ce I heard about this incident I have to put blocks on the wheels at night because I don't know what that damn thing's doing when I'm not watching. So all right, next story.

Wall Street Journal editorial board just went viciously at Biden and I love this attack. I usually don't like to call out the hypocrisy stuff because if you do that that's all you're talking about because the political parties don't really try too hard to do what they say you should do. So it's usually just sort of boring and trite to call that out. But this is a big and unusual case because Biden's proposition was you can't have a president who has allowed this many people to die on his watch, meaning COVID. But Biden's death count has surpassed Trump's and that's after the vaccination.

Now am I going to tell you that Trump did a better job than Biden? Nope, I am not going to tell you that because I told you from the beginning of the pandemic — and I'm the only one, if anybody would like to fact check this I'm making a very big claim here — that I'm the only one who told you at the beginning of the pandemic that leadership would not be a variable that would be predictive. Did anybody else tell you that? I don't think one person told you that you will not see a leadership variable. That's obvious now. There may be some extreme cases of maybe some third world country that thought it was caused by AIDS or something. So yeah, in the extreme case yes. But I don't think you're going to tell the difference between Great Britain and France, France and the United States. I just don't think you're going to be able to tell the difference leadership-wise. Some will do better than others but we still don't know why. We just don't know why.

So I would say that Biden has no chance even if he imagined he was going to run for office. I can't imagine he is. But he couldn't possibly get elected having failed at the number one thing he said he'd do. Number one thing Biden said he'd do is get the pandemic under control. Nothing like that happened. Three hundred fifty thousand people died under Biden compared to two hundred thousand, two hundred twenty or so under Trump. It's not even close. And again Biden had the vaccinations.

Now does that mean anything? No, it just — of course more people die at the peak of the pandemic. Of course they do. Had nothing to do with Biden. And if Trump had been president, probably the same outcome. Probably the same. You could do a mental experiment where you say hey there are lots of conservatives not getting the vaccine so maybe Trump could have convinced them whereas Biden could not. I doubt it. I doubt it. This did seem to be the limit of Trump's persuasion. I think he's tremendous at persuading as you know, but I don't think he made a dent in the conservatives who were concerned about the vaccination.

Let me give some comfort to the vaccine deniers because anytime that I'm accused of not being fair about each side's perspective I like to correct that when I can. Here's what I hate about the anti-vaxxers, the skeptics about the vaccines. I absolutely hate this: that their reasons are really good. I hate that. And of course the anti-vaxxers will give you lots of arguments but they have one argument that I can't refute. Do you know what it is? What's the anti-vaxx argument that I can't refute? Which one is it?

No, no, natural immunity is part of this story. But that's not what I'm talking about. And not inflammation, not long-term effects. Nope, it's nothing about your autonomy, your personal choice. Those are all good arguments by the way. I'm saying that that's not the good one. The FDA, Pfizer, big pharma. You have a lot of reasons, don't you? I would say those are all worth discussing. Everything you're mentioning here is absolutely on the list, should be part of the conversation. But the anti-vaxxers have one argument that I've got nothing for. Now here it is: Can't trust the government. That's a killer argument. Can't trust the government. What are you going to say? You tell me. You have an argument against that? Can't trust the government.

Now you say yourself, wait a minute, wait a minute, it's not really the government because they're getting their data from somebody else. They're getting it from big pharma. Who trusts big pharma? They are by their nature something you can't trust. Doesn't mean they're doing bad things all the time. I mean they have some history of doing some very bad things but they're not a criminal organization or anything. They're obviously doing good things as well.

I have to make an aside here. I'm sorry, everybody who's calling Rob Reiner a meathead. I don't know who needs to hear this but it's not additive. It's not funny. It's not something we hadn't thought of on our own. You're just using letters on a screen. Nothing is accomplished by that statement that Rob Reiner is a meathead or any version of it that I saw thousands of yesterday. Well you know he's a meathead. He's always