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00:01:37.000Alrighty, so we have been told by Joe Biden that these vaccine mandates are going to get us out of the pandemic.
00:01:41.000Now, what's amazing about that is that the pandemic, for all intents and purposes, has basically been over in terms of public policy since the vaccines were rolled out.
00:01:49.000Despite all of the outsized panic that you see in the news every day, and the media can't decide whether the vaccines are super effective or super ineffective.
00:01:56.000They can't decide whether to scare you about why you need to take a booster or whether to tell you how effective the vaccines are, which is why people are confused.
00:02:05.000The media have done a terrible job and the public health experts have done a terrible job.
00:02:08.000And then Joe Biden says, and then on the basis of your chaotic understanding of what's going on, I'm going to cram down one size fits all, no natural immunity exemptions for vaccine mandates.
00:02:20.000I'm going to encourage businesses to do the same thing.
00:02:22.000No religious exemptions, no personal exemptions, like nothing.
00:02:25.000And why are you getting so divisive about all this?
00:02:29.000Well, when you do all of that, the predictable result is that people harden their resistance, especially because they figure, quite correctly, that as time goes on, and as the effects of the pandemic wane, and as more and more people have either natural immunity or COVID immunity via the vaccine, That all of this is just going to fall apart.
00:02:47.000There's not going to be a regime where a year from now or two years from now, people are still using vaccine passports.
00:03:29.000Because nobody on the left seems to want to deal with the simple fact that if this is a quote-unquote pandemic of the unvaxxed and the unvaxxed are the real problem, they're going to have to explain why this is an economic downturn of the blue states and why this is a psychological worry point for the vaxxed.
00:03:46.000If you're talking about illogic, I understand the illogic of the take that it is illogical for people who are 70 years old not to take the vaccine.
00:03:56.000But it is just as illogical for people who are fully vaxxed to go around worried day in and day out they're going to die of COVID unless they have a serious pre-existing health condition.
00:04:04.000And it is just as illogical to say that once you are vaxxed, You need to worry about the unvaxxed infecting you.
00:04:09.000And it is just as illogical as all of that to say that you need hard lockdown economic measures and vaccine passports that suppress the economy while the vaccines are already available.
00:04:18.000So the stat the left refuses to deal with is the simple fact that the pandemic may be a pandemic of the unvaxxed, but the economic Meltdown is an economic meltdown of the blue states.
00:04:28.000Again, the worst states in the United States in terms of unemployment, and this has been true for a while, are all blue states.
00:04:34.000The best states in terms of unemployment are all red states.
00:04:37.000Of the top 23 states in terms of employment rate, 17 are red, 4 are purple, 2 are blue.
00:04:44.000And in terms of the bottom 10 states, if you include Washington D.C.
00:04:48.000in that count, we are talking about all 10 being blue.
00:04:52.000The reason for that is pretty obvious and that is this is no longer about anything other than failure to calculate risk and failure to assess risk and failure to live with risk.
00:05:03.000And so you have this bizarre situation in which governmental actors, particularly in blue areas, are attempting to cram down on some of the healthiest populations.
00:05:11.000Their version of what reality ought to look like and they are willing to undergo.
00:05:14.000They're actually willing to increase the risk for their citizens in order to mitigate a risk that really is not their business and also is not really an issue.
00:05:24.000In police departments all over the United States, you now have vaccine mandates being put on police officers all over the United States.
00:05:32.000So the idea is that you would rather have people not available to answer 911 calls than to have the person who shows up at the 911 call not even be infected with COVID, just not be vaccinated for COVID.
00:05:46.000That is the logic that is currently being used.
00:05:47.000So in order to mitigate against a virus that is going to kill in the age group of cops, which is probably between 20 and 40 for the most part, in an age group where maybe three out of a thousand people who get COVID are going to die, to mitigate against that, you are going to make sure that if somebody calls 911, nobody who even has the possibility of carrying that is going to show up for the 911 call.
00:06:11.000And so what you're seeing is literally hundreds of police officers across the nation who are dumping out.
00:06:17.000This is most obvious in Chicago, where literally hundreds and hundreds of officers are pushing back and saying they're not going to take the vaccine despite Lori Lightfoot's insistence that they do.
00:06:27.000Again, a lot of that has to do with the public health failures here.
00:06:31.000Of Lori Lightfoot, who throughout the pandemic has been a hypocrite.
00:06:34.000Remember that she went and she got her hair done when nobody else was allowed to get their hair done?
00:06:36.000You remember that she's showing up to large parties unmasked when supposedly that's really, really bad?
00:06:41.000Well, now, apparently, the back and forth between the mayor and the Chicago Police Union continues, according to CBS Local, with the city sending out a flurry of emails and memos as its vaccine mandate enters its first full week in effect.
00:06:54.000CBS2's Mugo Odigwe obtained the latest threatening memo sent out to officers.
00:06:59.000At least two memos have gone out since Friday's deadline for all city workers to report their vaccination status to the city.
00:07:04.000But the Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzaro said thousands of officers are still refusing to do so.
00:07:10.000He said the unofficial number we have is about 3,200, one-third of the entire department.
00:07:17.000Catanzaro says that the mandate's illegal because the city didn't negotiate terms with the union.
00:07:20.000He said officers who are still refusing to report vaccination status will be called in by supervisors on Monday, and once again will be asked to comply with the mandate.
00:07:28.000If they refuse, it sounds like they're going to go into no-pay status, effective immediately, so they'll essentially be suspended.
00:07:34.000Catanzaro says, all those things are a change in your employment policies.
00:07:37.000You have to negotiate with us, what that looks like.
00:07:42.000The latest memo involves consequences officers could face if they don't follow the City of Chicago's vaccination policy.
00:07:48.000Any such officers will become subject to a disciplinary investigation that could result in a penalty up to and including separation from Chicago PD.
00:07:55.000So you have people who are being shot en masse every weekend in Chicago and Lori Lightfoot is threatening to fire literally 3,200 members of the Chicago PD if they don't turn in their vaccination status.
00:08:06.000Here is Lori Lightfoot then attacking the union for all of this, not her own stupid policy.
00:08:11.000We believe that the FOP leadership is trying to foment an illegal work stopper to strike, pure and simple.
00:08:17.000We've laid that out in the materials and we're not having that.
00:08:21.000The contract is clear and it's been known for a long time.
00:08:24.000The police unions are not authorized to strike.
00:08:27.000It's in their collective bargaining agreement and it's a matter of state law.
00:08:30.000What we've seen from the Fraternal Order of Police and particularly the leadership is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half-truths and frankly flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection.
00:09:25.000According to CBS Local in San Francisco, the deadline for San Francisco's first responders to show proof of vaccination has come and gone.
00:09:32.000On Thursday, it appeared the mandate has drastically improved the latest vaccination numbers among city employees and police officers.
00:09:37.000This is what they were saying as of late last week.
00:09:39.000However, the number of San Francisco Police Department officers is still 75, 76, those officers are being placed on administrative leave while waiting for hearings on their individual cases.
00:09:53.000And this has some pretty significant consequences.
00:09:55.000Nearly 200 officers have applied for medical or religious exemptions.
00:09:58.000It's unclear how many have been approved by the city.
00:10:59.000It turns out no matter the reason for the cop shortages, cop shortages result in higher rates of crime.
00:11:04.000In Seattle, things are coming to a head.
00:11:08.000Many Seattle police officers have been quitting.
00:11:10.000A huge number of Seattle police officers are leaving the force.
00:11:13.000There's already a massive Seattle Police Department shortage at this point.
00:11:19.000I mean, that's been going on for literally a year and a half.
00:11:23.000There are probably hundreds of officers short in Seattle.
00:11:26.000There's some video of a Washington State Patrol officer who went, this went viral the other day because he started ripping on Jay Inslee, the governor, who has been pushing a state vaccine mandate.
00:12:48.000And have been attacked by public officials for years, right?
00:12:50.000I mean, you literally had the mayor of Seattle last year declare that a full takeover of four city blocks called Chaz Chop was totally fine because the police were so bad.
00:12:58.000So now you have the police driving around with don't tread on me flags stuck to their cars.
00:13:02.000And in the background of half of these pictures, you can see homeless tents, right?
00:13:06.000Because this is what has happened in our major cities.
00:13:09.000Lawlessness abounds and the cops are under assault.
00:13:12.000National Police Association President Betsy Brantner-Smith, retired police sergeant, told Fox News on Monday she anticipates some costly litigation as far as more police officers pushing back than what the city administration understands.
00:13:23.000Before Monday's deadline, the Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solon said the Seattle Police Department had already lost some 300 officers over the past 18 months.
00:13:31.000He said he anticipated another mass exodus in the coming week.
00:13:36.000This decision has the potential to decimate LPD.
00:13:38.000Our town could lose a lot of amazing police officers.
00:13:40.000named Josh Carter testified in front of the city council about the vaccine mandates and he was saying you guys are going to decimate the PD. This decision has the potential to decimate LPD.
00:13:51.000Our town could lose a lot of amazing police officers. If you decide to move forward with mandating this vaccine, the loss of officers is on you and I'm going to come back and ask what your plan is to keep my family and my neighbors safe.
00:14:10.000And by the way, it's extending not only to local PD, it's extending to things like the Navy SEALs.
00:14:14.000You've got the Chinese firing hypersonic missiles designed to strike the United States.
00:14:18.000And we here in the United States are fully concerned with tearing down statues of Thomas Jefferson and making sure that we decimate the Navy SEAL ranks so that the healthy, literally the healthiest people alive on planet Earth don't die from COVID, which they, by virtually all available data, were not going to die from anyway.
00:14:34.000Or had a very minimal chance of dying from.
00:14:36.000Anyway, all right, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:15:48.000So this is now even extending to the Navy SEALs.
00:15:50.000The Department of Defense has now put out a full-on Memo about all of this, suggesting quote, In order to maximize readiness, it is the policy goal of the U.S.
00:15:59.000Navy to achieve a fully vaccinated force against the persistent and lethal threat of COVID-19.
00:16:04.000In support of the above stated policy and as directed by the Secretary of the Navy's lawful order, the Navy has commenced a mandatory vaccination campaign.
00:16:13.000Navy service members refusing the COVID-19 vaccination absent a pending or approved exemption shall be processed for administrative separation.
00:16:20.000Per this, Administrative order and supporting references.
00:16:23.000To ensure a fair and consistent process, separation determinations will be centralized under the CCDA as outlined in the paragraphs below.
00:16:30.000And talk about the fact the vast majority of people have decided to go ahead and vaccinate, which is not really a shock because the truth is that when you enter the armed services, you are required to have a lot of different vaccinations.
00:16:39.000So for a lot of people, they don't think it's that big a deal. And as I've said before, if you're an adult and you're above the age of 20, your chances of getting an adverse effect from the vaccine are much lower than your chances of getting an adverse effect from COVID itself.
00:16:51.000So, it makes some sense to vaccinate if you're over the age of 20.
00:16:55.000It may even make some sense to vaccinate with one dose between the ages of 12 and 19.
00:16:58.000It makes increasingly less sense as you get younger and younger because the fact is that the vaccines on young kids have really not, there's no longitudinal data and the threat of COVID to very small children is very minimal according to the best available statistics, certainly in terms of mortality.
00:17:14.000But specifically targeting the most fit people in the Navy and saying that those people could have to pay for their own training or have to refund the training funds that were dedicated to them is kind of crazy.
00:17:31.000Michael Berry, First Liberty Institute's General Counsel and Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S.
00:17:36.000He says, purging our military of its elite service members is detrimental to national security.
00:17:40.000Doing so because the commander in chief refuses to accommodate the religious convictions is abhorrent to the constitution. Their years of experience and leadership and service to our nation is immeasurable and irreplaceable. Remove a SEAL from special warfare, reduce his salary, force him to repay his training. That's purely vindictive and punitive and it's illegal.
00:17:56.000This has nothing to do with a virus. Again, what does this have to do with military readiness?
00:18:01.000When you hire cops, the general idea is they're going to lower crime.
00:18:05.000Not that you can force them to vaccinate for a disease that is very unlikely to kill them, and for which the general public has a great form of protection in the form of the vaccines.
00:18:15.000And to add insult to injury, the fact is that our elites don't even hold by these rules themselves.
00:18:20.000There was video that emerged the other night of Joe Biden and Jill Biden at a restaurant violating mask mandates.
00:18:25.000And Jen Psaki at the White House tried to present a solid front on this, but failed dramatically.
00:18:31.000I think what we're referring to is a photo of them walking out of a restaurant after they had eaten, masks in hand, where they had not yet put them back on yet.
00:18:40.000So I would say, of course, there are moments when we all don't put masks back on as quickly as we should.
00:18:46.000But I don't think we should lose a force through the trees here, and that our objective here is to get more people vaccinated, make sure that schools and companies around the country can put in place requirements to save more lives and keep people safer.
00:19:01.000And, you know, not overly focus on moments in time that don't reflect overarching policy.
00:19:09.000How about reflecting on the fact that if you're an elite in our society and you're a member of the coterie of the specials, you can violate the rules as often as you want.
00:19:15.000Either Lori Lightfoot or Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden.
00:19:18.000Or as it turns out, Terry McAuliffe, who was riding Amtrak the other day in violation of federal mandates, not wearing a mask.
00:19:23.000You're allowed to do all of those things if you're a special.
00:19:25.000But if you're a cop just trying to do his job, then we will force you to get vaccinated or we will fire you.
00:19:29.000If you're a Navy SEAL, we may deploy to the most dangerous areas on Earth to take a bullet for the country.
00:19:35.000And you don't want to get the COVID vaccine, we'll make you repay all of your training funding.
00:19:40.000None of this makes any level of sense.
00:19:42.000It is all just authoritarian nonsense.
00:19:46.000You're talking about, in these cases, some of the healthiest populations in America.
00:19:50.000You're talking about a disease that does not kill people.
00:19:53.000Like the smallpox, or like... COVID remains, for the vast majority of people, a somewhat statistically minimal risk unless you are above a certain age or have a significant pre-existing condition.
00:20:06.000I don't know how you designate minimal risk, but if you were told that a particular action that you had to do every day, driving for example, had a 1 in 335 chance of killing you, Would you not get in a car?
00:20:23.000How we calculate those risks actually matters.
00:20:26.000So what the media have to do is they have to scare the hell out of you.
00:20:28.000To force compliance, they have to scare the living hell out of you.
00:20:31.000So they can't scare you with the idea that you're going to die anymore, because if you're vaccinated, you're not.
00:20:35.000Statistically speaking, you're just not.
00:20:37.000And they also can't scare you with the idea that you're going to kill your neighbor, because again, your neighbor is probably going to vaccinate.
00:20:42.000And if they don't want to vaccinate, that would be their problem.
00:20:45.000And if they have a peculiar health risk and they're an adult, then they're going to be taking measures anyway to protect their own health.
00:20:50.000If they're immunocompromised, immunocompromised people live in our society, they've been living in our society for all of time, and they have to take special measures in order to protect their own health, right?
00:20:58.000This has just been a thing for a very long time.
00:20:59.000But the media have to come up with some strategy to scare you into believing the authoritarians who are in charge of our COVID policy.
00:21:07.000So the latest point they're using is the death of Colin Powell.
00:21:10.000So, yesterday there were a lot of headlines that Colin Powell had died after being fully vaccinated.
00:21:15.000He had two shots of the vaccine, he had not gotten his booster yet, and then he had a breakthrough case of COVID and he died.
00:21:21.000And the initial headlines were all about how Colin Powell had died of a COVID breakthrough, and what a disaster this was.
00:21:27.000Okay, so the initial headlines were like, the vaccines don't work.
00:21:34.000He had Parkinson's and multiple myeloma.
00:21:36.000Okay, so if you have a severe immunodeficiency, and if you are elderly, as he was, he was 84 years old, then if you get a breakthrough case, I mean, if you get a cold, you could die from that.
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00:23:08.000Okay, so as I say, somehow the media and your authoritarians of COVID, they need to come up with a rationale for why you need to remain extremely worried.
00:23:16.000And now, what they're going to do is, they'll say that states that are red and have not been as worried are bad states, right?
00:23:42.000Because as we move into winter, which is really nice in Florida and people are outdoors in Florida, and as we move into winter in the Northeast, where it's really gross outside and people spend their time indoors, the virus will move around indoors.
00:24:51.000The new narrative is, you need to vaccinate so Colin Powell doesn't die.
00:24:55.000This is the actual piece over at the Washington Post today from Philip Bump.
00:24:58.000Quote, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died Monday morning from complications related to COVID-19.
00:25:04.000Powell's disease resulted from a breakthrough infection.
00:25:06.000He was fully vaccinated against COVID.
00:25:08.000But instead of demonstrating that the vaccine isn't 100% effective in preventing death, which was known, his death better serves to show the need to tamp down on coronavirus cases more broadly to help protect those most at risk.
00:26:07.000Older Americans have always been at more risk from COVID.
00:26:09.000The effects of the virus are clearly more pronounced with members of that age group, even when they are vaccinated.
00:26:13.000This should not be an impetus of denialism.
00:26:15.000It is not the case that this demonstrates that vaccines are futile or not useful.
00:26:18.000Instead, it's a reminder the virus still poses a risk to the elderly, even when vaccinated, and therefore that the goal should be to tamp down on the spread of the virus broadly.
00:26:25.000If Pell had been at little risk of contracting the virus because transmission rates were low, He would have been at almost zero risk of dying from it.
00:26:31.000But instead, his death comes at a time when more than 80,000 people a day are still contracting the virus, and more than 1,500 people a day are dying from it, about as many people as were dying in early April of 2020.
00:26:42.000If you're talking about reaching herd immunity, we have yet to see the country that has hit quote-unquote herd immunity to the point where there is no transmission of virus.
00:26:49.000The asymptomatic are transmitting the virus.
00:26:52.000So barring full-time masking of everyone and 100% vaccination rates, none of which is achievable, There will be cases where people who are immunocompromised come into contact with the virus and then get sick and then die.
00:27:04.000Because, unfortunately, that is just the way the world works.
00:27:07.000When Philip Bump says, we need to force-vaccinate cops so Colin Powell doesn't die, I'm sorry, but this is not the way we treat literally any- Anthony Fauci himself, the great god of COVID, Anthony Fauci has said, we have eradicated to date one disease on planet Earth.
00:27:24.000The notion that you are going to be able to eradicate a disease that is currently circulating in literally millions of people around the globe and ensure that everybody who's immunocompromised is fully safe without any protections.
00:28:02.000And so I'm not sure what you think the purpose of yelling at people is, but apparently the purpose of yelling at people is to just intimidate you into silence.
00:28:23.000Again, I think this is a psychological problem in half the country right now.
00:28:26.000I think that a huge number of people on a financial level, on a personal level, on a health level, have decided that all risk is worthy of avoidance.
00:28:34.000And that in order to mitigate the risk, we have to have somebody who knows better, an expert, who crams down on your neighbors what you can't cram down on your neighbors yourself.
00:28:42.000The best way to mitigate risk is to make sure that your neighbors are controlled.
00:28:45.000And so you got a media invested in that ideology.
00:28:47.000You have a government invested in that ideology.
00:28:51.000And in fact, you have unforeseen risks.
00:28:53.000Like, for example, the risk of crime that goes up when you fire a bunch of cops.
00:28:57.000Or the risks that the economy dies when you tell everybody that they are unsafe when they go back to work.
00:29:02.000There are a bunch of actual risks that materialize the moment you say that you have quashed all risk.
00:29:07.000The Titanic is the safest ship afloat up until the moment it rams directly into an iceberg.
00:29:13.000The thing here is that the iceberg is completely foreseeable.
00:29:16.000Alrighty, in just one second we'll get to New York City demonstrating once again that they apparently don't want to be part of the United States.
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00:31:02.000Meanwhile, New York City demonstrating full scale that Trump was right.
00:31:10.000So you remember that time when there was a big argument over the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville.
00:31:15.000It was the subject of that alt-right Unite the Right rally.
00:31:18.000And that ended, of course, in violence.
00:31:19.000And then there was this very controversial press conference where Trump seemed to quasi downplay the evils of the white supremacist, but kind of, but then walk it back, but then walk it back.
00:31:47.000After all, there's a major distinction between people who actively fought to Make the country not exist anymore as a country and people who established the country and who also participated in the sins of their time.
00:31:58.000OK, now I agree there is a major distinction between Robert E. Lee and George Washington or between Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson.
00:32:10.000And therefore, they must be torn down.
00:32:12.000And it doesn't matter if they established generalized principles which led to the foundation of the greatest republic in the history of mankind.
00:32:28.000But it does mean That to pretend that we are building statues to Thomas Jefferson because of his treatment of Sally Hemings is idiotic.
00:32:36.000No one is building statues to Thomas Jefferson because of that.
00:32:38.000We're building statues to Thomas Jefferson because Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, because Thomas Jefferson helped negotiate the peace, because Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States involved in the Louisiana Purchase.
00:32:48.000I mean, there are lots of reasons to build statues to Thomas Jefferson.
00:32:50.000Generally, when you build statues to a human, you're not doing so because you are greenlighting every element of what they believed, right?
00:32:56.000This is why we have Martin Luther King Day.
00:32:58.000Every Martin Luther King Day, There's an attempt by the left to sort of suggest that if you buy into Martin Luther King as a figure, as a seminal figure in American history, this must be because you also endorse his socialistic view of economic redistribution.
00:33:11.000The reason we celebrate Martin Luther King Day is because Martin Luther King was calling for a United States beyond race, for people to be judged as individuals, not as groups.
00:33:24.000When you build a statue, you're looking for the main takeaway, not an endorsement of every aspect of anybody's life.
00:33:28.000Because on that basis, nobody should have a statue.
00:33:31.000There's a famous section of the Talmud where there's a discussion over whether it'd be better for people to have been born or not been born.
00:33:38.000And one side says, better for people to be born because they can perform commandments and they can fulfill God's will.
00:33:43.000And the other side's like, better for man not to be born because human beings inherently sin and they sin an awful lot and they are bound to do more bad than good.
00:33:51.000And the Talmud comes down on the side that it would have been better for man not to be born, but since you are born, you better do some mitzvot, right?
00:33:58.000Okay, that is the view that you should have toward human nature and toward building statues of people.
00:34:01.000Okay, when it comes to building a statue of somebody, you're not building a statue to their sin.
00:34:05.000You're building a statue to the stuff that they did that was correct.
00:34:09.000But nobody seems to be able to make this particular distinction when it comes to the left.
00:34:14.000If you were a sinner, a grave sinner, from 1790, this means the statue has to come down.
00:34:19.000Even if you were the author of the words that created the creed that were foundational to not only the creation of the United States, but also to the ending of slavery, to the Civil Rights Movement.
00:34:29.000There's a reason that the words of Thomas Jefferson Echo, not through the slave-holding South, but echo through the free North.
00:34:37.000There's a reason that the words of the Declaration of Independence are invoked by people like Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King.
00:34:44.000There's a reason for that, but apparently not to the New York City Council.
00:34:48.000Which has not only no historical perspective, but no philosophical understanding.
00:34:52.000According to the New York Times, for more than 100 years, a 7-foot tall statue of Thomas Jefferson has towered over members of the New York City Council in their chamber at City Hall, a testament to his role as one of the nation's founding fathers and the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
00:35:04.000But, for the last two decades, some Black and Latino council members, citing Jefferson's history as a slaveholder, called for the statue to be banished.
00:35:11.000A push that gained significant momentum in the last year, as the nation has broadly reconsidered public monuments that can be viewed as symbols of systemic racism.
00:35:19.000Now again, Thomas Jefferson statues are not about systemic racism.
00:35:22.000They're about the words of the Declaration of Independence that apply to all human beings.
00:35:28.000The reason that Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite in his own life is because he knew that he wasn't upholding his own standards.
00:35:34.000That doesn't mean that the standards were wrong or that his articulation of the standards was bad.
00:35:38.000The articulation of the standards is what he was being held up to.
00:35:43.000On Monday, city officials voted unanimously to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson from council chambers, but delayed a decision on where to put it.
00:35:49.000Presumably, we need to put up a statue of George Floyd.
00:35:52.000Because that is more symbolic of the United States.
00:35:53.000A career criminal who was killed by a cop.
00:35:55.000That is much more symbolic of the United States.
00:36:55.000Signe Nielsen, president of the Public Design Commission, which oversees art at city-owned properties said, quote, there are 700 pieces of art under our jurisdiction. We cannot make a rash decision that will set a precedent for the other 699 pieces of artwork that may also have challenges from people or other groups of people. The relocation of the statue, requested by the council's Black, Latino, and Asian caucus, was expected to be a fait accompli. I just, I, why the Was Thomas Jefferson like super anti-Asian and I didn't know about it?
00:37:22.000An agreement was already in place to relocate the statue to the New York Historical Society.
00:37:26.000A crate had been ordered to house the statue during the move.
00:37:29.000The unexpected delay angered some black and Latino lawmakers.
00:37:32.000They're not super worried about the rising rates of murder in the city or the poverty and homelessness in the city of New York, but they are deeply worried that this statue is in a room with them because the statue is going to do something to them.
00:38:03.000I'm sorry to break it to Adrienne Adams, but all of human history is replete with suffering and evil.
00:38:08.000I mean, I'm sure her text messages are replete with some bad stuff.
00:38:11.000Like, are we really gonna play this game?
00:38:15.000This is not a game that is worth playing.
00:38:18.000Opposition to removing the statue began to surface in recent days.
00:38:21.000A group of 17 historians sent a letter on Monday to the panel suggesting the statue stay at City Hall and simply be relocated to the Governor's Room, where it was originally housed for most of the 19th century.
00:38:31.000A Daily News editorial on Monday also questioned the move.
00:38:35.000Removal is a very simple solution that will erase the debate, said Raymond Lavertue, a historian at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.
00:38:43.000Although Jefferson was massively flawed, he added, his ideas on equality should be grappled with daily.
00:39:13.000We already have the Public Design Commission voting to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue at the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History, despite Theodore Roosevelt's contributions to that field.
00:39:24.000And they also have been talking about removing other statues as well.
00:39:32.000This philosophy is alive and well inside the Biden administration.
00:39:35.000So Jennifer Granholm, who is the Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, she was on national TV and she was talking about communist China.
00:39:44.000And she literally said we don't have the moral authority to call a communist China.
00:39:47.000You have to understand, tearing down Jefferson is part and parcel of an idea about tearing down America and suggesting that America on the world stage has no place.
00:39:54.000This is part and parcel of what we talked about yesterday.
00:39:56.000The getting rid of the truth, justice, and the American way slogan from Superman.
00:39:59.000The left is intent on the notion that America is actually morally decrepit.
00:40:03.000There's something deeply wrong morally with the United States.
00:40:06.000America does not deserve to have a place on the world stage.
00:40:08.000We have to make America into utopia in order for us to be proud of ourselves.
00:40:13.000And the way you make America into utopia is by sinking into a socialist morass and being incredibly surrender-oriented in foreign policy.
00:41:20.000Okay, and that is part of a broader philosophy.
00:41:22.000The broader philosophy, of course, being that the United States is kind of bad and we have to shut up.
00:41:26.000And by the way, China is taking full advantage of this in the same way the Soviet Union did.
00:41:29.000The Soviet Union, while it existed, spent an awful lot of time talking about the racial problems of the United States in an attempt to paint America as terrible and sort of exorcise their own demons at the expense of the United States.
00:41:44.000And fortunately, this philosophy has also penetrated into education, which is why you've seen so much debate in recent months over critical race theory being taught by teachers in public schools.
00:41:54.000And then the left saying it's not happening, right?
00:41:56.000In the same way that they said they would never tear down statues of Thomas Jefferson, now they say we're not teaching critical race theory in schools.
00:42:03.000You are teaching critical race theory in schools.
00:42:05.000The NEA has passed specific resolutions attempting to protect critical race theory in schools.
00:42:09.000And this administration happens to be run by the NEA.
00:42:12.000So, for example, The Bidens yesterday spent the day bragging that they had literally appointed the Secretary of Education at the behest of the National Education Association.
00:42:23.000So here is Joe Biden catering to Randy Weingarten, who is one of the most malignant figures in American public life.
00:43:08.000Secretary Cardona, as you know, my husband made a promise to educators across America that his Secretary of Education would be a leader who taught in a public school classroom.
00:43:41.000There's a reason, by the way, that the teachers' unions are so supportive of Democrats, and it's because they continue to... Democrats continue to prop up this most corrupt of bargains.
00:43:49.000Basically, you have states that buff up the NEA and the AFT.
00:43:54.000The NEA and the AFT then weigh in on elections and try to get those people re-elected.
00:43:57.000You want to talk about corruption and campaign finance reform?
00:43:59.000Why is it that nobody ever mentions the unions, which contribute literally billions of dollars worth of political infrastructure to Democrats every election cycle?
00:44:06.000Here was a teacher's union ad supporting Terry McAuliffe in Virginia in this hotly-fraud election.
00:44:11.000When it comes to education, Glenn Youngkin's not being straight with us.
00:44:15.000His plan diverts money away from public schools and gives it to private schools instead.
00:44:20.000That's why we support Terry McAuliffe.
00:44:22.000As governor, he listened to parents and teachers and scaled back standardized testing, giving teachers more time to teach and kids more room to learn.
00:44:42.000The AFT is one of the terrible teachers unions that runs education in the country I love, that the AFT is like, also we are super happy that Terry McAuliffe is cutting standardized testing for kids.
00:44:57.000But you can continue to cram down whatever you want on the kids.
00:45:00.000I mean, Terry McAuliffe has openly said that you, the teachers, should be the ultimate experts on what is taught to the kids, not the parents.
00:45:08.000This is all part and parcel of a broader attempt to teach your kids garbage that is in line with far-left thinking.
00:45:15.000In the indoctrination centers that exist in our public school system, run by the teachers unions, all the way up to the federal level, Alright, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.
00:45:33.000The Matt Walsh Show airs at 1.30pm Eastern.
00:45:35.000Be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com.