Tucker Carlson: Coronavirus --Some lawmakers are trying to exploit the pandemic

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For many Americans, the coronavirus shutdowns, whether you believe they're
necessary or not, either way have amounted to a life-changing catastrophe.

Millions of people have lost their jobs. Families across the country are
suffering from debt and from uncertainty. Many of them will likely come
apart under the strain.

So in the name of protecting the public from a deadly virus, we have wound
up destroying a huge number of people.

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Regardless of your political position, you could acknowledge it's one of
the saddest things to happen to this country in a very long time. And yet
some of our political class don't seem sad at all.

For them, this is not a human tragedy, it is an opportunity.

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Now, as a rule, it is the most mediocre people who are trying the hardest
to exploit this moment. Here's case one.

In the long history of the Commonwealth of Virginia, it's likely that no
politician has ever amassed a record more embarrassing or less impressive
than the current governor of that state, Klan robes blackface.

As the Easter weekend approached, Governor Klan robes announced he'd be
signing a tall stack of highly radical partisan legislation, mostly
because he could.

GOV. RALPH NORTHAM, D-Va.: As we deal with the pandemic, my administration
has also worked to deal with the 1,291 bills passed by the General
Assembly.

Today, we announce that I have signed landmark gun safety legislation, as
well as the Women's Reproductive Health Protection Act. By tomorrow night,
I will have acted on all the legislation before me.

More than 1,200 bills -- gun control, as sop to the abortion industry
ripping down historic monuments. It was like an entire rundown from an
MSNBC weekend show all signed into law.

There is nothing the interest groups that control Governor Klan robes
didn't get in this. They got it all.

But there's at least one bill in that stack that ought to worry you, even
if you're lucky enough not to live in Virginia, his so-called election
reforms.

With his signature, Klan robes eliminated all of Virginia's voter ID laws.
He signed legislation that allows residents to vote up to 45 days before
an election for any reason. There's also automatic voter registration for
anyone using the state's DMV, including those who do it online.

Now, those are big changes, unprecedented changes, but Governor Klan robes
is not the only one who is pushing them. So-called election reform is a
coordinated effort and that should not surprise you. The party that won't
let you think for yourself, always acts as one.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is using this crisis to promote the
radical expansion of nationwide voting by mail. Citizens could request
ballots online and then print them at home.

Now, no serious person at the national level has ever suggested doing that
before because, of course, it would instantly destroy the public's faith
in election outcomes and hence, our democracy.

But if there was ever a time to sneak something this disruptive past a
beleaguered and distracted population, this is it. The justification for
all this -- take a guess -- yes, racism.

SEN. KAMALA HARRIS, D-Calif.: Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams
would be the Governor of Georgia.

BETO O'ROURKE (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We need to be vigilant
against other efforts to suppress votes like voter ID laws, which are
every bit as racist as the racist gerrymandering --

PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When racially motivated
voter suppression is permitted, when districts are drawn so that
politicians get to choose their vote, we cannot truly say that we live in
a democracy.

SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ): It was the voter suppression, particularly of
African-American communities, that prevented us from having a Governor
Stacey Abrams right now.

JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Twenty four states introduced to
enact at least 70 bills to curtail the right to vote. And guess what?
Mostly directed at "people of color." You see it. We've got Jim Crow
sneaking back in. No, I mean it.

Jim Crow? Voter suppression? The right to vote in peril? What century is
this?

Well, if you guessed everything you just heard is a complete and utter
provable lie, well, then you win Tuesday night's insight award.

Government IDs are not racist, they are mandatory. You can't live here
without one. If you don't have an ID, you can't drive, you can't fly. You
can't open a bank account, can't apply for a mortgage, get welfare. Buy
alcohol or tobacco. You can't hold a legal job.

Pretty much every person in America has a government ID. And in fact, in
February 2019, a paper co-authored by professors at Harvard and the
University of Bologna in Italy found that voter ID laws had no effect
whatsoever on voter turnout for any subgroup they measured, whether it was
by age or gender or party or yes, by race.

This is a complete and utter crock -- and everyone who says it knows that.
So why are they continuing to say it? Well, you know why? Because voter ID
laws stop voter fraud.

Democrats encourage voter fraud because it helps them win elections -- and
that's not a guess.

In California, the Democratic-controlled legislature allows something
called ballot harvesting. That's when political activists are allowed to
pick up ballots and then turn them into the state by the hundreds and
thousands.

Why do they get to do this? Well, of course, you can guess what happens
next.

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In Orange County, California during the last election cycle. Sixty-two
percent of all ballots were absentee. A huge percentage of those ballots
were late arrivals, meaning, they got to the state after Election Day.

A quarter-million of them were supposedly cast by inactive voters. That
means people who hadn't voted in the past four years. Some significant
number of those were fraudulent.

The Institute for Fair Elections found at least 20 voters whose registered
address was a local dog park, 71 were registered to a Starbucks.

Under California law, and this is by design, there is virtually no way to
distinguish a fraudulent vote from a real one.

The result? When the smoke cleared from that election, Republicans had
lost every congressional seat in Orange County, which as you likely know,
is a longtime GOP stronghold.

People watching said, oh, the demographics have changed. No, the rules
have changed. In other words, the plan worked perfectly.

Now Democrats would like to see that system come to your state, to every
state and they're using the coronavirus pandemic to justify it.

IDs are racist -- expect to hear a lot more of that lie. And yet weirdly,
at the very same time, some of our leaders are considering requiring
special papers, even blood tests just to go outside.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Can you imagine a time where Americans carry
certificates of immunity?

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS
DISEASES: You know, that's possible. I mean, it's one of those things that
we talk about when we want to make sure that we know who the vulnerable
people are and not -- this is something that's being discussed. I think it
might actually have some merit under certain circumstances.

This is such a sad, scary moment that you hate to think it's true, but
it's hard not to conclude. Some people are using our fear for their own
ends, and fake election reform is not the only way demagogues are
leveraging this pandemic to put themselves in power, to capture our
institutions, to erode our rights.

In Michigan, the governor there, Gretchen Whitmer -- speaking of mediocre
-- is auditioning to be Joe Biden's Vice President by banning citizens
from traveling to their own second homes. She doesn't explain how that
might help, she does it anyway.

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In Kentucky, the governor sent goons to record the license plates of
anybody attending an Easter service. Then in North Carolina, a hundred
people tried to gather in Raleigh against the state's ongoing shutdown,
police arrived, dispersed the protest, arrested one woman, and just in
case you're mistaking why they did that, they issued a statement that was
very clear here it is, "Protesting is a nonessential activity." Now,
that's not a quote from Orwell. That's an actual quote from the
authorities in Raleigh, North Carolina, and they're wrong.

This is America. We're allowed to disagree with what our leaders do,
however, we like and we're allowed to express that disagreement in public.
That's our birthright. They'd like to leverage this crisis to take your
birthright away. Don't let them.



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