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What to expect the dock worker strike to look like if it goes on more than a week. Also, Alex Newman joins the show to talk about the UN's "Pack for Life" debate with J.D. Vance. Plus, on the Full Show Podcast, you'll hear from Zach Dasher, who is part of the Robinson Duck Dynasty clan. He called in and talked about what he has seen firsthand in North Carolina, and it's rough.
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Okay, today's podcast, what to expect the dock worker strike to look like if it goes on more than a week.
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Also, Alex Newman joins the show to talk about the UN's pack for life.
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And Tim Walls stopped by to talk about the debate with J.D. Vance tonight and how he's preparing for it.
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Plus, on the full show podcast, you'll hear from Zach Dasher.
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He called in and talked about what he has seen firsthand in North Carolina, and it is rough.
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You know, you get up this morning, scrolling through your phone, checking your news feed, having a cup of coffee, and then there's this headline.
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Now, we could, you could just blow this off because the ports and, you know, dock workers sounds distant.
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You know, so it's the kind of the one you skip, I feel like.
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Okay, this one is about to reach out right into your home, your wallet, your daily life.
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First, in week one, in the first week, you might not notice much.
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You can go and, you know, go to the store and stock up on some things, but there's no reason to run out and do that this week.
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Maybe you hear a blip on the news about some ships stuck offshore for a few industries hinting at some delays.
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But for most people, life is going to go on as normal in week one.
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Now, behind the scenes, things are starting to shake and crack a little bit.
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Retailers, manufacturers, and businesses that depend on regular shipments are beginning to feel the pinch in week one.
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The just-in-time supply system, you know, that we all learned about in COVID, that's beginning to have a little bit of a strain.
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And while the shelves are still full for now, the stock rooms in the back are running thin.
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By week two, by the second week, you're going to start feeling things.
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So, next week, maybe midweek, if it's still going on, maybe you head for the store in something as simple as bananas or a pair of new shoes.
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Fresh avocados or berries that you've gotten used to, they're sitting on ships waiting to dock.
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And it's not just food, it's electronics, it's clothing, even toys for your kids.
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By week two, they may start on some items to inch upward.
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Businesses are now scrambling to get their hands on what's left, and the competition drives up cost.
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That cheap TV that you were thinking of buying, you may have to add anywhere from 10% to 30% to the price tag.
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By the end of week two, if you were planning on doing some home repairs or upgrades, good luck.
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All of the tools and materials are sitting in crates, gathering dust at the ports.
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This is also a problem because of the hurricane.
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Anything that you get at Home Depot is going to be in short supply because of the hurricane,
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Now, by the third week, if it goes on that long, now we're getting into some problems.
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It's no longer just a shortage of bananas or phone chargers.
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Factories that rely on parts from overseas just in time can't keep running.
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So the workers in those factories, people you might know, maybe it is you, are getting furloughed,
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sent home without pay because there's nothing for you to build.
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Grocery stores begin to ration some items and limiting on some items how much you can buy.
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Now, at this point, the strike is not a nuisance.
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The online orders you placed, delayed, weeks out.
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Businesses are pleading with the government for help by now.
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But even if the strike ended in week three, it would take weeks to untangle the mess at the ports.
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By now, inflation is beginning to rear its ugly head.
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Everything from groceries to gas to clothes is more expensive than it was just two weeks ago.
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So, week four, this is when it becomes the full weight of the strike is unavoidable.
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And I believe it becomes a national security problem.
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And possibly by this time in week four, it is just one part of what I am looking for,
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and we'll explain later on the show, a polycrisis.
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A polycrisis is what will take us out in a knockout blow.
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And you already have a little bit of a polycrisis with the dock workers and the hurricane.
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Small businesses are now closing their doors because they can't get their inventory.
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Grocery store shelves are sparse with some items missing altogether.
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Maybe you head to the hardware store only to find that the building materials you need
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are either unavailable or so expensive they're out of reach.
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Timing couldn't be worse because we're heading into fall.
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Retailers are counting on the next few months for a huge chunk of their sales.
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And the Christmas gifts you've been eyeing, there's a good chance they won't make it in
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Toys, electronics, clothing, they're sitting in ships or backordered at factories.
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Even if the strike ends after four weeks, the backlog will last for months.
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You'll be paying a premium for anything you can find.
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If you want to get some fruit and you have some extra fruit in the house, you know, for
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I can't imagine that this strike goes on very long because it will create a national emergency.
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However, I'm not sure if our president is too busy of lathering on sunscreen at the beach
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or if his goals are just not the same as our goals to keep America safe and healthy.
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And the media is saying, well, he can't really do anything, you know, can't really, you know,
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He stopped the train thing from going into a strike.
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So I don't know what's happening in a normal America.
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The president would make sure this strike was settled.
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But wait until you hear what they're asking for and what they've already turned down.
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So if it goes four weeks, truckers, rail workers, warehouses will be overwhelmed trying to just move everything.
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Prices will stay high through the holiday season.
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Holiday shopping season is going to be leaner, fewer options on the shelves, less to spend
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because inflation is going to chip away at your budget again.
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The economic hit won't be limited just to higher prices.
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Jobs will be lost as industries scramble to adapt disruptions.
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Companies may start shifting operations to avoid reliance on our U.S. ports in the future.
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Potentially relocating manufacturing or looking to automate more of their processes to reduce reliance on labor.
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That will mean fewer jobs for the very workers that are striking today in the long run.
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So when you hear about the port thing, no, this is a very serious issue.
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Not today, but if you want to be prepared, you might don't go crazy at a Costco.
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Just make sure you have what your family needs in case things get worse.
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When you hear what the dock workers are striking for, maybe you think it's reasonable, but let's get into the details.
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They want assurances that their jobs won't be taken over by machines, by automation.
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But when you start unpacking what they're asking for and comparing it to the average American worker, and when you consider the long-term effects on our country's economy, especially in competition with China, picture gets a little more complex.
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The average longshoreman, the dock workers, already make about $100,000 to $200,000 a year.
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Some even earn more when you factor in overtime.
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Now, if you compare that to the average American worker who pulls in around $56,000 a year, that's quite a gap.
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They are pushing for significant raises, sometimes 10% to 15% a year or even higher, depending on the location in the union negotiations.
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For someone already making $100,000, that could mean a $10,000 to $15,000 or $20,000 raise every year.
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Meanwhile, the average American worker, we're lucky to see a 2% or 3% raise.
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In fact, with inflation running hot, many workers are losing purchasing power and wages are not keeping pace with inflation and the cost of living.
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Over the term of the next six years, they are asking for a 77% pay raise over the six-year life of the contract.
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Now, they've been offered a 50% increase and have turned that down.
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Now, the dock workers in California and the West Coast, they got a 34% pay raise over the course of their contract.
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These guys are asking for 77% increase over the next six years, been offered a 50% and have turned it down, walked away.
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I mean, that's going to be hard for people to swallow.
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But the pay is already far above the national average.
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And their demands for even more seem a little out of sync with what most people are experiencing in their lives.
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And I am for people making as much money as they can.
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And everyone has to remember, this is a business.
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Because if it's just the dock workers, nobody wins.
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Even at a 50% pay increase, that is going to be passed on to you in higher costs.
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The real problem comes in what their second demand is.
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The dock workers want ironclad guarantees that the ports will not replace any of them with a machine.
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They're asking for a commitment that even as technology advances,
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ports won't introduce things like automated cranes or self-driving trucks or robotics
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to do the work faster, cheaper, more safely, and efficiently.
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This is a conversation America and the world should have had 20 years ago.
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We're going to come to a time where if you don't know what the meaning of life is,
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Because people are going to start losing their jobs.
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Maybe we should start looking at the jobs of the future
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and start training people for those because the average job is going away.
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Because there is no leadership in this country.
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And without vision, without a leader with vision, the people will perish.
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No one wants to be told that we got a machine that can do your job faster and without brakes.
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So now we have to figure out how do we retool instead of just saying,
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Because if we don't retool, if we are acting like people who said the horse and buggy have
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Have you seen the video that's circling the world now?
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It's like one office and the whole port runs in one office.
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They move goods faster, more efficiently than we do.
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This allows China to process millions of more containers than we do at a fraction of the cost
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Why do you think people buy their products from China?
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Because they, through slave labor and now through automation, they can make it cheaper.
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If we don't automate our ports, we are putting ourselves in a disadvantage for a long-term knockout punch.
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Companies will ship through countries and ports that can move their goods faster and cheaper.
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And if the U.S. sticks with old labor-intensive methods, shipping companies will look elsewhere
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to countries like China that can get the job done more efficiently.
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This will mean lost business for U.S. ports, fewer goods flowing through our economy,
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and ultimately fewer jobs for dock workers in the long run.
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We, I'm sorry, gang, have to automate to be able to compete in today's world.
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If you're willing to go back and live like the old-timey days, where, you know, back in the, you know,
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back around the turn of the century, 80% lived below the poverty line, okay?
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But we have a brave new world that we are facing now, and these dock workers are in trouble.
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Every day we move closer to a potential war with countries like Russia and China, even North Korea.
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That's not what I'm afraid of in the short term.
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In October, we have the port unions, the unions of all of our port workers, going on strike.
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That would mean all of that stuff on ships will sit there, and we will have shortages, just like we did with COVID.
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How many times in your life have you just heard, hello, Newman?
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And I never watched Seinfeld growing up outside of the country, so it's ironic.
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It's some of the meanest people you've ever seen.
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I mean, so anyway, Alex, I know you've been covering Pact for the Future, and you were there at the UN,
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and you've talked to some of the leaders on this.
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First, explain what it is to people that don't know and why it's so important.
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Well, the Pact for the Future, essentially, Glenn, is an effort to radically transform the United Nations.
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I think better than the word transform would be to use the word empower.
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Because when the UN was started, at least the marketing job was, this is just about peace.
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You know, we're not trying to build a world government.
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This is just so countries don't fight each other.
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As you read the Pact for the Future, you'll see the UN now believes that it should be involved in education,
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the environment, law, business, economics, culture, sports, religion, you name it.
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And they actually marketed this internally, and they had the posters everywhere.
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And as Antonio Guterres said, the Socialist Secretary General,
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and they actually put it in these big speech bubbles and put stickers and posters all over the place,
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we can't build a future for our grandchildren with a system built for our grandparents.
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I reached out to a lot of different experts to get their thoughts on what this meant from a legal perspective.
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And they range from, you know, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCall telling me,
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to Professor of International Law Francis Foyle at the University of Illinois,
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one of the top experts in international law in the world,
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saying, no, this is actually a treaty, even though Biden is pretending like it's not.
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And it's going to have very serious legal implications for all the nations of the world.
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So it's a big deal, no matter how you slice it, Glenn.
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They want to assume all these emergency powers.
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They want power to silence speech that they disagree with.
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They want power to educate your children in their worldview.
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So I saw the video of you trying to interview the head of the, what is she, communications?
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She is, you were trying to talk to her because she made a deal with Google, right?
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She went to the World Economic Forum side event back in 2022 on sustainable development
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and bragged to her globalist buddies that, hey, we now have a partnership with Google.
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She said, when we Googled climate change, we realized there was distorted information.
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And it's funny she said that because for many years, my articles covering the UN's climate
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summits, interviewing a lot of the leading climate experts in the world, were at the top
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Same thing with sustainable development, et cetera.
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So she was very proud that they had formed a partnership now with Google to put the UN's
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And I just wanted to ask her, you know, about the formula.
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How do you guys decide what's good and what's bad?
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How do you decide what should be at the top when people search?
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And as you saw in the video, she was not interested in talking at all.
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Weren't you at a freedom of the press kind of event trying to talk to her, too?
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She had just finished a panel discussion on the importance of freedom of the press.
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And they were moaning about how all these citizen journalists now are undermining the
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We need more government subsidies for the press to be free.
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And I thought, well, yes, this is a free press event.
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Certainly, she's going to want to talk to the press.
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She was interested to talk with other members of the press.
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I went up to her and asked her, hey, could you tell us about how you guys determine
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what should be and should not be on the front page of Google?
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And then her staff, I guess they were, swooped in and called me away.
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And then other members of the press just went right up to her.
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And she put on a big smile and talked to them, told them anything they wanted to know.
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So I think there were several deceptions there.
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First of all, pretending like she didn't recognize who we were.
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Her office had to be involved in accrediting all of us to be surrounded by world leaders.
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Second of all, the idea that you can only talk to journalists who you recognize is ludicrous.
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So she just didn't want to talk about that issue with people who weren't drinking the Kool-Aid.
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And let me tell you, these are the sources in order.
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The United Nations, NASA, NASA, the effects, the United Nations, you go down, then it's the IPC, IPCC, then it's Wikipedia, then it's the United Nations, then it's the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, then the World Bank, then the World Health Organization, and you're on to page two.
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They are burying those of us who ask critical questions, who aren't necessarily buying into the narrative, and they're promoting their propaganda, even in the political realm.
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Donald Trump was just complaining about this the other day.
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And Google seems to have messed with its algorithm in a way where now pro-Kamala Harris stories come up and pro-Trump stories or even neutral stories get buried.
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So, tell me, how is the disparity so great between the, this means nothing, to, no, it's going to mean an awful lot?
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Where do you land, and why is it that we don't really know?
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You would think that they would want this to be clear, Glenn, but I think the reality is they don't want it to be clear, because as long as there's this haze of confusion around it, nobody can kind of pin down exactly what's wrong with it.
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And I think one of the big problems that they have is our Constitution.
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Our Constitution has a specific method for ratifying treaties.
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They have to be subject to the advice and the consent of the Senate, and they have to get two-thirds of the Senators.
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So, even all the Democrats combined and the RINOs, it's very difficult to get stuff like that ratified in the U.S. Senate.
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So, I saw this during the Obama administration.
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I was in Paris for the U.N. climate negotiations, and Barack Obama's running around being treated like some sort of superstar, some celebrity,
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because he promised to slash American CO2 emissions by about a third over the next years.
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And they were very strategic about how they referred to this document.
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And so, you had people like Senator James Inhofe come in and say, hey, you guys can all go home.
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But Obama said, no, no, this is an executive agreement.
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It turns out there's no such thing as an executive agreement.
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And yet, Barack Obama came back to Washington, D.C., and right away, the EPA starts putting out new mandates, shutting down power plants, Department of Transportation.
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They're putting in new emission standards for the vehicles.
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So, they're treating them as if they were binding documents, but they're not submitting them to the Senate for ratification.
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And I guarantee you, that is a deliberate fraud on the American taxpayers, just like they did with the International Pandemic Accord.
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Originally, they called it International Pandemic Treaty, but they knew it wasn't going to get through the U.S. Senate, so it magically morphed into an accord.
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How many more parts need to be assembled before you think we could truly lose our sovereignty?
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One of the organizations that's been instrumental in bringing this about, and they've had a front-row seat to the whole process, and they've been helping it, is the Council on Foreign Relations.
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And back in the 1970s, they published a piece by Richard Gardner, who at the time, I believe, was the Assistant Secretary of State for something.
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And he explained in there how they're going to build what he described as the House of World Order.
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And he said, we're not going to do the old-fashioned frontal assault.
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That's not going to work anymore in today's day and age.
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I mean, you tell Americans, hey, you're living in a world government.
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They're going to be mad, and they've got 400 million guns.
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So he said, we've got to erode sovereignty piece by piece.
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They'll take a little bit of our sovereignty on the climate issue.
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Then UNESCO will come up with some new ideas on education.
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Then the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will be used as a bludgeon to get us to change our laws on this.
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Then they'll pass a UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that says we have to change our child welfare laws.
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And little bit by little bit, more and more policy areas get usurped at the international level.
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That's why I asked you how many more pieces need – because they're not – every time I think of the progressives, I think of that old Johnny Cash song.
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I don't know if you remember it, but One Piece at a Time.
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And it's about a guy who built a Cadillac working at GM and stealing parts one piece at a time.
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And I think that's what they've done for the last hundred years.
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They've done little piece, little piece, little piece.
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You know, it's like the recovery – what was it?
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The first big bill, the $7 trillion bill or whatever it was that happened right under Biden at the very beginning had all of the stuff on the border in it.
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That's where all this money is coming from to put people up.
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You look at it, you read it, and you're like, I don't even know what that means.
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Yeah, and one of the things that is most troubling about this pact for the future, Glenn, is it has the seeds in it for exactly the type of power grab that we're discussing here.
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So let me give you a little background before I get into what's actually in the pact.
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So in early 2023 – and I wrote a major article about this – the Secretary General was putting out a series of what they called policy briefs.
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And it was about all these ideas that the Secretary General had for strengthening and improving the United Nations.
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But the one that really caught my attention – I said, this is huge.
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I've got to write about it right this moment – involved emergencies.
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And I want to quote from this document because it says that in the event that the Secretary General declares a global emergency, it says right here, all the stakeholders, all institutions, governments, international institutions, the private sector, development banks, religious organizations, all will have to recognize – and I'm quoting here – the primary role of intergovernmental organs that would be U.N. agencies in decision-making.
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And so they're saying if the Secretary General declares an emergency under this policy brief, then everybody in the world, all institutions are going to have to recognize the U.N. as the main decision-maker.
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And so here's what they got in the Pact for the Future, which is directly related to that.
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And so I think they buried it at the end very strategically.
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It says in very clear language, we recognize the need for a more coherent, cooperative, coordinated, and multidimensional international response to complex global shocks and the central role of the United Nations in this regard.
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And it calls on the Secretary General to come up with ways to strengthen the U.N. system response to complex global shocks.
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And so imagine for a moment, Glenn, that we maybe see another pandemic, maybe a war breaks out.
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Maybe there's an economic crisis, a dollar crisis, whatever.
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And the Secretary General says, well, this is a complex global shock.
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And he says, no, no, go look in the Pact for the Future.
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All 193 member states of the United Nations agreed by consensus that the U.N. needs to play the central role in this regard.
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So I'm just doing what the member states told me.
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And, you know, if you don't like it, take it up with the member states.
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And so now Secretary General Guterres can just say, hey, I have a mandate to do this.
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I'm just obeying my bosses, the member states of the U.N.
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Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
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I was talking for seven minutes and you did not answer.
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We're going to talk to you about the J.D. Vance.
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That's the best impression I have heard of Tim Walz.
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I mean, if all those phrases came out of his mouth tonight, would you know the difference?
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We may have a very special guest after tonight's debate on TV.
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Tim Walz may have to stand by and come on the program tonight, so you don't want to miss that.
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There's not a chance that it goes poorly tonight, is there?
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Because Walz doesn't seem to bring anything to the table.
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As you may be able to tell, he is uniquely grating to me.
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When I was doing that impression, I just pull up the Google images of Tim Walz.
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Because as soon as I see his face and him trying to be this relatable dad character, it's so irritating.
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I feel like people don't, like, they don't, they're not seeing what I'm seeing or something.
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Like, why am I the only one who hates him so much?
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Kamala Harris is awful, and she does a lot of irritating things, and she'll be a terrible president.
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He's, like, just so much more irritating and annoying to me.
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Like, I can't understand how anyone can like him.
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It's just him trapped in a room with Tim Walz and Andrew Cuomo.
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I don't know why, like, people are like, oh, well, he's going to be very relatable.
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He's a relatable guy, and people just love that Midwestern charm.
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Because if they do, they should all be shot off the planet into the sun.
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This would be so fun if the rest of America was like, oh, yeah, no, I see it.
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And I do think that there is a very low hurdle that has been set for J.D. Vance tonight.
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Everyone seems to think he's the worst person in the world, and he only says strange things.
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He doesn't take any crap without getting angry.
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Luckily, I don't have to do 12 hours of live coverage tonight.
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Vance has a real opportunity to overshoot his expectations tonight.
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I mean, he could say something terrible and blow it.
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A guy who comes out and is lying about every aspect of his life since it started?
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I just want to talk to him about Tiananmen Square.
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His entire run as the vice presidential nominee is him doing stuff like that.
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And I have the answer as to whether you're hosting the coverage tonight.
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I, I, I, this is usually when we would just drop the mic and walk off stage.
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But, uh, uh, so there are some polls out there.
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Uh, Donald Trump leads Pennsylvania now by just over two points.
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Trafalgar showed Trump leading Harris in Pennsylvania, 47.5 to 45.3.
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So it puts him in a virtual tie, but it's nice to see him on top.
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Uh, uh, uh, there's a couple of other stories about him.
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Tim Walls talks to, we rate dogs with rescue dog scout.
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I was, I was, I killed Osama, I was in Pakistan.
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I killed, I killed, I hate, I shot Osama Bin Laden.
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He said, politics can sometimes bring out the worst in people,
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but I believe dogs can bring out the best in us.
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I'm really not going to be able to do this show tonight.
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So Americans seem to be more polarized than ever these days,
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I said, I said, I think, I do think they bring out the best in us.
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I think our politics can sometimes bring out the worst.
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I see it as a dog park that rarely will people talk politics.
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They talk dogs and they talk about the weather.
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and think that that's the greatest gift that they have for us
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I try not to step in purple, but it's usually on my shoulders.
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I don't even have dog and I keep stepping in purple.
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I mean, I, how do you, how, how is this guy on this ticket?
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Like, is it possible that this is what we have in this country?
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That we're just throwing up this, this guy who's, says he's a football coach and is stepping
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Those are like his main, his main qualifications to be vice president of the United States.
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Well, he also carried a gun in war and he went to Tiananmen Square.
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I, I just, I don't even know what to do other than just to mock it.
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We're about, I mean, this debate tonight is a joke.
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You have one guy who's, who's done what with his life?
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Everything he's told us about his life has been a lie.
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Even the, the, the, the process that, that created his daughter, they lied about.
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Even that foundational thing in their family, they lied about.
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That, that's an, that's an American story that you'd make a movie out of.
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They did make, I'd like to remind you, they did make a movie.
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His life, if you haven't seen Hillbilly Elegy, it is, it's unbelievable.
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I mean, you watch that and you think, I, I, I wish I had a kid like that.
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I wish I had a grandparent like his grandmother and his family is really screwed up.
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It, it tells you everything you need to know about him.
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It is, honestly, you, you watch it and the, the, the childhood this kid had was terrible.
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No, no, no, you don't even begin to understand.
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And then, and then finally his grandmother takes him away from his mother, who's just out of control.
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And she finally looks at him and just balls him out as, you know, a 10 or 12 year old and says, you have a chance to get out of this.
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And as he's in Yale, or as he's getting his, his interview to intern for some law firm, his mom is in the hospital.
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But she's in the hospital and he's having to juggle this whole thing.
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His girlfriend, who's now his wife, he didn't tell her about his family.
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And his wife steps up, is now his girlfriend in the movie.
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It is somebody who had every disadvantage, every disadvantage, except his color.
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He grew up in an abusive household with alcoholism everywhere.
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And his grandmother, as you said, a little rough around the edges.
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And he's married to the daughter of immigrants as well, right?
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Like, they've tried to pin him as an anti-immigrant guy.
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Hillbilly Elegy, if you haven't seen it, it is really worth your time.
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And I crunch, I crunch, I crunch on the popcorn and so much fun!
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And my head's getting up and slippery on the bottom!
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