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Hunter Biden Is Dumb As A Rock And Twice As Dirty | Ep. 1317

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	Hunter Biden is caught on tape telling a prostitute about his prior laptop problems.
	Despite another bad inflation report, the Biden administration keeps blowing out the spending and the lockdown crowd has no answers, but lots of momentum.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	We'll get to all the news in just one moment.
	And I have some rather stirring news on Hunter Biden to get to.
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	Alrighty. So Hunter Biden is apparently the smartest person that Joe Biden knows, which is incredible because what this means is that Joe Biden just spends his days hanging around That is the only plausible explanation for how Hunter Biden is the smartest person that he knows.
	Because kids are unintelligent and Hunter Biden is really unintelligent.
	And so I have picked the age of five because if you go to the age of six, Hunter Biden still would not be the smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
	So now we have this story about Hunter Biden in which he violates all the rules of prostitution.
	According to the UK Daily Mail, Hunter Biden claimed that Russians stole one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Las Vegas hotel room, the Daily Mail can reveal.
	The alleged incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers.
	The first, abandoned at a Delaware computer store.
	The second, seized by federal agents.
	Like, this is a weird way to lose computers, by the way.
	Like, if you've ever lost a computer, it's usually like you were on a plane and then you just forgot it there.
	But to lose three?
	And the first one you abandoned at a computer store and just forgot about it.
	And the second one was used by federal agents and the third was stolen by the Ruskies.
	I will say your record with computers is extremely poor and you really should think about a more mobile form of technology at this point.
	The third laptop apparently is still missing.
	It was taken by Russian drug dealers after they partied with Hunter in Vegas.
	He told a prostitute in a conversation caught on camera.
	So here's what happened.
	He filmed himself having sex with the woman using his laptop in January 2019 and then decided, you know what?
	We need like some after roll here.
	It's like the after the credits section of the sex tape.
	He left the camera rolling as he recounted a Vegas bender in which he spent 18 days Going around from penthouse suite to penthouse suite, sometimes costing $10,000 a night.
	But don't worry, guys.
	He is very well qualified.
	He earned all that kind of money by being the smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
	He didn't use the Biden name in any way, shape, or form to get extremely wealthy and then use all of that money on Coke-fueled binges with multiple prostitutes, moving hotel to hotel.
	No, he's just, he's brilliant.
	I mean, like in Joe Biden's Rolodex of brilliant people that he knows, and there's so many brilliant people he knows.
	I mean, his wife is a doctor for one.
	I mean, like the greatest doctor in all the land.
	And then you got Hunter, who is just a world beating businessman, like an incredible, incredible businessman.
	It's, it's really an impressive, it's an impressive show.
	So here was a little bit of what it sounded like when Hunter was speaking to this prostitute who had to be like, God, you're so boring, but you're also paying me $2,000 an hour.
	Ugh, I can't, like, I can't even.
	But at the same time, the money is so good.
	And if I tell him that this can of Parmesan cheese that I just picked up at the grocery is Coke, he will hand me another $100,000.
	So the prostitute is very, I would say, lax in allowing him to speak to her this way.
	Here's what the tape sounded like.
	like.
	My computer, it's like taking tons of like, um, like just left it like that came on. He would always put him like in like a Pascal and all that bullshit. You know what I mean?
	And it was like, I mean, like, what is this? And somebody stole them, like during that period of time.
	What does the computer have to do with it?
	They have videos of me doing this. They have videos of me doing like crazy sex. You know?
	Crazy effing sex.
	And she's like, well, then what did you just pay me for?
	So that's weird.
	And also, the pee tape is real, but it stars Hunter Biden.
	Now, the reason we're leading with this story is number one, because it's hilarious, but number two, because if this were Donald Trump Jr., you know that it would lead every network news hour for like the next month.
	But it's Hunter Biden, so he's just a wayward child, guys.
	He's just a small child who's 51 years old.
	He's just a very small wayward child who's 14 years my senior.
	That's all.
	And who happens to be like one of the worst people I've ever heard of.
	But also the smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
	And who is still going around like picking up bags of cash based on his daddy's last name.
	Although now he's become a great artist, we know, right?
	Which explains the dissolution.
	Usually you have to be the artist first before he can be a dissolute artist, but he actually started with the dissolution and then he became an artist, which is actually going at it sort of ass backwards, right?
	He started off with the coke-fueled binges and the vendors with prostitutes, and then he moved into making crappy art, as opposed to usually it's the other way around, which is you start off as an artist and then So, a few things about this.
	the artist's dissolute lifestyle.
	So he really likes to do everything I think in new and interesting ways.
	So a few things about this one.
	My understanding is that this means he is violated like all of the rules of prostitution.
	So Hugh Grant famously suggested about prostitution, right?
	He was dating Elizabeth Hurley, you'll recall.
	Was he married to Elizabeth Hurley at the time?
	He may have been married to her.
	But he was at least dating her at the time.
	And he was stripping prostitutes on the side.
	And everybody was like, wait up.
	You're married to Elizabeth Hurley?
	And you are going to prostitutes?
	And Hugh Grant, his line about this was, I don't pay them for the sex, I pay them to leave.
	Okay, well...
	Okay, fair enough.
	Apparently Hunter Biden never really got the message, and so he just talks to the prostitutes also.
	Which is like...
	Okay, alright.
	Okay, so he's violating all the rules of prostitution as I understand them.
	And granted, I'm not the world's greatest expert on prostitution, but I feel like these are fairly ironclad rules.
	One, don't use them.
	Two, if you are going to use a prostitute, don't talk to them about all your life problems.
	Because you're literally having to pay them for sex so they don't care about them, and they probably are not great repositories of information.
	Like, I don't think that they are big on the NDA, per se.
	Like, it doesn't seem like the most trustworthy crowd.
	I mean, I'll be honest with you.
	Okay, and then, number three.
	If you are going to talk about all your life problems, being a famous person like Hunter Biden, if you are, in fact, going to do that, then probably don't talk on tape, on a laptop.
	Right, that's rule number three.
	Rule number four.
	If you are going to, one, have sex with a prostitute, two, talk to the prostitute about all your life problems, three, do all of it on tape, on your laptop, Then four, what you talk about should not be how your prior laptops have been stolen to your great discontent, because that creates a sort of incentive structure for people to steal your laptop.
	And it turns out, of course, that this laptop did not end up in his hands, just like every other laptop.
	So guys, if you're ever at the airport and you see Hunter Biden there and you really have to go to the bathroom and your laptop is in your backpack, do not ask Hunter Biden to watch your backpack.
	Do not do it.
	It is not going to end well in any way, shape or form.
	What a delight Hunter Biden is.
	And by the way, if you ask questions about this, this means you're bad.
	How dare you?
	Because Hunter Biden is a wonderful, wonderful man.
	And we know he's a wonderful man because his last name is Biden and Joe Biden is a wonderful man.
	My favorite part of this, this is really great.
	The prostitute asked Hunter if he was worried, remember, he said that he had a laptop and the Russians stole it, quote, from the Daily Mail.
	The prostitute asked Hunter if he was worried the Russian alleged thieves would try to blackmail him.
	Hunter replied, yeah, in some way, yeah.
	My dad is running for president.
	He is.
	I talk about it all the time.
	If they do, he also knows I make like a gazillion dollars.
	Hunter appeared to be dismayed that if the video was sold by the alleged thieves to porn or news companies, he would be unable to cash in on the explicit videos himself.
	Yeah, because there's a huge market, it turns out, for Hunter Biden sex tapes.
	It's like one night in Paris, except with a slightly overweight, dissolute politician's son.
	Huge market for that sort of thing.
	He said, quote, I'm worried he gets the money up front and maybe it doesn't do a million dollars.
	Maybe it does three.
	Maybe nobody wants to see me naked.
	Maybe it's news interest.
	And because my dad's a public figure, they say we don't have to pay you anything because you're of interest in regular news.
	The prostitute said, I think you should just beat him to the punch.
	I think you should release your own video.
	That's spectacular.
	OK, like I love that Hunter Biden, the smartest person that Joe Biden knows, his big business idea is what if I screw a prostitute, put it on my laptop and then sell the tape?
	No!
	I guarantee you, you know, there's a breed of man who when he's dating a woman or when he's trying to date a woman, he's not even dating her.
	When he's trying to date a woman, he thinks that the best available thing that he can do to woo a woman is to send a picture of his.
	Right.
	There is that breed of man.
	And I've always thought, who is that guy?
	Like, who is the guy who thought, you know what, what, what this random woman really wants is a picture of my job.
	We know who the guy is now.
	The guy's Hunter Biden, right?
	He's like, I have a money making proposition for you, prostitute lady.
	My money making proposition is.
	We go halfsies on the sex, and then we also go halfsies on the sex tape.
	Or I pay you nothing.
	But my favorite part there is where she asks him explicitly, aren't you afraid you'll be blackmailed?
	And he's like, yeah.
	And she's like, cool.
	Isn't that what's going on?
	Yeah, it's not.
	It's not good.
	Okay, by the way, photos on the laptop hard drive obtained by the Daily Mail include pictures of a woman's Russian passport and photos of Hunter topless, pulling the woman's brunette hair while she kneels on a bed.
	Other photos show the woman and three young men driving to Hunter's former Hollywood Hills rented home, drinking and partying by the pool, and two women naked with Hunter by the pool.
	It's unclear whether the Russian woman and three men are the same people Hunter accused of stealing his laptop.
	So the good news is that that all got sent to the cloud, so apparently he could re-download that.
	To the new computer to make sure that he had it with him wherever he went.
	You know, some people, we like to have pictures of our wives and our kids on the cloud.
	Hunter has very important things, like random people he has sex with and does drugs with, on the cloud.
	Ah, well, at least he's not the president's son.
	At least that.
	Alrighty, in just one second, we will get to the inflation record of the Biden administration.
	And no, I'm not talking about Hunter Biden anymore.
	We've moved on.
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	Okay, so.
	Well, Hunter Biden is going around inflating his own finances as well as his genitals.
	It turns out that his father is just busy inflating the economy.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, we now have another terrible inflationary report.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, inflation remained elevated in July as the economic recovery continued, but prices showed evidence of cooling amid pandemic-related supply problems and signs that the recent rise in coronavirus infections is starting to crimp some business activity.
	So it sounds like a great time to blow more money into the economy.
	We have a massive inflation, right?
	We have a drop off in demand.
	Oh, goody, goody, gumdrops.
	This is called stagflation.
	When you have an inflation in the price, but a drop off in the demand, this is called stagnation inflation.
	Stagflation.
	Yeah, that's it.
	That's how that word comes to be.
	So that is what we are starting to look at.
	Perhaps consumer prices rose 5.4% in July from a year earlier, the same pace as in June.
	This is the highest 12 month rate since 2008 that the labor department reported on Wednesday.
	On a monthly basis, the price pressures did weaken.
	The department's consumer price index climbed a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in July from June.
	That's a significantly slower pace than the 0.9% increase in June from May.
	Okay, so there are a bunch of problems happening right now.
	One is COVID related.
	Some people are not going back to work.
	Another problem that we are experiencing right now is a continued price inflation.
	And then the biggest problem of all is what happens if we just don't have systemic demand?
	This is what happened throughout the 1990s in Japan.
	So throughout the 1980s, Japan was supposed to be the place that was on the make.
	Japan was going to overtake the United States.
	And then it turns out the demand dropped off and they just had stagnation for like a decade.
	And they really have never recovered, the Japanese economy.
	The idea of secular stagnation, I've talked about it on the program before, that is actually a greater threat at this point to the possible growth of the American economy than inflation is.
	But inflation is still a major problem for many, many Americans.
	And so Joe Biden said, no, no, no, this is a good monthly report.
	Everything is fine, guys.
	It's fine.
	Everything's good.
	The latest report on consumer prices show that we've expanded some easing, excuse me, the expected easing we thought was going to come has increased.
	We've seen a good monthly report.
	The monthly core consumer price index is down by nearly two-thirds from its pace over the past three months.
	Okay, so he's picking and choosing which prices supposedly matter when he looks at the Consumer Price Index.
	Jen Psaki said the same thing.
	She said core inflation is fine.
	It's just over the margins that we're having inflationary problems.
	Really, is it?
	Here's Jen Psaki.
	If you actually look at the numbers and the trends over the last several months, it shows that core inflation was not only below expectations, but it decelerated from last month and even from the month prior.
	So over the last couple of months, Okay, so they're saying that the inflation is starting to wane.
	Okay, there's only one problem.
	The inflation that is already baked in because you guys are pouring money into the economy is resulting in a lot of people not going back to work.
	According to the Wall Street Journal two days ago, millions of Americans are unemployed despite record job openings.
	The hardest-hit industries have yet to get back to the pre-pandemic levels.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of available jobs since May has outnumbered Americans looking for work.
	One factor is a mismatch between where people want to work and which industries are hiring.
	The hardest-hit industries have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, when 63% of Americans were in the labor force.
	In July, there were 5.7 million fewer jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis than there were in February of 2020, according to Labor Department data.
	The number of people trying to get back into the workforce has rebounded since the early days of the pandemic.
	The share of adults working or looking for a job has increased slightly from a low of 60.2% in April of last year to 61.7% in July.
	However, what this means is that there are millions of jobs that are going unfilled right now.
	Employers still have 6.6 million fewer jobs on the payroll than they did last year, but there's still 10 million job openings from June.
	Okay, and if those were filled, we'd be back above where we were before the pandemic started.
	But those jobs aren't being filled because people are being told to stay home.
	There's a serious holdup in the economy, and that is pouring all this money into the economy right now.
	And it's affecting people on a pretty day-to-day level.
	Tyson Foods, for example, just raised its prices to keep up with inflation.
	This is how inflation works, by the way.
	When there is too much money chasing too few products, everybody has to raise prices to compensate.
	According to Reuters, Tyson Foods cannot increase prices for chicken and prepared foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain, Chief Executive Donnie King said on Monday after the company reported higher than expected quarterly earnings.
	And we have lots of reports right now that are being cheered by the left, reports about how employers are offering these insane benefits to get people to work.
	And isn't that just wonderful?
	Isn't that just great?
	Well, that's great up until the point where the demand falls off, in which case all those people get fired, right?
	That is the problem with stagnation.
	If you're artificially increasing the economy and telling people to come home or tell people to stay home, they won't come to work unless you offer them these exorbitant benefits.
	The exorbitant benefits come with price increases.
	But what happens when the demand levels off because the stimulus stopped?
	Because you can't just do quantitative easing forever.
	Or can you?
	Apparently the Biden administration kind of thinks that you can.
	By the way, this is pretty incredible.
	The White House is now noticing that gasoline prices have been heavily on the rise.
	We were just in California and in California, the gas prices are in excess of five bucks a gallon, which is just insane.
	And it's a really, really high price.
	Well, President Biden, he admits that the gas prices, he says that they're lower than they were, you know, 10 years ago, but they're still really, really high right now.
	Today, gas prices are lower than they were early in this decade, but they're still high enough to create a pinch on working families.
	One key thing about the infrastructure bill that just passed the Senate is there are no gas tax increases.
	No gas tax increases.
	I made that absolutely clear that I would not raise gas taxes.
	I'm glad everyone in the Senate seemed to agree with that.
	I have a question.
	Why not?
	I was informed that gas is really, really bad for the environment.
	In fact, it turns out that the White House is now calling on OPEC and its oil-producing allies to boost production in an effort to combat climbing gasoline prices.
	But I was told by the left that climbing gasoline prices are a good, that is a good thing, isn't it?
	Right?
	I thought that the price inflation we're seeing, that's just, that's not a reflection of inflation.
	That is a reflection of all the pent up demand.
	So if that's the case, why are you trying to artificially decrease oil prices?
	Wouldn't it be good for oil prices to remain high from an environmental perspective?
	After all, that would create the market incentive for people to get with the green energy program.
	But Joe Biden is not willing to risk that because Joe Biden understands the reality here, which is that the fundamentals of the economy are still quite problematic.
	And that when you inflate the economy, you end up blowing up the price of gas.
	And there are a lot of people out there who still need the gas.
	And so instead, he is carving a hole in his entire environmental agenda by going direct to OPEC and asking them to increase the supply of oil in order to lower the price.
	It's worth pointing out the hypocrisy of the Biden administration.
	They're all for green energy until comes the point when the price of gasoline rises, at which point they immediately say no gas taxes and also OPEC Do you mind, you know, cranking up the production just a little bit?
	Meanwhile, is the Senate slowing down at all?
	Not for one iota of a moment.
	According to justthenews.com, the Democrat-led Senate has now okayed more than $4 trillion of spending in less than 24 hours.
	They voted to authorize all of this.
	Over the last 24 hours, the Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
	That includes $517 billion in new spending and a reauthorization of funding from the highway bill.
	The Senate then moved to debate on the Democrats' filibuster-proof $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation proposal.
	The framework for the plan authorizing that level of federal spending passed in a 50-49 vote early Wednesday morning at 3.50 a.m.
	The reconciliation bill includes new spending programs related to tuition-free community college, which is a terrible idea, universal pre-K, support for childcare, Medicaid expansion.
	It contains tax increases like a corporate tax rate hike to pay for part of the bill.
	Once the proposal is turned into formal legislative language, it will be put up for a final vote on the Senate floor.
	It can only pass if all the Democrats vote in favor of it.
	And the Democrats are making clear that this is exactly what they want to do.
	In fact, House Democrats are already threatening that they're not going to vote for the infrastructure plan, the bipartisan infrastructure plan, unless they get precisely what they want, which is this $3.5 trillion boondoggle of a budget.
	So we're just going to continue throwing money into the system even as inflation rises and even as the demand seems to be stagnating, which is what is causing a crimp in the inflation right now.
	Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the greatest indicator that our Congress just doesn't know what the hell it is doing, and that they see everything as just a grab bag of cash for themselves.
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	Alrighty.
	Meanwhile, as we speak about this, the infrastructure bill passed by a huge margin.
	A bunch of Republicans voted in favor and now moved to that Democratic-led House.
	Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell joined the Democrats in voting for the bill.
	The bill passed 69 to 30.
	So a bunch of Republicans voted in favor of this bill.
	This bill, by the way, includes the first step toward the government really cracking down on cryptocurrency.
	Now, I know a lot of people don't understand what cryptocurrency is.
	It's kind of confusing, right?
	If you don't understand what cryptocurrency is, I have a YouTube video that you definitely should check out where I go through what Bitcoin is and what the roots of it are and all of that.
	Suffice it to say, what cryptocurrency really is, is it's a threat to the fiat currency regime of the United States and other countries.
	Cryptocurrency allows people to trade with each other without having to resort to currencies that can be inflated by centralized governments.
	And also they act as a repository of value, sort of like gold, right?
	Because basically what Bitcoin is, for example, is it is a digital form of, it's basically a digital code that churns out so-called coins at regularized intervals.
	And then does not do any more than that, right?
	And there's a whole system by which the ownership of these coins is verified and all of that.
	But what the main kind of cache of the thing is, is that it's a trustless system.
	It doesn't require you to go to a bank.
	You don't have to have a bank account in order to use Bitcoin, right?
	You have a wallet, that's it.
	And you don't have to worry about transferring your Bitcoin from one currency into another currency.
	And so this is a threat to a lot of governments because governments like for you to use dollars or it's the Yuan or the Renminbi.
	If you're talking about the Chinese government, they like for you to use centralized currencies because this is how they get out of their debt problem.
	Every time a government racks up a monster debt, what they do is they inflate their currency and they just start slowly inflating their way out of that debt.
	Bitcoin provides an alternative to that.
	It also, by the way, disintermediates like the entire banking system.
	It really is kind of incredible.
	You don't think about how when you use your credit card, every time you use your credit card, there are between seven and 10 companies that are involved in every single use of your credit card.
	And by the way, it takes like days for every credit card transaction to actually be verified, which is why you'll get a call from your fraud company two days after you've used your credit card on a particular transaction.
	So there are all sorts of middlemen that are cut out of the process by Bitcoin, by cryptocurrencies generally.
	And cryptocurrencies are becoming ever more sophisticated.
	This is really cool stuff.
	What it is more than anything is it's an almost anarchic decentralization of a process that the elitists in our society believe they should have control over and not you.
	So what is government doing about this?
	Well, what government could be doing in the United States is using Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a way to break the Chinese financial stranglehold on that part of the world.
	Because Chinese citizens right now have to trade using the Yuan, for example.
	They have to trade using digital currencies that are being created by the Chinese government.
	But what if they didn't have to?
	What if they could trade straight in dollars?
	What if the United States, for example, created its own Fed coin or pushed forward a stable coin, which is tied to the price of the dollar?
	Well, then the Chinese would be in real trouble.
	But the American government is too stupid to see this.
	So instead, what you get is them attempting to undermine cryptocurrencies because those cryptocurrencies could theoretically be a threat to America's ability to be the world currency and America's ability to blow out the spending and then inflate their way out of it later.
	Which is why it makes it kind of troubling that along with this infrastructure package, according to Quartz.com, the U.S.
	Senate passed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Tuesday with a glaring problem for the cryptocurrency industry.
	The bill includes vague new tax reporting requirements that digital rights advocates say threaten individual privacy and crypto advocates say could hamstring industry innovation in the United States.
	The bill's authors focused on closing the so-called crypto tax gap to pay for some of the massive spending plan.
	Bottom line is this.
	There are a lot of people who are using crypto to trade.
	There are a lot of people who are buying crypto.
	And the government doesn't like that you're making money.
	And so the government wants to take that money away from you.
	And they want to penalize you for engaging in a system that rivals the United States dollar in some ways.
	Even though it is not nearly big enough to rival the U.S.
	dollar in any real sense, even though not enough companies have adopted the ability to pay with Bitcoin yet, for it even to be seen as a true kind of global currency in the same way that the U.S.
	dollar is, when government sees a thing that is successful, government's first move is, how can I steal that money and use it to my own benefit?
	And that is what they're doing with cryptocurrency.
	The bill requires any crypto broker, defined as anyone responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfer of digital assets on behalf of another person, to report a user's names and addresses.
	That leaves all sorts of players in the crypto space, including miners and software developers on the hook, even though many of them do not currently gather or access personal information about users, many of whom are anonymous.
	Like, suffice it to say, There is a wide scale understanding this is a bad piece of legislation.
	The people who are attempting to push back against this, by the way, were people ranging from the far left, like Ron Wyden in Oregon, all the way to Ted Cruz on the right.
	Anyone with any semblance of understanding of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency was against what this bill did.
	They pushed forward with the bill anyway.
	And they push forward with it because in the end, Congress does not care what sort of innovation they stifle.
	Congress does not care what industries they strangle in the crib.
	They don't care about any of that stuff.
	All they care about is how can they grab your cash?
	That's it.
	The original language, by the way, of the bill, there were amendments that were proposed, but those amendments were put to the side because it was important that nothing be amended so that they could pass this stupid infrastructure bill.
	It's a huge problem for crypto.
	The Biden administration, for its own sake, has said, well, you know, in the end, we're probably not going to enforce it the way you guys fear we're going to enforce it.
	But bottom line is this.
	Once you hand that sort of power to bureaucrats, it's like Chekhov's gun.
	Once it's above the mantle, it will be used at some point in a way that you don't particularly like.
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	Meanwhile, the fanaticism on COVID continues.
	Now, there is new data out about COVID and the vaccines.
	The new data suggests that the Pfizer vaccine is not supremely effective when it comes to preventing infection against Delta.
	We already knew this.
	We knew in Israel, for example, there was some data that suggested that the Pfizer vaccine was only 30-something percent effective against the transmission of Delta among the vaccinated.
	That you could get a breakthrough case fairly easily, even if you were vaccinated in Israel.
	Here's the thing.
	Who cares?
	Who cares?
	Let me reiterate.
	Who cares?
	Once more.
	I don't care.
	You shouldn't care.
	Cases don't matter.
	Cases are irrelevant.
	How many cases of colds were there in the United States last year?
	Any idea?
	I don't have any idea.
	You know why?
	I don't care.
	You don't care either.
	You know why?
	It's a cold.
	Okay, once you have had the vaccine, COVID is now downgraded to the level of a mild flu at worst or a cold.
	The levels of death from COVID, yes with the Delta variant, are extremely, extremely low.
	So who cares that you can transmit it or that you can get it pretty easily if you've already had the vaccine?
	I don't care that I can get a cold.
	I still walk around without a mask in normal everyday life.
	As should you.
	Okay, what this actually should say is, okay, well since everybody who has had the vaccine can still get this thing and then presumably still transmit it, although we don't have the full data on transmission yet, Even if that's the case.
	What that really means is there is no way we're getting to zero COVID.
	Zero COVID is not a thing that's going to happen.
	And so everybody should go out and live their lives now.
	That's what that actually means.
	And yet, the idea from the left is that they have a way to shut this down.
	And they don't.
	They just don't.
	It's just about control at this point.
	That's the part that's totally maddening.
	No one has a way to prevent a future variant.
	If a future variant is coming, it's coming.
	No one has a way to prevent this thing from transmitting because literally hundreds of millions of human beings have had this thing at this point.
	In fact, the only country right now that I'm aware of that has had no real Delta surge in terms of death is Sweden.
	Is there any wonder for that?
	I'm looking right now at Sweden's case rate.
	Sweden's COVID cases.
	They just have not had any surge, period.
	End of story.
	Sweden, starting in July, went down to about 230, 213, somewhere in the 200 to 300 case a day range.
	Okay, right now, they're up to like 700 cases a day range.
	Their chart is extremely mild.
	They're not seeing a giant spike in Sweden.
	Could that have something to do with the fact that they pursued a very Floridian strategy of shield the vulnerable and let everybody else go to work?
	Largely without masks?
	Is that a possibility?
	One of the things that we now know, according to Israeli studies, is that natural immunity may be more durable than vaccine immunity.
	And nonetheless, the idea here is that if you want people to live any form of real life, if you want people to get back to work at any point, if you want anyone to go back to normal at any point, it is because you are selfish and terrible.
	That's because we are now engaged in a bizarre single-factor analysis where the only thing we care about is preventing transmission of COVID.
	That's stupid.
	It's really dumb.
	I was talking with someone today at length about this particular issue.
	And he was saying, well, don't you, why do you have different answers than so many of the public health specialists?
	And I said, first of all, it depends which ones you talk to.
	If you talk to Mario Makary over at Johns Hopkins, or if you talk to Jay Bhattacharya over at Stanford, even if you talk to former CDC director, Robert Redfield, even by the way, if you talk to former FDA commissioner, Scott Golley, they all agree with a lot of what the things that I'm saying, but put that aside.
	Maybe the reason that I disagree with so many public health experts is not because we are looking at different data.
	Maybe we're looking at the same data, but their priority is not my priority.
	Their priority is no one should ever get COVID again.
	And my priority is people should be allowed to live free now that the risk has been mitigated to the fullest possible extent available for normal human beings.
	Hey, this is why it is so maddening to me when you are seeing, for example, the, the Jen Psaki's and Joe Biden's of the world attacking Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.
	It is absolutely maddening to me.
	Because if you look once again at the death rates from COVID in Florida overall, Florida still ranks like 26th in the pack.
	Florida never should have been the bugaboo.
	They have the second oldest state in the country.
	And again, the oldest state, cause I don't really count Maine.
	Maine again has seven people in a moose.
	Okay, so the fact that six of those people are old means nothing.
	Florida has a bevy of old people.
	Florida's an extremely elderly populated state.
	And DeSantis still, without the population adjustments, ranks like 26th in terms of deaths per 100,000.
	The media are not interested in telling you that.
	They're interested in ripping on DeSantis.
	And the answer is because DeSantis, like you, like me, like many Americans, is trying to balance a variety of factors when it comes to COVID.
	And those factors do include things like, do I really need to mask my kid when they go to school?
	In the United States, fewer than 400 children have died under the age of 18, a subgroup of 73 plus million Americans.
	There is no evidence that Delta is more deadly for kids than the prior variants.
	That is according to Joe Biden's own administration.
	That evidence does not exist.
	That's NIH Director Francis Collins saying that himself.
	The evidence when it comes to masking in classrooms does not exist.
	It doesn't exist.
	We talked about this yesterday.
	There is no comparative masking in classrooms versus non-masking in classrooms study that demonstrates that masking in classrooms is deeply effective in preventing some sort of cataclysm that's to come.
	Okay, but if you don't care about any of those priorities, if your only priority is no one should ever get sick again, the answer is going to be John Travolta in The Bubble Boy, and that's what these folks want.
	This is why Jen Psaki is trying to make an enemy of Ron DeSantis.
	Like, listen to Jen Psaki, it's pretty wild.
	A headline from the New York Post, from I believe...
	Two days ago, Team Biden's war on DeSantis is all about kneecapping a successful governor, a GOP governor. Could you address that concern, please?
	Our war is not on DeSantis. It's on the virus, which we're trying to kneecap. And he does not seem to want to participate in that effort to kneecap the virus. Hence our concern.
	Screw you. He doesn't want to participate in it. On what planet?
	93% of Florida seniors have had at least one dose of the vaccine, and well over 80% of seniors in Florida have had two doses of the vaccine.
	He doesn't want to kneecap the virus.
	No, it's just that he does not believe that it is possible to completely kill off the virus, because there's no evidence it's possible to completely kill off the virus worldwide.
	Okay, you're lying.
	Okay, you're just lying.
	Everyone would like to see fewer people die.
	There are other priorities that must be balanced there.
	Okay, just as there always are in politics, the most ridiculous, stupid, and corrupt game in politics is if it saves just one life.
	Because that can apply to literally anything.
	If it would save just one life, we could outlaw all cars.
	If it would save just one life, we could lock you in your home permanently.
	If it would save just one life, then we could make sure that no one ever walked outside their front door.
	Forever, we could do that.
	No one's willing to do that.
	Priorities have to be balanced.
	But of course, the White House doesn't want to balance those priorities.
	So instead, they're just promoting as much sort of lockdown nonsense as they possibly can.
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	Well, in the absence of evidence and also in the absence of any sort of real moral case for why they're doing what they're doing, the Democrats, the left across the board, their basic idea here is to just imply that everybody they don't like wants people to die, right?
	We are back to where we were at the beginning of the pandemic when people were saying, we really need to take into account all of the countervailing factors.
	And people were saying, well, you just want to kill grandma.
	We're right back there.
	It never waned.
	And right now, the only thing that they keep saying over and over and over again is that they want zero COVID and zero COVID is not a thing. It is just not a thing. So instead, they're not talking about all of the dictatorial measures they're going to take. So Jen Psaki said, we are lifting up and supporting private sector vaccination mandates. Okay. Now let's just recall, this is the federal government talking about how it wants private industries to do what the federal government itself will not do. Right. That's what this is.
	This is the exact same thing as when the federal government says they want Facebook to ban particular types of speech.
	Now, they're saying, what we would really like is for all of these corporations to do what we're not doing and mandate the vaccines.
	Remember, still FDA emergency use authorization.
	I am very much pro vaccine.
	In fact, here's the thing.
	I'm more pro vaccine than any of these people.
	You know why?
	Because now that I've had the vaccine, I'm done.
	I'm done.
	And that means that I don't care whether you have the vaccine or not.
	I mean, I'd prefer that you do for your own peace of mind, for your own safety.
	But if you choose not to get the vaccine, it doesn't affect me because all that's going to happen to me in all likelihood.
	And when I say in all likelihood, I mean in 99.99% of cases.
	All that's going to happen to me if I get a breakthrough case is I will have the sniffles, which is perfectly acceptable to me.
	That is a massive downgrade from the possibility that I was going to die from this thing or that my parents were going to die from this thing.
	Okay.
	So I care, like, again, I have more faith in the vaccines than any of these people, apparently.
	And yet they're the ones who are saying they want to cudgel corporations into doing what they want to.
	It's a front door way of lifting up private sector companies who are taking steps Through carrots and sticks, through incentives, and through mandates in some cases to get more people vaccinated and to make sure they're protecting their workforce.
	I would note that this was intentionally a diverse group of industries.
	So the airline industry, university systems, healthcare industry, small businesses.
	We wanted to share the work they're doing and support these efforts.
	And today is an example of us lifting up the private sector, taking steps that make sense.
	It's funny how they're in favor of the private sector when the private sector is being hijacked by them to do what they want.
	When Sean Penn is talking about how corporations need to mirror Sean Penn, you should be very afraid.
	Sean Penn is a dude who hangs out, he gave a eulogy for Hugo Chavez.
	This is not somebody who is congenitally pro-corporation.
	This is somebody who's happy with corporations when they do his bidding.
	This is one of those things that should be mandatory that we all get.
	With the exception, the very few exceptions of those people who for whatever the medical condition might offset it.
	But I do think that vaccines need to be mandatory.
	And I do think that business, all businesses, movie business, all business need to take the lead.
	Okay, it's funny how all the people on the left who hate corporations and believe the corporations are the root of all evil now want corporations to take the lead.
	How strange.
	How strange.
	Meanwhile, it's getting dystopian out there.
	So YouTube apparently has now suspended Rand Paul for the great sin of questioning the efficacy of masks.
	Recently, I shared a video on my YouTube page.
	Republican Senator Rand Paul announced Tuesday he has been censored by YouTube, which he described as becoming a quote-unquote arm of the government.
	He told Just the News Tuesday on a conference call, we've had two speeches taken down. This last one was, I think, a short speech.
	The access to the entire YouTube channel is no longer available.
	Recently, I shared a video on my YouTube page. It was an interview between myself and a journalist where we discussed a variety of topics, including the science behind wearing masks.
	Apparently, because I dared to contradict Dr. Fauci and the government, YouTube has removed my video.
	YouTube said the video violated their policy because of my comments on masks, and that they don't allow videos that contradict government's guidance on COVID.
	YouTube may be a private entity, but they're acting like an arm of the government, censoring those who present an alternative view to the science deniers in Washington.
	So who exactly are they going to listen to then?
	Right.
	Who exactly are they going to censor?
	Are they going to censor Zeke Emanuel?
	Zeke Emanuel is a COVID advisor to President Biden.
	Zeke Emanuel is one of the architects of Obamacare.
	Here he was yesterday saying cloth masks aren't good enough against Delta.
	By the way, right now, as I've mentioned, we're in Hawaii.
	They put the mask mandates back on.
	You're supposed to be wearing the mask literally everywhere, including like on the beach and out in public.
	Like it's crazy.
	It's totally insane.
	Okay.
	And most of the people who I've been seeing wearing masks are wearing either surgical masks or cloth masks.
	Okay, that is likely, according to Joe Biden's own sources, to not be particularly effective.
	I'm not saying it.
	You want to ban Zeke Emanuel?
	Ban Zeke Emanuel.
	Okay, here's Zeke Emanuel saying that.
	Wearing gaiters or just simple cloth masks are not good enough and getting N95 is good.
	It's also important to make sure you're getting an N95 that's NIOSH approved.
	There are lots of fakes out there.
	About 60% of the KN95s appear to be counterfeit.
	Um, and a lot of them not made to, uh, the high standards of 95% protection.
	But I totally agree with you, Andrea, that we do need to up our game.
	It's not just masking.
	It's proper masking, including the nose, and it's masking with a good mask, like an N95.
	Okay, can I mention something about KN95s?
	So I asked my wife about this because she had to take classes with regard to how you properly wear personal protective equipment, right, when you're in a hospital.
	You're supposed to change your KN95 every time you leave a patient.
	Every single patient you're supposed to change your KN95.
	Have you ever seen anyone operate this way?
	People wear the KN95, the same one, for like weeks on end, right?
	They go home, they take it off because they're expensive.
	They put them back on and then they wear it the next day.
	Again, this does go to questions of efficacy.
	It's not just Zeke Emanuel, by the way.
	Michael Osterholm is a former Biden advisor on COVID.
	Like to put it again, this does go to questions of efficacy.
	It's not just Zeke Emanuel, by the way.
	Michael Osterholm is a former Biden advisor on COVID.
	He says the exact same thing.
	We know that face cloth coverings can reduce the amount of virus that you may But to be fully protected in the way that we believe, particularly with this variant that we have today, Delta, you need to have the kind of protection that comes with an N95 or a KN95 for kids, which are available in children's sizes.
	And just putting something over your face in of itself doesn't protect you.
	Now that doesn't give anybody license to take my statement and say masking doesn't work.
	What you have to do is use effective masking, and we have done a poor job of communicating that, and I think CDC is in part responsible for that.
	Yes, they're entirely responsible.
	Not in part, entirely.
	And by the way, KN95s for kids?
	KN95s for kids?
	Are you out of your damned minds?
	Have you ever met a five-year-old?
	What are you talking about?
	There's still no verifiable data suggesting that masking in school mandatorily has lowered case rates anywhere.
	That data does not exist because there's no comp group.
	We talked about this yesterday.
	There are some places that did it.
	There are some places that didn't.
	The comps don't exist.
	Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't.
	The one thing that we know for a fact is that an unbelievably low number of kids have been killed by COVID.
	Thank God!
	Thank God for that.
	And now you're trying to mask up my seven-year-old in perpetuity?
	For the risk that she... By the way, a risk that... Lower than the risk that she was gonna die of the flu?
	Right?
	This is much less deadly than the flu for small children.
	Not for everybody.
	For everybody else, it's more deadly than the flu.
	For small children, it's less deadly than the flu.
	As Ron DeSantis points out, by the way, it is amazing what we know and what we don't at this point with regard to COVID.
	It is truly incredible.
	You understand that in the United States, we still have no idea how many Americans actually had COVID.
	We have no idea.
	Isn't that kind of bizarre?
	Like if I asked you how many Americans had COVID, you would not know the answer.
	You know who else wouldn't know the answer?
	The NIH.
	The NIH did zero, serious national zero prevalence studies.
	A lot of parents have come.
	They've come to me.
	Britain. Britain tested people.
	They did antibody tests.
	And so they know how close they are to herd immunity.
	We have no idea how many people actually got COVID over the course of this pandemic. That's insane.
	A lot of parents have have come.
	They've come to me. They've come to the school boards and said this has been very difficult on their young kids to have to sit there for eight hours with It's not natural.
	It's never been studied what the effects of that are.
	You know, NIH has a $42 billion budget.
	They've not spent a single penny since COVID started studying how these mitigations affect kids.
	So ultimately, my view is It's a parent's decision.
	Okay, and it should be a parent's decision, but apparently it's not supposed to be.
	Because in the end, your freedom is of very little concern to our great public health overlords.
	Here's Arnold Schwarzenegger saying that you shouldn't worry about your freedom anymore.
	You don't need your freedom.
	It's not important anymore.
	Here we go.
	Arnold.
	There is a virus here.
	It kills people.
	And the only way we prevent it is to get vaccinated, to wear masks, to do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.
	No, screw your freedom.
	Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities.
	We cannot just say, I have the right to do X, Y, and Z. When you affect other people, That is when he gets serious.
	You have the freedom to wear no mask, but you know something?
	You're a schmuck for not wearing a mask.
	Give up your freedom if you want to live.
	Come with me.
	Like what in the- No.
	Again, this is like saying that I am somehow responsible for you after I put on my seatbelt in my car.
	What I really need to do is I need to strap a mattress to the front of my car in case you decided you didn't want to wear your seatbelt and you go crashing through the front windshield of your car in a car crash.
	I need to drive around with a mattress on the front of my car to make sure that it catches you in case you didn't wear your seatbelt.
	Hey, this is, it's, it's amazing.
	I mean, and not only that, we got to do this for your kids.
	We got to do this.
	Very important.
	We do this for your kids.
	How insane has this become?
	The New South Wales health minister, a woman named Carrie Chance is in Australia.
	She came out and she said, if you see other people, try not to talk to them.
	Try not to have conversations with other humans.
	What is going on?
	We've all lost our minds.
	By the way, the total number of cases in New South Wales in Australia right now, their seven day rolling average is 312 cases.
	The population of New South Wales is 8.166 million humans.
	Again, total case count is in the 300s.
	And she's saying, don't talk to any of the other 8 million people living around you because you might give them COVID.
	This is so... What?
	Their seven-day daily death average in New South Wales right now is two.
	Two!
	You've all lost your minds.
	I'm sorry, you've all gone crazy.
	Whilst it is in human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly, unfortunately this is not the time to do that.
	So even if you run into your next door neighbour in the shopping centre, in the Coles, whilst you're at Coles Warriors or Aldi or any other grocery shop, don't start up a conversation.
	Now is the time for minimising your interactions with others.
	This is insane.
	By the way, Israel's doing the same thing.
	Israel's also crazy.
	The cabinet in Israel just voted to expand what they call the Green Pass to all branches of the economy except malls and places of commerce.
	It will apply starting at the age of three.
	Now, you may be asking yourself, wait a second, I thought kids couldn't get the vaccine yet.
	They can't.
	What does this mean?
	It means that anyone who is unvaccinated, including small children, will now be required to present a negative COVID test before going to a swimming pool, gym, academic institution, sport and cultural event, conference museum, library, restaurant or hotel.
	So if I want to take my five-year-old to a restaurant in Israel, I have to present a negative COVID test.
	Presumably one from the last couple of days.
	The test for children up to 11 will be paid for by the state, whereas anyone 12 or older will be required to fund the screening on their own.
	The entire world has lost their minds.
	They've lost their minds.
	They've lost their damn minds.
	They have no connection with reality anymore.
	Everybody is so... You talk about the rise of safetyism, this is the triumph of safetyism.
	It's over for freedom, if people have the perception of safety.
	That a vaccine is out there, you can protect yourself, and we still have to lock down every aspect of society, including talking to other people, and basic freedom, according to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and not masking children, and also, you know, like, going to a restaurant with your kids.
	This is nuts.
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