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April 24, 2020 - Louder with Crowder
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Fact-Checking the Media's Trump/Lysol Lies | Dan Crenshaw Guests | #12 Good Morning MugClub
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Oh, that's a nice mouth feel.
Now, I should warn you, that is not from our wonderful coffee sponsor, Black Rifle Coffee.
This is actually Topo Chico.
And that's because I went to a coffee shop recently when they gave you espresso.
They gave you this as like a palate cleanser.
And so I drink my coffee before the show.
Oh, that's nice.
And palate cleanse.
And we have Dan Crenshaw on the show today.
Yes!
Looking forward to that.
That'll be a lot of fun.
I cut you off, but you seem like it's okay.
You can talk with me.
No, I am talking.
I said I loved him.
Oh.
I'll say it again.
I love you!
Porter Black Garrett, Gerald A., half-Asian, lighter-billed, rich kid. How are you, sir?
I'm wonderful, but I cannot deal with Gerald Morgan's pirate fetish in the morning.
Hey, we might get a call from YouTube about that.
Be careful of that.
Another one?
Referring to Trent Shaw as a pirate.
Hey, and I really appreciate the kind words from yesterday's show to everyone out there, but you can stop with them because I'm not a homosexual.
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I'm always panicked.
We're doing this through the end of the month the final show will be next Thursday where we watch a press briefing
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So I should warn you Very angry this morning. Yes
Yeah, why Very pissed.
I wanted to do the CNN fact check now.
I was in the room with my wife this morning in my office, and I have a TV, and I watch on Hulu.
I watch CNN because I have to, and I assume that they don't get the ratings from Hulu.
I don't know.
If I could sneak into a movie theater without paying, but doing it with television programming, I would do it.
Right.
That's what would contribute to that number.
With every Michael Moore film, I would be like, I don't know, I'll pay two for Blade 3.
I don't care.
You paid your money, you should be good.
But then I was on record paying for Blade 3.
I hope no one gets my tax return.
I guess that's better.
Because as an actor it was a write-off.
I'm like, oh wow, you spent $200 on Blade 3?
Hmm, big Ryan Gosling fan.
Anyway, it's Ryan Reynolds.
Again, I'm not homosexual.
And let me ask you, though, a question.
Do you think that the Cuomo family is the perfect example of celebrity privilege and everything that is wrong with this country?
Because we will be talking about Christina Cuomo, that is Chris Cuomo's wife, and of course we don't want to cross any boundaries because she has her own health blog, has nothing to do with the fact that she is Chris Cuomo's wife.
So I want to make sure that within the bounds of...
Propriety?
Yeah, propriety.
I don't know if propriety meant it was like proprietary.
I think those are different words.
But I was so mad this morning that I was in my office watching it on CNN.
My wife came in and they were saying, there was someone on CNN saying, do not, please, a medical professional, drink or inject Lysol or bleach as the president prescribed.
And I was going...
And I told my wife, I said, babe, I love you.
I am not mad with you or mad at you, but right now I really feel, and I mean this, urge to whip my mug at the television screen, so I think you should leave the room.
And then I hit the heavy bag for like 30 minutes, and then, you know.
Get rid of the energy.
Can I tell you, I was reading this this morning, and I had to stop reading, because I, you know, I started reading the reports when I was on the crapper.
And it prevented me from going.
You got locked up?
No, because I read it and I thought, oh my gosh, he must have said some terrible things.
And of course you're reading the articles over and over again and you're like, where's the actual quote?
They just like take one word and then they add, you know, to the beginning and the end.
So then you gotta dig and you gotta dig.
Couldn't find it on CNN.
So then I'm like digging more and I'm like, alright, where's the actual transcript?
Just give me the paragraph!
Give me the full sentence!
And then I read the sentence and realized, Holy crap, they're not even trying to be honest now.
It's pretty absurd at this point.
This is CBD, so don't give me crap.
Oh my gosh.
Hey, can we get like the heavy bag in here for you next week when we do the Thursday show?
Oh god, we're gonna need it.
Because we're gonna need a stress reliever for you in the middle of that four hour mess.
Hey, Gerald, can we do an acting class?
I hope that is not FDA approved, because that's not doing shit!
So, for those who don't know, who haven't been following, of course we'll get to this in a second, where they're blaming Donald Trump for even implying that you should be drinking or injecting Clorox Lysol.
Name brand products, by the way.
All of it, yeah.
We gotta do name brands.
It'd be like if Donald Trump said, there are certain grains and cereals that they're finding right now might have antibodies, and they go, unlike the president, we do not believe that specifically General Mills products cure COVID-19.
Don't look for the big G. Do not.
You do not, in fact, gotta have your pots.
The captain will not, according to the FDA, make it happen.
Back to you, homosexual Anderson Cooper.
Lied from your firehouse that you repurposed for five million dollars in the West Village.
Wow.
You walking taint!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, why are you insulting taints?
There's nothing wrong with a good taint.
My god, everyone's got one of those.
Not everyone is a white ghost terrible host guy.
Whoa, that's great.
Let's hope the quality of the insults improve.
That's not exactly a cipher I'd want to put on a highlight reel.
That was pretty bad.
Alright, I won't enter the fray.
Your honor, I arrest my case.
Yeah, just give me a give me a loss.
Give me a guilty verdict.
Alright, so let's kind of walk through this before we get to the Lysol and bleach and thank you guys so much for watching, tuning in.
We love spending the morning with you.
We'll be doing more of this as we go forward.
So the Trump presser yesterday brought good news.
We didn't stream it.
I almost want to just stream them every day now, but I know we can't.
He was back to He was back to kicking reporters' asses, really, by delivering good news, which they didn't want to hear.
So, turns out, like we've been talking about, sunlight, high temperatures, and high humidity actually does, in fact, kill the coronavirus.
You're the president and people tuning into these briefings, they want to get information and guidance and want to know what to do.
They're not looking for rumors.
I'm the president and you're fake news.
You know what I'll say to you?
I'll say very nicely.
I know you well.
I know you well because I know the guy.
I see what he writes.
He's a total faker.
So, are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
It's just a suggestion from a brilliant lab by a very, very smart, perhaps brilliant man.
He's talking about sun, he's talking about heat, and you see the numbers.
So that's it.
That's all I have.
I'm just here to present...
Talent.
I'm here to present ideas.
Because we want ideas to get rid of this thing.
And if heat is good, and if sunlight is good, that's a great thing as far as I'm concerned.
Go ahead.
By the way, what I love with Donald Trump is when he says, perhaps, brilliant.
I'm just presenting talent.
What he's saying is, you are an antonym.
Yes.
Talent?
No.
Brilliant?
Gay bald catfish.
Faker.
And your boyfriend fakes it.
I do like how he just is very remedial with them.
He's like, just so you know, that's a smart person.
Now let me reiterate, there's talent.
Exactly.
And the funny thing is, too, he has, again, when we've done these press briefings, he has experts there.
Most of these quotes from Donald Trump's medical experts come from the briefings.
Because he goes out, gives a general layout of what it is they'll be discussing, and then they make sure to fine-tune it, correct it, because anyone can get things wrong when you're dealing with them.
What did I have to have you Google this morning?
And you know that I... Glutathione.
Glutathione, because I've read about this for a long time.
You drink You take wine, you take NAC, we've talked about it, it's what they give you when you go to the hospital and you have some kind of acetaminophen toxicity.
It's a medical tool that's used that you can also purchase as a supplement.
Creates glutathione, but I've never actually heard it pronounced.
I've only read about it.
Right?
So I misspeak, but I'm also dumber than Donald Trump.
Let's be honest here.
If you were Donald Trump, you'd have been accused of prescribing some drug made in South America.
Right.
That's illegal.
No, they probably have some stuff that's pretty good.
We should open up the border.
The Hondurans are making great strides in the medical field, folks.
Got a morning regimen that we don't know about?
I just buy my meds from a food truck, but it's a caravan.
It's a Honduran caravan.
It's like the movie Chef.
Just to look it up and see.
So, to be clear, by the way, UV light kills, I think it was within 60 seconds, if it's 95 degrees or higher, with 80% humidity.
Alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, works more effectively than bleach.
If it's airborne particles, UV light kills it very quickly.
And then on a surface, it kills it within several hours, depending.
I don't think we have necessarily the overlay.
But this is undeniable.
That's a good thing.
That also means, by the way, that you are most likely safer at a Florida beach than on the L train in New York!
Which is... Why is no one else in Chicago?
You know the L's in Chicago, right?
No, there's the L train in New York.
Yes, it comes in from Canarsie, Brooklyn.
I know this because I stayed in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
Hey, Brooklyn's fake news.
I don't believe it exists.
Exactly.
I went to the Brooklyn Cultural Center, and I was one of the only white people, and I rode the L train, and I remember thinking, like, there's a very strong chance that I'm gonna get harmed.
Very much so.
Because it's the furthest stop on the L train.
The last one.
Rockaway Parkway.
You know what, New Yorkers, fact check my lawyer.
Let me get a win here.
The L train goes out to Rockaway Parkway, and it sucks.
It's a subway, and then it's above ground, and it's terrible, and this is... But why are they allowing it to be open in New York?
Well, because it's essential.
Oh, oh, okay.
But the beaches in Florida, in a beach town, are not essential?
It's only essential because the workers require the subway to get to work?
What are you saying?
That New Yorkers' jobs are essential, and the guy who runs the Tiki Hut in Florida, it's... his doesn't matter.
Non-essential income.
But I gotta say, AOC has been very consistent here.
She doesn't want people working now.
She didn't want people working at Amazon.
She didn't want those.
I mean, at the very least, she has been consistently anti-American.
So, you know, they're the little wins that we can have right now.
And, you know, people are flipping and flopping, but she is just consistently communist.
You know, I realize when I'm in a rage spiral, I have less of a sense of humor.
You do.
Because I should be laughing, but I was just angry with you.
No, it's okay.
It's okay.
I wanted to throw this wonderful, girthy, hand-etched mug and see if it left a louder-with-crowder-shaped imprint on your forehead, like Marv with the heating iron.
Which, by the way, also kills COVID.
It's worth trying.
It does, yes.
I feel like President Trump could also be accused, based on CNN's reporting so far, No, pretty much.
If you slice yourself in half and go out and sit in the sun, you could be cured from COVID-19.
I feel like that's what they would say and be like, he said, we got to get it in the body.
Well, just cut yourself open.
Go stand outside.
They would count that as news.
They'd be like, well, that's what he said.
That's what he said to do.
Yeah.
And he was really just talking about the circus brothers.
What are the names of those brothers, the circus brothers?
Barnum and Bailey.
Oh, that's it.
Brothers?
Here's something else, by the way.
We've talked about the Los Angeles County study, USC, Santa Clara County, right?
We said that at the high, high end, it looks like the death rate is 0.5%.
And then for people who are healthy, who are of average or middle age, it could be as low as 0.01.
But at the high, high end, I think we even said 0.7.
Well, guess what?
We have that in Los Angeles.
Now we have it in New York City.
They did the antibody testing.
And New York, it's complete.
Instead of 250,000 cases, they're actually saying now that it's closer to 2.7 million.
And that means the death rate is 10 times lower than expected.
Their quote, not mine.
I calculated the numbers and I came up with close to 0.7.
Cuomo said 0.5% death rate in New York.
So now we have three.
Santa Clara County, we have Los Angeles, USC, and New York.
The highest possible mortality rate is 0.5.
Keep in mind, all of these projections were based on what?
What?
3-5% death rate.
Wow, and in Italy it was trending at 10%, right?
Yeah.
So we were thinking, oh my god, we're going to end up like Italy.
Well, it's probably higher in Italy because everyone is old and unproductive.
Well, right, but everybody was scared because of Italy, if you remember early on in this crisis.
Oh, come on, what?
That's going to offend people?
What has Italy contributed to the global economy in the last 30 years?
Spaghetti, but it wasn't from them!
Aside from Geppetto.
Noodles were not from them.
Yeah, thank you.
It was from your people, I know!
It was from your people, and fireworks, and coronavirus.
So you guys, you're two for three.
Chinese copyright and IP theft these days is just making up for Marco Polo stealing spaghetti.
Oh gosh, here we go.
You're oppressed by the imperialist powers, right?
Throughout history.
The problem is he didn't patent the noodles.
There's a patent on a lot of intellectual property theft.
Look, I don't need your facts.
It would have been a good idea, maybe, earlier on.
The problem is, right now, CNN is on, and so, by osmosis, we're all just prone to lying.
Dumber, as well.
We're prone to saying, well, Donald Trump told me to eat biscuits, and that'll cause COVID to go away.
It's ridiculous.
It is hard not to be very angry because because here's the thing is so many people are going about their lives when you talk about a single mom at home right now with kids and she turns on the news and she goes hey I'm gonna kind of figure out what's going on or she goes well you know maybe I don't believe what I heard on the news so I'm gonna go look at the article and then they dig to another article and they go to another article and that all says the same thing and then they go now I gotta go feed my kids breakfast and they walk away With this panic and this false idea of what's going on right there.
And then they get told there's no leadership, nobody's paying attention.
And they ignore the fact that this was a quote from a conference where a medical doctor and another medical doctor were talking to the president about possible solutions.
And instead they go to CNN for Real News and they click through and they find themselves at Chris Cuomo's wife's blog selling healing crystals.
Oh, really?
We'll get to that in a second.
I heard it work.
Christina Cuomo.
The words Chris Cuomo will not leave my... I would never actually want to, in any way, attack somebody's wife.
Christina Cuomo is a public figure who in no way is capitalizing on her husband's platform to sell dangerous... I don't think that's true, Steven.
You attack Brian Stelter all the time.
This is absolutely true.
He is a beautiful wife.
It doesn't apply to power bottoms.
I didn't read that.
By the way, hey, while we're speaking about this, Sweden, you guys know this, Sweden, they didn't do a full lockdown and right now the capital, Stockholm, is expected to reach herd immunity in a few weeks.
This is something that shouldn't be new to anybody.
They even thought this was an idea originally in the UK that they thought they might want to do.
The problem with herd immunity is you have to be all in, not one foot in, one foot out.
But certainly, if you look at the numbers for Sweden, they're not worse than the rest of Europe.
Certainly not as bad as the UK, or Belgium, or France.
So, this does matter.
When people say, oh, the social distancing worked!
Well, hold on a second, the numbers started declining before social distancing would have kicked in, and you would have to look to Sweden as well.
The point is, there's a lot of information that we don't have.
Something that we do have, definitively now, is the death rate is less than a tenth of what we were told, and that's what all the models were based on.
Now, if you think that we should shut down the economy, that we should have 22 million jobless claims, as we've had now in the previous weeks.
By the way, did you know one in five suicides is linked to unemployment?
So if you think that's worthwhile, for a 0.5% death rate, Including 80-year-olds and people who are on CPAPs before they get COVID, then fine.
You can make that decision.
But you have to make the decision based on the actual information, and it is remarkable to me that nobody is.
And I will say this, we'll move on to it in a second, but honestly, it hurts my soul, my heart.
I thought Donald Trump was a prick in the primaries, okay?
But the character assassination that's taking place right now, it would be like us right now saying, hey, not saying that you shouldn't shut down, that you shouldn't social distance at all, not saying that you shouldn't wear masks, not saying that you shouldn't wash your hands, but maybe this has been overblown and someone goes out and says, Steven Crowder says don't wash your hands, and then everyone facts checks, man, something I didn't say.
It's so sinister at this point.
You can't claim ignorance.
We are beyond the point of claiming ignorance.
No, you have to claim assholerence.
That's what's happening.
Right?
And it's a colossal waste of time.
When every moment should be devoted to something important, Donald Trump has to field questions about, did you say that we should inject this?
Right?
And why would you tell Americans that we need to do that?
We need you to be our leader.
He's got to field those questions instead of, what's going on with the virus right now?
What kind of treatments are we coming out with?
I want to go back to Sweden real quick, though.
They did exactly what you said.
I've never been to Sweden.
I'm going to go back there mentally.
I've been.
It's amazing.
Have you been to Sweden?
No.
Yes?
I went there for a wedding.
Really?
It was incredible.
I can't go to Europe because I'll be killed.
Well, that's true.
But in Sweden, they did exactly what we had talked about doing.
They made sure that they protected the oldest people.
Also, it's shit.
All of Europe is pure shit.
I don't know if it's pure.
It's true.
It's adulterated.
Porn infested.
It's an adulterated shit continent.
They make good wine.
Just kidding.
I went to Ireland.
I liked Ireland.
It was nice.
But you couldn't... I can't go to the UK or France.
Are you kidding me?
Here's why.
And I want you to go back to Sweden, but here's... People think that I'm joking.
You know why I can't?
You know this.
This is not a joke.
I have no defense.
If I go there, there's enough ammo on me, because Bob Ross painted Muhammad, where they can jail me, and unlike in the United States, no one can defend me, because free speech isn't a thing.
If I go to Europe, I can walk off the plane, be hauled off in zip ties in a paddy wagon, and you never see me again, because all of these countries that we want to love—until now, of course, I think the House of Cards has come down with socialized health care—I don't come back.
And for me, that's enough to say, I hate your continent.
Not the people.
I hate your continent.
I think it's shit.
I think it's shit that you don't allow your people to cover kung fu fighting without being arrested from a karaoke bar.
I don't like you.
We don't need you.
That's why we left.
Talk about Sweden.
All right.
So Sweden, they did everything that we said would be reasonable.
They did social distancing.
Nobody is complaining about social distancing right now.
Nobody is complaining about taking precautions, washing your hands, making sure that you're not visiting older people if you could potentially be sick or even just cutting off those visits.
It's a vacation.
Everybody is complaining about locking down the economy and completely getting rid of all of work and all of school.
They didn't get rid of school either.
Kids in high school and below, I think, were still going to school as well.
They did a phenomenal job at this, and everybody was like, oh my gosh, you're going to do just terrible.
Everybody's going to die.
Well, they have the same death rate as people around them.
Actually, lower than a lot of places.
Belgium and Denmark are half the size of their country, and they have half the death rate, or not death rate per capita, but half the death number.
Per capita is much lower than that.
Yeah, exactly.
In a couple of weeks, they're going to be good.
Can I give a quick example?
Not if you're going to try and sell us some kind of new disease preventative because you create the disease and then sell us the cure.
That's what you do.
And it's not racist.
That's what you do.
Bill Richmond, not Bill Gates.
Get off my back.
Fair.
So if CNN is going to report on what Gerald just said, the quote would read, Gerald supports meatballs as a cure to COVID.
I mean, that is exactly what just happened.
Ikea has inventory shortage.
Also, I'm locked in Ikea.
Anderson, please send help.
The arrows just lead to more arrows.
What am I going to do with 500 tea candles?
But my bed folds into a bookcase.
That's awesome.
Efficient.
It's like Transformers.
Sweden has also contributed very little, by the way.
You know what's one interesting thing?
Fish.
This is actually true.
If you were to go to... What were you telling us before this, by the way, when you said this is actually true?
That's my concern when someone says, let me be honest for a second.
Hold up.
No, that's a fair point.
Although the rest of that was true.
Meatballs are a cure for COVID.
Not true.
Not true.
I really do.
Is if you went to an embassy for one of these countries that has these laws, you could be arrested at the embassy inside of the country that you're in.
So, you know, all these invitations we get from young Turks to go speak at the UK embassy.
Right.
Oh, wow.
There's something more sinister afoot.
Okay, so while we're talking about this and the unemployment and the shutdown of the economy, and the economy, by the way, not everything is shut down.
It just comes down to what you consider essential.
And now we understand.
People working in New York City, getting on subways, essential.
People who want to work in Florida and be on beaches where the UV light kills and sanitizes.
Not essential.
We understand it.
And you wonder why people think you're elitist.
Well, let me present to you, as your people, not Asians, lawyers, would say, exhibit B for bitch.
Only in America does the president, when the president tweets about liberation, does he mean go back to work?
When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot of people should just say no.
We're not going back to that.
We're not going back to working 70 hour weeks just so that we could put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.
First off, she looks like the blonde musician Muppet had dyed her hair.
The up angle for cameras is also not very flattering.
And I know it's ad hominem, but it's okay just because I have disdain for her.
That's all wrong, by the way.
That's all incorrect.
The average American workweek—I don't have this in front of me, but I'm going by rote.
I'm sure we can bring this up.
You can go look it up in a previous video—is 30-something hours a week.
I think it was 34, 36 hours.
34.4.
Not 70 hours.
By the way, people who say I work 80-hour workweeks all the time, they're lying.
It's very difficult to do.
I've done it once or twice, but I regularly work 60-hour workweeks.
People exaggerate all the time.
She is lying.
She is—I guarantee you, AOC has never, ever worked a 70-hour work week in her life.
Americans working 70-hour work weeks are not barely scraping by to put food on the table.
And she says, you know, we want to get back, go back.
No, people don't want to go back to their jobs.
Actually, most Americans do.
When they talk about Republicans pandering to the rich base, no.
Republicans and conservatives pander to the gainfully employed base, to people who want to work.
AOC wants people on the public dole.
She wants people to be hopeless.
She wants people to feel like they are valueless and they are tools of the government, that
they rely on the government to sustain themselves.
She doesn't actually have anything.
She cannot relate to Americans who want to work.
Guess what?
Sometimes work sucks.
But I want to work.
I want to do this job.
I would be miserable if I didn't work at all.
Now, you do need to frame in your life balance with work and your personal life, your family, of course.
But if you want to talk about being out of touch, think about this for a second.
Donald Trump, the man who was raised effectively a billionaire, okay, has never gone a day in his life without being in the lap of luxury, has more in common with the average working-class American than AOC from Westchester.
I believe that may be wrong, but I think I feel like saying it.
So AOC, I hope you lose.
Yeah, I hope she gets taken out easily from a political standpoint, right?
But people want to go to work.
They want to make a living.
They want to be able to put food on the table.
That's obvious.
But you know where you get a lot of your self-worth from sometimes?
Being productive.
Going out and putting a hard day's work in and producing something, providing a service to somebody.
You get a lot of your social interaction from that.
You get a lot of your friend groups from that.
It's a great thing to be able to go and have a job.
If you sit on the public dole for a long time, like you said, there's health risks for doing that.
Right.
Because you're not out interacting.
Your suicide rate goes up, right?
Yeah, that's important.
One in five suicides are linked to unemployment.
And that's not a surprise, by the way.
We knew a guy in Montreal.
Remember I told you there was one wealthy family?
Let's not say the name.
There was one wealthy family that I knew.
And it was like, oh my gosh, their family makes $100,000 in Canada.
I was like, woo!
I couldn't believe it.
Is that Canadian dollars or US?
It doesn't matter.
Any dollars.
Actually, no, it probably would be under six figures.
I don't know why I said it didn't matter.
It's just because I'm angry, so my thoughts are fragmented.
But one of the guys, so their dad, I played hockey with the two sons, their dad killed himself because he lost his job.
And there's actually, there's the Eaton Center, for people in Montreal who know this, they call it, I believe they call it like the second city, because there's a whole underground city in Montreal.
Where you can literally never come above ground, and it goes like four or five floors deep.
Wow!
Subterranean, where there's shopping, there are food courts, there are offices.
So you get off, so I would be across, I would be across the St.
Lawrence River.
Yeah.
On the south shore, Villa Moine and Greenfield Park, St.
Lambert.
I would get in a subway, I would get to downtown Montreal, like going from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and I could go anywhere that I needed to in all of Montreal without popping my head above ground.
And there was a guy, so when you think about the subterranean, right, like a food court in the Eaton Center.
So you're looking down and you're looking down about four stories, maybe five stories.
It almost looks like that scene, I think they shot a scene in Blade Runner in Montreal, if I'm not mistaken.
Oh really?
Oh probably, yeah.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
That weird room where it's like going up and you can see up?
So this is the Eaton Center in Montreal.
This guy lost his job and he jumped inside in the Eaton Center.
Oh wow.
And landed in the food court.
But you know what is so disturbing?
They looked at the security camera footage, and they saw him the entire week pacing back and forth on that top railway.
Really?
Before jumping.
Because he knew that he was getting laid off, and then they looked into it, and he was trying to see what his insurance would cover.
He had tried to apply for other jobs, and then I think it was on the fourth or fifth day, he just tipped right over.
And I say that because that's anecdotal, but statistically, that is verifiable, that suicides increase with unemployment.
I go to a therapist, I go to an executive and a sports psychologist, and she's talked about how this has been very, very difficult for a lot of people.
Her clientele is growing rapidly because people are going out of their minds.
To act like people who believe in reopening the economy within this This multi-phase program, Don't Care About Lives Lost, is disingenuous, and it's also to throw people off the scent that THEY will create more of a death toll.
Yeah.
And you know, one of the most harmful things for your overall health is stress.
Right.
Can you imagine how stressed people are right now that are just trying to get by, saying, I can make it another week, I can't make it another month?
Don't make us get fat.
Stress is bad, but the worst thing?
Cyanide.
Okay?
Do not exaggerate, Gerald.
Congress is a killer!
And then the most ridiculous part about it is, you know, it's never been, hey, ignore the health, only focus on the economy.
But the opposite argument is being made every day like the AOC is making, which is, or like what Rachel Maddow said, we can't think about reopening, we never should open, anyone talks about opening, wants people to die, is excited for people to die, when that's not the case.
The case is, it is a thorny mess and we do need to have specific ways that we open parts of the country or parts of the economy.
And she's in a municipality where they have the subway!
Think about it!
And she supports public transit because she doesn't want people driving their own cars!
You can't make this stuff up!
You want to know how I know they're hypocritical?
As a kid, I found out I was a Republican at a very young age because I did the Arthur Show.
Yeah.
And my dad showed me.
It was almost like Halloween candy, where he goes, OK, this is your check.
And then he would cash it and go, this goes to the government.
I don't think they tax you under 18.
I'm not exactly sure how it works.
But he said, if you're over 18, I don't know about Canada.
You're not a Canadian lawyer.
Oh, Canada?
You probably have some family there.
They took it all for taxes then.
But he would be like, this goes here.
This goes to health care.
And then he would say, and this is what you're left with.
I was going, what?
He goes, yeah, these people are called socialists, and the United States are called Democrats.
And I remember hearing about after Columbine and for a long time hearing about guns.
Never fired a firearm until I was 20 years old because there was like one person who had a magical mystery handgun of death that was in a closet that was like a World War II relic.
Boomstick.
And everyone was terrified of it.
But do you know how you know that the left is hypocritical?
There is one state One state that I know of, okay, where you can go and legally purchase a firearm without any kind of restriction at that point.
You don't need a permit, and as long as you pass that background check as you would pass in any other state, you can walk out, carry it open or concealed forevermore.
And the same state also doesn't have sales tax on items like clothing and a lot of luxury items.
You know what state that is?
Vermont, assholes!
It's Vermont!
You want to tell me that Bernie Sanders, where he's championing gun control, why didn't he do anything?
No one would bat an eye if he just said, OK, you need a permit.
People are like, oh, yeah, OK, that's fine.
Makes sense.
They do that in pretty much every other state, with the exception of Arizona.
I think there's maybe three states.
Vermont.
Purchase a firearm, thank you.
Put it on your hip like you're Rick Grimes or hide it if you want to.
And I remember going there and being like... Do whatever you want.
Oh, so I have to calculate 15% sales tax because that's what we had in Canada.
And they're like, no, no, no, there's nothing.
I'm like, what?
I don't have any tax on these crappy carpenter jeans at Old Navy where no two pairs with the same waist size resemble each other in any way?
I pay nothing?
No tax?
No sales tax?
So handcrafted.
So true.
Handcrafted.
The sizes.
Didn't make any sense.
This is an extra-large?
Yeah.
What's this?
Extra-large?
Okay.
I'll take your word for it.
There's a little variant.
Subway Jared.
Pedophile.
Rapist.
That guy.
Federal prison, Jared.
Oh, by the way, we know that many of you are affected, of course, during this quarantine, which I think is not going to be as long-lived for everybody as people thought.
So there's a lot of silver lining there.
And hopefully when I'm mad, you know, I entertain you.
I deal with the pain so you don't have to.
But we do want to help people who are inconvenienced, and so I think it's time to go
to our traffic report with our senior traffic correspondent, Tommy Finnegan.
All right, Thomas Finnegan, are you there, sir?
Tell us what's going on this morning.
I am here, Stephen.
Thank you for having me.
Well, after I crash-landed my helicopter, I was challenged to a duel by the local tribe's leader, who goes by the name of... I have successfully usurped his authority.
Okay, but do we have any idea what's going to be affecting people's morning commute?
No news on that, but I do have a new wife, and her name is Okay, well I guess we wish you the best, Thomas Finnegan.
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Hey, if we get enough Mug Clubbers, can we get a new traffic guy?
We may need to.
Then we had a big sponsor coming that was a CBD sponsor, but it turns out it's a violation of YouTube's guidelines.
So everyone who thinks, all you potheads who think that they're your friends, not so much.
It's just CBD.
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But they can't be a sponsor.
That's revenue I'll never get back.
No, never, ever.
They're taking a lot from you.
By the way, that Finnegan guy, he's going to want to stay on the payroll, by the way.
You can't let him go.
Yeah, I'm sure he will.
Yeah, but it sounds like he's a chief now.
You know, it doesn't matter.
Chief doesn't pay as much as you think anymore.
I don't know.
He has a new job.
Let's let him do it.
Technically, he never actually ever did his old job.
That was that one sock you reported on, but that was it.
Gotta tell you, I was hoping the mood would improve this morning.
Not for me.
Hey, I've heard if you throw that mug right at Audio Wade, it'll make you feel better.
There's a lot of tech over here doing that.
They're doing studies on that.
Yeah, exactly.
They're not clinical trials.
They're observational studies.
But how will you know with our empirical evidence?
Science demands that you throw that mug at Gerald.
Maybe I should ask Chris Cuomo's wife.
Sorry, Christina.
Christina Cuomo.
Christmas short?
I don't know.
A very serious lady in her own right.
I thought it was crystal.
Is it crystal?
Oh, it's just what she's selling.
No.
Healing crystals!
They heal you, they align your body's energy.
I don't know anything.
So, uh, okay.
This is what was getting me so upset this morning, and I'm going to try and calm... How long is the clip quarter-blank, Garrett?
It is 50 seconds.
Oh boy.
Okay, good.
Alright, so for 50 seconds I won't be on camera and I can practice my breathing exercises.
Let's do it.
So, this morning everywhere on CNN, and I'm sure we'll even see it as we go to... Oh my gosh, what is happening on CNN right now?
The lady couldn't just, like, pick up her stuff?
It's like Sadness Behar from Tybee Island.
No, no, no, that's Florence from Florence and the Machine.
She's become a mayor since her career collapsed.
If you're going to be on national television, and I mean I use national television in the loosest sense of the word, she must just not be concerned with putting away cardboard boxes because of viewership.
Tidey Island, is that a big place?
Just Tidey, what?
You said Tidey?
That's where she's the leader of.
Apparently it's not Tidey Island.
Martha Stewart, she is not.
That's brutal.
Okay, so this morning on CNN, they had medical experts saying, do not in any form drink bleach or Lysol or inject it directly into the body according to President Donald Trump's directions.
This is everywhere right now.
It's trending on Twitter.
If you go to Reddit Politics, which there just needs to be a coup with conservatives going in there.
Keep it respectful, but just make your voices known.
This is all based on...
And you tell me if you see it from the President Trump press briefer last night where he talked about how sunlight, UV rays kill COVID.
He talked about which sanitization products work and then was turning to, as you'll see, medical experts regarding some experimentation that they might be doing.
You tell me if this sounds like inject yourself with Lysol.
Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light.
And I think you said that has image.
Ultraviolet or powerful.
And I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.
And I think you said you're going to test that too.
Sounds interesting.
Right.
And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute.
And is there a way we can do something like that?
by injection inside or almost a cleaning.
Because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.
So it'd be interesting to check that.
So that you're gonna have to use medical doctors with.
But it sounds interesting to me.
Oh, sorry, I was injecting Clorox into my dick.
Oh, does it work?
Per the president's direction.
I jumped the gun a little bit there.
So, uh, did anyone hear him say, inject this, by the way?
Inject Clorox.
Now, let me go through.
You shouldn't have said the disinfectant thing.
You should have separated his words.
But he did do that with UV light.
Now this is important.
Why?
Because I've actually been in a little bit of a tiff with my wife lately.
Oh, really?
Because after I had knee surgery, right, they used infrared light.
They use it on my knee.
It's very typical.
Anyone out there, if you've ever done it, they use this, and it's actually approved for certain therapies.
Not a cure for coronavirus.
I wanted to get an infrared sauna, but my wife was like, well, then you'll be infertile, and I was trying to make this argument.
Actually, it's not nearly as hot as a Finnish sauna, and you can turn it down.
You can get the benefit of infrared light into your tissue without actually having to get really hot.
And she's not a fan, so I can't do it.
Okay, fine.
But the point here is we know that it works.
Right now, run a search on infrared light.
There's actually a shortage on infrared saunas because people, for whatever reason, think that it helps with coronavirus.
I'm not saying that it does, but it does raise the body's temperature, and it has been shown in medical studies to help with immunity.
So a lot of people have been looking into that.
He said UV light or some other powerful light force.
Maybe we could, well, guess what?
Infrared light penetrates deep into tissue.
He could be referring to that or the non-harmful UV rays.
He's simply saying, we know that this works, that it kills it if it's airborne.
Would there be a way to experiment with this to see if it could help people?
And they're talking about that.
That is totally valid.
He didn't say, go out in the sun and look like skin cancer lady, sunbed lady, because that's going to kill coronavirus.
He didn't say that.
He didn't prescribe that.
And he was looking to medical professionals.
By the way, we're talking about disinfectant in the body.
Do you know what chemotherapy is?
Now it's not Clorox, it's not bleach, it's not Lysol, but you are putting something in your body that kills things, and that's why people get really sick.
This idea that, hey, is there some kind of a chemical that we could maybe extract to clean out the lungs, which is what he's talking about.
Worded well?
Probably not.
But then the media goes out and they use the brand name.
Lysol.
Donald Trump said inject Lysol, which he didn't to the point that Lysol actually issued a statement saying, don't.
And I hope people look up the board at Lysol and their political contributions because that seems a little bit fishy to me.
Oh my gosh.
It's a great cleaner, but don't put it inside your body.
And by the way, like you said, he did look over to the doctor.
He said, I don't know.
They're looking into these things.
Basically, what he said is, we have found a weakness with this virus and many other viruses.
How do we translate that to something that can go in the human body that won't kill us, but will kill the virus?
That's essentially what he's saying.
They gave him no leeway, no benefit of the doubt whatsoever in his comments at all.
Gerald, can I correct you?
You can.
He didn't essentially say that.
He actually was just asking.
The entirety of that exchange was saying, you're looking into these things, right?
Are you looking into these things that could disinfect the body?
Was that a poor choice of words?
Sure.
The guy who's a real estate mogul and not a doctor is saying the word.
Do we expect the president to be a scientist?
And do you know what he did?
I understand.
Before and after?
Brought up doctors.
Right.
He kept saying, well, he kept literally not only looking at the doctor, but saying the
word doctor while talking to a doctor about, hey, are you looking into these things?
Yeah.
And you would have to use a medical doctor.
Right.
And he goes, I don't know.
At the very end, I don't know.
Sounds interesting to me.
And by the way, they are constantly researching light therapy, and in some cases it helps, in some cases it doesn't.
That's not quackery, we'll get to that in a second.
They use it in incubators, infrared light therapy.
It is used in the medical... I don't know if that's what they're doing, but I guarantee you right now as they explore all these options, they're probably looking into approved non-invasive therapies if they could potentially help.
Especially when you consider that UV and infrared light are both a part of the rays that you feel when you go out into the sun.
And there is a way to harness this with it being beneficial and not harmful.
Does it benefit someone if they have coronavirus?
I don't know.
President Trump doesn't know.
He said he doesn't know.
Could it cure it?
Probably not.
Could it be beneficial as a preventative?
Maybe so.
These are conversations that people should be having.
And if he doesn't, guess what?
They say no answers from President Donald Trump right now as this virus continues to spread.
Of course.
no way and the character assassination that takes place here right now going
out there in fact checking something he never said right is so upsetting well
and I would it's probably gonna be what about five minutes ten minutes until we
get the first story of somebody who's a woman who poisons her husband I mean
accidentally gives her husband the wrong thing oh yeah the clorox by the way did
No, no, not Chloroquine.
We're now into Lysol and Clorox.
He said inject it.
So the next homicidal maniac who wants to get rid of her husband says, hey honey, I injected myself.
I'm fine.
Here's yours.
Right.
Right.
Well, you know what else?
The guy, remember the guy, uh, the guy who took the Chloroquine?
Yeah.
His wife, yeah.
He was an engineer.
Oh, so really dumb, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
In other words, like, you don't, you think an engineer might have a question like, hmm, you're having me drink fish tank clear?
Hmm, I guess that's like sleepy time tea.
No.
He was poisoned!
He was allegedly poisoned!
This lady who hates Donald Trump, who tried to divorce him, who has a history of mental health disorders, who didn't seem to suffer any symptoms herself, and said she drank it because Donald Trump told us to, and her husband is an engineer, drops dead immediately.
Why is there no investigation?
The Lysol injection defense is about to become a thing.
Carol Baskin is saying, hmm, that's severe.
Wouldn't have gone that far.
So Donald Trump did not push this, by the way, as though it was a guaranteed cure.
He did not.
And there is a danger, of course, we all agree, in pushing quackery and unverified medical claims.
Absolutely.
Which brings us to Christopher Cuomo's wife, Christina Cuomo.
Now, again, I want to be really clear, none of us would ever just attack someone's wife because they are a public figure, that wouldn't be right, it would be uncorrect, it would be crossing a line.
But Christina Cuomo, so you can forget about Chris Cuomo for a second here, Christina Cuomo is a lifestyle blogger and health advocate.
I think it's The Purist.
That's Christina Cuomo, where she did actually go through the Cuomo Chloroquine Regimen.
So, Christina Cuomo, a separate human being, entity, public figure, all in her own right.
That being said, Chris Cuomo's wife is an idiot.
This is going out there.
While we're talking about something that Donald Trump never actually said, she wrote a whole blog post of their protocol.
One is she advises baths with Clorox to combat metals in her system and to, quote, oxygenate the cells.
Well, guess what the Clorox website says?
And this wasn't issued as a specific statement for Chris Cuomo's wife.
This was longstanding issue because people have been making these claims that are unverified for a very long time.
Now, I know, you can probably put Clorox in a bath and be fine.
But her claim is that she was doing it because it oxygenates the cells.
That doesn't work.
That's bullcrap.
Do you know how I know?
Clorox says don't do it.
And do you know what else doesn't oxygenate cells?
Oxygen!
It actually doesn't work!
When you inhale oxygen, they banned it in sport, they realized that circulating oxygen levels in the blood actually did not increase.
There used to be this thing called perfect water that was oxygenated water.
No, it doesn't work because your body can limit it, right?
If you want to oxygenate your cells, you need to go into a hyperbaric chamber.
This is what happens when people get, what's it called?
The bends.
When they come up, right?
That's what they use.
Sea divers, you know what else can increase oxygenation of the blood?
Infrared light therapy!
Up to 7%!
That's recognized by, I believe, the FDA!
That's another form of light.
Right, it's another form of light.
Oh, I may have mentioned.
Maybe you forgot the word.
Clorox baths to oxygenate the cells.
Oh my god.
You know what it also says at the very end of that statement in the overlay that we put up in the highlighted text?
At the very bottom it says, don't use this in a bath.
It has not been approved by the EPA.
We never recommend for you to do that.
Right.
Ever.
Right.
Ever.
Yeah, but Christina Cuomo says that it does.
She knows better.
Wait, do you add the crystals?
Yeah, that's a different post.
Yeah, crystals.
Healing crystals.
Which, if you're wondering, like, has it been peer-reviewed?
It's not been reviewed.
No peers.
No, no, there are negative reviews.
I guess there's probably a crystal house somewhere where there are a few Yelpers like, this didn't do anything.
And the lady was really snooty.
Her husband kept coming out of the basement like he was Jesus Christ.
I'm like, what is going on?
Three days I shall be.
She goes on to talk about their regimen.
And by the way, we know that Christopher Cuomo, you all saw his video where he came out from the basement and like he's
been quarantined there.
No, we know that you were threatening cyclists to the point that they had to file police reports, Christopher Cuomo.
But let's get back to your wife.
So, she says that it's all about, in her website, it's all about helping the immune system and eliminating radiation.
Because, quote, we're all exposed to radiation, cell phone, Wi-Fi, and it agitates our cells.
Guess where we get more radiation?
The Earth!
Yeah, we should get rid of that.
On a daily basis, from the atmosphere and cosmic rays.
Definitely get rid of that.
So she's getting on these energy pads and she's talking about these medicines and barks that are not proven at all, by the way, and advocating it as a regimen.
You cannot find Donald Trump advocating two people, without the care, under the supervision of a doctor, advocating completely unproven methods.
No.
The closest thing that you can find, and the media was furious about, including Christopher Cuomo, by the way, was Donald Trump saying, if you're looking at a ventilator, ask your doctor.
I would try the chloroquine.
What do you have to lose?
That's not nearly as bad as electromagnetic therapy pads and crystals.
Clorox baths.
Don't forget the baths.
Clorox baths to oxygenate the cells!
You know, can I make a prediction?
Can I make a prediction?
Someone's gonna come out with an article that's like, Donald Trump's family owns $7 in stock in the sun.
Doubting unproven therapies.
Expecting it to get bigger and bigger.
Something shady.
And then Joe Biden's gonna be like, can we create like a catapult that'll block the sun?
So that I plunge the world into darkness all but guaranteeing my Who stopped?
That was actually a really bad impression, because he would never put those many words in.
His wife was on CNN this morning, like, Jill Biden, like, where's Joe?
He's under the table asleep, curled up like a dog.
She looks at the floor, nowhere.
Nowhere?
And she's like kicking down.
He gets sensory overload.
We have them in a flotation tank pretty much 24-7 until it's time to come out.
And then we change out the salt water.
It's a mess.
Too much radiation.
Here's another thing that Christopher Cuomo's wife said.
She also says that vitamin C in IV kills viruses like corona and she advises zinc.
Now let me be really clear actually.
I want to be clear about this.
Vitamin C Intravenously, there is some information that shows that it can benefit viruses, and you can't take enough of it orally, right?
Your body doesn't actually use it, you excrete it.
So, I don't want to say that everything she's saying is completely unproven, but if we are using the standard that they are trying to use with President Donald Trump or any conservative, then absolutely you would have to throw this out along with magnolia bark or whatever else the hell it is that she's talking about, like electric pads.
I don't even know what half the stuff is.
Vagina candles.
Oh gosh, we had to go there.
It's the same genre.
Look, some folks are going to go, oh, you know, the president should be held to a higher standard.
Of course he shouldn't be, you know, touting electric pads.
Y'all go back and read the transcript.
Look at the whole video.
He's talking to a doctor, asking, are you going to be doing these kinds of studies to check into these kinds of therapies based on the fact that we know that there are these analogies outside the body?
Is there some way for us to figure this out?
Talking directly to them.
I know!
Also, I've seen anecdotal evidence and studies about this drug.
I wonder if you're at the very end of your rope and you're about to be put on a ventilator because you can't breathe, is it possible for a doctor to try this?
And he stands to gain nothing as opposed to Christopher Cuomo's wife who wants to sell you bed spreads.
So I just want to be really clear here.
There's a conflict.
That's what if you were to go to PubMed would say.
There's a conflict of interest because this non-peer-reviewed study only included two subjects and it was funded by Christopher Cuomo.
So you should take it with a grain of salt.
Also, it's untrue.
So she says that vitamin C, an IV virus, so she goes through magnolia bark, electromagnetic pads, Clorox, baths, all the crystals are sold on the website.
You know, all the stuff that doesn't really work.
Like, unilaterally, there are some supplements that work.
Of course.
Nothing cures coronavirus, but there are some supplements out there that could prove to be useful for people.
She recommends almost all of the wrong ones.
I would encourage you to go and look it up.
But vitamin C, specifically, and like turmeric and stuff, which she talks about, ayurvedic medicine, ayurvedic medicine, really?
You can nary a corona case found in India.
It sounds familiar though, like... Those words.
Wouldn't that be... Didn't someone say that might be a problem?
Raising authoritative information.
But then we also talk about removing information that is problematic.
Of course, anything that is medically unsubstantiated, so people saying like, take vitamin C, take turmeric, those will cure you.
Those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy.
Yeah.
So I expect it to, I mean, she didn't write it on YouTube, but I expect the Purist blog to at least be removed from search.
It should be.
And that's all I have to say about that.
That being said, of course, I wish Chris Cuomo's wife the best in recovery.
Just stop dispensing dangerously bad medical advice and killing people.
Why do you not care about lives?
That's really my main concern here.
We have Dan Crenshaw.
Representative Dan Crenshaw, I know, will be probably about 10 minutes late.
And before that, we have one more story about Osama bin Laden, actually, who had an assassination attempt on Obama to make Biden president.
We'll talk about that.
But first, actually, it's time to go to our good friend, correspondent.
Pan, tell us.
Tell stories.
So I see that a lot of you are still looking at all the negatives with this whole COVID thing.
But look at the positives.
Look at the scientific breakthroughs.
I don't know if you guys saw, but in Italy, in Venice specifically, since there's no more people, the dolphins are back.
The dolphins took over, right?
That's a discovery.
We had no idea that dolphins, much like the Germans, were disgusted by Italians.
I'm not saying it's right for these dolphins to be racist, but we would have never known had this not happened.
You go to the Arab world.
It's a religious time for them now.
People are sad because the streets of Mecca are empty, right?
But on the bright side, rapes are down 95% from last year.
Now, domestic abuse is up in the region.
But you know, you win some, you beat some.
Those are the rules of the COVID game.
Stay positive.
Alright then, thanks Pantelis.
Did you notice that the Mounties were like busting his door down to arrest him for making those jokes?
We have to get him out of there.
It's gonna be not without my Pantelis just putting him in a shawl across the... No, no, we're gonna put him like the Nissan CEO.
We're gonna put him in some music boxes and ship him transatlantic across the St.
Lawrence.
So here's another story that is just, it's just too funny to pass up.
Did you guys hear about Osama bin Laden had a plot to kill Barack Obama?
Not funny, of course.
I wasn't a fan of Barack Obama, but he's our sitting president.
Of course I would defend him because I'm Team America, especially when compared to, you know, terrorists.
But the reason that Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate Obama is gut-bustingly funny because he thought that, bring that back up, Joe Biden was so ill-equipped To be president that it would thrust the American public into chaos.
So when people talk about the Russians getting $3,000 on Facebook ads, you know, for using nasty words about Hillary Clinton, just think about this for a second.
Public enemy number one, Osama bin Laden was going to pop his head out of his cave to try and take out our president just because he was so supremely confident Joe Biden is out of his mind.
And this was Joe Biden 10 years ago.
Much more lucid Joe Biden.
He is not a fine wine.
He does not improve with age.
He's more like an apple that's been put in a brown paper bag.
But I think the Democrats knew this and they've enacted his plan.
What he was trying to do as a terrorist attack, they have done through the nomination process.
Well, here's the thing.
I'm not a Muslim, but I think I might have been wrong about all of this because it seems like Osama Bin Laden was clairvoyant.
So, maybe he was just communicating with demons, you know, like Muhammad thought with Satan, and then they were like, no, no, that's Gabriel.
So maybe that's what's happening with Osama Bin Laden, but maybe back then he saw vision, or maybe in his hat with like the Islamic terrorist seer stones.
So maybe he saw back then what we see now, like this interaction.
I just had to shoehorn this in.
Current presidential nominee, Joe Biden, and previous presidential nominee, Al Gore.
Watch.
What's happening?
We're not organizing, and if we don't organize the world, who organizes it?
Who organizes it?
And so there's so much, I think, anyway, look, one more question here.
Is it too late to address the climate change in a meaningful way?
Aggress.
Aggress?
Aggress.
Yeah.
I mean, he misspoke.
And Al Gore is making a face like, I need to get to a Swedish massage parlor with a man named Sven two N's quickly.
I actually thought Al Gore was thinking, dang, I got a shot.
Is it too late to get in?
I shouldn't have retired.
I should come back.
I wish Florida didn't go increasingly red.
I do wonder, do you think the Russians are coming?
They're going to come and they're going to be like, man, we thought we were going to mess up America by getting Trump as president.
That didn't work.
So you know who we're going for next?
Joe Biden.
Well, I guarantee you they want Joe.
So what happened with Trump back then when we talk about the Russians is just no one gave President Trump a shot.
Remember the night we did the election stream, they had a 99% chance of Hillary Clinton winning.
No way he was going to win.
So they wanted to undermine Hillary Clinton, the person who they thought would be the sitting president.
Either way, if Donald Trump was a heavy favorite, I guarantee you they would have tried to undermine Donald Trump.
He was a long shot, and he won.
And since they just want to basically wreak chaos on the American public, what better way than to just... I mean, you don't even need to create an ad set, like on Twitter or Facebook.
You don't!
Take a clip and add a million dollars to put it in everyone's feed of Joe Biden and just watch the magic unfurl.
What Joe Biden is trying to do right now, get in front of you, is all they would have to do to destroy America.
They think, in their minds, Joe Biden as president.
Hey, can we show the screen real quick?
What screen?
CNN.
Oh, the CNN?
Oh, what's going on?
Hey, look at the, look at the chyron at the bottom.
Eclipse is 50,000.
And then look at the number.
One inch away.
One inch away?
Hey, that might be an inch and a half away, depending on the size of your screen.
But, guys, they can't even just look at their own screen.
Look, the injecting thing, again, disinfectant.
Dangerously suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment.
It looks like an improvement from this morning where they said Donald Trump says inject Lysol.
I am offended by the fact that Pence and Trump have the same tie on.
Yeah.
That was pretty... Yeah, it was a little bit rough.
You know, they both showed up and Donald Trump was like, shit.
One of us has to change.
Damn you, Pence.
And then Pence was like, oh, that's okay, Mr. President.
I can just go without a tie.
No, you look fantastic open collar.
You won't have it.
You know why they can't do that?
This is the problem.
They're unionized at Sand.
They're old school.
So they can't change that ticker on the right, even though it said 50,000 deaths on the bottom, until the guy who actually has vinyl scorecard flips it over and someone with a megaphone says, 50,000!
And the boy goes, oh boy, extra, extra!
And runs up to Anderson Cooper and he pats him on the butt and he goes, bump it to 50,000, Anderson!
Otherwise, they can't do it!
You can't blame them for this!
I like how they're not relying on their own source.
I mean, they couldn't even just wait, right?
They were just, like, so excited.
They're like, guys, are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Do it!
Do it!
Just hit the button!
Just hit the button!
It's over 50.
We're ready.
Extra!
Extra!
Read all about it!
CNN is wrong!
And that's the thing, is that a young Christian Bale from Newsies?
Clicking his heels in the air?
Yeah, as opposed to Fox News's young Christian Bale from Empire of the Sun, where he's just going, Right.
And then there are planes.
Alright, do we have him on the line?
We do, yes.
Okay, so we actually have our guest on the line, which is really why you guys tune in, let's be honest.
Of course!
He's a representative, of course, here in the United States.
He's made a lot of us proud recently.
Yes.
His new book is called Fortitude.
It's on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Number five, I believe, yesterday.
Let's get it to number one.
You know him, you love him, he's a friend of the show.
Mr. Dan Crenshaw, how are you, sir?
Hey, Steven, good to be with you, man.
I'm doing well.
How are you?
Uh, crappy.
So, um, I do want to play a clip for anyone who is... I'm just really mad because I injected Lysol this morning and it didn't work out.
So, you know, I was following the very specific name brand prescription that I was told President Trump espoused.
And, uh, just so you know, uh, it's not, it's not a cure.
I mean, you don't know that.
You're not a scientist.
This is true.
For people who haven't seen it, Mr. Crenshaw, I do want to play a clip, because we've had you on the show quite a bit, but oh my gosh, I think, I'm not a fan of Bill Maher, maybe you two have a friendly relationship, but I don't know, I can't, if you don't have anything nice to say...
Roll the clip.
There are still people coming in from China.
He only stopped foreign nationals.
Let me address that because I know that's what people are saying right now.
But the reality is about 40,000 people came in after that.
These are U.S.
citizens and green card holders and passport holders being repatriated.
US citizens. So you have to make the argument then that we shouldn't allow them in.
And it sounds to me like you're fully agreeing with President Trump on this when everybody else disagreed with
him.
And if you're saying that you wish that that travel restriction was more extreme, okay fine.
I mean, you apparently had the foresight back then, but when nobody else did... Okay, okay, okay.
Um, okay.
Please get this book to number one, just because I want you to go back on.
So I've been present and known quite a few people who've been there for Bill Maher's tapings, and a lot of it, like, there's a crowd animator at most late night shows, and then at Bill Maher, it's like, you better clap, or you are out of here.
It's a threat.
And he uses that power of the audience.
We've never seen Bill Maher perform this poorly.
He usually portrays himself as a genius.
Let me ask you, do you think that it helped you that you were both on equal footing as opposed to being in his studio with his audience?
Did that embolden you?
Equal footing is always good.
I've never been in his studio with his audience, so I've got nothing to compare it with.
Um, you know, the conversation could have gone totally differently if it was about a different topic.
Also, the reality is on this particular topic, we have all the evidence on our side and they don't.
So they're at a total disadvantage.
I do think Bill Maher is a smart guy.
You know, I do.
And I do have some respect for him.
He does a lot of things that Like, I really don't like either.
I mean, we probably have the same opinions, but he is... No, no, I don't have much respect for him.
I do think he's smart, but I don't have much respect for him.
So I want to make sure that you're not tarred and feathered because of my lack of respect.
Yes.
Yeah, I mean, I just, you know, I try to give everybody, not everybody, but a lot of people the most benefit of the doubt that I can.
And he takes I appreciate anybody who who goes after their own progressive left wing.
That's true with left wingers to the extent that he does.
And, you know, I like like I told him on the show, and I meant it, I do see him as this as a liberal, not a leftist.
And I think there's a difference.
I think he's wrong on almost everything he says, but at least he's willing to debate it and bring somebody like me on and present his facts the best way he can and allow me to present mine.
Yes, with that being said, I think that you have a skewed view because, right, this was run in its entirety, and again, often what happens in his studio is he cuts the parts that he doesn't like.
That's the problem.
We've actually only ever edited, in the history of this show, two interviews, and that was by—one was by request, and the other one was because the guy was on drugs and didn't remember it, and we thought, well, it wouldn't be fair to run this.
Outside of that, we never change it.
We let the cards fall where they may.
It was Artie Lange.
It's no secret.
And I love Artie Lang, and I didn't want him to get in trouble.
This was before, you know, he's sober now, so that's a good thing.
We can celebrate it.
So your experience is more of an even debate.
That doesn't happen in the studio.
That being said, my primary gripe with him is that he's painfully unfunny.
And I don't have that with, like, Jon Stewart, even Stephen Colbert.
You know, Bill Maher's punchline is, right, right, and someone with an applause sign.
And so when you take that away from the equation, I mean, you were daddy.
Yeah, again, I just I don't know what it's like to have the audience there.
I don't know that it would have changed all that much.
It kind of depends on your personality.
To an extent, I'm a bit emboldened by by even more adversaries.
Right.
And, and they're not, they're not all that distracting to me.
Uh, you know, you put a lot of effort and preparation into any interview.
You kind of know what the topics are going to be.
Uh, again, they're fair.
Like they say, Hey, we're going to talk about this stuff, but I can tell you what our questions are, or I can tell you what angle we're coming at it from.
We're going to generally tell you what we're talking about.
So, um, you know, even if they hadn't told me that.
Of course I know it's going to be about Trump having blood on his hands, right?
Of course I know that.
Because that's what everybody's talking about all the time during that week.
Notice it stopped.
Notice that line, that narrative hasn't bubbled up a whole lot recently.
I think it was so thoroughly debunked.
And the Washington Post tried to do a fact check on me.
They did their best.
There was no fact checking in there, just quibbling.
And then Guy Benson, our friend, Oh, he's not my friend.
I hate him.
Guy Benson slept on my couch, actually.
What's funny is, I swear, this is a true story.
Guy Benson.
He will confirm this.
Very nice guy.
I've always had good... I used to do his show all the time.
I was living with the booker for Red Eye in Chelsea, New York, which is... I was the only straight man for four straight blocks.
At this point, Guy Benson wasn't out of the closet.
And so, we were on a Fox panel together, and I was like, well, you don't have to pay money for a hotel.
Yeah, we can stay on the couch.
He's like, oh, thank you.
I'm pretty sure that at the time, he probably thought I was gay.
Gay roommate in Chelsea.
And then afterwards, he was like, he came out of the closet.
I was like, oh, yeah.
All right, cool.
Well, how do you feel about him not giving you a pass?
He didn't even try.
Yeah, I know.
I felt a little insulted.
I was like, you're sleeping on my couch.
My door didn't have a lock.
So, uh, no, I love Guy Benson.
And, uh, if I were you, Mr. Crenshaw, do you prefer Representative Crenshaw?
Mr. Crenshaw?
Danny.
Definitely not Danny.
Dan, something I do appreciate about you that you just said, all kidding aside, is you said, you know, you prepare for the interviews.
There are some people in the conservative movement, and frankly, I'm smart enough, but I always over-prepare.
So, for example, if we do a Change My Mind or something like that, which Quarter Black Garrett, Audio Wade, Gerald, you know, it can be.
Four or five hours of anyone who comes up.
I will spend each hour of Change My Mind averages out to about 10 hours of prep.
And there are a lot of people who take pride in saying, I don't prepare.
I'm just that good.
And I think that you're obviously very smart.
You're a sharp guy.
But you telling people that you take it seriously and prepare, that's not always the most popular marketing angle.
And does it frustrate you when you see other people who you know prepare thoroughly, but they act like it comes naturally?
Huh.
I haven't really thought about that.
I don't really believe anybody that's just, uh, honestly, if they, if they are genuine, I, all I see is the outcome, right?
So if you're genuinely good at debate and you've anticipated counter-arguments, um, and you've got a list of facts, then clearly you've prepared.
Now, maybe you memorized it faster than, than somebody else said.
Maybe it only took you 30 minutes, right?
Maybe you do this so often that really you didn't prepare.
Um, there's plenty of heated debates that I go into that I honestly don't prepare for.
But that doesn't mean I haven't been preparing for years.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
You're living in preparation.
Yeah, right, right.
So I don't know.
I haven't really thought about that too much.
No, I think it's valuable.
I think young people who look up to you, and there are a lot of people who look up to you, sometimes people think like, oh, my hero or someone I admire.
And I'm not saying you're my hero.
I like you, but let's pull back the reins a little bit.
But for some people, That may be the case, and it's good for them to see, like, oh, he takes this seriously.
He prepares.
He understands that he can be caught flat-footed.
That makes it more accessible, which is what I want to see.
So it's a sense of humility.
Yeah.
I think you're pretty humble.
Right, right.
And, you know, chapter two is called, Who is Your Hero?
And it's a question, and you would answer it, Dan Crenshaw.
And Bill Maher would answer, well, he would scratch out hero and write daddy.
Here's the thing, you have to understand, I never, and my lawyer, half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman has a question for you, but I never made it past the screener with Bill Maher.
I spoke on the phone with the screener and they asked me, I remember this was when the Russia thing was going on.
And I said, well, what do you want to talk about?
I said, well, I don't know.
What do you want to talk about?
And they said, well, you have to... I said, well, I just saw Beauty and the Beast last night, and I thought it was pretty funny that in colonial France they had black royalty and powdered wig and white face, like if we're talking about hashtag Oscars so white, you know, can't you chalk this up as a win?
And she goes, so you want to come on a political show and talk about Beauty and the Beast?
I said, No, I just told you what pissed me off yesterday.
I saw the film.
What do you want to talk about?
And she goes, Russia.
I said, Okay, well, listen, what do you got aside from conjecture?
And she said, We'll call you back.
I'm not as I'm not as smart as the folks who make it on the show.
I can't hold a candle to the the SC cups and Lorenzo the world.
I would love to see you and Bill hang out.
I think it'd be hilarious.
No, but so So yeah, I do think preparation support.
I do talk about that in my book quite a bit.
And in a serious way, I did bring up that chapter called who is your hero, because you have to be when you look up to people, it shouldn't be a person, somebody will always disappoint you.
Right.
And, but you should look up to attributes.
And you should, you know, my my debate, the guy that I look up to as as a debater, who's always anticipating the arguments and knows how to frame the argument Gallagher, you probably guess.
Ben Shapiro.
Okay.
He's pretty good.
Yeah.
I mean, very good.
And framing the argument is incredibly important.
The way I framed the argument for Bill's show was this.
It's a simple question.
Are you trying to make Trump look bad or are you trying to get to the truth?
Right.
Because there's two different answers there.
And I think the best way to debate the left oftentimes is to expose what they're doing in that moment.
And so here's an example, right?
Lately, we've been debating whose fault it was that the small business funding got delayed.
Well, the Democrats will claim that they're on a moral high ground because all they wanted to do was add more money to it, right?
And so they fought for that, and they're fighters for the American people, and they're fighters for our hospitals and the testing.
But here's the thing.
They're fighting for money that Doesn't need to be replenished.
Right.
You know, the funding that we've already allocated is not even close to being spent yet.
Should have spent the small business.
We should have replenished the small business funding over a week ago and then figured out how to spend the rest of the money.
But here's how to frame that argument and expose what they're doing.
They're attaching the size of their heart to dollar signs.
Right.
So just say that, right?
That's just one example.
And important, they're attaching the size of their heart to dollar signs from somebody else's pocket.
It's not their dollars.
Exactly.
That's something that people often miss.
And I will say, listen, I don't consider myself a skilled debater at all, but the one thing that I've always talked about, and this was a book that I pitched, funny enough, to conservative publishers back when I was at Fox News.
It became, changed my mind.
And they said, this isn't going to work.
The Obama blueprint was a big book, so if you have a doomsday Obama thing, that'll sell.
But this won't work to try and convince people to your way of thinking, and I always Listen, this was before Social Justice Warrior was a term, this was before Snowflake was a term, so I referred to them as sort of, I think I referred to them as modern leftist progressives and the American idiots, meaning the sort of Green Day used that against conservatives, and I meant American idiots, people who are liberal by default.
People who watch TV, who tune into CNN, who every radio show they listen to, every band they like tells them to be left-wing.
And I said there are two different approaches.
You need to change the mind of these people, these sort of ignorant Americans who've taken this position by default.
And that's where you take an approach, use the Socratic method, have them walk through their own arguments.
That's usually most productive.
Someone like a Bill Maher or Nancy Pelosi, like you're saying, what you have to do is highlight what they're saying.
Make an example of them so that then you can convince the people who have taken the position by default.
And identifying the two different kinds of people with whom you're speaking is, I think, a very important skill set.
And I think you handled it very well with Bill Maher.
That's a great point.
Yeah, well, because the entire you're not going to convince Bill on his show to see your way that that's not the purpose of the show.
The purpose is to is to have a debate for an audience and convince other people that way.
What you do with change your mind is really great.
And I love that you put a lot of preparation into it.
You have to because you have to anticipate every angle that somebody is going to come from, right, every personal experience that they might bring up.
And, and I think you do a good job of anticipating that it also helps when You're trying to support an argument that, frankly, you've got a lot of evidence on your side for.
And I think it's important to have those because I guarantee you that if Bill Maher and I were to sit down and talk, for example, when we've had mayors in the show, Naomi Wolf, it's more hostile in the sense that when someone is coming on saying I'm wrong, well, listen, I'm going to match the intensity.
So it's important for me, for people to see me speaking in a very civil, respectful way and trying to convince people, bring them to my way of thinking so they understand the difference between that and handling what is effectively a character assault.
Because I'm not always going to be meek.
My half-Asian lawyer, did you have a question there?
I did, yeah.
So Representative, thanks so much for being on the show.
One of the questions I have right now is we know that there's a lot of different counties and states that are opening, taking some measured approaches to try and get people back to work, allow the economy to partially restart.
You know, are there any particular thoughts you have about those counties and is there any part about your book Fortitude that you think speaks to what's going on right now and the kind of debates we're having over the controversial topic of letting some people safely go back to work?
Yes, definitely.
So what I talk about a lot in the book, it's a prevalent theme throughout, which is personal responsibility, owning your own destiny.
And, and, and I make a very strong argument against this idea of victimhood culture, where you actually remove agency from people's ability, or from people and remove their ability to control their own lives.
When you tell somebody you're a victim, that's effectively what you're doing, you're disempowering them.
This is pretty applicable to how we open up our society.
We have to trust the American people to make the right decisions, to live with this sense of duty.
Another thing I talk about in the book is the fact that the government's job is to protect your rights, but there is an exchange there, an exchange of citizenship, an exchange to To live responsibly and to live dutifully and morally.
We don't talk about that enough.
We don't talk about the idea of citizenship and doing the right thing.
And that is more important than ever as we reopen the economy.
It's just it's you have to trust people.
And I'm I'm going against our county judge here in Harris County because she wasn't she she gave a directive and all too sensible.
That suggests that we wear masks in public.
That's fine.
But then added $1,000 fine if you don't do it.
Right.
That's not fine.
Right.
Like, you know, and it's just totally unnecessary.
Allow Americans to do the right thing.
You know, we were already socially distancing before it was it was a directive from the top down.
And we can do this to let businesses figure it out.
OK, let let let businesses figure out how to restructure their office space or their restaurant space.
So that we can get back to normalcy.
There is no choice but to return to some sense of new normal.
There's no choice.
And this false dichotomy between staying home forever and letting people die, that's a false choice.
It's not true.
Never has been.
Only political opportunists are making it sound like that.
It disgusts me.
But to get back to that new normal, we have to act like good Americans.
And I'll say this last thing.
One, talking about the Harvard that took the money but returned it, and the Shake Shacks that took the money but returned it.
If you're a business out there whose revenue hasn't really changed, shame on you for taking the small business loans that we're giving out.
It's very hard, from a policy perspective, to put proper limits on those.
It's extremely difficult, because as soon as you do, you start making it even harder for the smaller businesses.
You know, I think we also understand that the problem becomes, like John Stossel has talked about this, he had some kind of a federal grant subsidy where his home built on stilts effectively in the ocean washed away like two times.
He goes, I know that some people say I'm a hypocrite for taking the state funding, but I'd be an idiot not to.
And there is a problem where if small businesses are still even operating on an honest profit margin, well, if they don't take the loans that are available, they're going to be competing with bigger businesses that are, and they'll fall further behind.
Yeah, and totally get it, but un-American and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Period.
Full stop.
So when I got out of the military, I read about this in my book too, when I got out of the military, and this feeds into the victimhood culture and there's a reason why.
When I got out of the military, I was eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance.
They actually promoted it in the military.
Like, hey, not only are you getting medically retired because you're injured or something's wrong with you, but as soon as you get out, Oh.
Sorry.
I'm such a jerk, man.
I apologize.
I'm sorry.
I'm such a jerk, man.
I apologize.
Do you, though?
No.
That's going to be a highlight.
Okay, sorry, but continue.
Yeah, they were promoting Social Security.
Yeah, I know this.
Yeah.
And so it blew my mind.
This was after I got my, you know, eye blown out.
And so the other thing about that moment was...
Yeah, in case you were wondering what happened.
But in that classroom full of other Navy sailors, I was honestly wondering what had happened.
Every single person in there looked fine, from the outside at least.
Nobody had been in combat.
These were not a bunch of fellow special operators by any means.
This was not Army, Infantry, or Marine Corps.
None of that.
Everybody was getting medically retired for some reason.
There's a lot of reasons you can get medically retired or just choose to go through the medical retirement process.
Yeah.
And the government will take care of you afterwards.
I think I believe generously.
Some might disagree with me.
I believe that it's very generous.
Yeah.
But to also get Social Security disability insurance, which most Americans believe is for Americans that are so disabled they can't work.
Right.
So they need SSDI.
I could have gotten up to $2,000 extra a month, especially after I got out and I wasn't full-time working.
Remember, I went back to school.
I didn't take it.
I refused to apply for that.
I could have, and by economic sense and by the straight economic sense that you're describing and that a lot of businesses are using to justify taking money that they don't need, I could have taken that.
I refuse because that's not who I want to be.
And this goes into the conversation about who your heroes are and what we should applaud in America.
I was more so just pointing out the issue that in this case it's appropriate because the government stepped in and said, we're going to effectively put you out of business.
They said, don't be a patron of this business anymore.
Don't support them.
So this is different from stimulus.
Yeah, but my point is that this is what ends up happening when the government, let's say more so, it would be more appropriate with the stimulus under the Obama-era presidency, where you're effectively picking winners and losers.
Then everyone says, well, if I have to compete, it becomes like the steroid argument, and it's not a good thing.
That's why we just should have government involved as little as possible.
Final question.
I know you have to go.
Regarding your book Fortitude, which is available everywhere books are sold, if you can find a bookstore anymore, but certainly digitally on Amazon.
You talk about in the book like how to find strength and fortitude and obviously it's reminiscent of Jocko quite a bit who's been on the show and I think it's a message that's very much needed.
How would you respond to this claim that's going out quite a bit that Generation Z believe they've lived their entire lives In crisis.
And so they've lost hope.
I mean, this is front page at a lot of different news outlets, as though they've had it worse than any generation before them.
And then when polled, they are more defeated and hopeless.
And that mindset, to me, is frankly very scary as they enter the workforce.
Yeah.
The best reference for this phenomenon with Gen Z is Jonathan Haidt's book, The Coddling of the American Mind.
I reference that book quite a bit in my book.
My book is a set of solutions to the problem.
I'm not diagnosing the problem itself.
I reference good authors that have done so, and The Coddling of the American Mind, I think, is the premier place to look if you're looking for why Gen Z is that way.
And there's a lot of reasons.
College campuses basically reinforcing these bad ideas that your feelings actually matter.
I mean, they matter, but like the feelings that make you right.
Right.
Like over reason and over logic.
And, you know, the coddling that has occurred both on campuses and in the household.
You know, there's good data on this to show that Gen Z was only allowed to leave the house to go to a friend's house much later in life than, say, even Millennials or Or Gen Xers.
And really quickly, if I can say too, what's really scary though is they have a legitimate gripe that they're entering a more competitive workforce than previous generations.
Like that is something that now it is hyper-specialized.
So you have a generation, and I would say more so Millennials and Generation Z. It seems like they might actually be a little bit better, some of the stats that we're seeing.
But they are being coddled growing up and then being thrust into a hyper-competitive, exponentially evolving workplace.
And that That seems like a recipe for disaster.
Because there is validity to them going, like, I don't know how I'm going to do this.
Yeah, and there is validity, just like when the millennials have complaints about basically graduating into a financial crisis.
I get it.
There's some validity to these issues.
There's some validity to the complaints that housing is more expensive, health care is more expensive.
And college is more expensive relative to past generations.
It is.
Everything else, though, is much better.
Does it cancel each other out?
I'm not so sure.
Can you move to a place where housing is cheaper?
Yeah, you can.
Millennials like to live in places where housing is more expensive.
Also, better jobs are there.
So, I get it.
There are pressures that we do have to, I think, acknowledge.
And Gen Z, I think we have to acknowledge, too, that yes, they are starting their early careers right now in the midst of this crisis.
I do think we bounce back from this rather quickly, and so that would be my message of hope to them.
Yeah, I mean, message of hope is imagine France surrendering and going like, oh, pretty much all of Europe is lost except for one guy, Churchill, putting up a fight, and we have a choice between communism or fascism.
I think that probably would be a little bit scarier than a According to Cuomo, the highest estimate now is a 0.5% death rate.
Every life lost matters, but it's not the depth of despair and hopelessness for every Generation Z American.
Okay, the book is Fortitude.
Mr. Representative Dan Crenshaw, I appreciate you being here, brother.
Stay well, and let us know next time you're on Bill Maher's show.
I will.
Thanks for having me, Steven.
Always good to be with you.
Be well.
All right.
Hang up on him.
He's so smug.
That was great.
Very helpful.
And the book is Fortitude.
It's available anywhere books are available, frankly.
Let's get to a couple of chats, and then let's play this out.
Can I point out something very quickly?
Since we were live-stream bitching about the numbers being off on CNN, they've now corrected it, and they're sources themselves.
They're now like, well, we got some data from Johns Hopkins University, but then also we quoted ourselves.
That used to be Johns Hopkins only down there as the source.
So now they're like, no, no, no, we're better than Johns Hopkins.
And why do they have the expert right now staring at the Ark of the Covenant?
I hear it cleanses.
It's painful, but it cleanses us.
Should've closed his eyes.
Let's read a couple of chats.
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Go ahead.
We've got one here.
Good morning, all.
I joined MugClub today.
Thank you!
I am a truck driver and enjoy listening to you guys on Spotify.
I was wondering if there is any way to hold the press accountable, either legally or otherwise, for their negligence or lies.
Lies like your name?
Your stage name, Mickey Fig?
Mickey Fig!
This one will probably go to Bill, but I think I know the answer.
So there's a very, very high standard when it comes to going after new sources.
As you can imagine, they've lobbied a long time to make sure that the precedent is such that unless you are intentionally or maliciously going after someone with fake information, which again requires you to have a mindset, but certainly there's a pattern.
A lot of what you look at for intent and maliciousness It's what we call mens rea or the mind and if you have done enough acts then you may be able to interpret that this is mens rea.
I have mens rea!
No!
Not mens rea!
Love it.
Gene Wilder, you remember that?
So it's going to be real hard, but you know who actually has the most power?
Don't click on CNN.
Yeah.
Don't go to the sources that you don't like.
Don't go to the purist.
Yeah, don't go to the purist unless you really, really need an electric pad.
Go to crazyasswitchdoctorbitch.com.
That's my preferred holistic, natural path.
Same advice.
All right, final chat.
Let's read it.
John H., question for everyone.
In your opinion, what is the worst thing that the Democrats have done or said since Trump became president?
A lot of options.
A lot of options.
I think the overarching idea is that Donald Trump wants to kill Americans.
When it's repealing the Obamacare laws that weren't really working, they're saying that when he wants to reopen the economy in a three- or four-phase program.
They say it... I mean, take your pick.
When he has a meeting with Kim Jong-un, they're always like, he doesn't care about the lives of Americans.
And I think when you look at, again, his comments and when he tries to... The reason he's doing the press briefings is because he wants to speak directly to the American people, right?
And when he does that, he tends to actually register better with the American people.
His poll numbers go up.
When Cortez is speaking directly from her webcam, people go, ugh, someone primary her.
So the idea that Donald Trump and, of course, all conservatives—be aware, by the way, every attack on Donald Trump, even if you didn't support him like me in the primaries, I had someone else—an attack on him is really an attack by proxy on all conservatives.
That's what they're trying to do right now.
They're trying to say, Republicans, if it weren't Donald Trump, if it were Rand Paul, if it were Carly Fiorina, if it were Ted Cruz, they'd be saying the same thing.
You don't care about lives.
Unless you support our policy like making sure the stimulus sends money to Planned Parenthood.
So that to me is really probably the worst because, listen, I even think I say kind of tongue-in-cheek when I say why don't you care about the lives lost by keeping the economy shut down because one in five suicides are related to unemployment.
I don't think that they want Americans to die.
I just think they're being disingenuous and their policies will absolutely, verifiably result in more deaths than a systematic opening of the economy in a responsibly phased program.
Yeah, I would say Russia real quick, just because basically spending essentially billions of dollars trying to undermine his presidency from the get-go so that everything he says later is through the lens of a puppet president who's illegitimate, who's being controlled by somebody else.
Right.
I think the worst thing they said is, presumptive nominee, Joe Biden.
If he makes it that far.
Some might argue that's the best thing because it's going to be hilarious when we get to debates.
Why do you want more Americans to die?
By making Joe Biden president.
You have any idea what will happen?
The guy will just forget to pay the debt bill.
Like, oh, all right.
Who stopped?
Hey, hey, you owe us money.
Who's that?
What?
I don't order takeout!
Al Gore?
He's too busy getting himself.
Thank you guys so much.
We are going to see you Monday morning with more Good Morning Mug Club and then of course shows every night in the live stream on Thursday with a press briefing followed by live fact-checking of CNN.
Oh god.
Through their primetime clock.
It's gonna be tough.
Appreciate it.
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