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Protect yourself at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, welcome to our 1,000th episode. The only thing that's special about this episode is that I just said it's our 1,000th episode. That is the only thing that we actually think is important about the, like, it's all the same. I was going to take the day off for the 1,000th episode, but I was told that that would be a bad idea.

So let's jump right into the same. I was going to take the day off for the 1,000th episode, but I was told that that would be a bad idea. So let's jump right into the news. So there is a weird phenomenon

out there where some people seem to be celebrating the failures of the United States with

regard to coronavirus, championing the idea that the United States has been a gigantic failure.

Among these people is Rachel Maddow, who is seeking to blame the entire pandemic on President Trump, which is weird because it seems like the pandemic is it, you know, like everywhere. In fact, the United States, when it comes to our death per million population, is basically middle of the pack. The United States ranks about 179 deaths per million population, according to worldometers. By contrast, Spain is at 519 per million.

Italy is at 453 per million. France is at 362 per million. The UK is at 319 per million.

In other words, the United States ranks right now about half of all of those other places on

Earth. Nonetheless, Rachel Maddow is out there almost celebrating the idea that the United

States is number one. Why? Because this allows her to dunk on President Trump, because Trump says America first, and now we are number one in the number of coronavirus cases diagnosed. A couple of things about that. One, we are also number one in the number of tests we've actually done in the United States. In terms of raw, absolute numbers, we are number one in the number of tests. So what's very odd as you hear some people in the media suggest we're under testing. We're really, really under testing. And then they'll say, but we're number one in cases. Okay. We're number one in cases in the aggregate, not per million population. We're number one in cases just as a raw sum. And then when it comes to testing, we're also number one in testing in raw sum. But the media used two different standards. They'll say that on a per capita basis, the United States is not number one when it comes to testing. But then they won't use per capita basis when they talk about the number of cases in the United States. Or they won't do that, the number of deaths in the United States. The reality of the situation is that the United States is not close to number one in terms of the number of deaths we have suffered from coronavirus. The United States has actually handled this thing pretty well, except for New York. I'm going to talk about New York in just a few minutes here. But here is Rachel Maddow last night trying to suggest that the United States has engaged in widespread failure. Why? Because on the back of failure, you can change the politics of the United States. And this phenomenon is really ugly and really terrible. This is the phenomenon

where folks on the back of failure, you can change the politics of the United States. And this phenomenon is really ugly and really terrible.

This is the phenomenon where folks on the left try to gin up a feeling of true disaster.

Not that the pandemic is not a disaster, a feeling that the government response was a true,

thoroughgoing disaster simply so that they can then suggest a vast change to the system.

Here's Rachel Maddow doing just that last night.

Downplaying the threat, ignoring the experts, refusing to prepare. Donald Trump is failing America.

The way that started, the way the clip came in, you actually missed the first little bit of it,

which started with Donald Trump said he would put America first little bit of it, which started with.

Donald Trump said he would put America first, and now he has.

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