The Year in Jordan Klepper - 2021

We do not consent to be governed, nor shall we ever be consented to be governed by a legal fraud and election. But you elected a guy who also doesn't care much about consent. We do not consent. Will you accept Joe Biden? That's president? Nited states on No, I will not accept the No. I will not look what I gagu getting myself about this. Okay, I don't know all it's in the Constitution. Have you read it? It's pretty short? Should America? Yeah, I've not read the whole thing. No,

you've read the entire thing. Yes, it's remarkably sure. All right, I doubt that, but it's okay. You should read it because you might be committing a seditious act in an hour and a half. Okay, I'm not gonna comment about that. If people didn't vote for Joe Biden, no, the dominion system voted for Joe Biden. Do you think it's possible that Hugo Chavez uh infiltrating the dominion systems changed the

votes orchestrated by Joe Biden. Do you think it's possible that a president who never pulled above fifty lost the election? That is 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 prepared 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. It

looks like we got some proud boy action. Either that or the Bellot Street Team. What's your flag? Say? Come and take it? Come and take it? Do you have a weapon? No? Why not? Did they take it? Sorry? Bro, I was worried that we were in trouble, but then I saw that we got that 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 the gun there. I have one brillion flood people, angry, very very angry people.

Can I ask why you're carrying a pitchfork? Well, pittsfork is a just I call representation of how of what people over time you have done in this car, it fields willing, a weapon to be quite ns farm equipment, and it's legal in this in this in the city. Are you farming today? It's that it's it's a representation. We're not asking for violence right now. I gotta tell you from the movies I've seen, the hordes of people with pitchforks are usually the bad guys close? Do you

think we are to hang on? Are we close? Are? That's the Civil war? Would you would you rather die on your knees than be free? Aren't you a little bit freaked out? About six hundred thousand Americans do as you're not wearing masks. Never mind, this thing was a powder keg. All it took was someone to light the fuse like these human blow torches. Let's have trial by combat. Stand up and fight, stand up and hold your representatives accountable.

We're gonna walk down to the capital because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength with those orders. Is the crowd of economically anxious insurrectionists advanced on the Capitol. So we've been following this protest. We headed to the Capitol and the Trump supporters just broke through the gates and they're now heading into the Capitol. Right now, people are getting waved up towards the Capitol. Take it back. I'm hearing people saying, let's go keep going.

Who are you with the American people? The American people? Are you military? Not? Answer or not? You're not You're not military? 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? Are you looking to make an aggression action right now? I'm malcing 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? I'm just gonna see how it faults. You can see how it unfaults. All right, good luck with the payball tournament? Okay? Can I can I ask you some questions? What's your plan? What's your plan? What are your your? Your? Your? Are you storming the capital for checks? This is? Is this the last stand? This looks like the last day? Are you afraid if you run out of batteries for the last stand, then

you'll be thwarted? Good luck? I hope you don't run into bumping terrain or stairs while segue Stonewall Jackson is laughable on his child scooter. The rioters brought real weapons and committed real trucity attacked our democracy, our police, and even our cameraman. I would say Trump's fake tough guy military are literally throwing themselves on the ground to perpetuate victimhood. The Trump president, who was gonna come to it? And

this the seems fitting a show of aggression. And you went a bunch of people screaming at a building without a working understanding of how democracy works America, 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 ship staying rebellion failed, as did my dry January. It's impeachment week again. So I'm back in Washington, d C. Where our capital is a bit different from the last

time I was here. It is hard to figure out how to get in towards the capital. I want to get to the Capitol. Could I want me down to Constitution? There are miles and miles of fences, but somebody can 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?

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 to have Antifa, 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 think that you have added to tried to kill all those things that you have ignored.

I gotta share video. I gotta you want to trade videos because I'd love to share video as well. I'm not gonna give you my email yet. The MAGA faithful aren't the only ones who want to go to the video house. Prosecutors plan to quote have a fast paced, cinematic case. Raskin is aiming for a blockbuster action film

this week. Yes, Impeachment Too is bigger and louder and more cinematic than the first one, because, as we all know, when you're dealing with American audiences, studying imagery goes farther than facts. What are you doing? Are you doing the spinning bad boy shot? So 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, this new one, I think is just so obvious. You know, it's full of drama and chaos. Unfortunately, murder and sedition. You know it has all of the good plot twists up a crime. I'm not excited about it because the fact that it has 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 ship? I am Bruce Willis too old for this ship. Deninitely, Danny Glover, you know, leave the weapon, Danny Glover. I guess Bruce Willis was getting too old for the die Hard series in and of itself. All I'm saying that somebody needs to say Austin Leavista baby, and we're right. As long as there's not a third movie, I'll be great. I hope you're right. Although we do have a villain who has 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 grab a para scissors and go out and screen running one oh one. Make it personal, give us people to care about exactly where is Jordan? Where's running Peel? He should be used to get up

and he should manager. He's too busy making scary stuff that I only stayed 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 Blake criminality seems like a sound legal tactic. So how does Lead impeachment Manager Adam Schiff feel the sequel stacks up to the original? Urson might have been more the Ken Burns to documentary, This might be more of the HBO

mini series. 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 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. His accountability really America's thing. I mean, that's we're better at, like barbecue would wrap around sunglasses. 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. Uh, this points to another huge problem, not the lasers, the wildfires, but the people who leave the people who believe in that cookie crazy um bad ship conspiracy theory stuff. Um, 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 wise So you're banking on the courage of someone like Ted Cruz. Good luck with that. I was gonna bank on that. I would be bankrupt

the long time ago. I was gonna say, he won't even stand up for his wife, let alone the country. So so the final jury is the American people, which in like rotten tomatoes. It's like the critics score versus the audience score. Now, the first in beachment was great, Critics loved it, audience was so so on it. But maybe for this new one, the audience score pops right

up and there's a conviction. Well, I'm hoping that that the the audience score on the senator score are in alignment, and they both say, we never want to see the likes of Donald Trump in office again. So will impeachment to don't rush to judgment day, move any Senate Republicans to convict Trump. As I look around our transform capital

for signs of hope, I know no more bad boy shots. Okay, I'm no no. Last week I traveled to a sweltering Arizona where Republican state senators are auditing results of election in a giant arena next to an actual carnival. Sure, there's already been two audits and a recount, and it's one goddamn degrees out, but there are still men like this ready to throw their support behind election integrity. I've been here all week, uh, and I'll be here until

the audience done. Is my plans. So this is what's going on right back here is the most important thing going on in our country right now? What do you have? They're on your hip Smith and Western three fifty seven Magna. There has been word that Antifa and BLM may be coming in, so there are trying to be careful and us. Have you seen any signs of Antifa? You guys are

probably 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 to coming and try to infiltrate and get access. So there is some fear that BLM might meet behind the tilt the world organized and then bomb rush the situation. Bad people can do bad things, and I'm not gonna say what they may try to do outside of possible Antifa Carney's 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? Cyberninches? Did you say Cyberninches? I did say Cyberninches. It run by a twelve year old boy. Uh, it sounds like it right. Well, the cyber Ninja's 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 Ninja's that takes some amount of training. Their firm has nothing to do with audits or elections. Well, maybe they're newish to it. How many audits have they done? They've never done an audit? Well, I mean give him a wide berth right, first job, you want to root 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 at 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 ellet's um their election being in the hands of these rookies. Turns out the Audit has had some issues in the Trust Department, starting with Cyberninja's conspiracy theorist CEO, an auditor who attended the January six insurrection, and mysterious UV lights used to look forward Chinese bamboo

in paper ballots. Really to help clear the air, I talked to John Breaky 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 MythBusters. Great, okay, we're doing things we think are foolish, but people believe it's real. What is this I hear of a UV light There there was a UV light there was being used to supposedly check for water marks in the ballot. I want to follow up on this bamboo bizarre Huh. That's because Southeast Asia has used as bamboo in their paper supposedly, okay, myths, but are you looking for traces

of bamboo? You're looking for everything in there that. Yes, we're looking to disprove that it is not there. Some people believe that paper from outside of the authentic ballot paper that should have been part of the Americopa audit got introduced into the system and might be the paper on which people cast illegitimate votes all Chinese ballots around bamboo? Is it because soy sauce would be too obviously racist? Oh?

My goodness? Is there a chance people believe this? Because people add fuel to the fire by elevating this and and therefore letting that part of the conversation. If we validate that something they think might have happened didn't happen, then we're not throwing fuel on the fire. Are you looking into the Hungarian vector? I didn't know about that. It'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 cyber Ninjas 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 gonna 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. But you want us to trust you. But you're like, we're gonna lock the ballots in there and then let a bunch of team for a week and then we'll start counting again. Now that is not a case. Let's get I got serious. Let's be serious, very serious. It's

very serious. Okay, So it's not a joke. It's not a joke. Let's go back to the bamboo talking. But it's not a joke. Until we settle the very serious bamboo situation, you can find me in a place that's run by professionals not attempting to toward 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 on a JumboTron and obviously buy some pillows. Way got an

amazing lineup. Who is your favorite with the lineup? Um? Probably, Well, we're just excited the same right he speaks the same truth that peoplelieve Mike is is a true hero. You know, they they they claim, you know, the doctors and nurses are that. But my own sisters are retired r N 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. What have you learned

from Mike Lindell? He was a true blue, red working American man, which which which color? Wolue and true He's a blue and true wanted man that he's you know, got him in there. Yeah, Mike Lindell has guarded plenty of attention by focusing on one thing when this election, when all this fraud has 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 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, you don't trust the Department of Justice? Oh no, you trust my pillow guy. Well, I wouldn't go quite that far to see you know, I trust what he's saying. You do you trust what I say? Yeah? Oh so you would, Yeah,

you would go that far. Yeah, that's exactly where you at. 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? Well, there's 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 haven't understanding and a whole picture, right,

we have to so you support critical race theory. No, Lindell's newest election claim is his juiciest President Trump coming back. 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? But you know, I don't. I think I think the country is going to going to part right now. Not the country? What what country? Did you grow up at the United sixties? Things were better in the sixties seventies. Yeah, in the sixties we knew which

drinking found the drink from exactly. Yeah. If Trump is reinstated in one you think the Democrats will accept it and allow our nation to heal. Yeah, They're just not gonna let it go. They're gonna be winding in the field months after everything's already decided. Anyway, are you excited about being out here in the field to watch Trump on the jump bo tron? Is he gonna be on the jump jumbo Trump? We don't even know who knows.

I'll tell you who might know. The man who paid for a military plane flyover are surprising the sky here in about thirty seconds. It's gonna happen any minute. Can they assume right here? Yeah, that's fine, alright, alright, we're gonna serve right now with Brandon Ledis and god less America untill the Plains. 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've told the whole country I'm gonna happen with that Donald Trump will be back in in August. You still believe that, absolutely. This is the crime of the century you're describing. And they came to my pillow guy. No, they didn't come to me. They came to me on January nine. But I've seen the evidence. But they still 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 caught the organic throat and front is this helping? Like? This is this? Here? Is this? This is a I already have the evidence. You know what this is doing, do you guys get it? It's for perpetuating and attacking what you are by saying that. Let me tell you something.

This is a free speech rally. Okay, my platform, freak speech for all the individuals, whether they're Democrats 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 journalists suppressed it, cancel us or try and destroy something good that's coming out of this. This is a free speech right This isn't a Trump rally. Did you call? Are you trying to say that's a

Trump rally? It says my mega is in the title and he's speaking at it. No, he you know you know what he's speaking is he got his picture on the boaster, Mike, Yeah, he got 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 threats? I mean High Secretary of State Georgia. I'm saying there are people because of the conversations that are happening, the the elongation of this process or now being threatened. You know you're talking about brad Rassenburger. Brad Rassenburger and bray Camp. We're in on that. So are you kidding there? As compromised as they came one of these Republicans compromise.

I don't know. I'm asking you because you, you apparently are the one that you need to understand that's the deviation. Why wouldn't you guys when I was kicked out? Do you either want to be the guy everybody comes to or not the guy everybody comes to because you have answers for being the guy that the cyberpunks come to,

but you have no other. I don't know. If August doesn't happen, what do you say to these these states are gonna all pull it down because they're doing Audust in every student Americoco get done everywhere they've done, and as like the New Hampshire every place that we've done as that we've done, the machines, it's the same thing everyone. So there's a planet. 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.

Guys are horrible. 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 de Blasio's home, there was a group protesting his new mandate that customers show proof of vaccination in order to in a restaurants, gyms,

and theaters. It was a mix of hardcore anti factors, 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 FDA. I don't know what's in that. Women are miscarrying, people are having at DNAs wiped out. What what do you mean,

like completely wiped up. Yeah, they're telling women that it's okay for you can get the vaccine. What does it mean They're DNA has wiped out their immunity. The immunity it's getting like COVID wiped out six thousand d NA. Yes, of course, you know. Actually some people have died from the vaccine. Don't believe me, Go to the media, got to the Google or uh. Some people have died from COVID. Yes, so many more than from the vaccine. One thing with me,

I'm trying not to argue facts. I don't believe that suggesting strongly and coming out with mandates for vaccine is a way of medical intervention. This is not what I believe in. 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. Think you're hopefully ship you know and take crews have both the vaccinated. 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 to protect something before it gets out of control. It's everything thing, 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 get a vaccine. Squash it before it gets out of control. That's why what it's important that we take the vaccine. Squash god, what do you want?

Are you nuts? What were you talking about? Talking to you? What are you talking about? I am not in the vaccine 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. Should you see who? I'm confused? Though, clearly putting potentially harmful toxins into your body was something these anti vax mandate

health nuts were very concerned about. Our cruise are running for the city council, running for New York office as a Republican. The science is still you, we still have question marks. We rushed the science. We were moving at warp space, well the warp speed. So Donald Trump rushed it. Notrus who rushed it? Wool Russian? Uh? I can I ask you how about if you change places? And then I started, I'm talking to me. You're you're the one

who's running from public up. The Republicans of New York were clearly trying to move on from the past and in sub cases, forgetting it completely. My name is Fishburra 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 the Blasio. Do you think this is something that founding fathers would be would support, the founding fathers would support vaccine mandate? No,

I don't believe. So George Washington had a vaccine mandate. Well, that's okay, Oh, that's okay. Oh 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 gonna miss out on? This mandate prevents you from doing I just tried to get some tie. I love Thai food. I just tried to get some Thai food around the corner. They told me I couldn't sit

down and eat. That can't go in a restaurant, I can't go to music club. More. People who are not going to go out to eat, how are they gonna get food? Exactly right? So maybe don't go out of state come back. 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, that's their point is this mandate is a slippery slope that only leads to so many don't get it. It's nineteen thirty seven and never again is now. Do not comply to

showing your papers. This is a 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 isn't it's called it's both. Those are diametrically opposed ideologies. I don't think it's community. Is more like a dictator ship. Like we're living in the like a Nazi Germany. And don't even that smith thing is the camp in the gaps, that's what's happening right now.

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 a Nazi Germany? People were bitching about not going to a gym. Com regardless of our differ and says 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 Yorker and we're in

this together. I mean, I've heard the weird we live in a society line a million times, and we're over it. The way the people think holds no sway for you. Now we the people is who are that? Then? Who are the people of the way? The people that you are willing to support. Definitely not the illegal immigrants they're bringing COVID over over our border right now, that's for sure.

I do not believe that vaccine mandates are constitutionally uh supported, which is a bummer because of the Supreme Court is 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 pad C you are founding. Fathers said you deserve to eat inside during a global pandemic. I be Johnson County, North Carolina, marching with antimass protesters to what it's become America's new thunder

dool school board meetings. North Carolina parents are desperate to get their kids back into schools, but with packed I c U s and COVID cases and children four times what they were last year. New studies in the CDC are recommended mass as a way to keep in person learning. Bud Pack school board meetings and new Stars of the Right are upset because putting out a piece of cloth is just too much. I'm against all mandates. So from there, I don't think. Where it's masks, where it's vaccinations, I'm

against it. All masks will never protect Americas. Masks don't work. My child was suffering after wearing his mask for so long. What kind of issues has he had? He's had acne on his face from you know, the mask covering and not letting his skin breathe, and he had COVID but he has that acne. Yes, So have you had to choose? What's wrong with having children wear masks in school? Well, you're breathing in the toxics that your body is trying to get rid of. How do surgeons do it? That

is a good question. There's been some new studies that have come out book by the CDC and by even Duke University talking about masks being helpful, especially in the school situation. I challenge anybody put a mask on in five minutes later, smell that and think it's good. There's science and then there's the smell test, and you're going with the smell test. What are some of the ways kids suffer when they have to wear masks? I think breathing.

I've done a little bit of research about the carbon and the ox side that people were saying is an issue now with the mask. Wearing a mask helps stop the spread of COVID in settings like a school, but they still they're outside like right now. I mean, I mean this is a kind of example. There's kids out there playing and stuff. Well, we're outside right now when you go inside, isn't it beneficial wear a mask if

you're close to someone? U No, No, I don't. I mean, I don't think there the science says it is helpful to wear a mask so it doesn't spread when you're close proximity indoors. Yeah, yeah, I don't think, I mean because they're oh, I don't know, I just yeah, and it doesn't. Sorry, So some people are bewildered by science, both the practice and the word. But maybe scary images like full I c U s would have an impact.

Wearing a mask. What's the harm? Well, for kids, the harm is they can't gauge emotional awareness of other kids. They don't see the facial expressions. Do you think not being able to seek people's lower halves of face outweighs the dangers that COVID might pose to kids and communities. Well, the dangerous aren't what you think they are. The us here are full. Yeah, but how many positive tests in all of North Carolina have died? How many are sick? The ones in the I C you are pretty sick?

Yeah many. I see use three times in the last year and a half with my wife and have questioned the nurses and doctors. You have ic us full of people suffering from COVID? Right? Is that true? Are they just being the diagnosis on paper? I walked through the hospitals, I videotaped inside the hospitals, and guess what, it is 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 area of grievances. Oh my God, as governor here that thinks it's okay to have CRT in the Classroom's on agitating and not indoctrinating our children here in North Carolina. No, CRT. That's ridiculous self. 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 it's not like that. It was hard to sum up the outrage of that afternoon. There are 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 compare with

the government. Don't get pregnant, Texas. There we go, Okay, pregnant anywhere your kids go to private school? In school, isn't that kind of co parenting with the government. No, it isn't. Because you know why, we have a Board of Education. We also elect to our officials. Are we get to have a voice, right, so you work with the government we do in parenting decisions. Yeah, you're in public schools. You do kind of compare it with the

government in that regard. I guess, yeah, if you want to say, my taxes pay for that, yeah, but you're given about your child tax credit, Perry. 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? No, I don't even vote. You don't even vote. You could vote for somebody who reflects your values. I could vote, You're right, yeah, but

that's a hassle. Take the time to do what I'm sorry, But at the end of the day, they saw this as a fight again, something much more disturbing than kids face coverings. It's terrible for them to wear masks. Absolutely, it's just absolutely terrible. It's a sign of slavery. Basically, wearing a mask is a sign of slavery. I discovered in my research also that satan has stands six ft apart. They wear masks during the rituals. Who does Satanists? Satanists

six rituals, that's six part wear masks. Absolutely, I don't know. It is a coincidence. I don't know. Satanism is where war was. Satan 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 absolutely. I'm back in my first Trump rally since January six, one a day no one will ever forget unless you're a Republican member of Congress. Yes, Trump is

gathering people once again. So I headed to my favorite Iowa state capital, where the crowd was ready to proclaim Trump won, and Trump won, and Trump won and rides a tank and even though Trump won, they're hoping he runs again. Hey, the one we're placed announced the kadas even here in the Hawkeye state, Are we ready for this? I mean the last guy hasn't even conceded yet. Well, I mean, I uh, I have some choice words for especially a vice president, but I'm trying to be civil today.

So my last Trump rally was January six. Uh, have you seen any gallows go up anywhere? Nope? Do you think Mike Pencil show up here today or does he not want to hang? Oh? I think he would be afraid to show up here today. Why is that he was a coward, He didn't do the right thing, that's why. Or because these people tried to kill him. Yeah, well I don't think they would. That's not I don't think

they would try to kill him. The Maga Faithful expressed their support for the former president in all the totally normal ways, with Confederate flags in Iowa and images of Trump on a Velociraptor with a machine gun. You know, people say, oh, Trump's that's a cult ball blah, But I feel like cult is such a negative word. We are not a cult. We are a group of Americans that love our country and we want it fast. 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, I don't 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 speech. But if they're already looking to Trump's yet to be announced 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 rushed under the rug. And you're from Iowa. I'm from Iowa. If you're worry about people coming from Minnesota. Um 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 put each other against each other. Every way, shape and form. They've

been trying to divide it. It's like this administration is giving the middle figure to happen the whole country, if you ask me, and that's the whole Damn. 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. We should be we should be working together, 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 we were at one point in time. Doing this it's childish. Yes, I've had people stop talking to me for my views. We should show respect, Yes, what's what's going on your shirts. I think they speak for themselves. 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 ran into an old friend I thought I'd never see again. Queues back and there's cue ship everywhere. Yes, the online conspiracy following a mysterious character known as Q was more popular than ever. Is that a Cue Are you acute? Supporter? Certainly wasn't Queues whole thing that Trump would be reinstated

as president. He's never left. There's no doubt in my mind a hundred fifties percent that he's still president the United States? Really does he still hold the powers of the presidency. He's always been flying around the world on Air Force one. Says something. I thought Joe Biden's technically at Air Force one, So they're they're faking it. Yeah, it's it's not even a presidency. Who is running the government right now, President Trump, he's running the government and

the military, and he's running the military. So we should blame him for what happened in Afghanistan. No, but it's still his fault. Its way beyond my understanding. I don't thank you for talking to George enjoycing 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 and on shirt. I assume she's also inspecting cards for lizard people and make believe pedophile rais and thanks to online bullshit, they have a very interesting take on who was behind the January six insurrection. Oh, antifa um like the corrupt fbi um basically Rhino's crop, politicians, the deep state all that. I don't believe it was people like me and people like you see over there

in that crowd that did it. Who who was? But the I, c I and TAFA were used, other other groups like that. It seemed like a lot of them were going into the Capitol to attack Nancy Pelosi and perhaps hang which on the one with the bull horns. He's not a Trump supporter. I don't care what his resumes is. He's not a Trump supporter. In fact, do you remember the picture of the plane in Afghanistan where all the people running next to it? That was a

balloon plane. If you look at the pictures of the real play, and there's pieces that are missing from the real plane into that place. So you're saying there's a conspiracy around the Afghanistan withdrawal. No, I'm saying that there was one guy there who ran. It's the only guy who turned to the camera and waved his hands. Do you 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 Who's gonna We're gonna find pictures of like the horn guy, like the background of old Civil war photos or in paintings of the revolutionary was telling you the picture looks just like can America's centuries old democracy survived 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 hesitancy and misinformation and the elitist to 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 vaccination? It's not an anti vax. So don't go there. Don't go there, Please, don't Are you vaccinated? I am not your anti vax. I do not want to get the vaccination for COVID sport people's freedom choice. Don't you benefit

from a society that supports that by getting vaccinated? You shouldn't be able to force that stuff on people. It's a step one. Then they'll be step two? What step two? Who knows? I'm not a conspiracy terror series. Since we have step one with polio, you didn't really mandate that people were docile back in the in the industrial stage, that they were more willing to take the shot. Polio is mandated for students going to school boy to be because we know what it's done. Don't we know what

COVID's done. I mean, there's seven fifty people who have a pretty good idea. Do you trust the vaccine whatsoever? Zero? Like zero percent? And because I know what the end run, the end goal is. What's the end goal? Bill Gates seven the two thousand fifteen if we can get all these health things vaccination, we can reduce the population by ten to fifteen percent. What's of seven billion, that's a

billion people. The vaccine is all about depopulation. They 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, 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 so cal boardwalk sound like a shownees in Lancaster, p A. I talked to Derrick Harris, who's been tracking this coastal elite Tivacs movement for years.

You've had a long anti vaccines sentiment here. Specifically, in two thousand and seventeen, 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. The bodily sovertate sounds a lot like what I told my parents I was doing freshman year of high school.

You have pretty liberal parents, then, Yeah, because my body, I could 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 vacs and they think mangel world. But now we're seeing this wellness which we see maybe more to the left. Center for Countering Digital Hate identified twelve practitioners in the wellness space that we're responsible for something like seventy of the

vaccine disinformation on social media. It turns out ignoring the advice of the medical experts and sacrificing the health of the community at large can actually be quite pittable. Through the wellness business, everyone knows about iber mecton hydroxy chloroquine at this moment, the idea that that could 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 class you could 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 limit in Los Angeles one because they're usually twenty five dollars. I never knew there's 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 Boogeist health food market in Venice Beach, and I also had a hankering for an activated charcoal bone broth throws hip smoothie cure All.

Are you vaccinated? Maybe I'm not. Are you fearful of catching COVID? 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. If you live a lifestyle of wellness, 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 with fear, and the fear is lowering your frequency. I am only eat fish, and on the 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 have to take medical advice from a cat in 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 And where did you hear this? A Siamese cat? You recommend for public health? People meditating, of course, people working out in groups. Definitely, eating healthy, Definitely, COVID vaccine. No, No coffee enema possibly okay, maybe on the coffee enima. Definite hard No on the COVID vaccine. 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 the status. I just 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 l A Is judging people. I'm in l A five, New York six, and a d C twelve. Cold but fair. Now, what say you, dude? I want to talk about wellness and public health and trust people will 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 our vaccines like I'm kind of a New Yorker who and there there's a sense of like civic duty. There isn't so much of that here, to be totally honest, It's more like, well, I had to get vaccinated because I'm paying a trip to to Low. More Americans were dangled a trip to to Low we might get that vaccination right up in

the nineties. No matter what part of the anti vax world they come from, there's one comparison they just can't resist making. I think what's interesting, especially coming from Germany. I think history is repeating itself right now. What are you saying that the vaccine man, dads and everything? It's like it's turning into a police date and you're equating it to World War two era Germany. Yes, where are

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 gym's. 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 l A.

But certainly there is commercial viability and saving humanity. Right, we're in l A. 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? Take it? 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 gonna

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 right now in North Carolina, the people who are in the hospital

because of COVID are unvaccinated. Does that worry you? Now? Where nowadays can the unvaccinated congregate basically nowhere unless the formal group, Yeah, unless it's the I c U. Uh Um, what's that I see? That tends to be where many of the unvaccinated congregate. O. Good? The US 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 a full I c U is just a full I c You kids need to see the lower

half of other kids faces. That seems like a take. I'm not an anti vaxer. Just don't be putting some ship in. Don't be putting some stuff in my body. But it is improved that Do your issues 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? Do you think he deserves more credit for what he did with the vaccine. Kills me, fighting, gets in fighting

gets the kind of for the vaccine. Oh yeah, give me the vaccine. So he Trump deserves more credit or less credit. I think Trump did what he could do to move the vaccine at warp speed. But you were against like a second ago. Do you have a distrust about some of the narratives that are going on a lot of distrust Talk to me about that. It's too long. Where are you getting your information about that? 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 gonna miss out on? This mandate prevents you from I just tried to get some time. I love Thai food. I just tried to get some Thai food around the corner. They told me I couldn't sit down and eat unless, uh, you know, I had a vaccine mandate. Now, I believe 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 M. L. K are big words for a guy where eighties B boy jeans. Actually, these are not eighties B boys jeans. They are new true religions. I know you can't tell because you're a Democrat and you can't afford these things. Well, enjoy. I hope you don't get sick. Thank you. I still haven't yet. Have you gotten COVID? I did pop? That sucks? Too?

Good for you. That's that's the empathing that the young Republicans bring. Thank you. Where are you getting your information? Everywhere? Everywhere? Yeah? Well not everywhere, but like to those those places internet by word of mouth. Here, I mean you see uh a nice burrito and they has like farm fresh eggs in it. If you got to see the workers at

visors make you a vaccine burrito, would you trust that? No? No, tens of thousands of people have already died from the vaccine when the flu vaccine came out, or people died and they stopped it to rework thousands of people. Where do you get that step? I get that step from the oh gosh, the P A V P E A R, the one that that puts out the stats. Let me ask my levy CDC. No, not the CDC, what's that people. What's that? What's that? What did you say? They are

violating bodily autonomy. They are creating the same as vaccine passports, which is um 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 is back to sixties 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, I mean when someone asks you what they can get you for Christmas, just tell them to get vaccinated. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast