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00:01:44.000The good news is it is pretty clear at this point, pretty obvious at this point, that as soon as you get the vaccine, as soon as that vaccine kicks in, you know, two weeks, three weeks a month in, you should be able to go back to your regular life.
00:01:54.000This is becoming more and more obvious every single day.
00:01:57.000Now, members of our government are trying to prolong the agony because, again, this agony is being used by President Houseplant and crew.
00:02:04.000In order to push forward the broadest spending bills in American history, and they want to do more.
00:02:08.000But the reality is that we are now in the waning days of the pandemic.
00:02:11.000According to Pfizer, they say that real world data from Israel suggests their vaccine is now 94% effective.
00:02:18.00094% effective in preventing asymptomatic infections, meaning that the vaccine could significantly reduce transmission, according to Reuters.
00:02:25.000Also, Pfizer says that the real-world data out of Israel shows its vaccine effectiveness is 97% in preventing symptomatic disease, all symptomatic disease, as well as severe critical disease and death.
00:02:37.000Their release notes that 80% of the tested specimens in Israel were the Apparently very, very scary B.1.1.7 UK variant.
00:02:43.000So you've heard all about these variants, the Mexican variant and the UK variant and the South African variant.
00:02:48.000The evidence thus far shows that the vaccine is extremely effective against the virus.
00:03:09.000If there are upticks, it's among people who are young and relatively invulnerable to COVID-19.
00:03:14.000The vaccines are going out at an extraordinary rate, a couple million a day at this point.
00:03:18.000We have now apparently purchased, according to the Washington Post, four times the number of vaccines as the number of adults in the United States.
00:03:26.000Because I don't know what we're going to use all those extra vaccines for.
00:03:28.000Theoretically, we could just give them to allies, or we could tranche them out as booster shots or whatever, but here's the reality.
00:03:35.000We're now very close to the end of this thing, and the data are clear.
00:03:38.000Once you get the vaccine, you should be able to take off the mask, and you should be able to hang out with whoever you want, whether or not they are vaccinated.
00:03:44.000And if somebody chooses not to get vaccinated, that is their own problem.
00:03:47.000If they then get infected, that is their problem.
00:03:49.000But people who are vaccinated should feel pretty invulnerable to COVID because statistically speaking, they are pretty invulnerable to COVID.
00:04:14.000Because the CDC says that if you're vaccinated and you're in a room with a person who then tests COVID positive, you don't even have to quarantine.
00:04:22.000Which means they're not worried about you transmitting it to others or getting infected.
00:04:25.000Which means that this thing is over for the people who are vaccinated.
00:04:28.000And we all know it, and now everybody's just lying about it in the media, at the CDC.
00:04:32.000They're all lying about this because they would prefer that the COVID crisis be prolonged so that they can, quote, build back better.
00:04:38.000This is now being used as an excuse, as it has been for the last couple of months by the Democrats, in order to push forward world-beating change.
00:04:45.000Gavin Newsom admitted this in California.
00:04:47.000He said, the recovery is not just going to be a recovery.
00:04:50.000We're going to change everything about the way California works, meaning we're going to blow out the spending, meaning we're going to blow out the taxation, because now is the opportunity for us to push our quote unquote equitable solutions.
00:05:00.000Now, you may have noticed this pattern before from the political left.
00:05:03.000The political left has been using climate change as their big bugaboo in order to scare people into vast redistributionist policies that crack down on free markets and free individual rights.
00:05:12.000The idea is that climate change is such a vast threat to the American population, and to the global population, that we need to sacrifice all of our rights, all of our economic freedoms, our prosperity, in order to stop this vast threat.
00:05:23.000The thing is, most people across the world don't actually agree with that.
00:05:27.000Particularly in the developing world, where they would just like to, you know, not burn dung for fuel.
00:05:32.000They would like to live past the age of 50.
00:05:35.000In those places, it seems like carbon-based fuels, pretty good idea.
00:05:38.000One of the great inventions of mankind, carbon-based fuels.
00:05:41.000But now that climate change has proved itself not to be enough of an impetus for the sort of socialistic change that our new ruling class would like, they've decided that COVID is the impetus for that.
00:05:50.000And so they're going to prolong this as long as they humanly can.
00:05:53.000There's no reason for Joe Biden to be walking around with a mask.
00:05:57.000If Joe Biden really wanted to get past the pandemic at this point, he would be taking off the mask and telling everybody else that you can do that once you've been vaccinated for a month.
00:06:05.000But President Houseplant, this barely sentient human, is going to be giving a speech tonight.
00:06:09.000I don't even know how he's going to give the speech tonight.
00:06:11.000I mean, you watch him on camera, and I, honest to God, I do not know how they think that this man is going to give a speech.
00:06:17.000He might be able to sustain it for like 10 minutes, but any longer than that, and it's going to be a problem for him.
00:06:23.000It's gonna be quick cuts, like an MTV music video from 1987.
00:06:25.000It's just gonna be like one shot of him saying a word, and then another shot of him saying a word, and then they'll string it all together, and they'll put a little bit of soft guitar music underneath to make you feel like they did it all in one shot.
00:06:36.000But President Houseplant is a friendly face for the sort of radical change that we are watching Democrats implement on the back of lies about the continuation of a crisis.
00:07:14.000The crisis is, like, this close to being over.
00:07:17.000Okay, that is what the science says, and I follow the science and the data, not to-science, which is politically driven nonsense, being pushed, by the way, by supposed scientific minds like Rochelle Walensky at the CDC, who's just doing the bidding of the Biden administration, and Dr. Anthony Fauci over at the NIAID, who is over there doing the Biden administration's bidding.
00:07:39.000Because you watch, Joe Biden, president of House Plans, is supposed to sign into law this giant quote-unquote COVID relief package that has nothing to do with COVID.
00:07:49.000By Monday, they'll be talking about how hope is on the horizon and how we can all get back to our regular lives.
00:07:54.000Remember, some of us predicted this as early as January.
00:07:56.000What I said, you can go back, you can find the tape, what I said is that we were already going to be on the wane by late January, by the time he took office, and then he was going to jump in front of the parade, declare universal masking, people were going to give him credit, the vaccines were already going to be going out, people were going to then give Biden credit, and then he was going to declare the COVID pandemic over once he had ran through some change.
00:08:15.000So, that prediction looks pretty good today.
00:08:19.000But the fundamental point is still this.
00:08:21.000We don't actually need this giant blockbuster spending bill.
00:08:24.000We don't need all of this giant, enormous Keynesian spending in order to recover, given the fact that this entire economic depression was caused artificially by government shutdowns.
00:08:34.000It was caused artificially by an extraneous shock, namely the virus.
00:08:38.000And once the virus is on the wane, everybody's going to go back to business.
00:09:26.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:10:27.000Okay, so it's not just me saying this about the waning of the pandemic.
00:10:33.000Dr. Marty Makary, who's been a guest on this program many times from Johns Hopkins University, has a piece today in the Wall Street Journal, and he says that basically, after you've had this thing for a month, the vaccine, you're done.
00:10:44.000He says the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has lost a lot of credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic by being late or wrong on testing masks, vaccine allocation, and school reopening.
00:10:52.000Staying consistent with that pattern this week, three months after the vaccine rollout began, the CDC finally started telling vaccinated people they can have normal interactions with other vaccinated people, but only in highly limited circumstances.
00:11:03.000Given the impressive effectiveness of the vaccine, that should have been immediately obvious by applying scientific inference and common sense.
00:11:09.000Part of the new guidelines are absurdly restrictive.
00:11:11.000For example, the CDC did not withdraw its advice to avoid air travel after vaccination.
00:11:15.000A year of pre-vaccine experience has demonstrated that airplanes are not a source of spread.
00:11:20.000The guidelines do approve of vaccinated people meeting with low-risk unvaccinated ones, but only with people from the same household and in a small private setting.
00:11:26.000So much for restaurants, birthday parties, and weddings.
00:11:28.000An unpublished study conducted by the Israeli Health Ministry and Pfizer shows vaccination reduced transmission by 89 to 94% and almost totally prevented hospitalization and death, according to press reports.
00:11:38.000Immunity kicks in fully about four weeks after the first vaccine dose, and then you're essentially bulletproof.
00:11:43.000With the added safety of wearing a mask indoors for a few more weeks or months, a practical necessity in public places, even if not a medical one, since you can't tell on sight if somebody is immune, there's little a vaccinated person should be discouraged from doing.
00:11:54.000On a positive note, the CDC did say that fully vaccinated people who are asymptomatic don't need to be tested.
00:11:59.000But that obvious recommendation should have come two months ago, before wasting so many tests on people who have high levels of circulating antibodies from vaccination.
00:12:06.000In its guidance, the CDC says the risks of infection in vaccinated people, quote, cannot be completely eliminated.
00:12:11.000True, we don't have conclusive data that guarantees vaccination reduces risks to zero, because we never will.
00:12:16.000We're operating in the realm of medical discretion based on the best available data, as practicing physicians have always done.
00:12:21.000The CDC highlights the vaccine's stunning success, but is ridiculously cautious about its implications.
00:12:26.000The CDC acknowledges potential risks of isolation but doesn't go into details.
00:12:30.000It's time to liberate vaccinated people to restore their relationships and rebuild their lives that would encourage vaccination by giving hesitant people a vivid incentive to have the shots.
00:12:39.000As people yearn to be with their loved ones and rebuild communities, we shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the past.
00:12:43.000We can't exaggerate the public health threat as we did with hospital visitation rules and keep crushing the human spirit with overly restrictive policies for vaccinated Americans.
00:12:51.000He says, what am I allowed to do after I've been vaccinated?
00:12:54.000Once a month has passed after your first shot, go back to normal.
00:13:19.000The vast majority of the funding is going to people who did not lose their jobs.
00:13:22.000The vast majority of the funding is going By the way, not even to individual American citizens.
00:13:27.000It's going to bailouts for union pension funds.
00:13:29.000It's going to bailouts for states and localities that blew out their own budgets.
00:13:32.000And who, by the way, have not lost tax revenue during this downturn because the first relief bills actually increased tax revenues in certain states.
00:13:41.000But Nancy Pelosi is super happy about this.
00:13:42.000Here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday saying, this is the most consequential legislation of our lifetime.
00:13:46.000She's not wrong about this, by the way.
00:13:47.000Okay, this is very consequential legislation.
00:13:49.000It sets up brand new entitlement programs that quote-unquote only last a year, but are designed to last far longer.
00:13:54.000It creates essentially incentives, the old welfare incentives, to have kids out of wedlock because, again, you get paid by the government to have kids.
00:14:03.000Not only do you get paid by the government to have kids, there are no restrictions with regard to having a job or not having a job.
00:14:25.000Here's Nancy Pelosi calling it the most consequential legislation of our lifetime.
00:14:30.000I think I can safely say, and I've said this to my colleagues in the House on the Democratic side, this is the most consequential legislation that many of us will ever be a party to.
00:14:45.000But nonetheless, on this day, we celebrate because we are honoring a promise made by our president I was rejoined with him and promising that help is on the way.
00:14:58.000By the way, help should have been on the way in, I don't know, August.
00:15:02.000OK, the reality is that there were covid relief packages passed all the way in bipartisan fashion during the Trump administration.
00:15:08.000This was passed along pure party lines.
00:16:23.000There are steps to escape poverty, but those steps, generally speaking, are reliant on individual decision-making, like don't have kids out of wedlock, finish high school, and get a job.
00:16:32.000By the way, if you follow those steps, you will not spend your life in poverty.
00:16:35.000Statistically speaking, according to the left-wing Brookings Institute.
00:16:43.000I know in bipartisan fashion, we no longer care about the national debt.
00:16:46.000And I'm not going to pretend that I'm sanguine about Republicans who completely waived all of their duty when it came to blowing out the national debt when Trump was president.
00:17:24.000So we are going to double the national debt, essentially, or at least the household national debt.
00:17:29.000Over the past year, over the past year, The pandemic, coupled with its effects on the economy, led to an unprecedented amount of federal spending, according to Heritage Foundation.
00:17:39.000In fiscal year 2020, it was over $50,000 per household.
00:17:43.000This year, we can expect another $45,000 per household.
00:17:47.000The total national debt has risen to $27.9 trillion.
00:17:50.000That is more than $215,000 per household.
00:17:53.000And by the way, a lot of households don't pay tax, which means that if you're one of the 50% of households that do pay tax, your actual share of the national debt is more like $430,000.
00:18:02.000And if you do it by actually tranching out the tax rates, if you're at the top end of the spectrum, you owe millions of dollars to the federal government.
00:18:12.000Congress is just blowing out the spending.
00:18:14.000It doesn't actually care about COVID relief, obviously, because, again, the amount that's actually spent on quote-unquote COVID-19 relief for public health is like 10% of the package.
00:18:24.000It is a massive spend on teachers unions who have not reopened their schools.
00:18:29.000It spends money all the way up until 2026.
00:18:31.000It spends more money on schools in 2026 than 2021.
00:18:37.000It also blows out welfare expansion, right?
00:18:40.000It completely reverses Decades of attempts to curb the welfare state.
00:18:46.000According to the Heritage Foundation, the legislation includes benefit increases and expansions for a variety of safety net programs, including unemployment insurance, Affordable Care Act subsidies, the earned income tax credit, which will now be going to people who did not actually pay taxes, cash welfare payments, and much, much more.
00:19:00.000It also destroys incentives to find work, marry, or increase earnings.
00:19:04.000Now again, I understand the argument that you want women staying home with kids as opposed to working, because it's better for kids not to be in daycare.
00:19:12.000That's an argument that's now being made by people on the left.
00:19:13.000Women should have the option to stay home more with their kids if they're single moms and such.
00:19:16.000But we should have incentives that actually encourage people to get married.
00:19:20.000Okay, marriage is a solution to poverty.
00:19:22.000Staying home on a government check is not a solution to poverty, as it turns out.
00:19:26.000It gives giant handouts to special interests, $90 billion from the general public to pad out pension plans.
00:19:32.000That is directly oriented toward big labor.
00:19:35.000$57 billion going toward transportation in a way that privileges unionized workers.
00:19:41.000Overall, $500 billion that is generally directed toward paying off Democratic political allies.
00:19:47.000And by the way, these stimulus checks, they're not going to actually cure whatever economic problems ail the United States.
00:19:53.000Again, most Americans still have jobs.
00:19:55.000The vast majority of Americans are still employed.
00:19:57.000And that's going to get better, not worse, as we reopen the economy.
00:20:00.000And yet we're giving all these people who are already employed $1,400 a pop.
00:20:57.000Everything in the American Rescue Plan addresses a real need, including investments to fund our entire vaccination effort, more vaccines, more vaccinators, and more vaccination sites.
00:21:11.000Millions more Americans will get tested, including home testing.
00:21:15.000Schools will soon have the funding and resources to reopen safely, a national imperative.
00:21:22.000The American Rescue Plan, the partnership between Johnson & Johnson and Merck, proves we can do big things, important things in this country.
00:21:31.000Okay, all of this stuff was already underway.
00:21:33.000Schools have been open in this country in a wide variety of states for months.
00:21:36.000At this point, my kids have been in school all year long in Florida.
00:21:41.000As far as the notion that testing and tracing was ever going to be effective, testing and tracing was never effective throughout the pandemic in the United States.
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00:23:26.000Okay, so, this massive Democrat-only bill is very popular, but not only that, it is the turning point in how we speak about COVID.
00:23:36.000Some of us have been saying, COVID's on the way.
00:23:40.000Senate Minority Leader, thanks to the complete fussery.
00:23:44.000By the way, you thought those Georgia Senate seats didn't matter?
00:23:46.000Yeah, they mattered a little bit because now we have established these giant new entitlement programs that are gonna be extraordinarily hard to roll back as we blow out the debt for all time.
00:23:53.000Here is Mitch McConnell saying, if the economy booms, this is gonna have nothing to do with it, which happens to be correct because the economy was booming before COVID.
00:24:10.000He's ripped up and down for this, of course.
00:24:13.000We're doing damage to the future of this country by spending dramatically more money than we obviously need at this particular point, at which time the economy is coming back.
00:24:41.000But again, the media will never let this happen, right?
00:24:43.000Whatever boom happens from now on, they're gonna credit Biden with.
00:24:46.000Now, again, I predicted this last year.
00:24:47.000I said that it was a high likelihood that after COVID was over, there was gonna be this big economic boom, that Biden was gonna take advantage of the economic boom to put in place a bunch of crappy, radical policy that completely undermine the American economy.
00:24:58.000So what you're gonna see is the next couple of years are gonna be a spending spree.
00:25:15.000It could take a few years for all of this to kick in because it usually takes the economy a few years for these sorts of massive spending efforts to kick in.
00:25:22.000You can see the growth rates throughout the beginning of the LBJ term.
00:25:25.000And then by the end of the LBJ term, they're starting to wane.
00:25:27.000And by the 1970s, the growth rates have basically petered out.
00:25:30.000It takes a little while to feel When you have completely botched the entire American economy, but that's exactly what we're doing right now.
00:25:36.000It's just going to take a little while for us to get there.
00:25:38.000And now Joe Biden has declared, of course, as you would expect, that now that he got his legislative priority, his big win, now there's hope.
00:25:45.000So there wasn't hope a week ago when it was perfectly obvious that COVID was ending.
00:25:49.000No, now there's hope because obviously, obviously things are different now because he got what he wanted.
00:25:54.000Because for months at this point, it has been perfectly obvious this thing was coming to an end.
00:25:58.000And it was just a question of can they sneak in under the wire and spend more money than has ever been created?
00:26:04.000There is light at the end of this dark tunnel in the past year.
00:26:08.000But we cannot let our guard down now or assume that victory is inevitable.
00:26:14.000Together, we're going to get through this pandemic and usher in a healthier and more hopeful future.
00:26:20.000So there is real reason for hope, folks.
00:27:48.000Again, Democrats require the presence of President Houseplant here to ram this thing through because people find him completely unthreatening.
00:27:54.000It's the reason why they won't trot him out.
00:27:55.000Because the more they trot him out, the more it is clear that this man is losing it.
00:27:59.000And the fact that he is losing it means that he is not really in control of his own administration.
00:28:02.000Yesterday, for example, Joe Biden just ignored questions on doing press conferences.
00:28:05.000He has now gone longer than any president in 100 years, according to ABC News.
00:29:03.000Well, inflation is gonna be the long-term cost here.
00:29:05.000According to the New York Times, while the Biden administration's ambitious effort to solve the pandemic's deep economic wounds made its way through Congress.
00:29:13.000It's an attempt to solve the nation's deep economic wounds by, you know, spending a trillion dollars more than actual direct relief to the American people.
00:29:20.000Proponents insisted that funneling $1.9 trillion to American households and businesses wouldn't unshackle a long-vanquished monster, inflation.
00:29:29.000Officials at the Federal Reserve have said there's little cause for worry.
00:29:32.000But as the legislation moved toward the finish line, inflation prospects increasingly influenced political commentary and Wall Street trading.
00:29:38.000The worries reflect expectations of a rapid economic expansion as businesses reopen and the pandemic recedes.
00:29:44.000Millions are still unemployed, layoffs remain high, but for workers with secure jobs, higher spending seems almost certain in the months ahead as vaccinations prompt Americans to get out and about, deploying savings built up over the last year.
00:29:54.000Okay, what this does is it devalues your savings.
00:29:56.000It causes people to spend more money, which causes prices to rise, which hurts people who are the lowest income among us, and eventually means that people who are buying American debt realize they're gonna be paid off in inflated dollars.
00:30:08.000Because you're going to have to put dollars into the system in order to keep maintaining that system.
00:30:13.000Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan, is among those tracking the inflation threat.
00:30:17.000He says there's a very good chance you're going to have a gangbuster economy for the rest of the year and easily into 2022.
00:30:21.000The question is, does that overheat everything?
00:30:23.000In addition to the $1.9 trillion about to pour forth, Dimon said, $1 trillion in savings that piled up during the pandemic remains unspent.
00:30:45.000It's going to be very hard for America to take out more debt, given the fact that we've already blown out the debt, and everybody knows we're going to inflate.
00:30:51.000Yup, you're starting to see an uptick in mortgage rates.
00:30:53.000unnerving days on Wall Street last week. High-flying tech stocks were particularly upended, though broad share indices remained near record highs.
00:30:59.000Diamond said, I would suspect there's a pretty good chance you're going to see rates going up and people are starting to worry about that.
00:31:03.000Yep, you're starting to see an uptick in mortgage rates.
00:31:06.000Home prices have been surging, but a sustained rise in borrowing costs would almost certainly undermine that trend as well.
00:31:12.000Eventually, you'll get the inflation and then you'll get stagnation.
00:31:16.000That is what's going to happen over the course of the next, I would say, five to ten years, because of what we are doing right now.
00:31:21.000And we don't care, because right now, it's good times.
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00:33:58.000Candace obviously has been one of the more prominent people on social media throughout the past few years.
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00:34:46.000Right now, this COVID quote-unquote relief bill, which is not a COVID relief bill, is extremely popular with the American people.
00:34:51.000Some 75% of Americans say that they love it because, of course, it's free money and because the media have been just pushing this thing like absolute crazy.
00:34:59.000I mean, they've been saying it's the most important bill since the advent of time.
00:35:02.000Since God invented humanity, this is the most important thing that has ever happened.
00:35:30.000Americans on a gut level understand that fighting poverty by just helicoptering cash to people does not actually solve poverty.
00:35:37.000We've tried this over and over in American life.
00:35:39.000So Democrats are in a bit of a bind here.
00:35:41.000That's why they need COVID to continue.
00:35:42.000If COVID doesn't continue, they can't continue to force forward all this radical policy with President Houseplan sitting here talking about how it's going to cure COVID.
00:35:53.000So they've started to push forward the idea that this is all about poverty relief, but I don't think that's going to be quite as popular.
00:35:59.000According to the Washington Post, at first, Democrats described their $1.9 trillion stimulus as a response to a once-in-a-century economic and health emergency.
00:36:07.000But then, language began to shift to something much different, an anti-poverty measure with few precedents in U.S.
00:36:18.000We all know this, and it's going to have a bad effect.
00:36:20.000We're just going to do all the same policies economically as the 1960s, and we'll have the exact same result, and then we will pretend that it had nothing to do with the policy.
00:36:30.000I think that they are, all the people who are very optimistic about Democratic prospects because of this bill, remember, Barack Obama put forth $800 billion in stimulus in his first year in office, and two years later, his party had lost Congress.
00:36:45.000So I really have serious doubts about whether this is actually going to be the bonanzas of the Democrats that seem to think it's going to be for them politically.
00:36:52.000Now, one difference is that the recession That Obama inherited was a very real economic recession.
00:37:00.000It will go back to, we'll go back to regular.
00:37:02.000And so I don't think that the economy is going to be in a state of collapse by 2022, or that we're gonna be in a state of slow recovery.
00:37:08.000In fact, there's a lot of danger of the economy, quote unquote, overheating.
00:37:10.000But by 2024, you're gonna start to see the effects of all of this.
00:37:14.000Meanwhile, the inactual crisis, so it's not, COVID's not a crisis anymore, but we're pretending it's a crisis.
00:37:19.000An actual crisis is happening at our southern border, According to the Washington Post, they're now calling it a crisis.
00:37:26.000The United States currently holds 30% more minors in adult detention centers under Joe Biden than it did at any time during the Trump administration.
00:37:34.000Remember it was all kids in cages for Donald Trump?
00:37:39.00030% more kids are being held in cages by Joe Biden.
00:37:41.000And apparently it's not a crisis, according to Joe Biden and team.
00:37:44.000According to the Washington Post, however, the magnitude of the crisis facing Biden at the U.S.-Mexico border came into clearer focus on Wednesday as the new administration was holding record numbers of unaccompanied migrant teens and children in detention cells.
00:37:55.000For far longer than legally allowed and federal health officials fell further behind in their race to find space for them in shelters.
00:38:45.000Would you describe what's happening on the border as a crisis, given how these numbers are spiking so much week by week?
00:38:51.000You know, I think the, I really, I'm not trying to be cute here, but I think the fact of the matter is, we have to do what we do regardless of what anybody calls the situation.
00:39:02.000And the fact is, we are all focused on improving the situation, on changing to a more humane and efficient system.
00:39:48.000And there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of, you know, pent-up demand.
00:39:58.000I think what we are doing is making sure that we respond to that hope for people who need protection.
00:40:04.000We respond to that hope in a way that their cases can be adjudicated more quickly.
00:40:10.000Okay, except that you guys refused to fund last year during Trump's administration any of the resources necessary to actually adjudicate cases quickly.
00:40:17.000It's not about adjudicating cases quickly.
00:40:18.000It's about releasing people into the interior.
00:40:20.000That's why you have this giant rush to the border.
00:40:22.000But again, the message from the Biden White House is that COVID continues to be a crisis, although now it's on the way because he's fixed everything.
00:40:28.000He gets to declare victory on COVID after spending five minutes in office and inheriting all of Trump's programs and then doing virtually nothing to make things better.
00:40:35.000He gets to claim victory on that over time, but it's still kind of a crisis if you need to push forward another couple of trillion bucks in spending.
00:40:41.000But it's not a crisis at the border when your explicit policy causes a crisis at the border.
00:40:45.000Here's Secretary of State Tony Blinken, again, not admitting crisis at the border, just refusing.
00:40:49.000Surely, the absence of your contradicting the idea that there's a crisis in the border does not, should not be construed as your consenting to the fact that there's a crisis at the border.
00:41:20.000It's a crisis, and it's been caused by them.
00:41:22.000So the Biden administration, once again, pursuing radical policy, as radical policy as any administration in my lifetime.
00:41:28.000And we are supposed to believe that it's all moderate and popular because President Houseplant is over there being non-threatening because basically he's not sentient.
00:41:34.000Meanwhile, the New York Times has discovered a person they will actually defend, which is exciting.
00:41:39.000Actually, there are a couple people they've defended.
00:41:40.000They've defended Nikole Hannah-Jones, even though she is a fiction writer masquerading as a reporter, and even though she's a bully inside the newsroom.
00:41:46.000They won't defend James Bennett, the former op-ed editor who essentially got fired for running a Tom Cotton op-ed.
00:41:51.000They won't defend Barry Weiss, who was called a Nazi within the newsroom.
00:41:56.000They obviously won't defend Donald McNeil.
00:41:57.000They'll get him fired for the great sin of having suggested that there are differences in the use of the N-word based on context.
00:42:04.000All of that is stuff that is not worthy of defense.
00:42:07.000But Taylor Lorenz, who is one of the worst reporters at the New York Times, all Taylor Lorenz does is troll around on the internet, find people's bad old tweets, and then try to destroy their careers.
00:42:15.000She's a bully, and she is a falsifier of information.
00:42:18.000She went into Clubhouse, and she claimed that people have been making comments they absolutely did not make.
00:42:23.000Well, there are a bunch of people who finally got uptight with Taylor Lorenz because Taylor Lorenz tweeted out, and I'm saying her full name here because that's her name.
00:42:31.000I know this is considered somehow bullying and harassment if you say somebody's full name.
00:42:35.000I say people's full names on this program an awful lot.
00:42:38.000Because that's how I distinguish them from other human beings, members of the media, just so you know.
00:42:42.000And so Taylor Lorenz, who nobody had heard of until she started tweeting out about how she was the biggest victim in the world, a lot of people started making fun of her.
00:42:50.000And then Tucker Carlson mentioned that she was not actually a victim in American society, writ large.
00:42:55.000And the New York Times put out a statement.
00:43:51.000What they care about is defending their own.
00:43:53.000And anybody who, by the way, crosses over and attempts to have conversations with anybody on the other side becomes a bad person.
00:43:58.000So, for example, Marlo Stern, who's the idiot entertainment writer for the Daily Beast, the entertainment editor, I believe, senior entertainment editor for the Daily Beast, Tweeted out, quote, I hope.
00:44:27.000Apparently Marlo Stern thinks you should not be allowed to vote for Andrew Yang in New York or you should not vote for Andrew Yang because he appeared on a show with a person who disagreed.
00:44:36.000But don't worry, our media are all for free speech.
00:44:39.000They're all for your ability to speak freely, except that you're not allowed to criticize them or appear on any show of which they disapprove.
00:44:46.000I will note here that it is quite astonishing how few members of the American media have come to the defense of Piers Morgan in the UK.
00:44:52.000So Piers Morgan, of course, lost his job at Good Morning Britain for the great sin of having said he didn't believe Meghan Markle.
00:44:57.000Okay, I also have said I do not believe some things that Meghan Markle has said.
00:45:02.000By the way, the royal family is now denying that they did a lot of the stuff that she's claiming they did, right?
00:45:09.000He said, we are very much not a racist family.
00:45:12.000So he denies all of these charges about how it's racism that drove Meghan Markle from Buckingham Palace or anything like that.
00:45:18.000I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle because she seems frankly to me like a person who is attempting to make the most of her situation for fame and money.
00:45:38.000I believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion.
00:45:42.000If people want to believe Meghan Markle, that's entirely their right.
00:45:46.000I don't believe almost anything that comes out of her mouth.
00:45:49.000And I think the damage she's done to the British monarchy and to the Queen at a time when Prince Philip is lying in hospital is enormous and frankly contemptible.
00:46:01.000So if I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly held opinion, About Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview.
00:46:12.000Okay, what's hilarious about this, of course, the American media are all over Piers Morgan.
00:46:17.000Most of the American media are angry at Piers Morgan for having said that, even though he lost his job for saying a thing.
00:46:22.000By the way, it goes further than that.
00:46:23.000In Britain, this is a story from yesterday, the Huffington Post in Great Britain.
00:46:28.000The head of an industry body for the UK press has now resigned following a backlash for claiming that the UK media is not racist.
00:46:35.000Ian Murray is executive director of the Society of Editors.
00:46:38.000He said he would step down from his role so the organization can, quote, rebuild its reputation after publishing a widely ridiculed claim that the UK media is, quote, unquote, not bigoted.
00:46:47.000In a statement published on Monday that sparked a backlash against the organization, he wrote, quote, the UK media has never shied away from holding a spotlight up to those in positions of power, celebrity or influence.
00:46:55.000If sometimes the questions asked are awkward and embarrassing, then so be it.
00:46:58.000But the press is most certainly not racist.
00:47:00.000His assertion, which he went on to defend in a heated interview with Victoria Derbyshire on Tuesday, was fiercely criticized by members of the SOE's own board.
00:47:07.000So you've got the Society of Editors, which is supposed to be the editors of the British press, who are now suggesting that you ought to be fired as the head of the editors of the British press for saying that they are not racist.
00:47:17.000Apparently, they want the head of their own organization to declare them racist.
00:47:22.000And if he doesn't, they will get him fired.
00:47:24.000That is how perverse woke ideology has become.
00:47:27.000Not only do you feel a sense of joy in denouncing your own racism, if somebody else says you're not a racist, that person should be finished.
00:47:38.000The SOE in Britain represents almost 400 members in senior positions across the UK media, several of whom have now publicly declared their opposition to Murray's statement.
00:47:45.000Award-winning journalist and Loose Women panelist Charlene White announced she had pulled out of hosting the Society of Editors' National Press Awards.
00:47:53.000White cited the much-criticized statement released on Monday in the wake of Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah Winfrey.
00:47:58.000Perhaps it's best for you to look elsewhere for a host for your awards this year, she said.
00:48:01.000Perhaps someone whose views align with yours, that the UK press is the one institution in the entire country who has a perfect record on race.
00:48:06.000Of course, that's not what he's saying.
00:48:27.000167 journalists of color across the British media industry signed an open letter to say they deplored and rejected the Society of Editors statement.
00:48:33.000Quote, while Meghan's comments shone a light on her own personal experiences of discriminatory treatment, they reflect the depressingly familiar reality of how people from black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds are portrayed by the UK press on a daily basis.
00:48:46.000The Society of Editors claim that the Sussex view, that'd be Harry and Meghan, were made without supporting evidence shows a willful ignorance of not just the discriminatory treatment of Meghan, Some of which was highlighted during the interview, but that of other people from an ethnic minority background.
00:49:01.000Murray said he would step down from his role.
00:49:03.000He said, well, I do not agree that the Society's statement was in any way intended to defend racism.
00:49:07.000I accept it could have been much clearer in its condemnation of bigotry and has clearly caused upset.
00:49:12.000So I'm stepping aside so the organization can rebuild its reputation.
00:49:15.000This is how bad our press has become, on both sides of the water, by the way.
00:49:19.000Our press is so bad that not only will they not defend somebody who loses their job for expressing an honestly held opinion that is well within the mainstream, 51% of the British public believes that Harry and Meghan should lose their titles, But the press will oust its own members for having the temerity to say this sort of stuff.
00:49:38.000Our institutions have been taken over by the woke and militarized by the woke.
00:49:43.000And they will not allow any dissent, by the way.
00:49:45.000If you dissent from this opinion, this makes you racist.
00:49:47.000They believe in the Ibram Kendi nonsense that if you declare that you're not racist after somebody calls you a racist, this just makes you more racist.
00:49:54.000Over on this side of the water, obviously you have reporters like CNN's Don Lemon, who is such a journalist.
00:49:58.000I mean, this guy, he journalism's everywhere.
00:50:01.000And my goodness, the levels of journalism.
00:50:03.000So last night, Don Lemon over at CNN was very upset with Tim Scott.
00:50:07.000Senator Tim Scott had said that woke supremacy right now, not historically, because woke supremacy didn't exist historically.
00:50:13.000He's saying woke supremacy, meaning people who want to separate Americans based on race and then use institutions of power to quash their opponents.
00:50:20.000Those people are worse than white supremacists, or as bad as white supremacists.
00:50:31.000They seek to use their institutional power in order to quash people of other races.
00:50:34.000They suggest that if you disagree with them, it's because you're intellectually or morally inferior.
00:50:37.000But Don Lemon is, in fact, a woke supremacist.
00:50:40.000He actually believes in critical racial theory and wokeness.
00:50:43.000He believes in it so much that he doesn't even care about basic journalistic standards.
00:50:47.000And you'll remember that Don Lemon over the past few days has announced, you don't even need to hear the other side of the story from the royal family.
00:50:54.000Because Meghan Markle obviously is saying so many things that are so obviously true to Don Lemon, that hearing the other side of the story would be unwoke.
00:51:00.000And so we shouldn't hear from the other side, which is a hell of a thing for a purported journalist to say. Well, now Don Lemon goes after Tim Scott in possibly the dumbest possible way.
00:51:09.000I didn't see any woke supremacists storming the blanking Capitol.
00:51:19.000Where are the woke supremacists attacking police?
00:51:22.000Where are the woke supremacists hunting police officers in the halls of the Capitol and beating them with Blue Lives Matter signs with white supremacist insignia on their shirts and carrying white supremacist paraphernalia?
00:52:51.000Only one has tremendous influential sway Only one has now infiltrated pretty much every major institution in American society.
00:52:59.000John Mirowski of RealClearInvestigations has a fascinating piece today about how California, the entire state, is embracing mandatory racial injustice study for all of its 1.7 million high schoolers.
00:53:11.000Quote, California has struggled for five years to create a politically palatable ethnic studies curriculum that would teach high schoolers how systemic racism, predatory capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and quote, other structures of oppression are foundational to American society.
00:53:25.000Now, after more than 82,000 public comments and four major rewrites, the State Board of Education is expected to approve the latest version next week, clearing the way for lawmakers to make a semester-long course in the material a graduation requirement for all of California's 1.7 million high school students.
00:53:41.000The latest curriculum, however scaled back, still shares similarities with an earlier rejected draft a top state official said failed to comply with state law.
00:53:49.000Times editorial board characterized it as a jumble of, quote, politically correct pronouncements that feel like an exercising groupthink designed to proselytize and inculcate more than to inform and open minds.
00:54:03.000Times editorial board is one of the most left-leaning editorial boards in America.
00:54:08.000According to Real Clear Investigations, when all is said and done, the material emphasizes white subjugation of non-whites.
00:54:14.000It's not a conventional textbook subject, but an ideology with an activist political agenda.
00:54:18.000Revisions may never satisfy parents and teachers who believe public schools shouldn't be in the business of teaching kids how to develop a quote-unquote social consciousness or using class time to pinpoint a student's intersectional identity to determine where they fit on a hierarchy of power.
00:54:31.000At the same time, ethnic studies activists are furious that their efforts at promoting social justice and centering, quote, voices of colors are being diluted by, as they put it, power structures such as whiteness, Zionism, and assimilationism.
00:54:44.000Passage of the landmark curriculum at the board's scheduled meeting on March 18th should mark a hard-fought victory for the half-century-old ethnic studies movement and help advocates promote their movement across the country.
00:54:52.000It won't end the conflict in California, where the issue will then be forced to the local level to be decided by local school boards or in individual classrooms.
00:54:59.000The reason is because state guidelines grant teachers wide flexibility in how they teach the subject.
00:55:06.000They want a state crammed down on this stuff.
00:55:09.000They insist on hewing to a heroic narrative about how people of color have suffered and fought against European capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism.
00:55:17.000Practitioners have formed their own organization, the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Institute.
00:55:22.000For the past year, activists have been meeting in online sessions to hash out strategy, expound upon their liberatory and transformational ideology, and encourage educators to teach the full-strength curriculum that the state has already flunked.
00:55:34.000The Liberated Ethnic Studies Group includes many of the original authors of the 2019 Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum the state has gutted, as well as 50 scholars, teachers, practitioners, and students, according to Allison Tintianko-Kubalis, an Asian American Studies professor at San Francisco State University.
00:55:49.000The advocates say many state officials fail to grasp ethnic studies is not a traditional school subject, but a movement and a philosophy best described as narrative medicine, radical healing, and even a way of life.
00:56:01.000And these folks will gain institutional power and they will use that institutional power in order to cram this crap down on you.
00:56:08.000And when Don Lemon suggests that woke supremacy means nothing, he is speaking from his position as a CNN anchor at the most widely respected news network in America, speaking as a person who believes in critical racial theory and wokeness.
00:56:23.000And everybody who disagrees will be ousted.
00:56:26.000And people who suggest that the press are not racist will be ousted.
00:56:30.000Hey, the woke are coming for everyone.
00:56:35.000On the governmental level, we are now enmeshed in a complete rethinking of the nature of the relationship between government and the individual.
00:56:41.000Government is gonna take care of all of your needs.
00:56:42.000All you have to do is sacrifice your self-respect, sacrifice your rights, sacrifice your freedoms, and the government will take care of everything for you.
00:56:49.000The government will rectify all past injustices.
00:56:52.000All you have to do is pledge your fealty to an overarching state and a media infrastructure that acts as its propaganda wing.
00:56:57.000That's all you have to do, and everything will be all better.
00:57:00.000All of this done under the auspices of President Houseplant and his compliant media.
00:57:04.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.