Roseanne Barr: Gender Ideology, Why She Terrifies Hollywood, and Her Friendship With Trump
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1 hour and 55 minutes
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142.01811
Summary
CNN's John Sutter says he is grateful to be in Fort Worth, Texas, after a month-long jaunt around the country . He says the hate level in America is incredibly low, despite efforts to convince you that you shouldn't love your fellow Americans . Sutter: "The darkest forces I've ever seen arrayed against pretty much every single person in this room, and certainly against everything you believe in"
Transcript
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And I'm not, I guess no matter where I was, I would say I was grateful to be here,
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Uh, this is our 13th city that we've hit this month.
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And, you know, there comes a point in a month-long jaunt around the country,
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which has just been wonderful and affirming and beautiful in every way,
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but where you're just sick of staying in hotel rooms and needing room service.
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I have so many family and friends in Texas that this is my,
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I, after 13 hotel rooms in a row, I'm staying in a familiar bed here tonight,
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and I'm with familiar people, and I'm just grateful.
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It's funny, every city, one of the reasons we wanted to do this in the first place
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was because you'd get such a distorted sense of what's happening in the country from the media.
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And, of course, there's a lot of time and energy put into convincing you
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Um, and so it's just important to get on the road and see them,
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and you realize that, I don't care what they tell you on CNN,
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I don't know where the explosion's going to happen.
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Everywhere I've been, people are kind to each other.
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They're friendly. They're open. They're hilarious.
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despite the efforts of their leaders to tell them they shouldn't.
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On the other hand, there is a lot of dark stuff going on,
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that I thought today I was trying to be as honest with myself as I can be.
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And, of course, it is really easy to lie to yourself,
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But I had to ask myself, honestly, like, how do I feel?
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Not just about this election, but where we're going, you know,
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and what kind of country this will be, not just next year,
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arrayed against pretty much every single person in this room,
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and certainly against everything you believe in, your families,
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And by the way, if you, as I do, in hotel rooms and airplanes,
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you know, not just in this election, but in the world,
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all the nuclear wars and EMP attacks and weird viruses
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And then you think of the fact that actually that did happen.
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and is still walking through my old dog park in D.C.
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with Secret Service protection that we're paying for.
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Then you think to yourself, you know, that's so,
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But then you think to yourself, that's so unfair.
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In fact, the whole point of that exercise is to be unfair.
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is to make you give up on the idea of fairness.
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which is that the capable, hardworking people rise
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you know, love is not the only thing mentioned.
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Things don't seem to be going in the right direction.
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You will look back on the best moments in your life,
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Kind of psyched to be humiliated in public once in a while,
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And I know that I will learn something about myself.