Buck’s First Thoughts - Trump's CPAC Comeback

Trump is not president anymore. Democrats have control of the House and the Senate, you know how this all goes. And we haven't heard from Trump in a while, and that has meant that the media has been able to construct this narrative of a Republican Party that is about to either go into tremendous fracture, a GOP civil war as they're calling it, or that will just start to fade into irrelevancy. Donald Trump showed up at Sepack, I was down there in Florida, and here's what he said

about what it means right now for the GOP. What is the GOP play sixteen? The future of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the social, economic, and cultural interests and values of working American families of every race, color, and creed. That's why the party is growing so rapidly, and it's becoming a different party, and it's becoming a party of love. You have to see outside the streets. I mean, there's such love the flags

Party of love. That was Trump being Trump. But I do think that that ultimately we should start to embrace the idea that the Republican Party is about making this country better for all people, and that our ideas are in fact rooted in care and consideration for our fellow human beings. Right. I want safer streets for everybody. I want better and cheaper healthcare options for everybody. I want things in this country to be working well for all

the American people. I don't have an US versus them mentality. I have a what's best for all of us mentality. I think the Republicans shouldn't shy away from verbalizing that because the other side says Republicans are racist, they're classist, they're evil, they're misogynists, you know, xenophobic, they have all these things they always say, And that's actually the opposite of what the Republican Party is all about. That's the

opposite of what it means to be a conservative. I also agree with the Great Ronald Reagan when he says, when he would say this was not a one off, that you shouldn't walk away from the term republican and and only embraced conservative conservatism is the belief, that's the ideology. But the home, the vessel for conservatism in American today is the Republican Party. And if you're wondering what do we stand for? What's the point of it all? And I get that frustration. I know, we see what's going

on with Biden. And you know, Hiden Biden. He's out of the basement now in the White House, but he might as well as be in the basement. No leadership, no vision, just a bunch of leftists around him that are that are actually pushing the levers and making the making the calls that the progressives want him to. And we look at all this and you say, what what are we here for? Why? Why do we exist? Because this country deserves a better future than what the Democrats

can give it. The Conservatives exist because we look at history and we look at what has happened and we make decisions based upon what we think is the best and most rational evidence of what will be best for all of us. And a simple way to put this, I mean, we don't have to get overly eloquent about any of this. We're gonna say, somebody's got to stand in the way of the crazy. Maybe that's the best

way to say it. Somebody's got to tell the other side, sorry, you're not going to just get to run us off the cliff, hitting the accelerator full speed without at least some folks telling you, what are you doing? Stop? This

is a bad idea, This will be destructive. Don't do this right, whether it's the absurd, ideologically driven anti science attacks on fossil fuel, the continuation of the lockdown mandia that we've seen, you know, complete repudiation from the Democrats of so many lessons that we've already learned about what works and what doesn't work when it comes to public policy. How we can actually make people safer on the streets. Here's the answer. Not by blaming cops. That's step one

is stop blaming the cops. They're not the ones committing the crimes. They're not the reason that people are getting shot in urban areas of the country at higher rates now they have in a long time. And we had a huge spiking crime over the last year during the pandemic year. Of course, there's so much going on right now, and it's it's incumbent upon us. It's Conservative's role right now to say, what are you doing, crazy left, what are you doing? Stop it? And here's why, here's a

better way. They may not listen to us, and they probably almost certainly won't, but we still have to say it. We need it to be clear to people there's an alternative because we are going to get control back. We are going to be at a better future. It will happen. I know. Right now we're at a little bit of a low point. Right the Republican Party feels like what the heck is going on now. You can listen to some people in the the GOP who will tell you not

a single Statehouse got flipped in the last election. We gained seats in the House, but Nancy Pelosi still speaker and they still have a majority. We are fifty fifty in the Senate. You know, they can put a happy face on it, but come on, folks, we needed to maintain control of the Senate. It was crazy that we lost both those Georgia Senate seats. I mean, there were some blunders and we had an incumbent president who lost, and we can talk about why and what the other

side did and everything else. But at the end of the day, Joe Biden's president, Donald Trump is not This is disappointing, but it's not the end. It's not a moment of panic that we should have. Okay, this is, in fact, just the period in which we're going to see people coming together. They're talking about GOP civil war. I think you're going to see GOP consolidation. Yeah. Donald Trump said maybe he will run again. He teased the idea of running again. He said he might win for

a third time. But here's what's very clear. Trump is engaged, the people around him are engaged, and the movement will continue. It's not over. It's not going away. This is what I was saying the day after the election in November. The ideas continue, the lessons learned from the last four years continue. Here's what the former president says. Trumpism actually means play eighteen. It means low taxes and eliminating job

killing regulations. Trump is m It means strong borders, but people coming into our country based on a system of merit, so they come in and they can help us, as opposed to coming here and not being good for us, including criminals, of which there are many. It means no riots in the streets. It means law enforcement. Those are all good things, aren't they. Law enforcement, no riots, and notice, no riots. We don't approve of some riots and not others.

No riots, No use of force for political means, taken into the hands of mobs, never acceptable. We have principles. Unlike the left, they just have whatever achieves power in a short term sense. That's what their focus is. Always on. Strong borders, no riots in the streets, low taxes. These are all very viable paths for this country. And I have to remind everybody that we were in a fluke year, and we were in a once in a century pandemic.

That's just a fact. And the incumbent president lost. Now, yes, I believe very strongly that if Donald Trump had run for reelection and say the fall of twenty nineteen, based on the decisions the actual governance, he would have won. But that wasn't the that wasn't the hand we were dealt. That's not what we that's not what we had to go back into the election cycle with, and so we

did the best we could with what we had. It was a very difficult year in the media lied so much about what was going on, and continue too, And I'm going to tackle that in a moment, but I'm here to just tell you stay in the fight and stay focused, being with all those servatives at SEPAK, listening to them, talking to them, hearing those speakers for days, and then of course Trump's speech at the very end, it was a reminder of what the conservative movement means

in America, what we're trying to accomplish now, what the stakes are, of course, and that there are millions and millions of us across the country who don't think that, you know, canceling Keystone Excel is a good idea. Don't want open borders, don't blame the cops for the crime that criminals commit. Don't think that big government and the state control of every aspect of your life and every aspect of the economy will be good for any of us.

We're here, folks, and we're just getting We're just getting going now. The machinery on our side is mobilizing, and the Biden squad, those folks are all going to have to find themselves playing a whole lot of defense and it's going to be much more challenging than I think they realized when they were popping the Champagne Corps back November. Trump reminded us of all of that and more. Whether he's the nominee or it's someone else in four years,

it doesn't matter. This is about conservatism. This is about a Trumpian approach or you Trump tactics in the pursuit of conservative policies and how to wage a successful opposition for the hearts and minds of the American people at this point in time. And we have the tools, we have great messengers, we have fantastic results in the state of Florida to show, and so now begins that work. Two years the midterms, It's gonna go by in a flash. We do the work of speaking the truth about America

here every day. We all do it. That's our mission, that's our plan. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And in one of his first official acts, which was incredible because again he talked about energy He never said he was going to do this. He canceled the Keystone Nextel pipeline, destroying not the eight thousand or the nine thousand, or the eleven thousand jobs that you hear, but forty two thousand

great paying jobs on just about day one. Right. He never talked about that during a debate because he wouldn't have gotten away with it. Well he would have, because they cheated so much it probably wouldn't have gone. That's just one example of what I've been telling you since

Biden came into office. Now that they told us that it was good old blue collar Joe, the moderate, the centrist, you know, no big deal, and what we've gotten, of course, is somebody who doesn't really differ all that much from what any other Democrat that ran. I mean, remember, they had like a cast of thousands running in that Democrat primary. They had have they had have two different stages, two debate nights for one phase of the debate because they

had so many people running. And what you're getting with Biden is essentially just another doctrinaire left wing Democrat. This is not a surprise. There's nothing about this that anybody should should have said. Wait a second, yeah, of course they lied. Of course they presented Joe Bidens as the cuddly old Grandpa for America. And that's not really who he is. Because it doesn't matter who Joe Biden is.

He's just a placeholder. He's just the trojan horse that unfortunately the horse got into the gates and now Troy is burning. But now we'll be okay, Well, we're gonna

rebuild it. It's gonna be fine. Trump was really amoring Biden, which is pretty easy to do because, as I've said to you, if there were trade offs in these Biden policies where there was a very clear, very clear benefit for the American people, not for a special interest group, not for some ideological, we motivated segment of the population that writes big checks to Democrats, if there was something that was good, you know, but then you can see the drawback of it, I would say, so so much

of what Biden has done, he's just bad across the board. And Trump at seapack pointed that out play seventeen, his campaign was all lies. Talked about energy. I thought, I said, you know this guy, actually he's okay with energy. He wasn't okay with energy. Wants to put you all out of business. He's not okay with energy wants, windmills, the wind mills, the windmills that don't work when you need him. Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of

any president in modern history. That's true. Already, the Biden administration has proven that they are anti jobs, anti family, anti borders, anti energy, anti women, and anti science. In just one short month, we have gone from America first to America last, From America first to America last. What has the Biden administration done so far where you'd say, you know what, taking the politics out of it? I

really see the merit and wisdom in that. In fact, you know, the only thing that some people might point to you would have been Democrats in Congress pushing for the minimum wage, even though, as we all know, the minimum wage does not work the way that Democrats think it does, or does not function in practice the way they believe it will in theory. It does cause a lot of people to lose their jobs. It does cause a lot of people get their hours cut back. Some people,

see I'm honest about this. Some people do benefit from a higher mandatory minimum wage, but other people lose jobs. Other people lose access to work is fascinating. Some Democrats were even pointing out that this would be a hurdle for low wage illegal immigrants. Oh my gosh, what do we do if the minimum wage is higher, they'll be less desire or less ability, I should say, for employers to illegally hire illegal immigrants. That's where democrats heads are.

Notice they always have this concern, this concern for illegal immigrants ahead of Americans who are unemployed, ahead of what it does to the wage scale. It's very straightforward. Supply and demand. More workers who can do a job, less money you're going to get for those workers. It's is this is a law of basic economics. This is this is basic economics in practice. But Democrats think that they can get around that, that it doesn't really count. Somehow,

there's some other way. But no, Biden, everything he's done in the first month and office. You look at it and you say, who's making these decisions? What's the point of oh, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. These are the things that Democrats come into power in the middle of a pandemic. We've got all these idiotic law down policies, all these mask mania absurdities abounding all over the place. People get mad at me when I say that, Yeah,

you're right, I'm sorry. It makes a lot of sense that every restaurant I went to in Florida, I had to mask up as I walked in and then sit down and take my mask off. There's a lot of science. People seem to believe there's science behind that, that there's some kind of safety reason for it. If you believe that that is for your safety, there's no reason why the government can't make you do a hundred jumping jacks every day whenever you go outside because it's good for

your heart health. The government can make you do anything, no matter how dumb, no matter how ridiculous, probably actually would be good for your heart health overall. But I hate jumping jacks. This is absurd. It's absurd. But the Biden presidency that we've seen so far is as I thought it would be. And now at Trump started his speech by saying, and did you miss me? That's that's how we started the speech, did you miss me? And I think America is going to figure out pretty soon,

especially here's here's my prediction. They're gonna slow the reopening. But as it starts to reopen, then they're really going to realize the full extent of the damage of the lockdowns and how much spending has gone on, and we're gonna hit really rough economic times in the next six to twelve months, and then Democrats are going to do

the opposite of what they did. They're gonna be desperately blaming Trump for the economy when Biden's actually making the decisions, just like they were desperately trying to give Obama credit for Trump's economy. They're gonna do everything they can to make the Biden economy the Trump economy. That's my prediction. Let's see, you're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest from

Bucket buck sexton dot com. And I want you to know that I'm going to continue to fight right by your side. We will do what we've done right from the beginning, which is to win. We're not starting new parties. You know, they kept saying he's going to start a brand new party. We have the Republican Party. It's going to unite and be stronger than ever before. I am not starting a new party. That was fake news, fake news. Now wouldn't that be brilliant. Let's start a new party

and let's divide our vote so that you can never win. No, we're not interested in that. No new party. United in the Republican Party, and we're going to figure it out right now. It's about the movement, the ideas and mobilizing. That's where we are as Republicans, as conservatives, and Trump is going to be right there along with us. It may not be Trump who winds up being the standard bearon four years. I know that the seed pack straw Pole had him as the overwhelming favorite to on again.

But then there's also dissantists and a gnome being talked about as contenders. And I think that the president will see where we are how things go. Four years at his age is a long time. That's just the truth. I mean, I know you'd say, what about Joe Biden. Yeah, Joe Biden's too old for the job, folks. He's actually too old to be doing this. Nancy Pelosi too old for the job. I'm not gonna do what Democrats do

and have two sets of standards here. You know, Trump is right on the edge, right on the edge of just physically, folks. I understand he's got tremendous energy, but what time about four years from now, Guys gonna be what seventy seven going on seventy eight. It's asking a lot. By the way, I hope President Trump, you know, lasts another thirty years and you know, is in great health and can run for president again in four years. And that may very well be the case. But I'm saying,

we don't know. Nobody's got a crystal ball, and four years is a lifetime in politics, the most the most cliched phrase you'll everywhere. Oh, it's a lifetime in politics, right that It all comes down to turn out on election day? Yeah, no kidding. Whoever scores more points on the board is gonna win the game. Yes, also true. We need to know what we're trying to accomplish now, what we're trying to do as a party, that's what matters, And we need to be making the argument building platforms.

There is a rebuilding that needs to go on here. We need to make sure that we can't get silenced again. Remember they pulled off the silencing in the election. They covered for Hunter Biden. They shut down the New York Post story an entirely true story about Hunter Biden's laptop. They were able to do that and they suffered no consequences. We need them to actually, we need the social media companies to at least think twice, and then eventually we need to break them up, and we need to treat

them as the monopolies they are. I mean you to break them into tiny little pieces. People say, oh no, but it won't be as good for consumers. Really, you don't think. You don't think anybody else can come up with like an email or search engine or you know, a little chat boxes and things like. You don't think anyone else is. Trust me, it'll be fine, all right, it'll be fine. You know the reason that our flat screen TVs Right now, I'm maybe gonna get a new

flat screen because mine has gone crazy. It's like possessed by a demon. The reason that you can get a you know, fifty five inch flat screen TV for three hundred dollars now that I mean fifteen years ago or ten years ago. Would it cost you four grand or ten grand or something crazy? The reason is because of competition among many different companies. So it works everywhere else. But somehow the social media companies have convinced you. The best way is for them to only be one player.

That's the best for consumers Amazon too, that's what's best for you. It's clearly not now. I wanted to focus for a little bit on on the Florida aspect of this because being at Seapack, and I would say, first off, I want to thank everybody who was there, who was who's at Seapack, and who was willing to come up and talk to me and say hi. It means a lot. It was great to see this. It was great to see people who share my beliefs values who in many

cases listen to this show. So there was a lot of a lot of Team Buck in the house and that was fantastic. But being in Florida was also you could feel that there is a sense that this is now a movement unto itself, that there are more and more Republicans who will be moving to Florida, that there are more and more Republicans who are deciding that that's

going to be. And I hate to say it, because I had some some folks from from Austin, Texas who are listening to the show listening on KLBJ in Austin. They came up to me, to talk to me. Texas Governor Abbott has really missed an opportunity here. It feels like the leadership of the Republican Party is firmly now in the same way that California. New York is a close second, but California feels like the homeland of the Democrat Party. That's what that's what Florida is becoming for

the Republican Party. And now we're as it's not as red as California is blue. But I think that's I think that's changing a bit. I'll also tell you that I did experience at a few of the bars, because you know, they're seapac parties and things, a very different attitude there. I mean, you walk in, and I'm being honest with you, you walk into these places and they will tell you to put a mask on, but they're they're generally very polite about it. They're generally very nice.

Excuse me, could you put it? No one's yelling at you and acting like you're actually killing grandma because they saw you without a mask on. But it's it's fascinating to see how people just took them off when they went inside, and then nobody there was no anxiety about it because people around them, the individuals around them, are you know, the people around them have not been completely

brainwashed into into states of terror. They're not feeling like if you breathe, if you breathe near them, you're going to kill them. And that's the way the whole country should be. So it was interesting to see it in Florida specifically. It's still stunning to me how many people believe there's a sound scientific basis for the no masks while you eat, but mask up when you walk in policies that are in so many states, including New York

where I am now. I mean, the willingness of millions to enthusiastically evangelize this kind of authoritarian absurdity has really exceeded any and all pre COVID expectations. It's no, I don't know, it's it's crazy, isn't it. I mean, that's what we've it's turned into. You can't even begin to justify this stuff, you can't even begin to make sense of it. But this is where we are as a country. And this is why when I see things like a south on South or no Spirit Airlines or Southwest, it's

the Spirit Airlines. I believe it was. I don't know one of those airlines, one of the kind of budget airlines they kicked off. A sorry Frontier. I gotta get it right Frontier Airlines. If I'm gonna call them out by name, I gotta get it right. Frontier Airlines ejected an Orthodox Jewish family from a fly. There's video of it for allegedly, And this is the story that's going around failing to mask an eighteen month old baby. That's

what we've turned into now as a country. If you've turned into a country where where we're being told you have to mask up your eighteen month old even though the CDC says masking under two years of age is unnecessary. That's the CDC guidance for anyone who cares. Notice that when the CDC guidance is what the lockdowners want, it is sacrosanct. But anytime they want to go beyond that, anytime they want to push for more, that's fine too, even if it's in contradiction to the CDC guidance. So

when they want it, you can't argue with it. But when it's not actually supported by the CDC, it's shut up and do what you're told. Parents. This is up in Canada. Give you an idea of how far this can go. There has now been up in Canada a series of guidelines in Toronto that have been offered up instructing parents to keep any children who have been sent home because they have a classmate who tested positive for COVID nineteen isolated in a separate room from all other

family members for fourteen days. That's right, Canada now in Toronto is advocating for people the Peel Peel region schools. I don't even know what Peel is, but apparently it's part of part of Toronto. They want you to lock your kid in a separate room from the family and I have no contact with family for fourteen days because another kid in the class had it. You know that the spread of this virus is overwhelmingly if someone spreads that,

they spent it to one person. So there are a lot of people who have been around somebody with COVID and they never actually even got COVID. They didn't get it from them. It's you know, we have fear has overtaken rationality on this subject in a way that's really hard to overstate. But this is the biggest fight and you know, I've been saying it now for a year. The biggest fight in this country is the fight to regain our liberty and to regain sanity from the lockdown left.

We gotta do that. You want Donald Trump to win, or another America first candidate to win in four years, you want that. You need to win this battle now because if the lockdown left can get away with this, they can get away with anything. And they've conditioned the American people to believe that their freedom is just a suggestion that the Constitution doesn't actually defend or protect their rights. It's only there during good times, not in the bad.

That's not the way this is supposed to work. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart Radio Act or wherever you get your podcasts. So, Mitch McConnell says Trump is morally responsible for January's capital siege, yet he also says he's willing to support him in a twenty twenty four bid. Come on, Mitch McConnell's only kissing the ring this week because Trump is about to come out of hiding,

where he'll likely set the stage for that run next cycle. Tomorrow, the seditionist ex president a loser, I'll remind you, we'll headline the Conservative Political Action Conference CEPACK. The event that started in the early seventies has always been viewed as a place for conservatives, some who've gone off the deep end, but very least it was rooted in ideas. They talked about politic policies that could, in their opinion, make the

country a better place. However, in the last several years, the conference has devolved into a cesspool of hatred, bigotry, and exclusionary garbage, a place where speakers rail on the country's most marginalized for simply striving to attain equal rights. I'm not a conservative, but I like conservatives, and I respect conservative ideology even if I don't agree with it. But if I were a conservative, today's version of Seapack

would offend me to my core. Not only was blatant prejudice on display this week, we also saw Missouri Senator Josh Holly bragged to the crowd about his rejection of the twenty twenty election results, which ultimately gave way to the insurrection on Capitol Hill and the deaths of five people. I'm sorry that you had to hear that, But I wanted you to know the kind of things that are being said at MSNBC by people who were not at Seapack.

Don't know what was going on at Seapack, don't care relly what was going on at Seapack, because they just view it as oh, much of conservatives are together. Let's call it a quote cesspool of hatred, bigotry, and exclusionary garbage. This is just this is idiotic slander, that's all. There's a lot of it about se Pack. And there are people that only show up think about this, it's a political conference. Then there are people who show up there who know, who know that their job is to try

to find one thing. They're there to attack. They're not there to report, they're there to attack. I was at Spack for the whole conference, pretty much close to the whole conference, and all I saw were a lot of people being completely polite, friendly, decent to one another, excited to see each other, talking about ideas, listening to shows. That's all that I saw. That's what was going on. And yet, well, beyond that, what do they decide that

they were going to focus on? I mean, the media, what were the people that are supposed to be reporting on this, that you can't make this stuff up. That SEPACK had a Nazi insignia as a stage. This is what they were saying. SEEPAC had it the odel or Othala rune, accorded to the Washington Post, which was emblazoned on some Nazi uniforms, and the Anti Defamation League has classified the insignia as a hate symbol. These these people

are out of their minds. They're they're out of their minds. Yeah, okay, there is a thing called an I understand that there is a symbol, but I had never before seen this was not familiar with this. I'm somebody who reads a lot about World War Two. It finds it to be a fascinating period in history. So let's just start from this premise. Beyond the fact that a SEPAC, there are a lot of really prominent Jewish speaker and attendees, and

I mean, the whole thing is this nuts. I know, it's so crazy that it's like where do you start? But this is the Washington Post and others reporting on this. If they're making a symbol that they want to somehow show a an affinity for an allegiance to a certain idea, to an ideology here of Nazism or white supremacy or whatever is they're gonna say, wouldn't it have to be a symbol that somebody, like somebody actually knows what it is.

Start with that premise. If I don't even know what this thing is, and I'm better around on the Second World War than ninety nine percent of the Washington Post staff and writers, trust me when I say that they're stretching, that they're desperate. I mean, come on, And what I really want to know is is if this you know, what we need to do now would be to find other other designs of stages that look like this. I'm

sure there are plenty of them. Is when you look at it, you go, yeah, they're just trying to use that space most effectively or as effectively as they can. But yes, it's a it's an oodle run, they say. And why would SPAC do that? Why why would match Lap and the other top people running sepack Because they have a fondness for the Naziss is the allegation. How

how blanking stupid are the people reporting on this? But see this again shows you we want to share ideas and we're not even allowed to We're not allowed to do. They have to slander, they have to lie, they have to misrepresent what we're doing and what we're all about with things like this. And there's also part of this is we know we shouldn't even have to go find other stages that look like this. Is this a stage design that's been used at the High IT for other things?

I'm willing to bet there's plenty of stages that have looked just like But see, we're wasting time. Then we already know that it's bullcrap, So why do we have to It's obviously garbage, So why do we have to waste our time then trying to even further prove that it's nonsense because they wanted to try to pressure High IT. You gotta remember this, it's not enough. It's not enough for Democrats to have control of the government, to have control of the media, to control of social media and

Hollywood everything else. They want to make it impossible for you to physically gather with fellow conservatives too. They want dominance and total control of the digital space, and they want dominance and total control of your ability to even gather in person, freedom of Assembly. I believe it is called in this old document that we're all supposed to care about a lot as Americans, known as the Constitution. All right, I mean, isn't that something that we can

all at least agree on, you know? It isn't that something that we should all at least be able to say we can see. Nope, they wanted to attack high it. They don't want SEEPA. If you'll meet anywhere these people are these people are authoritarian cowards. This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to get through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, most governors

shut down their states. What followed was record unemployment. Businesses closed, most schools were shuttered, and communities suffered, and the US economy came to an immediate halt. Now, let me be clear, COVID didn't crush the economy. Government crushed the economy. And then just as quickly, government turned around and held itself out as the savior. And frankly, the Treasury Department can't print money fast enough to keep up with Congress's wish list.

But not everyone has followed this path. For those of you who don't know, South Dakota is the only state in America that never ordered a single business or church to close. And yet we're old that if only we had listened more to the lockdowners, if only these states that had shut down so much, like California, had had their way even more so, we would all be better off. This is absurd. The data doesn't support it. But here's what you have to be prepared for. There is no future.

There will never be a time in which it is the case that the people that were advocating for demanding I should There was an advocacy. It was demand you do this because otherwise you're killing grandma. We're making you do this. Do this or we shut down your business, lockdown or not only will we find you, we will take away your liquor license, we will destroy your restaurant's ability to ever open. We'll make sure you're done. Lockdown or else. They didn't convince, We didn't have a referendum.

There wasn't a conversation. It was this is an emergency. The house is on fire. You have to run. You have to run. We'll hold on a second. What maybe we can put the fire out. Maybe I don't have to abandon my home. No, you have do it. It's an emergency. That's what they did to us. Now you're able to look at what's actually happened with COVID all across the country, and you realize, oh, so they were demanding something that turned out to be a terrible idea.

If lockdown is so obvious, if this is such a clear and effective solution to the problem of an Ersli's pandemic virus, why was all of the public health guidance before this contradictory to that? Why was it the consensus opinion since the Spanish flew of nineteen eighteen that we don't do that, We don't shut down society, we don't shut down businesses when there is an erslas virus that

has a high risk for certain groups in circulation. Right, they change the consensus and then jumped all over you. If you pointed out that a shifting consensus is inherently on shaky ground, they didn't care, didn't matter. Look at Florida, Lugge's, South Dakota, look at these states. Understand this. They're gonna try to line them up. They're gonna line up for you. Now, and there's so much dishonesty right now about it, and you need to remember that too, And the dishonesty is intentional.

I wanted to be clear about that this was not something that has just happened sometimes. I mean, almost all the lockdown comparisons you'll see online now are so immensely sloppy and methodology as to be useless. And this is often intentional, but people will realize one day that most lockdowns were so haphazard, temporary, and arbitrary as to render them useless in the long run, as in, there was almost no benefit when you look at this, the full

scope and scale of the infections across the country. Almost no benefit from this whatsoever, if any, And in fact, there are some people who argue, quite credibly, could have made things worse given the situation of major American cities and what was going on. Remember, they talked to us like we were going to crush the virus and the level would go way, way way down as a result of the most extreme stay at home orders. That never happened.

Nowhere did that happen. What ended up happening was we would go into a more extreme lockdown and it would take months, and it would finally go down where there was the extreme lockdown, whether it was New York or California or New Jersey or wherever, would finally go down, and it was going down in other places it didn't

have the extreme lockdown. You could just observe this and see what exactly is the benefit if all those other places we're also having massive declines in cases at the same time, what's the advantage of going into these self induced economic comas, which is what we've been through. There was no benefit. There was no benefit. If it was saving lots and lots of lives, you cold at least argue about what the costs in the drawbit. But they didn't.

Where we're show me how they saved lives, Remember, they're gonna tell you. They'll say, well, you know, Florida and California. They'll try to find some comparison of those states as an example. They always give New York New Jersey a past They got hit first, Okay, but they got hit we all knew it was coming. They'll do a comparison, though, and they'll say, well, if you see here, technically this state, you know, did better than Florida, and this state had

lockdowns or something like that. But remember this should be this should be an enormous and obvious benefit, right. We weren't promised with lockdowns the way they were set up in this country and the people like Fauci and all the rest of them. We were not promised that it would be California that we were supposed to say, oh, gee, that success. We were promised a situation like New Zealand where they have very, very, very low cases. But here's

the problem with that. New Zealand is a very remote island or islands from most of the rest of the world, with incredibly sparse population and absolutely hardcore lockdowns. Cannot leave your home enforced across the board for months on end. That's an actual lockdown. And here's the thing. We weren't willing to do that. We weren't going to do that, and it wasn't possible for us to do that. So guess what we had the worst of all worlds never really locked down and did not stay open in places

like California. And to what end? To what benefit? Oh nobody ever seems to have to answer that question. How we're supposed to just sit around and assume that Fauci and all the rest of them knew what they were doing. It's absurd, it's absurd. I think that Fauci is the greatest villain of the pandemic. The only person who comes

close is Governor Cuomo. But Fauci, I think, is the single person most responsible for grotesquely politicizing the entire process and pretending that he was doing the opposite of that. The data. It's all about the data. And remember this for those of you who think that I'm some kind of anti masks zealot, and I am. Let's be honest. I hate masks. I think it's awful. I think they're wildly, wildly overstated as a mechanism for virus control. Look at

the infection rates among healthcare professionals. I know they're subjected to higher degree of virus, but okay, how effective are man Because when you see that healthcare professionals have an infection rate compared to the general population, and that makes you think, okay, so I mean they're still they're masking up perfectly professionally, and ninety fives and anyway, and again it's not that it's zero. I can't say it's zero.

I don't know. I mean I know there's studies that show this and that, and that's say, okay, but is it, Yeah, how effective we really supposed to be eighty percent? You think you think it, with proper masking, you reduce viral spread by eighty percent. That's that's delusional, given what we've seen going on across the country. Delusional. They'll never admit They'll never admit it though, because so many of the people that push for this stuff, it's become a religion

for them. And also they really think that they really thought they were smarter than everybody else. That's it's the same thing the Russia collusion delusion. People they thought that they they saw that conspiracy, they thought they were smarter than everybody else, that Trump was really working with Putin to steal the election. And you know, just because they're so smart that they believed it. When you can take belief and mix it with ego, you have in an

impenetrable shield of idiocy. When you can pull those two when you can pull those two things together, you create a belief and then you mix it with the ego of that individual that I believe this because I'm smart. Will never change, will never change.