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Speaker 1: a speech addresses the nation, and my Lord, was it depressing.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was the speech in tone, in tenor
Speaker 1: that you could have expected perhaps twelve months ago from
Speaker 1: a president. But even then I think it would have
Speaker 1: been tone deaf. This is exactly what the Democrats have become.
Speaker 1: Listen to us or else, don't look at the data,
Speaker 1: don't look at your own experience of what's happened in
Speaker 1: this country. Do what we tell you, or terrible things
Speaker 1: will happen to you. For a lot of us will
Speaker 1: look at this and say, hold on a second. We
Speaker 1: have over five hundred and twenty five thousand dead in
Speaker 1: America right now from COVID nineteen over the last twelve months.
Speaker 1: Who thinks that this was well handled? Who thinks that
Speaker 1: our mitigation measures as Fouchi says, we're a success? Oh,
Speaker 1: because we're the country that doesn't listen well. As you know,
Speaker 1: on a per capita basis, the UK, which had more
Speaker 1: extreme restrictions, had a higher death count than we did.
Speaker 1: So it's not just America, it's not just Trump supporters.
Speaker 1: They can live in this fantasy land as much as
Speaker 1: they want. They failed, The lockdowners failed. We have the data,
Speaker 1: we have the information. There is no honest, good faith
Speaker 1: argument anymore about their success. The only question is how catastrophic,
Speaker 1: how painful was their wrongness for all of us. I mean,
Speaker 1: I honestly wanted to scream profanity at the TV when
Speaker 1: I'm watching Joe Biden. Tell me and tell everybody else
Speaker 1: across the country that if you if you do everything
Speaker 1: I say, you know, maybe you could actually have a
Speaker 1: barbecue with your family members next him. People are barbecuing
Speaker 1: right now, Joe. All across the country. People are indoor dining,
Speaker 1: People are living their lives as much as they possibly can.
Speaker 1: Despite the lunatic libs running around saying triple mask, where's
Speaker 1: your triple mask? Why don't you take it seriously? They're
Speaker 1: all so frightened because of the panic porn that has
Speaker 1: been out there. They say things like we denied, like
Speaker 1: the Trump administration denied the virus. Virus deniers. That's a
Speaker 1: stupid slander that only morons could say out loud. Trump
Speaker 1: shut down international travel twelve months ago, block flights from China,
Speaker 1: but then also block flights from all over the world.
Speaker 1: We shut down travel, We had lockdowns. Trump extended the
Speaker 1: lockdown request. I mean, I know it was in the
Speaker 1: hands of the States, but he said, this is what
Speaker 1: we should do. There's no virus denial. The only difference
Speaker 1: here is people who think that if you get constantly hectored,
Speaker 1: if you're being nagged incessantly by a bunch of powermad
Speaker 1: hall monitors from the CDC and from the corporate media
Speaker 1: about washing your hands and social distancing. If only you
Speaker 1: get nagged enough, we're gonna save lives. Didn't work. Didn't work.
Speaker 1: They can keep pretending like they're great heroes and all
Speaker 1: the stuff. But the virus ripped through the country. We
Speaker 1: have tens of millions of confirmed infections, more infections that
Speaker 1: we can actually count right now, we don't even know.
Speaker 1: They say forty percent of cases are asymptomatic. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, do you think that forty percent of
Speaker 1: asymptomatic cases have actually been caught? So? Do you think
Speaker 1: we've even gotten to close to half of the number
Speaker 1: of asymptomatic cases that are of course not? Whatever happened
Speaker 1: to psurology testing we used to do that? Why did
Speaker 1: we stop? Ask yourself these questions. All the people that
Speaker 1: come at me that are so angry, it's really because
Speaker 1: they're both afraid and they're vain. They think they're smarter
Speaker 1: than they are. They think they've really thought this through.
Speaker 1: I remember when we were being told that test and
Speaker 1: trace was necessary to reopen at all in New York.
Speaker 1: It was actually considered a requirement. We can't open, We
Speaker 1: can't open restaurants, we can't open up businesses until we
Speaker 1: get to a certain test and trace level. Well, that
Speaker 1: was idiocy because we were never going to actually get
Speaker 1: to that level of test and trace because you can't
Speaker 1: actually chase down every contact and every positive case at
Speaker 1: any given time in any populations down of the country.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work. We've never been able to do it.
Speaker 1: But they thought that that was necessary. That was last June.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about one hundred years ago. That was
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Whatever happened in sourology testing in New
Speaker 1: York City. Surology testing showed last June, twenty percent of
Speaker 1: the city had already been infected. Oh, we were masking
Speaker 1: all right, masking everywhere. We had shut down businesses, we
Speaker 1: had all kinds of procedures in place. Twenty percent of
Speaker 1: the city got infected with this virus. How many do
Speaker 1: you think have been infected by now? Just take that
Speaker 1: as an example. We had the most cases, the most deaths,
Speaker 1: the worst outbreak of the virus yet over this winter.
Speaker 1: So you have to assume another twenty to thirty percent
Speaker 1: of people were infected in New York over the wintertime.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just common sense, and so when we're
Speaker 1: getting to forty fifty percent of people that have already
Speaker 1: been that have already had the virus, and we've now
Speaker 1: added into that large numbers who have been vaccinated, So
Speaker 1: we're getting pretty close to the end of this thing
Speaker 1: for real. Does it sound like that though? When you
Speaker 1: hear Joe Budden, why are they doing prology testing? Because
Speaker 1: people would realize this notion that we have to get
Speaker 1: the whole country vaccinated is crazy. We've had tens of
Speaker 1: millions of people that have immunity to the virus from
Speaker 1: having had it already. Are they supposed to get vaccinated too?
Speaker 1: We're supposed to pretend that what we know about over
Speaker 1: a hundred years of medicine and vaccination that it doesn't
Speaker 1: count anymore. Notice you don't even see why don't they
Speaker 1: do any psyology testing? Why is it never publicized? Why
Speaker 1: haven't you seen a story on it where they draw
Speaker 1: blood and they look to see what the antibody levels.
Speaker 1: Aren't a population they check for previous infection? Ask yourself
Speaker 1: these questions. They don't have good answers. They just get
Speaker 1: mad at you. They say, listen to the science, obey fouch,
Speaker 1: you listen to the science. That's all you'll ever hear
Speaker 1: from them. And what Joe Biden was saying last night,
Speaker 1: I mean it honestly, it enrages me. It enrages me.
Speaker 1: I get angry about this now because these people are tyrants.
Speaker 1: They're not living in reality. They're pretending that they're also
Speaker 1: rooted in the data, they're also smart. It's laughable now,
Speaker 1: except it's deadly serious. But it's laughable that they still
Speaker 1: cling to the belief that they knew what to do
Speaker 1: all along, that they had the answers that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and his team. You know, he walks out there, he
Speaker 1: struts out to the podium. He's wearing his mask for
Speaker 1: the walk up of the podium, and then he takes
Speaker 1: it off. Yeah, that's really that's great, really keeping people
Speaker 1: in the empty hallway safe until you walk up to
Speaker 1: the podium. And now you're so, what exactly was the
Speaker 1: mask wearing? It was all for show. It's virtue signaling,
Speaker 1: it's vanity from people like Biden. The guy's already vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you're still wearing masks after vaccination. I want you to
Speaker 1: remember something. It would have been considered lunacy a year
Speaker 1: ago to suggest that vaccinated people with a ninety five
Speaker 1: percent protection rate vaccinated people depending on I know, if
Speaker 1: it's the modern or the fiser vaccines would still have
Speaker 1: to go through all these restrictions. Afterwards, people would have said, well,
Speaker 1: that's crazy, that's where we are. Don't let them gaslight you.
Speaker 1: Don't let them pretend that what you know to be
Speaker 1: true is not true. I don't let them get away
Speaker 1: with stuff like this. I mean, this was where it
Speaker 1: really reached a peak of mania. Joe Biden talking about
Speaker 1: what's in your future if you do every thing that
Speaker 1: you're told play one. I need you. I need every
Speaker 1: American to do their part. And that's not hyperboleate, I
Speaker 1: need you. I need you to get vaccinated when it's
Speaker 1: your turn and when you can find an opportunity, and
Speaker 1: to help your family, your friends, your neighbors get vaccinated
Speaker 1: as well. Because here's the point. If we do all this,
Speaker 1: if we do our part, if we do this together,
Speaker 1: by July the fourth, there's a good chance you, your
Speaker 1: families and friends will be able to get together in
Speaker 1: your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout
Speaker 1: and a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: large events with lots of people together. But it does
Speaker 1: mean small groups will be able to get together after
Speaker 1: this long, hard year. That will make this independence day
Speaker 1: something truly special where we not only mark our independence
Speaker 1: as a nation, when we begin to mark our independence
Speaker 1: from this virus. But to get there, we can't let
Speaker 1: our guard down. This fight is far from order from over.
Speaker 1: As I told the woman in Pennsvania, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the truth. On July fourth, with your loved ones is
Speaker 1: a goal. But a goals, a lot can happen. I've
Speaker 1: been seeing my loved ones for twelve months now. We've
Speaker 1: taken certain prescription, you know, taking certain precautions at different times,
Speaker 1: especially in the earlier days when we didn't know more
Speaker 1: about the virus. I'm sure that ninety percent, nine nine
Speaker 1: percent maybe of those of you listening right now across
Speaker 1: the country have also not not seeing your loved ones.
Speaker 1: It's like Fauci and Biden don't actually live in America.
Speaker 1: They just go from a hermetically sealed box to the
Speaker 1: green room, or you know, to the satellite hit they
Speaker 1: do on CNN or MSNBC, and then they go back
Speaker 1: to the hermetically sealed box. They've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: Do you really think anyone's going to be listening to
Speaker 1: them as the case load has already dropped, not because
Speaker 1: of masks, not because we've done anything, all right, that's
Speaker 1: just ridiculous now to hold this position. Oh, we fought
Speaker 1: so well against the virus. No, the winder time is ending.
Speaker 1: The flu season, which is now the COVID season has dissipated,
Speaker 1: because that's what happened last year too. We've all seen this,
Speaker 1: all right, We've all seen the curves go up and
Speaker 1: come down. It hasn't changed. We know what's going on here.
Speaker 1: Listen to me, and maybe you can be with your
Speaker 1: loved ones. By July. I just want to tell Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: I mean, he we're at a point now we just
Speaker 1: have to say Biden really just needs to go fauci himself.
Speaker 1: And it's not like you have a choice in the matter.
Speaker 1: That's clear from the Biden's speech last night. It's not
Speaker 1: like you're allowed to say, you know what, I just
Speaker 1: want to live my life. No. They want to continue
Speaker 1: to meddle and control and poke and prod and be
Speaker 1: in charge. I don't want to give that up. I
Speaker 1: much prefer this power. They've got other things they have
Speaker 1: to use this for. They're not done with you. You
Speaker 1: don't have a say in this America. Joe Biden and
Speaker 1: the scientists think about this. They used the term the
Speaker 1: scientists on ironically. I mean they're being serious, as if
Speaker 1: there's some group called the scientists that determine what policy
Speaker 1: is and there's no debate, there's no judgment calling it whatsoever. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci now has to admit, yeah, we don't actually
Speaker 1: have the science on this, but we'll make in judgment calls.
Speaker 1: But Biden goes up and gives a speech about the scientists.
Speaker 1: All say, really, what about the thousands of scientists that
Speaker 1: signed the Great Barrington Declaration that said that we should
Speaker 1: just do focused protection, that all of this is essentially
Speaker 1: kabuki theater. That's right, virus kabuki theater. Thousands of scientists
Speaker 1: they sign their name to it, from places like you know,
Speaker 1: Harvard Medical School and Cambridge University and places that actually
Speaker 1: usually get a lot of credibility on the left. Ignored, ignored, Wow,
Speaker 1: people in charge really think that they must be so smart? Huh?
Speaker 1: Or maybe there's something else going on here, Maybe there's
Speaker 1: a deep insecurity at the fact that they pushed us
Speaker 1: into this madness and we were all now suffering the
Speaker 1: consequences that they didn't actually save us, they didn't protect us,
Speaker 1: and they made things worse. I would argue that the
Speaker 1: lockdowners and the Fauciites made everything worse and by taking
Speaker 1: this out of the hands of individuals to take their
Speaker 1: own precautions and making the using the force of government,
Speaker 1: because that is what they did, use the force of
Speaker 1: government for universal quarantine measures, which were understood in the
Speaker 1: medical community to be unthinkable and counterproductive for about a
Speaker 1: hundred years until twenty twenty. To use the force of
Speaker 1: government to make us all for a mass quarantine of
Speaker 1: the healthy for months on end, was known to be
Speaker 1: insane until what feels like about five minutes ago. And
Speaker 1: if you have any problem with that, you're the bad person.
Speaker 1: You're the wrong person. And they don't care that you
Speaker 1: can now point to the data, you can point to
Speaker 1: mask mandates. They don't even deal with the facts. The
Speaker 1: CDC says, within the margin of error, mask mandates bring
Speaker 1: down case and within the margin of error, was that
Speaker 1: really what we were led to believe they had The
Speaker 1: CDC directors say masks were more effective than the vaccine.
Speaker 1: That is, you know, he said it. That is a
Speaker 1: you know, roughly speaking, a quote, but that's what he said.
Speaker 1: You know, I would even go so far as to
Speaker 1: say that this mask is more guaranteed to protect me
Speaker 1: that a vaccine. That was I think exactly what he said.
Speaker 1: That was. Director Redfield of the CDC think guys are moron.
Speaker 1: These people are idiots. You think a mask is you nine?
Speaker 1: Do you think if we were all wearing masks and
Speaker 1: that create a ninety five percent protection whenever you're wearing
Speaker 1: the mask. In fact, there's a very strong case to
Speaker 1: be made. And they don't want to hear this, but
Speaker 1: it's true that people were actually more willing to be
Speaker 1: around other people and expose themselves to the virus because
Speaker 1: they figured, well, I'm wearing a mask, I'm taking precautions. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're taking precautions until you pull the mask down for
Speaker 1: a moment, you know, because it's a little long comfortable,
Speaker 1: you want to scratch something, and you know there's virus
Speaker 1: flowing in the air, goes into your nostrils, goes into
Speaker 1: your mouth. Now you're infected. You put your mask bask
Speaker 1: back up. Though, and oh I'm really protected. I'm really
Speaker 1: protecting myself. I mean, go look at the numbers of
Speaker 1: frontline healthcare workers. I know they're exposed to more the virus,
Speaker 1: but you know that it's not ninety five percent effective
Speaker 1: to be wearing a cloth mask, even in a clinical setting,
Speaker 1: because hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses got infected.
Speaker 1: They're wearing ppe. You just all you have to do
Speaker 1: is think this through, and all these arguments they make
Speaker 1: just falls apart. Now they pretend, well, it's worth it
Speaker 1: for one percent. Really, the dehumanizing, uncomfortable effect of mass
Speaker 1: mask policy and what that does to our psychology as
Speaker 1: a nation and to us as people, is worth it,
Speaker 1: even though I'm telling you that there Fauci himself said
Speaker 1: that there were dangers from mask in the early days.
Speaker 1: There were people the head of infectious disease at the
Speaker 1: government level, and Weedon was saying, people are going to
Speaker 1: think that they're safer because they wear a mask, and
Speaker 1: they're actually going to expose themselves more So we shouldn't
Speaker 1: convince people there was all this has all been forgotten.
Speaker 1: Now listen to them or else. Biden says, here he
Speaker 1: is on you better be vigilant, which means do whatever
Speaker 1: I say or else play too and getting back to normal.
Speaker 1: It depends on national unity. And national unity isn't just
Speaker 1: how politics and politicians vote in Washington, what the loudest
Speaker 1: voice is saying cable or online. Unity is what we
Speaker 1: do together as fellow Americans, because if we don't stay vigilant,
Speaker 1: and the conditions change and we may have to reinstate
Speaker 1: restrictions to get back on track, and please, we don't
Speaker 1: want to do that again. We've made so much progress.
Speaker 1: This is not the time to let up. Just as
Speaker 1: we were emerging from a dark winner into a hopeful
Speaker 1: spring in summer, is not the time to not stick
Speaker 1: with the rules. The rules. The rules. The rules are arbitrary,
Speaker 1: The rules didn't work. The rules they make them up
Speaker 1: as they please. These are policies. This is not science.
Speaker 1: These are judgment calls. This is not a mathematical formula.
Speaker 1: You we either as a kind. I know, for a
Speaker 1: lot of you're in places where you feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's pretty normal around me. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know, air travel and train travel, and on federal grounds,
Speaker 1: federal buildings and a lot of private businesses, national chains.
Speaker 1: They're all just going to cling and cling and cling
Speaker 1: to those little little dirty masks we've all been forced
Speaker 1: to wear that we're sneezing in and coughing in. It's gross.
Speaker 1: Gott to wear it all the time. Yeah, just just
Speaker 1: ask somebody when when the next time someone gives you
Speaker 1: a hard time. But I'd say, show me the show
Speaker 1: me the data on outdoor transmission of coronavirus in open air.
Speaker 1: Show me that data, show me, show me where those
Speaker 1: cases are. They'll say, I believe the science or I
Speaker 1: believe it's science. They actually don't. This has become a
Speaker 1: religious belief for people that don't like to read. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: whatever Fauci says goes will reinstate restrictions. Oh now, you
Speaker 1: could say the federal government doesn't do this, the states do.
Speaker 1: It's the Democrat party, folks. What Biden says, every blue
Speaker 1: state is going to do. And even some of you
Speaker 1: Red states, you know, Governor Abbott in Texas really weak
Speaker 1: on this stuff. He's got a little better recently, but
Speaker 1: not much. Some of those Red states highly disappointing. So
Speaker 1: it's not like you haven't suffered through the two If
Speaker 1: you live in a city if you live in a
Speaker 1: densely pompulated part of the country, you've basically been put
Speaker 1: through this unless you well, even in Florida, that's not
Speaker 1: even true. Even in Florida. Miami's got a lot of
Speaker 1: mask mandates. You know. I had somebody that I was
Speaker 1: talking to from ten feet away in an outdoor kiosk
Speaker 1: tell me to put on a mask to talk to
Speaker 1: them from ten feet away outside because it was Miami law.
Speaker 1: And I feel badly for these people because what they're
Speaker 1: saying is moronic. But it's not always their fault. We've
Speaker 1: got work to do to ensure that everyone has confidence
Speaker 1: in the safety and effectives of all three vaccines. So
Speaker 1: our message to you is this, Listen to doctor Fauci,
Speaker 1: one most distinguished and trusted voices in the world. He's
Speaker 1: assured us the vaccines are safe. Vander want rigorous scientific review.
Speaker 1: I know they're safe. Vice President Harris and I know
Speaker 1: they're safe. That's why we got the vaccine publicly in
Speaker 1: front of cameras so for the world to see, so
Speaker 1: you can see us do it. The first lady and
Speaker 1: the second gentleman also got vaccinated. Talk to your family, friends,
Speaker 1: your neighbors, the people you know best who have gotten
Speaker 1: the vaccine. We need everyone to get vaccinated. We need
Speaker 1: everyone to get vaccinated. Does that mean children? They think
Speaker 1: the kids who are at effectively zero risk from this
Speaker 1: disease need to get vaccinated. Really, is that going to
Speaker 1: be a condition of opening schools? And I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: am not willing to forget the fact that Kamala and
Speaker 1: Joe were willing to spend real time during the campaign
Speaker 1: casting doubt on the safety of the vaccine because it
Speaker 1: was useful for attacking Trump. Does the vaccine work? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't really trust Trump and it's it's
Speaker 1: his FDA that's approving it. So that created a lot
Speaker 1: of mistrust. Now they're they're acting like their heroes for
Speaker 1: cleaning up a mass that in part they made by
Speaker 1: casting real aspersions on the safety of the vaccine in
Speaker 1: the first place. That came from Kamala, that came from
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Because that's how ruthless these Democrat politicians are.
Speaker 1: That's how ruthless they are. Whatever they had to say,
Speaker 1: And don't ever forget that so much of the media
Speaker 1: around this was just a function of whatever's necessary to
Speaker 1: defeat Donald Trump. Whatever they had to say about the vaccine,
Speaker 1: about the virus, about everything around it, lockdowns. As long
Speaker 1: as it was useful in their quest to beat Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: They were on board. They were willing to do it.
Speaker 1: And it's it's something that I will not I will
Speaker 1: not let go. I will I will not forget that.
Speaker 1: And I just think it's it's amazing they they hold
Speaker 1: up Fauci. I mean, he's become this this uh, this
Speaker 1: symbol really this this emblem of the of great scientific uh,
Speaker 1: you know, great scientific knowledge. What exactly has he done? Well?
Speaker 1: What is the basis for thinking this guy has great
Speaker 1: judgment or is even a genius in his field. He's
Speaker 1: a bureaucrat who's been going around releasing, you know, public
Speaker 1: safety announcements about the flu for the last twenty years
Speaker 1: and saying wash your hands. Great. Wow, I'm impressed. And
Speaker 1: now we find out and they just forget this that
Speaker 1: hand washing probably does very little. I'm not saying it's irrelicant.
Speaker 1: Lots of little things can help, but they can't stop this.
Speaker 1: And it's not as though if they constantly nag us
Speaker 1: about all this, we're going to be so much better protected.
Speaker 1: But go back and see what Fauci was saying about
Speaker 1: HIV in the eighties and the way that he was
Speaker 1: terrifying people and the misinformation that he was spreading. If
Speaker 1: this guy actually worked in the private sector and there
Speaker 1: was any accountability for what he does of what he
Speaker 1: had done, he would have lost his job. But there
Speaker 1: isn't any accountability as a bureaucrat. This guy is not impressive.
Speaker 1: Biden holds up Fauci, like, how could anybody argue with him?
Speaker 1: Fauci twelve months ago scoffed at the idea of masks
Speaker 1: as an effective public health measure, as Fauci calls it,
Speaker 1: for stopping this virus. What did we learn? What did
Speaker 1: we learn? After that? They say, oh, well we didn't
Speaker 1: know about asymptomatic case spread. Okay, well we thought the
Speaker 1: virus was substantially more lethal when Fauci said that than
Speaker 1: it actually ended up being. And it was a question
Speaker 1: of should you wear a mask as a means of
Speaker 1: stopping the spread of the virus? Is it good protection
Speaker 1: for you? Does it stop you from infecting other people?
Speaker 1: And Fauci was like, nah, doesn't really doesn't really work.
Speaker 1: It's not really worth it for the public, which is
Speaker 1: by the way the correct answer. They can pretend now like,
Speaker 1: oh no, there are all these revelations, and we had
Speaker 1: a mannequin and the mannequin did a spray through a thing.
Speaker 1: They're telling you that the scientific consensus. If you believe
Speaker 1: the scientific consensus of twelve months ago, that was the
Speaker 1: scientific consensus on this issue in the West for a
Speaker 1: hundred years. If you believe that, you're a conspiracy nut
Speaker 1: and you don't believe science, that's where we are. That
Speaker 1: is just a straight recitation of objective reality. As you
Speaker 1: can tell, I am very angry about this. They've destroyed
Speaker 1: lives friends. We had the most overdoses from from drugs
Speaker 1: in this country in our history last year, over eighty thousand,
Speaker 1: and that's just an indicator. It's like looking at homicides
Speaker 1: in a city as an indicator of overall crime. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of drug abuse, spousal abuse, child abuse, self harm,
Speaker 1: deep psychological depression. You know, people that don't understand mental
Speaker 1: health issues can't have an appreciation for this. When you're
Speaker 1: in a mental health crisis, it is as painful and
Speaker 1: awful as any physical crisis can be for you. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a true prison of terror and fear and awfulness,
Speaker 1: and we did that to people with our policies in
Speaker 1: this country because of people like Faucci. We blocked them
Speaker 1: off from human contact, We blocked them off from loved ones,
Speaker 1: and lots of people died of the virus anyway, weren't
Speaker 1: allowed to see their loved ones, weren't allowed to have
Speaker 1: any time with them at the end. Because you know,
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci is king of the world. People should be
Speaker 1: deeply embarrassed about the cowardice. Really, the character and ethical
Speaker 1: cowardice that they showed by just handing over all their
Speaker 1: critical faculties to government bureaucrats. That is what this is.
Speaker 1: There was another way. They can ignore it as much
Speaker 1: as they want. They could pretend that there wasn't, but
Speaker 1: there was, in fact another way, and some people in
Speaker 1: some places were able to take it. I bring you,
Speaker 1: Governor Ronda Santis, Great State of Florida, Play thirteen. The
Speaker 1: thing I hear. I was just talking to a friend
Speaker 1: of mine who was in DC, and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the different between Florida and DC's like it's dead. It's
Speaker 1: totally dead. Here. People are living life, they're happier, and
Speaker 1: things are just want to be here compared to that,
Speaker 1: and I think that that has an effect far beyond
Speaker 1: these nursing homes and there, but I think it's most
Speaker 1: acute in the nursing home. So God bless those nursing
Speaker 1: home residents. They've been through an awful lot over the
Speaker 1: past year. And but yeah, we got to do whatever
Speaker 1: we can to bring fulfillment to them. So if any
Speaker 1: of those facilities have any need for the state to
Speaker 1: help them out on any of that, we're ready willing enable.
Speaker 1: We were the first with the testing, we were the
Speaker 1: first with protections against the discharges in the facilities, first
Speaker 1: with the vaccines, and we want to be first to
Speaker 1: help them reach the fulfillment that they need. There's so
Speaker 1: much about the Florida model that needs a lot more attention,
Speaker 1: but the media won't do it because they were all
Speaker 1: parts of the of the stupidity, the fraud, and the
Speaker 1: panic there. There has always been this this false, this
Speaker 1: false argument that was made during the pandemic last twelve
Speaker 1: months by Democrats, by lockdowners, and by some Republicans too.
Speaker 1: By no means, So I do I think that this
Speaker 1: is only Democrats, but it was you know, really if
Speaker 1: you look at the data, you show democrats are like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask up forever. A lot of them they're crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it completely lost all sense of proportion and reality,
Speaker 1: some of them, not all of them. But well, when
Speaker 1: you look at this, the false argument that was always
Speaker 1: presented was either obey Faucism, like he is your god
Speaker 1: king and there can be no questioning. Or you're out there,
Speaker 1: you know, spraying virus in people's faces, virus denier, vax denier,
Speaker 1: no science, flat earth. You know, this was a total
Speaker 1: caricature the whole time, a complete and utter fraud. This
Speaker 1: doesn't this, this is not the the opposite of what
Speaker 1: they're saying. Rather, this is not the opposition to what
Speaker 1: they were saying. It's a caricature of the opposition. Was
Speaker 1: it was possible to do focused protection in nursing homes
Speaker 1: and to allow businesses to continue to operate, to continue
Speaker 1: to stay open, to allow people to be out. I mean,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this, folks, they were telling people
Speaker 1: you shouldn't go out into public parks. You remember, they
Speaker 1: were shutting down playgrounds, the experts, they were arresting people.
Speaker 1: You know, they forget about all this now and they
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it because it just shows
Speaker 1: how crappy their judgment is and how full of it
Speaker 1: they were, because they were saying that was about the
Speaker 1: science too. I mean, this is like the Democrats with
Speaker 1: COVID are like a stockbroker who loses you money every
Speaker 1: time you give him money to invest on your behalf.
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, I'm your financial advisor. You keep losing money. Oh,
Speaker 1: don't worry about this, this idea, If I'm an expert,
Speaker 1: this idea is going to make you the money. Say
Speaker 1: hold on a second, your last five ideas, I've lost everything.
Speaker 1: Why am I going to on on? What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? I'm the expert. I'm the expert. Listen to me,
Speaker 1: or else listen to me, or or you're gonna miss
Speaker 1: out on this big bull market. A lot of Democrats say,
Speaker 1: all right, here you go. Poppa needs a new pair
Speaker 1: of shoes. You know, let's roll the dice, let's go
Speaker 1: for it. It's absurd. The difference here was whether we
Speaker 1: allowed for individual localized improvisation, individual choice, and and actually
Speaker 1: paid attention to what states we're we're functioning well and
Speaker 1: what states were not under different approaches to the virus.
Speaker 1: Look at California, Look at Florida. Florida is better on
Speaker 1: all of them, all of the numbers, all of metrics.
Speaker 1: California was an extreme lockdown state. Florida allowed for a
Speaker 1: continuation of life. There were still restrictions. There was even
Speaker 1: still indoor masking, which quite honestly, if I were in charge,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that a government indoor mask mandate
Speaker 1: is not supported by the data that actually you look
Speaker 1: at restrictions and what worked and mask mandates and difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have the data from the CDC on this,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think in some ways, even even
Speaker 1: Florida got pushed into more than it really should have
Speaker 1: had to do. But at least it was sane. We
Speaker 1: were shutting down restaurants, We shut down outdoor dining in California.
Speaker 1: Think about that, you shut down outdoor dining? What they
Speaker 1: shut down schools? Why? It's not only that children are
Speaker 1: at entirely acceptable risk from this virus, which means almost
Speaker 1: no risk. They don't spread it to adults and we
Speaker 1: don't even really know why, but it's very hard for
Speaker 1: adults to get this from children. They still have us
Speaker 1: shut down. This is a fight that we cannot, we
Speaker 1: cannot relent, We cannot let them get away with this.
Speaker 1: I know that they think that they're smart. I know
Speaker 1: the lockdown or is the left, the Democrats, the corporate
Speaker 1: media believe so strong they listen to the science. These
Speaker 1: are people without intellectual curiosity or intellectual honesty, who have
Speaker 1: all become invested in this for reasons that have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with actually stopping the virus or saving lots
Speaker 1: of lives, as much as they may pretend otherwise. This
Speaker 1: is about vanity and virtue signaling and the refusal, the
Speaker 1: refusal to accept the fact that they were unwilling to
Speaker 1: take a country first approach to dealing with this virus
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, because the first priority of Democrats in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty was not beating COVID, it was beating Donald Trump. Well, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I think at the end of the day, not
Speaker 1: only her comments, but certainly comments that the administration is
Speaker 1: made over the last several days, I think you have
Speaker 1: to say that the crisis that we currently see is
Speaker 1: the Biden Plan is what they had in mind to
Speaker 1: all along. Whether they thought that they would get the
Speaker 1: numbers as quickly as they have is up for a question,
Speaker 1: but I think this is their plan. But when she
Speaker 1: talks about inhumane or a humane policy that there's pent
Speaker 1: up demand, I vehetmainly disagree with that. I think it's
Speaker 1: the most humane inhumane message that you can give, and
Speaker 1: you can sell all of these individuals a lie. And
Speaker 1: what do I mean by that. We know that the
Speaker 1: vast majority of these folks do not qualify for asylum,
Speaker 1: and so they are eventually going to have to be
Speaker 1: deported or leave the country and go back to their
Speaker 1: to their countries of origin. They know that the Biden
Speaker 1: administration knows that, so they are selling these individuals a lie,
Speaker 1: encouraging them to put their themselves in the hands of
Speaker 1: smugglers and traffickers. And so my opinion is that is
Speaker 1: the most inhumane message and inhumane policy that you can deliver.
Speaker 1: So Chad Wolfe, who was acting DHS chief for a while,
Speaker 1: saying here that the border crisis is the Biden plan,
Speaker 1: He's right about that. But there's a part of this
Speaker 1: that I would add, there's a part of this that
Speaker 1: I think he's honestly not seeing correctly, and that is
Speaker 1: that the Biden plan is actually for that. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: to pretend that they're going to get a silet's to
Speaker 1: tell people, come here, you will get asylum. But they're
Speaker 1: going to stay. They're not going to get deported. That's
Speaker 1: the part of this that I think Chad is actually
Speaker 1: not seeing. They're not going to get deported. That's the
Speaker 1: whole point the illegal immigrants who are coming to the
Speaker 1: country right now, and remember, their first act on US soil,
Speaker 1: literally on US soil is the illegal crossing, which is
Speaker 1: a violation of US law. It's a form of trespassing,
Speaker 1: it's a form of violated US national sovereignty. That's the
Speaker 1: first thing that they do. And then they've been coached
Speaker 1: because the word has been out for a long time
Speaker 1: about this, to claim defensive asylum or secondary asylum, which
Speaker 1: is essentially throwing themselves on the mercy of the United
Speaker 1: States and saying, oh, I know that I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: come like this, but I'm just desperate. If I go
Speaker 1: back to my home country, I'm going to be killed by,
Speaker 1: you know, the secret police or something. That's why we
Speaker 1: have this so that if you're fleeing the Soviet Union
Speaker 1: and you happen to get to you know, the shores
Speaker 1: of New York or you know, you made your way
Speaker 1: to the shores of Florida or wherever, and you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know I didn't come through your legal process, but
Speaker 1: you guys got to give me a chance, because if
Speaker 1: I actually get sent back to my home country, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be killed. These are Central American migrants who are
Speaker 1: coming largely it's not all from Central America, and they're saying,
Speaker 1: I want to be in a I mean, there are
Speaker 1: real motivations. I want to be in America because it's
Speaker 1: better wages, better infrastructure, better government, and a better system.
Speaker 1: That's just called being an immigrant. Right. They want to
Speaker 1: be immigrants, and I do not. I have no blame
Speaker 1: or disdain or you know, I understand that impulse. You know,
Speaker 1: life is not fair being born in a country that
Speaker 1: is a dysfunctional mess versus being born in America. That
Speaker 1: is an unfair disparity that human beings are going through
Speaker 1: all over the world every day. Right, being born in
Speaker 1: North Korea is worse than being born in you know,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. Okay, it is worse. We understand this, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately we can't make this entirely fair because then the
Speaker 1: country that is better is going to cease to be
Speaker 1: a country. If you no longer have control over your borders,
Speaker 1: you don't really have a country anymore. We all understand
Speaker 1: how that works. If you don't just think about Okay,
Speaker 1: go tell a country you know the size of the
Speaker 1: Netherlands that they need to take in five million, you know,
Speaker 1: five million immigrants from Syria, Afghanistan, you know, Libya, you know,
Speaker 1: you name it, countries that have had wars in recent
Speaker 1: years and that are having terrible problems. And then tell
Speaker 1: those people in the Netherlands, well, your country is going
Speaker 1: to be the same. You're just taking an immigrants. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're we're actually changing the character of the nation
Speaker 1: because we're changing the people of this nation dramatically in
Speaker 1: a transformational way. That does not allow for the kinds
Speaker 1: of you know, the kinds of processes that bring people
Speaker 1: into a feeling of community in the same nation over time. Right,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to have that, that's supposed to be up
Speaker 1: a part of all of this, and yet they don't
Speaker 1: really talk about this. They don't have that as even
Speaker 1: a discussion point anymore. It's allow for mass migration into
Speaker 1: your country or else you are being unfair. Allow for
Speaker 1: mass migration of the country or else you're a bad person. Actually,
Speaker 1: you're you're a racist. There are a lot of countries
Speaker 1: that don't allow people to just show up and become
Speaker 1: permanent citizens with voting rights and the ability to demand
Speaker 1: resources from the state. Right, we're supposed to have a
Speaker 1: process in place, but the Democrats, the Biden administration is
Speaker 1: intentionally undermining it. We have an open border, friends, that's
Speaker 1: what this is. Press secretary smites Fox host that disc
Speaker 1: diversity in the US military. You might be wondering, why
Speaker 1: is Buck reading a headline from the comments or from
Speaker 1: from a blog post at Slate dot com or huff
Speaker 1: Post or one of these other lunatic left wing you know,
Speaker 1: garbage heaps. But no, that's actually from Defense dot gov.
Speaker 1: That's actually on a government news website. We have to
Speaker 1: get into this right now. We've got our friend Kirschlichter
Speaker 1: joining us. He spent decades in the United States military,
Speaker 1: still active in the Army Reserve, and he's a senior
Speaker 1: columnist at Townhall dot com. You should always look for
Speaker 1: his work. Kirk great to see again. So here here's
Speaker 1: the at the heart of this. The United States military,
Speaker 1: quote is the greatest the world has ever seen because
Speaker 1: of its diversity, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said during
Speaker 1: a news briefing. Kirby addressed this because a Fox Cable
Speaker 1: host used his show to denigrate the contributions of women
Speaker 1: in the military and to say that Chinese military is
Speaker 1: catching up to the US military because it does not
Speaker 1: allow women to serve the percentage in the United States does.
Speaker 1: I want to be very clear upfront, Kirby said, diversity
Speaker 1: of our military is one of our greatest strengths. I've
Speaker 1: seen it for myself in long months at sea and
Speaker 1: the combat waged by troops in rock and Afghanistan, and
Speaker 1: I've seen it, right, yeada yadya okay um. First of all,
Speaker 1: why is a an employee of the of the DoD
Speaker 1: uh press? Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby attacking in a
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson like Why spend his time doing that? Is
Speaker 1: he a pundited? It's because what it's his masters want done. Look,
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump's people had did it, this would have
Speaker 1: been the greatest assaulved on free speech in the history
Speaker 1: of assualtype free speech. It would have been literally violence.
Speaker 1: I'd be literally shaking you'd be literally shaked. The whole
Speaker 1: world would be literally shaking. But remember Buck, there are
Speaker 1: no rules. There's just power, and unfortunately they have it
Speaker 1: now and they're using their power to new to the
Speaker 1: American military. The thing is Tucker called them on it.
Speaker 1: He told the truth, and they don't want to hear him. Now.
Speaker 1: To actually discuss this, I have to put on my
Speaker 1: trial lawyer at because this is a little bit of
Speaker 1: sleight of hand. Argument wise, Tucker said, Hey, the American
Speaker 1: military is an unseerious organization because we're focusing on things
Speaker 1: like maternity flight suits and transsexual surgery. This is indisputably true.
Speaker 1: The Chinese are focusing on killing Americans, which is also
Speaker 1: indisputably true. Now they don't want to talk about that
Speaker 1: because it's indisputably true. So what they want to do
Speaker 1: is lie and pretend that Tucker is running down the
Speaker 1: contributions of women in the military. That is again a lie,
Speaker 1: and it's a lighthold by people who have failed to
Speaker 1: win a war in the last twenty years. I think
Speaker 1: that's a much bigger issue than anything else. Now, how
Speaker 1: does social justice, I mean the social justice focus that
Speaker 1: the Pentagon Brass have you know, what are the ways
Speaker 1: in which I mean you mentioned like maternity flight suits.
Speaker 1: I mean essentially, what is the you know, Tucker was
Speaker 1: making the arguments, as he admit, he's not somebody who's
Speaker 1: served the military, but he's obviously in contact with a
Speaker 1: lot of people who are, and he's a commentator and
Speaker 1: that's what he's doing. He's sharing his view on what's happening.
Speaker 1: I also think that you know, this is a fascinating
Speaker 1: new standard where the United States military now when it
Speaker 1: comes to Tucker Carlson, if you didn't serve, you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to have opinions on it, right. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: supported by tax dollars, it defends all of us. But
Speaker 1: what is the case in your mind that that Tucker
Speaker 1: is making. I mean, what do we need to be
Speaker 1: aware of what Tucker is accurately pointing out that our
Speaker 1: military is concerned with social justice nonsense, because that's why
Speaker 1: it is and not winning wards. Okay, let's let's review
Speaker 1: the last twenty years. And I think this is a
Speaker 1: significant point. I mean, on Twitter last night and most
Speaker 1: of leftist Twitter collectively wet itself. I pointed out that
Speaker 1: Tucker has as one as many wars as our present
Speaker 1: military leadership has in the last two decades. But Tucker
Speaker 1: has actually lost your wars that our present military leadership
Speaker 1: has in the last two decades, and they don't want
Speaker 1: you to talk about that. The American military is not
Speaker 1: ready to fight China. Instead, it's chasing its tail with
Speaker 1: nonsense about quote unquote diversity, which I want to come
Speaker 1: back to in a second, and all this social justice garbage,
Speaker 1: because that's what it is. Let me tell you what
Speaker 1: diversity is in the military. Diversity is everybody wearing camouflage. Okay,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be an issue. Who you are shouldn't matter. Now,
Speaker 1: capabilities do matter, and there are realities of differences between
Speaker 1: men and women that need to be taken into account
Speaker 1: and need to be discussed. Women and men are different.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say anything bad about women, And I was
Speaker 1: sent the implication that somehow pointing out that a one
Speaker 1: hundred pound woman is going to have trouble carrying a
Speaker 1: one hundred pound backpack is somehow an attack on her.
Speaker 1: Let me make you a buck. When I was a
Speaker 1: platoon leader in Desert Store, I ran a heavily armed carwash.
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering if I'm allowed to speak since I
Speaker 1: wasn't in Delta Force, but we'll just assume I fit
Speaker 1: within the rules of who can talk about the military
Speaker 1: for now. When I was there, I had a female
Speaker 1: squad leader who had a photosensitive skin disease, which she hid.
Speaker 1: Now that's a big problem when you're in the desert,
Speaker 1: but she hid it because she wanted to be with
Speaker 1: her troops. I had to send her home. Her heart unquestioned,
Speaker 1: her patriotism unquestioned, her courage unquestioned. And no one's questioning
Speaker 1: any of that. And it's a lie to guess talking
Speaker 1: about that instead of the reality that we are cutting,
Speaker 1: we are trading combat readiness for political correctness that is indisputable.
Speaker 1: Tell me we're not slamming destroyers into cargo ships we are.
Speaker 1: Tell me we're not driving pilots out of the Air
Speaker 1: Force we are. Tell me all American brigade combat teams
Speaker 1: are ready to deploy. They aren't. Now, there was a
Speaker 1: story that I saw as well this week, Kurt, that
Speaker 1: was a war game exercise. I'm sure you saw this too,
Speaker 1: about how it would go right now if the US
Speaker 1: had to had to fight a straight up force on
Speaker 1: force war against China not a cyber war, a you know,
Speaker 1: guns going boom boom war, and it didn't come out
Speaker 1: well for the US. No, it didn't, and they don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about that. The simple fact is that
Speaker 1: Chinese have built up their military. We have weakened arts.
Speaker 1: We have weakened arts because we have gotten away from
Speaker 1: the basics of military leadership and military culture. I consider
Speaker 1: the fact that we have not built up our navy
Speaker 1: to be a critical fact. I think a worse fact
Speaker 1: for America is that we have not demanded that the
Speaker 1: officer corps focus on you're fighting instead of this political
Speaker 1: correct garbage. I mean, we've got raygions own. Lloyd Austin
Speaker 1: is now the Secretary of Defense, and his big thing
Speaker 1: is making sure everybody thinks exactly the same way, just
Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, well to the extent Joe Biden thinks
Speaker 1: and isn't told what he thinks and rooting out conservative
Speaker 1: people within the military. They call him extremists. That's another lie.
Speaker 1: But what the military should be doing is preparing to
Speaker 1: deter our enemies or defeat them in high intensity combat.
Speaker 1: It is not ready to do so. This failure of leadership,
Speaker 1: and I'm terrified to this buck, this faire of leadership
Speaker 1: is going to lead to a disastrous engagement where thousands
Speaker 1: of Americans die unnecessarily because they are not well trained,
Speaker 1: not well equipped, and not well led. This I am
Speaker 1: not happy to say that. I am not excited to
Speaker 1: say this. This makes me sick to my stomach. And
Speaker 1: you know what also tears me up. After twenty seven
Speaker 1: years in the military and I loved it, I no
Speaker 1: longer recommend people join the military. Somebody says, should I
Speaker 1: join the military, I might stop. You need to really think.
Speaker 1: You know, if you do, that's great. Do I think
Speaker 1: the military is a organization that's going to treat him correctly? No?
Speaker 1: I don't. I do not think it is. How did
Speaker 1: this And we're talking to Kurt Schlicht. He's a senior
Speaker 1: columnist at Town Hall and an Army veteran. So the Kurt,
Speaker 1: how did we get to this point in your estimation
Speaker 1: where you're now saying this. I mean, this has got
Speaker 1: to be for somebody who spent over two decades serving,
Speaker 1: this has got to be something that's tough for you
Speaker 1: to say. And I know there are others. I've even
Speaker 1: talked to you with others who are military present where
Speaker 1: we were discussing this, who feel very much the same way.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're talking to guys who are on the inside.
Speaker 1: Guys and gals are on the inside of the DoD
Speaker 1: who feel this way. How do we get to this
Speaker 1: point and how do we get out of it? Well, look, buck,
Speaker 1: a commander, troops do what commanders chat. And in the
Speaker 1: Obama administration, they made it very clear that you needed
Speaker 1: to toe in liberal line, and they promoted liberal channels,
Speaker 1: and people down the line understood that, and that's what
Speaker 1: they enforced. So now you see these uh, now you
Speaker 1: see these bizarre reading lists, you know, for for of
Speaker 1: all these commanders, and it's all full of this racist garbage.
Speaker 1: I'm an anti racism training for four star generals is
Speaker 1: now necessarily Yeah, it's just garbage. And they all do it.
Speaker 1: And why did they do it? Because that's what was
Speaker 1: rewared in the Obama administration. Why didn't Trump do anything
Speaker 1: about it because unfortunately, like many civilians, was impressed by
Speaker 1: the military and deferred to the generals and didn't go
Speaker 1: in and change it. This could change tomorrow, This could
Speaker 1: change in a heartbeat. You need a conservative president calls
Speaker 1: in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and says, here's
Speaker 1: how it's going to be. And if it isn't, I'm
Speaker 1: firing you. And then I'm going to fire everybody in
Speaker 1: the chain of command, and I'm going to retire you
Speaker 1: or sending you to No Molaska to hand out volleyballs.
Speaker 1: And you put a couple of figurative heads on pikes,
Speaker 1: and the military will conform. That's the thing. That's why
Speaker 1: it's vulnerable. It is a military conforms to the vision
Speaker 1: of its leaders. If the vision of the leaders is
Speaker 1: social justice nonsense, then that's what the military is going
Speaker 1: to be. If it's combat readiness, it will come back.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping we get a president who is white,
Speaker 1: willing to demand that we have a we're fighting organization
Speaker 1: and fire generals until he gets one. And believe me,
Speaker 1: you put a few, you kick a few of these
Speaker 1: guys out and put them to pastor the rest of
Speaker 1: generals will conform. Kirch, look to everybody, go to townhall
Speaker 1: dot comference, lets column follow him on social Kurt, I
Speaker 1: always appreciate man, thanks for being with us. And what
Speaker 1: we know is that we need a federal solution guns
Speaker 1: don't respect state borders. In New York State, seventy five
Speaker 1: of the guns that are used in crimes in that
Speaker 1: state are bought outside of New York, in states with
Speaker 1: less strict gun laws, where criminals can buy a weapon
Speaker 1: without having to go through a background check. And so
Speaker 1: in order to protect all of America's children, we need
Speaker 1: to pass universal background checks and close the Charleston loophole
Speaker 1: to protect the children. Notice how gun control is about
Speaker 1: protecting the children. As we know a very small percentage
Speaker 1: of gun crime. Mean, every gun crimes is horrible, Every
Speaker 1: homicide is a tragedy, and especially when it brings in
Speaker 1: innocent children into the situation. But they're going for the
Speaker 1: emotional appeal appeal here, of course, suggesting that this is
Speaker 1: going to protect kids. And so if you have a
Speaker 1: problem with this, if you think that this is not
Speaker 1: in a good way going forward, if you don't agree
Speaker 1: with this, you are the problem, right, you don't want
Speaker 1: to protect children, That's what they're saying. That's the way
Speaker 1: that the emotional manipulation here at the hands of Democrats works.
Speaker 1: But I just want to say that they're pushing these
Speaker 1: things right now as quickly as they can because they
Speaker 1: know that as we see more of this Biden administration,
Speaker 1: the incompetence, the enormous spending, the payoffs a special interest,
Speaker 1: the lack of accountability for the dumbass lockdown policies, all
Speaker 1: these things, people are going to get increasingly tired of
Speaker 1: being told what to do, and they're going to get
Speaker 1: tired of the Biden administration using a crisis mentality. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna see the administration, I mean, the whole Democrat Party
Speaker 1: right now, the Democrat Party is really it feels flush
Speaker 1: with power. I mean, they feel like they're just they're
Speaker 1: they're in the best position they've been in in ten years,
Speaker 1: and they're going for it. And they want to push
Speaker 1: gun control. Now we're not out of the pandemic. We
Speaker 1: still have these restrictions, and they are telling you that
Speaker 1: they're going to save lives by improving background checks. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: this is what the House bill that that has been
Speaker 1: passing on the sales that they're gonna they're gonna save
Speaker 1: lives by making it slightly more annoying for people to
Speaker 1: legally purchase firearms. You know what this guy left out
Speaker 1: of this. You know Senator Murphy left out of this
Speaker 1: when he talks about a federal response to gun violence,
Speaker 1: what he left out of it is that most of
Speaker 1: the guns when they're when they're talking about the guns
Speaker 1: that are coming into states that are being used in
Speaker 1: crimes from out of the state. Yeah, guess what, that's illegal.
Speaker 1: These are illegal gun sales. So their response to illegal
Speaker 1: gun sales is to pass another law that makes it
Speaker 1: harder for there to be legal gun sales, or more
Speaker 1: annoying or more tedious or slower or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: Their their idea to stop gun violence is to make
Speaker 1: law abiding gun transactions more onerous. This is this is
Speaker 1: always the left mentality on this. But remember whenever they
Speaker 1: want to get something thought, you know, it's about about
Speaker 1: the children. Right, here's Nancy Pelosi play fifteen today on
Speaker 1: the floor. We go to that fourth place, a safe
Speaker 1: environment which our children can thrive by passing the background
Speaker 1: chech legislation. It's hard to imagine legislation being more popular
Speaker 1: than the Rescue Plan seventy five percent whatever. This legislation
Speaker 1: background checks closer to ninety percent bipartisan support across the country.
Speaker 1: Receiving a support of gun owners, hunters, and the rest.
Speaker 1: They've all had to do a background check. Why shouldn't others.
Speaker 1: Our chairman of the Task Force, Mike Thompson is a hunter,
Speaker 1: is a veteran, and is a gun owner, and he
Speaker 1: has had again protective of the First Amendment rights of
Speaker 1: gun owners, but also protective of the survival of our children.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, the First Amendment rights of gun owners. I
Speaker 1: just wanted you to hear that. Hey, I have a
Speaker 1: big I have a big believer it the First Amendment
Speaker 1: rights to bear arms. Um, Nancy, I got news for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I say. These Democrats they
Speaker 1: have never actually they've never read nor understood the Constitution.
Speaker 1: I mean, some parts of it have been spoon fed
Speaker 1: to them that they know, some of the phrases that
Speaker 1: we all learn in grammar school about it or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know. But you know, it's like, Nancy Pelosi, I
Speaker 1: really believe in the Constitution that it says for score
Speaker 1: and and you know, yeah, no, no wrong speech. But
Speaker 1: that's okay. It doesn't matter constitutions on a speech, of course,
Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. Nancy Pelosi has no
Speaker 1: idea what the heck is going on when it comes
Speaker 1: to actually deducing violence or dealing with criminality in this
Speaker 1: country because their party was largely favorable to the massive
Speaker 1: surge of violence, of criminality that happened as a result
Speaker 1: of the BLM movement and the Ferguson effect on police
Speaker 1: officers where they realize, Okay, we're not going to be supported,
Speaker 1: we're not going to do our jobs as much. That
Speaker 1: results in more people getting killed. It happened, and I
Speaker 1: think it was forty seven to fifty of the biggest
Speaker 1: cities in the country last year had had two digit
Speaker 1: increases at least some of them had more like a
Speaker 1: fifty to one hundred percent increase, but had at least
Speaker 1: a double digit increase in shootings and homicides in a
Speaker 1: pandemic year when they're far fewer people in the street.
Speaker 1: But really, the gun control issue, they're gonna keep doing this.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do things that they know there'll be no
Speaker 1: bipartisan support on because they're gonna throw all this at
Speaker 1: the Republicans. They're gonna claim obstruction all the time. And
Speaker 1: then what will happen is on one of these issues
Speaker 1: than I believe it will be amnesty. But on one
Speaker 1: of these issues they're gonna say this is we've tried
Speaker 1: and tried. They haven't actually tried at all. They just
Speaker 1: say do what we say or else to the Republicans.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna then claim we've tried to meet them halfway,
Speaker 1: which is a lie. But we've tried to meet them halfway.
Speaker 1: They won't do it. So we have no choice but
Speaker 1: to obliterate their obstructionism by eliminating the filibuster. And once
Speaker 1: they do that on one issue, understand, then it's open season.
Speaker 1: Right then they're gonna go for it on every issue.
Speaker 1: And this is why the Democrats are picking these things
Speaker 1: where they know that they want it. They know they're
Speaker 1: not going to get any bipartisan support on it whatsoever
Speaker 1: from the Republicans, and they're gonna stack all these up
Speaker 1: so that one of them will be the issue. And
Speaker 1: I believe I could be wrong. I believe it will
Speaker 1: be amnesty. They're just going to break the damn and
Speaker 1: say our way or the highway, you know, deal with it, Republicans.
Speaker 1: I mean this gun control thing, background checks, there's no
Speaker 1: reason to believe that even if the Democrats got what
Speaker 1: they want, it would save even a single life. But
Speaker 1: it will annoy a lot of people and it does
Speaker 1: the incrementalist approach to restricting. Not your first Amendment right, Nancy,
Speaker 1: your second Amendment right. Cuomo in some increasingly hot water.
Speaker 1: The governor of New York now has more allegations against
Speaker 1: him six last time I counted, and they're getting more serious.
Speaker 1: Something even more serious involve actual unwanted touching, groping allegations
Speaker 1: out there. And then there's also the nursing home scandal,
Speaker 1: which I still think is by far the biggest problem
Speaker 1: that he has, but the Democrats don't want to focus
Speaker 1: on that one. Of course. Now that is the media.
Speaker 1: Our friend Pedro Gonzalez is with us now assistant editor
Speaker 1: at American Greatness. Pedro, thanks so much. Oh, always a
Speaker 1: pleasure to be here. So well, what you've got a
Speaker 1: piece out on the Cuomo situation. Tell us how you're
Speaker 1: seeing it, because I will say, people that I know
Speaker 1: who understand New York pretty well, new York politics well,
Speaker 1: are saying that they're actually now crossing over into maybe
Speaker 1: he's not gonna politically survive this right. So that article
Speaker 1: was published in the National Interest, and the thesis is
Speaker 1: this that whether or not there are people, mainly Democrats
Speaker 1: and leftists, who really do find sexual harassment a greater
Speaker 1: crime than fifteen thousand senior citizens dead followed by an
Speaker 1: abusive cover up, Whether or not that is actually the
Speaker 1: the the driving motive for this, these calls for resignation
Speaker 1: or not, still, I think reveals how how messed up
Speaker 1: the worldview of these people are. So the nursing home
Speaker 1: thing and the cover up that predates the sexual harassment stuff.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, it was it looked like
Speaker 1: Cuomo is going to emerge out of this whole thing unscathed,
Speaker 1: Like he was downplaying at the media he had basically
Speaker 1: he didn't apologize for it. You kind of just said,
Speaker 1: I apologize for your ignorance of like, of my greatness
Speaker 1: and of what I was doing. If I didn't communicate
Speaker 1: as well they should, it's because I'm so busy being
Speaker 1: a great governor, so you know, cut me some slack,
Speaker 1: and and you know, it looked okay, and then you
Speaker 1: have these allegations. At allegations, he asked her a kiss
Speaker 1: at a wedding. You know, so you may or may
Speaker 1: not find that inappropriate, but that that is a headline
Speaker 1: at the New York Times. Governor Cuomo single man asked
Speaker 1: her a kiss at a wedding. And it was only
Speaker 1: around the time that these these women started coming forward
Speaker 1: and started Cuomo tried to kiss me or Quomo did
Speaker 1: this that then you started to have top Democrats withdrawing
Speaker 1: their support from him, saying we want you gone and
Speaker 1: oh and also the nursing home thing was not okay.
Speaker 1: But it was not until the me too stuff that
Speaker 1: Cuomo started to really look like he was in trouble.
Speaker 1: So I guess what I'm saying is that it shows
Speaker 1: that even the people who don't really believe the the
Speaker 1: you know, the kiss me allegations are that big of
Speaker 1: a deal they think, and they want him gone for
Speaker 1: other reasons either, you know, like Cuomo seems to have
Speaker 1: a lot of friction between him and the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: in general, but they still waited for those allegations, and
Speaker 1: that I think that shows how how deranged this world
Speaker 1: view is and how everyone is behold like they're all
Speaker 1: slaves to it. You're not allowed to criticize somebody like
Speaker 1: Cuomo until something like me too happens, and only then
Speaker 1: can you Oh, by the way, it wasn't okay that
Speaker 1: you killed or responsible for the deaths of fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: senior citizens. Now, what do you think ends up happening here? Pedro?
Speaker 1: I mean, where do you see this going? Because it
Speaker 1: feels like the Democrats have all of a sudden turned
Speaker 1: on him on the issue of the unwanted kiss or toucher,
Speaker 1: you know, and the media, but they're still sort of
Speaker 1: protecting him on the nursing home thing, even though Latsia James,
Speaker 1: the Attorney General for the State of New York, has
Speaker 1: has put out some information already suggesting that there was
Speaker 1: a cover up. Right, well, I think it's not beyond
Speaker 1: the pale to say that he's going to survive this,
Speaker 1: because people seem to survive almost anything these days, especially Democrats.
Speaker 1: If you're on the laft, your chances of survival in
Speaker 1: a in a situation like this are much higher than
Speaker 1: they would be for I think a Republican. But it
Speaker 1: does seem to be that the again, the sexual harassment
Speaker 1: allegations seem to have provided a pretense for not just
Speaker 1: for getting rid of them, to save things for the
Speaker 1: nursing home thing, which is really, like you said, like
Speaker 1: that is the true crime. But there's also a lot
Speaker 1: of other I guess there's a lot of other backstory.
Speaker 1: To this. It seems like a lot of people, a
Speaker 1: lot of Democrats, have a bone to pick with Cuomo,
Speaker 1: and this is they feel their chance to finally do
Speaker 1: something against him. And there's there's so many other reasons,
Speaker 1: uh to to, you know, to criticize him. Under Cuomo,
Speaker 1: you also saw violent crime go up, even though like
Speaker 1: Democrats were the ones pushing for eliminating cash bail, and
Speaker 1: like you had Democrats and left wing, left wing bureaucrats
Speaker 1: in New York releasing looters almost as soon as they
Speaker 1: were caught. And so there are all these really actual
Speaker 1: valid criminal reasons to get rid of Cuomo, but again
Speaker 1: everyone decided to wait until the inappropriate behavior allegations came forward. Pedro,
Speaker 1: you also speaking to Pedro Gonzalez, assistant editor at American Greatness,
Speaker 1: tell me about switching gears here for a second. The
Speaker 1: DOJ investigation about Facebook and discrimination against hiring Americans. I
Speaker 1: feel like this doesn't this is not getting nearly enough attention.
Speaker 1: I mean, we talk about Facebook and big Tech and
Speaker 1: these companies that are actively suppressing conservatives, and that's certainly happening,
Speaker 1: but what is this with discriminating against hiring Americans in
Speaker 1: favor of hiring foreign nationals, especially given the immigration situation
Speaker 1: that's playing out right now. I feel like people should,
Speaker 1: you know, in our southern border, people should know more
Speaker 1: about this, right. So the reason that this got buried,
Speaker 1: I think is because the investigation, the news of it
Speaker 1: broke in December. So you what you have last year,
Speaker 1: You have riots and rallies, a contested election, you have
Speaker 1: all these things that are distracting us from this I
Speaker 1: think huge story. And that story is that the Justice Department,
Speaker 1: at the end of the two year investigation, found that
Speaker 1: Facebook actively deliberately discriminates in hiring against Americans in favor
Speaker 1: of foreign nationals, and that in that two year span
Speaker 1: they found more than two thousand, six hundred positions for
Speaker 1: which qualified, available American applicants were deliberately rejected, which is
Speaker 1: against the law. And what the investigation found is is
Speaker 1: it all of this is technically legal, that basically Facebook
Speaker 1: had complied with the Immigration Act of nineteen ninety as
Speaker 1: it was written while actively discriminating against people. And obviously
Speaker 1: the DJ says, well, no, it's not illegal. This is
Speaker 1: a violation of American civil rights. But Facebook's response has
Speaker 1: been and their lawyers have been will we cheat at
Speaker 1: Farren Square, and you can't blame us because we found
Speaker 1: ways that like, you know, cheat within the rules without
Speaker 1: breaking any laws. And so there are so many different
Speaker 1: angles to this, and the big one I think is
Speaker 1: that you often hear Republicans and Democrats say, you know,
Speaker 1: legal immigration is good, you know whatever, We can quibble
Speaker 1: about illegal immigration, but legal immigration is just an unqualified
Speaker 1: good thing. And what I think that the big takeaway
Speaker 1: from this investigation is is that the legal immigration itself
Speaker 1: often acts as the legalized displacement of American workers. And
Speaker 1: in the case of the like Facebook, these uh so
Speaker 1: called high skilled visas, although that's really dubious, you're actively
Speaker 1: displacing like basically the American middle class, professionals, people that
Speaker 1: go to college and or vocational training for like computer science.
Speaker 1: You're discriminating against them. You're you're literally, quite literally killing
Speaker 1: the American middle and it's a it's all legal. I
Speaker 1: mean again, the DJ you know figured out that Facebook
Speaker 1: was was, you know, doing things that are just totally unethical,
Speaker 1: and that's why they're getting sued. But technically no laws
Speaker 1: were broken. Now Pedro, it feels like Republicans aren't even
Speaker 1: really sure, what the argument is that they're trying. Sure,
Speaker 1: there's an open border, this is what Biden wants. But
Speaker 1: Democrats are executing on their plan here, which is to
Speaker 1: bring more and more legal immigrants into the country in
Speaker 1: preparation for a massive amnesty. I don't I don't hear
Speaker 1: a unified voice from the Republican Party about what we
Speaker 1: want to have happen and what should happen here. Right, No, right,
Speaker 1: And that's I think that's that shows how far we
Speaker 1: are from even getting to the issue of legal immigration
Speaker 1: because we're so we're still behind on the issue of
Speaker 1: illegal immigration, which I think is even easier to handle.
Speaker 1: It's just a no brainer. But I think one thing
Speaker 1: that is causing the GOP to approach this with trepidation
Speaker 1: is there is this rising notion of the big Tent,
Speaker 1: which I mean, it's noting new, but every you know,
Speaker 1: every now and again, this this becomes the talking point,
Speaker 1: the big Tent. And basically, I think you have a
Speaker 1: growing number of Republicans who are open to amnesty, and
Speaker 1: not a few of these have I think unfortunately, like
Speaker 1: the nod from Trump. Like one of them is Maria
Speaker 1: Salzar in Florida. She received an endorsement from Trump. She's
Speaker 1: open to amnesty, she's for gun control, she's in favor
Speaker 1: of a carbon town. And she recently accosted Stephen Miller,
Speaker 1: former Trump advisor, and I guess gott into an argument
Speaker 1: with him and said, you know, like, I'm the new
Speaker 1: face of the GOP, and you need to be more
Speaker 1: accepting of basically of immigrants, because you know, we have
Speaker 1: just as much of a right to be in this
Speaker 1: party as anybody else, which I mean, that's true, but
Speaker 1: of course it's it's basically moral blackmail. You know, to
Speaker 1: be against illegal immigration is basically to hate Hispanics, which
Speaker 1: is just phenomenally stupid. But that's that's the kind of
Speaker 1: argument that Maria Salazar's deploying. And then I think what's
Speaker 1: really telling about how how messed up the GOP is
Speaker 1: right now is in Texas, what has Governor Greg Abbott
Speaker 1: been doing about illegal immigration. Well, it's not really clear,
Speaker 1: but yesterday he released his statement against gab a social
Speaker 1: media network that the Texas GOP has an official account
Speaker 1: on calling the platform and by extension, his own party
Speaker 1: and every single Republican voter in Texas on the platform
Speaker 1: anti Semitic and like the vice chair of Texas of
Speaker 1: the Texas Goop News cat parts, he's also been talking
Speaker 1: about the Big Tent and kind of like hinting it, well,
Speaker 1: we need to we need to soften up on immigration
Speaker 1: so that we don't alienate voters. And this is just
Speaker 1: like the absolute tragic comedy state of the GOP at
Speaker 1: the moment. Talking to our friend Pedro Gonzalez at American
Speaker 1: Greatness go to American Greatness dot com for his latest piece, Pedro,
Speaker 1: Always appreciate your appreciate your perspective. Man, Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining. Always a great time. Thank you. Well, I
Speaker 1: think there's been a lot of confusion about what's been
Speaker 1: happening at the border as it relates to people who
Speaker 1: are coming across and what happens when they come across.
Speaker 1: And I know Governor Abbott down in Texas has expressed
Speaker 1: some of his concerns and many of those have not
Speaker 1: been based in fact. So let me go through a
Speaker 1: few of those, because I know we're all interested in
Speaker 1: facts around here. One, Governor Abbott has referred to what's
Speaker 1: happening at the border as open borders, as thus having
Speaker 1: an open borders policy that is absolutely incorrect. The borders
Speaker 1: not open. The vast majority of individuals apprehended or encountered
Speaker 1: at the border continue to be denied entry and a
Speaker 1: return under Title forty two. As we've already mentioned. Also,
Speaker 1: he has suggested that we are not vaccinating CBP officers. Again,
Speaker 1: we like to deal with facts around here. There's no
Speaker 1: higher priority than the health and safety of our federal workforce,
Speaker 1: and the Department of Homeland Security and CBP has been
Speaker 1: clear that currently more than sixty four thousand frontline DHS employees,
Speaker 1: including members of US Border Patrol, have received a vaccination. Wait,
Speaker 1: so sixty four thousand people in DHS, what percentage? I just,
Speaker 1: since she's going to be miss numbers here, I want
Speaker 1: to ask zackybaumb Okay, well, how many Border Patrol agents
Speaker 1: have actually been vaccinated? Because that's what the that's what
Speaker 1: the issue was. It wasn't DHS, which is enormous, a
Speaker 1: giant loaded bureaucracy with hundreds of thousands of employees, which
Speaker 1: how many people, how many of them are in Border patrol.
Speaker 1: You you don't get to say, you know, if I
Speaker 1: told you, oh, you know, no one in the Marine
Speaker 1: Corps is getting vaccinated these days. That's a problem. You said, well,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people in the armed forces
Speaker 1: who have been vaccinated. I'd say, well, okay, but what
Speaker 1: about what I said the Marine corp. Are they getting
Speaker 1: vaccinated at what rate? Right? And by the way, that's
Speaker 1: a totally that's just an example situation. I'm obviously not
Speaker 1: saying that's what's going on, but that's that's one way
Speaker 1: that Saki can avoid looking at the actual numbers here.
Speaker 1: But this notion of the open border, we're seeing this happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gas lighting and we see what's going on.
Speaker 1: If everybody arriving at the border was being turned back,
Speaker 1: do you think that people would be arriving in the
Speaker 1: border the numbers are we making up? The videos that
Speaker 1: are circulating all over the internet now of hundreds of
Speaker 1: people streaming and walking right across the Rio grand They're
Speaker 1: coming right in, right the Rio Grande whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: They're coming right in And what is this? We know why?
Speaker 1: Because they claim asylum and then they get released the
Speaker 1: interior of the United States. A majority of the people
Speaker 1: are being turned away. I explained this to Babe. This
Speaker 1: is fascinating. This is the White House Press secretary. They
Speaker 1: always claimed they're about facts in truth. If a majority
Speaker 1: of the people are being turned away, okay, give us
Speaker 1: the numbers, give us the data. What are they won't though,
Speaker 1: they say, oh no, you gotta go somewhere else for that,
Speaker 1: and we don't have that number right now, you got
Speaker 1: to go to DHS for that number. Well, then how
Speaker 1: can they know if a majority of the people, a
Speaker 1: vast majority, i think is what she said, are being
Speaker 1: turned away, they're lying, do you, folks, They're lying to you?
Speaker 1: Because this is a this is a problem right now.
Speaker 1: It's so obvious what's going on and what is an
Speaker 1: open border. An open border is one in which people
Speaker 1: can just come with a belief that they'll be able
Speaker 1: to stay in a country. That's what's going on in
Speaker 1: our southern border right now. I mean, yeah, there's if
Speaker 1: you show up and they have you in the system
Speaker 1: as like a mass murder or something. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are some circumstances where they're not going to let you
Speaker 1: into the country at all, But overwhelmingly, it seems if
Speaker 1: you just show up and say you're fleeing a violence,
Speaker 1: you have a credible fear you're going to get to
Speaker 1: stay in. That's why they're all coming. If they were
Speaker 1: all being turned back, they would stop coming. We've already
Speaker 1: run this experiment, we've seen how this plays out. But
Speaker 1: also they won't they won't even admit that it's a
Speaker 1: real crisis. Play eighteen. Now today there are we're thirty
Speaker 1: seven hundred children, unaccompanied minor children in border for chronic custody.
Speaker 1: They're spending on average over one hundred hours four days
Speaker 1: in these facilities that are jail like facilities, not meant
Speaker 1: for children. So how can you say that's not a crisis. Well,
Speaker 1: I think what Ambassador Jacobson and Secretary Yorkists were conveying
Speaker 1: and what I've conveyed is it doesn't matter what you
Speaker 1: call it. It is an enormous challenge. Well then why
Speaker 1: not just admit that it's a crisis. Right, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what you call it, but we won't call it
Speaker 1: the thing that it obviously is this is a classic
Speaker 1: Democrat moment, and it's amazing. Bit Jensaki is the White
Speaker 1: House Press secretary, It honestly is really. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: there have been some Republican White House Press secretaries too
Speaker 1: that I thought, you know, we're not very we're not
Speaker 1: very competent of the job. But this goes to show you.
Speaker 1: But you know, you just got to be up there
Speaker 1: and keep on spinning, keep on spewing the nonsense. It
Speaker 1: does matter what you call it because the public's attention
Speaker 1: on this change is depending on what the description of
Speaker 1: the situation is. And she knows that, which is why
Speaker 1: she won't call it a crisis. We're not dumb. We
Speaker 1: understand what's going on here. We see what's actually happening here.
Speaker 1: So I just wish there would be a little bit
Speaker 1: more honesty from the Democrats. But we know that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen because there now is their window. They
Speaker 1: view it as this is when they can get away
Speaker 1: the American people. You know that the Democrats won this election.
Speaker 1: They did all these shenanigans. They convinced people that Trump
Speaker 1: basically created the virus himself and was they and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, all these lines, all these promises. Now is
Speaker 1: when they think they can get away with all the
Speaker 1: progressive insanity because within you know, six to nine months
Speaker 1: of now, we're going to see the results and say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, just like we saw into the Obama administration,
Speaker 1: and the Democrats are actually bad at governance. It is
Speaker 1: time for the voice of God. That's right, our friend
Speaker 1: God side is with us now. He is the author
Speaker 1: of the parasitic mind. How infectious ideas are killing common sense? God? Good,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you again. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for chatting with me. Yeah. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: time when it seems that ideas killing common sense. It's
Speaker 1: happening more now than ever before. We're getting rid of cartoons,
Speaker 1: we're pretending that there's no real biological difference between men
Speaker 1: and women, that this doesn't even matter in sports or
Speaker 1: in military combat roles, that it just there's all this
Speaker 1: out there that people that believe there is such a
Speaker 1: thing as common sense would have to say, this is
Speaker 1: contrary to that. What is going on? Right, So, the
Speaker 1: general idea is that there's a bunch of idea pathogens
Speaker 1: that were spawned on university campuses maybe forty fifty years ago,
Speaker 1: each of which eradicates part of our edifices of reason.
Speaker 1: And so that's exactly what I explained in the Parasitic Mine.
Speaker 1: I basically argue that very much the way we today
Speaker 1: have the COVID pandemic, we've had a raging pandemic of
Speaker 1: the human mind, whereby these parasitic ideas have completely removed
Speaker 1: our capacity to recognize that there is such a thing
Speaker 1: as the sun above us, that there is left right down,
Speaker 1: up down, that there is such a thing as women menstruating.
Speaker 1: And so each of these dreadful departures from common sense
Speaker 1: comes from a different idea pathogen. So maybe I can
Speaker 1: discuss a few if you'd like. So. Postmodernism, for example,
Speaker 1: is arguably the granddaddy of all idea pathogens, because it
Speaker 1: purports that there are no universe, so truth, there's no objectivity.
Speaker 1: We are completely shackled by our personal body. Where does
Speaker 1: this come from? I mean, give us a little For
Speaker 1: a lot of folks, well, we'll hear the term postmodernism,
Speaker 1: which even as a term it sounds kind of bizarre.
Speaker 1: What what is modern and what is post I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, where do we put this in the in
Speaker 1: the timeline of the history of ideas? So just to
Speaker 1: give us a little sense of where does this come from? Yeah? So,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of the original famous postmodernists were
Speaker 1: French intellectuals, or Jacques Derrida, Jacques la and in there
Speaker 1: in each in their own way, they wanted to contextualize
Speaker 1: truth within some relativistic framework. Right. So Jacques Derrida argued that,
Speaker 1: you know, language creates reality, and therefore this is what
Speaker 1: he called deconstructionism. You deconstruct labels and language because that's
Speaker 1: what creates reality. There's you know, there's no reality outside
Speaker 1: of the language that is used to describe reality. And
Speaker 1: so this kind of framework might be appropriate when you
Speaker 1: or you know, studying some literary narrative or some art movement,
Speaker 1: but it becomes problematic when it becomes an epistemology. Right.
Speaker 1: The scientific method is liberating and is the grand epistemological
Speaker 1: tool that we use precisely because it offers us a
Speaker 1: very unbiased way by which we adjudicate hypotheses. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: postmodernism comes along and serves as a form of intellectual terrorism. Right.
Speaker 1: I always analogize the nine to eleven hijackers who flew
Speaker 1: planes onto our buildings are akin to the postmodernist, except
Speaker 1: that the post postmodernists are flying planes of bs into
Speaker 1: our edifices of reasons. So it's complete nihilism, it's complete lunacy.
Speaker 1: So that would be one example of how you can
Speaker 1: get an idea pathogen. Do you want me to discuss
Speaker 1: other ones. Yes, of course, take us through the idea pathogens, right, So,
Speaker 1: for example, take now militant feminism. Well, it starts off
Speaker 1: as a laudable idea. Equity feminism is something that you
Speaker 1: and I would certainly agree with women should not be
Speaker 1: somehow different under the law, and of course we would
Speaker 1: agree with that. The problem is that in the service
Speaker 1: of that laudable objective, militant feminism comes along and it
Speaker 1: metamorphosizes the original good idea into the following. There are
Speaker 1: no innate sex differences between men and women. All sex
Speaker 1: differences must be due to the patriarchy, must be due
Speaker 1: to toxic mosculinity, must be due to social constructivism, which
Speaker 1: itself is another idea pathogen. So we engaite truth in
Speaker 1: the service of a laudable goal, and I argue that
Speaker 1: I could chew gum and walk at the same time,
Speaker 1: I could completely get behind the pursuit of laudable social
Speaker 1: justice goals without ever seeting a millimeter of truth in
Speaker 1: that service. So what now are the other idea pathogens
Speaker 1: that are driving us to this cancelation frenzy. Well, so
Speaker 1: the cancelation frenzy comes from several mechanisms, one of which,
Speaker 1: so here I analogize. If you look at Isis, for example,
Speaker 1: most of the people that Isis killed were not non
Speaker 1: Muslims or as they say, the Kuffar, the infidels. Most
Speaker 1: of the people that they killed were fellow Muslims who
Speaker 1: weren't muslim enough, or at least, according to them, weren't
Speaker 1: puritanical enough in the pursuit of their faith. Well, that's
Speaker 1: what happens with progressivism. It I don't need to go
Speaker 1: after those being Trump supporters. I could turn inward at
Speaker 1: my progressive club and start canceling those who are not
Speaker 1: woke enough. So it's it's a reflex that you see
Speaker 1: in all sorts of fatalitarian ideologies, where it's I call
Speaker 1: it a form of orgiastic self cannibalism, the proverbial, you know,
Speaker 1: snake eating its own tail. So I think this is
Speaker 1: what ends up happening with the cancel culture. Right JK.
Speaker 1: Rolling the Harry Potter author. You would have thought she
Speaker 1: had the full bonifiti credentials as a progressive. Well guess
Speaker 1: what once she said the horrifying statement that only you
Speaker 1: know what do you mean? Women menstruate? Isn't that what
Speaker 1: we call them women. People went completely after her. So
Speaker 1: the fact that you think that you are progressive, or
Speaker 1: the fact that you think you're a Muslim won't protect
Speaker 1: you from the Isis brigade or the walk brigade. Now
Speaker 1: we're speaking to God side. He's the author of the
Speaker 1: parasitic mind. How infectious ideas are killing common sense? You know, God,
Speaker 1: There's there's another another thing that I always wonder about,
Speaker 1: you know, virtue signaling and and a kind of intellectual
Speaker 1: vanity seems to me to be the most the most
Speaker 1: apparent reason for a lot of why people push this stuff.
Speaker 1: Because it seems to me that you can have a
Speaker 1: very cheap source of patting oneself on the back or
Speaker 1: this is a examples of this would be doing things
Speaker 1: like putting the black square on your Instagram right like
Speaker 1: everyone says, Oh, you're a good person because you did this.
Speaker 1: It costs you nothing, You take no actual risk because
Speaker 1: of what the trends are at the time. Is that
Speaker 1: what's pushing this? Why do people want to do this?
Speaker 1: What is the appeal? You know, parasites sneak into your system,
Speaker 1: often say through your food, and so that's how they
Speaker 1: get there. But this is like people. It's almost like
Speaker 1: people are saying, no, give me the parasite. Why So
Speaker 1: let me answer the first part about the virtue signaling.
Speaker 1: So in my book, I have a whole section where
Speaker 1: I contrast virtue signaling versus costly signaling, and the distinction
Speaker 1: is actually rooted in a very profound evolutionary biological framework.
Speaker 1: So maybe I could take him an order to explain it. So,
Speaker 1: if you look at the peacock's tail, his tale couldn't
Speaker 1: have evolved through natural selection because having a big tail
Speaker 1: makes it actually less likely that you will survive. So
Speaker 1: how could evolution have led to such a big tail
Speaker 1: when it reduces the animals survivability? While the answer to
Speaker 1: that is through a process of sexual selection. The PN
Speaker 1: the female is choosing this smile with the big tail
Speaker 1: because the tail serves as an honest signal and saying, look,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that I've got this burdensome tail that
Speaker 1: reduces my survivability, I'm still here, So you should be
Speaker 1: picking me as your optimal mate. So for a signal
Speaker 1: to be for a signal to be valuable, it must
Speaker 1: be handicapping. Therein lies the problem between virtue signaling and
Speaker 1: costly signaling. Most people put hashtag in justrihar Charlie, which
Speaker 1: carries a zero risk. Try to speak out against the
Speaker 1: Saudi government while you are a blogger in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: That's a costly signal. That's exactly what rife Beta we did.
Speaker 1: He's been in prison now for six seven years in
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia because he dared criticize the Saudi government. So
Speaker 1: for most people, they think that simply by engaging in
Speaker 1: that fatuous virtue signaling, it will get them the brownie points.
Speaker 1: But someone who understands evolutionary biology knows that they are
Speaker 1: utter frauds, so it doesn't even provide them the same benefit.
Speaker 1: The level of benefit that they assume is that is
Speaker 1: that basically what you're telling It's like if everybody in
Speaker 1: New York City puts up, you know, hashtag double mask,
Speaker 1: which is something for example, that drives me completely insane.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you and I could talk, we
Speaker 1: should actually talk a little bit about the science and
Speaker 1: the notion of the science as a thing that is
Speaker 1: that is true and factual and objectively measured, when they
Speaker 1: actually mean policy judgment and an often arbitrary decision making
Speaker 1: But so if everyone writes double mask in New York City,
Speaker 1: I mean, aren't they showing each other that they're good
Speaker 1: people even if it's not particularly valuable since it costs
Speaker 1: them nothing. Why not, right? I mean, even if it's
Speaker 1: if it's just a quick dopamine hit of I'm part
Speaker 1: of the mob. Sure, you're not going to elevate yourself.
Speaker 1: But isn't being part of the crowd the whole point?
Speaker 1: But as long as so what you're saying is true,
Speaker 1: as long as I can create the sterile echo chamber
Speaker 1: where every member of that echo chamber is equally duplicitous
Speaker 1: and fraudulent as I am, right, But once we bring
Speaker 1: in doctor Good Looks also known as God Sad to
Speaker 1: the mix, then I'm going to smash you into oblivion
Speaker 1: because I realize that you're a fraud. So this is
Speaker 1: why you need to regulate people's speech. This is why
Speaker 1: God Sad becomes a pariah in academia because I am
Speaker 1: disrupting their sterile echo chambers. Why is this guy calling
Speaker 1: us out on our fraudulent behavior. Can't he just fall
Speaker 1: into line and also come up with a hashtag Charlie
Speaker 1: By the way, that's one of the reasons why my mockery.
Speaker 1: Not only is it very effective, but it causes great
Speaker 1: concern to many of my colleagues. Some of them end
Speaker 1: up on following me because there is no greater, more
Speaker 1: powerful persuasive strategy than to use satire to demonstrate that
Speaker 1: you're a complete charlatan. We're speaking to God Sad, author
Speaker 1: of the Parasitic Mind, how infectious ideas are killing common sense? God,
Speaker 1: I want to take a quick moment here, a quick
Speaker 1: beat where to come back and ask you about the
Speaker 1: actious idea around the infection of COVID that people should
Speaker 1: just listen to doctor Faucier. You're up for that. I
Speaker 1: am up. Let's try it all right. We're back with
Speaker 1: author Godside, author of the Parasitic Mind, How infectious ideas
Speaker 1: are killing common sense. You can get it right now
Speaker 1: on Amazon or wherever you get your books. God, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about this because you know, a
Speaker 1: year ago you're talking about about infectious ideas, and obviously
Speaker 1: we're going through a great actual viral infection right now
Speaker 1: with this pandemic a year ago, Doctor Fauci and I
Speaker 1: keep using this as the basis for my argument that
Speaker 1: we've been listening to this notion of the science or
Speaker 1: faucism as I call it uncritically, and that people have
Speaker 1: become largely brainwashed and they act like sheep and they
Speaker 1: just do whatever they're told. And this is why I've
Speaker 1: been able to predict things months and months in advance.
Speaker 1: Like I guarantee you folks, he will start to say, oh,
Speaker 1: we need double masking or oh we need an ninety
Speaker 1: five masks. I've been saying that since the summer of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and sure enough, here we are the I
Speaker 1: am the Faucci made that the science did not support masking,
Speaker 1: and then to switch over to actually, we all need
Speaker 1: to be masking because the science says So this caught
Speaker 1: on like wildfire, and this caught on like the virus
Speaker 1: itself in a sense, you know, mentally with people. Why
Speaker 1: why do you think that? Because to me, it seems
Speaker 1: like that's just there's a bunch of different factors you
Speaker 1: can point to. But this is a perfect idea of
Speaker 1: a rather a perfect example of a parasitic idea, which
Speaker 1: is just listen to Fauci and the state and you'll
Speaker 1: be safe. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean there's a lot to
Speaker 1: the couple there so one thing I would say, and
Speaker 1: this is something that I discuss in the context of
Speaker 1: the parasitic mind, but more generally in terms of how
Speaker 1: do you seek truth? And so in chapter seven of
Speaker 1: my book, I talk about something that I referred to
Speaker 1: as nomological networks of cumulative evidence. If I want to
Speaker 1: prove to you scientifically that the position that I'm taking
Speaker 1: is correct, it's actually a very very hard process. I
Speaker 1: will get data from you from across cultures, from a
Speaker 1: cross time period, from a cross methodologies, from a cross frameworks,
Speaker 1: across dependent measures, all of which, if they point in
Speaker 1: the same direction, then results in a tsunami of evidence
Speaker 1: in support of my position. So when you're doing that,
Speaker 1: you also recognize the flip side, which is epistemic humility.
Speaker 1: Epistemic humility is when a scientist knows what he or
Speaker 1: she knows and knows what he or she doesn't know.
Speaker 1: The problem with Fauci is he's got zero epistemic humility, right,
Speaker 1: So in other words, he always pronounces positions that are
Speaker 1: going to have gigantic downstream effects on hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of people, even though on Monday he said a and
Speaker 1: then Tuesday he says not a Now most people follow
Speaker 1: because you know, he's wearing the proverbial white robe. And
Speaker 1: so if Lord his Eminence Fauci says skip, then we
Speaker 1: all skip along. It becomes a fast and frugal heuristic
Speaker 1: for us to organize our lives. Not unlike, by the way,
Speaker 1: how religion achieves the same thing. If my mom or
Speaker 1: my rabbi or my priest says you have to do this,
Speaker 1: I don't question it. I do it. Well, Now we
Speaker 1: do have a grand priest of quote science. His name
Speaker 1: is Fauci, So shut up and obey rupe. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's what we see happening. And it's been happening now
Speaker 1: for many, many months. And I also think that that
Speaker 1: one problem I wanted to broaden this out a little bit,
Speaker 1: but but the Fauci point, I think is an example
Speaker 1: of it, and that is that people when you tell
Speaker 1: them they have what you what you describe as a
Speaker 1: parasitic idea, I think there's a sense of of I
Speaker 1: don't know vanity is the right word, but perhaps an
Speaker 1: arrogance that turns into a delusion. Oh, I'm not caught
Speaker 1: up in an idea that doesn't make any sense, that
Speaker 1: isn't supported I'm too smart to be fooled in that way, exactly. Look,
Speaker 1: the capacity for human beings to engage in self deception
Speaker 1: is infinite. I'll tell you a very quick story. I
Speaker 1: walk into class. I haven't done in a few years,
Speaker 1: but I used to come to class and I would
Speaker 1: ask students to pull out a paper and then write
Speaker 1: down whether they think of themselves as below below average
Speaker 1: and intelligence, average and intelligence or above average intelligence. And
Speaker 1: I would ask them to do the same thing regarding
Speaker 1: their looks. Well, it turns out, Buck that my students
Speaker 1: are always supermodel Einstein's meaning what they all We tend
Speaker 1: to have an erroneous sense of ourselves right now, and
Speaker 1: to some extent, that's a good thing. You want to
Speaker 1: kind of walk around life with a chip on your
Speaker 1: shoulder so that you could tackle life's challenges. But as
Speaker 1: you pointed to your original question, people have this uncanny
Speaker 1: ability to self deceive. Oh no, no, I couldn't be
Speaker 1: engaging in faulties thinking I'm too smart for that. Therein
Speaker 1: lies the problem, and that's why you need to be
Speaker 1: reading the parasitic mind. Give us just what the case.
Speaker 1: You've got a couple of minutes here, God, the case
Speaker 1: for optimism about how our society can get through this.
Speaker 1: I won't even say will, but can get through this
Speaker 1: because right now it feels like the bad guys are winning.
Speaker 1: It feels like the parasitic ideas have taken. Parasites like
Speaker 1: to stay on a host. They don't like to kill
Speaker 1: the host, usually because they want to continue to feed
Speaker 1: off of it. It starts to feel like the parasitic
Speaker 1: ideas in our society could actually kill off a free
Speaker 1: society like America. Look, there are a couple of things
Speaker 1: that might sound cliche ish, but they're actually quite profound
Speaker 1: because most people are unable to meet the challenge. So
Speaker 1: let me give you a couple. Number one, don't contract
Speaker 1: your voice to others. In other words, a lot of
Speaker 1: people will say, well, I don't have your fancy professorship,
Speaker 1: I don't have your big platform to affect change. Well
Speaker 1: I understand that, but you don't have to have a
Speaker 1: large platform. You could still affect change within your unique
Speaker 1: sphere of influence. If your principle starts imposing in saying,
Speaker 1: teaching lessons at your it's elementary school, intervene, write an
Speaker 1: email request to see them. If your friend says something
Speaker 1: on Facebook on Facebook that is completely insane. Challenge them politely.
Speaker 1: If your professor says something that you think is wrong,
Speaker 1: challenge him or her politely. In other words, we all
Speaker 1: have a voice to affect, however big or small, a
Speaker 1: change that we can A second thing that you can
Speaker 1: certainly do is what I call activate your inner honey badger.
Speaker 1: The honey badger is an extraordinarily fierce animal. It's the
Speaker 1: size of a small dog, and yet it could withstand
Speaker 1: an attack of six adult lines. How does it do that?
Speaker 1: Because it's insane. It is so fierce that nobody will
Speaker 1: approach it. Well, you need to have that same sense
Speaker 1: of ferocity when it comes to defending your principles, if
Speaker 1: they are well articulated and well reasoned. This is why
Speaker 1: you know some people ask, well, how come you're not
Speaker 1: cancelable professors at Well, because I'm a honey badger. If
Speaker 1: you come after me, you better not miss, because I'm
Speaker 1: coming back after you ten times harder. And so there
Speaker 1: are reflexes that we can foster in us, so that
Speaker 1: if in unison we all stand up together by next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: we'll destroy all the parasitic ideas. If not, it'll be
Speaker 1: a long long train ride to help the parasitic mind.
Speaker 1: How infectious ideas are killing common sense? Our friend, God sad.
Speaker 1: God appreciate it. Man, thanks so much for joining us,
Speaker 1: and everyone should check out the book. Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Great talking to your cheers. The show ain't over yet, folks.
Speaker 1: It's time for roll call producer Mark, you ready for
Speaker 1: the weekend? My friend? What did it tell? Tell everybody?
Speaker 1: What's on the producer? Mark? Uh? You know, list of
Speaker 1: awesome things that he wants to do. I'm gonna celebrate
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. I'm not Irish at all, but it's
Speaker 1: an excuse to be with my friends and drink. Isn't that?
Speaker 1: Is it this weekend? I think it's like Wednesday? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the seventeenth I think, isn't it? Yeah? It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter when you sell them, right, It's just an
Speaker 1: excuse to celebrate. But what is this now? So you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna stand, you know, twenty feet apart outside
Speaker 1: drinking green beer. How are you gonna? How are you
Speaker 1: gonna celebrate? But that it depends on who's asking. Well,
Speaker 1: I got you okay enough? I like I like where
Speaker 1: your heads out on that one? So that's nice. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be outdoors, you're gonna be indoors. What's the plan?
Speaker 1: I guess it depends on the weather. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what the weather is like in uh, in
Speaker 1: this neck of the woods this weekend. But it's been
Speaker 1: nice out, so maybe we will go outside. Fair enough?
Speaker 1: Fair enough? All right, missus Mark, have any fun plans? Well,
Speaker 1: usually she's with me. I'm just making I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe she let's see, it's like the guys do the
Speaker 1: same Patrick's Day thing. I don't know, just it was
Speaker 1: just an idea. One of my friends had an excuse
Speaker 1: to hang out. Yeah are you a beer drinker? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's my number one, but yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely do you have like what is what is the
Speaker 1: beer when you walk into a bar that you order? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: usually bars will have fairly common beers. So like maybe
Speaker 1: a blue moon? Like, well that's what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh you're a blue Are you a blue moon with
Speaker 1: an orange slice? Guy? Look at you? Look at bougie Mark. Everybody.
Speaker 1: I had a feeling. We know there's we know there's
Speaker 1: lots of it's very blue moon with an orange slice?
Speaker 1: Producer Mark You're talking to a lot of people across
Speaker 1: the country who drink bud Light, damn it, and there
Speaker 1: they love it. I have no problem. I like bud Light,
Speaker 1: but you know, if I'm drinking a beer to enjoy myself,
Speaker 1: I prefer not even just blue Moon, like that type
Speaker 1: of beer. I don't even know what it's called. I
Speaker 1: see you drink it, some delirium tremens, you know that,
Speaker 1: like fancy Belgian beer that people have. I do like
Speaker 1: the Belgian German style beer. Oh yeah, that stuff is delicious.
Speaker 1: I used to drink beer, so I know about these things.
Speaker 1: Now I can't drink it. Don't they have good gluten
Speaker 1: free beers now? Nah? Not really. They've got good cider
Speaker 1: because it's made from fruit and not from grain. But
Speaker 1: the problem with like, you'll drink a big thing aside,
Speaker 1: it's like double the sugar that you'll even get in
Speaker 1: a Coca Cola. It's terrible for you. Ciders delicious, but
Speaker 1: the seltzers are all very good. Wow, it's producer Mark.
Speaker 1: I appreciate this. Producer Mark is so confident in his
Speaker 1: producer markness that he is letting all of America know
Speaker 1: right now that he drinks white Claw, and he's not
Speaker 1: ashamed of it. It is there's no better summer drink
Speaker 1: than a white claw or a bud Light Seltzer. Even
Speaker 1: they've come out with bud Light lemonades, which I'm very
Speaker 1: interested in. John. I'm just telling you, I there's like
Speaker 1: ten percent right now of our listeners across the country
Speaker 1: are not in their heads up and down. Producer Mark
Speaker 1: knows it's delicious, and I'd say, you know, it is
Speaker 1: somewhere in the eighty to nine percent range. I're gonna
Speaker 1: produce their their side to side. Very upset that producer
Speaker 1: marts you think, Yeah, you know, you might be a
Speaker 1: little cobkey, a little bit worried. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of people who love the white Claws and the Seltzers
Speaker 1: that won't admit it. So here's my here's my theory.
Speaker 1: White claw is to drinks what creed is to music taste.
Speaker 1: Everybody says they hate it, but when no one's looking
Speaker 1: behind closed doors, people are popping their white claws and
Speaker 1: listening to their creed. You know that's what's happened. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you've said on this show before that you
Speaker 1: have tried it and enjoyed it. I mean, I can
Speaker 1: neither confirm nor to note this is your Creed neither
Speaker 1: oh Man, and I always tell I'm like, I like Creed.
Speaker 1: I actually I do think Nickelback is just not that great.
Speaker 1: It's not because everyone trash is Nickelback, but like Creed
Speaker 1: is the original Nickelback, and Creed is way better than Nickelback,
Speaker 1: which everybody should know. So I know, like three songs
Speaker 1: from both bands. That's about. Yeah, I've been I've been
Speaker 1: on a on a nineties rock kick recently. When I'm
Speaker 1: trying to go to the gym, which the gym is
Speaker 1: working out fine, it's the stop eating so damn much
Speaker 1: part of it. That is, that is the challenge that
Speaker 1: I find. Like I'm getting stronger, like I'm lifting more
Speaker 1: weight and stuff like that, which is nice, that's encouraging,
Speaker 1: but to really get the uh the more esthetic effect,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to stop eating cookie dough in
Speaker 1: between meals and put down chocolate bars and you know
Speaker 1: what it's like, what's the fun in that, though, Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: what's the funny? It's all one step at a time.
Speaker 1: First you get in the exercise routine and then you
Speaker 1: work work on eating better. Yeah, that's one step at
Speaker 1: a time. True, very true. All right, let's get to um.
Speaker 1: Let's get to a JR. Who's kicking us off here
Speaker 1: with roll call bucking Mark King Edward and Brave Heart lamented.
Speaker 1: The problem of Scotland is there are too many Scots.
Speaker 1: Will breathe them out, the Democrats lament. The problem with
Speaker 1: the republic is there are too many Republicans. Let's cancel
Speaker 1: them out. Yeah, I think that j Your point here
Speaker 1: is that Democrats don't want Republicans to actually be around.
Speaker 1: I think, unfortunately that's kind of true. It's pretty sad. Really,
Speaker 1: Oh wait, you got more. The deeper insidious goal of
Speaker 1: the left is globalism. Hence climate change must be a
Speaker 1: global effort. A global effort demands that there are no borders,
Speaker 1: a centralized world government must rule. Exceptionalism is to be
Speaker 1: utterly obliterated. The Mighty must be brought down, and we
Speaker 1: will all live as one. From my own personal experiences,
Speaker 1: how has been percolating since the sixties and in other
Speaker 1: parts of the world prior to that, either intentionally or
Speaker 1: by happenstance. The Democrats are setting a course that was
Speaker 1: supposed to continue after Obama. Through Hillary and to whoever
Speaker 1: was next, it would have been irreversible but for the
Speaker 1: damage by Trump. It's easy to understand their contempt if
Speaker 1: you see it from this viewpoint, Shield's high didn't save Rome,
Speaker 1: or even Shield's hide didn't save Rome Jr. That was
Speaker 1: kind of a bummer. Jared's kind of bumming me out. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess technically Rome did fall. You know, I think
Speaker 1: America's got a little more time in it before we
Speaker 1: dissolve into something else. But no nation state lasts forever.
Speaker 1: Friends and Democrats are trying really hard. They're kicking at
Speaker 1: the load bearing walls of our republic and they think
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. Think I think it's great. They're they're drunk
Speaker 1: with power these days. But at least we got each other. Team,
Speaker 1: we got each other. Oh you know, producer Mark, a
Speaker 1: family member brought up last night that she has as
Speaker 1: my mom that she's like, where are your team buck
Speaker 1: T shirts? And I agree, shouldn't we do this? Wouldn't
Speaker 1: we get T shirts? We have a great website bucksexen
Speaker 1: dot com, so shouldn't we get to T shirt set up?
Speaker 1: What do you think we should get a whole merch
Speaker 1: store set up? Yeah, I gotta I gotta get that guy.
Speaker 1: I know we brought it up before, but now we
Speaker 1: at least bucksex and dot com. You can listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast there. We do post stories, I post editorials there.
Speaker 1: So that's all going well. But I would love to
Speaker 1: get some merch we could create. Do we want to
Speaker 1: create a producer Mark penalty box T shirt? You know
Speaker 1: where you're just like we we get you in like
Speaker 1: one of those REFS shirts and you're like waving your
Speaker 1: finger back and forth or something, and you know we'll
Speaker 1: come up with some we have. There's smarter graphic designers
Speaker 1: out there than us. We should do it though, or
Speaker 1: rather we should have it done, you know. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm at the rate we usually do stuff coming soon
Speaker 1: by twenty twenty three. Yeah, it's happened, But I like
Speaker 1: to put I'm an ideas guy. You know, we're ideas
Speaker 1: guys here on the Freedom Hunt. We have plenty of ideas.
Speaker 1: It's just the execution part, that's true. Matthew Buck. I
Speaker 1: want you to make I want to make sure you
Speaker 1: know I sit on the other side of the aisle
Speaker 1: from you politically. I don't always like what you say
Speaker 1: or how you say it. Okay, However, I believe an
Speaker 1: open dialogue and for you to have the right to
Speaker 1: your platform. Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be able to speak your views. With that,
Speaker 1: I went on and gave your review on Apple Podcasts.
Speaker 1: You work very hard at what do you do and
Speaker 1: deserve the right to say when you need to keep
Speaker 1: it up. Hey, Matthew Man, I'll take it. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. I appreciate that. Hopefully you didn't give me
Speaker 1: one star on Apple Podcasts, but I appreciate nonetheless that
Speaker 1: you gave a review and it sounds like you respect.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, we haven't gotten any of those recently. Okay,
Speaker 1: good you respect the Are we still a producer, Mark,
Speaker 1: We're still seeing some folks pitching in. Yeah, a couple
Speaker 1: more trickle in every day. Alrighty guys, keep it going.
Speaker 1: Please keep those reviews. Remember you go on Apple Podcasts.
Speaker 1: Five stars. You can, you know, just write Buck is awesome.
Speaker 1: He keeps me safe and warm at night with his podcast,
Speaker 1: and producer Mark keeps him in line. So it's a
Speaker 1: great show. You should check it out there. You can
Speaker 1: just you just say that, just write that you know
Speaker 1: that's all you need to do. Really helps us out,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate it. Dave writes, Hey, Buck, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: on Facebook my friends posts going to good county schools.
Speaker 1: It looks like the rules are so unreasonable that they
Speaker 1: want their kids to stay virtual. I'm surprised they're not surprised.
Speaker 1: The administrators are making them possible for these kids to
Speaker 1: go back to what they expect to be normal. The
Speaker 1: progressive mentality is spread from the city to the counties.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, Bucking producer Mark. Yeah, Dave,
Speaker 1: you know there are a lot of counties where there's
Speaker 1: a lot of blue going on, even if you're not
Speaker 1: in a city. And that means that there is this
Speaker 1: mentality that we got to do the faucism. And I'll
Speaker 1: just say this that, look, we got to remember that
Speaker 1: these schools being open, that's a very broad term, right
Speaker 1: when they say open, I mean Biden gives this whole
Speaker 1: thing about we're it over one hundred Robert Blood schools,
Speaker 1: one hundred days. That does it mean one day a week?
Speaker 1: Does it mean four hours a day? Does it mean
Speaker 1: shifts rotations of students in the classroom? Uh? You know
Speaker 1: that that they some days, some kids come in, other
Speaker 1: days other kids come in. I mean, the reality is
Speaker 1: that schools should just be open, Okay. The reality is
Speaker 1: that schools should be open across the country everywhere fully.
Speaker 1: And it was fascinating that at the Dalton School here
Speaker 1: in New York City, which is one of the most
Speaker 1: elite and expensive schools in New York City and in
Speaker 1: the country, there was there was an article written in
Speaker 1: The Atlantic about how the parents there was a kind
Speaker 1: of revolt among the parents at Dalton because a lot
Speaker 1: of other fancy private schools in New York and for
Speaker 1: those you're wondering how fancy or how expensive these schools
Speaker 1: are if you had a fifth grader, Let's say, if
Speaker 1: you had a fifth grader who was going to Dalton,
Speaker 1: you'd be paying about intuition sixty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: That's right for the fifth grade, for the first college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fifty sixty fifty to sixty thousand dollars a year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of schools like that in New
Speaker 1: York City. I went to a private school called Regis,
Speaker 1: which is a Jesuit school, where the tuition was twenty
Speaker 1: dollars a year. I'm not kidding. That was for the
Speaker 1: laboratory fees and admin fees. Twenty dollars a year was
Speaker 1: what my school costs producer Mark, I think I think
Speaker 1: mine was a better a better deal, better bargain slightly. Wow. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So this the sixty thousand dollars a year schools though,
Speaker 1: which were not as the kids were not as smart
Speaker 1: as my school. I'm just saying. But anyway, because I
Speaker 1: got I got into all those sixty thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: year schools, I didn't go to them. And I know,
Speaker 1: I know that's not even a humble brag. I'm just
Speaker 1: being I'm just being that guy right now. But the
Speaker 1: point is that one of the schools wasn't open, and
Speaker 1: that school then had parents, particularly had parents who were doctors.
Speaker 1: You know, parents have children there who are doctors. They're
Speaker 1: like twenty of them, and they they wrote in they're saying,
Speaker 1: where is why aren't schools open? So when it affected them,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you these parents are almost all liberals and
Speaker 1: Biden voters because Dalphin's are very liberal school But when
Speaker 1: their kids aren't able to go to school and they're
Speaker 1: paying for it, their attitude is we're scientists. We're doctors too.
Speaker 1: Why can't our kids other schools are open? Why can't
Speaker 1: our schools be open? This is the classic democrat mentality.
Speaker 1: They know what the herd is supposed to do with
Speaker 1: the democrat herd supposed to do. They know what they're
Speaker 1: supposed to believe, and they don't want to challenge it.
Speaker 1: So what they do instead is they just go along
Speaker 1: as long as their kids are fine. They go along
Speaker 1: with what's the consensus because they don't want to be,
Speaker 1: you know, pushed out of the circle of the elites.
Speaker 1: So that that just but it was it was amazing
Speaker 1: to see how you had doctor. I haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: you know, any other in any other setting where you
Speaker 1: had a couple of dozen doctors who are parents all
Speaker 1: come together and say what the heck is going on
Speaker 1: in general with schools, but no their children. They're paying
Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars a year and their kids were doing
Speaker 1: virtual learning, and they're saying the science doesn't actually support this. Well,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't support it for kids whose parents are rich,
Speaker 1: I don't think it supports it for anyone's kids. Does it? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Check me? All our more role call to kick us
Speaker 1: off for the weekend, Nick Buck, what would the money
Speaker 1: compared to population be? I'm here in Denver, where over
Speaker 1: the last ten years the progressives have come in and
Speaker 1: ruined the state. But if you were to compare populations
Speaker 1: the amount given in this ridiculous package, would things look
Speaker 1: would things look correct? Let me see, I don't really
Speaker 1: understand if you were to compare population the amount giving
Speaker 1: this ridiculous package. Nick, I'm sorry, man, I don't really understand.
Speaker 1: Please write back in with what you mean comparing money
Speaker 1: to population. I don't really get it. I don't really
Speaker 1: I'm a producer, Mark, do you see what the question is?
Speaker 1: I'm confused. I kind of understand, but I'm not really
Speaker 1: clear what he's asking me. The last ten years progressive
Speaker 1: has come and ruined the state. But if you were
Speaker 1: to compare population to the amount given in this ridiculous package. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think he must be talking about like how much
Speaker 1: New York got versus how much Oklahoma got? Oh? Yeah, no, okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough? Yeah, Nick, I don't I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't looked at that at that breakdown, and and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that that's you know, if it looks bad for Democrats,
Speaker 1: you'll have to look very hard to find it, but
Speaker 1: I will see if I can find it. All right,
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Speaker 1: being outright lied to, I'm being agitated and depressed intentionally
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Speaker 1: be happening going forward. Addie. Right's good morning, Buck. I've
Speaker 1: been listening for a while now. I enjoy you and
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Speaker 1: an Israeli married you're an American. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you want to hear a horror story about immigration, I
Speaker 1: can give you one and maybe people will understand the
Speaker 1: injustice of illegal immigration. I wish there was a little
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Speaker 1: to prove and versus and reality versus the government just
Speaker 1: handing illegal immigrants. I'm crossing my fingers for our great country.
Speaker 1: We're all going to survive this administration. I hope you
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Speaker 1: to have Team Buck Israel in the house. Alex, Hey,
Speaker 1: Buck and Mark, I know you often say Trump didn't
Speaker 1: get many sustainable things Dunder's first four years. He did
Speaker 1: sign a bunch of eos. That's not the same as legislation.
Speaker 1: I agree any EO that he did sign has now
Speaker 1: been undone by the druler in chief. The issue is
Speaker 1: with the way you frame it. I believe that during
Speaker 1: Trump's first two years, when Republicans had both the Health
Speaker 1: and the Senate, half of the idiots actually believed the GOP,
Speaker 1: actually believed Trump colluded with Russia and didn't support his agenda.
Speaker 1: I just think he was hamstrung from the get go.
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