The Scott Adams School - 05⧸13⧸26 HOME TEAM. China, Russiagate, Commie Mamdani, Reflecting Pool
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Erica, Marcella, and Owen are back at the Scott Adams School with a jam-packed show featuring President Trump's trip to China. They discuss the latest in the trade war between the United States and China, the latest on the F-35, and more.
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slash canada i am debatable you guys this is as far as you know i'm alive yeah this has been a
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morning so i got paper tapping i have stories owen's got stories marcella's got stories oh look
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Okay, I'm going to tell you guys something right now.
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hear me out. I deleted that clip off of here yesterday. I just want, I want you to hear this
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is, this is such a weird thing. Okay. I'm going to do it again. I'm going here. Delete. Okay.
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It's gone. I did that yesterday because I played that clip twice already. So I deleted it
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immediately yesterday. Okay. Now I also want you to know that before the show,
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I was listening. I'm just telling you, this is a signal from Scott. I'm not trying to be
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um because that's crazy um i was listening to one of scott's shows before this show
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and it it's like i swear as i'm listening to it i'm going okay this is such a wacky simulation
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because like every little segment and story one after the other after the other after the other
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is totally like what we talked about on our show yesterday it's about like what's currently
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happening like chump, chump, Trump in China, chump, chump, the chump meeting was happening
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then. So it's from October, 2025. And I'm going to tell you guys, cause you'll see it's episode
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3003. Some weird simulation Nike stuff is happening. I'm a little freaked out. I'm not
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going to lie. Okay. Good morning. Hi, I'm Erica. I'm with Marcella and with Owen and you are at
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the Scott Adams school. Um, so it is Wednesday, May 13th, and we have a jam packed show for you.
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And we want to remind you tomorrow, Corey DeAngelis will be here. And on Friday, Joshua
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Lysak will be with us. We love him. Um, so first we just want to, we just want to show you, um,
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here's a clip where uh president trump has touched down in china this morning here's this plane coming
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in that's an impressive plane so that was uh i think that was like 7 30 china time that was
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our this morning so you have him there and then here he is coming off the plane even cheerleaders
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Yeah, he had cheerleaders. Yay team. And so I asked Owen if he could give us a breakdown of
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what they're going to be discussing today and who is with President Trump in China. And Owen,
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if you want to get going with that, I'll just let this roll in the background.
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Sure. So according to reports that I think came from some of the Trump administration,
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They're expecting to talk about economic and strategic support for Russia.
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So it'll include things like oil revenue, dual use components, professional weapons or potential weapons transfers.
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On the economic side, I think they're focusing on trade arrangements.
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Apparently, there is a proposed U.S.-China Board of Trade.
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So I guess he's sort of trademarking this whole board of peace, board of trade sort of thing.
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um but it says that that is meant to help manage commerce in non-sensitive goods so maybe they're
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separating the sensitive things from the non-sensitive um but it looks like they're
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trying to put a framework in place for trade so i think it is obviously going to have a lot to do
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with the war issues going on making sure that to the best of our ability that we're keeping china
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from supporting our enemies and um you know working through a lot of the economic issues
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And then in terms of the people, I can read through Trump's Truth Social post about that.
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I was laughing too because these flag people that were in the...
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I was thinking of what Scott would say, and I was thinking that he would be like,
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if they don't do it right, they'll get executed.
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so i was just laughing about it it's kind of morbid all right so um trump's true social post
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says cnbc incorrectly reported the great jensen huang of nvidia was not invited to the incredible
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gathering of the world's greatest businessmen women and proudly going to china in actuality
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jensen is currently on air force one and unless i ask him to leave which is highly unlikely
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Eman from Qualcomm and many others journeying to the great country of China, where I will be asking
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President Xi, a leader of extraordinary distinction, to open up China so that these brilliant people
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can work there and help bring the People's Republic to even higher level. In fact, I promise
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that when we are together, which will be in a matter of hours, I will make that my very first
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request. I have never seen or heard of any idea that would be more beneficial to our incredible
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you're muted erica you're on mute it's china they muted her hi okay so let's chat about this
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really quick one reason i wanted you to read that is because i'm obsessed that he calls him tim apple
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so that's amazing and um and he he's done that several times which is fun and it's you know
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it's like his little nickname for him um but wow so i'm i'm nervous because i keep saying people
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say that they're nervous about this trip and his safety so you know a sitting president hasn't been
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to china in a decade and the last time a president went to china was president trump so um why is
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everybody nervous i'm nervous because they're nervous and i'm nervous because all of these like
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massive ceos are going which i'm wondering is that also for protection for trump i don't know
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so can we just riff about this for a minute do you guys have an opinion on why people are nervous is
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it just because i mean i don't think they're nervous but i could be wrong no i'm hearing
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people like news people and and talking heads saying that they're worried for his safety and
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they're nervous about the trip and then i saw like glenn beck was like oh i just don't have
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a good feeling about this i'm i'm worried about his safety i'm like what is happening why is
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everyone's saying that. So I'm glad a lot of you aren't nervous.
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I mean, China is an adversarial nation. We obviously have this sort of, you know,
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cooperation, but also competition and that they are considered, I think, by most people,
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one of our biggest military threats. And, you know, Trump is this unique figure where it would
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make a huge difference to how the United States does foreign policy, potentially, if Trump was
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killed and so you know i can understand why people would be worried i can understand especially
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people like glenn beck who obviously would be very we shouldn't be there at all um but i you
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know i think i i don't see a lot of risk i don't think it's likely that china would do anything or
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allow anything to happen just because you know it would clearly potentially result in world war
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three if it did and it would be a huge disruption and bad for them and bad for us so i personally
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am not overly concerned from a safety perspective but i can totally understand that you know you're
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in a foreign country you don't know how friendly they are to us and um you know potentially they
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could have some kind of other agenda in place but i i personally would not be too worried about
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something happening there i mean he's gone even into places like north korea before and i mean
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that that was some a place where we thought we were about to go to war when he started and he
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did that and um so you know trump is clearly not you know having any fear about these things and i
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think um i'm expecting it will go smoothly um i did see some of the lefties and and reporters
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apparently saying that he couldn't walk when he got off the plane but clearly i saw him walking
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so i don't think that's true didn't we just walk and he went down the stairs too right so yeah
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yeah carried him yeah um yeah the thing that i wanted to talk about all the fake news
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god marcella the thing i wanted to talk about is that bill o'reilly was on chris como and i think
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some of you guys watched it um that yesterday he had um i don't know bill what connections he has
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in china but he said that the chinese want to talk to trump obviously trump is going to talk
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about iran and the chinese want to help trump with iran and as we know iran and china have a good
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like a solid uh trade partnership um and what basically bill reilly was saying is that in
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in exchange for talking to iran or you know playing peacemaker china that they want to
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talk about taiwan and that would be the exchange so i i don't know how far they want to go with
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taiwan but uh that's what bill reported so i don't know we'll see good well there's a lot of people
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there that i think will be rooting for you know taiwan for jimmy live for all those things i hope
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i hope we pray and by the way speaking of jimmy lie you guys thank you so so much i was talking
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I was talking to a couple of friends yesterday and saying like, oh my God, I'm so excited when I go on X. Like so many people that were on the show are reposting about Jimmy Lai. Maybe some of you watched the documentary, but I just want to say thank you so much. Even if you already knew about him and his plight, thank you so much for amplifying that message. It really meant a lot to me personally. So I appreciate you guys.
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Um, I don't want to forget you guys don't think I'm slipping. I'm having an off day, but I'm not
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slipping, slipping. Um, I just want to give you one quick animal update because we need to just
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quick do like a little palate cleanser. Cause we were just like whacked at the beginning.
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Um, I just want to show you my little punchy, my little punch monkey. For those of you who know,
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he's a macaque monkey in Japan. He's getting so big and look at him, you know, testing his limits
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with a bigger macaque. He's like, ah, I won't really hit you, but I could, but I won't.
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And now the older one's like, uh, yeah, listen, kid, look how he like digs his feet in. I love it.
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everybody's crying about the reflecting pool in DC.
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Okay. Look how gross. This isn't our nation's capital, right? It's supposed to be reflecting
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the buildings and be like beautiful and whatever. It's disgusting. So this was after Obama's,
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I think $34 million renovation, $34 million renovation. And look at, you're going to indulge
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us all with this clip so this is from cnn there's plenty to take pictures of in downtown washington
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dc the lincoln memorial the world war ii memorial and then there's this folks snapping photos of
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the reflecting pool it's really sludgy up this end and what's in it it's disgusting it doesn't
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it's not right algae it's like smells like wet dog down here you know when my dog came home from
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the stream you always smell like this and it's gross the lincoln memorial reflecting pool reopened
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at the end of August to great fanfare after a $34 million renovation that lasted nearly two years.
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But less than a month later, the famous pool of water is full of algae. Algae are simple organisms
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that thrive in areas where there is heat and sunlight. You have plenty of that here.
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The water may not look great, but it doesn't pose a health or safety hazard. It's really just
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the yuck factor. If it's sunny, if it's really warm, it will rise to the top. So on some days,
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depending on the weather, you will see algae at the top. And it looks like small islands of algae.
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But why has algae suddenly become a problem? The reflecting pool was renovated to fix cracks and
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leaks, but it also included installing a system to draw water from the nearby tidal basin into
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the pool instead of using city drinking water algae naturally grows in the tidal basin plus
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the renovated pool holds less water that shallow depth is a perfect condition for algae to grow
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a bit of an embarrassment for the park service it's really a shame that they hadn't planned
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out this a little bit better so you wouldn't have algae growing after uh after all this time and
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money the reflecting pool is not reflecting it's nasty much of anything lisa sylvester cnn
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so i just found that interesting i just found that interesting um and you know and for those
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of you that are like oh it's a waste of money just like the ballroom just no it's not it's not
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you know it's like your your forward face how are you representing yourself in your capital
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i think that's money well spent um i think it should look beautiful i think it should be
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completely safe and beautiful in our nation's capital. So that, that I like to see. I'd like
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my potholes filled and other things to happen too, but I have no issue with us looking like
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a, I don't know, like the country people apparently look up to. So they're going to
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come here and see that crap. So I have no issue with that. And you know, who else doesn't have
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an issue with that our one sane democrat john fetterman i just want to tell you so there was
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an article in on the i want to say on the hill in the hill um so he just said uh john fetterman
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said stop this hen pecking 13 million this is an iconic american place and was in serious disrepair
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fetterman said on the social platform x sharing a screenshot of the headline for the time story
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get over the tds and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th uh trump earlier on tuesday
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blasted the outlets reporting accusing the times of justifying former president obama and biden's
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expensively botched attempt at fixing the long broken unsightly and unsanitary reflecting pool
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that now sits majestically between the washington monument and the lincoln memorial um trump ordered
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the project to coincide with the nation's 250th anniversary with the completion slated by July
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4th. And then, of course, an education and advocacy organization, however, filed a lawsuit
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last week. The Cultural Landscape Foundation and its founder, Charles Birnbaum, said the project
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violates environmental and preservation laws. They accused the administration of altering the
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historic character of the reflecting pool without following congressional mandatory procedure.
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This latest desecration of the reflecting pool is part of a pattern, you know, and also because they destroyed the East Wing.
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President Trump has done more to make our nation's capital a shining beacon than any other president in the history of this country, an Interior Department spokesperson previously told The Hill.
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So, yeah, get over it. You know, we don't need to have sludgy ponds and teeny tiny rooms and then put up a, you know, install a temporary tent to hold state dinners and galas in America. So that's where my harsh opinion on that. So, Marcella, I'm going to come to you first on this. Are you are you crying in your soup over this?
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you know thank god that we have trump and then he is able to correct this uh debacle of a city
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because the crime was out of control um everything i've been to dc i did not walk around at night
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because it was very dangerous when i went um i mean the the democrats complain about trump
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wasting money but as you showed in the clip there was 34 million dollars to get a swamp in there
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you know so it kind of reflects the politics of the democrats the the reflecting pool right um
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i i just think it's not marcella the reflecting pool one reflects the swamp and one's gonna
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I believe that President Trump has picked a flag blue or American flag blue.
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I just hope that the water in the reflecting pool doesn't come from the basin because as some of you guys know,
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it um there was issues in the basin and the water there so hopefully it doesn't do that because then
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you just have another swamp owen before i jump over to you i have to just say one thing
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you should put a million of those owen are you all right with this story um well i think it's a
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a clear indication of tds the way they're reacting to this they can't be positive about
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anything that trump's doing even when he's just cleaning up the capital and making things look
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more beautiful um they just can't approve of any of it and they're doing that what they always do
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which is to try and instruct and stop anything and i think they may even fight harder in some
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cases to stop the good things that trump is doing because they just don't want him to look good and
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they want to make everything look as bad as possible and so um it seems like it's just a
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clear indication to me that these people have tds and they're just trying to obstruct every single
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thing that trump tries to do um i think you know it's also an indicator of like how much government
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government waste we have where they're saying oh you need to follow these procedures and you need
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to go through all these studies and you need to do the committee and you need to do the extra thing
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and then it would have cost 10 times as much and gone five times over budget and i think they're
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angry that trump is able to actually get something done at a relatively decent price where he hired
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some pool related person to do it at a much cheaper price than it would have the way that
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it was previously planned um and i'm sure they're doing the same thing with the ballroom where
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they're just saying oh you know we can't let him do this but i think it's because they don't want
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any sign of trump after he leaves and so even though it's beautifying the capital they just
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don't want to see it and i'm sure that the arch that he's planning is going to be the same thing
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and every step of the way they're just going to be you know being dragged kicking and screaming
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as trump cleans up our capital i like what jim said 34 million to ruin it 13 million to fix it
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and who complains the loudest and i want to make this prediction right now the new lib selfie is
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going to be of them peeing into it so that's my prediction um because because crying oh so trump
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initially they you know they said what color do you want it you know painted and he said
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oh i think turquoise like you know in the bahamas and then the man doing the job with him just said
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you know we can do turquoise but it is dc and there is a great color called american flag blue
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and he said that's it american flag blue easy so that's how that happened yeah i think instead of
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filling it from the basin they should just fill it with liberal tears and that would be a perfect
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combination too salty no yeah you're not supposed to swim in it it's okay true true yeah well i'm
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sure it'll keep the the flow going between the liberal pee and tears get some chlorine i'm just
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telling you it's going to be the new selfie you'll say they're going to just be doing that
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or spitting in it because you know oh look at me it's like keying the teslas because of doge so
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stupid um okay so did you guys want to jump into a story before i go to my new york story um before
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we get a little more serious so i uh the french are talking about their deer um so if you're going
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to france this summer i know you you might be planning on it erica or owen the police in france
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are warning drivers in rural areas about drunk deer i guess they eat some of the fermented fruits
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and they showed uh abc showed a video of a drunken deer that was spinning around all
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over the place and so if you see um an odd deer just uh move along just watch out oh that's sad
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so will they get like a dui or do we get it who gets it sophia yuck she's like venison's delicious
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i am just so not that girl you can't i don't know if you can kill them but oh no i doubt you can in
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friends you know yeah the deer here will be like car and they'll like just jump on your car and
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crash into you uh you know jersey deer are relentless um yeah uh deer ui that's a good
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one deer ui okay um oh and do you have a a lighter story you wanted to get through or no well so
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there's a a new ai design drug that reduces fentanyl consumption in animal models um it
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apparently works by targeting serotonin receptors um i know this was a topic that was very important
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to Scott, um, given that his son-in-law was, or I mean, his stepson was, uh, killed by fentanyl
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overdose. And, um, but apparently there's a new drug that they say was developed with AI
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called GATC-1021. Um, and it says it reduced fentanyl intake over 60% in rats. Um, so it's,
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you know, altering and reducing the addiction to fentanyl. And they later analyzed the rats to
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figure out what happened. And they said they identified these serotonin receptors as how it
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works. So it seems like it's working in an animal model. I suppose the next step would be to try
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human trials. It says we're kind of years away from that. So it's not something that would
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immediately happen, but there's at least some potential of a new drug that would help with
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fentanyl addiction. So is everyone thinking what I'm thinking? Leah, why don't we start testing
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this on the drug addled people like in san francisco and philadelphia
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be interesting it's a test small yeah i'm kind of wondering how you get a fentanyl addict to want to
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not be addicted that would be my question is how do you get them to take this drug but um tell them
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it's a drug hey i have a drug for you it's free hey with it or something yeah the problem with
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that is that these um people that die of the fentanyl overdose are usually um trying a
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different drug they're they're not technically addicted to fentanyl they want meth or they want
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some some other thing and then the drug dealers put in them the fentanyl in it and then that's
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what causes them to pass away. And usually it's new users, not your average everyday
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professional, I guess, drug user, fentanyl drug user. They usually know how to stand.
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I know this because sometimes when I go to court downtown, you can pass by some of them
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and they are able to stand a certain way. Or if you sit a certain way, it won't cause death.
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there's um oh really oh yeah so you don't choke or whatever yes yeah so yeah there's whole
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instagram pages of what's it called the fentanyl something but like the maybe the fent bend i
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forget but it's like or and there's another one like people of philadelphia or something and it's
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like all of these and the thing is is they want fentanyl they don't want a xanax you know marcella
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they want, they want fentanyl. So it's different than like, I'd say like a college student or,
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you know, kids messing around and just trying to get high. I think the people on the streets are
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like, we want, well, like Spencer Pratt said, they want, what did he call it? Super fent? Or
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it was like a ramped up name for fentanyl, which I had never heard. Yeah. The fentanyl fold. Thank
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you. Fentanyl fold. It's really scary. So, but that's interesting. And somebody was suggesting
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in the chat you know maybe they can put this drug into the narcan um that could be a start
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but anyway that's that's good news oh and i hope that that i hope they find a way to get that into
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people that it works and helps because i don't know how you get these people off of it um super
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meth is that what it was called super meth and you know what um that drug that he was talking
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about it should be used on animals because what they do in downtown alice in downtown la is that
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they'll try it on their dogs and then there is a lot of um animal abuse and especially dogs and
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some of them end up dying of the fentanyl issue there's a ton of animal abuse yeah amongst these
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people you guys like and also also like vicious abuse like we wanted to like give you a light
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story yeah yeah owen thanks it was good news come on we're reducing fentanyl overdose god only we
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could turn it into this like and the animals are being abused and people are dying oh my lord
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there is a class of opioid by the way that's more powerful than fentanyl i don't know if that was
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what spencer pratt was referring to but it's called nitazines and it's even more powerful than
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fentanyl oh my gosh all right well let's see what happens in china come on trump let's see if we can
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get something to happen fentanyl china right fentanyl china hashtag fentanyl china that used
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to be our thing hey and now we don't need hashtags anymore so we just talk about it um okay yeah it
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can go dark quick morgan um so i'm gonna go a little darker
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oh yeah yeah so this this man this man okay i'm gonna play a clip i'm gonna give you a trigger
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warning for any of you people that are just ready to rip your hair out this is the new york city
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mayor mandami mandani i don't know mandani sorry um just listen a to what he's saying
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about wanting to bring Islam, Islam, I can't say it like him, Islam, uh, into America more.
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Notice how he has like this like uptick of using his, um, accent and the words and everything.
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Just listen to the whole thing. I'm going to try to play all of it, but I might not make it through.
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And then we're going to talk about some things on the other side. Cause this is my
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like red alert warning for us. So let's just, I want to get through this segment. So here we go.
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I think of the freedom from suffering that Buddhism teaches us is only possible if we
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remove the three poisons of desire, hatred, and ignorance from our daily lives. We need not accept
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suffering as unchangeable. We need not treat hatred as the natural state. We have the power
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a religion built upon a narrative of migration.
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as for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah
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we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.
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Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange.
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If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger,
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let us create a new expectation of city hall where power is wielded to love to embrace and
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to protect we will stand with the stranger today hang on
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that's me right now that's like that's that's me right now too so okay you guys
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was that is all right the words that the sentiments in the chat yes f all the way off with this guy
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with all of this it is dangerous yes grotesque because you see what he's doing there okay oh
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god where's my signs this is my opinion my opinion is that he's just trying to like normalize what
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he's doing, right? So he's just trying to, oh, I'm just a friendly guy preaching and everything's
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good. Now, I want to just tell you something. Let's look at this little graph here. I'll make
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it bigger. And I'm also going to read to you just a few things about his little Sharia law isms,
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okay? Just listen. Blah, blah, blah. This is not every Muslim and not every country. But the fun
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part about this is that while what I'm going to read you is true about Sharia law, some of the
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people are like, no, no. Like if you beat your wife, it's lightly. Like the more modern version
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is you only beat her lightly, not, not too hard. Um, so I'm going to go through this quick. Okay.
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One, women cannot leave home without the husband's permission. Two, women must cover their head and
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hair. Three, women can be beaten by husbands. It explicitly permits striking. And then it says
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lightly per some interpretations. Oh, and they can be hit for disobedience.
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Yeah. Okay. Four, women cannot refuse sex. Marital rape is generally not recognized.
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a wife's refusal can be grounds for discipline and strict views, but they want you to know that
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the constraints of this are for married people. So, okay. Women get half of the inheritance.
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So daughters get half of the inheritance the sons get. Women's testimony is worth half.
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Also, what you need to know, killing non-Muslims for virgins, heaven, apostates, beheading non-Muslims,
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sword versus terrorizing, stealing from non-Muslims, lying.
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These draw from the Quran verses of, it doesn't matter, but you can do all that.
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um additional common elements death for homosexuality child marriage polygamy etc
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are also standard in traditional sharia there's a couple of important caveats okay
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sharia is not monolithic many muslims follow personal ethical versions focused on prayer
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charity, et cetera, rejecting the state enforcement of hoodood punishments like amputation, stoning,
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and execution. Reformist and modernist schools exist. And the context, I just wanted to tell you,
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this was because New York City mayoral candidate Zorhan Mandami, who is Muslim and has progressive
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less views, whether he personally supports implementing these is a separate political
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question. The list itself just describes a classical Sharia, not necessarily his platform.
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I think I covered myself, Marcella, but there are people saying that he, um, he would like to
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implement Sharia. So I just want to say that, you know, you have to really be careful because
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they taught us, especially when nine 11 happened that you, you have to be nice. You have to be
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inclusive. You can't judge anyone based on their ideology or their religion. Oh, they didn't say
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ideology. I think it's religion. And this is not a religion. This is sick. So I just want you to
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know that, you know, maybe you have to fight and put up a fuss about mosques being built in your
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neighborhood. You never see a mosque being burnt down, but you see a million churches being burnt
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down and this is my opinion just erica i'm not speaking for marcella and owen okay but i feel
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like this is important um so important that i don't know if you guys know michael rapaport
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but he's you know he has become somewhat political in new york um seeing all the nuttiness like he
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hated trump hated him with a passion he'd go on howard stern and just i hate him i hate him i hate
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him i hate him and then all of a sudden he sees biden and he's like whoa like i think i might have
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been wrong and then he's like we need trump back like i want trump all the way to wanting trump
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back to now this clip with my other favorite cuomo michael rapaport is thinking about going
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from public citizen to public servant do i have it right you you have it right um i appreciate
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you have me on chris um your producers are i mean relentless you got tigers for producers
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um they don't play around the bookers they're very serious but in terms of the mayor uh 2029
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um i am running for mayor of new york city i never thought that i would even consider
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running for mayor of new york city um and i will do it with the best intentions and i won't do it
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the way any other political person has ever done it your brother uh cuomo um kung fu curtis kathy
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hokul obama trump the only way to beat this guy is to make it and take it with a new york city
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street fight mentality there's no way to out nice him there's no way to out slick him i think that
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he's the greatest bull crapper in the history of politicians and that's saying a lot um but new
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York City needs to do something. We need to plan right now because 2029 is around the corner. And
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yes, I'm running for mayor of New York City and I will only drop out until I feel like there's
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somebody who's more qualified that could actually beat Zoran the moron. So what's important about
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that is that he went from being pretty freaking liberal all the way to I'll run for mayor because
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i love this city so much and i can't take it anymore so i'm going to come to you first owen
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that was a lot and again you guys i was just speaking for myself so i don't want to like
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you know wrap you two into my grievance but um anything you want to say about this at all
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well i think the the certainly the um it is a big problem with islam
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infecting our our culture or bring brought into our culture and i think there's definite agenda
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within the islam islamist community to try and um take over and you know get control of things
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we've seen attempts especially in texas of all places where they've tried to have like their
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own city and their own you know recently there was some water park thing where they wanted to
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have a muslim only day and and you know they're they're trying to implement sharia law i think
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the governor there has been pretty good at trying to shut a lot of that stuff down, but it is being
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attempted. And I think there are other places like in Michigan where they're a lot more receptive to
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just letting them do those sorts of things. And certainly in Minnesota with the Somali community
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that's Islam as well. So I think we do have a big problem and we need to counteract it. I think a
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lot of these things you walk through in terms of the rules of Islam are incompatible with American
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values and American law. And, um, I think we need to make sure that we don't let any of that
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get into our, uh, our society. And, um, I think Mamdami certainly has his agenda that he's making
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pretty clear that he wants that to happen. And, um, you know, it sounds like he's trying to use
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migration or immigration as the way to try and whitewash it. But clearly he's basically saying
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we should just let all these people from other cultures in and, you know, support them and all
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that. I mean, that's the other part he didn't mention is that it's not just about whether or
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not these people get here and how they get here in terms of legal or illegal, which is a problem
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in itself, but because we don't have proper vetting of those people and we don't know whether
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they can support themselves. But that latter part is more important to me that they're draining our
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society of dollars. You know, they're straining our schools, our medical systems, our welfare
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programs, all our social support systems that we put in place here. And I think the deal that we
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have to make is to say if you want to have some of these social support things in place you can't
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also have unbridled illegal immigration you can't just let infinite people come here that makes the
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whole system collapse and i think maybe that's part of their agenda is to make the whole system
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collapse and um so i think it definitely is something we need to fight um i'm reading your
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comments you guys are so smart you know i'm just reading your your comments about islam and like
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how it's not compatible in, you know, a peaceful, freedom-loving nation. It's just not. Um, okay.
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So, oh my gosh. And they're calling me their ebonic Italian because I said important instead
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of important. Okay. It's important. Okay. So Marcella, tell me, tell me your feelings.
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You know, one of the things that I saw in the chat, um, is that why do like moderate,
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moderate Muslims, why do they not talk? Why do they not, you know, say things against all of
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these kind of issues? Because there are moderate Muslims. But one of the reasons is whenever you
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speak anything about the religion, you're killed. I remember a while back, maybe 20 years ago or so,
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Tio in the Holland was stabbed to death because he was drawing Muhammad and Allah or whatever
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you want to call him. And then there was Charlie, the Charlie newspaper where they printed a picture
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of Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo. Yeah. The Muhammad drawing contest or something.
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Muhammad drawing contest. And so basically anybody that ever talks against, um, that
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forcefully talks about it has to be in hiding or, um, Ayaan Ali, what is her name? She went
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into hiding when she left the religion. You can't leave the religion. Um, it's very hard
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to leave uh islam um so yeah so anybody that's why you don't see that many people talking about
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it because you it's very dangerous but the other thing is you know the the context of this speech
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was an interfaith breakfast so he was i i don't agree with the interfaith breakfast of politicians
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or uh with government because there's a to me there's a separation from from religion and
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government um and sharia law would not would not pass you know would not pass because of the first
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amendment now you can say that in the future if everybody's muslim you can change the first
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amendment you can pass another amendment um but at this point it would be unconstitutional
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and he doesn't have that kind of power but what he does have is he has uh the youth and the reach
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to them to erase history you know because the way that he talks about islam
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he talks about it like it's the religion of love it has never been the religion of love
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it has always been under a sword that is why you see the sword that's why you see swords and all
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all those sorts of things. People did not have a choice to become, Mohammed never gave them a
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choice. Either you take this religion or you take death. So this idea, and to be honest,
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a lot of civilizations were very brutal in the past. There was no sensitivity. There was no,
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oh, are we going to let you choose? That's how it was. So don't do that. Don't paint this
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as like oh you know when when he went from mecca to medina and they welcomed all these immigrants
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that's not true you know so this idea but the youth you know wouldn't know better and so they're
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listening to this person they admire and then they're being led to this idea and the revisionist
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of history is the issue. And maybe he can't do Shirley Law, but he can begin this ideological
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youth movement towards this kind of, you know, because to say, because when he talks about it,
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Erica, he talks about it as if Islam is, and all of things that have happened are so good for women.
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oh you know yeah and i just read you a list of what happens yeah so so he never talks about the
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things that you read yeah he talks so yeah well also you're against the light beating of wives
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i mean how light is light you know yeah i'm against it um but you know the other thing too
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that is um freaky is that you're allowed to lie to anybody to fool them um into like believing
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what you're saying so so you're allowed to like go up to somebody and say like oh no i don't agree
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with that and i you know i think um you know sharia law is horrible like you're allowed to lie
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for, for being an Islamist. So I'm like, oh, that's so good. And I saw somebody in the chat
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said, you know, Christianity was, was brutal too. Yeah, it was, was, was, you know, things were
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brutal back in the day for a lot of different things. And then we evolve, change and grow,
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and it's not now. So, um, you know, this, like their, their way of life, their ideology
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is for them to just be basically the only thing on this planet um so you know what i just want to
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say you guys i'm i'm really glad that we could talk about this today and that the chat is like
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good like the comments are good because the problem is is not talking about it and i don't
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want us to be afraid to discuss this so what do you see marcella what what i was gonna say is one
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thing that I hated about that speech is I speak Spanish, right? I can even understand some Arabic
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and I speak German and I can like pronounce certain things in Arabic that in Arabic style
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or whatever you want to call it. And in Spanish, I can pronounce it in the Spanish way. But I hate
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when people do that. I hate when they try to show off like, oh, I know Arabic and I can pronounce
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it this way to me but i just don't like i think you know he's trying to get you used to the idea
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um so i think it's even more sinister it's not showing off it's like let's get used to this and
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maybe we'll have like our you know our little sharia law of the day lesson soon at schools
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next to the drag queen story hour so you have to be careful so honestly thank you you guys so much
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I mean, EJ, I know you're freaking out, I'm sure. But yes, Islam has messed us up in this
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country already. And go to New York, try to cross the street when there's 5,000 asses in the air
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praying in the middle of an intersection that has nothing to do with their ideology or anything.
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They don't do that in a church. They don't do that in their own countries. But here it's like,
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we're going to dominate you. It's just a sign of dominance. So yes, it's affecting us. Churches
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burning down. I'm not saying who's doing it, but show me a mosque that burned down and I might
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change my mind, let alone hundreds of them. So EJ, I love you too, my little silly goose.
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Okay. So thank you for letting us talk about that. And I hope it's okay if we do talk about
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it in the future because I don't want to be silent. I want to be useful in this way because
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i am so america first is disgusting and or it's patriotic either way um so thanks you guys for
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allowing this little dipping our toe in as a start i appreciate it um okay so moving along
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okay owen um can you give us a a news story you have and i'm going to breathe for a second sure
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so um trump is pushing south carolina to delay their primaries for redistricting so the
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the redistricting war continues after it blew up in Virginia on the Democrats, and they
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spent, I don't know how many, you know, tens of millions of dollars, 60 or 70 million or
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whatever it was, trying to get that done, and that didn't work out, and it doesn't look
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I think they still have maybe one appeal left to the Supreme Court, but there's no chance
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that's going to go through, but Trump is saying that, you know, states should be delaying
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their primaries to get the redistricting done before midterms, and in this case, he was
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focusing on South Carolina. So Trump said in his truth social post, the South Carolina state
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Senate has a big vote tomorrow on redistricting. I'm watching closely along with all Republicans
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across the country who are counting on their elected leaders to use every legal and constitutional
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authority they have to stop the radical left Democrats from destroying our country,
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including leveling the playing field against their decades of egregious gerrymandering and
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census rigging. South Carolina Republicans be bold and courageous, just like the Republicans
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of the great state of tennessee were last week move the u.s house primaries to august to leave
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the rest on the same schedule everything will be fine get it done so um looks like trump is
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really pushing hard to get the redistricting going in the red states and i'm guessing they
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may have a lot more success with that because in many cases probably including this one it's
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essentially in response to the supreme court ruling saying you can't have race-based redistricting so
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they're eliminating the racism that was built into our voting systems. And so I think they would
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have a much easier time getting that redistricting passed. So my hope is that that would swing
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a lot of the advantage in the House back to the Republican side and we might have a much better
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chance of keeping control of the House and the Senate. It probably wouldn't affect the Senate
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as much just because that's more statewide, but I think it would make a difference in the House
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especially. And so I'm hoping we'll be able to get a lot of that done. The courts seem to really
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be favoring all of this nonsense for the republicans which is nice to see and who was it i don't know
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if you know marcello i think it was oh crazy virginia they were like let's change the retirement
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age for the supreme court for their justices for their supreme court so i think it's 74 years old
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now and they were like let's change the retirement age for those justices to 54 which means all of
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All of them would have to go, and then they can just put in new judges.
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It just shows that the Democrats are willing to do anything to get power.
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I mean, it reminds me of all the stuff they did with Trump where they changed the law
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just temporarily just so they could get that E.J. Carroll or whatever her name was.
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And I don't remember the name, but the, you know, the person who E. Jean Carroll and you know, but that was like so transparent that they were like, okay, we'll just change whatever rule we have to, to screw Trump. And even if it has to be temporary, because we know we don't really want this rule. We just want it temporarily in place for, for getting Trump. They're willing to do it. They were, they were willing to just throw everything out the window just to try and fight him.
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and um you know i think this is another example of that where they're just willing to do whatever
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they have to to gain power marcella but you know when i see them as dumb evil villains you know
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like they're planning all these things then they try to do all these things but at the end it never
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works out for them just like they were trying to do the virginia thing and it didn't work out for
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them. They tried to do the EJ, whatever name is, Carol. And, you know, the president, Trump is
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president. So they always try all these things and then it always backfires. So I always think of it
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as a little bit cartoonish. I guess the simulation showing, I mean, to me, it's let's let them try
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They'll never get, they'll never, they will never win in the end.
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All right, Marcella, give us, give us one of your news items.
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So I'll give you the rundown of the news items.
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Iran update, um, OPEC says that it's the least amount of oil they've ever generated since 1990, whatever.
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And, uh, Israel deployed the, the iron dome to batteries and IDF troops to the UAE.
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And so did our U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, confirmed this.
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So basically there's a Gulf alliance between the UAE and Israel.
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So Iran did the impossible, which is bring the Arab world and Israel together.
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I think the UAE, excuse me, aren't they firing missiles already deep into Iran is what I saw.
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Yes, because they've been, Iran has been firing missiles to them. So they've just, you know,
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been defending themselves. Okay. But didn't that, it didn't just start
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with them doing that? No, it has been ongoing. It hasn't stopped with the ceasefire. I think it's
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now we're more focused on it, laser focused on it because there's a ceasefire and you're not
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and other you know and hezbollah i think has stopped semi uh but they might regain again
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that's lebanon um shift has this alleged leak that we talked about right um that there was a uh
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someone in my staff to that tomorrow oh actually okay i i have a whole thing on that because that's
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my like juicy other juicy story okay the other story is inflation rose and a lot of people think
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that because the inflation rose in april to six percent where which was previously thought it
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would be 4.6 or something like that like less that most likely the feds are going to do a rate hike
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instead of lowering the interest rates because things aren't looking good because of the oil
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issue has uh allegedly because of the pushing the oil and the fuel costs um make things more
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expensive for everybody. And then there's AI babies. Basically AI is helping. We're
00:56:34.320
not creating AI babies completely like robot babies, but what it means is that IBF and
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other very impossible births that wouldn't usually, babies that usually wouldn't be born
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are actually helped by AI technology. And that's really good about that. And then the last story
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is that there's a Trump video game protest installation at Washington DC. But what I
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found that interesting is that they're trying to protest Trump with this video game, you know,
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the old the old video game where you have pac-man and all those things but anyways uh it's like that
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but in in itself it actually pushes the trump agenda like you have to laugh at it because one
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of the things about trump is that he himself memes himself and it's very memable and so i
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found that interesting it's called epic operation epic furious straight to hell and then there's a
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scene in the in the video game is very like 80s looking video game kind of 90s i guess like street
00:57:51.920
fighter kind of style and he's in the oval office and it's just trump um you can tell
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uh it's just him and then there's the office the oval office his desk and then it gives you a
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choice either do order a diet coke for him or invade iran so you can order a lot of diet cokes
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and then the diet cokes appear and then the story is from andrew laden uh he's penguin six
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check him out but he went and took pictures of this over there oh my gosh oh and any last words
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uh i don't know i think that one other story i could throw in is that the southern poverty
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law center is having more investigations apparently about alabama their ag announced
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they're going after them too and says they're basically helped in terms of proving what they've
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been doing by the u.s justice department actions so looks like they're in even more hot water they
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have a new subpoena they have to reply to by june 1st from alabama so down with splc yeah you know
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me. One last. I can't. I'm going to let her go now. But him? Her? I think her. I'm not sure.
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Anyway, Pat. Pat will call her Pat. Don't genderfy. All right, you guys. Amazing. So again,
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And thanks for like letting us talk about some hot topic subjects.
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And Marcella and Owen and I thank you so much, you guys, for showing up for the Scott Adams School.
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We'll get all caught up on the crazy teachers unions and what's going on with school choice.
00:59:47.520
And if you guys have any questions or topics you want us to really get into with him, when
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I repost the show on X, just drop them in there.
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I'll, I'll put in the prompt, you know, if you have any questions for Corey, drop them
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here and then, you know, we'll both look at them and I'll tell Corey to take a peep and
01:00:07.580
So, um, you guys were amazing in the chat is always YouTube rumble locals, uh, Spotify
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thank you so much and as always we thank uh gad said it'll be next week yes he will um so as
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always we like to thank uh shelly and scott for allowing this uh show to continue and let's get
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out there and be useful today and you guys let's have our closing sip as always to our beloved and
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very missed scott adams okay guys love you to scott to scott scott