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Joe Biden Speaks With The Dead | Ep. 1583

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	As Hurricane Ian pummels Florida, members of the media rush to blame climate change, Joe Biden thinks a dead person is alive, and his press secretary gives the world's worst defense, and Lizzo plays James Madison's 200-year-old flute.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	Well, Hurricane Ian continues to pummel Florida.
	It's been downgraded.
	to a category two or a category one as it moves further inland over the coast of Florida.
	It has absolutely crushed places like Naples, like Sanibel Island, and basically any place that was directly on that Gulf Coast of Florida in sort of the central region or southern region of Florida is getting absolutely crushed.
	We're talking about storm surges of up to 18 feet along the ground level.
	So lots of video has now been coming out of places that are completely flooded.
	At least a million people are without power, maybe two million people without power.
	As this hurricane continues inland.
	Basically, it's not about the wind damage, it's about the storm surge.
	Because when hurricanes move toward a coast, what they do is they suck all the water in with them and then they promptly deposit all that water back on shore as they move inland.
	And that's precisely what has happened.
	So there's some wild video of, for example, sharks swimming around areas like Fort Myers Beach, like in the middle of the street.
	You've got sharks that are just swimming around in Tampa.
	Apparently, there was video in the subways of sharks swimming around on the subways because just enormous amounts of water have now been deposited.
	Inland houses have been completely wrecked.
	It is a major natural disaster, no question about it.
	Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, he says this is one of the five worst hurricanes in Florida history.
	Here's the governor.
	As much as we're focused on Southwest Florida, it's very important, obviously, when you have a storm of this nature.
	I think at landfall, it's going to be behind only the Labor Day hurricane, Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Michael, in terms of intensity.
	I think we're going to end up seeing that.
	It may end up being a Category 5, but at a minimum, it's going to be a very strong Category 4 that's going to rank as one of the top 5 hurricanes to ever hit the Florida Peninsula.
	Now, Florida has deployed an enormous number of resources to help deal with this.
	Obviously, we've seen enormous amounts of damage from this hurricane.
	One of the sheriffs in Florida is now suggesting the death toll could be in the hundreds.
	He said this on Good Morning America.
	His name is Carmine Marceno.
	And he said there are hundreds in Lee County, that is where Fort Myers is located.
	Presumably that number is going to rise as time goes on.
	Enormous amounts of property damage, as well as houses floating away, literally floating away in Fort Myers.
	A very, very damaging storm.
	It's going to take a while for these areas to recover because this is essentially a 100-year storm.
	Tampa hasn't been hit by anything remotely like this in about 100 years.
	According to the Washington Post, 2.5 million Floridians were put under evacuation orders or warnings earlier this week.
	But some people decided to stay.
	Obviously, the people who decided to stay have been kind of rushing to high ground.
	They've been attempting to get up to higher levels of the buildings where they are.
	So, for example, you saw the mayor of Naples, who was actually giving a press conference from the second floor of the Naples City Hall.
	This sort of stuff, unfortunately, it's really horrifying and these places are going to need an awful lot of help.
	For his part, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, he said he spoke with Ron DeSantis and they stand ready to help.
	I made it clear to the governor and the mayors that the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible.
	When the storm passes, the federal government is going to be there to help you recover.
	We'll be there to help you clean up and rebuild to help Florida get moving again.
	And we'll be there at every step of the way.
	That's my absolute commitment to the people of the state of Florida.
	Okay, well, that would be the absolute commitment of any president.
	Obviously, after George W. Bush's shellacked for his supposedly lax handling of Hurricane Katrina, even though that was really a state and local failure, no president of the United States is going to not deploy the resources of the federal government in the middle of a hurricane.
	That's been a pretty non-controversial American federal policy going all the way back about A hundred years.
	I mean, the last time a president of the United States basically said, local disaster, you handle it, was Grover Cleveland, all the way back in about 1896.
	So, it's been quite a while since the federal government has been getting itself involved in these sorts of issues.
	Corinne Jean-Pierre, the White House past secretary, she said, they have the manpower and woman power on the ground, which is just, it's, I'm sorry, it's a, what about the they power?
	What about those who are neither men nor women who are providing help?
	What about the trans non-binary little people who are providing help on the, like, I do love that the, Silliness of the equity language has now pervaded everything up to and including who is going to be rescuing pets from rooves in Florida.
	Well done here, Cory Jean-Pierre.
	We have put the full force of the federal government when it comes to making sure the people of Florida have the resources they need.
	I just listed out at the top of the briefing on all of the kind of resources, manpower, women power that's on the ground, water, food, and we will continue to move in that direction, making sure that the folks of Florida get what they need.
	You do need the manpower and the woman power.
	And the they power.
	All very, very important stuff.
	I will say here that there are a couple of aspects of the federal response already that are highly politicized.
	So Joe Biden took the opportunity of this particularly bad storm to warn against gas gouging.
	So this is a routine that Joe Biden has been doing for quite a while here is that when the prices go up, he blames the gas companies, despite the fact that it is not your local Shell retailer that is jacking up the prices of gas.
	It's the underlying forces in the oil and gas market, namely lack of production, shutdowns of pipelines.
	high taxation, right? The profit margin for your local gas station is really, really low. But when the inflate, when you inflate the economy and when there is a shortage of supply, you get higher prices. Joe Biden, however, will yell at the local gas station. He'll just like ride his bicycle over there, fall over and then get out and start yelling at the gas station. Well, now he's doing that in Florida.
	He's suggesting that what's happening when the prices go up in the middle of a hurricane is that there is gas gouging going on, that it's the profit-driven evil companies that are making those prices go up.
	No, that's not how any of this works.
	What is happening is that it is very, very difficult to resupply gas stations in the middle of a giant hurricane.
	And so that means there are gas shortages.
	And the only way to actually lower the demand with regard to gas is to increase the price.
	That is why the prices go up during a natural disaster.
	In the same way that if there was a giant blight on agriculture, the price of wheat would go up.
	That wouldn't be the farmers gouging you.
	So here is Joe Biden saying economically nonsensical things because this is what he does for a living.
	My experts inform me the production of only about 190,000 barrels a day has been impacted by the storm thus far.
	That's less than 2% of the United States daily production.
	impact it for a very short period of time.
	This small, temporary storm impact on oil production provides no excuse for price increases at the pump.
	None.
	If gas companies try to use this storm to raise prices at the pump, I will ask officials to look into whether price gouging is going on.
	America's watching.
	The industry should do the right thing.
	As a matter of fact, they should move more quickly now to bring down the price of the pump because gasoline is down.
	The price of gasoline is down a great deal.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	That's just insipid economics.
	By the way, speaking of what is going on with gas prices, gas prices actually have jumped a little bit.
	Over the course of the last couple of weeks, thanks specifically to the Russia-Ukraine war and the blowing up of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 and all the rest.
	So when Joe Biden says that it's the gas company's fault if those prices are going up, understand that as the head of American energy policy, which is what the President of the United States effectively is, when it comes to large-scale trends in price, that is much more due to Joe Biden than it is due to your local retailer who, by the way, your gas station doesn't make money on the gas.
	Your gas station makes money at the A&P.
	They make money when you buy a Slurpee at the machine.
	That's where they actually make their real money.
	The amount of money that they're making off the gas is very, very minimal.
	So again, that's one aspect of the economic politics of this that's incredibly stupid.
	Meanwhile, I will say it is fairly amazing what Democrats can get away with when it comes to going to fundraisers in the middle of disasters.
	You remember that Barack Obama famously Jetted off to Las Vegas in the middle of the Benghazi disaster, right?
	As Americans were being murdered in Benghazi, Libya.
	You remember that he went over to Las Vegas and he had a big party with like Jay-Z and Beyonce and all the rest of it and everybody in the media was like, well, you know, that's what he does.
	I mean, he is the president.
	Why wouldn't he be in Las Vegas hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z?
	But, I promise you that if this had been a Republican president, and if Donald Trump were president right now, and there were a disaster in Florida, and Trump were going to some sort of fundraiser, all you would hear wall-to-wall is how the president isn't in the hurricane senator monitoring.
	Now listen, I'm not under the grave misimpression that the president of the United States actually needs to be over at the At the hurricane center with FEMA monitoring this stuff.
	I don't think the president has control over the hurricanes.
	I think it's really stupid when politicians jet set into disaster ridden areas and they survey the wreckage.
	I thought this whether it was Trump, whether it was Obama, like there are certain things that we demand of our politicians that are just incredibly dumb.
	It's like we're going to put.
	Joe Biden, who again, can barely move.
	We're going to get him on a rowboat and we're going to row him through Fort Myers or something and he's going to look out over the waters and all the waters are going to recede.
	None of that is real, but let's just say that there ought to be one media standard.
	If the media standard is that the president needs to be absolutely present, he needs to be there, he needs to be ready, On the mark, ready to deploy.
	And going to fundraisers is kind of a bad thing in the middle of a giant cat 4 hurricane hitting one of the largest states in the United States.
	Here was Corine Jean-Pierre yesterday acknowledging that Joe Biden was still going to a fundraiser last night.
	The president's schedule tonight has him attending a political fundraiser while the storm is hitting the state of Florida.
	Is it still his intent?
	So, we don't have any changes in his schedule.
	He has been really steadfast and very clear and has spoken multiple times on what is happening in Florida and what we are seeing with Hurricane Ian.
	Oh, so it's the steadfastness with which he speaks that now matters.
	When George W. Bush, however, flies a plane over the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, then that means that he's out of touch and quite terrible.
	So, do love the double standard.
	Meanwhile, the media doing their best to basically try to blame this thing on climate change and global warming.
	Now, again, as I said yesterday, one of the big talking points for global warming advocates has been that you cannot label any specific weather event in outcome of climate change.
	And you can't do that because again, they're data points.
	Climate change is a trend.
	You cannot use a data point in substitution of a trend.
	Otherwise you end up with people on the right going out in the middle of a snowstorm and being like, hey, where's the global warming guys?
	Got a snowball right here.
	This is something that people who, the quote unquote climate deniers, they do this and then people on the left are like, well, you can't say that that blizzard right there is the result of global warming.
	All we are saying is that over time, the trend of the climate has changed.
	Okay, well, if you're gonna do that, then it works for both sides.
	And every climate scientist will tell you this.
	Hey, I speak regularly.
	For a climate denier, it's pretty incredible with the number of climate scientists I speak to.
	I speak regularly with people ranging from like MIT to Caltech about things related to climate change.
	And every single one, right to left to center, like everyone will tell you that you cannot label any single weather event the outcome of climate change.
	That's particularly true when you're using bad data.
	But CNN, MSNBC, The View, they don't care about whether they're using bad data.
	They have a political point of view to promulgate, and that point of view is We, it's almost a paganistic worldview.
	It's like, if we propitiate the gods by getting rid of these gas-powered vehicles, then there will just be no more hurricanes.
	Which is weird, because there are hurricanes on, you know, like Jupiter, and there are no gas-powered vehicles on Jupiter.
	It turns out that one of the natural features of weather, in every weather system that we know of, is hurricanes.
	So, there's that.
	Also, one of the simple facts that we also happen to know is that hurricanes have not, in fact, become more frequent over time, and that the amount of damage that is being done by hurricanes is due to what we talked about yesterday, the target effect.
	Meaning, if you shoot an arrow at a tree, and there's no target on the tree, and then you paint a target around the arrow, then magically, you're amazing at archery.
	Well, that's basically what's happened with these hurricanes.
	These hurricanes have been hitting these areas for a very long time, but people are just building more in these areas.
	So when a large scale hurricane hits Fort Myers and it wipes out half the island, is that because the hurricane is more severe or is it because people built on Fort Myers?
	And a long time ago, people didn't build on Fort Myers out of fear of hurricanes.
	So now that you have more people living in these areas, you have increased the size of the target around the arrow, which means that the hurricanes are now very, very good at archery to mix our metaphors.
	This is something Bjorn Lomborg has written about significantly.
	He says, the frequency category three and above hurricanes making landfall since 1900 is also trending slightly down over the course of time.
	He says, airplanes and satellites have dramatically increased the number of storms scientists can spot at sea today, making the frequency of landfall hurricanes, which were reliably documented even in 1900, a better statistic than the total number of Atlantic hurricanes.
	And those are basically stagnant.
	The frequency of hurricanes making landfall has declined slightly since 1900.
	A July Nature paper?
	Found that the increases in strong hurricanes you've heard so much about are not part of a century-scale increase, but a recovery from a deep minimum in the 1960s through 1980s.
	In other words, if you're seeing more severe hurricanes now, that is because from the 60s to the 80s, we had a period of artificially low hurricanes.
	So, as Lomberg says, better infrastructure fed by improved technology and wealth does more to protect lives and property than cutting carbon emissions.
	And this is really the underlying point here, is that what you see from the left is this idea that if we pour trillions of dollars into green energy, we'll stop the hurricanes.
	That's silly.
	Hurricanes were happening long before people were using gas-powered vehicles.
	They'll be happening long after people are using gas-powered vehicles, before human beings were walking on planet Earth, before the species Homo sapiens existed.
	There were hurricanes that were striking a lot of these areas, and that will continue for the rest of time.
	The real question is, how do human beings adapt to all of that?
	But none of this actually matters to the so-called climate lovers, the science lovers, the people who love to-science, not actual science, they love to-science, which is politically driven science in search of some sort of political outcome.
	So Bill Weir, who does this routine all the time on CNN, he went out there and tried to blame climate change for the hurricane, of course.
	Again and again, I've been trying to mention that this is the result of a warmer planet.
	Scientists have warned us for a long time that storms won't get necessarily more hurricanes out of climate change, but the ones we do get will be bigger and faster and wetter.
	And here is your exhibit A, Hurricane Ian.
	Okay, but your exhibit A, if I just give you an exhibit, I can do that with like literally anything.
	I can take a single data, this is bad data science.
	You can pick a single data point and pretend that it's part of a trend without any sort of evidence.
	Like what you're gonna need is a bunch of data points demonstrating this.
	And let's be real about this.
	The state of Florida last year basically did not get hit in any significant way.
	The state of Florida the year before did not get hit in any really significant way.
	This year we had an unusually quiet hurricane season up until we had this giant hurricane.
	This is one of the big problems with data trends and the way that the media analyze them in the United States.
	They take outlying events, meaning events that are statistically fairly rare, and then they use these to try to promote the idea that there is a giant global trend happening.
	Again, when it comes to hurricanes, the connection between climate change and hurricanes is actually one of the least clear connections.
	If you're going to do the climate change, which in climate is damaging everything, climate's a real problem, what you'd want to look at is long-term trends on like ice sheets.
	You're going to want to look at the water levels around the world.
	You're going to want to look at the global temperature as we measure it.
	You're not going to want to look at events that are statistically rare.
	It's almost the same way that the left likes to analyze school shootings as though it's the only indicator of gun violence in the United States, and therefore must ban all long guns, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of killings with guns in the United States are not done with long guns.
	In other words, when you pick statistical outliers, like hurricanes, and you use them as evidence, you are doing a bad job with the data.
	But that's exactly what our media wish to do, because this is how the media cover events.
	The media don't cover trends.
	The media cover specific events, and then they try to connect that to a trend.
	So here is MSNBC's Joy Reid and Ali Velshi, both amazing climate scientists, claiming that climate change is to blame for all of this.
	There is a lot that has changed about the earth that has made these things worse, right?
	I mean, these things are thriving because the water is getting warmer.
	And I think when people, we stopped calling it global warming for political reasons, but that's what it is, right?
	Our earth is getting warmer and there is just no doubt, I think, left that it is feeding these beasts.
	Well, and where it comes out is in the intensity.
	The people say, well, they've been hurricanes for millennia.
	Well, that's true.
	But we sometimes get these ones that are so much more damaging and so much more intense.
	And it's good that we talk about these things in the moment, because lots of times over the years when I brought it up, people said, oh, now's not the time to talk about it.
	That's right.
	Now's the time to talk about it, because the only time people are paying attention to how damaging these things are.
	Okay, well, again, he gives away the game right there.
	We're going to talk about this as though it is evidence of a trend, despite the fact that we don't present no data on this, because now is the time when we can get people's attention, and then we can be really alarmist about the idea that these hurricanes are going to become more frequent and more deadly.
	By the way, if we're going to talk about the most damaging hurricanes in American history, the Hill did a rundown of the most damaging hurricanes in American history.
	Okay, how about the Chenier-Kamenada hurricane of 1893?
	It was before gas-powered emissions were really the big problem on planet Earth.
	A powerful Category 4 hurricane made landfall on a small island in Louisiana with wind speeds of more than 130 miles an hour.
	Apparently, the storm surge basically took out all but one house and killed 778 of the town's 1,471 residents.
	2,000 more people were killed as the hurricane moved over Mississippi.
	How about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
	High tides resulted in 8,000 deaths.
	That was in 1900 when a Category 4 hurricane hit Galveston, Texas with storm tides up to 15 feet.
	How about the San Felipe Okeechobee hurricane of 1928?
	That was a Florida hurricane.
	More than 2,000 people died.
	Now, what you'll notice is that the number of people who have died due to hurricanes in the United States, except for Hurricane Katrina, which was a huge failure of the levees, has been significantly lower than these numbers that I am citing earlier on because people have become better at adapting.
	You'll also notice that these hurricanes that I'm talking about are like 100, 120 years ago.
	So again, the attempt to paint all of this as, it's the climate change denier's fault.
	If you refuse to acknowledge the great God of climate change, then you will have caused the hurricane.
	Again, the data do not back this.
	The view, of course, the repository of nearly all stupidity in the entire universe, perhaps in the entirety of the Milky Way.
	The view slammed Ron DeSantis.
	Who's so far doing a very good job handling the hurricane, as governors are supposed to do.
	Claiming that he's a climate denier, so basically he deserves it.
	Can I just make this one point?
	Because according to NPR, Florida's climate challenges are among the biggest in the country.
	Hurricanes intensified by climate change, rising sea levels, extreme heat and drought, and health threats from mosquito-borne diseases.
	This is the quote from Governor DeSantis about climate change.
	Quote, I am not in the pews of the church of the global warming leftists.
	This is what he thinks about climate change and now his state is getting hit with one of the worst hurricanes that they have ever seen.
	Perhaps he is smart enough to recognize that this is not normal.
	The phrase not normal covers an absolute multitude of sins.
	It's sort of like the phrase problematic, the word problematic.
	If somebody says something is problematic, it apparently alleviates any duty they have to explain why something is bad.
	They just go, um, that's very problematic.
	You're like, why?
	Like, well, because it is problematic.
	Same thing with not normal.
	You know, what's happening right now is not normal.
	Okay, well, explain.
	What's the not normal part about it?
	Meaning, yeah, hurricanes, generally speaking, are statistically abnormal.
	Like, 364 out of the days of the year, there was not a hurricane in Florida.
	So statistically, it's an abnormality.
	But are you saying that hurricanes generally are abnormal?
	Are you saying that we've never had a hurricane like this, which is not true?
	Like, what exactly?
	It doesn't matter.
	All you have to say is not normal, and everybody just nods along.
	Okay, well, I guess we'll just give you a lot of money, and you can throw it at things.
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	Well, meanwhile, Joe Biden claims that he has a handle on all of this, and FEMA does because the president doesn't really do anything when it comes to hurricanes.
	Again, the dirty little secret when it comes to the handling of natural disasters is we have an entire agency that is dedicated to doing precisely this.
	And pictures of Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Donald Trump standing in the hurricane center wearing a coat, they didn't change anything.
	They just stood there and they posed for the picture, which is a good thing.
	I mean, it's a good thing that large swaths of the federal government actually run without the president having to be there because the president is not there.
	I don't mean he's not physically there.
	His body may be there, but his mind is elsewhere.
	The President of the United States, it is an unfortunate fact, and I know the media are trying to obscure this.
	By the way, this is going to change if the Democrats lose the midterms.
	If the Democrats lose the House and lose the Senate, the calls for Joe Biden to go are going to grow increasingly loud.
	The media right now are attempting to basically swivel Joe Biden's presidency.
	He's doing an amazing job, guys.
	It's so good.
	Biden is just winning again.
	So much winning.
	Aviator glasses.
	That will last until precisely the moment his party gets booted from office in November.
	If that goes real bad, by December, there are going to be calls for Joe Biden to announce that he is not, in fact, running in 2024 because he's a drag on the party.
	Because let's be real about this.
	Everyone who watches Joe Biden speak for more than 32 seconds recognizes that this man is not capable.
	He just is not.
	And when it comes to the hurricanes, for example, Joe Biden, right before the hurricane actually made landfall, he suggested that one of the most important things you can do if you're sheltering from the hurricane is you need to get vaccinated.
	What in the, what?
	Say, hmm?
	I'm gonna say that's one of the least important things you could do.
	Like you have 24 hours to get ready for the hurricane.
	What are you gonna do?
	What are you, are you gonna get vaccinated?
	Are you gonna try and leave the state?
	Are you gonna grab all your valuables?
	Like what?
	Here's the president of the United States explaining that you need to vaccinate for a disease that pretty much everybody in the United States got already and has been vaccinated seven times for it.
	And we are now on booster number 83.
	Here is the President.
	Let me be clear.
	If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas, A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.
	Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated in a hurricane or natural disaster hits.
	Okay, so make sure that you're vaccinated because we wouldn't want, while you're drowning, we have to make sure that you don't infect anybody with COVID, which, unless you are elderly and have diabetes, is not going to kill you, statistically speaking.
	That was not actually Joe Biden's weirdest moment over the course of the last 72 hours.
	We've already seen video of Joe Biden shaking hands with ghosts.
	We've seen him at his speeches wander off from the podium and he starts like putting his hand out and he's kind of shaking hands.
	We saw just last week a video of him at some sort of event where he wanders away from the podium, has no idea where to go, starts kind of looking around bizarrely, like John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, and then has to be guided by his people off the stage.
	Well, yesterday, Joe Biden did a rally in Indiana And he gave a shout out to Jackie Wolorski.
	Jackie Wolorski is a representative who recently died in a car accident.
	Again, not the first time Joe Biden has done this.
	He once said about a wheelchair-bound person, why don't you stand up and take a bow?
	So Joe Biden has never been all there, but now he's really, really not there.
	So here is Joe Biden, who apparently does not know that Jackie Wolorski is dead.
	Either that, or we've got this all wrong, and he's basically, we're all dead, and Bruce Willis is basically, we all see ghosts.
	Apparently, maybe that's, the real solution here is we don't understand that Joe Biden actually has the ability to convene with the dead without a Ouija board.
	So maybe we're actually underestimating his abilities here.
	We think he's all senile, but he's not, in fact, senile.
	Maybe he actually can convene with the dead, which would be an amazing quality in a president of the United States.
	Frankly, this gives me optimism for the future of the country.
	Here's Joe Biden.
	I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Governor, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative... Jackie, are you here?
	Where's Jackie?
	I didn't think she was going to be here.
	I think she's not... I don't know why she's not here.
	Because she's dead.
	But he, um, the White House put a statement out when she died, tragically, in that car accident, noting her death.
	So there is Joe Biden just forgetting that people are dead.
	And, um, that was actually not the worst part, okay?
	Because Joe Biden makes these gaffes fairly frequently.
	He talks to trees.
	Sometimes he, sometimes he talks to the sidewalk.
	Occasionally he, he makes personal acquaintance with the sidewalk after falling off a stationary bicycle.
	I mean, none of this is particularly shocking coming from our, um, Our president of the United States who is mentally losing his faculties.
	The worst part is what happened with Karine Jean-Pierre afterwards.
	So, if you are the White House press secretary and you're faced with this, you should just be like, yeah, Joe Biden made a mistake.
	He forgot about that tragedy and he apologizes for that.
	And then we all move on, right?
	And it's on a news cycle.
	Because like, okay, we all know the truth, which is that he forgot.
	He didn't remember.
	For some reason, it slipped his mind that she had been killed in a car accident.
	That would be understandable.
	It'd be weird, but it'd be understandable.
	Instead, Corine Jean-Pierre tries to explain that he knew full well she was dead, but he called her out for no reason.
	Corine Jean-Pierre is so bad at this.
	Legitimately, she is the Bob Uecker.
	Bob Uecker had a career batting average under 200.
	That is Corine Jean-Pierre.
	She is the worst press secretary I have ever seen.
	I've seen a bunch of them at this point.
	She is by far the worst.
	Here we go.
	Does the president think that she's living and in the room?
	I don't find that confusing.
	I mean, I think many people can speak to sometimes when you have someone top of mind, they're a top of mind, exactly that.
	And it is also, if you put it into the context, it's not like it happened without outside of context, right?
	He said, Jackie, are you here?
	Where's Jackie?
	She must not be here.
	No, I totally understand.
	I just explained, she was on top of mind.
	What we were able to witness today and what the President was able to lift up at this conference, at this event, was how her focus on wanting to deal with, combat food insecurity in America.
	And this is something that he was lifting up and honoring.
	Um, and then the reporter's like, well, um, I have John Lennon top of mind nearly every day cause I like the Beatles, but I don't think he's alive.
	Here we go.
	I have John Lennon top of mind just about every day, but I'm not looking around for him.
	When you sign a bill for John Lennon, Lennon has president, then we can have this conversation.
	Okay, go ahead.
	But what?
	So, So, to have a comment about this, apparently you have to be the President of the United States signing a bill in honor of a human, and then you can think they're alive?
	Is that the logic here?
	Again, the reporter's point goes, I read over the weekend a biography of Napoleon by Andrew Roberts.
	I'm not under the impression that Napoleon is still in the room somewhere.
	The part of this that really is astonishing, it says something deeper about our politics, is you can't just say in our politics, oops.
	Can you say oops?
	Every president has to be treated as though the president is completely infallible.
	The president is not a king.
	Again, this is a bipartisan phenomenon.
	Trump would say stuff and people on the right would be like, that is a 4D chess move, my friend.
	He knows exactly what he is saying and it is a genius move.
	And it's like, well...
	Probably it wasn't.
	Probably he was just eating from the toilet and we can just move on with our life.
	And with Joe Biden, it's particularly telling because Joe Biden, like everybody knew what Trump was, right?
	Everybody could see that Trump was just kind of saying the stuff that he wanted to say.
	With Joe Biden, they keep trying to burnish him.
	They keep trying to make him something he is not.
	He is a doddering elderly gentleman Who has no clue what is going on around him except at times when he is completely withdrawing from Afghanistan and leaving 38 million people to the hands of the Taliban.
	The President of the United States is not a leader.
	He is not with us.
	He is gone.
	Okay, the attic?
	The light is on, but there ain't nobody home.
	There are marbles that are missing from that jar.
	Joe Biden is, as I have said, at the point in his life where he could not pour urine out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
	He is just not there.
	Okay?
	He's gone.
	There are no bats in the belfry.
	It is empty.
	And yet, you have to have his entire team come out and explain that actually this is an act of massive genius.
	He just had her top of mind.
	This would be much better.
	If the White House just said, guys, you made a mistake.
	You forgot that this tragedy occurred and then we can all move on.
	But the necessity in today's politics to try and treat our presidents as though they are blessed with some sort of prophetic infallibility is just, it's insane.
	And again, it's perfectly obvious to everybody.
	I mean, Joe Biden literally yesterday had to direct Joe Biden away from a podium, which I guess is better than when the Easter Bunny did it.
	You remember that?
	A few months back, Joe Biden was at an Easter Egg Roll and the media came in there asking him questions.
	And the Easter Bunny, who I assume was Jen Psaki, came over and like grabbed him by the shoulders and started redirecting him away.
	It was like a scene from Harvey with Jimmy Stewart.
	Well, yesterday it was Jill Biden, aka Edith Wilson, who was guiding our senile president away from the microphones.
	Okay, I don't know if you're watching Game of Thrones House of Dragons, but this is basically like Alicent trying to guide Viserys around at this point.
	Like, Jill is... Joe, if you could just follow me, we're gonna go down this way, like, this is a step, and we're in a garden, and this garden is at the White House, and the White House is in the United States, and the United States is a country on planet Earth.
	And she's gonna take him, she's gonna put him in a chair, she's gonna put a blanket over his lap, and then she's gonna put a pillow behind his back, and then she's gonna give him some chamomile tea, and they're gonna watch Matlock together.
	Again, just acknowledge the reality of what is, and life will be so much better for everyone because we will all be able to speak to the same reality.
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	Now, speaking of failures to speak to the same reality, there was a controversy that broke out yesterday over Lizzo.
	So we're not talking about the usual controversy over whether fat is beautiful and fat positivity and whether being 100 pounds overweight is actually a wonderful, wonderful thing that is healthful and all this.
	We're talking about a controversy that broke out because Lizzo was given access to James Madison's crystal flute from 1813.
	According to the New York Times, Lizzo looked uncharacteristically nervous as she crossed the stage in a glittering mesh leotard with tights and sequined combat boots.
	A classically trained flautist who began playing when she was in fifth grade and considered studying at the Paris Conservatory, she has woven flute into many of her songs, has played virtually with the New York Philharmonic, and her flute, named Sasha Flute, even has its own Instagram page.
	But waiting for her on Tuesday night was an exquisite and highly breakable musical instrument that had arrived at her concert in Washington under heavy security, a crystal flute that a French craftsman and clockmaker had made for President James Madison in 1813.
	And so there are actually two clips of Lizzo that are going around.
	And I'm going to play both because I think it's important that we understand the context here.
	So, originally, she was asked by Carla D. Hayden, the first African-American and first woman to lead the Library of Congress, to play the flute.
	Because she'd asked Lizzo on Friday to visit the Library's flute collection, about 1,700 of those instruments, over at the Library of Congress.
	She tweeted, Lizzo, we would love for you to come see it and even play a couple when you're in DC next week.
	Like your song.
	They are good as hell.
	And she said, I'm coming, Carla, and I'm playing that crystal flute.
	So Lizzo arrived on Monday with her mother and members of her band, and Dr. Hayden and the staff members ushered her into the flute vault.
	And they gave her a tour of the collection, which includes fifes, piccolos, and a flute shaped like a walking stick, which Lizzo said she might want as a Christmas present.
	And she spent more than three hours at the library trying out several of the instruments.
	So she played a piccolo from John Philip Sousa's band that was used to play the solo at the premiere of Stars and Stripes Forever.
	She played a Plexiglas flute made in 1937.
	And she also apparently played this flute as well.
	So there is some video that came out from the Library of Congress of her playing the flute.
	She was trained at University of Houston to play the flute.
	So she knows how to play the flute.
	Doesn't mean she's like one of the world's great flutists in the same way that I'm not one of the world's great violinists, right?
	Being trained from a young age to play, you can be pretty good and that doesn't make you one of the world's, but she's a celebrity.
	Understood.
	Okay, so here's the video that is uncontroversial of her playing at the Library of Congress.
	This is better than what she usually does by like a long stretch.
	It's very nice!
	See, this is very nice!
	I'm enjoying this!
	She's a pretty good flutist!
	Like, great!
	Okay, so that's non-controversial.
	Okay, then there's the clip that everyone's making a big deal out of, as the New York Times suggests, right?
	The big thing that happened with Lizzo is that she brought this flute to a concert, James Madison's flute, to a concert, and she proceeded to twerk with it.
	So this is the thing that the entire world saw, was Lizzo wearing essentially a skimpy outfit, twerking with James Madison's flute.
	Not the first one, which is a very respectful treatment of a historic instrument, but instead Lizzo bringing forth a historic instrument to twerk with it, which of course is the point.
	Here is the clip of Lizzo.
	I love you.
	You can do it!
	We love you!
	Thank you.
	Okay, and then she said something about how she twerked and played James Madison's crystal flute from the 1800s.
	We just made history tonight.
	So the history wasn't made when she actually went to the Library of Congress and played very nicely.
	It was when she played one note and twerked with James Madison's flute.
	Okay, so this is what I'm going to call the face tattoo syndrome.
	Okay, because what has happened in the media is the face tattoo syndrome or the face tattoo phenomenon.
	Here's how it works.
	Somebody does something incredibly controversial and stupid.
	If you notice it, you're bad.
	You walk into the Starbucks and there's a guy behind the counter and that guy has the Mike Tyson face tattoo that just covers half his face.
	And you're staring at it because how can you not stare at a person with a giant face tattoo?
	And he's like, what are you looking at, bub?
	Are you offended by my face tattoo?
	You're like, well, I mean, you did get a face tattoo to draw attention to yourself.
	So I, if you're asking my opinion of the face tattoo, I think it was a bad idea and it looks terrible.
	How dare you notice?
	You cannot notice.
	If you notice, it's bad.
	The face tattoo phenomenon.
	That's what's happening here with Lizzo.
	The first clip, totally uncontroversial.
	The one that actually made the rounds, however, was her twerking.
	Because it is the contrast.
	That's the whole point that they are making.
	And commentators were saying this.
	It is the contrast between Lizzo, a significantly overweight African-American musician, right?
	Because the idea is that it's groundbreaking for an African-American musician to play James Madison, one of the founders of the Constitution, to play his flute.
	That's the groundbreaking aspect.
	But really, it isn't even her race, right?
	They tried to make it about her race.
	It isn't really her race because I'm sure that if they had wanted to find a better flautist who is black than Lizzo, I'm sure that there are many black flautists who are significantly better than Lizzo, right?
	They play in orchestras around the world.
	I'm sure they are wonderful.
	So if the idea was just going to be, we are going to take a historic instrument that belonged to a white Southerner who was in charge of founding the Constitution, and we are going to have a very talented African-American black person play that, That would have been really uncontroversial.
	Like seriously, it'd be the equivalent of if, if let's say that George Washington had had a harpsichord and we had had Connalisa Rice go and play the harpsichord.
	Like everyone would have been like, okay, all right, fine.
	Okay, but it is the twerking that does it.
	Understand it's the twerking.
	It is about the twerking.
	The story is solely and completely about the twerking, which is why you didn't see the first video.
	The first video has a few views.
	The one of her playing very nicely in the Library of Congress while dressed somewhat decently.
	It is the second video where she is twerking and wearing skimpy outfits with the flute that is- because the idea is to degrade the culture.
	That is what people- that is why the clip is viral.
	The reason the clip is viral is the contrast between a person twerking and the idea of a- of a- an extraordinarily classy instrument.
	A historic instrument that speaks to sort of the gentility of America's founders being brought into a context that is vulgar.
	It's the vulgarization of American history.
	Again, Lizzo did both, and only one of those clips went viral.
	And so, if you notice that, then you're very, very bad.
	If you notice that, then this means that you're some sort of racist, or it means that you don't want black people playing the flute or something.
	No, I just don't want people twerking with historic instruments.
	By the way, I'd be similarly offended, as a violinist, if there was a Stradivarius, somebody had a Strad, and that Strad was lent out to a musician, who then proceeded to twerk on the Strad.
	I would also be insulted, because it turns out that great art should not be degraded.
	Great art, American history, they should not be degraded by juxtaposition with vulgarity.
	That should not be a controversial position, but we've now reached the point in American life where nearly everything is a controversial position.
	Literally everything.
	Every day on this show, there's some clip that is taken that is utterly uncontroversial and then made into a thing on Twitter.
	Because we now live in a world where we do not have a shared reality.
	This was a point that was made by an account on Twitter called Wokeldistance, and he was saying that we don't have a shared reality because half the people saw this clip and they were offended by it, and half the people were like, woohoo, it's amazing!
	That shared reality has gone away on literally everything and you have to understand that without that shared reality we can't have political conversations, we can't have shared values.
	It's very difficult to see how you have a future as a country if you don't have some sort of shared value.
	The part that's kind of astonishing to me on a personal level is I don't understand why Lizzo would do that.
	Lizzo is enough of a musician to understand the nature of historic Musical pieces of art.
	And so, the degradation of that, like, why doesn't she, personally, have the respect for the instrument and respect for the history enough not to twerk with it?
	And by the way, the left would have the same exact reaction if somebody took the Mona Lisa off the wall at the Louvre and then went and twerked with it at some sort of rock event.
	They'd have exactly the same reaction because degradation of the past, degradation of great art, is part and parcel of something that the deconstructionist left loves.
	They love the idea that great art doesn't exist, that all art is equivalent.
	That Robert Mapplethorpe's Piss Christ is actually a form of art.
	Everything is art in the eye of the beholder.
	And that's what's really going on here.
	And if you notice it, then they're like, ah, how dare you notice this?
	Well, if you hadn't made a big deal out of it, I wouldn't have noticed it.
	If you didn't think it was historic, if you didn't think it was important, you wouldn't have done it.
	It also demonstrates, by the way, just how much the sort of institutions of American government have been taken over by members of the woke left.
	When you have members of the Library of Congress who are reaching out to Lizzo to have her twerk with a flute, That says something.
	The Library of Congress is supposed to be a place where you preserve historic instruments and respect them, not a place where you give it to people who are then going to twerk with those instruments on stage to the cheers of a gaggle of morons.
	Alrighty guys, the rest of my show is continuing now.
	You're not going to want to miss it.
	We will be getting into the latest on the economy.
	Plus, a clip from Vice on the rehabilitation of sex offenders that goes wildly wrong.

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