Episode 1854 Scott Adams: I Bet You Want Me To Talk About Biden's Scary Speech
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Summary
Biden's speech about the opioid addiction crisis and the need to have Narcan in every car and every home, and why keeping it in your car would be better than not having it at all. Also, President Trump has a new five-point lead in the polls, and it's a good one.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization, where everything is good.
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I overslept a little bit, so I haven't checked the news today to see if anything's happening. Let's see.
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Checking the news. It says Biden gave some kind of a speech, it looks like.
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No, just kidding. I got up early and listened to the whole speech.
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So, what's your mood this morning? How do you feel after that Biden speech?
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Do you feel unified? We're going to get into all of that.
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But how would you like to take it up a level? Yeah, I know you would.
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And all you need to do that is a cupper mugger, a glass of tanker, chalice of stein, a canteen jugger flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here today, the thing that makes everything better, including unity.
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Well, that was the first perfect moment of my day.
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I feel like the rest is going to be pretty good, too.
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What would surprise you the most about this live stream?
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What would be the most surprising thing I could do today?
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By the end of this live stream, you're going to say to yourself,
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huh, I woke up all worked up and angry and now I'm feeling kind of cool.
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And I feel sorry for the people who are not here.
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Which would save more lives from this point forward?
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So we're not talking about however many people have already died in the pandemic.
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From this point forward, which of these two actions would save more lives?
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That's getting everybody vaccinated and boosted or asking everybody in the United States to keep Narcan in their cars and in their homes too.
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But the car would be even more useful because the car goes where you go.
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Now, can somebody clarify, is Narcan only for fentanyl overdose or does it work for generic overdose?
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The only thing bad about Narcan that I understand, I may not be fully informed,
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but the only thing bad about Narcan is whether you have it available.
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If somebody's got an overdose and you've got the Narcan, you don't have to be a doctor.
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Apparently you just, I don't know, spray it up their nose or whatever the hell you do with it.
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I don't know how you administer it, but apparently it's something an individual could do.
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And we've got 100,000 people dying of overdoses every year.
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How many of the 100,000 who died of overdoses were close to an automobile, meaning one was parked somewhere in the neighborhood?
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Probably every single person was near an automobile somewhere, like parked on the street or something.
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So if we just said, hey, let's just put a Narcan in every car, it doesn't stop the epidemic.
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But are you telling me that wouldn't save more people?
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So the two things our government should be telling us to do is where to get the Narcan, maybe paying for it, maybe even paying for it, like they did with the vaccinations.
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But telling us to keep it in the car, because China and the cartels are attacking the United States, and you need to defend yourself.
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So you may say to yourself, you know, damn those addicts, it's their own fault.
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So take care of yourself by making sure that your citizens are not dying for no reason.
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Rasmussen says the Republicans have a five-point lead going into the congressional ballots.
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I don't know how much to trust that five-point lead or any of these congressional things, but it seems consistent.
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It seems like everybody is giving the Republicans at least a little bit of an edge.
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Trump quite smartly started dangling pardons for the January 6th protesters.
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Now, there might be some, you know, some of you would have to make an exception for,
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because obviously some of them did some, you know, dangerous stuff, violent stuff.
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I don't think they need to get pardoned, do you?
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Does anybody think that the ones who actually committed violence should be pardoned?
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You know, I'm going to, I think I'm going to surprise you.
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See, here's the thing, is that I believe they were incited,
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Yeah, you can't keep people alive if they want to overdose, that's true.
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So, I don't know, I like this as a political strategy.
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If we just talk about it politically and don't talk about it in right and wrong terms,
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because that's a separate question, it matters.
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But for the moment, is it a good political move?
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I think yes, because I don't see anybody voting against Trump because of this, do you?
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Do you think anybody would vote against Trump solely because of the January 6th potential pardons?
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I don't know, I don't see many people doing that.
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But I can certainly see it being a single point of voting for some conservatives.
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Because when I heard that, you know what the first thing I thought was?
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Because then I wouldn't be voting for Trump, would I?
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Basically, it would give me a way to vote for citizens.
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If Trump says I'll give a pardon to all of them,
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or the ones who didn't do violent stuff, let's say, whatever it is,
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that gives you a direct way to vote for the citizens,
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But he's actually giving you an opportunity to vote to free American citizens.
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I don't think I would necessarily walk to the voting booth or even mail in a ballot
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if all I'm getting out of it is the president that I voted for.
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If that's all I'm getting out of it, I don't know if I bother, honestly.
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But I wouldn't feel like it was biasing me if I were not voting for the candidate.
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So I'll go, okay, I'll take the option of freeing these citizens.
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So to me, it looks like Trump played it correct.
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Because it does activate people who feel like me, anyway.
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I don't know if it'll activate any of you, but I could feel it.
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Like I actually was incentivized to act, to actually get up and move and register.
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It's because there was an option to free some citizens.
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Don Lemon was arguing that when Biden calls the mega-extremists semi-fascists,
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So stop saying that he's calling them fascists.
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And then to Don Lemon, I think I'd have to agree with him, just in terms of how language works.
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How many of you have seen the Democrats' video compilation of Republicans calling Democrats fascists?
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How many of you have seen the compilation clip of how many times Republicans have called Democrats fascists?
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Because it turns out that they've done it quite a bit in public.
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It's on my Twitter feed if you want to play it.
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But he tweets, Fox and the Republicans are losing their minds over Joe Biden calling Meg a semi-fascist.
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But they'd never call their political opponents fascists.
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The compilation that he's showing shows Republicans saying fascist policies.
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And they were always talking about politicians.
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What is not normal is saying that the voters are fascists.
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Because if you were not very discerning, you'd think, oh, those look the same.
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There's a big difference between saying these policies are getting a little bit too controlling
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Really different than calling people and voters fascists.
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I'm glad that I didn't watch it before I went to sleep.
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Did any of you watch the Biden speech and then try to go to sleep?
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Because that feels like that would have been a bad strategy.
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I watched it in the morning when I wasn't yet full of hate.
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So I had lots of room for some extra hate to fill it up.
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And the first tweet I saw was a Sertovich tweet talking about a, what did he say, a Hitler
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The speech did, in fact, have a Hitler aesthetic.
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It was definitely a hybrid of Satan plus Hitler.
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But I think it was a sativa, I'm sorry, not sativa, Satan-dominant.
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Because I compare everything to weed, but that's just me.
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So, one of the things I, have you seen the hashtag pedo Hitler?
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Now, here again, here again, we see the difference between Republicans and Democrats.
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When Democrats call Trump Hitler, don't they act like they're totally serious?
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But when you see the hashtag pedo Hitler, does that come off as totally serious to you?
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Even though the accusations are serious, right?
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But when somebody says hashtag pedo Hitler, some of that's fun.
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Some of that's about the spirit of the fight, right?
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Now, I have not been on, I think you would agree.
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Because it's just too icky, and you never know who did really want,
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But then Joe Biden went all the way to labeling a big part of the country as semi-fascist,
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But he's just broadened the, I think he's broadened the game.
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In fact, I don't know if I'll ever call him anything else except pedo Hitler.
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So let's talk about, and people were saying that Trump said bad things too.
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And one of the examples was he said, you know, things about windmills that are not true.
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On one hand, you've got pedo Hitler declaring civil war against citizens.
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And on the other hand, Trump says you can't watch TV if the windmills stop, which, of course, he doesn't mean.
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And I think the Democrats have decided, oh, it's about equal.
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Well, one of them has declared war on citizens of the United States, and the other one thinks that you won't be able to watch TV if the wind stops blowing.
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So here are some of the things that angry Joe said.
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And I will give you, again, a Cernovich summary.
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And by the way, this is one of those situations where the people you need sort of rise.
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There are some people who just stay dormant until you need them.
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And Cernovich is a break glass in emergency kind of guy.
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And don't think you can predict it, because that's what's fun about him,
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is you don't know where he's going to end up on anything.
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Oh, because he was characterizing the speech as basically foreshadowing Trump's indictment.
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Do you think that Biden's speech was preparing the country for the certainty of Trump being indicted?
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But I would agree with Cernovich that it feels like it.
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It doesn't mean it's true, but definitely feels like it.
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So from a political standpoint, this is one of the biggest mistakes I've ever seen.
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So here's some more of the things that Angry Joe said.
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He actually made the phrase, we the people, sound evil.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, we the people, ever sound dangerous?
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He actually made it sound dangerous the way he angry shouted it.
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I thought, whoa, how do you make those words sound evil?
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Those are like the most unevil words ever written in the English language, we the people.
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All right, he said, the Trump and the MAGA extremists threaten the core of the republic.
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Huh, what do you do to people who threaten the core of the republic?
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What would be the appropriate reaction to people who threaten the core of the republic?
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He said, that the MAGA people do not believe in the Constitution.
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That's the most opposite gaslighting you'll ever see.
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Even if you said the worst things about the January Sixers and MAGA were all true.
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Let's say you just accepted all the worst accusations.
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None of them are about not wanting the Constitution.
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I mean, it's just so weird that he can say that in public.
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The people whose entire philosophy is wrapped around strict adherence to the Constitution.
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And they were so worried that the Constitution had not been followed in a non-fraudulent way
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that they actually put their lives and livelihoods on the line to see if they could fix it.
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The people who cared so much about the Constitution
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And Biden has painted them as not believing in the Constitution.
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You know, there are lots of things where you can say to yourself,
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sometimes you can say, yeah, I don't agree with that,
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This is purely saying zero is one and wet is dry and up is down.
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Because the news bubbles will keep anybody from hearing the counter to it.
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He says that the MAGA people don't accept the results of elections,
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They might say that you have no right to marry who you love.
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Biden says that the risk of these MAGA extremists
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is that you won't be able to marry who you love.
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They're fanning the flames of political violence.
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What do you do when there's a clear and present danger?
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Clear and present danger says we're putting assets in action.
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If the president, who's the head of the military,
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Clear and present danger says fire the missiles.
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Extremists who pursue power over any blah, blah, blah.
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Mega Republicans are destroying American democracy.
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The United States was formed entirely on violence.
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That's one reason we have the Second Amendment.