WEBVTT - Stop The Delta Variant Panic 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.760 Team Buck, Welcome to the Freedom Hut. Much to get 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:08.280 to today. First off, stop panicking over the Delta variant. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.360 No more lockdowns, no more mask mandates. This is a 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.440 fight we have to win. Plus, our southern border is 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.360 open to the whole world. And Dick Durban tells us 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:23.000 what the strategy is for the Democrats. An Ivy League lawyer, 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.840 firebomb to police car, and yet there are a lot 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.200 of folks who are rushing to defend the suspect and 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.960 a transmodel on the cover of Sports Illustrated. What are 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.080 we supposed to take from that? 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That's t 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.040 twot dot org t the number two t dot org. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.800 The COVID panic is never going to stop unless we 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.120 make it stop. You know I've been saying that for 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.720 a long time. You also know that I've told you 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.240 there's a possibility of more mask mandates in the future, 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.960 even after we get to a widespread level of vaccination, 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.080 which we are we've already reached in this country. It's 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:04.520 already something that we are experiencing. And because of the 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.840 delta variant, you're being told, oh no, there's different rules 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.760 we have to apply now. We have to go back 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.400 to the things we did in the past. No, no, no, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:23.720 lockdowns were utterly catastrophic, okay, idiotic. They did not work, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.920 and no one should have thought they would work. But 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.560 this is a case study. In not just years or decades, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.000 I would say, in centuries to come, people will look 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.280 back at what our public health establishment did in this 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.679 country and around the world and say, how could they 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:47.919 have abandoned so many core principles of science, of free 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.440 intellectual inquiry, a freedom of speech. How could they have 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:59.400 been completely overtaken with groupthink and the herd mentality and 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.880 really acted like anybody who would question this, even from 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.919 within their own ranks, was some kind of a heretic. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.040 There is an excellent piece in City Journal written by 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.200 John Tierney. I want to share some of this piece 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.440 with you because I think it makes the point incredibly well. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.640 Here's what he writes, and the title of the piece 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.320 is the panic Pandemic, which I believe was even a 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.480 title that we used. Producer Mark, I didn't ask you 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.240 this before, and we could check. I'm sure we had 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.920 a podcast where I said, stop the panic pandemic, because 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.360 that's what we've been going through. It's an obvious description 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.360 of the reality that we have been seeing, and so 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:46.200 I wanted to share with you this piece because I 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.360 think he really gets it. I think he really nails it. 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.960 The United States quote suffered through two lethal waves of 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.960 contagion in the past year and a half. The first 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.440 was a viral pandemic that killed about one in five 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:04.680 hundred Americans, typically a person over seventy five suffering from 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:09.720 other serious health conditions. The second, and far more catastrophic, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.520 was a moral panic that swept the nation's guiding institutions. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.800 Instead of keeping calm and carrying on, the American elite 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.480 flouted the norms of governance, journalism, academic freedom, and, worst 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.440 of all, science. They misled the public about the origins 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.760 of the virus and the true risk that it posed, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.000 Ignoring their own carefully prepared plans for a pandemic, they 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:40.120 claimed unprecedented powers to impose untested strategies with terrible collateral damage. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.800 As evidence of their mistakes mounted, they stifled debate by 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:50.680 vilifying dissenters, censoring criticism, and suppressing scientific research. If, as 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:55.320 seems increasingly plausible, the coronavirus that causes COVID nineteen leaked 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.839 out of a laboratory in Wuhan is the costliest blunder 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.200 ever committed by scien scientists. Whatever the pandemic's origin, the 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.159 response to it is the worst mistake in the history 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:11.159 of the public health profession. We still have no convincing 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.719 evidence that the lockdown save lives lives, but lots of 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:19.080 evidence that they already cost lives and will prove deadlier 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.279 in the long run than the virus itself. And quote, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:30.800 this is stunning, isn't it. You hear these words or 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.640 you read them, if you see this piece in City 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.760 Journal and you say, what the hell were these idiots 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:42.640 in charge doing lockdown? And remember, there's so many ways, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.880 and I could just go off on endless criticisms about this. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.039 There are so many ways though, in which this was 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.120 doomed to fail from the start as a policy. For one, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:58.240 we never really locked down. That did not happen. There 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.400 were always frontline workers, There were always people who were 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.240 required to continue to go about their jobs, and there 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.800 were human beings who had to be in contact with 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.719 other human beings. The virus continued to spread, but instead 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:16.280 of focusing on protecting those who are truly at mortal peril, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.200 the elderly, those with pre existing conditions, most notably obesity. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.119 Instead of that, we pretended like twenty two year olds 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.800 should be working on Zoom only from their couch in 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.800 Park Slope, Brooklyn, or in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, or wherever. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.960 That's what this thing turned into. So they had people 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.279 who were working class delivering their food and keeping the 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.320 lights on for them while they got to do a 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.200 lot of virtue signaling about how seriously they take the virus. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:55.120 But this became a religion for people that neither have 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.880 a relationship with God nor have come to grips with 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.960 the fact psychologically that we are all going to die. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.760 I don't mean from COVID. I just mean, as a 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.000 certainty all of us will die. I will die, and 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.960 I know that. And sure it's a human condition that 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.200 you will at some points. Be you don't want to die, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.840 and you try to live the longest, happiest, healthiest life 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.600 you can. You take those actions you can to extend 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.640 your life whenever possible. But you know, you wake up 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.280 every day with that knowledge and an understanding that there's 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.400 only so much you can control, and you do the 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.520 best you can, and we all have limited time. That 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:40.800 psychological predisposition would have resulted in people thinking we're going 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.960 to do what we can. You know, you want to 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.360 stay away from sick people and you want to stay 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:51.040 as healthy as you can, but you can't control this virus. Instead, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.800 we were completely misled into thinking that if only we 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:00.520 obeyed Saint Fauci, everything would be fine, if only that 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.680 sub mediocrity in his little lab coat and his little glasses. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.440 You know, I just go on TV every three seconds 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.680 to tell the Libs whatever they want to hear about 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:19.960 the virus. Here he is play club four. Well, Canada 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.760 is doing better, not because we are trying any less 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.360 than they are trying. It's because in Canada you don't 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.880 have that divisiveness of people not wanting to get vaccinated 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.240 in many respects on the basis of ideology and political persuasion. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.160 And that's something that we have been saying for some 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.640 time now. I mean, political differences are totally understandable and 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.840 a natural part of the process in any country. But 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.760 when it comes to a public health issue in which 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.520 you're in the middle of a deadly pandemic and the 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.960 common enemy is the virus, it just doesn't make any 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:06.120 sense to essentially disregard or don't pay attention to what's obvious, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.520 namely that if you look at the numbers, they tell 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.480 you something very important. Ninety nine point five percent of 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.880 all the deaths due to COVID nineteen in this country 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:22.719 are among vaccinated people. So let's just take him at 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.760 his word here for a second. That was Fauci just 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.280 in the last twenty four hours. Let's just go first 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.640 of all, he's he's a scientist who compares the US 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.800 to Canada, and immediately it's you know the politics Fox 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.000 News whenever they say divisive politics, whenever these lab coat 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.040 tyrants get on TV. You know, the blue check MD 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.800 brigades who were wrong about everything. They love the BLM protests, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.640 even when they were telling everybody else no protests allowed. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:53.280 But BLM protests were about health. I see somebody, especially 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.400 a you know, an upper middle class white liberal who's 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.840 showy about how much they're into BLM. I not only 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.600 see a fraud, I see a moron. I'm just gonna 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.080 say this, it's like people that unnecessarily share their pronouns. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.480 No one cares. Stop being an idiot, and it doesn't 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.040 make you a good person. It makes you a sheep. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:21.000 You do whatever the herd is doing, and try to 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.959 fit in so desperately, it's it's pathetic. I just want 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.320 to know that Fauci missed missed a science compares the 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.880 US to Canada. Gee, you know, you know what really 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.680 matters a lot when you're talking about the spread of 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:38.959 a virus, things like population density. Canada per square per 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.080 square mile has eleven people. The United States per square 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.000 mile has ninety four people, so almost ten x the 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:52.160 population density per square mile in the United States. Do 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:57.200 you think should that matter to anybody? Is that is 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:02.520 that relevant? I think it matters. I think people should 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.240 care about this. I think they should think that it's 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.360 something that we all should pay attention to at some level. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:14.240 But then again, I'm basing this on the science. I'm 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:20.800 basing this on what actually we know from the numbers. Right, Okay, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.480 it's more like nine times who cares, doesn't matter, it's 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:30.080 a lot more population density. And here we are playing 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.200 this out with the Fauci I. It's still running around 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.800 saying the delta varied. You gotta get everyone. If the 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:40.480 vaccines work so well, which they work less well against 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.480 delta than they had hoped, or then they had told us. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.240 But if the vaccines work so well, then guess what 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.280 we should be back to fully normal today? Because if 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.360 someone is choosing not to get a vaccine, they are 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.280 making a choice and that is something that they get 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:02.400 to live with. Right. I have not gotten the vaccine 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.600 because I had COVID, so and my family members who 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.760 are at high risk have all gotten the vaccine. So 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.920 it is completely reasonable to say I'm not going to 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.960 do it. But if I were to get super sick 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.040 with COVID in six months and you know, God forbid, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.040 end up in the hospital, would people be able to say, well, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.760 you know, he didn't get the vACC Yeah, of course, 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.559 but how many years have we gone through now in 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.160 America where you could choose to get a flu vaccine, 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.760 yes or no, one way or the other, And a 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.360 lot of people died from the flu, and a lot 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.840 of those people didn't get the vaccine. If you believe 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.080 in it, if you want it, you can get it 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.120 and have had plenty of opportunity to get it. The 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.760 argument for imposing this on people, the argument for mandates 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:53.640 and all the rest of it simply does not add up. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.760 Doesn't add up. Because you should be you're protected, it's 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.120 good enough. And giving this to twelve year olds or 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.439 two year olds as they want to start doing is reckless, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.120 and it's rooted in this as a religious belief for 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:17.320 liberals who are not really liberals, statist leftist authoritarians, progressives, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.360 it's a religion for them, a religion replacement. And there's 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.320 a lot of moral and intellectual cowardice on the left 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:31.120 about this point. It's really defined by intellectual and moral 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.520 cowardice when it comes to COVID. They would not speak 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:39.120 the truth. And that's why when you read this piece, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:43.880 for example, in City Journal where they address what happened here, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:50.720 it's stunning to see how this was politicized so early on. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.600 It was used as a weapon against Trump. And what 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.720 they've really ended up doing in all of this is 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:04.720 destroy public faith in the health establishments, willingness to stay 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.120 out of politics and just do what's best for the patient, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.800 just do what's best to keep people healthy and alive. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.640 Do you think any of the lockdowners feel bad about 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.680 the fact that, as the City Journal piece states, quote, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.640 one in three people worldwide lost a job or a 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.600 business during the lockdowns, half saw their earnings drop. 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One hundred million people pushed into that, according 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:11.360 to the World Bank, because of lockdowns. Do they count? 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.000 Does that matter to anybody? No, it's so much more 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:21.040 essential for people who have two homes and could flee 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.160 to one of them. During the pandemics, they had plenty 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.920 of outdoor space to go to to watch MSNBC and 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.080 listen to Mattow and the other geniuses over there and 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.120 mask up double mask What happened to double masking? You'll 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.720 notice it's fallen out of fashion, like a preferred hat 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.960 or the width of men's ties, because that's all that 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.880 ever was a fashion. It was moronic from the beginning. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.160 Will they admit that, No, they will not. 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Go to my Pillow dot com, click 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.240 on new Radio Loosener specials and use that promo code buck. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.760 So the lockdowners are never going to budge from what 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.920 they've said and how wrong they've been up to this point. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.160 But you have to remember that it was also largely 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:52.280 pushed by journalists, as he writes here in this City 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.120 Journal piece, John Tierney writes, the panic was started as 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.840 usual by journalists as the virus spread early last year. 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.640 They high did the most alarming statistics and the scariest images, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.760 the estimates of a fatality rate ten to fifty times 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.400 higher than flew, the chaotic scenes at hospitals in Italy 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.520 and New York City, the predictions that national healthcare systems 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.119 were also about to collapse. The full scale panic was 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.960 set off by the release in March of twenty twenty 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.320 of a computer model at the Imperial College in London, 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:25.720 which projected that under unless drastic measures were taken, intensive 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.680 care units would have thirty COVID patients for every available bed, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.479 and America would see two point two million deaths by 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.080 the end of the summer. British researchers announced the only 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.800 viable strategy was to impose draconian restrictions on businesses, schools 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.760 and social gatherings until a vaccine arrived. It was lockdown 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.199 until vaccine. They didn't really tell us that at the beginning, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.439 did they no, Because people would have said, hold on 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.199 a second, this is now the new standard. This is 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:57.520 how we deal with this stuff. Lockdown until vaccine really, 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.640 isn't that? Isn't that a little bit extreme? Sounded? Can't? 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.639 Can't everyone tell right away? Hold on a second, That 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.800 doesn't make any sense. We're gonna lock down that long? 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:14.000 But they lied, They lied to you. They told you 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:15.840 it was two weeks to slow the spread. They didn't 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.080 say it was stay locked down until a vaccine comes out. 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.760 And now you can see they're trying to edge into 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.280 we all have rolling lockdowns until the virus is entirely gone. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.159 It's endemic now, folks, It's going to be within the population. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:34.040 There will be COVID outbreaks for the foreseeable future. That 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:38.639 is just reality. It's just reality. And they're not going 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.280 to be as big, they're not going to be as lethal, 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.720 But it is now very much like the fluid is 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.119 going to be in circulation around the world, and there 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.679 will be a seasonality to it, and there will be 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.480 booster shots, and there will be future variants and all 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.280 the rest of it. So that means, no, we don't 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.680 go back to the things that didn't work to stop 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.159 it in the first place. I might add, it means 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.680 we go back to normal life and people making informed 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.000 decisions for themselves about their health. That's it. I mean, 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.080 the so called Fauciite consensus. I'm the one who calls 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:14.080 it that. But the consensus of the Fauciites was wrong, 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.720 and they use social media to shut down those who 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.720 disagreed with them. They use whatever tools at their disposal 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:28.600 to crush descent. They went after researchers like Unitis at 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.119 the Stanford University Medical School. They went after people with 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.960 impeccable credentials who said, what the heck is going on here? 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:38.879 You guys are wrong. This is a bad idea. The 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:43.600 numbers don't support it. Shut up, They said, you're helping Trump. 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.760 That's what it's all about. Problem with the left is 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.920 that it's emotion over reason. They're so emotionally invested in 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.879 their hatred of Donald Trump and their desire to feel 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.520 superior because of their politics their fellow human beings that 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.200 you can't really reason with them. You can't have a 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.359 discussion about things like maybe this is more important than 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.760 whether you like Trump or not. Maybe getting this right 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:15.040 and not crushing freedom, shredding the Constitution and resulting. But 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.240 there's so much unintended consequence of things like lockdowns and masks, 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.040 might I might add I think a lot of people 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.160 thought that masks were much more effective than they were, 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.720 so they were not doing the things that would have 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.760 really helped, like be very cautious about being around a 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.000 sick person. Oh well, I got my mask. My mask 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.480 will keep me safe, you know, just like the doctors wear. 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.040 They never stop the thing. Hold on a second. Doctors 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:43.280 actually wear and ninety five masks. They don't wear a 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:48.080 balaclava or a you know, a handkerchief with Biden Harris 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.680 twenty twenty on it. And they have a clean, fresh 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.119 mask every time they go into the o R and 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:58.399 they keep it on the whole time. They don't and 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.240 they're and you're talking about somebody who's in an environment 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.320 where their body is likely being opened up to pathogens already, 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:08.520 so you know, you're an extreme circumstance medical circumstances circumstance. 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.040 But people say, oh yeah, you know doctors in the ore, 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.560 same thing is mask on, mask off on the plane, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:20.480 mask on, mask off in the restaurant. This is stupid. 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:26.560 Everybody should know it is stupid. But there are people 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:29.120 who really want to believe they're smart, and they vote 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.840 Democrat and they're left is they think they're so smart, 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:36.399 and so it didn't matter how absurd this got, because 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:41.800 ultimately it was a giant exercise in showing everybody how evolved, 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:45.960 elevated and elite they were in their thinking and in 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:50.679 their lifestyle choices around COVID. It's pathetic, it's awful. Anyway. 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.280 I can't recommend this piece more highly by John Tierney 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:58.080 in City Journal, The Panic Pandemic. It's it's essential. You 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:02.400 should definitely check it out, and good work from John Tierney. 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.520 So there's no argument for changing election and voting laws 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.879 based on fraud. There certainly is no argument when it 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.560 comes to the outcome of the election that was clear 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:17.120 and it has been to everyone except one former president 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.560 for a long time. And yet the Republicans win in 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.760 control of state legislatures, are by design trying to make 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:27.800 it more difficult for some people to vote. Why. The 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:31.280 answer is very simple. The demographics of America are not 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:34.160 on the side of the Republican Party. The new voters 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:37.479 in this country are moving away from them, away from 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:42.200 Donald Trump, away from their party creed that they preach, 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:46.240 and instead they're moving to be independence or at even 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.560 vote on the other side to argue and fight against 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:54.600 that the Republicans and legislative settings are reducing and restricting 0:23:54.640 --> 0:24:00.000 the opportunity to vote. That's what it's all about. Oh 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:04.600 wait a second, here's a good old dick Durban saying 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:10.679 some stuff about some things here. When it comes to 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:19.520 people and the border and the Democrats strategy, the demographics 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.280 of America are not on the side of the Republican party. 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:24.760 The new voters in this country are moving away from 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:31.359 the new voters. Gee, that's so interesting. So immigration is 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:34.679 a tool that Democrats plan to and have been using. 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:40.080 It's a tool to outvote Republicans. And what you do 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:42.720 is kick the doors to America as wide open as possible. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.560 Take those who are least likely to be able to 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:51.240 contribute on a net basis, Take those who are most 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.199 likely to need state benefits, and who are going to 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:57.800 arrive and immediately be told, Oh, if you're non white, 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:02.800 this country owes you some thing. You are owed by 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:05.080 the country you have just arrived in. You don't owe 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:09.280 the country. No, no, quite the opposite. Oh no, you've 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:12.640 probably suffered from white supremacy wherever you came from all 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:15.440 over the world. You came from Sri Lanka. You came 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:21.480