00:00:54.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:03.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:46.000I actually thought that the people in charge valued individual liberty.
00:01:53.000I actually thought that when Dr. Anthony Fauci and his lies were exposed, he was going to be fired.
00:02:01.000And I thought that Americans would demand their freedom back immediately.
00:02:07.000Play tape of Mike Pence saying 15 days to slow the spread.
00:02:11.000Nothing more important for the American people to do to slow the spread than to heed your state and local guidance in areas impacted by the coronavirus and for everyone else to put into practice the 15 days to slow the spread.
00:02:30.000Dr. Fauci will reflect on the importance of mitigation and the impact that we believe that it is having around the country.
00:02:38.000And so I can understand maybe a week or even the 15 days just to see who is being impacted, to see how the virus is spreading, infection rates and death and hospitalization rates.
00:02:51.000But if you remember back, we did a program on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast where we said, wait a second, we have the data from the Princess Cruise Ship, which was a cruise ship out in the Pacific Ocean where the Chinese coronavirus was spreading throughout the cruise ship.
00:03:09.000Only about half of the ship ended up getting infected with the Chinese coronavirus.
00:03:14.000It was an elderly population, and the death rate was about 1.8 to 2% of the elderly population with no therapeutics, no hospital treatment, no social distance, any of that.
00:03:26.000And so then if you model it for the rest of the society and you factor in the staff, the employees, and the younger people on the ship, it was about 1% at most with no therapeutic help whatsoever.
00:03:38.000And it's amazing because that one test case of the Princess cruise ship that happened in the Pacific Ocean could have been modeled for the rest of the country.
00:03:47.000And that data never should have compelled us to shut down our entire country indefinitely.
00:04:10.000Dr. Burks famously said, if everybody in America does what we ask for over the next 15 days, we will see a dramatic difference and we won't have to worry about the ventilators.
00:04:58.000I think the question that I think maybe John asked about until July, the guidelines are a 15-day trial guideline to be reconsidering.
00:05:07.000It isn't that these guidelines are now going to be in effect until July.
00:05:11.000What the president was saying is that the trajectory of the outbreak may go till then.
00:05:15.000Make sure we don't think that these are solid in stone until July.
00:05:19.000President Trump got played by every single person in that picture.
00:05:23.000Dr. Anthony Fauci and the deep state medical establishment should have been fired just like James Comey was fired.
00:05:30.000Dr. Anthony Fauci will be responsible for the mental health crisis happening in our country, for the thousands of people that we lost to suicide, to the cost, the human cost of the lockdowns.
00:05:43.000Outkick.com, an article by Clay Travis, says, Florida versus California, Chinese coronavirus data proves that lockdowns do not work.
00:06:22.000They believe in safetyism over liberty.
00:06:26.000Now, the amazing thing about liberty is that we could have opened our country fully and completely, which we should have done one month or even two weeks after we got enough data to understand what we were dealing with.
00:06:37.000We could have said, look, if you're very scared of this virus, then stay at home.
00:06:41.000The amazing thing about liberty is no one was going to force you to leave your home.
00:06:45.000If you believe masks work, then wear a mask.
00:06:50.000We decided to use the heavy hand of government and force everyone to stay at home, sacrificing liberty, treating every single person the same.
00:07:02.000Restaurants, school sports, schools, and even gatherings.
00:07:09.000Going back to last May, I was eating in restaurants in Florida.
00:07:13.000All throughout the summer, Florida was wide open.
00:07:16.000And there was no dramatic increase in the spread of the Chinese coronavirus that all the doomsdayers said there would be, despite Florida having the second oldest population in the country.
00:07:29.000Now, this contrast, you would think, would interest the activist mainstream press.
00:07:35.000Instead of celebrating Ron DeSantis as a hero and condemning Gavin Newsom as being one of the worst governors, and let us not forget Andrew Cuomo, who's under multiple pieces of scandal right now.
00:07:53.000And there is one mention of Cuomo on the 15th page.
00:07:58.000You would think that the governor of the second largest state, is that right?
00:08:03.000The second largest state in the country, who's under a nursing home scandal by accusation by Letitia James and under very credible sexual assaults and sexual harassment accusations, you think that would probably be of concern of the New York Times.
00:08:21.000You know, the state that the New York Times is actually headquartered in?
00:08:25.000Instead, the New York Times has a picture of, oh no, this is the top story for them.
00:08:30.000Democrats take a lesson from Obama's caution.
00:08:33.000This makes me fall asleep reading the headline.
00:08:37.000So Cuomo handled the Chinese coronavirus terribly, but he never missed a moment to go on television, to tell you how terrific he was.
00:08:46.000He wrote a book, won an Emmy in the midst of all of this.
00:08:52.000And the open states with the courageous governors like Christine Noam and Ron DeSantis have the data now to prove that liberty in fact works.
00:09:02.000In fact, it works even with a contagious virus.
00:09:07.000Now, what's so amazing is how some states are still locked down as I do this program right now.
00:09:14.000And if your state is still locked down, then your politicians have a separate political agenda outside of protecting and preserving the liberty and the welfare of you.
00:09:28.000You know, what's so amazing is that Democrats and liberals have for years said they care your body, your choice.
00:09:35.000You can put whatever substance you want in your body.
00:09:38.000However, then when it came to the Chinese coronavirus, they became what they always were.
00:09:44.000Inside a leftist is a totalitarian waiting to get out, where they saw this as an opportunity to command you, control you, and make you obey.
00:10:10.000Just because I'm against lockdowns does not mean I think that everyone should go into a meadow and have a mosh pit.
00:10:17.000It seems as if every time I offer a valid or factual criticism of the lockdowns, people are acting as if I want to see some sort of Woodstock era gathering in the middle of nowhere, almost like burning man.
00:10:36.000Ending lockdowns simply means that the politicians, the elected officials, trust the people.
00:10:49.000Liberty requires trust, and liberty, by definition, comes at a cost.
00:10:55.000If all of life was about being kept safe, then prison would be a desirable place for most people.
00:11:03.000We would get rid of automobiles and cars that result in 50,000 deaths a year, or we would have 10 mile an hour speed limits.
00:11:12.000We would get rid of all weapons, which Democrats want to do and some moderate Republicans want to do.
00:11:19.000We would get rid of cheeseburgers, which again, Democrats want to do.
00:11:22.000Heart disease and high cholesterol is a massive driver of death in our country.
00:11:30.000If it was all about saving lives, we would get rid of soft drinks, which again, I think I'm saying things Democrats are proposing because it actually is consistent with their safetyism worldview.
00:11:42.000A retreat to being taken care of instead of trusting people to make good choices and good decisions, and then they will have to pay the price or the consequence of not making good decisions.
00:11:55.000What Florida shows us is that you can open up a state and some people will still stay at home, and that's okay.
00:12:03.000In fact, I encourage some of those people to still stay at home over the age of 80, pre-existing health conditions.
00:12:11.000They already have maybe asthma or they've had some other issues.
00:12:15.000They should take this virus very seriously.
00:12:18.000But what the public polling in Florida has shown us is that not only are the lockdowns working, but they're very popular.
00:12:25.000And people want to have the liberty and the option to be able to make those choices.
00:12:32.000And when those options are given, it goes to show that you can actually bring your hospitalization rates, infection rates down, and your quality of life improves dramatically.
00:12:43.000The biggest reason why the Democrats and some moderate Republicans have kept their states closed for one year in the 15 days to slow the spread is because deep down they actually think they're smarter and better than you and they think you are stupid.
00:13:02.000They really believe that you must be micromanaged through every decision.
00:14:40.000When you search for stuff, watch videos, or even click a link, big tech companies can use that IP address to track all your activity and tie it back to you.
00:14:49.000When I use ExpressVPN, my connection gets rerouted through their secure encrypted servers, so these companies can never see my IP address at all.
00:14:56.000My internet activity becomes anonymized, and my network data is encrypted.
00:15:01.000The best part is you don't need to be tech savvy at all to use ExpressVPN.
00:15:04.000Just download the app on your phone or computer.
00:16:07.000The states that locked down do not have better virus hospitalization or death rates than the states that fully and completely opened.
00:16:18.000It was an unnecessary move, but an intentional move by Democrat governors that wanted a federal bailout.
00:16:24.000They wanted a federal bailout well before the Chinese coronavirus came through.
00:16:29.000And finally, they had their big opportunity to get federal dollars appropriated to broken cities like Chicago and Los Angeles.
00:16:39.000What I never understood about Chicago and their lockdowns was that if it was all about saving lives and Lori Lightfoot trying to have people stay at home, why didn't Lori Lightfoot ever have that big of a concern for the death in the streets of the city of Chicago?
00:16:59.000There were 792 homicides in Chicago just last year.
00:17:05.000And yet she's worried whether or not people are wearing masks when they're showering, some of the strictest mask mandates in the entire country.
00:17:14.000Because it's actually not about saving lives.
00:17:17.000It was never about saving lives for Lori Lightfoot or J.B. Pritzker or Andrew Cuomo or Bill de Blasio or Gavin Newsom or Eric Garcetti or any of these guys.
00:17:29.000Instead, it was about making themselves more important, obey us.
00:17:36.000And what was so stunning to me is how little backlash there was from free thinking people.
00:17:43.000And this should be a fire alarm and a wake-up call for all of us.
00:17:48.000If you do not contest and contend for your liberties and freedoms, they will disappear if they have not already disappeared.
00:18:14.000In one year, we have radically redefined how we view race.
00:18:18.000We have decided to go backwards and view race like the KKK did.
00:18:23.000We have decided to say that the education of our children does not matter.
00:18:29.000We have changed the way that we value small businesses and private property.
00:18:33.000We have pastors facing $2.5 million in fines like my friend, Pastor Mike McClure at Calvary Chapel, San Jose, which, by the way, we have a Turning Point USA campus tour stop in San Jose.
00:18:47.000We're going to Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Nashville, Vegas, then San Jose, tpusa.com slash genfree if you want to check it out.
00:18:56.000And we're going to have a lot of fun there, and we're going to be talking about a lot of topics.
00:19:00.000So pastors were criminalized, but abortion factories remained open.
00:19:05.000So as we are now looking back on the one year of the 15 days to slow the spread, why should we ever trust anything that the people in charge tell us about public health, public policy, the direction of our country, the best way to solve problems?
00:19:29.000They're saying trust the scientists that we like.
00:19:33.000The entire conversation around the Chinese coronavirus should have always been around therapeutics.
00:19:39.000Zinc, vitamin D, natural sunlight, hydroxychloroquine, and other potential therapeutics that could have helped with the treatment of the virus.
00:19:51.000Instead, all the focus was around sit at home until we have a vaccine.
00:20:11.000And in the last year of the year of the 15 days to slow the spread, I saw the wealthiest, most prosperous, most blessed country in the history of the world basically sit back and watch as their country got radically redefined by people that do not share American values and want to restore the American promise.
00:20:36.000What is the American promise, by the way?
00:20:42.000The American promise is that if you work hard, play by the rules, your children can live a moderately better life than you, and you are able to see your life materially increase and increase in richness in other ways outside of financial.
00:21:00.000The American promise is that your politicians are going to tell you the truth, that you can speak your mind, you can worship your creator outside of government mandates or edicts.
00:21:10.000Everything in the last year has been a targeted campaign at breaking the American promise.
00:21:17.000And it just so happened in the midst of an election year.
00:21:21.000As you notice, every time I mention the virus, I call it the Chinese virus, the China virus.
00:21:26.000In fact, I was the first person to tweet out China virus.
00:21:29.000And then when Trump had a Twitter, he quote-tweeted my tweet, and then he used it ever since.
00:21:34.000I'm not saying he got it solely from me, but there is public proof of that.
00:21:39.000And yet throughout all of this, I feel as if we have decided not to focus on China's role in all this, where it very well could have been a biological weapon that was formed in the Wuhan laboratory.
00:21:54.000And then we make a very dangerous conflation with how we talk about what has happened in the last year.
00:22:01.000And the New York Times, worthless paper, has a whole section here, all these pictures of these kids that don't have, that had no school sports, that had no activities.
00:22:15.000And the story is actually pretty compelling.
00:22:18.000However, it blames the virus for all of it.
00:22:22.000It says that COVID disallowed these 17-year-olds from having a soccer season or from having dance class.
00:22:39.000And so we are dealing with two separate threats.
00:22:41.000One that was a foreign attack on our country from the Chinese Communist Party, allegedly, and with 99% assuredness, I could tell you that this was probably developed with malevolent intent from the Chinese Communist Party, because that's all they do is lie.
00:22:58.000They are treacherous, deceitful people.
00:23:00.000And the Chinese Communist Party has internationalist goals and ambitions that are so immoral and evil.
00:23:11.000And as I said yesterday, a missed opportunity was forming an alliance, not just an alliance, but a in-your-face, come and get us type coalition with Japan, who the Chinese have always feared the Japanese.
00:23:27.000You see, the Chinese have always had a heavy emphasis on history and culture.
00:23:33.000The one thing the Chinese Communist Party fears is a strong Japan.
00:23:38.000We should be involved in activating or reinvigorating the warrior spirit in Japan.
00:23:44.000Instead, we have a base there, which is great, and we have a phenomenal military in Okinawa.
00:23:49.000In fact, I just spent some time with someone who served in Okinawa, phenomenal guy.
00:23:53.000But I think it would be in our best interest to help rebuild the Japanese military.
00:23:59.000And so I'm reading this article in the New York Times.
00:24:02.000And the way that the story is told is: yes, we are pointing out that we remove the freedom and liberty and the way of life from young people, but we act as if we had no choice.
00:24:13.000In Florida, it shows that we do have a choice.
00:24:19.000In Florida, it shows that an open state not only can have better virus rates, better hospitalization rates, better death rates, lower unemployment rate, higher growth rate, rising property values, but people are happier.
00:24:34.000And even the New York Times, which is a worthless paper, haha, I found it, says, quote, I'd much rather be in Florida.
00:24:43.000Other than New York, no big city in the United States has been struggling with more Chinese coronavirus weeks in Miami, but you'd hardly know it if you lived here.
00:25:09.000We've been doing that for over a year in Florida, the governor boasted, and he should boast because he trusts his citizens.
00:25:16.000And so then the New York Times says, more than 32,000 Floridians have died, an unthinkable cost that the state's leaders rarely acknowledge.
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00:27:46.000A friend of mine sent me this story last night, and it hits close to home, literally.
00:27:51.000It's right where I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:27:54.000So hello to all of our friends on AM560, the answer.
00:27:56.000But this story should be a national story.
00:27:59.000So there's a veteran who was hired as a baseball coach at Loyola Academy.
00:28:04.000Loyola Academy is a Catholic school in the North Shore of Chicago, very ruling class, very, very, not just upper to middle class, it's very upper class.
00:28:14.000And so he was, he's been brought on to be this baseball coach.
00:28:20.000And he writes this story for redstate.com, and he says he's become the victim of cancel culture for taking his school's teaching to heart.
00:28:31.000And without going into any specifics of what he said, and I asked around, and they said he didn't say anything wrong, basically he posted on social media that he thought that the country was adopting wrong-headed approaches to the Chinese coronavirus.
00:28:46.000He also, like Gina Carano, pointed out that Jews in Germany did not protest throughout their persecution, and it led to their eventual death.
00:29:05.000And so then Loyola found that to be so objectionable that they fired him, a U.S. veteran, Loyola University, Loyola Academy, I'm sorry, Loyola Academy in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:29:20.000Now, this is not a story that's going to hit the New York Times or national news.
00:29:24.000This is just a normal story, which is exactly why I want to talk about it.
00:29:30.000This is a story that people would read and just kind of go on like, oh, he probably said something wrong.
00:29:40.000One thing you put on social media, one remark that you wish you wouldn't have said, one comment, one text message, your life can be obliterated.
00:30:23.000He lost his job as a graduate of Loyola Academy and a veteran because he posted on social media that he thought that the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns went too far.
00:30:35.000Loyola's case is that they think that not only should they, that he, that they would put kids in danger because he was a baseball coach that thought that the lockdowns went too far.
00:30:48.000And he literally served in the U.S. military.
00:30:51.000He said this, quote, had I been given the opportunity to coach at Loyola Academy, I would have followed any and all health and safety guidelines the school prescribed.
00:30:58.000Even more than that, I would have done my best to build not just a strong baseball program, but solid future leaders.
00:31:04.000This from Loyola Academy in the suburbs of Chicago goes to show the weakness, the intolerance, and the cancerous rot that has been infecting the education system and our entire country.
00:31:16.000You have an alumnus of your school who is hired to be the baseball coach, who did nothing wrong, and you decide to fire him before he even comes in for orientation because someone found some Facebook post that they don't like.
00:31:45.000And for anyone listening to this on the live stream, on Facebook or YouTube, and you know anyone involved in Loyola Academy, the only way that this trend gets reversed, everybody, is if we make enough noise and we push back against this.
00:32:00.000It's just something, it's just a normal story of a local cancellation of a local example.
00:32:05.000But I'm focusing on it because obviously I know the school and I know a lot of people that go to that school that went to that school, but it's a microcosm of what will happen next.
00:32:14.000And you know this quote: that when they came for others, I said nothing.
00:32:19.000When they came for me, there was no one to speak for me.