March 5, 2021 • 45 mins
Buck starts today with yet another report about the New York nursing home scandal and the cover up from Gov. Cuomo. Plus the difference in the media coverage in scandals from Democrats versus how they handle GOP politicians and the Democrats are actually against unity, specifically on immigration policy.
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your podcasts. Cuomo advisors altered report on COVID nineteen nursing
home debts. That was the story in the Wall Street
Journal just yesterday. I want to make sure that we
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all focus in on this because I know the media
is spending a lot of time on the sexual harassment
allegations about Cuomo. And that's fine, he's a creepy old weirdo.
I get it. I'm with you on all that. But
what he did in the nursing home fiasco was far
more egregious as a matter of public conduct, and far
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more damaging to the Democrat party and brand and the
media too. That's a mega scandal, not not a thing
that can be apologized for, not a thing that you
can just wave aside with a hand and a few
tears and say, oh the other times, I promise, that's
not the way this works. We need to continue to
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hammer home the point here that Cuomo had people on
his staff intentionally change numbers about deaths during a pandemic.
This would be like a general lying about troops killed
in battle so he could keep his job. That's how
serious this is. You have to understand the degree to
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which this change thinking and this mattered at this period
in time of extremely important and tense decision making. Maybe
people would have thought differently about, Oh, I don't know,
the great Barrington Declaration about focused protection for seniors if
they had known just how egregious the government misconduct, how
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awful the decision making was in New York. Remember New
York and New Jersey number two and number one, respectively
for COVID death per one hundred thousand people in the
United States, both very deep blue Democrats states. Let's remember that.
And yet somehow Cuomo was a hero. He was second
only to Fauci, to whom I can only say he
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needs to go Fauci himself, second only to Fauci in
terms of the hero worship from the media. What the
heck was this all about? How did this even happen?
There's so much going on here. First of all, you
have the fact that if you're a Democrat, you can
get away with things that you would never be able
to if this were a Republican. Imagine this were Christy Gnome.
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Imagine this were Ron Descantists. If Ron Descantists hid fifteen
thousand nursing home deaths by by undercounting it by fifty percent,
So whatever they said it was roughly you got seventy
five hundred. Let's say something along that along those lines.
If he said that it was seventy five hundred, it
was really fifteen thousand. People would be demanding not only
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he resigned. And when I say people, I mean universal.
There would be universal, nationwide condemnation. In the media. It
would be the top story. And there's just this kind
of muted, halfhearted reportage on it from the Democrat outlets.
You know, yeah, it looks like maybe a crazy thing happened.
Man Cuomo was undercounting nursing home deaths by I don't know,
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like fifty percent or something. Wow, they really don't math
so good over in the Cuomo office, do they. Yeah,
tough to do addition and subtraction. This mattered immensely. And
if this were a Rhonda Santists, it would be the
number one news story. I mean, you know, you remember
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when during the Bush administration there was that misconduct in
Abu Grabe and that was on the front page of
the newspaper day after day after day after day, and
I remember being a pretty young guy at the time
and saying, Wow, So this is how you make a
story really stick. This is how you really tear down
an administration with the story. I mean, George Bush wasn't
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giving that order, but Abu Gray was on the front
page of the newspaper of the New York Times, for example,
I want to say twenty out of thirty days or
something like that. It was a long time ago, but
it was so much coverage of it, just saturation saturation coverage,
And they could do the same thing with promo. This
is a really big deal. We've had Democrats and we've
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had the corporate media lecturing us month after month after
month about listening to the data, obeying the science, doing
what Fauci tells us, and the hero of the pandemic
was actually the villain. And we're not supposed to think
that this is indicative of broader problems and the way
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they approached this whole thing in twenty twenty. We're not
supposed to make the connection that clearly they were willing
to go along with this in part because they knew
that Cuomo was a useful weapon against Donald Trump in
the election year. That Orange man bad who liked hydroxychloroquin
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as an idea, and you know, wasn't running around quadruple
masking that maybe they were a little bit unfair to
the point of sheer dishonesty about Trump in the election
year and were willing to prop up people like Cuomo.
Here's this piece the Wall Street Journal New York's Andrew Cuomo.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's top advisors successfully pushed state
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health officials to strip a public health report of data
showing that more nursing home residents had died of COVID
nineteen than the administration had acknowledged. The July report, which
examined the factors that led to the spread of the
virus in nursing homes, focused only on residents who died
inside long term care facilities, leaving out those who had
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died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing home. As
a result, the report said six thousand, four hundred and
thirty two nursing home residents had died, a significant undercount
of the death toll attributed to the state's most vulnerable population.
The people said. The initial version of the report said
nearly ten thousand nursing home residents had died in New
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York by July late last year. One of the people said,
according to those with knowledge of the report, unbelievable. They
went from ten thousand to six hours. That's a pretty
big difference, isn't it. Why would they do that well,
because they knew that that number would really shock people,
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and they knew that other states that also have senior
citizens would be a point of comparison. And what they're
now going to be able to do is say, hold
on a second. The data was fudged here in a
way that was meant to prevent accurate comparison. How can
you know whether your public health officials? How could you
know whether your governor is doing a good job when
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they're lying about the very data that they claim is
supporting their position. And let me tell you this right now,
this is not the only instance. It may be the
most egregious, but the only instance of fraud through numbers
manipulation during this pandemic. We will find more of this.
There are other cases where people either cherry pick numbers,
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and I'm talking about governor's state health officials, maybe even
Fauci himself. They cherry pick data to fit a preferred
narrative and suppressed anything that challenged what they wanted the
people to believe. If this were if Chromo were the
CEO of a publicly traded company, or any company for
that matter, if Chromo were the CEO of a private corporation,
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this kind of activity of hiding numbers like this, if
they were profit numbers, for example. I mean, if he
were cooking the books, he'd be facing prison time. But
he cooked the books in eventually on deaths during a pandemic,
when decisions were being made that were directly affecting and
in some cases, as we see now, causing those deaths,
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and we're supposed to just forget about it, no big deal.
Everybody was doing their best. Cuomo was giving us such
great press conferences. His brother over at CNN was doing
such funny stuff with him at night. They should have
had a duo show. Well, I guess they did. These
are the people, these are the voices, These are the
platforms out there, all these different Democrat and Cuomo aligned
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groups and individuals who have been telling you all on
to trust them believe them, and they missed. And they
also slowed this down right. That was another part of it.
They were hoping to delay this, and they managed to
delay until after the election, which is why now they're
willing to finally let this all go. Why now you're
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seeing all the sexual harassment stories and you know there
are people who are actually sitting down to do interviews
with the accusers. All this is happening because Cuomo's extreme
usefulness has passed. You know, you see this with Cuomo,
it reminds me of what I believe will happen soon
with Joe Biden, where eventually the Democrats will no longer
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be able to prop up Hiden Biden, who's declining. We'll
figure out this guy really isn't up for this. It'll
be apparent, it'll be embarrassing, it'll be sad, and they'll say, oh, yeah, sorry,
I guess we missed that. But he beat Trump, didn't he.
This is how they play the game. It's the Harry
Reid approach to politics. Remember Harry Reid lied about Mitt
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Romney's tax returns. You know, I'm no Mitt Romney fan,
but when asked about this, just complete slander. Harry Reid
laughed and said he didn't win, did he? And he
was right. This is how democrats, this is how your
corporate media approaches their job. They are on a team.
They have picked a side, and in this case of
Governor Cuomo, the side they picked was lying about thousands
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and thousands of deaths and causing Remember it's not just
that they were embarrassed by the number. I mean, to
understand the full scope of this, you have to recognize
that Cuomo, because of his unthinkably stupid decision to try
to clear out hospital space faster by forcing COVID positive
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patients back into nursing homes, he caused more of these deaths.
You see, it wasn't just this number looks bad for
the state of New York. It's Cuomo made a decision,
and some of that decision making, or some of that
decisions ramifications, led to people's moms and dads, grandmas and
grandpa's dying in nursing homes, not allowed to see their
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family members, maybe allowed a last zoom call. It is
awful beyond words. But he was telling you, he was
giving you lectures, and even if you don't live in
New York, he doesn't care. He was America's lecturer in
chief during COVID. That's what Cuomo was. He was telling you,
if you don't mask up, you might kill somebody. You
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might cause somebody else's family member, loved one to die.
How dare you do exactly what Cuomo says or else
talk about what psychologists would call projection. This is so
far the biggest scanalthough there are many, and there's going
to be a lot more accountability that we have to
force on the lockdowners as we have more data and
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more of the truth can finally come out. But what
Cuomo did was the most appalling decision and the most
dishonest aftermath of any major policy choice of the entire
COVID nineteen pandemic. And we're finding out about it now.
We will not let this go by the way. I've
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known about this for months. You've known about this for months.
It's been reported the New York Post. Now we just
have more and more information. It looks even worse than
we thought. The mainstream media is finally touching on this.
The mainstream media has finally come around do it because
it served its purpose to suppress it when they did.
But do not forget this Cuomo lied, seniors died. That
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is what happened. The Democrat Party should own this. They
are responsible for this, and the corporate media's credibility is
even further sullied if that was even a thing, that's possible.
Just how much did the media love the love Gov
Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Cuomo sexuals, remember that that was
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a thing for a while. People were walking around with
t shirts on such a hero. He's such an eligible bachelor.
Oh gosh, people were batting their eyelashes at Cuomo because
he was so amazing. He was keeping us safe. The
guy's a thug, a bully, and a liar, the worst
of politics, and also a sexual harasser on top of
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all of that, which we will also get to here
he is according to the media over the course of this. Really,
I really want you to just sit back and take
all this in. Remember Cuomo live, seniors died. Cuomo made
an unthinkably stupid bullying decision, threatened nursing homes, basically used
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his pandemic superpower or ultra authoritarianism and superpower sounds like
he's a hero, but use the authoritarian emergency powers. There
we go that he had and then lied about it
when it was a disaster afterwards, and then tried to
shame everybody else who wouldn't keep listening to him. This
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is what you're the guardians of our republic, right the
Fourth Estate. This is what they were saying about all
of it. Play too, playing bye for Governor Cuomo's Press
convers Is Daily Briefing, David, We're sitting by for Governor
Cuomo's Press convers Is Daily Briefing. How would you contrast
Cuomo and President Trump's handling the crisis, truth versus mendacity.
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Governor Cuomo out there day after day after day. Everything
Trump isn't honest, direct, brave, real leadership. I'm the kind
of President of the United States should have provided. Governor
Cuomo is clearly living in a totally different reality, the
actual one, than the President of the United States. Governor
Cuomo has become a national leader for a lot of people.
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Andrew Cuomo has become the leader of the Democratic Party.
He is conveying incredible strength. You spoke to National Guard
troops today in a stirring speech that if I wasn't
listening carefully, I thought you were sending soldiers off to war.
This has been a remarkable show of leadership by Governor
Cuomo in recent days. He's providing hope, but not false hope.
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Governor of Cuomo, I think, is one of the heroes
on the front lines. With all of this adulation that
you're getting for doing your job, are you thinking about
running for president? Andrew Cuomo, who has a daily television
show now and has become in some way as the
shadow president. Maybe Trump is just a little bit mad
that Governor Cuomo has become a kind of acting president.
Dealing with hardship actually makes you stronger. That's what Governor
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Cuomo said earlier today. That's what I'm gonna go teach
my kids right now at home. Brian Stelter, that guy
is Oh my god, It's like the equivalent of pouring
estrogen in your ear or something. I mean, this guy is.
It's unbelievable. I gotta tell you that that to me.
I listened to this and I just I just shiver.
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It's just so gross. The whole thing is so obtuse
and absurd. What what was going through their mind? Oh well,
we know, notice how many clips we can pull of
them saying unlike Trump, Cuomo is great. Unlike Trump, Cuomo
speaks the truth. That's that they're just their brains were
fixated on this, fixated on this. You know, an honest
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assessment of Trump during the pandemic would start with he
basically did everything foul. She told them too. When I
spoke to the President in May in the Oval Office,
the one thing he actually shook my hand in promise.
The one thing that I asked. I said, sir, please
don't allow for there to be a federal push, a
national push for and across the board lockdown. Let's not
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And he said, I totally agree. I get it. He
had been listening to Fauci a lot up to that point.
He'd been listening to Fauci, and we've all seen what
the results are. Remember, this is going to be treated
like it's an objective discussion about the data and what's
best for the country. But really, as you see from
the teachers unions, this is about what is best for
different individuals, their power, their money. They don't want honesty
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about what's happened during this pandemic. They certainly don't want
accountability for people that we're propping up liars, frauds and
thugs like Andrew Cuomo. I mean, the fact that this guy,
I would put money on it right now, is going
to finish his term as governor. He will not resign
and they will not impeach him just shows you how
more lead decrepit. The Democrat Party in the state of
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New York and across the country is they're gonna let
this guy stay. If he stays, who goes? And let's
just remember this, They're not going to impeach. Democrats will
not impeach Governor Cuomo, but they impeach Trump twice. The
first time and I know this was in Congress, but
the first time over a phone call to the Ukrainian
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president where nothing happened. Cuomo sent seniors to die in
nursing homes like a moron because he thought he was
so smart and he was drunk with power, and then
he lied about it to everybody. If that doesn't make
you resign, what does. Governor Cuomo said that he has
never propositioned anybody. Do you believe that he was propositioning you? Yes?
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For what sex? And then he explains at that point
that he is looking for a girlfriend, he's lonely, he's tired.
You've just finished dictation and the Governor is telling you
he's lonely and looking for a relationship. Yes, you have
been quoted as saying that. He also asked you about
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if you'd ever been with an older man. Yeah, he
asked me if age difference mattered. He also explained that
he was fine with anyone over twenty two and how
old are you? Twenty five? What were you thinking as
he's asking you these questions. I thought he's trying to
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sleep with me. The Governor is trying to sleep with me,
and I'm deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out
of this room as soon as possible. And to be clear,
what made you think that he was trying to sleep
with you? Without explicitly saying it, he implied to me
that I was old enough for him, and he was lonely.
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He was trying to sleep with her. Can we all
just state the obvious year together? I mean, that's none
of us have been in the workplace and had conversations
and you know, maybe you know, shared some of our
personal live with friends or colleagues or whatever, but we
also know when you're the governor of New York and
you have a twenty five year old attractive female who's
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alone with you, and you're talking about the age at
which you're willing to have a sexual relationship and your
need for a sexual like short of drawing a map
or like producing some kind of a contract with his
expectations at her expectator, Like this is pretty clear. It's
entirely credible. All these women who have come forward, these
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are credible allegations. You know, we could go back to
the Kavanaugh era, remember, and they kept saying credible allegations
ends Kavanaugh, and I was completely losing my mind over this.
I mean I was, I was furious. I mean, this
is what I said. A lot of us became wartime
conservatives during Kavanaugh because we saw that there was honestly
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no there was no floor, there was no basement of
moral depravity. The Democrats, including Kamala Harris by the way,
leading the charge there in the Senate, don't ever forget
that that there was no low. The Democrats would not
god to destroy somebody for politics, that they would lie
just in the most it was just the most mendacious, disgusting, idiotic,
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obviously untrue garbage about Brett Cavanaugh. It was, and any
person who doesn't see that, it's just not very smart.
It's not possible to look at all that not possible
to look at the three accusers, including the third accuser
who's like giggling and talking about gang rape that she
saw when she came back from college. I mean, the
whole the whole thing or Julie Sweatnick was her name,
The whole thing was so absurd. Avanti Avanati is It
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isn't amazing to see. He was the hero of CNN
at the time. Don't you see a pattern here? When
you were useful against Trump, if you were a wet
up in against Donald Trump, you were given this this
cloak of invincibility and the elevation. You were treated like
a conquering hero. It didn't matter how disgusting you were.
Michael Avanati is the ultimate slimy lawyer. He makes Michael
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Cohen Trump's good friend for a while, unfortunately makes Michael
Cohen look like an ethical council. Avanati was stealing millions
from a paralyzed client. That guy was on TV. He
was on CNN I think more than any other guest
over a period of two months. It was as though
he was he was paid to anchor a show. He
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was on all the time and he went forward with
obvious lies about Brett Kavanaugh. But I digress. You know
that that whole thing gets me so fired up, and
I'll never forget. I had people, I had a CNN
anchor reach out to me directly and say, you've got
to stop what you're saying about Kavanaugh. You're going to
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destroy your career. And people on our side who think
you're smart but don't agree with you will never take
you seriously again. And I restrain myself from actually writing,
you know, go fauci yourself, but I thought about it.
I did tell them to, you know, leave, like, don't
ever reach out to me again, and you're out of
your mind. I think something like that was what I wrote.
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And yeah, we have not had any context since, but
that was the mentality. It was all hands on deck
to destroy an innocent man because it was necessary. They
thought that was moral. You see, that's the problem with
the left. They believe that morality is entirely situational, that
there's no universal truth, there's no natural law. It's just
whatever they need when they need it. That's a central
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principle of the left. That's if they have a principle.
The principle is there's no such thing as a principle.
But they kept saying, I'll bring this back to Quomaa.
They kept talking about the need or that kept talking
about the credibility of the allegations against Kavanaugh, and they
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figured if they repeated it enough, well keeps getting called credible,
it must be. It would be difficult to come up
with a less credible allegation than the one that. Yes,
even you know the professor who leveled or you know
the psychologist who leveled against Kavanaugh, she couldn't prove. She
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couldn't prove that she ever even met him, Christine Blasi
Ford couldn't prove that she even ever met him, had
no details, no corroboration, no nothing, and had lied about
things like she was afraid to fly unless she's going
to Cabo, then flying as fine, right? I mean, the
whole thing was such a scam, such a fraud. If
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that's a credible allegation, me saying that I assassinated Abraham
Lincoln's a credible allegation. I'm sorry, do you can you
prove that I don't have a time machine? Do you
know that for a fact? You don't know me? I
might have a time machine? You don't know, right, that's
the level of credibility we're talking about with the allegations
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against Kavanaugh absurdity. But these allegations against Cuomo, everything lines up,
everything is exactly. There's a pattern, the same kind of
pattern everyone knows, and there were whispers about it before too.
The word always gets out a little bit about these things, right,
word always comes out, And nobody was really surprised by this.
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That's what's so amazing. The Democrats protected him as long
as they could. They propped this jerk up as long
as it was feasible for them, and as long as
it was advantageous. That's the big difference. As long as
it was an advantage for them, they propped this guy up.
And here we are, here we are. I gotta tell you,
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the fact that he's not going to resign is so troubling.
But also in an their sense, he's an excellent reminder
of how of how corrupt Democrats are with all of
these things, and how two faced they are, and how
it's all just about power for them. You know, meet
me two things, right, I mean, first of all, let's
not forget Joe Biden was credibly accused of sexual assault
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by a woman who knew him, who worked with him,
who was around him. You know, remember when it was
what does she have to gain accusing a Democrat who's
going to be president of sexual assault? You really got
nothing to gain because your life is going to be ruined.
You'd never even hear about that anymore. Do creepy Joe
sniffing women's heads, grabbing them, touching them, saying weird city.
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I have never met a stranger and held her head
from behind and kissed her head and sniffed her hair.
That is a weird old move. Joe Biden did that.
That's a matter of record. That's not even that's not
even an alligation. He apologized for that, but not not
an issue to say nothing about Joe Biden. It doesn't matter. See.
One of the things about Trump was that he was
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blowing out into the open the truth that we had
known about the Democrats for so long. When he would
say things like, you know, I could shoot somebody on
Fifth Avenue, and you know, my supporters would stay with me,
and the Democrats all lost their minds about that. A
lot of Trump supporters said, look, he's obviously exaggerating a
little bit, or he's you know, he's trying to make
a point. It's hyperbole. But that has always been true
about Democrats, Bill Clinton, going down the whole list. It's
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always been true that they can do whatever they want
as long as they're useful for the power of the
people on the Democrats side. And the same thing as
very much true or Cuomo. We're seeing this play out
in real time. Very I was gonna say, it's discouraging,
that's not even really true. This is who the Democrats are.
There's no surprise here. None of you are sitting around saying,
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wait a second, they're really unethical. They'll lie about Kavanaugh,
and then they'll defend Kavanaugh, who's clearly innocent, and then
and then defend Cuomo until they can't. They just they
couldn't hold it back anymore. It's like Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein
was a big friend of the Obama He was a
big donor to the Democrats, you know, you see, and
then eventually they're like, oh, there's too many allegations, too
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much stuff comes out. So then they you know, like
like an old horse getting sent to the glue factory.
That's what they do with Weinstein, with Cuomo, you know, Sorry,
you're more useful now for us to do some virtue
signaling and pretend like we're an honest press. They don't
take these people down when it matters. They don't take
them down when they're actually going to politically lose as
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a result of it. Get on the whole list. Everybody
knew Charlie Rose with the crusty claw. I love that law,
and that was a crusty claw, Matie. You know Charlie
Rose was grabbing. I heard about Charlie Rose being an
old creepster. I mean like twenty years ago when I
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was working at CBSC. If you news, everyone's always known
that guy was an old creepster. You can own this list,
all all these prominent democrats that it took so long
and then finally and then they want to plus because
the media finally covers the story. No, when they were powerful,
when they were necessary to carry the message for the left,
they were protecting the same things. True a Cuomo here,
But you listen to these young women. Look, we also
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all know. We sit there and you see these women
talking about this, and you go, yeah, they're telling the truth.
You know, we can actually make these guys sometimes you
don't know sometimes it's kind of hard. Sometimes it feels
like he said, she said, no, this is she said,
and she's telling the truth. And she said, and she said,
because they're a handful of them, they're telling the truth.
Do the Democrats really care? What's fascinated, of course, is
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they actually do care about the sexual harassment more than
they do the order to send seniors into nursing homes,
which undoubtedly put more of them at risk and killed
more seniors than would have otherwise died. They care more
about uncouth inappropriate comments said to women. He didn't, you know,
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he didn't sexually assault anybody. I mean, there are there
are some things Cuomo did not do, but I mean,
he clearly likes young women and tries to use his
power as a means of getting them into bed with him.
And now it's come out, and that is what the
media is hoisting them up and destroying him over. That's
what they're hoisting them up over. Not's the seniors and
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the nursing homes, because that goes after much more than
just one man being a lecterous old fool. That goes
to something else, goes to the way the media lied
about COVID in so many ways to defeat Donald Trump
in twenty twenty. The only way I know how to
improve it is with a shredder. It's not even a
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coronavirus bill. Calming this a coronavirus bill is like calling
Harvey Weinstein a feminist. It's chock full of spending porn,
billions of dollars to states and local governments that have
seen the revenues go up. Billions of dollars to pension programs,
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billions of dollars to schools with no requirements that they open.
It's it's a it's an orgy of pork, an orgy
of pork, the senator, Senator Kennedy says here, it's like
calling Harvey Weinstein a feminist, Kennedy. Kennedy's definitely writing out
his lines beforehand, that's for sure. I don't also thought
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I was reminded of this because I mentioned Harvey Weinstein
before in the context of incredibly powerful, wealthy, influential democrats
who they cover for as long as they can, and
then they want applause when the person is no longer
useful to their cause and they, you know, throw them
to the wolves. This coronavirus bill, that is, I mean
it's not a COVID bill, it's just a Democrat spending bill.
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And we should come up with a better name for
one thing, that one thing. We're Republicans, I think continuous
continue to fall down on or or a major shortcoming
they have is we need catchy phrases for things too.
This is politics. We need shorthand, we need slogans, you know,
we need better ways of referring to some of these things,
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because the second you call this a COVID relief bill,
you're basically playing their game. The moment you concede with
that word, that one point nine trillion dollars sounds like
it's going toward helping people who have been so affected
by COVID. But nine percent of the actual bill does so.
Nine percent. I mean, if it were like sixty or
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seventy percent, I'd say, oh, you know, it's politics. They're
gonna put some other stuff in there. It's basically all
not COVID stuff. In fact, there's a whole there's there's
provisions about, you know, additional spending for education, and most
of it doesn't even happen next year. It's built in,
it's layered in over years and years, tens of billions
of dollars. Oh, you mean the teachers unions want their
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payoffs and they want their prerogatives, and it really has
nothing to do with their safety. They're so scared. Yeah,
that's what I thought. Not a surprise, the tense of
a Biden administration and of a Democrat majority Congress acting
and even the most the most basic bipartisan fashion. I mean,
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that didn't last a day, did it. And Biden came
into office in his attitude, or I should say the
handlers around him and the special interests and the people
that are telling him what to do. The attitude was
we won, you lost, Go jump in a lake, you know,
go blankety blanking blank or blank. And we've seen nothing
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but that since then. And this is I think in
part of a hangover of the way that Donald Trump
psychologically broke the Left and they haven't put themselves back together.
I mean, you know, Humpty Dumpy, all the King's horses
and men can't put the Democrats fragile emotions back together again.
I mean, they're having a tough time here because Donald
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Trump came into office and made fun of them for
four years for being a bunch of shrill lib lunatics,
and now they want payback against against everybody else. There's
real anger out there. But you know, Ted Cruz notices
that they're not even pretending to be reaching the other side.
And you look at the way that Republicans passed real
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COVID bills with Democrat votes last year. It's actually possible, folks,
that's not some theoretical Democrats are going to put pass
this probably without a single Republican vote in the Senate.
And you know, who knows how the House is going
to go play ten. We're getting ready to go through
an unfortunate bit of political theater. And the reason for
that is that the Democrats have made the decision to
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be hard partisans rather than to work together in a
bipartisan manner. Last year, Congress passed five separate COVID relief bills.
Every one of them was bipartisan. So it's not just
empty words. Republicans here have demonstrated that we are ready
and willing to roll up our sleeves and work together
in a bipartisan manner to address COVID, to defeat this pandemic,
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and to get people back to work. Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer,
and Nancy Close could have done the same, but they
made a decision instead. This is not a COVID bill.
Nine percent of this bill focuses on COVID health spending
is a partisan wish list paying off the Democratic special
interests that brought them elect And it's cynical. It's got
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Chuck Schumer's bridge to Canada. The last I checked, a
bridge to Canada is not going to defeat COVID. It
is not. Sorry Canada, that's not the way it's going
to work. But Republicans did buy partisan things to help
the country during COVID. Democrats won't do that now why.
And what we are doing is building the capacity to
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address the needs of those children. And we are guided
by some core principles. Number one, we act in the
best interests of the children, and we act in the
best interests of the American people. And thirdly, we adhere
to our values and principles as a country. And so
in fact, the numbers are si magnificant. The challenge is significant. Yeah,
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and our plans are well underway as we build the
capacity to address the needs of the children, and we
are rebuilding from scratch. Oh, it's all about the children.
What's Buck's law of politics for Democrats, the moment they
tell you it's about the children, you're being lied to. Okay,
just remember that it's always true. The moment they say
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it's for the children, the moment Nancy Pelosi comes out,
you know, with her Chanelle scarf loosely draped around her
mouth because she cares so much about COVID and goes
the children. Indeed, ye know, we're gonna get get them
the things that they need. Yeah, that's because they've got
something else going on. Why do we have a what
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is he saying now, DHS Secretary of Mayorcas a significant
challenge at the border. Why do we have this because
of the Biden administration. That's why we have a huge
spike in people coming to the border. They are literal
early wearing Biden T shirts. Okay, can we make this
anymore clear? Illegal immigrants are showing up and wearing T
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shirts that say Biden let us in at the border.
I think we know why they're showing up. And Democrats
are already I mean, House Democrats are already pushing bills,
trying to get bills ready to go for mass amnesty.
I said, I've said this all along you know, policy,
I'm good at predicting elections. I don't think anybody can
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really predict elections, but policy I can usually see coming.
But we're going to have to have a whole reckoning
here as a country about what's going on with our
immigration policy right now, because this is about to be
the central fight. And really what you're going to start
to you're gonna start to see is that they want
open borders because sovereignty is for suckers. Sovereignty a nation
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that can control its borders that requires effort. You know,
it's much better create incentives for people to come and
give them even more incentives when they stay to vote
for one political party, and you effectively create and a
voter base of anybody from anywhere around the world who
feels like coming to America and availing themselves of all
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of the benefits of being here illegally. Right, we're supposed
to have a process for all of this. I mean,
as Milton Friedman said, it is one thing to have
free immigration to jobs. It's another thing to have free
immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. You can
have a welfare state or you can have open immigration
for jobs. You have both you've got a big problem.
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Do you think we have a bit of a welfare
state in this country? Is it fair to say? But
this has been a long time in coming, As you know,
the dominant liberal media narrative on immigration has been a
series of shifting lies for about the last forty years.
In the Trump era, the main leftists argument on immigration
shifted into outright moral blackmail from the left. This is
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what this is how it would always go. You know this,
if you ever tried to talk to somebody about immigration policy,
this is how it happens. Do you have a problem
with a million illegal arrivals from a Central America? You
must be racist, they say to you. If you ask
any questions about who will pay for these new illegal
arrivals in terms of the benefits and welfare, that's a
racist question to ask. If you wonder how social Security
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and Medicare will remain viable programs when millions of illegal
aliens will need similar benefits when they reach retirement age,
it's racist to even consider such things. It's just always
about how it's always racist and xenophobic. You're not allowed
to ask any questions based on, oh, I don't know
the simple math of how are we going to pay
for this? Who's gonna pay for this? How's this all
going to go. That's more or less the extent of
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the intellectual discourse you can expect from leftists on the
issue of illegal immigration, because they much prefer to engage
in ad hominem attacks against anybody who has a problem
with open borders. It's so much easier. As you know,
illegal alien is a term that appears in the federal
legal Code. Many times leftists now say that it is hateful,
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and they're actually in the process of changing this. They
might have already changed it by the time I talk
to you. In the federal code. It's hateful to say
words that are written in federal law when it comes
to immigration. But they were. They used to insist on
illegal immigrant, but they disliked the fact that there was
illegal in there. So if you're gonna call something illegal,
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you're kind of admitting it's against the law. That's a problem.
So then they moved on to the more orwellian term undocumented,
which is absurdly vague and inaccurate. They have documents somewhere
they're not undocumented. They just don't have documents that say
you're legally allowed to be in the United States. Calling
an illegal alien undocumented is like calling a trespasser a
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pre invite guest. Now keep in mind, this phraseology fight
is coming to us after decades of brainwashing the American
people with platitudes meant to conflate legal and illegal immigration
to misleads citizens about the costs of illegals and pretend
the problem was less massive all along than in reality
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it is. Loaded misleading claims like America is a nation
of immigrants, and immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do,
have become second nature for many American commentators, in particular
news anchors policy analysts. They say these things as though
they are written in the Constitution itself. I mean, CNN
actually seems to believe that Emma Lazarus's Great Colossus poem
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on the base of the Statue of Liberty is the
foundation of federal immigration law. You know the poem. For
anybody who doesn't know this, Just so you're clear, the
poem was for a fundraiser. The plaque is there for tourists. Okay,
that's where the Great Colossus bone. You know, and give
me you're tired, you're hungry, or I don't remember all
the poem, but you get it. Historically, ellis Island was
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actually a place where immigrants could be rejected on the
spot after a week's long transatlantic journey. You got about
two percent of all new immigrants as island were for
medical or mental health reasons, told to go back on
the boat and go home. So people were turned away
even at Ellas Island. Not a lot, but there were
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people turned away. The Leafe's rewriting of immigration history isn't
simply an academic matter. It's been used to create narratives
that support illegal immigration at the expense of rule of
law and sovereignty. So that's now it's at the point
where we have to see what's going to come next,
what's going to happen. We are at the extremes now,
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We are at the phase where we would have to
think about what becomes of this country when there's another
mass legalization. Remember we had a mass legalization under Ronald
Reagan in nineteen eighty six, and they said it would
only be whatever. It was a couple million, and then
there was going to be very secure border and no
more illegal immigration. We got the amnesty, and then we
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got millions and millions more illegal immigrants in the country.
And you know, if all of this is fine, if
it means if it is meaningless, as the left now pretends,
why do we even pretend there's a thing called assimilation?
Why have immigration laws at all? If immigration, including illegal immigration,
if illegal immigration is only good, if it is only
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upside And there are some radical libertarian think tank types
who will always say that right, oh the more, if
we could take them, if we could take five hundred
million people from China the United States tomorrow, it would
make us wealthier, That's what they'll tell you. It'll be
a better country then, to which I say, okay, if
five hundred million Chinese arrived in America tomorrow, which I
know that's not going to happen, but we're just as
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a thought experiment, would it still be America? It's still
the same country. Don't we have cultures, norms, more rays,
shared history, tradition. Doesn't all that come from being here
and being an American? And that we have an assimilation
process for people to become American over time. But you know,
when you show up yere illegally, and you know the
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first day you step on us soil, you're not an American.
You're not by law, and you're not by any other definition.
So how do we actually view this as a society.
These are the conversations we have to have. And then,
of course there's the the question of the official count
as of twenty seventeen. They were saying, and it's it's
true now too. I mean, I just have the twenty
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seventeen number in front of me, but they'll say about
eleven point seven million illegal aliens the United States. But
that figure is an estimate based on voluntary census data.
That's right, it's all census data they're using. The real
number of illegal aliens is probably much much higher. Right.
There were those math nerds at Yale, and I say
math nerds with reverence, just a couple of years ago
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they did a PhD project and they looked at all
the available data and these are you know, these are
math whizzes, and they estimated the number of legal aliens
was more like twenty million, which is close to double
the official figures. It's pretty remarkable when you see that.
We're told the number has stayed constant. Illegal aliens has
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stayed constant for like the last ten or fifteen years.
Net migration zero. You hear all these things. Meanwhile, when
I've been down on the border and talk to border patrol,
members of border patrol, you know what they say, that's ridiculous.
We're catching illegals crossing over all the time, and illegals
aren't in large numbers going back to where they came from,
especially if they come from Pakistan or China or the
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Philippines or wherever they're not they're not coming, they're not
going back to their home countries. The once they get here,
they stay. But we can't even we cannot have an
honest discussion about immigration in this country. And again it
see even just the notion of immigration. I'm talking about
illegal immigration. We can't have an honest discussion about it
because that would mean the left won't get its way
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quite as easily. But do you see how they're ramming
through this spending bill in the Congress. See how their
plans now or to just continue doing exactly what they want,
doesn't matter what the Republicans think. That's the plan for
amnesty too, That's how they're going to ram through amnesty.
This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to
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your podcasts. Cuomo advisors altered report on COVID nineteen nursing
home debts. That was the story in the Wall Street
Journal just yesterday. I want to make sure that we
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all focus in on this because I know the media
is spending a lot of time on the sexual harassment
allegations about Cuomo. And that's fine, he's a creepy old weirdo.
I get it. I'm with you on all that. But
what he did in the nursing home fiasco was far
more egregious as a matter of public conduct, and far
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more damaging to the Democrat party and brand and the
media too. That's a mega scandal, not not a thing
that can be apologized for, not a thing that you
can just wave aside with a hand and a few
tears and say, oh the other times, I promise, that's
not the way this works. We need to continue to
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hammer home the point here that Cuomo had people on
his staff intentionally change numbers about deaths during a pandemic.
This would be like a general lying about troops killed
in battle so he could keep his job. That's how
serious this is. You have to understand the degree to
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which this change thinking and this mattered at this period
in time of extremely important and tense decision making. Maybe
people would have thought differently about, Oh, I don't know,
the great Barrington Declaration about focused protection for seniors if
they had known just how egregious the government misconduct, how
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awful the decision making was in New York. Remember New
York and New Jersey number two and number one, respectively
for COVID death per one hundred thousand people in the
United States, both very deep blue Democrats states. Let's remember that.
And yet somehow Cuomo was a hero. He was second
only to Fauci, to whom I can only say he
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needs to go Fauci himself, second only to Fauci in
terms of the hero worship from the media. What the
heck was this all about? How did this even happen?
There's so much going on here. First of all, you
have the fact that if you're a Democrat, you can
get away with things that you would never be able
to if this were a Republican. Imagine this were Christy Gnome.
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Imagine this were Ron Descantists. If Ron Descantists hid fifteen
thousand nursing home deaths by by undercounting it by fifty percent,
So whatever they said it was roughly you got seventy
five hundred. Let's say something along that along those lines.
If he said that it was seventy five hundred, it
was really fifteen thousand. People would be demanding not only
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he resigned. And when I say people, I mean universal.
There would be universal, nationwide condemnation. In the media. It
would be the top story. And there's just this kind
of muted, halfhearted reportage on it from the Democrat outlets.
You know, yeah, it looks like maybe a crazy thing happened.
Man Cuomo was undercounting nursing home deaths by I don't know,
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like fifty percent or something. Wow, they really don't math
so good over in the Cuomo office, do they. Yeah,
tough to do addition and subtraction. This mattered immensely. And
if this were a Rhonda Santists, it would be the
number one news story. I mean, you know, you remember
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when during the Bush administration there was that misconduct in
Abu Grabe and that was on the front page of
the newspaper day after day after day after day, and
I remember being a pretty young guy at the time
and saying, Wow, So this is how you make a
story really stick. This is how you really tear down
an administration with the story. I mean, George Bush wasn't
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giving that order, but Abu Gray was on the front
page of the newspaper of the New York Times, for example,
I want to say twenty out of thirty days or
something like that. It was a long time ago, but
it was so much coverage of it, just saturation saturation coverage,
And they could do the same thing with promo. This
is a really big deal. We've had Democrats and we've
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had the corporate media lecturing us month after month after
month about listening to the data, obeying the science, doing
what Fauci tells us, and the hero of the pandemic
was actually the villain. And we're not supposed to think
that this is indicative of broader problems and the way
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they approached this whole thing in twenty twenty. We're not
supposed to make the connection that clearly they were willing
to go along with this in part because they knew
that Cuomo was a useful weapon against Donald Trump in
the election year. That Orange man bad who liked hydroxychloroquin
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as an idea, and you know, wasn't running around quadruple
masking that maybe they were a little bit unfair to
the point of sheer dishonesty about Trump in the election
year and were willing to prop up people like Cuomo.
Here's this piece the Wall Street Journal New York's Andrew Cuomo.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's top advisors successfully pushed state
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health officials to strip a public health report of data
showing that more nursing home residents had died of COVID
nineteen than the administration had acknowledged. The July report, which
examined the factors that led to the spread of the
virus in nursing homes, focused only on residents who died
inside long term care facilities, leaving out those who had
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died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing home. As
a result, the report said six thousand, four hundred and
thirty two nursing home residents had died, a significant undercount
of the death toll attributed to the state's most vulnerable population.
The people said. The initial version of the report said
nearly ten thousand nursing home residents had died in New
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York by July late last year. One of the people said,
according to those with knowledge of the report, unbelievable. They
went from ten thousand to six hours. That's a pretty
big difference, isn't it. Why would they do that well,
because they knew that that number would really shock people,
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and they knew that other states that also have senior
citizens would be a point of comparison. And what they're
now going to be able to do is say, hold
on a second. The data was fudged here in a
way that was meant to prevent accurate comparison. How can
you know whether your public health officials? How could you
know whether your governor is doing a good job when
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they're lying about the very data that they claim is
supporting their position. And let me tell you this right now,
this is not the only instance. It may be the
most egregious, but the only instance of fraud through numbers
manipulation during this pandemic. We will find more of this.
There are other cases where people either cherry pick numbers,
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and I'm talking about governor's state health officials, maybe even
Fauci himself. They cherry pick data to fit a preferred
narrative and suppressed anything that challenged what they wanted the
people to believe. If this were if Chromo were the
CEO of a publicly traded company, or any company for
that matter, if Chromo were the CEO of a private corporation,
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this kind of activity of hiding numbers like this, if
they were profit numbers, for example. I mean, if he
were cooking the books, he'd be facing prison time. But
he cooked the books in eventually on deaths during a pandemic,
when decisions were being made that were directly affecting and
in some cases, as we see now, causing those deaths,
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and we're supposed to just forget about it, no big deal.
Everybody was doing their best. Cuomo was giving us such
great press conferences. His brother over at CNN was doing
such funny stuff with him at night. They should have
had a duo show. Well, I guess they did. These
are the people, these are the voices, These are the
platforms out there, all these different Democrat and Cuomo aligned
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groups and individuals who have been telling you all on
to trust them believe them, and they missed. And they
also slowed this down right. That was another part of it.
They were hoping to delay this, and they managed to
delay until after the election, which is why now they're
willing to finally let this all go. Why now you're
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seeing all the sexual harassment stories and you know there
are people who are actually sitting down to do interviews
with the accusers. All this is happening because Cuomo's extreme
usefulness has passed. You know, you see this with Cuomo,
it reminds me of what I believe will happen soon
with Joe Biden, where eventually the Democrats will no longer
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be able to prop up Hiden Biden, who's declining. We'll
figure out this guy really isn't up for this. It'll
be apparent, it'll be embarrassing, it'll be sad, and they'll say, oh, yeah, sorry,
I guess we missed that. But he beat Trump, didn't he.
This is how they play the game. It's the Harry
Reid approach to politics. Remember Harry Reid lied about Mitt
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Romney's tax returns. You know, I'm no Mitt Romney fan,
but when asked about this, just complete slander. Harry Reid
laughed and said he didn't win, did he? And he
was right. This is how democrats, this is how your
corporate media approaches their job. They are on a team.
They have picked a side, and in this case of
Governor Cuomo, the side they picked was lying about thousands
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and thousands of deaths and causing Remember it's not just
that they were embarrassed by the number. I mean, to
understand the full scope of this, you have to recognize
that Cuomo, because of his unthinkably stupid decision to try
to clear out hospital space faster by forcing COVID positive
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patients back into nursing homes, he caused more of these deaths.
You see, it wasn't just this number looks bad for
the state of New York. It's Cuomo made a decision,
and some of that decision making, or some of that
decisions ramifications, led to people's moms and dads, grandmas and
grandpa's dying in nursing homes, not allowed to see their
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family members, maybe allowed a last zoom call. It is
awful beyond words. But he was telling you, he was
giving you lectures, and even if you don't live in
New York, he doesn't care. He was America's lecturer in
chief during COVID. That's what Cuomo was. He was telling you,
if you don't mask up, you might kill somebody. You
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might cause somebody else's family member, loved one to die.
How dare you do exactly what Cuomo says or else
talk about what psychologists would call projection. This is so
far the biggest scanalthough there are many, and there's going
to be a lot more accountability that we have to
force on the lockdowners as we have more data and
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more of the truth can finally come out. But what
Cuomo did was the most appalling decision and the most
dishonest aftermath of any major policy choice of the entire
COVID nineteen pandemic. And we're finding out about it now.
We will not let this go by the way. I've
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known about this for months. You've known about this for months.
It's been reported the New York Post. Now we just
have more and more information. It looks even worse than
we thought. The mainstream media is finally touching on this.
The mainstream media has finally come around do it because
it served its purpose to suppress it when they did.
But do not forget this Cuomo lied, seniors died. That
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is what happened. The Democrat Party should own this. They
are responsible for this, and the corporate media's credibility is
even further sullied if that was even a thing, that's possible.
Just how much did the media love the love Gov
Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Cuomo sexuals, remember that that was
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a thing for a while. People were walking around with
t shirts on such a hero. He's such an eligible bachelor.
Oh gosh, people were batting their eyelashes at Cuomo because
he was so amazing. He was keeping us safe. The
guy's a thug, a bully, and a liar, the worst
of politics, and also a sexual harasser on top of
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all of that, which we will also get to here
he is according to the media over the course of this. Really,
I really want you to just sit back and take
all this in. Remember Cuomo live, seniors died. Cuomo made
an unthinkably stupid bullying decision, threatened nursing homes, basically used
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his pandemic superpower or ultra authoritarianism and superpower sounds like
he's a hero, but use the authoritarian emergency powers. There
we go that he had and then lied about it
when it was a disaster afterwards, and then tried to
shame everybody else who wouldn't keep listening to him. This
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is what you're the guardians of our republic, right the
Fourth Estate. This is what they were saying about all
of it. Play too, playing bye for Governor Cuomo's Press
convers Is Daily Briefing, David, We're sitting by for Governor
Cuomo's Press convers Is Daily Briefing. How would you contrast
Cuomo and President Trump's handling the crisis, truth versus mendacity.
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Governor Cuomo out there day after day after day. Everything
Trump isn't honest, direct, brave, real leadership. I'm the kind
of President of the United States should have provided. Governor
Cuomo is clearly living in a totally different reality, the
actual one, than the President of the United States. Governor
Cuomo has become a national leader for a lot of people.
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Andrew Cuomo has become the leader of the Democratic Party.
He is conveying incredible strength. You spoke to National Guard
troops today in a stirring speech that if I wasn't
listening carefully, I thought you were sending soldiers off to war.
This has been a remarkable show of leadership by Governor
Cuomo in recent days. He's providing hope, but not false hope.
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Governor of Cuomo, I think, is one of the heroes
on the front lines. With all of this adulation that
you're getting for doing your job, are you thinking about
running for president? Andrew Cuomo, who has a daily television
show now and has become in some way as the
shadow president. Maybe Trump is just a little bit mad
that Governor Cuomo has become a kind of acting president.
Dealing with hardship actually makes you stronger. That's what Governor
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Cuomo said earlier today. That's what I'm gonna go teach
my kids right now at home. Brian Stelter, that guy
is Oh my god, It's like the equivalent of pouring
estrogen in your ear or something. I mean, this guy is.
It's unbelievable. I gotta tell you that that to me.
I listened to this and I just I just shiver.
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It's just so gross. The whole thing is so obtuse
and absurd. What what was going through their mind? Oh well,
we know, notice how many clips we can pull of
them saying unlike Trump, Cuomo is great. Unlike Trump, Cuomo
speaks the truth. That's that they're just their brains were
fixated on this, fixated on this. You know, an honest
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assessment of Trump during the pandemic would start with he
basically did everything foul. She told them too. When I
spoke to the President in May in the Oval Office,
the one thing he actually shook my hand in promise.
The one thing that I asked. I said, sir, please
don't allow for there to be a federal push, a
national push for and across the board lockdown. Let's not
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And he said, I totally agree. I get it. He
had been listening to Fauci a lot up to that point.
He'd been listening to Fauci, and we've all seen what
the results are. Remember, this is going to be treated
like it's an objective discussion about the data and what's
best for the country. But really, as you see from
the teachers unions, this is about what is best for
different individuals, their power, their money. They don't want honesty
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about what's happened during this pandemic. They certainly don't want
accountability for people that we're propping up liars, frauds and
thugs like Andrew Cuomo. I mean, the fact that this guy,
I would put money on it right now, is going
to finish his term as governor. He will not resign
and they will not impeach him just shows you how
more lead decrepit. The Democrat Party in the state of
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New York and across the country is they're gonna let
this guy stay. If he stays, who goes? And let's
just remember this, They're not going to impeach. Democrats will
not impeach Governor Cuomo, but they impeach Trump twice. The
first time and I know this was in Congress, but
the first time over a phone call to the Ukrainian
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president where nothing happened. Cuomo sent seniors to die in
nursing homes like a moron because he thought he was
so smart and he was drunk with power, and then
he lied about it to everybody. If that doesn't make
you resign, what does. Governor Cuomo said that he has
never propositioned anybody. Do you believe that he was propositioning you? Yes?
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For what sex? And then he explains at that point
that he is looking for a girlfriend, he's lonely, he's tired.
You've just finished dictation and the Governor is telling you
he's lonely and looking for a relationship. Yes, you have
been quoted as saying that. He also asked you about
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if you'd ever been with an older man. Yeah, he
asked me if age difference mattered. He also explained that
he was fine with anyone over twenty two and how
old are you? Twenty five? What were you thinking as
he's asking you these questions. I thought he's trying to
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sleep with me. The Governor is trying to sleep with me,
and I'm deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out
of this room as soon as possible. And to be clear,
what made you think that he was trying to sleep
with you? Without explicitly saying it, he implied to me
that I was old enough for him, and he was lonely.
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He was trying to sleep with her. Can we all
just state the obvious year together? I mean, that's none
of us have been in the workplace and had conversations
and you know, maybe you know, shared some of our
personal live with friends or colleagues or whatever, but we
also know when you're the governor of New York and
you have a twenty five year old attractive female who's
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alone with you, and you're talking about the age at
which you're willing to have a sexual relationship and your
need for a sexual like short of drawing a map
or like producing some kind of a contract with his
expectations at her expectator, Like this is pretty clear. It's
entirely credible. All these women who have come forward, these
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are credible allegations. You know, we could go back to
the Kavanaugh era, remember, and they kept saying credible allegations
ends Kavanaugh, and I was completely losing my mind over this.
I mean I was, I was furious. I mean, this
is what I said. A lot of us became wartime
conservatives during Kavanaugh because we saw that there was honestly
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no there was no floor, there was no basement of
moral depravity. The Democrats, including Kamala Harris by the way,
leading the charge there in the Senate, don't ever forget
that that there was no low. The Democrats would not
god to destroy somebody for politics, that they would lie
just in the most it was just the most mendacious, disgusting, idiotic,
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obviously untrue garbage about Brett Cavanaugh. It was, and any
person who doesn't see that, it's just not very smart.
It's not possible to look at all that not possible
to look at the three accusers, including the third accuser
who's like giggling and talking about gang rape that she
saw when she came back from college. I mean, the
whole the whole thing or Julie Sweatnick was her name,
The whole thing was so absurd. Avanti Avanati is It
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isn't amazing to see. He was the hero of CNN
at the time. Don't you see a pattern here? When
you were useful against Trump, if you were a wet
up in against Donald Trump, you were given this this
cloak of invincibility and the elevation. You were treated like
a conquering hero. It didn't matter how disgusting you were.
Michael Avanati is the ultimate slimy lawyer. He makes Michael
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Cohen Trump's good friend for a while, unfortunately makes Michael
Cohen look like an ethical council. Avanati was stealing millions
from a paralyzed client. That guy was on TV. He
was on CNN I think more than any other guest
over a period of two months. It was as though
he was he was paid to anchor a show. He
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was on all the time and he went forward with
obvious lies about Brett Kavanaugh. But I digress. You know
that that whole thing gets me so fired up, and
I'll never forget. I had people, I had a CNN
anchor reach out to me directly and say, you've got
to stop what you're saying about Kavanaugh. You're going to
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destroy your career. And people on our side who think
you're smart but don't agree with you will never take
you seriously again. And I restrain myself from actually writing,
you know, go fauci yourself, but I thought about it.
I did tell them to, you know, leave, like, don't
ever reach out to me again, and you're out of
your mind. I think something like that was what I wrote.
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And yeah, we have not had any context since, but
that was the mentality. It was all hands on deck
to destroy an innocent man because it was necessary. They
thought that was moral. You see, that's the problem with
the left. They believe that morality is entirely situational, that
there's no universal truth, there's no natural law. It's just
whatever they need when they need it. That's a central
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principle of the left. That's if they have a principle.
The principle is there's no such thing as a principle.
But they kept saying, I'll bring this back to Quomaa.
They kept talking about the need or that kept talking
about the credibility of the allegations against Kavanaugh, and they
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figured if they repeated it enough, well keeps getting called credible,
it must be. It would be difficult to come up
with a less credible allegation than the one that. Yes,
even you know the professor who leveled or you know
the psychologist who leveled against Kavanaugh, she couldn't prove. She
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couldn't prove that she ever even met him, Christine Blasi
Ford couldn't prove that she even ever met him, had
no details, no corroboration, no nothing, and had lied about
things like she was afraid to fly unless she's going
to Cabo, then flying as fine, right? I mean, the
whole thing was such a scam, such a fraud. If
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that's a credible allegation, me saying that I assassinated Abraham
Lincoln's a credible allegation. I'm sorry, do you can you
prove that I don't have a time machine? Do you
know that for a fact? You don't know me? I
might have a time machine? You don't know, right, that's
the level of credibility we're talking about with the allegations
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against Kavanaugh absurdity. But these allegations against Cuomo, everything lines up,
everything is exactly. There's a pattern, the same kind of
pattern everyone knows, and there were whispers about it before too.
The word always gets out a little bit about these things, right,
word always comes out, And nobody was really surprised by this.
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That's what's so amazing. The Democrats protected him as long
as they could. They propped this jerk up as long
as it was feasible for them, and as long as
it was advantageous. That's the big difference. As long as
it was an advantage for them, they propped this guy up.
And here we are, here we are. I gotta tell you,
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the fact that he's not going to resign is so troubling.
But also in an their sense, he's an excellent reminder
of how of how corrupt Democrats are with all of
these things, and how two faced they are, and how
it's all just about power for them. You know, meet
me two things, right, I mean, first of all, let's
not forget Joe Biden was credibly accused of sexual assault
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by a woman who knew him, who worked with him,
who was around him. You know, remember when it was
what does she have to gain accusing a Democrat who's
going to be president of sexual assault? You really got
nothing to gain because your life is going to be ruined.
You'd never even hear about that anymore. Do creepy Joe
sniffing women's heads, grabbing them, touching them, saying weird city.
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I have never met a stranger and held her head
from behind and kissed her head and sniffed her hair.
That is a weird old move. Joe Biden did that.
That's a matter of record. That's not even that's not
even an alligation. He apologized for that, but not not
an issue to say nothing about Joe Biden. It doesn't matter. See.
One of the things about Trump was that he was
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blowing out into the open the truth that we had
known about the Democrats for so long. When he would
say things like, you know, I could shoot somebody on
Fifth Avenue, and you know, my supporters would stay with me,
and the Democrats all lost their minds about that. A
lot of Trump supporters said, look, he's obviously exaggerating a
little bit, or he's you know, he's trying to make
a point. It's hyperbole. But that has always been true
about Democrats, Bill Clinton, going down the whole list. It's
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always been true that they can do whatever they want
as long as they're useful for the power of the
people on the Democrats side. And the same thing as
very much true or Cuomo. We're seeing this play out
in real time. Very I was gonna say, it's discouraging,
that's not even really true. This is who the Democrats are.
There's no surprise here. None of you are sitting around saying,
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wait a second, they're really unethical. They'll lie about Kavanaugh,
and then they'll defend Kavanaugh, who's clearly innocent, and then
and then defend Cuomo until they can't. They just they
couldn't hold it back anymore. It's like Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein
was a big friend of the Obama He was a
big donor to the Democrats, you know, you see, and
then eventually they're like, oh, there's too many allegations, too
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much stuff comes out. So then they you know, like
like an old horse getting sent to the glue factory.
That's what they do with Weinstein, with Cuomo, you know, Sorry,
you're more useful now for us to do some virtue
signaling and pretend like we're an honest press. They don't
take these people down when it matters. They don't take
them down when they're actually going to politically lose as
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a result of it. Get on the whole list. Everybody
knew Charlie Rose with the crusty claw. I love that law,
and that was a crusty claw, Matie. You know Charlie
Rose was grabbing. I heard about Charlie Rose being an
old creepster. I mean like twenty years ago when I
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was working at CBSC. If you news, everyone's always known
that guy was an old creepster. You can own this list,
all all these prominent democrats that it took so long
and then finally and then they want to plus because
the media finally covers the story. No, when they were powerful,
when they were necessary to carry the message for the left,
they were protecting the same things. True a Cuomo here,
But you listen to these young women. Look, we also
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all know. We sit there and you see these women
talking about this, and you go, yeah, they're telling the truth.
You know, we can actually make these guys sometimes you
don't know sometimes it's kind of hard. Sometimes it feels
like he said, she said, no, this is she said,
and she's telling the truth. And she said, and she said,
because they're a handful of them, they're telling the truth.
Do the Democrats really care? What's fascinated, of course, is
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they actually do care about the sexual harassment more than
they do the order to send seniors into nursing homes,
which undoubtedly put more of them at risk and killed
more seniors than would have otherwise died. They care more
about uncouth inappropriate comments said to women. He didn't, you know,
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he didn't sexually assault anybody. I mean, there are there
are some things Cuomo did not do, but I mean,
he clearly likes young women and tries to use his
power as a means of getting them into bed with him.
And now it's come out, and that is what the
media is hoisting them up and destroying him over. That's
what they're hoisting them up over. Not's the seniors and
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the nursing homes, because that goes after much more than
just one man being a lecterous old fool. That goes
to something else, goes to the way the media lied
about COVID in so many ways to defeat Donald Trump
in twenty twenty. The only way I know how to
improve it is with a shredder. It's not even a
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coronavirus bill. Calming this a coronavirus bill is like calling
Harvey Weinstein a feminist. It's chock full of spending porn,
billions of dollars to states and local governments that have
seen the revenues go up. Billions of dollars to pension programs,
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billions of dollars to schools with no requirements that they open.
It's it's a it's an orgy of pork, an orgy
of pork, the senator, Senator Kennedy says here, it's like
calling Harvey Weinstein a feminist, Kennedy. Kennedy's definitely writing out
his lines beforehand, that's for sure. I don't also thought
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I was reminded of this because I mentioned Harvey Weinstein
before in the context of incredibly powerful, wealthy, influential democrats
who they cover for as long as they can, and
then they want applause when the person is no longer
useful to their cause and they, you know, throw them
to the wolves. This coronavirus bill, that is, I mean
it's not a COVID bill, it's just a Democrat spending bill.
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And we should come up with a better name for
one thing, that one thing. We're Republicans, I think continuous
continue to fall down on or or a major shortcoming
they have is we need catchy phrases for things too.
This is politics. We need shorthand, we need slogans, you know,
we need better ways of referring to some of these things,
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because the second you call this a COVID relief bill,
you're basically playing their game. The moment you concede with
that word, that one point nine trillion dollars sounds like
it's going toward helping people who have been so affected
by COVID. But nine percent of the actual bill does so.
Nine percent. I mean, if it were like sixty or
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seventy percent, I'd say, oh, you know, it's politics. They're
gonna put some other stuff in there. It's basically all
not COVID stuff. In fact, there's a whole there's there's
provisions about, you know, additional spending for education, and most
of it doesn't even happen next year. It's built in,
it's layered in over years and years, tens of billions
of dollars. Oh, you mean the teachers unions want their
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payoffs and they want their prerogatives, and it really has
nothing to do with their safety. They're so scared. Yeah,
that's what I thought. Not a surprise, the tense of
a Biden administration and of a Democrat majority Congress acting
and even the most the most basic bipartisan fashion. I mean,
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that didn't last a day, did it. And Biden came
into office in his attitude, or I should say the
handlers around him and the special interests and the people
that are telling him what to do. The attitude was
we won, you lost, Go jump in a lake, you know,
go blankety blanking blank or blank. And we've seen nothing
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but that since then. And this is I think in
part of a hangover of the way that Donald Trump
psychologically broke the Left and they haven't put themselves back together.
I mean, you know, Humpty Dumpy, all the King's horses
and men can't put the Democrats fragile emotions back together again.
I mean, they're having a tough time here because Donald
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Trump came into office and made fun of them for
four years for being a bunch of shrill lib lunatics,
and now they want payback against against everybody else. There's
real anger out there. But you know, Ted Cruz notices
that they're not even pretending to be reaching the other side.
And you look at the way that Republicans passed real
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COVID bills with Democrat votes last year. It's actually possible, folks,
that's not some theoretical Democrats are going to put pass
this probably without a single Republican vote in the Senate.
And you know, who knows how the House is going
to go play ten. We're getting ready to go through
an unfortunate bit of political theater. And the reason for
that is that the Democrats have made the decision to
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be hard partisans rather than to work together in a
bipartisan manner. Last year, Congress passed five separate COVID relief bills.
Every one of them was bipartisan. So it's not just
empty words. Republicans here have demonstrated that we are ready
and willing to roll up our sleeves and work together
in a bipartisan manner to address COVID, to defeat this pandemic,
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and to get people back to work. Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer,
and Nancy Close could have done the same, but they
made a decision instead. This is not a COVID bill.
Nine percent of this bill focuses on COVID health spending
is a partisan wish list paying off the Democratic special
interests that brought them elect And it's cynical. It's got
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Chuck Schumer's bridge to Canada. The last I checked, a
bridge to Canada is not going to defeat COVID. It
is not. Sorry Canada, that's not the way it's going
to work. But Republicans did buy partisan things to help
the country during COVID. Democrats won't do that now why.
And what we are doing is building the capacity to
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address the needs of those children. And we are guided
by some core principles. Number one, we act in the
best interests of the children, and we act in the
best interests of the American people. And thirdly, we adhere
to our values and principles as a country. And so
in fact, the numbers are si magnificant. The challenge is significant. Yeah,
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and our plans are well underway as we build the
capacity to address the needs of the children, and we
are rebuilding from scratch. Oh, it's all about the children.
What's Buck's law of politics for Democrats, the moment they
tell you it's about the children, you're being lied to. Okay,
just remember that it's always true. The moment they say
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it's for the children, the moment Nancy Pelosi comes out,
you know, with her Chanelle scarf loosely draped around her
mouth because she cares so much about COVID and goes
the children. Indeed, ye know, we're gonna get get them
the things that they need. Yeah, that's because they've got
something else going on. Why do we have a what
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is he saying now, DHS Secretary of Mayorcas a significant
challenge at the border. Why do we have this because
of the Biden administration. That's why we have a huge
spike in people coming to the border. They are literal
early wearing Biden T shirts. Okay, can we make this
anymore clear? Illegal immigrants are showing up and wearing T
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shirts that say Biden let us in at the border.
I think we know why they're showing up. And Democrats
are already I mean, House Democrats are already pushing bills,
trying to get bills ready to go for mass amnesty.
I said, I've said this all along you know, policy,
I'm good at predicting elections. I don't think anybody can
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really predict elections, but policy I can usually see coming.
But we're going to have to have a whole reckoning
here as a country about what's going on with our
immigration policy right now, because this is about to be
the central fight. And really what you're going to start
to you're gonna start to see is that they want
open borders because sovereignty is for suckers. Sovereignty a nation
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that can control its borders that requires effort. You know,
it's much better create incentives for people to come and
give them even more incentives when they stay to vote
for one political party, and you effectively create and a
voter base of anybody from anywhere around the world who
feels like coming to America and availing themselves of all
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of the benefits of being here illegally. Right, we're supposed
to have a process for all of this. I mean,
as Milton Friedman said, it is one thing to have
free immigration to jobs. It's another thing to have free
immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. You can
have a welfare state or you can have open immigration
for jobs. You have both you've got a big problem.
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Do you think we have a bit of a welfare
state in this country? Is it fair to say? But
this has been a long time in coming, As you know,
the dominant liberal media narrative on immigration has been a
series of shifting lies for about the last forty years.
In the Trump era, the main leftists argument on immigration
shifted into outright moral blackmail from the left. This is
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what this is how it would always go. You know this,
if you ever tried to talk to somebody about immigration policy,
this is how it happens. Do you have a problem
with a million illegal arrivals from a Central America? You
must be racist, they say to you. If you ask
any questions about who will pay for these new illegal
arrivals in terms of the benefits and welfare, that's a
racist question to ask. If you wonder how social Security
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and Medicare will remain viable programs when millions of illegal
aliens will need similar benefits when they reach retirement age,
it's racist to even consider such things. It's just always
about how it's always racist and xenophobic. You're not allowed
to ask any questions based on, oh, I don't know
the simple math of how are we going to pay
for this? Who's gonna pay for this? How's this all
going to go. That's more or less the extent of
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the intellectual discourse you can expect from leftists on the
issue of illegal immigration, because they much prefer to engage
in ad hominem attacks against anybody who has a problem
with open borders. It's so much easier. As you know,
illegal alien is a term that appears in the federal
legal Code. Many times leftists now say that it is hateful,
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and they're actually in the process of changing this. They
might have already changed it by the time I talk
to you. In the federal code. It's hateful to say
words that are written in federal law when it comes
to immigration. But they were. They used to insist on
illegal immigrant, but they disliked the fact that there was
illegal in there. So if you're gonna call something illegal,
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you're kind of admitting it's against the law. That's a problem.
So then they moved on to the more orwellian term undocumented,
which is absurdly vague and inaccurate. They have documents somewhere
they're not undocumented. They just don't have documents that say
you're legally allowed to be in the United States. Calling
an illegal alien undocumented is like calling a trespasser a
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pre invite guest. Now keep in mind, this phraseology fight
is coming to us after decades of brainwashing the American
people with platitudes meant to conflate legal and illegal immigration
to misleads citizens about the costs of illegals and pretend
the problem was less massive all along than in reality
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it is. Loaded misleading claims like America is a nation
of immigrants, and immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do,
have become second nature for many American commentators, in particular
news anchors policy analysts. They say these things as though
they are written in the Constitution itself. I mean, CNN
actually seems to believe that Emma Lazarus's Great Colossus poem
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on the base of the Statue of Liberty is the
foundation of federal immigration law. You know the poem. For
anybody who doesn't know this, Just so you're clear, the
poem was for a fundraiser. The plaque is there for tourists. Okay,
that's where the Great Colossus bone. You know, and give
me you're tired, you're hungry, or I don't remember all
the poem, but you get it. Historically, ellis Island was
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actually a place where immigrants could be rejected on the
spot after a week's long transatlantic journey. You got about
two percent of all new immigrants as island were for
medical or mental health reasons, told to go back on
the boat and go home. So people were turned away
even at Ellas Island. Not a lot, but there were
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people turned away. The Leafe's rewriting of immigration history isn't
simply an academic matter. It's been used to create narratives
that support illegal immigration at the expense of rule of
law and sovereignty. So that's now it's at the point
where we have to see what's going to come next,
what's going to happen. We are at the extremes now,
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We are at the phase where we would have to
think about what becomes of this country when there's another
mass legalization. Remember we had a mass legalization under Ronald
Reagan in nineteen eighty six, and they said it would
only be whatever. It was a couple million, and then
there was going to be very secure border and no
more illegal immigration. We got the amnesty, and then we
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got millions and millions more illegal immigrants in the country.
And you know, if all of this is fine, if
it means if it is meaningless, as the left now pretends,
why do we even pretend there's a thing called assimilation?
Why have immigration laws at all? If immigration, including illegal immigration,
if illegal immigration is only good, if it is only
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upside And there are some radical libertarian think tank types
who will always say that right, oh the more, if
we could take them, if we could take five hundred
million people from China the United States tomorrow, it would
make us wealthier, That's what they'll tell you. It'll be
a better country then, to which I say, okay, if
five hundred million Chinese arrived in America tomorrow, which I
know that's not going to happen, but we're just as
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a thought experiment, would it still be America? It's still
the same country. Don't we have cultures, norms, more rays,
shared history, tradition. Doesn't all that come from being here
and being an American? And that we have an assimilation
process for people to become American over time. But you know,
when you show up yere illegally, and you know the
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first day you step on us soil, you're not an American.
You're not by law, and you're not by any other definition.
So how do we actually view this as a society.
These are the conversations we have to have. And then,
of course there's the the question of the official count
as of twenty seventeen. They were saying, and it's it's
true now too. I mean, I just have the twenty
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seventeen number in front of me, but they'll say about
eleven point seven million illegal aliens the United States. But
that figure is an estimate based on voluntary census data.
That's right, it's all census data they're using. The real
number of illegal aliens is probably much much higher. Right.
There were those math nerds at Yale, and I say
math nerds with reverence, just a couple of years ago
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they did a PhD project and they looked at all
the available data and these are you know, these are
math whizzes, and they estimated the number of legal aliens
was more like twenty million, which is close to double
the official figures. It's pretty remarkable when you see that.
We're told the number has stayed constant. Illegal aliens has
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stayed constant for like the last ten or fifteen years.
Net migration zero. You hear all these things. Meanwhile, when
I've been down on the border and talk to border patrol,
members of border patrol, you know what they say, that's ridiculous.
We're catching illegals crossing over all the time, and illegals
aren't in large numbers going back to where they came from,
especially if they come from Pakistan or China or the
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Philippines or wherever they're not they're not coming, they're not
going back to their home countries. The once they get here,
they stay. But we can't even we cannot have an
honest discussion about immigration in this country. And again it
see even just the notion of immigration. I'm talking about
illegal immigration. We can't have an honest discussion about it
because that would mean the left won't get its way
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quite as easily. But do you see how they're ramming
through this spending bill in the Congress. See how their
plans now or to just continue doing exactly what they want,
doesn't matter what the Republicans think. That's the plan for
amnesty too, That's how they're going to ram through amnesty.
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