Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 250 ｜ Whom Can We Trust？

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. I hope everyone has had a great week. Today we are

00:00:07.160 going to talk about a few things. It's actually going to be a little bit looser than what it

00:00:12.860 usually is. It's going to be maybe you would call it more of a rant than organized commentary today

00:00:20.700 and that's just because I have a lot on my brain that I want to cover and I've been thinking about

00:00:25.800 it and talking about it with my husband so much over the past few days that I feel like I can

00:00:29.800 just kind of tell you everything that I have been thinking about all of the policies that are

00:00:35.940 surrounding coronavirus and the main theme is this is that there is no one no one institution

00:00:44.440 that we can fully trust. We can't fully trust the media and I'll explain why. We can't trust

00:00:51.100 politicians. We certainly can't trust the World Health Organization. We can't trust the people

00:00:56.720 who are supposed to be experts so we're questioning the mainstream narrative but as it turns out we

00:01:02.580 also have to question the people who are questioning the narrative. Everything that's said, everything

00:01:09.620 that's told to us even by institutions and people and outlets that we thought that we could trust

00:01:15.920 including me. By the way, everything has to be taken with a grain of salt. Everything has to be

00:01:23.080 listened to and thought about critically. Now, I try my best to be as trustworthy as possible, to be

00:01:31.120 as perfectly honest as possible. It is never my intention to manipulate or to leave out certain

00:01:36.700 information to make you think a certain way. You guys know that I'm a conservative. You guys know that

00:01:41.540 I am a reformed Christian and so that is my perspective. I am unabashed about that. I don't try to hide that

00:01:49.200 at all and the reason why most of you come to me is for that perspective but it is never my intention

00:01:55.100 to try to mislead or manipulate. However, it is important for you to take everything that I say

00:02:01.800 and to do your own research and to look up what I'm saying to make sure that what I'm saying is true

00:02:06.740 and based on fact. The onus is on you to do that. The onus is on me as an individual to do that and what

00:02:13.600 I have found in, of course, we know this in looking at so much of the mainstream media coverage,

00:02:20.500 particularly of coronavirus, but we could really pick any story that has happened, especially over

00:02:25.400 the past five to ten years. We can see a lot of media malfeasance surrounding it but particularly

00:02:30.780 when it comes to the coronavirus, it simply seems like there is almost no one that we can trust and

00:02:37.880 especially no one that we can trust fully. So we're going to talk about a few of the examples of that

00:02:43.200 today. I am going to also touch on at the end, Plandemic. I'm going to try to be as least sassy,

00:02:53.740 is that grammatically correct? As least sassy as I possibly can be in this episode. I've got a lot

00:02:59.980 of feistiness in me right now, a lot of fire in me just because of all of the craziness that's been

00:03:05.240 going on that I want to talk about. Some of you really like the feistiness and the sarcasm,

00:03:10.360 the snarkiness, things like that. Some of you don't. I never try to be derisive or snarky.

00:03:17.300 Sometimes it comes out but I am going to pray to be as measured as possible as I'm talking about

00:03:24.180 these things while still releasing the full force of my passion behind the subjects that we're covering

00:03:29.740 today. Okay, let's get into today's topics. The topic of or the question of whom can we trust?

00:03:37.820 Can we trust anyone? Can we trust anyone fully or even halfway? Because what we've seen from the

00:03:45.800 media over the past few months, I did an entire episode called Enemy of the People where, and I

00:03:51.300 don't even like to use that phrase speaking of the media, but over the past few months, we have seen

00:03:56.380 such animosity from the media towards the American people putting themselves really in enmity with the

00:04:03.340 American people and of course with the president by constantly changing the goalposts and shifting

00:04:09.700 their stories to fit a particular narrative that they believe will hurt Donald Trump the most at

00:04:15.780 the expense of the safety and the trust of the American people. So in that episode, we looked at

00:04:20.980 the hypocrisy. We looked at the timeline of the media reporting over the past few months when it comes

00:04:26.340 to coronavirus. And then we looked at what the experts have said, how the experts have changed

00:04:31.920 their minds. And we're going to talk about that a little bit more today. But it makes everyone very

00:04:37.260 uncomfortable. So we're at a time right now, where people have their their mental preparedness

00:04:45.340 for quarantine and for staying inside has has ended. So we mentally prepared for a few weeks,

00:04:54.340 we mentally prepared for even a few months, we said, Okay, we can do this, we can stay locked down,

00:04:59.720 especially those of you who still have your jobs out there. You said, Okay, I'm going to figure it

00:05:04.240 out. It's difficult. You're thinking, Okay, how am I going to homeschool my kids and handle my job? And

00:05:09.980 how are we going to do all of this? Some of you who lost your jobs, you had to get another job or get a

00:05:15.020 different kind of job that you didn't know how to do. But people started adapting, we put our heads

00:05:19.720 down. That's what Americans do. We said, Okay, if we've got to get through this, if this is really as 1.00

00:05:24.640 bad as what people say. And if we have no choice, but to believe the experts, believe the politicians,

00:05:31.080 and believe the media, if we have no other sources of information, they're all telling us this is going

00:05:36.200 to be a 10 to 15% death rate, okay, then we're going to do it. Okay, fine. We'll give you a little bit

00:05:42.200 of trust you powers that be will stay inside. We'll make sure that we don't go to the grocery

00:05:47.400 store unless we absolutely have to. We'll make sure we listen to them at the beginning that we

00:05:52.380 won't wear masks because they told us that we didn't need to wear masks. We'll do all the things

00:05:57.300 that you say, as long as this promise is going to come to fruition, going to come to fruition,

00:06:04.960 this promise that things are going to open back up and things are going to be okay, we're going to be

00:06:10.660 able to get our jobs back. What they said in the beginning, two weeks to flatten the curve,

00:06:15.820 15 days to flatten the curve. That's what we heard a month to flatten the curve. Okay, 15 to 30 days.

00:06:22.100 That's fine. Flatten the curve. What's flattened the curve. They told us that just means that our

00:06:26.440 hospital systems aren't going to get overwhelmed. So it's not going to make the virus go away. And in

00:06:32.120 fact, the number of people who get the virus might be the same over time, whether we stay open or

00:06:38.820 lockdown, but what we're trying to do is spread out the infection. So even though say everyone might

00:06:44.760 get it, they wanted to spread it out over a certain period of time, say a five to six months

00:06:50.280 by shutting down for two weeks to a month to make sure that our hospital system doesn't get

00:06:55.580 overwhelmed. So that was supposed to buy us time to make sure that there were enough ICU beds to make

00:07:00.380 sure there were enough ventilators. Now we know by the way that ventilators are not only probably

00:07:05.020 ineffective when it comes to this, but might actually be killing people and worsening their

00:07:09.340 condition because it's causing trauma to the lungs. But again, we listen to them because what do we

00:07:13.820 know? What do we plebeians know? We really had no choice in the beginning, but to listen to the

00:07:18.480 people who said that they had their, our best interest at heart. And maybe a lot of them did,

00:07:22.940 and maybe a lot of them still do. But the reality is, is that that promise that things were going to

00:07:30.120 open up after we flatten the curve, after we got all the equipment that we need, after we make sure

00:07:35.000 that the hospital system isn't overwhelmed, that promise has not come to fruition. So now you have

00:07:41.800 a lot of governors, you have a lot of local officials, like the mayor of LA saying, you know what,

00:07:47.440 we're just going to stay locked down, even though the curve is already flat, even though the hospital

00:07:52.380 systems are not overwhelmed, even in the epicenter of New York City. Yes, they were probably at capacity,

00:07:59.140 but they were not overwhelmed. And they even had extra help that ended up leaving because they

00:08:03.900 didn't need the extra help. So hospital systems, not overwhelmed. And in fact, a lot of hospitals

00:08:09.660 have had to close down, they've had to furlough workers, they've had to lay workers off completely,

00:08:14.940 just because there was a lack of demand, and they had canceled all non COVID related treatments.

00:08:21.240 A lot of these hospitals are completely empty. So even though hospitals haven't been overwhelmed,

00:08:27.600 even though the curve is flat, even though the number of cases and the number of deaths are going

00:08:33.580 down, even as the number of tests are going up, we're going to need to stay locked down. For how

00:08:40.140 long? I don't know. The mayor of LA said that LA is going to be locked down for the next three months

00:08:45.000 until August. So all of summer, people in LA apparently aren't going to be able to use the

00:08:49.580 beach how they want to use the beach this summer. There is a whole list of restrictions of the things

00:08:54.760 that you cannot do on the beach in LA, which is apparently you can't sunbathe. Like you can't

00:08:59.440 sit in the sand, you can't lay in the sand, you can't fish if you're sitting down all of these

00:09:04.740 ridiculous and seemingly arbitrary things. And this is when people they mentally prepared for 15 days,

00:09:11.260 they mentally prepared for 30 days, they mentally prepared for for two months, whatever it is, this is

00:09:17.360 where people in California, people in New York, people in Michigan, people in Washington,

00:09:23.120 people in all of the states that are still implementing these draconian measures of keeping

00:09:28.800 people totally locked down so that all the small businesses closed down, people lose their jobs,

00:09:34.460 they lose their livelihoods, and unfortunately, tragically, in some cases, even lose their purpose

00:09:39.680 and will to live. People are starting to say, okay, I didn't mentally prepare for this, and I'm just not

00:09:45.760 going to do it. So it's kind of happened in stages in the United States that there were people who by the

00:09:52.000 time Easter rolled around, they were like, I'm done with this. I'm not doing this anymore. I'm

00:09:56.940 going to go ahead and try to live my life as much as I possibly can. And there were a lot of people

00:10:01.820 who said, you're crazy for doing that. You're going to go kill people. You want to kill people in 1.00

00:10:05.540 nursing homes. You want to kill grandmothers. And of course, those people said, no, that's, you know, 1.00

00:10:10.360 that's not what we want. We just want people to be able to make their own decisions and live their

00:10:14.220 lives. But all the people pointed their fingers at them and said, you're absolutely crazy for that. 0.73

00:10:18.380 And then a week later, there was another wave of people that said, okay, I could do it for this

00:10:23.360 long. Can't do it anymore. And so on and so on and so on. Well, now it seems like we are at a

00:10:28.500 tipping point where there are more people who want things to open up than people who want to keep

00:10:34.360 things closed. And what's the reason for that? It's because of the changing stories of the media,

00:10:39.920 the moving goalposts of the politicians, and the fact that it doesn't seem like we can get a

00:10:45.920 consistent answer or a coherent plan from anyone. That's the problem. So these people,

00:10:51.820 these governors, these journalists, these activists on Twitter, all saying, we need to

00:10:57.220 close down indefinitely. And you're crazy. And you want to kill people if you want to go back to work 0.99

00:11:03.000 or you want to open up. And of course they patronize you and condescend you by saying, 0.97

00:11:06.460 you just want to get your hair and your nails done. When of course that's not what it's about at all.

00:11:10.980 But none of these people have a plan. All they have is fear mongering. So all they have is,

00:11:17.380 well, you're going to die. And everyone, you know, is going to die. And we're going to get a 0.69

00:11:20.800 second wave when it comes to September. So everyone should just stay inside. What's your plan? I mean,

00:11:27.000 this is so true of all socialists and all communists is that they don't have any idea of

00:11:33.500 what human nature is or what human beings need or what humans have to do. That is why they say,

00:11:39.660 oh, well, people should just stay inside and the government should take care of them. That's why 0.99

00:11:43.600 Democrats are passing this three trillion or trying to pass this $3 trillion bill that pays

00:11:50.440 people who are unemployed $600 a week until January pays up to $6,000 per family in relief.

00:11:57.880 In addition to all these other things that I'll talk about in, in just a minute, uh, because they

00:12:03.320 don't think that people need to work. They think they just need provision, but people need to work

00:12:09.480 not just for provision, but for purpose, for meaning, for motivation in their lives. That is

00:12:15.020 human nature. That is part of the reason, a huge reason why every socialist and communist regime

00:12:21.720 has fallen. Not just because you run out of people's money if they're not working as much

00:12:26.580 and you don't have any capital, but also because people desire to work. People want property. People

00:12:31.940 want to be able to make something of themselves, for themselves, for their families. People don't want

00:12:37.760 to just be provided for by the government that doesn't feed what is natural in the human spirit

00:12:42.800 to be productive. So that is a huge reason why people are starting to lose it. People on both

00:12:50.860 sides of the aisle are starting to say, hang on just a second. So it was flattened the curve a few

00:12:57.140 weeks ago. Now it's, we have to wait until we find a cure or find a vaccine and hang on just a second.

00:13:03.120 There are thousands of viruses alive right now that we don't have a vaccine for or an effective

00:13:09.360 vaccine for, and that we don't have a cure for. And yet we risk it every day. We don't take people's

00:13:16.300 livelihoods away for the thousands of viruses that exist. I mean, there are viruses that were

00:13:21.220 pandemics, like SARS became a pandemic. Ebola became a pandemic. There are things that we still don't have

00:13:28.180 cures for, that we still don't have vaccines for, that we didn't shut down the entire economy for,

00:13:33.500 that we didn't take people's businesses away for, that we didn't take people's will to live away for.

00:13:40.060 And so you get a lot of people, again, on both sides of the aisle starting to say,

00:13:45.220 what's the deal here? Like, what is behind all of this? And here's what I think. I think that there

00:13:50.980 were a lot of people at the beginning, including the president, including a lot of Republicans,

00:13:54.600 including me, who believed a lot of what we hear. And I think there were a lot of people,

00:14:00.420 you know, giving us all the information that they possibly had that, Hey, this is probably going to

00:14:04.580 be a really bad pandemic. And we need people to stay inside as much as possible. Wash your hands a

00:14:09.420 lot. Do all of the normal hygienic things that you should be doing during flu season. You should

00:14:14.540 cover your mouth. Please don't go out if you're sick, limit travel, do teleconferences, telecommuting,

00:14:19.580 all of that. I was on board for that. I still think people should be smart. I

00:14:24.420 still obviously believe that this is a bad virus that kills people and isn't good and has a higher

00:14:30.460 death rate and apparently infection rate than the flu. But it was when I started seeing the stripping 0.79

00:14:38.340 away of liberty, the moving goalposts, the obvious weaponizing of this virus to not only take control

00:14:46.860 of people's lives, but also to dump on Trump, uh, when it comes to the election in November that I

00:14:54.280 started to take a step back and say, okay, hang on just a second. Is this being misrepresented to us

00:15:01.560 for ulterior motives? And I think more and more people are starting to realize that. And you're

00:15:07.080 seeing people like Joe Rogan, not a right-wing guy, Elon Musk, also not a right-wing guy saying that

00:15:14.220 they are going to leave California and move to Texas. And I think Elon Musk said he might move to

00:15:19.580 Arizona, um, because the draconian measures and the absolute loss of freedom and livelihoods in

00:15:26.140 California because of the, uh, insanity of California, they want to move to red states. And you're seeing

00:15:31.700 that from a lot of people. The only people though, that can move from those states are people who are

00:15:36.500 actually wealthy. Those that are, you know, that are in the middle class and places like Illinois, who

00:15:42.380 also has a lot of terrible measures or Michigan or California, the people who are in the middle class 0.99

00:15:48.500 there, aren't going to be able to move to the red states because no one's going to be able to buy their

00:15:53.300 homes. But here's my message for all of the people who are going to the red states from the blue states. 0.82

00:15:59.820 I totally understand why you're doing that because your mayors and your governors are, are loony and they want to

00:16:06.380 control your lives and they don't care about your livelihoods. They aren't abiding by their own rules.

00:16:11.420 They are probably still going to get their hair cut. They're probably still getting Botox. They're

00:16:15.660 probably still getting their lip injections. They're probably still getting their nails done and their

00:16:20.700 shoes shined. And they're probably still working out and doing all of the things that they tell you

00:16:25.980 that you can't do because they don't care about you. And you're seeing the corruption and you're seeing

00:16:31.100 their desire to take control of your lives. They're seeing that because they want to defeat Donald Trump in

00:16:35.260 November. They want the economy to be as bad as possible for as long as possible. You're seeing

00:16:40.060 all of that and you want to move to a red state. Thank you for realizing that. I am so glad that you

00:16:46.460 realize that if you're on the Democratic side of the aisle, maybe you're realizing that for the first

00:16:50.780 time and you're waking up. Amen. Praise God. Understand that if you go from a blue state to a red state and

00:16:59.500 you continue to vote blue, your problems are going to follow you. Your problems will follow you wherever

00:17:06.380 you go because Democrats in Texas are the same as Democrats in California. They all want the same

00:17:12.460 thing. They all want bigger government. They don't care what it does to small business. They don't care

00:17:17.980 what it does to morale. They don't care if we can afford it or not. Democrats in Texas, Democrats in

00:17:25.260 Arizona, Democrats in Florida, Democrats in predominantly red states are the same as Democrats

00:17:31.660 in New York for the most part and Democrats in California. And they will bring the state that you

00:17:37.100 are moving to for reprieve from the leftist policies. They will move these predominantly red states in the 0.97

00:17:44.460 same direction as the blue states that you are leaving. So if you are coming to a red state,

00:17:52.220 if you're going to a red state from a blue state, leave the blue policies behind. Okay. And I

00:17:58.860 understand if you're a Democrat who has taken another look at the Democratic Party and you're like,

00:18:03.980 okay, don't like what Democrats are doing. Maybe it'll be different. Maybe it'll be different in

00:18:09.260 Texas. If I vote Democrat, you're fooling yourself because Democrats are pretty much the same everywhere,

00:18:15.900 especially in certain parts of these red states. Like if you go from LA to Austin,

00:18:20.540 you're going to find the same Democratic radicals in Austin that you could find in San Francisco or LA.

00:18:26.780 But you also have to keep in mind that the Republican Party, and I'm not even saying that

00:18:31.660 you have to vote Republican, but the Republican Party is not Donald Trump. So if you are in Texas and

00:18:38.300 you are voting in November, you don't, voting for a Republican because you don't like leftist policies

00:18:45.340 does not mean that you have to love Donald Trump. And if you are someone who's like, okay,

00:18:50.060 I don't want to vote Democrat, but I'm scared to vote Republican because of, you know, social issues

00:18:56.460 or whatever. Look, you're going to have to make some tough decisions. First of all, most Republicans,

00:19:04.460 believe it or not, don't actually care about the social issues that, for example, I do like,

00:19:09.820 I'm a social conservative. A lot of Republicans out there don't care as much about the social issues

00:19:16.700 as you think they do. They don't represent the Hollywood caricature of Republicans as these,

00:19:24.300 they picture them as, or they depict them as these backwoods hillbilly conservatives, which maybe you

00:19:31.900 think that I am, but most Republicans aren't like that. And if you're someone who's like, I can't vote

00:19:37.100 Republican because I'm pro-choice and the Republican party is pro-life. Okay. Like if sacrificing babies

00:19:44.940 is more important to you than personal liberty and people not losing their livelihoods, then maybe you

00:19:51.820 should just stay where you are. Like if you love living under leftist policies or if democratic policies

00:19:58.300 are more favorable to you than Republican policies, then you should stay in your democratic states

00:20:05.340 because you are living under those policies right now. So there's no reason for you for a Texas or a

00:20:12.220 Georgia or a Florida or an Idaho to be more attractive to you if you like democratic liberal

00:20:22.380 policies because you're living under them right now. Right now, if you are tired of this lockdown

00:20:28.060 and you want to move to a red state, but you're thinking that you're still going to vote Democrat,

00:20:32.860 there's no reason for you to move. You currently are a beneficiary of the democratic leadership that

00:20:39.100 you say that you will continue to vote for if you move to a red state. So please, please, we beg you,

00:20:45.740 keep your failed policies where they are. Do not bring them to the red states that are going to have to 0.98

00:20:53.020 carry the rest of the country on its back as you guys figure out that lockdowns have fatalities too.

00:20:59.660 Okay. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who will not get that message, who are feeding off

00:21:11.900 the media praise of draconian lockdowns and they are just going to get harsher and harsher. For some

00:21:20.060 reason, Mayor Garcetti of LA, Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, Governor Inslee of Washington,

00:21:26.220 they don't listen to relatable. And so they're not listening to my rant. And so it's not going to go

00:21:31.740 through their thick liberal heads that people are ready for some kind of freedom, even at the risk

00:21:38.700 of their own health. And look, I feel the same way that I would say a hundred percent of conservatives

00:21:45.180 who want to strategically open the country up feel that if you are vulnerable, if you are compromised,

00:21:51.660 you should stay inside. If you want to stay inside, if you are worried about the virus,

00:21:56.540 you should stay inside. And I still believe everyone should take precautions. I'm a germaphobe

00:22:01.100 year round guys, 24, seven, three 65 germaphobe. I got hand sanitizer always with me. I don't care.

00:22:09.180 I'll wear a mask. I'll wear gloves. Like I know that the science may be iffy on those things. I'm

00:22:15.980 fine with doing that. Now. I don't want the government to tell me that I have to wear a mask

00:22:20.060 because that's stupid. And I don't think they have the right to do that. But like, I'm fine with all 0.99

00:22:25.580 of that. I'm a germaphobe. Please don't go out. If you're sick, please cover your mouth. People still

00:22:30.220 don't do that. But, uh, do I also believe that it is time, even if there are risks, because every

00:22:38.700 policy, every action that we do throughout the day has risks to ourselves and to other people.

00:22:44.700 Do I think it is time for people to be able to regain a livelihood so that our country doesn't just

00:22:52.060 completely stop and the world economy doesn't completely crash? Of course I do. Of course I do.

00:22:57.900 And at this point, I think the governors and the mayors that are enacting these lockdowns for really

00:23:04.940 no scientific reason at this point, they truly are doing it simply for control,

00:23:13.340 simply for what we have heard progressive after progressive say that this is an opportunity for

00:23:19.660 a radical restructuring of the American economy. And look, Democrats always do this. We've talked

00:23:25.820 about this before. They overplay their hands. They overplay their hand. So they start out being,

00:23:31.900 you know, we're the party of science. We're the party that's listening to experts. We're the party

00:23:36.060 that's listening to, to the doctors. Um, and then they keep going and keep going when the predictions

00:23:43.820 don't come true, when 2.2 million people aren't dead, when 1.1 million people aren't dead,

00:23:48.700 when the states that have opened up, aren't seen a spike in cases or a spike in deaths. And they

00:23:54.940 continue to double down on their failures and double down on their wrong predictions. That's

00:24:01.580 when people on both sides of the aisle start to wake up and say, what's your deal here? Like,

00:24:06.300 what's your motivation? But they continue to overplay their hands and they forget about the fact that people

00:24:12.540 want to work. People across the aisle want to be able to provide for their family. People

00:24:17.500 care about Liberty. Now, there's a lot of things to be sad about in the state of our country. There

00:24:22.780 are a lot of, there's a lot of stupidity, unfortunately, in our, among our citizenry, 1.00

00:24:30.140 a lot of people who have been absolutely brainwashed and indoctrinated by leftism, but there is, 1.00

00:24:36.060 there remains that American spirit, something in us that just cannot deal with tyranny. Like,

00:24:43.900 we just can't deal with it. People across the aisle, sure, there are some sheep out there that

00:24:49.500 are like, oh, I just love to be told what to do and I just can't wait to wear a mask inside my house

00:24:54.700 and socially distance from my family because the experts and politicians tell me so. Sure,

00:24:59.260 those people exist, but what you're seeing, I think, is the tide turning. That people are saying,

00:25:04.940 what the heck? This is the United States of America. I'm not even free to lay on the beach. 0.91

00:25:10.060 Like, I'm not even free to continue my restaurant, my business that has been in operation for over 30

00:25:17.020 years that I've put my entire life's work into. You're not even allowing me to do that. And here's

00:25:21.980 the question I think that people are asking, based on what? Based on what? Because they're all saying,

00:25:29.580 all of these politicians that are saying, we're going to stay locked down for the next few months,

00:25:32.700 Illinois, California, New York. And some of these people, I mean, some of these states are relieving

00:25:37.420 restrictions bit by bit, but they're still locking down a lot more than other states are.

00:25:43.740 People are saying that this is based on science. So advocates for these lockdowns are saying

00:25:49.580 it's based on, they're based on science and data. But the question is, what science and data?

00:25:56.380 What science and data says that these lockdowns, keeping people totally inside their houses,

00:26:03.740 who says that that is working? What science says that that is better than keeping things at least

00:26:14.620 slightly open? So if we look at Sweden, for example, who never had a lockdown, never had a full lockdown.

00:26:20.940 So they changed some things up. I think some of their restaurants could only have certain capacity,

00:26:26.060 or they did mostly did outside seating, or they did recommendations for socially distancing,

00:26:30.380 but they did not do a full lockdown. Right now, they have a total of about 28,500 cases

00:26:36.700 and 3,500 deaths. That's a country of 10 million people. So again, Sweden, no lockdown, maybe a partial

00:26:43.420 shutdown, but no full lockdown, has 10 million people, a total of about 20,500 cases and 3,500

00:26:51.740 deaths. It was predicted in the original model that Sweden, under the current policies that they have,

00:26:57.420 was going to have 80,000 deaths by August. 3,500 deaths right now. Now, let's compare that to some

00:27:04.620 places in the United States who have had full lockdowns. So let's look at Michigan. Who's governor?

00:27:10.780 Governor Whitmer has put a full lockdown on the state and continues to do so. I think that there

00:27:16.460 are plans to ease the restrictions, but she has been one of the harshest governors, I would say, 1.00

00:27:23.100 in this. Michigan also has about 10 million people that live there, 48,000 coronavirus cases and about

00:27:29.900 4,600 deaths. So more than Sweden, full lockdown, more cases than Sweden, almost double the cases of

00:27:36.780 Sweden, and 1,000 more deaths than Sweden. New Jersey, whose governor said you cannot go to church,

00:27:43.740 but you can go to the liquor store. You cannot go to the beach. And all of this is going to stay in

00:27:50.220 place until we say so. New Jersey has about 8 million people, 141,000 cases, and about 9,500 deaths. So,

00:28:01.900 New Jersey, about 8 million people, has 120,000 more cases than Sweden, a country of 10 million people,

00:28:16.460 9,500 deaths in New Jersey, full lockdown. New York City, a city of about 8 million people,

00:28:24.300 has had about 15,000 deaths. So, five times as many deaths as Sweden, who never enacted the kind

00:28:31.420 of lockdown that New York City has. So, what science tells us that total lockdowns are better than

00:28:37.660 partial shutdowns, or better than private businesses and individuals taking their own precautions, which,

00:28:43.260 by the way, human beings do because we don't want to die of a virus. Like, human beings, for the most part,

00:28:49.340 there are very stupid people out there, but human beings, for the most part, are very responsible, 1.00

00:28:53.580 especially business owners. They don't want to be liable. They don't want their customers to get 1.00

00:28:58.460 sick. They probably, more than anyone else in this country, want this pandemic to go away and will take

00:29:03.820 the proper precautions. Virginia's governor, who we've talked about so many times, is a fool, 1.00

00:29:09.180 and that is the nicest way I can possibly say that. I mean, he's the guy who said that after I told you 0.99

00:29:15.260 about this on Monday, that a year and a half ago said that if a baby survives an abortion, you put the

00:29:20.380 baby off to the side and make it comfortable, while the mom and doctor decide what to do with the baby.

00:29:24.620 I mean, this was the guy who was caught wearing either blackface or a KKK robe a few decades ago,

00:29:30.860 still hasn't owned up to it, and is still in office. So, I think it's kind for me to say that he is a

00:29:37.580 fool. Virginia's governor, Ralph Northam, has said that there are mandatory requirements for churches, 0.99

00:29:47.260 if they want to worship together. Seeding must be marked in six-foot increments. No items may be

00:29:52.940 passed to or between attendees who are not family members. This is the governor's mandate for churches.

00:29:59.660 Now, Virginia has only had 891 deaths, and so the governor is telling churches what they might do.

00:30:07.180 Now, these are must-do. These might be good ideas, and maybe churches should do them, but the governor

00:30:13.020 can't require this. Fox News reported that Washington Governor Jay Inslee amended his

00:30:18.220 march order banning religious gatherings of any size Friday to allow home-based Bible study and

00:30:24.140 prayer after one man sued the state. Joshua Freed, represented by First Liberty Institute,

00:30:30.380 who are awesome, by the way, and the North Creek Law Firm, sued the state last month demanding he is

00:30:35.820 allowed to hold a one-on-one Bible study amid the coronavirus pandemic. Allowed? Allowed to conduct

00:30:43.660 a one-on-one Bible study in his backyard, according to the governor, who had to be sued to even allow

00:30:51.340 that. I'm sorry, that's not your rights. Like, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, is about

00:30:58.460 restraining government's power, not what the people can do. That is what the Constitution is for. Not telling

00:31:05.260 citizens what we can and can't do, but to restrain the power of the government. But Democrats, for a

00:31:10.780 long time now, many Democrats, have hated, loathe the First Amendment. That's part of the reason why

00:31:16.860 so many of them were siding with China. Fox News also reported that Mayor Bill de Blasio,

00:31:22.780 world's worst mayor, New York City Mayor, and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, stated outright this week

00:31:32.620 that people are not permitted to gather for protests in public due to the coronavirus pandemic. The city

00:31:38.700 leaders pointed to the need to maintain social distancing in order to prevent greater spread of

00:31:42.780 COVID-19, stating that this takes precedence over people's rights to exercise their First Amendment

00:31:49.260 rights of free speech. And it's simply, no, it doesn't. There are no asterisks or exceptions to the

00:31:56.620 bill of rights. As we've talked about before, if you give up liberty for safety, then you forsake

00:32:05.980 both. You lose both liberty and safety. And that is what the Democrats would like us to believe,

00:32:13.420 that safety is always more important than liberty. Sure, we make compromises and we come together and

00:32:19.580 we decide what the risk is going to be. But if you continually put safety over liberty,

00:32:24.220 you end up with both. We talked about the Trace Act on Wednesday, the threat to privacy

00:32:29.340 and individual liberty in the name of safety. Democrats are using this to completely obliterate

00:32:36.380 the First Amendment, which is why not only the First Amendment is important, but also

00:32:41.020 the Second Amendment. Fauci, the person that all of these people claim to be following instead of

00:32:46.780 the Constitution, testified before the Senate saying that if we open too quickly, people will needlessly

00:32:51.740 die. Well, number one, this is why we're not governed by scientists. As I talked about a few episodes ago,

00:32:57.740 we're governed by people who should take into account data while also balancing the risks and

00:33:03.420 rewards. That's what policy does. You look at the implications of an economic shutdown, how it ruins

00:33:08.140 people's lives, how are there are fatalities, how liberty and the Bill of Rights actually do matter.

00:33:15.580 And number two, what evidence is there again that staying closed will prevent people from needlessly

00:33:20.940 dying? But as I say, people are catching on. I don't know if you guys saw, but in the 25th District,

00:33:28.940 District 25 in California, it's Northern LA County and Eastern Ventura County flipped red for the first

00:33:35.180 time in 22 years. Used to be represented by Katie Hill, who resigned in disgrace not that long ago after a 0.91

00:33:41.980 sexual scandal that happened while she was in office, she's a Democrat, it flipped red. Now, 1.00

00:33:49.580 maybe that's representative of what to come, maybe not. And now Democrats are trying to push through,

00:33:57.340 as we talked about on Monday, this $3 trillion relief bill. In addition to the $2 trillion relief

00:34:03.820 bill that was already passed, this one includes $1,200 to a $1,200 check to illegal immigrants,

00:34:09.820 two taxpayer funded studies of diversity in the cannabis industry, that's very pertinent to the

00:34:15.340 coronavirus, $75 billion for contact tracing and quote, isolation measures. A mandate to release

00:34:24.140 all federal prisoners who have asthma, diabetes, or who are over 50, continuing $600 a week of

00:34:32.060 unemployment through January 2021, ensuring that people won't go back to work because they're making

00:34:37.420 more money, staying unemployed so that the unemployment rate stays high. So Trump can't

00:34:42.620 point to the economy as as a success. And they think that will make him lose in November. It's not

00:34:49.340 about compassion. But as I say, I think the Democrats are over playing their hands. I think people are

00:34:56.300 starting to see that these measures are about control and about hurting Trump. And there aren't enough

00:35:02.460 people who want to hurt Trump more than they want to provide for their families. And Democrats like Nancy 0.89

00:35:08.540 Pelosi, who have millions and millions of dollars, don't understand that. They're so entirely out of

00:35:13.820 touch. So I just pray that you will remember this in November. Now, here's what I think is going to

00:35:20.700 happen. Democrats will realize that they're overplaying their hands. People will start opening things back

00:35:25.820 up because they don't want people to use the lockdown as a referendum against Democrats in November.

00:35:31.180 And they will use the next few months memory holding all of this. They will pretend that the

00:35:36.220 economy has nothing to do with the lockdown, that they didn't have anything to do with the lockdown,

00:35:40.780 and that the stock market, the bad economy, the unemployment numbers all have to do with Donald Trump.

00:35:48.380 It's all thanks to Donald Trump. They will spend the next few months doing PR for the Democratic Party

00:35:53.580 and pretending like none of their measures had anything to do with the economy. And unfortunately,

00:35:59.820 a lot of people are going to buy into that. But if you would like America to become socialist,

00:36:06.700 if you want Americans to lose their jobs while expediting the arrival of cheap labor from other 0.88

00:36:11.820 countries, if you want to be told where you can go and when, if you want China to take over as the

00:36:18.380 world power, the nation who allowed this whole thing to spread because of its own corruption, who

00:36:25.260 jails people for saying the wrong thing, throws people into concentration camps for worshiping the 0.86

00:36:29.980 wrong God, who spies on its own citizens, who, according to a recent report, has arrested 500 of its own

00:36:36.380 citizens for criticizing the government's response to coronavirus. If you want that to be the world power,

00:36:41.500 because their end game is world domination, by the way, then you should vote Democrats. You should

00:36:47.180 vote for Joe Biden in November if that's what you want. You should continue to vote Democrat because

00:36:52.620 it's popular. Continue to vote for it for the social reasons, because abortion is so close to your

00:36:58.300 heart. But if you care about having any semblance of freedom left, any semblance of the economy, then

00:37:06.220 please don't bring continually failing liberal ideas, not just to the red states, but also to the ballot box.

00:37:15.100 I'm begging you. So when you're in the middle of all of this chaos, people are looking around.

00:37:22.540 They're like, I don't know if I can trust Fauci, who says that things should be locked down

00:37:26.380 forever. He's an epidemiologist, by the way. He's not an economist. We have to be able to listen to both

00:37:31.900 when they can't trust the media because it's so obvious what their motives are,

00:37:35.500 when they can't trust these politicians who are seemingly making arbitrary policies that are not

00:37:42.060 based on data and certainly not based on what's best for people, when people are starving for

00:37:47.180 liberty and some people are actually starving because they don't have jobs in a way to care for their

00:37:52.860 families. You get people looking to alternate theories of what's really going on. And that is why

00:37:59.660 movies like Plandemic become so popular and go so viral so quickly. So all the media that's very

00:38:06.220 angry about the misinformation about coronavirus, the so-called conspiracy theories surrounding

00:38:10.780 coronavirus, need to make sure that they aren't part of the problem. They aren't the reason why so

00:38:17.500 many people are mistrusting all of our institutions right now. There's been so much inconsistency,

00:38:23.180 so much hypocrisy, so much shifting, so many shifting goalposts that of course people are

00:38:28.460 going to look to other sources of information and what seems like underlying truth in order to get

00:38:34.780 to the bottom of what's really going on. And that is why you have documentaries like Plandemic being as

00:38:40.940 popular as they are. So a lot of you guys have asked me to address this. Plandemic was a short documentary

00:38:46.780 or it was like part one of a documentary about Judy Mikovits. She was a virologist. She claims that she

00:38:53.580 was let go of her job and pursued as a criminal basically because she uncovered corruption by 1.00

00:38:58.380 Anthony Fauci and others when she worked with them several years ago. But there are other reports

00:39:04.380 who tell a different side of the story. So I'm just going to tell you what the other reports say.

00:39:08.620 This is from The Guardian, which was taken from a lot of different sources. But Mikovits' scientific

00:39:15.100 career began falling apart from 2009 when she published a paper in Science attributing chronic

00:39:20.460 fatigue syndrome to the effects of a virus. The paper's claims did not hold up. It was retracted.

00:39:25.980 An ensuing conflict between Mikovits and her employer, a private lab, culminated in her arrest

00:39:31.340 in 2012 on charges of being a fugitive from justice after she allegedly absconded with 0.97

00:39:39.100 notebooks and proprietary data. And criminal charges were later dropped, according to reports. For the

00:39:46.940 rest of her claims that this was man-made, that there is a reactivation of the virus if you get it

00:39:54.300 on your mask and then breathe it back in, that a lab in North Carolina was involved in the creation of 0.75

00:39:59.980 the coronavirus, that Italy got a bad case of coronavirus because of a bad flu vaccine.

00:40:06.140 I need to see evidence for those claims. I just need to see proof for those claims. I have no reason

00:40:13.500 to believe them and I don't think this documentary did a very good job of proving the claims that are

00:40:19.820 being made. There have been lots of so-called debunking videos and essays going around about

00:40:26.060 Plandemic, which I also take those with a grain of salt, but I'm going to need evidence for all of it.

00:40:32.700 And I will just say that the creator of this documentary, nothing against this person personally,

00:40:37.420 I don't know him, but he is a new ager. He believes all of the things that we have talked

00:40:42.380 about on this podcast are so dangerous and are from the pit of hell. I mean, you can go to his

00:40:47.900 YouTube channel, Mickey, his name is Mickey Willis, M-I-K-K-I Willis. You can go to his YouTube

00:40:55.740 channel. You can check out some of the things that he promotes. That doesn't mean, that alone

00:41:02.060 doesn't mean that the Plandemic documentary is wrong, but you need to consider the source. I mean,

00:41:08.780 and again, if you don't know the dangers of the new age, please go listen to my podcast,

00:41:13.340 The Dangers of the New Age with Doreen Virtue. We just did another, we just did a replay of that

00:41:21.020 episode. It's my most listened to episode ever because she just has so much insight and the

00:41:25.340 conversation was very enlightening. So I encourage you to go listen to that if you haven't already.

00:41:30.540 So all of that said, we not only have to constantly question the narrative and constantly question the

00:41:38.780 motivations and constantly question the policies and constantly have to dig to see what is behind

00:41:45.260 everything. We have to read five articles for one story to just be able to get a holistic,

00:41:50.700 unbiased perspective. We have to think harder, I think, than people used to have to think about

00:41:55.260 news stories because maybe people were actually able to trust journalists. And I'm not saying all

00:42:00.460 journalists are untrustworthy, but so many of them have ulterior motives and see themselves as activists

00:42:06.060 that we can't trust any of these institutions. And then not only do we have to question the narrative,

00:42:12.940 but we then have to question these kinds of documentaries. We have to question the people

00:42:17.260 who are also questioning the narrative that is simply the kind of world that we live in. And if

00:42:22.860 all of this makes you very overwhelmed and all of this makes you very sad and you just feel like

00:42:27.980 things are spiraling out of control, as we talked about on Wednesday, I just want to remind you that this

00:42:33.980 is nothing new. So a lot of the technology that we have, a lot of the politics that we have, a lot of the

00:42:38.940 kinds of journalism and science and all of that, all of that might seem new and like it's a new threat,

00:42:46.620 but really in principle, nothing is new under the sun. And of course we know we serve a sovereign God

00:42:53.100 who is not surprised you're taken aback by any of this. And the prevailing principle under all of this

00:43:00.220 that has been true for ever since the beginning of time that is still true today is that nothing is

00:43:09.580 fully trustworthy. No one is fully trustworthy because everyone is fallible. Everyone is finite,

00:43:16.220 especially the people in power aren't necessarily trustworthy because power corrupts and absolute

00:43:22.380 power corrupts. Absolutely. Most people in the government, especially the left-wing side of the

00:43:27.740 government are not bound by virtue, but are bound by virtue signaling. Those two things are very

00:43:33.100 different. Virtue has substance and integrity. Virtue signaling is hollow and dishonest. We have no

00:43:40.460 reason to trust a lot of the people in power. And so we have to do our own research and our own digging.

00:43:46.940 Some of the people are trustworthy. Some of the people say things that are true and that's great,

00:43:52.460 but this reality of untrustworthiness and a lack of integrity and being unable to make accurate

00:44:00.300 predictions has always been true. And the comfort for us Christians is that the realist reality that we

00:44:07.340 live in is not Twitter. It's not the news. They're not headlines. The realist reality that we live in

00:44:16.140 is the timeline that God sets out for us in the word of God, which is eternity. So we don't know

00:44:22.220 what's going to happen tomorrow, but we do know what's going to happen ultimately. We know that

00:44:28.780 ultimately Jesus is coming back. We know that ultimately he will rule in perfect peace. We know

00:44:33.580 that ultimately evil will be utterly and totally and completely and eternally destroyed. We know

00:44:39.420 that God is working. We know that everything works together for the good of those who love him,

00:44:44.220 who are called according to his purpose. We know that all things come together also for his glory.

00:44:49.820 So we know that things in the end are going to be okay, even through trial, even through tribulation,

00:44:56.140 even through tyranny, even through corrupt government authority. That is what we know.

00:45:01.740 And that is the realist reality that we cling to. We weren't made to be able to trust implicitly or

00:45:09.660 trust completely the powers that be. Human beings have never fully been able to do that. And thankfully,

00:45:15.900 in America, we have been able to do that at least somewhat it's on in some instances throughout

00:45:21.900 history. But for the most part, human history has been riddled with the corruption of power. And that

00:45:30.300 is not new. We were never meant to be able to fully trust institutions in the power that the powers that

00:45:39.180 be. And thankfully, we have a God who describes himself as fully trustworthy. So the only powerful

00:45:45.980 being, the only being that can be all powerful without also being corrupted is the God of the

00:45:51.740 universe, the God that we also happen to worship and can lean on and rely on our ever present help

00:45:58.060 in time of trouble. That is the realist reality that we know. So we don't know what's going on behind

00:46:03.980 the headlines. We don't know what's going on behind the numbers. We don't know what's going to happen

00:46:08.620 ahead of us in these predictions. But we do know what is told to us in the Word of God. We can rely

00:46:14.140 on the character of God, which never changes, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

00:46:19.260 Should we care about this stuff? Yes. Should we pray about this stuff? We should pray for our leaders.

00:46:23.980 We should pray for freedom. We should pray for the alleviation of tyranny and misinformation,

00:46:29.180 and we should do our best to seek truth. But should we obsess over it? No. Should we feel like

00:46:35.180 it's going to be the end of the world? Of course not. God is still in control. So we have to learn

00:46:40.460 how to balance. We can get passionate about this stuff, but be able to take a step back and say,

00:46:46.540 I trust God. I trust God, and I know that he's good. And we can only enact as much change as we

00:46:52.940 possibly can while also trusting and praying and realizing that he is in control. This is the realist

00:46:58.940 reality that we have. Okay. Thank you so much for listening. And I will see you guys back here on

00:47:04.300 Monday where we will talk about, uh, we are going to talk about if it is a Christian obligation or

00:47:12.380 if it's even allowed at all for Christians to rebel against the government and how. Okay. I will see you guys then. 0.81

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Ep 250 ｜ Whom Can We Trust？

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