Episode 145 – Are the US and Israel Colluding With...Aliens？! Open America Up! CNBC Panelists Throw Shots Over COVID Lockdowns. Goya Foods Names AOC as Employee of the Month.
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An international force of aliens is communicating with the United States and Israel, according to a former head of the Israeli space program. A Florida governor wants to close public schools, and Joe Biden wants to get rid of the "America First" foreign policy.
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Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news.
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An international force of aliens communicating with the United States and Israel according
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to Israel's former head of the space program. We get the story from the Jerusalem Post and
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this guy apparently led Israel's space program from 1981 to 2010 and gave an interview saying
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that the aliens are conducting tests regularly on Earth. They have a base on Mars. They talk
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to the U.S. and Israeli government and that President Trump was intending to declassify
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and expose this alien contact but that the Galactic Federation has convinced him not to so that
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people can calm down and get ready for the news of the existence of aliens working to some
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degree in concert with our government and with Israel's government. Here's my hot take. I am
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here for the alien news. I don't need to calm down. I don't need to get into a different
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state of mind. If there are aliens, I want to know about it. I want to know who they're talking
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to. I want to know who that what their goals are. And I want to know what their capabilities
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are. If there really are aliens, and they're aware of us, I don't think that this is all
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going to be entirely peaceful. I think that just the nature of colonialism with living things
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would result in either them wanting to colonize us or us wanting to colonize them. So we will
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continue to bring you all the alien news we can on this podcast. Really striking. Check out the story
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in the Jerusalem Post. Keep the schools open, where parents have at least the option for in-person
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learning for their students. And of course, there'll be parents who choose distance learning,
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virtual learning, alternate learning sites, and we're all about parent choice. But you deprive
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parents choice when you don't open the public schools. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been
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a national leader advocating for the option for in-person student learning. Here's the governor.
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I would say that closing schools due to coronavirus is probably the biggest public health blunder
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in modern American history. The fallout in communities that are still chafing under school closures,
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we have some of the biggest school districts in our country that still do not have in-person
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instruction. Incidentally, of the top 10 school districts population-wise, five are in Florida.
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All five offer in-person instruction. But the harm from this is going to reverberate in those
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communities for years and years to come. And the tragedy of all this is that the evidence has been
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remarkably clear since the spring that closing schools offers virtually nothing in terms of
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virus mitigation, but imposes huge costs on our kids, on our parents, and on our society.
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Governor DeSantis is right. And here's my hot take. Education, particularly public education in
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our country, has become more about the adults in that system than the kids. And clearly,
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the decision to close schools is not one that is best for the students. Now, I think we need to
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accommodate teachers who have medical frailties, who maybe are closer to retirement, who are concerned
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about their health, of course. But where you've got younger teachers, where you've got the ability
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to create swing space and distancing, the governor is right. The negative effects of closing school
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are so much more detrimental to young people than the threat of coronavirus. I stand with the governor
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of Florida and with the parents and students who deserve the option of in-person learning.
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The establishment in our country that has drained the people. They're licking their chops at the
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prospect of a Biden administration. And that's especially true in national security. Nationalinterest.org
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has the story, Joe Biden's picks show the Washington establishment is back. Biden's late November
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national security picks signal his commitment after four years of Trump's unorthodox policy approach
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to realign the Washington experience with the mainstream of U.S. diplomatic and intelligence
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establishment thinking. What this principally means is that they want to get rid of the America
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first foreign policy that has been so effective and refreshing. You see, the America first foreign
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policy meant that we actually started focusing on our near peer adversaries and we didn't drain our
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nation with the global war on terror's objectives of chasing every terrorist into every cave. The America
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first foreign policy meant that we weren't going to be dead money in negotiations globally, like in the
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Paris climate accord, where basically the U.S. put up a ton of cash. Other countries got to use that
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cash and maybe it worked and maybe it didn't. But at the end of the day, it was going to be the benefit
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of others and the expense of Americans that really drove the train on the Paris climate accord. And then
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specifically, this national interest piece goes into how Biden conflates multilateralism with
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transatlanticism. He really believes that the U.S. transatlantic relationships ought to drive global
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discourse. That, of course, means bolstering the potential of a Russian threat. That's what really,
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I think, keeps up the threat construction ecosystem that would fuel a potential Biden foreign policy.
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I'm still hoping that Joe Biden never becomes president, but if he did, the establishment would eat
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first, their policy ideas would be implemented, and America would be worse off for it.
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CNBC was the source of quite the exchange on cable news recently. CNBC's Rick Santelli blasted anchor
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Andrew Ross Sorkin over coronavirus lockdowns. The shouting match went viral after the tense exchange
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occurred regarding how these lockdowns impact people's lives, their impact on health. Take a
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listen. You can't tell me that shutting down, which is the easiest answer, is necessarily the
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only answer. Rick, I just, just as a, as a, as a public health and public service announcement
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for the audience, the difference between a big box retailer, hold on, the difference between,
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the difference, the difference between a big box retailer, hold on, the difference between a big box
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retailer and a restaurant, or frankly, even a, a church, are so different, it's unbelievable.
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I disagree. I disagree. I disagree. You're wearing a mask. You can have your thoughts and I can have mine.
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You're required to wear a mask. I disagree. It's science. I'm sorry. It's science. If you're wearing
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a mask, it's a different story. It's not science. 500 people in a Lowe's aren't any safer than 150
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people in a restaurant that holds 600. I don't believe it. Sorry. Don't believe it. Okay. And I
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live in an area where there's a lot of restaurants that have fought back and they don't have any
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problems. And they're open. Okay. You don't have to believe it, but let me just say this. You're
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doing a disservice to the viewer because the viewers need to understand it. You are doing a
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disservice to the viewer. You are. You are. I, I, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If, if, if, I, I would like to
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keep our viewers as healthy as humanly possible. The idea of packing people into restaurants. I think
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our viewers are smart enough to make part of those decisions on their own. I don't think that I'm much
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smarter than all the viewers like some people do.
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I've recently spent some time in Los Angeles and it is so sad how a vibrant, diverse, exciting
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city has been hollowed out by lockdowns over the coronavirus. One restaurant owner shared
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that frustration recently. Take a listen. So this is my place, the Pineapple Hill Grill and
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Saloon. If you go to my page, you can see all the work I did for outdoor dining for tables being
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seven feet apart. And I come in today because I'm organizing a protest and I came in to get
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And I walk into my parking lot and obviously Mayor Garcetti has approved
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this being set up for, for a movie company. I'm losing everything. Everything I own is being
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taken away from me. And they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio, which
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is right over here. And people wonder why I'm protesting and why I have had enough. They have
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not given us money and they have shut us down. We cannot survive. My staff cannot survive.
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Look at this. Tell me that this is dangerous. But right next to me as a slap in my face. That's
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safe. This is safe. 50 feet away. This is dangerous. Mayor Garcetti and Gavin Newsom
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is responsible for every single person that doesn't have unemployment, that does not have
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a job and all the businesses that are going under. And we need your help. We need somebody
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Here's my hot take. Restaurants should be open. And yes, we should have innovations that
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allow us to be safer, like menu-less ordering, like contactless payment, like masks and distancing
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where appropriate. But this notion that we're going to take people from inside a restaurant
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and then build a tent outside the restaurant and then put the people in the tent and they're
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somehow going to be safer is ludicrous. And the notion that we're going to shut down the
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experience dining industry altogether is devastating to our fellow Americans and their families who rely
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on it. And this restaurant owner correctly shared that frustration. And I stand with them. I stand
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with those who want the dignity of work. So much we do in government is to try to get people to want
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to work. And here we have millions upon millions of our fellow Americans who want to, who through no fault
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of their own, are seeing their government take away their livelihoods and in some cases their lives.
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Open America up. Let Americans make smart choices. If there are those with medical frailties who need
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to stay inside longer, let's make sure they have every support system to be able to honor that choice.
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But for those of us who make the choice to go out and live our lives, we should be able to eat inside,
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like human beings, supporting our fellow Americans, their businesses, their goals, and their prosperity.
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The politically correct Woketopians have canceled Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and now maybe even Uncle Sam.
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That's right, Politico has put out a video offering a critique of the utilization of an old skinny white guy
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for Uncle Sam. Take a listen. Uncle Sam has served as our national avatar for a very long time,
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but it's fair to ask. Maybe it's time to come up with an avatar that better represents the diversity
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of the country. As a cartoonist, I love the old guy and I lean on him all the time in my cartoons.
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It's not just me, but other cartoonists, designers, patriotic propagandists of all stripes have relied on
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Uncle Sam as a handy and durable symbol of the U.S. government for a couple of centuries.
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He's evolved in small ways over the years. His costumes varied, his hat and necktie get reworked
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a bit, but fundamentally Uncle Sam's remained the same skinny white guy with a stringy goatee for a
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very long time. 208 years, as a matter of fact. I started to wonder. It's 2020, and over the past
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couple years we've been reckoning with representation in our national symbology. Monuments and statues of
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marble and bronze that were once accepted as national icons are being questioned and reconsidered.
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Some are coming down. Don't get me wrong. Uncle Sam isn't Robert E. Lee. I'm not out to topple a venerated
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icon. Like I said, I like the old guy, but as one old white guy to another old white guy, maybe it's not
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surprising that he works for me. Maybe it's time to recast Uncle Sam and come up with something
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that better reflects America. This is just ridiculous. If people want to add to the American
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avatar collection, there are so many opportunities. You don't have to change Uncle Sam. I mean,
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what are we going to do? Have Uncle Sam come out as transgendered? You know, is he going to be
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transitioning? I don't know if that means he becomes Aunt Sally or Uncle Sally or Aunt Sam,
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but it's just so present in the minds of people in our day to attach everything to identity.
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It's not about what Uncle Sam represents. It's not about sometimes the patriotic and comical and
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inspiring utilization of the image. It's just about a way to virtue signal. And that doesn't do anything
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to advance the cause of our country. It uses identity to try to re-inscribe differences and division,
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rather than to create a common sense of unity. So I stand with Uncle Sam as he is, current race,
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current gender, maybe modernize the wardrobe a little.
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Congratulations to Congresswoman Alex Ocasio-Cortez. In addition to being the outspoken
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Democrat socialist from New York State, she is also the employee of the month for Goya Foods.
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That's right. Goya Foods president and CEO Bob Rainier revealed that after AOC echoed a call for
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a boycott of Goya products back in July because he supported President Trump, his company named her
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employee of the month because sales rose so dramatically. We get the story from the Daily
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Wire. And, you know, I remember this conflict. I remember talking to some of the senior executives
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at Goya Foods. And frankly, they were elated at all the attention. And there were a lot of folks who
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made sure that when they were in that canned vegetable line in the grocery store that they
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reached for Goya first. So I guess they're glad that AOC took so much time to recognize their contribution
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to the political debate. And we congratulate Alex Ocasio-Cortez on being a Goya Foods employee
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of the month. Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. This podcast is written,
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