Name: The COVID Relief Bill, Questioning Origins of Coronavirus
Uploaded: 2020-12-24T17:45:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The COVID Relief Bill, Questioning Origins of Coronavirus' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The COVID Relief Bill, Questioning Origins of Coronavirus' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-24. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience if you look at the bill that was passed I mean I went
over it last night and it's there's a lot of weird shit in there like why are
we giving all this aid to foreign countries in this bill why is there a
part of this aid bill that makes it a felony to illegally stream like how does
this out they sneak things into these fucking bills these people are monsters
they really are like this should have been a real clear-cut thing aid to
people that have lost all their income because of this they need a stimulus the
fact that they they added in a felony provision for people who stream movies
and profit from them like what the fuck is going on like how is you're not
gonna
hear me disagree look why is Pakistan getting money why is Israel getting did
you see it Jamie it's bizarre I don't understand the logic behind it I
understand how this got agreed to well what happens is the idea is this thing's
gonna pass anyway so you you help out your favorite lobbyist whether you're a
Democrat or a Republican you sneak something in is that what it is yeah
that's clearly here here's what I'll say okay this is why tell your children
actually matters in this debate okay I wrote this book and you can and you can
say that's the pot book for folks yeah you can say like this guy like he doesn't
understand a lot of people just like to get high and they can handle it it
shouldn't be criminal and you know minorities bear the burden here it's
wrong let's legalize okay totally reasonable and by the way alcohol kills a
whole lot of people it's legal it's advertised on TV it's legal the rules
should be the same I totally get that okay if you read the book it's about
something else it's about this is psychiatrically harmful to a lot of people
and we're not talking about it yeah and by the way there's a downstream
violence
that comes from that sometimes that we're not talking about either okay to me
those things if you read the book with an open mind are pretty factual and
inarguable it doesn't mean by the way that you can't then say cannabis should
still be legal you can read the book and agree with it and say but you know
what
should still be legal for those other reasons fine that is not the way the
book was treated last year okay it was you hate black people you don't
understand science you're cherry-picking go to hell okay so when I saw this
happening this year with kovid and I saw the New York Times where I used to
work
and you know what people can yell at me for saying I used to work there but I
worked there for 10 years and I was a really good reporter there and I'm not
gonna back down from my credentials cuz I am a good reporter you can say you
can
say you know what like lockdowns are necessary and we need to protect these
old people and you know what we can't let the hospitals get overrun but if I
present evidence to you that's contrary don't just shout at me that I'm an
idiot
and don't know what I'm talking about okay it's not gonna work it didn't work
with tell your children and it's not gonna work this time okay so and what I
recognized was that unfortunately and it's through the elite levels of the
media
you know the Times Washington Post NPR CNN the group think is overwhelming yeah
it's overwhelming on cannabis and it's overwhelming on all these woke
progressive issues and it's gotten much much worse since I left the Times 10
years
ago and I don't know what's gonna turn it around okay and and and it has
terrible effects let me give you one example okay we should all want to know
where this virus came from I don't care whether you're a Republican or a
Democrat
liberal conservative I don't care what country you live in you should want to
know if this is the result of a Chinese lab accident and there's some evidence
that we can talk about that later okay and you should at least want to know
that
there's been a complete independent investigation into this okay this thing
has messed up the world in a mammoth way this year okay and at the least we
should want to know where it came from if it did come from some kind of
accident I'm not saying the Chinese released it intentionally I'm saying
there might be evidence that there was an accident because if that happened we
better make sure it never ever ever happens again not a very strange thing to
me that people don't want to even investigate that they don't want to look at
it and they're there I think they're afraid of racism or something there seems
to
be some sort of indication that there's a victim blaming thing there's a
there's an aspect to it that also is anti-trump that's it yeah it's anti-trump
okay yeah what
happened in March was the progressive media first of all they were terrified
because what was happening in New York what seemed to be happening in New York
and they all thought they were gonna die and then once they realized they
weren't all gonna die they realized that they could beat Donald Trump over the
head with this and he would lose the election and they did and he did and look
I I'm neither
Republican nor a Democrat what are you I'm an independent basically I basically
as I've said my politics are that it's impossible to be too cynical just like
you said with the with the bill that they just passed it's impossible to be too
cynical about the way these people behave they behave they behave terribly okay
but
so why is it that the New York Times won't even write stories about the fact
that there's real questions about where this virus came from forget the
ventilators forget the US response forget you know Donald Trump we should be
asking that question the group think is so serious that basic questions don't
get
asked right now well we were criticized on the podcast because I had Brett Weinstein
who's a evolutionary biologist who discussed all the reasons scientific
reasons why it's there's there's evidence that indicates that this is not a
virus that naturally occurred that's right and also just by coincidence there
happens to be a level 4 lab in Wuhan what are the odds right like you would
think
that people would want to put those two together but it was something from the
beginning that this group think was established that you are not to question
that and there was a whole article written about I'm promoting this
dangerous conspiracy theory that the that this came from a lab that's been
disproven but it hasn't it has not been disproven at all no it hasn't been
disproven there's there's never been a real solid proof of where this has come
from that's right here nor there that's right and and actually you'd say the
evidence is sort of going the other way now I mean in favor of this and here's
why if this thing is originally came from some animal right we know that there
was a virus that was 96% similar to it that they had at that lab okay but we've
never found the virus that's 99% similar in an animal which is what we would
expect to find okay that there'd be something really close that then made the
jump from whether it's a civet cat or a bat or a mink or whatever to a human
they've never been able to find that what was the connection with pangolins
so I think it was so so the virus is 96% bat it looks like very very similar
and
then near the most important part of it the part of the binds this receptor on
your cells that enables it to get in it's called the receptor binding domain is
pangolin okay so it just happens that it's a perfect cut of mostly this virus
that we know was in this lab this bat virus with a pangolin virus with a tiny
addition that it that enables it enables the spike to attach more efficiently
okay
it's called the fur and cleavage and and again we're at sort of the limits of
my
knowledge I don't want to talk too specifically about it but somehow this
virus just happens to be mostly bat a little bit pangolin and we can't find
any evidence of a virus that's like that to a 99 percentile in the wild and
believe me don't you think the Chinese have looked in the last year or wouldn't
they have looked if they thought they could find something when SARS came the
original SARS not SARS-CoV-2 they had found the viral host within a matter of
months I mean the the the zoonotic one the the animal viral host in a matter of
months and they published a paper on it there's been nothing like that now you
can
choose to believe that's because you know what it's just in some cave in China
that they haven't found the real thing yet or you can choose the question as
you
said there's this level 4 BSL lab in Wuhan where it happens where this thing
happens to seemingly have emerged from coincidence coincidence crazy
coincidence yeah but we're not allowed to talk about that yeah if you talk
about
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