The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 23 - The Future will Cancel Us. Antifa's Capital. WHO Flip Flops.

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes. This is Congressman Matt Gaetz.

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00:00:30.000 Let's talk about the news. You are canceled. That is the news of the day today. Cancel culture

00:00:36.500 is in its ultimate zenith. We are living in the renaissance of cancel culture. Gone with 0.99

00:00:44.100 the wind, canceled. ABC News had video footage of Christopher Columbus, canceled. The statue

00:00:51.780 of Christopher Columbus being taken down in St. Paul, Minnesota. Live PD has been canceled.

00:01:00.000 A story out by Deadline.com. Also, the New York Times surmising that even Paw Patrol could

00:01:08.100 be the next victim of cancel culture. Paw Patrol is a cartoon of a fiction dog. What is going

00:01:17.920 on in the world today where we would have to cancel something that doesn't even exist, a

00:01:23.340 cartoon because it paints cops in a favorable light? You know what? Maybe if more young

00:01:30.020 people had positive interactions with real cops or cartoon cops or cartoon dogs pretending

00:01:37.740 to be cops, that you would have a more inviting and cooperative relationship. You know, maybe

00:01:43.740 if you didn't have school districts like they now have done in California, in addition to

00:01:49.260 Oregon, getting rid of the school resource officers, maybe if those school resource officers

00:01:54.060 were working with students, building trust, building positive relationships, we would have

00:01:59.820 more effective policing and more active cooperation among everyone who has to interact in society.

00:02:07.800 But no, we've canceled Paw Patrol, Live PD, Christopher Columbus, Gone with the Wind. I wonder,

00:02:13.480 like, are we going to have to cancel the greatest generation altogether? Are we going to be able

00:02:19.320 to even call the greatest generation the generation that had, like, Gone with the Wind and the song

00:02:25.620 Baby It's Cold Outside? And it really begs the question, like, what will be the new standard

00:02:31.460 in the next generation? Because I have a suspicion. I think we're all going to be canceled one day.

00:02:37.920 I think that is ultimately all of our fate. Because if we no longer are able to acknowledge

00:02:43.480 the contribution that Christopher Columbus made to humanity, then I don't think any of the

00:02:51.240 contributions that any of us are making are so special that in the lens of history, there will

00:02:57.160 be there will not be like some standard of conduct that is developed down the road like that we didn't

00:03:02.520 meet. And, you know, we always hope that as human beings, our standards evolve, that we treat people

00:03:09.160 better, that we grow, that we liberate ourselves from the dogmas and sins of the past. But if we keep

00:03:15.940 living in the past, then we are unable to do that. We are unable to live in a world where race is less 0.99

00:03:23.740 important when all we are fed by the media and all we see sort of living out in our lives before us are

00:03:31.200 the so-called experts telling us that race is the only thing that should matter, that our identity

00:03:36.620 defines us, that it is the characteristic that we must cling to above all else. And, you know,

00:03:42.460 I just wish that we had more circumstances, like we saw in the House Judiciary Committee yesterday,

00:03:50.480 where you saw victims of violence, whether that was violence from police or violence from these riots,

00:03:58.640 joining together, showing empathy for one another, demonstrating that, you know, if Dr. King were

00:04:05.440 alive today, if any number of people who've fought for equal treatment under the law could see the

00:04:14.300 circumstances that we find ourselves in, they certainly wouldn't be glorifying the surrender of

00:04:19.980 our communities, the burning of our churches, the harm to our fellow citizens, even people who've gone

00:04:26.380 out to protest peacefully, being harmed by some of the violent acts of the permanent criminal element

00:04:32.180 that has appeared in this time of some crisis. But I suspect that at the end of the day, if we adopt

00:04:38.260 this theory that if someone in their time didn't live to the standards of our time, that not only do

00:04:45.680 we have to critique that conduct, which I always think is fair, but we have to like fully cancel them,

00:04:50.700 rip down their statues, not teach them in the history books. It just begs the question how folks will

00:04:56.660 judge us. And it seems exhausting to me because the whole deal with cancel culture is you just have

00:05:02.100 to keep doing it, right? I mean, you can't stop canceling because then you've lost your reason to

00:05:08.420 exist, this great outrage where you've got to find the next thing to strip from our national consciousness

00:05:15.040 so that, so that, you know, you can feel validated in your current existence. I think it's outrageous.

00:05:20.280 And, you know, I had a tweet, uh, Miguel tweeted at me, erase racism and tyranny from our history.

00:05:28.160 And I'm just thinking, well, yeah, why stop there? You know, why not erase sexism? Why not? Why not

00:05:34.200 erase, uh, genocide that people all throughout human history have been involved in? Why not erase war or

00:05:41.400 famine, right? But like these things have happened throughout human history. And there are human

00:05:46.780 beings who have been deeply flawed, who have, uh, committed terrible acts, who have also made

00:05:52.840 substantial contributions. And maybe if we're able to like come to grips with that in our history,

00:05:57.640 that people are flawed and people can be, uh, you know, challenged in one aspect of their life and,

00:06:04.420 uh, you know, succeed while at the same time failing in other aspects of their life,

00:06:09.820 uh, then maybe we'll be more accepting of each other in the present and going forward. Because

00:06:14.340 the deal with the millennial generation and the zoomer generation coming behind us is 1.00

00:06:18.680 we've lived out our lives on social media. I mean, you know, the, the pictures we have of like of our

00:06:24.220 grandmother and grandfather are in their Sunday best at the family portrait. Our grandkids are going

00:06:29.720 to be able to see us and the body paint we wore to Coachella. So I think that you, you, perhaps it

00:06:35.680 would, in order to our benefit, not to apply, uh, such a, such a standard of absolution, uh, to every

00:06:44.580 figure in history. Uh, because I think that, uh, history would, would certainly judge us harshly if

00:06:50.140 we did so.

00:06:53.080 I do not support the removal and destruction of these historical figures and statues and monuments,

00:07:01.540 but that doesn't mean that we have to continue to maintain them in a sense of glory that could be

00:07:09.400 more accurately portrayed with the addition of history. I'm not for taking things down. I'm for

00:07:15.440 putting more stuff up. If we've learned additional information about folks in history who have had,

00:07:20.640 you know, um, a monument built or a statue constructed and we can add to that so that we can enrich the

00:07:27.440 perspective that we have. If we can include more voices to that conversation that might've been

00:07:33.780 marginalized, uh, I'm all for it. I think that that ultimately gives us better understanding of one

00:07:39.280 another and gives us more that we can contribute to the human experience rather than destroying and

00:07:46.160 taking away. Folks on the political left have told us that Antifa isn't real. Our own tax dollars on

00:07:54.680 NPR suggested that Antifa might just be a misunderstood political organization, but now

00:08:01.640 Antifa has a capital. There are seven city blocks in the Seattle, Washington area that have been

00:08:08.820 surrendered to Antifa, presumably beyond the jurisdiction of the laws of the community and

00:08:15.040 the state in which it lies. It is an area unto itself. And how is life in the woke-topia? Well,

00:08:21.640 it appears the only time the radical left is okay with folks having guns are when they're the Antifa

00:08:27.300 thugs keeping out the police and the media and those who would want to know what's going on.

00:08:34.220 They've called the area Capitol Hill. Subtle, I know. But it suggests that this Antifa movement intends

00:08:41.520 to seize territory, intends to keep destroying things. And I just wonder what the folks think who

00:08:49.140 were suggesting that this wasn't a terrorist phenomenon. And now that they see the terror

00:08:53.820 that it is bringing to those who are in the vicinity and in the areas around that may be the

00:08:59.360 next to fall. And where the hell is our government? Why is there not a stronger response from the state

00:09:05.700 of Washington? I saw Governor Jay Inslee suggesting he didn't even know what was going on.

00:09:11.900 Governor, I'd like to ask you about what's going on in Seattle. There's this thing called the Capitol Hill

00:09:16.140 Autonomous Zone. What's your thought on that? The fact that the protesters have taken that over

00:09:20.340 and not allowing people to come and go freely? And I don't know what regarding the Capitol Guard.

00:09:25.360 Well, that's news to me. So I'll have to reserve any comment about it. I have not heard anything

00:09:31.320 about that. Now, if seven city blocks in Florida had been surrendered, I could tell you that our

00:09:37.280 governor, Ron DeSantis, would have a stronger stance. And there are some that have suggested,

00:09:41.900 even some of my Republican friends. Well, you know, if in Seattle, they want to do it. If in

00:09:47.720 Washington, they'll tolerate the failure of their political leadership. You know, why should we care 0.62

00:09:52.700 in Florida? Why should we care in South Carolina or Texas? And, you know, we are not just a confederacy

00:10:00.440 of states. The United States of America is a great nation. And a great nation does not surrender

00:10:07.400 any of its communities to mob rule. Because then we are all potentially subject to that type of chaos

00:10:14.680 and that type of devolution of society. And while our society certainly can improve, and while we

00:10:21.140 must always strive to be a more perfect union, while we always knew that was part of our national call

00:10:26.840 to do better over time, to be better as human beings and as great vanguards of the national story,

00:10:34.660 this is a great country. And we ought to be proud to be Americans. We ought to be proud to stand for

00:10:41.780 the flag. And what we see going on where, like, people out of some sense of woke guilt have to turn

00:10:49.740 over the streets of our nation to thugs and criminals is not worthy of a great nation. We do not surrender

00:10:56.740 our streets. We do not give up on some semblance of order. And I suspect that the political leaders

00:11:04.740 who are allowing this to happen will ultimately be judged very harshly by their voters.

00:11:11.460 A wild and unfortunate story reported in the Virginia Pilot by Anna Leigh, Celine Martin, and Matt Jones.

00:11:19.620 Portsmouth Confederate statues beheaded, partially pulled down by protesters.

00:11:24.900 Here in Portsmouth, as the NAACP was participating in a protest, they were upset that the city council

00:11:31.940 had not taken down these Confederate monuments quickly enough. And so they appear to have all

00:11:37.540 kind of trouble getting these monuments and statues down. A rope snaps. They're working hard to tow them

00:11:45.060 down. At one point, they resort to throwing bricks at them. But the really unfortunate thing is,

00:11:50.100 as they pull down one of the statues, it hits a man in his 30s in the head and splits his skull open.

00:11:58.180 And gosh, it sounds like he had to go to the hospital with some pretty serious injuries. And we pray and

00:12:04.260 hope that he's okay. Obviously, when someone goes out to protest, it's not their expectation that a giant

00:12:10.020 statue is likely to fall on top of them and bust open their heads. So we certainly hope he does okay.

00:12:16.980 But gosh, it shows that we want everyone to be careful out there as they're exercising their

00:12:21.140 First Amendment rights. And while we don't think that anybody should be tearing down or destroying

00:12:25.700 anything outside the bounds of the law, we also don't see anybody hurt while they're doing it either.

00:12:30.740 At this point, who believes a word that is coming out of the World Health Organization when it comes to

00:12:38.180 Coronavirus? First, the World Health Organization covered up for China. They took on the China 0.99

00:12:44.900 talking points. They criticized President Trump for the travel ban that saved countless numbers of lives

00:12:52.340 in our country. And now the World Health Organization has even flip flopped on the basic tenant of

00:12:58.980 asymptomatic spread of the virus. A top World Health Organization official making the claim here that

00:13:05.940 asymptomatic spread is not something we should be worried about. We have a number of reports from

00:13:10.340 countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing. They're following asymptomatic cases, they're

00:13:15.860 following contacts, and they're not finding secondary transmission onward. It's very rare. And much of

00:13:22.660 that is not published in the literature. From the papers that are published, there is one that came out from

00:13:28.180 Singapore looking at a long-term care facility. There are some household transmission studies where you

00:13:33.780 follow individuals over time and you look at the proportion of those that transmit onwards. We are

00:13:39.460 constantly looking at this data and we're trying to get more information from countries to truly answer

00:13:44.500 this question. It still appears to be rare that an asymptomatic individual actually transmits onward.

00:13:51.220 But that didn't stay their position for long. Matter of fact, it was just following that that

00:13:56.180 they walked it back and said that those claims by their own top officials shouldn't be relied on.

00:14:02.340 Here's Tucker Carlson's commentary on the World Health Organization flip flop.

00:14:05.860 Self-described health experts helped spark global lockdowns, which destroyed the world's economy and

00:14:12.100 caused untold human suffering because they warned that anyone could spread the coronavirus, even people

00:14:17.700 with no symptoms. And then yesterday, a top World Health Organization official said something

00:14:22.580 very different. Actually, asymptomatic spread happens rarely, if ever. Well, that seemed pretty

00:14:28.340 straightforward, but lots of people were not happy to hear it because that would mean that the most

00:14:33.940 economically self-destructive act in all of human history may not have been justified.

00:14:39.060 But conveniently, today, the World Health Organization walked back that statement. In fact,

00:14:43.940 they said, we really don't know how common asymptomatic spread of the Wuhan coronavirus is.

00:14:49.380 So what is the truth? To the extent we can know, Fox Medical contributor Dr. Mark Siegel is the one we

00:14:53.940 always ask and we're happy to do so again tonight. She's saying asymptomatic spread is very rare. And I thought,

00:14:59.700 finally, a shining star coming out of the WHO I can hang my hat on. Well, guess what? Today,

00:15:05.700 she walks the whole thing back and she says, hey, I wasn't talking about pre-symptomatic spread,

00:15:11.380 meaning people who didn't yet get sick. Well, CDC says right before you have symptoms is one of the

00:15:17.300 biggest times of spreading. And then she said, and there's 16% of cases don't have symptoms at all.

00:15:23.060 And we don't know how many of them are spreading. Wow. Walks the whole thing back. And now I'm left

00:15:28.740 thinking, how can we possibly trust the WHO at all? I'm for an America first policy when it comes

00:15:34.660 to the healthcare of Americans. That's why I support the president's decision to pull out of the World

00:15:40.580 Health Organization and certainly put the health and safety of our American citizens first.

00:15:47.540 I think the president's going to do just that and we'll be all the better for it.

00:15:53.220 Daniel Payne with Just the News has a report about the impact of the riots that we see across

00:15:59.860 the country on coronavirus testing. Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task

00:16:06.660 Force, reporting to governors that about 70 coronavirus testing facilities have been burnt,

00:16:14.260 destroyed, rendered, unuseful as a consequence of these riots. And I'm just trying to think to

00:16:20.500 myself, like if you're a rioter, what is the incentive to destroy the coronavirus testing

00:16:27.060 area? What are you like, are you worried that the new tool of patriarchy and domination and racial

00:16:32.500 oppression will come through the form of a nasal swab? Like, are you worried that if we get too much

00:16:38.020 testing that that's too much government control? I mean, it was just weeks ago that Nancy Pelosi and other

00:16:43.940 Democrats were saying that the touchstone of everything that we did to respond to this

00:16:48.100 unprecedented pandemic would be testing, testing, testing. And yet when we need people to speak out

00:16:55.140 against the riots, to show the wide swath of damage that they're doing, not only to our businesses and

00:17:01.620 our families and our security and our sense of community, but literally to the infrastructure that

00:17:07.700 our country is built to respond to this pandemic, it's just nutty that people would react this way.

00:17:13.700 And so, you know, I'm hopeful that we get better protection around testing facilities as critical

00:17:19.620 infrastructure. And I'm hopeful that the clowns and fools who are out there rioting will realize that 0.99

00:17:26.180 they're only harming themselves and their own communities and their own public health. 0.99

00:17:30.500 Last night was the 2020 Amateur Major League Baseball draft and a lot of drama right now going

00:17:38.660 on with baseball. There has not been an agreement between ownership and the players regarding

00:17:44.500 a contract and whether or not the players would take a reduction in pay. I know some Major League

00:17:49.620 Baseball players have talked to them and the sense I get is that if they're going to take the risk of

00:17:54.500 going to work that they'd like to see their contracts and their salaries honored. They feel like if

00:17:59.700 there were all of a sudden a massive increase in revenue, the owners would benefit from that

00:18:05.700 disproportionately. And so if there's a decrease that that's a risk that the owners take.

00:18:10.340 And the commissioner of baseball had to address this issue and the probability of a season and the

00:18:16.100 potential length of that season and the number of games played. Here is the commissioner of baseball,

00:18:20.820 Rob Manfred. How will you feel if, and when this time comes, we're playing 48 games,

00:18:26.580 boys and let's get ready to go. How will you feel if that's the end result of this?

00:18:31.300 I'll be disappointed that we're unable to reach an agreement that allows us to play more games.

00:18:36.580 But you know what? I think at the end of the day, the most important thing, and I'm not buying into

00:18:41.460 your number of 48. The most important thing is that we play Major League Baseball in 2020. And I can

00:18:48.180 tell you unequivocally, we are going to play Major League Baseball this year. And there you can see from

00:18:52.420 the commissioner a desire to play baseball. I know I want to see it and a lot of other Americans do.

00:18:57.380 Let's hope they can reach a deal. Thanks for listening to Hot Takes with Matt Gaetz.

00:19:01.860 Join us tomorrow for more Hot Takes.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - June 11, 2020

Episode 23 - The Future will Cancel Us. Antifa's Capital. WHO Flip Flops.

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