The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

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00:00:09.760 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.940 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news happy election eve to

00:00:22.460 everyone predictions abound there's a tremendous amount of energy in america as more than a hundred

00:00:28.720 million people have voted and there'll be a lot more voting going on tomorrow i saw one prediction

00:00:35.320 from steve bannon's war room on how the electoral map could potentially play out and it falls pretty

00:00:42.240 close to my prediction on on how things may turn out on election day and so here it is if you start

00:00:48.180 with the map from 2016 and then you wonder okay well are there any of the trump electoral votes

00:00:55.780 that joe biden could potentially pick up my belief is that joe biden probably has the best chance to

00:01:03.660 flip michigan uh and to hold minnesota hold nevada so if biden were able to flip michigan uh if biden

00:01:12.560 were able to flip that one district in maine that the president won uh if joe biden were to win the

00:01:19.220 omaha nebraska seat remember maintenance nebraska the only two states that are not winner take all

00:01:25.460 with their electoral votes then my suspicion is you would see the president win the election with

00:01:32.540 288 electoral votes i think the president wins pennsylvania i think he wins florida i think he

00:01:39.900 wins arizona i think he wins georgia north carolina that's really the battleground kind of in the south

00:01:46.840 in the sun belt that north carolina florida arizona georgia a swing and then of course the midwest

00:01:54.600 where we'll see slim margins but where the president has essentially been camping out these last several

00:02:01.700 days today the president making two stops in michigan going to wisconsin also making a stop

00:02:07.560 in north carolina so understanding that map hey look it would be less of a win in the electoral college

00:02:14.060 than against hillary clinton but 288 electoral votes makes a president makes a re-election

00:02:22.460 and makes sure that we keep america great

00:02:26.220 renee graham columnist for the boston globe says there's no difference between trump supporters

00:02:37.220 and isis unbelievable she ends up tweeting out a picture of trump supporters and a caravan flying

00:02:45.660 trump 2020 flags american flags and then side by side she tweets a caravan of isis flying the isis flag

00:02:55.540 and she writes see the difference me neither this is disgusting trump supporters by and large love our

00:03:03.840 country they believe we should respect our flag and our anthem they believe that it's okay to be

00:03:09.960 patriotic because we are not an evil intractably doomed nation we're the greatest nation that's ever

00:03:16.640 existed and the fact that trump supporters react to the constant negativity that we face from the media

00:03:23.740 from the left the judgment we just want to get out and show our patriotism show our appreciation for the

00:03:31.220 fact that we get to celebrate with our fellow americans the fact that we have a president who

00:03:36.020 doesn't apologize for our country but tries to build our country up we have a president who doesn't

00:03:41.720 just go give away our money in international deals for virtue signaling while hollowing out the prosperity

00:03:48.320 of our citizens and our people we don't have a president who makes trade deals to benefit

00:03:54.040 multinational corporations as our people see wages that don't allow them to build strong families

00:04:00.340 and strong communities the trump movement really is all about love love of country love for our

00:04:07.940 fellow americans love of this nation so much that we would do anything to protect her from those that

00:04:14.740 would invade at our southern border or those who would try to talk so badly about our country that we

00:04:21.780 would hold a diminished place in the world obama thought america needed to be apologized for trump understands

00:04:29.140 that we are best as americans if we are vibrant and loving and kind and appreciative for the fact that we

00:04:38.260 get to be in the greatest country that has ever existed i can't believe that the boston globe would allow

00:04:45.220 one of their colonists to say something so vile so hate-filled i thought that the left was all about this

00:04:51.780 notion that love trumps hate i don't see a whole lot of love coming from them i see a whole lot of hate i believe

00:04:58.340 americans love this country that's why i think tomorrow they're going to re-elect our president

00:05:07.780 donald trump is going to get the highest share of the black vote for a republican since richard nixon

00:05:15.620 now the black vote has been reliably democratic for a political generation but you've seen in the 2020

00:05:22.020 election a lot of black voices for president trump breaking away from those traditional dogmas breaking

00:05:29.300 away from what other people tell them they need to think or how they need to act or how they need to

00:05:34.420 vote i've chronicled on the podcast the platinum plan for black america the extent to which that's

00:05:40.340 attracted black rappers other black americans to offer their support and their encouragement and

00:05:48.340 frankly their political legitimacy to the president well that doesn't sit well with everyone congresswoman

00:05:54.900 maxine waters made the statement we picked it up from daily caller.com she says i will never forgive them

00:06:02.660 of black people who vote for donald trump what a craven statement i would never say such a thing about

00:06:10.340 white people choosing to vote for joe biden if there's a white person who wants to vote for joe biden and

00:06:15.060 there are millions who will i most certainly would not hold some grudge against them that would be

00:06:20.820 unforgivable i think that regardless of people's skin color they have a right to make their own choice

00:06:26.740 about their politics their views and the candidates that they would choose to support but instead you've

00:06:32.900 got maxine waters remember she's the same person who said get in the faces of the trump supporters

00:06:38.980 ruin their dinners drive them out of places of social gathering that they may be this is about

00:06:45.780 intimidation this is a threat and this is the way that the democratic party wants to continue to be able to take

00:06:53.140 advantage of the black vote by shunning and shaming those who would dare to think for themselves to step out

00:06:59.860 and vote for the president we should not be engaged in race-based identity politics with such an evil

00:07:08.020 and mean-spirited approach maxine waters is a mean-spirited person she showed that with this

00:07:16.500 statement and know that no matter who anyone votes for we're all each other's fellow americans and there's

00:07:24.100 nothing that should deprive us of the ability to forgive one another love one another and root for each

00:07:30.660 other's success no matter who the president is and no matter who we vote for

00:07:38.020 bad news for election integrity out of the state of north carolina the supreme court has refused to

00:07:47.220 review a north carolina law that allows the state to count ballots up to nine days after the election

00:07:55.940 an election is a discrete moment in time it's not a state of being or existence that drags on for weeks

00:08:03.460 or months if we're still counting ballots and don't know who the president is nine days after the

00:08:08.580 election that does tremendous damage to the whole notion of democracy and representative government and

00:08:16.260 the construct of a constitutional republic as we try to make the case for this vision of governance

00:08:23.540 throughout the world we can't be counting ballots nine days after the election that's crazy my hope is that

00:08:30.820 if this were to actually come to bear the supreme court would take up these decisions because they

00:08:35.620 would be more ripe there's reasonably an argument that right now perhaps the court doesn't have to

00:08:41.380 rule on these questions and again the decision to deny certiorari to not take up the case

00:08:46.500 doesn't mean that the court has in any way opined on the merits of the legitimacy of this north carolina

00:08:54.100 law it just means that at this current state of time before the election it's not sufficiently ripe

00:09:00.500 for the court to make a decision well if they start counting ballots nine days after the election it'll

00:09:06.340 be ripe ripe ripe and we'll need to make a call to ensure that we've got a legitimate winner and that it's

00:09:14.180 not the consequence of ballot harvesting and the counting of ballots that were not lawfully voted

00:09:20.020 by american citizens so not what we want to see out of north carolina thus far but i think when it

00:09:25.620 comes to the bad pennsylvania law the bad north carolina law we could see supreme court action

00:09:33.380 in the hours if not days after the election to ensure that we have a legitimate president of the united states

00:09:40.180 it appears europe is going back into lockdown mode townhall.com has the story from the united kingdom

00:09:51.460 boris johnson announces second nationwide lockdown prime minister boris johnson locked down the united

00:09:59.140 kingdom on saturday as cases of the wuhan coronavirus surge throughout the country johnson calling for the

00:10:06.500 month-long shutdown to begin on thursday and last through december 2nd the prime minister said there

00:10:12.580 is simply no alternative to a second nationwide shutdown quote we've got to be humble in the face

00:10:20.020 of nature and in this country alas as across much of europe the virus is spreading even faster than the

00:10:26.900 worst case scenario for our scientific advisors johnson said the prime minister said thousands could die

00:10:34.020 every day if the country doesn't take desperate action and said more than 80 000 could die over the

00:10:40.500 winter if the shutdown doesn't happen now what does the shutdown mean non-essential shops leisure and

00:10:45.780 entertainment venues will all close down as will pubs bars and restaurants eateries can still operate

00:10:53.140 takeaway and delivery services workplaces should stay open johnson said only when remote work is not an

00:11:01.060 option the country's second national lockdown will allow schools colleges and universities to stay

00:11:07.220 open that is a difference from the prior lockdown they had quote we cannot let this virus damage our

00:11:13.940 children's futures even more than it has already said johnson so schools open restaurants closed leisure time

00:11:22.980 ended month-long shutdown in the uk i also saw a piece in the economist from italy while we're

00:11:29.780 over over in europe saying that in some of the hardest hit towns and communities they are starting

00:11:36.420 to see a population level immunity we often hear that described as herd immunity in the united states

00:11:43.540 and italy was hit hard i mean there there are towns and villages in italy where one percent of the

00:11:49.380 population died and you know you may not think about that being a large percentage but it sure is when you're

00:11:55.140 talking about death when you're talking about the impact that even one death can have on a family a

00:12:01.940 community uh an existence for any number of people one percent of the people dying in a town or city or

00:12:08.980 village certainly has a tremendous impact on the life within that particular community for those who are still

00:12:17.540 around and so we hope that this level of immunity will ensure that there's not a second wave in italy though

00:12:24.340 there are politicians there just like in britain talking about more extended lockdowns in the

00:12:30.020 united states i don't think we're tolerating any more lockdowns i think that the american people

00:12:34.820 are ready to face this virus with sanitation with more therapeutics with the development of a vaccine

00:12:43.620 but the notion that we are going to forever scuttle american life by limiting the development of people by

00:12:51.300 limiting the social interaction by allowing these terrible mental health drug abuse other types of

00:12:58.260 abuse consequences to persist that's just not us so i hope that they're able to get this virus under control

00:13:05.380 in europe but i don't suspect that we will be importing the policies of boris johnson to the united states

00:13:12.260 every presidential election we always get the pearl clutching celebrities claiming that they'll leave

00:13:21.940 america if they don't get their way in converting our great country into their liberal woketopia you'll

00:13:29.060 remember back in 2016 lena dunham john stewart samuel l jackson a bunch of other celebrities said they

00:13:36.580 would leave the country if donald trump were re-elected of course they didn't still here and so now we've

00:13:42.500 got a new list of those who say that if in 2020 trump's re-elected they're out of here bruce springsteen

00:13:49.300 born to run indeed uh running out of america he says if trump wins and tommy lee former husband to

00:13:56.980 pam anderson and motley crew drummer i don't know what we'll do in america without tommy lee ricky

00:14:02.580 martin i can't believe he's mr living la vita loca is about to bail america's been pretty damn good to

00:14:09.940 ricky martin and so he says he and his husband are going to bail if uh if the president's re-elected

00:14:16.020 john legend and christy tegan very frequent critics of the president say they'll be gone too so i don't

00:14:22.340 know it will be quite something to see if there's a greater fidelity to these commitments in 2020 than

00:14:28.500 there was in 2016 my hot take is america is awesome love her or leave

00:14:39.700 senator kamala harris believes america needs a lecture on the difference between equity and

00:14:47.380 equality it's super weird take a listen so there's a big difference between equality and equity

00:14:53.220 equality suggests oh everyone should get the same amount the problem with that not everybody's

00:15:00.580 starting out from the same place so if we're all getting the same amount but you started out back

00:15:05.220 there and i started out over here we could get the same amount but you still gonna be that far back

00:15:09.540 behind me it's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be

00:15:19.220 on equal footing and then compete on equal footing equitable treatment means we all end up at the

00:15:26.020 same place here's my hot take in america there is no guarantee that we all end up at the same place

00:15:33.380 people's drive talent skill determination all contribute to where we end up and of course people

00:15:41.620 start in different places that's why we need platforms of opportunity good schools opportunities for

00:15:48.340 good jobs and it is perhaps more than ironic that the policies endorsed by senator harris make it

00:15:56.420 far more difficult for people to be able to climb out of their existing circumstances and do better

00:16:02.740 socialism is not a way to encourage ambition and productivity it feeds to the lowest common denominator

00:16:11.300 and that's not who america is so i'll pass on senator kamala harris's lecture

00:16:17.540 on equity versus equality and i will stand for the proposition that in america we all need equal

00:16:25.380 opportunity but we are not guaranteed equal outcomes that's what makes us different that's what makes

00:16:32.420 us unique it's what makes us the greatest country in the world

00:16:40.980 america's bravest and best have rescued one of our fellow americans in a heroic endeavor

00:16:49.540 that's right in nigeria an american was rescued who had been taken captive in niger

00:16:55.780 in nigeria seal team six was involved there were no casualties no harms to americans u.s forces

00:17:03.140 conducted the hostage rescue operation during the early hours of 31 october in northern nigeria

00:17:09.700 to recover an american citizen held hostage by a group of armed men the american citizen is safe

00:17:16.340 and now in the care of the u.s department of state so great to see we picked up the story from

00:17:22.340 militarytimes.com and it just goes to show us each and every day how the training and skill of our

00:17:29.780 best special operators can be deployed to ensure that our fellow americans are safe and recovered

00:17:36.900 africa is a very dangerous part of the world right now there is a lot of kidnapping going on there a lot

00:17:43.380 of political violence and it's great to see that we've got the ability without being excessively

00:17:50.420 entangled in africa to ensure that we're able to rescue save preserve an american who is in jeopardy

00:17:58.420 congratulations to seal team six we are prouder of you than we could ever express in words

00:18:10.340 is big tech causing us to hate one another through algorithms matt laszlo writes a very provocative

00:18:18.580 piece in the new station dot com don't let twitter kill love big tech makes you hate the other

00:18:25.780 party and in laszlo's piece he talks about the way in which the algorithms developed by these social media

00:18:31.860 platforms specifically incentivize snark and biting commentary because conflict keeps people more

00:18:41.620 attentive to more attentive to their social media platforms than love and the result is it causes us

00:18:47.220 to dislike each other a lot more rapidly it allows us to be attracted more to venom than to mutual care

00:18:54.980 for one another and during the election season those algorithms particularly bend toward the negative

00:19:02.980 it's my hope that what we see on social media where that type of caustic conflict seems to permeate

00:19:12.420 doesn't proliferate into the other elements of our lives but being aware of the way in which these big

00:19:19.380 tech algorithms promote division gives us i think greater context in evaluating what we see on those

00:19:27.380 platforms because remember you it is not like a meritocracy of content it's not that just because

00:19:34.020 content is interesting or true that it spreads more virility is oftentimes about the way in which

00:19:41.140 posts pictures words uh interact with the preset algorithms of these tech companies and if the tech

00:19:48.580 companies want more hate because it keeps people more addicted to their platforms to observe and participate

00:19:56.420 in conflict then i think we become a less loving society a less gracious society and the laszlo commentary

00:20:05.780 certainly calls us to be a better version of ourselves in real life than we may be online as a result of

00:20:12.900 these big tech hate-filled algorithms the mcrib is coming back nationwide in the united states and

00:20:25.700 it's about time i figure after this election americans will need something to unite over and it's good to

00:20:31.780 see the world's largest fast food chain is doing its part now the mcrib was last available nationwide

00:20:38.900 in the united states in 2012 there were 10 000 stores that were offering it there was actually an app that

00:20:44.900 could help you locate a mcdonald's that had the mcrib interestingly it was widely available in germany but

00:20:52.260 not the united states so america first means we got to have the mcrib fully available in america first

00:21:00.260 mcdonald's overall is seeing a great economic health they're raising their dividend to three percent

00:21:06.900 according to the information that we've received at thestreet.com we'll post that story also mcdonald's is

00:21:14.420 seeing the average order size increase i guess that's a result of coronavirus with fewer and fewer

00:21:20.260 people taking advantage of the traditional restaurant setting folks are going to the drive-through they're

00:21:25.940 making bigger orders and that has resulted in good economic health for mcdonald's so good to see the

00:21:32.660 mcrib coming back i can't wait to sink my teeth into one thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman

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Episode 121 - Mean Maxine. Krazy Kamala. Britain Locking Down. Big Tech Hate. FBI Jumps the Shark. Hollywood Insanity. Election Latest News. McRib Returns & More!

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