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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you to all the wonderful

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Speaker 1: You've got absolute madness going on in the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: about the growth of the Young America's Foundation. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just unbelievable about all the people in this room,

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Speaker 1: all the campuses that YAFF is on, the growth of

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Speaker 1: so many conservative organizations. But now moving forward, it seems

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Speaker 1: like the challenges are different. We're gonna have to start

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Speaker 1: changing maybe some of our language, looking at these other threats.

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Speaker 1: Where do we go from here? I know so many people,

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Speaker 1: we're all pretty happy to be together tonight, but we're

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Speaker 1: a little bit down after the election, after the inaugration.

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Speaker 1: What where do we go from here? We go towards

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Speaker 1: truth and light and freedom. Look the great thing about

436
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Speaker 1: eternal truths, they're always true. Our ideas work. Freedom works,

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00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: free markets work, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, free speech,

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Speaker 1: religious liberty, the fundamental liberties of humanity. It is right

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Speaker 1: and true. And just the next two years we're going

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Speaker 1: to see wild eyed socialists trying to do enormous damage

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Speaker 1: to this country. Their policies aren't going to work. They

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Speaker 1: don't work. That is going to become evident. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'll make a reference. This reminds me an awful lot

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Speaker 1: of the late seventies. You know, Scott Walker and I

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Speaker 1: are both almost exactly the same age. We were both

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Speaker 1: killed in the late seventies. When Ronald Reagan was elected.

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Speaker 1: I was ten when Reagan left the White House, I

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Speaker 1: was eighteen. It took Jimmy Carter to give us Reagan.

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Speaker 1: It took the absolute catastrophe, the disaster of the Carter years.

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Speaker 1: It took Jimmy Carter giving away the Panama Canal. Ye,

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Speaker 1: it's funny, you know, that's an issue that people don't

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Speaker 1: even really think about anymore. But what I mean, so

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Speaker 1: much was happening during those years To set up the

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Speaker 1: Conservative took stagflation, enormous economic harm, misery, gas lines. It

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Speaker 1: took the military being downgraded to a level that our

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Speaker 1: hostages in Iran get get taken in captivity for four

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty four days, and Carter sends out a

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Speaker 1: military team to try to rescue them, and it crashes

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Speaker 1: in the desert with no opposing fire, the abs calamity.

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Speaker 1: It took Jimmy Carter putting on a sweater and saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, we live in a world of scarcity. We

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Speaker 1: don't have the money to heat your homes anymore. So

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Speaker 1: just put on a sweater and just accept malaise, malaise

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Speaker 1: the new normal, you might say. And all of that

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Speaker 1: train wreck is what prepared people for a sunny, optimistic

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Speaker 1: governor from California who understood the power of freedom. We're

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Speaker 1: in a moment just like that. We're in a moment

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Speaker 1: where we will go through some darkness. But the answer

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Speaker 1: to darkness is always light. I have to tell you,

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Speaker 1: a senator, when I as they turn on the lights,

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Speaker 1: the light is here. When I asked you, where do

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Speaker 1: we go from here, and you said, well, Michael, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the seventies. I was feeling a little depressed.

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Speaker 1: That did not sound great, But you're right. You get

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Speaker 1: the seventies and then you get the eighties. I really

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Speaker 1: hope Bell Bottoms don't come back. Although, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: the eighties and depressingly enough, Michael, you're you're young enough

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Speaker 1: not to remember. The eight was a glint in my

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Speaker 1: father's eye. I owned parachute pants. Yeah, no, it really

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Speaker 1: was horrible. It was these like plasticy Scott, did you

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Speaker 1: have parachute pants? Okay, these plasticky pants with zippers all

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Speaker 1: over them. And I do not know why. And my father,

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Speaker 1: who you know, yeah, Cuban American pastor. I would be

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Speaker 1: leaving in high school that he'd be like, do you

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Speaker 1: want to look like a bomb? I'd be like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's I was a teenager, and that's what you say

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Speaker 1: to your dad. And thankfully we grow out of that,

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Speaker 1: you know, center sometimes conservatives, I think we go into nostalgia,

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Speaker 1: you know, history after a few drinks when we think

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Speaker 1: about he right, the eighties were You've reminded me it

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Speaker 1: wasn't all great. You know, there were some issues there

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Speaker 1: as well. I do also want to remind everyone who's

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Speaker 1: watching right now on YouTube, head on over to YouTube

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Speaker 1: dot com slash yaf TV. We will answer your questions,

495
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: but only if they're good questions. If they're bad questions,

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Speaker 1: we're absolutely going to ignore them. Subscribe send them in

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Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash yaf TV. I also, you know,

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Speaker 1: we flew down here not just to talk amongst ourselves,

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Speaker 1: as we often do. We want to talk to everyone

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Speaker 1: who is out here at YAFF Freedom Conference. So let's do.

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Speaker 1: Let's folk some questions. Our first question for the Live

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Speaker 1: Verdict program tonight comes from YAF TV YouTube subscriber Real

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Speaker 1: Truth Cactus, who asks the fact that any private person

504
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: can have their lives destroyed because of their social media

505
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: lives is terrifying. What can private citizens do to protect themselves?

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Speaker 1: You can't take that one all rights as the private

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Speaker 1: citizen in this duo here, It's very tricky. It reminds

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Speaker 1: me of a question I get. Maybe we'll get it tonight,

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Speaker 1: and I'm happy to get back into it, but I

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Speaker 1: often get this sort of a question from students, which is, hey, Michael,

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Speaker 1: how can I totally embrace my political views and be

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Speaker 1: very honest about what I think and not cowtow to

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Speaker 1: the liberal mob and tell my professor exactly what I

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Speaker 1: think about is absolutely ridiculous anti American lessons and still

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Speaker 1: get an a. I say, ah, you are asking for

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Speaker 1: something that was never possible and never will be possible,

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Speaker 1: my friend. You want to have it all and everything.

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Speaker 1: Everything in life has consequences. It's why we remember that

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Speaker 1: we have to be why is as serpents and innocent

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Speaker 1: as doves. Right. This is a very tricky situation that

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Speaker 1: we're living in, and I can't just give you some

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Speaker 1: kind of platitude and say, you know, speak your mind

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Speaker 1: and be true to yourself and you will face no

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Speaker 1: consequences whatsoever. The one thing I can say, though, having

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Speaker 1: never learned the lesson to my mouth shut, is you know,

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Speaker 1: I certainly have spoken my mind, and I've gotten some

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Speaker 1: lower grades because of it, and don't get invited to

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Speaker 1: some fun parties because of it too. But I will say,

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Speaker 1: from the times I have been honest about my beliefs.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to be flamboyant about them. You don't

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Speaker 1: need to be parading them around all the time. But

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Speaker 1: when you're asked, you give an honest answer. I sleep

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Speaker 1: like a baby. It is. It is not worth your

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Speaker 1: integrity to keep your mouth I do. I do like

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Speaker 1: like I screamed, a very odd phrase. You're the father

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Speaker 1: of a new boy. Is sleep like a baby? A

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Speaker 1: peaceful image? Oh? It's one of My wife feeds me

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Speaker 1: multiple times in the middle of the night. Pizza. It's great,

539
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: absolutely fabulous, And that's why it's really why my answer

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Speaker 1: is just get married and you'll have a much better life.

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Speaker 1: But it but it really, I do think it really

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Speaker 1: is important in this way to have the integrity you

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Speaker 1: will you will take a hit and you just have

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Speaker 1: to deal with that. And being a conservative requires that

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Speaker 1: you recognize reality and accept the permanent things about life.

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Speaker 1: But it is worth it because in the end, all

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Speaker 1: the cheap little thrills that you'll get by lying to

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Speaker 1: yourself and to others, I just don't think are worth it. Well,

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Speaker 1: And let me add something to that on a different

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Speaker 1: because I think you're right in school, and it is

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Speaker 1: a challenge in school you have liberal professors. How you

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Speaker 1: handle that. Both Michael and I experienced getting your grades

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Speaker 1: clips substantially with professors from the left that didn't like

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Speaker 1: what we were saying. And that's a hard challenge to

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Speaker 1: deal with. Let me give it a different aspect to

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Speaker 1: that question, though, which is the social media component of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're a different environment where everyone here is online,

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Speaker 1: everyone here is connected, and what you say is recorded

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Speaker 1: for all perpetuity. Yea, once it's on the Internet, it's

560
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Speaker 1: for it never goes away. And I got to say, look,

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Speaker 1: our daughters ten and twelve. It scares the living daylights

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Speaker 1: out of me that as they start to get an engagement,

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Speaker 1: I think of the dumb ass things that I thought

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Speaker 1: and said when I was fifteen and seventeen and nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and I am so glad that they are not preserved

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Speaker 1: for all alternative. They faded, They were dumb, and they

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Speaker 1: were forgotten. Yeah, y'all are living in an environment where

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Speaker 1: you don't get a second chance on that. And so

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Speaker 1: I'd say be careful on that. Yeah, because it is

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Speaker 1: a smart Alec tweet, a smart Alec post. In five

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Speaker 1: years at a job interview, you could find them pulling

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Speaker 1: it out and reading it to you. And I try

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Speaker 1: to explain that to you. Know, you want to make

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Speaker 1: a joke, just humor, be fun and have a sense

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Speaker 1: of humor, But ask yourself, do I want to see

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Speaker 1: this five years from now? And if you don't, maybe

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Speaker 1: don't send it out in to the world to be

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Speaker 1: there forever. Because because this is the other side of

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Speaker 1: the integrity aspect, which is you don't want to hide

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Speaker 1: your views and pretend to be somebody who you are not.

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Speaker 1: But you also don't want to do something that you

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Speaker 1: will be embarrassed about. You don't want to be doing

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Speaker 1: something that you'll be ashamed of five or ten years

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Speaker 1: later when you look back on it, and when your

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Speaker 1: prospective employers look back on it too. Hi, my name's

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Speaker 1: Trip Grayby. I'm a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you both for being here. My

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Speaker 1: question is, as you alluded to earlier, the Goop seems

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Speaker 1: to be more divided than it's ever been before. And

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Speaker 1: it seems as though since the election and since the

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Speaker 1: riots at the Capitol, there's been a certain effort to

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Speaker 1: purge Trump's skeptical Republicans from the party. Ben SaaS is

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Speaker 1: expecting a censure from the Nebraska Gop. Sydney McCann and

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Speaker 1: Jeff Flake, Doug Doocey were censored by the Arizona Goop,

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Speaker 1: and Liz Cheney was almost ousted from House leadership recently.

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Speaker 1: So my question to you is do you think that

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Speaker 1: there's a path forward for Trump's skep conservatives. Of course

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Speaker 1: there is. I think there's a path forward for everyone

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Speaker 1: who agrees on a shared set of principles and values.

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Speaker 1: You know Reagan. Reagan said, what do you call someone

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Speaker 1: who agrees with you eighty percent of the time a friend?

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Speaker 1: So look, we're at a weird divided time. Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump is a unique individual and he inspires unique sentiments

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Speaker 1: from virtually everybody. I do think some people have lost

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Speaker 1: their minds over how much they dislike it. He says

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Speaker 1: and does things I disagree with, but he also has

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Speaker 1: done a lot of things I agree with that I

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Speaker 1: think we're good for the country, and I try to

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Speaker 1: approach it as a reasonable person to say, Okay, when

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Speaker 1: he's working for good policy that's good for the country,

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Speaker 1: I'll work with him. When he's saying things that are

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Speaker 1: not good, I'm not going to support that. There are

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Speaker 1: efforts of purging on both sides, and we're seeing it

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Speaker 1: right now. And look, anytime you lose an election, there's

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Speaker 1: a period of chaos, there's a period of reckoning that's

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Speaker 1: fairly natural. And so you're right. There are those who

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Speaker 1: are very strong Trump supporters that are saying get rid

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Speaker 1: of anyone who isn't there are also those who are

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Speaker 1: not fans of Trump that are trying to say get

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Speaker 1: rid of everyone who was. I mean, we're seeing the

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Speaker 1: purging on both ends. You know, I have this crazy

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Speaker 1: view that I'd like us to win elections, and you

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Speaker 1: win elections by getting fifty plus one. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: really interested in taking any significant chunk of the party

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Speaker 1: in purging it. I am interested in finding shared values

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Speaker 1: that bring us together. And right now, these emotions are raw,

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Speaker 1: these emotions are people are worked up and they're passionate. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that'll fade as time goes on. Those divisions, there have

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Speaker 1: always been divisions in the party. They've always been. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. I wrote a book last year called One

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Speaker 1: Vote Away about the US Supreme Court, and one of

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Speaker 1: the chapters in the book traces the history of the court,

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Speaker 1: and it goes back to two nominees that were put

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Speaker 1: on the court, and it goes back to the nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifty two GOP convention and the nineteen forty eight GOP

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Speaker 1: convention and the battles that were in the party, actually

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Speaker 1: in nineteen forty eight, the battles that were in the

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Speaker 1: party where you had you had Dwight D. Eisenhower, who

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Speaker 1: was the choice of the New England Moderates, and you

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Speaker 1: had Robert was the choice of the Conservatives, and they

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Speaker 1: were at each other's throats, and you read it and

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Speaker 1: you just stop and laugh. I look, most of us

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Speaker 1: weren't alive then, and the same battles that we see

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Speaker 1: playing out somewhere. Okay, I got a few mean looks

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Speaker 1: at it. But the same battles and tensions that we're

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Speaker 1: playing out now, we're playing out then, and they're going

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Speaker 1: to be disagreements. And you know, some of it comes

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Speaker 1: down to the difference between a parliamentary system and a

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Speaker 1: two party presidential system. Parliamentary system, we could have a

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Speaker 1: dozen different parties and everyone could pick a party of

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Speaker 1: just people exactly like them who are left handed and

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Speaker 1: ride unicorns unicycles, and you can all be hopefully not

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Speaker 1: unicorns but unicycles. In a presidential system for two parties,

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Speaker 1: you've got to stitch together a coalition that's sometimes uneasy,

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Speaker 1: that's sometimes difficult. So, yes, these tensions are real. II

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Speaker 1: The having debates about who we are and what we

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Speaker 1: stand for should be good. But I also don't think

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Speaker 1: we win elections by purging major parts of our party.

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Speaker 1: I think we win elections by growing our party and

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Speaker 1: convincing the American people that our ideas are right. I

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Speaker 1: love that point, Senator. It's a really, really great point

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Speaker 1: because this is an issue that has come up in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Should there be a third

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Speaker 1: party for people who are I don't know, one type

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Speaker 1: of conservative over the other. And of course, if there

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Speaker 1: were a different party, that would immediately give Democrats every

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Speaker 1: single office in the land. More or less. We saw

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Speaker 1: this happen with Teddy Roosevelt gave us Woodrow Wilson and

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Speaker 1: more or less destroyed the country. So you don't want

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Speaker 1: that sort of thing to happen. When Bill Buckley, in

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Speaker 1: conjunction with this very organization, sort of cobbled together the

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Speaker 1: postwar conservative movement. He brought together libertarians, traditionalists, and the

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Speaker 1: religious right and warhawk democrats. And those three groups did

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Speaker 1: not have a ton in common. They all hated the

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Speaker 1: Soviet Union, libertarians because of the collectivism, the traditionalists because

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Speaker 1: of the atheism, and the warhawks because of the imperial ambitions.

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Speaker 1: And they worked together and had an incredibly successful governing coalition.

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Speaker 1: And now we're going to be debating a lot of

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Speaker 1: these questions. Where do we stand on migration, what do

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Speaker 1: we think that means in our national history? Where do

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Speaker 1: we stand on corporate America? Where we spend all these

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Speaker 1: sorts of issues. I think it's easier to debate those

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Speaker 1: things when it's not just a personality contest and a

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Speaker 1: contest of who was right five years ago, when you're

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Speaker 1: actually talking about those issues, and there's another issue on

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Speaker 1: top of that, which is do we have the courage

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Speaker 1: to do the things that the people give us power

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Speaker 1: to do? Will we actually do it? Or are we

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Speaker 1: just going to promise something on the campaign trail and

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Speaker 1: then do something else behind closed doors. Those debates, as

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Speaker 1: you say, cent, those are all happening right now. That

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Speaker 1: is perfectly normal, and you want to make sure you

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Speaker 1: keep enough people together that you can still win elections.

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Speaker 1: Our next Live Verdict mail bag question comes from yaf

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Speaker 1: TV YouTube subscriber Derek Maker, who asks should Texas secede?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting that question is getting asked more

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Speaker 1: and more. It is literally being debated in the Texas legislature.

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Speaker 1: I have a friend of mine from New England who

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Speaker 1: actually flew down to Texas right before the twenty sixteen election.

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Speaker 1: He was convinced Hillary was going to win and the

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Speaker 1: world was going to hell in a handbasket, and he

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Speaker 1: said Texas needs to secede. It's the only hope to

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Speaker 1: save the union. And he was dead deadly serious. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I told him then, and it's

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Speaker 1: the same thing i'd say in the answer to that.

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Speaker 1: My answer is no, I don't believe Texas should secede

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Speaker 1: because I think we have a responsibility to the country

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Speaker 1: because I love America and I'm not willing to give

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Speaker 1: up on America. I understand the sentiments behind it, I

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Speaker 1: understand the frustrations as you look at lunatics running our

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Speaker 1: national parties, running our institutions of government, it's frightening. And

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Speaker 1: I will say, look, we're at a strange time in

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Speaker 1: our country because our country is coming apart. We're living

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Speaker 1: in two universes, the left and right. And this is

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Speaker 1: where technology, I think has had a really significant impact

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Speaker 1: because with social media, with the Internet, the left listens

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Speaker 1: to left wing news, the right listens to right wing news.

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Speaker 1: If someone disagrees, you unfriend them. And we don't have

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Speaker 1: shared facts, we don't have the homogenizing institutions. You know,

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Speaker 1: it used to be that you know, you would go

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Speaker 1: you'd be a Democrat or Republican, but you'd go to

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Speaker 1: church with your neighbors and there'd be some of both.

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Speaker 1: You'd go to the rotary club and you would know

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Speaker 1: people who were Democrats, you'd know people who were Republicans,

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Speaker 1: and you discover that they didn't have horns and they

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Speaker 1: weren't monsters. I worry about our country that the reality

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Speaker 1: of someone in Texas is very different maybe than the

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Speaker 1: reality of someone in Seattle, where everything they're hearing, all

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Speaker 1: of the reinforcements, all of the facts are skewed to

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Speaker 1: one side. I think the answer it's incumbent on us. Listen,

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Speaker 1: the media has given up on its task. You Walter

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Speaker 1: Cronkite played a role of bringing people together, and he

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Speaker 1: leaned left, but he wasn't a naked partisan the way

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Speaker 1: today's journalists are, to be honest. If we're gonna wait

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Speaker 1: for CNN or MSNBC or the New York Times to

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Speaker 1: fix itself, the country will be lost. The only way

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Speaker 1: to fix it is to do what we're doing right now.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons I love podcast is because

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Speaker 1: we could sit down and do a podcast any damn

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Speaker 1: time we want, and put it out there and communicate directly,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, every one of you can too.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's easy when you're young to think, well, gosh,

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Speaker 1: you know, when I'm older, when I'm thirty, when I'm forty,

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Speaker 1: when I'm established, then I'll have a voice. Then I'll

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Speaker 1: be able to do something. Everyone of you has a

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Speaker 1: voice right now. And not only that, your conservatives on

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Speaker 1: college campuses. I mean, you are thick headed and stubborn

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Speaker 1: as hell. That's great. You got them to a flaud

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Speaker 1: by calling them thick headed and stubborn as hell. That's

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Speaker 1: very that's very oppressive, you know, on this question of Texit,

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Speaker 1: I will defer to the senator from Texas if you

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Speaker 1: want to ask me about tennis, sexit or something which

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Speaker 1: sounds very very taudry. But if you want to ask

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Speaker 1: me about that, I'm happy to answer. But that's a

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Speaker 1: good point. Howdy, gentlemen. My name is Rhydolson. I am

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Speaker 1: a senior Texas A and M University him as a

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Speaker 1: lifelong Texan, I too, am a survivor of the twenty

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Speaker 1: eighteen hellscape known as Beatomania. So my question to you is,

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Speaker 1: seeing as this is a current trend with you know,

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Speaker 1: AOC becoming a basically a new celebrity, how do you

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Speaker 1: fight the power of celebrity in future elections. It's a

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Speaker 1: huge problem. It is a problem that stems back. I

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Speaker 1: think you can go back really to the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 1: The left systematically took over the organs of the transmission

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Speaker 1: of ideas. They systematically took over education K through twelve.

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Speaker 1: Education is almost uniformly left. They took over colleges and universities,

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Speaker 1: They took over journalism, and they look over entertainment. They

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Speaker 1: took over Hollywood. By the way of all of them,

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Speaker 1: if I could get one back, I'd get entertainment back.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the influence of movies and TVs,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, sports and video games, all of

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Speaker 1: them are dominated by the left. And so what they

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Speaker 1: do is they make their folks celebrities and they treat

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Speaker 1: them AOC and Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian are all

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Speaker 1: the same thing. And the press and big tech. Oh

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Speaker 1: be still my heart. She played a video game. Well

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Speaker 1: hot diggity damn. You know. I was in the airport

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Speaker 1: in DC getting ready to fly down to Miami today

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Speaker 1: and I up to get a I wanted to die

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Speaker 1: Doctor Pepper, but they didn't have one, so I got

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Speaker 1: to die coke um. And I'm just looking at all

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Speaker 1: the magazine covers and every magazine cover had Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: smiling ear to ear, had him happy. Jill Biden there,

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Speaker 1: well except for the Kamala ones where I actually think

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Speaker 1: she was glowing. I think they actually require like choir

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Speaker 1: music to be played. Yeah, there's a loom on it.

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Speaker 1: It's radioactive it you know, you know the Renaissance paintings

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Speaker 1: where they put halos around. I mean it is, it's

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Speaker 1: it's hagiography and it is designed to be and you know,

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Speaker 1: you get questions, what's your favorite ice cream flavor? Scott?

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Speaker 1: Did anyone ever ask you your favorite ice cream? It is?

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Speaker 1: And the entertainment world? All right, So this week I

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Speaker 1: got in a Twitter beef with Carrie Ellis, who says

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Speaker 1: rob Pirate, Roberts and the Princess Bride, which is my

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Speaker 1: favorite movie? And mind you Okay, so this it was

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Speaker 1: actually caused by Verdict. So I didn't pick this one.

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Speaker 1: I picked a lot of them, but I did not

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Speaker 1: pick this one. I was innocently minding my own business.

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Speaker 1: Last Verdict we did, I talked about I went in

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Speaker 1: a digression and I said, you ever notice how many

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Speaker 1: movie villains are rabid environmentalists? And I talked about Thanos

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Speaker 1: and Avengers endgame who says there are too many people,

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Speaker 1: they're consuming the resources, so I'm gonna snap my finger

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Speaker 1: and half the people are going to disappear. And I've

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Speaker 1: said that point several times before, but for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: some lefty saw it and lost his mind and tweeted

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Speaker 1: it out and the thing went viral like crazy, and

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Speaker 1: I actually took media matters the lefty group and I

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Speaker 1: retweeted them. I said, like, yep, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Listen to what the guy's saying. He's an environmentalist. He

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Speaker 1: wants to kill half every person that lives. So Carrie

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Speaker 1: Olle was got mad at that. Oh, there is a

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Speaker 1: very cute thing on Twitter. Someone pointed out apparently I

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Speaker 1: pronounce his name wrong because I say Thanos and it's

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Speaker 1: Thanos Stanos. And they actually did a clip of like

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Speaker 1: twenty characters from the movie going Thanos Stanos. Thanos Thanos okay,

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Speaker 1: guy with really fat fingers who can kill half the

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Speaker 1: people on the universe. Uh So, Carrie, I was out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere, blasts me and says, I don't know, puts

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Speaker 1: that clip and says you're a moron. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: everyone who made the Princess Bride. We all hate you,

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Speaker 1: hate you, we all hate you. Um now, this is

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Speaker 1: my favorite movie. I've seen this a lot of times,

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Speaker 1: and is it so happens? In my state office is

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Speaker 1: a framed picture of Karrie out was dresses the dread

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Speaker 1: Pirate Roberts, signed by right Alwis two Senator Cruz best wishes,

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Speaker 1: all my best wishes. And I'm sitting there, I'm like, really, dude,

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Speaker 1: Like really, Yes, you're a lefty actor. You're all lefty actors. Yea.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, just because you're all lefty actors

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean we don't get to enjoy movies. You know,

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Speaker 1: if we only listen to conservatives, okay, no movies, no sports,

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Speaker 1: no TV. No, I'd like to hell with you. You

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Speaker 1: don't own your art. I love your movie, even if

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Speaker 1: you're a numbskull. But I did take a picture of

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Speaker 1: the signed signed a picture that he had he had

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Speaker 1: signed to me and apparently forgot about. And I just

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Speaker 1: set the picture back and said, does this mean you

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Speaker 1: want your picture back? And so he blocked me. He

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Speaker 1: does pleasant never go against Ted Cruise when tweets are

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Speaker 1: on the line, and never do it. Our final question

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Speaker 1: comes from the Live Verdict mail bag. Blake, who is

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Speaker 1: a subscriber on YAF TV, asks Biden said he was

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Speaker 1: going to follow the science, but what about his refusal

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Speaker 1: to follow the science that says open the schools? Are

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Speaker 1: he and Cuomo just on a rampage to hold onto

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Speaker 1: the power they gained under COVID. Yes, thanks everybody. No,

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Speaker 1: the left is really good at weaponizing language. They do

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Speaker 1: it really well, by the way. We're not nearly as

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Speaker 1: good at it. Science is one of their favorite words.

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Speaker 1: By the way, what they mean by science are the

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Speaker 1: socialist policies they want to implement. The actual substance of

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Speaker 1: the science doesn't matter. It's actually worth pointing out too.

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Speaker 1: They have been using science in this way for over

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Speaker 1: one hundred years. They actually radical left wing activists, following

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Speaker 1: in the Marxist tradition, actually would refer to the science

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Speaker 1: of history the science of politics. That is why, Actually

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Speaker 1: when Bill Buckley started National Review, he said, we stand

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Speaker 1: athwart history, yelling stop. Because they knew that they knew

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Speaker 1: the science of history, they knew where it was going

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Speaker 1: to their terrible socialist utopia. So they've been they've been

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Speaker 1: doing this for a long time. But they also don't

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Speaker 1: care about science exactly. Science is a club to beat

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Speaker 1: the masses into submission and obedience. So it it'll be clear.

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Speaker 1: I am the son of two mathematicians and scientists. I

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Speaker 1: believe in science. Science actually matters. Now, how many of

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Speaker 1: y'all remember the scientific method where you start with a hypothesis,

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Speaker 1: you then test it with evidence, and you see to

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Speaker 1: disprove it. So one of the things, right, let's take

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Speaker 1: a couple of issues on science, climate change, the holy

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Speaker 1: grail now of government control of every aspect of your life.

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Speaker 1: A little bit of history. Nineteen sixties nineteen seventies, left

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Speaker 1: wing politicians were saying, we are entering a massive period

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Speaker 1: of global cooling, a new ice age. The only solution

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Speaker 1: is for the government to control the economy, the energy sector,

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Speaker 1: in every aspect of your life. It follows naturally. Then

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Speaker 1: there was a problem. The Earth wasn't in fact cooling

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Speaker 1: like it was an interesting theory, but it just was wrong.

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Speaker 1: So then fast forward another ten twenty years and you

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Speaker 1: have scientists, many of them the same scientists, who come

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Speaker 1: up with global warming. That sounds different, sounds kind of

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Speaker 1: like the opposite of the first one they had, but

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Speaker 1: interesting and by the way you get the next wave

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Speaker 1: of politicians and global warming. The solution is total government

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Speaker 1: control of the economy, the energy sector, in every aspect

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Speaker 1: of your life. Second, hold on here. But then they

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Speaker 1: had another problem, which is that the Earth isn't warming.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these guys can't win for losing. They just

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Speaker 1: keep blowing it. So we have satellites that are orbiting

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Speaker 1: the Earth that are measuring the temperature, and for eighteen

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Speaker 1: years they have measured zero statistically significant warming. So that

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Speaker 1: a problem. They have these computer models that show it

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Speaker 1: should be warming like crazy, and the satellites actually measuring

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Speaker 1: the temperature say, well, it's not warming like crazy. They

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Speaker 1: actually call this the pause. If you want to enjoy

895
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Speaker 1: a bit of humor, you can google me and Sierra Club.

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Speaker 1: The head of the Sierra Club was testifying in the

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Speaker 1: state and I asked him about the pause, and I said,

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Speaker 1: do you know what the cause is? He said yes.

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Speaker 1: I asked him what it was, and he refused to say.

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Speaker 1: He simply refused to say. He refused to answer, And

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Speaker 1: it's because And then did you notice think about it

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Speaker 1: for a second, No one uses the term global warming anymore.

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Speaker 1: It magically changed. And if you care about science. I

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Speaker 1: want you to pause and think about climate change. It

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Speaker 1: is the perfect pseudo scientific theory. Why let's go back

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Speaker 1: to the scientific method. This is a theory that can

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Speaker 1: never ever ever be disproven. If you're mapping out the

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Speaker 1: sets in which it is true, it is true and

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the circumstances. If the climate gets hotter,

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Speaker 1: the theory is correct. If the climate gets cooler, the

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Speaker 1: theory is correct. If the climate gets wet, or the

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Speaker 1: theory is correct. If the climate gets drier, the theory

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Speaker 1: is correct. There are no data, There is no evidence

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Speaker 1: that can ever disprove a theory that stops changing, because well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the climate's been changing since the dawna time. If something

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Speaker 1: is not susceptible to the scientific method, if it's not

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Speaker 1: testable by data and evidence, its purpose is not science.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the solution to fix it. Hold on,

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Speaker 1: I am gonna try to guess. Give me a second.

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Speaker 1: Tell me total government control of the economy, the energy sector,

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Speaker 1: in every aspect of your lives. Okay, John Carrie flies

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Speaker 1: on private jets to get environmental awards because he believes

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Speaker 1: in this nonsense. No he doesn't. He believes in government power,

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Speaker 1: and it has nothing to do with science. By the way,

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Speaker 1: you'll also be told the polarized caps are melting. Here's

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Speaker 1: a problem. There's more ice than the polarized capts today

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Speaker 1: than their watch was ten years ago. Group a lefty

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Speaker 1: scientist went down with a ship to an article to

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Speaker 1: measure the ice. They were told they did icebreakers. They

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Speaker 1: said no, no no, no, it's all melting. They got stuck

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Speaker 1: in the ice. When you bring this up, the supposed

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Speaker 1: avatars of science scream denier. Let me tell you right now,

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Speaker 1: denier is not the language of science. If you actually

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Speaker 1: care about science, you don't speak that's the language of religion.

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Speaker 1: Heretic the witch. Throw him in the water. If he floats,

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Speaker 1: he's a witch. That's for science. It's science. By the way,

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Speaker 1: for any of your lefty classmates, if they want to

938
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Speaker 1: pontificate on science, here's one question you can ask them.

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Speaker 1: Just just very innocuously, tell me what is a Y chromosome?

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Speaker 1: How dare you there's no hate speech on this podcast, Senator,

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Speaker 1: You can not ask that we believe in scientists. Tell

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Speaker 1: me what what is that thing I learned? You know,

943
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Speaker 1: we've we've had a year of good podcasts, and now

944
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Speaker 1: you're going to get us a deep platformed because you're

945
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Speaker 1: bringing up hate speech like our chromosomes. You know you

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Speaker 1: can even you even see it in the White House

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Speaker 1: press briefings. We heard this just over the past few days.

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Speaker 1: Actually getting back to the specifics of that question, if

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Speaker 1: you will, if you will indulge me, I would like

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Speaker 1: to circle back. We have been told Biden administration, in

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Speaker 1: what forty two executive orders since he's been inaugurated, three

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Speaker 1: of them explicitly mention how important sciences and we need

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Speaker 1: to follow the science. Biden campaign done this. So he's

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Speaker 1: going to more or less outsources his policies to these technocrats,

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Speaker 1: these lab coat, exalted dictators who know how to run

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Speaker 1: our lives better than we all do, right, unless it's

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Speaker 1: politically inconvenient, Because just just a couple days ago, the

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Speaker 1: CDC director said, no reason to keep the schools closed.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of great data coming out shows

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Speaker 1: that the virus is not spreading in any particular way

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Speaker 1: in schools. You don't need a way for teachers to

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Speaker 1: get vaccinated. Send those kids back, educate them. Now, did

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Speaker 1: you see the correction? Was there a correction? There was

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Speaker 1: a correction. What was there was a fact check? Well, no,

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Speaker 1: it's worse than that. The White House said she was

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Speaker 1: speaking in her personal capacity in her so apparently she

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Speaker 1: wasn't a scientist. I guess this. Now she's standing at

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Speaker 1: the frigging White House with the podium that says the

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Speaker 1: frigging White House on it, and she's discussing a global

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Speaker 1: pandemic and what the science says. But here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't lead a union that spends hundreds of millions

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Speaker 1: of dollars to elect Democrats. That is very interesting, and

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Speaker 1: so suddenly what she said became an inconvenient truth. It's

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Speaker 1: a good book title, by the way, just because someone

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Speaker 1: should make a movie out of that. Because of course,

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Speaker 1: these bureaucrats, these technocrats, Yeah, they might be in the

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Speaker 1: constituency here that the Democrats want to appeal to, but

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Speaker 1: they want to appeal to those teacher unions more. And

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Speaker 1: the teacher unions say, science be damned, we're not going

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Speaker 1: back to work. And that's going to be the line

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Speaker 1: from the White House. It looks science is a wonderful thing,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, we should embrace science as a

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Speaker 1: wonderful tool for human learning. But part of science is

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Speaker 1: looking to facts and data and evidence and what works

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Speaker 1: and what doesn't. Their policies don't work, they don't want

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Speaker 1: to talk about whether their policies work. They instead want

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Speaker 1: to behave it has become religion. Climate changes their justification

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Speaker 1: for a total government control. But it's about socialism, it's

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Speaker 1: about the state having control of your lives. And they

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Speaker 1: are statists in their core. And I think we should

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Speaker 1: respond as happy warriors. You don't think we should just

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Speaker 1: be furious and rip our hair out, because that's sort

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Speaker 1: of what I'm tempted to do, is that No, no,

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Speaker 1: we've got we've got to take a better attitude than that. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and things can change very quickly. Um. You know, one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite clips is a great clip of Reagan

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Speaker 1: at the White House and he's doing a White House

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Speaker 1: press briefly and Sam Donaldson, who was an ABC News reporter,

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Speaker 1: was pretty obnoxious and he was pounding Reagan and he said,

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Speaker 1: mister President, you blamed the Speaker of the House, you

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Speaker 1: blamed Congress, you blamed Democrats, you blamed everybody else. Mister President,

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of problems in this country. Don't

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Speaker 1: you bear any of the responsibility for the problems we

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Speaker 1: have in this country. And Reagan leans forward with a

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Speaker 1: twinkle in his eye and he says, well, Sam, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I do. I bear considerable responsibility because for many years

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Speaker 1: I was a Democrat. And if you google the clip,

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Speaker 1: it ends with Sam down Donaldson cracking up. Lad. A

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Speaker 1: little humor goes along, even in an empire of lies.

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Speaker 1: To borrow our friend Andrew Plavn's phrase, even living this

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Speaker 1: empire of lies, big government, big tech, big business, big

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Speaker 1: everything colluding against us, A conservative consolation is that reality

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Speaker 1: will I will reassert itself a little bit. In the end.

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Speaker 1: We can count on truth. We do need to have courage,

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Speaker 1: though that's the prerequisite for all of the other virtues.

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Speaker 1: Seeing a lot of young, courageous conservatives in this room,

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Speaker 1: seeing the strength of Yaff so happy to see Governor

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Speaker 1: Scott Walker now officially a president of Yaff. I think

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Speaker 1: there's been such a wonderful, a wonderful decade upon decade

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Speaker 1: upon decade here at Yeff, and I think we only

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Speaker 1: have so much more to look forward to. Thank you

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Speaker 1: also very much. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. This

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