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On today's show, Pat and Stu talk about President's Day and why it's a weird day to honor our former presidents. They also talk about the new transgender trend, Joe Biden's immigration plan, and much more!
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Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stu today, uh, for Glenn, who's out with the coronavirus, uh, he...
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It's just a 24-hour coronavirus, though, I think.
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And all those things are apparently things you're not supposed to be doing right now.
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But for today, we have a lot to go through, uh, including, uh, the, uh, the President's Day.
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I really, we start the show with a, with a, with a review of President's Day that is very strange, I will say.
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Uh, but we do get through some of the real facts about the, our, our, our former leaders, uh, here in the United States.
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Also, uh, Michael Bloomberg, all the rest of the stuff.
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There's so much opposition research dropping on, on Bloomberg right now.
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Uh, Joe Biden explains why Obama put kids in cages.
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You're not going to want to miss that explanation.
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And, uh, the new transgender trend where males are, uh, dominating, excuse me, I'm sorry, trans women are dominating.
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Like the ones that were born that we thought were girls?
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That's all coming up, uh, today on the program.
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And will make your life more fruitful than it is today.
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Well, you'll be happy and you'll be rich eventually.
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I mean, I don't know when, but not because of this, you know, unrelated to some day you'll be rich if you work really hard and apply yourself or you'll die before that happens.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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With Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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Not just any, I mean, well, yeah, just any president.
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It's not, uh, not a specific president anymore.
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It used to be, uh, Washington and Lincoln had their separate days.
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Then they were combined and it was like, nah, it's just for all presidents.
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I, I generally only support William Henry Harrison today.
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That's kind of where the direction I like to go.
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I'll throw in a little Tyler at times, you know, just to mix it up.
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Those are the only presidents I actually support on President's Day.
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Well, you know, look, I, if it was a specific president, then maybe I would think about them on this day, but it's not.
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It's just presidents in general, which, you know, a lot of them sucked.
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So I don't know why they would be honored on a day like today.
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Widely considered the worst president of all time.
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Well, he had that half, you know, that one year that where he took over for Kennedy.
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And then he decided not to run for a second term.
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I don't, I don't know that they got him out of everybody thinking he was so bad because
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I mean, if, if he ran for a reelection and won, we'd have to come up with new numbers
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But when we get there, we would get there with Lyndon Johnson and another term.
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I mean, I would say it's quintillion, but who even knows until you get there?
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You don't know until you're on the doorstep of quintillion.
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What, if it is quintillion or quadrillion or what it is.
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But I mean, there's a, there's a meme that goes around on social media, which I just love.
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And it shows these political buttons from, you know, long time ago, from social security
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And it's like, remember, remember 50 and 75 years ago when Republicans were telling us
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And it's like, well, you guys do realize we're $23 trillion in debt.
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With a hundred trillion in long-term liabilities.
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And almost all of it are the two programs you're sitting here defending.
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That the Republicans were saying is socialism because it is.
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It might be popular socialism, but it's socialism nonetheless.
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Everybody's afraid, scared to death to even say anything about it.
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But social security and Medicare, Medicaid have bankrupted this country.
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I mean, even Trump and all the Republicans say they are not going to do anything to screw
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Because once you've been given stuff, you're going to want to keep taking it.
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And there is a legitimate argument from people who have been paying into the system for a
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Like us, we've paid into the system for a really long time.
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Though no plan that looks to adjust it would change that.
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Like, if you are going to get Medicare soon, there's no plan that's under proposal that
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Like, it's only people who would be coming up in the system later.
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Remember when George W. Bush wanted to reform it?
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And it was like, if you want to keep your current system, this won't touch anybody who's already
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It was like, you're going to take away my Social Security?
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And by the way, he was offering something that would be, that for every person.
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Everyone who has ever existed in the country would do much, you'd do much better under
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And including after the 2008 collapse, all of that stuff, you'd still do much, much better
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under the proposal that was given by George W. Bush at that time.
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However, everyone was scared of it, so we didn't do it, so now everyone gets less.
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And we all cheer it, because at least we can depend on less.
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And it's this weird denial where everyone looks at these programs as if they're positive
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They are clearly destroying the future of our country when it comes to debt.
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Every single estimate looking forward says the same thing, that this is going to grow from
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where it is now at $23 trillion in debt, and will continue to increase.
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And then, not only will it be these programs that are wiping us out, but it will also be
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the payments on the debt on the past years of that program that will wind up being 30,
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However, it's popular, and so people go on the internet and they post these things as if
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they're brilliant geniuses, and does anybody ever put a minute of thought into what they're
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Do you see that story that said by 2030, we're going to be at 180% of GDP in our debt?
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So if we don't stop that trend by then, it's going to be a disaster.
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And this is why we shouldn't have President's Day.
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We're going to honor people that have put us $180 trillion in debt?
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Let's pause 60 seconds, and we'll be right back on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program, 888-727-BECK.
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The Iowa caucus was a total debacle for the Democrats.
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That was the, we knew that disaster going in, though.
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This is the secondary disaster in which they couldn't count the votes.
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Did you see this report in the New York Times, by the way, that went over all the ways they
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It is incredible, because for all the beating the New York Times takes, 99.9% of it very
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They're really good at this type of thing, which is looking at an inane amount of depth
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to cover these really intricate things like this.
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And so they go through and just list how, like, you know, the way the system works is
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you have to get 15% of the vote to have any chance to be viable.
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So you go in there and a lot of, a lot of candidates have 10% of the vote.
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So whatever the first count of votes is, has to be the lowest amount of votes in total.
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You, people can't come in after that, that first vote.
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So you, they look in, they have like a hundred different places where there's like 5,000 votes
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Well, no one was allowed to join after the first vote.
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And there's mistakes like that all over the place.
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It's like they've done this for just the first time.
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They wanted, they thought they should have won Iowa last time.
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And they think if they would have won both of those states, maybe they get the nomination.
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It would have changed the 3 million people who voted.
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People were like, oh, he got the election taken from him.
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With Bernie Sanders, what you have is about 25% of people who actually like Bernie in that
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Another 15% who just didn't like Hillary, which gets him to 40, does not get him to 50.
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Like Hillary still won 60% of the vote in the primary overall.
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So that's why they had the popular vote released this time for the first time.
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And they had the secondary popular vote, which Bernie won on both counts.
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Buttigieg still wins with the statewide delegate equivalents.
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But the statewide delegate equivalent, obviously it's a ridiculous idea.
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And again, I understand that this is what the left says about the electoral college.
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In a primary like this, it makes a lot of sense to just do the popular vote.
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So they look at this and they would come down and two people would tie for the amount
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Let's say they had five and they were supposed to tie.
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So instead of it being two and a half versus two and a half, which might make some sense
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They have to award the one delegate to one of the two candidates.
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So it has to be three to two, even if they tie, which makes no sense.
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So this is why you saw the coin flipping going on.
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Why are you doing a coin toss in a political matchup like that?
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This is what democracy looks like, as they used to chant all the time.
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So in other times, there would be like, they would have to round the vote percentages off
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They only had seven to give away and they gave away eight.
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And the app was a big part of it because the app was supposed to do a lot of these calculations
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So how much of this was because they had new rules?
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What they were describing, you know, the app was supposed to do it all.
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So then they had a long handbook that would describe what to do in all these really intricate
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So if you have a tie, if you have, you know, too many delegates, too few delegates, if the
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rounding leads to both people getting a delegate when only one of them is supposed to, blah,
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All these complicated situations, a long handbook that they admit themselves did not actually
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Just let people come in and vote for their favorite candidate.
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You know, they're doing this thing in, and I actually think this is a really good thing
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for all voting, but they're doing this thing in Nevada this time with basically what is
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So now they have a new app that is coming on party-controlled iPads.
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So the party comes and gives you the iPad with the new app on it that they've never used.
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Now, considering they were using a different app two weeks ago, what could possibly go wrong?
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And now they also have here early state voting.
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You're supposed to all go into a room, and then everyone gets in their dumb groups, right?
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So in Nevada, they're having early voting where they're doing basically a ranked choice voting.
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It's like, my number one choice is Tulsi Gabbard.
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So if Steyer and Gabbard are not viable at 15%, your votes will go to Biden.
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You know, you can rank them like that, which I think is a smart thing for all voting, actually.
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Because then you'd be able to—it wouldn't seem like you're throwing your vote away in a third-party candidate.
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If you think you want to go for the—whatever, the Libertarian in a particular race—
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You go to your second choice, which would be the Republican, let's say.
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And I think that makes a lot of sense, frankly.
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Like you said, people couldn't tell you, ah, it's a binary choice.
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I get that argument, but you wind up with a two-party system until the end of time with two terrible parties with that idea.
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They've been trying to roll this out across the country, which, you know, so far they've got, I think, one or two areas that do it.
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But I do think it's a good long-term solution because you should be able to do that, right?
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Like if I want to say, like, you know what, the Constitution Party is really the party I really like, but obviously they're going to get 0.1%, so I'd rather go with the Republican Party.
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Or, you know what, you could be like, hey, I really want to vote for the Socialist Workers Party, but they're really not going to win, so if I don't get that, then I can have the Democrat.
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It would also inform people of, you know, what are the flavors here, right?
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Like you've got different flavors to choose from.
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You can pick what's the actual, maybe there is an appetite for socialism.
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I know the Democrats didn't seem to think this.
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They used to say the era of big government is over.
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Well, when Obamacare was proposed, we were told, we're not going to go to single-payer.
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I think it was from PolitiFact saying that if you think that single-payer is part of this, that you're nuts.
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Well, of course, it's the long-term plan, clearly.
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Well, that happened a lot sooner, I think, than anybody imagined it could.
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Because just, you know, what are we, eight years later, they start saying, yeah, I'm for universal single-payer health care.
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Or, I mean, even the thing that, you know, probably the most friendly to Obamacare has been Biden.
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Obviously, he was in a big role in trying to pass that.
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But even he says, we need to fix this because of X, Y, and Z.
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They're all saying what they did then didn't work.
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Actually, I'm not positive where he first began singing and dancing.
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But the video of the singing and dancing from Michael Bloomberg just started springing up on the Internet.
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And see, New York City, one way of abbreviating that would be NYC.
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Now, if you were to be super duper clever, you might recognize that the C, it stands for city, could also stand for the C.
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So, if you were to do an underwater musical called NYC, it would be a very good move for the rest of your life.
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And I want my next president to be good in a Broadway musical.
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But he's arm in arm with, I guess, the lobster.
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Not only should Michael Bloomberg's campaign be over,
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He's trying to be funny with an A-Rod drug joke.
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It'll be fun to eventually be in that point where we can wave goodbye to him.
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I think that this is going to make me relatable.
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I think if I do this, people will think I'm funny.
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At the end of the day, they'll just remember me as the guy who just has fun with things.
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And look, every politician has participated in nonsense like this at one time or another.
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I mean, you go back to the clip with Trump and Giuliani.
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There's never a moment where you're like, you know what?
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Is there nobody around you that says, Mike, no.
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You're the type of person who can buy your way out of situations like this.
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Nobody warned him off this particular discussion either where he is talking about death panels.
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He's not on Broadway in this particular instance.
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This is him where he's denying health care to the elderly.
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And at the rate we're going, health care is going to bankrupt us.
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So not only do we have a problem, it's going to bankrupt us.
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And we've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do and which things we're not.
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You know, if you show up with prostate cancer at 95 years old, we should say, go and enjoy.
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If you're a young person, we should do something about it.
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Yeah, so if you're old, we're going to tell you, go have fun.
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Basically, a giant party for you is what it is.
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You may have heard bad things about it, but don't believe any of that.
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Just go home and have fun, and then you'll be dead.
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And you should really, I mean, you should uniquely, it's uniquely wonderful.
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This is a very standard argument by many, not even just the left, where the idea is,
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yeah, you're too old, you don't deserve the care.
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It's the culture of death in the Democrat Party.
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This is only true if you have left-wing healthcare ideas that are implemented.
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You have to come up with some line where you say, all right, well, how about old people?
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Or how about, I mean, go back in history, you'd find other examples.
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They would say, this color doesn't get it, or this sexual preference doesn't get it, or whatever it is.
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Or this able-bodied person isn't as able-bodied as other people.
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And so, you know, they can go off and die, too, and enjoy it.
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This is not a rare, this is not a Michael Bloomberg thing.
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They somehow try to make that, oh, well, that is a, that's a Republican thing, this social Darwinism.
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Seems like they're the ones who are applying it all the time.
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And if you want to say merit is social Darwinism, sure, you can say that if you want.
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This is a situation where you don't even get a chance.
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Well, you know, it's true when you make private health care illegal, you can say all sorts of things like that.
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By the way, where is that cutoff with you're too old?
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Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program talking about Michael Bloomberg and the weekend he had, the wonderful weekend.
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If this guy isn't one of the biggest elitists you have ever seen, and what I think he believes is that he's so far above the rest of us,
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he's so much better than we are, that he just believes he can pontificate on whatever topic and just make people understand what the real deal is.
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Like, you don't understand that you can't drink more than 16 ounces of a soft drink.
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I need to legislate that for you because I'm way above you.
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You don't need salt, and I'm going to ban that for you so that you don't kill yourself.
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Even the poor need to be taxed more so they have less money to buy food because they buy food and eat food that isn't good for them.
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And now we find out some of his thoughts on farmers and farming.
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Anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.
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You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.
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Then you have 300 years of the industrial society.
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You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job.
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At 1.98% of the world worked in agriculture today.
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And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology.
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And the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze.
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You have to be smarter than farmers and people who work in factories.
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I scrape them off my shoe is what I do with farmers.
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I mean, every fruit and vegetable you could ever want.
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You know, one of the reasons why 98% of people used to be in agriculture and only 2% are is
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Yes, you can plant a garden out in front of your house.
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It's dang hard to get anything to work in your garden.
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Now we're talking about yield percentages and how you can get the maximum amount of crops
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I mean, you've got tractors or GPSs that are running by themselves.
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You have to be brilliant to get anything to happen.
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I couldn't get a freaking thing to come out of the ground.
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Like, unless someone drops the thing at the grocery store on the ground, it's the only
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If it's out of the produce aisle, it doesn't come into my home.
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But to do things like I do, oh, you've got to be smart.
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And that's why I'm going to be president and tell you what to do.
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The information economy is where all the smart people are.
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I mean, you know, look, sure, farmers can feed the world.
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But sure, they can give you thousands of varieties of fruits and vegetables.
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If they ran it, it probably would work, those losers.
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Yeah, it's the very beginning of the opposition research that's coming on Bloomberg because
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I mean, he's showing up at 15% and 18% in some of these national polls.
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He's leading in some of these Super Tuesday states.
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I mean, he's got, he has put himself in a position to have a shot at winning.
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And people like to say, oh, he's buying the election.
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No person, he is, no person is forced to vote for him, nor is he paying anybody individually.
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He's running ads saying, this is what I believe, this is who I am.
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And people can either choose to believe it or not.
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Tom Steyer is also spending a lot of money and no one's voting for him outside of two
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You know, this idea that you can buy an election is ridiculous.
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What you can do, though, is get yourself heard.
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You know, it's like the idea of the New York Yankees where the Yankees can spend a zillion
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dollars every single year and make themselves, at least give themselves a chance to compete.
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It's been a long time since they won a World Series, though.
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And so it doesn't mean you automatically can buy an election, but you can at least get your
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Also, something else that popped up apparently in the opposition research.
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In 1990, the employees compiled a nice little booklet containing a lot of Michael Bloomberg's
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No doubt, Stu just pissed off every Yankee fan on the planet.
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And honestly, they should all be deleted from history.
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But 2009, they did win the World Series, which I had forgotten about against the Phillies.
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And then they did win three consecutively between 1998 and 2000.
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So you're saying 96, 98, 99, 2000, and then 2009.
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Yeah, I mean, if we're going to give myself a little bit of a break here, I kind of, I
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I thought 96 was the last year, but it was actually the first year.
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Well, they hadn't won for a very long time before that.
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And then they came back and started winning World Series.
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And then I did totally forget about 2009, though.
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I don't know what cheating scandal they actually were involved in in that year.
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We actually do know what cheating scandal they were involved in.
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In 1990, employees at Bloomberg LP gave their boss, this is beautiful, presidential candidate,
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former New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a booklet containing notable quotes they said
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were attributed to him over the years as a gag birthday gift.
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So this was obviously something that didn't hack him off.
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This was something he was probably fairly proud of.
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The booklet was called The Portable Bloomberg, The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg.
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And it's a compendium of sexist, crude, and off-color remarks that Bloomberg employees heard him make.
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Including, if women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they'd go to the library instead of Bloomingdale's.
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That's how you win friends and influence people, especially women.
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The problem with going through this list is we really can't hit a lot of these things.
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On computers, he had some pretty sexual interesting things to say that are sexist.
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Well, on many topics, marriage, capitalism, salesmanship, and all of it really unrepeatable on the radio.
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But this guy is just a buffoon, and he's a sexist pig.
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Because they gave this, his employees, as a loving gift, said, hey, look, you remember all those sexist jokes you made?
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And, of course, he, at the time, was, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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Now he's saying he denies the things that he said, or were attributed to him in this document.
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However, he has said things that are against his values.
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Now, we're not going to tell you what those things are.
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We're just going to tell you that they're not the things in this book.
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Now, he did say the things very similar that were in this book, but not those exact things.
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Sure, he said the exact things that were in the book, but the things that were in the book were not the things he said.
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And he does not have those values, or the values prescribed to him in that sort of book.
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And, of course, he's got to skirt it like this, because he's got, you know, a thousand witnesses, the employees themselves, who put all this together, and then gave it to him, and everybody saw all of that.
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I mean, he said to a reporter within the last few years, you know, as a woman walked by in a tight dress, look at the, he didn't say butt, but look at the butt on her.
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And it said in front of a reporter, and they're like, in the middle of a profile.
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And then, of course, he just comes out later and denies it, right?
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But this is going to be a huge problem for him, obviously.
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I'm wondering, is there now an official quarantine on Michael Avenatti from the press?
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Because there was a long time in which all they could do was touch him.
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All they could do was stick their tongue in his mouth.
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And now, they seemingly have discovered, maybe this guy is a fraud.
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And it's interesting because now, he had the stretch of the, he was the exalted one.
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Michael Avenatti was the savior of our planet and our country.
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Then he went into a phase where, this seems a little weird.
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And now, he's been convicted and he is going to go to prison over this whole Nike shakedown thing he attempted.
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Which, you know, it's interesting because looking back, Avenatti, no matter what side you're looking at, you can look at Avenatti as the bad guy.
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I mean, because if you are a person who likes Trump, Avenatti's taking these unfair shots at Trump.
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If you're a person who likes Stormy Daniels and you don't like Trump, I mean, Avenatti seemingly screwed over Stormy Daniels too.
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And it's hard to feel bad for her or, honestly, anybody involved in this at this point.
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But it's like, he seemingly tried to take advantage of every single person he interacted with.
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And he was basically presented as a one-man wrecking crew to take down this evil Trump administration.
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If he wasn't going to do it through this case, he was going to do it by running for president and winning.
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Listen to some of just how much they loved this man.
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If we all could find a relationship where we were loved as much as the media loved Michael Avenatti, we would all be happy.
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Here is the montage of Michael Avenatti in the mainstream press.
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Don Meacham says he may be the savior of the republic.
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I'm the only person right here, Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.
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We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump.
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But he has a bigger calling here, that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's
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No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenatti.
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And Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name.
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He gets Trump a run for his money more than anybody else, Michael Avenatti.
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You are messing with Trump a lot more than they are.
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He has no doubt created sheer panic in Donald Trump's very fragile mind.
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Michael Avenatti is laying down the law as guest co-host.
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And is he really thinking about running for president?
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One reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on
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You look at the field of Democrats right now and Avenatti's the one who stands out.
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If they decide they value a fighter most, people would be foolish to underestimate Michael
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Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media.
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Just a sampling of how much they absolutely gave this man who essentially walked off the
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street as a no-name with an accusation against the president of the United States.
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And they treated him as if he was the ultimate truth teller.
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When, you know, what do you think Trump was panicked about?
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Look, take a step back from how you feel about the Trump issue here with Avenatti and Stormy
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Let's just say all of it is true and Trump really acted poorly and he was a terrible
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What a terrible disservice to those claims to have Michael Avenatti involved in them.
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And one of the reasons why it's easy to dismiss all of these claims is because Michael Avenatti
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And then he steps down from this whole thing where he gets all this media attention and
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starts shaking down Nike for tens of millions of dollars, which is not a good move.
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No, he's going to pay for that with a little prison term, apparently.
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It almost seems like, Pat, he got to a point in his life where he was like, look, I'm really
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What if I just go media crazy and try to make it into a big deal?
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And then maybe the attention will drive more cash and I can pass it almost like a Ponzi
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Like I can pay off all my old stuff with all this new stuff.