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On today's podcast, we talk a little bit about fatherhood and living in the moment. Also, Bonhoeffer's warning against stupidity is an amazing story, and why don't the rich liberals enjoy having the money that they made or did they all?
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richer than you think on today's podcast we talk a little bit about fatherhood and living in the
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moment also bonhoeffer's warning against stupidity it's an amazing story and why don't the rich
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liberals enjoy having the money that they made or did they all on today's podcast
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with us now let's get to work you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program so i had another
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revelation this weekend it was a heavy dad learning weekend for me on so many levels um but um
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cheyenne i've called her lucy her whole life because when she was i mean she practically came out
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lucille ball she has been funny her whole i mean hysterically funny and such like lucy so innocent
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in her comedy when she was young she didn't know she was just funny um and uh and then as
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she grew up i sat there and i watched her four years old god going to these ballet recitals where
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i just wanted to claw my eyes out i couldn't take it i just couldn't take it and uh you know she had
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she had russian ballet there's this place that we live in one of the suburbs of dallas and there's
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this russian ballet dancer and her russian ballet dancer daughter that give lessons oh if you want to
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have your kids come back with bloody feet uh you know we are very good at doing that what do you
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mean your kids cannot come to okay no nothing nothing nothing nothing you're you're afraid the russian
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mafia is going to come after you and at four or five the kids are like dad the russian mafia is real
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um so she you know she went through this and we'd go and watch these ballet performances and i just
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wanted to claw my eyes out and uh but i would watch her and her mom and i would sit you know towards
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the front and we would just look at her like smile smile she was just so intense and uh she's like
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yeah you smile i you i've got the russians behind me anyway um and then she got into musical theater and
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everything else and this weekend was her last performance uh at this local community theater
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and uh she was one of the bowery boys in uh what's that called uh oh shoot i saw it four times this
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weekend and i can't remember uh no oh geez it'll come to me anyway so she was in this this show um and
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i watched her the whole time i went four times and i watched her the whole time and she did not lose
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focus or drop character once and every moment she was giving it 100 percent and it was amazing to watch
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100 and she was just so accurate with every move and she was amazing to watch at least i'm just i know
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you've got kids too so you know give me a second just to brag on my daughter for just a second um
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i can't wait to see her i wish in this show she had the starring role and she did too but
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she got over it you know that day and she was like it's gonna take me a day to you know mourn it's
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good to take a moment just to mourn for you know what could have been and then i move on and she did
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at intermission at two of the shows two parents came up to me and said i want you to know
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the difference your daughter made in our son or daughter's life because it's a community theater
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and it focuses on kids and uh one of them said our son was just didn't feel like he belonged there
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and got a role and couldn't do it and was worried that he just was gonna look stupid and not fit in
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and he was sitting out at a curb and he was you know wanting mom and dad to come pick him up
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and uh they said your daughter came out and sat on the curb and said i know how you feel
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and just talked to this kid and they said two parents the pivotal moment in their life i think
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is going to involve your daughter because it totally changed their perspective somebody else
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said pretty much the same thing this kid had to hit a high a and he was having a hard time he couldn't hit
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it and and uh cheyenne just took him and said you can do this you are blocking yourself from doing it
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you're afraid of that note you can hit that note just hit that note just stop thinking about it just
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hit the note i know you can hit that note you know you can hit that note hit the note and he hit the
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note and it was amazing and his parents came up and said
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same thing and i'm listening to them and you know me well enough to know just tears running down my cheeks
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i wish i would have known what i knew then from those parents
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because i wanted to bring her honor chords you know for graduation you know they always have
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honor chords and this is not graduation but this was her last performance with this group
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and uh i still wanted to bring her honor chords because i thought she's graduated with honors
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she she's not she wasn't the lead role or anything else she found a way and i don't think
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she views it this way at all because it's just who she is
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backstage i mean she was on stage and in character she saw one of the kids
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they had their shoe untied and it's a lot of dancing and in character she kneeled down to tie the kid's shoe
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i mean she was constant she's constantly like that
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when we are so set on our outcome our outcome is to be the lead our outcome is to do this
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that we miss the moment and we miss what's more important you know there's only one lead and
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in a show every show show of life there's a lead you may not be the lead so what are you doing what
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are you doing are you are you complaining that you're not the lead and i mean this in in every
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situation it's not just you know whatever it's every situation is the role of support even more
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important than maybe the lead because the lead gets all the applause but the ones that make the
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real difference are the ones behind that support that one and that doesn't normally get the accolades
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which makes me think you know why are you doing things that you're doing you know if you want the
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credit you'll get the credit here and then you know good luck upstairs where if you're doing it
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just because it's right or in her case it's just who you are what a great accomplishment that is
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and maybe nobody notices maybe no one notices but how game-changing can each of us be quietly
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i don't know if any of this makes sense to you but maybe someday it will maybe you're not that place
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in your life does this relate to you with your kids and where you i mean because you're behind me
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about 10 years yeah for sure uh you think about this stuff all the time um as a parent you attempt
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to have an impact that's positive and you have no idea whether you're doing it or not and
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you don't know whether you're supposed to care about what the reaction is or not
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that is the that's the part that's getting me is like i care about the reaction and i'm like you
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selfish sob what it's not about you you're like yeah but yes it is no it's not no it's not well it
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kind of is right you're trying to it's about um every every person has self-interest that's not
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that's not there's nothing wrong with that um you want those things to align ideally right and that's
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a good way for them to align right you're doing a good job hopefully for your kids and that they
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appreciate it and wouldn't that be wonderful do you think our grandparents thought like this
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i i never probably not but i don't know yeah i mean our grandparents did some things that were
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absolutely incredible i think maybe we've figured out some things too from that experience that maybe
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has improved it yeah there's ups and downs from that it's just you know i'm because i was thinking
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you know one of the problems that we have with the youth we were talking about this earlier today
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about when you get married how how what were you talking about there's a really interesting
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new study that just came out about marriage rates and there's that typical thing that everyone says
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oh you know 50 of people marriages end in divorce and what the what they're finding now is that that is
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just a really outdated statistic it there was a time where that was true but it is no longer true
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in fact the people who are getting married most recently which the the decade of the 2010s
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um where they have any um uh research on this it's trending the rates are of parents or of families
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uh staying together are better than every decade since the 50s only the 50s it has a better rate of
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staying together every other decade we are outperforming them now um you know people that
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have been married in the 2000s 2010s and there's a bunch of different there's a really interesting
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argument there between you know what the reasoning for that is and how you should think of marriage
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which is part of the reason why that's true is that uh you know researchers believe because
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they're people are getting married later and they're not necessarily going into marriages really early
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and then maybe real marrying a high school sweetheart and realizing that wasn't the right thing for them
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long term and those led to more divorces where now people it's this they call it the um foundation
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versus capstone debate so like we're found marriage is marriage a foundation of your life that you get
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into early and it's the entire building block or a capstone where you go through you live have a
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bunch of life experiences maybe build a career do things that you maybe are more frivolous early in
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your 20s and you get past them and then you get to a place where now i'm really thinking about that
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and i want to settle down and get married and have kids and the way if that that sort of debate between
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them there are positives on both sides of it i don't i don't think it's a an easy answer as i do
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think i was a better dad at my late 30s than i would have been in my early 20s oh i was but
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you went through it both times yeah i went through both and i was however however i don't think that it
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is that you have to wait to get married i personally i'd like to go the other way have you met the next
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generation have you spent well you yes you have they're living in your house a couple of the the
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the new generation is different they're just different um the the uh 15 to 25 year olds
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there's a real difference in that group um they're more responsible they're less whiny about things they
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understand things in a deeper different way it's really remarkable that's interesting because i think
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you know the the standard critique of now it was always about millennials which when you're talking
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15 to 25 you're below you're in gen z yes yes gen z um but the the typical complaint was that they were
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whining about everything yeah well and and here's the and here's the interesting thing i think that it's
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not that uh it's not that our you know we got to wait to get married till you're 30 no you should
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i i'm i'm i'm really turning on this whole you know you got to be out in playtime when you're 13
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why why playtime i get playtime and playtime is important throughout your life but shouldn't we expect
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more from our kids than playtime i mean when you go back in history and you see what kids what kids
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accomplished what life was like and how they went out and they were interning and they were not
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interning they were um um you know being shepherded apprentice um you know when they're 12 and 13
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we don't expect as much from our kids and maybe one of the things we have to do is start expecting
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more from our kids maybe we need to be you know you need to grow you need to grow up a little bit
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you know still enjoy your life as a kid and everything else but i mean why why do we know
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why do we talk to a kid at 13 or 15 the way we talk to them when they're 10 and expect the
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same things why why don't we expect them to be i mean you know um bar mitzvahs how old do you have
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to be for the 13 that's when you become a man who thinks of 13 year olds as becoming a man and yet i
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see people who are homeschooled and they and they have been you know they may work out on a farm or
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something with their parents and they're expected to do it just like we were expected to do it when we
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were kids and then we i guess maybe my generation was like you know i don't know maybe we should
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you know i want them to be kids and have that childhood well
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maybe maybe we're screwing that up now that we say kids are kids until 26.
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i heard one i heard one uh group now scientifically say oh you know what adolescence ends when you're 30.
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you know i read something uh over the weekend from dietrich bonhoeffer you don't remember who
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dietrich bonhoeffer uh was he is um he was a pastor he was lutheran pastor uh in germany uh
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he was a pacifist he you know talked about peace peace peace forever and um and taught peace and
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then it got to a place and i think it was 1942 or 43 he was like this got to stop uh and so he
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threw his hat in with the with valkyrie uh which is that tom cruise movie and before the movie it was
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an actual event but uh and uh he was caught and thrown in jail and he wasn't executed and he was kind
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of executed uh kind of by mistake in the end uh because he died 15 days i think before hitler died
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killed himself and they were just executing everybody in this one prison but he wasn't
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supposed to be in that prison but that's a different story he has written some of the
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most beautiful things in prison i mean his understanding of marriage and he was never
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married had a love of his life outside of prison and he was like we can't forget me forget me forget
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me forget me and he wrote a sermon for his sister's wedding that understands marriage
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in in such beautiful ways and he's writing this stuff while he's at the end he's writing some stuff
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where he is uh just beautiful christ-like stuff and in the cell with him is the guy who uh was doing
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experiments on the jews you know for medical research and then you know shared it with the
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world and hitler was like we're not trying to save the world we're trying to save germans
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so he went into the execution camp and next to him was a a woman who was like a prostitute and she
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had become a double spy a double agent so these two were doing vile things to each other with him
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in the same cell and he's writing this beautiful spiritual stuff it's he is an amazing guy but he
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he tries to he was trying to figure out i think the same thing that we're going through and i think the
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same thing that in some ways both sides think they're going through because both sides are saying to
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themselves i can't even talk to these people i can't even talk to these people they don't even
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listen they have no they have no clue what's wrong with these people right i talked to somebody uh over
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the weekend who is really really well informed really well informed stays up with it all the time
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and asked me what do you think is really happening with the epstein stuff and i thought
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wow here's somebody really informed that is still there so much stuff has happened in the last three
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weeks but that's my job my job is to be on top of this every day it's not your job and even if you
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are paying attention every day you only pay attention or you only you try to stay alert but you've got
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other things to do with your life and and then there are the people who are just tuning out and they're
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just like i don't i and i was there this morning i read this piece you know uh our cia director was on uh
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maria bartuomo this weekend and she was and he was saying you know some big stuff is coming this
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week and it's got them dead to rights and they're gonna go to jail and i thought uh-huh sure and i
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caught myself saying that and i thought why if i feel that way what does the average listener feel
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you gotta feel that way right i mean don't we all like yeah i've seen this movie before
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and just like charlie brown we line the football up every time no this time she's gonna kick it or
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this time i'm gonna kick it and she's gonna she's not gonna pull it away at the last minute uh yeah
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how do we break through to people listen what dietrich bonhoeffer wrote stupidity is more dangerous
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a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good
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than malice stupidity not evil is the greater threat not because it's more powerful but because stupidity
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is unreachable you can expose evil you can argue with it you can shine a light on it you can resist it but
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stupidity just doesn't respond it doesn't engage it just is and it spreads
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in fact some of the the stupidest people he encountered were in germany were very highly
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right in our own life they're university professors he's like are you stupid what is wrong with you
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what he's talking about is moral failure it's a willful surrender of independent thought
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a kind of intellectual cowardice that allows propaganda and group think to take over and
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become the root like cancer okay you may have thought at some point but you really have stopped now i want
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to make this very clear this is on both sides this is on both sides i have seen people on our side
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that you talk to and you're like no that's not true and they immediately just lies glaze over and
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you're like oh boy they're not there anymore bonhoeffer called it a psychological problem
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it emerges in groups and crowds and movements listen to this people hand over their discernment
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not because they're dumb but because they choose not to think they let slogans replace
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ideas they let ideology replace truth how much has that happened where ideology well that's not true
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you're basing this all on lies it's not true it doesn't matter it doesn't matter because they've
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surrendered thought same thing with slogans i mean if i hear you know global warming is our world war
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three one more time i think i'm gonna i'm gonna lose my mind no that look everything you say all
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the scientists agree no they don't no they don't have you looked into it yourself no but all the
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scientists agree no they don't their eyes glaze over they think you're wrong they won't even look into
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it no matter what you show them they will not look at it and if they do they're reading it to figure out
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a way to find the way they're right and you're wrong they've surrendered entirely
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we don't when we ask don't you see what's happening don't you see it the things that you
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said would never ever happen the things you told me were conspiracy theories the things you said
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that's not true at all it's happening right in front of you right now right now don't you see it
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the inversion of morality when when did you decide it was okay to have transsexual
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strippers perform in front of children because that's been wrong since the dawn of man if i went
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back 10 years with you you and i proposed that you would have said that's outrageous but now it's
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happening and you think it's good can you tell me the thoughts that brought you there no you're a bigot
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you're just a bigot why do you hate transgenderism no i i what are you talking about i want to
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understand you can you take me from where you were in 2015 to where you are today show me the building
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of this ideology that you now have love is love that's not that's that's a slogan
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you're not arguing anymore with people who disagree
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you are now confronting someone who has abdicated the responsibility of thought
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themselves i mean it's they're no longer thinking and again i want to make this clear this is not just
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a disease on the left the right has it too you must not surrender thinking
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it's into this bonhoeffer described it this way the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other
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and he saw it firsthand the german people they were good people they were church going people
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they allowed the nazi machine to rise not because they all hated jews or they wanted war but because
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they refused to think we were just talking about the starvation in gaza think that one through
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think it through uh you're you're protesting for uh the gazans you're protesting for the palestinians
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and you're gay and you're marching with your gay transvestite lesbian group they'll kill all of you
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you think it through but here's what happens the stupid again on both sides the stupid
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emotionally and spiritually get swept up in something bigger than themselves
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this is our world war ii they get swept up you want to be on the wrong side of history or the right
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side of history save the earth it's much bigger than just you and like an offering they hand their
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minds and their thinking over to the one and they become uncritical they become certain of things they've
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they're actually not certain of they're certain of things they never themselves examined they just
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stopped thinking it's not ignorance it's not even misinformation it's not even ideology it's stupidity
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and i think this is why most of us feel so exhausted because you know you speak the truth
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you lay out the facts you plead you'd listen you're like no no no but no you have to read this
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this and nothing moves it's like there's a giant barricade and it is and nothing's going to take that
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barricade down nothing because they have an emotional alliance to an idea or a tribe that they chose
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again both sides they chose it and they absorbed it and now they've been conditioned to feel certainty
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and so they know everything and you're wrong no matter what you present to me you're wrong
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communist living conditions what do you think of i think of empty store shelves okay
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yeah yeah i think of um gulags and but you also think everybody's paying their fair share
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oh oh i'm sorry he's that rich right nobody's getting rich that's definitely not what i think
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of but but that's the the promise yeah okay of it right all right so when i say uganda what do you think of
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uganda yeah i mean not a ton yeah right frankly uh i i think what comes to mind whether it is about
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it yeah so whether it is you know whether it's true or not i think poverty i think africa poverty okay
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gun you know war you know gun lords you know uh uh drug lords warlords that kind of stuff right
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well mamdani zoran mandami the the candidate who is a communist remember what you thought of
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communism went to his home in uganda i remember what you're thinking about uganda and it's a compound
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now listen to this story uh this from the new york post socialist new york city mayor uh or mayoral
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frontrunner zoran mandami celebrated his recent nuptials with a lavish three-day affair at his family's
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rich ritzy secluded ugandan compound complete with mass security guards and a cell phone jamming
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system the gates of the bustling private compound which sits in the wealthy uh bazooka hill uh outside
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of the capital city of kampala were heavily guarded by military style mass men this week with guests
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streaming in and partying until midnight according to sources who wish to remain anonymous
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um the home is set back from the road and sits on two acres of lush gardens surrounded by trees
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has breathtaking panoramic views of lake victoria and features the least at least three security gates
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this week it was transformed into a party pad with christmas lights strung as in through the canopy of
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trees in the garden a music blaring sources said on tuesday buses several mercedes and range rovers
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were seen driving into the compound outside the mandami house there were more than 20 special forces
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command unit guards some in mass there was a phone jamming system set up all for the strictly private
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invite only mamdani event one gate had nine guards stationed on it mamdani's parents near 67 and her
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husband mahmoud mamdani 78 and anti-israel political theorist lived on the estate but also split their
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on friday inside the compound there were military style tents being taken down and as the party had
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finished blah blah blah the property is isolated enough that some locals weren't even aware of the
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three-day wedding extravaganza local children have been watching mom donning on tv and everyone was
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talking about him but not about the wedding for us it was just about survival for us this is a person
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for us it's just about survival we're trying to win the bread and make sure our family's okay we had
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heard that mom donning was going to be mayor of new york and he had made it over to america we want to
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know if we can get free visas in the u.s and to travel to new york like he did while the mom donning
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family celebrated neighbors were in mourning for a former you know supreme court justice in uganda
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who had lived a stone's throw away from the mamdani place and he had died july 14th the president also
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came to pay his respects for the dead uh the street was blocked by the president's cars a local said
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some found mamdani's wedding bash insensitive because the culture here it is insensitive to have
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a wedding celebration in the same week as a mourning uh people are still mourning uh blah blah blah blah
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he has not even been buried and we have friends coming to give last words to mourn before the
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next week yet mandami is celebrating his wedding for three days now this is actually what i think of
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when i think of communism here's a guy saying you know what we got to help the poor we got to help
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the poor how much is enough and yet his family has a place in new york new delhi and uganda and it
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looks like a war a warlord palace honestly it's got razor wire just to keep what out the poor
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the poor starving that said we are just trying to put food on our table while they're partying for
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three days and the mercedes going through that's exactly what i think of when i think of communism
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this is i mean this is everything you need to know communists believe their life is okay
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just like everybody who is taking a private jet over to some save the earth conference but their fuel
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is okay bernie sanders riding a riding a private jet but calling for socialism redistribution of wealth
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when asked about his extra 25 trips just in the last month or so he said what do you expect someone
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like me to be in line at united uh yeah yeah i expect to see someone especially like you in line at united
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why is it bad for everyone else but you oh i know because you are important you have something
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you have to get across to the people so you don't have to live by the rules you want everyone else to
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live by do as i say not as i do that never works that never ever works because the children learn
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they're not doing it why should i if you're not leading this life you know you want to be you know
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you want to be a communist that's fine but i would hope that you're poor i would hope that you're
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planning on being poor i'm hoping that even if you're paid four hundred thousand dollars a year
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that you're planning on giving it away and you're only going to live on eighty thousand dollars a year
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because you want to take the four hundred thousand minus the 80 and give it away to people who don't
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have enough right in that right or are you special in some way or another let me give you another
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story kind of the same vein this from the washington post affluent voters have become more democratic in
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recent years there are also some of the biggest winners in the gop tax bill affluent voters have
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become more democratic in recent years what does that say the rich are going to the democratic party
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why because they sense redistribution of wealth is coming and so they better be on the right side
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kimberly hoover has been the most michelin star restaurants in the east and west coast she and
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her wife millionaires from the real estate firms own homes in or near new york city washington miami
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quebec they their lives are filled with skiing fine wine and long trips to europe hoover's accountant
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estimates the new tax law that president donald trump signed this month will save her several million
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dollars over the next few years while many americans might rejoice at that kind of windfall hoover
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worked hard to stop it become becoming a reality arguing to lawmakers that she's made more money than
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she needs at some point it just starts to feel wrong it starts to feel excessive it starts to feel
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somehow inappropriate well then good then give it away why what kind of idiot takes money and say i have
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all this money and so i want to give it to the people i think it feels wrong and so i'm going to give
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it to a charity that takes 60 percent of that money and wastes it so only 40 percent of that money is
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actually going to things i care about nobody does that nobody does that and by the way hoover you can do
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whatever you want with your money you want to pay more let me give you this venmo and paypal now have
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a link right to the treasury department their treasury department is now expecting accepting venmo and
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paypal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the national debt 36.7 trillion dollars
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for all of those billionaires that just feel like they've paid not enough money pay down the national
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debt and if all of those billionaires did give millions and millions and millions hundreds of
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millions of dollars to pay down the debt it wouldn't change anything the national debt wouldn't change
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you wouldn't even touch it with all of your money give all of it it won't touch it it's that
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insignificant but if you really cared about the country and you know why people won't give to the
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national debt because a they won't see it make a difference and more importantly why would i pay down
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the national debt they'll just keep spending more why why should i pay taxes when they are wasting
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that money do you know how much good a charity can do a charity that's run right 95 cents on every
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dollar goes to what it says and strangely not to some leftist organization that is teaching people
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how to protest in the streets you know how much good that would do you care about medicare and
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medicaid take your hundreds of millions of dollars and find a way to get that money to people who don't
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have insurance it would be much better than waiting around for the tax rate to be raised on you to
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force you to pay it to the government where they will waste 60 plus percent they don't actually they
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don't care they don't care that's not true by the way npr i told you this last week so they were
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they were cut by 550 million hey hoover 550 million you got hundreds of millions of dollars why don't you
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take care of this one you won't 550 million dollars lapsed in federal grants oh my gosh big bird it's
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going to starve to death he's going to be in gaza starving with all the little children it's going to
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be horrible horrendous you want to see a skinny big bird no but that's what's going to happen
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because the federal government's no longer going to pay for big bird so they have 550 million they have
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they have raised in the last two weeks 20 million dollars 20 out of 550 now that's actually more than i
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thought that would come in but that's just from rich liberals who say we've got to do something
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well great 550 million dollars that should be nothing to people who have hundreds of millions
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of dollars it should be nothing pay it pay it but you know what happens next year you're gonna have to
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another 550 million and then the the third year another 550 million you're gonna keep paying that
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no you can't you'll be bankrupt oh well that's why it has to be on the people no the people are already
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bankrupt they're already bankrupt they don't have that they don't have it but if you really truly
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believed that this was the most important 550 million i would tell you 800 million would have
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already been raised if you actually believe that big bird was going to starve and that our educational
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system is going to completely fall apart without pbs and npr that no truth is ever going to get out
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in any way shape or form unless we use old-fashioned networks to do it there'd be there'd be a billion
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dollars in the coffer already but you got 20 million because none of you people believe it
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that's what none of you believe it when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from
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winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with
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the designer jeans are those from winners oh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price
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