The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 72 - Good Grief, Goodyear! Former Top Pelosi Staffer Registers as Chinese Lobbyist. A Virtual Fire Drill？

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.100 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.760 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.940 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news good year

00:00:21.940 good year tires dominating the news the president of the united states calling for a boycott of

00:00:28.220 good year following a photo being taken at a good year hr seminar that seems to be pretty

00:00:35.200 discriminatory against conservatives and against police so let's go right to it there is a good

00:00:42.140 year employee who takes an image and it says one team up in the top right corner with the good year

00:00:49.480 logo and it says there's zero tolerance policy allows black lives matter allows lgbt as acceptable

00:00:57.620 and then deems unacceptable blue lives matter all lives matter maga attire and politically

00:01:05.280 affiliated material so obviously there was a very strong reaction to a corporate policy that would

00:01:13.440 say that it's zero tolerance when dealing with folks who would just want to say that all lives

00:01:19.120 matter or blue lives matter while at the same time allowing political messages that were not

00:01:24.960 necessarily consistent with that viewpoint to be allowed so good year gets in the game and issues

00:01:30.940 this like very corporate statement and response and it is more confusing than it is enlightening

00:01:37.620 first it says well this is not issued by good year corporate well then who is it i mean who is it that

00:01:44.620 under the good year logo under the good year banner under the one team mantra of their hr policies

00:01:50.800 is allowed to distribute this messaging to their own employees if not them so maybe good year needs to

00:01:57.140 answer that question second they say well we accept that we've got 60 000 employees that they have

00:02:04.360 different political viewpoints and we just want to say all politics and campaigning for particular

00:02:10.900 candidates would not be allowed so i guess that's their explanation for why they wouldn't allow

00:02:16.040 maga hats but no real definition of what biden material or obama material or hillary clinton material

00:02:25.380 wouldn't be allowed it specifically in the image says no maga well why is it that they would do that

00:02:32.340 why wouldn't they just say no campaigning for any candidates so i think that that again raises more

00:02:38.360 questions than it provides answers and then third they say we've always wholeheartedly supported

00:02:44.060 equality and law enforcement and will continue to do so well i mean that that is quite the

00:02:49.520 conclusory statement but good year here's the question if one of your employees wore a hat to

00:02:55.960 work tomorrow that said blue lives matter would that be allowed or not allowed if one of your

00:03:01.820 employees walked in with a shirt that said all lives matter would that be allowed or not allowed

00:03:07.520 no real answer from good year on that and i think that they owe that answer frankly to their own

00:03:12.680 employees because this response this very negative response to good year certainly is a consequence

00:03:20.320 of organic outrage by an employee who felt discriminated against so i look forward to more

00:03:26.200 answers from good year it seems inappropriate for them to have a corporate policy of you know banning

00:03:32.440 certain types of political speech while allowing other types of political speech and if that's the type

00:03:38.220 of company they want to be look i i'm not one who calls for boycotts based on politics frankly i think

00:03:43.640 there are other things that bind us other than politics that wouldn't necessitate a boycott so i'm not

00:03:49.760 all about the cancel culture but personally you know am i going to be eager to buy a good year tire over

00:03:55.980 some other type of tire absolutely not because i think that you've got to embrace an america first mantra

00:04:04.180 to be a patriotic company in this country you know i think that you really have to want america to

00:04:09.760 succeed now that doesn't mean you have to get involved in politics as a corporation but if you

00:04:13.900 choose to get in politics you should not be allowed to discriminate against your employees because they

00:04:19.900 wear a maga hat or because they support law enforcement looking forward to more answers good year

00:04:24.800 certainly got a lot of questions

00:04:26.540 a genetically modified mosquito invasion that's what some are concerned about in the state of florida 0.58

00:04:37.520 the environmental protection agency giving final approval to a plan by the monroe county mosquito control

00:04:45.100 board down in the florida keys to release 750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes

00:04:52.400 cnn has the story by sandy lamott and in the plan the expectation is that these genetically modified mosquitoes

00:05:01.320 will produce female larvae that will die before they reach the stage of flight or the biting period of the 0.99

00:05:11.240 mosquito lifestyle and or life cycle and apparently it is only the female mosquitoes we have to be worried 0.99

00:05:17.800 about male mosquitoes do not bite for blood they only access nectar the females need the blood to produce 0.73

00:05:25.340 the eggs so if you take 750 million of these genetically modified mosquitoes the thought is that they can target a

00:05:32.260 specific type of mosquito that carries zika that carries chicken guinea that carries other bad types of

00:05:40.460 mosquito-borne blood-borne ailments that we've had to deal with in florida and that certainly our friends in the

00:05:46.200 caribbean have dealt with as well this plan was originally cooked up in texas uh it has been deployed in parts of brazil and

00:05:54.860 panama and the hope is that we will not have the jurassic park uh in in experience with our mosquito release 0.99

00:06:03.120 though uh there is a quote from jd hansen who's the policy director for the international center for technology

00:06:10.620 assessment and center for food safety she says with all the urgent crisis facing our nation and the state

00:06:16.920 of florida the covet 19 pandemic racial injustice climate change and the administration has used tax

00:06:23.620 dollars and government resources for a jurassic park experiment well first of all it's actually not

00:06:29.220 the administration it is the monroe county mosquito control board and i don't know why climate change

00:06:35.140 or racial injustice would stop us from deploying the very best tech against killer mosquitoes because

00:06:42.120 when you have zika when you have chicken guinea and some of those other real problems it affects low

00:06:47.900 income communities it affects urban communities just because of the high population density that was a

00:06:53.520 real problem in the keys and in miami and so it's good to see us using in my opinion the very best tech

00:06:59.340 to try to deploy the genetically modified mosquito air force to take out these diseases

00:07:07.260 this is an in case you missed it from our friends over at the national pulse natalie winters and it's a

00:07:18.020 swamp watch regarding the revolving door that seems to exist between elements of the u.s government and

00:07:25.880 moonlighting for the communist chinese party this is exclusive to the national pulse top pelosi

00:07:33.400 staffer registered as foreign agent to lobby for chinese state media outlet and the story is of

00:07:40.220 brendan daly former communications director for nancy pelosi and a political appointee of the obama

00:07:45.640 administration he becomes a registered agent who provided the chinese communist party's premier state-run

00:07:52.040 media outlet china central television network with quote strategic council as it expanded into the

00:07:58.980 united states and it really is troubling to me you know to see that these folks get such an intense

00:08:04.840 understanding of how our government works and then they go and cash in with china there ought to be a

00:08:11.080 law stopping top congressional staff top political appointees and members of the united states congress and

00:08:18.860 from working for china when they want to cash in on their public service when you put on our jersey

00:08:24.840 and play for our team we expect some monogamy and i would hope that we don't see this trend continue but

00:08:32.320 sadly it's happened with republicans and democrats you know they get their government experience here

00:08:37.700 they learn about our nation how we make decisions and then they go and cash in with the chinese communist 1.00

00:08:43.060 party we've got to do something about this because america is worth protecting and we should not be

00:08:48.760 sold out by people who do their politics and then want to run and you know get some massive financial

00:08:56.580 windfall as a consequence of the information that they were fortunate enough to get because our nation

00:09:02.720 placed trust in them when you play for america we want you to stay on our team

00:09:07.840 this you will have to hear to believe virtual fire drills for students learning at home take a

00:09:18.740 listen to this exchange posted on social media got a little e-learning going on here today with uh

00:09:23.820 christopher hammer all right christopher a lot of people feel like e-learning um it's kind of silly

00:09:29.980 uh the programs aren't as good as going to actual school please tell me what you're doing this morning

00:09:36.180 today we have a virtual fire drill where they are showing us where to walk out of the building that

00:09:42.300 we are not in right now in case that building catches fire so let me make sure that i've got

00:09:46.720 this perfectly straight here so i want to make sure everybody's on the up and up this is a virtual

00:09:51.660 fire drill yes so in case the building that you're not in catches on fire you here at home will know

00:09:58.780 exactly what to do yes virtual fire drill ladies and gentlemen here's my hot take in health care

00:10:04.860 money ought to follow the patient in education money ought to follow the student and so if we're

00:10:10.500 going to have more students homeschooling which i suspect we are if we're going to have more

00:10:15.620 students engaging in digital learning and virtual high school my expectation is that we should

00:10:22.640 send the resources to the people actually providing that service to the students and in many cases if

00:10:28.920 that's the parent if that's a private company helping with a learning center if that's a math

00:10:34.760 tutor that you know uses skype or some other mechanism to communicate with students let's do it let's design

00:10:40.840 a cafeteria style education system that is more innovative that is more creative and that is certainly

00:10:47.960 more useful to students and families than virtual fire drills for buildings that are not being occupied

00:10:55.740 in students that could be learning in far more effective ways

00:10:59.420 the greatest interview i've seen on television in quite some time was conducted by martha mccallum

00:11:09.640 with becky pringle the president-elect of the national education association you will not believe your

00:11:16.180 ears take a listen i want to just put up on the screen this is part of the nea's guidance on

00:11:22.520 reopening school buildings and it says this ensure that school building reopening

00:11:28.440 plans are inclusive and equitable for all educators and students by humanizing learning environments and

00:11:36.040 designing spaces that are situated in the experiences of communities of color not just through white

00:11:42.280 cis hetero and able-bodied lens lenses what is what does that mean and what does that have to do with

00:11:49.480 making sure that the kids and teachers don't give each other covet 19 as an educator with over 30 years of

00:11:55.320 experience i taught eighth grade science i know because i've talked to teachers every single day

00:12:02.360 that they want to be with their students they want to be in schools with their students they know that

00:12:09.320 that interaction between them and their students and their and their colleagues is absolutely essential to the learning of our students

00:12:16.760 but these are not basic precautions that are in your your own organization's guidelines talk about

00:12:23.800 you know not just through a white cis hetero able-bodied lens and designing spaces that are

00:12:28.600 situated in the experiences what is this what is any of what i just read have to do with what you just

00:12:34.280 said and this is one of the guidelines and demands of the nea we have said from the beginning

00:12:38.920 that we need to focus our resources and plans on opening our schools safely and equity equitably that

00:12:47.880 means that we want to make sure that we finally finally do something about the disparities in access and

00:12:56.600 opportunities and resources i understand those goals i understand those goals but a lot of people

00:13:02.120 are going to look at a situation that is desperate in terms of the basics in terms of just making sure

00:13:08.440 that the kids can get into the classroom they can learn math they can learn science they can learn

00:13:12.040 english and they're going to look at some of the things that are in your guidelines and say those

00:13:15.720 things are are good they're aspirational they're good things to think about and maybe after we get

00:13:20.680 through all of this we should address those issues but there's so many basics that don't fall in there

00:13:25.880 ninety percent of our students go to public schools we need to ensure that the resources that the

00:13:32.840 majority of our students need are there for them it is not i think obviously it depends so martha never 0.97

00:13:39.800 gets an answer to the question what does it mean when the national education association says that

00:13:46.680 teachers should not return to school to educate our kids until we have classrooms that are set up to deal

00:13:53.720 with marginalized communities and side gender privilege now if you don't know what side gender privilege

00:14:00.040 is it is that if you are born a man and stay a man that that is a privilege or if you are born a woman

00:14:08.600 and you stay a woman that is a privilege that you lose that privilege only when you when you change

00:14:15.320 from one gender to another how in the hell are you supposed to design a classroom to accommodate that 1.00

00:14:22.440 to keep folks safe during coronavirus i want our school districts focused on masks and sanitation

00:14:30.520 i want hand washing breaks i want barriers where necessary to keep students sufficiently socially

00:14:36.680 distanced i want construction dollars available for additional classroom space or to convert temporary

00:14:44.040 swing space or classroom space i don't want our educational professionals and administrators and school

00:14:49.960 districts focused on how various forms of gender privilege impact the learning environment as we're trying

00:14:58.440 to solve the coronavirus i mean i i guess if there's data to suggest that these gender questions impact

00:15:06.040 learning there might be a time and a place to ask those questions but when it comes to reopening our

00:15:10.600 schools i'm more concerned about this the physical well-being the mental health well-being the social well-being

00:15:17.800 that comes with just getting open again and giving that option to families and students that absolutely

00:15:24.840 need that option and there will be some who don't take it but i do not believe that becky pringle further

00:15:30.120 enlightened us as to the deconstruction of gender being a key element of opening our schools

00:15:41.320 the president taking questions from reporters on a variety of issues facing the country let's take a listen

00:15:46.360 to the highlights when we came into office isis was running rampant all over iraq and syria and we knocked

00:15:54.120 out the 100 of the isis caliphate but the obama administration did a very very poor job they were

00:16:01.160 running rampant all over and we came in and we did a real job and we got rid of that and that was a good

00:16:07.000 thing and now we're working with iraq they use the great american dollar which is the most powerful currency

00:16:14.920 in the world and they're starting to do well and we are with them and this gentleman in particular

00:16:21.320 we've developed a very good relationship and hopefully it's going to be very strong for your

00:16:26.680 country there is some reporting that the u.s troops will withdraw from iraq totally in three years is

00:16:32.760 this true so at some point we obviously will be gone we've brought it down to a very very low level we

00:16:39.320 deal with there are attacks we take care of those attacks so we take care of them very easily nobody has

00:16:44.840 the weaponry we have nobody has the uh anything of what we have we have the finest the greatest

00:16:50.920 military in the world when somebody hits us we hit back harder than they hit us so we handle it in

00:16:56.680 addition to that iraq has been very helpful where necessary but we have been taking our troops out of

00:17:03.240 iraq fairly rapidly and we look forward to the day when we don't have to be there and hopefully iraq can

00:17:10.520 live their own lives and they can defend themselves which they've been doing long before we got

00:17:15.000 involved thanks for listening to today's episode of hot takes i'm congressman matt gates tune in tomorrow

00:17:21.560 for more hot takes

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - August 20, 2020

Episode 72 - Good Grief, Goodyear! Former Top Pelosi Staffer Registers as Chinese Lobbyist. A Virtual Fire Drill？

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