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MORE BIDEN CORRUPTION EXPOSED AS DEMOCRATS WASTE BILLIONS ON PORK IN COVID BILL! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And I just want you to know about these shutdowns
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  Speaker 1: that are happening around the country. Reminder, here, not one
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  Speaker 1: politician has missed a single paycheck during COVID nineteen. Find
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  Speaker 1: me one. Find me a politician who was dictating all
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  Speaker 1: of these new rules on Americans that has actually missed
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  Speaker 1: a single paycheck during COVID and during these lockdowns. You
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  Speaker 1: have significant lockdowns coming right now. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why this is happening is because they don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to be focusing on the Alder the other issues
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  Speaker 1: that are happening right They don't want you to be
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  Speaker 1: focusing on Eric Squalwell, the fact this guy's the Intel
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  Speaker 1: Committee and compromised by the communist Chinese. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to be focusing on what's going on with Hunter Biden.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy actually came out on Fox News Channel talking
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  Speaker 1: about this, and he said, after he was brief by
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  Speaker 1: the FBI on how compromise Representive Squalwell, who is a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat who is being defended by Nancy Pelosi, she knew
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  Speaker 1: all about him sleeping with a spy for years and
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  Speaker 1: putting people in his office that were other spies from
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  Speaker 1: this woman that he shouldn't be on the Intel Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Yet there he is. But don't worry. We're really trying
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  Speaker 1: to save your life during COVID with this rescue bill,
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  Speaker 1: this package, we're going to spend almost a trillion of
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  Speaker 1: year dollars to send out quote free money. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is all nothing but a distraction at this point from
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  Speaker 1: the real stories here, which is China, which is Swalwell,
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  Speaker 1: which is Hunter Biden. Take a listen to what Kevin
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy had to say earlier. Well, you're right. That Friday,
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  Speaker 1: we finally got our FBI briefing. It was just the speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosian, myself. It was a very thorough briefing. No
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  Speaker 1: one that was in that room could walk out and
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  Speaker 1: say Eric Swalwell should be on the Intel Committee. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know they had a briefing before in twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what that briefing was like compared
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  Speaker 1: to this one, but it could not have been the same.
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  Speaker 1: The one answer that I got out of that briefing
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  Speaker 1: was there is no way Eric Swalwell should continue to
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  Speaker 1: serve on the Intel Committee. And the challenge here is
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  Speaker 1: the leader of both parties are the only people who
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  Speaker 1: select to go on the Intel Committee. That is why today, Maria,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm going to request that every single member on
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  Speaker 1: the House Intelligence Committee gets the exact same briefing from
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  Speaker 1: the FBI that I did, because if this individual is
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  Speaker 1: sitting on this committee, Eric Swalwell, they've got to know
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  Speaker 1: the background of what has gone on. Now, don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to talk about this in the mainstream
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  Speaker 1: media because we've got bigger issues. We've got a big
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  Speaker 1: government stimulus. It's going to come fix all of your problems.
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  Speaker 1: That stimulus. It was needed months ago that the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: purposely delayed. That's how much they really don't care about you, right.
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  Speaker 1: It was delayed months ago, and the reason why it
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  Speaker 1: was delayed months ago is because it was bad politics
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  Speaker 1: at the moment for them. They were afraid you would
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  Speaker 1: get a check, you would give credit to Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't win the election. So they decided to purposely
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  Speaker 1: hurt businesses, small business owners, and everybody else involved for
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  Speaker 1: months when they knew that this money needed months ago
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  Speaker 1: to help people, and they said, no, we're gonna wait
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  Speaker 1: till after the election. Will roll the dice. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: roll the dice and wait because we want the check
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  Speaker 1: to come really close to January the twentieth. We want
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  Speaker 1: this check to the American people in these small business
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  Speaker 1: loans to come close to January the twentieth so that
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  Speaker 1: we can claim credit for it, not Donald Trump. It's
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  Speaker 1: too risky this close to the election. Way too risky,
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  Speaker 1: this close to the election to actually send money and
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  Speaker 1: help and aid to business owners and small business owners.
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  Speaker 1: Way too risky. We can't do it. What's wrong with
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  Speaker 1: you people? Right? How could you possibly think that this
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  Speaker 1: is a good idea? So the Democrats played politics. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now they've got bigger problems. They've got Hunter Biden, they've
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  Speaker 1: got Eric Swalwell. So let's now throw it all together
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  Speaker 1: right before Christmas. Let's do the deal we should have
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  Speaker 1: done in theory months ago, and then this will all
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  Speaker 1: just disappear from the headlines. And so far it has worked.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me tell you what's actually in this bill.
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  Speaker 1: See you understand what you were paying for because the
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  Speaker 1: media acts like this is like fictitious money. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's real money. And who's going to pay for it?
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  Speaker 1: As you your tax dollars are gonna pay for this now.
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  Speaker 1: Help leaders have announced they reached a nine hundred billion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: almost a trillion dollars COVID relief deal. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: jump up and down. They say it's going to give
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  Speaker 1: you much. Any of the relief for small businesses, on
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  Speaker 1: input Americans, healthcare workers, vaccine distribution. Some of these things
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  Speaker 1: are legit. So what's actually in it? The legislation will include,
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  Speaker 1: they say, direct payments of up six hundred dollars per
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  Speaker 1: adult and child. That's good news. People need help right now.
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  Speaker 1: Aid for struggling small businesses by providing two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty four billion for forgive all paycheck protection program, loans
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  Speaker 1: twenty five billion, and rental assistance and an extension of
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  Speaker 1: the eviction moratorium, as well as eighty two billion for
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  Speaker 1: education providers like schools and colleges to help preopen classrooms safely.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty two billion just disappeared for that. Meanwhile, what are
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  Speaker 1: they actually doing? They're shutting us down everywhere, which goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the opening comment that I made to you.
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  Speaker 1: Not one politician in this country has missed a single
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  Speaker 1: paycheck during COVID. Why is that? Why is it they're
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  Speaker 1: coming in shutting down your businesses? But allowing other businesses
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  Speaker 1: to stay open. New York restaurants have had enough, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, and many of those restaurants that are shutting
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  Speaker 1: down will never open again. People that invested everything have
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  Speaker 1: also lost everything, and they're never going to get it back.
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  Speaker 1: Many of these restaurant owners are actually moving out of
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  Speaker 1: state because they've realized that they cannot reinvest. They would
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  Speaker 1: be stupid to reinvest in an area, right, They would
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  Speaker 1: be stupid to reinvest in an area to try to
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  Speaker 1: make this do this again, knowing that they can shut
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  Speaker 1: you down again, knowing that they can completely take away
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  Speaker 1: your livelihood at a moment's notice. And many of the
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  Speaker 1: people doing this aren't even elected officials. Or elected officials
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  Speaker 1: are saying, I'm gonna do it no matter what, and
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do to stop me. So get
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  Speaker 1: ready for this. Now New York City, and this is
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  Speaker 1: a liberal state, a very liberal city. Even the restaurant
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  Speaker 1: owners there have said, all right, we've had enough. They're
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  Speaker 1: now going joining together saying no more. For Mayor to
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  Speaker 1: Blasio and Governor Cuomo. When I say no more, what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean? New York City restaurants, some prominent ones
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  Speaker 1: are now calling to ban the governor and the mayor
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  Speaker 1: from eating in their establishments indefinitely. These decisions to ban
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  Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo come after he banned in or dining for
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  Speaker 1: a second time, leaving restaurants crippled during the holiday season
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  Speaker 1: when they desperately need the money. Don't worry during a blizzard,
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  Speaker 1: he said, you can still eat outside, and some people
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  Speaker 1: actually did it, just showing how absurd it is that
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  Speaker 1: you can eat outside during a pandemic, in a blizzard
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  Speaker 1: and not supposed to sustain your business, which it wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: The indoor ban is the second of the year, with
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  Speaker 1: at least half of the state's restaurants in danger of closing.
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  Speaker 1: Temperatures plunging snowstorms are in the area. Hey, but you
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  Speaker 1: can eat outside, it's cool. Restaurants are furious with Cuomo's
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  Speaker 1: latest decision because only one point three percent of coronavirus
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  Speaker 1: cases have originated from eateries over the last three months.
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  Speaker 1: The science shows the majority of people that are getting
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  Speaker 1: sick are not getting sick in a restaurant. They're getting
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  Speaker 1: sick hanging out with their families, which brings us back
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  Speaker 1: to shutdowns that we're having all over the country. Why
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  Speaker 1: are we shutting down restaurants. The science doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia is going to decide the fate of an
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable amount of legislation. If they're able to win in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: it is over. The Democrats control the House, the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: question everybody should be asking themselves is why are politicians
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  Speaker 1: picking on restaurants nationwide? We are saying that restaurants are
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  Speaker 1: not the superspreaders that anybody would imply. The superspreaders are.
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  Speaker 1: Actually families hang out with families, friends hang out with friends,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a fall sense of security with COVID nineteen
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  Speaker 1: that you can lower your mask, lower your guard because
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  Speaker 1: you are around family and or friends. It also makes
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  Speaker 1: sense you trust these people. And when you trust these people,
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  Speaker 1: many people believe well, I trust them, right, I trust you,
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  Speaker 1: And if I trust you, then I'm going to take
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  Speaker 1: my mask off because I don't feel like you're going
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  Speaker 1: to infect me mom or dad, or aunt, uncle, cousin,
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  Speaker 1: or neighbor or best friend. What we're seeing is through
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  Speaker 1: contact tracing. Overwhelmingly, the transmission of COVID nineteen is not
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  Speaker 1: happening to you by a stranger. That's where you have
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  Speaker 1: your guard up. That's where you're wearing your mask the most.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually happening with your friends and your family when
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  Speaker 1: you put your guard down. We also know nationwide that
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  Speaker 1: of all the transmission we've seen from contact tracing, where
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  Speaker 1: people are not getting COVID nineteen Okay, where they're not
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  Speaker 1: getting it is in restaurants, restaurants socially distancing the tables,
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  Speaker 1: people wearing their mask until they start eating or until
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  Speaker 1: they are seated drinking. This is not the problem we're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: On average, based on whose numbers you look at, between
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  Speaker 1: one to one and a half percent of all COVID
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  Speaker 1: transmissions are coming from restaurants and bars. The point is,
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  Speaker 1: it is insane to be shutting down the bars and restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, grocery stores, Walmart, places like that are having
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  Speaker 1: a higher transmission rate. Of course, they say, well, those
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  Speaker 1: are deemed essential. And you, as an American, if you
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  Speaker 1: own a business that we decided is somehow arbitrarily non essential,
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  Speaker 1: have to shut down. Why do you think all this
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  Speaker 1: is happening right now? Somebody answer me that question, please.
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  Speaker 1: It's because Democrats seem to distraction. That's exactly why they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to destroy this economy and destroy your businesses. I
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  Speaker 1: would argue now on purpose, because that's how they gain
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate power. If you are weak, they are strong.
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  Speaker 1: If you are poor, they are rich. If you are
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  Speaker 1: a need, they have power. And this is all about
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  Speaker 1: power power. This is a power grab, has been since
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  Speaker 1: day one. Why do you think these liberal cities keep
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  Speaker 1: shutting things down and these shutdowns work based on statistics?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is overwhelmingly no. Let's go to the UK,
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  Speaker 1: look at Europe. They had shutdowns in October of restaurants
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  Speaker 1: and these these total shutdowns of lockdowns, staying home orders,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, if we do it now, folks, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be okay because if we do it now,
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  Speaker 1: then you can have Christmas with your family. Guess what,
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  Speaker 1: They're not having Christmas with their families. That's right, they're
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  Speaker 1: not having Christmas with their families. And you want to
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  Speaker 1: know why, because the lockdowns don't work. Because people continue
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  Speaker 1: to put down, to take down their masks, to lower
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  Speaker 1: their guard or on their family and friends because they
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  Speaker 1: feel like they are safer. It's not accurate, it's not truthful,
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  Speaker 1: it's not authentic. The numbers show the restaurants are not
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  Speaker 1: the problem. Say it again. The restaurants clearly show that
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  Speaker 1: it's not the problem, but they're gonna shut down everybody. Again.
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  Speaker 1: What the what these restaurants are doing in New York
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  Speaker 1: is right? The stats, the facts, the science say that
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  Speaker 1: one point three percent of coronavirus cases originated from eateries
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  Speaker 1: over the last three months in New York is One
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  Speaker 1: restaurant owner put it, this is insane. They're basically shutting
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  Speaker 1: down an industry and throwing thousands of people out of
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  Speaker 1: work because restaurants were linked to one point four percent
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  Speaker 1: of all the cases, she said. One business owner said
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  Speaker 1: it's criminal. Restaurant operators saying we can only take so
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  Speaker 1: much pain, and we've already hit that threshold. Other restaurant
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  Speaker 1: owners saying, I can't shut down, I'll lose everything. The
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  Speaker 1: idea that these shutdowns are gonna last only a two
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  Speaker 1: week period is also alive, because we know with the
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  Speaker 1: numbers rising that in two weeks the numbers are not
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  Speaker 1: going to go down. So they're selling you this over Christmas. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna lock down for two weeks, just over
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  Speaker 1: Christmas and thinks in New Year's right, it's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna extend all of these orders nationwide, wherever they
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  Speaker 1: put them in, it doesn't matter where you live. It's
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  Speaker 1: impossible that this is going to be fixed in a
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  Speaker 1: two week period. We also know because we've also tried
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  Speaker 1: it before and a two week period didn't work. So
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  Speaker 1: when they put these lockdowns to the people and they say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just gonna be two weeks and we'll reevaluate, they're
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  Speaker 1: full of crap. It's gonna be much longer than two weeks, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone tells you that it's not going to be two weeks, there,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, there's scumbags. They're not telling you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: They're lying to you. It is going to be much
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  Speaker 1: longer than two weeks. And everybody knows it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: much longer than two weeks. This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a shutdown through virtually all of January, and everybody knows it.
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  Speaker 1: And anyone that tells you anything differently, they're not. They
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  Speaker 1: don't care about you. And the majority of the people
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  Speaker 1: making these decisions on these shutdowns are not elected officials,
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  Speaker 1: which is another one of the huge problems that needs
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  Speaker 1: to be fixed by the legislature. The legislature needs to
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  Speaker 1: fix this and they need to fix it quickly. They
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  Speaker 1: need to take away the power of these non elected
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  Speaker 1: individuals to ruin your life and everything that you've built
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  Speaker 1: and everything that you've tried to do. But remember this
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  Speaker 1: is also a great way for them to gain an
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  Speaker 1: incredible amount of power, an ungodly amount of power. When
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  Speaker 1: you are weak, they are strong. When you are poor,
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  Speaker 1: they are rich. And referring to socialist governments. And if
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  Speaker 1: you don't think this is about doing exactly that, making
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  Speaker 1: you weak and them extremely strong, you are not paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to what's actually happening. You need to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: This is about exactly that. This is about them being
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  Speaker 1: weak and them being strong and you being week. You
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  Speaker 1: need them if you can't if you don't have a job,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: if you don't have a paycheck, you need them. You
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  Speaker 1: definitely need them if you can't pay your bills. And
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: they know it. They're not stupid, they're smart. They're not idiots,
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  Speaker 1: they're intelligent. You put so many people out of work
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  Speaker 1: when you shut down restaurants. You're decimating communities and industries
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  Speaker 1: and small business owners. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it.
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  Speaker 1: It's exactly why these people in New York are saying
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  Speaker 1: enough already, this is insane, a woman said of a
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  Speaker 1: founder of Tampa's chain. But query in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: restaurant operators will only take so much pain. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to do it anymore. Another diner outside of Albany
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  Speaker 1: said quote, he can eat at some blank roadside diner elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: He's not eaten here. He will not be served anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in New York, referring to the governor New York City.
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  Speaker 1: If he has to use the restaurant, you can go
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: pee on the street corner, another bar owner said in
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  Speaker 1: his blog. Members of a Facebook group called NYC Restaurant Open,
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  Speaker 1: which are mainly restaurant bar owners in the city support,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: are saying this support for banning restaurants absurd. In fact,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: they only support banning Cuomo from dining. He should be
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  Speaker 1: banned from every restaurant, bar, etc. He's a blinking scumbag
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo into Blasio, One other group member said, And he's right.
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the other point. I made a
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  Speaker 1: moment ago, and I want you to think about this.
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  Speaker 1: Not one politician has missed a single paycheck during COVID nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: and this relief bill that they've just decided to do that,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay for and there's gonna be
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of money that's gonna be rated. Some money's
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be used the appropriate way, but there's a lot
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: of pork in this trillion, almost trillion dollars bill is
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  Speaker 1: going to be used the excuse to shut you down.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is, an excuse to shut down this country.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna say, look, guys, we just sent you some money.
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  Speaker 1: You should be happy. Now we're gonna protect you by
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  Speaker 1: ruining your life. Now we're gonna protect you by shutting
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  Speaker 1: down your business. Small businesses that are dying right now.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: They're gonna say, hold on, guys, calm down right, relax,
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  Speaker 1: chill out for a second. Relax, it's gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna send you some small business relief. You're gonna
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: be okay. Everything's gonna be okay. We're gonna send you
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  Speaker 1: some money. If there's any time for us to rise
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  Speaker 1: up and defend our businesses, it's now, folks, especially these restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a decision based in science. This is
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  Speaker 1: an arbitrary decision that's stupid. And I'll leave it at that.