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your support. Got a story here out of Buncome County

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where apparently they've been prioritizing Helene relief money by race.

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Speaker 2: Shocking.

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Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second, but first we

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have a call from Jeff calling about something I talked

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about last hour regarding Margaret Brennan's stupidity. Jeff, welcome to

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the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for taking my call to a certain extent.

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Ms Brennan does have a point. When the Vymar Republic

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was founded after World War One, there was free speech.

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They had multiple parties. The Nazi Party didn't get started

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until I think around nineteen twenty three, and most of

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these parties did have something of a private militia and

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their job was basically to bust up rallies and so Hitler,

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you know, he had his storm troopers that would stop

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the opposing parties rallies. And have you found the speech sir?

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Speaker 1: Have you heard of the Vymar fallacy? What the Vymar fallacy?

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Speaker 2: Have you heard of this fallacy?

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Speaker 1: Correct?

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Speaker 2: No, sir, I haven't.

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Speaker 1: This is what you are describing, this idea that freedom

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of speech led to the rise of Hitler, when in fact,

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the Viymar Republic had speech codes and they cracked down

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on specifically the Nazis. They threw them in jail, they

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banned them for Hitler was banned from public speaking for years.

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There were various organizations that would act as sort of

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like the like there was a Jewish organization similar to

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the Anti Defamation League that would identify, you know, the

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targeting of Jewish people in speech, and then the government

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would crack down on them. So, yeah, they had they

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had speech. They had anti free speech laws in the

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Weymar Republic.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wonder about Hitler being banned from speaking. I

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think part of that was his punishment for initiating that

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rebellion Inich.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, this is there's a there is it

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is such a it's such a theory that it then

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it then grew or it spawned a response which is

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dubbed the Vymar fallacy, which is addressing the very thing

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that you're outlining, which is that the Bymar Republic had

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free speech and that allowed the Nazis to go around

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and do their pamphlets and cartoons and all this other stuff,

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when in fact, Theymar Republic did not have free speech

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as we have it. They actually had speech restrictions and

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censorship efforts, and people were fined and thrown in jail

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and such.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate you enlightening me on that. I'd never

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heard of that. I've just read a lot of books about,

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you know, the rise of Right Hitler and the Nazi.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, go look up. There's a I played a

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clip of it yesterday. It's called the fire dot Org.

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It's fire organization. It's a free speech organization, and they

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had a clip on it talking about the Vymar fallacy.

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So if you just look up Ymar fallacy, you'll probably

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find it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I appreciate.

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Speaker 1: It, Yes, sir, all right, thanks Jeff, Yeah, you two

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appreciate it. All right. So a North Carolina citizen group

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this is, by the way, from the Daily Wire dot

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com piece by laithe Lemahieu. I think he's Spanish. A

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North Carolina citizen group is asking the Trump administration to

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intervene after local leaders prioritized Hurricane Helene small business relief

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grants on the basis of race and sex. I can't

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believe that Buncom County would do such a thing. Actually,

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I totally can believe it. It is completely captured by

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the left Western North Carolina Citizens for Equality, that's the organization.

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Citizen group filed a complaint with the Treasury Department last

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month after Bunkhom County announced that it would focus on

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supporting small businesses damaged by Helene that were BIPOCK and

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women owned. BIPOC stands for Black Indigenous people of color right,

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So different, three different groups there, I guess, although I

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kind of feel like black would fall into the POC right,

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and wouldn't also indigenous fall into POC. Wouldn't they all

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just be POC? But I don't know whatever. BIPOC is

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what they go by, at least for leftist leftist women

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that control these governments in Bunkhom County. Bunkhom County home

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to liberal Ashville funded the program by using repurposed federal

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COVID relief funds. Quote. In this situation, there is no

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doubt that Buncom County intended to discriminate against white business

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owners in its Hellene relief project. The county directed that

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the funds be used in a manner that prioritizes one

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group of business owners over another based solely on skin color.

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That's according to the president of Western North Carolina Citizens

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for Equality President Karl Mumpower, who was a former city

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councilman Republican. I think he may have actually been the

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last Republican ever elected to the Ashville City Council, although

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I think technically it's a nonpartisan ha. That's a non

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partisan race, so nobody knows what political affiliation these candidates are,

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except everybody really knows. So they have filed a civil

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rights complaint with the Treasury Department. The Bunkhom County Board

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of Commissioners, all Democrats, now rolled out its small business

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relief grant program in November, announcing that it would prioritize

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helping businesses not owned by white men. The program would

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make business owners eligible for tens of thousands of dollars

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in repurposed American Rescue Plan Funds or ARPA funds. The

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county said that the focus area of the small business

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Support program would be BIPOC owned businesses, women owned businesses,

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and sole proprietorships. So I guess if you're a white

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dude and you're a sole proprietorship, then I guess you

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could get access to the money. Maybe. From November thirteenth

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through the seventeenth, the county partnered with the nonprofit Mountain

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biz Works, and that is spelled biz Works biz works.

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I yeah, I don't know anyway, they were, So Mountain

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bis Works is going to administer the one point five

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million dollars in funding appropriated from the ARPA. The nonprofit

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Mountain Bisworks says that it focuses on working with quote,

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people of color, women, and immigrant entrepreneurs and works to

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promote racial equity. It's also targeted in the complaint by

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this citizens group. Statistics shared by the county showed that

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grants were disproportionately awarded to women and minorities. Well, of

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course it would be, because that's the focus, right, that's

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the intent of the one hundred and thirty seven awards

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given out twenty eight and a half percent were given

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to minority owned businesses. About sixty one percent were given

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to women owned businesses the county. By the way, in

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case you are wondering, which has always been a point

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of hilarity to me, when I worked in Asheville for

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eight years and all of the focus on race and

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ethnicity and equity and diversity, like all of their focus

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on this stuff, and you know, just the denigration of

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whites and Republicans and all of it. Bunkhom County is

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ninety percent white, like it.

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Speaker 3: It's so much wider right, which it's where these leftist

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white people retire to to then virtue signal to everybody

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else about how they really do care about all these

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minority people just as long as they don't live in

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my county, they just stay over there. Mumppower believes that

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the process not only violates federal law, but also Bunchom

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County's very own anti discrimination law. That ordinance describes discrimination

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as treating people differently for a number of different.

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Speaker 1: Factors, including race and sex. Yes, you are not allowed

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to discriminate based on race and sex, and this program

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memories that'll last a lifetime. I did get an email

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let me find it here from Trudy who sent me

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a picture. And it's just a pile of logs and

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branches in front of the Asheville town Hall, city Hall

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and the government building whatever. They're right next to each other,

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but so you got like two trees. It's probably separated

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by about fifteen feet, these two trees, and then in

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between the two trees, just this pile of you know, debris, logs, branches,

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just all piled up like a big bonfire or something

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that's getting ready to be had. And so Trudy says,

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I see so much Helene debris every day, and I

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thought that this pile of debris was some of that. Right,

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that's obviously, you know when you hear hoof beats, thing courses,

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not zebras, Right, obviously you would think this is just

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a pile of debris left over from Hurricane Helene. But

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Trudy says, I have now been informed that it is

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an art installation. It's called the Eagle's Nest, she says. Now,

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most people here in the mountains know that a pile

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like this attracts vermin, snakes, et cetera. Yeah, Like, I'm

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just waiting for some of the local activists or homeless

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folks to go light the thing on fire, you know,

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because they're not going to know. I mean, the homeless

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folks are probably not going to know that that is

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an art installation, you know. The Again, this is what

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I call art by explanation. You know, if I can't

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tell that this is artwork unless you put some sort

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of a placard in front of it that tells me

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specifically this is supposed to be art. You know, here's

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its name, and this is what it represents or whatever. Like,

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if I can't look at something and immediately know that

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this is a piece of art, then it's not art. Sorry,

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Like I make the rule on that for myself, okay,

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Or as somebody else told me one time, it's not

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art if I can do it rights. It's just a

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pile of yard waste, people. Really, it's just a pile

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of yard waste. It's not art. Although I'm sure the

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taxpayers coughed up a couple grand for this. I mean,

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it is ridiculous. It is like literally just a pile

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of logs and or branches, probably no bigger than like

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four four inches dynameter branches, and it's just all piled

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up like a bonfire. But somebody's going to come along

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and light that baby up. Somebody is going to do it. Okay,

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they bathe in the water fountains like twenty feet away

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from here. Don't tell me they're not going to light

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this puppy up to stay warm at some point, all right,

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I'd be like yeah, and then the scandal would be

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like eating the banana duct tape to the wall. Right, Okay,

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then a slash and then a topic or something, and

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so like R slash Charlotte and so people will go

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in there and talk about Charlotte and then it can

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get very specific about different things. You have subreddits of

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different you know, more specific categories or whatever. But anyway,

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there is there is one for Ashville, as there are

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for like most cities, and somebody posts it up over there,

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a hitlist of businesses to boycott because the businesses are

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at least perceived to be conservative owned. That's it. So

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they're now posting lists. And this is not just Ashville,

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by the way, there were lists like this all over

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the country because Reddit has become what virtually all of

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these types of forums become when the moderators boot all

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conservatives off the platform. Up in Asheville, there were when

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I first got there, and I don't even know if

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this I guess I could check and see, but I

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really don't care to. There was a Facebook group, well

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actually before the Facebook group, there was a website called

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Scrutiny Hooligans, and one of the guys who started the blog,

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who went by the online name of Screwy Hooy, actually

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became a city councilman. That's the kind of people you're

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dealing with in Nashville. He became a city councilman, just

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a nasty guy online. But the same thing happened at

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that website where they would boot off any kind of conservatives.

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Who would you post comments after the blog posts and stuff,

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and so they would just ban all of these conservatives,

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much like the Germans are doing now right, but without

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the force of law. So they would ban them. And

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then there was a Facebook group started up by a

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couple of leftists and it was called Asheville Politics and

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a lot of people and it was like and so

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when I got there, Ashville Politics then started up. I

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joined Ashville Politics and I made it, I want to say,

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about six months, and they the one of the like.

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The first interaction I had though, was the moderators accusing

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me of running some other account because this other account

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was some conservative guy who happened to like my page

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or was a friend of mine on Facebook or something,

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and that was it. That was the that was the

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only friend and follower the guy had. And so they

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said that I was running that account and I said,

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I'm not running that account. I don't have any other accounts.

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This is my account. I don't know who this person is.

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and so they kicked that guy off, accusing him of

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being a sock puppet of mine, which he wasn't. And

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then they kicked me off because they would allow personal

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attacks against me. In fact, the moderators would engage in

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personal attacks against me, and then when I started responding

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in kind, because you know me, I would prefer to

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have the conversations about policy and philosophy and such. But

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if you are interested in only the name calling, well,

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I'm your huckleberry there too. I can engage like that

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as well. I prefer not to, but I am skilled

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at it, so I proceeded to employ those skills. They

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didn't like it very much because some of them we're

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kind of They stung a bit, particularly the uh, you know,

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the twisting of one guy's one of the moderator's names.

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He didn't like the name that I thought his name

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was Shad, and I thought that that sounded very similar

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to another word, and I just would call him that

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word instead because he would call me different names. So anyway,

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they banned me. So what ends up happening on all

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of these types of sites is that they kick off

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everybody that disagrees with him, and then the site dies.

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It's what happened to Scrutiny hooligans. The astral Politics page

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became a freaking ghost town. And that's what Reddit is now.

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Becoming because there isn't any there's no disagreement permitted, and

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if you cross, you know, even if a lefty crosses

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another lefty, then they file complaints against each other and

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one of them gets booted off or they get warned

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or something. So it just becomes this echo chamber of

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moon battery. Right, So they have this list, and I'm

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actually kind of surprised that they got as many names

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as they did because it is Ashville, so I didn't

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think there were that many Conservatives or Trump supporters in Ashville.

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But it doesn't make some bit of sense because these

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are business owners. So anyway, so I figured, well, you

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made the list, So I'm going to go ahead and

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tell my audience who these businesses are so they can

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go support them because they're obviously being targeted for a boycott.

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So if you would like to support these companies, I'll

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give you the names. So if you're going to Ashville

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to spend some tourism dollars, you want to spend it

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at these places to help out people that aren't crazy,

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that aren't insane. All right, I hope you had a

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happy holiday season, but tell me if something like this

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happened at your house, Your family and friends are gathered around,

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maybe y'all are in the living room. You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing,

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and then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes?

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Did you ever get them transferred? And then the room

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gets all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh,

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you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just

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having gotten around to it. Look, don't let those priceless

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memories sit in a box for another year.

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targeted businesses by leftists in western North Carolina because these

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business owners have made the unforgivable sin of not being

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a leftist. So they created this hit list on Reddit.

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And I don't know how accurate it is, but if

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these businesses are being targeted for boycotts, I figured, why

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not pass the information along to you so you can

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go to them if you so choose. So here they

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are Earthling Coffee, affordable mufflers and brakes, I mean obviously,

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like if you need a muffler of breaks, but anyway,

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Laurel Ridge Country Club, Rivertop Landscape, WNC Tire, Granddad's Apples

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Workout Anytime. I believe that's a gym, the Pizga in

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Frank's Roman Pizza, Arabella's fast Track at Irwin Hills, which

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fast Track I think is a gas station, which, like, guys,

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you're really struggling if you have to. Does anybody check

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the political affiliation of the gas station owner? Anyway? Uh, Piza,

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p I e z Aa, Allen's Jewelry and pond Odem,

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Locksmith's Dragon Puff, Smoke and Vape Shop, Apafca, Vicious Biscuit,

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and Montford Deli. That's it. That's the massive list that

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they could come up with of business owners that I'm

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not really sure, like some of the comments here that

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got them on the list. Let's see here. I mean

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because some of us like always has right wing news

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plus radio on pro Trump's stuff inside the store, right

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employees wearing MAGA gear while working like this is the

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stuff that's got them WNC Tire. They don't even have

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a reason. They're the reason that they give is reason

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question mark, question mark, question mark. They don't even have

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a reason. They're just they're just on the list. You

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right on the list. That's it on the list. I

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think some some more people might be getting added to

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the list if this is true ABC eleven dot com.

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It's actually an associated Press story published at the ABC

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eleven dot com site. Some in western North Carolina hit

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by Helene embrace President Trump's push to abolish FEMA. No really,

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Why could it be that the people those directly impacted

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and affected and had interactions with FEMA might know a

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thing or two about their effectiveness. They're open to President

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Trump's suggestion about getting rid of FEMA. It's a common

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sentiment in the mountains of western North Carolina. Days after

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Trump took office on January twentieth, he surveyed the fallout

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from wildfires in California and the hurricane in North Carolina

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and suggested that states primarily manage the response to natural disasters.

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As a candidate, he had disparaged FEMA's work in the

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southern states hit by Helene. That criticism, which began almost

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as soon as the wind stopped blowing, has not stopped.

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See again, the scandal is not the story. The story

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is the Republican reaction to the scandal Rule number two

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of journalisming. More recently, the AP reports FEMA has criticized

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or was criticized by Trump advisor Elon Musk over payments

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to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants.

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Four FEMA employees were fired, accused of circumventing leadership to

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make the transactions which have been standard for years through

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a program that helps with costs to care for a

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surge in migration. Guy really shoehorned the word care in there,

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didn't They helps with costs to care for a surge

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in migration. Yeah, it's overrun. And also, as Musk pointed

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out the other day at that Oval Office press briefing,

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the Roosevelt Hotel, which is where the fifty nine million

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dollars went to After Trump said, freeze all the funding,

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and then they still push the money out the door.

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That hotel is completely full and they're paying twice the

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market rate. So yeah, like that's that's not to care

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for a surge in migration, Okay. During his remarks, Trump

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said he may sign an executive order to fundamentally overhaul

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or get rid of FEMA. North Carolina's government estimated that

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Helene caused a record sixty billion dollars in damages. FEMA

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has contributed about three hundred and eighty million through public

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assistance grants to the state and local governments, as well

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as approximately three hundred and seventy two million directly to

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North Carolinians as of February eleventh. According to the agency,

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famous responsibilities include direct financial assistance to individuals and reimbursements

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to governments for recovery tasks like debris removal and rebuilding roads, which,

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by the way, the Army Corps of Engineers this is

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not in the AP story, but the Army Corps of

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Engineers has made more progress in two weeks with debris

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removal than in the previous four months. Right, there are

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people posting videos and pictures all over Twitter, all over

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social media showing the Army Corps of Engineers rolling in

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and clearing out debris that had sat there for four months.

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What happened in the last two weeks? How did the

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Army Corps of Engineers all of a sudden be able

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to deploy all of these trucks to get out there

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and start scooping up all the debris out of the

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lakes and off the sides of the roads. What happened something?

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I feel like something important happened within the last I

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don't know month, less than three weeks, married three weeks.

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Now it'll come to me. All right, that'll do it

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for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I

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could not do the show without your support and the

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thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything

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while I'm gone.