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This is on Daunted Life a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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This I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you.
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Let not your hearts be troubled.
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Neither let them be afraid.
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Those are the words of Jesus has recorded in John 1427.
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And here's the thing, Jesus gives us peace.
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But the world wants the exact opposite, apparently everything is so unbelievably stupid as we
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have to talk about here over and over and over.
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But before we get into today's content, just want to remind you guys that we do have a
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able to get a link to that.
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But guys, back on episode 196 of this podcast, it was called fear porn and mask mandates.
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So that was back in May.
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The CDC had come out and said that fully vaccinated people don't have to wear masks or socially
1:39
distance indoors anymore, which was perfectly obvious to anybody that knows how vaccines
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work, right?
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But everything has changed so much.
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I mean, that seems like ancient history.
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That was a may.
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Guys, that was the beginning of the summer, right?
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And now look where we're at.
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So in terms of what we're going to cover today, we're going to cover co-president Joe Biden
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and his turn towards authoritarianism, okay, we're going to cover the public reaction
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to what he said last week in his statement and his address to the country on Thursday
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of last week.
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We're going to talk about the confusing, the scary and the reality of the things that
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were basically said there and threatened there by Joe Biden.
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And then also we're going to get into some of the really, really big questions that need
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answers.
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There's some really, really solid ones there, but then also at the very end, I'm going to
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go over what I think you should do, okay?
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There's a lot of people asking me, DMing me, sending me emails, asking me, what should
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I do, okay?
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And I'm going to get into that in a lot of different categories, so make sure you stick
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around to the end.
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Yes, I know that sounds self-serving.
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Hey, I'm going to be talking about so many important things, but guys, just hang with
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me till the end.
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There's a lot of really good stuff that you're going to be able to take and apply immediately.
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Now, guys, I intended to talk about COVID for the last several weeks now, but maybe over
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a month now, because again, I was getting emails and DMs from you guys, from listeners,
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from people that love this show, telling me that their company was going to or intends
2:59
to require vaccines in order for them to keep their jobs and asking me, you know, what should
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I do?
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Right?
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People emailing me saying, hey, you know, I'm thinking that this is going to happen.
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I don't really know what I should do.
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You know, I have some issues with the vaccine.
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I'm not really sure.
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What should I do?
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And again, I'm just a podcast host, right?
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And the thing is, is like, I can't give you all the answers that you need, and I'll get
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more into that later on.
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But I'm kind of glad that I sat on the topic and didn't talk about it until today, because
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of what co-president Biden chose to do last Thursday.
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And by the way, I used to call him co-president Biden to imply that Kamala Harris might be
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the one that is actually running the show.
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But now I think it is perfectly obvious that he's legitimately just the face of this administration.
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And there are dozens, if not hundreds of puppeteers in the background, basically just these swamp
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creatures that are using him to get whatever they want to get done.
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But we're not talking about, you know, the legislative agenda right now, we're not talking
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about any of those things.
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We need to talk about what exactly co-president Biden said last Thursday in his statement
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to America.
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So I'm going to go ahead and get into this clip of it here because this is the gist of
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what he told America to do, my job as president is to protect all Americans.
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So tonight, I'm announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to
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require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employ over 80 million workers
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to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week.
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There you go.
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He's requiring that private businesses mandate the vaccine.
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If you have more than 100 employees, which is so many people, again, I think he said
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it's tens of millions of people who this is going to be directly affecting.
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But here's the other thing.
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The fine is going to be $14,000 per violation per week.
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So a lot of people have used this mask.
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So I'll use it as well.
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So let's say you have 100 employees and none of them are vaccinated.
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That's 14,000 times 100 every week.
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That's $1.4 million a week, right?
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So that's basically eradicating these businesses.
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And it's also requiring all federal employees and employees of federal contractors to be
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vaccinated if you want to do business with the United States of America, right?
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Unless you have a powerful union like the postal service workers, right?
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These are people that are seeing and being around people all day, every day.
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But nope, they don't have to because they have a powerful union, right?
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But this podcast is not going to be a complete breakdown of that speech because a lot of
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other people have done that.
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I've left a link for the entire speech in the show notes.
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So if you want to torture yourself and watch Joe Biden try to speak, you know, what's on
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his teleprompter for it, you know, over 10 minutes, go for it.
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Like I absolutely suggest that you do that.
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But the public reaction has been pretty stark for this because Republicans reacted in a
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terrified and excited fashion, right? So the terrifying thing is because this is a crazy
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thing to threaten, right?
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So but they're also excited Republicans are because they're almost assured now to get back
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control of the House and Senate in 2022.
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It was already looking good before the Afghanistan debacle.
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But now it seems like a shoe and that that's going to happen.
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Democrats were scrambling and excited.
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So scrambling because, you know, they can't keep up with this administration's tune changes.
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They just, things change way too often, right?
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But they're also excited because boy, do they love power, gosh, they just love power.
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And this is an absolute insane power grab.
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So they're excited, but everyday Americans, the reaction from them is that they absolutely
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hate this. Okay.
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And this is across the board, even people that voted for Joe Biden, they hate this because
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we don't like being told what to do.
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All right. You know, I remember there was a thing that came out about the state of Oklahoma
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state that I live in about, you know, if you tell Oklahoma's to do something, even if they
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wanted to do it beforehand, they're not going to want to do it now, right?
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And so if you keep telling people to do things, if you force them to do things, even if they
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were planning to do it, they probably don't want to do it now.
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And the polls on this specifically are terrible for Biden across the board with Republicans,
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Democrats and independents. Okay.
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Now the administration keeps pointing at other fires to distract us right now because right
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now, there's there's this craziness going on or all over right now with this administration.
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But we just, the Americans just, they can't wait for the next thing to come up, right?
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Because everything is seemingly on fire from Afghanistan to inflation to everything, right?
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But this is the interesting thing is I remember being reliably informed for for years actually
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that Trump was the authoritarian fascist.
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I remember people telling me that Trump is that guy he's going to take everything over.
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It's going to be a police state. And you might point to, you know, the 6th of January of
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this year and say that that's actually what happened. But this isn't a podcast about that.
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But that obviously didn't happen. That was not even a coup. No one was even armed that
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went into the to the US Capitol. But the thing is is we need, I'm trying to be careful here
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in a lot of different ways because again, I've got my problems with Trump, but the people
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that were like Trump is the authoritarian fascist, they've now become the we need to do what Biden
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says because he really cares about us people, which again, I don't really care if Joe Biden
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cares about me individually or not. I would rather Joe Biden care about me enough to just
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leave me completely alone, right? Now, I don't run a company with 100 plus employees. But
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if I did, I would be standing up against this. Okay. But that's generally the reaction that
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we've gotten from people. And it's just not good. People don't like it by knee stress,
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the imagination, unless they're a power hungry Democrat. Now, there's a lot of things that
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are confusing about this whole deal. So I'm going to go through those here. The first
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thing is that people are confused because we're being told that the vaccinations will
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protect us, but that we need protection from the unvaccinated, even if we ourselves are
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vaccinated. So I don't quite understand that. And neither does anybody else. Because if
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you have the vaccination, why do you care if someone else is unvaccinated, where we're
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getting mixed messages from the White House on that? Another confusing thing is that everyday
9:07
Americans have to be vaccinated, right? According to this administration, the illegal immigrants
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that are streaming across our border and record numbers. And I'm pretty sure the same goes
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for unvetted Afghan refugees. They don't have to be vaccinated. So tell me this isn't political.
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Because the people streaming across the border, we're not saying, yeah, hey, we'll release
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you into the interior of the country. Make sure you show up for your court date. But
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we got to stick something in your arm real quick. We're not forcing that. But you every
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day American, you have to be vaccinated. That's interesting, right? Another thing that's
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confusing is that why in this whole, you know, thing that he's doing, why only require one
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negative test per week? Why not one per day? Why not one per hour? Because as I've talked
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about and as people talked about ad nauseam, I could get COVID tested right now. I could
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just do this while right now and test negative. And then I could go interact with somebody
10:03
right after I'm done recording this and get COVID. So if you test your people on a Monday
10:08
and they catch COVID later on that day, well, they're going to be around the rest of the
10:11
office for the rest of the week. So if you really, really cared, I mean, if you're Joe Biden
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and you really, really genuinely cared about people, why wouldn't you have them be tested
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every hour? Wouldn't that be the right thing to do the caring thing to do? So another confusing
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thing is why only companies with over 100 employees? Why not everyone? Why not companies
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with two employees? Why not solopreneurs? I mean, if you really, really care, why is
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100 the magical threshold? That's very confusing to people. It is still to me. And the last
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thing I guess I'll go over in terms of why it's so confusing is because we can't keep
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up with the narrative. The narrative is shifting so often, right? And again, a lot of other
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podcasts have done this and a lot of other news shows, but they're talking about what
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the administration was saying last month. And Joe Biden basically saying, no, we're not
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going to do a vaccine mandate and Jen Psaki saying, no, we're not going to do max vaccine
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mandate and Dr. Fauci coming out and saying that, no, we don't need to do the vaccine
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mandate. And now now they're all all of a sudden for it. But again, I want to remind
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you a year ago, pretty much every prominent Democrat said, Hey, if Trump's able to get
11:21
this vaccine to us, I don't know if we should take it. I don't know if I can trust that Trump.
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And now it's Oh, no, no, not only are the vaccines important. They're required. When
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you have Democrats going on television, basically saying, yeah, you know, if you want your privileges
11:37
back, right? You know, you know, because flying and traveling, those those things are privileges.
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If you want these privileges back, if you want the real normal life, just do what we
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tell you to do. It's no big deal. Just do what we tell you to do. It's just very confusing.
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We can't keep up with the narrative, right? But now let's go into the scary. That's
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all the stuff that's confusing, right? And some of that's tongue in cheek. But most of
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that's legitimate. This is the scary part. The scariest thing Biden has said during his
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whole presidency. And I feel like he's, he's trying to outdo himself every single week
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because he says he's these scary things seemingly every week. This one little clip is a scary
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thing I've heard him say so far since he's been president. Let's go to the clip. This
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is not about freedom for personal choice. It's about protecting yourself and those around
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you, the people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love. This is not
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about freedom, our personal choice. It's about something bigger, don't you see? It's about
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me, Joe Biden, caring more about you than you care about you. It's about me, Joe Biden,
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caring more about the people around you than you do. That was actually the first clip that
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I saw of his entire speech. And it was terrifying to hear him say that. Now some of you might
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be like, Hey, what's the big deal? This shouldn't be about freedom or personal choice, right?
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There's a, there's a greater good, right? But it's scary because that's exactly what
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this country was founded on. Personal autonomy and liberty. One of the main reasons why we
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broke away from Britain, right? If you recall, for any of you that are still listening to
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history and reading history and trying to learn from it. But that is a terrifying thing to
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hear a sitting president, not a king, right? A sitting president say that to his constituency.
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Where his bosses remind you, right? He's a government employee. His salary is paid for
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with my tax dollars. He works for me. And he's telling me that. Another scary thing is that
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he threatened in his species. Well, we won't play the clip to get governors out of the way,
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if they won't get in line, which is a direct threat to read state governors who are not
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going to go along with this by any stretch of the imagination. He's saying as the president
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of the United States that he's going to get them out of the way, which is a direct violation
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of state's rights. And for some of you, you know, you're way too wrapped up in the federal
14:06
government in that news cycle to where you don't really think about states rights, but
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just go back to the beginning of this COVID thing. Again, politics is local, because it
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doesn't matter if the school district in Portland or in San Francisco or New York City or Chicago
14:19
is running their school districts in a certain way, because you don't live there. You have
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to live based on the whims of your local government, your local school board, your mayor, your
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sheriff, those individuals, right? And he's threatening to get these governors out of the
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way. Like that, that is absolutely tyrannical behavior from somebody. And the other scary
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thing is, is if the proposed testing requirements don't kill these companies, profit margins,
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then the $14,000 per violation per week fine will, because one thing that he hasn't said
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is who's going to be paying for these tests? Because what if these test costs you in 2530
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bucks a piece, maybe a little bit more times all of your employees, times once a week?
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What if that bill is on the company, right? Even if it's not the threat of a $14,000 fine,
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if somebody doesn't, you know, test or if you want to just violate this rule, because
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you don't want to participate, it's going to kill businesses, which may be part of the
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point, because if you want more people dependent on the federal government, get rid of private
15:19
business, right? And the last thing that's kind of scary that I want to go over here
15:23
is they're definitely going to come for your kids next. Okay. The moment and guys, I promise
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you, I'm not crazy. Because again, everything that I say that I think is crazy, like two
15:36
weeks go by and then something else is even crazier beyond what I thought I was going
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to say, right? The moment, listen to me, the moment the vaccine is approved for all ages,
15:46
the mandates will follow. And it will be enforceable through public schools. You can guarantee
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it because it's coming. So if you have your kids in public school right now, you need
15:58
to be ready because they are going to start enforcing this through the public schools.
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They are going to use their their constituency, which is the teachers unions, right, to make
16:08
sure that this happens. Okay. That's terrifying. Remember, I said that. But now we need to
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get into the reality. There's a lot of realities that we need to talk about here. This is without
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a doubt, an authoritarian move. Okay. Because again, everyone thought Trump was the authoritarian
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or was going to be the authoritarian. But look at what Biden's actually doing because
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here's the thing with Trump. Trump said stuff, right? He just talked trash and he said stuff
16:32
out loud, but then his administration would do different things. You know, they would
16:36
let him blow V8 and blow off steam on Twitter, but then they wouldn't allow all those things
16:40
actually happen in the real world. Joe Biden and his administration, they're saying the
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quiet part out loud. And then they're legislating around it. They're not just saying, Hey, we
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want to make sure that things are more fair out there. They're making sure that laws are
16:55
put into place to where there's equal outcome, right? They're not just saying it for the
16:58
bumper sticker. They're actually doing it now. Okay. And here's the other thing that's funny
17:03
about this is leftists have to have power because their ideas are so bad. And we see
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that right now, because they've tried and their patients has worn thin, as you saw Joe
17:13
Biden say, they've tried and tried and tried to convince people to get the vaccine. And
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up to this point, if you haven't got the vaccine, it's probably because you don't want it. It's
17:19
not because it's not available. It's not it's because it's not easy to get because you don't
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want it, right? But they are determined to make you do this. And since they can't convince
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you, they're just going to force you. They're just going to force you because that's the
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thing that you always hear people talk about people on the right that try to debate leftists.
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It's like these people don't actually want to have debates. They just want to have power.
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They just want compliance because if they're forced to debate based on the merits of their
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argument, they will lose 100 times out of 100. But if they have power, they will wield it.
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They're absolutely wielding it now. And here's the thing, Biden, here's here's the other
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reality. He's willing to go the authoritarian route with this. What else is he willing to
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do that with? That's a question we got to ask ourselves. So that's a nice reality for
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all of us to kind of think through. Another reality is we're a we've allowed our government
18:14
overlords to take a bunch of our liberties up to this point. And they're probably thinking
18:18
that they can just keep pushing. Because again, with COVID, they were able to take little
18:24
things here. Hey, 15 days of so spread. No big deal. Hey, we just need to get these these
18:28
ICUs. We need to get people out of the ICs. Oh, we just need to close your school down
18:31
just for another week. Just another week. Oh, we just need you to wear the mask while
18:34
you do this. But hey, just give us a little bit, give us a little bit more give us a little
18:38
bit more. Hey, yeah, I know personal liberty and autonomy. I know it's important, but hey,
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it's a greater good. We just need to take care of business right now. So let's kind of take
18:45
some more, take some more, take some more. But the reality is, the government just saw
18:49
how most of us were willing to just roll over and play dead. Sure. Let's worship at the altar
18:54
of safety ism. And you just tell me what to do. Because you're the government. So why
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would I not trust you? Another reality is that red states and companies that have conservative
19:04
or classically liberal people that are running them, they're going to push back hard on this.
19:08
Right? We've already seen, you know, companies like the Daily Wire and other companies that
19:12
they're they're staffing up right now. They're staffing up with lawyers. They're going to
19:15
fight this tooth and nail. They will not comply. Okay. That is the reality here. Plenty of
19:19
states and companies are not going to apply can comply with this. And then also another
19:23
reality is that the courts are very, very likely going to strike this down.
19:28
There is no way it would be a horrible decision at the level of Roe v Wade, right? Which is
19:33
horrible jurisprudence for the, for this to get all the way to Supreme Court and them
19:37
to say, yeah, yeah, this seems super constitutional. Oh, yeah, the government can just hold you
19:41
down and inject something into your art. Yeah, makes total sense. Right? So I don't see that
19:45
actually happening. It may get struck down well before the Supreme Court, right? Another
19:50
reality here. And this is the big thing, which there's a whole lot of people that listen
19:54
to this podcast that are kind of from this ilk, but in case you're listening, if you are
19:58
vaccinated, then mine your own damn business. Seriously, spare me the greater good rhetoric.
20:08
I'll just get the vaccine. It's for the greater cause. And so we can all get back to normal
20:12
and blah, blah, blah. If you are vaccinated, why do you care if someone else is vaccinated?
20:19
They can't hurt you according to you because vaccines according to you are so impenetrable
20:28
and so important and so necessary that once you've gotten it, once you've gotten the second
20:34
shot and you're a couple of weeks past it and you've got the antibodies and all those
20:38
different things. Why do you care? Leave everyone else alone. It's none of your business. Okay.
20:48
And now we need to move on to the big questions. These are the big questions that we all need
20:53
to ask and these questions require answers, even though most of them don't really have
20:57
answers right now. And the first question is, it's a little bit funny, but it's something
21:01
that I'm just asking myself. And it's, am I turning into a conspiracy theorist? I'm
21:05
just going to throw that out there directly to you guys because every time I feel like
21:08
every week now, I'm like, Hey guys, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but and I say something
21:13
that seems like I should be saying it with a tinfoil hat on. But one of the main conspiracy
21:17
theories that that people have talked about for years. So I mean, literally for years
21:21
and years and years, almost every conspiracy theory comes back to some form of this, right?
21:27
That a major government or the major governments of the world are going to force vaccinations
21:32
on us. And there's going to be something in those vaccinations that maybe sterilizes
21:36
us or is mind altering in some way or is some sort of a crazy outcome, right? But the fact
21:45
that the federal government wants us to get vaccinated so badly is causing me to question
21:52
why I feel insane. I'm telling you, I feel insane. I've not lost my mind. I have all
21:58
my marbles. I've eaten today. I've drank water. Guys, I don't understand why they're pushing
22:03
it so hard. I don't believe it's because they cared that much. Why? Why are they wanting
22:11
this to be done so much? Because they can open the economy without COVID disappearing.
22:16
They can do all the things that they want to do legislatively without COVID disappearing.
22:20
They can do all these things. Why do they want to stick something in your arm? It's at least
22:24
worth a question. Okay. Now, the next question, another big question for us to deal with,
22:29
is is there anything to be excited or hopeful about right now with the Biden administration?
22:34
And I mean that honestly, because anyone that's willing to talk to me that voted for Joe Biden,
22:39
you have a direct line of communication to me. Send me an email info@landdaunted.life.
22:44
Here's my challenge. If you voted for Joe Biden, what are you excited about that the
22:48
Joe Biden administration is doing that is positive? Because from my seat, there's the
22:54
botching of Afghanistan. There's significant inflation across the board. Can't get people
22:59
back to work. There's terrible jobs numbers. Oh, you know, the openings and jobs creation.
23:04
The crisis at the southern border, critical race theory and schools, COVID still running
23:08
rampant, all these different things. Where's the positive? Where's the silver lining?
23:13
Where's the thing that you hang your hat on for 2022 or 2024? Where is it? That's an important
23:18
question to ask. Another important question is why is no one talking about natural immunity?
23:26
I think I might be the last person I heard talk about natural immunity because I went
23:31
into my reasons why I haven't gotten the vaccine up to this point is because I've had the infection,
23:36
right? I had it in January. And everything that we've seen up to this point, every study
23:41
that we've seen, especially the ones out of Israel, Israel show that natural immunity
23:45
is significantly more potent and better than the immunity that comes from the vaccine.
23:51
That the efficacy of the vaccine is not actually holding up to you not getting the infection.
23:56
It's holding up apparently very, very well to people not having to be hospitalized and
24:00
then not dying, which is the whole point, right? I'll give a crap about cases. I care
24:03
about whether or not people are dying. But no one's talking about natural immunity and
24:09
Dr. Fauci was asked directly in a new show last week about natural immunity and he wouldn't
24:14
answer the question. Oh, I don't have an answer. I don't have an answer for that. What do you
24:19
mean you don't have an answer for that? If you had COVID-19, right, and it's multiple times
24:26
more effective than the vaccine alone, shouldn't we know exactly how effective? Why is no one
24:32
talking about it?
24:34
The next question that we really need to reckon with is why are the ICUs full? Why are nurses
24:40
burning out and why are case numbers so high, right? Because that's all you turn on the
24:45
local news or the national news. That's what you get. The ICUs are full. Nurses are dropping
24:50
left and right. And in the case numbers are so incredibly high. So let's go into all
24:52
that. And I'm not going to be able to go into too terribly much detail because I'm just
24:56
trying to give you the basic overview. One thing that you need to realize is that hospitals
25:01
are businesses, right? And they don't make a lot of money if they have a whole bunch of
25:05
rooms that are empty, right? So ICUs typically operate at near capacity anyway, right? Because
25:13
having a hundred ICU beds when only five or six are full is a horrible business strategy
25:19
for how much it takes to run a hospital, right? So there are more people that are needing
25:24
to come to the ICU because they have COVID. Okay, that's a 100% truth. But this idea that
25:28
Oh my gosh, they're all full though. They're almost all full anyway. Here's the other thing
25:32
about nurses burning out. There's some things that people really don't want to talk about
25:36
when it comes to the nurses. Okay. So last year, whenever hospitals were completely shutting
25:41
down everything that wasn't COVID related, right? You couldn't go and get, you know,
25:46
an ankle surgery, you couldn't go and get a sinus surgery, you couldn't do any of these
25:49
elective surgeries, right? Well, don't you know that all of those wards in those hospitals
25:55
had nurses that work there. These nurses were all sudden furloughed. They were let go.
26:02
Because you can't just keep paying these people to sit on floors that don't have people on
26:05
it. You can't keep paying them to not do a job, right? And so then when things started
26:10
to open back up, some of these nurses chose not to come back. They stayed on unemployment
26:16
or they chose not to come back for their own reasons, right? So that's why there's such
26:20
short staffs with a lot of nursing people is because a lot of them were furloughed and
26:24
decided I don't want to come back. And also a lot of these nurses have been told by their
26:29
hospitals and by their administrators, you have to get the vaccine or you can't work
26:32
here. And they said, I guess I don't work here anymore. Nurses, people in the medical
26:37
field have chosen not to get the vaccine for personal reasons. And those personal reasons
26:43
are varied, obviously. And we can't claim that these people are, you know, unaware or
26:48
ignorant of the issue, right? They, they work in it every day. So when you see all these
26:53
nurses, we don't have enough nurses, nurses are burning out. There's a reason for that.
26:56
And it's not the reason that you're getting on CNN or MSNBC. And then also why are the
27:00
case numbers so high? Again, guys, I don't care about case numbers. I care about deaths.
27:06
And you can tell whenever the death numbers are not fitting the narrative, because they
27:10
won't talk about the death numbers. They're not running the death numbers on CNN. They're
27:13
not running the death numbers. You know, on the headlines in the New York Times, it's
27:17
all about cases, cases, cases, cases, cases. Well, guess what? A lot of people are having
27:20
cases and don't even know they're sick. A lot of people are having cases and they're
27:24
mildly sick. A lot of people are having cases and they're, they're pretty sick, but they're
27:27
not needing to go to the hospital. And then people that do have to go to the hospital,
27:30
a lot of them are ending up making a very, very quick recovery because we know how to
27:33
treat this thing now, right? With within relative ease and with to a certain degree, right?
27:40
So if you're asking those questions, again, I've had questions with people that are very
27:42
close to me, they're like, I'm starting to get really worried about the Delta variant
27:45
because I'm hearing, you know, nurses are short staffed and all these are again, there's
27:49
a narrative here that most people aren't sharing and there's a lot of facts and most people
27:51
aren't going over. Another question that we need to really reckon with is why not require
27:57
health mandates? This is an honest question. The federal government, co-president Biden,
28:04
has decided to do a vaccine mandate. Why not require health mandates? Why not require
28:13
people not be fat? Why not require it? You're the federal government and you say, hey,
28:20
hey, you know what? You want to eat that? You should eat this instead. It's, it's more
28:23
healthy for you. Hey, hey, hey, I know you want to sit there and binge watch Netflix,
28:26
but hey, we're going to get up right now because we're the federal government. We're
28:28
going to tell you what to do. Put on your running shoes. We're going to go for a run.
28:32
Why not mandate that? Because every available data point says that if you are obese, that
28:40
will one lead to other issues and number two, that you will have a much worse time with COVID
28:46
if you get it. So we want to mandate that people get a foreign substance injected into
28:51
their body, but you don't want to mandate moving more and eating less. I mean, if you
28:58
really care federal government, if you really, really cared about the health of everybody
29:03
in your country, why wouldn't you just mandate mandate health? Again, they, they never would
29:09
do such a thing because then, then that's a judgment thing. And then you're fat shaming
29:13
and you're fat phobic and you're all these different things. So we're just going to
29:16
ignore the fact that the people that have died from this have been overwhelmingly obese.
29:20
The overwhelming amount of people I should say have been obese that have ended up dying
29:24
from COVID, right? But hey, can't talk about that. That means you're a bigot. Next question
29:28
that we really need to reckon with is does Biden know that this is going to be struck
29:34
down in the courts? Is he planning on that? Is he hoping for that that this is going to
29:43
be struck down? Because again, he's addled, but the people around him at least have got
29:51
to know that this doesn't really have a snowball's chance in hell of making it through, right?
29:56
Is that the point? Do they know that things are so unbelievably bad that they're hoping
30:02
that this gets struck down? So they at least have a boogeyman that they can point out
30:05
that's not themselves. Oh, they can point at the the evil Supreme Court and then they
30:09
can go back and point the finger at Trump because three of those people are on the Supreme
30:12
Court because of Trump. Is that the idea? Is that the play? It's dubious, but it could
30:17
be a play. Another question is and this might be the most important question, but it's what
30:23
is the actual goal here? If you were to ask the Biden administration or ask anybody that
30:28
works there, what is the actual goal? And I mean, seriously, is zero COVID the goal because
30:35
that's not possible. The coronavirus is here. COVID-19 is here. It's going to continue to
30:42
splinter off into other variants in the future. It's here now. We can't have zero COVID. Is
30:47
the actual goal 100% vaccinations? Because that's not possible either. Because even if
30:52
you had a program where you're going door to door, you know, holding people down and shoving
30:55
their arms, people are going to get out of that. You're never going to get to 100% vaccinations.
30:59
That's not possible. Is the goal no death? We don't want people to die anymore? Talking
31:06
more about that in just a little bit. But the last question here that I want to go through
31:09
and this one is really important as well. Just like the last one is what is the limiting
31:13
principle? What is the limiting principle? You know, we're using the federal government
31:20
to cram down COVID vaccinations. But we've also heard this administration and this government
31:26
talk about how things like racism, white supremacy, global warming, guns, access to what they
31:34
call reproductive health care, et cetera, all these different things. We've been told
31:38
that these things are existential threats in public health crises, right? Why wouldn't
31:44
they just force compliance in all of these areas and call it, you know, basically under
31:51
the guise of health, of community health, of general health and wellness? What is the
31:57
limiting principle? Because again, everyone's like, Oh, you know, that slippery slope argument,
32:00
like that's crazy talk. Like, why are you thinking that way? But again, it's not in the
32:04
overton window right now. But in the current news cycle, seven and a half minutes from now,
32:08
it could be in the overton window. We could be talking about that. So if you're for this,
32:14
if you're for Joe Biden mandating that privately owned businesses require vaccinations of their
32:22
employees, where would you like that line to stop? Is it right after that? Is it far
32:31
enough beyond that? Because again, we're being told things are existential threats that are
32:38
not threats. But if the party in power thinks that they are, and if they're able to cram
32:43
down something like this, why wouldn't they cram down more? But now I want to transition
32:48
into the what you should do. Okay, I'm talking directly to you. Some of this applies to you.
32:53
Some of this doesn't, but let's talk directly to you. If you run a company with 100 plus
32:59
employees, do not comply. Do not comply. Now, what you might be thinking is, Hey, we've
33:08
got over 100 employees, but we're not doing that. Well, you know, maybe we haven't really
33:12
bounced back from COVID. Perhaps there's things that that we could do. But man, we can't fight
33:17
back against the federal government. We don't have the, we don't have the finances. We don't
33:21
have the ability to do that. We don't even know people who we would hire guys. There
33:25
are going to be a myriad of lawsuits filed. Join in like there will be people in your
33:31
state, especially if you live in a red state, there will be people in your state that are
33:34
looking to fight back against this. Join in. So you stay in the know and join in on one
33:39
of those lawsuits. It may be a class action type. I don't really know about the whole
33:43
world of law, but there's going to be something like that that you can do. Do not comply. Draw
33:47
the line in the sand. You're not going to require that your employees do this. Also,
33:54
you should honestly consider moving to a red state. Now, I know, you know, I'm a Christian.
34:01
We talk about, you know, the, this is not our kingdom. You know, our kingdom is the one
34:04
to come and all those, all those different things and all that's important. But if you're
34:08
worried about this and you're one of the millions and millions, tens of millions of
34:11
people in America that are stuck in a blue state that is for this, you should consider
34:16
moving. You know, just this week, we had the recall election where Gavin Newsom was not
34:21
recalled in the state of California, but millions of people came out and voted against him.
34:25
They wanted him out, right? Now, that entire state is ran. It's a hellscape. Now, I don't
34:33
know if we can call it a state, but the entire state is ran by Democrats. There's not a
34:37
single Republican in any public office, in any political office in that state, right?
34:42
Not in the state legislature, not in the state house. None of those things, right? Zero.
34:47
Zero of any promise. Why would you stay there? And don't tell me the weather. You should
34:55
really consider moving because that's the great thing that we currently have about the,
34:59
you know, the states with states rights is if you don't like a place, if it doesn't fit
35:03
with what you want to do and how you want to act and how you want to be governed, you
35:06
can move. I absolutely say that you should consider doing that. I'm not saying definitely
35:12
moved to red state. Consider it. Also, another thing you should do is get ready to take
35:16
your kids out of public school. And this is not some sort of public school versus private
35:20
school ran, all these different things. And I don't even have kids that are school aged
35:23
yet. So yeah, you can just categorize my, my feedback in terms of that. But look, when
35:28
COVID blows over, okay, and I've already said earlier in this podcast that they are going
35:33
to use the vaccine mandates, the moment that they're, you know, applicable for all ages
35:37
and they're going to use the public schools to do that. So I've already said that. But
35:41
when COVID truly does blow over, right, well, whenever, whenever it's really in a lot of
35:46
people's rearview mirrors, when it's just another common thing, the flu will become the
35:51
next great pandemic that's coming for your children. Because we already know that COVID
35:55
is not really a thing for children, right? It's not really hard for children to get around
36:01
or get through less than 400 children in the United States during the entire pandemic have
36:06
died from COVID-19. And to my knowledge, every single one of those kids had significant
36:11
pre-existing conditions, tragic. But again, not statistically significant when we're talking
36:16
about public policy, right? But remember how all these people for over a year now have
36:22
been saying the flu is more deadly and more harmful to children than COVID. That exact
36:28
statement will be used against you in the future. Because a year, maybe two, maybe five from
36:33
now when COVID's really in the rear view, we're gonna have a bad flu season. Guess what?
36:38
The overlords that are running the teachers unions or running your school district are
36:42
going to want to shut down the schools. They're going to want to move to our e-learning. They're
36:45
going to require masks, all those things. And it's going to be all too easy to do those
36:49
things in the public schools. So you need to get ready to take your kids out because it's
36:53
coming. Another thing that you need to think through is that we need to prepare ourselves
36:58
for the midterm variant. Now, if you hear anyone call this the midterm variant, you
37:05
tell them that they stole that from me because I just coined the term guys, prepare yourselves.
37:11
Because approximately three or four months before the 20 22 midterm elections, there
37:17
will be a new variant of COVID-19, one that we've never saw coming and one that we didn't
37:22
expect. That's highly transmissible and gosh darn it. Wouldn't you know it? The current
37:27
vaccines aren't able to deal with it, but we've got another vaccine coming. Or if you
37:30
get your 17th stick in the arm, it'll definitely take care of it. It's going to come. Okay?
37:36
This is the only thing the Democrats have to run on right now because they can't point
37:40
to Joe Biden's record. They can't point to his competence. They can't point to his successor.
37:44
They can't point to anything, right? There's going to be a midterm variant. Prepare yourselves
37:48
for it. Okay? Now, the last thing in terms of what you should do is if you're being required
37:55
to take the vaccine to keep your job, I can't help you with that decision. Okay? I've had
38:02
a lot of people reach out to me, even personal friends, you know, people that work for the
38:06
federal government, Kyle, what should I do? You know, I know you're researching all this
38:09
stuff. You know, what do you think? I can help you categorize different things that you already
38:15
believe. I can help insert additional knowledge that maybe you didn't know about, but I can't
38:19
make the decision for you because if you've got a family that's dependent on you, maybe
38:25
you're a one income family, this is a really good job. And you're not really scared of
38:29
taking the vaccine. Go for it. Take the vaccine. I'm not going to tell anybody that wants to
38:34
get the vaccine to not get the vaccine. That doesn't live in my household, right? So if
38:38
you want to go get the vaccine, go for it. If you're worried about it and you don't want
38:42
to get it, then don't get it. But every single one of us has a line that we need to draw.
38:48
And again, maybe you're okay with getting the vaccine. Maybe we're just kind of dragging
38:51
your feet because you're not really worried about COVID that much. But now your boss is
38:54
telling you you have to get it. You have 70 days to do it. Is that really a place you
38:59
want to work? Again, I can't answer that question for you. You have to answer that question.
39:07
Is it worth it to be compelled by your job to inject something into your body? Is that
39:15
a place you want to be? The answer is either yes or no. But I do want to throw something
39:20
out there to you because everyone is saying because they think this is really good advice
39:24
just generally is consult with your doctor on this issue. Just make sure you consult with
39:28
your doctor. The one thing that I will point out to you about that advice is that most
39:32
doctors are generalists. Okay, there are a lot of doctors that are specialists. That's
39:38
why they're called specialists because they specialize in a particular type of medicine.
39:43
Most doctors are not epidemiologists. Most doctors are not, you know, they don't know
39:48
everything there is snow about immunity about infectious diseases. They're just generalized
39:52
doctors. So if you roll your ankle or if you got the sniffles, they can generally help
39:55
you. And once it gets outside their purview, they have to point you to somebody that knows
39:58
a whole lot more about the subject than they do. Okay. So when you consult your doctor,
40:03
that doctor might just say, yeah, just get it because in their brain, vaccines are good.
40:08
Vaccines positive vaccines, thumbs up. It's a homogenous category to them. Right. I had
40:13
a doctor recently tell my currently pregnant wife to get vaccinated. Do we have any data
40:20
to support why a pregnant woman should be getting vaccinated? And if, if pressed with
40:27
that person be able to produce anything substantial to say that, Hey, we have a longitudinal study
40:32
that says this is completely okay on pregnant women. We don't even know yet if pregnant
40:38
women should take pepto bismol, right? Whether that's actually something they should do or
40:42
not. There's a lot of debate there. And that's been around for decades. But this person with
40:47
a lab coat, or you know, a doctor's coat and a set the scope around their nexus. Ah, yeah,
40:51
get it. What's the harm? So again, I'm not saying you shouldn't trust your doctor. I'm
40:57
not saying you should ignore your doctor. I'm not saying your doctor doesn't know more
41:00
about medicine than you do. But what I am saying is that doctors aren't just magical people
41:05
that are absolutely right about everything. Right. How many doctors don't know jack crap
41:09
about nutrition? Right. These are people that are fat themselves. They don't know anything
41:14
about a nutrition. They're saying, yeah, I just have a healthy, balanced diet and you'll
41:17
be fine. They don't know anything about supplementation. It's not their exact field of study. Just
41:21
because they're a doctor doesn't mean they know everything there is to know about everything.
41:25
Okay, that's my one caution to you. Now, at the end of episode 196, that was fear porn
41:30
and mass command eggs, right? Now we're on a fear porn and vaccine mandates. I talked
41:34
about this. I talked about two big issues that I see from everything that was happening
41:38
at the time again, that was back in May. Number one, we've allowed the government to control
41:42
us with ease. I talked about that again in this episode. Number two, we have a growing
41:46
number of people worshiping at the altar of science, scientism. Now you can even say scientism
41:52
and safety is okay. Much of what we're seeing now is coming from a Marxist worldview. Much
42:02
of what we're seeing now comes from a communist worldview. Much of what we're seeing now comes
42:08
from an authoritarian worldview. And even beyond that, much of what we're seeing now
42:14
comes from a totalitarian worldview. Okay. But more than anything, much of what we're
42:22
seeing now comes from an atheistic materialist, humanist worldview. Okay. And the reason why
42:31
I say that is this is because if you are a strict atheist, if you are a strict materialist,
42:37
we're only material beings. That's all. If you're a humanist, if you're any of those
42:41
things, this life that we're living, that you individually are living has to be protected
42:49
at all costs because it's all we have. So a strict atheist materialist humanist doesn't
42:59
understand how you Joe Christian could say, yeah, you know what, I don't really want to
43:05
inject out in my body. There haven't been any longitudinal studies done on that. I don't
43:08
really know if I'm going to drop dead or have any heart issues or have anything come up.
43:12
I've had some friends that have had some bad reactions to this vaccine. I don't really
43:15
trust it. And you know what, at the end of the day, if I die, that means I get to go hang
43:18
out with Jesus. So no harm, no foul. They can't fathom how somebody can have that worldview
43:25
because they don't share it. They've heard the gospel message maybe, but they haven't
43:29
accepted it. This world is all we have. That's why they're so crazy about global warming.
43:37
That's why they're so crazy about this virus. That's why they're so crazy in love with this
43:41
vaccine and everybody that says that we should get it because if you die, that's it. It's
43:46
just lights out. And what a sad, sad place to be. That is why you are called to be fishers
43:54
of men. That's why you're called to share the gospel with people, to give them hope
43:58
beyond this material world because guys, guess what? My body is one day gonna fail me, right?
44:04
Whether I fall out of a helicopter and splat on the ground and my body doesn't keep me
44:08
alive or I just slowly decay and I eventually succumb to some disease down the road. This
44:12
body is gonna end. It's gonna, it has an expiration date. I just don't know when that is. Hopefully
44:18
it's after a long, long time and I get to have a long, full life, right? But there's
44:22
something waiting for me on the other side. And it's something that I can't even fathom
44:28
that if, if God were to able to put it into words, we wouldn't even be able to understand
44:33
what he was saying, right? And so that's the, the thing that overrides everything that
44:38
we're doing here and everything that we're saying here is that you have to come at this
44:41
from a realistic worldview. You have to come at this from a worldview that has an ending
44:46
because again, every single worldview has to answer the questions of origin, meaning
44:50
morality, destiny, origin. Where do we come from? Meaning why are we here? Morality? How
44:55
do we tell between good and evil and destiny? Where do we go when we die? And the Christian
45:00
story has the best answer to that. All right, guys, for let you go, we are gonna do a quick
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