the media keep shouting into the wind, it was a clean election.
00:16:28.000And then they wonder why people don't believe them.
00:16:29.000The answer is because you don't have any credibility.
00:16:31.000One of the reasons you have no credibility is because you are willing to go along with any democratic narrative you possibly can.
00:16:37.000So over the weekend, John Brennan, who's a Democrat, he was the head of the CIA under Barack Obama.
00:16:45.000He was on with Chris Wallace, and he was saying that there was no spying on the Trump campaign.
00:16:50.000Now, John Brennan is also one of the people who's out there saying today that it was a super clean election.
00:17:02.000And now he's saying there's no spying on the Trump campaign, and then in the same sentence, he's saying it was a clean election.
00:17:06.000See, the source matters when it comes to credibility.
00:17:08.000Now, this is not an argument, again, as to whether the election was clean or whether the election was dirty.
00:17:14.000It is an argument that when all of the main sources who declare that they are telling you the truth have been lying to you for years, it makes it very, very difficult for people to buy into that.
00:17:23.000Here is John Brennan saying an untrue thing.
00:17:25.000As we have said previously, the Steele dossier was not used in any way to undergird the judgments that came out of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in the 2016 election.
00:17:38.000And so the Steele dossier was something that I never looked at from a standpoint of credibility, because it wasn't something that the CIA had acquired.
00:17:48.000And so I think people point to the Steele dossier as this reason why the whole thing was a hoax.
00:17:53.000No, there was so much other evidence and intelligence to support those judgments.
00:17:58.000OK, there wasn't a lot of other evidence.
00:18:02.000And he also maintained that there was no spying, period, on the Trump campaign, which, of course, is just not true.
00:18:06.000And there are members of the Trump campaign like Carter Page and members of the intel community who have now been informed as to the evils of the FISA warrants taken out against Carter Page have fully admitted that the FISA warrants never should have been taken out against Carter Page.
00:18:20.000Here's Brennan just denying there was any spying on the Trump campaign at all, which, of course, is not correct.
00:18:24.000Looking back at 2016, were there some mistakes made in terms of the FISA applications, other types of things?
00:18:29.000Yes, apparently there were, but that doesn't mean that there was criminal intent and there was no spying on Donald Trump's campaign.
00:18:37.000And it's very clear from Robert Mueller's investigation that there were a lot of activities that I think were very unprincipled, unethical.
00:18:44.000And it'll be up to individuals in the future to determine whether or not there was any criminal activity that took place during that time.
00:18:51.000I love to hear about unprincipled, unethical criminal activity from a guy who openly lied to the United States Senate and was forced to back off of it.
00:19:01.000We'll get to more on the credibility of members of the media and the claims that are being made about voter fraud and voter irregularity in just one second.
00:19:08.000First, let's talk about the fact that the holidays are here.
00:19:11.000And right now, most people have a balance on their credit card with a higher interest rate than they would prefer.
00:19:15.000If you've got a balance on that credit card and you've waited more than like a month to pay it, the interest rates really start racking up.
00:19:20.000This is how you end up in a cycle of debt and it's a real problem.
00:19:23.000I've seen people like bankrupt themselves just by taking out a credit card.
00:19:26.000They start spending on the credit card before they know it they are paying 20% interest rates.
00:20:36.000Skepticism about John Brennan, totally justified.
00:20:38.000Skepticism about members of the media, who five minutes ago were declaring this election was going to be dirty and rigged for Trump, now declaring that because they think Biden won the election, everything was clean as the driven snow.
00:20:48.000I understand distrust of those people.
00:20:50.000The shift to anybody who now does not go along with the Trump loss because of voter fraud and voter irregularity narrative, that shift is too much.
00:20:58.000Okay, so for example, Maria Bartiromo.
00:21:01.000She was asking John Ratcliffe, who's the Director of National Intelligence, who got to Bill Barr.
00:21:05.000Nobody got to Bill Barr, the Attorney General.
00:21:07.000Bill Barr has been an excellent Attorney General.
00:21:09.000He's done a lot of the things that Trump supporters would want.
00:21:11.000Also, he happens to be a person who has abided by the law.
00:21:14.000Bill Barr has been an excellent, straightforward, clear, and convincing Attorney General.
00:21:18.000But here's Maria Bartiromo suggesting that somebody got to Bill Barr.
00:21:21.000Okay, once he gets to the point where you're suggesting Bill Barr was bribed in order to go along with this election, that's not correct.
00:21:26.000Bill Barr himself put out a statement last week saying the media had taken his comments about voter fraud too far.
00:21:30.000He had said, I have seen no systemic evidence of voter fraud.
00:21:34.000He did not say we've been doing massive investigations into systemic evidence of voter fraud.
00:21:37.000He says, any evidence that's brought to light, we are going to investigate.
00:21:41.000But at no point did he say that absence of evidence equals evidence of absence, right?
00:21:47.000Just because I haven't seen voter fraud doesn't mean voter fraud didn't occur.
00:21:51.000But here's Maria Bartiromo going too far.
00:21:52.000Again, if you've gone to the point where everybody on the right side of the aisle who is skeptical about voter fraud allegations in the absence of convincing evidence is now bought off or something, that's too far.
00:22:07.000I was the first person, I think, to say every legal vote needs to be counted and every illegal vote needs not to be counted.
00:22:12.000This has now become the talking point on the right.
00:22:14.000I was the first person to put it out there.
00:22:16.000That is totally worthwhile and it is totally true.
00:22:19.000And just because a media member who's been non-credible from the start begins to suggest over and over and over that the election is over does not necessarily mean the election is over.
00:22:26.000The election is over when the Electoral College votes on December 14th.
00:22:55.000We were expecting a real investigation into what took place and why Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation into Donald Trump, still has no accountability.
00:23:06.000OK, so again, nobody got to Bill Barr.
00:23:08.000This idea that somebody got to Bill Barr is absurd and ridiculous, and people should not be implying that sort of stuff.
00:23:31.000Okay, what I would also like is for a legal process to take place where Rudy Giuliani brings the evidence that he has been suggesting over and over he is going to bring.
00:23:38.000And I don't mean that he brings affidavits that are unbacked by other supporting evidence.
00:23:41.000Anybody can file an affidavit, especially one that is not filed in court.
00:23:44.000I mean, if you want to change the outcome of the election, you're going to need to prove your case in court.
00:24:53.000Okay, like, I don't mean to be the bearer of bad tidings here, but I would like Trump Like you, I would like Trump to remain President of the United States.
00:25:01.000If you want him to remain President of the United States, then putting out speculation about how Trump definitely could not have lost, or putting out statistical anomalies, that's not going to be enough.
00:25:10.000You're going to have to actually prove it.
00:25:11.000You're going to have to actually prove it.
00:25:13.000Again, I'm talking about the practical, on-the-ground messaging.
00:25:16.000You're going to have to actually show it in court if you want the results to change.
00:25:21.000Otherwise, I mean, I suppose that we can move along and just believe that everybody's done their job.
00:25:26.000But if the job's gonna get done, somebody's gonna have to do it.
00:25:28.000And that person, presumably, is gonna have to be Trump's legal team.
00:25:30.000Okay, in just one second, we're gonna get to Joe Biden and his awful plans.
00:25:34.000We'll get to that in just one second, then we'll get to COVID and everything else that's been happening over the weekend, because there's a lot.
00:25:38.000First, it's doorbell season, the busiest time of year at your front door.
00:25:41.000That is definitely true at my house right now.
00:25:43.000There's a ton of activity at my front door.
00:25:45.000Got lots of packages arriving for Hanukkah.
00:26:52.000So there's a story that came out from Michigan.
00:26:54.000A couple of dozen protesters, according to the Detroit Free Press, a couple of dozen protesters gathered in front of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's home Saturday night, shouting through megaphones against the certification of the election, demanding a forensic audit.
00:27:05.000A portion of the demonstration was broadcast live on Facebook around 930 p.m.
00:27:08.000The protesters are seen walking up to Benson's Detroit home, some wearing paraphernalia from the Trump campaign, carrying American flags.
00:27:48.000It was bad when the left descended on Tucker Carlson's house.
00:27:50.000It is bad when restaurants throw Sarah Huckabee Sanders out.
00:27:53.000And it is bad when you descend on somebody's home, where they are with their children, because you don't like something that is happening in politics.
00:28:01.000And meanwhile, speaking of things that are bad happening in American politics, so Joe Biden has been promoted as this magical sort of moderate who's gonna bring the country together, which of course is a joke.
00:28:10.000He's not a moderate, nor is he a magical, magical man.
00:28:13.000Joe Biden says, we're gonna need to take the vitriol out of politics.
00:29:03.000He literally said that Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains.
00:29:08.000He created borking and then bragged about it.
00:29:12.000You know, Joe Biden is not a unifying figure.
00:29:13.000And how do you know he's not a unifying figure?
00:29:15.000Because he has now picked Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, should he be inaugurated president in January.
00:29:21.000For those who don't know Xavier Becerra, the man is a radical leftist.
00:29:32.000So not only has he spent his career trying to protect Obamacare, but also he has gone after pro-lifers in extraordinary ways.
00:29:40.000Susan B. Anthony list put out a statement that said far from uniting the country Biden has proven yet again He's an extremist on abortion. This is going to SBA list president Marjorie Dannenfelser But Sarah is aggressively pro-abortion a foe of free speech as attorney general of california He continued what his predecessor kamala harris started by persecuting citizen journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood's role in baby parts trafficking Not only that he went all the way to the supreme court to try to force california's pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise and refer for abortion a policy the court rejected as unconstitutional
00:30:08.000And Congress even voted in favor of partial birth abortion.
00:30:12.000This pic underscores the importance of winning in Georgia to prevent pro-abortion forces from taking control of the United States Senate.
00:30:17.000So Becerra, what's being referred to there, is a case in which Becerra went directly after David DeLayden.
00:30:23.000So David DeLayden was a pro-life activist, and Becerra announced charges against DeLayden and somebody else working with him, a woman named Sandra Merritt, saying the state would not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations.
00:30:33.000What were those confidential conversations?
00:30:36.000DeLayden did secret recording, For reporting purposes of Planned Parenthood employees talking about selling fetal tissue.
00:31:30.000And one of the reasons that Biden selected him is because, of course, Joe Biden needs more Latinos in the cabinet.
00:31:34.000Because Joe Biden has already vowed that he's going to select people based on the color of their skin, rather than the content of their character.
00:31:41.000There was worry that he was actually going to make him Attorney General.
00:31:43.000So, frankly, I'm a little bit relieved that he's talking about Becerra for HHS as opposed to Becerra over at AG.
00:31:50.000I can't even imagine who he's going to put over at AG.
00:32:38.000Why is it that he is on the cover of InTouch magazine?
00:32:41.000Why is he being given glossy treatment by the entire press for being an advisor with regard to a coronavirus pandemic?
00:32:50.000And the answer, of course, is because he was perceived as anti-Trump, he's seen as a critic of Trump, and therefore he gets the rosy treatment.
00:32:56.000Deborah Birx never got that treatment because Deborah Birx, as much as she disagreed with Trump, really kept it under wraps and understood she had a job to do within the framework of an administration.
00:33:04.000But my respect for Anthony Fauci drops fairly radically once you start posing for magazine covers like In Touch.
00:33:12.000With your stethoscope around your neck.
00:33:13.000At that point, you're just doing a little bit of self-promotion.
00:33:15.000Okay, speaking of self-promotion, COVID policy continues to be extraordinarily bad across the country.
00:33:22.000So California has now locked down tens of millions of citizens.
00:33:26.000According to CNN, Southern California and San Joaquin Valley residents will be under a stay-at-home order after the ICU capacity in the two regions fell below 15%, triggering a mandate issued by the governor earlier this week that aims to bring down the soaring number of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
00:33:38.000Now, to be fair, there is flex capacity at some of these hospitals, A lot of these hospitals always run at near capacity in terms of the ICUs because you're always doing surgeries.
00:33:48.000Hospitals that run at 50% capacity are not called hospitals.
00:33:51.000They are now called boarded up old hospitals that don't exist anymore because the way the system works is that the beds have to be filled in order for people to get paid.
00:33:58.000So instead, what we're talking about is telling people to stay home if they have optional surgeries so that we can fill those ICU beds with people who have COVID.
00:34:04.000That does not mean that we have not seen a surge.
00:34:07.000It does mean that all of the talk, especially in major areas with pretty significant medical resources like Los Angeles, they're talking about telling people to stay home.
00:35:16.000So, the basic idea that government was going to be able to enforce quarantine and this was going to magically quash everything, there's not a lot of evidence that that is the case.
00:35:23.000Schools that are already open for in-person learning can remain open along with critical infrastructure businesses.
00:35:28.000Retail businesses can stay open, but only at 20% capacity.
00:35:31.000Restaurants are limited to takeout and delivery alone.
00:35:33.000And the order is in effect for at least three weeks.
00:35:48.000The evidence on outdoor dining, there is none that outdoor dining is spreading this thing.
00:35:52.000There's evidence that indoor dining is spreading this thing.
00:35:54.000There's no evidence that outdoor dining is spreading this thing.
00:35:58.000Nonetheless, they shut down the outdoor dining in LA County.
00:36:00.000However, under emergency mandates, The film industry is still allowed to have food outdoors, under tents, because the film industry has been deemed essential by the state of California.
00:36:14.000So these asshat hypocrites, they're saying that you can't open your restaurant outdoors, but so long as you're working for Gavin Newsom's favorite industry, all of his friends in Hollywood, all the glitterati, well then you can eat at a food tent directly off-site.
00:36:26.000You can definitely make sure that all of the grips can have their food catered by some sort of food truck, I'm losing everything.
00:36:32.000Everything I own is being taken away from me.
00:36:33.000which, last I checked, is called outdoor dining.
00:36:35.000In fact, here's one California restaurant owner protesting this over the weekend.
00:37:26.000But if you work for one of Eric Garcetti's favorite industries in Los Angeles, or if you work for one of Gavin Newsom's favorite industries in California, well then you are totally fine.
00:37:36.000So much of this is about catering to a particular voter base.
00:37:39.000So much of this is about keeping industries that you like open and closing industries that you don't particularly like.
00:37:44.000By the way, Eric Garcetti's response to this, so he responded directly to this lady, Erica Garcetti suggested that his heart goes out to her, but we have to stop the virus.
00:37:52.000He said, my heart goes out to Miss Marsden and the workers of the Pineapple Hill Saloon who have to comply with state and county public health restrictions that close outdoor dining.
00:37:59.000No one likes these restrictions, but I do support them as our hospital ICU beds filled to capacity and cases have increased by 500%.
00:38:05.000We must stop this virus before it kills thousands of more Angelenos.
00:38:09.000But how about that tent that's right there with the outdoor dining?
00:38:12.000No comment on that from Eric Garcetti.
00:38:14.000All of which has led the sheriff of one California county to say, I'm not going to enforce these rules.
00:38:18.000If you think that I'm going to drive up to a business that is serving outdoor dining and shut them down, you got another thing coming.
00:38:22.000Here's a California sheriff saying this yesterday.
00:38:25.000These closures and stay-at-home orders are flat-out ridiculous.
00:38:29.000The metrics used for closures are unbelievably faulty and are not representative of true numbers and are disastrous for Riverside County.
00:38:37.000While the Governor's office and the state has threatened action against violators, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department will not be blackmailed, bullied, or used as muscle against Riverside County residents in the enforcement of the Governor's orders.
00:38:56.000And just a second, we're gonna bring you proof that full-scale lockdowns aren't all they're cracked up to be.
00:39:01.000Again, I'm not saying that you can't restrict indoor dining to a particular capacity if you are in a hard-hit area.
00:39:07.000I'm not saying that you shouldn't wear a mask when you're close to other people.
00:39:09.000You should wear a mask when you're close to other people.
00:39:11.000I'm saying the orders in places like L.A.
00:39:12.000County make no sense and they are politically driven because they make no sense and they are politically driven.
00:39:16.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:42:35.000All righty, so all these lockdown orders, they're supposedly going to protect you, right?
00:42:45.000Well, Griff Witt reporting for the Washington Post, quote, the governor had been sounding the alarm for more than a month.
00:42:50.000By mid-November, it was clear to Michelle Lujan Grisham She would need to take extreme measures to head off the most serious emergency New Mexico has ever faced.
00:42:57.000With COVID-19 cases rising exponentially and hospital beds dwindling, she dragged her state back to the darkest days of spring when restaurant dining was banned, non-essential businesses were closed, residents were ordered to stay inside unless absolutely necessary.
00:43:09.000She said, quote, New Mexico has crushed this virus before twice.
00:43:14.000Three weeks later, victory remains a distant prospect.
00:43:16.000Instead, Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, is on the verge of acknowledging just how grim conditions have become.
00:43:20.000She will, she said in an interview, soon allow hospitals to move to crisis standards, a move that frees them to ration care depending on a patient's likelihood of surviving.
00:43:28.000Given the severe strain on medical systems statewide and the lack of available ICU beds as COVID hospitalizations near 1,000 statewide, according to Jason Mitchell, the chief medical officer at Presbyterian Healthcare Services, he said, there was likely no other choice.
00:43:40.000He said, we're headed there very quickly.
00:43:44.000New Mexico has consistently won praise among public health experts for its aggressive approach to combating the virus.
00:43:48.000Lujan Grisham issued a stay-at-home order in March when there were fewer than 100 cases statewide.
00:43:52.000She's gone as far as locking down entire cities to stem the spread.
00:43:55.000A study by Oxford University found the state's approach was among the most restrictive and also the most successful, with New Mexico dodging the spring and summer surges that afflicted so many other states.
00:44:03.000But with pandemic fatigue growing and political resistance building, New Mexico has not escaped the outbreak raging nationwide this fall.
00:44:10.000Even though there's evidence the governor's November shutdown orders are helping reduce case numbers, experts say there's only so much they can do with a virus that zealously exploits any weakness.
00:44:30.000Treating people as rational human beings is the answer.
00:44:32.000And one of the bigger problems here is, again, this goes right back to the argument we were making at the beginning about voter fraud.
00:44:37.000Okay, when you have sources who make themselves untrustworthy and then they ask you to do a thing, even if the thing happens to be correct or factual, you are not going to trust the sources.
00:44:46.000When you had your medical sources telling you, first of all, you should go out and party it up in February because the Wuhan virus wasn't gonna hurt you, which is literally what we had Democrats and Republicans, by the way, doing, Then people are not going to pay attention to you.
00:44:57.000And then when you say, don't wear a mask, masks are useless, as Anthony Fauci said in early March.
00:45:01.000People are not going to pay attention to you later when you're like, you need to wear a mask everywhere.
00:45:04.000And then when you say, we need to lock this thing down for 15 days and then we'll be good.
00:45:08.000And then, you lock everybody down for the rest of their lives.
00:45:11.000And when you say, here's a lockdown order, but it's not gonna apply to me, I'm gonna go out to a restaurant.
00:45:16.000When you blow out your own credibility, instead of saying to people, listen, here are the facts.
00:45:20.000The fact is, this thing, striated by age, right?
00:45:23.000If you're very young, if you're a kid, it ain't gonna hurt you.
00:45:25.000If you're under the age of 20, the likelihood that you're going to be dead from this disease is lower than the likelihood you will die of the flu.
00:45:31.000If you are older than that, and you don't have a significant preexisting condition, there's a 99.5% chance that you're going to be fine.
00:45:39.000These are the actual stats, by the way.
00:45:41.000By the way, that 99.5% stat statistic, that is true for the entire population overall, including people with pre-existing conditions.
00:45:47.000Because right now, the best information we have is that this thing has about a 0.05% death rate overall for the population.
00:45:56.000That this thing is not, sorry, a 0.5% death rate for the entire population.
00:46:02.000Okay, so that means that 995 out of every 1,000 human beings who get this, including people who are elderly, including people with pre-existing conditions, will live.
00:46:11.000So, instead of talking to people as though they are reasonable and telling them what they can do that is reasonable, instead, you set these outside standards.
00:46:19.000I understand that if you want to protect people, you think that you're going to set what, in Judaism, you call a fence around the law.
00:46:24.000The problem is that when you set fences that nobody's going to abide by, they breach the fence and then they proceed to run roughshod over the rest of the recommendations.
00:46:32.000It also happens to be true that when you propagate misinformation routinely, that you can't swivel on a dime and hope people will trust you.
00:47:15.000And this leads to footage like this footage.
00:47:17.000This is from Oregon of a teacher stopping an anti-lockdown protester to scream and shout like a crazy person because she is very upset that people are protesting against lockdowns.
00:47:26.000And she's talking about how her parents, her kids' families are dying of COVID and how she's at risk.
00:48:54.000Because those of us who were saying this months ago were castigated and are still being castigated by the teachers unions as people who don't care about the lives of teachers who are bad, uncaring, unfeeling evil.
00:49:04.000Now here's the Washington Post that was propagating a lot of this panic porn for months on end.
00:49:16.000I'm going to trust people who've been fairly consistent throughout this whole thing, looking for reasonable measures.
00:49:21.000But here comes the Washington Post, and why look at that?
00:49:24.000They think Joe Biden was elected president, and now they've reversed themselves on schooling.
00:49:28.000Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers, principals, administrators, and parents across the U.S.
00:49:32.000have worked mightily to help students keep learning.
00:49:34.000Students develop new curricula, schools develop new curricula, provided children with portable computers labor to give some semblance of structure to remote learning. Even with these efforts, remote learning has failed to provide anything approaching the quality of education that can be delivered by a teacher in a classroom. It's clear that there are pernicious effects of keeping children out of schools. We recently asked a top official in a Washington area jurisdiction who insisted on anonymity, why there wasn't more of a push to figure out ways to return children to the classroom.
00:50:02.000The answer was there was no political pressure.
00:50:03.000Parents of means can give their kids the help and resources they need or switch them to a private school.
00:50:07.000Parents of minority or disadvantaged students with the most to lose have the least clout.
00:50:11.000Well, maybe it's because you in the media didn't do your damn jobs on the COVID pandemic all the way from the beginning, and you're still not doing your job.
00:50:40.000But this is the media that asks you to trust them?
00:50:42.000This is the same media that's blaming Trump for a lack of COVID relief.
00:50:45.000Well, now Nancy Pelosi has completely flipped on COVID relief, and nobody in the media will even notice it.
00:50:49.000So Nancy Pelosi, who has held up a COVID relief package for months on end for no apparent political reason other than to get beyond the election because she thought it would hurt Trump, now she says, we're not leaving Washington, D.C.
00:51:49.000Or I don't trust you on any of this stuff.
00:51:52.000It is your lack of credibility that has led to a rise of radical, almost deconstructionist skepticism in the very notion that there is such a thing as a fact or truth.
00:52:01.000Now, there are a lot of people in the media who've said we live in a post-truth era.
00:52:13.000And I mean that you need to actually check your own side.
00:52:16.000Ask tough questions of Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden, and maybe, maybe at that point, somebody will start, from the right, thinking they are a credible source.
00:52:29.000Meanwhile, there's a fascinating piece.
00:52:32.000That I think demonstrates the blindness of the left when it comes to deep economic issues in the United States.
00:52:39.000It's a piece in the New York Times today that I want to go through in a little bit of detail because it really is indicative of where we are in our current political discourse.
00:52:46.000And it demonstrates that for so much of our current political discourse, a lot of it is about how members of the left simply refuse to acknowledge that their policies have ever failed under any circumstances ever.
00:52:56.000Okay, so there's a piece in the New York Times over the weekend called, Why Did Racial Progress Stall in America?
00:53:02.000It's written by Shailen Romney Garrett and Robert Putnam.
00:53:05.000So I've recommended Robert Putnam's work on the program before.
00:53:07.000Robert Putnam has done some really interesting work on isolation in America.
00:53:11.000He wrote a book called Bowling Alone, in which he discussed the fact that multiculturalism and diversity might not actually strengthen a community.
00:53:18.000What strengthens a community is a common sense of vision.
00:53:21.000And then you can have whatever kind of racial or ethnic diversity you want, so long as everybody shares the same kind of common philosophy, right?
00:53:26.000So inside a church, you can have a very ethnically diverse church and everything still works perfectly.
00:53:31.000But if you have a bunch of people who conflict on fundamental ideas, then diversity is not in fact a strength.
00:53:35.000Diversity could be very divisive, which is just common sense.
00:53:38.000He writes about this in Bowling Alone.
00:53:39.000He talks about the death of social institutions.
00:53:41.000So a lot of his work is actually quite good, Robert Putnam.
00:53:43.000But this piece is really indicative of the tremendous blindness the left has to the impact of its own preferred government policies.
00:53:51.000So according to this piece in the New York Times, In the popular narrative of American history, black Americans made essentially no measurable progress toward equality with white Americans until the lightning bolt changes of the Civil Rights Revolution.
00:54:02.000If that narrative were charted along the course of the 20th century, it would be a flat line for decades, followed by a sharp, dramatic upturn toward equality beginning in the 60s, the shape of a hockey stick.
00:54:11.000In many ways, this hockey stick image of racial inequality is accurate.
00:54:14.000Until the banning of de jure segregation and discrimination, very little progress was made in many domains.
00:54:18.000Representation in politics and mainstream media, job quality and job security, access to professional schools and careers, or toward residential integration.
00:54:25.000However, on a number of other measures, the shape of the trend is surprisingly different.
00:54:29.000This is something that I've pointed out, Walter Williams, the late economist, late great Walter Williams pointed out, Thomas Sowell has pointed this out, is that actually black economic progress before the Civil Rights Act was stronger year on year than it was after the Civil Rights Act year on year in the black community.
00:54:43.000There's a tremendous myth that has been purveyed by the media, which is that everything sucked until the Civil Rights Act for black Americans.
00:54:49.000And again, this is correct that when it comes to actually by law allowing segregation, that's true.
00:54:54.000You still had segregation that was overtly practiced in the South up till the mid-60s, but the notion that black Americans were unable to economically progress in the United States generally, and particularly outside the South, was absolutely 100% not true before the Civil Rights Act, right?
00:55:08.000Just statistically speaking, this is the point these authors are going to make, and then they're going to completely miss the point.
00:55:13.000So they say in our book, The Upswing, how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again.
00:55:17.000We examined century-long data, tracking outcomes by race and health, education, income, wealth, and voting.
00:55:22.000Shouldn't have, because this has been well-known for a long time.
00:55:25.000In terms of material well-being, black Americans were moving toward parity with white Americans well before the victories of the civil rights era.
00:55:31.000What's more, after the passage of civil rights legislation, those trends toward racial parity slowed, stopped, even reversed.
00:55:38.000Understanding how and why not only reveals why America is so fractured today, but illuminates the path forward toward a more perfect union.
00:55:44.000In measure after measure, according to these authors, remember these are folks on the left, positive change for black Americans was actually faster in the decades before the Civil Rights Revolution than in the decades after.
00:55:54.000Now by the way, this is not an argument that the Civil Rights Revolution was bad.
00:55:57.000I'm going to explain in a second where everything went wrong in terms of Racial inequality in the United States, because it was moving toward parity.
00:56:05.000Then the Civil Rights Revolution happens, which is definitely a good thing.
00:56:12.000Their diagnosis is wrong, but their actual description is correct.
00:56:18.000So they point out, the life expectancy gap between black and white Americans narrowed most rapidly between 1905 and 1947, after which the rate of improvement was much more modest.
00:56:26.000By 1995, the life expectancy ratio was the same as it had been in 1961.
00:56:31.000There's been some progress in the ensuing two decades, but this is in part due to an increase in premature deaths among working-class whites.
00:56:36.000In other words, the white life expectancy went down.
00:56:38.000It's not that black life expectancy went up.
00:56:40.000They point out the black-white ratio of high school completion improved dramatically between the 1940s and the early 1970s, after which it slowed, never reaching parity.
00:56:48.000College completion followed the same trajectory until 1970, and then sharply reversed.
00:56:52.000So black Americans, more and more of them were going to college, more and more of them were graduating high school, and then we hit the 1970s and it started to reverse.
00:56:58.000Racial integration in K-12 education at the national level began much earlier than is often believed.
00:57:03.000Accelerated sharply in the wake of Brown vs. Board, the trend leveled off in the early 70s, followed by a modest trend toward re-segregation.
00:57:10.000Also, income by race converged at the greatest rate between 1940 and 1970.
00:57:13.000rate between 1940 and 1970. As of 2018, Black-White income disparities were almost exactly the same as they were in 1968, 50 years ago. Even taking into account the emergence of the Black middle class, Black Americans on the whole have experienced flat or downward mobility in recent decades.
00:57:30.000The racial gap in homeownership steadily narrowed between 1900 and 1970 and then stagnated and then reversed.
00:57:35.000The racial wealth gap is now growing as Black homeownership plummets.
00:57:39.000Long-run data on national trends in voting by race is patchy.
00:57:41.000The South saw a dramatic increase in Black voter registration between 1940 and 1970, followed by decline and stagnation.
00:57:48.000What data we have on national black voter turnout indicate nearly all the gains toward equality with white voter turnout occurred between 52 and 64 before the Voting Rights Act passed and then almost entirely halted for the rest of the century.
00:58:00.000These data reveal a too slow but unmistakable climb toward racial parity throughout most of the century that begins to flatline around 1970, a picture quite unlike the hockey stick of historical shorthand.
00:58:10.000Okay, now, here is where they go wrong.
00:58:13.000So they get the description correct, and then they get the diagnosis completely wrong, because the picture they're painting is now a much more accurate picture, which is black income growth, life expectancy, Job occupancy.
00:58:26.000All of these things are rising steadily up until you hit about 1970, and then everything flatlines or reverses.
00:58:34.000Okay, so here is the answer of leftists who cannot understand, or liberals rather, who cannot understand that their policy prescriptions have failed.
00:58:40.000They say, we draw attention to the unexpected shape and timing of these trends, not as an attempt to argue that things are or were better for black Americans than they might appear.
00:58:48.000Gains on the part of black Americans were due almost entirely to their fleeing the South by the millions during the Great Migration, right?
00:58:53.000That if you leave the South, which is segregated, and you move to Chicago, LA, Detroit, Philadelphia, this meant better access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities.
00:59:02.000It is also true that there is a persistent reality of exclusion, segregation, and racial violence in a lot of these places.
00:59:08.000In the last half century, however, collective progress has halted.
00:59:10.000Many who have fought so hard for this progress have now lived to see it reversed.
00:59:15.000He says it is against, these authors say, it is against this backdrop of stillborn hopes and intergenerational reversals that Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets.
00:59:23.000Okay, and so the implication is that things are the same in 1968 as they were for black Americans like today, which is just not true.
00:59:39.000The first is simple and familiar, white backlash.
00:59:41.000Substantial progress toward white support for black equality was made in the first half of the 20th century.
00:59:45.000When push came to shove, many white Americans were reluctant to live up to those principles.
00:59:49.000Although clear majorities supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a national poll conducted shortly after its passage showed that 68% of Americans wanted moderation in its enforcement.
00:59:58.000In fact, many felt the Johnson administration was moving too fast in implementing integration.
01:00:04.000Johnson's rejection in 68 of the Kerner Commission's recommendations of sweeping reforms to address racial inequality suggested his fine-tuned political sensitivity had detected a sea change in white attitudes since he, more than any other previous president, had led the project of racial redress.
01:00:18.000Okay, and then he tries to compare this to the heels of Reconstruction when there was this big backlash against Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War.
01:00:28.000Okay, then he talks about the second idea.
01:00:32.000Okay, the second idea is what he says is the I-we-I curve.
01:00:35.000This is Robert Putnam and Sheryl, sorry, Shailene Romney Garrett.
01:00:41.000He talks about the I-we, they talk about the I-we-I curve.
01:00:44.000This is their second explanation for something bad that happened.
01:00:48.000Like in 68, suddenly they've been getting better, and then they just got bad in 68.
01:00:52.000And then they say there's something called the I.B.I.
01:00:54.000Curve, an inverted U charting America's gradual climb from self-centeredness to a sense of shared values, followed by a steep descent back into egoism over the next half century.
01:01:02.000Ah, the soul of Americans was completely corrupted.
01:01:05.000So basically, everything sucked at the beginning of the 20th century.
01:01:08.000Then we got very community oriented, thanks to FDR and LBJ.
01:01:11.000And then we reversed and went into the greed years.
01:01:14.000Again, this is just a full-on liberal narrative that happens not to be true.
01:01:18.000These authors say the moment America took its foot off the gas in rectifying racial inequality largely coincides with the moment Americans we decades gave way to the era of of I.
01:01:26.000At the mid-60s peak of the I-we-I curve, long-delayed moves toward racial inclusion had raised hopes for further improvements, but those hopes went unrealized as the whole nation shifted toward a less egalitarian ideal. A central feature of America's I decades has been a shift away from shared responsibilities toward individual rights and a culture of narcissism.
01:01:45.000Along with it have come massive disparities in political influence, a growing concentration of political economic power in the hands of a few billionaires.
01:01:51.000Now, here's why this is so ridiculous.
01:01:52.000On an economic level, the government is way bigger than it was in the 60s.
01:01:56.000Regulations are significantly more restrictive in many areas of American life now than they were back in the 1960s, because we have literally hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations that have been promulgated ever since.
01:02:07.000The government has never spent more money than it is right now.
01:02:11.000So this idea that you are now freer than you ever were economically in the United States is just not true.
01:02:17.000But say these authors, the lessons of America's I We I century are thus twofold.
01:02:22.000First, we Americans have gotten ourselves out of a mess remarkably similar to the one we're in now by rediscovering the spirit of community that has defined our nation from its inception.
01:02:29.000We turned the tide from I to we once before and we can do it again.
01:02:33.000But we can be defined in more inclusive or exclusive terms.
01:02:35.000We have to be more inclusive in the definition of we.
01:02:38.000Okay, so all of this ignores what actually happened in the 1960s and 70s.
01:02:42.000So what actually happened in the 1960s and 70s is there was a building momentum inside the United States, an excellent, great momentum toward racial equality in law, right?
01:02:50.000The basic idea was going to be that everyone was going to be given the same opportunities of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
01:02:56.000Everyone would be finally given the guarantees of the 14th Amendment, equal protection under law.
01:03:01.000And racism would be officially abolished.
01:03:03.000There would be no government programs that were explicitly designed along the basis of race.
01:03:08.000And those opportunities would be open.
01:03:10.000Okay, the story of struggle of black Americans triumphantly moving toward racial progress and economic progress in the face of actual legal barriers is just, I mean, it's an unbelievable story of bravery and greatness over the beginning of the, from the end of the Civil War to 1965.
01:03:28.000And then by 1970, everything is reversing.
01:03:30.000It is not because American souls suddenly were put on back burner, because Americans suddenly became selfish again or something like that.
01:03:38.000And it is not because it is not because of quote-unquote white backlash where white people who had literally just said, OK, how about this?
01:03:45.000How about we actually get rid of all of this discrimination in law?
01:03:48.000Now that we did that, we're going to discriminate.
01:03:51.000There's another possibility, and the possibility is there was a very change in the definition of what constituted racial discrimination in the United States.
01:03:57.000This is a point that Shelby Steele has made.
01:03:59.000It's a point Christopher Caldwell has made in his book, The Age of Entitlement.
01:04:03.000The change in definition was made by LBJ himself.
01:04:06.000The change in definition was, instead of racial equality being provided under law, in other words, the law cannot discriminate against you, instead, Racial equality would be enforced by law.
01:04:18.000Lyndon Baines Johnson suggested that the goal was not to simply make the playing field level.
01:04:23.000The point was to push people who had historically been behind up to the starting line of the race.
01:04:27.000He said this in a very famous speech at Howard University.
01:04:30.000It's just unfair because there are people who are behind and there are people who are ahead, thanks to historical influences.
01:04:34.000And the only way for us to make things fair again is to now discriminate against the people who are ahead in favor of the people who are behind.
01:04:40.000And that's where you get a backlash, right?
01:04:42.000That's when the government starts to actually impose policies that are not about enforcing equality of rights, but instead enforcing a government idea of what equality of outcome would look like.
01:04:53.000So one example of this is forced busing, which by the way, wildly unpopular in both white communities and black communities, as it turns out by opinion polling from the 1970s.
01:05:01.000So instead of saying, okay, every kid has to have equal access to the local school, In the neighborhood in which they live.
01:05:55.000If you want to preserve integration in public schools, you let the schools be local and you let black kids go to the local school, whether it is white or black, and you let white kids go to the local school, whether it is white or black.
01:06:04.000So forced busing is a good example of how the government tried to cram down on popular policy.
01:06:09.000And it ended up achieving exactly the reverse of what government wanted to do.
01:06:12.000The same thing is true when it came to welfare programs that were put in place by the LBJ administration.
01:06:17.000The Johnson administration suddenly started suggesting that there were positive rights, rights to housing, rights to a job, rights to certain levels of remuneration.
01:07:09.000It not only created a backlash, it also undermined the very sort of equal standard that promulgates good living.
01:07:17.000Because it turns out if you pay people to do bad things decision-wise, they will do bad things decision-wise.
01:07:23.000But the left believes the government is always the solution, right?
01:07:26.000So the problem is they can never acknowledge that these government programs were a failure.
01:07:29.000They can never acknowledge that the war on poverty has been an extraordinary failure.
01:07:33.000We've spent tens of trillions of dollars in various war on poverty programs, and the poverty rate is about the same now as it was back when they were first started.
01:07:40.000The racial inequality rates are about the same now as they were back when government first tried to get in the business of guaranteeing an equal outcome.
01:07:47.000Government should never have been in the business of trying to guarantee an equal outcome.
01:07:50.000Government's only mandate is equal justice under law.
01:07:56.000Okay, and that mandate, which suggests that there is a regime of rights and that if you properly exercise those rights and you ought to be protected in those rights by the government, that you have a fair shot at success, that's what government should have been doing.
01:08:07.000So what these sociologists are missing, of course, is the most basic point of all, which is that when you incentivize people differently, then you get different outcomes.
01:08:17.000When you shift the nature of housing from, you're not allowed to discriminate in public housing, to, we are going to subsidize particular types of housing and particular types of community regardless of the financial straits of those communities.
01:08:29.000You are not, in fact, solving the underlying problems.
01:08:32.000This is what happened with the subprime mortgage crisis in the 2000s.
01:08:34.000That was directly related to the Community Reinvestment Act.
01:08:38.000It was directly related to the fact that the federal government was subsidizing subprime mortgages to people who did not have good credit scores.
01:08:44.000And it turns out, when the real estate market started to tank, a lot of those people could not pay their debts.
01:09:30.000And all of these All of these supposedly compassionate liberals who believe that government can come in and solve all of these problems and create equality of outcome, they're doing precisely the reverse of what they tried to do.
01:09:41.000And they're making the country worse in the process because they're implying that if you oppose those programs, then you are not quote-unquote anti-racist.
01:09:47.000Their whole idea here is that if you believe in equality of rights before the law, this makes you a bad person, right?
01:09:56.000This is all the morons in the media who keep saying anti-racist when what they actually mean is you oppose the complete destruction of equal justice before law.
01:10:04.000Ibram Kendi openly says the only answer to injustices of the past are injustices today.
01:10:10.000He overtly calls for the end of individual rights in the name of collective outcomes.
01:10:15.000And that is what is being pushed right now.
01:10:17.000And there should be a backlash against that because it's un-American.
01:10:19.000Not only is it un-American, it is utterly unproductive and it does not not only unify Americans, it also creates more inequality in effect.
01:10:29.000The fact that the liberals refuse to recognize this and the fact that the evidence is staring them right in the face.