On this day in 1787, the signatories of the Constitution of the United States got together and signed the document. It is an incredible document, and I want to take a brief moment and read to you from my book, "How to Destroy America in 3 Easy Steps: Three Easy Steps on the Constitution." The Constitution was a compromise document designed to enshrine American philosophy via a limited government system. That system's checks and balances balance the necessity for action embodied in the legislative power with the necessity to avoid tyranny. The constitutional system s checks effectively balance the requirement for the executive to respond to threats and enforce law with the requirement to avoid despotism embodied in checks & balances. And finally, the idea that government exists only to protect natural rights and to enforce equality before the law. American philosophy believes these propositions are self-evident, in the words of the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution's federalism was constructed to frustrate national schemes, and to counter the ambition of a system that overran all boundaries between the various branches of the federal government. The idea that the Founders attempted to implement American philosophy through a unique set of institutions, and a system designed to ensure that the philosophy was implemented through a system of checks and checks. Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect your data from prying eyes at ExpressVpn. Protect your privacy from spying on you by protecting your data by protecting it at PGP. Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show: Protect Your Data from Prying Eyes at Ben Shapiro s newsletter, Ben Shapiro: The Truth About Privacy: Ben Shapiro on the Future of the Future by Ben Shapiro. The Truth about Privacy, the Podcast, the Facts About Privacy, and Everything You Need to Know About It's a Podcast Epidemic by Express Vpn's New Podcast Epiphany, the podcast you'll Never Hear About It on the Internet's Newest Podcast? Subscribe, Subscribe, Learn How to Protect Your Privacy, Subscribe to Ben Shapiro, Subscribe and Share the Truth About It, and Subscribe to the Podcast! Ben's New Book: "How To Destroy America's Most Powerful Podcasts Are Better Than You'll Never Be Spoken About It? - The Best Podcasts Never Stop Prounounced It's Better Than That? - Ben Shapiro | How to Make It Better Than It's Realistic, No More Than That, No One Has It's Not Better, No Fake Fact Check It's My Story by Me?
00:01:51.000And I want to take just a brief moment and read to you from my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps on the Constitution, because it's important to recognize why the Constitution is important.
00:02:00.000So, Abraham Lincoln suggested that the Constitution was a frame of silver, a picture of silver around an apple of gold.
00:02:06.000The apple of gold being the Declaration of Independence, meaning we have certain fundamental philosophies in the United States.
00:02:12.000This philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, and it was protected by a system that was designed to ensure that the philosophy was enacted.
00:02:19.000Here's how I talk about it in my book.
00:02:21.000The philosophy of the United States rests on three basic principles.
00:02:24.000First, the reality of natural rights, which pre-exists government, inalienable and precious.
00:02:28.000Second, the equality of all human beings before the law and in their rights.
00:02:32.000And finally, the belief that government exists only to protect natural rights and to enforce equality before the law.
00:02:38.000American philosophy believes these propositions are self-evident, in the words of the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:43.000The Founders attempted to implement American philosophy through a unique set of institutions.
00:02:48.000The Constitution of the United States was a compromise document designed to enshrine American philosophy via a limited government system.
00:02:54.000That constitutional system's enumerated powers balance the necessity for action embodied in the legislative power with the necessity to avoid tyranny.
00:03:02.000The constitutional system's checks effectively balance the requirement of an executive powerful enough to respond to threats and enforce law with the requirement to avoid despotism embodied in checks and balances.
00:03:13.000The constitutional system's federalism was constructed to frustrate national schemes, to subsume the character of local communities, while simultaneously preventing those local communities from becoming autocracies.
00:03:22.000Okay, so to put that in maybe even simpler English, there are basically three things that the Constitution was designed to do.
00:03:35.000And this was that the government did not have the ability to infringe upon your core rights as a human being.
00:03:41.000Second, the constitutional system put in place these checks and balances between the various branches of the federal government so that you didn't have an executive branch that overran all of its boundaries, or a legislative branch that overran all of its boundaries, or a judiciary that overran all of its boundaries.
00:03:54.000Again, the idea was that ambition was supposed to counteract ambition, and in doing so, your rights as an American would be protected.
00:04:00.000And finally, the Constitution set up a federalist system, a federalist system that allows the federal government to do things that need to be done, but also prevents the federal government from infringing on the local character of communities.
00:04:12.000And at the same time, prevents local communities from infringing on the core human rights of the citizens inside those local communities.
00:04:17.000That's what the Constitution was designed to do.
00:04:20.000And over time, as it was amended, increasingly did.
00:04:23.000It is a document well worth celebrating.
00:04:25.000And when you see so many people in the United States today who essentially see the Constitution as a vestige of a dead past, oh, it's this document that means nothing anymore.
00:04:33.000Understand, there's a long history to that kind of thinking, going all the way back to the progressives at the beginning of the 20th century and the worst president in American history, Woodrow Wilson, that this view of the Constitution as a barrier to the things we want to do The Constitution is a barrier to a government becoming so powerful that it can cram down on you anything, including violations of your rights in the name of pure majoritarianism, in the name of the mob, in the name of your local community, without any sort of federal intervention.
00:05:00.000And there was a balancing act that was attempting to be done by the Founding Fathers, and they achieved it in incredible fashion.
00:05:05.000The Constitution is unbelievably durable.
00:05:16.000Name me the fascist thing that Trump is doing.
00:05:18.000Even if you thought he had authoritarian tendencies, the document has been so robust that it has prevented that from happening, even if you're on the left.
00:05:26.000And the same thing is true on the right.
00:05:27.000Barack Obama, I think, had extraordinarily authoritarian tendencies.
00:05:30.000It's why he talked about a pen and a phone.
00:05:32.000It's why he talked about bending law pretty routinely.
00:05:34.000It's why he militarized parts of his own government, the IRS, for example.
00:05:38.000But the Constitution is robust enough to even hem in the most authoritarian characters who take up the presidency.
00:05:45.000Now, that doesn't mean that we don't need to do a better job of electing our public leaders.
00:05:48.000What it does mean is that we ought to recognize that the Constitution systems, those checks and balances, are crucial.
00:05:53.000And in a time when exactly those things are coming under fire, it is important to remember why they are important.
00:05:58.000Right now, we have ascendant wings in maybe both parties that see the fundamentals of the Constitution as a threat to the future of the country.
00:06:07.000Who believe that enumerated powers prevent the government from doing what it is supposed to do.
00:06:13.000Why can't we just move beyond these enumerated powers?
00:06:16.000I mean, these people lived 230 years ago.
00:06:18.000The reason that the Constitution is still relevant is because human nature has not changed in the last 233 years.
00:06:23.000The reason the Declaration is still relevant is because human nature has not changed since the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
00:06:30.000But there are people who want to overthrow these fundamental principles, right?
00:06:32.000They believe that enumerated powers are a problem because they prevent the government from doing the things we want to do.
00:06:39.000And this is what you see from Democrats who say, for example, that the federal government should be able to cram down on you a health care mandate, or the federal government should be able to cram down on you federal education mandates, or all this stuff is beyond the scope of what the federal government was designed to do.
00:06:53.000You see the same thing in the way that members of both parties seem to dislike checks and balances.
00:06:58.000That they believe that the federal government ought to have no checks and balances.
00:07:03.000Right now, you're seeing this mostly from the Democrats who want to get rid of the filibuster, who say that the Senate itself is constituted undemocratically.
00:07:11.000It is the point, is that states were supposed to be able to check each other because they were independent bodies before the foundation of the United States.
00:07:18.000The checks and balances were part of the system.
00:07:19.000They were designed to create gridlock.
00:07:21.000When you see people bemoaning gridlock at the federal level, gridlock was part of the system.
00:07:27.000But people don't like gridlock, except if their rights are being violated.
00:07:31.000And then when it comes to federalism, you see the Democrats taking the position that states should either summarily be overrun by the federal government, or, if they're red states, and if they're blue states, they should be left to their own devices by the federal government.
00:07:43.000As soon as you believe that the institutions of the Constitution are no longer important, you have left behind the philosophy that believes the Declaration is important because all of those mechanisms were designed to protect that core of gold, that philosophy that suggests that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
00:08:00.000Alrighty, so, just thought that I'd sound off a little bit on Constitution Day because this is one of our great forgotten holidays, Constitution Day, September 17th.
00:08:07.000Alrighty, meanwhile, We are seeing Facebook beginning to involve itself in censorship to an extraordinary degree.
00:08:17.000There's a couple of stories that are coming out of Facebook that are truly disturbing.
00:08:22.000And really it has more to do with the fact-checkers that Facebook has chosen to rely upon than Facebook itself.
00:08:26.000They shouldn't have set up the system this way.
00:08:27.000But the fact that Facebook set up the system so that left-wing fact-checkers could skew the system is really a horrible move and unjustifiable.
00:08:36.000These are some pretty wild stories in how social media can really screw with the political narrative on the basis of the left really lying.
00:08:44.000The fact checkers are just, so many of these fact checkers are just liars.
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00:10:12.000There's been a lot of talk in the recent past about social media and its crackdown on the flow of information.
00:10:18.000And I have defended some of these companies, and I have gone after some of these companies.
00:10:22.000Of all the social media companies, I've defended Facebook the most because, frankly, it would be hypocritical for me not to, considering that Facebook has been of benefit to my company.
00:10:30.000Considering we do tremendous traffic on Facebook?
00:10:33.000But that doesn't mean that the system that Facebook has set up for fact-checking is not unbelievably skewed and actually quite dangerous.
00:10:55.000It is like a media matters left-wing outlet.
00:10:57.000It is designed to fact-check implications.
00:11:01.000PolitiFact will do these fact-checks where they will fully admit right in the body of the article that what they are fact-checking is not factually false.
00:11:07.000They'll just say that we don't like the implication, therefore we rate it mostly false.
00:11:11.000PolitiFact is an overtly political outlet.
00:11:14.000The fact that they masquerade as an objective fact-checker is a joke.
00:11:17.000This has been true for literally years.
00:11:20.000I remember several years back I cut a video in which all I did was just read statistics from Pew Global Polling on the feelings of Muslims globally about a wide variety of controversial issues ranging from support to terrorism to support for honor killings and all this.
00:11:35.000The entire video was just noting what percentage of Muslims in Afghanistan believed in honor killing and then saying, this seems like an extreme belief.
00:11:43.000PolitiFact rated the video false because they said that my standards for extremism were not objective standards of extremism, which is not, in fact, a false rating.
00:11:52.000That is just them saying they disagree with my definitions.
00:11:54.000Okay, that's called a political argument.
00:11:56.000PolitiFact does this stuff all the time.
00:11:59.000And the fact that Facebook decided to use PolitiFact as one of its trusted fact checkers leads to perverse results like this.
00:13:19.000So PolitiFact, the ad launched August 4th.
00:13:21.000It was then slapped with a mostly false rating by PolitiFact.
00:13:24.000And then it was blocked by Facebook, like full-on blocked by Facebook.
00:13:27.000Again, the ad directly quotes Biden saying, if you elect me, your taxes are going to be raised, not cut.
00:13:33.000So what exactly, how exactly did PolitiFact rationalize its mostly false rating?
00:13:38.000They accused the PAC, this is according to John Bickley, editor-in-chief of Daily Wire, of not giving the audience, for the 30-second spot, enough context and giving the wrong impression about what Biden meant.
00:14:12.000So here is how their stupid fact check begins.
00:14:14.000They say a new ad from a pro-Trump super PAC uses out-of-context footage of Joe Biden to claim that the former vice president wants to raise taxes for Americans across the board.
00:14:22.000While the America First action ad presents that remark out of context, some tax experts estimate that Biden's plan would mean higher taxes on average for all income groups, but those increases would be relatively small for all but the biggest earners.
00:14:36.000So in other words, they say that while it's true that Biden is going to increase taxes for everyone, he's mostly going to increase taxes for rich people, therefore the ad is mostly false.
00:14:46.000So you're admitting that the ad is true, You just agree with Joe Biden's policy, and so you're going to declare the ad mostly false.
00:14:54.000PolitiFact specifically cites a Biden campaign official as supposed evidence of the Democrats' intent.
00:15:00.000The full exchange shows that Biden was saying his plan would raise taxes for people who, in his words, quote, benefited from the GOP's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
00:15:08.000A Biden campaign official said his point was that the wealthy, not all Americans, would not benefit from his plan.
00:15:24.000The fact check goes on to make a similarly flimsy case against the ad's inclusion of Biden warning his tax increases could go higher.
00:15:30.000The supposed evidence of this being quote-unquote mostly false is the following full quote from Biden, quote, That's literally him saying he's going to increase taxes.
00:15:36.000tax for their capital gains as their tax rate is.
00:15:38.000And I think we should raise the tax rate back to, for example, I take it back to where it was before it was reduced.
00:15:49.000So PolitiFact declared it mostly false based on the fact that they actually agree with Joe Biden's policy.
00:15:54.000you That isn't even the worst case of Facebook removing something based on a bullcrap PolitiFact fact check.
00:16:00.000The worst case is there is a group, there's another group that is called the Americans Principles Project.
00:16:07.000The American Principles Project ran an ad in Michigan.
00:16:10.000This ad in Michigan targeted the governor of Michigan because the governor of Michigan backs the so-called Equality Act.
00:16:16.000And the so-called Equality Act essentially abolishes the ability of biological women to compete against only biological women in sports.
00:16:24.000The Equality Act suggests that if you are a man and you say that you are a woman, you should now be able to compete with women in sports.
00:16:30.000Transgender women should be able to compete with actual biological women in sports, which of course destroys women's sports because now you have biological males competing with biological females.
00:16:40.000In a second, I'm going to show you this ad.
00:16:41.000Then I'm going to tell you what the PolitiFact check said.
00:16:49.000If Facebook is removing ads and content based on the biased insanity of PolitiFact, Facebook needs to feel the heat on that.
00:16:58.000I've been a great advocate of not regulating these social media companies because I don't want the government sitting above the social media companies and determining exactly what can and cannot be put on there because I don't want Elizabeth Warren in charge of that.
00:17:09.000I don't want the Democrats appointing a majority of the FCC and then cramming down their perspective on what should be online on these various social media companies.
00:17:16.000I'd rather let a thousand flowers bloom.
00:17:17.000It makes it very difficult for me to make that case.
00:17:20.000When companies like Facebook that control huge flows of information allow this sort of nonsense to happen, where they explicitly outsource their judgment to politifact.
00:17:29.000At that point, they're just a left-wing source.
00:17:31.000Masquerading as an objective source, which is not acceptable under any circumstances.
00:19:25.000Honestly, they should bar PolitiFact from being part of the program for gaming the system.
00:19:29.000I think Facebook's core assumption is that PolitiFact is going to act like a fact checker, not like an arm of the Democratic Party, but apparently that assumption was incorrect.
00:20:22.000I mean, this has become the basis for lawsuits in places like Connecticut, where transgender athletes are competing against biological women, and they are destroying them.
00:20:29.000Because it turns out that if you grow up as a boy, you have a different physiological structure than growing up as a girl.
00:20:37.000So the science is real, crowd on the democratic side.
00:20:39.000Okay, so here's PolitiFact's fact check that caused Facebook to take this down.
00:20:42.000Their specific criticism is that allowing transgender girls and women to compete on the basis of their gender identity would create an uneven playing field for student-athlete and ultimately end girls and women's sports.
00:21:20.000A little bit earlier this week, Dr. Scott Atlas, who's been a guest on this program, Dr. Atlas had some videos on YouTube talking about COVID.
00:21:27.000Atlas has been a lockdown skeptic since the earliest days, and he has claimed repeatedly that, for example, this thing has differential diagnoses based on whether you're elderly or whether you're younger.
00:21:41.000He has said that there's not a lot of evidence that children are passing this with great frequency, for example.
00:21:45.000It was a video of that that was taken, so YouTube took down that video, saying that it did not meet with the WHO's information.
00:21:52.000Okay, well, if you had to abide by what the WHO says is true, standard, then saying in February that this thing was airborne would have conflicted with the WHO.
00:22:02.000If you had said in late February, hey, we should all mask up, that would have conflicted with the WHO.
00:22:09.000as the scientific gold standard, then removing videos that conflict with the W.H.O., which was a Chinese-run operation, essentially, in the early days of COVID, is crazy.
00:22:20.000YouTube put out a statement to the Wall Street Journal saying it removed the Atlas interview for, quote, falsely stating that a certain age group cannot transmit the virus.
00:22:27.000The company was apparently referring to Dr. Atlas's remark amid a discussion about school reopening that children, quote, do not even transmit the disease.
00:22:34.000That seems to have been an exaggeration for emphasis.
00:22:36.000Dr. Atlas corrected himself in the next answer, saying transmission by children is, quote, not impossible, but it's less likely.
00:22:43.000So what they are now doing on YouTube is they are acting as though everything that you say spontaneously is a term paper.
00:22:49.000So if I exaggerate for emphasis, which everybody does, rhetorically speaking, every single day, everybody, if you speak off the cuff, you're likely to be banned by YouTube because you didn't footnote everything in precisely the way that YouTube wanted.
00:23:02.000You get the same thing on Facebook, by the way.
00:23:05.000My co-host, another host over here at The Daily Wire, Michael Moles, He's been dinged by Facebook because he said, for rhetorical emphasis, that there was, quote, no evidence that masks work.
00:23:14.000He then followed up by suggesting that the Swedish health officials and the Norwegian health officials had basically said that there's not a lot of evidence that it works.
00:23:21.000OK, so he emphasized and he overemphasized and he exaggerated for emphasis.
00:23:26.000This is the kind of stuff where it only works on one side, by the way.
00:23:30.000If you are a Democrat and you say that Donald Trump is removing mailboxes from the streets to prevent mail-in voting, so to steal the election, they won't remove any of that crap, any of it.
00:23:38.000Hey, here's Scott Atlas on Tucker Carlson last night saying, this is absurd.
00:23:44.000I think this sort of move to censor people like me, and others, I'm not just talking about myself, really has precipitated a backlash here.
00:23:52.000We saw it in the media now, lots of things have been written talking about what I've said and how outrageous it is that that stuff was censored, or even an interest by some of my former colleagues in censoring me by public shaming or cancellation.
00:24:08.000These kinds of things are really destructive and harmful.
00:24:12.000Not only is it wrong in terms of the truth, it's also instilling fear into the public.
00:25:29.000Who are these independent fact checkers and why should we trust them?
00:25:32.000You have to fact check the fact checkers because not all fact checkers are created equal as we have seen.
00:25:36.000They will overtly rate false claims that are clearly true.
00:25:39.000There's two separate ads just in the last week that have been removed that are overtly true and that the fact checker itself admits are basically true.
00:25:49.000And if these companies wish to remain independent, and they don't want everybody just rushing to the government for a solution, which, again, I am against.
00:25:56.000I don't think the government should step in in these cases overall.
00:25:59.000It's gonna be real difficult for the government not to step in at the behest of people who believe that their rights are being violated by social media companies that are, at the very least, quasi-fraudulently claiming to be open and objective participants in a platform rather than in some sort of publication.
00:26:17.000And I'm against that sort of legislation.
00:26:19.000But you gotta make it easier for me, guys.
00:26:32.000Hey, in just a second, we are going to be getting to all of the latest on COVID because there are some crazy stories today out on COVID and the handling of COVID, particularly in blue areas.
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00:27:26.000Producer Colton is an excellent employee, except when he is just dead set on particular guests who don't really have much to do with the show, but he's like super obsessed with the guest, but wants to make sure that this guest gets like three hours on the program.
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00:28:18.000Now, I've been very critical of much that President Trump has done with regard to, with regards, or at least said with regard to COVID.
00:28:25.000I think when it comes to what he's done, I'm not sure that he had tons of choices on what he's done.
00:28:28.000It seems like everybody has failed pretty much everywhere because there aren't great policies when it comes to a global pandemic that seems to basically stick around until it burns its way through communities.
00:28:38.000The basic logic of COVID is that it burns through communities.
00:28:40.000All you can do is shield the sick and the vulnerable, the elderly, and then it just passes through and then it's done, right?
00:28:46.000This is the lesson from Sweden, where they never shut down.
00:28:48.000And their big failure was they didn't protect the sick and vulnerable at the very beginning.
00:28:52.000If they had, Sweden would be widely perceived to be what it is.
00:28:56.000a model for how to handle this thing. Everybody in Europe is now experiencing the so-called second wave. It is not a second wave. It is a continuation of the first wave. It's just that when you lock down, all you did was delay the inevitable, which is the spread of this thing through communities.
00:29:07.000Now, maybe that's a good thing, right? Delaying it allowed for better therapeutic procedures.
00:29:11.000It allowed for hospitals to figure out how to treat this thing better. The death in hospitals rates is down dramatically, right? Florida and Georgia and Texas and Arizona, they all got waves.
00:29:21.000Those waves happened a lot later than New Jersey and New York, and that meant that they weren't having people lying on their back with ventilators.
00:29:26.000They were flipping people on their stomachs.
00:29:43.000New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, their curves are enormous in terms of death because this thing hit early and hospitals didn't know how to handle it.
00:30:23.000And by the way, online schooling is failing everywhere it's tried.
00:30:26.000Heavy, heavy percentages, like up to half, maybe more than half in certain school districts of kids are not even logging on to go to Zoom school.
00:30:33.000Because honestly, you can't keep kids concentrating in regular school.
00:30:35.000What, you think you're going to plunk them down in front of a boring screen?
00:30:38.000Like my daughter is doing some Zoom school right now as we prepare for our move.
00:30:42.000And she is a kid with an extraordinary attention span.
00:30:44.000I mean, she, you know, she's brilliant.
00:30:49.000She's still easily distracted because she's literally sitting there looking at a screen while the teacher's walking around the classroom dealing with, it's kind of half in class, half Zoom school.
00:33:37.000Okay, and what we are also seeing is that the party of science is covering up the science in many cases.
00:33:41.000So we've been hearing from the media over and over and over again that the real bad guy in all of this, of course, is Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:33:48.000Now, let's be clear, the dashboard for Florida when it comes to COVID info is maybe the most transparent dashboard anywhere in the country.
00:33:54.000They've been extremely transparent about their information in Florida.
00:33:58.000You know where they weren't quite so forthcoming about their information?
00:34:02.000In the Daily Wire's new home city of Nashville.
00:34:04.000According to Fox17.com, this is an insane story.
00:34:07.000The coronavirus cases on lower Broadway may have been so low that the mayor's office and metro health department decided to keep it secret.
00:34:16.000Okay, so the claim from the left is that Republican governors and mayors have been covering up deaths and cases.
00:34:23.000There is now evidence that in Nashville, the mayor's office was covering up the fact that bars and restaurants were not vectors of transmission.
00:34:30.000So they could justify shutting down the bars and restaurants.
00:34:32.000They literally put thousands of people out of work in order to, and then covered up the data suggesting it was unnecessary.
00:34:40.000Emails between the mayor's senior advisor and the health department reveal only a partial picture, but what they reveal is disturbing.
00:34:46.000The discussion involves the low number of coronavirus cases emerging from bars and restaurants and how to handle that.
00:34:51.000And most disturbingly, how to keep it from the public.
00:34:53.000On June 30th, contact tracing was given a small view of coronavirus clusters.
00:34:58.000Construction and nursing homes were found to be causing problems with more than a thousand cases traced to each category, which makes sense.
00:35:04.000I mean, we know the nursing homes are a chief factor.
00:35:06.000We also know that contract workers who are working in close proximity with each other tend to spread it.
00:35:12.000Bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases.
00:35:15.000Leslie Waller from the health department asked, this isn't going to be publicly released, right?
00:35:20.000Correct, not for public consumption, writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles.
00:35:24.000A month later, the health department was asked point blank about the rumor there were only 80 cases in all of Nashville traced to bars and restaurants.
00:35:32.000Reporter Nate Rao asked, the figure you gave of more than 80 does lead to a natural question.
00:35:36.000If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn't that mean restaurants and bars aren't a very big problem?
00:35:46.000Health Department official Brian Todd asked five health department officials, please advise how you recommend I respond.
00:35:53.000The name at the top of the response is clipped, but here is the answer, quote, my two cents.
00:35:57.000We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are low per site.
00:36:02.000We could still release the total, though, and then a response to the over 80 could be that because the number is increasing all the time and we don't want to say a specific number.
00:36:10.000Neither the health department nor the mayor's office would confirm the authenticity of the emails, but a council member named Steve Glover had a Metro staff attorney inquire.
00:37:16.000And we'll get to more of the science is real gang on COVID-19 in just a second because Joe Biden gave a big speech about science being real.
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00:41:41.000But if you are elderly, if you're at risk, if you have a pre-existing condition, if you have diabetes or something, then getting the vaccine is pretty damned important.
00:41:48.000And you would like for people who are generally healthy to also get the vaccine so they don't become vectors of transmission because adults do transmit this to adults.
00:41:55.000The evidence is that kids don't transmit it quite as much or in as severe numbers as adults.
00:41:59.000So what you don't want to do is undermine the vaccine.
00:42:02.000Party of Science should understand this.
00:42:05.000They even put it on their stupid lawn signs.
00:42:07.000Okay, except that now you have Joe Biden openly questioning whether, if a vaccine is developed under the Trump administration, people should take it.
00:42:49.000Seriously, the newer skeptics tend to be Democrats who could have predicted this.
00:42:53.000According to Yahoo News and YouGov, they've consistently found a hardline group of anti-vaxxers who say they will not get vaccinated no matter what.
00:43:02.000They're generally concentrated more on the right.
00:43:03.000But while the number of Republicans who say they would get vaccinated has declined 14 points from May, from 47% to 33, the corresponding number of Democrats has plummeted twice as much, from 70% to 42% over the same period of time.
00:43:17.000So the science is, I am very pro-vaccination, the science is real party is undermining American faith in vaccines.
00:43:25.000Again, because it might redound to Trump's benefit if people actually were to take the vaccine.
00:43:29.000And so you have Joe Biden overtly saying, well, I like vaccines and I like science, but I don't like Donald Trump.
00:43:34.000What does that have to do with anything?
00:43:35.000If vaccines were developed under Barack Obama, I would take them.
00:43:38.000Like, what the hell are we talking about here?
00:43:39.000I don't think that Barack Obama would deliberately put out— I really dislike Barack Obama.
00:43:44.000I don't think Barack Obama would deliberately put out a faulty vaccine to kill people.
00:43:47.000Like, what the hell are you talking about here?
00:43:50.000Meanwhile, what we are learning from the Science is Real party is that vaccines are bad or questionable if developed under Trump, but masks are very good.
00:43:58.000Now again, the evidence on masks is mixed.
00:44:01.000There are studies that suggest that masks are useful, if particularly you're in populated areas.
00:44:06.000And they're mostly useful not to you, they're useful for protecting other people.
00:44:09.000So you sneeze, you're wearing a mask, instead of it going everywhere, now it just goes mostly into the mask.
00:44:14.000It gets outside the mask a little bit, but mostly it goes into the mask.
00:44:16.000This is why I have long been a proponent of, if you are in a crowded area, When you're in an area where people are vulnerable or elderly, you should wear a mask.
00:44:23.000My parents, when they come over to my house, they wear masks.
00:44:45.000Okay, so the evidence is mixed, right?
00:44:48.000We can say that, like you can be pro-mask and also acknowledge that the evidence is mixed as to the efficacy of mask adoption of masks, particularly if people are not wearing it properly.
00:44:56.000Like my wife, when she was in medical school, as I've said, they actually had full courses.
00:45:00.000They had like a full seminar on how to properly don PPE, personal protective equipment.
00:45:04.000If you put on the mask wrong, it's a problem.
00:45:06.000If you put the mask below your nose, that is a problem.
00:45:08.000You see all these videos of people in crowds and people are cheering them for wearing the mask and they've got the mask below the nose.
00:45:14.000You breathe through your nose, idiots.
00:45:16.000If you actually want the mask to work, you gotta put it up above your nose.
00:45:19.000You see people who are... I still see tons of people wearing neck gaiters.
00:45:23.000There's a study from the CDC that came out and said neck gaiters are worse than nothing.
00:45:26.000Because neck gaiters actually encourage people to violate social distancing and they actually aerosolize stuff better because if you sneeze into a neck gaiter, then actually it explodes out.
00:45:38.000But half the population is still wearing neck gaiters.
00:45:41.000So all of this is to say that when people keep talking about masks as opposed to a vaccine, the answer is both and, right?
00:46:04.000When the virus got bad in Florida, people masked at a higher rate.
00:46:07.000When the virus got bad in New York, people masked at a higher rate because they thought that it was going to protect them because people act in self-preserving fashion.
00:46:13.000It doesn't matter to Joe Biden, though, because for Joe Biden, it's really about the virtue signaling of suggesting he's going to mandate mask wearing because you can't trust your neighbor.
00:46:41.000And so Biden now is trying to proclaim that his legal team thinks he can push a nationwide mask mandate.
00:46:46.000There is no constitutional authority to do this.
00:46:48.000He's changing his tune on this because Trump has rightly pointed out that when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say, we would love everyone to wear a mask, they don't have the authority to do that.
00:46:55.000So really, it's just them jabbering nonsensically.
00:46:58.000Now, Joe Biden has been roped into saying that he might have the legal authority to mandate that you wear a mask.
00:47:03.000There is no such authority under the Constitution.
00:47:08.000There's a question, I think it can be answered in the positive, a question whether I can mandate over state lines that every single state has to comply.
00:47:20.000Our legal team thinks I can do that based upon the degree to which there's a crisis in those states and how bad things are for the country.
00:47:37.000So he talked to governors, is what he says, but even the implication that he has the constitutional authority to cram this stuff down is not correct, obviously.
00:47:44.000Okay, meanwhile, supposedly Trump is the person who is anti-science.
00:47:48.000Now, listen, Trump tweets out a bunch of stuff, and he has tweeted out a bunch of stuff in the past that is anti-science.
00:47:52.000Okay, Donald Trump has tweeted out a bunch of crap about vaccines that I find absolutely absurd on every scientific level.
00:47:58.000Donald Trump has not been, I would say, friendly toward many of the findings of science in the past.
00:48:05.000When it comes to vaccines, what Donald Trump says about vaccines is significantly less dangerous than what Joe Biden is saying about the vaccines for this thing right now.
00:48:12.000Here was Donald Trump yesterday saying that Biden should stop his anti-vaccine nonsense.
00:48:17.000I'm calling on Biden to stop promoting his anti-vaccine theories because all they're doing is hurting the importance of what we're doing.
00:48:27.000And I know that if they were in this position, they'd be saying how wonderful it is.
00:48:36.000And again, this is really a case that they're only talking to just started talking a little bit negatively, and that's only because they know we have it or we will soon have it.
00:49:02.000And he said, no, it'll be available sooner.
00:49:03.000I think that what the controversy is over is who the vaccine will go to.
00:49:08.000Wide availability means like general public availability, but to the elderly, to the most vulnerable, to healthcare workers, it's supposed to be available by the end of the year.
00:49:14.000I think pretty much everybody agrees on that at this point.
00:49:19.000You know, again, the party of science not being particularly scientific about vaccines, not being particularly scientific about COVID, and apparently in Nashville, openly covering up information.
00:49:35.000It's pretty obviously political, which is why it was amazing to watch.
00:49:39.000So Donald Trump yesterday. He was he was in this presser and he was asked about the COVID response. And he says, if you just look at the at the red states, the red states actually did pretty well here. He's not wrong about this. He got all sorts of flack on it. Here's what Trump said. So we're down in this territory. And that's despite the fact that the blue states had had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, we're at a level that
00:50:08.000I don't think anybody in the world would be at. We're really at a very low level. But some of the states, they were blue states and blue state management, by the way, would recommend they open up their states. I think it's very important that they.
00:50:49.000Let me just point out that at the DNC, they literally had a woman whose father died of COVID, suggested her dad died of COVID because he voted for Trump.
00:50:55.000The Democrats have been claiming for this entire time that Andrew Cuomo is a model of American governance while Ron DeSantis is a villain of history for his handling.
00:51:04.000It was you guys who made this political.
00:51:06.000You're the ones who decided Donald Trump was the worst president of all time and Andrew Cuomo is the best governor of all time to excuse Andrew Cuomo's garbage governance or the fact that the states that have been hit hardest are almost universally democratic states.
00:51:18.000And to justify the fact that you guys continue to back lockdown policies that are ineffective at best and extraordinarily damaging at worst.
00:51:28.000It should be everybody pursues the best policy.
00:51:30.000That is clearly not what is happening at this point.
00:51:32.000The good news is, again, the Party of Science is the Party of Science, and so Nancy Pelosi, honestly, she put out an ad yesterday saying that Mother Earth is angry.
00:51:41.000The Party of Science going full-on Gaia Pagan here.
00:51:44.000Here is Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, putting out an ad saying that Mother Earth is angry at us.
00:51:52.000She's telling us, whether she's telling us with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, fires in the West, that the climate crisis is real and has an impact.
00:52:03.000Sixteen people have died in Washington, Oregon, and California, including a firefighter and a one-year-old baby.
00:52:09.000Our firefighters have been so very, very courageous.
00:52:17.000Babies inside the womb are not babies.
00:52:19.000And hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to die by the end of the year based on a study that was wrong in nearly all of its specifics very early on and now is putting in bad data again.
00:52:28.000And also, vaccines are bad if they're developed under the Trump administration.
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