We're back with another electrifying week of coronavirus coverage. Once again we're looking at the numbers, the latest numbers from around the world, and a new take from Nicholas J. Fuentes on where things stand after a weekend of rest and recovery from the virus. We'll also be talking about the news conference with the President and the Attorney General, the relief package which is stalling in the Senate, and the rival relief package being proposed by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. And we'll get into my general take about the direction of all of this. It's been a long weekend, and it's only been a few days since I've been on the show. It feels like it has been a while, and I have some thoughts about where things are headed after the weekend and what's in store for the rest of the week ahead. - Nicholas J Fucentes - America First: The Coronavirus Epidemic (featuring: Alex Jones, Alex, Alex Jones and Soph) - The Monday Take: Where Things Stand After a Long Weekend - What's in Store for the Virus - Where Things Are After a Rest and Recovery After a Weekend of Rest - Why It Feels Like It's Been A Long Weekend - And Why It's Going To Be A Long Week - And What's Next - And Where Things Will Go Next. - and Much More! - Subscribe to America First on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, Share and Retweet! Subscribe to our new podcast, and Don't Tell a Friend us what you think of what you're listening to? and we'll be giving you a chance to be featured on the next episode next week on America's Best Pod! on next week's episode of America's Most Powerful Podcasts & Places to Watch Out There! Subscribe to Our Newest Podcast on Podchaser! and much more! Thank you for listening to America's Top Podcasts? Subscribe & Share the podcast in Podcasts, Subscribe & Comment! & we'll Be Back in Time for the latest episode coming Soon, and more on the Podcasts next Monday, November 5th, 2019! Thanks for listening and November 6th, 2020, 2019, 2020 Thank You for listening, November 5, 2020! November 7th, September 5, 2019 Learn more about the Virus?
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00:00:38.000Fresh, ready to go, the latest, the latest numbers, up to the minute one might say, the latest numbers here that we're looking at in all the different countries, top 16 and around the world.
00:00:51.000We'll also be talking about the news conference today with the President, the Attorney General,
00:00:57.000We'll be talking about the relief package which is now stalling in the Senate and there is a rival relief package being proposed by the Democrats, specifically being proposed by Nancy Pelosi in the House of Representatives.
00:01:16.000So we will look at what's in that bill, we'll look at the bill that was stalled, or the bill that was blocked rather, by the Democrats not just once but twice over the weekend and then again today.
00:01:26.000And we'll get into my general take about the direction of all of this.
00:01:30.000It's been the weekend, it's been a few days, and I've got a little bit of a fresh take for you about where things are.
00:01:38.000I kind of left you off on Friday with a bit of a black pill.
00:01:42.000You know, on Friday I told you straight up, it was supposed to be a casual low-key show, but I told you on Friday that there's really no end in sight for this.
00:01:52.000No end in sight for the containment of the virus, no end in sight for the virus itself and its spread.
00:02:00.000And I said that you should think about that, and I've been thinking a lot about that, and I have a little bit of a new take tonight about where things are headed.
00:02:07.000Not exactly new, but kind of an updated, a fresh take, if you will.
00:02:42.000I probably would have been inside no matter what.
00:02:44.000But, well actually no, this weekend we would have done that event in LA.
00:02:48.000That would have been, so I would have been in LA, scratch that, I would have been in LA doing that event with Alex Jones and Soph and a few other people.
00:02:58.000But generally, generally I'd just be home.
00:03:00.000But it does feel like since the coronavirus containment set in, since the shelter in place, the quarantine set in, it just feels like the days drag on.
00:03:10.000I don't know what it is, but I feel more bored.
00:03:13.000Maybe it's because I'm cognizant of the fact that you can't go out anymore.
00:03:18.000I think that's how a lot of people are reacting.
00:03:19.000Because prior to the coronavirus, me and probably many other people, as I said, it's not like we would be out doing anything.
00:03:29.000But then the minute you get told, you can't go outside, you can't dine out, you can't do this and that, well then all of a sudden people get stir-crazy.
00:03:37.000So I think there's something psychological going on there.
00:03:43.000Since I've talked to you, and it kind of has.
00:03:47.000Saturday, I believe, was the 14th consecutive day, 13th or 14th, I think it was the 13th consecutive day that I had streamed.
00:03:56.000So, you know the show is Monday through Friday, but I had streamed 13 days consecutively because I had been doing weekend streams, and I finally broke that streak on Sunday.
00:04:06.000I didn't stream at all on Sunday, unless you count the very early morning, like 1, 2 a.m.
00:04:12.000I'm a very introverted person, so if I'm too exposed...
00:04:27.000Too much exposure to people in real life or too much streaming.
00:06:31.000On Friday I was telling you all that we have to live with this potentially for years to come.
00:06:36.000And hopefully that has marinated with you a little bit.
00:06:39.000Hopefully we've all been thinking about that.
00:06:41.000I think we've all been forced to think about that because we've had to adjust our lives.
00:06:46.000But today, and for the rest of the week and onward, we have to think about what are going to be long-term solutions.
00:06:54.000What is going to be the balance for how we cope with this in the future?
00:06:58.000Because I've seen a lot of takes, and it's a spectrum really.
00:07:03.000And it's been like this since the beginning, actually, and I've been talking about this since maybe February, the spectrum of reactions to the virus.
00:07:11.000On the one hand, maybe you've got Bill Mitchell who is saying, still, to this day, it's the flu!
00:07:28.000So on the one side of the spectrum, you've got people that are just not taking this seriously.
00:07:33.000Have no recognition or understanding of the gravity of what's happening right now.
00:07:39.000And then on the other end of the spectrum, you've got people that are saying, we have to shut down the economy completely and indefinitely.
00:07:46.000If it takes two years to develop the vaccine or herd immunity, then we're simply just going to have to shut down the economy for two years.
00:07:53.000And we're just going to have to nationalize everything and nobody's going to go to work and so on.
00:07:58.000And there's really two ends of the spectrum here.
00:07:59.000And I don't mean to say that I'm a radical centrist.
00:08:03.000The theme of the show tonight and for the rest of this week is thinking about these two ends of the spectrum and thinking about trade-offs.
00:08:10.000You're not a centrist to recognize that in any situation, and particularly when we talk about economy, and that is the problem right now is economy, it's scarcity.
00:08:45.000The more that we shut down the economy, the greater the economic pain, but perhaps the less damage that we will do to the population, the less people will die, the less people will be without the adequate medical care that they need, and maybe towards the other end of the spectrum, and this is the question, maybe you open up the economy more, and more people die, but there's less economic pain.
00:09:08.000The question, however, with that argument, though, is
00:09:12.000If more people die does this also compound the economic effect?
00:09:33.000Better economic performance, but I think the relationship between those two things is not as simple as you toggle one or the other.
00:09:41.000Because the more people that get sick, the more economic damage there will be.
00:09:45.000So, there has to be a question about trade-offs and then what are the effects of those trade-offs later on.
00:09:52.000That is the conversation I think that has to happen now.
00:10:05.000Maybe that's just the people that I know that are aware of the severity of this.
00:10:08.000But I think the government is aware of the severity.
00:10:10.000The stock market is clearly aware of the severity of the situation.
00:10:14.000And now the question is, now that we're in this and we understand that this is going to be a long-term problem, that there are no good or easy solutions,
00:10:24.000As I said, herd immunity and vaccination are a long way off.
00:10:53.000I've had some time to kind of think about it and talk to other people and look at the facts and everything and and get a little bit of a better take.
00:11:00.000And you should listen to me because I've been right about this since the beginning.
00:11:05.000I had the fair, even-handed, and fundamentally prescient take back in January to say that there's a high likelihood that this could turn into a full-blown global pandemic.
00:11:15.000And that was even before a lot of information was available.
00:11:20.000I have a lot of credibility coming to the table here.
00:11:23.000I've been doing this for a long time, okay kids?
00:11:26.000Okay children, I've been at this for a long time.
00:11:30.000I've been doing America First probably since before you were alive, and I've been making a lot of correct predictions on this and other things.
00:11:37.000So I've got the correct, I've got the right take tonight.
00:11:47.000It just feels like the rerun of the same show now.
00:11:50.000It's more numbers from BNO breaking news.
00:11:56.000It's another news conference from the president.
00:11:58.000It's this ongoing saga of the relief package in the Congress and it's back and forth and they're deliberating and it's the stock market just falling through the floor and these are just like the things that we've been monitoring now for three weeks and it's the same show.
00:13:00.000And you'll always have the expert who will drop in to tell you, well at this solar observatory, I worked there as a scientist and the Feds came there and they told us that disclosure was imminent.
00:13:12.000I don't know if you remember that, the Sunspot Solar Observatory.
00:13:30.000A nuclear missile just flew over my house, you know.
00:13:34.000So I saw one of these takes, which has been going around Twitter lately.
00:13:39.000A screenshot of one of these insider LARPs.
00:13:42.000Usually you call them a LARP and that's what it is, but a LARP about the coronavirus from back in January.
00:13:47.000And one of the insights that they talked about, and it's not the first time I've heard that, I've heard it from other places as well, but it was one of these insider posts, which by the way predicted a lot of things correctly over the past two months, talking about what happens when the virus reaches Brazil.
00:15:08.000I tried to find information, but it seems like the only person talking about it was that LARP and I think a few other people on Twitter, but I don't know if you've heard anything like that.
00:15:17.000Maybe some of my scientist friends out there like OpticsRespector is shaking his head saying, that's ridiculous.
00:15:23.000According to my calculations, that could never happen, but
00:15:26.000Point being, there are permutations of this disaster where things could get worse.
00:15:33.000My point is the situation is evolving rapidly, and we don't know where this could take us.
00:15:37.000They say that there's a much more deadly strain of the virus now, that there was this original strain, there's now two strains, and one is a lot more aggressive.
00:15:45.000So the virus could mutate, it could change form, it's going to be with us for a while.
00:15:49.000But anyway, with that in mind, we're going to dive into our whiteboard here.
00:16:03.000I know it's confusing when I indicate that I'm bringing up the whiteboard and I pull up this wooden contraption, but I've got our whiteboard here with all of our latest numbers.
00:16:12.000I'll bring down the brightness on my camera slightly so that you can read the words a little bit better.
00:16:48.000I'm pretty sure that was the number we looked at on Friday.
00:16:51.000264,000 worldwide confirmed cases of coronavirus.
00:16:56.000Our global total for today is nearly 379,000.
00:17:04.000And you have to think about the timetable, and this is what a lot of people have been talking about.
00:17:08.000The time it took to get to 100,000 confirmed cases, the time it took to get from 100,000 to 200,000 confirmed cases, the time it took to get from 200,000 to 300,000, and now from 300,000 to 400,000.
00:17:14.000That time period between each benchmark like that, between each... what would you call that?
00:17:53.000And I've been saying this for a long time a lot of baby boomers when this initially came out and it's not just baby boomers old people okay old people in general and maybe normies were looking at the picture globally or in our country and for example in the United States what they said two weeks ago I and I remember I was in Walgreens I was doing my shopping and the cashier behind the counter some 60 year old boomer
00:18:17.000Said there's only 1,300 cases in the United States.
00:18:20.000Do you know how small of a number that is?
00:18:23.000If it was 1%, that's 3 million people.
00:18:31.000Well, obviously in the United States it's a little different because of the testing issue, which we've talked about at length over the weeks.
00:18:38.000But beyond that, even if it was, let's say two weeks ago it was $1,300.
00:18:41.000And I would venture to guess that it was $45,000 two weeks ago.
00:18:48.000But we just hadn't confirmed them because we weren't testing people.
00:18:51.000The testing wasn't widespread, and it wasn't timely.
00:18:55.000So, I would contest, actually, that this number that we're seeing today, this is confirmed cases.
00:19:01.000This is not all the cases in the United States.
00:19:03.000This is the ones that have been tested and confirmed.
00:19:05.000And testing is still not widely available.
00:19:08.000It's getting better, and it has been getting better.
00:19:10.000You know, last week we looked at, I think it was 22,000 tests in one day.
00:19:14.000And in New York, there have been a lot of tests administered.
00:19:18.000But the problem is, the testing is highly concentrated in Washington and New York, and basically all the hotspots, the outbreak centers, the epicenters rather, of the outbreak, that's where the testing is happening.
00:19:33.000It's rolling out much more slowly in other parts of the country.
00:19:36.000So, 45,000 is what we've tested and confirmed right now, but I would bet you that that was maybe the total number of cases weeks ago.
00:19:44.000And what we have now is maybe multiples of this.
00:19:49.000And, you know, while we're talking about testing numbers, if we're talking about numbers of real people that are getting the disease, it's rapidly going up.
00:19:57.000It rapidly went up to nearly 400,000 in the span of three days.
00:20:03.000120,000 increase in the number of cases since Friday, globally, to give you an idea.
00:20:09.000So, in China, we are, well, we've breached the 81,000 mark, but we're still holding strong there, right around,
00:20:16.000It's almost not even worth it to keep writing this number because it's just a lie.
00:21:51.000I mean, I know the number in China doesn't mean anything, but the United States and China will collectively be the two biggest epicenters of the virus.
00:21:59.000Think of how quickly that happened and, you know, meditate a little bit on that.
00:22:02.000I guess it's not totally fair because if you're comparing the United States to Italy, the United States has a bigger population and is bigger geographically.
00:22:11.000It would probably be more fair to compare the United States to Europe as a whole.
00:22:17.000In which case Europe would be by far and away have more infections I think probably in gross terms and in terms of proportion than the United States but we don't we don't judge it by continent we're looking at by country.
00:22:30.000So we're at 45,000 in the U.S., we're at 33,089 in Spain, 29,056 in Germany, 23,049 in Iran,
00:22:41.00019,856 in France and 8,961 in South Korea.
00:22:45.000South Korea stayed at the bottom of this list.
00:22:48.000They haven't gone, you know, they haven't gone five digits yet.
00:22:53.000In terms of the confirmed cases, all these European countries have skyrocketed past and now you can see that this whole list you've got all these numbers in the five-digit category.
00:23:03.000France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Europe has really been taken over by the virus.
00:23:08.000All these other countries are reporting serious numbers.
00:23:30.000The worst countries, some of the worst off countries, but I'd encourage you to look up the BNO breaking news number of confirmed cases online and it'll show you every country and in every country it's bad now and I've been tracking this for as long as it's been going on and initially it was like a thousand cases in China I remember was a big deal
00:24:08.000Tracker of the coronavirus cases you had hundreds and then thousands of cases in China and the tens of thousands of cases and it took a long time to breach a hundred cases outside of China a Thousand cases outside of China and now there's dozens of countries that are in the thousands There's dozens of countries that are in the hundreds.
00:25:44.000We'll dive into the latest news here, the news conference in particular, and I'll read you a little report here from the New York Times, kind of summarizing where the president's at.
00:25:55.000The main takeaway, and I didn't watch the whole press conference, but I watched some of the highlights, and I watched a little bit of it in the beginning, and the tone seemed to be very different today than it has been recently.
00:26:06.000In recent weeks, the tone, I thought, has matched the severity of the crisis.
00:26:11.000The tone was that we're doing everything in our power to stop the spread of the virus.
00:26:15.000We're doing everything in our power to flatten the curve, right?
00:26:21.000And now there are a lot of weird new developments where now the president is saying that we need to get back to work as soon as possible.
00:26:29.000And we're hearing this line about how the cure could be worse than the disease.
00:26:34.000In other words, that shutting down the economy and attempting to stop the spread of the virus could be worse than the virus itself.
00:27:11.000So it seems like a weird turn with this news conference, whereas last week it was, we're doing everything in our power, extraordinary measures, we're in the second inning, we've got a lot to go, it's gonna be a big bailout to this week, and you know, just the China virus, and there's gonna be consequences, and we're shutting down the border.
00:27:29.000And this week, it's not the China virus, it's the silent killer, right?
00:27:33.000Or it's the invisible enemy, and now it's, we need to get back to work as soon as possible, and we've got a treatment, and... Kind of a weird turn.
00:27:44.000But I'll read you this report here from the New York Times, which will give us some quotes and some other things.
00:27:50.000It says, quote, President Trump at his near daily coronavirus briefing hinted on Monday that the economic shutdown meant to halt the spread of the virus across the country would not be extended.
00:28:02.000He said, quote, our country was not built to be shut down.
00:28:05.000America will again and soon be open for business.
00:28:09.000The President added without providing a timeline for when he believes normal economic activity could resume.
00:28:15.000He said, if it were up to the doctors, they'd say, let's shut down the entire world.
00:28:20.000This could create a much bigger problem than the problem that you started out with.
00:28:28.000In other words, not looking at months for the shelter in place, the quarantine, social distancing measures.
00:28:35.000Mr. Trump sent mixed signals from the White House podium, agreeing at one point with the Surgeon General and saying it's going to be bad, then suggesting that the response to the virus may have been overblown.
00:28:46.000He compared deaths from the novel coronavirus so far to deaths from other causes, influenza and car accidents, suggesting that the scale of those preventable deaths meant economic restrictions may not be appropriate to prevent the spread of the virus.
00:29:00.000He said, quote, we have a very active flu season, more active than most.
00:29:05.000It's looking like it's heading towards 50,000 or more deaths.
00:29:12.000And you look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we're talking about, that doesn't mean we're going to tell everybody no more driving of cars.
00:29:20.000So we have to do things to get our country open.
00:29:23.000So this was the tone of the press conference and this is what he's been saying.
00:29:27.000The two biggest shifts in tone to me are on China and on the virus.
00:29:32.000He did not call it the China virus today.
00:29:34.000Everybody who's calling it the China virus over the weekend, everybody that spoke
00:30:05.000And it is only as bad as it is because China was negligent in responding to the virus in their country and warning everybody else about it.
00:30:14.000They were aware of this virus for months.
00:30:18.000Some say even in 2019 the virus was on their radar.
00:30:21.000In December, maybe even before that, it was on their radar in China.
00:30:53.000And you could blame them for their cultural practices, but I mean this kind of goes with the territory.
00:30:58.000But you could certainly assign blame to them for not warning us, giving us heads up, and then even better than that, turning the blame around on us.
00:31:07.000And as it infects the whole world, they're gonna propagate the lie that the United States military created the virus or spread it to China or something like that.
00:31:25.000And more important even than defending the truth, which is that it originated there, they were negligent, and they're lying, beyond the mere importance of telling the truth on this matter,
00:31:36.000It is important to scapegoat China to a degree and by the way this scapegoat word has gotten a negative connotation.
00:31:44.000Things happen in the world and there are people responsible for things that happen in the world.
00:31:49.000So scapegoating somebody I guess maybe the definition of that is like
00:31:54.000You're wrongly blaming somebody but we do need to necessarily blame China for this and we need to necessarily blame China for this not simply because they are to blame but also because this will serve as a pretext to
00:32:09.000To wean us off of our reliance on China.
00:32:12.000This is a huge political opportunity, and I've been saying this for a long time, not just for our objectives, but our objectives as a country, our well-being as a country, which is to break our reliance on China economically, in terms of strategic goods.
00:32:28.000You know, you got to think about trade like this.
00:32:31.000On the first level, the first argument
00:32:35.000The bare minimum, easiest, and most common sense argument against free trade, and specifically against outsourcing is strategic goods.
00:32:49.000Before you can even have the conversation about what's good for the economy, what's good for the GDP, what is efficient, you have to think about trade from a geopolitical dimension, a geopolitical perspective.
00:33:02.000In other words, before we think about whether or not it's economically better for the American people,
00:33:08.000To have China manufacture certain things or have us manufacture those things, we first have to think about war and defending our country.
00:33:16.000We cannot, for example, outsource or offshore the production of military goods to a country which is potentially our adversary.
00:33:25.000China is rising as the second biggest economy in the world, the second biggest military in the world, number one in population.
00:33:34.000If there's any rival in the global world order, it's China.
00:33:38.000It does not make any sense, then, for China to produce things like airplanes, or tanks, or guns, or other... And this is just for the sake of example.
00:34:20.000And then you could extrapolate it to all kinds of things.
00:34:24.000We should not have our adversary producing things that are essential.
00:34:29.000And that is strategic things like military, that's disaster preparedness, that's medical, that's even just plain essentials like food and other home essentials.
00:34:40.000You know, if you're looking at clothes or furniture, all kinds of things.
00:34:44.000And then you even get to future industries like artificial intelligence.
00:35:08.000And so the first, and these are the two big things that have changed in this press conference, is it's this, and we'll get to the second part, which is the cure is worse than the disease, but in the first place it's this idea that we don't know where the virus came from, we're not going to talk about China because of these attacks on Asian Americans.
00:35:36.000I don't like to see people attacked for things that are not their fault.
00:35:40.000When we're assigning blame, we also have to assign blame precisely.
00:35:44.000Do we lay this at the feet of every Chinese person that walks the earth?
00:35:47.000Or do we lay this at the feet of the Chinese Communist Party, or the government in Beijing, which did not warn the other governments in the world?
00:35:56.000So, I don't think that's a good thing.
00:35:58.000But, we cannot conduct our domestic policy.
00:36:02.000The President has to think about the greater good of the nation before we think about unforeseen, unintended consequences, which, it's questionable if they're even under our control in the first place.
00:36:13.000If we were at war with China, for example, would we not say that China is our enemy, lest Chinese people get attacked in the streets?
00:36:23.000We would have to gin up support against our enemy.
00:36:25.000You know, for example, in the war in Iraq, and, you know, I don't like the war in Iraq, but let's say that that was a necessary war, hypothetically.
00:36:33.000Are we going to say that we're not going to fight terrorists?
00:36:36.000Well, maybe a better example would be Al-Qaeda or ISIS.
00:36:39.000Are we going to soften our rhetoric about ISIS and Al-Qaeda because of Islamophobia?
00:37:32.000This conversation should have happened 30 years ago, or 25, or 20 years ago, when the WTO was created, when all this wealth started to pour into China.
00:37:42.000The time to put the brakes on China was 30 years ago.
00:38:19.000That's why their currency is weakening against ours.
00:38:22.000So now's the time in a global pandemic when you've got this mass political capital and this pretext to start to break, and it'll be a painful break, but to start the break on the over-reliance on China.
00:38:34.000That that's not being taken advantage of fully would be a big mistake.
00:40:29.000And then the herd immunity, which is our next best attempt to stop the spread of the virus in some permanent fashion, is to just build up a natural immunity, and that takes years.
00:40:39.000And lots of people have to get sick for that to happen.
00:40:42.000That's just the reality we have to live.
00:40:44.000We have to resign ourselves to the fact that we are going to be dealing
00:40:48.000With on and off outbreaks and mass outbreaks of novel coronavirus for years and many people will get sick and there's a high death rate something like 2% and we have to come up with a sustainable solution for this.
00:41:01.000We cannot shut down the economy for as long as novel coronavirus is going to be a threat to people.
00:41:06.000Because that could be 12 months, 18 months, 24 months.
00:41:12.000And you can't completely shut down the economy.
00:41:14.000The economy cannot afford for people not to go to work for two years.
00:41:18.000And that doesn't mean the stock market, by the way.
00:41:20.000A lot of people I see on Twitter are saying, if you believe that it's unrealistic to shut down the economy indefinitely, then you're a consumer.
00:41:45.000We're talking about production of essentials.
00:41:48.000So, you know, for example, if people are not getting paid to make things and to grow food, then things will not be made and food will not be grown.
00:41:57.000And the wealth that we've built up as the country will be consumed and we'll have nothing.
00:42:01.000And that would be catastrophic in a different way.
00:42:03.000I mean, you'll have a catastrophe with the virus.
00:42:28.000So the reason I'm saying this is to kind of get it out of the way.
00:42:32.000To an extent, there is some truth in that argument that the cure can be worse than the disease.
00:42:38.000I will agree with that in a very, very general way that there's a tradeoff.
00:42:43.000And to an extent we have to return to some level of normalcy.
00:42:46.000That doesn't mean that we're not gonna, we're not gonna try and stop the spread or flatten the curve, you know, whatever these phrases you're hearing.
00:42:52.000That doesn't mean we're not gonna take precautions, but what's happening right now?
00:43:30.000I don't think you're a capitalist shill or a consumer or a stock market person to understand, you know, how we get goods and services, how we feed ourselves.
00:43:40.000You know, to prevent a complete breakdown of society.
00:43:43.000All of that being said, Barron, so all of that being said, I think that's fair enough to say in a very general way that complete shutdown, indefinitely, not sustainable.
00:43:53.000I don't think anybody would argue with that.
00:43:54.000I'm not saying anything more than a complete and total shutdown, nobody leaves the house, lockdown for years, indefinitely, not sustainable.
00:44:37.000That was like basic guidelines for a pandemic.
00:44:41.000Your most basic, bare minimum for 15 days and it took all of 7 days for the President to abandon that completely and say, oh no, we have to call it off.
00:45:30.000It's been less than that since states have done shelter-in-place.
00:45:34.000Illinois was in shelter-in-place on Saturday.
00:45:37.000New York was shelter-in-place on Friday.
00:45:39.000California was shelter-in-place on Thursday.
00:45:42.000So as far as shelter-in-place goes, it's been three, four, five days that states have been sheltering in place before the President of the United States gets in front of the podium and says, It's too much!
00:48:57.000The difference with this one is, as Trump himself says, it is the invisible enemy.
00:49:02.000Simply because it is invisible does not mean it is not a catastrophe, does not mean it is not a disaster, does not mean that you have to take serious precautions.
00:49:12.000And the precautions may be harmful, but think about the reasons for why you're taking the precautions.
00:49:17.000You take the precautions so that millions and millions of people don't die.
00:49:23.000The only difference is because it's invisible, right, the invisible enemy, and because of the scale and the, right, because of how widespread it is, I don't think people think about it in the same way.
00:49:35.000Of course, if a giant tornado is over your house, you wouldn't say, well, it's been a few hours.
00:50:17.000And you could talk about a return to normalcy, and it's going to be a hard, you know, month or two.
00:50:23.000Well, if we maintain discipline and we keep everything shut down, it's going to be tough, and it's going to be a bloodbath for the economy.
00:51:12.000When testing is widespread, millions of people have been tested, and once we get a low number of people reporting new cases every day, and things have stabilized, that is the time that we can talk about bringing people back.
00:51:25.000And there are ways that you can go back.
00:51:27.000In China what they're doing is workers will show up to the factory.
00:51:30.000They get their temperature taken before they go in.
00:51:33.000They get their temperature taken before they leave.
00:51:35.000They work with gloves and masks and all that.
00:51:39.000The factory owners and the people there, they report the numbers to the government.
00:51:43.000And that is one way that you could do things like that.
00:51:47.000That is what it might look like once things stabilize and there might be some kind of quasi return to normalcy that we might be looking at.
00:51:55.000That is a sustainable and long-term solution that we maintain the guidelines, maintain social distancing, masks, gloves, temperature, all that, but people go back to work and school.
00:53:57.000They're proposing their own terrible bill now.
00:54:00.000The Democrats shut down the Republican stimulus, the Republican relief bill, and they offered their own.
00:54:04.000And inside the Democrat bill, you have same-day voter registration in there, you've got expanding collective bargaining for unions, offset airline emissions by 2025, $15 minimum wage, extend non-immigrant work visas, no ID required for a mail-in ballot for voting, and tax credits for wind and solar.
00:54:25.000This is what's happening in the Congress, and our president is talking about the cure is worse than the disease.
00:55:01.000There's not even any talk anymore about reshoring or anything like that.
00:55:05.000So this press conference, as far as I'm concerned, is a terrible, terrible new direction from the White House, in my opinion.
00:55:12.000I think that, to an extent, it's reasonable to say that what's happening is...
00:55:20.000You know cannot be sustainable indefinitely I think to a point that's true But you know now is not the time and you could say that he's saying that right now Just to sort of acknowledge what a lot of people are feeling I'm sure a lot of people are thinking this is crazy Because our population is weak, and they can't handle these kinds of things They just can't can't handle hardship can't handle being told you know no restaurants.
00:55:44.000Uh, so maybe Trump is saying that as a bit of a release valve to tell people to calm down, maybe calm down the markets, calm down people, but I don't want to see an end to this anytime soon.
00:55:54.000There should be this lockdown for a little while longer, and then, you know, maybe over the summer, maybe, you know, June...
00:56:02.000At the earliest you start to talk about opening things back up, or maybe earlier than that, but depending on how things go.
00:56:07.000But we should just be taking it day by day and until the numbers stabilize, it should be on lockdown.
00:56:13.000And what he should be concerned more about is the money.
00:56:16.000No talk about the cash payments today.
00:56:31.000If you can't get the House of Representatives to greenlight funds, checks to be sent out, then just tell the IRS to cut the other end and say, we're going to cancel this much in tax money, something like that.
00:56:44.000But this was the wrong conversation to have.
00:56:47.000The conversation should not have been about
00:56:49.000You know we don't know where it came from and this is going on too long and the cure is worse than the virus.
00:56:55.000If this is where we're headed and I don't know this is one news conference there's been a lot of them maybe get a different message just to you know save your ass a little bit with these these Chinese attacks which is going to be a bad news cycle and maybe you offer a little bit of a release valve for the markets and for people that are getting stir crazy but we got to stay the course here.
00:57:14.000I hope tomorrow we go back to where we were last week.
00:57:17.000But those are the developments from today.
00:59:30.000I hope it does, but I don't think there's any guarantee.
00:59:34.000People do not think these things through.
00:59:48.000Coronavirus will not change the incentives of politicians and so politicians will not change on this.
00:59:54.000Politicians still get money from the same donors that's why they're neoliberals so that that will not change.
00:59:59.000The incentives will not be affected by coronavirus and people would have to think about this thoroughly to change their worldview and I don't think people do that so I doubt it.
01:00:10.000Giants, we have an opportunity to do that but Trump has to lead it and he has to be forceful and repetitive and consistent.
01:01:08.000The baby's born, they're split, and Hunter says, I'm still gonna take care of my daughter even though, you know, the parents are separated, even though me and the daughter's mom are separated, we're still gonna raise this baby together even though we're not seeing each other.
01:01:25.000Okay, so that was maybe, I think, like last year, a year and a half ago.
01:03:00.000Racist incel says broke gatekeepers woke skeleton keys He soft-blocked me over that I checked Somebody linked one of his tweets in a group chat And I saw he soft-blocked me little Jesus soft-blocked me just because we were enjoying his awesome song
01:03:17.000Yeah, no gatekeeper, because I've got skeleton keys, right?
01:03:22.000Racist incel says, relax, total irony, just a gentle ribbing.
01:05:10.000If you go to SocialBlade and you go to DLive, top 50 highest earning, I'm now the number 2 highest earning streamer on this entire website, except for PewDiePie.
01:05:30.000And I'm in striking distance of PewDiePie, I think.
01:05:35.000If things keep going the way they are, I will surpass PewDiePie in total earnings by next month.
01:05:42.000For your viewing pleasure, I'll put this in the live chat.
01:08:34.000So, maybe if we get that number, if I get up to number one, if I get more donations than PewDiePie, who's got a hundred million subs on YouTube and was their big partner, that was their big break, you know, maybe then I could get an answer on Discord.
01:10:42.000It's tough, it's tough to believe these days because you know religion is maybe at the lowest religiosity is maybe at the lowest level it's been in like thousands of years.
01:10:54.000So it's it's harder than ever now to believe and to act like you believe so I am I'm always glad to hear that people listen to the show and they have more faith.
01:11:06.000Justin says, got a gift for you in Animal Crossing.
01:13:11.000You're traveling, you're on an airplane, he was at this big conference, comes home at the height of the pandemic, not taking the temperature.
01:16:13.000Think about, and look, this is why when everybody calls me, or, you know, certain people call me a grifter or insincere, it makes me furious.
01:16:22.000Think about the level that I operate at.
01:16:24.000I'm like one of the bigger political streamers, period!
01:16:27.000Compare me to the Young Turks, compare me to Chapo, any of these guys, and I'm at their or greater in terms of viewership, the Groyper Wars, the impact that I'm making,
01:16:38.000I'm about to be a bigger streamer than PewDiePie.
01:18:21.000How do we combat moralistic, therapeutic deism?
01:18:42.000The therapeutic religion or therapeutic Christianity is really more this prosperity gospel type stuff.
01:18:50.000It's a lot of religion without really the sacrifice, without the somber or sober resignation that comes with religion, which is that you resign yourself to being at the mercy of God and at God's grace.
01:19:09.000And so it's a lot of people that say this kind of stuff that'll make you feel better, this idea that, you know, God is nature, God is the world, you know, God is just cheering you on, whatever you want to do, there's God out there and he just wants you to do your best.
01:19:28.000And it's almost like it's just a psychological crutch, but that does not consist in real belief.
01:19:47.000But if what I understand your question to be, if I'm right, and I think I'm right, what a lot of people do is they come up with this idea of God that it's like, you know, God just wants you to love everyone and like, it's just a very light-hearted guy.
01:20:16.000He would, you know, he's all just about moral posturing.
01:20:19.000But the irony here is that people invent that because they have a hollowness inside of them, an emotional, spiritual hollowness, a chasm.
01:20:32.000And they try to fill it with this therapeutic deism, this prosperity gospel, I like to call it, for a lot of Christians, for a lot of Protestants.
01:21:01.000Religion is only comforting when you actually believe in it.
01:21:04.000Religion is a crutch, but only when you believe in it.
01:21:07.000And in order to believe in it, you have to believe it's real, and when you believe it's real, it demands sacrifice.
01:21:12.000You know, real belief means that you are directing your consciousness towards something higher, and that's what people are unwilling to do.
01:21:19.000The source of their misery is their attachment to the temporal world.
01:21:23.000That's what people are unwilling to do.
01:21:27.000It's sort of tragic, but it is ironic.
01:21:31.000That everybody, you know, in a desperate attempt to cling to the temporal world, they come up with these fake spiritual ideas to sort of justify them or to comfort them, but they're ignoring the fact that it's their clinging.
01:21:46.000It's their unwilling to let go from this life because you're going to die and you're going to be miserable.
01:21:53.000And that is just the state of our existence.
01:21:55.000And the only way to unlock yourself from that is to let go.
01:22:53.000And that might sound like really reductive or like asinine, but just being and not wanting, maybe that's Buddhist or something, but it's true.
01:23:01.000When you sort of resign yourself to just, you know, enjoying life, whatever comes, and maybe that's just more of a stoic mentality more than anything, but that's I think the first step.
01:23:11.000That is when I think you're not going to become happy, but you're not going to be miserable.
01:24:37.000Well, I bought a house when the market is totally inflated.
01:24:40.000It's the, you know, it's the second housing bubble.
01:24:43.000And I bought a house and it was way overpriced and I have no savings, but at least I can say, but at least nobody will say that I live at home anymore at 21 and I can brag to my friends that I'm on my own.
01:25:02.000So yeah, I was I have been waiting for the housing market to crash and now it looks like it's going to perhaps Potentially, you know, my friend was telling me that probably real estate's gonna crash the latter half of this year I'm not an economist, but I'm gonna wait until those those prices dip a little bit before I go in So yeah, it's gonna it's gonna happen soon and the studios going up.
01:25:54.000That's what I did before the quarantine, and the other night I went out, I got some ice cream, driving around town, blasting my music, and it was like everything was normal.
01:26:04.000You know, there are people out and about driving, and town still looks the same, so...
01:26:12.000The problem is the person-to-person transmission.
01:26:15.000Surfaces are a problem too, but as long as you disinfect, you get it from the drive-thru, just mind the person over there.
01:26:22.000And if you wear a mask, I'm sure that would be fine.
01:26:29.000Even a cloth mask I think would be fine for that.
01:26:32.000Maybe you wear goggles or glasses, something like that.
01:26:35.000If you really wanted to be super safe, what I would tell you is rubber gloves, glasses, mask, take the bag, you know, disinfect it with a wipe or, you know, maybe retrieve your components and then take all the shit off.
01:26:47.000And maybe that's the safest way you could do it.
01:26:49.000But yeah, I don't think there's an extreme risk.
01:26:51.000You're putting yourself at risk anytime you leave the house, really.
01:26:57.000Not necessarily every time you literally go outside, but every time you go to like a store or a drive-thru I think you put yourself at risk, but the risk is very very low.
01:27:05.000I'm pretty sure that's the guidance so Lifted trucks says Californians are buying entire gun shops out.
01:27:13.000Yeah, it's awesome Lifted trucks says I've been eating bat meat my whole life nuggets Okay
01:27:20.000I don't eat bat meat, but yeah, good for you, I guess.
01:27:23.000Yeet says, if I dip the baseball bat in Corona, it's more deadly.
01:28:23.000If 98% of the people live and 2% of the population die, that's millions of people that are dying, right?
01:28:31.000And that's millions of people that are getting it.
01:28:33.000If 10%, let's say, 7% are severe cases, that's millions of people that are in the ICU, that are in the hospital, and they require ventilators and all kinds of things.
01:28:42.000So, that's why, you know, to say the vast majority are okay, well, you know, that's not really how it works.
01:29:03.000Everybody's giving me such a hard time about the merch, and I'm gonna take care of everybody.
01:29:08.000So, if you've been one of these people that's been very rude to me as I try to handle a difficult situation, and I'm a one-man band over here, you're gonna feel like shit when I take good care of you, and I expect you to say thanks and to order more products.
01:29:24.000It's like, there's a slight delay, I don't get back to your email right away, and people are like, you are, you know, all kinds of just hatred and nastiness.
01:29:35.000Do you know what my operation looks like?
01:29:52.000so so yeah you'll be taken care of if you have a problem with the merch send an email to amfirstmerch at gmail.com i think that's the email let me just double check it's either i think it's am first maybe it's america first i'm 99 it's am first
01:32:16.000I get all my opinions from memes that I see online!
01:32:20.000And that's, you know, generally memes are effective at communicating a message to other people, but they're not the basis for having a serious political opinion.
01:32:29.000You have to think these things through.
01:32:31.000And, you know, this idea that the only reason that they want us to go out back to work is for their portfolio!
01:33:43.000And, you know, that's not to say that nobody will be ruined by this, but it is to say the idea that this is just, you know, we just have to march back out for Wall Street is ridiculous.
01:33:56.000You know, GDP will shrink 50%, 30% of the population employed.
01:34:01.000You think that working people are not getting hurt by this?
01:34:03.000Working people need to work to make money to feed themselves.
01:34:08.000And I don't know, are you like a communist?
01:34:10.000Are you... And I'm not, you know me, I'm not one of these free market shills, I'm not...
01:34:15.000I've got plenty of criticisms of the current paradigm and liquidity and you know near zero interest and this is a problem that's been a long time coming and the crisis catalyzed a lot of it but let's be serious here.
01:34:28.000If people don't have jobs in a lot of cases and they're living paycheck to paycheck they can't feed themselves.
01:34:34.000And they can't pay their bills, and that's a problem.
01:34:36.000So the idea that, like, a return to normalcy is just, oh, well, peasants have to go back to work, huh?
01:34:44.000Well, I mean, yeah, for a lot of people that are working class, it's real trouble when they're laid off, or unemployed, or they get fired, or, you know, they're told that they're not going to get paid for weeks on end, indefinitely.
01:34:54.000A lot of people don't have enough savings to get them through three months, you know?
01:35:00.000So certainly, it's causing a lot of commotion on Wall Street, and maybe Wall Street's giving the administration a kick in the ass, but the idea that it's not hurting anybody other than Wall Street, and this is bleeding Wall Street dry, and the working people are just rubbing their ants together, that's just not true.
01:35:35.000You got to get on Animal Crossing big guy Josh the remover says my buddy's cousin got the virus spooky times.
01:35:41.000Yeah, you're gonna know people that'll get infected and you'll get infected Optics respecter says I bet I can guess who attacked the Asian Americans.
01:37:30.000You know, I'm hard-pressed to imagine couples watching this show because, you know, all the adults that I know are, like, cringe and they watch, like, American Idol and stuff like that.
01:37:41.000But, like, generally, like, my parents and their friends and our neighbors would never watch a show like this because it's just, like, you know, they're normies.
01:44:24.000That's right Still a Nika no matter what no matter what I do no matter how successful I am Still a Nika.
01:44:31.000That's always that's always what it's gonna be I'll have to come in through the back door
01:44:38.000Even as, you know, as much as we've done now, it's still, well, you have to come through the back door where the slaves used to enter, right?
01:44:45.000When I meet with somebody, we can't be seen.
01:44:47.000We gotta go somewhere where there's no cameras.
01:44:50.000And, uh, you know, this kind of stuff, with DLive, get escorted out of CPAC, and they pat me down, still a n***a.
01:46:38.000Maybe if you're talking about, like, you know... If you're talking about Rhode Island or Connecticut or you're talking about New Hampshire, then it's different, but...
01:47:24.000Mental health, physical health, never better.
01:47:28.000it's about people says no taxes for 2020 DC can cut back I don't know if that's gonna happen cutting all taxes I think that would be like trillions of dollars whereas you give a cash payment that's like 500 billion dollars so I don't know if that's gonna happen by Delta says Caldwell's Age of Enlightenment equals America first much must read I'll be the judge of that