Will President Joe Biden's call for a vaccine mandate finally wake people up to the tyrannical leanings of this radical leftist administration? Does the Texas heartbeat law mean we may see an end to Roe v. Wade in the near future? Is it too soon to count on the GOP winning big in 2022 as the Dems continue to author disaster after disaster?
00:04:40.100And the fact that this president of the United States is using an OSHA rule, a vaguely worded OSHA delegation of power, in order to cram down an emergency temporary decree on 100 million Americans.
00:05:53.620This is the contradiction that no one has ever been able to satisfactorily answer.
00:05:57.920If the vaccine works, then you don't need to force it on anybody else to protect yourself.
00:06:02.460And the message seems to be from the COVID cult that, well, you need to get the vaccine to protect me because I got the vaccine and I don't trust it to protect me.
00:06:15.100And so there's a real disconnect there, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:06:19.000He said in the same speech, those two things simultaneously.
00:06:21.780The thing that drives me crazy, the thing that is so frustrating to me about this is that it's all openly a joke.
00:06:26.560We've got thousands of guys pouring across the border completely unvaccinated.
00:06:30.960We, every time, it was either Knowles or AOC at that Met Gala the other night.
00:06:53.760And we've seen Gavin Newsom do this at the French Laundry, go out with his friends in this kind of small gathering.
00:06:59.960And the thing is that when you come to Tennessee, when you go to Florida, you're in another world.
00:07:06.920I had to go to California for two days.
00:07:09.280It was like being in an alternate reality.
00:07:11.500The fact that people have bought into what is clearly, clearly a joke, is clearly no longer serious, is amazing to me.
00:07:18.400This is the next part of what Matt's talking about, which is if the vaccines really work and they're super-duper effective, then you don't need to worry about the unvaccinated people.
00:07:28.060But furthermore, if the virus is really the deadliest plague we've ever dealt with, people would probably be all clamoring to get the vaccine, right?
00:07:36.900You wouldn't have such high rates of people who are vaccinated.
00:07:38.500So I actually see it a little bit different.
00:07:39.720I don't think that it's contradictory.
00:07:41.140I don't think that there's inherent contradiction in saying, as the president said, we have to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated.
00:07:48.440You see that as contradictory because you're judging it on the merits of the actual words having actual meaning.
00:08:02.380The president's poll numbers are collapsing because of the absolute travesty that is his withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:08:08.160And his own base is starting to question whether or not he's a successful president.
00:08:13.140And what he's saying to them is, you, hardcore left, are very worried about COVID.
00:08:19.720You're very concerned that COVID is a threat.
00:08:22.680You mask your children outside in summer when they're alone.
00:08:26.000I want you to know that I am going to protect you from these Republicans who are literally disease-ridden, walking pustules of death.
00:08:36.720And you have to vote like your life depends on it.
00:08:39.980And those people who are all already vaccinated because they're, to Ben's point, very worried about the disease, they hear that message and go, yes, please, please protect me from the unwashed Republicans.
00:09:34.940The economy is not recovering in blue areas because blue area Democrats have decided to legislate that the economy not recover.
00:09:41.120The way that I know this is that the top ten states in terms of the best unemployment rates in the nation are all red with the exception of Vermont,
00:09:46.660which has seven people and a cow, the bottom ten states in terms of unemployment rate, in terms of the worst unemployment rate, are all blue.
00:09:53.760And the reason for that is not because of the vast death that is occurring in New York.
00:10:10.300The promise is that if you give up all of your liberty and if you give up all of your freedoms and if you give up all control to him, he will protect you literally from everything.
00:10:18.400He'll protect you from impoverishment.
00:10:20.860And all you have to do is just climb in that bathtub.
00:10:23.140I mean, I wrote a column this week called The Wally Strategy because that's what this is.
00:10:26.920I mean, they're literally just going to push you into a lazy boy and then they're going to put a screen in front of your face and they're going to keep you there for the rest of your life.
00:11:02.800And then that jackass has the capacity to go on national.
00:11:05.540He finished that speech with an appeal to unity after saying that everybody who is unvaccinated, including, by the way, everybody with natural immunity.
00:11:12.440I know that we're all supposed to pretend natural immunity doesn't exist, despite the fact that it is multiple times more durable than vaccine immunity.
00:11:18.280But all those people, according to him, are bad and morally benighted.
00:11:22.280And the only thing that we have to do is target them and yell at them and presumably and target their employment.
00:11:28.540And that will force them to get vaccinated, which totally is not going to happen.
00:11:31.600It's not about getting people vaccinated.
00:11:33.060It's not about making the world a better place.
00:11:34.580It is purely and simply about he does not want the blame for the promises he can never fulfill.
00:11:38.500And the only solution is give him more power.
00:11:39.920I don't want the blame when big tech uses your data to target you.
00:13:13.880So it's not just that the president is seizing all of this power over workers.
00:13:17.960And we're going to talk a little bit more about our response here at the Daily Wire to that.
00:13:21.720But Matt, something you've been great on is the impact that this is having on school kids.
00:13:25.760Listen to a story today about schools in New York.
00:13:27.920They're open for the first time after more than a year of being shut down.
00:13:32.400And not only do kids have to wear masks inside, kids who are at almost virtually, not no, but virtually no risk of severe illness from COVID.
00:14:43.380I think a lot of it, when we're talking about schools or what the government is doing, a lot of it is they want power and everything that we've talked about.
00:14:52.220But I also think there's something simpler.
00:14:54.040And it's a disease that we've seen in government for decades now, which is this mentality that someone just has to do something.
00:15:41.460And one other thing I want to mention in the schools in New York, there's a video of what they call the COVID buster team.
00:15:49.300And they're walking through the classrooms before kids show up, spraying some kind of chemical into the air, which what is that supposed to do?
00:16:52.520But the data says that that makes no difference for children because children don't know how to wear masks because cotton masks aren't doing damn bit of difference for little kids and all the rest of it.
00:17:00.000And they just they can't let go of it.
00:17:01.820Because, again, the idea is that if something bad should happen, I think this is really what it comes down to for a lot of the decision makers.
00:17:06.600Yeah. And this has been the incentive structure all along.
00:17:09.220If something bad happens, you need to be able to say to somebody else that you did the thing.
00:17:14.660Yeah. Right. It doesn't matter if the thing was useful.
00:17:16.540I sacrificed the chicken right this morning.
00:18:46.020And you've got even the higher political liberty battle.
00:18:48.520We're not allowed to have a say over the future of our country.
00:18:51.460Because the administrative agencies and the public health priests are telling us what we have to do.
00:18:56.180And now this is all going to be enforced by OSHA.
00:18:57.960What's so crazy is, even the priests of public health, even the administrative agents, just a year ago were saying, that would be overreach.
00:19:31.220And by the way, if you want to know the reality about the public health establishment, all you have to understand is that one of the major complications from the very start of this thing was obesity.
00:19:41.800Obesity was a major complicating factor when it came to COVID from the very beginning.
00:19:46.560And one of the things the public health establishment should have said when there was no vaccine available was not just put on a mask.
00:19:51.400It should have been get outside and exercise.
00:20:21.940If you say that Dr. Fauci is suspect in terms of competence and honesty, which is just a fact, the guy is a suspect, you want to prove that he's absolutely honest and absolutely competent?
00:20:47.360But what Fauci is doing that's so dishonest is he's comparing COVID to smallpox and polio.
00:20:52.340These are these are different diseases.
00:20:54.000And what I think is really important for conservatives to take away from all of this is the government does not work the way we were told it does in Schoolhouse Rock.
00:21:04.460You know, I'm a bill up on Capitol Hill.
00:21:07.980What happens is some bureaucrat whose name you've never heard of writes a bunch of jargon on a sheet of paper and you don't even know the law was passed.
00:21:14.840And they actually have power and they're actually forcing it on you now.
00:22:12.020They felt that what the competition over power would be was a bunch of people trying to grab power from one another.
00:22:16.820And so the way that you reign that in is that you have those powers check one another.
00:22:20.420What they didn't understand is that there might come a point where you would have a bunch of lazy ass hat legislators who decided to delegate all of their power to executive branch agencies simply so that they weren't answerable and so they could continue to pick up their checks.
00:22:33.600Well, but in some ways, in some ways, we helped create this situation on the right because we came out against pork barrel spending.
00:23:05.340And they're like, yeah, but my name will be on it.
00:23:06.740And so I'll have taken, you know, $64 million worth of taxpayer money and you'll have the J.W. boring, middle name, didn't even start with the W, but bridge to nowhere.
00:23:17.940And you're like, well, I need your vote.
00:23:21.480They're taking the fruit of your labor and just spreading it around.
00:23:26.140And so we were against it because we didn't like it.
00:23:28.780But this is a version of conservatism that Michael talks about that I actually usually disagree with.
00:23:32.680But it's a very practical kind of conservatism that you shouldn't change anything that is, even if it's not great, until you've really thought through the ramifications of it.
00:23:40.380That pork barrel spending goes all the way back to the founding era.
00:23:43.760And what pork barrel spending did is incented legislators to legislate.
00:23:48.560Because it turns out that doing something, voting affirmatively for something is a risk when you're having to run for office every two or every six years.
00:23:57.640Every time you take an action, that action can be held against you.
00:24:00.280If you take no action, nothing can be held against you.
00:24:03.860And so the only reason these people voted for 250 years was to get bridges named after themselves.
00:24:08.600And as soon as we took away their ability to get something personally out of the act of legislating, they went, oh, well, then if I want job security, I should never vote on it.
00:24:18.940Are they talking about bringing this back?
00:24:20.340Aren't they talking about bringing this back?
00:24:20.800They've been talking about it a little bit.
00:24:22.120And, of course, there's a lot of blowback, particularly from the talk radio, right, which wants to be purist about this sort of stuff.
00:24:26.280Which is why I always say, as part of that, right, I always say, like, you should listen to us when it comes to principle.
00:24:31.320But when it comes to implementation, you listen to us so you know where the marker is planted, not where the marker is going to end up, right?
00:24:36.480And don't forget, my job is very different from the job of a legislator who actually has to do the job.
00:25:09.360No, if you look statistically, the radical rise of the administrative state didn't even happen during FDR as much as it did during the 60s.
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00:27:41.540But let me just say, it's an act of treason to call up our enemies and say, I mean, aid and comfort to the enemy is literally you calling the enemy and being like, by the way, guys, if we decide that we're going to take you on, my first phone call is going to be to you.
00:27:54.200You know what you can do in the chain of command?
00:28:02.120The problem we have is that our failed state and our failed elected officials and the bureaucratic state and our stateless businesses, stateless, you know, multi-country businesses, all have the same agenda.
00:28:18.760And the Chinese have the same agenda, which is to control us and to spy on us.
00:28:22.700And that's really, they're all doing the same thing.
00:28:24.900And, you know, every single one of them.
00:28:26.440And there's nobody left in power to say, you know what?
00:29:00.020When they took the don't out of their slogan, don't be evil, I think we all should have been, there should have been an alarm for all of us.
00:29:34.660Everywhere you go, we've almost gotten used to it by now.
00:29:37.880But there are just small businesses shut down everywhere.
00:29:40.460And you talk to the locals in any town, whether it's a small town or a city, they'll tell you, oh, that place over there used to be a great place.
00:30:04.580It's a conspiracy by, really is a conspiracy by the most powerful forces in our country to destroy small business.
00:30:11.440And we've never seen anything like it.
00:30:12.640Ron DeSantis did something along these lines.
00:30:15.740Obviously a big fan of Governor DeSantis.
00:30:17.920But you remember when the cruise line said, we're thinking about having cruises again, but everyone will have to wear masks.
00:30:23.800And then Ron DeSantis said, no, if you're going to run a cruise out of the state of Florida, you by law cannot require people to wear masks.
00:30:30.280And then the cruise lines for like exactly seven minutes were like, oh no, that's awful.
00:30:37.240The cruise lines were thrilled because they know no one wants to go on a beautiful sunny Caribbean vacation wearing a diaper on their face.
00:30:44.880But they were afraid of the liability of saying we're going to pack a ship with thousands of potential spreaders.
00:30:51.200And what DeSantis did is he basically took the bullet for the cruise industry.
00:30:55.600He said, well, the liability ultimately isn't on you because the state is actually forcing you to do what you want.
00:31:01.640And in a way, that's what's happening here with big business.
00:31:03.640A lot of these big companies, listen, at The Daily Wire, we took a few weeks and let our people work from home when this was first starting.
00:31:09.780And we didn't know what COVID was going to be.
00:31:11.580We very quickly came to realize that if we didn't ask our people to come back, we would lose the opportunity to ever ask them to come back.
00:31:19.620And so even though it was in contravention of the executive orders from the mayor of the city of Los Angeles, we invited our people back.
00:31:26.620And we didn't say you have to come back.
00:31:28.460We said if you would like to come back, almost 90 percent of our workers were back in two days.
00:31:32.380But these big businesses, they kept waiting and they kept waiting.
00:31:37.580And, you know, 15 days to slow the spread turned into weeks, turned into 15 weeks, turned into 15 months.
00:31:42.640I mean, here we are more than a year and a half into this.
00:33:11.000And then they just copy it all over again.
00:33:13.080We're living in this period of success.
00:33:14.920We're living in the tail end of the American century where people stopped wanting to envision things because they were playing with the house's money.
00:33:23.540They didn't want to lose the money they made.
00:33:25.240Nobody wants to take the risk anymore.
00:34:14.800The media will spend the next several years talking about how he's Ron DeSantis because not because you'll have Joy Reid on TV every night saying that DeSantis wants people to die.
00:34:23.900That's literally the language she uses when she's not being batted about by Nicki Minaj.
00:34:27.260That Ron DeSantis wants COVID to win because he's allowing people to live their lives.
00:34:33.760And the inevitable result of this is a dependent people who are waiting for some sort of kingly figure to come and save them from all risk.
00:34:42.560This is why it's so important to go back to Michael's point.
00:34:46.340If our leaders aren't going to take risks and they're not going to take the lead, then it's important for us as individuals to decide, you know, where are we going to draw the line?
00:34:53.440And even with things like masking, you know, I decided early on in this that I'm not going to wear the mask anywhere unless I'm asked by someone in the establishment in a position of authority to put it on.
00:35:05.620And if they do, then I'll decide whether I want to put it on or just leave.
00:35:10.360But the instinct for a lot of us is to just is to, you know, well, just wear the mask because you don't want to you know, you know, you don't want to cause any trouble.
00:35:17.520You don't want to be in an awkward social situation or whatever it is.
00:35:19.920I think as individuals, we have to decide, well, I'm just we're just not going to go along with this.
00:35:24.400We're not going to do it. We're not going to play the game.
00:35:25.700By the way, you will notice, you know, we're all in a lot of airports all around the country.
00:35:31.300There is a federal mask requirement in all the airports.
00:35:34.400And yet not everyone wears the masks in all the airports.
00:35:37.720It doesn't matter what depending on what city you're in.
00:35:40.580You cannot wear it. You cannot comply.
00:35:42.500And and there are enough people that no one is going to force you to do it.
00:35:46.200And you just think, well, what if all Americans did that?
00:35:48.760What if we all if we all just stood up?
00:35:50.760I admit, you know, this does go to and this is where we kind of veer into the AOC territory.
00:35:56.620I think so much of this is cosplaying virtue.
00:36:00.380Yeah, it's just cosplaying it like the people who are who are wearing the mask at this point must know.
00:36:05.400Yeah, that everybody who they're around has had the ability to either get the vaccine or decided not to get the vaccine.
00:36:12.260The masking issue was much more complex and nuanced when there was no vaccine.
00:36:16.540Now that there's a vaccine and every adult has had the ability to get it.
00:36:19.000But then the issue, all nuance is essentially removed, because if you get covid because I'm vaccinated and I breathe in your general area and then you get covid, you did not have a right to never be sick again in your life.
00:36:31.260What you did have a right to do, at least to a certain extent, was to avoid deathly disease.
00:36:37.180That's an externality in the same way that I can't pollute a river.
00:36:39.380I can't sneeze my covid on you when you're 65 years old or 80 and living in a nursing home.
00:36:44.180Right. Which is why even when like when it comes to vaccine mandates, I've said before that when it comes to, say, nursing homes, I don't see anything necessarily wrong with vaccine mandate for employees of nursing homes because you're around vulnerable people literally all day long.
00:36:56.500Right. Or mask mandates in hospitals where you're around people who are vulnerable all day long.
00:37:00.680However, once you're in just the general public and everybody's had the opportunity to get vaccinated, you don't have a right to require me to wear a mask on my face because you were too dumb or because you decided.
00:37:10.820And here's the thing that's most amazing.
00:37:12.820No one who is unvaccinated is asking anyone to mask.
00:37:16.460It is vaccinated people who are asking people to mask.
00:37:18.720Right. That's the part that's utterly insane about all of this.
00:37:20.760I've drawn this Venn diagram on my show at this point, probably 10 times of the unworried and the worried.
00:37:33.740All of the worried are vaccinated and all of the unworried are the unvaccinated, which means that the pandemic is over for all public purposes.
00:37:40.740Because once all of the unworried are unvaccinated, once then nothing you do is going to get.
00:38:31.860Oh, that's why she was invited to the Met Gala.
00:38:33.820She is a tool of the plutocratic establishment.
00:38:37.200She is exactly the opposite of what she's the plutocratic establishment and the left of the same people.
00:38:43.320Yes, they are. They're identical. And it's a problem that the right hasn't caught on to yet.
00:38:47.800The right has not caught on to the fact.
00:38:50.480I mean, to me, this is just proves the fact that the whole problem with Ayn Rand is that John Galt is just the biggest son of a bitch as the as the people in government.
00:39:00.400Anybody with power, anybody with too much power is a threat to liberty.
00:39:04.220I mean, and that doesn't mean you take their power away.
00:39:05.960It means you control the things that they can do.
00:39:07.740You put it limits on it. You say you have certain rights.
00:39:10.220The individual has certain rights that no powerful person can take.
00:39:13.380Whether it's Google or whether it's government.
00:39:15.520Can we also just stipulate on a tax the rich thing?
00:39:19.660I don't personally care what tax rate Jeff Bezos pays.
00:39:23.580Like you can raise taxes on him. I don't really care that much, to be honest.
00:39:26.260But the idea that the rich are not taxed is so absurd.
00:39:30.420I mean, they they they are they pay the vast majority of taxes.
00:39:35.580All I was I was I was when you remove the government benefits, they pay literally all taxes in America.
00:39:41.440Just just today, I was I saw a report on CBS, which was a couple months old.
00:39:45.860Just because I'm curious on how did this idea get out there that the rich don't pay taxes when they pay all the taxes.
01:27:06.860As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I, that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror.
01:27:22.340If only the cowardice was stronger, then perhaps, perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me.
01:27:33.680And then this hellish facade once a throw.
01:29:42.360He, he, and what's funny is that a guy that committed to the joke, a guy who would put the joke ahead of his own career, ahead of his own happiness in many ways, I think, here at the end, carried around this cancer for nine years.
01:29:55.160Apparently didn't even tell his family, was willing to carry all of that on himself so that the joke wouldn't suffer.
01:30:03.700And yet, I think that this is the most united, if you look at social media right now, the most politically united of anything, there's the most political unity around the death of Norm Macdonald that I've seen about the death of any public figure in the last 10 years.
01:30:18.040He's universally beloved left and right.
01:30:21.040And this is an excerpt from his book that I, I think it's, his greatest work is based on a true story, a memoir.
01:30:29.760And this is Norm Macdonald talking about meeting God outside of the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas.
01:30:35.460He said, I find my way through the casino, and in a moment I'm on the strip.
01:30:40.260There's a dry chill that begins to freeze my naked face, and the buildings of iron and glass feel as immortal as the ancient streets they sit upon.
01:30:48.040I look above the sun shining amid the blue sky and the white, white clouds as they cast a pall of futility over the man-made monuments in their sickly neon lights.
01:30:57.680And I stand by the pyramid of Luxor and gaze upon the firmament above, and in a sudden the sky becomes a face, and I look away in fear and shame.
01:31:07.120It's the face of God, and he speaks, and his voice is both your voice and mine at once.
01:31:12.840And he speaks unto me, why do you not look at me, neither yesterday nor today?
01:31:18.040And so I remove my dirty work hat, and I look upon him, and I study his countenance.
01:31:24.940Now people always wonder, is he's got a man or a woman?
01:31:28.320Is he black or white or yellow or brown?
01:31:30.960But I'm here to tell you that none of that silly stuff matters.
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