Ep. 919 - Numbers Don't Lie, But Libs Do
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More than 800,000 Americans have died from COVID, according to the establishment media, but we know that some people who were counted in that number did not actually die from the virus. They merely died with COVID-19.
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More than 800,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, according to the establishment media.
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But we know that some people who were counted in that number did not actually die from COVID-19.
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They merely died with COVID-19. We have heard reports of people dying in car accidents or even
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gunshot wounds being counted as having died from COVID because they tested positive in the hospital
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before they succumb to their wounds. We've heard reports of 90-something-year-olds with stage 4
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cancers counted as COVID deaths because they tested positive for the virus at the time of
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their deaths. So to understand the true death toll of COVID, it seems reasonable to ask how many of
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those 800,000 actually died from COVID. But remember, when some of us raised this question
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months and months and even over a year ago, we were called crazy, radical, conspiracy theorists,
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anti-science. Okay. As of last week, Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC,
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could not answer that question. How many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S. linked to COVID are
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from COVID or how many are with COVID, but they had other comorbidities? Do you have that breakdown?
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Yes, of course. With Omicron, we're following that very carefully. Our death registry, of course,
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takes a few weeks to collect. And of course, Omicron has just been with us for a few weeks,
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but those data will be forthcoming. Nothing has been forthcoming when it comes to the CDC
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and coronavirus. Do you see how she's spinning her wheels? Humming, humming, humming. Well,
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I don't know. And we've got the Omicrons coming in. And so the data, they lag. But yeah,
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that's not what we're asking you, lady. You've given us the 800,000 number. How many of those
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are actually from the coronavirus and not just 97-year-olds with stage four pancreatic cancer
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who happened to have COVID when they died? You should know this answer. You don't need to wait
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several weeks for the Omicron data to come in. But we all know, everyone, lib and conservative alike,
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we all agree that the official COVID numbers have been at least somewhat artificially inflated by
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this problem. So after buying time for a day or two, not for 10 days, not for two weeks,
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Rochelle Walensky has finally come up with an answer to just how inflated those numbers are.
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And just when you think the public health establishment can't get any more deceitful,
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wait until you hear this. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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From yesterday, my absolute favorite comment comes to us from TakeTheClownPill, who says,
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we're not conspiracy theorists, we're spoiler alerts. That's true. I should have said this at
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the top of the show. If you don't want to hear the future, don't tune into this show. Close your
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ears right now. If you don't want to hear what will be on the mainstream news networks in six to 12
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were told died of COVID-19. How many of those are from COVID-19? How many of those just happened
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to have had COVID-19 when they died? The overwhelming number of deaths over 75%
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occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who
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were unwell to begin with. At least four comorbidities. We also know that the median age of a COVID death
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is north of 80. It's higher than the life expectancy in this country. So you're telling me
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that three quarters of people who have died from a virus that tends to kill people who are already
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above the average life expectancy, three quarters of those people had at least four other major
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health problems. They were not well to begin with, as Rochelle Walensky says.
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So then that 800,000 number, I'm not saying it's exactly 200,000. I'm not saying it's exactly one
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quarter of 800,000. Obviously there's a lot of ambiguity here and they're not being particularly
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forthcoming with the details. But it's a lot closer to that 200,000 number than we all thought
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when we're talking about people who died explicitly and directly from coronavirus. That's a pretty big
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difference. Factor of four. Wow. If you had said this six months ago, a year ago, as some of us did,
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you would have been called a crazy anti-science conspiracy theorist.
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Now we're being told, yeah, maybe it's closer to about 200,000. 200,000 in two years, meaning 100,000
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a year, meaning the same number of people who died of drug overdoses last year.
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But we didn't, we didn't shut the whole world down because of drug overdoses. Frankly, maybe we
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should have. We at least should have shut the border down. Didn't do that. Joe Biden opened the border
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right back up. That open border with fentanyl pouring all across is killing just as many people
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as coronavirus, at least by the most conservative numbers, according to Rochelle Walensky, the director
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of the CDC. But drugs, not a problem. Deaths of despair, suicide, not a problem. Heart disease,
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not a big problem. Don't worry about it. We're not going to shut down all the fast food companies.
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We're actually going to lock people in their homes so they don't exercise. I'm sure that'll help them
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lose weight, right? I'm sure that'll help them get heart healthy. No, it's just this one virus.
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That is the reason that we're going to shut down the entire world, completely reorder society,
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and make Dr. Fauci king of the universe. Does that make a lot of sense? Well, okay,
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we're only going to do that until everyone's vaccinated. Everyone's got to get vaccinated because
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the vaccines we were originally told by Joe Biden, by Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC,
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that the vaccines would stop infection and stop transmission. And then they changed their tune on
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that because it wasn't true. But okay, even though they're not going to do that, everyone's got to
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get vaccinated. We have a vaccine mandate. We actually have multiple vaccine mandates coming
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out of the federal government. And then we can get back to normal, right? You get your two shots
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of Moderna or of Pfizer or your one shot of Johnson & Johnson, although there have been some
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questions about that vaccine. There was that pause because of blood clotting. Now there was a question
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about the boosters for Johnson & Johnson. Okay, let's put that aside for now. You get your,
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very simple. You get your two shots of Pfizer, you're fully vaccinated. We can get back to normal,
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right? Except that the CEO of Pfizer is saying that two shots of that vaccine, what was called
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fully vaccinated, actually just doesn't give you very much protection at all.
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We know that the three, the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection,
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if any, the three doses with a booster. They offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and
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deaths. Against deaths, I think very good. And less protection against the infection.
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Now, we are working on a new version of our vaccine, the 1.1, let me put it that way,
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that will cover Omicron as well. And of course, we are waiting to have the final results.
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So the vaccine for the virus that everybody is getting right now, that I had a couple of weeks
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ago, that dozens of my friends and family members have had over the past few weeks, and that I'm sure
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many dozens of your friends and family members have had as well, they're going to get a vaccine for
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that in March once everybody's had it, which is actually pretty brilliant, by the way, because
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if the vaccine comes out after everyone already has antibodies from getting the virus, then there's
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no way to prove it doesn't work, right? Pretty smart business decision. But furthermore, before you
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censor me for saying that the vaccine doesn't work, I'm just playing a clip of the CEO of Pfizer, of the
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guy who runs the company that sells the vaccine. And he says that what was called the full regime of
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Pfizer shots offers a very limited protection, if any at all, if any at all, which means there
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actually is a silver lining to the storm cloud here. It means that the government's argument for the
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vaccine mandate just completely fell apart for two reasons. One, the argument for the vaccine mandate
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is not even so much to protect you as to protect other people from you. That's why the government's
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getting involved. The government gives individuals a lot of leeway to screw up their own lives,
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but where they draw the line is, particularly when it comes to public health, is when your decisions
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are negatively affecting other people. So they say, you don't have a right to go infect other people
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during a pandemic. You have their extraordinary police powers during a pandemic, and the government
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can force you to get the vaccine to protect other people. But we already know, per Dr. Fauci,
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per Rochelle Walensky, that the vaccine does not prevent infection and transmission. They've already
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admitted that. So then the purpose of the mandate would have to transform to be simply about protecting
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you. That's an extraordinary argument for the government to make. We haven't seen anything like that
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before in American history. Mandatory vaccines, not to protect the public, but to protect you from your
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own dumb decisions. But we just heard from the CEO of Pfizer that it won't even do that.
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The mandate, as it stands right now, says you got to get two shots of Pfizer, two shots of Moderna,
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or one shot of Johnson & Johnson. But the guys behind that now are saying, no, that won't work.
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That won't do anything. That will offer very limited protection, if any at all. So what's going to
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happen? Is OSHA going to change the rule now and say, actually, you got to get three shots?
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Actually, you got to get two Johnson & Johnson. That's not, that's, that's not what the rule is
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ranchers, American meat delivered. Even the White House cannot explain its reasoning anymore on its
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virus and vaccine policy. I'm not sure the White House ever could really explain it all that well,
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but they would have certain lines that would, within their own narrow context,
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be at least semi-coherent. You need to get vaccinated to protect the people from you.
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You need, the vaccines are extremely effective, whatever. You know, at the, at the time,
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these things seemed sort of plausible. Now they don't. Peter Doocy, one of the few reporters who
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asks difficult questions of the White House, Peter Doocy came out and asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki,
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hey Jen, since I'm vaxxed and I got COVID and you're vaxxed and you got COVID, how come Joe Biden is
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still calling this a pandemic of the unvaccinated? I understand that the science says that vaccines
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prevent death, but I'm triple vaxxed, still got COVID. You're triple vaxxed, still got COVID.
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Why is the president still referring to this as a pandemic of the unvaccinated?
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Well, I think Peter, there's a significant difference between, and you just, you just experienced this and
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not to expose your public health experience, but I can speak to mine as well. I had been triple vaxxed.
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I had minor symptoms. There is a huge difference between that and being unvaccinated. You are 17
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times more likely to go to the hospital if you're not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.
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And those are significant, serious statistics. So yes, the impact for people who are unvaccinated is
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far more dire than those who are vaccinated. Will the president update his language at some time
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to be more reflective of the fact that people who are triple vaccinated are catching and spreading
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COVID? I think the president has said, as have we a number of times, that there will be breakthrough
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cases. There will be people who get COVID here at different media organizations, at companies
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around the world, around the country, who have been vaccinated.
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How many millions of breakthrough cases do we need to have before we can stop calling them
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breakthrough cases? How many do you think? I'm thinking right now, just off the top of my head,
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of all my friends and family members who have gotten COVID. Some are vaccinated, some are vaccinated
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and boosted. Some are not vaccinated at all and won't go near the Fauci-ouchie.
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I guess the majority of my friends and family who have gotten it have been vaccinated.
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And some people had serious symptoms or relatively, you know, by serious, I mean they were in bed for
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a couple of days. And some people really had very mild symptoms. And there was really no rhyme or
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reason as to who had which sort of severity of symptoms between the unvaccinated, the vaccinated,
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and the boosted. But furthermore, speaking of symptoms, do you think Jen Psaki threw her back
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out moving the goalposts like that? I hope she didn't. I hope she's feeling better, but that must
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have been very strenuous because Peter Doocy asked a very simple question. Since people who have been
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vaccinated and boosted are contracting and spreading coronavirus, when is the president going to stop
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calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated? And what did she say? She said, well, it's much worse for
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people who are unvaccinated. But that's not the question. We're talking about the pandemic. We're
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talking about people who are contracting and spreading a virus and the virus is mutating and
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it's contagious and it's spreading throughout the country. And that's happening with vaccinated people
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as well as unvaccinated people. So why is Joe Biden lying and saying that it's only happening
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with unvaccinated people? She says, well, sure, there are some breakthrough cases. No, that's not
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what's going on. They're just, everyone's getting it, lady. Everyone's getting this thing. Well, it's
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because Omicron is, is different. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's a variant. Viruses have variants as they
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always do and always will and always were going to. So why are you still pretending that this is a virus
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that's only being contracted and spread by people who are unvaccinated? Well, it's a lot worse if
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you're okay. So they have nothing. So they have absolutely nothing and they're deflecting. We'll get
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to that point later, by the way, because I find it a little dubious. But they're not just doing it on
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coronavirus. I just filled up my gas tank about an hour ago or less. It was expensive, more expensive
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than it has been in a while. I went to the grocery store a few days ago. It was empty,
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emptier than it was in recent years. Prices are going up and up and up. The economy is not in great
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shape. And yet, if you look at the White House Twitter feed, you will find out Joe Biden is the
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greatest jobs president ever. This guy, he's an economic genius, must be. Quote, under President
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Biden, the economy has created more jobs per month than under any other president ever, ever.
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And you can see on the graph, you've got, you've got Reagan. There's a little, it goes up a little.
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Bush one goes up a little bit. Clinton goes up more. George W. Bush, much lower. Obama, a little
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high. Trump, he's in the negative. He lost jobs. He's bad. I hate him. He's so, he's so bad. And
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then Biden, wow, big yellow color all the way up through the roof. A reminder that there are lies,
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damned lies, and statistics. The reason this comparison doesn't work is, first of all,
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because you're comparing one year under Joe Biden to four and eight year terms from Trump to Reagan.
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Furthermore, when you're comparing Biden to Trump, you are comparing a man whose presidency ended
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during a global pandemic where the government forced everyone to stop going to work or forced
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a lot of people to stop going to work. So voluntarily put people out of a job to, to a new
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administration where the public health bureaucracy is now encouraging the government to allow people
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to go back to work. So yes, you're going to, of course, you're going to see a radical shift.
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It's, it's as though you're, you're comparing someone's speed while driving. And for part of the
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comparison, you do it as they're screeching to a halt at a red light. And then for the next comparison,
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you're looking at what happens right after the light turns green and the guy floors it.
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Sure. I guess that'll tell you something about those specific moments, but it's not going to tell
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you about how fast the guy's actually going under normal conditions over a longer haul. Lies,
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damned lies, and statistics. Speaking of people getting new jobs, Clay Aiken. Clay Aiken,
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America's darling for a brief period in the early 2000s, the runner up on American Idol, Clay Aiken,
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my accidental nemesis from Politicon a few years ago. Clay Aiken is running for Congress in North
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Carolina. He is running in North Carolina's sixth congressional district. He's running after he
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ran and lost in a different district in North Carolina's second congressional district. But I think
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he, he believes that he's got a better shot of winning now in NC6 because of redistricting because
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it's a very Democrat district now. Here is Clay Aiken's campaign announcement.
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For decades, North Carolina was actually the progressive beacon in the South. We had the best
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roads and the best schools because back then the loudest voices in our government were progressives who
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actually made sure our state was always moving forward. But then things changed and the progressives
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lost power. And we started getting backwards-ass policies like the voter suppression bills and
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the bigoted bathroom bill. Because today, it seems like the loudest voices in North Carolina politics
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are white nationalists like this guy. My friends, I encourage you, continue to make your voice heard
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because do we love Donald Trump? And hateful homophobes like this one. What is the purpose
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of homosexuality? What does it create? These folks are taking up all the oxygen in the room,
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and I'm going to tell you, I am sick of it. And I'll tell you something else, as Democrats,
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we have got to get better about speaking up and using our voices because those folks ain't quieting
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anytime soon. That's why I'm running for Congress. And just think how excited these guys are going to be
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when we elect the South's first gay congressman. So there are some Republicans right now who are
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friends with Clay Aiken. Not naming any names, but there are some prominent Republicans who are
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friends with Clay Aiken who are excited that he's running. He's such a nice guy. Oh, he sang that song.
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I don't remember any of his songs, but he sang them nicely. And so isn't that... Clay Aiken's a jerk.
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He's a freaking jerk. You got to beware the nice guy in politics. Okay. You got to be,
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oh, I'm just... Come on. I'm just Clay Aiken. I'm just... Come on, y'all. Let's come on. Let's come
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together. So I was at Politicon a few years ago, and I was debating this guy, Chris Hahn,
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who I had debated on Fox News once. And so we were supposed to have this debate, me and Chris Hahn,
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except we didn't end up having a debate because Clay Aiken was moderating, and Clay Aiken took it upon
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himself to be the actual opponent in the debate. So Chris Hahn was just kind of pushed to the side,
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and it was just me and Clay debating each other the whole time.
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Are people who are marching and shouting Jews will not replace us, are they good people?
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It's a yes or no question. Yes or no. No, it's a yes or no question.
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Are people who are marching shouting Jews will not replace us, are they...
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Can you say yes or no to this? Are you capable of that?
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I don't need to answer a question because I'm not on the stage.
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I feel so bad for you. I feel so badly for you.
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Before you start, since clearly the audience thinks I'm biased,
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we're going to let them ask some questions too.
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Well, I may be a hack, but I've got the f***ing microphone.
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I just want to say, Clay, you're probably the worst moderator I've ever seen in my life.
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Asking very dishonest yes or no questions, but anyway.
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And he's got this very disingenuous, dated style of politics.
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Well, you know, y'all, listen, I moved back here.
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To me, it reads like something out of the late 90s or early 2000s, certainly pre-Trump,
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Just a reminder though, I mean, the guy is calling a man a white supremacist or white
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He says that you're a hateful bigot if you think dudes shouldn't go into the women's bathroom.
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And the only flag he flies in his commercial is not the American flag, but the radical leftist
00:25:34.180
If you have not heard of Jonathan Isaac yet, where have you been?
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The NBA star stood strong with his values while everyone else kneeled and faced heavy criticism
00:25:46.600
from the media for his views on social issues and vaccines over the past few years, which
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is why I'm extremely excited to announce that he's decided to write a book with The Daily
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Jonathan's book will be about the rise of his basketball career, his journey into faith
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and his strength to stand alone in the face of immense pressure.
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The Orlando Magic's 23-year-old starting forward is deeply religious and proudly unvaccinated.
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On Friday, Isaac got attention for choosing not to kneel in unison with his teammates or
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And in today's day, there are so many things that you can be afraid of facing because of
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believing what you believe or deciding to stand for what you believe in.
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And I believe this book gives you a blueprint of my story of how Christ has made the difference
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in my life, from a young kid who struggled with fear, anxiety, self-insecurity, to a man
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I was chatting with him a few weeks ago, I guess.
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And it was the first time I've ever spoken to someone who is, I think, 17 feet tall.
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But I kept straining it because I so enjoyed it.
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And he's obviously got his head screwed on straight.
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And he's got the guts to actually stand up for what he believes in.
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Jonathan's book will be one of the first under The Daily Wire's new publishing arm,
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The book is now available for pre-order at Amazon.
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Like Clay Aiken, they're really nice, you know, smiley, smiley.
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They are not insurrectionist, terrorist bigots like you.
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Okay, they're really, they're mature, capable of self-government.
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The Biden-Harris administration, they're, thank goodness we've got the adults back in
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Kamala Harris's new communications director, though, I don't know.
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He doesn't seem to be exhibiting that kind of maturity and responsibility.
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Jamal Simmons, he tweeted out, this was some years ago, but he tweeted out, quote,
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I worked for Gore 2000 and believe Bush's first term to have been illegitimate.
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And he was making the point that you should still stand in the room for whoever's in the
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Oval Office, even, even if you think it was a stolen election.
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But this guy believes, Kamala Harris's senior staffer, communications director, believes that
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Can somebody please arrest this insurrectionist?
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This threat to our precious sacred democracy, who is now, he's going to be working in our
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hallowed sacred temple of democracy, undermining it from the inside.
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Just like the horn hat man who nearly brought our empire to its knees.
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He ran again and he just lost to Glenn Young in this past cycle.
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He said during this campaign cycle that he didn't think the 2000 election was rightly
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decided and he thought that Bush was an illegitimate president.
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It's true that there are a number of Republicans who think that the 2020 election was stolen.
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I don't know, maybe because they changed all the election rules in the weeks before the
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election, but, and because they violated the state constitution in Pennsylvania and there
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But the crazier statistic is that a higher proportion of Democrats believe the 2016 election was stolen.
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We're five days after that most sacred day of the liberal liturgical year.
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And if you are inclined to be a squish and say, well, you know, it was really, it was so
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The insurrectionists, the terrorists, just don't, just move on.
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Just recognize when the left says that the horn hat guy was nearly toppled, nearly toppled
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the entire country or was an insurrectionist or a terrorist or whatever.
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And this actually trended yesterday on Twitter because according to the mainstream media, an Indiana
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state senator, a Republican in Indiana demanded that we be neutral on the question of Nazism.
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This happened because during a hearing, some Indiana school teacher whined to a state senator
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And he insisted that we take on that, that imminent urgent scourge in America of Nazism.
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I'm not discrediting as a person, Marxism, Nazism, fascism.
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I'm not discrediting any of those isms out there.
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And I have no problem with the education system providing instruction on the existence of those
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I believe that we've gone too far when we take a position on those isms as it relates to
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Okay, I don't agree with his educational theory, but he's obviously not defending Nazism as the
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It's very important that we tell our students that Nazis are bad.
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Is there, is that a really controversial issue in America?
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No, you just want to besmirch us all and smear us all as Nazis based on nothing.
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The school teacher doesn't say that it's important that we teach students that communists are bad.
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They're really, really, they're, they're certainly on the same level, but we're not allowed
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Teach that Nazism is bad and teach that communism is evil too.
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Oh, but he doesn't want to do that because that's the, that's what's really at issue here
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is that these curricula are going really soft on communism and in some cases actually
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And what the state senator who got in trouble did is he came out there and he said, look,
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We just need to teach students how to think, not what to think.
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And he took it to this radical extreme where he said we have to be neutral on Nazism.
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But I'm sure the teacher would agree that we should be neutral on Marxism.
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I bet the teacher wouldn't disagree with that at all.
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It's just that Nazism, that, that, that seems like a bridge too far.
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Because the very idea that the state senator is expressing is a liberal idea.
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It's the idea that when we educate people, we don't need to express moral views.
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That's a, that's a liberal idea that they smuggled into American education,
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You can't teach students how to think without teaching them what to think.
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You can't teach them about history without a moral framework to think about history,
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to think about which side was right and for which reasons and at which moments.
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To think about the philosophies that were motivating these people.
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It's preposterous to say that we're going to have an education system
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that puts Plato and Aristotle at the same level as the Marquis de Sade,
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Yes, you can read Plato's Republic or you can read the Marquis de Sade's pornography
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and the things that are being described are absolutely on the same level.
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Education is not just teaching you your reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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teaching them to tamp down their basest passions and appetites,
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You need to be able to say that some ideas are evil and some ideas are good.
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And some movements were really bad and some movements were good.
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And the left has benefited from this for over half a century at this point.
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That's the issue here is when CRT is being taught in schools,
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what they're teaching is that America is bad and white supremacist
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and evil and bigoted and there's structural racism.
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We've got to tear it down and have a new country.
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So the teacher's actually right on the broader point.
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Conservatives need to listen to what the left is saying.
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Their view of education is actually more accurate than ours is.
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Because our view of education is just the liberals pretend view that they pushed us in the 60s and 70s
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that they've now abandoned because it's complete bunk.
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Do you know who has a better idea on education?
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Governor DeSantis was just speaking with Mark Levin.
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And he described his new proposal that the legislature is going to take up this session
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to allow parents to inspect the curricula that their kids are being taught
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and to sue the school districts if the schools are peddling radical ideologies.
00:36:31.820
They want them to reject our founding, our institutions,
00:36:34.960
and they want to replace that with their leftist ideology,
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which would obviously be disastrous for this country's future.
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But there's a problem when you can say you can't do it,
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And so what we're going to be doing in this upcoming legislative session,
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we're going to give parents the ability to go in and get legal relief
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if they're not following our state standards with respect to history and government.
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making sure parents have a right to inspect the curriculum.
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I mean, there's a lot of other inappropriate content that can be smuggled in by public schools.
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But this is a threat to academic freedom, Governor DeSantis.
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Because the public, the community, is supposed to have some say over how their kids are going to be raised.
00:37:44.880
Well, if we permit this, then conservatives can kick certain books out of schools.
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There's one book that cannot be taught in schools.
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Even if you don't believe in it, surely you would acknowledge that it is central to Western civilization.
00:38:23.220
If a teacher starts teaching the Bible in schools, that teacher will be punished.
00:38:31.220
Furthermore, if a teacher assigned my book in schools, well, I guess either of my books, certainly reasons to vote for Democrats, that would do it.
00:38:40.360
If they assigned to Speechless, they said, hey, Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds, it's a history of how words have changed throughout the last hundred years.
00:38:50.680
It's a history of the left's manipulation of language from the 1920s to 2020.
00:39:00.160
It's just a history of these ideas and how it changed and what the left and the right got wrong and right.
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But I guarantee you that teacher would be punished.
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So what DeSantis is saying here is we're not actually going to change the way education is done in terms of the form and the procedure.
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We're just going to allow conservatives to do the same things that the left has been doing for decades so that we don't just completely roll over and let the left take over our culture and destroy and poison the brains of future generations of Americans.
00:39:38.520
And that's why he's getting a lot of hate right now.
00:39:41.060
There are a handful of politicians who are getting a ton of hate on the right.
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One or two senators, really just one governor, Ron DeSantis, and Trump, of course.
00:39:54.360
They're going after him because he's right over the target.
00:39:57.000
Now, look, I mean, when you're over the target, they're going to come at you.
00:40:00.500
But what I view it as, I view it as positive feedback.
00:40:04.780
If the corporate press nationally isn't attacking me, then I'm probably not doing my job.
00:40:10.260
So the fact that they are attacking me is a good indication that, you know what, I'm tackling the big issues.
00:40:20.100
We're fighting back against the illegal immigration.
00:40:22.220
All those things that a vast majority of Floridians and Americans want to see done, but that does threaten the ruling class and the regime.
00:40:31.560
And so when you stand up in this day and age that we're in, when you're speaking the truth, those folks do not want that to get out.
00:40:41.500
But I think that what we've been able to show is if you stand your ground, if you lead, if you don't back down and just stand for the right things, there's a groundswell of folks who will have your back.
00:40:57.840
Yes, the point he's making, he's saying, I'm doing a really good job and that's why they're attacking me.
00:41:05.920
But listen to the language, the ruling class, the regime standing for substantive things.
00:41:16.320
This guy is not talking like Republicans talked five and 10 years ago or 20 or 30 years ago.
00:41:25.500
This guy is using the kind of language that we use on this show that other conservatives who I think are moving in the right direction that they're using.
00:41:36.360
They're recognizing this is not just a battle between Republicans and Democrats or the conservatives and the leftists, but there's a structural issue here.
00:41:46.200
The liberal establishment, the ruling class, this, it's not just private enterprise versus big government.
00:41:51.840
It's the big government and the administrative agencies working with the woke corporations and with the media and working in tandem with the university.
00:42:01.400
It's all kind of the, it's just the, it's just the ruling class.
00:42:04.200
I don't know how else you're going to describe it.
00:42:10.100
One thing I can tell you though, expect to hear more of this as we get closer to 2024 from the candidates who want to be taken seriously.
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From the candidates who know, who know what time it is and who, who know what, what time it's going to be during the next presidential race.
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Sub, we're talking about substance, not just procedure, not just you can say whatever you want and that's fine.
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Not just when you can teach whatever you want in schools, not just you can do whatever you want to do.
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It's not just that kind of 10 year old dated Republican language, the kind of fashionable libertarian kind of language.
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We're talking about substance, standing for the right things, the right things in the classroom, the right things in our community, the right things in our country.
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DeSantis is doing a good job on this right now.
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Expect to hear more of this from other candidates, especially from candidates who want to be taken seriously in the coming years, both in the midterms and presidential and moving forward.
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Speaking of Florida, AOC just took a little vacation to Florida.
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So AOC goes with her boyfriend, they go to Florida.
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I don't think she got COVID because she went to Florida.
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I don't think she got COVID because she's not wearing a mask.
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Virtually all of my friends in New York have COVID right now or have recently recovered from COVID.
00:43:53.400
She's one of the biggest peddlers of all the COVID lockdown rules.
00:44:01.660
Representative Ocasio-Cortez has received a positive test result for COVID-19.
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She's experiencing symptoms and recovering at home.
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The congresswoman received her booster shot this fall and encourages everyone to get their booster and follow all CDC guidance.
00:44:12.980
Now, the good news for the young, healthy AOC is that it doesn't matter.
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But the political import here is that it turns the consensus view on its head.
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The consensus view being peddled by the establishment right now is that when anti-vaxxers, when anti-vax, anti-science, meaning people who don't just want to stick themselves with some random drug to prevent or to not prevent getting a mild cough,
00:44:47.920
that they're idiots, they're idiots, they're rubes.
00:44:51.900
Actually, though, it seems to me that when someone who goes out and says, look, we're all going to get COVID at some point, it's just for the vast majority of us, it's not going to be a big deal.
00:45:04.200
But when that person gets COVID, that's not ironic or funny or that's what you would expect.
00:45:13.120
It is much, much funnier when a person who is triple vaxxed and wears three masks at a time and locked themselves in a hermetically sealed tube for two years comes down with COVID because they thought they weren't going to get it.
00:45:27.880
And they kept saying it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
00:45:30.280
And they believed Fauci and Rochelle Walensky and Joe Biden like idiots.
00:45:35.720
And then it turned out that what we were told by Walensky and Fauci and Biden just wasn't true.
00:45:41.880
And that's it's never funny when someone gets a sickness.
00:45:46.380
You know, thankfully, in this case, you know, the vast, vast majority of people are going to be just completely fine.
00:45:53.400
But if you're telling me one is funnier than the other, it is much funnier when the people have their expectations subverted.
00:46:04.800
But it would have been worse without the booster.
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Been avoiding this, but COVID is the absolute pits.
00:46:19.820
But at its worst, it's like a bad flu and it's dragged on and lingered.
00:46:22.720
I'm vaxxed and boosted and still got a breakthrough case.
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Man, a whole lot of breakthrough cases going around, huh?
00:46:27.660
Gosh, golly, I can't believe how many breakthrough cases there are.
00:46:31.920
Would welcome folks not continuing to say it's all mild.
00:46:43.520
It would also have been much worse without a vaccine and booster.
00:46:52.740
I'm not saying that it definitely wouldn't have been much worse.
00:47:01.200
But I am saying that it would have been worse without a vaccine and booster is a cope for people
00:47:06.860
who expected the vaccines to work the way that we were all told that they would work.
00:47:12.740
And so now they're saying, no, but it's, oh, but thank goodness I got it because I don't
00:47:17.240
want to feel like an idiot for believing those people and having been completely wrong.
00:47:20.760
So look, it would, even though it's completely unfalsifiable, I, it would have been a lot
00:47:29.120
But you, the only reason you believe that, that it would have been a lot worse without
00:47:34.220
the vaccine, the booster is because you have been told that is true by the same lying idiots
00:47:40.340
who have deceived you on virtually every other aspect of the virus.
00:47:47.880
And the craziest thing to me, we were talking yesterday about the potential mass psychosis
00:47:52.900
going on in this country during COVID is that people will now tell you with a straight face,
00:47:58.920
libs will tell, when you point out that the vaccines aren't doing what we were told they
00:48:01.660
would do, they will look you in the face and they will say, no, Michael, the vaccines were
00:48:07.820
Michael, the vaccines were never supposed to stop, stop transmission.
00:48:11.580
We were told that, that they would just reduce the severity of the symptoms.
00:48:17.960
That's why you get your polio vaccine to, to reduce the severity of polio, right?
00:48:22.520
That's not what I remember, but you're, hold on.
00:48:24.680
You're telling me that you really believe that we were never told that the vaccines were
00:48:30.300
going to stop you from getting COVID and transmitting it.
00:48:36.420
Let me take you on a trip back down memory lane.
00:48:41.560
If you had put that money into an S&P 500 and reinvested the dividends, you'd come up
00:48:45.480
with something like $17 billion, but you think it's $200 billion.
00:48:50.240
You're not going to, you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.
00:48:57.840
Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick.
00:49:03.600
Everyone who takes the vaccine is not just protecting themselves, but reducing their transmission.
00:49:08.680
to other people and allowing society to get back to normal.
00:49:13.600
And when you're due for your second, get your second shot.
00:49:15.680
A key goal is to stop the transmission, to get the immunity levels up so that you get
00:49:20.040
almost no, almost no infection going on whatsoever.
00:49:24.020
When people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected.
00:49:31.740
The crazy part is not that they told you this and then it turned out they were completely
00:49:36.740
wrong and either they're just idiots or liars or more likely both.
00:49:40.820
The craziest part, as far as I'm concerned, is that you now believe the lie that they're
00:49:48.000
telling you that the vaccines were never supposed to stop infection or transmission.
00:49:53.500
They just, they just, they're just telling you, no, no, ignore what you heard.
00:50:05.900
That is the kind of mass psychosis that some people are talking about right now.
00:50:14.540
And sure, maybe some of the things that we are, that are common sense views on public
00:50:18.860
health or public policy, maybe some of them are true, but they're only accidentally true.
00:50:24.000
And I don't think that you should base your entire belief in them on the utterances and
00:50:29.280
whims and caprices of the same jerk, loser, incompetent, deceitful liars who have misled
00:50:49.800
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