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Glenn and Stu are back from a Disney Vacation. Stu is now in debt. ABC and NBC edit a story about Jeffrey Epstein. Texas votes on a new water bond measure, and the rest is downhill from there.
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Hey, welcome to the podcast. Stu is back from his wonderful vacation with Disney.
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He is completely flat broke and now in debt, so he's going to be here for a while.
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Congratulations on that. We have a lot of great stories.
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we had this story, we had everything on it, on Epstein, and the network wouldn't let it run.
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The network says, oh, well, no, that's because we didn't have it buttoned up.
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But that's now ABC and NBC, both of them, editing about Jeffrey Epstein.
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But I'm sure we can trust them on Brett Kavanaugh.
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You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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We say welcome back to Stu, who had a vacation with his family in Disney, California.
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At points, you're standing in the middle of this area, and you feel like you're just in the movie.
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Everywhere you look, it just looks like Star Wars.
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And I mortgaged my home, sold it, sold a couple of the children.
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Kids wanted to eat while they were at Disney, too.
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Every time you hear about economic problems, you don't see them at Disneyland.
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People don't mind spending $54.95 on a corndog there.
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I think it's a point where it's just like the American people.
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You get to a point where you just have to eliminate the idea that finances exist.
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Like, there's a fancy mouse walking around, and there's this goofy guy, and he seems pretty funny.
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And that is, this is what happens with the American people.
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Texas had 10 ballot propositions you could vote on last night.
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And you look at it, and you're just like, well, is there any way to stop a ballot proposition from passing if you say you're spending money on something?
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Especially if it's something that sounds moderately positive.
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Like, additional Texas Water Development Board bonds.
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These are all constitutional amendments, by the way.
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Providing for the issuance of additional general obligation bonds by the Texas Water Development Board, an amount not to exceed $200 million to provide financial assistance for the development of certain projects in economically distressed areas.
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This is sort of on the back of Harvey, Hurricane Harvey.
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This would permit the Water Development Board to use bonds for projects in areas of the state with greater financial need.
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Temporary property tax exemption for disaster areas.
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Well, you know, this has been damaged by a disaster.
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And there's been an official disaster declaration.
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A little more spending, a little less revenue in the first couple here.
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How about prohibiting state income tax on residents?
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This was a big, confusing thing that was coming down to the line of the vote.
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But if you want to prohibit the state income tax, you want to vote yes.
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The constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of an individual income tax, including
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a tax on an individual share of partnership or unincorporated association income.
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The answer is, yeah, I don't want any income tax in the state of Texas.
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And this is a constitutional amendment saying we'll never have it unless you amend the constitution.
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This should be two-thirds of the state to amend the constitution.
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How about sporting goods sales tax to fund parks, wildlife, and historical agencies?
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We're hunters and we want to make sure that we take care of our state parks and our wildlife.
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Well, 13% of the evil people here in Texas did take that position.
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How about increasing bonds for cancer prevention and research institute?
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So now if you've noticed the pattern here, and this is the California problem.
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Same problem in California, same problem in Texas, the same problem with everywhere that
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has these constitutional amendments where the average person can go vote on them instead
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of a representative democracy, representative republic, like we were given initially.
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You can vote for no taxes and all the spending.
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As long as you don't care about all the, you can get all the pictures you want with Minnie
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She's just going to charge you $54.95 every time the flash bulb goes off.
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How about increasing the, increasing distributions to the state school fund?
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How about a creation of a flood infrastructure fund?
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If there's going to be a flood, you need infrastructure to go against it.
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Or another property tax exemption for precious metals.
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That is actually the one that I look at and go, that one probably should.
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Constitutional amendment providing for the creation of flood infrastructure fund to assist
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in the financing of drainage, flood mitigation, and flood control projects.
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A lot of this stuff came on the back of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston so badly and all
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If the people in New Orleans would have done this, it wouldn't have been so bad.
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There's not anything on this list that you'd look at and say, oh, well, we can't, we don't
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There's nothing on here where you say it's a bad idea.
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Of course you want all those things, but that's the problem.
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When government offers all those things, the people take all those things and the same
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Of course, people don't want to pay extra taxes for all these things.
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They want, they see tax exemption in one of these things.
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You know, it's almost impossible to find something with the word school or cancer or health or
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floods or disaster in it that will not pass in one of these situations, which is why our
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founders kind of said, you know, what isn't a good idea is having all of our expenditures
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being designated and doled out through votes, uh, through democracy.
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This is, this is, this was the plan from the progressives.
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You didn't do this before you had a representative democracy or Republic.
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You hire, you have an election, you hire someone who's supposed to be good at what you're asking
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And then they go in there and they figure the stuff out and then you vote them in or out
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But you couldn't get them to do the things that progressives wanted.
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So they started in California and they went directly with these kinds of things for a
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So you, you look through all of these yes on all of the spending and any of the taxes are
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no, including property tax exemption for precious metals in depositories.
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Now we just built in Texas, a massive depository for gold.
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We got all of our gold back from the federal reserve.
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So all of that gold, that Texas held gold that went now into some underground vault, uh,
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The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation,
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precious metals held in a precious metal depository located in this state.
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I, I would guess that less than 1% knew what ad valorem meant.
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It was, uh, yes, 54, no 46, because people were like, I had valorem.
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Well, I think honestly, the only thing there that saves that one and makes it close is it
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But the bigger issue here, I think is something we've all vilified as it's terrible.
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We should all be, uh, we should all just, I just want to, I just care about what's right.
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These ideological, the ideological people are the problem.
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No, an ideology is simply a group of beliefs and policies that, and this is important, work
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So if you believe in lower taxes, what you're saying is I want a smaller government that
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If you believe in, uh, I, uh, in all, uh, excessive spending, then you need to believe
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What we get are people who don't want to pay any of the taxes, but do want to pay for all
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Because that's what, that's the one I'm against.
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I'd like to see the constitution of Texas because it, it's a really crappy constitution and I
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don't like to take on Texans on their constitution, but proposition 10 is a constitutional amendment
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to allow the transfer of law enforcement dogs to qualified caretakers in certain circumstances.
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That when your constitution is covering dog handlers, I don't know if it's a constitution
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It's more just a rule book, you know, that we, a list of stuff I want.
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I want all those gold holding police dogs that have cancer to die in a flood.
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And they should all be paying higher taxes, income taxes.
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Well, it looks like Matt Bevin, who was our guest yesterday, Matt Bevin lost in the gubernatorial
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No, as of, at least as of this morning, he has not.
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And it looks like he wants to see a recount, which is, I think, within his right.
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You know, usually something, an election with several thousand votes does not normally get
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But it's within that range where, why not look at it again?
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I don't, you know, Kentucky, I think, is going to regret this election in the future.
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But, you know, this is, it's not an easy terrain for Republicans.
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This is what happens when you hire somebody and they put you on an austerity diet.
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Yeah, it's exactly the thing we were just pointing out.
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If you do the thing that I'm advocating, you lose elections.
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If you go out and you say, you know what, actually, people, we can't give you all the
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free, all the free funds and all the free school spending and all the free things.
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When you say that to people, they say, oh, okay, well, get out of here.
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The district I live in, the school district I live in, they wanted even more money.
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It's insane how you can just say kids and school and pass anything, anything.
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We should be starving these schools to death for money only because they're not working.
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Our school systems and our educational standards are the lowest they've ever been.
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And look, so much more of this should be private in a country like the United States.
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Even if you have a system of public schools, it should be a fallback option for places that need it.
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Not the only option and the main thing people go to.
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I mean, we should be looking at this as we should all these things like school vouchers used to be important policies that Republicans pushed for and were very popular, by the way.
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But, you know, we've those things have been abandoned just because of the teachers unions.
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Yeah, I think that that was one of the things that Bevin was one of the reasons why he lost just because he went after teachers.
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You don't think Matt Bevin wants to take care of kids in education?
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And you are, you are, let me tell you something.
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If a teacher likes being told exactly what to do in every situation, in every classroom, they're not, they're not meant to be a teacher.
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I want teachers to be able to come and find a different way to teach.
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But all of these teachers are told, you have to teach exactly this and exactly this way.
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Have we not learned some, anything from every Robin Williams movie?
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I mean, this is essentially his entire career was built on.
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I close my eyes and I do it with a, with a horn in one hand.
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And the guy was like, ah, it sounds like a terrible idea, but he did it differently.
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And then there was a, you know, he was, he was always in front of a class, a dead poet society wasn't on him too.
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All the rules, you throw them out the window and I'm going to be funny for about 12 seconds in this movie, even though you're expecting it to be a comedy.
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I mean, yes, there is a, yes, some structure is good, of course.
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But, you know, these are people who are trying to create and they're good teachers can engage a kid's mind because they're creative.
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They're giving them a different way of thinking of things.
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And if you don't capture their imagination, especially in today's world, you got nothing.
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They're going to be on TikTok in five seconds, you know, watching some stupid video of a person running into a wall.
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And that's going to win most of the time, unless you're really, unless you really engage teachers.
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And how people don't think that our local systems should be empowered to work this all out.
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Schools get 3% of their money from the federal government, something like that.
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And it's like 80% of the paperwork for federal government.
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One of the best principals around, uh, I read this story about a principal who spends all of her day just filling out all the paperwork saying to the federal government, yeah, we're doing all that, even though they're not doing anything.
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I mean, you're, you're, the federal government is making people lie to be able to have a better school.
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We keep giving them more money and the scores keep getting worse and worse and worse.
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You know, as radio hosts, I wouldn't, I want to be the guy who could break the rules.
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Like, you know, good morning, Vietnam, something like that, where you're just the one DJ that's breaking the rules of the military because this is the only role I ever do.
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And now I'm dead and people are just starting to pick it up.
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I'm writing, I'm working on a song called Eric Charamella or Caramella or Caramel Mollo.
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Maybe that's why they don't want the name out because they don't confuse it with a candy bar.
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Could it be the media is just holding this back because they don't want to pronounce it wrong?
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In about three years, we're going to get a great video of like an ABC news anchor saying
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how they had this whole Eric Charamella story down and they wouldn't let us go with it.
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Now here's the game that's being played on Capitol Hill.
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Here's Rand Paul yesterday being stopped by a reporter asking, what are you, what are you
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The whistleblower laws though, they protect a whistleblower.
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Here's the thing is the whistleblower statute protects the whistleblower from having his name
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Even the New York Times admits that no one else is under any legal obligation.
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The other point, and you need to be very careful if you really are interested in the news
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is that the whistleblower actually is a material witness completely separate from being the
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He worked for Joe Biden at the same time Hunter Biden was receiving $50,000 a month.
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So the investigation into the corruption of Hunter Biden involves this whistleblower because
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What was his involvement with the relationship between Joe Biden and the prosecutor?
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There's a lot of questions that the whistleblower needs to answer.
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And it kind of falls apart once you know who Eric Caramella is.
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Once you know who Eric Caramella is and you see all the connections, then you're like,
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Would you believe him if he told you how to pronounce his name?
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You can't ban words and names by law coming out of a regular citizen's mouth.
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He said he doesn't even know the name of the whistleblowers.
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The calls to make public the whistleblowers' identity are despicable.
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The whole purpose of the whistleblower law was to protect people when they had the courage
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This whistleblower is obviously coming forward because he was so concerned about where President
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And every single Republican senator, including the Republican leader, ought to denounce this.
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This has nothing to do with answering questions about the status of impeachment or the status
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This has to do with what America is all about and a law that was passed in a bipartisan way.
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And the reason he's being protected is because you ask him any questions.
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You just look at his job history and it confirms everything on our blackboard.
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This guy should watch out because it's not going to be a Donald Trump supporter that would
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This guy could be Jeffrey Epstein in a heartbeat by all of the people in the DNC.
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Because this guy is a danger to what they are actually hiding.
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One of the problems with the whistleblower is seven months ago in April, Senator Chuck
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Grassley wrote a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr asking about a text message conversation
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And that was made into, this is just a relationship thing.
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Because Chuck Grassley wrote and said, can you find out what this is all about?
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Do we want Joe to go with Evanina instead of Charlie for a variety of reasons?
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Grassley notes in the footnotes that all aliases are known with the exception of Charlie.
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Now, why aren't they worried about the optics of a Charlie showing up to a meeting with Trump's
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Because if he could assess if there were any new questions or different demeanor, if Kate's
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husband is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships.
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They're using what we now think may be the whistleblower to go in and recruit more people
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to turn against the president of the United States.
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Now, that's not all the whistleblower was doing.
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The whistleblower is also, his presence, his presence takes apart the lies of the Democrats
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saying that they had nothing to do at the embassy.
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They were not doing anything at the U.S. embassy, the Ukrainian embassy in the U.S.
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They were not pumping the Ukrainians for information.
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And Chalupa, she's just this sweet little mom that's a housewife and there's no connection
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But we also know because we have her and the whistleblower together working the investigators
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in Ukraine, telling them you need to find stuff on Trump.
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Because the whistleblower's name that's being bantied about is the same name as the guy
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Now, in another update, a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with the
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Undersecretary of State, Catherine Novelli, to discuss ending the corruption allegations
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against the Ukrainian firm where Hunter Biden worked as a board member.
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These memos have been obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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Well, because of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which, by the way, is not like some
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Three weeks before Burisma's overture to the state, Ukrainian authorities raided the home
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of an oligarch who owned the gas firm, which employed Hunter Biden, a signal the long-running
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corruption probe was escalating in the middle of a U.S. presidential election.
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So three weeks before they raid Burisma, Hunter Biden's name, in fact, was specifically invoked
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by the Burisma representative as a reason the State Department should help.
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According to a series of email exchanges among U.S. officials trying to arrange the meeting,
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the subject line for the email exchanges just read simply Burisma.
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Quoting, per our conversation, Karen Tramonta, whatever, Karen of Blue Star Strategies requested
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a meeting to discuss with the U.S. representative, State Department representative, Novelli, alleging
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Email between the state officials read, she noted that two high-profile U.S. citizens are affiliated
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with the company, including Hunter Biden, as a board member.
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They would like to talk to Novelli about getting a better understanding of how the U.S.
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came to the determination that the company is corrupt.
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According to Tramomanto, there is no evidence of corruption.
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There's been no hearing or process, and evidence to the contrary has not been considered.
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Novelli was the most senior official overseeing the international energy issues for the state.
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The other woman was a lawyer working for Blue Star Strategies as a Washington firm hired
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Another Blue Star official, Sally Painter, both alumni of the Bill Clinton administration,
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worked with New York-based criminal defense attorney to settle the Ukraine cases in late
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Burisma Holdings records obtained by Ukrainian prosecutors state the gas firm made a $60,000
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She was scheduled to meet with Novelli on March 1st.
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State Department officials were scrambling to get answers ahead of that meeting from the
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The Vice President, the State Department, knew that Hunter Biden was going to be investigated.
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Burisma came to the State Department and said, you've got to help stop this investigation
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because Hunter Biden and a couple of other people are involved in this.
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So the State Department scrambled to do what they could to figure this out and to stop the
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investigation, which Democrats say never happened.
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We now have the State Department emails showing that three weeks before he goes, there is an
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We also showed you in the last special, the documents that prove that the general prosecutor
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in Ukraine, kind of like our attorney general, he went to court and filed the case four weeks
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What does the whistleblower know about any of this?
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You're not going to like it, but we'll show you.
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And quite honestly, I think this thing, it could end like a Jason Bourne movie.
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Because this is corruption at the highest levels and corruption that is not going to sit well
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Donald Trump notified the United Nations this last Monday
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we're formally withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.
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It seems so much easier to get into these agreements than to get out of them.
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In about a year, we'll have a referendum on whether we should actually get out of the Paris Accord.
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No, you had to have the two years in between, just a cooling-off period,
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just to make sure you're not going to go into a buy a gun when you're angry.
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And so he's cooled off now for two years, and he's like,
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So now it's a one-year deal, and it actually will expire,
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I think, right around or on Election Day next year.
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Now, because Donald Trump just doesn't care about people, the planet, his children, air,
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Oh, you put the two together, and it's the opposite of the Reese's peanut butter cup.
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He's like, you put hydrogen in my oxygen, you bastards.
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Now, nowhere in the story does it say they're scientists of what?
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Maybe it's the science of mechanics or science of race cars.
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I don't know, but they're scientists and they're experts, and they are calling for a critical addition
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to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy.
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These 11,000 now declare from the 11,000 scientists from around the world,
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I'm quoting, clearly and unequivocally, state that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
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And to secure a sustainable future, we must challenge the way we live.
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Economic and population growth are among the most important drivers of increases in CO2 emissions.
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Because when we weren't as sophisticated and we weren't as far along as we are now,
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And then they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot.
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The paradise of that shopping center down the street.
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And now it's a parking lot where, you know, vehicles can carry human beings at 100 miles
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an hour to hospitals and shopping centers where they can buy things that help them live
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Because those are doing a hell of a lot of good.
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We need transfer transformations regarding economic and population policies because the
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population is still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year.
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I can't tell you the studies that I had to go through.
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The years of studies and tests and, you know, those big long papers that you have to
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Uh, we are talking about the population of humans and your doctorate is in humanities.
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So, I mean, this is your pretty much, this is your expertise.
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This is, this is, this is, this is Glenn Central.
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The world population must be stabilized and ideally gradually reduced.
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Now, this is within a framework that ensures social integrity.
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So, now what they're talking, they, we're not talking about just getting rid of cows.
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Um, and it's kind of a passive population control.
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You know, they say we just need to educate people better because once they're educated,
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Uh, and, uh, and so they just, they want more education, uh, and they want, um, a greater
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Um, oh yes, that's a big, I mean, that may, that's a, uh, uh, a, a great goal, but has
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nothing to do with, uh, no, it actually kind of does when you, when you do have more equality
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for the sexes, um, women tend to be able to say, get off me.
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Well, that much equality, I think we're all for, yes, yes.
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No, well, and it's true that, uh, over and over and over and over and over again, and
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only every single example of a country becoming an advanced economy and, and, and developing,
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uh, into the, you know, a level that we would call a developed country today, all of those
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Yeah, well, this, this one, we can't, we have to have birth rates drop and slow down
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Because developing countries put up too much CO2.
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I'm going to go with, uh, that's a terrible idea.
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And I'm also going to say, it's also completely, uh, unfair.
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And, um, you go to a country who, uh, you know, we would used to consider third world
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We're like, oh, well, they don't need the stuff we have.
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Let's let them, they can, don't they have huts or something?
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Let them have the huts and not put any more CO2 out there and we'll do our thing.
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Do you disagree with the Star Trek prime directive?
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No, you're not supposed to, the prime directive, you're not supposed to help other civilizations.
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You can't get in the way, you can't help them, you can't expose them to things.
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We violated the Star Trek prime directive all over the world.
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Well, I felt we violated it the first time when we took all the trees and put them in
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a tree museum and then we charged the people a dollar and a half to see them.
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I thought that was the first violation, but no.
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As soon as you hear them go, ooh, I'm pressing the button.
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I don't want to find out if it's Counting Crows or the Joanie.
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Oh, they're doing something to that parking and they made it into a parking lot?
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Pave over the band as they're playing the song.
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In fact, I like them just playing without any cars.
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Just chew up some glass so anybody that pulls their car in there, because then they'll
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have to build another parking lot across the street.
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Anyway, in a completely unrelated story, completely unrelated, the National Health Service Trust
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has announced in Great Britain that they are launching a red card to racism campaign.
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Following a national trend, staff have reported that incidents of racism on wards have increased
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over the past year, so the hospital will be enforcing its zero-tolerance policy against
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That means any patient abusing staff will be challenged and warned, leading to a sports-style
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And then, if they do it again, they get the final red card, which means treatment will
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So you can go to a hospital and they won't treat you if they think you're too racist?
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Now, I want you to know that the hospital has just removed the British flag from the—I want
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I had never heard of these, but, boy, they're so good here.
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The security—they don't have bulletproof vests because there are no bullets.
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Okay, so people don't want to hurt other people unless they have bullets.
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So the security has knife vests to stop people from shivving them.
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And one of the patients saw the flag, the British flag, on one of the knife vests, and
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they've now removed those vests—I mean, not the whole vest, just the flag off that vest
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Okay, so those flags from those vests are not going to get any medical care.
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I mean, when you put those two together, they're going to—they're going to decide
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when you're too racist or sexist to give you medical treatment.
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But by the way, the flag of our own country is offensive.
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If you use racist or sexist language, gestures, or any behavior—
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If you're making excessive noise, like, help, help, I'm on fire, that might—they may
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stop trying to put you out, you know, because you're on fire.
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If you have abused alcohol or drugs, now that seems like a reason you go to the hospital.
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This is the reason you don't get treatment at the hospital.
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Malicious allegations like, hey, they won't put me out because I'm making too much noise.
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I'm—this is—I mean, look, this is a terrible idea.
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And this is just, you know, one of many, many steps they have to withhold treatment slash ration treatment.
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When they don't have enough money to pay for this crap anymore, they can all say that we are saying too many swears and then not do our surgery.
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Now, there are some people in the hospital that don't like this, but they've been calling on all of the staff to join its Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic Network to join them and support because they want to stamp out racism and sexism.
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And that's what you get when you have a government-run health care system, and then you inject political ideas into health care.
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Then you'll be able to just treat the people who have a reason to live.
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You know, the people who are adding to our society.
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Why treat those people who detract, who make it difficult for people?
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I mean, I'd like to say go get your health care someplace else, but there is no other place you can get your health care because it's all been nationalized.
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Oh, how many Black Alley doctors will there be?
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You be quiet, because there is something very important that I want.
00:46:32.920
I needed something red, and so I went out and found this coat on sale.
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This is the last article of clothing that I'm going to ever buy.
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To say that I will ever buy in my life may not be...
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We're going to live to 100, maybe, where'd she go?
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And that has also made me think a lot about consumerism.
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And I grew up when consumerism didn't have such a stranglehold over us.
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So when I talk to people about, we don't really need to keep shopping.
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We shouldn't book the shopping for our identity.
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And she said, look, I bought this red coat because I needed something red.
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But she said, this is the last one that she's going to buy.
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She said, I'm not going to buy any more clothes.
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Now, here is this brave woman who has been in Hollywood and an icon forever,
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And here she is at 81 saying, I'm not going to buy any new clothes.
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Now, she won't guarantee this will be the last one until the rest of her life.
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Oh, she needs something out of another color at some point.
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It's not necessarily the last one in the rest of my life.
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Then what does it mean when you say this is the last article of clothing I'm ever going to buy?
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Were you saying this is the last thing you were going to buy today?
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Considering her viewpoints, they seem like she's wrapping herself in a red flag quite often.
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That would be a very popular color for her, I would imagine.
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And can't you make the case, a pretty strong one, I would say, that one of the...
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Let's just say everything they say about global warming is true.
00:48:59.860
You can make a pretty strong case that Jane Fonda is singularly more responsible for this problem
00:49:08.040
Because she was the one who starred in the China Syndrome, which made everyone scared
00:49:14.340
of nuclear power, which is an emission-free form of electricity.
00:49:27.520
And she starred in the movie that freaked people out, so we stopped building nuclear power plants
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that could have actually done something about the emission problem.
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Instead, she continues to fight against nuclear power, and she continues to complain in her nice red smock.
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I'm sure they're not using nuclear energy at all.
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About 80% of their electricity is generated by nuclear power.
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They're actually doing something about emissions from electricity with nuclear power.
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And like, our trucker hats has plastic in the back of those trucker hats.
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It's us with our stupid trucker hats that is destroying the world.