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00:01:44.000This is not a conflict over a right to return.
00:01:46.000This is a conflict in which one side wishes to destroy the other side utterly and completely.
00:01:50.000And this has been their long-stated goal.
00:01:52.000And they were about to win an election, by the way, in the West Bank, which is the reason for all of this.
00:01:56.000The recent history here is that in late April, Mahmoud Abbas, who again is a terrorist, Mahmoud Abbas, treated as a legit world leader by much of the world community, but is not.
00:02:07.000Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, which is a terrorist organization, but a slightly less terrorist organization than Hamas, He had declared that there would be elections in April.
00:02:17.000He is now in the 16th year of a four-year term, Mahmoud Abbas.
00:02:20.000So he declared elections, then it appeared he was going to lose.
00:02:23.000So he canceled the elections in late April and blamed the Jews!
00:02:27.000Because this is what you do if you are a Palestinian leader who has suddenly got their feet to the fire.
00:02:33.000So, Mahmoud Abbas cancels the election, he blames the Jews, and he starts ramping up calls for violence.
00:02:39.000Hamas not to be outdone because the way that you apparently garner support is to show that you hate the Jews even more than the guy next to you.
00:02:45.000Hamas decides they are going to ramp up the violence.
00:02:47.000This all culminates in violence on the Temple Mount, spurred by Hamas, spurred by Fatah, people using the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site to Muslims, as an actual staging base to perform acts of terrorism and violence against police officers, Israeli police officers.
00:03:03.000And then when Israel goes in to stop that, then the rocket fire begins from Hamas, which has decided to up the ante.
00:03:10.000So number one, let's just recognize a quick truth.
00:03:14.000None of this would be happening right now in terms of this heavy rocket fire from Gaza if Israel had not unilaterally made the concession in 2005 to pull out of the Gaza Strip completely.
00:03:23.000Remember, Israel had Jewish areas of the Gaza- there were Jewish areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
00:03:29.000There were these little cities in the northern Gaza Strip.
00:03:32.000They had greenhouses, they were quite prosperous.
00:03:34.000In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew in order, supposedly, to push for a new peace deal.
00:03:38.000The idea was going to be, look, Israel is giving up this land, and now it's another stone in the wall of peace that's going to be built right here.
00:03:45.000Instead, Hamas immediately rushed in, burned all the greenhouses, and then started building up its rocket bases for use against the state of Israel.
00:03:52.000And what this has resulted in is that most of Israel is now under the umbrella of terror.
00:03:57.000From the north, Israel is under the umbrella of Hezbollah, which is an Iranian-backed terror group in Lebanon.
00:04:05.000If you think it's bad right now, with Hamas firing hundreds of rockets today, wait until it's Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets today.
00:04:11.000And then, from the south, they are under assault from Hamas, a terrorist group located in the Gaza Strip.
00:04:17.000Palestinian Islamic Jihad is located in both Judea, Samaria, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
00:04:23.000So Israel, Israeli citizens basically live under the constant threat that at any moment things could go up in flames and all of a sudden they could be living underground.
00:04:31.000So I was texting with a bunch of friends in Israel last night who were literally texting from bunkers.
00:04:35.000Many of them had been giving 45 second, 60 second, 90 second warnings to get underground as soon as humanly possible.
00:04:41.000Because the fact is that Israel is a tiny, tiny country.
00:04:45.000And it is a tiny country surrounded by malevolent countries that do not wish it well.
00:04:50.000This is why the Trump breakthrough, in terms of actually creating alliances and helping to foster alliances between Israel and places like the United Arab Emirates, and places like Sudan, and places like Morocco, why this was such a good thing.
00:05:01.000The Biden administration immediately blew it.
00:05:03.000Okay, so there are a few events that led up to this.
00:05:05.000One was Abbas canceling the election and then having to demonstrate to the Palestinians that mostly it was Israel and we need to blame Israel and let's have a competition as to who hates Israel most.
00:05:15.000It's also a smart move by Abbas in the sense that Hamas, in going all the way, in shooting rockets into Israel, was going to be also the chief recipient of Israeli return fire.
00:05:25.000So Abbas is basically having the Israelis do his dirty work by killing off all of Hamas's leadership.
00:05:29.000So this is one of the things that's happening as well.
00:05:31.000The other thing that happened is that the Biden administration, upon entering office, immediately signified that it wanted to push Israel into making concessions to these terror groups, that it would restore funding to the UNRWA, which is an agency specifically dedicated toward fostering Palestinian extremism.
00:05:47.000That the United States would restore $290 million worth of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, much of which would be used for terrorism and fostering of terrorism.
00:05:58.000Okay, so the United States basically reopened the door.
00:06:01.000The Trump administration said, no, we are making very clear who our allies are here, and if you engage in terror, the money ain't coming your way.
00:06:07.000And things were calm, and things were quiet.
00:06:09.000And then the Biden administration came in, and within months, you have this massive conflagration, which is now on the verge of all-out war.
00:06:15.000And the reason it's on the verge of all-out war is because Israel literally has millions of its citizens now living underground.
00:06:20.000Okay, so to understand this conflict, the thing you really need to understand is the map.
00:06:24.000Okay, so there are a few maps I'm going to show you right now.
00:06:25.000The first map shows you the actual range of fire from Gaza.
00:06:29.000Okay, the distances from the Gaza Strip to various Israeli cities.
00:06:33.000Okay, what you will see here is that the distances are tiny.
00:06:37.000Israel is a tiny postage stamp of a country.
00:06:40.000The distance from Gaza, the Gaza Strip, which is located in the southwest corner of Israel, So the distance from the Gaza Strip to Ashkelon, which is a city that has been under steady rocket fire over the course of the last three days, is about 13 miles.
00:07:21.000It means that when you fire rockets, people have pretty much no warning.
00:07:24.000Okay, here is a map of the warning times when a rocket is fired.
00:07:29.000Okay, if a rocket were to be fired from essentially Gaza to Ashdod, you'd be talking about at most 30 seconds of warning time.
00:07:39.000If you're talking about Gaza to Jerusalem, you're talking about 1.5 minutes of warning time, about 90 seconds of warning time.
00:07:45.000If you're talking about to Tel Aviv, about the same, a little bit under 90 seconds of warning time.
00:07:48.000That means that if you're woken up at 3 a.m.
00:07:51.000by a rocket siren going off, you now have 90 seconds to grab your kids and get down into a bomb shelter before the rockets start to hit.
00:07:59.000Hey so, Hamas, knowing this, has been firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.
00:08:04.000The reason they're firing hundreds of rockets simultaneously is because their goal is to overwhelm Israel's iron defense system.
00:08:09.000So Israel has an iron dome system, it's called the iron dome system, and the iron dome system is largely Relegated to shooting down missiles that are going to land in populated areas.
00:08:59.000Last night, Hamas killed an Israeli Arab father and seven-year-old girl in Lod, which is a city that right now is actually in the middle of race riots, essentially.
00:09:48.000There's widespread Israeli acknowledgement that just like if you, in your city, were put underground by a terrorist group living across the border, And you're told that you had to live in the basement, and you were going to live under constant rocket fire, you would expect the American government to go and eviscerate that regime.
00:10:02.000Well, the same thing should be expected of any decent state, and Israel, of course, has a moral obligation to defend its own citizens, as even most members of the West acknowledge.
00:10:10.000Now, most members of the West also then participate in this moral equivalence game where they pretend that Israel is somehow an aggressor here, which is a complete lie, but Israel does have the obligation to do this.
00:10:19.000Benjamin Netanyahu came out yesterday and said, yeah, we are not going to stop anytime soon.
00:10:23.000Like, if you think that you're going to get a ceasefire here, no, the answer is no.
00:10:27.000You don't get to fire thousands of rockets into Israel and then survive.
00:10:30.000That's not something that you get to do.
00:10:34.000Over 850 rockets have crossed into Israeli territory after being launched from Gaza.
00:10:38.000By the way, how little does Hamas care about its own citizens?
00:10:40.000When people say it's terrible for the Palestinians, that's true.
00:10:44.000The Palestinians are not of concern to Hamas.
00:10:58.000So Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, will continue striking Gaza until it can bring a complete and long-term peace during a visit to Ashkelon on Wednesday.
00:11:06.000He said in the last few hours, the IDF has carried out a series of significant attacks.
00:11:10.000We've attacked squads of commanders and significant Hamas infrastructure we'll continue to protect.
00:11:42.000There's widespread Israeli sentiment, as there would be in the United States, that if Democrat or Republican, there were hundreds of rockets falling on San Diego from Mexico, there'd be a widespread sentiment the United States government needs to go in and pacify the folks who are doing that.
00:11:54.000Well, the same thing is happening in Israel right now.
00:11:56.000To that end, Israel has knocked out several commanders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
00:12:05.000And while we actually have video of what's been happening in the Gaza Strip.
00:12:08.000So a few things, one, Hamas is one of the most evil groups on earth.
00:12:12.000They fire rockets deliberately from civilian areas.
00:12:15.000They deliberately fire rockets from civilian areas because they know that if Israel were to respond, Israel would have to kill civilians in order to stop the rocket fire.
00:12:23.000And they know that Israel is loathe to do that because Israel is actually a moral state as opposed to Hamas, which is a deeply, deeply evil group.
00:12:30.000Here is video of Hamas firing rockets from the middle of civilian areas.
00:12:34.000These are civilian apartment buildings that are surrounding the firing sites for the Gaza Strip.
00:12:42.000You can see, these are apartment buildings, right?
00:12:44.000This is right in the middle of a populated area.
00:12:45.000They're firing these rockets directly from the middle of streets in the Gaza Strip.
00:12:50.000The goal here is that if Israel were to take out those batteries, then Israel would have to hit those civilian areas.
00:12:57.000Hey, and by the way, a few other notes.
00:12:59.000You'll notice that when these rockets are being fired, in the tapes, you will see that there are onlookers, and these onlookers are not are not just kind of watching this go on, they're shouting Allahu Akbar.
00:13:10.000They're amokers who are shouting their celebration that these rockets are being fired on Israel.
00:13:15.000Now, Israelis require that their government actually defend them, obviously, because any government should defend its citizens.
00:13:22.000But you're not going to see Israelis out in the streets cheering as rockets or bombs fall on Hamas buildings.
00:13:59.000And here are the Almukers shouting Allahu Akbar as these rockets go off to presumably attempt to kill as many children and women and innocents and civilians as possible.
00:14:07.000There's these sets of rockets being fired off and people celebrating and cheering.
00:14:25.000But don't worry, there's moral equivalence according to the West.
00:14:28.000Okay, so, in a second, we'll show you some more footage of what is going on over in Israel, and then we'll get to the insanity of a West that somehow declares moral equivalence here.
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00:15:53.000Here's some of the footage of rockets over Tel Aviv.
00:15:55.000You can see in this footage the rockets that are that are flying over Tel Aviv and then you can see other anti-missiles essentially coming up from the ground and knocking.
00:16:04.000It's a bullet hitting a bullet with like 90% efficacy.
00:16:09.000It looks like something from Star Wars because it is.
00:16:11.000In fact, there are Israelis who are still retaining their sense of humor who put the Star Wars theme music Over what Iron Dome has been doing here.
00:16:19.000The goal here, of course, is to overwhelm Iron Dome by firing so many rockets simultaneously that the Iron Dome system is not capable of knocking out all the rockets at once.
00:16:27.000But imagine this happening over a city where you live.
00:16:30.000Imagine that there's just a bunch of rockets and all you can do is sit there and wait for the thing to fall on you or for Iron Dome to shoot it down.
00:16:36.000And in some cases, obviously, it hasn't worked.
00:16:38.000There's a direct impact, for example, on a school in Ashkelon.
00:16:41.000See, here's the difference between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Hamas.
00:16:46.000The Palestinian rulership in the Gaza Strip?
00:17:04.000This is a school that was hit directly by a rocket.
00:17:06.000Thank God all the kids were not there.
00:17:08.000Otherwise, presumably hundreds of kids would have been killed.
00:17:10.000They were also firing at Ben Gurion Airport.
00:17:12.000They were trying to kill as many people as possible and to shut down air travel to the state of Israel.
00:17:16.000So this is actual footage from Ben-Gurion Airport.
00:17:19.000You can see the rockets firing over Ben-Gurion Airport, and you can see them being shot down by the Iron Dome system.
00:17:26.000Over in Halon, which is an outskirt of Tel Aviv, again, it's about 45 miles from the Gaza Strip, a bus was hit directly by rocket fire.
00:17:38.000Apparently one person was killed in this particular attack.
00:17:41.000You can see the bus flaming from the rocket fire.
00:17:44.000Another Hamas rocket hit the Trans-Israel Oil Pipeline, which of course does no good to the citizens of the Gaza Strip because some of them actually get their power from this sort of thing.
00:17:56.000And so it set the Trans-Israel Pipeline on fire.
00:18:48.000I'm asking, you mean first you'll warn and then you'll hit the building?
00:18:50.000I just want to make sure that there's no one inside.
00:19:01.000OK, so this is a person talking to the Israeli military.
00:19:04.000The Israeli military is literally giving up the element of surprise, which is the number one element in warfare, particularly when you're talking about terrorists who are embedded in the middle of civilian populations.
00:19:12.000They're saying, OK, we'd rather not kill the terrorists who will then fire more rockets on us in order to get the civilians out of the way.
00:19:19.000Okay, and then the propaganda that is printed by the media is that Israel is knocking down towers without any mention of this sort of stuff.
00:19:25.000Okay, so here Hamas put out this video of Israel knocking down this apartment complex, right?
00:19:34.000Why do they know where to train the camera?
00:19:36.000How do they know where to train the camera?
00:19:37.000The answer is they know where to train the camera because Israel dropped a knock bomb on top of that.
00:19:41.000A knock bomb is a bomb that is designed not to penetrate the top layer of the apartment complex.
00:19:46.000They drop a bomb, it shakes the building, doesn't break the building, everybody gets out, and then they knock down the building.
00:19:52.000So that is how Israel treats all of this.
00:19:54.000Meanwhile, In what is actually the most devastating element of all of this, not the actual terror attacks from Hamas, which is somewhat expected.
00:20:02.000The most devastating part of all of this is the situation in Lod.
00:20:05.000So Israel has about 20% of its population is Arab, about 80% of its population is Jewish.
00:20:11.000And typically in Israel, those populations don't live in close proximity with one another.
00:20:16.000Typically you'll have sort of a Jewish city and then an Arab city that's right across the way, right?
00:20:29.000I mean, last time I was in Israel, a couple of years ago, my cell phone broke.
00:20:32.000I had to go to the nearest mall that had some sort of cell phone repair shop and that mall happened to be in Lod.
00:20:37.000So I went there and Orthodox Jews walking around the same malls as Arabs and everybody getting along and basically that city is 70% Jewish, 30% Arab.
00:20:47.000And everybody lives in pretty close quarters.
00:20:49.000Well now, thanks to Hamas and Fatah ramping up the violence, there were riots in the city of Lod in which Arab citizens were going out and burning down synagogues.
00:20:58.000Two separate synagogues were burned down, three Jewish schools were burned down, and a bunch of Jews were threatened in their own homes, requiring evacuation by the IDF.
00:21:06.000And now a state of emergency has been declared in Lod, which again, was a city in which people were basically living together fine.
00:21:13.000Now a state of emergency was declared in Lod with Defense Minister Benny Gantz, according to the Jerusalem Post, announcing the deployment of several border police units to help quell violence that saw the burning of three synagogues and dozens of cars.
00:21:23.000At least two people were in serious condition from the clashes, one from rocks in Akko, which is another city.
00:22:04.000So internecine racial violence has now been taking place, prompted presumably, not presumably, realistically by Arab citizens who are in solidarity with Hamas and with Fatah.
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00:23:29.000Alrighty, so why is all of this happening right now?
00:23:33.000The answer is all of this is happening right now because the Biden administration came into power and because Mahmoud Abbas decided that he was going to cancel elections.
00:24:28.000Because Iran has been shipping that technology through the Gaza Strip.
00:24:33.000And the United States is standing right there trying to reinstate good relations with an Iranian regime that openly declares death to America and death to Israel.
00:25:15.000And this has led to the stupidity of morons like David Frum suggesting, well, you know, what happens to all those Kushner Trump people bragging about peace?
00:25:21.000The answer is they actually achieve peace.
00:25:23.000Within the first four months, you have achieved war.
00:25:25.000Within the first four months, Joe Biden has given all the green lights to all of the conditions for a new intifada.
00:25:33.000It's the worst conflict in this region since 2006.
00:25:46.000Because when America sides with its allies, there is no conflict.
00:25:50.000When America does not side with its allies, there is conflict.
00:25:54.000Every time concessions are made to terrorists, they immediately are emboldened and proceed to engage in this sort of activity.
00:26:01.000And so it does make a difference that the West has decided to take attack of moral equivalence along these lines.
00:26:08.000The amazing part of all of this, truly, is that this moral equivalence is even being drawn.
00:26:13.000I mean, it just demonstrates the moral blindness of so many people.
00:26:16.000Here's Jen Psaki from the White House drawing moral equivalence.
00:26:21.000The President's support for Israel's security, for its legitimate right to defend itself, and its people is fundamental and will never waver.
00:26:28.000We condemn ongoing rocket attacks by Hamas and other terrorist groups, including against Jerusalem.
00:26:33.000We also stand against extremism that has inflicted violence on both communities.
00:26:38.000We stand- that last part is the amazing part.
00:26:40.000We stand against extremism that has inflicted violence on both communities.
00:26:59.000The first part of the statement's fine.
00:27:00.000The last part, where she tries to come back around and then do the cycle of violence routine, is just nonsense.
00:27:05.000Recognize that, really, what this started with was a bunch of TikTok videos of Palestinians beating the living hell out of Jews in Jerusalem, fomented by Fatah, because Fatah wanted to distract from the fact that he just canceled elections.
00:27:15.000Meanwhile, Hamas's leader, Ismail Khanei, who lives over in Qatar because he is scared of living in the Gaza Strip.
00:27:21.000He's afraid that Israel will knock him out.
00:27:22.000He's been tweeting out the bombing of Tel Aviv and the oil pipeline facility between Ashkelon and Eilat.
00:27:27.000God is great and glory is to God alone.
00:27:30.000He also tweeted out, Okay, by the way, this is the leader of Hamas.
00:27:34.000the servants of those whom I know from here and there, and you know where exactly, are very angry, and humiliation breaks them, and oppression pervades them, because you, oh heroes, have broken their thorns and destroyed the Zionists while hiding in shelters below the earth, mourning for their persecution which went in vain." Okay, by the way, this is the leader of Hamas.
00:27:50.000He's the leader of Hamas. Moral equivalence. Unreal. But don't worry.
00:27:57.000And by the way, did Twitter ban Ismail Khamenei?
00:28:33.000The good news is that the radical left in the United States, which is increasingly the mainstream left in the United States, is openly siding with the bad guys here.
00:28:40.000So Alexander Ocasio-Cortez is very angry with Andrew Yang.
00:28:42.000Andrew Yang is running for mayor of New York.
00:28:44.000He looks likely to win, which is a good thing.
00:28:46.000Andrew Yang had tweeted out his support for Israel, so she got mad.
00:28:50.000She then tweeted out, Okay, so a few things that are just open lies.
00:29:06.000The only people who attacked Al-Aqsa are members of Hamas and Fatah, who literally took over the building, brought rocks in from the surrounding Temple Mount and fireworks, and proceeded to fling them at Israeli soldiers and build barricades so as to do violence in the middle of Ramadan.
00:29:31.000As far as a chest-thumping statement of support for a strike killing nine children, Israel has been attempting to kill Hamas members.
00:29:37.000Hamas members deliberately hide themselves behind children, knowing that morons like AOC will then blame Israel for defending itself rather than the Hamas people who are hiding behind children.
00:29:51.000Bernie Sanders, similarly a moral cretin.
00:29:53.000He tweeted out, The F is he talking about?
00:29:54.000by the growing conflict in Israel and Palestine.
00:29:56.000Once again, we are seeing how the irresponsible actions of government-allied right-wing extremists in Jerusalem can escalate quickly into devastating war.
00:30:02.000The F is he talking about? He's just making things up right now.
00:30:05.000Israeli children should not have to spend the night scared in bomb shelters, as many are doing tonight.
00:30:32.000Bernie Sanders then continues, the United States must call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to provocative and illegal settlement activity.
00:31:01.000The number of people on the radical left who have been mainstreamed in the Democratic Party is truly an astonishing, astonishing thing.
00:31:05.000And the media will continue to allow lies to be promulgated.
00:31:09.000The same media that will tell you that fake news is really, really dangerous, they'll just allow lies to be promulgated.
00:31:14.000So they'll have on an MSNBC guest, they had a Palestinian on MSNBC, not sure the name of this guest, and he was very angry that anybody would be upset with Hamas.
00:31:22.000He says, you know, the US has waged more wars than there are Hamas members.
00:31:29.000The United States has waged more wars than there are Hamas members.
00:31:34.000I don't wait for the United States to tell me what constitutes as self-defense and what not constitutes as self-defense.
00:31:42.000That is not where my moral compass stems from.
00:31:45.000I don't think the United States is in position, given all of the genocides and wars it's partaking in, to say something about who has a right to self-defense.
00:32:01.000The international terrorist movement uses the talking points of the left on a routine basis, right?
00:32:07.000America doesn't have any moral credibility to call against rocket fire indiscriminately aimed at civilians because, after all, you guys are really bad.
00:32:37.000But then you take a step back and you go, but the Israeli police, they went in and started beating people up in a mosque during Ramadan, the most holy time in the Muslim calendar.
00:32:56.000Again, the number of lies that have to be told in order to reach the point of moral equivalence between a state that seeks to defend its citizens, including Israeli Arabs, who, by the way, were again murdered by Hamas last night.
00:33:05.000Between a state that has a 20% tariff population, that attempts to warn people before they kill terrorists, and a group of people who openly declare that they want to wipe every Jew off the face of the earth, and fire thousands of rockets indiscriminately into civilian centers.
00:33:20.000You know the mental gymnastics that you have to do in order to get there?
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00:35:31.000consumer prices are expected to have risen by 3.6% in April over their level a year ago, a prospect already spooking markets and could fuel concern that inflationary pressures are setting in.
00:35:40.000According to a consensus forecast assembled by Refinitiv, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will on Wednesday report that its consumer price index rose from 2.6% in March to 3.6% last month compared with the same month in 2020.
00:35:52.000Stripping out food and energy costs, the CPI is expected to rise from 1.6% in March to 2.3% in April on an annual basis.
00:36:01.000And the truth is that it is worse than that.
00:36:04.000According to the Consumer Price Index Summary from the BLS, the index for all items less food and energy rose 0.9% in April, its largest monthly increase since April 1982.
00:36:18.000We have the biggest inflationary increase in 40 years happening right now.
00:36:24.000Again, this is according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:36:27.000Nearly all major component indices increased in April, along with the index for used cars and trucks, the indices for shelter, airline fares, recreation, motor vehicle insurance, and household furnishings and operations were among the indices with a large impact on the overall increase.
00:36:39.000The all items index rose 4.2% for the 12 months ending in April, a larger increase than the 2.6% increase for the period ending March.
00:36:47.000Similarly, the index for all items less food and energy rose 3.0% over the last 12 months, a larger increase than the 1.6% rise over the 12-month period ending in March.
00:36:56.000So in other words, we have now basically doubled the inflation rate over the course of the last month or so.
00:37:02.000The energy index rose 25.1% over the last 12 months.
00:37:08.000So, I mean, unbelievable levels of inflation setting in almost immediately, despite the fact that you've got the entire Biden administration saying there's no problem to see here.
00:37:16.000Here's Jen Psaki at the White House literally yesterday saying any inflation will be transitory.
00:37:21.000Of course, we take the possibility of inflation quite seriously.
00:37:25.000As actions that have been taken to date or proposals that have been made, most economic analysts believe that it will have a temporary or transitory impact.
00:37:34.000But in terms of analysis on current events, I would point you to the Federal Reserve.
00:38:00.000Well, the good news is that every crisis is an opportunity.
00:38:03.000Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm yesterday, she said the good news is that if we're going to have these gas shortages, remember, we've had a giant pipeline, a colonial pipeline that was hacked.
00:38:11.000So that meant that that basically gas went down most of this week in terms of its supply all over the southeast coast and all the way up into New Jersey.
00:38:22.000Energy Secretary Granholm says, well, you know, the good news is at least this will push us toward a Green New Deal.
00:38:27.000You know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.
00:38:31.000The broader issue is a very important issue.
00:38:34.000It's an issue for the President's priority in the American Jobs Plan, the issue of investing in a transmission grid, for example, so that you don't have the cyber issues associated with it.
00:38:46.000So there's a lot of broader questions in this, and we hope that we'll be able to see that investment in infrastructure that will facilitate clean and renewable energy.
00:39:19.000It's because the Biden administration is paying people to stay home.
00:39:22.000So, last night, the chief of Chipotle, the restaurant officer, was on CNN explaining that the reason we can't get any employees is because you keep paying people to stay home.
00:39:32.000A half dozen states now have announced that they're going to end those benefits before they expire.
00:39:42.000I think it encourages folks to get back to work.
00:39:44.000There are a number of jobs available across all industry today.
00:39:47.000And for us to continue to grow the economy here in the U.S., we've got to have people ready And willing to engage, get back to work and continue to drive the economy.
00:40:17.000One, Americans can go to vaccines.gov or they can text their zip code to three, excuse me, misspoke, their zip code, text it to four three A829.
00:40:37.000A senile old codger out there doing nothing for a living except pushing radicalism and fostering instability all around the globe.
00:40:43.000Well, the good news is we have experts in charge.
00:40:45.000Like for example, we have CDC chief, Rochelle Walensky.
00:40:48.000So she should have been fired long ago.
00:40:49.000You remember just a few weeks ago, she said she had a feeling of doom, an interior, an inner feeling of doom.
00:40:54.000We're all going to die, unless we got vaccinated three times and also wore a triple mask and hopefully a bag over our head, and we like a plastic bag.
00:41:04.000And then we took some duct tape, wrapped it around our neck.
00:41:05.000You wouldn't die of COVID if you did that.
00:41:08.000Well, here she was yesterday, CDC Chief Walensky, saying she told her 16-year-old son that he can't go to summer camp this year, which is asinine.
00:41:18.000Number one, the vaccine's already been approved for 16-year-olds.
00:42:24.000If you're comparing the infection rates in May of 2020 to the infection rates in May of 2021, you're out of your damned mind based on the stats that she is citing right there.
00:42:33.000Okay, but again, she's not representing the science.
00:42:38.000Susan Collins, who is certainly no rabid right-winger, accused the CDC of using faulty data in its recent mask guidance for the outdoors.
00:42:43.000The agency announced last month that less than 10% of transmission was occurring outdoors, except that that was wildly misleading, according to the New York Times.
00:42:52.000According to the New York Times, when the CDC released new guidelines last month for mask wearing, it announced that less than 10% of COVID-19 transmission was occurring outdoors.
00:43:00.000Media organizations repeated the stat.
00:43:02.000It quickly became a standard description of the frequency of outdoor transmission.
00:43:05.000But that number is almost certainly misleading.
00:43:07.000It appears to be based partly on a misclassification of some COVID transmission that actually took place in enclosed spaces.
00:43:13.000An even bigger issue is the extreme caution of CDC officials, who picked a benchmark 10% so high that nobody could reasonably dispute it.
00:43:20.000Dr. Mujcevic, a virologist at the University of St.
00:43:24.000Andrews, said the benchmark appears to be a huge exaggeration.
00:43:27.000In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1% and maybe 0.1%.
00:44:22.000As the New York Times says, saying that less than 10% of COVID transmission occurs outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year.
00:44:29.000The actual worldwide number is around 150.
00:45:42.000At the end of the day, the policy implemented by the White House makes a lot more difference in American lives than whatever dumb crap people put on Twitter.
00:45:49.000Hey, but unfortunately, we live in a world in which we are supposed to pretend that the crap people say on Twitter is of significantly more importance than what actually happens on the ground.
00:45:57.000And the people paying the price for that right now are you, waiting in line for gas, and you, at the grocery store, now having to pay twice what you were gonna pay, and you, yes you, Israelis living in bunkers under your cities right now.
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