The Ben Shapiro Show - Your Public Health Experts Were About To Get People Killed | Ep. 1161

00:00:00.000 The CDC redraws its vaccine distribution standards after blowback over its racist guidelines.

00:00:05.000 Joe Biden talks of healing while preparing to get radical.

00:00:08.000 And AOC runs into a buzzsaw from her own party. 1.00

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00:01:41.000 Okay, so over the weekend, It became quickly apparent that the CDC had completely botched its rollout of the vaccines, at least in terms of its initial standards.

00:01:50.000 So, the standards are still being set.

00:01:52.000 They've not yet been finalized, but it became very clear, and we talked about this last week at the end of the week on the podcast, that the CDC had been taking into account race as opposed to just pre-existing condition and age as factors in who would get the vaccine, which is totally crazy.

00:02:06.000 I mean, that's utterly insane.

00:02:08.000 The reason that is insane is because that is highly, highly unlikely to save lives in the same way that tranching out by actual vulnerability to the virus would be saving lives.

00:02:19.000 And just on a pure statistical level, if you want to save the most lives, you help the people who are the most vulnerable.

00:02:23.000 You don't tranch out support to people who are less vulnerable.

00:02:26.000 I mean, this is perfectly obvious to anybody who has a shred of both reason That's all it takes to come to the conclusion that the way that you give out the vaccines is you find the people most likely to die and you give them the vaccine first.

00:02:38.000 But that is not in fact how politics works in the United States.

00:02:38.000 End of story.

00:02:41.000 It's one of the reasons we've had trust issues with our public health experts ever since the beginning of this pandemic because it was quite apparent.

00:02:48.000 But their priorities were not only saving lives.

00:02:50.000 Their priorities were not only getting the vaccine developed in the fastest possible time, then getting it out to the people who are most vulnerable.

00:02:58.000 Their priorities were not taking measures that were designed to prevent the most transmission.

00:03:03.000 Their priorities were skewed in some cases.

00:03:05.000 And again, we saw this very, very early on.

00:03:08.000 When the entire media and much of the public health infrastructure decided that they were going to endorse vast riots and looting and gatherings in the streets over quote-unquote racial justice issues because racial justice was itself a health issue.

00:03:21.000 At that point, they abandoned any claim they could have to being objective public health experts.

00:03:25.000 And once other priorities are starting to impinge on your ability to do your job, then you just can't be trusted in the same way.

00:03:32.000 It's one of the great puzzles of our age that at a time when science has done more to save lives than probably at any time in human history, right?

00:03:38.000 We developed a vaccine, the scientific community did.

00:03:41.000 They developed a vaccine inside of nine months, which is utterly crazy, right?

00:03:45.000 From soup to nuts, right?

00:03:46.000 From the beginning to the distribution, it took less than nine months for them to develop a vaccine, which is an unbelievable feat.

00:03:52.000 Of scientific, engineering, and technological know-how.

00:03:55.000 It's an incredible, incredible thing.

00:03:57.000 At the same time, public trust in the scientific community has been dropping.

00:04:01.000 And the reason for that is two separate things that have been happening simultaneously inside science over the past several years.

00:04:07.000 One is ultracorruptarianism.

00:04:08.000 It's a word I've been using more and more lately.

00:04:10.000 What that word means is people speaking outside their field of expertise.

00:04:14.000 People in the scientific community speaking on racial justice issues.

00:04:18.000 Okay, just because you know how a molecule works does not mean you have good ideas when it comes to how society ought to function.

00:04:24.000 And to pretend otherwise is to engage in ultra-Crepidarianism. 0.76

00:04:27.000 So you have scientists who are speaking outside of their realms of expertise.

00:04:30.000 And meanwhile, you have science itself being infected by people who actually don't care about the science as much as they care about the politics.

00:04:37.000 So it works both ways.

00:04:37.000 You have scientists speaking in terms of public policy, and you have public policy people speaking in terms of science, and the end result is a muddle.

00:04:44.000 And that muddle is not very good.

00:04:46.000 So here's the deal.

00:04:47.000 We should be very optimistic right now about the future of the next several months.

00:04:52.000 What I mean by that is not that we are not going to see tremendous amounts of suffering and death over the next couple of months, as before the vaccine is able to be rolled out.

00:04:58.000 But the fact that there's even an end in sight is an incredible, incredible thing.

00:05:02.000 Dr. Mansef Slaoui, who's heading up Operation Warp Speed for the Trump administration, he explained yesterday they're going to ship out 8 million doses of the vaccine this week.

00:05:09.000 That's an unbelievable feat.

00:05:11.000 We were told by nearly the entire media back in April and May that there would be no vaccine this year.

00:05:15.000 And now we're going to get 8 million doses of the vaccine shipped out this week.

00:05:18.000 That's an amazing, amazing thing.

00:05:20.000 Here was Dr. Slaoui.

00:05:22.000 We now are clear that we will be shipping 5.9 million doses of the Moderna vaccine and 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, and that's what will happen.

00:05:34.000 And we are increasing the level of communication with the governors in order to make sure that there are no mistakes that happen or miscommunication.

00:05:45.000 We will work and learn from our mistakes every day and our focus is to make sure we get American people as many vaccine doses as are produced.

00:05:54.000 It's an amazing, amazing accomplishment by the scientific community.

00:05:57.000 But again, there are serious trust issues with members of our scientific community.

00:06:00.000 By the way, Anthony Fauci did announce to the world that he had personally vaccinated Santa, which is, I mean...

00:06:06.000 To be honest, I feel like Santa should be in, like, the top line, right?

00:06:08.000 I mean, the man's, what, several hundred years old and has obesity issues?

00:06:12.000 So, I mean, he probably is among the most vulnerable.

00:06:15.000 I mean, if you're tranching this thing out by vulnerability, here's Anthony Fauci explaining that he had personally shot up Santa.

00:06:21.000 I have to say I took care of that for you because I was worried that you'd all be upset.

00:06:26.000 So what I did a little while ago, I took a trip up there to the North Pole.

00:06:30.000 I went there and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself.

00:06:35.000 I measured his level of immunity and he is good to go.

00:06:38.000 He can come down the chimney.

00:06:41.000 He can leave the presents.

00:06:43.000 He can leave and you have nothing to worry about.

00:06:46.000 Santa Claus is good to go.

00:06:49.000 Well, that is indeed exciting news.

00:06:51.000 Okay, so here is the problem, right?

00:06:53.000 All that's good stuff, right?

00:06:54.000 All of this is good stuff.

00:06:56.000 One problem.

00:06:56.000 It turns out your public health experts are screwing everything up.

00:06:59.000 So, it turns out now that they were tranching out the vaccine.

00:07:02.000 They'd been telling people that it was time to tranche out the vaccine.

00:07:06.000 By using racial equity issues as opposed to looking at how many people to save.

00:07:11.000 This has all sorts of statistical implications that actually end with more people of color dead, right? 0.58

00:07:16.000 If we had actually followed these standards, more people of color would have died. 1.00

00:07:19.000 I'll explain in one second.

00:07:20.000 But first, here's what you need to know.

00:07:22.000 What you need to know is that if you vaccinate by age, You will be preventing the most death, and it is very clear that this is the case.

00:07:29.000 Age is actually even a better way of describing how people should be vaccinated than single pre-existing conditions.

00:07:35.000 Now, the reason for that is because if you are 85, the chances are that you have several pre-existing conditions.

00:07:40.000 So if you just look at people who have diabetes versus people who are over the age of 85, people over the age of 85, just as a group, are more likely to die than people who just have diabetes, because if you have diabetes, you could be 30, you could be 35, maybe you have your diabetes well handled.

00:07:53.000 Okay, if you're 85, the chances are that you probably have diabetes, you probably have a kidney problem, you probably have some lung issues, right?

00:07:59.000 You're 85.

00:07:59.000 I mean, you've lived a long time, and that means that you have multiple underlying issues.

00:08:03.000 It doesn't mean that age itself is the complicating factor.

00:08:05.000 It means that age itself correlates with multiple underlying factors.

00:08:09.000 This is something that Dr. Marty McCary from Johns Hopkins University had talked about extensively, is that for people in the United States above the age of 65, as of about a month ago, Only 2,500 people above the age of 65 with no pre-existing conditions have died.

00:08:21.000 So pre-existing conditions still matter, but it's multiple pre-existing conditions that give the game away in terms of like very, very high rates of death.

00:08:28.000 And that correlates very highly with advanced age, not only in the United States, but all over the world.

00:08:33.000 So statistically speaking, here's an example.

00:08:35.000 This is from Israel, okay?

00:08:36.000 So this has nothing to do with the United States or its racial breakdown.

00:08:39.000 David Wallace-Wells, who's a liberal, right?

00:08:40.000 He's the deputy editor and climate columnist for New York Magazine.

00:08:43.000 He put out this chart from Aryeh Kovler on Twitter over the weekend.

00:08:48.000 These estimates are from Israel, he says, but striking.

00:08:50.000 Vaccinate the 0.5% of people over 90. 0.99

00:08:53.000 The total fatality risk dropped by 19%.

00:08:56.000 Right by one-fifth.

00:08:57.000 Vaccinate the 2.5% of the population over 80. 0.99

00:09:00.000 It falls by half.

00:09:02.000 Vaccinate the 7.5% of the population over 70. 1.00

00:09:05.000 It drops by three quarters.

00:09:07.000 Age skew remains underappreciated.

00:09:09.000 In other words, pretty obviously, if you want to prevent mass death, then what you do.

00:09:13.000 And you can see it right there in the stats.

00:09:16.000 If you want to prevent mass death, then what you do is you do it by age. 0.99

00:09:18.000 Fortunately, we have public health experts who are both not concerned with public health and obviously not experts who are absolute idiots, right? 0.99

00:09:26.000 They are suggesting that instead, for the purposes of racial equity, we should tranche out the vaccine with an eye toward race, which is nuts. 0.99

00:09:34.000 Okay, that's nuts.

00:09:34.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:10:44.000 Okay, so according to the UK Daily Mail, Every U.S.

00:10:47.000 state has been advised to consider ethnic minorities as a critical and vulnerable group in their vaccine distribution plans, according to the Centers for Disease Control guidance.

00:10:56.000 As a result, half of the nation's states have outlined plans that now prioritize Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous residents over white people in some way, as the vaccine rollout begins.

00:11:06.000 According to our analysis, this is again the UK Daily Mail, 25 states have committed to a focus on racial and ethnic communities as they decided which groups should be prioritized in receiving a coronavirus vaccine dose.

00:11:17.000 These included New Mexico, where collaboration with Native Americans is being prioritized, California, which has committed to ensuring that Black and Hispanic people have greater access to the vaccine, and Oregon, where health officials have said that ethnic minorities will have equitable access to the shot.

00:11:32.000 Right, not equal access, equitable access.

00:11:34.000 There's a difference between equal and equitable.

00:11:35.000 Equitable means fair, equal means the same.

00:11:38.000 Some states have made even more specific plans to prioritize communities of color, with 12 states specifically mentioning efforts to partner with health care providers in areas with large minority populations to reach diverse populations, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

00:11:53.000 Among the states that are giving greater preference to minority communities are the ones that you would suspect.

00:11:56.000 Places like New York and California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Maine.

00:12:10.000 The CDC has issued guidance on its Social Vulnerability Index that uses 15 U.S.

00:12:15.000 Census variables to help local officials identify communities that may need support.

00:12:18.000 It is being used in states like Michigan, where minority status and language spoken could be taken into consideration when deciding how high a priority you are for receiving a vaccine.

00:12:27.000 Maine has developed a racial ethnic minority COVID-19 vaccination plan in an attempt to give preference to groups that, quote, have experienced rates of disease that far exceed their representation in the population as a whole.

00:12:38.000 In the U.S., black and Hispanic people are almost three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites.

00:12:42.000 Well, the reason that that is, is because black and Hispanic people are apparently significantly more likely to actually get the disease. 0.83

00:12:48.000 It turns out that it is not that they are particularly vulnerable to the disease.

00:12:52.000 According to the New York Times, there's a piece over the last couple of weeks, Dr. Gabenja Ogedegbe, forgive the pronunciation, began to research coronavirus infections among black and Hispanic patients.

00:13:03.000 He thought he knew what he would find.

00:13:04.000 He thought infected black and Hispanic patients would be more likely to be hospitalized compared with white patients and more likely to die.

00:13:09.000 That's not how it turned out. 0.97

00:13:10.000 So in other words, black and Hispanic people do not have an innate vulnerability.

00:13:14.000 It has nothing to do with race. 0.93

00:13:15.000 What's actually happening is that black and hispanic people, because they're disproportionately low income, are more likely to actually get the disease.

00:13:22.000 After accounting for various disparities, Dr. Ogedegbe found that infected black and hispanic patients were no more likely than white patients to be hospitalized.

00:13:30.000 If hospitalized, black patients had a slightly lower risk of dying.

00:13:35.000 That study was published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

00:13:37.000 Three other recent large studies have come to similarly surprising conclusions.

00:13:42.000 The new findings do not contradict an enormous body of research showing Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to be affected by the pandemic.

00:13:48.000 The coronavirus is more prevalent in minority communities.

00:13:50.000 Infections, illnesses, and deaths have occurred in these groups in disproportionate numbers, but the studies do suggest there is no innate vulnerability to the virus among Black and Hispanic Americans.

00:13:59.000 He says it's about exposure.

00:14:00.000 It's about where people live.

00:14:01.000 It has nothing to do with the genes.

00:14:02.000 Okay, well, then why exactly would we be looking at non-health variables in order to determine how to tranche this stuff out?

00:14:11.000 I mean, this is insane.

00:14:12.000 Hey, Noah Smith, who again is no conservative.

00:14:16.000 He's a Bloomberg opinion writer of the left.

00:14:18.000 He points out that there are these slides that were put out for possible guidance by the CDC that show essential workers getting this before the elderly.

00:14:28.000 Because essential workers are very likely to be more often black and Hispanic than the elderly.

00:14:28.000 Why?

00:14:34.000 Now, as we talked about last week, there were actual ethicists, supposed ethicists, who were suggesting just this, that because elderly people tend to be whiter, because white people live longer in the United States than some other subsections of the population, there were too many old white people.

00:14:47.000 So, you know what? 0.99

00:14:48.000 In the name of equity, let some of the old white people die. 1.00

00:14:50.000 In the name of younger, not white people, give the 20-year-old essential worker with no actual vulnerability To this thing. 1.00

00:14:56.000 The shot before you give an 85 year old white person that shot. 0.97

00:15:00.000 I mean, this is this is crazy. 0.92

00:15:02.000 OK, and I'll tell you why this is especially crazy. 0.99

00:15:04.000 It means that more black and Hispanic people will die. 1.00

00:15:08.000 Think about the statistics here. 0.96

00:15:11.000 It's true that a disproportionate number of people by demographic percentage of the population.

00:15:19.000 It is true.

00:15:20.000 A higher percentage of people over the 85 are white than the percentage of people who are 30 who are white.

00:15:26.000 Okay, that is true in the United States.

00:15:28.000 It also happens to be true that the most vulnerable subset of black and Hispanic people in the United States are people who are over the age of 85, because black and Hispanic people respond to the virus in exactly the same way as white people, which is to say, if you're old, you're at serious risk.

00:15:40.000 So, if you take vaccines away from the elderly on the basis of age, and you give it to essential workers on the basis of race, you will end up with more absolute black and Hispanic deaths in order to achieve less relative black and Hispanic death. 0.89

00:15:54.000 You'll end up with more actual dead bodies that are black and hispanic because you're not actually prioritizing the elderly. 0.96

00:16:01.000 You'll end up with a lower percentage of black and hispanic deaths because you're prioritizing where more black and hispanic people live in the age distribution of the population. 1.00

00:16:10.000 Did you understand how idiotic and eugenic this is? 0.99

00:16:13.000 I mean, it's social engineering from the top levels. 1.00

00:16:15.000 Games of life and death.

00:16:16.000 That is a game of life and death.

00:16:19.000 Because when you say people above the age of 85, those people get it after the essential workers, what you're saying is not just that a 20-year-old black worker should get it before an 85-year-old white lady. 0.55

00:16:27.000 What you're saying is that a 20-year-old black worker should get it before an 85-year-old black lady, right? 0.95

00:16:32.000 Because now you're elevating race and the age group where race is most proportionate You are elevating that above where the vulnerability is.

00:16:43.000 And this is what the CDC was recommending.

00:16:45.000 This is what they were recommending in some of their slides.

00:16:47.000 According to Noah Smith, they said that in order to mitigate health inequities, the highest incidence and mortality in congregate living and racial and ethnic minority groups underrepresented among adults over the age of 65.

00:17:00.000 That means that you should actually look to You should look to focus your outreach not on the highest incidence and mortality in congregate living.

00:17:14.000 You should look instead to prioritize the people who are most black and Hispanic, namely essential workers.

00:17:21.000 So if you look, it says to mitigate health inequities, you should start with essential workers, right?

00:17:26.000 Essential workers should be given top priority because racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in many essential industries.

00:17:32.000 A quarter of essential workers live in low-income families.

00:17:36.000 Then you should do adults aged over 65 because racial and ethnic minority groups are underrepresented among adults over age 65.

00:17:42.000 OK, this is purely them saying we do not care if black and Hispanic elderly people die, because you know what?

00:17:48.000 If they die, they're at least dying along with a bunch of white people who are over the age of 85. 0.98

00:17:53.000 I mean, that's insane! 0.97

00:17:56.000 Josh Barrow, again, not a right-winger.

00:17:57.000 He says, this is a real concrete error arising from social justice ideology failing to see individuals rather than groups. In general, I don't think the public health community's forays into politics and ethics have gone well during all this. Yeah, you think?

00:18:07.000 Matt Iglesias, who's been a guest on this program and was just rational enough to be ousted from his own job over at Box, which he co-founded.

00:18:14.000 He wrote, basically, if you take 1,000 prime-age Americans, you'd expect to have 150 African-Americans in the pool versus about 100 if you take 1,000 senior citizens.

00:18:22.000 So in that sense, vaccinating essential workers promotes racial equity because you're giving shots to more black people. 0.85

00:18:27.000 But since the infection fatality rate for senior citizens is at least 10 times the rate for non-seniors, you're not actually saving black people's lives this way. 0.53

00:18:34.000 You're opting for a strategy that leads to more black deaths and more white deaths than the vaccinate seniors first strategy, but you're deciding it's better for equity. 0.91

00:18:42.000 This is what ethics requires.

00:18:45.000 He says, I often feel medical ethics people should run their ideas by a normal ethicist because to me that doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:18:51.000 Also, says Matt Iglesias, we know the people who have been dying the most from COVID are black senior citizens. 0.85

00:18:55.000 The decision here is not to prioritize vaccinating them, but to instead vaccinate a different, less vulnerable group of people, and then assert this creates some kind of abstract collective racial benefit.

00:19:04.000 There've been a lot of takes lately about woke liberals prioritizing symbolic racial issues over the concrete needs of non-white people, but this idea really takes the cake.

00:19:12.000 Okay, so even people on the left were like, this is insane.

00:19:14.000 Okay, now in a second, we're gonna get to who actually mocked up this slide.

00:19:19.000 You will be unsurprised to learn who mocked up this particular slide for the CDC, which then ended up being used as guidance across the nation.

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00:20:55.000 Okay, so who exactly rolled out this idiotic idea? 0.99

00:20:58.000 Who actually did this? 0.99

00:21:00.000 Well, it turns out that the person who rolled this out is a person named Joe Walker.

00:21:04.000 And Joe Walker tweeted out over the weekend because Nate Silver was like, this makes no sense.

00:21:10.000 This is kind of crazy what you're doing right now.

00:21:12.000 And then he trended because the woke control Twitter.

00:21:14.000 I mean, Twitter is just the mobocracy that controls Twitter is the woke.

00:21:19.000 So Nate Silver was like, these standards make no sense.

00:21:21.000 So basically on the one side, you had rational liberals like Matt Iglesias and Nate Silver who were like, this is crazy.

00:21:25.000 You're going to get more people killed and significant, like tens of thousands of more people killed with these standards.

00:21:30.000 And on the other side, you had the wokes who were like, yeah, but you know what? 1.00

00:21:33.000 That's racially just because more white people will die. 0.89

00:21:35.000 Okay, so who actually mocked this up?

00:21:37.000 So, this person named Joe Walker tweeted, Hey Nate Silver, I'm the epidemiologist who did this analysis.

00:21:43.000 The slide you show assumes a disease-blocking vaccine, which still allows the virus to infect and spread.

00:21:48.000 Differences in strategy are much smaller than if you assume vaccine can also prevent infection and transmission.

00:21:54.000 Okay, but that's not the point.

00:21:56.000 Who exactly is Joe Walker?

00:21:57.000 Joe Walker is a CDC infectious disease epidemiologist and modeling.

00:22:03.000 Also, non-binary trans, they and them, in the profile for this person, is the trans flag.

00:22:09.000 And then it says, festively defund the police.

00:22:12.000 Festively!

00:22:14.000 You know, it's that kind of year, guys.

00:22:16.000 It's the most radical time of the year.

00:22:21.000 Festively!

00:22:22.000 Don't just defund the police so that people get killed.

00:22:24.000 Do it festively.

00:22:25.000 Make sure that you put some bells on when you do it.

00:22:28.000 So that is pretty incredible.

00:22:31.000 Okay, plus you had people suggesting that we should actually value pre-existing conditions over age, even though that is not what the statistics tend to show.

00:22:41.000 So Zoe McLaren tweeted this out.

00:22:44.000 Zoe McLaren tweeted out, non-white people die from COVID-19 much more often than white people of the same age.

00:22:49.000 Prioritizing those with pre-existing conditions is one way to help redress racial inequalities without explicitly prioritizing by race.

00:22:55.000 It's not indefensible.

00:22:56.000 You just don't understand.

00:22:58.000 No, no, no, no.

00:22:59.000 We understand.

00:23:00.000 Also, it also happens not to be true, right?

00:23:03.000 As I mentioned earlier, that New York Times piece focuses in on the fact that if you are black or Hispanic or white, you're dying at essentially the same rates.

00:23:11.000 It's just the black and Hispanic people are getting this more often.

00:23:13.000 Okay, so over the weekend, the CDC then revised its standards.

00:23:17.000 Yasha Monk, again, no one I've cited thus far on the show is a right-winger.

00:23:20.000 No one.

00:23:21.000 I was on this last week, like fairly early last week, but The kind of typical moderate liberals picked it up and they ran with it and good for them.

00:23:28.000 Okay, Yasha Monk, he said, some good news.

00:23:31.000 Thanks to massive and justified public criticism, the CDC is making adjustments to their recommendations.

00:23:35.000 Americans over 75 should now get the vaccine alongside essential frontline workers.

00:23:39.000 That is an improvement, but it doesn't solve many of the concerns.

00:23:42.000 First of all, they shouldn't get it alongside frontline essential workers.

00:23:44.000 They should get it before frontline essential workers. 0.92

00:23:46.000 Again, if you're a 20 year old working in a grocery store, that's crazy.

00:23:49.000 That's especially crazy when you look at who is considered an essential frontline worker.

00:23:53.000 As Josh Barrow points out, here is who is considered a frontline essential worker.

00:23:57.000 You ready?

00:23:58.000 First responders like firefighters and police, teachers, teachers, okay, teachers are not uniquely vulnerable to this virus.

00:24:07.000 They're not.

00:24:08.000 I'm unaware in the United States of any teacher who has died after being infected at school.

00:24:13.000 If there is one, name them.

00:24:15.000 Okay, seriously, because we saw a lot of stories over the summer about teachers dying.

00:24:18.000 It turns out they've been infected elsewhere.

00:24:19.000 So teachers, like if I have a choice between 35 year old teacher and 75 year old grandma in a nursing home, that is not a hard choice, but it is for the CDC because our public health experts are not public health experts. 1.00

00:24:32.000 They are apparently politically driven idiots, moral idiots. 1.00

00:24:37.000 Who else is a frontline essential worker? 1.00

00:24:40.000 Food and agriculture.

00:24:41.000 Manufacturing.

00:24:42.000 So you work in a factory.

00:24:44.000 And now we are treating you as though you're 85 years old and you have three pre-existing conditions.

00:24:48.000 Corrections workers.

00:24:49.000 U.S.

00:24:49.000 Postal Service workers.

00:24:51.000 Okay, if you're a U.S.

00:24:52.000 Postal Service worker, first of all, I mean, I love our mail guy, but he's literally just taking packages and then dropping them off on the front stoop now.

00:25:01.000 There's not a lot of face-to-face contact.

00:25:03.000 Public transit workers and grocery store workers.

00:25:05.000 So there are 30 million of those people.

00:25:07.000 So we're gonna give 30 million doses to those people as opposed to people who are significantly more vulnerable.

00:25:11.000 By the way, other essential workers who will also be prioritized as this thing rolls out include people in finance, IT and communication, energy, media, and legal.

00:25:22.000 Okay, I should not be prioritized in the vaccine line.

00:25:25.000 I'm 36 years old.

00:25:27.000 Thank God, healthy.

00:25:28.000 By the way, my wife should not be prioritized in the vaccine line.

00:25:31.000 She's 33 years old and she is in excellent health.

00:25:34.000 And also, she happens not to be working with COVID patients right now. 1.00

00:25:38.000 Doing this by industry is also idiotic. 0.97

00:25:40.000 Doing it by pre-existing condition and age, age being the priority because it's an easier stand-in than multiple pre-existing conditions. 0.98

00:25:48.000 That is obviously the answer here.

00:25:50.000 But I mean, come on.

00:25:52.000 Come on.

00:25:53.000 These standards are still not good.

00:25:56.000 Anyway, Yasha Monk continues.

00:25:57.000 News says in particular, the CDC's own data still suggests Americans aged 65 to 74 are much more likely to die from COVID than younger frontline workers.

00:26:05.000 So of course this action will likely still cause needless additional deaths.

00:26:08.000 How many?

00:26:08.000 This is where things get really worrying.

00:26:10.000 In the original CDC presentation, Kathleen Dooling admitted that prioritizing all essential workers would likely increase overall deaths by between 0.5% and 6.5%.

00:26:20.000 She then called the additional deaths of thousands of Americans a quote-unquote minimal difference.

00:26:26.000 That is the difference 0.5% and 6.5%?

00:26:29.000 Are you kidding?

00:26:31.000 When we're talking hundreds of thousands of deaths?

00:26:34.000 You're talking about like tens of thousands of people dying because you guys set crappy, woke standards for how to tranche out the vaccine? 0.97

00:26:40.000 That's nuts. 0.98

00:26:41.000 That's nuts.

00:26:42.000 So where is all of this coming from?

00:26:45.000 Where is all of this coming?

00:26:45.000 We're gonna get to that in just one second, because it comes from a woke ideology that cares less about human life than it does about social engineering.

00:26:52.000 We'll get to, and by the way, it's gonna be dominant in the Biden administration.

00:26:55.000 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:28:03.000 Okay, so where is all this coming from?

00:28:05.000 Well, when President Trump talked very early on about the deep state, I thought in some cases he was not being particularly specific about what he meant.

00:28:12.000 But what he actually meant, I think, is that there are a bunch of holdover staffers, people like the festively defund the police person, who staff all of these agencies.

00:28:22.000 And when you enter office, you don't go person by person and just get rid of all of them.

00:28:25.000 That's nearly impossible.

00:28:26.000 There are 2 million members of the executive branch, which is why we should completely minimize the executive branch.

00:28:32.000 But there are a lot of people out there who have these standards, and a lot of them are infused by woke ideology.

00:28:38.000 You think that Trump would have approved something like this, personally?

00:28:40.000 You think that Trump's CDC heads would have been super happy about the quote-unquote equitable distribution of the vaccine as opposed to, you know, trying to prioritize the people who are most likely to die?

00:28:50.000 I have serious doubts that that is the case.

00:28:51.000 I mean, this is the same president who attempted to get rid of critical race theory being taught in government offices and across government auspices.

00:28:59.000 And so where is this ideology coming from?

00:29:00.000 It is coming from a left-wing ideology, which has always suggested that every crisis is an opportunity for social leveling.

00:29:06.000 Every crisis can be wrapped up into a ball.

00:29:08.000 It is all the same.

00:29:09.000 What you're looking for in the end is redistribution on a group intersectional basis.

00:29:14.000 The left coalition, which is all about cobbling together the sort of victims of the white supremacist superstructure.

00:29:21.000 This is the way they talk.

00:29:23.000 The attempt to bring together this coalition against the system and to view every problem through the lens of race leads to this kind of quote-unquote social justice outcome, which is horrifying, including for a lot of members of the minority community, particularly in this case, members of the minority community who are older.

00:29:40.000 You can see how the social justice woke ideology looking at people primarily in terms of racial group is really bad and racist, by the way.

00:29:50.000 It used to be that we were pretty clear about this, that this stuff was racist.

00:29:53.000 Now, under the guise of wokeness, being racist has become woke.

00:29:56.000 Being racist is the new anti-racist.

00:29:58.000 It's really exciting.

00:30:00.000 So you can see this infuses how Team Biden thinks.

00:30:04.000 So earlier this year, for example, Biden, who is now legally the president-elect, or at least will be on January 6th when the House votes, Biden, He spoke earlier this year about COVID, and he wrapped everything up into a ball.

00:30:17.000 All of his priorities are wrapped up into a ball.

00:30:20.000 Now, they shouldn't be.

00:30:21.000 The priority on COVID should be, wait for it, saving lives.

00:30:24.000 Obviously, when it comes to scientific and government policy, it should be saving lives.

00:30:28.000 And by the way, preserving the economy, there are other balancing considerations.

00:30:32.000 But one of those considerations is not race, nor should it be.

00:30:36.000 But for Biden, it's all the same.

00:30:37.000 The economy is all about producing racial, quote-unquote, equity. 0.58

00:30:41.000 What he means by that is racially equal outcomes.

00:30:44.000 Climate policy is about producing racially equal outcomes.

00:30:47.000 COVID is about producing racially equal outcomes.

00:30:50.000 Everything is the same.

00:30:51.000 It's all one big ball of mush, and you wrap it all up, and it's the exact same goal, and the same goal is social justice.

00:30:57.000 Here is Joe Biden doing this routine just a little earlier this year.

00:31:01.000 The irony is we have four crises.

00:31:04.000 The first crisis is COVID.

00:31:06.000 Second is the economic close to recession and maybe worse.

00:31:10.000 The third crisis is the inequity that exists and the racial inequity exists.

00:31:16.000 And the fourth crisis is climate.

00:31:19.000 Ironically, they all work for one another.

00:31:21.000 The first time the American people looked out there and said, my lord, I guess all those things I heard about, and even though I don't live in neighborhoods that have large black populations, I didn't realize police actually do those kind of things like I saw with George Floyd.

00:31:36.000 Okay, so again, all of this is wrapped together.

00:31:38.000 It's all social justice ideology in which people are segregated by race, and then we are supposed to treat government policies end as achieving an equal outcome where all the groups have the same average and all the groups have the same distribution and all of that, which of course is not possible via government policy.

00:31:54.000 Okay, so when it comes to health policy, this is particularly a problem.

00:31:58.000 This is how Biden thinks, right?

00:31:59.000 This is how the Democrats think.

00:32:00.000 This is how the media think.

00:32:01.000 It's really bad.

00:32:02.000 It has really, really bad ramifications, especially when you get into realms that are beyond the realm of simple sort of racial politics.

00:32:10.000 This is why earlier this year, I mean, not very long ago, just a couple of weeks ago, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who heads up health ethics or something at Yale, and who's been appointed by Biden to member of his COVID team, she was speaking at one of his pressers, and she said health access equity is the priority, not the people who are most vulnerable should be able to get the access to the health they need, but health access equity, equity, again, whenever the left uses equity, understand what they mean is equality of outcome.

00:32:35.000 They do not mean that if you are equally vulnerable that a black person over the age of 85 should have the same access to the vaccine as a white person over the age of 85.

00:32:43.000 I agree.

00:32:44.000 That's obviously true.

00:32:45.000 If you're over the age of 85, we should treat you exactly the same. 0.64

00:32:47.000 But we shouldn't treat a 20-year-old essential worker the same as an 85-year-old black grandma or white grandma, for that matter. 0.59

00:32:52.000 Anyway, here is Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith spelling out this ideology, which has real ramifications for real people and real deaths. 0.61

00:33:00.000 It is our societal obligation to ensure equitable access to testing, treatments, and vaccines, equitable support for those who are hurting, and equitable pathways to opportunity as we emerge from this crisis and rebuild.

00:33:17.000 Again, equity, equity.

00:33:18.000 But again, when I think equity, when I think fair, I think the person who's most vulnerable should go first with the vaccine.

00:33:24.000 When I think fair, I think equal rights under law.

00:33:28.000 That's fairness to me.

00:33:29.000 Right?

00:33:30.000 Equal rights under law is fairness.

00:33:31.000 To the left, equal outcome is fairness.

00:33:34.000 And it's done by group, not by individual.

00:33:36.000 By the way, this is the same lady who said in an interview with the AP.

00:33:39.000 She said, quote, So here she was lumping together all the George Floyd stuff with COVID.

00:33:42.000 And then she said, Ah, the virus is racist, you see.

00:33:43.000 seated challenge of racial injustice and COVID-19 exploited that reality.

00:33:47.000 So here she was lumping together all the George Floyd stuff with COVID.

00:33:50.000 And then she said there are moral and pragmatic reasons to address inequality.

00:33:53.000 We can't pretend that COVID-19 has been an equal opportunity offender.

00:33:56.000 Ah, the virus is racist, you see.

00:33:58.000 It's not an equal opportunity offender.

00:34:00.000 OK, the virus is indeed an equal opportunity offender.

00:34:03.000 That does not mean that the rain falls on everybody equally.

00:34:06.000 Some people have umbrellas and some people do not.

00:34:09.000 But it does mean that for all those who don't have umbrellas, we should try to make sure that we get them umbrellas.

00:34:13.000 And then we do so in the priority order where they're most likely to be harmed by the COVID rain, so to speak. 0.88

00:34:20.000 We'll talk more about the ramifications of this asinine, backwards, and really ugly ideology in just one second.

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00:35:53.000 I mean, once you're talking about more absolute deaths because you're trying to establish quote-unquote fairness so more people have to die, you're now talking about evil.

00:36:01.000 You're not talking about weighing goods.

00:36:02.000 You're talking about actual acts of evil. 0.96

00:36:04.000 Once you say, 85-year-old black grandma gotta die because we have to have more proportionate 20-year-old essential workers vaccinated, there's no other word for that. 0.98

00:36:12.000 That's social engineering. 0.98

00:36:13.000 It's eugenic and it's evil.

00:36:14.000 We'll get to more of this in one second.

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00:38:29.000 Alrighty, so it is not just with regard to COVID policy that racial wokeness has real effects.

00:38:40.000 It also has real effects over in the area of criminal policy, which we already know.

00:38:45.000 We have seen crime spike in major cities around the nation as city after city collapses to the woke ideology, which suggests that the real reason that so many black and Hispanic people are going to prison is not because many people are committing crimes and that we arrest people regardless of race when they commit crimes, but because the police are inherently racist. 0.93

00:39:02.000 This is why you have the BLM leaders who are now praising LA's new progressive DA, Melina Abdullah, who is an insane person. 0.55

00:39:08.000 Okay, Melina Abdullah used to teach over at Cal State University Los Angeles.

00:39:12.000 I only know about Melina Abdullah because when I traveled to Cal State Los Angeles, and there was very nearly a riot, I mean like a full-scale riot with people getting beaten up in the crowd and everything, she was the person who had basically started all of that because she had proclaimed that I was actually secretly a member of the KKK, that Yamiko was the dead giveaway.

00:39:29.000 Well, now Melina Abdullah, who's a Black Lives Matter leader, She put out on her social media, quote, Rarely do I trust a politician. 1.00

00:39:36.000 Never have I trusted a cop or former cop.

00:39:38.000 But George Gascon seems like the real deal to me.

00:39:40.000 Although I vehemently opposed Lacey and voted for Gascon, I didn't endorse him when he ran.

00:39:44.000 Now that he's in, I am deeply impressed by his commitment to meaningful change, his courage in the face of threats by some powerful adversaries, and his strong collaboration with progressive allies.

00:39:52.000 I'm posting this because just as we hold electeds accountable when they harm communities, so we must also stand with those leaders who advance justice.

00:39:58.000 We're with you, George Gaskin.

00:40:00.000 Don't let the a-holes who are dead set on maintaining an unjust system sway you. 1.00

00:40:03.000 Okay?

00:40:05.000 She, of course, is, again, a radical, crazy person, and she's very happy because Gaskin announced that he had reinstated the use of some sentence enhancements for cases involving the most vulnerable victims, and then reversed course. 0.95

00:40:18.000 So he's just terrible.

00:40:20.000 I mean, this DA has basically been suggesting that he is not going to, under nearly any circumstances, prosecute people for actual crimes.

00:40:30.000 He announced an end to cash bail.

00:40:31.000 He said he would stop trying juveniles as adults.

00:40:33.000 He would prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.

00:40:35.000 He would eliminate all sentencing enhancement.

00:40:38.000 Also, he did not campaign on that, by the way.

00:40:41.000 His plan to do so was met with immediate resistance, according to the Daily Wire.

00:40:44.000 The policy changes sparked a revolt from local law enforcement unions and several deputy district attorneys within Gascon's office.

00:40:50.000 On Friday, he accused gullible members of the media of being exploited into, quote, He's, again, a radical leftist who believes that the reason that there are a disproportionate number of black and brown people in prison is not because a disproportionate number of black and brown people are committing crimes, but because the police hate black and brown people, and so he is just going to stop enforcing the actual law, this new DA. 0.92

00:41:14.000 Which is crazy.

00:41:16.000 It's pretty wild that his original order remains in place, by the way.

00:41:21.000 So, if you break into somebody's house and you got a gun on your waist, no problem.

00:41:24.000 those who have been in prison recently, those listed in the state's gang database, will no longer face extra time behind bars.

00:41:30.000 Prosecutors still prohibited from seeking sentencing enhancements for the use of a gun unless the manner in which the weapon was used in a crime exhibited an extreme or immediate threat to human life. So if you break into somebody's house and you got a gun on your waist, no problem. If you break into somebody's house and you pull the gun out of your waistband and you point it at somebody, then you have a problem apparently. I mean, it's just crazy.

00:41:48.000 It's just crazy.

00:41:49.000 The LA Protective Police League issued a statement after Gascon slightly reversed himself.

00:41:54.000 They said it took a national outcry for him to understand that child rapists, human traffickers, and perpetrators of violent hate crimes should spend more time behind bars.

00:42:01.000 He's still willing to go easy on gang members who terrorize our neighborhoods or criminals that shoot cops in the back of the head.

00:42:07.000 is true. In fact, it's so true that over the weekend he was caught on tape telling somebody in the public that people who were protesting him were terrible people. Turns out one of the people protesting him was actually, I believe, the mother of somebody who had been either raped or murdered.

00:42:07.000 I apologize.

00:42:23.000 Here's what that sounded like with George Gascon. I apologize. It's unfortunate that we have people that do not have enough education to keep their mouths shut for a moment so we can talk.

00:42:34.000 My son can never speak again because he was murdered.

00:42:38.000 He was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.

00:42:42.000 Meanwhile, you have Bill de Blasio in New York, who is again mimicking this woke ideology with disastrous consequences.

00:42:50.000 He's been suggesting that when it comes to everything from policing policy to schooling policy to COVID, it is time for racial equity, right?

00:42:58.000 That means shutting down charter schools, guys.

00:43:00.000 Exciting stuff.

00:43:01.000 It means higher taxes.

00:43:02.000 And it also means the police can't do their job.

00:43:04.000 But also when it comes to COVID policy, like when you're Lodestar, when the thing that you are searching for and the center of gravity in your political universe, is a utopian vision in which all groups are leveled, even though you don't want to treat people as individuals.

00:43:18.000 You want to seek group justice at the expense of individual justice, you are likely to pursue terrible policy.

00:43:23.000 Well, that's what Bill de Blasio has done all along.

00:43:26.000 If you're talking about the problems of disparity, if you're talking about structural racism, certainly policing is not the only area to talk about.

00:43:35.000 There are many areas to talk about, and education must be front and center.

00:43:41.000 There has been so much that needed to be addressed in education in New York City.

00:43:46.000 And from the beginning, what I tried to focus on was a very simple concept, equity and excellence, that we needed to profoundly change the distribution of resources.

00:43:58.000 I like to say very bluntly, our mission is to redistribute wealth.

00:44:03.000 A lot of people bristle at that phrase.

00:44:05.000 That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.

00:44:07.000 So his mission is not success and individual rights and the ability of everybody to rise.

00:44:11.000 His mission is to redistribute wealth. 1.00

00:44:12.000 I mean, he's at least saying it, the communist bastard. 0.99

00:44:14.000 He's at least saying it out loud. 1.00

00:44:16.000 It's amazing.

00:44:17.000 It's amazing stuff.

00:44:18.000 Now take this to its logical extreme and this is where you end up with the Ibram X. Kendi idea that we should have a department of anti-racism at the federal level capable of shutting down any law that does not result in equal outcome by racial group.

00:44:29.000 It's where you end up with... Why not just do what Brandon Hasbrook suggested over the weekend over at The Nation, the wild left publication The Nation.

00:44:38.000 He says the votes of black Americans should count twice.

00:44:41.000 Not kidding.

00:44:41.000 There's an actual article in The Nation.

00:44:44.000 He says that, you know, one of the big problems is that white people, they're voting because of the electoral college, votes too much.

00:44:50.000 And so therefore, we should double count ballots cast by all black residents.

00:44:54.000 Just double count them.

00:44:55.000 I have an easier way of doing this.

00:44:56.000 We could count white votes as three fifths of a vote. 0.51

00:44:59.000 We can call it the new three-fifths rule. 0.87

00:45:01.000 And then I guess the three-fifths rule would be good, right? 0.99

00:45:03.000 Because when it's three-fifths rules designed to oppress black people, that's not even what the three-fifths compromise really was about.

00:45:09.000 That was actually designed to minimize the impact of slaveholding votes in the South.

00:45:14.000 The North wanted three-fifths because black people couldn't vote. 0.61

00:45:16.000 But in any case, that's a little bit more of a complex story.

00:45:18.000 Bottom line is this, this guy is actually suggesting a new three-fifths rule, but it's good now. 0.54

00:45:22.000 Three-fifths rules are good now because they are reversed.

00:45:26.000 This ideology is poisonous, it is disgusting, and it is vile, and it is dangerous.

00:45:30.000 It is dangerous as well.

00:45:32.000 And meanwhile, in your latest episode of people ignoring the rules that they don't think apply to them, there's now a report claiming that Dr. Deborah Birx, who's of course on Trump's coronavirus advisory team, violated her own Thanksgiving coronavirus recommendations, according to Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire.

00:45:47.000 A report emerged on Sunday claiming that Birx violated some of the recommendations she made about how Americans should proceed with family interactions around Thanksgiving.

00:45:54.000 During a press briefing on November 19th, Birx repeatedly urged people to, quote, increase their vigilance at this moment.

00:45:59.000 Part of the guidance was to limit interactions indoors to immediate households.

00:46:02.000 Well, the AP reported on Sunday that Birx, who has worked for both Democrats and Republicans, traveled to a vacation property she owns on Fenwick Island in Delaware, where she was joined by three generations of family members from two households.

00:46:13.000 She insisted the purpose of the roughly 50-hour visit was to deal with the winterization of the property before a potential sale.

00:46:19.000 Burke said everyone on her Delaware trips belongs to her immediate household, even as she acknowledged they lived in two different homes.

00:46:25.000 She did acknowledge that her family shared a meal together while in Delaware.

00:46:28.000 The AP did not say whether it was indoors or outdoors.

00:46:31.000 Whether outdoors, by the way, there was in the high 50s or low 60s.

00:46:35.000 So good times over there.

00:46:36.000 The rules don't apply to the little people. 0.91

00:46:38.000 The rules don't apply to the people who are important.

00:46:40.000 They just apply to the little people. 0.96

00:46:43.000 So that is very, very exciting stuff.

00:46:45.000 By the way, when we talk about the cost of COVID policy, worth noting that San Francisco, when we talk about the cost of shutdown, San Francisco has had more people die of drug overdoses so far this year than people dying from COVID.

00:46:56.000 San Francisco has seen 173 deaths from COVID-19 this year.

00:47:00.000 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco this year.

00:47:03.000 The two are not completely unrelated when it comes to these lockdown policies.

00:47:09.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden, he says it's time to heal.

00:47:12.000 That's exciting stuff.

00:47:12.000 I'm always excited to hear from a guy who is pushing for the woke agenda, telling us that in one month, we begin to heal.

00:47:19.000 I don't know what the hell that is supposed to mean, we begin to heal.

00:47:23.000 Does he really believe that Trump is the only thing that has been prevented?

00:47:26.000 It's like a splinter, and then once Trump is removed, we begin to heal?

00:47:29.000 Or are there deeper underlying issues?

00:47:32.000 In my opinion, there are deeper underlying issues.

00:47:34.000 In fact, Biden held a call over the weekend with Mexico's president, López Obrador.

00:47:40.000 Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

00:47:42.000 They had a phone call on Saturday, and they discussed working together on a new approach to migration that, quote, offers alternatives to undertaking the dangerous journey to the United States.

00:47:49.000 He's going to radically shift immigration policy, but don't worry, the healing has begun.

00:47:53.000 It will begin with caravans headed toward the American southern border.

00:47:57.000 That is very exciting stuff.

00:47:59.000 By the way, he's already signaled, Biden has, that he wants to undo agreements with Mexico and states in Latin America that allowed people to apply for asylum from the states where they are coming from, as opposed to traveling up north to the American border, where we then have to house them and try to distinguish them and release them into the interior.

00:48:15.000 According to Axios, the statement from Biden's transition team on the call details represents a key part of the president-elect's plan to overhaul Trump's aggressive border policy.

00:48:24.000 Biden has vowed to end Trump's remain-in-Mexico policy that saw tens of thousands of asylum seekers forced to wait for their court dates in Mexico.

00:48:31.000 The transition team said in its statement Biden reiterated in the call he would stand by the commitments he made on the campaign trail.

00:48:36.000 He noted it would take time and resources to implement those commitments effectively.

00:48:41.000 Apparently, he also wants you to spend an awful lot of money in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Southern Mexico.

00:48:47.000 And he wants to build the regional and border infrastructure and capacity to facilitate a new orderly and humane approach to migration.

00:48:52.000 Yes, I'm sure that's what's going to happen.

00:48:54.000 Not more giant caravans to the border, which then result in mass release into the interior of the United States, which has been the traditional American policy up until the point of Trump.

00:49:03.000 Meanwhile, we're being told good news.

00:49:05.000 Joe Biden, as honest as the day is long, I mean, the man is just, he's so honest.

00:49:09.000 And we know he's honest because his son is deeply corrupt, but he still thinks he's honest.

00:49:12.000 In any case, Jen Psaki, who is Biden's spokesperson, she says, You don't have to worry about whether Biden is going to intervene in the Hunter Biden investigation.

00:49:20.000 He's not.

00:49:21.000 He's not.

00:49:21.000 And I believe her.

00:49:23.000 I believe her.

00:49:24.000 Yeah.

00:49:25.000 Yeah.

00:49:25.000 Here's Jen Psaki.

00:49:27.000 He will not be discussing an investigation of his son with any attorney general candidates.

00:49:32.000 He will not be discussing it with anyone he is considering for the role, and he will not be discussing it with a future attorney general.

00:49:38.000 It will be up to the purview of a future attorney general in his administration to determine how to handle any investigation.

00:49:45.000 Oh, goody.

00:49:47.000 That's exciting stuff.

00:49:48.000 Sure.

00:49:49.000 Appoint a special counsel now, gang.

00:49:50.000 By the way, the time for healing has already begun.

00:49:53.000 The Washington Post printed a cartoon over the weekend.

00:49:55.000 The media are very into the healing. 0.94

00:49:57.000 The Washington Post printed a cartoon over the weekend that literally portrayed Republicans as physical rats. 0.97

00:50:02.000 Like, put their names on various types of cartoon rats. 0.99

00:50:05.000 Like, a hundred of them.

00:50:07.000 Really, really solid stuff right there.

00:50:10.000 Nothing says coming together and healing, sort of like radical dehumanization, by actually drawing your opponents as physical rats and putting their names on them.

00:50:19.000 Really good stuff.

00:50:19.000 Okay, a couple of quick political notes before we part today.

00:50:24.000 So, number one, I just have to note this because it's hilarious.

00:50:29.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she keeps saying that she's a very important legislator.

00:50:33.000 It turns out that her own party is like, nope, we don't like you very much.

00:50:36.000 It turns out that the dislike for AOC spans the political aisle.

00:50:40.000 According to Ryan Sevetter reporting over at Daily Wire, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez Ouch! 1.00

00:50:45.000 overwhelmingly rejected during a secret ballot vote on Friday in her bid to be seated on a powerful congressional committee. Democrats overwhelmingly voted to give the seat on House Energy and Commerce Committee to Representative Kathleen Rice, Democrat of New York, instead of AOC in what ended up being a 46 to 13 vote. Ouch! Kathleen Rice is a more moderate Democrat who also happens to have spent her time instead of posting videos on Instagram or on Twitch actually working the Democrats in order to get that slot. 0.98

00:51:13.000 According to Politico, Rice and Ocasio-Cortez have been battling behind the scenes for weeks to secure one of the few open seats on the exclusive committee which oversees everything from health care policy to climate issues.

00:51:22.000 Tension spilled out into the open Thursday in a private meeting of the Steering and Policy Committee, where Democrats were forced to choose between the two members in a tense and awkward secret ballot vote.

00:51:30.000 They still have secret ballots, so you can say that you don't like AOC anonymously.

00:51:34.000 Politico notes that Ocasio-Cortez was rejected because many in the party view her far-left policies as a threat, and also she's been backing all sorts of challenges to incumbents, and they're like, you know what, screw you.

00:51:44.000 One member of Congress told Axios the vote would have been very different if it wasn't secret, which suggests Democrats are afraid of AOC publicly.

00:51:49.000 But secretly, they really, really do not like her at all.

00:51:52.000 Like, at all.

00:51:54.000 So, that was a bit of delicious news.

00:51:56.000 Final bit of news that is worthy of comment today.

00:51:59.000 There's a report out there that President Trump met with Rudy Giuliani as well as Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn on Friday.

00:52:07.000 And apparently, according to the New York Times, during the meeting, Trump considered making Sidney Powell a lawyer for his campaign team.

00:52:13.000 And who was fired, right?

00:52:14.000 She was fired.

00:52:15.000 A special counsel investigating voter fraud.

00:52:18.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:52:21.000 This is a terrible idea.

00:52:22.000 The reason it is a terrible idea is because she literally suggested that the Chinese and Venezuelans had stolen the election without providing any significant evidence in court at all of these suppositions.

00:52:32.000 Sidney Powell was fired from Rudy Giuliani's legal team for very good reason.

00:52:37.000 Most of his advisors opposed the idea, including Giuliani, by the way.

00:52:42.000 Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, repeatedly pushed back on the ideas being proposed, which reportedly included Trump asking Flynn about Flynn's suggestion of deploying the military.

00:52:51.000 Okay, again, file this.

00:52:52.000 Everyone's going to go nuts over this.

00:52:53.000 And frankly, the suggestion is absurd on its face.

00:52:55.000 No one's deploying the military to overturn the results of the electoral college, but The reason that it doesn't matter is because it doesn't matter.

00:53:04.000 In terms of actual outcome, it's not going to matter.

00:53:07.000 Is it insane that Trump even suggested that?

00:53:10.000 Yeah, it's kind of insane that Trump suggested that, but file that under a lot of other things Trump has said over the course of the last few years that are not quite in the realm of the reasonable.

00:53:19.000 So that is where things stand.

00:53:21.000 Again, the process continues to move forward.

00:53:22.000 The House will have a final opportunity to change the results of the Electoral College in January, but there's been no sign that that is going to happen.

00:53:29.000 Okay, so later today, Matt Walsh will be here.

00:53:31.000 He'll be guest hosting.

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00:53:34.000 Make sure to come tune in for that.

00:53:36.000 In the meantime, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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Your Public Health Experts Were About To Get People Killed | Ep. 1161

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