Episode 91 - On the Ground and On the Move in Pensacola. Barr Rips Destructive Lockdowns. Big Tech Censors Free Speech and Free Thought.
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In this week's Hot Takes, Congressman Matt Gores (R-Florida) is on the road surveilling some of the damage caused by Hurricane Sally, a hurricane that had sustained winds far further to the east than was originally expected.
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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 today 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 that noise you're hearing is me on the road i'm
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in northwest florida surveilling some of the damage caused by hurricane sally a hurricane that had
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sustained winds far further to the east than was originally expected i'll be meeting with
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governor de santis the united states coast guard later today will be at the emergency operation
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center in pensacola to ensure that all of the state federal and local assets are being brought to bear
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we are still in a search and rescue mission right now but we also want to set a strong foundation
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for the recovery and rebuild that will be absolutely necessary again i continue to get updates from
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our state attorney general ashley moody our state chief financial officer jimmy patronus
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and so we've got the whole team working but there's still some news so let's talk about it
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we love having an attorney general that gives us hot takes name one successful organization or
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institution where the lowest level employees decisions are deemed sacrosanct they aren't there
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aren't any letting the most junior members set the agenda might be a good philosophy for a montessori
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preschool but it is no way to run a federal agency putting a national lockdown stay-at-home orders is like
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house arrest it's the it's the it's you know other than slavery which was a different kind of
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restraint this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in american history whenever a politician
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or public figure compares anything to certain events in human history they're always criticized
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because there were you know some atrocities whether it be the holocaust whether it be slavery that were
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just so egregious such a stain on humanity that they shouldn't be compared to the modern trials and
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tribulations that we have to go through that's the critique that's been offered of bar but when
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bar talks about you know the media as a collection of crooks and liars when he talks about uh the fact
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that you've got folks at the department of justice that are doing political headhunting rather than
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actually executing on the mission of the department i think that he's dead on
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cnbc has the story yelp data shows 60 percent of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic
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are now permanent this is a decision that yelp released on wednesday following their research
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from an economic impact report revealing business closures across the u.s are increasing as a result of
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coronavirus so as of august 31 163 735 businesses have indicated on yelp that they've closed a 23
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percent increase since mid-july and also according to the yelp data permanent closures have reached
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97 966 representing 60 percent of businesses closed that won't be reopening and so these closures
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it is life or death for these businesses and you know these businesses that are yelp businesses you
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know you're looking at restaurants small bars uh places for folks to get together and the fact that
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they won't be reopening i think creates an instability for families that can have negative health
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consequences uh negative consequences for the prospects of people's future and so to to do so
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you know in cases where look i mean only six percent of the deaths as a result of coronavirus
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did not have a resulting comorbidity you've got to ask yourself whether or not history will be kind
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to any of these lockdowns or shutdowns when the final analysis is made and you'll remember the revolver
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news piece that went over the number of life years impacted showing that the lockdowns
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depriving americans of 10 times more life years than the coronavirus would have taken from us
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had it had it not also commingled with these lockdowns so you know very troubling to see this
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impact on small business check out the cnbc piece see if it impacts your thinking on the utility and
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miling yan has seen her twitter account suspended now you'll recall our discussion of her work as a
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virologist and her claims that the chinese communist party did not unintentionally release this virus but
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that it is in fact part of a strategy that its development is part of a strategy now i don't know if
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dr yan is right or wrong i don't know if she's lying or not but i certainly think we should all
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get to listen to her claims we ought to be able to analyze them in the context of the other evidence
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for example the chinese communist party's lack of transparency and working with others to contain
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the virus before it spread and impacted the globe but twitter and instagram which labeled an interview
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that tucker carlson did with dr yan is misleading they think that they get to just decide who gets
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to listen to who who's worthy of listening to who's not and they don't trust the american people the body
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politic to make our own decisions engage in our own analysis they think that that's their societal
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responsibility to just do it for us and convert us all into into cogs tucker carlson discussed this
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dynamic on his program take a listen it's clear that dr li man yang is a serious person she is
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making a very serious claim so within a few hours of our interview last night a video of the segment
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reached 1.3 million people on facebook and why wouldn't it the coronavirus pandemic has touched the
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life of every american and justifiably people want to know where it came from but facebook still
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doesn't want you to know that so facebook suppressed the video presumably on behalf of the chinese
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government facebook executives made it harder for users to watch our segment those who found the
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video had to navigate a warning the interview quote repeats information about covet 19 that
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independent fact checkers say is false instagram which facebook also owns did the same thing twitter
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suspended dr yang's account entirely it did not explain why nor did the tech companies explain how they
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would know more about disease transmission than an md phd virologist like dr li man yang instead facebook
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and instagram linked to three so-called fact checks that supposedly proved yang was lying but if you clicked
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on the provided links you noticed something odd the fact checks were all published months ago many months
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in january february and march and they had nothing whatsoever to do with what dr li man yang said on
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our show they were written before in fact anyone knew who she was a really sad story from harriet sherwood
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at the guardian nearly two-thirds of u.s young adults unaware that six million jews were killed in the
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holocaust almost two-thirds of young american adults do not know that six million jews were killed during
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the holocaust and one in ten believed the jews caused the holocaust almost a quarter of the people that
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responded to this survey twenty three percent say they believed the holocaust was a myth or was exaggerated
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or they weren't sure and one in eight that's twelve percent said they had definitely not heard or didn't
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think they had heard about the holocaust this is an abject failure of the american education system
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we have to ensure that we study and understand and appreciate history so that it never happens
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again i know in the state of florida we have holocaust education mandated as part of our state-based
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curriculums and i would hope that in florida we would be beating these tragically bad national averages
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i'm going to try to look into the data and see if they have those cross tabulations but at a
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minimum we ought to be pursuing this type of education rigor in our history in our world history
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and frankly we should probably be repeating it at different grades to ensure that the depth of
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understanding grows over multiple years and it's not just something discussed one time so i am saddened
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by the news but it should absolutely be a call to action now what i don't believe is that we should
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federalize the education system you know we had a few department of education votes on the floor
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of the house this week i voted against them and i did that you know in some instances because i just
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don't think we should continue to get our states and our local school districts more addicted to the
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federal dollar the federal grant the federal program that does federalize education i think that
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this is primarily a state and local function as a state legislator i know i supported holocaust
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education requirements for our state standards in florida and i would encourage other states to do the
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same thanks for listening to hot takes especially under these unusual sound conditions i'm congressman matt gates
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we'll be back tomorrow better sound with the same hot takes