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00:01:41.080 Joe Biden was asked yesterday about the cognitive thing.

00:01:49.000 I, somebody finally had the giblets to bring it up, which is interesting because he's kind

00:01:54.540 of laughed it off in the past, sort of joked about it.

00:01:57.920 Yeah, I'm tested all the time.

00:01:59.600 Right.

00:02:00.500 Are you?

00:02:01.120 Are you?

00:02:01.900 Really?

00:02:02.520 How does that, I mean, be cognitively tested all the time.

00:02:05.900 Yeah.

00:02:06.680 And, you know, it's one of those questions that you, of course, as Joe Biden, realize

00:02:11.460 eventually someone's going to ask you.

00:02:13.920 Yeah.

00:02:14.180 You have to assume and be prepared for it.

00:02:16.180 And I think, I think it shows that Joe is pretty prepared for this one.

00:02:19.620 Yes.

00:02:19.800 You know, he had a great line to fire back.

00:02:21.760 Didn't he though?

00:02:22.480 He really got through all the words he was trying to say in the right order.

00:02:26.240 You know?

00:02:27.160 Well, you be the judge.

00:02:28.180 Okay.

00:02:28.540 Okay.

00:02:28.880 Here it is.

00:02:29.920 Have you taken a cognitive test?

00:02:31.900 No, I haven't taken a test.

00:02:33.820 Why the hell would I take a test?

00:02:35.920 Okay. 0.80

00:02:36.420 Whoa.

00:02:36.720 Come on, man.

00:02:38.100 That's like saying you, before you got in this program, if you're taking a test where

00:02:41.500 you're taking cocaine or not, what do you think, huh?

00:02:43.940 I'm sorry. 0.97

00:02:44.580 Are you a junkie?

00:02:45.140 What do you say to President Trump?

00:02:47.080 Pause it for a second if you can. 0.99

00:02:49.160 Are you asking a black man if he's a junkie? 0.96

00:02:53.280 I'm sorry. 0.93

00:02:53.980 Is that what just transpired here?

00:02:56.720 Seriously.

00:02:57.280 If this was Trump.

00:02:58.320 Yep.

00:02:59.400 That'd be the only thing people would be talking about.

00:03:00.920 Yes.

00:03:01.280 And it's interesting that he, he, Biden seems to get in trouble when he tries to be, to,

00:03:07.720 to, to relate to the peeps, you know, when he gets in the, come on, man, come on.

00:03:12.940 Okay.

00:03:13.320 You bought that phone for me. 0.88

00:03:14.380 You ain't black. 0.98

00:03:15.320 You know, like it's that, it's that vibe that he keeps getting in big trouble with. 0.85

00:03:20.440 And this is just the beginning of, of this, this clip.

00:03:24.820 I mean, because you see his reaction.

00:03:26.960 First of all, it's ridiculous for you to ask me if I would have a copy of my test.

00:03:29.160 He's pissed about it. 0.74

00:03:29.800 He's pissed off about it.

00:03:31.160 And then he tries to kind of joke his way out of it saying it would be as if we just tested

00:03:35.220 you for cocaine, which again, you see what he's doing there in normal times.

00:03:40.380 Now, and again, if the guy was sniffing and kind of wiping his nose and he has some white

00:03:46.780 residue under his nose, there might be reason to ask him if he's a cocaine addict because

00:03:51.840 there's some evidence of it.

00:03:53.280 That's why you're being asked.

00:03:55.240 Yes.

00:03:55.740 Joe, there's plenty of evidence that you have a problem with cognitive abilities right now.

00:04:01.620 And it's not even, it's way past the point of being funny and it's, it's frightening and

00:04:07.780 it's, it's terrifying that he could be president, but it's also really sad what he's apparently

00:04:12.640 going through.

00:04:13.560 Yeah.

00:04:13.680 I go back and forth on this because sometimes it just, you know, he strikes you a certain

00:04:17.020 way and you can't help.

00:04:18.340 He's, he's, he's, he's supposed to be a competent member of society.

00:04:23.880 He's running for president and for one of the two major parties.

00:04:26.580 Right. 0.99

00:04:26.980 And so it's hard to not look at and just say, gosh, this guy's a buffoon. 1.00

00:04:29.820 I mean, he just continually makes an idiot of himself and then you kind of stop and 1.00

00:04:34.520 realize, well, this is, by the end of this clip, I, I switched from, from laughing to 0.99

00:04:39.640 crying.

00:04:40.440 Yeah.

00:04:40.600 You know, I mean, it really, it gets ugly and we should point out, he really does answer

00:04:45.260 the question here, which is interesting.

00:04:48.040 He answers his own question.

00:04:49.600 You know, why do I have to take a test?

00:04:50.840 Well, you're about to hear why you're about to hear it.

00:04:54.660 And, uh, he, he just butchers this answer in about 15 different ways.

00:05:01.540 Are you a jump? 0.52

00:05:02.420 What do you say to president Trump who brags about his test and makes your mental state

00:05:09.400 an issue for voters?

00:05:12.080 Well, if he can't figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don't know

00:05:16.940 what the hell he's talking about.

00:05:18.540 Did you watch that? 0.72

00:05:19.360 Look, come on, man.

00:05:20.420 I, I, I know you're trying to goad me, but I mean, I'm so forward looking to have an

00:05:26.400 opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president in debates.

00:05:31.200 There's going to be plenty of time.

00:05:32.960 And by the way, as I joke with him, you know, I shouldn't say it.

00:05:37.940 I'm going to say something I don't, I probably shouldn't say.

00:05:40.220 Anyway, I am, uh, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical, mental

00:05:47.160 filth, my physical, as well as my mental fitness.

00:05:50.600 Oh my gosh.

00:05:52.980 As he's telling us, he's willing to allow us like he has a choice to judge his physical

00:05:59.900 and mental fitness.

00:06:01.360 He can't even get through that sentence.

00:06:03.240 Can't get through it.

00:06:03.920 And the, the, the, oh man, perhaps the scarier part of that is immediately before he says

00:06:11.900 I'm willing to have everyone judge my physical and mental fitness.

00:06:16.200 He looks down at a piece of paper.

00:06:19.460 He's seemingly reading.

00:06:22.000 Oh, I bet he was.

00:06:23.140 Yeah.

00:06:23.560 The idea that he wants people to judge his mental fitness.

00:06:26.980 Wow.

00:06:27.340 He's reading it off of a paper because he can't remember what he's supposed to say.

00:06:32.380 And if you remember correctly, he's, he mentions the elephant and the lion, because that was

00:06:38.160 part of the cognitive test that Trump talked about.

00:06:40.400 It wasn't an elephant and a lion.

00:06:42.360 It was a rhino and a lion.

00:06:44.400 So we got that part wrong too.

00:06:47.100 And he says, uh, well, he says a few words out of order there where he says, I'm, instead

00:06:52.360 of, I'm so looking forward to meeting Trump in a debate.

00:06:55.080 He says, I'm, I'm so forward looking to meet you, meeting Trump at the debate.

00:06:59.480 So he shows us many instances, many reasons why people are asking about its cognitive abilities.

00:07:06.560 Yeah.

00:07:06.740 And he's, he seems to laugh at a very strange moment where nothing happens.

00:07:10.480 He's at the very least, let's look at the very best for read on this for a second.

00:07:16.320 You know, he's trying too hard.

00:07:19.480 He can't read the room, right?

00:07:21.300 This guy is a serious interviewer who's trying to interview him and ask serious questions.

00:07:25.760 He's laughing on top of him.

00:07:27.400 He's acting like it's a joke.

00:07:28.660 He is now, again, I know it's virtual, but he has no sense of what he's supposed to be

00:07:33.500 doing in that moment.

00:07:34.880 Um, and I, you could theoretically look at the end of that.

00:07:38.620 One of the excuses they've given for Biden over these years is that remember this whole

00:07:42.600 thing where they said his stutter, he had a stutter when he was a kid and then he got

00:07:47.320 it to go away and now it's coming back, which scientists kind of say isn't really how that

00:07:51.200 works.

00:07:51.580 Um, doctors have said that after afterward, but that was a big excuse.

00:07:57.140 Apparently he did have a serious problem.

00:07:58.680 The last part of it to me, you could look at and say he's, he's having a stuttering issue

00:08:05.020 with it.

00:08:05.760 You could see him trying to struggle his way through fitness and he keeps saying fill.

00:08:11.380 He just keeps going the wrong way with it.

00:08:13.240 He's going to the L instead of the T and you can kind of see him kind of just like push it

00:08:17.840 through, push the word fitness through in a way you could maybe give him a break on that

00:08:22.560 one small part of it.

00:08:23.540 But you look at the whole thing as a whole, there's no way to explain it.

00:08:26.700 There's no way to explain it.

00:08:28.580 He is all over the board.

00:08:30.760 He's, he's, he's legitimately expressing the wrong emotions at the wrong times.

00:08:37.980 It's as if he's at a, he's laughing through the funeral and he's crying through a comedy

00:08:41.620 show.

00:08:42.640 It is a weird moment.

00:08:44.580 It is weird stuff.

00:08:45.700 Packed with, with, with, with strangeness.

00:08:47.840 And the terrifying part of it is that he could be president of the United States, but for

00:08:54.820 how long is the question in my mind?

00:08:57.680 If he, if he were to beat Trump, which heaven forbid, please, by all that is holy, please

00:09:04.360 no, please.

00:09:06.680 But if he were to become president, uh, how long does he last in office and who is it

00:09:13.680 that finally removes him?

00:09:15.600 Does he step aside on his own?

00:09:18.500 Does a doctor move into this thing and say, this guy's not fit anymore?

00:09:22.720 How will that work?

00:09:24.500 Did you see the clip the other day, Pat, where he was walking out and he wanted to go talk

00:09:27.720 with the media and he, his aid is grabbing his sort of wrist and kind of pulling him through,

00:09:32.080 which isn't, you know, that crazy when you're talking about, you're trying to get someone

00:09:35.500 to move.

00:09:36.380 And he starts to walk over to the media and you can see her fingers dig into his wrist. 0.96

00:09:41.600 Like, no, you're coming this way.

00:09:44.680 Uh, you didn't, you didn't see this clip?

00:09:46.040 I didn't see it.

00:09:46.340 It's really disturbing.

00:09:48.200 And I think more, it's not like they're just controlling him.

00:09:50.700 They're just saying, good God, don't let him talk to anybody.

00:09:53.420 Yeah.

00:09:53.540 And it seemed like how you would honestly like drag your grandpa through a situation where

00:09:58.540 he was supposed to go one direction.

00:10:00.360 You're trying not to be obvious about it.

00:10:01.620 You can see, you know, the fingers, the nails kind of dig into his arm being like, no, let's

00:10:06.240 say what you would almost do with like a dog, right?

00:10:08.820 You'd pull the leash a little bit, one direction.

00:10:10.700 So they know to go that direction.

00:10:12.880 That is, this is not right, guys.

00:10:16.220 This is not right.

00:10:17.540 This man obviously can't do this.

00:10:21.180 And they keep trotting him out there as if we're supposed to accept he could be president

00:10:26.820 of the United States.

00:10:29.040 Yeah.

00:10:29.580 It's insanity.

00:10:31.120 It's, are there any patriots around him?

00:10:34.140 Seriously, you have to wonder, is there anybody who cares enough about this country to come

00:10:38.680 out and say, and maybe there are people behind the scenes that are saying, Joe, don't do this.

00:10:42.900 Okay, let's, you know, don't do this.

00:10:45.440 The time has passed for that though, right?

00:10:46.900 I mean, he's going to be, he's going to be the nominee in a week.

00:10:49.440 Yeah.

00:10:49.900 You know, I think there's now after that, maybe there's a chance they could switch it

00:10:54.000 out.

00:10:54.220 I don't know.

00:10:55.620 I just look at this and you just, you just see, you see him crumbling.

00:10:59.540 I mean, the man can't do this.

00:11:02.580 He can't do it.

00:11:04.100 And so you might say, if you're like a Democrat and you think, okay, Trump's really bad.

00:11:08.380 We can't have him in there.

00:11:09.580 Let's get Joe elected.

00:11:11.240 And then once Joe gets elected, we'll all run the show back here.

00:11:14.820 You know, he'll chime in once in a while, but we'll pretty much ignore him.

00:11:17.440 And then eventually he'll probably wind up leaving and we'll probably replace him with

00:11:21.080 whoever this VP is.

00:11:22.100 That's why I do really legitimately believe this is the most significant vice presidential

00:11:25.580 announcement in American history, at least modern history.

00:11:28.560 It's hugely significant who Biden picks here.

00:11:32.840 And, you know, normally you might say, well, they're all liberals.

00:11:35.760 Like the difference between some, you know, AOC clone and a normal Democrat for this pick

00:11:41.980 is really a big deal for all of us.

00:11:44.780 Because if you get, you get an AOC clone in there and there's some that are in, I mean,

00:11:49.080 you know, Karen Bass is basically a communist, like, and she's, she's, she's on the short

00:11:54.540 list, on the short list.

00:11:55.300 Like, cause I mean, I don't, I can't imagine he's going to pick her because literally no

00:11:59.160 one knows who she is. 0.99

00:12:00.900 You know, uh, at least like, you know, Sarah Palin wasn't familiar to the American people

00:12:05.440 either, but she was a rising star.

00:12:07.200 Bass is what, 66 been around for a long time, you know, has all sorts of dirt.

00:12:12.340 They're going to be able to look through and, and, you know, Trump is going to have fun

00:12:15.580 with that one with Susan Rice.

00:12:17.320 Like they're going to have fun with some of these.

00:12:18.920 Um, but it is a strange, strange time because the media is acting as if this is okay and

00:12:28.140 normal.

00:12:28.780 Like, uh, you're, it's like they're running almost a zombie candidate.

00:12:33.780 They're not even trying to have someone who's, it would even make the case that he's competent

00:12:39.520 to do this job right now.

00:12:40.860 It's clear.

00:12:41.720 Look at these clips.

00:12:42.700 Every time the man speaks in public, one of these things happens.

00:12:48.500 Well, listen to his China policy.

00:12:50.140 Did you, uh, did you see the China policy speech?

00:12:53.500 Um, cause this is powerful.

00:12:55.000 I think you'll like this.

00:12:55.920 Yeah, this is really good.

00:12:56.920 The way Trump, the way China will respond is when we gather the rest of the world that

00:13:01.440 in fact, and be in, and free and open trade and making sure that we're in a position that

00:13:07.820 the world, uh, that, that we deal with WHO the right way, that, that in fact, that's

00:13:14.120 when things began to change.

00:13:15.800 That's when China, that's when, uh, China's behavior is going to change. 0.78

00:13:19.060 I'm sorry.

00:13:19.680 What?

00:13:20.820 Well, okay.

00:13:21.340 Is that pretty clear that he spelled that out?

00:13:23.380 That's pretty clear.

00:13:24.020 No, right.

00:13:24.340 He's in vaven-ed it.

00:13:26.000 I don't, I'm not exactly sure.

00:13:28.300 He's in vaven-ed it.

00:13:28.960 I don't know what in vaven-ed means, but I think that's what he said.

00:13:32.040 In vaven-ed.

00:13:33.860 And I, it's one of those things.

00:13:35.400 It feels like it should be a word.

00:13:37.380 It does.

00:13:37.860 I mean, it's not.

00:13:38.680 In vaven-ed is a, it's a good sounding.

00:13:41.200 It sounds like a real word.

00:13:42.740 Like maybe I'm just not familiar with.

00:13:44.140 Is in vaven-ed a word?

00:13:45.860 It might, maybe it is.

00:13:47.040 You know, I, maybe.

00:13:48.240 I really should check before I start making fun of him.

00:13:49.700 I'm sure I don't know every word in the English language.

00:13:52.380 There's a lot of them.

00:13:53.320 Yeah.

00:13:53.540 I mean, he's been-

00:13:54.040 And in vaven-ed might be one.

00:13:55.180 Some of them he's been bringing back, like malarkey.

00:13:57.160 Like, I mean, I know malarkey, but it's been a while since I had heard it.

00:14:01.480 And he brings that one back.

00:14:02.760 Maybe in vaven's like an old timey.

00:14:05.180 Maybe.

00:14:05.540 Look, he's struggling to get through any of this.

00:14:08.680 One of the things they wrote about in this story about him, a very lengthy story about

00:14:14.260 his stutter.

00:14:15.180 This is when they were trying to explain, hey, we swear this is just like, it's a minor thing

00:14:18.620 that's not going to affect his job at all, is that he would try to create workarounds

00:14:22.820 for words.

00:14:23.640 He could feel that he couldn't get through a word coming up.

00:14:26.320 You know, he knew he was going to say in vaven-ed and he was like, crap, I'm not going

00:14:29.420 to get that through in vaven-ed.

00:14:30.960 Yes.

00:14:31.320 So I better come up with a workaround.

00:14:32.580 So he would come up with other like synonyms.

00:14:35.040 He would essentially map himself around the word so he wouldn't have to say it.

00:14:39.160 And that's how he dealt with it as a kid.

00:14:41.460 You almost can see that happening.

00:14:43.380 He does it now.

00:14:43.840 Yeah.

00:14:44.120 Like he can't.

00:14:45.140 The real half the reason he doesn't make sense all the time is because he's constantly like

00:14:49.560 rewording his sentences on the fly or something.

00:14:52.200 That's not going to work with world leaders.

00:14:55.860 Like how you communicate is important.

00:14:58.280 It's kind of important.

00:14:59.420 Yeah.

00:14:59.600 Do I have to say these things?

00:15:00.860 And one of the things he's doing is et cetera.

00:15:03.400 When he runs into trouble and he can't think of the rest of, for instance, the Declaration

00:15:07.760 of Independence.

00:15:09.460 It's like et cetera.

00:15:10.620 We the people, et cetera.

00:15:13.440 Or I've gone too long.

00:15:15.080 That was a big one he used in the debates.

00:15:16.520 You heard him in that first clip say, oh, I'm going to say something I'm going to regret.

00:15:21.560 I don't want to say that.

00:15:23.160 Like a lot of times it's not, he's describing something else.

00:15:26.180 He can't get through what he's saying.

00:15:27.580 He doesn't know.

00:15:28.120 He's lost where he was going.

00:15:29.780 So he acts as if he's interrupting himself as sort of a trick to make it seem like, oh,

00:15:35.020 he's just trying to be responsible.

00:15:36.260 That's not what's happening.

00:15:37.240 He's lost it.

00:15:38.120 He's lost where he was going.

00:15:40.340 Sadly.

00:15:40.900 Yeah.

00:15:41.280 That's terrifying.

00:15:41.940 That's exactly what's going on.

00:15:44.500 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:46.520 There's a, there was some great chanting last night that I learned and I'd like us all

00:15:57.740 to participate.

00:15:58.940 Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground.

00:16:02.760 You like that one?

00:16:03.620 Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground.

00:16:07.040 It's got a nice flow.

00:16:08.420 Doesn't it though?

00:16:09.140 It's got a really nice flow.

00:16:10.820 And it applies to not just the downtown area.

00:16:13.820 It's every precinct in every town.

00:16:16.300 So you just burn them all down.

00:16:18.500 And that's what they're trying to do. 0.63

00:16:20.000 And it's, there's also some shots being fired on a pretty nightly basis.

00:16:26.140 They wrap things up though, pretty early the other night.

00:16:29.220 They, they were only out rioting until three 30 in the morning and then things stopped.

00:16:34.600 They calmed right down after three 30 in the morning.

00:16:36.900 So they didn't go till dawn.

00:16:38.520 It's not like they're rioting all night long until the dawn. 0.95

00:16:42.180 And no, that would be ridiculous. 0.99

00:16:43.380 It would be silly. 0.71

00:16:44.540 So when they say no justice, no peace, the peace begins at three 30.

00:16:48.900 I mean, I mean, they mean no justice of peace until three 30, three 30 in the morning.

00:16:52.660 Yeah.

00:16:53.320 It's interesting because we were told that, at least by the media, that's not what they mean.

00:16:58.640 That's not what they mean.

00:16:59.560 They just mean what they would like to do is change some police policies.

00:17:03.600 It's they don't want to defund the police.

00:17:05.540 Oh, I see.

00:17:06.140 When they say defund the police, they don't mean defund the police.

00:17:09.460 No, no, no.

00:17:09.960 We can't take that.

00:17:10.960 What do they mean then?

00:17:11.780 What they mean is there are certain policies that need to be tweaked.

00:17:17.180 Why don't they say that then?

00:17:18.360 Why don't they?

00:17:18.760 You know what?

00:17:19.120 There are certain policies that need to be tweaked.

00:17:21.300 Well, you could say that.

00:17:22.320 You could.

00:17:22.760 I mean, look how many syllables.

00:17:24.120 I just did.

00:17:24.680 Look how many syllables that is.

00:17:25.880 It's a lot.

00:17:27.100 Is it?

00:17:27.720 Yeah.

00:17:28.100 It's a lot more than defund the police.

00:17:29.900 Yeah.

00:17:30.060 I guess it is.

00:17:30.760 It is significantly more.

00:17:32.420 And, you know, an easier, if you just say burn it down, that's even shorter than defund the police.

00:17:36.480 And if it rhymes, it's really catchy.

00:17:38.040 And you remember that.

00:17:39.280 Right.

00:17:39.540 So every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground.

00:17:43.280 And that is just a catchy little ditty that they don't really mean.

00:17:47.780 Basically, what you just said translates to there's a couple of tweaks in policy that need to be made.

00:17:52.160 Huh.

00:17:52.740 Why are they setting fires then all over the town?

00:17:55.300 Well, the fire.

00:17:56.460 In every city and every town.

00:17:58.320 In every town.

00:17:58.860 The fire itself is more of a symbol.

00:18:01.840 Is it?

00:18:02.460 For policy tweaking.

00:18:04.060 Oh.

00:18:04.520 Yeah.

00:18:05.080 Huh.

00:18:05.380 I didn't know that.

00:18:05.940 You know, there's some details in the policies that are going one way.

00:18:12.640 They just need to be just the direction just alters ever so slightly.

00:18:17.100 Okay.

00:18:17.640 And other than that.

00:18:18.760 Well, that's understandable.

00:18:19.700 Yeah.

00:18:20.060 Mm-hmm.

00:18:20.500 I think it's going to work out really well.

00:18:23.700 Really well.

00:18:25.040 I don't understand why people can't understand this.

00:18:29.720 I'm fascinated by this as we go through the past few weeks in that, like, more and more, the idea of winning a logical argument or coming up with evidence that proves a point no longer matters.

00:18:48.240 None of this makes any dent in the way this stuff gets covered.

00:18:52.800 Like, Portland is a great argument there.

00:18:56.680 Every night, there are dozens of videos of these same people lighting buildings on fire, hitting police officers in the head with rocks and bottles and shooting fireworks at them and all of these things.

00:19:11.480 Yeah.

00:19:11.760 And yet, every ounce of coverage by the mainstream media is how bad the federal agents are.

00:19:17.160 Yeah.

00:19:17.820 And in fact...

00:19:18.160 And how bad Donald Trump is.

00:19:19.000 One of the portions of this report from COIN in Portland was, because they were on the scene as some of the rioting was happening, and the police were radioing back to the precinct that they were under heavy rock attack.

00:19:34.820 And so, I mean, they're just under this constant barrage, and this is happening pretty much every night.

00:19:39.600 But, yes, like you said, all we're focused on are the federal troops there that need to go, because that's the real problem.

00:19:47.020 That's the...

00:19:47.500 And it seems to make no difference, no matter how much evidence you have, no matter how many times you say the same thing, no matter how many times it's outlined, no matter how many videos you show, they just say, well, no, it's just...

00:20:03.120 It's the police that are the ones that are brutal.

00:20:05.220 Yeah.

00:20:05.600 And it's like, well, wait a minute.

00:20:06.480 Again, I'm not saying that the police have done everything perfectly through this.

00:20:10.700 There have been some pieces of evidence that have shown police acting inappropriately, I think, at times.

00:20:17.220 And what happens when you show us those videos is that we say, yeah, that's not the right thing, and that needs to be corrected.

00:20:23.500 If that person committed a crime, that person should be charged.

00:20:27.000 When we show you 50 times the amount of material that shows the other side doing things like that and worse, you just act like it doesn't happen.

00:20:35.480 It's like as if I have CGI at my house and I'm making these things up every night.

00:20:41.020 That's exactly what's happening.

00:20:42.160 I remember when there was a protest in Provo, Utah, of all places, a few weeks ago.

00:20:47.280 And there was a guy who got stopped by a crowd and they surrounded his truck.

00:20:53.040 And one of the protesters walked up and shot him through the car window and the bullet entered him in the side.

00:21:01.400 And he took off because he's surrounded and he's being shot.

00:21:06.560 And so he didn't, I think his thought process was kind of, hey, I don't want to stick around to be shot again.

00:21:13.980 I think that was the process.

00:21:15.360 So he started driving slowly and then it went a little bit faster and people moved out of the way and he left.

00:21:22.020 And so my son was arguing, one of my sons was arguing with some of the leftists who were saying, look at this man driving through crowds.

00:21:30.860 Crowds, he was shot.

00:21:35.120 Yeah, well, he shouldn't have been driving through crowds.

00:21:37.860 No, no, he was shot before.

00:21:38.960 He was shot before he drove through the crowd.

00:21:44.380 They're just, it never computed.

00:21:47.040 It just, it didn't register with them.

00:21:49.420 Uh, they, they continued the same argument as if, hey, he was being shot at, just didn't register with people.

00:21:56.480 It's really strange.

00:21:58.220 Yeah.

00:21:58.600 It's, it doesn't matter what the protesters do.

00:22:01.020 It's fine.

00:22:01.920 And the cops are always wrong.

00:22:04.080 Always.

00:22:05.040 This strategy is fascinating to me because if you look at like, people would say, I don't know, let's just go back a decade.

00:22:12.880 People would say, oh, you're racist.

00:22:15.460 They've been making that charge forever, right? 0.92

00:22:17.220 You're racist.

00:22:17.920 And you'd be like, okay, well, here's why I'm not racist. 0.93

00:22:20.320 And here's the, here's, here's why, uh, this policy works better than this policy.

00:22:24.540 And you'd explain that out.

00:22:26.400 And they, that battle was fought for a long time.

00:22:28.680 And I don't know if it's just so obvious now that they lost that battle where they kept saying it was, things were racist and everyone knew they weren't.

00:22:35.600 So what they did was just change the definition of the word racist.

00:22:39.420 Now, if you're just, if you're white, you're automatically racist and there's nothing you can do about it.

00:22:43.620 You're never going to be able to solve that. 0.91

00:22:45.040 So you're automatically racist for life.

00:22:47.320 It's like, well, I guess if you're, the definition of the word racist is I have white skin.

00:22:52.200 I mean, I don't technically have white skin, but I guess I have peach or whatever it is.

00:22:56.820 If I'm white, I'm automatically racist.

00:22:58.980 Well, then they automatically, when they argue it, if that's the definition of the word.

00:23:02.440 And it's like, well, how about these words mean things?

00:23:06.140 Like when I say you're a boy and you're a girl, those words mean something.

00:23:12.440 And when you want to come in and say later on, well, actually, as Ellen so helpfully helped us define, it's just a feeling you have in your head.

00:23:20.340 That's what gender is. 1.00

00:23:21.220 Well, that's just another thing.

00:23:22.780 You're just coming up with totally new definitions for existing words.

00:23:27.760 How about let's just keep the words the same and you can make your arguments, but they know they can't win our arguments that way.

00:23:34.240 If the language doesn't move, if it's concrete instead of quicksand, they can't win these arguments.

00:23:41.720 So now they just change the language as we go.

00:23:44.000 It's incredible.

00:23:45.000 Yeah.

00:23:45.300 Their arguments right now just don't even have to make sense.

00:23:48.700 I'm not racist.

00:23:49.620 I've never discriminated against anybody.

00:23:51.120 Well, that's your white privilege showing.

00:23:53.460 Wait, what?

00:23:54.980 What is my white privilege? 0.86

00:23:57.480 Well, that's your whiteness. 0.99

00:23:58.700 You're just white. 0.98

00:24:01.580 And you're just saying my race there.

00:24:03.600 So I thought that was something we weren't supposed to be focused on.

00:24:06.640 Did we do the TCU story here yesterday?

00:24:09.580 I can't remember.

00:24:10.420 I think I did it on Stu Does America yesterday.

00:24:13.160 Story about the head coach of TCU football.

00:24:16.600 And he is apologizing now for using the N-word.

00:24:20.160 Gary Patterson?

00:24:20.860 Yeah.

00:24:21.220 He used the N-word.

00:24:21.960 Yeah.

00:24:22.160 Pretty bad, right?

00:24:23.120 Yeah.

00:24:23.500 Except for the fact that when he was using the N-word, it was in the context of yelling at a player for using the N-word.

00:24:30.680 Oh, my God.

00:24:31.320 So he quoted the player, but he actually said the word.

00:24:34.840 He didn't say the N-word.

00:24:36.400 Now, is that a bad idea as a white coach? 0.73

00:24:39.920 Sure. 0.71

00:24:40.480 It's not a good.

00:24:41.340 I mean, the easy thing, the easy, safe tip here is just never say it, right?

00:24:45.320 Like, you know, but still context matters here.

00:24:49.160 He was saying it was inappropriate for this word to be used and was criticizing its use.

00:24:56.180 So the players, they start tweeting about how he said the word.

00:25:01.260 So Patterson gets in trouble.

00:25:02.260 He's now apologizing.

00:25:03.540 The players are skipping the get-togethers and practices.

00:25:06.200 Oh, my gosh.

00:25:06.680 And they say to him, not only do they say, look, we told him, you know, because they're like, we had a meeting and we, how do we move forward?

00:25:13.240 And we told him he just can't use that word.

00:25:15.560 That's not appropriate for him to use.

00:25:17.780 And then we also told him he needs to stop saying, I don't see color because he does see color.

00:25:22.140 It's like, this is a full out frontal assault on Martin Luther King.

00:25:29.020 I don't see color is now racist, guys.

00:25:32.140 They've changed all of these definitions.

00:25:35.500 What do you mean?

00:25:36.240 I don't, a colorblind society was supposed to be the thing we were all shooting for.

00:25:42.680 It's a random physical characteristic that means nothing.

00:25:47.320 The color of your skin is nothing.

00:25:49.280 It's just like the color of your eyes.

00:25:50.640 It's nothing.

00:25:51.260 It means nothing.

00:25:52.920 It doesn't define you.

00:25:54.600 It doesn't, there is no culture associated with it.

00:25:57.720 There is no white culture and black culture. 1.00

00:26:00.440 Look at the black culture of black people in the United States and compare it to black people in Africa and tell me they have the same culture. 1.00

00:26:07.240 It's totally different. 0.83

00:26:08.860 The country has a culture.

00:26:11.340 There are areas within the culture that are influenced by other cultures, but it has nothing to do with the color of your skin.

00:26:18.140 White people living in other countries, white people who grew up in Asia have Asian cultures, right? 0.54

00:26:26.600 Like that, it's much more about your surroundings.

00:26:29.140 The color of your skin is a nonsensical way to categorize people. 1.00

00:26:33.200 It's just dumb. 0.97

00:26:34.660 And we, just like it would be dumb if we said, you know what, that person has long fingernails and that person has short fingernails. 0.99

00:26:42.340 That person has blue eyes and that person has brown eyes.

00:26:45.300 These, these sorts of, this person has blonde hair.

00:26:47.980 That person has brown hair.

00:26:50.080 There's no reason to separate people among these lines unless you're just trying to utilize it for power. 0.93

00:26:55.660 We can all acknowledge that in the past people did it, but it was dumb then. 0.58

00:27:00.340 That was the lesson of that era. 0.99

00:27:02.400 The lesson of the racist era of the past was to learn that racism was dumb. 0.98

00:27:07.840 Not to just implement it on another color. 0.98

00:27:10.720 Right.

00:27:11.260 Which is what we're doing now.

00:27:12.540 Yeah, exactly.

00:27:13.120 It's insanity.

00:27:17.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:30.560 We have some direction from, from Fauci.

00:27:33.700 Thank goodness.

00:27:34.340 He was, he was on with, Sanjay Gupta was interviewing him yesterday.

00:27:38.100 And then they took, they took some questions from people online.

00:27:41.960 And one of the questions was, we're the United States of America.

00:27:45.420 This seems to be hurting us more than other places where we just not prepared for this or what happened.

00:27:51.780 Here's that exchange.

00:27:55.440 Dr. Fauci, the title of this series is when public health means business.

00:28:01.160 And thus far, it seems like we haven't made business at all.

00:28:05.200 The United States has 4% of the world's population.

00:28:08.580 But 25% of the world's COVID cases is deaths.

00:28:14.320 Cases.

00:28:15.320 For a country that is the most affluent and influential, that is a catastrophe.

00:28:21.340 My question is, knowing what you now know, what would you do differently before the next pandemic or during it?

00:28:28.620 Well, I think there's two parts of that question, sir.

00:28:33.340 One is, you know, how we, how we might explain how this happened and what I would do different.

00:28:38.720 And then what you would do different for the next pandemic.

00:28:41.380 I think preparedness, we put together a pandemic preparedness plan as we were trying to respond to the threat of the pre-pandemic bird flu back in 2005.

00:28:52.540 And again, it was a plan that was a reasonable plan.

00:28:56.420 And in fact, when it was evaluated independently by Johns Hopkins, it stated that it was our preparedness for a pandemic was essentially number one in the world.

00:29:08.640 But what happened when the rubber hit the road on this and we did get hit, we had the kind of response that was not as well suited to what the dynamics of this outbreak is.

00:29:20.460 And what happened is that we had a bit of a disparate response.

00:29:24.720 We live in a very big country and we often leave the decisions about the implementation of things at the local level.

00:29:34.000 And what we've seen is a great disparity in how individual states, cities, et cetera, responded.

00:29:41.080 The critical issue that I think we need to look at how we can get that down is that when you look at the curves and it relates to Sanjay's graph, that when we went up and then started to come down, everybody got hit badly.

00:29:57.140 China got hit badly.

00:29:58.780 Europe, particularly Italy, France and Spain.

00:30:01.900 When they went up and they responded, they came all the way down to a baseline so that when they started to reopen their countries in a very careful way, they had to deal with little blips that could easily be controlled.

00:30:20.020 When you looked at our curve, it's telling.

00:30:23.380 And that's the thing that bothers me.

00:30:24.900 We went way up and when we came down, we came down to a plateau of 20,000 cases per day.

00:30:33.800 That is not a good baseline.

00:30:37.200 We needed to get further down so that as we went along over weeks and months, we stayed at 20,000 per day.

00:30:46.260 Some parts of the country did very well.

00:30:49.020 They came up and they came way down.

00:30:50.680 Other parts of the country held it so they didn't even go up.

00:30:54.800 But there were so many different players, as it were, in the country that the totality of the country, that some net of that was a flat line that was very high.

00:31:07.120 And then when we decided, with the guidelines of how we can open America again, for reasons that we obviously couldn't stay shut down forever, was having terrible economic consequences, terrible consequences on employment, we decided we would try to take steps to open.

00:31:25.900 And when we did, we didn't do it uniformly.

00:31:29.200 Some states did not pay attention to the benchmarks or the checkpoints.

00:31:37.080 Others did it fine, but the citizenry within a state or within a city actually did an all-or-none phenomenon.

00:31:46.680 They said, we're locked down, so now we're just going to let it fly.

00:31:50.780 Now, you could say, no, that didn't happen.

00:31:52.720 But the numbers tell you what happened.

00:31:55.340 All right, we got it.

00:31:55.880 What happened?

00:31:57.680 What he's saying here in a really lengthy explanation is we have a 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives power to the states to make their own decisions.

00:32:07.920 If it weren't for that pesky Constitution, we could control people a lot better.

00:32:13.780 Wouldn't that be great if we could set fire to that Constitution?

00:32:18.260 So there's that, and there's another glaring omission in his explanation here of why we got hit harder than others.

00:32:26.860 And it seems like there was a little situation where thousands of people were gathering together every day in the streets, yelling and screaming and spinning and setting things on fire and robbing Nike stores.

00:32:42.600 The protest had nothing to do with this?

00:32:44.940 Seems pretty notable to me.

00:32:46.140 Come on.

00:32:46.560 Seems pretty notable to me.

00:32:47.640 Yeah.

00:32:48.340 Yeah.

00:32:48.900 And look, you know, his point on the states is, you know, at some level, probably true.

00:32:55.400 It's easier to freak out.

00:32:57.720 If you're North Korea, it's probably easier to control a pandemic. 0.99

00:33:01.360 Or China.

00:33:01.660 Or China, because you can just, you know, weld people into their apartments, right? 1.00

00:33:04.960 Your central government tells people where they're going to be and they have to be there.

00:33:08.340 It's probably the one situation, honestly, the one situation I can think of where it would be great to have a dictatorship.

00:33:14.760 If you're king, you could just do whatever you want and you just, you can lock everyone away and it won't be spread.

00:33:20.420 Like, yes, but it's not worth the trade off, obviously.

00:33:22.720 You know, the states, states obviously have to be able to take their own.

00:33:26.900 Safety for our freedom.

00:33:27.780 Yeah.

00:33:28.060 We'll take that over freedom every time, apparently, or we should be doing it.

00:33:33.080 Yeah.

00:33:33.280 And I don't think, look, I don't think we should.

00:33:35.080 And he's not even, you know, I mean, he kind of just touches on this, but several places are having up to him.

00:33:41.460 Look at Israel's chart.

00:33:42.440 It looks just like ours.

00:33:43.600 I mean, you know.

00:33:44.360 The Philippines is another example of somebody who locked down really tight and they're having a huge spike right now.

00:33:50.300 India, Peru.

00:33:51.260 I mean, when you look at the excess deaths as compared to the population, we're not even close to the top of that chart.

00:33:56.720 Lots of other, you know.

00:33:57.660 Still.

00:33:58.040 Peru, Ecuador, Spain, Chile, UK, Italy, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, all ahead of us.

00:34:04.240 So that's at least 10.

00:34:06.080 Is that 12?

00:34:06.700 How many?

00:34:07.300 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

00:34:10.460 Yeah.

00:34:10.700 It's supposed to be 12.

00:34:11.620 And there's only 20 measured.

00:34:14.200 Wow.

00:34:14.340 You know, and Brazil is theoretically behind us at this point.

00:34:18.660 But, I mean, does anybody believe?

00:34:20.380 You look at Brazil, they're at 100,000 deaths with a smaller population than us.

00:34:24.440 It started much later than ours.

00:34:26.500 And they are a country in complete disarray over this.

00:34:30.940 You know, this is.

00:34:32.120 They've been hit really hard.

00:34:32.740 They're going to find hundreds of thousands of deaths in countries like, you know, places

00:34:36.160 like Brazil.

00:34:37.400 Like, you look at India with over a billion people.

00:34:40.880 You're really going to tell me, you know, they're going to, they're having, you know,

00:34:44.680 20,000 cases a day in India?

00:34:47.840 No.

00:34:48.060 I mean.

00:34:48.620 Come on.

00:34:49.620 Obviously not.

00:34:50.600 There's no, it's not happening.

00:34:52.260 To me, the same in China.

00:34:53.340 I think China's lied through the teeth the whole time. 1.00

00:34:55.760 You're telling me they've only had 4,600 deaths?

00:34:58.900 China? 0.73

00:34:59.600 Really?

00:34:59.980 I don't believe it either.

00:35:01.480 I don't believe it either.

00:35:02.480 And it's, that's to the point where even left-wing commentators will acknowledge, yeah, we don't

00:35:06.560 really believe those numbers.

00:35:07.680 Right.

00:35:07.900 Because you can't.

00:35:08.680 I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

00:35:10.220 You can't.

00:35:10.620 But I mean, you know, like in theory, if you're a country, you know, people praise places like

00:35:15.360 South Korea or, you know.

00:35:16.960 Well, what South Korea, the way they got that under control was they broke all sorts of things 1.00

00:35:22.700 in our constitution to do it.

00:35:24.880 I mean, you can, like, yeah, you know, I don't want to make that trade-off, frankly.

00:35:29.660 I don't want to make that trade-off.

00:35:30.860 I don't either.

00:35:30.980 I'm not willing to do it.

00:35:32.040 But I mean, like they're talking about all sorts of things that the U.S. would be very

00:35:35.860 uncomfortable with central quarantine and, you know, forced digital tracing of contacts.

00:35:43.040 These are effective policies if your people let you do them.

00:35:46.620 And when you don't have to care about whether the people agree or not, it makes it a lot easier.

00:35:50.720 That doesn't mean that the dictatorship is better than the United States system.

00:35:54.560 Are you sure?

00:35:54.780 I'm pretty sure.

00:35:55.800 Yeah.

00:35:56.100 That's a radical thing that you're just saying.

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