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Speaker 1: For a while now, there have been people running around
Speaker 1: acting like this was a personal calling card. I believe
Speaker 1: the science, and they do whatever Fauci says. Mask up
Speaker 1: between bites. Try to breathe less, Try to only breathe
Speaker 1: out of your mouth or your nose or neither, because
Speaker 1: it'll make you safer. Just hold your breath as long
Speaker 1: as you can. So what if it's uncomfortable. It's about
Speaker 1: the science. And then we see, oh, now that they
Speaker 1: have no more cover from the CDC for their hysteria,
Speaker 1: their neuroses are taking over entirely. They're not changing their
Speaker 1: tune at all. Oh, what a surprise. And we also
Speaker 1: have a Biden illustration that refuses to speak the truth
Speaker 1: to the Democrats in their midst and their supporters. Of course,
Speaker 1: they won't do that. They allow them to continue to
Speaker 1: live in this delusion that if only they listen to
Speaker 1: Fauci forever, everything will be better. And that's true of
Speaker 1: their approach to spending money too. As you well know,
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Speaker 1: is showing Florida leading the way again, because I think
Speaker 1: there's other states that are probably go in the different direction.
Speaker 1: But here are some of the highlights. The bill ensures
Speaker 1: that neither the state nor local governments can close business
Speaker 1: or keep kids out of in person instruction unless they
Speaker 1: satisfy demanding and continuous justifications. One of the things I
Speaker 1: think has been so problematic about this is that they're
Speaker 1: different policies that have been enacted, particularly in other parts
Speaker 1: of the country, different restrictions or mandates, and they're done,
Speaker 1: and then even when the evidence refutes the effectiveness or
Speaker 1: the need or the justification, forum they continue on and
Speaker 1: sometimes they're even reuct This changes that and make sure
Speaker 1: that people are protected. It also says that any local
Speaker 1: emergency order excluding hurricane emergencies, are capped at seven day increments.
Speaker 1: It may only be extended to a maximum duration of
Speaker 1: forty two days. And most importantly, as governor, I'll have
Speaker 1: the authority to invalidate a local emergency order if it
Speaker 1: unnecessarily restricts individual rights or liberties. Florida fighting back against
Speaker 1: COVID tyranny. God bless RHNDS Santis. This is what we
Speaker 1: need to see. This is how it needs to be.
Speaker 1: No more of what I saw in Texas, where sure
Speaker 1: Governor Abbott got rid of the statewide mask mandate, but
Speaker 1: Austin is still a bunch of leftist lunatics masking up,
Speaker 1: double masking outside. No more of that, at least not
Speaker 1: in Florida, at least not after July first. Nope, vaccine
Speaker 1: passports either taking action now to prevent the continued neurotic
Speaker 1: tyranny of the Fauciites. It has to stop. I've been
Speaker 1: telling you this all along. It will not stop until
Speaker 1: we make it stop. And that's why you see the
Speaker 1: approach in Florida versus say, the approach in New York
Speaker 1: where Governor Cuomo he's telling everybody in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: you'll have businesses at full capacity, except they're still going
Speaker 1: to have a six foot distancing rule. Well, what the
Speaker 1: heck is that? That just means that restaurants can't have
Speaker 1: all their tables. That means that you do have de
Speaker 1: facto capacity limits and you're gonna have masking. So what
Speaker 1: really is better, Well, he needs to get people to
Speaker 1: stop thinking about all the sexual harassment and death of
Speaker 1: senior citizens and nursing homes that occurred under his watch
Speaker 1: or as a result of his decision making. So whatever
Speaker 1: he can do now to get the new cycle focused
Speaker 1: on how he's a leader, That's what really matters. Anybody
Speaker 1: talking about what a great job Gavin Newsom has done
Speaker 1: in California, Nope, the Democrat blue states are a mess.
Speaker 1: They don't make sense anymore. What they are up to
Speaker 1: with COVID lockdowns is absurd. Oh, I also want to
Speaker 1: give credit where where it is due. Oklahoma Governor Kevin
Speaker 1: Stitt has said the following play four Well. March fifteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I declared a state of emergency to fight
Speaker 1: against COVID nineteen, and over the course of the last year,
Speaker 1: I've issued dozens of executive orders to make sure we
Speaker 1: stayed proactive in our response to this virus. My promise
Speaker 1: has always been to make decisions based on the data
Speaker 1: in our state, not what's happening anywhere else, and here's
Speaker 1: what the data Oklahoma shows. Our seven day average of
Speaker 1: new cases is down ninety four percent from its peak,
Speaker 1: and our new cases per capita are some of the
Speaker 1: lowest in the country. Hospitalizations they're down ninety percent and
Speaker 1: they've been stable for two months. We've administered more than
Speaker 1: two point five million doses of the COVID vaccine and
Speaker 1: anyone who wants one can get one. Because Oklahomans used
Speaker 1: personal responsibility to protect themselves, their families and are most vulnerable.
Speaker 1: The data shows COVID nineteen is no longer in an emergency.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm withdrawing my emergency declaration effective tomorrow Tuesday,
Speaker 1: May fourth. There we go. Notice how it is the
Speaker 1: Republican governors in red states who are looking at the
Speaker 1: actual data in numbers and recognizing that enough is enough.
Speaker 1: It's time to go back to life, time to go
Speaker 1: back to normal. People have had who are at high
Speaker 1: risk plenty of time to get the vaccine. We've gotten
Speaker 1: over seventy percent of seniors vaccinated. People have had opportunities
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. We cannot hold society hostage until every
Speaker 1: neurotic lib in Brooklyn and Santa Monica and Northwest DC
Speaker 1: feels like it's safe. Does Fauci think it's safe for
Speaker 1: me to go outside? You'll notice you don't see this
Speaker 1: guy auster Home on TV as much as he used to.
Speaker 1: And it's because while he is a lockdowner, he's not
Speaker 1: quite as insane as some of the others. He's not
Speaker 1: a Fauciite. You know, maybe we should consider that. The
Speaker 1: numbers tell us that in anywhere from two weeks to
Speaker 1: two decades we could have a return to normalcy. So
Speaker 1: I think that's the that's the scope of what will
Speaker 1: work went two weeks maybe or twenty years from now.
Speaker 1: You know, your kids, you're really young babies. Maybe when
Speaker 1: they're you know, in their quarter life crisis, they can
Speaker 1: at least say, oh, I could take my mask off
Speaker 1: now you Vouci's on TV every five seconds. The limbs
Speaker 1: are also scared. Oh my gosh. Cauchi will say, both
Speaker 1: Austerholm you see a lot less of it's because he
Speaker 1: sank things like this that go counter the main messaging
Speaker 1: from the Biden White House play ten. So I think
Speaker 1: we still want to be very careful. We still have
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. But if you're among
Speaker 1: vaccinated people, party hard, party hard, you know, invite people
Speaker 1: over to your house, do family related things, but get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: If there was ever a time to want to incentivize
Speaker 1: people to get vaccinated, it's now, because if you do,
Speaker 1: you can basically protect yourself and have all the kind
Speaker 1: of socialization that you want to do. But if you're
Speaker 1: not vaccinated and you're out in bars and so forth, know,
Speaker 1: you still have a challenge. I've just got done dealing
Speaker 1: with two cases in the last day. Individuals, young healthy
Speaker 1: adults who are in bars who are now the intessive
Speaker 1: carruns here in Minnesota with COVID, get vaccinated, vaccinated, and
Speaker 1: party hardy. I gotta tell you, this is an enormous
Speaker 1: myths from the Biden administration ever talks about, Oh look
Speaker 1: at all the shots and arms. It would be way
Speaker 1: better if people had been told you can go back
Speaker 1: to normal. But then they'd lose all the control and
Speaker 1: the fear and the panic, which is the most important
Speaker 1: thing of all to the Democrats, the control they get
Speaker 1: from this because people would walk around and start living
Speaker 1: their lives normally, and that's how you get back to normal.
Speaker 1: But no, we have to hold we have to hold
Speaker 1: this trump card. Pardon the expression of until we say so,
Speaker 1: you don't get to go back to normal until we
Speaker 1: determine that the numbers are what we need them to be.
Speaker 1: They won't tell you that in advance. And one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that Governor at Santists in Florida has set
Speaker 1: up his executive order the way he has is so
Speaker 1: that mayors can't play the games in Democrats strongholds they
Speaker 1: have been where they say, when we get to X,
Speaker 1: we will give you why. And then we get to
Speaker 1: X in terms of COVID numbers and infections, why doesn't happen?
Speaker 1: They did that to us in New York City at
Speaker 1: the beginning or at the first phase of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: We should have had Jim's open all summer. Basically kept
Speaker 1: him closed, kept him closed why because they felt like it.
Speaker 1: Look at California, you can go to Costco, you can
Speaker 1: go to a weed store. Can you go to church?
Speaker 1: Though California says no, based on what the science, only
Speaker 1: idiots ever believed that California's secular leftist government is hostile
Speaker 1: to people of actual religious faith. But they got away
Speaker 1: with it for a while. They got away with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I give credit to Megan McKay and over
Speaker 1: on the view, who's pointing out that, Yeah, this whole
Speaker 1: notion that the vaccine's not good enough isn't premised on
Speaker 1: the vaccine's real protective level. It's the neurotic libs want
Speaker 1: to be able to control everybody still, so that's why
Speaker 1: they won't let you live your life after you get
Speaker 1: the vaccine. It is psychotic, as she says Play nineteen,
Speaker 1: the messaging on this is absolute garbage towards conservatives and Republicans,
Speaker 1: and it's getting worse. It's a public health crisis. I
Speaker 1: agree we should all be vaccinated. I myself have my vaccinated.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with vaccines, but the messaging is psychotic.
Speaker 1: And I just want to say, in Brookline, Massachusetts, they
Speaker 1: just rejected in the city the guidance to our masks outdoors.
Speaker 1: So if you live in Brookline, Massachusetts, you have to
Speaker 1: wear mask outdoors. If you live in Florida, the Surgeon
Speaker 1: General says you don't have to wear a mask anywhere.
Speaker 1: And a lot of this feels like it's more about
Speaker 1: control than science. If the is nine effective, which which
Speaker 1: we are told by science and the CDC and all
Speaker 1: the smart people that come on the show, it is
Speaker 1: if the vaccine works, why do we still have to
Speaker 1: wear masks outdoors? Why do we have to wear masks inside?
Speaker 1: And that's also part of the messaging problem, because if
Speaker 1: you get a vaccine and nothing in your life changes,
Speaker 1: and I still have to wear a mask everywhere, and
Speaker 1: people still have to wear masks everywhere, then then there's
Speaker 1: not I'm sorry, but like the way human nature works
Speaker 1: and human beings work is there has to be an
Speaker 1: impetus and a and a reason to get vaccinates to
Speaker 1: get what you want. And I'm horrified by the way
Speaker 1: people are talking to Republicans right now in this way.
Speaker 1: I think we should. I think we should try and
Speaker 1: lead people along instead of saying they're dumb morons in
Speaker 1: the middle of the country that are going to kill everybody.
Speaker 1: It's just not effective. Yep. But you know what it's
Speaker 1: really going on here, the Libs, the Biden administration. They
Speaker 1: are terrified that you who listen to this show are
Speaker 1: going to get your lives back before they've been able
Speaker 1: to fundamentally transform American society. They stay up awake at night,
Speaker 1: deeply concerned about the possibility that you may actually be
Speaker 1: able to even if you haven't gotten vaccinated, just start
Speaker 1: going about your life and you're not going to infect
Speaker 1: and kill at anybody. There's a lot of herd immunity
Speaker 1: already out there on the population, and this is a
Speaker 1: virus with an over ninety nine survival rate as we know,
Speaker 1: and you're just gonna go about living your life. That.
Speaker 1: They despise that notion. They hate that idea. It's not
Speaker 1: okay until it's safe enough for them. When is it
Speaker 1: safe enough? I'll look at Brookline, Massachusetts. Not even the
Speaker 1: CDC is enough for them. It's safe when they feel
Speaker 1: safe because they've been watching a lot of CNN, and
Speaker 1: CNN makes it seem really, really scary to try to
Speaker 1: breathe fresh air without a mask on. That's where we
Speaker 1: are as a society. I told you that this is
Speaker 1: where we were headed. I've told you at every step
Speaker 1: just watch people will cling to their mask even after
Speaker 1: the authorities finally have to relent. And they haven't relented
Speaker 1: on all masks. You know what the truth is, we
Speaker 1: should have no masks for vaccinated people anywhere. I know
Speaker 1: some of you're yelling right now saying back, we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have masks mandated period, and you know that I agree
Speaker 1: with that, but that's a we lost that battle. We
Speaker 1: lost that fight. So now at least can we start
Speaker 1: to win some battles so we don't have to all
Speaker 1: go around So I don't have to go in the
Speaker 1: gym on the treadmill with my mask on like an idiot.
Speaker 1: Otherwise someone will come up the excuse me there, excuse me,
Speaker 1: you're a treadmill. Where's your mask? I feel unsafe. The
Speaker 1: world is not a safe space, Libs, not from viruses,
Speaker 1: not from anything. We are all going to die. Make
Speaker 1: the best use of the time you have, Be purposeful
Speaker 1: and don't be a coward every day. That would be
Speaker 1: my advice for the Libs of Brookline. So we want
Speaker 1: to help. Our administration wants to help. We want to
Speaker 1: pick back up the kind of president Joe Biden started
Speaker 1: when he was vice president. We want to help people
Speaker 1: find hope at home. And so we are focused on
Speaker 1: addressing both the acute factors and the root causes of migration.
Speaker 1: And I believe this is an important distinction. We must
Speaker 1: focus on both. First, the acute factors, the catastrophes that
Speaker 1: are causing people to leave right now, the hurricanes, the pandemic,
Speaker 1: the drought and extreme food insecurity. And then there are
Speaker 1: the longstanding issues, the root causes, and I'm thinking of corruption,
Speaker 1: violence and poverty, the lack of economic opportunity, the lack
Speaker 1: of climate adaptation and climate resilience, the lack of good governance.
Speaker 1: Just this weekend we learned that the Salvadoran Parliament Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is an intense mediocre public policy official. In any context,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is a deeply unimpressive person when she speaks
Speaker 1: about these things. She's the vice president. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was president, and liberal said that he was
Speaker 1: a fascist, Nazi, murderer, you know, rapist. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: so we get to speak about public officials as we
Speaker 1: see fit, and we get to say the truth about them.
Speaker 1: In this case, Kamala Harris is a really a mediocrity.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think she might be smarter than Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: but I also think that's not saying very much. Climate
Speaker 1: resilience is causing the surge. Let's just take a quick,
Speaker 1: a quick trip into reality land here for a moment.
Speaker 1: Illegal crossings right now at the US Mexico border are
Speaker 1: at a twenty year high last month, or over one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy thousand illegal aliens taken into custody, and
Speaker 1: about a thousand people a day are gotaways, which is
Speaker 1: the border patrol term for somebody who just they make
Speaker 1: a run for it. Maybe they're in a vehicle, but
Speaker 1: usually they actually run and they made it into the
Speaker 1: US and they're here. A thousand a day, Oh yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: but it's been eleven million illegals in the United States
Speaker 1: for the last twenty years. We got a thousand gotaways
Speaker 1: a day. You think there are a thousand people running
Speaker 1: across our border to the south to go live in
Speaker 1: Honduras to balance out this inflow, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Why are people leaving the Central American countries to come
Speaker 1: to America Because this is a rich country with rule
Speaker 1: of law. Somewhat Democrats are trying to destroy it, but
Speaker 1: we do still have it and a very generous welfare
Speaker 1: state and economic opportunity. That's why right there are jobs here,
Speaker 1: there is welfare here, there is some safety here. We're
Speaker 1: not going to transform Honduras into a place where people
Speaker 1: are going to say, you know what, if it's a
Speaker 1: choice between this and the United States of America. I'm
Speaker 1: going to ride out this whole Honduras situation, see what's
Speaker 1: going on. If it's easy enough for them to get
Speaker 1: into the US, they're going to keep picking the United States.
Speaker 1: And they don't even put into this analysis kamala as
Speaker 1: the borders are the rest of them that countries from
Speaker 1: all over the world. Have people coming to Mexico across
Speaker 1: the border legally right now from Cuba and China and
Speaker 1: Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and Thailand and Venezuela and you
Speaker 1: name it, coming from all over the world. Why Because
Speaker 1: America is a very wealthy country where people are relatively safe,
Speaker 1: and there is there's a lot of generous welfare benefits
Speaker 1: here for people. You say, oh, but you don't get
Speaker 1: that if you're an illegal. Really, if you get in statuition,
Speaker 1: you get direct payments. If you live in New York
Speaker 1: during COVID, if you have a child here, then that
Speaker 1: child gets all the benefits of citizenship and everything else,
Speaker 1: and you're a part of that household. There's also a
Speaker 1: lot of benefits. Fraud that goes on, which is almost
Speaker 1: never prosecuted unless somebody's getting rich off of it. Doing
Speaker 1: really egregious fraud, you know, claiming benefits for ten people.
Speaker 1: But if you're just doing benefits fraud as illegal almost
Speaker 1: never prosecuted in this country, and we also have no
Speaker 1: real sense of how often that even happens. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why people are coming here. Commalas still can't see
Speaker 1: them to get to the border though, still can't seem
Speaker 1: to deal with this. And notice that the way they
Speaker 1: frame this issue, we're supposed to fix other countries to
Speaker 1: get people to stop coming into our country illegally. That's
Speaker 1: not going to change this. If we want people to
Speaker 1: stop coming into America illegally, we have to convince them
Speaker 1: it's not worth the effort and the risk to come
Speaker 1: to America illegally. Consequences you come, you don't get to
Speaker 1: stay until that is the calculation. This continues on all
Speaker 1: this nonsense about we're gonna do more for root causes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good luck with that. Honduras, as one of the highest
Speaker 1: murder rates in the world, is intensely corrupted and very poor.
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn that around, sure we are. All the
Speaker 1: Biden administration is going to turn that around. It's a joke.
Speaker 1: But this is just the talking point to make it
Speaker 1: seem like they're doing something when really, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, they don't want this to end. They
Speaker 1: just want to control it illegals our future Democrat voters.
Speaker 1: That's the way the Biden administration, the Democrat Party sees
Speaker 1: this and anything else is nonsense. If you grew up
Speaker 1: in the nineties, you may be familiar with an actress
Speaker 1: named Elissa Milano. I once had the misfortune of interviewing her.
Speaker 1: She did not realize I was a conservative, and I
Speaker 1: realized that she was quite dumb by asking her very
Speaker 1: straightforward question on the political issues that she thinks she
Speaker 1: should be weighing in on with the platform that she has.
Speaker 1: But she is speaking in this clip on that went
Speaker 1: viral on TikTok and a young black woman who goes
Speaker 1: by the handle this is savvy response. So what you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear is Alissa Milano, white liberal, multi millionaire. I've
Speaker 1: been to her mansion, yes, in her gated community just
Speaker 1: north of Los Angeles. But she really understands the plight
Speaker 1: of the black community. She really understands what it is
Speaker 1: to be black in America today. If you listen to
Speaker 1: the way she talks about this, Yeah, but then a
Speaker 1: young black woman responds to her, responds to a Lissa
Speaker 1: Milano and this is this is savvy again? Is her handle?
Speaker 1: I want to hear? Is you're gonna hear Alissa Milano
Speaker 1: on what it's like for black men, and then this
Speaker 1: black woman responding immediately to her on social media. Play
Speaker 1: one for those of us who are not black men.
Speaker 1: Imagine watching the news and seeing how people imagine being
Speaker 1: a black man and being told by some white lady
Speaker 1: with a microphone that you and the criminal on TV
Speaker 1: are one and the same because you look alike. Imagine
Speaker 1: being told by society that white people can be all
Speaker 1: that they can be, but you, with a black man,
Speaker 1: the content of your character is completely irrelevant. You are
Speaker 1: the color of your skin and that is all you
Speaker 1: will ever be. Imagine being told you can't figure out
Speaker 1: how to vote because of the color of your skin.
Speaker 1: Socioeconomics affects everyone, but apparently you're not as smart as
Speaker 1: the poorest white person. Lady, I don't want to hate you.
Speaker 1: I'm a nineties skin I grew up with you, so
Speaker 1: I know you're very talented. I understand your heart is
Speaker 1: in the right place, but you are everything you preach
Speaker 1: against You're not helping. You're making things worse. You're causing
Speaker 1: more division, You're causing more fear. Statistically speaking, I am
Speaker 1: more likely to be shot and killed by my black,
Speaker 1: elderly neighbor across the streets and the cop who patrols
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. Statistically speaking, homicide by cop is very rare.
Speaker 1: But people like you find power in fear, so you
Speaker 1: keep it front page news. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: a white supremacist. You can be better. Wow. Some harsh
Speaker 1: words for Alissa Milano from This is Savvy. Now. Alyssa
Speaker 1: Milano is a very classic I mean, it's she's Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi but forty years younger. But she's a a white
Speaker 1: liberal who imbibes all the BLM slogans, who who believes
Speaker 1: all the critical race theory nonsense, and gets called out
Speaker 1: by somebody here who is black, who's saying, think about
Speaker 1: the way the liberal mind is working with so many
Speaker 1: of these issues. There's a there's a real sense of
Speaker 1: a constant lowering of expectations in the discourse that that
Speaker 1: liberals are engaged in. They're always suggesting that the African
Speaker 1: American community, members of it aren't going to be able
Speaker 1: to compete unless white liberals are able to help them out.
Speaker 1: And it's it's discouraging that we have a country where
Speaker 1: there's still so little ability to have honest conversations about
Speaker 1: race relations and that are first and foremost rooted in
Speaker 1: the fact that we do get along well as a country.
Speaker 1: There is not some place where there is greater diversity
Speaker 1: and greater decency and you know, fraternalism so to speak,
Speaker 1: just just friendliness between people from all over the world,
Speaker 1: all different kinds of backgrounds, I mean America. Instead of
Speaker 1: focusing on how amazing this place is in that regard
Speaker 1: compared to so many countries all over the rest of
Speaker 1: the world, we're always told that's not that even, that
Speaker 1: we're not good enough, that we're awful, that we're bad.
Speaker 1: And then there's also the way the narrative only speaks
Speaker 1: about certain aspects of race relations in this country and
Speaker 1: leaves others completely aside. I mean, there is this phenomenon
Speaker 1: that you keep seeing in New York City, especially as
Speaker 1: we have a crime rate that is spiking substantially, where
Speaker 1: you'll see a report about a you know, man in
Speaker 1: hoodie punches elderly Asian lady in the face and you say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: this is a public safety issue. Do we get a
Speaker 1: description of the man in the hoodie. Do we get
Speaker 1: a description of the person that you know sucker punched
Speaker 1: an old lady on the subway, so that we can
Speaker 1: know and try to maybe find him. No, now, that's
Speaker 1: that's playing into a stereotype. They'll tell you. I assure you,
Speaker 1: if it's a guy in a maga hat who is
Speaker 1: a white guy, you're going to hear in detail everything
Speaker 1: he's ever posted on social media and make sure that
Speaker 1: this guy is found and they throw the book at him,
Speaker 1: and you know, he loses his job and it's humiliated
Speaker 1: and his family disowns him and all that. But it's
Speaker 1: all about the narrative. On the other side of the equation,
Speaker 1: if it is a minority involved in an incident, the
Speaker 1: press bends over backwards to make sure that they're not
Speaker 1: playing into armful stereotypes. Well, I'd be curious to know
Speaker 1: what is the stereotype here? What are we seeing in
Speaker 1: the race relationship here? Where in Los Angeles County a
Speaker 1: driver is pulled over for a very I've been pulled
Speaker 1: over for this too, So before we go, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: so racist that this, a black woman is pulled over
Speaker 1: for driving and being on her cell phone. Now, I
Speaker 1: will admit I've been pulled over for this myself once
Speaker 1: and I talked. I talked my way out of it,
Speaker 1: but because I was very polite to the officer, and
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I sent, but I talked
Speaker 1: my way out of it. And I will admit that
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty annoying violation to get I
Speaker 1: do know that distracted driving it's very dangerous, but I
Speaker 1: also know that there's a lot of ways to be
Speaker 1: distracted in a car, so that you know whether it's
Speaker 1: your cell phone or a million other things. So I think, Look,
Speaker 1: I agree that it's a little bit of a of
Speaker 1: a marginal violation to pull somebody over for it, but
Speaker 1: but it is the law, and I've been pulled over
Speaker 1: for it. I'm a guy. People get pulled over for this.
Speaker 1: And so this, this black female is pulled over by
Speaker 1: a Latino. I know they like to say latin X
Speaker 1: these days in the left, but no one uses that term.
Speaker 1: A Latino cop pulls her over, and I want you
Speaker 1: to hear the exchange. I want you to hear. And
Speaker 1: this woman is very you know, she's a she's a teacher,
Speaker 1: she says, and she is very smug and condescending and
Speaker 1: racist if you listen to what she says. But it
Speaker 1: won't be described that way by the left because she's
Speaker 1: a black female. How could she be racist? Well, I
Speaker 1: think you'll get a sense of that. Play five. I
Speaker 1: was going at thirty games yes you are, ma'am, good morning,
Speaker 1: which is and the speed limit is forty and I
Speaker 1: was going thirty eight, So why are you harassing? You're correct?
Speaker 1: I pulled you over because you're a murderer yet order
Speaker 1: to record, because you can't be on your cell phone
Speaker 1: while you're driving phone, I was recording you because you
Speaker 1: can't use your cell phone while you're recording. You may
Speaker 1: have your driver's license, it's it's at my apartment. What's
Speaker 1: your apartment? It's at my home. I'm just taking my center.
Speaker 1: Do you have Do you have your driver's license? I
Speaker 1: mistakenly left it at home. Do you have a picture
Speaker 1: of your driver's license? Yes? I do, may have it?
Speaker 1: And can you call your supervisor please? I already did.
Speaker 1: He's on his way. Could you're a murderer okay, and
Speaker 1: so you're giving it a cell phone taken? Is that
Speaker 1: why you're harassing me? It's not harassment. I am enforcing
Speaker 1: the lite. I have a ride to and record the
Speaker 1: police when they're harassing me by all means. But you
Speaker 1: can't do it while you're driving. I was, I can,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. Doesn't texting or none of that? Do you have?
Speaker 1: You had a picture of me and made me think
Speaker 1: you were going to murder me? Okay, Well, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: you feel that way. Well you're that's not just a feeling.
Speaker 1: You're a murderer. Okay, can you zoom in on that
Speaker 1: form me day, thank you? And I'm perfect land legal
Speaker 1: and I'm a teacher, So then congratulations, you're a murderer.
Speaker 1: I'm a teacher. You're a murderer, She says to the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles County Police officer over and over again. Where
Speaker 1: would she get the idea? I wonder where would this
Speaker 1: black female teacher get the idea that a random law
Speaker 1: enforcement offer that pulls her over is a quote murderer.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't know from the slanders and the lies
Speaker 1: of the BLM movement that is rooted in the belief
Speaker 1: that cops are systematically murdering unarmed black men in this country, right,
Speaker 1: So really, she's just reacting to BLM rhetoric here, which
Speaker 1: is heinous and wrong. But you see it for those
Speaker 1: who say, oh buck it, it's not about BLM, is
Speaker 1: not about hating cops. A wrong. It is about hating cops.
Speaker 1: We see it all the time, see it all the time.
Speaker 1: This woman, she knows she's being recorded. She's not hiding
Speaker 1: any of this. She thinks she's a hero for calling
Speaker 1: this copper murderer because he pulled her over for a
Speaker 1: cell phone violation and it's probably getting what a fifty
Speaker 1: dollars ticket or something. I mean, it's, you know, come on, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And you know I'm a teacher. You need just tell
Speaker 1: I mean this. I assure you, this woman watches a
Speaker 1: lot of MSNBC. I assure you that she has completely
Speaker 1: taken in the lib narrative of victimization and cops are
Speaker 1: racist and teachers are all heroes. Look, there are good teachers,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of bad teachers. There are
Speaker 1: hard working teachers that make a big difference in kids' lives.
Speaker 1: There are lazy, worthless teachers who rely on the unions
Speaker 1: to protect them from having to actually do their gosh
Speaker 1: darn jobs. But yeah, cops are murderer, she says, play sex.
Speaker 1: What's your last name? I can't see that there? Well,
Speaker 1: here you go shaking zoom on that floor because you're
Speaker 1: scaring me. You're threatening to kill me and my son.
Speaker 1: Can you give me? Okay, you don't tell you what?
Speaker 1: You keep smiling. You're on camera. If you're you're trying
Speaker 1: to threaten to kill me, I'm smiling. You're the one
Speaker 1: who's hold that still, I can't see that. Is this
Speaker 1: your car? Yes? It is? And you're trying to say
Speaker 1: I stole my own car because you're jealous. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. Are you away from me right here? Okay,
Speaker 1: you're jealous? Wait, patient, all you need is your signature.
Speaker 1: He's only sighting you for using your cell phone while
Speaker 1: you're driving. That's it for him being a Mexican racist.
Speaker 1: What is that name? Gas on the citation man? Here
Speaker 1: you go, Mexican racist. You're always going to be a Mexican.
Speaker 1: You'll never be white, you know that, right, You'll never
Speaker 1: be white, which is what you really want to be.
Speaker 1: You want to be white back. You'll always be Mexican.
Speaker 1: She says, you'll never be white, which is what you
Speaker 1: really want to be, because he's a cop. This woman's
Speaker 1: a racist. She's a black female and she's a racist.
Speaker 1: That's what you're hearing. She is sneering and snide and
Speaker 1: vicious to a cop on racial issues and demeaning him
Speaker 1: for being a Mexican or you know, Latino, demeaning him
Speaker 1: on video. And she knows she won't get fired from
Speaker 1: her job. She won't. There will be no consequences that
Speaker 1: you can say whatever she wants. Oh, but it's so hard,
Speaker 1: she's she's such a victim. I'm sure, right. I think
Speaker 1: she's driving in like a luxury German. I can't can't
Speaker 1: remember if it was a BMW or Mercedes. And it's
Speaker 1: good to be a teacher these days. Oh it was
Speaker 1: a Mercedes. Yeah, she's driving around in a Mercedes. She's
Speaker 1: a teacher in a Mercedes. Okay, teachers don't make enough money,
Speaker 1: they work so hard. Okay, sure, but so you have
Speaker 1: a teacher, black female teacher in a Mercedes, demeaning a
Speaker 1: Latino cop as being jealous of her car, being a murderer,
Speaker 1: and never being able to be white. What she says,
Speaker 1: is his real aspiration? Disgusting? Disgusting. Do you think that
Speaker 1: she will actually be held to account for this? Who's
Speaker 1: the one who really has privilege in this situation? Look
Speaker 1: at look at the way this lines up. Who has privilege,
Speaker 1: who is in a position of power and social authority.
Speaker 1: This woman feels no compunction whatsoever about acting like a heinous, evil,
Speaker 1: awful person because she's a black female in a Mercedes
Speaker 1: who's been pulled over by a cop, and therefore she
Speaker 1: can call him a murderer and say that he doesn't
Speaker 1: that he demeans his own race by being a law
Speaker 1: enforcement officer. Do you think she'll suffer any consequences whatsoever. No,
Speaker 1: she thinks she's a hero. So do the libs, so
Speaker 1: do the leftists. This is a real window into what
Speaker 1: race relations are actually like. Sometimes in this country. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of racism that has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: white people. Yeah, that's the truth. Just ask any of
Speaker 1: the people who have been attacked who are Asian these
Speaker 1: days and who are they generally being attacked by. It's
Speaker 1: not guys in maga hats who are Trump supporters. But
Speaker 1: the media doesn't want you to ever think about that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of racism and racial animosity that exists
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with white supremacy. But you've
Speaker 1: got to find the truth yourself. Can't count on the
Speaker 1: media to tell you. They're pushing a narrative. You see,
Speaker 1: and the woman in that car and that Mercedes is
Speaker 1: basically spitting on that officer and his heritage and calling
Speaker 1: him a murderer. She knows what the narrative is and
Speaker 1: she's protected by it. This country is in a crisis
Speaker 1: that is all about identity, and there is a wager
Speaker 1: being made on the right that they can get enough
Speaker 1: white people to believe that they are targeted, that there's
Speaker 1: been a perverse culture shift and that they are being replaced. True. No,
Speaker 1: but it's not about facts. It's about I think people
Speaker 1: know if that were true, then that party wouldn't be
Speaker 1: as formidable and the Democrats wouldn't be as vulnerable as
Speaker 1: they are in the upcoming No, it's people already know that,
Speaker 1: and the people in the Republican Party know that that's
Speaker 1: sent of them. That's why they haven't insurrected. Siden didn't win.
Speaker 1: You haven't insurrection because people believe that America was founded
Speaker 1: in the image of white people, and that the country
Speaker 1: was built in their image and therefore the election to
Speaker 1: go their way. It's the same thing that Rix and
Speaker 1: Torum is saying about Native Americans and the lack of
Speaker 1: the contribution would have It's the same thing here. You
Speaker 1: have two multi millionaire morons who are trying to push
Speaker 1: forward this narrative that the Republican Party is a white
Speaker 1: nationalist party and pushed for the insurrection. And as we've
Speaker 1: discussed many times here, the so called insurrection was a
Speaker 1: riot involving a few thousand people. There were seventy four
Speaker 1: seventy five million people that voted for Donald Trump. The
Speaker 1: insurrection didn't actually kill any law enforcement officers. The people
Speaker 1: doing it were not armed. But the media has a
Speaker 1: story that they tell themselves that justifies they're just despising,
Speaker 1: despising those who disagree with them politically, which is what
Speaker 1: this is really all about. They absolutely hate the people
Speaker 1: who won't go along with the left, and so they
Speaker 1: have to come up with some moral formulation of this
Speaker 1: to justify that disdain, and that's what they do. Don
Speaker 1: Lemon owns multiple houses, is a multi millionaire. He shows up,
Speaker 1: he reads off a prompter. He is an ignor ramist.
Speaker 1: He's a moron and not a particularly nice guy, by
Speaker 1: the way. Not someone and I know I know Don
Speaker 1: Lemon a bit. I've worked with him in the past.
Speaker 1: Not someone you could trust, not somebody who's honest. And
Speaker 1: all he does is complain about how racist and awful
Speaker 1: America is. And you see this, you say, Wow, America
Speaker 1: is so racist and awful that here you have somebody
Speaker 1: who is who is an out member of the LGBT community,
Speaker 1: who is black, who is elevated beyond ninety nine point
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Speaker 1: right to your door. Coke went woke and now people
Speaker 1: want it to go broke. Probably not gonna happen. It's
Speaker 1: Coca Cola basically selling a legalized drug. Sugar, addictive, caffeine, addictive.
Speaker 1: Mix them together, you've got a product. One of the
Speaker 1: most important. I'm gonna tell you this A few things.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't get into a lot of, you know,
Speaker 1: life guidance and advice on this show, so occasionally I'll
Speaker 1: just share things with you, and it's just for my
Speaker 1: own experience. And you know, the people who know me
Speaker 1: personally sometimes refer to me as the wise old al
Speaker 1: because I think a lot about my own mistakes and
Speaker 1: I try to be introspective, try to learn from them.
Speaker 1: Things to cut out of your life. Soda top of
Speaker 1: the list, just not worth it. Don't drink it. It's
Speaker 1: not good for you. Right, pornography for the gentleman out there,
Speaker 1: get rid of it. Get rid of it, don't look
Speaker 1: at it. Don't you know. I'm not saying you gotta
Speaker 1: be a puritan, right. You don't have to cover your eyes.
Speaker 1: If you're walking around the Renaissance wing of a museum
Speaker 1: and there's some boobies hanging out or something, right, but porn,
Speaker 1: get rid of it. You'll be happy or you'll be
Speaker 1: better off. You'll appreciate you, You'll you'll appreciate your own
Speaker 1: libido more, you'll appreciate female beauty more. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: it's true. Gave gave up even even looking at porn
Speaker 1: a long time ago and never looked, but never thought
Speaker 1: twice about it. I mean when I say thought twice
Speaker 1: about it, never thought that it wasn't the right decision afterwards.
Speaker 1: Right things to cut out? Oh, negative people very important
Speaker 1: one cut negative people out of your life. But if
Speaker 1: you can cut out soda, pornography, and there are a
Speaker 1: few other things I'd put on that list, But you're
Speaker 1: you're just making things better for yourself. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to get into a moralizing lecture here because
Speaker 1: I have my own deficiencies and my own weaknesses. And
Speaker 1: you're probably thinking, Buck, you like caffeine a lot, You
Speaker 1: drink a lot of coffee. True. True. If I could
Speaker 1: get rid of it and be as productive as I am,
Speaker 1: I would, But I can't. So I understand. I have
Speaker 1: my I have my own vices. But I just Buck's
Speaker 1: wisdom for the day. Soda and porn out. Get rid
Speaker 1: of it, get it, get get it gone. You don't
Speaker 1: need it. I just Cocola got me thinking about that. Now.
Speaker 1: He's just there're drinking your coke, You're watching you know
Speaker 1: whatever you're watching on the computer screen, and this is
Speaker 1: all this is all bad stuff for you. Coca Cola
Speaker 1: had an initiative to get thirty percent of all the
Speaker 1: legal work done by Coca Cola. Thirty percent of it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be done by minorities and fifteen percent,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, half of it. So then fifteen percent would
Speaker 1: have to be billed by attorneys who were black. This
Speaker 1: was a diversity plan put in place by the former
Speaker 1: General Council of Coca Cola. Recently left Bradley Gayton and
Speaker 1: he resigned to become a consultant to CEO James Quincy.
Speaker 1: Quincy's a British guy. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are surprised to know that the CEO of Coca Cola
Speaker 1: is a brit But anyway, and as the Daily Mail
Speaker 1: writes it here, Coca Cola appears to be putting a
Speaker 1: pause on its plan to transition to woke A Cola.
Speaker 1: It is suspending its diversity initiative after the firm replaced
Speaker 1: its top lawyer after just eight months on the job.
Speaker 1: Diversity guidelines. Think about this now, this is a private
Speaker 1: company that is setting up pure numerically based racial quotas. Now, this,
Speaker 1: as a matter of equal protection under the law, is
Speaker 1: in fact illegal. But what we've had in this country
Speaker 1: for years now is because people benefit from this, and
Speaker 1: the Democrats and a lot of minorities benefit from this.
Speaker 1: The pretense that what goes on with holistic college admissions
Speaker 1: or diversity and inclusion initiatives at corporations is that there's not,
Speaker 1: as a matter of what's actually going on, racial advantage
Speaker 1: given to some over others in either admission in schools
Speaker 1: were in hiring four jobs. That's just not true. We're
Speaker 1: living with a lie. This is a lie. And this
Speaker 1: brings me to some of the Supreme Court cases, whether
Speaker 1: it's grut Ter v. Bollinger or others that look at
Speaker 1: a firmative action programs and the decisions the liberals always
Speaker 1: have this, well, you know, we sure that we're discriminating
Speaker 1: by race, but it's good discrimination, and we need to
Speaker 1: balance things, and there's a holistic it's not just this,
Speaker 1: it's all these other things. They just create these gaps
Speaker 1: and gray areas to exploit for what is just discrimination
Speaker 1: by race. And Coca Cola was certainly interested in doing
Speaker 1: that as well. And now they're backing off of it
Speaker 1: a little bit right because it's too explicit. You know,
Speaker 1: fifteen percent of all the legal work has to be
Speaker 1: built out by black attorneys. Okay, now you're establishing that
Speaker 1: you can set up a quota. That's what a quota is.
Speaker 1: So what about a company that says we're only going
Speaker 1: to do business with black owned businesses, We're only going
Speaker 1: to have suppliers that are black owned, or but it
Speaker 1: doesn't black, Asian, Latino, whatever, doesn't matter any racial or
Speaker 1: ethnic greep. You say we're only going to do business
Speaker 1: with people that are in that category. I think everybody
Speaker 1: would say, well, that's not okay, that's contra the American ethic,
Speaker 1: and it's it's against equal protection under the law, which
Speaker 1: is something we're all supposed to believe in and it's
Speaker 1: a constitutional duty. But the left likes racial politics. The
Speaker 1: left benefits from it. The left continues to use it
Speaker 1: to its advantage, and they keep pretending that what they're
Speaker 1: doing isn't really what they're doing. I mean, the admissions
Speaker 1: committees are perhaps the best example of this. Harvard has
Speaker 1: been sued by some Asian Americans who have gotten the data,
Speaker 1: and it shows that if you're black, your chance of
Speaker 1: getting into Harvard with much lower grades and much lower
Speaker 1: or SATs than any other ethnic group is really really high.
Speaker 1: Comparatively speaking, it's worth something like one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: or two hundred and fifty or one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: to two hundred and fifty points on the SAT, which
Speaker 1: is a lot. Now Harvard says, oh, no, we're just
Speaker 1: trying to create a diverse and they use all this
Speaker 1: this language that's amorphous, that's oh, it's a it's a tapestry,
Speaker 1: it's a holistic approach, and all this stuff. No, they
Speaker 1: decide you know, we need at least you know, eight
Speaker 1: percent of our freshman class or ten percent of our
Speaker 1: freshman class to be black. And so however, we have
Speaker 1: to play with the numbers to get there. That's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. Well, that's a quota. Quotas are not
Speaker 1: allowed though, because quotas are explicit violations vehicle protection under
Speaker 1: the law. And when you start to see, well, then
Speaker 1: what quotas are okay and what quotas aren't. So the
Speaker 1: affirmative action regime, which and wokeness comes, what we see
Speaker 1: as wokeness today is just the weaponization of the regime
Speaker 1: of political correctness that was used to justify affirmative action
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties, and now at the heights
Speaker 1: of corporate America and at the top of the Democrat Party,
Speaker 1: you have people who have benefited from this substantially. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have individuals who are big proponents of affirmative action,
Speaker 1: who they themselves received affirmative action to get to where
Speaker 1: they are. But if you bring that up, you're a
Speaker 1: bad person. You're not even allowed to discuss the fact
Speaker 1: that this was a part of their process. And you
Speaker 1: sit there and you say, okay, So we can't talk
Speaker 1: about this, but it affects our laws, it affects people's lives,
Speaker 1: and we're just told to shut up and obey. That
Speaker 1: should send up all the warning flags you need. Coca Cola,
Speaker 1: among other corporations, is just trying to ride the political
Speaker 1: waves now for its own benefit. But they went a
Speaker 1: little too far here with the explicit use of quotas
Speaker 1: for legal work to be done by Coca Cola, specifically
Speaker 1: that it has to be a certain percentage of black
Speaker 1: lawyers that are doing their legal work. Now, you're probably,
Speaker 1: like me, cynical enough to realize James Quincy is a
Speaker 1: white British CEO. Why doesn't he insist that he stepped
Speaker 1: down and have a black person take his job. Well,
Speaker 1: he's not a lawyer, you see, or at least he's
Speaker 1: not working in corporate law, so it's easy for him
Speaker 1: to come up with some program or to utilize implement
Speaker 1: some program that's not going to affect him but makes
Speaker 1: him look like a virtuous fellow. Wokeness in corporations is damaging,
Speaker 1: and it's time we fight back against it with everything
Speaker 1: we've got, because they are ruining This guy didn't found
Speaker 1: Coca Cola. He didn't build this company. The left takes
Speaker 1: things over and destroys them, and then when they're running them,
Speaker 1: they say, c we're in charge. Yeah, like a bunch
Speaker 1: of terrorists seizing an airplane. They didn't build the airplane.
Speaker 1: And the fact that they're at the controls isn't because
Speaker 1: of their great virtue or genius. It's because they get
Speaker 1: on it. They use forest to take control of it,
Speaker 1: and then they drive the thing into the side of
Speaker 1: a mountain. That's what they're doing to corporate America. That's
Speaker 1: what they're doing to great American companies that have been
Speaker 1: around for generations. Now, that's what they're doing to Coca Cola.
Speaker 1: But like I said, stop drinking soda. It's terrible for you.