Ep. 224 - Democrats In Mourning
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The left is in mourning as the Mueller report finds no evidence of collusion with Russia. Shouldn t they be happy about that? Also, what does it say about the media that they spent two years pushing this hoax? We'll talk about that today on the Matt W. W. Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is in mourning as the Mueller report finds no evidence of collusion.
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But what does it say about the left that they're upset that the president didn't collude with Russia?
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Also, what does it say about the media that they spent two years pushing this hoax?
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Also, Kamala Harris says that all teachers need a raise.
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We'll talk about that issue today as well on the Matt Wall Show.
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As you no doubt heard, the Mueller report has come back negative.
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He is not a secret Russian agent, it turns out.
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Of course, this news is not really news to any rational person.
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The idea that Trump was some sort of Putin henchman was always ridiculous.
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But this is the angle that the Democrats decided to pursue for the past two years.
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And by the way, the idea that Trump was working for Putin, it's ridiculous for many reasons.
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Not the least of which being, you know, the fact that Trump was out there on the campaign trail
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saying nice things about Putin, that's one of the reasons why Democrats got it into their head,
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the left got it into their head, that, oh, he must be working with Putin.
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Well, if he was, then he wouldn't be out saying those things in the first place.
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But I think we should really stop here and meditate on the profound stupidity of these people.
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I'm talking about the left, the Democrats, the media.
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Of all the things that they could focus on, of all the things that they could criticize
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Trump for, of all the points that they could criticize about Trump and his administration
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and everything, they decide to spend two years on this conspiracy theory.
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And it's a conspiracy theory that now must officially be consigned to a category that's
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occupied by the moon landing hoax and 9-11 trutherism and Sandy Hook trutherism and the flat earth
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Utterly stupid, incredible, irrational conspiracy theories.
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You remember the idea that Obama, you know, couldn't be president because he wasn't born here.
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And in fact, I think you would say in many ways that Russian collusion is basically the
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Although as someone pointed out to me on Twitter, actually the birtherism was already the left's
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birtherism because that was a, a, um, line of attack that originated with the Clinton campaign.
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But in any case, this is, this is what the Democrats chose to go with, uh, with regards to Trump.
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There are other things they could have focused on.
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President Trump, we must admit, does in fact provide his enemies with plenty of opportunities
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to criticize, uh, many fruitful points of criticism that they could explore.
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We're going to go with Trump is a secret Russian agent instead.
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And this seems to be Trump's greatest, uh, skill, or I don't even know if you could call
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it a skill because I'm not sure that he does it on purpose, but it's certainly his best defense
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mechanism, whether intentional or not, that somehow, for some reason, he provokes his opponents
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into criticizing him for the dumbest and most irrelevant things, leaving potentially legitimate
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And they always go for, for this thing over here, the, the fantastic, um, the incredible,
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The left has been very upset this weekend, as you can imagine, as I'm sure you've noticed
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about the news that there was no collusion, right?
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Rachel Maddow, I'm not going to bother playing the clip, but, uh, this has been going around
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Maddow on her show was, was basically on the verge of tears over it.
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They're, they're all, they're distraught, very upset, depressed, angry, but think about
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They're upset that the president didn't collude with Russia.
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Mueller came back and said, yeah, um, there's no evidence president didn't do it.
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I, I don't think I should even have to clarify this, but when you find out if you, if there
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was ever any doubt in your head in the first place, when you find out that the president
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did not collude with a foreign government to undermine our election process, when you find
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that out, if you are a, you know, if you are a person who loves America, if you're a reasonable
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person, a reasonable patriotic person, when you find that out, your reaction is going to be, oh, well,
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That is objectively good news for everyone, but the Democrats aren't happy.
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And so if you're, if there was, if you're wondering, um, whether these people really
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care about the, uh, integrity of our democratic process, whether they care about, um, you know,
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truth, if you were ever wondering about that, well, well, well, this should clarify it for
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you that no, they don't care about that stuff because they wanted, they wanted the president
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You may remember, uh, back when Obama was elected and there was a huge outcry on the left
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because Rush Limbaugh said that, uh, I forget what his exact words were, but he said something
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That, that was the, those were, that was the phrase that he used taken out of context.
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And so, uh, Democrats latched onto that and they said, oh, how terrible, how could you be
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Well, in the context, it was clear that Limbaugh was saying, I, I hope he fails in his agenda
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I hope that he fails in carrying it out, which is a perfectly fine thing to say.
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And that's what you would expect the opponents of a president's agenda to say.
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But here now we have, but the way that they, that they misconstrued it is they said, oh,
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no, you're, well, you're just rooting against, you're rooting against America.
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I mean, you want bad things to happen to America.
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You want his whole presidency to be a disaster.
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And that's not what he said, but that really is what the left apparently wants.
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They are, again, which I'll emphasize for the fifth time, they are upset that the president
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of the United States did not collude with Russia and undermine our democratic process.
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They're upset, which means that they wish he did.
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I'm not, I'm not sure if he's the one who compiled the clips or not, but this is, this kind of
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condenses two years of media hysterity, hysteria, uh, into two minutes.
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Today was historically bad for president Trump.
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The beginning of the end for the Trump president.
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Mike Pence might have to assume the office of the presidency.
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One astrologer says this means the beginning of the end for president Donald Trump.
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This is a very dramatic day and I think it might be near a tipping point.
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At the beginning of the year, we begin tonight with a bombshell.
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I don't think this president is going to serve out his term.
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It's a sign of a terrified old man who feels the wall's closing in.
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Today, the biggest tipping point for the Trump administration.
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How completely embarrassing is that for the news media?
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If they're capable of being embarrassed, which I don't think they are.
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But we have to understand, if we don't already, that what you just saw there, okay, that's not news.
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That is a category that doesn't exist in America.
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It simply doesn't exist anymore, if it ever did.
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This is the same media that, while it was pushing the Russian collusion conspiracy theory for two years, while it was doing that, at the same time, it gave us the Covington Catholic thing.
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They're not in the business of telling the truth.
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We're always pointing this out, fake news and everything.
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Well, we all say it, but I don't know if we really let it sink in that we do not have a news media, that you simply cannot trust what you hear from them,
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because they're not interested in getting to the truth.
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We should ask ourselves, why is it that the media fell for this Russian collusion hoax for two years?
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I don't think it's not the case that, in many cases, I don't think it's the case that they were inventing this out of whole cloth,
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and all of the anonymous sources that they were hearing and everything.
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But the point is, they so badly wanted it to be true.
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They so badly wanted it to be true that they didn't apply their brains to this.
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And so any anonymous source that they heard that said, oh, Mueller's about to come out with indictments and Trump's going to be in a jail cell tomorrow.
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There was no vetting because they wanted it to be true.
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It was the same thing with Kavanaugh, as I said, Smollett, Covington Catholic, all of those, you know, we call those media hoaxes.
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But we have to understand how the media hoax works.
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The media didn't make up the incident with Covington Catholic.
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The media, CNN, didn't invent the idea that Kavanaugh was the leader of some gang rape crew in high school.
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And they were going around to parties and raping women and everything.
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So, the way the media hoax works is they decide, based on what they want to be true, which is based on their ideology, they decide which rumors they're going to believe without any discernment, as I said, without any vetting, without any attempt to actually get to the bottom of it.
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They'll take the rumors and then they amplify them.
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It's not so much, most of the time, that they're sitting around, all the different, you know, supposed journalists and anchors are sitting around in smoke-filled, darkened rooms, hatching what fake stories they're going to tell next.
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It's just that they're so driven by ideology, and when it comes to Trump, they're so driven by their hatred for him that they will accept whatever rumor that they hear, and they'll put it on, you know, they'll put it in front of the cameras, and they'll disseminate it.
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With Kavanaugh, because of the threat that they believe Kavanaugh poses to so-called abortion rights, again, it was another thing, where they hate him so much, and they are so blinded by ideology, that even a story about gang rape crews, they will take that and they'll run with it.
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So, no credibility and no reason to listen to these people, and it's been that way for a long time.
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Barbara Streisand said, I'm not going to spend much time on this, but Barbara Streisand said in an interview that she believes the Michael Jackson accusers.
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But she also said that Jackson was just fulfilling his, quote, sexual needs, and the kids he molested were thrilled to be there.
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And she said that being molested didn't kill them because they ended up getting married and they're fine now.
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She actually said all those things as verbatim quotes, okay?
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Anyway, there's not much analysis to offer here.
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It's obviously a horrifically disgusting thing to say, so I think we all hopefully understand that.
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But the only reason I bring it up is because I suspect that she is not the only Hollywood celebrity who feels this way.
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Why do you think there are so many open secrets in Hollywood?
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Why do you think it is that a guy like Michael Jackson could get away with doing this for decades?
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It's because I think quite a few of the people in Hollywood feel exactly like Barbara Streisand did.
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And so the only difference, though, is most of them know that when they're in front of cameras, they're supposed to pretend otherwise.
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They're supposed to fake outrage and all of that stuff.
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But Barbara Streisand forgot to do that this time, and she just let her true color show.
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So let's not let us be appropriately horrified by what Barbara Streisand said.
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But let us not think that she's the only one in that camp who feels that way.
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All right. Kamala Harris has come out and said that she wants a federal program to she wants all kinds of federal programs because there aren't enough of those already.
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But this time she wants a federal program to boost the salaries of teachers.
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This is what she says. She says in America, public school teachers are paid about 13000 a year less than other college graduates.
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That could be mortgage payments or the cost of groceries for a family for a year.
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It's a national failure. It's time we give America's teachers a raise.
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It says a study by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, found that public school teachers in 2017 made 11 percent less than similar professionals with college degrees,
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even after taking into account benefits, which are often higher for teachers than many private sector workers.
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Harris will commit to, quote, closing the teacher pay gap within her first term as president.
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Details of the initiative, including the price tag and how the program will be structured, will be released in the coming week.
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OK, now I mentioned this on on social media and I got into trouble because I pointed out the obvious here.
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And the obvious point is that, yes, teachers make apparently 11 percent less than other professionals with college degrees if we're going to take this liberal think tank at its word, which I don't anyway.
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OK, well, teachers also get an enormous amount of vacation time, don't they?
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They get a whole lot of three day weekends and that sort of thing.
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Imagine whatever you do for a living if you're not a teacher.
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Because if you're not a teacher, you can't even it's hard to even conceive of this.
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Imagine getting a vacation every winter, every spring, and then you get two months off in the summer also.
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They probably work a much, much more than 11 percent less.
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People don't like it when you when you point this out.
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I had a whole bunch of teachers attacking me when I pointed this out, saying, I don't understand.
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They work 50 to 60 hours a week during the school year.
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They got to bring their work home with them, so on and so forth.
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They have to do the professional development stuff during the summer.
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They have to go to, you know, they have things that they're supposed to be doing during the summer.
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And I understand that many teachers do work hard.
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So, yeah, they have to take their work home with them.
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Yeah, there are a lot of people who take their work home with them.
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There are many people who work 50 to 60 hours a week during the school year, and then they
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continue working 50 to 60 hours a week during the summer, and they only get two weeks of
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vacation, three weeks of vacation for the entire year.
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So the question is, if you've got people who work those kinds of hours all year long,
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would it make sense for teachers who work those kinds of hours only for nine months of
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the year to make as much as the ones who are working like that 12 months a year?
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After the fact remains, after taking into account whatever you have to do in the summer,
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professional development, whatever, taking classes, whatever else, teachers still get
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close to two months off in the summer, plus their winter and spring breaks, federal holidays,
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And obviously, it seems to me your pay is going to reflect that.
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If I went to my employer, The Daily Wire, and I said, listen, I'm not going to give you
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any content in June or July, so I need those two months off, plus count me out for two weeks
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around Christmas and a week around Easter, and I want every federal holiday off, and if
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it snows, I'm not going to, you're not getting anything.
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If I went to my job and said that, do you think they're going to keep paying me the same
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No, of course not, because you get paid to work.
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That's the whole idea behind having a job, is that you're paid to work.
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And so if you're only working a total of nine months a year, then yeah, your pay is going
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I'm simply pointing out something that I think is relevant.
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And the fact that teachers get so defensive when you bring this up, it is a, you know,
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you protesting too much kind of situation where they get so defensive.
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Another point about this, and this is why I get uncomfortable.
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Anytime we look at an entire category or a whole profession or a gender, like when people
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say women are underpaid and all this stuff, or when it comes to the minimum wage, we say,
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well, we need to make sure that people who are working at fast food restaurants get paid
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Anytime we do that with these broad sweeping kinds of statements about this whole group of
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I'm always uncomfortable with that because within that group, you know, there are going
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to be some people who are very hardworking, very good at what they do and do deserve to
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But there are also going to be some people who are terrible at what they do and are, and
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are basically worthless on the job and whatever they're getting paid right now is too much.
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So that's the case for people making minimum wage at a, at Burger King.
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It's the case for, you know, and it's the case for teachers.
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So if you're sitting there saying teachers need to get paid more, what do you mean teachers
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Are you telling me that I couldn't, I, you, I, you don't think I could find some teachers
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who definitely don't deserve to get paid more because I'm telling you, I can, I had some
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I also had some teachers who their method of teaching was to hand out a, uh, you know,
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a worksheet and to just sit at their desk, um, doing whatever they're doing.
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They never, I, I had to, and we've, we all had teachers like this.
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They just, they said, read this part of the book.
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If you ask a question, I'm going to get angry that you asked the question and I won't be
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able to answer it because I don't know the subject.
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So do those teachers deserve to get a raise too?
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No, the problem is precisely because of the teachers union.
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The problem is that, is that we can't get rid of them.
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So anytime we get into this discussion, we seem to be ignoring the fact that there are
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And that's another point that you're not allowed to make because teachers are, uh, teachers
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are a, a, a, a group of people that we have, um, canonized before, before death.
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They have, they have gotten a, a pre-death canonization where they're all saints and they're
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It seems like given what they deal with and, um, and what a heroically good job they do
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But not all, I don't know how the percentages break down, you know, good, good teachers
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There's a lot of in between in the middle as well, you know, so it's not all black and
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white in that sense, but we can't deny that those bad teachers do exist and certainly do
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not deserve a raise, which is what they would get.
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If you have some kind of federal program giving them all a raise, well, then you're giving it
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See, if we were to get rid of the teachers union and tenure and all of that, then maybe
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what the school systems could do is when you have these worthless lump on the log type teachers
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who don't do anything and are terrible at their job, uh, terrible their job because they
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Well, if you could get rid of them and free up that, uh, that, that income, then maybe
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you could start giving raises to the good ones.
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To me, that seems like a very, a very, uh, reasonable way of going about things.
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It's one of the reasons I don't like the minimum wage.
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I don't think there should be any minimum wage.
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When I go to a, to a fast food restaurant, we've all, we've all had this experience.
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Sometimes you go to a fast food restaurant, uh, it seems rather often you go to a fast
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food restaurant and the person behind the counter is awful.
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I mean, all they're doing anyway, it's just, it's just pushing buttons on a cash register
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Well, they screw that up and they're very solemn and they're, they're gloomy and they're
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Uh, they're mad that you even came in and are, and are daring to, to, to place a food order
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at all, uh, those kinds of people should be getting paid nothing.
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I mean, they, they, they, their, their heart, they should be getting paid five cents.
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They're so bad at their job, but then sometimes you go to a fast food restaurant and you, there's
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someone behind the counter who's just on the ball and they're energetic and they're happy
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Um, and there are those types and you think, well, this person should be getting paid $30 an
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I went to a, to fast food restaurant a few days ago and the person behind the counter,
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they were so good and friendly that they actually succeeded in getting me to, to, uh, to, to
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order more food than I originally planned to do.
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And usually when they do that, I say, no, I don't want that.
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So that's someone who's worth a lot to the company and they should be getting paid.
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But the problem is you can't give them the raise because you have to, you know, there's
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this minimum amount amount that you have to pay to these people over here who are worthless.
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Let's, uh, let's skip over to emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com.
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Actually, this first email is, uh, is not an email at all.
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Um, and this is from, uh, Nikola Tesla, which I presume is a pseudonym, but who knows?
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It says, I'm taking a very unpopular and seemingly callous position.
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Mark Gomez was arrested for an alleged unprovoked attack on an elderly woman on the New York subway.
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Yet, according to witnesses, she was brandishing a knife and threatening to kill his daughter
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who can see him, um, who you can see follows him off of the subway after he kicks the woman
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multiple times. Allegedly, she is mentally ill, and this is not the first time she has threatened
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people with a knife. If we as conservatives have learned anything from the Covington Catholic
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video and the Smollett case, it's to reserve judgment until the facts are revealed. So many
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people are jumping to conclusions and making the assumption that, that he should have walked
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away or called the police. Consider the context. You're stuck on a subway car in Brooklyn at 3am
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with a crazy woman threatening to murder your daughter. Just before the doors open, you have,
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you have a choice. Walk away and hope she doesn't follow or take action to incapacitate the threat.
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It's not popular, but in that situation, the man had every right to make sure his daughter was
00:32:12.240
not murdered. Um, okay. Uh, this is actually not the only message I got like this because I wrote
00:32:23.440
about this case on Friday and let's, let's give this a little bit of context in case you didn't,
00:32:28.180
you didn't see this video. Um, as I said, I wrote about it on Friday. It is an attack against an
00:32:33.060
elderly woman on a train in New York. The attack was caught on video and I'll show you the video
00:32:37.740
now fair warning. This is quite disturbing, but, but here it is.
00:32:42.020
Okay. So that scumbag was caught. Thank God. But he now claims, um, as the person who sent the
00:33:08.920
message alludes to, or his lawyer claims that the attack was in self-defense. Um, the woman,
00:33:15.040
an elderly, a 78 year old homeless, mentally ill woman was, uh, talking about stabbing people or
00:33:22.680
something. Okay. Even if that's true. And when I, when I wrote about this case and I had some very
00:33:31.280
harsh words for this guy, um, there were a few people who said to me, well, we don't know the
00:33:36.980
context. Don't jump to conclusions. It's not fair for you to jump to conclusions. And I said at the
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time, I don't care what the context is. There is no context, none that could possibly make it okay
00:33:48.580
to kick an old woman in the head while she's sitting on a bench on a subway train. There is
00:33:54.720
no context that could ever make that acceptable. And I shouldn't have to explain this. Um, in fact,
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if you're kicking someone in the head, that's a pretty good indication that what you're doing
00:34:06.580
is not self-defense unless you're Bruce Lee, because if you're kicking someone in the head,
00:34:10.380
for most of us, that means that the person is in a position where they probably not a threat to you.
00:34:15.080
It means that they're sitting down or they're on, they're lying on the ground. That that's for most of
00:34:19.560
us, that's the only way we could manage to kick someone in the head. And in that case,
00:34:22.640
that's not self-defense kicking someone in the head is a pretty much a universal case of that is
00:34:28.020
assault. Um, and that's what happened there. So I don't, I don't buy it. Even if this woman, uh,
00:34:35.060
the idea that she was brandishing and not, come on, she was, you could see the video. She just
00:34:39.100
sitting on the, on a, on a, on a bench. Um, listen, we've all been on, you know, been in the city.
00:34:45.900
We've seen, you know, unfortunately mentally ill homeless people. And, you know, and, um,
00:34:51.860
so it would be pretty easy, even if this woman was sitting there and she was saying something
00:34:57.480
about stabbing people, she's mentally ill. It would be pretty easy to just back away from her.
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And you can see that the train is coming to a halt and it's stopping right as this assault is,
00:35:08.480
is, is unfold. So you just back away from her and you just, and you leave and you go tell the police.
00:35:12.480
There is no reason at all why you need to kick her in the head and then, and then repeatedly keep
00:35:16.840
kicking her. Now you saw that video. Does, does it appear that that guy was worried that this was a
00:35:23.420
struggle, a life and death struggle that did it seem like he was worried for his safety or his
00:35:27.680
daughter's safety, who I didn't see in the video, but does that, is that what it, he kicks her in the
00:35:32.700
head and then he just strolls off and taunts the camera. That does not appear to be someone who's
00:35:37.500
worried that he's about to be stabbed. That's just someone who's, whatever she said to him,
00:35:41.840
made him angry. And then he responded by brutally assaulting her. And that is obviously not okay.
00:35:48.880
This guy's a total scumbag and should go to prison forever. As far as I'm concerned,
00:35:52.580
they should never let him out. Uh, I'm all about, I'm, I'm the one usually preaching context. You need
00:35:58.660
context. But as I said, there are certain situations where no context is needed. There is no conceivable
00:36:04.260
context where that could have been okay to do. It is, uh, if, even if she had a, even if she actually
00:36:12.700
was holding a knife, which I didn't see that in the video, there is no, it'll be, it's, it's very
00:36:17.140
easy to get yourself out of that situation without anyone getting hurt. She's a 78 year old homeless
00:36:22.740
woman. Uh, it's just incredible to me that anyone would defend that. I can't even, I can't wrap my
00:36:31.840
head around it. Um, from Lisa says, hi, Matt. And, and, and also, by the way, uh, this is to say
00:36:39.920
nothing of the people who are standing around filming this, who I think should be arrested as well.
00:36:45.380
They should be arrested as, as accomplices that this is happening. And your reaction is to film
00:36:52.860
it and, and basically cheer it on. Like you're watching a, you know, a professional wrestling
00:36:57.480
match or something. That guy should not have been able to walk out of that train with his teeth
00:37:03.240
still in his head and his nose still on his face, you know, in a, in a, in a straightforward
00:37:08.320
fashion. I mean, this is, he should have suffered dearly for that. And then the police are called
00:37:13.960
it shows you something. It's not necessarily a statement about society that one scumbag guy
00:37:23.660
assaults an old lady, because there have always been scumbags in the world and there always will
00:37:27.960
be, but it is a statement about society that these kinds of things seem to happen.
00:37:32.920
And the reaction of the crowd now is just to get it all on video.
00:37:38.480
And they weren't, they weren't getting it on video because they wanted to get evidence to show the
00:37:42.580
police. No, uh, this assault happened weeks ago. Those people got it on video because they wanted
00:37:47.800
to put it online and they thought they'd get a lot of Facebook shares or whatever. Um, the police
00:37:52.580
just happened to stumble across the video online after a few weeks. So it does not seem like that
00:38:00.040
video was taken and then provided to police as evidence. No, this was, people were saying to
00:38:04.200
themselves, Oh, this will, this will make some great content for the internet.
00:38:07.440
And that is a statement about society when, when that is the first reaction that a lot of people
00:38:14.040
have rather than to intervene and beat this guy senseless for assaulting a mentally ill 78 year
00:38:20.480
old homeless woman. All right. From Lisa says, hi, Matt, I saw you talking about teacher salaries on
00:38:25.580
Twitter and saying it was absurd. How, uh, how many teachers feel under, underpaid given how much
00:38:30.420
vacation time they get as a former teacher myself, who tends to agree with you on almost everything.
00:38:35.680
My one point I'd like to make on this particular issue is this, the public education system,
00:38:40.840
as you know, is horrifically broken. An outstanding amount of first year teachers,
00:38:44.840
around 40% leave the profession after the first year. Like I did. This is because the system just
00:38:50.040
sets teachers up for failure and blame from all sides of the equation. Students, parents,
00:38:55.020
and administration are all quick to blame teachers for students' grades instead of students themselves,
00:38:59.580
not putting in any effort. Even thinking about it now makes me want to pull my hair out.
00:39:03.280
I remember thinking while I was teaching that I wouldn't do another year of this for less than
00:39:07.660
a hundred thousand dollars. As in, I was out of there. Raising teacher salaries obviously won't
00:39:12.860
fix the broken public education system and its many problems, but it might encourage teachers to hold
00:39:17.480
out longer before quitting and feel like they're being adequately compensated for what they're unfairly
00:39:22.300
put through. Lots of school districts are desperate for teachers because they keep leaving in droves for
00:39:27.900
the same reason I outlined above. I tend to agree with the position that raising the salaries doesn't
00:39:32.900
fix the real problem and therefore shouldn't really be a serious conversation. But at the same time,
00:39:37.700
it would encourage a lot of good teachers to stay and put up with the abuse. For the kid's sake,
00:39:42.060
I'm wondering if that's worth it. I'm curious about your take on this.
00:39:46.800
Yeah, well, this is a problem. As I said, there are some really good teachers out there
00:39:50.160
and it's harder to hold on to them, especially because if someone's a good teacher,
00:39:57.380
that means that they have skills. It means that they're a, it means that they have marketable
00:40:01.840
skills that they might say to themselves, well, I could take this somewhere else and make a little
00:40:06.060
bit more money for my family, which is understandable. So I get that argument. But to me, that's just an
00:40:13.420
argument for, as I said, a case by case basis to empower the school districts to, and the state to
00:40:21.300
identify the really good teachers and pay them more. Look, I'm off. I am on board with paying some
00:40:31.100
teachers a hundred thousand dollars or more. I mean, there are teachers that are worth that and we
00:40:36.080
should pay. If you've got a really great teacher who's just on the ball and makes kids excited about
00:40:43.200
learning. That is a difficult thing to do. But if there are teachers out there who can do that,
00:40:47.120
then yeah, pay them a hundred, pay them six figure salaries. Absolutely. If we could make them rich,
00:40:51.540
I would say, let's do that. But that's not possible if the idea is that we have to raise all of their
00:40:59.660
salaries and if we have to keep all the dead weight on board. And there's, and as you know, Lisa,
00:41:04.240
if you were in the school system, um, there is also a lot of dead weight. So I think the answer
00:41:11.640
is, and how this works logistically, I don't know, but the answer is we need to be able to get rid of
00:41:17.740
the dead weight, evaluate on a case by case basis and pay teachers who are worth more, more.
00:41:25.120
Um, it's, there, there should be, in my mind, there should be a, a wide disparity in any given
00:41:34.960
school. There should be a, a, a wide disparity between the lowest paid teacher and the highest
00:41:39.100
paid because there's a wide there in every school, there's a wide disparity between the worst teacher
00:41:46.220
and the best. And I think the pay should reflect that. So, no, I don't think, I don't think an across
00:41:53.360
the board raise for all of them is the way to go. Um, and it's also just the money for that has to
00:42:00.400
come somewhere, has to come from somewhere. And that's another problem. But if you're doing case
00:42:06.940
by case raises, then I think you have more resources to work with. All right. Um, I got some more emails
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here, but I think we'll leave it there for now and revisit these tomorrow. So thanks for watching
00:42:23.360
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00:42:34.020
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