Ep. 1670 - Democrats Have Been Trying To Cover Up One The Biggest Healthcare Scams Ever
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Today we look at the real reason behind the government shutdown, and the debate over giving free health care to illegal immigrants. Also, leaked text messages reveal that Charlie Kirk had decided to leave the pro-Israel cause. And a Democratic candidate for governor has a total meltdown on camera because she was asked the easiest softball question of all time. Plus, China just accomplished another amazing engineering marvel.
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Today we'll look at the real reason behind the government shutdown and the debate over giving free health care to illegal aliens, a debate that shouldn't be a debate at all.
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Also, leaked text messages reveal that Charlie Kirk had decided to, quote, leave the pro-Israel cause. We'll talk about that.
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And a Democratic candidate for governor has a total meltdown on camera because she was asked the easiest softball question of all time.
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Plus, China just accomplished another amazing engineering marvel. America used to do that kind of stuff all the time. What happened to that?
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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History is rife with the names of great men who, through no fault of their own, were imprisoned at one point or another.
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And during their incarceration, instead of wasting their time, they produced meaningful works of literature.
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Sir Walter Raleigh wrote The History of the World while imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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Sir Thomas More wrote a dialogue of comfort against tribulation during his stint in the same prison.
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The Apostle Paul, of course, wrote several epistles while under house arrest, and so on and so on and so on.
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If there's a lesson we can draw from all these examples, it would seem to be that even when they're confronted with a major disruption to their day-to-day life,
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if productive and creative people and great men still find a way to make use of their time.
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They use their intellect in creative ways, and they keep going.
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Take a group of motivated and smart individuals, hand them a setback, and they'll overcome it, and even use it to their advantage.
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Of course, that raises the obvious question, what happens in the opposite scenario?
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What happens when you take an extremely lazy and unintelligent and unimpressive group of people and hand them a minor setback to their day-to-day lives?
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How do monumentally untalented and self-absorbed people react when their mindless routine is disrupted, even for a moment?
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If they don't produce The Pilgrim's Progress, what do they produce exactly?
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Unfortunately for any sociology professors out there who were hoping to run this experiment, we now have the definitive answer to that question.
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That's because, as you probably haven't noticed in any way, hundreds of thousands of federal government workers have been furloughed since October 1st as part of the ongoing government shutdown.
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And during this furlough, thousands of federal government workers have been keeping themselves busy.
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And not by producing any great works of literature, of course, but instead by producing an overwhelming number of vapid TikToks that have been polluting the internet for more than a week at this point.
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They're eating popsicles, they're miming rap lyrics, they're taking videos of themselves looking at mirrors, and they want the world to know about all this for some reason.
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I don't know how I'm supposed to pay the bills.
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Day four of furlough, and it just keeps getting better and better.
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Now, if you're tempted to excuse any of this inane behavior, maybe you're inclined to say these people can do whatever they want on their own time, you should know that some federal government workers are indeed being told that they need to commute to the office during the shutdown, and rest assured, those workers are uploading TikToks too.
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I show up, I do what you ask me to do, and goodbye.
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what makes the videos of these public servants big air quotes around that even more enraging
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than they might seem as if that's possible is that the government shutdown isn't really about
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any of these people yes there are glorified welfare recipients with fake jobs and we shouldn't
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have to pay their salaries but the government shutdown is actually about a separate set of
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taxpayer handouts and specifically democrats want to renew federal subsidies for obamacare plans and
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they want to reverse medicaid cuts that donald trump just signed into law including cuts that
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would impose new work requirements and kick so-called asylum seekers off the program now last
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week as as you might remember i indicated that um you know i didn't really want to talk about the
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government shutdown there's a reason for that when you do this job long enough you begin to realize
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that government shutdowns are not in fact a big deal uh for one thing as we just established
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government workers are useless so no one cares if they're working or not and um not all 85 to 90
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percent of them are useless i should stipulate there's maybe 10 to 10 to 15 percent that we need
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and secondly in pretty much every case the government shutdown gets resolved
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and nothing changes that doesn't matter usually whatever the dispute is about they just kick the
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can down the road and it's all for nothing it doesn't matter and nobody should care but in this case
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it is worth taking just a moment to talk about what's happening if only because of the sheer volume
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of lying that we're all being subjected to so here's just one example from cbs's face the nation watch
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you know what they counter propose they want to spend 1.5 trillion dollars and they want to return
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hard-working taxpayer dollars to fund health care for illegal aliens it is in their bill go to
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speaker.gov and see it for yourself page 57 section 2141 they're using this for political games and it
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is shameful and real people are getting hurt uh well that i have looked at that text it doesn't
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explicitly say what you are indicating um but unauthorized immigrants are eligible yes it does
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it's it says very simply they want to repeal the changes that we made in the in the working
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families tax cut the one big beautiful bill and what those changes were is it removed health care
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going to illegal aliens it removed all the fraud waste and abuse and the congressional budget office
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cbo said it achieved the desired result they project it'll save almost 200 billion dollars
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chuck schumer's proposal on page 57 wants to return that 200 billion dollars of taxpayer funds to pay for
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illegal aliens and other non-citizens that is a fact and you can check it out on my website speaker.gov
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don't trust me look at chuck schumer's own paperwork now the anchor woman tries to fact check him but she
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doesn't actually make a point he says that democrats want to repeal the new medicaid restrictions that
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donald trump signed into law earlier this year which would have the effect of allowing more illegals to
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access the program she just says you know he's wrong and shakes her head a few times uh rolling stone
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attempted a similar fact check after mike johnson's appearance and here's the key line from their article
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quote it's important to note that undocumented immigrants broadly do not qualify for medicaid affordable
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care act subsidies or other federally funded health care coverage the word broadly is obviously doing
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a lot of work there whenever you see a hedge word like that whether they you know where they can't say
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something in a clear definitive way that's a very good indication that they're that they're hiding
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something or they're lying and in reality illegal immigrants uh aren't allowed to access medicaid
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in the same way that you aren't allowed to go through a stop sign without coming to a complete
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stop it's a restriction in practice that's basically meaningless illegal aliens as a matter of objective
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observable facts are allowed to enroll in medicaid they they do it's something that does happen all the
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time that's the point and i'm not just talking about emergency coverage either go on the website of
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states like new york massachusetts massachusetts uh california colorado north carolina oregon
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and you all have had explicit statements that medicaid coverage is provided for illegals
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including for primary care and you're seeing some of those websites on your screen right now it's not
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exactly a well-kept secret they're not doing much to hide it new york offers managed medicaid care
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plans for illegals uh illegals in massachusetts are entitled to quote full scope massachusetts
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medicaid coverage and and on and on and on you can see it there in illinois even the paper of record
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admits what's going on here they just do it in a somewhat roundabout way so here's headline from
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the chicago tribune for example quote in illinois adult immigrants ages 42 to 64 without legal status
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have lost their health care to save an estimated 404 million dollars and the article is entitled
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illinois among democrat-led states rolling back medicaid access
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now put two and two together you don't have to be a math genius to conclude that indeed
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so-called immigrants without legal status otherwise known as illegal immigrants were indeed receiving
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medicaid benefits the denver post admits that the same thing is happening in colorado and many other
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states here's one of their recent headlines quote colorado and 19 other states sue the federal
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government tuesday to prevent medicaid data from being used for immigration enforcement
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well that's an interesting development how could medicaid data be used for immigration enforcement
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i mean if illegal aliens have nothing to do with medicaid because they can't access it
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then you would think that ice would have no use for medicaid data but of course illegal aliens are
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indeed receiving taxpayer-funded health care it's happening all the time and democrats are doing
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everything they can including filing lawsuits to prevent this fraud from being exposed and stopped
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on the democrat side they'll often claim that only state funds are being used to fund these programs
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they'll say that even though these are medicaid programs only state-level taxpayers are footing the bill
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and first of all even if that were true it would still be an outrage no taxpayer should be forced to fund
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health care for people who have no right to be in this country but on top of that this claim is simply a lie
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federal funds are used in these programs all the time often as part of a shell game using federal tax revenue
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which is carefully engineered to obscure the truth congressman eric burleson of missouri
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recently posted a video of how this scam works in california and it's worth watching because he lays out the
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details pretty clearly for uh for you know what can be a pretty complicated topic watch california
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figured this out that they can force the federal government to spend nine dollars for every one
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dollar that it spends and they're using it to launder money they and this is the way they do it and
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it costs no money to california because they raise taxes on managed care companies the companies that
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are providing medicaid so they go to these companies and say we're going to tax you but don't worry
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we're going to give you all of the money that we just taxed you right back but in the meantime we're
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going to take that money and we're going to pull down federal dollars and that'll let us have more money
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so that we can spend it on expanding the population for medicaid and spend it on illegal immigrants in
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fact this scheme has allowed california to spend nearly four billion dollars to put illegal immigrants
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to put to put on to pay for illegal immigrants to have medicaid four billion dollars this is crazy
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and this total scheme is spending more money in federal dollars in california that we send in
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federal dollars than the entire state of florida spends in one year in their in their entire annual
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budget so this is absurd this has to be corrected altogether by conservative estimates there are
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roughly 1.5 million illegal aliens who are currently receiving medicaid benefits along with nearly
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5 million able-bodied individuals who receive medicaid benefits but choose not to work this is
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massive massive massive fraud uh on on a national scale costing us hundreds and hundreds and millions
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of dollars even in relatively small states like connecticut the cost is astronomical here's a recent
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assessment from ct insider for example quote at least 80 million dollars in state funds have been used
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to pay for health care for children and expected and postpartum mothers without legal immigration status
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since this coverage became available through connecticut's medicaid program two years ago
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meanwhile in texas as you might expect the numbers are even higher and as you can see here in just four
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months from november of 2024 to february of 2025 more than 100 000 patients in texas hospitals
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admitted that uh they weren't in the country legally and that includes 23 000 inpatient discharges and
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85 000 emergency department visits at the same time more than 600 000 patients refuse to provide their
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immigration status and again the vast majority of people who declined to answer were receiving emergency
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care so we can assume of course that the vast majority of those 600 000 patients are also illegal aliens
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it's the only reason that you wouldn't want to give your status according to official estimates from
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the state in total illegal aliens cost texas hospitals more than 120 million dollars per month
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so when i said this is costing us hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars uh nationwide i was that's a
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that's a vast understatement 120 million dollars a month in one state and again the important thing to
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consider here isn't simply the cost which is obviously too high it's also important to recognize
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that even if the illegal aliens were somehow paying for their own care which they're not
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they're still creating a massive drain on our health care system they're making it harder for
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american citizens to get the care they need they're filling up emergency rooms and doctor's office
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is offices at a time when doctors are you know in increasingly short supply and by itself that's more than
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enough reason to deny illegals any access to medicaid or to our health care system in general
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you're not supposed to be here go to your own country and get health care
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when the system is collapsing the absolute last thing we can do or should do is allow the entire
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world to access it and then ultimately destroy it even some democrat institutions are finally coming
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around to this realization the washington post editorial board of all places just published an editorial
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that supports republicans position on the obamacare related aspect of the government shutdown
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uh quote democrats have demanded that republicans agree to extend the covet era insurance subsidies
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without proposing any way to pay for it this will cost 350 billion dollars over the next decade
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the real problem is that the affordable care act was never actually affordable
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well it's a belated reaction to put it mildly it's about 15 years too late in fact but
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it's something it's an indication that everyone even the deranged partisans who read the washington
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post understand that democrats have no credibility whatsoever when it comes to health care
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which was their primary policy objective for the eight years of barack obama's presidency
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their signature issue has been a complete debacle it's an unmitigated disaster
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it's this recent history that we should keep in mind when they try to fact check claims that
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illegal aliens are receiving federal health care benefits before obamacare if you were a healthy
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young person you know you didn't have to subsidize anyone else's insurance you didn't have to
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purchase comprehensive coverage that you didn't need you could pay out of pocket for most visits
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and keep coverage for the most serious life-threatening issues like cancer
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the system that replaced this arrangement was a disastrous deal for most americans and it became a
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completely unworkable catastrophic deal when americans were forced to subsidize the health care
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plans of millions of foreign nationals on top of their fellow citizens as a result this government
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shutdown should continue indefinitely until we have assurance that no illegal aliens will receive
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any taxpayer-funded health care at all yes a long shutdown means that we'll have to endure
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thousands of of more insufferable tiktok videos from furloughed federal bureaucrats but it also means
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charlie kirk furiously criticized bullying jewish donors and said he was considering leaving the
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pro-israel cause before his death it was confirmed today the bombshell revelation comes after candace
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owen released a screenshot of kirk uh fuming in a group chat that jewish donors were pulling funding
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over his links to tucker carlson turning point spokesman andrew colvette confirmed the authenticity
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of the screenshots on tuesday on tuesday during the latest episode of the charlie kirk show
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uh text messages occurred privately complained that a jewish donor had withdrawn a two million
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dollar investment into the organization because he refused to disinvite carlson from the upcoming
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america fest event uh he wrote just lost another huge jewish donor two million dollars a year because
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we won't cancel tucker i'm thinking of inviting candace jewish donors play into all the stereotypes
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i cannot it will not be bullied like this and then he concludes leaving me no choice but to leave
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the pro-israel cause okay so so that's the story so charlie kirk said in his text exchange that he was
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fed up with uh jewish donors and that they live down to all the stereotypes and that he has no choice but
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to leave the pro-israel cause and i have to tell you that that i saw these texts like everyone else did
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when candace released them and i i thought i didn't i didn't say anything because i wanted to see how it
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played out but uh i thought there was like a 40 or 50 chance that they were fake or at least partially
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fake i didn't think that candace faked them i thought maybe someone had given someone else had
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faked it given her something fake and lied to her and the reason i thought that it was it was really
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just because of that final line just that final line the line about leaving the pro-israel cause
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like in in those words exactly it felt just kind of on the nose just so definitive like the kind of
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thing a person might make up but it turns out that it was not fake andrew colvette who by the way is is
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great doing a heroic job i think helping to steer the ship um after after this tragedy after this
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atrocity but um he's confirmed them so so that's that and i i think the takeaway here well there's
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there's there's two things i want to say first of all let me tell you what this doesn't prove it
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does not prove that charlie was in any way uh dishonest or not forthright you know or or anything
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like that and candace of course has not accused him of that or implied it at all just to be clear
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but i have seen people on social media trying to twist this stuff to smear him in that way so that
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is that is something that you see and uh it's not fair and it's not true charlie in fact expressed uh
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well first of all he expressed a lot of these frustrations publicly that's the first thing and as a
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public person he's also under no obligation to run out into the public in front of an audience
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in front of a camera or microphone and just blab whatever thought or feeling he most recently had
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in his head right he's not any under any obligation to have a thought or feeling and say oh i gotta tell
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everybody right away uh in fact his obligation especially in the position that he was in as not
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just a public figure not just a media personality but also the head of an organization a very powerful
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large important organization his obligation is uh really close to the opposite of that in his
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position his responsibility was to be it was to be honest of course and he was honest but also you
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have to be prudent and you have to be measured and you have to be thoughtful in what you say and when
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you say it and how you say it and he was working through some really difficult things and he wanted
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to sort all that out within himself personally you know i'm assuming before before he said it in front
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of an audience so uh and that's what you see here so there's nothing that makes me feel any different
00:26:39.180
about charlie at all uh he was as i said as i said the you know the day after he was after he was killed
00:26:48.800
in my my first show back he was a great man i've said many times since he was a great man uh and a
00:26:54.360
virtuous and honest man uh very you know admirably honest unusually honest uh in particular in politics
00:27:02.740
and and in this business and that and that still is the case that doesn't that hasn't changed at all
00:27:07.580
uh secondly okay so the pro-israel side lost charlie kirk you know that's what he said in his message
00:27:17.320
in his in his own words now he may have been venting he may have been expressing frustration he
00:27:25.120
obviously was doing that uh he may not have flipped over to being actually actively anti-israel
00:27:32.360
uh he didn't say that but he did say that hey they lost me and they lost him because of how he was
00:27:41.480
being treated and what he saw behind closed doors and he was obviously not alone in feeling that way
00:27:49.320
because listen the pro-israel side as charlie called it has lost the majority of the american public
00:28:00.680
you know it doesn't have the left at all which who cares that that's fine but it also doesn't have
00:28:09.760
a huge chunk of the right and it wasn't always that way doesn't have the younger generation
00:28:15.420
like at all doesn't have support globally it's it's just failed to persuade the vast majority of people
00:28:23.500
that's the fact that's the reality and at some point if you're on the pro-israel side you really need
00:28:33.180
to be honest with yourself and engage in some actual honest self-reflection and self-analysis
00:28:38.900
you really do because you're losing the argument i mean you're just losing it you are and uh i've
00:28:50.080
never seen any side of any argument lose this much support this quickly i can't think of any other
00:28:58.600
example of something like this and if you're on that side you need to have the courage and humility
00:29:03.060
to ask yourself what you're doing wrong now sure you know when when you are going out with a message
00:29:11.280
and nobody is buying it and even people who were buying it suddenly are not anymore
00:29:18.940
now you could say oh well it's everybody but me it's all them it's a everyone is against me and
00:29:25.440
it's all their fault there's not not doing anything wrong it's possible that's the case
00:29:30.740
um you know in the whole history of the world when people feel ganged up on and i'm not doing
00:29:39.500
anything wrong and they're doing everything wrong yeah on occasion that could be true
00:29:44.200
but most of the time in life uh you got to look at common denominators
00:29:51.460
and most of the time in life when you're going around and your message is just not resonating with
00:29:57.220
anyone almost uh there's there's um you got to look at yourself
00:30:07.200
but that doesn't seem to happen you know there's i don't see a lot of like self-reflection here
00:30:14.440
and there really should be especially now i mean this should be the kind of thing if if if
00:30:21.460
if you're on that side of the argument and you see these text messages it's the kind of thing
00:30:32.260
but instead what happens is that typically uh the they'll do what the donors were doing to charlie
00:30:40.860
apparently scold and point fingers and throw the anti-semitism charge around um
00:30:45.680
and i mean they'll do it to me because of what i'm saying right now right this is going to get
00:30:50.880
clipped and it's going to be oh see he's woke right he's anti-semitic he's you know it that's
00:30:56.700
going to happen that's going to happen um i'll probably i will get rebuked even by some people
00:31:04.220
who i would consider friends and or at least friendly uh so it's like you can just produce
00:31:10.940
like you know it's going to happen it will and and they won't be able to help themselves and they
00:31:13.960
will do it even though everything i'm saying right now is just true i'm giving you an analysis of the
00:31:19.900
state of affairs and it's not any kind of you don't have to be a genius to figure this out if you did i
00:31:24.980
wouldn't have figured out because i'm not a genius but you can look around and see like okay clearly
00:31:28.520
you're losing the argument and um and if you're going to conduct any kind of honest inventory here
00:31:37.000
this this is the first place you should start and i'll tell you the first major mistake you've made
00:31:42.140
is that you push out your allies or your potential allies um if they don't toe the line a hundred
00:31:50.700
percent a hundred percent perfect clean record of being pro-israel in every way in all cases all
00:31:56.860
the time always if they fail that test you push them out you label them woke right you label them
00:32:01.660
anti-semitic and that's what charlie experienced he was very pro-israel but he also was friends with
00:32:08.320
tucker and wanted to have a conversation with tucker uh which also makes sense
00:32:15.000
he he was that's the right thing by the way it's not just that that charlie was perfectly
00:32:22.300
justified and had every right to talk to whoever he wants and to platform whoever he wants that of
00:32:27.400
course is true but he didn't just have the right to do it he was right to do it
00:32:32.100
yeah if you're going to have a big event like america fest huge event great event i'll be at it this
00:32:39.780
year um yeah tucker should be there it would be absurd for him not to be there
00:32:46.180
but uh but what charlie experiences is because of that
00:32:51.200
they he he they well we're going to withdraw our money we're going to take the funding away
00:32:57.840
and yet you have the right to do that you have the right to take your money and do what you want
00:33:02.440
with it but this is the problem okay this is why this is this is it doesn't work it's not persuasive
00:33:09.480
people see that and they say okay well you're just a bully and you you won't and you you you will
00:33:19.520
and i've encountered a version of this too many times um you know as everyone knows
00:33:25.500
my position everyone knows my position and it hasn't changed it's that i'm not pro or anti-israel
00:33:33.160
i'm not pro or anti any foreign country i'm very consistent about that i don't care about any country
00:33:40.580
but my own that that's just my opinion that's my perspective might not be yours you might not you
00:33:46.400
might you might feel that it's wrong you might feel that it's you know too simplistic you might
00:33:53.140
feel that it you might feel however you feel however you want to feel about it i don't really
00:33:56.520
care that's just my perspective it always has been always has been my entire adult life i'm very
00:34:03.040
consistent about this i don't want foreign aid to any country including israel uh and i i always call
00:34:08.660
out when i feel the u.s is getting involved in something that it shouldn't get involved in
00:34:11.940
and if they're getting involved in something from my perspective for the sake of israel and i don't
00:34:16.100
think they should i'll say that i i for i was against the iran intervention um so i'll call
00:34:23.240
that out i'll call i'll also call out the islamic invasion of the u.s i spent several days just over
00:34:28.820
the past couple of weeks talking about that i did i did multiple shows just about the situation in
00:34:33.660
dearborn i've talked about um many many times i've spent a lot of time on uh the importing you know
00:34:41.360
somalis into places like minnesota so i'll talk about that too
00:34:46.100
so i think i'm pretty damn consistent in my own principles when it comes to this stuff and you
00:34:50.260
again you don't have to share those principles but they're mine and i'm consistent about america
00:34:55.180
first i call out anything that i think is not america first i also call out the israel obsession
00:35:01.660
on the other side the anti-israel side the the you know the tendency to bring everything back to
00:35:06.200
israel all the time even if it doesn't have anything to do with it um the the there's a tendency on that
00:35:12.180
side to be to be israel first from the other direction i i've made that point countless times
00:35:17.040
on this show on x on every platform just being consistent which means that if you're pro israel
00:35:22.460
you may not agree with some of my takes but there's no reason why i should be your enemy
00:35:29.500
because you'll also agree with a lot of my other takes and um and and yet i've been labeled uh woke
00:35:40.140
right anti-semitic i just saw this today i don't even know who it was just a tweet that popped up
00:35:46.860
one of many i see him all the time but someone was uh i was just catching some conversation i wasn't even
00:35:52.460
about me but i was catching a stray someone said oh you know matt walsh is constantly engaging in
00:35:57.280
anti-semitic tropes and i see this all the time like what what are you what are you even talking
00:36:04.920
about but uh but this is what they're talking about is just not not towing the line a hundred percent
00:36:14.440
and i don't i don't tow any line i mean the only line i tow is my own line you know i have my own
00:36:21.180
line my own i have my own line the things that i care about and that's what i tell i don't tell any
00:36:25.700
other lines and um and like i said that's that's going to happen in reaction to what i'm saying
00:36:31.480
right now and that's your problem you know that's all or nothing strategy it's not working it is
00:36:36.900
failing utterly and totally it just is so that was my reaction to this news just being honest with you
00:36:47.080
i i actually am genuinely surprised that charlie had been pushed away from from that side and i know
00:36:55.740
everybody now wants to wants to say about charlie oh see i i knew all along i i knew well i didn't know
00:37:05.720
i don't know about this at all i'm sincerely surprised
00:37:11.940
and that's my honest feeling to me the takeaway here is that
00:37:18.180
the side the side that charlie himself identifies as the pro is real side
00:37:23.500
well they managed to alienate and push away charlie kirk
00:37:28.280
and if you're on that side you should really really stop and think about that you just should
00:37:35.840
rather than screaming at me for telling you to stop and think about it you should
00:37:47.460
brighten the mood with a fun video this is katie porter
00:37:52.860
formerly known as uh somehow somehow one of the most insufferable democrats in congress
00:37:59.020
and she managed to claim that title amid all the really intense competition
00:38:03.560
now she's running for governor of california and it's not going well here she is sitting down with a
00:38:08.780
reporter this is a reporter from uh cbs news i believe so a friendly reporter friendly outlet
00:38:14.160
on her side and watch how this goes listen what do you say to the 40 percent of california voters who
00:38:21.440
you'll need in order to win um who voted for trump how would i need them in order to win man
00:38:28.020
well unless you think you're going to get 60 percent of the vote you think you'll get 60
00:38:32.820
percent all everybody who did not vote for trump will vote for you that's what what you're in a
00:38:36.780
general election yes if it is me versus a republican i think that i will win the people who did not vote
00:38:43.120
for trump what if it's you versus another democrat i don't intend that to be the case
00:38:46.340
so how do you not intend that to be the case do you are you going to ask them not to run
00:38:51.680
no no i'm saying i'm going to build the support i have the support already in terms of name
00:38:55.600
recognition and so i'm going to do the very best i can to make sure that we get through this primary
00:38:59.920
in a really strong position but you don't feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative what is
00:39:04.140
your question the the question is the same thing i asked everybody that this is being called the
00:39:10.100
empowering voters to stop trump's power grab every other candidate has answered this question this is
00:39:14.860
not correct and i said i support it so and the question is what do you say to the 40 percent of
00:39:20.760
voters who voted for trump oh i'm happy to say that it's the do you need them to win
00:39:25.380
part that i don't understand i'm happy to answer the question as you haven't written and i'll answer
00:39:29.200
it and we've also asked the other candidates do you think you need any of those 40 percent of
00:39:33.900
california voters to win and you're saying no you don't no i'm saying i'm going to try to win every
00:39:37.780
vote i can and what i'm saying to you is that well to those voters okay so so you i don't want to keep
00:39:44.300
doing this i'm going to call it thank you you're not going to do the interview with us nope not like
00:39:50.960
this i'm not not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask every other candidate has
00:39:55.580
i don't care i don't care i want to have a pleasant positive conversation which you ask me about every
00:40:01.220
issue on this list and if every question you're going to make up a follow-up question then we're
00:40:05.900
never going to get there i don't want to have an unhappy experience with you and i don't want this
00:40:10.420
all on camera i don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either i would love to continue
00:40:14.520
to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of
00:40:19.900
these issues that they care about and redistricting is a massive issue we're going to do an entire
00:40:24.220
story just on the responses to that question and have asked everybody the same follow-up questions
00:40:29.240
well you know a little late for that katie uh after melting down on camera for three minutes she
00:40:34.820
finally says that she doesn't want to do this on camera and the hilarious that the hilarious and
00:40:40.000
revealing thing is that the meltdown was precipitated you just saw there by the easiest most softball
00:40:48.400
question you could possibly imagine all she was asked is what she will say uh how she will reach
00:40:59.320
out to voters on the other side that's all she was asked that that is politician 101 stuff okay
00:41:06.400
that that's not anything close to a gotcha or a trap question it's the opposite it's not a curveball
00:41:12.640
this is a t-ball okay it's not a curveball question it's a t-ball question the ball is right
00:41:17.380
there on the tee it's sitting right all you have to do is just swing and you almost can't help but
00:41:23.480
hit it and instead she refused to swing she walked up to the tee threw her bat down and said this is too
00:41:31.260
hard the ball's moving too fast what do you mean the ball's not moving at all it's not fair so amazing
00:41:40.640
performance truly and um and the answer would have been so easy katie the answer is so easy
00:41:47.360
what are you gonna do to reach out to all the republic here's all you say well what i say to
00:41:53.540
voters on the other side is i will fight for you i will fight for all californians what we're all in
00:42:00.220
this together you know whatever whatever something like that basic stuff easy and uh she she lost it
00:42:06.700
in the history of politician interviews has anyone ever stormed out because of an easier question
00:42:20.940
maybe one the only one that comes to mind is uh is i think i still have i still have the i i i have
00:42:29.840
the the title when congressman mark tacano stormed out of our interview and what is a woman because i
00:42:34.940
asked him you know what is a woman so this but so that but this is second to that this is a very close
00:42:41.860
second and what accounts for this meltdown well three things and i think everyone is focused on the
00:42:50.420
first two that i'll list not so much the third but the first is that katie porter is first of all just
00:42:54.860
a miserable person an awful vile human being she's been accused of physical and emotional abuse by her
00:43:01.640
ex-husband she's accused of abusive behavior by her former staff members so there's a definite pattern
00:43:07.320
here there's a common denominator and it's katie porter and and then you see this and it certainly
00:43:12.300
supports the claim that she's uh abusive behind the scenes when you see this i mean not every claim
00:43:19.140
like that is true i mean you get these claims about people okay someone and someone in a divorce
00:43:25.080
making a claim well they have of course every incentive to lie or exaggerate former staff members
00:43:31.280
you know especially these days you have staff members and we get these you know these scandals
00:43:38.300
with politicians sometimes we get them with talk show hosts oh they're so mean they're so mean and
00:43:45.020
then you hear the horror stories and it's just like you know that you showed up late to work and they
00:43:51.600
told you hey don't be late or something and then you went and cried in a bathroom bathroom for 45
00:43:56.520
minutes and had to go to a therapist so a lot of times it's that but it you see something like this
00:44:02.340
and you see the way she behaves on camera and okay well that really comports i mean that if she's
00:44:07.500
acting like that on camera she's on camera and someone asked her a super easy question
00:44:12.000
and you she want you could tell she wanted to just lunge throttle this woman for asking the question
00:44:20.480
and uh okay if that's how you can ask act on camera you can only imagine what she's doing behind the
00:44:24.680
scenes so that's the first the second thing is uh that it tells us is that democrats of course live in
00:44:30.540
a bubble especially in california they are never asked it's not just that they're never asked
00:44:34.360
hard questions they aren't asked questions period they're never asked any real questions that that
00:44:40.440
that have to be answered they're never expected to give any real answers to anything at all
00:44:46.400
and this has made them extremely soft and very incapable of navigating even the friendliest
00:44:52.280
most sort of um low stakes exchanges but the third thing here and and i and this is to me the main
00:45:01.640
point as easy as the question is or seems for democrats these days it's uh it's not so easy it's difficult
00:45:13.800
and it's difficult because they truly hate the voters on the other side her real answer that she didn't
00:45:21.640
want to say is that she doesn't want their vote that's a real answer she doesn't want she doesn't want
00:45:28.600
them she doesn't want them to have a vote she doesn't want them to be alive she wishes they were
00:45:34.520
dead that's a real answer if she was being totally honest and she was asked well what about the 40%
00:45:41.080
of republic what are you going to say to them if she was being honest what she would have said is oh
00:45:46.600
what do i say to them i say go die i say hey guys why don't you go throw yourselves into the pacific ocean
00:45:51.300
and drown all of you you and your children that's what she would have said if she was being honest
00:45:56.960
because that's how she actually feels and um and that's why she can't answer a question to her
00:46:04.180
asking her how she's going to reach republican voters it's like asking her how she's going to
00:46:09.980
reach out and appeal to you know it's like if you had said to her um well you know california has a
00:46:19.320
heavy population of serial killers what are you going to do to reach them how are you going to appeal
00:46:25.780
to the serial killer demographic it's like now i mean that's a bad example because in reality
00:46:32.160
katie porter has no problem reaching the serial killer vote she would actually she she i think
00:46:37.760
she'd be very good at that uh because that's the vibe she gives off and on top of that you know the
00:46:43.580
abortion industry supports her totally so she she has the serial killer vote already locked down
00:46:48.740
but you get my point you know you get my point and more than anything else this is a reflection
00:46:53.260
of how democrats can't even pretend that they think their opponents are human beings
00:47:00.040
they can't even feign it they can't they can't feign it long enough for a powderpuff interview
00:47:08.220
with a friendly media outlet they can't fake it long enough to just say yes i want to reach all voters i
00:47:16.000
will fight for everybody can't bring themselves to say it every time the left tries to silence us
00:47:22.320
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all right here's the secretary of transportation on the legalization of weed he was uh interviewed on
00:49:01.240
i think it's fox and friends let's listen here's the here's the problem with alcohol i can look at
00:49:07.580
brian i can smell brian if he's been drinking in the car there's telltale signs and then i can give
00:49:11.800
my breathalyzer right and then i can take a blood test later it's hard with marijuana we don't have the
00:49:16.440
systems in place to tell if you were smoking marijuana before you got in the car so the
00:49:20.740
systems aren't there at a time when culture is pushing and celebrating the use of marijuana we're
00:49:25.980
not talking about the risks we lose 40 we lose 42 000 people on the roads every year but way too
00:49:30.680
many so do you think that we should uh legalize it that's where the president's thinking about
00:49:35.720
changing its ranking its schedule i think it would be a huge mistake uh listen i i i understand a lot of
00:49:42.660
pressure to do it i understand he's getting pressure listen i i've got nine kids um i see
00:49:46.960
what these drugs do um i'm not i'm not a supporter of legalizing and again i was a prosecutor we didn't
00:49:51.860
send people to prison for a quarter ounce bag or an eighth ounce bag of marijuana they got a city
00:49:56.180
citation they're not going to prison for this but to legalize it and to say it's okay for for our kids
00:50:01.900
and our young people to smoke it and it's good for them and they get behind cars it's dangerous and
00:50:06.760
and listen it it's taking lives and it's addictive something else really addictive and by the way it's
00:50:11.260
not the 1960s marijuana right um this is way more dangerous stuff and then they're lacing it with other
00:50:16.340
materials that are incredibly dangerous yeah well so of course of course i mean he's right and of
00:50:24.220
course weed is linked to traffic deaths right it's a mind-altering substance it makes you hazy and tired
00:50:31.800
and lowers your reaction times it affects your brain affects your mind a lot of people are smoking
00:50:37.000
the stuff now and most of them are driving so not hard to work out the calculus and yet the potheads
00:50:44.020
still aren't ready to have this conversation they aren't ready to admit that there are any downsides to
00:50:49.500
weed at all and that's really what gets me about this topic and you know how i feel about it we don't
00:50:56.700
have to get into the debate again yeah i've laid out mike i i also think that weed should be uh should
00:51:03.640
be banned federally it should be banned across the country i give my reasons why but you don't have
00:51:10.380
to agree with that what gets me about it is is this that it's this total lack of perhaps to be expected
00:51:19.200
total lack of of uh realism and honesty on the part of the pot advocates and not even accusing them of
00:51:30.040
explicitly lying i think there's some of that but i think they're lying to themselves they're lying to
00:51:35.000
themselves and so then what they say is just it's not it's not realistic it's not in you're not living
00:51:42.240
in reality and it's unlike anything else in that regard so there are plenty of people myself included
00:51:49.300
who enjoy alcohol in moderation plenty of people who enjoy it not in moderation also
00:51:55.140
but um the alcohol enjoyers you know they're not going to deny the health downsides i've never heard
00:52:02.700
that i've never heard anyone who likes to have a drink on occasion deny that there are health problems
00:52:09.020
associated with it we're not going to deny that yeah you know drinking and driving is bad you
00:52:14.880
definitely shouldn't do it it's a big problem um we're not going to deny that yeah drinking can
00:52:21.880
mess up your liver it it can you can make you gain weight uh it can there are all kinds of possible
00:52:28.580
complications drink too much it could cause brain damage i mean it it screws up all your internal organs
00:52:34.080
right you know and but we won't deny that there's plenty of denial among full-blown alcoholics
00:52:43.660
i'm not suggesting otherwise i'm just saying that i've never heard anyone claim that you can drink
00:52:49.580
basically however much you want without any measurable downside nobody claims that now people
00:52:56.180
might deny if they're in denial and they're alcoholics they might deny that they themselves are
00:53:00.200
guilty of that kind of overindulgence but they will at least agree that overindulging is possible
00:53:07.800
and it is bad right they'll agree that yeah people do that and it's bad but i don't that's where the
00:53:15.220
denial comes in but at least there's that fundamental agreement that yeah alcohol can definitely be
00:53:21.700
dangerous if you drink too much of it and uh and it's not the healthiest thing like it's it's it's
00:53:27.220
it's obviously not healthy uh all things considered
00:53:30.820
but among potheads there's just no acknowledgement from what i've seen i don't think i'm making a
00:53:37.400
straw man here there's just really no acknowledgement of any downsides they refuse to acknowledge it
00:53:42.880
if you say yeah you know it causes car accidents they'll deny that they'll actually try to deny that
00:53:50.380
so of course it causes car accidents what are you talking obviously a lot of people are smoking it
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they get high you get behind the wheel of a car that's not that's far from ideal your reaction
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times are lower you're not like you're you're not sober so anytime you're driving not sober your
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chances of getting to accident are increased so clearly this is causing accidents and because of
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the number of people who drive in america and the number of people who are smoking we you know we
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might not know the exact number but we can assume that it's a pretty high number and yet you get
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these pot advocates who just like they won't acknowledge that if you talk about the study
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sale it's linked to cancer they won't acknowledge it you talk to them about the studies that it's
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linked to psychosis it's a mind-altering substance they won't they won't acknowledge it they just refuse
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to acknowledge that i don't know there's there's no downside from what i've seen that these people
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will say yeah you know that is true that's true it does do that that is a risk that is a downside
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however i still like to smoke it because xyz and i think it should be legal because xyz that's at
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least an argument that like that's a conversation we could have but what i find is just total absolute
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across the board denial where you want to believe that well this is a it was made by god it's a plant
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who cares it was a plant there's a lot of plants out there that you're not supposed to ingest
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that doesn't mean yes it's it's naturally occurring that doesn't necessarily mean that it's
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that it's perfectly okay to ingest okay try going out into the forest sometime and just ingesting any
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plant you see actually don't try that because you'll you'll die because there's a lot of stuff
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out there you're not supposed to ingest um but that's the answer you get and it's totally ridiculous
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and it's just it's denial it's total denial um finally this went viral here's a post from
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colin rug we'll play the video as i read the caption there's no audio to it so um you can see there
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china officially opens the world's tallest bridge completing the project under four years the bridge
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features a restaurant at the top a whopping 2600 foot uh feet above the the river the bridge not
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only cuts a two-hour drive to two minutes but also features as a has also features a theme park
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with a glass skywalk a high-speed glass elevator and a waterfall off the edge of the bridge
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so very impressive as you can see and of course the reason i think it's going viral is that people in
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america are looking at you look at the comments and it's just all these comments saying uh asking the
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same question which is why aren't we building stuff like this anymore right why is it if there's some
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big impressive architectural engineering feat it's always china doing it these days and how did they
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build this giant bridge across this 2000 foot canyon in four years and there's like a restaurants and
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theme parks and everything meanwhile the key bridge in baltimore had a cargo ship ram into it two years ago
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and there's still a giant gaping hole in the side of it they haven't even started to fix it yet
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so what's going on i mean why why don't we do this when was our last great architectural feat
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when was our last engineering marvel we we've we've had a lot of them
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no one's had more than us i mean we are the country that dug the panama canal we dug a canal
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across 51 miles of jungle and connected two oceans together
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something multiple countries tried to do and failed and we went in and did it
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we built the empire state building 1200 feet high took one year they did it in one year and not only is
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it a really high building the tallest in the world at the time that it was built it's also beautiful
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it's a beautiful building on top of just being really big
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um built the hoover dam largest concrete structure ever built at the time built the golden gate bridge
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longest suspension bridge ever built at the time that thing is anchored like 200 feet below sea level
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and again it's not only big and it was built quickly it was built in four years not only big built
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but quickly has obviously has has withstood the test of time it's beautiful it's like art also
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do you understand the transcontinental railroad was built across like 2 000 miles
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through desert through mountains through forests across great plains right they were getting
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attacked by by indians bandits there were diseases 1500 workers died
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and they completed it in the 1860s with 1860s technology and if it's been a while since you studied this in
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okay it'll take six years just to get the zoning permits
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if we you know if they tried to build that chinese bridge in california today
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uh this will begin construction in the year 2040
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so what changed i mean why can't we do stuff like this anymore
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it just makes it impossible to do anything great anything awesome
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um you know and and and uh certainly like a tolerance for danger we have no tolerance for that at all anymore
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when we were built you know building the panama canal building the trans canal railroad
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we went into it knowing like okay a lot you know when the worker showed up it was like
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a lot of you are going to die doing this by the way
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here's what we're doing and a lot of you are going to die
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now i'm not suggesting that we should accept that much carnage like we don't need to we also have
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uh so that's um i'm not saying people should sign up for you know to give their lives to
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to for a construction project but what i'm saying is we've gone all the way to the other extreme
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and that really is the primary reason that's the primary
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you know sure it has a practical purpose it cuts a two-hour drive
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but also you should build the bridge because it's awesome
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why do you build the giant bridge and you got the theme park and the restaurant on it
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yeah it cuts down a commute but why do you really build it because it's really cool
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that's why it's just a it's a because you want to be able to say you did it
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okay because as a country you should be doing awesome
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that's that's why it's that simple you should do it because it's great you should do it because you can
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and and but that reasoning is not convincing to bureaucrats uh that's the problem
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they don't care about greatness they don't care about anything they're nihilistic meddlers who
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asking why why do you have why are you doing this
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that's why it's there doesn't have any other purpose
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okay well you want to go build you want to do something awesome
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and if you were to ask them why are you why are you doing this to us
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why why are you making this impossible we want to do something awesome
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why are you doing everything you can to stop us
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as i said it's like asking a cancerous tumor why it's doing what it's doing
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so that's part of it but also we rely on cheap bad mexican labor for everything now
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even though we built all those incredible things without mexican labor
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now we're told that well you can't oh we got to have the we got to have the
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mexican you got to have the labor here from uh south america and central america
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well okay well that's interesting so how do we like build
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if now we can't do anything now we can't do anything without mexican labor
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and then also finally i think and this is the biggest problem is that we've just
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lost the will and desire to do the great things i think we have
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uh and that's the saddest thing about like the state of the country right now
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uh we talk about making america great again well
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we will be great again when we as a nation have the will and desire to go out
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and do impossible things just for the sake of doing them
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that's the kind of greatness that has defined our country since its beginning
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go do something impossible do something unthinkable do something historic
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and anyone asks you well why why are we doing that
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it's like those people are so weak and pathetic they're not even it's not even
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worth answering them it should the answer should be self-evident
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the answer is in the greatness of the thing itself
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when you go out to do something great and someone says why are you doing this
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well if that's not a because it's great because look at it that's why
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and if you if that's not immediately obvious to you
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then you're not worth talking to you shouldn't have a voice in this conversation
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um now there are still americans individually who have that drive obviously but
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there are americans who do impressive things all the time but as a nation
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i don't think that we have that and a lot of that goes to leadership
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and i'm not specifically talking about the leader white house right now i'm talking
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about this is a this is a decades multiple multi decades long problem
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and i'm talking about leadership institutionally across the board
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and it's a cultural problem it's a lot of things
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and um you know and i think that's what we lost
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and that's that's why i go on and on about space exploration all the time
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and people will say that oh there's no point why waste the money
01:05:41.960
what are you talking about we waste money in a million ways already if you're
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worried if you're really worried about we're wasting money
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there's so many other we waste money when we give fat people food stamps so they
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that's wasting money we waste money in a million different ways that you can count
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this is not wasting money going out into space the great unknown doing things
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that no human has ever done or conceived of doing
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making history changing history changing civilization
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doing something that they'll be reading about in history books
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uh you know that are implanted on their forearms
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like that is that's not that can never be a waste of money
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what is the point of money what's the point of being a wealthy country
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a highly advanced wealthy country if you're not going to do stuff like that
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so um that's what we need to get back to we need and and a lot of it is a it's it
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is a cultural thing like we have to have that desire in us
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a lot like and a lot of us are not going to be the ones who go and do that i i'm not
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actually going to be the one i'm i'd love to go into space i got six kids now my wife
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probably would not approve uh so i've aged out i've i've aged out of space exploration
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i still think it should be done i still think it should be done and uh and there is something
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so even if you're not going to go out and do the thing
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uh just like i say we built the panama canal well most americans didn't build
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we built the the the the you know empire state building
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i say we most americans the vast majority of americans even alive at the time had no hand in that
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but you do have a hand in it if you by by just the desire to see it done by supporting it by
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like calling for it i mean this this was at the time culturally there was this cultural
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and this is and i say at the time i mean for decades for you know for the entire history of
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of america up until very recently there it was the culture demanded it everybody wanted it like go
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we want to see this country do incredible great awesome things and in that environment that's where
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the people who know how to do those things can step up and say okay you guys want this and you're going
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to support it you're going to support it financially you're going to give it the moral support it needs
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and all that then i'll go do it i'll be the guy and uh we need to create that environment i think and
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we don't right now so there it is that's my speech for today get back to greatness and we're going to
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