 So I want to pose a hypothetical question to you the viewer if given the choice between letting hundreds of thousands if not millions of old people die or Letting the economy stagnate potentially suffer for a little bit Which would you choose? I mean to me? That's a really easy choice. Of course. We're saving lives human lives are Much more valuable than the economy because the economy and money these are all Social phenomena we made these things up So without human beings to partake in an economy without human beings to be able to spend money These things have no value. So human life is the most valuable thing But given how coronavirus isn't just going to impact our health and safety, but it will also have Some pretty huge Shramifications with regard to the economy if we really want to flatten the curve so to speak We have to take action and yes, the economy will suffer well Republicans are basically now saying the quiet part out loud and they're admitting that they would rather let lots and lots of old people die rather than Basically allowing some companies to lose profits not even kidding So in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News lieutenant governor of Texas Dan Patrick said this and I Still can't believe it take a look and you know Tucker No one reached out to me and said as a senior citizen Are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange? for Keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren and if that's the exchange I'm all in And that doesn't make me noble or brave or anything like that I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me. I have six grandchildren that What we all care about and what we love more than anything are those children and I want to you know Live smart and and see through this, but I don't want the whole country to be sacrificed and I and that's what I see I've talked to hundreds of people Tucker and just in the last week and Making calls all the time and and everyone says pretty much the same thing that we can't lose our whole country We we're having an economic collapse I'm also a small businessman understand it and I talked with business people all the time Tucker and and I'm so my I'm just my heart is lifted tonight by what I heard the president say because we can do More than you know one thing at a time we can do two things. So, you know, my message is that Let's get back to work. Let's get back to living. Let's be smart about it And those of us who are 70 plus we'll take care of ourselves, but don't sacrifice the country Don't do that. Don't ruin. So you're basically saying That this disease could take your life, but that's not the scariest thing to you There's something that would be worse than dying Yeah, I can't believe he said that and I have seen this clip Multiple times in preparation for this segment and I am still speechless We all knew that capitalism was a cult But the way that they're kind of explicitly admitting that this is one of those crazy suicidal cults It's just it's remarkable Wow And he said look, I don't want to seem noble or brave by admitting that you know I'd rather die than let the economy tank a little bit First of all, it's not people like Dan Patrick who who will die It's the vulnerable people the elderly people who have not much money to their name the elderly people who are struggling to get by and Get groceries for themselves. That's the people who this is going to disproportionately impact Because it's never the rich it's never the elite class or the powerful. It's always the most Vulnerable Those at the tippy top will be fine But it's your grandma. It's my grandma. It's the people who are already struggling They're the ones who will be affected by this and he says look given the choice between taking a chance on my survival or Having us be the same America for my children and grandchildren I'm gonna opt for you know keeping things as is I'd rather die Then have these CEOs of large multinational corporations take a little bit of a hit. I Mean this logic is absolutely Insane and anyone who is a capitalist after we make it through this pandemic Needs to wake the fuck up Because this is really showing just how cruel and ruthless our economic system is where we are literally valuing a made-up economic system that we created over our own well-being and health is That not maddening What are we doing? Yes, the economy will likely suffer if we truly do practice very disciplined social distancing for a while But there are things that you can do Policies you can enact to ameliorate that right you can make sure that workers have enough money because if we don't have money Then we can't stimulate the economy the economy kind of needs us to have a little bit of purchasing power if you want it to Function properly, but I mean there are steps that you can take now We saw Republicans float ways to help Americans and I made a video last week where they were kind of sounding like Bernie Sanders Tom Cotton kind of sounded a little bit like Bernie Sanders because during a pandemic Everyone sounds like a socialist because that's the only thing that works You can't let the free market do its thing during a global pandemic You need to directly put money in the hands of workers and not these large multinational Corporations because if you bail out the airline and casino industries But people don't have money to put it back into the economy to spend money at these casinos or airline industries What's the point of it? If you want capitalism to function people have to have money To stimulate the economy now. I thought that capitalists realized that but Apparently they don't and this is really showing that people in this country our leaders capitalists they literally are Willing to not just let people die in order to avoid any type of Economic ramifications that may you know come to fruition with this virus. They're admitting it They're telling you how your life is not valuable if you are a Republican voter and you're old I mean they're telling you they're admitting now that your life doesn't mean anything to them The GOP is willing to kill off their own voting base just to make sure that their corporate donors don't lose any profits How can you continue voting for this party? This party is psychopathic. This is a death cult That's what this is. This is a psychopathic death cult How can you continue to support them is xenophobia and racism really that important? Because they're telling you I don't care if you die The dude wants old people to die just to make sure the economy doesn't suffer at all and Trump has the same line of thinking now I'm just kind of taken aback by this because it's not like this is surprising to me It's just what surprising I think is the fact that they're admitting this like I never expected them to just openly admit Of course we value, you know profit over the lives of people. I Never thought that they would admit this But here we are and yet they're still going to be millions of people in this country who proudly identify as capitalist When they see exactly what the system does and what it's doing during a time of crisis like Everyone should abandon capitalism. Nobody should be a capitalist After COVID-19 and you already shouldn't have been a capitalist if you've been working nine to five and can barely pay the bills But nonetheless, I mean everything is laid out to bear here. You see it. You see it firsthand What's more valuable? It's not your life. It's profits