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00:02:52.000to a category two or a category one as it moves further inland over the coast of Florida.
00:02:57.000It has absolutely crushed places like Naples, like Sanibel Island, and basically any place that was directly on that Gulf Coast of Florida in sort of the central region or southern region of Florida is getting absolutely crushed.
00:03:09.000We're talking about storm surges of up to 18 feet along the ground level.
00:03:13.000So lots of video has now been coming out of places that are completely flooded.
00:03:17.000At least a million people are without power, maybe two million people without power.
00:03:23.000Basically, it's not about the wind damage, it's about the storm surge.
00:03:26.000Because when hurricanes move toward a coast, what they do is they suck all the water in with them and then they promptly deposit all that water back on shore as they move inland.
00:03:34.000And that's precisely what has happened.
00:03:35.000So there's some wild video of, for example, sharks swimming around areas like Fort Myers Beach, like in the middle of the street.
00:03:42.000You've got sharks that are just swimming around in Tampa.
00:03:46.000Apparently, there was video in the subways of sharks swimming around on the subways because just enormous amounts of water have now been deposited.
00:03:54.000Inland houses have been completely wrecked.
00:03:57.000It is a major natural disaster, no question about it.
00:04:00.000Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, he says this is one of the five worst hurricanes in Florida history.
00:04:07.000As much as we're focused on Southwest Florida, it's very important, obviously, when you have a storm of this nature.
00:04:12.000I think at landfall, it's going to be behind only the Labor Day hurricane, Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Michael, in terms of intensity.
00:04:21.000I think we're going to end up seeing that.
00:04:23.000It may end up being a Category 5, but at a minimum, it's going to be a very strong Category 4 that's going to rank as one of the top 5 hurricanes to ever hit the Florida Peninsula.
00:04:34.000Now, Florida has deployed an enormous number of resources to help deal with this.
00:04:39.000Obviously, we've seen enormous amounts of damage from this hurricane.
00:04:42.000One of the sheriffs in Florida is now suggesting the death toll could be in the hundreds.
00:05:19.000Obviously, the people who decided to stay have been kind of rushing to high ground.
00:05:22.000They've been attempting to get up to higher levels of the buildings where they are.
00:05:26.000So, for example, you saw the mayor of Naples, who was actually giving a press conference from the second floor of the Naples City Hall.
00:05:34.000This sort of stuff, unfortunately, it's really horrifying and these places are going to need an awful lot of help.
00:05:40.000For his part, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, he said he spoke with Ron DeSantis and they stand ready to help.
00:05:46.000I made it clear to the governor and the mayors that the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible.
00:05:52.000When the storm passes, the federal government is going to be there to help you recover.
00:05:57.000We'll be there to help you clean up and rebuild to help Florida get moving again.
00:06:02.000And we'll be there at every step of the way.
00:06:04.000That's my absolute commitment to the people of the state of Florida.
00:06:07.000Okay, well, that would be the absolute commitment of any president.
00:06:11.000Obviously, after George W. Bush's shellacked for his supposedly lax handling of Hurricane Katrina, even though that was really a state and local failure, no president of the United States is going to not deploy the resources of the federal government in the middle of a hurricane.
00:06:23.000That's been a pretty non-controversial American federal policy going all the way back about A hundred years.
00:06:28.000I mean, the last time a president of the United States basically said, local disaster, you handle it, was Grover Cleveland, all the way back in about 1896.
00:06:35.000So, it's been quite a while since the federal government has been getting itself involved in these sorts of issues.
00:06:40.000Corinne Jean-Pierre, the White House past secretary, she said, they have the manpower and woman power on the ground, which is just, it's, I'm sorry, it's a, what about the they power?
00:06:48.000What about those who are neither men nor women who are providing help?
00:06:51.000What about the trans non-binary little people who are providing help on the, like, I do love that the, Silliness of the equity language has now pervaded everything up to and including who is going to be rescuing pets from rooves in Florida.
00:07:06.000We have put the full force of the federal government when it comes to making sure the people of Florida have the resources they need.
00:07:13.000I just listed out at the top of the briefing on all of the kind of resources, manpower, women power that's on the ground, water, food, and we will continue to move in that direction, making sure that the folks of Florida get what they need.
00:07:29.000You do need the manpower and the woman power.
00:07:34.000I will say here that there are a couple of aspects of the federal response already that are highly politicized.
00:07:40.000So Joe Biden took the opportunity of this particularly bad storm to warn against gas gouging.
00:07:45.000So this is a routine that Joe Biden has been doing for quite a while here is that when the prices go up, he blames the gas companies, despite the fact that it is not your local Shell retailer that is jacking up the prices of gas.
00:07:55.000It's the underlying forces in the oil and gas market, namely lack of production, shutdowns of pipelines.
00:08:02.000high taxation, right? The profit margin for your local gas station is really, really low. But when the inflate, when you inflate the economy and when there is a shortage of supply, you get higher prices. Joe Biden, however, will yell at the local gas station. He'll just like ride his bicycle over there, fall over and then get out and start yelling at the gas station. Well, now he's doing that in Florida.
00:08:22.000He's suggesting that what's happening when the prices go up in the middle of a hurricane is that there is gas gouging going on, that it's the profit-driven evil companies that are making those prices go up.
00:09:46.000By the way, speaking of what is going on with gas prices, gas prices actually have jumped a little bit.
00:09:51.000Over the course of the last couple of weeks, thanks specifically to the Russia-Ukraine war and the blowing up of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 and all the rest.
00:09:59.000So when Joe Biden says that it's the gas company's fault if those prices are going up, understand that as the head of American energy policy, which is what the President of the United States effectively is, when it comes to large-scale trends in price, that is much more due to Joe Biden than it is due to your local retailer who, by the way, your gas station doesn't make money on the gas.
00:10:15.000Your gas station makes money at the A&P.
00:10:17.000They make money when you buy a Slurpee at the machine.
00:10:20.000That's where they actually make their real money.
00:10:21.000The amount of money that they're making off the gas is very, very minimal.
00:10:24.000So again, that's one aspect of the economic politics of this that's incredibly stupid.
00:10:27.000Meanwhile, I will say it is fairly amazing what Democrats can get away with when it comes to going to fundraisers in the middle of disasters.
00:10:33.000You remember that Barack Obama famously Jetted off to Las Vegas in the middle of the Benghazi disaster, right?
00:10:39.000As Americans were being murdered in Benghazi, Libya.
00:10:41.000You remember that he went over to Las Vegas and he had a big party with like Jay-Z and Beyonce and all the rest of it and everybody in the media was like, well, you know, that's what he does.
00:10:49.000Why wouldn't he be in Las Vegas hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z?
00:10:53.000But, I promise you that if this had been a Republican president, and if Donald Trump were president right now, and there were a disaster in Florida, and Trump were going to some sort of fundraiser, all you would hear wall-to-wall is how the president isn't in the hurricane senator monitoring.
00:11:04.000Now listen, I'm not under the grave misimpression that the president of the United States actually needs to be over at the At the hurricane center with FEMA monitoring this stuff.
00:11:13.000I don't think the president has control over the hurricanes.
00:11:15.000I think it's really stupid when politicians jet set into disaster ridden areas and they survey the wreckage.
00:11:20.000I thought this whether it was Trump, whether it was Obama, like there are certain things that we demand of our politicians that are just incredibly dumb.
00:11:28.000Joe Biden, who again, can barely move.
00:11:30.000We're going to get him on a rowboat and we're going to row him through Fort Myers or something and he's going to look out over the waters and all the waters are going to recede.
00:11:37.000None of that is real, but let's just say that there ought to be one media standard.
00:11:41.000If the media standard is that the president needs to be absolutely present, he needs to be there, he needs to be ready, On the mark, ready to deploy.
00:11:48.000And going to fundraisers is kind of a bad thing in the middle of a giant cat 4 hurricane hitting one of the largest states in the United States.
00:11:54.000Here was Corine Jean-Pierre yesterday acknowledging that Joe Biden was still going to a fundraiser last night.
00:11:58.000The president's schedule tonight has him attending a political fundraiser while the storm is hitting the state of Florida.
00:12:08.000So, we don't have any changes in his schedule.
00:12:16.000He has been really steadfast and very clear and has spoken multiple times on what is happening in Florida and what we are seeing with Hurricane Ian.
00:12:29.000Oh, so it's the steadfastness with which he speaks that now matters.
00:12:32.000When George W. Bush, however, flies a plane over the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, then that means that he's out of touch and quite terrible.
00:12:40.000Meanwhile, the media doing their best to basically try to blame this thing on climate change and global warming.
00:12:45.000Now, again, as I said yesterday, one of the big talking points for global warming advocates has been that you cannot label any specific weather event in outcome of climate change.
00:12:55.000And you can't do that because again, they're data points.
00:13:09.000This is something that people who, the quote unquote climate deniers, they do this and then people on the left are like, well, you can't say that that blizzard right there is the result of global warming.
00:13:17.000All we are saying is that over time, the trend of the climate has changed.
00:13:21.000Okay, well, if you're gonna do that, then it works for both sides.
00:13:23.000And every climate scientist will tell you this.
00:13:27.000For a climate denier, it's pretty incredible with the number of climate scientists I speak to.
00:13:30.000I speak regularly with people ranging from like MIT to Caltech about things related to climate change.
00:13:35.000And every single one, right to left to center, like everyone will tell you that you cannot label any single weather event the outcome of climate change.
00:13:42.000That's particularly true when you're using bad data.
00:13:44.000But CNN, MSNBC, The View, they don't care about whether they're using bad data.
00:13:48.000They have a political point of view to promulgate, and that point of view is We, it's almost a paganistic worldview.
00:13:53.000It's like, if we propitiate the gods by getting rid of these gas-powered vehicles, then there will just be no more hurricanes.
00:14:00.000Which is weird, because there are hurricanes on, you know, like Jupiter, and there are no gas-powered vehicles on Jupiter.
00:14:05.000It turns out that one of the natural features of weather, in every weather system that we know of, is hurricanes.
00:14:12.000Also, one of the simple facts that we also happen to know is that hurricanes have not, in fact, become more frequent over time, and that the amount of damage that is being done by hurricanes is due to what we talked about yesterday, the target effect.
00:14:25.000Meaning, if you shoot an arrow at a tree, and there's no target on the tree, and then you paint a target around the arrow, then magically, you're amazing at archery.
00:14:33.000Well, that's basically what's happened with these hurricanes.
00:14:35.000These hurricanes have been hitting these areas for a very long time, but people are just building more in these areas.
00:14:39.000So when a large scale hurricane hits Fort Myers and it wipes out half the island, is that because the hurricane is more severe or is it because people built on Fort Myers?
00:14:48.000And a long time ago, people didn't build on Fort Myers out of fear of hurricanes.
00:14:51.000So now that you have more people living in these areas, you have increased the size of the target around the arrow, which means that the hurricanes are now very, very good at archery to mix our metaphors.
00:15:01.000This is something Bjorn Lomborg has written about significantly.
00:15:03.000He says, the frequency category three and above hurricanes making landfall since 1900 is also trending slightly down over the course of time.
00:15:10.000He says, airplanes and satellites have dramatically increased the number of storms scientists can spot at sea today, making the frequency of landfall hurricanes, which were reliably documented even in 1900, a better statistic than the total number of Atlantic hurricanes.
00:15:28.000Found that the increases in strong hurricanes you've heard so much about are not part of a century-scale increase, but a recovery from a deep minimum in the 1960s through 1980s.
00:15:34.000In other words, if you're seeing more severe hurricanes now, that is because from the 60s to the 80s, we had a period of artificially low hurricanes.
00:15:42.000So, as Lomberg says, better infrastructure fed by improved technology and wealth does more to protect lives and property than cutting carbon emissions.
00:15:48.000And this is really the underlying point here, is that what you see from the left is this idea that if we pour trillions of dollars into green energy, we'll stop the hurricanes.
00:15:56.000Hurricanes were happening long before people were using gas-powered vehicles.
00:15:58.000They'll be happening long after people are using gas-powered vehicles, before human beings were walking on planet Earth, before the species Homo sapiens existed.
00:16:06.000There were hurricanes that were striking a lot of these areas, and that will continue for the rest of time.
00:16:11.000The real question is, how do human beings adapt to all of that?
00:16:15.000But none of this actually matters to the so-called climate lovers, the science lovers, the people who love to-science, not actual science, they love to-science, which is politically driven science in search of some sort of political outcome.
00:16:28.000So Bill Weir, who does this routine all the time on CNN, he went out there and tried to blame climate change for the hurricane, of course.
00:16:35.000Again and again, I've been trying to mention that this is the result of a warmer planet.
00:16:41.000Scientists have warned us for a long time that storms won't get necessarily more hurricanes out of climate change, but the ones we do get will be bigger and faster and wetter.
00:16:52.000And here is your exhibit A, Hurricane Ian.
00:16:56.000Okay, but your exhibit A, if I just give you an exhibit, I can do that with like literally anything.
00:17:01.000I can take a single data, this is bad data science.
00:17:03.000You can pick a single data point and pretend that it's part of a trend without any sort of evidence.
00:17:09.000Like what you're gonna need is a bunch of data points demonstrating this.
00:17:13.000The state of Florida last year basically did not get hit in any significant way.
00:17:17.000The state of Florida the year before did not get hit in any really significant way.
00:17:20.000This year we had an unusually quiet hurricane season up until we had this giant hurricane.
00:17:25.000This is one of the big problems with data trends and the way that the media analyze them in the United States.
00:17:29.000They take outlying events, meaning events that are statistically fairly rare, and then they use these to try to promote the idea that there is a giant global trend happening.
00:17:38.000Again, when it comes to hurricanes, the connection between climate change and hurricanes is actually one of the least clear connections.
00:17:43.000If you're going to do the climate change, which in climate is damaging everything, climate's a real problem, what you'd want to look at is long-term trends on like ice sheets.
00:17:51.000You're going to want to look at the water levels around the world.
00:17:53.000You're going to want to look at the global temperature as we measure it.
00:17:57.000You're not going to want to look at events that are statistically rare.
00:17:59.000It's almost the same way that the left likes to analyze school shootings as though it's the only indicator of gun violence in the United States, and therefore must ban all long guns, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of killings with guns in the United States are not done with long guns.
00:18:11.000In other words, when you pick statistical outliers, like hurricanes, and you use them as evidence, you are doing a bad job with the data.
00:18:16.000But that's exactly what our media wish to do, because this is how the media cover events.
00:18:59.000But we sometimes get these ones that are so much more damaging and so much more intense.
00:19:04.000And it's good that we talk about these things in the moment, because lots of times over the years when I brought it up, people said, oh, now's not the time to talk about it.
00:19:12.000Now's the time to talk about it, because the only time people are paying attention to how damaging these things are.
00:19:16.000Okay, well, again, he gives away the game right there.
00:19:18.000We're going to talk about this as though it is evidence of a trend, despite the fact that we don't present no data on this, because now is the time when we can get people's attention, and then we can be really alarmist about the idea that these hurricanes are going to become more frequent and more deadly.
00:19:31.000By the way, if we're going to talk about the most damaging hurricanes in American history, the Hill did a rundown of the most damaging hurricanes in American history.
00:19:37.000Okay, how about the Chenier-Kamenada hurricane of 1893?
00:19:42.000It was before gas-powered emissions were really the big problem on planet Earth.
00:19:46.000A powerful Category 4 hurricane made landfall on a small island in Louisiana with wind speeds of more than 130 miles an hour.
00:19:53.000Apparently, the storm surge basically took out all but one house and killed 778 of the town's 1,471 residents.
00:20:00.0002,000 more people were killed as the hurricane moved over Mississippi.
00:20:02.000How about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
00:20:18.000Now, what you'll notice is that the number of people who have died due to hurricanes in the United States, except for Hurricane Katrina, which was a huge failure of the levees, has been significantly lower than these numbers that I am citing earlier on because people have become better at adapting.
00:20:31.000You'll also notice that these hurricanes that I'm talking about are like 100, 120 years ago.
00:20:35.000So again, the attempt to paint all of this as, it's the climate change denier's fault.
00:20:40.000If you refuse to acknowledge the great God of climate change, then you will have caused the hurricane.
00:22:22.000All you have to say is not normal, and everybody just nods along.
00:22:24.000Okay, well, I guess we'll just give you a lot of money, and you can throw it at things.
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00:24:37.000Well, meanwhile, Joe Biden claims that he has a handle on all of this, and FEMA does because the president doesn't really do anything when it comes to hurricanes.
00:24:45.000Again, the dirty little secret when it comes to the handling of natural disasters is we have an entire agency that is dedicated to doing precisely this.
00:24:51.000And pictures of Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Donald Trump standing in the hurricane center wearing a coat, they didn't change anything.
00:24:57.000They just stood there and they posed for the picture, which is a good thing.
00:24:59.000I mean, it's a good thing that large swaths of the federal government actually run without the president having to be there because the president is not there.
00:25:06.000I don't mean he's not physically there.
00:25:07.000His body may be there, but his mind is elsewhere.
00:25:10.000The President of the United States, it is an unfortunate fact, and I know the media are trying to obscure this.
00:25:14.000By the way, this is going to change if the Democrats lose the midterms.
00:25:17.000If the Democrats lose the House and lose the Senate, the calls for Joe Biden to go are going to grow increasingly loud.
00:25:23.000The media right now are attempting to basically swivel Joe Biden's presidency.
00:25:32.000That will last until precisely the moment his party gets booted from office in November.
00:25:36.000If that goes real bad, by December, there are going to be calls for Joe Biden to announce that he is not, in fact, running in 2024 because he's a drag on the party.
00:25:53.000And when it comes to the hurricanes, for example, Joe Biden, right before the hurricane actually made landfall, he suggested that one of the most important things you can do if you're sheltering from the hurricane is you need to get vaccinated.
00:26:20.000Here's the president of the United States explaining that you need to vaccinate for a disease that pretty much everybody in the United States got already and has been vaccinated seven times for it.
00:26:33.000If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas, A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.
00:26:47.000Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated in a hurricane or natural disaster hits.
00:26:53.000Okay, so make sure that you're vaccinated because we wouldn't want, while you're drowning, we have to make sure that you don't infect anybody with COVID, which, unless you are elderly and have diabetes, is not going to kill you, statistically speaking.
00:27:05.000That was not actually Joe Biden's weirdest moment over the course of the last 72 hours.
00:27:09.000We've already seen video of Joe Biden shaking hands with ghosts.
00:27:12.000We've seen him at his speeches wander off from the podium and he starts like putting his hand out and he's kind of shaking hands.
00:27:18.000We saw just last week a video of him at some sort of event where he wanders away from the podium, has no idea where to go, starts kind of looking around bizarrely, like John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, and then has to be guided by his people off the stage.
00:27:32.000Well, yesterday, Joe Biden did a rally in Indiana And he gave a shout out to Jackie Wolorski.
00:27:40.000Jackie Wolorski is a representative who recently died in a car accident.
00:27:44.000Again, not the first time Joe Biden has done this.
00:27:46.000He once said about a wheelchair-bound person, why don't you stand up and take a bow?
00:27:50.000So Joe Biden has never been all there, but now he's really, really not there.
00:27:53.000So here is Joe Biden, who apparently does not know that Jackie Wolorski is dead.
00:27:57.000Either that, or we've got this all wrong, and he's basically, we're all dead, and Bruce Willis is basically, we all see ghosts.
00:28:03.000Apparently, maybe that's, the real solution here is we don't understand that Joe Biden actually has the ability to convene with the dead without a Ouija board.
00:28:10.000So maybe we're actually underestimating his abilities here.
00:28:13.000We think he's all senile, but he's not, in fact, senile.
00:28:16.000Maybe he actually can convene with the dead, which would be an amazing quality in a president of the United States.
00:28:21.000Frankly, this gives me optimism for the future of the country.
00:28:25.000I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Governor, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative... Jackie, are you here?
00:28:59.000Sometimes he, sometimes he talks to the sidewalk.
00:29:02.000Occasionally he, he makes personal acquaintance with the sidewalk after falling off a stationary bicycle.
00:29:06.000I mean, none of this is particularly shocking coming from our, um, Our president of the United States who is mentally losing his faculties.
00:29:12.000The worst part is what happened with Karine Jean-Pierre afterwards.
00:29:15.000So, if you are the White House press secretary and you're faced with this, you should just be like, yeah, Joe Biden made a mistake.
00:29:20.000He forgot about that tragedy and he apologizes for that.
00:30:28.000I just explained, she was on top of mind.
00:30:34.000What we were able to witness today and what the President was able to lift up at this conference, at this event, was how her focus on wanting to deal with, combat food insecurity in America.
00:30:52.000And this is something that he was lifting up and honoring.
00:30:56.000Um, and then the reporter's like, well, um, I have John Lennon top of mind nearly every day cause I like the Beatles, but I don't think he's alive.
00:31:21.000So, So, to have a comment about this, apparently you have to be the President of the United States signing a bill in honor of a human, and then you can think they're alive?
00:32:04.000Probably he was just eating from the toilet and we can just move on with our life.
00:32:07.000And with Joe Biden, it's particularly telling because Joe Biden, like everybody knew what Trump was, right?
00:32:12.000Everybody could see that Trump was just kind of saying the stuff that he wanted to say.
00:32:15.000With Joe Biden, they keep trying to burnish him.
00:32:17.000They keep trying to make him something he is not.
00:32:19.000He is a doddering elderly gentleman Who has no clue what is going on around him except at times when he is completely withdrawing from Afghanistan and leaving 38 million people to the hands of the Taliban.
00:32:27.000The President of the United States is not a leader.
00:32:32.000The light is on, but there ain't nobody home.
00:32:34.000There are marbles that are missing from that jar.
00:32:38.000Joe Biden is, as I have said, at the point in his life where he could not pour urine out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
00:32:58.000If the White House just said, guys, you made a mistake.
00:33:01.000You forgot that this tragedy occurred and then we can all move on.
00:33:04.000But the necessity in today's politics to try and treat our presidents as though they are blessed with some sort of prophetic infallibility is just, it's insane.
00:33:16.000And again, it's perfectly obvious to everybody.
00:33:18.000I mean, Joe Biden literally yesterday had to direct Joe Biden away from a podium, which I guess is better than when the Easter Bunny did it.
00:33:23.000A few months back, Joe Biden was at an Easter Egg Roll and the media came in there asking him questions.
00:33:29.000And the Easter Bunny, who I assume was Jen Psaki, came over and like grabbed him by the shoulders and started redirecting him away.
00:33:34.000It was like a scene from Harvey with Jimmy Stewart.
00:33:36.000Well, yesterday it was Jill Biden, aka Edith Wilson, who was guiding our senile president away from the microphones.
00:33:45.000Okay, I don't know if you're watching Game of Thrones House of Dragons, but this is basically like Alicent trying to guide Viserys around at this point.
00:33:59.000Like, Jill is... Joe, if you could just follow me, we're gonna go down this way, like, this is a step, and we're in a garden, and this garden is at the White House, and the White House is in the United States, and the United States is a country on planet Earth.
00:34:12.000And she's gonna take him, she's gonna put him in a chair, she's gonna put a blanket over his lap, and then she's gonna put a pillow behind his back, and then she's gonna give him some chamomile tea, and they're gonna watch Matlock together.
00:34:21.000Again, just acknowledge the reality of what is, and life will be so much better for everyone because we will all be able to speak to the same reality.
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00:35:21.000Now, speaking of failures to speak to the same reality, there was a controversy that broke out yesterday over Lizzo.
00:35:28.000So we're not talking about the usual controversy over whether fat is beautiful and fat positivity and whether being 100 pounds overweight is actually a wonderful, wonderful thing that is healthful and all this.
00:35:38.000We're talking about a controversy that broke out because Lizzo was given access to James Madison's crystal flute from 1813.
00:35:46.000According to the New York Times, Lizzo looked uncharacteristically nervous as she crossed the stage in a glittering mesh leotard with tights and sequined combat boots.
00:35:53.000A classically trained flautist who began playing when she was in fifth grade and considered studying at the Paris Conservatory, she has woven flute into many of her songs, has played virtually with the New York Philharmonic, and her flute, named Sasha Flute, even has its own Instagram page.
00:36:05.000But waiting for her on Tuesday night was an exquisite and highly breakable musical instrument that had arrived at her concert in Washington under heavy security, a crystal flute that a French craftsman and clockmaker had made for President James Madison in 1813.
00:36:17.000And so there are actually two clips of Lizzo that are going around.
00:36:21.000And I'm going to play both because I think it's important that we understand the context here.
00:36:25.000So, originally, she was asked by Carla D. Hayden, the first African-American and first woman to lead the Library of Congress, to play the flute.
00:36:35.000Because she'd asked Lizzo on Friday to visit the Library's flute collection, about 1,700 of those instruments, over at the Library of Congress.
00:36:44.000She tweeted, Lizzo, we would love for you to come see it and even play a couple when you're in DC next week.
00:36:50.000And she said, I'm coming, Carla, and I'm playing that crystal flute.
00:36:53.000So Lizzo arrived on Monday with her mother and members of her band, and Dr. Hayden and the staff members ushered her into the flute vault.
00:36:59.000And they gave her a tour of the collection, which includes fifes, piccolos, and a flute shaped like a walking stick, which Lizzo said she might want as a Christmas present.
00:37:05.000And she spent more than three hours at the library trying out several of the instruments.
00:37:08.000So she played a piccolo from John Philip Sousa's band that was used to play the solo at the premiere of Stars and Stripes Forever.
00:37:13.000She played a Plexiglas flute made in 1937.
00:37:15.000And she also apparently played this flute as well.
00:37:20.000So there is some video that came out from the Library of Congress of her playing the flute.
00:37:24.000She was trained at University of Houston to play the flute.
00:38:23.000Okay, then there's the clip that everyone's making a big deal out of, as the New York Times suggests, right?
00:38:27.000The big thing that happened with Lizzo is that she brought this flute to a concert, James Madison's flute, to a concert, and she proceeded to twerk with it.
00:38:36.000So this is the thing that the entire world saw, was Lizzo wearing essentially a skimpy outfit, twerking with James Madison's flute.
00:38:46.000Not the first one, which is a very respectful treatment of a historic instrument, but instead Lizzo bringing forth a historic instrument to twerk with it, which of course is the point.
00:40:02.000You walk into the Starbucks and there's a guy behind the counter and that guy has the Mike Tyson face tattoo that just covers half his face.
00:40:08.000And you're staring at it because how can you not stare at a person with a giant face tattoo?
00:40:11.000And he's like, what are you looking at, bub?
00:40:37.000It is the contrast between Lizzo, a significantly overweight African-American musician, right?
00:40:43.000Because the idea is that it's groundbreaking for an African-American musician to play James Madison, one of the founders of the Constitution, to play his flute.
00:40:55.000It isn't really her race because I'm sure that if they had wanted to find a better flautist who is black than Lizzo, I'm sure that there are many black flautists who are significantly better than Lizzo, right?
00:41:04.000They play in orchestras around the world.
00:41:07.000So if the idea was just going to be, we are going to take a historic instrument that belonged to a white Southerner who was in charge of founding the Constitution, and we are going to have a very talented African-American black person play that, That would have been really uncontroversial.
00:41:22.000Like seriously, it'd be the equivalent of if, if let's say that George Washington had had a harpsichord and we had had Connalisa Rice go and play the harpsichord.
00:41:30.000Like everyone would have been like, okay, all right, fine.
00:41:32.000Okay, but it is the twerking that does it.
00:41:42.000The one of her playing very nicely in the Library of Congress while dressed somewhat decently.
00:41:46.000It is the second video where she is twerking and wearing skimpy outfits with the flute that is- because the idea is to degrade the culture.
00:41:53.000That is what people- that is why the clip is viral.
00:41:55.000The reason the clip is viral is the contrast between a person twerking and the idea of a- of a- an extraordinarily classy instrument.
00:42:05.000A historic instrument that speaks to sort of the gentility of America's founders being brought into a context that is vulgar.
00:42:14.000It's the vulgarization of American history.
00:42:17.000Again, Lizzo did both, and only one of those clips went viral.
00:42:21.000And so, if you notice that, then you're very, very bad.
00:42:23.000If you notice that, then this means that you're some sort of racist, or it means that you don't want black people playing the flute or something.
00:42:28.000No, I just don't want people twerking with historic instruments.
00:42:30.000By the way, I'd be similarly offended, as a violinist, if there was a Stradivarius, somebody had a Strad, and that Strad was lent out to a musician, who then proceeded to twerk on the Strad.
00:42:41.000I would also be insulted, because it turns out that great art should not be degraded.
00:42:45.000Great art, American history, they should not be degraded by juxtaposition with vulgarity.
00:42:49.000That should not be a controversial position, but we've now reached the point in American life where nearly everything is a controversial position.
00:42:56.000Every day on this show, there's some clip that is taken that is utterly uncontroversial and then made into a thing on Twitter.
00:43:03.000Because we now live in a world where we do not have a shared reality.
00:43:06.000This was a point that was made by an account on Twitter called Wokeldistance, and he was saying that we don't have a shared reality because half the people saw this clip and they were offended by it, and half the people were like, woohoo, it's amazing!
00:43:16.000That shared reality has gone away on literally everything and you have to understand that without that shared reality we can't have political conversations, we can't have shared values.
00:43:22.000It's very difficult to see how you have a future as a country if you don't have some sort of shared value.
00:43:27.000The part that's kind of astonishing to me on a personal level is I don't understand why Lizzo would do that.
00:43:33.000Lizzo is enough of a musician to understand the nature of historic Musical pieces of art.
00:43:38.000And so, the degradation of that, like, why doesn't she, personally, have the respect for the instrument and respect for the history enough not to twerk with it?
00:43:48.000And by the way, the left would have the same exact reaction if somebody took the Mona Lisa off the wall at the Louvre and then went and twerked with it at some sort of rock event.
00:43:57.000They'd have exactly the same reaction because degradation of the past, degradation of great art, is part and parcel of something that the deconstructionist left loves.
00:44:04.000They love the idea that great art doesn't exist, that all art is equivalent.
00:44:08.000That Robert Mapplethorpe's Piss Christ is actually a form of art.
00:44:12.000Everything is art in the eye of the beholder.
00:44:14.000And that's what's really going on here.
00:44:15.000And if you notice it, then they're like, ah, how dare you notice this?
00:44:17.000Well, if you hadn't made a big deal out of it, I wouldn't have noticed it.
00:44:20.000If you didn't think it was historic, if you didn't think it was important, you wouldn't have done it.
00:44:23.000It also demonstrates, by the way, just how much the sort of institutions of American government have been taken over by members of the woke left.
00:44:32.000When you have members of the Library of Congress who are reaching out to Lizzo to have her twerk with a flute, That says something.
00:44:38.000The Library of Congress is supposed to be a place where you preserve historic instruments and respect them, not a place where you give it to people who are then going to twerk with those instruments on stage to the cheers of a gaggle of morons.
00:44:52.000Alrighty guys, the rest of my show is continuing now.