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Pat and Stu discuss Joe Biden's ridiculous infrastructure speech, the border crisis, and why Kirsten Gillibrand is not a serious contender to become the next Democratic presidential candidate. They also talk about the disaster in Brazil, and Deshaun Watson.
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All right, welcome to the podcast. Today, it's Pat and Stu. And for Glenn, Glenn is expected to be back on Monday. He'll give you an update on everything going on with him. That's coming up in here in a few days. Today, we talk about Joe Biden and quite a bit today because he is in the middle of they've let him out of the basement. He's making multiple speeches here this week, including he made one yesterday on spending and infrastructure. Everything is infrastructure. Now you need to know that anything that they want is infrastructure. We'll get into that and the details of his ridiculous speech.
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He also has another one coming up today on guns. We touch on that as well. The border situation is is it a crisis? It's a crisis for America. Is it a crisis for the Biden administration, though? That's another question. And we look at kind of the catastrophe going on in Brazil right now. It's really, really ugly there. And Deshaun Watson, we touch on as well. Probably not the right phrasing for that particular story. So check out the podcast today. Subscribe, rate and review if you wouldn't mind.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Yesterday, there was I Joe Biden didn't used to infuriate me quite as much as he does now. I mean, he's always irritated me, but it wasn't like listening to Barack Obama, for instance. It is now.
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I mean, I think he's bought in completely to Marxist theory now. He's just a he's a naked Marxist like the rest of them now. And maybe that's just everybody in leadership in the Democrat Party. Maybe they've all just caved in.
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But it's agonizing to listen to this infrastructure stuff, as well as the poor being fleeced. Here he is. Todd, did you see much of this speech yesterday?
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Not much of it. No, I try to avoid and keep my sanity. But it was as the clips I've seen were as agonizing as you'd expect.
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He's trying to justify spending two and a half trillion dollars right now. And five percent of that is going to infrastructure to actual infrastructure. So now everything's just infrastructure. Yes.
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Everything is infrastructure. That was the Kirsten Gillibrand. Yes. Construction yesterday.
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She got bludgeoned for that. You know, just basically saying, oh, well, health, you know, elder care is infrastructure. Right.
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OK. So is it? He's listing all things. No, just saying their infrastructure, which now the left has has decided to say anything they believe is important is in infrastructure.
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Anything they want equals infrastructure, which means that infrastructure has no definition. It's just right.
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It's just as far as policy goes, it's just everything. But that's what they do. Right. They just what they want when they're up against it.
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They just change the definition of words. Everything that opposes them is racist, for example.
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So she got hammered with that a little bit yesterday. Somebody tweeted out.
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Yeah. Your mom and my ass are infrastructure. Right.
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I love that. And Gillibrand's a bit of a dummy.
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Like, of course, you know, she's you could tell when in the campaign when she was pressed and people were actually paying attention to her,
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which was not does not happen at any other point in her career, he realized she really doesn't have much going on.
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This is not a this is not a Democratic rising star.
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This is someone who was able to luck into a seat based on circumstances in a very blue state and doesn't bring much to the table.
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Anyone who would think that's a good idea to tweet obviously is not not exactly a thinking person.
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The lights are on, but nobody's home. Yeah. And the lights aren't always on.
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Yeah, that's true. That is. You should point out the lights there.
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There's problems with the lights. There's a short.
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It's not all they're not always on, but there's never anyone.
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There's rolling blackouts. It's an abandoned cabin in the woods.
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Yes. And occasionally the lights kind of come on.
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Maybe it's a really bad, badly placed solar panel keeping the lights on.
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Maybe occasionally a streak of light hits that solar panel, keep the lights go on for four or five minutes that night.
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But because they're trying to sell this tax increase to pay for this two and a half trillion dollar bill,
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By the time they're done with it, I'll bet you it'll be three.
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So here is Biden trying to convince us that the poor are being fleeced.
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Barack and I thought it was too high during our administration.
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We all agreed five years ago that it should come down somewhat.
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But the previous administration reduced it all the way down to 21 percent.
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What I'm proposing is that we meet in the middle.
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28 percent would still have lower corporate rates than any time between World War II and
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We're not competing with ourselves from the past.
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What we're competing with is the rest of the world.
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There's some companies, though, that were like, we were thinking about taking the 1965 tax rate
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You know, if a Belgian company wanted to increase their corporate rate to what ours was in 1965,
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What we're competing with are companies who are paying 15 percent corporate tax rates.
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I mean, ours has traditionally been one of the highest, if not the highest, corporate tax rate in the world.
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And so this argument is just completely unrelated to the problem at hand.
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And this really does put it's not as high as 35, as he points out.
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But 28 would still put it right back up at one of the highest in the world again.
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And you'd probably lose corporations again because of it.
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I mean, the 21 percent income tax rate showed real signs of making these companies grow.
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And it did seem to induce a raging economy before the coronavirus hit.
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Now, did it have enough time before COVID for us to know the full impact of it?
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And this is the biggest sin of this overall in that companies can't plan for the stuff because every two years, then the new administration comes in and starts screwing with these rates.
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They don't want to deal with one of the big one of the big upsides of having your company in America supposedly is stability.
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A lot of companies are willing to pay a little bit higher rate because they realize, OK, this is a stable country.
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And they're the people who kind of brought it to us.
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I mean, they can't look at this country fairly and honestly and tell their shareholders, oh, there's no big deal.
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You have people who are who have the entire zeitgeist of the left, people like AOC, who are basically begging for capitalism to go away completely.
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These are the people leading the media coverage on a daily basis.
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And obviously, you see with the spending that's going on right now, they've had real impact.
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We've talked about this before, but Barack Obama was terrified of getting to one trillion dollars on his big plans, including Obamacare.
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They did everything they could to lie and say it was under a trillion dollars because they were terrified of what the American people would think.
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I mean, just we just said two trillion to two, two and a half trillion.
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Listen, that's almost the entire stimulus bill from Barack Obama.
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Just that just the change we didn't notice in the last week.
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Now it's a two point five trillion dollar package.
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I mean, that's two thirds of what Barack Obama wanted to spend for the big bailout and infrastructure spend back in in 2009.
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It's just print, print, print, spend, spend, spend, you know, new restrictions, new seemingly unconstitutional laws and rules.
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We'll generate over a trillion dollars in taxes over 15 years.
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A new independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations lose the very,
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you use the various loopholes to pay zero federal tax income tax in 2020.
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It's not fair to the rest of the American taxpayers.
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If you're a mom and dad, a cop, firefighter, police officer, et cetera, you're paying close to that in your income tax.
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I've also proposed the global minimum tax, which is being proposed around the world for U.S. corporations at 21%.
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Yeah, I don't even know what to say about 20 pun percent.
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Yeah, I feel almost speechless of my commentary on 20 pun percent.
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But other than that, I can't describe why it's wrong.
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Okay, so you're raising the corporate tax rate to 28%.
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The idea being that everyone else needs to raise their rates.
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Who administers the global tax to every corporation in the world?
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I mean, and the concept is, it's basically a confirmation of what we were just talking about.
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These countries keep lowering their rates to get companies to go there.
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So we need to, what if we stopped the competition?
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It's like basically saying like McDonald's wants to charge $5 for their Big Mac.
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And they're like, what if we propose a global fast food burger price?
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Well, then they'd be really competitive, I guess.
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If Burger King is forced to charge $4.85 for their, yes.
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Now you're not going to lose that many customers to Burger King.
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They're not going to, the cost isn't going to be an issue.
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And it's also, well, I don't know if it's unconstitutional because it seems like it's
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just a big, they're just hoping everyone does it type of thing.
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It's like, it's not like we, we certainly can't implement it on these other countries.
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Through the G20 though, they're going to try to force it.
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So now we'll see how that, we'll see how the structure of that comes down.
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But did you also notice the sleight of hand at the beginning of that clip?
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When you do one of these bills, have we not been around for a while here?
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When you do one of these bills, you talk about how much it costs and how much taxes are going
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Why is he talking about how much it's going to raise in 15 years?
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Well, the reason for that is he knows, he even knows with his crappy projections,
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they can't get this to work by saying 10 years of taxes will pay for it.
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So what they have done is they're talking about 15 years of taxes to pay for eight years
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of spending, 15 years of taxes to pay for eight years of spending.
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And you'll hear, I mean, that's why he's talking about 15 years because that is legitimately
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They're going to keep the cost on the board for 15 years and the spending on the board
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Now, as we all know, as if we're complete idiots, at the end of that eight years, all
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So you're going to get 15 years of spending and you're going to, 15 years of taxes won't
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15 years of taxes only covers eight years of spending.
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So then we're going to have to raise taxes again.
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And not at the end of the 15 years, but before that is.
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The second they can get them raised, they'll do it again.
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And they'll just go, look, we have this great thing and it did so much good.
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But, you know, the Republicans wouldn't let us go to 35%.
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I mean, he doesn't remember it now, let alone in eight years.
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Hey, we're being warned by a top scientist not to try to contact intelligent life out
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You know, we're getting ready to send out a telescope that, you know, it's like the
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Hubble telescope, except I believe it's a hundred times more powerful than Hubble is.
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So they're sending this one deep, much deeper into space.
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And then it's it's then it's a hundred times more powerful than Hubble.
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So they expect to see some amazing things and maybe be able to contact other intelligent
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But this scientist is warning against it, saying, yeah, you might just be inviting our overlords
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I mean, if we were firing lasers randomly into space, you know, nuclear missiles just kind
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I'm not sure if it's if it comes equipped with some sort of, you know, a signal as well.
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That it can send out a signal that, hey, we're here and we're looking around for friends.
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If there are overlords, though, they probably would know we're already here.
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So is he saying that we're going to alert them and they'll be like, oh, we need to become
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That, hey, oh, there's somebody else out there that we haven't taken over yet.
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So let's just go do that now and take care of it.
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I personally don't think that would be an issue.
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I mean, if you know, we've had all these sightings of UFOs over the years, we haven't
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And you would think if they can get from their place to ours, they've got technology that
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we can't even fathom and they could have destroyed us a good long time ago.
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I don't know what they're waiting for, if that's what their intent was.
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So anyway, this will be in place by May of 2022.
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Well, I will say if it works out, one thing we will know for sure is its infrastructure.
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So Biden has come under an intense pressure, supposedly, from gun safety advocacy groups
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and Democrats to fulfill his pledge to tackle gun control.
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He said he was going to do it on his first day, on the first day in office, on the first day.
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So now he's going to take, apparently, six executive actions on guns and gun control.
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The first is to propose a rule within 30 days to stop the proliferation of ghost guns.
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Now, they're, and they're not just guns that only work on ghosts, either.
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People thought, you know, like the Ghostbusters packs.
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Ghost guns are basically like, to summarize, I guess, people building their own guns, right?
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Like, so that you're able to buy components of a gun, put them together because they did
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not go through the traditional manufacturing process.
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There, there's no reason you need one in that particular circumstance.
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Most, I mean, to act as if this is a problem in our discourse is ridiculous.
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It's like, it's a very small, small, I mean, small.
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Again, people who are, there are a lot of hobbyists who really enjoy doing this, right?
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There's a lot of hobbyists who really enjoy doing this.
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There's a lot of people who just enjoy guns that really like doing things this way.
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It's like building your own, you know, kitchen table, right?
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Like there are people who, that doesn't make any sense to me.
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There are machines that are building those for me.
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But some people really get enjoyment out of it.
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That's the overwhelming majority of people with, with this type of situation.
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You know, it also goes to, obviously could be criminals who can't get guns other ways,
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There's been a couple of shootings where it appears ghost guns are involved.
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Again, getting a gun in this country is not really a problem.
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If you're, even if you're a criminal and we have a border that's open basically for business.
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So people are, guns are flowing over the border all the time and going to criminals all the time.
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A lot of these murders happen because drug dealers are able to buy illegal guns
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So it's not as if these laws will affect that type of thing.
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It's, it's just one of those things that I think a lot of people would look at on his face and say,
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And I look, it's, it's one of those things that I think connects with the average person
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We just live in a country that has a second amendment to the constitution,
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which clearly states you are not allowed to infringe on these rights.
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So even I said the same thing, by the way, just as strongly about Donald Trump's ban on bump stocks,
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which was blatantly unconstitutional, blatantly.
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And by the way, has now been already overturned in the courts.
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Because you can't just say you want these things to stop, and then they stop.
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That is not our constitutional system of government.
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But it is okay to ban, like, the weapons of war that are made only for death.
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That are made specifically for one purpose and one purpose only, and that's to kill people.
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I mean, he's not even going to try that by executive order.
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It seems like, Pat, because, I mean, the ghost gun thing has had a lot of attention, which is kind of silly.
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What was the process, you know, where you copy the gun?
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Because our gun guy, I think, would be really upset about that.
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You know, in whose conception, under what paradigm.
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They can never eradicate the gun from the earth.
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What was the human psyche thing that happened there?
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Do you want your psyche to be institutionalized?
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Classic clip from the Glenn Beck program, by the way.
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You know, I don't know if it covers those or not.
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I would think it does qualify, because obviously they wouldn't have a serial number, right?
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The other thing they're going after are these, similar to AR-15s, you can get these guns that
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have certain attachments on them that basically, that are called, that are technically pistols.
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So, they are regulated under those rules, but feel a lot, look a lot like an AR-15.
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Now, at one point long ago, I had one of these.
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But it was a big body of water, I remember that.
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It's the deepest lake that I could have ever seen.
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And I didn't, it was so deep and so immense that I didn't even try to go get it.
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I just let them sink to the bottom and they've been gone ever since.
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But it left me without my AR-15, that's all I know.
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Again, an AR-15 is, one of the great things about it is, as a legal gun owner, if you need
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to hit something, you're able to hit it, right?
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Because unless you're firing guns all the time, you're probably not going to be incredibly
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Unless you're really the type of person who's going to the range constantly, it's a lot easier.
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And especially for a woman who may be defending yourself against a larger man, maybe stopping
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power is something you want to think about, right?
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You know, it's like these people who are so pro-woman just do not want women to be able
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They're basically trying to say, well, these are just skirting the rules.
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Now, they're not skirting the rules, but that's what they're trying to accuse them of.
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They're also, he wants to get rid of the stabilizing braces for pistols.
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Stabilizing braces for pistols is their code for the AR-15 lookalike.
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Because it's technically a pistol, but it looks and feels like an AR-15.
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Other actions include directing five federal agencies to make changes to the 26 different
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programs to direct vital support to community violence intervention programs as quickly as
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And then, of course, you know, he had he's going he's apparently going to involve Beto.
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We're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.
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They want to stop all sales of AR-15s and AK-47s.
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I don't know any Americans who have AK-47s, but, you know, if they do, I'll bet they've
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I keep getting in boating accidents and deep lakes all over the state.
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The reason why he didn't do this on day one and he waited for month four or three is
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because he can't actually do these things legally.
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And what is happening is behind the scenes, people who understand how these things work
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are telling him over and over again, you can't do these things legally.
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He's now come to a point where, I mean, half of the things he's doing are what we're going
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to do is we're going to do an executive order on guns that will tell the states to pass
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It's a lot of like recommendations to the states, which, again, I would argue there
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are also going to be unconstitutional, but it's down the road a little bit and they don't
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they he can look like he's pleasing his base and who knows, maybe they get a couple of good
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judges and things go through the right way for them.
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And they're a little pissed off at him because he did promise during the campaign that
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he was going to reinstall, reinstate the assault weapons ban.
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Again, he he did pledge that he said, we've done it before and we can do it again.
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Well, no, it was also unconstitutional then, first of all.
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But beyond that, which is why it was overturned anyway.
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Well, but would the would the if these things do wind up with the Supreme Court, do you have
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Because I because I frankly, I don't even know if it holds up in the Supreme Court, if
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the Supreme Court does rule that these things are unconstitutional.
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I have very little confidence in this, you know, in the Supreme Court, though, more confidence,
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I guess, than I would have at other eras in the past.
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You know, people look back at the Heller decision, which was the first major gun case that people
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talk about that really, you know, codified the idea that people could individually own guns.
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And there's a lot of good in there, obviously did a lot of good things.
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But really, there's a lot of questionable reasoning in that ruling, which in some ways
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basically allows any anybody to ban guns almost immediately upon their release.
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Any new model, anything that's not commonly owned, they could go after and they haven't
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done all that much of this because I don't think they want that to go to back to the
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Supreme Court because I don't think that would work out well for them, meaning the left.
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But it's not exactly the most pro-gun ruling you've ever seen in your life.
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It did get the basic right for an individual to bear arms, but like really shouldn't have
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So I think like we've seen a lot of cases that have threatened to go to the Supreme Court
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in recent months, and a lot of them don't get up there.
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And you got to hope at some point they take some of these and get these laws and rules,
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you know, really confirmed so that we don't have to keep going back and asking these same
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We've seen this happen over and over again, where they will pass rules that are blatantly
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When they get up near the court at the very last second, they step in and they say, oh,
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And so the court backs off and then they wait three months and they pass it again.
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A very similar type of rule goes all the way up the courts, repeat and rinse, rinse, wash
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And that's that's not the way the legal system is supposed to work.
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Biden's going to try to do a lot of this stuff on his own.
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I don't think he's able to do it constitutionally.
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Many of the things he's just assigning to others who will then be overruled because they're
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And of course, we can go back to all the malicious stuff and all that nonsense that was
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decided in Heller, but regardless, it is it is clear you're not allowed to be doing these
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You want to you want to be able to do them, modify the constitution.
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And you can either repeal the Second Amendment.
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You can adjust and modify the Second Amendment in some way that pleases you.
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You cannot just do this while this amendment stands.
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You can say there are things you can do that are illegal with guns like shoot people, right?
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Just like you can say there are the law for a while.
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But it's just like you can say like you can do things with your voice, right?
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There are things that you can do to others libel that can be illegal, but you can't just