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What the heck is happening with our governors?

I am proud to say in the great state of Texas, we have a governor going the other direction.

South Dakota has a governor going in the other direction.

How many of these governors have become little Mussolinis?

What is happening?

Hey, Kentucky, kind of regretting that governor vote?

Holy cow.

We begin with a power grab there, then the power grab by the Fed, and some good news as well.

All coming up.

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what's happening?

Our governors, and have you noticed,

I believe the worst offenders are the Democrats, the ones who have been warning that Donald Trump is a fascist.

He's a fascist, he's gonna be Hitler, he'll beat Mussolini.

Can I tell you something?

I'm one of those guys that said, in fact, I believe we should look back on this, Stu.

I believe during the

election in 2016, when I was against Donald Trump, I said, there's going to come a depression.

A depression will hit.

And this guy will be more FDR than FDR.

And he will nationalize the banks and nationalize everything because that was in his history.

He's talked about those kinds of things.

And that was my big concern.

And that was the only concern that I had left on Donald Trump,

you know, as far as policies.

He's either done it with the trade, which I disagree, but it's worked out fairly well, it seems,

and then he's done all the things with Israel and the war and everything else.

We hit all of those hurdles.

We're now at the massive economic crisis.

Is he going to seize power like FDR did?

No, he's not.

And I am thrilled by this.

He's not doing it.

And the people who are calling for him to do it are the press and the governors.

And the only thing I can think of is because they want him to do it.

So when they get in office, they can do it.

And they say, well, you didn't have a problem when Donald Trump did it.

Yeah, yeah, I would.

He's not doing it.

And all of these governors are turning into little Mussolinis.

In Mississippi, not even a drive-in church is allowed.

Not even a drive-in church.

Now, what's a drive-in church?

People come out, they get in their cars, they're listening on the radio, or they crack their window open, or they sit on the hood of their car, like in a drive-in movie theater.

And you're at least six feet apart,

and that's not good enough.

It is the

in Mississippi,

the pastor of the King James Bible Baptist Church in Greensville

had the drive-in method of holding services.

The mayor issued an order prohibiting that service and sent the police

and actually said, your rights are suspended.

I'm sorry.

Excuse me?

What?

I believe my rights are inalienable, which means no man can change them, take them.

No man can.

I have an inalienable right.

Now we're assembling and we're assembling here safely.

We're assembling.

We're all social distancing.

This is insane what's going on.

In Michigan, the governor has banned residents from buying seeds or plants and gatherings of any size.

Excuse me?

Pardon me?

Church members

at

the Temple Baptist Church, they were suspended.

There's another one in Kentucky.

Here, this one, the Louisville mayor

also banned Easter Sunday drive-in church services.

You couldn't do it there.

The Kentucky worshipers

who are supposed to be in lockdown

showed up.

But when they showed up, there was heavy police presence and nails blocking the parking lots of the churches so you couldn't drive in.

They put nails

on the parking lot.

What?

What?

What?

What?

What is happening in America?

What is happening?

Federal court now prohibited Louisville Mayor from banning the church service.

So at least someone someone is going to the courts.

These guys have got to be held responsible.

What

are we even America anymore?

I mean, I really, I do understand.

Stu help me out here.

I do understand,

you know, saying to people, hey, look, you can't do this.

Don't

do this.

But when somebody like a church says, we're going to do this and we're going to be separate, we're going to be in our own cars.

What is the problem with that?

I can't think of any.

You know, they're trying to figure out a way to

take more and more control.

We found this in, you know, Michigan is a really bad example, it seems like, where this executive order is restricted, even if, you know, to the point of if you have multiple houses in Michigan, you're not really allowed to travel between them.

Like, what?

Like,

this thing against driving is so bizarre.

Every time you open up your Ways app, it says, make sure you're only driving if you really need to.

What does that have to do with COVID-19?

Like,

if I'm going to drive and get out and go to a party and start making out with strangers, sure, I get it.

But it's like, if I'm in the car with the same people I'm in my house with, why would that make a difference?

We have gone for, I mean, it's funny because when I was growing up, you're probably too old to remember this.

It may have just been a a saying

when you were growing up, Stu, but it was a reality when I was growing up.

Sunday drives.

Yeah, you ever heard the phrase, oh, it's a Sunday driver?

Sunday driver.

Okay.

Okay, so Sunday driver, do you know what that is?

Do you know why that is a thing?

I mean, I just remember it being like the people who were kind of driving slow and would be in the way, not really trying to get anywhere.

Do you know why they were called Sunday drivers?

Besides driving driving on Sunday?

Oh, yeah, I figured that was.

I mean, the only thing I could think of is maybe the blue laws.

Was it tied to that where there was nothing really open?

Yeah.

So you had to go.

Okay.

Yep.

So you would go driving and you would say, I mean, my grandfather used to say this all the time.

My dad would say it.

Hey, let's go for a Sunday drive.

And what you'd do is you'd get the whole family, because everything was closed.

So you get the whole family into the car and you drive around neighborhoods and parts of the city you've never seen before or you just want to go look at.

So everybody was distracted, and you were looking out the sides of the window.

So you were driving really slow,

you know, and you were distracted.

The driver was distracted.

So a Sunday driver was somebody who's just like, Would you please stop?

You don't need to see everything.

Just go.

Okay?

So Sunday driving, I've said to my kids, You want to go for a Sunday drive?

Let's just get in the car.

Let's just go for a drive.

What is the problem?

The minute the cop stops me, you, Mr.

Police Officer, expose me and my family to you.

I wasn't exposing anybody.

I'm in my car.

Now, if I'm speeding or something else, fine.

But if you're stopping me to ask me why I'm driving, you're now exposing me.

Are you six feet away from my window?

I mean, it's insane.

I mean, it seems like the type of activity you would want to encourage at this time.

Right.

Give people a chance to go and do something.

You know, you go, you go see maybe a site that you always wanted to see.

You drive.

I mean, what are you going to do?

The only place you can stop anyway are gas stations and grocery stores.

So that's, you know, you're going to probably stop and go, maybe go through, drive-through and get some food.

You're not going to be going to a, you know, a major gathering of any sort.

You're just going maybe to see scenery or just drive around and do something.

Just get out of the house.

I mean,

every parent I talk to is amazed at the fact that when they want to go through the Wendy's drive-through now, everybody rushes to get in the car with them, where before you couldn't get them out of the house.

And it's like

people want some sort of escape, and they're taking these things away.

Even in Texas, Glenn, you know, one of the things they had in Texas where people were still going golfing in certain places.

Golfing is, I'm not a golfer, but

it's obviously a place.

People did it to get your head straight before these times.

You could do it easily, social distancing.

Most golfers suck.

They hit the ball nowhere near each other anyway.

It's basically you're walking in a field

and not even really interacting with people, especially if you were to have the golf courses say, make sure you do X, Y, and Z.

Well,

they got rid of that.

That's now a non-essential activity.

Now, of course, it is not essential, but it is,

there's no reason to stop it.

I swear, the only reason they stopped it is because evil rich people are the ones who typically enjoy golf, and we can't give them something that we like,

that they like, if we can't give it to everybody else, which is

it's not like you're playing, you're not playing racquetball, you're not playing basketball.

I mean, you, that's a team sport.

Golf is a sport against yourself mainly, and you can easily play that at great distances from one another.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, you go out typically in a forsom, right?

Instead, if you went by yourself, like, let's say they went all the way, because you could probably easily do it with two people, but just say it's all the way as one person per group playing by themselves, and so they're having one quarter of the amount of people out on the course.

This would be, there's no reason they could not do that.

Everybody knows you could go out and walk in a park by yourself, and it's not an issue, but they're doing these things on beaches, in the water,

at these drive-in churches.

They're doing this to send signals.

Right?

They're wanting everybody to know that they're in control, that you're not allowed to do these things, that they're going to enforce it.

And they want these big examples because it scares other people off from doing anything.

Yep.

But that is not a good long-term strategy.

Again, we can knock this thing out.

Let's just say we're all perfect and this goes to zero.

Then what?

Right?

We have no cases in the entire country.

What happens the next day?

Because the next day, I know we have borders that are open from a country that's doing nothing in Mexico.

I know we have that.

I know we'll still have flights coming in from countries all over the world who are doing nothing.

We'll still have

people eventually getting sick again and then starting this whole thing all over again.

And we'll go through this entire process all over again if we don't come to some sort of sensible ground where we can look at these things and say, okay,

drive-in church is obviously okay.

Golfing by yourself is obviously okay.

And, you know, when we have

driving is okay.

Driving.

And then when we have a breakout in this town, we will start from zero and say, okay, we have a breakout here.

Let's do the contract tracing thing before it gets out of control.

Let's, you know,

Americans want to do this, right?

Americans will be happy to say, look, if we have an outbreak, you know, we'll do the contact tracing thing.

We will self-isolate.

We will keep people out of the way.

And then when we get past it, we can go back again.

What they don't want is this never-ending

one-size-fits-all nonsense.

And it's not surprising the Democrats would want that, right?

That's what they always want on everything.

Oh, yeah, that's what they always want.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is, I mean, it is, it's obscene on what's going on, the power grab.

We haven't even talked about the power grab of the Fed.

I'm going to make a statement and I will back it up in a second.

There is no free market anymore.

We are no longer living in a country or a world that has the free market.

It is officially gone.

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Okay, so there's no free market.

That's quite a statement to make.

No free market.

Well,

when you have the Fed,

now the central banks buying everything,

all junk bonds, all bonds,

everything, mortgages, everything.

Is there a free market?

Can there be a free market?

What is the stock market now?

I mean,

I don't have money in the stock market, and my financial advisors are probably like yours if you took yours out.

You know,

this is going to really go up.

Yeah, yeah, it might.

It might.

It will be a meltup if it does, because it's not real anymore.

These are tax dollars.

These are fake dollars that are all now in the, how do you judge this?

How does anyone read any report and judge this?

We all know, how is the stock market holding itself together and having boom days right now?

All of the companies are saying we have to revise

all of our projections.

We don't know what they're projecting.

We don't know how they're impacted.

How is this working?

This is working because there's fake money, billions, sorry, trillions of dollars of fake money now in that stock market.

So how do you price anything?

How do you know what the price is of anything?

If it has federal backing, the price will stay up.

If it doesn't have federal backing, it will go down.

Okay, well, geez, so then how does anything work?

I don't know if you saw the latest

from JPMorgan Chase, but here you go again.

So how much money has JPMorgan Chase given itself?

Because we know JPMorgan Chase is one of the Fed.

That's one of the banks of the Fed.

So, well, we don't know that, but we suspect.

That's the other thing.

They're clamping down on secrecy now on the Fed.

They're taking bylaws and changing them so they don't have to have public meetings anymore on some of their plans.

That's a different story.

JP Morgan Chase, how many millions?

I'm sorry, billions of dollars has JPMorgan Chase given itself through the Fed

this week.

If you're looking for a new mortgage, you now, for JPMorgan Chase, have to have a credit score of at least 700

and have a down payment of at least 20% of the home's value.

Okay, all right.

So

did you have 20% of the stuff that you just purchased, JP Morgan Chase?

Because I know that was the problem.

You don't have a good credit score because you just were bailed out in 2008.

You don't have a good credit score.

You just went for a new bailout because you bought a bunch of stuff that you then couldn't pay for.

And do you have 20%?

No, you were required to have 10%

and you allowed that to be relaxed for you.

It's Donald Trump has got to get a handle on these banks because they are,

this is not going to end well.

There is no free market for the big players.

But all of us can, you know, go pound sand, I guess.

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And

every

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with no one on the streets.

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And

Yesterday was Easter,

and I don't know about how it was for your family, but

it was kind of sad because not everybody was at the table yesterday.

We usually have family in from out of town, and it's

a big thing for the family.

And so everybody was on Zoom yesterday, but

it was, you know, my family goes, I don't know about you guys, but my family goes from almost complete meltdown to almost perfect.

I mean, like yesterday was an almost perfect day for the family.

It was really, really great.

You feel the same way, Pat?

Yeah, us too.

We had a really great, really great Easter.

You know, just did our own service in our home.

Yeah.

Social distanced from some of the family

because my oldest son and his wife both work with elderly.

And so we thought, eh, let's not subject them to us.

And so.

Well, wait a minute.

What does that mean?

Stu works with the elderly, too.

Us?

I mean,

he really does.

Yeah, he does.

He does.

So

how was yours?

How was your Easter?

Stu.

Great.

You know, honestly, the weekends have been very nice in that I've done everything I can to not live in COVID mania world, you you know,

going over models and death tolls and all the other terrible things we have to do during the week.

It's a hell of an improvement when you're not thinking about it constantly.

It's hard not to, though.

It is.

We banned the talk of it last night at the dinner table.

We weren't going to talk about it, although.

You know, some members were upset because we painted these wooden Easter eggs with the grandkids, and we painted them, and then Cheyenne took them and wrapped them in a napkin.

If you go to my Instagram page, you'll see them.

Wrapped them in a napkin so they looked like the face of, you know, like a bunny,

with the napkin being the ears.

And

so, everybody painted something really nice and sweet and everything else.

But I painted

I painted a horseshoe bat face on one,

and there was a Donald Trump egg, there was a fathead Fauci egg.

I like that.

Yeah,

so

it was not everybody's favorite at the table, but it was mine.

So I thought that was great.

What about Fathead Fauci?

I mean, I think he's going to be...

He's heading for the fathead zone.

So when you say fathead Fauci, this is what you said Trump will be calling him someday?

Or what was the, what was your...

Yeah, no, I said, no, no, no.

I said if he disagreed with him, you know, people are like, oh, you know, Donald Trump, he's just being duped by Fauci.

No, he's not.

If he disagreed with him, he would be the first to call him Fathead Fauci.

You know, that's what he would be called.

And

I think he is headed towards the fathead land.

He is headed towards that moniker with the president.

I think he's shown amazing restraint, and he probably knows he can't do this, but he hasn't fired him so far.

And, you know, there's been a lot of disagreement between the two of them, seemingly.

I mean, mean, Fauci is put on the spot by the press because they know he feels differently than the president, so they try to get that out of him every single day.

And sometimes he gives in and contradicts the president on what he's been saying.

And usually the president

doesn't put up with that.

But I think if he fired Fauci at this point,

there would be a bloodbath with the media.

Yeah, that's true.

I mean, I think, though, you know, Fauci's also defended the president a bunch of times publicly.

I mean, he has really backed him up, backed up his decision-making on China and the early travel ban.

And the controversial comment from this weekend, to me, from Fauci wasn't even notable.

Of course, if we acted earlier and we knew the future, it would have been better.

Like, obviously, like,

that is not even a notable statement.

That's not what he was saying then, though.

What he was saying.

It was just kind of irritating.

No, but I mean, I think he's saying in hindsight, right?

With 2020 hindsight, we all know we could have improved certain things, but we didn't know those things at the time, including Fauci.

If we were to shut down the country last October, it would probably be left deaf.

Less deaf.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Could we, instead of just banning flights from China, banned them from Europe earlier?

Sure.

Sure.

Sure.

Could we have

required more

aggressive measures when it comes to producing tests earlier?

And there's a million things we could have done better.

We didn't know at the time it was going to to turn out like this.

Nor did anyone else.

Let me tell you something.

I am so sick.

You can't have it both ways.

You can't have it both ways.

They all blasted him as a racist when he banned flights from China.

Sure, when he banned Europe.

How dare him do that?

These are allies of ours.

All of this crap.

You can't have it both ways.

You can't.

They are not worth your time in discussing it.

It's just not.

And yet they get it both ways.

The mainstream media gets it both ways.

So frustrating.

It is frustrating.

I can't take it.

No, you know what?

I don't think, you know,

I think they have so discredited themselves that nobody's really paying attention to them anymore.

Yes, their followers are, their tribe, if you will, and the Democrats who are just locked in this, you know, crazy town of

Trump

derangement syndrome, which is

more real than it's ever been.

I mean, you know, it was almost like a political theory before.

This is dangerous, way, way dangerous now.

They are standing against things just because it's Donald Trump, and people can die.

People can die from what they're doing.

It's shameful.

Absolutely shameful.

We should be having a conversation right now about

how to open the nation back up.

Oh, yeah.

They don't have any intention of doing it.

They don't want to do it because they know that will help Donald Trump.

They know a good economy or an economy at this point will be good for Donald Trump.

And so they just don't want it.

Instead, they're talking about rolling shutdowns for another 18 months.

Come on.

That's why I was so grateful to see Governor Abbott this weekend say that he has a plan.

They got a plan to reopen for business.

And they're working, so they're not some rogue state doing this.

They're working with the administration on how to reopen Texas within a really short amount of time.

You know, I don't understand

how

you can't say, look, I want to work with business and I want to work with the medical community.

And they have opposite

desires.

One, if you're talking about the economy, you're talking about the death of the economy.

Their job is to make sure there's an economy.

The medical community is making sure that there's no death.

Okay,

well, we're going to have to compromise here because we can't have both of these.

So we need to find a line, and that's the president's job and every governor's job to look at those two and say, you know what?

Okay, I think we're going to kill more people, literally kill more people, if we don't open this economy back up.

Suicides,

just malnutrition, not being able to go see the doctor because you don't have insurance, you don't have a job, all of that stuff comes into play with people's health if you don't open the economy.

At some point, gang, we have to go back to work, and it's going to be scary, especially apparently if you're a progressive.

It's okay.

You're going to be okay.

You know, some people will get sick and it might be you, but you know what?

You've been sick before.

I don't, I don't get it.

Yeah, I don't.

I know.

If the if the death rate was 40% or something, you know, that's a different thing.

But it's rare for people to die from this.

If we were even talking smallpox, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

You would, you would understand it.

This is this, the numbers have, I think the numbers have been wrong from the get-go myself um maybe this is because of maybe we've gone from 1.5 million dead to 60 000 dead because of this i know this has made a big impact that big of an impact i i don't know um but i know it's made an impact now

let's let's see some numbers here let's see some actual facts on things You know, we have enough data.

I'd like to know what data are you using to decide when we go back to work?

Who's giving me the tripwires?

Who's giving me the data points?

What are you looking for?

Because if we could come up with that, then we can have, you know, an intelligent conversation.

Right now, it just seems like, I don't know, who do you believe?

Fathead Fauci or Donald Trump.

Right, and that's a problem, right?

I'm hoping that's what we get out of Greg Abbott and here in Texas, is like a plan of like, okay, let's look at this.

When there's this many cases in this area, we may need to take X, Y, and Z steps.

That sort of makes sense, like, so people can understand what's coming.

They kind of understand

what the outline of the plan is.

I mean, because there's this idea that, like, and you mentioned it, Glenn, the president, it's the president's decision.

Yeah, it's not Fauci's decision, right?

Fauci doesn't make these decisions.

He makes recommendations.

And

quoting Fauci, basically, what he said earlier was, I don't have to think about the economy.

It's not his gig.

His gig is not to balance the disease versus the economy.

That's the president's job.

And there's like this criticism

and the governors, right?

If the president looks at this with any sort of weight on the future of our civilization, right, when it comes to economically, which he has to.

Which he has to, then he's looked at as, oh, he wants old people to die.

Now, yes, obviously, we all realize that if we put the speed limit at four,

we would have a lot less traffic accidents and deaths, right?

But we can't do that.

There's a balance that we come up with and try to find.

And that's what we have to deal with here.

You know, this initial moment of shutting this stuff down, as much as it sucks, it gives us a time to build up the sort of medical background, you know, like masks and all that other stuff.

It gives us an opportunity, which we've used, I think.

It gives us a chance to test things like hydroxychloroquine and all these other things.

We get down the line and buy ourselves time towards something that can solve this long term.

But this is not, we can't do this forever.

It's obviously ridiculous.

And

the media, and I think you said this earlier, Glenn, with the governors, they want Trump to make this decision so they're not held accountable for it.

So if it goes poorly and we open up the economy and people go back and get sick, then it's Trump's fault, not theirs.

And I don't think Trump should make the decision to open the economy.

He should say, here is the guideline.

Here's the guideline that we recommend.

And that's what Pence said that they're doing.

Here's the guideline.

He said, we need this according to the CDC, who is advising Pence.

We need to understand the spread of the virus.

We need to strengthen public health infrastructure, prepare our hospitals and other medical facilities, and foster a belief among Americans that it is the right time to do this.

So, basically, what they're saying is: when we have enough masks for everybody,

when we have some sort of medical

clues on how we can fight this thing, then we can start looking at opening it.

I think we're close to all of that.

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State rep Karen Witsett, she is serving her first term representing the 9th House District that encompasses parts of the city of Detroit Detroit and Dearborn.

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State rep rep Karen Witzett is with us now.

She's a Democrat from Michigan.

You are a brave, brave soul.

Karen, welcome to the program.

Well, thank you very much.

I don't think it's brave just to simply tell the truth.

Well, I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know anymore.

I used to believe that you were right, but I'm not sure.

So tell me about your experience with COVID.

What was it like to have it?

It was hell.

It scared the mess out of me.

I went from thinking I only had a sinus infection to maybe a touch of pneumonia to simply wondering if I was going to live.

And I didn't have a whole lot of time to think about what to do because when it comes upon you and it's really hitting you and you go from zero to a hundred with it, you have trouble breathing, your breathing becomes extremely labored, you feel your lungs filling up with fluid, you can't walk even from your living room.

Well, for me, from my living room to my bedroom, you can't really think very clearly.

You don't have a lot of time to figure out what it is that you're going to do because the hours are very pressing, and the minutes are very pressing.

So, you need to take

it kind of doing, you need to do it fast.

How long did it take you from first signs to I've got to go to the hospital?

I've been quarantined since March 12th

and first signs were really that weekend and like I say I thought I had a sinus affection and pneumonia but when it started really hitting me bad where I didn't know what I was going to do because the hospitals near me were actually full to capacity

I had

that was on March 31st and that was also the day that my husband and I got tested.

So literally after getting tested, I started declining rapidly downhill that day.

And did your husband have it as well?

Yes, he tested positive as well.

And he experienced

a very bad cough.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it didn't hit him like it hit me.

No, it didn't hit him like me.

But this is something that can definitely take out a family, which it did with my cousin Cheryl Fowler and

she lost her husband and her father-in-law.

And she's had two kids that tested positive.

Oh, my gosh.

And how are they?

She is out of care.

How are the kids?

She's at home.

The kids are doing well, but thank God that they have my doctor.

But once again, we're back to having to use your name as a state representative,

which is completely wrong.

And sickens me to

in order for people to get care.

How do you mean to have to use your name?

That's how you're getting care is I use my name.

That sickens me.

You mean to get into the hospital or to get treatment?

To get treatment, to get anything that you need.

And that sickens me.

That disgusts me.

And that's why

today

I'm thankful to say and I'm happy to announce on your show that I am going to meet with hopefully the president, but I'm definitely meeting with the vice president and that I can come back to Detroit state of Michigan with some resources for us.

What are the resources your state needs?

We need everything from testing kits to PPE.

We are looking at the fact that our jails, our prisons

are not being tested.

We're looking at the fact that our sheriffs and the people who work in the prisons are not getting what they need.

They're not being tested.

They are sick.

We have people that are walking out of the hospitals, our nurses and our doctors and our staff that are walking out because they don't have the necessary PPE that they need.

We have our senior citizen buildings that are just nothing but a hot bed, and these seniors are suffering.

We still have water shutoffs here.

We still have pipes that need to be connected back to home.

Our seniors are suffering.

They are not getting the food that they need because they fall in between the cracks where no one can deliver food to them and they can't go and pick it up.

We have people that are in my community that do not have a doctor to get a prescription in order to even get the test.

My cousin's husband was turned away over four times and he died at home.

My cousin herself was turned away over three times.

Their father-in-law was turned away and died.

This has to stop.

This is unreal of what we're living here, and we're in Detroit, and we have a governor that is not helping us.

This is our reality.

So,

Karen,

you got,

you were treated with hydroxychloroquine.

Yeah.

And you credited

that for saving you and credited the fact that you even knew about it to Donald Trump.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm familiar with it, though, because I do have Lyme disease.

But if it wasn't for the president Trumping,

literally, Trumping the governor,

because she put out an executive order that day.

That day, I did not have access to the medication.

So how many other people did access to that medication and lost their lives that day?

So how did you get the medication?

If she banned it, how did you get it?

It wasn't banned.

The executive order that was put into place was misinterpreted and it left all doctors and pharmacies scrambling.

Thank God

the doctor that I was able to call understood.

But my first doctor, the one who ordered the test, did not understand the executive order at all.

I contacted him.

I tried to explain it, and I sent him the executive order and told him that he is misinterpreting it.

I contacted State Representative Annette Glenn.

She contacted him on the Republican side.

She contacted him and told him that he was misinterpreting the law.

The lieutenant governor's office contacted him, told him that he was misinterpreting the law.

I still could not get him to write the prescription.

He told me he would have to wait until tomorrow.

And I told him tomorrow, I'll be dead.

So has that cleared up now have as is is are your doctors prescribing it now do they no they're still not no no it's still a hot mess no it is not cleared up

no sir why what is going on

this is why is the Detroit we are a major city We have a mayor, Mayor Mike Duggan, who is not, you couldn't ask for a better mayor for a time time such as this, who has ran DMC hospitals.

He just needs what he needs to do the job that needs to be done, and he doesn't have what he needs.

Karen,

when are you going to Washington to meet with the vice president and the president?

I'll leave today.

My husband and I will leave today.

Hopefully, I will be seeing him.

The plan is tomorrow, and hopefully, I will be coming back here with some resources because we're in desperate need.

I can't cry out any more than what I'm crying out for what we need.

I don't have time to play politics.

This is not the time for that.

So, about re-election and campaigning and being a Democrat and a Republican, that means nothing.

That means nothing when you have nobody here in the city left living.

What does that matter?

We have a lot of people

dying in my street.

I can't care about any of that crap.

That means nothing.

That's just garbage.

Karen, after you meet with them, could we?

I'm sorry, what?

I'm great at working on the other side of the aisle.

You know, I haven't even had time to even celebrate the fact that I got my first law through as a freshman, my first PA for MISTA, increasing $4.3 million for low-income housing to $5 million, but it doesn't matter because we need PPE.

That's neither here nor there at this point.

Karen, after you meet with the president and vice president, could we have you back on?

I'd like to hear, because I'd be shocked if they don't respond to your plea.

And I'd love to hear how that meeting went.

Absolutely.

Because, I mean, this is imperative.

I know you.

How can we help?

How can we help as an audience?

How can we help you?

Just keep doing what you're doing and getting the word out

and calling and messaging.

Doing whatever it is that you guys do on Twitter and social media and

that we're in a a hot day.

You know, this is not a time for politics.

This is not the time.

Through the Democrat-Republican thing, this is about people's lives.

Lives need to be saved because lives are being lost every day.

That number that you see on your television, those are people.

It's not a number.

And the president cannot do what he needs to do if he doesn't know what needs to be done.

So stop putting blame where it doesn't belong.

Place blame where it needs to be placed.

Let's get this done, people.

We are in this together.

Stop saying we're in this together and not be in it together.

Let's do this.

State Representative Karen Whitsett, thank you, Karen.

I appreciate it.

And best of luck, we'll keep you in our prayers.

And I urge every member of the audience to tweet to the President and the Vice President,

you know, that

congratulations on putting politics aside and these guys meeting and

encourage the White House.

I don't think you're going to need it.

I think you're going to get it, Karen.

He has not turned anybody down that I know of yet when he understands the problem, at least according to Gavin Newsom, he is there and you get what you need.

So I appreciate your phone call, Karen.

We'll talk to you again later this week.

God bless you.

Don't you feel good after hearing somebody like that?

I mean, somebody just willing to say what she believes is true and not care about anything else.

Yes, that's very satisfying.

Just so satisfying.

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What do you think the end of this is for Americans where they just can't, they're not going to stay in their house anymore?

What's the timeline on that, would you say?

I don't know.

Depends on where you are.

It'll be longer in New York

because it was so frightening there.

It'll be shorter here in Texas because it's not frightening here.

So I think it depends on where you are.

But I think, you know, by the,

in four weeks, I don't care what's going on.

I mean, I'm just,

my family is, we're, you know, we'll use our common sense.

But if it's like, if it's like it is or less than it is now in four four weeks,

I don't think you're staying at home.

Yeah, it seems like you're not.

And I mean that in a Texas kind of, you know, you have to judge it wherever you are.

You know, these places where it's not so bad, they're not going to last very much longer.

They're going to think

this is crazy.

And it hurts on the other end because if it does come back with a vengeance next fall, like it did in 1918, 1918, when it returned that first fall, it was much, much worse.

Now, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen that way.

It mutated over the summer with the Spanish flu.

So it may not mutate.

It may get weaker.

But if we do have it worse and we have to shut things down, if you've kept everybody too long in the house,

they're not going to go back.

They're not going to go back.

Yeah, it just won't.

One of the things I was thinking about this weekend as we went outside and

around our home was it was just a beautiful day on, I guess, yesterday.

Really nice here in Texas.

In the 70s, perfectly clear.

It was really nice.

And in Texas, we have mild winters and we are used to kind of nice weather.

But you remember what it was like when we lived in the Northeast, right?

Oh, my gosh.

When those first days of warmth start popping their head out, it's like a celebration.

And

I don't know how long people are going to be able, like, they're not going to want to miss that time, right?

So unless they're terrified out of their mind, like they are in New York City, a lot of people are going to start skipping these

things coming pretty soon, I think.

I think as soon as the, you know, as soon as spring really hits and you're not terrified, you're out.

You're out.

Because it's just,

and it will help the economy, actually.

Because if you can time it with spring, if I'm not saying you time it on the medical stats, obviously, but

if it coincides with spring,

you will have a rush of people who do have money.

They'll go out and they'll want to be out.

I don't know how fast the restaurants come back.

I mean, sitting in a restaurant is going to be difficult for a while, I think.

Yeah, I know like some of the areas, like Hong Kong, one of the things they've done is open the restaurants, but minimize the amount of people in there, minimize the maximum amount at a table,

do those sorts of things.

And I could see that starting, right?

Like that, I could see that being one of the things they do early.

The problem with that is these restaurants were already running on 5% profit margins.

You start saying, okay, well, only half the amount of people can come in.

I don't know how they survive anyhow.

They make money.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, the only thing you could cut down on your food costs, because you'd be using half of food, but you'd also have to cut down on your staff costs as well, which you could.

But all your fixed expenses, the equipment and the rent and everything everything else, those are fixed, man.

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Glenn, back in 2010 or 11, I stumbled across a video of you giving a speech.

At the time, I was a liberal, bit of a centrist, but more left-leaning.

I registered Democrat, and yes, we have cards.

I was what was called an agnostic religious

viewholder.

The whole nine yards, I voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary.

I used to belong to real socialism, hasn't been tried yet.

A leftist friend of mine, although we didn't call him leftist at the time, posted a video of you to prove his point about something.

I can't even hope to remember now, but what I do remember was that I couldn't understand what was wrong with what you were saying.

I challenged my friend about it a year after he unfriended me.

You see, your videos lit a spark in me that flickered for a long seven or eight years before roaring into a wild flame.

I turned back to Jesus in 2016.

I'm outspoken about the issues that are near and dear to my heart, and if nothing, I just try to make the world better for my children.

Late in 2018, however, a man was nominated for a great honor, but allegations that were made by people trying to deny this man his due process really pissed me off.

Fortunately, he was confirmed to SCOTUS,

and Justice Kavanaugh's struggle helped me turn that spark into an inferno.

Since then, I've been a raging conservative.

I have five little girls, ages 8, 5, 7, and 3.

Oh, wow, three-year-old twins.

I'm married to their mother.

She's the love of my life.

I'm trying to work out of this mess as I deliver for FedEx.

I'm putting money aside to get your book, both arguing with idiots and arguing with socialists, as well as a subscription to the Blaze.

I'm wondering how long is the 30% 30% off special going to happen if you start announcing it in advance when you're about to stop the deal.

I will make sure that I subscribe.

I tell you what, this came from Chris.

Chris, I'm going to send you the books and I'll make you a Blaze subscriber and we'll give you like a, I don't know,

free year or something and then you get on your feet, get past this mess, and then you start subscribing.

Thank you so much.

Glenn, I've had something weighing on my mind for a a couple of weeks, and I can only hope that this concern I'm going to lay out will find its way to you to digest.

I've always agreed with you wholeheartedly when you implored people to know who they are because times are coming that will try men's souls.

I would often wonder what those times would look like exactly and what knowing who I am would translate to.

I suppose that'll remain to be seen.

I did, however, get to witness what those things would look like to someone else, that someone being specifically Thomas Massey.

What I saw was a man who stood up in the face of the possibly the darkest hour for the stability of our economy and the clear guidelines pertaining to the voting process of passing the stimulus package.

I must tell you, I was shocked when you didn't support him, but tried desperately to get him to change his mind and to preserve himself to be able to fight for other things down the road.

It was that moment, that moment when a politician stood up in the face of the disgusting state of our political world and said, no, thank you, we always find ourselves wondering, almost pleading, is there not one person who will stand up and say no?

That person who doesn't care about the personal price?

That was he.

Here he was, the guy.

He gets it.

If it wasn't for an obvious I know who you are moment for someone, I dare not think I ever would.

Your initial take on this, however, really bothered me because you were promoting that he do nothing just to preserve himself and play the game.

That's exactly the slippery slope that the majority of our elected leaders sell their souls to.

A sort of weak need, ends justify the means, wishful thinking that they'll play the game and be the stand-up guy when it really counts, and they end up lost in the perverted world of politics time and time again.

My hopes and prayers are that you will realize the missed know-who-you-ar moment when it was in play view, plain view.

It's important that you realize this so you can continue to guide folks to be ready ready for theirs, not just to point out that you are wrong.

You seem, it seems now, a couple weeks after the fact, that you are more in its corner on hindsight.

That's great, but I think you'd do well to take ownership of the moment.

I feel you missed, and maybe share your thoughts with your listeners about it.

I can tell you it's important to me, and I looked forward to your leadership and humility.

Thank you for

all you do.

You are a winter soldier, Mr.

Beck.

Sincerely, Greg Littoral.

Greg, um,

let me explain it.

I don't think, I don't want to excuse it

because perhaps it was a moment of weakness.

I'm friends with Thomas Massey.

I like Thomas Massey.

He's close to me and I'm close to him.

And we agree on much.

And I did agree with his stance.

If you remember, on that day, I said, I completely agree with you, but it's not going to change anything.

It's just going to get you hammered.

And that is exactly what happened.

However, he was willing to pay that price.

I saw so few people that were willing to even stand up, to even recognize that this was wrong, that I thought it would be best for him to sit it out because that day

came and went and it was over.

And there was no chance of

winning on that.

I am

to the place, and maybe again, this is weakness.

I don't know.

I'd like to hear your opinion, Stu, but I think I'm at this place to when we have to pick and choose our battles because there are so few

soldiers on the field.

And

I don't want one of them to pop their head up and

shoot when the target is too far away and

they're never going to hit the mark.

I want to preserve the players that we do have

and do things more strategically.

Maybe that's wrong, but I supported him then.

I was texting between him, the two of us, off air that whole time.

And he was explaining to me, and I was explaining to him, but we have been friends then, that day, beforehand, and after.

I haven't changed my support for him.

It was just the strategy of doing it.

That was certainly a long explanation as to why you hate freedom.

I don't know why you needed that long to say it.

You could have just said, I despise being free, and everyone would have understood.

Yeah.

Well, I think you're right.

So I think, like,

I definitely understand where you're coming from.

And as you said, it was very much out of the idea that you really like Thomas Massey and what he stands for.

You know, I think, look, the problem here, when you talk about he's going to get crushed, who is he going to get crushed by?

I mean, the big issue was that Trump was tweeting about it, about how bad it was that they went to vote on this.

And it's like, we can't excuse that.

That's really a problem here.

I mean, the fact that Thomas Massey wanted a vote on $2.2 trillion

is not a ridiculous request.

He wasn't even saying he was going to vote against it.

He just said

he wanted to at least have people on record for it.

I don't think that's the type of thing that we should be lighting up congressmen over.

It's the type of thing that we should have, you know, that's something that we should look at as a positive.

Because you were right, he did get lit up by it, but that's really the issue here, isn't it?

He shouldn't be getting lit up by asking for a vote for over $2 trillion.

So, I mean,

while I understand what the guy's saying in the email,

this is an issue where we have to look at this and say, I think

Massey did the right thing.

And

if he's going to get thrown out of Congress because of that, I think he's comfortable with that outcome.

He is.

Which is, you know.

I'm not as comfortable with that outcome because I know what he can and does accomplish.

Yeah.

And he accomplishes a lot.

Hopefully, this is one of those situations because there's been a mix of these.

Sometimes Trump gets really mad at a congressman for doing something and he holds it over their head for the rest of their lives.

Other times, they're back in the good graces, you know, in a week when they do something because Massey will take a strong stand on Trump's side, too, when Trump's alone and has done that several times too so maybe this is something that blows over I hope so but I we've always asked congressmen to go there and do what they think is right and

I think the end of the day you have to just respect that and and you know realize that choosing your battles is part of this at some level but when you get to a point this is the if you're not going to stand up at 2.2 trillion dollars without a vote I don't know why aren't you going to stand up you know

It didn't just delay it.

Didn't delay it at all, I have to say, too.

And even with the approval of it, they can't seem to get the money to the people anyway.

I know.

Well, here's where I stood on this, Stu.

And

I'd like to hear where you were on this.

And if I'm just if I've turned into this political nightmare on this particular occasion,

I was looking at it politically, strategically,

because I think we're at the, you know, we are at the end game now, and there's only so many soldiers on the field.

And,

you know, we don't have a free market anymore.

There is no free market.

The free market has been absorbed and purchased at wholesale by the Federal Reserve.

You've got Congress

slipping into madness, and there is nothing more important, more important than the $2.2 trillion dollars is the fact that nancy pelosi does not want to have any votes

and and i felt he made his point

but he was going to get slaughtered by donald trump and without donald trump he's not going to make the impact he has foes on the right and he has foes on the left and he was completely alone.

Now, as it turns out, and as it was then, then, it was the right thing to do.

But who's going to fight that battle?

Does he have the credibility to now fight that battle long term?

Because she's still doing it.

She's still wanting to pass all of these bills without Congress voting on it at all.

That's got to stop.

So, how do we get there?

I've tried to do my part by having him on the air to explain on that day.

He explained exactly what he he was doing, and I've had him on afterwards explaining what he did and what the fight is, trying to make sure that we don't lose a very valuable guy over nonsense.

And I think

that's what it was.

It was a rush to get that money out, and that's what made everybody blind that time.

This time,

the money being rushed out is all political.

It's all political.

Yeah, another interesting solution to this would be Thomas Massey not being alone in Congress.

It would be nice if some of these other congressmen stood up and said, you know what?

Look, we agree.

I'm going to vote for this when we vote for it.

But we've got to be on record.

We've got to at least be on record when we're going to spend more money than any other time in American history.

We at least have to have a vote on it.

Is that too much to ask?

And apparently, to almost everyone in Congress, the answer to that was yes.

You know, that's not a good outcome.

And we need to at least.

but you're right.

If Thomas Massey leaves, then there will be no one.

There'll be no one.

And you don't, and no one's willing to do it if Donald Trump is going to hammer them.

I mean, you have to build a coalition.

You just have to build a coalition, and he's got to be part of it.

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Corbett Wall

is

a guy

who's not prone to hyperbole at all.

And he was boots on the ground attending a beef and hog auction in the U.S.

last week.

And he cited today more than a dozen major pork, chicken, and beef processing plants that are offline, some

weeks behind now.

In total, as many as 80-plus plants in the U.S.

are offline or experiencing disruptions due to COVID-19, mostly labor disruptions, workers infected or just calling in sick.

He is worried about the future of our protein.

You know, you saw that meme going around where all of the vegan food was fine in the stores.

That may not be so in the coming months.

There are some real shortages that may be on our way if we can't get this thing under control because of the meat industry.

We're going to talk about South Dakota and what they're doing about it

coming up next.

Some, I think, exciting news.

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Hey, our coronavirus update.

More than just the numbers in one minute.

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Okay, you know those little, you know, chicken little moments?

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

Yeah, I'm not sure it's a chicken saying it this time.

The sky is falling.

I mean, you'll understand in the coronavirus update here in in just a second, but there is no free market system anymore.

I was reading some stuff that I only half understood, so I'm not even going to

translate it and explain it yet, probably later this week.

But

I'm very, very concerned about the U.S.

dollar and how all of this is going to work.

And again, I'll talk about what the Fed is doing right now.

There is no free market.

And you, the taxpayer, are on the hook.

So all of this money that is being digitized, how does this work?

Can anyone explain how this works without using modern monetary theory?

The answer is no, because that's what we're using right now.

And that is Weimar Republic stuff.

We have crossed the Rubicon.

I do not know how you go back.

Wait until you hear these stats in a minute.

Anyway,

gold.

It's going up in value.

Goldman Sachs said you should invest in gold right now.

The world is buying so much gold.

Central banks, everybody is buying so much gold that there's a shortage of physical gold right now.

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All right, coronavirus update.

Here are the numbers: 1.8 million, up from 1.6 million confirmed cases worldwide.

Deaths worldwide, 114,000, up from 96,000.

Total confirmed recovered, up

about 80,000.

The United States has 560,000 confirmed cases and 22,000 deaths.

That's quite a jump.

About 100,000 confirmed cases since Friday, and a jump of about 6,000

on

Friday as well.

The U.S.

now leads the world in both cases and deaths from COVID-19.

We now account for 30% of all confirmed cases, 20% of confirmed deaths globally.

For the first time in all of U.S.

history, all 50 states are now declared disaster zones.

This is why everything is overwhelmed.

This has never happened before.

Should we cue the fat lady on

the free market system?

The U.S.

Federal Reserve is now purchasing approximately $625 billion per week in U.S.

Treasury bonds, U.S.

municipal bonds, and corporate bonds.

So they're buying stocks,

your city,

and they're buying treasury bonds.

$625 billion per week, $1.2 trillion every two weeks.

I don't know.

Sounds like a problem.

At that rate of spend, the Federal Reserve will own all outstanding U.S.

public debt, federal and local debt by September or October of this year.

Let me say that again.

The Federal Reserve will own

all outstanding U.S.

public debt, federal and local debt by September of next year, of this year.

It will own all U.S.

private and corporate debt by December.

The Federal Reserve is already now, today, the largest single holder of U.S.

government bonds

of $20 trillion in outstanding U.S.

debt.

The Federal Reserve owns approximately $5.7 trillion and is now adding $1 trillion in new bond purchases every two weeks.

This comes as the Bank of England skips the bond market entirely and is just printing new currency to fund U.K.

expenditures directly.

This is modern monetary theory.

You don't have to have a way to pay for it.

You just print it.

As of this week,

the Fed's Open Market Committee meeting, the Fed will also be willing to purchase so-called junk bonds from all U.S.

companies that are in distress.

The Fed has also issued a new fund to buy U.S.

mortgage assets from banks, pledging $200 billion per month to U.S.

banks plus Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy distressed mortgages

that become insolvent due to COVID-19.

The U.S.

Federal Reserve is now officially the largest

landowner in the world.

Again, let me say that.

The U.S.

Federal Reserve is now officially the largest landowner

in the world.

At this point, the only major asset in U.S.

equity markets the Fed is not directly buying are U.S.

stocks.

However, that's on the way.

Deutsche Bank

said last week, because of what the Fed is doing, they're quoting, is no such thing as a free market anymore, end quote.

By the way, just a note on this, it is you, the U.S.

taxpayer, that is responsible for all of this debt, not the Fed.

The Treasury, Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each Fed fund and is in the first lost position, making you, the taxpayer, responsible should any of these investments or underlying funds fail.

As such, the U.S.

Treasury, not the Fed, is actually buying all of these securities and backstopping all of these loans.

The Fed is only acting as a banker and providing that financing.

You say we don't need to open up the economy?

Just think about that.

The U.S.

could face rolling lockdowns and social distancing orders for 18 to 24 months.

This is according to the U.S.

Federal Reserve.

Without an effective therapy or vaccine for COVID-19, the U.S.

economy could face 18 months of rolling shutdowns as the outbreak recedes locally and then flares up again.

Hunt for a vaccine continues a year, according to scientists, a year

would be a miracle.

Kentucky churchgoers are not alone.

They were met with nails in the road and surveillance of license plates because the mayor decided there wasn't going to be any church services anywhere in Kentucky.

That's the governor, I should say, not the mayor.

He urged residents to remain indoors for the Easter holiday,

and they are enforcing with state troopers and county sheriffs.

The mayor of Louisville also came out and had draconian measures.

The DOJ to state's First Amendment is still the First Amendment.

A federal judge

ruled that this weekend, and Attorney General William Barr indicated that the DOJ is monitoring state and local government actions related to limitations on religious services and will potentially prosecute local officials if they violate the civil rights of religious people.

Are our oil wars over?

Maybe, maybe not, because of Mexico.

And is democracy the ultimate COVID-19 victim?

France and Bolivia have postponed elections now.

Peru has handed its president broad new legislative authority.

Israel sharply ramped up the reach of its surveillance state.

The U.S., we're curtailing religious services and searching for out-of-staters door-to-door in some states.

While leaders leaders around the world are fighting the spread of the coronavirus, they're also amassing sweeping new powers.

As legislatures limit or suspend activities in the name of social distancing, many of the norms that define our free market and our democracy, elections, deliberation, debate, checks, and balances, have all been put on indefinite hold.

The speed and breadth of the transformation is unsettling to political scientists all over the world,

government watchdogs, and rights groups.

Many concede emergency declarations and streamlining government decision-making are necessary responses to the global threat, but they question how readily leaders are going to give these powers up.

We've all put our economies on hold.

Can we have an open debate on when we bring those back?

We've also put democracy on hold.

Are we going to talk about bringing those things back

as well?

Also, the cost of COVID-19 Phase 1 and 2 bailout.

NASA's budget.

NASA's budget for the next 207 years.

The cost of the $4.7 trillion bailout package equates to NASA's $22.6 billion

that they get every year for the next 207 years.

The cost of the bailout, put in other words, is equal to fully funding six Mars landers, rovers, missions to the red planet

every single

day.

Just the phase two of the deal, $2 trillion,

is $7,500 per American or

$16,500 per taxpayer, seeing that only half of our citizens pay taxes.

No word yet on why it costs $7,500 in actual taxpayer cost for each American to receive a $1,200 stimulus check.

We don't know.

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So I

I want to talk to you about something that

happened on Friday.

I talked to the governor of South Dakota,

Governor Noam,

and

just

wanted to talk to her and see if there was anything we could do to help state get a lay of the ground on what's going on up there because they have real problems with their meat processing plants up there.

They have one of the biggest pork meat processing plants in the country, and I'm very concerned about food shortages coming soon.

We have plenty of beef and plenty of pork at the farm level.

We're just closing down all of the processing plants.

So getting it from farm to table may be difficult.

And we may have a real protein shortage coming soon.

So I was talking to the governor, and she, in about 45 minutes, is making an announcement on something that I think she is going to get hammered on that I absolutely love, absolutely love.

I don't know how popular she is in the state, but boy, she is becoming very popular around the country.

She is a woman who, as governor, has come out and said, we are not going to violate our Constitution, either our state constitution or

quite frankly, our national constitution.

People have a right, and they have a right to gather, they have a right to do and live their lives.

She's like, we're not in New York City, we're South Dakota.

And she said, we can figure this out as citizens.

You just have to social distance and yada, yada, yada.

Well, I was talking to her about several things.

And

one of them is the

quick spread inside one of these processing plants.

And she said, you know, we've got to get this plant cleaned and the workers healthy and back online

because not only for our local economy, but also for the food supply in America.

And she started talking about how she's what she's planning on doing and planning on announcing today.

And we're going to be monitoring it, and I'm going to be live tweeting

that announcement here in just about an hour.

But I think you're going to really like it.

It's time somebody does something.

It's time somebody does something.

And they are

with their health care.

And I just, I love it.

I can't wait for her to announce it.

We'll talk about it on the air tomorrow.

Or you can follow me on Twitter and you'll hear it.

That's convenient because I already do follow you on Twitter.

I'm excited about that.

You can tweet me all the details.

Okay.

All right.

I will.

Will you post an instant reaction photo with each tweet, like how you're reacting to the news?

Like, wow, that was surprising.

Oh, no, look at that.

That's bad news.

That's good news.

So I'll know how to interpret it.

Well, I'll try to use the emojis, but I want to use them sparingly because the company that makes the emojis, did you see this?

I didn't know there was a company that makes them.

No.

But apparently there is a company that makes, I guess the official emojis.

I don't know.

But they have said because of coronavirus, there will not be any new emojis for the next year.

Oh, no.

Oh, gosh.

I mean, when we talk about shutting down the economy, there's certain things that we cannot shut down, which is new emoji generation.

You know, I

see, silly me, I thought, you know, it wouldn't be

that hard to add another yellow face to something, you know,

or another hand gesture.

But apparently, it's much more complex, Stu, than you and I ever thought.

Well, I hope they didn't have to lay off the woke department that can inform them when they have not shown enough shades of color or have maybe identified someone by a gender when they're not supposed to in the emoji.

Well, they may have because I think the New York Times is using all of those people.

Because the woke department, of course, was so awake on Joe Biden

at the New York Times that

they caught them doing something very, very

unwoke.

And that is, they tweeted that in their investigation, the Times found no patterns of sexual misconduct by Mr.

Biden

beyond the hugs, kisses, and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.

I'm sorry, but other than that,

what was that last part you said there?

Beyond the Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr.

Biden.

Okay.

I thought you beyond the hugs, kisses, and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.

Oh, okay.

So, what would a pattern of disclaimer?

That's like, yeah, that's just like not available in Alaska and Hawaii.

Right.

You know what I mean?

That's what that is.

Whoa, how would you describe a pattern?

of behavior?

Could you have a pattern behavior without the previously discussed items?

Is it possible to have a pattern if you have not discussed previously other items?

I know that the same items.

Yeah, okay.

All right.

So, yes, the New York Times corrected it.

Okay.

They came out and corrected it because that was their tweet and they corrected it.

And so now it just says the Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr.

Biden.

Did they really correct that?

There's no, there's no,

that's it.

That's, they just took that second line out,

you know, beyond the hugs, kisses, and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.

They took that part out.

Incredible.

I mean,

you're exactly right about the pattern.

Well, there, what do you mean you haven't found a pattern?

You've got a pattern here.

The hugs, the kisses, and the touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.

That's the pattern.

Of course, there is no pattern when you're just looking at this one.

There can't be a pattern if you're looking at one thing.

Like that's just a

inside of the word pattern.

It tells you it can't just be one thing.

And I will say this too.

I read the whole article, not just the tweet, and the article, which is extensive, has none of the narrative flair we've learned to understand

from these incidents, where it's like, she walked into a room as the night fell, you know, into

darkness, the cold steel on the desk as she was manhandled.

None of that.

It's just like, we asked the Biden campaign.

They said that didn't happen.

We talked to someone who works for the Biden campaign.

They also said they had never heard of such a thing.

It's all just like fact response, fact response.

Very boring, which very well might be the way they're supposed to write a story like that.

However,

ever do that.

But they didn't find a pattern here.

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Donald Trump just tweeted, for the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the fake news media are saying that it is the governor's decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States and the federal government.

Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect.

No, no,

it's not incorrect.

It is not the President's place.

Well, I think what he's doing here

is, you notice

he's not flexing the muscle of the Presidency to close down the country.

He's letting the governors

close it down.

He's fighting now for the ability to open it back up because he thinks that governors are going to fight him, democratic governors are going to fight him for political reasons, I think.

Either that or he's just wrong.

And, you know, this is wrong.

But

he hasn't taken that authority to close it down.

Why is he taking that authority to open it back up?

Because he thinks that these governors are going to, you know, some of these governors, look at the one in Virginia, not willing to open up until the middle of June.

Now, maybe that's right, but I doubt it.

Yeah, no, they, and I know they've closed now the schools in New York all the way till, I think, June 26th or something was the end of their

school calendar,

which is not a surprise in New York.

I mean, it's going to go on for a while there, but I think Cuomo said something to the effect of, look, if we're closing the schools down, that means we're closing everything down.

The economy's closed down until then.

So they're looking.

Now, they are the most extreme part of this.

That's a different case.

Yeah, that's a different case.

That's a different case.

But you're right.

New York is New York.

Yeah,

it's going to be different.

You know, I hope, hopefully, this is just a...

It seems he's been holding onto this power for a while in this idea that it's kind of like a threat almost, right?

He's saying, if you don't handle this rationally, I'm going to step in.

I don't know that he has any power to step in in this situation.

You know, certainly it would be challenged, and I don't know that it would be constitutional to say you have to,

I don't know, he could overrule the states like that.

I don't know that he has the power to that.

He's obviously trying to claim it.

I don't know that he has it.

I think one of the best parts of the way he's handled this so far is that he's been restrained.

We were just praising him earlier in the show

for his restraint in trying to grab all sorts of national power.

Hopefully he's not going down that road.

And I don't know how you would do it.

You're going to order people to go back to work.

I don't even know how the function of that would work.

You know, you can say, I guess you could try to threaten a state by saying don't punish people if they do go back to work.

But I don't know how you, I mean, I don't think our system would allow for

none of that would.

Checks and balances would kick in.

The president couldn't do that.

If the governor says, hey, we're in a national emergency and the governor has the right or state emergency.

The governor has a right to declare a state emergency.

Now, that could screw with their federal funding,

you know, but I don't think the president would do that unless it was really obvious.

Like, he's not going to screw with the federal funding of New York.

Why would you screw with the federal funding of New York unless it was like, you know, we're keeping it closed for the next 18 months?

Well,

okay.

Really?

You're going to keep the entire state of New York closed for the next 18 months.

And there are those people that are talking that way.

I don't think Cuomo is, and I don't know any governors that are, but I've heard people say, you know, we should be closed for the next 18 months.

You know, we are talking about rolling blackouts for the next 18 to 24, and that might be wise.

You know, it might be if there's, if Dallas all of a sudden starts to have really bad cases, to close Dallas down for a little while.

Everybody in this area, stay in place.

You know, know, that's, there's, I don't think there's anything wrong with rolling blackouts, as long as we know what the metrics are.

Yeah, look, there are certain situations that get too bad, and you, and you,

you have to do things, though, I just, it's, it's going to be interesting to see how long people can take that.

And we keep using this 18 months.

I mean, you did the coronavirus update.

There's no, there's no definitive end to this, right?

Like,

the idea that we're going to have a vaccine in 12 to 18 18 months, doctors are calling it a miracle.

They've never done it that fast, ever.

They also told us very clearly that we were going to have an HIV vaccine when that all started up, but we never got one.

You know what another coronavirus is?

The common cold.

Do we have a vaccine to that?

No, we don't.

These are not sure things that we'll ever get a vaccine.

I mean, probably the better

possibility

which could provide a shorter-term solution to this and is realistic that we can hopefully depend on, would be a treatment, right?

If one of these things, like hydroxychloroquine, has obviously been the one talked about the most, but there's lots of them.

There's been some positives about another one that Trump has mentioned that I won't,

one of the antiviral things that they had initially designed for HIV

wound up having some promise in one of these clinical studies as well.

All we need is to find something that will back it off from,

you know, if you're in the hospital with a 10 out of 10, it can bring you back to an 8 out of 10.

It's really all we need.

And that sort of thing, I think, with the full power of not only the United States and, you know, capitalism and innovation,

everybody trying to find the same thing, it's really happening around the world as well.

I'm optimistic we'll get there eventually.

But it is, you know, until we have that, people are, we can talk all we want about opening up the economy.

We've looked at these numbers like crazy.

All the numbers are coming out before any government bans were instituted.

And you saw 50, 60, 70 percent drop-offs in traffic to restaurants because people didn't want to die, right?

And until you can convince them they're not going to die,

it doesn't matter if you quote unquote open up the economy.

People don't want to go outside right now.

This is like

it's not just government restrictions doing this.

Right.

It's going to take a massive and the best ad campaign of

probably American history to get us to go back quickly to

normal life, going to restaurants, going into crowds, having parties, everything else.

It'll take a long time.

Some people will do it,

but I think there's going to be a lot of people that will stay out of the restaurants for a very, very long time unless they they you know cut the you know cut the number of people in there by half or whatever and still then i'm not i don't know i'm not that comfortable i don't know you know i don't know all the people in there um and i don't know who is sick and who who's not sick etc etc i mean it until you can come up with a vaccine uh we won't be comfortable and if you don't come up with a vaccine at least have some sort of way of understanding you've been tested and you don't currently have it or you have the antibodies.

When that happens, then we'll start to normalize again.

But without those things, it's not going to be normal.

But we can open the economy back up more than it already is.

There is a great article

on Medium.

And it was the, I don't know, six or seven reasons why we should open the economy.

First one, we've already flattened the curve.

We've now gone from predictions of millions of deaths to hundreds of thousands and now we're predicting about 60,000 deaths.

The next one is

economic collapse and unemployment is destroying families.

This one is really,

really true.

We'll be lucky if the job losses are not 25 million.

And to put that into perspective, 25 million is about the population of the great state of Texas.

And the great state of Texas is the size of half of the continental U.S.

Trevor Burrus And that's not even, I mean, it's obviously going to be worse than that.

We're already at 16.

It's obviously going to be worse than that.

So, and that is, that's only the ones that we're counting.

There are so many problems that come with

unemployment.

The fact that you'll have suicides, you'll have health problems,

you won't be able to see doctors as much.

All of these things that causes massive suicidal tendencies.

Next one, we have not saturated the health care system.

In New York, we came close, but the rest is pretty good.

And the reason why we're having problems is because of PPEs and things like that.

If we can get the mask situation under control, if you know, the federal government ordered 500 million masks, if we can get the mask shortage under control and we can get all of the gowns and everything else that we need

for the hospitals, if we can get the medicine that we need for the hospitals,

as long as we don't burn our doctors and patients out,

we're doing good.

We'll be set for the next wave.

If we're not set for the next wave, there is a problem.

We should be working on that right now.

Suicide will kill almost as many people as COVID this year.

In 2018, there were 48,000 recorded suicides,

but economic ruin results in a wide range of health problems, suicide, mental health issues, loss of health insurance, reluctance to visit doctors in light of the financial hardship, increases in substance abuse, blah, blah, blah.

That is on top of the delay in non-COVID care.

So 48,000 deaths in 2018.

How many suicides will there be this year?

The PPE, limited, but now becoming more available.

And this one is the last point.

And this is one I've been ringing the bell on from the beginning of this.

Authorities should show clear evidence regarding the benefits of indefinite lockdown.

We need to see

what the parameters are.

What are you looking for?

What are you looking at to make these decisions?

Right now, we know that the states have been looking at COVID now, this website that was started by a group of progressive activists who were leading a charge against Donald Trump.

Most of the states were using that.

It's unbelievably flawed.

The numbers on COVID now are

way,

way off.

Showed a million dead in Texas alone.

Ridiculous kinds of numbers.

The states were using that website to predict what was going on.

That stuff has got to stop.

We need to know What are the parameters?

What are you looking for in numbers?

What are the things in the hospitals that you're looking for?

What is the number of new infections that says, okay, we're probably pretty safe?

I'd like to have a discussion of those things in public.

I'd like to know what those things are

that are keeping us from opening or telling us we should open.

What are those things?

And are they sane?

Are they rational?

And are they scientifically provable?

This is too big to go off of just somebody's gut.

Yeah, no, that's definitely true.

And hopefully we're at least a little bit past the top of this, right?

I mean, the deaths dropped yesterday pretty significantly.

There's part of that is just record

recording.

And for whatever reason,

Sundays, especially Easter Sunday,

people aren't working and don't necessarily report every single death.

If we can get past this week

over 2,000 again, because we've been over 2,000 a couple times, once or twice, if we we can get through this week without 2,000, it may show that we are past the peak of this, which would be really encouraging.

Really encouraging.

You know, like Detroit was a great example.

We talked to someone earlier from Detroit about how bad this was.

I mean, Detroit is really in the middle of it.

New Orleans is in the middle of it.

There's several cities that are breaking out.

They're not going to be as bad as New York, obviously, population-wise, but they are

on the wrong side of this, and it's increasing and getting worse in some cases.

So, hopefully, we can at least get past peak.

And then, once we get past the panic of this first moment, there's going to be a period here coming, I think, to the end of the month, where this sort of organized, hopefully, rollout of people being able to go back and feeling that they're not going to get sick just by going out and doing the basic things they want to do with life.

Hopefully, that's right around the corner.

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Tomorrow, I want to go over the numbers with Stu on

the estimates of 2 million dead, why we're at 66,000.

It is a little misleading, but they were also, I think, way out of whack on the middle numbers, not the top numbers, the middle numbers.

We'll explain that on tomorrow's program.

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