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00:01:26.000Alrighty, so, Texas and Mississippi have now opened back up, and people seem to be very upset about this.
00:01:33.000They seem very, very angry that certain states in America are opening back up wider than other states.
00:01:39.000And I gotta say, I don't think this has a lot to do with science.
00:01:41.000I think this has a lot to do with jealousy and a one-size-fits-all mentality about what works.
00:01:46.000And this comes from the public health establishment, the vaunted Dr. Fauci's out there, the same media that proclaimed that Andrew Cuomo was fantastic at this and Gavin Newsom was fantastic at this.
00:01:57.000Well, it turns out that a lot of states approach this thing a lot of different ways, and there are a lot of different results.
00:02:01.000And some of those results resembled each other, even when the methods to get to those results did not resemble one another.
00:02:06.000As I've been pointing out for, at this point, months, California and Florida have very similar death per million rates.
00:02:13.000Florida has the second oldest population in America after Maine, which means they really have the oldest population because Maine has eight people.
00:02:18.000And California has the fifth youngest population.
00:02:21.000California has been shut down for a year.
00:02:23.000Florida has been wide open since the summer.
00:02:25.000And yet the public health professionals, they will tell you that Florida has been irresponsible and terrible.
00:02:30.000And now that Texas and Mississippi are opening back up, they're saying, oh, well, you know, they can't do that.
00:02:37.000So, you see all these reports today about all of these COVID variants that are going to inevitably wipe through the population.
00:02:44.000The problem is, we don't actually know that at this point.
00:02:47.000We know that the vaccines have some efficacy against most of the variants that we have seen thus far, and we don't have enough evidence thus far as to what the actual effect of the variants is going to be on vaccinated populations, which is why we are rushing to vaccinate people right now.
00:02:59.000Nonetheless, the media are fully invested in panic mode and remain invested in panic mode because Number one, it's good for business.
00:03:06.000And number two, they're invested in the idea that centralized government is the solution to all ills.
00:03:10.000Because once the government has centralized all power, then the government can do everything you want the government to do.
00:03:15.000Every crisis is an opportunity, as Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's former chief of staff and former mayor of Chicago, once said.
00:03:22.000So Reuters is reporting that Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert whose projections on COVID-19 infections and deaths are closely followed worldwide, is changing his assumptions about the course of the pandemic.
00:03:32.000Murray had until recently been hopeful that the discovery of several effective vaccines could help countries achieve herd immunity or nearly eliminate transmission through a combination of inoculation and previous infection.
00:03:40.000But in the last month, data from a vaccine trial in South Africa showed not only that a rapidly spreading COVID variant could dampen the effect of the vaccine, it could also evade natural immunity in people who had previously been infected.
00:03:50.000Well, if that is the case, then You literally can't do anything.
00:03:53.000You've now talked about a disease that you cannot create immunity to, right?
00:04:08.000He's the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
00:04:10.000Remember the IHME model, which was really, really off in the early days?
00:04:14.000It's basically a garbage in, garbage out model.
00:04:16.000It just takes prior data, puts it in there, and then makes assumptions, makes the assumptions clear, and then tosses out what it thinks will be the future.
00:04:22.000Sometimes it's right, and sometimes it's wrong.
00:04:24.000It certainly was not the best model that was out there.
00:04:27.000A new consensus is emerging, according to scientists, according to Reuters interviews.
00:04:31.000Many described how the breakthrough late last year of two vaccines with around 95% efficacy against COVID-19 had initially sparked hope the virus could be largely contained, similar to the way measles has been.
00:04:40.000But they say now it looks like this is going to be an endemic virus.
00:04:44.000It'll circulate in communities and it could cause a significant burden of illness and death for years to come.
00:04:49.000As a result, said scientists, people could expect to continue to take measures such as routine mask wearing and avoiding crowded places during COVID-19 surges, especially for people at high risk.
00:04:58.000Dr. Fauci says, I would still want to wear a mask if there was a variant out there.
00:05:01.000All you need is one little flick of a variant sparking another surge.
00:05:03.000And there goes your prediction about when life gets back to normal.
00:05:07.000Murray says that if the South African variant or similar mutants continue to spread rapidly, the number of COVID-19 cases resulting in hospitalization or death this coming winter could be four times higher than the flu.
00:05:16.000Now again, it's important to understand base rates here.
00:05:19.000Four times higher than the flu does not mean that we are looking at Black Plague-type numbers.
00:05:24.000The flu is indeed a dangerous disease, but nobody has ever shut down society for the flu.
00:05:29.000We know that this particular disease has been something like five times more deadly than the flu.
00:05:33.000And we also know that it spreads much more widely than the flu.
00:05:35.000So now we are saying that the amount of death total, not the deadliness, the amount of death is four times that of the flu, with a virus that is much more contagious.
00:05:45.000And there's not really a way of stopping it.
00:05:47.000The only time that people are actively going to engage in the sort of measures we've been engaging in is if the health system is on the verge of being overwhelmed.
00:05:53.000And we actually don't have evidence that that is the case anywhere in America right now.
00:05:57.000And if that happens, then maybe we'll start taking these measures.
00:06:00.000But in reality, most people, particularly young, healthy people, are not going to stop their lives.
00:06:05.000Stop dating, stop going to parties, stop going to ballgames.
00:06:08.000Because a disease that mainly kills people over the age of 70 is still out there and is coming around seasonally, especially since you have no care for it.
00:06:15.000So what exactly do you expect people to do?
00:06:17.000People are going to act using their rational minds.
00:06:19.000In other words, people are going to use their rational self-interest to determine what sort of risk they're willing to undergo.
00:06:26.000If you have parents who are 80, they're probably not going to go to a ballgame for a while if the variants are still out there.
00:06:30.000But if you're 30, are you going to go to a ballgame?
00:06:37.000Because you'll get it and you'll be fine in the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of cases.
00:06:42.000Again, the death rates for people who are between the ages of like 20 and 65, those death rates are a fraction in 1,000.
00:06:48.000I mean, we're talking about like 3 in 1,000, 4 in 1,000 at the upper end.
00:06:53.000Because the overall total death rate on this thing is like 5 in 1,000 and that includes people in the upper age brackets where you're talking about like 5 in 100 or 6 in 100 dying from this thing.
00:07:03.000The IHME, their current forecast assumes there will be an additional 62,000 U.S.
00:07:07.000deaths and 690,000 global deaths from COVID-19 by June 1st.
00:07:11.000That model does include assumptions about vaccination rates as well as the transmissibility of South African and Brazilian variants.
00:07:18.000There will always be new COVID variants out there.
00:07:21.000There will always be new things that are happening in the world of health.
00:07:26.000The idea of a top-down government mandate that radically changes individual decision-making, that is unjustified and it is perfectly unjustifiable when the only thing you can say is that there are new risks out there.
00:07:36.000We know there are new risks out there.
00:07:37.000It was one thing when you were saying you didn't know what the death rates were on this virus, where you really didn't know if it was the Black Plague.
00:07:42.000You didn't know if it was going to wipe out entire classrooms of elementary school students.
00:07:47.000We know the vectors of these diseases.
00:07:48.000We know which populations they tend to hit the hardest.
00:07:50.000We know how to protect those populations.
00:07:52.000And we know what people are willing to do in order to shield themselves from risk.
00:07:56.000People are not going to live life this way.
00:07:58.000And yet, when states reopen, when they say you need to use your own individual reason, then the left gets very angry because undergirding all of this is a two-fold proposition.
00:08:07.000Proposition number one is that it is very good for centralized governments to have enormous power over your life because they know better than you.
00:08:15.000You don't know how to handle your own life.
00:08:16.000On nearly any Metric you don't need it.
00:08:19.000You don't know how to handle your your own personal economics That is why we need to remove money from you and then supposedly give it back to you later Even though we won't with Social Security It's why we need to make sure that you're not gonna take care of your own health care We need to provide health care for you.
00:08:33.000You don't know how to educate your child We're gonna tell you how to educate your child and you don't know how to avoid death So we are going to force you to wear a mask right that that is the that is the centralizing government rationale behind so much of the debate that is happening right now.
00:08:49.000I'll give you some stats to show this is the case in just one second.
00:08:52.000First, let us talk about the fact that you don't want to go to the auto parts store.
00:08:55.000I mean, first of all, why would you ever want to go to the auto parts store?
00:08:56.000You stand in line for a really long time.
00:08:58.000Then you finally get to the front of the line and then ask a bunch of questions you don't know the answer to.
00:09:02.000Finally, you figure out what part you need.
00:09:03.000And then they're like, oh yeah, we don't have that.
00:09:04.000We're going to have to order that online.
00:09:06.000Well, you could just do it online yourself because the interwebs are great.
00:09:10.000So why not head on over to rockauto.com?
00:09:13.000Rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear like airlines do.
00:09:19.000Well, I would choose to spend up to twice as much for the same exact parts.
00:09:23.000You know, for example, let's say you need a Delphi FG1456 fuel pump assembly for a 2005-2010 Honda Odyssey.
00:09:28.000I just came up with that off the top of my head.
00:10:08.000States are handling the COVID variant and COVID situation very differently.
00:10:13.000New York is now thinking about doing a COVID passport.
00:10:17.000This would be very much like what Israel has been doing.
00:10:20.000You need to show that you've actually had the COVID vaccine in order to go into particular public areas.
00:10:24.000Again, I think this is a bad idea because people are just going to start forging these things.
00:10:27.000If you want access to something, you're just going to forge.
00:10:30.000Also, it does create a two A sort of two-level society in which people who have gotten the vaccine are allowed to do things and people who have not gotten the vaccine are not allowed to do things.
00:10:40.000I will say that it does create the right incentive, which is to go get vaccinated.
00:10:47.000Because, again, if you're 18 years old, you're really not at high risk from COVID-19.
00:10:51.000The proper solution here is that people, again, should use their own reason, and they should go get the vaccine, and we should be encouraging them socially to get the vaccine.
00:10:59.000If private businesses want to say, if Madison Square Garden wants to say, listen, you can only come to a basketball game if you get the vaccine, I think that that is perfectly reasonable.
00:11:06.000For the entire city to be testing out vaccine green cards seems to raise serious liberty concerns.
00:11:12.000But the big story of the day, really, is that Texas and Mississippi said we're done with our mask mandates.
00:11:16.000Now, Let me just remind you, there are not mask mandates in some 15 states in the United States.
00:11:23.000And I'm going to read you those 15 states in the United States.
00:11:25.000These are the states that do not have a mask mandate.
00:11:27.000They don't mandate that you have a mask in public places or on public property.
00:11:32.000Okay, these are the states and I'm also going to give you their death per capita ratio.
00:11:35.000I'm going to give you where they rank among the 51 U.S.
00:12:13.000But we treated it as though if you put a cloth mask on your face and re-wear it every day, This is going to be the answer to all of your problems.
00:12:21.000And if the state mandates it, that this is going to radically change things.
00:12:24.000Now, here's the thing about mandates when it comes to masks.
00:12:27.000People who want to wear the mask are going to wear it.
00:12:28.000People who don't want to wear it are not going to wear it.
00:12:46.000It means that in states with a mandate, a lot of those states did really poorly.
00:12:50.000New York, number two in death per million ratio.
00:12:53.000New Jersey, number one in death per million ratio.
00:12:56.000Here are the states that do not have a mask mandate.
00:12:58.000And remember, I'm pointing this out because you're going to hear Democrats in one second talk about how it is just the worst thing you could possibly do to remove a state mask mandate.
00:13:05.000Remember, removing a state mandate to wear a mask is not a ban on wearing a mask.
00:13:09.000I understand that for the left, there seems to be only two categories.
00:13:13.000That which is mandatory and that which is banned.
00:13:16.000There's no third category of stuff you're allowed to do.
00:13:19.000It's just the stuff you must be forced to do by the government and stuff that you are forced not to do by the government.
00:13:24.000And this is how people on the left tend to think of the government.
00:13:26.000The government is there to do the good thing.
00:13:28.000So, if we want you to wear a mask, we have to force you to wear a mask.
00:13:33.000And if somebody says that they think that you should have the ability not to wear a mask, that's the same thing as them saying they want you not to wear a mask.
00:15:17.000They literally want to sacrifice the lives of fellow Texans for, I don't know, for political gain, to satisfy certain powerful interests within the state.
00:15:29.000It's hard to escape the conclusion that it's also a cult of death.
00:15:34.000You have extraordinarily anti-democratic elements.
00:15:37.000I mean, look at the insurrection on January 6th for any proof.
00:15:42.000You have anti-government elements literally running the government of the state of Texas.
00:15:48.000And it almost, I use the phrase failed state because I think when you can't guarantee the electricity, the heat, the running water, the public welfare and safety, you are about there by any classic definition.
00:18:01.000Your precious vaccine, what did you do?
00:18:03.000Does he work for the big pharmaceutical companies?
00:18:05.000I thought he doesn't like those people.
00:18:06.000Also, under whose administration was the COVID vaccine developed?
00:18:09.000Oh right, that would have been Trump's.
00:18:11.000Also, saying that you want people to be able to exercise individual liberty does not mean those people didn't get the vaccine.
00:18:16.000In fact, one of the chief sort of draws of the vaccine is that after you get the vaccine, you should be able to walk around without a mask.
00:18:22.000It's a point that Senator Rand Paul's been making since he had COVID.
00:18:28.000He happens to be basically correct about this.
00:18:31.000But the real underlying animus is for the people of Texas, right?
00:18:35.000If you have a political viewpoint that cuts toward liberty, you should die, right?
00:18:38.000That is what Michael Moore is saying right there.
00:18:40.000And Beto O'Rourke is basically saying the same thing.
00:18:42.000If you are a person who believes that individuals should make their own decisions about their lives, then this means that you are part of a cult of death who's involved in human sacrifice, because Beto knows what's best for you.
00:18:52.000Sure, he didn't know enough to beat Ted Cruz in a very competitive Senate race, And sure, he was on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine wearing the exact same outfit he always wears on the campaign trail, saying he was born to run and then he proceeded to lose.
00:19:04.000Sure, he ends up in the New Mexican desert eating dirt.
00:19:43.000There's not a lot of wattage going on here.
00:19:45.000Here is Joe Biden suggesting that Texas and Mississippi, if you remove a mask mandate, remember, Abbott didn't say don't wear a mask anymore.
00:20:54.000You know, he's a real blue-collar guy, Joe Biden.
00:20:56.000He would clock in for a day at the rock quarry, and then he would slide down the back of a Brontosaurus and get into his car, and then he would use his actual feet, right?
00:21:03.000Move those feet so he could get home to Wilma.
00:21:06.000But here is Joe Biden talking about how everyone who disagrees with him is a Neanderthal.
00:21:15.000Look, I hope everybody's realized by now these masks make a difference.
00:21:20.000And the last thing, the last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime everything's fine, take off your mask, forget it.
00:21:30.000It's critical, critical, critical, critical that they follow the science Wash your hands, hot water, do it frequently, wear a mask, and stay socially distanced.
00:22:27.000But but but but but but but but but but but but but that's all folks.
00:22:30.000I love the person on the button who's like, well, we can't let the president talk off script, so let's just hit this button and boom, fade to black.
00:24:23.000What this is really about, as always, is politics and control.
00:24:26.000Texas and Mississippi have responded to these idiotic comments by Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke.
00:24:32.000Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said President Biden said allowing Mississippians to decide how to protect themselves is Neanderthal thinking.
00:24:40.000As numbers drop, they can assess their choices and listen to experts.
00:24:42.000I guess I just think we should trust Americans, not insult them.
00:24:46.000And then Greg Abbott's spokesperson said, the governor was clear in telling Texans COVID hasn't ended and that all Texans should follow medical advice and safe practices to continue containing COVID.
00:24:55.000The fact is, Texas now has the tools and knowledge to combat COVID while also allowing Texans and small businesses to make their decisions.
00:25:01.000It is clear from the recoveries, the vaccinations, the reduced hospitalizations and the safe practices that Texans are using that state mandates are no longer needed.
00:25:08.000We must now do more to restore livelihood and normalcy for Texans.
00:25:11.000The governor's focus has been and always will be protecting the lives and livelihoods of Texans.
00:25:16.000And then later, Abbott tweeted, the Biden administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas.
00:25:21.000The Biden administration must immediately end this callous act that exposes Texans and Americans to COVID.
00:26:00.000Gavin Newsom, the head of a state, the fifth youngest state in America with the same death per capita rate as Florida, the second oldest state in America.
00:26:14.000But it's about something more than that, right?
00:26:17.000It is about the idea that you are not capable of making your own decisions.
00:26:21.000Or rather, you're only capable of making your own decisions if you are a particular type of person.
00:26:26.000If you're not a particular type of person, you're not capable of making your own decisions.
00:26:29.000So one of the things that is buried in a lot of the ideology here, for Democrats particularly, is a soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:26:36.000About Americans generally, you're not capable of making your own decisions, but specifically, there is a soft bigotry of low expectations that attends to minority communities in the Democratic Party.
00:26:45.000The same motivating factor from people like Jamal Bowman of New York, Democrat of New York, who says standardized testing is racist, attends when it comes to vaccines.
00:26:53.000And we have seen a tremendous amount of vaccine hesitancy, unfortunately, in the Black and Hispanic community.
00:26:58.000There's a wide differential by race in how people are looking at the vaccine.
00:27:05.000By poll data, some 59% of white people say they definitely will get the vaccine, and another 20% say they will probably get the vaccine, which means a grand total of 79% of white Americans say they definitely will or probably will get the vaccine.
00:27:21.000Okay, black America, only 67% of black Americans say they definitely will get the vaccine or probably get the vaccine.
00:27:26.000And by the way, only 37% say they definitely will get the vaccine, which means that fully 33% of black Americans say they either probably or definitely will not get the vaccine.
00:27:37.000Compared to only 21% of white people who say they won't get the vaccine.
00:27:40.000And only 21% of Hispanic people who say they won't get the vaccine.
00:27:42.000So the black community has tremendous vaccine hesitancy.
00:28:17.000Because for him, the question, there's a soft bigotry that is inherent in leftist thought that suggests that if a white person makes a bad decision, it's I'm a white person, but if a black person makes a bad decision, then it is because the system is racist.
00:28:30.000We should be encouraging everyone to make good decisions.
00:28:34.000This is why all of the tomfoolery about the vaccine rollout is a mistake.
00:28:39.000We should be giving the vaccine to anyone who will take it at any point at this point.
00:28:43.000There are many, many vaccines out there.
00:28:45.000Tranching out vaccines based on quote-unquote equity is a foolhardy game.
00:28:50.000Instead, what we should be doing is making it available to anyone who wants one, and we should be actively encouraging people to get one, not writing op-eds in the New York Times like Charles Blow, talking about why black people are hesitant about vaccines, but encouraging black people to get vaccines, encouraging everybody to go get the vaccine today.
00:29:05.000And yet again, there is that generalized idea that the government must be in complete control.
00:29:09.000They must mandate things because you can't take care of yourself.
00:29:13.000But they'll only talk about a certain type of person who is COVID scared or COVID shy.
00:29:20.000It's an obvious point and an ugly point, but people on the left will only talk about COVID shyness when it comes to white Americans.
00:29:27.000They will not talk about COVID shyness when it comes to minority Americans, even though the percentages are greater among minority Americans.
00:29:34.000I mean, you know who should be being ripped up and down right now?
00:29:37.000Not Greg Abbott for saying that people should not be forced to wear masks by the centralized government because they are capable of making their own decisions.
00:29:44.000The people who should be ripped up and down right now are people like Louis Farrakhan, who's literally going out there and telling his millions of followers that the COVID vaccine is a vial of death.
00:29:51.000Have you seen any media coverage of this?
00:29:54.000If a major conservative figure who had met with a bunch of members of Congress were out there literally telling people that the COVID vaccine was a vial of death, you know that would be at the front of every single newspaper, right?
00:30:27.000It's the nanoparticles that men like Dr. Fauci have proprietary knowledge of that allows them to get a patent for their vial of death.
00:30:50.000I mean, how is that not the headline, right?
00:30:53.000I mean, seriously, that should be the headline.
00:30:55.000You wanna talk about overcoming COVID?
00:30:58.000We should be talking about vaccine hesitancy.
00:31:00.000By the way, encouraged for months by people like Kamala Harris, who literally said that she would not get a vaccine just if Trump told her to.
00:31:05.000I mean, this sort of stuff has an actual impact.
00:31:11.000And if you look by race and ethnicity at why people are not getting the vaccine, right, you can see the reasons why people, Aren't getting a vaccine?
00:31:20.000What you will see is that among black Americans, a disproportionate number of black Americans don't trust the COVID-19 vaccine and a disproportionate number of black Americans are concerned about the side effects and they plan to wait and see whether it is safe.
00:31:35.000And yet the idea here is that it's a problem with the distribution system.
00:31:38.000What if it's not a problem with the distribution system?
00:31:41.000If the reason that the left wants centralized control is because they want control over people, then they really should be clear about why they want control over people.
00:31:51.000Because right now, they tend to blame the system whenever individual choices are made they don't like from people who are allies of theirs, but they blame the individual people when there are people who they don't like who don't believe like they do, politically speaking.
00:32:06.000The soft bigotry of law expectations, by the way, completely infuses the Democratic Party at this point.
00:32:10.000And you wanna talk about Democrat-run cities that have soft bigotry of law expectations?
00:32:14.000This story came across my desk this morning from Fox Baltimore.
00:32:18.000A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing.
00:32:23.000It's a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, three classes in four years, not three years in four years, three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
00:32:39.000Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June, but after four years of high school, France just learned her 17-year-old must start over.
00:32:58.000France's son attends Augusta Fell's Savage Institute of Visual Arts in West Baltimore.
00:33:02.000His transcripts show he's passed just three classes in four years, placing him in ninth grade.
00:33:07.000But she didn't know that until February.
00:33:09.000She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, they kept promoting him.
00:33:14.000His transcripts showed he failed Spanish 1 and Algebra 1, was promoted to Spanish 2 and Algebra 2.
00:33:17.000He failed English 2, was passed on to English 3.
00:33:21.000In his first three years at Augusta-Fells, the student failed 22 classes and was late or absent on 272 days.
00:33:28.000In those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened.
00:33:32.000No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.
00:33:36.000By the way, he's still above half of his class.
00:33:39.000He's ranked 62nd in his class after passing three classes in a grand total of four years.
00:33:46.000Half of his classmates, 58 of them, have a 0.13 grade point average or lower.
00:33:51.000Okay, how is it that this is not considered a great crisis in America?
00:33:56.000And we're going to focus on woke idiocy about canceling Dr. Seuss, but we're not going to focus on stuff that actually betters people's lives.
00:34:03.000We're not going to focus on individual responsibility, because here's the thing, individual freedom comes with individual responsibility.
00:34:08.000We're not even going to focus on true systems of power that degrade the lives of individuals.
00:34:14.000Nope, we're gonna focus on how we can force you to wear a mask, even though that actually is a risk assessment you yourself should be doing, and who we should blame, namely the people of Texas, who we should not blame, namely people who are political allies of Democrats.
00:34:27.000People's lives actually matter, and the best way to ensure that people live good lives is to place the individual responsibility that comes with freedom upon them.
00:34:36.000And yet we have an entire system that is built to do precisely the opposite.
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00:37:01.000So, while people on the left want to control your entire life and simultaneously allow people to just fail inside the system, I mean truly fail inside the system because we wouldn't want to require individual responsibility of themselves.
00:37:16.000See, the thing about failure within the system is that Democrats right now are perpetual revolutionaries.
00:37:21.000So it just means they should have more power.
00:37:23.000If somebody fails inside the system, if you have a student in Baltimore who graduates three classes in four years and is still in the top half of his class, well, that means that the system requires more money.
00:37:36.000When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is a garbage bag, that means that he should have had more control.
00:37:41.000It means the government requires more control.
00:37:43.000Speaking of which, Andrew Cuomo is currently being essentially forced out of government.
00:37:48.000They're trying to force him out over the sexual harassment allegations.
00:37:51.000Now, on the grand scale of sexual harassment allegations, these ones are not the kind of thing that generally get you kicked out of office.
00:37:57.000The worst thing that he did, the worst allegation against him, is that he called a woman, Lindsey Boylan, up to his office at one point.
00:38:03.000She went up there and then he kissed her without her permission.
00:38:36.000It doesn't necessarily mean that that guy cannot be governor of New York anymore, that he has lost his capacity to be governor of New York.
00:38:41.000What is happening right now is so perfectly obvious.
00:38:44.000Everyone now realizes that Governor Cuomo was a garbage bag during COVID.
00:38:57.000And now they're realizing that he's a liability, but they cannot openly acknowledge that he is a liability based on his COVID behavior, because they were cheering on that exact behavior.
00:39:05.000So instead, they have to find an ancillary reason to dump him under the bus.
00:39:07.000They have to find another reason to get rid of him.
00:39:11.000Hopefully a reason where they can report it, the media, and they can report it as something new, so they can say, well, this is new stuff.
00:39:17.000Of course we never reported this last year, because we just didn't know.
00:39:19.000Because if it turns out that he gets ousted based on COVID, we all knew how bad he was last year.
00:39:23.000Okay, so now Cuomo is on the hot seat, and he did a presser yesterday in which he said that he's not going to go.
00:39:30.000First, he denied inappropriate touching in any way.
00:39:33.000There is an investigation now going on in the office of Letitia James, the AG of the state, who I'm sure has her eye on the gubernatorial seat.
00:40:22.000And then he went on and he talked about how in his culture he likes to touch people's faces and stuff.
00:40:26.000So I guess he and Joe Biden come from the exact same culture, because Joe Biden also likes to inappropriately touch people.
00:40:30.000Cuomo then said, I'm not going to resign under any of these circumstances.
00:40:33.000Again, the reason that Andrew Cuomo is on the chopping block right now has nothing to do with this behavior.
00:40:37.000Just recognize that this is all a misdirect.
00:40:40.000It is all a way for the media to escape their own culpability in promoting this douchebag for a full year.
00:40:45.000Well, old people were dying in nursing homes and he was covering it up.
00:40:48.000Recognize that right now what we are watching is a sham and a ruse.
00:40:51.000It is a fake reason for getting rid of Andrew Cuomo.
00:40:53.000The real reason he should be gotten rid of is because he probably should be prosecuted for covering up what happened in the nursing homes in New York.
00:40:59.000Anyway, Cuomo says I'm not going to resign.
00:41:00.000And by the way, for the behavior that's been described, he probably shouldn't resign.
00:41:56.000Earlier today, I called on the governor to resign.
00:42:00.000I believe that it's important that the governor be above reproach.
00:42:06.000He has to have the respect necessary to lead New York.
00:42:11.000I believe the governor is distracted and cannot give his undivided attention to continue safely navigating New Yorkers through the ongoing pandemic.
00:42:20.000And I think his whole situation is a distraction to the serious conversations necessary to complete an on-time budget.
00:42:39.000Because there were allegations that were made that were much more serious about Joe Biden and the media basically blew them off.
00:42:45.000So it is all just a matter of how useful these politicians are to them.
00:42:48.000Andrew Cuomo has lost his usefulness because it has come out now what an incompetent buffoon he is.
00:42:53.000And not only is he useful, not useful anymore, he is embarrassing to them.
00:42:57.000And so they have found another reason to get rid of Andrew Cuomo.
00:42:59.000And yet their answer to all of this is that Andrew Cuomo still was the greatest governor in all of human history when it came to COVID, that we need more centralized control, and that anybody who says that you should use your own brain in determining your risk or how to educate your child for that matter, Or how you ought to raise your child.
00:43:24.000And if you try to handle it yourself, then that means that you're in league with people who want human sacrifice, and who want death, and who want despair.
00:43:32.000If you trust this bunch of clowns at the top of your government with pretty much anything, I gotta doubt your own sanity at this point.
00:43:38.000Seriously, these people have been wrong on virtually all of the things.
00:43:42.000They've given you a bunch of conflicting advice.
00:43:43.000Every system that they run, with the exception of the military, is a giant fail.
00:43:48.000And yet there are people who believe the solution to all of this is to give these jackasses more power.
00:43:54.000And then they believe these people are their moral leaders to boot, which is even more astonishing.
00:43:59.000If you like freedom, then at a certain point, we should probably stand up for it.
00:44:02.000And if we have now gotten to the point in the pandemic where we're on the downswing, and where it is perfectly clear that the vaccines are being rolled out at extraordinary rates, and we are not looking at any threat to the hospitalizations and the ICUs, at that point, it seems like freedom should be legal again, should it not?
00:44:18.000In fact, it never became illegal in the first place.
00:44:21.000And we should remember this for the future.
00:44:23.000Now that it should not have taken a year for us to get to the point of saying the exact same thing that Florida said all the way back last summer, which is take your best available precautions and then live your life.
00:44:32.000Because every day that you live is a day that has been lived.
00:44:36.000And that day that you have lived is no longer on the record of days going forward available to you.
00:44:40.000So every day that you spend in lockdown or obeying government edicts on the basis of bad information is a day of which you were robbed.