There are two narratives emerging in the U.S. One is the "factually correct" one, and the other is the one you are getting from the media. And the truth is, there is no difference between the two. The problem is that both are completely wrong, and that's what we're seeing in the media's coverage of the current events in the United States right now. And it's time to wake up to the reality that the facts are not the same as the "facts" we're being told by the media and the politicians who are telling us they are the only ones with a grip on reality. Ben Shapiro's take on the situation in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, WA, Washington, and how the media is completely wrong about what's going on and how things are actually going on. And that's why we need to stop buying into the lies the media tell us about the events that are going on in the streets of America's major cities. This is pure insanity, and it's getting worse by the day, and I'm here to tell you why it's all going on the way it's going to happen. Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVpn.com/ProtectYourOnline Privacy today at expressvpn/ ProtectYourData or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 and tell them what to do if they don't like what you're getting right. or wrong. President Trump deploys the feds to quash the violence in America s major cities as Democrats protest. Joe Biden says Trump is the first, and then they call Trump the first racist president ever? and leftists chide parents for wanting to educate their kids during a pandemic? I'm Ben Shapiro: This is the show I'm The First Racist President Ever? - The Ben Shapiro Show on the Ben Shapiro show on this episode of The Daily Show on this is all nuts, and this is the best! - Ben Shapiro on the latest on all things anti-Trumpism, right here on The Daily Mail, here on ExpressVPNPNP. - This is a must-listen to the latest in the latest from Ben Shapiro. and here is a clip from the Portland protests in the Portland, OR show on that! - on this morning's episode of the Portland's own Chaz Chaz on his show on his new show on the Portland Evening Post's "Portland Evening Post.
00:01:13.000Over the past several months, we have heard from the media that Andrew Cuomo is an incredible governor of New York as tens of thousands of people died.
00:01:19.000We have heard from the media that violent looting and rioting was not happening.
00:01:23.000That these were quote-unquote mostly peaceful protests.
00:01:26.000And that the protesters and the rioters and looters were completely separate.
00:01:29.000But if you say rioting and looting are bad, you're actually attacking the protesters.
00:01:32.000We have heard the media claim that things are fantastic in Seattle's Chop Chaz.
00:01:40.000How dare you try to shut down this street fair?
00:01:44.000We have heard that enormous protests of literally millions of people in the streets in the middle of a pandemic was not a public health threat directly after hearing that anti-lockdown protests were a public health threat.
00:01:56.000I mean, I've truly never seen anything like it.
00:01:57.000The media, over the past several months, and again, they've botched stories before.
00:02:01.000They've sort of done this on an individual level.
00:02:03.000They did it with Kavanaugh, for example.
00:02:05.000They did it with the Covington Catholic kids.
00:02:06.000But the extraordinary extent to which nearly every story that is being reported right now is not in any way reflective of the underlying facts, it's pure insanity.
00:02:16.000The most obvious example of this is what is happening in Portland right now.
00:02:20.000So, in Portland, things are really bad.
00:02:22.000They are now in day 56 of rolling rioting.
00:02:26.000Okay, and rioting is what is happening in Portland.
00:03:04.000And just because you have some moron in the back of the crowd holding up a group of balloons does not mean that this is happy-dappy-do time.
00:03:11.000And if you could see the footage, what you would see is graffiti all over the place.
00:03:15.000You can see that the federal building has been completely defaced.
00:03:20.000And people have been injured in Portland as well.
00:03:22.000Okay, overnight, Portland rioters set fire to the courthouse as well.
00:03:48.000It's so bad that you end up with these two-minute hate struggle sessions.
00:03:51.000So I will say, this is part of this I enjoy, is the politicians who are allowing this stuff to go on, then being torn up by the protesters.
00:04:01.000So this happened in Seattle, where Mayor Jenny Durkan basically allowed Chop Chaz to go on for weeks at a time, and people were getting shot there.
00:04:08.000And she's like, it's no big deal, it's a street fair, guys.
00:04:10.000And then they went to her house, and then she's like, shut this thing down right now!
00:04:13.000It was pretty great when the mayor of Minneapolis, who had allowed half his city to be burned down, went and did penance in front of protesters and was screamed at for not being warm enough toward defunding the police.
00:04:25.000And so they had like a full on struggle session, like they were going to hang a sign around his neck and the whole thing over in the center of Minneapolis.
00:05:13.000Yeah, no, he doesn't deserve to be called a f****** fascist!
00:05:16.000They're calling Ted Wheeler a fascist.
00:05:19.000I'm pretty sure that shutting down the entire city of Portland because you just feel like burning crap because you're a terrible person, that's a little more fascist than Ted Wheeler allowing you to do it.
00:07:53.000You shouldn't believe the pure, obvious facts that are right in front of your eyes because many of the people showing you those facts don't think Trump is the worst person in the world.
00:08:01.000And we do think Trump is the worst person in the world.
00:08:03.000So, if you believe Trump is the worst person in the world, you will believe us when we say that the protesters and looters and rioters in Portland are entirely peaceful.
00:08:16.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:08:17.000First, let us talk about the fact that you don't really want to be going to an auto parts store right now.
00:08:22.000In fact, you don't really want to go to an auto parts store ever, because the fact is that you wait in line, then finally you get up to the front, and they're asking you very specific questions about your car that you may not know off the top of your head.
00:08:31.000And then they sell you a generic part that may not be right for your car, or they have to wait it, they have to order it and then wait for it to come in from the manufacturer.
00:08:39.000Why don't you just go and do it direct with RockAuto.com?
00:08:41.000RockAuto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear like airlines do.
00:08:47.000Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:08:50.000Like, for example, let's say that you were one of the people who happened to need a Delphi FG-1456 fuel pump assembly for a 2005 to 2010 Honda Odyssey.
00:08:57.000Well, at the store, that's going to cost you like $354.
00:09:59.000As nightly protests have dominated downtown Portland for nearly two months, both local officials and the Trump administration have attempted to cast the largely peaceful demonstrators as ruffians, with suspect political values hell-bent on destruction.
00:10:11.000Well, first of all, this phrase, largely peaceful, mostly peaceful, as I've said before, this is just the most glorious phrase ever.
00:11:15.000Example today, Dave Weigel of the Washington Post.
00:11:18.000So Weigel, he put out a tweet saying it was like 10 minutes ago that open carry protesters without masks rallied at state capitals and mostly Democratic governors just let them do it until they went away.
00:11:28.000He said this in response to somebody saying, why the hell are Democratic politicians allowing these riots to go on?
00:11:33.000Yes, because open carry protesters without masks are not the same as people trying to burn down the courthouse.
00:11:40.000I mean, can anyone provide evidence of the open carry protesters trying to occupy entire swaths of cities and bar the police and vandalizing entire downtown areas?
00:11:48.000Because I'm old enough to remember when we shut down the entire damned county of Los Angeles for a week on end at 6 p.m.
00:11:53.000so rioters and looters could run roughshod through Melrose Boulevard.
00:11:56.000I'm old enough to remember that because I am more than four weeks old.
00:11:59.000My baby is old enough to remember it, and she was born at the beginning of March.
00:12:56.000The murder rates started to spike as soon as he started giving leeway to the rioters and looters and cutting the cops.
00:13:01.000That's when the murder rates started to spike.
00:13:03.000Here is giant weirdo, groundhog murderer, Frankenstein's monster, Bill de Blasio, talking about how all this murder stuff, you know, you're worried about getting rid of the cops.
00:13:16.000We've had a very tough few months, no doubt, and it is directly related to the coronavirus, the dislocation it's caused in our society, the fact that our court system is not functioning yet.
00:13:26.000So many factors that have been absolutely aberrant for just the last four or five months.
00:13:31.000But we will beat it back, because we've done that for a quarter century in this city.
00:13:34.000And Joe, the key point is, we will do it.
00:13:37.000We, the people of New York City, we need the people's involvement to make the city safer, the NYPD.
00:13:43.000And if we ever need any assistance, that's what localities do.
00:13:47.000When they feel they need assistance, then wait for that request from a locality that knows what's right for its people.
00:13:54.000So again, you are just you're hearing from people who are attempting to lie to you and gaslight you.
00:13:59.000Okay, so violence has increased in cities around the United States.
00:14:04.000And so President Trump finally said enough is enough.
00:14:06.000And he deployed the DHS, Department of Homeland Security, to protect federal property.
00:14:10.000Okay, there is statutory authority for the president to deploy force to Portland to protect federal property.
00:14:15.000Furthermore, There are federal laws on the books.
00:14:17.000Federal agents exist in every major city in the United States.
00:14:20.000They're there largely to enforce laws that have been passed and that are on the books about gang violence.
00:14:25.000Not every crime that happens is in fact a federal crime.
00:14:28.000If somebody murders somebody in a city, that's not a federal crime.
00:14:49.000And there are federal investigators on the ground.
00:14:50.000In fact, you've seen them in virtually every TV show.
00:14:53.000Every TV show, there's some sort of murder, and suddenly the Feds are there.
00:14:56.000The feds have been in cities for a very long time, but apparently President Trump staffing up in these areas to try and lower the murder rate in these areas where the mayors refuse to actually do anything to protect their own citizenry.
00:15:08.000We're going to get to President Trump finally implementing some level of law and order and Democrats taking the other side.
00:15:14.000Which in a normal time would be just political death for them.
00:15:18.000But they are counting on American hatred of Trump so strongly.
00:15:21.000They are counting on the media hatred of Trump so strongly that they are hoping that you will ignore the evidence of major cities collapsing right in front of your eyes and be angry at Trump for trying to fix the problem.
00:15:30.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:17:11.000He is not moving above and beyond the law.
00:17:14.000The laws he has been using in Portland are about protecting federal property.
00:17:17.000Under federal law, the DHS is emboldened, empowered, to protect federal property, and yes, they can arrest people who are not directly next to the federal property.
00:17:26.000So if they suspect that there is someone trying to burn down the courthouse, and four blocks away is the person, they are allowed to go arrest that person.
00:17:32.000Okay, then, there are federal laws on the books with regard to, for example, Cracking down on gang activity. He's been on the books for a very very long time. Trump said listen. I'm tired of this I'm tired of watching our major cities burn. I'm tired of watching 15 people shot every other day in Chicago. I'm sending the feds Today I am announcing that the Department of Justice will immediately surge federal law enforcement to the city of Chicago the FBI ATF DEA
00:18:03.000Marshal Service, and Homeland Security will together be sending hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers to Chicago to help drive down violent crime.
00:18:14.000And murderers and violent criminals are breaking a wide range of federal laws.
00:18:47.000But the executive branch does have the power to enforce the law.
00:18:51.000We started using our strong federal laws Uh, that permit us to target those who use guns to kill others and those that are involved in gang activity.
00:19:06.000Our approach was to set up anti-violent crime task forces in the cities to enforce federal law.
00:19:12.000It's important to stress that the operations we're talking about are the standard anti-crime fighting activities we have been carrying out around the country for decades.
00:19:24.000He says we'll be adding federal agents to already existing task force.
00:19:27.000He says these are street agents and investigators who will be working to solve murders and take down violent gangs.
00:19:32.000He says this is different than the operations and tactical teams we use to defend against riots and mob violence.
00:19:36.000He's pointing out these are two different laws that are being invoked.
00:19:38.000He says we'll continue to confront mob violence, but the operations we're talking about today are very different.
00:19:45.000So the administration has named this Operation Legend, not like, let's just be a legend and do it, man, but it's named after an actual four-year-old boy whose name is Legend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept in Kansas City shortly before July 4th weekend.
00:19:58.000Legend's family came to the actual unveiling of this policy.
00:20:02.000They were joined by the family of Jacques Vigil, a 55-year-old grandmother and daycare worker from Albuquerque who was murdered in her driveway during an attempted carjacking.
00:20:11.000He pointed out that they were also recognizing the tragic murder of a 14-year-old named Bernardo Jones Jr.
00:20:15.000in Chicago, who was playing basketball in a park when he was senselessly killed by gunshots that wounded four and killed three others.
00:20:21.000He says, to carry out Operation Legend, federal law enforcement agencies will be committing additional resources to these cities, including resources from the FBI, the DEA, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S.
00:20:30.000Marshals, and the Department of Homeland Security.
00:20:33.000He says, to date, we've sent over 200 federal agents to the Kansas City.
00:20:35.000They unveiled this thing earlier this month.
00:20:39.000We are directing a comparable amount to augment Chicago's existing violent crime initiatives.
00:20:45.000We are providing more than 35 agents to Albuquerque.
00:20:48.000They're also providing financial assistance to state and local law enforcement in these particular areas, and they've made $3.5 million in federal funding available to the city of Chicago to compensate local law enforcement for overtime equipment and other expenses.
00:20:59.000Okay, so this is not a violation of law, nor is it really an extension of anything that the federal government has not done before.
00:21:04.000The media, however, are treating this as absolute... This is fascism.
00:21:08.000Trump fascism was trending yesterday on Twitter.
00:21:11.000Okay, so it's not fascism when you take over an entire American city and threaten to burn everything to the ground and then scream at your mayor when he comes to talk to you about stopping it.
00:22:16.000Okay, in just a second we're going to get to the left's response to President Trump sending in the feds to help local law enforcement to enforce federal law already on the books.
00:22:25.000Suffice it to say, they're perfectly willing to allow people to run roughshod through their cities so long as it means owning the cons.
00:22:31.000Owning the cons by burning down your own cities is definitely a take.
00:22:34.000But that's what we're seeing right now.
00:22:35.000First, I want to talk to you about your internet freedom.
00:22:37.000So the fact is there are a lot of people after your data.
00:23:47.000Okay, so the reaction to this is exactly what you would think it is.
00:23:51.000It is mayors who are Democrats basically saying, I would rather that my city continue to be a violent hellhole than allow the feds to actually do what they are empowered to do under federal law.
00:23:59.000So Bill de Blasio, giant weirdo, Frankenstein's monster, six foot nine, groundhog murderer, the son of Sam of groundhogs.
00:24:06.000Bill de Blasio, he actually said, I would sue to stop Trump from intervening in our violent crime problem.
00:24:11.000We must, we must allow the violent crime to continue.
00:24:15.000This president blusters and bluffs and says he's going to do things and they never materialize on a regular basis.
00:24:21.000So first, we should not overrate his statements.
00:24:33.000And we would immediately take action in court to stop it.
00:24:36.000From my point of view, this would be yet another example of illegal and unconstitutional actions by the president.
00:24:43.000And we have often had to confront him in court, and we usually win.
00:24:48.000So he is going to sue Trump to stop him from actually implementing the law.
00:24:51.000Meanwhile, Lori Lightfoot, who's an awful, awful mayor of Chicago and who has basically been allowing shootings to take place in her city willy-nilly.
00:24:59.000She said yesterday the real reason that Trump is doing this is because he's targeting women, which is a hell of a take.
00:25:06.000He's sending federal law enforcement to Portland, which is run by a white man.
00:25:11.000He's talking about sending federal law enforcement to places like Kansas City.
00:25:16.000I'm not aware that the mayor of Kansas City is a woman.
00:25:18.000Maybe it is, but I'm pretty sure that that is not the reason why the president of the United States is sending somebody.
00:25:25.000The mayor of Kansas City is a man named Quentin Lucas, a black man.
00:25:29.000Okay, so she says this is really about Trump targeting women.
00:25:32.000So apparently the fact that she's a garbage mayor and her city is turning into a hellhole, Trump is only sending the feds because he doesn't like women or some such nonsense.
00:25:42.000What do you think people in Chicago who are getting shot at every weekend have to say about their idiot mayor who thinks the reason the feds are coming in is because Trump is mean to ladies?
00:25:50.000The president has been on a campaign now for some time against Democratic mayors across the country.
00:25:58.000Whether it's me, whether it's Keisha Lance Bottoms in Atlanta, whether it's Muriel Bowser in Washington, D.C., whether it's Jenny Durkan in Seattle.
00:26:51.000A surge like this would probably be unnecessarily provocative and actually make matters worse.
00:26:57.000The militaristic presence on the streets of the United States in our cities During moments of high tension can actually make matters worse and be provocative.
00:27:07.000There is legislation working its way through to limit the sale of Defense Department equipment to civilian law enforcement in our cities because it is provocative.
00:27:18.000You see those images of people who used to work for me in camouflage who look like the military?
00:27:30.000The people who are apparently being provoked were trying to burn down the courthouse five seconds ago.
00:27:34.000I feel like they were already provoked.
00:27:35.000It's like the dumbass argument that you constantly hear from folks on the international left, where, you know, like the Israelis responding to Hamas bombing pizzerias.
00:27:46.000I'm pretty sure these folks were already provoked.
00:27:47.000They're in the streets trying to burn down the damn courthouse.
00:27:50.000You know, Michael Chertoff, who's the head of Homeland Security under President Bush, he said, well, maybe they're exceeding their authority.
00:27:57.000He said, it's possible they're exceeding their authority.
00:27:59.000Well, I mean, maybe is not the same as they are.
00:28:02.000Why don't you explain how they're exceeding their authority?
00:28:07.000You can protect federal property, but that doesn't mean it's an unlimited license to roam around the streets and pick up people based on some suspicion that maybe they're involved or going to be involved in something.
00:28:20.000Roving around on the street and stopping people and taking them down strike me as going beyond that authority, and that's wholly apart from the Fourth Amendment issue.
00:28:32.000because whatever the statutory thought is, we still have a constitution.
00:28:36.000Okay, yes. And the Fourth Amendment has not been violated here. You are allowed to arrest people for committing felonies in public places without a warrant.
00:28:42.000That is a that is a Supreme Court established doctrine.
00:28:44.000That is a fact. And by the way, here is what the law says.
00:28:49.000Law Enforcement Authority of Secretary of Homeland Security for Protection of Public Property.
00:28:54.000The secretary may designate employees of the Department Department of Homeland Security, including employees transferred to the Department of the Office of the Federal Protective Services of the General Services Administration pursuant to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 as officers and agents for duty in connection with the protection of property owned or occupied by the federal government and persons on the property, including duty in areas outside the property to the extent necessary to protect the property and persons on the property.
00:29:22.000you While engaged in the performance of official duties, an officer or agent designated under this subsection may enforce federal laws and regulations for the protection of persons and property, carry firearms, make arrests without a warrant for any offense against the United States committed in the presence of an officer or agent, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if the officer or agent has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing a felony.
00:29:48.000Okay, I'm reading you the black letter law.
00:30:02.000It's about don't believe your own eyes.
00:30:04.000Don't believe that the cities are burning and that President Trump is doing something about it because that might be a narrative in favor of President Trump.
00:30:09.000This is how you end up with idiotic articles like this one from the New York Times.
00:30:58.000Right-wing outlets and conservative media stars have seized on the weeks-long protests in Portland as a rallying cry for law and order, instructing their followers to fear for their safety and blaming Democratic leaders for failing to restore peace.
00:31:38.000Speaking of which, you wanna talk about media bias?
00:31:39.000Okay, best example of media bias today.
00:31:41.000Remember that time when the New York Times ousted the editor of the op-ed page because they ran an editorial from Tom Cotton, an op-ed by Tom Cotton?
00:31:48.000They ran a piece of full-blown Chinese propaganda today in the New York Times by a guy who works for the Chinese government.
00:31:56.000The title of the piece was, My Relatives in Wuhan Survived, My Uncle in New York Did Not.
00:32:01.000Because China is better than New York.
00:32:04.000Okay, it's just a full piece of full-blown propaganda.
00:32:06.000Where are the protests over the New York Times op-ed page?
00:32:25.000That's fine, according to members of the New York Times woke staff.
00:32:30.000Okay, in just a second, we're gonna move on to Joe Biden and COVID, because Joe Biden I gotta say, this presidential battle, it's not really a battle of wits.
00:32:40.000I would say a lot of unarmed people in this battle of wits.
00:32:43.000We're going to get to this in just one second.
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00:35:41.000Meanwhile, the presidential campaign continues apace.
00:35:44.000And let us just say that it feels as though there is some insufficiency in representing these particular positions.
00:35:50.000So you have some pretty rich ideological strains in American public life being represented by the political right right now.
00:35:56.000A strain of law and order, a strain that says that America was found in liberty, defending American history, defending American culture.
00:36:02.000And the president When he gives speeches off teleprompter, does a good job of explicating that, right?
00:36:07.000His Mount Rushmore speech, I thought was terrific and I said so.
00:36:10.000The president also has a bad habit of going off the cuff about weird stuff that allows the media to focus in on it.
00:36:15.000So today the president did another interview where he decided to do like a five minute riff on how tough the cognitive test he took was, that he aced.
00:36:23.000And so he just kept saying over and over the five words that he was supposed to memorize.
00:37:20.000On the one side, you have Captain, I passed a cognitive test that pretty much everybody who's not senile needs to pass.
00:37:25.000And on the other side, you have Joe, I once got in a fight with a guy named Corn Pop Biden.
00:37:30.000Yesterday, Joe Biden suggested that Trump was the first racist president ever.
00:37:35.000Which, okay, first of all, Trump isn't a racist.
00:37:38.000Second of all, if Joe Biden thinks that Trump, even if you thought Trump was a racist, if you think he was the first racist president ever, that's a hell of a, that's a hot take coming out there.
00:38:14.000If we're going to talk about people who thought that black folks were inferior, Every president in the early republic was, in fact, a slaveholder, with the exception of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, I believe.
00:38:27.000Every single one, up to the end of the Andrew Jackson tenure, was a slaveholder.
00:38:37.000First of all, I don't understand how Joe Biden could possibly miss the fact that Woodrow Wilson was a brutal racist, considering that when Woodrow Wilson was a child, he massaged Joe Biden's leg hair.
00:38:49.000This is just pure crazy from Joe Biden, but Joe Biden is pure crazy at this point.
00:38:52.000So we got a senile old man hiding in his basement, and then we got President Trump, the most volatile candidate in the history of the American Republic.
00:39:03.000There are underlying principles at stake here.
00:39:06.000And that's what's easy to miss because presidential politics is so much a game of personality and so little about the actual policies represented by the candidates.
00:39:14.000I talk about this and how to destroy America in three easy steps a little bit.
00:39:17.000I point out that the various views of President Trump are based on a misunderstanding of how people see Trump.
00:39:24.000On the right, the way that most conservatives see Trump is not as the God-send beautiful man, incredible at everything.
00:39:32.000People on the right don't see Trump the way Trump sees Trump.
00:39:35.000People on the right, largely, and I think almost entirely, see Trump as a vessel, a very, very flawed vessel for stopping the onrushing power of the radical left.
00:40:03.000This is what Trump is trying to tell people.
00:40:05.000Now the problem is that because Trump is not a laser focused campaigner, because he sort of grabs everything in the pantry and just throws it at people, because the president is the guy you wouldn't want to fight in high school.
00:40:16.000He wasn't exactly a methodical fighter, but he was a guy who might just Randomly turn around and pick up a desk and hurl it at you.
00:40:26.000But because he's like that, he's not methodical enough to make the case that Joe Biden is basically a weak, a weak-kneed character who's going to get shoved around by Bernie Sanders, which is the reality.
00:40:37.000Here's Bernie explaining that basically Biden is going to be Bernie with a Biden mask on.
00:40:43.000The reason I say that I think that Biden has a chance to be the most progressive president since FDR is that is exactly what Joe Biden said to me.
00:40:54.000And I think he has said that publicly.
00:40:56.000He understands the severity of this moment.
00:40:59.000We have tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs, lost their health care, people who are hungry today.
00:41:05.000We have an educational system which is lacking for low-income and working-class kids.
00:41:30.000It's just that there are two very cracked glasses who are going up against each other right now on all of this.
00:41:35.000Now, there's an easy way for Republicans to blow this thing before it even begins.
00:41:39.000And that is the aid that has been put out there, this kind of firehose that's been turned on the American public since we've all been forced into lockdown over and over and over.
00:41:46.000That firehose of aid, which in many ways was good, right?
00:42:01.000The federal and state governments have basically destroyed every business in the United States, or at least a huge percentage of businesses in the United States.
00:42:08.000The very least they can do is at least fill in the gap for the moment.
00:42:13.000We are still seeing most businesses shut down across the United States, and the businesses that can run are being forced to run at half capacity.
00:42:20.000So, the idea of extending aid beyond August 1 makes a lot of sense.
00:42:24.000But Republicans are busy fighting over this thing, which makes no sense to me.
00:42:30.000According to the Washington Post, Senate Republicans struggled to finalize a $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Wednesday, confronting internal divisions and continued White House demands for a payroll tax cut most lawmakers oppose.
00:42:40.000Now, I don't know why you would oppose the payroll tax cut.
00:42:44.000Apparently, there are a lot of Republicans who are concerned that the Democrats are going to say they're raiding Social Security or something.
00:43:15.000Now there's certain ways in which you can make this bill better than the old bill.
00:43:18.000Like for example, you can in fact try to peg people's unemployment to what they were earning.
00:43:22.000So as not to encourage people to stay out of the workforce.
00:43:24.000One of the problems with the old bill is that it basically just threw money at people so that they were earning more money by being unemployed than by being employed.
00:43:32.000You want to encourage people to be employed where they can be employed.
00:43:34.000But the extension of unemployment insurance to people in a time when the government is literally forcing them not to go to work makes a lot of sense.
00:43:42.000If Republicans find a way to blow that, it's a mistake.
00:43:45.000There are a lot of times when you say, listen, we can't spend this way.
00:44:06.000So while I admire Senator Ted Cruz, listen, I'm very friendly with Senator Cruz, when Cruz says things like, I'm not only a no, I'm a hell no on the idea of really extending more aid here, at least the way we're doing it, there is a certain level of urgency that outweighs the political concerns on spending at this very moment in time.
00:44:23.000We still don't know the details of this initial proposal, but as it's written right now, I'm not only a no, I'm a hell no.
00:44:32.000And sadly, I think this is envisioned as an opening gambit.
00:44:37.000Everyone expects the Democrats to come back with a huge wish list of spending.
00:44:42.000And this is the swamp in a feeding frenzy.
00:44:45.000Everybody's lobbyist has their hand out saying, well, look, if you're spending trillions of dollars, I want to get some.
00:46:20.000Even Politico had to acknowledge he was exactly right.
00:46:22.000Quote, Kids still appear to be less likely to catch and transmit the virus.
00:46:26.000The leading explanation is that kids make fewer receptors, a protein called ACE2, making it more difficult for the virus to latch on, said Mark Schleiss, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
00:46:37.000As children move into adolescence and become adults, they make more of these receptors, theoretically increasing their chance of contracting the virus.
00:46:43.000There are 317,711 reported COVID-19 cases in children and teenagers across the United States.
00:46:46.000cases in children and teenagers across the United States.
00:47:00.000Not only is it not a major risk to kids, there's some fairly good science suggesting it's not a major risk to adults who come into contact with kids.
00:47:07.000Mark Wohlhaus, a Senate, a leading epidemiologist and member of the government's SAGE committee over in Great Britain, told the London Times it may have been a mistake to close schools in March given the limited role children play in spreading the virus.
00:47:19.000He said that children in the 5 to 15 age brackets are not passing this thing to teachers.
00:47:24.000He said there has been no recorded case of a teacher catching the coronavirus from a pupil anywhere in the world.
00:47:45.000But that does not mean that kids are a chief vector of transmission.
00:47:48.000There's a study from Iceland suggesting that kids are not passing it to adults.
00:47:53.000According to the UK Spectator, a company called Decoded Genetics did a study in Iceland.
00:47:59.000They tested something like 36,500 people.
00:48:02.000The tests identified 1,801 cases of people suffering from the disease and 10 deaths.
00:48:07.000Each case was carefully tracked and not a single case could the researchers find evidence of a child passing on the disease to their parents.
00:48:15.000He suggested the fact that few children suffer any symptoms and are less likely to cough is an important factor.
00:48:20.000We have studies from Australia that suggest exactly the same thing, that schools are not the key factors of transmission.
00:48:24.000And there's an Australian study of how coronavirus spread in 15 schools.
00:48:29.000They found a transmission rate of far less than 1%.
00:48:32.000Naturally, the media have then suggested that if you want to reopen the schools, it's because you want to murder all of the teachers, which is just pure full-scale insanity.
00:48:39.000But again, the media have been gaslighting you all along on so many of these issues.
00:48:43.000That doesn't mean everything the media say is not true.
00:48:46.000Because a lot of what the media say is true.
00:48:48.000COVID-19 is more dangerous than the flu.
00:48:50.000It is something you should be worried about.
00:48:52.000Is it something you should be panicked about?
00:48:53.000Are we at the same point that we were back in March?
00:48:56.000Are tens of thousands of Americans about to die daily?
00:48:58.000Are we even going to get back to New York rates of death on a daily level?
00:49:01.000Cases have already begun to wane in Texas, Florida, and Arizona.
00:49:05.000The number one state for new cases is California, which never stopped the lockdown effectively.
00:49:10.000So, examine the evidence before you buy into the media narrative.
00:49:14.000Alrighty, we'll be out here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.
00:49:17.000In the meantime, go pick up a copy of my new book, How to Destroy America in 3 Easy Steps.
00:49:20.000Also, if you want something entertaining to do this afternoon, aside from listening to the rest of the show, go give a listen to Joe Rogan's podcast.
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