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00:02:00.000Well, there's a study that is now published in Science Magazine, and it suggests that T cell Immunity is a thing.
00:02:08.000So there's been a lot of discussion about how you reach herd immunity with this disease.
00:02:11.000Does this disease hit herd immunity at 50% of the population, 70% of the population?
00:02:15.000If 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.
00:02:21.000But 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.
00:02:33.000It only has to hit more like 20 or 25% of a community in order for the curve to start bending down.
00:02:39.000And folks have been wondering about this.
00:02:41.000Well, 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.
00:02:57.000And coronaviruses would include like the common cold.
00:02:59.000So 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.
00:03:07.000Well now, there's an abstract from a study that is in Science Magazine, August 4th, 2020.
00:03:14.000They say, many unknowns exist about human immune responses to the COVID-19 virus.
00:03:18.000COVID-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.
00:03:28.000Meaning that maybe half the population already has some sort of pre-existing ability on an immune level to push back against COVID-19.
00:03:36.000The source of the T-cells has been speculative.
00:03:38.000Using 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.
00:03:53.000We demonstrate a range of pre-existing CD4 T-cells that are cross-reactive with comparable affinity to COVID-19 and common cold coronaviruses.
00:04:01.000Thus, 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.
00:04:08.000So 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.
00:04:16.000That means that a huge swath of the population already has some pre-existing level of immunity to this virus, which is excellent, excellent news.
00:04:26.000It 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.
00:04:37.000Now, 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.
00:04:43.000And 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.
00:04:52.000It turned out that's where precisely the reverse happened.
00:04:54.000In order for the virus to be killed off by the heat, you have to be out in the heat.
00:04:58.000So 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.
00:05:05.000But, precisely the reverse has been happening in the Sunbelt.
00:05:08.000Well, 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.
00:05:46.000And it may in fact have peaked already in California.
00:05:49.000According 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.
00:06:01.000There'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.
00:06:25.000If 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.
00:06:31.000Same thing in Arizona, same thing in Texas.
00:06:33.000California never really opened, and California saw a surge, and then it saw a decline.
00:06:37.000It was not the renewed lockdown that caused a decline in California.
00:06:41.000So the media have this pre-prepped narrative that it is lockdown that slows the spread, but that's not what happened in New York.
00:06:47.000In 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.
00:06:54.000Miami-Dade County has been responsible for 25% of the state's nearly 500,000 coronavirus cases.
00:06:59.000According to the mayor, Carlos Jimenez, he told commissioners that hospitalizations have been trending downward in the county for two weeks.
00:08:17.000He held a roundtable with advocates for the elderly and administration officials to examine ways to open nursing homes for family member visits.
00:08:24.000DeSantis said he wants to begin allowing people who test positive for antibodies to visit family members in long-term care facilities.
00:08:30.000He'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.
00:08:38.000I mean, I have a couple of family members in nursing homes, and they're basically isolated.
00:08:55.000Yes, the death numbers on a day-by-day basis are not great because death is a lagging indicator.
00:08:58.000But we should be pointing out what we should be excited about is the fact that there was a sunbelt surge.
00:09:02.000It did not overwhelm the hospital system and now it is going down again.
00:09:05.000And 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.
00:09:13.000I 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.
00:09:18.000We never talk about the evils of California, of course, because California is a Democrat-governed state.
00:09:22.000But if you still want to, like, they experienced their surges.
00:09:48.000OK, for all the talk about how Florida was going to get wiped out.
00:09:50.000And 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.
00:09:58.000But 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.
00:11:12.000Okay, 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.
00:11:18.000My parents are wearing a mask when they are around my children, because my children are back at camp.
00:11:22.000But there's also been this kind of going notion in the media that lockdowns are the best possible tactic.
00:11:28.000Dr. David Nabarro, who is one of the ambassadors from the WHO, he said we actually should try to avoid lockdowns at all costs.
00:11:48.000That'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.
00:12:09.000OK, 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.
00:12:17.000So the real answer is you protect the vulnerable and everybody else goes back to work.
00:12:21.000OK, that's that's just what that's going to be what it's going to be.
00:12:24.000And the good news is it doesn't have to burn through 70 percent of the population, according to the new data.
00:12:28.000Basically, T-cell immunity means that a huge percentage of the population is not particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.
00:12:34.000So President Trump said just this yesterday.
00:12:36.000He said, we now have a better understanding of the virus and we are not pushing national shutdowns.
00:12:39.000It's not something that we're going to do.
00:12:43.000So 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.
00:13:12.000And so the media have immediately shifted to their latest spin, which is that everybody in the Midwest is going to die.
00:13:16.000No, not everybody in the Midwest is going to die.
00:13:18.000There'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.
00:13:23.000But it is not going to look like New York.
00:13:24.000It is not going to look like New Jersey.
00:13:42.000Why aren't Americans happy about this?
00:13:44.000Instead, 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.
00:13:56.000We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:15:05.000There 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.
00:15:17.000This one is going around thanks to the Agence France-Presse, the AFP.
00:15:20.000Yesterday, some moron who's walking around beaches in Mexico dressed up as the Grim Reaper.
00:15:24.000Just like that crazy guy who's walking- that lawyer who's walking around in Florida dressed up as the Groom Reaper.
00:15:29.000I believe that guy was also attending Social Justice Warrior protests.
00:15:31.000Okay, he's walking around two beaches with families socially distanced far away from other people and telling them they're going to die.
00:15:40.000He's telling them, don't go on vacation.
00:15:50.000This 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.
00:15:58.000This guy was featured by Agence France-Presse.
00:16:23.000But the Democrats think they have a talking point, and the talking point is that everything is terrible and Trump is ignoring it.
00:16:27.000Now, 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.
00:16:55.000And really, honestly, like a lot of that lies with the individual state and how that state is administered.
00:17:00.000We do have a federal system in the United States.
00:17:02.000Nonetheless, 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.
00:17:08.000It'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.
00:17:18.000So Joe Biden, for example, yesterday, he had himself a club that he could beat Trump with.
00:17:23.000So Trump did this interview with Axios' Jonathan Swan.
00:18:20.000When Trump says we have it under control, we have it under control as much as it is possible.
00:18:24.000To 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?
00:18:32.000This is, it's such obvious politicking.
00:18:35.000Then you have Bob Menendez, the senator from New Jersey, saying that Trump's abdication is the cruelest thing.
00:18:39.000Dude, your state, your state, run by a garbage governor, the governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, has done a horrible job.
00:18:47.000Here's Bob Menendez saying that it's Trump's abdication that is the cruelest thing, really.
00:18:50.000In your state, you shipped all the olds back into the nursing homes with COVID.
00:18:54.000So I'm going to go with your governor is a bleep show, Menendez.
00:18:59.000Democrats in the Senate have a sense of urgency.
00:19:02.000That'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.
00:19:15.000A national emergency requires a national response.
00:19:20.000But for two and a half months, We got crickets.
00:19:51.000When 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.
00:19:57.000It's an abdication of leadership when your state is the hardest hit state by numbers in the United States.
00:20:01.000Death per million, New Jersey is number one.
00:20:06.000Okay, 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.
00:20:14.000I mean, this is all just propaganda at this point, it really is.
00:20:19.000Middle of a pandemic, and this president spent the weekend hitting golf balls and bragging about his large MAGA crowd turnouts and coronavirus hot zones!
00:20:56.000What does him golfing have to do with keeping down COVID?
00:20:59.000Like, do you want him to, like, I really don't think that Chris Cuomo wants Trump in the hospitals actually caring for COVID patients.
00:21:06.000In 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.
00:21:15.000By the way, how ignorant is Chris Cuomo?
00:21:17.000Chris Cuomo is so ignorant that he got owned by a couple of New Jersey gym owners.
00:21:20.000There are a couple of gym owners in New Jersey who want to reopen their gym.
00:21:23.000These guys, you know, I would hazard a guess to say they are not epidemiologists.
00:21:27.000They just own Chris Cuomo in this clip.
00:21:29.000I 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.
00:21:36.000And they say, we are taking all the measures necessary.
00:22:12.000If 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.
00:22:21.000No, but there are a lot more cases, Frank.
00:22:24.000There 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.
00:22:33.000We'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.
00:22:40.000Okay, and Chris Cuomo has no comeback to that.
00:22:42.000I'm not ripping Trump because of anything, and then this guy's just citing stats all over him, and Cuomo has nothing.
00:22:46.000Because his entire propaganda appeal has been, Trump is a bad orange man who's very bad and orange.
00:22:50.000My brother, who completely blew it in New York, is the greatest governor in the history of the world.
00:22:55.000The political agenda is hard to miss here, guys.
00:23:00.000Now, in a second, we're gonna get to how this ties into policy.
00:23:02.000Because it is fairly obvious that many Democrats are using COVID-19 as an opportunity, like Rahm Emanuel would say back during the Obama administration.
00:23:11.000First, let's talk about the fact that going to an auto parts store right now might not be your cup of tea.
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00:23:32.000Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:23:34.000Like say you happen to need a Delphi FG1456 fuel pump assembly for a 2005-2010 Honda Odyssey.
00:23:40.000That'll cost you like $354 at a big chain store.
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00:24:23.000The policies now being pursued by Democrats have nothing to do with the data.
00:24:27.000I mean, truly nothing to do with the data.
00:24:29.000The 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.
00:24:45.000I mean, because there is a serious disconnect between reality and what exactly is being promulgated by various public officials.
00:24:51.000So yesterday, I want to correct an error I made on the show yesterday.
00:25:01.000The part that I said that was wrong is I suggested he was going to shut down all indoor dining until June of next year.
00:25:06.000He 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.
00:25:13.000So the underlying message, which is he's never going to reopen indoor dining, I still think is kind of true.
00:25:17.000I see no indicator that Bill de Blasio is ever going to reopen anything.
00:25:21.000Like, I just think he's going to keep everything closed.
00:25:23.000But he did not overtly say he's going to keep the restaurants closed until June of 2021.
00:25:27.000Just want to correct the fact, the record on that.
00:25:29.000When I make a mistake, I want to get it right.
00:25:31.000Bill de Blasio continues to be, however, a communist groundhog murderer.
00:25:34.000So, yesterday, Bill de Blasio came out, and he had a couple of policy suggestions.
00:25:38.000One, 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.
00:25:48.000Okay, 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.
00:26:00.000Second, 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?
00:26:09.000And 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.
00:26:16.000Because 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.
00:26:23.000Bill de Blasio also threatened to lay off 22,000 workers if the Feds don't give them a bailout.
00:26:29.000Right now, what a lot of Democratic mayors are doing is they've cut crappy contracts with unions.
00:26:40.000And let's go to the federal government and demand that they give us money or blame the Feds for our own crappy decision-making.
00:26:46.000So basically they are the Democrats in these major cities have become your kids with the car having crashed it into a lamppost.
00:26:54.000They 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.
00:28:07.000Keisha 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.
00:28:15.000Over a shooting that was actually good by the cops.
00:28:30.000Based on what data is closing the schools the right choice?
00:28:33.000People still have yet to cite any data suggesting closing the schools is the right choice.
00:28:35.000Here she is on CNN explaining she's going to keep the schools closed.
00:28:41.000I do believe that's the right choice for Atlanta Public Schools because we have some of the highest rates in the state right now.
00:28:48.000Just 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.
00:28:58.000And given the prevalence of underlying health conditions throughout the Atlanta community, We have a very large minority population in Atlanta.
00:29:07.000I 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.
00:29:19.000Okay, so she wants to keep the schools closed.
00:29:21.000By the way, when I say the Rayshard Brooks shooting was good, I don't mean that it was good on, like, an existential level.
00:29:25.000I mean it was a good legal shoot, okay?
00:29:27.000A good legal shoot meaning, like, when a cop shoots somebody, it's either a good shoot or a bad shoot.
00:29:30.000A bad shoot means it was illegal and they should go to jail.
00:29:32.000A good shoot, legally speaking, means that the person...
00:29:35.000Just a- is justified by law in having shot the person.
00:29:37.000Rayshard 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.
00:29:53.000One 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.
00:30:06.000I think Joe Biden is just as eager as the rest of us to learn who his vice presidential pick is.
00:30:09.000Because I don't think that Joe Biden has a clue as to what is going on around him.
00:30:12.000So 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.
00:30:19.000But 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.
00:30:24.000There's a reason Joe Biden was a dramatic unsuccess in presidential politics about 97 straight times before this particular election.
00:30:31.000So they're saddled with that, and they're saddled with their own radicalism, which we'll get to in just one second.
00:30:35.000So, 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.
00:30:45.000Okay, we're going to get to more of this in just one second.
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00:32:09.000So 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.
00:32:34.000The 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.
00:32:41.000So let's start with Joe Biden, who is just a terrible, terrible candidate.
00:32:44.000So yesterday, Joe Biden was asked about the cognitive test.
00:32:48.000So he had said earlier that he's taken all sorts of cognitive tests, right?
00:32:51.000And 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.
00:32:57.000And then he says to Errol Barnett, a black interviewer, he asked him whether he has taken a cocaine test.
00:33:04.000Which, 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.
00:33:14.000But 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.
00:33:21.000Here was Joe Biden being both senile and foolish.
00:34:13.000One is that Donald Trump is extraordinarily volatile and makes lots of boo-boos.
00:34:16.000And the second is the COVID situation.
00:34:18.000And so Democrats are playing both to the hilt.
00:34:20.000They have to do that because the truth is that their policies suck.
00:34:23.000Okay, what we've seen in major cities is they're talking about defunding the police.
00:34:26.000They are watching as crime rates skyrocket in major cities around the United States.
00:34:31.000Joe Biden is not gonna stand in the way of any of that.
00:34:34.000There'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.
00:34:41.000I mean, Minneapolis is being overrun by criminals because the city has basically decided to let the law abiding go by the wayside.
00:36:02.000And 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.
00:36:11.000They're not going to go with somebody that may be the best qualified.
00:36:13.000She's never held elective office, for example.
00:36:15.000They're not going to go with somebody who Biden is even most comfortable with.
00:36:19.000They have to have somebody who checks particular racial boxes.
00:37:32.000I 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.
00:37:39.000At some point, he's going to have to answer some questions.
00:37:41.000And that's when this race actually gets kind of interesting.
00:37:43.000Remember, we're still pretty early here.
00:37:44.000Here's President Trump going after Biden.
00:37:46.000He's against that group, and it's not him.
00:37:58.000You can watch it happening in real time.
00:38:00.000AOC 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.
00:38:11.000We'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.
00:38:43.000And we're like, first of all, we've been here for five minutes.
00:38:47.000Second 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.
00:39:00.000And so a lot of people think that there's only like two people on the Green New Deal.
00:39:04.000No, there's over a hundred members signed on And she's right about this.
00:39:13.000She is the one who is now pushing forward the ship.
00:39:16.000Okay, and good evidence that this is happening.
00:39:18.000Yesterday, 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.
00:39:26.000It'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.
00:39:38.000According 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.
00:39:45.000of Missouri in a Democratic primary on Tuesday, notching the latest in a stunning string of upsets against the party establishment.
00:39:50.000Bush, 44, had captured nearly 49 percent of the vote by late Tuesday evening.
00:39:55.000Compared with 45.5% for Clay, according to the AP.
00:39:58.000She had tried and failed to unseat Clay in 2018.
00:40:02.000But 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.
00:40:12.000Now, Bush wasn't running against like an older white guy like Eliot Engel in New York.
00:40:15.000She was running against one of the, like his father was one of the founders, William Lacey Clay.
00:40:20.000His father was one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus.
00:40:24.000Bush'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.
00:40:35.000It 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.
00:40:47.000Well, first of all, trying to distinguish between, like, Between, like, Boston and New York City and St.
00:41:12.000Bush 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.
00:41:20.000I love that they're saying, she's the first black woman to represent the state of Missouri.
00:41:25.000of the district, which encompasses St. Louis and some of its innermost liberal suburbs, is African-American and considered safely democratic.
00:41:32.000I love that they're saying she's the first black woman to represent the state of Missouri.
00:41:36.000Yeah, 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.
00:41:54.000Clay, 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.
00:42:03.000He carried out a series of dark personal attacks.
00:42:06.000By the way, all attacks on somebody's record are dark and personal if you're attacking a socialist, according to the New York Times.
00:42:11.000He describes her as a prop of out-of-town interest seeking to divide the Democratic Party along racial lines.
00:42:17.000Clay highlighted his own ties to the Democratic power structure.
00:42:20.000He earned endorsements from Pelosi, Kamala Harris of California, and Planned Parenthood.
00:42:26.000Clay was not in the moderate or progressive wings of the party.
00:42:29.000He supported Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.
00:42:32.000But he was bashed anyway and he lost his seat because he still was not radical enough.
00:42:39.000Bush 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.
00:42:46.000She joined protesters in the day after the shooting and in the weeks and years that followed became one of their leaders.
00:42:51.000She was a fixture of protests across the district this summer.
00:42:55.000She drew a bright line from her experience confronting police on the streets where Brown died to her victory at the ballot box.
00:43:00.000She said, I'll be holding every single one of the police officers accountable.
00:43:05.000So, get ready, this is your new Democratic Party.
00:43:07.000Your new Democratic Party is, in fact, the AOC Democratic Party, and Joe Biden ain't gonna hold these people back.
00:43:14.000So when the Trump's comms director calls Biden's policies a birdie Biden communist manifesto, that is not incorrect.
00:43:19.000And 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.
00:43:48.000TCU football coach apologizes for using racial slur that is in any context unacceptable.
00:43:53.000So, 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.
00:44:17.000That's how dumb we have become as a country.
00:44:19.000According 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.
00:44:28.000Patterson called his use of the slur unacceptable in any context.
00:44:32.000So you're not even— It's like Voldemort.
00:44:33.000If 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.
00:44:40.000That's how dumb we have gotten in this country.
00:44:42.000He'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?
00:44:51.000Several players on Monday boycotted practice and met with Patterson to address the incident.
00:44:55.000Former 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.
00:45:01.000Several teammates tweeted that Small had not included the context.
00:45:04.000They tweeted their own explanations, and several skipped practice.
00:45:08.000Freshman 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.
00:45:16.000As he did so, Patterson repeated the slur.
00:45:19.000According to Jordan, Patterson called him an effing brat.
00:45:22.000I'll send you back to Pitt during practice, in reference to Jordan's hometown of Pittsburgh, Kansas.
00:45:38.000And so now he's the one being raked over the coals.
00:45:41.000Man, 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.
00:45:48.000The coach, who's white, says, you know what?
00:45:49.000I don't want that word used around here.
00:46:13.000That's not the only ridiculous story of the day along these lines, by the way.
00:46:17.000I enjoyed Oprah Winfrey explaining that whiteness gives you privilege no matter what.
00:46:19.000She's only the richest black woman on planet Earth.
00:46:22.000She rose up from extraordinarily impoverished circumstances to become maybe the richest woman on planet Earth.
00:46:28.000And she's talking about whiteness always gives you privilege.
00:46:30.000I'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.
00:46:36.000I just feel privileged looking at Oprah Winfrey, who owns like the entire island of Maui.
00:46:40.000Here's Oprah Winfrey talking about how whiteness is always a privilege, even if you're Oprah Winfrey.
00:46:45.000The 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.
00:46:56.000And 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.
00:47:09.000That's what the term white privilege is.
00:47:10.000in 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.
00:47:20.000And 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.
00:47:29.000And 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.
00:47:36.000Really, no matter what, Oprah Winfrey?
00:47:39.000This is the dumb world we now inhabit.
00:47:40.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:47:43.000In 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.
00:47:51.000In the meantime, have yourself a wonderful day.
00:47:54.000We'll see you here a little bit later.
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