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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Oh my gosh, what are we gonna do?

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz? How dairy? How dairy? This is supposed to

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Speaker 1: be one of the biggest news stories in the country

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Speaker 1: right now, and it's an example of so many things.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a silly story that is being made

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Speaker 1: into something not silly at all. It's being used for

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Speaker 1: reasons that we do have to address, and we will.

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Speaker 1: Here's the long and the short of it. The senator

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Speaker 1: trip to the Ritz Carlton in Cancun, Mexico, which is

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Speaker 1: not all that far from Houston. He went for a

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Speaker 1: trip to Mexico to get away from the cold and

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Speaker 1: the terrible storm and the power outages and the free

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Speaker 1: temperatures and everything that have been in Texas now. If

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Speaker 1: I might understand people viewing this as some kind of

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Speaker 1: dereliction of duty. He's a United States Senator, his power

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Speaker 1: is all based in the federal government in DC. What

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Speaker 1: exactly is the awful crime here? I'm seeing Republicans that

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Speaker 1: look good. I understand the optics of this are you know,

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Speaker 1: of us recognize that that's also just not true. Politicians

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Speaker 1: actually live in mansions, they fly private They don't really

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Speaker 1: as they pretend they do. They don't. We're all going

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Speaker 1: because that's how we roll on this show. Okay, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Nancy Loosie, John Kerry or Ted Cruise or Mitt

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Speaker 1: old nonsense you and I are day in and day out.

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Speaker 1: So we shouldn't we shouldn't allow anyone to go through

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Speaker 1: the pretense that that's not what's happening here. Okay. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the other thing is they said that he left the poodle. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: you guys know I love dogs. I love dogs. But

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Speaker 1: the poodle was apparently tended by a guard at their

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Speaker 1: so there was someone there to tend to the poodle,

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Speaker 1: and I believe on the day in question, the weather

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Speaker 1: cruises didn't want to leave their poodle to freeze, but

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Speaker 1: that got a lot of attention to do. People were

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Speaker 1: tweeting it Peta and segment, this is animal cruelty. So

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Speaker 1: why am I telling you about this? Why are we

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Speaker 1: even talking about it? There are two things going on here.

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Speaker 1: Why do Republicans still think that it's worth throwing their

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Speaker 1: political thing that's playing out. Why do Republicans still take

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Speaker 1: the position, you know, if we just throw if we

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Speaker 1: the Democrats do that? You need the Democrats call out,

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Speaker 1: you know, John Kerry for his hypocrisy when he flies

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Speaker 1: we have to do that. They don't eat their own.

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Speaker 1: We leave. We somehow think that that's a strategy that's

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Speaker 1: They're making structural changes to our system, to our country,

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Speaker 1: But were they were they supposed to sit and suffer

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Speaker 1: They didn't think so. But Ted Cruise is the bad guy.

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Speaker 1: That's one part of it. So Republicans stop throwing other

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Speaker 1: what is he apologizing for? What did he do wrong?

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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you could say that they should have

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Speaker 1: You know, I could tell you this. There are plenty

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Speaker 1: but ted cruise in cancou And that's the real problem.

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Speaker 1: You know. The bigger issue is here, though, and I'm

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Speaker 1: But the bigger issue here is how the media sees

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Speaker 1: Democrats have been trained that Trump hatred is their daily

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Speaker 1: Trump hatred? Trump is awful. Trump supporters are terrible, and

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Speaker 1: that's more difficult to manufacture now that he's not president anymore,

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Speaker 1: This is all about distraction. Focus on Ted so you

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Speaker 1: don't focus on Oge. I don't know the Cuomo disaster,

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Speaker 1: in this country? Well, effectively that there will be no

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Speaker 1: That's what's actually happening. That's what's actually going on. I

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Speaker 1: I knew we get to reopen the country. Why can't

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Speaker 1: Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Why forward a farce? Now?

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Speaker 1: That takes us to a farce in full effect? Flying

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, He's been totally shamed, exposed for going full

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Speaker 1: tonight being outed by his wife. What is going on here?

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Speaker 1: You have the brother of the COVID tyrant of New

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Speaker 1: I can, but I don't think anybody who's watching Chris

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Speaker 1: So this guy is gonna make a big deal. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna do the whole pearl clutching and performative outrage over

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Speaker 1: I understand why, but it does affect the credibility of

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Speaker 1: Yorkers from from his not just from COVID, but from

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Speaker 1: his nursing home order. Not once he tells himself, I

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Speaker 1: know this, this narcissistic, self obsessed mentality. I've come across

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Speaker 1: it many times. It's actually very common in media to

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Speaker 1: be to be honest with you, a lot of those people,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people walking around thinking and they're amazing.

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Speaker 1: But he goes to sleep and I thinking that he

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Speaker 1: did a great job, and that you know, to make

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Speaker 1: even if mistakes were made, he's still awesome and he's

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Speaker 1: to be praised actually for what he's done. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's that's his attitude, I can assure you has it

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Speaker 1: feels no more no sense of uh, no sense of

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Speaker 1: real responsibility, of any personal responsibility whatsoever for any of

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Speaker 1: these things that have happened. So I've got to tell you,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing to watch all this amazing to watch all

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Speaker 1: this stuff play out. Here's a New York Times supporter.

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Speaker 1: This guy's he's a he's a smug little fellow, but

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Speaker 1: he's one of the better writers over there that you'll

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Speaker 1: you'll come across. I know, I know some of them. Look,

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Speaker 1: there are plenty of bright liberals. They're just wrong and

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Speaker 1: have bad judgment and suffer from internal deficiencies of character.

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Speaker 1: That's really the problem with so many liberals. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: they're they're great at you know, great at multi variable calculus,

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Speaker 1: and they have big vocabularies and they've checked all the

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Speaker 1: right boxes to go the right institutions. Um, but they're

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Speaker 1: all I gotta listen to Faucia. You know, there's just

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Speaker 1: there's something lacking. There's some core courage that is absent

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Speaker 1: in the in the rural mentality and the liberal mindset.

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Speaker 1: Obviously not for everybody, but it's a common thing. And anyway,

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Speaker 1: here's this guy talking about the great bully, Andrew Cuomo.

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Speaker 1: That's fascinating, Nicole. You know, if you looked at the

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Speaker 1: first nine or eight years of his career in the

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Speaker 1: government's office, you would be hard pressed to find any

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Speaker 1: official in the state of voicing any public criticism of

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Speaker 1: this man. People were afraid of him. He held a grudge.

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Speaker 1: He was very smart, he was very effective, and if

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Speaker 1: you crossed him he would pay you back. There are

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Speaker 1: a lot of politicians in New York who can tell

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Speaker 1: few reporters. So the fact that this is coming out,

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Speaker 1: itself a fascinating development and one that points to the

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Speaker 1: the concerns people at which I think they're legitimate about

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Speaker 1: middle of a pandemic. So he's actually a bully. Everybody

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Speaker 1: knows it. He's always been a bully. He's a bad guy,

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Speaker 1: and he was allowed to get away with this nursing

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Speaker 1: home catastrophe because Democrats lack well we're just saying lack

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Speaker 1: internal character. The Democrats in charge were scared of this guy.

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Speaker 1: They didn't like him. And look, he's just the governor

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Speaker 1: of New York. I mean, I know that's that's some

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Speaker 1: authority in one state. But he's not. This isn't Genghis Khan.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to show up and burn down your

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Speaker 1: whole village and impale everybody on stakes like, calm down, right,

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Speaker 1: not that big a deal, but terrified of him, terrified

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Speaker 1: of Governor Cuomo. Oh okay, I thought he was a hero.

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Speaker 1: I thought we should all tear up about what a

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Speaker 1: great job he did defeating the menace of COVID. You

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Speaker 1: mean that was all b ass? Huh? You mean that

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Speaker 1: was all nonsense? Yeah, but the media took took some

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Speaker 1: time to figure that out. Wasn't easy for them to

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Speaker 1: get to that point. And what had to happen here

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Speaker 1: was that Donald Trump had to lose. First notice that

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty one and we're finding out how many

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Speaker 1: enormous lies were told in twenty twenty in order to

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Speaker 1: make sure that Joe Biden would win the election. Whatever

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Speaker 1: they had to say, whatever they had to do, they

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Speaker 1: were willing to do. And sadly that dishonesty's paid off

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Speaker 1: for them so far. You're in the freedom hunt. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. To get

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Speaker 1: the latest from Buck at buck Sexton dot com. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think there's two issues. One is how do we

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Speaker 1: get them back. I think the good thing that President

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Speaker 1: Biden has done is he's pushing. He's pushing, he's asking

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Speaker 1: the right questions, he's setting deadlines, and he's mobilizing agency

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Speaker 1: like the CDC to issue guidance, guidance that then Senator

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and I called for back in the summertime.

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Speaker 1: The other part of this, though, that I think we're

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Speaker 1: not planning enough, is about what's going to happen when

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Speaker 1: they do all go back to school. And that's where

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Speaker 1: Senator Michael Bennett from Colorado and I have authored a

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Speaker 1: letter to the Department of Education pointing out to them

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Speaker 1: that we can't just put kids back in school as

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Speaker 1: if they're learning and social and emotional development has not

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Speaker 1: been severely interrupted. And this problem is particularly acute with

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Speaker 1: regard to math and science education. So it's a workforce

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Speaker 1: issue and a workforce development issue as well. Always be

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Speaker 1: on guard for libs who want to hide in an

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Speaker 1: argument in undue complexity. Right. I've always told you to beware,

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Speaker 1: be wary of bureaucrats who hide in the flabby folds

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Speaker 1: of the bureaucracy. And nobody's really accountable for anything, and

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Speaker 1: nobody really makes any actual decision. But somehow the bureaucracy

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Speaker 1: does make decisions as a whole, and they can be

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Speaker 1: really bad and have a negative impact in a lot

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Speaker 1: of people's lives. When whenever you're hearing any Democrats these

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Speaker 1: days talking about school reopen you'll notice it just turns

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Speaker 1: into you know, Biden. First of all, this is this

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Speaker 1: is representative Katie Porter, and you know what she's saying

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Speaker 1: here is absurd. Biden's not pushing for anything. You can

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Speaker 1: just say, opened the schools full stop, and then he

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Speaker 1: pushing would be Hey, guys, we can't look like we're

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Speaker 1: owned by the teachers unions at the expense of kids,

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Speaker 1: because that's what's true. We can't have that. It looks bad.

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Speaker 1: So open the schools now, please. I'm I'm the leader

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Speaker 1: of the party. I'm Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden. I'm

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Speaker 1: the leader of the party. Man I yell o, yell,

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Speaker 1: I read half a properer. Start to get tired. It's

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Speaker 1: time to feed the ducks and anyway, he could really

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Speaker 1: push them, but he doesn't. He does it. Uh the

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Speaker 1: whole it's really complicated. We can't just put kids back

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Speaker 1: in school, as Katie Porter says, wrong, you can because

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Speaker 1: plenty of schools have already done it. They've already done it.

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Speaker 1: It's fine. This is why there's no argument. There's there's

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Speaker 1: no discussion anymore. This is just people who are just

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Speaker 1: babbling babbling. This is COVID anxiety and teachers union power

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Speaker 1: grab combined. That's all it is. But what about what

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Speaker 1: about what no open the schools, all of them, all

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Speaker 1: across the country. Isn't it remarkable when you when you

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Speaker 1: think about, it's right there. For Joe Biden, it's right there.

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Speaker 1: All he has to do is get Democrats to stop

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Speaker 1: being crazy. Agree that once you're vaccinated, there's no no

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Speaker 1: basis to make you social distance or lockdown anymore or

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Speaker 1: or mask up. That's that's that's completely unreasonable. And agree that,

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Speaker 1: you know, once cases get down to less than five

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Speaker 1: thousand a day, whatever it is across the nation and

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Speaker 1: continued downward trajectory, you know we're gonna just be back

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Speaker 1: to normal. Everybody, go back to your lives. The explosion

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Speaker 1: of capital, investment, activity, travel, wrestling. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you, guys. I am just like ready to

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Speaker 1: live life. And it's it could be amazing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could have a feeling of American Renaissance. Right now,

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Speaker 1: after being just locked away for a year, what came?

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Speaker 1: What was the decade after the Spanish fluence, the Spanish influenza,

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Speaker 1: Well what came. That's the Roaring twenties. Remember there was

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Speaker 1: parties and music and people living and loving and laughing.

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Speaker 1: And I know I sound like I'm doing a movie trailer,

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Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying. All they have to

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Speaker 1: do is just stop worshiping at the false idol of

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Speaker 1: Fauciism and we could all have that, and we can

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Speaker 1: have it. I mean, if I were in charge, I

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Speaker 1: would say, honestly, if I were Joe Biden, and I

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Speaker 1: mean if I were a Democrat, I mean, obviously, if

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Speaker 1: I were in charge of bucks X, and I'd say,

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Speaker 1: this is all crazy. No more of this. Vaccinate people, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're on everyone. Make your own decisions about social distancing

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Speaker 1: and masking. Be as safe as you think you need

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Speaker 1: to be. Stay home if you want to stay home.

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Speaker 1: But no more rules, no more mandates. Certainly not the

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Speaker 1: federal level. I mean, I know he can't control everything

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Speaker 1: entirely open up too. I'd say, at a minimum, you

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Speaker 1: Everybody and anyone who's not doing that as absurd. But

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Speaker 1: it's over, America reopens. But they won't because they're crazy.

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Speaker 1: This is bucks first thoughts, the news you need to

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Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart ASP or wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts. And then it also depends on what you

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Speaker 1: mean by normal. Do you mean what does some form

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Speaker 1: of normality mean? Well, obviously we have very stringent public

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Speaker 1: health measures in two Now if you're going to ask,

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Speaker 1: that restaurants, indoor dining can be happening, but with moderately

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Speaker 1: diminished capacity. That's going to be somewhere between the fall

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Speaker 1: and the end of the year. If you say, no,

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Speaker 1: no, no no, wait a minute, I really want to know

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Speaker 1: when it's going to get to us close to normal

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Speaker 1: that you almost don't know the difference between what it

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Speaker 1: That likely will be as the President said, by the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. By Christmas, you still wear a

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Speaker 1: mask still Christmas. This little lunatic says, what still wear

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Speaker 1: masks through Christmas? So if this year, folks, and let

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Speaker 1: me tell you something you think they're really going to

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Speaker 1: tell you in mid December? Okay, everybody, take your masks off.

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Speaker 1: What have I been telling you? If they get their way,

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Speaker 1: you will be under mask mandates in blue states and

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Speaker 1: in federal federally controlled areas. That means airplanes, that means

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Speaker 1: any federal government property. You will be under a mask

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Speaker 1: mandate until the summer of twenty twenty two. That's what

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Speaker 1: we are heading for. I know these cowards. I know

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Speaker 1: these idiots. I know what they're gonna do. Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping it doesn't come to that, because enough people are

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Speaker 1: just gonna say there's basically no real risk of COVID

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Speaker 1: out there once enough people are vaccinated. This is crazy.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to do this anymore. The only way

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Speaker 1: this ends is mass public non compliance, or you can

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Speaker 1: wait until the summer of twenty twenty two. Those are

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Speaker 1: those are your options. You can have mass non compliance

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Speaker 1: or you wait till summer twenty twenty two. Basically, let

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Speaker 1: me put it this way. When we get to the

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Speaker 1: point where I can walk through my lobby in New

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Speaker 1: York City and some jackass who watches too much MSNBC,

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Speaker 1: who said, who pulls out his phone and video taste

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Speaker 1: because this book sucks that he's not worth a mass.

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Speaker 1: He's literally putting lives in danger until every other person

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Speaker 1: Like he doesn't have COVID, He's probably already been vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: No one's died of COVID in New York who wasn't

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Speaker 1: over ninety in the last month, Like, calm down until

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Speaker 1: that happens. This keeps going okay until that happens. This

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Speaker 1: continues on. It's just the nature of the mass hysteria

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Speaker 1: we're going through. And and notice even when when Fauci's

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Speaker 1: if you were to ask a little Bill Clinton, You're like, hey,

639
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Speaker 1: what's normal? It's like, I don't know. I mean for

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00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: some people, normals like you know, staying home on a

641
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: Friday night, eating a pizza, watching a movie. For me,

642
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: normalst like watching one of those all lady mud wrestling

643
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: competitions at a bar where they've also got one of

644
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: those mechanical bulls, and all the ladies, I don't know

645
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: if they've got bikinis on or something. But that's normal,

646
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: I mean, right, Normal can be a whole bunch of

647
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: different things. Normal can be whatever you say it is.

648
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: What we mean is no more lockdown, tyranny, no more

649
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: mitigation mandates, none of this. That's normal. Normal means life

650
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: the way we lived it. While fifty thousand people a

651
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: year we're dying from the flu, and we were like, look,

652
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna leave your life. No one can

653
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: guarantee you safety. The flu is out there. Do your best.

654
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: See what happens. I had a good friend from the

655
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: media business a few years ago die of the flu

656
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. It can happen, die swine flu,

657
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: you know, but we didn't. We don't shut down. I mean,

658
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: it was a terrible, tragic story. It was a heartbreaking

659
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: to all the people that knew were really well. But

660
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: you you look at whether society is willing to accept

661
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: that things like things like flu debts are going to happen.

662
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: The answer was yes. But with COVID. We've set up

663
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: this completely unrealistic expectation that we're going to get to

664
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Speaker 1: a place where no one has to worry at all

665
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: about this. And you know how they're going to keep

666
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: this going because the case load is going to keep

667
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,280
Speaker 1: going down and down. More and more vaccinations, the caseload

668
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: is going to go down and down and down, and

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Speaker 1: then you know what, they're going to start talking about

670
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: the new variants. So what's going to happen? And I'm

671
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: telling you please listen to me because I know that

672
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: this is I know that they're going to try this.

673
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll be successful. But as the

674
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: case is declined nationwide from COVID nineteen, which is already down,

675
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: they're already down seventy percent in the last month from

676
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 1: the peak. I mean, if this was a stock, you'd

677
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: be if you know, if you had your life savings

678
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: in this as a stock and you look at the trend,

679
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: you'd say, oh my gosh, I'm going bankrupt, right, I mean,

680
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: it's it's just going down, down, down, And this is

681
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: great news. Why isn't there more excitement about this? Why

682
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: isn't Joey, Why aren't you seeing people on CNN, the

683
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: lead story should be COVID cases down seventy percent. Guys,

684
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: this is great, this is great. We're really moving, We're

685
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: really moving in the right direction. I haven't seen that.

686
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: I keep seeing stories about how, you know, maybe you

687
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: got a quadruple mask. You know, maybe you gotta put

688
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: on eight masks. What now we're gonna double mask now

689
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: when cases are down seventy percent from the peak already,

690
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: now they're telling us to do this. They just they

691
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: just want to control. They can't help it. Have you

692
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: ever been micromanaged by a boss. It's one of the

693
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,280
Speaker 1: worst things that you can go through an employment. It's actually,

694
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: in a lot of surveys, the number one reason that

695
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: a person will leave a job. It's not the pay,

696
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: it's not the hours, it's not the work itself. It's

697
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: their first line manager. The quickest way to destroy somebody's

698
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: destroy somebody's will to show up for a job is

699
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: to just bother them on every little thing. Do this,

700
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: do that, make this change? Make that just micro management

701
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 1: is toxic. It's it's it's the you know, it's the rancid,

702
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: the rancid pete, a piece of you know, red meat

703
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: that falls falls right in the center of your soup

704
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: from the refrigerator, right as you're a bad That's what

705
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: micro management is. You go, oh, man, that's gross. I

706
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: can't eat this now, you know it's it's the it's

707
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: the crusty band aid in your hamburger. There you go

708
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: and you just find you go, ah, micro man, I

709
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: know that was gross. Sorry, some of you are probably eating. Uh.

710
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: Micro management is awful. Why do people do it? Why

711
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: do people do it? Um? There there are a few reasons.

712
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: One is the false belief that one can fully control

713
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: the another person to the point where you can make

714
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: them perfect. Parents do this to kids too, right. Parents

715
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 1: are hyper critical. Parents are just so destructive to kids.

716
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen it, I've been around it. I

717
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: remember when I was a kid, I had some friends

718
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: whose parents were just you know, always on them, always

719
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: on them, and and it creates its own real anxiety

720
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: disorder in a sense. You know, nothing's ever good enough,

721
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: nothing's acceptable. But if they think that, if they just

722
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: keep on poking, if they keep on prodding, if they

723
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: keep on telling do this, do this, do this, they'll

724
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,959
Speaker 1: achieve something better and they'll get credit for it. Right,

725
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: they will benefit from this. That's one reason. But then

726
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: there's also maybe an even more deep seated reason for

727
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: why people like to micro manage, to dictate to just

728
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: to make to make everything about you something they can

729
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: tinker with and change and alter and fix and just

730
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: poke and poke and poke, the same reason why people

731
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: kind of like bullying. People like to tell other people

732
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: what to do. People like power. They like that sense

733
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: you do this because because because I say so. You

734
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: do this because I'm in a position to make you

735
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: do it. And there's an addiction among the Democrat mentality

736
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Speaker 1: in America, among the collectivists left the Democrat Party to

737
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: make people do stuff. They want to be a part

738
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: of the team that gets to tell everybody what they

739
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: can do about everything. And it's and it's a psychological addiction.

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00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: The same way that bullies at turn out like bullying.

741
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,879
Speaker 1: This whole thing about oh, bullies are just insecure us.

742
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: No bullies like it. And that's why you actually do

743
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: have to punch them in the mouth. Sometimes. It's the

744
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: truth for all the kids listening. The bullies don't get

745
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: tired of bullying you. They don't feel bad about it.

746
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: Actually makes them feel better. They like bullying. They enjoy it.

747
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 1: That's why you gotta punch them in the mouth. That's

748
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: why all the dad's out there, teach your kid honestly,

749
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: if they're not that cordinted or strong, palm strike is

750
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: a really way to go, really good way to go

751
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: as well. I'm just saying. My uncle's in law enforcement

752
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: when I was much younger, showed me we practice palm

753
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: strikes many a time. They don't look at they don't

754
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,319
Speaker 1: look as cool, you don't feel as manly. Definitely gets

755
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: the job done. But anyway, bullies enjoy bullying, and people

756
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: enjoy micromanaging. They like it, they're addicted to it. And

757
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: these democrats right now, for people of that mentality who

758
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 1: are also in charge, who who like power in the

759
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: first place, they've just it's like they've been awash in

760
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: this newfound dictatorial authority. They don't want to let this go.

761
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 1: They don't want things to go back to normal, where

762
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: you get to just remember the old America, the pre

763
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: COVID America, where you still sometimes I mean, your words

764
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: you can't say, and things you can't do. But like

765
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you could kind of

766
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: stick up your middle finger and be like I'm sorry.

767
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: This is still America. You know, remember that America has

768
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: been gone for a year and there are a lot

769
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: of people who don't want it to come back. And

770
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: that's what that that's driving a lot of the mentality

771
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: around COVID and the lockdowns because they they're going to

772
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: do things like say, what's normal. What's normal? That means

773
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: life before COVID. That's what normal means. Fauci, you're idiot.

774
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: We all know what it means. Mask up till the

775
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: end of the year. This guy's going to try to

776
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: tell you to mask. When COVID cases nationwider in the

777
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,919
Speaker 1: month month a month in the low thousands, it's three

778
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million people in America, he'll still mark,

779
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: here's your prediction market down. We'll have ten thousand COVID

780
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 1: cases in a month, and we'll have that on average,

781
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: let's say June, July, August, which would be by the way,

782
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: that would be great that the cases of drops because

783
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: members has a ninety nine point eight percent survival rate.

784
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: So do the math. Ten thousand cases you basically have,

785
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: you know, one in a thousand people die from COVID.

786
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: It means you're gonna have a you know, ten people

787
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: a month are gonna die from COVID at something like

788
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: That's that is not far off, and I know it's

789
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,320
Speaker 1: gonna feel like a miracle. It's gonna be amazing and

790
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: I can't wait. We will get there, it will happen.

791
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: But while that's happening, it's still gonna be like, you know,

792
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: the new variants, the new variants are out there, and

793
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, you got a mask in case the new

794
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: variant is like really new, and like it's like the

795
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: two point zero version with all the FireWire port and

796
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: all the you know, the biggest screen, more expensive. Of course,

797
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: the new version of the COVID is gonna be you know,

798
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: you bet a special order that one. That's what we're

799
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: heading for. It's going to be the new variants. That's

800
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: what they're gonna tell us, watch and see and please

801
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: get ready to join me in a movement of mass

802
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: non compliance soon. I can't tell you when. We got

803
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: to wait for the right time, but there's going to

804
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: have to be. I'm just not doing this bullcrap anymore.

805
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to do it. And if you're

806
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: going to arrest me or find me, you go for it.

807
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: But I'm just not going to comply