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Glenn and Pat discuss Gavin Newsom's campaign against Andrew Cuomo, the border crisis, and a new t-shirt and mug that says, "Anyone else for Governor?" Also, a new ranking of the top and bottom states on the death rate, and how they compare to each other.
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Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stew in for Glenn, who's out with a back issue.
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He should be back tomorrow, I'm told. We hope so.
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We talked about Gavin Newsom and the recall effort against him.
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It's going to be fun to watch that thing happen,
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because Gavin Newsom is among the most intolerable people in America,
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We actually came up with a new t-shirt and mug that just says,
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I think you can get it at studosmerch.com, as well as all sorts of Cuomo bashing items.
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We also did talk a little bit about Andrew Cuomo.
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Joe Biden has come out and said if he thinks Cuomo should resign, we get into that.
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Also, the border crisis. Joe Biden's border crisis.
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This is something the media kind of wants to stay away from,
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We're not particularly good-looking people, and we need things like this to keep our emotions in the right place.
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All right, some statistics that may or may not surprise you,
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but still has a list of the states that are doing the best right now with COVID,
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And I would say this is a look at the entire year, right?
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So, it's not just where they are right at this moment.
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And so, we went through and did a formula there.
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Let me give you some of the factors that went into this.
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One, obviously, how well did you avoid people dying in your state?
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But number two, I mean, because all we hear from the news media is trying to compare death totals and everything else.
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How well were you able to protect the economy through this?
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It was a really difficult thing for states to do.
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We also looked at what is from, there's an Oxford University of Oxford astringency index,
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which is basically a measure of how hard the government cracked down.
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How long did they put the people into relative shutdown levels, right?
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Did they have a heavy touch when it comes to that?
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And I think that's somewhat controversial in that, like, people would say,
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You know, I think, like, if you have two states that had the same results with the economy and deaths, right,
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but one gave you complete freedom, the other one locked you down in individual plastic bubbles.
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I mean, this is the United States of America here.
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However, there's also, you know, we factored in the age of the population.
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So, a state that has an older population should get a break in comparing the death rate, you know,
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If you have a state with a population density, that's high.
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We looked at vaccine rollout, all sorts of different things,
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and kind of came up with a final score, 0 to 100, for all 50 states.
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I'll start seventh from the bottom for a reason, because it was California.
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They actually didn't do terribly as far as the rate of COVID, but as we point out,
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they have a relatively young population in California.
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So, that does make a difference as far as the death rate, but we factored that in.
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Sixth from the bottom was Massachusetts, 28.1 out of 100.
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Fifth from the bottom, Connecticut, our old home state, Pat.
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Now, again, can you blame some of its neighbors for this?
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Rhode Island is fourth from the bottom, 25.2 is the score out of 100.
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Third from the bottom, red state, Louisiana, 20.6 out of 100.
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Now, you can probably fairly note that part of the reason Louisiana had a really bad outbreak of COVID
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was Mardi Gras, which happened at the end of February last year and, of course,
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was held in a very blue area of Louisiana, not a very red area of Louisiana.
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But, you know, as long as you have New Orleans in your state, you're responsible for it.
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So, you're responsible for the outbreak in New Orleans.
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So, they came out third to worst, 20.6 out of 100.
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From third to worst at 20.6 to second to worst, New Mexico, 7.9 out of 100.
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So, from 20.6 to 7.9, people don't realize that New Mexico had the hardest lockdown in
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the nation, harder than any other state, California, New York, nobody, locked down further, harder
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Their economy was a disaster as well, and they didn't even get good results as far as COVID.
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I mean, really, they didn't do anything well throughout this entire process.
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So, New Mexico finishes second to last, and in dead last place, without anyone's surprise,
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of course, is New York, with a score of 6.8 out of 100.
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They had the second strongest lockdown in the country.
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Despite that, had the second worst COVID numbers, only to New Jersey, which is completely New
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Despite the fact they have a giant industry there that could work from home, they still
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Of course, Andrew Cuomo is awful.com should be noted at this time.
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Should we give you some of the top, top, top picks?
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And again, we take into account population density.
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You know, Hawaii obviously is going to have a really good result on COVID because they're
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an island, but also a really bad result on the economy because they're dependent on flights.
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And I think a lot of people would think South Dakota would do really well on this.
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So, it's the second least amount of time in lockdown.
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Like, they had a very open attitude towards this, which I respect and I like Christy Dome
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But, look, they just had a really rough battle with that when it comes to their rates.
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They had that initial shutdown period and then were pretty open after that and had, you
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So, I was thinking about this because the score is 70.1 out of 100 for Oregon.
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Again, best COVID results by state for the entire year.
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I mean, they were middle of the pack when it comes down to how far they...
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My theories on this was, one, Portland in particular was burning down most of the year.
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So, probably people were terrified to go outdoors at all and see anyone.
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And their economy did relatively well compared to some of these other more lockdown type states.
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And I think you might have a population that was more able to work from home.
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You know, the industries there are friendlier to being able to work at home.
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Not at the top of the list, but in the top third on pretty much every single thing.
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A couple of surprises here towards the top here.
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Number 3, and there's an asterisk on this one a little bit too.
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How long did they lock down the stringency index?
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Now, I looked into that a little bit more thinking, how the hell did Wisconsin finish
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Because it's really the strongest thing that they had going for them in this, in the little
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And the reason was, the courts kept overturning all the things the Democratic governor wanted
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They were on and off again a little bit, but the courts were like, no, you can't do
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So, they didn't go into lockdown as much as a lot of other blue states did, which is kind
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They had pretty good results from COVID, and their economy was relatively well protected.
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They are also an older population, which helps them in this measure.
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I mean, considering they were eighth overall in death rate and had the second oldest population
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in the country, it's pretty impressive that that stuck together.
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And I don't know, it kind of makes sense in some ways.
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You know, it's a state that has a motto where you're supposed to be taking responsibility
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for your own actions, and maybe that helped play in.
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They've talked about a lot of different states.
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Georgia got press at the beginning quite a bit.
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Really, I haven't heard much conversation about Utah, but Utah kind of sat there and did incredibly
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Number three, as far as how long were they in lockdown?
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So, they were third, say, on the Freedom Index, right?
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Economy, they finished seventh in the entire country.
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Now, I will say they are the youngest state in the union, which I did not know either until
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However, they get punished in this measure for that.
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Like, if you're a young state, you lose points on the formula because, you know, you shouldn't...
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You know, an older state has a tougher time with something like this.
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So, despite the fact that they got punished for that, still finished number one in the
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And really has had no press and no credit and no love.
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I mean, I haven't heard anybody saying, wow, you know who's doing a good job is Utah.
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And this comes back to something I, you know, I think has proved since the beginning of
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And we've talked so much about what the government does.
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Am I going to sit here and say that everything that Utah did from the government level was
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But I guarantee if we open up the phone lines, we get lots of people complaining about what
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the government was saying or doing in Utah, as we would from every state.
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But, like, there's something to do with this coming back to, instead of the government,
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You know, this is the United States of America.
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And, you know, if you look at the type of population you'd want to potentially have
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in the form, in the time of a pandemic, I got to say, you might draft Mormons number
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I would say they do a good job following rules.
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Like, they're not like the type of people who are, like, you know, they're not like people
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who are going to go out and, like, you know, burn down government buildings because they
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And I think that's, you know, I mean that in a good way in this particular measure specifically.
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And then also, there are people who tend to do a lot of thinking about others, right?
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Like, they're much, I would say, less focused on, like, well, damn it, it's my right than,
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Like, I don't like this, but I don't want to make anyone else sick.
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I want to make sure that, like, I think there's a very selfless aspect of that.
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That culture that makes a state like Utah perform really well.
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And I think that it comes down to that a little bit more than cable news and even talk shows
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But really, I mean, you look at the states with no mask mandates and compare them to
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There's about a 10% to 12% difference of mask usage.
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It really doesn't make all that much difference.
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It's really about what the people wind up doing.
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So would this be a good time to send the couple of guys in white shirts and bicycles
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Seems like a pretty good time, maybe, for that.
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I'll make the call while you do the commercial.
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So in Israel, apparently people are pretty open to getting the vaccine.
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I have kind of a different impression of many Americans because I hear from a lot who just
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It's improved as far as people wanting to take the vaccine, which is what you would expect,
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It's been basically the entire time broken down like this.
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About 40% of people are like, absolutely give me the vaccine.
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About 30% of people say basically, I'm open to it, but I want to kind of see if everyone
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You know, like, can you have, can I not be first in line?
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Let me just see if people, these needles go in people's arms and they just spontaneously
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If that doesn't happen, all right, I'll go check it out.
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Then there's about 20% of the population who says, I don't want to get it, but like if
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I have to, like if work tells me I need to do it or I can't get into any, I can't
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take any flights because I can't get a vaccine.
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And then there's about 10% of the population that is like signed up ideologically against,
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you know, vaccines in general or this particular vaccine for some reason.
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So the polling has been pretty consistent in that general format.
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Some of the people who have, were in that 30% group that say, look, I'm open to getting
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Some of those people have now moved into the, I'm going to get the vaccine group.
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So it's, and some of the people have received the vaccine already in that group.
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They realize, you know, they, they might not be excited about getting a shot, but they're
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I think there's a certain percentage of people, you know, it seems to be about 10% that are
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just, you know, ideologically against the vaccine for whatever reason, or just don't
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think it was going to work or don't think it's safe or healthy.
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And I don't think you're going to change those people's minds.
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You know, that's just the way, you know, the way they've, you know, processed the information.
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A larger part of that area though, are people who just don't go to the doctor all that often.
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You know, people who, those are the people that are reachable on the vaccine.
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People who just like, I don't tend, like there's a lot of people who like never go to the dentist,
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for example, like, you know, they just don't ever do it.
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And it's, it's a surprisingly high percentage of the population that, you know, don't get
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And the same thing happens with doctors that, you know, especially, um, in minority communities,
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in communities in inner cities that just don't have access or don't have money or don't desire
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And they just don't come in contact that often with medical professionals.
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And I think that's, those are the people they're going to try to reach in Israel.
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They have kind of the same problem where the Orthodox communities are much less likely to
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want to get the vaccine for ideological reasons.
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So those communities are much harder for the government to get the vaccine too.
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But they are at, as you point out, Pat, over now, 50% fully vaccinated in Israel.
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They lead the world by a very large margin, uh, in that, in that world.
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Let's see if I can get through the exact, uh, numbers.
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This is, this is fully vaccinated numbers right now.
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Because we're at between partially and fully vaccinated.
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And we've, between those who have gotten one of the two shots and those who've gotten both
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Um, so, uh, at least one dose in the United States, 18 plus population, 27.9% has already
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For this particular virus is the 65 plus population.
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Now, 65% of that population has received at least one dose.
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And look, you know, the Biden administration can try to take credit for all of this, which
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Like during the Trump administration, they developed the vaccine.
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And then Biden comes in office is like, look what we just did with the vaccines.
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We inherited a broken system, a completely broken, non-existent system.
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A lot of the people who are from the Trump administration who are running this effort
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They're just, you know, people who are really good at logistics.
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For a vaccine from start of the disease to when you have a vaccine for it.
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Measles took, I think it was a measles vaccination.
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I thought there was one for like whooping cough or something that was like more like
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I mean, for start to finish, this thing happened in less than a year.
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Whether you like it or not, it is absolutely impossible.
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And really more exciting than this particular vaccine is the technology behind the vaccine.
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This mRNA technology, which offers the ability to develop vaccines quickly like this.
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I'm talking about like, you know, diseases that have existed in the third world for generations
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and no one's really been able to get them under control because the development cost is so high
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And obviously, these countries don't have the money and all of this.
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This technology can be adapted really easily to things we've been fighting for a really long time.
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So, I think long term, the upside is even more exciting than just what we have here.
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We can go back to restaurants in a couple of weeks.
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But we're now fully vaccinated in the country, 15% of the 18 plus population and 37% of 65 plus.
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So, you're going to see, you know, the one thing you're seeing in Israel is when they break down the death rates
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from the vaccinated population and the non-vaccinated population, it's remarkable how well this is working.
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You know, more than half of the deaths right now in cases are coming from only like the 5% of the population
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Because, and the other 95% of the population is, you know, accounting for less than the 5%,
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You look at it when it comes down, they break it down by age.
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The older population, their deaths are dropping like crazy in Israel.
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And they're down by, you know, over 70% now as far as just cases overall with the entire population.
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What do you make of all the stories, though, of people, you know, dying within a day or two of this
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or becoming uncontrollably shaky for, you know, the rest of, I mean, I don't know how long it's going to last,
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but there was, for instance, there was a woman who did a video and she couldn't stop shaking.
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I mean, every part of her body was shaking and it had been going on for days and couldn't stop.
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And the only thing she could attribute it to was the vaccine.
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And, you know, maybe some people are just not able to handle it.
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I mean, I think, you know, look, science via YouTube video is never a good idea.
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That's actually the first scientific principle.
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If people forwarded enough times, it becomes science.
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So, like, I get it in my email, in my inbox, I can take it directly to the bank.
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As long as the person sending it to you is not the source.
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If it's been passed three or four times, then it becomes science.
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I mean, look, you have to look at the anecdotal cases as, you know, what they are.
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And some of them, you know, there are some people who have had bad reactions to it, I guess.
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I mean, we know this, that the people who are taking the vaccine are dying at a much
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lower rate than people that are not taking the vaccine.
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And getting extremely sick at a much lower rate.
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Now, there could be a reason for that, in that people who are maybe healthier and more
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engaged in the healthcare system are more likely to get the vaccine.
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There's no evidence whatsoever of these effects in a large scale.
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For example, there's a debate going on with this AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe.
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And AstraZeneca is not approved for use here in the United States.
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They're in the middle of the test that would get it to approval.
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But it is not approved in the United States yet.
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It was improved very early on, as you might expect, because it has to do with Oxford, in the UK.
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And that's really what they're using in the UK.
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And there's a debate now about a lot of the European countries have pulled it from usage.
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And because they believe there was, I believe, five cases of blood clots.
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Or maybe it might have been up to about 30 cases of blood clots related to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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Again, totally different technology than Pfizer and Moderna.
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It's interesting, though, to look at the numbers there.
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In that Europe, the people that pulled it off the market are saying that blood clots are happening in 1 in 167,000 people who get the vaccine.
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Now, in Britain, who's been using this vaccine the entire time, they're saying it's 1 in 500,000.
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So, there's a disagreement between 1 in 167,000 and 1 in 500,000.
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However, both of those numbers are better numbers than the population in general.
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So, the idea that it's the vaccine causing this, the people, more than 1 in 167,000 people just get blood clots on a normal, everyday life basis.
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So, there's no reason to believe, none of the science shows that any of this stuff is happening.
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Now, look, that does not mean, and as you can probably tell, I'm very pro-vaccine.
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I love what the Trump administration did on this.
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I love the fact that the ultimate enemy of every single left-wing newspaper in America, big pharmaceutical companies, were involved.
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And I love the fact that this is, I feel like, the American way out of something like this.
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We just innovate, come up with something great, and get out of it and go on with our lives.
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However, nobody should be forcing you to take it if you don't want to take it.
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And that is, you know, we have not seen anyone in the United States yet require it.
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But it is something that you could see Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo doing and saying that it is required.
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And you should not have to take any of these things if you don't want to take them.
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Just like you shouldn't have to wear a mask if you don't want to wear a mask.
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Like, even if, right, like, even if, even if it was the best idea in the world, you still get to, I mean, look, I, you know, I would not, this is a country in which we're not supposed to be forcing people through the government to do pretty much anything.
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You know, I mean, with the exception of don't murder, you know, don't steal.
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There's a few commandments that outline some of these ideas at one point in an old book.
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But, I mean, really, the government should have very limited access to your life as far as managing it.
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And so, you know, the people who are much more skeptical on the vaccine than I am, I stand with them in the idea that they should not be forced to take it.
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And it also will just turn people off from wanting to take it, you know, people who are on the fence are just gonna be like, screw you, don't tell me what to do.
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It's exactly how I'd be if they started to mandate it.
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It's basically like in Israel, they're saying, hey, get the vaccine, then go do what you want.
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As soon as you're vaccinated, none of these rules apply to you anymore, basically.
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That's what they're trying to communicate to the people.
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That's not entirely true in Israel, but it is, it is what they're trying to communicate.
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And then in the year 2027, you'll be able to see another person again.
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You know, you may even be able to eat outdoors in before 2050.
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We'll let you know, you know, you, we get to tell you when that happens.
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And the American people are just like, wait a minute, what?
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And it's if, if, if you behave yourself, if you do everything we tell you to do, then
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maybe you can get together and have a backyard barbecue the 4th of July.
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It's, I, I, do you think any of this, Pat, is them just trying to underplay it?
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It's like, you know, when, when, when an air, airplane, uh, company, uh, uh, air, uh, a flight
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tells you that you're going to be there at three o'clock when they know you're supposed
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So they have that, like that wiggle room in there.
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They're just trying to say like, it's like, well, he's like, oh, a million vaccines a day.
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Like he's trying to set expectations so low that he's definitely going to clear them.
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Joe Biden last night on, uh, with, with, uh, George Stephanopoulos and Stephanopoulos actually
00:30:08.220
pressed him on the crisis going on at the border, which of course, to the Biden administration,
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Uh, it's the same thing that's, it's been happening for years and, and this is all Donald
00:30:20.420
Um, here's Stephanopoulos actually asking him some decent questions about the border.
00:30:26.960
A lot of the migrants coming in saying they're coming in because you promised to make things
00:30:38.140
Well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years and, and, and 19 and 20, there
00:30:48.000
We're sending back people to, first of all, the idea that Joe Biden said, come, because
00:30:54.220
I heard the other day that they're, they're coming because they know I'm a nice guy and
00:31:09.100
In the process of getting set up, don't leave your town or city community.
00:31:15.220
Democrats get to say this every time and it's not hateful.
00:31:18.300
You know, don't leave your town or city is the thing that Donald Trump would say and
00:31:27.760
If you want to give him a very narrow, he's correct.
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You shouldn't illegally come to another country in any circumstance.
00:31:36.040
Potentially like a massive war going on in your country and you're escaping as a refugee.
00:31:49.340
And honestly, illegally, you shouldn't ever come.
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You should, you know, come as a refugee in certain circumstances.
00:31:55.380
Well, Biden denies that he is responsible at all for this.
00:31:59.880
But let's go back to the campaign and the promise he made essentially to the people of
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Mexico and Central and South America when he talked about the first hundred days of
00:32:14.000
First time ever we've told people they can't come to America.
00:32:22.000
And in the first 100 days, he goes on to say that, you know, they're going to- they can
00:32:27.020
come here essentially and receive asylum from the United States of America.
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Like, we've never told them before not to come.
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I mean, the average is something like 300% of pre-COVID capacity.
00:32:59.880
They would literally have press conferences where they would break down and weep openly
00:33:05.900
about how inhumane it was Donald Trump treating these children that came across the border that
00:33:14.880
were ripped, that were torn from the arms of their crying mothers and then tossed into
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Now, what else are we supposed to do with them?
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They're- they're just all here without their parents and we've got to find some place for
00:33:41.240
them and we don't know where they belong and we're trying really hard to find their parents.
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So what are we supposed to do other than put them in these facilities?
00:33:55.840
I went back, by the way, Pat, and I think you'll remember the story when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:34:01.960
these photos came out of her at the border and she was crying at a fence.
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And, you know, the people were kind of mocking them as sort of looking very staged and they
00:34:12.480
were actually taken before AOC was like a figure, a public figure.
00:34:17.380
She was running for office, but like no one knew who she was at this point.
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They are among the most cringeworthy photos I've ever seen in my life.
00:34:29.580
She, it, they, now she claims this was a real moment and the photographer says it was a real
00:34:41.960
And, you know, she's standing in front of this fence and it is like down the road, a long
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So people were saying, oh, she's just in front of an empty lot.
00:35:00.800
I mean, they weren't allowing people inside, but still like, I just, I don't know.
00:35:05.860
Well, it's like, can you, you know, I don't, I'm trying to think of like, if you were, if
00:35:09.720
you went to a site that somehow meant something to you, but you could barely see it in the
00:35:14.260
distance, it's, it doesn't seem like it would evoke the emotion.
00:35:17.820
And then it just like, it just doesn't look real.
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It looks like she's just standing there fake crying for the camera.
00:35:26.300
I mean, it, I don't know what it is seeing them again after knowing her, because when you
00:35:31.700
first saw them, she was kind of in the news and it wasn't a huge story at the time.
00:35:36.060
Knowing how awful she is and how her, her only goal in life is to pander to cameras.
00:35:44.560
You know, all she does all the time is going Instagram live and run her mouth about God
00:35:50.140
She doesn't know how the freaking, you know, garbage disposal works or whatever she talks
00:35:55.640
And to see these photos in that light now that we know kind of who she is.
00:36:07.260
And we had them on the, we, we, we showed briefly on the show the other day on Stude
00:36:12.720
And it's just, oh, it gives you that feeling inside your stomach when you realize like
00:36:17.100
someone's like trying like a really bad actor or actress who's trying to pull off a role
00:36:24.940
And like everyone around you knows that they're failing to get that like tightness in your
00:36:31.560
That's what it feels like when you look at them.
00:36:32.940
I know she said something early on when it came out again that, that, that Biden is using
00:36:37.640
the cages and she actually said something, uh, negative about it.
00:36:44.480
Not, it wasn't, it wasn't a literal concentration camp when Joe Biden was doing it.
00:36:51.900
I think she said one thing about it and then she shut her mouth about it.
00:37:03.440
And of course, all these things that she talked about, you know, she complained about
00:37:06.360
wanting this $15 minimum wage and how she was going to hold up the process.
00:37:12.040
She let it go through anyway, because she's just like so many other Democrats, you know, there's
00:37:18.220
And back in late February, Glenn tweeted out, maybe you guys talked about this at the time,
00:37:23.400
just for the record, the Biden administration is separating children and parents.
00:37:33.520
Glenn Beck said that, that the evil Glenn Beck with his hatefulness.
00:37:39.680
This is the one where he said a full sentence and they fact-checked half the sentence.
00:37:44.540
They actually broke the sentence into two pieces so they could give him a false ranking.
00:37:50.600
And, and, and like, well, I don't understand why this is better.
00:37:57.220
When Donald Trump was president, a mom and a son would come across the border and the
00:38:02.760
mom would get arrested for coming across the border.
00:38:04.520
They didn't want to throw the son into jail, right?
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So they would detain them in two different places.
00:38:11.240
That was the separation of children from parents that we heard so much about.
00:38:16.120
What's happening now is the parents at some point before they cross the border are having
00:38:23.880
So they're now crossing the border solo instead of with their parent.
00:38:29.600
They just separated on the other side of the border and that means Donald Trump is evil
00:38:34.780
and Hitler and literal concentration camp guy and Joe Biden is totally fine.
00:38:39.220
And they act as if Donald Trump had his minions down at the border, stealing babies from the
00:38:48.760
When in fact it was mostly teenagers then, like it's mostly teenagers now.
00:38:59.540
I don't think a lot of babies were torn from the, the arms of their mothers as they carried
00:39:06.220
Now we're, I mean, what we're looking at right now is 15, 16 and 17 year olds largely.
00:39:13.960
They're under age, but you know, it's a different story than what you picture and you know, they,
00:39:24.620
And they'll, we'll find the one younger child who happens to be in a large group and, and
00:39:31.480
I mean, there's obviously they use this, they use these photos for their advantage, just
00:39:42.920
That just happened to be somebody walking by with a camera at the same time that AOC started
00:39:52.860
If you're clearly spontaneous, if you, if you happen to be on blaze TV, it's, it's, it's
00:39:57.520
worth watching because it basically you have the, there's a couple of different vibes here.
00:40:01.880
You have one vibe where she's looking like a sad puppy dog at the camera, which is just
00:40:08.480
And then the other one where she's standing by herself and awkwardly bending over in her
00:40:14.220
pristine white clothing and her nice new watch.
00:40:26.140
The grief of these children being taken from their parents bent her in half.
00:40:31.280
And look, there are a lot of sad stories on the border.
00:40:33.420
This is why we say we should have it under control.
00:40:35.200
I mean, there are really terrible, tragic stories that happen on the border all the time.
00:40:38.860
People who are convinced by Democrats largely that this is not really an offense, that it's
00:40:46.340
basically, it's less than a speeding ticket because you don't even get fined.
00:40:50.440
And we, and you know, they come across the border thinking they're going to get a better
00:40:53.340
life because Democrats are screaming that, uh, that it's possible.
00:40:57.160
And now they see Biden as the quote, migrant president, the Mexican president said that
00:41:02.740
these migrants see Joe Biden as the migrant president.
00:41:06.060
And they, they're coming here because they believe it's okay.
00:41:10.880
But they believe because half the country and all of the media is saying it, it's okay.
00:41:15.020
And just to accentuate that point, uh, we have one of the migrants actually, uh, speaking
00:41:23.880
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
00:41:32.800
Here's here's one of the migrants talking about Joe Biden.
00:41:37.700
I just want patient and pass that we can get to the U S because they're having a new
00:41:45.180
He given us a hundred days to get to the U S and give us legal mental paper so we can
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so so they got it right from joe biden he's given him a hundred days to get here and just have a
00:42:01.800
better life for him and his family and i look we that's amazing it is amazing and we as conservatives
00:42:08.040
would look at this and say a lot of times we'll say like you shouldn't come across the border
00:42:11.580
and you know it's a bad idea blah blah blah and that's of course true but it's also like you from
00:42:16.880
their perspective the messaging they're getting from the entire media and uh not to mention the
00:42:23.560
candidate himself and all of his allies in congress is it's mean if we send you back
00:42:29.720
yeah if we say hey you know we're going to deport you that's the mean thing we're not going to do
00:42:34.400
that anymore he campaigned on it of course they believe they can come in they we've been they've
00:42:40.500
been we've been telling you this for months and months and months and months if joe biden gets in
00:42:45.760
everything's going to be fine well of course they believe they can come in of course they do he told
00:42:50.880
them yeah i mean he essentially told them that look i'm your guy i'm your president too because
00:42:57.280
i'm going to invite you in that's what he did that's the message they got yeah and they're not
00:43:03.020
experts on the law of the united states think about this like sure you could say okay it's against the
00:43:07.860
law but like when the the leader of the nation and all of the big democrats are all saying it's
00:43:13.240
basically okay well of course that's the impression they're gonna have it's basically okay yeah it
00:43:20.040
might be frowned upon yeah you know i mean they're not gonna like fly you in and give you a welcome
00:43:25.700
ceremony but at the end of the day you're gonna come in you're gonna be in a facility for a couple
00:43:29.940
of days and get released into the country and you're gonna get what you want and anything other
00:43:34.100
than that is mean and hitler and literal concentration camps so of course they believe this is okay you
00:43:40.620
know i mean if if you had a speeding limit of you know a speed limit of 55 but the the governor
00:43:47.320
the the the sheriff the police force were all saying it's actually 75 you guys can all go 75
00:43:53.380
what the hell would you do you go 75 right i do anyway so yes the answer to that is yes