Ep. 939 - The Masks Are Stupid And Always Have Been
Summary
After now two full years of being called conspiracy theorists and murderers for opposing the stupid face masks, conservatives and normal people everywhere are being vindicated as even prominent liberal public health figures are coming out against mask mandates. CNN's medical expert, Leanna Wu, explains why it is so important to ditch the mask mandates as soon as possible.
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After now two full years of being called conspiracy theorists and murderers
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conservatives and normal people everywhere are being vindicated
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as even prominent liberal public health figures are coming out against mask mandates.
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explains why it is so important to ditch the mask mandates as soon as possible.
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You say we can start removing at least some coronavirus restrictions.
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Well, I agree with Colorado, with many other local and state jurisdictions that are beginning
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I'm not saying that we should be stopping masking,
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but rather that this needs to shift from a government requirement to an individual decision.
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The government can't keep on telling our citizens that this is a five alarm fire all the time.
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People are just going to start tuning it out and not pay attention.
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And so what needs to happen is we need to end the state of emergency
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and preserve the ability of public health authorities to reinstitute
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mandates in the future if we see more and more dangerous variants later.
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Now, if Wu wants to preserve the credibility of public health gurus,
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I think she's probably about 18 to 24 months too late for that one.
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She's saying that we need to end the mask mandates not to preserve the public health,
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but to preserve the authority of the public health officials.
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She's making not a scientific or a medical argument, but a political one.
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If the ruling class doesn't lighten up on the masks soon, she fears,
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no one will listen to them on the masks or anything else in the future.
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It is pure politics, as some of us were saying from day one.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Vinnie Durham,
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who says no matter what happens to Jimmy Carter in the next few years,
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Jimmy Carter is going to be voting Democrat well into the 2050s,
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The masks are now and have always been primarily a political symbol.
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Whatever medical or scientific utility or lack of utility that they ever had, that was always secondary to the masks as a political symbol.
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And now, the liberals who are telling us to get rid of the mask mandates, the very same liberals who encouraged the mask mandates for a very long time, they are making arguments to get rid of them on political grounds.
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The Democrat governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, just went on Jake Tapper's show on CNN.
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And he said, we're going to get rid of the mask mandates in schools.
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He said, what is the scientific argument for the mask mandates and for now for getting rid of them?
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There's no question that masking in our schools since the beginning of the school year has been a very smart public health step.
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I think we've had just over 2,600 cases of students with COVID positive since the beginning of the school year.
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So it's a pretty stark piece of evidence, I think, that this has absolutely worked.
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You try always to not undershoot the moment and put lives at risk or overshoot the moment and add more stress and mental health challenges to the system.
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And we think this plan of a month notice is going to get that as right as we can.
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But have you seen data that definitively proves that these mask mandates have worked?
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I mean, the numbers you just presented are impressive.
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But are they different from the numbers in states where they didn't have mask mandates?
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But I'm highly confident and I'm sure our health officials could say it definitively.
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Yeah, Jake, Jake, I don't have any numbers in front of me and I don't know anything about anything.
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So they worked really, really well and now we're going to do the opposite policy, which is also going to work just as well.
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Kudos to Jake Tapper here for at least kind of pushing back.
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So the New Jersey governor should have had an answer to it, but he doesn't have an answer because he doesn't have any proof that the mask mandates in schools did anything whatsoever.
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The masks were very useful to the Democrats who wanted to reshape our culture and our economy and our politics for the past two years of 15 days to slow the spread.
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And now they're getting some diminishing returns on this.
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They're getting a ton of pushback, especially from parents, which is why you're seeing the mask mandates go away from schools in particular first.
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And they're saying, OK, politically, we can't keep this up anymore.
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When Dr. Fauci has been caught in contradictions on his views on public health measures, he says, well, you know, we get this.
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Speaking of schools beyond COVID and the mask mandates, a Virginia school board has just voted to approve some true radicalism.
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There was a proposal put forward to this Virginia school board to fly another flag next to the American flag at all of their schools.
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BLM is a Marxist organization that says that the United States is intrinsically oppressive and unjust and bigoted, that seeks total revolution in the United States.
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And this Virginia school board just voted to fly the two flags side by side.
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The board approves the students request to fly the Black Lives Matter flag and the board will review this matter annually in alignment with the equity policy.
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And then if we have lack of clarity, do the roll call.
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So all those in favor of the motion, signify by raising your hand.
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We are now going to have the BLM flag fly next to the American flag.
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The BLM movement really got off the ground because people started protesting the American flag on football fields and a lot of other places.
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And I bet you if you asked liberals around America, which flag do you more identify with?
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If you ask real, real activists, leftists and liberals, which flag do you more identify with?
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I bet most of them would tell you the BLM flag.
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Beyond BLM, if you showed a flag, the LGBT, the rainbow flag or the new rainbow flag where there's a bunch of races in it, you know, like black is now a sexual orientation or something.
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That flag or the American flag, which do you identify more with?
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I would bet that most ardent leftist and liberal activists would tell you the rainbow flag.
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I wrote a whole book about this called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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The left reshapes the culture through symbols and words in particular.
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That's why conquering armies carry flags and standards.
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And so when the left reshapes all of our symbols, the left is totally reshaping the country.
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We should ban the flying of these radical flags that oppose America next to the American flag.
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We should ban the flying of them in our schools and our public buildings entirely.
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There was a big fight over the rainbow flag at U.S. embassies.
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If we stand for the red, white, and blue truth, justice, and the American way, you're going to rally a lot of Americans to your cause.
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If we stand for pride flags flying in Kandahar, you're going to have more and more and more division.
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You're going to have an abolition of the traditional American nation.
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The Supreme Court has just upheld redistricting in Alabama.
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You know, every some number of years, varies a little bit by the state, but every so often,
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They redraw them because congressional representation is based on the population.
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So in Alabama, they're redrawing their maps a little bit.
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And the way that they've redrawn their maps helps Republicans.
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required the Alabama legislature to add another Democrat-leaning congressional district.
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And then John Roberts, the chief justice, sided with the liberals.
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I don't know how much longer we need to have these headlines.
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I think he's on the liberal side at this point, okay?
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He's sort of a swing vote, but he very often sides with the liberals.
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But in any case, this will keep the current representation in Alabama.
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Six Republicans, one Democrat in the congressional mix.
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You will always hear people speak out against gerrymandering.
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What that means is you draw congressional districts based on how to maintain your political power,
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And it comes from, there was a politician named Jerry, and he drew a congressional district
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But sometimes these districts look kind of ridiculous.
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They twirl around, but that's how you keep, you know, say 60% Republican, 40% Democrat.
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The alternative to gerrymandering, the alternative to partisan drawing of districts is going to
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be some allegedly nonpartisan commission outside of the electoral accountability, which
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is almost always going to lean Democrat anyway.
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That's just how these nonpartisan coalitions go.
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You always hear about the Republican gerrymandering.
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What they just did in New York, by the way, is as outrageous, at least, as anything the
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The New York State Democrats have gerrymandered the map to give Democrats possibly a net three
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new seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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So the new map draws 22 Democrat-leaning districts and only four Republican-leaning districts.
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This cuts the number of Republican-leaning districts in half.
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You don't hear about the attack on voting rights by New York.
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You don't hear about that this is Jim Crow part two in New York.
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You don't hear about any of this sort of stuff because it helps the Dems.
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And so they won't even call it gerrymandering there a lot of the time.
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This is a consequence of the people putting these politicians into power.
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We got some good news on this front in Tennessee.
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My free state of Tennessee that I live in, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, has just approved
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a once-in-a-decade redistricting map to split up Nashville into multiple congressional
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Under this new map, any Democrat who's trying to run in Nashville is going to have a significant
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The reason I bring up all of this, especially in Tennessee, is because in this new district being drawn in Tennessee, there is a major battle.
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The battle for this House seat involves Morgan Ortegas.
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Robbie Starbuck, who's a fairly well-known conservative media figure.
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And then a number of people who have actually lived in Tennessee for a long time and have been elected in Tennessee.
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The former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, a few other local Tennessee politicians.
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The two leading candidates, at least as far as the media are concerned, are Robbie and Morgan.
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They have not lived here for a particularly long time.
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I'm not even sure if they're eligible to run as Republicans because they haven't voted in Republican primaries.
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But they're getting a lot of attention and Morgan got the Trump endorsement.
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So Morgan was exploring a run for the House of Representatives and now she's just announced that she's doing it.
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Four years ago, the borders were secure, the economy was humming, and America's enemies were on the run.
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Morgan worked with President Trump to not just make America great again at home, but America strong again in the world.
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This is because of years, four years of policies that President Trump put into place.
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That's why she has the complete and total endorsement of President Trump.
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Now Sleepy Joe and the Radical Socialists are trying to destroy it all.
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Ortega serves our country in the Navy Reserve, and she's seen what Biden's weak policies do to demoralize our troops and empower our enemies.
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As a rule, I do not get involved in primaries, especially in this primary.
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I have met some of the other candidates who are running.
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And I think that the voters of the district should be able to choose their own nominee.
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But I have to bring up this Morgan ad here because it shows you a huge dynamic, not just in this district, but in the entire midterm elections.
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And that question is not, that question is not who's got more political influence, Morgan Ortegas or Robbie Starbuck or someone who's lived in Tennessee.
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That question is, how much influence does Trump have?
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What is Trump's effect going to be on the midterm elections?
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In 2022, are candidates going to run away from Trump?
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If they do embrace Trump, what's that going to do for them?
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If the Trump candidate wins in the primaries, who's going to win in the generals?
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We'll see which other candidates do that around the country.
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If the Trump influence is weak in 2022, that gives a huge opening for someone like a Ron DeSantis.
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And if you're looking at the governors, someone like a Ted Cruz or a Josh Hawley, if you're looking at the senators, maybe a congressman, sometimes congressman run too.
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Now, speaking of Trump, Adam Kinzinger, speaking of Trump and Congress, Adam Kinzinger, who is nominally a Republican, but all he ever does is help the Democrats as a member of Congress.
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He just went on MSNBC and he says the most important thing for Republicans to be doing right now in Congress, the most important thing to do two years after the 2020 election is to speak out against Trump.
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I always wonder, you and Liz Cheney pretty much standing alone and the hundreds of other Republican congressmen and women, do you ever talk to them personally off the record and say, guys, you know, you know the truth.
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You you you're you're you're you're a bright person.
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Do they just look at you and go, well, we want to keep our job.
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Do they I mean, what happens behind the scenes?
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I always wonder because you're sitting next to these people and you're eating with them and you're dining with them.
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So what is their explanation to you personally off the record when you talk to them?
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That's a really good question, because it can be any any number of things.
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So if it's somebody that I know isn't like crazy, right, you know, a normal person, you'll you'll hear him say, well, if look, I just have to win my primary because if it's not me, trust me, the guy I'm running against, he's really bad.
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Some of them, it's hey, you have to quit trying to tell me how to do my job.
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If I ask somebody, for instance, if they've even tweeted anything or made a statement at all in opposition to what Donald Trump said, have you have you come out against Trump?
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What do your Republican colleagues say when you talk to them?
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He doesn't talk to them because he spends all of his time talking to Democrats like you, Donnie.
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I want you to tell me and all the Democrats on air.
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He talks to Democrats because Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney and a number of other Republicans exist not to advance conservative priorities.
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I vaguely remember when we had strong conservative fighters.
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Speaking of anti-Trump Republicans or former Republicans or former conservatives or I don't
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There was news yesterday that Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes, who were long-time writers
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for National Review, Weekly Standard, they had been Fox contributors, then they left Fox
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in a big huff and they said Fox is very irresponsible and they're too right-wing and they've gone crazy
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and so we don't want to be at an irresponsible news channel anymore.
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It was announced that they're at a new news channel, two new news channels, I guess.
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Jonah Goldberg is at CNN and Steve Hayes is at NBC.
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I wasn't going to even mention this story because there's so much infighting on the right.
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I think we need to spend most of our energy going after the left, but this was just so
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CNN, these gentlemen left Fox because they said the reporting was irresponsible, but they
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made a point in their exit note that they published for everyone.
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They said, we won't be occupying the permanent anti-Fox seats at CNN or MSNBC.
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Cable news in general is a big part of the problem.
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And then one of them goes to NBC and the other one goes to CNN.
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CNN, so they did exactly what they said they wouldn't do.
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They say Fox is irresponsible and what do they do?
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They go to journalistic outlets that are much, much less responsible, much, much more reckless,
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much, much less honest than the one that they left.
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I'm not even saying that it's necessarily bad to go and work at those places.
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If you're going to stand firm for conservative principles and the conservative movement and
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conservative policy priorities, I think of Rick Santorum.
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Rick Santorum was at CNN for a fairly long time until he refused to become a squish and
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But he went on CNN and he would make the conservative points and they would tolerate him briefly and
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then finally they said, no, sorry, you're too conservative.
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But clearly the reason that Jonah and Steve Hayes have been hired by CNN and MSNBC or NBC
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broadly is because they are making the left talking points about the Republican Party,
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about Donald Trump, about the present state of conservatism and the Republican Party.
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They are there to attack conservatives as the nominal conservatives so that the liberal audiences
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can feel like they're getting a balanced perspective when they're not.
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They're just getting almost the same exact talking points from two people who pretend to be in
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The reason I bring it up again is not to go after Jonah or Steve Hayes personally.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the anti-Trump Republicans.
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I don't think their influence among the actual conservative movement or the Republican Party is all that
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And even if it were, I don't, you know, I don't really care to focus on all this little
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infighting on the right or among people who used to be on the right, who aren't really that
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The reason I bring it up is to show you two lies or mistakes or errors about the anti-Trump movement
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that really burst onto the scene in 2015 and 2016 when Trump ran.
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One, the first lie was this is just about Trump.
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And so we're just coming out against Trump, but we're still conservatives.
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Trump hasn't been president now for over a year.
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He's playing golf in Mar-a-Lago and you're still, all you people are talking about is
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Adam Kinzinger, he's saying, why aren't you tweeting about Trump?
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Why are you still, you, why are you so, this, why are you still working against other Republican
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Why are you still working against Republicans retaking the house?
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Why are you still going on TV and attacking Republicans and conservatives?
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Because Trump represented something, which was a knocking away of a bunch of old stupid
00:32:23.500
platitudes and a bunch of losing with dignity, even though the people who would propose losing
00:32:28.220
with dignity didn't generally have a lot of dignity themselves.
00:32:31.740
And because Donald Trump wanted to win and he wanted to shift American policy on trade and
00:32:35.540
he wanted to shift American policy on immigration and he wanted to shift, he wanted to actually
00:32:44.720
And some people didn't like it and they pretended it was all about Donald Trump palling around
00:32:53.200
And then the second lie, this is not a binary choice.
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You heard this a lot from anti-Trump Republicans, especially in 2016.
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But in 2020 too, the handful that remained, they said, this election is not a binary choice.
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And if you are a conservative who does not vote for the conservative candidate, you are
00:33:16.840
giving support to the liberal candidate and vice versa.
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Donald Trump, he used vulgar language privately with people and sometimes publicly too, I guess.
00:33:31.240
And so I'm going to give at least my tacit and sometimes explicit support to a candidate
00:33:37.380
who wants to kill almost a million babies a year and take away our civil liberties and
00:33:50.660
Two of the more prominent anti-Trump conservatives who even say, we're not going to be so unprincipled
00:33:56.480
that we're going to go over and just take up the anti-conservative conservative seats
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I'm beginning to think that the people who oppose Donald Trump for his supposed lack of
00:34:15.300
principles might not be all that principled themselves.
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If you did not support Trump in 2020, you supported this guy.
00:34:47.200
And so behold, the great, dignified, mature, responsible president that you helped to elect.
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I don't want to get going because I have to keep you here too long because you know all
00:35:00.040
what I've said and you know what I've done and you know what we're doing and you know
00:35:07.140
As Franklin Roosevelt, frankly, very famously said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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And Ronald Reagan famously said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
00:35:20.760
And I'm sure we will be reciting this for many years to come.
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I don't want to get going because I keep you here too long because you know all what I've
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said and you know what I've done and you know what we're doing and you know what I know
00:35:36.940
I don't want to get going because you know and hear what I said.
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But we all, we know all, you know and I know and you know and I know what you're doing.
00:35:47.220
So there, there actually is a, a weird kind of coherence to this.
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The, the key word or the key phrase here is, you know, and you know, and you all know,
00:36:01.840
and you all know, and you know all, and I know, and you know that I know, and I know
00:36:06.520
What the, you know signifies is Biden's confidence that he won't be called out by the press.
00:36:13.980
If any Republican sounded like this, you would have a call to, to remove him from office
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for mental incapacitation for any Republican president.
00:36:25.980
And, and you actually did get some of these calls when Donald Trump said far more coherent
00:36:32.720
But the, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the, you know, that I know that, you
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know, signifies that, look, we're on the same team press.
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We all know what we're doing because we're on the same team.
00:36:47.900
One of the crazier parts of the Biden administration is that he is among the more coherent Democrats
00:36:55.320
Maybe not in terms of his syntax and grammar, but in terms of his policy, he is no less
00:37:13.080
Kathy Hochul is now presiding over a major spike in crime, especially in New York.
00:37:21.220
And Kathy Hochul was called out for this and they said, hold on, Governor Hochul, maybe it's
00:37:26.020
all your jailbreak policies that are letting all the criminals out.
00:37:33.520
Show me the data that my pro-crime policies are having an effect on crime.
00:37:38.460
She says, quote, I'm looking, I'm looking for the data that shows me that bail reform,
00:37:44.060
that's the euphemism for a law that Kathy Hochul supported that had a wide sweeping effect on
00:37:54.260
That bail reform is the reason that somehow crime is going up.
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She said this in an interview with the Post Journal.
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I'm focused on what I have control over right now.
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There's new data from the state's office of court administration shows that, now this covers
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arrests made from July 1st, 2020 to August 30th, 2020, the first two months of the new law.
00:38:20.220
It shows that the rise in crime is, in fact, largely due to repeat offenders being released
00:38:26.280
back onto the streets after the arrest because that's what the law allowed them to do.
00:38:33.040
But beyond that, what do you mean show me the data?
00:38:35.300
You signed a bill that puts criminals back on the street, and now you're asking me to
00:38:39.140
prove to you that putting criminals back on the street is causing crime to go up.
00:38:42.860
That's like saying, that's like, show me the data that rainstorms make the ground wet.
00:38:48.880
Okay, I guess we've got the data, but it's also, if you've got two brain cells to rub
00:38:52.300
together in your head, you can put two and two together here.
00:39:00.380
They know that their pro-crime policies, soft on crime policies, have led to more crime.
00:39:07.560
And some are trying to be subtle about it, like Kathy Hochul in New York.
00:39:13.160
There are a lot of factors at play, and she's trying to hide it.
00:39:15.300
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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And try to follow which shell the card is under.
00:39:21.820
No, some Democrats are a little less subtle about it.
00:39:24.380
Cori Bush, Democrat representative in the U.S. Congress, she is still endorsing defund the
00:39:32.880
She says, quote, my colleagues keep telling us to wait.
00:39:35.660
They keep telling us defunding the police and investing in communities won't work.
00:39:39.240
Well, their policies keep ending up with police murdering black people.
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Listen to the movements that are telling you how to save lives.
00:39:50.200
We're going to save lives by letting all the criminals run roughshod over the communities.
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You know the best investment you can make in crime-ridden communities?
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Absolutely, dollar for dollar, the best investment you can make.
00:40:09.060
Putting more cops on the street to arrest the criminals.
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This is the sort of thing that only ideologues and idiots do not understand.
00:40:30.400
New York is a great example for this because there was a big movement, especially among white
00:40:34.360
liberals, to stop a policy from the Bloomberg era called stop and frisk.
00:40:39.240
Stop and frisk was a very pro-cop, proactive policy to fight crime.
00:40:47.000
And they said this is unfair because black people are disproportionately being targeted.
00:40:53.520
By the stop and frisk policies, which I guess was true.
00:40:56.740
If you look at, not at proportions of crime or criminal neighborhoods, but if you just
00:41:03.080
look at percentage of the population, maybe that's true.
00:41:06.500
But what they didn't tell you was that not only were the criminals disproportionately black,
00:41:14.200
And not only were the cops disproportionately black, but the people calling the cops to arrest
00:41:20.620
Because the neighborhoods were disproportionately black.
00:41:23.520
So you've got, yes, there is a, there is a racial element at play, I guess, but it's
00:41:30.720
The cops, the victims, and the criminals, and, and the, the neighborhoods broadly.
00:41:37.140
What, what, what the ideologues here do not understand is that if you want to help black
00:41:44.600
neighborhoods, if you want to help black victims, then you, you need proactive policies
00:41:54.340
This is the, this is the basic thing a government can do is protect your life and your, and, and
00:42:05.760
This is a hugely popular message on, among every single demographic, basically everywhere
00:42:15.720
According to data collected by the FBI, more police officers were intentionally killed in
00:42:23.740
Biden's first year in office, by the way, than any year since 1995.
00:42:30.520
The, the FBI's data found that 73 officers were intentionally killed in 2021.
00:42:37.940
Felonious killings of law enforcement officers skyrocketed.
00:42:40.880
They increased by more than 58.7% in a single year.
00:42:43.900
Uh, this is way up 73 law enforcement officers feloniously killed compared to only 46, still
00:42:51.560
a pretty high number, but 46 in 2020 and 48 in 2019.
00:43:07.100
Very simple for conservatives to capitalize on this.
00:43:13.280
The way, the way that conservatives are going to win in the midterms is not by taking Adam
00:43:17.360
Kinzinger's advice and, and tweeting about how much they hate Trump.
00:43:22.760
It's not by taking the advice of CNN and MSNBC contributors and tweeting about how much
00:43:35.100
Hey, don't fly radical leftist flags in the classroom.
00:43:39.520
Hey, don't force my kid to wear a face covering that even you people don't believe it.
00:43:45.240
Cause you're going to, you, Stacey Abrams, for instance, is going to take, you're going
00:43:49.140
to take a photo with all of our kids and you're going to make the kids wear the stupid face
00:43:52.300
covering and you're not going to wear one either.
00:44:00.260
Hey, we don't want this radical takeover of symbols that take over of our words with politically
00:44:07.180
correct language, take over of our flags with the new radicalism.
00:44:11.520
This reminds me, this is a slight side point, but it's very important.
00:44:14.640
I have some friends and family members who are very liberal, who use this phrase, and
00:44:33.880
And it just means you have COVID that you've tested positive for, and so you, you, you
00:44:39.140
have COVID, but you don't say I'm flu positive.
00:44:57.620
And why is it only liberals who are saying, I've never once heard a conservative say I'm COVID
00:45:07.660
We know this is why the left in particular has spent a great deal of energy and money
00:45:14.920
They, they do it so that they can make a mild cough sound like you're about to get full
00:45:22.120
That's why they do it because it sounds like HIV positive.
00:45:30.560
This is similar to what the Democrats do with global warming.
00:45:36.360
They say, if you are skeptical that the world is going to end in now, what, eight years?
00:45:40.280
If you're skeptical that the sun monster is going to blot out life on earth within the
00:45:44.280
decade, you are not just called, well, a normal person, a reasonable person is what you should
00:45:49.540
But you're not just called a skeptic of catastrophic global warming.
00:45:53.740
You're not just called, um, someone who is doubtful about this.
00:45:58.660
You're not what you're called a climate denier, a climate denier, as though, as though you deny
00:46:05.800
the ozone, you disbelieve in the ozone or you disbelieve in clouds or wind.
00:46:15.260
It's a term to, to lump you in with Holocaust deniers.
00:46:19.080
Well, it's this, it's the same thing with, with COVID positive.
00:46:23.320
I, I, I laugh when I hear it, but they're using the words in particular, all of these
00:46:29.140
things, just like the whole point of the masks was to make everyone really, really nervous
00:46:35.940
I've never lived in a world where everyone's wearing masks all the time.
00:46:44.320
The left sold us the masks on the premise that we, it'll help us get back to normal.
00:46:48.020
If you all wear the masks, we'll get back to normal.
00:46:53.280
You don't get back to normal by completely changing the way you present yourself in public,
00:46:57.440
including in your face, where you, where you express what you're thinking, what you
00:47:04.580
No, of course, it was going to have the opposite effect.
00:47:09.460
No, I'm, I'm positive that you're a total lunatic.
00:47:12.120
If you use that phrase, speaking of symbols, speaking of symbols, there was a, a, a really
00:47:20.480
hilarious symbol that's been coming out of the Olympics.
00:47:23.400
So the Olympics are taking place in China right now.
00:47:33.860
The only sport I like is curling, but regardless, the Olympics are apparently going on.
00:47:38.120
There's a really funny picture of a ski slope or some kind of slope right in front of a
00:47:47.080
And they said, there was an article that came out.
00:47:48.720
They said that the Beijing big air jumps at the 2022 winter Olympics look like a dystopian
00:47:59.600
You're spoiling a perfectly good nuclear plant with the stupid Olympics.
00:48:04.360
Why would you, what a blight on that beautiful.
00:48:08.920
I think it's an old coal plant or a steel mill or something like that.
00:48:16.460
And the, the only reason I'm mentioning the Olympics is there is an American skier, Eileen
00:48:22.120
Gu, who is competing for China in the Olympics.
00:48:25.360
She was born and raised in San Francisco and she's not competing for America.
00:48:33.780
She said, I've decided to compete for China in the upcoming 2022 winter Olympics.
00:48:38.380
This was an incredibly tough decision for me to make.
00:48:40.740
I'm extremely thankful for U.S. ski and snowboard and the Chinese ski association for having the
00:48:45.000
vision and belief in me to make my dreams come true.
00:48:47.600
I'm proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringing.
00:48:50.720
In, in other words, thank you America for raising me and giving me everything that I
00:48:58.420
I'm going to go compete for communist China now, which is fine.
00:49:02.320
I hope she has a nice time in China and I hope she never comes back.
00:49:13.980
This is, this isn't your country then you've said, it's not me.
00:49:20.040
If America is to have a future, it needs to be a real country.
00:49:25.920
It's got to have real people that are loyal to the country.
00:49:31.700
It's got to be, it's got to have common practices.
00:49:34.120
We can't have half the country wearing secular keffias, those stupid masks and half the country
00:49:41.440
We've got to have shared words, have shared symbols, have a real country with real borders.
00:49:46.880
If we don't have that, then we don't have a nation.
00:49:57.200
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