The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Year in Jordan Klepper - 2021

Episode Date: January 1, 2022

Jordan Klepper bears witness to the U.S. Capitol riot and its aftermath, spars with anti-vaccination mandate protesters in New York City, debates QAnon conspiracy theorists and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Last week we saw one of the darkest days in American history, and for better or worse, I was there. It was a day that began with the president holding a rally outside of the White House to push lies about voter fraud and urges followers to take action to overturn the election. the the the White House to push lies about voter fraud and urges followers to take action to overturn the election. Excuse me, is this addition happening over here? Is this addition? Is it over here?

No doubt? Say it ain't so? Do you know where this edition is? Do you know where this edition is? Stop the the theft? We do not consent to be governed by... Nor shall we ever be consented to be governed by an illegal fraudulent election. But you elected a guy who also doesn't care much about consent.

We do not consent. Will you accept Joe Biden as President of the United States on the 20th? No, I will not accept it. I will not. I've educated myself about this, okay, I don't know all it's in the Constitution. Have you read it? It's pretty short. The Constitution of America? Yeah. I've not read the whole thing, no. You've read the entire thing?

Yes, it's remarkably short. All right. I doubt that, but it's today. that, thatea that's theateate, thate, thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea thateateateateateatea thateateatea thatea thooooooooooooooo tha tha thiia thoo tho thooo thoooo thoooooo tha, tha, tha tha thaavez infiltrated the Dominion systems, changed the votes orchestrated by Joe Biden? Do you think it's possible that a president who never pulled above 50% lost the election? That's sore about it? Absolutely not.

That's not possible. The one thing you couldn't help but notice was just how many people looked like they were preparing for battle. From the tactical vest to the pitchforks, the rally, the rally, th. This rally, th. This rally, th. This rally, th. This rally, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, is thi, they were preparing for battle. From the tactical vest to the pitchforks, this rally felt charged. You can tell these people really love America by the number of weapons they brought to hurt other Americans. Looks like we got some proud boy action, either that or the Cabellas Street team? What's your flag say? Come and take it. Come and take it. Do you have a weapon?

No. No? Why not? Did they take it? Sorry, bro. I was worried that we were in trouble, but then I saw that we got the tyranny response team here and I feel a lot better. Thanks for all you do. And for those supposedly caught off guard, claiming they didn't see this violence coming,

if you paid attention to any of these rallies, all you have to do is open your eyes and ears. The message isn't exactly subtle. Make no mistake, we have the guns and we are now in the streets. We are going to clean this place out one way or another. You look down there. I have one million plus people. Angry. Very, very angry people. Can I ask why you're carrying a pitchfork? Well, a pitchfork is a, it's just an iconic representation of what people over time have done in this country. It feels more like a weapon to be quite honest. That's not it's farm equipment and it's legal in this in this city.

Yeah, are you farming today? It's an icon. It's a representation. We're not asking for violence right now. I gotta tell you from the movies I've seen the the to 1861? But hang on? Are we close? The hell yeah you are. That's the Civil War. Would you rather die on your knees than be free? Aren't you a little bit freaked out? About 600,000 Americans die?

I see you're not wearing masks. Never mind. This thing was a powder cake. All it took was someone. Stand up and fight. Stand up and hold your representatives accountable. We're going to walk down to the Capitol because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength. With those orders the crowd of economically anxious insurrectionists advanced on the crowd of economically anxious, insurrectionist, advanced on the Capitol. People, Feeble, Feeble, Feeble, Feeble,

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not. Why are you dressed like military? I'm not. Is that camouflage? It is. But you're in an urban environment. Isn't that sort of the antithetical to camouflage? I don't think so. Are you looking to make an aggression action right now? I'm not. Is I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I'm I'm I'm I'm the their. Is I'm their. Is I'm their. Is their. Is their is. Is their is. Is their is their is their is their is to their is their is to to to their is. Is their is their is their is their their their their their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is their. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It. It's. It. It. It's. It. It. It. It's. It. It. It's. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. the. It sort of the antithetical to camouflage? I don't think so. Are you looking to make an aggression action right now? I'm looking to make a statement. What's your statement? The election was stolen. We want free and fair elections. And if we can't have that in this country, we don't have anything. So what do you plan on doing?

We're just going to see how it unfolds. You see how it unfolds. All right, good luck with the payball tournament. Yeah. You're gonna ask you some questions? What's your plan? What's your plan? For what? What are you? You're, you're, you're, are you storming the Capitol? I'm just going to protect for somebody. This is, is this the last stand? I'm saying it is. This looks like the last day. Are you afraid if you run out of batteries for the last stand, you'll be thwarted? Uh-oh. Good luck. I hope you don't run into bumpy terrain or stairs. While Segway Stonewall Jackson is laughable on his child's scooter, the rioters

brought real weapons and committed real atrocities. They attacked our democracy, our police, and even our cameraman. Does that matter? Hey, you're assorted me! I was slaying you, you're assorted me! Trump's fake, tough guy, military, are literally throwing themselves on the ground to perpetuate victimhood.

The Trump president is going to come to it, and this, this seems fitting. A show of aggression, ending with a bunch of people screaming at a building without a working understanding of how democracy works. America, 20, 21. Thunder, cannon, tear gas, let's not wait to find out. In the end, the crowd didn't stop our democracy. Let's take heart in that. This shit-stained rebellion failed, as did my dry January. It's impeachment week again. So I'm back in

Washington, D.C., where our Capitol is a bit different from the last time I was here. It is hard to figure out how to get in towards the Capitol. I want to get to the Capitol. Could I go all the way down to Constitution? There are miles and miles of fences. Somebody get on parlor or something to figure out how to get in there. And the thousands of screaming MAGA folks is down to... two. What do you think of the impeachment? Tis sign says it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it was it was it was it was it was it was it was the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their th. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their their their their their th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. thea. theooo. I. theooo. I. th. theoooooooo. I. I. the. the. I says it wasn't the president who called the riots. What I saw and what there's a lot of evidence showing is that many of the initial people who entered the building violently were leftist. I was here. It seemed like a lot of people were Trump supporters. A thousand people broke into the Capitol, erected a news outside and tried to kill the Speaker of the House and the vice president. I literally th th th th th th th th th th th the th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the thi thi the the the the the the the the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the initial the the initial the the the the the the the the the speaker of the house and the vice president. I literally think that you have added the try to kill all those things and you have ignored.

I gotta show you some videos. I want to trade videos because I'd love to share video with you as well. I'm not gonna give you my email. Yet the Maga faithful aren't the only is aiming for a blockbuster action film this week. Yes, impeachment two is bigger and louder and more cinematic than the first one. Because as we all know, when you're dealing with American audiences,

stunning imagery goes farther than facts. What are you doing? Are you doing the spinning bad boy shot? No, we always do the bad boy shot. Stop it. I understand the Democrats' movie-making angle, but how is this blockbuster approach playing with the few locals we could actually find? The first impeachment gets in the weeds. Feels a little bit more like a complicated spy drama made by a foreign director.

This new one, I think it's just so obvious. You know, it was full of drama and chaos. Unfortunately, murder and s made by a foreign director. This new one? This new one, I think, is just so obvious. You know, it was full of drama and chaos, unfortunately, murder and sedition. You know, it has all of the good plot twists of a crime. I'm not excited about it because the fact that it had to happen is because something horrible happened in the first place.

You're not excited for the new impeachment. Would you say you're getting too old for this shit? I am Bruce Willis too old for this shit. Deadly Danny Glover. You know. Lethaw the weapon, Danny Glover. I guess Bruce Willis was getting too old for the diehard series in and up itself. All I'm saying is somebody needs to say, As a little thii. told me, the movie. A. thrown. they. thin, thin, thin, thin, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to, thi, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, too, D. too, D. to, D. to, D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. to. to. to. to. A. A. to. A. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the. not a third movie, I'll be great. I hope you're right, although we do have a villain who's never been held accountable in his life. It kind of keeps the franchise open. I think they had a good opening day with the video, and I think Jamie Raskin did a really good job of explaining that. Some people were either getting ready to just hide behind their desk or like a pair of scissors and go out. And screen ready 101, make it personal, give us people to care about.

Exactly. Where's Jordan Peel? He should be an impeachment manager. He's too busy making scary stuff that I only stay through half of, because it's both scary and I have certain race guilt issues because of my privilege. Showing hours and hours of footage of blatant criminality seems like a sound legal tactic.

So how does the 2020 lead impeachment manager, Adam Schiff, feel the sequel stacks up to the original? Ours might have been more the Ken Burns documentary, this might be more of the HBO miniseries, but you know, we had to try to bring to life events that were happening half a world away in Ukraine. Here, you don't have to imagine anything because the senators were there. The House members were there. We watched it on our television screens.

Why do you think the impeachment is necessary? It's absolutely necessary. If he's not disqualified now, if the senators don't follow their oath, and don't follow the evidence, and he's acquitted again, and he decides to run again, he will put the country through hell again. Is accountability really America's thing? I mean, that's, we're better at like barbecue and wrap-around sunglasses. Well, I think that the lack of priority on accountability over the last several years has been why we're in this predicament. There are critics who say Congress should go back to doing more important things, like

stopping the space lasers that are causing all the wildfires. Should we be focusing on those big important issues? This points to another huge problem, not the lasers. The wildfires. But the people who believe. In that kooky, crazy, bad shit conspiracy theory stuff. They're members of Congress now. How do you convince people who are both witnesses and jurors to a crime, that a crime actually

occurred? The Republican Party needs to be a party of ideas and ideology again. At the end of the day, what this is really about is, can they find the courage to tell their constituents back home that what they were fed by Donald Trump was a bunch of lies? So you're banking on the courage of someone like Ted Cruz? Good luck with that. If I was gonna bank on that, I would be bankrupted a long time ago.

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As I look around our transformed capital for signs of hope, I know. No more bad voice shots. Okay? I'm, no. Last week I traveled to a sweltering Arizona where Republican state senators are auditing results of the 2020 election in a giant arena next to an actual carnival. Sure, there's already been two audits and a recount and its 101 goddamn degrees out, but there are still men like this ready to throw their support behind election integrity.

I've been here all week and I'll be here until the audit's done is my plan. So this, what's going on right back here is the most important thing going on in our country right now. What do you have there on your hip? Smith and West and 357 Magnum. There has has has has has has has has has has has has has has there has there has been has there has been has been has been has been has been there has been there has been there has been there has been the the their the Antifa and BLM may be coming in so they're trying to be careful and through the premises. Have you seen any signs of Antifa? You guys have probably heard about the carnival that's going on here there's a little concern about whether or not that would provide those kind of folks an opportunity come in and try to infiltrate and get access? So there is th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the th. the their th. their their their th. their their th. th. their th. th. th. th. tho tho thoes their their the the. the. their their their their their their to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th. Have th. Have the. Have the. Have the. Have the. Have the. the. the. theateate. I. I. I'm theate. I'm theate. I'm toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. to some fear that BLM might meet behind a tilt-to-world, organize, and then bum-rush the situation. Bad people can do bad things, I'm not going to say what they may try to do. Outside of possible

Antifa carnies, which was laid out in official documents outlining potential security threats, what's the harm in one more recount? I know that it's comical to watch what's happening here in Arizona, but I think that it is also important to note that this is really dangerous to our democracy. And you know what, we saw how dangerous the post-election misinformation was. This is a group of people who are clearly partisan. It is headed by a company that has no auditing or election experience, and they're making up the rules as they go along. So who's running the audit? Cyber ninjas. Did you say cyber ninjas? I did say cyber ninjas. Is it run by a 12 year old boy? It sounds like it right?

Well the cyber ninjas website looks like the invitation to my ninth birthday party we must not judge audit companies by their splash page. But you give it to the pros. Let the pros handle this. These are not pros. Well, they're cyber ninjas. That takes some amount of training, I assume. Their firm has nothing to do with audits or elections. Well, maybe they're newish to it. How many audits have they done?

None. They've never done an audit. Well, I mean, give them a wide birth, right? First job, you want a rude, sometimes you make some mistakes with your first job. I remember my first job, I burned a lot of hamburgers. You know, and I worked in a T.J. Matt. There are a lot of Arizona voters who are very, very concerned about this. And I don't think they like the idea of their ballots, their election being in the hands of these rookies. Turns out the audit has had some issues in the trust department. Starting with Cyber Ninja's conspiracy theorist CEO, an auditor who attended the January 6th insurrection and mysterious UV lights

used to look for Chinese bamboo in paper ballots. Really, to help clear the air, I talked to John Brakey and Ken Bennett, who are inside working on the audit. There's been so many bizarre stories going on through the media. You can have some pretty far-fetched ideas on both sides, and what we're doing is simply proving or disproving as many of those as we can. Speaking at somebody on the outside, this feels like it's just feeding into conspiratorial thinking. We're th, th, thuuu, th, th, th, th, th, to to thi to thi to thi, to thi, thi, to thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, the, the, the, the, thu, thu, thu, thu, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the the the thi, the the the the thi, thi, the the thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to tooiiiiiiiioliioli.e, thioli.e, thatorial thinking. We're mythbusters.

Great. Okay? We're doing things we think are foolish, but people believe it's real. What is this night here of a UV light? There was a UV light that was being used to supposedly check for water marks in the ballot. I want to follow up on this. Bamboo? Ba bizarre, huh? That's because Southeast Asia has used as bamboo in their paper, supposedly, okay? We're myth-busting.

But are you looking for traces of bamboo? We're looking for everything in there. So that's a yes? We're looking to disprove that it's not there. Some people believe that paper from outside of the authentic ballot paper that should have been part of the Maricopa audit, got introduced into the system and might be the paper on which 40,000 people cast illegitimate votes. All Chinese ballots around bamboo?

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That's a bullshit thing I just made up that sounds cool and a little bit spooky. I was fortunate enough to see the operation firsthand, and the people led by the CyberNinjias were definitely counting and observing, but there is still one thing that can at least temporarily derail this audit, teenagers. We've known from the very beginning that there's some high school graduations coming in in two weeks. So we'll have to step aside for about a week while the

graduations occur. You don't have a place to count the ballots in two weeks? No, just for one week we're going to shut down. We'll secure the ballots. And then when the graduations are over, we'll come back and... This is not a joke. I know it's not a joke. to the ballots, but you want to lock the ballots in there and then the thin thin thin thin, we thin, we're thin, we're thin, we're thin, we're thin, we're thin, we're thin, we're thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin' tho, no, to thin. tho, no, no, no, no, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thin, thin, thin, thin, no. thin, no. thin, no. thin, no. thin, no. thin, no, no, no, thin, tho. thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, thoooo, tho, tho, the ballots in there and then let a bunch of teenagers come through for a week and then we'll start counting again? Now that is not a case at all. Secure the ballots, right. Let's get serious. Let's be serious. It's very serious.

It's very serious. It's very serious. It's very the joke. It's not a joke. situation, you can find me in a place that's run by professionals not attempting to thwart our democracy. The other carnival. Donald Trump has been promising to start up his rallies again, but until he does, his supporters will have to settle for the next best thing.

The My Pillow Guy. Yes, my Pillow founder and Trump supporter Mike Lindell put together something he called the Vaga Frank rally. So I traveled to New Richmond, Wisconsin to see why thousands of people gathered in a field to see a bunch of right-wing all-stars, the ex-president Anna Jumbotron and obviously buy some pillow swag. It's an amazing lineup. Who's your favorite with the lineup? Probably Mike Bundel. We're just excited to see Mike. He speaks the same truth that we believe.

Mike is a true hero. You know, they claim, you know, the doctors and nurses are that. But my own sisters are retired RN. And we're not talking right now because of her beliefs. So when it comes to heroes, there's doctors, there's nurses, and then there's the pillow guy. Yeah, yeah. What have you learned from Mike Lindell?

He's a true blue, red, working American man. He's a true, blue, blue, blue, blue, bluette, white man. He's, you know, got them all in there yeah Mike Lundell has guarded plenty of attention by focusing on one thing when this election when all this fraud is opened up that I already know exists and sure his claims of dead people voting in Georgia and vote flipping in Michigan have been debunked by various news outlets still these people were eager for more pillow talk what is Mike Lindele talking about that you agree with well just the whole fraud of the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the election the the the election the the election the election the election the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thee. theeeee. the. thee. the. the. the. the. the. the What is Mike Lindell talking about that you agree with? Well, just the whole fraud of the election. He's got the proof.

You know, the proof is there. What makes you know that Trump won. His own Department of Justice says there was no fraud? Just, well... So you don't trust the Department of Justice? Oh, no. You trust my pillow guy. Well, I wouldn't go quite that far to say, you know, I trust what he's saying. You do you trust what he's saying? Oh, so you would?

Yeah. You would go that far. Yeah. That's exactly where you went. I think that we still need to find out what's going on. We still need to look back at what happened. Haven't we already done that? There's history sometimes, we have to go back in history, like we do in school. It's important to look at historical moments from different perspectives, so you have an understanding and a whole picture. Right, we have to.

So you support critical race theory? No. And Lindell's newest election claim is his juicest. President Trump coming back in 2024, I'm still sticking to August of this year, everybody. That's my opinion. And why did they think of that? That would be nice. It would be nice, but you know, I don't like to get my hope. I think I think the country is going to pot right now. Not the country. I grew up in. What country did you grow up in? The the brave. Things were better in the 60s. Oh yeah, 70s, 60s, 70s.

Yeah, in the 60s we knew which drinking found the drink from. Exactly, yeah. If Trump is reinstated in 2021, you think that Democrats will accept it and allow our nation to heal? I think there's going to be a lot of whining still. They're just not going to let it go. They're going the th th th th th. Anyway, are you excited about being out here in a field to watch Trump on a JumboTron? Is he gonna be on the JumboTron? We don't even know!

Who fucking knows? I'll tell you who might know, the man who paid for a military plane flyover. Are they, when are they, when are they? They're a surprise in the sky here in about a minute. 30 seconds. It's going to happen any minute. Are they coming? Can they see him? What's up?

We're going to see? All right. All right. All right. We're going to start right now with Brandon Letus and God bless America. right here. All right. All right. We're going to start right now with Brandon Leedis and God bless America. So the planes might not be here yet. But according to Lindell, thanks to so-called white hat hackers, he already received the evidence that would lead to Trump's imminent reinstatement. I told the whole country a month and a half ago that Donald Trump will be back in in August. You still believe that?

Yeah, absolutely. This is the crime of the century you're describing, and they came to the my pillow guy. No, they didn't come to me, they came to me on January 9th, but I seen the evidence. But they still came to you. Because, let me tell you, nobody came to me until that day and here's what happened. I had my own investigations, I had all my stuff going on and nobody talked about the machines. We talked about dead people, non-residents, all the other stuff. I call it the organic thrown. Is this helping, Mike? This is, this here is a, I already have the evidence. You know what this is doing? Do you guys get it? It's perpetuating anger, fear and attacking our democracy. You know what this, this is, this, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the the the the the the the the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the the the the th, th, th is, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, and thi, that, and that, that, that, that, that, that, threate, that, that, thi, the the democracy. You are by saying that. Let me tell you something.

This is a free speech rally, okay? My platform, Frank Speech, for all the individuals, whether they're Democrat or Republican right now, if you talk about machines, vaccine, the border, Jesus, you speak out for anything and YouTube and Vimeo and people like you guys, a journalist, suppress it, cancelists or try and destroy something good that's coming out of this. This is a free speech rally. This isn't a Trump rally? Did you call it?

Are you trying to say this a Trump rally? It says Megha is in the title and he's speaking at it. No, he, you know what? He's suppressed. Unproven election fraud claims have caused real problems in our country. And just last week, we learned that election officials were receiving death threats from angry Trump voters. Have you heard about the death threatened? Have you heard about the death threatened?

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I'm asking you because you apparently to the one that... You apparently... You need to understand. That's a deviation. not the guy everybody comes to. Because you have answers for being the guy that the cyberpunks come to, but you have no other answers. If August doesn't happen, what do you say to these people? Then the states are going to all pull it down because they're doing audits in every state. Pennsylvania is one. We're doing it here in Wisconsin. Mayor Copoge will get done, everywhere they've done an audit like the new, like the same thing every one. So there's a plan. It's like watching that Bigfoot show. They don't find Bigfoot at the end, but if you tune in next week, maybe it's gonna happen.

Thank you. You guys are horrible. Oh. 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 DeBlazio'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 of 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? 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 their DNA is wiped out? The immunity is getting wiped out?

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Go get your vaccine! Let me cluff on you. Oh, full of shit. You know, Rhonda Santos and Ted Cruz have both been vaccinated. Holy shit. 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. Because once it's gone out of control, you don't reel it in. Right, like that's why it's important for everybody to get a vaccine, squash it, before it gets out of control. That's why what? It's important that we take the vaccine, squash it, get corked. Oh my God, what's how do you want? Are you talking about? What were you talking about?

What were you 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'm confused, though? 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, 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.

We were moving out warped speed. So Donald Trump rushed it? Not correct. Who rushed it? 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 tyr Bill DiBlazio. Do you think this is something the founding fathers would support? The founding fathers would support vaccine mandates? Yeah. No, I don't believe so. George Washington had a vaccine mandate. Well, that's okay. Oh, you said, that's okay. Oh, he's a lower founding father. I mean, I love the lore, but at the end of the day day, we the day, we tho, we, we, we, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, thoan, ta.. ta. thoan, thoan, thi. thoan, thi. thoan, thi, with what is going on in American today. What are you going to miss out on if this mandate prevents you from doing?

I just tried to get some Thai food. I just tried to get some Thai food around the corner. They told me I couldn't sit down and eat. I can't go in a restaurant. I can't go to music club. 50% more people. So maybe they'll go out of state and come back. Who knows? If only like this 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 is a Nazi Germany. Maybe you can 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. Those are diametrically opposed ideologies. I don't think it's commune.

It's more like a dictatorship. 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 Germany? 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... Then who are the people of the we the people people the people the people the people the people that you people that you people that you people that you people that you people that you people that you that you that you that you that you that you are willing people that you are willing people that you are willing people are the people of the we the people that you are willing to support? Definitely not the illegal immigrants that are bringing COVID 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.

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through the hospitals, I videotaped inside the hospitals, and guess what? It's not full of COVID patients. Now I'm worried about COVID and security measures at North Carolina hospitals. Like so many of these school board battles, it was never about just one thing, but more of a general airing of grievances. When we got a governor here that thinks it's okay to have CRT in the classroom, they need to focus on educating and not indoctrinating our children here in North Carolina. No CRT, that's ridiculous. We save the kids from all that's going on with CRT, critical race theory. Here in North Carolina, they don't they don don don don don don don't, they don't, they don't, they don't, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, th, the, the the the the the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, the, the, the the the the the the the theananananananan, theanananan, thean, theanan, theanananan, theanan, theananananan, thean, thean, that's ridiculous. We're saving the kids from all that's going on with CRT, critical race theory. Here in North Carolina, they don't need to learn about racism in school.

No, where are they going to learn about racism most? Walking past one of the tobacco fields? Well, no, not walking past the tobacco field. So, you know, it's not like that. It was hard to sum up the out the outrage up up up up the outrage up the outrage up the outrage up the outrage up the outrage up the outrage up the outrage the outrage the outrage the outrage the outrage the outrage the outrage the outrage the outrage thraragea. thage thra- thra- thra- thra- thra-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha up the outrage of that afternoon. There were many thoughtful political statements being made. But looking around, it was difficult to miss the real catchphrase of the day. I don't co-parent with the government. Well, you don't want to co-parent with the government. their taura. Don't get pregnant in Texas. There we go. Don't get pregnant anywhere. Your kids go to private school? They are enrolled in public in they are. They are. They are enrolled in. They are enrolled in. I. I. I their. I their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the government? No, it isn't. Because, you know why? We have a board of education. We also elect who our officials are.

We get to have a voice. Right. So you work with the government. We do. In parency-in-parranting decisions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but you're giving back your child tax credit. So, I mean...

This crowd that was ready to fight for what they believed in was using the power of democracy that was bestowed upon all of us by our founding fathers. Did you vote for school board? No. I don't even vote. You could vote for somebody who reflects your values. I could vote. You're right.

Yeah. But it's a hassle. Take the time to do it. I'm sorry. But at the end of the day, they saw this as a fight against something much more disturbing than kids face coverings. It's ter of slavery, very basically. We're in a mask to the sign of slavery. I discovered in my research also that Satanists stand six feet apart, they wear masks during

their rituals. Who does? Satanists. They're rituals. That's six feet apart, wear a mask. I don't know. What was the coincidence? What are we doing?

I think we're winning. Good? Finally, some good news. I have no fears. No fears, but a healthy belief in Satanism and it's affecting the COVID. Oh, absolutely. I'm back in my first Trump rally since January 6, 2021. A day, no one will ever forget, unless you're a Republican member of Congress

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We are not a cult. We are a group of Americans that love our country and want it back. Are there any old hits or things you hope he goes back to? Um, oh gosh, I feel like whatever he spews out of his mouth, I just love it. Um, I just love. It doesn't matter what he says. Yeah, we're gonna love being here. We're gonna love hearing what he has to say. But this isn't a cult. No, I don't think so. Not a cult at all. It's not like they would rather almost piss themselves than miss a second of the Donald's speech. But if. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. theeee. thee. theeeee. theeeeee. theeeeee. the. thi. the. the doesn't thi. th the Donald's speech. But if they're already looking to Trump's yet to be announced 2024 campaign, what are the big issues? I really hope he gets to the topic of the border crisis. That's one of the bigger things right now because that's completely being brushed under

the rug. And you're from Iowa? I'm from Iowa. Yeah. So you worry about people coming from Minnesota? Trump's potential campaign would also be about healing the broken nation, caused by the current Biden administration. I mean, obviously this administration is doing all it can to pit each other against each other. Yeah, every way, shape and form they've been trying to divide it. It's like this administration is giving the middle finger to half the country.

Yes. The whole country, if you ask me, the whole damn country. That's just wrong. It's absolutely wrong. We shouldn't be giving the middle finger to half the country. We should be loving one another working together. We should be working together. Right. Right. It doesn't matter what your opinions are, we can still be civil to each other and still be this great country that we are supposed to be or at one point in time. Yeah, doing this is childish. Yes. I've had people stop talking to me for my views.

Should show respect. Yes. What's what's going on in your shirts? I think they speak for themselves, do they not? Why doesn't someone want to engage with that? Am I right? Exactly. This is sort of like the Trump welcome sign, right? Maybe the most surprising moment of the rally was when I into an old friend I thought I'd never see again. Q's back! And there's Q's shit everywhere!

Yes, the online conspiracy following a mysterious character known as Q was more popular than ever. Is that a Q? Yeah. Are you a Q's supporter? Certainly. Wasn't Q's whole thing that Trump would be reinstated as president? He's never left. There's no doubt in my mind, 150,000 percent.

That he's still president of the United States? Really? Does he still hold the powers of the presidency? Well, he's been flying around the world on Air Force One. It says something. I thought Joe Biden's technically on Air Force One. No.

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It's way beyond my understanding. I don't, I don't, I don't... Thank you. Thank you for talking to me, George. Enjoy seeing President, current President Trump. Thank you. So Q is telling them that Trump is still the president, and also where to park their cars. A lot of characters here today.

We have a woman directing traffic wearing a Q&N shirt. I assume she's also inspecting cards for lizard people and make-believe pedophile rates. And thanks to online bullshit, they have a very interesting take on who was behind the January 6th insurrection. Oh, Antifa, like the corrupt FBI, basically rhinos, corrupt politicians, the deep state, all of that. I don't believe that it was people like me and people like you see over there in that crowd that did it. Who was behind? FBI and Tifa were used. Other other groups like that. It seemed like a lot of them were going into the capital to attack Nancy Pelosi and perhaps hang. Who? Who? Who? Which one? The one with the

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It's the only guy who turned to the camera and waved his hands. Do y'all remember that? Everybody remember that? He's the guy with the horns on his hat. He was in Afghanistan? Yes, go look at the pictures. I think he's in jail right now. No, that's what they said. Who's going to... We're going to find pictures of like the horn guy in like the background of old civil war photos or in paintings of the revolutionary war times? I'm just telling you the picture looks just like.

Can America's centuries-old democracy survive the 2024 campaign? Maybe this guy knows. The discussion around vaccines and mandates tends to pit Red State versus blue. But I had heard there was vaccine-ainessinessinessinessinessinessinessiness a a the the the the the the the the they's they's they's they's they's they they they they they they they they they they they the they they the the old the old the old they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they mandates tends to pit Red State versus Blue, but I had heard there was vaccine hesitancy and misinformation in the elitist of the elite blue corners of the US. So I headed to a protest in sunny Southern California. I came to California curious if the anti-vax mandate crowd would talk to me. Then I realized I brought a camera and we're in Southern California. I think I'll be fine. Is this an anti-vaccation? It is not an anti-vax, so don't go there.

Don't go there. Please don't. Are you vaccinated? I am not. So you're anti-vaxed? I do not want to get the vaccination for COVID. What's step to? What you by getting vaccinated? You shouldn't be able to force that stuff on people. It's step one.

Then it'll be step two. What step two? Who knows? I'm not a conspiracy theoracier. It isn't we have step one with polio? They didn't really mandate that. The people were docile back in the industrious age. They were more than willing to take we know what it's done. Don't we know what COVID's done? I mean

there's 750,000 people who have a pretty good idea. Dig it. Do you trust the vaccine whatsoever? Zero, like zero percent and because I know what the end goal is? What's the end goal? Bill Gates said in the 2015 if we can get all these health things, vaccination, we can reduce the population by 10 to 15 percent. What's 15 percent of 7 billion? That's a billion people. The vaccine is all about depopulation.

They've said that. So this is just Bill Gates' pet project to depopulate the globe. He's probably a puppet of the people above him. Which are who? No clue. It it it it it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's the the the the to the to to say. the to say. to to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to th. to thia. thia. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. toe. th. th. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. to. to. to. to. to. thi. thi. thi. to. the. to. to. to. to. to. toe. toe. toea. to. to. toea. to. toea. to. to. to. to. to. are who? No clue. It's a big claim to say there is a giant plan to kill half the population and not have a Thanos to point to. So why does the conversation on this SoCal boardwalk sound like a Shoney's in Lancaster PA?

I talked to Derek Barris, who's been tracking this coastal elite anti-vax movement for years. You've had a long anti-vaccine sentiment here. Specifically, in 2017, there was a measles outbreak right over there in Brentwood in Santa Monica, where an eradicated disease in America sprung up again. This idea of bodily sovereignty has really come about since the pandemic, but that has been taught for decades inside of Yoga Studios in America. Bodily sovereignty sounds a lot like what I told my parents I was doing freshman year of high school. You have pretty liberal parents then.

Yeah, this is my body. I can do what I want with it as often as I want to do wherever I want in the living room. You're still here. People hear about anti-vax and they think Maga world, but now we're seeing this wellness, which we see maybe more to the left. Center for Countering Digital Hate identified 12 practitioners in the wellness space that were responsible for something like 70% of the vaccine disinformation on social media. Turns out ignoring the advice of the medical experts and sacrificing the health of the community at large can actually be quite profitable for the wellness business. Everyone knows about Ivermectin and hydroxy chloroquin at this moment. The idea that that can help you have, uh med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med med meditations. You have the the the the the the the the the the health. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12 the health. 12. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. The health of the health of the health of the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health. the health..................................................................................................................... the wellness business. Everyone knows about Ivermectin and hydroxy chloroquin at this moment.

The idea that that can help. You have meditations that are sold that are supposed to ward off COVID. You also have different breathing techniques. Some practitioners, including here in Los Angeles, teach breathing workshops because COVID is a respiratory illness, and so their belief is, well, if you're breathing properly, it won't actually affect you. You can breathe your way out of COVID. Absolutely. That's a class you can pay for. Yes, that is absolutely a class you can pay for.

So like, how many smoothies does one have to ingest to get to the point where they can completely disregard the health of the community they live in? In Los Angeles one, because they're usually $25. I never knew there was that many parts of honey to ingest. And the honey is blessed by a shaman from Tibet, so you're paying for that as well. You have to remember that. I wanted to talk to these people. So I set up outside of the buggiest health food market in Venice Beach. And I also had a hankering for an activated charcoal bone broth, rosehip, cure all. Are you vaccinated? Uh, maybe. No? No? I'm not. You not?

No. Are you fearful of catching COVID? No. No. No. I think that it's more about the lifestyle versus like vaccinated, not vaccinated. What is the lifestyle? Like being healthy, like taking care of yourself, like your mind,

your body should be able to handle COVID. So what do you recommend for basic ofing ofing ofing ofing ofing ofing ofing ofe ofe ofe to thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thia thi to thi thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi tha? thi tha? thi tha? thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi to thi to to to to to to to to to to to toa toa toa toa toa toa toa toa toa toa toa thia toa thia thia then your body should be able to handle COVID. So what do you recommend for basic public health? Eating healthy, boosting your immunity system, and don't watch the news because it's just brainwashing you. The fear is lowering your frequency. I only eat fish and only a certain kind of fish. Like, for example, I don't eat tuna. And I actually found that out when I was trying to feed tuna to my cat, and she shook her head and walked off.

Do you often take medical advice from a cat? General from nature. From nature. What do you think of the COVID vaccine? I don't think it's a vaccine. I think it's snapping the DNA in half. The Siamese cat? You recommend for public health people meditating? Of course. People working out in groups?

Definitely. Eating healthy? Definitely. the COVID vaccine? No. No. A coffee enema? toema.

No. Maybe on the coffee enema, definite hard no on the COVID vaccine. No. I'm not an anti-vaxer per se. I'm a staunch and I mandate person. Can I ask, are you both vaccinated? Sorry, we don't want to put on status? If you don't want to share your vaccine status, that's okay. I'm vaccinated. And look how I look. Don't judge me. I know everybody in LA is judging people. I'm in LA 5, New York 6 in a DC 12. I can tell. Cold, but fair. th. Now. Now. Now, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to th. to to to th. to say th. th. th. th. to say to say th. to say to say to say to say thi. th. toe. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to th. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. th. tha. tha. thi. th a New York 6 in a DC 12. I can tell. Cold, but fair. Now what say you, dude?

I want to talk about wellness and public health, and trust me, we'll get to your script later. Can I ask you, are you vaccinated? I am. Do you find that most people in Los Angeles that you encounter are vaccinated? Like I'm kind of a New Yorker. And there's a sense of like, like, to, to, that here to be totally honest. It's more like, well, I had to get vaccinated because I'm paying a trip to Toulou. So if more Americans were dangled a trip to Toulou, we might get that vaccination rate up in the 90s? Maybe so. No matterthink what's interesting, especially coming from Germany, I think history is repeating itself right now. What are you saying? That what have? The vaccine mandates and everything. It's like it's turning into police state. And you're equating it to World War II era Germany? Yes. Where is your papers? Where are your papers? It's very similar to the Hitler Times?

But like Jewish people are fleeing Poland because they can't get into gyms. It's not funny. But is that comparison though? You just didn't get the point. Sorry. I'm good. Bye. Maybe historical dramas aren't big in LA. But certainly there is commercial viability in saving humanity, right? Or in LA, maybe there's an elevator pitch here, right? So zoom in on a country at war with itself,

and then a magical cure comes along that helps people take care of the rest of their community by making a choice to help other people. Would you buy that ticket? No. No. Okay. Vaccination is still going a bit slow in America, and we should be past this talk by now, but we're not, and it's definitely going to come up at your holiday gatherings.

So that you're prepared for those conversations, here is our gift to you. These are moments from past rallies we haven't shown before with some truly unique arguments from the vaccine-hesitant crowd. I haven't seen that it's been life-saving at all. I've seen a lot more people in the hospital after they got this vaccine than, you know, it being helpful. Right now in North Carolina, 92% of the people who are in the hospital because of COVID are unvaccinated. Does that worry you? No. Where nowadays can the unvaccinated congregate? Basically, no way unless the former group.

Yeah, unless it's the ICU. What is that? What is it? That tends to be where many of the unvaccinated congregate. Okay, yes. The ICU's here are full. Yeah. But in the general scope of things of the entire population of everybody who's been tested, what is that way out to?

So, in the full ICU is just a full ICU. Kids need to see the lower half of other kids' faces. Yeah. That seems like a take? I'm not an anti-vaxer. Just don't be putting some stuff in my body that is improving. It's not proving. So your issues issues issues issues issues issues issues issues issues issues issues issues the issues issues the issues the issues issues the issues issues issues that maybe the issue is maybe that maybe that maybe that maybe that maybe the issue is maybe that maybe that maybe that maybe that maybe that maybe th. th. th. thii. thi. thiuui. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the th. the th. th. the th. the the the the the th. the the th. the the the th. th. the the th. th. the the th. to. tooooooooooooooooo. toe. toe. too. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the the the th. the th. It's not proving. Right. So your issue is that maybe they rushed this through too fast. Absolutely.

Do you feel like it was an issue that America moved at warp speed? Yes, I do. Who did you support in the last election? Trump. Do you think he deserves more credit for what he did with the vaccine? Kills me. Biden gets in, Biden gets the vaccine. Oh yeah, give me the vaccine. So Trump deserves more credit or less credit? I think Trump did what he could do. Which has moved the vaccine at warp speed? Which you were against, like a second ago. Do you have a distrust about some of the narratives

that are going on in there? I have a lot of distrust. Talk to me about them. Ah, it's too long. Where are you getting your information? the vaccine? I have a lot of information just like you guys all get your information. Where do you go for your information? From a lot of places. Specifically, 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 tried to get some Thai food around the corner. They told me I couldn't sit down and eat unless you you know I had a vaccine mandate. Now I believe things th. T th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the their their the that. their their their their their their their their to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th. th. the. the. toe. toe. toe. toe. the. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. things like that were said to Martin Luther King when he tried to walk into places to eat, but they said, they had a different reason to make him a second class citizen.

Compared yourself to MLK are big words for a guy wearing 80s B-boy jeans. Actually, these are not 80s B-boys genes. I know you can't tell you can't tell because you're a Democrat and you can't afford these things. All right, well, enjoy. I hope you don't get sick. Thank you. I still haven't yet. Have you gotten COVID? Ha, that sucks, too bad for you.

That's the empathy that the young Republicans bring. Thank you. Where are you getting your information? Everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but like, to those places, internet, by word of mouth, here. I mean, you see a nice burrito, and it has like farm fresh eggs in it. If you got to see the workers at Pfizer's make you a vaccine, would you trust that? No. No. No.

Tens of thousands of people have already died from the vaccine. When the flu vaccine came out, 75 people died and they stopped it to rework it. Tens of thousands of people? Where do you get that stat? I get that stat from the, oh gosh, the V, the V, the V, the the V, the one that puts out the stats. Let me ask my daughter, Livy! The CDC? No, not the CDC. The BS. What's that people? What's that?

The V-U-L-L-S-H-I-T? What did you say? They are violating bodily autonomy. They are creating the same as vaccine passports, which is illegal segregation. Illegal segregation. We are going back to a state in which there are two groups of people. You have the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. You feel like what's going on right now is back to 60s America.

Creating that. A lot of my friends, they concentrate on Nazi Germany. That's a whole other planet. That's a whole other country. That's a crazy comparison. Asking people to get a COVID vaccine, Holocaust comparison a little much. Jim Crow feels about right. Yeah, not, I mean.

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