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Speaker 1: You know, I hope that we can all acknowledge that

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Trump's performance in Davos it's political suicide for the GOP,

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from his threats of using force to invade Greenland to

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his phony board of Peace MAGA, They're losing all credibility.

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And as much as I like to come on here

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and to expose Trump's craziness, I only have so much

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power and influence. And as we gear up for the

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midterm elections, Democrats, we Democrats must step to the plate.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom, well, he too was in Davos

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this week, and just wait until you hear what he

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has to say. Welcome back to the Michael Cone Show

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on our continued journey to one million subscribers. Let's get there,

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so hit subscribe, watch, comment, and share, because this insanity.

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It's crazy. And while I acknowledge that there has been

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some let's just call it setback, that there's a group

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of wolf pack that decides that they're trying to cancel me.

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Ignore the noise, Ignore the noise. Let's get to that million.

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And I also, on a programming note, I want to

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Michael Cohen Show where you're seeing this. Now back to

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the news. So Gavin Newsom revealed that he was supposed

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to speak at the USA House after Trump's speech yesterday,

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but the event was canceled. Why well play the clip.

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Speaker 2: I was going to speak last night. It was a

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well established event at the USA House, simple conversation, discussion

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after Trump's speech. They made sure that I didn't. They

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made sure it was canceled. And that's what's happening in

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the United States America. Freedom expression, freedom assembly, freedom of speech.

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It's American reverse their sensory historical facts. They're rewriting history,

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their sensoring books. Four thousand, three hundred and forty books,

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libraries and in schools banned in the United States of America.

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You're watching institutions, any institution of independent thinking is under

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assaultant attack by the Trump administration. You're seeing what's playing

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out in the streets of American cities. What played out

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in California, the second largest city in the United States

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of America, four thousand National Guard were federalized. Seven hundred

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active duty Marines were not sent overseas that were sent

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to my largest city in the state of California. Masked

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men guy Greg Bovino dressed up as if he literally

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went on eBay and purchased ss GARB Greg Bravino, Secret Police,

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Private Army, mass men. People disappearing quite literally no due process,

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windows being smashed, seatbelts on being literally just sort of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be crystal clear on something right there.

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the next presidential election. You know, a lot of people

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love him, some people dislike him. Some people friends of

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mine from California, they don't like him at all. And

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I said why, And by the way, they happen to

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be Democrats, they don't. There's nothing more powerful than the

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way this man lays things out, crystal clear, plain and simple.

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Newsom also goes on and he explained how Trump's corruption

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is at his scale that we have never seen before anywhere,

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at any time. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: These guys are going to try to take me down,

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not just my state. I'm not naive about what I've

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said this morning and how that will be reflected in

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the official White House account. I'm not naive about the

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fact that he threatened to prosecute the FED chief in

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the United States of America, who's literally going after his

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enemies with the FBI and the DOJ and these power ministries.

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I'm not naive about any of this. I'm not naive

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about the corruption and the graft at scale we've never

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seen in American history. I'm not naive about folks writing

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billion dollar checks to Wick Cough to Jared Kushner for

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this new piece deal they're announcing today. I'm not naive

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about the fact that President United States made a billion

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and a half plus dollars in the last twelve months. Personally,

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How are the hell are we putting up with this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's look, as I said, he raises points that

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everybody is thinking, but he's the one that's saying it

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out loud. We all need to actually just call out

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the corruption where corruption, where corruption exists. In fact, that's

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not being partisan, that's being American. That's expecting that the

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process needs to be fair, it needs to be it

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needs to be judicial, and it needs to be it

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needs to be lawful. You know, I wrote in my

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substack of today, which I called never Again. From Bohnia

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to Minneapolis, there are a lot of comparisons in terms

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of what's going on right now in Minneapolis that, as

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son of a Holocaust survivor, I carry with me the

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echoes of the stories that my father told about the

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day that the Nazis came to his town of Bognia, Poland,

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and I can still hear them as if they were

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whispered yesterday, with boots pounding on the cobblestone streets, Doors

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kicked in without warning, Families ripped apart in seconds, people

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dragged from their homes, beaten in front of neighbors, killed

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or resettled for the unforgivable crime of being Jewish. There

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was no due process, There was no mercy, just power

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exercise with cruelty and indifference. You know, as I grew older,

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a civilized society could descend into such barbarism. I took

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War Two, believing that knowledge was the strongest guardrail against repetition.

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The images seared themselves into my soul, where you have

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young and old men and women shoved to the ground, faces, bloody,

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dignity stripped away. And what haunted me, What haunted me

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most were not only the victims, but the smiles, the smiles,

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the chilling, casual smiles of the Nazi officers asserting dominance

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over helpless human beings. Evil, I learned, does not always scream.

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that by remembering, by educating ourselves, by vowing never again,

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that we on a line in history that would never

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be crossed. And yet today, as we all watch what's

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And what have they done? They have replaced the villain,

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the victim, the Jewish people with undocumented immigrants. As I

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not thinking to yourself, holy crap, this is like what's

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going on right now in Minneapolis? Well, Newsom, he didn't

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stop there. He also spoke about how Trump has literally

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taken over the entire Republican Party and he's also sinking

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that ship. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: We can read He's an invasive species Donald Trump, He's not.

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He is. He took over the Republican Party. Just I mean,

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he's got you know, a few of them. Lindsey Graham,

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I mean my head speaking of the kneepads. I'm sorry,

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this is tough stuff. It's tough stuff. I don't recognize

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these people any longer. I used to respect Lindsay. I mean, Lindsey,

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you think what I'm saying about Trump's tough. How about

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what Lindsey Graham said about Trump? How about the Secretary

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of State Marco Rubio? Do you think this is These

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things to change, We need to change. You think that's

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why I'm changing my approach, And again I'm gratefully altered. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Let me also be clear. The one who I think

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the United States when he called Trump America's hitler. You know, again,

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in the article, I turned around and I say, when

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Democratic Representative Angie Craig says that what is happening certainly

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reminds her of the many images that she saw in

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the nineteen thirties in Germany. She's not exaggerating, she's warning us,

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and so is Gavin Newsom, because history does not repeat

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itself word for word. It changes accents, uniforms, and justifications.

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But the pattern, the pattern, my friends, is unmistakable. Dehumanize

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a group, label them a threat, loosen the restraints of law,

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and unleashed force in the name of order. That's exactly

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what Gavin Newsom is bringing up now. After Trump's speech yesterday,

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Caitlin Collins Well, she asked for Newsom's thoughts. Play the clip, Well.

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Speaker 2: Non plus, did it stand out to you that he

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Speaker 3: An't you just talking about Greenland? You know?

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Speaker 4: And that every time a windmill turns a cost one

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thousand dollars and a lot of stuff stands out.

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Speaker 3: None of this is normalized.

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Speaker 4: There's a normalization of deviancy of consciousness and you know,

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comments and commentary.

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Speaker 3: Other brother, he's held to the curve. He's greater on

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a really some job dropping and remarkable

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statements that just you know, fly in the face of facts.

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Speaker 3: An evidence of common sense. So, but they're so. You've

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heard them over and over and over again again.

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Speaker 4: For the European audience that may have a new speech,

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Speaker 3: For the American audience.

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Speaker 4: The only thing that was new is he said he's

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willing to negotiate. But wait a second, that's not new either,

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because he has been saying we've wanted to negotiate for

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Speaker 1: You criticize what an incredible way that Gavin Newsom handled

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that question by Caatelin. Think about it. What you really

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wanted to talk about was Gavin Newsom's belief on Trump's cognition.

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it was a mistake, an acknowledged mistakes several times, not once,

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but like four times. Okay, okay, but that's not the

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part that Gavin Newsom wanted to concentrate on. It's the

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other aspects which actually made the statement by Newsom more legitimate,

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more hard hitting. And Newsom also had a message for

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our allies. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: It's time to stand tall and firm, have a backbone.

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they look on the world stage. I mean, at least

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from an American perspective, it's embarrassing. The European should decide

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for themselves what to do. But one thing they can't

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to stand tall, stand firm, stand united. This guy's a

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wrecking ball. I hope people are waking up to what

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Speaker 1: Let me also just turn around and say, if hypothetically

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imagine the bulk of the people that were on that

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stage are going to have to explain to him exactly

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what they're doing today. Now, one thing Newsome definitely knows,

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that's how to troll Trump, and he did so as well,

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not just here in the United States, but in Davos.

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Speaker 5: Played the clip you know you you know, you're you're

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running around distributing kneepads to CEOs, And I think it

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not kidding. They're the new Trumps

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signature serious pads. Yeah, and they are available online. I

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told you the last one sold out. Uh and uh

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and I just want to a serious moment it actually

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we laugh. Uh. Anyway, these are available and in bulk too.

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Speaker 5: But I want, I want to read you a couple

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Speaker 1: So funny is that imagine you're bringing props to Davos

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knee pads for obvious reasons. But I'll tell you. I

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do want to end on a clip of Newsom discussing

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the way that the Trump administration rolls him.

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Speaker 2: Played the clip and in bulk too.

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Speaker 5: But I want, I want to read you a couple

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of things the US government has said about you in

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the last twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Hours or so.

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Speaker 5: The Treasure the US government, the Treasury Secretary put it in.

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The Treasury Secretary described you as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle

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beach Ken. The White House Communications director called was this?

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Speaker 2: That was the US Secretary of Treasure.

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Gavin Nouskum and a and an official White House account,

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you know, a federal government account described you with a

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i'd say, very online sexual slur that people here probably

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don't want to hear aday thirty in the morning, and

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you're in some sense responding in kind, and we can't

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do you think should you? I mean, is is that

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kind of discourse from you, from them good for America?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's deeply unbecoming. Come on, of course it is.

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to point out the absurdity. You got to put a

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mirror up to this. This is madness. President. You see

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comments about windmills or whatever else that's happening. Well, he

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talked about Somalia's community. This is not normal, the deviation

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of normalcy. We've got to call it out. So I

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put a mirror up to Trump and Trump as in

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all caps.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be clear. It reminds me of mean tweets,

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which was something that I participated when I was on

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Comedy Central. Charlemagne the God people always have something mean

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to say about you, always, But In the end, I

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really do believe that Gavin Newsom will ultimately be the

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Democratic nominee, and I don't really see anybody on the

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other side that's stronger and better for the job than he.

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But we'll see and as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,

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