The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 111 – TPUSA's Charlie Kirk Suspended From Twitter. Ice Cube and President Trump Team Up. Delayed WWII Bomb Explodes in Poland.

00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:03.820 You all were not telling the truth and you should not be trusted.

00:00:06.580 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.

00:00:09.300 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.

00:00:12.260 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:00:16.100 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:18.880 Let's talk about the news.

00:00:20.640 Nancy Pelosi's chief of staff putting out word that there's a new 48-hour deadline

00:00:25.360 for the House of Representatives to agree with the administration on an additional coronavirus relief package.

00:00:32.580 Look, there's no 48-hour deadline because there was never going to be a deal anyway.

00:00:37.400 As I've been telling listeners to this podcast,

00:00:40.360 the reason Nancy Pelosi won't put issues before the Congress that have overwhelming bipartisan support 0.99

00:00:45.980 is that she doesn't want to allow the president to have a moment of leadership and success for the country

00:00:52.480 in the days leading up to the election.

00:00:54.320 Nancy Pelosi is willing to allow America's businesses to dry up. 0.99

00:00:59.720 She's willing to allow America's families to suffer 0.96

00:01:02.040 because she is so desperate to deprive Donald Trump of any political win,

00:01:08.860 of any win for the country. 0.56

00:01:10.940 And it's depraved.

00:01:12.160 But this back and forth has really built a lot of pressure on the speaker.

00:01:17.020 I mean, it culminated in that disastrous Wolf Blitzer interview that we profiled on Hot Takes last week.

00:01:23.040 And with that pressure mounting, I think Nancy Pelosi needed some explanation to her members 0.99

00:01:28.720 as to why there wasn't going to be coronavirus relief.

00:01:32.320 And instead of fessing up to just the political rawness of it, the political normativity of her decision,

00:01:41.380 she decides to blame the administration for wanting the ability to actively issue grants

00:01:49.500 to community organizations, to testing organizations responding to the virus.

00:01:53.820 And it's just so obviously a red herring that she chooses to identify,

00:01:59.100 oh, we don't want the administration to have a slush fund.

00:02:01.680 Look, when you're fighting a virus, sometimes you can't go through every contemplated government process.

00:02:08.600 Sometimes you need to be able to rapidly deploy resources at the speed of viral interaction in a community.

00:02:15.340 And so that's not why Nancy Pelosi is putting a stop to negotiations or throwing cold water on them. 1.00

00:02:21.960 It's because she doesn't want the president to have a win. 1.00

00:02:24.980 She doesn't want the country to have a win.

00:02:27.180 That says a lot more about Nancy Pelosi than anything else.

00:02:33.740 Twitter now suspending one of the most effective, productive, energetic voices on Twitter on the political right.

00:02:41.740 Charlie Kirk, my good friend, the founder of Turning Point USA, host of the Charlie Kirk podcast,

00:02:47.760 author of the MAGA doctrine, getting banned from Twitter for saying exactly what ProPublica said.

00:02:55.200 We're going to post the Ryan McCarthy and Derek Willis piece from ProPublica,

00:03:00.300 Pennsylvania's rejection of 372,000 ballot applications bewilders voters and strains election staff.

00:03:07.980 And in the story, ProPublica notes how voters who had requested ballots, perhaps in the primary,

00:03:14.740 were now getting them in the general and some had requested them subsequently in the general.

00:03:18.960 And so that duplication of effort was creating a strain on the election system.

00:03:24.420 Charlie Kirk says essentially, you know, the same thing,

00:03:27.820 putting out word that there was confusion in the election system in Pennsylvania.

00:03:33.020 Now let's for a moment assume that what Charlie Kirk asked was incorrect, that he was wrong in his facts.

00:03:54.660 Who is Twitter to be the arbiter of that?

00:03:56.660 In a productive, free, engaging society, we need a citizenry able to ask tough questions,

00:04:03.080 to be able to confront information that is both true and false with the ability to decipher the difference.

00:04:10.420 And I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to just totally outsource that function of my life to Twitter.

00:04:17.080 And I don't think that they ought to have that role in the debate that we have in the country.

00:04:21.840 So here's my question.

00:04:23.420 Where's the FCC?

00:04:24.860 Where's the FEC?

00:04:25.820 I mean, literally, this is election interference occurring before our very eyes.

00:04:30.520 We saw entire agencies of our federal government consumed with the fiction of election interference from Russia being some major factor in the 2016 election.

00:04:41.700 But now when big techs censorship, when their tyranny is in fact a very real element of this election,

00:04:48.540 as people are voting, the institutions of our government that are supposed to protect us,

00:04:54.100 that are supposed to ensure that there is not an outsized influence in the election beyond people's lawful participation,

00:05:00.620 they're sitting on their hands.

00:05:01.920 And so yet again, for President Trump to prevail, he will have to beat the Democrats,

00:05:08.020 the never Trump Republicans, the media, the tech giants,

00:05:11.780 and even some of the institutions that he makes appointments to that seem to be doing very little.

00:05:18.120 Get off your duffs, FCC and FEC.

00:05:22.540 Get to the business of forcing these technology platforms to be unbiased as the law requires.

00:05:29.540 We hear a lot of the harm caused by disinformation in our public discourse,

00:05:38.340 but is the biggest purveyor of disinformation the political establishment in our country?

00:05:45.760 And is it destroying Western civilization?

00:05:48.160 That's the question posed by Jeff Giese in American Greatness in a recent essay.

00:05:54.200 And first he cites the establishment's disinformation in the war in Iraq,

00:06:00.640 the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction.

00:06:03.700 Those claims got us into wars that now have cost $6.4 trillion and over 800,000 lives,

00:06:11.640 according to a recent study by Brown University.

00:06:14.260 It was the same establishment that gave us the disinformation of the Russia hoax.

00:06:20.200 Terrible attack on the public trust, on the institution of the presidency,

00:06:25.220 something that distorted and perverted the Congress and our intelligence agency.

00:06:30.020 And now we know that you had Hillary Clinton funding through the DNC Russian intelligence assets

00:06:37.320 as our own intelligence was reporting to President Obama and Vice President Biden

00:06:42.700 that the very reason that Hillary Clinton was doing this was to distract from the fears that she had

00:06:49.700 over political vulnerability caused by her email scandal server.

00:06:54.560 But that's not all.

00:06:56.180 Giese also cites the false narratives that continue to try to target and demonize law enforcement in our country

00:07:04.200 following the tragic death of George Floyd.

00:07:06.860 That same false narrative continues to be advanced by the establishment in media,

00:07:13.360 not just politics, through the 1619 Project,

00:07:16.740 an endeavor that seeks to have us all believe that our country is intractably racist,

00:07:22.020 that America's founding is not virtuous, it is not something to be honored,

00:07:25.960 but it should be something we all share a great deal of shame in.

00:07:29.760 And I'm certainly not ashamed of America, and I'm glad Jeff Giese isn't either.

00:07:34.720 I'm glad that we view that not as a narrative to adopt, but as one that in fact is false.

00:07:40.620 And then you get to the pandemic, where the establishment has given us information that's been all over the map.

00:07:46.800 First, public health officials telling President Trump not to ban travel from China.

00:07:51.980 Thank goodness he did it anyway.

00:07:53.560 Then public health officials telling us that masks weren't helpful or effective.

00:07:58.800 Then all of a sudden they're more effective.

00:08:01.540 Then all of a sudden they're the most effective, even more effective than vaccines.

00:08:05.760 Time and again, the establishment seems to make pronouncements that are a greater function of disinformation

00:08:11.980 for the sake of control, for the sake of, I think, you know, whether it's control over our foreign policy

00:08:18.480 in the case of the wars in the Middle East, or control over our domestic politics

00:08:23.900 by scapegoating the Obama administration's policy choices with Russia and Hillary Clinton's election day failures

00:08:32.500 with this Russia narrative, or in fact, control over our history and our beliefs and our values,

00:08:39.120 as you see through entities like the 1619 Project.

00:08:42.820 So check out Jeff Giese's piece.

00:08:45.160 I think it's quite something.

00:08:46.600 Retail sales post big gain in September as consumers show unexpected strength.

00:08:55.900 CNBC's Jeff Cox has the story.

00:08:58.300 Retail sales rising 1.9% in September, if that doesn't sound like much.

00:09:04.340 It is much better than the 0.7% that was the Dow Jones consensus estimate.

00:09:09.980 Excluding autos, the increase was 1.5%, way ahead of the 0.4% expectation.

00:09:17.940 Clothing and accessories led the gains.

00:09:20.580 Electronics, the only negative sector.

00:09:23.740 The Dow Jones also reacting very favorably to this.

00:09:27.900 And, you know, Trump always said before he was president that he never felt like Obama was

00:09:33.020 enough of a cheerleader for the American economy, for our businesses. 0.99

00:09:37.300 And whether you like the president or dislike the president, he cheers on the American economy.

00:09:42.980 And it appears now that these same leading economic indicators that we saw before the

00:09:49.380 capital investment, before the rising wages pre-pandemic, you know, the initial indicators

00:09:55.620 that the Trump economy was taking off were these consumer confidence, business confidence

00:10:00.860 indicators.

00:10:01.780 And really, from his election, that rise in consumer spending that has enabled really a

00:10:09.280 roaring economy during the Trump era.

00:10:11.940 And so now, with those very same indicators starting to show, we may see a return to the

00:10:17.960 very best of the Trump economy.

00:10:22.720 Keep it together, Wichita, Kansas.

00:10:25.720 This NBC News has the story that Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple was threatened over his recent

00:10:33.540 mask mandate as someone saying that they were going to kidnap the mayor and slash his throat.

00:10:39.840 This coming after 13 people were apprehended following their foiled plot to kidnap the governor

00:10:47.000 of Michigan.

00:10:47.700 Look, you can like the mask mandates and the lockdown mandates or not, but there are no

00:10:54.520 reason to threaten political violence against people.

00:10:57.780 So Mayor Whipple should not have to deal with it.

00:11:01.860 Governor Whitmer should not have to deal with it.

00:11:04.540 Certainly the president shouldn't have to deal with the threats.

00:11:07.280 And I think, you know, outward hostility that he has to deal with on a daily basis.

00:11:12.400 Let's just all get through this and universally condemn political violence.

00:11:17.820 There are plenty of places on the planet Earth where political violence is necessary.

00:11:21.720 America is not one of them.

00:11:26.360 When former Vice President Joe Biden talks about foreign policy, if he talks about foreign

00:11:32.000 policy at all, he speaks in terms of American re-engagement in the world.

00:11:37.720 And when elites talk about re-engagement through the lens of globalism, they're engaging at

00:11:44.600 your expense often, on your nickel for their own enrichment, for their family's enrichment.

00:11:51.420 President Trump sees the world clearly.

00:11:53.600 He understands that for America to be a strong, positive force in the world, we have to be the

00:11:59.640 best version of ourselves.

00:12:01.540 And that means ending some of these forever wars.

00:12:04.920 I've been very proud that on the campaign trail, the president has really talked about foreign

00:12:10.840 policy in terms that put America first.

00:12:14.900 Take a listen to the president on the campaign trail discussing the endless wars and the need

00:12:21.240 to bring our troops home.

00:12:22.700 Joe Biden brought you only endless wars.

00:12:25.360 I'm bringing you peace and I'm bringing our troops back home.

00:12:28.460 They're all coming home.

00:12:32.880 Endless wars.

00:12:33.820 Biden voted for the Iraq war.

00:12:37.040 He opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden.

00:12:40.460 He opposed the killing of Soleimani.

00:12:42.460 He oversaw the rise of ISIS.

00:12:44.880 And he cheered the rise of China as a positive development for America and the world.

00:12:50.860 They made a mistake.

00:12:52.220 So we're now $8 trillion.

00:12:54.680 We've been in there for 20 years, almost 20 years.

00:12:57.780 And Afghanistan, I guess it's getting very close to that.

00:13:01.000 It's over 19.

00:13:02.580 And we're bringing our soldiers back home.

00:13:04.420 The single greatest mistake our country made in its history was going in to the quicksand

00:13:12.300 of the Middle East.

00:13:13.480 We spent $8 trillion and lost thousands of lives.

00:13:17.360 And by the way, the other side, we can talk about that, lost millions of lives.

00:13:24.200 What did we do?

00:13:26.080 So we're going to pull them out and we're pulling people out and we're trying to make good deals

00:13:32.780 and we're going to bring our soldiers back home.

00:13:35.300 Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was recently interviewed by Dave Rubin regarding her experiences

00:13:45.500 with Google, the litigation she's had to bring against them, and the impact and cost to our

00:13:51.560 democracy if there's not a level playing field in the digital space.

00:13:56.460 Listen to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Dave Rubin.

00:13:59.080 You're suing Google.

00:14:00.260 Yes.

00:14:00.860 What's going on?

00:14:02.580 After the first debate, I was the most Googled candidate of the night.

00:14:05.300 When all of a sudden, mysteriously, right at the peak of that time where people were paying

00:14:09.640 attention, our account was suspended.

00:14:12.200 Yeah.

00:14:12.440 So you couldn't roll ads.

00:14:13.620 Couldn't.

00:14:13.860 People weren't seeing the ads that we wanted them to see was the bottom line.

00:14:17.320 And then once that peak period passed, our account was magically reinstated.

00:14:23.420 And to this day, we still have not gotten any kind of meaningful or even an attempt to

00:14:28.760 provide a satisfactory explanation for it, which just points to the need for change.

00:14:33.640 We filed this lawsuit, not just because of what happened there, but because of the kind

00:14:38.780 of power that Google has as this huge tech monopoly to interfere in our public discourse

00:14:43.980 and really how they can impact our fair elections.

00:14:48.120 Yeah.

00:14:48.240 We need to be able to protect the rights and freedoms of the American people.

00:14:52.020 And you have such a big tech monopoly with the power to provide undue influence, both

00:14:58.960 through their algorithms as well as suppressing people's freedom of speech.

00:15:02.520 And if this can be done to me as a member of Congress running for the highest office in

00:15:07.200 the land, that means it can be done to anyone running for any office anywhere in the country

00:15:12.440 and can be done to any individual in this country.

00:15:15.140 This should be a wake up call that if members of Congress, if presidential candidates can

00:15:21.100 see their voice fundamentally suppressed and altered in the way in which it is presented

00:15:26.500 to the world, that that could happen to each and every American.

00:15:30.220 And we ought to do all we can to stop it.

00:15:33.180 The Trump team has come out with its plan for Black America, the Platinum Plan.

00:15:42.520 And Ice Cube is catching some shade over his endorsement of the plan.

00:15:47.480 The LA Times has the story.

00:15:49.620 And if the Platinum Plan sounds familiar, maybe you're aware of Ice Cube's previously released

00:15:55.160 contract with Black America.

00:15:57.340 Now, Ice Cube says he approached both the Republicans and the Democrats regarding the

00:16:01.720 elements of this contract with Black America, issues regarding policing reform, criminal justice

00:16:08.200 reform, education reform, investment and economic opportunities for Black America.

00:16:14.240 And the Democrats told him to wait until after the election.

00:16:17.580 And the Republicans actually designed some policy concepts around these ideas.

00:16:22.560 Now, I don't know that I agree with each and every one of them.

00:16:24.880 I think there are probably a few that may utilize the government to pick winners and losers in

00:16:30.760 a way that might not contribute to the broadest amount of economic freedom.

00:16:35.340 But I do think that it's telling that today's Republican Party would be willing to talk about

00:16:41.960 these policy concepts not in a way as a way to just, you know, get votes, but to put them

00:16:48.180 into action because we've got the ability to do so through the administration in real time.

00:16:53.620 The Democrats saying, well, talk to us after the election.

00:16:57.320 Maybe then we'll be interested in working on those ideas.

00:17:01.440 That's not real leadership.

00:17:03.180 And I'm glad that Ice Cube is showing leadership to work with anyone who would be willing to

00:17:07.440 advance ideas that he believes would help his community.

00:17:11.140 I think it would be better if we all did that, if people with ideas would be willing to put them

00:17:15.280 forward to Republicans and Democrats and work together for the interests of all Americans.

00:17:23.620 According to CNN, a bomb dropped by Britain during World War II just exploded in a canal in Poland.

00:17:33.020 That's right.

00:17:33.740 The bomb was called the Tall Boy, weighed about 12,000 pounds when it was dropped by the Royal

00:17:38.900 Air Force in the final months of World War II.

00:17:42.100 The Polish Navy evacuated about 750 residents from the area as they attempted to defuse it.

00:17:49.180 But the bomb exploded in the canal and it sent up a pretty substantial plume of water.

00:17:55.960 No injuries, no damages, no risk that Britain and Poland will be having any hostilities anytime soon.

00:18:03.680 Nationalphile.com has the story, Trump supporter hospitalized by Black Lives Matter thugs at

00:18:13.720 Women's March.

00:18:14.940 It tells the story of Isabella DeLuca assaulted while holding a Trump flag by an older white 0.98

00:18:22.340 woman with glasses on and a glittery bedazzled Black Lives Matter shirt. 1.00

00:18:28.380 That apparently the description of the assailant, Miss DeLuca did not want to fight back against 1.00

00:18:34.720 someone according to her many years her senior, but then found herself surrounded by a larger

00:18:41.340 group that included younger people that were there to do her harm.

00:18:45.540 She was hospitalized, currently suffers from dizziness and blurry vision, and we wish her the

00:18:52.680 best following this ugliest and most violent of encounters with people at a women's march. 0.72

00:19:00.080 Apparently, if you're there holding a Trump flag, it is a different reception than if you're there

00:19:05.500 for some other purpose.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 19, 2020

Episode 111 – TPUSA's Charlie Kirk Suspended From Twitter. Ice Cube and President Trump Team Up. Delayed WWII Bomb Explodes in Poland.

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