The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE GRINCH WHO’S TRYING TO STEAL CHRISTMAS

Episode Date: December 30, 2021

Public health officials think they can continue to tell private citizens how to celebrate the Holidays.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Let's move over to Texas because there's some interesting news coming out of there in the form of a hotline. So here's the headline just happened about a week ago. Governor Greg Abbott creates hotline for Texas employees to report vaccine mandates. Now, you would think look at this and go, well, to report vaccine mandates like they want to make sure people are getting the vaccine, quite the contrary. If you live in Texas, just like if you live in Florida or Montana or a lot of other states that took a stand against these vaccine mandates early on, even before Joe Biden's three. federal vaccine mandates became halted in court. Governor Abbott issued this executive order in Texas. It was on October 11, 2021. This is executive order number GA40 relating to prohibiting vaccine mandates. He says in here, no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual,

including an employee or a consumer who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience based on a religious belief or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID, 19 and here he says, I hereby suspend all relevant statutes to the extent necessary to enforce this prohibition. So Governor Abbott took to Twitter to make this announcement as well, which kind of drove the news cycle and drove the headlines. He says since day one, Texas has taken a stand against the federal government's unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandates. We now have created a hotline for Texas employees to report illegal vaccine. Illegal vaccine mandates. The COVID-19 vaccine will always be voluntary and never.

forced in Texas. Now this is through the Texas Workforce Commission. So if any employee is getting forced by their employer, give a Texas Workforce Commission a call or email them to report that, apparently, because Abbott wants to know. Now, here we are. I wanted to add this in here, Del. We had talked about this illegal vaccine mandates. Here we are. Christmas 2021's wrapping up. And who would have thought two years ago that not only one, governments would be forcing vaccine mandates, but then other governors would be trying to protect their citizens and states from vaccine mandates. It kind of sums it up in this vice. Who did know?

Who did know that's what was going to be ahead? Well, in February 2020, Vice put out this headline. Just to give you how fast conspiracy theory turns into fact. Anti-vaxxers are terrified the government will enforce a vaccine for coronavirus. You were quoted in this article talking about the possible Wuhan lab leak origins on this. And here we are almost just about a year later. And full circle, we have Abbott trying to protect Texans from these illegal vaccine mandates. Oh, my gosh.

Right. So there's not a conspiracy any longer. No, not at all. And if you're sitting around there for Christmas or with your family, you may have already broken some rules. Check out this headline according to the CDC. Now, this was their guidance for the holidays. CDC recommends celebrating remotely or via video this year, regardless of. of vaccination status because vaccination, as we know, does not stop transmission or infection.

Oh, I bet you somebody watching this show right now is on the CDC's naughty list. Breaking the rules. How dare you break those rules. The CDC really wants to try to protect people here. And Fauci does as well. And what Christmas would be really complete without Fauci chiming in on how to go about your personal Christmas with your family? Here's the headline on that. Fauci, families should prove vaccination status to each other during the holidays. I can think of about a million and one other things I'd rather be doing with my time than doing what he is recommending there. But let's listen to him on an interview, try to really just stumble through this authoritarian garble.

Take a look. Let's take the holiday setting. You're with your family. You have grandparents and parents and children. When you get vaccinated and you have a vaccinated group and you are in an indoor setting, you can enjoy, as we have traditionally over the years, dinners and gatherings within the home with people who are vaccinated. And that's the reason why people should, if they invite people over their home,

essentially ask and maybe require that people show evidence that they are vaccinated or give their honest and good faith word that they've been vaccinated. I swear, man, this guy is really starting to, you know, get under my skin, shall I say. I mean, seriously, is this guy like the Grinch that stole Christmas? As I'm watching him, I mean, literally, if he just had a little green paint, like little green dye, and it's like the Grinch trying to rob you of Christmas. You know, the thing about him, and when I listen to him now, I just think,

oh, from the mouth of the guy that took the greatest nation in the world, destroyed our economy, destroyed the education of our children, locked us down all to have the highest infection rate in the world, and the highest death rate in the entire world. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Tony Fauci for your incredible work this year. Did I say thank you enough for literally taking the greatest hospital system in the world, the best doctors in the world,

and managing to kill more people than any other nation did, including El Salvador, Africa, India, who all did much, much better than we did with COVID. But no, by all means, let's please keep listening to your dictates because they're working so well, so far. And the person who said with natural immunity, we'll have to look into that. That sounds like an interesting idea. So someone that really is not looking at the entire breath of science. But

picture that, picture that what he's talking about. How would that work? Would that be a QR code? You'd be asking people to see their vaccine card. What about the children? What about babies? How are you going to check their vaccination status? We need more instructions here, Dr. Fauci. I don't know if we can do it this year, maybe next year. No, I mean, they'd be great. If everyone would be a really fun little party trick, right? As your family's showing up with the boxes and the gifts and the little chihuahua in tow and the snow's coming down and you ring the doorbell, just have the door opened up by an SS officer that just says, I have papers, please? And then, you know, what do you do? Like, mom, dad, it's me. Yeah, we know. Talk to the Nazi if you want to get in here.

I don't know. It doesn't say family is all welcome here. I mean, division, unity. What are we talking about here? Absolutely. American values. Christmas values. Jeffrey, great reporting. Have an awesome holiday man. Take some time off. You've been amazing. Just so grateful to be working with you. And, you know, I look forward to next year as we continue to win this. I mean, it's just been an unbelievably successful year. I would say in distributing truth, in waking people up, you know, polls now saying 54% of America appear to be on our side, which is the side of critical thinking. Those people that are lining up for their third and fourth booster. I think it's right around the corner any moment it's going to dawn on them that maybe

this doesn't make sense. So we'll get them next year. So until then, have a great holiday, okay? All right. Merry Christmas, you and your family and also to the viewers. Thanks so much. Take care, Jeffrey. If you like that clip, then be sure to check out our live broadcast of the High Wire every Thursday morning at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. You can watch it on iTunes and Twitter. We'll see you there.