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00:01:29.000So whoopie Goldberg yesterday, she did her full apologies.
00:01:33.000You'll remember that two days ago, Whoopi Goldberg went on The View, and she suggested that the Holocaust was not about race.
00:01:38.000And this tied into a broader ideology of the left, which suggests that Jews are white people, and therefore, the Holocaust was actually white people attacking white people, which is a thing she actually said on air.
00:01:47.000Then she went on Stephen Colbert, where she quasi-apologized, and then doubled down and suggested once again that the Holocaust was not about racism because it was white people attacking other white people.
00:01:57.000The written statement came out before the Colbert appearance, but probably was written after she had taped for Colbert already.
00:02:03.000In any case, she came out on the air yesterday, and then she did her fulsome apology.
00:02:07.000Here was Whoopi Goldberg apologizing on The View yesterday.
00:02:10.000I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined, because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention.
00:02:21.000I said that the Holocaust wasn't about race, and it was instead about man's inhumanity to man.
00:02:27.000But it is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race.
00:02:33.000Now, words matter, and mine are no exception.
00:02:37.000I regret my comments, as I said, and I stand corrected.
00:02:40.000I also stand with the Jewish people as they know, and y'all know, because I've always done that.
00:02:46.000Well, I mean, to be technical, you haven't.
00:02:48.000I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Whoopi Goldberg was retweeting things about massacred Palestinians by the terrible Jews over in Israel.
00:02:55.000She tweeted way back in November of 2012, question, who started this round of fighting between Palestinians and Israel?
00:03:01.000Everyone wants to retweet about their side.
00:03:16.000So, yeah, I mean, It's ignorant and she's been reflective of the left's perspective on Jews and their place in the intersectional pyramid for quite a while here.
00:03:26.000So no, I don't believe that she has shifted her worldview about the Holocaust.
00:03:30.000I believe that she was cuddled into quietude about what she actually thinks.
00:03:34.000I mean, she basically said that on Colbert.
00:03:35.000She was like, yeah, I've heard all of your criticism and I don't want to hear it anymore, so I'll just take your word for it.
00:03:48.000ABC News President Kim Godwin confirmed the suspension on Tuesday and released a statement saying, Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments.
00:03:57.000While Whoopi has apologized, I've asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.
00:04:01.000The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities.
00:04:06.000So, today's episode of The View aired with four co-hosts, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sarah Haines, and Tara Setmire.
00:04:13.000So, again, Combined IQ, that of a kumquat.
00:04:16.000The uproar began on Monday's episode of the ABC daytime talk show on that conversation over the graphic novel Mouse and a Tennessee school board not using it for 8th graders and then she had issued an apology on Monday night where she quoted Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL and then she went on Colbert and all the rest of it.
00:04:31.000So apparently some of the other ladies of The View are very upset about all of this.
00:04:35.000They say that, really, she shouldn't be suspended for any of this sort of stuff, and they're angry about all of this.
00:04:45.000Now, in a normal world, I would say that she shouldn't be suspended.
00:04:48.000Because I'm basically in favor of people being able to say whatever they want to say, and so long as they aren't calling for violence, and so long as they aren't overtly reflecting Nazi tautologies, then I think they should pretty much be able to stay on the air.
00:05:02.000Which is why I've never called for the deplatforming of pretty much anyone.
00:05:05.000Including, by the way, people who I think are absolutely horrifying in every available respect.
00:05:09.000In fact, even if people are Nazis, I generally think that they shouldn't be taken off places like Twitter or Facebook.
00:05:16.000Because I believe that the best rebuttal to that sort of terrible speech is better speech.
00:05:22.000And so, I normally wouldn't think that Whoopi Goldberg should be removed from air.
00:05:24.000I mean, they knew what they had when they hired her, and nothing has changed since then.
00:05:29.000Do they have the right to suspend her?
00:05:30.000Sure, they have the right to suspend her in the same way they have the right to suspend Roseanne Barr.
00:05:33.000But here is where the fun comes to play.
00:05:47.000If you guys are going to play this game, where if somebody is openly identified as anywhere close to a conservative and they say something that is a bad thing, little trademark symbol, if somebody says a bad thing, and they are completely removed from their job, then you don't get to suspend Whoopi Goldberg, you have to fire her.
00:06:03.000These are the standards, and you set them.
00:06:05.000And you don't get to play by two sets of standards.
00:06:06.000I know there are a lot of people on the right today who are just out and out defending Whoopi Goldberg.
00:06:14.000But the left does not live on that principled level anymore.
00:06:16.000And so mutually assured destruction must be achieved here.
00:06:19.000Because the way that the system currently works is that if you are somebody who is even remotely to the right of Karl Marx, And you say something that the left perceives as bad, they will attempt to deplatform you, they will attempt to destroy your advertisers, and they will demand that you be silenced.
00:06:35.000And until the left learns that this standard applies to everyone or no one, it should apply to everyone.
00:06:40.000Until the left learns that they don't get to play this game where Whoopi Goldberg goes off the air for two weeks, but if you're a conservative and you say something similar, then they knock you off air forever, then Whoopi Goldberg should be knocked off air forever.
00:07:13.000So Ilya Shapiro, who said something super not racist on Twitter about Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick.
00:07:22.000He is now under investigation by the administration over Georgetown Law.
00:07:25.000You'll recall that what the crime was that Ilya Shapiro committed was he posted on January 26th following Joe Biden's pledge to put a black woman on the Supreme Court.
00:07:35.000What he tweeted was, quote, objectively, best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid, progressive, and very smart.
00:07:43.000Even has identity politics benefit of being first Asian Indian American.
00:07:47.000But alas, doesn't fit into latest intersectional hierarchy, so we'll get lesser black woman.
00:07:53.000Okay, so what he meant by that is we will get a person who is lesser, not because they are black, but we will get a black woman who is of lesser caliber than this other judge that Ilya Shapiro was citing as quite brilliant and far to the left.
00:08:09.000Okay, they took this as he's a racist because he thinks that any black woman, and because of her blackness, is lesser than this other judge, Sri Srinivasan.
00:08:20.000Well, that's really a misread, and it's an obvious misread.
00:08:31.000In fact, they held a full-scale grievance session with the students on Monday.
00:08:37.000According to National Review, the aggressive cancellation campaign against Ilya Shapiro continues.
00:08:41.000On Monday, Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor announced that Shapiro would be put on administrative leave from his new post at the law school's Center for the Constitution, penning an investigation into a series of tweets that Shapiro posted on January 26th, criticizing the use of racial preferences in Supreme Court nominations.
00:08:56.000Now, number one, what investigation is necessary?
00:09:08.000It's about telling the students that we have entered an investigation so that you can dump him.
00:09:12.000Student activists were unsatisfied on the heels of a Georgetown Black Law Student Association petition calling for Shapiro's termination.
00:09:18.000A message went out last night announcing that a coalition of Georgetown law students will gather for a sit-in calling for the immediate termination of Ilya Shapiro and for the administration to address BLSA demands.
00:09:30.000According to this columnist for National Review, Nate Hockman, reporting, When I showed up at the Georgetown University Law Center library this morning to report on the sit-in, I was denied access by school security.
00:09:39.000But I caught the second half of a livestream of the event, broadcast via BLSA's Instagram page.
00:09:44.000Dean Treanor himself was front and center, accompanied by Mitch Balin, GULC's Associate Vice President and Dean of Students, Sheila Foster, the Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion, and Amy Uelman, the Director of the school's Mission and Ministry program.
00:09:56.000A chastened-looking trainer spent more than an hour answering questions from what appeared to be the BLSA leadership team in a closed auditorium.
00:10:02.000The dean, striking an apologetic tone, echoed the language of the activists in the crowd, assuring the assembled student he was appalled by the painful nature of Shapiro's tweets and promised to listen, learn, and ultimately do better.
00:10:13.000But he also seemed to be attempting to appease the students without committing to any definitive disciplinary action for Shapiro.
00:10:18.000Since we're a private institution, the First Amendment doesn't apply to us, he said.
00:10:21.000It's not the First Amendment that's the university's guideline.
00:10:23.000On the other hand, the university does have a free speech and expression policy which binds us.
00:10:28.000The crowd was skeptical, directly criticizing Treynor's messaging as dishonest and pushing for more aggressive action against Shapiro.
00:10:34.000One student floated the idea of defunding the entire Center for the Constitution if Shapiro were allowed to remain.
00:10:41.000You can do as much diversity training as you want with the staff, the student continued.
00:10:44.000But I feel like the center has a certain ideology.
00:10:47.000So I really want you to defend why we need it.
00:10:49.000Beyond like, you know, free speech and beyond diversity of opinion.
00:10:52.000I want us to think critically about why we still need it.
00:10:54.000Trainer said he thinks the center is important, but quickly added that he wanted to, quote, draw a line between conservatism and things that are racist.
00:11:01.000At another juncture, a student demanded that the dean cover for the classes that the activists had missed as a result of the sit-in, suggesting that the move be part of a reparations package for black students.
00:11:10.000She followed up by insisting that students be given a designated place on campus to cry Is there an office they can go to?
00:11:17.000I just don't know what it would look like.
00:11:18.000But if they want to cry, if they need to break down, where can they go?
00:11:21.000Because we're at a point where students are coming out of class to go to the bathroom to cry.
00:11:25.000And this is not in the future, she added.
00:11:29.000Dean Balin said, it is really, really hard to walk out of a class or meeting in tears.
00:11:32.000And you should always have a place on campus where you can go.
00:11:34.000And if you're finding that you're not getting the person that you want to talk to or not getting the space you need, reach out to me anytime, anytime, and we will find you a space.
00:11:43.000Another student pressed the deans to send out an email attacking BLSA's critics.
00:11:47.000So if you oppose them, it's because you are in league with slaveholders.
00:11:49.000are attacking us. They are only here because our ancestors were sold for them to be here, she said. So if you oppose them, it's because you are in league with slaveholders. And I think it's a very important fact that it is not talked about explicitly enough because we are still being attacked.
00:12:05.000Trainer maintained a deferential tone.
00:12:07.000Dean Foster said, what I hear today is you lost our trust as an institution.
00:12:16.000And then there are murmurs of agreement in the audience.
00:12:18.000And Dean Traynor said, as Dean Foster said, we've lost your trust.
00:12:21.000We're hoping to get it back, which is why we are sitting here today.
00:12:23.000Now, the hilarious thing about all of this is that Georgetown Law has professors Who have said insane things in the past.
00:12:32.000I mean, there is a professor who suggested recently that people who voted for Trump should basically be destroyed.
00:12:42.000Aaron Siberian at the Free Beacon recently reported that there were professors at the school who overtly called for discrimination against anybody who would work for a Trump-appointed judge, for example.
00:12:59.000Because this is the way that this works.
00:13:01.000Right, Nate Hawk, Aaron Siberian wrote that there was a professor named Heidi Lee Feldman in 2020 who tweeted that law professors and law school deans should not support applications from our students to clerk for any judge supported by Trump.
00:13:12.000Quote, to work for such a judge indelibly marks a lawyer as lacking in the character and judgment necessary for the practice of law.
00:13:18.000The tweets appear to violate Georgetown's non-discrimination policies and Washington DC's, which prohibit discrimination and harassment based on a political affiliation.
00:13:27.000Were there any sort of consequences for that?
00:13:36.000We'll get to more of this in just one moment, because this also applies to Joe Rogan and Spotify.
00:13:40.000Again, either the standard is that if you make a boo-boo, you go away forever, for everyone, which is an unlivable standard, we know it, and they know it, or we continue to play the game where they apply the standard to you, but not to themselves.
00:13:53.000And that is not a standard, that is just a weapon.
00:13:55.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
00:13:56.000First, the S&P 500 is experiencing one of its worst starts to the year ever.
00:14:00.000Last week, market volatility spiked to its highest level since the start of the pandemic.
00:14:04.000This could be one reason why some Americans are investing more in alternative assets like blue chip art.
00:15:06.000It is important here to mention that the sort of argument that the nationalist conservative crowd has made And it's somewhat well taken is the idea that classical liberalism has no sort of systemic ability to reject the double standard that the left is currently applying.
00:15:25.000So what the left basically says is that if you say a bad thing, you should go away forever unless you're on our side, in which case you should stay forever.
00:15:33.000Classical liberals defend that against that by saying everybody should be allowed to say what they want.
00:15:38.000But the problem with that is, of course, everybody has standards as to what they think should be inside the Overton window and what should be outside the Overton window.
00:15:46.000And so what nationalist conservatives say, and I would say traditional conservatives have always said, is that when it comes to private institutions, particularly private institutions that are geared toward the right, classical liberalism is not enough.
00:15:57.000That either institutions retain a certain orientation toward virtue and decency, or they don't.
00:16:03.000And once you get rid of those orientations, they are quickly replaced by a bunch of hypocritical leftists who cite classical liberalism in order to promote their own viewpoints, and then immediately turn on classical liberalism the minute it no longer suits them.
00:16:14.000In other words, classical liberalism can only abide in a situation where everybody agrees to the terms of the debate.
00:16:20.000If not everybody agrees to the terms of the debate, then classical liberalism just becomes a weapon of a certain side.
00:16:40.000If classical liberalism is not agreed to by all sides, it is not good enough.
00:16:45.000And you can see the slide at Georgetown Law in particular, from one of these perspectives to another, to a third.
00:16:49.000This is a good, well-taken point by Matthew Schmitz, senior editor at First Things Magazine, which is a sort of Catholic conservative publication.
00:16:59.000He points out in 1950, the president of Georgetown denounced the quote, sacred fetish of academic freedom, saying that instead, you actually have to focus in on true concepts.
00:17:11.000The dean of Georgetown at that point said, the sacred fetish of academic freedom.
00:17:15.000This is the soft underbelly of our American way of life.
00:17:17.000And the sooner it is armor plated by some sensible limitations, the sooner will the future of this nation be secured from fatal consequences.
00:17:23.000Two test questions, which imply limitation, come to mind at once when the matter of academic freedom is discussed.
00:17:28.000The first is, is the matter being taught true or false?
00:17:30.000The second, if it is false and presented as such, may one prudently suppose that a good and not evil end will eventuate from its exposition.
00:17:36.000The true and the good then are the natural limitations of freedom.
00:17:39.000This is not an area for opinion because opinion does not delineate.
00:17:42.000For by its very nature, it packages the false with the true.
00:17:46.000In other words, if the left uses classical liberalism in order to get into the gate and then persuades everybody that everybody to the right is garbage and throws them out the front door, has that been a victory for classical liberalism?
00:17:59.000This is a well-taken question because we're not talking here about the government imposing limitations.
00:18:05.000We're talking about private institutions.
00:18:06.000So what this really does speak to is the idea that if you are going to build an institution on the right, maybe instead of building it around the basic principles of classical liberalism per se, you might consider building it around actual values.
00:18:18.000Because otherwise the left is just going to use classical liberalism as a weapon.
00:18:21.000Now, listen, in the best of all possible worlds, here's what we have in American society.
00:18:26.000The old bargain was classical liberalism obtained because the backdrop to classical liberalism is a moral and virtuous people, as John Adams once suggested.
00:18:34.000John Adams suggested that the only way that you could have freedom is if the people themselves were moral and virtuous.
00:18:40.000When you have a non-moral, non-virtuous people, in fact, when the idea of morality and virtue have been thrown out the window or have been substituted for by militant secular leftism, then freedom is no longer freedom.
00:18:51.000Freedom is just either libertinism or it is the reverse of freedom.
00:19:57.000There are other celebrities who want to get in on the act, and that is being forwarded by the actual government.
00:20:02.000Right now, it actually does turn into a First Amendment issue of Jen Psaki overtly pressuring Spotify to quash Joe Rogan.
00:20:08.000Here is Jen Psaki suggesting that COVID disclaimers are not enough.
00:20:12.000There's quote unquote more that can be done.
00:20:15.000Our hope is that all major tech platforms and all major news sources, for that matter, be responsible and be vigilant to ensure the American people have access to accurate information on something as significant as COVID-19.
00:20:28.000So this disclaimer, it's a positive step, but we want every platform to continue doing more to call out misinformation and misinformation while also uplifting Accurate information.
00:20:39.000Ultimately, you know, our view is it's a it's a it's a good step.
00:21:07.000You made it, you lie in it, or we go weapons down and we try to reestablish some sense of classical liberalism in the country by agreement.
00:21:14.000Otherwise, it will be all-out warfare here.
00:21:18.000All right, in just one second, we'll get to the insanity of the race talk of the left.
00:21:23.000There are a couple stories that pop to mind immediately.
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00:22:52.000The latest example of this is an article from NBC News that came across the transom and it says, experts say framing affirmative action as anti-Asian bias is dangerous.
00:23:03.000My favorite thing that the media does, it really is one of my favorite things, is when they have an article framed as experts say, Because you know how they do these experts say article.
00:23:13.000What they do is they find someone with a PhD next to their name, who they already agree with, and then they say, up, experts say.
00:23:55.000This is why they use the framing of dangerous.
00:23:57.000Because if words are dangerous, then I can use force to shut down your words.
00:24:00.000So, Kimmy Yam writes for NBC News, quote, After the Supreme Court announced that it will hear the affirmative action cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, experts are cautioning against the framing of race-conscious admissions as a form of anti-Asian hate, a tactic that's been employed by conservatives.
00:24:15.000A number of Republican members of Congress, anti-affirmative action groups, and others have in recent months conflated the race-conscious policy with the anti-Asian racism and pandemic-fueled violence against Asians.
00:24:25.000The comparisons, experts said, could not only jeopardize affirmative action, which has historically helped minority groups, including those of Asian descent, but also undercut the call to mitigate the very real COVID-related racism being directed at Asian Americans.
00:24:38.000What they're saying is that if you say that affirmative action is biased against Asians, that it treats Asians as a group and then throws them out the door.
00:25:27.000The Supreme Court will hear two cases next term, which begins in October, in which groups led by Edward Blum, a conservative white lawyer who heads the anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions, accuse the two schools of discriminating against Asian Americans by putting them at a disadvantage and instead valuing black and Latino students more highly.
00:25:43.000In this environment, conservatives have amped up a narrative that affirmative action stands as another racist attack against the group.
00:25:50.000Representatives Young Kim and Michael Steele and Michelle Steele, both California Republicans, said last April they questioned President Joe Biden's commitment to mitigating anti-Asian hate after the Justice Department dropped an affirmative action case against Yale.
00:26:01.000It's dangerous, says Julie Park, associate professor at the University of Maryland's College of Education.
00:26:06.000People are vulnerable to misinformation.
00:26:08.000And so drawing those types of connections is really dangerous and irresponsible.
00:26:12.000Others, including podcast commentator Ben Shapiro, have also attempted to paint the administration's efforts to combat anti-Asian hate alongside the persistence of racist conscious admissions as hypocrisy.
00:26:22.000Well, I mean, if I said it, it must be bad.
00:26:25.000Or alternatively, you're going to have to explain why it is okay for admissions officials to treat Asian American students as second class and why that differs in terms of racist intent from people who target Asian Americans for hate.
00:26:49.000If you had a, let's say, that you had a country club that said no black people here, would that not be part of the same broader racial movement?
00:27:10.000Experts, according to NBC News, said the conflation of affirmative action with anti-Asian hate is another transparent attempt by conservatives to use Asian-Americans as a wedge, placing in contention against other marginalized communities.
00:27:22.000The reality is much different, said Wong.
00:27:25.000Research shows 70 percent of the group is in favor of the policy, according to a 2020 Asian-American voter survey.
00:27:31.000Well, how about if they are informed that Asian Americans are widely, disproportionately discriminated against in admissions thanks to such policies?
00:27:37.000You think the approval ratings hang out up there?
00:27:39.000By the way, a new study shows that 17% fewer Asian American students get into top colleges than otherwise would if you got rid of the affirmative action policies that exist at these places.
00:27:50.000It's absurdity piled upon absurdity, but this is the perversion of law, right?
00:27:53.000These cases will end up in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:27:57.000And the good news is that Joe Biden and the left again, standards only apply to one side.
00:28:01.000They can be as racist as they could possibly want to be, which is why Joe Biden is allowed to violate federal civil rights law by openly suggesting that he wants to discriminate on the basis of race in hiring for a Supreme Court slot.
00:28:13.000Joe Biden, by the way, he thinks he's allowed to get away with this because the Constitution is always evolving.
00:28:18.000So the President of the United States, who is no longer with us, the late departed President of the United States, was speaking yesterday, and he said the Constitution is always evolving.
00:29:22.000Standards for you, no standards for me.
00:29:25.000As the old phrase goes, mercy for my friends, the law for my enemies.
00:29:30.000This is the way that the left tends to think about these particular issues.
00:29:33.000By the way, this is the same guy who says he's guarding the Constitution and still refuses to allow his White House press secretary to say he's not going to pack the court.
00:29:39.000Here's the White House press secretary Jen Psaki yesterday being asked if Joe Biden will actually try to pack the court.
00:29:44.000And she's like, I can't rule it out, you know.
00:29:47.000Does the president plan to decide what he's going to do on Supreme Court reform before he makes his nomination?
00:29:52.000He is reviewing the Supreme Court Commission report.
00:29:55.000I don't have a prediction of when he will conclude his analysis of that.
00:29:59.000And I just ask because the report includes suggestions about things like changing the number of people on the court and you would think he would want to know who, if he's going to increase the size of the court, who he's going to put on first, right?
00:30:11.000Trevor, his focus right now is on going through a process that values the seriousness of the role he has as president, where he consults, as you saw today, with Democrats and Republicans to select and nominate an eminently qualified black woman to serve on the court.
00:30:31.000His focus is violating the prescriptions of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, which is apparently constantly evolving, and also he might pack the Supreme Court.
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00:32:31.000After Dr. Malone's recent interview with Joe Rogan sparked backlash for both Rogan and Spotify, Candace is digging in to make sure the voices on all sides of the VAX issue are heard.
00:34:01.000According to the Washington Times, lockdowns in the U.S.
00:34:03.000and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
00:34:10.000The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies.
00:34:19.000We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limited gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality, the researchers wrote.
00:34:26.000The research paper said lockdowns did have devastating effects on the economy and contributed to numerous social ills.
00:34:31.000The report said they've contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy.
00:34:40.000Again, you could understand doing some of this stuff at the very beginning when we didn't know how severe the virus was.
00:34:45.000But once we knew that it was radically age-striated and health conditions striated, the lockdowns should have been a thing of the past by May 2020.
00:34:52.000We should have been telling young, healthy people to go back to work and start socializing.
00:34:56.000We should have been telling older people that they should stay out of harm's way until this had become endemic.
00:35:02.000We didn't do any of that because we decided that we were going to let government handle all of it, and government is just a giant blunderbuss.
00:35:08.000All the government does is create broad, swath policies that are radically ineffectual.
00:35:13.000The paper concluded, such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion.
00:35:17.000Lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.
00:35:22.000Researchers at the Imperial College of London predicted that all of these steps, you know, the bans on work and socialization and all of the forced masking, could reduce death rates by up to 98%, and of course that never happened.
00:35:34.000The new study by researchers Steve Hanke, Jonas Herbie, and Lars Jonning at Johns Hopkins concludes, quote, Overall, we conclude that lockdowns are not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic, at least not during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:35:48.000They examined deaths early during the pandemic, determined that by the end of the lockdown period study on May 20, 2020, a total of 97,081 people had died of COVID-19 in the United States.
00:35:58.000A prominent study at the time had estimated there would be 99,050 deaths without lockdowns.
00:36:04.000This was a meta-analysis of dozens of studies examining COVID-19 mortality rates.
00:36:09.000They said basically the only thing that might have helped reduce deaths at all was closing the bars.
00:36:14.000But other than that, they said limiting people's access to safe outdoor places like beaches, parks, zoos, including outdoor mask mandates, or strict outdoor gathering restrictions, pushing people to meet at less safe indoor places, all of that was idiotic.
00:36:26.000Does that mean that we're going to stop this sort of stuff in the future?
00:36:28.000No, because here is what the government understands.
00:36:30.000The government understands that fear is contagious.
00:36:33.000They understand that if they can scare you enough, they can take control of every aspect of your life, which is why they keep trying to scare you about a virus that now has a death rate that is around that of the flu.
00:36:44.000It is for that reason and that reason only.
00:36:46.000Fear allows them to do what they want to do.
00:36:49.000In fact, there's a brand new study from the researchers from California Institute of Technology.
00:36:54.000And what they found is that fear is contagious, that actually broad numbers of people tend to spread fear rather than believing that there is strength in numbers.
00:37:02.000They did this kind of fun experiment where they used a haunted house experience with 17 rooms containing various spooky threats during their experiment, and they found that people were actually more scared when the group walking through the house was larger.
00:37:13.000The team also found that their fear built up and increased as people moved from room to room.
00:37:17.000Scientists say when faced with fear, people are more likely to have a heightened physical response when other people are around, which is why, of course, people watch horror movies in theaters with other human beings.
00:37:25.000This phasic effect involves rapid changes the body experiences as it responds to an event and is more likely to happen when other people are dealing with the same thing.
00:37:33.000Which makes sense, because, evolutionarily speaking, when someone else gets afraid of a thing, that means everybody in the group should run.
00:37:39.000And when one person reacts by freaking out, everybody should freak out, because that way nobody gets eaten by the tiger.
00:37:45.000But what this means that if the government can scare a critical mass of people, they can get everybody scared.
00:37:50.000Because if all of your friends are scared, you start looking around going, why am I not scared?
00:37:54.000And if everybody is scared, you can get away with nearly anything.
00:37:57.000The next push, by the way, like you wonder, when is this going to end?
00:38:01.000All of the COVID restrictions, when's this going to end?
00:38:36.000Today, the seven-day case average is 4,200, and there are only about 2,000 new cases.
00:38:42.000The curve looks like a spike, and then it has already receded.
00:38:45.000It's over in New York, and they are still doing this nonsense.
00:38:48.000The same thing is happening In Massachusetts, where it spiked all the way up to, I don't know, 64,000 cases a day, and now they're down to about 3,000 cases a day.
00:39:03.000And yet they're still talking about how you must vaccinate your kids, because if you don't vaccinate your kids, then, you know, they could spread it.
00:39:26.000Because this has been true throughout the pandemic.
00:39:29.000And yet, presumably, the Biden administration is now going to adopt the attitude that you can only allow your kids to live normal lives if they are two, if they are vaccinated.
00:39:37.000I mean, even Leanna Nguyen at CNN is like, guys, like, enough is enough.
00:39:41.000She says we need to wait until we know what's safe and effective for kids under five rather than just tranching out vaccines to six-month-old babies.
00:39:49.000I'm ambivalent right now, John, which is not something that I'd ever thought that I would say about vaccines for under five-year-olds.
00:39:55.000I'm the mom of two little kids under five.
00:39:57.000I can't wait until they are vaccinated.
00:39:59.000But I would wait until we find that the vaccines are safe and effective.
00:40:04.000And I'm not sure that we can say that at the moment because we just don't have the data.
00:40:09.000Now, I definitely understand the urgency that many parents are feeling, and I can also understand the point of view that, hey, if three doses are being studied, and two doses will give you some level of protection, and the vaccine is safe, then why not give it?
00:40:23.000Maybe some parents will make that choice, but I also think that other parents would want to wait until we know that three doses will produce the intended effect.
00:40:31.000Why look, it's a rational statement from Leanna Nguyen because they're beginning to realize that all of this is devastating to the political prospects of Democrats in 2022 because the American people are not up for this.
00:40:42.000By the way, it is worth noting here that the general effects of pandemic spending are just egregious.
00:40:47.000America's national debt over the course of the last week, it just hit the public debt outstanding is now above $30 trillion.
00:41:00.000I mean, that is an unthinkable statistic.
00:41:02.000Government borrowing accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to CNN Business, as Washington spent aggressively to cushion the economic blow from the crisis.
00:41:10.000Again, the economic blow from the crisis was largely driven by, wait for it, government itself.
00:41:13.000The national debt has surged by about $7 trillion since the end of 2019.
00:41:17.000It's impossible to know how much debt is too much.
00:41:20.000Economists remain divided over how big a problem this really is.
00:41:23.000But the latest debt milestone comes at a delicate time, as borrowing costs are expected to rise.
00:41:28.000Because if you have to spend more money to borrow, how are you going to pay off the short-term debt?
00:41:32.000Because what we tend to do here in the United States is we borrow more money to pay off the short-term debt.
00:41:36.000We take out a second credit card on a routine basis.
00:41:39.000Interest costs alone are projected to surpass $5 trillion over the next 10 years and will amount to nearly half of all federal revenue by 2051, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
00:41:51.000So that means that half of the money we spend in this country as a government will go to interest payments by 2051.
00:41:56.000It'll be faster than that because we ain't gonna stop spending at this clip because there are only two ways to pull out of this.
00:42:02.000Way number one is to get responsible and the other is to hit the wall and we are going to hit the wall absolutely without a doubt.
00:42:09.000And by the way, if you look at the actual total debt of the United States, like the statistics, it is astonishing how much money we have spent.
00:42:17.000It is absolutely crazy how we have added to the debt in this country.
00:42:22.000I mean, and by the way, if you look at the debt to GDP ratio by country, we're in pretty bad shape.
00:42:30.000If you look at the debt to GDP ratio right now by country, Countries that are fiscally unsustainable, they're on fiscally unsustainable paths.
00:42:38.000You're looking at countries like Italy, right?
00:42:41.000133% of their GDP is owed in the national debt.
00:42:54.000We only held about $4.5 trillion in total public debt as of 1994.
00:42:59.000And then if you fast forward to like 2008, we had doubled it, but we were still only at 9.2 trillion by the time George W. Bush left office.
00:43:30.000And now, our debt-to-GDP ratio is about 74%, which, by the way, again, is higher than, but not supremely higher than, the debt-to-GDP ratio in 1994, which was 63%.
00:43:40.000Remember, it came down a little bit during the early Clinton years, and then it came down, and then it rose slightly during Bush years, and then in the last Bush year, it rose a lot because of the fiscal crisis.
00:43:52.000Okay, $10.6 trillion in national debt as of 2009, 74% debt to GDP ratio.
00:43:58.000Fast forward to the end of the Obama administration, 2016, the last year of the Obama administration, total national debt $18.9 trillion.
00:44:07.000So Barack Obama nearly doubled the national debt.
00:44:37.000By the time we are done with all of this, it's gonna be more like 32, 30, by the end of this year, it's gonna be more like 33, 34 trillion dollars because that's how fast we raised the debt in this country.
00:44:49.000And that means that our debt-to-GDP ratio, the GDP in the United States is only about $20 trillion a year.
00:44:53.000That means our debt-to-GDP ratio is going to look like 150%, which puts us somewhere in the neighborhood of Lebanon, Greece, and Sudan.
00:45:03.000We've been fiscally irresponsible, we've spent too much money, and we have done so on the basis that politicians have told us they can alleviate all of our problems and mitigate against all possible risk so long as we give them complete power over us.