The White House and Congress are considering a direct cash payment to most Americans as part of their $1 Trillion fiscal stimulus package to help fight the coronavirus and get people back on track with their day-to-day lives. It's a good thing we don't have a basic income or universal basic income, because it's the most direct and easiest way to support the economy and the people who need it the most. It could be as simple as $1,000 per person, but it could be a lot more than that. We'll talk about that and much more on tonight's show. Also, we have the latest update on the spread of the virus and how many cases have been reported so far, and how bad is it? 10,000? That's right, that's ten thousand cases, and it's not even close to what we thought it was going to be! We'll cover that and more on this episode of America First! Subscribe to America First to stay up to date on all things going on in the world of Coronavirus, politics, economics, and everything else going on around the world. Today's show is brought to you by Nicholas J. Fuentes and the crew at America First. America First is a podcast that puts the facts on the table to give you the facts you need to know to make sense of what's going on and make sense. of it all. Subscribe, share, and spread the word to your friends and family about it! Thanks for listening and share it on your social media! - Nicky - Nicholas JF@AmericaFirst and the rest of your thoughts, thoughts, opinions, and thoughts on it on the world on the internet & more! Tweet me to let us know what you think about it. - your thoughts and opinions are your thoughts on the latest in the corona virus and what you'd like to see on the Corona virus! Timestamps Tweet us or your thoughts! on Corona! and your thoughts are also on it in a corona vids! or any other Corona vlogs! . or you can be reached at CoronaVirus? or do you have a Corona update? on corona? and we'll get a shoutout on Corpora vid on that!
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00:01:46.000This is one of the go-to, excuse me, one of the go-to numbers, maybe the baseline for what this would look like.
00:01:52.000But the President today said at a press conference that among the things that they are considering and that will be in
00:01:59.000The fiscal stimulus package, which is working its way through Congress now, will be a direct cash payment to most Americans.
00:02:08.000And like I said, the number that's been floated is $1,000, but actually at the press conference today the Treasury Secretary and the President suggested that it could actually be more than that.
00:02:18.000There's legislation that's backed now by a number of senators that could have as much as $4,500 per American.
00:02:25.000I've heard other reports that it could be as much as two $1,000 checks per American.
00:02:31.000But nevertheless, the good news is we are securing the bag.
00:02:35.000We are not going to get our Yang bucks.
00:02:38.000Andrew Yang is not going to be giving us $1,000 per month because he is not in the race anymore to become the president.
00:02:45.000And we may not get a universal basic income anytime soon.
00:02:50.000But it looks like we could all cash in on some corona bucks.
00:02:55.000We could all be laughing our way to the bank on who knows if it's $1,000, $2,000, $4,500.
00:03:01.000And they say that we could have more direct cash payments depending on how bad the virus is and how bad the economy gets.
00:03:12.000They say that the reason they're considering the cash payments is this is the most direct form of support that they could give to people.
00:03:20.000One measure that they floated was a payroll tax cut, but apparently that would take six to eight months to materialize the benefits of that in the economy.
00:03:31.000So instead they're saying that the most direct and the easiest and the quickest thing that they can do is just giving every American a check.
00:03:39.000And they said that excluded would be super rich people, it would be means-tested, which means that
00:03:45.000Probably the highest earning people in the country are not going to get it, but just about everybody else will be getting something like that.
00:05:05.000I've been telling you about this, that it is in the works to severely, to dramatically upgrade my studio setup.
00:05:13.000Within the next three months I think is gonna be the timetable not a hundred percent sure obviously It's a little bit affected by the coronavirus, but that is the plan and so hopefully In very short order I'll have fancy graphics and fancy physical props I don't know we'll have to see we're still kind of early in the the design phase But you know I'm just thinking to myself it would be nice to look at it on the computer But then I have to like mess with my camera and then
00:05:43.000So we've got a whiteboard, but we'll give you the updates on the latest numbers and what's happening as far as lockdowns, restaurant or I'm sorry lockdowns, restaurant closures, school closures, how that's going.
00:05:56.000We'll talk a little bit about what's happening in New York City and this row now between the United States and China which you might have read about.
00:06:04.000The president tweeted calling the coronavirus the Chinese virus and this has caused big controversy.
00:06:14.000The mainstream media is upset with the president.
00:06:17.000This has caused a lot of drama so we'll talk about that which was addressed in the press conference today and we'll also talk about a situation with
00:07:12.000Significantly in the history of the world, of humankind, we are living through an inflection point when things were going one way and then they went in another direction.
00:07:23.000And for better or for worse, it is going in the history books.
00:07:25.000And I know, I know I've been saying that now for the past few shows, but I want to impress upon you the significance of what we're living through.
00:07:33.000If you don't understand it, you know, if you're thinking to yourself, if you're one of these baby boomers that's still out there saying, this is the flu, this is the common cold.
00:08:10.000That's one example of the ways in which how we respond to this coronavirus and the vulnerabilities in the system that is exposed will change our lives within a year of this, you know?
00:08:21.000And who knows how long it'll take to fully recover, but once we recover, we will emerge from our coronavirus bunkers in an entirely different world.
00:08:31.000That acts, works, travels, operates in an entirely different way.
00:09:14.000It's already been called in Illinois and Florida for Joe Biden.
00:09:17.000Arizona, I believe the polls have not closed yet, but I'm not 100% sure.
00:09:22.000We don't have a determination from them yet as of
00:09:27.000Excuse me, as of about 10 minutes ago when I started this broadcast, but we'll monitor throughout the night and see what happens in Arizona.
00:09:35.000But we'll also be talking a little bit about the primary and the current dynamic and a little bit of a fresh and a new take on the state of the race, why Bernie Sanders is still in, why he's not going to jump out.
00:10:56.000I was really just reflecting on how cozy I am.
00:11:16.000Don't have to go outside, there's no pressure to do anything, everything's kind of canceled for the most part.
00:11:22.000All we really have to do is hang around, wait it out, slaunt some pizza, frozen pizza, gaming with the friends, gaming with the groipers, and I said this is just like the coziest time ever.
00:11:35.000It's kind of like, you know, and I don't mean to make light of a bad situation, but there is maybe a silver lining here.
00:11:54.000I think I said this in a super chat the other week.
00:11:57.000Coronavirus is almost like, I don't know if I made this comparison, but I did talk about this last week.
00:12:03.000Coronavirus is almost like when I was a kid and I went to a baseball game and I was, you know, playing baseball.
00:12:10.000I used to play baseball in Little League.
00:12:12.000It's almost like going to a Little League game and the game gets rained out and it's raining and you get to get back in the car and drive home and then play video games.
00:12:20.000It's like that feeling, but for conceivably months.
00:12:25.000It's like that feeling, but the whole world has it, and we've got it for months.
00:12:30.000I mean, and yeah, in the background of that feeling, there is the imminent danger of your, you know, loved ones, and elderly people, you know, contracting a deadly virus and dying, and the economy is tumbling and crashing, and
00:12:43.000There is a question mark as to whether we can truly recover all the way from all of this, but in the meantime we have to look on the bright side and say we got fruit snacks, we got Capri Sun, we're playing with our buddies Call of Duty, it's raining outside, the game is off, we don't have to worry about much for now.
00:13:11.000I don't know how many of you who are watching the show are in Florida, Illinois or Arizona or have been in any of these primary states since the virus broke out, but I did end up going to vote today.
00:13:23.000I was actually, you know, I should just like do like a stop and just do a little bit of research on this stuff.
00:13:31.000I thought I went out to vote today and I told you the other day that I'll tell you what I mean by this.
00:13:37.000The other day I told you I wasn't planning on voting.
00:13:39.000I said to myself, you know, it's not worth the risk.
00:13:43.000I don't want to touch an electronic screen where people have been touching.
00:13:46.000I don't want to, you know, talk to all these poll workers that everybody's interacted with.
00:13:52.000But my father went to vote and he told me that like nobody was there and I was I was tooling around I was driving around the city because it's gonna rain for like three days here so my mom was texting me and she said you should get out it's nice out and it's about to rain for a few days
00:15:13.000And maybe I'll do a story time about that on one of these streams.
00:15:18.000I don't know if that's going to get me in trouble.
00:15:19.000I don't know if that's going to end up on the news, but I can tell you some stories about about that situation that's going on there with the Newman family.
00:15:28.000But in any case, Marie Newman is like this ultra hardcore liberal.
00:15:33.000I think she's been endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and like all the like the left wing coalition of the Democratic Party.
00:15:41.000And so it's this hotly contested race.
00:15:43.000And I was driving around today and I was thinking to myself,
00:15:47.000You know, I was feeling kind of guilty because if Marie Newman gets in, she's going to vote for abortion, and she's going to vote for a lot of this stuff.
00:15:54.000And I, you know, it was weighing on my conscience a little bit.
00:15:57.000If it's going to be this super tight race, and if the turnout is messed up because of the virus, you know it's not going to be like a traditional turnout.
00:16:05.000I should probably go and make the right call.
00:16:23.000It's not a real stellar cast of characters that you get in Cook County politics.
00:16:31.000And I go into the polling place, and I'm risking life and limb here.
00:16:34.000I've got my handkerchief, I'm using it to open doors and touch things, and fortunately I've got a hand sanitizer station and wipes.
00:16:41.000It seemed like they had it under control.
00:16:44.000You know, they had this big jug of hand sanitizer, and they were swabbing everything down with alcohol wipes, the electronic voting cards, and the pens, and the clipboards, and the tables.
00:16:56.000So it looked like everything was in order.
00:17:19.000So I drove all that way to vote for some, I think my congressman is Chuy Garcia.
00:17:26.000Chuy Garcia, who, if you remember, he was the one back in January who proposed that radical immigration bill that said, like, we're decriminalizing the border and taxpayers will pay to bring illegal immigrants who have been deported back into the United States.
00:17:49.000But I made the best of a bad situation and I went through the ballot and in every race where there were all women running and one man running, I voted for the man.
00:18:00.000And that was the case in so many races.
00:18:02.000I went through for all the judges and all the different state government positions.
00:18:09.000Races where it was like all women and one guy and so I made sure that in every race like that I voted for the guy didn't vote for a woman I tried to vote for Italians and generally white sounding names and Of course exclusively men and particularly in those races, you know, there are viewers like Kimberly Claire and John I'm like, yeah, I'm going with John and it was uh, you know what Deirdre and this one and
00:18:38.000And Jimmy, I'm going with Jimmy, you know?
00:18:41.000So I went through the ballot, I did it like that, and that was actually deeply satisfying, and I submitted my ballot.
00:18:47.000I have to tell you, there was this problem with the voting thing where I think I pulled my card out too early out of this electronic machine.
00:18:54.000They give you a card, I don't know how this works, but they give you a card, you plug it into the system, and this is what allows you to make your electronic ballot, you print it out.
00:19:05.000I must have pulled the card out too early.
00:19:07.000Whatever the process was, I messed it up.
00:19:09.000And because I messed it up, the machine was giving me this error message.
00:19:13.000And these black poll workers just get right up in my business to figure this out.
00:19:23.000But I'm thinking, what is the matter with you?
00:19:25.000These people are just like sidling up next to me and they're touching my screen and touching my card and they're all in my business and they're asking me questions and I'm like trying to like direct my face so that it's not in like the direct line of fire if there's droplets incoming you know through their talking there's a droplet coming I'm hoping I'll catch it on my shoulder or on my pecs you know or something
00:19:47.000So they come like, and I saw it coming out of the corner of my eye.
00:21:05.000It's like they should they should do coronavirus more often.
00:21:07.000It's not ironically When when something like this happens, it really makes you rethink like when parents are home spending time with their kids and kids are out of school spending time with their parents and You can't go to the theater and you can't go to the store and people are just kind of forced to you know, be back together maybe this makes us rethink this whole arrangement of
00:21:46.000We're going to talk about everything that's happening.
00:21:47.000I hope you guys are staying safe out there.
00:21:50.000I hope you're staying healthy and making sure to maintain social distancing and washing your hands, taking your vitamins, vitamin C, building up your immune system, all that.
00:22:23.000It was supposed to be Ohio, Florida, Illinois, Arizona.
00:22:28.000Although as I said Ohio postponed their primary so it's just Illinois, Florida, Arizona.
00:22:33.000Big states, big delegate totals, all projected wins for Joe Biden and huge delegate proportions for Joe Biden and that's how it played out.
00:22:43.000As of right now and I'll double check once again here from political polls and see if we have anything from Arizona.
00:22:50.000But at least for now, we know that Joe Biden has won Florida, and we know that Joe Biden has won Illinois.
00:22:57.000And we all knew this was going to be the outcome.
00:22:59.000That's why I didn't do an election night coverage like I did for Super Tuesday tonight, or even last week.
00:23:05.000Because if we've been looking at just about every primary since Super Tuesday, Joe Biden has been the favorite in all but a handful of states.
00:23:14.000And he is the favorite going forward in the rest of the states, and he's the favorite overall, and he's really the only one that can win.
00:23:20.000And so a lot of people are wondering, well, why is the race even going on?
00:23:24.000Why are people even being subjected to a lot of this?
00:23:28.000If you're talking about a presidential primary, that drives turnout.
00:23:31.000A lot of people don't turn out for primaries for their state governor,
00:23:36.000Or rather for their state governments.
00:23:37.000They don't turn out for down ballot primaries.
00:23:41.000People mostly turn out, at least a lot of the turnout is driven in the presidential election year, obviously, by the presidential election.
00:23:49.000People are turning out to vote for Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden.
00:23:52.000And so to me, I've been thinking it's actually quite irresponsible that Bernie Sanders has not dropped out, especially in light of recent events.
00:24:00.000He, frankly, should have dropped out after last week.
00:24:03.000Because it was made abundantly clear, if not on Super Tuesday, at least last week, that Bernie Sanders stands no chance at winning the nomination.
00:24:13.000The only path for him to win the nomination is to win a majority of the delegates outright, and that path has been foreclosed.
00:24:19.000There are just simply not enough states where he's leading yet left to win, right?
00:24:25.000He does well in the West, in the Northwest, in some of these anomalous states like Idaho and Vermont and places like that.
00:24:33.000But even in a place like Massachusetts, Maine, where traditionally you might expect him to do better, or Michigan, he is just not performing there.
00:24:40.000The party is consolidated behind Biden.
00:24:42.000So the question is, why has Bernie Sanders not dropped out?
00:24:46.000Bernie Sanders knows, and it's very calculated,
00:25:10.000For all these people that think politicians are good people, they're not.
00:25:14.000There's one good person, Donald Trump, that's it.
00:25:17.000All other politicians, none of them are true believers, none of them are true radicals, none of them are who they say they are.
00:25:24.000And there is a continuum, I would say.
00:25:26.000There are some people that are just soulless husks, and there are some people that are, they have some convictions, but all politicians, what they all have in common is that they are
00:25:49.000You have to have that aptitude to remain in power.
00:25:52.000It's just as simple as that in government.
00:25:54.000To manage the expectations of donors and voters and colleagues and so on.
00:25:59.000That is just the kind of instinct that you have to have.
00:26:02.000And so Bernie Sanders, in a very calculated way, is not thinking in terms of public health and that kind of thing.
00:26:08.000What Bernie Sanders is thinking about is that if he drags this charade on, and he knows he's not going to win, he knows he's not going to be the nominee, in spite of that he persists because if he carries on throughout this contest and keeps accumulating delegates,
00:26:24.000This will very simply give him leverage in the convention.
00:26:28.000And he's never going to be the nominee, not leverage to become the nominee, but the more delegates that he has, the more leverage he can command in any kind of a conversation about the general election.
00:26:40.000In other words, if he has 30 or 35 percent of the delegates, by the end of this contest, he will be able to have an ask for Joe Biden for the cabinet.
00:26:51.000Or for one of his political cronies or for one of his allies.
00:26:55.000He wants to trade the political support that he wins for favors.
00:27:00.000That is the very cold, very straightforward, simple political calculation that is at the core of why Bernie Sanders won't drop out.
00:27:09.000If he dropped out last week, he'd have no leverage.
00:27:24.000Back in 1992, during the GOP primary for president, you had George Bush, who was the incumbent, and he was running against Pat Buchanan and a few other candidates.
00:27:35.000And Pat Buchanan, even though he didn't win the nomination, obviously, he won enough support that he could have, and I don't know exactly the math and the numbers behind it, but he wielded enough support that it would have made a difference at the convention if Buchanan revolted.
00:27:52.000A big base of support, people that enthusiastically supported him.
00:27:56.000And what Pat Buchanan did was he traded his support for the eventual nominee, George Bush, in exchange for George Bush adopting a more socially conservative platform.
00:28:06.000And that's where Pat Buchanan gave his infamous culture war speech in 1992 and talked about the Pitchforks and the Buchanan Brigades and all this kind of stuff.
00:28:22.000He gave it at the Republican convention.
00:28:24.000But that is very similar to what Bernie is doing.
00:28:26.000Just like Pat Buchanan traded his support for the nominee, which the nominee needed to consolidate the party to be strong going into the general election, Bernie Sanders will do the same.
00:28:42.000More likely maybe it would be that Joe Biden adopts parts of Bernie Sanders
00:28:47.000Agenda or maybe one of Bernie Sanders allies or who knows what it could be I think it's very unlikely that the Bernie would be the running mate or Honestly, even in the cabinet to me that seems unlikely just just based on my instincts But that is why he's carrying on in the race because he knows that the more support he collects The more that he can ask in return and to me on the one hand, you know the way that you have to look at politics is
00:29:12.000Maybe I'll walk back a little bit what I said a moment ago.
00:29:15.000On the one hand, you could say that that is a very cold and Machiavellian political calculation.
00:29:48.000Bernie Sanders is winning for the Democratic Socialists, right?
00:29:53.000That if he is a representative, not just of the people in Vermont, but of Democratic Socialists and the left-wing wing of the Democratic Party, then him consolidating the support and then using it to trade with Joe Biden, this is in a way dragging the Democratic Party to the left.
00:30:13.000And it is winning a lot of market share, whatever you want to say, whatever you want to call that, within a potential Joe Biden White House.
00:30:22.000And so this is a consolation in essence.
00:30:25.000If we can't have a Democratic Socialist nominee, well maybe the Democratic Socialist candidate can rack up enough support that we can exert Democratic Socialist priorities over a Joe Biden
00:30:38.000All politicians have to be like that, but I will walk back.
00:30:54.000You actually kind of want people like that, because people that are true believers, more often than not, people that are absolute, total, principled, they're above everything, they're going to take the high ground and the high road, these are people that fundamentally lose, right?
00:31:08.000So, in a way, you know, if you're a democratic socialist, maybe this is the best way that Bernie Sanders can play it.
00:31:15.000Maybe the best way that you could get comfortable with a Joe Biden nominee.
00:31:19.000Is it Bernie Sanders is able to command some kind of influence over policy or the running mate or the cabinet something like that?
00:31:27.000These are all things to consider but that's the state of the race and we'll watch and maybe by the end of the night we'll have a determination in Arizona.
00:31:35.000I think we will because I don't think it's gonna be close in Arizona.
00:31:40.000I looked at a lot of the polling beforehand and it's not close.
00:31:44.000I mean Bernie Sanders isn't projected to even come close in any of these contests and in almost none of the future contests.
00:32:11.000Barring some extenuating, extraordinary, exceptional circumstance, we got Joe Biden and some woman, you know, whoever will be the running mate.
00:32:20.000But we're gonna move on and talk about the coronavirus and we'll talk about everything that's happening there.
00:32:27.000First, we will read off, we will do a reading of the numbers.
00:32:31.000And finally, we have got a whiteboard.
00:33:09.000So what we've got on this whiteboard is we've got the number of confirmed cases, we've got the states, these are the state abbreviations of places where they've closed down, they've ordered restaurants and bars to shut down statewide, and the states that have statewide K-12
00:37:21.000I made this at like 630 and since then I think the US is now up to 6,256 is the latest number.
00:37:30.000So the USA, the numbers are going up rapidly as we get more people tested.
00:37:36.000And my projection is that the USA will be the biggest country outside of China in a month or less.
00:37:44.000I would say that as the United States tests everybody that suspects they have the virus, we will rapidly shoot up and climb and we will get the high score and we will be right behind China in terms of confirmed cases.
00:37:58.000And that is simply because we have more people.
00:38:00.000You know, we're looking at all these numbers, but the numbers we're not looking at is the population totals.
00:38:05.000You've got 80,000 in China with 1.5 billion people, right?
00:38:12.0008,000 in South Korea with a population of of what is it I think 50 million people something like that I think Italy is similar Germany I think has 80 million people the USA has 330 million people so what's missing is is the proportionality is the percentage of the population
00:38:31.000And so when we're just thinking about just things that we know about the United States, bigger population, healthcare system is a lot more complicated, the tests have been way slower than in other countries, we know that it's going to be a severe outbreak in the USA.
00:38:49.000And so if we're talking about similar percentages, then the USA is going to have like 50,000 cases next week, two weeks from now.
00:38:56.000You know, we don't know when we test everybody, but
00:38:58.000Within a month, we're going to be right up there pushing up against where China is.
00:39:15.000And that's because they're just testing everybody that has it.
00:39:18.000And what's going to be in one week, two, three, four weeks, six weeks, when the tests are out, and it's been transmitted, and you have asymptomatic and symptomatic transmissions?
00:39:27.000We're going to have more cases than China, and it will be in the millions at some point.
00:39:32.000Definitely globally, and perhaps even within the United States.
00:39:36.000You're going to have millions of infected people.
00:40:03.000Last week there were a handful of countries in the thousands, and now it's, you know, there's even more countries than that outside the top 10 that are thousands.
00:40:10.000Netherlands, Norway, a few others, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark.
00:40:16.000In terms of restaurants and bar closures, we've got 24 states that have ordered all their restaurants closed.
00:40:24.000And I don't know, do you want me to read through all these?
00:40:27.000I mean, we got Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the new states that announced today that they were ordering all restaurants and bar closed.
00:42:35.000That's where we're at with coronavirus.
00:42:37.000And there was also another interesting information, another interesting fact from that article that most of the people that have died from the virus so far have been in their 60s.
00:42:49.000Several have been in their 90s, but there have been younger people who have died.
00:42:54.000A guy in New York City was in his 50s and he died.
00:42:59.000And a guy in Seattle was in his 40s and he got killed by coronavirus.
00:43:04.000And that's just to remind you, and I'm going to keep reminding you, that just because you're not elderly doesn't mean it's not going to hurt you.
00:43:12.000Just because you're a young guy, even if you're my age or 30 or 40,
00:43:22.000Statistically, the odds that it's deadly or that it's severe are low, but in a country where lots of infections are happening, high numbers of people will have severe cases and die.
00:43:32.000And you don't want to play around with something like that.
00:43:34.000I don't understand why people have such a flippant attitude about this, and I've been hearing this.
00:43:40.000I've been hearing this from my own family members and from friends and online.
00:43:44.000People are acting like, well, if you're not old and therefore you have a low chance of dying, then you really shouldn't be bothered to take precautionary measures.
00:44:07.000And, uh, you know, I was reading, I retweeted a thread today on Twitter, a young, healthy guy in his 30s who, like, ran marathons and was in great shape, and this guy was, like, dying.
00:44:19.000He's, like, he's been sick for two weeks, not getting better, can't eat, can't walk because he gets winded, he doesn't have enough air.
00:44:26.000I mean, it is brutal and painful and it does organ damage and lots of permanent, long-lasting damage.
00:44:33.000Not something you want to play around with, right?
00:45:16.000And the public health situation will worsen.
00:45:19.000And the healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
00:45:21.000But I think all things considered, there is something that inspires a lot of confidence.
00:45:27.000That every day the president is hosting a news conference, and you know he rarely does the news conferences in the briefing room, but he's been doing that almost every day in the Rose Garden, the briefing room.
00:45:47.000All these different people, the experts are there, and every day they've got an update.
00:45:51.000Every day they've got an update, they've got a plan, they're answering questions, they're acting quickly, they're mobilizing, and to me that was always the appeal of the president.
00:46:01.000It wasn't, I mean obviously it was immigration restriction and trade protection and foreign policy non-intervention, but on top of that it was that the president is an executive.
00:46:13.000You know, and I know that's maybe a boomer thing to say, but when you look at Barack Obama, I know it's so a boomer, Barack Obama was a community organizer.
00:46:22.000And that's maybe something you'll hear on Fox News or talk radio, but it's also true.
00:46:27.000Barack Obama was a guy who was in debt when he first became a state senator.
00:46:32.000The guy was like underwater, $300,000 on his house.
00:47:09.000But he also had a lot of experience in making things happen.
00:47:12.000You know, building a skyscraper in New York City is a difficult task.
00:47:18.000to secure the property right the the land to secure the air rights to build something like that to to secure funding and all that i mean that's a tremendous undertaking somebody that can build skyscrapers that is a demonstration of competence as an executive
00:47:35.000And that was a big reason why I voted for him.
00:47:38.000You know, that was one of the major appeals, I think, of him as a president.
00:48:03.000But I have to say, it's been a very strong response to see him and he's visible and he's got experts and there's a plan and there's mobilization and all that.
00:48:13.000You know, he, in spite of having the world on his shoulders, by all accounts, appears to be healthy and vigorous and all this.
00:48:21.000But I want to talk about the stimulus package that was announced today.
00:48:26.000And we don't have all the details, we have a general idea.
00:48:29.000And I'll read to you, this is a report from the New York Times about what's in there.
00:48:34.000It says, quote, as the growing economic toll of the coronavirus became clearer, the White House said that it supported the idea of sending cash payments directly to Americans as part of a broader $850 billion stimulus proposal that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin discussed Tuesday with Republicans on Capitol Hill.
00:48:54.000It was a shift in priority for the administration which has been advocating a payroll tax cut and it came as the coronavirus ground large swaths of the economy to a halt.
00:49:05.000Mr. Mnuchin noted that the effects of a payroll tax cut would take months to reach people.
00:49:10.000And so if you've been following this closely...
00:49:13.000And watching the press conferences, the conversation has been about stimulus.
00:49:19.000The economy is slowing down, and it's slowing down because of real things that are happening.
00:49:24.000Somebody was talking about comparing the coronavirus recession to the 2008 recession.
00:49:30.000And they're fundamentally different because what happened in 2008 was kind of an anomaly.
00:49:35.000I mean, if you really know a lot about the 2008 recession, it had a lot to do with regulations about mortgages and securities and things like that.
00:49:45.000You know, the reason why 2008 blew up was because of bad policies that were made and
00:49:51.000You know, bad policies about giving home loans led to bad pension funds and things.
00:50:00.000I don't want to get into the whole, it's a very complex subject, but if you understand 2008, this was really manufactured at the top.
00:50:08.000This was a lot of like, it was the fault of financial instruments and mortgage policies and things like that, housing policies.
00:50:15.000With the coronavirus it's fundamentally different because what's causing this recession is that we're not getting manufacturing from China.
00:50:24.000And consumers are not buying things in stores.
00:50:28.000And people are not traveling on airplanes.
00:50:30.000And so it is a very real economic recession in the strictest sense of real tangible economic activity that is simply shutting down.
00:50:45.000Exports and imports are not happening like in in very real terms and the economy is so fake and so illusory and so much of it like in 2008 it's just bullshit computer stuff and financial instruments that go awry and you know bad policies things like that bad packaging up of collateralized debt and things like that but this is just like shipping containers are not coming to our ports
00:51:09.000And businesses don't have any patrons because people are staying at home and they're not spending money.
00:51:15.000And I know that sounds simple but that is a very, that's a very big comparison.
00:51:20.000That's a very big point of contrast rather between the two to give you an idea of the nature of the crisis.
00:51:26.000And so the question now is to what extent can we stimulate the economy in a time like this?
00:51:30.000And initially what the reaction was from the government is
00:51:36.000Oh, just stimulate the economy with cheap money.
00:51:39.000That's what we've been doing for 10 years and actually a lot longer but really in the last 10 or 12 years since 2006-2008 is whenever the stock market goes down, whenever there's a sign of a correction, the Federal Reserve simply cuts the rates.
00:51:56.000And you cut the rates, and that means people are going to invest more money.
00:51:59.000You know, there's an incentive to invest rather than save.
00:52:02.000I'm oversimplifying for the sake of giving you the reader's digest.
00:52:07.000People throw more money in, or it's quantitative easing, in which case the Federal Reserve is just injecting money into the system.
00:52:14.000But that has always been the idea, is just inject more liquidity, inject more cheap credit,
00:52:20.000Just quantitative easing your way out of any kind of economic turmoil.
00:52:24.000And that was initially what was tried with the coronavirus.
00:52:27.000At the first sign of trouble the Fed just started pumping money and they announced quantitative easing and we're gonna do more of this and it had no effect.
00:52:36.000It had a little bit of effect and then you know we saw like last week or this weekend they pumped in 1.5 trillion dollars and immediately that just completely disappeared, right?
00:52:47.000Stock market went up a little bit and then went right back down.
00:52:50.000So they're rethinking the stimulus now away from these conventional monetary measures because obviously, and the reason why I compared this to the 2008 recession, is something like 2008 or even something like the Great Depression can be solved with liquidity, can be solved with, you know, restoring confidence and consuming and the dollar and all that.
00:53:10.000But that's not the kind of crisis that we're in right now.
00:53:13.000We're in a crisis because of this virus.
00:53:15.000And until the virus burns its way through the country, or washes through the country, people will not be out, and they will not be buying, and they will not be earning, and all the rest.
00:53:24.000And until then, you're going to need to figure out how to keep the economy afloat, how to kind of keep it in suspension.
00:53:31.000And so that's why now they're considering fiscal or in other words budgetary measures which would be a payroll tax cut was initially floated say that people don't have to you know pay their taxes on their on their checks on their paychecks and then they floated the idea of deferring taxes for April 15th the deadline we're going to defer that 90 days but one of the problems they're having with a lot of these measures is it takes a long time for you to see that reflected in the economy.
00:54:29.000If you rely on that money to pay your rent and pay your bills, you're out of luck.
00:54:33.000And somebody like that doesn't have nine months to wait for a payroll tax cut, and in any case, there's no pay that's being had there, right?
00:54:48.000And that's just one example but that's happening across the economy.
00:54:51.000Because you cut the payroll tax doesn't mean that people are going to suddenly start patronizing businesses or that's going to put money.
00:54:57.000So when they're talking about the cash payments this is so reassuring because to me this represents a dramatic change in policy.
00:55:05.000I don't think we've ever really seen anything like this.
00:55:08.000I believe in the 2008 recession some people got some direct financial assistance and you know maybe this has been tried before in minor ways but something like giving every single American except for the very rich thousands of dollars just a direct cash payment as far as I know I don't think that's ever happened in a grand way like we're talking about now.
00:55:30.000And that it only took like a couple of days for that to be suggested and now it's in place and now it's being talked about in Congress and it's coming down the pike.
00:55:39.000That to me shows that this administration is really moving rapidly, very aggressively, which is a good thing.
00:55:46.000Because when I think about a cash payment, that to me is the most sensible way of solving this.
00:55:52.000A check of, for example, $1,000 to every American.
00:55:57.000The reason why it's brilliant is because this really does not require overhead.
00:56:01.000If there were some really complicated, convoluted tax credit or an unemployment benefit or, you know, something like that.
00:56:13.000It requires people to write regulations.
00:56:15.000It requires people to administer this in offices.
00:56:18.000If you're telling everybody, well, except for people that make this much money, everyone's going to get this much sent to their mailbox, a check.
00:56:28.000In terms of logistics, I mean obviously it's a pretty big undertaking, but it's not has the complications as other measures that you could take.
00:56:36.000It doesn't have the delay that other measures could take.
00:56:38.000And moreover, you send this to everybody, they get their check, they cash it, that's cash in their hands, and then they can pay their bills and pay for their food.
00:57:03.000And the people at the bottom just kind of had to fend for themselves.
00:57:06.000And that's why it was a really nasty recession.
00:57:09.000In a recession like this, because it's more real and because, like I said, you've got a lot of differences between then and now, just giving people the cash payments, that's going to keep the money moving around, that's going to keep everything afloat, that will allow people to patronize businesses still in their time of need, you know?
00:57:26.000People might order their carry-out to support their local restaurant and
00:57:46.000You know that is an administration that is taking action because so often conservatives in particular think of the government and I guess everybody but conservatives in particular think of the government as sluggish and slow and can't do anything and can't be counted on for anything and generally that's true.
00:58:05.000You know, generally the government is inefficient, and generally the government does not do things as well as the free market.
00:58:11.000But that doesn't mean that the government can't do anything right.
00:58:14.000And I think what this administration is demonstrating to a lot of people is, if there is a will, if there is a political will, and if there is competence, and if you make good decisions, the state can actually be extremely helpful.
00:58:29.000And conservatives need to learn this lesson.
00:58:35.000For crises, but also for day-to-day functions.
00:58:39.000And conservatives, I think, should get it out of their heads that we should always turn up our noses at government and turn up our noses at politics and things like that because that's how you actually get things done.
00:58:50.000And, increasingly, that's the only way that we can get things done.
00:58:54.000Because where is power distributed in the 21st century?
00:58:58.000Traditionally, and this is all we know, and historically this is what we know, is that the state is all-powerful.
00:59:04.000This is why conservatives think the way they do.
00:59:33.000And that's because historically, since maybe the 18th century, the nation state has been the primary organizing unit of civilization, and because it collects all the taxes,
00:59:43.000And it predates a lot of commerce and mercantilism and the free market and the industrial revolution.
00:59:50.000We see the state as the nucleus of power in a country and in a society.
00:59:56.000But we know that that's actually not how it is anymore.
00:59:59.000That's not how it is in the 21st century.
01:00:02.000The state may be the most powerful entity in the world, when we're looking at different institutions.
01:00:08.000The state may be the single most powerful, most concentrated black hole of power that there is.
01:00:14.000Because it has the military, and it has the power to tax, and the power to coin money, is maybe where they derive most of their power.
01:01:20.000In other words, it's a lot more complicated than it was before.
01:01:24.000And so, when we as conservatives, to bring it all back to what I was talking about, that's an important point to make,
01:01:31.000We as conservatives may only thrive if we use the state apparatus because all the other nuclei or loci of power in the country, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, academia, Hollywood, the mainstream media, I don't know if you know, but you can't simply just walk into those institutions and take them over.
01:01:54.000You can't win an election and become the president of Hollywood and decide, you know, what are the big property movies that get made.
01:02:01.000You can't get to decide what's in the next Star Wars.
01:02:04.000And you don't get to walk into academia and become the president and say, this is the kind of scholarship we're going to produce for the next decade.
01:02:12.000But you can, with the government more or less, with a little bit of funding and organization, you can gain control of the government and wield the state, and the state being the most powerful apparatus in a landscape of lots of powerful apparatuses, that might be the only one that we can wield to achieve the things that we want.
01:02:33.000Because we can't control Wall Street and we're never going to control Hollywood or academia, public schools, any of these things.
01:02:39.000But we can, as Donald Trump has demonstrated, wield power with the state.
01:02:44.000And if we use the state, if we have the will and the competency, and if we just simply approach it with the right attitude, and there's always going to be bureaucratic inefficiencies and perverse incentives in government that don't exist in the private sector, but if we just adopt a different mentality and we say we can command the state,
01:03:04.000You say that the government is good for nothing?
01:03:34.000Does it come from propaganda, or money, or guns?
01:03:38.000The government is like, got a lot of that going on, and maybe the center of it, the nucleus, still, even if it's not the biggest or the only game in town, it still is the most powerful.
01:03:48.000And I didn't mean to say that it's not, but there's just other institutions, obviously, that are interdependent.
01:03:54.000So when I look at this coronavirus stuff and I look at the cash payments, and I've been saying this about Trump, this is the time for conservatives to become big government conservatives.
01:04:04.000Nobody wants to say that because we have this cult of small government and big guff sucks and all that, but it's time.
01:04:15.000But if he isn't, we need somebody to be that.
01:04:17.000We need a right-wing FDR who rises to the top through populist appeal.
01:04:22.000And it doesn't, you know, principles and the Constitution and all this kind of stuff.
01:04:26.000Please, please, this is just holding us back.
01:04:30.000Get a populist and just think about this middle American radical coalition of the working class, generally white people, Christians, maybe working class sections of other racial demographics.
01:04:42.000Rise to the top, and just help people.
01:04:46.000And forget all this stuff about small government, and it has to be this way, and we have to do... Cut their taxes, give them free healthcare, right?
01:04:55.000Bring home the troops, fix trade, open factories, kiss babies, start a national media outlet, and just go balls to the wall, and that's the only way it's gonna happen.
01:06:30.000I had a problem, and now the politician that's running the government is going to help me.
01:06:35.000Instead of helping, like, some billionaire and telling me, well, here's how that's going to help you in, like, this convoluted way, well, here's just $1,000.
01:06:44.000You know, normally Republicans would say, well, I'm going to cut George Soros' taxes, and I'll cut Charles Koch's taxes, and I'll cut Sheldon Adelson's taxes, and theoretically then the economy will grow and you'll make more money.
01:06:58.000Well, if the economy's going to grow, let's just cut to shit and I'll just give you the money up front.
01:07:33.000Hey, we may not have the Congress, we may not have the White House, we may not wield any institutional power or have achieved anything in 50 years, but at least we had our principles.
01:07:45.000Well, when all this was happening, we were writing about how this was just like the Roman Republic falling.
01:07:51.000This was just like the Roman Republic!
01:07:54.000And when future historians read our works, when future historians read Conscience of a Conservative, and they read the Conservatarian Manifesto, they'll say, wow.
01:09:21.000It doesn't matter how he wins if he wins.
01:09:23.000And he uses that to shut down the border, and uses it to end the trade abuses, and bring home the troops, and kill all the pedophiles running the government.
01:10:38.000We have to take that attitude, but with Trump and with the Republican Party.
01:10:42.000We have to have almost the same sort of, I don't want to say apathy, but the same idea of resigning ourselves to the fact that there will be pain no matter what, but then using it to our advantage.
01:10:55.000You know, because traditionally people would say, don't give cash payments to Americans.
01:11:07.000The government should run a balanced budget.
01:11:09.000And eventually the debt will become a problem because you'll have so much interest that so much of government revenue will just go towards the interest to service the debt.
01:11:38.000And all things considered, that number is going to go up no matter what.
01:11:42.000The debt's not coming down any time soon.
01:11:44.000The budget's not going to be balanced any time soon.
01:11:46.000The only people that care about balancing the budget are Republicans, and if they don't get their act together, they'll never win an election again.
01:11:52.000They may never win an election again, even if they get their act together.
01:11:56.000So if the number's gonna go up, if the debt's gonna go up, the deficit's gonna go up, and all this financial stuff is unsustainable and set to ruin no matter who's in charge,
01:12:05.000We might as well be in charge, and we might as well be the ones that are spending the money, and we might as well be spending the money on our own people, and we might as well be spending the money on our own people to win elections so that we could do other things in the meantime, like shut down the border, shut down trade, and bring home the troops, and an assortment of other things, right?
01:12:23.000That's the way that we have to think, not in terms of, well, that, that would just never fly.
01:12:28.000It really is like a white person's mentality.
01:13:03.000We don't take advantage because we understand that if everybody plays by the rules, then that is how you have an orderly society.
01:13:09.000We don't live in a world where that's the case.
01:13:11.000That kind of mentality only works if it's all or nothing.
01:13:15.000But if people stop playing by the rules, and we're playing by the rules, well we just lose!
01:13:21.000You know, if they're cutting in line, and they're line cutting, and they're taking with both hands, well what's going to happen is we're going to be last in line and there's none going to be left for us.
01:13:30.000And that's what they're telling us we should do.
01:13:32.000That is what we should have for ourselves.
01:13:35.000Is we should just manage our expectations and, oh well, if you're a law-abiding guy and you want to do the right thing, well, it's just gonna be bad for you.
01:13:42.000You're gonna be middle class and you're gonna be the only one paying income tax and the only one working.
01:13:46.000Meanwhile, all these other people are freeloaders, right?
01:13:49.000We have to change that mentality and adopt, you know, almost like a, I don't want to say it, but we have to adopt a different mentality and say, you know what?
01:14:00.000If we're not playing by the rules, we'll cheat too and we'll be the best cheaters out there.
01:14:04.000We're going to cheat and we're going to lie and we'll be populists and we'll be big government and we'll give handouts and we'll be the worst politicians you've ever seen, but we'll win and we'll get what we want.
01:14:14.000And what we want is to return to an orderly society.
01:14:19.000Sometimes to make an omelet you gotta break some eggs.
01:14:21.000That's that's the way we have to think about it.
01:14:23.000So anyway, that's like a huge detour I'm I'm not even done with this article and I just went through this whole thing, but it's important I but I hope you find that insightful.
01:14:33.000I had a seize on that and you know This is what I'm thinking I mean I read this article in an instant that all kind of just like yep, but I had to you know sort of elaborate that out and
01:14:44.000Anyway, so we're getting these cash payments, but back to the coronavirus.
01:14:51.000That's insightful about right and left-wing politics, the country, all that stuff.
01:14:55.000It's just all, that's all very important.
01:14:59.000So that's one part of the trillion dollar package.
01:15:02.000There's going to be $850 billion stimulus package.
01:15:35.000But overall we've got a fiscal stimulus that will include cash payments and also deferring income tax payments by 90 days is the other part of it.
01:15:46.000There's another part of this article from New York Times that says there were signs of support in Congress for the idea of sending direct payments to ordinary people.
01:15:55.000A group of Senate Democrats led by Michael Bennett, Cory Booker, and Sherrod Brown
01:16:46.000Not necessarily exactly like that, but you know what I'm saying.
01:16:50.000Normally I'm looking at a wife like, oh, I gotta pay for a wedding, I gotta pay for a wedding ring, and I gotta take her out to eat, and it's the anniversary, and birthday presents, and it's a house, and it's shoes, and a purse, and it's...
01:17:06.000Makeup and lipstick and jewelry and a vacation and you know so maybe I'll break even if I act fast maybe I'll break even maybe I wait a little bit longer and it's more maybe in five years it'll be a $10,000 per person and I'll break even you know I will do a wedding it'll cost $10,000 that's coming out of her check and we have the baby the baby shower and all that's coming out of the baby's check
01:17:36.000And that's the way we're...that's the way...it's printing money.
01:17:39.000Printing money is as simple as printing babies.
01:17:42.000But anyway, so, I'm being funny, but that's the cash payment situation.
01:18:14.000Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 stimulus packages.
01:18:18.000And they're working out what's going to be in each one.
01:18:20.000The total package, to me, seems like what it will include overall is paid sick leave,
01:18:27.000The cash payments bailouts for these industries that are most affected maybe banks energy airlines hotel cruise line and it's going to be this deferred tax and maybe the payroll tax will come anyway even if it's delayed maybe that'll come anyway so that is oh and the
01:18:45.00050 billion dollars in small business loans which are interest-free that that will come as well so to me that's like a big picture of what will come in the fiscal package in three phases probably within the next two weeks or so but it's being negotiated and worked on so we'll keep an eye on that very good very competent seems to me to be where we need to be going
01:19:05.000Because the economy won't get better until people go back to work.
01:19:08.000It's an extraordinary and unprecedented crisis.
01:19:13.000And it's not just about the numbers, it's about the kind of crisis.
01:19:16.000You know, people are comparing it to 2008, but as I said, it's not 2008, and it's not 1987, and it's not 1929.
01:19:24.000This is driven by real, like a real world, just total shock to the system that people are not going out and they're not going to go out for a long time.
01:19:34.000In the meantime, you got to keep it afloat and we have to burn a little bit of the wealth, got to burn a little bit of the earnings and the fruits of economic growth from the past four years to keep everything afloat and keep everybody in stasis basically while we ride this out.
01:20:28.000Six counties in San Francisco and Berkeley advise their residents to shelter-in-place, meaning don't leave the house for any reason unless it's essential.
01:20:36.000It's an emergency of some kind, but otherwise you should stay home.
01:20:40.000And I said yesterday that that's going to come in every major city probably within the next week or two.
01:20:45.000And today we are hearing that New York City is considering this.
01:20:48.000Mayor Bill de Blasio will make a decision in the next 24 to 48 hours as to whether or not he's going to advise the whole New York City to shelter in place.
01:20:58.000Because New York City has the worst outbreak by far.
01:21:08.000Italy did the bars and restaurants, and then all businesses, and then it was lockdown.
01:21:13.000And that's what's going to happen here.
01:21:15.000It starts with the schools and the colleges and the bars and the restaurants, and then it's going to be all businesses, and then it's going to be shelter in place, and then it's going to be lockdown.
01:21:24.000And people have to make the proper preparations for weeks for if that's going to happen.
01:21:28.000San Francisco is in shelter in place for three weeks.
01:21:32.000Do you think you would be able to not leave your house for three weeks without running out of food, water, toilet paper, tissues, toothpaste, soap?
01:21:41.000I mean the basics, the basic amenities.
01:21:45.000Most people, you know, are stocking up every week or every other week.
01:21:49.000And even if you stocked up for this extraordinary event, you probably stocked up for a couple weeks and that was last week, right?
01:21:55.000to give you an idea they were told three weeks from today what if in the next two days New York City all of New York City is told you can't leave your house for two to three weeks advised what if they're told that they can't that's gonna get really hairy and that's we're talking about in the next week or so so stock market went up a little bit today and headlines are okay today
01:22:16.000But the worst is yet to come, I will tell you.
01:22:19.000As far as infections, as far as deaths goes, healthcare system being overwhelmed, bed shortages, healthcare supplies resources, death panels, lockdowns.
01:22:38.000So I did just want to touch on that briefly.
01:22:40.000I have to move on to the super chats but just want to point out that New York City, I think the reason they're saying this is because they're priming the pump here.
01:22:48.000They're telling everybody we're gonna make a decision in the next 48 hours because they know if they tell people that it's like a warning and people are gonna go out and prepare and then in two days maybe they're gonna tell people in three days we're gonna shelter in place and then you know panic is gonna happen and
01:23:03.000There's going to be a bum rush for the stores and for supplies and shortages and chaos and violence, but then there will be a shelter-in-place.
01:23:10.000And I'm sure after the shelter-in-place, probably a lockdown.
01:23:13.000And that is maybe the worst that it's going to get.
01:23:17.000But that, I think, is on the horizon for every major metropolitan area.
01:23:21.000LA, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta.
01:23:25.000You know, probably all of them, I would imagine.
01:23:28.000And you know maybe not all of them maybe if there's not a severe outbreak in some of these cities They won't go that far, but I don't think it is outside of the I think it is much more likely than not that we will end up like Italy and probably worse than Italy because about Italy they've got a top-notch health care system and They also are not as You know
01:23:52.000They don't have the same public-private health care scheme.
01:23:55.000They also don't have the disunity that we have in America.
01:24:32.000You know, go to a few different stores.
01:24:35.000See what it looks like for online pickup services or Amazon.
01:24:39.000But, you know, the time is now to prepare because if that happens in your city, and maybe it doesn't, but maybe it does, you want to be prepared.
01:24:47.000But that's the lockdown, that's coronavirus.
01:24:49.000We're gonna move on to the Super Chats and I want to see what you guys are saying about all this.
01:24:54.000It's, uh, it's getting hairy out there.
01:24:57.000We are about to enter the eye of the storm with coronavirus.
01:25:00.000If you think it's bad now, give it a week.
01:26:15.000We've got Sarik who says ever own any Sony handhelds PS Vita master race I actually did have a PS Vita and I totally regret it
01:26:26.000Yeah, that came out of, like, middle school.
01:26:28.000And I remember I just had, like, a few hundred bucks for my birthday, and, uh, what I would always do is just spend it on video games, and I figured, oh, like, another console looks cool.
01:26:37.000I think I saw them do the expo for the PS Vita, like, E3 or something, and it was so, it was, like, touchscreens at that time was not really a thing yet.
01:26:47.000I mean, you had your iTouch, but that was really it.
01:26:50.000Nintendo DS had a touchscreen, but it was very, you know, that was very early touchscreen technology.
01:26:56.000So the PS Vita is handheld it had like a sensor on the back and a touchscreen and it was just like really cool I had a camera internet connection.
01:27:05.000This was like a next-level handheld gaming device.
01:27:09.000So I got one and it was like 250 bucks or 300 bucks and that was like all my birthday money at the time and I literally never bought a game for it.
01:29:27.000So unless you have more than a quarter of a million dollars in a bank, then...
01:29:33.000It's insured so even if you want people to get it from the bank if the bank fails the federal government will give it to you and the reason it's there is not because the government wants to give out a quarter million dollars to everybody you're like up to I should say up to a quarter million dollars but because then that gives people confidence that they don't withdraw their money at times like this and cause banks to fail because you understand that
01:29:54.000If there's a run on the banks this just exacerbates the problem and then then you know even if the bank might have been solvent if people panic and start pulling out their assets then the bank will fail and if a bank fails then other banks fail and then the whole system goes goes bottom up so that's why they they are ensuring it is to you know inspire confidence and even if you have more than a quarter of a million dollars you put
01:30:19.000You open up different bank accounts at different banks, and FDIC insures each bank for up to a quarter of a million dollars.
01:30:27.000So if you put, you know, a quarter million, and I don't know how many people are like this, if you have more than that, you know this, obviously, but if you have, you know, a quarter million at Chase, and at Bank of America, or at another bank, then, so I wouldn't do that.
01:32:37.000Maybe that's just me, but I feel like generally, until you have a dog, you don't really know, like... Because I just saw dogs as very volatile and unpredictable, and they'll, like, chew your stuff and bite you and whatever, and I was just, like, didn't want to touch them.
01:32:52.000I was, like, five, but, um... You know, I stopped hating dogs when I got a little older and, you know...
01:32:59.000But I didn't then I got my dog and I like love my dog.
01:33:03.000I didn't think I would but I do He's great.
01:33:06.000And I it sucks that I'm allergic to him because I love hanging out with him I love just hanging out on the couch and you know, you know, we take a nap or whatever and You know, he's a fun.
01:33:17.000He's a great companion dogs are truly a great companion so But I'm allergic so it makes it tough
01:33:26.000But that sounds very comfy, hanging out with the dog, watching America First.
01:33:29.000You really, really do love, really gotta love the dog.
01:34:33.000$2,000 VR rig, you know, have the motion detectors mounted on the ceiling and I'll have the wireless pack with the
01:34:44.000Oculus Rift and I'll buy you know upgrades for the computer so it can handle it and I'll buy controllers But I've done a lot of research this by the whole rig, you know and Yeah, I'll never have to leave never forget it leaving the house.
01:35:01.000I'll never have to leave my own mind my own cyber universe
01:35:06.000Right, and the human instrumentality project will be complete.
01:36:02.000You know, he's celibate, saving himself for marriage now, and, you know, he's against feminism, and he's against homosexuality and abortion, and he's pro-gun, and, you know, he's a hardcore Christian, loves America.
01:36:38.000I got a weird impression of him, you know.
01:36:41.000Maybe just online you get a different impression, but talking to him, he was just a totally nice, friendly... I mean, who can hate that guy?
01:39:20.000If you get your Trump bucks, you gotta pay some to me.
01:39:23.000I'm just telling you right now, that if everybody gets a $4,500 check, and I know maybe some people need it more than others, but I'm gonna expect, I expect some ninjaginis, alright?
01:39:36.000I take care of you and it's only fair and I gotta take care of me.
01:39:39.000So I hope all these people that are cashing in on the stock market and all the people that are cashing in on the Trump bucks, if you get sent a check for $1,000, send me a $10 bill.
01:40:04.000If you're a child or a man or a woman in America, you're going to be getting $2,000 and you can forgo a few water bottles to support your guy.
01:40:45.000That'll be a huge win for the movement.
01:40:48.000No, I am joking a little bit, but hey, that's just one way that you can spend your Trump bucks, spread the love around, you can spread the wealth around a little bit, kick a little bit up to the boss of the family, your favorite knicker.
01:41:05.000I'm gonna kick some money around, I'm gonna get my check, and I'll throw a little, I'm gonna do a little some handouts, you know?
01:42:23.000I'm actually, I would actually say the opposite.
01:42:26.000If I'm gonna be unironic for a second, and I do say this occasionally for young people generally, but overall it's not gonna be wise for me to say this, but generally, you know, save your money.
01:42:38.000If you need your money, save your money.
01:42:42.000And I'm saying that and I'm joking, but it is true.
01:42:45.000These times are going to be tough for a lot of people.
01:42:46.000We don't know how long they're going to be tough for.
01:42:48.000So, you know, we're looking at discretionary funds.
01:42:52.000Probably the first thing that could go is a super chat.
01:42:54.000So you're not going to hurt my feelings.
01:42:56.000If I look at the numbers this month and they're not great, I'm not going to, that's not going to kill me.
01:43:18.000I don't even, you know, I live at home.
01:43:19.000So, so take care of your family first.
01:43:22.000And then, and then if there's, hey, but if there's a little bit left over from the Trump bucks, you know who to kick it up to, right?
01:43:29.000But let's see we've got Big Mac says guy in the sky greater than I in the sky Yeah, I like guy in the sky better.
01:43:36.000That was initially what was more funny I in the sky was like just descriptive but guy in the sky is like a funny rhyme So yeah, I like I like guy in the sky, but then again I in the sky is like the song and that's me and Jaden song now That's our song
01:43:53.000Whenever Jaden hears Eye in the Sky by Alan Parsons, he will think of me.
01:43:59.000He will think of playing Call of Duty, me playing and flying the helicopter in Call of Duty.
01:44:06.000And, you know, that's just, you know, guy in the sky, eye in the sky.
01:44:36.000Yeah, that's what people don't realize is poor people generally are poor because they just spend their money, you know?
01:44:43.000Why are some people poor and some people rich?
01:44:46.000Well, some people get their money and then they give it away, you know?
01:44:49.000And the people that just simply give away all their money are the people that don't have a lot of it.
01:44:53.000And generally what you find is that poor people, and it's not everyone, and not everyone that's poor is poor for this reason, but in a lot of cases poor people have the propensity
01:45:28.000When you're looking at inflation, that's still pretty low.
01:45:31.000$10 an hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
01:45:35.000And, um, I took all that money and saved it.
01:45:38.000And obviously I was doing that when I was 18, 19, but, um, I knew people that were working the same job as me who were like 20, 22, whatever.
01:45:48.000And they would take their paycheck and, you know, they, they had expenses, but then they would take whatever was left over and they would just spend it.
01:45:54.000You know, I, I worked with a guy in the warehouse and every day he would buy lunch and he would buy cigarettes at lunch.
01:45:59.000And it's like, well, why do you think, what do you think you're going to do, man?
01:46:03.000I know we're not all going to be rich, but what kind of way is that to live?
01:46:08.000That you make $80 a day before taxes, and you spend maybe $20 a day on eating out and then cigarettes, and then you blow how much of that over the weekend on alcohol, on booze, and on whatever else.
01:47:19.000Polish careful on upgrading you can't buy some things.
01:47:22.000Oh, I'll be careful Polish American says I will willingly sign myself up as a drone pilot against China Okay, disavow Nick Rene says my dad is still in just the flu bro mode Yeah, my father I think all everyone over the age of 50 is in some degree in that mentality you know my dad's like going to work and like I
01:47:59.000I know, it wasn't this bad weeks ago, but you're home, and like, then he goes to work, and then it's like, well, maybe you're not sick from when you're out of town, but now you're gonna be sick from all the people that you're at work with, and if they have it, well, now you're bringing it home.
01:48:54.000I think that this is different than a normal recession.
01:48:56.000If it was a normal recession, I would say it would make it a lot harder, but I think that this is not normal, so...
01:49:16.000I don't know how it will affect the election.
01:49:18.000It depends on how severe it gets and the handling from the government.
01:49:22.000And then we still have a general election that will, you know, people make up their minds based on debates and campaigning and all that, so.
01:49:29.000It's highly contingent, but thanks for the Ninjagini.
01:49:32.000Galaxy Brain says, which mood is more enjoyable, mask off or top down?
01:55:05.000I mean, sure, a lot of the problems from 08, like bubbles, yeah, you have bubbles all over the economy.
01:55:11.0002008 was largely triggered by the housing bubble, but we have bubbles for everything.
01:55:16.000So yeah, I mean, a lot of the problems we had in 2008 are bigger now, but what I'm trying to say is that the coronavirus that catalyzed this recession, it's just different than in 2008, and if you can't understand that, then you're dumb.
01:55:30.000Fearless leader says cash handouts when no one is working equals inflation.
01:58:33.000But yeah, with war, if you factor in war, the wars in the Middle East cost like $6 trillion.
01:58:38.000So if you're using $250 billion as a $1,000 handout to everybody that needs it, then if you do the math, we could have given everybody $24,000 in cash.
01:59:48.000I work my ass off, I work my fingers to the bone every day for my paycheck, and I have to pay... I'm not going to tell you what I have to pay, but I have to pay the government.
01:59:58.000And you have all these freeloaders and they just get free... No, I'm here for my check.
02:04:02.000When you think about Christianity from a very objective, and I don't mean objective, I mean from a non-religious point of view, from a non-Christian point of view, what's really incredible is what we're all thinking about is we are all born to die.
02:04:33.000This is the great fact of what we are and who we are, and the story of somebody cheating death.
02:04:41.000It is just so compelling to think about.
02:04:43.000You know, when you think about it this way, that it's like 2,000 years ago, a guy got killed, but he came back.
02:04:50.000Still talking about it to this day, and it's inspired a religion.
02:04:54.000And that's, I know that might be reductive or a silly way to think about it, but it's another way to think about death and what it means to come back from death.
02:05:02.000And that is kind of the central argument.
02:05:04.000You can make an argument for theism and you can make an argument for...
02:05:33.000You know, it's almost 10 o'clock, and for one dollar.
02:05:36.000I don't know if I'm going to get into all of that, but I would just tell you the resurrection is all the proof you need.
02:05:41.000And the historicity of the resurrection is pretty solid stuff.
02:05:45.000So, if somebody rose from the dead, you probably want to listen to what they had to say.
02:05:49.000And if that person was saying, I'm the son of God... If the guy that rose from the dead was saying, I'm the son of God, and read this book, and follow these rules, you probably want to, you know, listen to that, right?
02:06:00.000just food for thought just food for thought I'm not I'm just trying to get you to think a lot of people might look down on that and say oh that's so silly or you know that's not my theological thing that I read or whatever but I'm just trying to you know get people thinking about these things let's see fearless leaders as Boeing is also seeking a bailout as of today yeah yeah the airline as I said the airline industry is asking for 50 billion dollars let's see
02:06:30.000I guess Boeing is included in that, I'm sure.
02:06:32.000Well, I don't know how you struggle with faith.
02:06:36.000I mean, I understand, kind of, but I don't know.
02:06:54.000That was kind of the red pill for me on religion is you kind of know that God is real and you know that all of this is true, but the faith comes in that you have to have faith in your logic that it's true and you have to have faith in, you know,
02:07:09.000even when it's hard and it's self-sacrifice and all that you have to have faith that you know you're right and you have to have faith that your logic is sound and that you know even even when you're doubting that's that's where kind of where that comes in I don't know if I'm articulating that well but it's it's not what a lot of people think faith is not what a lot of people think it means
02:07:30.000Black Phillips says we get neat bucks.
02:07:32.000I'll send best Popeyes to your PO box.
02:10:32.000What are we going to do with some of these Super Chats?
02:10:35.000If the question is what I think it is, if you're talking about Traditionalism, capital T Traditionalism, Evola's great, Demestra's great, Burke, you know, Reflections on the Revolution in France is like the classic.
02:10:49.000It's kind of normie tier, but whatever.
02:10:52.000But that's you probably looking for something normie tier if you're asking that question.
02:10:57.000So, I'm looking at my bookshelf right now.
02:13:33.000That's terrible though geez F press F for babies.
02:13:37.000I Tried I did I did my part, but I wasn't even in the district so Let's see She led Lipinski 47 44 percent So she's leading by 3% Yes, so she she came within 2% in 18 and now she beat him by 3 and
02:17:33.000In 1974, in Chicago, two Chicago PD were called to investigate a report that a kangaroo was standing on someone's porch.
02:17:44.000After a brief search, the officers located the animal in an alleyway but were unable to capture it.
02:17:49.000Over the next months, numerous kangaroo sightings were reported in Illinois.
02:17:53.000And the neighboring states of Indiana and Wisconsin, with timing suggesting more than one animal if reports were accurate.
02:17:59.000A kangaroo was seen next day by a paperboy the next week in Schiller Woods, Illinois.
02:18:06.000And the week after that, just outside Plano, Illinois, reported by a police officer who said it jumped eight feet from a field into the road.
02:18:13.000Thirty minutes later, a kangaroo was reported in Chicago, then reported on the following three days in the surrounding countryside.
02:18:22.000Gee, I wonder what happened with that.
02:18:45.000Polish American says, bruh, you wouldn't consummate the marriage, duh.
02:18:49.000Yeah, but I think, yeah, no, I'm not, I'm not, I will not marry a king for the tax benefits.
02:18:56.000I don't know though, maybe if it's a civil union, if you don't call it marry, maybe it's not gay, right?
02:18:59.000If you're in a civil partnership, civil partnership, Groyper, civil partnership for the tax benefits, we all get married together, save millions of dollars on taxes, I don't know, maybe there's something to it.
02:20:37.000you know the Nord aliens are you know there's a lot it's not that it's not that there are a lot of different races of aliens you obviously don't know what you're talking about aliens there's lots of different aliens you got your greys you got the insect aliens you've got the Nord aliens there's a whole there's a whole taxonomy clearly you're not aware optics spectra might know Colton Grace's can you say hi to my girlfriend Camille nope
02:21:06.000Big Globe says, AF tip, on mobile the site works better than the app.
02:23:52.000That's a little phrase I picked up from my black friend at UPS.
02:23:56.000He would always say, when I was in UPS, there's like duos.
02:24:02.000When you're doing the job training, you have a partner, and you're either loading or unloading trucks, and you have a partner when you're doing the job training, and they, you have a, it's you and another guy, your partners, and then you've got somebody that oversees you and, you know, corrects you and teaches you about, you know, different items or whatever, and our supervisor was this gay guy, this gay black guy.
02:25:59.000One guy's on the right, one guy's on the left.
02:26:02.000You unload the right side, put it on a conveyor in the middle.
02:26:04.000Then on the left side, put it on the conveyor in the middle.
02:26:07.000Once you finish the wall, you move the load stand back out, move the conveyor belt further in, move the step stool back in, and then you start the process over again.
02:26:18.000And this guy would just yank boxes from the bottom, and all the boxes would fall on the ground.
02:26:23.000You have a wall of boxes, and instead of taking them from top to bottom, which this I think takes a little bit more time, he would just yank the box from the bottom, and they'd fall down, and they'd pick them up off the floor.
02:26:34.000and it's like you know that's that's why it can't be great because you don't want to do it the right way you don't want to do it the reason people pay more for ups than fedex is because it's higher quality but i would see so many packages getting broken it was very like unsettling to me to think that this is our you know package system i would never ship anything that uh fragile because we we broke well i didn't break anything but this guy broke so much shit knocking it on the floor and
02:29:18.000Every time, literally every single time, I am in a group chat and I see somebody comment about their wife, I'm like, there it is, wait for it, cringe.
02:29:29.000You know, they'll make a comment about their wife, and it's maybe totally innocuous, but just by mentioning it, it's like, oh, you know, can't wait for them to post cringe.
02:29:37.000Can't wait for them to be a total, you know, cringelord.
02:30:35.000Some guy was in a group chat and he did that and I said, you know, I'm not saying this is you and I'm not saying this is like, you know, a bad thing.
02:30:43.000I said, but generally whenever I see people mention their wife, they always end up cringe.
02:30:47.000And this guy was like middle-aged, or not middle-aged, he was like in his mid-twenties.
02:31:30.000Most of the people that just go on and on about my wife, my wife.
02:31:34.000Shut the fuck up about your wife, alright?
02:31:37.000Somebody needs to collectively get all these husbands and get them by the collar and say, hey, nobody cares about your wife, alright?
02:31:46.000When you're with the boys, nobody wants to hear about your wife!
02:31:51.000All right, unless you're, you know, you're talking about what's going on in your world, small talk, whatever, but it's like, some people, and especially when people are like, my wife is the best.
02:32:02.000Oh, who wants to hear you talk about, you know what I mean?
02:32:04.000It's not even like a, it's not even like a cope thing or anything like that.
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