The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Vax Rally in NYC

Episode Date: August 25, 2021

Jordan Klepper pays a visit to an anti-vaccination rally in New York City, where people are protesting against Mayor Bill de Blasio's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives. But that's all about to change. Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible. I'm Seth Done of CBS News. Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look, starting September 17th, wherever you get your podcasts. Normally when I'm in search of an angry mob of people screaming anti-science, deep-state

vaccine, microchip conspiracy jazz, I head to the heartland of America. But it turns out I can find those very same people right here in my own backyard in New York City. That's right. Last week, outside of Mayor Bill DiBlazio's home, there was a group protesting his new mandate that customers show proof of vaccination in order to enter restaurants, gyms, and theaters. It was a mix of hardcore anti-vaxers, people who are okay with vaccines but hated the mandate, and then of course some people who put together a joker costume once loved the attention, so now that's pretty much all they do. I'm the only one in my family that hasn't gotten the vaccine.

It's not approved by the FDA. I don't know what's in that. Women are miscarrying. People are having their DNA is wiped out. What do you mean, like completely wiped out? Yeah, they're telling women that it's okay for you to get the vaccine. What does it mean the immunity is getting wiped out. Because I was saying like COVID wiped out 600,000 DNAs. Yes, of course, you know?

Actually, some people have died from the vaccine. Don't believe me, go to the media, go to the Google or... Some people have died from COVID. Yes. So many more than from the vaccine. One thing with me, I try not to argue facts. I don't believe that suggesting strongly and coming out with mandates for a vaccine is a way of medical intervention. This is not what I believe it.

That's a lot of quotes. People from both sides of the issue came from far and wide to express their hate or love of vaccines. I think you're killing people. Go get your vaccine! Come over here, let me cluff on you. Oh, full of shit. You know, Rhonda Sanchez and Ted Cruz

have both been vaccinated. Bullshit. This is why I love doing interviews in New York. You're from Pennsylvania. Yes, because we know it's coming to Pennsylvania. How important is it like that to think ahead to protect something before it gets out of control? It's everything. It's everything because once it's gone out of control, you don't wheel it in. Right, like that's why it's important for everybody to get a vaccine, squash it, that's

why what? It's important that we take the vaccine, squash it, get hurt? Oh my god, what's it? What were you talking about? What were you talking you you th th th th th th tha tha tha tha tha? thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi? thi? thi? thi? thi? thi? thi? tho tho tho that? that? that? tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho-a, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. th. th. th. th. tho, th. tho, tho? tho? thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tho? thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo? Because, tho? Because, thing about? What were you talking about? I am not for the vaccine. Are you in your mind? Well, you were just talking about getting ahead of it. Getting ahead of the mandate. The mandate is what's spreading? Yes.

We don't want the mandate to come to PA. We don't want to take the vaccine. Oh, why should I? You see why I am confused? thaged? thired. Clearly putting potentially harmful toxins into your body was something these anti-vax mandate health nuts were very concerned about. My name is Edwin Dara Cruz and I'm running for city council. Running for New York office. As a Republican. As a Republican. As a Republican. The science is still new. We still have question marks. We rushed the science. We were moving out warp speed. So Donald Trump rushed it. Not correct. Who rushed it? Who rushed it? Uh, can I ask, how about if we change places and I started

attacking you? You're the one who's running for public office? The Republicans of New York were clearly trying to move on from the past, and in some cases, forgetting it completely. My name is Vishburra, and I'm the vice president of the New York Young Republican Club. This is a protest against the anti-freedom mandates from a petty tyrant like Bill Diplazio. Do you think this is something the founding fathers would support? The founding fathers would support vaccine? Yeah. No, I don't believe so. the toe, he's a lower founding father. I mean, I love the lore, but at the end of the day, we are the ones who have to deal

with what is going on in American today. What are you going to miss out on if this mandate prevents you from doing it? I just tried to get some Thai food. I just try to get some Thai food. thi food around the corner. They they tholl. T told thold thold they they thold they they thold they they they they thoe they they thoe they thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. tho tho tho tho tho tho thoe. thoe. thoe. their their the the the the tho the the tho the tho. the tho. tho. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. tho. tho. th. tho. th. th. tho. tho. th. the. the. the. the. We are are are the. the. the. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea thea. thoea. to go out to eat doing how are they going to get food exactly Yeah, right so maybe they'll go out of state come back I don't know who knows if only like the city had a seamless way to get food to their door fresh Direct way to get there, you know, maybe that's if their point is this mandate is a slippery slope that only leads to hyperbole. So many don't get it. It's 1937 and never again is now. Do not comply to showing your papers. This isn't Nazi Germany. Maybe you can't help me out. I'm seeing signs that say vaccine mandates are fascism.

And also signs that say vaccine mandates are communism. Which one is it? It's both. It's both. Those are diametrically opposed ideologies. I don't think it's coming, it's more like a dictatorship. We're living in like a Nazi Germany and the only thing that's missing is the camps and the gas. That's what's happening right now? Yes. Because you can't go to a concert? I can't go to a concert. I can't go to a gym. Do you think that's what it was like in Nazi like in like in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the a gym? Regardless of our differences, this was still New York.

A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a new, fucking Yorker. And we're in this together. I mean, I've heard the we live in a society line a million times, and we're over it. The we the people thing holds no sway for you. No, we the people is... Who are the people of the we the people that you are willing to support? It's definitely not the illegal immigrants that are bringing COVID over over our border

right now, that's for sure. I do not believe that vaccine mandates are constitutionally supported. Which is a bummer because the Supreme Court has upheld it many times. It's not my court. All right, well, enjoy. I hope you don't get sick. Good luck to everyone out there. And may you get the Patsy you. Our founding fathers said you deserve to eat inside during a global pandemic.

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