Episode 39 - Huge Breaking News on Big Tech. NFL Star Slams Black Lives Matter's Radical Agenda. Kanye 2020?
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The Justice Department has arrested Jelaine Maxwell, the girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, a fellow groomer of Jeffrey epstein, who was involved in soliciting sex with underage girls, and is awaiting a superseding indictment with the evidence that will be acquired by the department.
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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 let's talk about the news big news in the
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justice department southern district of new york has arrested jelaine maxwell this is the girlfriend
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the fellow groomer of jeffrey epstein that was involved in a lot of this activity with underage
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girls where a lot of people are still seeking justice so she has been arrested she is in custody
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and awaiting what i perceive will be a likely a superseding indictment with the evidence that
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will be acquired by the justice department here's my hot take this was not about sex with jeffrey
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epstein and jelaine maxwell this was about power and this was about leverage if you look at what
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was going on in this particular period of time the united states was gearing up for the iraq war
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and if you look at the type of people that epstein was getting into compromising positions
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it will you saw leaders in politics leaders in academia leaders in business that were on his
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flights that were in his orbit that were in his friend group and it's my belief that the reason
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this compromising material was being acquired the reason that these men were being introduced to these
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young girls the reason a lot of it was i think recorded when you look at just the volume of tapes
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that were there like i don't think those tapes are just going to be epstein and maxwell with these girls
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i think that the tapes largely exist so that they could have leverage on people and at a time of
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war and international conflict they're just a lot of different international entities that have an
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incentive to ensure that the united states is acting consistent with with their views so if you look
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at maxwell her background her family background there's connection with intelligence services there there
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is uh i think likely to be a nexus not just with domestic activity but with international activity and
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international players we'll see let's keep her alive and let's bring the perpetrators to justice
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washington dc mayor mariel bowser established a several block area in northwest washington as black lives
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matter plaza and listen to her describe the purpose of that designation we commissioned um was the black
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lives matter mural uh and it's become a centering point a place for healing um strategizing talking but
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also redress which is a right in america where citizens from all over the country come to their
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nation's capital uh to deliver grievances at the footstep of the people's house that's not what
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happened we didn't see love and harmony and strategizing and coming together in unity on the
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fourth of july there's a piece from the daily caller that describes a very different scene at black lives
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matter plaza where the american flag is being trampled on and burned where protesters are chanting
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the fourth of july the american flag that's what we're saying that's what we're saying so this isn't a place
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that mariel bowser has established for the purpose of joy and togetherness and unity it's a place that
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people come to express hate hate for our country hate for our nation's independence hate for our founding
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for our flag and it's just unworthy of our nation's capital to give so much credence to a movement that is
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expressly designed not to heal racial tension that's that should always be an admirable goal not to bring
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our nation together or improve policing but to in fact demonize the very founding principles of our
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country shame on mayor bowser for establishing this designation and shame on those people who are so
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ungrateful and unappreciative for the benefits of america that they would go out and trample on our flag
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and demean the greatest country on earth big breaking news the ceos of the major technology
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companies in the united states of america are coming before the house judiciary committee
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to testify in our ongoing bipartisan antitrust probe mark zuckerberg from facebook tim cook from apple
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jeff bezos jeff bezos from amazon sundar pachai from google will be sitting next to one another
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before the house judiciary committee answering questions about their compliance with antitrust laws
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with their anti-competitive practices and with a real understanding as to how our existing laws
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tend to benefit protect and indemnify big tech while squeezing out opportunities for new platforms
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better consumer experiences and more freedom online so there are two areas where i think that
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you'll see this here and go first is when it comes to products the vertical integration at amazon is
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particularly concerning there are circumstances and experiences that we have uncovered in our
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investigation where people submit their products and then amazon finds a way to steal the ip replicate
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the tech and then provide the product at a lower cost harming the the innovator who is often american
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and benefiting a manufacturer willing to cheat often in china or or some other asian country where there is
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not substantial protection of intellectual property and then i think you'll also see concern over
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thought and speech uh and the extent to which entities like google and facebook in particular
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curate the information that they want and enhance it and then suppress the information that's not consistent
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with their with their political beliefs and if you want to check out project veritas look at their
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exposed google project their exposed facebook project you see that the very people who are engineering
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and tending to these algorithms and reviewing the content are pretty brazen in their unguarded
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moments about their willingness to harm people that say maga or donald trump or america first and then if
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there's anything critical of the administration they do everything they can to elevate it i mean look you
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see that on apple just if you're a podcast listener i mean you you can find podcasts now that are way
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elevated in the rankings beyond their subscriptions beyond their plays beyond their ratings just by virtue of
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the fact that their content seems to lead into this recharged sense of american wokeness and it doesn't
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have to do with objectivity and so whether that is in what people think or what they buy we have
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antitrust laws to protect against that type of market domination now you might hear some more
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libertarian purists suggest that these antitrust laws are unconstitutional that we just ought to
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allow the free market to operate and the extent to which the government interferes with that marketplace
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is is only a pollution of our purest economic freedoms but that is not the view that i hold when you
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look at the power that these technologies have to define society and life and commerce and speech
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it it simply cannot be ignored and the laws that we have do give us tools to go in and and modify conduct
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and modify the consumer experience the question will be whether or not we have the bipartisan will
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to execute on those existing laws and and i think that we can do it i think we should do it and i'm proud
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that my colleague david cicellini a democrat from rhode island has negotiated the physical presence of these
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major ceos of text platforms it will be a historic hearing in the congress i'll be there and i can't
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wait to fight for consumers and to fight for freedom online president trump delivered an amazing speech
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at mount rushmore drawing americans together to meet the challenge that we face from those who would
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want to replace america with something different with something diminished with something explicitly
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marxist we will not embrace that return to the second world we are an innovative forward-looking
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patriotic nation here are the words of the president in our schools our newsrooms even our corporate
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boardrooms there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance if you do not speak its
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language perform its rituals recite its mantras and follow its commandments then you will be censored
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banished blacklisted blacklisted persecuted and punished it's not going to happen to us
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make no mistake this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the american revolution that
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is why i am deploying federal law enforcement to protect our monuments arrest the rioters
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and prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law america's destiny is in our sights america's heroes
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are embedded in our hearts america's future is in our hands and ladies and gentlemen the best is yet to come
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america is seeing coronavirus cases surge and we're also seeing the average age of people with
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coronavirus really start to plummet so what we're learning is that you cannot successfully tell young
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people who do not fear this virus in terms of their own personal safety not to congregate because they
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they will simply ignore those orders there is no mechanism by which our country can literally lock down
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life to the point that teenagers and college students people in their 20s aren't going to find a way to
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one another when they personally don't fear the virus now they should be concerned about the virus they
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should be far more concerned about the virus than they are because young people can be vectors to our
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older americans to medically fragile individuals and this is is highly contagious but what we cannot do
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is go back down into the lockdown cycle for all americans because doing so has a real negative
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consequence on lives this is something i've talked about on the podcast locking people up with their
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abusers mental health the economic severity of a job loss on the life of a family and just the core
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of of an american family but there is a really good piece that puts some meat on the bone from the
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washington post it's a piece by william wan and heather long crisis for help drug overdoses are soaring
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during the coronavirus pandemic and the data they analyzed talks about how suspected overdoses nationally
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jumped 18 in march 29 in april and then 42 in may and this was data collected from ambulance teams
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hospitals and police and this is not a linear increase this was an exponential increase and so
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when we weigh the cost of lives potentially lost from coronavirus with the cost of these lockdowns i think
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that the policy choices become clear we have to tell people like my parents who are medically fragile who
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are in their 70s who do have underlying comorbidities to stay home to stay locked up and to limit their
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interaction with people and then for younger folks who are going to interact with people we've seen that
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the data shows it in florida and throughout the country we need exquisite testing we need enhanced hygiene
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we need cooperation with the private sector to ensure that when people are getting food or engaging in other
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essential services that they are protected and then we need to do everything we can to accelerate the
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therapeutics and the vaccines if you look at the progress we've already made with rendesivir with
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hydroxychloroquine i think that we will get there but in this interim time it is likely that the congress is
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going to be developing more tools for businesses to keep people employed and i think that as a society we've got to
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become more resilient and we cannot just rely on government to do that but it's critically important this week and
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likely next week as we hear louder calls for enhanced shutdowns to think about the lives that are not just
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impacted but that are lost as a consequence of shutting down american life so let's think about our fellow americans
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let's be smart let's be targeted and let's do everything we can to defeat coronavirus without
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losing the optimism that is inherent to this great american experience that we've had under the trump
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administration let's bring america back these job numbers are improving people want to spend money they
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want to be confident about america and let's give them every reason to do that with smart policy responses to
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coronavirus black lives matter black lives matter supports the deconstruction of the american family
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of marriages of a number of things that we've come to utilize for societal stability and success in our
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country marcellus wiley was a phenomenal defensive lineman for the dallas cowboys a true standout now he is a
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commentator on the nfl and he gave an interview that i think really offers a an important word of caution when
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you look at the nfl's embrace of this black lives matter movement and its dangerous ideology here's marcellus wiley my
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family structure is so vital important to me not only the one i grew up in but the one i'm trying to create right now being a
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create right now being a father and a husband that's my mission in life right now how do i reconcile that
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what i just told you with this mission statement that says quote we dismantle the patriarchal practice
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we disrupt the western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement when i know statistics when i know
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my reality forget statistics i knew this before i even went to columbia and saw these same statistics that
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i'm going to read to you right now that children from single parent homes versus two parent homes the
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children from the single parent homes this is in 1995 i was reading this five times more likely to
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commit suicide six times more likely to be in poverty nine times more likely to drop out of high school
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ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances 14 times more likely to commit rape 20 times more
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likely to end up in prison and 32 times more likely to run away from home i knew that you know why i knew it
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because a lot of my friends didn't have family structures that were nuclear like mine and they
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found themselves outside of their dreams and goals and aspirations so when i see that or as a mission
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statement for black lives matter it makes me scratch my head when i also see their mission is to eradicate
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white supremacy in 2020 white supremacy is the mission that's a lot of digging through minutia right there
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i am on a show that i'm hosting along with another black guy who is hosting with me who replaced another
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black guy and that's just one example of it so i understand i respect your space i respect what you're
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protesting for but will you respect others who don't support that same protest jason reed with espn
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is reporting that the nfl will play the black national anthem before week one games this song lift every
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voice and sing is traditionally known as the black national anthem and they will play it before the
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star-spangled banner i am flabbergasted by this america is one nation we have one national anthem and we have
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one unified destiny the fact that the nfl is doing this does not upset me because of some you know elevation
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of some group of people it bothers me because it divides us as a country like we don't have a
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hispanic national anthem and an asian national anthem we have an american national anthem and and i think
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that part of what makes our country special is that people come here to embrace the values of americanism
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and those are values that have made up a tremendously successful mosaic of people and experiences and
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successes for our country how can we continue to advance america under the concept that we rise and
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fall together if we continue to divide ourselves into more and more distinct groups and and i think
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ultimately if you if you have to divide your yourself into groups uh for some sense of grievance or
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victimhood that's all the more challenging and troubling and concerning and i that seems to be what
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this is like they're not playing the black national anthem as the consequence of some celebration they're
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playing it out of grievance and i think that we lose the uniqueness of the bond we have as americans
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if we allow that to persist so it's it's really disgusting that the nfl would would stoop to division
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and uh the the acceptance of different americas rather than one unified nation and i think that they will see
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a resulting decline in their fan base as a consequence i mean the nfl took a hit in terms of valuation in
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terms of viewership in terms of the the economic impact of their television contracts and merchandising
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sales when they decided to embrace elements of the kneeling for the flag which is something i don't
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support and so now you continue to see these elements of americanism attacked by the nfl watered down
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by the nfl and this is not the action of a great institution within american life i think that
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you're going to see the nfl decline in terms of its social significance in our country and that's a shame
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because it was something that used to bring families together people would have barbecues invite their
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neighbors and friends over cheer for their favorite teams develop rivalries and and you know fun leagues at
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work uh to test each other's knowledge of sports and now you see something far different sports being used
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as a divisive feature of american society be better nfl love america more the real america all of america
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chris osborne at the national interest has a phenomenal piece on the f-35 and the next
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generation of warfare launched from the skies i care a lot about the f-35 program we've got a
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number of these aircraft bed down in my district in northwest florida here's the innovation imagine
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an f-35 that is not just a platform for missiles but then also can essentially birth and launch out
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a swarm of drones that can then be controlled from the f-35 so instead of just one aircraft engaged
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if you get the aircraft into the airspace you need you then have essentially a swarm that you're able
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to control to overwhelm air defense systems you know one of the challenges that we face in north
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korea one of the challenges we face when looking at china as a near-peer threat is that they've really
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developed some some high-end air defense systems but if we're able to have the stealth capabilities of
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the f-35 then linked to the swarming drone capabilities birthed out of the f-35 it is really
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going to be a force multiplier it is my belief that we are not going to win the wars of the future
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against our near-peer adversaries and against near power competition just with the airplanes alone
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it's going to take the right missile systems weapon systems and so we have to view the aircraft
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not as an end unto itself but as essentially an innovation platform so that these new capabilities
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can be added on and can be developed so i'm really excited about this check out the piece in the
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national interest the united states of america must always hold the high ground
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thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates and you'll likely be listening to kanye west on
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his upcoming new album before you're listening to him deliver a stump speech on a presidential campaign
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kanye announces his presidential aspirations via twitter with a hashtag vision 2020 he obviously has
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an album coming out this is obviously a publicity stunt he got some attention when elon musk his friend
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who had posted a picture with kanye i think in the prior day tweeted out that kanye had elon musk's
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full support well i think that's support for the publicity stunt and for the album i like kanye's music
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i'm gonna buy the album i'm gonna listen to the album it it seems to have some faith-based tones to
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it and kanye is always a magical lyricist so i'm i'm looking forward to it maybe not so much the
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presidential run but i don't think we have to worry about that tune in tomorrow make sure to like and
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