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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to all of you. Congratulations on making it through.

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You've made it through Christmas and now a whole year

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of what the heck can happen next? No way, no

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wahether you're sitting at home or wherever you are right

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now going You know, I knew exactly what was going

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to happen this year. I knew exactly what was going

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to happen. Everything that happened exactly what I thought was.

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Trump was gonna win, Biden was going to drop out,

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Harris was going to be the candidate. I knew all

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of that. I knew that CNN's ratings would be worse

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than some diseases. You know that more people would like

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disease than CNN that's terrible. Hate to say it that

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way sounds horrific, but their ratings are in the dumpster.

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There were so many different aspects. The climate change stuff

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didn't end the world. We had two horrific hurricanes that

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just happened to be where they were, not what they

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were ed. And I never would have believed that the

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country would have been more apt to want to help

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other countries than the people struggling in our own, especially

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after a huge disaster like that, although I truly impressed.

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I tell you every time there's a disaster abroad, and

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I'd say that there's a reason I bring this up

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every time there's a disaster abroad. Oh. By the way,

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my name Chad Adams. I'm sitting in for Pete Callender today.

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It's been an honor and pleasure been here this week.

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I'll be here tomorrow and next week as well. Here

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on News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT seven

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four five seven oh eleven ten the call in numbers.

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Should you find a desire to be a part of

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the conversation today, we will cover many topics, not the

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least of which will be this is kind of the

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end of the year. You hear a few more of

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these shows, you're you're going to start seeing top ten list,

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top twenty list, worst, best, most unusual. But I did

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not dream that we would have. I could not have

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predicted that the endless amount of money being plowed into

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Ukraine over this horrific war would have been done. Now,

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it's not that I couldn't have predicted we did it.

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What I had trouble understanding and still do, is that

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we plow that endless amount of money from Americans to

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Ukraine without a goal, without a here's what we're going

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to do. Here are our expectations as that money and

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those arms come in. Here's what our expectations are. We're

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going to be able to hold this region. We're going

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to be able to end it. The end of the

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war was never a discussion with Congress. They never sat

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and said, if you give this money, the war will

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be over. They never It was never discussed. I wouldn't

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have predicted that. I wouldn't have predicted it. Western North

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Carolina would be heading into winter, and believe it or not,

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there is a winter up there. In spite of your

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climate change cult members asserting things to the contrary, gets

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really cold up there and a lot of people without homes.

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I also wouldn't have predicted this. One I would have

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predicted is that all of that and you haven't probably

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thought of this, or at least most of you haven't

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that all of those people that had their homes damaged, destroyed,

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washed away, whatever it was, their businesses. And again, as

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you go through the mountains, it's an eerie world because

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on ones, you can go through certain parts and it's

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as if nothing happened. It's because of the terrain, it's

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because of the slope and what angle it is relative

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to the direction of the storm and the damage that

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was done. But you can head through some parts and

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it's like everything's fine. You hit through others and it's

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absolutely a third world country. But here's the knife twist

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in this story is that all of those people whose

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homes were damaged or destroyed, whose businesses were they're still

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liable for the property taxes assessed on their property. So

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the county didn't say, Okay, we're going to suspend the

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property tax issue. Well, the county can't survive without property taxes.

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paying it, or they're going to lose their property. But

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your property tax is based on what's on the property.

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to the Board of Adjustments and say, hey, look, I

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can't pay it because there's no house there, and thus

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the value of that property is nothing. I'm paying property

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taxes on land that now is washed out. There's nothing there.

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So one of those things you can't really have predicted.

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But it's the side of fact. Bureaucracies and governments in

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general are not good at the pivot. As fans of

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the show friends would say, pivot, pivot, pivot, They're not

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good at that. There's slow they turn like a cruise ship.

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They turn very slowly. There's no degree of alacrity with

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respect to how governments move. They don't respond quickly. Usually

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they don't adjust very quickly, and it's why novel and

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new ideas take forever to get implemented. It's also why

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whatever ideas are implemented. As we discussed on Tuesday, these

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multi billion dollar government programs that go nowhere, there's very

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little follow up and accountability because most of the agency's

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task with implementing these brand new whatevers don't have the

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staff they don't have the depth of knowledge. They don't

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have a way to implement and make these things happen.

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So it sounds good. I'm going to go fix every

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bridge and road in the country. I'm going to have

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got the money to do it. I'm going to fix

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them all. But the way you go through the request

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for proposal to make sure you're not playing favorites, although

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they end up playing favorites, and the way you implement it,

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the way you make sure it's done, the quality is done.

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It just doesn't happen that way. Government does not operate

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like a business. It just doesn't. You could make the

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argument this would tick off everybody up in the Huntersville

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area and other places where you have these toll roads

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and say, well, the private sector, if you turn it

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over the private sector, it can do things like build

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roads and do it more quickly and more efficiently. But

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that doesn't necessarily mean it's wanted by folks. Folks expect

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their roads to be paid with tax dollars, not with

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additional fees. And if you get now the other thing

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to remind you, and I'm not going to dwell on

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the subject, but it's just things to think about as

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we head into the new year about what your governments

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can and can't do, and what political parties claim that

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they can promise you but that they can't do or

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can do. Are that great projects from the past one

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hundred years that in some way got done. Like if

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you were to go through the Blue Ridge Parkway and

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you see the lynvill Aca Viaduct, that's a beautiful piece

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of engineering. It's the way that that bridge wraps around

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the side of the mountain. It's absolutely picturesque. It's an

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amazing piece of engineering. It's very nice. You probably couldn't

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build that today because of environmental regulations and concerns. If

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you were to go down to the coast and look

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at the Inner Coastal Waterway where you can stay inland,

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you can take your boat up up all through North

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Carolina on these inland waterways that were built, you know

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during the time of FDR, these public works projects. You

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could not build those today because there would be a snail,

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think it would be the end of the world. The

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island where I live wasn't an island eighty years ago.

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The it was. It was trenched through like the Panama

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Canal on the backside of this what is now an island,

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and that's the inner coastal water right the ICW. You

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could not build that today, couldn't build it, and so

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government can both serve. It is as much a hindrance

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as it is a help. In many ways, it doesn't.

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It often stands the way if you were in the

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Raleigh area the belt line. The reason the belt line

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wasn't completed in a timely manner. It still isn't completed.

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But the south side of it around Raleigh carry that area.

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that you can get around Raleigh without having to go

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into Raleigh or through Raleigh. Is there what there was

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a snail? There was a snail or a clam or

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something like that that that was a question in a

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very small area of that beltline. Couldn't do it? Not

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gonna happen. Wouldn't be prudent not going to go through there?

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And there was it was. It was. It made the

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project soar in price. And by the way, this is

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all a toll road around that. So part of the

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bett if around the outer belt line of Raleigh, part

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of it is toll road, and part of it free,

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or part of it is taxpayer funded, and part of

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it is taxpayer funded plus tolls just the way you're

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And so if you question that, you go, why is that? Well,

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there are a million reasons, many of which are political,

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that you just don't know the answer to. And I

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can't tell you because I'm not gonna take the time

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to figure out, because that only go on it once

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or twice a year. When I go around Charlotte. It's

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always a fascinating thing. Every time I am in and

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out of Charlotte, I'm amazed. Do you go through all

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the traveler? Do you pay the extra a couple bucks

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to get around on the massive toll roads that go

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from east to west or west to east whatever? It

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is always a hmmm, I just want to get the

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hell around these stop lits. Am I willing to pay

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that price? Or is my time so worthless that I'm

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gonna sit in twenty stop it stoplights and offend on

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my global warming climate chained zealots because I'm sitting in

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traffic spending more see emitting more co two.

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Speaker 1: I'll make one prediction. I do think so this is

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kind of a step back thirty thousand foot view of things.

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I think the Democrats, that's the vile and vulgar nature

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of their divisiveness will diminish quite a bit. I think

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the Democrats have found themselves in free fall right now.

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I think many of the things that they have wanted

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to accomplish for a while under the auspices of their

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battling bigotry. They're battling homophobia and transphobia and race and

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men and women and dividing them and saying, this group's

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out to get you. I think they overplayed that hand

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for the past I don't know, forever, and it's finally

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come home. And when they see the number of minorities

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that have supported Trump, they see the number of Hispanics

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that they cross the the number of union members that

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cross the isle, number of women, the number of young

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people that cross the aisle, I think it leads the

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Democrats down a very dark reconciliation with themselves until they

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look in the mirror and realize that they are the

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ones in trouble. There's no there's no maturing right now.

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There's no humility. Not that I mean there are people.

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There are people that have said that. I mean there

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are a number of Democrats that have said, hey, let's

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look even Bill Mars, like, hey, it's us, It's our problem.

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But there's the tone deafness of CNN and MSNBC and

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many others to say, hey, we're we were wrong, We're

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still wrong on these issues. So I think there's going

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to be a great degree of competence. Now that doesn't

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mean that there still aren't going to be, you know,

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in Napoleonic terms, the old guard that's going to constantly

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and then they get surrounded and obliterated. Politically speaking, there's

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one of those right now at the Hill. There's a

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column this morning in the Hill. And I remember, you

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and the New York Times had written a column about

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that the virgin birth wasn't a virgin birth, and it

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was she was raved, or it was a it was

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a Roman guard that was the father of Jesus, and

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and just the timing of it. You would never see

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the New York Times do that against Muhammed. You would

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not say Old Mohammed was a fraud the bringing you

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when they when he dreamed that Israel picked up and

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came to him, it never happened. You know, they would

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never write that kind of stuff because it would incite

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that group that they know isn't tolerant, but it's okay

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and it's trendy, and it's hip to go out and

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bash Christians for whatever reason. It's okay to pick on them,

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kick them, call them names, call them stupid, ignorant, because

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there happen to be many of them that support Trump,

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and so by you know, Kevin Bacon's seven degrees of

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separation or whatever, every anybody connected to Trump in anyway

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is fair game for the Times. I think that's going

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to diminish them. I think many there are a lot

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of people moderates that have said, hey, we're tired of this,

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but it doesn't mean the old Guard isn't still out

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there and they're going to be pushing. And one of

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those was today there's these Evan Davis and David Shulty,

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they both wrote their former Yell Law Review. Guys there.

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They're Obama acolytes, they're they're they're hardcore demns, and they're

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the ones on the field of battle as the troops

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are retreating and what's left of the Old Guard is

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on the field, they're staying behind, not realizing that their

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way of looking at the world is not is not accurate,

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that their way of looking at things is not coherent.

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And so their column is Congress, then you're not gonna

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believe the headline. This is over the hill today. Congress

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has the power to block Trump from taking office, but

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lawmakers must act now. And what they're trying to assert,

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and nowhere in their column do they admit that any

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of their assertions were partisan base. They're saying that the

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Constitution is the reason they ought not to let Trump.

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Can you imagine. I mean, they admit it's a long shot,

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it's not going to happen. But the fact that they

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would waste time riding this and making this assertion that

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this is what Democrats should do. This would create a

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true civil war. This would be the undoing of DC

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and the fabric of the nation. But they don't care

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because to them, it's more important. It's more important to

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destroy the country. Then recognize that the country's doing quite

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well or will be doing quite well, that it survived

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four years of their bad policies in Joe Biden. So

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they're saying it's that the Constitution can be used. They're

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saying because the impeachment trial, which was extremely partisan, was

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that he had incitement for insurrection. Never mind that insurrection

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was never proven in a court of law. Never mind

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that the majority of the conviction, you know that there

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wasn't a conviction in any kind of but these partisans

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where you had Lynn Cheney and Alan Kinsinger, and there's

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plenty of problems with that. That that's one of the grounds.

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The second contested proceeding was the Colorado the hack political

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five day judicial due process hearing where the court found,

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by clearing convincing evidence that President Trump engaged in insurrection.

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Now interesting, as the Colorado Supreme Court very partisan, very

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left leaning against they don't care about the means testing.

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They found partisan ways to go after Trump, and therefore

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they're correct and the constitution should be used to remove

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Trump from being able to serve. Now, the Supreme Court

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looked at it and said that that doesn't even have standing,

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that the federal offer, that the federal legislation was required

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to enforce that section of the Constitution, that the Colorado

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courts had no right. But this is interesting. The authors

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of this don't care about whether the Supreme Court of

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Colorado had the right to do it. They're saying they

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were correct in doing so, and that because the Supreme

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Court didn't address what they said. Therefore Trump was convicted

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of insurrection, which is again not true. And then the

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House Select Committee that they referred to, obviously was was

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very partisan in nature. It was the only, by the way,

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the only council, I mean, I'm sorry, the only committee

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that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats would not allow the

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Republicans to put their choices on that committee. So when

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you saw the January sixth hearing, it was a completely

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staged production. And these Yale Law Obama loving Democrats that

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wrote a column in the Hill said, well, that's proof

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those people were so. In other words, every Democrat activist

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action is absolutely true in anything that disagrees with it

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is not. And that would install Kamala Harris would be

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elected if all the votes for Trump were not counted,

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Kamala Harris would be elected president. So boom, there she

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should be. And that's the editor in chief of the

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Columbia Law Review, which is Evan Davis, and David Shulti

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is the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal.

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Both of them are in fact, I think Davis ran

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for Attorney General from State New York as the Democrat

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hardcore Democrat. But I predict that that will become the

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view I just expressed to you about how partisan that

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is and how divisive that is, that that is going

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to become a more common view. I think Democrats would

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be wise, and I think John believe it or not,

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Fetterman from Pennsylvania, the Democrat who has said, hey, you know,

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we want the president to be successful. I think Democrats

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would do themselves well to find ways to make these

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new ideas work. In other words, embrace the Department of

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Government efficiency. Democrats can say, hey, we want this to

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work because those programs we care about should benefit the

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citizens that they're designed to do. And DOSE is going

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to say, look, it's going to recommend some programs probably

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go away, but many others. You want the money to

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be let on target. You think Democrats would embrace that.

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I don't see that happening, but it's a good suggestion.

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Speaker 1: Now, I said, the Democrats are you know, these grasping

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at straws and the truth of the matter keep Pete

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says that many of us on the right say it.

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It's different when the Dems do it. If Trump, you know,

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they would claim Trump tried to, you know, change the

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election outcome all this Stuffhillary Clinton said it was stolen

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from her. Stacy Abram said it was stolen from her.

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She never did admit she wasn't the governor of Georgia.

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She may still think that, by the way, but this

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is the nature of politics, unfortunately. And I think we're

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going to find out more about what happened in January

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sixth as time moves forward, we'll find out if that's

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what happened, because the FED has now admitted the federal

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agents that they had twenty six or twenty eight imbedded,

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but that wasn't the number, the number that was the

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low number, that was the floor of number of federal

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agents in that crowd. So I'd like to see more

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about it. I'm not saying I know less about what

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happened now than I thought I did, but that's just

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the way it is. But this thing with Democrats screaming,

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you know, the squad members saying I'm still going to

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be a squad member moving forward, which means you're going

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to be less relevant than you were before. I think

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you're going to find out more about what happened during

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the Biden presidency. There's already people that are stepping out

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of Kama's campaign, leaving saying, oh my gosh, it's like

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a cult in there. There are people in Biden's campaign

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that people around him coming out of the work. You're

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going to see books, You're going to see columns, You're

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going to see interviews about how indecisive and what a

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lack of command and control that Joe Biden had throughout

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his presidency. That we were an activist run, reactionary group

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of people in the White House. And I don't know

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who ultimately, I don't know if it was the chief

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of staff or who has been making the decisions and

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determining what the president would do, what he would say,

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where he would show up at, and what you know, scripted,

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because when he got off script it was clear, you know,

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it was like a penguin trying to figure out how

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to fix a V eight or an eight cylinder engine.

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So I don't know, it was just one of these

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things that is very clear. He was off the beaten path.

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So the prediction there is that the left, there will

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be more screaming and gnashing of teeth from the left,

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and that at some point they're going to have to

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decide would they rather think that they're right or would

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they rather move forward. I think that there's going to

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be a group that's going to to want to move forward.

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They're going to be marginalized, and this may and again

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I hope that I keep a recording of what I'm

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saying today, is that as this moves forward, I do believe,

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for the first time in a while, I don't want

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to be wrong on this. I don't know if this

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is wishful thinking, confirmation bias, or abstually in astute observation.

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I think there is a startlingly good chance that the

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Republicans if they do not, and they can screw things

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up as much as anyone can, if they act with

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the agenda that's been brought forth, declaring war on wasteful spending,

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that the debt and deficits do matter, that the American

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public exist outside of the DC Beltway, that there are

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limits to what lobbyists should be able to accomplish if

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they go into that. With the rejection of the DC

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insider game, there's a once in a generation opportunity for

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Republicans to actually in control for the next three three

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plus election cycles. And it sounds wha could do. I

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absolutely agree it sounds crazy, but we've seen this before

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where Democrats held generational control. I think they're republic the

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libertarian Republican wing, which is what we've now seen. It's

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far more libertarian, far less war mongering, far more diplomatic.

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It's far more America first. What we should be doing.

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What does the Constitution say? That's where we find ourselves.

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We need to secure our borders, we need to look

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at after our citizens, we need to be focused on us,

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and that's okay. In fact, it's preferable. That's why you

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see Javier Malay down in Argentina doing a remarkable job

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of doing this. He's looking after Argentina. That's his job.

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He's president of Argentina. Same thing with Trump. He's president

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of the US. So his interests our interests aligned, and

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it's good for our citizens to do so. So I

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think there's a once in a generational opportunity for if

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Republicans will not stray and not try to be mushy

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moderate or be a afraid of the Democrats. They've always

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been afraid of the media and the Democrats, and for

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the first time in our lifetimes, they should be afraid

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of neither. They should embrace the anti DC feeling of

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the nation and tear down the institutions at the federal level,

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realign things at the state level, start being the federalists.

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They embrace their inner federalists, look back at the what

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the founding was intended to be. And I think that

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they can have this generational win and not get distracted

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when people call them names, because they're going to call them.

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They're going to try to call them names. You see

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it now when you see the left saying, oh, it's

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President Musk or it's Diveks going too far. When they're

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trying to distract. When they're calling you names, they're trying

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to distract you from what you're intending to do. And

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the more you focus on that, the worse off you're

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going to be. Just just don't let them get to you.

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Just you know, at some point they need to debate

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the issues. Right now, Democrats do not want to debate

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the issues. They do not want to debate things about

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the border. They don't want to debate things. They want

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to find a way to say, look at this poor,

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helpless child. And Trump wants to tear this family apart.

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He wants to kill your children. You know, when it

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comes to the vaccine stuff, you're going to see that too.

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The attacks on Robert Kennedy. Oh, he's a vaccine nut job.

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He wants to get rid of all vaccines so your

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children can die of measles and mumps and every other

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horrific disease ever known to mankind. In fact, Bobby Kennedy

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wants to spray a bola on your children. I mean,

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that's the kind of moon back, crazy rhetoric. And whereas

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what we do know is that there's more and more

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coming out about the COVID vaccine that hasn't been good,

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the COVID vaccines that haven't prevented infections that may have

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contributed to significant side effects and disease and death. We're

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going to fight. But not all vaccines are horrible, they're

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just not. We know that. So and it's the same

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thing with climate change. Whereas the left wants to say

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it's all bad and the Earth it's all man made,

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they don't want to admit that the Earth is highly

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geologically active, that the Sun is too. These are both

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these aren't static things. The Earth isn't static, the Sun

475
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isn't static. It's always doing different things. So you have

476
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to say, well, there's a natural component to the ice age,

477
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there's a natural component to the mini ice age. There's

478
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a natural component to hot times as well. There's hot

479
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there's a natural component to sunspot activity, and even some

480
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of the coronal ejections that happened and knock out radios

481
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and create the northern lights down south. But less I digress.

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The point is that I think we're going to have

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a lot of scientific inquiry debate that's going to open

484
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up this year, in the next couple of years, and

485
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that will be a beautiful thing to witness and absolutely

486
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stellar thing to witness if you think about how close

487
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we came to what Democrats truly wanted to achieve. Think

488
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,599
back over the past year. So you had a guy

489
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that was in mental decline, that was known to have

490
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been in mental decline by those closes, the only reason

491
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he was removed. So they had this odd really early

492
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before the two parties had even picked their respective candidates,

493
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meaning that at the conventions they formally accept the nomination

494
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in June. And you have to believe it was there

495
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were enough people that were concerned. They're like, Okay, we

496
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,160
know Biden's failing. We knew that when he got elected

497
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the first time he told us who was going to run.

498
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Once he's now our nominee, we hit star wagons there.

499
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We've thrown everything we have thrown. I think they really

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counted on the fact that they threw everything at Trump.

501
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They threw Congress at Trump. They threw you know, the

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DA and the Attorney General in New York, the DA

503
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in Manhattan. They threw Fanny Willis sitting and then he

504
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,000
tried something in South Florida with Jack Smith. They threw

505
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:47,079
every lawfair political obstacle in the world at him. Obstacle,

506
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,599
said with intempt, by the way they threw everything at him.

507
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And then when that did not work, when when May

508
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emerges as Trump's going to be the nominee, He's going

509
00:25:57,079 --> 00:25:59,079
to flip and be we can't put him in. We

510
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,359
can't get rid of this guy. He's persistent from their perspective,

511
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,200
like a disease from ours, like the rising sun. So

512
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,480
it's just different perspectives. And so as the contagion spread

513
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and they knew things were bad, they said, we've got

514
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to do something because they didn't count on that being

515
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,039
a problem, because they thought, well, Trump will go away,

516
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,559
there'll be some facsimile of a Trump want to be

517
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that'll be the nominee, and Biden will and we'll be

518
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able to control him like the sock puppet we know

519
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,759
we have. And it didn't work, so they I think

520
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:33,440
there were forces around Biden that kind of made this early,

521
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,319
and I think it was probably the only miscalculation Trump

522
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,440
made almost anything his team made was having that debate early.

523
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Had they made it later, had they allowed Biden to

524
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become the nominee, they would have crushed him. It probably

525
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,480
would have been the same either way. But my point being,

526
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when Biden appeared on stage and had the intellectual ability

527
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,440
of a pine tree. It became apparent the Democrats had problem,

528
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,039
I think, and that's when the pelosis and all of

529
00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:06,079
the other the King's horses and men couldn't put him

530
00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:08,240
back together and said we've got to make a different choice.

531
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And at that point the Democratic they're not the Democrats

532
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,200
realized that they showed themselves what they really are. They

533
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,000
are a committee that doesn't really care about people. They said, well,

534
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,960
all those people who voted for him, you guys are irrelevant.

535
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,079
We're going to pick the person we need. And then

536
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,160
their Dei mentality got in the way and they had

537
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,359
to pick Kamla because they couldn't They couldn't bypass the

538
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,400
fact that she was a woman, that she was black,

539
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or at least close enough. They couldn't bypass all of

540
00:27:35,759 --> 00:27:38,599
these things. The standby might have been Boudaget, as she

541
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,640
at least checks a few boxes. But they their own

542
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,559
way of looking at the world, they're checked box. Dei

543
00:27:46,079 --> 00:27:51,240
hiring practices all bundled into Instead of picking the best candidate,

544
00:27:51,599 --> 00:27:56,720
they picked the candidate that satisfies the inclusion part. So

545
00:27:56,759 --> 00:27:58,480
you don't pick the best person to fly a plane

546
00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:01,200
or be a surgeon? Did they checked the right boxes

547
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,079
before they gotten the cockpit or before they started, you know,

548
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,519
cutting you open? And the American public saw that and

549
00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:10,359
they saw what a shame it was, and so the

550
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,680
exposure was complete. And then since then it's been free fall.

551
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But we came very close to that being an acceptable

552
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,920
way to do business. And if had they won, the

553
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,079
Democrats would have said, well, heck, we can do anything

554
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,240
we want. Now, why even have a nomination process, Let's

555
00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:26,920
just pick, Let's just pick the person it worked for

556
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,559
us last time, Why when to work again? And think

557
00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:30,279
about the stuff they would have shoved down our throats.

558
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I mean, it would have affirmed to them that we

559
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,079
don't need borders. It would have affirmed to them that

560
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the Paris climate, you know, we should go further. I mean,

561
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think about what the implications were. And I'm not trying

562
00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:46,000
to fear monger here. That's what the Democrats wanted from

563
00:28:46,079 --> 00:28:48,319
Josh diin, from your local city council, all the way

564
00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:50,799
to the White House and back down again across the

565
00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:53,000
congressional spectrum. We would have seen these things. It would

566
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,799
have been a fundamentally different country. But it's not. So

567
00:28:56,799 --> 00:28:58,359
where do the Democrats go from here? Because it was

568
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,759
a shellacking and they and regain the House, they lost

569
00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:04,440
the Senate. So right now the only people that can

570
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,680
really screw things up would be the Republicans, and they can.

571
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But let me give you an example of a cult

572
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,160
mentality that still exists around us. Now. You don't see

573
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,200
it as much in North Carolina, but it exists. I

574
00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:20,640
was traveling recently and I love to people watch. For

575
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those of you listen to me regularly, I'm a people watcher.

576
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So i sit in the airport and I'm watching in airports.

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00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:32,559
Airports thirty forty years ago, there was a certain type

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00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:36,000
of individual that you saw travel more often. Nothing. Nothing

579
00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:40,359
to me is illustrative of the success of capitalism like

580
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,240
air travel because forty years ago, thirty years ago, even

581
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:48,039
twenty five years maybe a little more, but twenty pre

582
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,839
to nine to eleven, the type of individuals that traveled

583
00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:56,599
there was a much different segment of society. There weren't

584
00:29:56,599 --> 00:29:59,839
as many budget airlines. Air travel was. It was confined

585
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:04,680
really people who could afford it. And and it's become

586
00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:07,960
so much more affordable because of competition and discount airlines

587
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,920
that airlines and airports. It's truly a melting pot. It's

588
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,279
an amazing melting pot that if anything cuts through all

589
00:30:16,319 --> 00:30:22,359
of the bs about race or spot you know, sexual choice,

590
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,480
all of these things, it's airports. So I'm watching. But

591
00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:29,359
there are things that creep out in airports that show

592
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,359
you the diversity of the nation and also how some

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people do. Now, it's one thing if an eighty five

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year old goes by me and has a mask on,

595
00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:39,000
you know, because you think, oh, they may have a

596
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,960
health condition, they may have they may have something, they

597
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,599
may have some health and they're getting from point A

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00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,480
to point B and try not to get sick. But

599
00:30:46,519 --> 00:30:48,880
it's another one. You see a family of perfectly healthy

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00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,759
twenty somethings that mask up their three year olds and

601
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,319
the kid's still trying to get his hands around. It's

602
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:56,720
all tangle, and you think, what is it about those

603
00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:01,319
people that makes them this way? What is it? So

604
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,319
that doesn't just happen on the left coast, it happens

605
00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:06,759
across the country. So that would say that about three

606
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:12,119
to five percent of travelers are still utilizing this myopic

607
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,279
and misguided mask in way of this covidian fauciest way

608
00:31:17,319 --> 00:31:19,759
of looking at the world and we and it's like,

609
00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:21,480
I know how you voted, I know what you I

610
00:31:21,559 --> 00:31:22,920
know how you feel, I know how you feel about

611
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,920
the climate, I know how you feel about the environment,

612
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,279
I know how you feel about DC, I know how

613
00:31:27,279 --> 00:31:30,519
you feel about a cadre of issues. I know you've

614
00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:33,319
probably defriended people because they voted for Trump. I know

615
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,039
so much about you when you put that mask on.

616
00:31:36,079 --> 00:31:38,680
And it's not an assumption, it's not a faulty assumption.

617
00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:42,519
It's an absolutely accurate assumption that puts you in a

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00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:46,039
different class of individual And here's a good example of that,

619
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and the libs of TikTok, one of my favorite social

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00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,480
media groups out there, a group of COVID cautious, that's

621
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,160
how they call themselves, COVID cautious. People in Oregon rented

622
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,960
they rented out a bowling out and they had every

623
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,960
one mass up, including the employees of the bowling alley.

624
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,359
They set up air purifiers inside the bowling alley, and

625
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,640
they separated the kids from adults. This happened just in

626
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,920
the past week or so. And there's actually video that

627
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:17,720
shows you all of this, that shows you that these

628
00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:22,599
how misguided all these people they live. I tweeted this

629
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,240
and said, this is like these people live in a

630
00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:29,400
sci fi novel. They absolutely live in an alternate view

631
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,599
of octave version of noun. These are cult people, and

632
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,920
these aren't people that decide to be like Amish yourself.

633
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,079
These are cult people and they live amongst us like

634
00:32:39,119 --> 00:32:41,519
a Ray Bradbury novel. I don't know, worse, maybe a

635
00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:43,359
Clive Barker novel that would be really bad.

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Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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so much for listening. I could not do the show

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00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,960
you so much for listening, and don't break anything while

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I'm gone.

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