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00:01:03.000But today we're going to mix it up a little bit.
00:01:05.000What I want to talk about, our main story is going to be about the latest developments with the virus.
00:01:09.000We're going to be looking at the social distancing guidelines which got extended by 30 days.
00:01:15.000So if you remember, initially those social distancing guidelines released by the White House which said to work from home, which said to cancel school, maintain six feet from other people, things like that.
00:01:39.000So yesterday, on Sunday, one day before the guidelines expired, the President extended the guidelines for another 30 days.
00:01:46.000He had talked last week about ending the guidelines by Easter, which is April 12th.
00:01:53.000I don't have my April calendar up yet.
00:01:55.000Still technically March, but we were supposed to, or rather he was planning on, or he said last week that he was looking at Easter as the day that schools would open back up, that work would open back up, that the social distancing guidelines might finally expire, but we've extended a full 30 days and now it seems like we won't be released from these
00:03:10.000And now they just developed a five-minute test.
00:03:13.000So previously, you had to get your test sent to a lab.
00:03:17.000And even when they were doing the automatic lab, at first it was a manual lab and it took a long time.
00:03:22.000Then they did the automatic labs, which took 24 to 36 hours.
00:03:27.000And now they've just developed a five-minute test where you can go to a drive-thru testing center and they'll make these available across the country.
00:03:35.000They said they could scale it up to 50,000 tests per day and the president ordered for starters 50,000 of these tests and you go in and you take the test and five minutes later you have the result and it's very accurate.
00:03:48.000So we'll talk about that but I also want to talk about
00:04:00.000This wasn't like primetime news, but some American news outlets are reporting on this.
00:04:05.000If you know the news, you know where I'm going with this.
00:04:09.000I've been saying for weeks that this is like the biggest crisis probably or maybe of our lifetimes, certainly a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, a crisis of this nature, of this variety, unprecedented in American history, and the president should use this as an opportunity to take control of the situation.
00:04:30.000And by that I mean to use the government to not just answer the crisis, but to expand his personal power and then use his personal power to keep non-coronavirus related campaign promises.
00:04:45.000Things like building the border wall, shutting down legal immigration, shutting down illegal immigration, even things like trade, work visas, I mean all kinds of things.
00:04:55.000You could even bring home the troops under the guise of coronavirus.
00:04:59.000I've been an advocate really since it started.
00:05:02.000I don't know if it was February or March, but I've been saying for months, weeks, that the president should utilize this, obviously.
00:05:14.000And I'm not like, you know, in favor of a dictatorship, but this is what the left does, this is what the Democrats do, this is how politics operates.
00:05:23.000When a crisis visits the country, an emergency happens, that's the only time that you have the pretext or the capital to get what you want done.
00:05:32.000We know that the nature of democracy in Congress is slow, it's divided, it's constantly bickering in the Parliament or the legislative body, the Congress, whatever.
00:05:49.000I want to talk a little bit about what's being done in Hungary, just to give you an idea, because some people are out there saying, well, you can't close restaurants because that's violating the Constitution, and you can't order a shelter in place because that's not freedom, and we need to be going out and, I don't even know, drinking and watching the game as some symbol of freedom.
00:06:10.000But just to give you an idea, in Hungary they just passed legislation in their parliament which allows Viktor Orban, who is the president, to rule by decree indefinitely.
00:06:47.000Big penalties on people that break quarantine.
00:06:50.000And that's just to give you an idea of what is possible if you have a strong, a strong-willed nationalist government, a nationalist regime in power.
00:07:00.000And think about what could be achieved if we reach something like that.
00:07:06.000I don't think that that would ever happen in America, anything close to that.
00:07:09.000Because we're a different country than Hungary, and we're a different country than a lot of these countries like Turkey, or Russia, or China.
00:07:17.000Where they have a more centralized, concentrated, autocratic type system.
00:09:12.000I usually display the top 16 confirmed cases, top 16 countries with the most confirmed cases, but I figured we don't even read the second side of the board.
00:11:31.000They'll look like the girl Tusken Raiders.
00:11:34.000And maybe they just have a separate... Maybe I'll have to get some kind of an office and we'll do it specially so that there's two separate entrances.
00:11:42.000Maybe there'll be a walkie-talkie and, you know, she enters from one door, I enter from the other door.
00:11:48.000There's a, you know, impenetrable wall that separates and we'll just talk on the phone.
00:11:52.000Anyway, so I don't know what the handwriting's not so great.
00:11:56.000But we've got the whiteboard and we'll also be talking about Hungary.
00:12:30.000So we'll get into all of that before we do I do just want to say you know we don't really know how this thing is gonna turn out in the end and that's been the evolving conversation obviously over the past few weeks is what is the long-term timetable what does that look like what what is 12 months 9 months what does that look like 12 to 9 months from now
00:12:52.000And I gotta tell you, increasingly the thing that scares me is not so much the cyclical nature of the virus, because it seems like we are getting a handle on these social distancing procedures.
00:13:04.000It seems like, as I said last week, the president has been swiftly mobilizing all of our resources.
00:13:10.000The Federal Reserve, fiscal policy with the Congress.
00:13:14.000We saw that $6 trillion relief package last week.
00:13:18.000Excuse me, my throat's a little dry here.
00:13:23.000So, the President's been mobilizing our economic tools, the monetary, the fiscal policy, the stimulus last week.
00:13:30.000We have more ventilators being produced.
00:13:32.000I think the President has gotten 20 companies to now produce ventilators under the Defense Production Act.
00:13:37.000We're getting masks produced by all different kinds of companies.
00:13:42.000You see that the social distancing is going into effect.
00:13:45.000I think three-quarters of the population are under some kind of shelter in place.
00:13:49.000So, point being, across the board it seems like we're getting a handle on a lot of these challenges.
00:13:55.000First it was the testing, then it was the social distancing, then it was this economic stimulus, now it appears to be these shortages of critical medical supplies and health care resources, hospital beds.
00:14:47.000It's that you don't go to school, you don't go to work.
00:14:50.000Maybe you stock up on supplies, money's a little bit tighter, and if you get sick, maybe you die, and maybe it's a severe case.
00:14:58.000All of those sacrifices that a person has to make, or all of those consequences, and not to minimize those things,
00:15:06.000But it is to say that I think that fits into a lot of people's frame, and maybe not right away but certainly four weeks into this, just about three or four weeks into this, I think that fits into people's frame of what we can expect out of this pandemic.
00:15:20.000I think people, either at the outset or by the middle of it, they understand that that is what we can expect from this.
00:15:27.000What I'm thinking about now is what people are not going to expect.
00:15:30.000And what I'm talking about is not economic
00:15:33.000And it's not public health, but it's the social order.
00:15:36.000And I don't know, I don't want to be an alarmist here.
00:15:38.000I don't want you to take this, you know, take this with a grain of salt.
00:15:58.000And then the week after that, what did I say?
00:15:59.000I talked about the stock market, the economy maybe.
00:16:02.000And I said we need stimulus, we need dramatic action.
00:16:05.000Last week I said the ventilators and the respirators and hospital bed space.
00:16:10.000This week I'm talking about the social order.
00:16:12.000I think that's the next phase of this that we have to mind because what I'm seeing now across the country and what I've seen internationally, what is sort of this final phase?
00:16:23.000What is the peak coronavirus look like in a lot of these countries?
00:16:27.000Prisoners are being released from jail.
00:16:31.000The virus spreads in prisons, obviously, because it's high population density, people in close quarters, and you have to interact with people very frequently.
00:16:40.000You don't have the same health standards in a prison that you do even in, like, a school or a workplace.
00:16:46.000So it's spreading in prisons, so they're releasing prisoners.
00:16:49.000Police are now tied up because police have to be enforcing quarantine and police have to be helping in some cases with hospitals or in a lot of cases helping with health care functions or they're trying to disperse public gatherings.
00:17:04.000Police resources are limited so they're saying for example in some states that they're not going to go after people for misdemeanors, they're not going to go after people for minor crimes like in California or in other places where resources are tight.
00:18:31.000And that's not to say that the recession is not a problem, and I think we are nearing that point.
00:18:36.000It's not to say that the coronavirus isn't a problem, obviously.
00:18:40.000But it is to say that those things, the reciprocal nature of the economy, the coronavirus, the strain on the public sector resources, this is compounding and snowballing.
00:18:51.000And it's creating a situation where it's like, you know, you're on thin ice here as far as the social order goes, as far as maintaining public order goes.
00:19:01.000And specifically in some of these cities like Chicago or Baltimore or LA or San Francisco, it's like a powder keg.
00:19:08.000And I think that if things continue to go in this direction, if they continue to deteriorate, all it takes is a spark.
00:19:15.000We have no idea what the next 4, 8, 12 weeks holds.
00:19:20.000But I am very very concerned in a situation like this, I don't need to tell you, the public order is very very fragile.
00:19:27.000People are talking about how united and resilient we are and so on, and all I'm going to say is the government needs to act fast to paper over a lot of these things, to band-aid over these things, just keep things together long enough for when there's light at the end of the tunnel.
00:19:43.000Because I'm seeing a lot of these trends, and you know, when I'm talking about prisoners being released, in a lot of cases it's like,
00:20:28.000So, the supply chains globally are breaking down, the supply chains in the United States may be disrupted, and all of this is a recipe for a very, very fragile situation, and it's something to keep in mind.
00:20:40.000You might be prepared with your food, you might be prepared with your water, but it's also something to think about to be prepared for some kind of civil disorder.
00:20:50.000And again, I don't know if that's likely at this point.
00:20:53.000I'm not saying like, yeah, oh, it's everybody getting your bomb shelter because the boogaloo is happening.
00:20:59.000The boogaloo, by the way, is a totally astroturfed Fed meme, but you understand what I'm saying.
00:21:05.000I'm not trying to tell you that civil war is coming tomorrow, but it's something to keep in mind that we are in a very precarious position economically, as far as our public services go, as far as law enforcement goes.
00:21:17.000And we've always got the military, but in a situation like this, you could see it deteriorate very rapidly if you take a sharp left turn in, you know, somewhere down the line in the next three to four weeks, because that's when it's gonna start to heat up.
00:21:30.000So something to keep in mind, just something to be aware of.
00:21:34.000But with that out of the way, you know, just a little bit of a warning, kind of setting the stage for this week.
00:21:39.000With that out of the way, we're gonna dive in and we'll look at our latest numbers here.
00:22:58.000200,000 cases to give you an idea of how many people are getting infected.
00:23:11.000Worldwide on a daily basis or at least adding to the number of confirmed cases I Have a feeling the numbers actually much higher than this by the way And I have been saying this but you factor in China, and you've probably got millions in China
00:23:25.000And you factor in India, and probably you've got a million in India.
00:23:30.000I mean, I haven't been following India too closely, but the numbers that they're reporting of confirmed cases, they're reporting less than 2,000.
00:23:36.000They put the whole country on lockdown.
00:23:46.000A thousand people have the virus seriously in India where they practically live on top of each other and they wipe their asses with their hands and they and you know I don't mean that to be nasty but they just don't have the hygiene standards that even they have in China they don't have the
00:24:04.000The sanitation infrastructure that they even have in developing countries elsewhere.
00:24:09.000India is a country that just does not have that going on for them.
00:24:13.000They just don't have the hygiene, the sanitation.
00:24:45.000Imagine what it's like in a lot of these countries where they just haven't rolled out the testing and they don't have the infrastructure to even confirm and report the cases.
00:24:55.000Or the government is lying in those cases.
00:26:44.000We have known this for a time, you know, and it's more fitting to compare maybe like the top four European countries or the top five to the United States than comparing the United States to Italy, right?
00:26:56.000It's more fair given the population size to compare the United States with 350 million to maybe the entire continent of Europe, which I think has 400 million or something like that.
00:27:08.000It's more than the United States, but I think that's a more reasonable comparison than to say, oh, look at the United States and then look at Italy, Spain, France, Germany, the UK, right?
00:27:47.000The virus has been being transmitted for weeks and it is probably transmitted to an extent that we don't even know.
00:27:55.000Way more people have the virus than we know about and they're either asymptomatic or if they have mild cases or if they have severe or mild cases they're unreported.
00:28:05.000And there might be false negatives out there too.
00:28:07.000And that's maybe the smallest category of the ones I just listed.
00:28:10.000But you've got all these people out there that are asymptomatic, mild cases, undiagnosed cases, potentially even people with false positives.
00:28:18.000I mean the tests are, or I'm sorry, false negatives.
00:29:16.000When I was checking out at Walmart doing my doomsday prepping, 60-some-year-old cashier is, you know, trying to tell this awful in front of me how everything's gonna be okay.
00:30:42.000I imagine, I'm not looking at the live chat right now, but I imagine people in the live chat are saying, no, Nick, what are you talking about?
00:31:40.000Okay, but we're gonna move on and I want to talk about, like I said, I want to talk about what's happening in Hungary because I've been saying this for weeks.
00:32:32.000I've been saying for weeks, in a time of crisis, that is the only time
00:32:38.000That you can legitimately and easily expand your jurisdiction, expand your authority, and put into motion sweeping, dramatic reforms that in normal times would be impossible.
00:32:51.000That in normal times could not pass, and if they did pass they would be too dramatic of changes.
00:32:59.000You know, one of the paradoxes of revolution, whether you're looking at a violent revolution or a peaceful revolution, and what we have through democracy is, you know, theoretically, I should say, a peaceful revolution every four years.
00:33:13.000You do regime change every four years, but it's done through a process, it's legitimate, it's sanctioned by the state.
00:33:19.000You know, in that way it's kind of interesting.
00:33:22.000But the paradox with any revolution, peaceful or violent, is that a revolution promises, obviously, sweeping change because it has to change from the old regime to the new regime.
00:33:34.000That's the pretext, that's the reason for the revolution, right?
00:33:39.000That being said, if you put things in place too quickly or too dramatically, things changing too dramatically in too short of a time
00:33:48.000That creates a lot of problems, a lot of instability, a lot of chaos, things like that.
00:33:54.000So the paradox of a revolution is almost that once you get into power, you have to kind of have it make it slow rolling so that it sustains itself, so that there's some longevity to some of those reforms.
00:34:17.000That is when you can go in and make serious changes.
00:34:19.000When the entire population is disoriented, and that's what it comes down to, normally people are living predictable lives and their lives fit into their expectations.
00:34:32.000And upsetting those expectations, that is where in lies the problems.
00:34:35.000I'm getting a little bit psychological here.
00:34:38.000This is kind of like social theory, I guess.
00:34:40.000But when people's expectations or their predicted lies are disrupted, well, people don't like that.
00:34:47.000That is why you can't really do these sweeping reforms daily because people's general preference is towards the status quo.
00:34:55.000The general social preference of people in normal times, in good times, or even average times, their preferences for stability, predictability, these kinds of things,
00:35:06.000And that's why disruption generally doesn't fare well unless it's, you know, really necessary.
00:35:11.000It is only in a time of emergency when people are disoriented and it's unpredictable and things that are happening are unexpected and there's confusion and there's anxiety and panic and worry
00:35:22.000That is the time when you can come in with answers.
00:35:24.000That is the time when you can come in with sweeping realignment and a reorientation of the society and that's not being done.
00:35:31.000You know, that is the prime opportunity when we have something like that to really take the status quo and make dramatic changes to it.
00:35:39.000And instead, what the president has been doing is saying, we're going to work to return to normal as quickly as possible.
00:35:46.000In other words, we want to close the window, our own window of opportunity, to make dramatic changes as quickly as possible.
00:35:56.000You know, think of that in a different way.
00:35:57.000Instead of saying, we need to return to normalcy as quickly as possible, you're basically saying we need to close the window of opportunity
00:36:06.000to advance our own political agenda as quickly as possible.
00:36:10.000We need to solidify the status quo, re-solidify, right?
00:36:15.000The status quo, the prevailing regime, as quickly as possible.
00:36:31.000It says the Hungarian parliament has voted by 137 to 53 to accept the government's request for the power to rule by decree during the coronavirus emergency.
00:36:44.000Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised to use the extraordinary powers he has been granted proportionally and rationally.
00:36:50.000The special powers have no time limit and critics say independent journalists could face jail time.
00:36:56.000These are some of the provisions in the law.
00:36:59.000There is a state of emergency with no time limit.
00:37:02.000The government can rule by decree, which I just said.
00:37:12.000Spreading fake news and rumors or disinformation about the virus or the government could land you five years.
00:37:20.000Could land you in prison for five years, okay?
00:37:22.000So if you're a journalist out there and you're spreading disinformation about Viktor Orban or the government, the right-wing party that controls the government, or the virus, or anything, you could be put in jail for five years.
00:37:35.000And if you leave quarantine, you could be put in jail for up to eight years.
00:37:40.000That's what a serious country looks like.
00:37:43.000That is what a serious, nationalist country looks like.
00:37:46.000Now mind you, Hungary still has a democratic process.
00:37:59.000But this is what a nationalist, hierarchical, traditionalist country looks like.
00:38:05.000They have laws on the books that incentivize traditional marriage.
00:38:09.000They have laws on the books that make traditional marriage and traditional families the norm.
00:38:14.000They have laws on the books to penalize media that spreads lies and defamation and hurts the country.
00:38:22.000They have policies, economic and otherwise cultural,
00:38:25.000that advance the interests and the traditions and the identity of their country.
00:38:31.000And in times of emergency, the government, the president, the nationalist regime in control of the government assumes emergency powers, rule by decree, and they're trusted by the people, they're trusted by the legislature to govern proportionately and rationally and judiciously, to make decisions in the best interest of the country, to close up the borders,
00:38:52.000to take care of their economy if there's some kind of recession, right?
00:38:56.000Some kind of global recession or something like that.
00:38:59.000And that is what a serious country looks like.
00:39:03.000In a country like Hungary, they don't even need to suspend elections or anything like that to advance the interests of a nationalist party because a nationalist party is already governing Hungary.
00:39:19.000Because in Hungary you already have Viktor Orban, who is, I think, a visionary, who's very forward-thinking, who is not an academic or an intellectual, but certainly somebody who understands statecraft, somebody who understands what it means to be a nation-state, somebody that understands national sovereignty and really what it means to be a nation.
00:39:38.000And because you already have a government that is high trust and a government that is executing the interests of its people, that is upholding the public welfare, there is a degree of trust in government and trust in the institutions that doesn't exist in the United States such that they could do something like this.
00:39:56.000In the United States this would never fly for obvious reasons because of the Constitution and we have our liberal revolutionary tradition of
00:40:05.000We have to have elections no matter what, and there's three co-equal branches of government, and separation of powers, and federalism, and all this.
00:40:13.000So that would never fly for obvious reasons.
00:40:17.000But more than that, a government can never do something like that because nobody trusts the government.
00:40:22.000And we don't trust the government because the government is not run by us.
00:40:27.000The people that are running our government and the people that are running the, or rather that are the elite in the country, and that's the media, that's Wall Street, that's the government, that's the banks, that's Hollywood, the elite in the country that sits atop and makes the big decisions for all the rest of the people,
00:42:09.000There's a legitimate reason why the trust has evaporated, and that's because the institutions have ceased to be acting in the interest of the people.
00:42:17.000The institutions have ceased to be effective or competent.
00:42:21.000Or carrying out the interests of the nation.
00:42:24.000And so as such they have lost the trust.
00:42:28.000And this is what a country that works looks like in Hungary.
00:42:32.000Because the government is looking after the country culturally in terms of their identity, their economy, and their families, they can trust the government to say you can rule by decree and we trust you to make
00:42:44.000We trust you to make discretionary decisions about media, discretionary decisions about what happens in this time of crisis, because the country is ordered towards something higher.
00:42:56.000Everybody's working towards the same goal.
00:42:58.000The elite and the people are on the same page, and there's a role for the elite, and there's a role for everybody else, and there's a reciprocal relationship, and both are playing their part.
00:43:08.000The people are supporting their elite.
00:43:18.000Obviously the emergency powers has a little bit of a different context.
00:43:22.000We need to see the president assume emergency powers like this in maybe a more cynical way, in a more revolutionary way, to guarantee certain policies so that we could in fact build up the trust that they have and we can respond to crises like this in the future.
00:44:20.000If you surveyed the entire world and you looked at all these critical components in every country, which country would you say has the best chance of surviving?
00:44:31.000Over long periods of time, doing necessary things, weathering not just one crisis, but having it built into the system that they can weather many crises.
00:44:41.000It's built into the culture, it's built into the gene, the culture, the society, the government, all these sort of transitional institutions that guide the country, that guide the civilization from one generation to the next.
00:44:54.000What ingredients do they have to ensure that that country will survive and endure a hundred years down the road?
00:45:35.000He was literally like living like a peasant in his upbringing.
00:45:39.000And then became the president of the country.
00:45:42.000And now he rules in the interest of the people.
00:45:44.000And a defender of the realm in every sense.
00:45:46.000They protect their vital strategic resources.
00:45:49.000They protect their vital strategic economic interests in the way of trade.
00:45:54.000They close their borders to mass migration.
00:45:56.000In a time of crisis, they trust their leader to take and assume emergency powers to take care of their country.
00:46:02.000Does a country like that last a thousand years?
00:46:05.000Or what about a country like the United States?
00:46:08.000Where the divorce rate is 50%, where marriage now is men and men, and women and women, and a man and five women, or a woman and five men, or it's just polyamorous, right?
00:47:04.000And you might look at the United States and say, rich, powerful, tall buildings, skyscrapers, technology, wonders, entertainment spectacles.
00:47:14.000But this does not an enduring civilization make.
00:47:17.000This does not make the United States last a thousand years.
00:47:22.000All of those things are transient and really kind of meaningless in a long time horizon view, right?
00:47:32.000When you look at Hungary, when you look at Russia, when you look at China, Turkey... When you look at a lot of these countries, a lot of people look at them and they say, Well, they don't have democracy.
00:48:01.000And even if you don't like those things, I don't not like those things, but even if you don't like those things, it's all about trade-offs.
00:48:07.000What are going to be the building blocks to build a straw?
00:48:10.000We want to build a stone castle, right?
00:48:13.000We want to build a castle made out of stone.
00:48:15.000We don't want to build a hut made out of straw, but that's what we've done.
00:48:40.000It says, quote, President Trump said Sunday that the peak in the death rate from the coronavirus pandemic is likely to hit in two weeks.
00:48:48.000And extended guidelines to slow the spread of the deadly illness for 30 days.
00:48:52.000The president said, quote, the better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end.
00:48:56.000He said during a briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
00:49:00.000He said, quote, therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread.
00:49:06.000The president said his administration would be finalizing social distancing guidelines on Tuesday.
00:49:11.000He said he does not anticipate the restrictions will be relaxed by region.
00:49:16.000So they've been having a conversation for about a week now saying that maybe the guidelines would be lifted in rural states or states in the interior of the country, Midwestern or Western states, but that they might stay on in California or New York or Maryland or Florida or Illinois.
00:49:35.000But I guess they're not going to do that.
00:49:36.000And to me that actually makes a lot of sense because this is what caused the big problem in China is that they quarantined by region.
00:49:44.000And I talked about this, I think, a few weeks ago.
00:49:47.000What do you think the first thing that happens, what is the first thing that happens when China tells 30 million people or 25 million people, whatever it is, when they tell all those people in Wuhan, China, you can't leave the city, you can't leave your houses, everything's closed.
00:50:10.000You have this epicenter of the virus outbreak,
00:50:14.000And this is where it's the most highly concentrated, this is where it originated, this is where all the sick people are, and the Chinese government says, we're shutting everything down, and of course, they don't perfectly seal up the city the minute they say it.
00:50:28.000They say it, and then it takes time to implement.
00:50:31.000But if it takes longer than an hour, or 12 hours, or 24 hours, or 48 hours, which it does for a city of
00:50:40.000The first thing that people are going to do when they hear that is they're going to get in their car and they're going to drive somewhere else.
00:50:46.000Or if they're driving around in Wuhan, they're going to turn around and go to Beijing or Shanghai, whatever.
00:50:52.000Or they're going to get on a plane and they're going to go to another country.
00:50:58.000And there's data that shows that that is exactly what happened.
00:51:01.000As they quarantined these cities, the people fled and they spread it everywhere else.
00:51:06.000And so what do you think would happen if we lifted the restrictions on some states but not others?
00:51:11.000What are the people in Manhattan going to do?
00:51:13.000Are the millionaires and billionaires living in Manhattan, are they going to sit around and say, well, I'm a New Yorker, I live in New York, and I can't go to restaurants, and I can't do anything I want to do, I guess I'll just wait it out.
00:51:28.000Manhattan, millionaires, billionaires, certainly not everyone that lives in Manhattan is a millionaire, but kind of close to it.
00:52:11.000Because the only way you can get there is by plane.
00:52:14.000Generally speaking, most of the traffic they're getting in Alaska and Hawaii, definitely in Hawaii, not a lot of people are getting there by boat, and even if they did, you can check people at a very small amount of ports and airports.
00:52:28.000And the same with Alaska, and a few roads and checkpoints.
00:52:31.000But if you're talking about Pennsylvania, what are you gonna do?
00:52:44.000So, that is why they're putting it in place nationwide, and to me that makes the most sense.
00:52:49.000Part of the new guidelines that they're going to release now, tomorrow, the finalized guidelines that will last until the end of April, the new guidance is going to be that everybody should wear masks.
00:52:59.000And I've heard this, and I've seen reports about this, that part of the new guidance, maybe not tomorrow, but certainly in the future, is that they're going to tell everybody to wear masks.
00:54:01.000It takes common sense to understand that if you're talking, if you're exhaling, sneezing, coughing, anything like that, you're projecting droplets, you're projecting the virus into the air.
00:55:20.000Because if you're breathing through a cloth mask, you get oxygen through the mask, and the cloth membrane is not thick enough to filter out every airborne pathogen.
00:55:29.000And also you might be breathing from the side.
00:55:31.000If it's not airtight, you might be getting it from up or down.
00:55:35.000And they also said that if you're wearing a mask you'll be adjusting it, so you'll be touching your face.
00:55:38.000Okay, what if you just don't touch it, right?
00:55:41.000But having some membrane over your mouth is better than nothing.
00:55:45.000Having some kind of filter, and a cloth mask is not a filter, a surgical mask is not a filter, but it does block some of it.
00:55:53.000And that's what the CDC, if you've been doing your research, it says that a respirator is really what is necessary.
00:56:01.000And a cloth compared to a respirator doesn't do much.
00:56:04.000But a cloth compared to nothing does a lot.
00:56:53.000You think about all the things the government spends money on, all the different contingencies the government prepares for, and you don't have masks?
00:57:12.000Apparently Apple, you know, a technology company, all these companies, Facebook, they've got warehouses full of masks, like thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of... masks?
00:57:39.000I don't know what's... In times like this, you have to make tough calls and there's only so many masks and the hospitals do need them because they need to be treating the people, right?
00:57:49.000But do people have a right to protect themselves from the virus?
00:57:52.000I'm sure a lot of people who got sick because they didn't wear a mask are not happy about that.
00:57:56.000But then again, people are going to get sick and they need to be treated by doctors who need the masks.
00:58:23.000The problem is that nobody is thinking about the future.
00:58:27.000Before, it was like, you could be forgiven if you're not thinking 100 years into the future.
00:58:32.000You could be forgiven if you're not thinking 50 years into the future.
00:58:36.000Well, thinking 30 years into the future is reasonable.
00:58:38.000Thinking about your retirement, thinking about your long-term life goals, thinking about how you might want to have children to take care of you in your old age, right?
00:58:46.000Thinking about putting a little money in a retirement or a Roth IRA, something like that.
00:58:51.000Thinking 20 years into the future, 10 years into the future.
00:58:53.000Thinking about your intermediate life goals.
00:58:55.000Thinking about your career goals, financial goals, home ownership, things like that.
00:59:00.000We don't even think like one day in advance.
00:59:03.000We don't even think like a week in advance anymore.
00:59:05.000You look at like the whole economy, and it's symptomatic across the whole, or systemic rather, across the whole system.
01:00:10.000But when you're thinking about death and you're thinking about afterlife, what you're fundamentally thinking about is time and how we are perceiving time and living in time and how we manage time.
01:00:27.000Because we've lost that sort of spiritual conscientiousness or spiritual consciousness, because we are thinking about the temporal world, ironically, we are thinking without regard to time, which is the irony, right?
01:00:40.000As we become obsessed with the temporary, temporal, the world of time,
01:01:08.000And that is the cult, and it's immediacy, and it's these sensory things, and nobody's thinking about even what's a year down the road or 20 years down the road, and it's across the board.
01:01:23.000Nobody has any money saved up for this, right?
01:01:25.000You know, this would not be a problem if people had savings.
01:01:29.000If anybody had savings and look I actually don't even blame people for not having savings because interest rates are zero right?
01:01:36.000So it doesn't even really behoove you to save and that's the Federal Reserve but that notwithstanding you should be saving even though you're not going to have an interest rate on that and you know but you should be saving you should be setting money aside you shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck and spending all your money
01:01:51.000Some people are forced to be in that situation but a lot of people just don't live within their means.
01:03:23.000But you've got a guy, who instead of making a successful business and pockets some of the profit, pockets some of the money, or reinvest it, or something like that,
01:03:31.000He takes all the money and reinvests it into more liability.
01:04:09.00010 rental properties in like five years and then one bad month happens and they find that they're way over leveraged and they have... they're completely insolvent.
01:04:48.000Why do the doctors wear masks and hazmat suits if it doesn't help?
01:04:51.000Like, what are you, an idiot, you know?
01:04:53.000But they come out and say, oh yeah, we lied.
01:04:55.000Oh no, we just figured it out that you need masks.
01:04:57.000We've been studying the virus for three months and we just found out that a respiratory virus, highly contagious, that lives on surfaces, might be airborne, right?
01:05:07.000So I get that but there's no reason that we should not have been prepared.
01:05:11.000There's no reason that the government should have not had masks and ventilators and the plan and the tests and the preparedness to respond and I get it the government has other priorities but you know the whole justification for like the deep state allegedly
01:05:26.000Is that you need a steady hand so that the civilian government can carry out the day-to-day and the partisan stuff.
01:05:33.000But don't you remember the New York Times?
01:05:35.000There was some cabinet member that came out and said, we're the deep state, we're the steady state, and we're protecting America from Trump.
01:05:45.000And it's like, you know, that's just another example, like I said a moment ago, of these public institutions.
01:05:49.000They've lost the trust of the public because they don't know what they're doing.
01:06:21.000They were in a country of 350 million people.
01:06:25.00020 trillion dollar GDP, biggest military in the world, and nobody in the government thought of like, gee I wonder what would happen if a pandemic happened.
01:06:47.000And maybe it'd be one thing if like a small county, or a small state didn't have a plan.
01:06:52.000But the United States government with the Pentagon and the, you know, the Situation Room and $20 trillion in GDP and $4 trillion for military for a $4 trillion revenue, I should say.
01:07:26.000The Bible tells us all this stuff, and it's not coincidental then that reading the Bible and becoming spiritual or religious—you should be Christian, you should be Catholic, but you know what I'm saying—having a religious orientation, it's no coincidence that that prepares you for things like this, or instructs you to prepare, that that mentality gives you the perspective to look a hundred years into the future and think about at a civilizational level.
01:07:52.000We're never gonna survive if this is our country.
01:07:54.000We're never gonna survive if everything is over leveraged and nobody's prepared and nobody's saving and nobody's thinking about tomorrow or next week.
01:08:28.000They've got a 5-minute test now from Abbott Laboratories, and they could do 50,000 tests per day at drive-thru centers, and all across the country they're going to be unveiling it.
01:08:40.000And you go in, you get your test, like a flu test.
01:08:43.000I hear it's very unpleasant though, they like jam something up your nut, like really, like into your brain.
01:08:49.000I've never gotten a flu test before so I don't know but I guess it's like that but worse.
01:08:53.000They jam something up your nose but they can determine within five minutes if you have the virus and with that kind of technology then the testing is really a non-issue.
01:09:03.00050,000 tests per day, and you get the results in five minutes?
01:09:06.000Like, worse said, it's just a matter of time before you diagnose everybody that needs to be diagnosed, even the mild people.
01:11:36.000I had a pretty rough start to this year.
01:11:38.000There was controversy, I'll just say there was controversy, scandal, you know, AstroTurf scandal, people coming at me, I mean really people trying their best to undermine me.
01:13:42.000To people I know, to people I don't know, people in the alt-right, people in the alt-light, people in general conservative media, you understand that that happens.
01:14:28.000I can only... it's... whether somebody gives me $1 or somebody gives me $1,000, I, you know, I can say thank you.
01:14:35.000I can only... I can't give you $1,000 worth of thank you.
01:14:38.000I can't give you, you know, $100 or $1,000 or more worth of thank you or whatever, but I just want you to know that I do appreciate it and I do thank you.
01:15:05.000I will just tell you this I've been telling you this for a long time and a lot of people look at the lemons that I make and it's no secret that I I make a lot of people who contribute a lot of lemons to this show.
01:15:15.000People contribute a lot of money to the show and some people are looking at my social blade and I don't like when people do that by the way but they're making calculations and things but I will tell you that I never sought to become
01:15:29.000I'm not saying give me lots of money because I'm a good guy.
01:15:48.000I am taking all these lemons, all these lemons that have been raised from the show for the last three years, and they are all being reinvested into the movement, you know?
01:15:57.000And, you know, don't get me wrong, I buy a game here and there, I, you know, I have to pay myself, but the money that I spent versus the money that's being reinvested is, you know, the ratio is good.
01:16:09.000And, it's all being reinvested into the show, it's being reinvested, not like, you know, by the way, people give me the money.
01:16:15.000It's my business what I do with the money.
01:16:17.000But, just so you have a little bit of confidence, I don't like people to think that I'm making all this money and like, oh, I'm gonna buy a new car, I'm gonna go and, you know, whatever.
01:16:25.000It's not like it's any of your business, but I am gonna tell you, if this makes you feel better, that
01:16:31.000I'm being very wise about it and it is going towards just know that if you're throwing down a Ninja Gany or a Ninja at it's not like oh sweet sweet I'm gonna go buy steak now you know maybe once in a while but I that is going into the bank account and we are doing big things with it particularly this year big things are gonna happen so so I just want you to know that
01:16:52.000You know I can say thank you so much but I think maybe even better than well thank you is important it is a sincere thank you but just as important I think is to tell you that when this money's coming in it's not you know some people say oh you're like an e-girl you're like whatever I'm not like an e-girl you have to view it as like a donation to a political cause right so
01:17:11.000Insofar as the show is has cash flow we could do more things and the movement can grow and I can bring more people onto the team and our reach and our impact will grow right so but I just want to say that but it is it is big and I do appreciate people are throwing in a little bit extra to put a lot extra to push me over the edge a few people in particular so if you've been if you've been donating a lot I want you to send me an email
01:17:35.000So that I could send you a proper thank you.
01:17:37.000And I'm thinking of a few people in particular.
01:17:39.000You know, SP, Bass Dollar, Maxi Bro, Bobby, Little Bobby I think is the name.
01:17:59.000I can't name everybody obviously that's done it.
01:18:03.000Just off the top of my head, if those people are contributing a lot, I want you to send me an email so I can send you a proper thank you note.
01:18:10.000But I do appreciate it, and it's a moment of gratitude.
01:18:13.000It's a moment of gratitude for the show.
01:18:15.000It's just a big landmark for the show.
01:18:17.000It shows that we can do things that other people think are impossible.
01:18:22.000Everybody's telling us, you know, when we talk to the Ben Shapiros and the Jeremy Borings and the Charlie Kirks, what do they tell us?
01:20:08.000Oprah Gruyper is giving a lot so I want to make sure I'm not not leaving anybody out here but you know naturally I can't can't think of everybody off the top of my head.
01:22:21.000I know he's like an accelerationist and I have kind of like a cursory idea but I haven't read him too thoroughly so I can't really say anything too smart about him.
01:22:33.000I've gotten an email from somebody that's Nick Land and I don't know if that's actually Nick Land or I don't want to like dox him or anything but I don't know if that's like a fan or if it's him.
01:22:43.000Uh, if it's him and he doesn't want people to know, he could say it's just a fan.
01:22:47.000Based Groyper says, Nick, I had a good super chat on Saturday.
01:23:03.000I saw he just came around this weekend.
01:23:06.000Q Boyd says Shapiro Wuhan cremation math double standard check hahaha funny it is true though it is true we can doubt the death total in China but not anywhere else like it just goes to show how stupid that is
01:23:49.000And I don't know, maybe if it gets that way, I'll change my mind, but I feel like if I had a horrible medical condition, rather than get an IV in my arm and undergo surgery or do some medical procedure, I think I would rather just... You know what?
01:25:33.000Every tweet he was doing, it was, hashtag Trump, hashtag, hashtag, hashtag America first, hashtag this, at Michelle Malkin, at Tucker Carlson, at, and I'm like, it's too much blue.
01:25:46.000We don't want to be you might as well put three stars emojis in your handle and fill up your bio with hashtag ww1 g1 whatever it is hashtag kag hashtag manga hashtag trump hashtag deplorable hashtag dragon energy hashtag walk away right i mean might as well so i said let's relax on the hashtags and today i see more hashtags i'm thinking what am i just but that's okay but that's okay it's great content
01:27:53.000She, like, loses her job because he's a Trump supporter, and now her whole career is, I'm a Trump supporter, I'm a Trump supporter, I'm working my mug at, you're not a conservative, you're not right-wing, you got fired because of whatever, and now that's the grift.
01:28:07.000And that's what happens with a lot of these people, is, and it's a lot of, like, Blexit types, they know that you can cash in on the
01:28:34.000I know people who used to work at Daily Caller and I think she used to work there in some capacity and they had to let her go because she couldn't read her lines.
01:28:52.000You know, here's another instance where I'm willing to be friendly, but then I see, I don't like you, I don't like your boyfriend, and then you soft-block me?
01:29:00.000Alright, well, now I have to just give it to you straight up.
01:29:05.000Now I'm going to have to soft-block you verbally.
01:29:09.000I hard-blocked her on Twitter, and now I have to go off.
01:34:38.000And, uh, you know, it's not to say that we can't- that we're not gonna get married and everything, but it is to say that everything- everything in the proper way.
01:36:13.000About PewDiePie the fake PewDiePie in chat bringing the bars.
01:36:16.000Oh, that's uh He'll have to be singing congratulations about me.
01:36:20.000I'm waiting for PewDiePie's congratulations song about me.
01:36:24.000Congratulations Congratulations to your incel nation And I don't know what the rest of it would be but but I need a congratulation a snarky, you know diss track that says congratulations
01:36:39.000Osburger says, the knicker nation is unstoppable.
01:36:42.000Here's a few lemons to get you to number one.
01:44:23.000Jonathan Bowden says shout out to wake boy based ego raptor impersonator.
01:44:29.000I don't know what that is 23 year old zoomers is just doing my part live wire says African nationalist call that an ignat okay disavow Spicy leaf says congrats King actual question.
01:44:41.000Do you foresee real fallout for China multinationals?
01:47:57.000So, um, I just looked up, like, what is a... When I bought my first Bible in college, I looked up, like, Catholic Bible, and it said, these are the acceptable translations.
01:48:08.000I went to Barnes & Noble, I scooped one up, and the rest is history, so...
01:53:51.000Hey John says just got an old lady's or just get an old lady as your assistant next issue Yeah, but I don't I don't really you know That's gonna cram my style cuz I like to swear and I like to be a jerk.
01:54:05.000I need a man to be the assistant and somebody who can just take the abuse.
01:54:11.000Look, frankly, I'm kind of an abusive person and I just need somebody who's not going to take it personally and is just kind of mentally tough and somebody who's competent.
01:54:22.000But I couldn't have an old lady because I'd have to be too nice.
01:57:13.000I mean, I feel for you and I honor your service and all that, but like, a war hero is somebody who does something incredible.
01:57:20.000If you get captured, I mean, unless you did something incredible that led you getting captured, it's like you got shot out of the sky and then they captured you and then you gave up our secrets.
02:05:39.000Genetics, good family, good upbringing.
02:05:44.000In intelligence IQ God, I don't know it's tough to I don't know.
02:05:48.000I have no idea frankly It all kind of just comes now, I don't know it's I just think it's in innate innate characteristics I couldn't tell you it's a mystery if it was that's if it was a simple.
02:06:01.000It's just telling you I mean maybe everybody probably
02:06:05.000the better off but yeah sorry I can't give you a more satisfying answer it's about people says wife says are you saving for the corny virus I don't know what that means but yeah sure globo donos is just a good old knicker turning lemons into lemonade that's right that's right very true pretty good says germs aren't real I can't see them okay thanks for the ninja guinea
02:07:53.000It's like oh, you're a great person because you're rich and you're a poor You're you're a bad person because you're poor but one of the satisfying things about money is that you know, if you make money then it's you know, undeniable metric of success and a lot of these people It's very sick people.
02:08:11.000They for some reason they really want to see me like poor.
02:08:14.000They want to see me destitute They want to see me desperate because I don't give a fuck.
02:13:57.000George Yeo says, I've been feeling very blackpilled recently and seeing you become number one and the energy here tonight has given me new hope.
02:14:10.000Everything's going great for the movement, for like the world.
02:14:14.000I mean, things are bad now, but things can turn around.
02:14:18.000So I hope you get white billed go to church, but well I can't you can't go to church, but I don't know pray You know think on it life at life is good.
02:14:26.000It's not that's not good, but life is just enjoy life But I'm glad I'm glad that it's lifting your spirits a little bit easier said than done right, but thanks for the ninja and that gang says Would you rather have a gaze I almost read that wrong would you rather have a gay son or a whore daughter love you King?
02:15:07.000If my son were a, you know, acting homosexual, is out there, and I mean like a flamboyant, like, it'd be bad enough if he was just, you know, homosexual to begin with, but if that were the case, if he were carrying out that lifestyle, imagine if my junior, my own loin, from my own loin, if he would be out there participating in and perpetuating that degeneracy.
02:15:34.000That would be bad that would be not good on my name and Spreading that in the world.
02:15:39.000I don't think you recover from that I mean and then the gene pool stops right if your son did that then the gene pool stops That's the other thing just dawned on me if your son's gay.
02:15:49.000You're not getting any kids Game over if your daughter's a whore now mind you know like look.
02:16:55.000So I'd say that but they I would rather just have good kids right rather just have good kids Plural is dead says congratulations on number one king AF is unstoppable.
02:17:05.000Thanks a lot Ray Goldstein says what if PewDiePie's reddit talked about Nick Fuentes that would be big.
02:17:20.000Georgio says virgin t-series versus Chad America first very true Yeah, I'm even I'm the bigger underdog out of all of them right t-series PewDiePie me.
02:17:32.000I'm the biggest underdog of all Thanks for the ninja genie girth Brooks.
02:17:36.000It says my cousin has Corona pray for him.
02:17:38.000Sorry to hear that prayers for the sick As a V buses couldn't happen to a better handsome smarter host true factual fact check
02:17:49.000Yeet says I read the King James but use NIV for reference.
02:19:37.000It's like in The Shining when she goes through the papers that Jack Nicholson types and it just says the same thing over and over again, right?
02:21:52.000I'm gonna play a special a special outro song for you So don't don't be surprised what a different song plays to commemorate it, but it truly is an historic night.
02:22:04.000It really is And I already you know said some words on it, but we surpassed PewDiePie clearly
02:22:11.000And we've done things that nobody thought were possible.
02:22:14.000Lasting this long, the show grows every night, thriving off of the major platforms, in spite of censorship, in spite of hit pieces, and hit jobs, and subversion, and all, you know, you know what we've been through.
02:22:50.000It's about the resiliency, the loyalty of the community, the size of the community, and the fact that we've made it off of the big platforms.
02:24:29.000everybody thank you to our mega donors like mega mega super chatters you have to put them in their own category it's jay roxer it's the america first cowboy it's embro it's sp it's satirical man big money waging not nasa if you go back even a little bit we haven't seen him so much but but historically it's uh uh who am i leaving out there's one bobby d it's it's a lot it's a lot of these different guys
02:31:04.000I'd be doing, like, just beats for local acts, just to try to keep the lights on and be able to go out and buy, get a Peli Peli off, lay away, get some Jordans or something, get a Technomarine.
02:31:22.000He's like, oh, yo, that shit is crazy.
02:31:24.000Jay might want it for this compilation album he's doing called The Dynasty.
02:31:28.000And at that time, like, the drums really wasn't sounding right to me, so I went and, um...
02:31:33.000I was listening to Dre Chronic 2001 at that time and really I just like bit the drums off explosive and put it like what a sped up sample and now it's kind of like my old style where it started when he rapped on this can't be like and I was like really the first beat of that kind that was on the dynasty album I could say that was the the resurgence of the soul sound
02:31:53.000You know, I got to come in and track the beat, and at that time, I was still with my other management, and I really wanted to roll with hip-hop.
02:31:59.000I just needed some fresh air, you know what I'm saying?
02:32:01.000Because I've been there for a while, and I appreciate what they did for me, but, you know, it's a time in every man's life where you gotta make a change to try to move on to the next level.
02:32:10.000That day I came and I tracked the beat and I got to meet Jay-Z, and he said, oh, you a real soulful dude.
02:32:16.000He played the song, because he already spit his verse by the time I got to the studio.
02:36:08.000It was some A&Rs that fucked with me though, but then, like, the heads, there'll be somebody at the company that I say, nah, like, Dave Lighty fucked with me.
02:36:15.000My nigga Mel brought me to a bunch of labels.
02:37:17.000Like, they still wasn't looking at me like a rapper.
02:37:19.000And I'm sure Dane figured, like, man, if he do a whole album, if his rap's this wack, at least we can throw Cam on every song and say the album, you know?
02:37:28.000So, uh, Dane took me to the hallway, he's like, yo, man, B, B, you don't wanna brick.
02:37:42.000I was still about to take the deal with Capital because it was already on the table and because of my relationship with 3H that, you know, because I told him I was going to do it.
02:37:54.000You know, I'm not gonna name no names, but people told me, oh, he's just a producer-rapper, and told 3H that, told the heads of the Capitol, and right the day, I'm talking about, I planned out everything that I was gonna do, man.
02:38:06.000I had picked out clothes, I already started booking studio sessions, I started arranging my album, thinking of marketing schemes, man, I was ready to go.
02:38:14.000And they had mail call me, it said, yo,
02:38:21.000And, you know, I told him that Rockefeller was interested, and I don't know if they thought that was just something I was saying to gas him up to try to push the price up or whatever.