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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson from Louisiana is a historic figure. Now he

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Speaker 1: is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: He is a full fledged religious fanatic, and he does

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Speaker 1: not believe that the American people should be the ones

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Speaker 1: to decide who is the president of the United States.

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson is different than Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy is a

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Speaker 1: bundle of cynicism. He believes in absolutely nothing but his

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Speaker 1: own power. He's neolistic in that regard. Now, extremism cannot

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Speaker 1: flourish without cynicism, just like a fish cannot survive without water.

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Speaker 1: Cynicism is a necessary ingredient to bring a demagogic authoritarian

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Speaker 1: movement to life. Kevin McCarthy was one of the most

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Speaker 1: cynical men of this era. He will always be remembered

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Speaker 1: by history as the hollow Man, somebody so profoundly empty that,

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Speaker 1: weeks after he witnessed his colleagues running for their lives,

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Speaker 1: people barricaded on the chamber floors of the United States

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Speaker 1: House of Representatives, calling their loved ones and saying goodbye

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Speaker 1: because they believed they were about to be killed by

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Speaker 1: an insurrectionist mob inspired by Trump. Kevin McCarthy sitting in

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Speaker 1: a Capitol basement, secure watching it all on TV. He

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Speaker 1: said that Trump was responsible. But yet weeks later he

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Speaker 1: was in Mara a Lago doing CPR on Trump. His

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Speaker 1: cynicism brought Donald Trump back to life. But Mike Johnson

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Speaker 1: is not a cynic. Mike Johnson is a fanatic. Fanatics

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Speaker 1: are different than cynics. Fanatics, unlike cynics, are believers. Mike

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Speaker 1: Johnson believes, and that's why he tolerates the cynicism. He

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Speaker 1: understands that the cynicism, the transactions, the dirtiness, the greasy

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Speaker 1: poll is how his fanaticism will be implemented as a

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Speaker 1: broad policy vision. Let's be clear about something. Louisiana is

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Speaker 1: a great state. It's filled with great people, but it

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Speaker 1: is also the home to a certain type, shall we

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Speaker 1: say of jenesse Qui racism and virulence of the David

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Speaker 1: Duke variety. Of course, one defeated speaker, candidate Steve Scalise

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Speaker 1: once talked to a room full of white supremacists and said,

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Speaker 1: I'm David Duke without the baggage. The new speaker is

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Speaker 1: David Duke, carrying across Upton. Sinclair talked about this once.

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Speaker 1: He said, when fascism comes to America, it will be

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Speaker 1: draped in the flag and carrying across. And that's Mike Johnson. Incredibly,

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson. After an insurrection incited by Donald Trump that

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Speaker 1: sought to disrupt the greatest legacy in the history of

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Speaker 1: the world, passed down through the generations, the peaceful transition

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Speaker 1: of power in the name of Donald Trump, so that

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Speaker 1: he could become our first dictator. He returned to the

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Speaker 1: chamber floors and with one hundred and forty of his colleagues,

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Speaker 1: joined the ranks of permanent ignominy, joined a roll call

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Speaker 1: of profound dishonor a roster of cynical, extremist, dishonest men

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Speaker 1: and women who love power and attention so much more

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Speaker 1: than their country. None of them are good Americans. They

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Speaker 1: are terribal patriots. And they have rejected the concepts and

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Speaker 1: ideas and ideals that were brought to life by the

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Speaker 1: American Revolution, redeemed in the Civil War, and ignited again

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Speaker 1: in the great Civil Rights Movement in the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 1: Cheerleaders for an American despotism and useful idiots for foreign

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Speaker 1: dictators who menace the world and kill and kidnap children.

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Speaker 1: This extremist movement in America is two steps away from

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Speaker 1: the White House today. Mike Johnson, who's second in line

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Speaker 1: to the presidency, and he doesn't believe in elections because

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Speaker 1: when he went back to the floor after the insurrection,

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Speaker 1: he voted to throw away millions of votes, mostly black,

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Speaker 1: and his segregationist forefathers must have been smiling laughing in

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Speaker 1: heaven because there he was doing what they tried to

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Speaker 1: do and couldn't, to make sure that if your pigment

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Speaker 1: is wrong, you don't get a Mike Johnson wants to

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Speaker 1: control your life. He wants to look inside the bedroom,

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Speaker 1: a peak in the confessional. He wants a big government

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Speaker 1: that tells you what to do in every aspect of

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Speaker 1: your life, from cradle to grave. He's an authoritarian and

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Speaker 1: now he's Speaker of the House. He made it through

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Speaker 1: the gauntlet. Understand this. The Handmaid's Tale may be a

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Speaker 1: series on Hulu, but if Mike Johnson sees that watches it,

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't be horrified by it. He'd look at it

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Speaker 1: and think, that doesn't sound too bad to me. How

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Speaker 1: do I know that? Because you can read in Mike

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Speaker 1: Johnson's words how he feels about our fellow Americans, including

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Speaker 1: the millions and millions of Americans who contribute so much

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Speaker 1: to our country who just happened to be gay. Mike

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Speaker 1: Johnson is a dangerous man who doesn't like tens and

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Speaker 1: tens of millions of Americans, doesn't like those people voting it,

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Speaker 1: doesn't want them to have a voice. Mike Johnson isn't

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Speaker 1: a cynic like Kevin McCarthy. He's a fanatic, and fanatics,

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Speaker 1: though boosted by cynicism, in the end, are always more dangerous.

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Speaker 1: What is in front of us is metastasizing. Be aware

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Speaker 1: the dangerous here