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This is on Dalton Life, a man's podcast on your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys.
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If I sound funny, it's because I am sick.
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I currently have COVID-19.
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So does my wife.
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So does my son.
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So here's the thing is last week's episode or the episode that was released last week called
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Foxhole funeral.
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We're supposed to be released tomorrow accidentally released it early.
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I already got some good responses on it.
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So I just left it up.
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I was not going to record anything this week, obviously, because I caught COVID over the
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weekend from my throats.
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Pretty destroyed.
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The rest of my symptoms are fairly mild.
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So you know, thank God for that.
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So with this podcast today, I had to come to you for obvious reasons.
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The last 24 hours have been absolutely insane.
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My voice is going to break.
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Okay.
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I know I sound stupid.
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I just, you know, drink a third of my body weight and honey.
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I have two cough drops in my mouth right now.
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I will probably take breaks to cough.
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I will probably take breaks to take a drink of water or something like that.
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Just deal with it.
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And no, my opinions have not changed about COVID-19 now that I have it now that my family
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has it.
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We're all healthy.
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You know, as of right now, none of the symptoms have gotten any worse.
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We don't have underlying pre-existing conditions.
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So we should not shut down the entire economy for this.
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Last time I had the flu, it was certainly way worse than this.
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My throat was way worse.
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Last time I had a strep throat.
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It is what it is.
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I'm not talking about COVID-19.
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I'm talking about perhaps the worst 24 hours in the history of the Republican Party in
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the United States.
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And you guys know that I don't like to hedge anything that I say.
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Okay.
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I like to figure out my philosophy on something that I like to go.
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Okay.
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And every now and then, that means I got to eat some crow and remove my foot from my mouth.
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The only reason I'm using the word perhaps to hedge my bets here is because my brain
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has been in a state of [inaudible] off for the last two or so hours watching what I've been
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watching happening in my country.
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And I'm saying perhaps because I don't want in this recency bias of experiencing what I
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feel like I've experienced in the last 24 hours in this country to cloud any other really,
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really bad day in the history of the Republican Party.
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But there's not a day that I can think of from Lincoln till now that has been worse for
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the Republican Party in the U.S. in the last 24 hours.
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So let's begin on that a little bit.
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So yesterday was the Georgia Senate runoff.
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Okay.
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So no one got more than 50% of the vote back in November.
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And so they had to do a runoff election.
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And in the wee hours of the morning this morning, so I'm recording this as of the 6th of January.
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So most of you will probably hear this on the 7th of January or soon thereafter.
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But on the 5th of January, okay, so that would be Tuesday that was yesterday.
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There was the Georgia Senate runoff election in the wee hours of this morning, the 6th.
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It was called that Democrat Raphael Warnock was going to beat Kelly leftler by 30, 40,000
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votes.
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So it was not going to be a close vote, not even within the margin of error, okay.
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Then all the other signs throughout the day today pointed to the fact that Democrat John
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Ossoff would beat incumbent David Perdue, okay, that race was actually called this afternoon
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during some some other craziness.
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And so it just really crazy set of circumstances that this would even happen.
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Some weird things going on in Georgia.
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This should not have happened.
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These two seats should not have gone blue.
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It's very concerning that these seats did go blue and we'll certainly talk more about
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that here in a second.
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Because that should have been the worst possible news in the United States today that the Democrats
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are now going to have, you know, basically a majority of the Senate because it's a 50/50
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split now, which means vice president Kamala Harris, again, just threw up in my mouth,
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is going to be the deciding vote on any legislation that is tied 50/50, 49/49, 48/48, whatever,
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she's going to be the deciding vote.
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So basically Democrats have a majority that should be the worst possible news, especially
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for the Republican Party.
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But no, you idiots had to go out and make it worse somehow, somehow.
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So earlier today, Donald Trump held a rally in D.C., you know, there were tens of thousands
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of people there and I thought that was going to be the story of the day.
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They were basically going to do this rally and then, you know, the electoral college was
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going to move forward.
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They were going to certify the results and, you know, Trump got to have his rally, but
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the results were certified.
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The constitution's all good to go, whatever, whatever.
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At the Trump rally, Trump said that we will never concede and, you know, he did his kind
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of normal thing, you know, never admit in public that you lost or something like that.
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That's kind of a Trump thing, right?
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But then in the afternoon, they began the process of certifying the results of the electoral
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college inside the Capitol and then all hell broke loose.
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People started storming the barricades.
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They started storming the building.
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There was a woman that was shot.
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There was a report of an IED at the Capitol.
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It was chaos, frankly, chaos all over the place.
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There were pictures of people in Nancy Pelosi's office taking pictures in her chair.
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There was someone sitting at where basically the speaker of the house or the head of the
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Senate, the parliamentarian, somebody basically they were taking seats in there.
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There was a few dozen people kind of walking around the Senate chambers.
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To be honest, it struck me of like a terrorist video when you see terrorists that have taken
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over these individual places, it reminded me a lot of some other things that you've seen
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with the Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
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But just a chaotic situation, it seems as of right now, I'm recording this as of about
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just after five o'clock central standard time, that there is a curfew that has gone into
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place in Washington, D.C.
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It seems like they've cleared out the Capitol.
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It doesn't seem like there have been any other injuries, certainly no deaths or anything
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like that, but an absolutely crazy, crazy scene, okay?
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And just to flow a little bit, the last 24 hours have been very, very saddening and disappointing
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to me and infuriating at the same time.
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I guarantee you I lost sleep last night because I knew as of last night that at the very least
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Kelly Loeffler had lost a Raphael Warnock.
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And so I was just holding out hope that David Perdue would beat John Ossoff to give the
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Republicans the slightest amount of majority to hang on to that one seat majority inside
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of the United States Senate.
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But I kept waking up in the middle of nights like, oh man, this is bad.
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This is bad for America.
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It's very, very sad.
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Just an absolutely horrible couple of months for the Republican Party, basically the worst
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case scenario.
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Everybody was talking about how the House of Representatives gained seats for the Republicans.
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I think Democrats have like a nine seat lead in the House now, which means the House could
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be up in future elections or something like that for the Republicans to take over.
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But that was possibly good, but that has been wiped out by the fact that Joe Biden has won
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the White House and the fact that now the Democrats have both houses of Congress.
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Okay.
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It's very sad.
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It's a very, very sad moment, but I do want to give you some of my thoughts on a little
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bit more of the thoughts on the Democrats taking over the Senate, but also what happened on
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the Capitol, which is still unfolding at the Capitol.
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I guess my first thought on the Democrats taking control of Senate is what the hell Georgia
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Georgia seriously.
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For decades and decades has been a Republican stronghold.
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And I remember even in the last couple of years, hearing reports that eventually Georgia
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will turn purple, right?
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Because of all the people moving into the Atlanta area and the surrounding suburban areas and
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you know, how, you know, it's becoming less of a rural state and more of an urban state.
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And we heard how it was going to be turning purple.
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And then essentially the state of Georgia elected Joe Biden president.
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And then now we've got both Senate runoff races going to the Democratic Party.
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I'm absolutely astounded.
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I don't know what to say about the state of Georgia.
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And at this point, guys, like, I don't want to hear it about, Oh, well, you know, what
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about the, you know, the voting machines and, you know, what about all the different chicanery
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going on and all the different races?
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Guys, guess what?
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Now we haven't had anything proven to us to make us believe that what happened in Georgia
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was anything other than another victory for Democrats.
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That's all we know at this point is going to end up looking like John Ossoff is going
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to win by several thousand votes, Raphael Warnock, by tens of thousands of votes.
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These were not especially close elections.
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But the next thought that I want to kind of go into is Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff
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might seem like they are a different type of person being elected in the Democratic Party.
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But they are actually the perfect encapsulations of the new Democratic Party.
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You have in Raphael Warnock, a man that hates America and believes that we're a racist country
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to our core.
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And then you have a person in John Ossoff, who is a young person.
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He's 33 years old who loves Marxism and socialism and has never really had a real job.
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He's a trust fund kid and it's just, it's crazy to me because I haven't paid that much
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attention to Purdue or to Loeffler.
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But it's like, how could the people of Georgia see them as worse options than a couple of
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guys that literally hate the system of government that these people are voting under that would
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love nothing more than to replace it.
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And guys, this isn't an episode and I frankly don't have the energy to go into all the concerning
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things about Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff.
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But elections have consequences and we're going to be taking the consequences of this.
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Another thought I had on them taking over the Senate, again, you've heard me say this
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before, but all of you, I just can't vote for Trump people.
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You Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, whatever, I just can't have that on my record.
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Save it.
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I don't want to hear any complaints out of you for the next several years.
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I don't want to hear because you thought you were playing games.
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You maybe thought at some point that the Senate was just going to stay red, but gosh, you
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know what, you know, Joe Biden just can't be that bad.
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Now look at what we're staring down the barrel of Democrat controlled house, Senate and
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White House.
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And before you go back and say, well, you know, Barack Obama had that and, you know,
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it was two years and there was a big red wave and, you know, there wasn't anything that
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bad that happened.
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Well, we can talk about Obamacare being forced down our throats and that being absolutely
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horrific.
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But can you even pretend that those two years under Barack Obama are the same as the two
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years that we're going to be experiencing now?
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It seems like a completely different country because it is.
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I think those years were 2009 and 2010.
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We don't live in the same country as that now.
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The stakes are so much higher and the threat to the constitutional republic is that much
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higher.
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But here's the thing, guys, is here's some of the horrific things that are now going to
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be on the table for Democrats.
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These are just to name a few.
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You were already seeing people talking about ending the filibuster, adding states, packing
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the courts, blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants, economy killing green policies, so so called
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green policies, restrictions on guns and ammo, codifying Roe v. Wade into actual law since
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it's not really law, more LGBTQ nonsense, you know, transitioning nonsense for children,
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racial quote, unquote, justice, the elimination of student loan debt, attacks on religious
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liberty, unchecked judicial appointees, you know, Supreme Court nominations.
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It's not going to end.
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That's the result of these elections.
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So for any of you people that, oh, you know what, I'm pretty conservative fiscally and,
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you know, I have some questions about abortion.
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There's all these different things, but I just don't like Trump.
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This is what you have.
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And I wonder if this is the America that you want.
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Another thing about the Democratic runoff that I want to talk about is before you can say
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that the spate of things that I just listed is, you know, is a Christmas list for for
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leftist activists, right?
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It's not, you know, these are politicians saying that these are just blue check mark people
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on Twitter.
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Answer me this.
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What is the fundamental difference between a leftist activist and leftist politician now?
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Because I feel like there used to be a dividing line, a line of demarcation between a leftist
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activist and a leftist politician, but the state of Georgia, the supposedly read state
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of Georgia, just elected to activists to the Senate in Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff.
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These people are activists.
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These are people that just, oh, they have political leanings and, you know, they believe that
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we can kill babies in the womb.
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So they pretty much have to be a Democrat.
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No, no, no, these, these people are wild-eyed Marxists and Georgia's like, yo, okay.
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Which might show us how how strong the mainstream media is in basically hiding all the things
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about those two people.
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But again, don't have the energy to get into that.
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Another couple of things on the Democrats winning.
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Um, guys, I know the conventional wisdom would tell you that this is just going to be too
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bad years, but I think this Democrat reign that we're about to see this unchecked Democrat
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reign is likely to be at least four years, not two.
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If you look to two years from now, there's not a very good odds that the Republicans
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can take back the Senate.
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And there's not really good ads that the Republicans are going to take enough seats in the house
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to flip the house either.
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And so I don't think Joe Biden's going to make it out of his first term, but you will
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have a Democrat basically at the helm.
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It's either going to be him or it's going to be his vice president, but at the same
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time, sorry, I had to take a drink.
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This is, this is not going to be a quick and easy thing.
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Just think about the people that, you know, how long of the last four years seemed like
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if you were on the, the, the right side of the political aisle in these last four years,
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this has been a cakewalk.
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This has been fun for you and you've really enjoyed it, right?
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It's going to be even worse now that we're on the other side, okay?
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The Democrats are going to go unchecked with their power and they don't have any limiting
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principles.
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So if you think about the first two years of the Trump administration, whenever they
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had, you know, the full, full Congress and the White House, what were the extreme policies
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that were passed?
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You know, wasn't, you know, Planned Parenthood completely defunded?
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Nope.
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Didn't they, you know, basically expel every illegal immigrant from the country that they
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could find?
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Nope.
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There was basically nothing that you could really point to and hang your hat on in those
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first two years because there are limiting principles in the Republican Party.
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There just aren't any in the Democratic Party.
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And the last thing here is, honestly, the Republican Party is now on life support.
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The future is very, very uncertain.
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And some people are like, oh, that's, you know, that's hyperbolic or whatever, something
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like that.
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But guys, the, the Republican Party can't split votes.
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It can't have split support.
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That's why George H.W. didn't get a second term was because a lot of people that would
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have voted for him over Bill Clinton actually voted for Ross Perot, which basically handed
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the White House to Bill Clinton.
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It's a massive issue.
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And I just don't know where Republicans go from here because in the state of Georgia,
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we can already see what happened.
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The people that stayed home in the state of Georgia were rural voters, mainly white voters.
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Those are the people that stayed home.
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They believe what Donald Trump said that the election had been stolen.
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And these people just were like, ah, you know what?
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It doesn't matter.
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Trump's going to end up in the White House somehow, I don't have to drive to town to
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vote.
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I mean, that that's going to be a problem.
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Blacks showed up in tremendous numbers in the state of Georgia, which kind of, you know,
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makes you wonder about some of the gains that were made in the black and Latino communities
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during the presidential election.
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You know, maybe that's just because, you know, blacks couldn't get behind Purdue or
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Leffler or something like that, but it's a concerning thing looking at the Republican
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Party and how things are going to improve in the future because when you have someone
16:38
that's such a lightning rod, but also someone that garnered such tremendous support as Donald
16:42
Trump, I don't see that in another candidate that we currently can see, you know, a Nikki
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Haley or Tim Scott or Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz or, you know, just name somebody Dan
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Crenshaw, even like, I just don't really see that.
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Now I want to move on to the pro-Trump mobs that stormed the Capitol today.
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And I will give this one caveat before I give you the rest of my comments.
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There is this caveat that there is some reporting that's gone unsubstantiated as of right now,
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because this is basically hours old that some of the people that actually stormed the Capitol
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were in Tifa, that these were in Tifa people, known in Tifa people, people that were just
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basically wearing Gadsden flag patches and, you know, car hard hats running and storming
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the Capitol.
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I've seen a little bit of that online, none of that can be substantiated.
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So at this point, I'm going to treat the people that's on the Capitol as pro-Trump people.
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That's basically what I'm going to go for.
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So the first thought is what an absolute embarrassment you guys are.
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How supremely un-American is it that you guys did this?
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Like I'm sitting there with my wife and my son on the couch.
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We're all sick.
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We're having a good time of it.
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And we're just shaking our head in embarrassment, watching these morons, these losers, attacking
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cops, busing through barricades, busing outdoors, you know, taking pictures in anti-pilosi's office.
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And you might think that that's funny.
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Oh, the image is funny and all that.
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Can you imagine how horrifying that is for the staff?
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Can you just imagine being one of the people in there?
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That's not funny.
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It's not even a little bit funny.
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First thought I have is this kind of is and it kind of isn't Donald Trump's fault.
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I'll start with the latter.
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It's not his fault because he wasn't telling people, all right, you see that Capitol over
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there?
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They're about to, you know, basically certify these election results.
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They stole this from you.
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Let's all get him.
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He didn't do that.
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Okay?
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We got to be fair to Trump here.
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But what did these people think?
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Because for the last two months, Donald Trump has told them that they're trying to steal
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the election.
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They're trying to stop the steal, right?
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We've all seen it and they had two months to prove in court that that's exactly what
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happened.
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The Democrats have stolen the election.
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And guys, don't hear what I'm not saying.
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This stinks to high heaven, high heaven, the November election stinks to high heaven.
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You're telling me Joe Biden got 80 plus million votes, a dead person.
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That amazingly, every inconsistency with voting or vote totals were only for one guy, always
19:12
in the favor of Joe Biden.
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It really, really stinks.
19:15
But guess what?
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The Donald Trump legal team and Trump himself have not proven anything.
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And so don't make me hang my hat on hearsay.
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Don't make me hang my hat on.
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Oh, well, this stinks a little bit.
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Okay?
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Because at some point you either proved it or you didn't and you've got to move on.
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But here's the other thing that I thought Joe Biden beat Donald Trump to the podium today.
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Joe Biden got up behind us, his fake dais where it says, you know, office of the president
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elect, which is not a real thing.
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And he gives a message to the country.
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And it wasn't a horrible message.
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And then about 10 minutes later, Donald Trump releases a prerecorded video on Twitter.
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He was not live.
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And guess what?
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Joe Biden's messaging was better, but Joe Biden said was somehow more clear.
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And even though he's absolutely full of crap and we'll talk about more about these democratic
20:08
politicians being absolutely full of crap when it comes to these riots and this mob mentality
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type stuff.
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But I want to play for you what Donald Trump's video said, because I do want to pick apart
20:17
some things here.
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So this is the one minute little thing that Donald Trump put on Twitter as, you know,
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people were basically running through the Capitol running among.
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I know you pain.
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I know you hurt.
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We had an election that was stolen from us.
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It was a landslide election.
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And everyone knows it, especially the other side, but you have to go home now.
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We have to have peace.
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We have to have law and order.
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We have to respect our great people in law and order.
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We don't want anybody hurt.
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It's a very tough period of time.
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There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take
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it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country.
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This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people.
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We have to have peace.
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So go home.
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We love you.
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You're very special.
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You've seen what happens.
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You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.
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I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace.
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All right, so some of you will immediately attach to the, to the go home, be peaceful.
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And obviously that's the right thing to say.
21:35
But on the other side of his mouth, he's still talking about the steel.
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They stole this from you.
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That's like somebody who's stark raving mad, ready to rip someone's head off.
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And he said, you know what?
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I agree with you.
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You should want to beat that person up.
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This is one of the worst things that could have ever possibly happened.
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Yeah, man, I'm with you.
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I'm with you.
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But man, you really should go home.
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You really should chill out.
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And most people can't discern enough inside their souls to know that they should chill
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out a little bit.
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It was such an infuriating message and that's the thing with Donald Trump is he does have
22:07
some very infuriating messages.
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Things are very, very unclear, but he gave nothing but fodder to people that hate him.
22:14
Because he could have just straight up came out and said, this is completely reprehensible
22:19
behavior.
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If you're currently writing or looting or doing anything inside the Capitol, get out right
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now.
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We are sending in the military right now.
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If you're still in there, it's going to be a problem for you.
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Get out.
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We will deal with everything else later.
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But no, he had to say, oh, you know, this is a steal.
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This is the worst thing that could have happened to us.
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But hey, everybody should chill out.
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I'm sorry.
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What a horrible message from him.
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Like he could he had 60 seconds to just not be an idiot.
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And that was his message.
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Man, like he somehow made Joe Biden look like the same one today.
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Like his brain was actually working.
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So frustrating, so infuriating.
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Here's, here's the next thing in terms of what happened today, Republicans, they can
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never again clutch their pearls about Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
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And the mainstream media will make sure of it because somehow guys, this makes everyone
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forget about what Black Lives Matter and Antifa have been doing for the better part
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of a year.
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Including and looting in Portland, creating their own autonomous zone in Seattle, you
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know, the stuff they did in Kenosha, the stuff they did in Atlanta.
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But on the day that they're certifying the election results, pro Trump people decide
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they're going to bust out windows.
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They're going to attack cops.
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And guys, while I was putting up this audio for Donald Trump, the woman that was shot
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earlier in the US Capitol, she's dead now.
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She died like I don't understand.
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Like I don't know what happened with this woman.
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I don't know who shot her.
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I don't know what happened.
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Someone died today in the US Capitol because of thousands of people think that the election
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was stolen from them, even though we haven't seen the evidence to prove that we haven't
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seen the smoking gun yet.
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And here we are.
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Because you know what I said, like I was sitting in downtown Austin, the week of the
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election, while they were boarding up all these streets and all these businesses in
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downtown.
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And I'm saying, yeah, they're not boring this up because of Trump people.
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They're obviously boarding this up in case Trump wins, because you know, it's going to
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be Antifa and Joe Biden, people are going to be destroying everything.
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And then this happens.
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I can never make that argument again because of these idiots, these morons.
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Trump supporters have lost the high ground.
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Republicans have lost the high ground in an instant.
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It's absolutely infuriating.
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But speaking in the mainstream media, because obviously they're never going to let Republicans
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live this down.
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Every Republican that runs for election for the next 50 years is going to have to give
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their opinion as to what happened this day to the mainstream media.
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You can miss me with all your outrage about this.
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You know why?
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Because the protests were mostly peaceful.
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Because I heard all last year about the mostly peaceful protests where people were dying,
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where businesses were destroyed, where lives were destroyed, but it was mostly peaceful.
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Was this not mostly peaceful today?
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There were just a few dozen people running through the Capitol, spraying crap and breaking
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stuff.
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But it was mostly peaceful.
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The outrage that I'm seeing from the media, from CNN, from MSNBC, by Blue Checkmark, people
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on Twitter, by Democrats today, save it.
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I don't want to hear it.
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Because the reason why you never decried Black Lives Matter and Antifa is because you liked
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their style of writing.
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You agree with their point of view.
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And even if you don't, you know that they're useful because you knew that this was somehow
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going to help you in the next election.
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And those are your voters.
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Those are your people.
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And you don't want to [inaudible] off your people.
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So miss me with that.
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I'm out.
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I don't care about your opinion on this.
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I don't.
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And here's the other thing.
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This is a concerning thing for Republicans.
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All the people that stormed the Capitol today.
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All the people that just showed up to the Capitol today, even the ones that were peaceful,
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which were the overwhelming majority of them, these people will only vote for Donald Trump.
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And that is terrible for Republicans.
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Republicans have won one popular vote in like the last 30 years.
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And I think it was the second time George Bush run when it ran whenever he beat John
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Kerry.
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Okay.
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So the Electoral College, they need it.
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They need every single vote they can possibly get, right?
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But this is the problem.
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Donald Trump's campaign for 2024 starts the day that Joe Biden is inaugurated.
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And he will suck the energy and the focus out of the room for anybody else.
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And those people today are only going to vote for Trump, because here's the thing.
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For me, as not a big time Trump supporter, I decided to vote for him this year because
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it was either Trump or Joe Biden.
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Those are my two options, my two legitimate options this year.
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So I took Trump, but we have more options in 2024.
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We don't just have Donald Trump.
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We have a myriad of other people.
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Okay.
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I'm not going to name them.
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I've named them in previous episodes and we're going to see people emerge and come in and
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whatever.
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We're going to have more options.
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We're going to have more people in the menu.
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But those people today, are they going to vote for Nikki Haley?
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Are they going to vote for, you know, Senator Rubio?
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Are they going to vote for Governor DeSantis?
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Are they going to vote for Tucker Carlson?
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Are they going to vote for any of these people?
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No, these are Trump people.
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These are Republicans.
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They're Trumpians.
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That is horrible for Republicans.
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And you already have Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump and all these people coming out, basically
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saying that if you're a Republican and you're not down to challenge these election results,
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these horrible election results from November of 2020, that they're going to primary you
27:54
the next time you come up for election, right, that they're going to bust you out.
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So they're creating their own little Tea Party movement.
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Republicans can't afford to do that.
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One group of people stayed home in Georgia and it got two Democrats elected to the Senate.
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That group of people were white, a rural people, rural white people, they stayed home.
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If those people came out and voted the way that they did just a couple of months ago,
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those two seats go red.
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That's a huge problem for Republicans.
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My last thought on this here is that every major Republican immediately decried the use
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of violence today, every single one.
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So they went on Twitter.
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They went on the news, you know, Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw, like, you know, the vice president
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Pence, Donald Trump, every single one of them came out immediately and said, stop it.
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Stop it.
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Get out.
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Stop doing this.
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And we never saw that from Democrats and do not let people forget that.
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Because all of a sudden, everyone's going to have this short term memory that all they
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can remember is what happens with the Republicans today.
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But when all these cities were on fire this year, where were the Democratic politicians?
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Where was Barack Obama?
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Where was Oprah?
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Where was LeBron James?
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Where were these people?
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These heroes, these heroes of the Democratic Party, these heroes of progressivism?
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Where were they?
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You know, they would kind of give this tongue in cheek out.
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You know, we don't agree with violence and you really shouldn't hurt people, but we understand,
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you know, with all the systemic racism and we understand the bubble.
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They would basically in one side, they'd say, you know, we probably shouldn't be doing this
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on their side.
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It's like, yeah, but we get it, but we can't let people forget that Republicans came out
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immediately and said, this isn't how we do things.
29:43
I don't know if a single Republican right now, a single one, even even in my friends
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that are happy about what happened today, like, so it's such an embarrassing thing.
29:53
But I do have a parting message here because I have no idea how I'm even still standing
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right now.
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But here are my parting message.
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The pessimistic parting message and then an optimistic parting message, which will get
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us right into the quick resilience boost, okay?
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The pessimistic parting message is that the constitutional republic may be unsalvageable.
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And I mean it.
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I've thought about this and I've thought about this and I've thought about this and I would
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love to eat crow on this later.
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I don't know that we can put the genie back in the bottle.
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The next likely four years of Democrat controlled White House in Congress is going to do untold
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damage to our constitutional republic.
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If they in the filibuster, that might be it.
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That literally might be it.
30:35
This stuff that's going to be rammed down the throat to the American people.
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And can you imagine if this is an eight year cycle?
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Eight years of Democrat controlled house, Senate and White House.
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I don't know that we can come back from that.
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I'll know that we'll be able to come back from the spending, right?
30:52
A lot of that spending did start with W. Bush was blown out of the water by Barack Obama.
30:56
Hopefully it didn't stop at all under Donald Trump.
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That's not sustainable.
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The increase in influence in countries like China over the next four years, the dangers
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with countries like Iran that we're looking to get right back into the Iran nuclear deal
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probably like this this year.
31:16
The constitutional republic that we know that we've grown up under, it literally might
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be over.
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Like we may not be able to fix it.
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We're going to be telling our kids and grandkids about what it used to be like when we could
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just actually have the first amendment.
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These things are actually possible.
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I'm not being hyperbolic, okay?
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This isn't the medicine talking.
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How are we going to put the genie back in the bottle?
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The government never gets smaller on purpose.
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It's only going to continue to expand and when the government expands, it expands into
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your life.
31:49
And I've thought about this, it's like, you know, but where would I go?
31:54
Nowhere else in the world has the freedoms that we have even right now.
31:58
There's no enshrined First Amendment in Canada.
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Like if you heard some of the things that were going on in the government in New Zealand or
32:04
Australia and these other places were like, I could probably live there.
32:07
You'd be absolutely horrified by some of the things that these people are doing.
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But I'm very pessimistic about our future as a country.
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But this goes into the thing that I'm actually optimistic about.
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And that's that Christians are going to have to rely on God because we can't rely on the
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Republican Party, we can't rely on Big Brother, like Big Brother doesn't care about us.
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And this led me.
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This is just going to go right into the quick resilience boost before we let you guys get
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out of here.
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Is the book Take Heart by Matt Chandler?
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So I've actually talked about this book on the podcast, I think it was the first year
32:48
that we had this podcast, but I want to read to you the description from this book.
32:52
And then I'll obviously give you the link to it.
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Here you go.
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Christiandom is dead.
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And that's a good thing.
32:58
The Christian culture that has underpinned Western society for centuries has been eroded.
33:03
We're now at a point where to disagree with people on issues such as marriage and sexuality
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is seen as hateful.
33:08
Christians are no longer seen as honorable, but as bigots.
33:11
But history testifies that the more people try to destroy Christianity, the more it grows.
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So we are entering an exciting period of time because we're back in the place where Christ's
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church can thrive at the margins of society.
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In this stirring passionate book, Matt Chandler shows us we need Christian courage like never
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before and how to live with compassion and conviction, able to look around positively
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and reach out confidently encourages us not to be thwarted by fear, but to depend on God
33:36
and to have confidence that Christ will build his church despite continual marginalization.
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It must read for any Christian who wants to understand how to stand firm and walk forward
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in an increasingly secular culture.
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So that book is a good, short, easy read.
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I think it's going to be poignant.
33:54
I think it's going to be helpful because guys, we've got some very, very dark days ahead
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of us.
33:59
COVID, we're probably going to have a third and fourth wave.
34:03
More people are going to die.
34:04
Your rights are going to be infringed upon.
34:06
Your life is going to be directly affected.
34:10
Your kids' lives are going to be directly affected.
34:11
Some of it without even your say so.
34:14
And I'm so sad.
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I'm so sad for everything that we're experiencing right now as a people.
34:19
I can't believe what I've witnessed today on television.
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I just I just want all this to go away, but I'm not going to be one of those guys that
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just hides and don't be one of those guys that just wants to I'm just going to unplug
34:29
and go the woods and not deal with anything for a while.
34:31
This is real life.
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And if we care about this country, if we care about the kingdom, we can't just bury our
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heads in the sand.
34:38
We can't just like, oh, you know, I could I could read a book about what's going on
34:41
right now, but I think I'd rather read this novel about some love story just so I can
34:45
decompress.
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No, we need to stay in the pocket.
34:47
We need to stay in the fight.
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Okay.
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