Episode 48 - Move Over, Joe Exotic. NYPD Under Attack while De Blasio Celebrates Inmate Release. COVID Blues.
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Bill de Blasio takes aim at the NYPD, California considers banning singing at worship services, and more. Hot Takes is a podcast by Popular Science covering hot topics in the culture and politics of the world. Hosted by John Rocha and Matt Galatzan.
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You all were not telling the truth, and you should not be trusted.
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Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.
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Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.
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Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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where the mayor is just crowing about his policies
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that have reduced the numbers incarcerated to historically low levels in the Big Apple.
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We now have fewer people in our jails than any time since World War II,
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This has been roundly criticized by law and order conservatives,
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If you look at this last week and compare 2020 to 2019,
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and I believe the Washington Examiner did the analysis,
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in a comparison of this week from this week in the prior year.
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So not exactly a record I would be too proud of.
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And, you know, there are also, in addition to the data,
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On Twitter, Jack Posobiec replied to de Blasio,
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ask the parents of that one-year-old who was shot in his stroller.
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And there you're seeing a reference to DeVell Gardner Jr.,
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a toddler who was killed over the weekend when two men opened fire at a barbecue in Brooklyn.
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Also, I think it's important to note that you are seeing recidivism
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from the very people that Bill de Blasio is releasing under these policies.
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and that is really, I think, well chronicled in a piece in The Blaze by Breck Dumas.
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saying that he has no respect for the leadership of the Sergeants Benevolence Association.
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Not a great place to be in, and especially when you see the NYPD under attack.
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The chief of the New York Police Department was on Neil Cavuto's show,
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One individual jumped onto the roadbed where we were and came running directly up to us
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and immediately started, cursing us out, pushing.
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He wasn't leaving, so we went to make an arrest.
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As we were arresting him, he grabs onto a railing by the walkway, and a struggle begins.
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That's when the individual comes up with a cane and hits my lieutenant in the head,
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We wish all the women and men in blue the best.
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and we'll do our best in government to make sure that we have your back.
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If the singing is one of your favorite parts of a church worship service,
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given Gavin Newsom's recent regulation limiting the ability of people in a worship service to sing.
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But that regulation is now under the scrutiny of litigation,
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after three churches have sued Gavin Newsom for this ban on singing because of coronavirus.
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Three Northern California churches filed the action,
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and this was a regulation just implemented at the beginning of July.
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And I think that the Attorney General has provided really significant guidance on this.
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If there's a regulation that disproportionately impacts religion as opposed to secular society,
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that regulation is non-constitutional because it violates the First Amendment
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and it violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment
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when we contemplate religion and the ability for people to exercise their religion as they so choose.
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Now, if it is sort of neutral as to the question of religion,
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if he was to ban all singing in all circumstances,
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So it's my hope that we'll be able to have worship services and singing at worship services,
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and we'll follow the litigation against Governor Newsom on that front.
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Congressman Thomas Massey and Ken Buck and I have a documentary coming out on HBO.
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Abigail Tracy with Vanity Fair's The Hive has the exclusive coverage.
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I had really started to think about a Donald Trump presidency.
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He could bring the fight to a town that badly needed it.
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You know, when I first heard that term, I hated it.
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If people are going to drain the swamp like the president wants to do,
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they need better information about how this place is broken.
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The hierarchy of power in Washington, D.C. is special interest groups' leadership, rank-and-file members.
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It's who can raise the money and the special interest groups control the money.
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Members of Congress are expected to pay for their committee assignments.
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It's basically how to whore yourself out for money.
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You care about health care, the environment?
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Politics of hate is the most productive technique for fundraising we have.
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Make yourself a target when you live like I live.
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Everybody's so obsessed deciding what we should do.
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The only quid pro quo is Trump's commitment to drain the swamp.
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What has President Trump done to drain the swamp?
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I don't know what is in the rest of this movie.
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They followed us around for calendar year 2019.
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Portland Police Officer Jakaria Jackson seems to have had enough with some of these Black Lives
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He seems to have a unique perspective as an African-American police officer in Portland.
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It says something when you're at a Black Lives Matter protest.
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You have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd.
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And you have white people screaming at black officers.
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I got to see folks that really do want change like the rest of us that have been impacted
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And then I got to see those people get faded out by people that have no idea what racism
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They don't even know that the tactics that they are using are the same tactics that were
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We thank everyone willing to serve in law enforcement and protect us from the permanent
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And we offer that thanks and gratitude to everyone of all background, of all races, because we
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Three Florida women at the Broward County, Fort Lauderdale Airport were arrested for attacking
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employees at Spirit Airlines because their flight has been delayed.
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Tuesday night, this was the scene at gate G-12.
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Spirit Airlines flight to Philadelphia delayed.
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Some throwing their garbage at Spirit employees.
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Among the items tossed at the gate employees were phones, shoes, full water bottles, metal
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The assault lasting roughly a minute before being broken up.
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Broward Sheriff's Office arresting three women from Philadelphia.
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20-year-old Tamiya Wright, 21-year-old Kiera Ferguson, and 22-year-old Dinesha Dixon arrested
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So these three ladies, if you can call them that, get upset with Spirit because of a delay
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And they just go straight up ham, you know, throwing garbage, throwing things.
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And I don't know if this is just the explosion of emotion with the news of an airline delay,
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or if this is becoming like the new normal in society where you don't really think the
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cops are going to get called, you don't really think that your disturbances will ever be held
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People could just do things without the fear of consequences.
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And of course, we can all get frustrated with airlines.
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Look, I travel on airlines often twice a week and am infrequently frustrated.
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But the people who are there working, trying to connect you, it's not their fault if there's
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It's not their fault if there was a routing issue or a scheduling issue.
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And so don't be cruel or mean or criminally abusive to the workers for airlines who are
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just trying to do their jobs under very challenging conditions with probably a lot of stress in their
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own lives right now to stay safe and stay healthy and stay in service of the rest of us.
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Be better and know that when people screw up, at least in Florida, there's still going to be
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The COVID blues are hitting the country and the impact may be more widespread than you'd
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This report coming from Alexander Tansy, and it is entitled Majority of Americans in Largest Cities
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The survey was conducted by the U.S. Census Household Pulse.
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They have collected information on how people's lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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And in some of the sunniest cities, we're seeing some of the saddest Americans with
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the highest depression levels reported in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Miami.
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And when you really drill down into these numbers, you see that almost two-thirds of the respondents
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are in a household where someone has lost their income due to coronavirus.
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And particularly for people under the age of 50, what folks are most worried about is not
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It is the impact on livelihoods and resources and careers and the ability to get your life
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And so I think that this is a really important thing to continue to note as we make public
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It is almost impossible to unwind the economic impact of coronavirus from the impact on people's
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Because when you see mental health deteriorate, other elements of physical health deteriorate,
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And so it is truly something that we must weigh.
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I know this is something that the governor of Florida and I have discussed with great
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He tracks the suicide rate, the overdose rate, the domestic violence rate, the sexual violence
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And we are seeing real increases across the board in these quality of life metrics and in
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these crime metrics and in these public health metrics.
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And so it's my hope that we can really accelerate these vaccine candidates that we've talked about
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on the podcast, because I think ultimately that will liberate us from the mental health
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malaise that this Bloomberg report seems to chronicle.
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White House chief of staff and my good friend Mark Meadows was on Martha McCallum's program to
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discuss the administration's response to coronavirus.
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Obviously, when we look at the coronavirus and trying to deal with it, we've learned a
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And sadly, it's a virus that we know that we're still looking for the answers from China in
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But more importantly, we're having to deal with how we make sure that there's proper therapeutics.
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I just left the Oval Office a few minutes ago as we're looking on at least what we can
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do from a therapeutics and vaccine standpoint and trying to make sure the American people
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But I think the other part that we have is really all about trying to make sure that we
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And obviously, we've made a lot of progress, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
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We wish Mr. Meadows and President Trump and Vice President Pence all the best as they continue
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to secure the resources necessary to respond to this pandemic.
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I can say I'm proud that in the state of Florida, not one person who has needed a ventilator or
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We've built out the capabilities in strong partnership with the federal government.
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10 million masks, 15 million gown and glove kits.
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Our medical professionals are being tested with great frequency.
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Our nursing home staff is being tested on a daily basis.
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And we're doing everything we can to make sure we put our country and our state in the
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best position to be resilient as we rebuild, reopen and engage in the great American renewal.
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My people in this case specifically being Donald Trump Jr., Jim Jordan, and in fact, several
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other Republican accounts who remained locked out of their Twitter accounts beyond the periods
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of time when myself and some others had been allowed back into that access.
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And this, of course, follows the remarkable Twitter hack that we saw that created financial
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fraud against people that went and created false content on people's timelines.
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And because large verified accounts were targeted, there was a shutdown and the inability for large
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And Jim Jordan and Donald Trump Jr. saw a real delay in being reactivated.
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And so I think it does beg the question of Twitter, you know, what are the protocols when we have
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How can we learn more about our obligations and rights under user contracts?
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You know, those those fine print documents that you just scroll to the end of and accept.
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You know, I think that perhaps this Twitter hack is an educational opportunity for us to really
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learn that, you know, in an event where security is compromised, where national security could even
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be compromised, what will be the protocol and the doctrine that will drive the decision making?
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I think it would be a good thing for transparency and openness on those questions.
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You know, we covered in the show yesterday the screenshots that were shared, great reporting
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over at Breitbart, where Twitter can suspend or suppress or alter the nature of a trend or perhaps
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even a person. And so as Americans, would you want to know what trends have been suppressed
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on the Twitter blacklist? Would you want to know what people are on the blacklist? What accounts?
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Maybe the United States Congress should subpoena Twitter to find out who is on their blacklist and
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why. Maybe Congress should ask questions about what causes a specific trend to be blacklisted or
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enhanced. I certainly know that Project Veritas has put out viral content, explosive videos, exposing
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Twitter and other technology platforms, and they just don't seem to trend. I'm willing to bet that
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Twitter has suppressed the spread of content from Project Veritas because they didn't like the honest
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reporting when the cameras were turned on them. We should learn more about this. I want to know
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who's on the blacklist and what content has been blacklisted by Twitter. No technology platform should
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get to control what we see and what we think so they can control how we act. That is not how America
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works. And that is some sort of like dystopian view of the cherished Americans in our country that I'm
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still fighting for. Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gates. Have a great
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weekend, everyone, and tune in next week. I'll be here with more Hot Takes.