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On this episode of the podcast, the boys discuss the life of former Vice President Joe Biden. They discuss his life, his presidency, and what it means for the future of the country and the world. They also discuss the crack pipes program and the post-racial presidency that the Biden administration is trying to implement.
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oh my gosh was today a great show today was filled with happiness sunshine and unicorns
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um let me tell you today we started with the most in-tune president i've ever seen
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joe biden has his fingers on the pulse man oh the people he really is we start with that and it goes
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downhill to a crazy train the entire episode here's the podcast you're not going to say
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don't forget get the said here's the podcast that's me that's the sign that we go to the
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podcast that's how that works i could tell people about the audiobook that's available now
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it's available now i mean you could go to audible and get it it's it's up there now i mean but we
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don't have time to do that because we already said here's the podcast i know forget it
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so stew uh when you think of joe biden what is the first thing that just leaps to your mind
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well lunch bucket joe lunch bucket joe which you know everybody in the press has called him that
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middle class joe middle class joe why would you call him middle class joe because everyone calls
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a middle class joe he tries to say come on stop but yeah just keep doing it he doesn't necessarily
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want that nickname but he'll admit it if he has to yeah now let me ask you this when people went to
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the polls now you're gonna have to do some speculation okay uh but when people went to the
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polls uh and they they actually voted what do you think when they said i'm for lunch bucket joe
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right what do you suppose they were thinking and hoping would happen um well i was they would
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probably think you know there's this guy who was president orange man bad he was tweeting all the
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time do you remember that yeah you remember him i do and he was he was thinking about him often
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he's getting he's getting in fights with people all the time and what we want here glenn is a return
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to normalcy a return to normalcy something that is you know very american something that we
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we all recognize as oh well that's that's not unusual right something to go back to the way we
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all understand this country should oh my gosh and thank goodness we have him uh he's got into office
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and yesterday uh the biden administration uh talked about how they are going to uh they're going to start
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handing out crack pipes to drug addicts um in underserved communities that that's not exactly
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the return to normalcy i was thinking the department of health and human services uh fiscal year 2022
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uh has a harm reduction program and uh they're gonna the the crack pipe uh plan is um well it's to it's
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it's a kit that will provide safer pipes to drug addicts when they when they smoke crack cocaine
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or crystal meth safer pipes safer pipes yeah see you know a lot of times they'll use glass pipes
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and sometimes they can crack and then they'll lead to an infection in the crack user no yes no yes
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yes so um here's the thing the grant not everybody gets this okay not everybody gets this um this is
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where it really centers right into the american people you know what i mean sure any president
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you could see saying hey freak freak crack pipes you know what i mean very common that's the normal
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we've been talking about every that was the unspoken thing that george washington did this if you
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don't know george washington when they were going across the delaware they were smoking crack
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but this is where it gets even more united okay okay uh the grant money will be prioritized for
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selection if they promise to use the funds in underserved communities so you'll get the free
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crack pipes if you're serving a large african-american or lgbtq plus population
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are they saying that black people smoke crack no i don't think they're saying that that seems to
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be what they're saying no they gotta be saying something else they're prioritizing delivery to
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african-americans of crack pipes okay that's the that's the uh that's the post-racial presidency we
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all expected if that's not a democrat policy from the 1950s and 60s or from the 1860s i don't know
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what is that is unbelievable and wow right in line with what i think america was thinking because
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that is when you say lunch bucket joe you think of the guy you're at you're on the you're on the
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construction site right it's time for lunch you're sitting on you know uh on the on the side of the
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building yeah you know on the ground in your work boots lunch bucket joe comes over he's a normal
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guy been working normal real hard jobs his whole life and he's gonna have a normal conversation about
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what's bugging him yeah you might see him at the end of a bar maybe having a beer after work that's
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right and here's what here's what's getting at him today yeah and he'll it'll express the same
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sort of concerns you have pipes that are safe for african-americans and gay people that's what i'm
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looking for you might actually see that one at the end of the bar but that's not what we're looking
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for out of a president of the united states yeah it's so uh yeah anyway um seattle uh and san
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francisco had the you know crack pipe thing it didn't work out so well no yeah and so they're
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getting rid of it but joe knows that's an injustice so we've got we've got that one uh by the way
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justice department they've already been thwarted once um the court said now you can't do this
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but they're thinking about doing it anyway um you know crack pipes are one thing but what about those
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who inject heroin okay um the government is now um i am not making this up they are now um
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putting considering putting vending machines in where if you needed a clean needle you could get
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one a needle vending machine that is what the american people were demanding
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i mean doesn't it make you just feel so american you're like we are on the right track we are going
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to restore ourselves to the great nation that we really are what's been holding us back those damn
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glass crack pipes in the inner cities i mean you know the people in the suburbs they can get their
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own damn wooden or metal crack you know because they're they're a dime a dozen out in the suburbs
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uh but uh this has been an underserved community and crack pipes that's true and and i will say what
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you know he did promise to shut down the virus and uh as we know when is a virus ever spread through
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intravenous drug use yes that's never been an issue never been an issue never never never never uh by
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the way speaking of starting shutting things down lunch bucket joe strikes twice now lightning doesn't
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usually strike twice you know in the same place but yesterday at the white house it struck more than
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two times actually uh but the second time they made an announcement yesterday and who hasn't been
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calling for this can we please for the love of pete release the 20th hijacker from 9-11 can we please
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just release him do you remember those big protests before the 2020 election truckers the truckers here
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in america oh okay i don't know about those crazy nazis up in canada but the truckers here i'm sure
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they're like we want the 20th hijacker released and gitmo shut down huge priority for the american people
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oh yeah yeah huge priority oh people there are some people that are like oh my money situation is a
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little tight yeah but what about the 20th hijacker yeah okay what about him and what happens if that
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20th hijacker can't get a crack pipe for free or a needle out of a vending machine it's horrid it's this
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is a harsh this nation is a horror show my gosh and this is the sort of stuff lunch bucket joe can relate
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to the people yes you know what do you guys what do you guys want come on man well they wanted you know sure we all
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wanted the 20th hijacker release right and the crack pipe and the needle thing yeah but uh you know i think a
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priority and he got it right because uh day before yesterday you know he released uh 25 billion dollars of
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frozen assets to iran and that was my priority yeah you know and i'll lay i think a lot of democrats you
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know i'm a little on the edge on this i think a lot of democrats would agree with me um you know not
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probably a lot of conservatives uh you know but hey can we just please give the ayatollah and hezbollah
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another 25 billion dollars what we landed in the middle of the night on that tarmac wasn't enough
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that was not enough and it was that sweet spot right between 26 and 24 billion that we were all
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talking about yeah the conservatives were saying no only 24 billion yeah the liberals were saying no
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26 billion he found a way to compromise yeah wow it's brilliant everyone was demanding billions go
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there it was just a matter of how many billions so a lot of people are saying you know i'm just talking
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about the whiners uh what are we going to do about the economy oh geez yesterday the white house came
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out with yet another new plan oh the problem with the economy is that well the unions aren't very strong
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and so they announced a goal yesterday of unionizing 50 percent of america oh just the 50 percent that's all
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they want yeah we're at 14 so it's not a big deal for so we're at 14 but tripling it would still
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leave at eight percent short yeah yes it would okay yes it would they want to triple it yeah and then add
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another half yeah and then a little more well it's gone down actually i was wrong it's not 12 percent
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it's gone down uh it was a whopping 30 percent at the height of the unions in the 1950s okay 30 percent
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so they want it's down to 10.3 so they want five times as many people in the unions as percentage of
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the population that shouldn't well they want it's going to take a couple weeks they want 71 million
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people just just 71 million people million what i mean that's 75 million no 71 million for that
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membership is 14 million today so they want 71 million um and that is half of the workforce
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so i think this is i mean that's what i was looking for and why are they doing it you ask
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well i'll tell you why whether it's fighting covid19 advancing social and economic equity for
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underserved communities i.e crack pipes tackling climate change and building a modern sustainable
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economy i.e death of the free market we need a vibrant labor movement so that's good that's good
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now um you know there are reports out there that saying doing this would increase the infrastructure
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projects that the that the white house is working on from anywhere from 12 to 20 but who cares we can
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print more okay what do you care about money or people people says joe biden you're probably one of
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those haters that don't think we should be handing out free crack pipes right am i right am i right
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you're darn right i'm right hmm this is him this is lunch bucket joe though connecting to the people
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this is can i ask you top of it of all the concerns i mean when you look at the polls
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the number one concerns always crack pipes yeah for underserved communities you know how we always say
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the president shouldn't read polls hmm yeah i think we got that i think we have a president we got
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somebody who does not read the polls or he reads them upside down yeah i don't know it could be
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that could be that yeah and has no advisors uh that are really in touch with the american people
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at all you know he wants it to look more you know like supreme court i want it to look more like america
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well handing out crack pipes union jobs you know and needles i don't think gets us there i don't i
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know i don't i don't you know what he should do is he should appoint the first crack smoking
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supreme court justice because he apparently thinks that it's in the inner city so maybe you'd get
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you know a black person as well which he's really in favor he's already said he's going to do that
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yeah well i mean you're smoking crack you could get white or black but if he does it in the what did
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he say underserved communities i think that's what he's saying because it's racial equity so maybe he
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could get somebody from that underserved community that's smoking crack that's also qualified but nobody
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pays attention to for supreme court you're really threading a needle with uh don't say wrong really
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welcome to the program cheryl how are you i'm great it's good to be here so cheryl i i've been
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thinking about you ever since this the thing with joe rogan started because you literally wrote the book
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on uh how this how this happens and i'm watching this unfold and it's bringing back some uh very vivid
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memories it's wave after wave after wave it started with you know he's giving misinformation
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giving misinformation about covid and then it was he's a racist and now it's he's a transphobe
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how does this end you know yeah it's uh it's by the playbook in my book the smear where i
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dissected what was done to you what was done to don imus actually i would say the joe rogan plan
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looks almost exactly like what media matters and the left propagandist there and the interest behind
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them what they did to don imus if you remember and it's it's when they find an enemy of whatever
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they're advocating or their money interests don't want discussed or exposed they find other reasons
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to smear the person and try to remove them and i i talked about well what's the difference between
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a smear and just telling the truth because joe rogan acknowledges he said some objectionable things
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that are very hard to hear today well i described that in the smear and there is there is a line that
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that explains this these people when this happens are targeted not because of the information and
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views that they're being smeared for but because of the other influence they have over issues that
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aren't even being talked about now which is the covid you know putting out factual information that
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some didn't want heard and i think rogan was clearly targeted because he had large followings
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that showed ordinary people not fringe or alone when they're thinking of certain thoughts and views
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or reading certain science scientific studies so do you think it really is just that or is it
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they can't tolerate someone who won't bow to them they got to take them out
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well yes they do but only because he's not on the right side of the money interests that people may
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not understand or behind these efforts that look like they're sort of grassroots efforts but they're
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very well organized you and i know media matters and other groups once they targeted rogan started
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coming through every word he ever said over time and had probably already been gathering on him they
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listen to every everything you say everything i say everything we write hoping to find that one little
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grain they could amplify into a smear for the power of destruction to get rid of voices that are off the
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narrative on these topics that their money interests care about so when they did this to me or my good
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friend don imus uh god rest his soul um the uh i forgot he's he's not in heaven anyway um
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when they did it to us it was new to the american people um and they you know you'd be like no these
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people are financing this and a lot of people like yeah right um and it was kind of a conspiracy
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theory now everyone knows everyone knows they've seen it over and over and over again and they're sick
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of it how does this just does he how do you think this ends well i think that's a great question you
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know i i think trump was the one who didn't crack when this stuff happened to him everybody else
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there's some pressure to apologize to crack once that little bit of weakness is there as i wrote
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about it's not as though the apology is there and then they go away meaning the propagandists that's
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when they really sink their teeth in because they sense weakness and opportunity and their goal isn't
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really to get an apology their goal is to destroy the person who's harmful to their interests
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so they keep going how this ends i'm not sure because i think you you raise a good point have
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they gone too far people now recognize this when they're going after i i use the example when
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everybody's anti-vaccine and people know they're not but when they're all called that when everybody's
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called racist and people know they're not and when joe rogan who's not a radical conservative or
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giving misinformation and his listeners know that when he's accused of that it starts making
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people go uh-huh so they think something's going on and it's less effective maybe they've overplayed
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their hands by broadening the net of the people that they attack and getting more and more bold
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but i think that's a sign on their part of the propagandists of desperation because people like
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joe rogan are very effective in piercing the narratives often the false narratives that they have
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you know they make sure it's all over the media i've been saying this for i don't know last couple
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of months i've had increased hope that things are going to turn because people seem to be waking
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up and not not just the ones that were maybe asleep or you know weren't active on you know the more
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conservative side of the spectrum but democrats not leftists but democrats democrats are starting to say
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you know i don't want any of this stuff i this this is ridiculous and i sense that there is a change
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in our society because everything's accelerating so rapidly that it's easy to see now
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and i think yes they again have they overplayed their hands several years ago and i i liken it to
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everybody says the pendulum swings well the organized efforts and the well-funded efforts they've
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dominated since about the 2016 time period in a big way but i don't think they're the majority and
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the majority of people who feel differently they're not organized and well-funded so it takes a little
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longer it kind of simmers but i think it's simmered enough and enough important things have happened
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and enough people have been attacked that maybe you're correct that it's starting to maybe swing
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the other way or enough people want to do something about it that it's reaching critical mass
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and what stops these people cheryl i always say the truth finds a way to be told so ultimately the
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facts come out you hear i thought it was kind of funny i heard today some of these states are lifting
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mask mandates and people were speculating well maybe the you know they're looking at science and
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no it's it's the fact that i think the vaccine mandate cultists have all gotten covid now so they're
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suddenly starting to say we should recognize natural immunity i mean ultimately the truth is
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the truth and it may take longer to get out in the in the sea of these this disinformation but i think
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ultimately it does and you find that people can find facts and good information as much as others try to
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hide it from them it may not be easy but people naturally seek it and so i think that's that's how it
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is i i the best advice i give glenn that i i think some people have actually taken every time someone
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says you know online or trying to there but you shouldn't see hear or read something that should make
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you go look at it listen to it or read it and that's how you defeat the cancel and the propagandist
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when you say when you're censoring something that means it's important doesn't mean it's necessarily
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true but it might be true and you should go and investigate it and that pretty much makes their
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strategy or tactics moot yeah i think um i think that's exactly what's what's happening too is they
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are so freaked out uh because they're becoming reckless um and so overt um and you know this this thing
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from cnn i mean just on the bandwagon uh beating the drum and tooting the horn about how these people
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need to be canceled is crazy is crazy well as i wrote about the most effective propaganda campaigns
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and smears are the ones that are invisible to the public that you don't see the hand behind them
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you're influenced in a subtle way but you're right this has gotten so obvious i think in the face of
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desperation on the part of the interests that really want to sway us you know to look a different to a
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different place i think it's it's gotten to be where people are looking at it like you say democrats
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republicans independents whoever you are and starting to go what's harmful to the propagandists is they're
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starting to say beyond covid and beyond joe rogan what else have they done this with that i just didn't
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think about right and i think back to the vaccine autism issue you know there's been scientific studies
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lawsuits and settlements admissions by the government and their own experts that vaccines can cause autism
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for years but that's just considered you know over and over again debunked debunked debunked think of
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what they've done to these parents some of the same public health agencies for decades portraying them as
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crazy while behind the scenes settling and paying lawsuits and knowing that their own experts felt
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differently so you start to apply what else does this what else does this apply to what we're seeing
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today how damaged is the i mean i think the media is just imploding um and unfortunately the government
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uh credibility has imploded um and now science and medicine is imploding um i mean that that that's not
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a recipe for a healthy country in any way shape or form well it's not and step one is to recognize
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that but i don't know how you get back to a place where those influences aren't still at play you know
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they're there they're accomplishing their goal in some instances if they simply confuse the situation let's
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say there is medical information that a company doesn't want you to have about their medicine well if they simply
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confuse it and you don't know what to believe that's better than you believing the truth and we're in
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this confused environment where everybody's putting out all the conflicting information and so yes people
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know to be skeptical they're starting to understand all of that but that's not necessarily a healthy
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situation either and you know i'm going to be reporting stories that discuss in the near future i mean
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the cdc need to be and i don't think it will be but does it need to be blown up and restarted very few
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people have the kind of faith in cdc that they used to right and you know to have the biggest
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pandemic challenge that they supposedly gotten trillions of dollars to prepare for over the
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decades and so utterly fail and make so many bad decisions at every turn i mean what is that agency
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all about and you know i still look at the fact that of all the things we know that it's gone that
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have gone wrong the same people are still in charge they haven't even made it i'm not saying
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punish and imprison right these experts that were wrong someone else can decide all of that stuff
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but these people are so wrong and we're still listening to them i mean that's just stunning to me
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and it's it's like that in almost every department i mean i've said to president trump in a in an
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interview recently if you're going to run again you're going to have to clean house i mean everywhere
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top to bottom and you're going to need the the uh the house and the senate to go along with you
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and i don't know if anybody is interested in actually cleaning out the swamp but every single agency
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is is kind of like the cdc where okay some good people in there but there's also some really bad
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people some people that are uh misreading and other people that have their own agenda
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well this veers into an expanded topic but you know in four eight four to eight years
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no one can clean all that out this operates independently of the president this mechanism
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you're talking about the i call it persistent bureaucracy and they fight back with either
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just not implementing what the president wants if it's not what they want or they launch lawsuits
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and subterfuge and they can they can carry that on for a long time till the next person comes in
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so i don't know how even if you clean house you get you get something done and in a meaningful way
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i think trump came the closest to it yeah despite the fact that he was fought at every step but he did
00:28:52.740
do some things like reducing regulation and after the lawsuits ended finally starting to accomplish what
00:28:58.900
he wanted with the wall i mean it's amazing he got anything done those are big changes in the
00:29:04.400
bureaucracy like this i i would be very interested to see his approach if he were to get re-elected yeah
00:29:09.780
uh cheryl thank you so much i know you're really busy uh but thanks for coming by it i've been
00:29:15.740
thinking about you here recently and you were one of the people that had been targeted and uh then
00:29:21.620
you know you're you have no place here on network television so you went out and you did your own
00:29:26.000
thing and it's wildly successful uh and uh now many of us feel like we're going to be chased off of
00:29:33.280
our own platforms which is bizarre just bizarre we got to turn this around soon well thanks for
00:29:39.800
having me anytime for you you got it thanks cheryl atkinson she is the investigative reporter and the
00:29:45.120
host of full measure with cheryl atkinson she's also the author of the smear which if you want to
00:29:51.420
understand what's happening this really is the go-to book this explains it in great detail she took
00:29:59.060
about a year year and a half to research all of the facts on all of the big smears uh and she
00:30:05.880
explains and you will understand and you'll be able to watch the pattern i mean that's that's what you
00:30:10.900
know she was saying and i was too it's just wave after wave it comes and they do the same thing over
00:30:17.760
and over again and when is america gonna say shut up just shut up you don't like it don't listen
00:30:25.300
and i'm not listening to you because this is all what did nancy pelosi call it astroturf this is all
00:30:38.640
the great reset is now out in audiobook you can get it from audible or
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amazon right now look for it glenn beck the great reset read by me man i bet it's good
00:31:03.200
i don't know i wasn't there when i recorded it um let's go to uh let's go to senator ran paul from
00:31:09.380
kentucky uh who is joining us now one of the few senators that is actually involved and paying
00:31:15.980
attention to the the big board the the restaurant in the district of columbia that for some reason is
00:31:23.300
being singled out uh and they've shut them down senator welcome to the program hey glenn thanks
00:31:30.600
for having me you bet so what is happening in dc you you have the mayor making a a rule hasn't even
00:31:40.060
gone through city council and they're not shutting down restaurants that aren't checking but these guys
00:31:45.740
said we're not going to check because it's it's not really even a law and they have come at them
00:31:52.160
with a bag of bricks every day yeah within within hours of expressing dissent they went after the
00:31:59.600
owner they took the their alcohol license away within 24 hours and 24 hours later they padlocked the
00:32:06.260
building i mean this is the kind of world we're living in now these people are out of control i mean
00:32:12.560
there was a poll the other day that said about 50 percent of democrats are willing to put you
00:32:17.780
indefinitely in detention to basically put you in jail if you're not vaccinated i mean this is this is
00:32:24.740
a completely insane and we now have a vaccine that i still think protects you from getting sick but it
00:32:30.480
doesn't protect you from transmitting it or receiving the the illness so it's really a nobody's
00:32:35.420
concern other than your own if you want to get vaccinated do i think it's still advisable particularly
00:32:40.300
in certain age groups and certain people who are overweight but you make that decision it should
00:32:45.240
be nothing about you trying to force it on other people i have to tell you thank you for signing uh
00:32:50.760
the pledge to not agree to any spending tomorrow if it if it involves mandates i don't know what
00:33:00.280
every single republican if they don't sign that they should they should honestly you should take a hard
00:33:07.180
look at those republicans that won't sign this what what is your possible reason and if they don't
00:33:14.380
give you a good reason don't don't don't re-elect them yeah and there is a shift going on though
00:33:20.880
because you're even seeing democrat governors saying gosh we're going to live like this forever
00:33:24.700
so i think now is the time to be vocal and to push back particularly on masking on our kids
00:33:29.540
we need to push back on the masking on airlines there's no evidence that the masks are working at all
00:33:34.900
you want evidence that the masks on the airlines don't work you saw that plane that uh went with
00:33:40.660
the uh i think mostly mormon missionaries back to the pacific island everybody tested negative before
00:33:46.020
they got the plane 42 out of 54 had the disease when they landed and i'm not involving anybody i'm
00:33:53.080
chuckling because they were all masked for 12 hours on that plane and yet everybody on that plane got
00:33:58.520
covid now fortunately i don't know that any of them are actually sick which is sort of another
00:34:02.980
question we have to say are we going to continue to have all these mitigation masks and separation
00:34:08.580
that don't work for something that is largely not making people very sick let me ask you uh let me
00:34:14.040
switch topics to ukraine it feels as though unlike anything i've ever felt that our government our
00:34:21.620
administration is kind of pushing for a war in ukraine with russia am i is it just me you know you feel
00:34:31.780
it among the members of congress up here too and many of them are sort of the from the never trump
00:34:36.860
camp the liz cheney's and the adam kinzinger's these are the people who think war should be the
00:34:41.560
first resort not the last resort and there are ways to have a more nuanced position i think we should
00:34:46.820
do things to try to deter russia from evading ukraine and i think there's both carrot and stick that could
00:34:52.720
be put forward i actually would be stronger than saying oh we'll put a few sanctions i would work with
00:34:57.460
germany and say look this is what biden tried to do yesterday but germany hasn't been as forthcoming
00:35:02.280
is to say if you invade ukraine we're not going to buy your natural gas i mean in a big way not just
00:35:07.600
sanction it but it really requires germany's cooperation because we just don't buy that much
00:35:12.320
natural gas from from from russia we don't have that much trade at all with russia so i think that
00:35:16.940
would be on the deterrent front but on the other side of this i actually don't think it's that
00:35:21.680
unreasonable to say that um we're not going to put ukraine in a military alliance against russia
00:35:27.000
i asked the secretary of state this the other day i said how would how do you think we would respond
00:35:31.360
if mexico were joining a military alliance with russia you know what do you think we might do we
00:35:37.840
might mass troops on the border with mexico we would be so unhappy we wouldn't tolerate it for a
00:35:42.340
moment i mean this was somewhat the cuban missile crisis we didn't tolerate them putting missiles on a
00:35:47.760
nation close to us we wouldn't tolerate a military alliance so we have to understand that that's their
00:35:51.920
perspective as well so i would do carrot and stick i would tell them look we're going to have a veritable
00:35:57.140
uh embargo if you invade but we also will offer the the carrot of saying you know what maybe ukraine
00:36:04.380
would be better neutral country with one foot in the east and one in the west and actually i think
00:36:08.760
it would be better for ukraine to try to see the model of switzerland being more their model
00:36:12.880
than uh the model of becoming a you know a military presence with nato um the the the idea that
00:36:22.120
um we are living under a regime and i don't think i've ever used that word before uh for america
00:36:31.140
living under a regime that is it's almost as if they're rooting against us in every possible way
00:36:41.000
uh the things that they did uh this this weekend and the 25 billion dollars you know that they unfroze
00:36:49.900
and gave to iran the it's it's it's a group of people that are completely out of step with the
00:36:58.300
american people well it's also a group of people that i mean to to know how bizarre and far out these
00:37:05.220
people are these are people that think thanksgiving is a terrible holiday i mean these are the people who
00:37:10.540
think america is a terrible place and we shouldn't be celebrating like thanksgiving because everything
00:37:15.280
america did was horrible and everything americans did were horrible and i i think that this is just a
00:37:21.660
bizarre sort of world we are in i mean these are the people who think that we are in the wrong by saying
00:37:28.260
that the government schools should not medicate our children and shouldn't be giving our our girls
00:37:33.680
testosterone at the age of 13 without our permission this is a bizarre world but they're also it's going to
00:37:40.260
come home to roost because as people understand and know how far out democrats are defund the police
00:37:46.280
give our kids sex hormones without our permission give them even surgery sex change surgery or sexual
00:37:52.940
appearance change surgery without our permission i think they're going to paint themselves so far out
00:37:57.840
on a limb and it's happened like in kentucky we used to be a majority democrat registration state we've
00:38:03.680
now switched uh good church going democrat families are like heck no i'm not for the government giving
00:38:11.180
my kids sex hormones at school without my permission these people are so bizarre that i think they're
00:38:15.900
losing america and hopefully the next election will show that um talk to me a little bit about scotus
00:38:23.700
and what's happening there you know i think the one thing that i'm going to say over and over again
00:38:29.340
and i was told the media yesterday as i came up to them is that uh the one thing we will not do is
00:38:35.060
we will not treat their nominee the way they treated kavanaugh i think what they did was
00:38:39.200
reprehensible despicable and we will show in contrast that we can have a debate over someone's
00:38:44.040
qualifications and uh you know i'm not voting for somebody who's for abortion up to the time of
00:38:50.220
birth i'm not voting for somebody who has no concerns for the constitution but i'm also not
00:38:56.340
going to stand up and make up stuff about their high school dating or saying they were rapists in
00:39:01.240
high school that kind of that was so insulting and so demeaning and the the democrats should be
00:39:06.340
reminded at every step we should also show the american public that we can disagree with someone
00:39:10.640
on principled nature and and maybe even vote against that person but without making it a personal
00:39:17.020
flander so that i i agree with that and i i don't want to be i do not want to become everything
00:39:23.020
that um you know that that we despise uh on the other side so i'm glad to hear that and i agree with
00:39:31.280
you however there's a debate going on right now especially with spotify and joe rogan about apologizing
00:39:38.160
and i think there's a place for apologizing uh there's a place to be you know um decent but
00:39:45.440
but that doesn't mean that you uh surrender you know it's not that you know you you have to fight
00:39:53.380
a good fight and a fair fight but i i people look at apologies or or you know being more statesman like
00:40:01.720
they're starting to look at that as a sign of weakness i don't think it is well i i am tired of
00:40:08.120
all the sort of mal kind of apologies where you read your statement you look like you've been tortured
00:40:13.260
all night long and you read it and then you say stuff that you know like you know they make people
00:40:17.800
apologize all the time for saying i'm sorry for being transphobic you know i'm sorry for this
00:40:24.040
that you know they call me transphobic what adults do is not my concern if you want to do that do it
00:40:29.520
my concern is about the law and about kids and about consent and uh but the thing is is i'm not going
00:40:37.420
out and making some mal-esque apology but doesn't mean we have to be uh rancorous as far as you know
00:40:44.640
personally attacking people and frankly i don't think we do that but uh you know we're going to
00:40:50.700
see what happens as this thing moves forward but uh you know i for one on on the spotify thing and on
00:40:56.720
this um i'm i'm i guess confused that people who went to woodstock and didn't want to have any rules
00:41:03.640
or clothes right uh somehow now they believe that speech is dangerous and they want to shut down
00:41:09.820
people they disagree with it's sort of the most infantile juvenile um proposition and i don't get
00:41:15.680
how they can't understand the irony i know people who are free spirits now being against speech i know
00:41:21.340
um you ran for president once before any thought of running for president america is starting to look
00:41:28.720
like she's shifting back to a small government hey let's follow the rule book kind of thing uh any
00:41:35.960
thought about running for president again you know sometimes until my wife says why in the world would
00:41:42.660
you want to do that again you know i i think so much of it depends on um you know if there were a free
00:41:49.620
for all you know with an open open race that's one thing if donald trump runs again i just don't know
00:41:56.020
that uh there'll be uh anybody that will be able to compete with donald trump in a primary
00:42:00.120
and so i think it depends on what what happens over time right now i'm mostly concentrating you know
00:42:06.460
i'm running for re-election in kentucky and so i'm up in november and concentrating on that battle
00:42:10.860
and how's it going i would assume it's going well i think pretty good what we're finding in kentucky is
00:42:17.380
that like i say the democrat party has left conservative democrats you know my in-laws were
00:42:22.780
conservative democrats you know church-boying god-fearing conservative democrats but they saw
00:42:28.260
the party leave them and that's what's happened to so many i mean we've had party officials now
00:42:32.540
switch parties we have people changing registration and so we're now on even footing and the democrat
00:42:38.000
areas that were democrat going back to the time of andrew jackson i've actually switched and become
00:42:42.940
republican so we're in a better place there um we have a few cities uh that vote democrat but they're
00:42:48.740
not as dominating as like you know atlanta sort of dominates the population of georgia now they're
00:42:54.100
probably equal to the rest of the state and so it's it's becoming more hard when we don't do as
00:42:58.900
well in the cities unfortunately kentucky we uh have a significant strong rural population that's able to
00:43:06.300
more than counterbalance the city vote ran paul thank you so much senator i appreciate it
00:43:11.940
thanks claire you bet uh we are better off having him in the senate kentucky
00:43:16.900
you better you better reelect him interesting answer on the uh the presidential yeah that seems
00:43:24.820
like you know no trump and he seems like he'd be he's i think there's a lot of people that would say
00:43:30.300
that yeah if trump's running i'm out right if he's because you know if he's not you're gonna start
00:43:35.660
with a 50 point deficit and no one wants to do that yeah yeah and you'll be he'll find something
00:43:41.040
about you and you'll forever be labeled that he's good at that yeah he's very good at that