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Brad Johnson on the Wuhan flu and misinformation

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provide Johnson it’s April 11th 2020 and
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everybody is still in lockdown the
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Philadelphia Police are swarming people
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who aren’t wearing masks and throwing
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them off subways political leaders
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mostly Democrat once but leftist ones
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are just taking massive power drabs and
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it’s getting crazier and crazier out
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there there are clearly political
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implications of the measures being used
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to protect people from this particular
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Chinese flu variant what do you think
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what do you think is going on at this
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point I think you’ve laid it out in a
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nutshell that that the situation is is
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there there are real aspects of it but
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it’s clearly being expended on those
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real aspects for political gain and
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manipulation and we’ve all heard from
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different leftist pundits here in the
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United States who openly come out and
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said in interviews that we cannot let
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this crisis go to waste and that’s an
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old saying you know it’s a mantra by the
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left never let a good crisis go to waste
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and so that’s what we’re seeing here and
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it’s being used for all sorts of things
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now just for example here I am in I’m in
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Northern Virginia just outside of
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Washington DC and the governor of
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Virginia had tried to pass and there’s
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something we did some interviews on
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previously so four or five six months
01:27
ago well before the corona virus became
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an issue he had tried to pass
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legislation to really really cut back on
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on what was permitted for guns and
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shooting ranges and all these things it
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was draconian legislation and he has
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control of the legislature in the
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Democrats control the legislature in
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Virginia as well as the governor in all
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of the top positions and so he took
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advantage of the situation to try and
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create this draconian anti gun
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legislation which failed because a lot
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of the Democrats enough of the Democrats
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went over to the Republican side to vote
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it down so that failed so what has he
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done
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even though federal government direction
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came out which everybody’s always you
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know waving their arms all the Liberals
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saying oh we’ve got to follow this
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doctor foutch
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all of these things and the mitigation
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and all the stuff they’re saying well
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that federal guidance one of the things
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that was one of the orders that came
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down that was that shooting ranges are
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to remain open because it’s an integral
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part of security issues I mean police I
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have most people know that but police
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and military and all sorts of people are
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required to shoot on a regular basis and
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trust me we all want our law enforcement
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out there shooting on a regular basis
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they’re better at it and better mentally
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able to handle that gun and have it with
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them and all of those things all come
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from this training that goes on
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constantly and that is why those
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requirements are that way everybody
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recognize that that is a truth the more
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of those law enforcement guys for
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whoever is required to have a gun or
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train with the gun the more often the
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shoot they shoot the better they are in
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every way at having that weapon on them
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so it’s to all of our good all of our
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benefit and yet what the governor here
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in Virginia did is he’s tried he took
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advantage of the coronavirus and on a
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state level shut them all down even
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though it was everybody recognizes that
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it was indeed considered an important
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security related or national security
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related business that should remain open
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and that they were to follow the
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mitigation rules that like other places
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are doing like even at the White House
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briefings where they’re supposed to stay
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six feet apart and all of that stuff
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well okay
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at a shooting range first of all you’re
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outside so it’s much easier and you can
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go every other Lane and have people be
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more than six feet apart so it’s just
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no-brainer easy thing to do at a
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shooting range you just have fewer
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people shooting at the same time and now
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there are some indoor ones too but the
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same thing six feet apart every other
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lane and it’s it’s extraordinarily
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simple because because you’re shooting
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guns everything is very controlled as to
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who stands where anyway so it’s probably
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one of the easiest businesses in the
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world to set up to do this so we’ve seen
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this manipulation that’s clearly his his
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political hot-button and he doesn’t care
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about security he doesn’t care about law
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enforcement he doesn’t care about any of
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those things he only cares about his own
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political acts that he wants to grind
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right now so that’s who we have in
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Virginia and a schmuck just there’s no
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other way to describe
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and this time of crisis he takes
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advantage of the crisis for his own
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political purposes and that’s flow life
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that’s clearly lowlife the guy doesn’t
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understand now he himself will view this
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as some grand moral gesture or something
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like that but this is one of those
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things where it why and this is why I
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point out quite often now because of
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this crisis why leftist can never be
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trusted in positions of responsibility
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and need to be voted out and it’s it’s
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this philosophical problem and that is
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that they are arrogant so arrogant in
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their belief system that they don’t care
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about what clearly everyone else
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recognizes as something that should be
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more important they just don’t care they
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don’t register it they don’t process it
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and they’re not able to think with with
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that basis in mind – in order to be able
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to make the right decisions they make
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the wrong decisions and the shooting
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range thing is a perfect example of that
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clearly the wrong decision made for all
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the wrong reasons and yet he’s very
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arrogant about it and you know puts
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himself on a pedestal for trying to push
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this through and I can put you know even
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if he were to listen to this right now
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as we’re doing it live and and believe
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me he’s not sitting in the audience here
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but he’s not going to
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it just won’t register he’s going to
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come up with some sort of name I’ll be a
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bigot or a racist or bla bla but
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whatever it’ll be some sort of name now
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on the on the grand scale we’re seeing
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this in the United States and Canada
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Western Europe this sort of similar
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things taking place all the time and I
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want to go back to what everybody told
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us dr. foutch II for example who’s
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supposed to be one of these grand
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experts that’s up there at the White
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House briefings every day and this group
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of people that are working with him NIH
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and all the different organizations that
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handle health issues in at least in the
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United States and one of the things that
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they were saying and remember this
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looking back just it was only weeks ago
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that they were all telling us is all
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this kicked off that we had to have
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mitigation even with mitigation in the
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United States getting to about this
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point by the end of this month we would
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have 200,000 dead that’s with mitigation
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not 200,000 dead they were talking about
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millions dying without mitigation
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and 200,000 dying with mitigation well
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here we are
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it’s mid-april today’s the 11th yeah as
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of yesterday there were thirty three
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thousand five hundred and seventy-eight
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deaths in the United States
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okay thirty three thousand you know
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unless a hundred and seventy thousand on
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these models that they all said were
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true unless one hundred and seventy
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thousand died in the next two weeks two
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and a half weeks that means they’re way
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off
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well why and that’s even that’s with 100
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percent mitigation which we do not have
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so it’s even worse off then then it
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might appear just from looking at those
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numbers because even though our
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mitigation is decent and most people are
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trying to do this it’s clearly not 100%
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and as you pointed out there’s that
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video that just came out today or
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yesterday that was the guy being pulled
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off the subway system because he wasn’t
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wearing a mask and a lot of things of
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that nature are starting to go on where
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they’re flying drones around and yelling
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at people the separate or whatever
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they’re trying to do and I’ve seen
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people pictures of people just they were
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sitting outside talking to their
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neighbor they had their chairs I don’t
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10 12 feet apart in the photograph I
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could see it they were quite you know
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reasonable distance apart from each
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other in the police came and were
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yelling at them making them go in their
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house and things like that so I mean
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it’s again kind of become draconian in
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some ways but again the underlying point
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here is you know III don’t see how to
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look at this any other way then
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everything was being exaggerated because
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they wanted to make it appear much worse
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than it was in order to make this crisis
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appear much bigger than it really was
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going to be and and why what’s the end
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of it well I think the president has
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been forced into a situation where he’s
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had to shut down the economy now here
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the United States we have states that
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are essentially untouched now we have
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New York and New Jersey in places that
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are in it very hard by this virus and
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most of the deaths are like their New
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York is number one on the list and and
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the vast majority of the deaths are out
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of New York and so New York yeah
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especially the people that are
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vulnerable the older people in poor
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health or have other issues going on in
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their lives that that affects their
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health
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those people in particular need to be
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protected but West Virginia only got its
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first case like a month ago that was its
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first case so why is not the economy of
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West Virginia which I grant you is
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smaller than New York’s but why is it
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not allowed to continue with some care
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taken on how business is done but why
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aren’t they allowed to go forth and and
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and start back up their economy and a
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lot of these in other states most of the
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states are not hit anywhere near as hard
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as New York can’t California is off the
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charts on the good end by not having
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many infections or problems a lot of
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places are like that so why are they not
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allowed to have their economy go so you
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have to begin to question why this is
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being pushed so hard so we were the
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numbers were exaggerated to us I I won’t
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say we were lied to yet but it does I
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would start to think that’s kind of the
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the initial take on all this is probably
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we were lied to
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certainly it was exaggerated and if
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those models actually showed 200,000
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dead with a hundred percent mitigation
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why we when we’re at say called 70 cent
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percent mitigation are we only gonna
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have you know maybe a quarter of that or
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a fifth of that why would that model be
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so completely off if it weren’t being
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lied to
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or they’re just wrong flat wrong on
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everything so that would also mean that
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I have to cut in there CBS they
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presented footage which they claimed was
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a New York Hospital which was actually
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in fact they claim it turns out was
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identical to footage that claimed to be
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from an Italian Hospital and the the
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footage somebody went out to the New
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York Hospital after that footage was
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aired and there was nothing going on
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there I mean it was considerably less
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busy than it would normally have been so
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CBS is hot
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absolutely absolutely fabricating a news
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story and now people are beginning to
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even question if the footage which had
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initially been broadcast as being at an
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Italian Hospital was even that since the
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focus range was so narrow
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there was no panning around the room
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that’s one of the problems and certainly
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we’re seeing a lot of lies out there on
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all of this stuff I mean things were
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they’ve been caught actually
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purposefully lying you cannot take
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footage from someplace else and claim
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that was in New York and I start to
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question the things like those bodies
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that were stacked up and that went
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around and about a week ago in the news
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cycle where and all these bodies stacked
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up in body bags like in the hallway and
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stuff at this New York Hospital okay you
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know yeah there were those bodies first
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of all we don’t know what they died of
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and let me say any in the United States
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just the United States
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there’s demands of people that die every
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year so I mean we’re looking at you know
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60 70 80 thousand people dying on any
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given day nationwide and so if you have
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say three hundred more nationwide or 200
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more nationwide when you’ve got 70,000
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dying on a daily basis why is that so
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hard to absorb now I just a little cough
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so apologies to everyone but you got
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70,000 dead bodies and the next day you
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have 70,000 200 is that that shuts down
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the nation I mean it’s just such a small
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increment in the total and I would my
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immediate question would be on that on
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that news report that showed all those
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bodies in those orange body bags stacked
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up in this New York Hospital okay first
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of all how many of them died from Kogut
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virus and they’re also playing games now
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on what they define is Kovach virus so
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there have been complaints about this
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coming up because nobody else in the
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world does it this way only now in the
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United States do we do it this way and
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that is that if like you’re dying of
12:38
cancer and at the end you get pneumonia
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and kovat 19 and then die dying anyway
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of cancer right terminal cancer and you
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get Kovac 19 before you pass away that’s
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considered a Kovac 19 death well that’s
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manipulating that’s cooking the books I
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mean they’re cooking the numbers so
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they’re trying to drive those numbers
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way up so even this 33,000 is probably
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pretty inaccurate so you know are now
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fully in Germany they listed a guy who
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broke his neck and died as a Kovac 19
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death
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yeah okay this is wackiness so again you
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start you know do the flyover view of
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all of this stuff in China I criticized
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heavily China because they’re lying
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about all their numbers well suddenly
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here too having them in the left in the
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United States it’s the same or we’re
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like the Communist Chinese now we’re
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lying about the numbers cooking the
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books that 33,000 number I just read off
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to you that’s as of yesterday’s numbers
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you know maybe that number is actually
13:38
around 2025 or something like that and
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we don’t know at the end of this month
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when it’s supposed to be 200,000 actual
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Kovach deaths how many will it be but
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it’s going to be a tiny fraction now
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there was a woman fired from Fox News
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about four or five days ago for having
13:53
reported in there that this is this
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whole incident is being politically used
13:59
by the left to damage the economy to get
14:02
to president Trump and now okay this is
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speculative because it’s so hard to
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prove there are leftist in the United
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States and Canada and Western Europe
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that are genuinely trying to do what’s
14:16
the right thing and save lives those
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people I would define generally speaking
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as just like the mom-and-pop people
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normal people in the street have the
14:23
house that happened to be leftist in
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orientation they I believe are fully
14:28
genuine for the most part the leadership
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levels they understand they are only
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after political power it’s becoming
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extremely clear that this is being
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highly manipulated and used for
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political gain and to have someone even
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speculate too that they get fired when
14:45
you know present Trump is starting to
14:47
question these these things are starting
14:49
to come out the discussion is out on the
14:51
table where he the president United
14:53
States is saying similar things okay New
14:56
York is in a lot of trouble but West
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Virginia and like 20 or 30 other states
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are not there in some various degree of
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extremely light exposure or medium
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exposure to this disease
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who are you gonna say well I think the
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only way to tell have any kind of clue
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about what’s going on is to compare the
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absolute mortality numbers over the last
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10 years for this date and see if
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there’s any spike over the last five or
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six weeks
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because we can’t we obviously we know
15:27
one senator who’s also a doctor came out
15:30
and made it very clear that these that
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we can’t trust the cause of death on any
15:36
of these things on any of these deaths
15:38
so that’s right but we can’t we came out
15:40
yesterday made that bomb yes and very
15:42
clearly and very openly and he is both a
15:44
senator and a doctor and I think that
15:47
this weekend if we look at and you know
15:48
what we’re if you do that with Sweden
15:51
and you do that with Israel then you get
15:53
a sense that social distancing actually
15:55
is reducing the the number of deaths but
15:58
there’s still something really wrong
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with the way this is all being handled
16:03
treated the information we’re being
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given I mean I feel even in Sweden you
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know they’re being lied to in the
16:10
opposite way that there is no problem
16:12
and go about your normal lives and
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they’re just wiping out their being what
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the elderly are being wiped out
16:17
according to RT they’re skating rinks
16:20
are being piled up with corpses because
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they’ve more it’s run out of
16:23
refrigerators well in socialism that’s
16:27
what socialism needs it needs people who
16:29
are retired to die because that stops
16:33
the drain on on expenses for the
16:35
government so because those are the
16:36
people that become the most expensive
16:38
you have to take care of and that’s why
16:40
you see essentially triage in all the
16:41
socialist countries everybody talks
16:43
about how great their medical systems
16:44
are but what they don’t talk about is
16:46
you know each of those countries has
16:47
limited budget for medical stuff they
16:49
can only allow so many of X procedures
16:51
to take place and so who do they
16:53
prioritize for that well young people
16:55
who are still productive not the old
16:56
people so it’s death panels they don’t
16:59
want to call it that they don’t allow
17:00
that to be said but what they are is
17:01
death panels because they they decide
17:04
who gets treatment that will save their
17:05
life and who does not now one really one
17:07
main final point I want to make this all
17:09
the indicators are really very clear
17:12
that this whole situation is being
17:13
manipulated to destroy President Trump
17:16
and they wanted the president Trump’s
17:18
great strength what was clearly had in
17:21
my head in the now there’s public polls
17:24
that they put out that they try to use
17:25
for propaganda purposes to say that like
17:27
Oh Joe Biden’s dead eat with President
17:29
Trump that’s all crap that’s all
17:31
nonsense everybody knows it’s not true
17:32
Joe Biden cannot possibly be
17:35
Trump unless they destroy the economy
17:38
and so what are they trying to do
17:40
destroyed
17:41
exactly and Joe Biden me make one more
17:43
tour please do all right go ahead well
17:45
now but I was just gonna say Joe Biden I
17:48
don’t think could be a good lunch lady
17:54
sorry you waited for me to sip my coffee
17:56
for that okay okay so kind of my final
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point out of all of this is that what we
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see here is classic propaganda you just
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classic in every way don’t forget I’m
18:10
the intelligence guy this stuff is bread
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and butter to me it’s just normal
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everyday things that I’m used to seeing
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and that’s what we see here this do you
18:18
take a kernel of truth and that’s what
18:20
the best lies are always that they’re
18:22
always based on a kernel of truth and
18:24
you take that and then spin it off into
18:26
all of these other ways to get what you
18:28
want that’s a lie and that’s the that’s
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the nature of propaganda and that’s
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precisely what we’re seeing here we see
18:35
a kernel of truth where there is this
18:36
cove in nineteen and people are indeed
18:38
dying of it and nobody knows the real
18:41
numbers now you made an excellent point
18:44
about the number of people that died
18:45
we’ve had since the beginning of this
18:47
according to this 33 thousand let’s take
18:50
say 25 as a more realistic number
18:54
assuming that some of these numbers are
18:55
exaggerated as to actual cause of death
18:57
and if you spread that over the last six
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weeks you know that’s only a few
19:03
thousand per week which is only a couple
19:05
hundred per day now on the average which
19:08
that does fit with things that were
19:09
being told out of the different
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hospitals and the different death rates
19:13
and so on on any given day it’s this
19:14
much or this much and those go up and
19:16
down so and as I mentioned on any given
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day in the United States you’re having
19:20
sixty seventy eighty thousand people die
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so on that day there’s an additional
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hundred deaths 450 deaths or two hundred
19:29
deaths I mean that’s just so
19:31
statistically insignificant it’s just
19:33
such a small number compared to the
19:36
total number of people dying and yet
19:38
look at how we’re twisted around the
19:40
axle and they are there
19:42
the economy is being destroyed all of
19:44
our economies are being destroyed and I
19:46
know if you look at leftist Phyl
19:48
ah Sophie that’s one of the things that
19:51
that they proposed as a method to take
19:56
control of the world global economy and
19:59
that is to destroy the economy so that
20:01
they can step in and promise order from
20:03
chaos and if you look at the what is the
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book some pan book for radicals that
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that talks about that specifically in
20:13
that book as a method to establish
20:16
control to take control away and
20:18
establish an essentially a Marxist
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dictatorship over an economy over in a
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country is by destroying that economy
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first so that’s what we see taking place
20:26
right here and if you look who’s backing
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this you know this is backed by the
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Chinese
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you know it’s backed by the Russians
20:31
it’s backed by the democratic party here
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in the United States and it’s backed by
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the mainstream media here in the United
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States which again I go back to this
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point that you can’t trust them
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and this is this is a good example of it
20:43
because we see all of this propaganda
20:45
mixed in with these things and they’re
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trying to scare people to the maximum
20:49
amount to allow this destruction of the
20:51
economy because they know or they
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believe that that’s a way to stop Trump
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now I want to put make a point that this
20:57
is ineffective because it’s not taking
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place there’s some questions out there
21:02
over the economy but it’s not Trump’s
21:05
fall so he’s not taking that big of a
21:09
political hit and I think this is one of
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the reasons why we’re seeing the left
21:13
continue to double down double down
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double down and double down on this but
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now the problem is we’re starting to see
21:19
those numbers separate they’re saying
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200,000 dead by the end of April 1st of
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May we’re at 33,000 that number is
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probably realistically much lower so
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that’s why we’re seeing them double down
21:31
again and start to exaggerate these
21:32
numbers which they talk about openly
21:34
though the woman I forget her name but
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she stands up there with dr. pouchy and
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president Trump at all of these
21:40
briefings the older lady has
21:42
specifically laid that out say if if
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they go I haven’t covered 19 they’re
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classified in sokovia 19 death but
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doesn’t matter if they’re dying in
21:49
cancer doesn’t matter if they fall off a
21:51
bridge and break their neck as the guy
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in Germany that you mentioned I don’t
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know if he fell off a bridge but however
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he broke his neck they clapped they’re
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classifying that is code 19 death and if
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you look at the 70,000 three
22:02
you’re number of people who die per day
22:04
they start chipping away at pulling out
22:05
of that all the people that are dying of
22:07
other diseases pneumonia whatever or
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they die of their pulling away out of
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that number in order to raise this
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number to a high enough level but
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there’s only so much they can do to
22:16
cheat without it becoming so obvious
22:18
that everybody pushes back on it but
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that’s where we find ourselves today
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that’s why I look at this go look there
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is no question this is being
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propagandized and politicized by the
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left Trump is not politicizing this he’s
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only trying to do what he thinks is best
22:32
and that’s why you start to see him
22:34
question publicly wait a minute now I
22:36
think we should probably take a look at
22:37
some of these areas that aren’t very
22:39
affected getting back into the economy
22:40
so I mean that’s where we find ourselves
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today I’m extraordinarily suspicious of
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the people pushing this issue we’ve all
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seen how World Health Organization is
22:50
this crazy Marxist guy who’s been
22:54
involved with violent revolutionary
22:57
groups we’ve seen and I think everybody
22:59
recognizes that the United Nations as
23:00
has become something almost
23:02
unrecognizable and just look at their
23:04
Human Rights Committee that they have
23:08
and who’s on it and the this whole
23:11
situation is spinning out of control and
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I think this is all gonna and kind of
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what you were alluding to I think this
23:17
is all going to bite the left and the
23:18
rear on their way out the door this is
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all starting to fold up we’re at the
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beginning of the end of how this process
23:26
has been used politically and I think
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it’s all going to blow back on to the
23:29
left I think they’re going to be in some
23:30
political trouble everything they try on
23:32
Trump fails and I think this is going to
23:35
be one more failure but this time it’s
23:37
going to show how they do not care about
23:40
any of us they don’t care about anyone
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or anything they only care about
23:44
themselves and they only care about
23:46
their own politics
23:56
you
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