posted ago by Burritoqueen ago by Burritoqueen +6 / -1

Since there wasn't a live thread here for today, I figured my comments would need their own post.

This episode was mostly a recap of monolouges from months ago with a coulple guest appearances thrown in (those were likely replays, too). The only new stuff was how we still have Thanksgiving and it's always been important to us, so much so that people screech if you try to move the date of the holiday for a nice-sounding reason like FDR did (Congress stopped him).

Here are my responses to some questions Tucker asked during the episode:

"What can Republicans learn from this election?"

That the Democrats stopped at nothing to steal it, and many Republicans we thought were on our side really don't care. The monologue from June about the riots and virus response that followed, while full of good points, was not the answer. Someone on TD thought Hannity was trying to lure his remaining viewers into accepting that Trump lost and Biden won, and it sounded like Tucker might be trying to do that here.

"Have we made any progress on defending our borders and manufacturing our own drugs?"

Yes. However, that progress is rookie numbers, and much of that progress was only possible under the auspices of responding to the virus, e.g. chemical deal with Kodak, shutting down most international travel and immigration with it. We need to pump those numbers up! (the border defense and making our own meds, to be clear)

"What should we do next to get back to normal?" (To Alex Berenson)

Remove all goverment-impsed virus-related restrictions on business, public gatherings, etc. and put out PSAs for at least the next month that say that only people who have symptoms of a contagious illness and/or are in a demographic known to be at higher than average risk for serious illness or death from the virus need to stay away from other people or wear a mask if they must go out.

The sooner this happens, the better.