Biden calls for kids under the age of 12 to wear masks to protect themselves from the flu. Meanwhile, J.K. Rowling continues to stand firm in the face of insane hatred from trans activists, and also in our daily cancellation, I will address the backlash to my review of a BTS song that we posted on my YouTube channel this weekend.
00:00:25.280And J.K. Rowling continues to stand firm in the face of insane hatred from trans activists.
00:00:29.140And also in our daily cancellation, I will address the very intense, very intense backlash from my review of a BTS song that we posted to my YouTube channel this weekend.
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00:01:56.500So, President Biden, a town hall event last night hosted by CNN, moderated by political activist Don Lemon.
00:02:04.320Anyone deranged enough to sit and watch the whole thing while it was live may have noticed that the camera only ever showed the front couple of rows in the auditorium.
00:02:12.840That's because every row but the few up front were empty.
00:02:15.940It continues to be, and you can see the picture there, it continues to be apparent that the decaying old man waddling around and speaking in semi-coherent half sentences doesn't inspire a lot of enthusiasm.
00:02:49.400It's like the other question that's illogical.
00:02:51.960And I've heard you speak about it because you always, I'm not being solicitous, but you're always straight up about what you're doing.
00:02:58.780And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are, why can't the experts say we know that this virus is in fact, it's going to be, or excuse me, we know why all the drugs approved are not temporarily approved, but permanently approved.
00:03:44.300I've heard you speak about, because you always, I'm not being solicitous, but you, you're always straight up about what you're doing.
00:03:50.620And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are, why can't, and the experts say, we know that this virus is, in fact, is, is going to be, excuse me, we all know the drugs approved are not temporarily approved, but permanently approved.
00:04:04.720But other times, of course, the sentences coming out of his mouth were more or less intelligible, while the overall point or message made no sense at all.
00:04:13.980Such was the case with his answer on the question of inflation.
00:04:17.820You seem pretty confident that inflation is temporary, but if you're pumping all of this money into the economy, couldn't that add to?
00:04:28.620Moody's today, when our Wall Street firm, not some liberal think tank, said, if we pass the other two things I'm trying to get done, we will, in fact, reduce inflation.
00:04:38.480Reduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation, because we're going to be providing good opportunities and jobs for people who, in fact, are going to be reinvesting that money back in all the things we're talking about.
00:04:52.880Okay, so by spending trillions of dollars, we will reduce inflation, or excuse me, we will not just reduce inflation, but reduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation.
00:05:01.420Maybe inflation is like a witch's curse, and all you have to do is say the magical incantation three times, and it'll go away.
00:05:07.100Magical incantations, after all, have just as much of a chance of reducing inflation as a multi-trillion dollar spending bill does.
00:05:15.800Now, it's fun to laugh at the nonsense, but as always with Biden, or any other Democrat, they're the most terrifying when they are the most coherent.
00:05:23.500And I mean coherent in a relative sense, of course.
00:05:25.700The point is that Biden will disturb you the most when you're able to actually understand what he's trying to say.
00:05:31.440And I'd say that was certainly the case with his answer on gun violence.
00:05:42.920I'm the only guy that ever got passed legislation when I was a senator to make sure we eliminated assault weapons.
00:05:50.580The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it's a 9mm pistol or whether it's a rifle, is ridiculous.
00:06:08.720I'm continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things.
00:06:12.360Now, first of all, saying that murder is up but crime is down is like the doctor coming in and telling you, good news, your cholesterol levels are good.
00:06:25.700It's not really anything to take solace in or be proud of if criminals are committing fewer nonviolent crimes because they're too busy murdering people.
00:06:32.700Also, it's hard to say that crime generally is down when places like California have simply stopped counting crime as crime.
00:06:43.580Just yesterday, there was another video of two people, this time out of TJ Maxx in Los Angeles, strolling casually out of the store with an armful of merchandise that they didn't pay for.
00:06:52.740And they know the crime won't be prosecuted, won't be counted.
00:06:58.460This is especially egregious, by the way, at TJ Maxx, where you can get, I mean, the guy walking out, he's got like 15 pairs of jeans.
00:07:07.400You could buy those 15 pairs of jeans at TJ Maxx for maybe $15 total.
00:07:30.660But on the official record books, there were no crimes committed yesterday at that TJ Maxx in Los Angeles.
00:07:40.300And that's what Biden means when he says crime is down.
00:07:42.800The crime that we are counting is down.
00:07:46.880But I'm burying the lead myself here because the bigger issue is that Joe Biden just came out and said that he wants to eliminate the sale of handguns.
00:07:55.200Not big, scary assault weapons, whatever those are exactly, but handguns.
00:08:00.680He says you don't need guns that fire 20 or 30 shots.
00:08:05.320Well, that takes lots of different kinds of guns off the table.
00:08:08.740One wonders how many rounds Biden thinks our guns should have.
00:08:14.820Maybe he thinks we should all be carrying six shooters like the Old West back in Biden's youth.
00:08:19.520Either way, it's not conspiracy to say that Biden is coming for our guns.
00:08:24.240And he's doing it in the name of stopping a gun violence surge that has been driven almost exclusively by criminals who are using guns that they don't legally own in the first place.
00:08:36.120The thug on the street corner shooting someone over drugs or money.
00:08:39.840And that's what almost all of this is.
00:08:41.820Biden hopes that by adding a 21st law for him to break, that'll solve the problem.
00:08:52.120Perhaps the criminal will say, well, I'm willing to break 20 laws, but not 21.
00:09:03.200And anyway, it doesn't matter or it shouldn't matter because the Second Amendment still exists as much as Biden and his ilk wish it didn't.
00:09:08.300That wasn't the only disturbing answer that we heard.
00:09:12.160There was also this on the subject of masks.
00:09:16.240The CDC is going to say that what we should do is everyone over the age of under the age of 12 should probably be wearing a mask in school.
00:09:25.660That's probably what's going to happen.
00:09:27.620Secondly, those over the age of 12 who are able to get vaccinated, if you're vaccinated, you shouldn't wear a mask.
00:09:34.100If you aren't vaccinated, you should be wearing a mask.
00:09:41.740This manages somehow to be a more moderate position than the one taken by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which, like we talked about yesterday, they announced that all kids ages three and up should be wearing masks, vaccinated or not, the entire school day.
00:09:57.260And presumably outside of school, too.
00:09:59.320If they should be wearing it in school, why shouldn't they be wearing it out of school?
00:10:01.780The latter position was echoed by CNN doctor Jonathan Reiner, who called for every kid going to school of any age, any vaccination status to wear a mask.
00:12:21.400It may sound strange, given a year of panic over school closures and reopenings, a year of masking toddlers and closing playgrounds and huddling in pandemic pods, that according to the CDC, among children, the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu.
00:12:39.280The risk of severe disease or hospitalization is about the same.
00:12:41.720This is true for the much worried over Delta variant.
00:12:44.800It's also true for all of the other variants and for the original strain.
00:12:48.920Most remarkably, it has been known to be true since the very earliest days of the pandemic.
00:12:52.960Indeed, it was among the very first things we did know about the disease.
00:12:56.820The preliminary mortality data from China was very clear.
00:12:59.080To children, COVID-19 represented only a vanishingly tiny threat of disease hospitalization or severe or of death hospitalization or severe disease.
00:13:07.280Now, I read that to you because New York Magazine is not a right-wing publication, to put it mildly.
00:13:16.240And this is all incontrovertibly true.
00:13:21.200If kids should be masked for COVID even now, with most adults vaccinated, then kids should be masked all the time forever due to all the other diseases that pose a much greater statistical risk.
00:13:33.660Though, I'm realizing that this maybe is not the best way to frame the argument.
00:13:39.720I realize that saying, well, if kids have to wear masks for COVID, then they should wear masks for everything.
00:13:44.020That's not the best way to get through to the mask cultists at this point, because they're likely to just say, yeah, okay, great idea.
00:13:49.720Let's put masks on them for everything all the time.
00:13:53.200These people are such terminal cowards, and their minds are so diluted and damaged.
00:13:57.540That they're happy to have children live every day as though the very air they breathe is fatally toxic.
00:14:03.940They would muzzle their kids, deprive them of a normal life, a normal childhood, like the one that they had.
00:14:11.500And the opportunity to do basic things like see each other's faces and smiles.
00:14:16.140And they would do all of this, are doing all of this, simply to satiate their own outlandish paranoia.
00:14:25.140Putting masks on kids at this point, at any point really, but especially now, is not only anti-science, not only irrational and illogical, not only does it contradict the data and the evidence, but it's also child abuse, in my opinion.
00:14:37.560It's become a form of Munchausen by proxy, making your kid act like he's sick, or think that he might become deathly sick, and doing this all to satisfy your own strange psychological needs.
00:14:51.700But the good news is that these mandates require our cooperation.
00:14:57.360We can simply say, no, I'm not putting this thing on my kid's face just to make you feel better.
00:15:04.980And then let the chips fall where they may.
00:15:07.560We're going to have to get to that point, if we're not there already, because it's clear, and has been clear from the beginning, that the tyrants simply will not ever let up otherwise.
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