WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - CDC Declares Racism A Pandemic 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.520 you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.920 your podcasts. I've told you all along you cannot trust 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.920 these bureaucracies. You cannot trust institutions in this country anymore 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.279 because so many of them have been overtaken by left 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.280 wing idealogues. That's the case when you talk about the 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.200 news media has been for a long time. 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This is an 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:29.440 organization of the federal government that has been largely resigned 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:34.079 to putting out flu advisory notices. You know, once in 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.600 a while, they'll they'll be an ebola scare, or they'll 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.440 be a haunt of virus outbreak somewhere, and they'll they'll 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.519 call someone of the CDC for comment on the news. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.200 But generally speaking, the CDC was something that you mostly 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.480 knew about because in zombie apocalypse movies or in some 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.440 you know, some some sci fi thriller, the CDC would 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.280 make an appearance, right. I like the show The Rain, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.680 for example, and the hero as a CDC scientist. It's 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.440 actually a good show. I think it holds up pretty 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.320 well for what it is. But now we see that, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.240 just like all the other federal bureaucracies, the CDC is 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:19.320 involved in not just partisan politics, but in progressive politics, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.560 in Marxist identity politics, and it doesn't want to step away. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.080 As the COVID pandemic slowly fades, it's going to be 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:35.520 a long, painful extrication from the overlords that we have 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.800 now at the CDC telling us what we can do, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.000 where we can shop, whether we can go and breathe 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.040 fresh air outside without some smelly rag across our face. Right, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.800 That's not going to be an easy process in and 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.320 of itself, But the CDC wants to be involved in 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.120 the national conversation. That's why they have Rachelle will Lenski 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.720 as the director. Now, this is somebody who is a 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.680 progressive and a leftist. I mean she is, I assure you, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:07.280 entirely in line with all of the political positions of 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.839 a primetime MSNBC host. And if you were to sit down, 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.839 Robin will Lenski of the CDC, I'm sorry, Rochelle Wilenski 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:22.279 of the CDC is somebody who would believe and of 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.719 course a woman's right to choose, meaning terminate a pregnancy 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.960 for all nine months. She believes, I'm sure in all 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.840 of the whole panoply of transgender rights, even the ones 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.080 that are being created as I'm still sitting here speaking 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.760 to you, I'm sure she believes in giving puberty blocking 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.159 drugs to ten year olds who think that they're a 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.640 different gender than they are. Whatever it may be, find 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.200 a left wing issue, and the head of the CDC, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.520 and I'm sure all the people around her too, because 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.200 these are science bureaucrats. Who do you think goes to 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.320 work for the CDC, people that are really going to 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.360 cure cancer, or people who want to be working in 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.799 the government. You went to med school for four years 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.200 into your residency, or you have a PhD in microbiology 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:04.640 and you want to go work at this at the 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.600 CDC so you can do what exactly if you're really good, 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.120 generally speaking, aren't you going to go to big pharma? 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.120 Aren't you gonna actually work at a place where they're 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.520 coming up with new drugs that save people's lives, sup 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.800 pointing the South folks as we all sit around worshiping 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:24.480 Saint fauci As that this guy knows anything. But here 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.080 they are weighing in today, we're still in the midst 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.640 of this COVID pandemic. It's fading out, but there are 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.320 a lot of cases still and people are dying every day, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.600 and you've had a real spike in cases in places 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.000 like New York in Michigan, which we'll talk about more later. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.159 Yet they're immediately shifting focus because they don't want to 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.440 lose the ability to be front and center in the 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:53.680 public conversation. They're shifting focus here to racism. As an 0:05:53.839 --> 0:06:00.760 urgent public health threat. Now, there a lot of ways 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.960 that we could tackle this conversation. You can get into this, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.320 but let me just give you a sense of This 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.760 is the statement from Rachelle Wilenski, MDMPH, director of the 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.920 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here's what she writes. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.680 The COVID nineteen pandemic has resulted in the depth of 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.840 over five hundred thousand Americans. Tens of millions have been infected, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.640 and across the country people are suffering. Importantly, these painful, etc. Etc. Okay, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.760 the disparities seen over the past year were not a 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:35.520 result of COVID nineteen. Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.200 have existed for generations and revealed for all of America, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:47.880 unknown but often unaddressed epidemic affecting impacting public health Racism. Wow, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.440 the real public health epidemic, I guess is in COVID, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.720 the one that we're gonna have to struggle with for generations. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:59.480 The real public health epidemic is racism. Think about this, 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.360 How is racism a public health epidemic? Where can we 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.599 can we isolate racism in a petri dish? Can we 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.480 actually do a test for you know, antibiotic resistance when 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.840 it comes to racism, and what are we really talking 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:20.440 about here. No, this is the transference of a supposed 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.200 institution of science which is really just a massive government 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.760 bureaucracy that's a tremendous amount of sloth, waste, and abuse, 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:31.080 and it's been catastrophically inept during the COVID pandemic. Let's 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.800 remind ourselves of that. Remember when in the early days 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.800 messed up all the testing, the CDC messed up the testing. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.200 And also, who is telling you at the beginning, guys, 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.760 testing for this disease is just one of a hundred 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.640 steps to try to deal with this. But there was 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.800 such a focus on it because it was it turned 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.600 into it was Trump's fault that the tests in the 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.520 early days weren't coming out and the numbers that they 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.520 needed them to, meaning they weren't producing enough of these tests. Anyway, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:02.040 the CDC has been an abject failure. They were they 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.560 didn't have the backbone, the institutional backbone to say, sorry, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.440 lazy teachers, unions, the schools should be open, all of 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:15.240 them always, there's no reason to shut down K through 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.840 twelve education. Ever, in this country. The data never supported it, 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.080 It was never reasonable. CDC too cowardly to do that, 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.480 because do do you think that if you took a 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.800 poll of CDC employees, what ninety five percent of them 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.320 voted for Joe Biden. That's what I would guess about 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.600 ninety five percent. And if you wonder where I get 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.600 these statistics from, if you look at the federal government 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:45.000 and federal government bureaucrat donations in the Hillary Trump campaign, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.240 guess what, over ninety percent went to Hillary Clinton. So 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.800 you've got a whole bunch of CNN watching leftists working 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.000 at the CDC, and now they want to get in 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.960 on the next big challenge, racism as a public health threat. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.480 And you know they cite for they cite in this 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:11.600 health data about life expectancy, they cite that white Americans 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:17.520 live longer than black, black, and Hispanic Americans on average, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.760 And so this is racism. It has to be racism, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.559 they say, Right, what's so fascinating is do you think 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.160 that white Americans have the longest life expectancy because you know, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.199 white supremacy. When they talk about racism, the only races 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.200 and they're fighting against, it's not black on Asian racism. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:36.160 It's not hispanic on black racism or or anything else. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.960 It's white supremacy. We all know that that's the only 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.680 racism that concerns the left in this country. There is 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.720 no other racism as far as they're concerned, even racism 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.640 among other races. They will tell you, and you know 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.640 this is true, is the result of white supremacy. So 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.319 white people are the are the reason for all racism 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.880 all over the world in fact, which is insane, but 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.800 that's what the left believes. Somehow, Asian Americans have a 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.680 a considerably higher life expectancy, I believe it's over eighty 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.120 than white Americans do. Which is interesting, isn't it? Because 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:14.160 Asian Americans also have higher average household income than white 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.360 Americans do. But but the system of white supremacy cannot 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.199 be We can't say that this is an exaggerated construct 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.320 of the left. No, no, we all have to bow 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:28.120 before the terrors of the white supremacist system that exists 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:34.360 all over our country. Look, there's a tremendous amount uh, 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:39.240 there's a there's there's a tremendous amount of misinformation out 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.880 there about all of this. Right, there's a tremendous amount 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:48.080 of people who are sitting around saying, hold on a second, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.080 maybe the CDC has actually got this right, and they 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.800 and they and then, as I said, they have to 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.200 they have to bow down to this notion that white 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:04.800 supremacy is influencing all of our institutions. It's it's in everything, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:09.760 it's everywhere, it's all over the place. Maybe can we 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.800 can we have a conversation as to whether that's actually 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.920 exaggerated and that's harmful and that separates us and that 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.480 that pulls us apart? Right? Can can we have a 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.440 conversation about that? Or we're not allowed to. No, we're 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.280 just supposed to accept their premise. We're supposed to accept 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.400 their premise that even the health disparities from COVID are 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.360 a function of white supremacy and racism. Structure, structural racism, 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.400 white supremacy. These are the same things. They're used interchangeably 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.079 now they didn't used to be white supremacy. Used to 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.360 be guys with you know, neo Nazi tattoos and shaved 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.240 heads who were you know, really bad people. Now white 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:51.120 supremacy as well. There's disparate representation in the you know, 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.719 MIT electrical engineering program among different ethnic groups. So that 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.839 looks like white supremacy to me. I mean, it's it's 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:02.000 abused all the time. It's abused all the time as 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.760 a as just a concept now to silence people. And 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.600 then that brings me to the CDC. I've been worried 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:16.960 all along that the left has seen something here. The 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.480 left has seen that if you can terrify people based 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.040 upon their health, or if you can go for something 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.280 what's really perhaps the most personal thing for all of us, 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.160 our health, our ability to enjoy our day to day 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:35.080 lives and to stay alive. And this is a really 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.559 effective means of control. This is a really effective means 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:43.720 of getting people to do whatever you want them to do. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.360 We've seen this during the pandemic. I've said they're going 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.920 to go from the public health emergency to the climate 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:55.120 change emergency. They're going to go from the They're going 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.880 to go from the public health emergency to the gun 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.760 violence emergency, which they've already done. And in fact, as 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.280 you know, the CDC always wants to study gun violence 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.120 as that the CDC has a role in this, but 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.000 it's using a large federal bureaucracy under the guise of 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.560 health to control you and they say that this is 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.600 now all about racism, because then all these equity challenges 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.439 all across the country, it turns into listen to the science. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:30.080 That's what they'll say, listen to the science. And as 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.760 we all know, that hasn't been true about their approach 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.199 to COVID, it's definitely not going to be true about 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.240 their approach to what they call now white supremacy, which 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.440 is it's almost hard, it's hard to define. It's whatever 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.000 the left decides it is, and now it's whatever the CDC, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.120 the Centers for Disease Control decides it is. Perhaps we 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.959 should call it the Centers for Racism Control. Now you 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.120 got in this CDC statement put out by the director Wilenski, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.679 very political. Obviously, if she's going to get that job 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.559 in the Bide administration, we will continue. Oh sorry, here 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.920 you go. As the nation's leading public health agency, CDC 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.960 has a critical role to play to address the impact 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.800 of racism on public health. To say that there's racism 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.800 in public health that they never will say who's committing 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.320 the public health racism. That's what I want to know. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.760 I want to know who's actually doing the racism in 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.480 public health. Now, if they want to argue that there 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:30.440 is an economic disparity for health outcomes. That's absolutely true, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.840 and we should look at how that happens, why that happens, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.920 where that is. But if they're going to say that 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:41.280 the racism requires action by individuals, that is immoral. That's 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.640 what racism has to be premised on. That's what racism 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.480 has to be based on. So who's doing it? Are 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:52.640 doctors not treating minority patients because they're racist? Whose fault 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:59.080 is it? If one community drinks more sugary soda, for example, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.000 and more foods that are likely to contribute to type 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.440 two diabetes than another, do all ethnic groups in this 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.200 country actually have the same risks from different diseases? It 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.680 actually turns out, if you look at the numbers, there 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.040 are some diseases that all of the world disparately affect 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.760 certain populations based on ethnicity. That's just a genetic reality. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:24.000 Some people, some groups, ethnic groups, national groups are more 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.320 susceptible to certain diseases. I mean, one that comes to 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.680 mind is sickle cell anemia, for example. So there actually 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.320 are some health disparities that are just there that aren't 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.480 the result of racism. It's worth noting that. But how 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.160 do they expect. How's the CDC going to say that 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.040 we should tackle as well. You see an example of 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:47.400 it in Vermont. This is from Scientific American Vermont to 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:53.640 give minority residents priority for COVID vaccines. This was just 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.240 just recently. States have tribe with limited success to get 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.920 vaccines to people of color who have been disproportionately killed 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:05.640 hospitalized by the virus. Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave black 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.040 adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.280 It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.560 other people of color, because they're at higher risk of 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:22.120 complications from COVID nineteen, would be allowed to receive the vaccine. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.360 All Black, Indigenous residents and other people of color who 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.240 are permanent Vermont residence and sixteen or older are eligible 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.480 for the vaccine. Okay, so we're actually now prioritizing people 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.760 for life saving for what we all understand as a 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.080 life saving vaccine based upon skin color that is happening 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.520 in America today. You think that this is the beginning 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:42.880 of this, or you think that this is just a 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.200 one off, You think that they're going to do more 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.600 of this, or they're going to do less of this 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:52.160 going forward. Right this. When I say this, I mean 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.720 using race as a means of making distinctions about health 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:01.000 that really matter, distinctions about public health authorities and state 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.040 resources and ways that really matter. You know, what, would 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.520 it have been fair? I mean I had to help 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.000 my family members. I had to help my parents get vaccinated. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.520 They're both seniors or my mom's close to being a senior. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.440 I had to help them get appointments and figure out 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.680 and it was not easy for them at all. Would 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.840 I resent the idea that people who are younger than 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.200 my parents but are of a of a preferred by 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.560 the CDC racial category would go ahead of them, even 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.439 though the risk, as we know, is first and foremost 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.240 determined by age. Yeah, I think that that's a problem. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.199 I think that's racism. But that's not the way that 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.800 the left sees us at all. They are pulling us apart. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:49.360 They are Marxist identity politics obsessed. That's what's happening now 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.760 across the country, and that's what's happening with the CDC's 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.960 involvement in all of this. And you know they're they're 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.200 they're doing things at CDC like here's here's how they're 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.840 tackling this. Right, let's ask about they really doing. We're 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.200 expanding our internal agency efforts to foster greater diversity and 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.280 create an inclusive and affirming environment that's going to save 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.440 a lot of lives. Yeah, I'm sure the CDC is 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.439 going to be really successful in that. We're launching a 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.560 new web portal, Racism and Health as part of our 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.960 ongoing commitment to serve as a catalyst for public and 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.080 scientific discourse around racism and health and to be accountable 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:22.800 for our progress. Oh, I'm sure they're going to be 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.560 really accountable. Here's how they finish off this statement. Confronting 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:31.359 the impact of racism will not be easy. I know 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.400 we can meet this challenge. I know we can create 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.560 an America where all people have the opportunity to live 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.959 a healthy lifestyle when we each take responsibility and work together. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.040 I am committed to this work. I certainly hope you 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:46.160 will lean in and join me. This is all just 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.000 this is all just the same stuff that you see, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.199 the kind of you know, Marxist equity babble that you 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:58.080 see from college and university admissions offices. I mean, they're 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.159 they're really pushing very hard. This notion that America is 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.040 this really evil racist country and that there is no 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.720 in fact equal protection under the law. The law has 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.920 to be making constant distinctions between people based upon race. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:19.120 This is an enormous moral regression. This is absolutely wrong. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:24.199 This is absolutely going in the wrong direction. And it 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.399 started with smaller things like, oh, a little bit of 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.320 affirmative action in school is a little bit of firmative 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.439 action and hiring. Now you've got states that are saying, oh, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.560 you're a black or Latino, you get priority access to 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.760 a vaccine over other people, including other people who are 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:41.520 at high risk because of their age and comorbidities. Because equity. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.600 It's actually happening in this country right now in America. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.680 The Biden administrations, of course pushing all this stuff as 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.480 much as they possibly can. That's right, rich old white 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.320 guy Joe Biden is trying to convince America he's so 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:59.000 concerned with equity. Sure he is. It's a fraud, friends, 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.200 but unfortunately it's when we're going to have to fight 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.760 back against because this is just the beginning. The CDC 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:10.080 as a woke agency is a reality. You really got 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.239 to fight to get to the truth. These days, the 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.840 media is lying to you all the time, more than ever, 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:16.480 but it is worse. I just want to say that 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.320 it's worse than it's ever been. And also, people are 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:26.200 more politically locked into their beliefs and they've ever been before. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:31.200 People are more certain that whatever they're whatever they're saying 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.560 is the only proper way of and I'm talking about 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.200 even the words they use, but just their positions as well. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:44.040 We are in a polarized and ossified political environment unlike 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.160 anything that's ever been before in my lifetime. It's existed 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.679 in the past, but it's gotten worse. It keeps getting worse. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.640 And you see this even over the gun control issue, 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.240 in the way that Joe Biden is talking about gun 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.639 control and you say, hold on a second, why is 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:03.119 he coming up with this stuff? And he's had so 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.639 much time with all these different advisers and people that 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.280 are actually writing these speeches and the legislation in Congress, 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.440 and he lies about stuff, and we're supposed to think 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:15.880 that that's not a big problem, like it's not an 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.000 issue that when it comes to a constitutionally protected right, 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.159 you have the President of the United States saying things 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.080 that are just not true. And then if you bring 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.800 that up, people yell at you like you're a bad person. 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.280 The truth will get you in trouble. Well, the good 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.840 news is there are other people out there like you 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.119 who share your beliefs and you know this. 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And you know, I'm 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:35.320 no joke, friends, you know, just kind a little breathy, 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:39.200 a little a little bit of stop and start listen 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:42.800 to me. I'm so earnest, such a such a straight shooter, 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.040 not like a gun shooter, like a different kind of shooter. 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:48.760 It's not true that you can go to a gun 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:53.360 show and buy a gun without a background check. As 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:56.240 a matter of policy, that's not the case. If you're 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:58.879 a federally licensed firearms dealer at a gun show, you 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:02.040 will run a background check. So when Joe Biden says 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:03.480 that you can just go to a gun show and 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:06.560