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much for your support. All Right, So, I do feel

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like every time that I am off on a vacation

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day or a PTO, I do feel like I have

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conditioned everybody to believe that I am sick because I

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don't take Really, I like, that's why I took these

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days is because I have so many vacation days from

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last year that I did not take that. Really, the

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only time I ever take time off is if I

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am sick. So I feel like it's my fault that

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everybody thinks I'm sick now whenever I take a day off,

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I was getting messages all day on you know, direct,

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my text messaging and on my emails and social media,

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and I'm not sick. I went up on Monday. I

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drove up to UNC Chapel Hill and I was invited

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to speak to the College Republicans, and so I did,

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and I was like, well, you know what, I could

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You know, I could work the day and then immediately

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jump in the car, drive up there and do the

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appearance and then head on back. But that's like almost

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six hours of driving. And I thought, you know, and

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I'll just take the I have these days from twenty

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twenty four that I rolled over into this year, so

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I have to take them or I'm going to lose them.

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So I'll just take the whole day off. And then

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I thought, and then I'll take the second day. I'll

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take Tuesday off because again I have all these vacation

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days I need to take them. So I'll take the

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day after because you know what, with all of the

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driving and such. And then yesterday I just basically ran

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errands and did a bunch of stuff around the house.

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So thank you to Nick Craig for filling in. I

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do appreciate that, and for Ap Dylan and Andrew Dunn

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for doing the regularly scheduled live hits that we do

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on Mondays and Tuesdays with both of them. And so

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I appreciate that. Today we're going to talk to Stacy

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Matthews in the third hour. She is a writer over

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at RedState dot com and she is an og blogger

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under the name Sister Toldja, So we'll talk with her

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later on in the program. It was a good appearance.

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They did not organize like massive hamas hole protests in

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my honor or anything like that. Nobody even knew who

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I was, which is how I like it. So it

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was great. The students were great, good questions. You know,

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I think we were scheduled for an hour, we went longer,

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and we talked about all sorts of issues, you know, national, international,

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but also obviously you know, Republican Party. And the first

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thing I always tell any Republican group when I go

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and speak to them is full disclosure. I am not

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a Republican, nor have I been in like two decades. Okay,

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I have not been a registered Republican. I was a

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registered Republican a long time ago. Then I became a libertarian,

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registered libertarian, and then the Libertarian Party in North Carolina

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lost its designation as an officially recognized party, and so

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when that happened, I became unaffiliated. The board of elections,

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maybe unaffiliated, So I just stayed that way. And I

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live in Charlotte, I live in Democrat districts, and so

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I might as well stay on affiliated so I can

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vote in whichever primary I choose. So there you go.

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But it was good. It was good. We talked about

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political realignments, which I've talked about on this show many

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times over the years. We are in another political realignment,

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and this stuff happens. As I told the kids in

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the College Republican group, this happens. And depending on who

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you talk to and who you're reading, there is a

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belief that either this is sort of the sixth or

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the seventh realignment of the American political parties. It doesn't

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really matter to me, like to keep the number count

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at this point, but that the parties are always changing, right,

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They're always morphing based on current events, population and the

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electoral prospects. So right now you're seeing this realignment and

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I can't figure out any other explanation for it except

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Democrats do not want to win anymore. I think that's

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where where I think I would not be surprised if

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the Democrat Party just completely fractures a part and you

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end up with more people in sort of a center

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and center left and or center right coalition forming as

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another type of party, or they come in and break away,

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or they shift the Republican Party. Because it's happening. The

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realignment's happening in both parties. I don't know how it

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shakes out. I cannot predict the future on that kind

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of stuff, but I recognize it when it's happening. I

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think everybody does. Donald Trump has done more to shake

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up the realignment, I think than anybody in my lifetime

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that I remember. It's why you ended up with people

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that are quote neo cons right, that like how about this?

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for president is touting the support of the Cheney's And

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for anybody who was alive and paying attention twenty years ago,

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that would seem to be an impossibility. These the Cheney family,

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they were war criminals to the Democrats, along with George W.

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Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. I mean the people who are

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going in and disrupting the congressional and Senate hearings and stuff.

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These are code pink people, and code pink their claim

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to fame was protesting George W. Bush and the Iraq War.

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So and now you've got the left making common cause

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with the Cheney's right that right there, or RFK Jr.

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As a member of a Republican cabinet, Tulcy Gabbard, same thing, right?

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How do we end How did we end up in

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this position? This realignment is occurring. Now there is something else.

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And I got a message from from a listener about

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this about the fourth Turning. Have you all ever heard

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of this? I talked about it also with the kids

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at the at the at the College Republicans up at

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Chapel Hill, which, by the way, had I known that

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they had just gotten back from spring break and that

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all the fraternities have their Saint Patrick's Day parties? Like

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I was up against some pretty severe counterprogramming, you know.

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But there's a thing called the Fourth Turning. And I

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forget who it was that sent me a message that

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the other day saying that they was it Jason, Let

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me see, Yeah it was Jason. It's another data point

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that we are in a fourth turning generational wave. It's

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amazing to watch how the politics of this play out.

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So the fourth Turning, and I'm not going to go

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in depth on this because I'm going to get into

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the law fair stuff first, but I think I'm going

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to do more on the fourth turning hypothesis or theory tomorrow.

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But in short, it is that American history, indeed much

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of world history, can be explained by four twenty to

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twenty two year periods, back to back to back. Think seasons.

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It's equated to seasons. You have your you start with spring, summer, fall,

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and then winter. And each of these generations, all of

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the kids that are you grow up, and the people

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that grow up and are alive during each of these

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two decade turnings are shaped by events, but also shape events,

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but it's a cyclical pattern and it always goes in

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the same way. And the fourth turning or winter is

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where we are right now, and that's the crisis phase,

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and it comes from external or internal and throughout American history,

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American history, the fourth turning, the crisis is always as

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a whole mark war, and three out of the four

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were external wars. Right the Revolution, then you have eighty

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years later you get your Civil War, then you get

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World War two, and now we're eighty years away from that.

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So will it be internal or will it be external?

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Nobody knows, but the guys who came up with this theory,

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how and Strauss, they wrote a book about this in

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the nineties and they made five predictions. Four of the

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five predictions came true, and the last one is about

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right now the crisis, it being some sort of a war.

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So that's where that's what the fourth turning and the

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four turnings, these four seasons whatever or what do they

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call the similacrum or something, because the theory is based

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on ancient understanding of the same sort of pattern, which,

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if you're a believer, like, doesn't that kind of make

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a bit of sense that much like we have these

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these seasons in our own personal lives, we have these

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seasons in nature, why wouldn't we have these seasons at

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a you know, a larger scale everything. It's the green shoots,

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economics stuff, it's the you know, there's season to be born,

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a season to die, like you have all. It's just

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the natural life cycle of everything. So we talked a

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little about that as well. But again I'm not going

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in depth on this today. I don't have any of

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my notes in front of me about it. That's just

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off the top of my head, and I am not

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an expert on the fourth turning stuff, but that's the

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part of that turning occurs during the third and fourth

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or sorry, part of the realignment, I should say, is

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in the third and fourth turnings. The third is called

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the unraveling. That's gen X, the unraveling, and then the

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crisis is the fourth jurning. All right, So spring is

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here is Travis. Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 2: Travis, mister p glad to hear you're still alive.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, you and me both.

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Speaker 2: I've been hearing. I was listening to you at the

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start of the program talk about how parties change over time.

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It's not really clear where the Democrats are going right now.

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I think I see three pathways that they can take

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one and each one has different leadership in it. One

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is this lady who's a brand new person running for

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state House down in Texas. She got some airtime over

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the weekend because I got into an online flat sprat

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with Michael Flynn. Sarah McGee's her name, and basically her

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approach is all this wocism stuff that Republicans attacks attack

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Democrats for. It never happened. It's all just made up

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by right wing extremists. That's one pathway, just say clean slate.

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All that was fake move forward. Another is a lot

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I guess you thought like, yeah, it's.

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Speaker 1: Just lie right, Okay, I got you, okay lying.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, but hey, if realism is your thing, then

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you probably didn't think that Biden was, you know, the

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sharpest present anyway. Yeah, Fetterman offers this kind of middle

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America approach that's uh, yes, we did embrace all that

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crazy stuff, but it really didn't make sense, right, Maybe

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Seth Molten's in that camp, and then.

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Speaker 1: Sort of a disavowal approach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but really you know, acknowledging that it happened, but

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it wasn't really productive, right, So.

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Speaker 1: We need to move on from that, and we need

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to re focus on like working class middle Americans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like what Democrats used to be, like Clinton Party

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or And the third is AOC, which is like, I

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don't know where you what that is? Is that insane

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what Biden did?

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Speaker 1: No, it's the insane track, the insane track.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, as an aside, you know, she

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said that she's gonna she's gonna do town halls and

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red districts to kind of get a feel of what

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they think. I have been to town halls in red district.

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She knows who shows up most of the time, indivisible activists. Right,

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She's going to come away from these red these red districts,

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going man, conservatives love left wing policy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, So I think, uh no, I think

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you've I think you've outlined a pretty plausible scenario. These

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three options. The it didn't happen, the it did happen,

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but it was it was bad and we shouldn't keep

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doing it, or the it did happen and we're going

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to double down and keep on doing more of it.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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like I don't know who this person is, Sarah McGee,

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but I'll have to look into her. I think the

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problem with the the Fetterman track is that I don't know.

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and I cited all the time, which is that conservatives

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vote their principles and leftists vote their principles, but liberals

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do not vote their principles. Liberals will vote for the leftists.

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And I think that's the problem inside the Democrat Party

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right now, and it's why you're seeing this fracturing occur,

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because the liberals cannot stand up to the leftist because

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that would mean they have to admit that they're actually

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a little bit closer to the Conservatives than they want

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to acknowledge.

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Speaker 2: And who even is that person who can carry the

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torch for the liberals and the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question too, Travis.

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It didn't happen, it did happen, but where you should

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change it or the let's do more of it? Those

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more transparent. Immigration and Customs enforcement arrests since President Donald

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of twenty twenty four. Oh really, who could have seen

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that coming? Aside from what the majority of voters in

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the last election. The Agency ICE reported these numbers today

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while saying the Biden administration had been or sorry last week.

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they say the Biden administration had been cooking the books

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regarding the numbers, cooking the books on ICE arrests.

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Speaker 1: We have uncovered that the previous administration was cooking the

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books on ICE data, said the acting ICE director todd

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Lyons quote. They were purposely misleading the American people by

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categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the

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United States as ICE arrests. You got so you understand

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what they were doing. You got two different categories based

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people who are processed and then released and then another

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category of ICE arrests. And they were counting the ones

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who were processed and released as arrests, but they're not

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the same thing. Senior officials said that the majority of

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the overall one hundred and thirteen thousand plus arrests made

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in fiscal year twenty twenty four were quote passed through arrests,

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meaning that ICE did not take an enforcement action against

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those foreign nationals and they instead just passed through ICE

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before being released into the interior into America and were

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told to report to an ICE office. They stressed that

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none of the arrests made by ICE under the Trump

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administration have been these kinds of passed through arets.

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Speaker 2: Guests.

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Speaker 1: This is this is really important to understand what was occurring,

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so we have a better understanding of what is occurring

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right now with regard to for example, Trendre Arara and

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these violent criminals that were deported and now you've got

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leftist lawyers with a wardrobe change saying turn the planes

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around and bring these violent criminal cartel members back to America. Okay,

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you have to understand this was a choice, this was

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a policy. This was intentional. The Biden administration intentionally imported

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violent criminals from all over the world, allowing everybody to

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pass through, you know, go through the CBP, app claim asylum,

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get into America, just overwhelm the system, bring in hundreds

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of thousands, millions and millions of people over four years,

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and now the same people are claiming that removing them

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is unconstitutional. That's why we are where we are. And

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always keep in mind on any of these types of issues.

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We're going to go deep into this law fare stuff

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in the next hour. Always keep in mind, as James

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Lindsay from New Discourses always says, and I do as well,

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because I totally am a shameless thief when it comes

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to the great lines like this, the issue is never

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the issue. The issue is always the revolution. That's what

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all of it. Is it a coincidence? In your mind?

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Do you think it is a coincidence that the Hamas

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Holey guy at Columbia right that got picked up and

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has now become a poster or child for free speech somehow.

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What's his name, Khalil Kalil whatever? Is it any wonder

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that this guy ends up hooked up with Was it

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CUAD Columbia University Anti whatever, divestment and apartheid, divestment right, CUAD?

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Is it any wonder why that organization, as one of

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its founding principles is the destruction of Western civilization? Do

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you think that's a coincidence? Why would leftists be aligned

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with that? Because the issue isn't the issue. The issue

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is in Palestine, The issue is in Israel. The issue

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is the revolution. And that's what that means. When they

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say that our goal is the destruction of Western civilization,

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that's what they're talking about. That's the revolution, that's the revolution.

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When it comes to these types of leftist organization support

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for unchecked illegal immigration, the issue isn't the issue. It's

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not illegal immigration, it's the revolution. And you foment discord,

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you destabilize from within in order to overthrow the patriarchical

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is systemically racist, misogynists, sexists, all of the ists and isms. Right,

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you have to tear it down, and you've got an

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entire generation that was raised on that kind of pep

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that their country is terrible. It's the worst in the world.

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It's a colonial invading force, right, that's why you do that.

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Fox News a report by Adam Shaw, senior officials at

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ICE say they were cooking the books under the Biden administration.

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In fiscal year twenty twenty four, ICE enforcement removal operations

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made thirty three thousand plus at large arrests. For comparison,

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ICE made just under thirty three thousand arrests since Trump

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was inaugurated January twentieth through March tenth, thirty three thousand

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arrests all of last year thirty three thousand arrests in

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three months, meaning they're going to surpass the total number

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of arrests sometime this week. Of those arrests, I believe

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this is for this year so far the three months,

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more than fourteen thousand were convicted criminals and almost ten

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thousand have pending criminal charges. The administration says the efforts

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are already having an effect, with not only a sharp

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increase interests, but also a significant drop in encounters at

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the southern border. Donald Trump said this best. He said,

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it turns out right that when you know the Democrats

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said he made this comment during his don't call it

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the State of the Union address, where it's just a

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joint is a speech to the joint Session of Congress,

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but it has it's like it's the State of the

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Union basically, And he said that the Democrats had claimed

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they could not do all of this stuff, all of

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this enforcement, They could not make us safer, they could

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not secure the border unless we had some new legislation.

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And it turns out all we needed was a new president.

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He is exactly right. And we said this at the

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time when they were like, oh, Donald Trump killed the bill.

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You don't need another bill. All of the laws exist

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for you to do what Trump is currently doing and

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what the Border Patrol and ice are currently doing. This

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was intentional because the issue is the revolution. Over at

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hot air dot Com, Ed Morrissey points out how Democrats

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seem very determined to land on the most radical position

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possible on a great many things, and the immigration issue

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is just one. Now, he chalks this up to Trump

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derangement syndrome TDS right where he says at the end,

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there's only one explanation for the full speed rush to extremism,

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Trump derangement syndrome. Whatever Trump says or does, Democrats rush

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to oppose it, even when it makes sense and reflects

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the overwhelming consensus of the electorate. Even when it's common sense,

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Democrats will oppose it based on their only guiding principle,

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which is hating Trump. It's why their entire party is

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now enraged that Chuck Schumer failed to stop a bill

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that largely kept the last Biden budget levels in place

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simply because Trump supported it too. Now I would I

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would simply say on this, I understand what Ed Morrissey

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is writing, and I largely agree. But the hatred of

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Donald Trump, Yes, there are a lot of people that

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are falling into that, and they view everything through the

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prism of Trump. And if Trump is for it, then

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therefore it. If he's against it, they're against it. And

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the verse is true too. Trump derangement is on both

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ends of the spectrum. If you cannot arrive at your

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own belief on something, your own opinion on something, without

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first knowing where Donald Trump stands on it. Then you

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are suffering from TDS as well, because it deranges it warps,

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because Donald Trump may say something today and you're like,

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I agree with him, and then he may flip on

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it the next day and you're like, I now disagree

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with myself and I agree with him again.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: So the same is true on the left, where they

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see everything that he does and if he's for it,

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then they have to be against it, and it puts

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them in this ridiculous position of opposing the deportation of

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violent criminal gang members. This is something their own party

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doesn't agree with these leaders on. But I think that

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this is just the hate Trump Trump derangement syndrome. I

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don't think it explains the underlying strategy, which is, as

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I said, the revolution, and Trump is standing in the

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way of that.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Trump represents sort of this boomer era idea that yeah,

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America is great, but you know, there was too much

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government control on stuff and so more, you know, of

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an individualism kind of a spirit, the freedom to you know,

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build and do stuff and make great things. And such,

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and he's of an older generation, probably closer to the

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beginning of the boomers, late silent generation, whatever. So the

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idea here is that we are products of This goes

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to the fourth turning stuff, where you've got people who

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are of their generation. They're shaped by the events of

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their generation, and that's what he is hearkening back to.

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That's what makes him an attractive figure. And that's why

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younger people are receptive to the message, because you've got

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another group that's now coming up, and there are younger

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people that are looking at this and saying, I want

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to unify around something, and this could be it, This

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could be the thing. And you've got another party out there,

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the Democrats, that are telling you that your country is crap,

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and that's not a unifying message. Well, I guess for

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the Marxists. All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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