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00:01:30.000Alrighty, so, the Democrats, the media, they are all revved up this week in preparation for Thursday because Thursday, of course, is the one-year anniversary of the biggest event, the signal event in American history, January 6th, the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of the planet.
00:01:45.000Now, listen, you don't have to downplay the evils of January 6th in order to recognize that what January 6th was was a really bad aberration.
00:01:53.000I mean, the imagery of January 6th was quite terrible.
00:01:55.000You had Americans who were storming the Capitol building.
00:01:57.000You had people beating up police officers with poles.
00:02:00.000You had a woman who was shot to death while trying to break through a window to get to Congress.
00:02:03.000People had people in the halls of the Capitol baying for Mike Pence.
00:02:08.000And a lot of those folks were acting because they were emotionally revved up by President Trump's Prevarications over the prior two months about how the election was stolen, it was all election fraud, how he was the rightful president, how Mike Pence could somehow illegally shift the votes in the election or not count votes in the election and throw the entire process into chaos and then continue Trump in the presidency.
00:02:31.000So, you don't have to downplay the evils of January 6th in order to recognize what the left is now doing with January 6th is absurd.
00:02:37.000The left has declared that January 6th is the be-all end-all.
00:02:40.000It is the only thing that matters in human history.
00:02:43.000And it only matters because if there's an emergency, if there's an ongoing emergency, this means that they can take emergency power in the same way that the left used COVID in order to grab control and never relinquish it of every aspect of American life in major American cities like New York or Los Angeles or Chicago.
00:02:59.000In exactly the same way, the left is now suggesting that January 6th is not a bad thing that happened, a horrible thing that was perpetrated by people who are now in jail.
00:03:10.000And that was revved up by a president who's no longer president.
00:03:22.000But the reason they have to say that is because if there's an ongoing threat to democracy each and every day, if that threat is ongoing, continuous, never ending, that means the only way to fight back against that is to seize control of all the levers of power.
00:04:00.000I mean, there were burning cop cars, 3,000 members of local, state, federal law enforcement backed by 5,000 National Guard members and police officers from as far away as New Jersey patrolled the streets.
00:04:11.000This is according to the NBC News report from the time.
00:04:16.000Acting Police Chief Peter Newsham said that by around 6.30 p.m.
00:04:18.000Eastern Time, things had calmed down, but authorities were still monitoring several groups.
00:04:22.000At the same time, police were preparing for the Women's March on Washington.
00:04:25.000It was expected to draw 200,000 protesters.
00:04:28.000And people started calling themselves the Resistance, in an ode to the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation, literally right away.
00:04:44.000But 200 people were in fact arrested on inauguration day 2017.
00:04:49.000Nobody remembers that because it got memory hold in the same way that the congressional baseball attack got memory hold because the perpetrator of that attack was a was a hardcore Democrat who supported Bernie Sanders.
00:04:58.000In the same way that we've now memory hold the murder of a bunch of white people by a black driver in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
00:05:05.000In the same way that we've memory hold a Black Lives Matter supporter murdering six police officers in Dallas in 2016.
00:05:11.000Anytime there's a perpetrator who's of the left, it gets memory hold.
00:05:14.000Anytime there's a perpetrator who is purportedly of the right, then it becomes a signal moment in American history.
00:05:21.000And January 6th is just the latest evidence of this.
00:05:23.000Because, well, the left can't use any of the other moments that I talked about.
00:05:27.000The left can't use the fact that there were 200 people who were arrested in 2017, and that windows were being smashed.
00:05:32.000The left can't use the fact that there was $5 billion in uninsured property damage, probably, that was done during summer 2020 over the George Floyd protests slash riots.
00:05:43.000I can't use any of that, but they can use January 6th.
00:05:46.000They can pretend that January 6th is some sort of turning point in American history, that it is a constant, ever-present threat, that the laws that have been attempted to be passed in various states around the country are a true threat to democracy.
00:05:59.000So what they will typically do when they have this discussion is they will bring up bills that didn't even pass.
00:06:02.000They'll bring up bills that, for example, allow for election results to be thrown out.
00:06:06.000They never talk about the bills that do pass, like the bill in Georgia that passed and then was made the subject of Major League Baseball pulling the All-Star game from Georgia.
00:08:18.000And the way that they seek to change the rules is with a couple of bills.
00:08:20.000They originally had the For the People Act.
00:08:23.000That completely fell apart because it had no support.
00:08:25.000Then they started trying to push forward the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, that is Senate Bill 4, HR Bill 4.
00:08:34.000So that particular act is designed to vastly expand federal oversight of state and local elections via use of the Voting Rights Act.
00:08:43.000The suggestion being that without any evidence of actual racist intent, if there is quote-unquote disparate impact in redistricting, for example, the federal government will now have to oversee that.
00:08:55.000There's not a lot of Republican support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, because there shouldn't be.
00:09:00.000Hans von Spakovsky, who writes for Heritage Foundation, has a very good breakdown of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and exactly what it would do.
00:09:07.000He says the stated purpose is to prevent racial discrimination, but it would force racial gerrymandering, make race the predominant factor in the election process, advance the partisan interests of one political party, and prevent common-sense election reforms like voter ID.
00:09:18.000It would also change Section 3 from requiring a show of intentional discrimination to allow other violations of the VRA to count toward triggering pre-clearance coverage.
00:09:27.000In other words, normally it was under the Voting Rights Act, which was passed in 1965.
00:09:32.000The idea was that there were a bunch of southern states that were going to gerrymander black voters out of any ability to have any impact on elections.
00:09:40.000And so the Voting Rights Act said that particular states have to go through a pre-clearance process with the federal government to demonstrate that they were not in fact acting in racially discriminatory ways.
00:09:49.000Then there was a Supreme Court decision a couple of years ago that said it's now been 50 years since the Voting Rights Act, and so we don't need to do this anymore because there's not evidence that there's a dramatic attempt in Southern states particularly to quash the black vote.
00:10:02.000Okay, well, that basically the act here would be an attempt to undo that Supreme Court decision and again make it the DOJ's prerogative to draw districts.
00:10:13.000So if you want Merrick Garland drawing districts, then this is the bill for you.
00:10:17.000Of course, the DOJ has a history of filing unwarranted objections under Section 5 based on its bias in favor of liberal advocacy groups.
00:10:23.000And that bias has not changed, of course.
00:10:26.000So, that is one of the acts that the Democrats are seeking to move forward.
00:10:30.000There's another act that the Democrats are seeking to move forward as well that does something similar.
00:10:37.000That is an attempt to put into place all sorts of ballot restrictions preventing voter ID from being implemented, encouraging ballot harvesting, all the rest of it.
00:10:49.000So what they're trying to do is cudgel Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema into killing the filibuster in order so that the support will then happen.
00:10:58.000If they kill this filibuster, then presumably they can get it done with 50 votes plus Kamala Harris.
00:11:02.000If you're Manchin or Sinema, you really have no incentive to kill the filibuster.
00:11:06.000The reason you have no incentive to kill the filibuster is because then you're actually going to be held to account.
00:11:10.000See, the filibuster protects Sinema and Manchin.
00:11:13.000The filibuster, these are two Blue senators from red or purple states, right?
00:11:18.000Arizona is a purple state and West Virginia is a bright red state.
00:11:22.000The filibuster protects Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema because they can vote in favor of Democratic proposals on the actual floor.
00:11:29.000And then they can not have that have any consequence because the filibuster kills it and they never have to vote for anything controversial.
00:11:35.000If they kill the filibuster, suddenly they're held to account by their own Democratic Party base and or Republican voters who don't like how they vote.
00:11:41.000So there's no interest for Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema in killing the filibuster.
00:11:45.000So Democrats have tried to create selective kills of the filibuster.
00:11:49.000What they're trying to do is encourage Manchin and Sinema to kill the filibuster only on bills where Manchin and Sinema really, really like the bill.
00:11:55.000But Manchin and Sinema, it doesn't make a lot of sense for them to do that because once they've opened the door, then the question becomes, why don't they just do that for everything?
00:12:03.000According to Politico, today, a group of Democrats, including Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, began meeting with Joe Manchin to design a modified version of H.R.
00:12:16.000They came up with this Freedom to Vote Act.
00:12:18.000It is a massive reform bill addressing voting rights, election integrity, campaign finance, and gerrymandering, but it is more tailored to address problems of electoral subversion, like removing election officials without cause that became apparent after 2020.
00:12:29.000Manchin shopped the bill to Republicans.
00:12:37.000It is unlikely that they're going to nuke the filibuster, especially because the Republicans do have an alternative.
00:12:42.000The Republican alternative has been pushed by folks like Yuval Levin over at American Enterprise Institute.
00:12:47.000The Republican alternative is basically to prevent some of the worst sort of election bill abuses that could theoretically be put forward, like simply throwing away votes, right, in favor of a reform to the Electoral Count Act.
00:13:03.000That the Electoral Count Act was the bill that was misinterpreted by some legal advisors to President Trump in order to suggest that Mike Pence could simply throw out electoral votes and then change the certification of the election?
00:13:18.000We talked about it at length back during December and January.
00:13:21.000The Electoral Count Act of 1887 does not allow the Vice President of the United States to simply throw out votes that have been state certified.
00:13:28.000Yuval Levin says it could be clarified.
00:13:31.000He says that some Republicans insist the process of counting and certifying the votes in some states was corrupt in 2020.
00:13:36.000There's no evidence to support specific claims on this front, or greater care and transparency about post-election administration would serve us well regardless and could render such claims easier to test and refute in ways that would build public confidence.
00:13:48.000Reforms focused on these themes would be a more productive path than what we've seen so far, which are efforts focused mostly on voting itself, on who can cast a ballot, when, and by what means.
00:13:57.000If we take both parties' most high-minded arguments at face value, they're worried about problems that barely exist.
00:14:10.000Black and white voting rates now rise and fall together.
00:14:13.000Meanwhile, voter fraud is vanishingly rare as well.
00:14:15.000The most thorough database of cases, maintained by one of the staunchest conservative defenders of election integrity, suggests a rate of fraud so low it could not meaningfully affect outcomes.
00:14:26.000Well, theoretically, they should turn to narrowly tailored legislation, says Yuval Levin, focused on post-election administration.
00:14:32.000Such a bill could, for example, limit the ability of state officials to remove local election administrators without cause and prohibit the harassment of election workers.
00:14:40.000It could mandate a mechanism for post-election audits while requiring a clear standard for rendering election results final.
00:14:46.000It could modernize and simplify the ECA.
00:14:49.000Some of those ideas were included in the Freedom to Vote Act, which is the Democratic Joe Manchin joined bill.
00:14:56.000But that bill also includes a bunch of other stuff, like campaign finance, redistricting, and make it unacceptable.
00:15:02.000So that will probably be Mitch McConnell's return offer to the Democrats, and Democrats will turn it down because they don't care about that.
00:15:08.000Democrats aren't interested in shoring up the Electoral Account Act.
00:15:11.000Democrats are interested in completely revising the way we do voting in this country.
00:15:55.000And what we see are Republican legislators trying to nullify the vote instead of adhering to our democracy.
00:16:02.000Okay, so his idea is what if we completely revise the rules for how this stuff is done?
00:16:05.000Because if we don't do that, then they're so in order for them to we have to stop them from stealing elections by stealing elections is the basic idea here.
00:16:12.000We have to burn the Republican, like small R Republican village in order to save the small D Democratic village. If you want to save democracy, you have to end democracy. You have to kill the filibuster. You have to redo how all the voting is done. By the way, it was five seconds ago the Democrats were defending the filibuster. Here was Chuck Schumer just a few years back talking about how eliminating the filibuster would be doomsday for democracy. This is 2005. The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the founding fathers
00:16:40.000called the cooling saucer of democracy into the rubber stamp of dictatorship.
00:17:11.000It'll be a doomsday for democracy if we do.
00:17:14.000I mean, I wish that Chuck Schumer today met this Chuck Schumer from the past.
00:17:19.000It would be very interesting to watch as they stare at each other, confused, because everything that he's... Chuck Schumer is just at war with his old self.
00:17:26.000Because again, when it comes to politics, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
00:17:30.000You're all for killing the filibuster when it favors you, and you're all for keeping the filibuster when it favors you.
00:17:35.000And it's death for democracy whenever you don't get your way.
00:17:38.000Okay, that's really what this January 6th stuff is about.
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00:19:00.000Because Republicans are founts of misinformation, therefore we have to have social media shutting them down.
00:19:04.000Representative Pramila Jayapal, by the way, she says that this should become a thing.
00:19:07.000That Twitter and Facebook should just shut down anyone who disagrees with her because, again, threat to democracy.
00:19:12.000It's always some deep threat that requires basic freedoms to be curbed.
00:19:17.000It's no secret that our social media companies have been part of their algorithms promoting disinformation.
00:19:24.000And I think that these steps are important, but frankly, a little too little and a little too late.
00:19:33.000The reality is, it's not just Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:19:35.000All over Twitter, social media, Facebook, all of these companies have been using algorithms that are just about clickbait, not about truth.
00:19:44.000And so if we are going to take on the disinformation that's out there, the big lie, and everything else that goes with it, then yes, this is a part of it, but it's got to be much, much more.
00:19:57.000We have to crack down on the First Amendment in order to save the First Amendment.
00:20:00.000We have to crack down on your ability to vote with a certain amount of certainty in order to save voting.
00:20:09.000It's amazing how often they use this logic.
00:20:12.000In fact, we have to curb all of the traditional institutions of American democracy in order to save American democracy, according to Professor Jedediah Britton-Purdy, a professor of constitutional law at Columbia.
00:20:21.000He has a piece in the New York Times called, The Republican Party is succeeding because we are not a true democracy.
00:20:27.000Oh, so when you win, it's a democracy, and when you lose, it's not a true democracy.
00:20:40.000Because I feel like the entire summer of 2020, before Trump and January 6th, before any of that happened, attacks on federal courthouses in Portland, massive riots across the United States, like dozens if not hundreds of riots across the United States.
00:20:58.000It wouldn't have happened in... So you explain to me, when exactly was there a genuine democracy in the United States and no violence involved ever?
00:21:11.000The attack was the most acute symptom of the political crisis that Donald Trump incited by refusing to admit defeat in the 2020 election.
00:21:16.000But the roots of the crisis run deep into the undemocratic features of our constitutional system.
00:21:23.000At a basic level, today's Republican Party succeeds only because the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court all tilt in its favor.
00:21:29.000That system has handed conservatives a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, despite the fact that only one Republican has won the presidential popular vote after 1988.
00:21:37.000A party doesn't have to persuade majorities, it has the best vision for the country.
00:21:40.000It only has to persuade a selective minority that the other side is a mortal threat.
00:21:44.000Its grasp on power may be too tenuous for the party to govern effectively, but it has offered conservatives a fine perch to weaken economic and environmental regulation, appoint conservative judges, and launch attacks on the democratic system itself.
00:21:55.000In a more democratic system, says this professor of constitutional law, the Republican Party's extreme elements would have been sent packing long before they stormed the Capitol because they couldn't muster enough votes to win a national election.
00:22:06.000Instead, they have perfected minority rule as a path to political success.
00:22:10.000An anti-democratic system has bred an anti-democratic party.
00:22:13.000The remedy is to democratize our so-called democracy.
00:22:19.000What the founders call mob rule will certainly make things much better.
00:22:22.000Because when the mob rules, nothing bad ever happens.
00:22:25.000When you have just a pure majority cramming down its opinions on the minority, without any sort of hampering mechanisms, then only good comes from that, as we know from none of world history ever.
00:22:39.000This is the basic idea for the Democrats.
00:22:41.000If we just go to pure majoritarianism, then it'll be good.
00:22:44.000By the way, if they start to lose in a pure majoritarian state, like let's say that the next Republican presidential candidate in 2024 wins a popular vote, then we'll be back to, well, what systems are broken here that could have allowed this to possibly happen?
00:22:58.000Again, January 6th is all about exploitation.
00:23:01.000It was never about January 6th purely.
00:23:04.000If it had been just about January 6th, we all would have agreed.
00:23:07.000If it's about the exploitation, then we all ought to not agree because it is really, really kind of gross to use a A horrible riot on January 6th.
00:23:18.000Not nearly as horrible in terms of property damage or loss of life as anything that happened in 2020, by the way.
00:23:23.000But a horrible image for the United States to use that as an excuse to batter away traditional institutions like the filibuster, as well as the state control over voting rights, in order to shore up your chances in 2022.
00:23:37.000That seems like much more of a threat to democracy than 200 droogs invading the Capitol building, getting themselves arrested and thrown in jail.
00:23:43.000Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get into the latest on America's COVID response, which is just completely chaotic and insane.
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00:25:00.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is trying to happy talk his way through a bunch of horrible policy decisions.
00:25:06.000So he said yesterday that we are entering 2022 in great economic condition, which is a shock to everybody who's looking around going, hold up, aren't half the companies in America about to be hit with a vaccine mandate by you? And.
00:26:15.000While he sits in a fake Oval Office with a bunch of projected snow behind him.
00:26:18.000Very exciting stuff from the President of the United States.
00:26:20.000By the way, he does have excuses for why all the failures, and the answer is it's everybody else's fault.
00:26:24.000I will say, I am highly amused by the new democratic line that companies have only now discovered the possibility of economic self-interest.
00:26:32.000So the entirety of free market economics is based on the idea that human beings are self-interested.
00:26:37.000In fact, that is the basis of much of classical liberal thought generally.
00:26:41.000Whether you're a conservative or a classical liberal, the basis of a lot of political thought over the course of the last several centuries has been the idea that human beings are motivated by self-interest.
00:26:49.000But apparently, all these companies only discovered self-interest the moment that inflation began to rise.
00:26:55.000So it's not that inflation is rising across the economy because this guy poured money on a raging fire of inflation already.
00:28:37.000It's not your centralized government top-down approach to how distribution ought to be done and how taxation and redistribution ought to be pursued.
00:28:48.000It's no wonder that America is currently suffering from all sorts of economic uncertainty, despite the fact that we should be booming at this point in unprecedented fashion.
00:28:56.000Meanwhile, major companies around the United States are implementing Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
00:29:02.000Those companies are likely to get slammed with labor shortages, because if you actually fire all your workers who won't get the vax, because they have natural immunity, many of them, then you're going to end up with labor shortage.
00:29:13.000Right now, there's a lot of talk about hospital shortages.
00:29:16.000The reality is that the hospitals are not inundated with cases, like hospitalized cases with COVID, in the same way they were during the Delta surge.
00:29:22.000That's because Delta is much more serious than Omicron.
00:29:26.000One of the reasons that there are shortages is because, as has been widely reported, many hospitals have been laying people off who are not vaxxed.
00:29:34.000And the same thing is about to happen across the economy.
00:29:37.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Starbucks is now requiring U.S.
00:29:41.000employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to regular testing, one of the first large restaurant chains to take such a step ahead of potential federal vax mandates for large employers.
00:29:50.000Starbucks said on Monday workers in its U.S.
00:29:51.000cafes, offices and manufacturing plants must be vaccinated by February 9th or get tested weekly.
00:29:56.000Workers who choose testing must have a pharmacist or doctor administer it instead of taking one at home.
00:30:01.000Workers will need to themselves obtain and cover any cost for the test, the company said in a message to U.S.
00:30:07.000So the company's not going to cover the test.
00:30:08.000You're going to cover the cost of the test.
00:30:10.000So given the fact that tests are in extraordinarily low supply right now, it could cost you hundreds, like more than you're making at Starbucks, in order to test yourself to work at Starbucks, which means unemployment.
00:30:22.000workers must disclose their vaccination status by January 10th, according to Starbucks.
00:30:27.000Starbucks COO John Culver wrote in a message to employees last week.
00:30:30.000He understands workers have a range of views on vaccination, but he said Starbucks is strongly encouraging all workers to get vaccinated, particularly as the Omicron variant spreads.
00:30:39.000Last month, the federal appellate court reinstated the Biden administration rules that require businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly for COVID-19.
00:30:47.000The Supreme Court is going to hear oral arguments early this month, possibly late this week.
00:30:53.000On this particular and we have already submitted amicus briefs.
00:30:58.000We are the first major American company to sue the Biden administration, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:31:04.000We urge you to head on over to our petition over at dailywire.com slash do not comply.
00:31:10.000Please sign our petition against the Biden vaccine mandates.
00:31:13.000We have over a million signatures on that.
00:31:16.000Well, as companies start to do this, it's just going to exacerbate a labor shortage that is already driving up wages, which is driving up prices, which is driving up inflation.
00:31:26.000All of these VAX mandates were originally designed not just to protect you against the virus.
00:31:31.000They were designed to protect you from infecting your neighbors.
00:31:33.000But as we all know, pretty much everybody you know is getting a breakthrough case of Omicron right now.
00:31:39.000And so the spread is not being prevented by the vaccines.
00:31:42.000It may be mitigated to a certain extent, although we have no statistical idea what the differential is between the vaxed getting Omicron and the unvaxed getting Omicron.
00:31:50.000What we do know is that the vaxed are responding in better fashion to Omicron than the unvaxed, although Omicron generally is less dangerous than Delta.
00:31:58.000However, if the basic idea of the VAX mandate is we have to create a safe workplace where you're not going to get COVID, which is the idea behind the OSHA VAX mandate, well, the VAX doesn't prevent you from getting COVID.
00:32:09.000It prevents you from dying from COVID and being hospitalized.
00:32:55.000By the way, in Canada, they're already shutting down everything again.
00:32:57.000I mean, it's crazy over there in Canada.
00:33:00.000My friend Jordan Peterson has been tweeting about it.
00:33:02.000Apparently, Ontario is now in full lockdown.
00:33:04.000Restrictions include delaying in-person learning at schools, shutting down gyms, indoor dining, reducing capacity for retail to 50%.
00:33:11.000And by the way, I'm just wondering at this point, why exactly are we doing this?
00:33:16.000Like, where is the evidence that we are seeing a massive increase in COVID death?
00:33:21.000New York State, right now, is experiencing... New York State, on average, is experiencing a seven-day rolling average of 91 deaths per day from COVID.
00:33:33.000That is up very, very slightly from a month ago.
00:33:37.000Despite the fact that the cases have absolutely skyrocketed.
00:33:39.000The same thing is true in pretty much every state.
00:33:54.000Okay, despite the fact that the case rate is extraordinary in Washington, D.C.
00:34:01.000So they're continuing to promote these lockdown policies in places like Washington, D.C., and Joe Biden is promoting all that, and then we're supposed to wonder why exactly the economy is stalling out?
00:34:13.000By the way, meanwhile, Joe Biden has been involving himself in seizing all of the monoclonal antibodies.
00:34:18.000He's federalizing all monoclonal antibody distribution so that he can pass them out to his friends.
00:34:24.000That, of course, is pretty bad policy, but not a particular shock.
00:34:27.000It's also true, by the way, that now Omicron is spreading throughout Congress.
00:34:32.000Congress is heavily vaccinated at this point.
00:34:36.000The number of New Yorkers who have been hospitalized with coronavirus infections topped about 9,500 on Monday.
00:34:41.000That surpassed the peak reached during last year's winter wave, but that's the number of New Yorkers who have hospitalized with coronavirus, not necessarily from coronavirus, as by the way, Anthony Fauci says, because there are a lot of people who are going to hospitals and then they're being diagnosed with COVID while they're in the hospital already.
00:34:57.000The basic idea that hospitalizations And that hospitalizations with COVID and from COVID are exactly the same thing is patently untrue, given the fact that you are now being asymptomatically tested for COVID.
00:35:11.000Beyond that, the FDA is now authorizing COVID vaccine boosters for 12 to 15-year-olds.
00:35:16.000There's no evidence that 12 to 15-year-olds need vaccine boosters.
00:35:20.000I mean, again, the total number of kids who have died from COVID to this point in the pandemic, people under the age of 18, is still under 700.
00:35:28.000More kids die of drowning in a given year than have died of COVID over the course of two years.
00:35:32.000And now they're authorizing boosters for 12 to 15 year olds?
00:35:36.000Like everyone, let's say everyone is getting Omicron.
00:36:29.000Well, Whoopi unfortunately tested positive over the break, but she'll be back probably next week.
00:36:37.000But since she's vaxxed and boosted, her symptoms have been very, very mild.
00:36:42.000But we're, you know, being super cautious here at The View.
00:36:45.000We'll be checking with her soon, so you'll see what we do.
00:36:48.000By the way, the lockdown fanatics are not stopping any time in here.
00:36:51.000Randi Weingarten, the worst actor in American public life, she came out yesterday and she says that she wants students five plus to be forced to vax in order for them to go back to school.
00:37:02.000In terms of vaccines, I think what Gavin Newsom did in California is really the best model, which is that the semester after they go from emergency use to full authorization and the FDA has done everything that they need to do, that's what California has said.
00:37:22.000That is the semester that they become mandatory.
00:37:31.000The union hasn't taken a position on that.
00:37:33.000Okay, but the union will take a position on that because teachers had a great year.
00:37:36.000OK, let's be the great heroes of our society.
00:37:39.000There are some teachers who really wanted to teach.
00:37:41.000This is not about the teachers, the teachers unions, the great heroes of our society.
00:37:44.000They spent the last year being able to teach from home, telling people to print out stuff on their non-existent printers.
00:37:48.000A lot of people don't necessarily have printers.
00:37:50.000Teaching on Zoom, kids lost a full year of school and the teachers still got paid.
00:37:55.000So they're happy to continue this as long as possible.
00:37:57.000Michael Osterholm, who is an advisor to the Biden administration, he's saying schools should shut down again.
00:38:03.000Right now we're seeing school districts all across the United States that are seeing hundreds and hundreds of teachers out sick, bus drivers, support staff.
00:38:11.000How can you have a school run when you have this viral blizzard shutting down many of those in your educational system?
00:38:18.000So we're going to have to be flexible for the next three to five weeks as we work through this Omicron crisis and realize that we may not be able to open schools, not because we don't want to, we want to, but you can't do it when you don't have people.
00:39:03.000I think certainly the February time frame is appropriate in terms of when we're going to pass through this Omicron wave across the United States.
00:39:36.000First, let's talk about the fact you don't want to go to the auto parts store because why would you ever want to go to the auto parts store?
00:39:40.000You stand in line, you finally get to the front of the line, you ask, what parts do I need for my car?
00:39:44.000And then he asks you a bunch of questions you don't know the answer to.
00:39:46.000Finally, he checks in the back, they don't have the part, we can order it and we can upcharge you 40%.
00:39:51.000Or you could just do this on the interwebs like everything else you do.
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00:42:35.000All right, so the lockdown fanatics, they continue to fail to recognize reality.
00:42:45.000So Max Boot, who's just completely lost his mind over Trump, right?
00:42:50.000He used to be, like, some of his books, he had a book on guerrilla warfare that's actually quite good.
00:42:53.000Some of his military histories are really interesting.
00:42:56.000But Max Boot, unfortunately, has lost his ever-loving mind.
00:42:58.000He has a piece today in the Washington Post, targeting yours truly, titled, Omicron doesn't vindicate right-wingers who refuse to take the coronavirus seriously.
00:43:05.000So first of all, let me just start here.
00:43:07.000Who didn't take the coronavirus seriously?
00:43:10.000I am one of the foremost proponents of vaccination on the American right.
00:43:14.000I have been since literally the day the vaccines were available and long before.
00:43:18.000Even at the beginning of the pandemic, I suggested, actually, even all the way until vaccines were available, that masking up around people who were vulnerable was not a bad idea, and that if you were vulnerable, you should be masking up.
00:43:29.000So I was not even anti-mask until the vaccines were available, then the vaccines were available, and then I said we were done.
00:43:34.000Okay, well, that happens to be following the data.
00:43:36.000According to Max Boot, this makes me some sort of anti-vax person who refused to take COVID seriously.
00:43:43.000Because, of course, taking COVID seriously, according to the left, means doing everything they say you should do when they say you should do it.
00:43:48.000That's what it means to take COVID seriously.
00:44:40.000The public health apparatus has not changed its recommendations as the threat change.
00:44:45.000They've been bouncing around like a ping pong ball depending on what the Biden administration wants for them.
00:44:48.000Sometimes it's lockdown, sometimes it's masking, sometimes it is no masking.
00:44:51.000Sometimes the schools should be open, sometimes they should not be open.
00:44:54.000Sometimes we should be deeply fearful of Omicron and we should count cases.
00:44:57.000Sometimes we should stop counting the cases.
00:44:59.000It all depends on what is politically convenient.
00:45:02.000And at no point was there a suggestion by the public health establishment that maybe you should treat the virus differently based on your age or prior health condition, or that maybe you should just be left alone to make your own decisions.
00:45:13.000Because that's all the government could do.
00:45:16.000Again, he's going to blame me for the pandemic, which is good times.
00:45:19.000He says, Host Ben Shapiro posted a lengthy Twitter thread claiming that once it became clear that COVID was not in fact a pagan god visiting vengeance on the unwashed Trump voters alone, the media and Democrats are now willing to admit the following, and went on to list various assertions such as the death rate is comparable to the flu, and we have to take into account societal needs, not just spread prevention, and we should not shut down society.
00:45:40.000Shapiro triumphantly concluded that Omicron had vindicated those of us who, quote, have been saying all this for months, and most of it since May 2020.
00:45:48.000You chose alarmism and unearned moral superiority.
00:45:51.000Now, the reason that I said in the tweet thread that many of us have been saying this for months and most of it since May 2020 is because not all of it applied in May 2020, right?
00:45:59.000It did not have the death rate of the flu in May 2020.
00:46:01.000It does have the death rate of the flu once you are vaccinated.
00:46:05.000And Omicron seems to have about the death rate of the flu generally, right?
00:46:11.000But, says Max Boot, this is nonsense on stilt.
00:46:13.000It would be more accurate to say that Shapiro and company chose populist ideology while the rest of us chose science.
00:46:18.000It takes only minimal scientific literacy, after all, to realize that two very different versions of the same disease call for two very different responses.
00:46:24.000Okay, so he's just building a straw man here and then burning it.
00:46:27.000He says one of the main reasons that people haven't gotten vaccinated and worn masks regularly is so many people are listening to right-wing agitators like Ben Shapiro, who champion a misguided idea of medical freedom.
00:46:37.000Shapiro's media company, The Daily Wire, even sued to stop President Biden's well-warranted vaccination mandate for companies with more than 100 employees.
00:46:45.000Okay, so in other words, I'm bad because even though I recommended vaccinations, I've said that everyone who's an adult in my family has been vaxxed multiple times.
00:47:31.000Show me also why you get to decide for somebody else whether they need to get vaccinated when this thing is still widely transmissible and you are not preventing the transmission by getting, you are not obliviating transmission by getting the vax.
00:47:46.000The bottom line is some people are wedded to the panic and they will never stop the panic because the panic makes them feel moral and better about themselves.
00:47:54.000Now, in reality, there are those of us who continue to live in freedom.
00:47:58.000So to my home state of Florida, Ron DeSantis continues to be a 2024 leading contender because the left cannot stop itself.
00:48:09.000to Delaware, after announcing that it was up to the states to handle COVID, after spending his entire presidential campaign saying he would shut down COVID, he was like, peace out, guys.
00:48:16.000And then he just sort of wobbled out to Delaware where he walked down the beach alone wearing a mask.
00:48:21.000Well, he did that, and then the media didn't ask, where is Joe Biden going and why isn't he handling this?
00:48:25.000Instead, they're like, where is Ron DeSantis?
00:48:26.000Well, it turns out that Ron DeSantis was caring for his wife, that he was dealing with the fact that his wife had cancer and he was accompanying her to treatments.
00:49:07.000When she's done with it, you know, it's not something that's great to see.
00:49:13.000And so I just think a lot of people, particularly people that have gone through breast cancer treatments, the notion that that would be considered a vacation I think is offensive to a lot of those folks.
00:49:23.000Okay, so the media decided to target Ron DeSantis because they didn't want to target Joe Biden, of course.
00:49:28.000And then, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, my home state, the best governor in America, He says, you know, I've noticed that a lot of you and your lockdown friends are coming down to Florida to vacation because you're a bunch of hypocritical, ridiculous people.
00:49:43.000I mean, look, I think if you if I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I'd be a pretty doggone wealthy man, let me tell you.
00:49:56.000I mean, congresspeople, mayors, governors, I mean, you name it.
00:50:01.000And it's interesting, though, the reception that some of these folks will get in Florida, because I think a lot of Floridians say, wait a minute, you're bashing us because we're not doing your draconian policies, and yet we're the first place you want to flee to, to basically to be able to enjoy life.
00:50:18.000And so I'm not surprised to see that continue to happen.
00:50:23.000By the way, Ron DeSantis, again, the chief of the Non-Panic Coalition.
00:50:27.000Why don't we deal with this with treatment that saves lives and is useful?
00:50:31.000That guy who's been pilloried by the media while Andrew Cuomo was upheld by the media.
00:50:35.000He was killing all the olds when not grabbing ass in New York.
00:50:38.000Ron DeSantis, again, he points out that it's Joe Biden who's now attempting to centralize all of the monoclonal antibodies.
00:50:45.000It was Ron DeSantis who was talking up monoclonals months ago when the entire mainstream media was saying that he was a fool for doing so.
00:50:53.000We have the ability and we will immediately turn on additional sites as soon as the federal government gives us a supply.
00:51:00.000We will do an additional site here in Broward County.
00:51:03.000We'll do an additional site in Miami-Dade.
00:51:05.000We'll do an additional site in Palm Beach County.
00:51:08.000We'll do an additional site in Central Florida.
00:51:10.000And we also have the capacity to increase of the existing footprint, which we do have a good existing footprint.
00:51:18.000And we have the ability to add five to ten more sites as the demand may be, but that is all contingent on the federal government sending the doses that we need.
00:51:30.000OK, well, the federal government, Joe Biden, probably won't allow that, because if Joe Biden were to allow people to have the monoclonals, then then they might actually get treated and then we couldn't have a crisis anymore.
00:51:39.000OK, so I want to make one final cultural note that I'd be remiss if I didn't point out.
00:53:11.000So he put up a picture that I just have to describe for you for a moment.
00:53:15.000It is a picture of Patton Oswalt sitting in front of a yellow legal pad.
00:53:22.000His headphones plugged into his phone, staring at himself in the mirror, or at least looking down, and then the pictures of him in a mirror because he's really, you know, he's doing some introspection.
00:53:37.000So the utter narcissism, a picture of him with another image of him in the mirror, both of whom are staring down at the pad of paper where they're writing their forced apology, malice, I saw a friend I hadn't seen in a long time this New Year's Eve.
00:53:57.000We've known each other since we're teens.
00:53:58.000He's a fellow comedian, the funniest I've ever met.
00:54:01.000I wanted to post a pic and an Instagram story about it, so I did.
00:54:07.000He's refocused and refined ideas a lot of us took and settled about race and history and life on planet Earth and spun them around with a phrase or a punchline.
00:54:13.000We've done bad and good gigs, open mics and TV tapings.
00:54:16.000But we also 100% disagree about transgender rights and representation.
00:54:20.000I support trans people's rights, anyone's rights, to live safely in the world as their fullest selves.
00:54:25.000For all the things he's helped me evolve on, I'll always disagree with where he stands now on transgender issues.
00:54:31.000But I also don't believe a seeker like him is done evolving, learning, You know someone that long, see the struggles and changes, it's impossible to cut them off.
00:54:38.000Impossible not to be hopeful and open and cheer them on.
00:54:40.000Also, I've been carrying a lot of guilt about friends I've cut off, who had views with which I couldn't agree, or changed in ways I couldn't live with.
00:54:46.000Sometimes I wonder, did I and others cutting them off make them dig their heels in deeper, fuel their ignorance with a nitro boost of resentment and spite?
00:54:54.000I'm an LGBTQ plus IA open bracket closed bracket tilde Little, little equals sign, ally.
00:55:05.000There's a friction in those traits that I need to reconcile myself and not let cause feels of betrayal in anyone else.
00:55:11.000And I'm sorry, truly sorry, that I didn't consider the hurt this would cause or the depth of that hurt.
00:55:15.000I've been messaging a lot on IG today, and the back and forth has really helped guide me in the writing of this.
00:55:20.000I naively deleted a lot of posts in the comment thread, critical ones from LGBTQ writers and bleep posts by TERF anti-trans orcs looking for clicks and giggles.
00:55:27.000I wanted a nice comment thread about to pick with my friend.
00:55:37.000But he's not really talking about the growth of himself.
00:55:40.000Most of that post is about how Dave Chappelle needs to grow and change.
00:55:43.000And the only reason he's staying friends with Dave Chappelle is because he hopes that Dave Chappelle will one day come to embrace his own views.
00:55:49.000So this is not him saying, I can embrace a friend who disagrees with me on this issue.
00:55:53.000This is him saying the only reason I embrace this friend is because one day he will embrace my views on this issue, which, by the way, is the opposite of friendship.
00:56:01.000Okay, if the idea is that you can only be friends with people who agree with you on everything, or people who you believe that you will eventually convince to agree with you on everything, that does not seem like somebody that should be friends with you.
00:56:14.000Because what if ten years from now they look around and Dave Chappelle still feels the same way that he does today?
00:56:17.000Because by the way, Dave Chappelle is correct.
00:56:20.000Is Patton Oswalt then gonna cut him off?
00:56:22.000Right now, his excuse is, I still think I can make a difference with Dave.
00:56:59.000He's right on the issues, and he's broad-minded enough to know that his stupid friend doesn't believe what he believes, and that one day his stupid friend may come to believe what he believes.
00:57:08.000And that's why he's sorry that he took a picture with that friend and didn't note in there that his friend also is a bigot, a vicious, wild bigot.
00:57:15.000But he should still be friends with him.
00:57:18.000Man, I hope that Dave Chappelle just wrecks him, because no one deserves it more than the rat man, Patton Oswalt.