Today we look into what's going on with the governors engaging in a power grab using the current crisis to try to gather as much power as possible for the aftermath. We have a Democratic Rep. on the air who actually had COID19 and is now OK, and actually credits Donald Trump for helping in that process. And we talk to Pat Gray, as well as an announcement from the South Dakota Governor.
00:00:00.000Welcome to the podcast. Today we look into what's going on with the governors kind of engaging in a power grab using the current crisis to try to gather as much power as possible for the aftermath.
00:00:16.640We talked about that. We have a Democratic representative, state representative on the air who actually had COVID-19 and is now OK and actually credits Donald Trump for helping in that process.
00:00:28.180Going to meet the president coming up here soon. And we talked to Pat Gray as well as an announcement from the South Dakota governor, which is pretty exciting as we kind of get some progress here, hopefully.
00:00:41.420And what is the right approach? How do we unwind this? How do we open up the economy? How does that happen with the least amount of damage possible?
00:00:50.000But, you know, we need to get going or, you know, none of us are going to have jobs.
00:00:52.820So we look at that today on the program. Don't forget to get Glenn Beck's Arguing with Socialists.
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00:02:10.380I went from thinking I only had a sinus infection to maybe a touch of pneumonia to simply wondering if I was going to live.
00:02:19.460And I didn't have a whole lot of time to think about what to do because when it comes upon you and it's really hitting you and you go from zero to 100 with it, you have trouble breathing.
00:02:38.080Well, for me, from my living room to my bedroom, you can't really think very clearly.
00:02:43.260You don't have a lot of time to figure out what it is that you're going to do because the hours are very pressing and the minutes are very pressing.
00:02:54.000How long did it take you from first signs to I've got to go to the hospital?
00:03:01.560Um, I've been quarantined since March 12th and first signs were really that weekend.
00:03:12.260And like I say, I thought I had a sinus infection and pneumonia, but when it started really hitting me bad, where I didn't know what I was going to do because the hospitals near me were actually full to capacity.
00:03:23.640I had, that was on March 31st and that was also the day that my husband and I got tested.
00:03:31.000So literally after getting tested, I started declining rapidly downhill that day.
00:03:51.200No, it didn't hit him like me, but this is something that can definitely take out a family, which it did with my cousin, Cheryl Fowler and her, her husband.
00:04:00.200She lost her husband and her father-in-law and she's had, um, two kids that tested positive.
00:04:50.120And that's why today I'm thankful to say, and I'm happy to announce on your show that I am going to meet with hopefully the president, but I'm definitely meeting with the vice president and that I can come back to Detroit state of Michigan with some resources for us.
00:05:09.240What are the resources your state needs?
00:05:13.140We need everything from testing kits to PPE.
00:05:17.020Um, we are looking at the fact that our jails, our prisons do not, are not being tested.
00:05:25.460We're looking at the fact that our sheriffs and the people who work in the prisons are not getting what they need.
00:05:34.560We have people that are walking out of the hospitals, our nurses and our doctors and staff that are walking out because they don't have the necessary PPE that they need.
00:05:43.520We have our senior citizen buildings that are just nothing but a hot bed.
00:05:56.280They are not getting the food that they need because they fall in between the cracks where no one can deliver food to them and they can't go and pick it up.
00:06:05.060We, we, we have people that are in my community that do not have a doctor to get a prescription in order to even get the test.
00:06:13.700My cousin's husband was turned away over four times and he died at home.
00:06:18.740My cousin herself was turned away over three times.
00:06:22.880Their father-in-law was turned away and died.
00:07:06.120I was familiar with this because I do have Lyme disease, but if it wasn't for the president trumping, literally trumping the governor, um, because she put out an executive order that day,
00:07:20.840that day I did not have access to the medication.
00:07:26.000So how many other people did access to that medication and lost their lives that day?
00:07:40.760The executive order that was put into play was misinterpreted and it left all doctors and pharmacies scrambling.
00:07:47.820Thank God, um, the doctor that I was able to call understood, but my first doctor, the one who ordered the test did not understand the executive order at all.
00:11:13.480Just keep doing what you're doing and getting the word out and calling and messaging and doing whatever it is that you guys do on Twitter and social media.
00:11:27.100And, you know, this is not a time for politics.
00:12:24.240And I urge every member of the audience to tweet to the president and the vice president, you know, that congratulations on putting politics aside and these guys meeting and and encourage the White House.
00:12:40.540I don't think you're going to need it.
00:12:41.760I think you're I think you're going to get it, Karen.
00:12:43.740He has not turned anybody down that I know of yet when he understands the problem, at least according to Gavin Newsom.
00:12:50.240He is there and you get what you need.
00:12:53.580So I appreciate your phone call, Karen.
00:12:56.200We'll talk to you again later this week.
00:16:08.300I'm trying to work out of this mess as I deliver for FedEx.
00:16:11.280I'm putting money aside to get your book, both arguing with idiots and arguing with socialists, as well as a subscription to the blaze.
00:16:19.620I'm wondering how long is the 30 percent off special going to happen if you start announcing it in advance when you're about to stop the deal.
00:16:28.240I can I will make sure that I subscribe.
00:16:31.020I tell you what, this came from Chris.
00:16:33.440Chris, I'm going to send you the books and I'll make you a blaze subscriber.
00:16:37.340And we'll give you like a, I don't know, free year or something.
00:16:41.520And then you get on your feet, get past this mess.
00:16:49.300I've had something weighing on my mind for a couple of weeks, and I can only help that this concern I'm going to lay out will find its way to you to digest.
00:16:56.740I've always agreed with you wholeheartedly when you implored people to know who they are, because times are coming that will try men's souls.
00:17:03.300I would often wonder what those times would look like exactly and what knowing who I am would translate to.
00:17:12.040I suppose that all that will remain to be seen.
00:17:15.140I did, however, get to witness what those things would look like to someone else.
00:17:19.820That someone being specifically Thomas Massey.
00:17:22.520What I saw was a man who stood up in the face of possibly the darkest hour for the stability of our economy and the clear guidelines pertaining to the voting process of passing the stimulus package.
00:17:34.260I must tell you, I was shocked when you didn't support him, but tried desperately to get him to change his mind and to preserve himself to be able to fight for other things down the road.
00:17:43.860It was that moment, that moment when a politician stood up in the face of the disgusting state of our political world and said, no, thank you.
00:17:52.520We always find ourselves wondering, almost pleading.
00:17:55.080Is there not one person who will stand up and say no?
00:17:58.540That person who doesn't care about the personal price?
00:18:07.140If it wasn't for an obvious I know who you are moment for someone, I dare not think I ever would.
00:18:12.800Your initial take on this, however, really bothered me because you were promoting that he do nothing just to preserve himself and play the game.
00:18:22.280That's exactly the slippery slope that the majority of our elected leaders sell their souls to.
00:18:27.740A sort of weak need ends justify the means wishful thinking that they'll play the game and be the stand up guy when it really counts.
00:18:35.760And they end up lost in the perverted world of politics time and time again.
00:18:39.680My hopes and prayers are that you will realize the missed know-who-you-are moment when it was in plain view.
00:18:46.980It's important that you realize this so you can continue to guide folks to be ready for theirs, not just to point out that you were wrong.
00:18:54.680It seems now, a couple weeks after the fact, that you are more in its corner on hindsight.
00:19:00.080That's great, but I think you'd do well to take ownership of the moment.
00:19:03.620I feel you missed, and maybe share your thoughts with your listeners about it.
00:19:06.800I can tell you it's important to me, and I looked forward to your leadership and humility.
00:22:01.360I mean, the fact that Thomas Massey wanted a vote on $2.2 trillion is not a ridiculous request.
00:22:09.060He wasn't even saying he was going to vote against it.
00:22:10.840He just said he wanted to at least have people on record for it.
00:22:14.640I don't think that's the type of thing that we should be lighting up congressmen over.
00:22:19.760It's the type of thing that we should have.
00:22:21.760You know, that's something that we should look at as a positive.
00:22:24.600Because you were right, he did get lit up by it.
00:22:26.500But that's really the issue here, isn't it?
00:22:28.340He shouldn't be getting lit up by asking for a vote for over $2 trillion.
00:22:31.580So, I mean, while I understand what the guy's saying in the email, you know, this is an issue where we have to look at this and say, I think Massey did the right thing.
00:22:45.540And if he's going to get thrown out of Congress because of that, I think he's comfortable with that outcome.
00:23:26.280But we've always asked congressmen to go there and do what they think is right.
00:23:31.500And I think at the end of the day, you have to just respect that and, you know, realize that choosing your battles is part of this at some level.
00:23:41.720But when you get to a point, this is the if you're not going to stand up at two point two trillion dollars without a vote.
00:24:03.120Well, here's where I stood on this, Stu.
00:24:05.440And and I'd like to hear where you were on this.
00:24:09.380And if it's if I'm just if I've turned into this political nightmare on on this particular occasion.
00:24:16.940I was looking at it politically, strategically, because I think we're at the you know, we are at the end game now and there's only so many soldiers on the field.
00:24:27.980And, you know, we don't have a free market anymore.
00:25:43.540I've tried to do my part by having him on the air to explain on that day.
00:25:48.680He explained exactly what he was doing and I've had him on afterwards explaining what he did and, you know, what the fight is, trying to make sure that we don't lose a very valuable guy over nonsense.
00:26:04.600And I think that's that's what it was.
00:28:26.480Should we cue the fat lady on the on the free market system?
00:28:32.280The U.S. Federal Reserve is now purchasing approximately $625 billion per week in U.S. Treasury bonds, U.S. municipal bonds and corporate bonds.
00:28:47.660So they're buying stocks, your city, and they're buying Treasury bonds.
00:28:56.500$625 billion per week, $1.2 trillion every two weeks.
00:29:06.160At that rate of spend, the Federal Reserve will own all outstanding U.S. public debt, federal and local debt by September or October of this year.
00:30:28.040As of this week, the Fed's Open Market Committee meeting, the Fed will also be willing to purchase so-called junk bonds from all U.S. companies that are in distress.
00:30:40.940The Fed has also issued a new fund to buy U.S. mortgage assets from banks, pledging $200 billion per month to U.S. banks plus Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy distressed mortgages that become insolvent due to COVID-19.
00:30:59.360The U.S. Federal Reserve is now officially the largest landowner in the world.
00:31:06.340At this point, the only major asset in U.S. equity markets the Fed is not directly buying are U.S. stocks.
00:31:47.300It is you, the U.S. taxpayer, that is responsible for all of this debt, not the Fed.
00:31:54.480The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each Fed fund and is in the first lost position, making you, the taxpayer, responsible should any of these investments or underlying funds fail.
00:32:14.720As such, the U.S. Treasury, not the Fed, is actually buying all of these securities and backstopping all of these loans.
00:32:24.300The Fed is only acting as a banker and providing that financing.
00:32:32.320You say we don't need to open up the economy?
00:32:38.940The U.S. could face rolling lockdowns and social distancing orders for 18 to 24 months.
00:32:47.000That's according to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
00:32:50.180Without an effective therapy or vaccine for COVID-19, the U.S. economy could face 18 months of rolling shutdowns as the outbreak recedes locally and then flares up again.
00:33:01.880The hunt for a vaccine continues a year, according to scientists, a year would be a miracle.
00:33:16.660They were met with nails in the road and surveillance of license plates because the mayor decided there wasn't going to be any church services anywhere in Kentucky.
00:33:29.540That's the governor, I should say, not the mayor.
00:33:32.840He urged residents to remain indoors for the Easter holiday, and they are enforcing with state troopers and county sheriffs.
00:33:44.260The mayor of the mayor of Louisville also came out and had draconian measures.
00:33:53.480The DOJ to states, First Amendment is still the First Amendment.
00:34:00.020A federal judge ruled that this weekend.
00:34:04.820An attorney general, William Barr, indicated the DOJ is monitoring state and local government actions related to limitations on religious services
00:34:14.460and will potentially prosecute local officials if they violate the civil rights of religious people.
00:34:29.820And is democracy the ultimate COVID-19 victim?
00:34:35.520France and Bolivia have postponed elections now.
00:34:38.420Peru has handed its president broad new legislative authority.
00:34:42.700Israel sharply ramped up the reach of its surveillance state.
00:34:47.460The U.S., we're curtailing religious services and searching for out-of-staters door-to-door in some states.
00:34:55.280While leaders around the world are fighting the spread of the coronavirus, they're also amassing sweeping new powers.
00:35:01.460As legislatures limit or suspend activities in the name of social distancing, many of the norms that define our free market and our democracy, elections, deliberation, debate, checks, and balances have all been put on indefinite hold.
00:35:18.080The speed and breadth of the transformation is unsettling to political scientists all over the world.
00:35:25.640Government watchdogs and rights groups, many concede emergency declarations and streamlining government decision-making are necessary responses to the global threat.
00:35:36.720But they question how readily leaders are going to give these powers up.
00:36:04.800Matt, NASA's budget for the next 207 years.
00:36:08.500The cost of the $4.7 trillion bailout package equates to NASA's $22.6 billion that they get every year for the next 207 years.
00:36:21.680The cost of the bailout, put in other words, is equal to fully funding six Mars landers, rovers, missions to the red planet every single day.
00:36:34.460Just the phase two of the deal, $2 trillion is $7,500 per American or $16,500 per taxpayer, saying that only half of our citizens pay taxes.
00:36:52.780There's no word yet on why it costs $7,500 in actual taxpayer cost for each American to receive a $1,200 stimulus check.