00:00:43.000We're looking at the numbers in Florida, and it looks like they're doing as good, if not better, than any other state on the coronavirus pandemic.
00:00:53.000A year after all of the lockdowns and shutdowns began, Florida, the state that did not put in place a mask mandate, the state that did not shut down their economy, is doing the same as everybody else, or even in some cases better.
00:01:08.000So we'll talk about this new report that came out a speech from Ron DeSantis where he Claimed victory, and we'll discuss the results of the lockdown or the not lockdown.
00:01:19.000We'll also be talking tonight about a man in Canada who is being arrested by the government because he will not refer to his biological daughter as a male.
00:01:30.000The government is forcing him to transition his daughter, and because he won't comply, there is now a warrant out for his arrest.
00:01:39.000So that's a real story in a real country in the real world.
00:01:44.000And we'll be talking about all of that tonight.
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00:07:36.000And he's been riding in a much smaller plane many times since he was inaugurated.
00:07:42.000And I saw the video of him tripping today and I thought to myself, did they use the smaller plane because it was a smaller staircase?
00:07:52.000Because if you look at this guy walk for the past six months or so, maybe even longer, he shuffles.
00:07:59.000He shuffles like somebody who has dementia or has Alzheimer's or something.
00:08:04.000And many people who have older relatives or knew somebody that was in a state of mental decline towards the end of their life, they all comment on this that they have that same gait.
00:08:14.000They have that same sort of shuffling walk that they see Biden walk with everywhere he goes.
00:08:21.000And so I saw him trip today jogging up the stairs, and it occurred to me maybe this is true, maybe not, but he has been flying on that much smaller aircraft, which would require a much smaller staircase.
00:08:34.000And I'm wondering, obviously, they make all kinds of accommodations for this man who is clearly failing mentally, cognitively, and physically.
00:08:42.000And so I'm wondering, was that done deliberately because he couldn't make it up the stairs?
00:08:47.000Maybe this is what they were trying to avoid because, as far as I know, this is the first time that I've seen him climb the stairs into this airplane.
00:08:55.000Now, just because I haven't seen him climb into this plane before doesn't mean he hasn't.
00:09:00.000I'm sure he's flown on this plane before, but he did fly on the smaller plane many times since he was inaugurated, not.
00:09:08.000Too long ago, it's the first time I've seen him get in the big plane and he trips and he falls.
00:09:13.000And I'm wondering, maybe they know that that happens.
00:09:17.000Maybe they knew that that was going to happen because you see, every speech from this guy, every public address, he's not even out in public that much compared to Donald Trump.
00:09:27.000You don't see this guy sometimes for days, you know, a few days at a time.
00:09:31.000And even when he makes a public appearance, it is totally scripted, it's totally controlled.
00:09:37.000Sometimes they shoo the press away, like they did at this convenience store last week, I think.
00:09:42.000So, he's not even out there in public very much.
00:09:45.000And when he is, it's a total train wreck.
00:10:26.000I didn't think he would make it through the debates, and they put him on something to get through them.
00:10:31.000And I didn't think he'd make it through the inauguration, but he made it through that, too.
00:10:34.000So, you know, I guess they just have to be economical about how much they're willing to trot him out and do speeches and public appearances because clearly he doesn't, there's not much left in the tank there.
00:12:47.000I hate, sometimes I hate doing this show because I feel almost like there's this expectation that I'm going to come on the show and say, if this happened to Trump, the media would go ballistic.
00:14:11.000Do any favors to nightmares because sometimes I wake up from a nightmare and I want to go back to bed when you see how bad things are in the world.
00:14:17.000So it's actually even worse than that, and it gets worse every day.
00:14:21.000And this is just another example of this.
00:14:25.000In Canada, there is a man who refuses to transition his daughter, biological female daughter, who identifies as a male.
00:14:35.000She identifies as a trans female, wants to become a female to male tranny.
00:15:17.000It says, quote, a Canadian father has been arrested for misgendering his own 14 year old child by calling her his daughter and referring to her with pronouns she and her.
00:15:29.000Robert Hoogland, the father of a 14 year old biological female who identifies as transgender and prefers male pronouns, was found in contempt of court and jailed on Tuesday after repeatedly calling his child his daughter.
00:15:44.000Despite the court forbidding it, according to a report by the Post Millennial.
00:15:48.000The Attorney General of British Columbia reportedly issued a warrant for his arrest for contempt.
00:15:54.000Hoogland is opposed to his teenage daughter going through transgender related medical procedures and has repeatedly expressed his opposition in the hopes of saving his child from irreversible damage.
00:16:06.000The Canadian medical system, the legal system, and the child's mother, however, have gone forward with the social and medical transition of Hoogland's daughter, according to the report.
00:16:16.000In December of last year, Hoogland was mandated by British Columbia's Supreme Court Justice Francesca Marzari.
00:16:25.000To cooperate in the transitioning of his daughter's sex and was told not to refer to her as a female again.
00:16:32.000By the seventh grade, the school had changed his daughter's name in the yearbook without telling her parents and socially transitioned her with the input of gender ideologue psychologist Wallace Wong, who advised the pubescent child to take testosterone.
00:16:48.000The report adds that Wong referred Hoogland's daughter to the endocrinology unit at the local hospital and that a treatment plan was put into action on her first visit.
00:16:59.000The father says, Here I am sitting there as a parent watching a perfectly healthy child be destroyed, and there's nothing I could do but sit on the sideline.
00:17:09.000And according to Justice Bowden at the time, cheer it on.
00:17:12.000I can only affirm or get thrown in jail.
00:17:15.000This is what he said in an interview last year.
00:17:18.000And that's what happened to him this year.
00:17:21.000He didn't affirm, so he got thrown in jail.
00:17:25.000This isn't America yet, but this is happening right to our north.
00:17:56.000It wasn't as drastic, it's not exactly this story.
00:17:59.000In the case of James Younger, There was a seven year old, I think he's eight years old now, eight year old boy, who his parents were getting divorced.
00:18:08.000Mother wanted to transition him, even though he did not identify as a female.
00:19:20.000And think about the fact that just 13 years ago, and even in some cases less than that, but 13 years ago, the Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, ran being opposed to gay marriage.
00:19:36.00013 years later, Democrats are supporting the forced transitioning of children into another gender.
00:19:45.000Now, that is just talking about the mainstream of the left wing party in national politics.
00:19:51.000That's not talking about where the rest of the country is or has been.
00:19:55.000You could go back even six years, seven years, and this kind of gender ideology, trans ideology, this was on the fringes and the periphery of politics.
00:20:06.000This was not a major issue in the 2016 campaign.
00:20:09.000This was not a major issue for the Democrats in that campaign.
00:20:13.000This is something that was confined, or so we thought, to a very small and narrow fringe that existed on social media like Tumblr.
00:20:22.000It existed on college campuses with nutty SJW professors or students.
00:20:28.000Now, this is being enforced by national governments on the North American continent.
00:20:34.000And it shows you how far it will go sooner into the future.
00:20:39.000If we have gone so far in such a short amount of time in the past, it's only accelerating.
00:20:45.000Think of how much further we will go in an even shorter amount of time in the future if we do nothing about it.
00:20:53.000Now, this brings me to a story about America today, which is a little bit relevant.
00:20:58.000There is a female governor who spoke at CPAC and who many think is going to be a viable nominee for president in 2024.
00:21:32.000It said that she's wavering on legislation that passed through their Republican state legislature that would ban trans people from girls' sports.
00:21:41.000This is a top tier contender potentially to become the president, and even she isn't on board with a socially conservative position on transgender ideology.
00:21:51.000What's more, we just got done talking, I think it was last week or the week before.
00:21:57.000About this civil war within the Republican Party between gay conservatives, gay Republicans like Rick Grinnell, Scott Presler, Brandon Straka, Broke Back Patriot from Turning Point USA, and Christians like myself, Bryson Gray, Warren Witzke, and John Doyle.
00:22:16.000It's happening in America, it's happening in our politics, and it's happening within our own Republican Party that this stuff is being pushed further and further and further.
00:22:27.000And the only thing that's going to stop this is for us to say no to all of it.
00:23:40.000Or rewind to a time when I was comfortable with where we were and it wasn't excessive yet and press pause.
00:23:47.000Because what they're pushing is something that is the antithesis of a traditional Christian moral worldview with sexual morality and the family in particular.
00:23:59.000You either believe in the family with a mother and a father, a husband and a wife, after marriage having children, or you believe in anything goes.
00:24:10.000You believe that the only thing that matters in a marriage, in a relationship, or in anything else for that matter.
00:24:20.000Their preference for their sexuality, their preference for what gender they want to be, their preference for their spouse, or anything like that.
00:24:29.000And it's about those underlying foundational moral principles.
00:24:33.000You either have one or you have the other.
00:24:36.000You don't get to pause it somewhere in the middle between the two because there is no middle ground.
00:24:43.000It's like many other issues in the country today.
00:24:48.000There is no meet me in the middle between.
00:24:51.000Families with biological men and women, and men and women getting married and having kids, and whatever the hell this is, and whatever we've been seeing for the past five years, ten years, fifteen years, there is clearly no compromise.
00:25:06.000There's no way to say that we believe that the family is the only social unit that is valid, that has biological integrity, that is good and natural and pleasing to God, and then say, oh, but also all of this is okay too.
00:25:23.000What's going on in Canada, what's going on in Texas, and everywhere else.
00:25:27.000So, we have to say no to the whole thing.
00:25:29.000And I'll tell you this much this is an issue which is becoming more and more important.
00:25:36.000Contrary to common belief, and many people are under this impression, this is something that if a Republican ran on, they would be wildly popular.
00:25:45.000If a Republican ran on putting a stop to transgender ideology, instantaneously they would win the support of the party and they would win support from a lot of independents and Democrats too.
00:25:57.000The conventional wisdom in the Republican Party is that campaigning on social issues is a non starter.
00:26:05.000They think that the culture war has been lost, the sexual revolution won, it's in full swing, and it is meaningless to try to oppose it.
00:26:32.000It may have never been, but it certainly isn't now.
00:26:35.000You watch, and the first Republican that takes a hardline position on transgender, the first Republican that makes that a pillar of their platform, if they run that in campaign advertisements, if they run that in attack ads, you watch the first Republican to effectively message about transgender and put that in their platform, they will win easily.
00:27:00.000And I think they will be considered one of the most popular Republicans in the country.
00:27:05.000Because it's not just conservatives that are opposed to this.
00:27:08.000It's a lot of people that are saying enough is enough.
00:27:11.000People were, and this is the problem with the left, they overplayed their hand.
00:27:15.000People were willing to put up, they were willing to tolerate some of this.
00:27:20.000They were willing to say maybe, okay, people want to get married.
00:27:25.000That doesn't have anything to do with me.
00:27:28.000Fast forward 15 years, and the government is telling people, we'll transition your children and cut their penises off and put them on hormone replacement therapy and not tell their parents.
00:27:38.000And you have to be okay with that, or you go to jail?
00:27:41.000Well, you're pushing the limits of people's tolerance.
00:27:45.000People have their limits, and they're being pushed right now.
00:27:49.000And the person who's going to stand up and say that when they run for office, that person, I think, is going to be a very popular politician.
00:27:56.000Nobody will be the first one to do that because the conventional wisdom says anybody that supports this is a dinosaur.
00:28:04.000Anybody that stands athwart the LGBT agenda, that's the old Republican Party, that's not Big Tent or whatever.
00:28:11.000But you mark my words, the future belongs to people like Lauren Whitsky, Nick Fuentes, Bryson Gray, John Doyle, and not to Rick Grinnell and Christy Nome and anybody else who was vacillating on an important issue like this.
00:28:27.000And, you know, the last thing I'll say about this is there's no justifying this.
00:28:33.000You know, like I said earlier, people are willing to put up with some things, but nobody can justify this.
00:28:39.000Even people that are okay with trans, even people that are okay with gay, they too will admit that.
00:28:45.000Forcibly transitioning children is abuse.
00:28:49.000The amount of people that are truly in support of something like this is a very, very small minority of intellectuals, academics, radicals, ideologues.
00:28:59.000You will not find a large demographic.
00:29:02.000You will not find a large constituency if the issue is forced who will support something like this.
00:29:09.000If the issue is brought to the forefront of politics rather than being something that's on the side or on the back burner, You're not going to find many constituents who are going to stand up and rally for forcibly transitioning teenagers and children.
00:29:23.000And of course, that would be the case.
00:29:26.000People can't see that right now because the pressure is so strong from corporate media and from LGBT groups, the gay mafia, etc.
00:29:37.000But all it's going to take is one person to break the spell and show everybody else that it's acceptable.
00:29:42.000And then I think the Republican Party has a real chance at once again becoming a socially conservative party.
00:29:48.000So, don't discount the idea that the Republican Party cannot be viable if it is socially conservative.
00:29:54.000I think, in a lot of ways, that may be one of the only ways that it could become socially conservative.
00:30:00.000Or rather, the only way that it could become viable is by becoming socially conservative.
00:30:05.000What's more, Republicans try so hard to win the black vote, they try so hard to win the Hispanic vote with handouts and other forms of pandering.
00:30:16.000I think maybe the easiest way to increase the vote share for Republicans is.
00:30:21.000From blacks and Hispanics is to take a militantly anti gay position in their platform, to tell you the truth, because who's more homophobic, homophobic, or transphobic than blacks?
00:30:33.000I don't think there's a single demographic group in America that is more socially conservative when it comes to gay people and trans people than blacks.
00:30:42.000And I think that Hispanics are probably not very far behind.
00:30:46.000So you want to pander to blacks and Hispanics, there's a pretty obvious way to do it.
00:30:50.000And if they played that up, if they made Biden out to be the tranny president, Rather than the guy that passed the crime bill, I think that would do a hell of a lot more to win over blacks than the platinum plan or criminal justice reform or having Lil Pump go to a rally.
00:31:05.000And the same goes for the Hispanic vote.
00:31:08.000So that's the forcible transition in Canada.
00:31:12.000And I'm focusing on the political dimension because there's really not much to say about it other than that, that you don't already know.
00:31:21.000Anybody could look at this and say it's sickening.
00:31:24.000Anybody could grandstand, and not that it's grandstanding, but anybody could find.
00:31:29.000Something to say about how sick and evil and immoral this is.
00:32:33.000They never shut down their state, they never did a mask mandate, and lo and behold, Their numbers on COVID infections and deaths are better than most states.
00:32:47.000And there's some particularly damning numbers in this new report that was published today comparing the rate of infection and death in Florida against other states.
00:32:58.000So we're going to dive into this article from CNN, actually.
00:33:08.000It says, quote, After a year of criticism by health experts, mockery from comedians, and blistering critiques from political rivals, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is standing unabashedly tall among the nation's governors on the front lines of the coronavirus fight.
00:33:26.000DeSantis said, Everyone told me I was wrong.
00:33:29.000I faced continued pressure from radical Democrats and the liberal media, but I refused to back down, and it's clear Florida got it right.
00:33:38.000DeSantis said this in a fundraising appeal on Tuesday.
00:33:42.000As many parts of the country embark on an uneasy march towards normalcy, Florida is not only back in business, it's been in business for the better part of the past year.
00:33:51.000DeSantis's gamble to take a laissez faire approach appears to be paying off, at least politically, at least for now, which is, you know, this is so typical of the media.
00:34:01.000At least politically, at least for now, yeah, and in every other way too, right?
00:34:05.000And for the past year, as other governors capturing attention in the opening phase of the pandemic now face steeper challenges.
00:34:13.000Despite far fewer rules and regulations, Florida lands nearly in the middle of all states on a variety of coronavirus metrics.
00:34:22.000The state has had about 3% more COVID cases per capita than the U.S. overall, but about 8% fewer deaths per capita.
00:34:32.000More than 32,000 Floridians have died of COVID, and the state's per capita death rate ranks 24th in the nation.
00:34:40.000Lockdowns and school openings are suddenly a new measure for voters to hold governors and other elected officials accountable.
00:34:46.000A sign that the politics of the pandemic could open an uncertain chapter for many holding public office.
00:34:52.000DeSantis will be among the governors putting his record to the test when he runs for re election next year.
00:34:58.000The unemployment rate in Florida is 4.8%, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared to 6.8% in Texas, 8.8% in New York, and 9% in California.
00:35:14.000So it's almost twice as high in California.
00:35:17.000Florida has recorded about 9,204 cases per 100,000 people and about 150 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
00:35:33.000Across the country overall, there have been about 8,969 cases per capita and per 100,000 people and 163 deaths per 100,000 people.
00:35:46.000Struggling a little bit with these statistics.
00:35:48.000Despite far more stringent restrictions, California only ranks one spot better than Florida in both measures.
00:35:55.000Its death rate is about 5% lower than Florida's, which means about 1,500 lives could have been saved in Florida if the state's death rate matched that of California.
00:36:06.000And the point of this article, it really doesn't even matter the particular numbers, it doesn't matter the particular percentages.
00:36:58.000If lockdowns and if mask mandates and if masks themselves work, is there should be some correlation between the rate of death and the rate of infection and the extent to which a state is enforcing mask mandates and social distancing and lockdowns?
00:37:16.000It should happen because naturally and obviously, if mask mandates and masks and social distancing and lockdowns work, and when we say work, we mean achieve their intended result, which is to reduce.
00:37:30.000Death and infection rates, then what do you think would happen?
00:37:35.000They would have much lower death and infection rates in states that have lockdowns than in states that do not have a lockdown.
00:37:45.000Not only did that not happen, but there is little difference, it's marginal, between states that had a total lockdown, the most severe lockdown, and the state that had no lockdown at all.
00:38:15.000In many cases, too, people were saying that even though in Florida private businesses were enforcing their own mask mandates or their own form of social distancing, many people in the news media said that in spite of that, Florida was a hotspot for super spreader activity.
00:38:34.000And people vacationing during the Christmas holiday season were spreading coronavirus in resort towns and in tourist destinations.
00:38:43.000So, not only did Florida not have a lockdown or a mask mandate, they might have had more activity, more social activity, more super spreader events than any other state, potentially even before the pandemic started.
00:38:59.000Because people were fleeing to Florida from states that had lockdowns, they were fleeing to Florida.
00:39:05.000To recover from the lockdowns, to socialize, to celebrate, to do the things that they couldn't do in their own states and haven't been able to do for a long time.
00:39:14.000In spite of all of that, the numbers are the same.
00:39:17.000And actually, while Florida has a 3% higher infection rate than the national average, Florida has an 8% lower death rate than the national average.
00:39:29.000To me, this is clear and obvious, indisputable proof that the lockdowns and the mask mandates, like I've said for a year, Maybe a little bit, not as long as a year, a little bit shorter.
00:39:43.000Like I've been saying for nine months or so, it doesn't work.
00:40:04.000But compared to 26 other states, they're doing better.
00:40:09.00026 other states which have lockdowns and mask mandates, if they rank in the middle and not at the bottom or towards the bottom, then it shows that there is no statistical correlation between lockdown and mask mandate.
00:40:24.000And death and infection rate, which means that you could have it open, you could have it closed, and it's really a crapshoot what the numbers are going to be.
00:40:32.000Therefore, spare the economy, spare the unemployment rate, spare the children who are being kept home from school and killing themselves, and spare their social and cognitive development.
00:40:46.000Open up the state, and you won't have these nightmarish, apocalyptic, COVID spreading scenarios that people have warned about for the past year that they said would happen in Florida.
00:40:58.000Or in states or places that didn't wear their masks, social distance, or lock down.
00:41:07.000And it should have been obvious from the start because it has been demonstrated from the start that masks do not prevent you from contracting the COVID virus.
00:41:19.000If you look at any study on states with mask mandates and states without mask mandates, the numbers are similar.
00:41:26.000It's about a 1% difference between states that have masks and states that do not.
00:41:31.000And we know this because from the beginning it was demonstrated scientifically that surgical masks and cloth masks and the kinds of masks that people are wearing, for the most part, they are not, I don't know what the word would be, dense enough.
00:41:47.000The material is not constrictive enough to prevent viruses from entering into your mouth and nose.
00:41:56.000It's been shown time and again if you want a mask that prevents a virus from entering your airflow, You need an N95 mask.
00:42:05.000You need something that is a little bit more sophisticated than just your average piece of cloth, than a bandana, than a surgical mask.
00:42:13.000People have been saying this for over a year.
00:42:15.000Doctors, scientists, citizen journalists have been reporting this for a year.
00:42:19.000We knew that, and we tried to tell people, and we got banned on Twitter.
00:42:24.000And people laughed at us, and they said, Oh, it's just a mask, and you should just wear it, and you should shut up.
00:42:29.000And we said the same thing about the lockdown.
00:42:31.000We said, Look, it's going to tear through the country with or without the lockdown.
00:42:36.000It's going to be there when you leave the lockdown.
00:42:38.000You better just go outside, protect the vulnerable, but everybody can go outside, carry on with their lives.
00:42:48.000But at least if you don't have a lockdown, it will wave through, sweep through the country with the economy intact when all is said and done.
00:42:58.000This would have been the inevitable conclusion with or without lockdowns and mask mandates.
00:43:04.000The collapsing infection and death rate.
00:43:07.000We would have had the same trajectory from when all this started a year ago with the lockdown, with the mask mandate, or not.
00:43:14.000The difference is clearly, as was demonstrated in Florida, in the states that had the lockdown and the mask mandate, they not only had the surge in cases and death, they also destroyed the economy.
00:43:26.000They also destroyed their downtowns and small businesses and jobs and tax revenue.
00:43:32.000And I'm sure the lockdown itself killed people on top of the people that died from COVID.
00:43:38.000In Florida, they had the surge in cases.
00:43:41.000They had The surge in death, but they didn't have any extraneous or superfluous deaths.
00:43:46.000They didn't have anybody dying deaths of despair in Florida.
00:43:51.000They didn't destroy their small businesses and jobs or their downtowns.
00:43:54.000They came out on the other side, just like everybody else, but with their state intact.
00:44:01.000That's why, just like with the trans thing, this has got to be a big campaign issue in 2022.
00:44:06.000And I predicted this a couple of months ago.
00:44:09.000I said after the Capitol riot, the three big issues that will define America first in 2022, the three big issues for Republicans that we're going to score them on are COVID lockdown.
00:44:22.000We didn't include trans in this one, but COVID lockdown.
00:44:25.000Big tech censorship, voter integrity, and immigration.
00:44:31.000And clearly, in states like New York and California, it begs the question for people that live in those states why did your idiot governors shut down the state when Florida didn't, and they're doing the same?
00:44:43.000You know, imagine being in New York and your entire, you know, New York City, your entire city block is destroyed, all the businesses left, you lost your job, your wages are going down, et cetera, and you have COVID, right?
00:44:56.000And your, you know, your great uncle or whatever died of COVID.
00:45:00.000And the same thing happened in Florida, but they didn't have all that happen.
00:45:03.000Imagine being in a state like New York, California, Illinois, where I live.
00:45:11.000It's going to be a big problem for Democratic governors, going to be a big problem for Democratic representatives and senators that were pro lockdown when a lot of these stupid liberals and others start to realize that they got tricked and they got duped and they kind of lost everything for nothing because they panicked and they trusted the science.
00:45:30.000This is what trusting the science gets you.
00:45:33.000And it's funny, I think we covered this not too long ago.
00:45:36.000I forget which story it was in particular.
00:45:39.000But I said something to the effect that a lot of these liberals will tell you that if you don't wear a mask, you're not trusting the science.
00:45:46.000That if you do not believe in COVID alarmism, that you're not trusting the science.
00:45:52.000Are all of these teenagers on TikTok or all these people on Instagram, all of these retard verified accounts on Twitter, are they really reading a lot of science?
00:46:02.000Are they reading a lot of medical journals about the virus and about the pandemic and the effects of?
00:46:14.000Do they watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?
00:46:16.000It's not the scientists that are telling you that the country is going to, you know, we're not going to have a country if we don't lock everything down and you don't wear a mask.
00:46:25.000It is comedians, it's liberal activists, it's people in Hollywood that are telling you this.
00:46:31.000And as a result, it turns out that they were all wrong, right?
00:46:35.000It turns out as a result of listening to, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and as a result of listening to John Oliver and John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, they all turned out to be wrong.
00:46:47.000Your life was destroyed for two years, won't recover probably for another 10 or five or something, and it was all for nothing because none of this works.
00:46:57.000And I can't wait until the next time I see somebody, the next time, because I know there's even some people in my family who are really on board with the masks and the lockdown.
00:47:07.000Nobody in my immediate family, thankfully, but there are some people.
00:47:11.000And some people I know that they really believe in this stuff, you know, what can they really say for themselves after something like this?
00:47:19.000It's, you know, like I said, even CNN has to admit it.
00:47:22.000Even CNN and across the board, the media, there's nothing that they can say.
00:47:27.000They can equivocate and say, oh, it's not really a fair comparison, but the numbers speak for themselves.
00:47:32.000Florida's got the same rates and they didn't shut down.
00:47:36.000So basically, anybody that tells you you have to wear a mask, you can tell them to go fuck themselves, right?
00:47:41.000Anybody that tells you that we have to shut down, They have no legs to stand on anymore after this.
00:47:48.000And it just keeps getting proven over and over and over again.
00:47:52.000And it will, I think, into the future.
00:47:54.000So hopefully, and this is the good news because Florida was able to remain open without catastrophic consequences, this now is going to pressure every other state to open up.
00:48:07.000Because even in Democratic states, governors and other state officials are going to face very angry constituents who may be liberal that are saying, Why did we lock down?
00:48:28.000I think the benefit of having DeSantis alone, maybe more than any other governor, but having just DeSantis refuse to shut down the state, because Florida's a big state.
00:48:38.000I know he's not the only one, but Florida is, I think, the biggest state that didn't lock down.
00:48:43.000Because of the success of Florida in that story, that is going to put pressure on every other governor.
00:48:50.000First, Republicans and then Democrats to reopen their states.
00:48:54.000Texas opened up, Arkansas opened up, I think a handful of other states that were locked down opened up, and then the pressure I think is going to come down on California.
00:49:04.000It's going to come down on New York, it's going to come down on Illinois.
00:49:08.000Because people look at Florida and Republicans first and then Democrats second, and they're going to say they can open up, why can't we?
00:49:15.000And I don't think they would have said that if it wasn't for Florida.
00:49:18.000If Florida shut down like every other state, I don't know that any state would be opening right now.
00:49:24.000I don't know that any state would be on the trajectory of totally ending lockdowns and mask mandates if it wasn't for Florida.
00:49:33.000Because DeSantis did take a huge political risk.
00:49:35.000And like he said, everybody was against him.
00:49:37.000Everybody in the media, everybody in Hollywood, and even people in his state, they were against him.
00:49:44.000He stayed the course, came out on the other side, and he was totally fine.
00:49:49.000And as a result of that, now this puts the political pressure on every other state.
00:49:54.000Official and governor in the country, that the impetus is on them to open up their state like Florida did.
00:50:00.000And I don't think that would be happening if Florida never opened.
00:50:03.000I think that everybody would be locked down probably indefinitely because there would be no proof that lockdowns don't work.
00:50:10.000There would be no comparison, there would be no contrast.
00:50:14.000If every state was subject to a total lockdown, then how could you compare with a state that didn't lock down and show definitive proof that the lockdowns don't work?
00:51:02.000And even if he voiced skepticism towards the end that maybe the lockdowns weren't working or maybe states should open up, he never pushed it very strongly.
00:51:12.000Not as strongly as he could have, and not as strongly as he should have.
00:51:15.000And he didn't give a whole lot of material support to DeSantis, in my opinion.
00:51:21.000Not for nothing, but COVID is going to be one of the defining issues of this time period.
00:51:26.000And Donald Trump was a complete failure on this.
00:51:28.000He wants everyone to get stuck with the experimental gene therapy vaccine.
00:51:33.000And he was the architect of the original lockdowns, and he did nothing to stop them towards the end of his presidency.
00:51:40.000And he was in the middle of a tough reelection campaign, and there was a lot of politics that played into that.
00:51:46.000So, you know, you can kind of understand why that wasn't a total priority, but he was the president.
00:51:53.000And it should have been, I think, kind of obvious from the beginning.
00:51:56.000And he delegated it to Fauci and Burks and people in the CDC who created this nightmare.
00:52:07.000That's not, I mean, look, if there's going to be a primary in 2024 that Trump competes in with DeSantis, That's going to be kind of a tough thing to overcome.
00:52:17.000That might be something that I don't know if there's a scenario where DeSantis beats Trump for the nomination.
00:52:22.000I don't think Trump would run if it wasn't guaranteed that he would win.
00:52:26.000But that is going to create, I think, a little bit of a political problem for Trump that clearly there was a better way.
00:52:32.000Clearly there was a better way that DeSantis stuck it out from the beginning and he stuck to it and he won unambiguously.
00:52:43.000It's kind of a stain on the Trump administration.
00:52:47.000Whatever you feel about Trump, DeSantis handled it way better, and in doing so, proved that Trump handled it badly, handled it poorly by comparison, clearly, right?
00:52:58.000Because if Trump had, by some measure, kept the United States open over the past year, we'd be doing a lot better than we are now.
00:53:07.000The economy would be doing better, you know, and some say that it's the state's jurisdiction to shut down the economy, and, you know, maybe there's some truth in that, but I felt like Trump didn't do anything to keep the states open.
00:53:39.000I hope every state can be as based as Florida because this, I mean, the country sucks right now.
00:53:44.000And it already sucked, but I mean, it really sucks because of the COVID lockdown.
00:53:49.000And I've said it before the country's already bad, and then you can't even go out to eat at a restaurant.
00:53:55.000You know, as bad as the country is, you can't even go out to a bar and have a good time with your friends.
00:54:00.000You can't even, you know, go out and go to McDonald's or go to any restaurant for that matter and eat a nice meal with your friends outside or anything like that.
00:57:02.000We need the America First spell checker.
00:57:04.000I hope to God there's a spell checker in that other batch of interns because.
00:57:10.000It just keeps happening, and no matter how many times I and other people point it out, it just happens over and over and over and over again.
01:02:43.000Goofball says, if you thought of sending obtuse or cryptic messages to random Groypers on your Telegram for your own amusement, you could even delete the message from their phone after they see it.
01:02:55.000Cato says, I work with money, and you wouldn't believe how many black people I've had come in lately.
01:03:06.000Goofball says, are you going to first select candidates for AF and then build a team around them, or are you accepting applicants for candidates and support staff currently?
01:04:37.000Everything that I say, everything that I do, I get asked for weeks and weeks the same questions, the same asinine questions that are unnecessary.
01:05:40.000He always struck me as authentic, and with all terrible things that happened, I wouldn't doubt a legitimate coming to Christ could be a very persuasive force for young people who fall for the Judeo Christian ethics bit to see him as our savior.
01:06:16.000Goofball says the Groyper, who asked you if you had a secret plan for beating each of your Groyper generals, was prescient, especially after the Patrick Casey situation.
01:08:02.000This is a very specific kind of dynamic that you've seen in history.
01:08:07.000And that's the only way I think that you can really maintain unity.
01:08:13.000That's the only way that you can maintain solidarity.
01:08:17.000Obviously, you want it to be maintained through love, but it also has to be maintained through some semblance of fear, or at the very least, a deterrent.
01:08:25.000This is why it was so important that everybody.
01:08:28.000You know, ostracize Patrick because there has to be a deterrence that anybody that goes against the movement, anybody that turns on it and tries to sabotage it, the message has to be that if you do that, I mean, you just get wiped out.
01:08:42.000Like, that has to be the deterrent effect because otherwise, you know, you're not always going to have the total confidence of everybody, right?
01:08:54.000Over long periods of time, through good times and bad times, you're not always going to have the complete and total confidence of everybody.
01:09:02.000And some people get ideas in their head.
01:10:15.000I'm not saying that because I'm on an ego trip.
01:10:17.000I'm saying that because I understand the dynamics of organizations, I understand the dynamics of people on a fundamental level.
01:10:26.000No, I'm not a brilliant psychologist, but I understand the basics.
01:10:29.000I understand the basic pushing and pulling that happens inside of a person's mind to the extent that I know that if somebody makes a big play like Patrick did, They have to be punished severely to serve as a deterrent.
01:10:46.000And, you know, my reply to his tweet was the frog and the scorpion.
01:10:51.000I'll let you, you can guess at which one I am in that situation.
01:11:27.000He's totally closed off from the AF movement.
01:11:30.000And it's like this is what happens you get cleaved from the herd, and you die in the wilderness.
01:11:35.000Anyway, so I don't want to speak too much on that more than I already have.
01:11:42.000But it's funny that you bring that up because somebody did ask me that, and, you know, That's how you have to be.
01:11:49.000Ozzy Groypers has just got an email from DLive saying they revised the terms and conditions, so now there's an X tag to allow for creators who push the envelope in terms of their messages.
01:11:59.000After ejecting their best streamers, such as yourself, sinking their app store ratings, and presumably profitability, they're crying for you to come back.
01:12:18.000They gave back all these different streamers their ability to monetize.
01:12:22.000They took it away, they gave it back, they took it away, they gave it back because now their platform is dying.
01:12:28.000And even still, all their biggest political content is political.
01:12:33.000Their highest viewed streamers are all political streamers and they're all right wing.
01:12:39.000It's all like Patriot Daily and like all these Trump conservative types that are getting the views, which is, you know, and they thought that that was like they would get rid of that by getting rid of us.
01:12:51.000Their platform is still only used by censored political people.
01:12:55.000Base Clevelander says, I hate the Antichrist.
01:15:00.000I've never been totally opposed to the family collaborations.
01:15:03.000I've been hesitant to do it only because.
01:15:06.000I don't want my family to be targeted, you know.
01:15:09.000I don't want, because the minute you bring your family into it, then they're subject to the criticism and the media and everything like that.
01:15:18.000So that's why I just sort of have my instinct is to not involve any family members, but, you know, it might be fun.
01:15:27.000As we get more mainstream, I think it's bound to happen.
01:15:30.000And, you know, maybe once my parents retire and, you know, they're set, maybe then they could come on the show or something.
01:15:37.000My grandma's obviously retired, so maybe she could do it.
01:18:18.000I would take each piece and look at it under a magnifying lens, and I would identify if it had, you know, some of them were, they had imperfections.
01:18:29.000So I do identify if it had this specific imperfection, and if it did, I threw it out.
01:18:33.000If it didn't, I would put it to the side.
01:18:35.000I would inspect all the pieces, then I would put them back in the box, tape the box up, put the box on a different palette, and start on another.
01:18:44.000And I did that for eight hours a day, five days a week.
01:25:04.000You know, you got to do the right thing now.
01:25:07.000If you keep doing it, if you're like, well, I'm already going to hell, keep having sex with my GF, well, yeah, then you go to hell.
01:25:13.000John Anand says, one thing not mentioned nearly enough about COVID is how the Dem governors Whitmer, Cuomo, Newsom, and Murphy all sent COVID patients into nursing homes, killing 30,000 plus old people.
01:25:26.000These are the biggest mass murderers in American history, and the media is totally silent, even praising them.
01:28:17.000But as a policy, I don't eat things that people send me for obvious reasons.
01:28:25.000If you send me, like, you know, Hershey's bar, that's one thing, but if people make stuff and then they send it, I mean, as a policy, I just can't eat it for my own good.
01:28:36.000That's probably overly paranoid, but you never know.
01:28:41.000I mean, if like a federal agent says, oh, he's going to eat stuff that we send him, you know, God only knows what people might send me and they put it in there and I'm like, oh, I'll just eat it right up.
01:28:51.000As somebody like me, I can't really take the risk.
01:35:57.000You may say, oh, well, they weren't there at the Mayflower, sure, but they were there, you know, they were there in the early days during the industrialization.
01:36:07.000They were there after the great Chicago fire.
01:37:42.000James Farmer says the GOP holds trifectas in 23 out of 50 states, and yet with a few exceptions, they've done nothing unless we get our AF candidates.
01:37:51.000They can sweep across the board in 22 and 24 and still F it up.