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Speaker 1: Mack Gates is the petulant, forty two year old adolescent

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Speaker 1: congressman from Pensacola, Florida. He's a vandal, a nihilist, and

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Speaker 1: an enormous disgrace. He's also the person that Republicans are

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Speaker 1: blaming for blowing up the House of Representatives. Now, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things to criticize mcgates for, but that's

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Speaker 1: not one of them. The reason the House of Representatives

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Speaker 1: is ungovernable is very simple, and it's not mcgates's fault.

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Speaker 1: It's Donald Trump's. It is the price of the cowardice

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Speaker 1: of an entire political party that's succumb to an authoritarian demagogue.

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Speaker 1: On the evening of January sixth, after Donald Trump lied

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Speaker 1: for months about the outcome of an election, an election

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Speaker 1: for President of the United States, a decision, a choice,

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Speaker 1: a right in America that is elemental, foundational to the

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Speaker 1: functioning of American society. It is the core building block

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Speaker 1: of the American civilization. After lying about the stolen election,

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Speaker 1: and after helping incite an insurrection that saw the Confederate

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Speaker 1: flag carried across the Capitol rotunda, that saw insurrectionists defecating

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Speaker 1: and urinating on the chamber, floors of the House, and

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Speaker 1: the Senate. One hundred and forty Republicans voted to strip

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Speaker 1: away after the fact the vote of millions of Americans.

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Speaker 1: Most of those people, the people the Republicans wanted to

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Speaker 1: take the vote from, well, they shared something in common.

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Speaker 1: You guessed it. They were black, and they were brown,

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Speaker 1: and they lived in America's inner cities. Right away, Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump came out on election night and started lying. He

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Speaker 1: talked about the votes that arrived out of nowhere. None

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Speaker 1: of it was true. All of it was a fantasy,

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Speaker 1: and the cost of it has been a loss of

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Speaker 1: faith and belief in democracy itself. Enormous percentages of the

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Speaker 1: country believe the last presidential election was illegitimate when it

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Speaker 1: was anything but, and now they believed the system is illegitimate.

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Speaker 1: All the while, the incitements to violence, to chaos, to mayhem,

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Speaker 1: to madness and insanity never abe. The reason the House

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a speaker is because of the character defects

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Speaker 1: of the Republican members, because of the cowardice, because of

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Speaker 1: the absence of character and virtue to stand up against

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Speaker 1: the most dangerous threat to arise on American soil since

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Speaker 1: the Confederacy. That's why Kevin McCarthy was as deeply unfit

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Speaker 1: for a position of national leadership and to be second

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Speaker 1: in line to the presidency as Jim Jordan. Anybody who

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Speaker 1: tells you different is gaslighting you. Kevin McCarthy helped insche

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Speaker 1: the insurrection, and more importantly than his incitement of insurrection

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Speaker 1: is his commitment to resurrection, the resurrection of Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: who after the insurrection was flat on his back until

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy stood next to him in mar A Lago

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Speaker 1: and made clear the Republican Party would never move on

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Speaker 1: from the Donald, that he was the leader for life,

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Speaker 1: like President g in China, like President Putin in Russia.

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Speaker 1: Today it was reported Donald Trump plans to withdraw America

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Speaker 1: from NATO, a decision that will plunge the world into

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Speaker 1: chaos and war and send a million Americans, young men,

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Speaker 1: all to their deaths and far away lands. Think about

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Speaker 1: that the next time someone's bullshitting you on cable news.

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Speaker 1: The reality of this moment is, it's not mac Gaates's fault,

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Speaker 1: it's our fault. We don't have a speaker. It's the

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Speaker 1: American people's fault for tolerating this insanity. For seven long

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Speaker 1: years for tolerating a political system that allows its politicians

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Speaker 1: to pick their voters as opposed to the other way around.

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Speaker 1: The result is an utterly broken institution and an utterly

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Speaker 1: broken system that isn't a model around the world, but

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Speaker 1: rather a laughing stock. That's dangerous, it's tragic, and it's

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Speaker 1: a harbinger of catastrophe. There's a story today in the

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Speaker 1: Jerusalem Post that covers this subject. It's not an American story,

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Speaker 1: It's about Israel's government, and the title is the day

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Speaker 1: that the Delusion died. It will die in America also

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Speaker 1: when the price for all of this comes, and mark

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Speaker 1: my words, it will come, just as it came in Israel.

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Speaker 1: There is always a price for weakness, division and decay.

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Speaker 1: The era of Donald Trump exposed the hollowness, the emptiness,

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Speaker 1: the soullessness of so much of America's political and media classes,

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Speaker 1: who believe in nothing, not their country, not the truth,

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Speaker 1: not reality, nothing but the almighty dollar for which they

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Speaker 1: will do anything, including watch it all burn down in

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Speaker 1: broad daylight. The question at hand for the American people,

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Speaker 1: as the hour grows very late, will we allow this

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Speaker 1: country to be hijacked by extremists like Matt Gates. Is

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Speaker 1: it possible that this putrid punk could conceivably be elected

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Speaker 1: governor of Florida? And the answer of courses yes, because

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Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis was in the end. It has long been said,

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Speaker 1: including by Winston Churchill himself, that in the democracy, the

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Speaker 1: people get the government they deserve. I don't believe the

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Speaker 1: American people deserve this government. What the American people deserve

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Speaker 1: is a government as good as their people. And when

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Speaker 1: you look at the House of Representatives, and you look

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Speaker 1: at the Ted Cruzes and the Josh Hawleys, and the

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Speaker 1: Elis Stephonics, and the George Santosis and the Pole Gosars

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Speaker 1: and Marjorie Taylor Green's and all the rest, it should

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Speaker 1: disgust you. It should appall you. These people are unfit

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Speaker 1: beyond words and imagination, and yet they hold positions of

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Speaker 1: power to the issues of our time, that our life

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Speaker 1: and death matters for our children in the type of

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Speaker 1: country that they will raise their children in. Freedom is

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Speaker 1: a nonsense word without the concepts of responsibility and obligation

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Speaker 1: attached to it. Mac Gates doesn't understand that, But then again,

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Speaker 1: the American people don't seem to particularly understand Matt Gates.

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Speaker 1: He's a punk who's punking all of us. He gets

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Speaker 1: away with it because when he goes on TV, the ratings,

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Speaker 1: the ratings and the money. But in the end, when

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Speaker 1: the most unserious people are at the center of American life,

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Speaker 1: the people commanding the attention of the global media as

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Speaker 1: the American government, what does that say about us? Answer

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