Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 250 | Whom Can We Trust?

Episode Date: May 15, 2020

We're at a tipping point. People are realizing we can't trust the powers that be, and they're tired of the moving goalposts and ulterior motives. That's why so many are flocking to alternate theories, like the ones represented in the documentary "Plandemic." Today we analyze the reasons why Americans lack trust in our institutions and whether alternative narratives are really where we should turn. Today's Sponsor: Objective Wellness supplements are crafted with high quality ingredients shown to deliver specific results. Go to https://www.objectivewellness.com/ & use promo code 'ALLIE' to get 20% off your first order!

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. I hope everyone has had a great week. Today we are going to talk about a few things. It's actually going to be a little bit looser than what it usually is. It's going to be maybe you would call it more of a rant than. organized commentary today. And that's just because I have a lot on my brain that I want to cover and I've been thinking about it and talking about it with my husband so much over the past few days that I feel like I can just kind of tell you everything that I have been thinking about all of the policies that are surrounding coronavirus. And the main theme is this, is that there is no one,

no one institution that we can fully trust. We can't fully trust the media. and I'll explain why. We can't trust politicians. We certainly can't trust the World Health Organization. We can't trust the people who are supposed to be experts. So we're questioning the mainstream narrative. But as it turns out, we also have to question the people who are questioning the narrative. Everything that's said, everything that's told to us,

even by institutions and people and outlets that we thought that we could trust, including me, by the way, everything has to be taken with a grain of salt. Everything has to be listened to and thought about critically. Now, I try my best to be as trustworthy as possible, to be as perfectly honest as possible. It is never my intention to manipulate or to leave out certain information to make you think a certain way. You guys know that I'm a conservative. You guys know that I am a reformed Christian. and so that is my perspective.

I am unabashed about that. I don't try to hide that at all. And the reason why most of you come to me is for that perspective, but it is never my intention to try to mislead or manipulate. However, it is important for you to take everything that I say and to do your own research and to look up what I'm saying, to make sure that what I'm saying is true and based on fact. The onus is on you to do that.

The onus is on me as an individual to do that. And what I have found in, of course, we know this, in looking at so much of the mainstream media coverage, particularly of coronavirus, but we could really pick any story that has happened, especially over the past five to 10 years. We can see a lot of media malfeasance surrounding it. But particularly when it comes to the coronavirus, it simply seems like there is almost no one that we can trust and especially no one that we can trust fully. So we're going to talk about a few of the examples of that today. I am going to also touch on at the end, pandemic. I'm going to try to be as least sassy, is that grammatically correct? As least sassy as I possibly can be in this episode. I've got a lot of feciness in me right now, a lot of fire in me,

just because of all of the craziness that's been going on that I want to talk about. Some of you really like the feciness and the sarcasm, the snarkiness, things like that. Some of you don't. I never try to be derisive or snarky. Sometimes it comes out, but I am going to pray to be as measured as possible as I'm talking about these things while still releasing the full force of my passion behind the subjects that we're covering today. Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself.

On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this T-Day Show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Okay, let's get into today's topics.

The topic of or the question of whom can we trust. Can we trust anyone? Can we trust anyone fully or even halfway? Because what we've seen from the media over the past few months, I did an entire episode called Enemy of the People, where, and I don't even like to use that phrase speaking of the media, but over the past few months, we have seen such animosity from the media towards the American people putting themselves really in enmity with the American people and, of course, with the president by constantly changing the goalpost and shifting their stories to fit a particular narrative

that they believe will hurt Donald Trump the most at the expense of the safety and the trust of the American people. So in that episode, we looked at the hypocrisy. We looked at the timeline of media reporting over the past few months when it comes to coronavirus and then we looked at what the experts have said how the experts have changed their minds and we're going to talk about that a little bit more today but it makes everyone very uncomfortable so we're at a time right now where people have um their their mental preparedness for quarantine and for staying inside has has ended so we mentally prepared for for a few weeks.

We mentally prepared for even a few months. We said, okay, we can do this. We can stay locked down, especially those of you who still have your jobs out there. You said, okay, I'm gonna figure it out. It's difficult. You're thinking, okay, how am I gonna homeschool my kids and handle my job and how are we going to do all of this?

Some of you who lost your jobs, you had to get another job or get a different kind of job that you didn't know how to do, but people started adapting. We put our heads down. That's what Americans do. We said, okay, if we've gotta get through this, This is really as bad as what people say.

And if we have no choice but to believe the experts, believe the politicians and believe the media, if we have no other sources of information, they're all telling us this is going to be a 10 to 15% death rate. Okay, then we're going to do it. Okay, fine. We'll give you a little bit of trust, you powers that be. We'll stay inside.

We'll make sure that we don't go to the grocery store unless we absolutely have to. We'll make sure we listen to them at the beginning, that we won't wear masks because they told us that we didn't need to wear masks. We'll do all the things that you say as long as this promise is going to come to fruition, this promise that things are going to open back up and things are going to be okay. We're going to be able to get our jobs back. What they said in the beginning, two weeks to flatten the curve. 15 days to flatten the curve.

That's what we heard. A month to flatten the curve. Okay. 15 to 30 days, that's fine. Flatten the curve. What's flattened the curve? They told us that just means that our hospital systems aren't going to get overwhelmed. So it's not going to make the virus go away. And in fact, the number of people who get the virus might be the same over time, whether we stay open or lock down. But what we're trying to do is spread out the infection. So even though, say, everyone might get it, they wanted to spread it out over a certain period of

time, say five to six months by shutting down for two weeks to a month to make sure that our hospital system doesn't get overwhelmed. So that was supposed to buy us time to make sure that there were enough ICU beds to make sure there were enough ventilators. Now we know by the way that ventilators are not only probably ineffective when it comes to this, but might actually be killing people and worsening their condition because it's causing trauma to the lungs. But again, we listen to them because what do we know? What do we plebeians know? We really had no choice in the beginning, but to listen to the people who said that they have our best interest at heart. And maybe a lot of them did.

And maybe a lot of them still do. But the reality is, is that that promise that things were going to open up after we flatten the curve, after we got all the equipment that we need, after we make sure that the hospital system isn't overwhelmed, that promise has not come to fruition. So now you have a lot of governors, you have a lot of local officials like the mayor of LA saying, you know what, we're just going to stay locked down, even though the curve is already flat, even though the hospital systems are not overwhelmed, even in the epicenter of New York City. Yes, they were probably at capacity, but they were not overwhelmed. And they even had extra help

that ended up leaving because they didn't need the extra help. So hospital systems not overwhelmed. And in fact, a lot of hospitals have had to close down. They've had to furlough workers. They've had to lay workers off completely just because there was a lack of demand and they had cancelled all non-COVID related treatments. A lot of these hospitals are completely empty. So even though hospitals haven't been overwhelmed, even though the curve is flat, even though the number of cases and the number of deaths are going down, even as the number of tests are going up, we're going to need to stay locked down. For how long? I don't know. The mayor of L.A. said that L.A. is going to going to be locked down for the next three months until August. So all of summer, people in LA

apparently aren't going to be able to use the beach, how they want to use the beach this summer. There is a whole list of restrictions of the things that you cannot do on the beach in L.A., which is apparently you can't sunbathe. Like you can't sit in the sand. You can't lay in the sand. You can't fish if you're sitting down. All of these ridiculous and seemingly arbitrary things. And this is when people, they mentally prepared for 15 days, they mentally prepared for 30 days, they mentally prepared for for two months whatever it is this is where people in california people in new york people in michigan people in washington people in all of the states that are still implementing these draconian measures of keeping people totally locked down so that all the small

businesses close down people lose their jobs they lose their livelihoods and unfortunately tragically in some cases even lose their purpose and will to live, people are starting to say, okay, I didn't mentally prepare for this and I'm just not going to do it. So it's kind of happened in stages in the United States that there were people who by the time Easter rolled around. They were like, I'm done with this. I'm not doing this anymore. I'm going to go ahead and try to live my life as much as I possibly can.

And there were a lot of people who said, you're crazy for doing that. You're going to go kill people. You want to kill people in nursing homes. You want to kill grandmothers. And of course those people said, no, that's, you know, that's not what we want. We just want people to be able to make their own decisions and live their lives. But all the people pointed their fingers at them and said, you're absolutely crazy for that. And then a week later, there was another wave of people that said, okay, I could do it for this long,

can't do it anymore. And so on and so on and so on. Well, now it seems like we are at a tipping point where there are more people who want things to open up than people who want to keep things closed. And what's the reason for that? it's because of the changing stories of the media, the moving goalposts of the politicians, and the fact that it doesn't seem like we can get a consistent answer or a coherent plan from anyone. That's the problem. So these people, these governors, these journalists, these activists on Twitter all saying we need to close down indefinitely and you're crazy and you want to

kill people if you want to go back to work or you want to open up and of course they patronize you and condescend to you by saying you just want to get your hair and your nails down. Of course, that's not what it's about at all. But none of these people have a plan. All they have is fearmongering. So all they have is, well, you're going to die and everyone you know is going to die. And we're going to get a second wave when it comes to September. So everyone should just stay inside.

What's your plan? I mean, this is so true of all socialists and all communists is that they don't have any idea of what human nature is. or what human beings need or what humans have to do. That is why they say, oh, well, people should just stay inside and the government should take care of them. That's why Democrats are passing this $3 trillion, or trying to pass this $3 trillion bill that pays people who are unemployed $600 a week until January pays up to $6,000 per family in relief

in addition to all these other things that I'll talk about in just a minute. because they don't think that people need to work. They think they just need provision, but people need to work not just for provision, but for purpose, for meaning, for motivation in their lives. That is human nature. That is part of the reason, a huge reason why every socialist and communist regime has fallen, not just because you run out of people's money

if they're not working as much and you don't have any capital, but also because people desire to work. People want property. People want to be able to make something of themselves, for themselves, for their families. People don't want to just be provided for by the government that doesn't feed what is natural in the human spirit to be productive. So that is a huge reason why people are starting to lose it. People on both sides of the aisle are starting to say, hang on just a second. So it was flattened the curve a few weeks ago. now it's we have to wait until we find a cure or find a vaccine and hang on just a second there are

thousands of viruses alive right now that we don't have a vaccine for or an effective vaccine for and that we don't have a cure for and yet we risk it every day we don't take people's livelihoods away for the thousands of viruses that exist i mean there are viruses that were pandemics like SARS became a pandemic Ebola became a pandemic there are things that we still don't have cures for, that we still don't have vaccines for, that we didn't shut down the entire economy for, that we didn't take people's businesses away for it, that we didn't take people's will to live away for. And so you get a lot of people, again, on both sides of the aisle starting to say, what's the deal here? Like, what is behind all of this? And here's what I think. I think that

there were a lot of people at the beginning, including the president, including a lot of Republicans, including me, who believed a lot of what we hear. And I think there were a lot of people, you know, giving us all the information that they possibly had that, hey, this is probably going to be a really bad pandemic and we need people to stay inside as much as possible, wash your hands a lot, do all of the normal hygienic things that you should be doing during flu season. You should cover your mouth. Please don't go out if you're sick.

Limit travel, do teleconferences, telecommuting, all of that. I was on board for that. I still think people should be smart. still obviously believe that this is a bad virus that kills people and isn't good and has a higher death rate and apparently infection rate than the flu. But it was when I started seeing the stripping away of liberty, the moving goalposts, the obvious weaponizing of this virus to not only take control of people's lives, but also to dump on Trump when it comes to the election in November, that I started to take a step back and say, okay, hang on just a second.

Is this being misrepresented to us for ulterior motives? And I think more and more people are starting to realize that. And you're seeing people like Joe Rogan, not a right wing guy, Elon Musk, also not a right wing guy, saying that they are going to leave California and move to Texas. And I think Elon Musk said he might move to Arizona because the draconian measures and the absolute loss of freedom and livelihoods in California because of the insanity of California, they want to move to red states. And you're seeing that from a lot

of people. The only people, though, that can move from those states are people who are actually wealthy. Those that are, you know, that are in the middle class in places like Illinois who also has a lot of terrible measures or Michigan or California, the people who are in the middle class there aren't going to be able to move to the red states because no one's going to be able to buy their homes but here's my message for all of the people who are going to the red states from the blue states totally understand why you're doing that because your mayors and your governors are loony and they want to control your lives and they don't care about your livelihoods they aren't abiding by their own rules they are probably still going to get their hair cut they're probably

still getting Botox, they're probably still getting their lip injections, they're probably still getting their nails done and their shoes shined, and they're probably still working out and doing all of the things that they tell you that you can't do because they don't care about you and you're seeing the corruption and you're seeing their desire to take control of your lives. They're seeing that because they want to defeat Donald Trump in November, they want the economy to be as bad as possible for as long as possible. You're seeing all of that and you want to move to a red state. Thank you for realizing that i am so glad that you realize that if you're on the democratic side of the aisle maybe you're realizing that for the first time and you're waking up amen praise god understand that if you go

from a blue state to a red state and you continue to vote blue your problems are going to follow you your problems will follow you wherever you go because democrats in texas are the same as democrats in california they all want the same thing they all want bigger government They don't care what it does to small business. They don't care what it does to morale. They don't care if we can afford it or not. Democrats in Texas, Democrats in Arizona, Democrats in Florida, Democrats in predominantly red states are the same as Democrats in New York for the most part, and Democrats in California. And they will bring the state that you are moving to for reprieve from the leftist policies.

they will move these predominantly red states in the same direction as the blue states that you are leaving. So if you are coming to a red state, if you're going to a red state from a blue state, leave the blue policies behind. Okay. And I understand if you're a Democrat who has taken another look at the Democratic Party and you're like, okay, don't like what Democrats are doing. Maybe it'll be different. Maybe it'll be different in taxes if I vote Democrats.

you're fooling yourself because Democrats are pretty much the same everywhere, especially in certain parts of these red states. Like if you go from L.A. to Austin, you're going to find the same Democratic radicals in Austin that you could find in San Francisco or L.A. But you also have to keep in mind that the Republican Party, and I'm not even saying that you have to vote Republican, but the Republican Party is not Donald Trump. So if you are in Texas and you are voting in November,

you don't, voting for a Republican because you don't like leftist policies does not mean that you have to love Donald Trump. And if you are someone who's like, okay, I don't want to vote Democrat, but I'm scared to vote Republican because of, you know, social issues or whatever. Look, you're going to have to make some tough decisions. First of all, most Republicans, believe it or not, don't actually care about the social issues that, for example, I do. like I'm a social conservative. A lot of Republicans out there don't care as much about the social issues as you think they do. They don't represent the Hollywood caricature of Republicans as these. They picture them as or they depict them as these backwoods hillbilly conservatives,

which maybe you think that I am. But most Republicans aren't like that. And if you're someone who's like, I can't vote Republican because I'm pro choice. the Republican Party is pro-life. Okay, like if sacrificing babies is more important to you than personal liberty and people not losing their livelihoods, then maybe you should just stay where you are. Like if you love living under leftist policies, if democratic policies are more favorable to you than Republican policies, then you should stay in your Democratic states

because you are living under those policies right now. So there's no reason for you for a Texas or a Georgia or a Florida or in Idaho to be more attractive to you if you like Democratic liberal policies because you're living under them right now. Right now if you are tired of this lockdown and you want to move to a red state but you're thinking that you're still going to vote Democrat, there's no reason for you to move. you currently are a beneficiary of the democratic leadership that you say that you will continue to vote for if you move to a red state. So please, please, we beg you, keep your failed policies where they are. Do not bring them to the red states that are going to have to carry the rest of the country on its back as you guys figure out that lockdowns have fatalities too. Okay? unfortunately there are a lot of people who will not get that message who are feeding off the

media praise of draconian lockdowns and they are just going to get harsher and harsher for some reason mayor garcetti of l.a governor ralph northam of virginia governor insley of washington they don't listen to relatable and so they're not listening to my rant and so it's not going to go through their thick liberal heads that people are ready for some kind of freedom even at the risk of their own health and look i feel the same way that i would say 100% of conservatives who want to strategically open the country up feel that if you are vulnerable if you are compromised you should stay inside if you want to stay inside if you are worried about the virus you should stay inside and i still believe everyone should take precautions. I'm a germaphobe year-round guys. 24-7-365 germaphobe.

I got hand sanitizer always with me. I don't care. I'll wear a mask. I'll wear gloves. Like I know that the science may be iffy on those things. I'm fine with doing that. Now I don't want the government to tell me that I have to wear a mask because that's stupid and I don't think they have the right to do that. But like I'm fine with all of that. I'm a germaphobe. Please don't go out if you're sick, please cover your mouth. People still don't do that. But do I also believe that it is time, even if there are risks because every policy, every action that we do throughout the day has risks to ourselves and to other people. Do I think it is time for people to be able to regain a livelihood so that our country doesn't just completely stop and the world economy doesn't

completely crash? Of course I do. Of course I do. do and at this point I think the governors and the mayors that are enacting these lockdowns for really no scientific reason at these points at this point um they truly are doing it simply for control simply for what we have heard progressive after progressive say that this is an opportunity for a radical restructuring of the american economy and look democrats always do this we've talked about this before they overplay their hands they overplay their hand so they start out being you know we're the party of science we're the party that's listening to experts we're the party that's listening to to the doctors um and then they keep going and keep going when the predictions don't come true

when 2.2 million people aren't dead when 1.1 million people aren't dead when the states that have opened up aren't seen a spike in cases or a spike in deaths and they continue to double down on their failures and double down on their wrong predictions, that's when people on both sides of the aisle start to wake up and say, what's your deal here? Like, what's your motivation? But they continue to overplay their hands and they forget about the fact that people want to work. People across the aisle want to be able to provide for their family. People care about liberty. Now, there's a lot of things to be sad about in the state of our country. There are a lot of, there's a lot of stupidity, unfortunately, among our citizenry, a lot of people who have been absolutely brainwashed

and indoctrinated by leftism. But there is, there remains that American spirit, something in us that just cannot deal with tyranny. Like we just can't deal with it. People across the aisle, sure, there are some sheep out there that are like, oh, I just love to be told what to do. And I just can't wait to wear a mask inside my house and socially distance from my family because the experts and politicians tell me so sure those people exist but what you're seeing i think is the tide turning that people are saying what the heck this is the united states of america i'm not even free to lay on the beach like i'm not even free to continue my restaurant my business that has been an operation for over 30 years that i've put my entire life's work into you're not even allowing me to do that

and here's the question i think that people are asking based on what based on what because they're all saying all of these politicians that are saying we're going to stay locked down for the next few months illinois california new york and some of these people i mean some of these states are relieving restrictions bit by bit but they are still locking down a lot more than other states are people are saying that this is based on science so advocates for these lockdowns are saying It's based on, they're based on science and data. But the question is, what science and data? What science and data says that these lockdowns,

that keeping people totally inside their houses, who says that that is working? What science says that that is better than keeping things, keeping things at least slightly open? So if we look at Sweden, for example, who never had a lockdown, Never had a full lockdown. So they, you know, changed some things up. I think some of their restaurants could only have certain capacity or they did mostly did outside seating or they did recommendations for

socially distancing, but they did not do a full lockdown. Right now they have a total of about 28,500 cases and 3,500 deaths. That's a country of 10 million people. So again, Sweden, no lockdown, maybe a partial shutdown, but no full lockdown has 10 million people, a total of about 28, 500 cases and 3,500 deaths. It was predicted in the original model that Sweden under the current policies that they have was going to have 80,000 deaths by August. 3,500 deaths right now. Now, let's compare that to some places in the United States who have had full lockdowns. So let's look at Michigan, who's governor, Governor Whitmer, has put a full lockdown on the state and continues to do so. I think that there are plans to ease the restrictions, but she has been, uh,

one of the harshest governors i would say in this michigan also has about 10 million people that lived there 48 000 coronavirus cases and about 4600 deaths so more than sweden full lockdown more cases than sweden almost double the cases of sweden um and a thousand more deaths than sweden new jersey whose governor said you cannot go to church but you can go to the liquor store you cannot go to the beach um in all of this is you is you can't go to the liquor store and all of this is going to stay in place until we say so new jrise uh new jersey has about eight million people a hundred forty one thousand cases and about ninety five hundred deaths so new jersey about eight million people has a hundred a hundred a hundred twenty about a hundred and uh however much a hundred

twenty thousand more cases than sweden a country of uh ten million people ninety five hundred deaths in New Jersey full lockdown. New York City, a city of about 8 million people has had about 15,000 deaths, so five times as many deaths as Sweden, who never enacted the kind of lockdown that New York City has. So what science tells us that total lockdowns are better than partial shutdowns, or better than private businesses and individuals taking their own precautions, which, by the way, human beings do because we don't want to die of a virus. Like, human beings for the most part there are very stupid people out there but human beings for the most part are very responsible especially business owners they don't want to be they don't want to be liable they don't

want their customers to get sick they probably more than anyone else in this country want this pandemic to go away and will take the proper precautions uh virginia's governor who we've talked about so many times is a fool and that is the nicest way he can possibly say that i mean he's the guy who said that after i told you about this on monday that uh a year and a half ago said that if a baby survives an abortion, you put the baby off to the side and make it comfortable while the mom and doctor decide what to do with the baby. I mean, this was the guy who was caught wearing either blackface or a KKK robe a few decades ago, still hasn't owned up to it and is still in office. So I think it's kind for me to say that he is a fool. Virginia's governor,

Ralph Northam, has said that there are mandatory requirements for churches if they want to worship together. Seating must be marked in six foot increments. No items may be passed to or between attendees who are not family members. This is the governor's mandate for churches. Now, Virginia has only had 891 deaths. And so the governor is telling churches what they might do. Now, these are must do. These might be good ideas and maybe churches should do them. But the governor can't require this. Fox News reported that Washington Governor Jay Inslee amended his March order banning religious gatherings of any size Friday to allow home-based Bible study and prayer

after one man sued the state. Joshua Freed, represented by a First Liberty Institute, who are awesome, by the way, and the North Creek law firm sued the state last month demanding he is allowed to hold a one-on-one Bible study amid the coronavirus pandemic. Allowed? Allowed!

to conduct a one-on-one Bible study in his backyard, according to the governor who had to be sued to even allow that. I'm sorry, that's not your rights. Like the Constitution, the Bill of Rights is about restraining government's power, not what the people can do. That is what the Constitution is for, not telling citizens what we can and can't do, but to restrain the power of the government. But Democrats for a long time now, many Democrats, had hated, loathe the First Amendment. That's part of the reason why so many of them were citing with China. Fox News also reported that Mayor Bill de Blasio, world's worst mayor, New York City mayor,

and NYPD Commissioner Dermott Shea stated outright this week that people are not permitted to gather for protests in public due to the coronavirus pandemic. The city leaders pointed to the need to maintain social distancing in order to prevent greater spread of COVID-19 stating that this takes precedence over people's rights to exercise their First Amendment rights of free speech. And it simply, no, it doesn't. There are no asterisks or exceptions to the bill of rights. As we've talked about before, if you give up liberty for safety, then you forsake both. You lose both liberty and safety. And that is what the Democrats would like us to believe that safety is always more important than liberty.

Sure, we make compromises and we come together and we decide what the risk is going to be. But if you continually put safety over liberty, you end up with both. We talked about the Trace Act on Wednesday, the threat to privacy, and individual liberty in the name of safety. Democrats are using this to completely obliterate the First Amendment, which is why not only the First Amendment is important, but also the Second Amendment. Fauci, the person that all of these people claimed to be following instead of the Constitution,

testified before the Senate saying that if we open too quickly, people will needlessly die. Well, number one, this is why we're not governed by scientists. As I talked about a few episodes ago, we're governed by people who should take into account data while also balancing the risks and rewards. That's what policy does. You look at the implications of an economic shutdown, how it ruins people's lives, how are there are fatalities, how liberty and the bill of rights actually do matter. And number two, what evidence is there again that staying closed will prevent people from needlessly dying?

But as I say, people are catching on. I don't know if you guys saw, but in the 25th district, district 25 in California, it's northern L.A. County and eastern Ventura County flipped red for the first time in 22 years used to be represented by Katie Hill, who was. resigned in disgrace not that long ago after a sexual scandal that happened while she was in office. She's a Democrat. It flipped red. Now, maybe that's representative of what to come. Maybe not. Now, Democrats are trying to push through, as we talked about on Monday, this $3 trillion relief bill. In addition to the $2 trillion relief bill that was already passed, this one includes $1,200 to a $1,200 check to a legal immigrants, two taxpayer-funded studies of diversity in the cannabis industry. That's very pertinent to the

coronavirus, $75 billion for contact tracing and quote isolation measures. A mandate to release all federal prisoners who have asthma, diabetes, or who are over 50, continuing $600 a week of unemployment through January 2021 ensuring that people won't go back to work because they're making more money, staying unemployed so that the unemployment rate stays high so Trump can't point to the economy as a success and they think that will make him lose in November. It's not about compassion. But as I say, I think the Democrats are overplaying their hands. I think people are starting to see that these measures are about control and about hurting Trump and there aren't enough people who want to hurt Trump more than they want to provide for their families. And Democrats,

like Nancy Pelosi who have millions and millions of dollars don't understand that. They're so entirely out of touch. So I just pray that you will remember this in November. Now, here's what I think is going to happen. Democrats will realize that they're overplaying their hands. People will start opening things back up because they don't want people to use the lockdown as a referendum against Democrats in November, and they will use the next few months memory-holing all of this.

They will pretend that the economy has nothing to do with the law. lockdown that they didn't have anything to do with the lockdown and that the stock market the the bad economy the unemployment numbers all have to do with Donald Trump it's all the think that Donald Trump they will spend the next few months doing PR for the Democratic Party and pretending like none of their measures had anything to do with the economy and unfortunately a lot of people are going to buy into that but if you would like America to become socialist if you want Americans to to lose their jobs while expediting the arrival of cheap labor from other countries. If you want to be told where you can go and win,

if you want China to take over as the world power, the nation who allowed this whole thing to spread because of its own corruption, who jails people for saying the wrong thing, throws people into concentration camps for worshiping the wrong God, who spies on its own citizens, who according to a recent report has arrested 500 of its own citizens for criticizing the government's response to coronavirus, if you want that to be the world power

because their end game is world domination, by the way, then you should vote Democrats. You should. Vote for Joe Biden in November if that's what you want. You should continue to vote Democrat because it's popular. Continue to vote for it for the social reasons because abortion is so close to your heart. But if you care about having any semblance of freedom left,

any semblance of the economy, then please don't bring continually failing liberal ideas not just to the red states but also to the ballot box i'm begging you so when you're in the middle of all of this chaos people are looking around they're like i don't know if i can trust fouchy who says that things should be locked down forever he's an epidemiologist by the way he's not an economist we have to be able to listen to both when they can't trust the media because it's so obvious what their motives are when they can't trust these politicians who are seemingly making arbitrary policies that are not based on data and certainly not based on what's best for people when people are starving for liberty and some people are actually starving because they

don't have jobs in a way to care for their families you get people looking to alternate theories of what's really going on and that is why movies like Plandemic become so popular and go so viral so quickly. So all the media that's very angry about the misinformation about coronavirus, the so-called conspiracy theory surrounding coronavirus, need to make sure that they aren't part of the problem. They aren't the reason why so many people are mistrusting all of our institutions right now. There's been so much inconsistency, so much hypocrisy, so much shifting, so many shifting goalposts that of course people are going to look to other sources of information and what seems like underlying truth in order to get to the bottom of what's really going on. And that is why you have documentaries

like Plandemic being as popular as they are. So a lot of you guys have asked me to address this. Plandemic, it was a short documentary or it was like part one of a documentary about Judy Mickavits. She was a virologist. She claims that she was let go of her job and pursued as a criminal basically because she uncovered corruption by Anthony Fauci and others when she worked with them several years ago. But there are other reports who tell a different side of the story. So I'm just going to tell you what the other reports say. This is from the Guardian, which was taken from a lot of different sources. But Mikovitz's scientific career began falling apart from 2009 when she published a paper in science attributing chronic fatigue syndrome to the effects of a virus.

The paper's claims did not hold up. It was retracted. An ensuing conflicts between Mikovitz and her employer, a private lab, culminated in her arrest in 2012 on charges of being a fugitive from justice after she allegedly, after she allegedly absconded with notebooks and proprietary data and criminal charges were later dropped, according to reports. For the rest of her claims, that this was manmade, that there is a reactivation of the virus if you get it on your mask and then breathe it back in that a lab in North Carolina was involved in the creation of the coronavirus, that Italy got a bad case of coronavirus because of a bad flu vaccine. I need to see evidence for those claims.

I just need to see proof for those claims. I have no reason to believe them, and I don't think this documentary did a very good job of proving the claims that are being made. There have been lots of so-called debunking videos and essays going around. about Plandemic, which I also take those with a grain of salt, but I'm going to need evidence for all of it. And I will just say that the creator of this documentary, nothing against this person personally, I don't know him, but he is a new ageer. He believes all of the things that we have talked about on this podcast are so dangerous and are from the pit of hell. I mean, you can go to his YouTube channel, Mickey, his name is Mickey Willis, M-I-K-K-I-Willis.

his YouTube channel, you could check out some of the things that he promotes. That doesn't mean, that alone doesn't mean that the pandemic documentary is wrong, but you need to consider the source. I mean, and again, if you don't know the dangers of the new age, please go listen to my podcast, the dangers of the new age with Doreen Virtue. We just did another, we just did a replay of that episode. It's my most listened to episode ever because she just has so much insight in the conversation was very enlightening. So I encourage you to go listen to that if you haven't already. So all of that said, we not only have to constantly question the narrative and constantly question the motivations and constantly question the policies and constantly have to dig to see

what is behind everything. We have to read five articles for one story to just be able to get a holistic, unbiased perspective. We have to think harder. I think the people used to have to think about news stories because maybe people were actually able to trust journalists. And I'm not saying all journalists are untrustworthy, but so many of them have ulterior motives and see themselves as activists that we can't trust any of these institutions. And then not only do we have to question the narrative, but we then have to question these kind of documentaries. We have to question the people who are also questioning the narrative. That is simply the kind of world that we live in. And if all of this makes you very overwhelmed and all of this makes you very sad and you just feel like things are spiraling out of control, as we talked about on Wednesday, I just want to remind you that this is nothing new. So a lot of the technology that we have, a lot of the politics that we have, a lot of the kinds of journalism and science and all of that, all of that might seem new and like it's a new threat. But really, in principle, nothing is new under the sun. And of course, we know we serve a

sovereign God who is not surprised you're taken it back by any of this. And the prevailing principle under all of this, that has been true forever since the beginning of time that is still true today is that nothing is fully trustworthy. No one is fully trustworthy because everyone is fallible, everyone is finite, especially the people in power aren't necessarily trustworthy because power corrupts and absolutely, power corrupts absolutely. Most people in the government, especially the left-wing side of the government, are not bound by virtue, but are bound by virtue signaling. Those two things are very different. Virtue has substance and integrity. Virtue signaling is hollow and dishonest.

We have no reason to trust a lot of the people in power, and so we have to do our own research and our own digging. Some of the people are trustworthy. Some of the people say things that are true and that's great but this reality of untrustworthiness and a lack of integrity and being unable to make accurate predictions has always been true and the comfort for us Christians is that the realist reality that we live in is not Twitter it's not the news they're not headlines um the realest reality that we live in is the timeline that god sets out for us in the word of God which is eternity. So we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, but we do know what's going to happen ultimately. We know that ultimately Jesus is coming back. We know that ultimately he will rule in perfect peace.

We know that ultimately evil will be utterly and totally and completely and eternally destroyed. We know that God is working. We know that everything works together for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. We know that all things come together also for his glory. So we know that things in the end are going to be okay even through trial, even through tribulation, even through tyranny, even through corrupt government authority. That is what we know. And that is the realist reality that we cling to. We weren't made to be able to trust implicitly or trust completely the powers that be.

Human beings have never fully been able to do that. And thankfully, in America, we have been able to do that at least somewhat. in some instances throughout history. But for the most part, human history has been riddled with the corruption of power. And that is not new. We were never meant to be able to fully trust institutions in the powers that be. And thankfully, we have a God who describes himself as fully trustworthy. So the only powerful being, the only being that can be all powerful without often.

also being corrupted is the God of the universe, the God that we also happen to worship and can lean on and rely on our ever-present help in time of trouble. That is the realist reality that we know. So we don't know what's going on behind the headlines. We don't know what's going on behind the numbers. We don't know what's going to happen ahead of us in these predictions, but we do know what is told to us in the Word of God. We can rely on the character of God, which never changes, which is the saying yesterday, today, and forever. Should we care about this stuff? Yes.

Should we pray about this stuff? We should pray for our leaders. We should pray for freedom. We should pray for the alleviation of tyranny and misinformation, and we should do our best to seek truth. But should we obsess over it? No. Should we feel like it's going to be the end of the world?

Of course not. God is still in control. So we have to learn how to balance. We have to, we can get passionate about this stuff, but be able to take a step back and say, I trust God. I trust God and I know that he's good. And we can only enact as much change as we possibly can

while also trusting and praying and realizing that he is in control. This is the realest reality that we have. Okay. Thank you so much for listening and I will see you guys back here on Monday where we will talk about. We are going to talk about if it is a Christian obligation or if it's even allowed at all for Christians to rebel against the government and how. Okay, I will see you guys then.

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