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00:01:44.000Oh, Macron has completely obliterated it.
00:01:47.000And 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.
00:01:57.000So forget about the fact that it's unconstitutional.
00:01:58.000Forget about the fact it violates basic strictures of federalism.
00:02:02.000Forget about the fact it is not even good policy.
00:03:36.000If you get Omicron, particularly if you're vaccinated, you're going to be fine.
00:03:38.000So why are we still talking about shutting down all of society?
00:03:42.000According 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.
00:03:54.000AOC'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.
00:04:06.000The 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.
00:04:15.000And there she was hugging everybody and then she came down with the COVID.
00:04:37.000And perhaps we should take measures that are more geared toward mitigation of some of the worst aspects of the virus without destroying the economy.
00:04:44.000You know, they're coming to all the conclusions that many of us came to back in like May of 2020.
00:04:48.000So here's Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner.
00:04:53.000He says, listen, first of all, let's just put it out there.
00:04:56.000This epidemic is going to be over inside of two weeks because it's been over everywhere inside of about a month.
00:05:00.000So it's already peaked in places like New York and Washington, D.C.
00:05:05.000If 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.
00:05:13.000You're going to start to see that in the statistics this week.
00:05:16.000You're going to start to see those curves, those epidemic curves bend down.
00:05:18.000You're already seeing that in New York City and Washington D.C.
00:05:23.000By 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.
00:05:29.000So the hospitalizations aren't even the same as the hospitalizations that were occurring with Delta.
00:05:33.000The average length of stay used to be four days.
00:05:36.000It 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.
00:05:43.000Even the CDC is beginning to realize reality.
00:05:46.000According to Rochelle Walensky, quote, we must protect people with comorbidities from severe COVID-19.
00:05:50.000I went into medicine, HIV specifically and public health to protect our most at risk.
00:05:54.000CDC is taking steps to protect those at highest risk, including those with chronic health conditions, disabilities and older adults.
00:06:00.000Are you saying that we should shield the most vulnerable and let everybody else go about their lives?
00:07:51.000Rochelle Walensky, she is now admitting that there is a difference between hospitalization from COVID and with COVID.
00:07:56.000So 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.
00:08:03.000Because 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?
00:08:12.000And it happens that you had COVID at the time.
00:08:13.000And we were told you're not even allowed to ask these questions.
00:08:15.000Well, 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.
00:08:22.000There are a lot of kids who are going to the hospital with, say, flu or RSV.
00:08:26.000And then they are also testing positive for COVID, which means they're not there because of the COVID.
00:08:30.000Rochelle Walensky was asked about this.
00:08:31.000She says, oh yeah, we're gathering stats on that now.
00:08:34.000Weird that you guys didn't bother gathering stats on this over at the CDC over the course of the last two years.
00:08:39.000Do you know how many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S.
00:08:43.000linked to COVID are from COVID, or how many are with COVID, but they had other comorbidities?
00:09:08.000I'm glad that you're collecting them now.
00:09:09.000Weird that you haven't collected them over the course of the last two years.
00:09:12.000And 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.
00:09:19.000So you've had all sorts of studies from the CDC about racial disparities in treatment of COVID.
00:09:23.000But how many studies have we had about the actual level of antibodies in the general population early on?
00:09:29.000Like how many people have actually had COVID?
00:09:47.000Like, the most practical aspects of this virus, the CDC has ignored the entire time, instead pursuing specifically political questions.
00:09:54.000And 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.
00:10:04.000It is incredible how much our public health establishment has blown itself out.
00:10:08.000The story of the last decade in American politics is every major institution in American society destroying its own credibility on the shoals of politics.
00:10:16.000Everything from the AMA to the educational institutions of our nation, to the CDC, like every single area.
00:10:23.000That 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.
00:10:54.000You don't want that happening at work.
00:10:56.000That is the entire basis of the vax mandate.
00:10:58.000But if the vaccinated can also pass COVID, that is completely irrelevant.
00:11:03.000Here 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.
00:11:11.000Our vaccines are working exceptionally well.
00:11:15.000With regard to severe illness and death, they prevent it.
00:11:18.000But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission.
00:11:22.000So 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.
00:11:39.000Okay, so forever, presumably, because Omicron is now an epidemic.
00:12:45.000Here's Savannah Guthrie interviewing the CDC director, being very much in touch with the public, recognizing the CDC has turned into a punchline.
00:13:17.000People letting off steam, of course, but is there a larger credibility problem with your agency right now?
00:13:24.000And the answer is yes, there's a huge credibility crisis.
00:13:29.000I don't know when Tucker Carlson inhabited the body of Potato Brian Stelter, but apparently that's a thing.
00:13:34.000Now, 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.
00:13:44.000Like, 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.
00:13:52.000CNN has learned Dr. Walensky is in media training.
00:13:55.000For months, she's been meeting with a consultant to improve communication skills.
00:13:59.000The 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.
00:14:13.000Now, Walensky's under fire for not following the CDC's own playbook for explaining new guidance.
00:14:19.000A Biden COVID advisor tells me the CDC has got to do a better job communicating what they're doing and why.
00:14:40.000His 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.
00:14:48.000Sort of like a Lewis Carroll parody of grammar.
00:14:51.000And then stumbling off the stage before taking any questions.
00:14:53.000He's like, but we need to get, Rochelle Walensky, some media metronomization.
00:14:59.000Man, you know you've blown it when Joe Biden is recommending you get some media training.
00:15:03.000In just one second, we'll get to the continued panic over, oh, Macron, which is all politically driven from the left.
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00:16:15.000Okay, 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.
00:16:27.000So you have the Chicago Teachers Union now battling it out with Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is a lockdown fanatic.
00:16:33.000The Chicago Public Schools canceled class for the fourth straight day on Monday.
00:16:37.000As negotiations continued with the Chicago Teachers Union, according to WLS, Chicago Public School has now canceled classes again.
00:16:44.000Monday marks the fourth straight day CPS students have been out of class.
00:16:47.000Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke confidently all weekend about reaching a deal.
00:16:51.000No agreement has been reached despite both sides negotiating overnight.
00:16:54.000Here's what Mayor Lori Lightfoot had to say.
00:16:56.000About the Chicago's teachers union that seems to control her administration.
00:17:00.000What the Chicago Teachers Union did was an illegal walkout.
00:17:04.000They abandoned their posts and they abandoned kids and their families.
00:17:07.000We are working diligently every single day at the bargaining table to narrow the differences and to get a deal done.
00:17:13.000My team has been working every single day.
00:17:39.000In its own statement on Sunday, the CTU said, quote, the union wants to reassure the parents and guardians of Chicago.
00:17:44.000We will remain at the bargaining table until we reach an agreement that will return us all to in-person learning safely and equitably.
00:17:50.000By equitably, they mean not safely or equitably, they just mean we get what we want.
00:17:56.000This 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.
00:18:42.000Just 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.
00:18:56.000And meanwhile, controversy continues to surround Novak Djokovic.
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00:19:06.000It's a three-way battle between him and Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
00:19:10.000And Djokovic is on the verge of becoming the single greatest major winner of all time.
00:19:16.000And the Australian Open was really his best shot.
00:20:23.000All of this is relevant to the fact that the Supreme Court had a hearing on Friday over Joe Biden's unconstitutional VAX mandates.
00:20:30.000So there are several reasons why Joe Biden's VAX mandates are unconstitutional via OSHA.
00:20:34.000Number one, the enabling statute for OSHA does not comprehend the ability of the federal government to simply do whatever it wants in workplaces.
00:20:44.000OSHA 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.
00:20:51.000OSHA was not meant to basically reduce all risk in every public place in American life simply because there's a virus out there.
00:21:00.000Nobody ever would have comprehended that OSHA could have, for example, a flu vax mandate.
00:21:04.000Nobody ever would have comprehended that.
00:21:06.000The notion of a VAX mandate with regard to workplaces via OSHA is crazy.
00:21:10.000Now, states have plenary authority in this area.
00:21:13.000States have police power in this area.
00:21:17.000Because 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.
00:21:29.000And 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.
00:21:39.000Well, the Joe Biden-Vaxx mandate does not comprehend that.
00:21:41.000They think that OSHA should do whatever it wants, even though the OSHA statute is incredibly vague.
00:21:46.000The truth is, the OSHA statute is probably unconstitutional on its face, just for its vagueness.
00:21:51.000So it's unconstitutional for that reason.
00:21:53.000It 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.
00:22:02.000Okay, so this came up for a hearing at the Supreme Court.
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00:23:22.000So, Supreme Court had its oral arguments on Friday.
00:23:32.000And I will say that there are some distinctions between the justices.
00:23:36.000The conservative justices still care about the Constitution of the United States.
00:23:39.000They still care about things like enabling statutes and the limits on them and the administrative state and how far the administrative state can go.
00:23:45.000They still care about things like the major questions doctrine.
00:23:47.000They still care about the federalism that is implicit in the Constitution of the United States and is actually written into the structure of it.
00:23:54.000They see the difference between a local government and a federal government.
00:23:58.000So there are really three left-wing justices on the court at this point.
00:24:01.000That would be Elena Kagan, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor.
00:24:05.000Justice 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.
00:24:44.000So 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.
00:24:52.000They selected Sonia Sotomayor because she was Latina, not just Latina.
00:24:57.000She 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.
00:25:11.000The 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.
00:25:20.000Instead, the Constitution is a series of words that have meanings, and those meanings can be interpreted by anyone who has a prefrontal cortex.
00:25:27.000But she had boiled it down into a sort of racial essentialism that you see in critical race theory.
00:25:31.000And this came up at her confirmation hearings.
00:26:49.000Yeah, but you know, here's what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now.
00:26:53.000First of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated.
00:27:00.000Okay, first of all, she tries to immediately swivel to the unvaccinated children.
00:27:04.000Okay, 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.
00:27:09.000Again, 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.
00:27:22.000The grand total number of kids who are completely healthy who have died of COVID-19 is still in the low double digits.
00:27:28.000In any case, Sonia Sotomayor completely off base, but based on her completely inane understanding of COVID, she thinks this is a good idea.
00:27:35.000And that combines the completely inane understanding of the Constitution, which is to say she does not understand it.
00:27:39.000Here 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.
00:27:53.000If it's within the police power to protect the health and welfare of workers, you seem to be saying the states can do it.
00:28:04.000But 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.
00:28:17.000I am not sure I understand the distinction why the states would have the power, but the federal government wouldn't.
00:28:27.000Because the states have more power than the federal government with regard to regulations like this and have had since the beginning of the republic.
00:28:35.000In 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.
00:28:42.000We call it the Constitution of the United States.
00:28:44.000It's a full list of what the government is allowed to do.
00:28:47.000And everything that's not in that list is something that the government is not allowed to do.
00:28:51.000That was the original concept of the Constitution.
00:30:18.000By the way, it is not true that more and more Americans are dying every day.
00:30:21.000In 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.
00:30:30.000Meanwhile, Justice Breyer doing the same thing, right?
00:30:32.000The 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.
00:30:37.000Three quarters of a million new cases yesterday.
00:30:39.000Did you hear a constitutional argument there at all?
00:30:42.000Was there anything remotely about the Constitution, what Elena Kagan was saying?
00:30:45.000So for Sotomayor, the Constitution just does not exist.
00:30:47.000For Kagan, it exists, but we have to ignore it in times of emergency.
00:30:51.000Justice Breyer is kind of along the same lines.
00:31:02.000Is 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?
00:31:11.000I mean, to me, I would find that unbelievable.
00:31:15.000You would find that unbelievable, except for the fact that the grand number of new cases, they are much, much, much milder.
00:31:20.000And 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?
00:31:31.000Again, their entire case has been wrecked by Omicron.
00:31:33.000Omicron 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.
00:31:40.000For 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.
00:31:47.000So it used to be that the sort of loosest standard for constitutional review was rational basis review.
00:31:55.000The idea was that you had to at least demonstrate a rational reason why you were doing what you were doing.
00:32:00.000This vaccine policy does not even meet that standard.
00:32:02.000Because again, the vaccines are not preventing transmission.
00:32:06.000So the vaccine policy doesn't even meet those standards.
00:32:09.000According to the left, however, there no longer needs to be rational basis review.
00:32:12.000The question is just, does the government want to do a thing that sounds good to me?
00:32:16.000And if the answer is yes, then they get to do it.
00:32:18.000At no point does the Constitution actually play a role in this discussion.
00:32:21.000Meanwhile, for the right of the court, it's the opposite.
00:32:23.000Here is Samuel Alito, Justice Alito, saying, guys, can you explain to me when OSHA has ever done anything remotely like this before?
00:32:30.000I'm not saying the vaccines are unsafe.
00:32:56.000An OSHA mandate is, don't let asbestos be in the ceiling.
00:33:00.000Having asbestos in the ceiling does not have unintended positive effects on the people who are working there.
00:33:04.000However, 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.
00:33:11.000Meanwhile, Amy Coney Barrett asked, I think, an even more important question, which is, is there any limiting principle here whatsoever?
00:33:22.000If 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?
00:33:36.000I mean, a lot of this argument has been about Congress's failure to act.
00:33:40.000Two years from now, do we have any reason to think that COVID will be gone or that new variants might not be emerging?
00:33:46.000And 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?
00:34:02.000See, this would be the question, okay?
00:34:04.000But 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.
00:34:11.000For 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.
00:34:16.000The 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.
00:34:26.000It just boils down once again to the fact that for the left, everything is politics, and for the right, not everything is politics.
00:34:32.000Alrighty, 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.
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00:35:55.000Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to New York City granting voting rights to non-citizens.
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00:37:56.000All 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.
00:38:13.000Ezra Klein has an entire article in the New York Times talking about the evils of Republicans.
00:38:18.000His book, his piece is titled Steve Bannon is onto something.
00:38:22.000Because Steve Bannon has talked about the fact that Republicans need to do politics locally.
00:38:26.000So, 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.
00:38:38.000He replied, dead serious, by telling me what it was like.
00:38:41.000He 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.
00:38:58.000Wickler is organizing volunteers to staff phone banks to recruit people who believe in democracy to serve as municipal poll workers.
00:39:04.000Because Steve Bannon has made it his mission to recruit people who don't believe in democracy to serve as municipal poll workers.
00:39:10.000And 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.
00:39:19.000In any case, notice how Ezra Klein characterizes this.
00:39:23.000If 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.
00:39:33.000If you don't want the drop boxes because you fear that those are COVID temporary installations that should go away.
00:39:38.000So you should actually have to go in and register to vote.
00:39:40.000And you should actually have to show your ID, for example.
00:39:43.000And the left wants to broaden out the number of people who can vote.
00:39:47.000And they want to get rid of a lot of the voter verification methods that Republicans have been pursuing.
00:39:53.000As Recline says, the Republicans are trying to suppress the vote.
00:39:55.000Quote, voter suppression is happening at every level of government here in Georgia, says Representative Nekima Williams, who chairs the Georgia Democratic Party.
00:40:02.000We have 159 counties, and so 159 different ways boards of elections are elected and elections are carried out.
00:40:09.000So we have 159 different leaders who control election administration in the state.
00:40:12.000We've seen those boards restrict access by changing the number of ballot boxes.
00:40:16.000Often our black members on these boards are being pushed out.
00:40:19.000Well, 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.
00:40:33.000Again, none of these things that the Democrats are now talking about is deeply necessary for the business of democracy.
00:40:38.000We're present in 2008 when Barack Obama swamped the ballot boxes and won a blowout election, and then won re-election in 2012.
00:40:51.000This is how much we care about democracy, is that we need to put in place all these procedures that are less verifiable.
00:40:59.000So he quotes a couple of particular cases.
00:41:02.000He 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.
00:41:10.000She was stunned to hear the stories of her students.
00:41:12.000We keep blaming students for not participating, but it's really complicated to get registered to vote if you don't have a license.
00:41:17.000The nearest DMV is an hour and a half away and you don't own a car, she said.
00:41:20.000Well, somehow 155 million Americans came up with the ability to vote in the last election cycle.
00:41:26.000So instead, she decided that she was going to work on specifically following up with specific people.
00:41:33.000So 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.
00:41:43.000When it called to voter verify a ballot and heard an answering machine in Spanish, it could follow up in Spanish or not.
00:41:49.000Well, I mean, that works in reverse as well.
00:41:51.000If 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.
00:41:58.000Like, again, at a certain point, you're going to have to assume that the average comes out in the wash.
00:42:05.000This 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.
00:42:15.000If we don't get our way, the election is corrupt.
00:42:17.000Again, this would have happened in 2020 if Donald Trump had won.
00:42:20.000The left would have been the one rioting.
00:42:22.000This was the great fear leading up to the 2020 election.
00:42:25.000The great fear leading up to 2020 is that Donald Trump had been declared winner on November 4th.
00:42:30.000Just go back in time and you'll remember this.
00:42:32.000And there'd be widespread riots across the United States.
00:42:35.000January 6th was the best thing ever to happen to the left because it was a right-wing riot.
00:42:40.000But 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.
00:42:54.000After all, Democrats have been claiming this since 2000.
00:42:57.000Now, the giveaway is pretty obvious here.
00:42:59.000The giveaway is that in New York City, Democrats have now made it possible for 1 million non-citizens to vote.
00:43:06.000So 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.
00:43:13.000According 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.
00:43:23.000So 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.
00:43:37.000Those folks now get to vote in local elections in New York City.
00:43:41.000Adam 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.
00:43:48.000Why wouldn't Democrats nationally think this applies?
00:43:51.000Why wouldn't they be attempting to get maybe 15, 20 million illegal immigrants in the country currently to just have the vote?
00:43:58.000And why is that not some sort of corruption of the electoral process?
00:44:02.000You 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.
00:44:08.000And 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.
00:44:16.000Eric Adams said, while I initially had some concerns, I had a productive dialogue with my colleagues in government to put those concerns at ease.
00:44:22.000I believe allowing the legislation to be enacted is by far the best choice and look forward to bringing millions more into the democratic process.
00:44:28.000According 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.
00:44:39.000More 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.
00:44:47.000The measure enables non-citizens who have been lawful permanent residents of the city for at least 30 days.
00:44:53.000As 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.
00:45:01.000You think all those folks are going to be in favor of strict immigration law?
00:45:06.000The 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.
00:45:21.000And the idea that shoring up elections is a high priority to Democrats is obviously untrue.
00:45:25.000The right has been suggesting now for months something called a revision of the Electoral Count Act.
00:45:29.000You remember, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is kind of vague in its specifics.
00:45:35.000It 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.
00:45:44.000Now the answer is no, but the ECA is kind of unclear.
00:45:48.000According 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.
00:45:59.000The two most alarming aspects of the aftermath of 2020 were closely related.
00:46:03.000One 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.
00:46:13.000A revised ECA could address this particular danger and avoid a repeat of last January 6th in future elections.
00:46:18.000It 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.
00:46:36.000So you would imagine that Democrats would want to support that, right?
00:46:38.000I 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.
00:46:45.000Like, they should be in favor of this, right?
00:46:50.000Because 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.
00:47:06.000The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act address that issue.
00:47:11.000And 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.
00:47:37.000They want illegal immigrants to vote and they don't care about reforming the ECA.
00:47:40.000All 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.
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