Ep 241 ｜ Little Tyrants Everywhere
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The government, the media, the tech sector, the church, and the education system are all tyrants all around the United States of America. We are going to look at a few examples of tyranny and what it means for our lives.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has had a great week so far.
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As you can tell from the title, we are talking about tyrants all around in the United States
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of America. If you have heard of the series Little Fires Everywhere, it's on Hulu. It's
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got Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon. That's where the title came from. Not Little Fires
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Everywhere, but Little Tyrants Everywhere. We've got tyrants in the government. We've got tyrants
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in the media. We've got tyrants in tech, tyrants in our education system. We are going to look at
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a few examples of that tyranny today and what it means for our lives. It's a really fun and full
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episode and I'm so excited to get into it. Okay, so what we're seeing right now in the United States
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of America is a desperate power grab by the powers that be to exploit a crisis, to try to restructure
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society, or to really just control society, to get the things done that a lot of people,
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particularly on the left, want to get done. Bernie Sanders obviously is one of those politicians. He
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wrote a piece in the New York Times titled, The Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us.
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Of course they are. He has thought that for several decades now. Pushing for single-payer health care in
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this article, raising the minimum wage in climate policy. But you know who is single-payer health care?
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Bernie Sanders, Italy, Spain, China, places with horrific death rates, much worse than the United
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States. When it comes to deaths per capita, just as a refresher, the United States comes in number 10.
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Not great. Not great. I'm not saying that it's great, but also not the worst. It comes after Spain,
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after Italy, after France, after the UK, after the Netherlands, after Sweden, all the places that,
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by the way, Bernie Sanders has said for several years that the United States should mimic a policy,
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specifically health care policy. So if you're going to say that the number of deaths in the United
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States points to the fact that we need the same kind of health care as these countries with death
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rates far higher than ours, you're just going to have to make a better case. You're going to have to
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explain to me why the UK's and why Sweden's deaths per capita, why that number is higher than ours.
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We're seeing this kind of rhetoric and this kind of behavior even from a lot of Democrats. This is an
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opportunity, many of them say, to restructure our society. The left is using this crisis to further
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show us their true colors. And their true colors, as it turns out, are all different shades of tyranny,
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in case we didn't already know that. So cracking down on churches and even the kinds of worship
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that we engage in, even drive-in services are being banned in some states. In one county,
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in California, they are putting a limit on what kind of musical worship is allowed in a live stream
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church service. This is real. So LifeSite News reports that in Mandacino County, I think that's how
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you pronounce that. You guys always let me know when I mispronounce cities or counties. The local
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government issued a directive specifying that for live streamed events, no singing or use of wind
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instruments, no singing or use of wind instruments, harmonicas or other instruments that could spread
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COVID-19 through projected droplets shall be permitted unless the recording of the event is done at one's
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residence and involving only the members of one's household or living unit because of the increased
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risk of transmission of COVID-19. So basically, no worship services where people are singing unless
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you've got one person in their home that is leading worship, which isn't exactly how worship typically
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goes when you are worshiping with your congregation, even from the comfort of your own home.
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Thankfully, some places have changed course when it comes to the crackdowns
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on churches and on worship. The PressEnterprise.com reported, spurred by a lawsuit and threats of
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more litigation, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, these are in California, reversed course
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Friday, April 17th, deciding to allow outdoor drive-up style religious services in which the faithful
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park and listen to sermons from their cars. Oh, thank you so much, local authorities, for allowing
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people to exercise their First Amendment rights. You guys are such gracious dictators.
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Leftist media is comparing peaceful protests. This is another way we're seeing tyranny in American
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society right now. Leftist media is comparing peaceful protests of the shutdowns to white
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supremacist rallies. This is what they do, by the way, if there is any rally that is mostly
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conservative, whether it was the Tea Party protest or whether it was just a few months ago, the protests
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against Virginia legislation that would make it very hard for people, for certain people to purchase
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guns. There were big rallies and protests in Virginia. They called it a white supremacist rally.
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Had nothing to do with white supremacy. Obviously, there were a lot of people there who weren't even
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white. Same thing with these protests. But this is what the media does. If you peacefully protest
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against anything that they are for, then they're going to call you a white supremacist. They don't have
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anything to say about Antifa, though. Facebook is actually taking down the posts of those peaceful
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protests. So they are censoring the speech that's promoting these peaceful protests. Again,
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peacefully protesting First Amendment rights. So leftists have proven to hate the First Amendment
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if we didn't know that already. They are prohibiting, some of them prohibiting self-sufficiency.
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That's what petty tyrant Governor Whitmer of Michigan is doing by banning the sale of gardening
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seeds at the same time that she declares abortion procedures, quote, life-sustaining. Imagine how
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backwards you have to be in your head, like how corrupted you have to be in your mind, how evil
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you have to be, and perverse in your thinking to call a procedure that ends the life brutally,
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violently, painfully, ends the life of an unborn child life-sustaining. Michigan was one of those
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places where peaceful protests were happening. People were protesting against the unconstitutional
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theft of their freedom and their livelihoods. And she said, Governor Whitmer said, if you keep
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protesting, I'm going to extend the lockdown. What a tyrannical schoolmarm. Are you kidding me?
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So I think that if I were doing a tiny tyrant contest, I think that Governor Whitmer of Michigan
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would, I don't know if she would come in first because we've got some other tyrants to talk about.
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It would probably be between her and Bill de Blasio, but I'll tell you about Bill de Blasio in just a
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second. But she is way up there in the tiny tyrant contest. She is a DNC darling, by the way. She's not
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some obscure figure. Obviously, she's the governor of Michigan, but the DNC Democratic Party loves her.
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You might remember that she delivered the terribly uncompelling, and I'm not just saying this,
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terribly uncompelling response to the State of the Union back in January. Now, listen, I'm going to
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go off on a little Whitmer tangent here, but she deserves it. There is a disproportionately high
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virus rate and death rate in Michigan. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. That doesn't
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necessarily, one, it doesn't necessarily justify what she's doing across the state because there
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are certain counties in Michigan that have no cases. Of course, where Detroit is, there are lots
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of cases, but that doesn't mean that there should be a statewide ban on basically leaving your house.
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She said you can't even travel between two residences, can't even go visit other family members.
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Now, let's ask ourselves for a second. Why isn't the media asking her if her leadership tactics are
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effective if her state has a disproportionately high number of cases and high number of deaths?
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Why isn't she being criticized for what she's doing if it is apparently not working? Why isn't
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she being criticized for the disproportionate problems that she is having in her state? Of
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course, we know the answer to that. The answer is that she's a Democrat. But it's interesting how
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she and the governor of New York, Governor Cuomo, a state that has by far the most cases and the
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most deaths in the state, they're just assumed by the press to be doing the best they possibly can
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and are assigned no blame whatsoever for the death rates in their state, for the chaos in their state.
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It's assumed because they are A, Democrats, and B, because they're taking more authoritarian measures
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that they're leading effectively and that the high death rates in their states are just inevitable.
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That is no fault of their own. And yet, according to the same press, Trump is entirely to blame for
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the number of cases and the number of deaths in the United States. So shouldn't journalists be asking
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Governor Whitmer, why do you have such a disproportionately high number of cases in such a
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high death rate? What's going on in your hospitals? What's going on in your communities? Does this point to
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a lack of preparation, a lack of effective leadership? Governor Whitmer is being praised by the Democrats
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for setting up a racial disparity task force. She said, while African Americans represent 13.6 of our
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state's population, they represent a staggering 40% of the deaths from COVID-19. She's getting big
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applause for this, for being apparently proactive in setting up this task force, but no one is asking
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her, hey, why is this happening in a state that's under your leadership? The left claims that African
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Americans are dying disproportionately because of systemic racism. So why is no journalist asking
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her, how have you, Governor Whitmer, allowed that to happen in your state? But of course,
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simultaneously, conservatives and Trump supporters are being accused of wanting Black people to be
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killed because we all want to be able to go back to work as soon as is feasible to feed our families.
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That's actually an argument that was purported, that was given on MSNBC, that Trump and that
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conservatives, the people who are protesting, want Black people to die, and that is why some
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white people apparently want to open up the economy. That's actually an argument that's being made,
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but no one is asking why Governor Whitmer, why in her state there's a disproportionately high number
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of Black people who are dying. No, no, no. It's just inevitable, and she's just doing the best she can.
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No one asks these questions of Andrew Cuomo either. So let's move on from the subject of tyranny for
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just a second to discuss the double standard of how the press is reporting on certain government
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leaders. It's just constant praise of how wonderfully Governor Cuomo is handling this crisis and the
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leadership skills that he's presenting. It still has to do with tyranny, by the way, because where
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tyranny is, there's always corruption. There's a lot of corruption. There is a lot of duplicity when
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it comes to Andrew Cuomo, and you would never know it from reading the headlines in the New York
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Times or the Washington Post. So he is asking, Andrew Cuomo is constantly asking Trump to do more,
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to give more funding, to give more money. He's saying that New York is in this state of disarray
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exclusively because of the virus, but is that really true? I mean, is anyone asking Governor Cuomo
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why they're in this position of so many people getting sick and so many people dying? Almost 14,000
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deaths in New York and only a little over 1,000 in California, another very populous state in New York
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City, over 10,000 deaths in LA County, only 617 deaths, very populous cities. Now we can probably
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guess a few reasons for that. People live closer together in New York. The weather is worse in New
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York, but that can't account for everything. So why is no one asking Chris Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo,
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sorry, what's wrong with your state? What's wrong with your leadership? What's wrong with your
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hospitals? Here's the fact. The state of New York was facing a budget crisis before all of this
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happened. Back in November, the New York Post reported that New York faced a $6.1 billion hole
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in their budget for this year. And Cuomo was planning on taking cuts to Medicaid rates for
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hospitals and nursing homes to try to begin to make up for that. They failed to present a real plan
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criticized Dave Friedfel, I guess that's how you pronounce it, of the Citizens Budget Commission,
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a fiscal watchdog group. This is reported in the New York Post. They've known about this for a long
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time, but the plan they did present is really one part gimmick. He added, his analysis shows the state
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was already in trouble after pushing off a $1.7 billion Medicaid bill in March 2019 into 2020, which
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grew into the $4 billion hole. So according to an article in the nation, which I've actually quoted
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them a lot recently, I appreciate their honesty. They are a liberal commentary magazine. This is an
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article by Ross Barkin titled Cuomo helped get New York into this mess. Governor Cuomo has long
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mismanaged the budget and the Medicaid program. This article argues, um, and has reduced the size of
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hospitals. So here's some excerpts from that article. Some of the budgetary abyss has been the
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Cuomo administration's own making postponing Medicaid payments and failing in the past to iron
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out inefficiencies like the state's paying Medicaid costs for relatively wealthy private hospitals.
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They don't need the aid in the first place. What's more, the state has lost more than 20,000 hospital
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beds over the last 20 years. Cuomo, who has governed for almost half that period, never advocated for any kind
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of expansion of hospital beds until last month. He now, he now says that New York needs 110,000 beds
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more than double the current capacity. He has never been a forceful advocate for keeping hospitals open.
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In fact, he's empowered bureaucrats who have argued aggressively to shutter them in 2013, the Cuomo
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administration approved the closure of the 500 bed Long Island college hospital in Brooklyn over loud
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community protest. Cuomo has justified his cuts to Medicaid by saying, look, we have no money.
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He's quoted by his representative in this article as saying, the state has no money. And NBC in New
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York is reporting that both Cuomo and de Blasio, the incompetent mayor of New York City, and that is a
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totally objective description, by the way, who recently told his constituents to send in a picture of
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people violating social distancing orders in public so the authorities can show up. Talk about a tiny tyrant.
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They are asking, these two are asking for tens of millions of dollars from the federal government.
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The New York Times reported that Bill de Blasio pleaded to Trump for financial aid in a press
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conference saying this. So my question is, Mr. Trump, Mr. President, are you going to save New York City or are
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you telling New York City to drop dead? Which one is it? You are failing to protect the very people you grew up
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around. But the truth is, New York was already in a budget crisis before all of this happened. Not just
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because of Cuomo's errors, but also because of Bill de Blasio's. According to this 2017 article by
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Nicole Gelnius in City Journal and National Urban Policy Journal, when Mayor Bill de Blasio took office
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in January 2014, New York was halfway through a fiscal year in which it would spend $76.2 billion.
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During the current fiscal year, which started July 1, 2017, the city will spend about $87.3 billion,
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an $11.1 billion increase. Thus, Mayor Bill de Blasio's inaugural term has seen a 14.6% rise in annual spending.
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Yet behind, this article goes on, yet behind the no fuss, no drama budgeting lurk serious risks.
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To make his budgets add up, de Blasio has pushed much of the cost for past spending into the future,
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making it tougher to cut spending while protecting public services in a future downturn.
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The mayor has added tens of thousands of government workers to the city payroll
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without tackling the reforms needed to get their future retirement costs under control.
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And in a record boom, New York is still not putting enough money into critical infrastructure.
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Finally, Gotham remains dangerously dependent on its top earners to fund its massive budget.
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If the city's rich, or for that matter, the emerging world's new middle class who drive tourism,
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don't continue to thrive, de Blasio or a successor will face a record budget crisis.
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And of course, they are facing a budget crisis.
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Or maybe, maybe they're facing this crisis that has nothing to do with President Trump
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and really nothing to do with the virus because de Blasio directed 850 million taxpayer dollars
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to his wife's mental health program called Thrive NYC.
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Meaning, his wife and the program she is leading, Thrive NYC, cannot tell you where the money has gone,
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or if the program is effective or working at all.
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Politico reported in February 2019 in an article by Amanda Eisenberg titled,
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with opaque budget and elusive metrics, $850 million Thrive NYC program attempts a reset.
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Her article says that the city hall budget shows $594 million in spending since Thrive NYC's inception.
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Both city hall and IBO suspect the office of management of budget included fewer programs
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in the city hall version accounting for the difference.
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But the budget discrepancies illustrate the difficulty in tracking Thrive.
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The article goes on to say that the reports published by Thrive don't show whether any goals
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have been reached, whether Thrive is actually helping New Yorkers,
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or what metrics are even being used to measure its success.
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And yet the New York Post reports that the program is poised to spend
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Or maybe New York is running out of money because Bill de Blasio spent 773 million taxpayer dollars
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on a program with the goal of turning around 100 of the city's lowest performing schools.
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The program failed and was ended after four years and almost 800 million dollars spent.
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By the way, just as an aside about education, we see this time and again the more funding,
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that more funding does not necessarily equal better outcomes for students.
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Obama pumped millions of dollars into failing Chicago schools to absolutely no avail, none.
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This is a very buried but existent article in the Washington Post
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about how much money was spent in public schools by the Obama administration.
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Literally no good outcome came from it whatsoever.
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So more money to public schools just as an equal success.
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It's just 800 million of your taxpayer dollars, New York, New York City.
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Bill de Blasio, and I'm trying to be as fair as possible here, is a total buffoon.
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Even Democrats will tell you that his presidential campaign was the most
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cringeworthy thing that you've ever seen in your life.
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And that's saying something because remember, Elizabeth Warren was once in the running too.
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So what we're seeing, particularly in New York, where the virus is the worst in the country,
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failed leaders are using Donald Trump as a scapegoat.
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They know the media is not going to focus on the real failures that led to New York's current crisis.
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They're just going to report that everything is Donald Trump's fault, that the blood is on his hands.
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But let's face it, the coronavirus is the best thing that could have ever happened to Cuomo's
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Because all of the budget mismanagement, all of the lack of accountability in their spending,
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all of the cuts that Cuomo made to the healthcare system before the virus hit, will all be washed
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And they can claim that their current and future state of disarray in the state is not just because
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of the effects of the virus and the shutdown, but because Donald Trump refused to help.
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And like I said, the media will aid and abet them in that narrative.
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And they will say again, that all of this is on, uh, that is on Trump's hands.
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The governor of New Jersey, going back to, uh, the petty tyrant theme of this episode,
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Tucker asks him where he gets the power to tell people when, where, and how they can worship,
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considering we have something called the Constitution of the United States.
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15 congregants at a synagogue in New Jersey were arrested and charged for being in a synagogue
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Now, the Bill of Rights, as you well know, protects Americans' right and shrines their
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right to practice their religion as they see fit and to congregate together to assemble peacefully.
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By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order?
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So I wasn't, uh, I wasn't thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this.
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We went to all, first of all, we looked at the data and the science.
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Is there a higher pay grade in the state of New Jersey that the rest of us don't know about?
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Like, is there something higher than the governorship that the rest of the states,
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look, we're not thinking of the Bill of Rights.
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He goes on to say that he was thinking of science when he made this decision.
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Well, here's the thing, and I'm going to take us on a short detour here,
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I'm going to say something that is very scandalous in this secular age.
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Our Bill of Rights isn't based on our science-given rights.
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Our Declaration of Independence does not give us the right to life, liberty,
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and the pursuit of happiness unless scientists say otherwise.
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It says we are endowed with these rights by our Creator.
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So the Bill of Rights indeed transcends science.
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Now, true science, what can be verified with experimentation and conclusive evidence,
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The Constitution was built upon what we know about human nature and the nature of power and
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But God is supreme over science, supreme over human nature, not the other way around.
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But so much of today's science is not bound by objective truth.
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The so-called science of climate, of gender and sexuality, and even pandemics
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is largely driven by politics rather than objective reality and truth.
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This is another reason why science cannot be the sole or even primary driver of policymaking.
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They believe that that word alone saying science or scientific is a trump card to support all
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First, because science nowadays, like I said, because of the way it's manipulated and politicized,
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has become subjective, but also because fundamentally liberty is more important than science.
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Like I said, our rights are not derived from simply science.
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Therefore, a society that is built on the God of the Bible is far more stable and far more humane
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and far more free than the society that is based on science.
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The prevailing so-called science says that we have to stay inside until there's a vaccine
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And presumably this will be a mandated vaccine.
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I'm just assuming like if you want to work, you have to get a vaccine.
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They're already pushing for something called ID 2020, not a conspiracy theory.
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That would give everyone a digital ID that would show up on your fingerprint.
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That would be, I assume, I think it's injected through a vaccine.
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Show up on your fingerprint to prove that you've been vaccinated.
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Uh, that is the exclusively scientific perspective on all of this.
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That is the perspective that views human beings as nothing more than bodies and the
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coronavirus, just another medical problem to solve.
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That's why they're okay with saying, okay, well, we have to do whatever it takes to solve
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this exclusively medical problem. That's the one dimensional, uh, conclusion.
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The materialistic worldview leads you to, but it's not reality.
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The reality is that human beings are not just bodies.
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Therefore our only threat is not just the virus.
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We need jobs, not just for financial stability, but for morale to fulfill the innate, uh, necessity
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The desire for enterprise, for independence, for freedom.
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I've told you guys in my online women's book club that I'm doing on Facebook and Instagram,
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we are reading right now, uh, a book called nothing to envy and it's about everyday life
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And we read about the famine that happened in the 1990s where so many North Koreans died
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because of the depravity of the corruption and the incompetence of the communist regime
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in North Korea and how finally these illegal markets broke out.
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So any kind of capitalistic endeavor, any kind of entrepreneurism was strictly prohibited is
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strictly prohibited, but in this book was strictly prohibited in North Korea.
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You could be deported to a concentration camp for committing what they called economic crimes.
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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.
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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
00:26:33.160
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
00:26:44.840
It's actually communism and living off the government that has to be taught and controlled
00:26:50.360
It is a desire for freedom and a desire for liberty and self-sufficiency that is natural,
00:26:57.320
I mean, that is so evident when you look at a place like North Korea that had never learned
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
00:27:12.360
And so people are not just bodies that need their physical needs met.
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
00:27:39.480
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.
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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.
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.
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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,
00:29:04.280
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.
00:29:22.360
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.
00:29:34.920
I have from the beginning taken this virus seriously, and I urge us all to take the virus seriously.
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
00:29:58.200
So, of course, I want everyone 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.
00:30:12.440
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
00:30:22.520
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.
00:30:39.480
Unfortunately, as I say, little tyrants everywhere.
00:30:42.680
Next on our list of little tiny baby tyrants everywhere, Governor Northam of Virginia.
00:30:48.360
Now, you might know him as both the buffoon who advocated for infanticide on the radio,
00:30:53.880
and the guy, or the guy, who is still in office after a yearbook photo of him was released
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.
00:31:22.440
But he, I've always loved his show, and especially lately in this whole coronavirus thing, he is a
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.
00:31:46.120
Anyway, Governor Northam of Virginia has also utilized the pandemonium of this pandemic to sign
00:31:54.600
Here's an excerpt from the article in National Review titled Ralph Northam's
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Like many people of faith, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam spent last weekend bearing witness
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
00:32:41.400
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
00:32:58.680
The Virginia Values Act makes sure that bakers will be required to make transition cakes for
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.
00:33:14.120
So they will have to compete for scholarships with their, what the article calls testosterone-laden
00:33:20.360
So that's what tiny tyrant, little tyrant in Virginia, Governor Northam is up to right now.
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
00:33:39.320
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,
00:33:54.120
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
00:34:06.520
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.
00:34:23.260
By the way, it's such a clear look into the tyrannical nature of progressivism, just how desperate
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.
00:34:50.200
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
00:35:23.720
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
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.
00:35:53.960
How scary these kids are going to learn about things like the Bible, like God, like morality,
00:36:04.680
And I love how she just equates white supremacy to being a conservative Christian.
00:36:14.440
Conservative Christians, white supremacy, all the same thing.
00:36:17.000
As if Christians didn't end the slave trade behind William Wilberforce.
00:36:21.320
As if Christians aren't on the front lines against every single human rights violation
00:36:26.120
throughout history and around the world right now.
00:36:29.160
No, totally, definitely white supremacist conservative Christians.
00:36:33.080
She's just assuming that her audience is so dumb, so insulated, and so ignorant, naive
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.
00:36:57.480
The government doesn't have a right to your children at all.
00:37:02.600
Every totalitarian regime, by the way, this is what happens.
00:37:08.120
Read about Pol Pot's Cambodia, where family units were broken up, children were recruited
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?
00:37:37.480
Bartholet says, I think it's always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless
00:37:48.120
First of all, this woman knows nothing about parenting and apparently nothing about public
00:37:52.520
Like I said, what does she think goes on at public school?
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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
00:38:24.200
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.
00:38:38.280
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
00:38:55.240
And by the way, a state that believes in left wing moral relativism, who is going to teach
00:39:00.040
your 11 year old daughter about anal sex and masturbation.
00:39:07.400
Uh, that's not to say, by the way, that there aren't, uh, very caring teachers.
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,
00:39:23.560
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.
00:39:32.360
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,
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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
00:40:01.960
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?
00:40:16.280
But this article offers no statistics to prove that's what's happening in the world of homeschooling.
00:40:24.680
Show me the data that says homeschool kids aren't graduating from high school,
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aren't going to college, aren't becoming contributing members of society.
00:40:32.280
I'd love to look at the standardized test scores or literacy rates or graduation rates of
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
00:40:59.000
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
00:41:11.960
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.
00:41:26.440
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
00:41:37.320
on purpose to try to, uh, tongue in cheek say, oh, like homeschoolers are dumb and they're,
00:41:44.120
they're so dumb that they can't even spell correctly.
00:41:47.640
Um, but I think it was an accident because then they changed it, which is just ironic that you
00:41:54.920
You couldn't even spell it correctly on an article that says that homeschool kids are
00:42:05.800
Like my family isn't necessarily, but you know what?
00:42:10.440
This is what the left does and what they don't understand.
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
00:42:35.560
Every time you talk about, you have to send your kids to homeschool.
00:42:40.360
You have to teach your kids the things that we want you to teach your kids.
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
00:42:56.200
The policies against playing parks or going outside, even if you're six feet apart,
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.
00:43:15.080
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.
00:43:25.240
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
00:43:38.040
She's working at a private school if she thinks public schools are so great.
00:43:41.080
Anyway, another reason why we can't trust you guys is because we know that you don't
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
00:44:08.920
investment in green infrastructure to save our planet.
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.
00:44:31.080
You love to see people's livelihoods going up in flames.
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.
00:44:46.360
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.
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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,
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.
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,
00:49:25.640
little, little tyrants everywhere. Okay, that's all we have for today. Hope you guys enjoyed it. I will be