Ep. 686 - Sleepy Joe’s Eternal Lockdown
Summary
On this 316th day of 15 days to slow the spread of the Ebola virus, President Joe Biden has a message for all of us: It s common sense. And it s a pretty simple one: This pandemic is going to take a whole lot longer than we thought.
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On this 316th day of 15 Days to Slow the Spread, President Joe Biden has a message for all of us,
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This pandemic is going to take a whole lot longer before we can return to normal.
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I'm going to shut down the virus, but I never said I'd do it in two months.
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And so we have millions of people out there who have the virus.
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We're just, for the first day, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I've been doing other things this morning, speaking with foreign leaders.
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But one of the things I think, this is one of the first days, that the numbers actually come down, the number of deaths and the number on a daily basis and the number of hospitalizations, etc.
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And we still have, as Dr. Fauci constantly points out, it's one thing when we have mass, how can I say it politely, mass disregard of the warnings about not wearing masks and wearing masks and social distancing and failure to social distance and people getting together on holidays in ways that weren't recommended, etc.
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We see the first thing that happens is we see the number of infections go up.
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So he realizes, as he launches into this invective against the people who don't wear the masks and don't listen to the experts, even when the experts change their mind all the time, in the 316th day of slow the spread, as he realizes he's, as he's going through this, this motion, he realizes he's not wearing the mask.
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So he's slowly, he says, and people, they're not listening to the mask mandates in there.
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And that's why we're going to be locked down forever.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Wesley Beyer, who says, Chuck Schumer's Freudian slip wasn't wrong at all.
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You're not allowed to make that kind of joke, but it's pretty, pretty funny.
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President Biden finally gets the message because,
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and I said this in the months before the presidential election.
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I said, you know, we've all been joking about how the virus is going to be cured the day after the election,
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but I'm not so sure because this is a tremendous amount of power that liberal elites have grabbed.
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Power in the administrative state, power in elective office, power in corporate America,
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especially big, big business like Amazon, for instance.
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I don't think they're going to give it up so quickly.
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Now they're going to say, no, it's going to go on and on and on.
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We're going to have to keep watching ourselves.
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Now, of course, that doesn't make any sense at all.
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The places with the most draconian mask policies,
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the places with some of the highest mask compliance in the world,
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are also some of the cities where the virus has been surging.
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And there are plenty of places where people aren't wearing masks and the virus is surging too.
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So just to say that perhaps Fauci's original guidance,
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that the masks are not quite as effective as people think, maybe that was correct.
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Yesterday, we reported on this new idea from the New York Times that people should wear multiple masks.
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And I began to say that this was Fauci's new bright idea.
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But I said, no, Fauci himself hasn't said it yet.
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I knew he was going to because Fauci just goes along with whatever political current is convenient for him.
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And now he's going along to Dr. Fauci says, come on, guys.
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A lot of folks are hearing now about double masking,
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wearing two masks or trying to get one of those N95 medical grade masks.
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Do you believe that that's advisable and makes a difference?
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You know, it likely does, because, I mean, this is a physical covering to prevent droplets and virus to get in.
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So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on,
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it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.
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And that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.
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Dr. Fauci, if it's just common sense that we should all be wearing two masks all of a sudden,
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if that's just common sense and it's obviously going to provide more protection against the virus,
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why wouldn't you have told us that 10 months ago?
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If this is common sense that we should just wear two masks, I guess pretty soon it's going to be three masks.
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Pretty soon you're going to put a donut on your head and hop up and down on a pogo stick.
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Because Fauci says it and he seems totally reasonable.
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He goes, look, hey, thanks so much for having me on.
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Just do exactly what I say because it's science.
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He sounded just as scientific when 10 months ago he said it was common sense that the masks don't do nothing.
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There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.
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When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better
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and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
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People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.
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There is no reason to wear a mask, says Dr. Fauci, in a perfectly commonsensical way.
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In fact, maybe it stops a droplet, okay, but there could be unintended consequences that actually make all this worse.
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No reason to, it makes people feel better, but come on, guys, use your head, common sense.
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Until Fauci says, use your head, it's common sense to wear two masks or three masks or four masks.
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This is really pathetic that anybody is listening to this guy anymore.
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I, I pity the people who still think that this guy has any credibility or that any of these technocrats have any credibility.
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And they're all now, they're all condemning the former president, the former administration.
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They're all running as quickly as they can away.
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Oh, it's so good to be in an administration now that believes in science and lets these, these technocrats do whatever they want.
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Jerome Adams, who is the former surgeon general under President Trump, he is coming out now and begging the liberal elite and the establishment and the media for forgiveness,
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for committing the heinous crime of working as the surgeon general in the Trump administration.
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I don't know, he's an impressive guy in his own right.
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But it's pathetic what he's reduced himself to.
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And, and the way in which he's begging forgiveness is even more pathetic.
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If Dr. Birx or I weren't there, many medical slash public health conversations would have had no input whatsoever from a woman or a person of color.
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Let, let me ask you, I, I'm going to try to make this point in a, the least provocative way I can, because I know we're living in a very politically correct culture.
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What is the benefit to the study of a virus in the implementation of policies that will slow the spread of the virus?
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What is the benefit in and of itself of having a woman or a person of color give that opinion?
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What is, what, what medical and scientific benefit is derived from Dr. Birx's genitals or Jerome Adams's skin color that uniquely qualified him to give advice on the virus?
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First of all, as far as I can tell, that entire team of genius technocrat virus experts of all colors and all sexes completely botched the public health messaging.
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The one thing they got right was how quickly they got the vaccine out.
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So not a big recommendation, but how pathetic, this guy, Jerome Adams is a real guy.
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Admiral, career of military service, rose to the highest level of his profession in the government.
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And the, the best thing he can say to recommend himself is the color of his skin.
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What a bizarre world we're living in that that's the case.
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Why on earth does this have to be a race thing?
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Because race in particular, but sex also, and all of these various identity groups has become a national obsession.
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It's, it's used by the left in a very destructive way.
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And it was developed over the course of at least a hundred years.
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And this is actually part of my new book that's coming out pretty soon, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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You can pre-order it, but it's not going to be out for a few months.
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This was developed intentionally by the left as a means of subverting the traditional standards
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and getting all Americans to hate one another and implementing their, their agenda.
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Conservatives buy into this identity politics stuff too.
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They are, they are so afraid of being called a sexist or a racist or a this phobe or a that phobe that they play into this sort of thing.
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I think what Jerome Adams is saying here is, is so debasing.
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He's so degrading himself by stooping to this level by, first of all, by apologizing for serving a surgeon general and then under the mean orange man and then defending it on the race card or defending Burks on the sex card.
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Unfortunately though, conservatives play into this sometimes too.
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We are having the latest stage of a debate that has raged for years and years at this point over whether or not we should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
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The left cares because they've been pushing this for a long time.
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The left cares a lot, and maybe there's a reason for that.
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You know, the left cares a lot about these things that seem kind of small, like, for instance, gendered bathrooms, right?
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The idea that men have to use the men's room and women have to use the women's room.
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They say, I want some men to be able to use the women's room.
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And what a lot of conservatives say is, oh, who cares?
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They realize that in this symbol, this sort of, in itself, a relatively minor act, they can get a whole lot more of their political premises across.
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The proposal is to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman.
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Harriet Tubman, the slave who escaped and got lots of other slaves to be freed as well, developed the Underground Railroad,
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supported John Brown, who was the great abolitionist.
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And so, therefore, we should put her on the $20 bill.
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I'm not against this idea because I don't like Harriet Tubman.
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I'm against this idea because of the political message that the left is trying to push with it and that conservatives are acquiescing to.
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I would say most conservatives I know are for replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman specifically.
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And the argument usually goes something like this.
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They say, well, Andrew Jackson's the founder of the Democratic Party and Harriet Tubman's a gun-toting Republican.
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That's kind of what you hear in the general kind of conservative blue checkmark sphere.
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However, you'll notice that the people who are actually pushing this, not the people who are acquiescing to it, but the people who are pushing this are Democrats.
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And the people who have resisted it are Republicans.
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President Trump slowed this process down for four years.
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Why is it that the Democrats are pushing the gun-toting Republican and the Republican is defending the founder of the Democratic Party?
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Well, what people will tell you, usually leftists, but I suppose some conservatives too will tell you, is the reason that anyone would oppose this idea is because you're a racist.
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And I think a lot of the reason that Republicans are so quick to jump out and say, no, I'm for it.
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It's because they, they're doing the thing that Republicans always do, which is trying to prove to the left that we're not racists, which is a fool's errand because the left, first of all, the left harbors much more racial bigotry than the right does.
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They're instituting legal racial discrimination on the left.
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They don't care that we're not racist or bigots or whatever.
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We're, we're, we're not, uh, you know, bigoted, but that's sort of beside the point.
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I think what the move to, to put Tubman on the bill is for is largely to get rid of Andrew Jackson.
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Andrew Jackson has been much maligned in this country over the past couple of decades and Republicans have gone along with it, you know, sort of cynically.
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They want to prove they want to prove they're not racists, I think, but also because, uh, he's the founder of the Democratic Party.
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He had many flaws, as do we all, and, and great men have great flaws, but the, the attack on Andrew Jackson is a way to attack our traditions and our founding fathers.
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And all the great men that we've revered, they always go for the easy ones first.
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They all, they always ban Alex Jones from the internet before they ban Donald Trump, right?
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They, they want to ban the guys that nobody's going to defend and then they ramp it up and then they ramp it up and then they ramp it up and then they go for the sitting president of the United States and whole scores of mainstream conservatives.
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And conservatives who, who understand what this game is about say, wait a second.
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Remember Trump said that in the speech and the left says, no, that's not true.
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And then the squishy Republicans say, no, that's not true.
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And then two seconds later, they're toppling statues of Washington.
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They're getting rid of, because there's no end to it.
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Yeah, we topple the leader of the, the founder of the Democratic Party.
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And it's based on this idea, by the way, that is identity politics.
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I think Harriet Tubman could deserve, I mean, she's been honored in many ways in this country,
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but sure, put her on some denomination or something, put her on some money, make up a
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coin like they did for Sacagawea, give Harriet Tubman some money.
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It wouldn't be enough because it's about replacing Andrew Jackson.
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And I think Harriet Tubman is being used here because of her sex and, and even more so because
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If this is really just about putting an abolitionist on money, why wouldn't we put John Brown on
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Why not replace Andrew Jackson with John Brown?
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Harriet Tubman herself greatly admired John Brown, said that John Brown in his death did
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Harriet Tubman aided John Brown, not in the actual raid on Harper's Ferry for which he was
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most famous because she was either recovering from a sickness or whatever.
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She was, she couldn't be found at that point, but she did aid him quite a lot.
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Well, John Brown's a white guy and be the people who are pushing this or they don't care about
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And I, and we give in on this because we all like Harriet Tubman, but we're giving them
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this premise when we replace a great American, Andrew Jackson, when we fail to defend more
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I mean, I, I get why political correctness has succeeded.
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I get why the left has been so successful on the cultural front for the last 50 years,
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certainly, and really for the last hundred years, because it's so subtle.
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It's so hard to defend, but I think, I think we should.
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Speaking of these sorts of putting people of various backgrounds on money, I should remind
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you, by the way, it's not as though we don't have women of color on money.
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Sacagawea, I just mentioned, we had Pocahontas on money as early as 1865.
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We had her on banknotes as early as 1865, not, not Elizabeth Warren, who would not be a woman
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Well, speaking of Pocahontas and these tedious racial politics, Disney Plus is banning classic
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movies from young audiences, audiences under seven, namely the people who watch Disney movies.
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Dumbo, Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robinson, and the Aristocats.
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No longer available for young users on the Disney Plus streaming service.
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Well, because of political incorrectness, because of racism.
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Here's why your kid can't watch Peter Pan right now on Disney Plus.
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Quote, the film portrays native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the
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diversity of native peoples, nor their authentic cultural traditions.
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It shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and repeatedly refers to them as red
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skins, an offensive term, according to white liberals, but not, not really deemed offensive
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Peter and the Lost Boys engage in dancing, wearing headdresses, and other exaggerated tropes,
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a form of mockery and appropriation of native people's culture and imagery.
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All of that's gobbledygook and it's completely meaningless.
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If you want to become cultured, you need to appropriate different aspects of culture.
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You need to develop and cultivate, cultivate, from the same word as culture, certain tastes.
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I'll, I'll, I'll try to be as, I always tell you, I try to be as unprovocative as I possibly
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We talk with our hands, as you can see I'm doing right now.
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We have certain, uh, stereotypes that go along with that culture, right?
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If I strip away all of those stereotypes, I take away all the lasagna, all the pizza,
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all the bippity-boppity-boo, all the speaking with your hands, all that kind of stuff,
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all of the physical characteristics, because I don't want to be racist or culturally appropriative.
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I have ironically done the thing that the left pretends they don't want to do, right?
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Because the left castigates conservatives when we appropriate culture, but they also castigate
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conservatives when we don't appropriate culture, when we erase culture.
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It's a, it's a damned if you do, damned if you do scenario.
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But we give into this because we're so afraid of being called racist or whatever.
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Racism is bad because it's an offense to human dignity.
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Don't worry what these cynics and idiots and nefarious political actors think about you.
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Got to get, got to get rid of political correctness, folks.
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That's what we're trying to do here at the Daily Wire.
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These racial identity politics are, they've been farcical for a long time, but they're becoming
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And it would seem that there's no limit for it.
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What has happened right now in politically correct culture, out of wokeism, whatever you
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want to call it, intersectionality, is that white has just become a synonym for bad, right?
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Whiteness is an actual term that people use, is simply a synonym for bad thing, badness,
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I mean, it's being used really, if you want to be very specific about it, to refer to original
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sin, the fallen nature of man, which is now, formerly we understood that this was a universal
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Now it's being wielded by political leftists to suggest that only some people are guilty
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of this and they've caused all the problems in the world.
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Part of this also is because of the, we could go on for hours and hours about this, but
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because of the left's anthropology, because over the past, certainly 150 or so years, the
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left has indulged these theories that man is essentially good, but that society is what
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And so, you know, you just need to perfect politics.
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And then once you do that, crime and disease and everything is going to go away.
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Uh, that raises the question, of course, if, if individual men are good, how come society
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Uh, but one way that the, the present day left is answering that is they're saying, well,
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people are good generally, but there's this one group of people that's bad and they have
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this thing which is evil and it's called whiteness.
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And that lies at the heart of a lot of this intersectional kind of racial ID politics.
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This is now being wielded by lazy teachers in Washington state as an excuse not to go
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So it's being used for, and like, Hey, Johnny, why didn't you finish your homework?
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So the head of the Washington state teachers union claimed last week that reopening schools
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for in-person learning, uh, 10 months after two weeks to slow the spread is not only an
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example of white supremacy, but furthermore, when, when objections were brought up pointing
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out that students are really suffering from this, Las Vegas just had to reopen their schools
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because students are committing suicide at much higher rates.
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Well, the head of the teachers union said that concerns over students' mental health are
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a form of quote, white privilege, white privilege.
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Uh, this, this comes after the Chicago teachers union, uh, also refused to go back to work also
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They said that reopening schools for in-person instruction is racist and sexist.
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And, uh, the president of the POSCO association of educators in, uh, in Washington state went on
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what our friend Jason Rance up there referred to as a series of unhinged remarks.
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At this school board meeting, uh, the city of Chicago, moving then down to Illinois, city
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of Chicago wants the teachers to go back to work.
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Uh, the, uh, Chicago public schools now are issuing a warning.
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They're saying, if you don't show up for work on Monday, you will be deemed absent without
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Uh, this is actually what Ronald Reagan did in the, uh, 1980s when the air traffic controllers
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Public unions are not supposed to be able to strike because while a company might be able
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to shut down for a little bit, the government is not permitted to shut down.
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So, you know, for years and years, liberal politicians had indulged this sort of thing.
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The government worker unions striking in violation of the law.
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He came out and said, if you don't show up to work, you violated your, your terms of contract
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It is for this reason that I must tell those who failed to report for duty that this morning,
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And if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and
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I mean, this is one of his stellar moments and the union didn't really believe him because
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the entire liberal establishment was, was egging the, the air traffic controllers on.
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So one of the reporters in that press conference, after Reagan finished speaking, he says, wait
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And then Reagan, the actor comes out and musters all of his Hollywood chops and just sort of
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feigns indignation, or maybe it was sincere indignation.
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Why have you taken such strong action as your first action?
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Why not a, uh, some, uh, lesser action at this point?
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And as I say, we call this to the attention of their leadership, whether this was conveyed
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to the membership before they voted to strike, I don't know.
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But, uh, this is one of the reasons why there could be no further negotiation while this
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You can't sit and negotiate with a union that's in violation of the law.
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And, and, and, uh, incredibly now you have the democratic mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot,
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basically saying the same thing, a little softer than Ronald Reagan, but still coming
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out and saying, look, guys, you have to, you have to go back to work.
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Even I liberal left wing Lori Lightfoot, I'm saying it's been 10 months, you know, go back
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But no, because the, the left has given ideologues across the sexual and racial spectrum and excuse
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You can blame all of your problems on white supremacy or whatever.
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You know, they come up with new terms all the time, but today that would appear to be
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And it's very harmful to believe that sort of thing just for your own personal growth.
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And our current president, Joe Biden, is letting, letting these guys get away with it.
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He was asked a question directly during a press conference about the teachers unions refusing
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Do you believe, sir, that teachers should return to schools now?
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I believe we should make school classrooms safe and secure for the students, for the teachers
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and for the, the help that's in those schools, maintaining the facilities.
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We need new ventilation systems in those schools.
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We need testing for people coming in and out of the classes.
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We need testing for teachers as well as students.
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And we need the capacity, the capacity to know that in fact, the, the sick of the circumstance
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Cause that had absolutely nothing to do with the question that was asked.
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Joe Biden was asked, should teachers go back to school now?
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He says, I think teachers should be safe and schools should be clean.
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Do you think schools should be filthy and dangerous?
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How many people, raise your hand if you, oh, nobody.
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We all agree with that, Joe, but you have to lead.
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Should teachers go back to work 10 months after their two week vacation?
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He can't say that because he's beholden to the teacher unions.
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This, this reminds me, this tactic, Mike Bloomberg used this too, when Bloomberg wants
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to basically overturn the second amendment and it's been his crusade for decades now.
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But he knows that if you come out and say, billionaires against the second amendment, that,
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He called it mayors against, not billionaires against, he said mayors against illegal guns.
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How many people do you know who are for illegal guns?
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I guess some, it's probably some people who are for them, but generally speaking, people
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I think certain guns that are currently illegal should be made legal, but nobody's for illegal
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But he has to say that because it sounds, it sounds more palatable.
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I take them with a grain of salt, but I'll use them when they suit my purposes.
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New study produced in the United Kingdom by the Office for National Statistics examined
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Shows that death rates among teachers are not higher than among the general population.
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There is no specific threat to teachers' lives if they go back and go to work like the rest
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Remember, I thought, I thought teachers were supposed to do this very sacred, important
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duty of raising up the next generation and they're some of the greatest heroes in the
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I have a great respect for my teachers specifically.
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They've had some of the greatest, greatest impact of my life, on my life of anybody.
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So I'm, I'm actually buying into that, that argument to a large degree.
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They sure ain't acting like it though, are they?
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No, they're, they're trying to get now what a year off of work with full pay.
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And in some of these places, their pay is pretty good because of the negotiations of
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the unions buying off politicians like Joe Biden.
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How corrupt, but this is the kind of corruption we're, we're just going to see for however long
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CNN ran a chyron yesterday that sums it all up.
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She's the new press secretary and the chyron read, Psaki promises to share accurate info.
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That kind of fawning coverage for the state and for the regime would make
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I never want to hear again about the, the tyrannical rule of, I don't know, Vladimir Putin.
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Vladimir Putin does not have as cozy a relationship to his state media as the American regime,
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the liberal regime has to CNN and the Washington Post and the New York Times and NBC and ABC
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and CBS and all the rest of them with, I guess, sort of the exception of Fox News and the smaller
00:37:40.900
Oh, Newsmax and OAN are, are quite conservative, but they're smaller.
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Obviously, the network repositioned itself a little bit, but that is not the recipe for
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You've, you've, you see this, you've got the media, obviously, you've got big technology
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I don't use that word grift too often because I think it's an overused word and it's used
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imprecisely right now, you know, a con or something like that.
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I mean, Biden has sold his influence just like the Clintons.
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You, you saw this in all of Hunter Biden scandals, but even, even the other day, there was a big
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They said the presidential motorcade stopped in Washington, DC so that Hunter Biden could run
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And I saw this story and it was some kind of kooky story.
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Every day, Joe is going out and getting bagels, right?
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And the second I saw that headline, I said, this is a grift.
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I Google for two seconds and I find out what it is.
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Joe Biden coming back from mass from which he should be excommunicated, but whatever.
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It's above my pay grade to make that determination.
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So the motorcade stops for nine minutes so Hunter can go get bagels at a shop called Call
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Oh, Joe Biden's coronavirus response director, Jeff Zients is a major investor in that deli,
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according to the Atlantic, which first discovered this.
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So Joe Biden, I assume he can get a bagel at the White House, right?
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I don't think the president of the United States, like you and I, if we go to church,
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we drive home, maybe we're going to pick up breakfast along the way, bring it home,
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If you're the president of the United States, someone will bring you bagels.
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You probably have many bagels in the White House, but he stops there.
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He stops the motorcade for nine minutes to get a lot of publicity to his friend's bagel
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shop so that it can become very popular and his friend can make more money.
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This is the way politicians generally work and it's the way that Joe Biden has worked,
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especially that is Joe Biden's career is back slapping.
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Hey, you better fire that prosecutor looking into my son.
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Otherwise you're not getting a billion dollars.
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That is what we are getting a whole lot more of.
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This is a scary growth of state power because it's not just the state.
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In the kind of narrow sense of the government, it's all these affiliated groups, the public
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private partnerships, nothing like the president of the United States to plug your, your bagel
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shop to really get, to really show that coziness between the public and private sector.
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But it's, as we've said, it's education, it's technology, it's the media, it's all these
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They all form the liberal establishment and they are all seriously threatening our liberties.
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Most notably because they're going to keep us locked down for months and months and months
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There's a purpose to the growth of all this kind of state power.
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And I use that term state broadly to include tech and education and all those sorts of things.
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The most disturbing story I've seen on CNN in quite some time occurred over just the past
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An 18 year old guy, Jackson Reffitt, turned his dad in to the FBI because his dad went to
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I'm not sure, I'm, he was certainly around the area.
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And so this, this kid calls the FBI to turn his dad in because his dad said, hey, if you
00:42:00.540
I guess the kid had been threatening to turn him in or suggested he might turn him in.
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So this kid calls the FBI, gets his father arrested, and then CNN has him on to talk about
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Well, maybe the kid, maybe it was a serious threat.
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Listen to Reffitt tell the story to Cuomo, who's lapping it up.
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I know you love your family and I know this is hard.
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So help people understand, why did you feel you had to let authorities know about what
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was being done to your father and what was happening in his own head?
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It was, uh, it was just, it just felt like the right thing, regardless of my emotions and
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how I felt and how much I loved my family and my dad.
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Uh, I was worried, uh, I didn't think he would actually do anything bad, but, um, him saying
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anything even remotely threatening to me and my sister and my family and government officials,
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He's, cause presumably the reason he called the FBI on his dad is because his dad threatened
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But the kid says right here, he doesn't think his dad would have done anything bad.
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He doesn't actually think it was a threat, but he turned his dad into the FBI anyway.
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Well, he makes clear it's because they have different political views.
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It's been definitely over the past four years that it's grown and just snowballed into what
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my dad's become now and he's still my father, but he's, he's changed a lot.
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And obviously the militia and the far-right extremists he's been involved with recently.
00:44:17.800
He's been a lot more, I don't want to say aggressive, but more, more scared.
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Um, no, uh, I actually never even knew he was going to DC until the day he left.
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Um, I'm sure it was because of my political views, but I'm not sure.
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And then he posted a fundraiser because his mother kicked him out of the house for getting
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And, uh, from the picture, you know, he's wearing like very, he's got very long hair.
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He's where he doesn't look like a, uh, right, right wing conservative.
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Uh, I'm, I'm not even really attacking this kid.
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I guess he's an adult and it's wrong to get your father arrested.
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Generally speaking, especially for just being a Republican, but, uh, I'm not attacking this
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My heart kind of breaks for this kid and certainly it breaks for the family.
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The, the sisters and the mother who, who the kid acknowledges.
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He says, oh yeah, I've, I've broken their hearts.
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Cause I got my dad arrested, but I felt like I had to do it.
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And Chris Cuomo, that disgusting man, lapping it up.
00:45:39.820
Tell me more about how you got your dad arrested because he's so right wing.
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I, uh, I mentioned this whole story, not even to kind of,
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comment on the kid or the dad or, or even Chris Cuomo.
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I bring up the story because it has a lot to do with how the left operates.
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It actually tells you a lot about the difference between the right and the left.
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They begin with different, fundamentally different views of society and their political agendas
00:46:15.220
So for conservatives, the fundamental building block of society is the family.
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We are not born as free floating atoms flying around in outer space.
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And then we land and through our consent, we choose to join a family.
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We are born out of an act of love between our parents and at a higher level, out of the
00:46:42.500
act of love of God, our creator who creates the world through an act of speech.
00:46:50.040
And we are born with duties, with obligations, with loyalties.
00:46:56.880
We are stewards of ourselves, our life, which is a gift from, from our parents as a proximate
00:47:10.320
The left, and I include liberals in this, I include libertarians in this, the left libertarians
00:47:15.900
certainly, begin with this idea that the individual is the building block of society.
00:47:20.540
And we have, we are born primarily to rights and entitlement and not loyalty and not duty
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But I, darn it, I better get mine all oriented toward the ultimate liberation.
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And that liberation must occur by overcoming the institutions of society, which now we use
00:47:39.460
the term white supremacy, I guess, is the kind of, it's the term du jour.
00:47:43.340
But you, you hear all the patriarchy is another one of these and ultimately the family, which
00:47:49.600
It's the smallest political institution you can have of multiple people in society organically.
00:47:55.860
That is why the left is always attempting to destroy the family, to destroy the family
00:48:00.960
by any means necessary, by redefining the family, by taking power away from the family, by increasing
00:48:08.360
This is why even radical individualists sometimes become defenders of state power.
00:48:13.340
Because if the fundamental unit of society is the individual, then the only way to do
00:48:17.080
anything together is by amassing all those individuals together, which is the, that is
00:48:23.320
And it's in the true meaning of that word where you bundle all the sticks together and
00:48:27.500
in the state and the state is the highest good.
00:48:29.620
And of course the progressive left has this exalted view of the state and may even mainstream
00:48:38.120
Those are different scenarios and you're going to see a whole lot more of this.
00:48:41.460
It's deeply disturbing, but this is what it looks like.
00:48:45.620
This is what it looks like on the granular level.
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And this is going to be a process that goes on like the lockdowns according to Biden for months
00:48:52.060
and months and months and months and even longer.
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