New police incidents roil the country as riots break out again in Minneapolis, as corporate America activates against everyday Americans, and the media promote COID panic porn. A police officer in Virginia who confronted a uniformed Black Army medic at gunpoint and doused him with pepper spray during a traffic stop has been fired, officials said on Sunday. The officer, Joe Gutierrez, was terminated for his role in the December 5th encounter involving Caron Rosario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, the town of Windsor, Virginia said in a statement posted on its website. Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, a Democrat, said on social media he'd begun an outside review of the encounter, and said, "The incident in Windsor is disturbing and angered me. ... I'm directing the Commonwealth has done important work on police reform. We must keep working to ensure that Virginians are safe during interactions with the police, and that enforcement of laws is fair and equitable." Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Instead of charging obscene fees to pay for their massive, mainstream media campaigns, corporate-media campaigns, and corporate campuses across the country, Pure Talk USA is passing the savings directly onto you. That's right, you get 50% off your very first month, and you get $50 off your first month with discount code: POUND250. That is $50 and up to $800 a year! That's $100 a month, plus an additional $100 in free shipping when you sign up for POUND 250. That s $100 or $150 a month when you get a VIP membership. That gets you an ad-free version of the show, plus a 2-day shipping and unlimited access to the VIP membership, and a free 7-day VIP membership when you become a member of the VIP discount when you shop at PureTalk USA. You get 20% off the entire service, plus free 2-week shipping and get $99 a month! and a 20-day credit when you upgrade, plus you get an additional 3-month VIP membership starting at $99, plus they get $5, they also get $25, they get the same service, they'll get you get you an extra $50, they say they'll give you a discount on your first year of the service, and they'll also get you a maximum of $150, you'll get $100, they're also get an ad discount.
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00:01:27.000Alrighty, so we begin today with a couple of updates on policing situations that surely are going to be national stories.
00:01:34.000Because anytime the police abuse a white person, that is not a national story.
00:01:37.000If they abuse a black person, that is obviously a national story because it plays into the narrative that the police are systemically racist.
00:01:44.000The first one that appears to be a bad police action is this situation with Joe Gutierrez in Windsor, Virginia.
00:01:57.000According to the New York Times, a police officer in Virginia who confronted a uniformed Black Army medic at gunpoint and doused him with pepper spray during a traffic stop An exchange captured on video has been fired, officials said on Sunday.
00:02:08.000The officer, Joe Gutierrez, was terminated for his role in the December 5th encounter involving Caron Rosario, a second lieutenant in the U.S.
00:02:14.000Army Medical Corps, the town of Windsor, Virginia, said in a statement posted on its website.
00:02:19.000Officials said an internal investigation had determined that Gutierrez's actions were not consistent with department policy.
00:02:24.000They did not provide further details on when Gutierrez had been fired.
00:02:27.000Body camera footage of the encounter has drawn widespread attention and criticism of Gutierrez, as well as another officer who was involved in the traffic stop.
00:02:33.000Both officers were sued on April 2nd in U.S.
00:02:35.000District Court in Norfolk by Lieutenant Nazario, who has accused the officers of using excessive force and violating his constitutional rights.
00:02:43.000There was no lawyer listed for Gutierrez in court records.
00:02:46.000Earlier on Sunday, Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, a Democrat, said on social media he'd begun an outside review of the encounter.
00:02:52.000He said, the incident in Windsor is disturbing and angered me.
00:02:55.000I'm directing the Virginia State Police to conduct an independent investigation.
00:02:58.000Our Commonwealth has done important work on police reform.
00:03:00.000We must keep working to ensure Virginians are safe during interactions with the police and that enforcement of laws is fair and equitable.
00:03:06.000Remember that time that Ralph Northam almost was forced to resign because way back when he dressed up in full-on blackface and or a KKK outfit, remember that time?
00:03:14.000Yeah, he's still the governor over there.
00:03:16.000The medic was driving to Petersburg, Virginia from a drill weekend the night of December 5th when he saw police lights flashing behind him, according to the New York Times.
00:03:22.000According to the lawsuit and video footage of the encounter, Lt. Nazario, who is black and Latino, drove about a mile to a gas station because he'd been nervous about stopping on a darkened road.
00:03:30.000Get out of the car, one officer can be heard yelling as Lt.
00:03:34.000Nazario, remaining seated, repeatedly asks why he's been stopped and why the officers have drawn their guns.
00:04:47.000But they will say that the system is racist no matter the ethnicity of the officer in this particular case.
00:04:51.000Meanwhile, in another case that is gaining national attention, there's a man who was shot to death in an encounter with police, this time in Minneapolis again.
00:05:01.000There were riots last night as people attempted to use this as an excuse to go loot the local Walmart.
00:05:08.000So, it seems to me that no matter the outcome with the police, looting the local Walmart is not the solution, as it turns out.
00:05:14.000This encounter is, again, in doubt because we don't have all the details.
00:05:18.000So, everybody heard that a black man had been shot by the police, and they immediately rushed to the judgment that the police had shot the man unjustifiably.
00:05:26.000And you're seeing the media also play this game where they take a sort of random detail from the arrest and then they use that to characterize the whole arrest.
00:05:33.000They do this routinely in criminal encounters where they want you to believe that the encounter was truly about the random thing and not about something else.
00:05:40.000And so, for example, in the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case, the detail the media really fixated on was that Trayvon Martin was carrying Skittles and iced tea.
00:05:47.000And this was supposedly indicative of the entire case, even though the actual case was about whether Martin was on top of Zimmerman and beating him into the ground, or whether Zimmerman was attacking Martin and all of that.
00:05:56.000And same thing happened with Michael Brown.
00:05:58.000The idea was that Michael Brown, the entire detail of the case was that he was, he had some $5 cigarillos, and this was deeply indicative of the case in some ways.
00:06:08.000It really has nothing to do with the heart of the case, but this happens repeatedly whenever the media cover a major police or racist, or supposedly racist interaction.
00:06:18.000It's the same thing that's happening right here.
00:06:20.000Now the story in this Brooklyn censor shooting is an air freshener.
00:06:25.000According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, A Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, inflaming already raw tensions between police and community members in the midst of the Derek Chauvin trial.
00:06:36.000Relatives of Daunte Wright, 20, who is black, told a tense crowd gathered at the scene in northern Minneapolis suburbs Sunday afternoon.
00:06:41.000Wright drove for a short distance after he was shot, crashed his car, and died at the scene.
00:06:45.000Protesters later walked to the Brooklyn Center police headquarters near North 67th Avenue and North Humboldt Avenue and were locked in a standoff with the police in riot gear late on Sunday night.
00:06:54.000Officers repeatedly ordered the crowd of about 500 to disperse as protesters chanted Wright's name and climbed atop the police headquarters sign, by then covered in graffiti.
00:07:01.000Police had to use tear gas, flashbangs, and rubber bullets on the crowd.
00:07:04.000National Guard troops arrived just before midnight as looters targeted the Brooklyn Center Walmart and nearby shopping mall because, of course, When somebody, even if somebody is unjustifiably shot by the police, it seems like the best, probably the best thing you can do is just go hit up the nearby shopping mall for a pair of shoes or something.
00:07:18.000Several businesses around the Walmart were completely destroyed, including the Foot Locker, T-Mobile, and a New York men's clothing store.
00:07:25.000Quick judgment, if you use the opportunity of a tragic encounter between a person and the police as an opportunity to grab yourself a suit from the New York Men's Clothing Store, you're a garbage person.
00:07:37.000Looting is not a proper response to bad things happening between the police and civilians.
00:07:41.000Looting was widespread late Sunday into early Monday, spilling into North and South Minneapolis.
00:07:45.000Reports said that stores in Uptown and along Lake Street were also being looted as well.
00:07:51.000According to Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott, he issued a curfew order until 6 a.m.
00:07:59.000This is just what this community needs, I'm sure.
00:08:01.000He said, Now again, there's an investigation ongoing.
00:08:03.000What are the actual details of this particular encounter?
00:08:04.000right, a 20-year-old young man, our hearts are with his family and all those in our community impacted by this tragedy. Now again, there's an investigation ongoing. What are the actual details of this particular encounter? So apparently, the Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said Minneapolis will wake up to more National Guard stationed around the city due to reports of looting and shots fired during the standoff with police.
00:08:26.000Rocks and other objects were thrown at law enforcement.
00:08:29.000Brooklyn Center Police Department does have body cams.
00:09:02.000There was an outstanding warrant for him.
00:09:03.000him. An officer discharged a weapon striking the driver.
00:09:06.000The vehicle then traveled several blocks before crashing into another vehicle. Officers and medical personnel performed lifesaving measures. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. A female passenger was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
00:09:17.000His family had said earlier that the shooting occurred in Plymouth, but it had not. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will conduct an independent investigation.
00:09:25.000So again, we will know more about this because there were body cameras and dash cams that were on during the incident.
00:09:29.000And of course, as I say, when it comes to these particular incidents, the media like to fixate on particular details.
00:09:35.000So Katie Wright, the alleged victim's mother, said all he did was have air fresheners in the car and they told him to get out of the car.
00:09:42.000Well, he also had an outstanding warrant, apparently.
00:09:45.000He got out of the car and his girlfriend said they shot him.
00:10:01.000We don't have details in this particular case, but that's not stopping the rioting.
00:10:04.000There's sort of preemptive rioting in Minneapolis over all of this.
00:10:08.000So that is the latest on the law enforcement front.
00:10:11.000All you can say in these particular cases is that you ought to wait for the details to come out because the details usually clarify the situation rather than the initial reports.
00:10:18.000We've had too many situations in which riots have broken out in major American cities on the basis of incomplete reports that are put out either by the media or by people near the scene of an alleged crime.
00:10:29.000So, before the media jump into this is yet another example of police racism.
00:10:32.000We probably should wait for exactly what happened here.
00:10:35.000In that Virginia case, different story.
00:10:37.000We have a lot more evidence because we have an actual body cam video and consequences will attend to all of that, as they should.
00:10:45.000We have a large issue in the United States that is worthy of talking about.
00:10:49.000And that is that there's a huge swath of America that believes they're engaged in the quote-unquote resistance when they are in fact the dominant upper hand in American politics right now.
00:11:11.000Corporations were bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
00:11:13.000This is why we needed campaign finance reform.
00:11:15.000Because if you owned a corporation and you gave money from your LLC to some sort of campaign, this meant that you were engaged in an attempt to strip American democracy.
00:11:27.000It was an attempt to get rid of the diversity of American democracy using institutional power.
00:11:31.000Now, however, the left has realized that they ought to do with corporations what they've done with nearly every other institution in American society and simply grasp the means of distribution.
00:11:41.000They're now going to leftize all of the means of distribution of institutional power in our society.
00:11:46.000The greatest indicator of this, of course, is that apparently, on Sunday, there was a meeting of more than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders.
00:11:54.000They gathered online Sunday, according to the Washington Post, to discuss taking new action to combat the controversial state voting bills being considered across the country, including one recently signed into law in Georgia.
00:12:03.000So, you now have major corporations that have decided to just do the work of the Democratic Party.
00:12:08.000And the reason they're doing the work of the Democratic Party is because they believe that the Democratic Party is in an unbreakable ascendancy right now.
00:12:14.000They believe that the country is moving ever more leftward, and that there is no worry that there will be backlash from the right, and so they are just going to do what the Democratic Party wants them to do, And in return, presumably the Democratic Party will leave them alone a little bit, or grant them additional regulatory power, or give them tax breaks, or ensure, in some other regulatory fashion, that their opponents are stifled.
00:12:35.000Because if you believe that all these major corporations gave two dams about Georgia's voting law, which again, does not restrict the right to vote.
00:12:44.000Voter ID is not a restriction on the right to vote.
00:12:47.000Maintaining more ballot boxes than there were in 2016 is not a restriction on the right to vote.
00:12:51.000Broadening voting hours in many counties is not a restriction on the right to vote.
00:12:55.000But these corporations know that they have to just become another wing of the Democratic Party, the privatized wing of the Democratic Party, or the Democrats are going to come after them.
00:13:03.000And so they are caving on behalf of the Democrats.
00:13:12.000It showed the political donations from employees of America's biggest companies, nearly all, a majority of those, a majority of employees of those companies gave to Democrats.
00:13:22.000So what we are watching is the complete hijacking of corporate America on behalf of the radical left.
00:13:27.000And then you will watch a cram down happen internally inside these companies and an attitude taken with regard to the customer base that requires that you accede to their politics.
00:13:47.000Eventually, you'll get to the front of the line.
00:13:49.000When you finally do get to the front of the line, they will ask you for details that you don't know, and then they're just going to order the part online anyway because they don't actually have it.
00:15:18.000Okay, so corporations deciding that they want to give to this politician or not give to that politician, those are corporate political decisions that have been going on for a long time, right?
00:15:27.000Those lobbyists have been working in Washington literally for, at this point, centuries in America.
00:15:33.000But there's a different thing going on when you have corporations that are openly targeting the voting population and attempting to bully them into voting the way they want.
00:15:51.000Those same people will be perfectly happy with corporations removing their business from places simply based on the politics of those places and how people voted in those places.
00:16:00.000They are ecstatic that MLB removed the All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia because Georgian voters decided that they were going to vote in favor of Republicans in the statehouse.
00:16:11.000Punishing the population is a very, very different thing than punishing particular politicians.
00:16:15.000Nobody's saying you have to give to Republicans.
00:16:16.000You want to be a corporation and give to Democrats?
00:16:38.000But, when you target the people who listen to the show, when you say the people who listen to the show are bad, or their views are bad, and they're not doing business because you don't like the views of the people who listen to the show, well then, you're on the other side.
00:16:50.000A business decision is not the same as a political decision.
00:16:52.000And these corporations are jumping full scale into making political decisions by attempting to blackmail states.
00:16:58.000That is what they are doing right now.
00:17:24.000Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor who organized the call, executives from major airlines, retailers, and manufacturers, plus at least one NFL owner, talked about potential ways to show they oppose the legislation, including by halting donations to politicians who support the bills, and even delaying investments in states that pass the restrictive measures.
00:17:40.000Now, again, your prerogative, you don't want to give money to Republicans.
00:17:42.000Again, don't expect that those Republicans are then going to rush to your defense when it comes to you proclaiming your allegiance to free market principles, because you don't give a damn about free market principles, obviously.
00:17:51.000You're backing the party that stands against them.
00:17:54.000But, by the same token, very different thing if you've decided you're literally going to boycott those states.
00:17:59.000If you're going to boycott those states, now you've engaged in political warfare upon your own consumer base.
00:18:04.000You've decided that people who don't think like you ought not consume your product.
00:18:14.000These are dangerous, dangerous things.
00:18:16.000And by the way, it seems to me perfectly justified that in an America in which anti-discrimination law rules the roost, in which anti-discrimination law, which has been in the ascendancy in the United States since the 1960s for originally some good reasons and now some very bad reasons, anti-discrimination law, which is rooted in the idea that freedom of association must be curbed in the name of ability to patronize,
00:18:39.000If you believe that, then it seems to me well within the realm of possibility that states are simply going to start adding political orientation as a basis for non-refusal of service in states across the country.
00:18:50.000That if you're going to do business in Georgia, you don't get to decide who you do business with based on politics.
00:18:58.000It seems like that is the way that a lot of these states are going to go.
00:19:00.000I know that that discussion is being had at the highest levels in some of the red states that you're seeing right now.
00:19:05.000Because governors are not going to allow their states to essentially become the preserve of corporations that wish to bludgeon their constituencies into silence.
00:19:15.000According to the Washington Post, while no final steps are agreed upon, the meeting represents an aggressive dialing up of corporate America's stand against controversial voting measures nationwide.
00:19:23.000You think they give a damn about this?
00:19:25.000These controversial voting measures, by the way, again, are less restrictive than many voting measures in states like Delaware, for example.
00:19:32.000These corporations didn't care five seconds ago.
00:19:34.000But corporations Are notoriously slow to react and quick to overreact.
00:19:50.000And so instead of these corporations going to the Republican legislature in Georgia and saying, here are the provisions that we don't like, this one and this one.
00:19:56.000Instead of doing that, they wait until the law is passed, and then they see that Stacey Abrams is super pissed.
00:20:01.000And then they're like, oh, well, if Stacey Abrams is super pissed, maybe we ought to just cut off all business with the state of Georgia.
00:20:05.000This is not going to work out well for you guys.
00:20:08.000It's not going to work out well for you guys, because guess what?
00:20:10.000If you guys decide not to do business in the state of Georgia, there are plenty of other people who are more than happy to do business in the state of Georgia.
00:20:20.000All of this came just days after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that firms should stay out of politics, echoing a view shared by many conservative politicians, and setting up the potential for additional conflict between Republican leaders and the heads of some of America's largest firms.
00:20:31.000Now again, the media are playing this as though Republicans are the reactionary ones?
00:20:35.000Nope, the corporations are the reactionary ones.
00:20:37.000They're reacting to the predations of the radical left, and then Republicans are reacting to the fact that all of these corporations have decided to target their voters.
00:20:45.000By the way, it's now coming out that Stacey Abrams seems to be a liar.
00:20:49.000Stacey Abrams said that she had no impact on MLB moving the game.
00:20:51.000Apparently, MLB spoke directly to Stacey Abrams before they decided to move the All-Star Game.
00:20:56.000Leaders from dozens of companies, Delta, American, United, Starbucks, Target, LinkedIn, Levi Strauss, Boston Consulting Group, along with the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, were included in the Zoom call.
00:21:04.000We'll have more on this in just one second, because this is a truly dangerous trend in American life.
00:21:08.000It's going to lead to the breakup of the country.
00:21:10.000Hey, so, according to the Washington Post, the discussion, which was scheduled to last one hour, but went on for 10 minutes longer, was led at times by Ken Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express, and Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck, who told the executives it was important to keep fighting what they viewed as discriminatory laws on voting.
00:21:27.000Both Chenault and Frazier are, of course, black, and they coordinated a letter signed last month by 72 black business executives that made a similar point.
00:21:34.000Now, all of this could stop if corporations just said no.
00:21:47.000What's in our purview is how, for example, the government regulates corporate earnings.
00:21:52.000What is within our purview, this is part of the other problem, right?
00:21:55.000One, corporations have moved beyond simply targeting politicians based on their stances and have decided to target overt populations, which is a big change.
00:22:03.000The other thing that has happened in corporate America is that corporate America has decided They're not going to restrict their opinions to areas in which the corporation operates.
00:22:12.000They're going to now have opinions on everything.
00:22:15.000It's going to be like, what does Coca-Cola think about this law in Arkansas that says that children should not have medical experimentation done on them for purposes of transgender verification?
00:22:26.000Well, I mean, their silence is deafening, right?
00:22:28.000Well, we have now reached the point in corporate America.
00:22:30.000We have reached the Taylor Swift's silence is deafening point in corporate America.
00:22:35.000For those who are not aware of this meme, for years, Taylor Swift was fairly apolitical.
00:22:39.000And then, everybody online kept saying, whenever there was a controversial thing happening in American politics, Taylor Swift's silence is deafening.
00:22:46.000And those of us on the right were like, um, she makes music.
00:22:48.000Why do you care about what Taylor Swift has to say?
00:22:50.000And then, Taylor Swift got hit so hard, so much from the left, that she decided to go fully woke, and she started producing songs like 10 years late about gay rights.
00:22:59.000She turned into pop star Never Stop Never Stopping.
00:23:04.000In that movie, which is very funny, there's a Andy Samberg plays a character who's this pop star.
00:23:09.000And he makes this pro-gay rights song, but he's like 20 years late on it.
00:23:13.000And so everybody's like, why is he even making this?
00:23:25.000Corporations are now the Taylor Swift of our politics.
00:23:27.000Corporations have decided that they are going to, their silence is deafening.
00:23:31.000They must speak out on everything the left demands of them.
00:23:33.000Okay, guys, well, if that's the way you want it, that's the way you're gonna have it.
00:23:36.000If you're going to engage in the ultra crepedarianism, Speaking outside of your purview, in which you are not commenting anymore about corporate tax rates or the restrictions on sugar imports from Cuba as Coca-Cola, but instead you're now going to comment on bathroom bills in North Carolina?
00:23:50.000Then you are explicitly political actors and you will be treated as such.
00:24:01.000That is them simply saying, if you guys have chosen to engage in this field, you will be treated as somebody engaging in this field.
00:24:06.000You will be treated as an adjunct to the Democratic Party, which is what you are.
00:24:09.000The call's goal, according to the Washington Post, was to unify companies that had been issuing their own statements and signing on to drafted statements from different organizations after the action in Georgia, Sonnenfeld said.
00:24:19.000The leaders called in from around the country.
00:24:21.000Some chimed in from Augusta, Georgia, where they were attending the Masters.
00:24:24.000I noticed that Rob Manfred did not, in fact, the head of MLB did not, in fact, give up his membership to Augusta National.
00:24:30.000And I've noticed that Coca-Cola has not moved its corporate headquarters.
00:24:33.000I've noticed that CNN, by the way, has not moved its corporate headquarters, which is located in Atlanta, which means presumably they endorse the Georgia voting law.
00:24:41.000Sonnenfeld, this professor from Yale, he says, there was a defiance of the threats that businesses should stay out of politics.
00:24:46.000They were obviously rejecting that, even with their presence on the call, but they were there out of concern about voting restrictions not being in the public interest.
00:24:52.000Or they were there because they know they're getting blackmailed by the left, and they are deeply afraid that their investment pension funds, union pension funds, run by the SEIU, that are going to pull money from their stock price.
00:25:09.000If, by the way, these folks think that joining with corporate America is going to gain you massive popularity, let me recommend that you take a look at the Republican Party, which joined with corporate America in nearly every iteration over the past 30 years and proceeded to lose massive amounts of power in the United States.
00:25:23.000It turns out that you know what Americans typically don't like?
00:25:25.000Big corporations cramming down their views.
00:25:27.000And it's even worse when those big corporations have decided to move out of the realm of tax rates, corporate tax rates, and have decided to move into the realm of, what do we think your children should be learning in school?
00:25:37.000I do not give two craps with Kenneth Chennault thinks my kids should be learning in public school.
00:25:41.000I don't want to know what American Express thinks about this.
00:25:45.000And if they try to tell me what to do, I'm just not going to patronize their business.
00:25:49.000I will take out a different credit card.
00:25:51.000And if all of the credit cards decide to do this, there will be regulations that prohibit them from doing this in red states.
00:25:56.000You can see how these corporations are going to wield their executive power in order to damage the American people.
00:26:01.000And you can see it most clearly in the realm of social media.
00:26:04.000So, for example, this is the most obvious and ridiculous example.
00:26:08.000Over the weekend, it broke that Patrisse Cullors, who is 37, and one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, has now bought a $1.4 million home in Topanga Canyon.
00:26:18.000Now, being from California, I can assure you Topanga Canyon is super white.
00:26:23.000In fact, it is 88% white and 1.8% black.
00:26:27.000So Patrice Coolers, as soon as she made some money off of BLM, she bought a nice house right there in Topanga Canyon.
00:26:34.000Apparently, it is a pretty expensive house that has a vast great room with a vaulted and beamed ceiling.
00:26:40.000The realtors write that the large backyard is ideal for entertaining or quietly contemplating cross-canyon vistas framed by mature trees.
00:26:47.000The AP reported that Black Lives Matter took in $90 million in donations last year.
00:26:51.000It's not clear if or how Colors is paid by the organizations.
00:26:53.000Its finances are opaque, which means, of course, that people are taking out vast quantities of cash.
00:26:57.000Whenever the finances of an organization are opaque, you can be pretty sure that whoever's at the head of the organization is doing pretty well.
00:27:04.000So Patrisse Cullors' first opportunity, she immediately takes her $1.4 million home in super white Topanga Canyon.
00:27:10.000Okay, so here's where this becomes more than just a hilarious story of more limousine liberal hypocrisy.
00:27:17.000Okay, that is Jason Whitlock, who is the black writer for The Blaze now, Jason Whitlock.
00:27:24.000He was apparently barred from Twitter for tweeting out the story.
00:27:43.000And this got Jason Whitlock's account locked.
00:27:46.000It got his account locked because that's the way all of this works now, is if you violate what corporate America would like for you to say, there's a good shot that you're going to be targeted by corporate America.
00:27:58.000You can see this happening also, by the way, in terms of COVID.
00:28:01.000Because the entire left now has an interest in pushing COVID panic porn, which we'll get to in just one second.
00:28:07.000But YouTube, as we mentioned last week, pulled a COVID roundtable with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:28:13.000So Ron DeSantis had Scott Atlas and Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford and a couple other scientists on a panel.
00:28:19.000And on that panel, members of the panel said that small children should not be wearing masks.
00:28:31.000There's a good case that they do not transmit the disease in anything like the numbers that adults transmit the disease.
00:28:36.000And when they do transmit the disease, it tends to be a weaker strain of the disease, apparently, because they're The disease count is just not as high.
00:28:47.000Okay, so that is a very reasonable and debatable opinion.
00:28:50.000YouTube pulled the entire video because this, of course, contradicted the nature of the stuff that YouTube wants to put out there about COVID, all of which prompted Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist from Stanford, mind you, to say, this is crazy.
00:29:02.000I'd love to have a debate with somebody at YouTube because apparently some low-level dope at YouTube believes they know more about epidemiology than Bhattacharya does.
00:29:12.000It's one of these things where you look at it and you say, how can you have an open discussion about a policy that affects every single person's life when you can't actually even make a point based on scientific evidence?
00:29:29.000They want to make you think that the only way forward is these lockdowns, but we can see that they've failed.
00:29:36.000Bhattacharya is right about this, but again, it's corporate America's power that is allowing them, particularly in the social media sphere, where they are in the free speech sphere, to just shut down alternative methods of debate.
00:29:45.000And this becomes particularly relevant when you see neutral service providers like Amazon Web Services shutting down Parler at the beginning of the year, simply because they said, based on a lie, that Parler was the chief organizing mechanism used in order to organize the January 6th riots.
00:29:59.000The chief organizing mechanisms, by all available evidence, were Facebook and Twitter.
00:30:03.000It was discussed apparently on Parler, but apparently more of the discussion was happening on Facebook and Twitter.
00:30:07.000You didn't see those guys getting pulled down by Amazon Web Services.
00:30:10.000But again, contravene what corporate America wants you to know about particular issues, or what corporate America wants you to think about particular issues, and they will use every means at their disposal in order to come after you.
00:30:22.000And they are, in fact, promoting lie after lie about America, America being systemically racist, the new Jim Crow in Georgia, and COVID still on the loose.
00:30:31.000We're going to talk about the COVID panic porn in just one second because it's beyond the pale at this point.
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00:31:52.000Debate on issues that are very debatable.
00:31:54.000First, it's already episode five, and people just can't get enough of Candace Owens or her new show, Candace.
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00:32:00.000The fearless thought leader hosts a lively series of guests every week for a discussion panel, interviews, and her signature cancel corner.
00:33:22.000They're one of the great scientific accomplishments of the last several centuries.
00:33:26.000To have a vaccine inside of a year that is 99% effective at preventing serious disease and death, it's a miracle.
00:33:33.000The notion that you are still not going to be flying, by the way, the evidence that this was transmitted on flights is non-existent.
00:33:38.000There is no evidence at all, literally none, since the beginning of the pandemic, that airline flights were a chief source of transmission for the virus.
00:33:47.000Again, there are great HEPA filters on the planes.
00:33:51.000When I say not a lot of it, I'm not aware of a single study that says that airplanes were a chief vector of transmission throughout this pandemic.
00:33:58.000Not that you can catch it on an airplane, but that they were a chief transmission vector or a key transmission?
00:34:05.000There's no evidence of that, as far as I'm aware, whatsoever.
00:34:09.000Not only that, once you get the vaccine, what in the world are you talking about?
00:34:13.000The vaccine is super duper effective, like incredibly effective.
00:34:16.000But apparently, that sort of denialism is not only okay, it is welcomed on the left.
00:34:20.000That after you've had the vaccine, you still won't go out, you still won't engage in society, which of course necessitates the government step in and take care of you.
00:34:27.000If everybody followed Joy Reid's advice, we'd all be stuck in our homes forever.
00:34:30.000And the government would just keep signing us checks based on cash that does not exist.
00:34:34.000So that is simple vaccine denialism, and it's being taken up by the horrible media coverage.
00:34:59.000Again, there is no, I'm not aware of any surge of documented cases that began on an airplane.
00:35:07.000You can say that people traveled with COVID on the other end of the airplane, they spread it when they got into an apartment building or something, but that's not the same thing as saying the airplanes were the chief factor of transmission.
00:35:16.000Here's what CNN says, and this is just statistically illiterate.
00:35:20.000They said, Real world studies of the Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna vaccines show they are only 90% protective against COVID, not 95% as reported in clinical trials.
00:35:29.000Translated into reality, that means for every million fully vaccinated people who fly, some 100,000 could still become infected.
00:35:55.000Okay, beyond that, that's not how statistics work.
00:35:58.000Okay, if there are a million people who fly on planes, and there's a vaccine that are taken by everybody, right?
00:36:05.000Everybody has taken the vaccine, but it's only 90% effective in preventing the transmission of the disease.
00:36:10.000That doesn't mean that there are 100,000 people who are going to get the disease.
00:36:13.000Okay, as National Review points out, translated into actual reality, a 90% effective vaccine refers to a reduction in the odds of a vaccinated person being infected relative to somebody who has not taken the vaccine.
00:36:25.000That is, in a given group of say 2,000 people, if 100 unvaccinated people would ordinarily get COVID, just 10% vaccinated, just 10 vaccinated people in the same size group would get the virus.
00:36:35.000That does not mean that 200 vaccinated people would get the virus.
00:36:39.000In other words, you have to have what's called a base rate.
00:36:42.000If there are a million people who fly on planes and 100,000 people are not protected against the virus, it doesn't mean all 100,000 people get COVID.
00:36:59.000So instead, CNN is openly panicking you that if you fly and you're vaccinated, you're still going to get COVID.
00:37:06.000You wonder why with media coverage like that, people are still worried they're going to get COVID after being vaccinated?
00:37:10.000Okay, another piece of news that the media are blowing way the hell out of proportion.
00:37:16.000If you look at Drudge today, which has just become Huffington Post, Drudge has a headline at the top of its page in all red, Pfizer can't stop South African strain.
00:37:25.000Now, if you read that headline, what would you think?
00:37:39.000Okay, that is not what the story says.
00:37:42.000What the story says is, quote, The South African variant of the coronavirus is notably more adept at breaking through the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine than other variants are.
00:37:52.000Israel has used the Pfizer vaccine almost exclusively to vaccinate millions of citizens, with a version by Moderna used minimally.
00:37:59.000A team from Tel Aviv University and the Khalit Healthcare Organization sequenced the swabs of 150 Israelis who tested positive for COVID-19 despite having been vaccinated.
00:38:08.000Okay, so there are 150 Israelis who tested positive for COVID after having been vaccinated.
00:38:14.000Six to seven million people in Israel have already been vaccinated.
00:38:17.000So number one, you're already talking about pretty much statistically almost nobody who got the virus after having been vaccinated.
00:38:25.000Then, in that subgroup, what did they find?
00:38:27.000That subgroup of 150 Israelis who tested positive for COVID-19 after having been vaccinated?
00:38:33.000In their study, the prevalence of the South African strain among vaccinated individuals who were infected, despite their inoculation, was eight times higher than its prevalence in the unvaccinated infected population.
00:38:45.000Though the number of infections among the vaccinated was relatively small, the findings indicated that this variant was far more successful in getting through vaccinated individuals' defenses than other strains.
00:38:53.000So number one, when we say relatively small, we are talking about nearly everyone in Israel got the Pfizer vaccine.
00:39:01.000You have like 150, 200 people who actually got infected afterward.
00:39:06.000And your takeaway from that is that the Pfizer vaccine is not protective against South African strains, You're talking about a margin at the very, very, very tip top right here.
00:39:16.000You're talking about a tiny group of people got infected after the vaccine.
00:39:20.000And of that tiny group of people, more people were infected with South African strain.
00:39:25.000Also not noted in the study, did any of those people get super sick and die?
00:39:29.000So it turns out that Pfizer is still extraordinarily effective against all of the strains.
00:39:33.000In fact, in lab tests, Pfizer has been proved to be effective against the South African strain, according to Dr. Marty McCary of Johns Hopkins University.
00:41:07.000We are completely flat in the numbers of diagnosed cases in the United States.
00:41:12.000And in terms of daily new deaths, we are at the lowest point that we were since, at this point, looks like September, October of last year, when people thought maybe we were already hitting the end of this thing.
00:41:25.000So, his takeaway is just nonsense, but they're trying to scare the hell out of you, and then, they're trying to bully you into silence if you're not scared.
00:41:32.000The goal here is to scare the hell out of you, so then, they can overreach as much as they could possibly want.
00:41:36.000By the way, how crazy are they getting about all of this?
00:41:39.000Okay, they're getting so nuts about all of this, that now, they've decided that they are targeting Amy Chua, the famous professor over at Yale Law School.
00:41:47.000So, apparently, she was having little gatherings at her home, where she was meeting with students who were having trouble, and people decided that she had to be COVID policed.
00:41:56.000She writes a letter, says, I received an email from a Yale Daily News reporter named Julia Brown, who informed me she was working on an article about how you will not be leading a small group at the law school next year, and that there will likely be a formal announcement about it on Monday.
00:42:07.000This was the first I'd heard about it.
00:42:10.000The reporter's email implied that the decision had been made on the basis of an allegation that I'd been recently hosting parties at my house, ridiculous allegations I'd never heard for before from anyone.
00:42:19.000Finally, the email contained a shocking number of confidential details about an agreement I reached back in 2019, which the Daily News was apparently preparing to publish.
00:42:28.000And apparently this then went public, and they're trying to basically kick her out of these small group sessions because she was hosting small groups of people at her home who had been vaccinated.
00:42:43.000I'm sorry, we are now living in the middle of a major corporate crackdown on free speech.
00:42:50.000The institutions of power have decided that they no longer need your opinion.
00:42:54.000Instead, they're going to be shaping your opinion from above.
00:42:57.000And they're going to be doing so on the basis of their own self-satisfied sense of who they are.
00:43:04.000And they're going to be cheering on the Biden administration as they do the same.
00:43:07.000So if you don't want that, it is past time to fight back on all of this.
00:43:11.000Because you simply cannot trust the corporate media.
00:43:13.000You can't trust your corporate leaders.
00:43:14.000There are no institutions standing between you and the naked face of an authoritarian left that seeks to cram down its values on you and against you.