00:04:55.980We were lied to about COVID for years.
00:05:00.640And the top health officials in the country told us bald-faced lies.
00:05:06.240not just things that weren't true. They said that wearing the hanky on your face would stop you from
00:05:10.920getting the virus. They told you that standing six feet away was medically necessary. It was
00:05:15.040totally made up. They told you that taking that stupid vaccine would prevent you from catching
00:05:19.340the virus. Then when people caught the virus, they said it would stop you from spreading the
00:05:22.140virus. Then when people spread the virus, they told you it would have been a lot worse if you
00:05:25.400never took it. They also told you there were no side effects and a bunch of people died from it.
00:05:29.660Anyway, I'm not saying that the viruses are fake. That is not really the argument about the
00:05:35.200Democrat opt for COVID, or we'll see how hantavirus plays out. The argument is that Democrats
00:05:41.300cynically played up the virus, exploited a virus to their political benefit in 2020 by rewriting
00:05:47.840all of the election rules, in some cases unconstitutionally in the case of Pennsylvania,
00:05:52.820and giving them a structural advantage for the 2020 election. And who knows, maybe here as well.
00:05:58.160I don't think people are going to fall for it. I don't lose sleep at night over hantavirus.
00:06:02.520I lose more sleep over Democrats subverting our whole political order.
00:06:06.800But to quote a former Republican president, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.
00:06:10.920Hey, hey, hey, the point is you're not going to fool me again.
00:06:12.760Now, speaking of some of those shenanigans, the reshaping of the political order, as you
00:06:18.080know, the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana versus Calais just struck down after many
00:06:23.720years and decades, the Democrats' racial gerrymandering.
00:06:28.120the Democrats interpreted the Civil Rights Act, sorry, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to say that
00:06:37.260when states redistrict, so they redraw their congressional maps as they do every 10 years or so,
00:06:43.800when they do that, they have to discriminate on the basis of race.
00:06:49.180And Democrats had argued that based on the Voting Rights Act, which they said was just
00:06:54.080giving a greater enforcement mechanism to the 14th and 15th Amendments.
00:06:58.720The U.S. Supreme Court, with a decision by Sam Alito, and then an opinion that went even further
00:07:05.280than the court's majority opinion, written by Clarence Thomas, notably a rather black man,
00:07:11.140argued that, in fact, the Voting Rights Act made no such demand, and in fact, racial gerrymandering
00:07:17.780is unconstitutional. Not only does it not buttress the 14th and 15th Amendments,
00:07:22.900it actually undermines them. It violates them. So we have AOC, fresh on the heels of her history
00:07:28.920lesson, saying that the American Revolution was fought against the billionaires of its time,
00:07:34.140the American Revolution, which was led by the richest men in the colonies.
00:07:37.580AOC comes out with her take on how the redistricting, specifically in my state of
00:07:42.880Tennessee, violates the Voting Rights Act and disenfranchises black people.
00:07:48.920When you are seeing states like Tennessee want to wipe out every black representative on the map in these states, we have an obligation as Americans to stand with black Americans and communities whose whose representation is being disenfranchised.
00:08:13.220Okay, fact check, quick fact check here. Is Tennessee removing the only black representative
00:08:21.800that it has in Congress? Well, Tennessee is redrawing the maps in accordance with the
00:08:26.900U.S. Supreme Court's decision, and this will change the representation specifically surrounding
00:08:31.740Memphis, which is a majority black city. Okay, so just quick little fact check here.
00:08:35.560Who is the representative from Memphis? Is it Jamal Loquitius X? Is it, I don't know,
00:08:47.740Big E Smalls III? I don't know. I'm trying to think of stereotypically black names.
00:08:51.880No, it's Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen, who is a notably pale individual. I don't think he has
00:08:58.700a single drop of African ancestry to him. Neither an octoroon nor a quadroon is he.
00:09:05.200He is very, very lily white. So AOC is upset that Steve Cohen might lose his job.
00:09:15.040She interprets this as the eradication of black representatives from Tennessee. So I think
00:09:20.300if we have a PolitiFact or Snopes fact check here, we would have to rate this 100% false.
00:09:27.660Once again, AOC at that very same event said the American Revolution was fought against
00:09:31.720billionaires. Not only was she a little wrong, she was perfectly wrong. It was the exact opposite
00:09:35.560of reality. So too, in this case, Steve Cohen is not just not all that black. He is not in any way
00:09:44.840black. But then let's get to the deeper point of black representation in Congress. Right now,
00:09:50.340when you include the House and the Senate, there are about 67 black representatives in the US
00:09:55.640Congress. This out of what? What is it? 535 total representatives, which means coincidentally that
00:10:03.820black representatives make up 12.5% of Congress, which is precisely the black percentage of the
00:10:10.620US population. Not that that should even mean anything, by the way, because you could have
00:10:15.640zero black representatives in Congress and it would still not necessarily follow that black
00:10:21.240people were not represented in the United States. Congressional representation is done by district.
00:10:27.580It's not done by race. We don't have 12 to 13% black representatives and 60% white representatives
00:10:35.240and however many percent Hispanic and Asian and all the other kind of represent. We don't do that.
00:10:39.500We do it not based on race, which would be unconstitutional, but by geography, by district.
00:10:45.020furthermore you could have 100 black members of congress that still would not necessarily imply
00:10:52.580that there was racial discrimination in any case the redrawing of the congressional maps
00:11:00.040in accordance with the decision of the supreme court with a very strong opinion from clarence
00:11:03.640thomas who is more importantly an excellent jurist but notably in this case black
00:11:07.980does not in any way imply racial discrimination quite the opposite the whole point of the decision
00:11:13.000was to overturn racial discrimination, which the Democrats are pushing and which they're very upset
00:11:19.880about because they felt it gave them an advantage. So how are the Republicans looking? President
00:11:23.420Trump has just come out and made a major endorsement for president, which is not an
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00:13:02.780and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
00:13:05.160So which one is Trump leaning toward picking?
00:13:09.720A lot of beauties out there, J.D. I envy you and other people. I don't know. Who's it going to be? Is it going to be J.D.? Is it going to be somebody else? I don't know. Does anybody have? OK, let's go. You ready? Who likes J.D. Vance?
00:13:26.680who likes marco rubio all right sounds like a good ticket jd
00:13:37.840it's a perfect that was a perfect ticket by the way i do believe that's a dream team but these
00:13:44.160are minor details that does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstances but you know
00:13:51.220Well, it's a perfect, it was a big and then a very nice, I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.
00:14:05.220I love him. And some people don't totally understand what Trump is saying here because they don't speak New Yorker. I think most people get what he's saying.
00:14:12.900But for those who don't, for those who are not familiar with that particular dialect of American English called New Yorkese, he comes out, he says, okay, we got great presidential candidates here.
00:14:27.760And he starts out with J.D., the vice president, obviously.