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art. How many hours of oxygen
are left that you know of that you

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can estimate right now on the submersible
and is it a posta? Does it

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have to be approved or regulator?
Sure? So, so first of all,

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it's an estimate, right because we
know from the the data we were

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using as the starting point was ninety
six hours. We know at this point

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we're approximately uh about forty forty one
hours Latin, yes, and that have

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to be approved or regulates submersible to
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Yeah, I'm not sure of the
exact technical piece. And now we know

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there's about there's about forty hours of
breathable error left based on that initial report.

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Again, that was just the initial
report based on ninety six hours from

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when the vessel. That's the sound
of US Coast Guard officials updating the press

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on the search and rescue efforts to
recover the expedition vessel known as the Titan,

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which was lost, or rather lost
contact with its support ship just one

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hour and forty five minutes into its
dive. It's expedition dive that started on

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Sunday. They were attempting to travel
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order to visit the wreckage and explore
the wreckage of the Titanic, and just

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some one hour and forty five minutes
into the dive on Sunday, the support

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ship lost contact with them. I
have more audio about a previous expedition from

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the same company, same ship that
lost contact with this team just a year

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ago, and also some audio that
really explained how risky this was from the

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beginning, particularly with the design of
the ship. We'll get into all of

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that, but as of that update, which was provided yesterday, June twentieth,

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they had only forty hours of oxygen
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supply of oxygen, which is scheduled
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Thursday. Thursday, June twenty second
is the estimated end of the oxygen supply

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for those five individuals who are trapped
inside of the titan There are reports of

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knocking sounds being detected by Canadian air
vessels. Search and rescue operation has become

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an international affair of the Canadian search
vessel, an aircraft that is able to

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detect sounds underneath the ocean. Detected
knocking or banging sounds that came at thirty

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minute intervals. This has given hope
to the search and rescue team that they

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may be able to find those five
individuals, including the pie, a Pakistani

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billionaire and his nineteen year old son, a French explorer who is an expert

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on the Titanic, and the fifth
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addition to the pilot, is a
Dubai based businessman. There's a lot of

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commentary that's going around about the nature
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There are hopes that they would be
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just consider the vastness of the ocean, the depth, the pressure, the

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danger that's involved for the search and
rescue team, and even the limitations.

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There was one particular navy vessel that
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operation that could only go down two
thousand feet. Well, they're estimating that

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this vessel went down some thirteen thousand
feet. They think that they got relatively

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close to the Titanic, which tremendously
complicates the search and rescue efforts. So

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there, you know, this was
a ski expedition in the first place.

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But the commentary that's going on right
now really hinges on two things. The

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cavalierness which with which a lot of
people are engaging the conversation about the potential

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death of these individuals, and the
fact that they're you know, billionaires and

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the rich people doing rich risky things. I don't really want to comment there

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just yet, and I don't know
that I have a lot of commentary there

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in the first place. I do
you all know me well enough to know

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that I side on the air on
the side of humanity, thinking about what

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it must be like for those five
individuals who are trapped in that vessel,

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if they're still alive at this point, hoping for some type of miracle,

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hoping for a rescue. But I
will give some thought to the riskiness involved,

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the risk that they took in a
vessel that was almost itself cavalierly put

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together. I want you to listen
to this report from a reporter on CBS

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who ventured alongside the vessel a year
ago. Now, he didn't go down

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into the ocean with the same vessel, but he remained on the support ship

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and he reviewed the waiver that you
had to sign, as well as some

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of the technology that was inside of
the vessel. So I listened into the

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twenty one description of the twenty one
foot vessel that these individuals, these five

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individuals are trapped in as search and
rescue efforts continue, an experimental submersible vessel

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that has not been approved or certified
by any regulatory body and could result in

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physical injury, disability, emotional trauma, or death. Where do I find

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inside? The sub has about as
much room as a minivan. So this

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is not your grandfather's submersible. We
only have one button. That's it.

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It should be like an elevator,
you know. It shouldn't take a lot

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of skill. The titan is the
only five persons sub in the world that

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can reach Titanic depths two point four
miles below the scene. It's also the

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only one with a toilet sort of. And yet I couldn't help noticing how

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many pieces of this sub seemed improvised. We can use these off the shelf

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components. I got these from Camper
World. We run the whole thing with

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this game controller. I you know, the only commentary I really will give

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is the fact that there's no way
on God's green Earth or in the blue

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water that I would go down inside
of a vessel that is guided by godown

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two point four miles in a vessel
that's guided by a game controller. That's

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not even I mean it was.
It looked like an off brand game controller,

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like one that you would get a
dollar tree. And I'm not trying

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to make light of the situation or
make fun of the individuals who are trapped

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in this very dire situation. I
just think that I would never I could

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not possibly sign that waiver. I
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First of all, I don't have
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that trip, okay. Second of
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waiver that that reporter just read,
I would quickly walk away for several reasons.

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Number one is a vessel that has
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And if there's any commentary to be
given, it is the necessity for

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regulation. Right. There's a role
that regulation plays in society, and one

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of the number one things that the
rich do is use their wealth to get

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rid of regulation. Now I don't
I'm not asserting that as any implications in

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terms of this particular story, but
just generally speaking, regulations saved lives and

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I just could not possibly again,
don't have the two hundred and fifty thousand

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dollars in the first place to be
in that situation, but to put your

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life into the hands of of such
a risky endeavor. Listen to this same

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report from CBS News about a year
ago that indicates that when they attempted an

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expedition a year ago, they got
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The dive was a go. Reports
on bottom, but that was the

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last of the good news. I
said, do you know where we are?

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About? Then four seventy of the
vow if you were lost or are

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we There's no GPS under water,
so the surface ship is supposed to guide

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the sub to the shipwreck by sending
text messages for in thirty degrees right,

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probably thirty degrees, But on this
dive communications somehow broke down. The sub

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never found the wreck. We have
a lost We have lost for two and

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a half hours. Rush says he'll
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Yeah, that would have been That
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I would not have needed a duover, not not after being lost two hours

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and forty five minutes previously. But
I digress. We're wishing the best and

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hoping the best for the recovery of
these five individuals. As international efforts to

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recover the Titan continue, we'll keep
you updated with more information. And the

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left, we all know this to
be true. The left, the left

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weaponizes race. Whatever they're losing.
An argument that does my grandfather a disjustice?

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An injustice is disrespectful. I think
he meant to say a disservice,

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But who am I to judge?
I mix up my words all the time.

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That was Republican Senator Tim Scott,
who was a presidential candidate. He

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was performing in front of a Fox
News audience of predominantly white, i almost

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all white audience for a town hall
meeting. He's running for president, knowing

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full well that he won't even get
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But he is doing exactly what he
is designed to do. The entire

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purpose of Tim Scott's campaign is to
provide racial cover for racists. As he

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made this statement, the camera pan
to the audience, and an audience full

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of white, old conservative men and
women were so happy to hear a black

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man stand up there and say that
the only reason we talk about race in

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this country is because what the left
weaponizes race whatever they're losing an argument.

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Yeah, that's the only time we
talk about race, Tim Scott. Not

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when police officers are killing us,
Not when the criminal justice system targets us,

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Not when Flint still doesn't have any
water, not when racists are marching

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all around this country. Critical race
theory is being used as a culture.

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There's a war on blackness in the
form of saying woke. You know,

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we just we only mentioned it when
we can't win a debate. Here's the

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funniest thing about this is that these
people don't actually want to debate the left.

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They don't actually want. What they
want are soundbites that they can use

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and cut and take out a context. And we're dealing with a group of

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people who don't have any basis and
objective reality. They are willing to twist

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and bend any truth into a talking
point for the benefit of their political agenda.

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Their hypocrisy is the point. So
it's funny because one they do not

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really want to debate in good faith. What they want is a performance.

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What they want is a spectacle,
something that they can just generate clicks off

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of. And how do they generate
those clicks well by engaging in some of

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the most dishonest, a historical and
genuine's arguments that they can come up with.

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But most importantly to me, the
price of being a black conservative is

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just too high for me. It's
just too rich for my blood. You

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have to give up so much of
your soul, you know, to be

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on stage in a room full of
white people saying things to make them feel

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better and to feel better about themselves, especially because what they want to hear

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that black man say is anything he
can come up with to undermine the fight

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for justice on behalf of black people. He is literally there to make white

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folks feel good. And what makes
those white conservatives feel good is to see

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a black man who will attack the
black community. That's what makes them feel

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good. That is what gets you
the big checks. That's what gets you

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a nice home and a nice car, with a nice bank account and everything

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that you need. Gives you a
nice notoriety, it gets you the ability

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to run for president on the Republican
ticket, knowing full well you'll never win,

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but you'll get enough support to sell
a book, to become a New

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York Times bestseller, right to get
the fame that you desire so much.

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I'm sorry, the price of being
a black Conservative is just too high.

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Welcome back. I want to read
to you from Pro Publica, who

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has been doing some amazing reporting over
the last year into the corruption of our

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Supreme Court, particularly Justice Clarence Thomas
and now Justice Samuel Alito, who took

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a luxury fishing vacation with GOP billionaire
who later had cases before the Supreme Court.

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Again, this is reporting from Pro
Publica. Definitely suggested you check out

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their publication generally speaking, but this
report specifically. In early two thousand and

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eight. July two thousand and eight, Samuel Alito stood on the river banks

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in a remote corner of Alaska.
The Supreme Court justice was on a vacation

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at a luxury fishing lodge that charged
more than one thousand dollars a day,

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and after catching a king salmon nearly
the size of his leg Alito posed for

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a picture. To his left,
a man stood beaming Paul Singer, a

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hedge fund billionaire who has repeatedly asked
the Supreme Court to rule in his favor

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in high stakes business disputes. Singer
was more than a fellow angler. He

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flew Alito to Alaska on a private
jet. If the Justice charted the plane

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him self, the cost would have
exceeded one hundred thousand dollars one way.

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In the years that followed, Singer's
hedge fund came before the Court at least

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ten times, in cases where his
role was often covered by the legal press

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and mainstream medium. In two and
fourteen, the Court agreed to resolve a

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key issue in a decade long battle
between Singer's hedge fund and the Nation of

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Argentina. Alito did not recuse himself
from the case and voted with the seven

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one majority in Singer's favor. The
hedge fund was ultimately paid two point four

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billion dollars. That's not a bad
return on investment. To get you a

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justice, a Supreme Court justice on
your side. Continuing on, Alito did

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not report the two thousand and eight
fishing trip on his annual financial disclosures.

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By failing to disclose the private jet
flighter flight Singer provided, Alito appears to

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have violated a federal law that requires
justices to disclose most gifts. According to

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ethics law expert. Again, that's
reporting from Pro Publica. And unfortunately,

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this which in any other generation would
be a tremendous story, headline news,

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it would be a major controversy.
This story barely noticed. It barely goes

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notice because one the nature of our
twenty four hour news cycle, but also

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because we have become accustomed to this
level of corruption from our Supreme Court justices.

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We just got through talking what maybe
a month and a half two months

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ago about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
and his luxury gifts and vacations that he

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took and received from another Republican billionaire
donor. And despite his actions, Clarence

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Thomas and now Samuel Alito, despite
their actions being clear ethics violations, nothing

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has been done, No accountability has
been brought to them, because well,

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the Supreme Court seems to be above
the law. I mean, how else

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do you interpret this. Any other
level of our federal judiciary would be held

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accountable because they actually have ethics codes, they actually are held to account they

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can be held accountable. But it
is our Supreme Court that has demonstrated that

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it simply does not have to abide
by the same law as lower courts,

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as the same ethics measures as the
lower courts, and the just glaring quid

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pro quo that we've seen take place
with these two particular conservative justices, and

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the fact that if they have led
to in this case with Samuel Alito,

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led to awards of two point four
billion dollars for this billionaire, right he

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spent half a million dollars courting and
flying out Samuel Alito to turn around and

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get two point four billion dollars worth
of a decision from the Supreme Court.

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Now, I also want you to
keep in mind that this is the same

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court that we have to get of
such a level of deference to that whatever

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decision they make that becomes the law
of the land, it's not law as

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a result of Congress passing it and
send it to send it, passing it

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and then the President signing it into
law. It's the law of the land

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because it has the force of law, because we as a nation have agreed

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to the power of the Supreme Court. I mean, we have acknowledged and

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recognized with so much precedent that the
decisions that they may carry the force of

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law. But what happens when the
people making those decisions are transparently corrupt.

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Well, I'll tell you what happens. They continue to do it. It

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becomes normalized, it becomes bait into
the system, and then at that point

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it becomes even more acute. You
will find we are going to see more

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and more instances of our Supreme Court
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because I can tell you one thing
for certain, if this had been a

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liberal leaning, progressive leaning justice,
there would be some accountability. There will

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be because Republicans have demonstrated that there
are more than happy Conservatives are more than

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happy to live in a perpetual state
of hypocrisy. They do not care and

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they won't even bat an eye about
holding a liberal leaning justice accountable, while

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just completely ignoring the fact that we
have now concrete evidence that two conservative justices

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on the Supreme Court have violated every
ethical code you can imagine. But because

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they sit on the Supreme Court,
there's nothing anyone is willing to do.

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There's nothing that anyone can do unless
the US House of Representatives decides to use

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its power to impeach these two justices, and we know that's not going to

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happen because they're so busy trying to
impeach Joe Biden over something frivolous, and

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will explore those stories as well.
Right after this, I learned something new

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yesterday. I'm always learning, always
studying, finding out something new, but

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this, this particular thing that I
learned new, just came into my timeline.

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Ironically, just before Elon Musk decided
to ban the word sis cis on

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Twitter, I found a video on
Instagram that explained the origins of the words

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cis, which is just a Latin
prefix that simply means on this side sis

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gender simply means that you are on
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opposed to trans which means you are
on the other side of the gender spectrum.

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Didn't know that it was, you
know, I always loved learning something

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new. Well, ironically enough,
as fate would have it, later on

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the day I learned what cists actually
meant, you know, in terms of

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the actual Latin definition of the prefix
of Elon Musk to to Twitter and said

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the following quote repeated targeted harassment against
any account will cause the harassing accounts to

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receive at minimum temporary suspicions. The
words ciss or cis gender are considered slurs

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on this platform. You heard that
right, Using the Latin prefix cysts or

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cis gender is now considered a slur
on Twitter. Why, you may ask,

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well, because there is an all
out war against the ability of transgender

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people to simply exist. This is
just another detail in a war. It

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is a detail in the propaganda campaign
that is the leading tip of the spear

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of this war. Right. It
is the attempt to make everyone fear and

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loathe and hate the trans community.
And so now they have made up they

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not they. Elon Musk specifically has
declared that cists gender or cists the Latin

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prefix. We're banning and canceling Latin
prefixes, folks. That's where we are

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now. Notice that when he came
back to Twitter, the inward use went

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up some five hundred percent. But
he wants to make sure that we have

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enough room for free speech for people
to do that, and not to mention

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that he's given power to people to
miss gender individuals and to dead name them

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anything that these brutish beasts on the
other side of this equation of this argument

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can use to harm, to be
cruel, to insult someone who is transgender.

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They will engage in it on Twitter
without any ramifications. But if you

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use the Latin prefix cysts as a
way to describe a person who is not

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trans, which are literally just the
opposing sides of a Latin prefix right there,

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the opposite sides of the same coin, you're either cysts on this side

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of the gender spectrum or your trans
only. But that's an insult. We

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have reached the level of absurdity in
this country that you know, not only

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in this country, all around the
world, that I don't know that we

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can honestly come back from without some
jolt to our system. You know,

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the anger and hatred has become a
hallmark it. Don't get me wrong,

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We do know that anger and hatred
and bigotry have long been a hallmark of

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this country. But we're living in
a renaissance. We're living in a time

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where you can advance your career by
how bigoted you can become. You can

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make more money by how bigoted you
can be. You are given the opportunity

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to get more influence and more power
based on how bigoted you can be.

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It is a renaissance of cruelty.
It is a renaissance of white supremacy,

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and it is a renaissance of bigotry
like we haven't seen in our lifetimes.

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And that's the entire point. The
entire point is to control the population through

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hatred and bigotry. They can they
understand. Conservatives know full well that their

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greatest mobilizing tool on their side of
the aisle is hate. They know full

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well that the best way to get
people to the polls on their side of

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the equation is either through bigotry,
hatred, or fear. This is the

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three tiers of their campaign. This
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This is how they mobilize their groups. And Elon must now say,

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you know, he purchased Twitter for
the purposes of free speech, has now

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waded into the conversation to say I'm
going to use my forty four billion dollar

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investment to penalize anyone who uses the
scientific definition definition right, the designation the

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Latin prefix systs that's a slur,
but you know, the N word who.

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We have to examine that on a
case by case basis. Oh,

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you mean, you know, mis
gendering somebody, that's totally fine. You

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know, dead, naming somebody,
that's totally fine. But to refer to

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them using the Latin prefix that is
a scientist typic designator of those individuals who

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are not trans that's a bridge too
far. The absurdity of it all T

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T T. Yes. Today,
in The Patron's Only episode, I covered

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the story of far right wing pastor
Kent Christmas, which is an amazing last

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name, talking about well, I'll
let you hear for yourself. My best

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interpretation of this clip is that he
was calling for Christians to be more like

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Muslims and put suicide bombs on their
chests so that they could be good examples

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of Christians. He seems to say, we took them out of context of

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not me personally, but particularly right
Wing Watch the team that pulled the clip,

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and we discussed it yesterday. So
let's listen to the clip. I

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want you to hear for yourself.
Did we misinterpret his words. You want

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to know why the Muslim faith has
had an advancements, It's because some Muslims

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were willing to die for that believer. They were willing to strap bombs to

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their chester. They believed in the
afterlife. God give us some men and

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women not get a hold of some
passion up their spirit. That's that I

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will lay down my life for the
GoF sport. I'm not sure that there's

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a lot of ways to interpret that
other than him encouraging Christians to put suicide

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vest on, and maybe not suicide
vest but just violence particularly speaking. Did

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you get the same impression, because
apparently when he went back to church the

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following Sunday, this just past Sunday, the kerfuffle, the rucks around,

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the backlash was so much that he
decided to claim that he didn't actually say

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that. Listen in, I do
not condone violence to anything as a solution.

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And this last week, I don't
know how many of you, how

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many saw the posts that we are
advocating that you would put on chess bombs

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and to blow up things, and
it created quite a firestorm. I have

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to pause before I play anymore.
It's the audible gasp in the audience.

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That really trips me out because this
is literally the same audience that sat and

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heard him preach this the week before, but now that he's denying it to

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like, how dare they accuse you
of saying something that you literally said.

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Let's keep listening. So I want
to say we're peaceful, we're loving,

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and that we believe in the Gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ as our greatest

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weapon. And Paul said this,
for the weapons of our warfare are not

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natural weapons, but they are mighty
through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

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So it's a shame that I even
have to address this. But evil

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people don't play by the rules.
I'm sorry, I don't know if he's

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describing himself here, because the rules
say if you are called on video saying

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something that you don't get to come
back, well, unless you're a conservative

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Christian, because they of course always
come back and denied literally what they just

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said the week before he took Maybe
I heard him wrong. Let's listen one

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more time. You want to know
why the Muslim faith has had his advancements,

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It's because some Muslims who were willing
to die for that belief. They

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were willing to strap bombs to their
chester. They believed in the afterlife,

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but God give up some men and
women they don't get a hold of some

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passion their spirit. That's I will
lay down my life for the Gospel.

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Not many ways that you can interpret
that. It seems like a direct comparison

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and a call to Christians, evangelicals, white evangelical specifically to engage in their

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politics in the same fashion that quote
unquote jihadis do right suicide bombers. But

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you know, you know, when
the heat came on, he decided to

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back off and say I didn't really
say that. Maybe that's a win in

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itself. He's scared to stand by
his own words. Kent Christmas Patron,

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stay tuned. Everyone else will see
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