The Ben Shapiro Show

00:00:00.000 Democrats block police reform while proclaiming the time to act is now.

00:00:04.000 The creator of the 1619 Project calls for slavery reparations.

00:00:07.000 And the media focus in on COVID-19 spikes in Texas and Florida while ignoring California.

00:00:11.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:13.000 Well, a lot to get to today.

00:00:20.000 We're going to get to everything COVID-related because we are seeing spikes around the country.

00:00:23.000 Only certain parts of the country are apparently Worth lots of media attention.

00:00:26.000 Like California, which actually may be seeing the biggest spike by home county of LA County, is now the number one county in America in terms of COVID-19 identified infections.

00:00:36.000 That's getting ignored in favor of Florida and Texas.

00:00:38.000 We'll get to that in a little bit.

00:00:40.000 We will also get to a new call for slavery reparations, which of course is not going to settle the problem.

00:00:45.000 Because the fact is that a lot of the people who are calling for slavery reparations are not going to suggest that once the reparations have been made to people who had an ancestor who 165 years ago was being held in slavery, that once that reparation is made, that suddenly the problem has been fixed and now we can move on with our lives.

00:01:01.000 None of that is the reality, obviously.

00:01:03.000 We're going to get to the problems of slavery reparations and the very, very bad argument that's being made by Nikole Hannah-Jones, which of course is based and rooted in the idea that America is endemically racist, continues to be endemically racist, and that nothing much has changed in the United States.

00:01:17.000 We'll get to that in a little bit.

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00:02:50.000 Okay, so yesterday, it became perfectly obvious for those of us who were unconvinced.

00:02:56.000 It has now been perfectly obvious that what is going on right now in the United States is not about solutions.

00:03:02.000 It's not about solutions.

00:03:03.000 It's not about anything that is relevant to solving the underlying problem.

00:03:06.000 It is not about an attempt to Breach gaps that have existed in American life.

00:03:11.000 It is not about an attempt to rectify historic racism.

00:03:13.000 It's not even about an attempt to stop police brutality.

00:03:16.000 It's about none of that.

00:03:18.000 Yesterday, the Republicans brought up in the Senate a police reform bill.

00:03:23.000 And the police reform bill didn't give Democrats everything they wanted.

00:03:25.000 For example, it did not outright ban chokeholds.

00:03:27.000 It said that departments had to take a look at chokeholds and decide how they would be applied.

00:03:32.000 And the federal government would make its funding contingent on particular procedures put in place with regard to chokeholds.

00:03:37.000 Now, there are a bunch of Democrats who think that chokeholds should be outright banned because either they are mischaracterizing what a chokehold is, there's a difference between a chokehold and a submission hold, or they're trying to deprive law enforcement of a tool that you sometimes require in order to make a situation more quiescent, as opposed to being forced to use deadly force in a case where somebody is resisting arrest.

00:03:58.000 I mean, this is really one of the instances in which officers You see an officer and the officer is trying to put somebody into submission hold, right?

00:04:04.000 They're trying to deprive oxygen to the brain, knock the person out, or at least put the person in a more quiescent state.

00:04:10.000 The alternative to that is the person continuing to thrash around, struggle, maybe grab the officer's gun.

00:04:15.000 Having Democrats who really don't know anything about police procedure decide full out on a federal level exactly what local police departments ought to do after a 30-year continuous drop in crime in the United States is a pretty astonishing move.

00:04:27.000 Republicans were going to do something different.

00:04:28.000 They were going to say, OK, these chokeholds have sometimes resulted in death.

00:04:32.000 These submission holds have sometimes resulted in death.

00:04:34.000 So we should look at the procedures.

00:04:35.000 OK, it was a little bit vaguer.

00:04:36.000 Democrats didn't like that.

00:04:38.000 OK, so Democrats decided for that reason, among many others, that they were just going to block this police reform bill put forward by the Republicans.

00:04:44.000 They weren't even going to allow a vote on it.

00:04:46.000 They weren't going to allow a vote.

00:04:47.000 Now, just a couple of weeks ago, the idea was if Republicans don't bring forward legislation, then they don't care about black Americans.

00:04:53.000 So immediately Republicans put together a bill.

00:04:55.000 Senator Tim Scott has been very outspoken about his belief that the police sometimes do act in racially disparate ways.

00:05:01.000 He's talked about his own personal experiences with what he believes to be racial profiling.

00:05:05.000 He was the lead sponsor on this bill, and Democrats rejected it outright.

00:05:10.000 Now, I will note that the suggestion that America is endemically plagued by racist police is not backed by very much data.

00:05:19.000 Jason Reilly has a good piece in the Wall Street Journal talking about how the police act, talking about the real problem with police.

00:05:27.000 He points out, in a 2015 Gallup poll taken after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, a majority of black respondents said police treat them fairly.

00:05:33.000 Far more blacks, 38 percent, than whites, 18 percent, said they want a greater police presence in their local communities.

00:05:38.000 Another Gallup survey published last year asked Black and Hispanic residents of low-income neighborhoods about policing and found that these groups, quote, aren't averse to law enforcement.

00:05:45.000 In fact, they are particularly concerned about crime in their neighborhoods.

00:05:48.000 59% of both Blacks and Hispanics said they would like the police to spend more time in their area than they currently do, making them more likely than white residents, 50%, to respond this way.

00:05:58.000 Democrats and Republicans seem to agree that a more uniform data collection among police agencies would be a good thing, says Jason Riley.

00:06:04.000 They're right, but it's no guarantee the media will report the additional data or put it in context.

00:06:08.000 We have plenty of data right now.

00:06:09.000 Police shootings have fallen precipitously since the 1970s.

00:06:12.000 Upward of 95% of black homicides in the United States don't involve law enforcement.

00:06:17.000 Empirical studies have found no racial bias in police use of deadly force.

00:06:20.000 And the racial disparities that do exist stem from racial differences in criminal behavior.

00:06:24.000 The problem isn't a shortage of data, but a race-based narrative that is immune to any data that challenge it.

00:06:28.000 Okay, nonetheless, there was a push for police reform.

00:06:31.000 The idea is police across the country are endemically brutal and terrible and awful across the board.

00:06:36.000 And so Republicans pushed forward this bill.

00:06:39.000 And then the Democrats block it.

00:06:40.000 The Democrats just outright block it.

00:06:42.000 45 senators, they don't even allow a vote.

00:06:44.000 The Republicans control the Senate, so the Republicans are gonna get a majority here.

00:06:47.000 But 45 senators say we're not even going to allow a vote.

00:06:51.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a minority of the Senate, 45 Democrats, voted Wednesday to close off any debate on a police reform bill.

00:06:58.000 Not against the bill, against even allowing the Senate to debate or offer amendments to Tim Scott's proposal.

00:07:04.000 The Republicans were going to allow something like 21 amendments to the proposal.

00:07:08.000 A calculation is pure election year cynicism.

00:07:10.000 Block the Senate from passing a bill that Republicans could campaign on, then denounce Republicans for refusing to pass the bill that House Democrats will pass this week that would micromanage local police departments.

00:07:19.000 Blame Republicans for opposing reform when Senate Democrats were the real opponents, says the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

00:07:25.000 Much of the press corps will play along by reporting on the House vote, but treating the Senate vote as a GOP failure.

00:07:30.000 The election year calculation will go largely unmentioned as Democrats maneuver to return the Senate to Democratic Party control in 2021.

00:07:36.000 It is no accident that California Senator Kamala Harris led the filibuster as she campaigned to be Joe Biden's running mate.

00:07:43.000 So nothing gets done, which of course is the purpose because the Republicans in the Senate are not going to vote for the House bill.

00:07:49.000 They're not going to vote for a bill that micromanages the police to the extent that Democrats want to micromanage this thing.

00:07:55.000 So Democrats are just demagoguing this.

00:07:56.000 They don't actually want 70% of what they could have.

00:07:59.000 This is what Tim Scott points it out.

00:08:00.000 He said, like, you guys, you could get 70 to 80% of what you want here, and you won't even allow us to put up the bill for amendment?

00:08:07.000 We can't even debate this thing?

00:08:09.000 I get the feeling maybe you have some different priorities here.

00:08:11.000 I finally realized what the problem is, Mr. President.

00:08:16.000 The actual problem is not what is being offered.

00:08:20.000 It is who is offering it.

00:08:24.000 Instead of getting 70% of what you wanted, today, and tomorrow, and next week, you get zero!

00:08:31.000 And you're gonna wait until the election to get more!

00:08:33.000 Okay?

00:08:35.000 Well...

00:08:37.000 Why wouldn't you take the 80% now, see if you can win the election and add on the other 20%?

00:08:43.000 And the answer, of course, is because they don't want the 80% now.

00:08:45.000 Because they don't really want to solve problems.

00:08:47.000 Many of our politicians, many of the members of the media class, they don't want to solve problems.

00:08:51.000 They want to keep talking about the problem because the problem is politically beneficial for them.

00:08:56.000 They want to exaggerate the problem or continue to jabber about the problem, and they want to make it look like people who disagree with them on policy actually don't care about the problem.

00:09:04.000 Leading that crew, of course, is Nancy Pelosi, who's just a terrible human being.

00:09:07.000 I mean, really despicable.

00:09:08.000 She said over the last 48 hours that Republicans are trying to cover up George Floyd's murder while they're trying to pass a police reform bill that her colleagues are blocking at her behest, presumably.

00:09:18.000 She is saying that Republicans are trying to cover up George Floyd's murder, which is insane.

00:09:22.000 Insane!

00:09:23.000 Have you seen a single Republican defending Derek Chauvin?

00:09:27.000 Like, any of them?

00:09:28.000 What the hell is she talking about?

00:09:29.000 But, of course, it's all about the narrative, and the narrative is all about how Republicans are a bunch of evil racists, while Nancy Pelosi is, of course, a godsend, a white-woke liberal here to save black Americans across the board.

00:09:39.000 She was asked about her ridiculous comments yesterday on NBC News.

00:09:43.000 And she said, no, I'm not going to apologize for saying the GOP covered up Floyd's murder, which is nuts, nuts.

00:09:47.000 Derek Chauvin is going to be tried by Keith Ellison in a democratic state, with a democratic mayor of Minneapolis, with a democratic AG.

00:09:55.000 When you were speaking yesterday, you said that Republicans are, quote, trying to get away with murder, actually, the murder of George Floyd.

00:10:02.000 Senate Republicans are demanding an apology for that statement.

00:10:05.000 Will you apologize?

00:10:07.000 Absolutely, positively not.

00:10:10.000 The fact is, people say, I think you, frankly, and the press have given them far too much credit for a bill that does nothing.

00:10:18.000 They're saying, well, you have your bill, they have theirs.

00:10:20.000 Yeah, our bill does something, theirs does nothing.

00:10:23.000 Their bill does nothing.

00:10:23.000 Ours does something.

00:10:24.000 Therefore, they're trying to cover up the murder of George Floyd.

00:10:26.000 I mean, that's despicable stuff.

00:10:27.000 By the way, if you want to talk about changing police behavior in major cities, it might be worthwhile pointing out that every one of these major cities is governed by a Democrat.

00:10:34.000 Every single one.

00:10:35.000 And you know what's easier than passing federal police reform?

00:10:38.000 Having local mayors change police procedures in Democratic areas.

00:10:41.000 This is something Tim Scott pointed out as well.

00:10:43.000 He said, listen, Democrats are talking, we need to change this.

00:10:45.000 We need to do something.

00:10:47.000 Guys, you're in charge of these cities.

00:10:48.000 We've seen riots in Ferguson.

00:10:50.000 We've seen riots in Baltimore.

00:10:51.000 Baltimore is a Democrat city.

00:10:53.000 We've seen riots in Atlanta, Democrat City.

00:10:55.000 We've seen riots in L.A., Democrat City.

00:10:57.000 New York, Democrat City.

00:10:59.000 Like, anytime you want, guys, you can make this change, but I don't see you making the change.

00:11:02.000 I just see you demagoguing the issue for political gain, says Republican Tim Scott.

00:11:06.000 In Detroit, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, all these cities could have banned chokeholds themselves.

00:11:17.000 They could have increased the police reporting themselves.

00:11:20.000 They could have more data information themselves.

00:11:22.000 They could have de-escalation training themselves.

00:11:24.000 They could have duty to intervene themselves.

00:11:26.000 Minneapolis as well.

00:11:29.000 All these communities have been run by Democrats for decades.

00:11:34.000 Yep.

00:11:35.000 So, where are those solutions?

00:11:35.000 Yep.

00:11:37.000 Anytime?

00:11:38.000 Bueller?

00:11:39.000 Bueller?

00:11:40.000 Maybe it wasn't about the solutions.

00:11:41.000 Maybe it was never about the solutions.

00:11:42.000 Maybe it was just about promulgating the narrative that all disparities in American life are due to broad-scale American racism.

00:11:47.000 Then you block the solution, because if you provide a solution, then you can't talk about how America's racist and evil anymore.

00:11:53.000 You'll notice that every time people talk about the evils of American racism and they mention police shootings, they never ever mention Walter Scott.

00:12:00.000 It is amazing.

00:12:01.000 You'll see them talk about how police are wrongfully shooting black men.

00:12:04.000 Then you'll see them list the names of the victims.

00:12:06.000 And many of these cases are cases that are really, at the very least, tough.

00:12:11.000 They'll mention the case of Michael Brown.

00:12:12.000 Michael Brown was justifiably shot by the police.

00:12:15.000 The Department of Justice under Barack Obama found that that was the case.

00:12:18.000 They will mention the Rayshard Brooks case.

00:12:21.000 A case in which a black man wrestled down two officers, took a taser off one, tased an officer, tried to tase the other one while running away, and then got shot.

00:12:28.000 They'll mention that.

00:12:29.000 Okay, that is a disputed fact pattern at the very least.

00:12:32.000 To say that that is a clear-cut case of racist murder is insane and completely disconnected from facts.

00:12:36.000 So they'll talk about that one.

00:12:37.000 I'll talk about Tamir Rice, which is a horrible situation in which a 12-year-old boy was shot by the police after he was going around in a park and he had a pellet gun, he had a BB gun, but he had sawed off the front of the BB gun, the orange part.

00:12:49.000 Normally, when you buy a BB gun, there's an orange part on the front that lets, deliberately there, that lets the cops know that this is not an actual gun.

00:12:55.000 They got a call, the police got a call, that there was somebody who was running around the park with an actual gun.

00:13:00.000 They got there and there was somebody who was running around the park with what appeared to be an actual gun and didn't stop and put down the gun when told to do so.

00:13:05.000 That doesn't mean the shoot was good, but to try and say that that is a racist murder based solely on the race of the 12-year-old child, Tamir Rice, to lump all these things together, right?

00:13:13.000 Those are the disputed cases.

00:13:15.000 Here's an undisputed case.

00:13:16.000 The case of Walter Scott.

00:13:17.000 He never gets mentioned in this litany.

00:13:19.000 It's truly amazing.

00:13:20.000 We'll see this a little bit later when we get to Nicole Hannah-Jones' awful piece on reparations.

00:13:23.000 The attempt to lump all these cases together that have very, very different fact patterns, and then they ignore the one most clear-cut racist case.

00:13:32.000 Why?

00:13:32.000 Because what happened in that case?

00:13:33.000 What happened?

00:13:34.000 The police officer went to jail for murder.

00:13:36.000 So they won't talk about that case.

00:13:38.000 Because in a case where the system worked, they won't talk about it.

00:13:41.000 Because if the system works, you can't indict the system.

00:13:43.000 So instead, you have to pick a case with a variegated fact pattern, with a difficult fact pattern.

00:13:48.000 And then you suggest the system didn't work because in this case, in this case, the system is really shown.

00:13:54.000 Not the Walter Scott case.

00:13:54.000 We have a clear-cut case where a black man is running away from a police officer, unarmed.

00:13:58.000 The officer shoots him in the back and then tries to plant a gun on him.

00:14:00.000 The officer ends up in jail, as he should, for murder.

00:14:04.000 Right?

00:14:05.000 Walter Scott, it's amazing.

00:14:07.000 If you ever want to know about the bad faith of people who make a lot of these arguments, notice that in the litany of victims of white police violence, Walter Scott never gets mentioned.

00:14:16.000 He never gets mentioned.

00:14:17.000 It's truly an incredible thing.

00:14:19.000 And you have to wonder why.

00:14:22.000 And you really don't have to wonder why, because it's never about the solutions.

00:14:25.000 It's never about fixing the problem.

00:14:26.000 It is always about indicting the system, generally speaking.

00:14:30.000 So Senator Mitch McConnell, he went on the floor yesterday and he said, listen, you guys were the ones who were like, put a bill on the floor.

00:14:34.000 And they were like, okay, we'll put a bill on the floor.

00:14:35.000 And then you refuse to even allow us to amend the bill or debate the bill.

00:14:39.000 So it seems to me that you're not too super focused on solutions here, guys.

00:14:43.000 For weeks, Democratic leader has blustered that the Senate simply had to address this issue before July 4th.

00:14:51.000 Well, that's what the vote this morning is about.

00:14:54.000 Are you beginning to see how this game works?

00:14:57.000 Two weeks ago, it was implied the Senate would have blood on our hands if we didn't take up police reform.

00:15:03.000 Now, Democrats say Senator Scott and 48 other senators have blood on our hands because we are trying to take up police reform.

00:15:10.000 Correct, correct.

00:15:12.000 By the way, that Pelosi bill is going nowhere.

00:15:14.000 You know why it's not going anywhere?

00:15:15.000 It's not going anywhere because Pelosi's not allowing any amendments to be brought.

00:15:20.000 Nancy Pelosi's committee is not allowing any amendments to be brought on the Democrats' police reform bill, which means it's going absolutely nowhere.

00:15:25.000 The rule provides for four hours of debate a bill, no amendments.

00:15:29.000 And then a straight vote.

00:15:30.000 So do you think that bill is going anywhere?

00:15:33.000 The Republicans were offering amendments and the Democrats blocked it anyway.

00:15:36.000 This is not about solutions.

00:15:37.000 It simply is not about solutions.

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00:16:54.000 Okay, speaking of the system working, right?

00:16:56.000 And so it will stop being in the news.

00:16:58.000 The Ahmaud Arbery case, that case in Georgia, a Georgia grand jury has just indicted three suspects in the Ahmaud Arbery case.

00:17:05.000 And that was the case of the black guy who was jogging through the neighborhood after trespassing on an open construction site, which is not an excuse to try and roadblock somebody and then confront them with a shotgun, which is exactly what happened.

00:17:17.000 And Arbery, The alleged vigilante-style murder of Arbery by three white men who mistook him for a burglar ignited nationwide outrage, but not as much nationwide outrage as George Floyd, you'll notice.

00:17:31.000 The George Floyd case is much more paid attention to.

00:17:35.000 Why?

00:17:36.000 I suppose the idea is that in this case the system works.

00:17:39.000 So whenever the system works, the media pay less attention to it.

00:17:41.000 That's the way this works.

00:17:42.000 When the system works, the media pay less attention to it.

00:17:45.000 The media have an interest in driving a particular narrative.

00:17:49.000 That's just the reality.

00:17:50.000 The media are pushing a particular narrative that America does not care about black men, and particularly does not care about black men who are killed, but does not care about racism in general.

00:17:57.000 America just doesn't care about racism.

00:18:00.000 This narrative is so important.

00:18:02.000 This narrative is so important to the media that even instances of non-racism are portrayed as continuing grievances about racism.

00:18:10.000 It's a perfect example.

00:18:12.000 Bubba Wallace yesterday finally admitted, oh yeah, by the way, that wasn't a noose.

00:18:15.000 Do you remember that whole NASCAR, there was a noose in his garage, and then Bubba Wallace went on national TV, and he said, no, it was a straight-up noose.

00:18:21.000 I was like, nope, dude, that was not a straight-up noose.

00:18:23.000 That was not a noose.

00:18:25.000 It was not a noose.

00:18:25.000 It was a hand pull.

00:18:27.000 It wasn't even a slipknot, right?

00:18:28.000 It was a hand pull on a garage door.

00:18:32.000 And Bubba Wallace announces straight up news.

00:18:34.000 And the entire left started mimicking this notion that we should still worry about this as a racist incident, even after it has been debunked.

00:18:41.000 Well, finally, Bubba Wallace puts out a good statement, which he should have put out in the first place.

00:18:44.000 He says, it's been an emotional few days.

00:18:45.000 First off, I want to say how relieved I am the investigation revealed this wasn't what we feared it was.

00:18:49.000 I wanna thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly and treating this as a real threat.

00:18:53.000 I think we'll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been.

00:18:57.000 Make no mistake, but some will try.

00:18:58.000 This should not detract from the show of unity we had on Monday and the progress we've made as a sport to be more welcoming for all.

00:19:04.000 Okay, that's a statement you should have been put out in the first place.

00:19:06.000 Like as soon as this story was debunked, you should have said, it's pretty amazing that the entire NASCAR came around me when we even thought that this was happening, right?

00:19:13.000 That's a sign of racial progress, but the New York Times will not allow that.

00:19:17.000 Here's the New York Times' headline.

00:19:20.000 Oh, so a thing that DIDN'T happen highlights NASCAR's troubles with racism?

00:19:28.000 So the thing's debunked by the FBI and you're still going with the story that this highlights NASCAR's troubles with racism?

00:19:34.000 The entire motor team over at Talladega, all the drivers, all the pit crews, marched with Bubba Wallace to the front of Talladega over an incident that didn't happen to fight supposed racism.

00:19:45.000 And your headline at the New York Times is Talladega Noose Incident Puts Spotlight on NASCAR's Troubles with Racism.

00:19:51.000 Of course, that has to be your headline, because if you actually put the facts in the headline, non-noose incident with Significant overreaction against racism.

00:20:01.000 Against a racist incident that did not occur.

00:20:03.000 Put spotlight on racism.

00:20:04.000 Like, it makes no sense.

00:20:05.000 The minute the facts are known, this story makes no sense.

00:20:08.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:20:09.000 Juliette McCurr and Alan Blinder talk about Talk about this situation.

00:20:13.000 Like forced?

00:20:13.000 Really?

00:20:14.000 National turmoil over race and serial injustice has complicated both Wallace's reaction and the public's response to the FBI's findings.

00:20:20.000 With the government's investigation closed and no charges filed, Wallace has found himself all but forced to defend himself from baseless speculation that he or his supporters staged the incident to garner publicity.

00:20:29.000 All but forced to defend himself.

00:20:31.000 Really?

00:20:32.000 Like, who's forcing him?

00:20:33.000 Like, seriously, who?

00:20:36.000 Well, it literally was a pull cord on a garage.

00:20:37.000 noose as a pull rope for a garage door that was fashioned like a noose.

00:20:39.000 Some people insisted the noose was just a rope with a handle and that Wallace and stock car racing executives had overreacted.

00:20:45.000 Well, it literally was a pull cord on a garage.

00:20:48.000 So yeah, I'm going to go with they overreacted by calling it a noose.

00:20:52.000 But according to the New York Times, the narrative must never die.

00:20:55.000 The narrative must never die.

00:20:56.000 Even situations that don't happen are indicators of racism.

00:20:59.000 By the way, I fully predicted that.

00:21:00.000 I fully predicted that.

00:21:01.000 I tweeted yesterday that the New York Times the next day would run with a story about how garage door pull handles have a long racist history in the United States.

00:21:09.000 I mean, this stuff is wild and crazy.

00:21:12.000 And there are consequences to it.

00:21:14.000 There are consequences to it.

00:21:16.000 Okay, it leads to full-on foolishness.

00:21:19.000 So the most foolish article of the day, again, comes courtesy of the New York Times.

00:21:23.000 It is called, The Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege.

00:21:25.000 It's already being tested.

00:21:28.000 Okay, and this is all about how, again, white people are refusing to acknowledge their white privilege.

00:21:32.000 But what's hilarious about the article is it really demonstrates how when you are initiated into the white woke leftist thought complex, it's unsustainable and idiotic.

00:21:41.000 It's truly incredible.

00:21:43.000 So there are a few different stories that are told here.

00:21:47.000 So let me read some of this to you.

00:21:50.000 When Sherry Albers moved three decades ago into Powderhorn Park, a tree-lined Minneapolis neighborhood known as a haven to leftist activists and bohemian artists like herself, she went to work sprucing it up.

00:21:58.000 She became a block club leader, organizing her mostly white neighbors to bring in playgrounds and help tackle longstanding issues with crimes.

00:22:04.000 On many nights, she banged on car windows of men who had come to solicit prostitutes outside her door, she said.

00:22:08.000 She kept meticulous notes when dozens of men would gather in a circle for gang meetings in the park across from her house.

00:22:13.000 After each episode, she called the police.

00:22:14.000 But times have changed.

00:22:16.000 After the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, Mrs. Albers, who is white, and many of her progressive neighbors have vowed to avoid calling law enforcement into their community.

00:22:25.000 Doing so, they believed, would add to the pain that black residents of Minneapolis were feeling and could put them in danger.

00:22:30.000 Okay, so when you draw the narrative that the police are all endemically racist, and not only that, you are implicated in the racism if you call the cops when you see a crime.

00:22:37.000 People stop calling the cops when they see a crime.

00:22:39.000 What do you think happens to the crime rates?

00:22:41.000 You think they go down or you think they go up?

00:22:43.000 If you're not a moron, of course they go up.

00:22:45.000 So here's what the New York Times reports.

00:22:46.000 Already, that commitment is being challenged.

00:22:48.000 Two weeks ago, dozens of multicolored tents appeared in the neighborhood park.

00:22:51.000 They were brought by homeless people who were displaced during the unrest that gripped the city.

00:22:55.000 The multiracial group of roughly 300 new residents seems to grow larger and more entrenched every day.

00:22:59.000 They do laundry, listen to music, and strategize about how to find permanent housing.

00:23:02.000 Some are hampered by mental illness, addiction, or both.

00:23:06.000 Their presence has drawn heavy car traffic into the neighborhood, some from drug dealers.

00:23:10.000 At least two residents have overdosed in the encampment and had to be taken away in ambulances.

00:23:15.000 The influx of outsiders has kept Miss Albers awake at night.

00:23:17.000 Though it is unlikely to happen, she has had visions of people from the tent camp forcing their way into her home.

00:23:22.000 She imagines using a baseball bat to defend herself.

00:23:24.000 Not being able to call the police, as she has done for decades, has shaken her.

00:23:27.000 I am afraid, she said.

00:23:28.000 I know my neighbors are around, and I'm not feeling grounded in my city at all.

00:23:32.000 Anything could happen.

00:23:34.000 So she's just not going to call the cops anymore.

00:23:36.000 And then her neighborhood is being taken over by people who are overdosing in the park.

00:23:40.000 So things are going great, guys.

00:23:42.000 Really well done.

00:23:43.000 The consequences of the narrative being promulgated at the expense of the facts, there are real world consequences to this sort of stuff.

00:23:49.000 There really are.

00:23:49.000 I'm bringing more examples of this in just a second.

00:23:52.000 Then we'll get to the 1619 editor, Nikole Hannah-Jones, doing her best Very Juan, Ta-Nehisi Coates impersonation, calling for reparations and doing what she does best, ignoring facts in the process.

00:24:04.000 I mean, she really is.

00:24:06.000 She's truly awful at her job, but she's one of the Pulitzers, so I guess we're done here.

00:24:09.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

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00:25:37.000 Okay, so back to this New York Times piece.

00:25:40.000 So the New York Times has this entire piece about white woke liberals who feel bad calling the cops when they see a crime.

00:25:45.000 I'm not being judgmental, said Carrie Nightshade 44, who explained she no longer felt comfortable letting her children, 12 and 9, play in the park by themselves.

00:25:52.000 It's not personal.

00:25:53.000 It's just not safe.

00:25:54.000 Well, as we learned from Robyn D'Angelo, this means she's a racist.

00:25:57.000 On Friday, she sat in a shared backyard with four other women who live in neighboring houses.

00:26:00.000 The women, four of whom are white, had called a meeting to vent about the camp.

00:26:03.000 Angelina Roslick burst into tears, explaining she had spent the past four years fleeing unstable housing conditions and was struggling more than she cared to admit with the chaos the camp had brought into the neighborhood.

00:26:13.000 Well, that means that she's immune.

00:26:13.000 stopped walking her dog through the park because she was tired of being catcalled.

00:26:16.000 My emotions change every 30 seconds, said Tria Hauser, who is part Native American.

00:26:20.000 Well, that means that she's immune.

00:26:21.000 She can't be racist, obviously.

00:26:23.000 The women agreed to let any property damage, including to their own homes, go ignored and to request a block party permit from the city to limit car traffic.

00:26:31.000 Rather than turn to law enforcement, if they saw anyone in physical danger, the results called the American Indian Movement, a national organization created in 1968 to address Native American grievances such as police brutality, which had been policing its own community locally for years.

00:26:45.000 But some people in the neighborhood have already found their best laid plans to avoid calling the police harder to execute than they had imagined.

00:26:51.000 Because here's the deal, if you commit a crime and you're a person of color, well then, it is racist to call the police on you.

00:26:57.000 People are not held to the same standard, like don't commit crimes in the United States anymore.

00:27:00.000 If you have a particular...

00:27:03.000 If you have a particular history as a member of a victimized racial group, then apparently you are immune to the law, because if you call the police, the police might come and be very mean.

00:27:10.000 The police might come and they might be racist.

00:27:12.000 Based on which evidence?

00:27:13.000 The evidence that... stuff.

00:27:15.000 Last Thursday night, Joseph Menkovich found a black man wearing a hospital bracelet passed out in the elevator of his apartment building, two blocks away from the park.

00:27:22.000 Menkovich, who is white, quickly phoned a community activist, but she did not pick up.

00:27:26.000 He felt he had no choice but to call 911, so he did.

00:27:28.000 But requested an ambulance only, not the police.

00:27:30.000 Ultimately, a white police officer arrived at the scene.

00:27:33.000 The officer checked the situation out briefly and then returned to his squad car.

00:27:36.000 It didn't resolve the way I hoped, Mr. Mankovich said.

00:27:38.000 All they did was offer to bring him back to the hospital.

00:27:40.000 He refused, so they kicked him out on a rainy night.

00:27:42.000 What the hell else were they supposed to do?

00:27:45.000 So if they shoved him into the squad car and taken him to the hospital, because he obviously needed to be in a hospital, then you would have claimed that they were responsible for police brutality.

00:27:54.000 I'm sorry, this is ridiculous crap, and these people are insane and self-parodic.

00:28:01.000 It's ridiculous.

00:28:02.000 It's ridiculous.

00:28:04.000 To the extent that illegal activity is going on in the park, Toby Miller, who is 34, does not blame the tent residents.

00:28:10.000 My feeling around it is those are symptoms of systemic oppression, and that's not on them.

00:28:14.000 All personal responsibility is gone.

00:28:16.000 You can commit any crime you want because systemic oppression.

00:28:19.000 Systemic oppression.

00:28:20.000 Good stuff, guys.

00:28:22.000 Really, really solid stuff.

00:28:24.000 On a recent afternoon, Sarah Kenny and Diane Columber, who are both white, were speedwalking behind their toddler sons through the park leading up to the camp.

00:28:30.000 Ms.

00:28:30.000 Kenny had been volunteering there a few times a week.

00:28:33.000 She said the experience had challenged her to consider not only the safety of her own family, which has a comfortable home and locked doors to retreat behind, but also that of people living outside without protection.

00:28:41.000 Ms.

00:28:41.000 Columber agreed.

00:28:42.000 Some people of color in the neighborhood, however, said they were skeptical the community would allow the encampment to stay.

00:28:48.000 This thing is probably gonna last two or three weeks at Aza Ochoa, a Mexican and Native American father who is walking through the park with his three children.

00:28:55.000 Yeah, you think?

00:28:56.000 Okay, here's the best story.

00:28:57.000 Mitchell Erickson's fingers began dialing 911 last week before he had a chance to even consider alternatives when two black teenagers who looked to be 15 at most cornered him outside his home a block away from the park.

00:29:07.000 One of the boys pointed a gun at Mr. Erickson's chest, demanding his car keys.

00:29:11.000 Flustered, Mr. Erickson handed over a set, but it turned out to be the house keys.

00:29:15.000 Teenagers got frustrated and ran off and stole a different car down the street.

00:29:19.000 Mr. Erickson said later he would not cooperate with the prosecutors in a case against the boys.

00:29:23.000 After the altercation, he realized that if there was anything he wanted, it was to offer them help.

00:29:27.000 But he still felt it had been right to call the authorities because there was a gun involved.

00:29:31.000 Two days after an initial conversation, his position had evolved.

00:29:34.000 Been thinking more about it, he wrote in a text message.

00:29:36.000 I regret calling the police.

00:29:38.000 It was my instinct, but I wish it hadn't been.

00:29:40.000 I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.

00:29:44.000 What about the fact the boys had put his life in danger?

00:29:46.000 Yeah, I know.

00:29:47.000 And yeah, it was scary.

00:29:47.000 But the cops didn't really have much to add after I called them.

00:29:50.000 I haven't been forced to think like this before.

00:29:51.000 So I would have lost my car.

00:29:52.000 So what?

00:29:53.000 At least no one would have been killed.

00:29:54.000 Okay, you're talking about the end of civil society here.

00:29:58.000 What you're talking about is the end of civil society.

00:29:59.000 You cannot hold people to the basic standards of acting like a human being.

00:30:02.000 Like, oh, I don't know, don't point your gun at somebody's chest and threaten to shoot them if they don't let you steal their car.

00:30:09.000 Okay, but you can't call the cops.

00:30:10.000 If you call the cops, you're a racist.

00:30:12.000 Does anybody think any of this is sustainable?

00:30:14.000 Does anybody think any of this is sustainable?

00:30:16.000 Of course, none of this is sustainable.

00:30:18.000 The idea that personal responsibility has disappeared into the vast ether of systemic oppression is so dangerous for any society.

00:30:26.000 Again, if you want to point to a system that needs to be changed, then change the system.

00:30:30.000 If you want to point to a racist person doing a racist thing, then let's all fight that together.

00:30:34.000 But don't give me, I can't call the cops when someone points a gun at my chest and steals my car.

00:30:39.000 That's nuts.

00:30:40.000 That's perfectly insane on every level.

00:30:42.000 But again, maybe the goal here is not solutions.

00:30:45.000 We go right back to the beginning.

00:30:46.000 Maybe the goal here is not solutions, because this ain't a solution.

00:30:48.000 Maybe the goal here is just a narrative.

00:30:50.000 And the narrative ends with the idea that there is a vast group of owed in the United States and a vast group of owing in the United States.

00:30:56.000 And you can tell who is owed and who is owing simply by dents of skin color.

00:31:00.000 Which seems fairly racist to me.

00:31:03.000 It seems fairly racist to me that you refuse to take into account any of the personal decision-making involved in being a human being.

00:31:08.000 Personal agency disappears completely.

00:31:10.000 We are all simply the product of systems.

00:31:12.000 That's all we are.

00:31:14.000 And this presumably is why you end up with essays like the giant essay in the New York Times Magazine, what is owed?

00:31:19.000 The suggestion that slavery reparations are owed and this will fix all problems.

00:31:23.000 Now, listen, you can make the case for slavery reparations if the idea is that a wrong has been done and it needs to be repaired.

00:31:29.000 Typically, you have to link the wrong that has been done to a person and to the person who has been wrong.

00:31:34.000 Like, if God forbid, my father hit somebody with his car, it would not be on me to pay that person's grandson, right?

00:31:41.000 That's not the way that justice works.

00:31:43.000 Okay, just put that out front.

00:31:45.000 The notion of racial reparations, or Holocaust reparations, or any reparations, is that the people who are responsible for the sin have to pay the people who are responsible, people who are victimized by the sin.

00:31:55.000 But they actually have to have been victimized.

00:31:57.000 It can't just have been that something bad happened to my grandfather and that has historical aftereffects.

00:32:00.000 Because otherwise, there is no, there's no limiting principle there.

00:32:03.000 The history of the world is replete with groups victimizing one another.

00:32:06.000 There is literally no end to that particular logic.

00:32:09.000 But the real logic of slavery reparations is, again, the logic that systemic oppression is the great rationale for all disparities in American society.

00:32:17.000 And the evidence that is offered to prove this particularly vulnerable case is usually pretty skimpy, and it usually relies on extraordinarily broad claims put in particularly passionate language.

00:32:31.000 That is why the cases on reparations are typically being written not by economists on how this will help black Americans.

00:32:37.000 They're typically being written by people who are really bad at history, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, or by people who are most famous for their prose craftsmanship, like Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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00:34:01.000 In just a second, we're gonna get to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the 1619 Project, calling for slavery reparations, which she's really attempting to do, because slavery reparations are not going to happen.

00:34:11.000 Realistically speaking, they're not going to happen because it'd be nearly impossible to administer.

00:34:14.000 But what she's really doing is trying to suggest that all disparities in American society should be attributed to the system as a whole.

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00:34:25.000 We'll get to that.

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00:35:06.000 All righty.

00:35:12.000 So Nicole Hannon Jones is pushing forward the author of the 1619 Project, who has said that she is happy if they call it the 1619 riots, what's been going on around.

00:35:21.000 She has a piece in the New York Times Magazine suggesting that it's time for racial reparations.

00:35:26.000 What the piece is really about, the call for racial reparations, is really a call for a specific policy.

00:35:30.000 Because it turns out, what amount of money would be sufficient to repair for slavery that technically ended in 1865?

00:35:37.000 What amount of money would be sufficient to answer for Jim Crow?

00:35:41.000 How would you calculate that amount?

00:35:43.000 Especially, we are now talking nearly 60 years after the fact.

00:35:46.000 We're talking about the grandchildren of the people who were subjected to Jim Crow.

00:35:50.000 How exactly would you measure that?

00:35:52.000 Nikole Hannah-Jones doesn't bother with any of that, because again, the goal of the Case for slavery reparations and for racial reparation.

00:35:59.000 The goal is to attribute all disparity, all of it, to discrimination because America is endemically evil.

00:36:05.000 It's just an extension of the 1619 Project mentality.

00:36:07.000 Now, in order to get to this answer, you have to play a bunch of tricks.

00:36:12.000 Linguistic tricks, historical tricks, a-factual tricks, and Nikole Hannah-Jones is certainly not above any of that.

00:36:20.000 She says it has been more than 150 years since the white planter class last called up slave patrols and deputized every white citizen to stop, question, and subdue any black person who came across their paths in order to control and surveil a population who refused to submit to their enslavement.

00:36:33.000 It has been 150 years since white Americans could enforce slave laws that said white people acting in the interest of the planter class would not be punished for killing a black person.

00:36:40.000 Those laws morphed into the Black Codes, passed by white Southern politicians at the end of the Civil War to criminalize behaviors like not having a job.

00:36:46.000 Those Black Codes were struck down and altered over the course of decades, eventually transmuted into stop-and-frisk, broken windows, and of course, qualified immunity.

00:36:54.000 Okay, that is just such sheer, that is just such a sheer lie.

00:37:00.000 That the basic idea that slave patrols morphed into stop and frisk, that is nuts.

00:37:05.000 That is nuts.

00:37:06.000 Okay, but this is the linguistic trick.

00:37:07.000 Again, America has not changed.

00:37:09.000 America has just transmuted.

00:37:10.000 America has not gotten any better.

00:37:12.000 America has just gotten more subtle.

00:37:13.000 Racism never went away.

00:37:15.000 Racism is in fact there, and it is racism that is the driving indicator of inequality between white and black.

00:37:22.000 That is the driving factor in American life.

00:37:25.000 Which, again, is this about solutions?

00:37:28.000 The answer is, of course, it's not about solutions.

00:37:29.000 You could cut a check to everybody in America today who is black, and it would not alleviate either, number one, the historical wrongs that were done.

00:37:37.000 It would not alleviate that at all, right?

00:37:38.000 All those historical wrongs would still exist.

00:37:40.000 And also, it would probably not alleviate, and when I say probably, I mean almost indubitably, would not fix all of the gaps between white and black in the United States, absent changes in other factors.

00:37:53.000 Absent change, like, The fact is that the drivers of the income gap, for example, are things like dropout rates in schools, inability to get a good education from schools, single motherhood rate.

00:38:04.000 These things do matter.

00:38:05.000 But according to Nikole Hannah-Jones, they don't matter whatsoever, like at all.

00:38:09.000 I don't just mean she says they don't matter enough.

00:38:11.000 I mean, she literally says in the essay they do not matter at all.

00:38:14.000 Confounding factors do not matter.

00:38:16.000 There is a direct quote in this piece Here's the direct quote in this piece, ready?

00:38:22.000 To summarize, none of the actions we are told black people must take if they want to lift themselves out of poverty and gain financial stability, not marrying, not getting educated, not saving more, not owning a home, can mitigate 400 years of racialized plundering.

00:38:35.000 None of those.

00:38:36.000 And so all personal responsibility has been lifted.

00:38:38.000 Every inequality in American life is attributable to slavery.

00:38:42.000 And by the way, when you say 400 years of racialized plundering, to, again, equate to date, to get to 400 years of racialized plundering, you have to go 1619 to 2019.

00:38:51.000 To say that there's been no mitigation whatsoever of racialized plundering in the United States, you know, between Full-on slavery, and the end of slavery, and Jim Crow, and the end of Jim Crow, is to be historically lying.

00:38:51.000 Right?

00:39:03.000 Which is what, of course, she's very good at.

00:39:05.000 She's very good at this.

00:39:06.000 And all of this is designed not to create solutions.

00:39:09.000 It is not designed to help black Americans.

00:39:11.000 All it is designed to do is tear down the system about our ears, and to suggest that the system itself, the system of individualism, the system of meritocracy, is inherently flawed, inherently biased.

00:39:21.000 I promise you, Nikole Hannah-Jones, if checks got signed tomorrow, Nikole Hannah-Jones the next day would explain that the checks were insufficient because all remaining inequalities after the writing of the checks would still be the result of systemic American racism.

00:39:34.000 By the way, Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his own piece on the case for reparations, basically says this.

00:39:38.000 I mean, he says it straight out in his piece.

00:39:40.000 Sure, slavery reparations might not actually fix anything, but at least we'll have done it.

00:39:43.000 Okay, that is not a case for slavery reparations, especially when you are talking about doing an injustice today to people who live.

00:39:51.000 On behalf of people who lived three generations ago, minimum.

00:39:55.000 Okay, on behalf of our grandparents.

00:39:58.000 This is not about solutions.

00:39:59.000 Now, speaking of people who are not about solutions, let's move on to COVID-19.

00:40:03.000 So it is fairly obvious at this point that COVID-19, there are only a few things that we can do.

00:40:09.000 One, there are a few treatments that we have attempted in hospitals.

00:40:11.000 They've had some mitigating effect.

00:40:12.000 There's a pretty common steroid apparently that has a mitigating effect on people who are in fairly serious conditions who require oxygen or who require ventilators.

00:40:21.000 We know That if you protect nursing homes and you test everybody going in and out, you can prevent the death of huge swaths of citizens.

00:40:27.000 We learned that from Andrew Cuomo, who didn't.

00:40:29.000 We know that masks can help prevent transmission of the thing.

00:40:33.000 And that universal masking in places like Hong Kong and South Korea and Japan has been fairly successful at preventing the transmission of these disease vectors.

00:40:43.000 With all of that said, there is no solution to the virus right now, and there's not gonna be a solution for several months.

00:40:49.000 And this is happening across the country.

00:40:51.000 The media have been focusing almost solely on Florida and Texas.

00:40:54.000 Florida, Texas, Arizona, right?

00:40:55.000 That's the triumvirate.

00:40:56.000 Florida, Texas, Arizona.

00:40:57.000 What do all those places have in common?

00:40:58.000 They're all governed by Republicans, right?

00:41:00.000 So Ducey in Arizona, and Greg Abbott in Texas, and Ron DeSantis in Florida.

00:41:03.000 These are, of course, the hotspots.

00:41:04.000 These are, of course, the worst places.

00:41:06.000 They're the very, very bad places.

00:41:08.000 And California is getting crushed right now.

00:41:11.000 California is just getting wrecked.

00:41:13.000 The virus cases in California are up extraordinarily heavily.

00:41:19.000 They're up so heavily that Disneyland just delayed its reopening.

00:41:22.000 Disneyland, which was supposed to open on July 17th, they said, we're not going to open at all.

00:41:28.000 The state of California, said the company, has now indicated it will not issue theme park reopening guidelines until sometime after July 4th.

00:41:34.000 Given the time required for us to bring thousands of cast members back to work and restart our business, we have no choice but to delay the reopening of our theme parks and resort hotels until we receive approval from government officials.

00:41:45.000 There's been a spike in L.A.

00:41:46.000 County.

00:41:46.000 L.A.

00:41:46.000 County now officially has more cases than any other county in America.

00:41:51.000 Hospitalization rates are not as high as feared, but obviously those hospitalization rates could rise fairly dramatically because hospitalization is a trailing indicator.

00:41:59.000 Basically, there's three steps.

00:42:00.000 You get diagnosed, and then it might take a few days until you have to go to the hospital.

00:42:04.000 You might not have to go.

00:42:05.000 And then after that, a few days until you get to the ICU.

00:42:08.000 Deaths are the biggest trailing indicator.

00:42:09.000 So if deaths are low right now, that's because we're actually looking at stats from two weeks ago.

00:42:13.000 If hospitalizations are low right now, we're actually looking at stats from one week ago.

00:42:16.000 So we're going to have to wait a week to see where we are in terms of hospitalizations in two weeks in terms of deaths.

00:42:21.000 According to ABC News, as coronavirus cases continue to climb across the country, a new forecast from the CDC says the U.S.

00:42:27.000 could soon see 150,000 fatalities.

00:42:28.000 Currently, we have at least 122,000 fatalities, with 2.3 million The 2.38 million confirmed cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

00:42:40.000 Dozens of Secret Service agents are now in self-quarantine after President Trump's rally in Tulsa over the weekend.

00:42:45.000 A source familiar with the matter told ABC News, the number of Secret Service personnel who are self-quarantining is in the low dozens.

00:42:51.000 Because basically they were in public and a lot of people were not wearing masks.

00:42:54.000 Apparently there are a bunch of people who are sick already.

00:42:58.000 Disneyland, as I mentioned, delayed reopening.

00:43:00.000 Nevada, the state of Nevada has now mandated that everybody in the state wear masks or facial coverings in order to stop the spread of COVID-19, which is correct.

00:43:09.000 Texas is offering local authorities the ability to mandate mask wearing.

00:43:12.000 The same thing is happening in Florida.

00:43:15.000 In California, COVID-19 cases saw a stunning 69% jump in just two days, according to Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:43:21.000 California reported 4,230 new cases on Sunday.

00:43:25.000 On Monday, 5,000 new cases.

00:43:26.000 On Tuesday, 7,100 new cases.

00:43:29.000 As the state increases testing, residents should anticipate more of an increase in the positivity rate, said the governor.

00:43:34.000 Hospitalization numbers have increased.

00:43:36.000 30% of ICU capacity statewide is being used right now.

00:43:41.000 Obviously, the spike is what people fear.

00:43:43.000 L.A.

00:43:43.000 has over 88,500 residents diagnosed with COVID-19, followed by 87,700 cases in Cook County, Illinois, which is Chicago, and 64,000 cases in Queens, in New York City.

00:43:54.000 In comparison, the entire state of Florida, right?

00:43:56.000 You've only heard about Florida.

00:43:57.000 The entire state of Florida had 109,000 cases.

00:43:59.000 So, L.A.

00:43:59.000 County has about 10 million residents.

00:44:01.000 Florida has 21.4 million residents.

00:44:03.000 Florida has 21.4 million residents.

00:44:04.000 Florida has about 12,000, 20,000, 11,000 cases more than the entire county of Los Angeles in LA, which goes to show you that while Florida is getting hit, I mean, Florida is getting hit.

00:44:20.000 They have a 60%.

00:44:22.000 They have a 16% positivity rate out of the tests conducted on Tuesday, 36,300 tests conducted on Tuesday.

00:44:28.000 This is not a mere Florida problem.

00:44:29.000 This is an everywhere problem now.

00:44:31.000 It's obviously an everywhere problem right now.

00:44:33.000 According to Axios,

00:44:36.000 Every single state in the U.S., with the exception of North Dakota and South Dakota and Alabama, Indiana, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, New Hampshire, and Maine, as well as D.C., every single one of those areas has seen, every other state has seen either a keeping steady or a vast increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, particularly steep increases, like an over 50% increase in COVID-19 cases in states like Washington, Idaho, Montana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, and Arizona.

00:45:04.000 According to Axios, the U.S.

00:45:06.000 today is getting closer to the worst-case scenario envisioned in the spring, a nationwide crisis made worse by a vacuum of political leadership threatening to overwhelm hospitals and spread out of control.

00:45:14.000 They say this is the grimmest map in the eight weeks since Axios began tracking the change in new cases in every state.

00:45:20.000 Alternatively, it is very difficult to keep something under control as soon as people leave their homes.

00:45:27.000 Okay, as soon as people leave their, and by the way, mass protests, it turns out they did not immunize you to COVID-19.

00:45:33.000 CNN yesterday had this ridiculous piece where they suggested that protesting did not spread the virus.

00:45:38.000 And then what the actual study said was protesting may have been drowned out by the fact that so many people stayed home.

00:45:43.000 So in other words, everyone got curfewed and the people who were curfewed didn't get COVID-19, but people at the protests may well have been getting the virus, which of course they will then bring home and give to mom and dad and grandma and grandpa.

00:45:54.000 So, you know, this is dire stuff, for sure.

00:45:57.000 And we are seeing that even in countries like Germany, there's been a bit of a resurgence in COVID-19.

00:46:03.000 Our rate, the reproduction rate, is going up in Germany.

00:46:10.000 We've seen that the rates are going up around the world, really.

00:46:15.000 There's a coronavirus resurgence, apparently, that has been continuing in South Korea as well.

00:46:21.000 So it's not just the United States.

00:46:23.000 Everybody is sort of pretending that this is just the U.S.

00:46:26.000 It is not just the U.S., obviously.

00:46:28.000 So are there any real solutions to this?

00:46:29.000 Well, there really is only one, and that is personal responsibility.

00:46:32.000 Marco Rubio yesterday, a senator from Florida, he said, listen, just put on the stupid mask.

00:46:35.000 Just put it on.

00:46:36.000 Like, seriously, let's keep this thing tamped down.

00:46:38.000 You want to go back to work?

00:46:39.000 You want to have a good time?

00:46:40.000 You don't have to wear a mask when you're at the beach and you're far away from other people or when you're eating outdoors away from other people.

00:46:44.000 But if you're in an enclosed area, in an air-conditioned room, wear a mask.

00:46:48.000 He is correct about this.

00:46:49.000 However, unfortunately, the world is filled with stupid people.

00:46:52.000 I do want to point out that, again, the media coverage here is pretty astonishing.

00:46:56.000 So, L.A.

00:46:57.000 County has seen, as I say, almost as many cases as the entire state of Florida, with about half the population.

00:47:02.000 CNN, however, is focused laser-like in on crazy people in Florida, so that there are new restrictions in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach County, and a bunch of people went to sort of a local parks and rec board meeting and decided to yell at the board that had mandated mask wearing, because there's a new rule in Palm Beach County, as well as Miami-Dade, that when you are in an indoor, crowded area, you need to wear a mask.

00:47:24.000 So CNN covered this floor at a town hall.

00:47:26.000 The real question here is why CNN covered it, not that there are crazy people.

00:47:29.000 If you've ever been to a public event where people speak out to, like, their local boards, the only people who have time and energy to do this sort of stuff are exactly the sort of people you would not want in control of policy.

00:47:38.000 Nonetheless, it made for some colorful TV.

00:47:40.000 Here were some crazy people yelling at this board that was mandating mask wearing.

00:47:44.000 You literally cannot mandate somebody to wear a mask knowing that that mask is killing people.

00:47:49.000 Every single one of you that are obeying the devil's laws are going to be arrested.

00:47:55.000 And you, doctor, are going to be arrested for crimes against humanity.

00:48:00.000 The problem with humanity today is ignorance, arrogance, and apathy.

00:48:04.000 Keep taking the road of least resistance.

00:48:06.000 Keep listening to the TV brainwashing you from birth.

00:48:09.000 And they want to throw God's Wonderful breathing system out the door.

00:48:15.000 You're all turning your backs on it.

00:48:16.000 Okay!

00:48:21.000 OK, so I think probably those people should not control our public policy.

00:48:26.000 Just going to put that out there.

00:48:26.000 We probably shouldn't put that out there.

00:48:29.000 Those those people are not.

00:48:30.000 But again, the point there is that CNN will cover that.

00:48:32.000 They're not going to go down to L.A.

00:48:33.000 and find the crazies who go to local town hall meetings.

00:48:35.000 They'll only do it in Florida because Florida, man.

00:48:37.000 Right.

00:48:37.000 That's that's that's the whole that's the whole goal here.

00:48:40.000 And by the way, mention worth mentioning, the Democrats are now planning a virtual convention.

00:48:43.000 So.

00:48:43.000 Everybody is sort of expecting this to last until the fall.

00:48:45.000 I believe Washington, D.C.

00:48:46.000 has already declared they may not reopen schools.

00:48:48.000 So, if you thought that this was going to end anytime soon, wrong you were.

00:48:52.000 Unfortunately, as always, there are not a lot of great solutions.

00:48:55.000 The only solution?

00:48:56.000 Be personally responsible.

00:48:57.000 Protect yourself if you're older.

00:48:59.000 If you are younger, wear a mask to protect the elderly and the vulnerable around you.

00:49:02.000 It's a pain in the butt.

00:49:04.000 I don't like doing it either.

00:49:05.000 Nobody likes doing it.

00:49:06.000 But be a responsible human being and make sure that this thing does not spread out of control.

00:49:10.000 OK, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content, a lot more to talk about, including Michael Flynn being released.

00:49:17.000 The appeals court has now ordered the release of Michael Flynn.

00:49:19.000 We'll get to that a little bit later on in the day.

00:49:21.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

00:49:23.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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