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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. This is a bonus episode of Bleep with

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Speaker 1: Anna Navarro. I am Anna Navarro, and today we're going

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Speaker 1: to break down Donald Trump's State of the Union address,

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Speaker 1: which he gave earlier this week on Tuesday. And if

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Speaker 1: you watched it and felt like you did in eighth

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Speaker 1: grade when you were reading the Odyssey and thought it

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Speaker 1: was never going to come to an end, you had

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Speaker 1: reason to feel that way. It was one hour and

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Speaker 1: forty seven minutes long. So if you made it through

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Speaker 1: the hour and forty seven minutes, here's to you. I

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Speaker 1: toast to you. If you decided not to watch it,

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Speaker 1: I toast to you even more. But listen, let's start

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Speaker 1: at the beginning State of the Union addresses. These things

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Speaker 1: used to be completely different and viewed completely different by

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Speaker 1: the country. I remember as a child first arriving to

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Speaker 1: fully that Ronald Reagan would speak. And I have been

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Speaker 1: watching State of the Union addresses because I was a

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Speaker 1: now it's part of my job, but it's something that

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Speaker 1: I've always done and a lot of the country has

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Speaker 1: always done it, because these are speeches that were meant

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Speaker 1: to give us the state of our country, to announce

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Speaker 1: new proposals, new policies, new legislative initiatives, to talk about accomplishments.

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Speaker 1: But these were also speeches that were meant to unify

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Speaker 1: the country. And where a president was speaking not just

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Speaker 1: to his party, not just to his base, but to

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Speaker 1: his entire constituency of US citizens and people who live

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Speaker 1: in the United States. That's not what Donald Trump does.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump makes these speeches political. He's speaking only to

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Speaker 1: his base. He is attacking and condemning anybody who doesn't

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Speaker 1: agree with him. Yesterday he called Democrats crazy, and he

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Speaker 1: So this is a completely different animal than it used

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Speaker 1: to be. I remember growing up, my congresswoman was Ileana

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Speaker 1: And she would go and she would scout out a

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Speaker 1: anything else. You were an American on those nights. That's

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Speaker 1: not what the reality is in twenty twenty six under

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So for this State of the Union, many Democrats,

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Speaker 1: upwards of seventy Democrats decided to boycott. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I was watching TV and I saw some folks criticizing

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Speaker 1: I love the ceremony, I love the pomp and circumstance

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Speaker 1: but you have to understand. I think it is particularly

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Speaker 1: Baraka Michelle Obama as apes is trying actively to erase

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Speaker 1: failing the Epstein victims. Yet again, the survivors were in

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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's by coincidence that most of

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the meat or lack thereof, of the

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Speaker 1: state of the Union itself. The speech. The speech was

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Speaker 1: It was full of moments that had us all in

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Speaker 1: when you get when you get a cheap gift from

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Speaker 1: this is great, and then you open it up and

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Speaker 1: But there was also so many moments during the speech

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump gave out medals and awards. He was like

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Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm not even going to complain

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Speaker 1: all very deserving of these maps. Now let's go into

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Speaker 1: the speech itself. If you missed it, let me just

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Speaker 1: the man told during this entire time. He said things

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Speaker 1: the old smell. I don't even know what to say

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Speaker 1: it a little bit more. Okay. So in nineteen eighty,

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Speaker 1: as well. And Fidel in nineteen eighty opened up the

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Speaker 1: And so that meant that yes, thousands flooded into South Florida.

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Speaker 1: They were referred to as the Marielitos. One hundred and

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Speaker 1: insane from insane asylums. Donald Trump is taking this thing

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Speaker 1: that happened in Cuba in nineteen eighty, which he read

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Speaker 1: There is zero evidence that Maduro ever did that. There

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Speaker 1: was no flotilla of people picking up This is a

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's either insane, cuckoo, crazy estyloogau. In Spanish,

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Speaker 1: bobo SaaS babolso is somebody who drools, and you know

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Speaker 1: the stuff they utter are usually stupid things. Well, this

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Speaker 1: He said she was great, that she was doing a

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Speaker 1: so offended by Maduro releasing people from insane asylums and prisons,

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Speaker 1: parcel of all of that. That didn't happen, but if

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Speaker 1: He went into this with low poll numbers, and he's

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Speaker 1: State of the Unions used to give people a bump.

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Speaker 1: the speech of the person had done, if the president

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Speaker 1: that decided to go rewatch heated rivalry, or go watch

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Speaker 1: this State of the Union. That's basically it. So today, okay,

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Speaker 1: State of the Union is over and things go back

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Speaker 1: to be exactly like they were the day before. Nothing's

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Speaker 1: going to change unless we take this into our own

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Speaker 1: remind everyone that if you want there to be a change,

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Speaker 1: if you want there to be pushback, if you want

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Speaker 1: there to be oversight. We are less than two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty days from the mid term elections, get yourself registered,

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Speaker 1: get yourself engaged, and get yourself ready to vote. Bleep

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