Ep. 545 - Science And Data Are Dead
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Summary
The mayor of Los Angeles extends the lockdown order in her own city by three months, even as the death toll from the flu continues to drop. Who is the DICTATrix of L.A. and why does she care?
Transcript
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Science and data are dead, and we have killed them.
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What was holiest and mightiest of all secular modernity have bled to death under our knives.
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The unelected fake doctor dictator, who now apparently runs L.A. County,
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has extended the lockdown order by three months,
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even as cases and deaths in Southern California remain low,
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Then, a drag queen raises six figures for abortionists on Middle America's favorite game show.
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Something has clearly gone wrong in the culture.
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And the woman campaigning for vice president finally endorses the guy she's asking to pick her.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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If this epidemic has proved one thing, it is this.
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That's how they referred to communism in the 20th century.
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What people are referring to as science these days is not science.
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You know, even the word science, I think I mentioned this a little bit yesterday,
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the word science once referred to all knowledge.
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And now, science refers to egghead materialists trying to guess the future,
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usually incorrectly, and bossing us all around.
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That's what I'm hearing right here in my own town of Los Angeles.
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Initially, it was, whatever, 15 days to slow the spread.
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The mayor is going to lock down, and then the governor is going to double lock down,
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because the governor is not going to get one-upped by that two-bit mayor of L.A.,
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and then the L.A. guy is going to go harder than the California governor.
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So there was an announcement yesterday from Los Angeles County.
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Usually, these announcements are done on camera, but for some reason, this one was not done on camera.
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This was done during a meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
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Presumably, this was off camera because it was such an outrageous announcement.
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The L.A. County Public Health Director, Dr. Debra Ferrer, said at this closed Board of Supervisors meeting,
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based on all of the data that we're looking at,
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we know with all certainty that we'll be extending health officer orders for the next three months.
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And L.A. says they're going to double down for three months.
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Our hope always is that we're able, by using the data,
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don't forget the data, the science and the data,
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to be able to lift restrictions slowly over the next three months.
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Got me asking, who exactly is this woman who's apparently now the dictator of L.A.,
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Because Dr. Debra Ferrer signs her press releases.
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I kid you not, or Dr. Barbara Ferrer, pardon me, not Debra.
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Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.E.D., Director of Public Health.
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That's a degree of academic insecurity that I guess people do this these days.
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They follow their name with all the different letters.
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But Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.E.D., Director of Public Health.
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So I wondered, okay, what are all of these degrees in?
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I wanted to know if even one of them was a real degree.
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Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Brandeis University.
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I don't remember that one in the old quadrivium or trivium liberal arts setup.
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It's like rhetoric, mathematics, and social welfare.
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I don't remember that as just a basic department of a university.
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Master of Arts in Public Health from Boston University.
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Master of Arts in Education from University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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Eh, Bachelor of Arts in Community Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz,
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which is, I just spoke there, the most liberal college in the country.
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These are not, why is this woman, why is the, the community studies expert now the dictatrix
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Do you know how many cases there are in L.A. County right now of coronavirus?
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There are, I think it's in, in the five-figure range of cases.
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Every death is a tragedy, but we need to put these in perspective when we're talking about
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During that same period of time, about 1,700 people died in L.A. County from heart disease.
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Number is a bit higher for heart disease than it is for the coronavirus deaths that we are
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shutting down the county for with no evidence that the shutdowns are doing a damn thing.
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Now, once the news got out, L.A. starts trending.
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All of a sudden, the actual elected official starts going into damage control.
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Okay, so immediately after this, Eric Garcetti, mayor of LA, goes into damage control mode and
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Well, I want to reassure people because I think there was a lot of panic suddenly when
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the headline said we're all going to stay exactly as we are for three more months when
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I think quite simply, she's saying that we're not going to fully reopen Los Angeles and
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probably anywhere in America without any protections or any health orders in the next
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I think we know it's going to be even longer than three months.
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And as I've said a million times, we're not moving past COVID-19.
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We're not going to go back to pre-COVID-19 life anytime soon or jump forward to post-COVID-19
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time until there is a medicine or a vaccine that allows that.
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Okay, so blah, blah, blah, mealy-mouthed, I don't want bad headlines, please get me off
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of Twitter, but still what she said is basically correct.
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And he says, I think what she probably meant was, yeah, no, don't worry, it won't be that
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bad, but we're not going to lift the orders until after a vaccine is available.
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By the way, there's no evidence we're ever getting a vaccine, ever.
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Maybe we'll get one within a year and a half, which still won't do us any good on these
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lockdown orders and will certainly have destroyed the global economy by then.
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But there's also no evidence we're ever going to get a vaccine.
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There are plenty of viruses and diseases that we don't have vaccines for.
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He says, yeah, but okay, but please basically get us off of Twitter.
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So then this woman, Barbara Farer, PhD, MPH, MED, Director of Public Health, sends out a
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She says, we're being guided by science and data.
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Our gods of liberal modernity, science and data that will safely move us forward along
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One that allows us to ensure that effective distancing and infection control measures are
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We are counting on the public's continued compliance with the orders to enable us to relax restrictions.
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And we're committed to making sure that LA County is in the best position to provide
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its 10 million residents with the highest level of wellness possible.
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We are trying to move along the road to recovery in a measured way.
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And we're counting on the public's continued compliance with the orders to help us relax
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If the orders are in place, if you want people to comply with them, then you're not relaxing
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If you're relaxing them, then people don't need to comply with them.
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See, this is what we get to at the heart of all of these.
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Do exactly what we say, and maybe we'll give you some of your rights and privileges back.
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But don't do what we say, and we're going to double down.
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That's what Gavin Newsom did when he closed down the beaches specifically of his political
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But I thought the whole point of the orders, I thought the whole point of the lockdowns
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So if you're saying that we're about to ease the restrictions as long as you do what we
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say, then it makes me question whether we had to do it in the first place.
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It seems so damn arbitrary, and they defend all of it in the name of science and data.
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I'm sick of, I never want to hear that phrase again.
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I like science in the sense that I like knowledge, but I don't like the way that science has
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I'm not paying any worship to the liberal God of science with a capital S and a trademark
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You actually saw a fight breakout, a disagreement breakout over at the Senate between Dr. Rand Paul,
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a scientist, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, another scientist, and they were having a disagreement
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and a debate over the nature of these lockdown orders.
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In rural states, we never really reached any sort of pandemic levels in Kentucky and other
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We have less deaths in Kentucky than we have in an average flu season.
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It's not to say this isn't deadly, but really outside of New England, we've had a relatively
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And I think the one size fits all that we're going to have a national strategy and nobody's
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We really ought to be doing it school district by school district.
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And the power needs to be dispersed because people make wrong predictions.
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And really the history of this, when we look back, will be of wrong prediction after
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wrong prediction after wrong prediction, starting with Ferguson in England.
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So I think we ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what's
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And as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don't think you're the end all.
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I don't think you're the one person that gets to make a decision.
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We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side saying there's not
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going to be a surge and that we can safely open the economy.
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That one line, as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don't think you're the end
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I don't think you're the guy who gets to make all of these decisions for us.
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You know, this woman, Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MED, Director of Public Health in Los
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There is no evidence that she understands anything about weighing real political questions,
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the real eternal questions, having accountability to constituents, constituents she doesn't even
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Frankly, there's no evidence that she knows all that much about medicine, all that much about
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And yet, for some reason, she gets to call the shots and then you have 12 hours of headlines
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about how LA is locking down for three months, even though none of the elected officials even
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Why are we exporting our politics to this dictatorship of lab coats?
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I didn't go to the ballot in 2016 and vote for the exalted Emperor Fauci.
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And we shouldn't permit this kind of thing to happen.
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And Fauci, to his credit, responded by saying that, yes, Rand Paul, you're right.
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I have never made myself out to be the end-all and only voice in this.
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I'm a scientist, a physician, and a public health official.
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I give advice according to the best scientific evidence.
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There are a number of other people who come into that and give advice that are more related
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to the things that you spoke about, about the need to get the country back open again
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I don't give advice about anything other than public health.
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That's a good way to avoid responsibility, Dr. Fauci.
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But the reality of the situation, whether it's through your own doing or just because
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of the position people have put you in, you are giving advice on all those things.
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When Dr. Fauci goes up, like he did for several weeks of this shutdown, and gives the lion's
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share of the expert testimony at these coronavirus briefings, then he is giving advice on the
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When Dr. Fauci goes up and says, look, from my position as a doctor, as a scientist, as
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a lab coat for public health, we need to keep the economy locked down, foot on the accelerator,
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as he said, his words, for the foreseeable future.
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He's not saying, from the perspective of the epidemic, we need to remain locked down.
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But we can open the economy, but we can open our political rights, but the, no, you can't
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If you're going to lock down, then you're locking down people's political rights.
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You're locking down people's economic rights, and you're locking down people from the perspective
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And so perhaps this is actually a little more to be laid at the feet of President Trump than
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After all, Trump is the one who put Fauci in front of the cameras.
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But in retrospect, hindsight's 20-20, it might have been better if President Trump, instead
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of only putting Dr. Fauci or Dr. Scarf out there to talk about, you know, how important
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it is that we all lock down, if he had also, from the very beginning, put up more people
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to talk about the economy, put up more people to talk about national security, put up more
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people to talk about our rights that obviously are being suspended in this unusual time of
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If he had, if he, in the presentation on this topic, had put Dr. Fauci in his place, it's
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not a personal thing, but it's a political thing.
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If he had put science in its place, science, the way we talk about it today, meaning materialistic
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methods of inquiry into the natural world, natural science serves a purpose, serves a
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But when we pretend that it's our political ruler, when we pretend that it's a god, then
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So I think finally now we're starting to move a little bit more in the right direction.
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Chris Cuomo, the guy who pretended to be in quarantine, then broke his quarantine order
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and got it in a fight with a guy in the street, and then, then lied to his own audience and
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said that he was actually still in quarantine, and then filmed a really cringe-inducing video
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where he came out of quarantine, allegedly, and talked to his family, who probably he gave
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That guy is really furious that you are beginning to ask for a reopening.
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He does not like you trying to get out of your own lockdown.
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You know, it's kind of funny that in this bizarro world of redefining science, Rand Paul
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But Chris Cuomo, the TV hack, is somehow like the defender of science and public health.
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But hey, that's the world we're living in, I guess.
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In this clip, another impassioned plea, Chris Cuomo talks about lockdowns, the virus, and
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We take care of family because we're devoted to something bigger than them or us, the cause
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But right now, the American family is in a period of dysfunction.
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10,000 more Americans could die by August because so many places are relaxing social distancing.
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Look, it's common sense that that's what would happen.
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You don't need the models to tell you that if you stop social distancing.
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That's why those who attack this reality do it with snark and cynical self-interest, like
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Remember, that beard, that's Paul's COVID beard.
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And he still seems to be suffering from a type of sickness, but one of the soul.
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Does he really think that he has no obligation to anyone but his state?
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America's never won by going every man and woman for themselves.
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Does Chris Cuomo, when he's hiring writers for CNN, does he just go to like 3 a.m. freshman
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dorm room bowl sessions and then he finds the biggest pothead in the room who's a sort of
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would-be poet and clouded with all these really hippy-dippy ideas?
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He says, you, you are going to write my monologues.
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The cause of the collective, you know, man, it's bigger.
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So he says there's something bigger than ourselves.
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Let's talk about that thing bigger than ourselves.
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And he says, the cause of the collective, he goes right back to this political, ideological,
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frankly, communist kind of rhetoric, the cause of the collective.
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It's been the same story for the progressive left, going back all the way to Karl Marx,
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at least, and certainly forward in basically an unbroken line of progressive leaders.
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75 people die in the United States every day of various causes.
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Chris Cuomo seems to be denying the reality of death.
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Really, he's just demagoguing the reality of death.
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So he's got all these weird vagaries that he's talking about.
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Not until we show the desperation to get tracing and testing.
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Because we're failing to give the truth to the people,
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which will give them the trust they need to reopen.
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Now, he doesn't because he wants to keep up the Fox farce,
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I guess the anti-elitists over there are OK with 10,000 more dead.
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Yeah, that's you just want dead people, Fox News and Trump and conservatives.
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You're saying this virus has been overblown just because we all told you for weeks that 2.4 million Americans would die.
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And the actual reality is probably under 100,000 by the latest models.
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And we were off not just by an order of magnitude, but by a multiple in an order of magnitude.
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What he is saying here at the end is that if you observe correctly, undeniably,
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that Chris Cuomo and all the rest of the leftist and scientistic acts got the virus completely wrong,
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if you just observe that basic fact, then you're killing 10,000 people.
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That is the degree of scientific discourse that we're seeing on the left now.
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Even the words that we shouldn't use the word science as people use it today.
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It's a way for people to pretend that they possess all the knowledge in the world and that you do not.
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And then, time and time again, we see they don't seem to know much of anything at all.
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But believe it or not, Cuomo's weird rant was not even the craziest thing on TV.
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Over the past few days, that award would have to go to The Price is Right,
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on which a drag queen raised $100,000 for abortionists on one of middle America's favorite game shows.
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So, Drew Carey and The Price is Right, making Chris Cuomo and CNN look normal.
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RuPaul, who I'm very pleased to say I did not know who he was.
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I'd heard the name, but I didn't know who he was.
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RuPaul goes on The Price is Right and raises nearly six figures for the largest abortion mill in America.
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So, Ru, you're going to be playing for charity.
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You're going to be playing alongside the contestants.
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And whatever you win and the rest of the contestants win, we're going to match and give to a special charity that Ru is playing for.
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Well, I am playing for Planned Parenthood, which provides vital and often free services for both men and women.
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In these studios, they have lights that go on and they say, applaud and yell now.
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And that's how the audience is always, you know, on a dime, begin applauding and standing up and all that.
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You can see when he mentioned Planned Parenthood that there are a number of faces out there in the crowd.
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I don't want to be seen on national television applauding for a million dead babies a year.
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A man who dresses up like a woman going on Middle America's former favorite show to raise money to kill a million babies a year.
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Something clearly has gone wrong in the culture.
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They say cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Never clearer than on this particular episode of The Price is Right.
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You know, this was one bastion where the sort of liberal progressive wackos that run so many of the other parts of Hollywood and television, they hadn't quite infected it.
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You go on and you try to guess the price of regular goods.
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And then if you guess the price right, you win prizes.
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Because the left destroys everything it touches.
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Obviously, the reactions to this were not so great.
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The Price is Right had a special show this evening and donated $94,000 to Planned Parenthood.
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Watching tonight's episode, giving away $97,000 to, what was it, $94,000 or $97,000?
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You know, there's, I think, a temptation to say,
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Oh, you know, the culture was always this crazy.
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You know, The Price is Right has been around for, what, 40, 50 years?
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Maybe we've got to pull that guy out of retirement,
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if this is what Drew Carey is doing to the show.
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But we can actually watch what's happened on the used to be totally normal,
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And now, it's drag queens promoting abortionists.
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Something has gone wrong in the culture, and it's mostly conservatives' fault.
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I mean, it is the left's fault in that the left is aggressing in this culture war.
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But the conservatives really, I think, bear the brunt of the blame here,
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You know, the left always wanted this, and they basically always told us that they wanted this.
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Conservatives are the ones who let this happen.
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You know, conservatives are the ones who basically sold out for some economic policies that they won.
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You know, you see this time and again when you look at histories of the 20th century.
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The conservatives, in some ways, won on the economic battles.
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You know, they were able to reestablish some greater control of property rights.
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They were able to get certain trade deals that they wanted.
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You know, they basically embraced this idea of, oh, forget about the social issues.
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If it's not hurting me, if it doesn't affect me, who cares?
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You can't have a politics where everyone is totally separate and doing what they want to themselves or in their own privacy without it having any effect on the culture.
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We know that that doesn't work going all the way back to Aristotle's politics.
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We know that that doesn't work going back to the founding fathers of our own country.
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That highly individualistic, do whatever you want kind of licentiousness leads to a culture that is going to affect all of us.
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So if the place that we're living in, if the culture that we're all moving around in all the times, if that gets degraded, that is going to affect us, whether we want to admit that or not.
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And conservatives need to get a little bit more serious about the cultural issues.
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I remember I was working in politics in 2010 when conservatives were finally going to do something about the debt and the deficit.
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Paul Ryan, to his credit, was really trying to fix the debt and the deficit.
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And then in 2016, you had President Trump not running.
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He didn't run on any of these bean counting issues, economic issues.
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And he's actually had some success affecting the culture.
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It became clear then what Andrew Breitbart used to always say.
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Politics being downstream of culture and all that.
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Now, maybe this isn't exactly the way that he was thinking about it, but it is an important way to think about it.
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These issues, what it means to be an American, what it means to have closed borders, what it means to have a coherent culture, what it means to be a moral and religious people, to use John Adams' words.
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If you get that in order, then all the kind of economic and other political questions fall in place.
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But if you try to invert that, you're not going to get anything in the long run.
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Speaking of completely inverted politics, there's a woman named Stacey Abrams who has been campaigning for vice president pretty unsubtly.
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I've never seen a vice presidential campaign like this ever in American history.
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And then it turns out she actually had never endorsed the guy for president that she was hoping would pick her.
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So the woman campaigning for vice president finally remembered to endorse the guy who
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she's trying to get to pick her, the guy who's running for president.
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She says, quote, Vice President Biden is the leader American needs, a leader who will restore
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dignity, competence, and compassion to the Oval Office, competency, okay, while restoring
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His commitment to fighting climate change, leading an economic recovery for all, and protecting
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every eligible American's right to vote are among the many reasons why he must be the next
00:33:14.560
Now, the reason I read that to you instead of playing a clip is because Stacey Abrams formally
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endorsed Joe Biden, not on video, she did it in a written statement.
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I think part of the reason is she doesn't want that video footage out there because it's
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humiliating to endorse Joe Biden because nobody thinks that guy should be president.
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I don't think his wife thinks that he should be president.
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It's pretty clear when you look at him, that guy has no business in the Oval Office.
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I think a lot of Democrats are not sure that he's even going to get the nomination.
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I think that's part of the reason why she's delayed endorsing him.
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The other reason, I mentioned this when I was reading it about Tara Reade, is it looks
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I don't know that Joe Biden did whatever this woman says that he did back in the early 90s.
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In fact, I think after that long a period of time that he certainly deserves the benefit
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of the doubt and certainly, always, the accused deserve due process.
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The issue here is the hypocrisy and the Me Too movement.
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And then the moment that anyone accuses a Democrat, they suddenly stop believing all women.
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And Vice News, to their credit, pushed Stacey Abrams on camera on this point.
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And they backed her into a corner and she finally just came out and said it.
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She said what all the other Democrats are at least implicitly saying, that Tara Reade is not
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I believe their allegations deserve to be vetted.
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And they deserve the space, again, to describe their experiences.
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But the question I got was a question not only of Joe Biden's character, but of my character.
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And if I believed that he had done what he is accused of doing, I would not be in any other
00:35:10.560
What he is accused of doing, that he has flatly and clearly denied, and I believe his denial
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So if you felt there was evidence behind it, you would not support him as a candidate?
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I, of course not, because I believe that we are obliged to serve justice to those who
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And for me, if I thought that this man had done that, then I could not be in this space.
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Listen to what she says just first on Joe Biden.
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Because, I mean, I believe his denial too, in the sense that I believe he's denying what
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So what you have to answer is, do you believe the allegation?
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She thinks this woman is not telling the truth.
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But she doesn't want to say that, because that's in the negative, and that is making it
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So instead, she totally reverses it and says, I believe the denial.
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You don't believe all women, because you don't believe that woman.
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And you don't believe that woman, I think, because that's politically inconvenient.
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Then the other place she flips it is, she says, look, I was asked a question, not about
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She has to pretend that she actually won a race in Georgia that she lost, because it's
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not possible that the people would vote against Stacey Abrams.
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The victory of Brian Kemp in Georgia is actually the story of the loss of Stacey Abrams in Georgia,
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which is really the story of the victory of Stacey Abrams.
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So she doesn't begin from, is this woman telling the truth?
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Does this mean that he is an unfit character to be president?
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She begins from this total political cynicism, says, well, I am endorsing Joe Biden and I'm
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not the sort of person who would endorse a rapist.
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Therefore, Joe Biden's denial has to be the truth.
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Therefore, the woman can't be telling the truth.
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It's all about her and it's all beginning from her own political interests.
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She's barely even pretending to talk about the truth.
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It's so, I don't think I've ever seen a more cynical politician in, at least in recent American
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history, you know, in our lifetimes than Stacey Abrams.
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And it's why I have this sort of perverse love of her as a candidate, as a Democratic candidate.
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I want her to be the candidate because she's so cartoonishly bad.
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She's so cartoonishly shallow, cynical, unlikable politically that I really want her to be the
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Do you think I am the sort of person who would endorse a, uh, an unfit character to be the
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Uh, also in our backwards topsy-turvy upside down through the looking glass world, there
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Uh, this is one of the most important court cases that we're seeing in the next few months.
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You're going to see two very important court cases on transgenderism.
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It affects virtually statistically zero people in the country, but the left has made it a big
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issue because the left is using this to get through their entire agenda.
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The left is using this to get through their entire ideology because if the left can force
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you to believe that men are women and women are men, then there is no objective reality.
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There is no objective standard that we have to refer to.
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And the left can rewrite, they can rewrite the whole country.
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They can rewrite our laws and they're trying to do that right now.
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So there's this case, uh, in Connecticut, the ADF filed a suit.
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The ADF is the Alliance Defending Freedom, great organization.
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They filed a suit in February against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference
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on behalf of three girls, uh, Selena Sewell, Alana Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell.
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These three girls are runners in their school sports.
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And what they're suing over is that these girls are being forced to compete against boys.
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So title nine of the, you know, title nine exists to create female sports.
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So the women can compete against the women and the men can compete against the men.
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The women don't have to compete against the men because men are physically stronger than
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And when men compete against women in sports, men win.
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There are many stories on this topic, which maybe, maybe we'll try to go into a little bit
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later, but generally speaking, virtually all the time, men win.
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Um, title nine sets up women's sports on the basis of sex.
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If sex is redefined to mean gender, if biological sex is redefined to mean subjective gender identity
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psychology, then it's not that that expands women's sports to include more people that
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There are no more women's sports because women's sports all of a sudden include men and the
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men win, which is what happened to these girls.
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And so not only would they lose, unfortunately, these tournaments, but you know, you could lose
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scholarships, you could lose college recruiting.
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They haven't even gone, gone through the case yet.
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And the district judge, a Clinton appointee by Robert, his name is Robert Chetigny, chastised
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He said at the beginning of the case, he said, you can't refer to the boys as boys.
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What I'm saying is you must refer to them as transgender females rather than as males.
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And I think that it fully protects your client's legitimate interests.
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Referring to these individuals as transgender females is consistent with science, capital
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S. I don't know what science he's looking at, but if science means leftist ideology,
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Certainly not consistent with objective reality.
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Common practice and perhaps human decency to refer to the boys as males, period, is not
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I don't think that you surrender any legitimate interest or position if you refer to them as
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This isn't a case involving males who have decided that they want to run in girls' events.
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This is a case about girls who say that transgender girls should not be allowed to run in girls'
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So going forward, we will not refer to the proposed interveners as males, understood?
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And obviously, the lawyer for ADF says, that's the whole game.
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If we refer to these boys as girls, as you, judge, are telling us to do, then we have no
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case because girls are allowed to compete against girls.
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Our problem is that you and the sickos and the cynics who are pushing this ridiculous
00:42:48.240
leftist ideology are not permitting girls to compete against girls.
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You're forcing girls to compete against boys, which totally takes away the rights of girls
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Maybe my version was a little more colorful, but that's the argument that Roger Brooks,
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They finally got the judge to agree to just use the term transgender.
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And there is a very infinitely, infinitesimally small number of people who are what's called
00:43:25.320
intersex or hermaphroditic, where there's some ambiguity as to the genitals or the biological
00:43:30.780
But of course, the existence of a, of that very small section and exception of people
00:43:40.200
Just when there is sometimes a very rare ambiguity between two distinct categories, that doesn't
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And that's not what's at issue, by the way, in this case.
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It's a boy who by all markers of objective reality is a boy simply saying through sheer
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tyranny of will that he is a girl and has the right to beat girls in races and take away
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So even giving up, even, you know, I guess ADF kind of had to give it up.
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But even giving them that term, transgender, is giving away the game.
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This is the way that the culture is stacked against the conservatives.
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This is the way that science is abused and appropriated and monopolized and perverted and
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He said, if you feel strongly that you and your client have a right to refer to these individuals
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as males, could you imagine calling boys males and that you therefore do not want to
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But I'll give you some time to think about it and you can let me know if it's a problem.
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If it is, gosh, maybe we'll need to do something.
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I don't want to bully you like the torturers in 1984.
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I don't want to force you to say that two plus two equals five.
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But, you know, you have to say it or, uh, or else, but I don't want to bully you because
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But at the same time, I don't want you to be bullying someone else, you know, by calling
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a boy, a boy and a girl, a girl and saying two plus two equals four.
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Maybe you might need to take an application to the court of appeals.
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I don't know, but I certainly don't want to put civility at risk in this case.
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You are, you are the uncivil one because you won't use common language, basic language,
00:45:38.400
objectively true symbols to refer to reality because of your own ideology, because you
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are so blinded by your ideology, which you call science, which the left has always called
00:45:53.580
They've called it the science of history since Karl Marx.
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You're so blinded by that ideology that you actually believe that a boy is a girl.
00:46:06.020
If that's science, perhaps we need some other basis of knowledge with which to understand
00:46:12.180
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