You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everyone. Oh my, that's right here. We are at a point where we now see the numbers for a COVID case is higher than they've been since April. We're seeing spikes in hospitalization, we're seeing high levels of day to day deaths from COVID nineteen.
And the people who were celebrating over the summer in places like California, celebrating what a great success they were in stopping this virus because of their masking and their lockdowns, now have no answer other than lockdown even more, do more of what we've said you have to do for months, and just ignore the fact that anyone who's observing what's happening here could not come away from this believing that
this stuff actually works. Now, that's not the same thing as saying that a mass cannot help you in any circumstance, or that if you stayed home and avoided all human contact you would be safe from the virus. I'm talking about government policy, government mandates, government's use of force to shut down your business and keep you in your home and limit your freedom of travel, your freedom to operate day to day. Is that working? Is it helpful? Or
does it just make everything worse? Does it take out of individual hands the right to make your own health decisions for a pandemic that the government clearly, flatly, obviously cannot stop. Can it be any more obvious? At this point? What else has to happen? New York, California. Places that have been touting how we came together listened to the science, That's what they were saying. Ard, did we stop listening to the science suddenly in the last sixty days, No,
we did not. Maybe there's another issue here. Maybe there's another problem. People are starting to see what's really happening here. They can't hide it from me anymore. So what they're gonna do is insist you obey and use force. They're going to send men with guns from sheriff's offices, local police departments, health department, and I don't know if they're
armed or not, depends on where you are. Maybe they're going to send people with the force of the state behind them to make you do things that aren't even provable as good ideas. That's what they're going to do, and we're all supposed to accept this. Now. Now you might say, well, buck, the government does a lot of things.
The government takes money for me in taxes. Yeah, but there are guarantees, you see, there are constitutional guarantees of due process, of equal protection of the free x size of religion, of freedom of assembly, and these have been completely trampled over by these idiot tyrants, who are overwhelmingly Democrats at the state and local level. They do it all across the country. It's terrible here in New York City.
It's awful in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta. Name a city, a major city with Democrat control, and I'll show you a place that has shown no ability whatsoever to control COVID nineteen, but wants even more authority, wants even more power now to make you submit, to make you obey. In stott An Island. This is one of the five boroughs of New York City, perhaps the least known, it's the least populated, and it has much more in common with New Jersey than Manhattan. Proper, great place. I like
Staton Island a lot. They had a bar owner bar and restaurant for Max Public House. I spoke to his lawyer last night. They had a rally where they just gathered together and they said enough is enough. Here's what they did to Max Public House. They sent sheriffs in because this guy had said on social media, I can't continue to have my business destroyed, So they send sheriffs in,
twenty of them. They arrested him. They arrested him and brought up multiple citations because he's in a red zone or an orange zone or whatever the color of the zone is. He's in a zone designated as too dangerous for indoor dining. But two blocks away there are other businesses, his competitors, who are in a more free zone on the same island, so they get to make money and feed their families. Max Public House does not. And he just says, this is capricious and arbitrary. This is bullcrap,
that's what it is. There's no science to justify this. There's no Oh, look at the data, it'll tell you. No. This is idiot politicians who can't control this thing, who have been wrong at every phase of the pandemic, who only view the answer as one thing. It's the same thing. Every time they do more, they do more stuff, they have more power, more infringements, more dictates, more mandates, and so the backlash in Staten Island has begun. Hundreds of
people gathered together there. What about other places, Well, you think of the states that have had the most extreme restrictions and have also been the states generally speaking with
the worst COVID results. California perhaps an exception, which I think has more to do with climate, meaning that the weather or not climate change, the weather in California and the fact that people aren't as densely populated even in the major cities there as they are on the East Coast and in some of the central Midwestern cities like Chicago and Detroit. But the states with the worst records dealing with COVID are New York, Michigan, New Jersey. These
are blue as blue can be places. Well, Michigan maybe a little less so, but Detroit is where most of the COVID cases we're happening, most of the fatalities, and California is now having a massive surge as we know. So we look at what's going on and we understand that the regulations, the rules that they put in place clearly have not had the intended effects, so you know what they're doing. They want more regulations as a result. Here is the mayor of Los Angeles who's just telling
you shut it down, shut it all down. Play six. The choices between us are stark, between health and sickness, between care and apathy, and yes, between life and death. For too many of the people that we love. My message couldn't be simpler. It's time to hunker down. It's time to cancel everything, and if it isn't essential, don't do it. Don't meet up with others outside your household,
don't host a gathering, don't attend a gathering. And, following our targeted safer at Home order, if you're able to stay home, stay home. This is equivalent to a public official telling you you really just stop living your life. And keep in mind they'll say for a week or two, it's not a week or two, so the next sixty to ninety days do you want to make that trade off? Even more important question, do you think the government should be able to force you to make that trade off?
Of the people listening to this, just Americans, you have a ninety nine point across all age groups believe it's a ninety nine point seven percent chance of surviving if you get COVID. Three out of a thousand people who get COVID could die from it, and that includes people in their eighties and nineties in that sample size. If you're under the age of fifty, your chance of dying from this is less than your chance of dying if
you got seasonal flu. That's a fact. You want to you want to stay at home and and give up the next sixty to ninety days of living life. And let me ask you this. Do you think that's worked so far? Do you think that's stop this? They just keep trying to constrict, keep trying to put more pressure and just squeeze down on this. It doesn't work. It's
obvious it doesn't work. They hope and pray, not that the kind of people that call for this stuff really pray in earnest, but they hope that you won't notice that You'll just be scared and you'll listen and you'll do as you are told. That's really what this is about. Do as you're told, peasant, don't ask any questions. That's what Garsetti wants. Yeah, people are scared, but there are other people who aren't scared. I go into an office
every day. Every day, I'm traveling, I'm moving around the city. I go into an office every day. I try to be careful around older family members, and I'm very attuned to whether or not I have any symptoms. I get tested if I think there's a concern. That's it. That's the only thing that I think a reasonable person can do. And I'm in the most densely populated part of the country. I'm in the middle of the biggest city in America that had the most COVID depths of any place in America.
And I'm telling you, I want to live my life, and I do. I'm not hunkered down. I go out to the stores, I go to my office every day. Now, I tape a TV show every day. Now, this is what I'm doing, and I don't want to stop. And I don't think that these idiots in charge have the right to make me stop. And as importantly, they're wrong about what will happen if they make me stop. Do we live in a free country or not? We're starting to have to ask this question, do we live in
a free country? If your mayor or your governor can tell you you're not allowed to leave your home except under specifically defined circumstances. You certainly can't gather together with other human beings. You can't have a wedding, you can't have a funeral. You can't open your business, your restaurant, your shop, your store. The answers, we don't live in a free country. We need to face up to that. We need to look at this and deal with the reality.
It's time to say enough. Not everyone's going to do it. Not everyone's going to push back, but you know what they can do. They can look down to Florida, where I'm not saying it's some utopia down there, although weather is very nice, but they're doing better than New York City. They're doing better than California right now in this fight against COVID. No mask mandates, no mandates you want to wear a mask, wear a mask. But they're not having
the government ram this down people's throats. They're not shutting down businesses all across the board, and they're doing a little bit better. Think about this, though, they should be much worse. According with the lockdowners say, Florida should just be oh my gosh, pandemonium for the pandemic, right, It's just it's not the case. Why Why is that? Why is that observable? I'm not telling you. This is not just my analysis. You can see it, look at the numbers.
It's because the people who have been taking away your freedom this whole time and promising you safety in return have been lying to you. Thanks for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. Michigan is one of the states that's been hit the hardest by COVID, mostly in and around Detroit, but Michigan overall has has had a tough time with it, and Gretchen Whitmer has
been among the most extreme governors. She's one that wants to make her mark by telling everybody that they can't even go from one home they own to another home they own. Not allowed. Maybe you'll infect somebody in your car by yourself. Idiotic, of course. But there are people in Michigan as well as many other states, who are starting to see all of these failures, all of these shortcomings, and they've had enough. They're sick of it. In central Michigan, there's a guy who went on a rant on a
local TV station. He's a restaurant owner who interrupted a local TV report. And I want you to is this is a little bit of a longer clip. I want you to hear the whole thing by this guy. Here's just an American. Here's a guy who showed up probably five thirty six o'clock in the morning. Restaurant hours are long and hard. He's been there, you know, scrubbing pots and pans, telling his staff they got to show up, they got to get the meal out, Fire up that chicken,
get that burger, cook properly. They mean. It's restaurant work is hard, as friends of mine, people I know, will tell you at any opportunity. It looks glamorous on TV, it's not a lot of depending whether you're doing the chef side of it or the server side of it, a lot of long hours on your feet. It's not easy stuff. And to be a restaurant owner, you're in it. You're in that fight every day. You gotta deal with customers.
You gotta deal with their whims and their fits. So when you've built a restaurant that's able to pay the bills, you know what, you're a success. You've beaten the odds. And this guy has a successful business that's being destroyed. It's being taken from him by tyrannical bureaucrats. And he's in Central Michigan. He's had enough and this is what he had to say. Play twelve, The details on the judges. No spy is everything? Okay, okay? Our government leaders have
abandoned me. Are you? Are you the owner threety dollars of stimulus money? They gave it to who? Especially winter scrips and campaign donors. I'm Dave Morris. I owned the players. So what's going on? What's going on? You know what's going on? Tell me? You tell me. Hey, we got a government that has taken the stimulus money. They gave it to special campaign donors. They gave it to special interests. They abandoned me, and they have put me in a position where I have to fight back. Okay, So do
you feel that this is the right thing to do? Absolutely? I feel everybody needs to stand up. Hey, listen, there was enough money to give every family, every family in this country twenty thousand dollars to go home for two months. They chose to give it to special interests and campaign donors the Kennedy Space Center, and they abandoned us, so you could have given me money. I glad to walk away for sixty days and let this virus settle down. I'm not going to do it a long Okay. Are
you going to continue to violate the state's orders? Is a state order? This isn't an order. This is a conspiracy. This is a tyranny. What do you want to tell other restaurant owners who wake up? Stand up? This is America, be free. I got patriots coming out supporting me. Wake up, stand up, this is America, Be free. That's Dave Morris, restaurant owner in central Michigan. My government leaders have abandoned me. He says, that's true. They have mandated that he shut
down his business. No more income, ruined, all the hard work he put into it gonna be he's falling behind on rant. I'm sure for the for the location, it's unlikely he owns it. Staff members that he might have trained and worked with have had to go and find other work, or perhaps they're at home on unemployment. It's a mess. And for what Because this works so well, Because shutting down human contact has stopped this virus in
its track. Who believes that at this point, Who really thinks that's true based on what look at where we are now versus where we were before they were going into all these lockdowns. You're gonna tell me it's such a better situation. Notice that they can't decide depending on which news outlet you check at at any moment. If they see one area where cases have gone down a little bit in the last week, it's, oh, see, all
of our lockdowns have worked. If they see that cases have gone up a little bit, it's all people didn't listen to us over Thanksgiving. There's no honesty in the assessment of these figures and numbers. There's no honesty in how they're looking at these lockdowns. I'll tell you this. Even a lot of conservative jurists and a lot of conservative politicians for sure, are cowards. There are constitutionalist judges
who are cowards right now on this. Because nobody wants to be the one who says the government can't protect you from this virus. It will pretend and do a lot of damage by pretending. But it is up to you and your family to find what works best for you to protect yourself, to make your own decisions. You
can listen to all these mandates. You can listen to everything they're telling you and go for an essential doctor's visit, go to the hospital because you have to get something checked out that has nothing with COVID and have a nosocomial infection. You could go to the grocery store and sure enough, somebody there's infected too, because this is the place where we're all gathering, and you can still get infected.
I understand that they say this is meant to mitigate your chances of getting infected, but how much is that really working? And what's the cost mitigated? By what degree? I mean if I told you that your chance of getting COVID nineteen, I mean it went down by five percent, would it be worth all these lockdowns? Why can't we have a trade offs discussion? You're in the Freedom Hunt. This the Buck Sexton Show podcast. For more buck head to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast.
Well in Florida, Tuckers, you mentioned all businesses are open. We've had things like theme parks, beaches open for months and months. We have schools open, all K three twelve school districts, private schools, charter schools. We have sporting events, and I think that for me, I think, as you alluded to, a lot of these lockdowns have been very ineffective. They have huge negative consequences. And my view is that everybody's essential. Whose government to say that your job is
not essential. I think it is essential. I think some of the stuff in March and April didn't work. I think you have to let people earn a living. And it's really not even government's role to say who could pick and choose. So we want everyone to have gainful employment. We want businesses to be able to operate so they're open Florida stool functions. As a as a relatively normal society, they are. You're hearing from RHND to scientist the governor.
There is another way, friends, That's what I'm saying, and they just ignore it because the people that have pushed these lockdowns they think they're so smart. Oh, they think they're so much smarter than all the rest of us. Oh, and they've got a bunch of Biden voting blue check mds who will say, will you listen to the science. Yeah, I can see with my own eyes what's happening. I don't need someone to tell me. Lost science. Looking at
the most recent data coronavirus cases. Mind you, if you look at the fatality rate in New York is still far worse, far worse than Florida. But if you look at cases as of let me see yesterday, you got about eight thousand COVID nineteen cases in Florida, and you've got let me see here, yeah, eighty nine seventy five in New York. And you got eighty eight forty seven
in Florida the last couple of days. And just to give you a sense of the numbers, so you got about the same number of cases in New York, same member case in Florida. And these are popula, These are states with close to the same population. Florida is actually more populous than New York by a couple of million. So what exactly is New York gaining in what way? Is New York doing such a great job with Orange zones and red zones and shutting down businesses? Cases are
the same. So we are running the experiment right now in real time. Florida is run by people like Rhonda Santis who are saying, let's look at what's actually happening and deal with what we're seeing. In real life, New York is all go to Cuomo, I listen to to science. If you don't listen to me, you want your grandparents to die. Because I'm very sciency. I listened to a lot of science. That's what's going on. We all understand.
All you have to do is think for yourself, and you will come to the conclusion that the people who have pushed these lockdowns are living in a fantasy. Remember, the alternative to lockdown is not go out to a crowded bar as soon as possible if you're a senior citizen and let people cough in your face. Right, they
always set up this straw man. The alternative to lockdown is put out all the public health messaging you can about things people can do to try to mitigate, but then allow individuals to make choices, allow them to design whether they want to go to a restaurant and eat indoors or not, whether they want to go to a store and buy something or not. Life is at your own risk. That's the way we should be allowed to live.
But that's certainly not what's happening right now. Now. We're having all these all these dictates and mandates just foist it upon us. We were under this terre unical yoke of idiots, idiots who think that they know so much more than they do about how to make this better. I would love to see the CDC director try to explain why Florida New York have about the same number of cases when one is you heard the governor. Schools
are open, businesses are open. No mask mandates. If a business owner wants you to wear a mask, they can put up a wear a mask sign and that's a private premises And if they want that, fine, I'm not unreasonable. But you see in New York every business requires it as a function of law from the government. They didn't make a choice. Some of them might want it, some of them might not. You have to do it. See,
that's the mandate part of this. That's the force you all based upon this highly specious argument that this is a game changer for stopping the pandemic spread. It's clearly not what happened in Los Angeles. Why is California exploding with cases? Oh they were. California was all about masks, all about masks. Remember why they would have mask gatherings for BLM protests or for Biden victories well, they were wearing masks. Oh, okay, what happened they stopped wearing masks? No,
so what's their explanation for this? It gets colder out, Oh, human behavior changes because it gets a little colder. California is not that much colder. Saying so, what's their explanation. They don't have one. They don't have one. Their explanation is mask up, shut up, do what you're told. That's all they have to say to you. And the CDC director is entirely unhelpful in this regard Play seven. The time for debating whether or not mask work or not
is over. We clearly have scientific evidence. You couple that with social distancing, handwashing, being smart about crowds, doing things more outside than inside. These are critical mitigation steps which to many people seem simple and they don't really think you could have much of an impact. But the reality is they're very, very powerful tools. They have an enormous impact, and right now it is so important that we recommit ourselves to this mitigation as we now begin to turn
the corner with the vaccine. But the reality is December and January and February are going to be rough times. I actually believe They're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation, largely because of the stress that's going to put on our healthcare system. Wait, but we're going to do all the mitigation. So how do you know it's going to be the worst winter we've ever had in public health? I don't understand.
Notice this doesn't add up. It doesn't make any sense. How he says, it's very powerful tools. A very powerful tool is everybody masks up, everybody's social distances. And let you say one city and cases drop thirty percent, fifty percent within a couple of weeks. That's a powerful tool. Do you think does anyone think that's going to happen? Oh? No, maybe maybe it slows the rate, not even the full duration, slows the rate of the spread, meaning the speed the
velocity of spread by what five percent? Ten percent? Okay, Well, how many businesses are you willing to bankrupt? How many suicides are you willing to you know, essentially push people toward how much depression and despair? And how many seniors die alone in hospitals, die alone in nursing homes because they're not allowed to see their loved ones. They haven't
been able to for a long time. I just won't know at what cost for that five percent slower spread or ten And I'm making up the numbers we see. I tell you I'm honest when I say I'm just making I'm just taking guesses. That's what they are doing. Two. Don't you think if the CDC director and all these journals out there had clear evidence, don't you think that they would present it. We would all know what it is. Where is this where is this notice? He said, evidence
not proof. I want proof. You're gonna have government mandates. You're gonna destroy businesses and ruin lives because you say you're protecting lives by having a government mandate to shut down some businesses. Remember it's not all businesses. If they did a full on lockdown, everyone must stay home. You cannot leave. We will arrest you on site. Yeah, that would bring the spread down. You know, I'm sure within two weeks you'd see, you know, eighty percent drop or
a seventy percent drop, maybe more. But here's the problem with that. Society would crumble. People would freak out. How do we get people what they need? How do we can how do we get essential day to day needs tended to if you can't even leave your home. We don't have the infrastructure for that. We have no way of getting everyone food. You're gonna tell people they need to starve for two weeks. It's lives at stake. Most Americans have a little reserves in the belly. They'll be okay,
right now. I understand this is just a thought experiment, But think, think through it. Let's say we did that. Let's say we listen to them. We went to the most extreme possible version of the mitigation, as Fauci calls it. Two weeks. No one's allowed to leave their home. You're gonna be arrested on site. And we bring that curve way down. We crushed that curve. Then what happens, Okay, we did our two weeks. We did our two weeks, So then we now we can go out a little bit.
Right now, we can start going to stores and weight and what happens then, oh, that's right. The virus starts spreading all over again. And they'll say, oh no, but let's try to you know, tight trait this. Let's try to try to mitigate this a little bit. Now does work? It's going to spread. The only way to get this thing to stop spreading, is to get human beings to not be in contact with each other and not live
their lives at all. That's it, all this other stuff of oh, you can only go here, but you can't go there. You can wear a mask going to the bathroom in the restaurant, but not when you sit down to the restaurant. You can go to restaurant outside, but you can't go to a restaurant inside unless you're Gavin Newsom. And then you can go to French laundry with ten people because you're special. Right, we see what's going on here, We understand what's happening. Don't let them bully you into
foregoing your own ability to think these problems through. You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on social media at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. President Trump spent forty five minutes giving a speech yesterday laying out all of his concerns and yes, allegations about voter fraud in this election. I watched it, and then I went and read through the transcript afterwards to make sure I'm
as up to speed as possible. On absolutely all of what's happening here. I'm talking to people in the campaign legal team and others who are doing data crunching for them, because this is a lot of complicated issues, and I keep saying this time is not on our side. It is now the first week of December. This is going to be I'm just telling you, this is going to be over and done with based on the system right
now before the new year. That's what's likely to happen, unless you get a judge between now and then to make a really big decision. Now, I think Pennsylvania, as I've told you, is the strongest place for there to be a real legal challenge that would either decertify the vote because it cannot be certified because they cannot prove that it has done fairly and legally. But I think that judge a judge will be very it'll be very
very high barred or to meet. And like I'm just telling the truth I know right now and I want you all to be aware of this. There is a little bit of a squabbling from the scraps from the MAGA table going on in conservative media, and there are some people who figure it doesn't matter what I do between now and the end of January. All that really, you know, what I say, how wrong I may be, all that matters is that I seem like I'm the real fighter. Look, I'm telling you that Trump needs to
fight this thing to the end. But I'm also realistic. You know, I'm coming at this with open eyes about the chances of success. They're not zero, but they're not high. People are welcome to criticize me, tell me that I'm wrong. I hope those people, especially those who have been following me or known me for years, will come back if I'm right, which, as we all know well, and say it. But come back and tell me, Wow, you were right.
We fought it. But your your prediction on the chances here and now, Why does it matter what the chances? It matters because we need to manage our expectations. We need to understand that this Georgia runoff on January fifth, we better damn sure get out there with everything we've got as conservatives. Every Republican in a state of Georgia needs to go out there and vote, and we need to make sure that there's not fraud going on there. You know, we need to We still have a battle
to fight here. Friends. Even if Trump wins, We've got a battle to fight. There's a lot of stuff going on here. So now I'll let you hear from the President. This was This was part of his statement Play one. This may be the most important speech I've ever made. I want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculously long November third election. We used
to have what was called election day. Now we have election days, weeks and months, and lots of bad things happened during this ridiculous period of time, especially when you have to prove almost nothing to exercise our greatest privilege, the right to vote. As President, I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of the United States. That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault
and siege. President saying here that it is his duty as commander in chief to make sure that he looks into this with everything that he can, that they do the due diligence the investigation, and they present facts both in a court of law and a court of public opinion. The president continued play two for months leading up to the presidential election. We were warned that we should not
declare a premature victory. We were told repeatedly that it would take weeks, if not months, to determine the winner, to count the absentee ballots, and to verify the results. My opponent was told to stay away from the election, don't campaign, we don't need you. We've got it. This election is done. In fact, they were acting like they already knew what the outcome was going to be. They had it covered, and perhaps they did. Very sadly for
our country, it was all very, very strange. Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint a winner even while many key states were still being counted. The constitutional process must be allowed to continue. We are going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring that every legal ballot is counted and that no illegal ballot is This is not just about honoring the votes
of seventy four million Americans who voted from me. It's about ensuring that Americans can have faith in this election and in all future elections. It is about that the president has a duty here despite what all the media is saying and their claims that he's he's crazy and this is insane and this is a coup. Whether you know, all the hysterics from them, I'm actually almost impressed that they haven't exhausted themselves with their Trump is destroying the
Republic and all the hyper ventilating. You would think after a while it would just get tiresome from them, but it's but it's not. There is a case being presented today in Nevada about voter fraud alleged to have alleged to have occurred there. We've already seen the case presented in Michigan, and in Arizona and in Pennsylvania, and now it's battlefield Georgia that a lot of people are focused on. We stay in this fight, friends, win or lose. Thanks
for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information from Buck by heading to Buck Sexton dot com. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez is the ideological leader of the Democrat left. We all know this, right. She can do whatever she wants on social media all of a sudden world trend, and all the all the idiot leftists who think that MSNBC is really high, high level intellectual stuff. They say, yeah, AOC, she's great, she knows
what's up, social justice, wokeness, all that stuff. Right, we know that that's it's just the way it is. But today this is, this is it's trending and it's amazing. AOC has AOC has opened a store online and this is my favorite one. This is all over sociopedia. Now she is selling a sweatshirt that says tax the rich. Like, yeah, tax the rich, tax the tax the rich people. How much do you think AOC's tax the rich sweatshirt retails for right now? This is this is the AOC store.
I'm pretty sure that's capitalism. Do you think she's gonna give, you know, half of the proceeds of this to underprivileged families? You think that she's got or more? You think that this is just being run out of the kindness of our heart. No, I'm sure she's gonna make millions off of this. She's a brand now, AOC is a brand, and I think that she recognizes that she wants to be a a very powerful democrat for a long time
to come. And you need money. I always think of AOC as appelacion derogene control, which is the French for where a wine comes from. If you ever see AOC, there used to be a great little French place, probably gone now in the West Village called AOC. So you can either have it be Alexandro Ocasio Cortez or appelacion control, either one both aocs. And she's selling this sweatshirt for sixty five dollars. Sixty five dollars, that's an expensive sweatshirt,
brucer mark. Have you ever bought a sixty five dollars sweatshirt? Certain ones? Yeah, okay, so you tell me that's not that. That seems kind of pricey to me. That seems like I could probably get a Polo sweatshirt or something kind of fancy for that. It's reasonable for something with a logo or something on it. Shore, I guess, okay, so breaday,
but we will hold up. But see that's a perfect point, because you know, if you're buying that, I was gonna says Jersey, But I don't want you to throw things at me. If you're buying that sweatshirt at Mets Stadium, they're taking a big It's you're not just paying for the sweatshirt. You gotta pay for the name usage and the profit and everything else, right, so you're getting so yeah, I think that's that's what I would assume if you were,
if you were buying from one of them. Don't they sell like gear at the stadiums right, So if you're buying a stadium sweatshirt, it probably sixty five or seventy bucks. Yes, even online, that's what they retail for you. Yeah, okay, but this is a tax the rich sweatshirt. I can assure you it doesn't cost or sixty dollars to make this. She's doing this to make a profit. Oh that's great, sixty five dollars. Let me see what other gear is. She's got tax the rich drink water and don't be racist?
What else do we have? Student debt with a line through it? And the Green New Deal. It's like a painting of her with the Green New Deal. I love it. I think I think AOC for our side is great. I think the more people could see this, the better, the more they come to understand that this is someone who is elevated among Democrats, a person who I think if you sat in a room with her and tried to solve relatively simple problems. You would say, oh my god, this woman is an imbecile. But she's one of the
most powerful Democrats in the country. And I mean, this is somebody who thinks that it's a great slam on her critics to say that she won some kind of a science award in high school. Yeah. Yeah, that's when you have millions and millions of followers, that's what you do. And I'm gonna tell you this right now, and you may not like hearing this, but but you will. You will listen to me say it, and most of you
will know it's the truth. And don't give I can already feel heads shaking across the country because you know what I'm gonna say. You know what I'm gonna say, Okazio Cortez could very well be the Democrat president of the United States at some point in the future. I know you don't want to hear it, but it's true because it's all about the story, the media, the narrative. That's all that matters. Joe Biden thinks he just won the presidential election. The media has already declared him the winner.
If they can make Joe Biden president, they can make anybody president. That's what they're thinking. Why do you think there's so much jubilation. One of the big issues for the media, One of the big problems they had in twenty sixteen was that Trump's victory seemed to be a repudiation of the media's ability, in its own mind to be able to declare who should win the presidency and to make it so, to make it happen. Oh, Kazi
Cortez tweeted this out. Republicans are freaking out because we don't use slave wage labor for merchandise that funds grab roots organizing. What's the difference between Trump's merchant ours ours is made in the USA? Yeah, but Trump is a capitalist AOC. Trump is trying to make a profit. His ideology is I am trying to run a business. AOC's ideology is I want to take money for everybody else to give it to preferred constituencies using government force, while
I get to be a millionaire. AOC, if she's not already worth over a million dollars, which I'm sure she is, is going to be worth millions and millions of dollars. Politics and celebrity are now one and the same. Right politicians have turned into I mean at a high level. Politicians are all now celebrities with countless ways to monetize, and that's what they do. And not only in shady ways like Joe Biden and his son and China and Ukraine. Right, we all know about that, but in more standard ways.
They give you a book deal, doesn't matter how many books. The good authors, you know, the established brands that are writing, you know, thriller novels that sell you know, a million, two million copies each and all this they at publishing houses they pay for giving someone like AOC a book advance that's large. Look, she'll sell books too, but they'll give her more money than she's worth because it's a prestige thing for the big publishing houses. It's about the
prestige that they bring to it. So yeah, Republicans are freaking out. Now, we're not freaking out. We just think it's funny. We think it's funny because she's supposed to be so anti capitalist. And like I've told you, I guarantee you that AOC will be within the next if she's not already, there'll be a report that comes out in the next four years. Right, So we'll say the
next presidential administration. You'll find out that AOC, who's what thirty years old, close to it, is worth five to ten million dollars at least at least, so she's going to be very rich at a very young age, running around telling everybody about how bad rich people are and how they need to be taxed more and even more than that. I mean this is great because really AOC is going to turn into an experiment of liberalism in
real time. We'll see that she says all this stuff, and just like Elizabeth Warren and these other phonies, but when there's an opportunity for her to make some make some extra cash, she not only is gonna jump on it, she's gonna want to pay the lowest possible tax rate she can, and she'll pay you know, elite accounting firms to do that for her. But she wants your taxes to go up, kind of like the way these democrats.
You're starting to see a pattern here, aren't you. They want you to mask up all the time, don't eat indoors, don't eat outdoors at restaurants, don't see your family over holidays, because your sacrifices are for the greater good. They don't want to make sacrifices because that's no fun. Sooc in many ways is the perfect the perfect Democrat in twenty twenty. She's exactly what the Democrat Party is all about now. An enormous, enormous media profile, fame, lots of money, and
Marxism And how do those things all go together. Well, you have to be an enormous hypocrite and ignor Ramis and not really care about what's happened in history because of policies like this and what will happen in the future, because you'll be insulated. She'll still be cold. She could author policies and congress in the future that will bankrupt whole industries, which is what she wants to do with the Green New Deal. She's never going to go bankrupt.
She'll always be rich. If you knew, if you were guaranteed a life of financial luxury, wouldn't it be so tempting if you were an unethical person, wouldn't it be so tempting to use the the suffering of other people who are striving and working hard and building, but to take more from them so that you look like a good person. You want to give it to those who
haven't been able to make it happen. Yet, I mean, are we really to assume there are so many fundamental flaws and Marxist logic and so many contradictions in the way they approach the world. Are we really to assume, for example, that everyone works just as hard, that everyone's just as talented. I can tell you I'm in the media business now, and there are some people who have an incredible work ethic, and there are other people who
are pretty lazy. And unless the lazy people are really lucky, which does happen, they tend not to have the same career trajectory as the people that work really hard. Should we redistribute the money among people in the news business and in journalism, No, they they would never want that, right, That's no good. Also, you'll notice that journalists in particular, they usually have this cut off around two hundred, two hundred,
fIF thousand dollars for people they say is rich. That's because to be a journalist at a at a pretty prestige publication, and to just be yet another journalist there, it's really hard to make more money than that. Usually, if you work in the New York Times these places, you kind of top out around two hundred two fifty and that's if you're pretty good. So rich has to
be more than that. And the people that are shaping perception all the time at these publications, they want, you know, rich starts at like five hundred k, because unless you're an executive or you have other things going on, other sources of income, you're you're not going to make that working at a newspaper, right, But you can't make one hundred and fifty grand two hundred grand. You can make that working at think tanks, so that that never counts
as rich. You'll notice that that's not really rich. Although eventually what you find with the Marxist logic of people like AOC is that it has to be the workers. The workers do bear the burden of the taxes because there's so many more of them. I mean, you could take every penny, every penny, not just a tax rate of people in the one percent made in any given year, and you wouldn't be able to pay the federal You wouldn't be able to pay for the federal budget that year.
You wouldn't be able to do it. But AOC and the other leftists, they assume that there are these government there are these structural impediments between people that must only be addressed by the government, and therefore they're in the position of a kind of deity. They get to determine what you get, how you get it, when you get it, kind of like with COVID lockdowns, you're seeing how it all ties together.