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00:01:41.000Okay, 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.
00:01:50.000So, the standards are still being set.
00:01:52.000They'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.
00:02:08.000The 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.
00:02:19.000And just on a pure statistical level, if you want to save the most lives, you help the people who are the most vulnerable.
00:02:23.000You don't tranch out support to people who are less vulnerable.
00:02:26.000I 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.
00:02:38.000But that is not in fact how politics works in the United States.
00:02:41.000It'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.
00:02:48.000But their priorities were not only saving lives.
00:02:50.000Their priorities were not only getting the vaccine developed in the fastest possible time, then getting it out to the people who are most vulnerable.
00:02:58.000Their priorities were not taking measures that were designed to prevent the most transmission.
00:03:03.000Their priorities were skewed in some cases.
00:03:05.000And again, we saw this very, very early on.
00:03:08.000When 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.
00:03:21.000At that point, they abandoned any claim they could have to being objective public health experts.
00:03:25.000And 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.
00:03:32.000It'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?
00:03:38.000We developed a vaccine, the scientific community did.
00:03:41.000They developed a vaccine inside of nine months, which is utterly crazy, right?
00:04:08.000It's a word I've been using more and more lately.
00:04:10.000What that word means is people speaking outside their field of expertise.
00:04:14.000People in the scientific community speaking on racial justice issues.
00:04:18.000Okay, just because you know how a molecule works does not mean you have good ideas when it comes to how society ought to function.
00:04:24.000And to pretend otherwise is to engage in ultra-Crepidarianism.
00:04:27.000So you have scientists who are speaking outside of their realms of expertise.
00:04:30.000And 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.
00:04:37.000You 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.
00:04:47.000We should be very optimistic right now about the future of the next several months.
00:04:52.000What 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.
00:04:58.000But the fact that there's even an end in sight is an incredible, incredible thing.
00:05:02.000Dr. 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.
00:05:22.000We 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.
00:05:34.000And we are increasing the level of communication with the governors in order to make sure that there are no mistakes that happen or miscommunication.
00:05:45.000We 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.
00:05:54.000It's an amazing, amazing accomplishment by the scientific community.
00:05:57.000But again, there are serious trust issues with members of our scientific community.
00:06:00.000By the way, Anthony Fauci did announce to the world that he had personally vaccinated Santa, which is, I mean...
00:06:06.000To be honest, I feel like Santa should be in, like, the top line, right?
00:06:08.000I mean, the man's, what, several hundred years old and has obesity issues?
00:06:12.000So, I mean, he probably is among the most vulnerable.
00:06:15.000I mean, if you're tranching this thing out by vulnerability, here's Anthony Fauci explaining that he had personally shot up Santa.
00:06:21.000I have to say I took care of that for you because I was worried that you'd all be upset.
00:06:26.000So what I did a little while ago, I took a trip up there to the North Pole.
00:06:30.000I went there and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself.
00:06:35.000I measured his level of immunity and he is good to go.
00:07:20.000But first, here's what you need to know.
00:07:22.000What 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.
00:07:29.000Age is actually even a better way of describing how people should be vaccinated than single pre-existing conditions.
00:07:35.000Now, the reason for that is because if you are 85, the chances are that you have several pre-existing conditions.
00:07:40.000So 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.
00:07:53.000Okay, 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?
00:07:59.000I mean, you've lived a long time, and that means that you have multiple underlying issues.
00:08:03.000It doesn't mean that age itself is the complicating factor.
00:08:05.000It means that age itself correlates with multiple underlying factors.
00:08:09.000This 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.
00:08:21.000So 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.
00:08:28.000And that correlates very highly with advanced age, not only in the United States, but all over the world.
00:08:33.000So statistically speaking, here's an example.
00:09:09.000In other words, pretty obviously, if you want to prevent mass death, then what you do.
00:09:13.000And you can see it right there in the stats.
00:09:16.000If you want to prevent mass death, then what you do is you do it by age.
00:09:18.000Fortunately, we have public health experts who are both not concerned with public health and obviously not experts who are absolute idiots, right?
00:09:26.000They are suggesting that instead, for the purposes of racial equity, we should tranche out the vaccine with an eye toward race, which is nuts.
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00:10:44.000Okay, so according to the UK Daily Mail, Every U.S.
00:10:47.000state 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.
00:10:56.000As 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.
00:11:06.000According 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.
00:11:17.000These 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.
00:11:32.000Right, not equal access, equitable access.
00:11:34.000There's a difference between equal and equitable.
00:11:35.000Equitable means fair, equal means the same.
00:11:38.000Some 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.
00:11:53.000Among the states that are giving greater preference to minority communities are the ones that you would suspect.
00:11:56.000Places 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.
00:12:10.000The CDC has issued guidance on its Social Vulnerability Index that uses 15 U.S.
00:12:15.000Census variables to help local officials identify communities that may need support.
00:12:18.000It 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.
00:12:27.000Maine 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.
00:12:38.000In the U.S., black and Hispanic people are almost three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites.
00:12:42.000Well, the reason that that is, is because black and Hispanic people are apparently significantly more likely to actually get the disease.
00:12:48.000It turns out that it is not that they are particularly vulnerable to the disease.
00:12:52.000According 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.
00:13:03.000He thought he knew what he would find.
00:13:04.000He thought infected black and Hispanic patients would be more likely to be hospitalized compared with white patients and more likely to die.
00:13:15.000What's actually happening is that black and hispanic people, because they're disproportionately low income, are more likely to actually get the disease.
00:13:22.000After accounting for various disparities, Dr. Ogedegbe found that infected black and hispanic patients were no more likely than white patients to be hospitalized.
00:13:30.000If hospitalized, black patients had a slightly lower risk of dying.
00:13:35.000That study was published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
00:13:37.000Three other recent large studies have come to similarly surprising conclusions.
00:13:42.000The new findings do not contradict an enormous body of research showing Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to be affected by the pandemic.
00:13:48.000The coronavirus is more prevalent in minority communities.
00:13:50.000Infections, 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.
00:14:12.000Hey, Noah Smith, who again is no conservative.
00:14:16.000He's a Bloomberg opinion writer of the left.
00:14:18.000He 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.
00:14:28.000Because essential workers are very likely to be more often black and Hispanic than the elderly.
00:14:34.000Now, 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.
00:15:20.000A higher percentage of people over the 85 are white than the percentage of people who are 30 who are white.
00:15:26.000Okay, that is true in the United States.
00:15:28.000It 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.
00:15:40.000So, 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.
00:15:54.000You'll end up with more actual dead bodies that are black and hispanic because you're not actually prioritizing the elderly.
00:16:01.000You'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.
00:16:10.000Did you understand how idiotic and eugenic this is?
00:16:13.000I mean, it's social engineering from the top levels.
00:16:19.000Because 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.
00:16:27.000What you're saying is that a 20-year-old black worker should get it before an 85-year-old black lady, right?
00:16:32.000Because now you're elevating race and the age group where race is most proportionate You are elevating that above where the vulnerability is.
00:16:43.000And this is what the CDC was recommending.
00:16:45.000This is what they were recommending in some of their slides.
00:16:47.000According 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.
00:17:00.000That means that you should actually look to You should look to focus your outreach not on the highest incidence and mortality in congregate living.
00:17:14.000You should look instead to prioritize the people who are most black and Hispanic, namely essential workers.
00:17:21.000So if you look, it says to mitigate health inequities, you should start with essential workers, right?
00:17:26.000Essential workers should be given top priority because racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in many essential industries.
00:17:32.000A quarter of essential workers live in low-income families.
00:17:36.000Then you should do adults aged over 65 because racial and ethnic minority groups are underrepresented among adults over age 65.
00:17:42.000OK, this is purely them saying we do not care if black and Hispanic elderly people die, because you know what?
00:17:48.000If they die, they're at least dying along with a bunch of white people who are over the age of 85.
00:17:56.000Josh Barrow, again, not a right-winger.
00:17:57.000He 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?
00:18:07.000Matt 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.
00:18:14.000He 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.
00:18:22.000So in that sense, vaccinating essential workers promotes racial equity because you're giving shots to more black people.
00:18:27.000But 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.
00:18:34.000You'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.
00:18:45.000He 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.
00:18:51.000Also, says Matt Iglesias, we know the people who have been dying the most from COVID are black senior citizens.
00:18:55.000The 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.
00:19:04.000There'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.
00:19:12.000Okay, so even people on the left were like, this is insane.
00:19:14.000Okay, now in a second, we're gonna get to who actually mocked up this slide.
00:19:19.000You 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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00:22:31.000Okay, 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.
00:23:00.000Also, it also happens not to be true, right?
00:23:03.000As 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.
00:23:11.000It's just the black and Hispanic people are getting this more often.
00:23:13.000Okay, so over the weekend, the CDC then revised its standards.
00:23:17.000Yasha Monk, again, no one I've cited thus far on the show is a right-winger.
00:23:21.000I 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.
00:23:28.000Okay, Yasha Monk, he said, some good news.
00:23:31.000Thanks to massive and justified public criticism, the CDC is making adjustments to their recommendations.
00:23:35.000Americans over 75 should now get the vaccine alongside essential frontline workers.
00:23:39.000That is an improvement, but it doesn't solve many of the concerns.
00:23:42.000First of all, they shouldn't get it alongside frontline essential workers.
00:23:44.000They should get it before frontline essential workers.
00:23:46.000Again, if you're a 20 year old working in a grocery store, that's crazy.
00:23:49.000That's especially crazy when you look at who is considered an essential frontline worker.
00:23:53.000As Josh Barrow points out, here is who is considered a frontline essential worker.
00:24:15.000Okay, seriously, because we saw a lot of stories over the summer about teachers dying.
00:24:18.000It turns out they've been infected elsewhere.
00:24:19.000So 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.
00:24:32.000They are apparently politically driven idiots, moral idiots.
00:24:37.000Who else is a frontline essential worker?
00:24:52.000Postal 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.
00:25:01.000There's not a lot of face-to-face contact.
00:25:03.000Public transit workers and grocery store workers.
00:25:05.000So there are 30 million of those people.
00:25:07.000So we're gonna give 30 million doses to those people as opposed to people who are significantly more vulnerable.
00:25:11.000By 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.
00:25:22.000Okay, I should not be prioritized in the vaccine line.
00:25:57.000News 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.
00:26:05.000So of course this action will likely still cause needless additional deaths.
00:26:08.000This is where things get really worrying.
00:26:10.000In the original CDC presentation, Kathleen Dooling admitted that prioritizing all essential workers would likely increase overall deaths by between 0.5% and 6.5%.
00:26:20.000She then called the additional deaths of thousands of Americans a quote-unquote minimal difference.
00:26:31.000When we're talking hundreds of thousands of deaths?
00:26:34.000You're talking about like tens of thousands of people dying because you guys set crappy, woke standards for how to tranche out the vaccine?
00:26:45.000We'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.
00:26:52.000We'll get to, and by the way, it's gonna be dominant in the Biden administration.
00:26:56.000First, when you use the bathroom, you really should close the door for your sake and the sake of everybody else.
00:27:01.000When you use the internet, you should close the door as well, because honestly, what you do on the internet, that's nobody's business.
00:27:05.000There are hackers out there who are seeking to exploit your data.
00:27:07.000There are social media companies that wanna take your data and then make money off of it, all while trying to exclude you from saying what you wanna say on their platforms.
00:27:14.000And your ISP knows every single website you visit.
00:27:16.000What's worse, they can then sell that information to ad companies and tech giants who will use your data to target you.
00:28:03.000Okay, so where is all this coming from?
00:28:05.000Well, 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.
00:28:12.000But 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.
00:28:22.000And when you enter office, you don't go person by person and just get rid of all of them.
00:28:26.000There are 2 million members of the executive branch, which is why we should completely minimize the executive branch.
00:28:32.000But there are a lot of people out there who have these standards, and a lot of them are infused by woke ideology.
00:28:38.000You think that Trump would have approved something like this, personally?
00:28:40.000You 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?
00:28:50.000I have serious doubts that that is the case.
00:28:51.000I mean, this is the same president who attempted to get rid of critical race theory being taught in government offices and across government auspices.
00:28:59.000And so where is this ideology coming from?
00:29:00.000It is coming from a left-wing ideology, which has always suggested that every crisis is an opportunity for social leveling.
00:29:06.000Every crisis can be wrapped up into a ball.
00:29:23.000The 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.
00:29:40.000You 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.
00:29:50.000It used to be that we were pretty clear about this, that this stuff was racist.
00:29:53.000Now, under the guise of wokeness, being racist has become woke.
00:30:00.000So you can see this infuses how Team Biden thinks.
00:30:04.000So 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.
00:30:17.000All of his priorities are wrapped up into a ball.
00:31:19.000Ironically, they all work for one another.
00:31:21.000The 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.
00:31:36.000Okay, so again, all of this is wrapped together.
00:31:38.000It'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.
00:31:54.000Okay, so when it comes to health policy, this is particularly a problem.
00:32:02.000It has really, really bad ramifications, especially when you get into realms that are beyond the realm of simple sort of racial politics.
00:32:10.000This 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.
00:32:35.000They 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.
00:32:45.000If you're over the age of 85, we should treat you exactly the same.
00:32:47.000But 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.
00:32:52.000Anyway, here is Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith spelling out this ideology, which has real ramifications for real people and real deaths.
00:33:00.000It 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.
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00:35:49.000Okay, we're gonna get back into the ramifications of evil woke ideology, and it is.
00:35:53.000I 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.
00:36:01.000You're not talking about weighing goods.
00:36:02.000You're talking about actual acts of evil.
00:36:04.000Once 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.
00:36:14.000We'll get to more of this in one second.
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00:38:29.000Alrighty, so it is not just with regard to COVID policy that racial wokeness has real effects.
00:38:40.000It also has real effects over in the area of criminal policy, which we already know.
00:38:45.000We 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.
00:39:02.000This is why you have the BLM leaders who are now praising LA's new progressive DA, Melina Abdullah, who is an insane person.
00:39:08.000Okay, Melina Abdullah used to teach over at Cal State University Los Angeles.
00:39:12.000I 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.
00:39:29.000Well, now Melina Abdullah, who's a Black Lives Matter leader, She put out on her social media, quote, Rarely do I trust a politician.
00:39:36.000Never have I trusted a cop or former cop.
00:39:38.000But George Gascon seems like the real deal to me.
00:39:40.000Although I vehemently opposed Lacey and voted for Gascon, I didn't endorse him when he ran.
00:39:44.000Now 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.
00:39:52.000I'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.
00:40:05.000She, 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.
00:40:31.000He said he would stop trying juveniles as adults.
00:40:33.000He would prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.
00:40:35.000He would eliminate all sentencing enhancement.
00:40:38.000Also, he did not campaign on that, by the way.
00:40:41.000His plan to do so was met with immediate resistance, according to the Daily Wire.
00:40:44.000The policy changes sparked a revolt from local law enforcement unions and several deputy district attorneys within Gascon's office.
00:40:50.000On 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.
00:41:16.000It's pretty wild that his original order remains in place, by the way.
00:41:21.000So, if you break into somebody's house and you got a gun on your waist, no problem.
00:41:24.000those who have been in prison recently, those listed in the state's gang database, will no longer face extra time behind bars.
00:41:30.000Prosecutors 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.
00:41:49.000The LA Protective Police League issued a statement after Gascon slightly reversed himself.
00:41:54.000They 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.
00:42:01.000He's still willing to go easy on gang members who terrorize our neighborhoods or criminals that shoot cops in the back of the head.
00:42:07.000is 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.
00:42:23.000Here'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.
00:42:34.000My son can never speak again because he was murdered.
00:42:38.000He was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.
00:42:42.000Meanwhile, you have Bill de Blasio in New York, who is again mimicking this woke ideology with disastrous consequences.
00:42:50.000He's been suggesting that when it comes to everything from policing policy to schooling policy to COVID, it is time for racial equity, right?
00:42:58.000That means shutting down charter schools, guys.
00:43:02.000And it also means the police can't do their job.
00:43:04.000But 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.
00:43:18.000You want to seek group justice at the expense of individual justice, you are likely to pursue terrible policy.
00:43:23.000Well, that's what Bill de Blasio has done all along.
00:43:26.000If 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.
00:43:35.000There are many areas to talk about, and education must be front and center.
00:43:41.000There has been so much that needed to be addressed in education in New York City.
00:43:46.000And 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.
00:43:58.000I like to say very bluntly, our mission is to redistribute wealth.
00:44:03.000A lot of people bristle at that phrase.
00:44:05.000That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.
00:44:07.000So his mission is not success and individual rights and the ability of everybody to rise.
00:44:11.000His mission is to redistribute wealth.
00:44:12.000I mean, he's at least saying it, the communist bastard.
00:44:18.000Now 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.
00:44:29.000It'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.
00:44:38.000He says the votes of black Americans should count twice.
00:45:32.000And 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.
00:45:47.000A report emerged on Sunday claiming that Birx violated some of the recommendations she made about how Americans should proceed with family interactions around Thanksgiving.
00:45:54.000During a press briefing on November 19th, Birx repeatedly urged people to, quote, increase their vigilance at this moment.
00:45:59.000Part of the guidance was to limit interactions indoors to immediate households.
00:46:02.000Well, 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.
00:46:13.000She insisted the purpose of the roughly 50-hour visit was to deal with the winterization of the property before a potential sale.
00:46:19.000Burke said everyone on her Delaware trips belongs to her immediate household, even as she acknowledged they lived in two different homes.
00:46:25.000She did acknowledge that her family shared a meal together while in Delaware.
00:46:28.000The AP did not say whether it was indoors or outdoors.
00:46:31.000Whether outdoors, by the way, there was in the high 50s or low 60s.
00:46:45.000By 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.
00:46:56.000San Francisco has seen 173 deaths from COVID-19 this year.
00:47:00.000621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco this year.
00:47:03.000The two are not completely unrelated when it comes to these lockdown policies.
00:47:09.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden, he says it's time to heal.
00:47:42.000They 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.
00:47:49.000He's going to radically shift immigration policy, but don't worry, the healing has begun.
00:47:53.000It will begin with caravans headed toward the American southern border.
00:47:59.000By 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.
00:48:15.000According 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.
00:48:24.000Biden 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.
00:48:31.000The transition team said in its statement Biden reiterated in the call he would stand by the commitments he made on the campaign trail.
00:48:36.000He noted it would take time and resources to implement those commitments effectively.
00:48:41.000Apparently, he also wants you to spend an awful lot of money in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Southern Mexico.
00:48:47.000And he wants to build the regional and border infrastructure and capacity to facilitate a new orderly and humane approach to migration.
00:48:52.000Yes, I'm sure that's what's going to happen.
00:48:54.000Not 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.
00:49:03.000Meanwhile, we're being told good news.
00:49:05.000Joe Biden, as honest as the day is long, I mean, the man is just, he's so honest.
00:49:09.000And we know he's honest because his son is deeply corrupt, but he still thinks he's honest.
00:49:12.000In 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.
00:50:07.000Really, really solid stuff right there.
00:50:10.000Nothing says coming together and healing, sort of like radical dehumanization, by actually drawing your opponents as physical rats and putting their names on them.
00:50:19.000Okay, a couple of quick political notes before we part today.
00:50:24.000So, number one, I just have to note this because it's hilarious.
00:50:29.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she keeps saying that she's a very important legislator.
00:50:33.000It turns out that her own party is like, nope, we don't like you very much.
00:50:36.000It turns out that the dislike for AOC spans the political aisle.
00:50:40.000According to Ryan Sevetter reporting over at Daily Wire, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez Ouch!
00:50:45.000overwhelmingly 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.
00:51:13.000According 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.
00:51:22.000Tension 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.
00:51:30.000They still have secret ballots, so you can say that you don't like AOC anonymously.
00:51:34.000Politico 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.
00:51:44.000One 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.
00:51:49.000But secretly, they really, really do not like her at all.
00:52:22.000The 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.
00:52:32.000Sidney Powell was fired from Rudy Giuliani's legal team for very good reason.
00:52:37.000Most of his advisors opposed the idea, including Giuliani, by the way.
00:52:42.000Chief 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.
00:52:52.000Everyone's going to go nuts over this.
00:52:53.000And frankly, the suggestion is absurd on its face.
00:52:55.000No 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.
00:53:04.000In terms of actual outcome, it's not going to matter.
00:53:07.000Is it insane that Trump even suggested that?
00:53:10.000Yeah, 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.
00:53:21.000Again, the process continues to move forward.
00:53:22.000The 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.
00:53:29.000Okay, so later today, Matt Walsh will be here.