Episode 111 – TPUSA's Charlie Kirk Suspended From Twitter. Ice Cube and President Trump Team Up. Delayed WWII Bomb Explodes in Poland.
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Summary
On this week's Hot Takes, Matt talks about a new deadline for Congress to agree on a coronavirus relief package, and why Nancy Pelosi is so desperate to deprive Donald Trump of a win that she's willing to allow America's businesses to dry up, and families to suffer to do so.
Transcript
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You all were not telling the truth and you should not be trusted.
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Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.
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Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.
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Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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Nancy Pelosi's chief of staff putting out word that there's a new 48-hour deadline
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for the House of Representatives to agree with the administration on an additional coronavirus relief package.
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Look, there's no 48-hour deadline because there was never going to be a deal anyway.
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As I've been telling listeners to this podcast,
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the reason Nancy Pelosi won't put issues before the Congress that have overwhelming bipartisan support
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is that she doesn't want to allow the president to have a moment of leadership and success for the country
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Nancy Pelosi is willing to allow America's businesses to dry up.
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She's willing to allow America's families to suffer
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because she is so desperate to deprive Donald Trump of any political win,
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But this back and forth has really built a lot of pressure on the speaker.
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I mean, it culminated in that disastrous Wolf Blitzer interview that we profiled on Hot Takes last week.
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And with that pressure mounting, I think Nancy Pelosi needed some explanation to her members
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as to why there wasn't going to be coronavirus relief.
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And instead of fessing up to just the political rawness of it, the political normativity of her decision,
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she decides to blame the administration for wanting the ability to actively issue grants
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to community organizations, to testing organizations responding to the virus.
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And it's just so obviously a red herring that she chooses to identify,
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oh, we don't want the administration to have a slush fund.
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Look, when you're fighting a virus, sometimes you can't go through every contemplated government process.
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Sometimes you need to be able to rapidly deploy resources at the speed of viral interaction in a community.
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And so that's not why Nancy Pelosi is putting a stop to negotiations or throwing cold water on them.
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It's because she doesn't want the president to have a win.
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That says a lot more about Nancy Pelosi than anything else.
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Twitter now suspending one of the most effective, productive, energetic voices on Twitter on the political right.
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Charlie Kirk, my good friend, the founder of Turning Point USA, host of the Charlie Kirk podcast,
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author of the MAGA doctrine, getting banned from Twitter for saying exactly what ProPublica said.
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We're going to post the Ryan McCarthy and Derek Willis piece from ProPublica,
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Pennsylvania's rejection of 372,000 ballot applications bewilders voters and strains election staff.
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And in the story, ProPublica notes how voters who had requested ballots, perhaps in the primary,
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were now getting them in the general and some had requested them subsequently in the general.
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And so that duplication of effort was creating a strain on the election system.
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Charlie Kirk says essentially, you know, the same thing,
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putting out word that there was confusion in the election system in Pennsylvania.
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Now let's for a moment assume that what Charlie Kirk asked was incorrect, that he was wrong in his facts.
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In a productive, free, engaging society, we need a citizenry able to ask tough questions,
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to be able to confront information that is both true and false with the ability to decipher the difference.
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And I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to just totally outsource that function of my life to Twitter.
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And I don't think that they ought to have that role in the debate that we have in the country.
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I mean, literally, this is election interference occurring before our very eyes.
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We saw entire agencies of our federal government consumed with the fiction of election interference from Russia being some major factor in the 2016 election.
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But now when big techs censorship, when their tyranny is in fact a very real element of this election,
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as people are voting, the institutions of our government that are supposed to protect us,
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that are supposed to ensure that there is not an outsized influence in the election beyond people's lawful participation,
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And so yet again, for President Trump to prevail, he will have to beat the Democrats,
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the never Trump Republicans, the media, the tech giants,
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and even some of the institutions that he makes appointments to that seem to be doing very little.
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Get to the business of forcing these technology platforms to be unbiased as the law requires.
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We hear a lot of the harm caused by disinformation in our public discourse,
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but is the biggest purveyor of disinformation the political establishment in our country?
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That's the question posed by Jeff Giese in American Greatness in a recent essay.
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And first he cites the establishment's disinformation in the war in Iraq,
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the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction.
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Those claims got us into wars that now have cost $6.4 trillion and over 800,000 lives,
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according to a recent study by Brown University.
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It was the same establishment that gave us the disinformation of the Russia hoax.
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Terrible attack on the public trust, on the institution of the presidency,
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something that distorted and perverted the Congress and our intelligence agency.
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And now we know that you had Hillary Clinton funding through the DNC Russian intelligence assets
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as our own intelligence was reporting to President Obama and Vice President Biden
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that the very reason that Hillary Clinton was doing this was to distract from the fears that she had
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over political vulnerability caused by her email scandal server.
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Giese also cites the false narratives that continue to try to target and demonize law enforcement in our country
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That same false narrative continues to be advanced by the establishment in media,
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an endeavor that seeks to have us all believe that our country is intractably racist,
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that America's founding is not virtuous, it is not something to be honored,
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but it should be something we all share a great deal of shame in.
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And I'm certainly not ashamed of America, and I'm glad Jeff Giese isn't either.
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I'm glad that we view that not as a narrative to adopt, but as one that in fact is false.
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And then you get to the pandemic, where the establishment has given us information that's been all over the map.
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First, public health officials telling President Trump not to ban travel from China.
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Then public health officials telling us that masks weren't helpful or effective.
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Then all of a sudden they're the most effective, even more effective than vaccines.
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Time and again, the establishment seems to make pronouncements that are a greater function of disinformation
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for the sake of control, for the sake of, I think, you know, whether it's control over our foreign policy
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in the case of the wars in the Middle East, or control over our domestic politics
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by scapegoating the Obama administration's policy choices with Russia and Hillary Clinton's election day failures
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with this Russia narrative, or in fact, control over our history and our beliefs and our values,
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as you see through entities like the 1619 Project.
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Retail sales post big gain in September as consumers show unexpected strength.
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Retail sales rising 1.9% in September, if that doesn't sound like much.
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It is much better than the 0.7% that was the Dow Jones consensus estimate.
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Excluding autos, the increase was 1.5%, way ahead of the 0.4% expectation.
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The Dow Jones also reacting very favorably to this.
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And, you know, Trump always said before he was president that he never felt like Obama was
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enough of a cheerleader for the American economy, for our businesses.
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And whether you like the president or dislike the president, he cheers on the American economy.
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And it appears now that these same leading economic indicators that we saw before the
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capital investment, before the rising wages pre-pandemic, you know, the initial indicators
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that the Trump economy was taking off were these consumer confidence, business confidence
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And really, from his election, that rise in consumer spending that has enabled really a
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And so now, with those very same indicators starting to show, we may see a return to the
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This NBC News has the story that Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple was threatened over his recent
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mask mandate as someone saying that they were going to kidnap the mayor and slash his throat.
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This coming after 13 people were apprehended following their foiled plot to kidnap the governor
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Look, you can like the mask mandates and the lockdown mandates or not, but there are no
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reason to threaten political violence against people.
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So Mayor Whipple should not have to deal with it.
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Governor Whitmer should not have to deal with it.
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Certainly the president shouldn't have to deal with the threats.
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And I think, you know, outward hostility that he has to deal with on a daily basis.
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Let's just all get through this and universally condemn political violence.
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There are plenty of places on the planet Earth where political violence is necessary.
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When former Vice President Joe Biden talks about foreign policy, if he talks about foreign
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policy at all, he speaks in terms of American re-engagement in the world.
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And when elites talk about re-engagement through the lens of globalism, they're engaging at
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your expense often, on your nickel for their own enrichment, for their family's enrichment.
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He understands that for America to be a strong, positive force in the world, we have to be the
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And that means ending some of these forever wars.
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I've been very proud that on the campaign trail, the president has really talked about foreign
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Take a listen to the president on the campaign trail discussing the endless wars and the need
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I'm bringing you peace and I'm bringing our troops back home.
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He opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden.
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And he cheered the rise of China as a positive development for America and the world.
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We've been in there for 20 years, almost 20 years.
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And Afghanistan, I guess it's getting very close to that.
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The single greatest mistake our country made in its history was going in to the quicksand
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We spent $8 trillion and lost thousands of lives.
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And by the way, the other side, we can talk about that, lost millions of lives.
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So we're going to pull them out and we're pulling people out and we're trying to make good deals
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and we're going to bring our soldiers back home.
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Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was recently interviewed by Dave Rubin regarding her experiences
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with Google, the litigation she's had to bring against them, and the impact and cost to our
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democracy if there's not a level playing field in the digital space.
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Listen to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Dave Rubin.
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After the first debate, I was the most Googled candidate of the night.
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When all of a sudden, mysteriously, right at the peak of that time where people were paying
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People weren't seeing the ads that we wanted them to see was the bottom line.
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And then once that peak period passed, our account was magically reinstated.
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And to this day, we still have not gotten any kind of meaningful or even an attempt to
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provide a satisfactory explanation for it, which just points to the need for change.
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We filed this lawsuit, not just because of what happened there, but because of the kind
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of power that Google has as this huge tech monopoly to interfere in our public discourse
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and really how they can impact our fair elections.
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We need to be able to protect the rights and freedoms of the American people.
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And you have such a big tech monopoly with the power to provide undue influence, both
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through their algorithms as well as suppressing people's freedom of speech.
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And if this can be done to me as a member of Congress running for the highest office in
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the land, that means it can be done to anyone running for any office anywhere in the country
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and can be done to any individual in this country.
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This should be a wake up call that if members of Congress, if presidential candidates can
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see their voice fundamentally suppressed and altered in the way in which it is presented
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to the world, that that could happen to each and every American.
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The Trump team has come out with its plan for Black America, the Platinum Plan.
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And Ice Cube is catching some shade over his endorsement of the plan.
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And if the Platinum Plan sounds familiar, maybe you're aware of Ice Cube's previously released
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Now, Ice Cube says he approached both the Republicans and the Democrats regarding the
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elements of this contract with Black America, issues regarding policing reform, criminal justice
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reform, education reform, investment and economic opportunities for Black America.
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And the Democrats told him to wait until after the election.
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And the Republicans actually designed some policy concepts around these ideas.
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Now, I don't know that I agree with each and every one of them.
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I think there are probably a few that may utilize the government to pick winners and losers in
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a way that might not contribute to the broadest amount of economic freedom.
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But I do think that it's telling that today's Republican Party would be willing to talk about
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these policy concepts not in a way as a way to just, you know, get votes, but to put them
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into action because we've got the ability to do so through the administration in real time.
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The Democrats saying, well, talk to us after the election.
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Maybe then we'll be interested in working on those ideas.
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And I'm glad that Ice Cube is showing leadership to work with anyone who would be willing to
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advance ideas that he believes would help his community.
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I think it would be better if we all did that, if people with ideas would be willing to put them
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forward to Republicans and Democrats and work together for the interests of all Americans.
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According to CNN, a bomb dropped by Britain during World War II just exploded in a canal in Poland.
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The bomb was called the Tall Boy, weighed about 12,000 pounds when it was dropped by the Royal
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The Polish Navy evacuated about 750 residents from the area as they attempted to defuse it.
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But the bomb exploded in the canal and it sent up a pretty substantial plume of water.
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No injuries, no damages, no risk that Britain and Poland will be having any hostilities anytime soon.
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Nationalphile.com has the story, Trump supporter hospitalized by Black Lives Matter thugs at
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It tells the story of Isabella DeLuca assaulted while holding a Trump flag by an older white
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woman with glasses on and a glittery bedazzled Black Lives Matter shirt.
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That apparently the description of the assailant, Miss DeLuca did not want to fight back against
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someone according to her many years her senior, but then found herself surrounded by a larger
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group that included younger people that were there to do her harm.
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She was hospitalized, currently suffers from dizziness and blurry vision, and we wish her the
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best following this ugliest and most violent of encounters with people at a women's march.
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Apparently, if you're there holding a Trump flag, it is a different reception than if you're there
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