Episode 138 - Happy Thanks...snitching? YouTube Censors OANN. California Democrats Livid as FOUR Seats Flip Red.
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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Matis pens an essay calling for an end to America First as a part of our country s foreign policy doctrine. President Donald J. Trump has been criticized for holding the view that America is at her best when she s the world s piggy bank, the world's police force, and when she invests in multilateralism and relationships for the benefits of other countries.
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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 former secretary of
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defense jim mattis pens an essay for foreign affairs magazine where he calls for an end to
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america first as a part of our country's foreign policy doctrine you see jim mattis while a patriot
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while someone i deeply respect while someone i worked with closely as a member of the armed
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services committee has a very different view of america's role in the world than i do jim mattis
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believes that america is at her best when she's the world's piggy bank the world's police force
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and when she invests in multilateralism and relationships for the benefits of other
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countries maybe even more so than for the benefit of our country and while certainly general mattis's
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time as a military leader as secretary of defense entitles him to whatever perspective he'd like
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and while i'm sure he'll be remembered fondly by our country i don't know that jim mattis will be
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remembered alongside the great generals in our nation's history that won wars which war did jim
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mattis win is it afghanistan is it iraq when you look at mattis's record it seems as though there's
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a perspective that maybe isn't enduring when it comes to lasting victories instead the mattis doctrine
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appears to be more likely to end our country in circumstances where we are extended where we are
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over deployed where our troops are on never-ending exhausting rotations of deployments and i think
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that america is at her best not when she's funding the world not when she's the world's resource
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but when america is the best most inspiring version of herself you see the way that we can
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have a positive influence the quickest the most effective is to ensure that everyone wants to be
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like us and we're less of a compelling and inspiring model to the world when our troops are strewn about
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the globe when we build resentment with deployments when we're unable to leave countries even like
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germany i mean when we wanted to go from 35 000 troops to 25 000 troops those who ascribed to the
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mattis doctrine thought that that would be devastating that would send the wrong message to the world when
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the reality is we have to be able to at some point win wars and come home kill enemies and not create
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extended infrastructure investments where our country is having to maintain bases and deployments
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and contractors indefinitely in places i still believe in america first i think it is a foreign policy
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doctrine that keeps us focused the biggest threat america faces is china and the way to ensure that we can
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rise to that challenge that we can win the 21st century is to ensure that we're confronting china in the
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places that matter in innovation in digital infrastructure in developing relationships
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with other countries that aren't based on bullying or grievance or graft or greed and if we do that
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america will be first america will stay first and we will do so without spilling the blood of our
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bravest patriots and spilling the treasure of our countrymen in faraway lands forever
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vladimir putin is a killer russia kills people to advance their politics political dissidents reporters
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really just anyone who gets in the way of vladimir putin's worldview and his model years ago before
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president trump really assumed the mantle of the presidency and began executing on america first
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foreign policy he was asked about this dynamic where russia uses murder to advance their foreign
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policy goals take a listen do you like vladimir putin's comments about you he kills journalists
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that don't agree with him well i think uh our country does plenty of killing also joe so you know
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there's a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now joe a lot of killing going on a lot of
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stupidity and that's the way it is president trump took tremendous criticism for holding this view and
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for telling the truth about the united states and our willingness to kill people and there is a great
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piece in inside edition that really chronicles how the united states used disinformation and mass murder
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strategies to try to execute on capitalism around the world the piece is titled uh how the jakarta method
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changed the world and it talks about how we pioneered the strategy in indonesia where we would back
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military cues we would allow those military leaders then to designate people as communists and then we
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would either facilitate or stand by as they killed people as they slaughtered enemies as they purged
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those who did not agree with their seizure of power in a particular nation and whether it was indonesia
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or bali or places in latin america this jakarta method was a mechanism to scare people most particularly
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in brazil right here in brazil right here in our hemisphere we would try to obtain the political
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outcomes we sought to reject communism and embrace a neo-fascist form of capitalism and if that didn't
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happen our cia was right there willing able ready capable to help folks purge others through these mass
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murder strategies so i think it's very interesting to evaluate how america waged some of these clandestine
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conflicts and to ensure that we don't do it again because it builds a heck of a lot of resentment when
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our government is out there helping strong men helping anti-democratic leaders slaughter their enemies
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and those who would potentially pose a risk to their power we can do better than that as a country
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we can be the best version of ourselves and we can inspire people to be the best version of
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themselves in doing so there are signs that in deep blue california there's a little more red creeping
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into the political system in the 2018 midterm elections california was a killing ground for republicans
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particularly in once reliably republican orange county democrats were able to really sweep the
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congressional elections in that area of southern california and the republicans are on a comeback
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four seats in the state of california that democrats won in the 2018 midterms now look to
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be in republican hands david baladeo returning to congress mike garcia who won katie hill's seat in
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california and then you also have young kim and michelle steel winning back seats and there are
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a number of dynamics here that i think contribute to this one is that we had fantastic candidate
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recruitment and i'll give the republican leader in the house kevin mccarthy a californian himself
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a tremendous amount of credit for recruiting great candidates for funding those candidates and helping
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them get across the finish line i did a decent amount of campaigning in orange county
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before the 2020 election really to try to fire nancy pelosi i figured if california gave us nancy
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pelosi maybe some folks in california could help us get rid of her by flipping some of these seats
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back republican and some definitely did come our way setting us up to really take that majority in 2022
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but there's another factor that i think contributes and it's the gavin newsom factor
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in my time in california campaigning for these orange county candidates i saw deep resentment against
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the lockdowns against the constraining of people's choice against the economic harm that these lockdowns
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have brought blue collar people working people across the state and across our great land and so i i don't
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know that the embrace of this like virus first strategy for politics at the state and local and
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national level is really a compelling message for democrats i think that the message of vaccines and
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cures and sanitation and spacing but with an openness and with a freedom of choice for our people
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is going to be a lot more politically palatable to the body politic i think it is going to be
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more encouraging and inclusive for voters and i just think it's it's the best political message and and
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probably the best thing for our long-term economic and physical health as well so even though my friends
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in california remain behind enemy lines in a lot of ways it's good to see this trajectory bringing more and
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more opportunity for republicans in california help us win back the house of representatives help us
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fire nancy pelosi and send the message to america that freedom is the most unifying political message
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and it is the best way for our fellow americans to live their fullest lives
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is it thanksgiving or thanks snitching we get the story from the daily caller the governor of oregon
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kate brown says that she wants folks in her state to call the police on each other on their neighbors
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if they believe that folks are violating the covet 19 shutdown orders during thanksgiving i think my
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colleague and friend jim jordan had it right so in the state of oregon you can riot you can protest
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you can be destructive you can loot and all that's okay i mean you even had district attorneys
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in oregon saying that they weren't going to prosecute people who assaulted police officers
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but heaven forbid you get your family together for a thanksgiving meal then the governor wants you
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to be snitched on by your neighbors exposed to ridicule and in a state of conflict that is just
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totally unnecessary during the holiday season i think they've got it backwards in oregon they're
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legalizing meth but making it illegal for you to go hang out with your family on thanksgiving
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very bizarre very strange i sure hope people aren't snitching on their neighbors when we should be
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celebrating one another and all that we are thankful for i guess i'm thankful i don't live in oregon
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it appears that donald trump is set to pardon general michael flynn who continues to be harassed
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by the department of justice despite having committed no crime he simply had a conversation with the
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russian ambassador during the transition that will be judged well by history it was a conversation to
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try to de-escalate tensions with russia that the outgoing obama administration had inflamed with a
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desire to put our focus on china and as a consequence his family was threatened his son was threatened
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he was told to take a plea and they smeared the guy they smeared an american hero i believe donald
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trump should pardon michael flynn i was asked about it last night on the laura ingram program hosted
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by tammy bruce take a listen president trump should pardon michael flynn he should pardon the thanksgiving
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turkey he should pardon everyone from himself to his administration officials to joe exotic if he has
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to because you see from the radical left a bloodlust that will only be quenched if they come after the
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people who worked so hard to animate the trump administration with the policies and the vigor and
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the effectiveness that delivered for the american people and so i think that the president ought to wield that
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pardon power effectively and robustly techcrunch.com has the story youtube suspends and demonetizes
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one america news network over covet 19 video youtube has confirmed that it has suspended one america news
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the penalty comes after a purported violation of youtube's covet 19 misinformation guidelines
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as a result one america news will be barred from posting new videos for a week while its existing
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videos will also be demonetized for that period tsk tsk one america news youtube believes that you're
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misinformation and so they're going to be the arbiters of the truth look i offer no commentary on the truth
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or falsity of one america news's covet 19 coverage but that's not the point i believe in an america
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strong enough to confront information whether that information needs extra criticism needs an extra
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lens of review maybe the information is even false but the only way we get to the truth is by allowing
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ourselves to be surrounded in all the information would they have demonetized galileo for his first
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thoughts about you know our place in the universe would they have demonetized and de-platformed
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ignats similwals who was the founder of germ theory and told us to wash our hands i mean this guy was
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the guy who initially said if we wash our hands we'll pass germs less to one another as human beings
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and he was jailed as a result of it sir isaac newton proclaimed that he was proud to die a virgin
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no one went and canceled that weirdo we allowed folks to make their contributions however those were viewed
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through the lens of that particular time and if you look at covet 19 in particular there's a lot
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of misinformation that's been spread not just by news commentators or digital platforms but by the
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government itself i mean i i'm old enough to remember back when dr fauci was telling us that
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we didn't have to wear masks then all of a sudden that changed then it was 14 days to slow the
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spread now we're many months into a series of evolving lockdowns i don't think anyone has
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cornered the absolute truth as it relates to covet 19 and until that happens and perhaps even after
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that happens we ought to be willing to absorb information that is different that is uh presenting
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an alternative viewpoint because sometimes that's what leads us to our most novel discoveries so
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i am totally opposed to this new dynamic where silicon valley believes that they're like the judge
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jury and executioner on the truth but it's only beginning with the limitation on the ability of
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congress to be able to control big tech because so much of congress is bought off by big tech
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it's my fear that you won't see the type of aggressive action against these platforms this
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is necessary to ensure that we're able to confront a variety of viewpoints so this is real bad i hope
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it's not the sign of a new normal because while i don't want washington running my life i sure as
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hell don't want silicon valley running my life the jerusalem post has the story of a potential new
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capability for the f-35a air force variant of the joint strike fighter a u.s air force tests new b6112
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nuclear gravity bomb with the f-35a the tests occurred in august out in nevada and this is a substantial
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capability development for the united states it will ensure that the nuclear deterrent is able to be
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maintained and it is an enhancement to the nuclear triad that is an essential part of the nuclear
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doctrine and policy in our country now the reason this is important is that while other aircraft
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have shown the capability to be able to carry nuclear assets they don't do so with the same
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stealth capability as the f-35a so pairing that state stealth capability with the nuclear gravity bomb
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capability certainly will give the united states a strong deterrent strong capabilities and we're all
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for it thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates this episode will close
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out the week for us as the members of our team will be enjoying the thanksgiving holiday and however
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you're able to enjoy it and whoever you're able to enjoy it with we hope you take the opportunity to
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give thanks for the fact that we get to live in the greatest country in the world the united states
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of america we don't have to apologize for it we don't have to diminish our country we can help and
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encourage and inspire others and it's certainly every bit the blessing that so many have said it to be and
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it's every reason for us to give thanks and appreciation for this opportunity we have to contribute
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to the american story have a happy thanksgiving everyone take the time to give us a five-star
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