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Nov. 18, 2021 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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The Biden Vaxx Mandate Is On Life Support | Ep. 1379
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OSHA announces they will be putting their unconstitutional vax mandate on hold as cases spike in heavily vaccinated states, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial hits another speed bump, and Democrats vote to censure a Republican congressman for an anime cartoon.
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So, yesterday, OSHA suspended its VAX mandate.
They did so because the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had essentially Put a hold on it.
They said that there were serious constitutional and statutory issues with the OSHA vaccine mandate.
You'll remember that that mandate was set to kick into place at the beginning of January.
And it said that if you had over 100 employees, you had to force your employees to vax, test, or be fired.
That was the mandate.
And we at the Daily Wire, we filed maybe the first case, first lawsuit against it in the nation, certainly the first lawsuit at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Well, now there are cases right now in all 12 circuits.
Those are going to be consolidated and sent over to the Sixth Circuit after there was a little bit of a lottery.
They actually use lottery balls to pick which circuit would get to consolidate the cases were in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
That's our case, which means that the Daily Wire is now leading the case for the nation against OSHA.
Now, the whole that's been put on is a victory for the moment.
When I say for the moment, I mean that the Biden administration says that they will continue to force the OSHA VAX mandate the minute that a court says that it's okay for them to do so.
However, that's why this is the first step.
That's why it's important to help support us here at Daily Wire in pushing back against the vaccine mandate because this will be adjudicated by a panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Then it will likely be appealed over to the Supreme Court.
So this is just the beginning of the battle.
And we are calling on all other businesses to do what we have done.
So we at Daily Wire said day one, we would not comply with this unconstitutional vaccine mandate.
We are not going to do it.
From the get-go.
And a lot of businesses, they said, well, you know, maybe you can afford that or maybe you're willing to undertake that risk.
But we are not because obviously the federal government can come after us.
So we will attempt to comply with the VAX mandate, even though it has not yet gone fully into force.
Well, now it's not in force at all.
And so if you're a freedom-minded business, do not make it easy for the federal government by doing what the federal government wants you to do.
Instead, stand up for the freedom of your employees.
That is what we've done at Daily Wire.
That's what we're pushing everybody to do.
Head on over to dailywire.com right now and sign our petition.
The way that it works is that OSHA has a hearing period for all of their regulations.
Not the emergency temporary standards they're trying to use here, but their actual regulatory standards.
And so we hope to submit to them a million signatures In support of the idea that this vaccine mandate is a bad idea through the regulatory process.
So you can go help us out right now doing that.
Well, here's the thing.
As time moves forward, and as we see how the vaccine mandates are playing out across the nation, what we are seeing is that infections are still spiking in heavily vaccinated states.
This is not a case against the vaccine.
As I've said before, the vaccine is very good at preventing hospitalization and death, which is typically what we care about.
The problem is that for the left-leaning media, for the Democrats, They have boxed themselves in.
They have suggested that the only way to end the pandemic is if no one gets infected.
That's never going to happen.
What really should end the pandemic is the fact that vaccines were available.
Now you could protect yourself.
Within the next month, we're going to have therapeutics that are as protective as the vaccine in some cases, according to the new studies that are coming out.
There's a therapeutic from Pfizer.
It's a pill that if you take it within a couple of days of being diagnosed with COVID, it knocks out the death rates to zero.
Okay, so with all that in play, this is over.
Okay, we are done now.
There should be no public policy push with regard to any of this stuff once people can protect themselves.
If you choose not to be protected, that is your problem.
And if you are protected, what everybody else does is none of your business at this point, because we are not reaching herd immunity.
Everybody understands we are not reaching herd immunity.
When herd immunity was in sight, when there was an idea that if we got 80% of the population vaxxed, that would end all infections because the R would drop below one, and then no one would be passing this thing on.
Then at least you had the argument.
But herd immunity is not a thing.
It is not a thing with this virus.
This is going to become endemic.
Everybody understands that.
Endemic just means that it is going to continue passing through the population for long periods of time.
And you can see it in state after state after state.
Right now, for example, Michigan has the most COVID cases in the nation.
Michigan also is one of the more vaccinated states in the nation.
According to the latest data, Michigan has over 50,000 new COVID cases in the past week.
That comes out to 503.8 cases per 100,000.
Minnesota is second with 490 cases.
New Mexico has 462 cases.
So you will notice there that all three of those states are blue.
We were told that only red states get COVID because red states are evil, but that's not the case.
The last time Michigan led the nation was in April when the state encountered the largest surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
And we know why this is happening.
The answer is, this is happening because people are going indoors because it's getting cold in Michigan.
It's that simple.
In the past three weeks, Henry Ford Health System says its hospital system has seen a 60% rise in the number of patients hospitalized with COVID.
According to one of the doctors over there, they have 330 patients with COVID hospitalized across five hospitals.
Another 35 patients with COVID or suspected COVID.
Apparently, most of those hospitalized with COVID-19 are not vaccinated.
Okay, well, that I'm sure is true because you are much more likely to be hospitalized with COVID if you are unvaccinated by the statistics.
What that does not mean is that you cannot pass this thing on if you are vaccinated to other people who are vaccinated.
Right now, what we have seen is that the vaccines are not particularly durable in terms of preventing reinfection.
They're durable in preventing hospitalization and death.
And now it is up to you.
It is up to you.
And none of the people on the left seem to want to recognize this.
So what is the point of the OSHA vaccine mandate?
If the idea of the OSHA vaccine mandate is we have to prevent this thing from being passed, well, the vaccine itself does not prevent, in toto, all of this virus from being passed.
There's a somewhat lower rate of passing the virus if you are vaccinated versus if you are unvaccinated.
But it is not a completely lower rate, which is why you would see outbreaks in heavily vaccinated areas.
For example, Ireland right now is a 93% vaxxed country.
They reimposed COVID restrictions anyway because there was a massive uptick in the number of COVID cases.
There's a member of the health service explaining that.
As a society we need to look out for each other.
93% of the adult population are fully vaccinated.
We have over 600 people in hospital at the moment and roughly around half of those are unvaccinated.
The evidence is absolutely clear and tonight I would join with all of our healthcare professionals in urging people who have not yet received the vaccine to please take it up.
Now again, urging people to take the vaccine is not a terrible thing.
Forcing people to take the vaccine is a very different thing.
You're seeing the same thing in Vermont, by the way.
Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country, and cases are surging over there.
According to ABC News, in Vermont, nearly 72% of residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
At the same time, it has the 12th highest rate of new COVID cases over the last week, according to state data.
And in the country right now, we have a major surge in COVID cases.
I don't care about COVID cases.
You shouldn't care about COVID cases.
You should only care about hospitalizations and deaths.
And at this point, you should really only care about whether you and your family are protected, and whether your neighbors are protected, and whether they also have the freedom to determine whether they are protected.
And those are the factors.
You do not get to tell your neighbor how to protect themselves.
You do get to protect yourself how you wish to protect yourself.
And yet we still have the Biden administration attempting to cram down these mandates.
The seven-day average for COVID-19 cases rose 42% as of Tuesday, according to state data in Vermont.
And the state positivity rate also increased 30%.
So what we are seeing is that even heavily vaccinated areas are still seeing a pretty significant uptick in COVID.
By the way, you know where they are having very few COVID cases?
Down here in Florida.
Why?
Because they're already passed through the population and it's nice outside.
This is not complicated.
The lowest state in terms of current case average over the last seven days?
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas.
That is not a coincidence.
All four of those states got clocked over the summer in terms of number of people who are getting this.
It was very hot outside.
People were going indoors.
Some people were getting reinfected.
Some people who were unvaccinated were dying.
But right now, which states are getting clocked?
It's Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont, yes, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, basically anywhere it is cold.
Anywhere people are going indoors.
This is not a shock.
And yet the Biden administration continues to push forward with this notion that they are going to mandate on you and on your employer that you get the vax.
Here's the thing.
Democrats are in a tailspin right now and they don't know which way to turn.
Because one thing they do understand is that Americans are very tired of this.
How tired are Americans of this?
They're so tired that in Washington, D.C., which is bluer than blue.
Washington, D.C.
is the bluest area in America.
Muriel Bowser, the mayor, just came out and said she's going to get rid of the masking mandates at local stores.
Why?
Because business owners who are going to contribute to her mayoral campaign said, we're not going to contribute unless you allow us to do our business.
And of course, you have other Democrats who are attacking Mayor Bowser now.
So you have the head of the D.C.
City Council, Phil Mendelsohn, writing a letter to Muriel Bowser, saying that they want to reinstate the mask mandate.
They say, even the White House will maintain its mask mandate.
We urge you to reverse your decision to drop the mask mandate.
We are concerned the changing course entering the winter months, not to mention the week before a major travel holiday, is not a prudent course of action.
It sends a signal that public health concerns are back to normal when they are not.
Our focus should be on getting every eligible person vaccinated, not gambling with the safety of the most vulnerable, etc, etc, etc.
So Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
And here is the thing.
There are significant costs to the lockdown policies that have been attempted by blue states and blue cities.
One statistic that might be worth noting is we've had about 700,000 deaths from COVID over the course of the last year.
And over the course of the last year, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses.
100,000!
That is from April of last year to April of this year.
According to the New York Times, in that 12-month period, more than 100,000 Americans died of overdoses, up almost 30% from the 78,000 deaths in the prior year.
That figure marks the first time the number of overdose deaths in the U.S.
has exceeded 100,000 per year, more than the total of car crashes and gun fatalities combined.
Overdose deaths have more than doubled since 2015.
By the way, this does give the lie to the notion that more government aid prevents overdose deaths.
We had more government aid in the last year than any time in American history.
Bar none.
And overdose deaths spiked.
Why?
Because when you destroy people's sense of community, their ability to reach out to other human beings, they stay home and they get high and they do drugs.
And many of them die.
Administration officials said on Wednesday they will expand access to medications like Naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose by encouraging states to pass laws that will make it more widely available and promoting its use by Americans.
But the COVID pandemic accelerated this, and really the response to the COVID pandemic accelerated this.
Overdose deaths related to use of stimulants like meth, coke, and natural and semi-synthetic opioids also increased during the 12-month period.
So it's not just fentanyl here.
The vast majority of those deaths, 70% were among men between the age of 25 and 54.
There were regional variations in the death counts, but the largest year-over-year increase is exceeding 50% in states including California.
Vermont increased 85% during the reporting period.
You saw some poorer areas like Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky.
That had a pretty major uptick as well.
But you also saw increases of 40% in Washington State, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota, Alaska, Nebraska, Virginia, and the Carolinas.
Okay, so it turns out that shutting down the entire country has some pretty dire side effects.
And Americans know this.
And Democrats are about to pay the political price for all of this.
Which is why Governor Ron DeSantis has not been doing this the whole time.
Governor DeSantis in Florida, he just pushed through a bunch of anti-mask mandate and vax mandate proposals in the state of Florida.
According to the New York Times, early this year, Governor Ron DeSantis crisscrossed Florida promoting COVID vaccines, visiting retiree communities and hospitals, celebrating people who got their shots.
But it was a remarkably different picture this week when Florida's Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunez was a prominent speaker at a rally organized by anti-vax activists on the state capitol steps.
Well, no.
She was there not fighting in the VAX.
She was there fighting VAX mandates.
Full disclosure, I'm very friendly with both Governor DeSantis and Jeanette Núñez.
She's a wonderful Lieutenant Governor.
But, says the New York Times, the jarring scene gave vaccine skeptics in Florida a big win and moved the state further away from the guidance of federal public officials.
Perhaps no state has been more aggressive than Florida, where Mr. DeSantis and his allies are betting that anger over public health restrictions that drove Republicans to the polls in Virginia, New Jersey, and other states will grow their political base and keep voters fervently engaged.
The Republicans passed four bills on Wednesday to curtail mask and vax mandates, the culmination of a three-day special legislative session that Mr. DeSantis called so swiftly it caught even Republican leaders by surprise.
The session was urgently needed to combat federal government overreach, said DeSantis, which, of course, is true.
The federal government is mandating that businesses do what the federal government wants them to do.
The state of Florida is saying, well, no, we're just going to fight back against that, and now we're not going to allow you to do what the federal government is telling you to do, creating a conflict of law situation that frees businesses to do essentially what they want.
I love how the New York Times proposes that this is all about being anti-vax in Florida.
If you look at the vaccination rates by state in America, Florida is right in the middle of the pack.
This bizarre, idiotic notion that Florida is somehow on the low end of vaccination rates is totally crazy.
It's not true.
I'm looking right now at the rate of full vaccination by state Okay, and let's look at age 65.
Let's start with age 65.
If you look at the percentage of people who are vaccinated above the age of 65, Florida has 93.2%, this is according to Mayo Clinic, 93.2% of all people in Florida above the age of 65, this is a really old state by the way, are vaccinated.
Of people aged 18 to 64, almost 70% are vaccinated.
67.1% are vaccinated.
By the way, those are better numbers than a huge number of blue states, including, by the way, Michigan.
Even among people 12 to 17, almost 50% of Florida residents aged 12 to 17 are fully vaccinated.
And if you look at the numbers on one-dose vaccinations, if you look at the number of people who have gotten at least one dose, you're looking at 99.9% of all people aged over 65 have one dose of the vaccine in Florida.
And 78% of Floridians between 18 and 64 have the vaccine.
So you're seeing the media trying to proclaim that this is all about how Florida doesn't want people to vaccinate.
It's a lie.
It's just not true because they are damned liars.
Florida just would like you to retain your freedoms.
And we here at The Daily Wire would also like you to retain your freedom.
So please go sign our petition over at dailywire.com because we are fighting back against this garbage.
And you should be too.
Okay, in just a second, we're gonna get to the latest in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, which, once again, is going sideways.
Major boo-boo by the prosecution.
We'll get to that in just one second.
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It is insane to me that we are still deliberating about this case.
When I say we, I mean the jury.
This case is the most clear-cut case of self-defense I have ever seen in my life.
But the judge yesterday correctly blasted the media for their misinformation about the trial.
Here's what the judge had to say.
Some of the other misinformation about the case that is widespread, and you gentlemen are as aware of it as I am, Now they had some people in the Milwaukee Journal, I think I read it, said it was odd, I think was the word, that I didn't rule on the motion to dismiss.
I haven't even had a chance to read the motion to dismiss.
I just got it yesterday.
And I really think before I rule on a motion, I should let the state respond.
So why anyone would think that it's odd for the judge to sit on a motion to dismiss?
I have no idea.
Okay, so the media coverage in the case has been absolutely bizarre.
He is exactly right about that, and politically driven.
Well, yesterday, the prosecution ran directly into a buzzsaw because it turns out that the prosecution handed over a badly pixelated version of the drone footage.
Remember, there was drone footage of the first shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum by Kyle Rittenhouse.
And it turns out that the prosecution had that for a long time, and finally when they turned it over, it was a badly pixelated version of the video.
According to Breitbart, the dispute involved several videos, especially a high-definition video the prosecution used in closing arguments on Friday, which had not been provided to the defense, which received only a low-res version.
The defense moved for a mistrial Tuesday on that basis.
ADA John Krause told the judge the prosecution had not intentionally withheld video evidence from the defense, but there was an accidental compression involved in moving video between iPhone and Android devices.
The person who took the footage, according to Krause, had earlier provided it to Rittenhouse's former attorney John Pierce, who had shown it last year on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News.
When it was emailed to the defense, there was a compression, he said, which had not been deliberate.
He said he had no idea how to compress the files.
The defense countered the files appeared to be different, and the metadata accompanying the video appeared different.
The defense also said the video provided to Tucker Carlson was different as it was black and white.
The prosecutor's video was in color.
That had not been the problem, but rather the superior quality of the prosecution's video.
Defense lawyer Mark Richer said, at this point, your honor, they've not requested what we're fighting about.
You're correct, the judge replied.
Earlier on Wednesday, the jury did send a question to the judge about whether it would be permitted to review video evidence in the courtroom or in private.
That came in late yesterday afternoon.
Okay, so the prosecutors tried to claim that it was just a technical glitch.
The defense said that this video evidence was compressed by the prosecution and passed over to them in order to deceive them, which wouldn't be a shock because there've been serious evidentiary questions throughout.
Here is the defense making that argument.
The one that was provided to the state's crime lab that attorney Finger gave me a copy of on Saturday had a very long convoluted title that involves lots of letters and numbers that are the type that are usually associated with files taken from a drone because they indicate a lot of different information like the location of the drone and the time.
The file I received originally on Friday the 5th was not labeled that same and was not the same file amount.
There's no way that what ADA Krause is saying is true because the file name would not have changed if my computer was compressing anything.
It was a different file that we were provided from what was provided to the state.
At least for what Attorney Binger gave me on Saturday.
They're completely different.
Okay, meanwhile, the prosecution admitted there was a technical glitch, but they said it was just a technical glitch, no biggie.
The defense, by the way, is arguing that one of the reasons the prosecution did this is because they were looking for a mistrial, because this is going so badly for them.
I think we're focusing on... too heavily on... I guess a technological glitch.
And we should be focusing that this exhibit was played.
The jury is asking to see exhibits that they have seen.
They didn't know about this video.
They've tried to find it just as we did.
We found it and there was a technological glitch.
Or not a glitch, but I guess it worked in a way that is designed that we were not aware of.
And I do not believe a Technical reality, shall we say, or an unknown technical incident should result in a mistrial.
Yeah, sure.
Meanwhile, the media continue their habit of drawing the most bizarre narratives out of this case.
Farhad Manjoo, who somehow has finagled a column at the New York Times, which is amazing because truly there is a running battle between the members of the New York Times editorial board about which one of them is the worst columnist.
Farhad Manjoo is definitely near the top of the list.
I think it goes like Charles Blow, Paul Krugman, Farhad Manjoo, but he's climbing the list each and every day.
He had a piece yesterday in which he argued that the big problem in the Kyle Rittenhouse case was the gun.
Not the people rioting in the streets attacking the guy with a gun, the gun.
According to Farhad Manjoo, the lead prosecutor, Thomas Binger, offered a meticulously documented closing argument that deftly summarized all the ways Rittenhouse acted unlawfully.
We'll see if the jury buys it, but to me, Binger's argument had a power beyond this case.
That's because it cleverly unraveled some of the foundational tenets of gun advocacy, that guns are effective and necessary weapons of self-defense.
Well, I'm not sure how that was unraveled, considering that...
Rittenhouse would probably be dead today, or at the very least in a coma in a hospital, if he had not had a gun.
He says that without them lawlessness and tyranny would prevail.
Lawlessness and tyranny did prevail in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
And that in the right hands, in the hands of the good guys, guns promote public safety rather than destroying it.
Well, I mean, they do.
There just weren't enough guns there in the hands of the good guys.
There was one good guy with a gun, Kyle Rittenhouse in this particular case, up against an entire riotous mob.
One of whom was a child molester trying to attack him, another of whom was a convicted criminal who was trying to attack him with a skateboard, and a third of whom was approaching him with his own gun.
But says Firehead Manju, in the Rittenhouse case, none of that was true.
At every turn that night, Rittenhouse's AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle made things worse, ratcheting up danger rather than quelling it.
The gun transformed situations that might have ended in black eyes and broken bones into ones that ended with corpses in the street.
Well, whose fault is that?
The people attacking the guy with the gun or the guy with the gun?
But, you know, the left must have its narratives.
So we'll continue to keep an eye on the jury in that particular case.
Honestly, I'm shocked they still have not come back in at this point.
Okay, meanwhile, the other big controversy of the day that broke out yesterday was a controversy over Paul Gosar.
Paul Gosar is the rather nutty congressperson from Arizona who is hobnobbed with some of the worst derelicts on the political ultra-right.
White supremacist adjacent crowd, like Paul Gosar has hung out with some pretty bad folks.
I am no Paul Gosar fan, but the House attempting to censure Gosar for what they're attempting to censure him for is pretty wild.
And what's more wild is that they attempted to strip him of his committee assignments.
And they did yesterday.
A Democratic House has now been stripping Republicans of their committee assignments, which is a pretty big violation of the way that this stuff usually works.
We'll get to that in just a moment.
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Okay, so.
Now we move to Congress, where, as always, idiocy reigns.
So, Paul Gosar, as I've said, is not a good congressperson.
He is a rather nutty character, to say the absolute least.
He put out on Twitter an anime video.
This anime video has now become subject to controversy because it was taken as an actual death threat against Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
Here's the anime video.
Okay, so it's just images of people at the border, and then an anime character flying through the air, and then people riding ATVs near the border, and helicopters near the
border.
That's it.
Yeah!
And the anime video shows this Paul Gosar anime character attacking with swords a figure which appears to be like a half-naked male with the face of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and then jumping toward the face of Joe Biden with anime swords.
This is what they're talking about.
Okay, can I just say that anybody who takes this as an actual death threat against AOC is out of their mind?
I'm sorry, you're crazy.
If you think that's an actual death threat against AOC, you're a crazy person.
As somebody who's received their fair share of death threats, I can safely say that in no way would I see something like this and think, oh, that's a legit death threat.
That's somebody who's trying to kill me.
I could say, yeah, I'm offended, it's really stupid.
It's literally an anime meme video, and Ghoststar is like a...
somewhat elderly dude who likes to hang out with the meme crowd, like the alt-right meme crowd.
And yet this was taken as an actual death threat against Alexander Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden, which is wild. Okay, it's kind of an insane thing. So here is Paul Gosar defending himself. Again, he's a wild dude. For this cartoon, some in Congress suggest I should be punished.
I have said decisively, there is no threat in the cartoon other than the threat to the immigration poses to our country.
And no threat was intended by my staff or me.
The American people deserve to have their voices heard in Congress.
No matter how much the left tries to quiet me, I will continue to speak out against amnesty for illegal aliens.
If I must join Alexander Hamilton, the first person attempted to be censored by this House, so be it.
It is done.
Okay, so, is he a hero for tweeting it out?
No.
Is it a stupid meme?
Yes.
But, here's the thing, the entire Democratic Party responds to this as though he has actively threatened AOC's life.
So you get Nancy Pelosi out there, blasting Gosar, and saying we can't have members joking about murdering each other?
This is where you draw the line.
Like, on the anime video.
This is what you're going to blow up Congress over?
Okay, Nancy, sure.
These threats specifically target a woman, a woman of color, which is part, as the resolution states, a global phenomenon meant to silence women and discourage them from seeking positions of authority and participating in public life.
Disguising death threats against a member of Congress and a President of the United States in an animated video does not make those death threats any less real or less serious.
That's absurd.
She's an absurd human being.
And indeed, conveying them this way makes them potentially more dangerous by normalizing violence.
It's more dangerous!
She's a crazy person!
I'm sorry, she's crazy!
Like, first of all, did Secret Service investigate Paul Gosar over that?
Did Secret Service investigate Paul Gosar?
Were they like, man, that's a serious death row.
Let's get, we gotta get the group together and go raid his house.
Making an anime video is more serious?
And the suggestion is that he's attacking AOC because she's a woman of color?
Is Joe Biden a woman of color?
You're gonna have to explain that one.
Maybe the reason he's attacking AOC, like, is a politician?
Again, I think the video is stupid.
I think members of Congress shouldn't be putting that stuff out.
But let's stop pretending that that is, like, a full death threat.
Come the f- Come on.
Come on.
Again, as a recipient of actual death threats, I can tell you, nope.
That one ain't even the ballpark.
And this bizarre, crazy idea that it's about AOC's race and sex is, again, nuts.
The reason, presumably, that he's angry with AOC is because she's an amnesty-first, crazy person who has been treated as the light of the left.
She's very famous.
The left has made her famous.
They're the ones who propped her up.
This is the game the left always plays.
You can't attack Kamala Harris.
She's a black woman.
Well, you're the ones who put her in a position of prominence because of who she is.
It is sad.
It's so weird. Okay, so then AOC gets up and she does the woe is me routine. And now AOC is going to lecture us about the nature of rhetoric in politics, AOC, because she's never used inflammatory rhetoric at all. I mean, she's one of the most eloquent, well-spoken, soft-spoken, subtle artists in the rhetorical space, AOC.
It is sad. It is a sad day in which a member who leads a political party in the United States of America cannot bring themselves to say that issuing a depiction of murdering a member of Congress is wrong.
And instead decides to venture off into a tangent about gas prices and inflation.
What is so hard What is so hard about saying that this is wrong?
Okay, so this is coming from the same group of people.
She voted literally in favor of not funding Iron Dome, which helps Hamas.
So yeah, or actually she abstained and then she cried about it on the House floor.
Yeah, she's yeah, AOC.
I think, do you think this is real?
I just have a question.
You think this is real?
I usually don't doubt the sincerity of political actors talking about how hurt they are.
But as somebody, again, who has received more death threats than virtually anybody in American public life, I can tell you, no.
No on that.
That is completely insincere.
It is a ginned up nonsense.
She said, I have seen the other members of this party advance the argument, including Representative Gosar himself.
The illusion that this was just a joke.
The illusion?
It's an anime video!
I'm confused.
How is that not a joke?
Have you ever, like, thrown out an anime video as a very serious point in a debate?
Like, in a budget debate.
Do people normally just throw out anime videos of themselves?
Badly pixelated their faces onto anime characters?
The illusion that this was just a joke.
I love when they pretend they don't understand jokes.
That what we say and what we do does not matter so long as we claim a lack of meaning.
Now this nihilism runs deep, says AOC.
It conveys and betrays a certain contempt for the meaning and importance of our work here.
Okay, let me not betray a lack of contempt.
I have contempt for the meaning of your work here.
All of you.
All of you in Congress, I think that you're basically useless.
I think you do nothing for a living and get paid on the tax paradigm and then claim that you're changing the world while wrecking America's fiscal future.
So let me just put that one out there.
But.
It betrays contempt for the meaning of the work that we do here.
That's what we do.
So long as we claim it's a joke, it doesn't matter.
That's what we say.
That what we say here doesn't matter.
That our actions every day as elected leaders don't matter.
And I am here to rise to say it does.
She said, our work here matters.
Our example matters.
There's meaning in our service.
Vomit.
Come on.
You don't have to like Paul Gosar or even like that he tweeted out a dumb meme to understand that it's not a death threat that violates the sanctity of the United States Congress.
And these people are so irritating.
You're making me defend Paul Gosar now.
What the f*** is wrong with you people?
Seriously, what?
OK, so Peter Mayer.
Who is a congressperson from Michigan.
He said, as someone who's faced death threats and had a senior party official reference my assassination, I take political violence seriously.
Representative Gosar disgraced himself with his actions leading up to January 6th.
He's disgraced himself further by associating with anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers.
Sadly, disgracing oneself with anti-Jewish associates isn't a rare occurrence for a handful of my colleagues on either side of the aisle.
But today's vote wasn't about these actions.
It was about a dumb anime clip.
The last censure of a member of Congress was in 2010.
Today, Democratic leadership did not present an objective articulate standard for censure in the absence of an ethics committee ruling or a formal legal action.
Representative Gosar's conduct has been contemptible.
Calling that video a death threat is an unreasonable exaggeration that ignores why political violence is such a threat.
Leaders embracing authoritarian lies.
The American people deserve a Congress that functions according to reason, not emotion.
Correct.
Correct.
But we often pretend to be deeply offended by Gosar's anime video.
I'm offended by you being offended.
Honest to God.
Sack up.
Okay, meanwhile, when it comes to censure, first of all, half of Congress should have been censured by this point.
But what the Democrats did is they removed Gosar's committee assignments.
Now, I think there's a good case that Gosar shouldn't have committee assignments, but that has to come from inside the Republican caucus.
That doesn't come from the Democratic caucus.
There's a basic rule.
Republicans name Republican members of committees, and Democrats name Democrat members of committees.
It's been broken now.
Democrats have said that they will throw people like Marjorie Taylor Greene off committees.
So get ready to reap the whirlwind.
Here's Kevin McCarthy saying, listen, you guys want to play this game?
Next time we're in power, we are going to dump all you guys from your committee assignments.
What they have started cannot be easily undone.
Their actions today and the past have forever changed the way the House operates.
It means that the minority rights that have served this body as well are the things of the past.
And furthermore, it means that under the Pelosi president, All the members that I have mentioned earlier will need the approval of a majority to keep those positions in the future.
Okay, he's right.
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Alrighty, so Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman from Colorado, she was having none of this.
She got up on the floor of the House and she's like, okay, so let me get this straight.
Paul Gosar got censured, not for any of the anti-Semitic hangings out or any of his prior bizarre statements, but for an anime meme.
And should we sum up what some members of this Congress have done wrong?
Lauren Boebert just bringing the hammer.
Good for her.
I mean, honestly.
Since the speaker has designated the floor to discuss members' inappropriate actions, shall we, the Jihad Squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband, and not her brother-husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds.
This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists.
and then the cherry on top my colleague and three-month presidential candidate from california who is on the intelligence committee slept with feng feng a chinese spy let me say that again a member of congress who receives classifieds sleeping with the enemy this is unacceptable and this would never be time to expire gentlemen from florida
Um, winner winner chicken dinner.
Lauren Boebert points to Lauren Boebert right there.
Yup.
Yup.
See, here's the thing, guys.
Either no one gets censured or everybody gets censured.
That's the way that this has to work.
Because here's the thing.
She's correct.
Congress is full of derelicts.
Congress is full of people who not only say terrible things, but do terrible things.
It is rather incredible that Eric Swallow retains his committee assignments despite the fact that he was screwing a Chinese spy.
That is kind of an amazing thing.
Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar got very upset with Lauren Boebert for mentioning not her brother-husband, the other one.
And she tweeted, What I like there is where she flatters herself that her dad raised her right.
Otherwise, I might have gone to the floor to talk about this insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert.
What I like there is where she flatters herself that her dad raised her right.
Otherwise, I might have said this thing that I'm saying right now in a tweet.
I'm grateful I was raised to be a decent human.
That is not true.
And not a deprived person who shamefully defecates and defiles the House of Representatives.
You can't defecate the House of Representatives.
You can defecate on the House of Representatives.
Praise God.
Ahem.
So.
First of all, the thing that she's referencing there, sleeps with a pervert, is that her husband, not Boebert, did anything wrong.
Her husband was arrested for, like, an indecent exposure a couple of years ago.
But Ilhan Omar getting into family issues is real awkward.
Like, real awkward.
She's got a follow-the-house Usher thing going on in her own family.
And not just that, even if you put aside the, as Lauren Boebert calls it, the alleged brother-husband, you will have to recall that she also did in fact pay a couple of million bucks to her current husband's firm.
She was allegedly having an affair with her current husband while she was married with the last husband.
She does have kids.
She's a disaster of a human.
Also, she is just a terrible Jew-hating anti-Semite.
They thought about censuring her.
They thought about at least saying something in Congress about her.
And the Democrats are like, no, we'll just pass a resolution saying that all forms of hate are bad.
By the way, Ilhan Omar still has no answer to the charges of anti-Semitism.
She's asked by Chris Hayes about the Jewish community.
And she's like, I'm just not going to answer this.
Obviously, you have a lot of Jewish folks in your district.
You have a lot of synagogues.
It's a very vibrant Jewish world in the Twin Cities.
What those relationships are like, what those conversations have been like, because I do know people that have pretty progressive politics that I do think have been offended or have questioned your heart on these matters.
And I know that's happened in your district.
I'm curious what those conversations have been like.
Yeah, I mean, I think communities are not monolithic.
You know, there's different ideologies people have, there's different perspectives and different places where people come from and there are different relationships people have with me that sort of inform a positive reaction to anything I say or a negative reaction to anything that I say.
I'm just going to sidestep that you hitting anti-Semitism right there.
By the way, the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party still has Rashida Tlaib as a member of good standing.
This is a person who hobnobs with pro-terror advocates openly.
And Joe Biden was praising her yesterday, like not a year ago, yesterday.
It's a spare me the crocodile tears on the, oh my god, Paul Gosar put out an anime meme.
It's all just posturing.
You want to know why people hate politics?
Because we all know that all these people are full of absolutely extraordinarily toxic levels of crap.
They're all septic at this point.
All righty.
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