Episode 83 - Defund The Mob. Woke Protest Rules for White People. Research for Shrooms？
Summary
On this episode of Hot Takes, Congressman Matt Gores (R-Illinois) has a hot take on President Trump's new executive order to defund the mob, and the status of psychedelic research in the United States. He also takes a look at a new poll on psychedelics decriminalization in the U.S., and explains why he thinks trans people should be deprived of jobs and housing.
Transcript
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates we sound a little different today it's because
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i'm on the road but still here let's talk about the news president trump taking action to defund
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the mob a great story in the washington examiner trump orders review to redirect federal funds
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from cities that permit anarchy the president has now issued a memo to his executive agency heads
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if there are grants if there are awards of federal dollars to communities that won't protect a
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library you know maybe you don't go fund their library if it's a community that you know won't
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protect their parks from being defaced maybe don't give them a big federal grant to go and
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you know re-landscape their parks this is what an executive does i think president trump here is
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applying good business sense and it is ludicrous for these weak state and local officials who permit
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lawlessness to then expect taxpayers in other parts of the country to subsidize their failure and to
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invest in their failure we cannot do that you know frankly we would like all communities all states
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to be healthy and safe for the citizens of this country but certainly when that standard is just
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abandoned you cannot ask communities like mine to go and give big federal grants to places like portland
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in seattle where in far too many circumstances they've waved the white flag of surrender to the mob
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from the state and local level and thank goodness the trump administration kind of laid the law down
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and we finally got some order there but the disorder does spread and it needs to be confronted with
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strength this decision by the trump administration is a sign of strength and i fully support it
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it is never a bad time to have a hot take on the status of psychedelic law and our friends over at
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marijuana moment uh kyle yeager they've got the story three in five dc voters support psychedelics
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decriminalization initiative new poll fines and initiative 81 will be on the ballot for washington dc voters
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uh currently sitting at 60 percent uh saying they would vote in favor 24 saying that they would vote
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against the measure 16 undecided uh so interestingly enough in the united states congress i've got
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legislation co-sponsored with alexandria ocasio-cortez to democratize access to psilocybin and mdma for
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research purposes uh and that was up for a vote as part of an amendatory uh process with the appropriations
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act and i think we only got like 40 something votes it was uh opposed by a vast majority of the congress
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but there are studies showing the positive effect that psilocybin can have on people with cancer and
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matter of fact canada has allowed the use of psilocybin for cancer patients now so you know
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not as if canada is usually out there making crazy medical decisions i mean heck we are going to be
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important a lot of our drugs from canada so uh you know it's not like some third world country mdma has
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also shown some positive results with service members who come back and suffer from ptsd so i think that
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you know we should always be open-minded when it comes to research that's a great a way to really
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get your arms around what the applicability of a certain substance could be so i hope that we can
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get a congress more accepting of research in the meantime dc residents definitely in favor
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according to marijuana moment according to this survey
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amazon enforces trans orthodoxy the company that won't allow a publisher's ads for my skeptical book
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this is the wall street journal abigail schreier and she has an issue with amazon willingly promoting
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books that celebrate transgender activity non-binary gender activity with today's youth
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but her writing is critical of that worldview she is critical of kind of the trans culture
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and it doesn't get the same benefit quite the double standard i don't know irreversible damage is the title
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of her book maybe check it out but it is hard to sell books without amazon i could tell you that as a
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guy you know with a book coming out on september 22nd i can just tell you that they always let you know
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going in that most of your sales are going to be on amazon and people typically promote their amazon page
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because that's where they're going to get distribution and acceptance of the audience and so
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when they have the power to crowd out even discourse even dissent on something as unsettled as
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the impact of going transgendered as a young person i think that is that is destructive to
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the marketplace of ideas i don't know what the right answer is for a transgender middle schooler i
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certainly don't think we should ever be mean to people who are trans i certainly don't think they
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should be deprived jobs or housing or anything like that but in terms of what we think the emotional
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psychological cost is to a middle schooler or high schooler i think that there's got to be room in
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the united states for debate and disagreement and research on that question before we simply crowd
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out one viewpoint and i would hope that like these big american companies like amazon would understand
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that they don't help the country when they just like declare themselves the arbiter of truth
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you've got to allow truth to develop and be understood and be tested through critique and
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somehow our political correctness doesn't always allow us to do that and it's a shame check out the
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piece in the wall street journal check out the book and please please don't sign up for the cancel culture
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one of our office's videos got over 1.3 million views online yesterday we thought
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you might want to hear it it's sort of the dueling nancy pelosi's you'll see she takes one perspective
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in one circumstance and a very different perspective in another take a listen to the speaker leaders take
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responsibility so i said he's a weak leader he doesn't take responsibility he places blames blame on
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others i think that they owe that this salon it was me an apology for setting up it was a setup
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if you did not catch the wolf blitzer bill barr interview it was a doozy a lot of great parts
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you should totally check it out we'll provide a link on our social media but my favorite part of
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this interview is when wolf asks about foreign interference take a listen the intelligence
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community says russia china and iran are seeking to interfere in the u.s presidential election for
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various reasons but mostly they want to sow dissent in our country exacerbate racial tensions etc like
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that of those three countries that the intelligence community has pointed to russia china and iran
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which is the most assertive the most aggressive in this area i believe it's china which one china
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china more than russia right now yes why do you say that because i've seen the intelligence that's
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what i've concluded what are they trying to do i'm not going to discuss that to this but they're
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trying to help who who i'm not going to get into that more aggressive than russia yes because the
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u.s intelligence can be trying to influence the united states yes so listeners to this podcast have
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been hearing for quite some time that china is the real threat china prefers biden china knows that
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biden you know has has a history of agreeing to their worldview from a policy perspective and from a
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policy standpoint and so uh i think it's very interesting that the attorney general was so
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matter of fact i could just tell you based on my own service in the congress the intelligence i've
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reviewed i completely agree with attorney general bill barr the aggressive threat that we face the most
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aggressive threat that we face is from china russia they will be mischievous they will try to
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interfere they've tried to interfere before they will probably try to interfere also in the future
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but where we have to become the most resilient is against china i appreciate the attorney general's
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honesty on that his clarity and it reinforces what we've been talking about on hot takes
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i love the united states of america and it's why i stand so strong against the woketopia like this
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effort to replace the united states with a different value set with a different country with
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just a totally uh realigned perspective on inclusion and equality see i believe in this country we are
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prosperous because we treat people equally because we allow equal opportunity for folks to share their
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perspective to grow to lead to prosper and we must always stand for that and while obviously we have
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not always achieved it we cannot stop striving to achieve it and when we give up on that concept when we
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say no we're not going to work to create equality in our country we're going to try to put one group of
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people over another group of people i think that that is where we've seen the worst moments in our
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country's history in the past and it would probably be where we would see the most uh horrific moments in
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the future because you know we uh have to be loving americans and appreciative americans to everyone
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but i did wonder to myself if the woketopia were to transpire what would be the rules what could what
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could you say or not say do or not do where could you lead where would you be required to follow
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and i figured the best way to figure out how the woketopia would govern the rest of us would be to look at
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the rules that they have for themselves and their own allies and so i found the manual the manual.com
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in their culture section will post the article to our social media proper protest etiquette for allies
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now i can't go through each and every rule that they have because it is insufferable but one thing
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that you know is that they call allies the white people i'll just save you that that um that plan so
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rule number one know your place before you show up to your first protest it's important to know and
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recognize your place you're going into someone else's home so it's vital you check your privilege at
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the door before barreling up the stairs protests can be electrifying spaces but they're not parties
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nor are they trendy gatherings to casually dip in and out of they're serious highly organized and
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mission driven so they must be treated as such um one thing i do appreciate it says don't antagonize
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the police um but then you know it's in that section uh it says the same white privilege that
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allows you to confront authority without fear could very well be the thing that saves you in the crowd
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wide violence your actions might inspire so they're not saying don't antagonize the police because we
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should respect the police or not incite people they're saying that it's their privilege that
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could protect them next rule not all chants are for you though it may be tempting to join in every
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time a new chant is started it is important to recognize that not all protest chants are for all
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participants chants like i can't breathe and hands up don't shoot speak specifically to a type of police
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brutality that most white folks simply haven't experienced if you're called to join in then do
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but really think about the things that you're saying a similar note could be made about raising
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the black power fist again this is a gesture with a long and important history so be careful about
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appropriating it after reading that i still don't know what the rules are like are you allowed to use
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the black power fist or not it seems like if you appreciate it enough you're allowed to so long as
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it's not appropriating and then on the chance you're not allowed to lead the chance but you can join in
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the chance if others ask you to join in the chance but i i mean i guess you have to make sure you stop
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first because if it ever looks like you're leading the chant then you violated that rule without really
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wanting to uh here's another rule listen to black leaders this one should be obvious but it's been
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striking to me how often black leadership has been usurped by white allies at the protests i've
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been to hmm that's interesting we might come back to that this is not okay and it is vital that black
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leaders be the ones calling the shots leading the chance and determining the flow of the march if you
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really want to support the cause listen more than you speak and do as you're told whoa that got deep
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so if you are not black you are to do as you're told listen don't speak uh and don't usurp anybody
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that is black that is the rule as written uh gosh that is uh that is quite the society that they would
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build um that they would that they would invite others to last one i'll read don't over document
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there's a fine line to walk in terms of protest documentation on one hand it's important to take
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photos record videos and generally document the experience of a historic protest movement like
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this however any documentation must serve the cause not distract from it therefore you should avoid
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posting anything on social media that centers you in the narrative so instead of snapping a cute
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protest selfie for your grid use your phone to document arrests or instances of police violence
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and please please please never include the faces of other protesters in your uploads interesting so
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again the rules here seem a little complicated you're not allowed to take pictures of your face
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and upload them but you're also not allowed to take pictures of other people's face unless there's a
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negative view of police and then you're obligated to take the photos well seems like a lot going on
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i prefer treating people equally uh regardless of who they are where they come from who they love
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i'm the kind of person that thinks that america will flourish when we embrace and love our fellow americans
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and this just sounds like a terrible place to me
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president trump was in pennsylvania let's take a listen i watched nancy pelosi you must wear your mask
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you have to wear your mask and we're going to keep every beauty salon closed in california and all over
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the country and then i see a picture i say uh nancy pelosi well where's the mask
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and i'll tell you what she must have treated that beauty salon owner pretty badly she uses the salon and
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i don't think i would have turned her in i would have said well you know
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she's a customer i got to take care of my customers right
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but she made them open and the salon turned her in and the salon did business with her
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and then she made a terrible mistake because you want people that can't be set up
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she said i was set up i was set up by the salon owner i was set up
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so i just put out that if she was set up then she shouldn't be leading
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i want the salon owner to lead the house of representatives because
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she set up think of it she set up the speaker of the house
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that was a big mistake as soon as i heard she said
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well she set me up nancy you're not supposed to get set up you're representing our country
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you know what she should have done honestly she should have said i made a mistake sorry
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and nobody would be talking about this is like the biggest story
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this is the big crazy nancy highly overrated person let me just say
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she's a highly overrated person they give her such good play she is a highly overrated person look
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they just turned off a camera because they don't want me saying that
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well over the last three and a half years we've secured america's borders fixed our broken trade deals
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rebuilt the united states military obliterated the isis caliphate 100 percent
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and built the single greatest economy in the history of the world
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and now we're going to do it again have to do it again
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thanks so much for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates
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