We Are NOT the Extremists | Guests: Alex Epstein & Mark Meckler | 2/16/21

February 16, 2021 2h 3m

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Glenn and Pat are back in the studio after Texas froze over. Will Puerto Rico become a state soon? Democrats are now calling for a “white nationalism task force” and “9/11-style commission” on the Capitol riot. Center for Industrial Progress founder Alex Epstein joins to discuss the real problem with Texas’ power grid and what it teaches us about “unreliable” green energy. The Left likes to call conservatives “extremists” while they’re the ones leaving the Constitution behind. Parler’s interim CEO, Mark Meckler, joins to talk Parler’s return to the internet and what still lies ahead. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is finally being blasted for his nursing home scandal, and his response is nothing but blame-shifting.
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Hello, America.

Live from Syria.

Or maybe it's just California.

Well, we're in Texas, but it feels like Syria.

Can't use water today, at least in my hometown, because

it could be poop water.

Congratulations on that.

You got to boil all of your water now.

Electricity grids in Texas are down like crazy.

We are having a gas shortage, a natural gas shortage.

In Texas,

we are down at about one degree in Texas.

This is a 40-year storm, and it is like living on another planet.

It's really like, I mean,

we're making California look good today.

We're going to talk a little bit about that because it doesn't affect the entire country, but boy, oh boy, is it a wake-up call yet again?

How many more do we need?

Puerto Rico is about to become a state.

Yay!

Biden has pulled 65 Trump

administrative

laws out, which is going to dramatically affect employment.

Gun control is being pushed.

And Bitcoin is up to $50 a coin.

Gee, I wonder why.

All of this and more.

We begin in 60 seconds.

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Holy.

Holy cow.

We welcome Pat Gray into the studio, one of the braves that attempted to

weather the roads, which are not so bad.

The highways aren't so bad.

The problem with Texas is we don't have any snow plows.

We don't have any

four.

Well,

it's a good thing.

The size of, I don't know, Delaware.

Yeah, from Texarkana, Texas down to Brownsville,

Texas is the same distance from Texarkana, Texas to Chicago.

So it's an enormous state, and we've got four snowplows, which not really a help when you have snow all over the state.

Of course, we know global warming.

Or is it global cooling?

It's global climate change.

It's global something.

Now, disregard the fact that this happened 40 years ago, you know, when it was global cooling,

but it hasn't been this bad.

And Texas is just not prepared for it.

We're expecting another four to six inches of snow tomorrow.

And we don't have this weather ever.

The last time we had weather like this was 10 years ago

and we just got sleet, and

everything was iced over.

I mean, nothing moved in portions of Texas.

This is almost the entire state of Texas.

The electricity,

we have all these wind mills.

They are all frozen, frozen solid, so we're not producing any wind energy.

Nuclear power plants offline.

We have our gas and coal plants that make energy.

They're also offline because

they're frozen.

They're frozen solid.

We don't insulate things like they do up north because we don't ever have this weather.

I think maybe Texas should reevaluate that just a little bit.

Like I said,

in my town, same as yours, right?

Yeah.

The sewage treatment.

Yeah, the sewage treatment plant went down and I guess some pipes burst, et cetera, et cetera.

So now our drinking water may be mixed with poop water, which I love.

I love who doesn't.

Yeah, I like my water chunky.

There's nothing better.

Fortunately, I gave up on tap water a long time ago.

Although you cook with it, you know, so you're brushing teeth with it.

Yeah.

Take a shower with it.

Yeah.

I mean,

you know, it's nasty.

It is nasty.

So let's talk about the news outside of Texas, which quite honestly makes me want to talk about the news inside inside of Texas a little bit more.

Puerto Rican statehood

looks like it is on its way to happening.

Puerto Rico has held six non-binding referendums on its status,

including becoming a U.S.

state, since 1967.

However, the residents there have most recently voted in favor of statehood.

That was last September, sorry, last November.

This has, I guess, a lot to do with Hurricane Maria,

which caused over 3,000 deaths, the worst natural disaster to hit the island to date that we know of.

Also, they have $72 billion in debt.

They can't file for bankruptcy, so why not just push it into the federal government?

I don't mind paying for Puerto Rico, do you?

No.

Yeah.

I mean, I actually have less of a problem paying for Puerto Rico than I do for California.

I mean, I have a real problem paying for California.

If California and New York and Illinois start pushing all of their state debt into the Fed, I am really pissed off.

I'm really pissed off.

I didn't live there.

When I did live in New York, I voted against it because I knew it was insanity.

Anyway,

it looks like the current governor, who is part of the new progressive party, that's not even the Democratic Party.

This is the new progressive party,

is very, very excited about this.

And it looks like the Republic, I mean, the Democrats are going to push it through.

So we've got that going for us.

But don't worry, Congress could stop it.

And don't forget, Washington, D.C.

could also become a state.

Well, yeah.

Isn't that great?

So you've got that going for you.

Now, here's a state.

There's a super Democratic democratic state.

here's a state that they're going to make sure doesn't become a state.

And that is

Jefferson.

Is it Jefferson?

The state of Jefferson or Jeffersonian?

I never heard of it, and I grew up in the West Coast.

But there is a movement now in Northern California that is saying they want to break free.

They don't feel that they are being represented at all

by the California legislature, and they are conservatives, and they want to become their own state.

Do you remember, Pat, were we still together in the 90s when

I read some things from, I think it was Dugan, Alexander Dugan,

that said the United States was going to break up into five districts?

And when he was asked,

how do you know that?

He said, by 20, what was it?

2020 or 2015, 2015, something like that, the United States would be in a civil war and we would eventually break up into five different districts.

And when asked why he knew that, he said, because we have people on the ground, meaning they have people pushing for that.

And I could see that happening quickly.

Yeah.

Unfortunately.

We also have something really, really great happening in the military now.

The latest on the Pentagon.

The Pentagon is

not focusing on the Islamic State or the threat from China or the threat from any place else.

They are now

doing everything they can to look at the threat from within.

President Joe Biden

is continuing to not focus on China, in fact, strengthen China

while promoting social justice inside the Pentagon.

His first military-related executive

order was to overturn Trump's transgender policy, which I think we were all fighting for, were we not?

Where we're like, this fairness has got to...

has got to be upheld here,

and somebody needs to free all the transgenders from the oppression in the military.

Lloyd Austin, his defense secretary, the first African American to serve in that position, Austin vowed during his confirmation hearing to rid the military of racists and extremists.

Now,

I wasn't aware that there were racists and extremists in the military.

I mean, I knew that there were jihadists, sure,

knew that.

But we weren't supposed to talk about it.

So he wants to get rid of racists and extremists.

Here's the problem.

Pat, when you go looking for something and you know that it's there, do you generally find it?

Generally, yes.

Yes, you generally, you know, it's like: have you ever worked at a place where a consultant comes in and the management hires a consultant and says, look, here's what the problem is.

The problem is we've got X, Y, and Z.

And all the employees are like, that's not the problem.

The problem is the management.

What do the consultants usually find?

A, B, and C or X, Y, and Z.

They always find X, Y, and Z.

That's what's happening in the Pentagon now.

And I want any white extremists out.

I want anybody.

But what's happening now is

the Department of Defense

was notified by the FDI 143 times

of investigations of former and current military members members in 2020.

68 of the times pertained to domestic extremist cases, with the vast majority former military, many unfavorable discharge records,

and only one fourth or 17 had anything to do with white nationalism.

So out of 68 times there were extremists, 17 of them had to do with white nationalism.

What's really interesting in this story is it doesn't tell me what the others were.

The military still has not given even the House Armed Services Committee, the Oversight Committee in Congress, a definition of extremists.

We don't know what they're even looking for.

They won't

define the word.

The problem here is that they are going to find what they want, and we're now going to politicize

our military.

On another front,

the

now President Joe Biden has pulled 65 pending Trump administration executive orders.

Several of the withdrawals strike down orders that would protect American jobs by tightening immigration restrictions, eliminating proposed oversight regulations on how China-backed Confucius Institute operate on campus.

This is obscene what is going on.

Right now, under current law, outgoing aliens released from custody can seek legal employment.

This has now been withdrawn.

We were saying, no, you can't do that.

The Trump orders were protecting American workers.

Between what he's doing with China and what he's doing with immigration, we have some serious

problems coming our way.

But the good news is

the Biden administration over the weekend said, quote, this administration will not wait for the next mass shooting.

He is calling for universal background checks.

We have that.

An assault weapons ban.

We did that.

It did nothing.

We did it in the 90s.

It did nothing.

And legal liability for gun makers.

Now, what does that mean?

That means if you use the weapon

and you kill someone,

Someone can sue the gun manufacturer.

That's like using a car

and suing General Motors because you went on a walkway and drove over a lot of people.

Now, if the car has automatic pilot and you couldn't turn it off and it caused you to drive, then you could sue GM.

But if you chose

to drive on a sidewalk and kill a lot of people, you can't sue GM.

Under Biden, you'll be able to sue

the gunmakers.

They are going to make it impossible for Americans to be able to defend themselves.

By the way, Swalwell has said in the wake of the Capitol riot, we need a 9-11 commission, a white nationalism task force.

Holy mother of everything that is good and sacred.

We need a white nationalism task force.

So now they're pushing for a 9-11 commission.

And the guy who is doing it is Swalwell.

There's no moving on.

January 6th is the day that we'll all sadly remember.

I think we have to take an approach that we took after September 11th to root out white nationalism.

What about the ballpark?

Why didn't we have a 9-11 commission after they tried to shoot all of the Republican congressmen?

Why?

Why didn't we do that?

By the way, Swalwell

is, he said that he is sure that

God herself

God herself was proud of all of this.

So he knows that God is a female, which I think we can't say that he's a hypocrite on that because

he was with Christine Fang, and while he was doing the Fang bang, we heard him scream, oh God, oh God, oh God, many times.

So maybe God's not only a female, but also Chinese and a spy.

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By the way, if you use Instagram, that's a Facebook product, they have announced policing of private direct messages.

So now, if you're direct messaging somebody in private,

the

hate speech crackdown police will be reviewing all of your private messages.

And this is going to come, if you have Google Mail, this is all going to come to you.

They're already reading your mail.

The algorithms are already reading your mail.

And you're already being sorted right now.

But I think that's good, that Instagram can look at everything that we're doing.

I think

that's wonderful.

How about you, Pat?

Oh, I love it.

Yeah.

I love it.

Yeah.

Because if anybody knows

what's hateful,

I think that's Instagram.

Don't you?

Yeah, I do.

I do.

I think the Pinterest people are probably a little ahead of Instagram.

Really?

Yeah, because they're just remarks.

Snapchat, baby.

Snapchat.

Yeah, they're great.

They're great.

They know better than all of us, really.

By the way, Netanyahu has claimed that we have great ties.

Israel has great ties with Democrats.

But Biden still hasn't called

Prime Minister Netanyahu.

You'd think that as a pretty important ally,

you know, but maybe the phones are out, you know,

in Israel.

Or Gen Sock.

He couldn't even really respond to whether or not Israel was an important ally.

Really?

Yeah.

That's interesting.

She had a hard time figuring that one out when she was asked.

Then we have Bitcoin at a near-record high of $50,000 a coin.

Wait, that's near record?

That's not a record?

That is.

Yeah.

Nearly $50,000.

$50,000.

$50,000

a coin.

That's nuts.

How I wish I would have bought a bunch of them at 36 cents.

$300,

$5,000.

Right.

$10,000, $20,000.

Well, I remember we discussed it really seriously at $1,000.

And you didn't do it.

And I didn't do it.

And you didn't do it.

And I was going to do it.

And I was going to buy like 10 of them.

Yeah.

But you didn't do it.

But I didn't do it.

You didn't do it.

No, I didn't do it.

I didn't do it.

I did.

I know you did.

I did.

I know you did.

Yeah.

So that's it.

That took me a lot.

I almost sold them all when they collapsed.

I almost sold them all.

Yeah.

Glad I did.

You didn't.

I didn't.

when will you sell?

Or will you?

I don't know if I'll.

Keep it gone.

Yeah.

I think it goes to at least 100.

Do you really?

Yeah.

I think it could, you know, Citibank is saying that it could go up to 150 in the next 12 months.

150.

Yeah.

It's still, I mean, if you don't have money in Bitcoin, even, you know, $500,

you might want, you don't have to buy a full coin.

You might want to consider it.

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Oh man, I am so glad that we have rejoined the Paris Accords so we could get rid of all of this global warming and global cooling that is going on.

Just want to throw this in.

A French court has declared that France

is guilty of failing of meeting its own climate change goals.

So France is not

living up to the Paris Agreement.

But they probably can't read it in a different language.

It's in French.

So they were the ones who brokered the international treaty, committed to reducing greenhouse gases by 40% by 2030

and carbon neutral by 2050.

Unfortunately, it looks like they're not going to be able to make that.

they've got some real problems.

They have to pay now one euro, one dollar and twenty cents, one euro, this according to the court, for moral damage.

to each of the associations behind the lawsuit.

And that could

I mean, I'm suing them because I'm so upset about it.

that could be hundreds of Euros.

We just don't know at this time.

Meanwhile, China, who has declared that they will be carbon neutral by 2060,

they are making great progress, great progress.

They built three times as many coal plants in 2020 as the rest of the world combined.

But just three times.

It's not like 30 times.

Exactly right.

It could have been.

They would have thinking about 30.

And they were like, let's cut it down to just three times the rest of the world combined.

And the Voice of America News

has observed.

Now, remember, when you hear Voice of America, you know freedom is on the other side of that microphone.

Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean?

And they said that this would seem to undermine China's short-term climate goals.

What?

Yeah, it would see, according to Voice of America, it would seem

to undermine their short-term climate goals.

But

President Xi Jinping has promised to make his country carbon neutral by 2060.

Voice of America would like us to know that they're going to make up for that in the long run.

Just bang!

Just 40 years from now.

Yeah, it's just going to take care of it.

It's just going to happen.

Yeah, yeah.

That is fantastic.

They have a total under construction of 88.1 gigawatts of power.

88.1 gigawatts.

Isn't it 121 gigawatts?

No, it's 1.21 gigawatts in Back to the Future.

1.21.

1.21 gigawatts.

Wow.

So they're

under construction.

China now has 88.1 gigawatts.

I mean, they could go back to the future at any point, 88 times.

And is it a coincidence?

88.

How fast did the car have to go?

88 miles.

88 miles an hour.

It's not a coincidence.

That's why they can promise that they are going to be able to do it in the future because they've already been there.

They know.

we have that going for us.

Meanwhile, Texas is a little frigid.

Yeah.

Yeah, our infrastructure just doesn't seem to be what we thought it was.

Did you see Germany is deciding that maybe we need to do more oil and gas

energy because what we're using, you know, the solar

and wind, well, all our solar panels are frozen and covered with snow.

And all, like Texas, all our wind turbines are frozen solid.

And so we don't have any power from that.

That is weird.

Yeah, isn't it?

Do you remember the old windmills in Holland?

Because

I mean, maybe, but I don't remember ever.

Did they freeze solid?

You have to look into that because I don't remember it happening.

Yeah.

I mean, I wasn't around in the, you know, in the 1500s, but Jeffy was.

So we got that going forward.

And Joe Biden was.

So we know.

Right.

We know he knows.

So that's good.

That's good.

Yeah, this is interesting because one of their scientists, Professor Schwartz, explained the problem that's going on in Germany.

And he said, with this supply of wind and photovoltaic energy, which is solar energy,

we have between zero and two or three percent energy from wind and solar.

That is de facto zero.

You can see it in many diagrams that we have days and weeks in the year where we have neither wind nor PV, photovoltaic.

Especially this time, for example, there is no wind and no PV, and there are often times when the wind is very minuscule.

These are things, I must say, that have been physically established and known for centuries.

Now, wait a minute.

Hang on just a second.

You're saying Germany,

a place

known for its beaches and sunny skies.

Right.

You're saying that

people have known that there would be days and days and maybe weird months without

any solar or wind.

Ha.

Yeah.

And you remember that.

And it comes as a shock to me.

In all the World War II movies, it looks so toasty and warm and tropical, doesn't it?

It does.

It always looked like they were in battle.

We would be there and you'd be like,

why is everybody in the German, remember the little short shorts that the German officers used to wear?

Yeah, the tank tops and the short shorts

when they were battling in the front.

It was freaking hot.

Yeah, it was so hot.

And that's what I thought, too.

Sometimes, because it was the Uber race, you thought they're hot.

Right.

And you just thought people meant that as they were good looking.

And no,

they were actually very warm.

Very warm.

In the front.

And that happened in Russia, too, I understand.

I understand.

Russia, known for its beaches,

its sunny, sunny days.

Yeah.

I have solar panels, and you know when they don't work?

Clouds?

The winter, yeah.

And winter.

The winter.

And night.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

That's when they don't work.

As long as you have a direct line of sight to the giant flaming ball of gas up in the sky.

Then it's okay.

Then it's fine.

Now, I'm not a scientist.

I don't even know what that

flaming.

I mean, I got up just the other day and I looked out and I was like, the sky is on fire.

And they said, no, that's a flaming ball of gas of some sort.

And as long as you, and I said, I'm against gas.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

That's a petroleum.

That's dinosaurs.

So all the dinosaurs in space that died

collected in that flaming ball.

In that flaming ball, and they're burning fossil fuels.

And that is not something I'm for.

You shouldn't be doing that.

You should not be doing that.

You got that.

uh you got that going for you so the good news we are we are getting uh deeper and deeper into the uh you know the green thing which i think we're all for um i i will tell you that uh uh jaguar has announced that by what is it 2025

2024

uh all of their cars will be

electric no in four years uh let me look let me look i've got to find it here wow Yeah, it's shockingly close.

Shockingly close.

Because even GM is saying, what, 20?

2025.

GM is saying 2035, I think.

I believe

Jaguar is a GM product, or is it Ford now?

Jaguar, Jaguar Land Rovers, Luxury Jaguar brand will be entirely electric by 2025.

Wow.

And will launch e-models of its entire lineup by 2030.

That seems impossible.

Yeah.

The high-performance E-type model in the 60s and 70s, Jaguar faces the same challenge as other car makers, making its transition to electric vehicles while retaining its feeling and power of luxury combustion engine model.

I mean, I'm telling you, you're not going to be able to own a fossil fuel car.

Soon.

2030, 35.

Really soon.

Yeah.

And what is the deal with the

can Jaguar go further than 300 miles on a charge?

I mean, have they fixed the battery problem?

That's the deal is nobody, including Tesla, has fixed that problem.

You got to stop and recharge for 45 minutes around.

Where are you going to go?

I mean, you don't have to really leave your house.

No, I really do.

Sometimes I'll take off and go 700 or 800 miles.

Why?

To see other people.

You don't want to see other people.

Family.

Did you see?

I am not making this up.

Experts are now saying that in the United States, we will not fully be vaccinated, fully ready to come out of this

until 2027.

That's the latest.

I had

2027.

Hey,

we just have to flatten the curve.

That's all we have to do.

15 days.

That's 15 days to flatten the curve.

Or they may have said 15 years.

It's been so confusing.

I don't even.

May I just suggest you look for vampire space bunnies because they are coming.

They are coming.

And they won't be a surprise when they come.

At least to those of us who have been watching the news.

A lot of people haven't been paying attention to the news.

They'll be surprised.

Us, we'll look up vampire space bunnies.

Huh.

Okay, seems reasonable.

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why we need to route out these extremists, and I understand now who these extremists are.

There's a new

study out by the Washington Post, and

They have found that people are isolated, alone.

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And that's why there's more extremists out there right now.

Because a lot of these people are just craving human interaction.

But the Washington Post would like to point out, since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, wave of mistrust and wholesale rejection of authorities.

Nearly a year into the coronavirus crisis, Americans are falling prey to the same phenomena.

Historians, theologians, and others experts say that this is

a situation where nearly one in five said they believe in Satan-worshiping, child-enslaving elites seeking to control the world.

Shutdowns have paralyzed the economy in the first months of the pandemic.

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when that happened, there was a sharp increase on searches online for extremist and white

supremacist materials online.

Sure.

Now, I don't know about you, but when I was shut in, the first thing I thought was, how can I join the Klan?

And

I think a lot of people, I mean, you know, let's drop the dog whistle here and, you know, stop just hiding behind, no, that's ridiculous.

Yeah.

And let's just start to admit it.

A British study found.

Well, they got us.

Yeah, they do.

They got us.

A British study found that the pandemic boosted radicalization globally

as people found more time to delve into extremist arguments.

When we were working, we didn't have a time.

Didn't have time to do that.

No, we didn't.

We didn't.

Some of these insecurities predated the pandemic.

Many of those arrested in the Capitol riot owned businesses or worked white-collar jobs.

Did you know that?

No.

Yeah.

And a Washington Post analysis of public records found that nearly 60% of the people facing charges had prior money troubles in which means that they're white.

Okay.

They had bankruptcies and unpaid taxes.

Well, of course it does.

They were at home, COVID.

They squandered all their money.

Yeah.

And they had unpaid taxes.

Probably on Klan material, right?

Exactly right.

And many are involved in these things because they have been clobbered,

quoting the Washington Post, clobbered for the virus-related shutdowns.

Oh, wow.

And then

they talked to a couple of

religious experts.

Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, said in a healthy society, the government, the church would say this is nonsense and people would believe them.

But, you know, that check on extremist impulses by the church is not there.

Over the past year, the pandemic was a constant undercurrent as Americans took to the streets to protest racial injustice, police brutality, and President Biden's victory.

As we took to the streets to protest racial injustice, I remember that.

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One day.

Yeah, yeah.

And there's still 6,000 troops in D.C.

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Hello, Alex.

How are you?

Hey, Glenn.

Great to be back on your show.

It's great to have you.

I wanted to talk to you a little bit about what's happening in Texas.

There is no way we should be having these problems in Texas with

our own power grid, with

as much gas and oil as we have.

What the heck is happening?

Yeah, so I mean, this is something I've been warning about for a while in September 2020.

So I live in California.

When the California blackouts were happening, I warned on Twitter that there are similar things happening in Texas.

And so a blackout is an extreme event, but this blackout is not unprecedented.

Texas has been having what I call industrial blackouts a lot.

They call it demand management, but it basically means when there's not enough power, they have their industrial, or they'll call it curtailment.

They'll have their industrial projects stop.

You know, they'll cut off power to industrial people.

They won't cut it it off to the home.

So, what's happened here is the lack of ability to meet demand has just been so extreme, and there are some unexpected events that everyone is seeing it.

But it's important that this is not an unprecedented thing, it's just a more extreme thing.

And this is something that's happened in California, it's happening around the country.

And the fundamental reason, whatever else is going on, is the insistence on using unreliable wind and solar energy instead of reliable energy from coal, nuclear, natural gas.

Well, why is is it?

Just one thing.

Yeah, go ahead.

We know that those sources, because there's issues of failures in Texas, and we'll talk about that.

But we know for a fact that coal, gas, and nuclear can work under any weather conditions around the world.

So whatever is going on in Texas, it's not that coal plants don't work, gas plants don't work.

Nuclear plants is a combination of specific mismanagement and non-preparation in Texas.

But the main thing is too much attempt to rely on unreliable energy, and that takes away focus and funding from the reliable energy and from making it resilient.

Okay, so I'm kind of caught in between.

Some people are really, really pissed.

Some people are like, well, that's what happens.

I'm somewhere in between.

There are times that I feel like I'm living in Syria.

However, I don't expect the state to spend oodles of money protecting for something that happens once every even, you know, when it comes to salt trucks and everything else.

Why spend the money?

It happens every 10 years.

This is something that happened, you know, about every 40 or 50 years in Texas.

So I cut some slack, but I don't understand

why our coal plants are down.

They are down.

Our natural gas plants are down.

Why?

Well, so there's, I mean,

I don't think the ERCOT, so ERCOT is the so-called reliability council of Texas.

They haven't been totally open, so it's not easy to tell exactly what's going on.

There are a number of things that can happen.

So, one thing that they'll tend not to talk about is it's possible there's been some just mismanagement of supply and demand.

So, when demand was exceeding supply, they didn't curtail demand early enough, and that can cause things to trip up.

It can be that specific plants aren't resilient enough.

It can be that the fuel infrastructure, there's something off with that in terms of delivery of fuel.

And this is something that I think will emerge.

But again, these are all things that are handled everywhere around the world.

They're not inherent in coal, gas, and nuclear.

Whereas what you see with wind and solar is they went completely out to lunch when they were needed most.

So no matter how, even if there had been no freezing of the wind turbines, wind would have still been useless during very large portions of the situation.

So the basic lesson is- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait, why, why?

Why would wind turbines, when there was winds, why were wind turbines not useful?

Well,

they were frozen, some of them, but

there wasn't wind the whole time.

So even when there hasn't been a talking point for the other side has been, oh, well, not that many of them froze.

But if you look at the recent data over the last several days, there have been times when it's been one gigawatt out of 32.

So part of the thing is

they call the maximum possible wind the capacity, which is ridiculous.

It's just a lucky situation.

So they say, oh, we have 32 gigawatts of wind, and everyone brags about that.

But when the going gets tough, you had one, two, or three gigawatts of wind.

So again, they're always, people always like to talk about the peak, but the real thing is where are they when you need them?

And the point is they're not reliable.

They're basically reliable for zero.

And that's why they add so much cost, because you always have to have the unreliable infrastructure and the reliable infrastructure.

So some greens are blaming not enough gas being online.

And that's because the green

scheme requires it to be offline so we can get more electricity from wind, right?

Right.

Everything is engineered around trying to maximize the amount of unreliable wind that you're using.

So the whole way the grid is working normally that's very wasteful is you're cycling the gas up and down to accommodate the wind.

If you had a reliable energy infrastructure, which we used to have around the country, you would just have a whole slate of reliable plants.

And then when you had a lot more demand, you could just ramp a lot of the reliable plants up.

But here, what Texas is trying to do is they're trying to minimize the number of reliable plants to cut costs.

And this is why

one of the public utility people said, and I think it was 2019, like, hey, we've got a serious issue.

Our reserve margin is very scary.

Texas is notorious in electricity circles for trying to get away with the lowest reserve margin possible, which means the smallest margin for error possible.

It's gone down dramatically because they've been trying to cut prices.

and use wind.

That's what happened in California.

We didn't maintain our power lines enough because we didn't want to raise prices even more after we had inflated them with green energy.

If you don't focus on reliability, you're going to lose reliability.

So in northern climates, when it gets cold like this every single year,

how do they avoid this problem?

Are they doing less green energy than Texas is?

Well, there are two things.

I mean, so one is just they have better specific policies for their plants, and that can take all sorts of measures.

But they just figured out, I mean, these are, you know, these places, Texas, even in bad weather, is not as bad as places around the world.

I mean, obviously, you have places in Russia that are using these kinds of places, places in cold parts of Canada.

Now, what's happening, though, it's important with

what I call the unreliable, so the solar and wind.

It is possible to have a certain amount of them along with the reliable.

So people in the Midwest are saying, hey, look, our wind temperatures are working.

And it's true, you can spend money and they don't necessarily ice.

But the point is they're adding costs and they don't scale.

Because, again, you have to pay for the unreliable energy infrastructure and the reliable energy infrastructure.

Plus,

it's really inefficient to run a grid that way because it's like stop and go traffic for the reliables.

Plus, you wear them down a lot more quickly when you move them up and down.

But the real thing to notice is you cannot rely on the unreliables.

They're parasites.

And what we have as a country is a policy that's trying to get us 100% dependent on these parasites.

The real lesson of Texas is not that wind turbines froze, it's that wind and solar cannot keep us warm and powered in the winter.

And so, these Green New Deal-type plans are a complete fiasco.

And everybody should be asking Biden, what the hell would Texas do under your situation?

How the hell would they get power if you're going to have nearly 100% wind and solar, which were totally out to lunch when they were needed most?

Jeez.

Wow.

I mean, we're now buying the power, I believe, from Mexico, which

is like

what?

So, are these

when people say the Texas grid, we're fine because we have our own grid in Texas.

Have the progressive policies just pretty much dismantled any positives we had with that?

Yes.

So this is,

I mean, I was really scared of what was going to happen with this storm, and my fears unfortunately came true.

But one thing I thought would be good in terms of a lesson is Texas does have this isolated grid, and that can be an asset or a liability.

But

what it really illustrates is the problem of relying on unreliable energy because in California even, you know, we import 25% of our electricity, which at a given time can be 40% of our electricity.

25 is just an average.

So we're bailed out by Nevada, Utah, Arizona.

But what happens is they start trying to have more and more unreliables.

Then we can't rely on them.

And that's what happened in the summer.

It got hot, wind went down, the sun goes down every day, people are shocked, and we didn't have enough electricity and we couldn't get it.

So everyone is trying to play this game of get it, of chicken with how much unreliable can I use and get away with it.

And Texas is a good illustration because it's this self-contained

world.

And so we need to learn that the whole U.S.

cannot be like Texas.

Again, Texas is something like 20%

wind.

It's a tiny fraction of the Biden plan.

The Biden plan says 100% carbon neutral grid.

By 2035, that's 14 years.

And he's supposed to be anti-nuclear.

He does nothing to support nuclear.

And

the biggest giveaway is none of these people support nuclear.

Texas has not been increasing nuclear.

If you look at Texas's plan, so I just wrote about this on Twitter.

It's just alex twitter.com slash alexepstein.

And so I wrote the statistics.

Listen to this, Glenn.

What would you think Texas has planned?

Okay, so zero nuclear plants.

Nuclear are the most weather resilient plants.

They store their food.

So zero plants,

no new coal plants.

They're probably going to shut down plants.

9.4 gigawatts of wind.

So the existing 32 gigawatts, it went down to one gigawatt when it was needed most.

So it's basically useless.

And then 12 new gigawatts of solar, and solar was almost completely useless.

And then five new gigawatts of gas, which is basically to handle all the ups and downs of the wind and solar.

So this is Texas's plan, and that is a mild day at the beach compared to what Biden has planned.

So we need to totally change direction.

All right.

So I want you just to tell us what America looks like with the Biden plan and what states and people locally

should be doing.

Because the first thing that came to my mind was, I am not sufficient.

I am not self-reliant at all.

I'm still reliant on, here in Texas, I'm reliant on way too much stuff, way too much stuff.

And when you can't,

when you can't weather a storm for three days, four days, without, these aren't rolling brownouts or rolling blackouts.

They're not scheduled anymore.

They started scheduled.

Now we're just having full blackouts.

And

that, I mean, that just is not

in a

21st century world.

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He is the president and founder for the Center for Industrial Progress, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

Alex, so what does America look like with the way the Biden administration is heading even right now?

Yeah, so it's important that because of the dynamics I mentioned, this whole 100% carbon-free grid, particularly without nuclear, like that's not going to happen.

It's completely impossible.

The whole net zero by 2050 thing is impossible, but that doesn't mean we don't need to worry about it.

Because as we're seeing with Texas, even small steps in that direction are disastrous.

So what you see is just more and more of these blackouts, of these brownouts.

And one thing I want to highlight is what happens to industry?

What lesson does industry take when they keep getting blacked out?

And they get blacked out a lot more than much more than we do as consumers.

They're going to go overseas, they're going to go other places.

And I really want to highlight the strategic thing that's happening right now with China, because nobody's paying attention to it.

China uses five times more industrial electricity than the U.S.

five times.

And the vast majority of it comes from coal.

A lot of that electricity is used to build unreliable solar panels and wind turbines for us.

Of course, we don't mostly build them here because they have to be built with cheap energy, which means they have to be built with fossil fuels.

They're not built with solar panels and wind turbines.

Obviously, so you have China making this very strong strategic move to get us to unilaterally disempower and for them to empower.

And then they say, oh, we're going to go net zero by 2060.

They get praised by Biden.

They get praised by this guy, Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, who almost runs the financial world right now.

And so you just see this amazing strategic play where they are using fossil fuels to get ahead.

They have record oil imports.

They had a five-year high in coal production.

They're building 100-plus new coal plants.

Again, five times more electricity than we are.

So they're disempowering us, empowering themselves, and then selling us these almost useless solar panels and wind turbines.

And Biden is playing into it.

So unfortunately, he is, the expression is useful idiot for China.

And I think that security thing should scare us just as much as everything else.

where do we go?

Because honestly,

you have Bank of America saying that they're not going to,

you know, they're going to start looking at loans.

If you're not green,

you may not be able to be fitting into their portfolio of businesses they can loan money to.

You have BlackRock pushing this.

You have the Great Reset pushing all of this.

and Jaguar just came out and said they'll be

fully electric cars by 2025 and nobody's talking about the increase in electricity that is needed if we all go to electric cars

yeah so I think that these tech it's crucial to have these moments as teaching moments.

So this is maybe the crucial teaching moment of

2021 to change the narrative on this.

And I mentioned that on Twitter, I posted a very comprehensive explanation.

More broadly, recently, I created a website called energytalkingpoints.com that takes all of these issues and gives you very quick, well-referenced statements on everything.

And that's part of my overall goal of just changing the narrative, where we move from this focus on unreliable energy and climate catastrophe to one where we recognize that if we use the best sources of energy, namely fossil fuels and nuclear, we can keep making the world a better and better place to live.

I do believe we impact climate, but we're talking about one degree in 170 years.

Climate-related deaths are at all-time lows.

Fossil fuels are making the world a better and better place to live.

The facts are on the side of that.

And mandatory government-controlled green energy is making the world a worse place to live.

So, those are the two narratives I just keep hitting over and over and over.

And eventually, people are going to see that narrative corresponds to reality, and the other narrative is just unreal and destructive.

Thank you so much.

Give me the name of that website you just created again.

It's called energytalkingpoints.com.

EnergyTalkingPoints.com.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Alex Epstein, the president and co-founder for Center for Industrial Progress.

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Mark Meckler is with us.

He is the interim CEO of Parlor,

which we know now is a website of real danger, real extremism.

Mark, how are you?

You know, I don't feel like I'm very dangerous or extreme, but I'm certainly how it's been portrayed.

Well, do you believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

Absolutely, fundamentally, and unequivocally.

There you go.

I just did a monologue last hour about how extremists are the ones who are trying to get rid of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, but the media and politics in Washington are trying to make those people seem like the Americans, and we're the extremists.

Yeah, they are fundamentally anti-American.

They stand against everything that this country was founded on and for.

And frankly, those people right now, they occupy the White House, and they're in control of both houses of Congress.

We're in real danger.

Okay, so you are the interim CEO.

If you recognize the name Mark Meckler, it's because he's the Convention of States guys.

And he's been talking about that with us for a long time.

What was it, about four weeks ago, we were talking about the Convention of States, and I mentioned parlor going under or going out, being taken out.

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We talked about there has to be somebody that is building the infrastructure for the right to fall into.

And you talked at the time about being a part of a movement to do that.

Now you're the interim CEO of Parlor.

Did that play a role, what you're doing behind the scenes?

Yeah, it did, actually.

So I'd been thinking about this problem, as we talked about, for a long time.

And I've been working on finding alternative service providers and folks who are actual real patriots who would stand in the fight in the event that they were attacked.

And so I had a little bit of a head start in thinking about this.

I knew the primary owners of Parlor.

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And so when I saw it go down, I just reached out to see if there was anything I could do to help.

Literally didn't expect to end up being the interim CEO.

That's just the way things have worked out over time.

But yeah, I think a lot of it was my thinking in advance.

I got to say, though, Glenn, all the credit for getting it back up goes to the staff.

These guys have been absolutely incredible.

It has taken, however, a month.

I'm not blaming this on the staff by any stretch.

It's taken a month to get over a month to get back in the public square.

Is there any lawsuit that I know you're an attorney?

Is there any lawsuit that can be had for the destruction of business by Amazon and the collusion with all of these companies that we now know happened?

Yeah, there absolutely is.

There is a lawsuit that's already been filed.

We're working on an amended complaint on that.

That lawsuit is against AWS, Amazon Web Services.

And I do think there is liability.

I think there's all kinds of antitrust stuff.

I think there's business damage stuff.

But we'll be putting out more on that probably in a week or so when we amend that complaint.

Good.

Did you see the, just so you have it in your coffers, I'm sure you do, the story that came out that showed that

there were many more people organizing on Facebook for January 6th than there were on Parlor.

You had, I think, six and they had maybe 70?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, in fact, there's been a couple of great stories on that.

One was an independent review by Forbes.

Yeah.

And they found that the vast majority of violent and insightful stuff that took place on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram were a close second and third.

We barely made the list.

And so, look, there's always going to be bad content on every platform of that size.

But the bottom line is this was just a hit job.

It was a political hit job.

But I would also add that it was a business hit job.

They see Parler as a real threat to their monopoly on the business market and on free speech, and they're going to come after us.

There is no place, according to them, for somebody who disagrees with

the current cabal,

there's no place for them, is there?

I mean, it's not enough being kicked off of the other platforms.

When you start and you go on another platform, they'll shut down the platform.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

And look, I think there's two measures to this, though.

One is no speech outside what they agree with.

Remember that

Mussolini said that the definition of fascism is everything inside the state, nothing outside of the state, and nothing against the state.

So that's now being enforced by our government, but also by the tech oligarchy and working with the government.

And then I think the second thing is a business model.

At Parler, we believe in free speech.

So if you can say it in the public square, you can say it on Parlor.

We believe in privacy and data sovereignty, meaning we're not monetizing the data of our users.

We're here for our users as a service to our users, not to use them and use their data.

And we have an advertising model that doesn't use their data.

And so I think that's very threatening to facebook and twitter and all the others so how are you going to make money when the advertising cabal comes after you guys i mean at the blaze we have worked on building our own advertisers uh and they're you know as close to bulletproof as possible because they believe in us and they believe in the work that we do um have you guys are you at that place with your advertisers yeah absolutely look the same types of people that that advertise in the Blaze or have advertised and will be advertising again on Parlor.

These are people who believe in the same things that you and I believe, and they're not going to fold to the kind of pressure that the woke media and the woke mob put on them.

So tell me about the infrastructure and how stable it is now.

Can this happen to you guys again?

Yeah, look, I'm very comfortable with the infrastructure.

And again, this is where my head was at, as you know, before I went to be with Parlor.

What we did is we went out and we found providers who shared our values, but were also big enough to handle the kind of load that we put on them.

And what we did to be sure, and this is really important, Glenn, for anybody who's operating in this space, we made sure that there were multiple redundancies.

So we don't have what I would describe as any single points of failure.

I'm very certain.

I've talked to the CEOs of all the companies that we're working with.

I'm very certain they're going to stand with us and not cave to the woke mob.

But even if they do, we've built in multiple redundancies and we're going to continue to add layers of redundancies so that we know we're bulletproof in the future.

So let's talk about, let's play devil's advocate here.

The problem that they will say is that we are living at a time where conspiracy theorists and crazy things and white supremacists and all kinds of terrorists can be online.

And you don't want to add fuel to that.

You should make sure that you have an an algorithm that stops all of that kind of hate speech.

Tell me why that's wrong if you do think it's wrong.

I do think that's wrong because that runs, first of all, it runs contrary to just our philosophy at the founding and our philosophy through most of American history, really, until recently.

We believe that if you don't like somebody's speech,

bad speech should be countered with good speech, should be countered with more speech, not with less speech.

When you start tamping down on free speech, you start creating, well, you'd read about this, you talked about this, George Orwell's view, the 1984 view of the future, which is this idea that the government will control all, that we will have overlords and overseers.

Now, I do agree, by the way, that there are far too many people out there pushing conspiracy theories, and many of them are in the Democratic Party in Congress.

They're on CNN.

They're on MSNBC, ABC, CBS, all the others.

And yet, at the same time, I think we should just debunk their conspiracies as we've largely done as opposed to seeing them shut down, which I'm not interested in doing.

Yeah, I've not asked for people to be shut down.

I've supported people who have been attacked by the woke mob, even and especially when I vehemently disagree with them.

Freedom of speech means freedom of speech.

Talk to me about the person who says, yeah, but now if I go over to parlor, there's going to be all these people because usually when it is, when there's one place to go

you know all these places that are pushing the boundaries are going to be there and I don't want to be a part of that

you know that's the beauty of parlor and one of the things that makes it so different from all the other social networks that this big scary word at the social networks is algorithm and I think people should be scared of that big scary word because what it means is if you go over there and you like certain things they're going to start pushing other things at you that sort of they think fit and this creates what I call the echo chamber effect.

And it does put a bunch of stuff into your feed you might not want to see.

At Parlor, you 100% design your own feed.

There's nothing that you're going to see that you haven't requested to see.

You can easily remove anything from your own feed.

Again, we believe in data sovereignty, and we believe that our users are prime.

That's who is in charge of their experience at Parlor.

We want them to see only the people that they want to see and hear from only the groups and people that they want to hear from.

So tell me now about the people that did belong.

How long is it going to take before you're fully running with at least the people that you had before?

So the platform is fully up and running right now.

We have the capacity to handle everybody who wants to come back and log on.

There are some limitations right now.

One of the limitations is we're having folks having trouble with the Apple iOS.

I believe that's a technical limitation we're going to get around here today.

Part of the problem with that is that we can't update the Apple, the app that's on the App Store right now because we got removed from the App Store.

We're working on that.

So folks can't update it.

And if there are problems in there, we can't fix those problems.

So that's one of the things we're working on right now, trying to fix that.

I bet Apple is bending over backwards to help you with that, too.

Well, I'm not going to comment on that right now, Glenn, because we'd really like to be back in the App Store because so many users want to

download the app.

I know.

So the second piece of that is that

we are seeing every day more and more functionality come back.

Folks need to remember that this thing, when it went down, it's not just a website.

I think if you're not involved in technology and it works, it's seamless, we don't think about what's involved in it.

There's so many different layers.

I'm so proud of the staff at Parlor for literally 16 to 20 hours a day they've been putting in for weeks to get it back up.

But we expect to see glitches over the next few days.

It's better today than it was yesterday.

It's going to continue to get better throughout the week.

And I expect that we'll be back to full functionality sometime next week.

This week, by the way, we're not even taking new subscribers.

We're focusing only on the existing parlor family, make sure everything's up and stable and running well.

And I expect to be accepting new users next week.

Is everything that you may have posted before, or do you have to start from scratch

if you're

an old subscriber?

If you go there right now, likely you won't see any of your old stuff.

All that data has been preserved, and we will start loading that.

We didn't want to load the system with old data when we first went up, but all of that stuff has been preserved and it's all going to come back.

Okay.

Mark, best of luck to you.

And congratulations to everybody who didn't give up and fought the battle behind the scenes.

I know what it is like when you're running a digital company and you come under attack like that, especially when you're...

you're not one of the, you know, you're not Facebook or Google.

It is all hands on deck.

And

I got to tell you, it's remarkable that you are back in the first place, and you've got to be proud

of all of the people that are working behind the scenes because I know what it takes, and you guys just pulled off a miracle.

Congratulations.

I appreciate that, Glenn.

Thank you very much.

And you're right, it's the staff.

I don't get any of the credit.

I come in, I get to go on the radio and talk to guys like you, but they're an incredible, hard-working team all over the country.

These guys have worked day and night, and they get all the credit for pulling this off.

Thank you so much, Mark.

Appreciate it.

Thanks, Clint.

God, all right.

You bet.

You should have him on next week.

Remind people that they can join if you're a new user next week

at Parlor.

All right, let me give you a couple of things.

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This is going to be bad for America long term because you know how you feel when you're having to bail out California?

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So the majority of people believe that if you believe that the election was stolen, you shouldn't

be silenced or punished at all.

Yeah, but only 54%

said

you shouldn't punish.

54%.

35% said yes, they should be punished, and 11% are all, don't

go.

Jeez.

So great.

Meanwhile, acknowledging their institutional responsibility for addressing racism within the libraries, the University of Delaware and Binghamton University are launching a year-long anti-racist racist talent management audit.

So they're going into the libraries to identify actionable reforms, building on and extending the impact of prior projects that represent diversity.

organizational culture, community engagement undertaken with the library, the museums, and active and archive partners.

If you have anything that is important to America's history and you want it to be preserved, we have a vault under a mountain.

We have another vault here.

And we are protecting them and we are making sure that they do not fall into the hands of the government.

They do not fall into the hands of EDU.

They are going in and looking for an anti-racist anti-racist audit

through all of our universities, the archives, the museums, and they're going to purge.

If this isn't fascism, if this isn't what happened in Germany, in Russia, in every place where it has gone bad,

I don't know what this is.

We don't purge books and history.

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Let me play Congresswoman

Sarah Jacobs,

who's calling for a truth commission.

Said in an interview with the 19th news website this week that the country needs a truth commission.

What exactly would a truth commission be?

So I think part of what we're seeing now is because we haven't really done the reckoning with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past that we need to do.

And so, you know, a truth commission, a lot of people will think of South Africa.

We've used them in countries around the world.

And basically what it is, is it's...

communities all the way up to the national level having conversations about both the gory and the glory of our history and what happened both throughout the history of our country and leading up to and on January 6th so that we can come to

stop you know what the great thing is about this truth commission is we're gonna a finally talk about race when you know when will we ever do it when they did it in south africa when they did it in rwanda uh it was because the people who slaughtered those uh those people you know in a different tribe if you will they were still living next door to the other people so they needed that truth and reconciliation committee um but i am I'm all for, I'm not going to pay for them, but I'll pay for them.

Damn it.

I'll say, raise my taxes to buy shovels, and we're going to dig up all those bastards that own slaves and then dig up all the slaves so they can testify them in the court of law.

I'm for it.

I'm all for it.

Great idea.

So we got that.

Now, so we have a truth commission going on.

Swalwell says that we need a white nationalism task force.

Finally, somebody has

finally said it.

And can we we play Truth Commission for Buzz, please?

It's the same clip.

I thought it was cut differently.

Okay.

You know what this is?

Do you have the Nick

production?

You know what this really is?

This, a Truth Commission, is the Committee on American Activities.

That's all it is.

It is exactly the same.

It's a witch hunt for a different kind of red scare.

The The average American can do very little.

They must depend upon those of us whom they send down here to man the watchtowers of the nation.

And if you see anybody within that cabinet, in a restaurant, in a department store, we're at a gasoline station, you tell them they're not welcome.

Everyone goes to stamp so we can take it once again.

We honor their oath of office.

We're performing a public duty to protect and defend the Constitution.

A public trust.

I am pursuing this investigation.

I've seen firsthand Donald Trump's disrespect for facts.

In order to develop the facts.

It's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how AWOL so many of these members of Congress have gotten.

If we, unless we, make sure that there's no infiltration of our government.

If Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to our country, then just as certain as you sit there in the period of our lives, you will see a red world.

What I'm concerned about is the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives.

The enemy is within the House of Representatives.

What is the exact number of Trump supporters first at first hit?

And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?

By cutting off their social media.

First, Google and Apple delisted Parlor from their app stores, then Amazon cut the servers.

Now House Democrats are trying to blame the free speech platform Parlor.

This stuff related to big tech censorship is the issue of our time.

Will Smith appearing to call for the country to purge itself of Donald Trump supporters.

We get to know who people are, and now we get to cleanse it out of our country.

There's a proposal to have a commission to investigate Republican colleagues.

Democrat senators have filed ethics complaints against two of their Republican colleagues.

The left is trying to push these businesses to shame them and threaten them into shunning and silencing Trump supporters and conservatives.

They're pushing them to fire people even.

Council culture is a wildfire that you cannot contain.

If you pour gasoline onto it, don't be surprised when it finally reaches you and you get burned.

Every business needs to stand up for every American.

Otherwise, eventually it'll come for you too.

Well let this court of our truth commission

before we adjourn today let us come together and hear one more case if I could call as a witness Governor Cuomo

on his nursing home scandal and who's really to blame.

The New York State DOH

has always fully and publicly reported all COVID deaths in nursing homes and hospitals.

Stop for a second.

Is he saying that they have always

fully reported?

I think that's what I heard.

That is what he said.

Yeah.

Now, is that true?

We're going to have to have the Truth Commission look into that, I think.

Right.

No, it is not.

Okay, and it's not.

And we know that because

his own people have admitted it.

Right.

They said that they were hiding the truth.

This was the excuse last week.

They didn't come out and fully tell the truth because they were afraid of that evil orange man bad.

Yeah.

And so that's why they didn't do it.

Yes.

But wait, there's more other than just a bald-faced lie.

Have always been fully reported.

They're not true.

Nursing homes

had the most vulnerable population.

Yes.

We know that.

COVID did not get into the nursing homes by people coming from hospitals.

COVID got into the nursing homes by staff walking into the nursing homes.

Absolutely.

Stop.

Hang on.

See, I thought when he signed the executive order to take people that were confirmed with COVID and ship them to the nursing homes, And the nursing homes said, no, we can't take them.

Please don't do this.

And he said, you have to.

And they said, you'll kill the patients in the nursing homes.

And he said, you have to.

And they said, no, we really shouldn't.

And he said, you have to.

And they said, no, really, this is wrong.

And he said, you have to.

And they said, no, this is, you're going to be responsible for many people who are dying.

And he said, you have to.

A lot of people think that was the problem.

But the problem is, is while they were having that discussion, people who were working there at the nursing home, you know, the good care workers, those heroes, the people that were working at the nursing homes, they're not heroes.

No, they

infected all those poor people in the nursing home.

Yeah, it's their fault.

Wow.

So bastards.

Yeah.

Don't you hate those nursing home workers now?

Can we play any more of what he had to say?

When we didn't even know we had COVID,

staff walking into a nursing home, even though they were asymptomatic.

Asymptomatic.

Because the national experts all told us you could only spread COVID if you had symptoms.

And they were wrong.

They were wrong.

And then they were right again.

Yeah, they were wrong.

Hey, it's me, Governor Cuomo.

The dumbest mobster in all of government.

You know who's really bad.

All those people have been calling heroes the whole time.

Yeah, they were the real.

They were the ones that were killing everybody.

We don't have a mob problem in New York.

We've got nursing home workers.

Who da needs the mob when you got nursing home workers?

You know what I mean?

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Famina got

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I can't believe

the people of New York and how

Cuomo's popularity has faded, but a guy who went out and campaigned about how great he was, wrote a book on management, and now has, is, is lying.

I don't know why everyone on his staff isn't on talk radio, isn't on whoever would accept them as a guest.

If I worked for somebody who then started to blame the nursing home staff,

I think I,

I mean, I just, I don't care how much I love you, I would be like, this is, I can't, I can't do it another day.

I can't sit here and listen to that.

And the people of New York just sitting back and taking it too from him.

It's amazing.

You have to take into consideration that a lot of these guys, I mean,

if you're, what are you going to do?

I mean, you're in New York.

You're getting fed bull crap from the media.

Now, not all the media, they are starting to peel away from him to some degree, but they're still kind of leaving it in question.

There's no question he buried his own executive order.

He removed it from the website.

His own executive order.

We know why he did it.

He was taking

advice from all of the big donors that are the big New York hospitals who didn't want all those COVID patients.

So they had to do something with them.

So who doesn't have a big donor?

What group is out there that doesn't have huge money behind it?

Oh, I know.

Nursing homes.

So we put them in the nursing homes.

And now he's blaming it on the nursing home staff?

Where is the nursing home union?

I mean, if that isn't, that's abuse.

Where's the nursing home union not standing up to this bully?

It's a a good word for him, too.

He is.

It's a good word.

He is a bully.

They all are.

They really, they all are.

Anybody who is now, I mean,

I'm amazed at the story that I read this morning coming in about the libraries,

how our libraries are now going through social justice reforms, and they're going to spend the next year looking for all the books that should be purged from our library.

That is a book burning.

What are you doing?

That's book burning.

You could say goodbye to just about any book written before 1940

because they all contain concepts or language that is now deemed objectionable.

And

you can't say it.

You can't think it.

You can't read it.

So, I mean, if you can't even have, like is going on with

The Bachelor or Bachelorette, I don't watch it.

But

I have not seen it.

One of the contestants went to an antebellum party, which is, you dress up like you're in the South.

Yeah.

And

Chris Harrison, who hosts the show, said, that sounds like the woke police that's coming after you.

He's off the show now.

He had to step aside for the rest of the year, at least, and maybe forever.

I wouldn't be surprised if ABC doesn't just fire him outright.

ABC has become.

Oh, I mean, it's a mouse with a badge, man.

Yeah.

That's all it is.

It's a mouse with a badge.

You know,

I ranted last week.

You want to talk about hypocrites.

The mouse decides who works, who doesn't.

And yet

in Mulan,

they film it over in China and they thank the people in the province that are rounding Uyghurs up.

Oh, my God.

God.

That's acceptable.

But what that guy said's not?

Oh, my.

I mean, no, thank you.

No, thank you.

It is these corporations, and I've always been pro corporation.

I asked you earlier, have your political values changed?

No.

Have your views on corporations changed?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, the left was right about what was coming with corporations.

They were correct about it, but now they're all for it.

Now, all of a sudden, as these corporations are taking our country and taking control of the country and the world, they're fine with it.

I don't understand.

As long as your corporation is run by a leftist, they love you.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google.

They're fine with them all.

Even though there are essentially four different governments

that are kind of running the show right now.

I don't even think they're four different governments, they're about four the same government, they're the same government and they're in collusion with the United States government.

Oh, absolutely, they're absolutely in collusion.

You know, when Facebook says, hey, we got to take Parler off, and they take Parler off, even though the evidence shows there was more hate and more organizing for January 6th on Facebook,

when they can get all of the corporations to destroy Parlor,

that's one corporation.

That's four corporations all walking as one and all doing the bidding for their other partner, the government.

Where's the left?

Where are those people that used to say, I'm for rights, and I don't like rights that are being trampled on by corporations?

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