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On today's show, Glenn Beck and I discuss the border bill that passed the Senate and is now heading to the President's desk. It's a war bill, but it's not a war at all, and it's a good one.
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We talk about the border and the new border bill, which do not even call it that.
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We talk about common sense and how to think critically about some of these things.
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We talk about politics, the economy and the real jobs report, what you need to know.
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All the world is but a stage and it is never been more clear that we are merely the players.
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I've been telling you lately about this lethal non less than lethal.
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I don't think less than lethal pistol that you can rely on.
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If you're ever in a situation where you need protection, but you don't feel comfortable pulling your gun.
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You don't have to have a background check to get it.
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And the reason why I say it's less lethal is if you shoot somebody up in the eye, I'm sure they're going to die.
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But use it as it's supposed to be used and you're not going to kill anybody.
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All of the women in my family over 18 have one, carry one.
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It has tear gas, not not pepper spray, tear gas.
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And it can incapacitate somebody for up to 40 minutes.
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Not accurate in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I mean, shouldn't they just consider it for the whole 24-hour schedule?
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Well, I was just thinking of the slogan, which is appropriate even today.
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You know, CNN, if you're looking to rocket your ratings, you could put this show on just
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Now, the most heard thing from your newsroom would be, oh, pluck out thine eyes.
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But they couldn't be worse if they were eyeless.
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If you want to do another bet on that one for $1,000, I'm willing to take the no side.
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So not only does this bill codify 1.5 million illegal border crossings into law, you've got
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I, your guy in the Republican Party, he negotiated this?
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Not only does it codify a million and a half illegal border crossings and make it law, but
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the border emergency that automatically gets implemented at 5,000 crossings a day in a week
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And then it also locks in all green card giveaways through 2030.
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So that's another added, boy, I bet that was hard for Lankford to get.
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Here's the limiting part of the new border emergency authority.
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So remember, border emergency authority, if it's over 5,000 a day, then the president, should
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he deem, can say, we're shutting this, no, we're almost shutting this down, which means
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those, you know, extra 2,000 people just have to go to ports of entry so then they can, you
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know, just go through the standard process at the ports of entry.
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Now, he can almost shut the border down for 180 days after the first two years of this
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bill, which is kind of like saying, we're going to make them enforce the border when
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it gets really bad, but only for six months out of the year.
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And then I believe there's a 45 day clause as well, Stu.
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Yeah, the 45 day clause is they can suspend, once the border, quote unquote, almost shut
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down, kicks in, they can suspend the almost shut down for 45 days at the president's whim.
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Basically, the only standard he has to hit on that is he feels that it is in the national
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interest, which of course means anything, right?
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Who is organizing, we've proven it by showing you the actual maps and everything else, who's
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organizing the people in South and Central America to get to our border?
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Another $350 million authorizes only if ICE has increased in detention beds to 46,000 and has
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If the Border Patrol has hired 200 more officers and if USCIS hires another 800 asylum officers,
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then, then, then, then, then they're going to get that money, okay?
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Then another $116 million is available to FEMA if ICE has conducted 1,500 removal flights since the bill was enacted.
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And if you're looking, you know, at the $1.4 billion in funding available to FEMA for disbursement to NGOs and municipalities, it's great.
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We're going to, they're going to give those, you know, those George Soros NGOs as long as border securing hiring and deportation provisions are hit.
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We're only going to give money to people who are trying to destroy our country if they hit the other, other benchmarks, which is great.
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Hey, if you get deported twice within a year, you can't come back for a whole year.
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And I think that's, I think that's cruel, quite honestly.
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So, wait a minute, I've crossed illegally twice, and then they caught me and deported me twice.
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When I'm coming in for the third time and they catch me, I can't come in for a whole year?
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And I, I appreciate your call for people to call their Congress people and senators,
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and it's, would not be the worst use of your time to do so.
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However, what I will say is, even if you do not call, there is almost no chance of this bill passing.
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I mean, there is, Johnson is already saying it's dead on arrival.
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Yeah, but it got, it has to be dead in the Senate too.
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I would, yeah, that would be, I mean, that doesn't, of course, if it just passes the Senate,
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it won't become law necessarily, but still, you're right.
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People should be making stands on it, and I think they will.
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This is the type of thing that will get, you know, senators who stand up for it primaried,
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which is an important outcome of this, to know which, which people think this is a good idea,
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Johnson is saying in the House side, they're not even going to put it up for a vote.
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So, hopefully, this is dead on arrival, and it's not a realistic thing.
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And it's funny, because, Glenn, this is really, you could make an argument,
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this is the optimal time to negotiate something just like this.
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But, like, we've had these situations before, where there are times that pressure builds up,
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and there are certain dynamics that go on, and Republicans try to get things out of these
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And so, well, I mean, like, we like to think they are going to.
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But, like, a good example of this is a government shutdown.
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We know there's a funding thing that's about to happen.
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And so, Republicans say, well, we're not going to vote for that unless you give us X, Y,
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And then what happens at the end of that process, almost every single time, basically, they get
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Or maybe they get something super surfacy that doesn't really do anything.
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And the reason for that is, in reality, the Republicans don't want the government to
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The thing that they're holding hostage is not something they actually want, right?
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So, they're sitting here saying, well, you know what, we're going to hold this thing
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But they know it becomes a political liability if the government is shut down for too long.
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And they also have lots of friends and themselves that are dependent on government funding.
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The weird thing with the Ukraine issue is it's in that sweet spot where, regardless of what
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you think of this, Republicans are kind of like shoulder shrug on it.
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I think they could deal with spending another $100 billion and giving it to Ukraine, or they
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Obviously, the Nikki Haley side of the Republican Party really wants this funding to go through.
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But as a party, they're kind of like could go, I think, either way on Ukraine funding, which
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So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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So, are you saying that the left has put the Republicans into a position where really it's
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Then you go to this negotiation and you realize in that situation, which is an optimal negotiating
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situation, this is the best they could come up with?
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Like, this is the thing they came up with when everything was in their favor.
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The only time that we have seen anything like this in human history, this is what they come
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And this is the other side of it is part of this, right?
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In a government shutdown negotiation, Democrats can say, fine, keep it shut down.
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Because we know we'll win the politics of that, right?
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The Democrats this time realize they're losing the politics of this.
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They know the border is a massive story for them and a huge problem.
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So, they know they have to do something or at least show they're doing something.
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And still, with all of that, this is all Republicans were able to achieve.
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Republicans, do not blame Donald Trump for losing this election.
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I mean, he can do his own part on that, but one of the reasons why people are going
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Because you can get somebody like Donald Trump who's willing to do things, but we don't trust
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He will have to do it all through executive order.
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And there's a lot of conservatives like me that don't want that.
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I was going to say quickly on the politics of this, Glenn, you know, Donald Trump is quite
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aware of those politics as well and is outwardly telling everyone he is the reason this bill
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He's been telling people that for behind the scenes for a long time and publicly for a couple
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of weeks, he wants people to know, hey, this crappy deal, I'm the one that stopped it.
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And that's another reason for you to be confident it is not going to pass, because when he's
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talking like that, there's no way the Republican Party is going to come.
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And let me tell you, the people who stand against it should receive our praise, should receive
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You know, Mike Lee is fighting this thing like crazy.
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I'm sorry I just spent the weekend with him, but Mike Lee is fighting this thing like crazy.
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And he should, too, say it's because of me and this guy and this guy and this guy and
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OK, this is I don't do any car companies, you know, but I do care about your financial
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If you're thinking about buying a new car or a used car, do not let Mitch McConnell or
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OK, because what he'll do is he'll say, I don't know.
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And then he'll go back into the back room with the salesperson and he's going to make
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And then he'll come out and go, I got your deal is really good.
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Yeah, well, you know, it's too late for you to back out.
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And then it'll get to the point to where he'll tell you that you really didn't even need
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the car to begin with, but you just didn't sign a contract, sign a contract where it says
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At least for many years, you'll never own a car.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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We were talking about an update that I gave you last week.
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I told you about a South Dakota bill that is now massively under assault from the bank lobbyists
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This is something that has to happen in your state as well.
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In South Dakota, the Republican leadership is buckling.
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What this is, is a fight for private property, believe it or not.
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Right now, if you have any money in stock that you bought through an intermediary, like Fidelity
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So if any one of these big financial institutions go out, that's collateral for their debt.
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You don't actually own what's in your savings account.
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This wipes the average person out if there is a huge problem.
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I warn you, this is going to be told that you are hearing nothing but disinformation.
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I just ask who has a better track record, me or the mainstream media.
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So this bill in South Dakota allows you to keep ownership of your investment and all of
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your savings, regardless of whether they're in an intermediary like Fidelity or Merrill Lynch.
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Two, it restores the jurisdiction in the state of South Dakota.
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This would put jurisdiction back into the state, which is hard to believe.
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But currently, if you live in South Dakota and you have a dispute over the ownership of
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your investments, say JPMorgan Chase, that will be solved in, I'm assuming JPMorgan Chase
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So Delaware or a New York court is the place you will have to go to argue your case if you
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The legislators in South Dakota should not allow the big financial institutions to put
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But the Republicans are buckling right now in South Dakota.
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They are going to vote and they should tell you how they're going to vote in advance.
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Because any legislature in South Dakota that votes against you, the citizen on this, they're
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either working for the people of South Dakota and the constituents they represent, or they're
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working for the special interests of someone else, the financial institutions that are all
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On Wednesday, that's this coming Wednesday, February 7th, the State Affairs Committee is
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If this bill fails in committee, then the Uniform Commercial Code will continue and you are at
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To protect the people of South Dakota, you need HB 199.
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It will protect South Dakotan investors and ensure that jurisdiction is restored to South
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Now, remember, this is not just about South Dakota.
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All 50 states have the same dangerous law in place.
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Every state will need to update its laws if you are to be protected, the individual, from
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First, if you live in South Dakota, you need to call the members of the House State Affairs
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They have to hear from you today and tomorrow or early Wednesday.
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Also, call Governor Christine Ohm's office as well or email.
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Make sure they vote in support of HB 1199, the Small Investors Protection Act.
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They need to know that the people of South Dakota are watching this vote and they want
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The one that really needs to hear this the most is the House Speaker, Stevens, and the House
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They're playing games with this and siding right now with the big banks.
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They don't want you, the people, to know what is happening here.
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And they will claim disinformation, but it is not.
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Call and then it will go back and pass this Wednesday and nobody will ever think about
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I want you to call your legislator, your state legislator, and ask them to take a hard look
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The fight is focused right now on South Dakota, but that's going to change very soon.
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The people that I work with are on this nationwide, and it's a fight that we cannot afford to lose.
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You have to stop it before the next crisis begins.
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OK, let's just talk a little bit about our strike on, you know, our retaliatory strikes
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that happened over the weekend on the Islamic resistance in Iraq.
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We struck, I think they said 82 targets on Saturday, but that's not true.
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It's only seven targets and 87 or 82 strikes in those seven areas.
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So let's say there's an airfield, that's one target, but it has, you know, 22 targets in
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OK, I don't know why we gave the, you know, we gave Iran a week to do this.
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Because we're also giving in the so-called border bill, which is not a border bill.
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Oh God, I said this during the Inflation Reduction Act and nobody listened and they still passed
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There's more money for war and refugees and everything else in this bill than there is
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But we are giving in the border bill, so-called, the war bill, we are giving Ukraine $60 billion,
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$14 billion to Israel, and $10 billion to Gaza and Hamas.
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Well, we'll probably run that through the UN, which we know exactly what they're doing.
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Suicidal is an interesting summary of the West overall.
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We seem to be going down that road with extreme abandon.
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I mean, I think it's, the border stuff is only included in the bill because they want
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They want the cash for Ukraine secondarily for Israel, I suppose, but basically for Ukraine.
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And this is their supposed flexibility on their border rules.
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And it's interesting because, of course, the far left also won't vote for this.
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So you'll have this situation where they're trying to cobble together the center left and
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center right to come up with some sort of voting block that will get this thing through.
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Going to be difficult, if not impossible, for a multitude of reasons.
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But it just shows where their priorities are, right?
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Like, I mean, it shows what they really want to happen.
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And I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, Glenn, but like Zelensky is announcing basically they
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have to reform the entire government because none of their war stuff is working.
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They're just like, ah, you know, we need to kind of, we need a remix.
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You know, this just doesn't work as an acoustic.
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And like, I don't think that that is some, it doesn't seem like the situation you want
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Uh, let me, uh, uh, let me just say that, you know, one of the things that we're doing
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All of the government workers, you, your tax paying dollar is going over to Ukraine.
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We are funding a second government and that's not hyperbole.
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I mean, it's, I mean, it's, you know, not necessarily the most, uh, the way they would describe
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And, um, anybody who tells you, you know, the Jamie Dimon thing over at, uh, the WEF
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There's a couple of things that have bothered me.
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Uh, one, Jamie Dimon coming out and then Al Gore coming out and saying, you know, I really
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I don't think we should say bad things about the Trump supporters and Jamie Dimon, uh, coming
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out and saying, you know, Trump wasn't really all that bad.
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Now there's two reasons for these kinds of switches.
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There's one Jamie Dimon sees over the horizon and goes, none of this is good for the banking
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We're going to, we're going to get, we're going to lose the gold standard.
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And maybe we should take a look at Donald Trump or he's hedging his bet and thinking
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Donald Trump is going to win and there's got to be somebody on the inside, maybe at
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Maybe I could say nice things about him and become the head of treasury so I can keep this
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Um, they are afraid, but what you're seeing is remember when I told you that there's their
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I talked to some people this weekend that were actually there and I said, I have to ask
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you restoring trust who whose trust are they trying to restore?
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I said, I haven't said this on the air yet because it's just a theory, but I get the feeling
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that they're not trying to restore trust between us and the people.
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It's trust in the elite and in the program that people are starting to peel off up at
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They both laughed and said, that's exactly what they mean.
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We've got to stand together and use our common sense, be cool and collected and calm and finish
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We are winning, but it is going to be at the finish line.
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This is a question and answer from a teacher and his student talking about J.K.
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I just want to know, like, what are your thoughts on it?
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Like, do you still like her work despite her bigoted opinions?
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We're going to treat this as a thought experiment.
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I'm not going to say what's right or wrong or what way to think.
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The whole point is to learn how to think, not what to think.
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So when you say bigot, you're starting with the conclusion that, given her bigoted opinions.
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So first, let's start with, does she have bigoted opinions?
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She has had a history of being extremely transphobic, I've heard.
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If you look at her Twitter, I think you can see a few things.
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So, one of these tweets that she came up with in 2019, she said,
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Sleep with any consenting adult who will have you live your best life in peace and security,
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but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real.
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Uh, I don't really have an opinion on it, but I'm just going with what a lot of other people have said.
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Let's not go with what other people are saying.
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So that statement, do you see anything problematic disregarding other people's opinions?
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Um, she did try and pin some things on a specific group of people.
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But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real.
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So when I hear that, I'm interpreting that as meaning if a woman says that, you know, saying that there's a difference between men and female and then being attacked as transphobic.
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I think that's what she's saying by attacking someone for stating that sex is real.
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So is there anything you disagree with in that tweet?
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Uh, in that tweet, I can't really see anything that I myself disagree with.
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Do you think it's fair that there's a, that she's being attacked by a large group of people and people are calling her?
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Like you said, at the beginning of this conversation, you said, given the fact that J.K. Rowling is transphobic, how do you feel about Harry Potter?
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Now, retroactively looking at that statement, do you think that that was the best way to phrase?
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It's okay, though, but this is why we do this, to learn how to think.
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I will tell you that when I went to school, I could only afford one class, and it was here at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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And, uh, I had a teacher, Wayne Meeks, and I have no idea to this day where he stood on issues.
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And I would push back and forth with him, and he would push me.
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And just when I thought, okay, I know what he believes, he'd flip sides, and he'd argue the other side like he was a passionate believer in that.
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School is not to teach what to think, but how to think.
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The way he, the way he brought that and didn't get involved in the argument.
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Don't get involved or heated or frustrated in the argument.
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He just took his time and said, well, wait a minute.
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A lot of people say, well, what do a lot of people say?
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And, uh, and remember, we don't take anything a lot of people say.
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That's why we've smeared so many good people, is because we haven't taken the time.
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What does that actually mean to you in context?
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We should be doing this with the bill on the border stuff.
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The border stuff, instead, everybody claims disinformation.
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Now, I gotta say, I get, I suppose, I could find some good things in here.
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Um, Stu, have you found any good things in here?
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Yeah, I mean, I think there's some, it's not the, it's not a good bill.
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But it's, it's theoretically could have some things that would be beneficial.
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I mean, making the asylum process better would be a good change.
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But wait, let's stop there and use critical thinking.
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Well, as we know, one of the big problems with the asylum process is number one, you get
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And basically you're just released within the country with a court date that can be as far
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Um, what they say, again, I'm not saying I believe this, but what they are saying this
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does is it trims the asylum process from three, from multiple years to months.
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So that would shorten the time period that these people were allowed to be in the United
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So I'd like to ask you a series of questions here and not what you just, not on, on the
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facts of what you just said on what's in the bill.
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I want to back up and ask you when you said they say that, that you can read the bill,
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Uh, that they claim that if this was implemented into law, they would enforce it.
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However, my hesitation here is because there's lots of things that are implemented into law
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Um, and that is why it is difficult to take any of these proposals seriously.
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And would you say that happens on both sides of the aisle with almost any topic or just
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I would say that it does hit both sides of the aisle on various topics.
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However, there is a heavy, heavy bias toward the left doing this.
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They continually, uh, you know, do not follow the law.
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And I would say there's a heavy, um, bias toward this particular issue as well, being one that
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So I could, I could go on to give me examples, but I think in, you know, just in, uh, because
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I think we can all find examples of that being true.
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But what does that tell you now about the bill?
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I mean, it tells me the bill isn't worth the paper it's typed on.
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So that tells me what, so how much time should you spend on a bill that isn't worth the paper
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Uh, I would argue zero minutes, but we've obviously spent more than zero minutes on it
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I know because we do have to inform people what's in the bill.
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So they see, but I would add the caveat that we all know the game that is played on the
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So it's not worth, I mean, you can put as many, you know, uh, uh, shall over, uh, will
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And the shall is meaning, well, they have to do it now.
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I've seen that game played over and over and over again.
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The best thing that Congress and the, and the, and the administration can do now is not
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pass anything until they've restored their trust with the American people.
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I would argue, no, but let me follow up with this on your, on your side here, Glenn, because
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and I will do this as a, someone who's completely dead inside on all of these issues.
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I admit my, my devil's advocacy here is not heartfelt.
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But like if, cause I, my initial reaction to this bill is to read it and say, okay, there
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are maybe a couple of things that could theoretically be good in there, but I don't trust them at
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all because they're never going to enforce these things anyway.
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If that is the case, then how is there ever a solution to this problem?
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We could sit here and say that like, well, uh, question, you know, we are skeptical.
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They're going to implement this, but we're going to be skeptical that they're going to
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So with that being said, how do you ever get to a place where this problem is solved or at
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So, uh, this leads me to a place that I didn't think we would go to.
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No, no, the, the answer to that question is none of this will be solved by the people
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Um, the people that are currently saying that they are going to solve this problem are all
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Joe Biden, uh, the GOP that says they want to solve problems, but they don't actually want
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Um, the, you know, Chuck Schumer, all of the same people are involved.
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So the, the, the real answer is, shouldn't we be spending more time on finding, uh, the
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right people to run, ensuring that they get in, helping them get in and finding new candidates
00:40:44.060
I mean, we've, we've seen that's, that's almost as harder, uh, almost harder than solving the,
00:40:54.500
I mean, you've, what you've just said is basically Donald Trump's argument, right?
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His argument is put me back, put me in an office and I will take care of this.
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And, and we shouldn't, even if there are improvements in this bill, we shouldn't look at them because
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the more important thing is to get me back in office.
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And therefore I can do these things because I alone can do this.
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But I think that's similar to what, I'm not saying, I'm not saying you're, you're signaling
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I'm just saying I'm, I'm personalizing to Donald Trump because he's making this argument explicitly,
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But again, he, he, if that was indeed what he was saying and, uh, you know, he didn't say it,
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But indeed, if that's what he was saying, well, then that would be a problem because that's not
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If, if he would say, hire me, hire these people in their respective roles and together we're going
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to fix this, that would be the ultimate, that would be the ultimate, uh, if everybody did what
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they said they were going to do and they were fresh, fresh blood, that would be great.
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Um, the next best thing is to do it by executive order, but I hate that solution.
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na, na na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na na, na, na, na, na, na.