Episode 135 – California Sheriffs Defy Gavin Newsom’s Lockdown Orders. AOC Wants to Pay People to Stay Home. Bring the Troops Home! Trump 2024？
Summary
The King of Thailand has a problem with his girlfriend, the apprenticeship act is up for a vote in the House of Representatives, and the best way to deal with the coronavirus virus is to pay people to stay home.
Transcript
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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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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the king of thailand
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having some girlfriend problems we've all heard the jay-z song 99 problems well it appears the
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king of thailand has 100 problems the los angeles times shashik bengali has the story the thai king's
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companion vanished after upsetting the queen now she's back in the spotlight so the king of thailand
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has this 35 year old girlfriend and she's actually got a title in the government she is thailand's
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royal noble consort a title given to a companion of the king who is not his wife she's the first
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person to be named to that position in literally a century and there are some academics in thailand
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who suggest this is strategic this is a way for the monarchy and the king to bridge the gap that
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exists between themselves and the people and there is a good deal of resentment in thailand over the
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monarchy and so you've got this good-looking 35 year old former army nurse who was raised in the
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northern thai countryside and she's been out helping the people with the challenges that
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they've been dealing with following a number of natural disasters in thailand and it was just last
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year that the royal noble consort disappeared and there was a statement put out by the royal gazette
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reproaching her for misbehavior and disloyalty and trying to outshine the queen and causing discord in
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the palace well now she's back she's active and we'll see how the king is able to balance the queen
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the apprenticeship act is up for a vote in the house of representatives today i support apprenticeship
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i support internships career technical education but i just can't vote for this bill
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i don't understand why our 50 states are not in a better position to meet the needs of their economies
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than the federal government the federal government should abolish the department of education education
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isn't a federal function it's a function best left to the states and the people and of course in
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colorado in florida in arizona new jersey in new york the state legislators know best what
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skills are needed to impart on young people to ensure that there's greater competitiveness
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in the global marketplace more and more our education decisions are made in washington dc and
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funds are withheld if states don't comply i don't want to see career technical education go that way i want
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to see our states innovate and tinker and try with different strategies to try to impart skills on young
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people that will ensure their success their higher wages their greater opportunities for career
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development so i'll be voting no on the apprenticeship act today not because i don't support career
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technical education but because i believe that washington might ruin it and our states are in the best
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alexandria ocasio-cortez believes that the way to deal with the virus is to pay people to stay home
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i know this because she tweeted it quote to get the virus under control we need to pay people to stay
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home you see this is part of a broader theme that i expect you might see from democrats in the coming
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months they're going to use the coronavirus to try to execute on the broader goals of socialism
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and if coronavirus can be a veneer to redistribute wealth in this country they're here for it you see
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i think that the best answer to coronavirus is not a stimulus bill it's not the printing of more money
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it's allowing people to work it's giving people the confidence of reliable testing it's ensuring
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that we have the proper sanitation in place but it's not shutting down america and making
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our fellow americans reliant on government you see the goal of socialists is always to make people
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reliant on the largesse of government but eventually that requires the extraction of resources
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of other people without their consent that can disincentivize productivity and really the nature
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of america look the reason we have the edge on the world is because we're the most competitive the
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most innovative the most ambitious and if we do as aoc suggests and just pay people to stay at home
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we'll lose that we won't be america anymore that's why i'm not going to support a universal basic
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income under coronavirus i'm not going to support endless payments to people but i do believe
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we should open up i do believe we should allow people to go to work and i would invite congresswoman
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today the house armed services committee held hearings on the administration's planned drawdown of troops
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in afghanistan hopefully a total withdrawal of troops from afghanistan and on the armed services
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committee you typically have a lot of folks who are in favor of wars because a lot of the donations
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that come to members of the armed services committee for political campaigns are given by defense
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contractors so it often is a very pro-war committee and i found myself at odds with many members of the
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committee on both sides of the aisle because i believe america is at her best when she has a
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focused foreign policy not an adventurous foreign policy for the benefit of those who financially
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get to access untold sums of slush fund cash during these overseas operations here's the chairman of the
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armed services committee adam smith with his opening statement as mentioned this is an incredibly
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important and very timely topic it's just about 19 years ago that we went into afghanistan and at the
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time we had a very clear mission having just been attacked on 9 11 by osama bin laden and al-qaeda out
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of afghanistan we went in there to make sure it never happened again to stop the threat and to contain it
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and i think that continues to be the top mission we face a threat from transnational terrorist groups we
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we can debate how large that threat is where exactly it comes from um and how best to contain
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it but it is not debatable that that threat is there it's also worth noting that for all the problems
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and troubles and difficulties that we had that mission has been successful in one sense we we have
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not had a transnational terrorist attack on the u.s and when we think about all the men and women who
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served in the military those who lost their lives those who were injured those who have suffered because
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of this also all of the state department personnel and all the aid workers who have been there and
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all of our allies and partners keep in mind this is not just the united states of america nato and a
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number of other countries have participated in this mission and in that one key point it has been
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successful and it should not be taken for granted but the question is where do we go from here because
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while that has been successful there has also been a great cost as was just mentioned in terms of lives
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uh lost people injured and the sheer cost to the nation in in money as well so where do we go from
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here and how do we move forward i think it's important that we continue to maintain the mission
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to stop transnational terrorist threats i took a different position than many here was my contribution
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to the debate not only am i a minority member of this committee i hold a minority view on the war in
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afghanistan on the committee i'm against it based on even the words of our own witnesses today the
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corruption in afghanistan is unsolvable the war is unwinnable and the strategy is indecipherable it's not
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a criticism of the current administration these are conditions that have been present for the last 19
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years as we've traded the same villages back and forth with the taliban i listened intently as dr biddle said
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well we're leaving and we're getting nothing what we're getting is out to me the biggest loser in
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afghanistan is the nation that stays the longest now as i read some of the prepared testimony of our
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witnesses particularly dr biddle here's how the argument seems to go 2500 troops really has no military
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value there is no technical capability with 2500 troops that we have that is going to fundamentally
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win this war we've had a hundred thousand troops there and we couldn't win it and now we think with
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2500 that's what's going to like preserve these alliances and ensure our allies that were really
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there with sufficient grit but that the purpose of these 2500 troops is politics that it is a political
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feature of the war in afghanistan that if we leave 2500 troops there we will get more leverage and that if we
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engage in accelerated drawdowns well the afghans uh the taliban in particular will see that this is
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sort of a war of attrition that the united states is going to lose and so they're just going to stick
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there and and maintain a level of violence that allows them to potentially recapture their political
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power but the obvious question is if we know that the 2500 troops we're leaving there don't have military
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value and are there as a political statement probably the enemy knows that too probably they understand
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the very dynamics that our witnesses have laid out to their testimony today that this only ends one way
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with us leaving with the taliban getting more power and with conditions in afghanistan
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in pretty rough shape going forward as they have been for the last two decades as they were
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for a substantial period of time before that i'm grateful that in the trump administration we have
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highlighted our near peer adversaries as the requisite focus for our work i'm glad that we don't believe we
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have to chase every potential terrorist into every potential cave in wherever i stand so that we can
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you know thump our chests and say that we're being tough with a global counter-terrorism mission
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it is my sincere hope that we not only reduce our troop levels to 2500 but that we reduce them to zero
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that we leave afghanistan this has been the longest war in our nation's history our country is weary of it
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even if the armed services committee is not and i yield back
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disobedience in california no i'm not talking about gavin newsom disobeying his own orders for lockdowns
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that was heavily covered in the media it's the news that orange county sacramento and el dorado county
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sheriffs will not enforce gavin newsom's curfew order we get the story from the gatewaypundit.com's
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christina layla california governor gavin newsom on thursday issued a curfew for most california
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counties the curfew will affect 41 out of 58 counties in california currently in the most
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restrictive quote unquote purple tier earlier this week newsom said he was looking at studies from
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other countries on curfews including france and saudi arabia let's hope that gavin newsom isn't picking
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up a whole lot of other policy ideas from saudi arabia and when you look at france they're only
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allowing their citizens out of the house for like an hour a day you get your one hour to go and do any
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grocery shopping or any other errands you have or do any sort of exercise and then you've got to be
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back in your house so let's hope that there's not a continuing trend to import those policies
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from europe to our country and the hypocrisy here is just so palpable like that gavin newsom would go
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and violate his own orders and then become even more restrictive so these particular sheriffs in
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these particular counties are not going to enforce the curfews instead embracing more
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freedom for their citizens we stand with the sheriffs
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floridapolitics.com's ag gankarski reports that i'm here for the donald trump 2024 campaign
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and it's true there is no republican who could summon the populism and the energy and the enthusiasm
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that we saw as a consequence of president trump's campaign look i was there in the final weeks
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president trump is all about the enthusiasm of our country rising wages economic nationalism
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putting our people first ending these forever wars canceling trade deals that put our people last
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and ending the policies that make our border a joke ensuring that if people have to make a claim
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for asylum that they can do it in their own country not ours as a consequence of catch and release
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i just see the way the american people react to president trump and there is not a republican
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politician on the scene who in 2024 could really summon this populist enthusiasm the way that donald trump
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does so if he's running in 2024 i'm with him and i'm pretty sure you will be too
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i joined steve bannon on the war room pandemic podcast we discussed how our nation should respond
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to coronavirus we discussed the election and the future of the republican party here are a few of the
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highlights we do not fix this if we do not expose this fraud they're not going to get worse at it
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they're going to get better at it and we will never win another national election again those are the
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stakes in these fights in the several states that you've discussed and i don't think that like to
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really get a full audit across the enterprise we have to flip every one of these states at once
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here's my prediction steve we flip one of these states that the media has called for joe biden and
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the whole veneer comes down the whole fiction that he's president-elect joe biden and that this thing
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is over is eroded if you're able to see that there was fraud sufficient to flip a state because then i
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think the american people will say well wait a second like if you lied to us about georgia we got
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to ask some more questions about wisconsin or if you lied to us about wayne county michigan how are we
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supposed to believe what went on in fulton county right and i think that asking those tough questions
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is an important obligation the president has not for his own political fortunes but for the future
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of a populist movement that is very much opposed by the people who run these places where they're
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more susceptible to fraud biden's acting like he's reaching across the aisle for republicans but he's
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reaching in all the wrong places i mean he wants to import the foreign policy of dick cheney and the
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trade policy of paul ryan you know and and in his own mind that's all globalism well right but like
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that when you talk about the future of our movement yeah you know i don't believe that uh it is it is
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going to be easy for us to even maintain the republican mantle uh if you see some of these establishment
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figures kind of you know migrate to a biden world china is not our friend joe biden is holds this view
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that if we just bring china closer to us that they will be more like us but the reality is when we
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bring china closer it makes us more vulnerable and the chimerica dream that we've been sold by
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both parties has really become a nightmare for our people thanks for listening to hot takes i'm
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