Sept. 10, 2021 - The Michael Knowles Show
03:32
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| Hey, it's Jeremy Boren, co-CEO and God King of The Daily Wire. | |
| I don't usually like to interrupt your regular programming, but this is important. | |
| All right. | |
| Today, Joe Biden announced he was going to use the full force of the federal government to mandate that all companies with 100-plus employees force their workers to be vaccinated or subject them to weekly tests for COVID-19. | |
| I just got off the phone with our lawyers, and I just want to reiterate something that I already said today on Twitter. | |
| No. | |
| The Daily Wire does have more than 100 employees, but we won't be enforcing Joe Biden's unconstitutional and tyrannical vaccine mandate. | |
| That's it. | |
| We'll use every tool at our disposal, including legal action, to resist. | |
| Biden's ultimatum will impact over 80 million private sector workers. | |
| Companies that refuse to comply will face up to $14,000 in fines for every single violation. | |
| So I'm sure most companies will probably just do it. | |
| They don't have much choice. | |
| We won't. | |
| It's not that we're anti-vaccine. | |
| I'm personally very pro-vaccine. | |
| I think the COVID vaccines are probably the greatest scientific achievement so far in the 21st century. | |
| And I think the speed at which they were created may be Trump's greatest achievement as president. | |
| They seem to do a pretty good job preventing hospitalization and a great job preventing death from COVID-19. | |
| That's terrific. | |
| If I were a dictator, I'd probably make you get it. | |
| But I'm not a dictator. | |
| And neither is Joe Biden. | |
| He has no right to impose this burden on American businesses. | |
| How are we supposed to pay for it? | |
| What are we going to do with all these new liabilities that we incur from injecting ourselves into the private health decisions of our employees? | |
| More to the point, he has no right to impose this burden on the American people. | |
| It's anti-science and it's totalitarian and we cannot comply with it. | |
| I say anti-science, because the mandate contains no exceptions for those in low-risk demographic groups. | |
| There's no exceptions for those with natural immunity. | |
| Also, there's no taking into account the fact that these vaccines are pretty effective. | |
| So if you're vaccinated, congratulations, you're at low risk from COVID-19, whether your neighbor's vaccinated or not. | |
| And that's good news, since your vaccinated neighbor can still transmit the damn disease. | |
| And I say it's tyrannical, because using unelected bureaucratic machinery like OSHA to force small businesses into becoming the vaccine and testing enforcement arm of the federal government is definitionally anti-democratic. | |
| It marks a dramatic break with our constitutional order. | |
| According to Reuters, 75% of American adults are already vaccinated. | |
| At least, they've already received one dose of the vaccine. | |
| And 53%, according to the CDC, are fully vaccinated. | |
| So people who want the COVID vaccine already have it. | |
| And those who don't want it shouldn't have to get it because it's a free country. | |
| It's not your job to protect me from me. | |
| And you already have the tools to protect yourself from me. | |
| So Joe Biden has no compelling reason to encroach on our liberties, other than he just doesn't like what we do with them. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| Joe Biden isn't your mom. | |
| The government isn't your mom. | |
| And your employer sure as hell isn't your mom. | |
| We've already watched for over a year and a half as Americans have ceded liberty after liberty to wannabe tyrants like Anthony Fauci. | |
| They broke our economy. | |
| They locked us in our homes. | |
| They destroyed our supply chains. | |
| They crushed our small businesses. | |
| They masked our children. | |
| Enough. | |
| That is enough. | |
| So the answer is no. | |
| No, the Daily Wire won't be enforcing Joe Biden's petty tyranny. | |
| We've already retained legal counsel, and we're prepared to go to battle with this administration to put an end to their unconstitutional bullshit. | |
| We hope other people and other businesses will join us. | |
| If they do, great. | |
| If they don't, that's fine too. | |
| There's got to be a line, and for us, this is it. |
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