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00:00:00.000Senator Joe Manchin announces he is done with Build Back Better, the radical left goes insane over it, and Omicron panic continues despite non-scary numbers.
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00:01:31.000Alrighty, so over the weekend, Joe Biden's dreams died.
00:01:35.000So you have to get the world's tiniest violin out for the world's most feeble president.
00:01:39.000The president of the United States had been hoping that he would be able to follow the Bernie Sanders path toward glory.
00:01:44.000And it was always politically bewildering.
00:02:02.000And Joe Manchin is from a state that is redder than red, a state that Donald Trump won by a 40 point margin.
00:02:07.000And so the notion that Joe Biden was going to be able to, with that sort of majority, like 50 plus Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker, ram through a Bernie Sanders agenda was completely delusional.
00:02:17.000And it is absolutely bewildering as to why Joe Biden ever thought that this was going to happen.
00:02:21.000This is the part that's totally crazy to me.
00:02:22.000I do not understand for the life of me.
00:02:25.000Why Joe Biden thought that he could shift from the quote-unquote moderate he was supposed to be into an FDR LBJ type and nobody would notice and that all of the people in the center would just go right along with it.
00:02:36.000You know, how far did Joe Biden shift?
00:02:38.000He went from being the guy who defeated Bernie Sanders because the entire Democratic Party base mobilized against Bernie Sanders to the guy mirroring Bernie Sanders' priorities.
00:02:47.000You know, I just noticed the other day.
00:02:49.000So the Time 100 had Joe Biden on it, right?
00:02:51.000You know who wrote Joe Biden's piece for the Time 100?
00:03:00.000It's the George W. Bush had been elected and then the most right wing senator in the United States had written a piece about how George W. Bush was mirroring all of his priorities.
00:03:12.000Bernie Sanders is a socialistic idiot.
00:03:14.000Bernie Sanders is a full-scale commie, okay?
00:03:16.000And Bernie Sanders, despite his protestations that he likes Scandinavia, not the USSR, Bernie Sanders is the guy pushing the most radical agenda in the Senate, and he's the one writing Joe Biden's Time 100 profile this year.
00:03:28.000And here is what Bernie Sanders wrote, quote, Biden's bold American Rescue Plan created a strong vaccine program that will save tens of thousands of lives, alleviate hunger and homelessness, reduce the child poverty rate by more than half, help revitalize the economy.
00:03:40.000Now, through two unprecedented pieces of legislation, the infrastructure bill and the budget resolution, he's leading the effort to create millions of good-paying jobs, etc., etc.
00:03:48.000I look forward to working with President Biden on these transformative efforts.
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00:07:19.000For five and a half months, I have worked as diligently as possible meeting with President Biden, Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, and my colleagues on every end of the political spectrum to determine the best path forward despite my serious reservations.
00:07:31.000I've made my concerns clear through public statements, op-eds, and private conversations.
00:07:35.000My concerns have only increased as the pandemic surges on, inflation rises, and geopolitical uncertainty increases around the world.
00:07:41.000I've always said, if I can't go back home and explain it, I can't vote for it.
00:07:44.000Despite my best efforts, I cannot explain Build Back Better in West Virginia.
00:07:47.000I cannot vote to move forward on this mammoth piece of legislation.
00:07:50.000Joe Manchin continues, my Democratic colleagues in Washington are determined to dramatically reshape our society in a way that leaves our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face. I cannot take that risk with a staggering debt of more than $29 trillion and inflation taxes that are real and harmful to every hard-working American at the gas pump, grocery store, and utility bills with no end in sight. The American people deserve transparency on the true cost of the Build Back Better Act.
00:08:13.000The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determined the cost is upwards of $4.5 trillion, which is more than double what the bill's ardent supporters have claimed.
00:08:20.000They continue to camouflage the real cost of the intent behind this bill.
00:08:24.000As the Omicron variant spreads throughout communities across the country, we are seeing COVID-19 cases rise at rates we have not seen since the height of the pandemic.
00:08:31.000We're also facing increasing geopolitical uncertainty as tensions rise with both Russia and China, says Senator Manchin.
00:08:37.000Our ability to quickly and effectively respond to these pending threats would be drastically hindered by our rising debt.
00:08:42.000If enacted, the bill would also risk the reliability of our electric grid and increase our dependence on foreign supply chains.
00:08:47.000The energy transition my colleagues seek is already well underway in the United States of America.
00:08:51.000In the last two years, as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and with bipartisan support, we've invested billions of dollars into clean energy technologies so we can continue to lead the world in reducing emissions through innovation.
00:09:02.000But to do so at a rate that is faster than technology or the markets allow will have catastrophic consequences for the American people like we have seen in both Texas and California in the last two years.
00:09:10.000I will never forget the warning from then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, that he delivered during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing during my first year in the Senate.
00:09:18.000He testified the greatest threat facing our nation was our national debt, and since that time our debt has doubled.
00:09:23.000I will continue working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to address the needs of all Americans, and do so in a way that does not risk our nation's independence, security, and way of life.
00:09:30.000That is the statement put out by Joe Manchin.
00:09:54.000The incentive structure was completely wrong and Joe Biden was delusional.
00:09:57.000And the progressives were delusional if they thought they were going to get Joe Biden on board.
00:10:00.000By the way, Kyrsten Sinema apparently is going around telling people that she and Manchin are stand-ins for half a dozen other Democratic senators who are in purple states and who are looking around going, man, I'm glad that I didn't have to vote on that piece of crap.
00:10:12.000According to Politico last night, less than 30 minutes before he killed the Democratic Party's most important piece of legislation, an aide was dispatched by Senator Joe Manchin to give the White House and Congressional leadership a heads up.
00:10:22.000The senator himself was about to go live and was prepping for his interview with Brett Barron Fox News Sunday.
00:10:27.000Who's out of town with family and doing the hit via satellite, says Politico.
00:11:02.000Well, actually, we'll just... They're going to keep doing this.
00:11:05.000Top White House officials scrambled to call Senator Manchin and talk him out of what he was about to do.
00:11:10.000We tried to head him off, a senior White House official told Playbook.
00:11:12.000Manchin refused to take a call from the White House staff.
00:11:16.000At Fox News' Washington studio, Baer was hosting his first episode of Fox News Sunday since Chris Wallace abruptly decamped.
00:11:22.000The show's staff knew how much attention would be on them and how important it was in the ongoing war between news and opinion to prove the news side could still drive a conversation.
00:11:29.000Manchin did not give Baer a heads up about the news he was about to break.
00:11:37.000Bottom line is that the entire White House is very upset.
00:11:41.000So Jen Psaki came out and slammed Senator Manchin, accusing Joe Manchin of betrayal.
00:11:47.000The White House put out a statement saying, On Tuesday of this week, Senator Manchin came to the White House and submitted to the President in person directly a written outline for a Build Back Better bill that was the same size and scope as the President's framework and covered many of the same priorities. While that framework was missing key priorities, we believed it could lead to a compromise acceptable to all. Senator Manchin promised to continue conversations in the days ahead and to work with us to reach that common
00:12:08.000If his comments on Fox and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator's colleagues in the House and Senate.
00:12:18.000By the way, this signals that the White House knows it's over.
00:12:21.000Because if the White House really thought there was a path forward for negotiation, here's what you don't do.
00:13:01.000Mitt Romney, Rob Portman, the deal that they made essentially with Manchin and Sinema is we will do the infrastructure bill with you, but you will not do Build Back Better, a giant boondoggle spending bill where all of the priorities that were cut out of the infrastructure bill then get stuffed into the Build Back Better Act.
00:13:17.000And there are worries about trust, right?
00:13:19.000That Manchin and Sinema would cave, and that they would then vote for Build Back Better, as well as the infrastructure bill, and the Democrats would get all their spending.
00:13:26.000So, we will have to point out here that the strategic move made by some of these guys in the Senate to put forward the infrastructure bill as sort of a stop to Manchin and Sinema, to keep them from restructuring the entire American economy, was not necessarily the worst strategic move.
00:13:38.000Now, it's possible that if they'd not passed the infrastructure bill, they still wouldn't have gotten Build Back Better, because the incentives would be no different.
00:13:45.000It would still have been a hard slog to get Build Back Better approved by the voters of West Virginia.
00:13:49.000That said, the baseline notion that you could get Manchin and Sinema to kill Build Back Better if you gave them infrastructure, that turned out at least to be true in the sense that Build Back Better is now dead.
00:14:01.000Senior White House official is ripping on Manchin, says, look, with Manchin, you never know.
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00:15:46.000That may save Joe Biden in the long run.
00:15:47.000Because if Joe Biden actually got billed back better, and inflation continued to spiral out of control, and the economy continued to stagnate, it just would not renounce Joe Biden's benefit.
00:15:55.000Now, I still think that the Democrats get shellacked in 2022 because they're going to have to own whatever comes next.
00:16:01.000And nothing great is happening for the next year or so.
00:16:03.000Inflation is going to last well into next year.
00:16:05.000At this point, that is being conceded by the Federal Reserve.
00:16:08.000The economy is not growing the way it is supposed to grow.
00:16:11.000The Democrats have created a box of their own making.
00:16:13.000They cannot get out of it with regard to COVID.
00:16:15.000The COVID panic mentality that they relied upon for world-breaking change has actually broken their world.
00:16:20.000But adding on top of that, a $5 trillion package would not have redounded to Joe Biden's benefit.
00:16:26.000So Manchin killing it might counterintuitively be actually quite good for Joe Biden.
00:16:30.000See, it took Bill Clinton the 1994 election before he realized that Hillary care and giant capital gains tax increases, that these things were very unpopular with the American people.
00:16:40.000The way the American people sounded off was by giving Republicans their first congressional majority in three decades.
00:16:45.000Well, Joe Biden, he's getting the wake up call early, but he's not getting it from a congressional election.
00:16:50.000He's getting it from a member of his own party in the form of Joe Manchin.
00:16:54.000Nonetheless, the Democrats are really, really angry over all of this, naturally, as you would expect them to be.
00:16:58.000Because again, the idea was that now that Joe Biden was in control, they were going to get the Bernie Sanders presidency.
00:17:06.000They were gonna get exactly what they had always wanted.
00:17:09.000No, that's not going to happen anymore.
00:17:11.000So, Bernie Sanders is now slamming Joe Manchin.
00:17:14.000Here is the socialist old coot from Vermont, who's now the thought leader of the Democratic Party, who's been defeated by, as it turns out, a majority of the American population.
00:17:23.000Let's not pretend that it's Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema alone who are standing against this bill, because that's not true.
00:18:28.000Advice to Joe Manchin, who's been elected as a blue senator in a very red state repeatedly, is laughable.
00:18:35.000If Bernie Sanders believes that his agenda is so popular, why wasn't he the nominee in the first place?
00:18:39.000And again, I will never get over the fact that Joe Biden is such a fool that he was elected as a moderate, and then he swung to the Bernie Sanders side of the aisle.
00:18:48.000Okay, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez is also jumping into the fray.
00:18:51.000So she tweeted out, when a handful of us in the house warned this would happen, if Democratic leaders gave Manchin everything he wanted first, by moving the infrastructure plan before Build Back Better, instead of passing it together, many ridiculed our position.
00:19:03.000Maybe they'll believe us next time, or maybe people will just keep calling us naive.
00:19:07.000Either way, we cannot accept no for an answer.
00:19:09.000Democratic leadership, including but not limited to the president himself and House Democratic leadership, wrote a massive check on their credibility the night of the BIF vote in order to secure the votes they needed, promising passage of Build Back Better to every member who brought up Manchin.
00:19:22.000They personally promised they had a solution and Build Back Better would pass.
00:19:26.000It is simply not an option for Democratic leaders to walk away from Build Back Better, voting rights, etc.
00:19:30.000They must find a way, just as they promised they would when we raised this inevitability.
00:19:34.000Some of us don't have the luxury of giving up.
00:19:36.000We serve working, middle class, and poor people.
00:19:38.000We serve everyday workers getting ripped off, and immigrants, and black communities, and queer kids needing shelter.
00:20:18.000The entire progressive wing of the party is super mad that they even got billed the infrastructure plan.
00:20:23.000So it seems that AOC is still committed to the idea that if the progressives had voted no on infrastructure, and they'd held together, Build Back Better and infrastructure, that Manchin would have voted for that.
00:21:13.000Here is the horrible congresswoman from Minnesota.
00:21:18.000We all knew that Senator Manchin couldn't be trusted.
00:21:22.000You know, the excuses that he just made I think are complete bulls**t. It is really disheartening to hear him say that he has been trying to get there for the people of West Virginia because that's a complete lie.
00:21:42.000There are just so many things that, you know, the people of West Virginia desperately need.
00:21:47.000And we know that he is not working on behalf of their interests.
00:21:53.000And I really am just completely disappointed and disgusted by his reasoning.
00:22:00.000Well, I mean, if the people of West Virginia don't love Ilhan Omar, I mean, wow.
00:22:04.000I mean, when she speaks, the people of West Virginia listen.
00:22:07.000That is definitely a state, West Virginia, where Ilhan Omar, I'm sure, is wildly popular.
00:22:12.000Her perspectives are super popular in West Virginia.
00:22:16.000Again, the delusional nature of progressives who think they have a national program, as opposed to the reality of politics, which is you're always cobbling together a coalition to do incremental things.
00:22:30.000And they will continue diluting themselves along these lines, the progressives, which means that Joe Biden should get with the program, right?
00:22:36.000If he had any brains at all, if he didn't have mush for brains at this point, which I mean, physically mush for brains, then he would probably be pushing for a piecemeal approach to a lot of this legislation.
00:22:57.000In a second, we'll talk about Joe Biden and the wild progressive wing that has they're in the ascendance in the Democratic Party, but they're not getting anything done.
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00:25:14.000And so this is a bucket of folks where if we lower the price of college, they are still stuck with huge amounts of student loan debt.
00:25:24.000Did someone put a gun to their heads when they took out that debt to study lesbian dance theory at Wellesley?
00:26:06.000There are some states, like for example in Georgia and in Texas, where the right to vote is under attack.
00:26:14.000And that is fundamentally undemocratic.
00:26:17.000But what makes the Senate, but that affects everybody and all seats, but what makes the Senate fundamentally undemocratic is that it gives small groups of people the same amount of power as massive groups of people.
00:26:45.000Progressives hate our system because progressives believe that our system should be ripped down in favor of a left-wing dictatorship.
00:26:50.000I mean, that's essentially what they believe.
00:26:52.000That as long as they can command a majority of 50 plus one, they should be able to ram down on Americans whatever rights-violating policy they feel is necessary that day.
00:27:01.000Again, AOC is the thought leader, guys.
00:27:02.000By the way, I think that there's a serious shot that if Joe Biden plots this before 2024, or if he just doesn't run, Bernie's gonna need an heir.
00:27:10.000You really think that she wouldn't run some sort of quixotic presidential campaign?
00:27:18.000Here's AOC pushing CRT as well, Critical Race Theory.
00:27:23.000I think one of the things that has been almost difficult for me personally in working in Congress is seeing how Different.
00:27:41.000You know, not only the rest of the country is, because that diversity is great.
00:27:45.000It's not that it's different, but it's how accepting of racism a lot of other communities are.
00:27:54.000There was recently this debate in Virginia, for example, that people don't want their kids really learning about racism or the history of racism in the United States.
00:30:07.000And sadly, it is unprecedented since Reconstruction.
00:30:12.000Vice President Harris is leading the efforts for us.
00:30:14.000But on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, I directed every single federal agency in the United States government to promote access to voting, and each agency is heading and heeding the call.
00:30:25.000Okay, so it's the worst situation on voting in the United States since Reconstruction?
00:30:34.000There was like a hundred year period after the Civil War in which there was overt prevention of black people from voting in the United States.
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00:37:36.000Christian Lisa says, there's the near daily note from the boys school about students testing positive and the measures being put in place to contain it.
00:37:48.000Kids are not getting seriously ill from COVID.
00:37:50.000The numbers on children who have died from COVID, I'm not going to stop repeating it because it remains true.
00:37:54.000The number of kids who have died, who were healthy before COVID, who died of COVID in the United States under the age of 18 is still below 20.
00:38:04.000There's a parade of headlines that suggest, says Chris Chillesa, Omicron is on the march in Europe and that a surge is inevitable in the United States.
00:38:34.000He says there are invites to Christmas parties and for the kids to attend sleepovers and playdates and holiday trips and a million and one other things that require my wife and me to play the role of public health experts.
00:38:43.000Hyperventilation, get him a paper bag.
00:38:46.000Here's the problem, says Chris Chilesa, I'm not a public health expert or anything close to it.
00:38:50.000In fact, because of a long battle with health anxiety and compulsive behavior, I'm a terrible person to be tasked with making these daily calls.
00:39:39.000Chris Chilesa says more than 20 months into this nightmare, more than a year after the first vaccine was administered, more than 800,000 deaths later, it seems there is no end in sight.
00:40:17.000It's like every night you go to bed thinking that you wish it were the morning and then every morning you wish it were the prior night because things just get worse and worse.
00:40:24.000I'm a creature of habit, says Chrysalisa.
00:40:26.000I love knowing what the next day will bring.
00:40:27.000With the pandemic, it feels like the situation is changing.
00:40:30.000By the hour, I'm resigned to the fact none of this is going away soon.
00:40:33.000The idea that COVID will be in the rearview mirror by March feels, at this point, quaint.
00:40:37.000I've watched the goalposts for the end of the pandemic moved so many times, I can't even remember where they were a month ago.
00:40:42.000So what leftist politicians and what the media have done is they've turned everybody into the rats in the experiment.
00:40:50.000So there's a very famous rat experiment where rats were fed pellets every time they hit a button.
00:40:56.000And then rats were electroshocked sometimes when they hit the button.
00:41:02.000Well, it was only like every fourth time, but what the rats started to do, they wouldn't learn the pattern.
00:41:06.000They would just stay away from the button until they starved.
00:41:08.000That is what you have done with these people.
00:41:10.000This is what government and the media have done.
00:41:11.000You've scared people so crapless that they are afraid of doing anything, even when the risk is incredibly low.
00:42:40.000Go back to the last chart for a second.
00:42:42.000Okay, what you'll see in the last chart is that there was a big spike in November, particularly, right, November of 2020.
00:42:49.000Right, in November of 2020, around the end of November, there's a big spike in cases, all the way up to about 60,000 cases a day.
00:42:55.000Now go to the other chart for a second.
00:42:58.000If you go to the other chart, what you'll see is that about two weeks later, right, two to four weeks later, huge spike in deaths, because that's what you expect.
00:43:08.000When COVID hits, there's a huge increase in cases, and then, there is a huge spike in hospitalizations and deaths.
00:43:14.000Thanks to the vaccines, because the UK was heavily vaccinated, there is no such spike in June-July.
00:45:45.000Because if Omicron is super contagious and super not deadly, and it provides essentially a level of immunity to a lot of people who have not had it yet, if you're an unvaxxed person, you want Omicron way worse than you want Delta.
00:45:56.000You don't want Delta, you want Omicron if you're going to get infected.
00:45:59.000But this gives Democrats the heebie-jeebies because they have no control over it.
00:46:06.000They have no control over the common cold.
00:46:08.000And so this scares the hell out of them.
00:46:09.000And so they're now completely bifurcated, right?
00:46:12.000They're of two minds, and they can't handle the cognitive dissonance.
00:46:14.000On the one hand, lock everything down.
00:46:18.000The government's the only thing that can save us.
00:46:19.000It's all this stupid on vax and all that.
00:46:21.000And on the other hand, they're like, well, I mean, people really do want their schools open.
00:46:26.000So a bunch of people on the left are now getting diagnosed with COVID, which is fine if you've got a breakthrough case because you were vaxed or because you had natural immunity.
00:46:47.000And on the other hand, when they get COVID, they kind of don't want to do all the things they've been telling everybody else to do.
00:46:53.000So suddenly, Brian Stelter at CNN has flipped 180 degrees, and he's talking about the evils of shutting down schools when there are COVID outbreaks.
00:47:01.000Yeah, Brian, someone's been saying this all along, dude.
00:47:05.000We collectively took action to protect the elderly in 2020.
00:47:10.000Now, shouldn't we be doing more to protect children by letting them live normal lives?
00:47:16.000Are we really going to let the kids suffer even more?
00:47:26.000But I'm noticing that most of the people on the left are only getting in line with the fact that life has to get back to some semblance of normal once it's starting affected them.
00:47:35.000When it was all red states, then they're like all those evil red states and their upticks.
00:48:30.000Even the articles that are headlined in a panic-driven way, when you read down into the data, they're not that scary.
00:48:35.000For example, there's a piece in the Wall Street Journal that says hospitals are strained even before Omicron hits.
00:48:42.000Intensive care units in many cities are at or close to full capacity due to patients with serious non-COVID diseases.
00:48:51.000So wait, you're telling me I'm supposed to worry about Omicron because there are a lot of people with other diseases that have nothing to do with COVID?
00:49:01.000According to the Wall Street Journal article buried down in this article, excess deaths are a measure of how many people lost their lives above an average from prior years.
00:49:08.000Hospital strain could be one reason for results.
00:49:11.000Researchers not involved in the study said another factor may be people who put off care seeking care during the pandemic out of fear of inaction.
00:49:18.000So in other words, one of the reasons you're seeing an ICU strain right now is because everybody didn't go to the hospital and then they thought it was safe to go to the hospital.
00:49:24.000So everybody went to the hospital at the same time.
00:50:46.000It's a great way to go, and we're going to continue to do that.
00:50:49.000This is a moving target, and we need to be clear on that.
00:50:55.000By the way, I have some doubts about the new mayor of New York, considering that he literally has said to the New York Times that the number one skill he looks for in his administration is, wait for it, wait for it, emotional intelligence.
00:51:06.000Man oh man if the people like you know it's a thing that I don't look for as like a high as a high resume item here at the Daily Wire emotional intelligence because there's no way to quantify that like you want people can get along with other people but if that's your number one criteria Yeah, good luck with that emotional intelligence.
00:51:23.000Anyway, the complete gap in how Democrats are thinking about this thing is leading to all sorts of bizarre shifts in messaging.
00:51:31.000So over the weekend, CNN announced that the Biden administration would be eyeing a potentially stark shift in messaging around ending the pandemic.
00:51:38.000Quote, sitting at the head of a long conference table surrounded by top members of his COVID response team, Biden listened intently as the officials laid out the contours of a looming COVID surge.
00:51:48.000So Biden is trying to scare the unvaxxed into vaxxing.
00:51:50.000and send the country into another bleak winter.
00:51:53.000Yet Biden's team also came to the evergreen Bidekt Roosevelt room with potentially more positive news.
00:51:59.000Many of those cases will remain mild or even asymptomatic in vaccinated people, particularly those who've gotten booster shots.
00:52:04.000So Biden is trying to scare the un-vaxxed into vaxing, and they're trying to shift into focusing on severity rather than focusing on case numbers, which is what some of us have been urging the entire damned time.
00:52:50.000Apparently, these idiots were writing each other emails, talking about the Great Barrington Declaration.
00:52:55.000The Great Barrington Declaration is a declaration by a bunch of epidemiologists, including Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford.
00:53:02.000Who suggested that we shield the vulnerable and allow everybody else to live their lives.
00:53:08.000Apparently, Fauci and the head of the NIH colluded on a way to discredit that alternative plan to deal with COVID.
00:53:16.000In an October 8th email from Collins to Fauci, the head of the NIH called the Great Barrington Declaration the work of three fringe epidemiologists that seemed to be getting a lot of attention.
00:53:26.000Collins added, quote, there needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises.
00:53:30.000I don't see anything like that online yet.
00:54:05.000So they basically conspired in order to attack the Great Barrington Declaration.
00:54:09.000At no point did they actually explain why the Great Barrington Declaration was wrong.
00:54:12.000The Great Barrington Declaration did not suggest that, quote unquote, herd immunity was the solution.
00:54:18.000They suggested that herd immunity is the only thing ever.
00:54:21.000That generates the end of widespread pandemics, right?
00:54:24.000The herd immunity either comes via vaccines or it comes via natural immunity.
00:54:27.000And they suggested that if you let young, healthy people work, it was not going to be the end of the world and you should shield the vulnerable.
00:54:32.000But Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci spent their time trying to destroy the authors of this declaration.
00:54:38.000Now they're, of course, embracing its exact same premises.
00:54:41.000Well, you know, if you get a case and it ain't that bad, it's not that bad.
00:54:44.000Yeah, we know, guys, but you tried to destroy everybody who said this a year ago.
00:54:47.000Here is Francis Collins, who is, when he's not playing guitar, is appearing on Bret Baier, trying to explain that hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we'd listened to the Great Barrington Declaration.
00:55:09.000This is, of course, before we had vaccines.
00:55:11.000And basically these, I will call them fringe epidemiologists, who really did not have the credentials to be making such a grand sweeping statement, were saying, just let the virus run through the population and eventually then everybody will have had it and we'll be okay.
00:55:25.000Hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we had followed that strategy.
00:55:31.000Well, hundreds of thousands of people have died following your strategy, and tens of thousands more young people have died of opioid overdoses because of your strategy.
00:55:41.000But again, they have to maintain the fact that they were not wrong this whole time.
00:56:05.000So one of the new messages, pushed by Jeff Zients, who's one of their COVID advisors, is the unvaccinated are all going to die, and everyone else is going to be okay.
00:56:13.000So if you just listen to us, you'll be fine.
00:56:18.000That was more true of Delta than it is of Omicron.
00:56:20.000Sorry to break it to you, Omicron is way less deadly than Delta by all available data.
00:56:24.000Which suggests that if you are unvaxxed for Delta, and you weren't worried about Delta, you should be about one-tenth as worried about Omicron.
00:56:31.000And yet they're still trying to scare the crap out of people.
00:56:36.000basically trying to scare the living hell out of the un-vaxxed and suggest also, of course, that they're morally insufficient in some way, which is, which is odd, considering that, again, the vaxxed can pass this too. So really, the danger is to you. If you decide to get not vaxxed at all, you're the one who's decided to undergo that danger. That's kind of your business. But here's Jeff Zients trying to, this is pretty despicable stuff here.
00:56:59.000We are intent on not letting Omicron disrupt work and school for the vaccinated. You've done the right thing and we will get through this.
00:57:11.000For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death.
00:57:16.000For yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.
00:57:38.000Anthony Fauci is doing the same thing.
00:57:40.000And it's unclear exactly what he's promoting at this point because they don't have any plan.
00:57:44.000Their only plan is to scare the living daylights out of you while pretending they know what they're doing.
00:57:47.000So here's Anthony Fauci saying seven different things a bunch of different ways, running around like Hermit the Frog with his hands flailing in the air while on Jake Tapper.
00:57:54.000Here he was saying, we're going to see, unfortunately, we'll see record levels of positives.
00:57:58.000Question, why is it unfortunate if somebody gets a cold and now has immunity to other forms of the virus?
00:58:06.000Where is the pandemic headed right now?
00:58:07.000Do you expect new record high numbers for cases?
00:58:10.000And what about hospitalizations and deaths?
00:58:12.000Well, unfortunately, Jake, I think that that is going to happen.
00:58:16.000We are going to see a significant stress in some regions of the country on the hospital system, particularly in those areas where you have a low level of vaccination, which is one of the reasons why we continue to stress the importance of getting those unvaccinated people vaccinated.
00:58:37.000Ken, I'm very much in favor of the vaccines, but Omicron is not going to act like Delta.
00:58:43.000I don't know why he won't talk about this.
00:58:46.000Then Fauci's like, by the way, vaccines aren't the answer to everything.
00:58:51.000I mean, I've been told by Jeff Zients that my life will be fully back to normal if I get vaccinated, except that you keep shutting down cities where everyone is vaccinated.
00:58:57.000Here's Anthony Fauci explaining to you what you need to do, which is triple mask, quadruple mask, octuple mask.
00:59:03.000Your entire head should be covered in masks.
00:59:05.000You should have masks far beyond your death.
00:59:08.000You should be masking unborn children.
00:59:10.000And just to prevent them, From getting COVID before they're aborted, you should definitely mask the unborn children.
00:59:29.000People think that vaccine is the answer to everything.
00:59:32.000We can't do it without vaccines, Jake, but we can do a lot more with other things.
00:59:38.000And testing, for example, both yourself and your family when you're getting ready to do something, go out into the community, or when you're going to have people over your own house.
00:59:48.000And that's the reason why we're stressing, and part of the president's winter plan is expanding greatly the availability of testing for people.
01:00:02.000You know how many people who are asymptomatic are testing?
01:00:05.000In fact, it's so bad that the NFL just suspended testing the asymptomatic because they're not idiots and they don't want to shut down their entire league.
01:00:13.000Asymptomatic testing is the dumbest thing in the world.
01:00:15.000By the way, you can't even get tests right now because this administration's done a crappy job with the testing.
01:00:18.000You gotta test your way out of the common cold.
01:00:29.000What's behind door number three, Dr. Fauci?
01:00:33.000The booster that I spoke about at the press conference today really does bring up the level of the protection to a quite high level and that's the reason why we are really encouraging very strongly that when you're eligible for a boost to get boosted because the data I showed indicated that particularly with Omicron that the level of protection goes really rather low in a range that may not be as protective as we'd like but yet when you get that boost It goes right up there.
01:01:04.000Okay, well, that's actually now what the data shows.
01:01:07.000What the data shows is that boosters, particularly for the elderly, are worthwhile with regard to Delta because you want your antibody levels high again.
01:01:15.000But all the boosters do is increase your antibody level.
01:01:17.000Your B cell and T cell immunity still exist.
01:01:20.000Again, he doesn't even bother with B cell and T cell immunity.
01:01:23.000He doesn't even explain, when you explain, when he talks about vaccine protection, is he talking about infection or is he talking about hospitalization and death?
01:01:30.000He doesn't make clear what the hell he's talking about.
01:01:32.000What he's really talking about there is infection.
01:01:34.000He's not talking about hospitalization and death because the two-dose vaccine is still, for nearly everyone under the age of 65, highly protective against hospitalization and death.
01:01:43.000But now, so now just to get this straight, yesterday he suggested vaccines are the answer.
01:01:48.000Vaccines are not the answer to everything. We need boosters.
01:01:55.000He literally said yesterday we're going to mask forever on airplanes. For the rest of time, we're going to mask on airplanes. For the rest of time.
01:02:01.000Are we going to get to the point where we won't have to wear masks on airplanes?
01:02:08.000I think when you're dealing with a closed space, even though the filtration is good, that you want to go that extra step when you have people.
01:02:17.000You know, you get a flight from Washington to San Francisco, it's a well over a five hour flight.
01:02:22.000Even though you have a good filtration system, I still believe that masks are a prudent thing to do and we should be doing it.
01:02:44.000If you guys wish to live in this paranoia of your own making, where you worry every day like Chris Chilesa does, of CNN, you just sit around worrying, fine, live that way.
01:02:53.000But you don't get to dictate to the rest of us that our lives ought to be miserable.
01:02:56.000I'm not going to listen to you, because I don't think that you have any relationships with the data.
01:02:59.000I don't think you care about the data.
01:03:01.000I think you've created a reality in your head where you guys are morally superior for having listened to the government, even though the governmental actors were not providing you good data and were mainly lying to you.
01:03:11.000So if you want to live that way, fine, live that way.
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