Many people may not remember the February 2009 famous rant by CNBC financial pundit Rick Santelli that captured the heart of the Tea Party movement in response to massive announced bailouts of Wall Street institutions. There are trillions at stake.
Wall Street pundit Rick Santelli was originally responding to the famous TARP, Auto-bailouts, Porkulous, Omnibus, QE1, QE2 and ultimately the American Recovery and Restoration Act (ARRA ie. stimulus ‘shovel ready jobs‘), all of which were financial bailouts and payments for politically connected financial interests and unions. None of these programs assisted Main Street USA with a dime.
Fast forward twelve years later and here we are again. The same voices, with the same playbook, with the same insufferable political manipulation under the guise of COVID compliance mandates. The ‘never let a crisis go to waste crowd‘; and the soon-to-follow massive state spending bailouts; for which COVID is the purposeful cover story.
COVID-19 has more purposefully weaponized political arrows than any previously used financial quiver. However, if you step-back and compare the agenda – there is a brutal amount of similarity… all of the exact same benefactors…. and Main Street collapses.
This is the progressive way to a Marxist economy. We The People are collateral damage.
The real “green new deal”…
Sorkin just simply cannot think critically.
Never take advice from that one ever.
Santelli…YES!
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There’s some stuff that doesn’t seem to be common knowledge here or by Santelli in his older incarnation.
The USA is a highly “socialist” society, as all the Western world is.
Aged pensions, public hospitals, State education, State welfare benefits, Food Stamps, Unions, State payment of collectivist groups, racist discrimination in education/medicine/access to free speech, Bureaucratic decision making in your life for your own good (is the justification) etc etc….all funded by taxpaying workers.
They won decades ago, people willingly give up decision making and responsibility to the State.
You love it, confess.
This id a new level of intrusion. Law abiding citizens loving being placed under house arrest? What are you on?
Are you submitting to this demand?
“Are you submitting to this demand?”
Of course not, I have wealth, I have choices. It’s the average citizen I cry for.
The communists will come take your wealth. Your choices may be more limited than you think.
That would be Obama-Mao and his pals, right?
More than right, truthful in fact!
Don’t feed the trolls. They are all over conservative comment boards to try and usher in the communist revolution.
You aren’t independent unless you have residency and capital in another English legal heritage country….unless you saw this coming 30 years ago.
Average citizens have no such options. They have more courage than me, yet they seem never to have any corporate memory of how the world works. Nothing is new under the sun. In the end as Dovstoesky said…most will throw themselves at the feet of govt and cry ‘feed me’. It’s a metaphor, Dwaine.
The incredible Don was a gift from God, IMO.
It was offered and there is a chance it will be rejected, this has a Biblical feel about it.
You will never properly understand anything until you examine the truth of it instead of instantly giving yourself permission to stop thinking by using the troll label.
I have more than I will ever need without ever taking a buck from Uncle Sam but that does not insulate me or you from thesr gestapo orders being issued. Maybe you are ad fortunate as I to know the sheriff department officers have said they will not enforce such orders.
History, I have never seen more tone deaf comments than your two gems in this thread.
The well to doers are the first people that the Communists go after first. They consider you are the risk to the regime and you have resources to subvert it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/chinese-billionaire-sentenced-to-18-years-in-prison-on-corruption-charges-after-publishing-scathing-essay-about-xi-jinping
The next group of people are the idiots who helped them get to power “looking for “their share”.
Lenin murdered 4000, then Stalin took over and brought that total to entirely new heights.
Hitler’s murder of his Brownshirts even has a name. It was the Night of the Long Knives.
Reading this and watching what has been evolving is errie – no schools teach history anymore…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
And History, the rich pay for the welfare state – that justifies them ruling us. Michael Bloomberg has said as much.
So if the rich don’t approve of the Presidential choice of the hoi polloi, the rich get to insert their own pick.
And what is the media mostly discussing right now – the fraud election? No, the media is discussing the huge new welfare program to address C0-Vid.
My Mom used to tell me, “Don’t ever borrow money from anyone unless you want to be beholden to them” (paraphrased) but the message is the same. When someone supports you financially, they feel entitled to intrude on your choices and in your life.
I agree with your comment, but with Government they forcibly take our money and then make us beholden!
Quite the trick.
“the rich get to insert their own pick.”
You may wish to re-write that line by adding an “r” within the work pick…I think you know where it belongs.
Biden will falter, then Obama’s slave Kamala will slip in and behave just like the other females that have worshiped at his
feet, doing his bidding…”by the book” no less!
Biden is a figure head. He decides nothing. Everything is coming out of the “Committee”, he just put his signatures on and that’s about it.
Biden would concede and beg forgiveness if he and his wifesister were smart. It’s their best chance at survival. He has served his overlords’ purposes.
If Kamala were to be President who would be her Vice President? That scares me almost more than Joe and Kamala. We have a stolen vote and obvious fraud. It cannot stand.
If Kamala is given Hillary as a VP, we could see a replay of The Year of the Four Emperors. God forbid.
The rich do not pay for the “social assistance programs”. The consumers and actual recipients of social assistance pay for that assistance via the goods and services SOLD by the rich. Tax is considered a COST and is therefore included in the prices we pay for goods and services.
This is the evil truth of the fuax TAX THE RICH battle cry of the democrats and lemmings who echo it.
You are a ridiculous person who knows no decency. Hope you have a great day celebrating all you have while others suffer. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting what you have, but I know for certain you are not ashamed as you are a selfish a…hol…
the statement above was directed to history
Is the LIKE option still missing for everybody, or am I just so special?
I very much miss it also! 🙂
I second that emotion.
I would also like an unlike button…
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Sundance announced that something similar to the “Like” button is in the works with CTH 2.0
WorldPress shut down the old CTH website…You’ve got to realize that The Last Refuge is now a “NEW site” and is still in “beta” form. CTH is working hard to retain all the articles, archives and comments that the “old site” created over the past 10-11 years as well as incorporating some additional better features via CTH2.0
See:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/30/update-cth-2-0-site-challenges-on-launch-apologies-to-readers-and-users/
Those Socialist parts of the American People are supported by our Capitalism. If you finally destroy Capitalism, you will also destroy those Socialist aspects.
Those who seek to control everything against natural human behavior eventually destroy it, ending up with nothing.
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Admitting the US is a socialist country as we speak is the first step, and you got there. The basic difference with western Euroweenie socialist societies is just the 1st and the 2nd.
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so here we are..posters calmly posting as if we are not in the middle of the final
take over of America by the NWO..Harris- born of non citizen parents- and Biden
her temp place holder..it is as if we were in the boats with Washington in that
cold December of years long ago..and these posters are wondering if tea will be
served at breakfast…who are you people?
this is the moment patriots must be clear eyed ..your society is not 1950’s America.
infiltration.
Yup.
So many domestic communists . . . so little time.
So many bullets and lots of time after they take everything.
Yup.
Not that many targets, either. 100 million gun owners with upward of 10 billion rounds ammo — some estimates run to the trillions. 80 million Trump voters. 40 million hunters. 15+ million veterans … and only about 10,000 hard core leftists worth taking out.
(Most Democrat voters are victims; the household names can be left to wither on the vine … deal with the 10,000 worker bees and it’s over.)
Maybe there’ll have be an auction for tags?
Not until after January 20, though. This could still end in a mess that can be handled within the Constitution and laws.
We are just a few weeks from the demise of our Constitutional Republic. While some would say it died long ago, I would argue that we’ve merely been on life support–barely clinging to life.
But, if on January 20th Joe Biden takes the oath of office as the fraudulently elected president of the United States, THAT will be the day our republic ceases to exist and our Constitution is nothing but a relic–a dead letter of fading sentimental value.
If you’re ok with rigging an election to win then I’m ok with POTUS imposing Martial Law to stop you.
I’m with you…let’s light this candle, there are some commies that need culling…
That works for me
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@All Too Much what a great Truth!
Martial law would be fine. Almost any approach that might stop the death of the Constitution that can be done within the laws is better than the alternatives.
However if it falls to us, we’ll do what’s needed.
Anyone seeing parallels to the “Hunger Games”? Everything for the ruling class and their minions, while the rest must do their bidding or suffer the consequences…. The answer to all this is very simple– Ignore them. If all ignore them they are powerless. If you want some real reasons to ignore them read this book titled: “COVID Operation” by Dr. Pamela Popper MD and Shane Prier (available on Amazon). It factually exposes, in great detail and with documentation and substantiation, the great COVID FRAUD perpetuated upon us. This book will give you all the facts you need to take control of your own lives.
It sure seems to me that we Trump supporters are in a similar position as the population of India after the second World War. How could they change British rule? One man named Gandhi rose up and through Non-violence, ( the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.), showed an entire unarmed Nation the way. Right now even though Americans are armed to the teeth we are not looking to be violent. I suggest we just ignore the dictates as best we can, Non-Violently. Unlike India in the 1940’s we always can protect ourselves and our families thanks to our forefathers Second Amendment.
Two differences between India post-WW II and the modern U.S.
1. The British were not willing to kill whatever number of Indians needed or even destroy the Indian economy in order to subdue them.
2. The rest of the world largely supported Gandhi and was not willing to participate in the destruction of India.
We may be able to do this within the Constitution and laws but if we cannot then I think think chances non-violent disobedience will do it are small.
An election with fraud witnessed by thousands of people who testified to the fraud and yet nothing is done. No court will touch the Fraud for any reason. No way to fight for your right to have your vote count. Evidence of illegal internet connections. Investigators standing in front of legislators saying “We are in the voting machines right now and it is illegal for them to be on the internet.” Crickets.
This is all unconstitutional and against all kinds of State and federal election law. So how is our Constitution even in effect today?
We have seen the enemy, and they are us.
Most of the readers and commentators here on CTH can see the infiltration that has happened in our Republic. They see the corruption that has infected our entire “Nation of Laws”.
There are few “white hats” in positions of power that are fighting for America and “We the People”.
It is yet to be seen if President Donald Trump and a small group of patriots will succeed in this effort to return the nation to “We the People” — America’s rightful, Constitutional owners…
But if the Supreme Court fails us, what then?
Arguably, President Lincoln saved the unity of our Republic the first time by using “Extra Constitutional Powers” that were at his disposal. Will history repeat?
Do you think our President will go there again?
I truly believe that is our only option. There is a violent confrontation coming, everyone outside of the CTH circle is and has been proclaiming it and identifying us as the targeted group for years. In all tactical and strategical operations, timing is the foundation. I don’t want to leave this coming situation for my children and grand children to deal with and live under. If there is going to be a major attempt at party change, then its time to get this dance started while we still have some remaining power in the White House.
dr, I agree that a confrontation is coming, specifically one where the blood of patriots and tryants is spilled. Their “tactical and strategical operations” fall apart upon first contact with us patriots. They are analogous to the British during our Revolution; standing shoulder to shoulder in regimented lines. Bright red and white providing no concealment nor camouflage. The “liberals” have shown themselves clearly while the patriot, like the Gadsden and Navy Jack rattlesnake, are ready to strike from an unseen and camoflaged site. At least for me, a second revolution returning our Republic to its roots has been a long time coming and sorely needed to remind not just ourselves, but the world, that goodness and freedom will prevail on this land. I believe we are past the point of non-voilence to retake our Constitutional Rights. Placing liberals in a “time-out”, where they can stew and plot will not work. A dose of “corporal punishment” is needed. I, like our forefathers, will give my life and sacred honor for the liberty outlined in our US Constitution. (Steps off soapbox)
It’s good to see Santelli fight back, but even he is essentially conceding the point that there is a need to do what is being done to the populace. There is no reason for any of this. Not for universal masking, not for universal anti-social distancing, not for universal testing. Period. Not one inch in the argument against these measures should be given to the left. There is ample evidence that the only way forward is to open us up now, reverting to the complete status quo ante.
We all have to be part of this fight against these control freaks who do not do what they tell us to do. It is possible for each person to take off a mask and put it on several times in a store. For whatever reason. Do not worry. You will not die from this. Be brave. Lead by example. Act dumb. But do what you feel like doing – do not obey these senseless regulations.
This scourge will play out like no other we’ve seen in this nation. Historically, we’ve had some periods in time where socialists and communists sought to exercise power, but this country had no stomach for it. Now, I believe 20 to 30% of people have no issue with being a socialist state, and more than that are open to considering a “Euro-Social” model which feels light and airy and just. Given the tools again, Obama’s globalist overlords will not allow this opportunity to be wasted.
This is a great article that will provide you Covid information from medical people rather than the media. Information is POWER as it has been said.
If you are seriously interested in understanding what is occurring and rather than being fearful being knowledgeable, I encourage you to read this and watch the embedded short video.
There is also an opportunity to download (for free) a pamphlet that provides ways to strengthen your immune system, again rather than invoking fear this shows you how to keep yourself healthy.
Masks are not the answer if they were then the virus would not be getting worse as they say it is, although this article explains why it is being reported as getting worse. According to this article lockdowns are killing more people than the virus.
So educate yourself and rather than fall victim to the media induced fear that is ruining lives wouldn’t you rather take control.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/05/coronavirus-lawsuit.aspx?ui=dee9c86976a30b96cfccf175b512d20bba48d209c23a1bfa1d0ffd6748034c01&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20201205_HL2&mid=DM738572&rid=1027471182
Excellent resource. Thank you for sharing the link.
Dan- thanks for posting. Dr. Mercola has been one of the best sources of information since this horror began. Also great info about the importance of having a good immune system. I subscribe to his free daily newsletter as well.
Yes, and take that mask off or wear it below your nose or let it fall off or wear a scarf and let IT fall off. And invite over to your house anybody you feel like and tell nobody and if some officious person should ask you lie. Our lives are being destroyed by these senseless regulations. We know who we are and who has to keep him/herself isolated because of whatever medical condition that causes an impaired immune system. Think Ivermectin. Forget the v.
I can always dream: To get under the smug panelist’s skins, Santelli could have listened with a thoughtful look on his face, nodding appropriately, and when Smug finished said in all earnest, “I’m a believer! ?❜? ? ????????❗After almost a year of studying the data and listening to both sides, this guy, who is he again?, has convinced me in under 60 seconds!”
Looking to Heaven, ❞? ???????❗❞
As the others attack him in his obvious mocking of the Smug, Santelli just keeps repeating, ❞? ???????❗? ???????❗? ???????❗❞
Good one, Pegon.
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This is so sickening to see this young smug guy “Oh you are doing a disservice to the viewer, Rick – but of course I’m not with my scare remarks”.
There are countless, yes countless, articles that inform us of therapeutic medications that combat the flu – if a person is that sick – and they get better. But not on msm and not by that smug fool.
We do not need a vaccine. We do not need masks. We do not need to stay in the house. Exceptions to this: old, sick, old and sick. There are, unfortunately, many many Americans who take 5 prescription medications a day for a chronic disease, most often obesity (yes, being fat is not good for your immune system), diabetes, heart problems, lung problems. These persons have an impaired immune system and they are going to have a hard time with this flu. Many many people do NOT take any prescription medications for any chronic condition and they may be symptom free or with mild symptoms. This is common knowledge among those who read or listen to any information other than that from those bought and paid for shills for big pharma.
If a person can find out anything about how the flu is being handled in other countries that might enlighten them. But NOT ON msm. They lie.
Is there a more pathetic creature than Andrew Ross? Ok, there are but he does rank right up there on the “makes my skin crawl” scale.
The interviewer is arrogant or frightened enough to try and tamp down and interfere with what Santelli is saying, which is the necessity for freedom to live and make our own decisions. The the kid is actually saying “Don’t listen to this man. He is not protecting you I know what is best for you.I am on the side of science.” Please. He is the mouthpiece for the oppressors.
I wonder how we got here ? I think the shutdown partly works because there are many people who can work from home and they are actually more comfortable without the commute. The “essential worker ” in the grocery store, the hospital and so on have been at work the whole way through this crisis.
The ones who suffer most are the young people who cannot socialize freely, go to school, play sports and the elderly who face isolation and may not even have church open to them. Then, the small businesses, hair salons, the real go getters who make our town
and city life hum.
We need our justices to pry open the door of our civil liberties. We need the voting machines destroyed so the people can vote out these politicians who think they can take all power and not lose it.
I posted this too far up thread, sorry. We must Non-Violently Resist.
Trump supporters are in a similar position as the population of India after the second World War. How could they change British rule? One man named Gandhi rose up and through Non-violence, ( the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.), showed an entire unarmed Nation the way. Right now even though Americans are armed to the teeth we are not looking to be violent. Santelli wants to wake everyone up! I suggest we just ignore the dictates of our ‘Betters’ as best we can, Non-Violently. Unlike India in the 1940’s we always can protect ourselves and our families. Specifically because our forefathers gave us the Second Amendment.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Each of us must lead by example. Thank you for your comment.
Linda, many are NOT loosing pay. No skin in the game.
The old video is from back when there were traders on the floor of the NYSE which mostly ended years ago. Now the game is run remotely by AI and HFT.
From MSNBC, Tuesday August 9th, 2011:
I saw that when it happened. It was as refreshing a rant then as this one is today. Santelli, the man shows common sense, which is completely lacking in the young and immature and those involved in and influenced by the left.
Quite frankly, what’s going on in our country now is rage inducing.
i love how people with a BA in Communications are suddenly the smartest people in the room, and the best scientists. If they had a brain, they would have done STEM.
It’s funny how my one quarter in a Intro to Public Health class 30 years ago while earning my Engineering Degree makes me a relative expert compared to most people. I feel like the protagonist in “Idiocracy”. Only in that movie, the idiots are at least trying to do right.
Yes, how about we look at the numbers. The U.S. population = 330,000,000 people. Total covid 19 cases in US = 14,400,000 or 4%. Total deaths from covid 19 = 279,000 or 0.08% of the population and 1.8% of the cases. On the flip side 96% of the population has not been infected, and 98.2% of the people who did get infected did not die. This is not the Black Plague where we need to shutdown society to contain it.
…..and the reality of real numbers slaps the left hard.
They pad the numbers to make them look worse and scare the living crap out of people.
I love my country, but not like this……
Those are solid numbers that you have put forth, Eric. And let’s not forget, we tried the lockdown method already. For 3 months last Spring the country was mostly shut down. Besides coming close to destroying our economy we did destroy many lives. Those lives, unfortunately, aren’t being counted by our statisticians. Apparently it doesn’t count if it’s not COVID! So what was the efficacy of that shutdown if we are right back where we started? But we aren’t where we started because we have learned a lot about this plague. Eric has shown some of what we have learned. The boy-man arguing with Santelli doesn’t seem to have learned a thing.
“Death from COVID” still has yet to be officially defined. It’s simply whatever they need it to be on death certificates to justify the pandemic narrative. The mere phrase implies an aspect of sole causation, as though otherwise perfectly healthy people are dropping dead for no other reason than COVID. Nothing could be further from the truth. The number of people to which that skewed definition applies is infinitesimally low. Planck-scale low even. All the remaining mortality, which is essentially everything, is better thought of as death WITH covid.
The definition of ‘cases’ now is ‘tests positive using a test of unknown sensitivity with many (but an unknown number of) false positives.
The true number of ‘persons showing clear symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 might be 5% of the announced number or even as high as 25%. We simply don’t know.
The other numbers — ‘hospitalizations’ and ‘deaths’ have the corresponding problems.
What we know with certainty is that the lefty-imposed ‘treatment’ for the pandemic is destroying America.
Time to bag it, folks. Just go on with your lives and ignore the commies.
In case you need a deeper tragedy to contemplate think about if the day comes when strong measures ordered by public authorities would actually be useful.
I have been waiting for this post by Sundance. It strikes at the heart if the phony pandemic which is the destruction of the Main street businesses and the transfer back to the mega corporations/Wall street.
Trump tried to prop up Main street but the criminal governors just kept on with their dictates until they have almost destroyed them. This is a deliberate attack on the citizens of this country and should be dealt with as an attack on this country. You can’t separate us from this nation of ours and we are not just consumers to just treat like paying customers in our own nation.
This really is an attack on We the People by a group of heavily financed criminals.
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Just FYI: I am not able to see any comments from 12/4/2020 when the article was written. I am new to this so maybe I am not doing something right. But it says 191 comments and I only see a few – all from today 12/5.
I’m still waiting for that boy/man to explain the science behind home depot being a COVID free zone while churches and restaurants are teaming with those slimy little unseen killers. Oh, I think I know what the kid is offering as evidence. It’s the “You just don’t get it” argument. I think that is what millennials call proof.
Rick Santelli, you are a ROCK STAR!! You lead they way many years ago and opened many peoples eyes to Obama’s socialistic policies transferring America’s wealth. We fought back then… bring it on again. This country needs people like Rick to stand up and stand out… lead your own crusade. This is it… if you love America.
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If you’re ok with rigging an election to win then I’m ok with POTUS imposing Martial Law to stop you.
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And enforcing the 9/12/18 EO to remove you from your wealth and imprison you.
What ATM said!
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Who the Hell is this condescending Kool-Air drinking “know-It-All” POS? Rick Santelli is totally correct, how are 500 hundred people in a Lowes safer than 100 people is a 600 person restaurant…. give me an ‘effn’ break.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
To the last, bald, skeptic in the video, it’s working just fine in Florida. And Sweden.
Oh…and CHINA
Sweden, I suspect, was asked to play the role of ‘doubting Thomas’ as a false flag for science deniers to rally around, only for the policy to be an admitted failure later with manufactured ‘case’ counts and increasingly liberal ‘cause of death’ statistics.
Most of the ‘resistance’ from patriots has likely been anticipated and accounted for with ‘pressure valves’ like Barr and Durham and Rittenhouse defense and other possible RINO double agents. Now, as we approach a terminus, I wonder if the ‘failing up’ of court cases to the Supremes is just another red herring to forestall the more expressive forms of discontent and defense: I certainly was warmed to see Flynn express a need for martial law in response to the election theft, but was it genuine?
Our hope is that this ship of state will be righted and that God’s mercy will, once again, give us a respite, but if that delay is only to root out the bad actors, would God be glorified?
I don’t know if the US will survive, but I know that God knew the outcome before he set time in motion. I’ll try to continue trusting in Him alone, keeping a light touch here, where, for the first time in my life, I am a stranger in a strange land.
Pew-Anon:
That “Bald headed Skeptic” (Chump) is the reason I left CNBC in the dust 10 years ago. Sold my stocks and bought precious metal. He’s a Globalist parrot and a POS communist.
Hear Hear to Santelli!
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Rick… Now Is The Time For A Really Conservative Leader to Take that 1st Step Forward…. He/She will have some 40 Million moving in lock step…. HELP US NOW… We are looking for the Light in the Church/Courthouse… Whichever…. Come Paul Revere…..
One of these days, the jackwagon that says “it’s science!” is gonna get a fat lip. Deservedly so.
Wrapping up that segment with a Shep Smith commercial is the perfect cherry on a turd.
Sorkin is the proverbial poster boy for the disclaimer proclaimer.
Winston at Wrongthinkmedia.com writes a piece about wasteful Covid spending.
He states that we have spent more on Covid 19 than we did for WWI and WWII (inflation
adjusted).
Apparently Nazis were easier to kill than Covid 19.
Sundance,
Thanks for all your efforts to keep us inspired and fight this evilness. I used to watch CNBC regularly and Fox (hiss). I remember the Santelli rant. I was so fired up. Still am.
Thank God for you and your CTH staff and commenters. Keep it up. We need you.
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I was listening to Santelli the day he made that remark. I used to listen to CNBC on my lunch break. Around that same year, The USAir flight landed on the Hudson and the anchors were talking about it then cut to Santelli for his Wall Street report and Santelli said, “If they can get pilots like that, why can’t they find somebody around here who knows how to run a bank?” Cracked me up.
The problem is that people are afraid. People are afraid because msm lies to us. People believe that if they get the flu they will die. There are so many doctors and scientists making statements and writing papers saying this is not so, (99% recovery rate) but………you will not see these statements or these papers on the evening tv news, which is what most Americans watch. One would like to think that if people just ignored these un-scientific political regulations and lead their normal lives the control freaks would give up. But people will not ignore these unscientific political regulations.
We are not given information in context. The numbers are loaded – everything is called a C-19 death. We have no comparison of how many people die of the regular flu every year We hear nothing but cases, cases, cases, so many cases! It doesn’t matter how many cases – we need the number of deaths and who is dying. That information is available but not from those lying pundits speaking in serious tones who are fos.
What about good old passive resistance? Lip service. Wear your mask but take it off to talk. Keep it below your nose (so you can breathe). Go visit friends and don’t tell anybody. Do what you want and keep mum. Do not, DO NOT, wear your mask when you are driving alone in your car.