The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 137 - Trump Demolishes the Media's Fake ＂Democracy Doomsday＂ Narrative. Pistol-Packing Politicians. Airbnb Bows to the CCP.

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

00:00:06.100 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

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 6.8 million dollars

00:00:23.040 has been made available to the biden transition from the gsa an additional million dollars in

00:00:29.100 training and orientation resources on top of that the gsa administrator putting out word that

00:00:35.460 she received no pressure from the white house one way or the other on this decision but that she had

00:00:40.840 in fact received a number of threats against herself her staff her family even people's lives as a

00:00:48.160 consequence of her desire to ensure that the transition reached an appropriate place for her

00:00:54.600 to make these resources available president trump signaling his support for the move in a tweet

00:01:00.240 saying that you know he appreciated her service and that it was his belief that this ought to go

00:01:07.040 forward and it won't prejudice the litigation that's the key point the president is still making claims

00:01:13.120 in court those claims are still important to resolve because they speak not only to the standards in the

00:01:19.100 2020 election but every election going forward and i want the president to keep fighting in court to

00:01:25.540 keep making those claims to seek the relief that will clean up our election process both now and in the

00:01:32.680 future and you know the president didn't want to see these threats happening to the gsa or their

00:01:38.240 employees he referenced that in the tweet and he said in the interests of our country i am recommending

00:01:44.500 that emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and i've told my

00:01:50.880 team to do the same now this is totally freaking out the media i mean haven't we heard non-stop since

00:01:57.680 the election that donald trump has engaged in a coup he's seizing power america has become a banana

00:02:04.220 republic there's nothing that can stop the deterioration of democracy that's occurring over this period of

00:02:10.100 time and here we are lo and behold before a single american has cut into their thanksgiving turkey

00:02:16.640 and you've got president trump telling his team to follow the protocols to do what needs to be done

00:02:22.680 right alongside the vigorous efforts in court to ensure that we don't have late arriving ballots that we

00:02:30.300 don't have polluted ballot pools and that we don't have procedures in the future that are a joke you know we

00:02:36.300 covered yesterday the standards that america would apply to a foreign election and regarding observers

00:02:43.300 regarding the integrity of the ballot and frankly i don't know that we live up to our own standards when

00:02:49.500 you look at the way people were excluded from review and the ways in which the identification process

00:02:57.440 and verification process to ensure that a person who had cast it cast a ballot actually intended to cast

00:03:03.380 that ballot you know those were changed i mean trump was so good at elections and politics they've

00:03:09.920 literally changed the rules in the months and weeks leading up to the election to reduce his chances

00:03:16.660 of victory and here we stand now the end of november the gsa transition process beginning and democracy

00:03:24.800 is intact

00:03:26.060 puerto rican statehood how would it happen who would it benefit these are the things being discussed in

00:03:36.100 washington dc the orlando sentinels steven lamangelo has the story of congressman darren soto from florida

00:03:42.780 also someone who represents a very large puerto rican community in the central florida area making a push

00:03:49.600 not just to push legislatively but politically to pressure florida's united states senators to back

00:03:57.060 the move here's my hot take why do democrats assume that puerto rico would obviously be a state in their

00:04:03.520 column puerto rico would be a swing state in my view they occasionally send republican delegates to

00:04:09.800 congress in fact the current delegate that puerto rico has sent to congress jennifer gonzalez-cologne is a

00:04:15.900 republican they have elected governors of the republican party in the past governors of the

00:04:21.380 democratic party in the past but puerto rico is not ready for statehood in this orlando sentinel

00:04:28.000 piece they walk through how from a political standpoint from a referendum standpoint the people

00:04:34.600 in puerto rico who advocate for stake statehood have cleared the hurdle they have survived the

00:04:40.580 referendum they've prevailed on the referendum but that doesn't mean that puerto rico is

00:04:45.460 behaving like a state and if they want to be a state then their economics have to reflect a

00:04:51.000 certain sophistication that hasn't been there their budgets are a nightmare their structural debt is

00:04:58.660 crippling puerto rico essentially exists on a series of bailouts from the united states federal government

00:05:04.580 and not just because they have dealt with a series of natural disasters it's actually a problem in

00:05:10.780 their budgeting their infrastructure spending the way they pay their public employees so if you want

00:05:16.760 to be a state puerto rico start acting like one now i know in this orlando sentinel piece the premise

00:05:22.820 is that despite how the elections turn out in georgia you've got two u.s senators from florida that

00:05:29.140 in many ways are quite beholden to puerto rico i mean rick scott heck when he was first elected

00:05:34.420 it was at times indistinguishable whether or not he represented the people of florida or the people of

00:05:39.700 puerto rico with all he was doing for the island and to his credit that was something he campaigned

00:05:44.640 on obviously marco rubio has always stood up for the people of puerto rico as well but they're still

00:05:50.920 florida's senators and they should still have a very high standard for admitting another state to the 0.86

00:05:57.020 union and in my opinion puerto rico is not ready

00:06:00.080 as thanksgiving approaches there are many americans who will get to enjoy the great abundance

00:06:09.400 of food i love food food brings people together it creates warmth it allows for the opportunity of

00:06:17.900 the passing down of tradition from one family member to another but following the coronavirus

00:06:23.540 crisis following the lockdowns that came as a result of that crisis food insecurity is becoming a real

00:06:31.680 problem in our country and there was one piece in the providence journal by daunte naylor that caught

00:06:38.280 our eye one in four rhode islanders can't meet basic food needs food bank's annual report says that's just

00:06:46.340 an astonishing number one in four people now these are numbers that are the worst at any time since

00:06:54.240 the great depression in 2019 the number of people who were food insecure was about 9.1 percent in rhode

00:07:02.260 island again that rising to 25 percent now and the greatest contribution to the university of people

00:07:08.500 who are now food insecure are those who've been laid off as a result of covet 19 and i would suggest

00:07:14.720 a lot of these layoffs aren't a result of the virus as much as they're a result of the lockdowns that

00:07:20.600 make people's jobs illegal and now those very folks are showing up in food bank lines needing relief and

00:07:28.020 again at a time when so many of us are going to have the opportunity to enjoy great food great family

00:07:34.700 interactions it's important to recognize that we may need to be more charitable this year than we've been

00:07:39.960 in the past to ensure that our neighbors and fellow americans have food security again this is really

00:07:45.900 astonishing that you would have as many as one in four people in a state a challenge to ensure that

00:07:51.840 they're able to meet their nutrition needs and so let's dig deep this holiday season let's reach out to

00:07:58.040 our fellow americans who may be struggling and let's extend the love and the grace and the generosity

00:08:03.620 of our great country is airbnb getting a little too close to the ccp the chinese communist party we pick 1.00

00:08:17.320 up this exclusive from the wall street journal the former number two at the fbi sean joyce resigned

00:08:24.460 from airbnb last year due to concerns about the company's data sharing in china including an unwritten

00:08:31.260 request made for real-time data and yet the co-founder of airbnb said to mr joyce quote we're

00:08:39.060 not here to promote american values indeed working with the ccp so that airbnb can have access to that 0.98

00:08:47.080 huge market now airbnb has a history of bending over backwards to some of the worst impulses in global

00:08:56.100 governance matter of fact the state of florida took the position against airbnb regarding their

00:09:01.960 designation of certain properties in jerusalem as in occupied territories it would label the listings

00:09:09.720 of properties in east jerusalem to make a political point for the benefit of palestinian claims and that

00:09:17.360 didn't sit well with us here in florida our governor ron de sanis stood strong against that and ultimately

00:09:23.240 airbnb made the change but it shows how sensitive they can be to government pressures and it also

00:09:30.200 shows what their natural instinct is and in fact this wall street journal story i think correctly

00:09:36.640 encapsulates that airbnb is not an america first company they're not a company that exists to promote

00:09:42.960 markets and freedom the type of sharing that we would advocate for when it can create economic

00:09:50.980 opportunity and reduce waste and create better efficiencies those are all the things we're told

00:09:56.020 about airbnb but in reality if the chinese communist party or some other government make a request of

00:10:03.200 them it's frustrating to see how willing they are to meet some of those needs and if the chinese

00:10:09.980 communist party wants real-time data about where americans are staying where they're traveling where

00:10:15.980 they're going that doesn't make our nation stronger doesn't make our people stronger it doesn't make

00:10:20.840 our companies stronger it makes china stronger oftentimes at the expense of our country and so 0.95

00:10:26.440 we need to do all we can to ensure that the great minds in america that build great companies

00:10:32.160 see that work in order to the benefit of our great nation

00:10:36.600 looks like it's going to be harder for bears to get away with stealing picnic baskets we get the story

00:10:47.460 from the new york post of university of virginia bear scientists teaming up with some of the brightest

00:10:53.620 minds in silicon valley to create bear id which applies facial recognition software previously

00:11:01.860 restricted to use with humans to bears this is helpful because it allows biologists to be able to

00:11:08.820 track the bears monitor their activities without the process that we used to use which at times involved

00:11:15.060 you know shooting the bear with a dart and getting a collar around its neck and then tracking which bears

00:11:20.900 were engaged in what movements what territorial claims and what family units now we could just scan their face

00:11:28.580 recognize the bears and engage in the science that hopefully helps these amazing apex predators in north america

00:11:35.940 so congratulations to the folks at the university of virginia who worked on this development who knows

00:11:41.540 maybe next we'll see a variety of different animals able to be recognized at the individual level

00:11:48.660 based on the science that we're able to use and develop and wouldn't that be a great thing to learn

00:11:53.620 more about the creatures around us

00:11:59.300 about two-thirds of the audience of this podcast is male this next segment is for the third of you who

00:12:06.340 aren't the times of india has the story of sanitation and makeup how to ensure that we're sanitizing makeup

00:12:15.300 products amidst the covet 19 pandemic now you may think that just spraying your sponges and brushes

00:12:23.060 with an alcohol spray would work but according to the piece actually you're going to want to wash those

00:12:29.140 once a week at least mascara also can carry the virus lipstick with powders you're going to want to

00:12:35.540 skim the top layer of the powder off it's not enough just to hit it with a spray and they're also a lot

00:12:42.500 more natural and home remedies that are less likely to share the virus that some of the more commercial

00:12:49.060 options maybe whip up an olive oil cleanser or put on a rich and creamy avocado mask olive oil and sugar

00:12:57.540 can be used together as a scrub there's oatmeal soaks oatmeal honey masks all kind of different options

00:13:04.900 so check it out the times of india stay sanitized stay safe and stay beautiful

00:13:16.100 if you're spending time with your family in pennsylvania for the upcoming thanksgiving holiday

00:13:21.460 and if you believe you may require alcohol to get through it you're going to need to buy it in advance

00:13:28.660 the daily caller put out the story it appears as though alcohol will not be sold in the state of

00:13:35.380 pennsylvania starting at 5 p.m on wednesday and then only resuming following the thanksgiving holiday

00:13:42.580 they have created this regulation under the guise of a coronavirus restriction i guess the working

00:13:49.060 theory is that if you don't have alcohol maybe you'll be more likely to adhere to social distancing

00:13:56.340 protocols when spending time with your family over a holiday meal here's my hot take this is the new

00:14:04.180 normal governments that want to control what you can buy how you can spend your money how you can

00:14:09.460 spend your time are going to find new and creative ways to limit the choices of the american people

00:14:16.100 under the auspices of coronavirus now do we really think that this is going to be some

00:14:22.740 you know game changer regulation to stop the spread that people can't go and and have a holiday

00:14:28.740 cordial with their family or buy a bottle of wine for someone's home that they're traveling to for

00:14:34.420 a meal and some fellowship give me a break in pennsylvania i think they got a lot to be worried

00:14:40.260 about before they are there uh you know policing whether or not someone is able to consume alcohol

00:14:46.420 over the holiday vacation and and the fellowship that comes with it so i'm not for these restrictions

00:14:54.340 i think that it's a lot of silliness where people in government are trying to utilize power often in

00:15:00.180 a reactionary way just to demonstrate that they have it whether it's to travel to see family whether

00:15:06.820 it's to purchase alcohol whether it's to go to some congregating event i trust the people of this

00:15:13.780 country to make decisions oftentimes a great deal more than the government

00:15:22.180 colorado's lauren bobert is one of the best new incoming members of congress she's got america first 0.78

00:15:30.260 views and she's packing that's right she owns a gun friendly grill in rifle colorado she beats a 1.00

00:15:38.660 five-term incumbent representative scott tipton by closely aligning herself with president trump 0.67

00:15:45.300 and now she shows up to congress ready to strap her firearm to her side and do her legislative work 1.00

00:15:52.020 the chairman of the second amendment caucus republican thomas massey has come out in favor

00:15:57.060 of congresswoman bobert being able to wear her firearm on capitol grounds citing the shooting

00:16:02.980 of our good friend and republican whip steve scalise in 2017 there are a number of antiquated regulations

00:16:11.140 that do allow members of congress to be able to have a firearm and it does appear that congresswoman

00:16:17.060 elect bobert is going to fully vindicate her second amendment rights and show up ready to fire away 1.00

00:16:24.420 legislatively or otherwise congratulations congresswoman elect bobert i look forward to serving with you

00:16:33.780 now that operation warp speed has provided not one but two vaccines for use in our country the politics

00:16:41.860 of vaccine mandates appear to be emerging in several states florida being one of them we pick up the story

00:16:48.740 from the northwest florida daily news florida might not force you to get a coveted vaccine but it can

00:16:55.380 here's why and the piece goes through the legal authority that exists for states for governors through

00:17:02.340 executive order to deem people who do not take vaccines public health risks and there's actually

00:17:08.820 jurisprudence on this that is more than 100 years old out of massachusetts the jacobson v massachusetts

00:17:16.420 case which upholds a state's authority to order compulsory vaccines now governor ron desantis

00:17:23.460 said in a video that he won't force these vaccines but we're working hard to make them available here's

00:17:29.220 the governor our goal is to make all safe and effective covid vaccines available to floridians

00:17:34.020 who want them but the state will not mandate that floridians take these vaccines that's going to be the

00:17:39.300 choice of each and every floridian i do though believe that these breakthroughs represent probably the

00:17:45.300 greatest rays of hope that we have seen since the pandemic began they offer the prospect of saving

00:17:51.700 thousands and thousands of lives and to potentially bring this pandemic to an end i agree with governor

00:17:58.020 de santis we want to make sure that our frontline workers are protected that those who are vulnerable

00:18:03.300 have access to the vaccine early on but it should be the choice of our fellow floridians and our fellow

00:18:09.380 americans whether to take the vaccine or not i don't believe the government has the right to compel you

00:18:16.820 under my understanding of personal liberty and individual freedom in the constitution despite this

00:18:22.740 jurisprudence to the contrary and so i hope we get broad adoption of the vaccine i hope those who

00:18:28.820 need it take it but i don't believe that the strong hand of government should be on the other end of the

00:18:34.980 needle forcing people to do something that might not be right for them that might not be in line with

00:18:40.740 their thinking their faith their approach to the virus different people are going to have different

00:18:45.300 strategies some folks are isolating more frequently some folks have built up immunities that they

00:18:52.420 regularly are checking on and some folks are going to get the vaccine to each his own all the better

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 24, 2020

Episode 137 - Trump Demolishes the Media's Fake ＂Democracy Doomsday＂ Narrative. Pistol-Packing Politicians. Airbnb Bows to the CCP.

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