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00:03:03.000In fact, some people say over 100 million people are struggling with some kind of pain, maybe from exercise or just getting older.
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00:03:33.000So maybe you want to be able to do cartwheels or be able to do backflips like Producer Andrew.
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00:03:58.000We're going to start with some good news.
00:04:00.000If you're like me, you could use some good news.
00:04:02.000It feels as if we are always talking about what seems to be the decline of our country.
00:04:07.000And we have plenty to talk about later this hour around that topic.
00:04:12.000But there was some phenomenal news over the weekend.
00:04:15.000And the Washington Post and the New York Times and NBC News and national public radio, they covered it just at the absolute minimal degree they possibly could, or they didn't cover it at all.
00:04:30.000As I said a couple weeks ago, I didn't really have any plans to watch the Olympics.
00:04:35.000I saw the opening ceremony and it was kind of a globalist anthem and lots of over-mask wearing.
00:04:42.000But I started to get into it as I started to see clip after clip of American athletes that were winning and were celebrating the right way, giving thanks to their country and their nation and their fellow countrymen.
00:04:55.000And then I also realized the fact they're wearing masks is obviously not very wise and it's an overreaction on behalf of the International Olympic Committee, but it's China's fault.
00:05:09.000That it's because of China that the Olympics were delayed a year.
00:05:14.000It's because of China that the masks had to be worn.
00:05:41.000There were a couple of sports and competitions I just, I wasn't that interested in the social justice warrior types.
00:05:48.000But I will say that a majority of the athletes for the United States Olympic team, especially in the ones that require more training than not in the individual sense, not just the team sense, unlike the United States women's soccer team, which really turned me off, was this idea that I worked so hard to be here, and I just want to thank my nation for this opportunity.
00:06:13.000So I saw this article a couple days ago, and I said, you know what?
00:06:17.000I hope this article does not age well.
00:06:20.000And this goes to show exactly where the American media has gone.
00:06:27.000This is five days ago by Dan Wetzel, a very low testosterone individual.
00:06:33.000Dan Wetzel, sorry, America, China's leading the real Olympic medal count.
00:06:38.000Almost gloating and celebrating the fact that China, our greatest enemy, who launched an epidemiological Pearl Harbor on the world, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans we locked down and shouldn't have, that he's almost saying to Americans, stop celebrating the fact that you might be winning the medal count.
00:06:59.000So the argument, according to Dan Wetzel from Yahoo Sports, is, I quote, China is kicking the United States' tail in these Olympics.
00:07:10.000Although you wouldn't know if you just scanned the medal tables in the American media.
00:07:14.000So this is a narrative over the last week that America wasn't actually winning, that we were winning the general medal count if you counted bronze and silver and gold altogether.
00:07:25.000So we were winning the cumulative medal count, but we weren't winning the real competition, which is most overall golds, which is what China was winning.
00:07:32.000And you go on to say here, and he says, everyone else has the right since quite literally gold is better than the others.
00:07:39.000It's a simple concept, gold, silver, bronze.
00:07:41.000And he goes on in this sanctimonious tone.
00:08:04.000If America was leading the standings, according to every single entity, official or neutral, in the entire world, but the Chinese media used a different system that put them on top.
00:08:25.000All that matters is being overweight, like Dan Wetzel.
00:08:28.000A nation's worth is not defined by the strength of its canoe solemn team.
00:08:33.000Besides, with track and field, basketball, and boxing still going, we can still surpass the Chinese by any metric.
00:08:39.000But by reworking the numbers, even if it isn't orchestrated, it's humiliating.
00:08:48.000Now, Yahoo should not have published this article.
00:08:52.000You see, this was published by people that were guided by passion, not by reason, to kind of go back to the Federalist debates.
00:09:01.000Dan Wetzel should never be in charge of anything.
00:09:03.000In fact, he should be terminated for this humiliating piece that was written by Yahoo News.
00:09:08.000So as I was tracking it over the weekend, I had Dan Wetzel's face in my front as I was watching it.
00:09:15.000I said, okay, Dan Wetzel, little do you know that for those of us that have been watching the Olympics since a very young age, we know that the sports competitions all happen on the final weekend of many competitions that Americans are very good at.
00:09:35.000So slowly on Thursday and then Friday, all of a sudden America started to creep up on the TRICOMs.
00:09:57.000China irked by United States medal table ranking as country leads in golds five days ago.
00:10:03.000So Dan Wetzel and the Chinese Communist Party public relations firm John Fang and Rob Minto for newsweek.com, ridiculous article.
00:10:12.000As if we should care what the Chinese Communist Party has to say about the medal total.
00:10:16.000So the whole idea over the last week was that China's actually winning and the Western press is covering for America and how dare we favor America.
00:10:44.000The Chinese Communist Party and their state-run media, they were playing this up big time over the last week.
00:10:52.000That China was saying that this is their big moment to turn the corner and show the world that they are in charge, that the future belongs to the Chinese.
00:11:03.000They were playing it up on all of their state-run media.
00:11:39.000Well, Dan Wetzel and National Public Radio and the Washington Post and the New York Times without ever really trying.
00:11:51.000I am happy to say that the United States of America beat the TRICOMs in the final medal count with the final count in every single category.
00:13:00.000TheSun.com writes, pumping iron inside China's gold at any cost, Olympics machine with kids as young as four brutalized in training that still lost to the United States.
00:13:12.000And you know what's so amazing is The Sun is a British publication, and they're one of the few publications that I found that actually was rubbing the United States victory in the medal count in the face of the Chinese.
00:13:26.000But it shows these two and three-year-olds being tortured just to be able to be good at gymnastics.
00:13:34.000I quote, the Chinese system is rooted in the Soviet model, which saw sport as a way of attracting prestige for the communist system.
00:13:44.000Go Zhuojing, director of China's sport administration and head of the Chinese delegation, left no doubt about the country's goal, saying on the Eve of Tokyo, quote, we must resolutely ensure we are first in gold medals.
00:14:01.000This is such a wonderful opportunity for the Chinese agent who calls himself our president to take a victory lap.
00:14:11.000What a wonderful opportunity, wonderful opportunity for somebody in the United States government to rub this in the face of our greatest enemy.
00:15:22.000They'll find another secular soulless idiot to go run their sports.
00:15:27.000The state, the Chinese Communist Party, sends out scouts to hunt for tens of thousands of children for full-time training at more than 2,000 government-run sports schools.
00:15:48.000Tests for selection sees kids being given challenges such as press-ups, endurance running, and bench presses that prioritize overall strength over specific skills.
00:15:58.000Many Chinese parents used to send their kids to sports schools, lured by government subsidies and promising-looking careers for their children.
00:16:06.000It doesn't matter if the sports have mass appeal or if their youngsters have interest.
00:16:10.000If they are deemed worthy, it is their duty to perform for the sake of their nation.
00:16:15.000You see some of these pictures, it is evil.
00:16:18.000Children from rural areas or from families who are not so good economically, they adapt well to the hardships.
00:16:27.000At the Li Zhuoshuang gymnastics school, there is little room for error.
00:16:32.000They bow to their coaches and apology if they're not up to scratch.
00:16:37.000And a bad performance is punished with extra weight training at the end of the day.
00:16:52.000It should be a human rights violation.
00:16:55.000The pain is clearly unbearable, and his hands are clapsed over his face.
00:17:00.000Continues by saying that for China, it is, quote, gold at any cost.
00:17:09.000Chinese state media hit back saying that the West has sour grapes towards China because they have a leading position in the gold medal race.
00:19:34.000It is the largest atheist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:19:38.000They have some strains of Confucianism, but they are a godless country.
00:19:44.000And so being gracious in victory over people that launch war on you, I'm going to have some fun and delight in this.
00:19:51.000Okay, so I want to get to a lot of other news.
00:19:53.000I didn't mean to take this much time enjoying the United States victory.
00:19:56.000But we should, you know, and the other reason why I want to enjoy this is that, have you felt like you've been beat down the last couple years?
00:20:03.000That it's just this inevitable decline of America?
00:20:07.000That it's just constantly managing things falling through?
00:20:12.000That it's just, oh, it's just a matter before Chinese takes us over.
00:20:16.000No, I want to tell you, we can beat the Chinese.
00:21:19.000Making it seem as if, well, it was really close, and maybe one year China will win again.
00:21:26.000They wanted this to be their big moment, and they failed miserably.
00:21:32.000So, yes, of course, I'm going to celebrate that.
00:21:34.000I mean, the country that has a million Muslims in concentration camps, that takes over islands in the South China Sea, that hacks our cyber grid, buys our farmland, infiltrates our media, infiltrates our universities.
00:21:48.000They think they're on the quest to world domination, but this was humiliating for them.
00:21:55.000They are now going to have meetings and conferences.
00:21:57.000And so the real question is, should we play ball in the upcoming Olympics six months from now in Beijing, the Winter Olympics?
00:22:05.000We should protest and we should boycott the Beijing 2022 Olympics.
00:22:18.000Maybe you guys can cheat your way to victory later.
00:22:20.000By the way, these medal results will very much well be adjusted once we find out how much China has probably cheated in doping and age manipulation, lying about the way they do things.
00:23:11.000Well, essentially, there's a massive infrastructure debate happening right now in Congress.
00:23:17.000We've talked about this in so many words.
00:23:20.000And for whatever reason, 18 Republicans have decided that while the border is wide open, while crime is being increased dramatically, that the most important thing they could do is to betray their voters and to try to negotiate a massive infrastructure package.
00:23:40.000I want to go to cut 14 to just kind of set the terms of this debate right here.
00:23:44.000Now, we're talking about two separate bills: there's a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package and an added-on $1 trillion infrastructure package.
00:23:53.000They are separate, and they're both garbage.
00:24:12.000They're almost looking at an opportunity to turn their back on their voters and to pander to Washington, D.C. lobbyists.
00:24:19.000Let's play Cut 14 of Senator Ted Cruz kind of set the terms of this debate, Cut 14.
00:24:25.000And when you add up the spending from December 2020 to now, with the Biden budget request, with the Democrats' tax and spend reconciliation proposal, with this infrastructure bill, with the so-called COVID relief bill, and with the emergency spending in December, you hit a whopping $9.5 trillion.
00:24:57.000So why are Republicans playing along with this?
00:25:01.000I've asked that question of a couple senators, and their responses, I'm going to privately dialogue with some of them, have been lackluster.
00:25:10.000So where is this money being allocated?
00:25:14.000Well, the infrastructure package, again, being different than the $3.5 trillion package, only $127 billion of it actually goes to infrastructure.
00:25:26.000$7.5 billion will go to the first ever network of electric vehicle charging stations.
00:25:34.000Infrastructure for electric vehicles, now it makes sense.
00:25:38.000That's why Nancy Pelosi bought all that Tesla stuff.
00:25:42.000Democrats, of course, being led by Biden, wanted to see new tax revenues such as a new gas tax, which was rejected by Republican senators.
00:25:52.000The money's allocated $110 billion for roads and bridges, $39 billion for public transit, $7.5 billion for electric vehicles, $650 billion in funding from the bill comes from existing plans and planned investments in the country's roads, bridges, and highways.
00:26:11.000Now, this is just some of the details that we're still learning.
00:26:14.000$21 billion that will be earmarked for environmental remediation, whatever that is, or $50 billion under the catch-all category of climate resilience and western water storage.
00:26:29.000The Washington Post reports that the bill has unleashed a lobbying bonanza with more than 2,000 companies and groups engaging Washington officials on infrastructure this year alone.
00:26:58.000XYZ senator gets elected, let's say Senator Lisa Murkowski.
00:27:03.000And while she gets elected, she does lots of fundraisers, many of whom in Washington, D.C., where she will have an event at some sort of lobbyist's office with a cheese tray and Diet Coke and $5 wine.
00:27:22.000She will require $2,700 for every person to come into this reception.
00:27:30.000And every single one of them works for one of the lobbying firms.
00:27:34.000As a condition for that fundraiser, Lisa Murkowski then has to meet with those people beforehand.
00:27:40.000And it's very clear that the $2,700 is being given under the condition and the expectation that when spending bills come, she's going to pick up the phone.
00:27:50.000So now Lisa Murkowski's in the fight of her life in Alaska.
00:27:56.000And so now these lobbyists are saying, hey, Senator Murkowski, if you want another volley and round of $2,700, you're going to have to do what we want to do.
00:28:05.000For example, you're going to have to go put in electric vehicle charging stations, even though Alaska, obviously, has one of the largest depositories of natural gas on the planet.
00:28:19.000Kim Strassel from the Wall Street Journal says, so why did 17 Republican senators vote to proceed?
00:28:24.000On the baser end of the scale, here's the dirty little secret: the bill fundamentally amounts to a heap of spending, and some Republicans can spend with the best of Democrats.
00:28:34.000The member press releases are already flying, bragging about the pork they are directing back to their home states.
00:28:43.000The more charitable view is that some Republicans think that the bill helped reduce the reconciliation price tag.
00:28:51.000Others make the stronger argument that the show of bipartisanship possibly makes it harder for Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema to abandon the filibuster.
00:29:01.000Wall Street Journal also has a piece called the Electric Vehicle Welfare State.
00:29:05.000Car makers back the Biden climate agenda in return for subsidies for higher consumer prices.
00:29:16.000The infrastructure bill could enable government to track drivers' travel data.
00:29:22.000Ever since we passed the 17th Amendment, which was the direct election of senators, you have these senators that are not listening to their voters.
00:29:31.000They don't listen to what's best for their state or the state legislatures.
00:29:34.000Instead, they listen to what's best for the lobbyists and the corporate donors.
00:29:41.000I'm going to tell you about some of my conversations with some of these senators, who I think have convinced themselves that they're doing the right thing, but they are not doing the right thing.
00:29:49.000We're already in the midst of an inflation crisis.
00:29:52.000And who would ever think that another trillion dollars in a massive influx of spending is somehow a good idea?
00:30:02.000We have medical apartheid of people that are not able to go into restaurants or go to school because they have not taken experimental medicine.
00:30:09.000And Republicans, instead of doing anything about that, are now giving Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden another trillion dollars as a slush fund to destroy the country.
00:30:55.000In fact, Todd Young, I believe, and Connor can add some clarity to this, backed out because of the public pressure that was put on him from Idaho, from Indiana voters.
00:31:33.000Senator Crapo from Idaho, Senator Fisher from Nebraska, Senator Hoven from North Dakota, Senator McConnell from Kentucky, Senator Murkowski from Alaska, Senator Portman from Ohio,
00:31:48.000another future lobbyist who just doesn't care, or university president of some indoctrination center, Senator Risch of Idaho, Senator Romney from Utah, no surprise, Senator Sullivan from Alaska, and Senator Tellis from North Carolina, and Senator Wicker from Mississippi.
00:32:06.000Meanwhile, Senator Todd Young, who is up for re-election in 2022, announced he would now oppose the bill, citing concerns about the national debt.
00:32:15.000Young was previously part of a larger group of 20 senators that supported the bipartisan infrastructure talks.
00:32:26.000Now, missing from the list is Senator Graham, because Senator Graham originally was on the list, so I don't know what happened to him.
00:32:36.000So the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, they've now invoked cloture, all this ridiculous procedure they have to go through in the United States Senate, some of which is actually helpful to kill really bad pieces of legislation.
00:32:51.000Because now you have the Democrats, we know they're going to be on board for multi-trillion dollars in spending.
00:32:55.000They think the bigger the government gets, eventually they're going to get human beings towards perfection.
00:33:32.000Well, when you guys did have a Senate majority, you didn't do anything useful anyway, except judges, many of whom have really disappointed us.
00:34:56.000Say, I did not elect you to be Joe Biden's paper boy in the United States Senate.
00:35:05.000If you choose to believe Google, then all you need to do is surf the internet privately in incognito mode in your browser.
00:35:10.000And we're supposed to think that we trust big tech?
00:35:13.000It doesn't matter what the browser mode you have or your clear browsing history, your internet service provider can see every single website you've ever visited.
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00:36:08.000Just in August, there's been 28 people shot and killed, 140 people shot and wounded, and 168 people total shot, and 29 homicides in the city of Chicago.
00:36:17.000A person is shot every one hour and 57 minutes, and a person is murdered every 10 hours and 42 minutes.
00:36:23.000Just this year alone, 468 people have been shot and killed, 2,262 people shot and wounded, 2,730 people total shot, and 494 total homicides.
00:36:34.000Just this last week in Chicago, 23 people shot and killed, and 103 shot and wounded, 126 total shot, and 24 homicides.
00:36:44.000This last weekend, a police officer was killed in cold blood in Chicago.
00:36:56.000If Ella French was a fentanyl-filled drug addict, then everyone would be saying her name and having shirts and billboards dedicated to her.
00:37:06.000But no, instead, Ella French was a police officer who just wanted to do good.
00:37:13.000Play cut six of the cold-blooded murder of a police officer in Chicago that is finally starting to get some headlines out of people.
00:37:21.000And by the way, she had a two-month baby at home.
00:37:25.000This is what happens when you get lunatics like Corey Bush saying that you have to defund the police.
00:37:30.000Gangbangers and thugs start to kill police officers in cold blood.
00:37:36.00029-year-old officer Ella French died from a gunshot wound to the head.
00:37:41.000She joined the force in 2018 because she wanted to do good, according to her brother, who says Ella wanted to see people get the help they needed more than throwing people in jail.
00:37:51.000The other officer, a six-year veteran on the force, is in critical condition and fighting for his life after being shot three times, including one bullet that went through his eye.
00:38:02.000Cut seven is the police scanner audio of the call made for officers down.
00:38:06.000Before we get to that, if you go to the New York Times.com, WashingtonPost.com, no coverage at all.
00:39:02.000And now because the political climate says the defund policy and the police maybe aren't the enemy, now she has to pivot and now she has to be our best friend.
00:39:36.000So while our government is allegedly concerned about the spread of a virus has a 0.04% fatality rate, must wear masks everywhere you go, questionable vaccine results.
00:39:50.000No, the blood in the streets and the carnage in Chicago, you dare mention it, you're a white supremacist because they're not human.
00:39:59.000On folks, is it possible maybe that we don't need to be living in a world where like armed thug gangsters will pull random people over just for fun?
00:40:18.000It's the cops that are the gangsters pulling over for no reason.
00:40:22.000Oh, so obviously it's a TikToker or whatever, you know, the modern philosopher King.
00:40:31.000The statement that is held by millions of Americans around police officers is that, okay, you pull them over for nothing, and then they deserve to get shot in the eye.
00:40:42.000This person's a TikTok influencer, and they won't have their stuff taken down.
00:40:45.000And by the way, that sort of, I want to replay this tape because it happens so quickly.
00:40:49.000Your children should not be allowed to have smartphones before they reach the age of 18.
00:40:55.000Because every time that you turn your back on them and you might be washing the dishes and they turn down their smartphone, these are the people that are teaching your children.
00:41:03.000There are thousands of people on TikTok and on Instagram and Snapchat that espouse these ideas.
00:41:10.000People say, Charlie, why is it that young people tend to be so liberal?
00:41:13.000It's because parents really, quite honestly, haven't really taken parenting seriously.
00:41:53.000On folks, is it possible, maybe, that we don't need to be living in a world where like armed thug gangsters will pull random people over just for fun?
00:43:26.000It's hard to believe that our system of government has such unbelievably self-righteous, sanctimonious people in D.C. We're supposed to reorganize society around public health.
00:43:41.000So I'm just curious, maybe Connor can get the numbers.
00:43:44.000How many people have died of the Chinese coronavirus in Chicago in the last couple days?
00:43:52.000We know that 29 people have died August to date in just Chicago.
00:44:00.000So where are the leaders speaking out against this?
00:46:43.000Now, of course, he lives in a $12 million mansion.
00:46:48.000Now, I would say the address is publicly available.
00:46:54.000I don't want to say it because I don't want to get accused of doxing, but let's just say the main area, it's right on the water, which is interesting because I thought we were going to all suffer from climate change.
00:47:06.000By the way, of the 15,966 people who live on Martha's Vineyard, 511 are African American.
00:48:55.000We found that Obama and Michelle and Jay-Z and John Legend, they weren't wearing masks.
00:49:04.000They were inside enjoying their 90% white neighborhood in Martha's Vineyard in their $12 million home in a superstructure tent, all while complaining about racial justice, not wearing masks.
00:49:18.000Yet your child this fall might have to wear a mask.
00:49:23.000In fact, if you walk into a restaurant here in Las Vegas, they will scream at you if you're not wearing a mask.
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00:53:24.000I have to say, they just keep on outdoing themselves.
00:53:28.000So Anna Carney, who's the New York Times White House correspondent, she hasn't really done much journalism lately.
00:53:34.000She doesn't have to because she's state-run media.
00:53:36.000She did a lot under Obama, I mean, under Trump.
00:53:40.000So she was asked about Obama's party guests.
00:53:43.000Okay, so Lola Palooza happened in Chicago, which growing up in Chicago, you know about Lola.
00:53:48.000It's hundreds of thousands of spoiled brat upper-middle-class suburban kids who think they're being super rebellious to go downtown Chicago, no social distancing, and go do a bunch of weed.
00:53:57.000These are good people that go to Lola too, but that's basically it.
00:54:00.000Okay, so Andrews calls it, it says it's Lala Palooza.
00:55:28.000And, you know, hypocrisy used to make people lose their jobs.
00:55:34.000Fauci, by the other side, on the other hand, he goes after all of those that attended the Sturgis motorcycle rally, which, again, I've never been to Sturgis.
00:55:44.000I know a lot of people that go, now those are great people.
00:56:24.000Well, I'm very concerned, Chuck, that we're going to see another surge related to that rally.
00:56:30.000There comes a time when you're dealing with a public health crisis that could involve you, your family, and everyone else, that something supersedes that need to do exactly what you want to do.
00:56:42.000I mean, you're going to ultimately be able to do that in the future, but let's get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on.
00:56:52.000You know, the more I listen to these him talk, I think he's saying without realizing it, let's get this under control.
00:57:19.000The first order I'm going to be signing here is requiring, as I said all along, or I have authority, mandating masks be worn, social distancing be kept on federal property, on interstate commerce, etc.
00:57:32.000Hello, all the participants of tonight's event.
00:57:37.000It's humbling to stand here in this place in front of these sacred words.
00:57:57.000And the argument that is made in this piece is that we are entering a period of permanent masks.
00:58:05.000This is what two doctors at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine said: quote, we should never fully return to our maskless society where only health care providers donned a mask.
00:58:18.000Because judicious use of masks will continue to save lives.
00:58:23.000This is the New York Mount Sinai School of Medicine said.
00:58:30.000Faceless people make compliant subjects not good citizens.
00:58:39.000Faceless people make you more likely to obey.
00:58:46.000Seeing and showing the face is a fundamental aspect of human existence.
00:58:54.000Can't see the face, you can't see the totality of emotion.
00:59:00.000He writes in this article: Americans' reaction to COVID-19, however, has been radically different from their behavior in 1968, 1957, or 1918.
00:59:09.000Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the Hoover Institution's Neil Ferguson, who's phenomenal, by the way, recalls that President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike, asked Congress for $2.5 million in additional funding for the public health service during the Asian flu.
00:59:24.000Overall, Congress has authorized about 2 million times more than that for COVID-19.
00:59:30.000In 1957, there was no widespread school closures, travel bans, or mask mandates.
00:59:34.000Ferguson quotes one person's recollection of those days, quote, for those who grew up in the 1930s and 40s, there is nothing unusual but finding yourself threatened by contagious disease.
00:59:45.000Mumps, measles, chickenpox, and German measles swept through entire schools and towns.
01:00:56.000Well, it's because he understood that doctors, by contrast, tend to disregard the soul of a human being.
01:01:08.000It is the nature of their art to focus on the body in lieu of higher concerns.
01:01:16.000Greek philosophers and poets alike celebrated courage in the face of death, Anderson writes.
01:01:23.000Plato, Socrates, and Homer's Achilles were undeterred from their noble missions by their fear of the grave.
01:01:31.000But rule by public health officials under which we increasingly live today encourages excessive risk aversion and almost transforms cowardice into a virtue.
01:01:48.000He continues by saying that Westerners at their best recognize that each individual human being is unique and has inherent value.
01:01:59.000Charles Darwin, of whom I'm not a massive fan of, did write extensively about the face, about how that is a unique characteristic of a human being.
01:02:08.000Darwin observed in his 1872 book, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, that communication, according to Darwin, was, quote, of paramount importance to the development of man.
01:02:20.000The human communication is, quote, much aided by the expressive movements of the face and the body.
01:02:28.000Not to mention the masks aren't even having the efficacy you think they're having.
01:02:33.000Note in great detail here that minors are far less apt to spread the virus, and the CDC statistics show that 99.9% of COVID deaths in the United States have not been minors, but adults.
01:02:46.000If you drive your child to school and they're forced to wear a mask at school, they're more likely to die in the car ride over than from the Chinese coronavirus.
01:02:58.000If your school cared about your child's safety, they would ban cholesterol driving to the local school.
01:03:07.000But of course, if safety is your ultimate value, you're going to live a pretty depressing life.
01:03:14.000You're going to be in agoraphobic fear of leaving one's home.
01:04:08.000Sure doesn't feel like a pandemic where we must be very serious and lock down everything, but you Sturgis motorcycle rally, unwashed terrible people, Obama's Martha's Vineyard, whatever that was.
01:04:20.000Joe Rogan is speaking out against vaccination passports.
01:04:40.000Your Republican leaders, your governors and your senators, they quite honestly think so little of you, they don't even speak out against these mandatory vaccination measures.
01:04:56.000Because when you give people freedom, you let people do whatever the f they want to do, they actually find ways to succeed and grow and thrive.
01:05:03.000But as soon as you put the boots to them, as soon as you tell them, you have to do this or you can't do that, you have to listen to me.
01:05:30.000I've been here for about a year and a half, but better late than never.
01:05:33.000He's been, I've got to give Joe credit.
01:05:35.000He has been talking on this theme, but that's the most explicit he has been on this topic.
01:05:41.000Now, this is, of course, nothing against the people of Arkansas, but one of the leaders, alleged leaders in the Republican Party that I think exemplifies everything wrong with the party, is the governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson.
01:05:54.000He might be America's worst Republican governor.
01:05:57.000He's up there with Charlie Baker and many others.
01:06:00.000He believes that it's perfectly okay for nine-year-olds to be able to chemically castrate themselves.
01:07:07.000Any Republican governor that institutes mask mandates, any further lockdowns, or makes children wear masks, they are complicit in the abuse of children.