Episode 147 - Unhinged Democrat Threatens Trump Supporters. Bombshell Investigation into Hunter Biden. YouTube Silences Conservative Voices.
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Summary
In this week's Hot Takes, Congressman Matt Gores (R-Illinois) takes a look at the new CDC data on the spread of the Ebola virus, and asks the question: Will the new vaccines prevent all Americans from getting sick with the virus? Plus, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) files a lawsuit to force the breakup of Facebook, and calls for the sale of assets like instagram and whatsapp.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country tonight be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news out of the state of
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michigan state representative cynthia johnson made a facebook live video where she expressly
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called on people to hurt trump supporters to harm them to make them pay take a listen so this is
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just a warning to you trumpers be careful walk lightly we ain't playing with you enough of the
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shenanigans enough is enough and for those of you who are soldiers
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you know how to do it do it right be in order make them pay michigan's speaker of the house has
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responded by stripping state representative cynthia johnson of her committee assignments following
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this video saying that neither republicans nor democrats should be threatened and we fully
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endorse that there are many places in the world where political violence is necessary for survival
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to carve out a country but america is not one such place we have no reason to be violent toward one
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another as a result of our politics and we stand in solidarity with those who reject political violence
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and accept the notion that we can resolve our differences with debate and discussion and
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adherence to the rule of law are those who are vaccinated still going to be required to wear
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masks that's the question posed by the new york times the new vaccines will probably prevent you
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from getting sick with covid no one knows yet whether they will keep you from spreading the virus to
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others but that information is coming now the reason this new york times piece is relevant is
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because we've we initially heard joe biden and elements of his transition say that there would
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be a mask mandate they leaked that they floated it as a test balloon and the response was very loud
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and very negative to a national mask mandate so now we've heard biden himself come out and say
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a hundred days to wear a mask just a hundred days and all i kept thinking when biden was saying that
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i was like wasn't wasn't this the crowd that kind of told us 14 days to slow the spread
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the kind of fauci-led apparatus that biden seems to be embracing if 14 days to slow the spread
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resulted in months of lockdowns and now even the ratcheting up of lockdowns in some places
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you have to wonder if a hundred days to wear a mask is really joe biden's effort to put america under
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a de facto mask mandate for quite some time and when you see the mainstream media the new york times with
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all of their biases and agendas coming out and saying well if you're vaccinated you still have
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to wear the mask it does tend to lead one to think that that may be signaling for policy choices
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that may be coming forward and that joe biden may be advocating for i think it's best when we trust our
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people when we care for each other when we do what we can when necessary to wear a mask keep distance
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sanitize but i mean if you've had the virus and you have active antibodies and it wasn't all that long
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ago you're largely wearing the mask for social reasons not for medical reasons and what we don't
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want to see is an environment where despite the vaccine despite having the antibodies we're just all
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wearing the masks for the sake of wearing masks not for the sake of public health i think we ought to put
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science data first and i'm not sure that supports 100 days of mask wearing particularly for those
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who have antibodies and who get the vaccine but check out all sides we'll post the new york times story
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the federal trade commission has called for a breakup of facebook requiring them to sell off assets such as
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instagram and whatsapp take a listen to the story from nbc news some big news today the federal trade
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commission suing to break up facebook the ftc is asking a federal court to force the sell-off of
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assets like instagram and whatsapp meanwhile 48 attorneys general also filing a separate lawsuit today
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new york's ag letitia james leading that suit releasing this statement for nearly a decade facebook has
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used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition all at
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the expense of everyday users we have been saying for quite some time on this podcast that legislative
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action from the congress would never free our country from big tech tyranny because congress is
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totally bought and paid for by big tech and so it was always going to take an entity like the fcc or
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the federal elections commission or the federal trade commission as is the case here to step forward
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to utilize their authority to understand that the very reason that some of these agencies exist is to
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deforce the decision making that our country needs from the politics and the campaign donation for
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political favor paradigm that toxifies our government here in washington dc so i'm grateful that the ftc is
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taking this step and i'm hopeful that they'll see it through this news about the ftc comes right
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alongside the news we reported on the podcast yesterday that the fcc is seeing its membership
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change with the addition of nathan simington the senate just confirming him nathan simington the trump
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administration appointee who we believe will take the fight to big tech will reset the relationship
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between consumers and digital platforms online and facebook is one of the worst violators they engage in
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anti-competitive practices and i'm glad that the ftc is doing something about it
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if you need a little reason for optimism you might find it in the latest report from ucla that economic
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conditions could be improving for the united states and we pick up the story from the business section
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of the la times get ready for another roaring 20s ucla economic forecast predicts now this forecast is
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heavily rooted in the belief that the vaccines developed by the trump administration during operation
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warp speed will be deployed that they will be utilized and that they will build confidence in the marketplace
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and then that vaccine development paired with the pent-up demand particularly for travel and vacation
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spending will create an economic jolt starting in 2021 toward the back end of that year and we
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certainly hope that's the case we just hope that the lockdowns that have been imposed by a lot of these
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left-leaning mayors and governors haven't created such a permanent scarring on our economy that we won't be
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able to fully realize this rebound that the ucla study predicts when businesses are extinguished when
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lives are ruined when careers are interrupted it's not always just so easy to flip the light switch back
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on we have to do a lot in this country to encourage small business growth and this economic forecast from
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ucla would seem to say that the economic conditions created by the policies of the trump administration
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could be enduring that we might be able to catch that updraft yet again with low taxes a good
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regulatory climate and what we're really missing now is that confidence with our businesses and with
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our consumers that will get through this pandemic in a way that allows them to be able to invest again
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and grow so we're hopeful that the optimistic ucla forecast is correct and if it is true that our best days
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are ahead undoubtedly the policy choices that were made during the trump administration have put us
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in the position to succeed is america's neighbor to the north getting a little too cozy with our
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principal adversary that of course is china we get the story from rebelnews.com secret military documents
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trudeau invited chinese troops to train at canadian military bases and here the story talks about cold
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weather training specifically that was allowed in canada also the utilization of canadian military to
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participate in the world military games also a number of people associated with trudeau's government in
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canada going to canada going to china traveling there for conferences and exchanges the china files
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were apparently accessed by rebel news in detail this very cozy relationship between trudeau and china and
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you know this submissive approach that trudeau has it doesn't just appear to be his personal affection
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for china it appears to be the official policy of the government and that it is truly infected canada
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deep into their agencies of civil service as well we'll continue to follow the story check it out on rebelnews.com
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this morning i joined the crew over at fox and friends to discuss the evolving scandal regarding
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congressman eric swalwell congressman kevin mccarthy the republican leader has called for the removal of
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swalwell from congress others have called for his removal from the intelligence committee it's my
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perspective that only the voters should really get to decide who their member of congress is but
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certainly when you look at sensitive committee assignments you want to make sure that you've got
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folks there who are very resilient against efforts for foreign interference here's my discussion on fox
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and friends yeah you just don't understand brian that eric swalwell is here to help in fact he wants to
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help so much in confronting china that he spent years super spreading the lies of the russia hoax
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you know i don't blame eric swalwell for being targeted by foreign intelligence but i'm old enough to remember
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when lev parnas showed up and made a few donations at republican events that was wall-to-wall coverage from the
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media you know that was supposedly like the crime of the century but when eric swalwell engages in a very close
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relationship with clearly an agent of communist china well that's deemed as something we can just
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accept and move on my suspicion is you'll continue to hear republicans very critical we also talked
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about the breaking news regarding investigations into hunter biden and the media's desire to shield
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the american people for the from the truth about the biden family and their foreign entanglements
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here's that talk notice that the biden transition tried to frame this scandal as a dispute about taxes
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maybe something an accountant got wrong the reality is this isn't about taxes it's about foreign
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entanglements it's about selling american influence to the highest bidder and it appears something the
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biden's are quite familiar with but if in the trump justice department there wasn't vigor to ensure that
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there was equity and application of the law here i'm not sure that anyone at the justice department
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right now thinks they're going to make their career by going after hunter biden i also think it's
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important to know how the media was covering this remember we've got project veritas recordings of
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the editorial calls from cnn where jeff zucker instead of delving into this story used the biden
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laptop existence as a way to smear fox news smear the new york post smear breitbart smear anyone who
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is telling the american people the truth about the biden's a major move by big tech to limit the
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information you have to stop you from making your own judgments and decisions about the things that
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are happening in our country youtube announcing that they will censor information about this last
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election that doesn't fit with their narrative we know there were a number of irregularities there's
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circumstantial evidence of fraud there are affidavits regarding limitation of access and there are
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anomalies regarding batches of ballots that are very difficult to explain you also see in wisconsin
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circumstances where election chiefs violated election law in the vote by mail process by not requiring
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sufficient authentication request validation of those vote by mail ballots you'll hear it on this
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podcast but they don't want you to see it on youtube anymore tucker carlson covered what's
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happening and what it means for our country take a listen in a blog post a youtube owned by google
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vowed that its teams are working around the clock to stop what it called harmful misinformation and
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harmful content they said they're deeply concerned about quote making sure our platform isn't abused to
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incite real world harm now what does that mean exactly coming from a company that has caused so much
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quote real world harm well youtube explained quote we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today
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or anytime after that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors change the outcome of the
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2020 presidential election the irony here is enough to make you dizzy the company that rigged the election
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by suppressing legitimate information in order to influence the outcome of the election more effectively than
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any foreign government could ever do is now telling us to preserve our faith in the election they need to censor
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us more so how exactly are election related videos causing harm well youtube doesn't explain that they would cause
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harm to youtube's reputation and google's reputation much deserved we need to break this company up like
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immediately but youtube does go on to boast that its censorship campaign has already been underway for
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quite some time quote since september we've terminated over 8 000 channels and thousands of harmful and
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misleading election related videos for violating our existing policies they used the word terminated by the
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way that's not creepy or anything continuing the quote over 77 of those removed videos were taken down
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before they had 100 views what in the world is going on here ask rational questions and you reach a dead end
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because there are no rational answers this is just flat out totalitarian control over the population we will
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always believe in the power of americans to filter through a variety of information sources and then to be able to
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ascertain the nuggets of truth in a sea of bias and agenda and attempts to seize power because at the
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end of the day that's really what these tech companies and mainstream media companies want they want the power
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to control what you see and hear because ultimately they want to be in charge of how you act and how you
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behave we are a better country than to ever allow that to happen thanks for listening to hot takes i'm
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