Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Cuomo advisors altered report on COVID nineteen nursing
Speaker 1: home debts. That was the story in the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal just yesterday. I want to make sure that we
Speaker 1: all focus in on this because I know the media
Speaker 1: is spending a lot of time on the sexual harassment
Speaker 1: allegations about Cuomo. And that's fine, he's a creepy old weirdo.
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm with you on all that. But
Speaker 1: what he did in the nursing home fiasco was far
Speaker 1: more egregious as a matter of public conduct, and far
Speaker 1: more damaging to the Democrat party and brand and the
Speaker 1: media too. That's a mega scandal, not not a thing
Speaker 1: that can be apologized for, not a thing that you
Speaker 1: can just wave aside with a hand and a few
Speaker 1: tears and say, oh the other times, I promise, that's
Speaker 1: not the way this works. We need to continue to
Speaker 1: hammer home the point here that Cuomo had people on
Speaker 1: his staff intentionally change numbers about deaths during a pandemic.
Speaker 1: This would be like a general lying about troops killed
Speaker 1: in battle so he could keep his job. That's how
Speaker 1: serious this is. You have to understand the degree to
Speaker 1: which this change thinking and this mattered at this period
Speaker 1: in time of extremely important and tense decision making. Maybe
Speaker 1: people would have thought differently about, Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: the great Barrington Declaration about focused protection for seniors if
Speaker 1: they had known just how egregious the government misconduct, how
Speaker 1: awful the decision making was in New York. Remember New
Speaker 1: York and New Jersey number two and number one, respectively
Speaker 1: for COVID death per one hundred thousand people in the
Speaker 1: United States, both very deep blue Democrats states. Let's remember that.
Speaker 1: And yet somehow Cuomo was a hero. He was second
Speaker 1: only to Fauci, to whom I can only say he
Speaker 1: needs to go Fauci himself, second only to Fauci in
Speaker 1: terms of the hero worship from the media. What the
Speaker 1: heck was this all about? How did this even happen?
Speaker 1: There's so much going on here. First of all, you
Speaker 1: have the fact that if you're a Democrat, you can
Speaker 1: get away with things that you would never be able
Speaker 1: to if this were a Republican. Imagine this were Christy Gnome.
Speaker 1: Imagine this were Ron Descantists. If Ron Descantists hid fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand nursing home deaths by by undercounting it by fifty percent,
Speaker 1: So whatever they said it was roughly you got seventy
Speaker 1: five hundred. Let's say something along that along those lines.
Speaker 1: If he said that it was seventy five hundred, it
Speaker 1: was really fifteen thousand. People would be demanding not only
Speaker 1: he resigned. And when I say people, I mean universal.
Speaker 1: There would be universal, nationwide condemnation. In the media. It
Speaker 1: would be the top story. And there's just this kind
Speaker 1: of muted, halfhearted reportage on it from the Democrat outlets.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, it looks like maybe a crazy thing happened.
Speaker 1: Man Cuomo was undercounting nursing home deaths by I don't know,
Speaker 1: like fifty percent or something. Wow, they really don't math
Speaker 1: so good over in the Cuomo office, do they. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tough to do addition and subtraction. This mattered immensely. And
Speaker 1: if this were a Rhonda Santists, it would be the
Speaker 1: number one news story. I mean, you know, you remember
Speaker 1: when during the Bush administration there was that misconduct in
Speaker 1: Abu Grabe and that was on the front page of
Speaker 1: the newspaper day after day after day after day, and
Speaker 1: I remember being a pretty young guy at the time
Speaker 1: and saying, Wow, So this is how you make a
Speaker 1: story really stick. This is how you really tear down
Speaker 1: an administration with the story. I mean, George Bush wasn't
Speaker 1: giving that order, but Abu Gray was on the front
Speaker 1: page of the newspaper of the New York Times, for example,
Speaker 1: I want to say twenty out of thirty days or
Speaker 1: something like that. It was a long time ago, but
Speaker 1: it was so much coverage of it, just saturation saturation coverage,
Speaker 1: And they could do the same thing with promo. This
Speaker 1: is a really big deal. We've had Democrats and we've
Speaker 1: had the corporate media lecturing us month after month after
Speaker 1: month about listening to the data, obeying the science, doing
Speaker 1: what Fauci tells us, and the hero of the pandemic
Speaker 1: was actually the villain. And we're not supposed to think
Speaker 1: that this is indicative of broader problems and the way
Speaker 1: they approached this whole thing in twenty twenty. We're not
Speaker 1: supposed to make the connection that clearly they were willing
Speaker 1: to go along with this in part because they knew
Speaker 1: that Cuomo was a useful weapon against Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: the election year. That Orange man bad who liked hydroxychloroquin
Speaker 1: as an idea, and you know, wasn't running around quadruple
Speaker 1: masking that maybe they were a little bit unfair to
Speaker 1: the point of sheer dishonesty about Trump in the election
Speaker 1: year and were willing to prop up people like Cuomo.
Speaker 1: Here's this piece the Wall Street Journal New York's Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 1: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's top advisors successfully pushed state
Speaker 1: health officials to strip a public health report of data
Speaker 1: showing that more nursing home residents had died of COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen than the administration had acknowledged. The July report, which
Speaker 1: examined the factors that led to the spread of the
Speaker 1: virus in nursing homes, focused only on residents who died
Speaker 1: inside long term care facilities, leaving out those who had
Speaker 1: died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing home. As
Speaker 1: a result, the report said six thousand, four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty two nursing home residents had died, a significant undercount
Speaker 1: of the death toll attributed to the state's most vulnerable population.
Speaker 1: The people said. The initial version of the report said
Speaker 1: nearly ten thousand nursing home residents had died in New
Speaker 1: York by July late last year. One of the people said,
Speaker 1: according to those with knowledge of the report, unbelievable. They
Speaker 1: went from ten thousand to six hours. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: big difference, isn't it. Why would they do that well,
Speaker 1: because they knew that that number would really shock people,
Speaker 1: and they knew that other states that also have senior
Speaker 1: citizens would be a point of comparison. And what they're
Speaker 1: now going to be able to do is say, hold
Speaker 1: on a second. The data was fudged here in a
Speaker 1: way that was meant to prevent accurate comparison. How can
Speaker 1: you know whether your public health officials? How could you
Speaker 1: know whether your governor is doing a good job when
Speaker 1: they're lying about the very data that they claim is
Speaker 1: supporting their position. And let me tell you this right now,
Speaker 1: this is not the only instance. It may be the
Speaker 1: most egregious, but the only instance of fraud through numbers
Speaker 1: manipulation during this pandemic. We will find more of this.
Speaker 1: There are other cases where people either cherry pick numbers,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about governor's state health officials, maybe even
Speaker 1: Fauci himself. They cherry pick data to fit a preferred
Speaker 1: narrative and suppressed anything that challenged what they wanted the
Speaker 1: people to believe. If this were if Chromo were the
Speaker 1: CEO of a publicly traded company, or any company for
Speaker 1: that matter, if Chromo were the CEO of a private corporation,
Speaker 1: this kind of activity of hiding numbers like this, if
Speaker 1: they were profit numbers, for example. I mean, if he
Speaker 1: were cooking the books, he'd be facing prison time. But
Speaker 1: he cooked the books in eventually on deaths during a pandemic,
Speaker 1: when decisions were being made that were directly affecting and
Speaker 1: in some cases, as we see now, causing those deaths,
Speaker 1: and we're supposed to just forget about it, no big deal.
Speaker 1: Everybody was doing their best. Cuomo was giving us such
Speaker 1: great press conferences. His brother over at CNN was doing
Speaker 1: such funny stuff with him at night. They should have
Speaker 1: had a duo show. Well, I guess they did. These
Speaker 1: are the people, these are the voices, These are the
Speaker 1: platforms out there, all these different Democrat and Cuomo aligned
Speaker 1: groups and individuals who have been telling you all on
Speaker 1: to trust them believe them, and they missed. And they
Speaker 1: also slowed this down right. That was another part of it.
Speaker 1: They were hoping to delay this, and they managed to
Speaker 1: delay until after the election, which is why now they're
Speaker 1: willing to finally let this all go. Why now you're
Speaker 1: seeing all the sexual harassment stories and you know there
Speaker 1: are people who are actually sitting down to do interviews
Speaker 1: with the accusers. All this is happening because Cuomo's extreme
Speaker 1: usefulness has passed. You know, you see this with Cuomo,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of what I believe will happen soon
Speaker 1: with Joe Biden, where eventually the Democrats will no longer
Speaker 1: be able to prop up Hiden Biden, who's declining. We'll
Speaker 1: figure out this guy really isn't up for this. It'll
Speaker 1: be apparent, it'll be embarrassing, it'll be sad, and they'll say, oh, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I guess we missed that. But he beat Trump, didn't he.
Speaker 1: This is how they play the game. It's the Harry
Speaker 1: Reid approach to politics. Remember Harry Reid lied about Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney's tax returns. You know, I'm no Mitt Romney fan,
Speaker 1: but when asked about this, just complete slander. Harry Reid
Speaker 1: laughed and said he didn't win, did he? And he
Speaker 1: was right. This is how democrats, this is how your
Speaker 1: corporate media approaches their job. They are on a team.
Speaker 1: They have picked a side, and in this case of
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo, the side they picked was lying about thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands of deaths and causing Remember it's not just
Speaker 1: that they were embarrassed by the number. I mean, to
Speaker 1: understand the full scope of this, you have to recognize
Speaker 1: that Cuomo, because of his unthinkably stupid decision to try
Speaker 1: to clear out hospital space faster by forcing COVID positive
Speaker 1: patients back into nursing homes, he caused more of these deaths.
Speaker 1: You see, it wasn't just this number looks bad for
Speaker 1: the state of New York. It's Cuomo made a decision,
Speaker 1: and some of that decision making, or some of that
Speaker 1: decisions ramifications, led to people's moms and dads, grandmas and
Speaker 1: grandpa's dying in nursing homes, not allowed to see their
Speaker 1: family members, maybe allowed a last zoom call. It is
Speaker 1: awful beyond words. But he was telling you, he was
Speaker 1: giving you lectures, and even if you don't live in
Speaker 1: New York, he doesn't care. He was America's lecturer in
Speaker 1: chief during COVID. That's what Cuomo was. He was telling you,
Speaker 1: if you don't mask up, you might kill somebody. You
Speaker 1: might cause somebody else's family member, loved one to die.
Speaker 1: How dare you do exactly what Cuomo says or else
Speaker 1: talk about what psychologists would call projection. This is so
Speaker 1: far the biggest scanalthough there are many, and there's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot more accountability that we have to
Speaker 1: force on the lockdowners as we have more data and
Speaker 1: more of the truth can finally come out. But what
Speaker 1: Cuomo did was the most appalling decision and the most
Speaker 1: dishonest aftermath of any major policy choice of the entire
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic. And we're finding out about it now.
Speaker 1: We will not let this go by the way. I've
Speaker 1: known about this for months. You've known about this for months.
Speaker 1: It's been reported the New York Post. Now we just
Speaker 1: have more and more information. It looks even worse than
Speaker 1: we thought. The mainstream media is finally touching on this.
Speaker 1: The mainstream media has finally come around do it because
Speaker 1: it served its purpose to suppress it when they did.
Speaker 1: But do not forget this Cuomo lied, seniors died. That
Speaker 1: is what happened. The Democrat Party should own this. They
Speaker 1: are responsible for this, and the corporate media's credibility is
Speaker 1: even further sullied if that was even a thing, that's possible.
Speaker 1: Just how much did the media love the love Gov
Speaker 1: Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Cuomo sexuals, remember that that was
Speaker 1: a thing for a while. People were walking around with
Speaker 1: t shirts on such a hero. He's such an eligible bachelor.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, people were batting their eyelashes at Cuomo because
Speaker 1: he was so amazing. He was keeping us safe. The
Speaker 1: guy's a thug, a bully, and a liar, the worst
Speaker 1: of politics, and also a sexual harasser on top of
Speaker 1: all of that, which we will also get to here
Speaker 1: he is according to the media over the course of this. Really,
Speaker 1: I really want you to just sit back and take
Speaker 1: all this in. Remember Cuomo live, seniors died. Cuomo made
Speaker 1: an unthinkably stupid bullying decision, threatened nursing homes, basically used
Speaker 1: his pandemic superpower or ultra authoritarianism and superpower sounds like
Speaker 1: he's a hero, but use the authoritarian emergency powers. There
Speaker 1: we go that he had and then lied about it
Speaker 1: when it was a disaster afterwards, and then tried to
Speaker 1: shame everybody else who wouldn't keep listening to him. This
Speaker 1: is what you're the guardians of our republic, right the
Speaker 1: Fourth Estate. This is what they were saying about all
Speaker 1: of it. Play too, playing bye for Governor Cuomo's Press
Speaker 1: convers Is Daily Briefing, David, We're sitting by for Governor
Speaker 1: Cuomo's Press convers Is Daily Briefing. How would you contrast
Speaker 1: Cuomo and President Trump's handling the crisis, truth versus mendacity.
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo out there day after day after day. Everything
Speaker 1: Trump isn't honest, direct, brave, real leadership. I'm the kind
Speaker 1: of President of the United States should have provided. Governor
Speaker 1: Cuomo is clearly living in a totally different reality, the
Speaker 1: actual one, than the President of the United States. Governor
Speaker 1: Cuomo has become a national leader for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo has become the leader of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: He is conveying incredible strength. You spoke to National Guard
Speaker 1: troops today in a stirring speech that if I wasn't
Speaker 1: listening carefully, I thought you were sending soldiers off to war.
Speaker 1: This has been a remarkable show of leadership by Governor
Speaker 1: Cuomo in recent days. He's providing hope, but not false hope.
Speaker 1: Governor of Cuomo, I think, is one of the heroes
Speaker 1: on the front lines. With all of this adulation that
Speaker 1: you're getting for doing your job, are you thinking about
Speaker 1: running for president? Andrew Cuomo, who has a daily television
Speaker 1: show now and has become in some way as the
Speaker 1: shadow president. Maybe Trump is just a little bit mad
Speaker 1: that Governor Cuomo has become a kind of acting president.
Speaker 1: Dealing with hardship actually makes you stronger. That's what Governor
Speaker 1: Cuomo said earlier today. That's what I'm gonna go teach
Speaker 1: my kids right now at home. Brian Stelter, that guy
Speaker 1: is Oh my god, It's like the equivalent of pouring
Speaker 1: estrogen in your ear or something. I mean, this guy is.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I gotta tell you that that to me.
Speaker 1: I listened to this and I just I just shiver.
Speaker 1: It's just so gross. The whole thing is so obtuse
Speaker 1: and absurd. What what was going through their mind? Oh well,
Speaker 1: we know, notice how many clips we can pull of
Speaker 1: them saying unlike Trump, Cuomo is great. Unlike Trump, Cuomo
Speaker 1: speaks the truth. That's that they're just their brains were
Speaker 1: fixated on this, fixated on this. You know, an honest
Speaker 1: assessment of Trump during the pandemic would start with he
Speaker 1: basically did everything foul. She told them too. When I
Speaker 1: spoke to the President in May in the Oval Office,
Speaker 1: the one thing he actually shook my hand in promise.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I asked. I said, sir, please
Speaker 1: don't allow for there to be a federal push, a
Speaker 1: national push for and across the board lockdown. Let's not
Speaker 1: And he said, I totally agree. I get it. He
Speaker 1: had been listening to Fauci a lot up to that point.
Speaker 1: He'd been listening to Fauci, and we've all seen what
Speaker 1: the results are. Remember, this is going to be treated
Speaker 1: like it's an objective discussion about the data and what's
Speaker 1: best for the country. But really, as you see from
Speaker 1: the teachers unions, this is about what is best for
Speaker 1: different individuals, their power, their money. They don't want honesty
Speaker 1: about what's happened during this pandemic. They certainly don't want
Speaker 1: accountability for people that we're propping up liars, frauds and
Speaker 1: thugs like Andrew Cuomo. I mean, the fact that this guy,
Speaker 1: I would put money on it right now, is going
Speaker 1: to finish his term as governor. He will not resign
Speaker 1: and they will not impeach him just shows you how
Speaker 1: more lead decrepit. The Democrat Party in the state of
Speaker 1: New York and across the country is they're gonna let
Speaker 1: this guy stay. If he stays, who goes? And let's
Speaker 1: just remember this, They're not going to impeach. Democrats will
Speaker 1: not impeach Governor Cuomo, but they impeach Trump twice. The
Speaker 1: first time and I know this was in Congress, but
Speaker 1: the first time over a phone call to the Ukrainian
Speaker 1: president where nothing happened. Cuomo sent seniors to die in
Speaker 1: nursing homes like a moron because he thought he was
Speaker 1: so smart and he was drunk with power, and then
Speaker 1: he lied about it to everybody. If that doesn't make
Speaker 1: you resign, what does. Governor Cuomo said that he has
Speaker 1: never propositioned anybody. Do you believe that he was propositioning you? Yes?
Speaker 1: For what sex? And then he explains at that point
Speaker 1: that he is looking for a girlfriend, he's lonely, he's tired.
Speaker 1: You've just finished dictation and the Governor is telling you
Speaker 1: he's lonely and looking for a relationship. Yes, you have
Speaker 1: been quoted as saying that. He also asked you about
Speaker 1: if you'd ever been with an older man. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: asked me if age difference mattered. He also explained that
Speaker 1: he was fine with anyone over twenty two and how
Speaker 1: old are you? Twenty five? What were you thinking as
Speaker 1: he's asking you these questions. I thought he's trying to
Speaker 1: sleep with me. The Governor is trying to sleep with me,
Speaker 1: and I'm deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out
Speaker 1: of this room as soon as possible. And to be clear,
Speaker 1: what made you think that he was trying to sleep
Speaker 1: with you? Without explicitly saying it, he implied to me
Speaker 1: that I was old enough for him, and he was lonely.
Speaker 1: He was trying to sleep with her. Can we all
Speaker 1: just state the obvious year together? I mean, that's none
Speaker 1: of us have been in the workplace and had conversations
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe you know, shared some of our
Speaker 1: personal live with friends or colleagues or whatever, but we
Speaker 1: also know when you're the governor of New York and
Speaker 1: you have a twenty five year old attractive female who's
Speaker 1: alone with you, and you're talking about the age at
Speaker 1: which you're willing to have a sexual relationship and your
Speaker 1: need for a sexual like short of drawing a map
Speaker 1: or like producing some kind of a contract with his
Speaker 1: expectations at her expectator, Like this is pretty clear. It's
Speaker 1: entirely credible. All these women who have come forward, these
Speaker 1: are credible allegations. You know, we could go back to
Speaker 1: the Kavanaugh era, remember, and they kept saying credible allegations
Speaker 1: ends Kavanaugh, and I was completely losing my mind over this.
Speaker 1: I mean I was, I was furious. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is what I said. A lot of us became wartime
Speaker 1: conservatives during Kavanaugh because we saw that there was honestly
Speaker 1: no there was no floor, there was no basement of
Speaker 1: moral depravity. The Democrats, including Kamala Harris by the way,
Speaker 1: leading the charge there in the Senate, don't ever forget
Speaker 1: that that there was no low. The Democrats would not
Speaker 1: god to destroy somebody for politics, that they would lie
Speaker 1: just in the most it was just the most mendacious, disgusting, idiotic,
Speaker 1: obviously untrue garbage about Brett Cavanaugh. It was, and any
Speaker 1: person who doesn't see that, it's just not very smart.
Speaker 1: It's not possible to look at all that not possible
Speaker 1: to look at the three accusers, including the third accuser
Speaker 1: who's like giggling and talking about gang rape that she
Speaker 1: saw when she came back from college. I mean, the
Speaker 1: whole the whole thing or Julie Sweatnick was her name,
Speaker 1: The whole thing was so absurd. Avanti Avanati is It
Speaker 1: isn't amazing to see. He was the hero of CNN
Speaker 1: at the time. Don't you see a pattern here? When
Speaker 1: you were useful against Trump, if you were a wet
Speaker 1: up in against Donald Trump, you were given this this
Speaker 1: cloak of invincibility and the elevation. You were treated like
Speaker 1: a conquering hero. It didn't matter how disgusting you were.
Speaker 1: Michael Avanati is the ultimate slimy lawyer. He makes Michael
Speaker 1: Cohen Trump's good friend for a while, unfortunately makes Michael
Speaker 1: Cohen look like an ethical council. Avanati was stealing millions
Speaker 1: from a paralyzed client. That guy was on TV. He
Speaker 1: was on CNN I think more than any other guest
Speaker 1: over a period of two months. It was as though
Speaker 1: he was he was paid to anchor a show. He
Speaker 1: was on all the time and he went forward with
Speaker 1: obvious lies about Brett Kavanaugh. But I digress. You know
Speaker 1: that that whole thing gets me so fired up, and
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. I had people, I had a CNN
Speaker 1: anchor reach out to me directly and say, you've got
Speaker 1: to stop what you're saying about Kavanaugh. You're going to
Speaker 1: destroy your career. And people on our side who think
Speaker 1: you're smart but don't agree with you will never take
Speaker 1: you seriously again. And I restrain myself from actually writing,
Speaker 1: you know, go fauci yourself, but I thought about it.
Speaker 1: I did tell them to, you know, leave, like, don't
Speaker 1: ever reach out to me again, and you're out of
Speaker 1: your mind. I think something like that was what I wrote.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we have not had any context since, but
Speaker 1: that was the mentality. It was all hands on deck
Speaker 1: to destroy an innocent man because it was necessary. They
Speaker 1: thought that was moral. You see, that's the problem with
Speaker 1: the left. They believe that morality is entirely situational, that
Speaker 1: there's no universal truth, there's no natural law. It's just
Speaker 1: whatever they need when they need it. That's a central
Speaker 1: principle of the left. That's if they have a principle.
Speaker 1: The principle is there's no such thing as a principle.
Speaker 1: But they kept saying, I'll bring this back to Quomaa.
Speaker 1: They kept talking about the need or that kept talking
Speaker 1: about the credibility of the allegations against Kavanaugh, and they
Speaker 1: figured if they repeated it enough, well keeps getting called credible,
Speaker 1: it must be. It would be difficult to come up
Speaker 1: with a less credible allegation than the one that. Yes,
Speaker 1: even you know the professor who leveled or you know
Speaker 1: the psychologist who leveled against Kavanaugh, she couldn't prove. She
Speaker 1: couldn't prove that she ever even met him, Christine Blasi
Speaker 1: Ford couldn't prove that she even ever met him, had
Speaker 1: no details, no corroboration, no nothing, and had lied about
Speaker 1: things like she was afraid to fly unless she's going
Speaker 1: to Cabo, then flying as fine, right? I mean, the
Speaker 1: whole thing was such a scam, such a fraud. If
Speaker 1: that's a credible allegation, me saying that I assassinated Abraham
Speaker 1: Lincoln's a credible allegation. I'm sorry, do you can you
Speaker 1: prove that I don't have a time machine? Do you
Speaker 1: know that for a fact? You don't know me? I
Speaker 1: might have a time machine? You don't know, right, that's
Speaker 1: the level of credibility we're talking about with the allegations
Speaker 1: against Kavanaugh absurdity. But these allegations against Cuomo, everything lines up,
Speaker 1: everything is exactly. There's a pattern, the same kind of
Speaker 1: pattern everyone knows, and there were whispers about it before too.
Speaker 1: The word always gets out a little bit about these things, right,
Speaker 1: word always comes out, And nobody was really surprised by this.
Speaker 1: That's what's so amazing. The Democrats protected him as long
Speaker 1: as they could. They propped this jerk up as long
Speaker 1: as it was feasible for them, and as long as
Speaker 1: it was advantageous. That's the big difference. As long as
Speaker 1: it was an advantage for them, they propped this guy up.
Speaker 1: And here we are, here we are. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: the fact that he's not going to resign is so troubling.
Speaker 1: But also in an their sense, he's an excellent reminder
Speaker 1: of how of how corrupt Democrats are with all of
Speaker 1: these things, and how two faced they are, and how
Speaker 1: it's all just about power for them. You know, meet
Speaker 1: me two things, right, I mean, first of all, let's
Speaker 1: not forget Joe Biden was credibly accused of sexual assault
Speaker 1: by a woman who knew him, who worked with him,
Speaker 1: who was around him. You know, remember when it was
Speaker 1: what does she have to gain accusing a Democrat who's
Speaker 1: going to be president of sexual assault? You really got
Speaker 1: nothing to gain because your life is going to be ruined.
Speaker 1: You'd never even hear about that anymore. Do creepy Joe
Speaker 1: sniffing women's heads, grabbing them, touching them, saying weird city.
Speaker 1: I have never met a stranger and held her head
Speaker 1: from behind and kissed her head and sniffed her hair.
Speaker 1: That is a weird old move. Joe Biden did that.
Speaker 1: That's a matter of record. That's not even that's not
Speaker 1: even an alligation. He apologized for that, but not not
Speaker 1: an issue to say nothing about Joe Biden. It doesn't matter. See.
Speaker 1: One of the things about Trump was that he was
Speaker 1: blowing out into the open the truth that we had
Speaker 1: known about the Democrats for so long. When he would
Speaker 1: say things like, you know, I could shoot somebody on
Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue, and you know, my supporters would stay with me,
Speaker 1: and the Democrats all lost their minds about that. A
Speaker 1: lot of Trump supporters said, look, he's obviously exaggerating a
Speaker 1: little bit, or he's you know, he's trying to make
Speaker 1: a point. It's hyperbole. But that has always been true
Speaker 1: about Democrats, Bill Clinton, going down the whole list. It's
Speaker 1: always been true that they can do whatever they want
Speaker 1: as long as they're useful for the power of the
Speaker 1: people on the Democrats side. And the same thing as
Speaker 1: very much true or Cuomo. We're seeing this play out
Speaker 1: in real time. Very I was gonna say, it's discouraging,
Speaker 1: that's not even really true. This is who the Democrats are.
Speaker 1: There's no surprise here. None of you are sitting around saying,
Speaker 1: wait a second, they're really unethical. They'll lie about Kavanaugh,
Speaker 1: and then they'll defend Kavanaugh, who's clearly innocent, and then
Speaker 1: and then defend Cuomo until they can't. They just they
Speaker 1: couldn't hold it back anymore. It's like Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein
Speaker 1: was a big friend of the Obama He was a
Speaker 1: big donor to the Democrats, you know, you see, and
Speaker 1: then eventually they're like, oh, there's too many allegations, too
Speaker 1: much stuff comes out. So then they you know, like
Speaker 1: like an old horse getting sent to the glue factory.
Speaker 1: That's what they do with Weinstein, with Cuomo, you know, Sorry,
Speaker 1: you're more useful now for us to do some virtue
Speaker 1: signaling and pretend like we're an honest press. They don't
Speaker 1: take these people down when it matters. They don't take
Speaker 1: them down when they're actually going to politically lose as
Speaker 1: a result of it. Get on the whole list. Everybody
Speaker 1: knew Charlie Rose with the crusty claw. I love that law,
Speaker 1: and that was a crusty claw, Matie. You know Charlie
Speaker 1: Rose was grabbing. I heard about Charlie Rose being an
Speaker 1: old creepster. I mean like twenty years ago when I
Speaker 1: was working at CBSC. If you news, everyone's always known
Speaker 1: that guy was an old creepster. You can own this list,
Speaker 1: all all these prominent democrats that it took so long
Speaker 1: and then finally and then they want to plus because
Speaker 1: the media finally covers the story. No, when they were powerful,
Speaker 1: when they were necessary to carry the message for the left,
Speaker 1: they were protecting the same things. True a Cuomo here,
Speaker 1: But you listen to these young women. Look, we also
Speaker 1: all know. We sit there and you see these women
Speaker 1: talking about this, and you go, yeah, they're telling the truth.
Speaker 1: You know, we can actually make these guys sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't know sometimes it's kind of hard. Sometimes it feels
Speaker 1: like he said, she said, no, this is she said,
Speaker 1: and she's telling the truth. And she said, and she said,
Speaker 1: because they're a handful of them, they're telling the truth.
Speaker 1: Do the Democrats really care? What's fascinated, of course, is
Speaker 1: they actually do care about the sexual harassment more than
Speaker 1: they do the order to send seniors into nursing homes,
Speaker 1: which undoubtedly put more of them at risk and killed
Speaker 1: more seniors than would have otherwise died. They care more
Speaker 1: about uncouth inappropriate comments said to women. He didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't sexually assault anybody. I mean, there are there
Speaker 1: are some things Cuomo did not do, but I mean,
Speaker 1: he clearly likes young women and tries to use his
Speaker 1: power as a means of getting them into bed with him.
Speaker 1: And now it's come out, and that is what the
Speaker 1: media is hoisting them up and destroying him over. That's
Speaker 1: what they're hoisting them up over. Not's the seniors and
Speaker 1: the nursing homes, because that goes after much more than
Speaker 1: just one man being a lecterous old fool. That goes
Speaker 1: to something else, goes to the way the media lied
Speaker 1: about COVID in so many ways to defeat Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. The only way I know how to
Speaker 1: improve it is with a shredder. It's not even a
Speaker 1: coronavirus bill. Calming this a coronavirus bill is like calling
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein a feminist. It's chock full of spending porn,
Speaker 1: billions of dollars to states and local governments that have
Speaker 1: seen the revenues go up. Billions of dollars to pension programs,
Speaker 1: billions of dollars to schools with no requirements that they open.
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's an orgy of pork, an orgy
Speaker 1: of pork, the senator, Senator Kennedy says here, it's like
Speaker 1: calling Harvey Weinstein a feminist, Kennedy. Kennedy's definitely writing out
Speaker 1: his lines beforehand, that's for sure. I don't also thought
Speaker 1: I was reminded of this because I mentioned Harvey Weinstein
Speaker 1: before in the context of incredibly powerful, wealthy, influential democrats
Speaker 1: who they cover for as long as they can, and
Speaker 1: then they want applause when the person is no longer
Speaker 1: useful to their cause and they, you know, throw them
Speaker 1: to the wolves. This coronavirus bill, that is, I mean
Speaker 1: it's not a COVID bill, it's just a Democrat spending bill.
Speaker 1: And we should come up with a better name for
Speaker 1: one thing, that one thing. We're Republicans, I think continuous
Speaker 1: continue to fall down on or or a major shortcoming
Speaker 1: they have is we need catchy phrases for things too.
Speaker 1: This is politics. We need shorthand, we need slogans, you know,
Speaker 1: we need better ways of referring to some of these things,
Speaker 1: because the second you call this a COVID relief bill,
Speaker 1: you're basically playing their game. The moment you concede with
Speaker 1: that word, that one point nine trillion dollars sounds like
Speaker 1: it's going toward helping people who have been so affected
Speaker 1: by COVID. But nine percent of the actual bill does so.
Speaker 1: Nine percent. I mean, if it were like sixty or
Speaker 1: seventy percent, I'd say, oh, you know, it's politics. They're
Speaker 1: gonna put some other stuff in there. It's basically all
Speaker 1: not COVID stuff. In fact, there's a whole there's there's
Speaker 1: provisions about, you know, additional spending for education, and most
Speaker 1: of it doesn't even happen next year. It's built in,
Speaker 1: it's layered in over years and years, tens of billions
Speaker 1: of dollars. Oh, you mean the teachers unions want their
Speaker 1: payoffs and they want their prerogatives, and it really has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with their safety. They're so scared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Not a surprise, the tense of
Speaker 1: a Biden administration and of a Democrat majority Congress acting
Speaker 1: and even the most the most basic bipartisan fashion. I mean,
Speaker 1: that didn't last a day, did it. And Biden came
Speaker 1: into office in his attitude, or I should say the
Speaker 1: handlers around him and the special interests and the people
Speaker 1: that are telling him what to do. The attitude was
Speaker 1: we won, you lost, Go jump in a lake, you know,
Speaker 1: go blankety blanking blank or blank. And we've seen nothing
Speaker 1: but that since then. And this is I think in
Speaker 1: part of a hangover of the way that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: psychologically broke the Left and they haven't put themselves back together.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Humpty Dumpy, all the King's horses
Speaker 1: and men can't put the Democrats fragile emotions back together again.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're having a tough time here because Donald
Speaker 1: Trump came into office and made fun of them for
Speaker 1: four years for being a bunch of shrill lib lunatics,
Speaker 1: and now they want payback against against everybody else. There's
Speaker 1: real anger out there. But you know, Ted Cruz notices
Speaker 1: that they're not even pretending to be reaching the other side.
Speaker 1: And you look at the way that Republicans passed real
Speaker 1: COVID bills with Democrat votes last year. It's actually possible, folks,
Speaker 1: that's not some theoretical Democrats are going to put pass
Speaker 1: this probably without a single Republican vote in the Senate.
Speaker 1: And you know, who knows how the House is going
Speaker 1: to go play ten. We're getting ready to go through
Speaker 1: an unfortunate bit of political theater. And the reason for
Speaker 1: that is that the Democrats have made the decision to
Speaker 1: be hard partisans rather than to work together in a
Speaker 1: bipartisan manner. Last year, Congress passed five separate COVID relief bills.
Speaker 1: Every one of them was bipartisan. So it's not just
Speaker 1: empty words. Republicans here have demonstrated that we are ready
Speaker 1: and willing to roll up our sleeves and work together
Speaker 1: in a bipartisan manner to address COVID, to defeat this pandemic,
Speaker 1: and to get people back to work. Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: and Nancy Close could have done the same, but they
Speaker 1: made a decision instead. This is not a COVID bill.
Speaker 1: Nine percent of this bill focuses on COVID health spending
Speaker 1: is a partisan wish list paying off the Democratic special
Speaker 1: interests that brought them elect And it's cynical. It's got
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer's bridge to Canada. The last I checked, a
Speaker 1: bridge to Canada is not going to defeat COVID. It
Speaker 1: is not. Sorry Canada, that's not the way it's going
Speaker 1: to work. But Republicans did buy partisan things to help
Speaker 1: the country during COVID. Democrats won't do that now why.
Speaker 1: And what we are doing is building the capacity to
Speaker 1: address the needs of those children. And we are guided
Speaker 1: by some core principles. Number one, we act in the
Speaker 1: best interests of the children, and we act in the
Speaker 1: best interests of the American people. And thirdly, we adhere
Speaker 1: to our values and principles as a country. And so
Speaker 1: in fact, the numbers are si magnificant. The challenge is significant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and our plans are well underway as we build the
Speaker 1: capacity to address the needs of the children, and we
Speaker 1: are rebuilding from scratch. Oh, it's all about the children.
Speaker 1: What's Buck's law of politics for Democrats, the moment they
Speaker 1: tell you it's about the children, you're being lied to. Okay,
Speaker 1: just remember that it's always true. The moment they say
Speaker 1: it's for the children, the moment Nancy Pelosi comes out,
Speaker 1: you know, with her Chanelle scarf loosely draped around her
Speaker 1: mouth because she cares so much about COVID and goes
Speaker 1: the children. Indeed, ye know, we're gonna get get them
Speaker 1: the things that they need. Yeah, that's because they've got
Speaker 1: something else going on. Why do we have a what
Speaker 1: is he saying now, DHS Secretary of Mayorcas a significant
Speaker 1: challenge at the border. Why do we have this because
Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. That's why we have a huge
Speaker 1: spike in people coming to the border. They are literal
Speaker 1: early wearing Biden T shirts. Okay, can we make this
Speaker 1: anymore clear? Illegal immigrants are showing up and wearing T
Speaker 1: shirts that say Biden let us in at the border.
Speaker 1: I think we know why they're showing up. And Democrats
Speaker 1: are already I mean, House Democrats are already pushing bills,
Speaker 1: trying to get bills ready to go for mass amnesty.
Speaker 1: I said, I've said this all along you know, policy,
Speaker 1: I'm good at predicting elections. I don't think anybody can
Speaker 1: really predict elections, but policy I can usually see coming.
Speaker 1: But we're going to have to have a whole reckoning
Speaker 1: here as a country about what's going on with our
Speaker 1: immigration policy right now, because this is about to be
Speaker 1: the central fight. And really what you're going to start
Speaker 1: to you're gonna start to see is that they want
Speaker 1: open borders because sovereignty is for suckers. Sovereignty a nation
Speaker 1: that can control its borders that requires effort. You know,
Speaker 1: it's much better create incentives for people to come and
Speaker 1: give them even more incentives when they stay to vote
Speaker 1: for one political party, and you effectively create and a
Speaker 1: voter base of anybody from anywhere around the world who
Speaker 1: feels like coming to America and availing themselves of all
Speaker 1: of the benefits of being here illegally. Right, we're supposed
Speaker 1: to have a process for all of this. I mean,
Speaker 1: as Milton Friedman said, it is one thing to have
Speaker 1: free immigration to jobs. It's another thing to have free
Speaker 1: immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. You can
Speaker 1: have a welfare state or you can have open immigration
Speaker 1: for jobs. You have both you've got a big problem.
Speaker 1: Do you think we have a bit of a welfare
Speaker 1: state in this country? Is it fair to say? But
Speaker 1: this has been a long time in coming, As you know,
Speaker 1: the dominant liberal media narrative on immigration has been a
Speaker 1: series of shifting lies for about the last forty years.
Speaker 1: In the Trump era, the main leftists argument on immigration
Speaker 1: shifted into outright moral blackmail from the left. This is
Speaker 1: what this is how it would always go. You know this,
Speaker 1: if you ever tried to talk to somebody about immigration policy,
Speaker 1: this is how it happens. Do you have a problem
Speaker 1: with a million illegal arrivals from a Central America? You
Speaker 1: must be racist, they say to you. If you ask
Speaker 1: any questions about who will pay for these new illegal
Speaker 1: arrivals in terms of the benefits and welfare, that's a
Speaker 1: racist question to ask. If you wonder how social Security
Speaker 1: and Medicare will remain viable programs when millions of illegal
Speaker 1: aliens will need similar benefits when they reach retirement age,
Speaker 1: it's racist to even consider such things. It's just always
Speaker 1: about how it's always racist and xenophobic. You're not allowed
Speaker 1: to ask any questions based on, oh, I don't know
Speaker 1: the simple math of how are we going to pay
Speaker 1: for this? Who's gonna pay for this? How's this all
Speaker 1: going to go. That's more or less the extent of
Speaker 1: the intellectual discourse you can expect from leftists on the
Speaker 1: issue of illegal immigration, because they much prefer to engage
Speaker 1: in ad hominem attacks against anybody who has a problem
Speaker 1: with open borders. It's so much easier. As you know,
Speaker 1: illegal alien is a term that appears in the federal
Speaker 1: legal Code. Many times leftists now say that it is hateful,
Speaker 1: and they're actually in the process of changing this. They
Speaker 1: might have already changed it by the time I talk
Speaker 1: to you. In the federal code. It's hateful to say
Speaker 1: words that are written in federal law when it comes
Speaker 1: to immigration. But they were. They used to insist on
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant, but they disliked the fact that there was
Speaker 1: illegal in there. So if you're gonna call something illegal,
Speaker 1: you're kind of admitting it's against the law. That's a problem.
Speaker 1: So then they moved on to the more orwellian term undocumented,
Speaker 1: which is absurdly vague and inaccurate. They have documents somewhere
Speaker 1: they're not undocumented. They just don't have documents that say
Speaker 1: you're legally allowed to be in the United States. Calling
Speaker 1: an illegal alien undocumented is like calling a trespasser a
Speaker 1: pre invite guest. Now keep in mind, this phraseology fight
Speaker 1: is coming to us after decades of brainwashing the American
Speaker 1: people with platitudes meant to conflate legal and illegal immigration
Speaker 1: to misleads citizens about the costs of illegals and pretend
Speaker 1: the problem was less massive all along than in reality
Speaker 1: it is. Loaded misleading claims like America is a nation
Speaker 1: of immigrants, and immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do,
Speaker 1: have become second nature for many American commentators, in particular
Speaker 1: news anchors policy analysts. They say these things as though
Speaker 1: they are written in the Constitution itself. I mean, CNN
Speaker 1: actually seems to believe that Emma Lazarus's Great Colossus poem
Speaker 1: on the base of the Statue of Liberty is the
Speaker 1: foundation of federal immigration law. You know the poem. For
Speaker 1: anybody who doesn't know this, Just so you're clear, the
Speaker 1: poem was for a fundraiser. The plaque is there for tourists. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's where the Great Colossus bone. You know, and give
Speaker 1: me you're tired, you're hungry, or I don't remember all
Speaker 1: the poem, but you get it. Historically, ellis Island was
Speaker 1: actually a place where immigrants could be rejected on the
Speaker 1: spot after a week's long transatlantic journey. You got about
Speaker 1: two percent of all new immigrants as island were for
Speaker 1: medical or mental health reasons, told to go back on
Speaker 1: the boat and go home. So people were turned away
Speaker 1: even at Ellas Island. Not a lot, but there were
Speaker 1: people turned away. The Leafe's rewriting of immigration history isn't
Speaker 1: simply an academic matter. It's been used to create narratives
Speaker 1: that support illegal immigration at the expense of rule of
Speaker 1: law and sovereignty. So that's now it's at the point
Speaker 1: where we have to see what's going to come next,
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. We are at the extremes now,
Speaker 1: We are at the phase where we would have to
Speaker 1: think about what becomes of this country when there's another
Speaker 1: mass legalization. Remember we had a mass legalization under Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan in nineteen eighty six, and they said it would
Speaker 1: only be whatever. It was a couple million, and then
Speaker 1: there was going to be very secure border and no
Speaker 1: more illegal immigration. We got the amnesty, and then we
Speaker 1: got millions and millions more illegal immigrants in the country.
Speaker 1: And you know, if all of this is fine, if
Speaker 1: it means if it is meaningless, as the left now pretends,
Speaker 1: why do we even pretend there's a thing called assimilation?
Speaker 1: Why have immigration laws at all? If immigration, including illegal immigration,
Speaker 1: if illegal immigration is only good, if it is only
Speaker 1: upside And there are some radical libertarian think tank types
Speaker 1: who will always say that right, oh the more, if
Speaker 1: we could take them, if we could take five hundred
Speaker 1: million people from China the United States tomorrow, it would
Speaker 1: make us wealthier, That's what they'll tell you. It'll be
Speaker 1: a better country then, to which I say, okay, if
Speaker 1: five hundred million Chinese arrived in America tomorrow, which I
Speaker 1: know that's not going to happen, but we're just as
Speaker 1: a thought experiment, would it still be America? It's still
Speaker 1: the same country. Don't we have cultures, norms, more rays,
Speaker 1: shared history, tradition. Doesn't all that come from being here
Speaker 1: and being an American? And that we have an assimilation
Speaker 1: process for people to become American over time. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you show up yere illegally, and you know the
Speaker 1: first day you step on us soil, you're not an American.
Speaker 1: You're not by law, and you're not by any other definition.
Speaker 1: So how do we actually view this as a society.
Speaker 1: These are the conversations we have to have. And then,
Speaker 1: of course there's the the question of the official count
Speaker 1: as of twenty seventeen. They were saying, and it's it's
Speaker 1: true now too. I mean, I just have the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen number in front of me, but they'll say about
Speaker 1: eleven point seven million illegal aliens the United States. But
Speaker 1: that figure is an estimate based on voluntary census data.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's all census data they're using. The real
Speaker 1: number of illegal aliens is probably much much higher. Right.
Speaker 1: There were those math nerds at Yale, and I say
Speaker 1: math nerds with reverence, just a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: they did a PhD project and they looked at all
Speaker 1: the available data and these are you know, these are
Speaker 1: math whizzes, and they estimated the number of legal aliens
Speaker 1: was more like twenty million, which is close to double
Speaker 1: the official figures. It's pretty remarkable when you see that.
Speaker 1: We're told the number has stayed constant. Illegal aliens has
Speaker 1: stayed constant for like the last ten or fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Net migration zero. You hear all these things. Meanwhile, when
Speaker 1: I've been down on the border and talk to border patrol,
Speaker 1: members of border patrol, you know what they say, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We're catching illegals crossing over all the time, and illegals
Speaker 1: aren't in large numbers going back to where they came from,
Speaker 1: especially if they come from Pakistan or China or the
Speaker 1: Philippines or wherever they're not they're not coming, they're not
Speaker 1: going back to their home countries. The once they get here,
Speaker 1: they stay. But we can't even we cannot have an
Speaker 1: honest discussion about immigration in this country. And again it
Speaker 1: see even just the notion of immigration. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: illegal immigration. We can't have an honest discussion about it
Speaker 1: because that would mean the left won't get its way
Speaker 1: quite as easily. But do you see how they're ramming
Speaker 1: through this spending bill in the Congress. See how their
Speaker 1: plans now or to just continue doing exactly what they want,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the Republicans think. That's the plan for
Speaker 1: amnesty too, That's how they're going to ram through amnesty.