Episode 90 - Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers？ Beethoven Canceled. Florida Hit Hard by Hurricane Sally.
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Congressman Matt Gays (R.I.P. Congressman Matt Gates (R-GA) talks about the devastating flooding in the Florida Panhandle, Florida, and the aftermath of Tropical Storm Dorian, a tropical storm that has already deluged the area with rain, and is on its way to the Florida Panhandle.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the abraham accords
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have been executed at the white house i was there to witness the historic event and while there were
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great speeches given by the representatives of all of the countries privy to the accords whether
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that be the united states or israel or the united arab emirates or bahrain i thought there was
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something particularly noteworthy about the remarks of israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu now
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bb has been accused throughout his career of being a warmonger and he sure as hell is making a lot of
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peace on his way out of power as likely we're seeing the end of the bb reign in israel we are
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seeing a real ignited sense of peace and graciousness take a listen to some of the prime minister's
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comments thank you both for your wise leadership and for working with the united states in israel
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i am grateful to king hamad of bahrain and to you foreign minister abdul latif al-zayani for joining us
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joining us in bringing hope to all the children of abraham
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to all of israel's friends in the middle east those who are with us today and those who will join
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us tomorrow i say assalamu alaikum peace unto thee shalom
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florida governor ron desantis has issued a state of emergency for the panhandle counties of our state
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those are in the first congressional district which i serve and as i've talked to state emergency
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managers and local officials we see a number of water rescues underway what's occurring is really a
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series of months and months of rainfall being dumped on the florida panhandle in a matter of
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hours and there are two effects here first is the effect of the combined storm surge with
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these heavy heavy rains but as the storm moves north the rain is going to continue to fall and
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it is going to fill the rivers and then those rivers will crest and when they flow downstream toward
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the gulf of mexico they're going to encounter flood plains that are already full of water and so the
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flooding impact while severe now and combined with the storm surge is not going to abate
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just when the storm moves on there will be a second wave if you will of risk associated with those
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floods i spoke with governor desantis yesterday he talked about the positioning of water rescue
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assets the support for our local officials who are engaged in that work we're seeing reports of many
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many uh rescue requests to the escambia county sheriff's office and that work is underway please
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continue to follow your local emergency management offices wear has also covered this very closely and
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is getting out the important information as to where people can go for high ground but it's it's very
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important now if you are able not to overburden emergency management officials by making good decisions by being
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resilient by following the direction of our local officials that will help ensure that our resources
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are best directed to those in the most severe need please pray for the florida panhandle these are tough
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times for us but frankly we're going to get through this we are used to it we're very well equipped to deal
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with these kinds of storms and we're dealing with really an extraordinary amount of water right now
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that can be quite dangerous and we ask for the support and cooperation of our residents and citizens
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as we encounter the challenge ahead governor desantis was on the weather channel discussing
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this storm just moments ago take a listen we have uh both with the florida national guard we've
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activated hundreds of national guardsmen they have high water vehicles to be able to go in and perform
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rescues if needed we also have helicopters staged in the area and then we also have activated some of the
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urban search and rescue teams have scrambled those from other parts of the state uh staged them up in
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north florida and so they'll be ready to go obviously when you have 80 mile an hour winds uh they're not
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going to be able to operate in that so as the winds die down if there's help needed they will be there
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ready to do it uh and so we're really looking at this yes it actually got stronger on the wind and 100 mile
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an hour winds is nothing to sneeze at but as you mentioned there's so much water being dropped there's going
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to be more this is a very slow moving storm you're going to see more and more water accumulate you're
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going to continue to see flooding uh but what will happen is as this storm continues to move past places
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like pensacola and goes north the water that it drops north of the panhandle is also going to impact
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floods that could happen uh several days from now so this is not something that's just going to be a
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one or two day thing uh people are going to have to be vigilant for for several days
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now even beethoven is being canceled vox's nate sloan and charlie harding have the story how beethoven's
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fifth symphony put the classism in classical music now you may be wondering what did beethoven say that
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was so offensive well actually nothing the critique of beethoven is not a consequence of any of his
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action or behavior or speech but simply that he achieved such a level of success and he became so
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symbolic within the classical movement that the perception was able to spread that one had to be
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and look like beethoven to be successful and so merely by being a white male the argument being
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made in this vox piece is that beethoven perpetuated elitism and classism and exclusion within classical music
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here's my hot take nobody should have to apologize for their gender or their race no matter what it is
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and success and achievement in humankind will come in every gender in every color in every creed and
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in every background that's what makes us so special as humans that we can come from different places and
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have different experiences and achieve greatness like beethoven did and so in the fifth symphony the
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piece begins with this dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun and then it ends with the lighter
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melodic tunes and it symbolizes going from you know this kind of dramatic moment of struggle to triumph and
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for beethoven that was reflected autobiographically in his need to overcome personal deafness to become this
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great composer but now the move from you know struggle to triumph by a white man is viewed as some sort of
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overcoming obstacles that it's not possible for a white man to truly understand and overcome obstacles
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the fifth symphony to be cast in this light through the lens of history and through the lens of music
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what nonsense no matter what color you are there are folks out there who have to overcome obstacles
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you know i see it every day in my wonderful mother since i've been three years old my mother has been in
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a wheelchair she often has pain that she never even talks about or complains about and she triumphs in her
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life despite her personal challenges and while i'm sure there are challenges that absolutely people have to
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overcome as a consequence of their circumstance it is not a reason to demean the successes of others
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just because of their skin color and so while vox may be up for canceling beethoven
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dr li ming yon presents as a whistleblower calling out the chinese communist party for its role in
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coronavirus she was on tucker carlson tonight take a listen to the interview
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is the virologist who says she has evidence about where this pandemic actually came from
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we're happy to have her on tonight doctor thanks so much for coming on hi hi tucker hi tucker thank
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you thank you i know that you've published some of your research you're planning on publishing more
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soon give us for a non-scientific audience a summary of why you believe this virus came from a lab in
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wuhan please okay briefly from my first report i can present the solid scientific evidence to our
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audience that this virus kobe 19 sas kobe 2 virus actually is not from nature it is a man-made virus
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created in the lab based on the china military discover and owned the very unique bat coronavirus
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which cannot affect people but after the modification becomes a very harmful virus at now
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so i have evidence to show why they can do it what they have done how did they do it now this gets
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even weirder because following the interview instagram actually labeled this as misinformation as untrue based
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on the reports that they have purportedly aggregated from independent fact checkers my question is who
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fact checks the fact checkers and why is big tech given the ability to arbitrate truth or falsity in
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our country you know the motives and suggestions and science of dr yawn are fair to be questioned and
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tested other people should be brought in to observe whether or not she's correct in her reflections on
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what the chinese communist party has said but here's what i know when you've got a few folks at instagram or at
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other big tech companies that just declare themselves the arbiters of truth those who can be so enlightened that
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they can determine whether or not something is candid before the rest of us have the opportunity to test those
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mores against facts and evidence we lose the important robust debate and discussion
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that is absolutely necessary for a free society so i don't know if dr yawn is telling the truth
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i do know that the chinese communist party lied to our country i do know that they had the gene sequence
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and held it and that they didn't release it and so it's entirely consistent with what the ccp has done
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to uh i think fall in line with these allegations by dr yawn but i am not here for big tech telling
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the rest of us what we can and cannot believe i suspect tucker will be dealing with this tonight
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on his show and i'm going to be watching some economic news cnbc's fred imbert has the story
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dow rises 100 points ahead of fed announcement and today we're seeing stocks rise as investors are
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bracing themselves for the federal reserve's latest decision on monetary policy this will be the last
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meeting of the fed before the u.s presidential election some good earnings numbers from fedex
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boosting sentiment and it appears that chairman jerome powell has more tolerance for inflation with
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the decision to keep interest rates low so markets responding well to that we hope that the president
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is re-elected and that that maintains the sense of optimism in our economy and in our country that
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has driven more investment here that has created rising wages and that really put us in a great
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position before this pandemic so more inflation likely means that it's a good time for americans to
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accrue debt right now you know our boomer parents really benefited by accruing debt for their
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homes and then seeing inflation rise so their earnings rose and at the same time their debt
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wasn't rising at the same degree as their earnings so they were able to build equity in homes and pay
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them off faster and sell them for higher prices with rising real estate if inflation occurs we could see
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the most damaging impacts for savers and seniors and those who are you know still earning who are not on
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a fixed income would likely be the greatest beneficiaries but all in all we still just
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have to see the productivity and the job numbers continuing to beat expectations and even in the
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wake of this pandemic the trump administration has found a way to ensure that we continue to beat
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expectations on jobs that will drive productivity that will hopefully instill greater consumer confidence
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and will ensure that america's best economic days are still ahead of us
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i got the chance to join lou dobbs last evening take a listen to the interview in florida there are
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three reasons why the president is surging first the jewish vote donald trump has been the most pro-israel
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candidate probably in america's history today's abraham accords will only create more enthusiasm for
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the president in florida with those voters second is the hispanic vote this might not be politically
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correct lou but the hispanic vote is surging for president trump because they are turned off by this
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black lives matter movement that is becoming increasingly violent and increasingly destructive
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and i would say the third reason is that the biden campaign itself has become paralyzed by their own
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political correctness you won't believe this but the biden campaign is refusing to go door to door to
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to talk to their voters and encourage them to participate in the political process and so it's a
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lot like the trump campaign is going back and forth on the basketball court scoring uncontested layups
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because the biden campaign has become so paralyzed by this nonsense over the virus needing to impact
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every element of our life major league baseball announcing an agreement between the league and the
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players association to move elements of the playoffs into a bubble this will be the first time since i
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think 1944 that the world series is not contested on one of the home fields of the teams and it appears
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they have learned lessons from the nba the nba has been quite successful keeping coronavirus at bay allowing the
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playoffs to occur with the participation of the major stars of the sport and it absolutely would be a shame if
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as baseball playoffs got going you didn't see some of the sports great players able to participate
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and compete as those playoffs roll on so i think this is a good sign that the players in the league
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were able to work together to emphasize player safety to maintain a high level of competitiveness
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and hopefully have a great world series a game one is set to start on october 20th and it'll be great to see
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thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates a little bit of sports news the denver
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nuggets are moving on to face the lakers in the western conference finals in the nba and my miami
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heat the team i've rooted for since i was a young man living in miami shores they won game one against
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the favored boston celtics and it was great to see though i have to say there are elements of the nba
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that are just becoming increasingly difficult to watch like when i saw one of these social justice
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messages on the back of a jersey that said liberation it really highlighted a level of ignorance you know
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i've been to places in the world where liberation is needed for the people and for anyone to think
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that america is not a liberated people i think is to simply deny the reality that that we see existing
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both in our country and throughout human existence we are the freest most capable most prosperous people
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that have ever existed and we're so lucky that not only do we get to be born in this period of time
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but that we get to be born as americans or those who are naturalized get the opportunity to be americans
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we should cherish that we should love that and to you know state that we need improvement and that
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there are areas where society can improve is as obvious as the written word of the constitution
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itself because our founder said that we would always need to strive to be a more perfect union
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and that's obviously the case but to suggest that we are not liberated is in fact wrong and ignorant
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and just increasingly a burden on the nba and sports in general and it shouldn't be because sports should
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bring us together it should create tribal bonds that permeate politics and work and other elements
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of social life and we should get to enjoy the achievements of our fellow americans who can do
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things that we cannot but when you see this stuff where folks are suggesting that we are not liberated
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it really makes you question the values and the judgments that are placed in this particular exercise
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