The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 139 - Silicon Valley Plots Another Threat to Free Speech. Records Shattered with Rapid Vaccine Development. Devastating Stats on Suicides.

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

00:00:09.740 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 and there is big news

00:00:22.620 today on the vaccine front uh the reporting showing that moderna is going to be the second

00:00:28.880 company applying for emergency fda approval for their covid 19 vaccine 94 percent effective at

00:00:37.520 preventing the virus from a statement from the biotech company and a hundred percent effective

00:00:43.000 at preventing severe covid 19 cases dr paul offit a member of the fda's vaccine advisory committee

00:00:52.020 told cnn this is striking these are amazing data pfizer also have put has put in their request

00:01:01.060 for emergency fda approval they're claiming their vaccine is at least 95 percent effective this is

00:01:08.360 really remarkable when you think about what public health officials were telling us just months ago

00:01:13.540 take a listen to this interview on cbs 60 minutes with dr fauci eight months ago and what he said

00:01:22.220 about a vaccine timeline i said we would get it in two to three months i think we're going to go into

00:01:27.340 people closer to two months rather than three months and when you say go into people a trial which you've

00:01:32.020 said it'll take about a year or more before it could really be tested and find out the first the first

00:01:36.420 step in a trial is phase one to determine safety and does it induce the kind of response that you

00:01:42.640 would predict would be protective that's an important step with sars that took 20 months

00:01:48.960 if you get it down to two months that's pretty good but then you have a multi-step process and that's one

00:01:56.060 of the things we want to make sure the american public don't get confused about because it'll take

00:02:00.960 three or four months to see if it's safe and induces a good response then you go to the real proof

00:02:06.060 of the pudding which is the phase two and then the phase three but even with phase two you don't

00:02:11.340 only see a hundred to a thousand or more people that's phase two phase one is 45 people so when

00:02:19.640 you go to phase two that would take yet again another six to eight months in a environment in

00:02:25.160 which there are infections because you want to show it works you add all of that up and you're dealing

00:02:30.880 with a year to a year and a half at the earliest then you've got to scale up to make enough doses

00:02:37.280 to get to the american people so when i tell the vaccine story there's good news and there's sobering

00:02:44.080 news the good news is we did it more quickly than we've ever done it the sobering news is that it's

00:02:49.800 not ready for prime time for what we're going through now operation warp speed took this process

00:02:56.320 that dr fauci said would take you know 12 months 18 months and these were minimums that was if

00:03:03.140 everything went right but the operation warp speed took the resources of government and it lashed it to

00:03:10.120 the talent in the innovation sectors of our economy and the result is not one vaccine that shatters

00:03:17.920 the records that breaks the timeline the result is that we've got two such vaccine candidates right now

00:03:24.400 i'm grateful that president trump has indicated we will see initial distribution within weeks to

00:03:31.600 those frontline health care workers that are out there really taking the brunt of this virus

00:03:37.580 concern for their families they deserve to get this vaccine on the front end our first responders as well

00:03:44.480 need to have access to the vaccine vulnerable populations and then i'm sure we'll see broad distribution to

00:03:51.560 all those who want it i don't believe in vaccine mandates any more than i believe in lockdown or

00:03:58.700 mask mandates i think ultimately that picks a fight between government and the body politic rather than

00:04:06.240 encouraging cooperation between government and the body politic but it's really really remarkable to

00:04:13.080 see this announcement that today we're going to see moderna following right behind pfizer seeking that

00:04:19.800 approval shattering the records and frankly shattering the reality that dr fauci tried to set up for us many

00:04:27.440 months ago congratulations to the trump administration

00:04:30.360 the bipartisan coalition in favor of extended deployments forever wars nation building they're

00:04:43.940 concerned that president trump is taking strong action now to bring our troops home and put our country

00:04:49.560 first and in fact president trump has put a lot of folks over at the pentagon who can operationalize

00:04:57.400 the president's intent and that is very concerning to some of the so-called national security establishment

00:05:04.100 on meet the press yesterday admiral mullen offered his critique of president trump and the trump doctrine

00:05:10.340 take a listen well i think i'm actually very concerned about the trump loyalists who have now gone to work in the

00:05:16.320 pentagon i mean recently secretary esper was fired and a host of other people left the building and there are

00:05:23.600 some real trump loyalists there now in charge and it's pretty difficult to think that over the course of

00:05:31.600 50 or 60 days you can do something constructive but you can do something that's really destructive

00:05:36.960 uh and a week ago there were certain there many media reports that there was a debate about uh action

00:05:44.400 against iran specifically uh the president reportedly uh uh turned down uh but i would be concerned that

00:05:51.760 those issues continue to be raised you mentioned the troops in afghanistan coming out there uh there are

00:05:58.960 reports now of bringing troops home from somalia and just i guess generally trying to get as many troops

00:06:05.600 home before the inauguration as possible i just think we need to be very careful with that somalia 1.00

00:06:11.520 admiral mullen thinks that we need to stay in somalia forever and look i understand that in places like

00:06:17.440 somalia afghanistan yemen you have failed states you have a lack of security but the response

00:06:23.760 isn't to move into those countries for decades and potentially generations as admiral mullen and

00:06:30.960 others might have us do the right answer is to degrade the capability to attack our nation

00:06:37.440 and then come home and not to do nothing not to bring our troops home and do nothing but to bring our

00:06:42.960 troops home and make our nation more resilient use technology better use travel bans when appropriate

00:06:50.960 don't allow for some entities within these other countries to buy their way into the united states

00:06:56.480 or to slip across the southern border there are things america can do to make americans safer that

00:07:03.760 don't require extended deployments in places like somalia

00:07:11.520 there is a troubling trend of rising suicide numbers in japan we pick up the story from cbs news

00:07:19.040 suicide claimed more japanese lives in october than 10 months of covid far more japanese people

00:07:26.400 are dying of suicide likely exacerbated by the economic and social repercussions of the pandemic

00:07:33.120 more so than coven 19 diseases itself while japan has managed its coronavirus epidemic well keeping

00:07:41.040 deaths below 2 000 nationwide provisional statistics from the national police agency shows suicides

00:07:49.200 surging to 2 153 in october alone marking the fourth straight month of an increase to date more than 17 000

00:07:59.840 people have taken their own life in japan october these self-inflicted deaths were up 600 on the year

00:08:07.200 with female suicides about a third of the total surging 80 percent it is important to recognize that the

00:08:15.360 impact of covid cannot be measured in the impact of the disease itself we also have to look at the

00:08:22.800 consequence of these lockdowns the impact on people's lives and even the potential for lockdowns to cause the

00:08:30.480 end of life we have to watch these trends and we have to stop it from happening in our great country

00:08:36.880 there's a new call for aerial fumigation of coca plants in colombia i'm not sure it is the most

00:08:49.120 stabilizing action for the country we pick up the story from reuters colombia must restart aerial

00:08:55.680 fumigation to fight drug trafficking defense minister says and out of bogota the story comes that colombia

00:09:02.240 must restart the fumigation as soon as possible to reduce cocaine production for illegal armed

00:09:08.720 groups massacres and the killing of human rights activists the defense minister said the andean

00:09:15.520 country colombia is a top producer of cocaine still they suspended aerial fumigation in 2015

00:09:23.120 after various organizations said that it might cause cancer but it's not just cancer that aerial fumigation

00:09:31.200 causes it causes resentment and destabilization among some of the communities that aren't involved in coca

00:09:39.040 production here's how it works these cocaine fields in colombia in particular are not like massive plantations

00:09:47.200 it's more like side of the mountain bottom of the valley uh little plants little grows you know maybe

00:09:54.880 a few hundred plants and those are then gathered together from these various types of growers into a

00:10:02.320 processing facility that they've usually hidden somewhere near a river and that's how they process

00:10:07.920 the cocaine i've spent time in colombia i've met with the leadership there i've talked about their

00:10:12.960 strategies and when i speak to the people when i talk to a lot of community leaders they beg for the

00:10:20.080 fumigation not to resume because it hurts regular crops it makes it harder for the people of colombia

00:10:26.880 to work with the government to find the processing facilities and to attack the narco trafficking networks 0.52

00:10:34.080 i am concerned about this also because there's a certain detente that has developed in colombia where

00:10:40.240 violence has been reduced as production of cocaine has increased so if you then decrease that

00:10:46.000 production of cocaine it does put a certain economic strain on the populace that's going to make it

00:10:51.600 difficult for them i i think there are other ways to attack the narco trafficking business model

00:10:57.680 particularly in the movement of the drugs that may be an easier place to find the networks degrade

00:11:05.840 them and limit their capability to move the narcotics without having to destroy someone's tomato farm

00:11:13.920 without having to potentially drop a chemical on a family that has nothing to do with the cocaine

00:11:20.720 business but just by virtue of proximity and the lack of precision with the deployment of some of these

00:11:27.360 fumigation chemicals you know you do get that collateral damage and that could be a problem so we don't

00:11:32.640 want to see that happen in colombia it's interesting that this is the new position of the defense

00:11:37.040 minister we will follow the story closely last night on the next revolution with steve hilton i discussed

00:11:47.120 former president obama's critique of hispanics who support president trump and the obama critique of

00:11:54.640 hispanics is quite similar to his critique of folks in pennsylvania who didn't want to vote for him

00:12:00.320 uh his critique of those who cling to their bibles and their guns take a listen he blamed white people

00:12:06.960 in pennsylvania for clinging to their bibles and their guns he's blamed hispanics in this last election

00:12:12.800 for clinging to their views on family and their pro-life values and yet i think obama ignores both in

00:12:19.360 the book and his commentary on biden what really does make our country great and that's prosperity giving

00:12:24.720 everyone the opportunity to succeed and what we fear on the right is that joe biden is going to enact

00:12:30.160 these socialist policies through the trojan horse of coronavirus and it will indeed vanquish the

00:12:36.160 promise of our country and you could tell that obama doesn't think too much of america because

00:12:40.000 he calls it the promised land sort of saying that we have not lived up to a promise i think this is

00:12:45.440 the greatest country that's ever existed i feel so blessed to live here

00:12:48.560 socialism is doomed to fail it is trickle up poverty a disaster that's the message from

00:13:00.880 whole foods founder and ceo john mackie he delivered the address in a live streamed interview

00:13:07.200 to the american enterprise institute he co-authored the book consensus capitalism and said that socialism has

00:13:15.280 been tried 42 times in the last hundred years and it has 42 failures it doesn't work it's the wrong

00:13:23.040 way we have to keep capitalism and while he acknowledged critique of capitalism as a mechanism

00:13:31.200 at times captured by special interests who can be overly materialistic and appear indifferent to the

00:13:38.080 plight of others the alternative is far worse he makes the argument that capitalism needs to evolve

00:13:44.240 but that it is fundamentally the correct system and i agree socialism is not too far from florida's

00:13:51.760 borders where i live communism government control over production redistribution of wealth the draining

00:14:00.000 of resources we see it all we know people who are but a generation or two removed from that type of life and

00:14:08.640 in america we have this great promise that we can be the type of person we can achieve the heights that

00:14:16.320 our talents would deliver to us that the opportunity of our country delivers to us so it's good to see

00:14:22.400 at least some folks in corporate america step up for the notion that markets are important they're not

00:14:29.280 perfect there is obviously a way in which our country can execute on capitalism that

00:14:35.680 is always going to be better and more responsive and more productive and more innovative but capitalism

00:14:42.000 is the way to go and it's important that leaders in politics business and industry in societal life

00:14:49.920 in america stand up for the values that are so uniquely american twitter is making a change that

00:15:01.440 could result in even more censorship for conservatives we pick up the story from the daily mail twitter is

00:15:09.040 going to rewrite their verification policy as early as 2021 to remove blue check marks for users who violate

00:15:17.600 their rules while some government officials may be protected any voice out of line is subject to getting

00:15:24.480 the boot twitter will start accepting new blue check mark requests next year with guidelines that could

00:15:31.600 even put donald trump's verified status at risk if he loses his world leaders protection twitter is set to

00:15:39.760 ensure that they have maximum control over those who get verified and like the blue check mark is the

00:15:46.960 new mechanism by which they're going to try to hold leverage over people to try to cause people to self-censor

00:15:54.640 recently i was on david harris jr's podcast and we talked about the way in which these social media

00:16:00.560 platforms can cause content creators to self-censor he gave me quite the interesting admission that it's

00:16:07.760 even happened with him take a listen uh i've had to self-censor and i hate i mean especially can i just say

00:16:13.840 it especially as a black man i hate anybody telling me what to do or what i can and cannot do especially

00:16:18.960 when it's the man so to speak obviously zuckerberg not saying it has anything to do with race i'm just saying

00:16:23.840 me as a person period i don't like people telling me what to do uh and when and especially self-censoring

00:16:30.240 so i've i've already had to self-censor there's so many topics that are taboo climate change is one of

00:16:35.520 them for two years if i posted anything about climate change they would give me a fake news strike and they

00:16:41.360 would lower my reach just period that i even posted a video of of uh dan pena the billionaire hispanic

00:16:48.160 billionaire that supports the president and he was just sharing his opinion on it and they gave me two

00:16:52.800 strikes so yeah it's all about self-censoring silencing me to me it's lynching me it's lynching

00:16:58.800 my voice my ability to just say what i feel and what i believe on what should be an open and fair platform

00:17:04.080 in america we don't want people to have to self-censor we want you to be able to fly your

00:17:08.880 maga flag at full and not half mast we want you to be able to share your provocative thoughts and 0.58

00:17:15.040 ideas and the hope is that that will provoke others to exchange ideas to offer their reactions and

00:17:22.400 critique and criticism but when we surrender to this world where the silicon valley woketopians get to

00:17:29.440 be the arbiters of the truth we lose the essence of americanism we lose that opportunity to flood the

00:17:38.080 marketplace of ideas with good ideas bad ideas information that's true information that may have

00:17:44.880 developed from skeptical sources but that's what makes us inquisitive and curious the ability to decipher

00:17:53.840 information i don't want that job outsourced to silicon valley i want my family my community the

00:18:01.600 people i interact with to have the benefit of ideas and thoughts from a wide array of sources with a wide

00:18:09.200 array of values and it's my belief that the meritocracy of debate will ensure that the best ideas that the best

00:18:18.320 values emerge i don't think they're going to emerge from silicon valley alone i bet on the country and

00:18:25.200 that's why any changes to these digital platforms that allow these companies to ratchet down on the

00:18:32.320 speech or the information they don't like or to cause people to self-censor is very dangerous to

00:18:39.200 the public debate to the public sphere and to the country at large thanks for listening to hot takes

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 30, 2020

Episode 139 - Silicon Valley Plots Another Threat to Free Speech. Records Shattered with Rapid Vaccine Development. Devastating Stats on Suicides.

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