In this episode, I address an explosive article in the Wall Street Journal about the Wuhan Virus which questions everything. I also address the continued misinformation and hysteria campaigns being waged by the liberal media. Finally I discuss a critical Supreme Court ruling on racial discrimination and a disastrous decision by the Democrat Nevada Governor.
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What a news day.
The bad news and the good news.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Fine, sir.
Joe, I was okay until you said something about this idiot.
I know.
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He can't believe this story.
I'm not messing.
It's not like one of those hyperbolic teases.
You are going to be stunned.
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This is how sick the Democrats have become.
Get out of here!
I got that.
I've also got some good, no, I know, some good news.
So don't go anywhere.
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All right, Joe, let's go.
All right, we're going to start out today.
We're going to get to the good news segment, that article about the awful, really despicable governor, Democrat governor of Nevada just, I mean, seriously could get people hurt.
But first, I want to get to a fake news update first today, because the fake news is everywhere.
I'm even getting it from people I You know, I like who have different political views, but I talk to them and they really believe the fake news is the real news when it's in fact the fake news.
So one of the things I'm hearing a lot from my friends who are susceptible to fake news is, man, Trump downplayed this threat in January and we all knew, Joe, liberals in the media, they all knew how serious this was.
You got it?
Of course they did.
They all knew.
We did.
It's us, those evil conservatives, Fox News and Trump.
They played the threat down.
They didn't get it.
We got it because we're smarter than all of you idiots.
Remember, we were journalism majors in college who never had real jobs.
But we got it.
We are trained epidemiologists and infectious disease experts who understood from the start the dangerous trajectory of this disease and dopey Trump didn't get it.
Let me bow down and adore you, morons.
Please, genuflect at the first opportunity in front of the first media person you see because they are so much smarter than you.
Well, hat tip John Levine, New York Post.
Here's a Vox with a V, not Fox, Vox, left-leaning radical nutbag site.
Vox, they had to delete a tweet.
I'll go to the second tweet first.
We have deleted a tweet from January 31st, Joe, not even the beginning of January, when they knew Vox with a V, Joe.
The liberals.
The 21-year-old journalism majors with no real jobs.
They knew how serious this was, but they had to delete a tweet from January 31st that, quote, no longer reflects the current reality of the coronavirus story.
For the latest, go here.
What's the tweet they deleted?
Listen to this.
Because, Joe, they knew.
It's only Trump who didn't know.
Uh-huh.
January 31st.
Vox.com.
What is the coronavirus?
It's part of a family of viruses that attack the respiratory system.
Should I travel during the outbreak?
The CDC and State Department advise avoiding travel to China for now.
Is this going to be a deadly pandemic?
No!
No!
Hat tip, John Levine, for those highlights.
No!
But they knew, Joe!
Yes.
They knew.
We're all stupid.
You and I. You know, orange man, bad.
They knew.
The 21-year-old journalism majors at Vox.
Is this going to be a deadly pandemic?
Nah!
Now Vox, in humiliating fashion, forced to delete their own tweet from January 31st, not 13th, not 1st, the end of the month.
But Trump, who by the way enacted a travel ban understanding the severity of this, Who was called a racist for doing it, by the way, by some of these same media outlets.
He's the one who was confused.
Not Vox.
Forced, again, in humiliating fashion to faceplant on the street and delete their own tweet.
Morons.
Morons.
Now, fake news update section right off the top today.
Here's Nancy Pelosi.
This is her giving a little go at comedy here.
I guess, you know, she senses the dour national mood, trying to lighten it up, giving her best Howie Mandel kind of comedy thing.
You know, she's on this segment on the, uh, hack left-wing media networks.
I think this is CNN.
And after I, again, you know, I hate the word literally because it is literally the most overused word in the English language.
And it usually means figuratively.
This is after I literally showed you on yesterday's show the bill Nancy Pelosi wanted to have passed, with all the pork she put in there.
Kennedy Center stuff.
How many white people do you have on your board?
Remember that?
Watch yesterday's show to show you the bill Pelosi won.
Nothing to do with the Wuhan virus.
Pelosi wanted a bill, a wokeness bill, to bail out the Postal Service.
How many white people do you have on your board?
This is what she wanted passed.
She's now, after getting totally wrecked again, Again, whatever I said mistakenly complimentary about Nancy Pelosi's tactical skills, if I ever did, I'm not sure if I did or I didn't, I take it all back.
This is the dumbest politician on Capitol Hill right now.
She cannot get wrecked any more than she's been getting wrecked.
She can't!
She got wrecked on impeachment.
She got wrecked on collusion.
She got wrecked putting Adam Schiff in charge.
She got wrecked putting Jerry Nadler in charge.
Now she thought playing hardball for seeing how many white people you have on your board and bailing out the Postal Service and the Wuhan virus bill, she thought that was a great political move and got wrecked again.
Constantly getting wrecked.
Wrecked everywhere.
Wrecked here.
Wrecked there.
Wrecked there.
Wrecked all over.
So here is Nancy Pelosi again in humiliating fashion in our fake news update.
We saw Vox's fake news.
Here's Pelosi's fake news.
Her new talking point, Joe, is that stuff I showed you the actual bill yesterday of her nonsense they put in there, the pork they loaded into the Wuhan bill.
Now she's telling us none of that existed, man.
I made it all up.
It's her bill, but we made it all.
Check this out.
Outstanding.
What is remaining that you want changed?
Well, I'm not going to negotiate on TV, but I want to have a unanimous consent.
I want us to be able to go forward.
It's not a bill I would have written in terms of some things that relate to family medical leave, that relate to worker protections, ruling on worker protections.
That can be done administratively.
We can find other ways.
Not enough money for elections, etc.
at this time.
Everything we're suggesting just relates to COVID-19.
It's not about making law for the future.
It's about COVID, well, except fighting COVID-19 is for the future, but I mean, it's not changing policy except as it applies here.
So again, many of the provisions in there Okay, she's just making that up.
You may say, well, she's talking about the bill after they stripped that stuff out.
No, no, even that's a lie.
Even that is a lie.
Because what I'll get to later is Nancy Pelosi's little edition of, yes, Planned Parenthood in there.
Because you know, Joe, if they can't terminate life in the womb, you know, can't pass the bill then.
I mean, you know, we got to have these, we got to get the babies.
We can't have the babies and stuff.
I mean, you got to get that Planned Parenthood stuff in there.
She's just, she's just, she's just, she's just making it.
Why do you trust this person?
She's just making it up.
Here's President Trump, by the way, responding to that, saying, yeah, we're not signing that.
You can basically take that bill you sent us yesterday, you can throw that right in the garbage.
Check this out.
I'm not going to sign that deal because Nancy Pelosi came in and put a lot of things in the deal that had nothing to do with the workers, that had to do with an agenda that they've been trying to get passed for 10 years.
And I came in, I told Mike, I told a lot of people.
There's no way I'm signing that deal.
I was getting calls from John Kennedy, from Ben Sasse, from many, many people.
Lindsey, I was getting calls from a lot of different people.
Saying, this deal, Tom Cotton, this deal is terrible, what they've done.
They took a deal, you know, we almost had a deal the day before.
And it was between Schumer and Mitch, and it was really a good, solid deal.
All of a sudden, they start throwing all of the little Green New Deal stuff in, right?
And the boardrooms, what they look like.
And we want green energy.
We want all this stuff.
Let's stop drilling oil.
They had things in there that were terrible.
Windmills all over the place and all sorts of credits for windmills that killed the birds and ruined the real estate, right?
A lot of problems.
I mean, a lot of problems.
And I said, I'm not signing this deal.
Windmills all over the place.
Who's in your boardroom?
Good for him.
Good for him.
This guy, just the plain talk.
I love it.
I can't get enough of it.
Okay.
I want to get through because I really got a lot to get through, but I'm not done with the fake news segment because it's important.
We had to come right out of the show firing it.
And again, Pelosi's not the only one doing the Howie Mandel kind of Stephen Wright.
He's trying to, you know, give it a little shot at comedy.
Maybe, you know, Andrew Dice Clay from the past, whatever it may be.
Rachel Maddow, you know, Moscow Maddow from MSNBC, the lead collusion hoaxer of all.
Who humiliated herself on national television for two years promoting the biggest hoax in American history.
But Joe, Joe, she's a Rhodes Scholar apparently.
Rhodes Scholar.
Not a Ben Rhodes Scholar from the Obama administration.
She's a Rhodes Scholar.
She's smarter than you and I. You know, Joe, you and I doped and worked for a living.
A cop and an audio engineer?
What idiots we are.
Yeah.
We are.
We're more.
I mean, we just, come on.
We actually work for Olin.
We're not Rhodes scholars like Rachel.
I mean, Joe, the collusion hoax.
I mean, anybody would have fell for the pee-pee tape story.
Anybody.
So Moscow Maddow Mascow.
Let's call her Mascow.
That's her new name.
That's Moscow and Mata.
So Mascow hilariously puts this tweet out yesterday on her Twitter feed covered by the Daily Caller.
Story will be in the show notes.
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If you want to check out the show notes, please do.
So, Mascow puts this out yesterday.
Don't amplify misinformation.
Rachel Maddow wants the media to black out Trump.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is hilarious.
That is hilarious.
Mascow?
Mascow is promoting... She doesn't want anybody promoting misinformation.
This is the lead collusion hoaxer.
Now, I'd love to hat tip, but I forgot who put this out there.
Forgive me.
Oh, no, no, no.
This was Cernovich on Twitter.
Here's an article.
By Times of San Diego, when Moscow, Moscow Maddow, got sued for promoting nonsense on the air, her own lawyer said this.
The Times of San Diego, Rachel Maddow faces slapdown by UC linguistics professor in defamation suit.
Sorry, so excited to get this out.
This is Mascow's own lawyer admitting she engages in a lot of kind of hyperbole, you know, hyperbolic, like, I'm not sure exactly how true this stuff is.
Maddow's lawyer, Mascow's lawyer, Theodore J. Ted Boutros Jr., gee, that's a long name, argued that the liberal host was clearly offering up, Joe, quote, her own unique expression of her views to capture what she saw as the ridiculous nature of the undisputed facts.
Her comment in this lawsuit, this is her lawyer talking, therefore is a quintessential statement of rhetorical hyperbole.
Incapable of being proved true or false, he said.
This is her lawyer?
This is her lawyer?
Holy cow.
This is great mascot.
Joe, she's a Rhodes Scholar, man.
Yeah, okay.
She's a Rhodes Scholar.
You say so, yeah.
Come on.
You're a dopey audio engineer, and I'm just some silly, stupid cop.
What do we know, man?
We're the real morons.
We need more Rhodes Scholars like Mascow.
I like my... Telling us not to... If you see my eyes getting red, it usually means I'm shamelessly laughing at my own jokes, which is a big mistake.
But I can't help it.
Mascow telling us not to promote misinformation.
Talk about the biggest self-owner of the day on Twitter.
All right, this is possibly the biggest story of the fake news update of the day because it is so transparently stupid to anyone with common sense.
Again, the media, nobody really takes, nobody serious takes the media seriously anymore.
They're a joke, they're an embarrassment, they're a disgrace.
I support their right to free speech, I always will, and the right to free press.
There's no buts there.
But free speech and free press includes the right, again, as I always say, to be stupid, and they always, always have to take us up on the opportunity.
Just ignore these idiots.
I put it out there only to show you how useless they are if you're still under the mistaken belief you're getting accurate information from people who claim to be journalists.
Look at this AP story here.
Fact-checking.
Fact-checking what is a transparently obvious statement about President Trump.
AP fact-check.
Trump claims rising suicides if US stays shut.
I'll put up the piece here from AP in a second.
So the press is now fact-checking Trump's statement that mental health will decline and there'll be a possible increase in suicides if we have a mass depression?
That requires a fact check?
Are we going to fact check if Trump says 2 plus 2 equals 4 next to... Now, in the piece they actually double down on stupid.
This isn't... These are claiming to be serious people, Joe.
Remember, you and I are the dopes.
These are the smarty pants people here.
Look at the AP story.
President Trump made a baseless claim of surging suicides if the U.S.
economy remains mostly shut due to the spread of the coronavirus.
This is AP.
There's no evidence that suicides will rise dramatically, let alone surpass potential coronavirus deaths.
Historically in a crisis, suicides tend to diminish as society pulls together in a common purpose?
I...
I'm not... I'm not kidding.
Yeah.
This took on my iPhone right here.
This took all of, I actually counted to be sure I wasn't crazy.
It took seven seconds and would have been faster if my internet was quicker.
Seven seconds to determine the stupidity of that statement that Joe.
Yeah.
Suicides actually go down in a crisis.
What?
Now listen, I never tout my educational credentials because it's stupid.
Hey, look at me.
I went to graduate school.
I'm so smart.
You're all stupid.
I hate that.
I hate it.
Nobody cares about your education.
But I mean, I did spend two years getting a graduate degree in neuropsychology.
I have a little tiny little bit of experience here.
I've literally never heard that ever.
That yes, if you happen to be suicidal, And you're prone to suicide, which people are.
That a crisis is great.
It goes down.
People love that.
I have never heard that by any sane person anywhere.
This is AP.
That's a real story.
That's an actual story, Joe.
If you're suicidal, don't you worry.
A crisis is exactly what you need.
Seven seconds it took for me.
I had to Google it because I don't even need to go back to studies that tell you the obvious.
The first story that came up was this, and I picked this story, by the way, seven seconds, seven, or Joe Biden, seven.
Joe Biden does a no six from seven.
I had to pick a left-leaning outlet like the Atlantic.
This is not a conservative out—because, you know, if, again, if it's a fact on a conservative page, the left thinks it doesn't matter.
But I picked a left-leaning outlet, The Atlantic, and I wanted to show you this article.
This came up in, again, seven seconds.
Suicide and the Economy by Elizabeth McBride.
It's about this woman whose grandfather killed himself during the Great Depression.
Apparently 40,000 others did, too.
It's not funny, folks.
This isn't some kind of a joke.
The joke is the media idiots who are downplaying the massive repercussions.
This is from the piece.
From what's going to happen if the economy shut down.
Trump's an idiot.
There are not going to be suicides.
People are going to be just peachy.
I guess her grandfather's name was Roy.
He was one of at least 40,000 Americans who took their own lives that year.
And the next, the two-year span, that suicide rate spiked to its highest recorded level ever.
More than 150 per 1 million people annually.
This isn't a joke.
This isn't funny stuff.
It's pathetic.
Making fun of the media is always funny because they're useless, feckless losers.
20-year-old journalism major idiots without an ounce of experience in the real world.
They're not carpenters.
They're not electricians.
They've never bent a pipe.
They've never cleaned the drain.
Their biggest emergency is when they take a dump and they can't clean out their toilet bowl and they gotta call a plumber and he's not available.
What do I do, mommy?
What do I do?
I had too much Chipotle last night!
You're useless, feckless idiots.
All of you.
In a crisis, suicides don't spike?
Are you really this stupid?
Now.
Before the show, I was inside putting on this ugly face I have.
I gotta put some mattifier on because I shine like crazy because of my very oily Italian skin.
And I thought to myself, Joe, wait, let me get this straight.
The same 21-year-old journalism idiots who work at AP and have never had a real job in their life, who have told us Correct me if I'm wrong, Joe.
Paula, you too.
Jump in here anytime.
You bet, babe.
The same liberal lunatics working in the media.
Who've told us that college campuses, man, you can't have Charles Murray on a college campus.
God forbid Ben Shapiro.
This is a microaggression that'll cause massive psychological trauma to the snowflakes.
They need a safe room, crayons, coloring books, Snuggies and paint by numbers because they're so delicate and sensitive.
They'll be traumatized by life.
God forbid Ben Shapiro opens his mouth on a college campus.
The same dip, We're on terrestrial radio now.
Mm-hmm.
These same... These same, I can't hold back, who told us the college snowflakes are so delicate that if Charles Murray or Ben Shapiro or a conservative even appears on campus, they're gonna lose their minds and there's gonna be a mental break matrix style.
The same people telling us that are now telling us if we cause the next Great Depression by shutting down the economy, don't you worry!
Suicidal people are gonna be A-OK!
Chew on that cud for a minute.
Do you understand that liberalism is a wart on the ass of humankind?
That it is populated by the dumbest people on the planet.
And their views, which are so dumb, they defi- They- Their views don't even make sense.
Depending on the day, they'll change their- Microaggressions.
Trigger warning.
Trigger warning.
Ben Shapiro's on campus.
Ben Shapiro's on campus.
Everybody get your color forms out.
I just dated myself.
Everyone.
This is going to be traumatizing.
The same idiots who were telling you that, populating liberal journalism outlets, are now telling you that mass unemployment, bankruptcy, and everything is going to be great for you.
Don't you worry.
Shut it down.
Screw the mom-and-pop shop on the corner.
Screw the pizza place owner.
Screw the landscaper who doesn't have a job because nobody will let him near that.
Screw them!
They'll be fine!
It's the snowflakes on the college campuses we got to worry about.
They're going to be safe spaces?
Are the media setting up safe spaces for the potentially 20-30 million Americans who are unemployed?
You dumb I'm not kidding.
Sometimes I love terrestrial, but it really- Careful, boss.
There are times- Careful, boss.
Yeah, yeah.
I know.
I'm with you.
I know because you used to do this for a living before Joe had to get the buzzer ready in his old line of work.
And I got a rather salty tongue.
Are we going to do that?
Is that what's coming?
Are they preparing?
These AP losers, the morons who wrote this piece, are they preparing?
For what, 10 million or so safe rooms, safe spaces, whatever you call your stupid stuff?
Are their trigger warnings going to be everywhere?
What are they doing?
Is there going to be a mass Malamar eating session?
What are we doing next?
Are we doing Oreos and Milkies?
What are we doing?
What are we doing for the people out of work that don't worry, Joe, everybody just bands together in a crisis?
Are you this stupid?
You morons!
Bands together in a crisis?
What do you think this is?
Some kind of Kumbaya movie you just saw last week?
Oh, this is great!
Cinderella, man!
Everything ends well in the end.
Sometimes it doesn't, you dumb morons!
Sometimes people die.
And sometimes people get hurt.
And sometimes people who are depressed, who lose their jobs, tragically take their own lives.
You infantile idiots!
Get out of your DC, New York bubble!
Get off the Amtrak you take, the Acela back and forth, and go to the real world!
We're real people with real dirt under their real fingernails that really bleed when they work really hard are suffering because of you idiots and your non-stop hysteria, you colossal losers!
And one last note on our little fake news update here.
I promise you.
You can expect all of this fake fact-checking nonsense?
Suicide stopped lives in a crisis?
Oh, yeah, okay.
Brilliant.
Brilliant point.
You can expect all of this to disappear if, God forbid, we lose this election and clueless Joe Biden is the president.
All of it.
I promise you, you will see none of this fake fact-checking again.
None of it.
Joe Biden will say whatever he wants, and the 21-year-old journalism idiots who've never had a real job will parrot it, because that's what they do.
They're not free-thinking beings.
They're the Borg in that Star Trek show.
Some of the dumbest people I have ever seen in my life in the media.
All right, let me take a break here, get to our next segment here.
I got some Election 2020 stuff, but...
Hey, Paul, can you do me a favor?
Can you plug my computer back in while you're at it?
Just come around here.
You don't have to cut this out, folks.
This is part of being the...
Behind the fourth estate in our show, but I kicked my plug.
Yeah, it goes right in there.
You see that?
Thank you.
See, my wife's great.
You're so versatile.
She's afraid.
You hear a little beep?
I was so ticked off in that last segment, my foot kicked it and I unplugged my own computer.
All right, we needed that break anyway.
It was kind of like a nice segue.
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Wouldn't you agree?
Yes, I would.
Yes, Paula.
No, you two, I know.
I'm tired of these people.
We're being led by a group of idiots.
All right, let's get to some other stuff here.
Election 2020, other things are going on.
Obviously everything's intersecting with the Wuhan virus these days, but there is an election about to happen in November for the presidency of the United States.
Um, here's a video of Joe Biden answering questions about the Wuhan virus, and this goes under the headline, sub headline, whatever you'd like to call it, of what the hell did he just say?
If you can translate this, ladies and gentlemen, email us, because I gotta be honest with you, I have no idea what Joe Biden is trying to say here.
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But I'll let you determine.
Check this out.
Here's Joe Biden on the cure.
I don't even know what this is on.
Check this out.
We talked about Trump saying the government would reassess the recommended period for keeping businesses shut and people at home.
Are you at all concerned, as Trump said, that we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself?
We have to take care of the cure.
That will make the problem worse no matter what.
And you want to be president, huh?
Really?
Joe, what was that?
I don't even know what he just said.
We have to take care of the cure or the problem will get worse.
What is he even saying?
Holy moly.
Holy cow.
I'm not messing with you either.
You know, I love my audience and I don't like to Pile on unnecessarily, like make the point, move on, it's more effective.
I'm not kidding when I tell you I could have sent Joe five or six Biden segments from that interview that are equally as bad.
Yeah.
Nobody knows what this guy is talking about ever.
He is in a perpetual state of confusion that is frankly disturbing to watch.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not making light of it.
It is.
You want this guy in charge in a crisis.
It's hard to watch.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
Oh my gosh, it's hard to watch.
It really is.
It's not funny.
No.
He doesn't even know what state he's in sometimes.
He loses himself in the middle of sentences.
Listen, Democrats, you do your thing.
I'm not here to lecture anybody, okay, but you vote, do your thing, whatever.
I don't care.
I'm just telling you, this is a disaster and you better figure it out fast.
Here's Trump.
Not that much younger than Biden, but clearly more They're grounded?
Mocking Biden for calling him xenophobic for instituting the travel ban against China, which looks now like it's going to save potentially tens of thousands of lives.
Check out Trump.
I made a decision to close off to China.
That was weeks early.
And honestly, it took a lot of heat.
Sleepy Joe Biden said it's xenophobic.
I don't know if he knows what that means, but that's OK.
He doesn't know what that means.
Actually, it's probably the one thing Joe Biden, Identity Politics Joe, probably does know what that means.
But there's Trump again.
You may not like his style.
That's your call.
I've never minded it, but he's clearly at least there and knows he's in the White House.
More good news, election 2020, because again, there are other things going on.
Gallup just released a poll.
Gallup.
Again, this isn't some right-leaning poll outfit.
Gallup.
President Trump's job approval rating is up to 49% by Jeffrey M. Jones.
It'll be in the show notes today as well.
You can send this to your liberal friends.
One of mine who keeps emailing me suggesting, President Trump really screwed this up and the American public knows it.
Really?
That's fascinating because the approval rating is the highest it's ever been.
I mean, do you even do facts and data?
I'm just asking.
It's not a joke.
Do you do facts and data or is that just your opinion?
Because you're clearly making it up.
Everybody knows President Trump screwed this up.
Oh, okay.
Clearly not familiar with the science of polling, I guess.
Another piece of good news, Paul Bedard, great piece from Washington Examiner, gonna be up at the show notes today.
Listen, New York, California governors breaking bread, win in a newfound mutual respect with Trump.
Folks, it's a crisis, okay?
And unlike the Democrats, I'm not interested in politicizing the solution.
If Andrew Cuomo comes out tomorrow and wants to talk about Hydroxychloroquine, Plaquenil, and Z-Paks, and he thinks he has evidence in New York that it works.
I promise you I'm not going to do what the governor of Nevada did, the Democrat governor of Nevada, a really troubled person, and say, let's ban it!
That's what Democrats do.
If governor of New York, who is terrible on every issue, there's no doubt about it, and the governor of California found some way to work with Trump to solve this crisis that can save family and friends I have that live in New York and California, good for you.
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart.
I'll never vote for you, but you'll have my support.
Liberals will never tell you the same thing about Trump.
Trump said we don't want a Great Depression because people could kill themselves.
People don't kill themselves!
People love crisis who are suicidal!
Trump said chloroquine could potentially help based on this French study.
Ban chloroquine tomorrow!
Ban chloroquine tomorrow!
You're sick.
You're a really sick people.
You know that you're really sick, deeply disturbed people really get help when this is over, get help.
Now remember this week in baseball, we're going to redo the taste.
This is today in good news.
Instead of this week at baseball, it's today in good news because there is some good news.
And unlike the AP who seems to think suicidal people just love another Great Depression because they're stupid like that, I don't believe that, and I believe people need hope.
Suffering isn't always a bad thing.
When suffering, we come out of it on the other side, we survive it, it can make us harder.
And I'll read a quote at the end, and more resilient to stress later on.
Yeah.
But people need hope and optimism.
And subjecting people to 24-hour hysteria, madness, and you're all gonna die all the time is garbage.
And garbage people do it.
So, first, Washington Examiner piece yesterday was, and listen, I don't want to get into the ups and downs too much of the market, and I don't want to put too much into ups and too much into downs.
But yesterday was one of the single biggest leaps in the stock market, Dow Jones, in U.S.
history.
Stocks enjoy one of the largest daily gains in history as Congress nears a deal on pandemic relief.
Jay Heflin washed an examiner.
Again, be up in the show notes.
The Dow jumped nearly 2,000 points yesterday.
Again, I'm just going to leave that there.
I'm just telling you, unless you believe the United States is going to collapse, which I do not believe at all, I don't even believe a semblance of that, there has probably been some significant overselling in the market.
And as I've said, I'm not your financial advisor.
I don't care to be.
I'm not giving you financial advice.
I'm only telling you what I buy the dips every time.
Because I believe in this country and I believe in the long run, we're going to figure it out.
And I believe we'll always be the last best hope when everything else runs out.
Hey, Dan, I don't know.
We'll have some more volatility.
I don't know if you want to talk about this here, but we were talking about the digital money.
And yes, yes, yes.
I thought this would be a good spot.
So yesterday that segment went crazy.
We have a Dan Bongino show clips channel on YouTube.
If you can't watch the whole show, we have it broken down to the clips and segments.
Yesterday we discussed how the government wants digital money.
Nancy Pelosi and her team wanted to put digital dollars in there.
Bad deal.
Bad deal.
And I discussed what their long-term plan is.
How inflation and taxation needs digital money?
Because they don't want you to escape in cash.
Digital dollars only, no cash.
Now the bill doesn't say no cash, but that's where they're going with this in the future.
Joe brought up a great point I want to bring up again today.
Think about this too, the digital.
Watch the segment yesterday during the show if you missed it.
You can check it out on the Show Clips channel too on YouTube.
After the show, Joe goes, listen man, the inflation tax stuff is important, but can you imagine if everything was digital?
Imagine how easy it would be to track all your purchases.
Oh, you bought a gun.
Oh, you're on a list.
Look at that.
Yes.
All that doesn't fit in our good news segment.
It must be brought up.
The good news is hopefully we're getting rid of the digital dollar idea.
Yeah.
Great point by, I said to Joe, take a note that has to go.
Think about that.
Yeah, man.
Ooh.
All of a sudden you appear on all these lists.
Oh, look, you're buying stuff in your house the government doesn't like?
Oh, check that out.
Listen, I don't know what you're buying.
I don't want to know.
Peered on Atlas, too?
Spent your digital dollars in the wrong spot?
We believed in freedom and liberty, that kind of thing.
Yo, good point, though.
Thanks, man.
Excellent point.
That was Joe's hat tip.
All right.
Again, in our Today in Good News segment, here is an article of the Wall Street Journal with some optimism about the fatality rate.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, science matters.
When we're talking about infectious pathogens, we have to be concerned based on the data With the contagious level of this, the R0, and the fatality rate.
How contagious is it and how deadly is it?
Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to be an advanced level epidemiologist to ask basic questions like, can I catch this and will I die from it?
Now, some scientists have been going over the data, which I'm relaying to you.
I'm not going to add any spin to it.
I'm going to read from it in this Wall Street Journal article, which is a small note of optimism here, that we may be drastically overestimating the fatality or lethalness of this virus.
Wall Street Journal today, is the coronavirus as deadly as they say?
Current estimates about the COVID-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude.
Iran burned David and Jay Bhattacharya.
This piece is incredible.
What it says, ladies and gentlemen, we'll go with takeaway number one from this screenshot, one from the piece, is the number of infected people who die matter.
Not the amount of people who die from the intent to identify positive cases.
Let me explain that.
I'm not talking about they don't matter, I'm talking about the number.
Quote.
Fear of COVID-19 is based on its high estimated fatality rate.
2-4% of people with confirmed COVID-19 have died according to the World Health Organization and others.
So if 100 million Americans ultimately get the disease, 2-4 million could die.
We believe that estimate, this is from the piece, is deeply flawed.
The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected who die, as I said in the beginning, not the deaths from identified positive cases.
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, if the only people showing up to get tested for the Wuhan virus are people showing really awful symptoms who know they're sick, I can't breathe, it's a serious virus that's beyond dispute.
Beyond dispute.
But if the only people showing up to get tested are the ones showing dramatic symptoms, I can't breathe again, my head hurts, massive body aches, then ladies and gentlemen, by default, your statistics are going to be skewed because the less serious cases that either don't know they have it or thought they had some cold or a mild flu never show up to get tested, therefore don't show up in the fatality rate.
The fraction matters!
That's like saying every baseball player in the world makes millions of dollars.
Well, how do you know that?
Well, because I went around the major leagues and polled them and the minimum salary is a million dollars.
You're not polling every baseball player in the world.
You're only polling the greatest baseball players in the world.
That's why you're getting that number.
Now do that in reverse.
If you're only polling Or, I should say, taking into account the statistics, the most serious cases, and leaving the mild ones out, of course you're going to get an inflated fatality rate.
The piece points to three examples.
Number one, China.
This is fascinating.
I'll read it for you.
You need to hear this.
We're not doing hysteria here.
We're going to focus on the science and the data.
Quote, population samples from China, Italy, and Iceland and the US provide relevant evidence.
Around January 31st, countries sent planes to evacuate citizens from Wuhan, China.
Listen to this.
When those planes landed, the passengers were tested for COVID-19 and quarantined.
After 14 days, the percentage who tested positive was 0.9%.
If this was the prevalence in the Greater Wuhan area on January 31st then, with a population of about 20 million, then Greater Wuhan had 178,000 infections, folks!
About 30-fold more than the number of reported cases.
If that's the case, ladies and gentlemen, the fatality rate then, by simple numbers, would be at least 10-fold lower than the estimates based on reported cases.
Kind of important, no?
It's the number of infected people that matter, not the number of people who reported an infection because they were sick enough to do so.
And again, I mean matter in relevance to the statistics on the fatality, not moral judgments on matter.
Don't be silly like liberals do.
We need to know how contagious it is and how deadly it is if you are going to shut down the world.
Kind of important.
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As I said, before the break, The number of infected matters.
The China data seems to indicate that far more people were infected with this virus than the public numbers, which would obviously alter the fatality rate, thankfully, dramatically.
You say, well, that's not enough.
Well, let's check out Italy.
Quote, Wall Street Journal.
Next, the northeastern Italian town of Vo, forgive me if I'm saying that wrong, I am Italian, so, but I have never been to Italy, shock me, near the provincial capital of Padua.
If I'm blowing that, I'm deeply sorry.
On March 6th, all 3,300 people of this town in Italy were tested, and 90 were positive, a prevalence of 2.7%.
All of them were tested.
Applying that prevalence to the whole province, Which had 198 reported cases suggests that there were actually 26,000 infections at that time.
That's more than 130-fold the number of actual reported cases.
Since Italy's case fatality rate of 8% is estimated using the confirmed cases,
the real fatality rate, ladies and gentlemen, could in fact be closer to 0.06.
The data, ladies and gentlemen, matters.
There's good news, bad news to this.
The bad news first.
It may be more contagious than we think.
Again, what is that R0?
How many people is that infected person going to infect as well, given a native population with no immunity?
It appears it's highly contagious.
The good news, it doesn't appear nearly as fatal if these numbers hold as some of the initial numbers stated.
You say, well, Dan, China and Italy's not enough.
MSNBC and everyone, they're telling us we need to be hysterical all the time.
We need to shut down the whole world.
Because don't worry, there is no psychological trauma from another Great Depression.
AP told us.
Well, let's check out the Iceland data too, because data I thought mattered.
You know, the left, the party of science.
Yeah, sure.
In Iceland, Decode Genetics is working with the government to perform widespread testing in a sample of nearly 2,000 entirely asymptomatic people.
For AP and the liberals, that means people showing no symptoms of this.
Researchers estimated disease prevalence of just over 1%.
Iceland's first case was reported on February 28th, weeks behind the United States.
It's plausible that the proportion of the U.S.
population that has been infected is double, triple, listen to this, or even ten times as high as the estimates from Iceland.
This also implies a dramatically lower fatality rate.
Folks.
I'm not here to put lipstick on anything.
This is a deadly serious problem.
People have died.
People will tragically continue to die.
But the world we live in is full of risk every single day.
Risks we take into account in our own lives.
As I said to you weeks ago, the flu is deadly.
Very deadly.
And if you're older, it can be extremely deadly.
So why doesn't everybody get a flu shot?
Matter of fact, why does half of the United States, roughly half the public, not get a flu shot?
Because you're all grown men and grown women, if you're listening to my show, most likely.
You're grown men and women who make your own decisions.
You gauge your own risk, and you take it into account in living your daily life.
It's a serious virus.
We live in a world of risk.
And making decisions based on data that may not be accurate and scaring people to death 24 hours a day?
I'm not doing that.
You can tune in to CNN and MSNBC for that.
I'm not doing it.
I'll just make one point, too.
They are my competitors, so this isn't entirely objective, but it's hard for me to be that way.
But please tune the Drudge Report out, folks.
Every morning with Drudge, it's the end of the world, we're all gonna die.
Please.
I check on it to see the hysteria, because that is a story in my show now.
We have a hysteria-free site, BonginoReport.com.
It's hysteria-free.
We'll get you the stories without the nonsense.
The Drudge Report has gone insane.
My gosh.
Sometimes I check it out in the morning just to see, like, what the doom and gloom of the day is going to be for them.
Right.
Tune it out.
It's ridiculous.
It's so far over the top.
I got this other piece, too, by the Daily Signal.
Some more, again, today in optimistic news.
The Plaquenil study.
Hydroxychloroquine.
Again, up in the show notes.
Kevin Pham, Daily Signal.
What we know about potential treatments for COVID-19.
Check this out.
Chloroquine.
Which again, the media and the hack, disturbed governor of Nevada wants to ban chloroquine for treatment of this.
Sounds promising, it says.
The study involved 36 patients, about chloroquine, of whom 20 were given these drugs, and 16 acted as a control group who did not receive the drugs.
By comparison, the study population is about one-tenth of the size of the Gilead Phase II study population, which will include 400 patients.
Actually, we're talking about Resmavir, another one.
We're talking about this French study, though, which excluded patients who were later admitted to the ICU, so it says nothing about whether these drugs will prevent severe illness.
One of the truly promising aspects of this study is that it measured viral loads and found that patients, listen, who completed the test protocol with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, the combination were virologically cured.
That is, ladies and gentlemen, they had no detectable viral RNA.
This is important because a person infected with COVID-19 still may be shedding virus up to 37 days after developing the disease.
Again, liberals, I understand you're all smarter than the French team that did that study on Plaquenil and Z-Pax.
I get it.
You know, you're 21, you studied journalism, you've never had a real job.
I get it, you're all smarter than them.
But why don't you just take a seat for now and shut the... up.
Now!
Here is the Trump derangement syndrome level six hysteria portion of today.
This guy's a disgrace to humankind, um, of the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time.
I saw this story and I have to be candid with you.
I thought this was a sick joke, like a Babylon B story.
You know, Trump suggests hydroxychloroquine study may be promising.
We may have a potential treatment or cure for the Wuhan virus out there.
I thought like the Babylon B or, The Onion would write a story, Democrats ban treatment because Trump said it's good.
This is not a joke.
This is a real story.
By this sick dude.
Las Vegas Sun.
Sisolak bars malaria drugs for coronavirus patients.
This is not a joke.
This is a real story.
Look.
This guy Sisolak, if you're in Nevada, this human disgrace, Apparently to dunk on Trump, said we're going to bar that hydroxychloroquine treatment for this.
Check this out.
Let me just read from the piece in case again you think I'm making any of this up and doing what AP ironically said he writes for him.
This is it.
Nevada's governor has signed an emergency order barring the use of anti-malaria drugs for someone who has the coronavirus.
Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak's order Tuesday restricting chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine comes after President Trump touted the medication as a treatment for the virus.
This garbage person, garbage person, would basically rather see you die than to, God forbid, give President Trump a win?
This is a win for Trump now?
My gosh, are we living in the stupidest of times.
We are living in the absolute stupidest of times.
If there was a stupid scale of 1 to 100, we have unquestionably peaked out.
If you're not inundating this moron's office with phone calls, be cool about it.
We're not liberals, you know.
Leave the violence to the liberals and their Antifa buddies.
That's not our bag of donuts.
But if you're not inundating your governor with phone calls and emails, and this guy's actually voted into office again, the end of times must surely be near.
Their story.
I didn't make that up.
Not the duffel blog, not the onion, not Babylon Bee.
I'm running out of time, but These are tough times.
Really tough times.
They could get worse.
I'm optimistic we'll recover.
We always have.
We've been through pandemics, world wars, internal strife, the 60s.
We've been through a lot.
We'll come out of this with thicker skin.
You know, Bernard Malamud, who wrote the book The Natural, I use this quote a lot at speeches because, you know, I'm not a big guy in quotes.
I think quotes a lot of times can be lazy show content stuff.
Oh, let me put a quote, it'll kill time.
But some of them, you know, really express a larger thought I think is worthy of passing on.
And Malamud in his book The Natural, you probably saw the movie, many of you, Robert Redford.
And this quote is in the movie in a kind of different form.
Malamud writes in his book, and he's talking about Roy Hobbs, the baseball player here who, you know, keeps coming up with these obstacles in his life.
He's this great baseball player.
He gets shot and, you know, he keeps coming back.
And there's a quote in the book where it says, Roy's old girlfriend says to him, she says, you know, we all have two lives, the life we learn from and the life we live after that.
It's suffering that brings us to true happiness.
You know, it's worth considering today.
No one welcomes suffering.
We're empathetic to others when we see suffering in others.
No one wants to see it.
No one welcomes it.
But it's going to happen.
We live in a world of risk.
We live in a world of sometimes very dangerous evil people, dangerous viruses, dangerous hurricanes, dangerous tornadoes.
We were put here, I believe, by God.
You're free to believe whatever you want.
But you were put here to overcome that.
You weren't put here to sit in a lounge chair with a bowl of Cheetos.
You were put here for the struggle.
This was a struggle imparted upon us by no, obviously, no actions.
We didn't do this.
It's our struggle right now.
We'll come out of this on the other side.
I humbly and with the greatest of respect for my audience, I mean this, I ask you to just remember that in this thing, because listen, everybody's going to take it on the chin a bit.
Everyone.
Everyone.
But we'll come out of this on the other side.
We need to stay optimistic through this.
And I only say that because that AP story is dangerous.
My daughter's middle name.
is taken from a friend of mine who jumped off a building in Whitestone decades ago.
So it's kind of personal for me when the AP tells you, "Ah, let's just bring on the next
Great Depression."
Everything's going to be fine.
You may be fine in your AP cubicle with your bowl of Skittles.
You may be great, but the rest of us won't.
Tell us the facts.
Tell us the data.
Stop with the hysteria.
Let's make reasoned decisions.
And let's remember, we've been through this before.
