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00:00:25.000Well, there's nothing like coming back from a weekend where you consider the sacrifices made by so many on behalf of the freedoms of this country to realize that everything has gotten stupider.
00:00:34.000Somehow everything has gotten stupider and worse over time.
00:00:36.000It just, it continues to get stupider and worse, like without end and without cease.
00:00:41.000So I think to begin, We need to talk a little bit about Joe Biden last week.
00:01:14.000These all seem like fairly commonsensical things.
00:01:17.000Also, if you're going to blame an institution for being racist, you should be able to cite the rules of the institution that discriminate against somebody.
00:01:24.000Also, if somebody within an institution acts outside the scope of authority and does something racist and or bad, that person should lose their job.
00:01:32.000All of these things I think we should all be able to agree on because this is just called basic human decency at this point.
00:01:37.000Well, all of this has broken freshly into public view because Joe Biden last week decided to invoke the race issue once more.
00:01:46.000And this ties into a broader discussion about race in America.
00:01:49.000And that is putting all the commonsensical stuff aside.
00:01:52.000Putting aside the ability of all of us to agree on most of the things that I just said, the basic idea here is that America is at root racist, that most Americans are not in fact good-hearted, that deep inside the heart of most Americans is an unspoken racism, is a bias against black Americans, and that every story that demonstrates bias is an indicator of the great evil that is America, and every story that indicates non-bias is an outlier.
00:02:17.000What you see as the common and what you see as the outlier is almost flipped in this particular view of America.
00:02:23.000Okay, so as you'll recall, last week, when last we left our story, before you had a Memorial Day weekend, Joe Biden had gotten himself in trouble.
00:02:31.000Well, he went on a show called The Breakfast Club.
00:02:32.000He was talking to a host called Charlamagne Than God, and the vice president and the presidential front runner, Joe Biden, he said that you're not black if you support President Trump, or even if you have to think about whether to support President Trump.
00:02:47.000Listen, you gotta come see us when you come to New York, VP Biden.
00:03:20.000We should stop talking about Biden's gap.
00:03:22.000So here's a montage of Democrats over the weekend basically suggesting there's nothing to see here, that when Joe Biden suggests that if you're a black Republican, you're not actually black, that that's not a big deal.
00:03:30.000Here's a giant montage of people ranging from Val Demings to other characters on CNN talking about the non-story that is Joe Biden's comment here.
00:04:05.000To his credit, Joe Biden recognized within minutes that he had gotten carried away.
00:04:10.000I think he has apologized and he should have apologized.
00:04:13.000It was like, you know, one of those jokes that just falls flat.
00:04:17.000Okay, so when people were playing this as a joke, it was no big deal.
00:04:19.000Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post today says that it's a joke.
00:04:22.000That was Jade Johnson saying it's a joke, and Michelle Sindoor saying that it's a joke.
00:04:25.000Everybody basically saying it's a joke.
00:04:26.000Now, when Trump tells a joke, it's not a joke.
00:04:28.000When Joe Biden doesn't tell a joke, it is a joke, is sort of the way this works.
00:04:32.000But underlying a lot of this is the basic perception in radical left circles and among many of the intelligentsia in the mainstream media that basically Joe Biden was right.
00:04:40.000When Joe Biden says you're not legitimately black, unless you vote for a Democrat, that he is basically correct.
00:04:45.000And I think that this viewpoint is worth exploring because I do think that it animates a lot of our politics today.
00:04:49.000The attempt to see all of politics in terms of racial verity.
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00:06:18.000So, there are a couple of people who just said the quiet part out loud.
00:06:21.000And the quiet part is that Joe Biden is actually right.
00:06:23.000The one Joe Biden says that Black people who don't vote for him are not Black, that he's actually right, is Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is one of the chief, one of the leaders of the 1619 Project.
00:06:33.000She's won the Pulitzer Prize for an essay that had some good parts, but was horribly fact-checked and just told open lies about the state of America and about the history of America.
00:06:43.000She tweeted out, There is a difference between being politically black and being racially black.
00:06:47.000I'm not defending anyone, but we all know this and should stop pretending that we don't.
00:06:51.000And people responded to her and said, well, I'm black and I'm Republican, so what are you talking about?
00:06:55.000And she said, well, if you don't know, I won't tell you, which is always the mark of somebody who has a lot of faith in their own statements here.
00:07:02.000She ended up deleting this tweet because, of course, it was pretty humiliating to the New York Times that there's a difference between being politically black and being racially black.
00:07:08.000Jemele Hill, who used to be on ESPN, now I believe she is with The Ringer, she tweeted out the issue wasn't what Joe Biden said because it was accurate.
00:07:17.000It was also clearly a joke that didn't land.
00:07:19.000I'm wondering where all this outrage was yesterday when you all president decided his public devotion to a declared his public devotion to a Nazi sympathizer.
00:07:27.000Okay, so anyway, that's Jemele Hill, fairly typical.
00:07:30.000The issue wasn't what Joe Biden said because it was accurate.
00:07:32.000So I want to actually take this view seriously because I think that this view is worth taking seriously considering so much of it dominates our public debate.
00:07:39.000So I think that there are a few things we need to consider.
00:07:42.000One is race does not decide politics, obviously.
00:07:45.000The level of melanin in your skin does not determine whether you are a Democrat or Republican.
00:07:50.000It is also true that you could make the argument that certain policies are better for black Americans and certain policies are worse for black Americans.
00:07:55.000And you could do this about any group.
00:07:56.000You can say certain policies are better for gay Americans, certain policies are worse for gay Americans.
00:08:00.000But how people decide on which values they perceive to be important in politics really does not have to be decided by race.
00:08:08.000So for example, let's say that there's a policy that you think is good for black Americans like affirmative action, but you also believe that this comes along with a lot of democratic baggage that you don't agree with.
00:08:16.000And so you vote Republican instead, even if you agree with affirmative action.
00:08:19.000Or let's say that you think that affirmative action may be good for a subset of Black Americans, but it is not generally good for Black Americans or good for America more broadly.
00:08:27.000These are all calculations you can make.
00:08:28.000So the basic idea that if you are Black and not a Democrat, that you are not Black is, of course, incredibly silly.
00:08:33.000Clarence Thomas is presumably Republican.
00:08:35.000The man grew up the grandson of a sharecropper after he didn't know who his father was.
00:08:39.000Thomas Sowell grew up extraordinarily poor, lived in a segregated area.
00:08:43.000There are plenty of Black Republicans who have Been fully black, right?
00:08:49.000But there is a sense in which you could perceive that voting for a particular party would call your self-perception of race into question.
00:09:00.000Okay, the only way this would work is not based on differential value assessments of politics.
00:09:06.000It would be when you are under existential threat.
00:09:08.000And this explains why so much of democratic rhetoric, why so much of wild leftist rhetoric is about the idea That voting is not about prioritization of values or costs and benefits of particular policies.
00:09:21.000Because the truth is that for black Americans, for a long time, voting was about survival.
00:09:25.000If you were a black American and you were voting in favor of Democrats who were keeping you segregated in 1956 Alabama, There's a good case to be made that you are not thinking about your own race properly, right?
00:09:37.000If you're a race that is under the threat of extermination, the threat of extinction, the threat of open discrimination, not covert, not implied open discrimination.
00:09:47.000If you voted for somebody who said black people are inferior, Right?
00:09:50.000It wasn't like there was another and it wasn't like there were no other choices or something.
00:09:54.000Okay, then you could see somebody like Nicole Hannah-Jones saying, okay, well, that's, you're not being politically black, meaning your group is under actual threat.
00:10:01.000And therefore you have to vote like your group is under actual threat.
00:10:04.000The problem is that in America right now, black Americans are not under actual threat from political group.
00:10:09.000Now that does not mean that there aren't individual instances of racism.
00:10:13.000And one of the things that we need to go back to the commonsensical view of is that we all have the ability to call out instances of racism when we see them.
00:10:20.000So, for example, over the weekend, there was a woman who trended on Twitter because a tape came out of her calling the police on a black man.
00:10:31.000This video was put out by a person named Melody Cooper.
00:10:35.000Cooper tweeted, Okay, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the famous Bramble in New York Central Park where it is clearly posted on signs that dogs must be leashed at all times and someone like my brother, an avid birder, politely asks her to put her dog on the leash, then she calls the cops.
00:10:53.000And this can fairly be said to be racist.
00:10:56.000I mean, what she's doing here seems to be a pretty obvious instance of racism.
00:10:59.000So this black man says to her, put your dog on the leash, according to him.
00:11:05.000And then she basically threatens to call the cops.
00:11:08.000And not only does she threaten to call the cops, what's amazing about this is she is imputing to the police her own level of racism.
00:11:14.000Because she says, I'm going to call the cops and I'm going to tell them that an African-American man is threatening my life.
00:11:19.000Assuming, presumably, that the police being brutal, vicious racists at the NYPD are going to arrive and immediately just shoot the black guy.
00:11:24.000Which, of course, there's no evidence of.
00:12:15.000By the way, the dog ended up being taken away from her by the shelter that saw this video because she's grabbing the dog without the leash.
00:12:22.000She's grabbing it by the collar to subdue it.
00:12:24.000When the police arrived, only the woman remained on the scene, according to the police.
00:12:28.000Melody and Christian Cooper did not return messages seeking comment on Monday night.
00:12:32.000So Christian Cooper is the name of the man.
00:12:35.000He put out an account, and he explained that basically she was making a false report to the police.
00:12:41.000So, according to the New York Daily News, according to the New York Daily News, on Monday night, a firm for which the woman is believed to have worked, Franklin Templeton, tweeted a statement she'd been placed on administrative leave while they investigated the incident.
00:12:53.000The dog rescue organization in which she was involved, Abandoned Angels Cocker Spaniel, said on its Facebook page she had voluntarily surrendered the rescue pup.
00:13:01.000She apparently has now apologized for the situation.
00:13:06.000I sincerely and humbly apologize to anyone who saw this, especially to that man.
00:13:20.000I've come to realize, especially today, that I think of the police as a protection agency, and unfortunately, this has caused me to realize there's so many people in this country that don't have that luxury.
00:13:29.000She said that her entire life is being destroyed right now because she's put on administrative leave.
00:13:56.000So again, basically he requested, according to Melody Cooper, that she leash her dog and apparently she went nuts on him and then he started videotaping her to document the exchange.
00:14:08.000Again, the part of this that seems racist is that she keeps saying that he's an African-American man and she's going to call in the cops to take care of this African-American man.
00:14:40.000There's a story from the Associated Press today.
00:14:42.000A black man has died in Minneapolis police custody after video shared online from a bystander showed a white officer kneeling on his neck during an arrest as he pleaded that he couldn't breathe.
00:14:49.000His death, which occurred Monday night after a struggle with police officers, was under investigation by the FBI and state agents.
00:14:54.000Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, speaking to reporters on Tuesday morning, was asked about the use of the knee on the man's neck during the arrest.
00:15:02.000Arradondo said we clearly have policies in place regarding placing someone under control.
00:15:06.000And he said that this will be an investigation that they do internally.
00:15:10.000Apparently, somebody was called to investigate a report of a forgery at a business, which I didn't even realize was a thing.
00:15:14.000Like, how do you stop a forgery in progress?
00:15:16.000Police found a man believed to be in his 40s matching a suspect's description in his car.
00:15:20.000According to the police, he was ordered to step from the car.
00:15:22.000After he got out, he physically resisted officers.
00:15:25.000Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.
00:15:29.000He was taken by ambulance to the Hennepin County Medical Center.
00:15:33.000The name of the officer seen kneeling on his neck was not immediately released.
00:15:36.000Apparently, he kept saying over and over that he couldn't breathe and people were saying he needed to get off his neck because he can't breathe.
00:15:41.000Okay, so this is an incident where it's not clear whether it is racist or just police incompetence.
00:15:45.000Whatever it is, they're gonna get to the bottom of it and someone's probably gonna get prosecuted.
00:15:49.000Okay, so again, this would be an instance where everyone basically agrees.
00:15:53.000Right, so, the common sense view of this is that America is, overall, not a racist place.
00:15:59.000That when people are racist, and there's video of it, people go nuts on Twitter, on social media, it becomes a national story.
00:16:05.000That when an incident happens in Minneapolis, there's a full investigation, and there should be.
00:16:09.000That when there's a cover-up, people are gonna lose their jobs in the Ahmaud Arbery case over in Georgia.
00:16:13.000I promise you, that DA's, the original DA is gonna be, maybe, I mean, if there was corruption hauled up on charges, and people are being tried for murder, So what does that say about the state of America?
00:16:22.000Well, it says that Joe Biden is wrong, right?
00:16:23.000Because black Americans are not under existential threat from Republicans.
00:16:27.000The argument that Joe Biden was innately making, which is that black Americans have to vote for him because they are under existential threat from Republicans, that's not true.
00:16:35.000But that's not stopping the media from pushing A continued narrative that is absolutely free of common sense.
00:16:41.000And that's particularly true when it comes to COVID-19.
00:16:44.000I've been predicting for literally months that this is the direction the media were going to move, that eventually they would try to racialize COVID-19, even though it's hitting everybody, particularly older people.
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00:18:01.000So as I say, the media have tried to take the underlying Joe Biden narrative, which is that if you are Republican, you are threatening the lives of black people and then extend that into COVID-19 because Donald Trump is president.
00:18:12.000If Barack Obama were president, Let me just explain.
00:18:15.000If Barack Obama were president, there would still be a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic Americans dying.
00:18:19.000Some of that would be for obvious medical reasons, namely that obesity is a massive issue.
00:18:28.000It's even bigger among minorities in America.
00:18:30.000And obesity is a massive confound when it comes to COVID-19.
00:18:34.000Also, there's an article from Fiona Mitchell over in The Lancet, which is, again, kind of the medical journal of record, Talking about how vitamin D supplementation is a key here, that people who do not get enough vitamin D have been experiencing serious symptoms of coronavirus.
00:18:51.000Not only does that mean that if you're older and you don't get enough vitamin D, that it could have a real problem for you.
00:18:58.000According to The Lancet, quote, data from the UK office for national statistics shows that black people in England and Wales are more than four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than are white people.
00:19:09.000So what we keep hearing from the media, as we'll see, is that black Americans are dying at a higher rate than white Americans because black Americans were victims of racism and continue to be victims of racism.
00:19:18.000There's an entire article in the New York Times today blaming slavery for differential rates of death from COVID-19.
00:19:26.000Why exactly are black people in England and Wales four times more likely to die from COVID-19?
00:19:30.000Well, the Lancet suggests black and minority ethnic people who are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency because they have darker skin seem to be worse affected than white people by COVID-19.
00:19:38.000So in other words, medical reasons would likely explain the differential.
00:19:42.000This, by the way, is also true of maternal mortality.
00:19:44.000Not with regard to vitamin D, but with regard to obesity rates and premature birth.
00:19:48.000Maternal mortality rates are very, very different between black and white in America.
00:19:51.000They're also vastly different in Europe.
00:19:53.000Nobody ever seems to go across the water and notice the racial disparity, which would seemingly remove American racism as the unique cause of these sorts of disparities.
00:20:02.000That doesn't stop the New York Times from running a piece today called, It's Not Obesity, It's Slavery.
00:20:06.000We know why COVID-19 is killing so many black people.
00:20:08.000So you're going to have to explain why slavery, which technically entered the United States in 1865, is going to have to do with the differential rate.
00:20:17.000I mean, 1865, last I checked, was 160 years ago.
00:20:20.000You're going to have to explain to me why that has to do with differential rates.
00:21:07.000If you are a healthy young black person, you're dying of this at the same rate as a healthy young white person.
00:21:13.000If you're an unhealthy white person, you're also dying of higher rates.
00:21:15.000In other words, looking at the racial confounders as though that is the key indicator is not right.
00:21:20.000Looking at the medical confounds is the key indicator would be right.
00:21:22.000But this plays into the Joe Biden narrative, which is that if he were president, black people would not be dying at a higher rate, which of course is silly.
00:21:29.000And Barack Obama would make the same argument.
00:21:31.000And then if we're pointed out that, by the way, people are going to die at the same rates regardless because the situation on the ground is the situation on the ground, then you just blame historic racism, which of course is connected with the evils of today's Donald Trump.
00:21:44.000You play this intellectually dishonest game where you say slavery equals Donald Trump.
00:21:50.000Therefore, Donald Trump is leading to it right now.
00:21:53.000This is why this New York Times piece argues, Despite the lack of clarity surrounding findings, one interpretation of the disparities is the idea that black people are unduly obese, which is seen as a driver of other chronic illnesses and is believed to put black people at high risk for serious complications from COVID-19.
00:22:06.000These claims have received intense media attention.
00:22:09.000According to CDC, 42.2% of white Americans and 49.6% of African Americans are obese.
00:22:15.000Researchers have yet to clarify how a 7 percentage point disparity in obesity prevalence translates to a 240% to 700% disparity in fatalities.
00:22:24.000Experts have raised questions about the rush to implicate obesity, and especially severe obesity.
00:22:50.000The goal is that in order to target Republicans as the root of all evil, you're going to suggest that slavery is the root of all evil and that every outlier, every bad situation in America, every racist situation in America is an indicator of deep American evil, not a situation in which you can look and you can actually see in real time as good-hearted Americans on all sides of the aisle condemn the racism.
00:23:13.000It's easier to move into the idea that America is deeply racist because people are dying at differential rates of COVID-19.
00:23:20.000We're going to get to more of this in just one second because this would provide Donald Trump with an opportunity to be a unifying figure considering the Democrats right now, including Joe Biden, are trying to divide Americans along racial lines in a time when we have a pandemic that is hitting everybody and when everybody is scared and we've had the greatest lockdown in American history.
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00:24:52.000It is called the general election scenario that Democrats are dreading.
00:24:55.000Written by Ryan Lizza and Daniel Lipman, neither one of them a right winger.
00:24:58.000In early April, Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration, now a professor at Harvard, was speaking via Zoom to a large bipartisan group of top officials from both parties.
00:25:06.000The economy had just been shut down, unemployment was spiking, and some policymakers were predicting an era worse than the Great Depression.
00:25:12.000The economic carnage seemed likely to doom President Donald Trump's chances at re-election.
00:25:16.000Furman, tapped to give the opening presentation, looked into his screen of poorly lit boxes of frightened wonks and made a startling claim.
00:25:22.000We're about to see the best economic data we've seen in the history of this country.
00:25:25.000The former Cabinet Secretaries and Federal Reserve Chairs in the Zoom boxes were confused.
00:25:30.000Furman said everyone looked puzzled, as though I'd misspoken.
00:25:32.000He then laid out a detailed case for why the months preceding the November election could offer Trump the chance to brag truthfully about the most explosive monthly employment numbers and GDP growth ever.
00:26:13.000It is not only unfortunate, it also means that people are suspicious that Democrats are going to artificially tamp down the economy in order to ensure that Donald Trump isn't reelected.
00:26:21.000I mean, it's hard not to draw that conclusion when you're saying you're deeply worried that the economy may recover.
00:26:26.000In a V-shaped recovery, the economy would recover much faster than during the Great Recession.
00:26:31.000Furman said the Trump argument will be he's producing the fastest job growth and fastest economic growth in history.
00:26:35.000If he has any ability to do nonce, he will say, we're not there yet.
00:26:39.000The Biden argument will be the unemployment rate is still 12%.
00:26:41.000Even with those millions of jobs, we are still down 15 million jobs and we need new economic policies.
00:26:48.000If you see it as a massive recovery that is damaging to Democrats.
00:26:52.000So this is why a lot of Democrats are moving into the sort of territory of race first, of race first.
00:27:00.000Okay, well, but that leads to, that gives President Trump a pretty good opening here, right?
00:27:04.000All President Trump has to do to win re-election.
00:27:06.000And there are some polls out, by the way, from CNBC showing that President Trump is still doing fairly well in the swing states.
00:27:13.000In a hypothetical matchup among all the battleground voters surveyed, he has a 48-46 lead over Joe Biden, this is according to CNBC on May 20th.
00:27:24.000Democrats and Republicans in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin basically have Trump running a little bit ahead.
00:27:31.000So that is a narrow lead, and he's leading among independents, and he is leading Biden 51 to 40 in terms of who would do a better job handling the economy.
00:27:38.000That seems like a pretty solid base to run on.
00:27:40.000When you add on top of that the widespread American perception, the widespread American agreement that we are not at root a racist country, that America is actually filled with good-hearted people who are willing to call out racism, and the Democrats' racial narrative starts to fall flat too.
00:27:54.000So yesterday was Memorial Day and President Trump spoke on Memorial Day and he talked about the National Anthem and the National Anthem uniting us.
00:27:59.000Now, if President Trump were a unifying figure, this would be a great pitch.
00:28:03.000Because the fact is that most Americans still believe in the National Anthem and the American flag.
00:28:06.000And the fact that so many Democrats have gone out of their way to express sympathy for people who kneel for the National Anthem is a big electoral loser for them and is not a winner for them.
00:28:15.000Here's President Trump talking about this yesterday.
00:28:17.000Every time we sing our anthem, every time its rousing chorus swells our hearts with pride, we renew the eternal bonds of loyalty to our fallen heroes.
00:28:29.000We think of the soldiers who spend their final heroic moments on distant battlefields to keep us safe at home.
00:28:38.000We remember the young Americans who never got the chance to grow old, but whose legacy will outlive us all.
00:28:48.000And then President Trump yesterday, of course, when he laid a wreath at Arlington, the media totally miscovered this because Trump then went golfing a little bit later in the day.
00:28:56.000And so they showed pictures of Joe Biden at Memorial Day at a local veterans memorial, and then they juxtaposed that with Trump golfing.
00:29:02.000But Trump did go to lay a wreath at Arlington.
00:29:20.000All of this is a good opportunity for Trump.
00:29:22.000Joe Biden is trying to claim that Republicans are an existential threat to black Americans.
00:29:26.000That they literally, I mean, that is the underlying message that he is providing, echoed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, echoed by Jemele Hill, right?
00:30:22.000Barack Obama was a deeply disunifying president.
00:30:26.000In a time when Democrats are openly worried about an economic recovery, for Donald Trump to get on Twitter and then fulminate over Joe Scarborough and suggest that Joe Scarborough is a full-on murderer, Question, how in the world is that useful?
00:31:22.000Because if you believe in a lot of the Donald Trump agenda, in terms of stuff he's doing policy-wise, you need to root for him to stop this bullcrap.
00:31:30.000And we can get to more of this in just one second.
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00:34:25.000He's got Joe Biden living in a basement, not able to string together a sentence, and claiming that black people are under existential threat because of the same Joe Biden who suggested that Mitt Romney was going to re-enslave black people in 2012.
00:35:14.000I don't know why he was on this guy's account.
00:35:15.000We just got a look at the official portrait for the self-proclaimed governor of Georgia.
00:35:18.000She fought a tough race, kissed a lot of babies, visited every buffet restaurant in the state.
00:35:22.000Joe will be a racist if he doesn't pick her.
00:35:23.000So you got the president now calling Stacey Abrams fat, which is always an excellent, excellent look.
00:35:29.000Then he decided, you know, it's a good idea.
00:35:31.000I'm going to spend the entire weekend implying that Joe Scarborough murdered an intern.
00:35:36.000So for people who didn't know this story, back when Joe Scarborough was in Congress, there was an intern in his office and she died in one of his congressional offices.
00:35:48.000She died because she had an undiagnosed heart condition.
00:35:51.000She had apparently some sort of heart attack and she banged her head on a desk and she died.
00:36:26.000Was the President of the United States.
00:36:29.000And just like he said, the opening of a cold case against psycho Joe Scarborough was not a Donald Trump original thought.
00:36:34.000This has been going on for years, long before I joined the chorus.
00:36:36.000In 2016, when Joe and his wacky future ex-wife Mika would endlessly interview me, I would always be thinking about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing.
00:36:45.000Maybe or maybe not, but I find Joe to be a total nutjob, and I knew him well, far better than most.
00:36:49.000So many unanswered and obvious questions, but I won't bring them up now.
00:37:10.000This led to the wonderful spectacle of the husband of the woman writing a letter to Jack Dorsey of Twitter saying, Mr. Dorsey, nearly 19 years ago, my wife, who had an undiagnosed heart condition, fell and hit her head on her desk at work.
00:37:25.000Her name is Lori K. Klausitis, and she was 28 years old when she died.
00:37:29.000Her passing is the single most painful thing I've ever had to deal with in my 52 years and continues to haunt her parents and sister.
00:37:35.000I have mourned my wife every day since her passing.
00:37:36.000I have tried to honor her memory and our marriage.
00:37:38.000As her husband, I feel one of my marital obligations is to protect her memory as I would have protected her in life.
00:37:43.000There has been a constant barrage of falsehoods, half-truths, innuendo, and conspiracy theories since the day she died.
00:37:47.000I realize this may sound like an exaggeration.
00:37:49.000Unfortunately, it is the verifiable truth.
00:37:51.000Because of this, I have struggled to move forward with my life.
00:37:54.000The frequency, intensity, ugliness, and promulgation of these horrifying lies ever increases on the internet.
00:37:58.000These conspiracy theorists, including most recently the President of the United States, continue to spread their violent misinformation on your platform, disparaging the memory of our wife and our marriage.
00:38:09.000And then he asks Jack Dorsey to delete Trump's tweets.
00:38:19.000It's obviously immoral to accuse people of murder without evidence.
00:38:22.000It turns out to be a very, very immoral thing to do.
00:38:24.000It also turns out that when you're accusing a woman who is married of having an affair with another man without any evidence, that's also a very ugly and terrible thing to do.
00:38:32.000But put aside that, if you're a Republican and you're thinking you want Trump re-elected, This is political malpractice.
00:38:38.000Speaking of political malpractice, President Trump decided to go after Jeff Sessions, his former Attorney General.
00:38:45.000Senator Sessions, okay, or Attorney General Sessions, he'd been a senator in Alabama.
00:38:49.000When he first ran in Alabama, he ran a competitive race.
00:38:51.000By the time he ran for re-election, for like the third time, Jeff Sessions had no opponents.
00:38:56.000He was winning over two-thirds of the vote.
00:38:58.000Now, Jeff Sessions was not available to run in the last senatorial election.
00:39:03.000Instead, Alabama Republicans decided Roy Moore would be their candidate, a guy who allegedly was trolling the food courts for 14-year-olds when he was in his 30s.
00:39:13.000And then he lost to Doug Jones, specifically because people don't like electing people who troll the food courts for 14-year-olds when they are 30 years old.
00:39:20.000So Doug Jones, a Democrat, ended up representing Alabama.
00:39:23.000That Alabama Senate seat is a debacle.
00:40:52.000You lose, right now, the Republicans are in serious danger of losing the Senate.
00:40:57.000There's a very, very good shot that when January 2021 comes around, Joe Biden is sitting in the Oval Office, and he has a Democrat majority in the Senate, a Democrat majority willing to get rid of the filibuster, and he has a Democrat majority in the House.
00:41:30.000You never told me of a problem and ran for the hills.
00:41:32.000You had no courage and ruined many lives.
00:41:34.000The dirty cops and others got caught by better and stronger people than you.
00:41:37.000Hopefully this slime will pay a big You should drop out of the race and pray that super liberal Doug Jones and weakened pathetic puppet for crazy Nancy Pelosi and crying Chuck Schumer gets beaten badly.
00:41:47.000He voted for impeachment based on zero.
00:41:50.000Coach Tommy Tuberville will be a great senator.
00:41:53.000And then Trump went on national TV and trashed sessions again.
00:41:56.000I mean, this is just, like, in terms of personal loyalty, forget about, like, the personal qualities it takes to be this disloyal to a human being who put his career on the line and became your Attorney General.
00:42:05.000By the way, he was a good Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.
00:43:21.000But she tweeted out the most disloyal actual bleep that has ever set foot in the Oval Office is trying to lose and take the Senate with him.
00:43:26.000Another Roy Moore fiasco so he can blame someone else for his own mess.
00:43:47.000I don't want to see Joe Biden come in and push Medicare for all.
00:43:50.000I don't want to see Joe Biden come in and continue to play the race card along the lines of the 1619 Project and allow all of Bernie Sanders' old staffers to take positions in the White House.
00:44:20.000Also, like speaking of political malpractice, I've been saying for weeks, how is it that Trump and the White House team have not cut Basically an ad showing every Democratic governor saying they got what they needed from the White House.
00:44:34.000So here's the reason why this is so frustrating.
00:44:37.000Because as the country reopens, and as we move closer to something that looks like a recovery, we cannot be distracted with this kind of absolutely idiotic, insane, ridiculous, useless, I mean, I run out of thesaurus words here.
00:45:14.000So for all of the talk about how there are gonna be these massive spikes and we're gonna overwhelm the healthcare system again, not a lot of evidence of that.
00:45:21.000Even Anthony Fauci, who was capped in lockdown five seconds ago, Anthony Fauci from the NIH, right, he says, we can't stay locked down forever.
00:45:28.000In fact, it could be damaging if we stay locked down forever.
00:45:32.000Depending upon the dynamics of the infection in the particular state, city, region, county that you're in, we certainly want to, in a cautious way, reopening.
00:45:45.000We can't stay locked down for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences, including consequences for health.
00:45:59.000By the way, you know, there's evidence from The New York Times.
00:46:04.000That people are not going to the emergency room when they need to go to the emergency room.
00:46:08.000I know personally people who are not going to the emergency room when they need to go to the emergency room.
00:46:13.000There are people who are not going in for transplants because they're afraid that they're going to get COVID and they're going to die if they go into the ER.
00:46:21.000Hospitals are now encouraging you, if you need to go into the hospital, go into the hospital.
00:46:24.000They have very good protective measures for the areas that have COVID.
00:46:27.000They basically have COVID rooms and they have COVID areas of the hospital.
00:46:30.000You're not going to be infected if you go into The general areas that are not COVID designated.
00:46:37.000And as we now know, the fact is that the costs of the shutdown are extraordinarily large.
00:46:42.000Scott Atlas has a good piece from Hoover Institute, along with John Burge, Ralph Keeney, and Alexander Lipton.
00:46:49.000Over at the Hill, talking about the shutdowns.
00:46:53.000John Burge, Professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
00:46:56.000Ralph Keeney, Professor Emeritus in Business at Duke University in Engineering.
00:46:59.000Lipton is visiting Professor and Dean's Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School, talking about the economy coming back and how we need to reopen.
00:47:07.000In other words, Trump has a re-election strategy here, and it's a very obvious and open re-election strategy.
00:47:11.000And the fact that he continues to fulminate on Twitter about Joe Scarborough is just beyond reason.
00:47:16.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:47:19.000So the media malpractice when it comes to COVID-19 continues apace.
00:47:28.000Just because we're seeing increasing numbers of cases nationally does not mean that we are seeing an increased percentage of positives.
00:47:34.000So as I mentioned before, Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, he tweeted out this morning that the national positivity rate on COVID-19 tests continues to decline, which is very, very good news.
00:47:43.000We are not seeing a spike in terms of ICU care.
00:47:46.000We're not seeing a spike in terms of deaths.
00:47:49.000Maybe that'll trail a couple weeks from now.
00:47:51.000But most importantly, we're not seeing our emergency rooms overwhelmed.
00:47:57.000There's a piece in The Hill by Scott Atlas and company talking about the costs of continued shutdown.
00:48:03.000He says our governmental COVID-19 mitigation policy of broad societal lockdown focused on containing the spread of the disease at all costs instead of flattening the curve and preventing hospital overcrowding.
00:48:13.000Although well-intentioned, the lockdown was imposed without consideration of its consequences beyond those directly from the pandemic.
00:48:19.000The policies have created the greatest global economic disruption in history with trillions of dollars of lost economic output.
00:48:25.000These financial losses have been falsely portrayed as purely economic.
00:48:28.000To the contrary, using numerous National Institute of Health Public Access publications, CDC, and Bureau of Labor Statistics data, we calculate these policies will cause devastating non-economic consequences that will total millions of accumulated years of life lost in the United States, far beyond what the virus itself has caused.
00:48:45.000Pandemics have afflicted mankind throughout human history.
00:48:48.000So far, the current pandemic has produced almost 100,000 U.S.
00:48:50.000deaths, but the reaction of a near-complete economic shutdown is unprecedented.
00:48:56.000alone is estimated to be 5% of GDP, or $1.1 trillion for every single month of the economic shutdown.
00:49:02.000This lost income results in lost lives.
00:49:05.000These incidents are particularly severe on the lower-income population.
00:49:08.000They're more likely to lose their jobs.
00:49:09.000Mortality rates are much higher for lower-income individuals.
00:49:14.000Statistically, every $10 million to $24 million lost in U.S.
00:49:18.000incomes results in one additional death.
00:49:20.000One portion of this effect is through unemployment, which leads to an average increase in mortality of at least 60%.
00:49:25.000That translates into 7,200 lives lost per month among the 36 million newly unemployed Americans, over 40% of whom are not expected to regain their jobs.
00:49:34.000In addition, many small business owners are near financial collapse.
00:49:37.000With an average estimate of one additional life lost per $17 million lost in income, that would translate to 65,000 lives lost in the U.S.
00:49:43.000for each month because of the economic shutdown.
00:49:46.000Lives are also lost due to delayed or foregone healthcare imposed by the shutdown and the fear it creates among patients.
00:49:52.000He says emergency stroke evaluations are down 40%.
00:49:55.000Of the 650,000 cancer patients receiving chemo, an estimated half are missing their treatments.
00:50:01.000These unintended consequences of missed healthcare amount to more than 500,000 lost years of life per month, not including all the other known skipped care.
00:50:07.000The reason that he is using lost years of life is because that is a better and more specific metric than just lives lost.
00:50:15.000Because if you have a lot of people who are dying in a nursing home and their life expectancy was another 4 or 5 months and they die 5 months early, that is a different thing in terms of calculating public policy than a 30-year-old dying 50 years early.
00:50:25.000Or a 40-year-old dying 40 years early.
00:50:27.000That does not mean that every life lost isn't a moral tragedy, but when you're making actuarial decisions, as I've said before, you have to take into account the differences between losing 5 months of life and losing 40 years of life, obviously.
00:50:40.000Okay, so the media continued to get this wrong.
00:50:42.000Chris Wallace went after Dr. Deborah Birx the other day.
00:50:45.000He asked if they opened it too soon, if there was too much opening too soon.
00:50:50.000No, there was not too much opening too soon.
00:50:52.000The evidence was that there was not going to be an overwhelming of the healthcare system.
00:50:54.000Again, people are just ignoring what the original purpose of the lockdowns was because the goalposts have moved.
00:51:31.000Why is it that she's being asked about being a little too optimistic, but we never hear about the Niall Ferguson model over in Britain that was off by like orders of magnitude.
00:51:41.000That's really what we should be hearing about.
00:51:42.000By the way, it is not too early to open.
00:51:44.000Burke says that they are preparing for a second wave in the fall.
00:51:47.000This was, of course, always going to come.
00:51:49.000It's one of the reasons why lockdown was never going to continue to be a strategy.
00:51:53.000It's just not going to be a strategy that is worth doing.
00:51:56.000We are preparing for that potential fall issue, both in PPE, which is protective devices, both in ventilators, stockpiles, and ensuring that we're really pushing on therapeutics and vaccine development so we can be ready if the virus does come back in a significant way.
00:52:41.000It is amazing how the mask wearing has become such a flashpoint for politics at this point.
00:52:47.000Again, my feeling is that we should all be responsible, that we should try and continue to slow the spread, that it is not too much to ask people to wear masks, particularly if they are dealing with the vulnerable.
00:52:58.000There are a lot of churches that are reopening, and that's a good thing.
00:53:01.000When President Trump said last week that governors should reopen churches, he was right.
00:53:04.000He was the president on Friday making the announcement that he wanted governors to reopen churches.
00:53:08.000Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship.
00:53:43.000Theoretically, he could have some lawsuits filed by the DOJ, and the Attorney General could theoretically file some freedom of religion lawsuits, but realistically speaking, governors do have plenary control over stuff like this.
00:53:54.000With that said, churches were starting to reopen, synagogues are starting to reopen, now the question is just be responsible.
00:54:00.000And again, the folks who are Very, very upset about mask wearing.
00:54:04.000There's two things that are happening.
00:54:05.000One is, there's a group of people who are like, I'm not wearing masks under any circumstances because it's a pansy move.
00:54:10.000And I'm not going to wear a mask because if I wear a mask, that just shows that I'm not brave and people need to get back out there and be brave.
00:54:19.000The mask is to protect other people around you.
00:54:22.000It's not brave to expose other people around you to possibility of coronavirus and you won't know if you have it because 80% of people who have this thing are asymptomatic.
00:54:29.000So if you're in an old age home, you'd wear it.
00:54:31.000Now, if you're with a bunch of other young people at a pool party or something, I'm not sure that it's honestly, I'm not sure it's the biggest deal.
00:54:36.000Like there was a tape that was going around.
00:54:38.000From the Ozarks of people not socially distancing and not wearing masks and they're all in a pool.
00:55:55.000And we're not saying if you're in a car and you're driving by yourself, you don't have to wear a mask.
00:55:59.000You don't have to wear a mask if you're out, you know, away from people, hiking, or doing all kinds of different things, or in your own house.
00:56:07.000But when you go out and interact directly with people, We're asking Ohioans to do this.
00:56:24.000But this has led to Democrats being like, well, you're stupid if you don't wear a mask.
00:56:27.000If you don't wear a mask everywhere you go, it's because you're dumb.
00:56:30.000So Andrew Cuomo, who couldn't even protect the old age homes, Andrew Cuomo over the weekend, he was like, yeah, you're dumb if you don't wear a mask.
00:56:36.000Why you wouldn't use it There's no legitimate, rational explanation.
00:57:46.000Everything in America begins as like a serious policy proposal and eventually turns into a polarized discussion about absolute, utter, stupid nonsense.
00:59:12.000Michael J. Fox is absolutely charming.
00:59:13.000The backstory to the movie is kind of fantastic because Michael J. Fox had a conflict when he was doing Family Ties and so he actually couldn't play Marty McFly.
00:59:21.000Are you telling me that you built a time machine?
00:59:26.000And then they went back and they spent $3 million and reshot it with Michael J. Fox because they realized that the actor just wasn't working out.
00:59:33.000He actually became kind of a famous actor.