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Glenn Beck and Jason Buttrell talk about the coronavirus outbreak, Bloomberg vs. Sanders, a woman who went to a Trump rally, and why the stock market is doing what it does. Plus, a story about a former All-Star baseball player not being allowed to attend a reunion because he likes Donald Trump.
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And that's on tonight at 9pm, if you have to be listening to this, on Wednesday, 9pm Eastern Time.
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You can watch it on Blaze TV, or you can watch it live on YouTube.
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And you did some real research for this. You actually got the coronavirus, which I thought was real dedication.
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Yeah, well, you know, hey, I wanted to take a quick cruise in Japan.
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And to Cambodia, to Cambodia. There's nothing like Cambodia this time of year.
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So anyway, we talked about it in the podcast, some of the things that you don't know,
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and some real concerns that have nothing to do with health, although the health things are really scary.
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Also, Bloomberg versus Sanders, the actual numbers of what's happening in the economy.
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We have a woman who wrote a great article for Medium.com where she went to a Trump rally.
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She was somebody six months ago who said all people who voted for Trump are racist or deplorables.
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I think one of the weirdest experiences of her life was being on my program.
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And my favorite segment of the day, what the hell is this story all about?
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And remember, tonight on Stew Does America, where you should subscribe, rate, and review, please, on YouTube and podcast,
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we go into the pardon situation with Donald Trump.
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Should we actually have pardon power for our president?
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And the other thing is we have Aubrey Huff on, who's a Major League Baseball All-Star,
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who is not being allowed to attend the reunion because he likes Donald Trump too much.
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We'll get into that as well on StewDoesAmerica.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Oh, man, I've got some great stories on Bloomberg.
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He's a never-ending wealth of just crazy stories.
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I mean, if the left was like, we can beat Donald Trump at being a scumbag, you win.
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He's our chief researcher and head writer for the Glenn Beck program.
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And this is the Wednesday night special tonight at 9 p.m.
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You can find it live and on demand at The Blaze beginning at 9 p.m. tonight.
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And you can also watch it, I think, just live on YouTube, The Blaze YouTube channel.
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So you can watch it there if you have a friend who's like, I don't subscribe to The Blaze.
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It's a great opportunity for them to see why they should.
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If they miss it or if you miss it, you can only find it on demand at Blaze.com for members only because you guys are the ones who have made all of this research possible.
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For two weeks, I've had him in a bubble, the coronavirus bubble, and researching everything.
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And Jason was a good guy to put on this because he was very skeptical at first.
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He was skeptical of, I don't think this is a big deal.
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And where we've come out on the other end of this is, I'm not sure.
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However, I think it is a big deal, and I'll explain in a minute, but I'm not sure that this is something to write off or something to panic about.
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Usually the topics you give me, I'm like, it's hard because the people that we're researching are trying to withhold information.
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So it takes forever to try to dig out documents or whatever.
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But when we talk about coronavirus, it's like, great, this is going to be easy.
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But what's weird is it's almost like looking into a George Soros organization, looking into the coronavirus.
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This is how it's been because they're just withholding so much information.
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I'm thinking, like you've seen the outbreak and Dustin Hoffman running around saying like, we've got to find patient zero and ground zero and isolate that area.
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Well, I don't think they have any freaking clue who patient zero is and where ground zero is.
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Yeah, there's two things that people are saying.
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We're pretty sure it didn't come from bat soup.
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I mean, I really think that, you know, if we're depending on supply lines, hey, just one of General Motors, Apple.
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You know, you probably shouldn't put your manufacturing sites in a place where they have an open market where bats are crapping on camels and camels are, you know, crapping on salamanders.
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And they're all in cages, one on top of each other.
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Every single major outbreak that's come out, SARS, a couple of other flus, they've all come out of China.
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So who was the executive was like, that's where I want my factory.
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We got to do it there because, man, you get a great bowl of hot bat soup.
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So so it may have come from them, but they don't think so.
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We don't think that it came from a bioweapons lab because it's it's it's a natural virus.
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It's too chaotic to be something that they made in a lab.
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It has no markings of a of a lab virus may have been studied at that lab there in in Wuhan, but was not made in that lab.
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I mean, I looked at the study and it's pretty alarming, actually, of all the cases.
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And this is back when they first were looking into this when I think it was like around 90 people had contracted at that time.
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They looked at all 90 cases and they said, OK, we've there's a vast majority.
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We have a segment towards the end of the program where I talk to somebody who is in quarantine.
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He's American, but he was in China right there and he's in quarantine right now.
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And we Skyped into his into his his his secret lair and talk to him about what it was, what it was like there.
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And his biggest concern is that the mortality rate on this may be low.
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Right now it's at two, meaning two out of every hundred people will get it will die.
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And the regular flu has a point one death rate.
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He said, you know, even if this has a one percent death rate, that's a lot worse than the flu.
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But the problem is, is this is so easily spread that it could affect 60, 70 million people.
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And if if it only affects 40 million people around the world, that's a that that's a number of 65 million people that will die this season.
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The flu that you normally get is the strain of the 1918 flu.
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So we keep we keep fighting the 1918 Spanish flu every year.
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There are different flus that come through, but that's the main basis of the flu that we have.
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If it just stays this way, it could kill 65 million people every single year.
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That's why I'm so confused on this entire thing, because what they're saying, the vitality rate is there.
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I don't even think I can trust that because the data that we've looked at, if you just go off of what like, let's we we've gotten some statements from some cremation workers over in China.
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And their information is completely contradictory to what they're saying that China is saying the vitality rate is.
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And those people, by the way, who are speaking out, we will show you them tonight.
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They're in jail or suddenly disappeared or surprisingly, they caught the flu and died within a couple of days.
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Yeah. Healthy, middle aged, 30 in their 30s, catching the flu and dying.
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Right. Again, that does not match what they tell us.
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So the the official number today, yesterday, it was seventy three thousand four hundred and thirty five people globally had this.
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Today, it's up to seventy five in the death rate.
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There was a 20 percent jump overnight, eighteen hundred seventy five deaths.
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But the real number, according to several experts, is probably closer to three hundred and fifty thousand that have been infected.
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I mean, SARS infected eight thousand people and only killed around seven hundred.
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But this was after a full twelve months of China trying to cover it up, saying, no, no problem.
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And then finally, a doctor similar to this case came out and blew the whistle on it.
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We've only had this has only been a few months and they've already dwarfed.
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I mean, it's over double the amount that was killed by SARS and SARS had a higher fatality rate.
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You said sixty five million people were going to die every year.
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They believe 40 million people will get this worldwide.
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If this becomes a pandemic, they believe that 65 million, that's the low number, will contract this flu in a 12 month period.
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Sorry, 45 percent of the population will contract this flu in a year.
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So 40, if it becomes a pandemic, they believe 40 percent, 40 to 60.
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Everybody living today will get this this year.
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The only thing that they're saying, the only thing that's going to stop this, they say there's the real hope is summer.
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So and that's that's the but that's the low number.
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Imagine if 40 percent of the world has a flu that you don't that you have to just shut everybody down and make sure you stay home.
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If 40 percent of the world, what happens and this is the real thing that I'm focusing on two things tonight, not just the virus, but I wanted to look at what governments are doing and what big government of China really means.
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It is the Chinese government, the communist government that is killing these people because of their incompetence, their secrecy and their policies.
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But I also wanted to look at what does this mean for the economy?
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This should be the number one thing on Donald Trump's radar right now, because this may be the difference between winning and losing an election.
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This thing, it may calm down in summer here in the United States if it even gets here this year, but it doesn't have to escape China to affect us.
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Several of these car companies here in America and in the UK are struggling because they don't have parts.
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In fact, Land Rover just said they're taking parts out of China in suitcases right now.
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They only have parts to continue production for the next two weeks.
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So what's going to happen is not only are we not getting parts and things to be able to complete products over here in America and us not getting products to the shelves here in America for us not to be able to go into Target or where Walmart.
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And buy the stuff that we want, you're not going to be able to make them, sell them.
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And a bigger problem currently is that companies like Apple and even Ralph Lauren, 75% of their stores now in Asia are closed and have been closed for weeks.
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That's a growth market for all the way from Apple to Land Rover.
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So Land Rover, Jaguar, Apple to clothing from like Ralph Lauren.
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Those companies are going to take significant hits when they do their stock prices start to fall.
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The stocks should have fallen already and they haven't.
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And I think it's because everybody's keeping their fingers crossed and there's going to be all kinds of money printing and pumping to keep the economies of the entire globe afloat.
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This is the number one, in my opinion, this is the number one concern in the short term.
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In the long term, we're going to be fighting this for maybe forever.
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Tonight, Jason, will you come back and let's get into some of the stats next next hour.
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Now, before I get into some of the bad news about coronavirus, let me give you some good news.
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Hong Kong hotels are now telling it is now's the time.
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If you've ever wanted to go to Hong Kong, now is the time.
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But they're offering great, great deals to anybody who wants to come and stay in Hong Kong.
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Another advantage of the coronavirus is lobsters in America could be a lot cheaper this year.
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Lobsters are a big portion of the Maine lobsters and Atlantic lobsters have all been being sold to China.
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For some reason, people aren't eating out as much in China.
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Which proves the thesis of Samuel L. Jackson in that movie.
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When he wants to release a virus that's going to kill all the people to save the environment.
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You could kill them or keep them in their house.
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There are some frightening things that we have found online and Jason Buttrill is with us and he is my chief researcher and staff writer, head of the writing staff.
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And I asked him to take this on and tell me the difference between truth and fiction.
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But a lot of the videos that we're going to show tonight that are coming out of China are real.
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When you see the guy and I don't know if you heard this, Jason, but the guy who, you know, we have the video of going through the hospital and seeing all the bodies and the body bags.
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And he said, hey, I need 100 a day for our hospital.
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He made the most American sounding statement I've heard since, I think, 1776.
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I mean, that's another weird, like, side effect from all this.
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Just all the dissidents that are coming out and they're all united.
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He was arrested, I think, then let go because of the outcry that said, hey, what are you doing?
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And he's rearrested for spreading false information.
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But these guys, these whistleblowers, that's the same thing that the guy who first reported the coronavirus and just reported it not to the world, just tried to report it to his fellow workers at the hospital.
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Saying, hey, if you know, if you're a hospital worker, there's something weird going on.
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But just wear protection if somebody's coming in with flu-like symptoms.
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The Chinese communist government arrested him, forced him to recant.
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Then he mysteriously gets sick himself and dies pretty quickly.
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But before he dies, he's in an interview with, I think, the Hong Kong Free Times or something like that.
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And they have him, you can hear the respirator in the background and the heart monitors, and he's just talking about, he was forced to say those things.
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A lot of these videos that we're going to show you tonight have all been vetted, and they're all legit.
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And this has been a hard process because there's so much disinformation going out there.
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We've already debunked one video that's completely fake.
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And when you see these, it's all too painfully obvious that we're not getting the full story over there.
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And the problem is, is that the Chinese communist government has hired between 1,500 and 3,000 journalists to only go online and write stories debunking the truth.
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They're writing those stories, but they're also, like, very creatively writing these stories
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So all of their state-run media outlets are writing these stories saying, look, all these
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Look, all these great things we're doing to protect you.
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But I guarantee you that's not what they're meant for.
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They're meant to say, shut up, know your place, and get in line.
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We'll show you pictures that they are proud of.
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Drones are now flying all over the cities in China, and they are coming in low, and they
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will say, they affectionately call them auntie or uncle, and they'll say, auntie, what are
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And they'll kind of be like, oh, this is kind of funny.
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And it comes down right at them and says, you need to go home now.
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You need to be wearing a mask, and you can see it in the eyes of the Chinese.
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They're kind of like, oh, this is kind of funny, but it's weird.
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The one says, you broke the law and are outside of your house.
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Straight up, it follows this person the entire way.
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Yeah, and they're doing it kind of like when they're being released in China, they're kind
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of almost like have, did you notice this, like the Benny Hill music behind it?
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And they speed them up as they're walking home to make it kind of funny and not spooky.
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So you'll see that tonight because we're looking at what China is doing as a big state.
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They are, I mean, how do you keep basically almost the eastern seaboard in their homes?
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How would the United States government say, hey, by the way, everything, really everything
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from Syracuse down to Atlanta and to the ocean, everybody stay in their home.
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But to keep those people in the street, remember, you're let out, what, every two days, one
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person's let out to go shopping and that I don't think is true anymore.
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It was like for at the beginning, you could go out to get some food, but now there is
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People are literally trapped in their homes, dying in their homes.
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Are we going to show the video of the guy who is being locked into his, into his house
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Not only locking, but actually placing a steel bar on the door just to double make sure that
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Some of the other videos where they're going in and there's like, it's, it reminds me of,
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I don't know, like a, you know, World War II, you know, like Nazi movie where they're
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They're going into like some of these homes where they suspect, they suspect people might
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And we've got a video of this one guy that filmed across the street and they're going,
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They go in, grab a couple out, forcibly separate them.
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They forcibly separate them, throw them in the back of two vans and they both take off in
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Is the, are the welding videos real where they've been welding people's doors shuts?
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It's funny because like the way it would fit, I don't know if they are, but it would fit.
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The way they're dealing with this in the media is so strange too.
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I heard someone say the other day, like this is, is this the, uh, is this China's Chernobyl?
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And then the person's like, well, it's obviously not to that scale, but, uh, this is
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Yeah, but I mean the after effects when, because of their denial, nobody, nobody died.
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Nobody in the town died from the after effects.
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And it look, obviously Chernobyl was serious, but like this looks, this has the potential
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They were talking about it as being the scale less than Chernobyl.
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I mean, if, if we find out that they knew for weeks and weeks, it didn't do anything
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I mean, that's what everyone seems to be reporting now.
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And it's largely because what, because the way their society is structured, right?
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He is the ultimate competent man at the top that always makes the right decisions.
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He said that I, he was like in that group text, he was like, Hey, I don't know why they're
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not talking about this because there are, they're studying some of these cases in military
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hospitals and they're dying and they're not saying, Hey, yeah, this is, this is a public
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So let me give you the stats that we, we do know.
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These are the people who are, that are known to be infected.
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When I went, when I was doing the stats and when I wrote this last week, it was 45,000.
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That's how it over 30,000 in just seven days doubled, doubled in size.
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However, we don't believe that that number is anywhere close to accurate.
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Most, um, uh, most people who are willing to speculate, and I've got a story about Michael
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You can't, you can't trust our own press here, uh, because they are in bed with China doing
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And so they want access and they will not question and give you the truth because they'll lose
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And it's, uh, it's just absolutely unbelievable and unreasonable for them not to at least say
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at the top of their broadcast, you know, we at, uh, Bloomberg news have, uh, major outlets
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in China and we have a deal with the Chinese government.
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We're reporting what we can in accordance to the Chinese government.
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Let us know you're, you're not willing to say that because you don't want to lose your place
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in China, but you have to tell people that when lives are at stake, wait till you hear the story
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So anybody who will go on the record, they, they believe that the actual number of infected
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I find that number, um, curious, even at that level, only because you're putting 75 million
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75 million people that's, you know, take, take California and just say, California is completely
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It would, it certainly wouldn't be for something you shouldn't worry about.
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We'll give you the reasons why you should worry about it, but it's not necessarily that it's
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Most seasonal flu viruses have a case fatality rate of less than one in a thousand people.
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So one in a thousand people, less than one in a thousand people will die because of the
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Uh, SARS was, SARS was, it was like eight or 10, 15.
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Uh, yeah, much more deadly, but this is still over less than 1% regular flu.
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Now there are some conditions that change that outside of China.
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So the Corona virus is about in China is about as deadly as the Spanish flu of 1918.
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Uh, if it becomes a pandemic and spreads across the globe, they say anywhere from the lowest
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The highest I've heard is 60% of the globe of the entire population will get this out of
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The death rate is lower outside of China for several reasons, but that means at 40%, that
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And by the way, until we find a vaccine, you'll have to have like a flu shot for this every
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Much of the flu that we battle every single year is still a strain of the 1918 Spanish flu.
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They believe now it's, it will travel in saliva through water in the eyes.
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Um, you know, using any kind of utensils, make sure you wash your hands and all of that stuff
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You don't know you have the virus for as long as 24 days, they say 14, but it could be as
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long as 24 days you have it and it's growing in you and you don't know.
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And in those 14 to 24 days, you can be infecting others.
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Uh, but I thought every word of what she wrote was important.
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She wrote a piece after attending a Trump rally.
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I would imagine this is the last place you ever thought you would be on.
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Oh, never in a million years did I think that this would happen.
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Um, you are a Democrat, um, and, or you were, you were a Democrat.
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You're an independent now, and it's my, we had an argument back and forth.
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It's my understanding that you are still going to be voting for a Democrat or possibly voting.
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You're not, you haven't changed to a Trump supporter or voter, right?
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I mean, I frankly don't know who my options are in the general election.
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And I think that, uh, there are absolutely some, some, uh, pretty high profile contenders
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that I will not vote for under any circumstances.
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So tell the story for anybody who didn't read, tell your story.
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So I, um, you know, I had been going on this journey for the past, you know, six months
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or so where I was really starting to feel very uncomfortable in an echo chamber that I
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And I started listening to just different conservative voices and they kind of all
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culminated when I decided to go to the Trump rally in Manchester, New Hampshire last week.
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I thought if there's anything, I can't think of anything bigger I could do to break out
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And everyone that I talked to about this idea was genuinely concerned for my safety.
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And that includes people on the left and the right.
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They were both really concerned that I was going to be physically harmed at this rally,
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either by the supporters or by Antifa or whoever.
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And I discovered that, you know, hey, shocker, they're just average, normal people that are
00:34:55.720
And you said at one point you thought those people were despicable and even deplorables.
00:35:02.440
I definitely went through a phase probably for about a year and a half where I really thought
00:35:06.560
that, you know, anyone who supported President Trump was at best supporting racism and at
00:35:27.700
Well, I'm a knitter and in the knitting community, and I know this sounds bizarre, but it is a hyper
00:35:34.040
political community at the moment where they have these kind of roving gangs of social justice
00:35:40.120
warriors just attacking people and mobbing them indiscriminately.
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First of all, most people didn't even know that there was a knitting, an online knitting
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And now I'm seeing knitters and roving gangs of social justice.
00:36:04.700
Well, listen, I understand the feeling because I didn't expect it either.
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But I started seeing this happen just over and over and over again.
00:36:12.680
And at some point, I started speaking up within the knitting community and saying, guys, this
00:36:19.700
And at that point, and I didn't get it as badly as a lot of people did.
00:36:23.180
But at some point, I just said, I cannot align myself with these people politically.
00:36:29.280
You talked about how one person was bullied so bad online that they they became suicidal.
00:36:37.360
What what what are the what were the arguments about?
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So in his case in particular, he started speaking up when the mobbings first started
00:36:49.240
All he did was post a poem on Instagram asking for kindness and asking for people to just see
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And he was mobbed by thousands and thousands of people.
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And when he and he eventually did go into the hospital and then his husband posted on
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Instagram that, you know, please stop the hate.
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And it just got worse and kept escalating after that.
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But thankfully, he's he seemed to have really rebounded and now is getting a lot of support
00:37:17.100
So who are these people that are in these roving mobs?
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They're just they're people on the very far left that anytime something sticks out to them
00:37:27.780
that is outside of their ideology, they try to pressure people into kind of bending the
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knee and and issuing these massive apologies and, you know, pointing out all the areas where
00:37:37.600
they are wrong in their lives and transphobic and homophobic and fat phobic and all these
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And it's just they're they're I mean, to be blunt, I think they're kind of just horrible,
00:37:45.980
miserable people that want to make other people miserable as well.
00:37:50.200
Well, you're starting to sound like a conservative.
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I know because I mean, this is this is the thing that really we've been warning about.
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There's there's disagreements on things that we can disagreements on policies we can go
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on. But when you're trying to shut people up and you do it through fear and intimidation,
00:38:10.860
it's it's a very foreign kind of concept to America.
00:38:22.920
And anyone who's doing it on any side is is really engaging in some really dangerous stuff
00:38:31.980
I totally agree. And when people started telling me to shut up specifically, that was when I
00:38:37.280
started really taking a look at it, because for me, expression is a gift that we've all
00:38:41.620
been given. And and if you want to change people's minds, you have to do it through
00:38:48.900
So you said the day you went to the Trump rally, MSNBC was there.
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And so you you wanted to you wanted to go among some familiar territory first.
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So you went and what was your experience there that morning?
00:39:08.480
Well, I was wearing a red hat that looks kind of like a Trump hat that says make speech free
00:39:12.940
again. It's my little protest against cancel culture.
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And, you know, it's always a conversation starter and people struck up a conversation.
00:39:19.900
And I said, oh, I'm thinking about going over to the Trump rally.
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And one woman even offered me her pepper spray.
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And I just said, you know, I think I'm going to be fine.
00:39:34.720
So what was the what were you what were your thoughts?
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Because I'm sure these people were being genuine.
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So what were your thoughts on on that, especially somebody of your profession that you look and
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say, these people genuinely care about my safety.
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And I think that, you know, when when literally every single person around you is in fear of
00:40:06.920
your safety, it's really hard not to question and say, what are they seeing that I don't see?
00:40:12.280
But it's also an indication that I knew I had to do it at that point because I knew I had to
00:40:20.740
So you wrote something interesting in your article about your hat on how it is viewed by
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I I can't tell you how how I do you know who Jonathan Haidt is?
00:40:33.680
OK, so Jonathan did kind of the same thing that that you did.
00:40:38.420
And and he he told me that he actually started listening to me and he said, I I'm listening
00:40:50.020
And he said, I realize you speak about things and you don't necessarily use the same terminology
00:40:58.940
And he said, so it started to kind of crack my mind open a bit.
00:41:06.340
And it's the same experience that you've went through by listening to other conservative
00:41:13.000
And I have experienced it myself where you can go into a room and just not by changing
00:41:22.720
what you say, just by changing how you frame it, the entire thing changes and you can make
00:41:35.080
And it's funny because we're really I think the average person is generally fighting for
00:41:42.260
the same thing and you just don't know it and you think the other side is totally against
00:41:50.460
Well, I mean, my head for me is just I got so tired of people trying to cancel one another
00:41:59.300
And so it was just my small little nod that I am, you know, the First Amendment for me is
00:42:10.160
And so that's the message I was really trying to articulate with it.
00:42:12.600
But I completely agree with everything you just said, too.
00:42:14.540
And it reminds me of the phrase, what resists persists when we fight aggressively against
00:42:22.340
And that to me is a reflection of what's going on right now in that, you know, especially
00:42:26.640
and I, you know, my my liberal friends might disagree with me, but I see it coming more from
00:42:31.460
the left than the right where they're fighting so aggressively and they don't understand that
00:42:37.840
Harlan, what is it that you're looking for in a candidate?
00:42:47.820
I think we used to think that liberals were not necessarily big government.
00:42:57.420
They were all about the the rights of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
00:43:09.920
I very much believe in our fundamental liberties.
00:43:13.260
I tend to be actually pretty centrist with some libertarian leanings politically.
00:43:18.020
And I guess I'm just looking for a candidate that's going to make common sense solutions
00:43:24.120
And that's really the biggest thing for me right now.
00:43:26.780
So do you see anybody that the left is offering up?
00:43:30.760
Tell me your ideas of the candidates, why you would or wouldn't vote for.
00:43:36.320
So I think the ones that I would consider voting for, you know, I came to Tulsi Gabbard late
00:43:42.520
and I obviously don't think she has a shot at the nomination.
00:43:45.160
I think that what the left has done to her has just been atrocious in terms of the character
00:43:50.600
You're starting to sound like the Glenn Beck program.
00:43:52.720
I just want you to know you're you're way over your head here.
00:44:02.700
So I voted for Pete Buttigieg in the New Hampshire primary.
00:44:06.200
Now, I voted for him mostly because I came to know him very early on in the campaign.
00:44:10.760
I think he's pandering way too much for me lately.
00:44:17.180
I do not believe I would vote for Bernie again now because I think he's gone way too left.
00:44:24.180
And I think the thing with Bernie and who in Bernie's who I ultimately think will probably
00:44:28.020
be the nominee is then it's really a question of do I do I want to go towards socialism or
00:44:44.880
And what did you what did you walk away feeling?
00:44:48.460
Um, I you know, I think that Trump there are things about Trump I don't like.
00:44:55.340
I definitely do not agree with some of his policies, but I also I love what he's doing
00:45:08.540
Um, and I frankly, I like some of the actions that he's taken in terms of, um, in being more
00:45:15.220
aggressive towards, you know, Solomon and all these things.
00:45:20.500
I also just think he's just a really funny guy.
00:45:22.800
And I think that you have to put Trump in the context of being just this blustery New
00:45:26.700
Yorker and not take him so seriously with every single thing that he says.
00:45:32.080
The difference between Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump is Donald Trump is said to be
00:45:38.400
Sometimes he can be, but most of the times he's funny.
00:45:42.800
Uh, he's got a sense of humor making fun of Michael Bloomberg in his shortness, but Michael
00:45:49.980
You know, when he says things, I think he means them, uh, where Donald Trump, you kind of
00:45:55.180
have to, it's, it's weird because some of the things he says you have to take for, you
00:45:59.280
know, for reality and others, you have to just blow off and that he's just trying, he's
00:46:09.320
Like you have to like, let yourself laugh at these things, but listen, if Bloomberg gets
00:46:13.120
the nomination and especially if he brings Hillary with him, I swear I will vote for
00:46:21.940
So the question I really wanted to ask you, are there other people like you that are starting
00:46:27.740
to wake up to the democratic position of just playing footsie with really dangerous
00:46:36.460
Uh, I think there are people who are starting to wake up.
00:46:40.580
I've gotten so, I mean, probably like thousands of messages over my story of people saying,
00:46:45.160
I wish my liberal friends and family would read this and I tried to give it to them and
00:46:49.600
Um, I think the people, you know, in, in small numbers are starting to wake up, but I really
00:46:53.360
do think that November is going to be a giant wake up call and it's going to be interesting
00:47:03.440
Um, even though I'm sure we differ on a ton of things, I really respect the courage, uh,
00:47:09.880
of anyone who thinks out of the box and dare go against their own side, uh, for what they
00:47:15.860
And I wish you all the luck, um, that, uh, I could possibly wish you.