Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 241 ｜ Little Tyrants Everywhere

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has had a great week so far.

00:00:05.620 As you can tell from the title, we are talking about tyrants all around in the United States

00:00:11.100 of America. If you have heard of the series Little Fires Everywhere, it's on Hulu. It's

00:00:16.020 got Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon. That's where the title came from. Not Little Fires

00:00:21.620 Everywhere, but Little Tyrants Everywhere. We've got tyrants in the government. We've got tyrants 0.88

00:00:26.460 in the media. We've got tyrants in tech, tyrants in our education system. We are going to look at

00:00:32.900 a few examples of that tyranny today and what it means for our lives. It's a really fun and full

00:00:39.360 episode and I'm so excited to get into it. Okay, so what we're seeing right now in the United States

00:00:44.360 of America is a desperate power grab by the powers that be to exploit a crisis, to try to restructure

00:00:52.460 society, or to really just control society, to get the things done that a lot of people,

00:00:59.260 particularly on the left, want to get done. Bernie Sanders obviously is one of those politicians. He

00:01:03.940 wrote a piece in the New York Times titled, The Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us.

00:01:08.860 Of course they are. He has thought that for several decades now. Pushing for single-payer health care in

00:01:14.420 this article, raising the minimum wage in climate policy. But you know who is single-payer health care?

00:01:19.620 Bernie Sanders, Italy, Spain, China, places with horrific death rates, much worse than the United

00:01:25.860 States. When it comes to deaths per capita, just as a refresher, the United States comes in number 10.

00:01:32.520 Not great. Not great. I'm not saying that it's great, but also not the worst. It comes after Spain, 0.94

00:01:38.820 after Italy, after France, after the UK, after the Netherlands, after Sweden, all the places that,

00:01:45.220 by the way, Bernie Sanders has said for several years that the United States should mimic a policy,

00:01:52.960 specifically health care policy. So if you're going to say that the number of deaths in the United

00:01:57.680 States points to the fact that we need the same kind of health care as these countries with death

00:02:04.500 rates far higher than ours, you're just going to have to make a better case. You're going to have to

00:02:09.360 explain to me why the UK's and why Sweden's deaths per capita, why that number is higher than ours.

00:02:16.280 We're seeing this kind of rhetoric and this kind of behavior even from a lot of Democrats. This is an

00:02:22.440 opportunity, many of them say, to restructure our society. The left is using this crisis to further

00:02:29.340 show us their true colors. And their true colors, as it turns out, are all different shades of tyranny,

00:02:35.680 in case we didn't already know that. So cracking down on churches and even the kinds of worship

00:02:42.220 that we engage in, even drive-in services are being banned in some states. In one county,

00:02:48.060 in California, they are putting a limit on what kind of musical worship is allowed in a live stream

00:02:54.080 church service. This is real. So LifeSite News reports that in Mandacino County, I think that's how

00:02:59.940 you pronounce that. You guys always let me know when I mispronounce cities or counties. The local

00:03:07.180 government issued a directive specifying that for live streamed events, no singing or use of wind

00:03:13.320 instruments, no singing or use of wind instruments, harmonicas or other instruments that could spread

00:03:19.780 COVID-19 through projected droplets shall be permitted unless the recording of the event is done at one's

00:03:26.140 residence and involving only the members of one's household or living unit because of the increased

00:03:31.280 risk of transmission of COVID-19. So basically, no worship services where people are singing unless

00:03:36.880 you've got one person in their home that is leading worship, which isn't exactly how worship typically

00:03:43.360 goes when you are worshiping with your congregation, even from the comfort of your own home.

00:03:49.500 Thankfully, some places have changed course when it comes to the crackdowns

00:03:53.140 on churches and on worship. The PressEnterprise.com reported, spurred by a lawsuit and threats of

00:03:59.200 more litigation, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, these are in California, reversed course

00:04:04.260 Friday, April 17th, deciding to allow outdoor drive-up style religious services in which the faithful

00:04:10.780 park and listen to sermons from their cars. Oh, thank you so much, local authorities, for allowing

00:04:17.680 people to exercise their First Amendment rights. You guys are such gracious dictators.

00:04:22.080 Leftist media is comparing peaceful protests. This is another way we're seeing tyranny in American

00:04:28.940 society right now. Leftist media is comparing peaceful protests of the shutdowns to white

00:04:33.640 supremacist rallies. This is what they do, by the way, if there is any rally that is mostly

00:04:38.880 conservative, whether it was the Tea Party protest or whether it was just a few months ago, the protests

00:04:45.260 against Virginia legislation that would make it very hard for people, for certain people to purchase

00:04:50.360 guns. There were big rallies and protests in Virginia. They called it a white supremacist rally.

00:04:55.160 Had nothing to do with white supremacy. Obviously, there were a lot of people there who weren't even

00:04:59.660 white. Same thing with these protests. But this is what the media does. If you peacefully protest

00:05:04.700 against anything that they are for, then they're going to call you a white supremacist. They don't have

00:05:11.000 anything to say about Antifa, though. Facebook is actually taking down the posts of those peaceful

00:05:17.420 protests. So they are censoring the speech that's promoting these peaceful protests. Again,

00:05:22.760 peacefully protesting First Amendment rights. So leftists have proven to hate the First Amendment

00:05:27.560 if we didn't know that already. They are prohibiting, some of them prohibiting self-sufficiency.

00:05:33.080 That's what petty tyrant Governor Whitmer of Michigan is doing by banning the sale of gardening 0.71

00:05:37.720 seeds at the same time that she declares abortion procedures, quote, life-sustaining. Imagine how 0.98

00:05:44.700 backwards you have to be in your head, like how corrupted you have to be in your mind, how evil 0.61

00:05:49.480 you have to be, and perverse in your thinking to call a procedure that ends the life brutally,

00:05:55.940 violently, painfully, ends the life of an unborn child life-sustaining. Michigan was one of those

00:06:01.700 places where peaceful protests were happening. People were protesting against the unconstitutional

00:06:06.720 theft of their freedom and their livelihoods. And she said, Governor Whitmer said, if you keep

00:06:11.860 protesting, I'm going to extend the lockdown. What a tyrannical schoolmarm. Are you kidding me?

00:06:17.320 So I think that if I were doing a tiny tyrant contest, I think that Governor Whitmer of Michigan

00:06:25.260 would, I don't know if she would come in first because we've got some other tyrants to talk about. 1.00

00:06:30.160 It would probably be between her and Bill de Blasio, but I'll tell you about Bill de Blasio in just a

00:06:35.280 second. But she is way up there in the tiny tyrant contest. She is a DNC darling, by the way. She's not 1.00

00:06:41.400 some obscure figure. Obviously, she's the governor of Michigan, but the DNC Democratic Party loves her. 1.00

00:06:46.900 You might remember that she delivered the terribly uncompelling, and I'm not just saying this,

00:06:51.560 terribly uncompelling response to the State of the Union back in January. Now, listen, I'm going to

00:06:57.380 go off on a little Whitmer tangent here, but she deserves it. There is a disproportionately high 0.99

00:07:04.120 virus rate and death rate in Michigan. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. That doesn't

00:07:09.240 necessarily, one, it doesn't necessarily justify what she's doing across the state because there

00:07:13.780 are certain counties in Michigan that have no cases. Of course, where Detroit is, there are lots

00:07:19.800 of cases, but that doesn't mean that there should be a statewide ban on basically leaving your house.

00:07:24.820 She said you can't even travel between two residences, can't even go visit other family members.

00:07:30.500 Now, let's ask ourselves for a second. Why isn't the media asking her if her leadership tactics are 1.00

00:07:37.700 effective if her state has a disproportionately high number of cases and high number of deaths?

00:07:44.440 Why isn't she being criticized for what she's doing if it is apparently not working? Why isn't 0.99

00:07:50.260 she being criticized for the disproportionate problems that she is having in her state? Of 1.00

00:07:55.340 course, we know the answer to that. The answer is that she's a Democrat. But it's interesting how

00:07:59.740 she and the governor of New York, Governor Cuomo, a state that has by far the most cases and the

00:08:05.500 most deaths in the state, they're just assumed by the press to be doing the best they possibly can

00:08:12.040 and are assigned no blame whatsoever for the death rates in their state, for the chaos in their state.

00:08:18.100 It's assumed because they are A, Democrats, and B, because they're taking more authoritarian measures

00:08:24.780 that they're leading effectively and that the high death rates in their states are just inevitable.

00:08:28.560 That is no fault of their own. And yet, according to the same press, Trump is entirely to blame for

00:08:34.780 the number of cases and the number of deaths in the United States. So shouldn't journalists be asking

00:08:40.040 Governor Whitmer, why do you have such a disproportionately high number of cases in such a

00:08:44.860 high death rate? What's going on in your hospitals? What's going on in your communities? Does this point to

00:08:50.620 a lack of preparation, a lack of effective leadership? Governor Whitmer is being praised by the Democrats

00:08:57.360 for setting up a racial disparity task force. She said, while African Americans represent 13.6 of our

00:09:03.560 state's population, they represent a staggering 40% of the deaths from COVID-19. She's getting big

00:09:09.480 applause for this, for being apparently proactive in setting up this task force, but no one is asking

00:09:15.860 her, hey, why is this happening in a state that's under your leadership? The left claims that African

00:09:21.960 Americans are dying disproportionately because of systemic racism. So why is no journalist asking

00:09:28.960 her, how have you, Governor Whitmer, allowed that to happen in your state? But of course,

00:09:34.840 simultaneously, conservatives and Trump supporters are being accused of wanting Black people to be 0.98

00:09:40.720 killed because we all want to be able to go back to work as soon as is feasible to feed our families. 0.96

00:09:47.520 That's actually an argument that was purported, that was given on MSNBC, that Trump and that 0.94

00:09:56.060 conservatives, the people who are protesting, want Black people to die, and that is why some 0.98

00:10:01.740 white people apparently want to open up the economy. That's actually an argument that's being made, 0.98

00:10:06.720 but no one is asking why Governor Whitmer, why in her state there's a disproportionately high number

00:10:11.860 of Black people who are dying. No, no, no. It's just inevitable, and she's just doing the best she can.

00:10:16.900 No one asks these questions of Andrew Cuomo either. So let's move on from the subject of tyranny for

00:10:22.800 just a second to discuss the double standard of how the press is reporting on certain government

00:10:27.800 leaders. It's just constant praise of how wonderfully Governor Cuomo is handling this crisis and the

00:10:34.200 leadership skills that he's presenting. It still has to do with tyranny, by the way, because where

00:10:39.160 tyranny is, there's always corruption. There's a lot of corruption. There is a lot of duplicity when

00:10:44.220 it comes to Andrew Cuomo, and you would never know it from reading the headlines in the New York

00:10:48.740 Times or the Washington Post. So he is asking, Andrew Cuomo is constantly asking Trump to do more,

00:10:54.740 to give more funding, to give more money. He's saying that New York is in this state of disarray

00:10:59.640 exclusively because of the virus, but is that really true? I mean, is anyone asking Governor Cuomo

00:11:05.260 why they're in this position of so many people getting sick and so many people dying? Almost 14,000

00:11:11.220 deaths in New York and only a little over 1,000 in California, another very populous state in New York

00:11:17.300 City, over 10,000 deaths in LA County, only 617 deaths, very populous cities. Now we can probably

00:11:24.980 guess a few reasons for that. People live closer together in New York. The weather is worse in New

00:11:30.140 York, but that can't account for everything. So why is no one asking Chris Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo,

00:11:35.800 sorry, what's wrong with your state? What's wrong with your leadership? What's wrong with your

00:11:40.160 hospitals? Here's the fact. The state of New York was facing a budget crisis before all of this

00:11:46.180 happened. Back in November, the New York Post reported that New York faced a $6.1 billion hole

00:11:52.120 in their budget for this year. And Cuomo was planning on taking cuts to Medicaid rates for

00:11:57.360 hospitals and nursing homes to try to begin to make up for that. They failed to present a real plan

00:12:03.900 criticized Dave Friedfel, I guess that's how you pronounce it, of the Citizens Budget Commission,

00:12:10.160 a fiscal watchdog group. This is reported in the New York Post. They've known about this for a long

00:12:15.140 time, but the plan they did present is really one part gimmick. He added, his analysis shows the state

00:12:20.560 was already in trouble after pushing off a $1.7 billion Medicaid bill in March 2019 into 2020, which

00:12:27.480 grew into the $4 billion hole. So according to an article in the nation, which I've actually quoted

00:12:33.880 them a lot recently, I appreciate their honesty. They are a liberal commentary magazine. This is an

00:12:39.700 article by Ross Barkin titled Cuomo helped get New York into this mess. Governor Cuomo has long

00:12:46.060 mismanaged the budget and the Medicaid program. This article argues, um, and has reduced the size of

00:12:52.460 hospitals. So here's some excerpts from that article. Some of the budgetary abyss has been the

00:12:57.660 Cuomo administration's own making postponing Medicaid payments and failing in the past to iron

00:13:02.720 out inefficiencies like the state's paying Medicaid costs for relatively wealthy private hospitals.

00:13:08.060 They don't need the aid in the first place. What's more, the state has lost more than 20,000 hospital

00:13:13.560 beds over the last 20 years. Cuomo, who has governed for almost half that period, never advocated for any kind

00:13:20.840 of expansion of hospital beds until last month. He now, he now says that New York needs 110,000 beds

00:13:27.880 more than double the current capacity. He has never been a forceful advocate for keeping hospitals open.

00:13:33.220 In fact, he's empowered bureaucrats who have argued aggressively to shutter them in 2013, the Cuomo

00:13:38.920 administration approved the closure of the 500 bed Long Island college hospital in Brooklyn over loud

00:13:45.100 community protest. Cuomo has justified his cuts to Medicaid by saying, look, we have no money.

00:13:50.840 He's quoted by his representative in this article as saying, the state has no money. And NBC in New

00:13:57.880 York is reporting that both Cuomo and de Blasio, the incompetent mayor of New York City, and that is a

00:14:04.040 totally objective description, by the way, who recently told his constituents to send in a picture of

00:14:09.000 people violating social distancing orders in public so the authorities can show up. Talk about a tiny tyrant. 0.79

00:14:16.600 They are asking, these two are asking for tens of millions of dollars from the federal government.

00:14:21.640 The New York Times reported that Bill de Blasio pleaded to Trump for financial aid in a press

00:14:26.120 conference saying this. So my question is, Mr. Trump, Mr. President, are you going to save New York City or are

00:14:32.760 you telling New York City to drop dead? Which one is it? You are failing to protect the very people you grew up

00:14:39.320 around. But the truth is, New York was already in a budget crisis before all of this happened. Not just

00:14:45.800 because of Cuomo's errors, but also because of Bill de Blasio's. According to this 2017 article by

00:14:53.720 Nicole Gelnius in City Journal and National Urban Policy Journal, when Mayor Bill de Blasio took office

00:15:01.320 in January 2014, New York was halfway through a fiscal year in which it would spend $76.2 billion.

00:15:08.600 During the current fiscal year, which started July 1, 2017, the city will spend about $87.3 billion,

00:15:16.040 an $11.1 billion increase. Thus, Mayor Bill de Blasio's inaugural term has seen a 14.6% rise in annual spending.

00:15:24.760 Yet behind, this article goes on, yet behind the no fuss, no drama budgeting lurk serious risks.

00:15:31.480 To make his budgets add up, de Blasio has pushed much of the cost for past spending into the future,

00:15:38.280 making it tougher to cut spending while protecting public services in a future downturn.

00:15:43.080 The mayor has added tens of thousands of government workers to the city payroll

00:15:47.160 without tackling the reforms needed to get their future retirement costs under control.

00:15:52.200 And in a record boom, New York is still not putting enough money into critical infrastructure.

00:15:57.400 Finally, Gotham remains dangerously dependent on its top earners to fund its massive budget.

00:16:03.320 If the city's rich, or for that matter, the emerging world's new middle class who drive tourism, 0.98

00:16:10.120 don't continue to thrive, de Blasio or a successor will face a record budget crisis.

00:16:15.560 And of course, they are facing a budget crisis.

00:16:17.880 Or maybe, maybe they're facing this crisis that has nothing to do with President Trump

00:16:22.600 and really nothing to do with the virus because de Blasio directed 850 million taxpayer dollars

00:16:30.600 to his wife's mental health program called Thrive NYC.

00:16:34.840 That cannot be accounted for.

00:16:37.080 Meaning, his wife and the program she is leading, Thrive NYC, cannot tell you where the money has gone,

00:16:44.600 or if the program is effective or working at all.

00:16:47.880 Politico reported in February 2019 in an article by Amanda Eisenberg titled,

00:16:53.640 with opaque budget and elusive metrics, $850 million Thrive NYC program attempts a reset.

00:17:01.080 Her article says that the city hall budget shows $594 million in spending since Thrive NYC's inception.

00:17:07.960 The IBO budget shows $816 million spent.

00:17:12.520 Both city hall and IBO suspect the office of management of budget included fewer programs

00:17:17.400 in the city hall version accounting for the difference.

00:17:20.200 But the budget discrepancies illustrate the difficulty in tracking Thrive.

00:17:24.600 The article goes on to say that the reports published by Thrive don't show whether any goals

00:17:29.480 have been reached, whether Thrive is actually helping New Yorkers,

00:17:33.080 or what metrics are even being used to measure its success.

00:17:36.760 And yet the New York Post reports that the program is poised to spend

00:17:40.440 1 billion taxpayer dollars in five years.

00:17:44.280 Or maybe New York is running out of money because Bill de Blasio spent 773 million taxpayer dollars

00:17:51.400 on a program with the goal of turning around 100 of the city's lowest performing schools.

00:17:56.200 The program failed and was ended after four years and almost 800 million dollars spent.

00:18:03.560 By the way, just as an aside about education, we see this time and again the more funding,

00:18:09.000 that more funding does not necessarily equal better outcomes for students.

00:18:14.440 Obama pumped millions of dollars into failing Chicago schools to absolutely no avail, none.

00:18:20.120 Like you can look this up.

00:18:21.240 This is a very buried but existent article in the Washington Post

00:18:25.720 about how much money was spent in public schools by the Obama administration.

00:18:29.880 Literally no good outcome came from it whatsoever.

00:18:33.560 So more money to public schools just as an equal success.

00:18:36.520 But oh, whatever.

00:18:37.320 It's just 800 million of your taxpayer dollars, New York, New York City. 0.99

00:18:42.680 Bill de Blasio, and I'm trying to be as fair as possible here, is a total buffoon. 1.00

00:18:47.800 Like he's a total and complete buffoon. 0.99

00:18:50.200 Even Democrats will tell you that his presidential campaign was the most 0.99

00:18:53.560 cringeworthy thing that you've ever seen in your life.

00:18:55.560 And that's saying something because remember, Elizabeth Warren was once in the running too.

00:18:59.400 So what we're seeing, particularly in New York, where the virus is the worst in the country,

00:19:04.280 failed leaders are using Donald Trump as a scapegoat.

00:19:07.240 They know the media is not going to focus on the real failures that led to New York's current crisis.

00:19:12.280 They're just going to report that everything is Donald Trump's fault, that the blood is on his hands.

00:19:17.960 But let's face it, the coronavirus is the best thing that could have ever happened to Cuomo's

00:19:23.480 and de Blasio's political careers.

00:19:25.480 Because all of the budget mismanagement, all of the lack of accountability in their spending,

00:19:30.840 all of the cuts that Cuomo made to the healthcare system before the virus hit, will all be washed

00:19:36.120 away by the coverage of this pandemic.

00:19:38.520 And they can claim that their current and future state of disarray in the state is not just because

00:19:43.480 of the effects of the virus and the shutdown, but because Donald Trump refused to help.

00:19:47.880 And like I said, the media will aid and abet them in that narrative.

00:19:51.560 They will spin that narrative.

00:19:52.760 And they will say again, that all of this is on, uh, that is on Trump's hands.

00:19:58.440 Blood is on Trump's hands.

00:19:59.800 They will lay this at his feet.

00:20:01.560 The governor of New Jersey, going back to, uh, the petty tyrant theme of this episode,

00:20:07.800 was on with Tucker Carlson a few nights ago.

00:20:10.200 Tucker asks him where he gets the power to tell people when, where, and how they can worship,

00:20:15.800 considering we have something called the Constitution of the United States.

00:20:19.320 Here's how that went.

00:20:20.280 15 congregants at a synagogue in New Jersey were arrested and charged for being in a synagogue

00:20:27.160 together.

00:20:28.200 Now, the Bill of Rights, as you well know, protects Americans' right and shrines their 0.54

00:20:34.680 right to practice their religion as they see fit and to congregate together to assemble peacefully.

00:20:41.560 By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order?

00:20:46.600 How do you have the power to do that?

00:20:48.120 That's above my pay grade, Tucker.

00:20:50.680 So I wasn't, uh, I wasn't thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this.

00:20:54.360 We went to all, first of all, we looked at the data and the science.

00:20:57.720 Well, I can tell.

00:20:58.520 Above my pay grade, he says.

00:21:00.040 No, it's actually not above your pay grade.

00:21:02.200 It's actually not above your pay grade.

00:21:04.120 Is there a higher pay grade in the state of New Jersey that the rest of us don't know about?

00:21:07.720 Like, is there something higher than the governorship that the rest of the states,

00:21:11.320 we just, we're just not privy to that?

00:21:13.240 Could you let us know?

00:21:14.520 So they're just coming out and saying,

00:21:16.520 look, we're not thinking of the Bill of Rights.

00:21:18.200 We're not thinking about your rights at all.

00:21:19.640 We don't care about your God-given rights.

00:21:21.560 He goes on to say that he was thinking of science when he made this decision.

00:21:25.480 Well, here's the thing, and I'm going to take us on a short detour here,

00:21:28.600 but again, it all comes back to tyranny.

00:21:31.080 I'm going to say something that is very scandalous in this secular age.

00:21:35.320 Science isn't supreme.

00:21:37.960 Science isn't supreme.

00:21:39.800 We are not one nation under science.

00:21:42.200 We are one nation under God.

00:21:44.120 Our Bill of Rights isn't based on our science-given rights.

00:21:47.400 It's based on our God-given rights.

00:21:49.240 Our Declaration of Independence does not give us the right to life, liberty,

00:21:54.200 and the pursuit of happiness unless scientists say otherwise.

00:21:57.160 It says we are endowed with these rights by our Creator.

00:22:01.400 So the Bill of Rights indeed transcends science.

00:22:05.240 Now, true science, what can be verified with experimentation and conclusive evidence,

00:22:10.520 and God don't contradict each other.

00:22:12.680 Science is a good thing.

00:22:14.120 The Constitution was built upon what we know about human nature and the nature of power and

00:22:19.320 the nature of government.

00:22:20.600 But God is supreme over science, supreme over human nature, not the other way around.

00:22:26.680 But so much of today's science is not bound by objective truth.

00:22:31.240 It's bound by subjective politics.

00:22:33.560 The so-called science of climate, of gender and sexuality, and even pandemics

00:22:40.040 is largely driven by politics rather than objective reality and truth.

00:22:45.160 This is another reason why science cannot be the sole or even primary driver of policymaking.

00:22:52.040 This is a leftist buzzword, science.

00:22:55.080 They believe that that word alone saying science or scientific is a trump card to support all

00:23:00.360 their arguments and decisions.

00:23:01.960 But it's not.

00:23:03.080 First, because science nowadays, like I said, because of the way it's manipulated and politicized,

00:23:09.960 has become subjective, but also because fundamentally liberty is more important than science.

00:23:15.720 Morality is more important than science.

00:23:17.960 Like I said, our rights are not derived from simply science.

00:23:22.680 They are derived from God.

00:23:24.840 Science is subject to human fallibility.

00:23:27.560 God is not.

00:23:28.600 Therefore, a society that is built on the God of the Bible is far more stable and far more humane

00:23:35.000 and far more free than the society that is based on science.

00:23:39.640 The prevailing so-called science says that we have to stay inside until there's a vaccine

00:23:45.000 developed in 18 or so months.

00:23:46.920 Hey, maybe two years.

00:23:48.360 Who cares?

00:23:49.000 As long as it saves one life, right?

00:23:50.840 And presumably this will be a mandated vaccine.

00:23:53.560 I'm just assuming like if you want to work, you have to get a vaccine.

00:23:56.760 They're already pushing for something called ID 2020, not a conspiracy theory.

00:24:01.080 It's real.

00:24:01.560 You can look it up.

00:24:02.360 That would give everyone a digital ID that would show up on your fingerprint.

00:24:05.960 That would be, I assume, I think it's injected through a vaccine.

00:24:11.080 Show up on your fingerprint to prove that you've been vaccinated.

00:24:13.560 Uh, that is the exclusively scientific perspective on all of this.

00:24:19.320 That is the perspective that views human beings as nothing more than bodies and the

00:24:23.880 coronavirus, just another medical problem to solve.

00:24:26.760 That's why they're okay with saying, okay, well, we have to do whatever it takes to solve

00:24:30.520 this exclusively medical problem. That's the one dimensional, uh, conclusion.

00:24:35.240 The materialistic worldview leads you to, but it's not reality.

00:24:39.320 The reality is that human beings are not just bodies.

00:24:41.800 Therefore our only threat is not just the virus.

00:24:44.600 It's not just a medical or physical threat.

00:24:47.160 Human beings are people with souls.

00:24:49.320 We have spiritual needs.

00:24:50.840 We have social needs.

00:24:52.040 We have moral needs.

00:24:53.080 We are built for community.

00:24:54.680 We are made to work.

00:24:56.040 We need jobs, not just for financial stability, but for morale to fulfill the innate, uh, necessity

00:25:03.000 for productivity that God placed in all of us.

00:25:06.360 And we are made for freedom.

00:25:07.960 That is a natural desire born in all of us.

00:25:10.280 The desire for enterprise, for independence, for freedom.

00:25:14.440 I've told you guys in my online women's book club that I'm doing on Facebook and Instagram,

00:25:19.640 we are reading right now, uh, a book called nothing to envy and it's about everyday life

00:25:24.040 in North Korea.

00:25:25.080 And we read about the famine that happened in the 1990s where so many North Koreans died

00:25:31.400 because of the depravity of the corruption and the incompetence of the communist regime

00:25:37.240 in North Korea and how finally these illegal markets broke out.

00:25:42.520 So any kind of capitalistic endeavor, any kind of entrepreneurism was strictly prohibited is

00:25:49.240 strictly prohibited, but in this book was strictly prohibited in North Korea.

00:25:53.240 You could be deported to a concentration camp for committing what they called economic crimes.

00:25:59.560 And so they had these black markets, these secret black markets that were set up to where people

00:26:05.560 would sell and barter and trade just to be able to survive.

00:26:09.640 Now, these are people who had never learned about supply and demand, who had been indoctrinated

00:26:16.760 from the day they were born about the evils of capitalism and the virtues of communism.

00:26:21.960 And yet driven by desperation, driven by a natural desire and drive to survive, they all became

00:26:31.960 capitalists.

00:26:33.160 That's because capitalism, freedom, enterprise, entrepreneurship,

00:26:38.520 the desire to work, the need for productivity to provide for yourself and not to just live off

00:26:43.160 the government dole is innate.

00:26:44.840 It's actually communism and living off the government that has to be taught and controlled

00:26:49.160 and indoctrinated.

00:26:50.360 It is a desire for freedom and a desire for liberty and self-sufficiency that is natural,

00:26:55.960 that is part of the human spirit.

00:26:57.320 I mean, that is so evident when you look at a place like North Korea that had never learned 1.00

00:27:01.240 anything about capitalism.

00:27:02.760 And yet, because of the need to survive, they all became capitalists.

00:27:06.760 They probably didn't call themselves that, but they became that naturally because that's

00:27:10.680 what it took to survive.

00:27:12.360 And so people are not just bodies that need their physical needs met.

00:27:17.720 We have needs that go far beyond that.

00:27:20.600 But the multidimensional needs of human beings and therefore society are only realized when we

00:27:28.120 see human beings the right way as purposeful people that are made in the image of God,

00:27:33.080 inherently valuable, deserving of the rights he gave us that the government is not supposed

00:27:37.240 to be able to take away arbitrarily.

00:27:39.480 And yet that's what happens when you build societies based on a materialistic point of view,

00:27:45.160 a materialistic worldview, only that which you can see rather than building them on God.

00:27:49.560 And not just any idea of God, but the Christian God, the only true God, the God of the Bible.

00:27:54.120 And this is why, by the way, I don't trust atheists to run any organization meant to help people. 1.00

00:28:00.680 I just don't.

00:28:01.560 It's primarily why I don't trust Bill Gates.

00:28:04.040 I don't trust the UN.

00:28:05.080 I don't trust the WHO.

00:28:06.840 These are all left-wing, godless entities who claim to be led exclusively by science

00:28:13.960 and are thus concerned with overpopulation and are willing to advocate for the taking away of

00:28:20.120 all rights and liberties you have in order to push their quote scientific agenda.

00:28:24.920 It's also why we don't allow scientists and doctors to dictate American policy.

00:28:31.240 They're important as advisors, and we should listen to them when it comes to all the things

00:28:36.040 that are truly in their purview, but they don't understand the economy.

00:28:39.640 They're not supposed to.

00:28:40.600 That's okay.

00:28:41.480 But we don't need to take their economic advice.

00:28:43.400 They don't have in mind the needs of the people that go beyond the physical and the medical.

00:28:48.520 Our leaders and our lawmakers are supposed to have that holistic perspective.

00:28:52.920 The governor of New Jersey is supposed to have that holistic perspective.

00:28:56.600 He is supposed to not only have the Bill of Rights in mind when he is deciding policy,

00:29:01.080 he's to abide by the Bill of Rights.

00:29:02.840 He's supposed to submit to it.

00:29:04.280 Remember, the Constitution is a check on the government's power.

00:29:07.720 It is to restrict what the government can do, not what we can do.

00:29:11.080 All of our government leaders are supposed to be submitting to the Bill of Rights,

00:29:15.400 and many of them are not, which is exactly why you see the protesting right now.

00:29:20.680 And I support the protest.

00:29:22.360 Now, do I think that you guys should be wearing masks and that you should be socially distancing,

00:29:27.720 that you should be, I mean, physical distancing?

00:29:30.520 That's really a better way to say it, farther apart from one another.

00:29:33.960 Yes, I do.

00:29:34.920 I have from the beginning taken this virus seriously, and I urge us all to take the virus seriously.

00:29:39.960 It's not some hoax.

00:29:41.160 It's not some walk in the park.

00:29:42.760 I can read that from, if you go to the Samaritan's Purse accounts to where they are treating all of

00:29:49.080 these people who are in the ICU, by the way.

00:29:50.920 So these are very serious cases.

00:29:52.600 We see that it's not just, you know, a cold.

00:29:55.640 It's not just a flu.

00:29:56.520 It is a very serious virus.

00:29:58.200 So, of course, I want everyone to take this seriously.

00:30:00.840 I want you protesters to take this seriously.

00:30:02.840 But I absolutely support your First Amendment right to peacefully protest.

00:30:07.480 I want you to take proper precautions, but I want you to protest.

00:30:11.240 It is your right to protest.

00:30:12.440 And shame on Facebook for suppressing posts that give information about these protests.

00:30:17.000 That is more similar to something that would happen in communist China than it should be

00:30:21.240 in the United States.

00:30:22.520 Our founding documents are based on the idea, the correct idea, that our rights are inherent,

00:30:28.200 that they are baked into our humanity, including the right to peacefully protest.

00:30:32.040 The government didn't give them to us, and therefore the government cannot arbitrarily take them away.

00:30:37.240 And yet, here we are.

00:30:39.480 Unfortunately, as I say, little tyrants everywhere. 0.98

00:30:41.880 Let's see.

00:30:42.680 Next on our list of little tiny baby tyrants everywhere, Governor Northam of Virginia. 0.96

00:30:48.360 Now, you might know him as both the buffoon who advocated for infanticide on the radio, 0.88

00:30:53.880 and the guy, or the guy, who is still in office after a yearbook photo of him was released 0.81

00:30:59.720 in KKK robes.

00:31:02.280 Tucker Carlson literally refers to him as Governor Blackface Klan robes.

00:31:06.520 And I can't help but laugh every single time he does.

00:31:08.440 He just straight face calls him Governor Blackface Klan robes, which by the way, just an aside,

00:31:13.960 if you're not watching Tucker Carlson's monologue every night, you need to be doing that.

00:31:18.840 I don't agree with Tucker on everything.

00:31:20.280 I don't agree with anyone on everything.

00:31:22.440 But he, I've always loved his show, and especially lately in this whole coronavirus thing, he is a

00:31:29.320 great example of a check on power.

00:31:31.080 Like, he is really good at holding the elites in this country who are supposed to be, or the

00:31:37.000 government leaders who are supposed to be serving the people that are supposed to be public servants.

00:31:41.080 He is really good at checking their power and holding them accountable.

00:31:43.560 So you need to be watching this monologue every night.

00:31:45.400 I always do.

00:31:46.120 Anyway, Governor Northam of Virginia has also utilized the pandemonium of this pandemic to sign

00:31:52.040 into law two egregious pieces of legislation.

00:31:54.600 Here's an excerpt from the article in National Review titled Ralph Northam's

00:31:58.760 Transformation of Virginia by John Hirschauer.

00:32:01.640 Like many people of faith, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam spent last weekend bearing witness

00:32:06.040 to his convictions.

00:32:07.400 On Good Friday, he signed the Reproductive Health Protection Act into law, which among other

00:32:13.240 things waived the 24-hour waiting period, pro-adoption counseling, and mandatory

00:32:17.560 ultrasound that had been previously required for women seeking abortions.

00:32:21.400 On Holy Saturday, Northam signed the Virginia Values Act, a bill recognizing sexual orientation

00:32:27.000 and gender identity as protected categories under Virginia's anti-discrimination law.

00:32:31.560 As has happened in other states with similar laws, the bill imperils the conscience rights

00:32:36.200 of people of faith, as well as those who remain unconvinced that a man could become

00:32:39.960 a woman just by saying so.

00:32:41.400 On Easter Sunday, Northam wrested from all the work that he had done.

00:32:44.920 The abortion law also says that non-doctors can perform abortions.

00:32:49.960 So not only is this making more accessible the procedure that kills a child, it's also

00:32:57.160 less safe for women. 1.00

00:32:58.680 The Virginia Values Act makes sure that bakers will be required to make transition cakes for 0.98

00:33:05.000 transgender people or else they will face a lawsuit.

00:33:07.960 Uh, high school-aged girls will have to compete with men, with boys who identify as girls. 0.65

00:33:14.120 So they will have to compete for scholarships with their, what the article calls testosterone-laden

00:33:19.320 competitors.

00:33:20.360 So that's what tiny tyrant, little tyrant in Virginia, Governor Northam is up to right now.

00:33:26.600 So just remember, pay attention.

00:33:28.520 When there's a lot happening in front of our faces, a pandemic, people losing jobs, livelihoods,

00:33:33.880 the will to live in many cases, it's easy to forget that there's a lot going on behind the

00:33:39.000 scenes.

00:33:39.320 These governors and lawmakers are leveraging our distraction and desperation to accomplish

00:33:44.120 what they want to accomplish, no matter what you think about it.

00:33:48.040 The media, of course, is supposed to be a check on power, and not just Republican power,

00:33:52.840 but all power.

00:33:54.120 But most of them have long since abdicated that responsibility and truth as a principle

00:33:58.600 as paying the price, and consequently, so are we.

00:34:00.760 But tyrants aren't just in the government or in tech and media, they are also in our

00:34:05.480 education system.

00:34:06.520 A lot of you guys asked me to talk about, to talk about this.

00:34:10.840 There's an article in Harvard Magazine by Aaron O'Donnell titled, The Risk of Homeschooling,

00:34:16.120 which outlines what Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet thinks about homeschooling.

00:34:21.800 You should really read the article.

00:34:23.260 By the way, it's such a clear look into the tyrannical nature of progressivism, just how desperate

00:34:28.520 they are to own and indoctrinate our children. 0.84

00:34:31.400 Bartholet believes that, quote, homeschooling not only violates children's right to a meaningful

00:34:36.440 education and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from

00:34:41.160 contributing positively to a democratic society.

00:34:44.040 She argues that homeschool could lead to the cover-up of child abuse.

00:34:47.960 She doesn't actually cite that it does.

00:34:50.200 She doesn't show any statistics or any studies that it does.

00:34:53.400 She doesn't give any kind of evidence to her assertion.

00:34:57.080 She also doesn't mention the existence of abuse within the public school system, which

00:35:00.920 happens to be rampant, but she says it could happen, and that's really dangerous.

00:35:05.880 She also points out this very frightening fact about homeschooling.

00:35:10.600 She notes that parents choose homeschooling for an array of reasons.

00:35:14.360 Some find local schools lacking or want to protect their child from bullying.

00:35:18.440 Others do it to give their children the flexibility to pursue sports or other

00:35:22.280 activities at a high level.

00:35:23.720 But surveys of homeschoolers show that a majority of such families, by some estimates up to 90%,

00:35:30.120 are driven by conservative Christian values and seek to remove their children from mainstream 0.54

00:35:39.880 culture.

00:35:40.520 Bartholet notes that some of these parents are extreme religious ideologues who question science

00:35:46.840 and promote female subservience and white supremacy. 1.00

00:35:50.040 Oh, conservative Christian values. 0.64

00:35:52.920 Oh, no.

00:35:53.960 How scary these kids are going to learn about things like the Bible, like God, like morality,

00:35:59.240 and maybe even the Constitution.

00:36:01.560 What a tragedy.

00:36:02.600 That's so frightening.

00:36:03.320 We have to stop it right now.

00:36:04.680 And I love how she just equates white supremacy to being a conservative Christian.

00:36:09.400 Oh, yeah, that's fine.

00:36:10.360 We're just supposed to not along.

00:36:12.920 Yes, that's definitely true.

00:36:14.440 Conservative Christians, white supremacy, all the same thing. 0.88

00:36:17.000 As if Christians didn't end the slave trade behind William Wilberforce. 1.00

00:36:21.320 As if Christians aren't on the front lines against every single human rights violation 1.00

00:36:26.120 throughout history and around the world right now.

00:36:28.440 Oh, yeah. 0.97

00:36:29.160 No, totally, definitely white supremacist conservative Christians. 1.00

00:36:33.080 She's just assuming that her audience is so dumb, so insulated, and so ignorant, naive 1.00

00:36:40.200 to the people that aren't like them. 1.00

00:36:41.480 That they're just going to say, oh, yeah, that sounds about right, Elizabeth.

00:36:46.120 She argues that the government has a right to educate our children and expose them to ideas.

00:36:51.080 Really?

00:36:51.720 What right is that?

00:36:53.000 Where does the government get that right? 0.67

00:36:54.920 Where do you find that so-called right?

00:36:57.480 The government doesn't have a right to your children at all.

00:37:00.200 Your children don't belong to the state.

00:37:02.600 Every totalitarian regime, by the way, this is what happens.

00:37:06.280 The children become wards of the state.

00:37:08.120 Read about Pol Pot's Cambodia, where family units were broken up, children were recruited 0.89

00:37:14.120 to serve the state, brainwashed from a young age to become obedient little communists.

00:37:18.440 Do you know how that worked out, not just for the children, but for the entire nation?

00:37:22.440 Look up Khmer Rouge and the killing fields, and you can learn a little bit more about that.

00:37:27.080 She says in this article, the issue is, do we think that parents should have 24-7,

00:37:31.160 essentially authoritarian control over their children from ages zero to 18?

00:37:35.960 I think that's dangerous.

00:37:37.480 Bartholet says, I think it's always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless

00:37:42.760 and to give the powerful ones total authority.

00:37:45.480 How ironic.

00:37:46.360 What do you think public school is?

00:37:48.120 First of all, this woman knows nothing about parenting and apparently nothing about public 1.00

00:37:51.800 school.

00:37:52.520 Like I said, what does she think goes on at public school? 0.99

00:37:55.320 Authoritarian control.

00:37:57.240 Someone is going to raise children.

00:37:59.720 Someone is going to raise children.

00:38:02.520 Children have to be raised.

00:38:03.640 They have to be taught.

00:38:04.920 They have to be cared for.

00:38:06.360 Someone is going to instill them with values.

00:38:09.160 Who do we think is better for that job?

00:38:11.720 The parents who love them.

00:38:13.560 The parents who would do absolutely anything for them.

00:38:15.960 Who either adopted them or had them themselves and have known them from the second that they

00:38:23.240 entered the world.

00:38:24.200 The parents that would lay down their lives for them a thousand times.

00:38:28.520 A parent who would give anything for their child without even thinking about it to make

00:38:34.040 sure that they had a happy and successful life.

00:38:36.520 Who do you think is better?

00:38:38.280 Those parents or the state which runs public schools who doesn't care about your child,

00:38:43.880 doesn't know your child's name, doesn't love your child, isn't going to shed a tear if your

00:38:48.120 child gets cancer or lives or dies, doesn't care if your child makes it to college except for

00:38:52.760 just being able to add it to their statistics.

00:38:55.240 And by the way, a state that believes in left wing moral relativism, who is going to teach 1.00

00:39:00.040 your 11 year old daughter about anal sex and masturbation. 1.00

00:39:03.400 Yeah. 1.00

00:39:03.960 Who do you think is better?

00:39:05.400 You or that state?

00:39:07.400 Uh, that's not to say, by the way, that there aren't, uh, very caring teachers.

00:39:13.000 Of course there are.

00:39:13.640 I know that there are many of you out there who are very caring public school teachers.

00:39:17.240 You're doing a great job, of course, uh, but teachers, no matter how wonderful you are,

00:39:22.040 and there are a lot of bad teachers too.

00:39:23.560 I know you know that, but no matter how wonderful you are as a teacher,

00:39:27.000 you just can't love and care for your students the same way that parents can.

00:39:31.560 It's impossible.

00:39:32.360 You can't know what's best for every child the way that a good mom and dad does.

00:39:36.360 Uh, Bartholet believes that if parents want permission to opt out of schools,

00:39:39.400 the burden of proving that their case is justified to follow the parents.

00:39:43.240 No, parents don't have to prove anything to the state that they should be able to

00:39:48.200 homeschool their kids.

00:39:49.400 Government, kids are not yours. 1.00

00:39:52.360 Like you don't own these kids.

00:39:54.280 You don't know them.

00:39:55.480 You don't love them.

00:39:56.440 You don't know what's best for them.

00:39:58.040 Are there bad parents?

00:39:59.160 Yes, there are bad parents.

00:40:00.200 Are there parents who shouldn't homeschool?

00:40:01.960 Yes, there are parents that shouldn't homeschool.

00:40:03.880 Is there a reason for accountability for reporting?

00:40:08.200 And, uh, even in cases where there is abuse, is there a reason?

00:40:13.320 For CPS to show up?

00:40:15.080 Yes, of course.

00:40:16.280 But this article offers no statistics to prove that's what's happening in the world of homeschooling.

00:40:21.800 Let's look at the data.

00:40:23.000 Oh, lovers of science.

00:40:24.680 Show me the data that says homeschool kids aren't graduating from high school,

00:40:28.360 aren't going to college, aren't becoming contributing members of society.

00:40:31.960 Please.

00:40:32.280 I'd love to look at the standardized test scores or literacy rates or graduation rates of

00:40:37.720 homeschoolers versus public schoolers.

00:40:39.720 Oh no, she doesn't want to look at that.

00:40:41.320 I know she doesn't want to look at that because that blows her case absolutely out of the water.

00:40:45.960 The picture that was on this article, by the way, is a little poor homeschool kid inside

00:40:51.000 looking out her window, which has prison bars on it of all the fun public school kids that are

00:40:56.840 jumping rope and playing around.

00:40:59.000 And she's inside her poor homeschool prison, which by the way, the opposite is the truth.

00:41:04.680 Like public school kids have what, 30 minutes, maybe an hour a day of playing homeschool kids

00:41:10.760 go out all the time.

00:41:11.960 Like they're always doing nature walks, going to museums.

00:41:15.640 They have a lot more experience than public school kids do.

00:41:20.120 Public schools are, public school kids are mostly chained to a desk all day.

00:41:23.800 And by the way, I thought this was funny.

00:41:26.440 On the side of the house in the picture has like, uh, four books.

00:41:29.800 So like Bible, math, reading, arithmetic, arithmetic was spelled incorrectly, which I thought was 0.98

00:41:37.320 on purpose to try to, uh, tongue in cheek say, oh, like homeschoolers are dumb and they're, 1.00

00:41:44.120 they're so dumb that they can't even spell correctly. 0.99

00:41:47.640 Um, but I think it was an accident because then they changed it, which is just ironic that you 1.00

00:41:53.720 couldn't even get it.

00:41:54.920 You couldn't even spell it correctly on an article that says that homeschool kids are 1.00

00:42:01.000 dumb and aren't well-educated enough. 0.99

00:42:03.160 Uh, we're not even planning to homeschool. 0.99

00:42:05.800 Like my family isn't necessarily, but you know what?

00:42:08.760 Maybe we will, maybe we will.

00:42:10.440 This is what the left does and what they don't understand.

00:42:12.920 They're constantly overplaying their hand.

00:42:14.680 They push people further in the other direction.

00:42:17.480 Your tyranny encourages, encourages people to resist your obsession with controlling our lives.

00:42:24.040 And you don't understand that they cannot get that through their thick skulls.

00:42:28.760 Every time you talk about overpopulation, there's at least one Christian conservative 0.99

00:42:33.240 couple that's like, that's it.

00:42:34.200 I'm having 10 kids.

00:42:35.560 Every time you talk about, you have to send your kids to homeschool.

00:42:38.840 You have to send your kids to daycare.

00:42:40.360 You have to teach your kids the things that we want you to teach your kids.

00:42:43.960 There's a couple out there.

00:42:45.160 That's like, you know what?

00:42:46.200 I think I never wanted to homeschool, but I think I'm going to homeschool now.

00:42:50.200 This is why people are resisting the pandemic policies that have no correlation to the spread

00:42:55.480 of the virus.

00:42:56.200 The policies against playing parks or going outside, even if you're six feet apart,

00:43:00.760 the policies against buying plants.

00:43:03.080 That's why people are resisting it because you push it too far.

00:43:05.880 The left constantly overplays their hand, but maybe it's a silver lining in all of this.

00:43:10.280 We're seeing what totalitarians you guys really are.

00:43:13.240 We're seeing what tyrants you guys really are.

00:43:15.080 And I hope more and more people are sick of it.

00:43:17.480 And I hope you carry this energy, protesters and resistors against this tyranny into November.

00:43:23.720 And there's another reason.

00:43:25.240 There's another reason why we don't trust the powers that be, why we don't trust the so-called

00:43:30.680 elites in this country, the media, people at Harvard, which by the way, this woman works 1.00

00:43:35.800 at Harvard.

00:43:36.440 Why doesn't she go work at a public school? 1.00

00:43:38.040 She's working at a private school if she thinks public schools are so great. 0.99

00:43:41.080 Anyway, another reason why we can't trust you guys is because we know that you don't

00:43:47.640 have our best interest at heart.

00:43:49.000 AOC said this when oil prices were dropping so low the other day, people were talking about

00:43:53.640 it on Twitter and saying, wow, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.

00:43:56.280 Like places like Midland, Texas, they're going to be seriously hurt by this.

00:43:59.160 Well, AOC tweeted, you absolutely love to see it talking about this.

00:44:03.880 This along with record low interest rates means it's the right time for a worker-led mass 0.95

00:44:08.920 investment in green infrastructure to save our planet.

00:44:11.480 She says cough in it between asterisks.

00:44:14.040 What does that mean?

00:44:14.920 Cough.

00:44:15.240 Are you making fun of coronavirus?

00:44:17.080 Like, what are you talking about?

00:44:17.960 Plus, I don't think you understand how oil prices work.

00:44:21.560 I don't think you understand how any of this works, but we'll just disregard that for a

00:44:25.080 second and look at the fact that you absolutely love to see it.

00:44:28.840 Like you love to see people losing their jobs.

00:44:31.080 You love to see people's livelihoods going up in flames.

00:44:33.640 But yes, she does.

00:44:34.600 That's the answer.

00:44:36.120 She does.

00:44:36.920 She's motivated by ideology, not your well-being.

00:44:39.880 And things like this just confirm people's fears of the elites.

00:44:42.360 And yes, AOC is an elite, cannot be trusted.

00:44:46.360 Jake Tapper of CNN said this, practically every day, I see a tweet or blog post about someone

00:44:52.200 who wrongly thought COVID-19 was a hoax dying of COVID-19.

00:44:55.720 And all I can think about are the members of the media and the politicians who misinformed that

00:44:59.960 person and who assuredly feel zero responsibility.

00:45:03.240 Well, I hope that you're talking about the people on your station, on MSNBC, the WHO,

00:45:08.040 the Chinese Communist Party, who all said this was no big deal, who said that the flu is far

00:45:12.680 more dangerous, who said some of the organizations, the WHO, who said there's no human-to-human

00:45:18.360 transmission, a parroting propaganda, who said that Trump is a xenophobe for his Chinese ban

00:45:25.560 and for his European travel ban. For all of you who said that and focused on that, like,

00:45:31.080 are you launching that accusation at them or are you just talking about Trump and Fox News?

00:45:36.040 And secondly, no, Jake Tapper, the reason people think coronavirus is a hoax, which you and I,

00:45:42.360 Jake Tapper, we're in agreement that it's not, is because tiny tyrants everywhere are enacting

00:45:48.200 policies that don't have anything to do with public health and everything to do with control and

00:45:51.880 slamming Trump. And I don't know, maybe it's also because your colleague, Chris Cuomo,

00:45:57.800 has been sick with coronavirus and has been seen traveling, driving to his other property in East

00:46:05.000 Hampton while he was contagious. At least while we think he was contagious, while he still had

00:46:09.240 coronavirus and his wife had coronavirus. He was called out by a guy on a bicycle who saw him,

00:46:14.680 who Cuomo later in a radio interview called a loser. So that's cool. That's not quarantine. 0.93

00:46:20.040 Same with George Stephanopoulos. A week after announcing he tested positive, while his wife

00:46:25.000 was still positive, or after his wife was positive with COVID-19, he was out and about on a walk. He

00:46:31.480 was actually seen at a pharmacy and one of his neighbors snitched on him. And also, let's hear

00:46:37.480 how all of these people get over it. Like, I'm sure some people would like your tips and advice,

00:46:42.280 or are you guys all of the important people? Are you guys privy to some kind of treatment that the

00:46:47.240 poor plebeians aren't? They would never tell us if that were true. They don't want us to know. They 1.00

00:46:51.800 don't care. Meanwhile, Trump is doing some good things like halting all immigration, which is just

00:46:57.240 common sense, right? Like, it's common sense. If we have a large number of cases, it makes sense to

00:47:02.040 take care of those that we have and eliminate any risk of the virus coming in again from the outside,

00:47:08.360 right? Now, this is probably going to be watered down. Some people are saying that there is

00:47:12.520 disagreement within the administration that Jared Kushner is pushing for exceptions. Apparently,

00:47:18.760 that's what's being reported right now as I'm recording this. But Trump is trying to put a

00:47:24.600 ban on immigration, a temporary ban on immigration for the time being. Again, just common sense. Well,

00:47:29.400 the media, of course, is up in arms. The same media who has said that Trump isn't doing enough,

00:47:33.720 that he's not being authoritarian enough. Don Lemon on his show had the mayor of LA, Eric Garcetti,

00:47:39.640 saying this is not an immigration problem. This is a public health problem, not an immigration

00:47:43.640 problem. As if those things are mutually exclusive, you raving idiots. Beto O'Rourke, 1.00

00:47:48.600 coming in hot on Twitter, saying this is anti-immigrant. And there are so many valuable

00:47:54.840 people here who are immigrants. Okay, I'm going to just say, I regret calling, 1.00

00:47:59.080 I regret calling Don Lemon and Eric Garcetti idiots. I shouldn't have said that. So I'm just going to 0.99

00:48:03.640 in real time say that I apologize for saying that. That was too harsh. These are idiotic things to say.

00:48:10.680 I won't say that they're idiots. So please forgive me. I should have been more gracious on that. 1.00

00:48:16.360 Back to Beto O'Rourke, who used, he's so cool and he's super edgy because he used F words. He said,

00:48:24.760 what the F, what the F is going on? Who the F do you think is going to be doing all of the things

00:48:32.200 that immigrants do in our communities if we ban immigration? What are you even saying, bro? Like, 1.00

00:48:37.800 what are you even saying? What does that have to do with temporarily halting immigration while we deal

00:48:42.760 with the deadly virus? I thought y'all cared about not overwhelming our hospital system and people

00:48:47.480 staying healthy. This doesn't have to do with being anti-immigrant or anti-immigration. So your plan

00:48:53.880 is let me just get this straight for Beto O'Rourke and all the media that are making a big deal about

00:48:58.680 this. Let me get this straight for everyone, for everyone to stay in their homes. That's your plan

00:49:03.480 for everyone to stay in their homes, to lose their jobs, to go without a paycheck indefinitely, be

00:49:08.120 quarantined indefinitely, except the people that are immigrating here. They should travel. 1.00

00:49:12.040 Does that, does that sound good? Do you see why people don't trust you guys? Isn't it obvious why people

00:49:18.760 don't think that you have our best interests at heart? Little tyrants everywhere, I tell you. Little, 1.00

00:49:25.640 little, little tyrants everywhere. Okay, that's all we have for today. Hope you guys enjoyed it. I will be

00:49:29.880 back here on Friday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 22, 2020

Ep 241 ｜ Little Tyrants Everywhere

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