Ep. 465 - Citizens Begin To Stand Up Against Tyranny
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In this episode of the Mattress Talk Podcast, Matt talks about the Michigan citizens who are standing up to the tyranny of their power drunk governor, why the New York Times is treating the Joe Biden and Brett Kavanaugh accusations differently, and why CNN anchor Chris Cuomo should be fired.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, citizens in Michigan are standing up to the tyranny
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from their power drunk governor. Is this the start of a trend? Are we going to see more and
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more of this around the country? I really hope so. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines,
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including CNN anchor Chris Cuomo making some interesting admissions about his job that I
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sort of appreciate, though, what he had to say. So we'll discuss that. And in our daily cancellation,
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the executive editor of The New York Times offers an absolutely ridiculous justification for why
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the paper has treated the allegations against Joe Biden, the sexual assault allegations against
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Biden so differently from how it treated the allegations against Kavanaugh. Of course,
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we know the real reason why there is this disparity, but he came up with his own excuse. And it's so bad
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that unfortunately, it pains me to do it, but I have to cancel him for it. So all of that on the
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way. But first, I want to begin real quick with this. Just something I have to say at the top.
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You know, I sent out this tweet over the weekend where I would take a look at it here where I
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criticize those videos that you see all over TikTok now of nurses doing these choreographed
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dance routines at hospitals around the country. And as you can see there, I said, we were told we
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had to willingly plunge ourselves into a Great Depression because hospitals are being overwhelmed.
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Meanwhile, TikTok is full of videos of hospital staff performing choreographed dance routines.
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What a joke, this whole thing infuriating. That's what I said. Okay. The point being, well,
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I think the point's pretty straightforward. I think my point there is pretty obvious.
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Millions of people have lost their jobs because we're told about overwhelmed,
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overrun hospitals. And imagine being one of those people, maybe in line at a food bank,
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and you go and you check your phone and you see another video of nurses literally dancing in the
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hallways of empty hospitals. Okay. That might make you a little bit upset. And that was my point.
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Now, the response to this tweet that I sent has been extraordinary, extraordinarily bad
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for the most part. People have been very upset. I've been getting criticized very harshly for it
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because I have dared to criticize the sainted nurses, which, you know, you're just not allowed
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to do that. You can't criticize them for anything they do right now. And because apparently I am anti-fun
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and anti-joy, I am against people having any sort of fun at all. Because I'm against nurses doing
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choreographed dance routines and recording it and putting it online in the middle of a pandemic and
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a shutdown that has cost millions of people their jobs, because I'm against that, it means I'm against
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fun in general, which is true. Of course, I am against fun, as you know. I've been informed that
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my tweet is insensitive, cruel, judgmental, on and on and on. And people have said, I need to apologize.
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I need to apologize profusely, take it down, delete it. So after all this criticism, I've had time to
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reflect. And I just want to say, I need to say, I'm not sorry about anything that I said at all.
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And if you're offended, I'm not sorry that you're offended. In fact, I don't care about your
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feelings. I just don't. It has no sway or pull with me whatsoever, makes no difference. So I just
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don't care. Even if I was wrong, I still wouldn't apologize on principle. I'm not going to apologize
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when you've got a gang of whiny idiots demanding one. Even in that case, I could be 100% wrong,
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and I still wouldn't. But in this case, I'm not wrong. I'm 100% right. And if you disagree with
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my point here, then you're wrong. And again, I don't apologize. If I could do it all over again,
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I would do the exact same thing. And a million more emails will not make me change my opinion.
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Because, and this is the point I really want to drive home.
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When you get mad, and you scream at me, and you tell me I'm wrong, and that I need to stop having
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the opinion that I have, and I need to stop expressing the opinion that I've expressed,
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all that does is make me even more sure of my opinion, and more likely to say it even louder.
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So again, not sorry at all. And I just want to clarify that. And it's good to get, you know,
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it's good to get that off your chest. A little bit of a conflict resolution there. Okay. Now,
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let's check out some positive news. I consider this to be positive. And in fact, before we do
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out some, as I said, some other positive news. I consider this to be positive. Some citizens are
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rising up and taking action. The Michigan Conservative Coalition and the Michigan Freedom
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Fund, two organizations, have organized a protest at the state capitol in Michigan. Thousands of
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people are expected to show up, descending on the city, in their cars. They're going to stay in their
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cars. They're not getting out of the cars. But they're going to be in their cars. It's kind of
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like a march, except in their cars. And they're going to circle the capitol building, and there's going
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to be gridlock. There's going to be traffic. That's the idea, to make a statement against
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer and some of the measures that she has adopted, ostensibly, supposedly, to
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fight the coronavirus epidemic. But really, it's just about her flexing her muscle and her power,
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and that's what this is all about. So they're going to be standing up against that. Now, Emperor
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Whitmer has, like so many other mini emperors around the country, taken advantage of the crisis,
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of course, to grab power that she is not entitled to and to boost her national profile, which is a big
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thing for her, obviously. She's a petty, narcissistic tyrant. She's drunk on fame and power. She's the
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kind of politician who, and there are a lot of these in government, the kind of politician who
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would have been dangerous with the power given to her. Like if she was an assistant manager at a pizza
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place, she would have been dangerous with that amount of power over a few people, you know, over
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like three teenagers working with, for her at a pizza place. She would have been dangerous with that
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power. But you make her governor, and you put her into the middle of an emergency situation like this,
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and she goes literally insane with power. She becomes basically like this.
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Yeah, that's really governors all across the country. I've become like Jafar after he gets
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after he gets the genie's lamp at the end of Aladdin and wishes to become the most powerful genie in the
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world. I could have gone with maybe the Gollum and the Ring analogy would have worked too, but I
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decided to go with the more millennial reference, which by the way, the one problem I have with that
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movie is at the end, you know, Jafar becomes the most powerful genie, and then it turns out that he
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gets tricked because now he's a slave as a genie, and then Aladdin puts him back in the lamp, and he's
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stuck in the lamp now. And then the good genie, Robin Williams, the Robin Williams genie, he takes the lamp
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with the evil genie, and he just chucks it into the desert. And I'm thinking that is not probably the
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safest disposal method for evil genies. You're just throwing it into the desert. It was, Aladdin found
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the thing in a desert. Someone's just going to find it, and we're going to go through all this again.
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So why not, I mean, put it at the bottom of the ocean at least, or burn it? Anyway, so there's going to be a
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protest, and that's great. And this is exactly what we need to happen. Just to give you an idea
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of why Emperor Whitmer is being protested, she instituted a stay-at-home order back several
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weeks ago, like they have in many states now, but which, as we talked yesterday, is not a quarantine,
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okay? These are, we call them stay-at-home orders, but really it's effectively house arrest. She has
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placed the entire state under house arrest, which she also does not have the authority to do, but no one's
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worried about that anymore. But this past week, she made it even stricter. And now, by decree of the
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emperor, residents are banned from, for example, traveling between their own residences. Okay,
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so if you happen to own two houses in Michigan, you cannot go from one house to the other.
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Why? Well, no reason. There's not a reason for that. If you live in a house, and you get out of
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your house, and you cross your yard into your driveway, you get in your car, and then you drive
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to your second house, and you get out of the car, and you go, there's really no point in between that
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whole process where you're likely to contract or spread the virus. So there's no reason to ban that,
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except for the fact that Emperor Whitmer can, so she does. Also, let's see, there's a bunch of other
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stuff in this new order. I'm going to read now from the text of the emperor's order. It says,
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subject to the exceptions in section seven of this order, blah, blah, blah, all individuals currently
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living within the state of Michigan are ordered to stay at home or at their place of residence.
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Subject to the same exceptions, all public and private gatherings of any number of people
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occurring among persons not part of a single household are prohibited.
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Okay, private gatherings of any number of people are prohibited. Well, what does that mean?
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It means you are barred in Michigan from welcoming your own family members into your home.
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If you have a brother who lives across town, he's not allowed to enter your house.
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This is an order from the emperor of Michigan saying your brother cannot come to your house
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Emperor Whitmer has assumed the power to tell residents that they cannot have their own families
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in their homes. This is something, now I would call this dictatorial, but this is trailblazing
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as a dictator really because as far as I know, now I'm not really familiar totally with the
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legislation in a place like North Korea, but as far as I know, even Kim Jong-un has not thought of
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this. He hasn't even thought of telling the peasants of North Korea that they can't have their own
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families over for dinner. So this is, she's blazing a new trail. The supreme leader of North Korea is
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looking at the supreme leader of Michigan and thinking, wow, that's a good, I should have thought of that.
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These are some good ideas. He's like taking notes while he reads these executive orders.
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Now, on top of that, she's also, as has happened in many other states, she has told
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the so-called essential retailers what they're allowed to sell and what they're not allowed to sell.
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And the exceptions and the things that are not accepted are pretty absurd. We'll get to that in
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we're always harvesting it from a remote and, you know, you're stitching together batteries from
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that the following sections of all stores, for all the essential stores that are still allowed to be
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open, according to her degree, are to be cordoned off. That is, carpeting or flooring. Cancel
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carpeting or flooring. Furniture, garden centers and plant nurseries, and paint. Those are the things
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she's decided. If you go and try to buy one of those, you might get coronavirus. So you can't buy
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that. Garden centers and plant nurseries. So you can't grow your own vegetables because of coronavirus.
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Now, I would think that now is especially a good time to have your own garden and grow your own
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vegetables because it provides you with fresh produce and all the natural vitamins that come
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with that. It makes you healthy. And you don't have to go to the store as much because you can
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grow it in your own garden. I would think this is a perfect time for that. If anything, the government
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should be encouraging people to go and buy seeds and start their own garden. But no, it's gone the
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other way. She says you can't. You can't do that. Someone, I was talking about this and someone told
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me this morning on Twitter, defending the governor's order, the emperor, sorry, rather, use her appropriate
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title, saying that, no, no, no, it's not that you can't buy seeds and plants. It's just that you can't
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buy it at a big box retailer. So if you're at Walmart or Target or something, you can't go to their
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garden center because those are shut down. But you can go to a separate place and buy seeds and
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vegetables and plants and stuff. Now, I'm not sure if that's true or not. I don't know exactly. In
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Michigan, there are actual garden stores. Are those places allowed to be open? I don't know.
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But the fact that this person thinks that that's a defense, see, that would make it even more
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arbitrary and ridiculous. Because then what they're telling you is if you're already at, let's say,
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Walmart buying groceries and you want some seeds to start a garden, you can't just walk across the
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aisle and grab some, which would be the easiest and quickest and safest thing. Instead, you have to
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get in your car and go to a separate place across town instead of just walking across the store.
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So if that's how it's working, that doesn't make it better. That makes it 10 times worse
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because now it's even more arbitrary and it's counterproductive because you're creating more
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travel that's unnecessary. By the way, the emperor has also said, apparently, that novelty t-shirt
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printers are essential businesses, it would seem. Because she took the time during this emergency to
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appear on Comedy Central wearing a custom t-shirt she made for herself, or she had made for herself.
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You can see that right here. And it says, that woman from Michigan. And that's a reference to,
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I guess, Trump referred to her as that woman in Michigan or a woman from Michigan or something.
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And so she had a, you know, she had a custom t-shirt. Does that make sense? So you can't buy
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seeds, but you can make a custom t-shirt. That's an, that's, that's essential.
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No, it doesn't make sense, but she's in power, you peasant scum. And it's just as simple as that.
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You can buy lottery tickets too, by the way, in Michigan. You can go to the gas station and buy
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lottery tickets. You can buy scratch-offs, whatever you want. Can't buy furniture, can't buy paint,
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can't buy seeds. You can buy lottery tickets. Does that make sense? No. Once again, it doesn't,
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but it doesn't matter because what she says goes. This is about a petty, ridiculous person who has
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been given the opportunity to live out her fantasy as essentially a political dominatrix. And that's
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what's happening here. You know, this whole experience, as this has been happening, I've been
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thinking a lot about speaking before of, of, uh, managers at pizza places. The reason I use that
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example, I was thinking of a manager I had when I worked as a pizza chef, as a teenager, and I was
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a chef. Okay. I could, I could do things like I could do the thing where you spin the dough in the
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air. And that was pretty good. So that's, that's chef stuff. I wasn't just a guy working at a pizza
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place. Um, but my manager at that job was just an absolute tyrant. He had minimal, just a minimal
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amount of control over the high schoolers who worked for him during his shift. And he exploited
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it to the fullest extent. So if that power was in like a sponge, he, he, he was wringing that sponge
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out and just getting every last drop and morsel he could of power out of that thing. Right. And we've
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all had bosses like this. We've had teachers like this. Uh, there are people in every profession and
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every line of work. We've encountered customer service representatives like this. I mean, if you've
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ever, uh, called, you've had to call someplace, a 1-800 number and deal with someone at a call center.
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And we've all had an experience where the person you're talking to is they have a minimal amount of
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control. This is just somebody working at a call center. They have very little power,
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but right now in this moment, because you need something from them and they have the thing you
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need, even if it's just something like information or you need them to pass you along to somebody else
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who has the information you need, they're going to exploit that power as much as possible just
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because they can. And they're going to be difficult and they're going to try to make your life miserable
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because they're miserable. So we've all encountered people like this. Um, now
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then we have to think, you know, who, who generally are the sorts of people who even want to be
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politicians who want to have this kind of power and control? Well, it's exactly like, it's exactly
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these sorts of people, the tyrannical boss at a pizza place or that jerk at the call center. I mean,
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these, these narcissists who are miserable people and want to control others.
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That, that, that doesn't have to be your motivation for wanting to become a politician.
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It's possible in theory that you could be motivated by a desire for public service.
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And I'm willing to believe that there might be of all the politicians in America.
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There might right now be maybe like three or four of them who were motivated by a desire for public
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service, but the vast majority of them are just the petty narcissists.
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And that's why they became politicians. And now they're in a position where, uh, they have been
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giving, given basically unlimited power over large numbers of people. And they're going to exploit it
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to the fullest extent. And that's exactly why they shouldn't be given that power to begin with.
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All right, let's go to, uh, news headlines. Number one, here's a report from, uh, it's called
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spectrum news, New York. And I thought this was a interesting report. Watch this Delta airlines
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is temporarily changing the way passengers board its planes. Travelers whose seats are in the last
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row will board first. And then the process will make its way row by row to the front with those
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passengers boarding last passengers will have to wait for their row number to be called.
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This change is so that people will interact less while getting to their seats.
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Customers in first or business class can still board whenever they want. They are being encouraged to
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wait for their row to be called. And there will still be pre-boarding processes for those who need
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extra time or assistance. Delta says the changes will stay in place until May 31st.
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First of all, what's up with the people boarding the plane in that package you watch there?
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See how they were all smiling as they got on the plane. Nobody looks like that when they're boarding a
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plane. Everyone is, is just gloomy and miserable, especially on a Delta flight of all things.
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But more to the point, why did it take a pandemic for airlines to adopt a sane boarding procedure?
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Obviously, this is one of the things that has perplexed airline passengers like myself for years.
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Why, why do you start by boarding the people in the front of the plane? And then you have,
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it just, it takes, it makes the, it makes the whole procedure five times as long as it needs to be.
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So you start people in the back and then you fill in from there. And I guess part of the reason they
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changed it is because they want to give the people who are in first class and the, you know, people in
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comfort, the comfort section. So they get like two inches more of legroom than everybody else.
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They want to give them the privilege and honor of boarding the plane first. But I never understood
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that either. Because on the, on the rare occasion where someone's been paying for my flight and I get to
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fly first class because I'd never pay for it myself. I don't, I don't really consider it a
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great honor to board the flight first because then you're just, you're just sitting on the plane
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longer than everybody else. Why is that so exciting? So that's a, at least this is one good thing that
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will come of the whole pandemic is that airlines will start boarding in a reasonable way.
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Number two, speaking of tyranny, reading now in a report from Amanda Preston-Giacomo in the Daily
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Wire, it says, after fighting a grueling seven-year legal battle for respectfully declining to create
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a cake for a same-sex wedding, openly Christian baker Jack Phillips landed a 7-2 ruling in his favor of
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the Supreme Court. The win was not enough, however. The same Colorado agency that went after Phillips over
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the same-sex wedding cake then sued the cake artist for refusing to create a gender transition
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celebration. Um, and that was the, uh, so that he was, he was first sued by the gay couple that
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wanted the gay wedding cake that goes to the Supreme Court. And then you've got this transgender person
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who comes in and wants a gender transition cake after all that's over. And he, he basically won in
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the Supreme Court. He all but achieved a victory in the Supreme Court. Um, after that happens, then you've
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got this person, Autumn Scardina, who comes in for a gender transition cake in an, in an obvious attempt
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to, to just entrap Jack Phillips and find an excuse to sue. He gets the excuse to sue. And now the latest
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is that there's a second lawsuit. Um, this is going back to court again and from the same person, Autumn
00:24:06.460
Scardina. Um, and it just, it never ends. Jack Phillips, you know, he has been, this all started, when did this
00:24:16.620
start? This started, I think in 2012, I believe, 2013. I mean, round there. It's been, it's been many, many years
00:24:24.420
and it all just started with Jack Phillips, not even refusing to make a cake for a gay couple. That's not what
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happened. You know, he just, he didn't want to make a custom cake for a gay wedding. He was willing to
00:24:38.340
sell the gay couple any pastry or dessert they wanted in the entire, so they could have whatever
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they wanted. It's just, I don't want to make a custom cake specifically for a gay wedding. All starts
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with that. And here we are six, seven years later, and, uh, it still has not ended. Uh, number three, a team
00:24:56.040
of researchers published a paper in the journal M systems. And in their paper, they say that, uh,
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two of the best things we can do to fight the coronavirus, according to them is one, get fresh
00:25:07.420
air to get lots of sun. Now it's not known to what extent sunlight kills the virus, but we do know in
00:25:15.720
general that sunlight is a great disinfectant when it comes to germs and viruses and so on. Uh, plus lots
00:25:21.800
of air circulation obviously is going to reduce your risk of contracting a virus. When if somebody
00:25:26.120
coughs or something, a few feet from you and you're inside and you've got all that stale, still
00:25:32.120
recirculated air, there's a much greater likelihood you're going to get infected than if you're outside
00:25:37.220
and there's, there's tons of fresh air and the air is circulating and moving and everything. And
00:25:41.840
there's wind and a breeze. Uh, obviously there's gonna be less of a chance of you getting infected.
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Now I bring that up because what have many States and localities done in many places,
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they've shut down parks, they've banned outdoor recreation. Uh, they're arresting people who go
00:25:58.320
to the beach. And it sounds like to me, speaking of beaches in particular, it seems like one of the
00:26:05.740
best possible places you could be right now is on a beach. You've got lots of fresh air. You've got
00:26:11.760
lots of heat, lots of sunlight, lots of space. There's probably no better place to be for avoiding
00:26:19.380
a virus, but instead what have many places done? They've shut down the beaches and said, no, go to
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your home where there's a much greater chance of circulating and spreading and contracting the
00:26:29.100
virus. Makes a lot of sense. Uh, finally, Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor was on Sirius, Sirius XM radio,
00:26:37.900
and he had quite a lot to say about his job and, and media in general. Um, take a listen.
00:26:44.280
I don't want to spend my time doing things that I don't think that are valuable enough to me
00:26:53.180
personally. Like what? Well, I don't like what I do professionally. I've decided. Um,
00:27:02.540
I like doing this show. I like talking to you guys, but I don't value
00:27:08.460
indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship. I don't think it's worth my time. And I don't want
00:27:19.940
some jackass loser, fat tire biker, um, to be able to pull over, uh, and get in my face and in my space
00:27:29.180
and talk bulls**t to me. I don't want to hear it. And just like you would, right? You're not going
00:27:35.940
to tolerate that, right? Some cat just basically pulls up in the driveway next to yours and starts
00:27:41.780
getting in your face about stuff. How, how's that going to go? How's that going to go? Right?
00:27:47.540
That matters to me more than making millions of dollars a year. That matters to me more.
00:27:55.000
Why? Because I've saved my money. Some honesty there, which I respect. And also it seems like
00:28:00.160
one of the reasons he doesn't like his job and doesn't want his job anymore is that, uh, he wants
00:28:05.920
to be able to yell at or punch or insult someone who insults him. The fact that he's not able to do
00:28:15.260
that because he's a public figure upsets him. And, and, and he would be willing to give up his
00:28:20.920
multimillion dollar a year job just so he can, just so he can have the ability to insult people
00:28:26.380
who insult him. I respect that personally. I really do. Um, so let's, uh, there's not a lot I
00:28:34.380
can say. I can't often say that about CNN anchors, but that at least I can respect. Let's go to your
00:28:39.340
daily cancellation. Well, I had to let the New York times off the hook yesterday because I had to cancel,
00:28:44.900
um, our chickens instead, which if you didn't watch the show yesterday, we'll just leave it there.
00:28:50.360
No context. But, uh, today we're going to circle back and cancel them. You, you remember the, the
00:28:55.660
New York times published a piece over the weekend, which went to absurd lengths to essentially absolve
00:29:00.700
Joe Biden of the sexual assault charge made against him by Tara Reid. Um, this after first of all,
00:29:06.900
taking many days and or weeks really to even acknowledge the story in the first place.
00:29:11.540
Uh, and then meanwhile, the times in the past has jumped on sexual assault claims made against other
00:29:17.900
people and reported them right away, uh, uncritically. And it just so happens coincidentally,
00:29:25.620
they usually do that when the person who is being accused is a Republican. I'm sure it's just a
00:29:30.400
coincidence. Well, Dean back back wet, executive editor of the times was being interviewed in the
00:29:38.720
times by the times for some reason about all of this. And that was published yesterday. I want
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to read just one of these exchanges to you. Um, so a question I've been looking at the times is
00:29:53.820
coverage of justice Brett and Kavanaugh. I want to focus particularly on the Julie Swetnick
00:29:58.800
allegation. She was the one who was represented by Michael Avenatti and who suggested that Kavanaugh
00:30:03.320
had been involved in frat house rapes and then appeared to walk back elements of her allegations.
00:30:08.680
The times wrote that, uh, that's the times wrote that story the same day she made the allegation
00:30:14.620
noting that quote, none of Ms. Swetnick's claims could be independently corroborated.
00:30:19.340
Why was Kavanaugh treated differently? That's the question. We'll get to the answer in a second,
00:30:22.500
but remember it took them many days to even acknowledge this claim, this allegation against
00:30:29.000
Joe Biden. And then when they do, they essentially exonerate him. Um, but let's remember the Julie
00:30:36.020
Swetnick. Now, no, we were, we remember Christine Ford, that allegation, which there was no evidence
00:30:39.840
for. She didn't even remember most of the details, no witnesses, nobody corroborated anything.
00:30:44.260
So that was bad enough. Julie Swetnick, she was the one who claimed not just that Kavanaugh was involved
00:30:50.900
in rapes at frat houses. She claimed that he was essentially the ringleader of a, of a,
00:30:57.080
of a group of gang rapists who were known to show up at parties and rape women. They was just like,
00:31:04.040
according to her, everybody knew this. And yet, according to her, um, women would still go to these
00:31:09.840
parties with these gang rapists. The story was completely ridiculous. It's not just that there
00:31:14.760
was no evidence for it. It's that it was a, on its face, absurd story. Uh, and the New York
00:31:21.700
Times published it the same day that it was made. Okay. Now here's the answer that Dean
00:31:28.300
Backwet gives. He says Kavanaugh was already in a public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh's status
00:31:35.740
as a Supreme court justice was in question because of a serious, of a very serious allegation. And when
00:31:40.900
I say in a public way, I don't mean in the public way of Tara Reads. If you ask the average person in
00:31:45.680
America, they didn't know about the Tara Read case. So I thought in that case, if the New York
00:31:49.940
Times was going to introduce this to readers, we needed to introduce it with some reporting and
00:31:54.160
perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very different situation. It was a live ongoing story that
00:31:59.320
had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment
00:32:03.340
moment. Oh my gosh. I look in, in, in fairness to Dean Backwet, uh, there's no good answer to give
00:32:16.540
because of course the real answer is there a bunch of partisan hacks. So that's the real answer.
00:32:24.100
And I, I would respect the hell out of him actually, if he had just come out and said that
00:32:27.240
I wish that had been, his answer should have just been, and I would have respected it if he had said,
00:32:31.480
listen, you guys know what's up here. Okay. We're partisan hacks. The Biden's the Democrats,
00:32:36.640
different rules. Okay. I mean, what you think we care about, about sexual assault? Come on.
00:32:41.120
Uh, but no, he, he, he's not going to say that. And so if he's not going to go with the truth,
00:32:46.120
there really is no good answer to give, but even without a good answer or excuse, he, he,
00:32:53.280
he could have given it a little bit more effort. Kavanaugh was in a public forum. Uh, yes, he was,
00:33:00.480
but I don't know. I don't, don't you think that, that a presidential campaign is a public forum?
00:33:06.600
Uh, the former vice president running for president, now the presumptive nominee. I,
00:33:13.760
you know, I don't know. I would call that a public forum too, not just a public forum,
00:33:18.440
but a public forum in a large way. In fact, I would argue that a presidential candidate for a
00:33:23.960
major party has a much bigger public forum than, uh, someone who's been appointed as a Supreme Court
00:33:30.360
Justice. Um, and then he says, uh, so that, that excuse doesn't wash at all. And then he says,
00:33:40.080
uh, if you ask the average person in America, they don't know about the Tara Reid case. Yeah.
00:33:45.280
Why don't they know about it, Dean? Because people like you aren't telling them.
00:33:50.500
They don't know about it because you are, are going out of your way to bury the story.
00:33:55.060
So the media goes out of its way to bury the story and then uses as justification for burying it.
00:34:03.340
The fact that it was buried. Well, we had to bury it. I mean, it's been buried.
00:34:09.660
What are we supposed to do? It's buried. We buried it. We had to bury it because we buried it.
00:34:17.100
Amazing. Really amazing. Okay. Let's go finally to emails, Matt. Uh, you can always email the show
00:34:22.900
by becoming a daily wire member and you can access the mailbag that way. This is from Damon says,
00:34:29.640
love your show. While I see how people might get the wrong impression from the nurses posting the
00:34:33.960
dancing videos, they are still wrong impressions. You saying that they are doing this while people
00:34:39.420
are dying is a misrepresentation. You saying they must have plenty of time on their hands is a
00:34:43.960
misrepresentation. You claiming that is especially bad during this time is a misrepresentation of how
00:34:49.060
things work in a hospital. Being a nurse myself, I think you shouldn't disparage them without actually
00:34:53.360
understanding how things work on a hospital floor. Just my opinion. Thanks for having a great show
00:34:57.560
though. Well, you call it all misrepresentations, but then you don't explain. So I don't know how to
00:35:02.680
respond to this exactly. Um, first of all, there are two things we know here. People are dying.
00:35:11.400
Okay. Um, the, the, the virus is a very real thing. I never said it was a hoax. It's a very real
00:35:17.520
thing. It's a very serious thing. My point has simply been the way the government is responding
00:35:22.380
to the, to the, to the virus is, uh, is tyrannical, counterproductive, arbitrary, wrong, et cetera,
00:35:29.620
et cetera, et cetera. There are better ways of responding. So people are dying. It's not a
00:35:34.900
misrepresentation that is actually happening. And the way I look at it, these dancing videos of nurses,
00:35:40.180
um, there, there are two possibilities, right? Either these videos are being in these, these
00:35:47.400
dances are being choreographed in hospitals where people are dying of the coronavirus or not in
00:35:56.260
either case. It's not good because if people are dying of a pandemic in your hospital and you're
00:36:02.680
downstairs choreographing a dance routine and then posting it online, I would say that's not a very
00:36:07.380
appropriate response. And that's just not an appropriate time. By the way, the media, they're
00:36:13.380
the ones who have compared this to nine 11. And I guess now they would say that the, this is whatever
00:36:17.720
10 times worse than nine 11 or something by the, by the death toll. So they're the ones who made this,
00:36:23.620
this, this, this comparison. Um, they're also the ones who have defended these videos. Well, so if that
00:36:31.000
comparison works, then wouldn't this be like a, a nine 11 first responder doing a choreographed dance
00:36:38.460
routine at ground zero, you know, uh, the week after nine 11, I mean, that's not my comparison.
00:36:47.480
That's the media's comparison. So by, by that logic, it's the same sort of thing. Would anyone
00:36:53.000
deny that that would be wildly inappropriate? And it's not that we're saying that nine 11 first
00:36:59.080
responders can't have any fun or can't enjoy their lives or, or have to be solemn and gloomy all the
00:37:05.420
time. But, uh, I'm not even saying they can't dance, but probably don't dance on the job. And, uh,
00:37:13.520
and if you do, which you shouldn't, but definitely don't record it and put it online.
00:37:19.980
And then the other possibility is that these dancing videos are being done at hospitals where,
00:37:24.660
uh, there, there isn't really anybody or hardly anyone dying of the coronavirus.
00:37:29.080
And if that's the case and you've got so much time on your hands, um, then, you know,
00:37:34.240
I think that's going to be very annoying to put it mildly for all the people who have lost their
00:37:38.760
jobs because of supposedly overwhelmed hospitals. And then it turns out that actually you've got all
00:37:43.500
these hospitals that are not only overwhelmed are not only not overwhelmed, but they're, but the,
00:37:48.400
the hospital staff have so much time on their hands that they're choreographing dance routines.
00:37:52.680
I think someone who's lost their job or can't go to work, we'll look at that and say, okay,
00:37:58.440
well maybe I can get back to work then in that case. So that's the point. Uh, this is from Janice.
00:38:04.560
Finally, it says, I'm glad you, you have nothing to do with public health decisions. You are a moron.
00:38:09.760
My questions are, were you born a crack baby? Uh, didn't you get enough? The answer's no to that,
00:38:16.740
by the way. Uh, didn't you get enough oxygen at birth? Not sure. Abused by an uncle when you were
00:38:22.640
a teenager? No. Something is seriously wrong with you. Um, and then, uh, she quotes me, uh, quote,
00:38:30.480
if you think the government has the right to summarily declare all churches non-essential and then arrest
00:38:34.580
anyone who tries to enter one, you're entitled to make that insanely stupid argument. Just please,
00:38:37.860
I beg you never again, pretend to be a proponent of religious liberty. Yes, that is a quote. I did
00:38:41.720
say that and I'm exactly right. Uh, and then she continues, this isn't about religious liberty.
00:38:45.860
You effing nut job. These people are fake effing Christians. They are okay with harming others so
00:38:51.660
they can go to church. If you nut jobs had it your way, we'd all be dead. F you and F your fake
00:38:56.300
Christianity. Churches are not essential. Churches and religion are only essential quote unquote to people
00:39:01.360
who cannot think rashly and critically. You all claim God is everywhere. Why do you need to be in an
00:39:05.700
effing church? You don't. Effing religious liberty doesn't extend to harming others. You're the
00:39:10.620
insanely stupid one actually. You even look disturbed. Well, Janice, um, I, I, all I could say
00:39:19.960
is I guess it would take one to no one on, on that end, but, but thank you for that. I think I probably
00:39:24.020
don't need to add anything to that. I really do appreciate, uh, your perspective and you revealing
00:39:30.520
all of that to everybody. Um, and I, I want to thank you for that. I, I, no response
00:39:36.320
is necessary. I believe. I appreciate the feedback and we'll leave it there, everybody. Thanks
00:39:42.620
everyone for watching. Have a great day. Godspeed. Wait, have a great day. God bless and Godspeed.
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