Episode 34 - Nikki Haley Won't Combat Big Tech Tyranny. A Woke Homeless Encampment. Sassy with Massie.
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On this episode of Hot Takes, Congressman Matt Gates and Sean Hannity cover President Donald Trump's town hall appearance with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and discuss a variety of hot takes from the event, including:
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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 this is congressman matt gates and you know if sean hannity and president
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trump are both in my intro music and they're both on the same stage together doing a town hall
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that we got to cover it that's the news let's talk about it here's sean hannity and the president
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and some of their best exchanges first of all we have arrested i think almost but it could be over
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the number hundreds of people we have arrested a lot of people for what they've done they've created
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bedlam they've destroyed very important things i mean you're also talking about statues of
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george washington abraham lincoln uh they'd like to get jesus you know that right they said uh we want
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to get jesus yeah sean king the radical these are nothing to do with any particular event other
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than their troublemakers or agitators and they're anarchists you see in chicago last weekend 102
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of our fellow citizens were shot 12 were children and 14 died the carnage existed all throughout these
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years that joe biden was vice president barack was president um i don't know any reforms that they put
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in place after ferguson or after baltimore or many other incidents they did virtually nothing and
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i call him corrupt joe he's corrupt and you look at that administration they have had more and when
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you see what's happening because you saw the notes now from the oval office meeting and all of the
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things we're going to get to that what's happening is a disgrace this is a corrupt situation he is a
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candidate that will destroy this country and he may not do it himself he will be run by a radical
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fringe group of lunatics that will destroy our country and people have to know that i think
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we're seeing uh the president with a new sharpness to his focus and to his message and i got to tell
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you it's something i really noticed the last time i was with the president i've i've had two recent rides
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on air force one with the president and the way that usually works is that you really get the sense
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of how he's feeling because there is no pretense with donald trump there is no show there is no act
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you get pretty much the same guy in public that you get in private and it's one of the things i love
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most about him how authentic he is and uh just how how willing to share his thoughts he is so you know i
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remember traveling with him you know several weeks ago down to florida to the spacex launch
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and there was just a a different approach a different i think uh ability to kind of hone in
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on where our country is right now in this moment that we see during the town hall that i also saw in
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uh in our in our phoenix trip uh when the president was in phoenix i thought he really started to
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get great clarity of message these riots these protests they are not about police brutality i don't
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even think they're about race i think they're about a like neo-marxist desire to go and overthrow
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our existing regime of government and i think that these are people who have a fundamental grievance
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with the way our country operates and they want to replace america and so i think this is our
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politics today are about whether or not america should just be abolished and essentially restarted
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which is what you see on the streets with the beginning of the abolition of our history with the
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desire to attack our police with members of congress raising money for organizations that want to
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eliminate borders and eliminate prisons i mean you name it the president has also demonstrated a real
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understanding for what we're facing and what what we're up against in some of his recent tweets
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uh he said on twitter black lives matter leader states if the u.s doesn't give us what we want
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then we will burn this system down and replace it and the president replied this is treason
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sedition insurrection president trump is absolutely right those who are trying to burn down america
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should face up against patriotic americans who are willing to defend equal justice under the law
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equal treatment under the law the things that have made america the envy of the world we are not a
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racist nation we are not a cruel nation if we were so many people wouldn't be trying to break in
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america is something to be proud of and to be defended and i am so proud to see president trump
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stepping up to provide that defense and to rally our movement
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asylum seekers beware you will not necessarily be able to hang out in the united states skip your court day
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and be in our country illegally with no consequence the trump administration scores a huge win in the
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supreme court a seven two decision the majority opinion very well written by justice alito and he
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essentially holds that the trump administration has the ability to remove people from the united
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states who have no legal right to be here who have been granted no right by no judge or no tribunal
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they have merely shown up to our country illegally they have been apprehended for being here illegally and
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by the way unlawful entry into the country is a crime i know folks on the left just like to say
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oh well these folks are undocumented but the reality is if you break the law getting here you are not
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undocumented you are a documented criminal because there is a criminal statute that says that unlawful
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entry is illegal but back to these folks claiming asylum it used to be the case that they would just show
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up say the right words to qualify for asylum just that they're scared that they have credible fear
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and then they would be given a court date that you know nine out of every ten were not showing up for
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and so then those folks would just be in america you know some of them would have kids that would then
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be uh working to claim their parents under um under some sort of visa policy and so it was a scam
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to claim asylum and it was a joke for a country that was not serious about securing the border
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until the trump administration the trump administration takes the position that folks
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should not just get the right to await their asylum claim here that if they have a real asylum claim
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you know they they may have to wait for that claim elsewhere until it is granted and we invite them
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with by the way the most generous asylum rules really in the history of the world when you look at
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the united states over time so now we've got a situation where these removals can occur
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these folks will not be able to abuse the system and i am grateful that the trump administration got
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this win we we are seeing illegal immigration from the northern triangle decrease not because things
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are getting a whole heck of a lot better in the northern triangle guatemala salvador el salvador
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honduras instead because we've changed our policies we are not doing catch and release we have built
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200 miles of wall and we are reforming our asylum system so that we are not taken advantage of that
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is america first immigration policy and i'm glad the trump administration got this monumental victory
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oh poor joe biden they've let him out of the basement and listen to what he had to say
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necessarily now we have over 120 million dead from covid i think the president and sean hannity
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had a little bit of fun with it in their exchange leading up to their town hall here's sean in the
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president you know joe left his bunker for five minutes and well he had another gaffe said a hundred
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and twenty million people now have died and from coronavirus i don't know whether to laugh or cry
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did he say that yes he did so that's a third of our population that's that would be they'll be off by
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quite a lot i mean he said that yes sir it's too bad i don't make things up i'm not i'm not fake news
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i do real news it's too bad it's too bad but you know i want to be a nice guy i think i am a nice
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guy i'm proud of being i love people yeah but my most important job is to run this country great i built
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it once so great turn it off now we're doing it again and it's happening so it's going to be better
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than ever but here's the thing i've got to do that folk you know i i this is serious business we can't
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have somebody that's a mistake that's not a mistake that's a serious error when he says he's running for
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the u.s senate that's a serious error when he says i'm going to beat joe biden which got very little
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coverage that's not like an error gee it's a slip up that's a serious error so when you just told me
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that i hadn't heard that that just happened i guess yes it did this is not good for joe biden because
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it is the repeating signal that he has a problem keeping it together and i i obviously don't wish
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that on anyone obviously people's health is more important than politics but this is someone who
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who obviously is struggling to just kind of stay with it in terms of where he is who he's talking to
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what he's saying and some basic facts that's not somebody that uh uh that we need as president
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it's just pretty pretty basic and simple as that
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what is life like in the woketopia that's what they're looking to find out in the minnesota town
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of powderhorn park where initially they vowed not to call the police that was that was their
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virtue signal to hoist the flag of the woketopia that they would not call the police and soon
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they found over 300 homeless had moved in and they were dealing with a pretty intense volume of drug
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dealers who would come to the area for their tradecraft and here's a here's a comment from
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carrie night and shade age 44 i'm not being judgmental explaining that she no longer allows her
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children ages 12 and 9 to play in the park by themselves it's not personal it's just not safe
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another resident michael erickson said he regretted calling 9-1-1 when two black teenagers cornered him
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a block away from his home held a gun to his chest and demanded his car keys he said he mistakenly handed
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over his house keys and the frustrated teams left him only to steal another car a few blocks away
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wow he regrets calling the police when two people pulled a gun on him and took his house keys and
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then when they weren't the car keys they went and did it to someone else so this is this is what the
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you know the kind of political movement that brands itself as black lives matter and defund the
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police really intends to bring to your neighborhood you can't let your kids play outside you have to deal
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with the homeless and the drug addicts and the drug dealers and if you get the gun pulled on you
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you either can't call the police because they aren't there or you're going to regret it because it's
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really your fault if you get hung up in these types of circumstances it it's just absolutely ridiculous
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that anyone would think that they owe it to someone else to live like this based on like sins of
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ancestors from hundreds of years ago the the piece that we cite is danielle wallace on fox news she's
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linked to reporting from other places about powder horn park the new extension of the territory of the
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woketopia i'm here in washington for votes this week and i got to see my good friend one of my best
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friends in congress thomas massey and i got to congratulate him in person for his big win in his
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primary election and thomas was someone that members of our leadership had targeted liz cheney the
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third ranking republican in the congress had endorsed and financially supported the challenger to thomas and
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i think that's largely because thomas is not a forever wars guy and i think it's also because procedurally
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he does not always fall in line with the team if he thinks that people should have to show up and vote
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then he makes the call to do that and i'm impressed with thomas i think that institutions like the
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congress need people like thomas massey around so even though the president whacked him on twitter
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even though some of our republican colleagues whacked him on twitter i am always sassy with massey i
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endorse thomas i made the maximum donation to him that i could through our campaign and i'm just
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grateful to see him win not just like by a little i think he got like i don't know 88 of the vote or
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something like that i don't know that oxygen is as popular as 88 but i'm grateful that his voters
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had the confidence to send him back and i look forward to working with thomas for an additional two
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years in congress on this podcast i have carefully chronicled the tyranny of big tech and the impact
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on our ability to have fair debate and discussion in this country about critical issues if you ever
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wonder who's on the other side particularly in the republican party i guess look no further than
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former ambassador nikki haley nikki haley tweeting censorship by tech companies especially censorship of
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conservative opinions violates the spirit of the law and the first amendment but more regulation
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would go too far in the other direction putting bureaucrats and lawyers in control of what gets
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said online either way free speech loses what does that mean so like i mean yes nikki it is absolutely
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right that if we engage in requirements for transparency there will likely be lawyers involved to vindicate
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our rights and that would sound pretty good for a lot of the people that have been just like straight
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up disappeared by twitter lately i talked about some of those people in the last episode they would
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love the chance to have a lawyer be able to go in and ask why they are unable to participate in the
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discussion that hundreds of millions of people participate in they just had their rights taken away from them
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and largely because they're a conservative but i guess if if you have the sort of like you know
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conservative inc world view of nikki haley you don't really have much to worry about from big tech
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i mean they're they're not going to shadow ban nikki haley you know who they shadow ban jim jordan
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martin meadows devin nunez and matt gates and so i guess the question for ambassador haley is
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so then what are we supposed to do i mean i don't love the idea of lawyers and bureaucrats being involved
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but it sure beats just having a bunch of people who hate us in silicon valley determining that because
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they were surprised by donald trump's victory in the 2016 election that they're just going to rob
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the 2020 election from the voters so i mean the the way nikki haley ends the tweet is particularly
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strange she says either way free speech loses so what we're supposed to just take the l like i thought
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this was a movement for winners i you know i thought we were supposed to win so much we were tired of
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winning but now we just have to accept like the grim and despondent dystopian fate that free speech
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loses screw that i think free speech should win i think that one of the reasons we have a congress
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is to step forward and vindicate these rights so it would sure help if one of my party's leading voices
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someone who is out building a national desire to achieve higher office if they would actually
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back the efforts that people like josh hawley and myself have introduced to try to reform section 230
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the community communication decency act or define some of these tech companies as common carriers
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at least to the point that we're able to get some transparency into their algorithms
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but no we can't win like that we can't fight for those changes we can't demand that accountability from
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big tech instead we just have to accept this grim proposition that either way free speech loses
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i don't believe in fighting for the loss i believe in fighting for the win
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congratulations to my fellow florida man governor ron de santis for signing legislation that was one of
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his top priorities as the governor of florida and i think it informs on some important national
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priorities regarding education and the importance of high teacher pay so there's a lot of evidence
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seemingly suggesting that the number one factor when determining the success of a student is not the
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size of the class it is not the physical plant it is not even access to technology the number one factor
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and whether or not that kid's going to do well is the quality of the teacher so the state of florida
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had established a regime previously that was a recruitment tool to attract teachers that were
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getting some of the highest standardized test scores now i understand there are people who don't always
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do well in standardized tests but they do well in other areas but a lot of evidence and we'll find the
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studies and put them up on the at gates takes twitter feed but this evidence is suggesting that if you've
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got teachers who are very high iq that are excelling on standardized tests that they are going to be
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able to teach to a broader spectrum of those students in a highly effective way so we put cash into the
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deal recruited better teachers and now we're willing we're looking at building out the overall compensation
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package to get high-end education talent in florida so the governor signed today uh a an increase in pay
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for teachers that is the largest florida education compensation increase in the state's history it
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will mean that starting teachers in the state of florida will make about forty seven thousand five
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hundred dollars um you know that uh is about a hundred million dollars in pay boosting just for that
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first step uh there's also additional pay increases for veteran teachers so that you won't have salary
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compression in the system and the governor got rare praise from the florida education association
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i don't know that they've ever praised a republican governor before but they're praising governor
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desantis and we're proud of him for standing behind florida's teachers recruiting some of the best talent
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that will lead to better education outcomes and it will continue to make florida a state i'm
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certainly very proud to be from thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates
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