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Joe Biden had a cognitive test, or he wants to, he should have a cognitive test.

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No, I would say it did not go well.

No, it did not.

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Yeah.

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Joe Biden was asked yesterday about the cognitive thing.

Somebody finally had the giblets to bring it up, which is interesting because he's kind of laughed it off in the past, sort of joked about it.

Yeah, I'm tested all the time.

Right.

Are you?

Are you?

Really?

How does that mean?

Cognitively tested all the time.

Yeah.

And, you know, it's one of those questions that you, of course, as Joe Biden, realize eventually someone's going to ask you.

Yeah.

You have to assume and be prepared for it.

And I think.

I think it shows that Joe was pretty prepared for this one.

Yes.

You know, he had a great line to fire back.

Didn't he, though?

He really got through all the words he was trying to say in the right order.

You know?

Well, you be the judge.

Okay.

Okay.

Here it is.

Have you taken a cognitive test?

No, I haven't taken a test.

Why the hell would I take a test?

Okay.

Whoa, because.

Ah, man.

That's like saying you.

Before you got in this program, you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not.

What do you think, huh?

I'm sorry.

Are you a junkie?

What do you say

to positively?

Pause it for a second if you can.

Are you asking a black man if he's a junkie?

I'm sorry.

Is that what just transpired here?

Seriously, if this was Trump,

that'd be the only thing people would be talking about.

Yes.

And it's interesting that

Biden seems to get in trouble when he tries to

relate to the peeps.

You know, when he gets to him.

Come on, come on, man.

Come on.

Okay, you bought up more for me.

You ain't black.

It's that vibe that he keeps getting in big trouble with.

And this is just the beginning of

this clip.

I mean, because you see his reaction.

First of all, it's ridiculous for you to ask me if I would have been a bad person.

He's pissed off about it.

Then he tries to kind of joke his way out of it, saying it would be as if we just tested you for cocaine, which

again,

you see what he's doing there in normal times.

Now, and again, if the guy was sniffing and kind of wiping his nose and he had some white residue under his nose, there might be reason to ask him if he's a cocaine addict, because there's some evidence of it.

That's why you're being asked.

Yes, Joe.

There's plenty of evidence that you have a problem with cognitive abilities right now.

And it's not even, it's way past the point of being funny.

It's frightening and it's terrifying that he could be president, but it's also really sad what he's apparently going through.

Yeah, I go back and forth on this because sometimes it just, you know, he strikes you a certain way and you can't help.

He's supposed to be.

a competent member of society.

He's running for president for one of the two major parties.

And so it's hard to not look at it and just say, gosh, this guy's a buffoon.

I mean, he just continually makes an idiot of himself.

And then you kind of stop and realize, well, this is by the end of this clip, I switched from laughing to crying.

You know, I mean, it really gets ugly.

And we should point out, he really does answer the question here, which is interesting.

He answers his own question: you know, why do I have to take a test?

Well, you're about to hear why.

You're about to hear it.

And

he just butchers this answer in about 15 different ways.

Are you a judge?

What do you say to President Trump, who brags about his tests and makes your mental state an issue for voters?

Well,

if he can't figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don't know what the hell he's talking about.

Did you watch that?

Look, come on, man.

I know you're trying to goad me, but I mean, I'm so forward looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president in debates.

They're going to be plenty of time.

And by the way, as I joke with him, you know,

I shouldn't say it.

I'm going to say something

I probably shouldn't say.

Anyway,

I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical and mental

as well as my mental fitness.

Oh, my gosh.

As he's telling us he's willing to allow us, like he has a choice, to judge his physical and mental fitness.

He can't even get through that sentence.

He can't get through it.

And

perhaps the scarier part of that is immediately before he says, I'm willing to have everyone judge my physical and mental fitness, he looks down at a piece of paper.

He's seemingly reading.

Oh, I bet he was.

Yeah.

The idea that he wants people to judge.

his mental fitness.

He's reading it off of a paper because he can't remember what he's supposed to say.

And if you remember correctly,

he mentions the elephant and the lion because that was part of the cognitive test that Trump talked about.

It wasn't an elephant and a lion.

It was a rhino and a lion.

So we got that part wrong, too.

And

he says a few words out of order there.

where he says, instead of I'm so looking forward to meeting Trump in a debate, he says, I'm so forward looking

to meeting Trump at a debate.

So he shows us many instances, many reasons why people are asking about his cognitive abilities.

Yeah, and he seems to laugh at a very strange moment where nothing happens.

He's, at the very least, let's look at the very best for read on this for a second.

You know, he's trying too hard.

He can't read the room, right?

This guy is a serious interviewer who's trying to interview him and asks serious questions.

He's laughing on top of him.

He's acting like it's a joke.

Now, again, I know it's virtual, but he has no sense of what he's supposed to be doing in that moment.

And you could theoretically look at the end of that.

One of the excuses they've given for Biden over these years is that, remember this whole thing where they said his stutter, he had a stutter when he was a kid, and then he got it to go away, and now it's coming back, which scientists kind of say isn't really how that works.

Doctors have said that afterward.

But that was a big excuse.

Apparently, he did have a serious problem.

The last part of it, to me, me,

you could look at and say he's having a stuttering issue with it.

You could see him trying to struggle his way through fitness, and he keeps saying Phil.

He just keeps going the wrong way with it.

He's going to the L instead of the T.

And you can kind of see him kind of just like,

push it through, push the word fitness through.

In a way, you could maybe give him a break on that one small part of it.

But you look at the whole thing as a whole, there's no way to explain it.

There's no way to explain it.

He is all over the board.

He's legitimately expressing the wrong emotions at the wrong times.

It's as if he's laughing through the funeral and he's crying through a comedy show.

It is a weird moment.

It is weird stuff.

Packed

with strangeness.

And the terrifying part of it is that he could be president of the United States, but for how long is the question in my mind.

If he were to beat Trump, which heaven forbid, forbid, please, by all that is holy, please no, please.

But if he were to become president,

how long does he last in office?

And who is it that finally removes him?

Does he step aside on his own?

Does a doctor move into this thing and say, this guy's not fit anymore?

How will that work?

Did you see the clip the other day, Pat, where he was walking out and he wanted to go talk with the media and his aide is grabbing his sort of wrist and kind of pulling him through, which isn't, you know, that crazy when you're talking about you're trying to get someone to move.

And he starts to walk over to the media, and you can see her fingers dig into his wrist.

Like, no, you're coming this way.

You didn't see this card?

It's really disturbing.

And I think more, it's not like they're just controlling him.

They're just saying, good God, don't let him talk to anybody.

And it seemed like how you would honestly like drag your grandpa through a situation where he was supposed to go one direction.

You're trying not to to be obvious about it.

You can see,

you know, the fingers, the nails kind of dig into his arm, being like, no, what you would almost do with like a dog, right?

You'd pull the leash a little bit one direction so they know to go that direction.

That is,

this is not right, guys.

This is not right.

This man obviously can't do this.

And they keep trotting him out there as if we're supposed to accept he could be president of the United States.

Yeah.

It's insanity.

It's are there any patriots around him?

Seriously, you have to wonder: is there anybody who cares enough about this country to come out and say, and maybe there are people behind the scenes that are saying, Joe, don't do this.

Okay, let's, you know, don't do this.

The time has passed for that, though, right?

I mean,

he's going to be the nominee in a week.

Yeah.

You know, I think there's now after that, maybe there's a chance they could switch it out.

I don't know.

I just look at this and you just, you just see, you see him crumbling.

I mean, the man can't do this.

He can't do it.

And so

you might say if you're like a Democrat and you think, okay, Trump's really bad.

We can't have him in there.

Let's get Joe elected.

And then once Joe gets elected, we'll all run the show back here.

You know, he'll chime in once in a while, but we'll pretty much ignore him.

And then eventually he'll probably wind up leaving and we'll probably replace him with whoever this VP is.

That's why I do really legitimately believe this is the most significant vice presidential announcement in American history, at least modern history.

Yeah.

It's hugely significant who Biden picks here.

And, you know, normally you might say, well, they're all liberals.

Like, the difference between some, you know, AOC clone and a normal Democrat for this pick is really a big deal for all of us.

Because if you get an AOC clone in there, and there's some that are in, I mean, you know, Karen Bass is basically a communist.

Like, and she's.

She's.

She's on the short list.

On the short list.

I mean, I don't, I can't imagine he's going to pick her because literally no one knows who she is.

You know, at least like, you know, Sarah Palin wasn't familiar to the American people either, but she was a rising star.

Bass is, what, 66, been around for a long time, you know, has all sorts of dirt they're going to be able to look through.

And, and, you know, Trump is going to have fun with that one.

With Susan Rice, like, they're going to have fun with some of these.

But it is a strange, strange time because.

The media is acting as if this is okay and normal.

Like,

you're, it's like they're running almost a zombie candidate.

They're not even trying to have someone who's it would even make the case that he's competent to do this job right now.

It's clear.

Look at these clips.

Every time the man speaks in public, one of these things happens.

Well, listen to his China policy.

Did you see the China policy speech?

Because this is powerful.

I think you'll like this.

Yeah, this is really good.

The way China will respond is when we gather the rest of the world that, in fact, enbeves

in open trade and making sure that we're in a position that the world,

that we deal with WHO the right way.

That in fact, that's when things began to change.

That's when China's behavior is going to change.

I'm sorry.

What?

Well,

is that pretty clear that he spelled that out?

That's pretty clear now, right?

He's enveivened it.

I'm not exactly sure.

He's envined it.

I don't know what envond means, but I think that's what he said, envavened.

And it's one of those things.

It feels like it should be a word.

It does.

Envavined is a good sounding.

It sounds like a real word.

Like maybe I'm just not familiar with.

Is envined a word?

Maybe it is.

Maybe.

I really should check before I start making sure.

I'm sure I don't know every word in the English language.

There's a lot of them.

Yeah, I mean, envavened might be one.

Some of them he's been bringing back, like malarkey.

Like, I mean, I know malarkey, but it's been a while since I had heard it.

and he brings that one back maybe in vavin's like an old-timey

maybe look i he's struggling to get through any of this one of the things they they uh wrote about in this uh uh story about him a very lengthy story about his stutter this is when they were trying to explain hey we swear this is just like it's a minor thing that's not going to affect his job at all is that he would try to create workarounds for words.

He could feel that he couldn't get through a word coming up.

You know, he knew he was going to say Envavind, and he was like, crap, I'm not going to get that through Envavind.

yes so i better come up with a workaround so he would come up with other like synonyms he would essentially map himself around the word so he wouldn't have to say it and that's how he dealt with it as a kid um you almost can see that happening he does it now yeah like he can't the real half the reason he doesn't make sense all the time is because he's constantly like rewording his sentences on the fly or something.

It's

that's not going to work with world leaders.

Like how you communicate is important.

It's kind of important.

Do I have to say these things?

And one of the things he's doing is, et cetera, when he runs into trouble and he can't think of the rest of, for instance, the Declaration of Independence,

it's like, et cetera.

We're the people,

et cetera.

Or I've gone too long.

That was a big one he used in the debates.

You heard him in that first clip

say, oh, I'm going to say something I'm going to regret.

I don't want to say that.

Like, a lot of times, it's not.

He's describing something else.

He can't get through what he's saying.

He doesn't know.

He's lost where he was going.

So he acts as if he's interrupting himself as sort of a trick to make it seem like, oh, he's just trying to be responsible.

That's not what's happening.

He's lost it.

He's lost where he was going.

Sadly.

Yeah.

It's terrifying.

That's exactly what's going on.

The best of the Glenbeck program.

There's there was...

Some great chanting last night that I learned, and I encourage us all to participate.

Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground.

You like that one?

Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground.

Everybody doesn't it though?

It's got a really nice flow, and it applies to not just the downtown area, it's every precinct in every town.

So you just burn them all down.

Uh, and that's what they're trying to do.

And it's uh, there's also uh some shots being fired on a pretty nightly basis.

Uh, they wrapped things up, though, pretty early the other night.

They uh, they were only out rioting until 3.30 in the morning, and then things stopped.

They calmed right down after 3.30 in the morning.

So they didn't go till dawn.

It's not like they're rioting all night long until the dawn.

No, that would be ridiculous.

It would be silly.

So when they say no justice, no peace, the peace begins at 3.30.

I mean, they mean no justice of peace until 3.30 in the middle.

Until 3.30 in the morning.

Yeah.

It's interesting because we were told that, at least by the media, that's not what they mean.

That's not what they mean.

They just mean what they they would like to do is change some police policies.

They don't want to defund the police.

Oh, I see.

When they say defund the police, they don't

want to defund the police.

Defund the police.

No, no, no.

We can't take that.

What do they mean then?

What they mean is there are certain policies that need to be tweaked.

Why don't they say that then?

Why don't they say, you know what?

There are certain policies that need to be tweaked.

Well, you could say that.

You could.

But I mean, look how many syllables.

I just did.

Look how many syllables that is.

It's a lot.

Is it?

Yeah, it's a lot more than just a lot of people.

It's functionally more.

Yeah, I guess it is.

It It is significantly more.

And, you know, and easier, if you just say burn it down, that's even shorter than it is.

And if it rhymes, it's really catchy and you remember that.

Right.

So every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground.

That is just a catchy little ditty.

They don't really see it.

I mean, what you just said translates to there's a couple tweaks in policy that need to be made.

Huh.

Why are they setting fires then all over the town?

Well, the fire.

In every city and every town.

And every town.

The fire itself is more of a symbol

for policy tweaking.

Oh.

Yeah.

I didn't know that.

You know, there's some details in the policies

that

are going one way.

They just need to be just the direction just alters ever so slightly.

Okay.

And other than that.

Well, that's understandable.

Yeah.

I think it's going to work out really well.

Really well.

I don't understand why people can't

understand this.

I'm fascinated by this as we go through the past few weeks, in that, like, more and more, the idea of winning a logical argument or coming up with evidence that proves a point no longer matters.

None of this is, it makes any dent in the way this stuff gets covered.

Like, Portland is a great argument.

There.

Every night, there are dozens of videos of these same people lighting buildings on fire, hitting police officers in the head with rocks and bottles and shooting fireworks at them and all of these things.

And yet, every ounce of coverage by the mainstream media is how bad the federal agents are.

Yeah.

And how bad Donald Trump is.

One of the portions of this report from Coin in Portland was

because they were on the scene as some of the writing was happening, and the police were radioing back to the precinct that they were under heavy rock attack.

So, I mean, they're just under this constant barrage and this is happening pretty much every night.

But yes, like you said, all we're focused on are the federal troops there that need to go because that's the real problem.

That's supposed, and

it seems to make no difference no matter how much evidence you have.

No matter how many times you say the same thing, no matter how many times it's outlined, no matter how many videos you show, they just say, well, no, it's just, it's the police that are the ones that are brutal.

Yeah.

And it's like, well, wait a minute.

Again, I'm not saying that the police have done everything perfectly through this.

There have been some pieces of evidence that have shown police acting inappropriately, I think, at times.

And what happens when you show us those videos is that we say, yeah,

that's not the right thing.

And that needs to be corrected.

If that person committed a crime, that person should be charged.

When we show you 50 times the amount of material that shows the other side doing things like that and worse you just act like it doesn't happen it's it's it's just it's like as if i'm i have cgi at my house and i'm making these things up every night that's exactly what's happening i remember when there was a protest in provo utah of all places uh a few weeks ago and uh there was a guy who got stopped by a crowd and they surrounded his truck And one of the protesters walked up and started and shot him

through the car window.

And the bullet entered him in the the side, and he took off

because he's surrounded, and he's being shot.

And so he didn't, I think his thought process was kind of, hey, I don't want to stick around to be shot again.

I think that was the process.

So he started driving slowly, and then it went a little bit faster, and people moved out of the way, and he left.

And so my son was arguing, one of my sons was arguing with some of the leftists who were saying, look at this man driving through

crowds.

He was shot.

Yeah, well, he shouldn't have been driving through crowds.

No, no, he was shot before he was shot before he drove through the crowd.

They're just, and it never computed.

It just, it didn't register with them.

They continued the same argument as if.

Hey, he was being shot at.

Just didn't register with people.

It's really strange.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter what the protesters do.

It's fine.

And the cops are always wrong.

Always.

This strategy is fascinating to me because if you look at like people would say, I don't know, let's just go back a decade.

People would say, oh, you're racist.

They've been making that charge forever, right?

You're racist.

And you'd be like, okay, well, here's why I'm not racist.

And here's the, here's, here's why this policy works better than this policy.

And you'd explain that out.

And that battle was fought for a long time.

And I don't know if it's just so obvious now that they lost that battle where they kept saying it was things were racist and everyone knew they weren't.

So what they did was just change the definition of the word racist.

Now, if you're just, if you're white, you're automatically racist and there's nothing you can do about it.

You're never going to be able to solve that.

So you're automatically racist for life.

It's like, well, I guess if the definition of the word racist is I have white skin.

I mean, I don't technically have white skin, but I guess I have peach or whatever it is.

If I'm white, I'm automatically racist.

Well, then they automatically win the argument.

If that's the definition of the word.

And it's like, well,

how about these words mean things?

Like when I say you're a boy and you're a girl, those words mean something.

And when you want to come in and say later on, well, actually, as Ellen so helpfully helped us define, it's just a feeling you have in your head.

That's what gender is.

Well, that's just another thing.

You're just coming up with totally new definitions for existing words.

How about let's just keep the words the same and you can make your arguments.

But they know they can't win our arguments that way.

If the language doesn't move, if it's concrete instead of quicksand, they can't win these arguments.

So now they just change the language as we go.

It's incredible.

Yeah, their arguments right now just don't even have to make sense.

I'm not racist.

I've never discriminated against anybody.

Well, that's your white privilege showing.

Wait, what?

What is my white privilege?

Well, that's your whiteness.

You're just white.

And you're just saying my race there.

So I thought that was something we weren't supposed to be focused on.

Did we do the TCU story here yesterday?

I can't remember.

I think I did it on Stu Does America yesterday.

Story about the head coach of TCU football.

And he is apologizing now for using the N-word.

Gary Patterson?

Yeah.

He used the N-word.

Yeah.

Pretty bad, right?

Yeah.

Except for the fact that when he was using the N-word, it was in the context of yelling at a player for using the N-word.

So he quoted the player, but he actually said the word.

He didn't say the N-word.

Now, is that a bad idea as a white coach?

Sure, it's not a good idea.

I mean, the easy thing, the easy safe tip here is just never say it, right?

But still,

context matters here.

He was saying it was inappropriate for this word to be used

and was criticizing its use.

So the players all, they start tweeting about how he said the word.

So Patterson gets in trouble.

He's now apologizing.

The players are skipping the get-togethers and practices.

Oh, my God.

And they say to him, not only do they say, look, we told him, you know, because they were like, we had a meeting and how do we move forward?

And we told him he just can't use that word.

It's not appropriate for him to use.

And then we also told him he needs to stop saying, I don't see color, because he does see color.

It's like, this is a full-out frontal assault on Martin Luther King.

I don't see color is now racist, guys.

They've changed all of these definitions.

What do you mean?

I don't, a colorblind society was supposed to be the thing we were all shooting for.

It's a random

physical characteristic that means nothing.

The color of your skin is nothing.

It's just like the color of your eyes.

It's nothing.

It means nothing.

It doesn't define you.

It doesn't, there is no culture associated with it.

There is no white culture in black culture.

Look at the black culture of black people in the United States and compare it to black people in Africa and tell me they have the same culture.

It's totally different.

The country has a culture.

There are areas within the culture that are influenced by other

cultures, but it has nothing to do with the color of your skin.

White people living in other countries, white people who grew up in Asia have Asian cultures, right?

Like that, it's much more about your surroundings.

The color of your skin is a nonsensical way to categorize people.

It's just dumb

and We just like it would be dumb if we said you know what that person has long fingernails and that person has short fingernails that person has blue eyes and that person has brown eyes these these sorts of this person has blonde hair that person has brown hair There's no reason to separate people among these lines unless you're just trying to utilize it for power We can all acknowledge that in the past people did it, but it was dumb then.

That was the lesson of that era.

The lesson of the racist era of the past was to learn that racism was dumb,

not to just implement it on another color, right?

Which is what we're doing now.

Yeah, exactly.

It's insanity.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

We have some direction from Fauci.

Thank goodness.

He was on with

Sanjay Gupta, who was interviewing him yesterday.

And then they took some questions from people online.

And one of the questions was, we're the United States of America.

This seems to be hurting us more than other places.

Were we just not prepared for this?

Or what happened?

Here's that exchange.

Dr.

Fauci, the title of this series is When Public Health Means Business.

And thus far it seems like we haven't meant business at all.

The United States has 4% of the world's population,

but 25% of the world's COVID cases

are deaths.

Cases.

For a country that is the most affluent and influential, that is a catastrophe.

My question is, knowing what you now know, what would you do differently before the next pandemic or during it?

Well, I think there's two parts of that question, sir.

One is, you know,

how we might explain how this happened and what I would do different, and then what you would do different for the next pandemic.

I think preparedness, we put together a pandemic preparedness plan as we were trying to respond to the threat of the pre-pandemic bird flu back in 2005.

And again, it was a plan that was a reasonable plan.

And in fact, when it was evaluated independently by Johns Hopkins, it stated that it was our preparedness for a pandemic was essentially number one in the world.

But what happened when the rubber hit the road on this and we did get hit, we had the kind of response that was not as well suited to what the dynamics of this outbreak is.

And what happened is that we had a bit of a disparate response.

We live in a very big country and we often leave the decisions about the implementation of things at the local level and what we've seen is a great disparity in how individual states cities etc responded the critical issue that I think we need to look at how we can get that down is that when you look at the curves and it relates to Sanjay's graph that when we went up and then started to come down everybody got hit badly china got hit badly europe particularly italy France, and Spain, when they went up and they responded, they came all the way down to a baseline.

So that when they started to reopen their countries in a very careful way,

they had to deal with little blips that could easily be controlled.

When you looked at our curve, it's telling.

And that's the thing that bothers me.

We went way up, and when we came down, we came down to a plateau of 20,000 cases per day.

That is not a good baseline.

We needed to get further down so that as we went along over weeks and months, we stayed at 20,000 per day.

Some parts of the country did very well.

They came up and they came way down.

Other parts of the country held it so that didn't even go up.

But there were so many different players, as it were, in the country, that the totality of the country,

that some net of that was a flat line that was very high.

And then, when we decided with the guidelines of how we can open America again, for reasons that we obviously couldn't stay shut down forever, it was having terrible economic consequences, terrible consequences, unemployment, we decided we would try to take steps to open.

And when we did, we didn't do it uniformly.

Some states did not pay attention to the

benchmarks or the checkpoints.

Others did it fine, but the citizenry within a state or within a city actually did an all-in-one phenomenon.

They said, we're locked down, so now we're just going to let it fly.

Now, you could say, no, that didn't happen, but the numbers.

tell you what happened.

All right, we got what happened.

What he's saying here in a really lengthy explanation is we have a 10th amendment to the Constitution, which gives power to the states to make their own decisions.

If it weren't for that pesky constitution,

we could control people a lot better.

Wouldn't that be great if we just, if we could set fire to that constitution?

So there's that.

And there's another...

glaring omission in his explanation here of why we got hit harder than others.

And it seems like there was a little situation where thousands of people were gathering together every day in the streets,

yelling and screaming and spitting and

setting things on fire and robbing Nike stores.

The protest had nothing to do with this.

Seems pretty notable to me.

Seems pretty notable to me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And look, you know, his point on the states is,

you know, at some level probably true.

It's easier to freaking.

If you're North Korea, it's probably easier to control a pandemic

or China because you can just melt people into their apartments, right?

Your central government tells people where they're going to be and they have to be there.

It's probably the one situation, honestly, the one situation I can think of where it would be great to have a dictatorship if you're king.

You can just do whatever you want and you just,

you can lock everyone away and it won't be spread.

Like, yes, but it's not worth the trade-off, obviously.

You know, the states obviously have to be able to take

it for our freedom.

Yeah, we're take that over freedom every time, apparently, or we should be doing it.

Yeah, and I don't think, look, I don't think we should.

And he's not even, you know, I mean, he kind of just touches on this, but several places are having uptake.

And look at Israel's chart.

It looks just like ours.

I mean,

the Philippines is another example of somebody who locked down really tight, and they're having a huge spike right now.

India, Peru.

I mean, when you look at the excess deaths as compared to the population, we're not even close to the top of that chart.

Lots of other, you know, Peru, Ecuador, Spain, Chile, UK, Italy, Italy, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, all ahead of us.

That's at least 10.

Is that 12?

How many?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Yeah, I suppose that's 12.

And there's only 20 measured.

And Brazil is theoretically behind us at this point.

But I mean, does anybody believe?

You look at Brazil, they're at 100,000 deaths with a smaller population than us.

It started much later than ours.

And they are a country in complete disarray over this.

They've been hit really.

They're going to find hundreds of thousands of deaths in countries like places like Brazil.

You look at India with over a billion people.

You're really going to tell me

they're having 20,000 cases a day in India?

No.

I mean,

obviously not.

It's not happening.

To me, the same in China.

I think China's lied through that.

Yeah, Jeef, the whole time.

You're telling me they've only had 4,600 deaths.

China?

Really?

I don't believe it either.

I don't believe it.

I don't believe it either.

And that's to the point where even left-wing commentators will acknowledge, yeah, we don't really believe those numbers.

Right, because you can't.

I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

You can't.

But, I mean, you know, like in theory, if you're a country, you know, people praise places like South Korea or, you know, well, what's South Korea, the way they got that under control was they broke all sorts of things in our constitution to do it.

I mean, you can like, yeah, you know, I don't want to make that trade-off, frankly.

I don't want to make that trade-off.

No.

I'm not willing to do it.

But, I mean, like, they're talking about all sorts of things that the U.S.

would be very uncomfortable with: central quarantine and, you know, forced

digital tracing of contacts.

These are effective policies if your people let you do them.

And when you don't have to care about whether the people agree or not, it makes it a lot easier.

That doesn't mean that the dictatorship is better than the United States.

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah.

That's a radical

thing that you're just saying.

No, no, no, no.