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The Democrats have mounted a strong defense against Elon Musk. They asked the question, of course, which side are you on? Also, Lindy Lee is with us and Anna Paulina Luna was yesterday appointed to a new congressional hearing or committee to release all of the national secrets. What does that mean and how fast is this coming? At a breathtaking pace, you can t miss it.
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The Democrats have mounted a pretty strong defense against Elon Musk.
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They asked the question musically, of course, which side are you on?
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Also, Lindy Lee is with us and Anna Paulina Luna.
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Anna was yesterday appointed to a new congressional hearing or committee to release all of the national secrets.
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You can't miss Anna Paulina Luna on today's podcast.
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So, people are freaking out in the Democratic Party, and they should,
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especially if you had anything to do with the last election.
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I mean, you know, they raised a billion dollars,
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But there's somebody that has been seen on many podcasts now.
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She is left, I don't know, she's still a Democrat,
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but she left the DNC as an insider and has become an independent thinker.
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Now, I'm guessing that's something you never, ever thought in your life you would say.
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I've watched you from afar for much of my life,
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so I didn't think it would be happening this week, though.
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It's been a whirlwind, and I'm no longer a Democrat.
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Because I just read someplace that you haven't left the party,
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I just can't abide by the woke and trans insanity,
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not to mention the gross mismanagement of the money that I spent work so hard to raise.
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And, Glenn, I hate to correct you, but it wasn't a billion.
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It was $2.5 billion because a campaign raised $1.5 billion,
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and the super PAC, Future Forward, raised another billion.
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To oligarchs, to celebrities, to five-star hotels.
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Half a million dollars was spent on putting Kamala Harris's mug on a sphere in Las Vegas.
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And on mega-celebrity concerts, even right down the street,
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How many votes do you think that garnered for her?
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because people were pissed off that the traffic was snarled the entire day.
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Actually, I know exactly who thought that was a good idea,
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You say that you can name who the president was.
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Glenn, the thing is, there were like 10 of them.
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Because you have like Steve Reschetti and Mike Donnellan and Nita Dunn and Barack Obama orbiting around and all these people who are unelected senior advisors running the show.
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He was just a figurehead signing the executive orders, not really understanding what he was signing.
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And it's just, it's just a very, very grave situation that I tried to flag for everybody for a number of years now.
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You know, they will excoriate you and I'm still paying a price.
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I haven't, Glenn, I haven't, it's been a really hard time for me.
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I'm being attacked from both the left and the right, by the way.
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So it's just, it's not a, it's not easy, Glenn.
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I mean, I have been excoriated by both sides because I'm, I'm not predictable.
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You've been outspoken literally my entire life.
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Uh, and it's, and it's, it's difficult if you don't choose a team when your team is
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just, I want to be true to myself and true to what I believe is true.
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For instance, you know, I really thought America was a great place and I still believe it's
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a great place, but we have done really bad things.
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I mean, recently we've done some really bad things.
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Um, and we have to admit those things and it doesn't mean you're anti-American.
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It just means I just want the truth, let the chips fall where they may and let the people
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When the government detaches itself from the people, we always go wrong.
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Um, so I, I, I've lived your life before, but can you see at all, you were somebody, I mean,
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who defended, uh, all of this stuff, uh, hard, uh, during the campaign.
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So, you know, I've lost all of my so-called friends.
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I've been excommunicated, not just excommunicated, but they tried to discredit me, to destroy
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I'm, they just cannot believe that there is someone who doesn't have skeletons in our
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I am just honestly, just a, uh, I am just honestly a well-behaved Asian girl.
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I was, I've been a Christian conservative all my life and I had to hide that aspect of
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me because it's not acceptable to be that when you go to a liberal university, I went
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So my, my transition and my journey to becoming who I am, it took, this is a years long process
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So, you know, Lindy, you're not walking into a hostile room.
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I just, you know, as somebody who, I'm really happy and honored to be here.
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But I, I just, you know, we have to have honest conversations because there's a lot of
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people that will cloak themselves and say, I got to be on this side for a while.
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And, you know, everybody is who they are, whatever.
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But I only want to be around, I have no problem being around liberals if they're reasonable
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and we can talk about things and we can disagree and we can live side by side forever.
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The problem is just exactly what you described, a left and some parts of the right are like
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this as well, but not nearly like it is on the left.
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And, and those people are really, really dangerous.
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What was the, what was the last thing that you're like, okay, I, I, I, I just can't do
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Well, actually, Glenn, I haven't said this publicly.
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Um, the person that I love most in the world is a Republican and he's always been Republican.
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He's from the South and it's something that I haven't disclosed.
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And I don't want to say more because it's a private individual and, um, he's not a public
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figure, but when you love somebody, you kind of want to be aligned with them.
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And because I've been protecting his identity, um, people just say personal relationship.
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This isn't somebody that you've been, Oh, this is, this is just a, you know, one of many
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This is what this, my becoming who I am publicly wasn't just one.
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There are so many countless, but I'm just saying that when you love somebody, you kind
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And I've just never, I don't want to drag them into the public square.
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But in terms of specific things, there's so many, I mean, I was attacked on the streets
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of Philadelphia multiple times in the past year.
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That's a result of the progressive DA that we have, Larry Krasner and the George Soros funded
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prosecutors that we have around the country, basically destroying our cities.
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But not only that, the DNC chair publicly humiliated me after I raised questions.
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All I did was raise questions about the campaign spending.
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He called me a narcissist and accused me of taking selfies at the campaign election night
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That's how thin, you know, their argument against me is, but he could have, they all had
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my number, okay, every one of us were on a first name basis.
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He could have picked up the phone and we could have talked about the campaign spending.
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Instead, he chose to, you know, indulge his far left influencers and publicly humiliate
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How could I possibly be a part of that team after something like that, like that happened?
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He sent me a gif of like a, um, flaming dumpster fire, which is supposed to exemplify me, I guess.
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Um, so this is the, this is how the leader of the democratic party behaved to well-meaning
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So, uh, Lindy, uh, let's talk about the, the way the Democrats are behaving now.
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As I, I said just a minute ago, um, and Bill Ackman just retweeted this, that over three
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times more people in DC are Googling criminal defense lawyer than anywhere else in the U
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S the Democrats are saying that, you know, Elon Musk is destroying democracy when all
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And I think, honestly, I think that's part of the thing that when people were talking
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about hope and change with Barack Obama, I think that's what a lot of people thought
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We're going to read all the bills before they're passed.
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You're going to be able to see everything that we do when it comes to our tax dollars,
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the, the gross mismanagement, and that's putting it in the nicest possible frame.
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And when you see what happened with two and a half billion dollars in the campaign, how
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do you approach people like you that were on the other side that, that are now standing
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up and saying, well, this Elon Musk, what's happening is destroying democracy.
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You're complaining that Elon Musk wasn't elected and therefore has no right to help the country.
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What about the team of the cabal of people around Joe Biden, who wasn't elected over
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They were literally running the country on his behalf.
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But also, you know, the people in Washington, this swamp, they're so used to spending OPM,
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They don't, they have no sense of fiscal responsibility.
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My family and I were naturally as immigrants, by the way, we came to this country with very little
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We worked like, we worked hard as hell to get to where we are right now, to build a beautiful
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And that is mentality that Elon is kind of imposing on the federal government.
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You know, to make sure that line by line, every line can be justified.
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That is the kind of attitude that I actually want.
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Because I know you're being accused of being a Chinese spy and your family escaped communism.
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And I just would like to hear more of your point of view.
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Someone from the CCP killed my great-grandfather.
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I think the only thing that needs to be done is just that.
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People just need to know, no, your family was persecuted by the Chinese communists.
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Let me just say that I hate the communists, the Chinese communist regime.
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I've condemned them all my life, my entire adult life.
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Five years ago, I went on Fox News, and I openly condemned the communist regime.
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Anyone who defames me, by the way, my lawyer will be reaching out.
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I, you know, like to go a little more in depth with her, but my initial response is
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Thank you so much for your hospitality and good friend, Grace Blazer, for everything that
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I want to talk to you about, well, let me apologize first.
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Before we start talking about it, I do want to apologize because this is going to be in
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So the Democrats, I think, have lost their mind.
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And so they are now, you know, standing up for the Department of Ed and they're standing
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up for USAID and and all of these crazy things.
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I mean, the Department of Ed, when we start to see what the Department of Ed actually spends
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Our test scores are we spend more money per student than anybody else in the world.
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And when you when you look at the test scores, we're not getting anything for it.
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And the federal government could help those states that just can't afford things.
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But it shouldn't be run by the unions or anybody else.
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It should be run by the local school districts and certainly not by the federal government.
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Well, they're very upset at some of these cuts.
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And I just think you should hear it because it's very, very compelling.
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That is going to be in your head now for the rest of the day.
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So don't, you know, it'll be 3 o'clock this afternoon.
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Blame the organizers in Washington that are saying,
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The cuts of graft and corruption and just not knowing where the hell your money went.
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The ones singing, especially the woman leading it.
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Maybe I don't have the right appreciation for the fine arts and that super, super classic.
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But that is something, a song that was written for the labor movement by the socialists in 1931 and 1932.
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Now, I don't know, and I haven't heard this for a while,
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but the only thing I can compare this to in quality is,
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do you remember the woman in Seattle years ago that came up with her own song about
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there's a hole in the sky where the tree once was?
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There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was.
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There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was.
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There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was.
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There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was.
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But the hole in the sky where the tree once was.
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That's the one that I'm leaving the theater singing.
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Nope, I don't think there's a possibility of that at all.
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I was hoping you wouldn't bring that up, but...
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unless you're singing about prehistoric animals.
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but I don't think I can hold him to that standard anyway.
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who's actually the president of the United States right now.
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And there's multiple reasons I think they're doing that.
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Now, you might not think he's making the right choices
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And I don't even think that they're necessarily
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Like, they don't argue the specific points he makes up.
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I don't think that's the best verse for this case
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You keep playing it, it'll just never leave your head.
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And I don't think people are sick of the jail talk.
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No, it worked so well in this most recent election.