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On today's show, Pat and Stu talk about the assassination of the President, the movie industry, the MILFmobile, and Michael Avenatti. They also discuss Pat's heroic attempt to save a movie theater in Texas.
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Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stu in for Glenn. He's back on Monday, though, so fear not.
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Today we talk a little bit about Haiti and what's going on there, an assassination of the president at his home.
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A crazy story. We go through the new details that are being reported about that.
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We talk about the movie industry, where big-time power players are saying the movie industry is dead and it's not coming back.
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Is that true? We go into that a little bit today.
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I also tell you about the MILF-mobile, which is a thing in and of itself you really need to experience.
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That's on today's program. And we also discussed our heroic journey just a little over a year ago, May 29th, 2020, when Pat and I went to a movie theater.
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We risked death to go to a movie theater here in Texas, the first one that opened up after COVID in May of 2020, which is crazy when you think about it.
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The video is, by the way, up on my Twitter page, at StuDoesAmerica. We've tweeted it. It's on my YouTube page as well, youtube.com slash StuDoesAmerica, where you can find my show every single day for free.
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Mike Lavinati, where has he been for the last, gosh, what's it been? 15, 20 minutes since he was in the news?
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Was suddenly the most famous man in America for a three to six month period.
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What, he tried to hold up Nike for $20 million or something?
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I mean, who among us has not tried to hold up an international corporation for tens of millions of dollars?
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What I think is really fascinating about Avenatti is he comes in, he's just embraced immediately by the media.
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Well, yeah, because he hated Trump and he had things to say about Trump that weren't flattering.
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And he was essentially the equivalent of a Twitter feed, right?
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Like he came out, he was constantly prepping little insults, you know, little ways to phrase things that like the media loved because they were doing the work that, I mean, to be honest, they were doing the work that the journalists wanted to do.
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The journalists don't want to act like journalists.
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They want to be able to yell and scream Twitter insults at the president at that time over and over and over and over again.
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But they, you know, they might get a little pushback here and there.
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Avenatti was just doing all the stuff they wanted to do.
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Accused the president of all the things they thought he did without evidence.
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Here's just a little reminder of how much they loved him.
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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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I hand it to her and I hand it to Michael Avenatti.
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That being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.
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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 gives Trump a run for his money 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 cable news.
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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 Avenatti.
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Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media.
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He says something to one host where he says something like,
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You know, I'll say all of my sexual fantasies go along with handcuffs.
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You're going to be able to live out those fantasies now in the next two and a half years.
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You're going to see how wonderful those fantasies really are.
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They won't even mention Michael Avenatti's name.
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What about all these other places that we're having him on
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as basically an exalted co-host for months on end?
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And there was the rumblings that he was going to run in 2020 for president.
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And remember too, it wasn't just Trump per se he was attacking.
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He also had one of the fake accusers of Kavanaugh under his umbrella.
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And that was, I think, the beginning of the end because it was so easily sort of debunked.
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And I think there was a moment there where the media said,
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What's fascinating about this is he is such a terrible figure.
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Such an awful, awful, just, I mean, he's a creature of the system that is, you know,
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It's like the worst that society can produce is Mike Labanati.
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Like, he's going to prison because he defrauded and tried to extort Nike.
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The company that, like, promotes Colin Kaepernick and gives him millions of dollars to do nothing
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except harass police officers and conservatives are like, good job.
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Like, he's actually lower on the scale than Nike, which is saying something.
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And it doesn't even have a problem, I think, now with the woman who brought him to prominence
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He's that bad that even Stormy Daniels is, I think, suing him for, I don't know what.
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She says she had a statement reacting to his sentencing today.
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And she said, he was a man you wanted to trust and believe in.
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But the longer I knew him, I began witnessing his lies and dishonesty until I realized I, too,
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Let's hope that leads to an honest realization that he must change his life.
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Again, Michael Avenatti is not only below Nike, but also the stripper porn star that was trying
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So really a, and I actually don't know her work all that well, so I shouldn't say it.
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Sarah, for some reason, doesn't seem to have this knowledge.
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Sarah, I'm just asking for just a quick distinction.
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You know, again, Sarah has many bits of knowledge that we sometimes don't fully explore.
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So, I mean, it's really a fascinating story because, you know, if you think about it,
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really, like, they did actually, like, churn up these checks that were paid from people
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like Michael Cohen and the Trump Organization to, you know, these two women.
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And even though that happened, still, this guy is a complete disgrace.
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Hey, he's like, I mean, this is an ultimate, this is a dream of the media at the time to
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They came up with it and still Michael Avenatti ends up in prison.
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That's, it really is an amazing turn of events because we forget it happens so fast
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They made him, I mean, they were trying to elevate him to president of the United States.
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Hey, look, blatantly obvious from the beginning.
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Like, you know, he immediately reminded me of when he came on the scene was Michael Cohen.
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Trump's foreign attorney who has now turned on him and is now doing basically the same
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thing that Avenatti was doing, going on cable news all the time and saying how, you
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know, I've got all this information and nobody will listen to me.
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And Trump's really bad and he's going to prison soon.
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All the things Avenatti was doing, now Michael Cohen is doing.
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But like, you know, you look at Michael Cohen, you look at Michael Avenatti, you just immediately
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get the impression that not one 24-hour period has gone by where they didn't do something
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You know, it's just like, again, I don't have any evidence on it.
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I think him winding up in jail is kind of a happy, it's ended up in a happy place.
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So, because nobody seems to be more deserving than Michael Avenatti of just spending a little
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Sometimes it's good for people to sit back and think about what they've done.
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As a man, he broke down and wept openly in court.
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You know, you could tell it's really gotten to him now after he's lost his money and his
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He said he got carried away with himself or I don't know.
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Because he's got to show remorse so that maybe he can get parole sometime soon.
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Also, I was fascinated by the fact that France is now warning their citizens about travel
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They're kicking into gear the COVID fears again because things are starting to calm down and
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And so we've got to we've got to regain control.
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France is telling its citizens they shouldn't be vacationing in Spain or Portugal in the latest
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sign that the rapid spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 could wreck Europe's summer.
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And here in the United States, they haven't scared us enough with the Delta variant yet.
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So they're starting to push the Lambda variant.
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Yeah, I've been hearing a little bit about the Lambda.
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I think it's too early to know what's going on with the Lambda.
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I don't think there's any reason to believe that any of these variants are doing anything
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to evade these these very vaccines in any meaningful way.
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Like the only one that seemed to really do it in any meaningful way was the South African
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Maybe I think in this new naming system, I can't remember.
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I think it might be gamma, but it's already pretty much faded from view.
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The Delta one does like, you know, there is one study out of Israel that shows it's still
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I think every other study, though, has it more in the mid 80s to high 80s.
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Yeah, they think they think one of the issues is that Israel is super aggressive with testing.
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So if you come in contact at all with anyone who had covid, even if it wasn't like a long
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And so they're catching a lot of asymptomatic cases and such.
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But the same thing is holding that is held with every other variant in all of these
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Again, the number in the United States right now is ninety nine point nine.
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Literally ninety nine point nine percent of hospitalizations are people that are unvaccinated.
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So, yeah, again, take take what you want from that.
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And it doesn't mean the government should force you to do it.
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It doesn't mean Jen Psaki should show up with a needle.
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It just means that, you know, these things have been pretty effective and we've seen
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You might say, how could they possibly perform better?
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And the answer to that is they could be one tenth of a percent better.
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I mean, you're seeing what's going on with the Olympics, right, Pat?
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I heard what I heard a journalist talking about what they have to do.
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They have to test every day for three days before they leave.
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Then when they arrive, they have to get tested and go immediately from there to their hotel
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Then they can't ever leave the Olympic bubble for any of the time that they're there.
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And I think that the athletes as well have have after the Olympic Games are over, have 48
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I mean, they've been able to avoid the worst of this from the beginning.
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I mean, they really haven't had a terrible time with COVID, but they're worried about
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The overwhelming majority of Japanese citizens want them to cancel the games.
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That's a totally different vibe than I think America.
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There, the overwhelming majority in polls show that they want it canceled.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I heard you were talking about porn and I want to stop by.
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We were talking about whether or not Stormy Daniels has done it.
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Well, I wanted to go and view her work on a particular website.
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And this company will not allow me to access that website.
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Here you are just trying to do research for the show.
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I think you need to go complain to Glenn about that.
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She apparently did do a Stormy Daniels today stripper tour.
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And as a very well informed on this topic, a person here in this office just came in and
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said she was actually on the 40 year old virgin.
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Apparently that was the movie that he was using to excite himself.
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Now, I'm not sure exactly why there was so much information bouncing around about that
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I actually went into listing off the entire filmography.
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I would be stunned if you were the one that was blocked.
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And I see, you know, as just as a side note, we talked a little bit this morning on Pat's
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show, which airs right before preceding this broadcast.
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That the Washington Post now is quoting this show saying that the Biden administration
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And, you know, if you need some more stories, call.
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Maybe you could name us as a source, I suppose.
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They said that they should acknowledge that it's the biggest medical breakthrough in world
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That's what they said Biden should do so that he can, you know, kick the numbers into gear
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again, which I think it would, I think so, too, but it was or they could just go door
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to door or that you could just send Jen Psaki and Javier Becerra door to door to inject
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And that would also help with the Becerra clip.
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It's none of the government's business knowing who has or hasn't been vaccinated.
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Brianna, perhaps we should point out that the federal government has had to spend trillions
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of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic.
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It is taxpayers' business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting
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And so it is our business to try to make sure Americans can prosper.
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And knocking on a door has never been against the law.
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You don't have to answer, but we hope you do, because if you haven't been vaccinated,
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we can help dispel some of those rumors that you've heard and hopefully get you vaccinated.
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It is his business because they've paid trillions of dollars that they went out and earned with
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their own sweat equity, with their own labor, with their own hands.
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They've been actually digging in dirt and selling goods and services.
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Then that wouldn't be their business if they got it from us.
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I think there's a government farm and they sell all the vegetables and the fruits that
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You can get some really good corn on the cob from the U.S. government.
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You drive into town a little bit and then you find their retail outlets for their clothing
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It's been interesting to see the messaging on this because we were talking on News and
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White Matters yesterday with Sarah Gonzalez and she pointed out, I think correctly, that
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it was sort of assumed that after they said they were going to come door to door, the next
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step was we didn't mean literally coming door to door like we weren't really going to
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And they're not going to have the they're not going to be at your front door vaccine ready.
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They're just giving you information on why you should get vaccinated.
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The way the way it sounded is they were just going to be informative.
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At least their new fallback position is it's just like and they're saying it's not going
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to be government like employees or they're saying it's going to be like your local pharmacist
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like your local pharmacist is going to take time out of their own day.
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They're going to come to door to door and say like, hey, just have any questions about
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Just want to know if you want some vaccine information.
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And I got to say, like in 1985, someone comes to my door.
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I'm opening it up, asking them like, well, yeah, what can I help you with?
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So in 2021, I assume they're either a murderer or they're trying to raise money for global
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The anti-bug guys will say you'll say, do you have bug service?
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And I work, you know, and my favorite of their sales pitch is, well, you know, Jessica down
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I don't know the guy who lives right directly next to me or the other person right directly
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And the bug guys have the implicit threat of carrying around poison with them.
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Like there is a chance that if you say no, they're going to go to your ducks.
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I just close the door and they're still talking.
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And look, that's a longer conversation than I have with them.
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Because first of all, first of all, we have a no solicitation law from my HOA.
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That particular law supersedes the U.S. Constitution.
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And it is this sort of, like, there has to be this, like, look, we just happen to be in
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Yeah, I'm just going to have a flippant roof repair.
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I don't know if you've noticed that on your one corner.
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Look, I know these things go on and people work hard.
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It's just not the type of thing I want going on at my house.
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And if someone comes and tries to pitch me a vaccine from the government, like, that's
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Even if you think it's a great idea to get people vaccinated, something like the idea
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of having President Trump, who's arguably the nation's largest cheerleader for the vaccine,
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I mean, he's calling it a miracle routinely on interviews.
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I know there's disagreement on that from a lot of people, but like.
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But it's a miracle it happened in less than a year.
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And remember, this is what the media was saying throughout the Trump presidency to try to
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Basically saying there's no way he will ever be able to pull this off.
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There's no chance that they will have a vaccine by the end of the year.
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And they said it over and over and over and over again.
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The freaking vice president of the United States was on TV routinely saying she's not
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That was their biggest problem getting them to take the vaccine because they bad mouthed
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And then all of a sudden it's the greatest thing ever.
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And we need 100 percent of you to have it right now.
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I mean, we're just we're filled with hypocrites, which is brings me to the story of the 16 year
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old that made had one point seven million dollars in revenue.
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And he made he profited one hundred and ten thousand dollars last year on revenues.
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He was reselling products that he bought and then raised the price and sold it again on
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He made one point seven million in revenue, profited one hundred and ten thousand.
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Wasn't it to not too long ago where the Tennessee brothers who stockpiled bottles of hand sanitizer
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Now, I, of course, am fully in favor of both of these stories.
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And I will say there are there's no such thing as price gouging.
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If you're taking advantage of a hurricane, for example, where all the gas stations in the
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entire area are closed, but you're the only one open who has gas and you're charging $15
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And so what happens in a situation where you're not charging $15 a gallon?
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What you get is everyone goes to the gas station and puts the maximum amount of gas possible,
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even if they don't need it, because they're worried it's going to be running out.
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So then the people who really need it don't get it.
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It means the people who really need products oftentimes aren't able to get it.
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Well, that's true anyway, because the people who really need it aren't getting it because
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It's usually what happens when it's overpriced is you only buy what you need.
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Because the prices are high, gas is a little bit different here, but people come in with
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You're able to bring in other people, maybe from out of state, but like this always happens
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And they're like, oh gosh, people are charging $8 for bottled water.
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First of all, every freaking baseball game I go to, I'm paying $8 for bottled water.
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But you know, the people come in and then all of a sudden, you know what?
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Bob from, you know, an hour away says, I've got four cases of water.
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I'm just going to drive in there and sell them all for $8 a bottle, make some cash.
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And then all of a sudden, there's more supply of the needed object.
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So that means that the price comes down because I can get it over there for cheaper.
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They're thinking maybe U.S. citizens are involved here?
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I mean, you go back to from the beginning, what was it?
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1803, Haiti was a former slave state, gets its independence, and has spent the last 200 years really trying to figure out how to do things on their own with lots of international interference over that time period.
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They, I guess it was, in the 2000s, things are starting to turn around a little bit, starting to go pretty well.
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They didn't have as many, they had some actually somewhat normal elections, and then obviously the earthquake occurs, kills 250,000 people.
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And that doesn't count the people in the aftermath, really, where things are continually bad.
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I mean, it wipes out huge portions of the cities.
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The worst disaster in U.S. history, the biggest natural disaster loss of life we've ever had was 6,000 people, I think, in the 6 to 10.
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6 to 10,000 in the hurricane in Galveston in the early 1900s.
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And that was the worst disaster we've ever seen.
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Yeah, I'm looking at that now, because you've told the story before, and it was before, mainly because of what they did in the aftermath.
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I don't know if you could lift Galveston 17 feet higher, but they did.
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That was before we had advanced satellite technology and everything.
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145 mile an hour winds killed one in six residents in the city.
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And it's a hurricane coming out of nowhere, basically.
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This is an earthquake, which obviously does come out of nowhere as well.
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But in a country with only 11 million people as residents, killed 250,000 people.
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Obviously, this throws the entire country into chaos.
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It's not a functioning state in Haiti after this.
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So, eventually, this guy who was killed the other day gets into power.
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He wins the entire election with 600,000 votes.
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They eventually come to some sort of agreement where he's provisionally put in as president.
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But there's like a provisional alternate per year.
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And they said, well, what about that first year?
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I mean, think about a country operating this way.
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There's a disagreement as to whether the president's term is over or not.
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The election, it's not time for the election yet.
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We have situations where they've hollowed out to the government.
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So, there's only something like 11 representatives currently serving in the government, nationally
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Because many of them have been thrown out with corruption reasons.
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And the government was dissolved but not reformulated at one point.
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Another thing is, the president had dismissed multiple Supreme Court justices.
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And then the chief justice of the Supreme Court died of COVID.
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And it seems to me the Supreme Court justice was supposed to be the next in line.
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Because now, they're kind of like, the succession plan is like, well, I don't know.
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And there's two people going for it, essentially.
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So, that's all happening after this assassination.
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And the assassination is, in and of itself, a scary and fascinating story.
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And as you'd expect the president's home to be in a country in the middle of the situation I just described.
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And apparently, they think about 50 people roll up in tactical formations.
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They come in with lines of vehicles and also people on foot.
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They announce themselves as DEA agents, U.S. DEA agents.
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And the way it was described was basically like, the DEA is in Haiti often because they're fighting the drug trade.
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So, they're very familiar people there and have a decent amount of pull.
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They come in and they say, we're DEA, like people, generally speaking, honor that.
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And apparently, they came in, said they were DEA.
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They were not DEA, at least that's certainly the official story.
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I mean, I don't think there's anybody who really believes the U.S. government was trying to assassinate this guy in this way.
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English were able to go past all of the security, get into the home, go up to the room where the president and his wife were sleeping.
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I mean, they really, there's rumors, at least in Haitian media, that they tortured the guy before they killed him.
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They also shot the wife, who is still alive and believe in critical condition, but may make it.
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Then they left and they walked out of the facility and never had a shot fired by the security of the president.
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So, we, you know, it's unclear at this point, you know, there's speculation was the security involved.
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You know, did they know this was going to happen and step aside and allow it to happen?
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Did they get disarmed by the DEA at the beginning and they were able to kind of walk, walk out of there?
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Was, you know, were, did they believe that there was an official action and had no idea the president was even killed?
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We don't even know at this point the truth there and we probably won't know for some time, but you wonder about how you might say, okay, Haiti, it's this country.
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Should I care about this story other than just the normal human cost that, you know, of course, you care about?
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What's interesting about it is if you think about how this would be framed if it happened, let's say here, right?
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Like, again, I understand that Haiti and America are much different places, but someone comes in and kills a big leader in our government and we, they announce themselves as Mexican agents and they're saying they're Mexican, you know, drug enforcement.
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Can you imagine how we react to that as it's, as it is, a lot of people will just believe, right?
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A lot of people will believe the US was involved.
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We now, at least we're, the reports are that there were two American citizens involved in the assassination.
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One of the one they've announced the name was from, from Florida, though, of Haitian descent had interests in Haiti, in Haiti, but an American citizen, how do, how do the Haitian people react to this?
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And if they do, do we have another Cuba on our hands?
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Do we have another island off the coast, relatively close to our country that goes completely the opposite way and becomes an anti-American, you know, global influence of some sort?
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There's certainly plenty of countries around the world, China, Russia, among them, that would love to influence them in that way.
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You can bet that that chaos is being, at least attempted to be manipulated.
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By foreign influence at this time, to put another strong oppositional force in our hemisphere.
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And do we still have the Monroe Doctrine, where we don't allow that to go on in our hemisphere?
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Seems like it, I mean, we sort of enforce that and sort of don't.
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It seems like, sort of selectively, because, you know, in Nicaragua, I think they've kind of been communists for a while, right?
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I think in Managua, Nicaragua, they are fairly communist there.
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We don't have Jeffy in the studio right now, but, of course, he fought in the Battle of the Island of Spice.
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That's something we couldn't allow, right there.
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And then there was, of course, obviously Cuba being a big situation, which is still ongoing.
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And then, you know, it's changed, gone back and forth several times since.
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But the bottom line is, they're still there, still chugging along in our, you know,
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and you don't, communists specifically, you may not see, but you may see an anti-American regime pop up there in a big way.
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You don't fear the might of the Haitian military per se.
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But when you have influence from a China or from a Venezuela or from a Russia or from somewhere else-