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Finally, it seems the obvious is something that the Libs, the Democrats will say out loud when it comes to lockdown. Only a few of them mind you. It's just beginning to happen.

But for the first time you're starting to see articles, you're seeing discussion from politicians like the governor of New York and you're Cuomo, the mayor of Chicago, America's third largest city, Laurie Lightfoot.

And now a newsweek piece, COVID lockdowns have no clear benefit versus other voluntary measures. International study shows.

So that's something that I've been saying for a long time. But now we can actually talk about it. This is interesting. There is a coincidental timing, it seems.

Now, there's also the timing one would expect the vaccines were approved in December and now we're getting into middle of January and things where we're halfway into the winter here.

So obviously I get it. There would be a more a more of a light at the end of the tunnel field. But just yesterday you had Joe Biden telling everybody about his $1.8 trillion dollar reopen plan to save America.

And now you're also seeing the beginnings, the first few conversations happening publicly about maybe these lockdowns weren't such a good idea.

Oh, really? Just before inauguration day right right when we're about to see a change in government. There's the the the seeds of sanity being planted.

I'm very pleased about that makes me happy. It should have happened a long time ago. And I also I can't help but take something of a cynical view about all this because for example, the Joe Biden rescue plan that's been talking about here.

1.8 trillion dollars. How do you oppose that when what you're going to be opposing is the rescue of America from COVID? How can you say there's too much spending going on when a lot of that spending will be money that should have been spent months and months ago, but Nancy Pelosi thwarted it and the Democrats stopped it.

How do you how do you deal with all that? What do you do? What political opposition will Republicans really be able to put up? I think the answer is not a whole lot.

Oh, we're going to start the usual we're spending too much money conversation. Is that where it's going to go? Fine. We can do that. And it's true. It's not that that's not accurate.

But we didn't talk about that for four years, occasionally I used to say on this show, I know nobody wants to hear about it, but we're spending too much money as a government.

Right. The Treasury was profligate in its spending and when the good times were happening and they were until COVID for three years of Trump's presidency, nobody wanted to hear about it. It was just something that was happening in the background. Be quiet.

Maga, look at the stock market. That was the attitude. Now, I understand how that happened, but we now also have to face the reality of Democrats coming in with united control of the government and being able to say not only did did Republicans not curb their spending, but they have this added mission of saving America from COVID, which is going to require a ton of spending.

And just like I can you see the parallels with 2008, just like one Obama came into office in 2009, one of the 2008 election. And it was a trillion dollar stimulus package. Remember that. And that sounded like a lot of money. Didn't it? It is a lot of money.

We're looking at 1.8 trillion right now, basically double. And that's after spending trillions in the last in the last 12 months in addition to the enormous federal outlay that was planned before COVID.

So Biden is also being set up here to be the savior in a sense, right? He is the cure. You can almost write the headlines right now.

And he's going to be able to get away with the demo. But it's not even Biden. He's just a figurehead. The Democrat machinery around him is going to be ramming through whatever they want all under this ages of COVID. That's what they'll do. All under this COVID situation.

And if you oppose it, they'll say that you don't want America to be better off and you don't want Americans to be taking care of during this terrible and difficult time. So what does that leave us with?

That leaves us with a very challenging case to make here. We're going to have Republicans who have no actual political authority and who are on the precipice of getting steamrolled on the filibuster, which I think is also going to happen.

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