Episode 120 – Republican Early Vote SURGES Nationwide! Lil Wayne Joins The America First Movement. Tracking COVID With Sewers?
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The Democratic lead in the early vote is closing, and it may be the sign of a red wave coming in Florida, Arizona, and the other key swing states in the midterms. Rep. Matt Geeves explains why.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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happy friday welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the gap is
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closing that's right we saw at the beginning of this election cycle as mail-in ballots were being
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sent and as democrats were returning them at a far more rapid pace than republicans you saw cnn and
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in particular politico describing an insurmountable democratic lead in the early vote an expectation
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that joe biden might in fact have the enthusiasm that myself the president and many other republicans
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have doubted but what we see now is like the empire striking back republicans have been voting
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in person early in a number of swing states and in fact there is virtually no swing state sands may
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be georgia where the democrat ballot cast lead isn't collapsing in places like pennsylvania and
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it's literally been cut in half in north carolina the gap's been closed substantially as well i'm going
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to focus in on two states where i've been campaigning most recently the state of florida my home state
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and also the state of arizona so in florida at the beginning of the early vote and vote by mail
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system you just had the vote by mail votes coming in and democrats built a ballot lead of over 500 000
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ballots at the beginning of this process and to put that in context when ron desantis and andrew
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gullum were running against each other gullum goes into election day with a 230 000 vote lead well as of
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my check just moments ago the democrat lead has fallen from over 500 000 ballots to even under the
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gullum lead going into election day now that number is actually under 150 000 ballots momentum is clearly on
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the side of republicans in the sunshine state and it may be the sign of a red wave coming in florida
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as i've looked at some of the key state legislative races and some of the key counties i can tell you
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we're seeing exactly what we want to see in terms of republicans showing up to vote now if you're
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watching on election night and you want to know what counties really matter in florida and of course
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they all do in a state so close but let me give you a few to look at for some specific indicia the
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biden campaign and the mainstream media have been telling us that president trump has been losing
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support among seniors that seniors don't approve of the way the president's handled coronavirus and thus
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we'll be voting for him in lower numbers watch two counties sumter county and lake county these two
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counties encompass a lot of the senior living that occurs in florida the senior living communities like
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the villages top of the hill howie in the hills those places would be among the first to show any
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slippage with the president and seniors so if president trump is underperforming his numbers from
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2016 in sumter and lake counties then maybe the democrats have a point on the senior vote and that
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might tell us more about how seniors will be voting in other parts of the country i don't think that'll be
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the case but that's where to look now i also want you to watch miami dade county in 2016 president trump
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was probably at his lowest with hispanics but as hispanics have seen the way the trump economy has
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resulted in a blue collar boom before coronavirus as working class hispanics have seen democrats embrace
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shutdowns as a lot of hispanics have seen socialism take greater root in the democratic party they are
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coming our way in a big way so when you look at miami dade county watch to see where joe biden is on
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his percentage of the vote relative to hillary clinton if when those east coast numbers come in
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you see joe biden substantially behind where hillary clinton was at that time that is bad news for joe biden
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in texas in arizona in new mexico in nevada in other places where hispanics make up a substantial
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portion of the electorate now let's move to arizona so in arizona democrats had built a ballot lead over
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130 000 that has been cut substantially now i believe it's under 50 000 but the real story in
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arizona is that over 80 percent of high propensity voting democrats have already voted whereas only 65
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of high propensity republicans have voted that tells us that there's more meat on the bone left for
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republicans on election day there's a greater pool of election day voters and in a state that could be
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decided by 10 or 20 000 votes that could end up being very significant now usually democrats do quite
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well in maricopa county republicans have to make up with big margins in pinel county in mojave county
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i spent some time in pinel county i could tell you that there's a lot of enthusiasm there
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big crowds so it'll be a numbers game a turnout game will folks really show up to vote in the desert
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out in the more rural areas of arizona to counteract any losses that are taken in maricopa county
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i think it's going to happen all the trajectory all the momentum all the numbers showing that it could be
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are you the kind of person that will cancel a friend over their political views i'm sure not
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i have friends who are republicans democrats independents i have friends who are so apolitical
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that merely the mention of politics makes them want to run for the hills i think there are a lot of
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things about a person that indicate whether or not they're a good person more than politics
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are you a good family member are you a good friend are you kind and do you nurture others
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do you demean people or do you build them up but for cnn host don lemon i guess if someone's a trump
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supporter i guess if they are looking at information and seeing it different than he is they deserve to
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be canceled as a friend they're like a drug addict that has to hit rock bottom it's pretty shameful
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take a listen to don lemon you know what the sad thing is and i'll be honest with you
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um i have many people who i love in my life and yeah i come from a red state i've lived in several
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red states there are a lot of friends who i had to really get rid of because they they are so
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nonsensical when it comes to this issue they have the whole every single talking point that they hear
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on state tv and that they hear from this president they repeat it and they are blinded by it and i just
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can when i said to you the other night there's no way they can't believe it they can you know i was just
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goosing you in a way right you know what they say i was you know um i was breaking your you know
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you know it's not like that'll be all over continue so hey but here's the thing um i i had to get rid
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of them because they are too far gone i try and i try and i try they'll say something really stupid
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and then i'll show them the science and i'll give them in the information and they still repeat those
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talking points and all the while the state was a hot spot many if you look at the information that
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we put up last night that came up yesterday showed you how the red states have now taken over where the
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blue states where people came in because there are bigger cities and there's more transmission
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obviously where where there are where people are closer together and so now the red states are the
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problem and i just i have to get rid of a lot of people in my life because sometimes you just have to
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let them go i think that they have to hit rock bottom like an addict right and they have to want
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to get help they have to want to know the truth they have to want to live in reality they have to
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want to be responsible not only for other people's lives but for their lives so you know what i have
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had it's so sad and i don't know if after this i will ever be able to go back and be friends with
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those people because at a certain point you just say they're too far gone and i got to let them go and
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if they're willing to come back and if they're willing to um live in in reality then i would
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welcome them with open arms but i can't do it i can't do it anymore so the same network that wants
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to criticize donald trump for division and harm to the country and separating us and causing hatred
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rather than love is willing to give this clown don lemon hours upon hours of prime time television
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to be able to spew his nonsense and his hatred and his foolishness but you know what if someone
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was a don lemon fan i wouldn't cancel them as my friend but i'm willing to bet if don lemon knew that
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someone was a political supporter or fan of mine that would be enough for him to say that any other
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contribution that they could make would be diminished because they don't see things his way it's precisely
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this type of coastal media liberal elitism that looks down on americans that thinks were deplorables
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and irredeemable and racist because we support our president it's exactly that mentality that is
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driving republicans and trump supporters to vote and it's ultimately going to lead to the president's
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victory and i just can't wait to see don lemon's face when he announces that donald j trump is still
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our president for four more years could the sewer hold the key to determine the spreading of
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coronavirus in a particular region that's the question posed by qz.com story by catherine ellen
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foley and the story chronicles researchers in the state of kentucky who actually find these sewer manholes
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they extract some of the flowing sewage and then they test it for coronavirus now first it's important
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to note that coronavirus in sewage is not contagious it's not something that can infect you actually the
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proteins are broken down but the proteins that are indicative of the coronavirus are still present so
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while you can't see from pulling up a sample of stool from a flowing sewage stream exactly who has
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coronavirus you can test the propensity the frequency the volume uh the duration of the presence of
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coronavirus to determine if a particular community is seeing a lot of asymptomatic spread
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the reason this is relevant is because if you don't have symptoms oftentimes the tests can be limited in their
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effectiveness you don't necessarily see it in other measurement tools that public health officials are using
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so if our own stool can be like an early warning system to coronavirus then maybe it gives us an
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opportunity to capture a greater degree of that virus control it and limit the spread so we'll see it's
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clear based on the story and i hope you check it out that the research is in its very early stages the
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one of the researchers makes mention that they feel like they're building the engine as they're driving
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the car on this particular measurement tool but i'm all about data everything we can do with more
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sensor technology with more data allows us to make better decisions that aren't these reactionary
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decisions that we've too often seen from public health officials limiting people's freedom hurting
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their health through lockdowns constraining economic success and endangering the long-term prosperity
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of livelihoods and so i think that if we can have better tech better data ultimately we'll make
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better decisions for our people we'll see if the answer is in the poo
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glenn greenwald has resigned from the intercept a website he co-founded with several others he's been
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censored by his own website now i talk about glenn greenwald in my book firebrand and in specifically the
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chapter where i write about the media being the enemy of the people because glenn greenwald has
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actually been very critical of the media's willingness to abandon journalistic integrity to
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short change fact checking to elevate some stories and depress other stories based on their bias based on
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their ideology now glenn is no conservative he's certainly no fan of mine he he's both simultaneously said
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that my ideology is the worst in congress while he's also praised my ideology when i've worked alongside
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ro kanna and others to try to stop forever wars and bring our troops home from places that don't need
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extended u.s presence where it's not justified by the risk portfolio and the risk assessment to our
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country so glenn greenwald is a liberal but he's willing to also attack democrats and
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he could not get his own piece published in his own website critical of joe biden and so he's
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leaving i would also note that glenn greenwald defended me when many on the left were attacking
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my family my son the fact that it's not really a traditional family where we're related by blood or
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paperwork but i do take care of him and ensure that he's got every tool to be successful in his life and
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when i was attacked for that glenn greenwald was pretty strident in his defense of my family and
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my son and our willingness to create love and maybe a non-traditional setting so i appreciate that from
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him i don't think he should be censored folks should take a look in firebrand for the way in which i think
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glenn greenwald is an example of someone in the media feeling the pressure to always conform to a
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specific narrative of the radical left it's a shame i hope we continue to have his voice whether it's
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the rappers for trump coalition continues to expand lil wayne being the most recent to join the team
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and of course 50 cent lil pump waka flaka flame uh and kanye have also said positive things about
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the president ice cube as well ice cube of course hasn't endorsed trump uh but he's praised him for their
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work together and particularly the platinum plan we've covered this several of these rappers have
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collaborated on ways to improve life in black america joe biden and the democrats said we'll see you
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after the election to talk about those things president trump and his team wanted to immediately
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incorporate ideas to help black america into the president's campaign and in his agenda
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and it appears that that's bearing fruit look these black rappers have a lot of influence in the black
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community and it's great to see him standing with our america first movement and our transformational
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the mccluskies saw their lives endangered they saw their property fall under the threat of the mob
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and they responded by fully vindicating their second amendment rights they had their firearms and they
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quite literally had to defend their home defend each other perhaps even defend their lives they spoke
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at the republican national convention they were not just maligned by the democrats and the mainstream
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media they were actually indicted for self-defense turning point usa made a compelling video with the
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mccluskies i hope you watch the full thing we'll post it on social media but take a listen to just a part
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when i stood out there on the patio when i stood out there in front of that crowd with my rifle
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i had no expectation of surviving the event it's hard for me to think about it now because
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we would be dead had he not acted the one man with one rifle against a mob of 500 you can't win
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but we weren't going to die laying down and that's what the second amendment is all about
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when the mob came to our door the only thing that saved our lives our home and our family was the
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second amendment we're going to fight like hell to keep it and you can take my gun out of my cold dead
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hands the united states has agreed to sell 50 f-35s to the united arab emirates the uae being the second
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country in the middle east to acquire f-35s the first of course being israel israel had originally
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acquired 50 of these aircraft but now wants more so at the cost of 10.6 billion the uae will get 50
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and then israel will get more on top of that it is the foreign policy of the united states that israel
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maintain a qualitative military edge in the middle east that is a policy that i support i believe that
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israel has to have the ability if necessary to vanquish any foe in the region we hope that is not
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necessary but frankly as iran was moving into syria it was helpful that israel had the ability to take
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out some of those permanent encampments to ensure that iran did not have the ability to cause greater
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disruption and that didn't require u.s military aggression or adventurism it just required israel
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being the strongest best version of herself she was she is and she will continue to be under this
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agreement the f-35 program is critically important to the united states these sales will ensure that
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the supply chain remains robust that the suppliers are engaged in producing and that they are successful
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because ultimately the success of any weapons program is dependent on the success of those who
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build it obviously this is the result of the uae really playing a leading role in the repenchement that
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is going on right now in the middle east with more and more arab states acknowledging israel making peace
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with israel and hopefully building a platform and a paradigm that will ensure peace in the middle
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east for generations to come thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates if you live
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in a state that's got early in-person voting take the chance to do it over the weekend that's what i'm
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going to do you can avoid some lines you can make sure your vote is counted and you can participate in
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our great constitutional republic to the highest degree remember it was madison who said the
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highest role in american life doesn't fall to a president or a senator or a congressman but to
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that of citizens so go fully vindicate your rights as a citizen by casting your ballot and make sure you
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