As Afghanistan collapses, and no one in our government wants to take any responsibility for it, our woke chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has finally stepped up to explain what happened. The problem you see with the withdrawal and subsequent collapse of Afghanistan is that no one knew it would happen.
00:07:58.740The reason, and I've seen the polling on this, the reason is that Joe Biden's approval rating and favorability numbers are tanking.
00:08:07.480They're collapsing just about as fast as the nation of Afghanistan, the former nation of Afghanistan, over his mishandling of the withdrawal.
00:08:16.120They're collapsing over his handling of immigration.
00:08:19.900They're collapsing over his handling of so many aspects of our national policy.
00:08:24.200The only area where Joe Biden is posting consistently positive numbers is coronavirus because he and the public health bureaucracy are keeping everybody scared for the longest 15 days in human history.
00:08:39.240They're just going to, they're just going to try to wring out this fear mongering for as long as they possibly can.
00:08:43.060So it is to Joe Biden's political advantage only ever to talk about coronavirus and never to talk about the economy, immigration, least of all Afghanistan.
00:08:54.940He went on for something like 15 minutes about the stupid virus and the governors that are doing a much, much better job handling the virus than he is.
00:09:02.500And then at the end of that, without really addressing the issue, the big issue in the room, he just left.
00:09:11.760We just need to finish the job with science, with facts and with confidence.
00:09:17.100And together, as the United States of America, we'll get this done.
00:09:21.580God bless you all and may God protect our troops.
00:09:24.520The nearest we came to an actual confrontation of this problem that's going on in Afghanistan that he told us wasn't going to happen was at the very end.
00:09:40.280He said, yeah, these governors are terrible and COVID, it's the scariest thing ever and you all need to be really afraid of it forever.
00:21:35.940So we don't even speak the same language anymore.
00:21:37.460So it is at any, is it any wonder that the left in this country views the right as, just as much their enemy as the Taliban.
00:21:46.720I mean, this is what Stephen Colbert, the leftist comedian, alleged comedian on CBS late night.
00:21:54.320This is what he said about, consider that we're no different than the Taliban.
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00:27:07.020What they do is they'll just make an observation, they'll just state a fact about the world, and then they'll state it more loudly and say the F word.
00:27:14.940They'll say, like, you should take the vaccine.
00:27:19.840Take the effing vaccine, you know, and then it's like, oh, okay, I guess that he said the F word and yelled it.
00:27:24.500So I suppose that, how persuasive, wow, you got me.
00:27:27.660If they had arguments that were persuasive, they wouldn't need to do that.
00:27:31.840People don't need to yell and scream and use all sort of vulgar language and threaten you if they are persuasive.
00:27:38.620But also, the regime doesn't need to be persuasive.
00:27:41.060One, it can't be, but two, it doesn't need to be because they've got all of the power.
00:27:47.460If you don't get the vaccine, what's going to happen to you?
00:27:49.460Well, if you go to Quinnipiac University, it's a university in Connecticut, and you do not get the vaccine, you will not have access to the internet.
00:28:03.400Quinnipiac University just sent out an email to students announcing lots of fines and fees, some of which are quite expensive.
00:28:10.800Hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars for not taking the experimental drug about coronavirus.
00:28:17.340The email also announced that unvaccinated students will lose access to the university's Wi-Fi system if they don't meet the vaccination requirements by September 14th.
00:28:29.300You can be there, you can continue to pay them tuition and room and board, but you won't be able to do anything.
00:28:34.440Now, you might argue, in the case of Quinnipiac, you might argue, look, whether the school is right or wrong about the actual medical science and the public health benefit, what they're trying to do here is protect the safety of students.
00:28:49.180Maybe I don't agree with their methods or even with their perception of the threat of coronavirus, but they're trying to protect public health.
00:29:22.980Government's complicated, I guess, especially in New York.
00:29:26.400But assuming that the policy is the policy, if you're unvaccinated, you can't go into museums,
00:29:31.280which means that well over two-thirds of black New Yorkers cannot go to, I think the vaccination rate among black New Yorkers right now is something like 28%.
00:29:39.940So, the majority of them, 72%, can't go into museums anymore.
00:29:45.680One imagines this will raise some civil rights questions.
00:29:50.360Something about that seems wrong, doesn't it?
00:29:52.300But still, you might say, okay, it looks a little ugly, especially on the racial politics here.
00:29:57.900But still, the New Yorkers are just trying to protect public health.
00:30:01.520Okay, well, I've got proof for you that this is not about protecting public health.
00:30:06.380The proof is the Las Vegas Raiders, the Raiders, football team, opening up the stadium and saying,
00:30:18.340if you want to come to the game, you need to take the shot.
00:30:22.820So, what happens if you show up and you've got your football ticket, but you don't have proof of vaccination?
00:30:28.480You can either leave or they will give you the shot at the stadium.
00:30:35.880Wow, okay, and then if you get the shot at the stadium, you can go in, but you've got to wear a mask.
00:33:50.860We find that children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic.
00:34:00.000Moreover, we find that males and children in lower socioeconomic families have been most affected.
00:34:04.800Results highlight that even in the absence of direct coronavirus infection and COVID-19 illness,
00:34:10.720the environmental changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly and negatively affected infant and child development.
00:34:24.280The researchers ruled that out largely because mothers or children with a history of testing positive for COVID were excluded from the analysis.
00:34:40.960So they're learning by seeing people's faces, seeing their expressions, going out, seeing the neighborhood, seeing different stores and restaurants and church and just taking in all of this information.
00:34:50.600If you lock them inside and then put filthy cloth over your face and you don't even let them see your expressions, then that's going to be a problem.
00:34:59.080Now, fortunately, I don't think this is going to be a problem for my cute little baby boy whose doctor says he's very advanced.
00:35:04.640He told me that just a couple days ago.
00:35:05.900I'm sure he never says that to any other parent.
00:35:07.880It's not going to be a problem for my little baby boy because my wife and I have basically ignored all of the stupid health suggestions from the CDC and from the politicians and from the public health establishment.
00:35:20.260I'm not saying we've gone out licking doorknobs, but we've just ignored what we think are ineffective, onerous, imprudent, pointless rules.
00:35:29.100And I'm damn well glad that we did because there's now this study showing, it's a study from a real journal funded by the NIH, which just ostensibly is a real institution, that shows that this is having a really negative effect on people because there are consequences of these lockdowns even beyond the spread or mitigation of the cough.
00:35:51.460I feel we cannot let a day go by at this point without playing a clip from Libs of TikTok, one of my favorite Twitter accounts.
00:36:02.320And I do this not merely, by the way, to make fun of these silly people on TikTok or wherever.
00:36:12.160But I do it because, and I think this is the reason behind Libs of TikTok's Twitter account, I do it because I want to remind people that the kooky ideas that float around the academy or that float around the elite circles of this country have an actual effect on the ground among ordinary people who are just spouting off on social media.
00:36:34.220The crazy academic theories that began in the fever dreams of lunatic psychologists, medical doctors, theorists, people like Paul Money, people like Wilhelm Reich, people like the Western Marxists who had an effect on the academy in the 20th century.
00:36:51.980Those ideas among all those super sophisticated people with lots of books and fancy lab coats, those have an effect on the culture pretty directly.
00:36:59.760So this video going around TikTok of this kooky lady, she's a preschool teacher, discussing how elated she was to see how quickly her preschoolers took to radical gender theory and the perfectly ordinary normal talk about kids' genitals.