Speaker 1: Is President Joe Biden going to limit you to two beers a week where if you
reach for that third drink, armed agents will bust down the door and take that third beer
from your cold, dead hands.
No, that is not going to happen.
But what is going on is that absent any actual policy package, absent any interest from the
Republican electorate.
In the Republican Party actually putting forward policy ideas that might help someone's life.
Republicans have again chosen to fearmonger about nonexistent nanny state impositions
from President Joe Biden.
And the latest is that the Biden administration may heed the advice, the advice of medical
experts in recommending that maybe you don't have more than two alcoholic drinks per week,
which is not crazy advice.
If you've been following the science on this, let me remind you that it was alleged that
Joe Biden was going to end indoor heating and cooling if he became president.
Remember when Trump came up with that, he was going to give you such low flow toilets
that you would have to flush 10 to 15 times.
He was going to end energy and on and on and on.
And of course, none of those things happened.
And so the latest is that Republicans are pretending that Joe Biden won't let anybody
have more than two drinks per week.
The reality, of course, is that there are all sorts of different consumption guidelines
recommended not by Joe Biden, not by the person in power, but by the medical organizations
that look at these things.
I'll give you a list of these.
Canada has already figured it out.
And they have recommended, you know, regardless of gender, regardless of weight, regardless
of age.
It's ideal not to have more than two alcoholic drinks per week.
Now you can ignore that nobody's going to come and take the alcohol from you.
But here is doofy peter doocy asking White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about
this yesterday.
She's like, I don't know.
I mean, it's nothing that Biden's going to do.
Does President Biden.
Speaker 2: Want to limit Americans to two beers a week?
Speaker 3: And where's this coming from?
Maybe I didn't maybe I didn't ask you so much.
Speaker 4: All right.
Well, Dr. George Koob, who is the director of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism, says the US may soon follow Canada and recommend just two beers a week.
How do you guys think that's going to go?
Speaker 3: Let me tell you what I'm not going to get involved in in in that in that question
right there.
I have no idea.
I've not seen the data.
I cannot speak to this.
I will leave it to the experts and not where.
Speaker 4: The experts say two beers a week.
Speaker 3: I will leave it to the experts.
Speaker 1: Listen, they're trying to make this out to be some kind of authoritarian
mandate, some kind of imposition, some kind of nanny state thing.
This really isn't super controversial, you know, for.
I try to follow the science on all of these topics.
You know, on smoking, there's very little science to follow at this point because you
just shouldn't smoke.
It's very bad for you, period.
Zero is the amount of smoking that you should do fine when it comes to alcohol.
Much like with coffee to some degree, there have been ebbs and flows when it comes to
recommendations.
And very often you will hear, Oh, red wine is healthy and people who drink a glass a
day live longer or whatever.
The last few years of science, as I have followed it, suggests to me that the longevity benefits
that some wine drinkers have don't seem to actually have to do with the wine, but it's
more about the social circumstances in which people may be drinking wine or whatever the
case may be.
And that the bottom line is that alcohol is carcinogenic, at least to some degree.
And so, of course, it's all about the dose.
But generally speaking, drinking less is more healthy.
Now, does that mean you should abstain completely?
No.
Everybody should decide for themselves.
But this idea that for a while the recommendations on drinking were too lax seems to be true.
Now, the reality is there are all sorts of recommendations from government agencies about
these things.
They are merely that they are merely recommendations.
Eat two cups of fruit and two and a half cups of vegetables a day.
Is Joe Biden showing up and spooning, you know, putting out, holding your mouth open,
strapping you down and spooning broccoli into your mouth?
Of course, that's not the case.
Should we keep kids under two away from screens, for example?
Yeah, that seems to be the right thing.
Do I know people who put their six month old in front of a TV every day?
Yeah, and Pete Boudette, Judge never shows up to throw your tablets into the into the
trash.
Right.
Get 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night or use sunscreen.
Limit your salt intake brush and floss your teeth.
These are recommendations.
And the idea, of course, is if a Democrat is in the White House.
Recommendations from the same agencies that make recommendations when there's a Republican
in the White House, it could be Trump in the White House.
And the same agency might say, hey, you know what?
Better not to have more than two drinks a week.
These are just recommendations and that is it.
Now, of course, sometimes there are policy elements to these things.
When we look at the city level, there have been efforts made to limit the sale of those
comically oversize sodas.
And then there's a debate.
On the one hand, nobody, you know, sodas really not good for you.
That amount of refined sugar isn't good.
Occasionally, having a small soda may be fine.
You sell this huge soda, it's got 150 milligrams or grams of sugar or whatever.
It's not good.
But then the counter becomes, well, you really hurt poor people because the price per ounce
is lower With the big soda, you just force them to buy two small ones and spend more
and it hits people who can't afford it.
All right.
So we've been having that debate.
Sometimes these things do touch policy, but the idea that Joe Biden is going to show up
and not let anybody have more than two drinks a week, I assure you that that is, of course,
not the case.
And this is what happens when they run out of ideas.
This is what happens when they have no policy package.
This is what happens when, quite frankly, their voters also don't care if all that they
present are these culture war sort of ideas.
They're going to come in and make your kids trans and force drag shows on to them and
put cat litter boxes in the bathroom.
And when.
Dad wants that third beer a week.
Somebody will show up and Carmelo will rip the beer out of his.
It's.
It's all imaginary.
And we can also recognize the science has evolved on diet.
You know, the food pyramid has changed over time and the science has evolved on alcohol.
That's it.
Everybody does what they want and that is as far as we go with it.