Episode 125 āĀ Investigate Voter Fraud IMMEDIATELY! Is Putin's Health Failingļ¼ Election Night Vices.
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In this episode, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) takes a look at the massive amount of fraud uncovered in the latest vote count in Pennsylvania and Georgia, and calls for both parties to have access to the vote tallying process.
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You ever watch this guy on television, you all were not telling the truth and you should
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not be trusted. 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. Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
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Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. Democrats
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seemingly getting what they want in these tranchions of ballots that are now being counted.
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The state of Pennsylvania now showing Joe Biden holding a lead as well as the state of Georgia.
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But there are irregularities and Republicans are eager to have the judicial process play out
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to determine whether or not those irregularities are indicia of fraud. And there are a few different
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categories I want to talk about here. First, dead people. Breitbart News having the story that in
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Pennsylvania, 21,000 people dead on the rolls. Nearly 200 of them have been dead for 20 years,
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but then thousands of them dead for five years or more. They're also the movers. This is a big issue
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in the state of Nevada. Take a listen to Rick Grinnell. The Harry Reid machine recklessly threw
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ballots into the mail. And now we cannot check whether or not there are non-residents, which we
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have evidence, publicly available evidence that you all in the media should be also looking at.
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It's publicly available information that non-residents have voted. There is a 30-day residency requirement
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in the state of Nevada. If you haven't been in the state for 30 days, it is illegal to vote.
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Reporters have a responsibility. The fact is, we are filing this federal lawsuit to protect legal voters.
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It is unacceptable in this country to have illegal votes counted. And that is what's happening in the
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state of Nevada. We've asked Clark County for answers. They have no answers. They continue to count
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illegal votes. That is unacceptable. And it's giving legal people
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a sense that the system is corrupt. We have to have a system where legal votes are cast.
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What the Harry Reid machine has done is throw out recklessly ballots. And now they don't want us
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to check those ballots. And we are seeing discrepancies all over.
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So people don't live in Nevada anymore. If they've left the state, if they don't intend to return to
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the state, but they got a ballot and voted it anyway, it begs the question, did they vote in
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their current state? Did they vote twice? Even if they didn't vote twice, is their ballot in Nevada
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legal? Then another category is the irregular batch category. So there are circumstances that have
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been widely reported where tens of thousands of ballots are coming in without a single vote for
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Donald Trump. How is that even possible? If Donald Trump got like 18% of the black male vote, how do you
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get 28,000, you know, 20,000 ballots coming in in some of these urban areas in the Midwest, where there's
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not a single vote for Donald Trump, not one, they're all filled out for Joe Biden. It really begs the
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question. And I think it deserves investigation. Then there are the issues of access, whether
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anything is going wrong or not, the way to ensure that the American people have confidence in the
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count is to ensure that you've got both parties able to observe that count occurring. And Republicans
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have been in large part denied that access in some of these urban areas. When they've had legal
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ballot watchers there, sometimes they've been 20, 30, 50, 60 feet away, they're unable to see whether
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or not the people that are removing the ballots from the envelopes are properly checking the
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signature. They're unable to ascertain whether or not those ballots are being fairly counted and
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properly authenticated. So there are two groups of Republicans right now. There are those who believe
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that we've got to fight hard to count every legal ballot. I'm certainly in that group, as is my good
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friend, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. He was on Laura Ingram's program last night, talking about
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the need to have integrity in the count. Here's Governor DeSantis.
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In Florida, we have the votes have to be in on election day, a mail vote. We do have absentee voting,
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not mass mailing, you have to request it, but all the votes are in. And then you know how many
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votes are there. We track as every voter comes in to vote or submits a mail. We know the universe.
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Then you count it, you produce a result. A place like Pennsylvania, they can accept ballots after
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the election. It doesn't even have to have a postmark on it. And they can still accept them.
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So a lot of these places don't know how many ballots are out there. And as you mentioned,
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you'll get like a 4 a.m. dump of massive votes for one candidate and almost none for the other.
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And people look at that and they just scratch their heads. So people need to have confidence
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in the process. And I think the way it's been done in a lot of these states has been incredibly
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chaotic. And when you when you ban observers, which should be there, you know, what are people
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supposed to think about that, Laura? Why? What's so wrong with having someone there just to ensure
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Donald Trump Jr. also forcefully making the case in Georgia. Here's Don Jr.'s message
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to our fellow Republicans. I've been watching this all over the country when I hear there's
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a deadline and then magically boxes appear later. We know that's against the law, but you get in
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front of a Democrat judge in a Democrat city with Democrat control and it's OK. Then before you can
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contest it, they throw those ballots in one big box. Now you can't tell which one is accurate and
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which isn't. I think the Democrats are used to this from a Republican Party that hasn't had a
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backbone. You're not going to see that this time around. That party is gone. And anyone that doesn't
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And on the other side of the coin, we have establishment Republican Nikki Haley. She tweets
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out, quote, We all owe at real Donald Trump for his leadership of conservative victories for Senate,
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House and state legislatures. He and the American people deserve transparency and fairness as the
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votes are counted. The law must be followed. We have to keep the faith that the truth will prevail.
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This is like less of a call to arms and more of a eulogy of Donald Trump. This is more of the like
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friends, Romans, countrymen. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him type reaction. And the Trump
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family, the president supporters, they won't forget folks like Nikki Haley, who seem to abandon the field
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of battle and aren't out there raising legitimate questions and ensuring that we've got the right
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answers when it comes to who voted, how they voted and whether or not those votes are proper and
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legal and legitimate. And by the way, while we're out here trying to spread the truth, access the
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right information, we are facing a censorship regime from Twitter that is unrivaled. I mean,
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they have they at one point were like censoring a majority of the president's tweets over a certain
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span of time. And they even censored one of my tweets. I tweeted that it that the dead vote
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seemed to be breaking overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. And they censored that people have to take extra
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effort to see that content on my Twitter platform. And it really is something when you see the vile and
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hatred and misinformation that Twitter regularly allows on their platform. You see, when Twitter takes
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this specific action against the president, members of his family, his supporters, it doesn't define them
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as an unbiased digital platform. They're then a publisher, they're then curating content, they're
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choosing what you see and what you don't see. And when they engage in that editorial process, they have
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deviated from the protections that they enjoy under the law, under the Communication Decency Act, and instead
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have availed themselves to the type of liability that should append to that editorial behavior.
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That's what happens at newspapers. That's what happens with cable television networks. But in the
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digital space, there are these special protections for Twitter, they are abusing those protections, and
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they're trying to control what people see in this very, I think, sensitive time for our country, as we
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await for the final fair, accurate result of the presidential election. There will need to be a
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reckoning for Twitter following these egregious acts of censorship. The vote has been hopelessly
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contaminated. Republican state legislatures must move now to appoint pro-Trump electors. That's the story
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we get from Revolver News. And it points out that the final decision on who the electors are does not
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fall to any court, it does not fall to any election official, it does not fall to any governor. It is,
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in fact, the obligation of the state legislators to appoint electors to go and participate in the
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Electoral College, and particularly in Pennsylvania, where you have this real strange result with Joe Biden
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outperforming Barack Obama in some of the urban areas in Pennsylvania. Does anyone really believe
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that? Does anyone believe that in like these urban areas in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia,
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that somehow sleepy Joe Biden was able to juice a greater turnout than Barack Obama, who was like the
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transformational candidate for black America? Of course not. This is not heightened enthusiasm.
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This is not heightened participation. This is mechanized fraud in many circumstances. And if courts will
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not enforce their orders for the president's observers to be able to go and participate in
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watching the ballots being counted, then the state legislature needs to ensure that they don't appoint
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electors that would be facilitating the fraud. We need to ensure that we have fair elections with one
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person, one vote, and that every legal vote is counted. So I'm calling on the state legislature in
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Pennsylvania to do their constitutional duty, ensure that votes are not being counted, that we're not
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lawfully cast. The state legislature in Pennsylvania should immediately initiate an investigation into these
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voter fraud allegations in Pennsylvania, and they should not appoint electors until that investigation
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has concluded. They have a constitutional duty. They have a constitutional role in this process, and
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they need to wake up to the fact that Pennsylvania will forever be maligned as the epicenter of fraud if
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they don't take action. And if you go back and listen to some of the older episodes of this podcast, I told you this
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would happen. I said frequently on this show that I was most concerned about fraud in the state of
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Pennsylvania because there's not really a backstop to that fraud. The only backstop would be the
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Republican state legislature, and they need to take action. Great piece in Revolver News. I hope everyone
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There's been much talk the last few days over the reckoning the Democratic Party must go through
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regarding their losses in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. They, of course, lost the
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Alabama Senate seat, and it looks like they're down eight seats. That could be even more by the time
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counting is concluded in the House of Representatives. Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger made comments on a
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conference call with her fellow Democrats that they're going to get effing torn apart in 2022 if they
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continue to talk about defunding the police, embracing socialism, Medicare for all, and that they needed to
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move toward the type of pragmatic focus on health care. So it'll be interesting to see what a
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Democratic agenda will look like with a far, far smaller majority in the House of Representatives.
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And Andrew Yang, a commentator who I think always has interesting hot takes. I don't always agree with
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him, but I think his perspective is interesting. He says, and I'm quoting here, in their minds, the Democratic
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Party, unfortunately, has taken on this role of the coastal urban elites who are more concerned about
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policing various cultural issues than improving their way of life. And of course, this is talking
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about that working class that the Democratic Party may be losing. In races where Democrat congressional
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candidates lost to Republican candidates, I think the defund the police issue really hurt them. I also
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think that working class issues are more and more on the side of Republicans. Working class people don't want to
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see trade deals that hollow out our folks, our workers, so that some multinational corporation can improve their
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quarterly earnings report. Working class people don't like to see our nation engaged in these forever wars that make
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certain contractors rich and create contracting and pillaging opportunities for the elite and the
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connected. That's not what they're about. They want to see us put our treasure and our resources into making our
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country better. And so I think the warning from Andrew Yang and Abigail Spamburger is an accurate one to Democrats. And
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we'll see if they lean more heavily into the squad approach to governing, or whether or not they embrace a
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pragmatism that might be willing to work with Republicans to do infrastructure legislation to try to reform a
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broken immigration system, and to try to impose a sense of realism on our foreign policy, so that we don't engage in
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American adventurism at the expense of the American people. I know everyone is focused domestically, but there is some
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international news that we also need to cover. Vladimir Putin may be ill. That's right, UK media is
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reporting that Putin is ill and could be poised to quit. The Kremlin calling it nonsense, rejecting as untrue a
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report in Britain's mass media Sun newspaper suggesting that Vladimir Putin may have Parkinson's disease and
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could be poised to quit. The Sun cited Professor Valerie Solovie, a Russian political pundit who suggested earlier this
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week on a Moscow radio station that Putin was under pressure from his entourage to step down over fears
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regarding his health. In these areas where strongmen dictators rule for a long time, once they start
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showing any chink of the armor in their health, the vultures do start circling. There there really is a
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rapid effort once you start to see any type of like degenerative disease impact one of these strongmen.
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So we'll keep watching it. Vladimir Putin denying it. His health could be in question.
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If you needed pizza, booze and weed to get through election night, you weren't alone. The Los Angeles
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Times reporting that these were some of the major orders on election night. And regardless of political
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leanings, Americans were united on stress eating, stress drinking and stress smoking to make it through
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election night on demand alcohol delivery service. Drizzly said that sales were 68% higher than on
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previous Tuesdays for alcohol sales in Washington, D.C. rose 133% in New York, 110% in L.A. 35%.
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In blue states where Drizzly operates, sales were up 75% compared to red states where they were up 33%.
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Wine made up 42% of sales, liquor 41% and beer 15%. The company Ease saw a 17% increase in weed
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deliveries in California and an 18% increase in Los Angeles on Tuesday compared to the same day a week
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earlier. The top selling items were pre-rolled joints and vaporizers suggesting that consumers were
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looking for products that would provide faster onset effects. We attribute this to an especially
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stressful election day said Elizabeth Ashford, a spokeswoman for Ease. Google also reporting that
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the top searches for near me were for pizza, Chinese food, liquor stores, sushi, and Mexican food.
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Fries near me and liquor stores near me are at an all-time high in search according to Google.
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Local independent pizza restaurants saw an influx of orders. People were very open about being stressed
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and needing comfort food said Kevin Cravali of Prime Pizza. So whether the election went your way or not
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in the races that you were watching, it does appear that Americans were satiated, subdued, and I guess
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dealing with the election night in each and every one of their own special ways. Consumption of butter has
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also been on the rise as we've been anxiety baking our way through the nine circles of hell. That's the
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story we get from Eater.com and Lando Lakes is reporting that in 2020 we see about a 20% increase
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in butter consumption from a normal year. And with more folks at home, with more folks stress baking,
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I guess we've gotten a little more butter in the system. So whether it's the pizza, booze, and weed,
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or whether it's the extra baked goods that you're having, America may need a little bit of an exercise
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routine after 2020. Let's hope we get healthier in mind and body and that we're prepared for the days ahead.
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Some environmental news from Florida's first congressional district. We get it from getthecoast.com.
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New record for longest lionfish speared in the Gulf of Mexico set in Destin, Florida. Donald Valtronaut
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setting the record with an over 18 inch lionfish. It's not the state record. I think they got one
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that was a little bit bigger in Isla Morata. He was spear fishing for red snapper, saw this massive
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lionfish, speared it. And the reason this is important from a policy perspective, lionfish are
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invasive species. They have no real natural predators. They don't bite a hook and line. And so the only way
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to kill them is to spear them. And they're broadcast spawners, which means that one female lionfish can
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literally lay 10 million eggs over the course of their life. And they decimate reef fish, prized
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reef fish, like gag grouper, trigger fish, red snapper. They gobble them all up on the reef. And then
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you're just left with these Asian lionfish. So I'm glad we got a big one speared. And I'm hopeful
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that we'll be able to enact policies to incentivize greater harvesting of lionfish. They actually are
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delicious. It's a meaty white fish that I enjoy eating. It's great grilled or bronzed or baked,
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but we may need to incentivize their harvest so that we're able to preserve the great ecosystems that
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fund a really vibrant fishery here in the northern Gulf of Mexico. So congrats on the kill.
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We hope there are many more ahead. Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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