Ep. 516 - Democrats’ Pandemic Power Grab
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In the latest episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about the Democratic Party's failure to pass a bill that would have helped fight the coronavirus pandemic, and why they failed to do so. He also talks about why the Democrats failed to pass the bill, and what they should have done instead.
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House and Senate Democrats torpedo a bipartisan coronavirus relief bill,
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raising an important question. If elected Democrats aren't taking the pandemic seriously,
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why should we? We will examine the political shenanigans and the light at the end of the
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economic tunnel. Then, the mainstream media spread a story of a man dying from the drug
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touted by President Trump as a possible cure for coronavirus. The only problem with their story
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is it's completely false. We'll take a look at what really happened. All that and more. I'm
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Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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There is so much to get to today. We will almost certainly not have enough time,
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coronavirus relief bill, and there is so much spin and propaganda going on around this,
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but really what the Democrats did is indefensible, okay? It goes beyond the usual level of partisan
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tit for that and tit for that, tit for dat, and trying to get your own interests in there.
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They torpedoed the bill. Even the New York Times admitted it. So the first New York Times headline
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to report on this said, honestly, Democrats block action on $1.8 trillion stimulus because that's what
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happened. But that was a little too harsh on the Democrats, wasn't that? You can't, you're the New
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York Times. You're not allowed to do that. So the second headline read, quote, Democrats block action
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on stimulus plan seeking worker protections. You see, so it's still admitting Democrats blocked it,
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but they're giving them more coverage as to why they blocked it. Then the third headline,
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partisan divide threatens deal on rescue bill. Like, no, it's not the partisan divide. It's the Democrats.
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You were right the first two times, and really you were right, right just the first time. So what did
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the Democrats block? What was so objectionable that the Democrats didn't want to pass it?
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Paid sick leave for workers. That was in the bill. That's something usually Democrats are talking
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about more than Republicans are. So that shouldn't have been objectionable. Free coronavirus testing for
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everybody, including the uninsured. Democrats were prattling on about that for weeks and weeks.
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Everyone's got to get a test. Okay, fine. Good. Everyone gets a test. Checks of up to $1,200 for
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Americans making under $100,000 per year. That was Andrew Yang's entire campaign. Democrats have talked
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about a universal basic income now for at least a decade, and in some circles for a lot longer than that.
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Well, okay, now Americans are just getting direct checks from the government.
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They're upset about that. Funding for food assistance, specifically food assistance for
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low-income women and mothers with young children. You know, very often Democrats will say that
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Republican relief packages are, they're just geared for the rich. They're tax cuts for the rich.
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They're welfare for the rich, which is virtually never true. But in this case, we're talking about
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low-income women and mothers with young children. That's a problem. It strengthens unemployment
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benefits. I thought the Democrats could get behind that. And then at the heart of the package
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is a $500 billion loan program, billion with a B, that would float businesses that are about to
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collapse. Now, you could imagine the Democrats objecting to that because they say, we don't want
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a half trillion dollars of corporate welfare, but it's not corporate welfare. It's a loan
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to keep the businesses around so the workers still have jobs. So they certainly should be able to get
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behind that. And as far as I'm concerned, the most objectionable part of the entire bill is that it
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costs $2 trillion. But Democrats love that stuff. You know, they proposed the $93 trillion Green New
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Deal. They proposed Liz Warren's $52 trillion healthcare plan. So $2 trillion, that's nothing.
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That's a drop in the bucket. And yet the Democrats torpedoed it. This was negotiated in good faith,
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bipartisan, both sides of the aisle. And then at the last minute, the Democrats shot it down.
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Senate Republicans were furious. Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, lays out exactly what
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happened. We had a high level of bipartisanship in five different working groups over the last 48
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hours where members who were participating were reaching agreement. And then all of a sudden,
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the Democratic leader and the Speaker of the House shows up.
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So there was a high level of bipartisanship. This was not like most legislation where it's just
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written by one party entirely and then passed. This really was a good faith effort. And then Schumer
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and Pelosi mess it all up. The big takeaway here for me is that Democrats aren't taking this very
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seriously. They sound like they're taking it seriously, right? They're saying the whole world is going to
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end basically if we don't completely lock down. Trump isn't doing enough. We need to nationalize
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the economy. They're actually suggesting that. We'll get to it in a second. We need a national
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lockdown. You hear that from left-wing celebrities out of Hollywood. And yet they can't even get one
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relief package through. They're talking a good game, but they're, they're not actually following
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through with it. Susan Collins, who is the classic Senate moderate. She's the one who's, you never know
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if she's going to vote with the Republicans or not. She's a squishy Republican from Maine. She was furious
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about this, talked about the unprecedented rancor in the Senate over something that should be so easy to pass
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through. Unbelievably, the Democratic leader objected to my even being able to speak this morning. Is that
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what we've come to? The Democratic leader objected to our convening at nine o'clock this morning so that
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we could begin working in earnest? Is that what we've come to? The fact is we have been working on a
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bipartisan effort through task force with both Republicans and Democrats making very good progress
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and putting together a comprehensive package. The third package that we have dealt with. This one
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is to address and prevent the economic devastation that is being caused by this virus. We don't have
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another day. We don't have another day. This is a stimulus package because there is a government
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imposed economic shutdown. You don't have 18 months to negotiate this thing. If you negotiate this
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thing for 18 months, the economy is destroyed. The way you know that the Democrats overstepped here,
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other than the New York Times calling them out for it, albeit briefly, is that another Democrat called
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them out for it, Mitt Romney. I guess he's nominally a Republican, but you know, the guy's pretty squishy.
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Even Mitt Romney was furious. He tweeted about this. He tweeted out, quote,
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nothing in the Senate has shocked me until today. Standing in the way of a critically needed rescue
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package is irresponsible and reckless. Dems say not enough money to states. Nearly $200 billion
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isn't chump change. Hospitals get at least $75 billion. So he's touting some of the advantages
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of this bill. Now, Romney expressed his dissatisfaction on Twitter because Romney is currently in isolation
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for possible exposure to the coronavirus, which in itself prompted a pretty funny Trump response.
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With the critical stimulus package vote expected. Romney's in isolation? Yes. Gee, that's too bad.
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Go ahead. Did that have sarcasm there, sir? No, none whatsoever.
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No, no, none whatsoever. Trump, he would never be sarcastic. It's too bad. That's a very funny reaction.
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We all hope that Romney recovers very quickly. And then we hope that he continues to self-quarantine
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for another, I don't know, 20 or 25 years or so. Still, even Mitt Romney totally gets it on this
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The best reaction of the day, much better than Romney, much better than Susan Collins,
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better even than Cocaine Mitch, was my good pal from Texas, Senator Ted Cruz.
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Fame quote from Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, never let a good crisis go to
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waste. Sadly, we're seeing the embodiment of that cynical approach right now. Because all
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the people out of jobs, the Democrats are using to push, what are they pushing for?
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Changing the emission standards on airplanes. Mr. President, what the hell do the emission
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standards on airplanes have to do with thousands of people dying and millions of people out of work
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in the coronavirus epidemic? Right. Exactly. What is it? We'll get to what is exactly in the
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Democrats version of this bill, because it is hilarious. I mean, it is, it's much, I was going
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to say you could be in a Saturday Night Live sketch, but it's so much funnier than a Saturday Night Live
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sketch. We'll get to every one of those things. Ted Cruz's point here is exactly right. Okay. And this
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is validating all of us skeptics who have thought that maybe this pandemic is a little bit overhyped
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by the left and by the media, because they're hyping it up. It's going to be the end of the
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world, but they're not taking it seriously when it comes to the bills, which means they don't really
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believe that it's all that serious. Now you might just say, oh, that's just politics. You know,
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this is always how politics works. Both sides are trying to get an advantage. They'll use any crisis to
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do it. Okay. I mean, I see the point in principle. The thing is Republicans aren't actually doing that
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right now. Okay. And Cruz gets to that point next. Don't treat this bill like a partisan
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Christmas list. And by the way, you know, Republicans, we've got things we would like
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to advance to things. I believe in deeply, you know, talk about what I'd like to do. I'd like
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to abolish the IRS. I've campaigned on that all over the country. I'm going to continue fighting for
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that. But Mr. President, I'm not standing here with an amendment saying as part of this emergency
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relief, let's abolish the IRS. There's a place for that political and policy discussion.
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The Democrats are pushing wind and solar tax credits. Mr. President, what in the hell does a
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windmill have to do with this crisis? Other than there's some Democratic lobbyists getting
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fat and rich. That's it. There are a lot of Democratic lobbyists getting fat lists,
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stuffing this over 1000 page Democratic alternative to the bill. I love that Cruz made this point here.
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It shows you his skill as a debater. It shows you his rhetorical skill is he says, look, you're going
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to pretend that this is just politics on both sides. Republicans have things that we want. Okay. I want
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to abolish the IRS. I want to cut taxes significantly. I want a stronger preservation of our culture. I
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want stronger social laws as well. I want to abolish abortion. I want to do all that kind of stuff.
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I'm not exploiting a pandemic relief bill to do it. Democrats, you are. So often what the left does
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in order to make their argument is they, they just insinuate that you're as bad as they are, right? So
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that they don't ever have to rise up to a standard. They'll just drag you down where they are. But that
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is not what's happening here. This is not even. So what are Democrats trying to cram into this bill?
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Cruz got into some of it up there. The bill is 1119 pages long. It focuses on the very important
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things during pandemic. Pay equity. So pay equity, pay equity is based on this incorrect premise that
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businesses are paying people much less money based on their race or sex or sexual preferences or
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whatever. Name the victim group. That's what they're paying them less money on. Now, of course,
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this doesn't make any sense because if businesses could save 26% by only hiring women, do you know
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what businesses would do? They would only hire women. Do you really believe that businesses whose entire
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purpose is to maximize profits for their shareholders? Do you really think that they're so
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bigoted, they're so sexist or racist or this-ist or that-ist that they would willingly give up 26%?
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No, nobody really believes that. Do you really think that people based on their race could make,
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I don't know, I don't know whatever figure the Democrats are touting right now, but call it the
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same number, 75 cents on the dollar. Do you really think that if businesses could hire only black people
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and pay them 75 cents on the dollar, that they wouldn't just do that? Of course they would. But these
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statistics are all completely manipulated by the left. I mean, in the case of the so-called gender
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pay gap, it's been shown time and time again, when you remove differences of education, differences of
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experience, hours worked, the pay gap virtually disappears. So pay equity, that's an important
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thing during a pandemic. Corporate board diversity, who cares? Not me, but it's got to go in there,
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I guess. Mandatory early voting. So it's the federal government forcing the states to allow for early
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voting because it makes it a lot easier for Democrats to dig up all those corpses in Ohio and
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get them to the polls to vote for their candidates. Mandatory same day voter registration. Why have
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voter registration at all? We don't need it if you can do it same day. And if the federal government
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forces the states to do it same day, by the way, the states, the individual states are supposed to
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control voting. And yet in this case, major power grab by the left. A bailout for the post office.
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Okay. I get the left loves the post office for some reason. I'm going to throw that bailout in
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there. Student loan bailout of $30,000 per borrower. No reason for that whatsoever. It's something
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they've talked about during the presidential campaign. They're trying to exploit this natural
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disaster for that purpose. Limit on deportations. They're, you know, it's amazing that we're locking
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down not only the borders, we're severely limiting air travel. We are locking people in their own
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apartments behind walls to keep out the virus, but we're not going to deport foreign nationals who are
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in our country illegally. Great. It makes a lot of sense, right? Provisions enforcing sections of the
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Green New Deal. That's also in the Democrat bill. And then taxpayer handouts to abortionists.
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That's the Democrats' super serious bill. I told you what was in the Republicans' version of the
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bill. Well, actually the bipartisan version of the bill. It was stuff that frankly Democrats probably
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could get behind more than Republicans could, but bipartisan, pandemic, got to do it. This thing,
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it's a joke. They're not taking it seriously. And this gets to my main point today,
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my main takeaway from all of these shenanigans. This pandemic, by just the evidence presented by
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the left, has been overhyped and it's time to start getting back to normal. So President Trump
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has called for putting partisan interests aside, getting the relief bill passed.
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Now Congress must demonstrate the same bipartisanship again and join together to pass. The Senate bill is
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written and avoid playing any more partisan games. They have to get together and just stop with the
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partisan politics. And I think that's happening. I got a call a little while ago. I guess they're getting
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closer. It should go quickly. And it must go quickly. It's not really a choice. They don't have a choice. They have to
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This should not be a time for political agendas, but rather one for focusing solely and squarely on
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the needs of the American people. We are going to save American workers and we're going to save them
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quickly. Great. So that's Trump's priority. Just get the money back into the economy, get the economy
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cooking a little bit again so it doesn't completely collapse. How's the left responding to that?
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They want to nationalize businesses. Even on this most basic level of the relief package,
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the left is trying to exploit this for a radical desire that they've had for over 100 years. That
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is having the government take control of the businesses. Fortunately though, when they suggested
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that through a reporter at this White House briefing, President Trump smacked him down.
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When it comes to the Defense Production Act, we know that governors across the country all day today
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were pleading with you to utilize the DPA saying that they need it specifically for that allocation
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piece that you mentioned, Mr. Navarro. Why not use it now if that would answer their pleas for help?
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Well, we are using it now. The fact that I signed it, it's in effect. But you know,
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we're a country not based on nationalizing our business. Call a person over in Venezuela,
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ask them how did nationalization of their businesses work out? Not too well.
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The concept of nationalizing our business is not a good concept.
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It's not a good concept. Absolutely not. I just, I would like to apologize. I refer to that reporter
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as a him. It's actually her, though perhaps now I'm assuming her gender and maybe that's a whole other
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problem. But his answer is exactly right here. Look at Venezuela if you want to look at nationalization.
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We're not going to that. Trump clearly has the right instincts here. And then the nice thing is
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he's able to articulate why. I'll tell you why. As Peter said, we may have to use it someplace along
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the chain, but we're getting calls. Here's the beauty of it. If we go out and we want, let's say,
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masks, we don't know who to call on masks. But Haynes, who makes things of cotton, various elements,
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lots of things. It's a great company. They called us and they said, we're going to make millions of
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masks. We got a call today from 3M. There's a big article today, the head of 3M. They're going to
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make tremendous products and they're more or less in that business. And if they're not, like for
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instance, General Motors spoke to us, Ford spoke to us about doing ventilators. The beauty is they're
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calling us. If you go the national route, nationalization route, we're going to tell a
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company to make a ventilator. They don't even know what a ventilator is.
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So has the Wu flu freak out gone too far? Trump clearly articulating why we can't take these
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radical new measures, why we can't go even further down this rabbit hole of shutdown and
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nationalization. On the one side, you've got Trump saying, maybe we got to get back to normal.
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Maybe we've got to try to, you know, obviously protect public health, but not totally implode our
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economy. On the other side, you have the left, which is extending the crisis, right? By not passing
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the stimulus package, they are extending the crisis. By trying to fit in all this crazy economy
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destroying legislation in there, they are extending the crisis. By suggesting that we nationalize
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industries, they're extending the crisis. So those are the two opinions. Do we start to lighten up a
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little bit here? You got Trump on that side, or do we double down, lock down the country,
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stop the economy, grind everything even further to a halt? That's what the left is saying.
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Fortunately, it's not just Trump on the side of saying, maybe we need to get the economy going
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again. Dr. Fauci, the sainted Dr. Fauci, our public health dictator who tells us how to live. I'm,
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I'm really just mocking his position here. I think Dr. Fauci has actually done a very good job.
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And Dr. Fauci, even he is saying we can't completely lock down the economy. He says,
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quote, if you knock down the economy completely and disrupt infrastructure,
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you may be causing health issues. So it's not, it's not just that people are going to suffer
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health issues if we don't lock down. They might suffer health issues because we've locked down,
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might suffer unintended consequences for people who need to be able to get to places and can't.
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If you lock down everything now, you're going to crash the whole society.
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So now on the, maybe we need to lighten up, maybe we need to be more careful here.
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You've got Trump and you've got Dr. Fauci. On the other side, you've got Nancy Pelosi and the Dems,
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but it's not just Trump and Dr. Fauci on the side of, maybe we need to lighten up. You even have,
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I kid you not, the New York Times. And who's writing in the New York Times? A Yale professor.
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So now you've got the public health representative, the expert. You've got the New York Times,
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which is the left-wing outlet. You've got a professor from Yale, which is a very left-wing
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school, all saying the same thing. The headline from the New York Times, written by David Katz,
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is our fight against coronavirus worse than the disease? That's almost word for word what President
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Trump tweeted out a couple of days ago. And Katz makes this point. He shows that in war,
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you know, there are two kinds of military action. There is intense, you know, carpet bombing action,
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and then there is a surgical strike. Which way should we try to respond to the coronavirus? So
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far, we've been just carpet bombing the entire economy, forcing everybody to be locked down,
00:24:41.460
shut down completely. No businesses are open, basically. And then the other alternative is
00:24:47.760
what Dr. Katz proposes, herd immunity. You tell people who are very at risk to stay home. The rest of
00:24:54.680
the people take precautions, but go about their business. Then maybe people get the virus, but
00:25:00.260
statistically, they're very unlikely to have bad reaction to it or death, God forbid. And then
00:25:06.920
they're immune. Then it's much more difficult for them to pass it along. And then we just move on as
00:25:11.820
we do with every other kind of virus. Trump, Fauci, the New York Times, Yale professor,
00:25:20.680
very disparate group. You might call it bipartisan on the side of let's move on.
00:25:28.120
And you've got Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer saying, keep this all shut down. Let's drag out
00:25:32.560
this misery as long as we can. There is ample evidence all around us that this has gone too far.
00:25:39.260
And by the way, we may have found a cure. We'll get to that in a second. There's a very promising
00:25:44.240
cure and the media are lying through their teeth about it. We'll get to that. First, if you haven't
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We may have found a cure for the coronavirus. We don't know. It hasn't been clinically
00:26:47.780
tested. It is not approved by the FDA, but it looks like an anti-malaria drug called
00:26:53.980
hydroxychloroquine. It's hard to pronounce that one. President Trump struggled with pronouncing
00:26:59.880
it at the press conference the other day. Hydroxychloroquine is showing a lot of promise
00:27:05.320
for treating the coronavirus. Now, the media don't want you to know that. So why do we think
00:27:14.660
that this is showing promise? Well, just anecdotally, it has. There's a 52-year-old man
00:27:18.140
who got the coronavirus. He spent days in the ICU. He couldn't breathe on his own. He was struggling.
00:27:26.480
He thought that he was on death's door. He actually called friends and family and said
00:27:31.740
goodbye to them because he thought that he wouldn't make it until the next morning.
00:27:35.100
Then, a friend of his mentioned hydroxychloroquine. Okay? He spoke to the doctors. The doctors said,
00:27:45.000
this hasn't been tested yet, but he said, please, this is my last chance. Within a half an hour,
00:27:49.140
he gets the drug. He has a very intense reaction to the drug. The next morning, he felt totally fine.
00:27:56.060
So, President Trump has talked about this. Now, the mainstream media are running this narrative
00:28:03.420
that people are self-medicating with hydroxychloroquine and dying as a result of it.
00:28:08.720
This from NBC News. NBC tweets out, Arizona man dies after ingesting chloroquine in an attempt to
00:28:15.120
prevent coronavirus. There are no drugs approved to try to prevent or treat the new coronavirus.
00:28:20.460
Self-medicating to prevent the coronavirus can be dangerous and possibly deadly.
00:28:24.880
Trouble is, that is a false news story. It's fake news. It's a lie. The man did not ingest
00:28:33.680
this new medicine that they're touting as a possible treatment for coronavirus.
00:28:37.620
Here's from the story itself. I'm not even giving you outside information. This is from the actual NBC
00:28:42.460
news story. Quote, an Arizona man has died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate. So,
00:28:48.120
not chloroquine, not hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine phosphate. Believing it would protect him from
00:28:52.880
becoming infected with the coronavirus, the man's wife also ingested the substance and is under critical
00:28:57.500
care. The toxic ingredient they consumed was not the medication form of chloroquine used to treat
00:29:03.820
malaria in humans. Instead, it was an ingredient listed on a parasite treatment for fish.
00:29:08.540
So, it's not the same thing at all. It's actually a very different thing. I think President Trump,
00:29:17.760
I think conservatives, I think we would all agree, don't ingest parasite treatments for fish.
00:29:25.840
But the parasite treatment for fish is not the medicine that we're all talking about.
00:29:29.880
The left is so desperate to prevent us from recovering. The left is so desperate to prevent
00:29:37.360
us from returning to normal, both socially and economically, that they're just publishing lies
00:29:42.340
in the press. They often publish lies in the press. But you'd think they would be able to rise above
00:29:48.800
that kind of pettiness during a pandemic. Enough is enough. Okay? It is becoming increasingly clear
00:29:58.360
that many forces on the left in this country do not want a solution to the problem. Many left-wing
00:30:03.780
forces in this country seem to want the problem to get worse because it will give them a political
00:30:08.760
advantage. This has gone too far. You want some evidence that this has gone too far?
00:30:14.780
Look no further than Dane County, Wisconsin. Now, you know, at the federal level, President Trump has
00:30:21.780
said 15 days to stop the virus. That's going to expire on March 30th, just about. We'll have to
00:30:27.020
reassess then. But because we have a federal system, most of the response to this has not been at the
00:30:32.480
federal level. Democrats can't even pass a stimulus package. Most of the response has been at the state
00:30:38.260
and local level. So, you know, in very liberal states, California, New York, we are basically locked
00:30:44.240
down, almost entirely locked down. Other states and localities, not so much. Dane, Wisconsin, Dane County,
00:30:52.360
Wisconsin, has put us all to shame because not only are they locking down and saying no groups of
00:30:58.780
people and no private events and no religious services and no nothing. They've now put a, put a
00:31:05.860
form on the internet where you can report your fellow citizens for participating in any of these
00:31:14.900
activities. You can send in an anonymous report. So it says online, this form may only be used
00:31:22.360
to report mass gatherings as defined in the current order, right? This is the government order that are
00:31:27.940
being held in Dane County. For mass gatherings outside of Dane County, please contact your local
00:31:32.160
law enforcement. What are the types of mass gatherings? Restaurant, hotel, and bar. Okay. Movie theater.
00:31:38.660
Okay. Private gathering. Okay. Gym fitness. Okay. And religious center. So now if you're in Dane County,
00:31:47.780
Wisconsin, and you see a group of people going to worship God, you see a group of people holding a
00:31:54.820
mass, having a church service, you can report them and they will be subject to penalties by the civil
00:32:01.560
government. Cheeseheads, it is time to revolt. Okay. If you are living in Dane County, Wisconsin,
00:32:08.200
you need to vote every single one of these people out of office. There needs to be unrest. I mean,
00:32:16.120
this is outrageous. This is insane. You cannot comply with this. This, this actually is tyranny. You
00:32:26.440
know, I'm, I'm loathe to throw the T word around too much. I try to keep relatively calm when it comes to
00:32:32.260
these political debates, but a form put out by your government to rat on fellow citizens for
00:32:38.500
worshiping God. Give me a freaking break. These politicians, every single one who signed off on
00:32:46.100
this needs to be thrown out of office and never employed again. This is absolutely outrageous.
00:32:52.440
We have taken this too far. And if, if Dane County, Wisconsin is just a preview of what the left wants to
00:32:57.500
do in other counties, then we need to end this ASAP. Okay. We can protect public health. We can
00:33:04.300
take precautions without giving up everything that matters to us in this country. Why is the left so
00:33:11.820
willing to do this? As always for answers to these questions of crazy leftism, we have to look to our
00:33:19.600
wonderful superiors in Hollywood. So Idris Elba is the British actor. Idris Elba was just on Oprah
00:33:28.700
explaining why he thinks the coronavirus is attacking poor planet earth. Idris Elba just
00:33:34.600
tested positive for coronavirus. So he had to Skype into Oprah's show. Idris Elba presents a religious
00:33:42.380
view of why the coronavirus epidemic is taking place. And beneath all of that, perhaps there's a little
00:33:48.600
bit of a financial motive too. Our world has been taking a kicking. You know, we've damaged our world
00:33:56.000
and, you know, it's no surprise that our world is reacting to the human race. There's no surprise
00:34:04.900
that a virus has been created that is going to slow us down and ultimately make us think differently
00:34:11.740
about our world and ourselves. That's like a real, for me, that's a standout thing that's very obvious
00:34:18.300
that this is almost like the world's cry out to like, hey, hey, hey, you're kicking me. You know,
00:34:24.540
what you're doing is not good. So I'll get rid of you as any, any, any organism would do is try and get
00:34:31.860
rid of an infection. And maybe this is it for the world. So. So it's very obvious to Idris Elba that the
00:34:38.420
world is crying out and attacking us. It's very obvious to me that the world is not crying out
00:34:43.220
and attacking us because the world is a rock. Idris Elba refers to the world as an organism. The
00:34:48.520
world is not an organism. It is a rock. Organisms live on that rock. It is a rock. This is a very
00:34:55.580
popular religion on the left. It's the religion of pantheism to treat the physical world as though it
00:35:02.320
were God. I mean, you see this all the time, especially in the environmentalist movement,
00:35:06.320
but even in just the kind of vague hippie sentiments that they throw around mother earth that we've
00:35:12.060
come from the earth, our mother, or, you know, that the earth is crying out because we've attacked
00:35:17.580
it and it's attacking us back. First of all, if the earth really is conscious and attacking us,
00:35:21.560
then we better fight back hard against it, right? Let's drink those plastic water bottles. Let's
00:35:26.660
use those plastic straws. But of course, that's not what's happening at all. The earth is a rock.
00:35:33.020
We are on it. And in this popular environmentalist religion, the left is worshiping the rock. And
00:35:40.180
this religion ultimately is anti-human because it prioritizes rocks above all of us. That's the
00:35:45.880
religious motive here. There's a more cynical motive though, a more nefarious explanation,
00:35:50.700
I think. Idris Elba is saying the reason we have coronavirus is because of this mystical
00:35:54.600
period in which this mystical experience where we have thrown plastic straws into the ocean so
00:36:02.960
the earth is giving us a SARS-like pandemic to kill us all off or something. That doesn't,
00:36:08.400
okay, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I think we have coronavirus because the Chinese
00:36:12.260
government gave it to us. Seems pretty simple to me, right? Coronavirus appears somehow. We're
00:36:19.340
not exactly sure how. Pretty close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology of all the cities in the
00:36:23.880
world, of all the cities in China, shows up right near the place where they handle all of these
00:36:27.440
highly contagious diseases and bioweapons. So it just shows up there. But look, let's say it's
00:36:32.140
naturally occurring. Let's say it came from a bat, right? The Chinese government knows about this on
00:36:36.760
November 17th. They don't tell the world until the end of December. If China had reacted one week
00:36:42.420
earlier, they could have reduced the spread by 66%. Two weeks earlier, they could have reduced it by 86%.
00:36:46.840
Three weeks earlier, they could have reduced it by 95%. But they didn't do it. So the Chinese
00:36:51.520
communist government gave us this disease. Why is Idris Elba trying to blame it on some weird
00:36:59.840
pantheistic voodoo rather than the obvious culprit, which is communist China? Perhaps it is because
00:37:06.640
the Chinese government is funding so much of Hollywood. You know, I, I spoke to some friends
00:37:14.440
of mine who are pretty high up in Hollywood, who have worked in Hollywood for a long time,
00:37:20.260
who've been in very, very top rooms and very big movies. And they backed me up on this. They actually
00:37:27.500
took me a little bit further. They told me details that I, I simply didn't realize. China owns
00:37:34.980
so many of our theaters. They invest so heavily in many of our big stars. They've invested in Idris Elba.
00:37:41.580
They've invested in, but it's not just Idris Elba. It's all of Hollywood they've invested in.
00:37:45.520
And so Hollywood is loath to bite the hand that feeds them. You remember the NBA had this
00:37:50.660
controversy just a few months ago. One guy in the NBA sees fit to defend the Hong Kong protesters.
00:37:56.680
The whole NBA has to shut him down. Why? Because the NBA, as part of Hollywood, as part of our
00:38:02.120
entertainment culture, relies on Chinese audiences. Not a great situation to be in. It's, it's just
00:38:10.420
so cynical. I mean, I'd like to hope that the left has these kind of crazy idealist motivations as
00:38:18.520
well, like Idris Elba's pantheistic religion. But there would seem to be a certain cynicism to all
00:38:23.920
of it, to Chuck and Nancy shutting down the relief bill, to the mainstream media totally carrying water
00:38:31.580
for China, totally misrepresenting the cure, to Hollywood doing basically the same thing.
00:38:40.420
At the very least, what we have to take away from all of that is if our friends over on the left
00:38:46.300
are not taking this seriously, if the alarmists are not taking this seriously, if the very people
00:38:51.440
telling us we need to shut down our economy for nine months or 18 months are not taking this
00:38:55.620
seriously, why the hell should we? From the campaign trail, we also have to ask another question.
00:39:03.920
Where is Joe Biden? Have you seen Joe Biden? Do you know where Joe Biden's gone? I don't know where
00:39:10.200
Joe Biden's gone. You know, I, I do think the coronavirus needs to be taken seriously,
00:39:17.680
right? And I don't think it needs to be taken seriously in the way the left says it does,
00:39:21.940
which means we need to shut down the global economy, but we should take precautions, try not
00:39:26.040
to get sick. If you're at risk, you should stay home, quarantine yourself, wash your hands a lot,
00:39:29.780
all the stuff that's totally common sense. I guess Joe Biden is doing that because he's not
00:39:35.520
on the campaign trail. He's in a very at risk group. So Joe Biden is now trying to film campaign
00:39:40.220
messages from his living room. It looks absolutely hilarious. And the saddest part of all of it is
00:39:46.160
he seems to have even less energy, even less focus while he's campaigning without any other
00:39:54.740
It's up the number of responders dealing with the crush, these crush of cases. And, uh, and in
00:40:02.240
addition to that, uh, in addition to that, we have to make sure that we, uh, we are in a position that
00:40:09.380
we are, well, let me, let me go to the second thing. I've spoken up on that. The president must
00:40:15.260
use the defense production act. This is so embarrassing. I'll cut it there because you don't,
00:40:20.400
nobody needs to see that. He's losing his train of thought. This has been another advantage for
00:40:24.660
the left of the whole coronavirus epidemic is nobody's talking about Joe Biden anymore.
00:40:30.440
Joe Biden basically clinches the nomination and then he disappears from the campaign trail because
00:40:35.020
we're all focused on something else. Look, if Joe Biden could count on this kind of distraction
00:40:39.840
until November, it's his best chance of winning the presidency. This guy is not fit to be the
00:40:44.580
president. Okay. I don't think he was ever fit to be the president, but he sure ain't now.
00:40:48.480
And, uh, his best chance is to run a front porch campaign to never leave his, his home and hope
00:40:55.760
that he just wins because of the chaos of, from coronavirus and in the economy that people will
00:41:01.220
blame president Trump for. We should not allow them to take that much, uh, attention off of Joe Biden.
00:41:07.960
Now, some other people are trying to come out as much they can during the coronavirus epidemic
00:41:16.160
and give us all advice. So while Joe Biden is trying to hide our Hollywood celebrities are
00:41:21.380
trying to come forward. I couldn't finish the show today without this inspiring message from
00:41:25.800
Hollywood, specifically from Madonna, who is, uh, taking a bubble bath with rose petals all around her
00:41:33.420
telling us how to be safe in the virus. That's the thing about COVID-19. It doesn't care about
00:41:40.100
how rich you are, how famous you are, how funny you are, how smart you are, where you live,
00:41:56.240
how old you are. Hold on a second. Hold on right there. I just like to correct Madonna. It very much
00:42:02.360
does care how old you are. If you are over 80 or over 70, you are at much greater risk than if you
00:42:08.700
are 20 or 30 or under nine or 10 years old. So, uh, that's not true. Also, it does care about where
00:42:14.920
you live. If you live in Wuhan or, or Milan, you're much more likely to get it than if you live
00:42:19.480
in Fiji. Uh, anyway, she goes on. What amazing stories you can tell.
00:42:29.640
It's the great equalizer. And what's terrible about it is what's great about it.
00:42:36.500
What's terrible about it is it's made us all equal in many ways.
00:42:39.820
Like I used to say at the end of human nature, I mean, I, we're all in the same boat and if the
00:42:56.080
ship goes down, we're all going down together. We're all in the same boat. Now inside of that
00:43:02.840
boat, some of us are in beautiful bathtubs with rose petals all around us with our zillion dollar
00:43:08.160
mansions, but we're all in the same boat together. Okay. That Madonna video, which is getting a lot
00:43:13.460
of ridicule, obviously that Madonna video is at least as serious as Nancy Pelosi's coronavirusville.
00:43:19.600
So like we're going to attack Madonna. That's fine. Madonna's response is no more frivolous
00:43:25.680
than any other response we've seen from the left. Before we go, I have to get to it. This came out,
00:43:30.620
I think last Friday, but I, I just don't want to miss it. It's the real,
00:43:34.660
it's the real cherry on top of the Hollywood media, congressional Democrat frivolity Sunday.
00:43:44.140
And that is the imagine video. There's a video going around of Hollywood store. It stars all in
00:43:50.040
quarantine, filming themselves singing, imagine that awful John Lennon ditty and him to communism.
00:43:57.560
They're singing it each together to get us through the pandemic. Take it away.
00:44:02.820
Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try.
00:44:12.060
Stop it right there. These people are professional entertainers. They could not even keep the same key
00:44:18.540
for nine seconds. They could not, we're only listening to two people sing and they get the
00:44:24.220
key wrong within nine seconds. Come on, man. A high school choir could keep the same key. They go on.
00:44:30.560
No hell below us. Above us only sky. Imagine all the people. Living for today.
00:44:49.180
So one question I have here is who half of these people are. I don't quite, I mean, I recognize Sarah
00:44:57.920
Silverman there at the end. Half of these people though, like there's some kid with long hair and
00:45:01.880
he's in a white hoodie. I have no idea who that guy is. I'm not saying I have the biggest podcast in the
00:45:07.040
world, but damn it. I should have been invited to do this video. Then they finish it all off.
00:45:11.540
Imagine there's no countries yet. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too.
00:45:36.540
Okay. I can't take any more. Obviously this video is much, much more sickening than the Wuhan virus
00:45:47.140
ever has been. If this is our response, we need to stop that response immediately. I love, by the way,
00:45:54.480
that Hollywood's first, first reaction to a virus that comes from communist China and that has only
00:46:00.800
spread because of that communist government is to sing an ode to communism, which is what Imagine is
00:46:06.940
perfect. Just that level of obliviousness that we have come to expect from our entertainers.
00:46:14.980
That's the response though. I bring it up not just to make fun of a bunch of Hollywood people.
00:46:21.140
I bring it up. I bring up Madonna's video, not just to make fun of Madonna.
00:46:24.280
It's all of a piece. The Hollywood response, the mainstream news response,
00:46:32.840
the congressional Democrat response. It's all of a piece. It's all unserious. So maybe it's time
00:46:39.820
to take the serious people more seriously. Serious people, including the president of the United
00:46:46.360
States, the chief public health expert during this, Dr. Fauci, even a piece in the New York Times
00:46:52.320
written by a professor from a very liberal academic institution. Maybe we need to take a
00:46:57.320
harder look at that side of it. The people calling for alarm and shutdown are singing crazy ditties
00:47:03.900
and bathing in tubs full of rose petals and lying about the medicine that might be able to stop the
00:47:09.120
virus. The people who are saying, maybe we need to move on. They seem a little bit more serious to
00:47:15.400
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Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan Show. For years, the media has acted
00:48:23.260
like Tolkien's ring of invisibility for Democrats, protecting them from criticism. But as the Dems
00:48:29.040
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