The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 24： COVID-1984 – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress

00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,

00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,

00:00:26.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots.

00:00:29.000 You are in the right place.

00:00:31.000 This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.000 It's like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.

00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me.

00:00:48.000 They're coming for you.

00:00:50.000 I'm just in the way.

00:00:54.000 COVID-19 or COVID-1984?

00:00:58.000 It's hard to tell sometimes.

00:01:00.000 Increasingly, our government is doing really dumb stuff with its regulatory and police power,

00:01:05.000 and we aren't doing nearly enough of the work necessary to make our people healthier

00:01:10.000 and more resilient against this virus.

00:01:13.000 It's obvious it's not necessarily about health, but control.

00:01:17.000 And so we start today's episode in our nation's capital city.

00:01:21.000 Now, Washington, D.C.'s city government has always been a bit outside of mainstream America,

00:01:26.000 but usually on the side of making stuff more legal, like euthanasia or recreational marijuana.

00:01:33.000 But now we have the city government of the capital city embracing the most draconian liberty-restricting COVID mandates.

00:01:43.000 I mean, even Starbucks just announced that they're no longer mandating vaccines for their employees.

00:01:49.000 I guess we've got a lot to disagree about in America today, but I think we should all be able to agree that no government should be more woke than Starbucks.

00:01:59.000 Euthanasia and marijuana are more legal in D.C. than ordering tacos without your vax passport today. 0.97

00:02:06.000 Meanwhile, COVID is becoming less deadly, more endemic.

00:02:11.000 Not double-vaxxed and boosted?

00:02:13.000 Guess you'll have to pick up your food around back.

00:02:16.000 And don't even think about riding the bus.

00:02:18.000 Now, the seats for the unvaxxed, they're not in the front or the back.

00:02:22.000 You can't even get on the bus at all.

00:02:24.000 At least Rosa got to take the trip. 0.87

00:02:27.000 We were told the vaccine stopped the spread.

00:02:30.000 This is how they marketed it to us.

00:02:32.000 Get vaxxed. Go back to normal.

00:02:34.000 You will not get the virus.

00:02:37.000 Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.

00:02:45.000 A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus.

00:02:49.000 The virus does not infect them.

00:02:51.000 The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else.

00:02:55.000 In fact, if you even questioned this, you were called a conspiracy theorist and banned from social media.

00:03:03.000 Well, as it turns out, the conspiracy theorists were right again.

00:03:08.000 Anyone with a room temperature IQ now knows that while the vaccine may help with symptoms for some, it absolutely does not stop the spread or contraction of this virus.

00:03:20.000 Vaccinated people who do have a breakthrough infection are clearly capable of transmitting the infection to an uninfected person.

00:03:30.000 Here's Pfizer's CEO admitting that the shots don't have the safety profile they'd once hoped for.

00:03:37.000 Now we are going with a third target.

00:03:42.000 We believe that was very carefully selected.

00:03:44.000 We believe that has very high probabilities of delivering a solution to an unmet need, not because the current Zoster vaccines are not effective, but they are don't have the safety profile that we hope we can achieve with this technology.

00:03:58.000 End of discussion, right?

00:03:59.000 End of discussion, right?

00:04:01.000 Civil liberty arguments aside, if the vaccine doesn't stop the spread, and it absolutely doesn't, then there's no justification or rationale for this mandate.

00:04:11.000 It's completely illogical.

00:04:13.000 So why do it?

00:04:15.000 Pretty simple.

00:04:16.000 To punish those who don't bend the knee to the regime.

00:04:21.000 So we have an untamed and perhaps untameable virus, an ineffective and potentially harmful vaccine, a regime that will torture us into taking it. 0.97

00:04:31.000 Should we panic?

00:04:33.000 Certainly not.

00:04:35.000 COVID is not something that you should be afraid of to the extent that you can't live your life.

00:04:41.000 The fear porn director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, who once told us that she had a feeling of impending doom regarding the virus, now is happy to explain that over 75% of COVID deaths occurred in people with at least four comorbidities.

00:05:00.000 The overwhelming number of deaths over 75% occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities.

00:05:07.000 So really, these are people who were unwell to begin with.

00:05:11.000 Basically, if you're at risk, it's good to take precautions, of course.

00:05:15.000 COVID can be serious for those who are ill, elderly, morbidly obese, people with four comorbidities.

00:05:22.000 Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams, maybe, should get boosted weekly.

00:05:26.000 But remember, even Chris Christie and the late, great Bobby Bowden survived a deadlier version of COVID in the same week.

00:05:37.000 Your medical decisions and your body are your business alone, and you should not be punished for the decisions you make.

00:05:44.000 It's awfully convenient that the powers that be are now being a little more honest about what we've known all along.

00:05:50.000 The disappointing efficacy of the vaccine and the low risk of COVID to the average American, especially in this latest strain.

00:05:59.000 So after they weaponized fear mongering to try to oust Trump, they're having a tough time putting that genie back in the bottle under the Biden administration.

00:06:10.000 Even the clowns that said that you shouldn't celebrate Christmas are now irritated at teachers unions for refusing to do their jobs and show up at work.

00:06:19.000 In Chicago today, Dr. Wen, the teachers union is going to vote on a possible walkout starting this week. 0.81

00:06:25.000 The teachers union believes it's too risky to bring kids and teachers back into the classroom.

00:06:30.000 Is there any data to support that?

00:06:33.000 That teachers union is wrong, and all the teachers unions that are saying that we have to delay kids going back to school are wrong.

00:06:41.000 But their feigned honesty might be a little too late.

00:06:46.000 Despite these new developments, the vaccine mandate that has made its way to D.C. has existed for some time in New York City and all over the world.

00:06:56.000 Its effects on the average person and the economy that we all live in have been dystopic.

00:07:02.000 We know exactly what it will bring.

00:07:05.000 Destruction and despair.

00:07:08.000 The supply chain is still wrecked.

00:07:10.000 Grocery stores are still empty.

00:07:12.000 Cargo ships are still stranded at sea.

00:07:14.000 The New York City firehouses are shut down.

00:07:17.000 There's a shortage of city workers.

00:07:19.000 Hospitals are understaffed.

00:07:20.000 And the problems go on and on.

00:07:22.000 And for what?

00:07:23.000 Punishment.

00:07:25.000 In his November 2021 statement on vax requirements, Joe Biden announced the following.

00:07:32.000 Second thing I'd like to say, today's report shows that vaccination requirements are good for the economy.

00:07:38.000 Not only increase in vaccination rates, but to help send people back to work.

00:07:44.000 Vaccine mandate requiring all people to provide medical proof so they can participate in American commerce and society as a whole.

00:07:54.000 This is not good for the economy or America.

00:07:57.000 And now we have the proof.

00:07:59.000 The fact that five million people, probably more, would go back to work.

00:08:04.000 But there is this authority that restricts their freedom that doesn't allow them to.

00:08:08.000 And it's not American.

00:08:10.000 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has led the nation in COVID reduction, concurrent with a strong economy in the Sunshine State.

00:08:18.000 Why is this?

00:08:20.000 Woke business leaders cannot require proof of vaccination in Florida.

00:08:25.000 That's right.

00:08:26.000 It's the law.

00:08:27.000 Executive Order 2181 provides that businesses in Florida are prohibited from requiring patrons or customers to provide any documentation certifying COVID-19 vaccination or post transmission recovery to gain access to entry upon or service from the business.

00:08:46.000 Same applies to Florida government entities who may not issue vaccine passports or other documentation identifying an individual's COVID-19 or VAX status.

00:08:56.000 Florida serves as a model for other states, other governors who could be more courageous and actually utilize a dose of freedom and a booster of economic recovery.

00:09:08.000 Now, Joe Biden's mandate is instructing OSHA to issue an emergency rule requiring employers with more than 100 employees to mandate that their workers get vaccinated or tested weekly.

00:09:19.000 If that would be the law, it would adversely affect roughly 80 million private sector workers.

00:09:24.000 Moreover, it's a sudden disruption in the labor supply.

00:09:28.000 It would disrupt food chains, perpetuate inflation.

00:09:31.000 All of the problems that Joe Biden has created would be made worse by the policies that he was pushing.

00:09:37.000 Fortunately, the Supreme Court struck this down.

00:09:42.000 Unfortunately, that prohibition didn't protect our health care workers. 0.86

00:09:48.000 Our frontline health care workers are heroes.

00:09:51.000 They worked unvaccinated through the entire pandemic and now they're being fired for their troubles.

00:09:56.000 Our woke neighbor to the north, Canada, just decided to mandate that its truck drivers get vaxxed.

00:10:04.000 Well, should they wear a mask, too, while they're driving alone down the highways?

00:10:09.000 I can't imagine a bigger recipe for supply chain shortages and literal starvation than to cripple the trucking industry.

00:10:17.000 These people have been socially distancing for quite some time in their employment.

00:10:21.000 It's almost as if they're causing problems on purpose.

00:10:25.000 It's exactly what they're doing.

00:10:27.000 They hate you and they hate America more than they want us to strive and overcome and be prosperous despite this pandemic.

00:10:38.000 It's about punishment.

00:10:40.000 People that can't get vaxxed or choose not to are turned into enemies of the state overnight.

00:10:46.000 Don't get the vaxxed.

00:10:47.000 Get fired.

00:10:48.000 Get fired.

00:10:49.000 No unemployment.

00:10:50.000 You know, I wonder if Democrats in America would back a vaccine mandate for food stamps and welfare.

00:10:55.000 If not, it shows you, it proves to you that it's not about health.

00:11:01.000 It is about power.

00:11:03.000 The regime is forcing us to choose between compliance and survival.

00:11:08.000 And historically, that doesn't end well.

00:11:11.000 Law-abiding citizens are forced to either break the law, forge vaccine cards, just to feed their families.

00:11:20.000 Would a modern-day Robin Hood be handing out vaccine cards to people who just want to put in an honest day's work?

00:11:26.000 There's nothing more sinister than a regime that turns its working class into outlaws as a matter of foolish public policy.

00:11:35.000 It's fitting that legends and fairy tales are told about those brave enough to stand up and resist.

00:11:43.000 Speaking of resisting or not, the historic National Republican Club of Capitol Hill has caved to the DC vax mandate.

00:11:54.000 They're now requiring their members, Republicans, anyone who visits, to produce their vax cards and ID when they enter. 0.95

00:12:04.000 Pathetic. 1.00

00:12:05.000 Weak. 1.00

00:12:06.000 The men and women who are supposed to be fighting the regime aren't even standing up to the DC City Council with their own club?

00:12:13.000 It's spineless.

00:12:14.000 How can Republicans tell our fellow Americans to resist and sacrifice when we ourselves are too afraid to do so?

00:12:22.000 That's why I just canceled my membership at the Capitol Hill Club.

00:12:26.000 I'm not going to ask anyone to make a sacrifice that I wouldn't make myself.

00:12:30.000 And I've just learned that Senator Rand Paul, a brave firebrand indeed, has also canceled his membership and we welcome him to the movement.

00:12:40.000 Others should do the same.

00:12:41.000 We need leaders who lead from the front.

00:12:43.000 By example, men and women of action, not excuses.

00:12:47.000 I hope that Senator Paul and my actions will inspire others to fight the good fight.

00:12:52.000 In a rare victory for the American people and, you know, with a healthy amount of dismay for the court's most liberal judges who spouted all kind of disinformation about COVID during oral arguments,

00:13:05.000 the Supreme Court did strike down the unconstitutional Biden vaccine mandate that he was trying to implement through OSHA.

00:13:13.000 Justice Sotomayor seemed to be so confused with Con Law 101 as she referred to OSHA's regulatory as a police power, which, by the way, is a power reserved to the states.

00:13:24.000 Not to mention her stating that 100,000 kids are in critical care on ventilators or that Omicron is deadlier than Delta.

00:13:31.000 And not to be outdone in foolishness, Justice Kagan claimed that vaccines stopped the transmission of the virus.

00:13:38.000 I mean, this is the Supreme Court, for goodness sakes.

00:13:41.000 They sound like a COVID-phobic group of law students who wear their masks outside when playing Frisbee golf with each other.

00:13:48.000 When will they be censored for disinformation like our good friend Marjorie Taylor Greene?

00:13:55.000 The court ruled on the grounds that OSHA did not have any congressionally delegated authority to issue public health orders.

00:14:02.000 Obviously.

00:14:03.000 And in the second case, Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the liberals to uphold the HHS mandate on health care workers that take with organizations that take federal funds.

00:14:14.000 So essentially every health care worker in the U.S. has to be subjected to these bad decisions.

00:14:19.000 And, you know, they're the ones that we ought to be celebrating the most.

00:14:23.000 Just to think, if it weren't for four years of President Trump and three new Supreme Court justices appointed, there's a good chance that the United States would look a lot like Australia today.

00:14:36.000 Count your blessings.

00:14:38.000 The fight continues, but don't for a second think that this is just a blue state problem or just a Washington, D.C. problem.

00:14:45.000 I'm going to have an interview coming up in this episode with a Washington, D.C. bar owner.

00:14:51.000 And you're going to see how businesses lives can be disrupted and how likely those bad policies could come to a town near you if we don't stand up and fight.

00:15:01.000 Supply chain problems affect everyone.

00:15:04.000 And stateless corporations and big hospital companies, these folks that answer to big pharma, they're everywhere and they want you to suffer.

00:15:12.000 They want to punish you.

00:15:14.000 It's about control.

00:15:16.000 And the time to speak out is now.

00:15:18.000 The time to resist is now.

00:15:20.000 Don't comply.

00:15:21.000 The medical apartheid is here and it is coming for a city near you unless you put up the fight to stop it. 0.93

00:15:29.000 Now, a great little watering hole in Washington, D.C. is Dirty Water.

00:15:34.000 I had a conversation with the owner operator, Chris, about the conditions there and how he's planning for the future.

00:15:42.000 Take a listen.

00:15:45.000 So we're here with Chris at Dirty Water in D.C.

00:15:48.000 Chris, tell us about your place.

00:15:50.000 So we are the Boston Sports Bar of D.C.

00:15:53.000 We're a pretty laid back spot.

00:15:55.000 I kind of think that we're a little different than most places in D.C.

00:15:57.000 If you want a craft cocktail, you're in the wrong place.

00:15:59.000 If you want to watch the game and have a good time, you're in the right place.

00:16:02.000 That's pretty much what we do here.

00:16:03.000 We kind of sell fun.

00:16:04.000 That's our thing.

00:16:06.000 What's it been like these last two years?

00:16:08.000 You know, we all as Americans took for granted the ability to come to a place like this, blow off some steam, have some fun, watch some sports.

00:16:16.000 And it just seems like, overall, life's gotten a lot less fun since 2020.

00:16:21.000 It's been hard.

00:16:23.000 It's been hard.

00:16:25.000 It's been challenging.

00:16:26.000 I've had to get creative.

00:16:28.000 I've had to do things.

00:16:29.000 And it's funny, you know, when you first start this thing out, we've been up four and a half years now.

00:16:33.000 When we first started out, it's hard because we're trying to get a name, trying to get people in here, so on and so forth.

00:16:37.000 We're a mile unchanged from the Capitol.

00:16:39.000 We're trying to get a lot of Capitol Hill staffers.

00:16:41.000 That's kind of our base.

00:16:42.000 And then we worked on that for two years or so.

00:16:44.000 And, you know, we kind of started getting a go.

00:16:46.000 We got a reputation.

00:16:47.000 People know we are.

00:16:48.000 They're having a good time.

00:16:49.000 And then it's like, okay, like we're going to.

00:16:50.000 Now it's like, okay, let's take that next step in marketing, that next step in this place and do more.

00:16:55.000 And then, boom, everything stops.

00:16:58.000 Everything shuts down.

00:16:59.000 We come back and everybody's got to sit at tables.

00:17:02.000 You know, it's just like, what is this?

00:17:07.000 What do you think is the part about being a bar owner dealing with the new kind of COVID world that people wouldn't know if they were just a customer that's going on kind of behind the scenes for you?

00:17:19.000 I'm literally yelling at people to sit at a bar.

00:17:23.000 They're having drinking beer and vodka sodas and whatever.

00:17:26.000 Why do you have to do that?

00:17:27.000 Because we had to, because the mandate said we had to.

00:17:29.000 Now that's a mandate from the city government?

00:17:32.000 Not now.

00:17:33.000 A year and a half ago.

00:17:34.000 I got it.

00:17:35.000 That was the D.C. mandate at that time when we were in quote unquote phase two, which I guess kicked off.

00:17:40.000 God, I've got to get my dates right here.

00:17:42.000 But I want to say this was something like the summer of 20 when we were able to reopen indoor and my outdoor spaces.

00:17:50.000 And you had to sit.

00:17:51.000 You had to sit.

00:17:52.000 So we're a bar that people are trying to be social and you had to sit.

00:17:56.000 Like in your seat and enforcement, which is Abra in D.C.

00:18:00.000 I mean, I counted in that in that during that phase two, which went from right around Memorial Day of 2020 to God, I got to get my dates right.

00:18:10.000 Let's just call it eight or nine months.

00:18:12.000 Abra came in here 28 times. 0.66

00:18:14.000 That's 28 times.

00:18:15.000 28 times.

00:18:16.000 28 times.

00:18:17.000 It would seem like they would be your best customer if you could get them to buy a drink.

00:18:20.000 28 times they came in here to try to write us a fine.

00:18:22.000 And they wrote us one fine because three people were on the rooftop outside standing at a table with their drink as opposed to sitting their butt in the seat.

00:18:31.000 What do you think most small business owners think about these government regulations?

00:18:36.000 Do you believe that we're doing it for your benefit?

00:18:40.000 Of course not.

00:18:41.000 Of course not.

00:18:42.000 I don't know if they think that that's why they're doing it.

00:18:47.000 It's not benefiting us.

00:18:49.000 It's not benefiting anyone.

00:18:51.000 But whether or not they believe that's why they're doing it, I mean, look, I'm not in government.

00:18:56.000 I don't make the rules.

00:18:57.000 We follow the rules because we have to because I have to maintain this place.

00:19:01.000 So even if I'd like to sit here and say, like, you know, I want to fight back, I can't.

00:19:07.000 And so I just sort of wonder whether or not people resent rules that seem to only exist so that politicians can talk about them and not to really help anybody.

00:19:18.000 When I was asking for cards Saturday afternoon, I said it to a couple of people that didn't just pull it out.

00:19:25.000 I kind of asked them in like an apologetic way.

00:19:27.000 Like, I'm sorry, I got to do this.

00:19:29.000 Can I see it?

00:19:30.000 And like, that's how I feel that I am sorry.

00:19:32.000 I have to ask.

00:19:33.000 I feel weird about it.

00:19:34.000 But I also have to protect my business.

00:19:37.000 And I can't, I can't challenge, you know, Abra and the city because I'll get hurt.

00:19:42.000 So I have to do it.

00:19:43.000 I don't want to do this, but I need to do this.

00:19:46.000 Do you think it's ever going to go back to the old normal?

00:19:48.000 Not like the new normal, but just like where people could show up, hang out, stand around, talk.

00:19:53.000 I do.

00:19:54.000 When do you think that's coming?

00:19:55.000 I mean, you know, you look, all the money here is your money.

00:19:57.000 Yeah.

00:19:58.000 I mean, you're the guy with it all on the line in this business.

00:20:00.000 I mean, you've got to be thinking, you know, 12, 18 months ahead at some point.

00:20:03.000 Well, maybe some of it's wishful thinking.

00:20:05.000 I don't think it's very far away.

00:20:07.000 Um, I don't know why I think that there's something instinctually inside of me that says,

00:20:12.000 okay, I, this was, somebody had to make a point.

00:20:17.000 And that's why this happened because it's happening in other cities.

00:20:20.000 And, you know, these, these things tend to follow.

00:20:23.000 Oh, we're New York's doing Boston's doing Philly's do.

00:20:25.000 So DC's got to do it now.

00:20:26.000 I mean, whether that's actually true or not, that's kind of, that's exactly true.

00:20:30.000 Right.

00:20:31.000 Well, you know, the news came out of England two days ago that they started pulling everything.

00:20:35.000 So I would, all we need is mayor Bowser to have a big party like Boris Johnson did.

00:20:41.000 And then maybe the rest of the people in DC could, could, could have that.

00:20:45.000 The bar brain in me, I work on like a schedule.

00:20:48.000 So everybody like, you know, you have a congressional schedule.

00:20:50.000 So I have, I have a, a bar schedule.

00:20:52.000 So it's like, what's the next big thing?

00:20:54.000 The super bowl.

00:20:55.000 Then what is it?

00:20:56.000 St. Patrick's March madness.

00:20:57.000 This is how I think in terms of planning this place.

00:21:00.000 So it's kind of like when we start looking at the calendar, when do I hope this stuff gets pulled?

00:21:04.000 Please be pulled by the super bowl or please be pulled by St. Patrick's day.

00:21:07.000 Um, so yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, and I went through this with, with the city a year and a half ago,

00:21:13.000 two years ago when everything started with the heavier restrictions.

00:21:15.000 So, so you, so you think that if restrictions are in place through those major revenue events,

00:21:21.000 That'll hurt.

00:21:22.000 That'll hurt.

00:21:23.000 That'll hurt.

00:21:24.000 St. Patrick's will hurt.

00:21:25.000 March madness will hurt.

00:21:27.000 When this hit, when the shutdowns hit in March of 2020, right before Patty's and right before the NCAA tournament,

00:21:36.000 which is like some of our biggest revenue time.

00:21:39.000 I mean, I was crushed because I'll be quite honest.

00:21:44.000 I, as I said earlier, everything we've ever done here was our money.

00:21:48.000 Okay.

00:21:49.000 Everything we had made from September, 2017 to March, 2020.

00:21:55.000 I should've made this point earlier, but I'm going to make it now to get through being closed and get through the Titan times.

00:22:02.000 I rolled back to zero at zero.

00:22:05.000 Everything is gone from our first two and a half years.

00:22:10.000 So everything we've made now is since then.

00:22:13.000 That money's gone.

00:22:14.000 That, that must've been crushing.

00:22:16.000 Yeah.

00:22:17.000 Not fun.

00:22:18.000 What's, what is the best thing that government could do proactively looking forward just to make it easier for folks like you to be able to make a fair buck,

00:22:26.000 earn a fair living when risking your own money to do so?

00:22:30.000 So this is a point that needs to be made.

00:22:32.000 Okay.

00:22:33.000 Bars and restaurants on a daily basis during all times, the last whatever many years you want to choose from.

00:22:40.000 We have to operate under health code every day.

00:22:43.000 Okay.

00:22:44.000 Now we, we don't do food here.

00:22:45.000 So it's a little easier for us than it does a restaurant that has a kitchen, but we have to operate under health code regardless.

00:22:51.000 Who is more prepared to deal with health issues than bars and restaurant owners and managers and staff,

00:22:58.000 than almost anyone else because do you have to deal with health code every day?

00:23:03.000 Or does anybody in this room have to deal with health code every day?

00:23:05.000 Not that much.

00:23:06.000 Now you do from a, you know, a policy standpoint, but like you go to work, you do your thing.

00:23:11.000 You're not thinking about how much, how hot the water is or all those things, what, how clean that space is.

00:23:18.000 Now somebody's dealing with that, but most people are not dealing with that on a daily basis.

00:23:23.000 We deal with that every day because that's what we have to do.

00:23:26.000 How clean, how, how sanitary are our bathrooms?

00:23:28.000 How, all those things.

00:23:30.000 Is there soap everywhere?

00:23:31.000 How are we washing things?

00:23:32.000 Like that is something that bars and restaurants do daily.

00:23:35.000 And the fact that out of nowhere, we're told to be what health is in a bar.

00:23:44.000 It's a bit laughable because it's like, this is what we do, not you, us.

00:23:49.000 So let us do our thing would be my answer to that because we're the ones that do it all the time anyway.

00:23:55.000 Do you think the trend going forward is going to be more letting you do your thing or less?

00:24:00.000 I got it. I hope so. I don't know. I don't, I, I, again, I'm wishful thinking.

00:24:04.000 I'm thinking on that calendar. I mentioned, I'm hoping that things are, are in a place to where the powers that be can, can lift these restrictions and just let us do our thing.

00:24:15.000 So I'm going to say, yes, I think it's going to happen because I'm a positive thinker.

00:24:18.000 And I just think that's, it's going to get better.

00:24:20.000 It's pretty good place to end.

00:24:22.000 We're here at dirty water with Chris, a fountain of optimism.

00:24:26.000 And certainly we need that with all of the challenges that our country continues to face.

00:24:30.000 And with hope we'll have more freedom, more opportunity and more great folks able to visit dirty water and have a great time.

00:24:36.000 Great. Thanks, man.

00:24:37.000 Thank you so much for doing this.

00:24:39.000 So if government is doing a bunch of dumb stuff that it should stop, what should we actually be working on to make people perhaps healthier, more resilient, more capable in their own bodies and their own lives of being able to fight off and resist this virus to ensure that it's less deadly.

00:24:58.000 We saw at the beginning of the pandemic that more COVID lockdowns helped the legal cannabis industry quite a bit.

00:25:08.000 Now, full disclosure, I'm an advocate for cannabis modernization.

00:25:11.000 I wrote the marijuana laws in Florida, and I'm the only Republican co-sponsor of the MORE Act, a bill to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act.

00:25:20.000 I come from the pro-freedom wing of the Republican Party.

00:25:25.000 We need more of those folks.

00:25:27.000 So pre-COVID, illegal marijuana had been a real threat to the legal marijuana industry, undercutting prices, avoiding taxes and regulation.

00:25:36.000 But the cartels and traffickers had major supply chain issues as a result of COVID, less so for legal growers who are often cultivating and processing much closer to the actual user than the Sinaloa Mountains in northwest Mexico.

00:25:53.000 Fewer Americans wanted to deal with the uncertainty of street-level dealers or even dealers in their friend groups.

00:26:00.000 Drug dealers don't always have the best masking policies, after all.

00:26:04.000 People were at home getting their marijuana legally delivered in states like Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Alaska.

00:26:12.000 These states saw three-year highs in legal marijuana sales during the summer of 2020.

00:26:19.000 But like many highs brought by marijuana, this didn't last.

00:26:24.000 A 2021 year-end piece by Chris Roberts in Forbes declared the COVID cannabis stimulus over.

00:26:32.000 When the stimulus checks dried up, the consumer became more price conscious.

00:26:37.000 But we have more information now.

00:26:40.000 Exciting information for many, actually.

00:26:42.000 The National Institutes of Health have released a pre-print version of research showing that cannabidiol from CBD could prevent the spread of COVID SARS in the body.

00:26:54.000 You heard that right.

00:26:56.000 Lung cells which had been exposed to cannabidiol were less likely to allow replication of the COVID virus.

00:27:03.000 At the early stages of infection, this could buy the body critical time to generate antibodies to defeat the virus.

00:27:11.000 It also means that a cannabis application could be preventative as well as therapeutic.

00:27:17.000 Omicron is a variant that has been less likely to spread in the lower respiratory system.

00:27:23.000 This has made Omicron less likely to lead to death.

00:27:26.000 There will, of course, be future variants.

00:27:29.000 That's how these things work.

00:27:31.000 But if cannabis, cannabidiol, can reduce the likelihood of spread in the lung cells, it will undoubtedly make us more resilient against coronavirus.

00:27:41.000 I remember when the boomers learned that a glass of red wine at night could benefit the cardiovascular system.

00:27:48.000 They were thrilled, titillated even.

00:27:50.000 Will we one day learn that a CBD massage or tincture or brownie or pill could armor our lungs?

00:27:58.000 A serious nation that loves and cares for its people should not be afraid to learn and research and study.

00:28:07.000 I'm also from the pro-science wing of the Republican Party.

00:28:12.000 Democrats have campaigned on pot.

00:28:14.000 They have the House, the Senate, the presidency.

00:28:16.000 And the MORE Act, which would federally legalize marijuana, hasn't passed.

00:28:21.000 Their constituents support it.

00:28:23.000 So where are you at, Joe Biden?

00:28:25.000 You can't blame the Republicans.

00:28:26.000 I am one.

00:28:28.000 You can't even blame the Washington gridlock.

00:28:31.000 Democrats are so focused on pushing their socialist ambitions and spending packages, changing the Senate rules to create their own personal legislative chamber, hijacking democracy, enforcing vaccine mandates, increasing their grip on power, demolishing liberty.

00:28:47.000 Many forget that the movement to legalize marijuana is not solely for enabling people to sit on their couch and smoke or alleviate the fear of having people around.

00:28:58.000 Marijuana has verifiable medical applications.

00:29:03.000 We've known about this potential for decades.

00:29:05.000 The federal government even has the IP on marijuana in their own bundle of things that they own.

00:29:12.000 But we have suffered from federal roadblocks as usual.

00:29:17.000 If you suffer from cancer treatment-related nausea, PTSD, epilepsy-caused seizures, if you don't want to count on street weed knowing what the THC content might be or what CBD ratios exist or what strain is best for you or what contaminants might be out there,

00:29:35.000 a legal system would certainly be beneficial.

00:29:39.000 Would you buy steak and milk and Sudafed from your cousin's friend's step-uncle on a street corner?

00:29:47.000 I wouldn't.

00:29:48.000 So why would we force people to purchase marijuana that way?

00:29:51.000 In fact, there have been reports of street marijuana being laced with really harmful substances like heroin, meth, PCP, increasingly and most recently even fentanyl.

00:30:02.000 Maybe the government is too busy bankrolling these toothless fentanyl programs to actually have awareness as to what might work.

00:30:11.000 Federal government establishment and big pharma would rather you take the inescapable risk of what might be out there in the illegal market than present a real market alternative that is viable.

00:30:23.000 They want you to fund the cartels and risk jail time rather than move forward with the rest of the world.

00:30:30.000 Medical research is needed to treat patients in professional settings like any other drug.

00:30:35.000 For over 50 years, all federal research ran through Ole Miss.

00:30:39.000 That's right.

00:30:40.000 Since 1968, Ole Miss was the sole academic entity granted the ability to create, cultivate cannabis for federal research and study.

00:30:49.000 So while there have been some changes in the NIDA program, there is so much more that needs to be done to democratize access to research and to ensure that we are on the side of our people.

00:31:01.000 I hope this research is actually steered toward the efficacy of marijuana and helping people.

00:31:07.000 But for far too many years, federal policy mandated that any studies of marijuana had to focus on the negative effects of weed, not medical utility.

00:31:18.000 So they do the research by deciding the outcome first and then trying to reverse engineer into it.

00:31:24.000 In fact, between 2000 and 2018, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom spent a whopping $780 million trying to prove marijuana's negative side effects.

00:31:38.000 My bill, the Medical Cannabis Research Act, would increase the number of manufacturers registered under the Control Substances Act to produce cannabis for legitimate research purposes.

00:31:49.000 It might even help us with COVID.

00:31:52.000 Moreover, this would authorize healthcare providers and the VA to provide recommendations to veterans about participating in approved clinical trials.

00:32:00.000 I wish Joe Biden was half as permissive on marijuana as he is tyrannical on vaccines.

00:32:10.000 Now, our advocacy for marijuana reform is not an excuse for America to sit home fat and high.

00:32:17.000 Matter of fact, we need to be leaner, meaner, healthier.

00:32:21.000 That would be better for our country.

00:32:23.000 So Congress is often consumed with healthcare policy, but unfortunately, it actually ignores matters of true health and fitness.

00:32:33.000 Why do we subsidize the consumption of food that actually kills people, especially the poor, people on government-subsidized food programs?

00:32:41.000 Why don't we embrace the policies at the federal and state level that actually lower our national obesity rate?

00:32:47.000 Obamacare was more about health insurance than actually making people healthier.

00:32:55.000 The Republican response to Obamacare was more about lawsuits and tort reform than healthy living.

00:33:01.000 I'm not here to fat shame anyone.

00:33:03.000 I'd have no room to talk.

00:33:05.000 I know personally how challenging issues of weight can be.

00:33:08.000 I'm frequently way behind in my own goals.

00:33:11.000 But society has now gotten to the point where it's considered verboten to consider that a daily salad might make you more resilient to all kinds of disease than the vax of the month pushed by big pharma.

00:33:24.000 Where's Michelle Obama when you need her? 1.00

00:33:27.000 When her husband was in office, the first lady encouraged American youth to participate in a healthy diet with video campaigns like this.

00:33:36.000 Turn up for what?

00:33:41.000 Michelle Obama was known for pushing a healthy diet.

00:33:44.000 But at some point along the way since that 2014 video, something happened in America's society.

00:33:50.000 And we entered the obesity-embracing woketopia.

00:33:54.000 We went from frowning on unrealistic Photoshop to cheerleading for the chubbies. 0.69

00:34:00.000 I understand the concept of larger bodies and the wide range of genetic makeup that contribute to a person's appearance, of course.

00:34:07.000 But when did body positivity go from choosing to skip the Photoshop before posting on the gram to cheering on unhealthiness?

00:34:17.000 Like, did these fans in response to singer Lizzo's video announcing her accomplishment think they were doing the right thing?

00:34:25.000 Shout out to Tristan Justice at The Federalist for this headline.

00:34:29.000 Lizzo celebrates weight gain as COVID kills obese people.

00:34:34.000 Our friend Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene got banished off of Twitter, in part for saying,

00:34:39.000 Before COVID, treatment for virus, disease, used facts, data to treat and protect the vulnerable.

00:34:46.000 After COVID, government mandates unnecessary vaccines for low-risk people.

00:34:52.000 Knowing 90% of deaths are 50-plus and with obesity, diabetes, and heart conditions, the government ignores treatments.

00:35:01.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene was right, by the way.

00:35:05.000 She just wasn't woke enough.

00:35:07.000 And that gets you banned these days. 0.93

00:35:09.000 Even the batch of crooks and liars at CNN acknowledged that MTG was totally and completely correct.

00:35:16.000 The CDC website says that adults with excess weight are at greater risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. 0.73

00:35:23.000 Having obesity increases the risk of severe illness.

00:35:26.000 People who are overweight may also be at risk.

00:35:30.000 Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection.

00:35:35.000 Obesity is linked to impaired immune function.

00:35:38.000 And obesity decreases lung capacity and reserve and can make ventilation more difficult.

00:35:45.000 Why are we not encouraging the population to avoid obesity like Michelle Obama's Let's Move program?

00:35:54.000 We've gone from get up and move to accusing the body mass index of being a tool of white supremacy.

00:36:00.000 Wokeness is unhealthy.

00:36:02.000 So let's follow Michelle Obama's advice and become a country of wellness.

00:36:06.000 A healthy body is a healthy mind and a resilient human.

00:36:10.000 Avoid the mass formation psychosis and big media and big tech's psyops.

00:36:17.000 Focus on better, healthier days ahead.

00:36:22.000 Thanks for joining us on Firebrand.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - January 27, 2022

Episode 24： COVID-1984 – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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