The Ben Shapiro Show - What If We Can’t Accept Good News? | Ep. 1067

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00:01:48.000 Okay, so, one of the bizarro world situations that we are now encountering is that there's actually some good news on COVID.

00:01:56.000 Like, there's actually some good news on COVID.

00:01:58.000 So, what is that good news on COVID?

00:02:00.000 Well, there's a study that is now published in Science Magazine, and it suggests that T cell Immunity is a thing.

00:02:08.000 So there's been a lot of discussion about how you reach herd immunity with this disease.

00:02:11.000 Does this disease hit herd immunity at 50% of the population, 70% of the population?

00:02:15.000 If it takes all the way till 70% of the population, then you're talking about maybe millions dead over the course of time in the United States.

00:02:21.000 But Well, we have seen in places like New York and places like Sweden and what we are seeing now in Florida and Texas and California is that once the virus kind of works its way through a community, it doesn't have to hit 70% of the community.

00:02:33.000 It only has to hit more like 20 or 25% of a community in order for the curve to start bending down.

00:02:39.000 And folks have been wondering about this.

00:02:40.000 They're wondering, why is that?

00:02:41.000 Well, one of the going theories has been that there are an enormous number of people who are just not hit hard by this virus, who are either asymptomatic or don't get it in the first place, because they have something called T-cell immunity, meaning that their body has these things called T-cells, and these T-cells have already learned how to deal with coronaviruses.

00:02:57.000 And coronaviruses would include like the common cold.

00:02:59.000 So if you've had a common cold in the last two or three years, then your body has already learned how to fight off Possibly, COVID-19 is sort of the going theory.

00:03:07.000 Well now, there's an abstract from a study that is in Science Magazine, August 4th, 2020.

00:03:14.000 They say, many unknowns exist about human immune responses to the COVID-19 virus.

00:03:18.000 COVID-19 reactive CD4 T-cells have been reported in unexposed individuals, suggesting pre-existing cross-reactive T-cell memory in 20 to 50% of people.

00:03:28.000 Meaning that maybe half the population already has some sort of pre-existing ability on an immune level to push back against COVID-19.

00:03:36.000 The source of the T-cells has been speculative.

00:03:38.000 Using human blood samples derived before the COVID-19 virus was discovered in 2019, they mapped 142 T-cell epitopes across the SARS-CoV-2 genome, SARS-CoV-2 is COVID-19, to facilitate precise interrogation of T-cell repertoire.

00:03:53.000 We demonstrate a range of pre-existing CD4 T-cells that are cross-reactive with comparable affinity to COVID-19 and common cold coronaviruses.

00:04:01.000 Thus, variegated T-cell memory to coronaviruses that cause the common cold may underlie at least some of the extensive heterogeneity observed in COVID-19 disease.

00:04:08.000 So this answers why some people are getting crushed by it and some people are just having like a mild cold and then basically being done.

00:04:14.000 That's actual good news, okay?

00:04:16.000 That means that a huge swath of the population already has some pre-existing level of immunity to this virus, which is excellent, excellent news.

00:04:24.000 And we have more excellent news.

00:04:26.000 It now turns out that the numbers in terms of COVID-19 cases have been declining markedly, like seriously markedly in Florida, in Texas, in Arizona.

00:04:35.000 The Sun Belt, the surge is over.

00:04:36.000 The surge is over.

00:04:37.000 Now, there's talk about maybe a second surge in the winter, but that always presupposed that this thing would sort of die out in the summer because of the heat.

00:04:43.000 And then when everybody was in the cold, then people would be sort of in their In their offices, and then the heating systems would move this thing around.

00:04:52.000 It turned out that's where precisely the reverse happened.

00:04:54.000 In order for the virus to be killed off by the heat, you have to be out in the heat.

00:04:58.000 Right?

00:04:58.000 So it is certainly possible, and there's good data to suggest, that in areas that don't have air conditioning, that heat is killing the virus.

00:05:05.000 But, precisely the reverse has been happening in the Sunbelt.

00:05:08.000 Well, when it's hot outside in a first world country like the United States, everybody's got central air, everybody's in the office, the air is circulating.

00:05:08.000 Why?

00:05:15.000 And so you actually ended up with a surge during the summer because people were not in the heat.

00:05:19.000 So in 1918, right, with the influenza pandemic, well, the flu pandemic was a different story.

00:05:25.000 There was no air conditioning in 1918.

00:05:27.000 It was very, it was reserved for super rich people.

00:05:29.000 That meant that everybody was basically in the heat all the time and the heat was killing this thing.

00:05:33.000 Well, now that you live in a modern society with central air conditioning, when it's really hot outside, what do you do?

00:05:37.000 You go inside, when you go inside, all of the virus gets blown around and then you get an uptick.

00:05:41.000 Well, the uptick is over in Florida.

00:05:43.000 It is up to, the uptick is over in Texas.

00:05:45.000 It is over in Arizona.

00:05:46.000 And it may in fact have peaked already in California.

00:05:49.000 According to NPR, officials in Florida say cases of coronavirus are continuing to decline in indication that efforts to halt the spread Now, this is the part where media, I just, I don't think that the media are being responsible about this.

00:06:00.000 I don't.

00:06:01.000 There's this idea that it was government intervention that is preventing the spread of the disease again, that everything was going wildly haywire, and then everybody stepped in and shut down societies again, and then the lockdowns crushed the curve again.

00:06:12.000 That is not right.

00:06:13.000 Look at the timeline.

00:06:14.000 Florida really only began to crack down on particular activity about a week and a half ago.

00:06:21.000 And the cases started to decline last week.

00:06:23.000 That is not enough of a delay.

00:06:25.000 If you actually want If you actually want to see when the cases began to decline, the answer is once it started burning through the community.

00:06:31.000 Same thing in Arizona, same thing in Texas.

00:06:33.000 California never really opened, and California saw a surge, and then it saw a decline.

00:06:37.000 It was not the renewed lockdown that caused a decline in California.

00:06:41.000 So the media have this pre-prepped narrative that it is lockdown that slows the spread, but that's not what happened in New York.

00:06:46.000 Lockdown didn't slow the spread.

00:06:47.000 In fact, lockdown may have exacerbated the spread because everybody who already had the virus was then locked in their house with their elderly family members.

00:06:54.000 Miami-Dade County has been responsible for 25% of the state's nearly 500,000 coronavirus cases.

00:06:59.000 According to the mayor, Carlos Jimenez, he told commissioners that hospitalizations have been trending downward in the county for two weeks.

00:07:06.000 For two weeks!

00:07:07.000 Okay, listen to that.

00:07:08.000 Hospitalizations have been trending downward for two weeks.

00:07:10.000 I was in Florida until a couple of weeks ago.

00:07:12.000 Everything was pretty much open.

00:07:14.000 They only shut down indoor dining.

00:07:16.000 They had socially distanced indoor dining.

00:07:18.000 They only shut that down like the last couple of days I was there.

00:07:21.000 Right around the time I was leaving.

00:07:23.000 That is when the hospitalization started to decline.

00:07:26.000 So it is not because they shut down the indoor dining that the hospitalization started to decline.

00:07:30.000 The hospitalization started to decline before they shut down the indoor dining.

00:07:33.000 By the way, the same thing is true in New York about mask wearing.

00:07:36.000 So people keep saying, well, the mask wearing is what crushed the curve in New York.

00:07:38.000 That is not correct.

00:07:39.000 Look at the timeline.

00:07:40.000 The curve already started to flatten before people started putting on the masks.

00:07:44.000 Now, it's not a case against the masks.

00:07:45.000 It's not a case against social distancing.

00:07:47.000 It is a case that really the only thing that you can do with the virus is basically wait for it to burn through.

00:07:53.000 That's pretty much all we know at this point.

00:07:55.000 Slight delays may help in terms of allowing hospitals to better cope with this stuff.

00:07:59.000 Hospitals have gotten a lot better at dealing with COVID-19.

00:08:02.000 People are not dying in nearly the numbers they were.

00:08:05.000 But the notion that it is the renewed lockdown that started all of this, that's just not correct.

00:08:10.000 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said, I think the trend is positive.

00:08:12.000 I think we're going to continue to see the prevalence decline.

00:08:16.000 DeSantis spoke in Jacksonville.

00:08:17.000 He held a roundtable with advocates for the elderly and administration officials to examine ways to open nursing homes for family member visits.

00:08:24.000 DeSantis said he wants to begin allowing people who test positive for antibodies to visit family members in long-term care facilities.

00:08:30.000 He's appointed a committee of advocates and officials to look at other members to allow family members to visit nursing homes, which, by the way, would be a good thing.

00:08:38.000 I mean, I have a couple of family members in nursing homes, and they're basically isolated.

00:08:41.000 It's a terrible life.

00:08:42.000 They've basically been locked indoors for four months without the ability to see other people.

00:08:46.000 And if people have antibodies and they want to go visit grandma in the nursing home, That seems like good policy to me.

00:08:51.000 So this is good news.

00:08:53.000 Okay, we should be like right now.

00:08:55.000 Yes, the death numbers on a day-by-day basis are not great because death is a lagging indicator.

00:08:58.000 But we should be pointing out what we should be excited about is the fact that there was a sunbelt surge.

00:09:02.000 It did not overwhelm the hospital system and now it is going down again.

00:09:05.000 And we should be pretty excited by the fact But the caseload was extraordinarily high in these states, and the death toll was actually not all that high in these states.

00:09:13.000 I know there's been a lot of talk about, you know, the evils of Florida and the evils of Arizona and the evils of Texas.

00:09:18.000 We never talk about the evils of California, of course, because California is a Democrat-governed state.

00:09:22.000 But if you still want to, like, they experienced their surges.

00:09:25.000 Okay, Florida had its surge.

00:09:26.000 Texas had its surge.

00:09:27.000 Arizona had its surge.

00:09:29.000 I'm now looking at the list of states in the United States, deaths per one million population.

00:09:34.000 Florida does not rank in the top 15.

00:09:38.000 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

00:09:44.000 Florida ranks 19th in deaths per million.

00:09:47.000 19th.

00:09:48.000 OK, for all the talk about how Florida was going to get wiped out.

00:09:50.000 And by the way, Florida would have had every excuse to get wiped out, considering the fact that it is disproportionately the oldest state in the Union and a huge retiree population in Florida.

00:09:58.000 But contrast Florida's death per million rate at 345 to New Jersey's at 1,793 or New York's at 1,686 or Massachusetts at 1,256 or Connecticut at 1,245.

00:10:11.000 Florida is ranked 19th.

00:10:12.000 Okay, Arizona is ranked like 13th.

00:10:17.000 Georgia is ranked maybe 15th.

00:10:20.000 Okay, so for all the talk about these Sunbelt states that totally blew it, they didn't.

00:10:25.000 Okay, Texas is not ranked in the top 20.

00:10:25.000 They didn't.

00:10:28.000 Texas is ranked like 27th.

00:10:30.000 It's ranked about the same as California, actually.

00:10:33.000 So, this is all good news, right?

00:10:35.000 What we should be rooting for is once people have experienced the curve, then that's the end of the curve.

00:10:40.000 And in fact, this has become the going conventional wisdom.

00:10:43.000 So, I know that you've been told that the experts are for lockdown.

00:10:46.000 The experts want lockdown.

00:10:47.000 They want masks, and they want lockdown, and they want heavy government hands.

00:10:51.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:10:52.000 There are no experts on a brand new pandemic.

00:10:54.000 There are people who know a little bit more and people who know a little bit less.

00:10:54.000 There aren't.

00:10:57.000 And there's a lot of controversy in the scientific field over virtually every aspect of COVID-19, including mass squaring.

00:11:03.000 As I've said before, Holland does not mandate mass squaring.

00:11:05.000 They don't think it's useful.

00:11:06.000 Denmark does not mandate mass squaring.

00:11:07.000 They don't think it's useful.

00:11:08.000 Sweden does not do it.

00:11:09.000 Netherlands does not do it.

00:11:11.000 None of these places do it.

00:11:12.000 Okay, but I've said, you know, out of an abundance of caution, if you want to go to a public place where you're near other people, wear a mask.

00:11:18.000 My parents are wearing a mask when they are around my children, because my children are back at camp.

00:11:22.000 But there's also been this kind of going notion in the media that lockdowns are the best possible tactic.

00:11:28.000 Dr. David Nabarro, who is one of the ambassadors from the WHO, he said we actually should try to avoid lockdowns at all costs.

00:11:34.000 So this is now conventional wisdom.

00:11:37.000 Well, we would, in the World Health Organization, invite countries to do everything possible not to have these complete lockdowns.

00:11:46.000 It's a very blunt tool.

00:11:48.000 That's why we've said right from the beginning that the way you deal with this kind of disease is through having a really good strategy for finding people with the disease, testing them quickly and getting the results to them fast, tracing their contacts, doing the isolation properly and supporting people, as you've just said, who are particularly vulnerable.

00:12:09.000 OK, but testing and tracing is not really relevant in a country of 330 million people with probably 20 million infections running wild at this point.

00:12:17.000 So the real answer is you protect the vulnerable and everybody else goes back to work.

00:12:20.000 That really is the answer here.

00:12:21.000 OK, that's that's just what that's going to be what it's going to be.

00:12:24.000 And the good news is it doesn't have to burn through 70 percent of the population, according to the new data.

00:12:28.000 Basically, T-cell immunity means that a huge percentage of the population is not particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.

00:12:34.000 So President Trump said just this yesterday.

00:12:36.000 He said, we now have a better understanding of the virus and we are not pushing national shutdowns.

00:12:39.000 It's not something that we're going to do.

00:12:43.000 So we closed it down, and we're now opening it up, and it looks like it's a V. It's absolutely a V. But we're not going back to shutdowns now.

00:12:51.000 We understand the disease.

00:12:52.000 We understand the problems with elderly, especially elderly with heart or diabetes or other problems, and we're able to take care of them.

00:13:02.000 We understand it now, but we're not shutting down.

00:13:04.000 We've done really very well.

00:13:06.000 The numbers are looking very good, by the way, in Florida, Texas, and California.

00:13:09.000 They're heading down.

00:13:10.000 He is correct about this.

00:13:11.000 He is correct.

00:13:12.000 And so the media have immediately shifted to their latest spin, which is that everybody in the Midwest is going to die.

00:13:16.000 No, not everybody in the Midwest is going to die.

00:13:18.000 There's going to be a surge in areas where there has not been a surge, and there will be some death, because whenever there is a surge in disease, there is some death.

00:13:23.000 But it is not going to look like New York.

00:13:24.000 It is not going to look like New Jersey.

00:13:26.000 Hospitals have gotten better at this.

00:13:27.000 It is not going to overwhelm the system.

00:13:29.000 I'm predicting that right now, right here.

00:13:30.000 Okay, you're not going to see an extraordinary surge in death.

00:13:33.000 You're not going to see 12 New Yorks, as people were predicting, like, two weeks ago.

00:13:38.000 Okay, so why isn't that good news?

00:13:39.000 Why aren't we celebrating that?

00:13:40.000 That would be a good thing, right?

00:13:42.000 Why aren't Americans happy about this?

00:13:44.000 Instead, Americans seem determined, many Americans, and particularly in the media and the Democratic Party, seem determined to suggest that we are on the verge of catastrophe always.

00:13:53.000 Always and forever.

00:13:53.000 The catastrophe is coming.

00:13:54.000 It's always two weeks away.

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00:15:05.000 There are a lot of people in the media and in the Democratic Party who do not want to acknowledge that there is some good news about COVID-19, which is why you see the media featuring idiots wandering around beaches in Mexico dressed up as the Grim Reaper. 0.85

00:15:17.000 This one is going around thanks to the Agence France-Presse, the AFP. 0.99

00:15:20.000 Yesterday, some moron who's walking around beaches in Mexico dressed up as the Grim Reaper. 0.99

00:15:24.000 Just like that crazy guy who's walking- that lawyer who's walking around in Florida dressed up as the Groom Reaper. 0.99

00:15:29.000 I believe that guy was also attending Social Justice Warrior protests. 0.71

00:15:31.000 Okay, he's walking around two beaches with families socially distanced far away from other people and telling them they're going to die.

00:15:40.000 He's telling them, don't go on vacation.

00:15:42.000 Here I am.

00:15:43.000 You're all going to die.

00:15:45.000 He says it's about raising awareness, urging people to wear a face mask.

00:15:48.000 They're on the beach.

00:15:49.000 They're on the beach.

00:15:50.000 This dude has a better shot of being eaten by a shark or killed by a bystander than people have of dying from COVID on a sparsely populated beach.

00:15:58.000 This guy was featured by Agence France-Presse.

00:16:01.000 I mean, I'm sorry. 0.74

00:16:02.000 This is just, it's ridiculous. 0.91

00:16:03.000 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:16:04.000 Like the doom and gloom is insane. 0.98

00:16:08.000 That's not to say this isn't a dark period in American history.

00:16:10.000 It certainly is.

00:16:11.000 That's not to say that COVID-19 isn't risky.

00:16:12.000 It certainly is.

00:16:13.000 Okay, but can we like base this on the data at all?

00:16:17.000 You know, without like the pictures of the Grim Reaper wandering around empty beaches in Mexico?

00:16:22.000 It's absurd.

00:16:23.000 But the Democrats think they have a talking point, and the talking point is that everything is terrible and Trump is ignoring it.

00:16:27.000 Now, again, I've said before, and I got a little bit of flack for it, I've said the federal response on this thing has not been all that bad.

00:16:32.000 It hasn't.

00:16:33.000 The states got what they needed.

00:16:35.000 Ask Cuomo.

00:16:36.000 He got what he needed in terms of ventilators.

00:16:37.000 They sent a Navy ship there that was barely used.

00:16:39.000 California.

00:16:40.000 Newsom has said the same thing.

00:16:41.000 Inslee has said the same thing in Washington state.

00:16:43.000 Whitmer said the same thing in Michigan.

00:16:45.000 The federal government has ramped up testing to levels not seen by any country on earth on an absolute level.

00:16:50.000 I mean, we're doing something like 700,000 tests a day in the United States.

00:16:53.000 These are insane numbers of tests.

00:16:55.000 And really, honestly, like a lot of that lies with the individual state and how that state is administered.

00:17:00.000 We do have a federal system in the United States.

00:17:02.000 Nonetheless, the idea here is that if everybody has a downcast view of the United States going into the election, then Trump is going to lose.

00:17:08.000 It's very difficult to separate how people are attempting to portray the current situation from politics, because it is fairly obvious what Democrats in the media are attempting to do right here.

00:17:18.000 So Joe Biden, for example, yesterday, he had himself a club that he could beat Trump with.

00:17:23.000 So Trump did this interview with Axios' Jonathan Swan.

00:17:26.000 It was not a good interview.

00:17:27.000 And Trump was asked specifically about COVID-19.

00:17:31.000 And he was asked about the death levels.

00:17:32.000 And he said it is what it is. 0.91

00:17:34.000 Which is a dumb political thing to say, but also happens to be kind of true.

00:17:38.000 Namely that he doesn't control COVID-19.

00:17:40.000 You don't control COVID-19.

00:17:42.000 Nobody controls COVID-19.

00:17:43.000 That is not a lack of sympathy.

00:17:44.000 That's a recognition that reality exists.

00:17:46.000 But Joe Biden is like, you can't just say it is what it is.

00:17:48.000 You have to say it is what it isn't.

00:17:50.000 I mean, I guess that's the pitch.

00:17:51.000 Here was Joe Biden going after Trump yesterday.

00:17:54.000 I think it's under control.

00:17:55.000 I'll tell you what.

00:17:55.000 How?

00:17:56.000 A thousand Americans are dying a day.

00:17:57.000 They are dying.

00:17:58.000 That's true.

00:17:59.000 And it is what it is.

00:18:02.000 It is what it is.

00:18:05.000 Showing, like, people dead on gurneys, saying it is what it is. 0.97

00:18:09.000 Okay, again, a dumb political line by President Trump, but, again, I don't know what Joe Biden's alternative is. 0.89

00:18:15.000 Okay, what is Joe Biden's alternative? 0.90

00:18:17.000 It is what it isn't?

00:18:18.000 Like, people aren't dying?

00:18:19.000 I'm confused.

00:18:20.000 When Trump says we have it under control, we have it under control as much as it is possible.

00:18:24.000 To have a global pandemic under control, does anyone have any recommendations they'd like to make other than a national mask mandate, which is unconstitutional?

00:18:32.000 This is, it's such obvious politicking.

00:18:34.000 It's such obvious politicking.

00:18:35.000 Then you have Bob Menendez, the senator from New Jersey, saying that Trump's abdication is the cruelest thing. 0.98

00:18:39.000 Dude, your state, your state, run by a garbage governor, the governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, has done a horrible job. 0.89

00:18:47.000 Here's Bob Menendez saying that it's Trump's abdication that is the cruelest thing, really. 0.98

00:18:50.000 In your state, you shipped all the olds back into the nursing homes with COVID. 0.63

00:18:54.000 So I'm going to go with your governor is a bleep show, Menendez.

00:18:59.000 Democrats in the Senate have a sense of urgency.

00:19:02.000 That's why two and a half months ago, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer sent a letter to the President and to Senator McConnell saying, we're going to need more help for the American people.

00:19:15.000 A national emergency requires a national response.

00:19:20.000 But for two and a half months, We got crickets.

00:19:23.000 We didn't hear anything.

00:19:25.000 No response to that sense of urgency then.

00:19:27.000 And now we have the lack of engagement, of a robust engagement that is necessary to ultimately meet the challenge.

00:19:37.000 I mean, look, it's exemplified by their leader, President Trump.

00:19:42.000 When he says it is what it is, that is the most cruel abdication of presidential leadership I've ever seen.

00:19:49.000 No, it isn't.

00:19:50.000 I'm sorry, it is not.

00:19:51.000 When you say it is what it is, when people die of a disease that no one knows fully how to control, that is not an abdication of leadership.

00:19:57.000 It's an abdication of leadership when your state is the hardest hit state by numbers in the United States.

00:20:01.000 Death per million, New Jersey is number one.

00:20:04.000 Number one.

00:20:05.000 New York is number two. 0.99

00:20:06.000 Okay, meanwhile, you've got idiot Chris Cuomo suggesting that President Trump is determined to keep his handicap, his golf handicap down rather than the deaths. 0.98

00:20:14.000 I mean, this is all just propaganda at this point, it really is. 0.98

00:20:19.000 Middle of a pandemic, and this president spent the weekend hitting golf balls and bragging about his large MAGA crowd turnouts and coronavirus hot zones!

00:20:28.000 No masks!

00:20:29.000 Big crowd!

00:20:31.000 Buh-thetic. 0.98

00:20:34.000 And the reality is, once again, the key is the we.

00:20:39.000 It's the truth, my brothers and sisters.

00:20:41.000 This man is determined to keep down his golf handicap, not the number of cases that are making us sick.

00:20:48.000 Should we be pushing on Congress?

00:20:49.000 Absolutely.

00:20:50.000 But you know, too many on the right are playing the game because they're afraid of him.

00:20:55.000 Okay, I have a question.

00:20:56.000 What does him golfing have to do with keeping down COVID?

00:20:59.000 Like, do you want him to, like, I really don't think that Chris Cuomo wants Trump in the hospitals actually caring for COVID patients.

00:21:06.000 In fact, I think Chris Cuomo should probably stay in his basement when he has COVID as opposed to going to his second house when he has COVID or having his wife on social media talking about taking bleach baths. 0.96

00:21:15.000 By the way, how ignorant is Chris Cuomo? 0.98

00:21:17.000 Chris Cuomo is so ignorant that he got owned by a couple of New Jersey gym owners. 0.99

00:21:20.000 There are a couple of gym owners in New Jersey who want to reopen their gym. 0.99

00:21:23.000 These guys, you know, I would hazard a guess to say they are not epidemiologists.

00:21:27.000 They just own Chris Cuomo in this clip.

00:21:29.000 It's amazing.

00:21:29.000 I mean, they start citing stats pointing out that the people who are at risk of dying from COVID-19 are not generally young people going to gyms.

00:21:36.000 And they say, we are taking all the measures necessary.

00:21:38.000 We're doing social distancing.

00:21:39.000 And Chris Cuomo just gets, I mean, he gets destroyed by a couple of gym owners from New Jersey.

00:21:47.000 We have had 15,009 visits to our facility.

00:21:52.000 Zero positive cases.

00:21:54.000 Nobody's sick.

00:21:55.000 You're knocking Trump because of the total numbers.

00:21:57.000 53.3% of the deaths.

00:21:58.000 I'm not, I'm not going to Trump because he's not doing all that.

00:22:02.000 53.3% of the deaths, 0.6% of the population. 0.97

00:22:08.000 Bottom line, that's a f****** sack that nobody's talking about. 0.98

00:22:11.000 It's like the flu. 0.98

00:22:12.000 If you take that, if you take that 0.6% of the population that is responsible for 53.3% of the deaths, this is a mild flu.

00:22:21.000 No, but there are a lot more cases, Frank.

00:22:24.000 There are a lot more cases and people are getting more sick, and different people are getting sick than get sick with the flu, and we're getting a lot of weird after effects with this.

00:22:33.000 We've got to take it seriously, but that doesn't change the fact that you guys may be doing the right things to keep people safe.

00:22:40.000 Okay, and Chris Cuomo has no comeback to that.

00:22:42.000 I'm not ripping Trump because of anything, and then this guy's just citing stats all over him, and Cuomo has nothing.

00:22:46.000 Because his entire propaganda appeal has been, Trump is a bad orange man who's very bad and orange.

00:22:50.000 My brother, who completely blew it in New York, is the greatest governor in the history of the world.

00:22:55.000 The political agenda is hard to miss here, guys.

00:22:57.000 It really is.

00:22:59.000 It really is.

00:23:00.000 Now, in a second, we're gonna get to how this ties into policy.

00:23:02.000 Because it is fairly obvious that many Democrats are using COVID-19 as an opportunity, like Rahm Emanuel would say back during the Obama administration.

00:23:09.000 We'll get to that.

00:23:10.000 Momentarily.

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00:24:22.000 Okay, so...

00:24:23.000 The policies now being pursued by Democrats have nothing to do with the data.

00:24:27.000 I mean, truly nothing to do with the data.

00:24:29.000 The idea here is that we are basically going to count on COVID-19 continuing to be bad all the way through the election so that we can blackmail the federal government into paying us off, or so that we can take measures against other cities and pretend we did a good job, or so we can bash Trump.

00:24:45.000 I mean, because there is a serious disconnect between reality and what exactly is being promulgated by various public officials.

00:24:51.000 So yesterday, I want to correct an error I made on the show yesterday.

00:24:53.000 I was talking about Bill de Blasio. 0.71

00:24:54.000 The error is not that he is a giant weirdo who murders groundhogs and also happens to be a communist. 0.98

00:24:59.000 That was not my error. 0.82

00:25:00.000 That part's true.

00:25:01.000 The part that I said that was wrong is I suggested he was going to shut down all indoor dining until June of next year.

00:25:06.000 He said he was going to reopen the outdoor dining as of June of next year, but he's made no timeline commitment as to when he will open indoor dining.

00:25:13.000 So the underlying message, which is he's never going to reopen indoor dining, I still think is kind of true.

00:25:17.000 I see no indicator that Bill de Blasio is ever going to reopen anything.

00:25:21.000 Like, I just think he's going to keep everything closed.

00:25:23.000 But he did not overtly say he's going to keep the restaurants closed until June of 2021.

00:25:27.000 Just want to correct the fact, the record on that.

00:25:29.000 When I make a mistake, I want to get it right. 0.97

00:25:31.000 Bill de Blasio continues to be, however, a communist groundhog murderer.

00:25:34.000 So, yesterday, Bill de Blasio came out, and he had a couple of policy suggestions.

00:25:38.000 One, he now says that he's going to set up traveler registration checkpoints to enforce quarantine orders, in which travelers from certain states will be required to fill out forms to support contact tracing efforts.

00:25:48.000 Okay, so, first of all, I'm old enough to remember when Chris Cuomo suggested it was unco- Andrew Cuomo, rather, suggested it was unconstitutional for other states to shut their doors to New York travelers.

00:25:57.000 The ACLU sued and won on that basis.

00:26:00.000 Second, if your contact tracing is so good in New York City right now that you can bar other travelers because everything is basically okay, then why haven't you opened up the businesses, Bill de Blasio?

00:26:09.000 And the answer is because if you're a Democrat, you have no intent on ever opening up this stuff, at least not until a Democrat is in power.

00:26:16.000 Because right now, you can just keep the businesses shut down and blame all of the Republicans in the federal government for all of your own failures.

00:26:23.000 Bill de Blasio also threatened to lay off 22,000 workers if the Feds don't give them a bailout.

00:26:29.000 Right now, what a lot of Democratic mayors are doing is they've cut crappy contracts with unions.

00:26:33.000 They've done it for decades.

00:26:34.000 They've blown out their own debt.

00:26:36.000 And then on the basis of COVID, they're saying, you know what?

00:26:38.000 Let's raise taxes on our citizens again. 0.99

00:26:38.000 Let's do a couple things. 0.99

00:26:40.000 And let's go to the federal government and demand that they give us money or blame the Feds for our own crappy decision-making.

00:26:46.000 So basically they are the Democrats in these major cities have become your kids with the car having crashed it into a lamppost.

00:26:54.000 They crashed the car into the lamppost and then they suggest that if you don't come and pay for the cleanup bill, well, you don't know what they're going to do.

00:27:00.000 Maybe they'll become a drug addict. 0.81

00:27:01.000 You just don't know.

00:27:02.000 You just don't know. 0.92

00:27:03.000 So here's Bill de Blasio threatening that he's going to lay off 22,000 workers if the feds don't pay off his garbage policies. 0.79

00:27:09.000 We need help. 0.77

00:27:10.000 Let's be clear.

00:27:11.000 The help we need is to make sure we can keep all of our public services.

00:27:17.000 When you're talking about safety, health, education, they're all on the line now if we do not get federal support soon.

00:27:24.000 I'm very worried about these stimulus talks in Washington, Wilf, because they seem to be going nowhere fast.

00:27:28.000 My challenge is Where am I going to have the people to do this work?

00:27:33.000 I may have to do as many as layoffs of 22,000 city employees from every department by October 1st if I don't get federal help.

00:27:43.000 Well, I have an idea.

00:27:44.000 How about you just take all the money that you're not using on the schools because nobody's going to school in New York.

00:27:48.000 I mean, it is amazing.

00:27:49.000 We keep hearing that we need more money for the schools when the schools are shut down.

00:27:53.000 You shut down the schools and then you're like, I need more money.

00:27:55.000 Man, I'd love to apply that model to my own business.

00:27:57.000 That sounds great.

00:27:58.000 I will provide you zero shows next week and also pay me more money.

00:28:01.000 How does that sound to you?

00:28:02.000 Sound like a good deal?

00:28:03.000 That's the way Democrats are now running their cities. 1.00

00:28:06.000 And it's not just Bill de Blasio.

00:28:07.000 Keisha Lance Bottoms, who's being considered for the vice presidential nomination by Joe Biden on the basis of watching her city burn to the ground.

00:28:15.000 Over a shooting that was actually good by the cops.

00:28:18.000 And having her cops walk off the job. 1.00

00:28:20.000 She's considered a candidate for VP because she checks the two boxes that Biden is looking for.

00:28:24.000 She's black and she's a woman. 1.00

00:28:25.000 He's overtly said this.

00:28:26.000 Keisha Lance Bottoms said yesterday, closing the schools is the right choice.

00:28:29.000 Based on what?

00:28:30.000 Based on what data is closing the schools the right choice?

00:28:33.000 People still have yet to cite any data suggesting closing the schools is the right choice.

00:28:35.000 Here she is on CNN explaining she's going to keep the schools closed. 0.82

00:28:41.000 I do believe that's the right choice for Atlanta Public Schools because we have some of the highest rates in the state right now.

00:28:48.000 Just a couple of days ago, with our population just over 500,000, we represented about 44% of the infection rates in the state of Georgia.

00:28:58.000 And given the prevalence of underlying health conditions throughout the Atlanta community, We have a very large minority population in Atlanta.

00:29:07.000 I do think that it was the right decision to go online and it gives the school system an opportunity to revisit how students will enter the classroom in 9 weeks.

00:29:19.000 Okay, so she wants to keep the schools closed. 0.92

00:29:21.000 By the way, when I say the Rayshard Brooks shooting was good, I don't mean that it was good on, like, an existential level.

00:29:25.000 I mean it was a good legal shoot, okay?

00:29:27.000 A good legal shoot meaning, like, when a cop shoots somebody, it's either a good shoot or a bad shoot.

00:29:30.000 A bad shoot means it was illegal and they should go to jail.

00:29:32.000 A good shoot, legally speaking, means that the person...

00:29:35.000 Just a- is justified by law in having shot the person.

00:29:37.000 Rayshard Brooks stole a taser off two cops, he then tased one of them, and as he was running away from the other cop, he tried to tase the other cop before he was shot.

00:29:44.000 That was after resisting arrest.

00:29:45.000 That's what I mean by a good shoot.

00:29:46.000 A good legal shoot.

00:29:47.000 Okay, it doesn't mean good as like a- an Aristotelian good shoot or a morally good shoot.

00:29:51.000 Okay.

00:29:51.000 So, in any case...

00:29:53.000 One of the reasons the Democrats seem to be so reliant on COVID to justify their policies and blame Trump is because the big problem is too full for them. 0.99

00:30:01.000 One, they have a crappy candidate. 0.98

00:30:02.000 Joe Biden is old. 1.00

00:30:03.000 He is senile.

00:30:04.000 He is not with it.

00:30:06.000 I think Joe Biden is just as eager as the rest of us to learn who his vice presidential pick is.

00:30:09.000 Because I don't think that Joe Biden has a clue as to what is going on around him.

00:30:12.000 So they're saddled with a candidate who is essentially dead, which when you're running against a volatile candidate like Donald Trump is not the end of the world.

00:30:18.000 It's actually kind of good for you.

00:30:19.000 But he's a crappy candidate on a raw level where he running against somebody who is not Trump, Joe Biden would be in real trouble.

00:30:24.000 There's a reason Joe Biden was a dramatic unsuccess in presidential politics about 97 straight times before this particular election.

00:30:31.000 So they're saddled with that, and they're saddled with their own radicalism, which we'll get to in just one second.

00:30:35.000 So, good thing for them, they can still continue to exploit the narrative that America is about to be overwhelmed with COVID and we're all going to die again, and watch out, death is lurking around the corner for you on the beaches of Mexico or some such.

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00:32:09.000 So you may be saying to yourself that perhaps the, perhaps the situation with Democrats basically trying to ignore all good news on COVID and pretend that the Southwest and that the, the South Southern belt, the Sunbelt is being overwhelmed and all this, and perhaps that is being overplayed.

00:32:33.000 Like, why are they doing that?

00:32:34.000 The reason they're doing that is one, they have a bad candidate in Joe Biden, and two, that bad candidate is a shield for a far more radical Democratic Party.

00:32:41.000 So let's start with Joe Biden, who is just a terrible, terrible candidate.

00:32:44.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden was asked about the cognitive test.

00:32:48.000 So he had said earlier that he's taken all sorts of cognitive tests, right?

00:32:51.000 And then he was explicitly asked by Errol Barnett of CBS News whether he had in fact taken the same cognitive test that President Trump took.

00:32:56.000 And he's like, no.

00:32:57.000 And then he says to Errol Barnett, a black interviewer, he asked him whether he has taken a cocaine test.

00:33:04.000 Which, let me just say, if Donald Trump asked a black interviewer whether they had recently taken a cocaine test, the suggestions of racism would be in the air immediately.

00:33:14.000 But Joe Biden is allowed to get away with anything with that weird Cesar Romero joker smile because he is a Democrat and Democrats are allowed to get away with everything, according to me. 0.99

00:33:21.000 Here was Joe Biden being both senile and foolish. 0.99

00:33:25.000 Have you taken a cognitive test? 1.00

00:33:27.000 No, I haven't taken a test.

00:33:29.000 Why the hell would I take a test?

00:33:32.000 Come on, man! 0.73

00:33:33.000 That's like saying you, before you got in this program, you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not.

00:33:38.000 What do you think, huh?

00:33:40.000 I am.

00:33:40.000 I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical, mental, my physical, as well as my mental fitness.

00:33:53.000 Yeah, has it gone?

00:33:54.000 Has it gone?

00:33:54.000 I'm fully willing to let the American public judge my fabogy, cubsipida...

00:33:57.000 Physical and mental health... 0.95

00:34:06.000 So your narcoleptic Democratic candidate, he's got a problem on his hands. 0.98

00:34:10.000 He's a bad candidate. 0.63

00:34:11.000 So he has a couple of advantages.

00:34:13.000 One is that Donald Trump is extraordinarily volatile and makes lots of boo-boos.

00:34:16.000 And the second is the COVID situation.

00:34:18.000 And so Democrats are playing both to the hilt. 0.99

00:34:20.000 They have to do that because the truth is that their policies suck. 0.93

00:34:23.000 Okay, what we've seen in major cities is they're talking about defunding the police. 0.90

00:34:26.000 They are watching as crime rates skyrocket in major cities around the United States.

00:34:31.000 Joe Biden is not gonna stand in the way of any of that.

00:34:34.000 There's tape of a Minneapolis business owner that was going a little viral yesterday talking about how they need more police in Minneapolis because this is insane.

00:34:41.000 I mean, Minneapolis is being overrun by criminals because the city has basically decided to let the law abiding go by the wayside.

00:34:47.000 Then the night is no security here.

00:34:52.000 So there are a lot of people trying to get in inside in the back.

00:34:58.000 I still need things in the back and we need more police.

00:35:02.000 OK, but no, no, no.

00:35:05.000 That guy's probably, you can hear he has an accent.

00:35:07.000 It's probably because he's like, he's internalized his whiteness.

00:35:09.000 That's the reason that he's saying, we need more police.

00:35:11.000 By the way, Joe Biden trying to figure out who his VP candidate is going to be.

00:35:14.000 And I think at this point, the front runner is pretty obviously Susan Rice.

00:35:18.000 I think he hates Kamala Harris. 0.98

00:35:19.000 I think Kamala Harris hates him.

00:35:20.000 I think Kamala, like, he better have a food taster if Kamala Harris is his vice president, is all I can say. 0.94

00:35:25.000 I mean, this is going to be like Lenin and Stalin.

00:35:27.000 Like one day Joe Biden has her up to Camp David and the next day they're wheeling Matt on a gurney.

00:35:30.000 Like this is, I do not trust Kamala Harris.

00:35:34.000 Let's put it that way.

00:35:35.000 In any case, Susan Rice is extraordinarily radical. 1.00

00:35:38.000 She's been able to get away with being extraordinarily radical because she hasn't really been in the public eye. 0.98

00:35:41.000 She's been in the public eye for basically two things in her career.

00:35:44.000 One was lying openly about Benghazi, suggesting that the Benghazi Terror attack was not, in fact, a terror attack.

00:35:49.000 It was a response to a YouTube video, which is insane.

00:35:51.000 And second, Susan Rice is famous for having unmasked Michael Flynn, right? 0.90

00:35:55.000 She's famous for having been deep in the center of the entire effort to gin up the Trump-Russia collusion scandal.

00:36:01.000 Those are her two claims to fame.

00:36:02.000 And suddenly she's on the VP shortlist because she's a black woman, because too many folks in the Democratic Party halls of power have decided on an affirmative action program for the VP. 0.98

00:36:11.000 They're not going to go with somebody that may be the best qualified.

00:36:13.000 She's never held elective office, for example.

00:36:15.000 They're not going to go with somebody who Biden is even most comfortable with.

00:36:19.000 They have to have somebody who checks particular racial boxes.

00:36:21.000 Here is Susan Rice.

00:36:22.000 She is a radical.

00:36:23.000 She's a very radical person on foreign policy.

00:36:24.000 She's incredibly radical. 0.95

00:36:26.000 She believes in basically a Bernie Sanders foreign policy.

00:36:29.000 Here she was yesterday on defunding the police, talking about taking money away from the cops. 0.96

00:36:35.000 We have a long history of inequality, of oppression that endures in this country.

00:36:42.000 And we need the police to be part of the solution.

00:36:45.000 In some instances they are, in other communities they're not.

00:36:48.000 There's no one-size-fits-all approach.

00:36:50.000 So I'm for reimagining the role of the police, getting them out of things like social work.

00:36:55.000 I'm for responsible reallocation of resources where that makes sense to invest more in our communities.

00:37:02.000 and the health of our citizens.

00:37:05.000 But it doesn't fit a one-size-fits-all approach.

00:37:08.000 You can't just take money away uniformly and put it somewhere else, or take it away altogether.

00:37:14.000 I think we need to look at this community by community and be quite thoughtful about it.

00:37:19.000 Okay, that's a mealy-mouthed way of saying yes, she wants to take money away from the police. 1.00

00:37:22.000 And she's on the mainstream Democratic side.

00:37:25.000 The far left is grabbing control of this party.

00:37:27.000 So Donald Trump said yesterday that Joe Biden is basically a puppet for the radical left.

00:37:31.000 This is this is correct.

00:37:32.000 It is true.

00:37:32.000 I mean, Joe Biden is a puppet for the radical left, and he's going to have to answer some serious questions about dissociating from the radical left pretty soon.

00:37:39.000 At some point, he's going to have to answer some questions.

00:37:41.000 And that's when this race actually gets kind of interesting.

00:37:43.000 Remember, we're still pretty early here.

00:37:44.000 Here's President Trump going after Biden.

00:37:46.000 He's against that group, and it's not him.

00:37:49.000 He's told what to do.

00:37:50.000 He's a puppet for the for the radical left.

00:37:53.000 Okay, so he is correct about this.

00:37:56.000 And what is the radical left?

00:37:57.000 They're in the ascendance.

00:37:58.000 They're in the ascendance.

00:37:58.000 You can watch it happening in real time.

00:38:00.000 AOC yesterday said about the Green New Deal that they have been moving through the Democratic halls of power and they are gaining support for their insane Green New Deal, a program that would essentially bankrupt the entire Western world on the back of bad science.

00:38:11.000 We've talked about AOC's insane Green New Deal, her suggestion that we get rid of airplanes, and that we all take trains for some reason, and that we retrofit every single house in the United States, and that we stop using all carbon-based fossil fuels, and all of this is nonsense.

00:38:24.000 It's like serious, serious nonsense.

00:38:26.000 But AOC was stumping for Ilhan Omar yesterday.

00:38:28.000 Ilhan Omar, I believe, did win her primary.

00:38:30.000 Rashida Tlaib also won her primary.

00:38:32.000 AOC, yesterday, was stumping for the Green New Deal.

00:38:36.000 This lady is in the ascendancy in the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:38:40.000 Oh, you introduced a sweeping legislation?

00:38:42.000 Why didn't you pass it yet?

00:38:43.000 And we're like, first of all, we've been here for five minutes.

00:38:47.000 Second of all, even with resolutions like the Green New Deal or your housing resolution or lots of other big progressive resolutions, we've actually been creeping towards getting a majority of the Democratic caucus signed on board.

00:39:00.000 And so a lot of people think that there's only like two people on the Green New Deal.

00:39:04.000 No, there's over a hundred members signed on And she's right about this.

00:39:12.000 She's correct about this.

00:39:13.000 She is the one who is now pushing forward the ship.

00:39:16.000 Okay, and good evidence that this is happening.

00:39:18.000 Yesterday, a woman named Cori Bush, who's an extraordinarily radical leftist, is a person who, for example, openly supports boycott, divestment, and sanctions from Israel.

00:39:26.000 It's such a radical position that her Democratic competitor in this primary that she just won yesterday, a guy named William Lacey Clay, who's been in Congress for like 20 years, he campaigned against her radicalism and he lost.

00:39:38.000 According to the New York Times, Cori Bush, a progressive activist and leader of the swelling protest movement for racial justice, toppled Representative William Lacey Clay Jr. 0.99

00:39:45.000 of Missouri in a Democratic primary on Tuesday, notching the latest in a stunning string of upsets against the party establishment.

00:39:50.000 Bush, 44, had captured nearly 49 percent of the vote by late Tuesday evening.

00:39:55.000 Compared with 45.5% for Clay, according to the AP.

00:39:58.000 She had tried and failed to unseat Clay in 2018. 0.97

00:40:01.000 She lost by like 20 points.

00:40:02.000 But this year, she wrote a surge in support for more liberal, confrontational politics within the Democratic Party amid the coronavirus pandemic and the national outcry over festering racial inequities.

00:40:12.000 Now, Bush wasn't running against like an older white guy like Eliot Engel in New York.

00:40:15.000 She was running against one of the, like his father was one of the founders, William Lacey Clay.

00:40:20.000 His father was one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus.

00:40:23.000 It's a black man.

00:40:24.000 Bush's victory, which came on the same night that Missouri voters decided to expand Medicare eligibility, was a significant milestone for insurgent progressive candidates and groups like the Justice Democrats, that's AOC's group, that have backed them across the country.

00:40:35.000 It shows that the same brand of politics that has helped young liberal candidates of color unseat veteran party stalwarts in places like Massachusetts and New York could also resonate deep in the heartland against a black incumbent whose family has been synonymous with his district for decades.

00:40:47.000 Well, first of all, trying to distinguish between, like, Between, like, Boston and New York City and St.

00:40:54.000 Louis.

00:40:56.000 I'm sorry, but pretending that urban areas of Missouri are exactly the same as, like, the rural heartland of Missouri.

00:41:01.000 That's just, that's a weird, weird line by the New York Times.

00:41:04.000 Like, try running Cori Bush in the middle of, like, heartland Missouri.

00:41:08.000 And I don't mean, like, in the major cities.

00:41:10.000 I mean, like, in rural areas.

00:41:11.000 Like, forget it.

00:41:12.000 Bush now joins figures like AOC, who defeated 20-year veteran Representative Joseph Crowley in 2018, and Jamal Bowman, who last month won a primary against Representative Eliot Engel.

00:41:20.000 I love that they're saying, she's the first black woman to represent the state of Missouri.

00:41:24.000 Yeah, she's representing a black guy.

00:41:25.000 of the district, which encompasses St. Louis and some of its innermost liberal suburbs, is African-American and considered safely democratic.

00:41:32.000 I love that they're saying she's the first black woman to represent the state of Missouri.

00:41:36.000 Yeah, she's representing a black guy. She's supplanting a black guy. So it's not like overcoming racism by supplanting a black guy with a black woman. 0.67

00:41:45.000 No.

00:41:45.000 Tonight, Missouri First District has declared an incremental approach isn't going to work any longer, said Ms.

00:41:49.000 She said, we decided that we the people have the answers and we will lead from the front lines.

00:41:49.000 Bush.

00:41:54.000 Clay, who's the scion of a storied black Missouri political dynasty in his 10th term in Congress, tried to make the campaign a referendum not only on Bush's suitability, but also the progressive movement behind her.

00:42:03.000 He carried out a series of dark personal attacks.

00:42:06.000 By the way, all attacks on somebody's record are dark and personal if you're attacking a socialist, according to the New York Times.

00:42:11.000 He describes her as a prop of out-of-town interest seeking to divide the Democratic Party along racial lines.

00:42:17.000 Clay highlighted his own ties to the Democratic power structure.

00:42:20.000 He earned endorsements from Pelosi, Kamala Harris of California, and Planned Parenthood.

00:42:23.000 The Justice Democrats won anyway.

00:42:26.000 Clay was not in the moderate or progressive wings of the party.

00:42:29.000 He supported Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

00:42:32.000 But he was bashed anyway and he lost his seat because he still was not radical enough.

00:42:39.000 Bush built her campaign around her personal story as a working class black woman pulled into public life after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in 2014. 0.91

00:42:46.000 She joined protesters in the day after the shooting and in the weeks and years that followed became one of their leaders.

00:42:51.000 She was a fixture of protests across the district this summer. 0.97

00:42:55.000 She drew a bright line from her experience confronting police on the streets where Brown died to her victory at the ballot box.

00:43:00.000 She said, I'll be holding every single one of the police officers accountable.

00:43:05.000 So, get ready, this is your new Democratic Party.

00:43:07.000 Your new Democratic Party is, in fact, the AOC Democratic Party, and Joe Biden ain't gonna hold these people back.

00:43:11.000 He is not.

00:43:12.000 He is not.

00:43:14.000 So when the Trump's comms director calls Biden's policies a birdie Biden communist manifesto, that is not incorrect.

00:43:19.000 And now you know why the Democratic Party is so reliant on the anti-Trump, and they cannot rely on their candidate, they also cannot rely on their record. 0.99

00:43:28.000 Because they both suck. 0.98

00:43:29.000 They can't rely on their platform, they can't rely on their own body in Congress. 1.00

00:43:34.000 And meanwhile, the culture wars continue up. 1.00

00:43:36.000 Hey, stupidest story of the day. 1.00

00:43:37.000 A TCU football coach, listen to the headline. 1.00

00:43:41.000 Okay, the headline here does not match the story, and it is a perfect example of how dumb our moment is. 0.95

00:43:45.000 Okay, this is the Washington Post.

00:43:48.000 TCU football coach apologizes for using racial slur that is in any context unacceptable.

00:43:53.000 So, if you just read that headline, what you would assume from that headline is that the TCU football coach, like, used the N-word and directed it at a black player.

00:44:00.000 Right?

00:44:00.000 That's what you would assume.

00:44:02.000 So what actually happened?

00:44:03.000 He was chiding a player for using the n-word and said you can't say the bleep.

00:44:08.000 He said you can't say the word bleep.

00:44:10.000 And now he's being raked over the coals for saying the word while explaining that you're not supposed to use the word.

00:44:16.000 I am not kidding. 1.00

00:44:17.000 That's how dumb we have become as a country. 0.96

00:44:19.000 According to the Washington Post, TCU football coach Gary Patterson on Tuesday apologized for using a racial slur in an attempt to get a player to stop using the word. 0.97

00:44:28.000 Patterson called his use of the slur unacceptable in any context.

00:44:32.000 So you're not even— It's like Voldemort.

00:44:33.000 If you say the word, trying to get people to not say the word, you have said the word, and thus you have sinned by trying to get people to not say the word. 0.97

00:44:40.000 That's how dumb we have gotten in this country.

00:44:42.000 He's taking the perspective that no one should say the word, but in order for us to know which word not to say, he says the word, and then everybody's like, how dare you say the word? 0.97

00:44:49.000 It's unreal.

00:44:51.000 Several players on Monday boycotted practice and met with Patterson to address the incident.

00:44:55.000 Former defensive back Nico Small accused the coach of using the word in front of the team in a now-deleted tweet, according to the AP.

00:45:01.000 Several teammates tweeted that Small had not included the context.

00:45:04.000 They tweeted their own explanations, and several skipped practice.

00:45:08.000 Freshman linebacker Dylan Jordan tweeted Monday afternoon about an exchange with Patterson at practice on Sunday, an exchange in which he said Patterson told him to stop using the N-word in team meetings.

00:45:16.000 As he did so, Patterson repeated the slur.

00:45:19.000 According to Jordan, Patterson called him an effing brat. 0.93

00:45:22.000 I'll send you back to Pitt during practice, in reference to Jordan's hometown of Pittsburgh, Kansas.

00:45:26.000 Jordan said he responded, for what?

00:45:28.000 I ain't did nothing.

00:45:30.000 And Patterson said, you've been saying bleep in the meeting room.

00:45:34.000 Okay, so he's saying, don't say that.

00:45:35.000 That's a bad thing to say in the meeting room.

00:45:36.000 Stop doing it.

00:45:37.000 It's immature.

00:45:38.000 And so now he's the one being raked over the coals. 0.95

00:45:41.000 Man, if you want to talk about, if you want to talk about the injustices of identity politics, you got a player who's black, who says the N-word.

00:45:48.000 The coach, who's white, says, you know what?

00:45:49.000 I don't want that word used around here.

00:45:50.000 Don't use the N-word.

00:45:51.000 And he says the N-word to say don't use it.

00:45:53.000 And now the coach is the one on the hot seat.

00:45:56.000 Insane.

00:45:57.000 Insane.

00:45:59.000 Absolutely crazy.

00:45:59.000 as the winningest coach in TCU history.

00:46:01.000 He tweeted Tuesday morning he had met with seniors and leadership council members to discuss how he'd move forward as a team together.

00:46:08.000 Absolutely crazy. 0.71

00:46:10.000 Absolutely nuts. 1.00

00:46:11.000 Just ridiculous. 0.99

00:46:13.000 That's not the only ridiculous story of the day along these lines, by the way. 0.97

00:46:17.000 I enjoyed Oprah Winfrey explaining that whiteness gives you privilege no matter what. 0.97

00:46:19.000 She's only the richest black woman on planet Earth. 1.00

00:46:22.000 She rose up from extraordinarily impoverished circumstances to become maybe the richest woman on planet Earth. 1.00

00:46:28.000 And she's talking about whiteness always gives you privilege.

00:46:30.000 I'd love to know all those white people in Appalachia looking at Oprah Winfrey and thinking, man, man, I wish I didn't have this, you know, my privilege here.

00:46:36.000 I just feel privileged looking at Oprah Winfrey, who owns like the entire island of Maui.

00:46:40.000 Here's Oprah Winfrey talking about how whiteness is always a privilege, even if you're Oprah Winfrey.

00:46:45.000 The reason why I adore Emanuel so much is because he is speaking to people's hearts and understands that it really is a heart issue.

00:46:56.000 And you all are the ones who are going to be able to change the way your friends, your colleagues, your white family members And she said, you still have your whiteness. 0.75

00:47:09.000 That's what the term white privilege is.

00:47:10.000 in this country. That's where it happens. It's going to happen at your kitchen table and in your living rooms and in your soccer games and that's where it's going to happen.

00:47:20.000 And your ability to have that influence wherever you are and to speak up wherever you are to share your heart. I think that's how we bring about change.

00:47:29.000 And she said, you still have your whiteness. That's what the term white privilege is. It means whiteness still gives you an advantage no matter what, no matter what.

00:47:36.000 Really, no matter what, Oprah Winfrey?

00:47:37.000 Really? 1.00

00:47:39.000 This is the dumb world we now inhabit. 0.72

00:47:40.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content. 0.90

00:47:43.000 In the meantime, go pick up a copy of my brand new bestselling book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, which details the conflict of visions we are currently watching in the streets.

00:47:51.000 In the meantime, have yourself a wonderful day.

00:47:54.000 We'll see you here a little bit later.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 05, 2020

What If We Can’t Accept Good News? | Ep. 1067

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