Ep. 669 - The Rich Get Richer
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It s been so long since we got a relief bill out of Congress after our elected officials told us to completely shut down the country and stop living our lives. Congress finally passed a $1.4 trillion bill, but it s not enough to get us through 11 months.
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Oh, finally. It's been so long since we got a relief bill out of Congress
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after our elected officials told us to completely shut down the country and stop living our lives.
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You remember the first time they gave us about $1,200?
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$1,200. Not all of us, by the way, just some people, they gave $1,200, which is, you know,
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I guess it's good for a week or two weeks, maybe a month.
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It's probably not enough to get you through 11 months, and Congress realized that.
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So they pass a trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill and also a $1.4 trillion omnibus bill.
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Look, if you spend some money on something people really need,
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you got to spend a whole lot more money on a bunch of other stuff.
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This package will expand the Paycheck Protection Program.
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That'll open up $248 billion in funding for struggling businesses,
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which we've noticed curiously very often goes to companies connected to politicians.
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After the government told you you've got to stay home, don't go to work,
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get locked up in your apartment, you will get $600.
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It's been 282 days since 15 days to slow the spread.
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So I'm no math whiz, but if I'm doing that math right,
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that means that the federal government, to compensate us for shutting down our entire lives,
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However long the lockdown lasts, you better save your pennies.
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My favorite comment from yesterday is from Oliver Skatt,
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our definition of essential has been changed drastically.
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You know, people who get on Zoom calls and teach student about gender theory,
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that's now essential, but the police department is not essential.
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We actually, we've got to defund the whole police department.
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You see, going to the local head shop or Whole Foods, very essential.
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It's actually going to be less than that because obviously people aren't going to get their checks
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Who knows when they're going to get their checks?
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Frankly, in my view, the president should veto this.
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Senator Cruz, I actually just saw this headline.
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A lot of conservatives are coming out against this.
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It's not just conservative Republicans who are opposed to it.
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You've even got some Democrats, including maybe our favorite Democrat these days, Tulsi
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Gabbard, who is having none of this COVID relief bill.
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I just got back from having voted on the House floor on this massive spending bill.
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I voted against it, and I wanted to tell you why.
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First of all, this bill was over 5,500 pages long.
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We received the text of this bill at approximately 2.30 this afternoon, and we're told we'd have
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There is no way that anybody in Congress had the opportunity or the time to go through and
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I've been here long enough to see how provisions are snuck into these bills literally in the
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dark of night without any announcement, without telling anyone what is in it, and then rushed
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through in the manner that we have just seen tonight.
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This is the height of irresponsibility, and it is absolutely no way for the people's representatives
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to be able to represent the interests of the American people.
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Now, what Tulsi is focusing on here is the procedural aspect, the formal aspect of this, how the
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bill was written, how the bill was sent over to Congress, how the representatives had no
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So, yeah, procedurally, that's pretty messed up.
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There are also substantive issues with the bill.
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If you're going to have a relief bill, give people some money.
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Don't, don't give them, and it really is, not everybody is going to get the money, too,
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so it's actually going to, obviously, it's going to be significantly less than, than this,
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It's not going out to every single American, and, and it's just an excuse, basically.
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The Congress gives, you know, a little pittance of money to the American people,
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and then they sneak in all of their preposterous, largely preposterous plans there as well.
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Tulsi has really impressed a lot of us, I think, in the past six months.
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I was not one of those Republicans who was really on board for Tulsi during the primary.
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There were a handful of, of them who said, oh, you know, she's anti-war.
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But she's broadened out some of her political thoughts.
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She's, by far, I think, the most moderate Democrat as a practical matter on abortion.
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She's, by the way, not even just on those sort of hot button issues,
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even on sort of slightly more esoteric issues, issues that don't really get a lot of play.
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Tulsi Gabbard is now coming out, actually, against the federal bureaucracy, the deep state,
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the administrative state, the conservatives are always crowing on about, myself included.
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Tulsi Gabbard is going after those unelected technocrats and implying that in a free country,
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Heartless, arrogant, unelected CDC bureaucrats have decided that the lives of elderly Americans
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Now, for months, the CDC has been telling us that the elderly are the most vulnerable.
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But now they are recommending that 100 million so-called essential workers,
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which means healthy people working at everything from liquor stores to telephone companies,
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that they can get the vaccine before our grandparents can.
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That members of Congress like me, we can get the vaccine before at-risk seniors can.
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People like my aunt, who is imprisoned in her own home
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because of the danger that if she catches the disease, she could die.
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I had planned to take the vaccine, but will now stand in solidarity with our seniors
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I urge my colleagues in Congress who are under the age of 65 and healthy to join me.
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I love, I'm still not going to vote for Tulsi Gabbard because she's obviously more liberal
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But I'll tell you what, if, if the election were between Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Biden,
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If the election were between Tulsi Gabbard and the Clintons, it'd be a no brainer.
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If the election were between Tulsi Gabbard and AOC or Bernie Sanders or whoever,
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She is saying sensible things and she is thinking for herself,
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I actually had a journalist ask me this question yesterday.
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If, you know, assuming Joe Biden does get it, the court won't come in and save the day.
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Assuming all of that, will there be a new coalition that forms a kind of political reordering?
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So you've got the liberal establishment, which is the Biden types aided and abetted by the
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squishy Republicans, you know, all the, the Lincoln project or the Romney tie, those guys.
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Do you think that that will be one coalition and that the woke left and the kind of,
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I don't know, you could call it red pilled or based right.
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Could they come together and form a coalition to attack what has been disparaged as the unit party?
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You know, the, that the Bush, Clinton, that kind of thing.
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I think Tulsi Gabbard is totally the outlier here.
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She should be lauded for her efforts, but I don't think that's going to happen because
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the thing about the liberal establishment is they give the woke left what they want
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The, the progression of the liberal establishment for the last 70 years has been to the left.
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They want this to go faster, but just look at Biden's perspective picks.
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They're not interested in unity and healing, which we'll find out later.
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You've got more prominent Democrats and Democrat helpers calling for Republicans to die, like
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And, you know, you've got the occasional person who's waking up out of this on the left, you
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know, like Tulsi Gabbard, who's saying, wait a second, these technocrats don't have the
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This is so far beyond the realm of science or figuring out what works.
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You've now got these heartless bureaucrats at the CDC telling you that your granny doesn't
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deserve the vaccine because they, they find other people to be more favored than these
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I don't think there's going to be any sort of coalition here between the woke left and
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Because, you know, the woke left realizes where their bread is buttered.
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They realize the liberal establishment is much easier to work with and much more likely to
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give them the concessions that they want in the long run.
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You know, there, there is a double standard here.
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The way that skepticism of the virus and the vaccine for that matter is talked about will
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If you're in a favored group, you'll be talked, talked about with a great compassion.
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There's an argument now that because of historical injustices, you know, black people should be
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I'm just saying if you're perfectly healthy, if you're young, then there's not a very compelling
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If you're 99.7% likely to survive the virus or, or more, by the way, if you're younger and
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You, you have greater risks of many other activities that you go out all day long.
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If you're in a higher risk category, then maybe it makes a lot more sense to go get the
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But look, that's how conservatives are talking about this issue.
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What the left has been saying is if you are in any way questioning the absolute necessity
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of getting this vaccine, you are an evil, stupid, uneducated, anti-vaxxer, I don't know,
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Now, that's how conservatives are talked about.
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Face the Nation on CBS has the Surgeon General of the United States on.
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Surgeon General, who has given contradictory guidance at various times on the masks and other
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aspects of the pandemic, goes on and he says, I was actually pleased to hear this.
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He says he understands why some people are skeptical and feel like they don't need to
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He's saying, I, I understand given not just the, what's going on right now, but historically
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it makes perfect sense for you to be skeptical of these sorts of vaccines.
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I've talked previously about the, the history of mistreatment of communities of color, the
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Tuskegee experiments, the terrible treatment of Henrietta Lacks's and her family and how
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We need to understand that that distrust comes from a real place.
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Several surgeons general oversaw for 40 years, the Tuskegee studies where treatment was denied
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to black men and I walked past their pictures every single day when I go into my office.
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So believe you me, this legacy is important to me and helping restore that trust is important.
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We've had many people involved in the review and actually a study participants of color.
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I like, this is how I want my appointed officials and the lab coat people.
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I want them to acknowledge that there are political considerations that people have every right
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to take into account that are not merely matters of science and therefore beyond the realm of
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I'm, I'm glad that we're talking about the vaccines in this way.
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I'm glad we're talking about science broadly in this way because the, the scientific experts
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work within the realm of politics and we have control over politics.
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We, the people, except not every group who questions the lab coat dictators is being talked
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If you change a channel, you go over to MSNBC, you listen to Chris Hayes and his experts on
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You get a very different perspective when it's the conservatives who are questioning the
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We have watched the, the sort of right-wing disinformation machine, which is enormous and
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very powerful, get behind the idea that the election was stolen and fraudulent despite the
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And they have pumped that into the minds of tens of millions of people.
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And it is an open question now, whether they do the same with the vaccine tonight.
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My understanding is that Tucker Carlson was, was starting to sort of toy with that, right?
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If they decide to do that, then we will have a real problem on our hands.
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If these evil, like Tucker Carlson, could you imagine Tucker Carlson suggesting that there's
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Hey buddy, the surgeon general of the United States just said there's reason to be skeptical.
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And by the way, a lot of left-wingers have said this, there's a reason to be skeptical,
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specifically in the case of if you're black, because there have been these medical experiments
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done on black people and they weren't always aware of what was going on.
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And, and people who had been given public trust sometimes violated that public trust.
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So extrapolate that out to other issues, to other authorities, to other segments of the
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You, you would never hear them speak this way on the left about conservatives, the way
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that they speak about, I don't know, whether you're a favored racial group or favored sexual
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There's, there's, by the way, there's an, a new standard here on the vaccines.
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There's that fake Republican, Anna Navarro, who was yelling at Marco Rubio yesterday because
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he got the vaccine, you know, damned if you do, damned if you don't, you're, if you don't
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If you do get the vaccine, you're taking it away from people who really need it.
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Anna Navarro is now saying people in the Republican party should not get the vaccine
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because they supported Trump and therefore they're evil and therefore they don't deserve
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I take it, you know, the, the answer to this question of, of who should get the vaccine
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first is pretty obvious and that answer does not include Marco Rubio.
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I don't think I should include the senators, period.
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Particularly, listen, there's something that really gets stuck, I think, in my craw and
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other people's craw at the idea that people who have been enabling Donald Trump downplaying
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the COVID virus, calling it a hoax, who have attended, spoken at, encouraged, promoted and
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participated in so many of his reckless rallies where people have been packed like sardines
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and have spoken at these rallies knowing people are there maskless, who have attended super
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Like we've seen, you know, so many people get infected with COVID at them and then, and
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then after they've been selfish, after they've been reckless, after they've been servile to
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Donald Trump, then they get to jump the line and go in front of people who are in nursing
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homes and go in front of people who've been risking their lives for 10 months.
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So according to Anna Navarro, she, she's making a simple point, right?
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According to Anna Navarro, if you engage in behavior that makes you more likely to get
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this illness, then you don't deserve treatment for this illness.
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Because right now she's saying, if you engage in behavior, call it reckless, but any kind
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of behavior that makes you more likely to get the illness, then you don't deserve treatment.
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There are behaviors that make you more likely to get all sorts of illnesses.
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People who engage in those behaviors, they don't deserve treatment.
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Is that what you would, somebody tells me that's not what she would say.
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What if, and I know there's this brilliant genius medical theory out there that public
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health experts have signed onto actually, that if you go to a conservative rally, a Trump
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rally, you're, you're dangerous, you're reckless, you're going to get COVID.
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If you go to a BLM riot, you're not, you're fine.
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You can't, you, you, you won't even have your COVID counted in the official statistics.
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According to, according to some people, that's what they want.
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So if you go, I, I dispute this medical theory that the virus is so woke that it only affects
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If you go to the BLM rally and you get COVID, do you not deserve treatment?
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You're showing up, it's reckless, you're in huge crowds, you're grabbing lots of Gucci
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handbags and you're probably not wearing gloves while you do that.
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If you're, if you're at the Antifa part of those rallies, you're grabbing all sorts of
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weapons and throwing them at people, beating people up.
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So you're having a lot of contact, like with people's skulls, you know, between your knuckles
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So reckless behavior, more likely to be infected.
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But as we were discussing yesterday, it's, it's not necessarily hypocrisy because the
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left is kind of open about this standard, right?
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They say, yeah, certain groups should get special privileges and certain groups should be punished.
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Leftists should get to do whatever they want and conservatives should be punished.
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Left-wing political agendas should be called science and beyond the realm of political
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debate, conservatives should not even have a voice in the public square in their own
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George Takei, do you know, he was on Star Trek, I guess, like 400 years ago.
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And for some reason he's, he has a voice in the public square.
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I've never seen Star Trek and I don't know that I've ever watched George Takei do anything
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beyond one of those little social media videos, but whatever.
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He, you know, he's very ardent left-wing liberal and he tweets out, quote, there are very, very
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few instances of known allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine, but Marco Rubio has
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But in George Takei, you know, he's an entertainer, but he's making a political point
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And the political point is, I hope Marco Rubio has an adverse reaction to this vaccine.
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And maybe some of these allergic reactions kill people.
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I hope Marco Rubio suffers an injury or possibly dies.
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We're probably going to end the filibuster, add a bunch of states.
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But don't worry, because we're going to give you a lot of unity and healing.
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Meanwhile, his campaign manager and, and prospective deputy chief of staff says, yeah,
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That's the sort of unity and healing that, assuming the election keeps going the way it
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That's the sort of unity and healing you can expect.
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And I do think we need to, we need to be prepared for this.
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I, more than anybody maybe, or at least as much as anybody, I've said, don't concede before
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Now you're seeing even some of the most ardent voices on the right say that this thing is
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over, up to and including Pat Robertson, who is pretty hardcore.
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Okay, Pat Robertson makes a lot of conservative Republicans blush.
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He's also been around politics now for, I don't know, 100 years or something.
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Robertson believes this election is over, which means we need to start looking, I don't
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If they're not happening in politics, you got to project them obviously up to the heavens
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I'm very sorry to hear that because Pat Robertson is a pretty tough-as-nails Republican.
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Pat Robertson said my favorite phrase maybe ever in modern politics.
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This guy said, this is in a 1992 fundraising letter.
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He said, the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women.
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It is about a socialist anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their
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husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
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You know, and you listen to that and you say, gosh, that's, that's a pretty, pretty radical.
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Uh, but much like Bertrand Russell with the ontological argument, it's easier to think
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that he's wrong and to quite point out the flaw in his logic.
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Regardless, uh, Pat Robertson, no squish, right?
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He says Joe Biden is going to be the president.
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I think the, the Biden, uh, corruption, uh, has not totally been brought to, to, uh, fruition,
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but it doesn't seem to be affecting the electoral college.
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And I don't think the Supreme court is going to move in to do anything.
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And I think, uh, we're going to see a president Biden.
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And I also think we'll be seeing a president Kamala Harris, not too long after the inauguration
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That is so depressing, but listen to the way Pat Robertson's talking, at least when he's
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opening up here, he's not saying this is what we should do.
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He's saying, look, the, there were these avenues to challenge the results of the election.
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You could do it in court and you can get to the legislator, either the state legislatures
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or before they send their electors or to the electors themselves.
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The court, the courts, I think have shut down a lot of cases, but in the, in the real tough
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cases where they should have taken up the issue, where Ted Cruz said he was going to go
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argue it before the Supreme court, Supreme court refused to get involved.
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Well, state legislatures already sent their electors.
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Could it, could we challenge the votes in Congress, in the house and in the Senate?
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There are some members who've said they're going to challenge the votes.
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The, the historical analog for that would be the compromise of 1877.
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I think we're the only show in politics that was covering the compromise of 1877 to give
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And the sad fact is it does not seem that there is the political will to do anything like that.
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So Robertson, totally descriptive here saying probably it's over, but he went further and,
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and actually went after Trump a little bit, which made me quite crestfallen.
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With all his talent and the ability of it to raise money and draw large crowds, the president
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People say, well, he lies about this, that, and the other, but no, he isn't lying.
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He was the most popular of people of, he saved NBC, but with The Apprentice, you know,
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to go down the line of things that really aren't true.
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And, you know, people kept pointing to them, but because they loved him so much and he was
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so strong for the evangelicals, the evangelicals were with him all the way.
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But there was something about him that was good, that God placed him in that office for the
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But at the same time, he is very erratic and he, he's fired people and he's fought
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people and he's insulted people and keeps going down the line.
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And I think it would be well to say, uh, you've had your day and, uh, it's time to move on.
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And I'm, I'm not even, look, if Hat Robertson's point is Trump's a complex guy and he's got many
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Uh, that describes everybody except everybody's got flaws.
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Not everybody has heroic virtues or record of accomplishment, but I see his point.
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And, uh, this is going to be a question that, that is debated for a while.
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Is President Trump going to continue to lead the party?
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Uh, you know, assuming that Biden gets it this time or, or not, is he, is he just going to
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Uh, you know, I, I see, I, I see that there is an argument.
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People, when they leave the presidency, they just often for ex-presidents, it's good when
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I mentioned this at, at the TPUSA event the other day.
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I hope he has a very nice long life when he, when he eventually goes, as we all go, he may
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Who's going to change the priorities of the establishment and at least fight the priorities
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of the establishment the way that Trump did, singularly?
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If Trump leaves on January 20th and if someone is willing to step up and take that mantle
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and fight and fight for that make America great again agenda, then there's an argument
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I want Trump to be fighting from outside of the office and fighting to get back in too.
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I don't have a whole lot of confidence given this COVID relief bill, quote unquote, that
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I don't have a lot of confidence that there are a ton of politicians out there who can step
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He hasn't consulted me on this, but this is going to be, Pat Robertson is a representative
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of a, of serious, you know, right wing conservatives, not squishy Republicans and of people who
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Obviously, Pat Robertson has been a televangelist for many, many decades describing the cultural
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issues, the feminist agenda, making people become witches and things like that.
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Speaking of the strange sexual agendas, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Izzard, who is a British actor,
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I don't, I've heard the name, but I couldn't really pick him out of a lineup, especially
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Now, Eddie Izzard apparently has had a sort of complex sexual confusion for a number of
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But he had just announced a couple of days ago, he's, he wants to be called a woman.
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So I go to Eddie Izzard's Wikipedia page and I, I was not shocked that a person from show
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What was, what was shocking and scandalizing though is within minutes perhaps of Eddie Izzard
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making this announcement, his entire Wikipedia page had the pronouns changed from him to her.
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This is a guy who's been in show business for decades.
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No one is confused about, he looks like a dude.
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He's presented himself as a dude until five minutes ago.
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The minute he says, I'm going to identify as a chick now, all of a sudden big technology,
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the, the enforcers of our new standards go in and they change everything.
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And so this is what I found on Wikipedia said, Izzard is gender fluid and calls herself somewhat
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When asked what pronouns she prefers, Izzard said either he or she, that was in 2019.
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So just a year ago in December, 2020, Izzard stated a preference for she and her exclusively
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Izzard identified as a transvestite and she also called herself a lesbian trapped in a man's
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Well, I don't identify that way, but I don't even know what that means because that doesn't
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Maybe the guy is suffering from a serious, you know, psychological issue or confusion,
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but regardless, you can't be a complete boy plus half a girl.
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You can't be boy, you can be boyish and girlish in that we all have aspects of our personality
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that are slightly more masculine or slightly more feminine, but you can't be both a boy
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And a boy can't become a girl and a girl can't become a boy.
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He's a man and we're, I don't even take issue with the idea that people would have these delusions
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or even that some of their friends and family would indulge those delusions.
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My issue is that the established institutions, Wikipedia, the mainstream media, now government,
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educational institutions, they are indulging the fantasies.
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And worse than that, they are coercing all of us into indulging those fantasies too.
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Poland came out and just the other day and they're going to fine social media companies.
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They're going to fine social media companies that censor lawful speech.
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This is not a perfect analogy, but it's getting at the issue.
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So Poland, if there's speech that's legal for you to say in public, according to the government,
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then they are requiring social media platforms to defend that speech.
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There are going to be some squishes or maybe people who call themselves libertarian or I
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The government has no right to tell a private company what they can't enforce their standards.
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You can't, okay, whatever slogans or bumper stickers you want to say.
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The fact of the matter is all laws legislate morality.
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Every society, everywhere for all of human history has had standards and there are limitations
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If you call a man he, you necessarily won't call him she.
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If you call the man she, you can't call him he.
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If he's he or she, you're not saying anything about that.
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You have to communicate things that have clarity.
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Words are symbols and they signify certain things and you do have to signify certain things
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unless you want to descend into random sort of tribes of animals who just babble to themselves
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all day long but don't actually have meaningful speech.
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So you do have to say these things and politics is much larger than I think a lot of conservatives
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have been deluding themselves for, for, for a number of decades now.
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Buying into this kind of pseudo libertarian notion that there's no role for the government.
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If you want to look, Google's censoring you, Google is, and Wikipedia and big tech are forcing
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you to violate not just your conscience but violate your own eyes and rational faculties
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Well, I don't know, build your own Wikipedia, build your own Google.
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This is the kind of moral idiocy, political ignorance, and cowardice that has allowed the
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left to run roughshod over the culture even when Republicans win elections because all Republicans
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ever are willing to do is cut taxes a little bit and, by the way, still spend more money.
00:39:10.840
They're not ever willing to do anything on the culture and the excuse they've found is,
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The left does and the right used to and every, everyone else acknowledges that all laws legislate
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So we're going to allow these giant corporations that have unprecedented power over our public
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We're going to let them just dictate our conversations and dictate the way that we're even allowed to
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Poland, which has often saved Western civilization, let's not forget Jan Sobieski, the Battle
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of Vienna several centuries ago, coming out, saving Western civilization, once again has
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Let's not forget when the Soviet Union invaded and they're, you know, trying, they're still
00:40:04.380
trying to batter Europe, destroy the Western world.
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Pope John Paul II, a Polish guy, shows up to Poland, a million Poles come out and they
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The Poles have a, I don't know if it's built into them, but they've got this kind of common
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And here they're saying, we're not going to let these insane corporations completely
00:40:24.320
undermine our culture, completely undermine our institution, take over our values.
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If there is going to, if we are going to have to deal with what the conservative thought
00:40:35.440
means in a world after Trump, hope he gets four more years or maybe 40 more years.
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But if he doesn't, one thing we got to take from this guy is courage and common sense.
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It was kind of the wrong answer for policy on the transgender question, but it was the
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He was once asked, what do you think about the North Carolina laws and the bathroom laws?
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He goes, look, I don't know what's going on, but come on, what was going on before?
00:41:01.680
I don't think transgender bathrooms, I don't think this is the biggest national problem.
00:41:07.740
He got the particulars of that issue a little wrong, but he was deferring to prudence, common
00:41:12.880
sense, using the good brain that God gave you and having a little courage to.
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That is going to, that will either be the future of, of the conservative movement or the
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Meanwhile here, we've completely lost our minds.
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We didn't get a chance to cover it, but it's ramping up again.
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I was just flying all over, flew to Georgia, flew to Florida, flying back.
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And they're, you know, different airlines are, are more serious than others about making
00:41:59.420
They get you to put the mask up over your nose, which seems counterproductive to me because
00:42:03.560
if they touch you, they're probably more likely to infect themselves.
00:42:05.860
In any case, an airline, United Airlines, kicked a family off the plane because a two-year-old
00:42:20.420
We just got kicked off the flight because our two-year-old would not put on a mask and
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I mean, I'm going to put a video on and they're sending all of our bags and Adeline's car seat
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to New York and we're banned off of United forever because a two-year-old would not put
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You can actually see they recorded a little bit of the interaction on the airplane.
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Listen to the cold, the, the cold lack of compassion from these people just following
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So the guy said, the guy, you know, the steward comes up, he says, you got to get off.
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And I took that opportunity and I ran with her.
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I gave you an opportunity to put the mask on your two-year-old.
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I'm literally holding it over my daughter's face.
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Even though, remember Fauci told us not to do that like six months ago?
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And we need to, I think we need to go a little further.
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I think we need to be bolder and say, no, it's disordered.
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With few exceptions, it is disordered to wear masks in public.
00:44:11.780
It's disordered to have widespread mail-in voting.
00:44:14.260
There are limited cases where it's fine if you're frail or infirm or you're, let's say,
00:44:19.020
you're overseas and maybe then you can have an absentee ballot and you got to request it.
00:44:22.620
So I'm not saying this one-size-fits-all ideological solution, but generally speaking,
00:44:31.420
We need to have the courage to not just say, do whatever you want, but actually,
00:44:34.560
you should do the things that we are suggesting you do because we've used our faculties of reason
00:44:42.100
Bill de Blasio out in New York, he's not just saying, look, we need for justice.
00:44:51.300
He's saying, hey, we're going to redistribute all your wealth.
00:44:56.380
To profoundly change the distribution of resources, I like to say very bluntly, our mission is to
00:45:09.540
This reminds me of Beto O'Rourke when all the Democrats are saying, we're not going to steal
00:45:32.500
He says, hell yeah, we're going to take your guns.
00:45:34.920
Oh man, check out this cool, this cool skateboard move.
00:45:46.600
And the thing is, Beto O'Rourke is a total loser, right?
00:45:48.720
And he lost the Senate and he lost the presidency.
00:45:53.060
That was at one point the most important city in the country.
00:45:55.460
I don't know that it still is, but it certainly was.
00:45:57.280
The left is getting much, much bolder and we need to get bolder too.
00:46:04.600
Actually, speaking of New York, there is one group of Republicans there that is giving
00:46:10.760
This would be the Whitestone Republican Club in Queens, in New York City.
00:46:15.520
They held a Christmas party and it wasn't on Zoom.
00:46:20.640
It was in person and they weren't all masking themselves up and putting, you know, saran
00:46:25.780
And they walked around like normal people and actually they had a conga line.
00:46:39.200
It's fun hats, like little red fedoras, MAGA hats.
00:46:43.280
A lot of boomers, you know, it's like, it's not like they're rowdy kids or this isn't the
00:46:47.700
proud boys, you know, it's just normal people living in New York, dancing around, having
00:47:00.940
If you had played this video 12 months ago, if you played it a year ago, there would be
00:47:09.180
Now, those people who are just having a Christmas party and dancing around in a very sort of modest
00:47:31.580
They've just, the standards have changed so quickly that you, you may not have even noticed
00:47:40.600
And people have just gone along with it like frogs boiling in water.
00:47:46.360
We should do, we should not go along with the new standards.
00:47:54.360
And you don't need to be some kind of reactionary to do that and fall into all the traps that
00:48:00.680
You can just go about and live your life and take off that stupid mask and go to Christmas
00:48:05.620
parties and see your family and wave the Trump flag, wave the American flag, not be, you know,
00:48:11.820
not, not be living in fear of Antifa, smacking you in the head with a brick.
00:48:15.600
Not, don't let them bully you into submission, whether it's Antifa or whether it's those bureaucratic
00:48:21.900
Go around, live your life, have a little conga line.
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That's, that's the kind of resistance that we're going to need.
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