The Ben Shapiro Show - Justice Sotomayor Proves That She Is Not Wise | Ep. 1408

00:00:00.000 Appointed to the Supreme Court as a wise Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor proves herself a fool. 0.98

00:00:05.000 And AOC comes down with COVID after leaving the hellscape of unmasked Miami. 0.98

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00:01:30.000 Over the weekend, the Supreme Court was out considering whether or not to allow the Biden vaccine mandate to move forward.

00:01:38.000 And here's the thing.

00:01:39.000 Whatever case on a political level there was for a vaccine mandate is now gone.

00:01:42.000 It does not exist.

00:01:44.000 Oh, Macron has completely obliterated it.

00:01:47.000 And the facts on the ground just do not even match what the Biden administration was arguing when they were arguing that they needed a vaccine mandate for major employers in the United States with regard to Delta.

00:01:57.000 So forget about the fact that it's unconstitutional.

00:01:58.000 Forget about the fact it violates basic strictures of federalism.

00:02:02.000 Forget about the fact it is not even good policy.

00:02:04.000 Because basically all it does...

00:02:07.000 is forced people who are more vulnerable to stay home, but those people then get infected at home.

00:02:14.000 I mean, it turns out the chief vector of transmission in the United States is not, in fact, work.

00:02:18.000 It's not airplanes.

00:02:19.000 It's not school.

00:02:20.000 But put all of that aside.

00:02:20.000 It is the home.

00:02:22.000 The fact is that Delta, the suggestion was that if you got vaccinated against Delta, maybe it would prevent transmission.

00:02:27.000 With Omicron, that's not even relevant.

00:02:29.000 In fact, every single human is going to get Omicron, whether you are vaccinated or not.

00:02:33.000 One of the unfortunate who now has come down with COVID.

00:02:36.000 And it's no longer a moral test, right?

00:02:38.000 The way that it was before, if you got COVID, it was a test of your strength, your faith in the authorities.

00:02:43.000 Now, if you get COVID, it's just, you know, naturally living life.

00:02:46.000 But the irrepressible, incredibly fresh, incredibly face, so fresh, so unbelievably face AOC has now tested positive for COVID-19.

00:02:55.000 Because it turns out that COVID-19 just wanted to date her and was obsessed with her boyfriend's feet.

00:03:00.000 That's the only reason that she got COVID-19.

00:03:01.000 It's because COVID-19 really was into her boyfriend's feet.

00:03:05.000 According to the New York Post, New York Congresswoman AOC has tested positive for COVID-19.

00:03:10.000 She's recovering at home just over a week since she was spotted partying without a mask in Florida, according to her office on Sunday.

00:03:16.000 Her statement said, Representative Ocasio-Cortez has received a positive test result for COVID-19.

00:03:21.000 She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home.

00:03:23.000 The congresswoman received her booster shot this fall, encourages everyone to get their booster and follow all CDC guidance.

00:03:29.000 Well, she didn't follow CDC guidance when she went out unmasked in Miami, did she?

00:03:33.000 And now she's been punished with the COVID.

00:03:35.000 Here's the thing, guys.

00:03:36.000 If you get Omicron, particularly if you're vaccinated, you're going to be fine.

00:03:38.000 So why are we still talking about shutting down all of society?

00:03:42.000 According to the New York Post, the Progressive Squad member was photographed with boyfriend Riley Roberts sitting outside at the Zuraco Isakaya and Sushi restaurant on December 30th, sipping a cocktail, checking her phone.

00:03:54.000 AOC's maskless winter getaway was criticized on social media because, of course, she decided to jet set down to Florida, where everybody is living free and easy, as opposed to staying up in the precinct that she has helped make a lockdown hellscape. 1.00

00:04:06.000 The Sunshine State's Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunez chimed in saying, AOC's New York state of mind clearly doesn't belong in the free state of Florida, mask free, of course.

00:04:15.000 And there she was hugging everybody and then she came down with the COVID.

00:04:19.000 So obviously COVID has come for her.

00:04:20.000 But again, the only reason that COVID is interested is because COVID wants to date her.

00:04:24.000 Now here is the thing.

00:04:25.000 The entire mentality of the left is now shifting with regard to COVID.

00:04:29.000 Because now they're getting it.

00:04:31.000 When it was just a bunch of red states getting it, then it was because they're bad. 0.74

00:04:33.000 But if they get it, it's because they're good.

00:04:35.000 And Omicron is going to hit everyone.

00:04:37.000 And perhaps we should take measures that are more geared toward mitigation of some of the worst aspects of the virus without destroying the economy.

00:04:44.000 You know, they're coming to all the conclusions that many of us came to back in like May of 2020.

00:04:48.000 So here's Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner.

00:04:52.000 He's been pretty hawkish on COVID.

00:04:53.000 He says, listen, first of all, let's just put it out there.

00:04:56.000 This epidemic is going to be over inside of two weeks because it's been over everywhere inside of about a month.

00:05:00.000 So it's already peaked in places like New York and Washington, D.C.

00:05:05.000 If you look what's happening across the East Coast right now, New York City, Washington D.C., Maryland, probably Florida as well have already peaked, maybe Delaware and Rhode Island.

00:05:13.000 You're going to start to see that in the statistics this week.

00:05:16.000 You're going to start to see those curves, those epidemic curves bend down.

00:05:18.000 You're already seeing that in New York City and Washington D.C.

00:05:23.000 By the way, when there's all this talk about hospitalizations and the increase in hospitalizations, Gottlieb noted that the length of stay is down substantially.

00:05:29.000 So the hospitalizations aren't even the same as the hospitalizations that were occurring with Delta.

00:05:33.000 The average length of stay used to be four days.

00:05:36.000 It is now 1.6 days, which means that people are going to the hospital, they're staying there for like 36 hours, and then they are out.

00:05:43.000 Even the CDC is beginning to realize reality.

00:05:46.000 According to Rochelle Walensky, quote, we must protect people with comorbidities from severe COVID-19.

00:05:50.000 I went into medicine, HIV specifically and public health to protect our most at risk.

00:05:54.000 CDC is taking steps to protect those at highest risk, including those with chronic health conditions, disabilities and older adults.

00:06:00.000 Are you saying that we should shield the most vulnerable and let everybody else go about their lives?

00:06:00.000 Wait a second.

00:06:04.000 Because I seem to remember some people Saying that rather early.

00:06:09.000 By the way, remember much maligned Sweden?

00:06:12.000 Sweden was going to get everyone killed. 0.69

00:06:15.000 Their shield, the most vulnerable, let everybody else live their lives. 0.96

00:06:18.000 Policy with regard to COVID was going to get everybody killed.

00:06:21.000 Sweden in 2021, which is a very deadly year around the globe for COVID.

00:06:24.000 In 2021, Sweden had the best death rate in terms of COVID in Northern Europe.

00:06:30.000 Why?

00:06:30.000 Because everybody had natural immunity by the time that Delta actually hit.

00:06:35.000 By the way, even Walensky is starting to relent on all sorts of aspects of this.

00:06:39.000 It's fascinating to watch in real time as the entire narrative shifts when all of their friends get COVID.

00:06:44.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:07:51.000 Rochelle Walensky, she is now admitting that there is a difference between hospitalization from COVID and with COVID.

00:07:56.000 So many people were pointing this out last year, that every time somebody died, the question should have been whether they died from COVID or with COVID.

00:08:03.000 Because if you were 90 years old and you had leukemia, and then you died and you had COVID because they tested you, did you die because of the COVID or did you die because of the leukemia?

00:08:12.000 And it happens that you had COVID at the time.

00:08:13.000 And we were told you're not even allowed to ask these questions.

00:08:15.000 Well, now that the cases have spiked, there are a lot of people in the hospital Particularly children who are in the hospital not from COVID, but with COVID.

00:08:22.000 There are a lot of kids who are going to the hospital with, say, flu or RSV.

00:08:26.000 And then they are also testing positive for COVID, which means they're not there because of the COVID.

00:08:30.000 Rochelle Walensky was asked about this.

00:08:31.000 She says, oh yeah, we're gathering stats on that now.

00:08:34.000 Weird that you guys didn't bother gathering stats on this over at the CDC over the course of the last two years.

00:08:39.000 Do you know how many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S.

00:08:43.000 linked to COVID are from COVID, or how many are with COVID, but they had other comorbidities?

00:08:49.000 Do you have that breakdown?

00:08:52.000 Yes, of course.

00:08:53.000 With Omicron, we're following that very carefully.

00:08:55.000 Our death registry, of course, takes a few weeks to collect.

00:09:01.000 And of course, Omicron has just been with us for a few weeks, but those data will be forthcoming.

00:09:07.000 Oh, those data will be forthcoming.

00:09:08.000 I'm glad that you're collecting them now.

00:09:09.000 Weird that you haven't collected them over the course of the last two years.

00:09:12.000 And when you realize what it is that the CDC has actually spent money investigating, and what they have not spent money doing or investigating, it really is incredible.

00:09:19.000 So you've had all sorts of studies from the CDC about racial disparities in treatment of COVID.

00:09:23.000 But how many studies have we had about the actual level of antibodies in the general population early on?

00:09:29.000 Like how many people have actually had COVID?

00:09:31.000 Do we even know that?

00:09:32.000 Why wasn't the CDC doing any of that?

00:09:33.000 Why was it left to private people in like Santa Clara County organizing private studies as to exactly how many people had gotten COVID?

00:09:41.000 Well, how about the CDC stats on how many people have gotten this via transmission on airplanes?

00:09:45.000 The CDC has provided no data.

00:09:47.000 Like, the most practical aspects of this virus, the CDC has ignored the entire time, instead pursuing specifically political questions.

00:09:54.000 And now that the politics of COVID have shifted against the lockdown fanatics, now all of a sudden they're like, you know what, maybe we should check out how many people died of COVID versus with COVID.

00:10:04.000 It is incredible how much our public health establishment has blown itself out.

00:10:08.000 The story of the last decade in American politics is every major institution in American society destroying its own credibility on the shoals of politics.

00:10:15.000 It really is unbelievable.

00:10:16.000 Everything from the AMA to the educational institutions of our nation, to the CDC, like every single area.

00:10:23.000 That of institutional trust has been decayed, not by skeptics from the outside, but by people from the inside, who in order to fight those skeptics, have completely undermined all of their credibility and trust.

00:10:34.000 It's absolutely insane.

00:10:36.000 By the way, Rochelle Walensky admitted over the weekend, the killer app when it comes to the Joe Biden vax mandate.

00:10:42.000 If the vax does not prevent transmission, there's no reason for a vax mandate.

00:10:46.000 The entire basis for a vax mandate is that you have to keep the unvaxed away because the unvaxed can infect the vaxed or something.

00:10:53.000 Or they can infect each other.

00:10:54.000 You don't want that happening at work.

00:10:56.000 That is the entire basis of the vax mandate.

00:10:58.000 But if the vaccinated can also pass COVID, that is completely irrelevant.

00:11:03.000 Here was Rochelle Walensky last night admitting that the vaccines don't actually stop transmission, which of course we all knew since all of our friends are getting COVID no matter how many times they've been vaxed.

00:11:11.000 Our vaccines are working exceptionally well.

00:11:14.000 They continue to work well for Delta.

00:11:15.000 With regard to severe illness and death, they prevent it.

00:11:18.000 But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission.

00:11:22.000 So if you're going home to somebody who has not been vaccinated, to somebody who can't get vaccinated, somebody who might be immunosuppressed or a little bit frail, somebody who has comorbidities that put them at high risk, I would suggest you wear a mask in public indoor settings.

00:11:39.000 Okay, so forever, presumably, because Omicron is now an epidemic.

00:11:43.000 I mean, it is now endemic, rather.

00:11:45.000 Omicron's everywhere.

00:11:46.000 So presumably, for the rest of your life, it is just going to be a risk that is out there.

00:11:49.000 So, they've gone completely crazy.

00:11:51.000 I mean, I have a 98-year-old grandmother.

00:11:54.000 And my 98-year-old grandmother is in a facility, an assisted living facility.

00:12:00.000 She's older.

00:12:01.000 And they have locked her in her room.

00:12:03.000 Like, full-on locked her in her room.

00:12:05.000 It doesn't matter that she's been exposed to COVID 25 times over.

00:12:07.000 They've now locked her in her room.

00:12:09.000 Even though she is not immunosuppressed.

00:12:12.000 Like, at a certain point, you're just gonna have to let people live.

00:12:14.000 Because this is what it is.

00:12:16.000 That is the end of the story.

00:12:17.000 At least people should be given the choice as to whether or not they are allowed to see other people.

00:12:22.000 It's totally crazy at this point.

00:12:24.000 I mean, even Brian Stelter is mocking the CDC.

00:12:27.000 Here's Brian Stelter over at CNN going, oh, wait a second, the CDC is bad at its job.

00:12:31.000 I thought this was questioning the science.

00:12:33.000 I thought that if you mock the CDC or made fun of anything the CDC says, this is questioning the science.

00:12:36.000 Apparently you're allowed to do so now.

00:12:38.000 So it's open season on all of the institutions that we were banned from even criticizing on social media for the last year and a half.

00:12:44.000 Here's the Today Show.

00:12:45.000 Here's Savannah Guthrie interviewing the CDC director, being very much in touch with the public, recognizing the CDC has turned into a punchline.

00:12:53.000 It is so sad, but it's true. 0.98

00:12:54.000 The CDC has turned into a punchline.

00:12:57.000 Watch.

00:12:59.000 All of this mixed messages, or new messages, has led to a meme on social media poking fun at the CDC's advice.

00:13:06.000 Tweets like, CDC now recommends eating straight off the floor at Waffle House.

00:13:10.000 The CDC now says it's in fact okay to eat Tide Pods.

00:13:13.000 The CDC says go ahead and get bangs. 0.94

00:13:15.000 You know, it's amusing.

00:13:17.000 People letting off steam, of course, but is there a larger credibility problem with your agency right now?

00:13:24.000 And the answer is yes, there's a huge credibility crisis.

00:13:29.000 I don't know when Tucker Carlson inhabited the body of Potato Brian Stelter, but apparently that's a thing.

00:13:34.000 Now, by the way, CNN is now reporting that Rochelle Walensky, who's been terrible at this since the get-go, and many of us have been criticizing her for being terrible at this since the get-go, Rochelle Walensky apparently is now in media training.

00:13:44.000 Like, she literally has to have people come in and explain to her how to do media hits, which is kind of incredible for somebody who's the head of the CDC.

00:13:52.000 CNN has learned Dr. Walensky is in media training.

00:13:55.000 For months, she's been meeting with a consultant to improve communication skills.

00:13:59.000 The well-regarded infectious disease expert had no government experience before President Biden appointed her, and has often seemed out of step with the White House and Dr. Fauci, leading to some abrupt and confusing changes in guidance.

00:14:13.000 Now, Walensky's under fire for not following the CDC's own playbook for explaining new guidance.

00:14:19.000 A Biden COVID advisor tells me the CDC has got to do a better job communicating what they're doing and why.

00:14:26.000 And that has to happen quickly.

00:14:27.000 Okay, my favorite thing here is the president of the United States being the CDC.

00:14:33.000 They're really bad at comms.

00:14:36.000 That's Joe Biden's White House.

00:14:37.000 Joe Biden is not even alive.

00:14:40.000 His comms consist of him stumbling out to a podium, saying several sentences in a row that seem to take the form of sentences, but don't actually have words that make sense in them.

00:14:48.000 Sort of like a Lewis Carroll parody of grammar.

00:14:51.000 And then stumbling off the stage before taking any questions.

00:14:53.000 He's like, but we need to get, Rochelle Walensky, some media metronomization.

00:14:59.000 Man, you know you've blown it when Joe Biden is recommending you get some media training.

00:15:03.000 In just one second, we'll get to the continued panic over, oh, Macron, which is all politically driven from the left.

00:15:08.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:16:15.000 Okay, so meanwhile in Chicago, it's fun to watch as the Democratic Party tears itself apart because half of the Democratic Party is still invested fully in lockdown and half the Democratic Party is like, guys, if we continue this, we are just going to get shellacked at the polls.

00:16:27.000 So you have the Chicago Teachers Union now battling it out with Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is a lockdown fanatic. 1.00

00:16:33.000 The Chicago Public Schools canceled class for the fourth straight day on Monday.

00:16:37.000 As negotiations continued with the Chicago Teachers Union, according to WLS, Chicago Public School has now canceled classes again.

00:16:44.000 Monday marks the fourth straight day CPS students have been out of class.

00:16:47.000 Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke confidently all weekend about reaching a deal.

00:16:51.000 No agreement has been reached despite both sides negotiating overnight.

00:16:54.000 Here's what Mayor Lori Lightfoot had to say.

00:16:56.000 About the Chicago's teachers union that seems to control her administration.

00:17:00.000 What the Chicago Teachers Union did was an illegal walkout.

00:17:04.000 They abandoned their posts and they abandoned kids and their families.

00:17:07.000 We are working diligently every single day at the bargaining table to narrow the differences and to get a deal done.

00:17:13.000 My team has been working every single day.

00:17:16.000 They're back at it again here Sunday.

00:17:18.000 They were at it yesterday.

00:17:20.000 And we can get a deal done if there's goodwill on both sides.

00:17:23.000 But fundamentally, what we cannot do is abandon the science.

00:17:27.000 We know that the safest place for kids to be is in the morning in school.

00:17:33.000 Well, welcome to the club, Lori Lightfoot.

00:17:37.000 My God, they're all libertarians now.

00:17:38.000 It's incredible.

00:17:39.000 In its own statement on Sunday, the CTU said, quote, the union wants to reassure the parents and guardians of Chicago.

00:17:44.000 We will remain at the bargaining table until we reach an agreement that will return us all to in-person learning safely and equitably.

00:17:50.000 By equitably, they mean not safely or equitably, they just mean we get what we want.

00:17:56.000 This comes after the union proposed Chicago teachers be in buildings this week, handing out digital devices and signing up students for COVID-19 testing in order to start remote learning on Wednesday, with the goal of returning to in-person instruction January 18th.

00:18:08.000 January 18th.

00:18:09.000 It is currently January 10th, by the way.

00:18:11.000 This means that they just got a two-week vacation.

00:18:14.000 Teachers said they want to be in school, but they believe that CPS schools need to ramp up testing like local private schools have.

00:18:19.000 Okay, well, private schools should not be testing either. 1.00

00:18:23.000 The reality is kids are going to get Omicron and we're all going to move on with our lives because everything is incredibly stupid. 0.96

00:18:28.000 By the way, if Lori Lightfoot really wanted to do something with the CTU, this is an illegal strike. 1.00

00:18:33.000 She said it's an illegal walkout.

00:18:34.000 She should just say, every day you're not there, you're not getting paid.

00:18:36.000 End of story.

00:18:37.000 Done.

00:18:38.000 And then we'll see how much people like not being paid and staying out of work.

00:18:41.000 They can do that forever.

00:18:42.000 Just say, we'll get some subs, we'll put them in the classroom, we'll hire them from out of state if need be, but we are not going to have our students sitting home because you dullards decide that you are deeply, deeply afraid of a virus that is going to kill precisely none of you since you're all vaxxed, presumably. 0.52

00:18:56.000 And meanwhile, controversy continues to surround Novak Djokovic.

00:19:01.000 Novak Djokovic, of course, is probably the greatest male tennis player of all time.

00:19:06.000 It's a three-way battle between him and Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

00:19:10.000 And Djokovic is on the verge of becoming the single greatest major winner of all time.

00:19:16.000 And the Australian Open was really his best shot.

00:19:18.000 He's 34 years old.

00:19:20.000 That's the tournament that he tends to dominate.

00:19:22.000 And so he wanted to head over to Australia and take that title.

00:19:24.000 Well, the Australian authorities were like, you need to vax.

00:19:26.000 He's like, well, hold up.

00:19:27.000 I already have natural immunity.

00:19:29.000 Plus, I may be the healthiest person on planet Earth.

00:19:32.000 He literally tested positive for COVID in December.

00:19:35.000 And then he tested negative and then got a medical exemption.

00:19:38.000 And then a court basically held him up.

00:19:40.000 He got a border travel permit and then he arrived in Melbourne late at night.

00:19:44.000 And then his passport was immediately taken.

00:19:46.000 He was escorted to a small room.

00:19:48.000 He was interviewed by border control officials.

00:19:50.000 His visa was cancelled by the Australian government.

00:19:51.000 He was taken to a temporary detention facility at the Park Hotel in Melbourne.

00:19:56.000 And then a judge decided to quash the cancellation of his visa.

00:19:59.000 All of this is nuts.

00:20:01.000 All of this, of course, is totally crazy.

00:20:02.000 And Australia's immigration minister is still thinking about maybe cancelling his visa anyway after the court said that he could go in.

00:20:09.000 Again, Novak Djokovic, by the way, the cases in Australia are out of control because Omicron cannot be controlled by the vaccine.

00:20:15.000 It cannot be controlled in terms of its spread by the vaccine.

00:20:17.000 This is perfectly clear.

00:20:18.000 Rochelle Walensky just said it one second ago.

00:20:21.000 But people are still panicked.

00:20:22.000 Okay, so here is the thing.

00:20:23.000 All of this is relevant to the fact that the Supreme Court had a hearing on Friday over Joe Biden's unconstitutional VAX mandates.

00:20:30.000 So there are several reasons why Joe Biden's VAX mandates are unconstitutional via OSHA.

00:20:34.000 Number one, the enabling statute for OSHA does not comprehend the ability of the federal government to simply do whatever it wants in workplaces.

00:20:43.000 That's not what OSHA is for.

00:20:44.000 OSHA was made for regulating the amount of asbestos in the workplace or making sure that you wear a hard hat if you work in a factory or something.

00:20:51.000 OSHA was not meant to basically reduce all risk in every public place in American life simply because there's a virus out there.

00:21:00.000 Nobody ever would have comprehended that OSHA could have, for example, a flu vax mandate.

00:21:04.000 Nobody ever would have comprehended that.

00:21:06.000 The notion of a VAX mandate with regard to workplaces via OSHA is crazy.

00:21:10.000 Now, states have plenary authority in this area.

00:21:13.000 States have police power in this area.

00:21:15.000 Localities do.

00:21:16.000 Which makes a lot of sense.

00:21:17.000 Because again, the basic notion of American Republicanism A small R-Republicanism is that the more local the government is, the more that government is empowered to do because you have more homogenous communities who agree on more things.

00:21:29.000 And as you abstract the government, as it becomes farther and further away from the local citizen, there's less agreement, which means that the federal government should do very little and the local government should do a lot.

00:21:39.000 Well, the Joe Biden-Vaxx mandate does not comprehend that.

00:21:41.000 They think that OSHA should do whatever it wants, even though the OSHA statute is incredibly vague.

00:21:46.000 The truth is, the OSHA statute is probably unconstitutional on its face, just for its vagueness.

00:21:51.000 So it's unconstitutional for that reason.

00:21:53.000 It violates the precepts of federalism, and it happens to not be reasonably related to an actual policy goal, since the vaccines were not even stopping the transmission of Delta fully.

00:22:02.000 Okay, so this came up for a hearing at the Supreme Court.

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00:23:22.000 So, Supreme Court had its oral arguments on Friday.

00:23:32.000 And I will say that there are some distinctions between the justices.

00:23:36.000 The conservative justices still care about the Constitution of the United States.

00:23:39.000 They still care about things like enabling statutes and the limits on them and the administrative state and how far the administrative state can go.

00:23:45.000 They still care about things like the major questions doctrine.

00:23:47.000 They still care about the federalism that is implicit in the Constitution of the United States and is actually written into the structure of it.

00:23:54.000 They see the difference between a local government and a federal government.

00:23:56.000 The folks on the left, not so much.

00:23:58.000 So there are really three left-wing justices on the court at this point.

00:24:01.000 That would be Elena Kagan, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor.

00:24:05.000 Justice Breyer is a far left figure, but Justice Breyer's basic take is that he likes the policy, and he thinks that the OSHA statute is vague enough to maybe squeeze it in.

00:24:17.000 That is Justice Breyer's view.

00:24:18.000 Elena Kagan's view is slightly different.

00:24:21.000 She also says she likes the policy, and therefore the policy is kind of good.

00:24:26.000 But she has a little bit more politics to it, which is that she will shift the nature of the Constitution to meet the policy. 1.00

00:24:31.000 And then you have Sonia Sotomayor, who is just dumb. 1.00

00:24:34.000 I'm sorry. 1.00

00:24:35.000 She's a low IQ human being. 1.00

00:24:36.000 Sonia Sotomayor is a fool. 1.00

00:24:38.000 Kagan is not stupid. 1.00

00:24:40.000 Breyer is not stupid. 1.00

00:24:42.000 Sonia Sotomayor is dumb. 1.00

00:24:43.000 She's a very stupid person. 1.00

00:24:44.000 So Sonia Sotomayor was explicitly selected because, again, this is one of the problems with the sort of affirmative action approach of the left to politics. 1.00

00:24:52.000 They selected Sonia Sotomayor because she was Latina, not just Latina.

00:24:55.000 She had said she is a wise Latina.

00:24:57.000 She said in a speech in 2001 at the University of California, Berkeley Law School, quote, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. 0.99

00:25:10.000 Of course, that is asinine.

00:25:11.000 The basic notion of constitutional law is that the Constitution is available to reason for any human being, and that you do not bring your personal life experiences to bear on the Constitution. 0.93

00:25:20.000 Instead, the Constitution is a series of words that have meanings, and those meanings can be interpreted by anyone who has a prefrontal cortex.

00:25:27.000 But she had boiled it down into a sort of racial essentialism that you see in critical race theory.

00:25:31.000 And this came up at her confirmation hearings.

00:25:32.000 She was confirmed nonetheless. 0.97

00:25:35.000 In any case, Sonia Sotomayor said some of the dumbest stuff I've ever heard at a Supreme Court hearing. 1.00

00:25:39.000 This was posted online, the audio was available online to listen to, and it was just insane. 0.91

00:25:43.000 So here is Sonia Sotomayor just saying crazy nonsense about the VAX mandate and about the state of COVID in our society generally.

00:25:54.000 We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators.

00:26:01.000 We have over 100,000 children which we've never had before in serious condition and many on ventilators.

00:26:13.000 Um, no?

00:26:15.000 That is not true.

00:26:16.000 Those stats are just completely specious.

00:26:18.000 She just made them up.

00:26:19.000 She pulled them directly out of her colon. 0.95

00:26:20.000 I don't know what she's listening to.

00:26:21.000 Not even MSNBC is reporting that because it's simply not true.

00:26:25.000 In fact, she got fact-checked four Pinocchios from Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post. 0.98

00:26:29.000 I mean, that was such a bad and stupid remark that even Rochelle Walensky at the CDC had to chide Sonia Sotomayor for being so wildly off. 0.98

00:26:35.000 Here was Rochelle Walensky from the CDC being like, yeah, that's not true. 0.99

00:26:39.000 What we can find from Friday suggests there are fewer than 3,500 current pediatric hospitalizations from COVID-19.

00:26:47.000 Is that true?

00:26:49.000 Yeah, but you know, here's what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now.

00:26:53.000 First of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated.

00:27:00.000 Okay, first of all, she tries to immediately swivel to the unvaccinated children.

00:27:04.000 Okay, the fact is, the children who are getting very, very sick from COVID have serious pre-existing conditions in the first place as a general rule.

00:27:09.000 Again, according to the CDC, that is her organization, fewer than 700 children have died since the beginning of the pandemic from COVID-19, and that includes all the people who are massively immunocompromised or have serious underlying health conditions.

00:27:22.000 The grand total number of kids who are completely healthy who have died of COVID-19 is still in the low double digits.

00:27:28.000 In any case, Sonia Sotomayor completely off base, but based on her completely inane understanding of COVID, she thinks this is a good idea.

00:27:35.000 And that combines the completely inane understanding of the Constitution, which is to say she does not understand it.

00:27:39.000 Here she was on Friday explaining she literally does not understand the difference between a local government and a federal government in the constitutional structure, which is like first year law school and or spending two minutes or beyond with the Constitution of the United States.

00:27:53.000 If it's within the police power to protect the health and welfare of workers, you seem to be saying the states can do it.

00:28:04.000 But you're saying the federal government can't, even though it's facing the same crisis in interstate commerce that states are facing within their own borders.

00:28:17.000 I am not sure I understand the distinction why the states would have the power, but the federal government wouldn't.

00:28:27.000 Because the states have more power than the federal government with regard to regulations like this and have had since the beginning of the republic.

00:28:32.000 That's the answer.

00:28:35.000 In fact, I would recommend to Justice Sotomayor that if she wants a full list of the things that the federal government can do, it's in this document.

00:28:42.000 We call it the Constitution of the United States.

00:28:44.000 It's a full list of what the government is allowed to do.

00:28:47.000 And everything that's not in that list is something that the government is not allowed to do.

00:28:51.000 That was the original concept of the Constitution.

00:28:53.000 It's right there in the text.

00:28:55.000 So I'd recommend that you take a look at it.

00:28:56.000 But again, this just shows the wild disconnect between members of the left and the Constitution.

00:29:00.000 So she, I'm not even sure she's read it.

00:29:01.000 I mean, it's incredible.

00:29:02.000 Or if she has, it's been a very, very long time because it's completely irrelevant to her.

00:29:06.000 And then there's Elena Kagan.

00:29:08.000 So Elena Kagan's take is slightly different, which is this policy is just really good.

00:29:12.000 And because I like this policy and it's really geared towards stopping all of this, that means that it must be justifiable.

00:29:16.000 I'll find some constitutional hook to to hang my hat on.

00:29:19.000 So she's not going to spew outright disinformation the way that Sonia Sotomayor does because, again, I know Justice Kagan.

00:29:24.000 She was the dean of the law school when I was at Harvard Law. 0.99

00:29:26.000 She's not a stupid person. 0.93

00:29:27.000 She's just a very motivated thinker. 0.97

00:29:29.000 So here is Elena Kagan talking about the beauty of the VAX mandate.

00:29:34.000 Why isn't this necessary to abate a grave risk?

00:29:39.000 This is a pandemic in which nearly a million people have died.

00:29:43.000 It is by far the greatest public health danger that this country has faced in the last century.

00:29:51.000 More and more people are dying every day.

00:29:53.000 More and more people are getting sick every day.

00:29:55.000 I don't mean to be dramatic here.

00:29:57.000 I'm just sort of stating facts.

00:29:59.000 And this is the policy that is most geared to stopping all this.

00:30:09.000 Okay, it is not the policy most geared towards stopping all of this.

00:30:12.000 In fact, the evidence that this is the policy most geared towards stopping all of this does not exist, because it doesn't.

00:30:18.000 It doesn't stop all this.

00:30:18.000 By the way, it is not true that more and more Americans are dying every day.

00:30:21.000 In fact, the number of Americans who have been dying every day has basically stagnated on a day-on-day level, and we've already hit the peak of this, as the information suggests.

00:30:30.000 Meanwhile, Justice Breyer doing the same thing, right?

00:30:32.000 The idea is, it's so bad, it's so bad, it's so bad, that any policy we decide to slap on it is good.

00:30:37.000 Three quarters of a million new cases yesterday.

00:30:39.000 Did you hear a constitutional argument there at all?

00:30:42.000 Was there anything remotely about the Constitution, what Elena Kagan was saying?

00:30:45.000 So for Sotomayor, the Constitution just does not exist.

00:30:47.000 For Kagan, it exists, but we have to ignore it in times of emergency. 1.00

00:30:51.000 Justice Breyer is kind of along the same lines.

00:31:02.000 Is that what you're doing now to say it's in the public interest in this situation to stop this vaccination rule with nearly a million new cases every day?

00:31:11.000 I mean, to me, I would find that unbelievable.

00:31:15.000 You would find that unbelievable, except for the fact that the grand number of new cases, they are much, much, much milder.

00:31:20.000 And again, it completely undercuts this case, because if the idea is that the vaccines were supposed to stop transmission, then why would a vaccine mandate do anything in the face of Omicron when clearly they did not stop transmission?

00:31:31.000 Again, their entire case has been wrecked by Omicron.

00:31:33.000 Omicron has completely destroyed whatever case there was on a rational level, but it's not about rationality for the left wing of the court, and particularly for Sotomayor.

00:31:40.000 For them, it's just about the government should be able to do whatever it wants to do, and you should have no say in it whatsoever, and the Constitution is no barrier.

00:31:47.000 So it used to be that the sort of loosest standard for constitutional review was rational basis review.

00:31:55.000 The idea was that you had to at least demonstrate a rational reason why you were doing what you were doing.

00:32:00.000 This vaccine policy does not even meet that standard.

00:32:02.000 Because again, the vaccines are not preventing transmission.

00:32:06.000 So the vaccine policy doesn't even meet those standards.

00:32:09.000 According to the left, however, there no longer needs to be rational basis review.

00:32:12.000 The question is just, does the government want to do a thing that sounds good to me?

00:32:16.000 And if the answer is yes, then they get to do it.

00:32:18.000 At no point does the Constitution actually play a role in this discussion.

00:32:21.000 Meanwhile, for the right of the court, it's the opposite.

00:32:23.000 Here is Samuel Alito, Justice Alito, saying, guys, can you explain to me when OSHA has ever done anything remotely like this before?

00:32:30.000 I'm not saying the vaccines are unsafe.

00:32:32.000 I'm not contesting that in any way.

00:32:35.000 There is a risk, right?

00:32:37.000 Has OSHA ever imposed any other safety regulation that imposes some extra risk on the employee?

00:32:49.000 Okay, so the point he's making here is that typically an OSHA mandate is something like, you need to put on a hard hat.

00:32:54.000 Hard hats do not have side effects.

00:32:56.000 An OSHA mandate is, don't let asbestos be in the ceiling.

00:33:00.000 Having asbestos in the ceiling does not have unintended positive effects on the people who are working there.

00:33:04.000 However, if you tell somebody to get a vax, some people already have natural immunity, some people may get myocarditis, so that's the point that he is making.

00:33:11.000 Meanwhile, Amy Coney Barrett asked, I think, an even more important question, which is, is there any limiting principle here whatsoever?

00:33:17.000 When does the emergency end?

00:33:18.000 When do you get to say that OSHA does not have this power?

00:33:21.000 What exactly can't OSHA do?

00:33:22.000 If the idea is that OSHA is allowed to do whatever it can to mitigate risk, not of transmission anymore, but to mitigate risk of people getting sicker than they normally would, what can't OSHA do?

00:33:34.000 When does the emergency end?

00:33:36.000 I mean, a lot of this argument has been about Congress's failure to act.

00:33:40.000 Two years from now, do we have any reason to think that COVID will be gone or that new variants might not be emerging?

00:33:46.000 And when, when must OSHA actually resort to its regular authority and go through notice and comment and not simply be kind of doing it in this quick way, which doesn't afford people the voice in the process that they're otherwise entitled to?

00:34:02.000 See, this would be the question, okay?

00:34:04.000 But you never hear actual legal questions from the left wing of the court, which just demonstrates, once again, that the Supreme Court for the left is just another tool of policy.

00:34:11.000 For the right, they actually seem to care about the Constitution, which is why sometimes you get the right ruling in ways that the right doesn't like.

00:34:16.000 The right of the court will sometimes rule in ways that the right would not prefer, because they will say that this violates basic constitutional precepts, because the role of the Supreme Court is different from the role of the legislature.

00:34:26.000 It just boils down once again to the fact that for the left, everything is politics, and for the right, not everything is politics.

00:34:32.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the left maintaining that the true threat to elections is the right, meanwhile saying that illegal immigrants should vote. 0.63

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00:35:55.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to New York City granting voting rights to non-citizens. 0.95

00:36:00.000 I mean, wow.

00:36:01.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:36:02.000 First, when everyone else is kneeling, some people have the courage to stand alone.

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00:36:36.000 On Friday, Isaac got attention for choosing not to kneel in unison with his teammates or to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt.

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00:37:56.000 All right, so meanwhile, the left has spent the last week suggesting that democracy in America is And it's in danger because of those evil Republicans and their willingness to throw out votes and overthrow election processes.

00:38:13.000 Ezra Klein has an entire article in the New York Times talking about the evils of Republicans.

00:38:18.000 His book, his piece is titled Steve Bannon is onto something.

00:38:21.000 Why?

00:38:22.000 Because Steve Bannon has talked about the fact that Republicans need to do politics locally.

00:38:26.000 So, Ezra Klein says, there are people for the Democrats working on a Plan B. This week, I half-jokingly asked Ben Whitler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, what it felt to be like on the front lines of protecting American democracy.

00:38:38.000 He replied, dead serious, by telling me what it was like.

00:38:41.000 He spends his days obsessing over mayoral races in 20,000 person towns because those mayors appoint the city clerks who decide whether to pull the drop boxes for mail-in ballots and small changes to electoral administration could be the difference between winning Senator Ron Johnson's seat in 2022 and having a chance at democracy reform and losing the race and the Senate.

00:38:58.000 Wickler is organizing volunteers to staff phone banks to recruit people who believe in democracy to serve as municipal poll workers.

00:39:04.000 Because Steve Bannon has made it his mission to recruit people who don't believe in democracy to serve as municipal poll workers.

00:39:10.000 And then Ezra Klein says that the right is suddenly very good at local politics, which is kind of shocking considering that the right has been terrible at local politics for at least two generations and probably longer.

00:39:19.000 In any case, notice how Ezra Klein characterizes this.

00:39:23.000 If you are a Democratic mayoral candidate and you want to put drop boxes, which are inherently less verifiable than, for example, polling booths, if you want to do that, this makes you pro-democracy.

00:39:33.000 If you don't want the drop boxes because you fear that those are COVID temporary installations that should go away.

00:39:38.000 So you should actually have to go in and register to vote.

00:39:40.000 And you should actually have to show your ID, for example.

00:39:42.000 This means that you are bad.

00:39:43.000 And the left wants to broaden out the number of people who can vote.

00:39:47.000 And they want to get rid of a lot of the voter verification methods that Republicans have been pursuing.

00:39:53.000 As Recline says, the Republicans are trying to suppress the vote.

00:39:55.000 Quote, voter suppression is happening at every level of government here in Georgia, says Representative Nekima Williams, who chairs the Georgia Democratic Party.

00:40:02.000 We have 159 counties, and so 159 different ways boards of elections are elected and elections are carried out.

00:40:09.000 So we have 159 different leaders who control election administration in the state.

00:40:12.000 We've seen those boards restrict access by changing the number of ballot boxes.

00:40:16.000 Often our black members on these boards are being pushed out.

00:40:19.000 Well, I mean, you'd have to show that they're being pushed out because they're black and not just because they disagree with you, that all the COVID pandemic procedures, which were supposed to be temporary, are now being gotten rid of, and that that's somehow some sort of horrible thing for democracy.

00:40:33.000 Again, none of these things that the Democrats are now talking about is deeply necessary for the business of democracy.

00:40:38.000 We're present in 2008 when Barack Obama swamped the ballot boxes and won a blowout election, and then won re-election in 2012.

00:40:44.000 None of this stuff existed.

00:40:46.000 But according to Ezra Klein, we have to rig the elections so they don't rig the elections.

00:40:50.000 It's basically the idea.

00:40:51.000 This is how much we care about democracy, is that we need to put in place all these procedures that are less verifiable.

00:40:59.000 So he quotes a couple of particular cases.

00:41:02.000 He says, Gabriela Cesares Kelly was a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation, agreed to staff a voting registration booth at a community college where she worked in Pima County, Arizona.

00:41:10.000 She was stunned to hear the stories of her students.

00:41:12.000 We keep blaming students for not participating, but it's really complicated to get registered to vote if you don't have a license.

00:41:17.000 The nearest DMV is an hour and a half away and you don't own a car, she said.

00:41:20.000 Well, somehow 155 million Americans came up with the ability to vote in the last election cycle.

00:41:26.000 So instead, she decided that she was going to work on specifically following up with specific people.

00:41:33.000 So for example, the example she gives is that certain people who work for the county recorder's office could work with the postmaster's office to put registration forms in tribal postal offices or not.

00:41:43.000 When it called to voter verify a ballot and heard an answering machine in Spanish, it could follow up in Spanish or not.

00:41:49.000 Well, I mean, that works in reverse as well.

00:41:51.000 If you're specifically only calling up people who have an answering machine in Spanish, and then you only follow up with those people, it could work that way too.

00:41:58.000 Like, again, at a certain point, you're going to have to assume that the average comes out in the wash.

00:42:05.000 This is why it's so amazing to hear the left complain that the right is undermining elections while they consistently undermine the veracity of elections.

00:42:15.000 If we don't get our way, the election is corrupt.

00:42:17.000 Again, this would have happened in 2020 if Donald Trump had won.

00:42:20.000 The left would have been the one rioting.

00:42:22.000 This was the great fear leading up to the 2020 election.

00:42:25.000 The great fear leading up to 2020 is that Donald Trump had been declared winner on November 4th.

00:42:30.000 Just go back in time and you'll remember this.

00:42:32.000 And there'd be widespread riots across the United States.

00:42:35.000 January 6th was the best thing ever to happen to the left because it was a right-wing riot.

00:42:40.000 But the real worry leading up to November 4th, leading up to the election, was that if Democrats didn't get their way, they would declare the election illegitimate and blame the Postmaster General, and blame Trump for rigging the ballot boxes, and blame people like Brad Raffensperger in Georgia for rigging the thing.

00:42:54.000 After all, Democrats have been claiming this since 2000.

00:42:57.000 Now, the giveaway is pretty obvious here.

00:42:59.000 The giveaway is that in New York City, Democrats have now made it possible for 1 million non-citizens to vote.

00:43:06.000 So if you are worried about Democrats broadening the vote to people who really should not be voting, they're kind of doing it in broad daylight in New York City.

00:43:13.000 According to Breitbart, up to 1 million non-citizens living in New York City will have access to the ballot box after Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday approved legislation by the City Council to automatically become law.

00:43:23.000 So in other words, a bunch of people who are not actually bound by American law because they're illegal immigrants, A bunch of people who are not paying, for example, federal income tax, unless they've stolen a social security number. 0.80

00:43:37.000 Those folks now get to vote in local elections in New York City.

00:43:41.000 Adam said in a statement, I believe New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation.

00:43:47.000 What's the limiting principle?

00:43:47.000 So I have a question.

00:43:48.000 Why wouldn't Democrats nationally think this applies?

00:43:51.000 Why wouldn't they be attempting to get maybe 15, 20 million illegal immigrants in the country currently to just have the vote?

00:43:58.000 And why is that not some sort of corruption of the electoral process?

00:44:02.000 You have millions and millions of Americans who are voting based on the fact that they pay income tax and are subject to all of the nation's laws.

00:44:08.000 And then you have tens of millions of people who, theoretically, the Democrats would want to vote while they don't pay full federal income tax, for example.

00:44:16.000 Eric Adams said, while I initially had some concerns, I had a productive dialogue with my colleagues in government to put those concerns at ease.

00:44:22.000 I believe allowing the legislation to be enacted is by far the best choice and look forward to bringing millions more into the democratic process.

00:44:28.000 According to the left, the way that the democratic process works is that the democratic process is all about every single human, whether they ought to vote or not, being allowed to vote.

00:44:39.000 More than a dozen communities across the United States already allowed non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont.

00:44:47.000 The measure enables non-citizens who have been lawful permanent residents of the city for at least 30 days.

00:44:52.000 30 days!

00:44:53.000 As well as those authorized to work in the U.S., including so-called DREAMers, to help select the city's mayor, city council members, borough presidents, comptroller, and public advocate. 0.99

00:45:01.000 You think all those folks are going to be in favor of strict immigration law?

00:45:06.000 The suggestion that Democrats are in favor of allowing a lot of people to enter the country illegally so they can shift to voting, it's hard to see how these folks are very much in favor of American citizens having priority in the vote when they are literally prioritizing non-American citizens voting in local elections.

00:45:21.000 And the idea that shoring up elections is a high priority to Democrats is obviously untrue.

00:45:25.000 The right has been suggesting now for months something called a revision of the Electoral Count Act.

00:45:29.000 You remember, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is kind of vague in its specifics.

00:45:35.000 It allowed for a bunch of confusion inside the right wing, particularly in 2020, over whether the Vice President of the United States could simply reject votes.

00:45:44.000 Now the answer is no, but the ECA is kind of unclear.

00:45:48.000 According to Dan McLaughlin writing for the National Review, the ECA's current language represents the chief point of vulnerability that turned Donald Trump's campaign against the 2020 election into a riot at the Capitol last January 6th.

00:45:59.000 The two most alarming aspects of the aftermath of 2020 were closely related.

00:46:03.000 One was Trump's effort to pressure state governors, state legislatures, Mike Pence, and members of Congress to reject Biden electors chosen by statewide popular vote and substitute Trump electors chosen by state legislatures.

00:46:13.000 A revised ECA could address this particular danger and avoid a repeat of last January 6th in future elections.

00:46:18.000 It would do so by clarifying that the VP cannot unilaterally reject electors, by precluding states that select electors by popular vote from refusing after the fact to recognize electors chosen by that vote, and by raising the vote thresholds to make objections to electors and reject state of electors Slates of electors certified by a state governor.

00:46:35.000 So this could be cleared up.

00:46:36.000 So you would imagine that Democrats would want to support that, right?

00:46:38.000 I mean, it would prevent things like the argument that the election was illegitimate and that you could have alternative slates of electors created by state legislators.

00:46:45.000 Like, they should be in favor of this, right?

00:46:46.000 Nope.

00:46:46.000 Kamala Harris came out against it over the weekend.

00:46:48.000 Here is VP Harris.

00:46:50.000 Because it's not a solution to the problem at hand, which is that right now in the United States of America, we need federal laws that guarantee the freedom and right of every American to have access to the ballot, to be able to vote.

00:47:06.000 The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act address that issue. 0.75

00:47:11.000 And those are the issues that are present and that are imminent and that are Really dispositive, frankly, of this moment in time in terms of whether we are going to fight for some of the most important pillars of a democracy, such as the freedom to- She's ridiculous. 0.98

00:47:27.000 Okay, these people are ridiculous. 0.96

00:47:28.000 They clearly are not interested in the pillars of democracy. 0.97

00:47:31.000 They don't even want to reform the Electoral Counts Act to prevent the kind of arguments that Trump was making post-November 4th.

00:47:36.000 They don't care about democracy.

00:47:37.000 They want illegal immigrants to vote and they don't care about reforming the ECA.

00:47:40.000 All they want is to reform the voting procedures to allow for more people to vote illegally, to allow for the possibility of voter fraud, and to essentially corrupt the voting procedures across the nation through things like ballot harvesting.

00:47:51.000 That's what they actually want.

00:47:52.000 And if they don't get their way, they say that democracy is being undermined. 1.00

00:47:55.000 Just demonstrates how full of absolute crap they are. 0.98

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